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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
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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. '
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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.
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CIPTII# CROOK, 111
VETHHD FORMER
CITY OFFICIAL. DIES
Taken 111 During Intense Heat of
Gettysburg Encampment
in July
BIRTHDAY EVERY FOUR YEARS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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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
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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.
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* 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
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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'.