2 FnONT PUTFORM IK MUSI H State Public Service Commission • Issues Order Against the Prac tice in the State Riding on the front platforms of closed cars of electric railway lines has been prohibited in a general order Just issued by the Public Service Com mission following Investigation of com plaints made to it that cars in some communities were being so crowded that motormen had difficulty in op erating brakes. On open cars the num ber of passengers to be allowed on front platforms must be strictly lim ited to the number that can be con veniently accommodated upon and do occupy the front seats. The order also requires that persons occupying front platforms are to be forbidden to distract the attention of the motorman by conversation or in any other way. Charges that the "full crew" act of 1911 has been violated by the Erie Railroad at Dunmore, the Pennsylva nia Railroad between Harrisburg and Marysvllle and the Delaware, Lacka wanna and Western at Bangor, have been filed with the commission by Wil liam G. Lee. president of the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen. The question of whether a contract between a traction company and a property owner for free transporta tion in exchange for a right of way conflicts with the public service com pany law has been raised before the commission by M. S. McKnight, of Dußoijß. This question will likely be taken up next month. Officers ot the Chamber of Com merce of Lancaster and a number of residents of that city and vicinity have made report of a grade crossing near the northern boundary of Lancaster. The crossing is on the roadway of the Lancaster and Manheim Turnpike Company and the Pennsylvania rail road and it is charged that the rail road company is willing, to build a subway but that the turnpike company will not sign a release. LAXATIVE FOR CLD ' PEOPLE-^CASCARETS" Salts, calomel, pills, act on bowels like pepper acts in nostrils Get a ID-cent box now. Mos! old people must give to the bowels some regular help, else they suffer from constipation. The con dition is perfectly natural. It is Just as natural as it is for old people to walk slowly. For ago is never so active as youth. The muscles are less elastic. And the bowels are muscles. So all old people need Cascarets. One might as well refuse to aid weak eyes with glasses as to neglect this gentle aid to weak bowels. The bowels must be kept active. This is lmpor tstit at all ages, but never so much as at fifty. Age is not a time for harsh physics. Youth may occasionally whip the "bow els into activity. But a lash can't be used every day. What the bowels of the old need is a gentle and natural tonic. One that can be constantly used without harm. The only such tonic is Cascarets, and they cost only 10 cents per box at any drug store. They work while you-sleep.—Advertisement. TRY THIS IF YOU HAVE DANDRUFF Or Are Bothered With Falling Hair or Itching Scalp. There is one sure way that never fails to remove dandruff completely and that is to dissolve it. This de stroys it entirely. To do this, Just get about four ounces of plain, ordi nary liquid arvon; appry it at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning most, if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more applications will completely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it, no matter how much dandruff you may have. 1 You will find, too, that all itching and digging of the scalp will stop ini etantly, and your hair wifl be fluffy! lustrous, glossy, silky and soft and] look and feel a hundred times better. ] If you want to keep your hair look ing rich, do by all means get rid of dandruff, for nothing destroys the hair so quickly. It not only starves the hair and makes it fall out, but it makes it stringy, straggly, dull, dry, brittle and lifeless, and everybody notices it. You can get liquid arvon at any drug store. It is Inexpensive, and four ounces is all you will need. This simple rem edy has never been known to fail.