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HARRISBURG ®S3lfk TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 73
KreiderHas Co-operation
of Department Heads For
Post Office Enlargement
Reported Favorably by Congressional Committee on
Grounds and Buildings; Wants to Increase Appro
priation From $125,000 to $200,000; Room Badly
Needed For Federal Offices
Sfviol to Tki Ttlttrop*
Washington. D. C.. March 27.—1t Is
Snore than probable that Congressman
JCrelder's bill making: an additional
Appropriation of $7 5,000 for the en
largement of the Federal building at
Harrlsburg will go through at the
S resent session. He has succeeded In
avlng the bill favorably reported by
the committee on public buildings and
grounds and will now endeavor to have
the House give it favorable considera
tion at the earliest moment.
With the report of the committee
recommending the additional appro
priation to the House is given the cor
respondence on the subject by the Sec
retary of the Treasury and the First
Assistant Postmaster General and also
n letter from Postmaster Frank C.
Sites, of Harrlsburg.
The original appropriation of June
HOT HEW SIR
CHEAPER RENTS IRE
NEEDED FOR POOR
Association's Annual Report Urges
Municipal Lodging House, Deser
tion Officers and Workhouse
Solutions to Harrisburg's more im»
portant charity problems were sug
gested by Miss Hazel I. Clark, gen
eral secretary of the Associated Char
ities, in her annual report to the
Charities last evening.
The report, .the election of new di
rectors, and a lecture by Dr. Riley M.
.T/lttle. secretary of the Philadelphia
Society for Organising Charity, were
features of the annual gathering held
in the Board o\ Trade auditorium.
Several hundred of those Interested in
the welfare of Harrisburg's needy
ones attended. .
The local conditions. Insofar as they
apply to the handling and care of
transients, and the many cases of de
sertion of husbands and fathers, were
particularly emphasized. Among the
remedial recommendations were the
following:
Establishment of a municipal lodg-
Jnghouse; greater co-operation among
citizens in registering and reporting
to the Associated Charities those who
apply or are assisted, so as to prevent
duplication; appointment of desertion
officers under provisions of the recent
law; establishment of a workhouse for
deserting husbands and fathers; and
the necessity of placing at the dis
posal of the more modest renter suit
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Duke Succeeds in Saving
Girl Twice in One Day
By Associated Press
San Francisco, Cal., March 27. —-■
Twice In one day Duke Kahanamoku.
<>f Honolulu, world's champion swim
mer, saved the life of Miss Addie Dun
var, according to a story told by the
young woman on her arrival here yes
terday from Hawaii.
While swimming at W'aikikl, Miss
Dunbar says she was attacked by a
huge shark. Kahanamoku swam to
her rescue and drove the shark away.
A few hours later, while surf rid
ing. Miss Dunbar's boat capsized and
she was struck on the head by the!
gunwale and rendered unconscious.!
Again the duke was the hero and I
landed her slifely on the beach.
Late News Bulletins
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY WINS
London, March 27.—Cambridge University to-day won tho annual
athletic contest against Oxford University by six events to four.
SIR LIONEL CANCELS BOOKING
London, March 27.—Sir lion el Garden, British minister of Mexico,
to-day canceled his booking on board the Mauretania on which he was
to sail from Liverpool to-morrow for New York on his return to Mexico
Closing Minutes in Wall Street
March -7.—The market closed heavy. Desultory selling
affected special Htocks all through the filial hour with sonic Increase of
pressure toward the end on Reading and Southern Pacific. I<chlgh
Valley met with some support, buut its recovery failed to check the
downward trend of the balance of tlte list.
Wall Street Closing.—Chesapeake and Ohio, 62%; Jvehigli Valley,
14894; Northern Pacific, 113%; Southern Pacihc, 94: Union Pacific,
1H8%; Odeago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, 99%; P. R. R., 11096; Read
ing, 165 Canadian Pacific. 20.V*: Amal. Copper. 75%; IV S. Steci,
35, IBIOi, was $125,000 and the re
port of the Secretary of the Treasury
on the subject is to the effect that af
ter the completion of the extension
now under contract the building will
still be in an overcrowded condition.
