Traffic and Business Hampered While Central Pa. Struggles With Blizzard
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII — No. 39
Storm-Swept Cities of Eastern
United States Struggling Today
Under Heaviest Blizzard of Year
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DIGGING 11AKKISBUBG OUT
Harrisburg in Center of Affected Area; Fall Nearly Foot
Here; Traffic and Business Held Up For Many Hours; j
City Has Army of Men Cleaning Streets; Very Little
Wire Trouble Reported; Middletown Car Jumps
Track Injuring Conductor; All Trains Running Into
Town Are Late; Country Districts Report Huge Drifts
On Wind-swept Roads
Blizzard swept for nearly twenty-four hours Harrisburg and
Central Pennsylvania to-day struggled through a mantle of snow
a foot deep.
Throughout the eastern parts of Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey and Delaware the heaviest snow storm of four years raged
throughout the night. Everywhere snowfalls of from one to two
feet are reported.
Traffic and business was held up to-day in nearly every city
in the blizzard belt. Trains on all lines running into Harrisburg
are from a half to three hours behind time. Hundreds of people
were forced to walk a mile or more to work because of tie-ups on
the city and suburban trolley lines. Trolley cars jumped the tracks
at various points last night and this morning in attempting to
plough through heavy drifts.
Just before noon to-day the sun broke through the clouds
hanging over the o4y. To-morrow it will be clear and biting cold.
The temperature will be about ten degrees above zero according to
the Weather Bureau.
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Late News Bulletins
SEA BRIGHT BATTERED BY STORM
Sea Bright, X. J.. Feb. 11.—S a Bright, which suffered great damage
fron: wind and water earlier in tb" winter, is again battered by the At
lantic to-day. More or the bulkli •* ?»g which protects the shore line
was torn away, ami lome streets re flooded. The wind had shifted
at noon, the tide liad gone down and conditions were improved.
NEW EIGHT-CLUB LEAGUE PLANNED
Chicago. Feb. 14.—A new eiglit-club league in major league terri
tor.v is contemplated by organized baseball. It was announced here to
day by B. B. Johnson, president of the American lieague. Johnson,
who returned to-day from the major league's conference in \ew York,
said the project was set on foot by President Baker, of the Philadel
phia Nationals, and that it was at present tinder serious consideration
by the major league ulub owners.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS REPORTED
Quebec, Feb. 14.—An cartliquakc shock was felt all over the city
and district of Quebec at 5.40 a in. to-day. The shock violent
enough to naken hundred* of citizens.
New York, Feb. 14.—The seismograph at the American Museum of
Natural History here recorded a very faint enrth tremor at about 5.40
o'clock this morning. These tre liors have occurred dailv, it was said,
since the earthquake of last Tuesday.
DUTCH WARSHIP GOES TO MEXICO
The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 14.—The Dutch warship Kortenaer
sailed to-day for the West Indies to watch developments in Mexico
She will proceed to Mexican waters to protect Dutch subjects in Mexico
If necessary.
YOUTH'S COMPANION EDITOR DIES
Nc(rton. Mass., Feb. 14.—The Rev. Theron Brown, associate editor
of the 1 outh's Companion since 1870, died here to-day aired 82 He
was a graduate of Yale.
WILL ORGANIZE NEW CABINET
Stockholm, Sweden. Feb. ll.—Dr. Knut Hjalmar Leonard Ham
marskjoeld, governor of Ippsulu and a member of the Hague Court of
Arbitration, to-day accepted the task of forming a new cabinet offered
him by King Gustavo, who insists on the selection of a Liberal ndnlstrT
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVExVING, FEBRUARY 14, 1914.
11
SNOWFALL REPORTED
IX THE BLIZZARD BELT
Cities. Inches.
Harrisburg 11
Wilmington. Del 8
New York City* 7
Schenectady 18
Wilkes-Barre 10
Williamsport 20
Philadelphia 7
Hazleton 8
Heading 12
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City Suffers Most From
Tie-ups on Trolley Lines
Harrisburg suffered most perhaps
from the tie-ups in the city and sub
urban trolley lines. So far behind
schedule were most of the lines in
the city that from every end of the
city a procession of working people
took to the streets and walked to
work.
The trolley lines went out of serv
ice at midnight last night, and the
four sweepers of the Harrisburg Rail
ways Company were ordered out to
clear the tracks. This morning a force
of seventy-five men was put out on
all lines to shovel out the cars that
stuck in the drifts.
