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Victims of Steamship Disaster Are Take
HARRISBURG giwk TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 128
NATION BOWS ITS HEAD IN MEMORY OF THOSE "THINNING LINES
OF BLUE AND GRAY" WHO BRAVELY BATTLED SO MANY YEARS AGO
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OISES HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THE FORNEY SCHOOL BtJILDII\G AND IN THE CEMETERIES WHERE THE CIVIL WAR VETERANS YESTERDAY MORNINO WERE BUSY PLACING MARKERS ON THE GRAVES
Survivors of 111-fated
Steamer Praise Brave
Captain For His Work
Laurence Irving and His Wife Die Clasped in Each Other's
Embrace; Couple Separated on Deck, Meet Again on
Shore; Bodies of Dead Are Taken to Quebec For
Identification
Montreal, May 30.—Exhausted sur
vivors of the Empress of Ireland dis
aster wearing misfit clothing supplied
by the people of Rimouski, arrived in
Montreal to-day. In the party was a
remnant of the Salvation Army band,
more than a hundred of whom per
ished. The survivors included:
Messrs. Mclntyre, Measures, Green
away, Staff Captain McAmond, Lieut.
Keith, James Johnston, Major and
Mrs. Atwell, E. Green, Captain Spoon
er, little Grace Hannagan, Miss Hales,
all of Toronto; Mrs. Cook and Band
Sergeant Fowler, Vancouver; and Miss
Wilmot, of Winnipeg.
"X was looking through the port
hole in my cabin amidships," said
Band Sergeant Fowler, "when I saw
a big black ship loom up out of the
darkness. It seemed only a few feet
away.
"Then came the jolt; it' could not
be called a crash because it was more
of a grinding sensation. Before I
realized what had happened my cabin
began to fill with water. 1 rushed
out of the cabin and up the main
companionway. 1 saw a girl with a
baby in her arms and a little child
following her. The girl begged me to
put a life belt on her, so I stopped
lung enough to do this."
By this time Fowler had reached
the deck, he said, the ship was listing
badly and the passengers had to cling
to the rail to keep from going over
the side. Fowler jumped.
Touched other ImkHos
"I went down and down until I
thought my lungs would burst," he
said. "Bodies humped into me.
< 'nee a man threw his arms around
me and I had to fight to break his
grip. I swam several hundred feet
and was almost exhausted when a boat
picked me up."
Smart says he believes he was the
last man to speak to Captain Ken
dall before the collision. "I was sit
ting out on the upper deck," he
said, "when the captain walked past
about half past one o'clock and said,
'lt is a nice night, but it looks to me
as though a fog is coming. You
never know how soon a fog will drop
on you at this part of the river.' "
Cries "Don't get pxclted"
When the crash came Smart says,
he saw Captain Kendall on the bridge.
He was holding onto the rail, shout
ing orders to the crew, leaning over
and waiving his hands. He heard him
i <
say: "Keep your heads there and
don't get excited."
When a boat dropped sideways into
the water, the captain seemed to
realize that the liner was lost, for he
shouted: "Hurry up there, every
body. There is not a minute to lose.
Get the stewards through the corri
dors. If there are doors locked break
them in. Get the people out ana
don't forget that the women and chil
dren must come first."
"He spoke through a megaphone,"
said Smart, "but there was so much
screaming and moaning that his
voice was drowned. But he stuck to
his post to the very last.
"When I got onto the Lady Evelyn
I saw him stretched out there and
they were giving him brandy. When
he was able to speak, he looked
around and asked "Where's the ship'"
A passenger who looked like a doc
tor, told him the boat had gone On
hearing this Captain Kendall buried
Ills face in a piece of tarpaulin and
ci led as though his heart would
break.
Laurence Irving and
His Wife Died in Each
Other's Embrace on Deck
By Associated Press
Quebec, May 30.—More than 1,000
persons lost their lives when the Cana
dian Pacific steamship Empress of
Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence early
Friday morning after the liner had
been rammed by th-j Danish collier
Storstad.
Figures compiled by the Canadian
l'acitic Railway Company and made
public to-day indicated that 1,032 per
sons in all had perished. Their list
follows: i
First class passengers saved 18:
second and third class passengers
saved 131; crew saved 206. Totals,
355.
The number of passengers carrieJ
i.y the Empress of Ip;!.hi.l:
First class S7; second class 153;
third class 716; crew 432. Total
1.357.
