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HARRISBURG OlSliib TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 38
TUBERCULOSIS BEING
STEADILY FOUGHT BY
BOTH CITY AND STATE
Dispensary, Open-air Schools, Cer
tified Milk and War on Filth
Doing Much Good
BIG FALLING OFF OF CASES
Red Cross Seal Campaigns Doing
Great Educational Work
Each Year
More is being done In Harrisburg
to combat the ravaged of tuberculosis
than in any city of its size In the State.
The largest tuberculosis dispensary
among the 115 conducted by tho State
of Pennsylvania is located in this city;
open air schools have been provided
by tho School Board to care for and
cure tubercular children; the local
Board of Health is conducting a cam
paign to correct bad housing condi
tions; the physicians of tho city,
through the Academy of Medicine,
have provided a supply of milk that is
freo from tuberculosis germs; and the
Associated Charities and kindred
charitable organizations are doing
work in the homes to prevent the
spread and growth of the disease.
The results of all these agencies
working together may best be shown
by the annual reports of the local
Bureau of Health. In the last five
years the number of cases has been
reduced by 345 per cent, and the num
ber of deaths has fallen off. In 1909
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Girl Killed by Train
Near Boiling Springs
Special to The Telegraph
Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 13. —While goilis
to work this morning to the stocking
factory at Bulling Springs, where she
is employed, Martha Hope, IS years
old, was struck by a freight train on
tho Reading Railroad and instantly
killed. Miss Hope, who is a daugh
ter of John Hope, a farmer, lives two
miles east of Boiling Springs. The
body was found lying along the track
by tho crew of an extra freight train
passing over tho road at 7 ofcloek this
morning. The coroner is conducing
an investigation.
30,070 Immigrants From
Ireland Land in New Yorki
v
".V Associated Press
New York, Feb. 13.—The number
of immigrants from Ireland landed at
this port during 1913 was 37,073,
equal to one-half the population of
Alaska, an increase of more than three
thousand over the preceding year, ac
cording to the report of Michael A.
McDermott, president of the Irish
Emigrant Society. Of this number
more than eleven thousand elected to
remain in this State, while 6,600 went
to live in Massachusetts.
These homeseekers brought $1,985,-
703. The society assisted. 606 Immi
grants at Ellis Island with food and
money to reach their destinations.
Most of the immigrants found homes
in and around this city, in Massachu
setts, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New
Jersey.
Mule Team and Driver Go
Over Bank Near Marysville
Special to The Telegraph
Marysville, Pa., Feb. 13. —This
morning as a team of mules, owned
by W. J. Jackson were being driven
into Marysville with a heavy load of
railroad ties, the whole outfit went
over a twenty-foot embankment near
town. In climbing a hill having a
steep grade, and which was covered
with Ice, the wagon started backward
and the mules not being roughshod
could not hold it. Wagon and load
went over tho bank, carrying the
driver, Laurie Fitting, along. The i
wagon was broken and the mules
badly cut and bruised. Laurie was
not Injured.
Late News Bulletins
FILE LIQUOR REMONSTRANCES
Formal remonstrance was Hied to-day against the HaelTner House
at Derry Church on the grounds of sale of liquor to ndnors and Intoxi
cants and disorderly house by llfty residents of the town. The hotel w
conducted by Jacob l*age. Four letters to Judge Kunkel from George
Brown in which he charges violation of the liquor laws against the sa
loon of George Kobler, at 123 a North Sixth street; A; Taylor, Sixth and
Cumberland street; Jacob Slmonettl on Berbeke street, and Ferdinand
Moesleln at Sixth and Verbeke streets, were filed.
SHOOTING CAUSES EXCITEMENT
Vera Cruz,, Feb. 13.—The attempted assassination of Lieut. Arthur
B. Cook, Hag lieutenant to Rear Admiral Mayo, of the United States bat
tleship Connecticut, which since its occurrence on Wednesday night had
been kept as secret as possible, became generally known in the Ameri
can colony to-day and caused intense excitement.
Washington, Feb. 13.—Five Senators were named in a special reso
lution to-day to co-operate with the Interstate Commerce Commission to
Investigate alTalrs of the Louisville and Nashville railroad and get in
formation the railroad declined to give federal h gents.
