Fears Entertained For Safety of Lancaster Girl in Earthquake Zone of Japan
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 63
PENROSE NEEDED
IN 0. S. SENATE I
BY PENNSYLVANIA
100 Prominent Manufacturers Is- j
sue Statement Setting Forth
the Reasons Why
CALL FOR HIS RENOMINATION
Strong Declaration Signed by Some
of the Most Prominent Men in
Eastern Section
On hundred of the representative j
men of Eastern Pennsylvania, inelud- j
ing some of the largest manufacturers
in Philadelphia, have come out in a
statement over their signatures in favor
of the renominati.on and re-election
of Senator Boies Penrose. The state
ment is issued by the Pennsylvania
Progressive Union and sets before the
people of the State the qualifications ot
the Senator, his services to Pennsylva
nia and the reasons why he should be
returned.
The statement is as follows:
"In accordant* with the spirit of
the new State-wide primary law pro
viding for the direct nomination of
United States Senators we, the under
signed individuals and lirms, desire to
go on record before the people as to
our prelerence for the nomination and
election of the Honorable Boies Pen
riso to nueceed hiuiselt' and our rea
sons .for that preference.
"We regard this as one of the criti
ral periods in American history, per
haps not less so than the epoch which
was marked by the birth of the Re
publican party, the death of slavery
and the emancipation of American in
dustry from the baneful influence of
world compeUtion, with its tendency
to degenerate the wage standards of
all peoples to the level of the wage
standards ot the lowest of the peoples.
"The great constructive policy of
protection is hanging in the balance.
The entering wedge of free trade has
already been driven into our economic
system by the so-called Underwood
tariff law which has compelled all in
dustries, with the exception of a fa
vored few in the Democratic South,
to face competition from the cheap
labor markets of Europe and Asia pre-!
vlously held at bay by the bulwark of i
protection.
"If we believed that American busi
ness could soon or ultimately adjust
itself to foreign prices and practices
without losing every advantage it now
possesses, produce and sell-Interest
would dictate that we should bear
with minor evils in the hope of pre
serving stability of government. Hut
we are convinced that no such adjust
ment is possible. We feel that the
Democratic party has been false and
unfair in its treatment of the wage
earner. It has endeavored to make
him think that the amount of an em
ployer's proilts has no legitimate bear
ing upon his possible outlay for labor.
It has assumed to prove that capital
will be as active with a prospect of
poor dividends or no dividend as it has
been with a prospect of adequate re
ward for industrial enterprise and
business risk.
"A proposition to bring down prices
and wages together might be defended
upon the ground that the world stand
ards of value in commodities and labor
;*re the natural standards; but a pro
position to bring down prices without
affecting wages is a preposterous
fraud.
"Although the Underwood tariff law
has been gradually going Into effect
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Flood Is Feared by People
Along Lower Susquehanna
Special to The Telegraph
Marietta, Pa., Mat%h 16. Sudden
changes in the temperature has caused
considerable anxiety to the residents
along the Susquehanna river for fear
of a flood. In the memory of the
oldest inhabitant never was there such
a bed of ice as is now held Intact on
the river. In some of the lowlands
people have taken up carpots and
watch is being kept closely. Fifteen
to twenty inches of ice is on the river.
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Late News.Bulletins
BOYD WILL PROBATED
The will of the late .lohn Y. Boyd was tiled for probate this after
noon. No beueiiciaries will be announced until a statement is made by
the family.
INVESTIGATE POSTMASTER'S DEATH
Washington, March 16.—Secretary Bryan to-day ordered an ofli
eial investigation of the death of I Yank V. Johnson, postmaster at Te
carte. Cal., who was killed and burned by Mexicans Saturday . niuht
while defending his property. '
DREADNAUGHT'S KEEL LAID
New York, March I«.—The keel of the battleship No. 39, which will
be the most powerful lighting machine of the superdreadnaught class
in the United States navy was laid in the Brooklyn Navy yard to-day
after a brief and simple ceremony.
NOT MUCH FIGHTING AT TORREON
Kl Paso, Texas, March 16.—There has l>een no important fighting
at Torreon. A Chihuahua despatch rrom the Associated I*ress corre
spondent last night reported the situation quiet except for the orderly
movement of rebel troops In the direction of the selected battlefield
and a high rebel official talked directly with (General Villa from Juarez
at the riHjuest of newspaper men and Villa denied there was any basis
for a battle story.
"MOTHER" JONES DEPORTED
Trinidad. Colo., March 16.—"Mother" Jones, noted woman strike
leader, who has been a military prisoner in San ltafael hospital here
since January 12, was put aboard a train qulcth' last night and sent
out of the coal strike district. Her departure became known to-day.