With the survivors safe in Quebec,
where their wants and sorrows ace
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HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1914
BOYS OF '6l ONCE
MORE PHY TRIBUTE
TO COMRADE DEAD
City, State and Nation Venerates
Memory of Those Who
Fought So Long Ago
Throughout the city, State and na
tion to-day the Boys of '6l are observ
ing memorial exercises for their com
rades who have passed beyond human
ken and now sleep, each under his
blanket of turf.
The G. A. R. veterans on every hand
are the objects of veneration. The
boys with the little copper button are
receiving the respect and honor of
Harrisburg, not only in the public ex
ercises, but by many and many an un
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Huerta's Delegates Not
Aware of Presence of
Carranza's Messenger
Niagara Falls, Ont., May 30 —The
South American mediators are con
fronted with the problem of whether
or not they will permit Constitutiona
list representatives to enter the con
ference here. The issue has been
raised by the sending of a note from
General Carranza by a special mes
senger, Juan F. Urquidi, in which the
Constitutionalist chief expresses sur
prise that the mediators proceed with
the negotiations without replying to
his telegram asking what pointa would
be discussed in the mediation.
New Balkan War Is
Said to Be Brewing
Special to The Telegraph
Berlin, May 30.—Secretary Daniels'
announcement that the United States
is about to sell the battlesnips Idaho
and Mississippi to a foreign govern
ment. "presumably Greece," is pub
lished in Berlin, along with an article
in the official Army Gazette, discus
sing the imminence of another war
between Greece and Turkey. The arti
cle, which is based on a similar pub
lication in the official Austrian Army
Journal, discusses the impossibility of
conciliation between the Greeks and
Turks.
The fear that hostilities are brew
ing is strengthened by Turkey's con
spicuous military preparations at Ad
rlanople and combined Turco-Bulgar
ian movements In Thrace. War be
tween the allied forces of Bulgaria
and Turkey against Greece is describ
ed as "inevitable."
THIRTY CURS GET
AWAY IN ANNUAL
AUTOMOBILE RACES
American Pilots Express Deter
mination to Wrest Honors
From Frenchmen
By Associated Press
Indianapolis, Ind., May 30.—Thirty
cars, representing the United States,
Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy
and Belgium, battled for cash prizes
totaling $50,000 at the Indianapolis
motor speedway to-day in the fourth
annual 500 miles automobile race.
Thousands of race enthusiasts were
on their way to the two and one-half
mile speedway long before the gates
were opened at 6 o'clock and the
crowds continued to arrive until af
ter the race started at 10 o'clock. The
day dawned clear and much cooler.
While the French drivers are favor
ed in the betting, a number of the
American pilots, just before the race
started, expressed their determination
to wrest the honors, which Jules Goux
won last year for France. In the
elimination trials, the foreign cars
showed more speed, but the Amer
icans are depending on durability of
their mounts to offset the high speed
in the long grind.
The race was started promptly at
10 o'clock, the cars lined up In eight
rows before the judges and, when the
starting bomb, which when it burst
unfolded a parachute to which was
attached an American flag was ex
ploded, the thirty cars, paced by a
machine bearing a speedway official
began jockeying for places in the fly
ing start. The first lap does not count
in the 200 necessary to complete the
race.
Thomas. 16, was leading at the com
pletion of fifty miles by about a quar
ter of a mile. Christiuenz, 9, follow
ed, with Anderson, 24, close behind.
Merry Holiday Crowds
Throng Colonial Club
The holiday found the Colonial club
thronged with devotees of tennis, or of
golf or of merry parties who while not
wishing to do anything strenuous sim
ply wished to spend a day in the open
yet within easy access of a cool and
comfortable place for gastronomic
solaces.
There was no set program for the
day, but both tennis courts and golf
links were alive all day with those who
found pleasure either in racquet or
lofter. The final match of the Ave
team bowling league is scheduled for
to-day.
HARRISBURG CLEANS
UP WHITE ROSES
IN MORNING GAME
Cockill's Crew Bats Ball All
Over the Lot; Score
11 to 2
Harrisburg had a clean-up victory
with York this morning, winning the
game by a score of 11 to 2.
Cockill's crew hit the ball in every
inning, and had a record batting rally
in the eighth. Phillips was weak in
the sixth and "Babe" Adams took his
place, doing good worK. Beaver, a
Gettysburg College boy, was an easy
proposition.
How Runs Were Made
Harrisburg started with two runs
In the first, McCarthy singled, Emer
son tripled, scoring McCarthy. Crist
knocked out a three-bagger, bringing
in Emerson.
York tallied up one in the fourth
on Hooper's pass, a stolen base and
Hopke's single.
Harrisburg got another man across
the plate in the sixth. Miller singled.
Whalen sacrificed, and Cockill singled
to second, scoring Miller.
