TAXICAB PROBE ORDERED BEGUN in Philadelphia May Be Extended to Harris burg and Pittsburgh Inquiry which starts to-day by order of the Public Service Com mission into the rates and service of the taxlcab companies and the Jitneys in Philadelphia may be ex- j tended to Pittsburgh, Scranton. I Harrisburg and other cities of the J State. As a natter of general ' policy, the members of the Com- ! mission are considering broadening i the inquiry into the conditions j which have been much complained I of In various cities and in the State ! capital itself, by a State-wide J movement is probable in the next few weeks. The Philadelphia inquiry was ordered undertaken last night by the Commission without a com plaint. After presentation of a re port by Commissioners Samuel M. Clement, Jr., and James S. Benn, who investigated the taxicabs and illegal operation of jitneys in Pliila- ' delphia, the Commission took the | unusual course of launching an in- ' quiry on its own motion. This has ! been done very rarely. In most of j the instances where this power has been exercised it has been in the | case of grade crossings four.d to bo | dangerous. Generally, when this | authority is invoked, the Commis- i sion uses all of the power it posses- j ses to adduce the facts. This will i "BAYER CROSS" ON GENUINE ASPIRIN \ /IsAVHEr. V n J "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" to be genuine must be marked with the safety "Bayer Cross." Always buy an unbroken Bayer package which contains proper directions to safely 1 relieve Headache, Toothache, Ear ache. Neuralgia, Colds and pain. ! Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost 1 but a few cents at drug stores— J larger packages also. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of i Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. I ~o£ -uAOiS &rLclo\&z \GL& t&e, -fiesi~&n*rum, -jxSizfvcvtjteL cvrud -Heat? yfce ITCL£ujL tjvLA T ciJvfxSvcnrctJ@ ct/nxL t nc h leather tops. Slender NBGT vamps. Dark Brown or Black. Our Price To day is $7.50. TUESDAY EVENING, be done in Philadelphia where the inquiry may take weeks. Mean while it will be determined when to extend the investigation to other cities. In regard to Pittsburgh, it I is improbable that anything will ba | done until after the hearing in the I Pittsburgh Railway cases late this j month. | The preliminary acts will be sending inspectors and accountants 'to examine contracts, equipment, j service, regulations and the like I and accountants to go over the books of the taxicab companies j with lawyers to look over contracts ] and agreements. Where a concern operates without a State certificate . or a jitneyman is running without i having applied to the Commission for the right, the process will he | simple. Ho will be cited before ! the State authorities. But in case j of the taxicab companies with con ' tracts with hotels, railroads and the j like it will be different. The whole business will be investigated. Prob i ably it will result in new municipal I regulations, the enforced use of taximeters and requirement of in surance for protection of persons who may be hurt. Briefly stated the moves as a re suit of the action of the Commission will be: Sending of accountants from the bureau of accountants to the offices of the companies to go over their books because they are common carriers. Sending of examiners to look into the contracts with hotels, etc. Sending of investigators and in spectors to make a general inquiry into the whole situation to develop the reasonableness and adequacy of the service. The whole power of the Commis sion for a far reaching and search ing inquiry will be employed. In a statement issued last night the Commission said, "Commission ers Clement and Benn reported that a preliminary hearing had been held in Philadelphia on the investi gation by the Commission on the operation of motor vehicles as com mon carriers in the city of Phila delphia without the approval of the Commission evidenced by a certi ficate of public convenience, and moved that the Commission investi gate into the reasonableness of the ! rates charged in the tariffs filed by the Quaker City Cab Company, the American Taxicab Company and the Liberty Taxicab Company, and that prior to the hearing thereon, the Commission cause an investiga tion to be made through its Bureau of Aacounts and Statistics, of the books and accounts of said com panies, for the purpose of ascer taining what they are paying for the privilege they have been cn- 1 joying in the use of the streets of ] the city of Philadelphia, and for j the exclusive privileges of serving the hotels, restaurants and railroad stations in the city of Philadelphia: investigate the services being ren dered by said companies, and that of all others doing a taxicab busi ness in the city of Philadelphia." YORK HAVEN CAN BUILD NEW LINE | lmportant Decision Regarding j Transmission Route in Lower Dauphin County Service