EVEN THE SUSQUEHANNA HAD ITS "UPS AND DOWNS" DURING 1913 -'"St-' tf #>*,r ./ /farrutvrj. A, -/S/3- A ••««**- At fivr**. Ot~/ -Gty A***; JMW/i, fill " '* >y ■ —— _ " • ; /# \, M ——— 1 /r if ,4 " fA<r»i to. <• taos / ~ —— ———J— J o RIVER. TOO. IMS . ITS UPS MID OOWPIS I i Susquehanna Does Not Always Ripple Peacefully Onward to the Bay Wot always does the Susquehanna pursue the even tenor of its way to the sea; It, too, has Its ups and downs. Old rivermen, the contractors and engineers who are engaged on the con struction of the river dam, the "Front) Steps of Harrisburg,' and so on, and! a lot of folks who like to keep tabs! on that sort of thing for their own information, watch the river changes pretty closely; incidentally, Weather Observer Domain takes daily sound ings for his own official records. But noue of them keeps an account more carefully, painstakingly and ac curately than A. L. Burns, the veteran chief engineer at the city pumping Station at North street. i For years the gray-haired engineer lias made the work a part of his daily •fcties at the pumping station: in the; last year he has had the soundings; plotted on a map by an engineer of the Board of Public Works. Accuracy ' In the gauging is assured by the fact j that the tests are made daily by means : of a "plumb" in an eight-Inch pipe inside the engineroom. This is con nected with the great intake pipe that extends far out into the stream, so that the water in the plumb-pipe is always on a level with that in the ~ river. The accuracy of the plumb's position was established to a mathe matical fractiun by engineers of the Board of Public AVorks. i As the days go by the stage of the riv6r is traced on the map and at the end of the year a ragged fluctuating line is the result. Bidders on pro posed improvements have found it of inestimable value: even the weather man usees it some times to verify his own soundings for officials records. Mr. Demain, as a rule, measures the river height by dropping a plumb from the bridge; slight variations are pos sible when the water Is rough, is run ning full of ice, or a slight wind is blowing. The map is readily figured out at a glance. Tn 1913, for instance, the river reached its highest state in March; in September it was nearest the low watermark. In computing his figures Mr. Burns has used the lowest level taken in 1803. 1 I - - ■ . 1 ■/• - . J l \ jVS FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH . FEBRUARY 13, I^l4. Gore Made Attempts to Evade Service of Papers, Says Sheriff | By Associated Press j Oklahoma City. Okla., Feb. 13. T. j E. Robertson, former law partner of I Ross Lillard, chief of counsel for the! ] plaintiff, was recalled as a witness to- j | day in the hearing of the $50,000 dam- | ; age suit brought by Mrs. Minnie E. Bond against United States Senator Thomas P. Gore, in the district court here. Shortly after Robertoan took the stand to continue his testimony he was excused temporarilf and Deputy j Sheriff Ezell was called. The witness I testified that the Senator had evaded | service of the papers in Mrs. Bond's I suit and that he was prevented from seeing the Senator by a number of friends of the latter, who barried the door to Gore's room in a local hotel. Sheriff Binion was called and tes tified that he took the papers and went to see Gore, but met the same , tactics. Late at night, however, he ; said, he caught sight of the Senator j in the hotel and served the papers on , | him. Miners Vote Down the Operators' Proposition By Associated Press » Philadelphia, Feb. 13.—The opera-: tors of the central competitive bitu- j minous field to-day proposed to the miners in join conference here that' the Cleveland agreement, now in ef- j feet, be made the contract for four i years ending March 31, 1918, with i certain modifications. The miners | voted down the proposition, but it is: understood that this action is not final. I The joint conference at once began a| discussion of the miners' . demands, i and it is expected that, following cus- j torn, subcommittees will be appointed to take up all disputed questions. BIRD WILL BE CANDIDATE / By Associated Press Boston, Mass.. Feb. 13. Charles! Sumner Bird, of Walpole, will be the j Progressive candidate for governor for i the third time at the next State elec tion, according to an announcement | made last night by Matthew Hale, | chairman of the Progressive Stat© i committee, in the course of an ad- ( dress at a Lincoln Day celebration and j Progressive conference. By Associated Press Chicago, 111. —Ice harvesting began to -1 day in the Calumet lake region, south :of Chicago. It was estimated that nearly 5,000 men had been employed, Including hundreds of unemployed from cheap lodging houses in this city. Waahington, D.C.—How to make hens lay more eggs was one of the multitude of investigations authorized In the agricultural appropriation bill reported to-day. Waahington, I». C.