He says the necessity for providing for
a larger extension than that contem
plated is urgent. Should the addi
tional appropriation be allowed. It is
proposed to follow the original plans
and earn* a portion of the extension
on Locust street on each side to the
heigbth of three stories, thus form
ing wings with an ample light shaft
between. Tt is thought by the con
struction of these wings sufficient room
would be provided for post office pur
poses and other government offices for
several years to come.
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CABINET CALLED
ON TO HELP THE
REORGHZERS
Disgust at Post Office Scandal in
York-Adams District Imperils
Jersey Slate
Exposure by the Philadelphia Pub
lic Ledger of activities of men con
nected with the democratic State com
mittee and men prominent In the
affairs of the reorganization faction
of the Democracy in connection with
York county post office appointments
has caused a panic among the lead
ers of the dominant clique. A general
alarm has been sent to, Washington
and Secretaries Wilson and Daniels
have been drafted to make speeches.
Secretary Bryan may be summoned
and if the Mexican situation does not
get rampant Secretary Garrison will
be given the bugle call to invade Penn
sylvania in behalf of the Washington
ticket of the Democrats.
The conditions attending the post
office appointments in the York-Adams
district have disgusted Democrats all
over the State. Methods which the
present bosses of the machine have
decried for years are declared by the
Ledger to have been unearthed and
Wilson Bailey, the hat passer for the
Democratic State committee, has been
named as figuring in matters which a
committee concerned only for the
lights of the people should abhor.
Thus far not a chirp has come from
the State headquarters of the Dem
ocracy, although federal officials and
congressmen have been demanding in
vestigation. The whole matter is one
of the most disgraceful known In the
State in a long time and the Painter
ly Continued on Page t3]
Arson Squad Destroys
Major General's Home
By Associated Press
Belfast, Ireland, March 27.—A suf
fragist arson squad early to-day
burned Abbeylands, the splendid coun
try residence of Major General Sir
Hugh McCalmont near Whlteabbey
on Belfast Lough. The house, although
fully furnished, was not occupied ex
cept by caretakers. The loss is $75,000.
The suffragettes recently'threatened
to start war against the Ulster Union
ist leaders because of the refusal of
Sir Edward Carson to support the suf
frage movement.
HARRISBURG, PA, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1914
WON WINS FIRST
1 SKIRMISH IN FIGHT
FOR TOLLS REPEAL
House Votes 207 to 176 Refusing
to Continue Discussion on Rule
to Limit Debate
ADMINISTRATION CONFIDENT
' Party Lines Broken and Clark and
Underwood Vote Against
President
By Associated Press
Washington. D. C., March 27.
: President Wilson won the first battle
lof his fight to repeal the Panama
j tolls exemption to-day,' when the
j House, by a vote of 207 to 176. refused
|to continue discussion on the ru'le to
limit to twenty hours the debate on
the Sims bill.
I Party lines were eliminated In the
| vote, which was a round victory for
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VILLA LEADS REBELS
INTO GOMEZ PALACIO
; AFTER 4 DAYS' FIGHT
Constitutionalist General Predicts
He Will Be in Torreon
Soon
By Associated Fress
Constitutionalist Head quarters,
above Torreon, March 26 (Delayed
by Censor). —General Villa and his
rebel army, after four days of almost
incessant flghtlng( during which vic
tory seemed first with one side and
ithen with the other, occupied Gomez
Palacio to-day.
Losses on both sides have been
' heavy.
The rebels delivered three assaults
before permanent success was achiev
ed and at times the battle extended
into the streets leading to Torreon
proper.
Villa predicts that he will have the
j latter city by Saturday or Sunday.
A pitiable incident of the battle
I was the disabled wounded crying for
j water, the lack of which was as dead
| ly as bullets.
j The meager hospital corps, consist
ling of a half dozen wagons, died heroic
| work, but was unable to cope with
I the situation. It. was the first time
j in recent Mexican revolutions that the
I (lag of the Red Cross has been seen
iti a rebel army.
In Thick of Fight
Garbed in a dusty, torn suit, a
slouch hat and a red handkerchief
tied about his neck as in his bandit
days, General Villa, among the ragged,
thirsty, half-famished soldiers who.
have fought day and night for the
capture of Torreon, was a conspicu-1
oils figure. The conventional notion I
of a commanding general directing!
a campaign through field glasses and I
with a map spread before him found
no illustration in Villa. Tnstead, he:
i climbed over the rocky hills or crept j
' among the ruosquito bushes to tell the J
men at what points to lire. His prln-!
eipal activity was that of a scout, but j
his presence never failed to inspire'
I the soldiers wherever he appeared. I
The rebels fought amid scenes of \
intense suffering. Water was scarce j
and was supplied only from tanks,
hauled on freight cars at the rear.!
