Government Authorities Plan to Investigate Cause of Empress of Ireland Disaster HARRISBURG gSwh TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— No. 129 MTU TELLS OF GOOD DONE AT PEACE CONFERENCE Representatives From World Pow ers Gather to Further Cause of Universal Peace HARRISBURG HAS DELEGATE Watchfircs From Coast to Coast Planned For Britain-Ameri can Celebration J. Horace Mr Karl and returned to day from attendance upon ihc,twen tieth annual Lake Molionl; conference for international arbitration, to which, with Mrs. McFarland, lie went last week, representing not only the Amer ican Civic Association, but the Har risburg Chamber of Commerce. Although some sixty American and a half dozen Canadian cities were rep resented, llarrisburg was one of only four Pennsylvania cities sending dele gates to this great gathering. Phila delphia, Pittsburgh and York were also represented. When asked about the conference, Mr. McFarland said: "Tile gathering was a very notable one in geographical scope, in per sonnel and in action. The first min ister to the United States from the new republic of China made an ad dress. By all means the most scholar ly and interesting address was that of the minister from Peru, who said some surprising things. The minister from Ecuador made an excellent speech. Men Who Talked on War "John Bassett Moore, who until re cently was counselor for the Depart ment of State, presided. Secretary of State Bryan was to have spoken on Thursday, evening, but was detained at the last moment and sent regrets. Two rear admirals of the United States navy were present and Admiral Chad wick made a picturesque and force ful speech, differing considerably from the general tendency of the other ad dressess. "The dreadful waste of war, its enormous expense to each individual in the civilized world, and itr preven tion of advance toward many things We all want were forcefully brought out. It was brought out that with the six hundred million dollars annual cost to the Federal government of wars past and being provided for in the future, the United States could build roads, develop waterways, promote commerce, Improve agriculture and make every man, •roman and child in America healthier, happier and more prosperous Against Commerce Increase "The business men had a separate meeting, at which action was taken looking toward a direct protest to the Federal government against In crease of armament and promoting the suggestion that there be an intermis sion in increase of expense for war vessels if other nations could be brought to co-operate in this money and life-saving movement. "A most eloquent and unusual ad dress was made by a member of the Canadian government in pleading for attention to the celebration In 1915 of the one hundredth anniversary of peac.e between United States and Great liritain. Mr. King called attention to the fact that by the simple method of agreed-upon disarmament on the Ureat Lakes and along the Canadian border, 3,500 miles of frontier between [Continued on Page ".] Suffragett.es Continue to Destroy Buildings By Associated Press Henley, England, June I.—An arson squad of militant suffragettes to-day .destroyed the historic parish church of St. Mary's Wargrave, three miles from here on the Thames. All thai, 1 remains of the church, which was built in 1538, is a portion of the newer and the scorched stone walls. Two women strangers were seen in the neighborhood early this morning. Just inside the ruins the firemen found a hammer and a heap of suffrage literature with a placard, "Stop Perse cuting Women." At Windsor a fire which the police say was started by suffragettes destroyed a mansion. The house was formerly the residence of j the Duchess of Sutherland. Late News Bulletins llollldaysburg, Pa., .tunc I.—Mrs. Annie llcngst, who recently mas queraded In men's clothing, turned highwayman and attempted with a drawn revolver to make Henry Khaugli. cashier of the Pittsburgh Supply store, stand ami deliver his cash box. was to-day sentenced by the Blair county court to undergo four months' imprisonment. Washington. June I.—Charles S. Hamlin, assistant secretary of the treasuhy. was being discussed to-day as a most likely choice of the rPesldent for governor of the board or the Federal Reserve Ranks. No final <le(isioii will be reached until the return or Secretary McAdoo later this week. Montreal. June I.—The government investigation of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland and the loss of more than 9SO souls aboard, will he held In Queliec and will begin on Tuesday, June ». This an miiiueeinent was made to-da.v at the offices of the Canadian Pacific Railway Companyli owners of the lost vessel. Quebec, June 1. —The body of Laurence Irving, the English actor, was picked up last night on the west bank of the St. Lawrence below Himouski. Tills information reached Quebec to-day and was given out at the office of the Canadian Pacilic Railway. Montreal. June I.—The sharp point of an anchor projecting from the twisted how of the Norwegian collier Stortsad may explain why that vessel did such terrible execution when she ruinnied the Empress of Ireland early last Friday morning in the lower St. Lawrence. The an chor point and portions or the battered steel surrounding It, bore stains of blood. Hartford, Conn., June I.—Colonel Theodore Roosevelt w ill oiien the Progressive campaign in Connecticut with au address lieforc a State conference of Progressives in this city on July 23. This was announced from Progressive headquarters here to-day. Redding. Gal.. June I.—Mount Lassen, a peak in the Sierra Nevada between Plumas and Sliasltta counties, Cal.. Is in eruption \ new crater lias opened in the side of the mountain with lateral fissures running In all directions. Aslics cover the ground for three miles Large boulders have been ejected rrom the crater. A cloud of smoke and steam hangs over the mountain. Wall SI ret Closing;.—Chesapeake & Ohio, 51V,; Lehigh Yallcv. 138% • Northern Pacilic. Ill: Southern Pacilic, C., .