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INTER DAY FIRES
COST CITY $50,000
ofcen Plugs and Bursting
iHose in Zero Weather
Hamper Fighters
IGHBORS GIVE COFFEE
unty-tiro Arcs, fanned by the strong
blasts, destroyed nearly $50,000
of property In Philadelphia since
fit. Fire companies In all sections of
itjr have been busily engaged In corn
er the epidemic of names under the
E adverse conditions, caused by tho near
'"weather. Frozen fireplugs, Icy hose
,,thit snanned under the water ores
j ilassy pavements were among the
t Insurmountable difficulties they have
jmtered. Chilled to the marrow, coy
ly Icy coats 'formed from the spray
tter, the fire-fighters persisted In their
fly of the structures attacked by the
have turned from Infernos to ice
s under the streams of water that
I'-kttn played on them. Kind neigh-
I Mve come to the assistance of the
n In many Instances with warm food
t drink.
lorlly after noon another severe blaze
(ted In a four-story building at Palmer
Howard streets, causing a damage estl-
ln the nelehborhod of 15000. Hun-
tfi employes of several manufacturing
lerns had Just left the building before
1 enveloped by' flames. The structure
scoBled by the North American Button
any and the Ellas Ooodman Company,
icturers of toys. The origin of the
I U unknown.
k swept a four-story factory'bulldlng
lona and Coral streets about mid-
It, cauilnr a loss of $30,000.
I hose line after another sprang leaks
gjv result of the freezing temperature.
B "ver coverea me nremen ana
soon were covered with an ley armor.
ithe flames swept the building, the
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.-Two firemen were overcome by the
Uaze'ttarted In a. nnt.stnrv nrln
tibut soon spread to the main build-
rupiea bythe Berger Laundry, the
euh Hosiery Mill, and the Camp-
HOllery Mill. Pnr mn than (tiMn
I the1 flames raged, .threatening ad-
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QUICK NEWS
SPROUL RKSOLUTION PASSES SECOND READING
HAHIUSBURO. Feb. 13. The Spioul lesolutlon yrovltlliir; foi
an liivc&tlRittleu of tho Biiunbaugh Atlmtnlstratlon imsscd the House
on second H'.ullnn toilny.
JERSEY UTILITY COMMISSION NAMED
TKKNTON. Teb. 1U, Govcruoi Eilfc today npiiohitcd Alfiod S.
Mtuch. of Nv Hiunswlck, to succeed John J. Tieach, of Joisey City,
en tha bsnitt of ybullo utility commlsslonerij. The place pays $750'J
t, amniftlly. Thf tenn Is six ycats.
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BERLIN CHIEFS
THOUGHT THEY
HAD I SrOWED 'A
fc Ar S W PwW T ff I IMr
Shocked at President
Wilson's Sudden Dip- .
lomatic Break
-f
INTERNAL CAUSES
FORCED U-BOAT MOVE
Socialists Demanded Peace,
Landowners Urged De
cisive Sea Stroke
BOTH WERE APPEASED
WOULD REPEAL NATIONAL GUARD SECTION OF HAY BILL
WASHINGTON. Teb. 13. Declaring the State militia system
niid'univusal tialiiiup Incompatible, Senator Borah, of Idaho, Intio
ducetl an amendment to the unlveis.nl training bill this afternoon to
lopeal the entile National Guiiul section of tho Hay bill.
CITY HELD IN GRIP
OF ZERO WEATHER
Winter's Frigid Hand
Brings Discomfort and
Suffering to Population
RIVERS ICEBOUND
U. S. SOLD EUROPE $2,000,000,000 MUNITIONS IN 1916
WASHINGTON, Teb. 13. Ameiiea'b eontilbutlon of munitions
to Euiope duiins 1910 iippioximated $2,000,000,000, nccouling to n
bulletin of the Natiounl Geogiapliie Society this afteuioou.
German Army and Navy Would
Welcome War With America.