Lines Open at 10 O'clock
By 10 o'clock all the city lines were
open but three of the suburban lines
were completely out of service. The
Riverside cars stopped dead at 3
o'clock this morning and no cars could
run farther than Seneca street. At 5
o'clock an attempt was made to get a
car through the drifts to Riverside,
but it stuck; another car was sent to
help Its fellow out, and it stuck; then
the sweeper was sent to the rescue;
it went off the track.
Car Stuck at Unglestown
The Rockville and Linglestown lines
were out of service all morning and
will probably not be In service until
late to-day. One car Is tied up at Lin
glestown and cannot be gotten out.
The annual dinner of Witman,
Schwarz and Company which was to
have been held this evening at the
Paxtonia Inn may have to be post
poned, for there was little hope this
morning that the drifts could be
opened to the Inn.
The difficulty found by the trolley
people was the drifting which made
useless any attempt to open tracks on
| the suburban lines. A gale blowing
eighteen miles an hour swept the light
snow everywhere piling up drifts
shoulder high. At two places cars
I went off the track because of the
snow. Car 255 of the Oberlin line
jumped the track at Thirteenth and
Howard streets about li o'clock and
ran almost to the curb in front of the
Hill Post Office. No one was hurt and
the car was soon put back on '.he
track.
Conductor Is Injured
A Middletown car jumped the track
in Motor street In Highspire at 1
o'clock this morning, ran over into
a vacant lot and injured the conduc
tor, H. A. Gray bill, of 1643 Market
street, this city. There were no pas
sengers on the car at the time, and
the motorman succeeded in stopping
the car before It turned over. It
blocked the .Middletown line for sev
eral hours this morning.
Appeals for help fame to the Har
risburg Railway office this morning
from the Paxtonia Inn, asking that a
car be sent out to bring into the city
ten people who were stranded there.
It was impossible to get a car through
i because of the drifts. A horse hitched
to a milk wagon owned by a Mr.
Packer was burled in five feet of
snow at Fourteenth and Keese streets
about 8 o'clock this morning when it
slipped an the ice and fell into a
drift.
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To An Old Valentine
AN old valentine: Three little love
verses!
shc merrily laughed as alio
penned them, I know.
And now as I readr them my spirit
rehearses
The Joys and the shine of a sweet
long ago.
The ribbons that tied it have years
agone faded.
But still round a heart like tendrils
they twine,
And Cupid looks on with his merry
eyes shaded.
For well he remembers the old
valentine.
BIGELQW GOES TO
ALTAR AT REVIVAL
Governor's Brother Among Those
Who Professed
Conversion
Special to The Telegraph
Pittsburgh, Feb. H. —Looking down
on the sea of faces in front of him in
the big tabernacle last night. Evan
gelist "Billy" Sunday espied George
Tener, of Sewickley, brother of Gov
ernor Tener; State Highway Commis
sioner Edward M. Bigelow, County
Commissioner J. Denny O'Neill and
Warden John Francies, of the West
ern Penitentiary.
At the conclusion of his sermon the
evangelist extended the usual invita
tion to converts and a large number
of penitents wended -their way to the
altar.
Sunday seemed not wholly satisfied
with the night's work, however. Dash
ing down from the platform, he hur
riedly made his way to the seats occu
pied by the four, and putting his arms
about the neck of Mr, Tener urged him
to come up to the altar. Sunday was
reinforced in his efforts by Commis
sioner O'Neill.
Together they soon won Mr. Tener
to their cause. The Governor's brother
had no sooner started toward the altar
than he was joined by both Commis
sioner E. M. Bigelow and Warden
Francies.
The converts were handed the usual
cards and are at liberty to associate
themselves with any religious denomi
nation.
POIJCE MAINTAIN ORDER
By Associated Press
Tokio, Feb. 14.—The Japanese gov
ernment to-day took extensive meas
ures for the maintenance of order
in the capital and for the suppression
of disturbances in connection with the
demonstrations of protest against the
increase of taxation. A line of police
armed with sabres was drawn up
around the Parliament buildings and
several opposition newspaper editors
were arrested on the charge of in
citing the populace to riot.
SIO,OOO FIRE AT I,KBA\ON
Special to The Telegraph
Lebanon, Pa., Feb. 14. For the sec
ond time since 1914 was ushered in, the
full Lebanon fire department was called
upon to fight Are In zero temperature,
when Thursday night the Iron City
Foundry plant, on the southwest cor
ner of Third and Green streets, was
gutted, entailing a loss estimated at be
tween $9,000 and SIO,OOO.
WANT LINES CONTINUED
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Feb. 14.—The
New York Central to-day applied to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
for permission to continue after July 1
Its ownership In steamship lines. The
Panama Canal act forbids such hold
ings unless the commission sees lit to
extend the time.
