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
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•' Here's another of those
Feature Fall Boots that
/ we are showing for
women at moderate
wMii prices '
Dull Glove Kid Military
Walking Boots. Style as
shown. Military Heels. 9-
JmZj> 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. A
war museum containing relics and
trophies will be part of the me
morial.
Use Cuticura Soap
To Clear Your Skin
All dranlita: Bo an Ointment M,Talrnm2s.
bampie earh free of "Cwtlcur*, Dept. B, Fevten."
Piles and Rupture
Treated Ily
Philadelphia Specialist
I• I M Ir |;
PILES
Every person so afflicted should
ihvestigate our painless dissolv
ing method of treating these trou
blesome affections. This dissolv
ent treatment is one of the great
est discoveries of the ago and no
person has any excuse for suffer
ing with Piles while this treat
ment is so easy to obtain.
We absolutely guarantee to cure
every case we undertake, and we
further guarantee to do so with
out giving ether or chloroform
and without putting the patient to
sleep, and that the treatment must
be painless. We do not use the
knife, and no acid injections or
salves. If you are suffering from
piles of any kind do not fail to
take advantage of this wonderful
treatment. These treatments are
given every other Wednesday by a
specialist from Philadelphia.
July 17, 1919.
I had been suffering with piles
for some time and could get no re
lief. I called on Dr. Yoder at the
Hotel BolUm and he absolutely
cured me in two treatments, with
out pain or loss of time from my
work.
JOHN REHMAN,
515 S. front St.,
Steel ton. Pa.
iiv PTC nil
It is not necessary for you to
wear a truss all your life und to
be in constant danger of having a
strangulated rupture, which is
nearly always fatal. Our method
of treating rupture gives results
in eight out of every ten cases. It
closes up the opening permanent
ly and you can throw your truss
away and again feel like a real
man. Our fees for these treat
ments are very small and are
within tile reach of everyone.
nil. XV. S. YOU BR, PHILADEL
PHIA SPECIALIST AT HOTEL
1101.T0.V, Wednesday September
10 from to H p. m.
Decorate American
For Improving Jap
Telephone System
Toklo, Sept. 9.'—The decoration of
the order of the Rising Sun has been
bestowed upon Philip K. Condtct,
vice president of the International
Western Electric Company, who is
I "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" I
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I $35 Suits |
!NO store will be better prepared to serve
its customers with reasonable priced merchandise this
Fall and Winter than this "Live Store." We put forth our best
foot by going to the manufacturers very early, purchasing im-
mense quantities so as to be able to give the maximum values to
our customers.
I Greater values has always been one of the strong I
outstanding features of this "Live Store" and we made up our minds that
this year would be no exception to our hard and fast rule to give our customers the 5
II ' k oB * va l ues obtainable through our enormous purchasing power, keen foresight and
H tremendous output.
Come in to see these thirty-five and
forty dollar suits —come expecting to see real clothes,
snappy, up-to-the-minute, carefully tailored, in a splendid assort
ment of colors and style variations—Clothes that men will be
proud to wear, that we can guarantee will give perfect and com
plete satisfaction to the wearer.
There's a complete change in the styles in young
B men's clothes this season, all restrictions that have existed for the past I
two years have been lifted and you should see the way the designers have fairly I
outdone themselves in producing these handsome yet sensible models that fill our
display cases —We're enthusiastic about them, so will you be—They're ready now.
I "Manhattan Shirts" "Stetson Hats" "Mallory Velours"
Try the Dependable Doutrich Service
That Everybody Is Talking About
ji 304 Market Street . Harrisburg, Pa. I
now here, in recognition of his serv
ices in connection with improve
ments in the Japanese telephone sys
tem.
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.
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For Infants and Invalids j
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