— Advertisement. /" \ POK SAI.E FOR KENT FURNISHED ROOMS UNFURNISHED ROOMS Cardn neatly and attractively printed) can be iteeiired at THE TELEGRAPH BUSINESS OFFICE 210 Federal Square * "BARGAIN GLASSES" fere about as useful as bargain eyes would be. The man who offers you "$5 glasses for $1" is either a fool or a fakir—if the glasses are worth $5 he can get $5 for them; if they are worth a dollar they are very apt to do your eye 3 more injury than good. It doesn't pay to take chances with your eyesight. Here you will be as sured of a scientific, accurate eye ex amination and glasses that are full value. That's enough for any honest tnan to promise. With H. C. C'lastcr, JO- Market bt. * SATURDAY EVENING. fXARRJSBURG tfjfjjfi TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 28, 1914. SWEENEY BUCKS INSPECTION U Says Its Enforcement Has Meant Much For the Consumers of Food in the State James Sweeney, chief of the bureau of standards, declares In the annual report of his bureau for 1913 that the enactment of laws providing for in spection of weights and measures arid establishing standards for commodi ties has saved many dollars to the people of Pennsylvania. "There is a decided improvement over conditions in 1911," says he. "The consumers were compelled to accept the com modity from the dealer regardless of any deficiency which might exist in weight or measure." Nothing but prosecution was open to a consumer who wishes redress, and even then the case was usually lost and costs imposed upon the plaintiff because 110 standard existed whereby to prova any charges. Now things are differ ent: a report to the local sealer brings an investigation, which results in pun ishment to the dealer, if guilty, with no cost to the offended consumer. Considerable attention Is paid to th» advocacy of experts of selling all com modities by weight and abandoning measures. Chief Sweeney says he has discussed this with many merchants and that "the great majority believed it to be a good thing, but were very reluctant to try the experiment by do ing away with measures." He received letters from many merchants com mending the proposition and quotes one from a tea company which does a general grocery business and which for years has sold all dry commodities by avoirdupois weight on scales, in cluding such articles as potatoes, dried beans, etc. "We have been doing thts for years," the manager wrote to Chief Sweeney, "and know that it is most satisfactory to our patrons." Mr. Sweeney continues that the practice has been found satisfactory wherever tried and that "the opposition to the change is caused by the natural preju dice to be found against the changing of a method to which for many years the people have become accustomed." Inspections made during 1913 by local officials total as follows: Plat form scales, 2,526: computing scales, 4,550; counter scales, 32,550; -wagon scales, 367: weights, 73,617; dry meas ures, 49.002; liquid measures, 21,807; milk jars, 3,378; yard measures, 13,500: oil pumps. 1,204. The total was 2#2.501, of which 170,515 resulted in approval on test, 7,310 In adjust ment and 24.676 in condemnation. Commenting on these figures, Mr. Sweeney points out that the demand of the public for some sort of com modities regulation was not ground less. "When you consider that out of 202,501 tests in various parts of the State nearly 16 per cent, did not meet the lawful standards," he says, "you have ample and sufficient evidence that the public has the same right to insist on sixteen ounces to the pound as it has to claim 100 cents on the dol lar." He points out, too. that de ficient weights and measures do not necessarily imply dishonesty on tiie part of the dealer; the sealer is usually welcomed by the dealer and the latter ordinarily corrects defects gladly. Mr. Sweeney's report also contains several pages of statistics of toler ances, weights equivalents, etc. GEORGE B. MDFFITT IS CITY BACTERIOLOGIST [Continued from First Page] a lot of commendable work for the State Department of Health. The abolishing of the department of milk and meat inspection applies to the office of chemist at the filter held for the last few months by E. B. Showell, of New York. The position of Charles Ellinger, assistant to Dr. Douglas, is also vacated. Messrs. Showell and Ellinger have also ten dered their resignations to Commis sioner Bowman. Mr. Showell will re main until May 1. As an assistant to Dr. Moffitt, Com missioner Bowman will select the Technical High School Senior who stands highest among the four leaders in chemistry in the school. Dr. Charles B. Fager, the principal, will make this selection. Big Saving to City The new plan adopted by Commis sioner Bowman means another big saving to the city in the department of public safety. All told the city will be in pocket just $1,370. Dr. Doug las' salary is $ 1,500. Mr. Ellinger's S6OO, Mr. Showell's $1,020 and S4OO annually is paid to Dr Moffitt now for tests. "This totals $3,520. From this will be deducted the SI,BOO for Dr. Moffitt's salary and the $350 per year for his assistant, a total of $3,150. The city gets the benefit of the $1,370 difference. Sharp Attack Made on Employment Bureaus By Associated Press New York, Feb. 28. —A sharp at tack on government employment bu reaus, many of which have been es tablished throughout the country in an effort tTo