Beautiful still, though some letters
have vanished
Which the heart can supply, for
love will not forget,
And out of the past which the present
has banished
Comes a pair of bright eyes that
can fascinate yet,
And over the page of my valentine
cherished
Fall tresses as lovely as Fairyland's
gold.
In the storms of the years 'tis not this
that hath perished.
For it links me anew to a sweet
heart of old.
HOUCK ANNOUNCES
HE WILL RUN AGAIN
Secretary of Internal Affairs First
in Field For Nomination
to Office
Secretary of Internal Affairs Henry
Houck last night announced that he
would be a candidate for renomlnation
for the office which he has held since
1907 and his friends promptly pro
ceeded to arrange for a lively cam
paign. The petitions in his interest
will be circulated next month in every
part of the State as people have asked
to be permitted to start them.
The secretary simply stated last
night that he would be a candidate.
His friends will do the rest. It is not
regarded as likely that he will have
any opposition at the primaries and
no matter whether I. B. Brown runs
as the Progressive candidate or Ar
thur McKean as the Democratic it
will not prevent a tremendous vote
and victory for the secretary. Dr.
Houck led the ticket In 1906 and again
in 1910.
Playing of Orchestra
Prevents Panic in Movie
An overheated pipe set lire to the
floor in the lobby of the Photoplay
Theater early last evening and dam
age the floor to the extent of $25. Em
ployes detected the smoke and called
the Washington chemical by tele
phone. To prevent a panic, notice
was sent to the orchestra leader to
play a lively selection and Manager
Silverman kept the attention of the
audience from the tire by making a
brief announcement of coming attrac
tions. The 600 people In the theater
were surprised to learn later that
there had been a fire.
INCREASE HEARING CONTINUES
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Feb. 14.—In
formal discussion of terminal services
by carriers to shippers who have pri«
vate sidings and other facilities in
connection with the shippers' protest
against the proposed general 5 per
cent, freight rate increase continued
to-day before Commissioner Harlan,
of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion. No conclusion will be reached
by the commission on the evidence
thus taken.
LOOKING FOB "SLAVER"
Attaches of the local Police Depart
ment are not acquainted with Frank
Johnson, alias Frank Gosler. and Miss
Sergy Coleman, wanted in Guernsey
county, Ohio, on a white slavery
charge. A circular announces a re
ward of SIOO for the apprehension of
this pair.
She stands at my Bide and her soft
hand caresses
A ctaoek set aflame by the strength
of her sway.
And I wait in a dreain for the hiss Bhe
Impresses
On a brow that shall feel It fore'er
and a day.
Aye, out of the shadows that wearily
lengthen
And pillage life's vistas of half of
their shine
Return the old loves that the spirit
doth strengthen
With the half-faded rimes of the
old valentine.
GRADE CROSSING
REGULATION MADE
The Public Service Commission
Establishes Rules For Street
Car Operation
A general order has been issued by
the Public Service Commission In the
matter of regulations governing the
protection of grade crossings and has
been sent to the various steam rail
roads and street railways throughout
the State. They provide that before
an electric railway car shall cross the
tracks of a steam railroad the con
ductor shall go In advance and ascer
tain whether there are any approach
ing trains. He shall not signal the
motorman to proceed until he is as
sured that there is no danger. At
crossings where conditions are espe
cially dangerous, safety devices must
be provided which must be submitted
to and approved by the Investigator
of Accidents for the commission.
One of the regulations provides that
a light shall be displayed on the
dead end of railroad rains when it is
necessary to shift cars by night over
a public crossing, notwithstanding the
fact that the crossing constitutes part
of the yards.
President's Condition
Is Reported Improved
By Associated Prtts
Washington, D. C., Feb. 14.—Presi
dent Wilson was up and about to-day
and while his physician did not per
mit him to leave his bedroom his cold
was declared better and responding to
treatment.
Secretary Tumulty, who spent a half
hour with the President, said he was
getting along nicely, but that he
needed rest, and would not attend the
Gridiron Club dinner to-night, at
which he was to be the guest of honor.
The President wus unable to go to the
Gridiron banquet last December be
cause of a cold.
No engagements were made for the
President to-day, but Secretary Tu
multy said he would be back'.at his
deck at the executive offices Monday.
SAVES PUBLIC $3,000,000
By Associated Press
Madison, Wis., Feb. 14.—The report
| of the Wisconsin Railroad Commission
t made to-day makes the claim that the
commission saves the public more
than $3,000,000 a year In reduced
freight and public utility rates.
