Apartment House Fire in Boston Results Fatally For Several Occupants HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— No. 88 PLAY BALL! IS CRY HEARD TODAY OVER ALL UNITED STATES Athletics at New York; Phillies Meet Giants on Their Own Lot WEATHER GENERALLY GOOD Fans Believe Federal Invasion Will Make Big Changes in Game This Year By "UMP" Play ball! Throughout, this glad land to-day the fervent fan emerged from his win try lair fo hear wha.t Byron might have called " —That all-softening, overpower ing knell. The tocsin of the soul—the um pire's yell." The great American game lToyle notwithstanding, poker isn't meant here—got an auspicious start this aft ernoon on its journey around the i 014 season. Three big leagues ivalked out into the limelight Na .ional, American, and, oh yes, Federal. The recent change in the leadership >f the National League has brought ncreased interest in the game, and with tho elimination of the disturbing elements, following the election of Governor John K. Tener as presi [Contimiod on Page 16 J Titanic Disaster Occurred Two Years Ago Tonight New York, April 14.—T0-day is tho second anniversary of the Titanic dis inter—the greatest ocean tragedy that he world has ever known. The dis ister came to the vessel at 11.45 p. m. Sunday, April 14, as she wag steaming westward on her maiden trip to this iort. The generally accepted version is hat the Titanic struck on the sharp idge of an Iceberg and that the spur 'ipped open her side, the inrush of vater putting out her fires, rendering ler pumps useless and sending the iner to the bottom, drowning 1,517 of ler passengers and crew. It was that lorror that brought about the recent nternatlonal conference on safety at ea and the enactment of more strin [ent laws tending to greater safety, these are rules requiring a arger number of life boats and an ither which provides that two wire ess operators must be carried and hat one must be on duty at every lour of the day and night. 15,000 Miners Vote on Tentative Wage Scale By Associated Press Pittsburgh, Pa., April 14. —Forty-five housand miners in the Pittsburgh dls rict are idle to-day voting on the iroposltion to approve or disapprove he tentative wage agreement entered nto between the district officers and he coal operators. If approved the 'age agreement in force for the past wo years will continue for the same eriod. No time was set to-day when he vote would be counted and the esult known, but it was stated that ttle work would be done In any of he mines the remainder of this week. A persistent campaign has been .aged against acceptance of the greement, the convention of "insur ents' last night at Monongahela vot lg to pay no longer the per capita ix Imposed by the international and Istrict organizations of tho United line Workers. RAILROAD TRAINS CROWDED, By Associated Press Rome, April 14.—A1l railroad trains n lines out of Rome were crowded 3-day owing to fears that traffic light be suspended to-hiorrow by the ireatened strike of 115.000 employes, .mong those who departed for the '°rth were five hundred American isltors. Late News Bulletins DENY BAUM CONFESSES Annonneenumt that 'William R. liaiun, the II arris burg Railway man clerk, charged with stealing 820.000 from the mails, had made a confession at Scranton yesterday printed in a dispatch this morning, was denied by counsel Tor llauni. The .statement was made that Bauiii hau uot been out of llarrisburs:. KUEHNLE WILL BE RELEASED A »' r j l c released from State prison on June I. the State Court of Pardons to-day having commuted his sentence of one year, Knehnle was convicted of participating while a public official in the let ting of a contract to a company In which he was Interested BECKER'S COUNSEL RESIGNS !New "\orlc, April 14.—While District Attorney Whitman was issu- L ng » t?-<»a> declaring that he believed the confession made Da f,° Frank Ciroficl before he went to the chair, would aid rather than hinder the prosecution in the case of ex-Lieutenant Charles Becker, the latter'* attorney, Joseph A. Sliay, formally ™, signed as trial counsel. * Philadelphia April 14.—One workman was probably fatallv injured five others were badly burned an f ? twelve hundred women employed In the manufacture of cartridges were thrown into a panic to-dav by the bursting of a shell in the shrapnel department of the United State* arsenal here. The women tied from their work when the cxnloslon broke windows and shook the buildings. Friction In the machinery is believed to have been the cause of the explosion. Washington, April 14.