Zapata's Followers Make Attack on Fed HARRISBURG iffigflll TELEGRAPH LXXXIII — No. 115 ICE PAVILION ON m SLOPES SEE CONSIDERED uggested as Possible Source of Income For Band Concert Fund IHARGE SMALL FLOOR FEE aylor Thinks Enough Money Could Be Obtained to Fill Out Season Program Tango and "hesitation," schottische nd "maxixie"—all may be danced in le not very distant future in a big immer pavilion on the slopes of Oak nob or some similar vantage point in eservoir Park. City Commissioner. M. Harvey Tay >r, superintendent of parks and pub c property, has a plan for the erec on of such a structure under con deration. The dancing pavilion has been sug 2sted to the park commissioner as possible source of income for a sum ier band concert fund. In other cities, Mr. Taylor says. the lan has been followed successfully id the city is put to no expense be luse just enough of an admission is larged to .pay for maintenance. Re use of the fact that the pavilion ould be located in a public park and ider the jurisdiction of the city au orities, it would not be permissible conduct it at a profit. Mr. Taylor -day said: "The idea had been suggested to me i several occasions and 1 have al ays had the thought in my own head it I haven't taken any definite steps the matter because I preferred to arn just now the people of the city auld feel about such a project. Per nally 1 think it would l»c a good an. Small Rate Per Head "The pavilion or dance, floor could erected and the expense of build and operation could be more than Vie up by charging a nominal ad ssiou fee per couple—seme cities n told fix a rate of five or six cents head. The expenses would include e up-keep of a good orchestra, pro ling good music, for keeping the or in good shape, and for a sutfi •ntly large and qualified staff of at-j ldants on hand to see that the. nces were properly conducted and objectionable characters admitted. "Providing for band concerts either the pavilion or In some other part the park from the proceeds Is a new ?ught, however. But I don't see ij- this wouldn't work out satisfac ■ily if the other would. "While I've had this plan in mind la.ven't looked up any data as yet," nt on Mr. Taylor. "As I said. I "pre •red to learn how Harrisburg's peo- ; —its church people or others who n't go in, or care for dancing as •ule—feel about this. And I should e to obtain some expression of opin i on this subject for I think it is matter that is well worth looking o. 'Should a dancing pavilion be erect in Reservoir Park, what would be ) more likely site?" the commis ner was asked. 'The slopes of Oak Knob have boen rgested and I don't see why that uldn't be as good a place as any." ulroad Men to Hold Memorial Service June 14 Memorial services of the railroad ;anizatlons of the city will be held jc 14. Representatives of the vari i lodges met last Sunday after jn and organized a general commit and e'ected the following officers: airman, W. H. Patrick; vice-chalr n, Harry Yoder and Samuel Smith: retary and treasurer, Edward ichman. The vliurch has not as been selected. The committee will et in White's Hail, Verbekc and nes streets, at 9 o'clock next Sun ■ morning when committees from various railroad brotherhoods will present. Late News Bulletins THREE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT St. Louis, .Mil., Slay 15.—Three persons were killed at lvaufmunn, 111., to-day when nn automobile in wliich they were riding was struck by n railroad train. U. S. CHAMPION DEFEATED Hunstanton. May 15.—Miss Cecile l/citcli won the British women's jolt championship to-day, defeating Miss Gla yds Haveilscroft, woman champion of the United States, h.v two holes up and one to play. Montreal, May 15.—Anxiety was expressed here to-day for the safety of the freighter Boldwcll. of the Koth line, twenty-five days out on a voyage from Antwerp to Montreal. The voyage should have taken >nly fifteen days. The Boldwell carries a crew of thirty-five. St. Augustine, 11a., May 15.—The Huerta delegates left here at 1.20 p. in. for .Jacksonville. Chicago, May 15.—Hurley Heard, 18 years old. arrested here tills nfternoon. confessed to the murder of three persons on a farm near [ronton, Ohio, last Thursday. San Francisco, May 15.—That Provisional President Huerta had is sued specific orders to General Gustav Maas, commanding the Mexican forces at Vera Cruz, to offer no opposition to the landing of the Ameri cans there and that those orders were disobeyed by General Maas on his >wn responsibility is a statement vouched lor to-day by E. l)e Morelos i Mexican architect, on his arrival hero from Vera Cruz via New Or eans. Spokane, Wash., May 15—Great Northern passenger train, the Ori ental I,United, was held up by two masked men early to-day near Hex ford, Montana. The combination mail and baggage car was detached from the train and run four miles west to Hondo, where the euro was rilled. Washington, May 15.