Katlierine Kimmel, aged II), of 210 Chestnut street, who for three
days has been missing from her home, was found late this afternoon by
the police in u Market street moving picture house. The girl refused to
tell where she had been.
New York, Feb. 13.—The tip of ail open umbrella in the hands of
William H. Ilouseher touched a low hanging electric lamp one night
wlllle he was walking through the rain to his home in Jamaica, L. 1., and
Houscher was shocked to death by the current which passed down the
steel umbrella rod. The electric light company contended that Househer's
death was due to his own carelessness, but a jnry to-day awarded $7,000
damages to his widow.
Paris, Feb. 13.—Alphonse Bertillon, creator of the system of crimi
nal ldentilicatlon which made his name known tliroughout the world,
died here to-day, aged 61. Bertillon's title was "director of the Anthro
pometric Department o fthe Paris Police." Ho had been ill for some
time suffering from anemia complicated with other maladies.
Harrison, N. J.. Feb. 13,—The body of Margaret Fox, a boarding
house keeper, was found to-day head down in a well In her backyard.
The fact that the cover of Ihe wel was closed led to the belief that her
death was not accidental and the coroner began an investigation.
Wall Street Closing.—Amai. Copper. 37 %; American Sugar, 107;
Atchison, 08%; Baltimore and Ohio, 93; Brooklyn <Rapld Transit, 92%;
Canadian Pacific, 216%; Chesapeake and Ohio, Chicago, Milwau
kee and St. Paul, 03%; Lehigh Valley, 151; New York Central, 80 y, ;
Northern Pacific, 110%; Reading, 108: Pennsylvania Railroad, 112%*
Southern Pacific, 06%; Union Pacific, 168%; U. S. Steel, 06—.
CITY AND STATE DOING BIG WORK HERE IN FIGHT AGAINST RAVAGES OF TUBERCULOSIS
i.
JUDGE KUNKELIO
THE FRONT FOR THE
SUPREME BENCH
Dauphin County Jurist Being Urged
in Philadelphia and Other
Counties of State
President Judge George Kunkel, of
the Dauphin county court, Is now re
garded in Philadelphia as the best
fitted man for the Supreme Court
nomination to be made in May and
the advocacy of liim as a candidate
which has been so pronounced
throughout the counties in this sec
tion of the State is now being heard
in the Quaker City as well as In a
dozen other cities of the Common
wealth. The only other names men
tioned in connection with the nomina
tion have been those of Judge- Rob
ert Sellers Krazer, of Allegheny, and
Judge Gustave A. lOndllch, of Berks,
both of whom are men well known
here, but neither of whom has the
reputation throughout the State of
Judge Kunkel. The Dauphin county
jurist, who served three terms in the
legislature, became nationally famous
by his handling of the Capitol cases,
and Is regarded in many counties of
Pennsylvania as the strongest man for
the State's highest court.
It is probable that the next few
1 eeks will see a rapid crystallization
of sentiment in' regard to the nomi
nation for the Supreme Court, which,
like that for the Superior Court, will
be under the nonpartisan act.
Tho Philadelphia Public Ledger
says to-day that there is a trend to-
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HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1914.
LOCHIEL HOW IS
BURNED TO WARM
HUDDLED TEHTS
Destitute People Use Partition as
Fuel to Keep From Freezing
to Death
GOOD SKATING ON
lAKE AT WILD WOOD
Good .skating at WHdwood Park
was reported to-day by V. Grant
Forrer, superintendent of city
parks. From three to six inches
of ice covers the entire park lake
and this afternoon thousands of
skaters were glldlnp- over tho
smooth pond.
Lochiel row is being burned to heat
Its inhabitants.
Huddled together in the upper end
of the row, the destitute people who
live in the old brick tenement along
the railroad at the southern end of
the city are trying to keep themselves
from freezing to death by burning the
furniture and partitions of the houses
in the lower end of the row.
Every year when the cold snap
catches the dwellers there without
coal this process of demolition begins.