—0nl- bv extraordinary steps can the Thaw case be considered by the Supreme Court before next October as the court plans to susnend hearing all cases on Friday, April 21 and hear no more argument until October, unless some extraordinary occasion should demand It. That would probably meant that Thaw must remain In custody until at least October. main Chicago, April 14.—Jack Johnson, negro heavyweight champion pugilist to-day was granted a new trial on the Mann charges under » which the was sentenced to a year in the penitentiary and SI,OOO The United States Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the lower court on certain of the counts in Johnson's indictment. N ?. W 4?.^ >r l £ ' J Aprll i 4 ' — Tho "Wket closed heavy. Supporting orders were distributed on the announcement that the Atlantic lleet had been ordered to Tan.pleo and prices rallied % to 16 potato. how ever, were not fully held. ' Hall Street Closing.—Chesapeake and Ohio, 52 % ; Valley 143V4; Northern Pacific, 10#% ; Southern Paeltle, 91% ; Union Pacific 156; Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, 08%; P. R. R 110 W • Reading* 163%; Canadian Pacific, 190%; Amal. Copper, 73%; U. S. Steel, 58% SEVEN PUS LOSE LIVES 111 MENE HOUSEFIREINBOSTON Sixteen Others Were Seriously In jured and Seventy-five Made Homeless TWO WOMEN JUMP TO DEATH Rope Made of Bed Clothing As sists Several Occupants to Safety By Associated Press Boston, April 14.—Seven persons were killed, sixteen seriously injured, twenty-one families, totalling seventy five individuals were endangered in an early morning fire that wrecked the Melvin, a five-story brick apart ment house at the corner of Common wealth and Long avenues ill the All- Ston district. Nearly all of the suites wero small kitchenette apartments in which the occupants were trapped us the flames raced through each story. Men, women and children were standing on window ledges shrieking for help when the firemen arrived. Some reached the ground by crawling along narrow copings to fire escapes. Others managed to reach small balconies on the front of the house from which they were taken down ori fire lad ders. It was not until hours after the blaze had been extinguished that tho casualty list could be made up. The dead: Mrs. C. L. Shackford. Mrs. H. E. Bemis. Mrs. F. C. Beharrell sister of Mrs. Bemis. James Raymond Power, Mrs. Power and their infant son. Miss Mary Connors, Mrs. Power's maid. Mrs. Shackford and Mrs. Bemis met death by jumping, one from the fourth floor and the other from the fifth. The bodies of the other victims wero found on the fifth floor, two hours after the discovery of the fire. All had been suffocated. Origin In Basement. The fire started in the basement, near a waste pa-°r chute and the flames shot rapidly up through this chute and elevator wall. The whole building was ablaze when the firemen arrived. Miss May Boyd, living next door, was the first to see the fire,. While another neighbor rang in an alarm Miss Boyd rushed into the burning building and rang tho bells In all the suites. The occupants were quickly roused. Many were able to escape by the stairways. Others used the fire escapes in tl.e rear until flames made this impossible. The firemen carried a number of men and women down ladders. Several per sons jumped- from upper floors into the life nets. Trapped on the fourth floor, Mr. and Mrs. Clement R. Rogers and Mrs. Robert Adams hastily fashioned a rope from bedclothing and let them selves down to the ground. No one had time to dress and there was considerable suffering from ex posure in the chill air of the early morning. The survivors found shelter in nearby apartment houses. The State police later in the day began an investigation in an effort to determine the cause of the Aire. DIES FROM BURNS Mrs. Carrie Yentzer, of 1507 Derry street, who was badly burned yester day morning while making fire in the stove at- her home, died last evening at tho Harrisburg Hospital shortly be fore 7 o'clock. The funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of George Yentzer, 411 South Seventeenth street. The Rev. Ellis N. Kremer, pastor of I he Reformed Salem Church, of which Mrs. Yentzer was a member, will offi ciate. Burial will be made In. the Harrisburg Cemetery. WAGON CRUSHES BABY'S FOOT Elizabeth Black, four, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Black was sit ting on the curb in front of her home in Peffer street yesterday afternoon. A large wagon passed by, the wheels went over her left ankle and foot. The ankle was broken, the foo' crushed. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1914. GUlll'S STQRV IS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE 111 TRIAL OF DECKER i District Attorney Holds "Dago 1. Frank's" Confession to Be Hearsay Evidence I WILL REOPEN CASE MAY 4TH Whitman Says Story Cannot Be Used Against Vallon or For Becker By Associated Press i New York, April 14.—The confes sion of "Dago Frank" Cirofici, made a few hours before he was executed for the part he played In the murder of Herman Rosenthal, will not be permitted to interfere in the plans of District Attorney Charles S. Whitman for the second trial of former police | lieutenant Charles Becker. Air. Whit | man holds the confession to be hear ' say evidence and therefore lnadmts i siule either in the defense of Becker, who is charged with having instigated the murder of Rosenthal, or iti the prosecution of Harry Vallon. Vallon, according to the official ver | sion, of Cirofici's confession to War -1 den Clancy of Sing Sing prison fired | one of the shots that, killed Rosen- I thai. It was Vallon's testimony to gether with that given by "Bridgie" Webber and Jack Rose that led to the conviction of the four gunmen. The trial of. Becker will begin on 1 May 4 if Justice Seabury to-morrow ; grants the motion of Mr. Whitman. The District Attorney when he makes the motion will also ask for a special venire of talesmen from which to se lect a jury. Dying Declaration John F. M'clntyre, who was lead ing counsel for Becker at his first trial is of the same opinion as District At [Continued on Page 9] U. 8. DISTRICT COURT' GRITS THAW WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS No Order Was Issued, However, For Discharge of Prisoner at Present Time fly Associated Press Concord, N. H., April 14.— Harry! Kendall Thaw's petition for a writ of habeas corpus was granted by Judge I Edgar Aldrich, of the United States] District Court, to-day. The court said, however, that no; order would be issued for the prison- j er's discharge from custody until ar- J rangements had been completed to j take the case to the United States Su preme Court on appeal. Thaw's petition for admission to bail, the court left undetermined, tak ing the ground that it would be more appropriate for this to be passed upon by the Supreme Court. The result of the decision is that Thaw's guardianship and condition will be unchanged for the present; but that his petition fora whit of habeas corpus will go to the highest court in the land with a decision of the lower court in his favor. The decision filed with the clerk of the court here makes more than 10,- 000 words and discusses exhaustively the various phases of the case. Placed Under Arrest When the slayer of Stanford White entered this State last September after his deportation from. Canada, he was arrested by the State authorities. To prevent his extradition to New York his attorneys petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, this proceeding auto matically placing the case in Federal jurisdiction and acting as a stay to the extradition which was granted by Governor Felker. Luter the fugitive applied for admls- j sion to bail on .he ground that con spiracy to escape from the insane asy lum at Matteawan, the alleged oltense on which extradition proceedings were based, was bailable. Counsel for New York State opposed the motion for ball, alleging that Thaw's mental con dition was such as to make his free dom a menace to the public. New York's right of custody, If the right exists, Judge Aldrich rules, "was based solely upon the idea of Insanity; and from the very nature of the case, In describing the supposed extradition crime, the demanding State itself, upon the face of the papers, necessar ily throws the question of criminal re sponsibility Into the Held of uncertain ty, and thus it once presents a ques tion new to extradition law." To Break Ground For New Wesley A. M. E. Church Next Monday Work on the building of a new Wes ley Union African Methodist Episco pal Church at Forster and Ash street, will be started next Monday. The new edifice will be built