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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.
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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.