Press Seeks Peace
Only once in forty years has it been so cold as early this morninR.
Little wonder that the hoboes in the picture forgot their creed and
scurried nbout at a lively rate gathering wood for n fire to keep warm.
Many "kiddies" on their way to school expressed the wish that it
"wuz summer." "
SEES PRESS PLOT
TO ASSIST ALLIES
J. Hampton Moore Tells
Congress He- Will Ask
Newspaper Probe
SPEECH IS APPLAUDED
By a Staff CorreJponi"
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. "I am neither
pro-German nor pro-Ally. I am what this
Congress ought to be pro-American." de
clared Representative J. Hampton Moore,
after rising to a question of the highest
privilege In connection with a speech In
serted in the Congressional Record by Rep
resentative Oscar Callaway, of Texas, one
of the leading anti-preparedness men In the
1
"!wa'nt dictation from Lloyd George no
more than I want it from the Kaiser. I
want dictation from Lord NorthelIRe no
more than I want It from von lllndenburg."
Representative Moore continued.
"If some Democrat doesn't Introdpce a,
resolution to Investigate these charges of
pernicious mercenary activity, I shall Intro
duce the resolution myself."
- SEE PRESS PLOT
Representative Mooro charged a consplr
acv among a section of the press of the
"umted States to Influence the American
publo opnlonMn favor of the Allies and
that It was directed by the J. P. Morgan,
munition makers and other big Interests
"An editorial from a New York morning
paptr says Great Britain Is impatient be;
,,,. the United States does not declare
V on Germany. Meanwhile the United
2,tes is granting safe-conduct. Safe con-'
duct to what? To the children used In the
cartoons to inflame the people t No. safe
induct to shiploads of ammunl Ion going
n hi T distributed to oxly one of the belllg-
bond. 'of Aon of the belligerent, which. If
S?ey do not win the war. will be lost."
Three times both sides of the House
Joined in applause of Mr. Moore's .tate
mints. The T first time was when he said.
,!5',m not pro-German, althoughj I am
AFRIC BIGGEST
PREY OF U-BOATS
Liner of 11,999 Tons Sunk in
New Submarine
War
90 VICTIMS SINCE FEB. 1
Zero and Below-Zero
Weather in and About City
6 a. m. Temperatures in Suburbs
Pcnfield 4 below
Bryn Mawr 4 below
Elkins Park 4 below
Chestnut Hill 4 below
Woodford Guardhouse .... 3 below
Norwood 2 below
Branchtown 2 below
Merchantville 1 below
Camden 1 below
S. Weather Bureau Hourly j
icmpcraiures
Today YcMeiday
Midnight 0 13
1 a. m C 12
2 a. m r 12
3 a. m 4 11
4 a. m 4 10
C a. m ,'! 10
C a. m ;i 9
7 a. m 4 9
8 n. m 5 9
9 a. m 8 10
10 a. m 11 U
11 n. m 13 11
Noon 17 It
1 p. m 20 14
2 p. m 20 14
3 p. m 20 16
U-BOAT MENACE CLOGS CHICAGO WITH FREIGHT .
CHICAGO, Feb. 13. Refusal of eastern railroads to accept shipments, owing
to tho tic up of shipping us the lesult of Germany's submarine order, Is causing
an almost unprecedented coiiBCstlon of loaded freight cars In western terminals,
accord.iiK to ofllclals of Aarlous weitcrn trunk lines. In Chicago yards there
are moVe than 90U loaded cars consigned to the Atlantic seaboard from points
on the Rock Island alone. At other Rock Island terminals are 700 additional cars.
BALDWIN'S GETS $2,130,000 LOCOMOTIVE ORDERS
- -Otiler-r for seventj-one locomotives, to cost approximately $2,130;0007liavo
been received by the llaldwln Locomotive Works. The orders' are fiom the
Not them Railway of France, the Texas and Pacific Railway and Worth Brothers,
Coatesville.