—Destruction of the cable office at Hsmeraldes, Ecuador, where heavy fighting was on between the revolutionists and Government forces, left the State Department to day without means of news of the situation. WaahlnKton, D. C. Louis D. Bran deis has declined to become chairman or a member of the board of trustees to take over and dispose of the stock of the Boston and aMlne Railroad held ,by the New York, New Haven and ; Hartford. Mr. Brandels was urged to I become a trustee not only by officials of the Department of Justice but by officials of the New Haven. Kanaaa City, Mo. Ephralm Moss, a veteran publisher and nefspaperman, ; died at his home here to-day. He was 188 years old. In Civil War times Moss ! edited and published the Lehigh Reg | ister, at Allentown, Pa. He lived here twenty-three years. ■ New York. The first national effl | ciency exposition and conference will ; be held In this city from Anril 4 to 11 1 under the auspices of the Efficiency So j ciety, Incorporated. Krnvtl, I*. J. Four employes of the I Hertules Powder Works were killed In j an explosion late last night, which de -1 stroyed the packing house of the plant, j where tons of powder were ready for shipment to Mexico. PtttaharKh. Tony Albert, A miner, died to-day in a hospital here from in juries received during the night in an explosion in the Harwick Mine of the Allegheny Coal Company, near Ches wlck. Pa. Two other miners were in- I Jured. Ten years ago 200 men were | killed by an explosion in the mine. { IVaNhlnirton, D. C, While Chnrlos | R. Van Hise, president of the Univer l sity of Wisconsin, was testifying to i day before the House commerce com | mittee. Representative Stevens, of Mln ] nesota, ranking Republican of the com- I mittee, declared the administration Clayton bill for an interstate trade com missjon, was unconstitutional in many respects. Wllllamaport, l'n. A (Ire destroyed the borough school building- at Flem- Ington, this morning, leaving the town without a school. The 250 pupils marched from the burning structure In a few seconds after the discovery, but a teacher, Miss May Pletcher, barely escaped by Jumping from a window. New York. The hearing set for to day before Judge BlJur, of the New York Superme Court, to determine whether the Injunction obtained on Tuesday last by William R. Hearst against The Associated Press should be dissolved or be made permanent, has been adjourned to Mav 2 by mutual agreement by the parties. *\>wport, R. I. Reports of a breach of discipline among the 700 apprentices at the naval training station reached here to-day. Officers of the station de nied that anything in the nature of a mutiny had occurred and declined to discuss the matter. New York. Eleven members of the so-called Poultry Trust, all of them wealthy, to-day began serving sen tences of three months in jail for vio lation of the State anti-monopoly law. Deaths and Funerals MRS. nnrcn.i.A GALES Mrs. Drucllla Gales, aged 87, died yesterday morning at the home of her daughter. Miss Cornelia Gales, 43S North avenue. The bodv will be taken to Beaver Creek. Md.. Monday morning bv Underaker T. M. Mauk and Son. for burial. The body mav be viewed Sun day afternoon and evening at the Mauk funeral chapel. Third and Boyd strets. | FUNERAL OF MRS. GRCBEK Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Orubor. who died Wednesdav evening the home of her daughter, Mrs. Annie I Fisher. 1611 Logan street, will he held Sunday morning, at 9:30 o'clock, at the home of her daughter. The Rev. Ed win Runp. ppstor of the Otterbein Unit ed Brethren Church, will officiate. The bodv will be taken to Daunliln, where further services will be held In the Evangelical Church at 11:15 o'clock. Burial will be made in the Dauphin Cemetwy. TAFT WTTjIJ BE HEARD By Associated Press Washington. t>. C.. Feb. 13.—Ex- President Taft will be heard by the House judiciary committee February 2 7 in advocacy of the Clayton hill, de signed to effect records In the original court procedure. The measure would authorize the Supreme Court of the United States to prescribe forms and rules and generally to regulate the pleading, procedure and practice on I the common law side of the federal | courts. Roosevelt For Governor Is Progressives' Demand Special to The Telegraph New York, Feb. 13. "Of curse, Colonel Roosevelt will run for Gover nor. He will run for anything, from constable up." This was Theodore Douglas Robin son's reply to questions as to whether Colonel Roosevelt would accept the Progressive nomination for Governor next fall. Mr. Robinson is a nephew of Colonel Roosevelt and also chairman of the Progressive State Committee and pre sided yesterday at the meeting of the committee in Progressive headquarters, in Washington Square, at which it was decided unanimously that under no condition should the Progressives fuse with the Republicans in the State cam paign next fall. Under the terms of the resalution the Progressives will nominate their own candidate for United States Senator. Governor and the rest of the State ticket. Colonel . Roosevelt's name over shadowed all others; In fact, no name but his was mentioned for Governor. William H. Hotchkiss, ex-chairman of the State Committee. asserted that the ex-President was the only man for this situation. "He is the man who has the confidence of the people and who can bring home the failures of the two old parties to discharge their trust to the State." Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson, wife of the State chairman, was elected a member of the State Committee from the Fifth Judicial District. Unknown Sends S2O to Help Purchase Railroads Special to The Telegraph Washington, D. C.. Feb. 13.—A pop i ular subscription for the purchase of I railways and their transfer to the ' Government was starte to-day, when I the White House received four J5 gold I pieces in an envelope, addressed to I that they were intended for the pur | pose mentioned The typewritten letter I accompanying the money was signed "X. Y. and was postmarked San Francisco. The anonymous sender explained that he or she was "a poor stenographer receiving S6OO a year." It set forth 1 j that the writer had read that the Gov ernment proposed to purchase tele phone and telegraph lines, and that, as Government ownership of railways was also essential, the money was forward ed to start a popular subscription for buying them FREED BY IiINCOIiX. SHE DIES ON HIS BIRTHDAY • Lebanon, Mo., Feb. 13. —After pray ing for several days that she might die on her emancipator's birthday, Rachel Ijanear. a negress and former slave, died here last night at the age of 101 years. The negress said she had lived in Kentucky until emanci pated and that upon one occasion whne IJncoln visited that State darned his socks. Heiress to Lucky Baldwin's Millions Writes Music For Successful Play Mrs. Anita Baldwin McClaughry, daughter of Lucky Baldwin, to whom he left millions, has just admitted she is the "Anita Baldwin" whoso name appears as the composer of the incidental music of "Omar, the Tent maker." Critics thought well of the music, which is part of the Persian atmosphere, but none of them thought to connect the name of "Anita Bald win" on the program with tho California girl who inherited the Baldwin millions. And the management did not announce her Identity, because she had asked that the music should be given an opportunity on Its own merits. The music is to be published by one of the leading musical firms in the country. Anita Baldwin McClaughry was divorced recently from H. L. Mc- Glaughry, whom she married shortly after inheriting millions from her father. It is said that she turned to music as a relief from her marital troubles. Several of her compositions have been given In concerts in Los Angeles, but this is the first time that she has written the music for a pla>. She was given the commission to write the music by Richard Walton Tully, author and producer of the Persian love play, who is also a Californian. Scranton Minister Picks Up Many Aerial Messages Special to The Telegraph Scranton, Pa.. Feb. 13. —The Kev. Griffin W. Bull, pastor of the First Presbyterian Clirch, wliile "sitting in" at his wireless board last night, caught the messages that were flashed from Germany to America, as reported to day. Doctor Bull's aerials aro strung from the tower of his church to the roof of the manse. He was a tele graph operator before he entered the ministry, t-ast night he caught twelve messages from Berlin to Now York, most of them to newspapers. He re ported that he had 110 trouble at all in picking up all that passed, but under the Federal law he could not give out the messages. FRATERNITY HOUSE I»URi\S- South Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 13. A I..ehigh University fraternity house, the Delta Phi; the large German Inn, two I rick houses and a modern stable ver« ' destroyed In two ilres, which did SIOO,. 000 damage, here yesterday. Several j firemen were injured. The barking ol I a dog, which awoke John Surle.ss, I steward of the Delta Phi Fraternity, probably saved the lives of Curless, his . wife and twelve students, who were t asleep in the house. t 300 TO FIGHT LIQUOR By Associated Press | New York, Feb. 13.—Three hun - dred reclaimed victims of the drink s Ing habit met at Memorial Hall of • • the Salvation Army last night and j formed a national organization which r is to assist others in the fight against drink. Though formerly classed as slaves of liquor and suffering phys- ically from its effects, the members of e the organization were clear-skinned, o bright-eyed and happy.
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