: . ■* ' - "v • ' • • . ..... , V; . # .■ . •**"« ' . r .• • ■ ' . T: • y >:M Eating Soup of Straw, Dogs, Cats and Dead Fish in Famine Districts of Japan HARRISiuRG OfSlsSi TELEGRAPH No. 15 LXXXIII — DEMY SI. PIK IRK FIRST TO BE TRKEII UP 111 SPRIG Will Start Eighteenth to Twenty second Street When the Weather Permits GET BUSY ON "LEFT-OVERS" Prospect Job to Be Taken Up Soon; Many Sections Com pleted in 1913 While little new street paving: fan tie planned for this year because of a lack of funds, some 26,000 square yards of asphalting provided for un der last year's contracts in yet to be done, and this work will be started just as soon asf the weather permits. The unfinished contracts include a dozen or more sections of streets, the chief of which, perhaps, is the long stretch of I Jerry street between Elgli teenth and Twenty-second. the year 1913 a. total of 78,- 633.83 yards of asphalting was put down with a total of 34.736.4 feet or a little more than six and a half miles of curbing. For years Derry street, one of the chief arteries of the city, has been a just cause for wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of teamsters and auto touring parties. Councils, how ever, finally provided for the improve ment of the section and the contract was let. Little action was possible last year however, because the Har rlsburg Hallways Company, which will have to take the initial steps, did not start. Early Start in Spring As soon as the weather allows a start, it is expected that the trolley company will begin removing its tracks and otherwise preparing for the change of grade that will go with ihe improvement. Tt is possible, too, that the proposed plan of raising the sidewalks above the street will be fol lowed. By this scheme the sidewalks will follow the top of the embank ments much like on a terrace and the c.ut necessitated by the change of grade will not inconvenience the prop erty owners or damage the proper ties. While Derry street is being pre pared it is likely that the Central Con struction and Supply Company will proceed with the paving of these other rtreets. "leftovers" from last year's contract*: Rhoads alley. Delaware to Peffer; ■Liberty alley, Fifteenth t6 Sixteenth; ten-foot alley, Delaware to 125 feet south: Mulberry, Seventeenth to Eigh teenth: Prospect, Market to White hall: Naudaln, Sixteenth to Seven teenth: Logan alley, Maclay to Wood bine, and Orange alley. Paving Prospect Street, Of scarcely less Importance than the Derry street improvement will be the Prospect street job. That was to have been done last year but the changing of the car tracks was neces sary, and this could not bo definitely figured upon until councils had adopted the ordinances relative to the construction of the new formal en trance to Reservoir Park at Twenty first and Market streets. In addition to finishing up most of the paving work, the Central Com pany yesterday completed the "filling in" of the river front from Maclay to Division streets. The "fill" was placed there to support the curbing for Front street. All told fifty-three sections of streets and alleys were paved last year, the • ontracting company beginning work [Continued on Page 121 AMERICANS \VEI» TV LONDON: PROMINENT PERSONS ATTEND By Aisociated Prt.is London, Jan. 17. —Charles Belmont Davis, of .New York and Philadelphia, was married here to-day to Miss Dal Turgeon, of Hinsdale, 111. The cere mony was performed at St. James' Church, Piccadilly. Hallett Johnson, third secretary of the American Em bassy, acted as best man, while David Jayne Hill, formerly United States Ambassador to Germany, gave the bride away. Among the guests was Anthony Hope Hawkins, the British autho'r. ' f Late News Bulletins I WANTED IN MANY CITIES Jacksonville. .lan. 17. S. F. Seller, in jail here to-dav accused of strangling Mrs. W. B. I.eak, and robbing her of a *I.OOO diamond brooch, Is said to !>o wanted In Washington. New York. Rochester, Tor onto and Chicago for similar robberies. The police recovered $5,000 wortli of property In his rooms. SIX BURNED TO DEATH Colioconk. Out., Jan. 17.—Six children or Mrs. Weal her by were burned to death to-day when fire destroyed their home. The mother escaped by jumping from the window. NO TRACE OF SUBMARINE Plymouth, Eng., Jan. 17.—Not a trace had been found up to late this afternoon of the British submarine "\7" which' was lost in Whit sand bay o lithe shores of Plymouth sound yesterday afternoon. WOMAN MAY HAVE BEEN MURDERED Philadelphia. Jan. 17.—Word was received in this cttv to-dav that Miss Ella Giles, a writer ami artist of this city, was fonnd dead In her apartments yesterday In Sa-sarl. Island or Sardinia. Italy. The Italian police. It Is reported, Imlieve slie was murdered. NO SUFFRAGE COMMITTEE IN HOUSE Washington. Jan. 17.