STATE SENDS OUT BILLS FOR TAXES Millions of Dollars Will Soon Be Paid by the Auditor General's Office Bills for State \\ ® //J taxes amounting to SWA K&C/ millions of dollars ? the Auditor Gener a''® department within the next week and before ll fiuMWTfßtlfV August is very far IkSKjI Oh* 8. advanced it is hop- HygUUitiiLjiait e( j by officials of the W**" , • --» » department to have t he settlements as tax statements against corporations are called, at the offices of the big railroad systems. Numerous settle ment sheets have been made up against corporations, but they have not been of the kind that produce large amounts of revenue and atten tion will now be given t$ the big fel lows. Under the law the corporations have sixty days in which to make payment of taxes and it is thought that by the first of October the State Treasury will commence to get in largo amounts of money and that the shortage which now prevails at the Treasury and which has forced the holding up of requisi tions from departments will be more than overcome. Meanwhile every department on Capitol Hill will have to go slow in the matter of expenditures and some of the charitable institutions will be required to wait a while before draw ing their money. Notices have been given to men con nected with some of the State hospi tals and other institutions that the bills for the new ouarter should show some reductions ixl price or more con formity to the new prices which the State Economy and Efficiency commis sion has been getting up. The pay ments for supplies the latter quarter of this year will be closely scrutinized to see If there are wide variations and if efforts have been made to bold down expenses. The commission and Auditor General's department are co operating in this matter. Division's Big Job. Some idea of the immense amount of business ban died by the division of public docu ments, which is the distributing end of the State department of public printing and binding, can be gained by a statement made to-day by Superin tendent A. N. Pomeroy showing that since July 1 the division had issued approximately 112.P00 bulletins from departments. This included the work of placing in envelopes, addressing, stamping and mailing and was all done in addition to the shipment of tons of State reports. This work was for years in the hands of the departments, but is now centralized and under the system planned by Mr. Pomeroy has resulted in considerable saving of money. Incidentally, the number of such bulletins is greater than last year and illustrates the increase of the printing department's work. Increases Filed. Among the no tices of increase of stock filed at the Capitol lately was one by Dill & Col lins of Philadelphia for an increase from $750,000 to $1,500,000. The Lan caster Steel Products Company of Lan caster, increased from $185,000 to $200,000 and the Hanover Wire Cloth Company from $300,000 to $400,000. Gun Club Rates. Among the rates Just announced for liability insurance are for range attendants and trap starters at gun clubs. There has been BO much activity among members of. gun clubs«that rates had to be made for such attendants. They run pretty high. Stall Men Recruit. Two members of Governor M. G. Brumbaugh's staff are now engaged on recruiting duty. They are Lieutenant Colonels O. T. Taylor, of Pittsburgh, and L. Benton Long, of Ridgway. They rank as ma jors in the recruiting service. Several others have volunteered their services. Briefs Filed. The briefs Jn the Pittsburgh night trolley fare case have been filed with the Public Service Com mission. It. will take up the case next month. Clement Named.—Major-General C. M. Ciemenrt, commanding the Penn sylvania division, has been appointed one of ten majors-general to com mand national guardsmen. His head quarters will be El Paso. To Inspect Troop.—lnspection of the cavalry machine gun troop organized to apply for admission to the National Guard will be made at Phillipsburg to-night. If it passes it will likely be ordered to Mount Gretna for muster. Permits Grunted. Commissioner Dixon has granted permits for the ex tension of Johnstown's sewer system, embracing numerous lateral sewers. The work will occupy some time. To Publi Road \Vt>rk.—The Souder Construction Company, awarded the contract for the big stretch of highway on highway route No. 131, in Chester county, is expected to start work soon. This work is to be pushed because of the extensive travel in that section. Board On Vacation. The State Compensation Board will have a vaca tion the next ten days. Some decisions which were acted upon are now being written and will be announced. Harrisbui's Charter.