—The mediating envoys returned to the White louse tills afternoon for a conference with the President. It also was tated that the American delegates, Justice Lamar and M. Lehmunn vould be present. The purpose of the conference was not disclosed New York, May 15. —The market closed easy to-day, Exhaustion >f the early buying movement prompted prollt-taklng sales and the lay's small gains were generally cancelled. The slow decline in the iftcrnoon encouraged renewed short .selling one which Canadla PncJfl«. ind Amalgamated reacted a point. Wall Street Closing.—Chesapeake and Ohio, 53 V,: l«liigh Valley 40: Northern Pacific, ill; Southern Pacific, 02%; Villon Pacific 157U ' rillcago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. »«T„: P. H. It., Ill'fc: Reading, 1 «£ North Sixth street, throughout the "day. Letter From 11. of L. F. & E. The letter from A. J. Kauffman to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men and Enginemen follows: "Philadelphia, May 14, 1914. "Mr. J. C. Johnson. "P. R. R. Co.. Philadelphia. "Dear Sir:—Referring to telegram signed by a number of employes of your company vfith regard to the shopmen situation in and about Har risburg which you handed to me, this action taken at the meeting referred to in the telegram is not considered by us as ofllclai action of our organi- [Continued on Pago 10] BIG CMS ME REPAYS LONG Will OF EAGER CROWDS Hum of Approval Follows Ap pearance of Clean-cut Pageant Babbling balloonmen, persistent peanut peddlers, joyous juvenilis, reminiscent rummies, in the crowds, crowds, crowds that poured from rus tic home, and city flat and surged and eddied up and down the streets, then stood for a half hour of intoxicating delight as the gorgeous, glittering pa gent, many colored, cosmopolitan, brought to their view a hint of the wonders that will appear within the big tent of Ringling Brothers circus 'this afternoon and this evening. The people began to line up along Sixth street as early as 9 o'clock, for the parade, it was bulletined, would start at ten: but it was well on toward noon when the cavalcade moved out of the show grounds. The populace, who flanked the streets four deep, however, were well repaid for their tiresome wait. Everything was as fresh and bright as a Fifth avenue fashion show, and beasts and show people alike I looked well-kept. There was an air of veracity about the whole. The Roman chariot driver looked almost Roman; and as for the Arabs who will give some remarkable exhibitions, there wasn't any doubt that they were from the desert. A dozen camels harnassed to a band wagon was a novel feature; and twen ty-six elephants brought up the rear. There was a calliope, of course, at the end, and one in the middle, too. And the lour bands played all along the line. "Putting One Over'' I Along about 11 o'clock, when the I crowd was beginning to think that the | parade ought to appear, there was a I shout of "Here she comes" and band I music floated down the street. In a i little while appeared the Washburn j Midway shows ladies' military band, land a little parade trailing along back of it. It traversed the route that the ! big parade later passed over, and it's a safe bet that there wasn't a person in . the crowd that wasn't fooled into j thinking that at last the big pageant [Continued on Page 17] KONG TURNS DOWN OFFER i Cincinnati, Ohio, Slay 15. —John Evers, second baseman on the Boston National League team, at Cincinnati, in a published interview, declared that | Johnny Kling, former Cub and Boston : Brave team and last year a Redleg, i has just turned down one of the big i gest offers made to a player in the his tory of the game. Evers declared ! that the offer came from Barney Drey fuss, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, i Evers declared that Pittsburgh is pen nant mad, but that their only hopes I lie in Gibson, their catcher. If Gib ' son is disabled, the whole team would I be shot to pieces. PKRTO PLATA IS QUIET I Washington, May 15.