—Democrats «»r the House Hides Committee to-day refused to report u rule to create n standing committee on wo man suffrage in the House. Kingston, .lamaica, Jan. 17.—Augusiln \ Hale, who on arriving here from New York on December in last, was arrested by the Kingston au thorities on the charge of murder in connection with the killing of Anthony Collato, a fruit dealer or Lancaster, Pa., on October 31, was turned over to the United States officials to-day. Washington, Jan. 17.—Democrats of the House Rules Committee to-day decided against ordering congressional investigation or strikes in the Michigan copper Held and the Colorado eoal districts. Washington, Jan. 17.—The Senate lobby hearings were reopened tit-day to permit Cortland Smith, of New York, to testify about the American Press Associations connection with the circulation of state ments for various sugar Interests In the tariff campaign. Mr. Smith appeared at his own request. Portland, Me., Jan. 17.—The five masted schooner Fuller Palmer iii aH b . ,ulssln « 'or several days, was abandoned at sea In a sinking condition. AH hands wen' saved and ure on their way to Bal timore in a steamer which picked them up. liondon. Jan. 17.—The British Foreign Office to-day says there Is no foundation for yesterday's report from Managua, Nicaragua, stat ins that Great Britain has joined with Germany and Italy recently In lodging a precise demand ror the payment by Nicaragua of debts amounting to over $1,000,000. Vfc ... ii CIPTII# CROOK, 111 VETHHD FORMER CITY OFFICIAL. DIES Taken 111 During Intense Heat of Gettysburg Encampment in July BIRTHDAY EVERY FOUR YEARS • • - Wttk llPilP %A'§r ' 5 'K : I ■ ; ■'# « ff fc ; * .' ■' I CAPTAIN CROOK Captain William 11. Crook, well-! known Republican, a prominent Civil i War veteran and a former city official, ] died at 5.05 o'clock this morning at I his home, 140 a Isorth Third street.,] after an illness of five weeks. Captain Crook had been a police- | man for the past thirteen years at the j Stato Capitol. While on duty there I five weeks ago Captain Crook became ill and bad to be taken to his home. I He had been gradually sinking since i that time. His illness really dated I [Continued on Page 121 SCARLET WOMEN OF THIS CITY 111 Hill IS REPORT Kimono Brigade Driven Out by Crusade Select Mountain City as Haven Harrislnirg women, driven from the red light districts ns a result of the crusade inaugurated against vice by District Attorney M. E. Stroup, and Colonel Joseph H. Hutchison, chief of police, have invaded Altoona, accord ing to the following dispatch: "Fugitive had women from Harris burg, set to flight by the return to the Dauphin county court of twenty eight places of asslgnntlon and bawdiness by Chief of Police J. B. Hutchison, for the time being, have chosen Altoona as a haven, and are now practicing their shameless 'pro fession' In this city. "Vice conditions in llarrisburg had grown to such proportions that Judge Kunkle, when his attention was called to them, ordered that a 'scarlet list' be returned to him for immediate action. This was done, and District Attorney Stroup was given instruc tions to proceed, criminally, against the keepers of the houses and their assessed owners. The promoters and their girls were panic-stricken and at once prepared to leave llarrisburg, migrating to other cities. That Al toona has received its full quota is at tested in the teeming houses of ill fame that exist here. Not in years | Continued on I'age 7] HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1914. 'SEX SERMON 111 ! HIGH SCHOOL TO BE ! ACTED UPON FRIDAY Question May Be Decided Defi nitely at Meeting of the Board Next Week CONSIDER HILL SCHOOL PUNS Directors Will Hold Special Ses sion to Go Over Specifica tions and Drawings Whether or not the sexes at the Central High School shall be sepa rated will be considered at a meeting of the teachers' committee of the School Board Friday afternoon, and it is possible that its recommenda tions one way or another may be defi nitely acted upon at a special meet ing of the whole School Roard imme diately afterward. Thiß was decided at last evening's meeting of the School : Board. , The question of rearranging the j study system in such a way as to keep .the girls and the boys in different | rooms has been threshed about In'the 'School Board for some time, but the I matter was recently brought to a head j ia few weeks ago when the board asked i j for definite data on the subject. I The other members of the board I I have been asked to meet with the \ j teachers' committee to look into the ! sex separation problem, so that it is! I quite likely that the momentous ques-j | tion of whether Percival and Clarice j shall continue to study and recite to-j j gether at High School, as heretofore, I I or whether they shall go off and study 1 |and recite with fellow Percivals and j sister Clarices, respectively, will soon' be decided. To Call Special Session i The board will be called in special I session Friday afternoon to consider I the plans for the proposed new grade i school at Seventeenth and Catherine I streets. C. Howard Lloyd, the archi [Continued on Page 7] ELLIS DENIES CI IS PERSON WHO SHOT HIM TWO YEHRS »E0 In Statement He Declares "These Confessions Are All Rot" 5 By Associated Press • New York, Jan. 17.