PLACES FOR EXPRESSMEN
New York, March 16.—Assurance was give last night to employes
of the I'nited Slates Express Company at a nu-etlng In Jersey City
that If the company goes out of business provision for them will lie
made by other express companies.
SUFFRAGETTES BURN COACHES .
Birmingham, Eng., March 16.—Nine coaches belonging to the Mid
land Railway were burned by a suffragette arson squad early to-day at
King's Morton, six miles from here Suffrage literature was found lit
tered about the vicinity.
Wall Street Closing.—Amal. Copper. 73%: Baltimore & Ohio, HH% •
Brooklyn R, T.. #l%: Canadian Pacific, 205*6; C., M. & St. P.,
Chesapeake & Ohio, 52%: Lehigh Valley, lifl: New York Central, 90U-
Northern I>a< Ifie. 111%: Beading. 163%: I*. H. It., 110%: Southern Pa
! cilic. M !<s : t". S. Steel, 63%.
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BE VICTIM OF BIG
JH pQIIIKE
Miss Elizabeth G. Newbold Station
ed at Akita Where Many
Were Killed
VOLCANO IS IN ERUPTION
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MISS NEWBOLD
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Miss Newbold Was
Stationed at Akita
Apprehensions are entertained for
the .safety of Miss Elizabeth G. New
bold, of Lancaster, who is a mission
ary of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Japan, and is at present
at Akita. which seems to have been
the center of the Japanese earth
quake. Misq Newbold is a sister of
Willis Geist Newbold, of this city:
her parents reside in Lancaster. The
Board of Missions in New York City
has received no word at all of any
of its workers in the affected dis
trict, and it is believed that Bishop
Mcliim. of Tokyo, has not been able
to gather sufficient intelligence to
warrant cabling 1 to America.
.Tokyo, -March 16.—A serious earth
quake occurred yesterday in the pre
leeture of Akita, island of Hondo. A
number of persona in the city of Ai-ita
were killed and many houses destroyed
or damaged. In the village of Kowa
kubi, which was ruined, there also
were many casualties.
The volcano Asuma-Yama, ninety
miles northwest of Tokyo, Is in erup
tion .and the disturbance has badly
damaged the railroad and telegraph
ilnes. Asuma-Yama is the largest ac
tive volcano in Japan. A majority of
its active periods have been produc
tive of showers of ashes only. Its last
great eruption was in 1783, when sev
eral villages on the north side of the
mountain were obliterated by huge
streams of lava. The crater is about
three-quarters of a mile in circumfer
ence. _
Akita Is a garrison town on the Sea
of Japan. It does a considerable ex
port trade, especially in rice. The pop
ulation of the city Is about 30,000.
WAVE MAY HAVE KILLED 1,500
Special to The Telegraph
St. Petersburg, March 16.—The hur
ricane which swept the province of
Kuban, southern Russia, Saturday,
was so -violent that all the telegraph
lines were badly damaged, making
communication almost impossible.
Meager dispatches received to-day re
ported that 1,500 lives had been lost
as the result of the tidal wave from
the Sea of Azov, but no reliable de
tails of the disaster came through.
JOB WILLIAMS HEAD
By Associated Press
Hartford, Conn., March 16. —Job
Williams, who for 34 years had been
head of the American School for the
Deaf, died to-day, aged 71. He was a
graduate of Yale.
HARRISBURG, PA, MONDAY EVENING, M ARCH 16, 1914.
IJIIDGE KUIEL TO
BE EHD BY
; HIS NEIGHBOR
I
{Meeting of Friends Called For
Courthouse This Evening
at 8 O'clock
HON. B. F. MEYERS TO PRESIDE
Will Be Nonpartisan; Petitionsi
From Outside Counties
Arrive
Arrangements were completed to- j
day for a meeting at the Courthouse ,
to-night at 8 o'clock of the friends
jand neighbors of President Judge
I George Kunkel, not members of the
1 legal fraternity. Already the Dauphin;
I county bar has brought forward the .
president judge of this judicial districtl
j as a candidate for the Supreme Court
1 and his friends without regard to party
will to-night further* endorse his oan-
I didacy and take such action as may |
i be proper to aid in the preliminary
canvass. It is to be a nonpartisan
gathering and many citizens have !
already Indicated their purpose to be
present.
B. F. Meyers, the veteran journalist,
a personal friend and admirer of
Judge Kunkel, will preside.