solve the problem of the unemployed, was made to-day by Wil liam M. Leiserson, at the second day's session of the national conference on unemployment. Mr. Leiserson is su perintendent of a public employment bureau in Madison, Wis. "Officials of these bureaus," said he, "have either mismanaged the of fices so that they have to be discon tinued or else they have performed the duties perfunctorily and in a wholly ineffective manner." There are, according to Mr. Leiserson, pub lic employment offices in eighteen States and sixty cities. As a whole, he stated, they had been manned without merit and their work was crude and ineffective. ST. LOUIS MAN SWALLOWS 97 NICKELS AND WINS $5 By Associated Press St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 28.—Louis Campani, of Columbia, 111., swallowed 97 nickels and won a wager of $5. To-day he is in the care of a physi cian, who is confronted with the task of withdrawing the coins from this "human savings bank." John Gal vini swallowed only seven nickels and lost the bet. SEGREGATED DISTRICT IN ST. LOUIS CLOSES TONIGHT By Associated Press St. Louis, Mo., Feb.—At 12 o'clock to-night the lights on Lucas avenue from Twenty-first to Twenty-seventh streets will go out and for the first time since their origin the doors of the sixty-seven resorts in St. Louis' last segregated district will be closed. Petitions of businessmen in the vi cinity, the pleas of the resort owners and property owners have failed to bring relocation of the police order! abolishing the district Fill DIB 111 STITETIIISSP* Water Supply Commission Calk Attention to the Heavy Snow fall on Mountains The State Water Supply Commission has received reports in the last few days from Its observers in the State floor warning service showing that thfc, snow in Pennsylvania varies from 2 to 48 inches on the level and that the streams are in many Instances bound with from 6 to 12 inches of ice, th«L lower part of the Allegheny, the Mo-* nongahela and the Ohio being the only large rivers not frozen. "The con ditions present potential flood possi bilities which may result seriously and cause tremendous loss," says a state ment issued to-day by the commis sion. "Similar conditions prevailed In the winters of 1902 and 1904, when the greatest floods since 1889 occurred in Eastern Pennsylvania." The reports of the commission show that the depth of snow on the ground at the end of February is unusual, shewing the following: Somerset county,- 48 inches; Wayne county, 30; Sullivan county, 24; Towanda, 22; Clinton and Clearfield counties, 20; Harrisburg, 18; Cresson and Blooms burg. 16; Stroudsburg, 15; Williams port, 14, and Huntingdon, 13. In some of the lakes there is ice 30 inches thick and in the rivers 12-inch ice is common. The Susquehanna is gorged at Towanda and York Haven; the Kisklmlnetas at Avonmore and the Juniata near Newport Gorges are re ported also from the Tionesta, Bush kill, Kettle. Brokenstraw, Pine, Clear field and Klnzua creeks. "Heavy snow covers the State to a greater extent in the eastern than In the western part," says the statement. "On the Delaware watershed there are from 13 to 30 Inches of snow; on the Allegheny from 6 to 18, apd Monon gahela 1 to 6 Inches; west branch of the Susquehanna. 20 to 24, and along the main Susquehanna from 13 to 18 Inches. From 35 to 45 Inches are re ported on the main ridge of the Alle gheny mountains." LENGTH OF Mf EFFECTCITYTMTE fContinue*! from First Page] to July 1, when the taxes are due. At present the time is from April 1 to July 1. One of the changes suggested for the tire department is the rutsing of the salaries of all the drivers of city fire apparatus to S6O per month. This will mean in the Neighborhood of $3,000. In addition to consideration of the budget this afternoon the City Com missioners also took up the new li cense tax ordinance. The delegation of business of the Chamber of Commerce, headed by President George B. Tripp, asked for a hearing. V. Grant Forrer, park superintend ent. left the city's service to-day. Mr. Forrer and Park Commissioner Taylor parted on the most cordial terms. The ex-park superintendent will remain in this city attending to other business affairs, and in the meantime will con sider Warren H. Manning's offer to enter the park expert's service. With the exception of the depart ment of public safety all the depart mental financial estimates for 1914 were submitted yesterday at the con ference of the commissioners. The amounts were merely tentative and future sessions will be necessary to finally thresh the measure into shape. Sealer of weights and measures, po lice, including Mayor's salarv, $4 7,- 117; city