John P. Guyer, clerk to the Directors
of the Poor, and Director Boyer vis
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S. Newcomer Kelly Is
Buried at Hagerstown
S. Newcomer Kelly, a prominent
young lawyer of Hagerstown, formerly
of Harrisburg, and son of Mr. and
Sirs. Richard Kelly, of this ctty, who
died on Wednesday, was buried from
his Hagerstown home this afternoon
with full Masonic honors. The funeral
was in charge of St.. Bernard Com
| mandery, Knights Templar, Mr. Kelly
j being generalissimo of the com-
I mandery and a member of all branches
lof the fraternity. The services were
I conducted by Sir Knight Rev. Dr. C.
L. Pate, pastor of St. Paul's Meth
odist Episcopal Church, of which Mr.
Kelly was a member. Mr. Kelly was
cashier and bookkeeper for the Wash
ington County Water Company. His
parents, sister, Mrs. Nina Ritter, and
brother, William Kelly, all of this city,
attended the funeral at Hagerstown.
ANOTHER TREATY SIGNED
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C„ Feb. 13. —Secre-
tary Bryan and Dr. Paul Ritter, the
minister from Switzerland, to-day
signed a treaty binding the United
States and Switzerland to submit to
investigation for at least one year all
questions between the two nations
which cannot be settled by diplomacy.
INDEPENDENCE IS ASKED
By Associated Press
Manila, Feb. 13.—Resolutions ask
jlng for the independence of the Philip
pines under the protectorate of the
I United States were adopted to-day by
a meeting of the Progressive party,
i which is headed by Juan Sumulong, a
[former member of the Philippines
I Commission.
EMPLOY AN AMERICAN
By Associated Press
London, Feb. 13.—Tho Great East
ern Railway Company, of England,
has decided to employ an American
executive officer In order to bring its
system thoroughly up to date. The!
directorate announced to-day the ap-f
pointment of Henry W. Thornton,!
general superintendent of the Long
Island Railroad, as general manager.'
Cost of St. Valentine's Day Is
Given Jolt by the Parcel Post
Ardent Swains Need Not Worry Nov,-a-days Because of
Mailing Prices; Big Rush On
The high coat of St. Valentine Day
lias been given a hard jolt by the par
cel post system and this year finds a
large increase in the size of love
emblems that are now passing through
the mails.
Heretofore, duo to the fact that
valentines went through the mails as
first class matter, the ardent lover
jvas obliged to cut down on the size
of his valentines because of the post
age, but now the cost is cut just one-
FIFTY FIRES 111 ONE
NIGHT SEND HUNDREDS
INTO ZERO WEHTDER
No Lives Lost, But Many Persons
Are Suffering From
Exposure
By Associated Press
j New York, Feb. 13.—Fifty fires Ift
New York between the hours of 7
Ip. m. and 7 a. m. drove hundreds of
j persons into the zero weather and
«ave firemen one of the busiest nights
lin the history of the city. No lives
iwere lost but hundreds are suffering
from exposure. In many cases people
dashed out into the cold without wait
ing to dress cr to find out whether
there was any danger. A fire in a six
story apartment house containing a
Turkish bath establishment and thirty
families, drove two hundred scantily
clad tenants into the street. The fire
! itself was trivial.
Amendment Made to Bill
Halts Changes in Parcel
Post Without Authority
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Feb. 13.—With
the $310,000,000 Post Office appro
priation bill the Senate committee re
ported an amendment to-day to pre
vent further changes in rates or ex
tension of the parcel post without
congressional authority.
Postmaster General Burleson ex
tended the weight limits and reduced
the rates recently, and it was devel
oped that ho had legal authority to
do so.
Maintaining that It has been impos
sible to determine what it costs to
operate thu parcel post, the commit
tee wants ' ■> check changes.
Figure Bearing Judge's
Name Hanged to Pole
By Associated Press
Wellsburg, W. V., Feb. 15.—Efforts
of the West Virginia & Pitsburgh Coal
Cortipany to eject striking miners
from the company's houses at Col
liers, W. Va., failed to-day in two
suits tried here. The jury disagreed
in one and a verdict for the defen
dant was rendered In the other.
At Follansbee, a mining town not
far. from Colliers a stuffed figure bear
ing the name of Judge A. G. Dayton,
of the United States District Court!
was hanged to a telegraph pole.
half, and as it is an old saying, that
the bigger the valentine, the stronger
the love, the boys and girls are in
creasing the size of their remem
brances.