Endorsement of Judge Kunkel
A petition has been received from
Pottsvllle, Schuylkill county, signed by
fifteen lawyers and over a hundred
representative citizens, including pro
fessional men, merchants and those in
all walks of life. The list includes the
names of Fred J. Weist, county treas
i urer; J. E. Kantner, county controller;
• John W. Reese, prothonotary of the
! county, and his deputies. The list was
circulated by Dr. C. B. Crawford, for
merly of Dauphin county.
A petition has been received from
Westmoreland county which contains
the names of two dozen members of
the bar. W. D. Reemer. George Brock
bill and M. G. Muse, who are ail three
|of the county commissioners; Ben
1 Styles, the sheriff; Charles P. Copelin,
the deputy sheriff; James B. Galla
gher, the clerk of courts. The list also
in< ludes the names of J. H. Cunning
ham, the burgess of Jeannette; J. H.
i Treacher, publisher, of Jeannette. and
j Darwin Musik. editor, of Greensbiirg.
i A petition has been received signed
i by. among others, sixteen members of
the bar of the city of Lancaster.
\dnin~ County Petition
The following resolution has l>een
i circ 'tTHTVTf and signed by the majority
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MORTALITY HEftVY "i
l! AMONG MINISTERS !
ij OF M. E. CHURCH!
I !
Ten Members of Central Penna.!
Conference Died During
Year
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jIBM
DR. S. PARKES CADMAN
Brooklyn Preacher Who Will Be Big
| Conference Speaker
Reports of the year's work among
the Methodist Episcopal churches of
I the Central Pennsylvania conference,
i which will be made during the sessions
I to be held this week in Grace Church,
will show unusuai activity in almost
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IiOSTON CELIOUKATIIX ii
By .Associated Press
Boston, March 16. —Boston to-day
| began its annual celebration of the
'evacuation of the city by the armi d
forces of King George 111, March 17
1776. The celebration will be con-
I eluded to-morrow.
DIES LV AtTOMOBILE - .
By Associated Press
j Boston, March 16.—Associate Jus
; tlce Louis M. Clark of the' Lang Court,
a former Harvard athlete, dropped
dead of heart failure at the wheel of
his automobile on Beacon street last
(night. He was 56 years old.
SPRING WEATHER DRAWS HUNDREDS TO PARKS )
WILD BUCKS FLY BY
IBIS AS ICE
LEAVES SUSQUEHANNA
City Basking in Wannest Weather
Since November; Balmy
Days to Continue
i Hundreds of promenaders along
j Harrisburg's "front steps" yesterday
and to-day basking in the sunshine of
the first day_ of real Spring saw thou
sands of northbound wild ducks and
geese flying toward their summer
home.
The temperature yesterday after
noon was th"e highest since November
28. 1913. It rose to 60 degrees at 4
o'clock. This morning the river ice
broke in a quiet fashion due to the
rapid melting of the ice in the torrid
heat- of yesterday. The Susquehanna
was closed from February 25 to March
16. nineteen days, breaking all but one
late "closed" record, —that of 1872
when the Ice held until March 23.
It will be almost Spring-like all
week, promises the weatherman. To
night and to-morrow will be warm
until late in the afternoon when the
temperature may fall, due to a storm
over the lakes. Late in the week a
warm rain will probably come up
from the southwest.
Xo Flood Likely
It will take a very heavy rain and
high temperature to cause any flood
now, in the opinion of E. I{. Demain,
forecaster. The warm weather of the
last week has gradually melted the
snow and much of the snow on the
mountains has been turned into ice
which will require high temperature,
to send down. Mr. Demain thinks
that only a moderate rise in the river
will result from the Spring break-up
.unless unusual conditions prevail iu
the next week.
Gentle Spring weather drew out the
pedestrians yesterday. The newly
paved section of Front street from
Kelker to Division was made use of
by hundreds afoot, in automobiles,
motorcycles and horse-drawn vehicles!
J It was the first chance Harrisburgers
: have had to use the new section of
I the River Front park.
I Much Sentiment For
Judge Kunkel in the
Northern Tier Counties
James Lentz, vice-chairman of the
Dauphin county Kepublican commit
tee, was in Harrlsburg to-day after a
trip through the northern part of the
State.
"I discovered much sentiment
throughout that district for Judge
Kunkel," said Mr. Lentz. "It was for
the most part entirely spontaneous.
Judge Kunkel's decisions in the Capi
tol crises and the fact that he was
upheld in every one of them by the
Supreme .Court have made a "deep im
pression on the people of that, part of
the State. They See in him not only a
Judge of extraordinary ability, but of
un lUestloned integrity as well, and 1
believe he will have a large majority
in the upper tier counties."