—A charter was granted to-day to the M. H. Baker & •Co., of this city with a capital of $5,- 000. It will engage in plumbing, heat ing and lighting work and tne incor porators are M. H. Baker, L. M. Wag. ner and H. E. McClure, all of this city. Knowles Incorporates. Morris Knowles, one of the best-known water experts In the State, has formed a company at Pittsburgh and been granted a State charter. Mr. Knowles has handld a number of matters ror the Public Service Commission. Surface Gets Letter. lt was re ported to-day that Dr. H. A. Surface would not make any further efforts to fight removal by the State Commis sion of Agriculture in consequence of a letter received by him from the gov ernor to-day. Dr. Surface will likely leave his office to-night. Powell Asks a Rehearing. John R. Powell, who lost a case before the Public Service Commission in which he attacked the charging and meter system of the Califoriwa water com pany has asked a rehearing. On Vacation. Howard M. Hoke, secretary to the Attorney General, left to-day for Maine to spend his vacation. Guy M. Davies. chief cierx of the de partment of law, returned to-day from his vacation. SIOO For Conscience. State Treas urer Young to-day received the larg est conscience fund contribution made to the Commonwealth in many months. It came in the form of a draft for SIOO sent by an Asplnwall bank for a client. Accompanying the draft was an unsigned letter stating that it was tax for property that had not been assessed. The letter was postmarked Pittsburgh. Complains of Water. Helen M. Donnelly, of West Conshonocken, has entered complaint before the Pub lice Service Commission against the West Conshohocken Water Company. She attacks the rats as unjust. Mora Cases Reported. Medical inspectors of the State Department of Health were busy to-day in half a dozen counties Investigating reports of infantile paralysis. Some of them were from Conshohocken and Con fluence. r MONDAY EVENING, COUNCIL TO TAKE UP JITNEY PROBLEM [Continued From First Page] and Street Railway Employes, that "some of the weak-kneed men have gone back to work as had been ex pected, but that the strike will be con tinued to the end," summed up the sit uation to-day of the beginning of the third week of Harrisburg's street rail way strike. . Twenty-one of the striking men are now back on the Job,' according to President Musser; Mr. Thorpe says that about twenty are holding down their old Jobs. Reports current among the strikers to the effect that C. C. Page, financial secretary of the trolleymen's organi zation, had returned to work were verified by Felix M. Davis, transporta tion superintendent. Efforts to interest the businessmen of Harrlsburg through the Chamber of Commerce were taken by the strikers, acoording to Hugh L. McLaughlin, chairman of the grievance committee. Mr. McLaughlin said he took up the question with President J. William Bowman, of the Chamber, and that the president told him that he will present the matter to the directors just as soon as he can get them to gether. Trains Withdrawn Philadelphia and Reading special trains to Steelton which had been run for the benefit of the employes of the Pennsylvania Steel Company were dis continued to-day. Two of the big mo tor trucks likewise quit regular runs. All but two of the regular quota of cars were In service to-day, according to President Musser and the crews were mostly men who had been taken back Into the company's emplov, form er employes who had left the com pany's service at varying periods be fore the strike, and some men who had been brought hero from York, Lancaster and other nearby towns to help out. J. E. Roach, according to a tele gram received from Samuel Gompers, president of the National Federation of Labor, has been delegated to help 6onduct the announced "whirlwind campaign" for organizing labor. What plans will be followed in this campaign Vice-President Thorpe to day smilingly declined to discuss. Mx\ Musscr's Statement In discussing the situation to-day President Musser said: "We no longer consider a strike in existence, although we are still subject to some inconvenience. With the ex ception of two all of our cars are in service; schedules are being regularly maintained; people are again riding in the cars. With few exceptions these cars are manned by old men, men who have returned since the strike, men we've had to bring from other towns to help out, or men who had been in our employ some time ago and who had left to go to other jobs. We have re-employed a number of these men. "It Is safe to say, X think, that we have now 21 of the old men running on lines. Uniforms have been pro vided for the new ones. Only in the evenings is it necessary to employ the strike-breakers." For the first time since the strike was declared two special