—Paul Carl, the 1 youth who yesterday, according to pri f vate detectives, confessed in Somer ■ ville, N. J., that he shot and danger ously wounded Monroe F. Ellis, a " wealthy lumber merchant, at Basking [ Kidge, N. J., was taken to the Ellis ' home last night, where he was ques tioned by Mr. Ellis, Frederick A. Pope, • county prosecutor, and a deputy ; sheriff. Carl was returned to the jail after the interview and Mr. Ellis is " sued a statement saying: "These state ments and confessions are all rot. I 1 am convinced that this boy. whom I | know and once employed in my office, ! did not shoot me and did not hear any such yarn as he is said to have been ; told by a woman." 1 In the'confession attributed by the ■ detectives to Carl he Is quoted as say- L ing that he shot the lumberman be ' cause he was engaged to do so by a 1 woman "near and dear" to him. This L woman, the confession went on, told ■ Carl that Mr. Ellis had wronged her • and had failed to keep his promises to • her and then she asked the boy to I hire a gunman to shoot Mr. Ellis'and i she would pay SSOO for the job. Hotel Russ Will Be Remodeled and Named "Plaza" by Aldinger j Plans have been completed by I Fred B. Aldinger, former proprietor of the Aldine, for the remodeling and improving of the Hotel Russ which he recently purchased from Harry F. Eckinger. | The improvement will cost approxi mately $20,000. Mr. Aldinger expects |to take possession January 26. The I hostelry will be renamed "The Plaza." English Entomologist Pays $5,000 For Flea By Associated Press Paris, Jan. 17. Edmund Perrier, of the French Institute, is authority for the statement that a noted Hritish entomological collector has paid $5,000 for a specimen of a rare variety of Ilea. It Is of the kind occasionally found in the skin of the sea otter. THREE BOYS JjOSE IjIVES WHILE SKATING ON KIVKR J By Associated Press Wilmington, Del., Jan. 17.—Three hoys who went skating last night on j the Brandywlne near Rockland Mills, j a short distance above this city, hav | ing failed to appear at their homes by i midnight, search was instituted for j them and continued throughout the night and this morning. Half an hour' before noon their dead bodies were found floating in the water at the dam a short distance below the section of Ice on which they had been skating. WATCH COMPANY APPEALS Washington, Jan. 17.—The Walt- Irttm Watch Company appealed to the Supreme Court to-day from the deci sion of the New York Federal Courts j which held that its contract'fixing the resale prices of watches by retailers 1 violates tbe Sherman law. [ PRETTY GIRLS TO TAKE PART IN " 80-PEEP" ' ■jf >■ ** I|PM One of the prettiest gruups that will take part in the Sunshine Society's benefit playlet, "The Lost Princess 80-feep, at the Majestic Theater, January 30-31, will be The Marigolds. The Marigolds include Miss Jane I,ee an soloist, and the Misses Marguerite Ranch, Helen Patterson, Martha Miller, Marian Mart*. Helen Wallis, Kath erine Peters, Helen Gardes, Evelyn R hoatls. STATE DISTIL BOARD NDMEU TODAY MS WIDE DOWERS To Guard Health, Welfare and Morals of Employes of Indus trial Establishments C o mmissioner of Labor and In dustry John Price Jackson to - day named the four members of the /K State Industrial Board, a body •* with wide powers ''' BUl,erV ' B ' on ° f the State inspec tion laws. Under GEO. S. COMSTOCK the act creating .. . this department the board is to consist of one woman, one employer, one representative of labor and one other mail. The chalr [Conlliiued on Page 8] SO PASSENGERS M GERNUN CREW OF 48 REPORTED MISSING Steamer Acilia Believed to Have Gone Down With All on Board Hamburg:, Germany, Jan. 17.