Commis s\\\ sion in an opin v\\\A CTtf ' on handed down j? to-day by Chair- Ainey granted the iJCwtHWIHWO Water and Power s 1i131501 Company the ! ■ right to construct a! 1 electric trius ' m j sg j on n n e from I Middletown to Annville through territory within which it was not chartered to operate and thereby ruled for the first time in such a case. The right to construct the line, which is intended to connect with the lines of a Read ing system at Annville, was sought under authority of the act of 1895. It is held that this power of ex tending lines by such companies is State wide and that the companies coming under the act of 1895 have the right to build anywhere in the State provided a certificate of con venience is secured from the Com mission and that municipal or town ship consent is given to occupying streets, lanes and alleys of cities or other municipal divisions. The opinion which contains refer ences to supreme and Dauphin coun ty court decisions and opinions by Hampton L. Carson when Attorney General. "In this instance," says the decision, "no objections have been presented and us we have ! reached the conclusion that there . are no legal obstacles to our action and that public convenience, accom modation and necessity have been established," a certificate will be issued. The Commission limited ap proval to the line specified and did not puss on the agreement with tile Reading company. Commissioner John S. Rilling, dissented. Abolish Crossing The Public Se.rvice Commission has ordered abolished the grade crossing at Mar ket street, Marcus Hook borough and Lower Chichester township, Del aware county. This crossing was in vestigated by the Commission on its owu motion and its decision directs that the work of abolishing the crossing shall be done under super vision of the Commission. 75 per .cent of the cost being paid by the | Pennsylvania Railroad, 17% by the : county of Delaware, 5 per cent by Marcus Hook and 2 % per cent by Lower Chichester. The work is to be done by July 1, 1920. Streamers Hero—Adjutant Gen eral Ift-ank D. Beary has received the streamers of the 108 th Field Artillery, which will be placed with the battle flags. These streamers represent history of the old Second Pennsylvania Infantry since 1842 and include the Mexican, Civil, Spanish and World Wars. The name of each battle or service in which it partcipated either as a bat talion of infantry, the 2nd infantry or the 2nd field artillery is shown. Hearing on Ajr Line —• The first ! hearing to be scheduled by the ; Public Service Commission on an ap i plication for a charter for an air plane transportation company has been fixed for October 1. An Eas ton aero service concern is asking a charter. The question is whether a route in the air should be speci fied. At Washington—Adjutant General Frank D. Beary is at Washington on National Guard matters. New Regulations Soon—A series of new regulations governing the shipment of hogs through Pennsyl vania will be promulgated in a few weeks by the State Department of Agriculture, studies of conditions in the State being now under way. The State authorities have a dozen coun ties under quarantine as far as ship ments are concerned and they will be released. It is stated that general support was given to the State quar antine by live stock owners. Commission Fixes Value—A value of $90,000 is placed upon the prop erty of the Consolidated Water com pany, which supplies Coudersport, and the company allowed an annual return of 7 per cent thereon in an I opinion filed by Public Service Com missioner John S. Rilling in the complaint of the borough of Couders port and others against the rates and service of the water company. The capital stock is $llO,OOO, of which $lOB,OOO has been paid in and |no dividends are now being paid. jThe sum of $4,814.19 is allowed for annual operating expenses and the | borough is to pay for fire service • not less than $1,260 per year. A ! new schedule of rates is to be filed by the company in thirty days. Meet in Philadelphia—l Officials of the State Armory Board will be in Philadelphia to-morrow for inspec tion of armory properties in that city. The board will meet in Phila i delphia on Thursday. -Mr. Millar Returns —A. B. Millar, ; secretary of the Public Service Com , mission, has returned from Bedford where he spent a brief vacation. I Signed Vp For Roads The I Chester county commissioners, who i were here yesterday with Senator |T. L. Eyre, signed contracts for construction of 29,600 feet of high way at the Highway Department. The work will be done in East ! Gosehn, East Whiteland and West ; town townships. Run Linos On Rill Engineers i are at work running lines for the ; improvements inside of Capitol | Park, including the new walks. State Inquiry Agents of the State Department of Agriculture be gan work yesterday on inspectlop of potato crops in Allegheny and other western counties. They are hunting the potato disease. Stone