Congress Works on Five Bills Carrying Out Suggestions in Wilson's Message HARRISBURG lfll§Slgl TELEGRAPH No.' 18 LXXXIII — GEORGE B. TRIPP IS FIHST PRESIDENT OF NEW BUSINESS BMY Makes Lire-wire Address Follow ing Unanimous Selection as Head of Chamber ROBERT WADSWORTH, SECY Executive Committee Will Be Named Soon; Organization Luncheon Planned George B. Tripp, vice-president and Keneral manager of the Harrisburg Eight and Power Company, was unani mously chosen at a meeting- of the directors of the new Chamber of Com merce last night as ita first president. Accepting the honor bestowed upon him, Mr. Tripp made a live-wire and practical address, in which he spoke of the good work of the old I'.oard of Trade and of the policies which he believes the new organization should pursue for the betterment and devel opment of the interests of Harrisburg. [Continued on Page 7] Entertain Hopes For Safety of Steamship Ry Associated Press -Wew York, .Tan. 21.—Although thir ty-five days have elapsed since the 4,600 ton Italian steamefl Oceano sailed from Lisbon for New York on December 18, with a cargo of cork, *he has not been posted as missing because her owners don't believe that any accident of a serious nature has happened to her. It was stated to-day that the Oceano was a slow freighter which might average eight knots under very favor abb' conditions and in a westerly gale and heavy sea her captain would prob ably heave her to and drift until the weather moderated. The Oceano is a strong steamer built at Glasgow in 1900 and carrying a crew of forty men. ASSIST IN SEARCH FOR SUBMARINE I By Associated Press ' pjvmouth, England, .Tan. 21.—The ! services of several aviators have been | enlisted in the search for the British I submarine A 7. which, with her crew | of eleven, disappeared on January 16 I during maneuvers in Whitesand bay. ; A number of hydroaeroplanes at tached to the British navy left to-day j for Whitesand bay. PRESIDENT WILSON IS I.MK). tntl.AOO SECONDS OLD By . lssociatc"d Press Washington, .lan, 21. President Wilson up tn midnight last Saturday night, bad lived exactly 1.800,499.600 seconds. So he was told tn-day in a letter from Albert A. Gamble, of Ro c-hexter N. V'.. a 19-year-old mathe matical prodigy, who wrote the Presi dent that he had obtained the figures onlv after a few minutes' calculation. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1914. | nearby, but all are keeping under I cover. They are not seen in the streets, j and they are excluded from nil cafes j and hotels. Those who are still In the city lire 1 much worried, Mr. Funk says. They j are living In the greatest quiet, and no 1 i one is admitted to the houses unless j they are well known. All are afraid ( | of raids. Mr. Funk says the girls here don't | j know what to do. They are afraid to j i stay here, but there is no welcome I i for them anywhere else. Several of j I the girls told Mr. Funk that the au-! ; thoritles are closing down so tight In 1 j all cities that they can't go anywhere. 1 But even with the prospect of being ! driven from the business, the girls j j have no thought of seeking honest | j employment, Mr. Funk says. He told I j of one girl to whom he suggested that j ' | Continued on Pafie 7] —-- i EXAMINATIONS AT CENTRAL HIGH MAY SOON BE ABOLISHED Professor Steele and School Board Formally Petitioned to Do Away With System I Examinations at Central High j School may soon be a thing of the j I past. For several months discussion of the abolition of the examination system in , the High School for students having a i percentage of 87 and above, has been '■ going on among both students and ! ta.culty members, and on Monday Pro t'essor W . d.yPtlsvH*, principal, wae 5fW ; mally petitioned hv the student body i to do away with all future exainina ' tions. In an address before the student ; body yesterday afternoon, Professor I Steele said that the petition will be [Continued on Page 7] | TO RESCUE CREW OF : WRECKED SCHOONER I Captain Hart and Seven Men Are Taken Ashore in Safety Near Chatham By Associated Press Chatham, Mass., Jan. 21. —Captain i Hart and his crew of seven men were j rescued by the übo of the. breeches buoy to-day when their vessel, the New York two-masted schooner Gen eral Adelbert Ames, was wrecked off Monomo.v Point. The Ames was bound from St. John for Philadelphia. The schooner struck before day break about 200 yards off shore. The ! life savers in their