—The situa l at Perto Plata, Santo Domingo, now held by revolutionists and where the i government has proclaimed a, block ade is reported as being ,000 fourteen, sixteen, eigh teen, twenty, twenty-two or twenty four page papers per hour, and on the days the Telegraph does not. exceed twelve pages it will print 72,000 papers TEi MEN KILLED 10 THREE lIJUHED WHEN RUBBER VflT EXPLODES Most of the Victims Were Skilled Mechanics Employed in Crude Rubber Plant By Associated Press Detroit, Mich., May 15. —Ten men were killed and three terribly injured in an explosion this forenoon which blew the plant of the Mexican Crude Rubber Company to pieces. There were about twenty-live employes working in the plant. Eleven survivors have been accounted for. Gasoline is believed to have been responsible for the explosion. Most of the victims were skilled mechanics. One body was blown through the building'. Three other bodies were burned beyond recogni tion. Three men were removed to a hospital and physicians said they did not expe:t any of the men would sur vive. Dozens of windows in buildings near the rubber company's plant were shattered. There were several reports as to the cause of the explosion, but survivors said a vat containing a large quantity of molten rubber exploded. I'liint Obliterated The plant, a one story concrete ; building in West Detroit, was almost obliterated. Flying chunks of sub stance riddled adjoining buildings and concrete blocks weighing several pounds were found more than two blocks from the scene of the explo sion. The factory of the Commerce Mo tor Car Company about 100 feet from ! the rubber concern was badly dani j aged. Nobody in the building, how j ever, was seriously hurt. ! The explosion was witnessed by I scores of pedestrians and there were many narrow escapes, On man told the police he heard a roar, the con crete factory seemed to split into three huge pieces, two of which "melted" away. The third, he said, shit high into the air, broke into fragments and went whizzing in every direction. STEAMER HELD AT QUARANTINE By Associated Press New York, May 15.—The steamer Lusitania, which arrived to-day from Liverpool, was held at quarantine te ready just as soon as we can get together all the data. Just when we'll have it ready, however, 1 can't say. We hope to get it in shape to offer in the near future, but it is impossi ble to fix a definite time. May 25 has been fixed by Mr. Bow man for opening bids for from 2.500 to 3,500 feet of aerial and from 400 to GOO feet of underground cable, 3.000 feet of galvanized wire, and 500 cop ! per sleeves for the equipment of the I new police and fire alarm system. The iunderground cable will be used in com | pleting the connections of the new police boxes recently installed. NEW RECORD IS MADE By Associated Press New York, May 15. —Irwin D. Bak er arrived here to-day. having traveled 3,362 miles from San Diego, Cal., on a motorcycle in eleven days, eleven hours and ten minutes. His longest day's run was from Greensburg, Pa., to New York City, a distance of 418 miles. The best previous record was twenty days, nine hours and one min ute, made by Volney Davis in 1912. DUFFY IS NOMINATED By Associated I'ress Washington, May 15.—The nomina tion of Charles V. Duffy, of Paterson, N. J., to be collector of internal reve nue for the northern district of New Jersey, was prepared at the White House to.day for transmission to the fen ate. 20 PAGES. * POSTSCRIPT. PEACE CONFERENCE AT NIAGARA IT TO OPEN UNTIL MAY 20 Postponement Asked For by Bra zilian Ambassador Announced Today MEXICANS HURRY FROM SOUTH Delegation Will Be Given Oppor tunity to Spend Some Time in Washington By Associated Press Washington, D. C., May 15. The opening of the negotiations ol' the | South American mediators in the Mexican controversy at Niagara Falls, I Ont., was to-day postponed until Wcd- I ncsday. May 20, the State. Department I announced. The sessions were origi | nally scheduled to begin Monday, May IS. The delay was arranged at the re quest ol' the Brazilian Ambassador, Mr. Da Gama, in order that the Mexican j delegates to the conference who aro speeding northward from Key West ! to-day might not be unduly hurried in I their trip to Niagara Falls. The Mexl- I can delegation will reach Washington shortly after noon to-morrow and they will be given an opportunity by tho postponement to spend some time in Washington, in touch with the situa- I tion here, before proceeding to tho | formal negotiations. After the postponement was an nounced it was learned that Brazilian Ambassadar Da Gama had decided [Continued on I'age I.] I ACCUSTOMED TO TROOPS By Special Correspondence. Trainidad, Colo., May 15.—Little by little the Southern Colorado coal dis trict is accustoming itself to the rule, of United States troops. With general military headquarters at Trinidad, and with detachments' scattered through through Las Animas and Huorfana counties, soldiers have become a part of the daily life of the citizens. Mar- I tial law has not been proclaimed. JO,