cars were in service this morning and more, it was said, will be put in service this even ing. During the morning 49 cars in all were in operation. In discussing the applications of strikers for their old jobs, President Musser said: 'We are taking the men back with the understanding that bygones are to be bygones. Any that we re-employ are given to understand that so long as they do what is right we will treat them as if nothing had happened." Mr. Thorpe's Statement Vice-President Thorpe gave out a different statement however: "All men who return to work," said he, "are required to sign away their freedom, their principles of manhood in order to receive their old positions. If they want to go back to work they are compelled to drop out of the union, and to agree to have nothing more to do with it. Furthermore they are compelled to turn Aver their union cards and buttons and any other prop erty that belongs to the union. "This the company has no right to insist upon," continued Mr. Thorpe. "The company has no legal rignt to take any property that belongs to the union or the Amalgamated Associa tion. "Our advice to the officials of the traction company is that they had bet ter not take over this property and that any they have taken had better be given up or there will be trouble." "Is it true," Mr. Thorpe was asked, "that more men have gone back to work?" "Twenty or thereabouts, I believe, have returned to their old Jobs. But these are the weak-kneed ones that we rather expected to do this. They are the ones that were had to keep with us anyway and it's probably better that they do because a weeding out would be necessary." The committee headed by Chairman McLaughlin which called upon Mayor Meals this morning complained about the company's methods of handling its cars with the strike-breakers. "The men who run the cars do not obey the traffic rules relative to the keeping of a car to a block; other rules are not obeyed. Why can't the city authorities advocate the passage of an ordinance which will require a man to have at least fifteen days' training with an experienced man be fore he be given control of a car?" Mayor Meals said the idea was worthy of consideration. "One thing we are going to insist upon," concluded the Mayor as the committee arose to go, "is that after this is all over, all the cars—both jit neys and trolley cars—must provide the proper kind of vehicles to haul the public. It is certainly time that we do away with 'fiat-wheels' and the rickety type of vehicles which the people have had to tndure." Market Square Turned Into Big Forum Saturday , for Labor Discussions Market Square Saturda, ynsght was an open forum for discussion of the strike problems and among the speak ers were Hugh L. McLaughlin, chair man of the grievance committee of the striking carmen, Charles F. Qutnn, secretary of the State Federation of Labor, J. P. Graham, organizer for the same Federation and J. J. Thorpe, vice-president of the Amalgamated Association of Elctric and Street Rail way Employee. A big crowd heard the speeches, all of which dealt with the details of the proposed "whirlwind campaign" to organize all branches of labor in this section. Wednesday night anotner big labor parade is to be held and elaborate plans for the demonstration are under way. PRAISE FOR GOOD WORK Two firemen and a signal man were commended for discovering defective pieces of track and a broken brake rigging, according to the Middle Divi sion bulletin for the week ending July 16. Thirty-three other employes were disciplined. In the motive power department of the Penney for the week ending July 22 twelve men were disciplined for In fractions of the rules. ii* KMiumMAunum **<•' ***»» Ijj '.L ... . n rr>T uliwri r-* The Greatest Money Saving Possibilities of the Entire Year Every one knows that Furniture is constantly advancing in price same as all other commodities. We anticipated and bought early which enables us to undersell those who bought later. It will be many years until you can buy as cheap as now. yyi J ijjju- Our Liberal Credit Open To All JHm |np*L The easy payments enable the purchaser to get all the Furniture needed by pay- Ilk, k Jr HI i ; H ing small weekly or monthly payments. 