clerk, $3,487; printing $5,- 600; department of accounts and finance, $3,165; city treasurer, $3,- 138.50; department of streets and pub lic improvements, including superin dent's salary, $90,591.25; parks and public property, pafks, $40,100; fire. $32,488.75. The larger increase according to tentative figures was submitted by Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor. For department of parks last year, $34,- 666.73 was allowed; Taylor wants $40,100 for the nine months of 1914. An additional SI,OOO is desired for a new reservoir park pavilion, SSOO for lights and more funds for additional tennis courts urid playgrounds on Mc- Cormick's Island. To Piace Arc Lights About twenty new arc lights will be placed about the city and Commis sioner Taylor advocated the lumping of the park nd other city lighting items in one. Mr. Bowman promptly opposed this; the park lighting was a feature of its own he pointed out. Taylor wants $32,488 for the fire de partment this year although for the twelve months just closing the fire de partment got $39,917. About SSOO is asked for the repainting of fire ap paratus so the machines may look well during the firemen's convention, and $1,200 is desired to buy a plot in the Thirteenth ward for the Royal fire company. Mayor Royal asks for increase in salaries. He wants his clerk to have $1,200 instead of $900; and the Janitor $65 instead of S6O per month. About $250 will be asked for extra police during the firemen's convention and SIOO is wanted for a filing case. In the near future an ordinance for four or five more policemen and a police captain will be offered and between $5,000 and $6,000 will be needed for this. Among the new items of Commis sioner Lynch's requests are: SI,OOO for a street sweeper; $47,000 for street cleaning; $3,700 for grading; $2,850 for cleaning inlets, and $4,000 —an in crease of SI,OO0 —is asked for inspec tors' salaries. Additional miles of paved streets make the large sums asked for street cleaning, etc. As usual a portion of the revenue from the liquor licenses will go to the streets' department. All told about $73,605 was paid in from that source last year. To Decide on Shaman Cage Tuesday Afternoon The question of whether or not W. H. Shuman will be confirmed as a police patrol chauffeur will be definite ly determined at Tuesday's meeting of City Council. Tke Chances are that the appointment will not be approved. Shuman and Mayor Royal yester day faced each other before City Council when the Mayor repeated the charges of unbecming cnduct against Shuman which he voiced Tuesday on the floor of Council. The Mayor produced affidavits to support his al legations Shuman produced several witnesses to support his general de nai olf the charges. Bowman's System at Steelton Saved More Than $3,000 First Year An idea of just how much moriky Will be saved for the city by the ■ I Is Philadelphia Slow? I B Could a city grow and develop as Philadelphia has B B and actually be slow? B B In a frank article in the Public Ledger, tomorrow, B B Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer discusses this question, tracing B B the accusation to its source. 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B I PUBLIC LEDGER I H H E First Thing in the Morning Since 1836. \ B B HARRISBURG NEWS COMPANY B HARKISBURG, PA. changes to be made in the method of firing the boilers at the filter and pumping station, planned by Commis sioner "arry F. Bowman, superinten dent of the department of public safety, may be gained by a compari- ! son with the cost of operation of a similar system at the Steelton pump ing station. A system of double draft firing like Superintendent Bowman wants to in stall here has been in operation at j the Steelton plant for two years, ac cording to Superintendent O. P. Bas kins, of the Steelton plant, the sys tem saved the borough over $3,000 during 1913 alone. Zion City Celebrates Purchase Anniversary By Associated Press Zion City, 111., Feb. 28.—Bells rang and whistles blew at hourly intervals to-day in Zion City in celebration of the anniversary of the purchase of the Zion City estate from the Federal receivers three years ago. Bands of elders and believers went to the main tabernacle and Joined in a praise ser vice. A discordant note in the general celebration came at Tabernacle No. 2, the small-open structure across from the F. B. Cook electrical works, where tobacco smokers and followers of Wil bur Glenn Voliva have many times clashed. When the elders reached Taber nacle N'o. 2 they found the steps drenched with a liquid which they said "had the appearance of tobacco juice." They also declared that quan tities of hot tar marred the floor of the little building. WANTS PATENT LAW REVISED Washington, D. C., Feb. 28.