—N'o doubt remains that the German steamer Aeilia is lost, with its rrcw of forty-eight, ana fifty passengers. A telegram from I'unta Arenas, Chile, received here to-day, says that the bodies of two of her officers were picked up to-day among a mass of wreckage in Moat Channel, Terra Dei Fuego. Indians In the vicinity declare that a, big steamer sank there some time ago. The Aellin was 3,600 tons net. She left Corral, Chile, October 27, for Hamburg. A telegram from Valparaiso report |ed the finding of two of the Acilla boats in Aguirre Bay, Terra Del Fue , go, containing the bodies of her sec j ond mate and two seamen. Thought Doped Man Was Steve Loncar Steelton has another mystery in the finding of an unidentified Servian, evi- I dently doped, lying in a puddle of ; water along the road a mile from Oberlin. The man, who was thought at first to have frozen to death, was discovered by Herman Ilandshaw, son of Frank Handshaw, lying in four inches of water along the road near the Handshaw farm at » o'clock this morning. He is about 3r. years old. When lie was first found it. was thought he might be Steve Loncar, but though he resembles the long-sought-for mur derer, Steelton authorities say he ts not Steve. lie may die. " J SUMMER HP FOR CRTV TUBERCULOSIS SUFFERERS IS LIKELY Splendid Results of Red Cross Seal Campaign May Bring It About Harrisburg's first summer camp for tubercular sufferers may be assured as a result of the unprecedented sale of Red Cross Christmas seals in this city during the Yuletlde holidays. At a final meeting of the general committee last evening at the home of the chairman, John Fox Weiss, the reports of the distributing sources showed that $2,611.29 had been taken in during the campaign. The expenses involved totaled $194.40 and the 22% per cent, of the gross receipts paid over to the State society amounted to $514.89, which left the unusual bal ance of $1,902. Heretofore the largest number of seals ever sold here did not net much more than S7OO. The money realized, according to custom, will be distributed by the As- J soclated Charities for providing trolley' [Continued on Page 7] TWELFTH JUROR IS MISSING IN TOME OF JHCOB H. EGKERT Whitehall Beergarden Case Con tinued ; Detective Begins Mysterious Search The mysterious failure of the I twelfth juror to appear at the resump | tion of the trial of Jacob H. Eckert this afternoon, necessitated the con tinuance. of the case until Monday morning. William H. Howard, a Mif flin township farmer, the Juror, got lunch an Iturned In his key with the remark that he would have to attend court. That, according to County De tective Walters, was the last heard of him. January Common Pleas cases listed for Monday will go over until Tuesday. Judge Henry, of Lebanon, will sit. ' Withthe adjournment of court at 2.45, the search for the missing tales man was begun by Detective Walters. Eckert, whose license at the White Hail Hotel was recently recoked. Is on trial for selling liquor to minors and keeping a disorderly house. DREADNOUGHT LAUNCHED By Associated Press Fiume, Austria, Jan. 17.—Austria's fourth dreadnought was launched here to-day and christened the Szent Istvan by the Arch Duchess Mnrla Theresa, representing the emperor, Francis Jo seph. OLD PUBLISHER DIES By Associated Press Boston, Mass., Jan. 17.—Benjamin Holt Tlckner, formerly a member jf the old time publishing house of Tick ner & Fields, died here to-day. He was born in 1842 and graduated from Harvard in 1862. SWEETHEART OBJECTS TO HIS REVOLVER: HE SHOOTS SELF WITH IT Enhaut Youth Quarreled With Fi ancee on Question of Car rying Weapon Because Sara Fuhrman, the 16- year-old girl with Whom he was in love, refused to have anything to do with him unless he stopped carrying a revolver, Harry Wueschlenski, 19 years old, of En haut, shot himself this morning, in the parlor of his sweetheart's home, 1329 Thompson street. He will recover, as the bullet hit the fourth rib 011 his left side, and glanced away. Young Wuesehienski went to the girl's home shortly before 9 o'clock this morning. He had received a let ter from her this morning. After reading it, his mother says, he tore it up angrily and threw the fragm mts into the stove. Then he went out, say ing he would send his wages home by his small brother. His mother nearly collapsed when she heard an honr anil a half later that her son had tried to [Continued 011 Page 7] DAUGHTER'S BURNING BODY FOUND Oil FLOOIt If HER HEED FATHER jWas Placing Light For Parent When She Tripped and Fell, Is Belief . Special to The Telegraph Bowmansdale, Pa., Jan. 17.—With her liodV burned from the feet to the hips and her clothing still afire, Ger trude McLeer, aged 35 years, was found last evening by her aged father, lying on the kitchen floor in an un conscious condition. An exploded oil lamp lay smoking at her side. After extinguished the flumes the father called for aid and summoned a physician, but his daughter never regained consciousness. She died j early this morning. It was the custom for the daughter to set a lamp in the I window for her father, who reached I home shortly before 7 o'clock In the | evening. It is believed that the young woman either tripped over a rug or fell in a faint, and that the lamp ex ploded. HAIGHT TO BE NOMINATED Washington, D. C., Jan. 17. —The nomination of Thomas C. Halght., of Jersey City. N, J., to be United States district Judge in the Third circuit, succeeding the late Judge Cross, was prepared to-day at the White House for transmission to the Senate. HOI J) POTATOES FOR RISE Washington, Jan. 17.