Kations had become unavailable after!
the first day's fighting, for the battle'
was too continuous to permit the men I
to retire for food.
With nothing behind them but a
desert and before them only the j
enemy, the rebels fought unaffected
by the scattered heaps of dead and 1
wounded.
Villa Is Confident
General Villa during pauses in the |
firing talked confidently of the fall of!
| Torreon. He did not place himself,
however, among those who believe thi 1
1 capture of Torreon would spell the
collapse of the Huerta regime, but in
timated rather that he expected Huer
ta to fight on until possibly the rebel
forces surrounded Mexico City.
"When we take Torreon, which we
will do," said General Villa, mop
ping the dust from his face as he sat
on his horse, "we will establish our
military base there for movements
eastward and southward. Chihuahua
with General Carranza there, will be
come the provisional capltol. It will
be the center of our civil government.
But the military government will be
here and It will be a moving govern
ment."
Complete Defeat of
Gen. Villa and His
Forces Is Reported
Washington, March 27.—Complete
defeat at Villa and the constitutional
ist forc«W before Torreon was re|>orted
to the Mexican embassy here to-day tu
| a dispatch from Senor PortiUoy Rotas,
minister of foreign affairs.
Minister Portillo's dispatch confirm
ing an earlier one from the Mexican
consul at Kl Paso says the constitu
tionalist forces were decisively re
pulsed and driven back several miles
from their positions of vantage.
Tlie earlier dispatch said: "Rebels
I >ave been severely defeated at Tor
reon. A column of 5,000 troops un
der General Moure have left SaltiUo In
flanking movement to reinforce the
garrison. The rebels last week also suf
fered a severe repulse at Monoelova,
losing over 1,000 men as well as at
Arteaga where the losses were over
1,00."
PfUNCK FTIANCOIS MARIK DIF.S
By Associated Press
i Montreux, Switzerland. March 27
Prince Francois Marie, of the two Sici
lies, died here to-day. •
ON STILTS, HARRISBURG MAN
WILL WALK TO
E22SSSIHH^^I
SEE WON! MING
FROM WINDOW SILL
AT GOUIITY POORHOM
Watchman Looking Up Sights
Crazed Inmate Holding to
Ledge With One Hand
An hour or so after midnight this
morning. Mrs. Ella Tracy, a tempo
rarily insane patient at the almslruuse,
slyly pried loosi- the wooden window
bars of her cell on the third floor,
crawled out on the sill and lowered
herself from the window by clinging
to the frame with her hands.
She gently swung her body to and
fro; then she released her grip on the
sill with one hand, and was about to
let go with the other,
When a startled watchman on the
lawn forty feet below, spied the figure
of the crazed woman.
The guard instantly gave the alarm
and Steward John W. Early and Miss
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Grabbed Roll of Man
Who Was Going to
Lend Him a Dollar
Kobert Klllinger, of 138 South Sec
ond street, was robbed of SBS, last even
ing, at Court and Cherry streets. Kll
linger, accompanied by another man,
were walking down Court street. As
they reached the corner the man asked
Klllinger for a loan of sl. When Kll
linger drew the roll of bills from his
pocket the stranger grabbed it and ran.
The police were notified.
Eighteen Members of
Steamer Crew Drowned
By Associated Press
London, March 27. Eighteen of the
crew of the French steamer St. Paul
were drowned to-day. The steamer
struck a rock and sunk while entering
the port of Brisbane, Australia, accord
ing to a Lloyd's dispatch. The St. Paul
was on the way from Noumea to Syd
ney.
MRS. EDDY LEFT ESTATE
VAXLED AT 92,51M>,632
Speciai to The Telegraph
Concord, N. H.. March 27.—Josiah E.
Fernald, administrator of thtf estate of
Sirs. MAry Baker Eddy, made a tinul
settlement of his account to-day in the
Probate Court. He turned over to the
trustees appointed by the court, who
were specified In Mrs. Eddy's will and
who are the directors of the Christian
Science Mother Church, the sura of 12,-
ASO.BM.IS.