—Re vision of the patent law at the earliest practicable date to protect American Inventors is to bo urged upon Con gress, according to a letter which Sec retary Lane, of the Department of the I Interior, to-day Bent to Drvllle Wright, I the aviator, It. lAMuseMercs! ; .. MAJESTIC To-day, last three times, 2.30, 7.00 and 9.00, "Traffic in Souls." Monday, March 2, matinee and night. Imported London Company in | "Change." Tuesday night, Wednesday matinee ! and night, the Carlisle Elks' Mlns- I trels. j Thursday, Friday and Saturday mat ! inee and night. "Dwiggins Tour Around the World." | Niblo's Travel Pictures —All week. "TRAFFIC IN SOCLS" / "Traffic in Souls," the vice photo play films that were made from the dramatization of the Rockefeller white slave commission's investigation, will be seen for the last time at the Ma jestic Theater to-day with three per formances at 2.30, 7.00 and 9.00 o'clock. This powerful and Intensely interesting photodrama will be shown In six reals, each of a thousand or more feet, illustrating the many dang ers which confront young girls who come unguarded to the city.—Adver tisement. IMPORTED LONDON I COMPANY IN "CHANGE" "Change" is a vital play hewing '! straight to the line and letting the I I technical chips fall where th6y may. It ' I shows vividly one phase or the sacri ; flee that progress demands by the devastation It creates In its march through one household and the entire village of Aberpandy for that matter, i While the play teems with thrilling a. d startling speechs, it is not at all ■ "preachy" as throughout a vein of : rare comedy is furnished by charac i ters in their own quaint way. Ad . vertisement. CARLISLE ELKS MINSTRELS The demand for seats at the MaJes- tic box office for the engagement of the Carlisle Elks in their three-act musical comedy, "George Brady's Dream," Tuesday and Wednesday, with special barjraln matinee on Wed nesday, shows that there is no doubt 'about the success of the first venture _ I of the Carlisle actors away from their 11 own town. It has long been a desire iof these performers to take one of NEWBRO'S KERPIGIDE IS NATURE DID KEEPS THE SOUP GLEAN FROM DANDRUFF Reasonable care and effort are all that are required to enable almost any woman to have good hair. When the lialr falls out and Is stringy, uneven, : dry, brittle and generally unslsjhtly, I the condition Is nearly always due to i dandruff. j Dandruff robs the hair of its natural | beauty and abun- booklet telling all d , anc „ e ; " 18 Q b . y OOINOI OOINCM' GOME,,, about the hair by checking the scale ®°NE Ml sending ten cents like accumula- ( A f A / in postage or sil* tlons that New- \ AJ? 1 // U ) i ver to The Harpi bro's Herplcide # X V J \>J f cldo Co „ t> s proves its value < JQ? Detroit, Mich, as a scalp prophy- Mnta*waf.wEir HOtricwwiuwia Y ° u r dealer , lactic and is an • sells Herplcide in I aid to nature. A cleau scalp, an Increas-1 two sizes,, 50 cents and 11.00, and guar- ' ed softness and brilliancy of the hair, i | relief from itching scalp and an ab sence of falling hair are all indicative j of the great efficiency of Herplcide. The ! hair properly treated and cared for be | comes one of Woman's greatest charms. I Beautiful hair and lots of it may be | the reward of every woman willing to devpte a little personal effort to the use of the First and Original remedy compounded In harmony with the con tacious theory of dandruff. The a.b their shows on the road, and people who witnessed their productions for several seasons urged them into it. The priqes have been held down so that everybody in the city who cares to can see it. Pictures of different scenes in the performance are on dis play in store windows about town, and the gorgeous gowns worn by the "girls" in the show have attracted much attention. Advertisement. sence of un Itching scalp is one of the ■ flrst and most grutcful manifestations ! of the efficiency of Herplcide noticed , by the intelligent user. The prepara , tion has a delightful and exauisite odor i which alone would make it a popular hair dressing. You can obtain a trial size bottlo and antees or money re funded. Insist u^QF 1 having genuine Herplcide and not some "off brand" said to bo "Just as good" preparation. There is only one excuse for the "off brand," it pays tho dealer a larger profit. It costs you just us much us tho real article. Why take chances? Herplcide applications obtained ut the better barber shops and hair dress ing parlors. • Kennedy's Medicine Stole is Snurial Afaat—«iiv*rliiunftnt
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