—Unusually high prices prevail in the potato markets because the farmers this year 1 are holding a larger proportion of this vegetable than was held in the last four years in.*the belief that they will profit by a future rise In prices, ac- I cording to a statement to-day by the of Agriculture. 12 PAGES. * POSTSCRIPT. EIT SOUP OF ROTTEN NUMB MD DOGS 111 JIPI Famine Stricken People Dying by Hundreds From Cold and Starvation SELL GIRLS INTO SLAVERY Loss of Life Much Greater Than Was at First Believed by Authorities Violent Eruptions of Volcano Sakura-Jima Claim Additional Lives Kagoshlma, Japan. Jan. .17. Two further violent eruptions of the vol cano Sakura-Jima accompanied by a severe earthquake occurred late last night, causing the collapse of many more buildings. Numbers of the inhabitants of ICagoßhima who had returned fled again in terror from the. city. Ashes are falling thickly to-da.v. The sun looked like a ball of blood over Kagoshima to-day, but it gave no light and the darkness was such that night, signals had to be employed on the railroads. The fly ing dust was so thick that the few pedestrians In the stents making their way to the outskirts of the city had to cover their mouths and noses with towels and handkerchiefs to prevent suffocation. i,l Py Associated Press Tokio, Jan. 17. —An indication that the loss of life oti the Island of Sakura, which was devastated by the eruption of the volcano Sakura-Jima, may be much larger than had been supposed is given in a report received here to day from an official of the interior department who was sent to Kago shlmn. and its vicinity to Investigate, lie reports that 9,000 of Sakura's esti mated population of 19,000 had been accounted for up to the evening of the j 16th. Other refugees. It is expected, will be found in other directions, but the loss of life evidently was extremely heavy. Measures for the relief of the suf fered from the famine in the north, and eruptions in the south are rap idly assuming: shape now that the extent ol' (he disaster is more definitely known. A relief association, national In scope, has been organized here and has issued an appeal for help. The statement ended with an appeal to sympathizers for donations. Suffering Intense Bishop Walter Andrews, of the Eng lish church in Hok-kaido, the famine stricken district, writes that the suf fering everywhere is intense. The farmers, he says, are hit hardest anil their families are eating soups made of chopped straw, leaves and rotten potatoes and meat taken from cats, dogs and fish. The more fortunate have a thin 'gruel made of rice or wheat. The net results, ho writes, are many deaths from cold and starvation and an increase of crime and beggars. Many girls, he declares, have been sold into slavery. He tells of many [Continued on Page !(] Kor Hnrrlsburg nud vicinity! Fair to-night and Sunday; colder to night. with lowest temperature nbout 25 degree*. For Kaxtcm I'eniisylt nnla i Cloudy nnd colder to-night. probably locnl snow In northeast portion: Sunday generally fair: moderate north and northeast winds. Illver No Important changes trill occur In river condition*. General Condition* The storm that was central over Wisconsin Friday morning, ha* moved rapidly southeastward nnd Is now central ofT the New Jersey coast. It has caused light to moderately heavy rain and snow In the take region and the Upper Ohio Valley and thence eastward to the Atlantic coast. Temperature■ H a. m., 40; 2 p. in.. B*. Son: Rises, 7i28 a. 111. ; sets, 5i(W p. m. Moon; lllses, 11 iOB p. in. River Wage: 2.4 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 44. I.owest temperature, 20. Mean temperature, :td. Normal temperature, 2N. A True Story A certain razor lias built up a largo sale and a National repu tation through newspaper Adver tising. It has been sold at a fixed price and the public ha* coirio to regard it as well worth the price ssked. Following last Spring's de cision of the Supreme Court some dealers began cutting the price- of this particular article— using It as an advertisement. Now, curiously enough, not a few of the price-cutting stores found they sold fewer of these razors 6.t a cut price than be fore. "On the other hand, stores that maintained the price found an increased demand. "People want to know what Is wrong with it when we offer this article at a cut price," one store keeper told the writer. It was true that the splendid newspaper advertising coupled with tho fact that it was a good article had practically standard ized the price In the minds of the public. There is food for thought in this situation for other manu facturers. Perhaps you would like some suggestions. Write to the Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Associ ation, World Building, New York'.
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