THREE AMERICANS SAVED FROM SAXONIAN WRECK
LONDON, Feb. 13. Three Americans among fifteen membeis of the crew
of the steamship Sn.onian, which was sunk by a submarine on February 8,
were landed today. W. K. Gnnl, one of tho Americans, was Injured. The others
were Elwood Mooie anil John Stefanl. .
LONDON, Feb. 13.
The Admiralty announces that "sev
eral perished" when the White Star
liner Afric was sunk today.
LONDON, Feb. 13.
The White Star steamship Afrlc was
sunk today.
The Afrlo was a sleel vessel of 11,939
tons, the biggest so far reported as victims
Jn tho new German submarine warfare. She
was the property of the White Star Line
and was registered at Liverpool,
Tho Afrio was B50 feet In length with a
beam of 63 feet.
The first ship announced sunk by Lloyd's
today was a neutral, the Norwegian motor
ship West. The crew was saved.
Germany's biggest prlie In the submarine
warfare -since February 1 w.-;s recorded to.
day when the 11,999-ton White Star-liner
Afrlo was sunk.
The biggest ship heretofore destroyed In
the unbridled submarine warfare was 'the
BrltlBh steamship California, of 8G62 tons;
the Port Adelaide, 8100 tons, being third
largest.
Ninety vessels have been sunk since Feb
ruary 1.
Death Marks Wedding Ceremony
WILKES-BARRBr Pa., Feb. , While
friends were gathering to attend the wed-
'HlYyKCPer'?AIlee brother of Mr..
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Oh, the lone and dreary nlnler!
Oh the colli and crufl winter!
Song of Hiawatha.
The coldest weather the winter has
brought so far gripped the city today, freez
ing Its two rivers, scaling Its water pipes
and biting the noses, ears, fingers and toes
of Its Inhabitants In ruthless fashion.
Below-zero weather was recorded In the
wind-swept suburbs, where Fro, the storm
god of the north, held full sway. In the
city the lowest ofllclal temperature by the
United States Weather Bureau was three
degrees above zero, the lowest of the winter
and equaling tho low mark for this date
At Horseshoe Bend, off Gloucester City,
great masses of Ice piled against the shore,
locking hapless vessels tightly In their
grasp. Iceboats worked continuously to
'rut paths In the river at that point tor
boats.
Among them are three Reading tugs, tow
ing Ave barges loaded with freight cars,
two tramp steamers and a four-masted
schooner. The British steamship Regent Is
marooned by Ice fields off League Island
and a Wilson Line steamship has become
wedged fast off llaglo Point
For the first time In many years the
Schuylkill was frozen today sufficiently to
permit skating across the stream. Between
Glrard" avenue, and boathouse row and
between Columbia avenue and the Park
trolley bridge skaters skimmed across the
frozen river.
The boreal ,blast that swept from the
Northwest early today froze water plugs
and burst water pipes, milk bottles and
even the Ink bottles that stood on desks
near open windows. Taken without warn
ing, sleepers awakened by the bitter cold
resorted to bathrobes, overcoats, rugs and
raincoats to retain the precious heat that
Insidious drafts drove out of 'their beds.
,Shoes were so cold that they hurt the
numbed feet poked hurritdly Into them and
numbed fingers could not find the buttons
of welcome coats. Coffee was gulped down
creamless and unshaven men hurried to
work through the biting air.
FLASHING UNIFORMS TO MARK WILSON INAUGURAL
WASHINGTON. Feb 13". Therb will bo plenty of gold braid, brass buttons
and flashing unlfoims at President Wilson's second Inaugural parade nftey nil.
Despite tho fact that most of the army Is on the Mexican border, Slajor General
Hugh L. Scott, grand marshal, has oidered that all army and navy contingents
present wear full dress uniforms.
