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.
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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.
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Late News Bulletins
SUSPECTED SPY ARRESTED
WASHINGTON. Jan. 21.—Dispatches to-day to the constitutional
ist HKI'III'.V here report the arrest of William Hansen at Victoria. Mexico,
by General Carranza's forti' on the charge of being a lluerta spy. Han
sen was at one time a Vnited States marshal In T< MH.
TRAVELERS' BANK FAILS
Xtlnuta. 08.. Jan. St.—The Travelers' Rank to-day failed to open
Its doors for business. Its affairs have lx-en taken in hand l»y the State
bank examiner. The Itank was organized about two years ago with a
capital stock of *200,000.
BIG STEAMERS CAN USE CANAL
Panama, .lan. 21.—The Panama Canal has reached such a condi
tion of completion that large ocean steamers <-an now pass through, cv
oording to a statement to-day by Colonel George W. Goethals. There Is
30 feet depth of water through the Culebra cut and the Cuearaclia slide,
and It 1* Colonel Goethal's intention to send a Panama railroad steamer
through the canal In April.
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All But 20 of City's
328 Scarlet Women Flee I
This City, Reports Funkj
Federal White Slave Agent Finds Houses of 111 Repute
Closed on Trip Through the Tenderloin; Only Four
Places Open; More Women Leave City Today; Lid
Tight in Other Cities
An hut twenty of the 828 scarlet j
women who Inhabited the Iwitwee of
ill-repute In this city before the re
cent police exposure liavc fled the city
or are in hiding.
J. Clarence Funk. Federal "white
slave" agent in this city, last night;
made a visit to the two segregated I
districts in which vice was for
merly openiv carried on. He found all
but four of the thirty-three houses |
of which ho has record closed ajid j
their inmates gone, and in these 1
houses there were twenty-four girls. |
four fo whom were preparing to leave j
the city to-day.
All Keep I'nder Cover
Not all of these girls have left the)
city, Mr. Funk thinks, but are in the j
cltv carrying on clandestine vice, j
Some have taken rooms in private,
houses, others are visiting small towiic I
4 FOOD INSPECTORS j
NEEDED UNDER Pit
RUCK SUGGESTS
Salaries Could Be Provided With
out Additional Outlay of
Money by the City
At least three and possibly four, In
spectors should b#i provided to prop
erly carry out a thorough system of
food Inspection in Harrisburg along
the lines suggested by Dr. .T. M. J-
Raunick. city health officer, in his an-1
nual report yesterday to City Council.
All the dairy and quick lunch and ■
ether restaurants, ice cream and sodJ i
fountain*, bakeries, drug ami confer-i
•tionu"y stares should be Included' Dr.
Raunick believes, and this would I
mean the organization of a staff largo j
and capable enough for the purpose.
The salaries of the officers, accord
| ing to Dr. Raunick. could well be pro
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SPORTING WRITER DIES
By A ssoeiated Press
San Francisco. Cal., Jan. 21.—James
Watt, widely known as an angler,
died in a hospital here yesterday of
angina, pectoris. He was a frequent
contributor to sport magazines in this
country and in England. Mr. Watt
was a" native of Scotland, where a
brother, George Watt. Is one of the
king's counsellors and lord high sheriff
of Edinburgh.
i \VIATORS IX > 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
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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
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| 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
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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
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KIRK AT MOI-iDIERS' HOME
Uy Associated Press
Marion; In<l., Jan. 21. Fire that
destroyed the quartemaster and com
missary department buildings and their
contents at the National Soldiers'
Home, here, last night, did damage es
timated at SIOO,OOO.
1 ■>.
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.