10 RESUME WORK
ON IMPROVEMENTS
SOON AS POSSIBLE
Will Start Operations on "Front
Steps" on or About
April 1
I Work will be resumed, it is ex
pected on all Harrisburg's public im
provements but the river dam, by |
April 1, weather conditions permit-1
ting.
The principal jobs which will first ,
occupy the attention of engineers of
the Board of Public Works will be the
river wall—the "front steps of Harris
burg"—and the Paxton creek im
provement.
The resumption of the wall con
struction was discussed this afternoon
at a meeting of the Board of Public
Works. The first step to be taken by
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600 Employes of Seigel
Store Get Positions in
New Store Opened Todayj
by A ssociated Press
New York, March 16.—More than
600 of the aOO employes of the Four
teenth street store, which was closed
on Saturday night with the Simpson
Crawford Company store, by order of
Judge Hough, of the Federal Court,
are to be employed by Leo A. Price in
the store which he opened to-day un
der tho old firm name of Rothenberg
& Co.
The store of Rothenberg & Co. for
merly was owned by Mr. Price, who
later became manager of the Siegel
and Vogel stores. It adjoins the Four-
Iteenth Street store. ,
Investigation of the enterprises of
Henry Siegel and Frank E. Vogel was
continued by the district attorney's of
fice. and other indictments are expect
ed to be returned before the end of
the week
Keel of World's Biggest
Superdreadnought Laid
By Asiociated I'rest
New York, March 16.—The laying
of the keel of Battleship No. 3U, which
•may eventually be named either the
North Carolina or the Arizona, at the
navy yard in Brooklyn to-day, murks
the beginning of the greatest fighting
machine in the United States Navy,
and the peer of any ever built or
projected by any power.
With a displacement of 31,500 tons,
she will be slightly larger than her
I older sister, the Pennsylvania, and will
tie- the tenth vessel of -the super
dreadnought class to be added to the
fleet. Like the Pennsylvania, she will
carry three 14-lnch rifles in each tur
ret, mounting twelve of these guns
altogether, and will be the second ves
sel to be so equipped.
HI OF 51,01 IS
OFFERED FOR RETURN
OF KIDIPED BO)
Philadelphia City Treasurer Aids
Father of McCarrick Lad When
Clues Prove Futile
Special tf The Telegraph
Philadelphia, Pa., March 16.—A re
ward of SI,OOO for the return to his
home of Wurren McCarrlck, 8-year-old
son of James McCarrick, of 619 South
Nineteenth street, was offered yester
day by City Treasurer William Mc-
Coaeh, after half a dozen elues had
been found unavailing by detectlvf*.
If the boy is not found before Coun
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PEiSY WOULD BUY
BLOCK FROM CHERRY
: TO MULBERRY 5T5,
Wants to Avoid Consequential
Damages of Subway in South
Harrisburg
To avoid prolonged controversies
and suits In court over consequential
damages arising from the construc
tion of its subway at Second and Mul
berry streets, the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company is now negotiating for
sixteen properties between Cherry and
Mulberry streets.
Three properties owned by William
P. Denehey, a retired jeweler, were
purchased by a representative of the
Pennsylvania Railroad real estate de
partment two weeks ago. This pur
chase included one private residence
and two business pplaces. In this block
are a number of small stores and at
least twenty rooming houses.
The majority of the business places
have been long established. In the
opinion of the officials of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad consequential dam
ages might run beyond figures antici
pated. No options have been secured
on the properties desired, but local
officials of the company are of the
opinion that there will be little trouble
in getting possession after the business
places have been disposed of. One of
the largest stores in this block is that
of the Holmes Seed Company, located
at the corner of Second and Cherry
streets.
Rockville Extension
Will Be Ready For Use
Thursday of This Week
The Harrisburg Railways Company
expects to have its new Rockville ex
tension complete and in operation by
Thursday of this week. To-day a
handsome little waiting room was
placed on a truck and transported to
the new terminus of the line and will
be in readiness when the road is ready
for use.
When the work of construction was
j started last Fall along the towpath of
1 the old canal, it was found that the
j tracks would pass directly over a line
I of water pipe owned by the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company. It was nec
essary tc lower this and before the
roadbed could be completed the
ground froze. It was not until this
week that it could be resumed.
Schmidt's Counsel to
Appeal Death Sentence
New York, March 10.—Notice of ap
peal from the sentence of death im
posed upon Hans Schmidt, the former
priest, for the murder of Anna Au
muller, will be filed this week by Al
phone G. Kbelble.oC Schmidt's counsel.
The appeal will act as a stay of sen
tence. Schmidt was sentenced to die
in the week beginning next Monday.