boat were driven back and the beach gun was brought | out. The only knoll where the appa ratus could be anchored was, fortu nately, directly opposite the stranded ; schooner. The combined crews of the j Monomoy and Monomo.v Point life 1 saving stations, working waist deep in | the icy water, fired four shots before | getting a line across the Ames. The first man ashore from the. | schooner told the life savers they must hurry, as the masts were swaying and it was feared that the vessel would go to pieces at any moment. Captain Hart, the last man to leave, was safe on the beach within half an hour. : Dr. W. H. Ulsh, Selinsgrove Physician, Is Killed; Auto Goes Over Embankment Special to The Telegraph Sellnsgrove, Pa.. Jan. 21. Dr. W. !H. Ulsh, a well-known physician of ; Selinsgrove, was killed this morning | when his automobile skidded and ; plunged over an embankment. Dr. I'lsh was a graduate of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania. MAW WHO TRIED TO KIM ROOSEVEI/T OWNED PROPERTY By Associated Press New York, Jan. 21. John Hchrank i i ceased to be a property holder in this I city vesterday when the flve-story tene- 1 , ment house. In East Eighty-first I i street, was sold at foreclosure. It was , Schrank who tried to kill Colonel Roosevelt In October. 1912, in MIU waukee The actloi) diclosed tliiwl Schrank was known as John Flemming, having assumed the name from an aunt and uncle with whom he lived for i twelve years after his arrival from Bavaria, about thirty years ago. SHIPPERS IN OONFJSRENCE By Associated Press Paris, Jan. 21.—The tirst business of the North Atlantic Shipping Con ference when it met here to-day was a resolution not to disclose anything i to the public until the sittings con- | elude. Hope was expressed that means : would be found to avoid a destructive I rate war between the big steamship! companies. J l' BEFORE AND AFTER THE POLES COME DOWN )I * Photographs taken this morning by the Telegraph photographer show how JMarket Htreet looks before and sftpr the poles come down. The one etching shows the district between #ront and Second streets, where the poles have been removed; the other is a picture of the pole district lying east of Court street. Salome Dance Hadn't a Thing on the Tango Steps of Today So Declares Evangelist in Sermon on Herod's Court; 20 Penitents Come to the Altar The saloinc dance of Herod's day is ! no whit worse than the modern dances. Such was the declaration of Wil liam John Minges, evangelist, in a ser mon preached before an overflow con gregation at the Church of Christ the Redeemer, Fourth and Delaware streets, last night. Evangelist Minges gave a graphic description of the life in Herod's court and declared that it was no worse than the scenes of the ballroom of to day where the modern steps are : ' Dauphin County Man Becomes President of Western Board of Trade Special «o The Telegraph • Bridgewater, S. D.. Jan. 21. —At a i recent meeting of the Commercial i j Club, of Bridgewater, S. D., Newton ijW. Speece, formerly of Dauphin, Pa., i i was elected head of the club. Mr. j 11 Speece is at present superintendent of ;!the city schools of Bridgewater. As president of the Commercial Club he ■ succeeds Dr. George A. Clauser. He • has the distinction of being the young | est man that ever hold the office of president of the Commercial Club, at presont being quite a bit under thirty years of age. | Mr. Speece was educated in the pub i lie schools of Dauphin county, was graduated from Conway Hall Pre ,' paratory School at Carlisle, Pa., in ~1908, and from Dickinson College in 1912. He is an ex-member of the; Governor's Troop and belongs to sev eral secret organizations. KAISER ISSUES NEW ORDER Sfecial to Tht Telegraph Berlin, Jan. 21. —Tbe Kaiser has is sued an order regarding the conduct' of army officers when they appear in 1 public with their wives. He has dl- I rected that henceforth they are to I abandon the custom of taking their ■ wives' arms when walking with them. The new order, it is understood, Is . inspired by the Kaiser's belief that the spectacle of an officer "leaning for ! support" on the arm of a feminine . j companion Is not conducive to manly IJ bearing. ! AMBASSADOR'S WIFE WILL NOT RESIDE IN CONSTANTINOPLE By Associated Press New York, —Jan. 21.—Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, wife of the American , ambassador to Turkey, sailed for Cherbourg yesterday on North Ger i man Lloyd liner Kronprlnsessln Ce ! cilte. Mrs. Morgentn u said she would I travel overland to visit ambassador i Morgenthau In Constantinople. She I would not live in that city she said, , bat would remain nhroad and visit J'hur husband several times each year. danced. Following the sermon twenty peni tents came forth to the altar to con fess their sins. Many of the twenty were girls of seventeen and eighteen. At a meeting to-night Evangelist Minges will talk on "The Conversion of an Infidel." On Thursday after noon Mrs. Minges will address a meet ing of girls, to which mothers have been especially invited. Friday even ing will be "high school night," when students of the city high schools will be the guests of the evening. How Would You Like to Look Out o' Doors and See a Hippopotamus? How would you like to look out of ■ doors some morning and see a hlppo ' potamus and a herd of reindeer right in front of your house? Stringing you, eh? Nope: this was an everyday occurrence—at least so scientists tell | the primitive men living in i Europe 100,000 years and more ago. And how would you like to have your slumbers rudely disturbed by a| : big, hungry cave bear? Or start out l before sunrise with a rude bow and J spear to hunt for mammoths, and un- j , expectedly come upon a woolly rhi noceros? Can't be true? Well, don't be too positive. Maybe your bump of knowledge Is due for another jolt. 1 Professor George Grant Mac Curdy has come all the way from Yale to day to give his popular lecture, with lantern Illustrations, on early man and how he lived, at the Technical High School at 8.30 o'clock to-night., Cards of admission, which may be j obtained without .charge from mem ■ bers of the Natural History Society, • are the only requirement for this 1 evening's visit to the world of long ago. HAYMARKBT RIOTER'S WIDOW ARRESTKU FOR STARTING RIOT fly Associated Press San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 21. Mrs. Lucy Parsons, widow of Albert Par sons. who was hanged in Chicago .n 1887 for complicity in the Haymarket riots, was arrested here last night on a charge of inciting to riot. Mrs. Par sons led a crowd of unemployed men from a hall, to which they had been ! denied access, to an open square, where ' an attempt was made to hold a mass I meeting. LECTURE AT ACADEMY A treat is promised at the Harris burg Academy Friday night, when Dr. Wirt W. Barnltz, of Hanover, Pa., who la winning fame as an entertainer, will! lecture on "Encircling the Globe." Dr. j Barnltz Is booked to appear at a num ber of colleges and universities and' fortunately had Friday of this week open. . 1 12 PAGES POLES in THE CITY BUSES DISTRICT iE COMING DDI All But Five in Third Street ' Will Be Removed by April 1 With the exception of five poles in Third street between Walnut and Mar ket streets, which belong to the West ern Union Telegraph Company, all poles In Market street between the railroad and Front street; Second street from Chestnut to Pine; Third street from Chestnut to North; Fourth street from Chestnut to AValnut, and in Fifth street from Market to Wal nut, will be down before April 1, ac cording to City Electrician Clark E. Diehl. , Tt may be necessary to pass a gen eral ordinance providing for the re moval of all poles In the city in order to make a complete clean-up, in the opinion of the city electrician. An ordinance of this kind was before the old bicameral council, but was not passed. Recent Improvements in the | lighting, lire alarm and police alarm I systems brought about underground • improvements which will permit the i removal of all but a few poles in the business districts. The Western Union Telegraph Company not having any conduits, is not in a position to elimi nate their poles at present. City Elec trician Diehl said to-day; "The work of removing the poles is being done by the linemen from the i Harrisburg Light and Power Company I and it is our intention to get rid of ! every pole where it is possible to do so. II am of the opinion that with tho ex- I ception of Ave poles referred to in I Third street all poles In the districts mentioned will be down by April 1." STUDENTS EARN 9109,604 By Associated Press Chicago, Jan. 21.