Embargo Has Hit the State Hard i Placing of an embargo on ship | ments of stone for road construction I and the resumption of the old-time I war-days system of requiring per- I mits for the shipment of such ma terial by the State Railroad Com mission will work havoc with Penn sylvania's State road building pro gram, according to State Highway I Department officials. News of the .embargo and permit requirements I caused dismay when received at the Capitol from the United States Rail i road Administration and it was de clared that very few contractors have any stone ahead. Etate Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler issued this statement when he received word of the em bargo: "It is unfortunate that this ruling should come at a time when the weather seems to be clearing up, after a summer of unusually heavy rainfall. Contractors on one 180 projects have faced perplexing and costly delays because of the inclem ency of the weather. Reports dur ing the last 10 days were beginning to show most satisfactory progress throughout the entire State. The ruling of the Itaiiroud Administration means that the entire program of HAKWBBURO TELEGRAPH the State Highway Department will be tied up. except in those cases where contractors own the quarries "from which they have been receiv ing stone. The order will inflict hardships on a great many of the contractors, who have already suf fered loss because of the weather conditions which have prevailed since the forepart of June." Kittanning Refused a Municipal Plant The Public Service Commission ( has refused to grant permission to [ the borough of Kittanning to con | struct a municipal water plant, an I opinion by Commissioner John S. ! Rilling holding that building of a j borough plant would be a duplica : tion of the facilities of the Arm | strong Wator Company and that it | would cost to build at least $300,- 000 which would exceed the limit of ' indebtedness allowed the municipal ity. The borough would be bdrden |ej with "a large indebtedness to ; pay for a plant to be constructed at i the present time when unusually | high prices ure prevailing and which plant contemplates taking its water supply from the same con taminated course that is so much complained of against the respond ent," says the decision. "It can not be gainsaid ihat in the end of the struggle which Is bound to en- I sue between the proposed municipal ly owned plant and the existing one that one or the other will succumb * * * resulting in not only great economic loss, but in more or less inadequate service in the meantime." The water company is declared not to have "appreciated or performed its duty as a water company ex clusively serving a community." It is informed that it should immedi ately rehabilitate its plant and notice 1 sgivon that the Commission will entertain proceedings to determine reasonableness of rates in effect. Bigger Crowd at Church in Weekdays Than on Sundays New York, Sept. 9. —A crowd in most churches on any day other than Sunday, usually means a funeral, wedding or "sociable." But St. Paul's Chapel, the lodest church in New York city, in lower Broadway between Park Row newspaper dis trict and Wall street, is an excep tion emphasized by the directors of the Episcopal church's nation-wide campaign. At St. Paul's the largest crowds of worshippers are those at the three services held each week-day. The brokers and bankers who usualij spend their weekends on a golf course, yacht or at a watering place, frequently find time on their way to Wall street to attend the early communion service at 8 o'clock each morning in old St. Paul's. At 9 o'clock there is matins, usually at tended by persons from out of town, who throng the chapel each day to see George Washington's pew and to stroll around among the graves in the burial ground in the rear. Practically all the tombstones are a century old and many bear the names of men prominent in the days when New York was a province of George 111. Edinburgh Castle to Be Memorial Edinburgh. Scotland, Sept. 9. Edinburgh Castle has been selected for utilization as a memorial to Scotland's participation in the war. A new building, dedicated to the memory of slain Scottish soldiers, will be erected within the castle grounds on the site of the ancient church built by King David I. 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Airmen Disturb Sunday Worship Snnta Monk's, Cal., Sept. 9. SEPTEMBER 9, 1919. Complaint that aviators disturb di vine worship hore by flying so low over churches that the whirr of the planes Interferes with the preaching and singing, has resulted in the city commissioners issuing a request to airmen, that they travel in high altitudes from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m., Sundays. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad. 11 ASK FOR and GET Horlick's The Original Malted Milk For Infants and Invalids j Avoid Imiltlitai uiitobitliim I