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Complete set, $97.65 SBO.OO This Store will remain open all day and evening on Fridays, closed Saturdays at IP. M. NEWS OF S WILL DISCUSS CANAL MEASURE CounciLmen Have Been Study ing Problem and Will Ex plain Next Week Steelton's borough council at its regular August meeting, next Monday evening, will likely take definite action upon the ordinance permitting the Pennsylvania Railroad to establish three additional grade crossings in the West Side and settle finally the prob lem of caring for all sewage north of In the past five weeks (..NUPP Locust street. In the past five weeks the council men have been familiarizing them selves with the various phases of the problem and will likely come to the meeting prepared to discuss it in telligently from all angles. Several bids for constructing the big system of sewers which under the preesnt plan would drain the upper end of town have been received, but have not yet been opened by council. These proposals will be submitted to council next Monday. The highway committee, which re ceived the report of Nelson P. Lewis, consulting engineer, last week, is still working on plans for the suit against the United States Wood Preserving Company to compel that concern to repair Front street paving. Final ac tion will be taken next week, from present indications. Pierce Funeral. Funeral services for Charles Pierce, who was killed Thursday at the steel plant, were held in Centenary United Brethren Church, Saturday afternoon, with the Rev. W. S. Houck officiating, assisted by the Rev. E. A. G. Bossier, of Harrisburg. Burial was made at Oberlln. Members of Washington Camp, 102, P. O. S. of A., attended the services. Injured in Fall. Mrs. E. Francis, Spruce street, sustained painful injur ies about the head and face in a fall down a pair of steps at her home yes terday. STEELTON PERSONALS The Rev. an dMrs. Charles A. Huyett have gone to Alexandria, Pa., for a three weeks' visit. Mrs. Levi Still, 18 South Second street, is spending several weeks as the guest of her daughter in Philadelphia and two sisters in Atlantic City. W. F. McCall. New York city, was the guest here yesterday of his mother. D. A. Kremer, Watsontown, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Nauss, Pine street. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bay, Mr. and Mrs. Lyorfs and Mr. Mowry, Shippens burg, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beidel after a motor trip to the borough. Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Moore and chil dren. Harold and Helen, and Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Webster and daughters. Ruth and Dorothy, of Du Bois, arc guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Heile, South Front street. To Give Concert. The Steelton Band will give the first of a series of concerts on the lawn at Second and Conestoga streets Friday evening, Au gust 8. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH PLAN ANOTHER ATHLETIC MEET Will Be Held August 11; Plan Outing at McCormick's Island Camp The second interplayground track and field meet will be held on the Cot tage Hill athletic field Agust 11. Al ready teams from the various play grounds are training for the event and an exciting meet is expected. Supervisor James R. Xrwjn has completed arrangements for taking a party of' youthful campers from the playgrounds to McCormick's Island, Harrisburg, the week of August 10. Permission has been obtained from the Harrisburg Park Department and plans are now being completed for making up the party. The Parks and Playgrounds Com mission will meet Thursday evening to prepare its monthly report to coun cil. The League Standing Standing of the various leagues at the end of Saturday's play is as fol lows: Senior Baseball W. L. P. C. West Side 3 0 1.000 Cottage Hill 2 1 .666 Hygienic 1 i .500 Fotherglll 1 "i .500 East End 0 1 .000 Lawn 0 2 .000 Senior Voile,' Ball W. L. P. C. West Side 5 1 .833 Cottage Hill 4 1 .800 Hygienic 2 3 .400 Lawn 2 4 .333 Fothergill 1 5 .166 Senior Xewoomb W. L. P. C. Hygienic 4 0 1.000 Lawn 2 2 ' .500 West Side 2 3 .400 Fothergill 1 3 ,200 Junior Volley Ball W. L. P. C. Cottage Hill 5 0 1.000 West Side 4 2 .66(5 Lawn 2 4 .333 Fothergill 2 4 .333 Hygienic 1 4 .200 Junior Baseball W. L. P. C. Cottage Hill 2 0 1.000 West Side 1* 0 1.000 Fothergill 1 0 1.000 Lawn 1 3 .250 Hygienic 0 2 .000 Junior Xewcomb - W. L. P. C. Hygienic . 3 1 .750 Fothergill 3 2 .600 West Sid© 2 3 .400 Lawn 1 3 .225 Playgrounds contests are scheduled for every afternoon this week except Saturday as follows: Monday, July 31, Xewcomb, Lawn at Hygienic, West Side at Cottage Hill. Tuesday, August I—Volley ball, Foth erglll at Lawn and Hygienic at Cottage Hill Wednesday, August 2—Track meet at Lawn. Senior baseball, West Sido at Fotherglll; Thursday, August 3 —Senior baseball. Hygienic at Cottage Hill. Friday, August 4—Newcomb, West Side at Lawn and Junior base ball. Fotherglll at Hvo-ionin Ft moral for Child.