Several months are likely to elapse be
fore arguments in the case are heard
by the Court of Appeals.
Schmidt Is in the deathhouse at Sinir
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14 PAGES
ASSAILS THE "OPEN
SIDEBOARD" IN HIS
QUARTERLY REPORT
Chief of Police Declares Sundays
Would Be Quiet If Clubs
Closed Bars
NAMES DISORDERLY HOUSES
Prosecutions Are Promised in All
Alleged Gambling House
Cases
i
Clubs which maintain the "open
sideboard"' on Sunday are severely
criticised by Colonel Joseph B. Hutchi
son, chief of police, in his quarterly re
port to the Dauphin county court at
the opening of March quarter sessions
to-day.
The court's attention is also called
to the fact that the police depart
ment Is investigating alleged gambling
houses with a view to prosecution.
The names of alleged proprietresses
of disorderly houses, their location and
the names of owners so far as la
known are also embodied in the re
port. Following Is a list of the houses
In question, the names of the propriet
resses and the owners:
Mary Wallower, Capital street,
Mary Wallower.
Kmina Funston, Mulberry,
Knmia Funston.
Knuna liUpfer, Verbeke, Bishop
estate.
Annie Keener, South Fourth
street, Annie Keener.
Bess Hefner, Grace street,
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Kmnin Welkcrt, Susquehanna,
I !nuiia Weikert.
Joseph Bar tel. North alley.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS APRIL 1
Washington. D. C„ Mnrch 16.
| There is said to be no prospect of an
, nouncement of reserve cities under the
! new banking act before April 1 at
| earliest. The same statement appllea
j to thfl personnel of the Federal Re
| serve Board.
I HHBWWB
For Harrlxhurie nnd vicinityt Fair,
| continued warm fo-iiiiUit, wltli
lonnt temperature aliowt >lO tic—
Krrmi Tuesday fnlr nnd cooler.
I For Kanlrrii l'ennwylvniil" ■ I'"Hlr to
nlicht nnd Tuesdayi cooler Tiies
ilnyi moderate to brisk south (u
west wlßils,
lllver
The Hlkl> temperature Sunday
cmmed the lee In the river to
I soften nnd melt rapidly. Many
open places hnve appeared and
are rapidly Increasing In ali«.
Much snow has melted and the
.lunlata. Went Branch, main
rtver and the lower portion of the
North llrnnch nre rising; and mill
continue tu rise to-nlnlit and
Tuesday. Some local movements
of lee have occurred and the lon
at Clearfield and probably other
place* In the West Branch and la
the .lunlatn nnd main river and
possibly In places In the North
Branch Is likely to break np and
move on comparatively low
stages of water within the next
twenty-four to thirty-six hoar*.
I No ilmnaice l« anticipated, as the
snow will melt fast enough to
cause a rapid runoff and no rata
of Importance Is likely to occur
in the Susquehanna basin.
General Conditions
Fair weather has prevailed
throughout nearly all the conn
try slace lawt report. Tempera
tures are now above normal over
practically all the territory rep
resented on the map.
Teinpernturei 8 a. m* 88i 2 p. m.. ox
Sunt fuses, dilT a. m.| sets, HiOT
p. m.
Mooni Illses, IOiM p. m.
River Ktuftei 4.5 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, UO.
liOwest temperature, W.
Mean temperature, 48.
Normal temperature, 37.
MAKKIAGIS LICENSES
John Ruth and Catherine Bret*, city.-
Enroll or Register
Assessors will sit at polling:
! places in boroughs and townships
to enroll voters on March 17 and
j 18.
Registrars will sit at polling
1 places In third class cities April 29.
To vote a party ticket at a pri
mary a man must be enrolled.
Furbelows and
Flounces
Fashion decrees the returning to
favor of the separate skirt and
the making of the skirt a thing
of furbelows, frills, and flounces.
The stores those "fashion ln-
I dlcators" —are already showing
.the new style notes and telling
about them in their advertise
ments. ,
It used to be that the news col
umns of the newspapers made
the fashion announcements first;
but nowadays the stores are so
alert and so anxious to be first
in these announcements s that.
j much of the latest fashion news
is In the advertising columns.
Any person who wishes to keep
up-to-the-minute on the new
fashions must be a reader of the
advertising In live newspapers
like the Telegraph
I The advertising columns are
the mirrors that reflect the at"
tractions of the merchants and
manufacturers. These men live
by service.
They must make their adver
tising timely and Interesting just
as they make their merchandise
desirable and fair In price.
The news of the frills and fur
belows Is only one side of adver
tising.
Read the advertising and keep
informed.