Harrisburg made a clean-up in the
eighth, scoring eight runs on nine
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Telegraph Building All
Abloom This Morning
As has been the custom for several
years, the entire front of the Tele
graph building was decorated last
night—the eve before Memorial Day
—with window boxes filled with grow
ing vines and plants. This morning
hundreds of people stopped to admire
the beautiful display of flowers and it
Is the general opinion that the decora
tion is more effective this year than
ever before.
All the window ledges on the seven
stories of the building and the main
entrance are abloom to-day and these
flowers will grow to beauty and lux
uriance throughout the summer. This
treatment of the Telegraph building
from year to year has caused wide
spread comment and pictures of the
front have appeared in many promi
nent magazines and trade papers.
ANOTHER VETERAN MASSES
Meander 1... Sanders, a veteran of the i
Civil War. died yesterday afternoon at'
hiR home, in Hummelstown. in Itis 82d
year. Funeral services wli) be lield
Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, from
his home. J
WILSON, AT ELEVENTH
| HOUR, ACCEPTS THE
INVITATION OF Ml
Secretary Announces Change of
Plans For President at
Last Minute
By Associated Press
Washington, May 30. President
Wilson to-day changed liis plans and
decided to attend the Memorial Day
exercises at Arlington National Ceme
tery. Secretary Tumulty made a state
ment explaining that tho President
"was not willing that his absence
should be misconstrued."
In announcing the President's de
cision. Secretary Tumulty said:
"When the invitation was extended
by the committee representing the
Grand Army of the Republic of the
District of Columbia the President in
formed the committee that he did not
think the occasion would be opportune
for the delivery of an appropriate ad
dress and because of this felt he must
decline the invitation, agreeing, how
ever, to attend memorial services at a
later date.
"Evidently a false construction has
been placed upon this action and
therein lies the reason for the change
in the program.
"The President was not willing that
his absence should be misconstrued."
When it was finally announced a
few days ago that the President could
not accept the invitations of the G. A.
R. to attend the services, managers of
the memorial invited Speaker Champ
Clark to make the principal address.
The Speaker was at Atlantic City tak
ing a rest but changed his plans and
last night returned to Washington and
began preparing his address.
T. R. Issues Important
Political Statement
For Sunday Papers
By Associated Press
New York, May 30.—Theodore
Roosevelt, accompanied by Philip
Roosevelt, a young cousin, and his eld
est daughter. Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, of Cincinnati, sailed for Spain
to-day on the steamship Olympic to
attend the wedding of his son, Kermit,
in Madrid on June 10, to Miss Belle
Willard, daughter of the American
ambassador to Spain.
The Colonel said before leaving that
he has issued an important political'
statement for publication in to
morrow's papers. He added that
most of. his time while-away will be
devoted to writing nn account of his
South American troubles. He talked
with Progressive leaders on the ship. ,
16 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT.
NEW HEALTH RULES
AND REGULATIONS
EFFECTIVE MONDAY
n
Bureau of Sanitation's Require
ments Cover Every Phase
of Safeguard
Harrisburg's new food and health'|
regulations recently passed by the cltyi
bureau of health and sanitation aniii
approved with a few slight changes)
by City Council become effective at|
12.01 Monday morning. J
The new rules were finally
by Council Tuesday and signed byj
Mayor John K. Royal. By the provis
ions of the Clark act they had to baj
advertised three times in each official!
newspaper, and after the customary;)
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Season For Shooting
Reed Birds Extended
Under New Amendment
Washington, May 30. Sportsmen
would be extended the privilege of
shooting reed or rice birds In New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware In
September and October under a pro
posed amendment to the federal regu
lations for the protection of migratory
birds, according to an announcement
to-day by the Department of Agricul
ture. Sportsmen already have a simi
lar privilege in Maryland, the Dis
trict of Columbia, Virginia and South
Carolina. As the season Is so short
department officials do not believe
that the birds will suffer appreciably
in numbers.
THE WEATHER
For HarrlMhurg nml vicinity: Fair
■111)1 Nllichtly warmer to-night
with |irolial>le ahowerat Sunday
cloudy, with probable ahowera.
For Kuatern Pennsylvania: Warmer
to-iilitht; probably ahowera to
night and Sunday.
Temperature: H a, m„ 62.
Sum Rlaea, 4t3N a. m.| arts, 7)37
p. m.
Moon: Flriri quarter, June 1, 9:08
a. m.
River Stnjtri 2.7 feet above low
water mark.
Teaterday'a Weathef
HlKheat temperature, 77.
l<oweat temperature, 60.
Mean temperature, 68.
Normal temperature, 66,