—8y posing for artists who draw advertisements for | men's clothing, by Instructing classes lof foreigners In English, by translat ing foreign correspondence for husl- I ness houses and by various other means, students at the University of i Chicago who are working their way through school, last year earned a total of $109,604, or an average of more than SB3 each. ANOTHER REPORT MAY BE MADE By Associated Press Houghton Mich., Jan. 21. —Another partial report may be made late to day on to-morrow by the special 1 Houghton county grand Jury which Is ' investigating lawlessness, resulting from, the strike in the copper mines. Most of the cases to be reported are believed to be assault cases. Two mur ider indictments may be returned. POSTSCRIPT. CONGRESS WORKS ON FIVE BILLS EMBODIED IN WILSI IfSSAGE House Judiciary and Senate Inter state Commerce Committees Outline Program CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE Senator Newlands Will Have Qiarge of Legislation in Senate By Assoeiaitd Prens Washington, D. C., Jan. 21. —Five bills to carry out the suggestions of President Wilson's trust message wera being completed in Congress to-day. The bills will embrace the follow* ing: An inter-State trade commis sion with Inquisitorial powers into corporations and authority to aid the courts and keep bl® business within the law. Prohibition of Interlocking di rectorates in Inter-State corpora tions, railroads and national banks. Empowering the Inter-Stat© Commerce Commission to regu late the issuance of railroad stocks and bonds. A Sherman law definitions bin, which would define specifically what constitutes conspiracy in re straint of trade. N A general trade relations meas ure seeking to eliminate "cut throat." competitive business and which would provide punishment for individuals instead of busi ness, and make it possible for firms or individuals injured by unlawful business restrain to avail themselves of findings against combinations and institute suits in equity for relief. Conference l.aM Night Following a conference last night at the White House, members of the [Continued on Page 7] KIRK AT MOI-iDIERS' HOME Uy Associated Press Marion; In. For Ifarrlsburg and vicinity) Fair and collier to-night; lowest tem perature about SIR decreet; Thurs day fair and colder. For Eastern Pennsylvaniai Cloudy and colder to-night; probably lo cal snow In north and meat por- Thursday fair, colder; brisk to high nest to northwest winds. "River No material changes will occur In general river conditions. The Ice will Increase to-night and Thurs day. tieneral Conditions The storm that was central over the l.ake region Tuesday morn ing has moved slowly eastward with Increasing energy and la now central over Sew York State. It has caused rain and snow In the Upper Mississippi Valley, and thence eastward through the Lake region to the Atlantlo coast. Temperature; 8 a- m- S3| 1 p. m., M. Sun; Rises, 7;24 a. m.j sets, Stlß p m. Moon; New moon, January M, 1;34 a. m. River Stage; Three feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 38. Lowest temperature. XI. Mean temperature, 30, Normal 'temperature, 38. VARRHIiE LICENSES Harvard Walton, city, and Kuth Bran baker, Enola. David Snyder. Jefferson townshlfk and Maude R. Schell, Williams town* ship. Walter Kramer and Ethel M. Derrick Reading. See That You Get Your Share Mr. Merchant! Now, Mr. Local Dealer, here is some straight talk. This is the month in which many manufacturers are laying out their advertising plans for the coming year. These plans naturally have for their object an increase of business. Tne manufacturer la going to spend his money where it is going to give him the best ] return. One thing that will Influence his plans Is the extent to whlcb dealers will co-operate in mak local sales. That word co-oper ation does not mean sitting down and letting customers come, if they are willing. It means actively pushing the sale of goods advertised in their local newspapers by the manufactur ers. . Now. why not let the manufac turers with whom you do busl- I ness know that If tney will help make business for you, you will help make business for them. Tell them that If they will use the newspapers of your town to make known the merit of their goods you will let the public knnw that these goods can be had at your store. I Co-operate—and let your man ufacturers know you are will ing to do so. Share Iq the dol lar harvest by acting now, when It Is time to sow the seed. Co-operate work with dealers in nationally distributed articles is part of the function of the Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Associ ation. Correspondence with gen eral advertisers is solicited.