While the increase in the size and
number of large valentines is notable
there is the usual rush of post cards,
and according to individuals to-day
attaches of the local Post Office will
have a busy time during the next
twenty-four hours.
RESULTS. NOT MEN.
MUST BE TEST. SAY
CITY COUNCILMEN
Commissioners Point Out That It
Is Not Matter of Personality
But Efficiency
"We are doing our best to complete
the reorganization of the several de
partments of the city government be
fore the first of March so that the
important matters which must be
taken up this year can have our un
divided attention," was the statement
of a member of the City Council to
day. This in response to the rumored
removals of several subordinate offi
cials and employes. It is explained
on behalf of the City Council that
there has been no intention from the
start to rip out in any wholesale way
the employes of the various depart
ments; that it was so stated on the
day the Lynch resolution was intro
duced and that on the same day Mr.
Lynch made a public statement to the
effect that the whole purpose of the
resolution was to pave the way for
such reorganization as was necessary
in promoting harmony and efficiency
of the several departments.
As a matter of fact, according to a
member of the commission to-day, out
of more than 300 employes of the city,
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Chicken Scratch Causes
Wernersville Man's Death
Special to The Telegraph
Wernersville, Pa-, Feb. 13.—Within
a few minutes after a chicken that he
was feeding scratched open a birth
mark on his forehead Daniel A. Ney,
43, and a well-known contractor, bled
to death yesterday afternoon. ,
Ever since he was born Mr. Ney
carried in the center of his forehead
a protruding blood vessel, or birth
mark, which was very prominent, and
often became as large as a man's list.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Ney began
the daily task of feeding his poultry.
As he walked among the fowls, scat
tering grain one hungry hen flew up
over the rest. In Its flight Its grazed
the temple of the contractor, barely
opening the blood vessel there. His
son Herbert, standing near by, and a
neighbor. Mrs. Weidman, saw a
stream of blood spurt from the head
of the afflicted man after the appar
ently Insignificant accident. As he
sank semiunconscious to the ground
ho was caught by his son and borne
Indoors. •• . .
TO BUILD WOOD
MILLS 111 STEELTOB
IS CUHT RUMOR
Dismantling of Old Open Hearth
Furnaces Leads to Report
in Borough
Orders have been issued from the
general offices of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company to rush the work of
dismantling the old Nos. 1, 3 and 4
open hearth furnaces at the Steelton
plant.
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PIRK BOHID ASKS FOR
THE RETENTIOII OF
HOFFERT Hi FORSER
First Action of Members Acting in
Their Advisory Capacity to
Councilman Taylor
I Acting officially for the first time in
an advisory capacity to City Commis
sioner M. Harvey Taylor, superintend
ent of parks and public property, the
Harrisburg Park Commission has
adopted resolutions relative to the re
ported retention of V. Grant Forrer,
park superintendent, and J. Raymond
Hoffert as assistant.
The resolutions deal with the excel
lent work of the two officials and point
cut numerous reasons why their re
tention is imperative for the general
good of the city and for the park and
playground improvement and develop,
ment.
In municipal circles to-day the ac
tion of the Park Board was widely
commented upon in view of the coun
cilmanic conference on appointments
to-night. While It has always been
understood that Messrs. Forrer and
Hoffert have had the unqualified en
dorsement of the Park Board, the
tone of the resolutions is taken to in
dicate that it would be unfortunate
If this, the initial advice of the com
mission, is not given some consid
eration.
Copies of the resolutions were sent
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Cold Weather Claims
9 Victims in New York
By Associated Press
New York, Feb. 13.—The cold wave
claimed another victim here to-day.
The death of Eric Nelson, an aged
tailor, frozen In the streets, brought
the total since the arrival of zero
weather Wednesday night to nine.
The municipal lodging house and
other charitable organizations over
flowed with human derelicts and un
fortunates. Prostrations reported by
the police are almost continuous.
The lowest dip in the mfcrcury to
day was at 7 o'clock this morning,
when it stood at X below.
The local weather office prophesied
a dubious relief in the form of a bliz
zard and slightly increasing temper
ature. At 11 o'clock the mercury
obeyed this forecast by climbing to 9
above.
