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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 '
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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
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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
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You will find, too, that all itching
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If you want to keep your hair look
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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
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It is Inexpensive, and four ounces is
all you will need. This simple rem
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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
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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
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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