SHIPS EN ROUTE TO MEXICO
Washington, D. C., Feb. 14.—The
battleships Florida, Utah and Dela
ware were en route to-day from Gua
canayabo Bay, Cuba, for Vera Cruz,
to relieve the Rhode Island, Virginia,
Georgia and Nebraska, which will go
to the north coast of Cuba for winter
maneuvers. i
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irOR BACKPEDALS
AS SUNDAY SELLING
IS PfITJP TO Hi
Says He Doesn't Know His Juris
diction; Things May and
May Not Be Done
HE HASN'T LOOKED IT UP
Refuses to State Definitely
Whether He Will Take
Up Question
No effort to bring about the closing
of cigar, candy, drug and other stores
on Sunday, In accordance with the
recent suggestion of the Civic Coun
cil of Harrisburg Churches, has been
made as yet by Mayor John K. Royal.
The Mayor says he "really has had
no knowledge," official or otherwise,
of the council's action, other than
what he has seen in the newspapers.
Whether or not he will do anything:
in the matter the city chief magis
trate says he hasn't determined,
either; he says he doesn't know Just
what his powers may be, and he
doesn't care to make any definite
statement about the quesUon unless he
gets a legal opinion.
"If the problem is put up to you
officially by the Civic Council of the
Harrisburg Church, will you insist
upon the Sunday closing?" the Mayor
was asked.
"What may or may not be done I
don't know as yet. because I haven't
looked into the subject. As I've said,
I know nothing of such action other
than what I've seen In tho news
papers."
"Do you know whether there are
Any stores which keep open on Sun
day, as the Civic Council of Churches
points out?"
The Mayor Supposes
"Well, I suppose there are some,
but what jurisdiction the Mayor would
have in the matter of closing them
up I'm not so positive about. The
old Sunday 'blue laws' prohibit this,
I guess, but I think that the courts
have given some sort of a judicial de
cision whereby it is held that certain
stores—drug stores, and so on—may
be kept open as a necessity. But I
can't talk definitely about that because
I don't know. I haven't looked it up."
"Will you ask for a legal opinion as
to the extent of your powers?" the
Mayor was asked in conclusion.
"As I have said before, I haven't
looked into the question yet," he re
peated, "and I can't say definitely."
SEEK IMMEDIATE ACTION
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Feb. 14.—Ad
vocates of the Lea resolution propos
ing the creation of a Senate commit
tee of five members to co-operate with
the Interstate Commerce Commission
In Its investigation of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad and subsidiary
lines sought to-day to secure Imme
diate action on the matter.
UDIiHSI
For Hariisburg and vicinityt Fair
and colder to-night and Snnday*
lowf*i temperature to-night
about 10 degrees.
For Eastern Pennsylvania ■ Fair
and colder to-night, except inotv
In mountain dlatrictat Sunday
fair and colder; high northwest
w1 n(1» and galea thla afternoon
and to-night, dlmllnahlng Sun
day.
River
The river and all lta branches will
continue to fall. The Ice will In
crease.
General Condition*
The Southern atorm haa moved rap
idly northeastward with Increas
ing Intensity, and la now central
on the New Jersey coast. It has
caused precipitation, mostly snow,
generally east of the Mississippi
river, ekcept in the bake region,
where the weather has been gen
erally fair. The heaviest snow
fall occurred in the Susquehanna
Valley.
Temperature! S a. m., 22) 2 p. m- 81.
Sum Rises, ttiJWS a. m.; seta, BiU
p. m.
Moon) Rises, 10i41 p. in.
River Stage i 2.5 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 13.
Lowest temperature, 1.
Mean temperature, 7.
Normal temperature, 30.
Make Yours a
Public Service Store
This is the age of service. The
rewards of to-day go to the men
who give the most In return
Translated for you. Mr. Mer
chant, this means that the cus
tomers are certain to patronize
t"he store that will give them
what they want when they want
It.
Cut prices may bring some
trade but better service will
bring more.
Tills 1h the age when people
are reading the advertising In
their dally newspapers because
they are finding It a distinct part
of the service they expect their
newspapers to give.
When a nationally distributed
article of merit is advertised in
the newspapers a demand for it
sets In right away.
People want to see it and. If
satlslled. want to buy It.
They are going to turn to the
store that lets ttiem know It har
the article. That store will be
giving them the service the%
want at that particular moment.
If It is a good article they are
going to remember the store
where they got It and will come
back to that store again.
Co-operate with the manufac
turers who come Into the news
papers of your town to exploit
their goods and you will be
building business for yourself.
Co-operative work with dealers
in nationally distributed articles
is part of the function of the
Bureau of Advertising. American
Newspaper Publishers Associ
ation, World Building. New York
Correspondence with general ad
vertisers Is solicited.
Booklet on request.