Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
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of what Congress may do in the mat
ter, as heads of departments, who
nave handled such matters to suit
themselves for several years, intend
to establish special hours for sum.
mer next April and continue them
until late in the fall. 1t is probable
that the hours will be from eight to
four or five, according to the amount
OF work in the department. The
people at the Capitol have gotten to.
gether and are in favor of advancing
the time of business. The first day.
light-saving plan put into effect h
the Capitol was by the late DR.. Sam
uel G. Dixon. Commissioner OF
Health ten years ago. DR.. Dixou
advanced the hour for starting busi-
ness and when the people connected
with his department were found
| playing golf and enjoying themselves
| in the late afternoon the idea soon
became popular and since then de.
| partments have arranged hours
every year or so. Next year there
\ Will be a general daylight saving
plan. 1t is probable that the city OF
Harrisburg will be in line with Phila-
| delphia and other cities in passing
ordinances for daylight saving.
| Success of the State plan of clos.
ing counties to deer hunting. during
! certain years and placing animals
In the woods of such districts to
propagate has been demonstrated in
reports coming to the State Game
Commission this week. Deer have
been shot in counties where they
| have been unknown in q long time
| and have been seen in sections where
the oldest inhabitant did not remem-
Der them. The plan of closing coun-
ties on petition of residents was
worked out by the Game Commission
| half a dozen years ago and over
half the State closed for from one
to three years, according to desires
| of residents of the counties affected.
| Deer were then bought out of the
hunters license funds and placed
in the woods, while additional game
| preserves were established. A month
ago it is claimed there were more
deer in the State than in two decades.
The Col. w. f. Harrell mentioned
as in command of the United States
regulars in one of the districts in
West Virginia, where there ia
likely to be trouble with miners, is
none other than the former COM
mander of the recruiting station
here. Incidentally, it may be said
that it is a place that suits the
Colonel entirely. He came back from
| France lately with seven wound
stripes and record for fighting that
caused his men to style him 1.-TWO
! Gun" Harrell. He is now colonel of
the Sixteenth Infantry in which he
has served since he left West Point.
The Colonel and his family are well
remembered by Harrisburgers.
| Mayor A. M. Hoagland, the chief
magistrate of Williamsport, has just
| finished giving another demonstra-
ton that people will buy army food
and articles when they get the
chance. The Mayor had some argu-
ments about it and arranged to get
| food and blankets and other things
by the car load. They told him the
| people would not buy. He said they
would. 1t took policemen to keep
them in line. The city has con-
Quoted sales of thirty-seven cars of
fool and in addition has Just finish
| ed selling several car loads OF blank
cts. Hoagland is known to a num-
ber of Harrisburgers as a deter
mined sort OF man. He got the
goods, he got the cars and he got
the buyers.
James w. Caldwell, one of the vet
Grams of the Public Grounds and
Buildings force at the State Capitol,
calculates that he has Travelled about
9,227 1-3 miles in the course of 14S
years as skipper of one of the ele-
vators in the big granite Capitol.
| For long time Mr.. Caldwell was
| master of one of the elevators in
the north wing and now he is in
the center where traffic is quieter
and the lunch hour rush does not
l I,~r tn
a herring box. Taking 14A years
as a basis and 800 working days as
a year, he has worked 1850 days
on the elevators. He calculates that
| his daily travel with car is 1900
| feet. That is fair amount even for
| walking, considering that there are
$3.50 feet in q mile. That many feet
multiplied by the number of days
gives 4S,720,000 feet, or 9,227 1-3
miles. Dennis Barrick, one of the
old-timers of the Harrisburg rail-
| ways lines, and Curt Chronister, an
other veteran, one time figured out
that they had travelled in trolley
! cars about as much mileage as en-
! braced on the Reading Railroad sys-
tenn.
Just imagine $4,000, 900 being paid
on estates to the State government
in a year when five years ago the
Commonwealth was getting possibly
$2,O0O,000 a year. This is the esti-
mate that c. w. Myers, the chief
of the county bureau of the Auditor
Generals Department, puts o0 'he
probable revenue of the Common
wealth from the three Vayle -. Of
inheritance taxes. The State now
has direct, collateral and transfer.
Inc collateral is an old affair. but
| the enforcement has been stiffened
| up; the direct tax is matter of
| few years and produces now about
three and half million dollars.
| while the latter is a new tax de-
signed to wing estates that are held
| outside of Pennsylvania, or OF
PennsylYanians who get rich here
and go to Florida or California to
die. 1t is the same tax that New
York employs and was devised last
winter and put through in the form
of a new code that means millions
of revenue to this State.
Possibility of electric lighting
being curtailed is causing some in-
teresting inquiries to be made at the
Public Service Commission. Com-
| panies have been asking whether
| they can curtail service because OF
| fuel shortage without permission OF
| the Commission and others want ia
know what steps to take without
getting into trouble.
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