Gravely Sets Fire to His
Bed Before Jail Hearing
And Now an Inquiry Will Be Made Into Gentleman's Men
tal Condition
Before Warren. Shoop reluctantly
stepped out of his cell In the Dauphin
county prison last evening to attend
his hearing in the warden's offices, lie
gravely set a lighted match to his bed
and set tire to it.
Shoop was urrested by Detective
"Jack" Welsh and County Detective
Walters, charged with stealing a horse
from Daniel Snavely, Fort Hunter.
iIHUMBEn
COUNTY BAR UNITES
TO ENDORSE KUNKEL
Clearfield, Perry, Luzerne, West
moreland and Huntingdon Co.'t
Send in Petitions
The united bar of Northumberland
county has endorsed the candidacy of
Judge George Kunkel for the State Su
preme Court bench. In a series of reso
lutions, signed by fifty-five of the most
prominent lawyers of that Judicial dis
trict. Judge Kunkel is pronounced as
pre-eminently the man for the place,
and the nonpartisan committee having
his campaign In charge is promised the
heartiest support of those whose sig
natures are attached to the paper.
At the same time there was received
at the Kunkel headquarters in this city
a petition from Northumberland county
signed by 112 prominent citizens, among
them Judges H, W. Cummings apd Fred
B. Hoser, praying for the nomination of
Judge Kunkel at the primaries in May.
Clearfield county. Perry county, West
moreland county and Huntingdon coun
ties also sent In Kunkel petitions to
day, and the campaign is going forward
splendidly, according to reports at head
quarters.
MAY ROI/I/ STEEL
Receivers of the Central Iron and
Steel Confljany to-day were given the
permission of the Dauphin County
Court In an order handed down by
Judge Kunkel to roll 9,000 tons of
steel for the Pennsylvania Steel Com-,
pany to be used In the construction
of a bridge at Memphis over the
Mississippi river. The job Involves an
expenditure for material and help
totaling $200,000.
A Ten-foot High Mercury
Will Speed Away to Pana
ma-Pacific Exposition Un
der Direction of the Tele
graph
TO LEAVE FEDERAL
SQUARE APRIL 1
Will Carry Greetings to May
ors, Governors, and Mil
lions of People Along the
Way; to Finish Trip Feb.
1,1915
Greeting from the Harrlsburg Tele
graph to the commissioners of th*
Panama exposition, to the governors
of many States, the mayors of hun
dreds of cities and towns, and to thou
sands of other live wire newspapers
will be carried across the continent
ON STILTS.
Starting from Federal Square, In
front of the Telegraph building, at
high noon April 1, F. E. Wilvert, or
IB North Thirteenth street, this city,
will start for San Francisco on his
extended legs that cover yards at a
single step.
Will he make it? Ah! that's a
question for the "Stilt King" to an
swer himself.
"You can bet your bottom dollar to
a toothpick I'll make it!" he said this
morning. 'I will sprint into San Fran
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Shoop's mental condition, it has de
veloped. will require an inquiry by a
commission. So violent had he grown
liist evening that Alderman George
Hoverter would not permit Shoop to
be brought to hia office but went to
the Jail himself to conduct the trial.
Fending the appointment of the
lunacy commission and its findings,
Shoop was held for court under SSOO
bail.
RIVERTON WJUER GO
DSKSIWCTIOII
IGIINST GIMP HILL
Attorneys For Corporation Want
to Restrain Borough From In
terfering With Work
- A
Special to The Ttltgraph
Carlisle, Pa., March 27.—Attorneys
for the Riverton Water Company in
Court here to-day aske.l for a prelimi
nary injunction to prevent the bor
ough of Camp Hill from interfering
with them in digging up the street and
[doing other work on their pipe lines in
that town, and also a«k that the in
junction be made permanent.
The trouble grew out of the efforts
of the water company to shut off the
water supply of patrons In that bor
ough who refused to pay the increased
rate asked by the corporation. At
that time seven officials and employes
were arrested on complaint of the bor
ough otficers and committed to jail.
To-day the attorneys for the com
pany also filed suits against the bor
ough in behalf of William Zellers, H.
W. Johnston and Carl Saunders for
false arrest and imprisonment, asking
damages. No statement has been
filed, merely preliminary legal steps
being taken.