DISCRIMINATION CRY BY NEW ENGLAND SHIPPERS
BOSTON, Kali. 13-William A. Chandler, icpresentlng tho Boston Chamber of
Commerce, testlhVd at a hcniing beforo Kamlner W. A. Dlsque, of the Interstate
Commerco Commission, that coastwise steamship companies were discriminating
against New Kngland shippers to the southeast through this port. Ho said that
while freight rates fiom interior New England points to Boston were lower than
from such points to New Yoik and Philadelphia, the coastwise steamship rates
from these points through Boston to southeastern territory were much higher
than by way of New Yoik nnd Phihdelphln.
SIXTH REGIMENT SPEEDING HOME FROM BORDER
EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 13. Traveling in tlueo trains, tho Sixth Pennsylvania
Infantry, Colonel Thomas Blddle Kills commanding, is rolling homeward to Phlla
delphla. Brigadier Geneinl Christopher T. O'Nell, commanding the Third Brigade,
and his adjutant. Major Henry A. Bellinger, nre on tho third train with their
office equipment, bound for Allcntown, nnd Lieutenant J B. Wheeler, aid to Gen
eral O'Nell, Is with them en mulo to Belluvlevv The routing Is by way of New
Orleans, Atlanta and Washington to Philadelphia.
PITTSBURGH AVIATOR WOUNDED IN SKY BATTLE
PITTSBURGH, Feb 13 Chailes Howell, aviator In British army and son of
Attorney George Howell, of this city, Is In a Held hospital on tho western fiont
suffering from Injuries lecelvcd In a sky battle. Howell, who recently married
the daughter of the lato Lieutenant Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, while on
a furlough, has been In tho British a!r squadron for more than a jear.
63 DIE IN GERMAN ARMS PLANTS BLASTS
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 13. According to theHnmburger Nachrlchten, -two large
ammunition factories at Thorn, East Prussia, nnd at Glucckeuff, in Qulckborn,
near Hamburg, were destroyed by explosions last week. Sixty-three persons were
killed and the same number wounded.
By CAUL W. ACKERMAN
BERNE, Swltzorlond, Feb. 13. Berlin
was nstonlshed, officials nnd tho public
alike, when President Wilson broke rela
tions with Germany. That astonishment
came because officials had recently been
assuied by German-Americans In the
United States that the President would
not sever relations for fear of a German
American uprising. Tho eame belief was
held by tho German public.
When the American embassy train left
Berlin the imperial Chancellor, von Beth-mann-Hollweg,
was admittedly downcast
over tho situation and believed America
wanted war with Germany It was notice
ablo also that when Foreign Secretary Zim
merman received the American correspond
ents shortly before their departure he was
plainly nervous. He likewise Insisted "Wil
son wants war," nnd denied that Germany
mado any Irrevocable promises In the Sus
sex note.
The submarine policy which forced the
break between tho United States nnd Ger
many dates back to November, Writing
now from neutral Swiss soli It Is possible
now to tell the developments which led Ger
many to her decision of relentless sea war.
TWO FORCES AT WORK
It was in November that Germany's In
ternal affairs were nt the greatest clrsis of
the war. The Socialists warned tho Kaiser
that unless he moved Immediately for peace
ftlr. Philip Scheldemann (SoclallsrTeadWTn
tho Reichstag) and other Socialist leaders
would head a militant movement to brlnr
about peace.
This move came at a time when the Ger
man people were destitute and despondent.
Simultaneously the powerful conservative
land owners, controlling the food supply,
nnd the equally powerful group of Industrial
leaders, controlling the munition manufac
tures, told the Government the only way to
end the war was by unlimited submarine
w arf are
These Interests have always been anti
American, and they succeeded In convincing
Quartermaster General von l.udcndorf.
Meanwhile tho National Liberals, who
would welcomo war with America, won over
Foreign Secretary Zlmmermann to the sub
marine policy.