on a lot of ground 45 feet wide by 167 feet deep, purchased by the church two years ago. Ground will be broken Monday atternoon, April 20. An ex tensive program has been prepared. The first shovel of earth will be taken by the pastor, the Rev. J. Francis Lee. The new church will be a two-story brick building, 45 feet wide and 107 feet deep. It will be built of red brick with stone trimmings. When completed It will cost about $19,000. More than two hundred members of the church will meet at the old church Monday afternoon and will proceed to the new site in a body. The procession will be headed by the Per severance band. The trustees and the oldest members of the church will fol low. HERE ARE MEN LIKELY TO BE ON CITY PLANNING BODY IK , BENJAMIN F. UMBERGER /Jmm ' \ GEORGE A SHREINER BANDIT'S MOTHER •! DENIES SHE AIDED li SORTS ESCAPE Declares She Was Not Alone With Him at Any Time Dur ing Visit Mrs. Annie Hohl, mother of the es- \ caped Altoona bandit, Frank G. Hohl, denies that she had any hand in her son's escape and has written the Tele graph to that effect. Mrs. Hohl this morning called on Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison and ex pressed indignation at her name being brought into the case. Mrs. Hohl was absent from home yesterday. The Altoona newspapers and press reports from that city re ferred to Mrs. Hohl's having visited her son in the Hollicjaysburg jail Thursday last, and stated that the Altoona police authorities were of tho opinion that Hohl's mother had fig ured in the plans for the bandit's escape. Mrs. Hohl emphatically denied that she had any hand in the breaking out of jail of her son and wrote the fol lowing letter to the Telegraph: Seeing a piece in the paper last night, 1 would like to correct It. I did not aid iny son to escape. I did not see him more than five minutes, and only in presence of | the jailer last Thursday. Now, I ask you kindly to print this. I cannot stand good for what was In the papers and oblige, MRS. A. HOHL,, 316 Court street. No clue to the fugitive's hiding place has been reported and the Al toona authorities have decided to put bloodhounds on Hohl's trail. Dr. Swallow Ridicules "Gasoline Christians" By Associated Press I Philadelphia, April 14.—Dr. Silas C. Swallow, former Prohibition nomi nee for President of the United States, ridiculed "gasoline Christians" —in other words, church members who go automobillng on Sunday, in an ad dress yesterday before the Methodist Preachers' Association in Wesley Hall. The speaker gave a humorous descrip tion of the foibles of church members, satirized the trifling differences be tween some of the denominations and urged that "professional sporting loaf ers" be put to work in the country. "Ask one of the howling loafers who sit half the season on the base ball bleachers to help the overworked farmer and he would give you a look i of scorn" said Doctor Swallow. "Wo are not opposed to a daily unbending of the mind in healthv, open-air recreations. We like golf and tennis and croquet and quoits and baseball and horseback riding, but we object to professional athletics, in which young men spend all their lives in mere play, and are encouraged in it by our colleges as an advertisement and by our churches as a decoy. The moment the church gets away from the insanity of amusing people, feed ing people, clothing people, in order to save them, the sooner will we solve the question, 'How can we reach the masses?" " HEART PAILS HIM AFTER CHURCH AND FARMER IHKS Shortly after returning to his home from church Inst evening. William F Clay, a well-known farmer of Lower Paxton township, died suddenly from heart disease. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon from his home and further services will be held at the Llnglestown United Brethren Church Mr. Clay was 65 years of age. He Is survived by his wife, two sons. E W Clay, of this city, and W. I. Clay, of West Hanover township, and one daughter, Mrs. Minnie Enders, of Pen brook. fflK ' J| Pi ED. S. HERMAN IMC: i P ' IBM i ; mmmSm ' JHL innßu -■ .si - << - - KSbIPII' II M* |S|<- gspNttiSi JaMIl GEORGE W. REILY (ME HEW OFFICE in MS SESSION OF CITY COUNCIL Taylor's Illness Delays Naming of Planners and Two Officials Council's Action In To-day's Session Appolntmcnta of flr*t City I'lan nlnK Commlaalon, AnalMtant City ANNeNNor anil npcclal lloeune tax of ficer poatponed until adjourned »•'»- xlon t