DOWAGER EMPRESS ILL
Toklo, March 27.—The Dowager
Empress Haruko of Japan Is seriously
ill to-day at Numazu, a watering place
southwest of Yokohama, where she
* ©aides in th« imperial villa.
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20 PAGES, * POSTSCRIPT.
KEITH. VAUDEVILLE
BE. DIES 111
PiLM BEACH
Was 67 Years Old and Apparently
Had Been in the Best
of Health
VICTIM OF HEART FAILURE
Born in New Hampshire and Re
mained on Farm Unlil He
Was 18 Years Old
By Associated Press
Pal in Bench, Flu., March "7.—8. F,
I Keith, of Brookline, Mass., the vaude-
Iville magnate, died suddenly of heart
I failure at his hotel here at midnight
Inst night.
I Air. Keilh was 67 years of age and
I apparently had been in tli'e best of
I health. Mrs. Keith and Paul Keith,
u son, were with him here. Mr. Keith
iind his son Paul had been discussing
business matters In their apartment*
I ind the latter, stepping outside for a
moment, returned to find his father
J dead.
The body will be> taken to Boston
to-day. Mr. Keith was married to
Miss Ethel Bird Chase, in Washing
lon, D. i'. t on October 29 last. They
were spending the winter her«.
Lived on a Farm
Benjamin F. Keith was bora In
Hillsboro Bridge, N. H. t and until he
was 18 years of age was content to
live on ihe farm. At that age he saw
a. performance of Van Amburgh's cir
cus and lie became a follower of the
shows is a laborer. He ventured into'
the show business for himself several
years later and followed it until 1885
when he conceived the Idea of contin
uous performance theaters, or vaude
ville.
The success of vaudeville was al
most spontaneous and Mr. Keith was
launched upon a career that placed
him in the front ranks of theatrical
managers and owners. In 1906 he
combined forces with F. F. Proctor,
his greatest competitor, and for a
time the firm owned a large number
of vaudeville theaters, known as the
Keith & Proctor circuit. Later the
(Irm dissolved and Mr. Keith organ
ized a new string of theaters, now
well known as the Keith circuit.
ELEVEN WORKMEN DROWNED
By Associated Press
Bruusbuettel, Germany, March 27.
—Eleven workmen were drowned to
day when a suspended cable car fell
into a lock of the Kiel canal while
they were crossing from one side to
the other.
AMERICANS GAIN FAVOR
By Associated Prtss
Washington, D. C., March 27.
American made automobiles are gain
ing in favor abroad while foreign
made cars aro losing their popularity
in this country, according to a De
partment of Commerce statement to
day on the exports and Imports of au
tomobiles In January.
I THE WEATHER
[ For Harrlaburg and vicinity! Rain
! to-night anil Saturday; cooler
| Saturday.
For F.aatrrn Pennsylvania I Rain to
il Ik fit and Saturday; cooler Satur
day ( light to moderate variable
winds.
River
The main river and the lower por
tlon* of the North and West
branches will continue to rise to
night and Saturday. The upper
portions of the branchea will
probably begin to fall to-night,
unleaa the rain Indicated for th«
Suaquehanaa Valley ahould be
heavy.
Flood warning* have been iaaned
for the North Branch. Maximum
atagca, approximately aa followa.
were Indicated by this mornlng'a
| reportai Towanda, 18 feet;
Wllkea-Bnrre, 2S| Wllllamsport,
12.5) Sellnsgrove about 11. A.
' ntagr of ahoirt 18 feet Is indicated
for Harrlsburg Saturday, but thin
stage may be exceeded if heavy
rains occur,
General Conditions
1/nNettled weather prevails over
the greater part of the country
thla morning. Rain haa Mien
generally In the Mississippi and
Ohio valley* and the Lake re
gion. and locally In the Susque
hanna \ alley; alao la Oregon and
Washington.
Temperature; 8 a. m., 54; 1 p. m., 71,
Sum Itlses, 3i5N a. m.; sets, fli-4
p. m.
Moon ■ X«n moon, first quarter.
April Mr-It a. m.
Itiver Stage; 8.0 feet bove low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Illgheat temperature, 70.
liimeat temperature, 47.
Menu temperature, 58.
Normal temperature, 42.
MARRIAGES I.ICENSKS
Joseph 11. Hartman, Lykens town
ship, and Elmu E. Wllker, Grats.
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