—Funeral services for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Wilson Sherer, who died last evening, will be held at the home, 350 Spruce street, to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock, with the Rev. C. B. Segelken. pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be made at Lebanon Wednesday. % MIDDLETOWN ROBIXSOX—SOHX Leroy Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John I. Robinson, East Main street, and Miss Nellie Ray Sohn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sohn, Brown street, were married Saturday morn, ing at 9 o'clock at United Brethren parsonage by the Rev. I. H. Albright, the pastor. Thy couple were attended by Earl Sohn and Miss Elizabeth Rob inson. A wedding dinner was served at the Robinson home yesterday after noon. Plan Picnic.— The Methodist Epis copal Sunday School is planning a pic nic at Hershey next month and has iftvited all other Sunday schools to participate. HEAT WAVE TO END IN 2 DAYS [Continued From First Page] comfortable weather probably to be followed by another hot wave. The heat here to-day wtis more in evidence because of the high humidity. According to the local weather ob server it will be worse to-morrow, but by to-morrow night the atmosphere will cool off. The temperature this morning was 7 degrees. This is four degrees warmer than yesterday. The mercury had reached 90 by 11 o'clock and was still rising slowly. An As sociated Press dispatch from Wash ington says: "After breaking several heat rec ords in the Western upper lake region. " RESISTANCE TO DISEASE Debility ia a los 3 of vitality, not affecting any one part of the body .par ticularly but the system generally. It ia dangerous because it reduces tho body's resistance to disease. When debility follows acute diseascß, convalescence is slow and the strength , does not return as it should. An at tack of the grip often results in debility that persists for months. Everybody recognizes that tho remedy for debility is to build up the blood because the blood goes to every part of the body and an_ improvement in its condition i 3 quickly felt throughout tho system. The problem in every caee ia to find something that will enrich tho blood. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills suit most people's need because they are non-al coholic and they really build up the Wood and strengthen the nerves. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are useful for grow ing children and for men and women whose nervous energy has been over drawn. Try them whenever your blood ia thin. i'our druggist sells Dr. Williams' Pink Pills or they will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, sis boxes $2.50 by the Dr. Williamß Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Write today for free booklets on the blood and nerves. JULY 31, 1916. the hot wave to-day had spread into the Middle and South Atlantic States. An area of high pressure coming from the Canadian Northwest and ■moving southeastward caused an ap preciable fall in temperature through the Upper Mississippi Valley and the North and West Upper Lake Region. "In the South and extreme West however, higher temperatures were recorded. Cooler weather was pre dicted by weather bureau officials for Tuesday in the lake region and East tern New York, but elsewhere In tne East and in the Ohio Valley and the South the heat wave will maintain torrid tmperatures." The Susquehanna Biver is rapidly assuming normal conditions. Indica tions were that the water will fall be low the four foot mark by to-night. Chicago Awaits Abatement of Heat; 115 Die in Day Chicago, July 31.—Chicago and the 5k Our Body i _ Vfeakened^W^ntl and tha system completely out of gear; it's a »ure sign the blood is full of poisons and ' e '" " t!i t KING OSCAR 5c CIGARS and get that cigar enjoyment that conies only from uniform high qual ity, This 25-year-old quality brand is pleasing thousands of smokers daily. Why not you, right now? JOHN C. HERMAN & CO. Harrisburg, Pa. Middle West are awaiting with con siderable anxiety the promised cooter weather to-day after four days of un usually high temperatures during which the thermometer hovered around the one hundred mark. The weather forecaster has promised lower temperatures by to-morrow at the latest. It was said that the cool wave would be felt in Chicago possibly by to-night and that by daylight to-mor row morning it would be •■pieasant." Chicago after yesterday's list of 115 dead due to the heat and more than 400 prostrations, to a great extent slept out doors again last night. MISS NORA CORCORAN Funeral services for Miss Nora Cor coran. aged 42. .who died at the State Asvlum. yesterday afternoon, will be held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Corcoran, of Lebanon, to-morrow morning. Undertaker Pour, bier shipped the body to Lebanon, where burial will be made In tne i.eua.- non Cemetery. 9
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