THE FINAL STROKE
Finally, the Kaiser's birthday conference
nt German Great Headquarters, January 27,
did not Include In Its conferees such ofTl
clals us Minister of the Interior von Helf
ferlch, Minister of Colonies Solf nnd the
Imperial Treasurer, Count von Rocdern,
known to be opposed to Inciting American
Intervention
The kperrli rnnde by Imperial Chancellor
ton Jlrtlimann-lloUncg In the ltelcli.tag
early In December where "ho announced
peace overture. woi over the Socialists
to the .upport of any cour.e the Chancellor
might advocate.
In the name way the Kler' Mibmarlne
blockade won over the food producer, and
the croup of Indu. trial leader, to a con
tinuance of hotlllllkn.
The Government's peace proposal united
tho Gel man people. They believe firmly
I hey must light on in -their own defense.
Everybody in Germany Is working night
and day
The answer which the Entente Towers
returned to the peace proposal, as well as
to President Wilson's suggestions, so fright
ened Turkey that tho Ottoman Empire will
continue In the war Just so long as Germany
defends Constantinople. .
Bulgaria Is absolutely In the hands of
Field Marshal von lllndenburg.
Meanwhile Zeppelins fly day and night
over Berlin.
At this time, Germany, both public and
MAN DIES IN HOSPITAL,
OVERCOME BY COLD
One death, attributed partly to the freez
ing cold weather, occurred today when Den
nis McCarthy, forty-four years old, of 2326
South Carlisle streets died on a second trip
to St. Agnes' Hospital. Acute alcoholism
and exposure to the cold were said to have
killed him. McCarthy was found early to
day on a sidewalk at Sartaln and Mifflin
streets and taken to the hospital. He was
sent to the. Fourth, street and Snyder ave
nue police station, where he became un-conscious-
He was pronounced dead at th
SUFFRAGE PICKETS DEFY COLD IN WHITE HOUSE IEGE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Despite a temperature of two above zero, the coldest
the Capital has had In tlnee jears, the suffrage sentinels at the Whlto House
Increased their numbers today to tho largest guard since they began their picketing.
Fifteen stood outside the gates in tho biting wind.
RESERVE BANK SYSTEM SHOWS EXPANSION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Tho growth of the Federal Rescrvo banking system
Is shown in tho comparison of tho number of bank charters applied for during
January this year and last. In January, 1917, the Comptroller fo the Currency
received forty applications for charters for new national banks with capital of
,3,655,000, as compared with eighteen applications in January, 1916, with capital
of' $1,200,000.
ALL GERMANS MUST LEAVE ROME, BERLIN HEARS
BERLIN. Feb. 13. It Is announced from Rome that municipal authorities have
decided tho last German must leave the Eternal City and that Goethe, or rather
his statue, Is to bo ejected from Villa Borghese. whero it was placed years ago when
presented by Kaiser Wllhelm..
' BELGIAN CHILDREN'S FUND BACKERS GIVE $6591
The fund for Belgian children, which was started last wee by the Emergency
Aid at the request of Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of tho Commission'' for Relief Jn
Belgium, has received contributions totaling $6591, The dollar-per-month-per-chlld
, i. i,tni- received wnn mucn lavor. accoruinK 10 Airs. luvaru lienrv. rhnit-rAi'r
.ymji mv,. -- - - - - - -.
Continued on race Tiro, Column 81
Skating Information
Gustlne Lake Good.
Concourse Lake Good.
Chamounlx Lake Good,
Hunting Park Lake Good.
Centennial i,aKe iiobcu. , 1pV
WISSaniCKOll t-rcen, nuuie ,1 laBauil'jlDH
Hall--aood.
Schuylkill River Trolley bridge (Dau
phin Btreet), south fo Columbia bridge; al
rard avenue bridge to Boathouse Row.
Good.
' THE WEATHER
FORECAST ,
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toormer fonlfffti. with lowest about It
degrees; Wcdncidai, cloud and tcormerv
gentle, variable winds becoming southerly.
LICfOTII OK DAY
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Eun t 5.33 p.m. I Moon souths.4:2( a.m.
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