All over the city water, gas and
other supply and feed pipes burst and
plumbers got little sleep during the
night. (
20 PAGES. * POSTSCRIPT.
CARLISLE CONDEMNS
ran OF sais in
DROPPING FRIEDMAN
| Citizens of Town May Call Public
.Meeting to Defend
Superintendent
! HIS SUSPENSION IS RESENTED
Bandmaster Stauffer Temporarily
Dropped For Punishing
Student
Special to The Telegraph
Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 13.—The suspen*
sion of Superintendent M. Friedman,
of the Carlisle Indian school, by Com
missioner of Indian Affairs Otto Sells,
has stirred up an active sentiment In
Carlisle in defense of the head of the
institution and a number of the lead
ing men are considering the calling of
a public mass meeting to determine
the sincerity of the large majority of
people here in their defense of Mr.
Friedman. It Is expected that a com
mittee of citizens will be appointed to
day.
When asked if he would make a
statement concerning the charges, Su
perintendent Friedman declared that
he would probably make one to-night,
after consulting his counsel.
Charges Against Stauffer
In a dispatch from Washington last
night, it was said that Bandmaster
(Maude M. Stauffer had been suspend
ed because he had punished a girl
with a club, "Inflicting severe injur
ies."
It developed here to-day that some
time ago there was a serious Infrac
tion of discipline in the school, and
the matron asked that the girl be
spanked. The bandmaster was as
signed to the task, and In the pres
ence of the head matron, the school
principal and the outing manager the
punishment was administered. A pad
dle was used and the punishment was
not unduly severe according to the
. witnesses. In fact, the girl, it is said,
wrote Mr. Stauffer a letter after the
spanking, thanking him for what he
had done and declaring that she de
served It.
Friedman Supporter
Inquiries at the school made to
day point to the fact that the band
master has been a loyal supporter of
the Friedman administration, and It is
suspected here that the real animus
I against Stauffer is due to friction with
Inspector Llnnen of the government
service, who is conducting, an investi
gation here for Indian Commissioner
Sells.
Bandmaster Claude F. Stauffer, of
the Carlisle school, Is married to a
Harrlsburg girl, who was Miss Maude
Heagy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George W. Heagy, 1823 Derry street.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Stauffer are well
known In the social circles of this
city.
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED
By Associated Press
Peking, Feb. 18. A presidential
mandate was issued to-day accepting
the resignation of Hslung Hsl-Llng,
the Chinese premier and appointing
Sun Pao-Chl as acting premier until
a definite nomination is made.
For HarrUbors and vlclultyi Snow
to-night and Saturday; slightly
warmer; lowest temperature to
il IKh t about 8 decrees.
For Eastern Pennsylvania! Snow
aad not quite so eold to-night and
Saturday! Increasing northeast
winds.
River
The Susquehanna river and all Ita
branches will continue to fall
slowly. The area of froien sur
face will increase.
General Conditions
The temperature has risen 3 to 32
degrees generally eaat of the
Mississippi river since last re
port, except over a narrow belt
of country extending from Penn
sylvania southward Into South
Carolina, where It was somewhat
colder. It Is 6 to 86 degrees
colder In the Southwest.
Temperature) 8 a. m., seroj 3 p, at.,
11 above sero.
Sunt Rises, 6i86 a. m.| sets, BiS3
p. m.
River. Stagei 8.1 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 11.
Lowest temperature, 3.
Mean temperature, 6.
I Normal temperature, 38.
j "I Do My House
Work in
Ten Minutes"
This is what a pretty and
, prominent suffragist told the New
York newspapers, but she did not
go into details sufficiently to
show the average woman how to
do likewise.
This age of labor-saving de
vices has witnessed great ad
vances when such things arc pos.
sible
Wise women nowadays plan
their work with the skill of ef
ficiency engineers and they make
free use of the many modern In
ventions.
One of the greatest modern
labor savers is advertising in the
live dally newspapers like the
Telegraph.
It Is the short cut to accurate
and thrifty buying. It tells
where to go and what to avoid
suo|}Hjonb jajj.ißiu am sOA|S JT
It tells what Is new and useful
Nowadays a woman who would
formerly spend half a day "shop
ping around" can run through
her favorite newspaper and make
up her mind as to just where
• she wants to go for the article
she desires.
A few minutes of real shopplns
time is consumed Instead of h.!/
a day.