>l. «V St. P., 927/' P. 15. It., 111*4; Heading, 16M&: New York Central. DI ' M ; Vmal Con per, 71 "hi U. s. Steel, til; Canadian Pacilic, inj. DOMESTIC SCIENCE IN RURAL SCHOOLS, SHAMBAUGHS PLAN New County School Head Con siders Asking State Col lege Aid FAVORS GROUP MEETINGS Thinks It Will Be Good For Teach ers to Get Together in Small Bodies [ Pennsylvania State College exten sion aid for the teaching of domestic science, including cooking and sewing in the rural and borough schools of Dauphin county, will be asked for by Professor Frank N. Shambaugh, the new county school superintendent, who succeeded 11. V. B. Garvcr to day. Professor Shambaugh came down from Wiconisco with his father to-day and took charge of his offices in the Courthouse. AVhile he smilingly de clared he has a number of excellent plans up his sleeve for the develop ment and Improvement of the educa tional work in the county, he only talked of them tentatively. The instruction of sewing and cook ing has been tried out successfully in the Wlcontsco schools where Mr. Shambaugh had been principal and it has long been his desire to see this branch taught generally wherever pos sible in the country schools. State College Aid The State College extension aid pro gram could include this in its work very properly, Professor Shambaugh thinks, and he means to ask for lec turers and so on. The plan Mr. Sham baugh has in mind is much on the order of the work that had been dem onstrated by the Wisconsin University. During the summer Mr. Shambaugh will go either to Columbia or Chicago University to finish a course and it is [Continued on Page 11] PLAYGROUND SUES VISITED BY PARK MEN WITH EXPERT Consider Purchase of Plots at Fourth and Woodbine and Near Present Sycamore Grounds COMMISSION MEETS TONIGHT Supervisor Staples Arrives in, the City; to Select Staff Wednesday Possible playground sites at Fourth and Woodbine streets and on the east ern side of Thirteenth street just across from the present Thirteenth and Sycamore street playground were among the points visited to-day by Warren H. Manning, the City Planning Commission, City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor, superintendent of parks, and Assistant Superintendent lloffer on a tour of the city's recre ation places. The sites in question have been con sidered as possible permanent play grounds and If satisfactory terms can be aggreed upon the plots will be pur chased from the $55,000 of the SIOO,OOO park and playground im provement loan. These plots, by the way, will be the first to be bought from the 1813 loan. One other site, if. is understood, is being considered, but inasmuch as negotiations are still pending in that direction Commis sioner Taylor declines to discuss the location. [Conlinuetl on Pag© 0] HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1914. ANDERSEN SAYS HE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RIVER DISASTER Captain of Storstad Issues State ment Regarding the Collision Early Friday Morning INVESTIGATION IS PLANNED Bodies of Victims Are Rapidly Being Identified in Morgue at Quebec By Associated Press Quebec, Juno I.—ldentification of the dead recovered from the scene of the wreck of the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of Ireland is pro ceeding more rapidly than was ex pected. Nearly 100 of the 188 bodies brought here yesterday by the tender Lady Grey have thus far been rec ognized by sorrowing friends and rela tives. This is in addition to the 18 bodies identified and claimed at Rimousk). Home of the identifications include persons of prominent who lost their lives in the collision between the Em press of Ireland and the collier Stors tad early Friday. They are Kir Henry Seton-Kerr, the big game hunter; Dr. K. A. Barlow, a leading geologist of Canada, and Mrs. W. Leonard Palmer, wife of a London newspaper man. Nearly a score of members of the Salvation Army have been identified among the dead. The funeral ship Lady Grey, es corted by the British warship Essex, arrived in Quebec early Sunday morn ing and soon thereafter bluejackets from the Essex were carrying the coffins ashore. The bodies were placed on long tables, draped in black and white, in the funeral shed which had been prepared for their reception. The pier shed was heavily draped in black and over the window sheets were fas tened to shut out the view of the curious and the morbid. On the wharf as the ship docked [Continued on Page 12] GUARDSMEN WILL NOT MANEUVER 111 SOUTH STATES Orders For First and Fourth Bri gades to Participate Are Recalled Today WASHINGTON GIVES IT UP Organizations Will Probably En camp at Mt. Gretna; Sec ond Squadron Orders Pennsylvania National Guardsmen will not participate with regulars In joint maneuvers in the vicinity of Washington from August 5 to 20. To day, on receipt of word from the War Department, Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart announced that the orders assigning the first and fourth brigades and first squadron of cavalry to the maneuvers had been rescinded. This means that these organizations will encamp In this State. The probabilities are that the two brigades and the squadron and bat tery C would encamp at Jit. Gretha. The date of the encampment may be August 8 to 15, inclusive. The de tails, however, have not been worked out. The second brigade will probably encamp at Indiana and the third at Selinsgrove July 18 to 25 inclusive, the Fourteenth Kegiment, Battery B, the signal corps company and the "field hospital going with the second. The second squadron of cavalry will prob ably be divided between these two encampments. The two engineer companies will, however, participate in field work in the vicinity of Washington in July. Orders announcing the details of the encampment will be issued soon. Arrest Two Men on Charge of Holding Up Man on Bridge An unsuccessful attempt was made Saturday night to hold up George My ers on the Harrlsburg bridge, near the Island. Mr. Myers, who resides on the lirford farm, near West Falrvlew, told i the toll keeper that he was stopped by three men while on Ills way home about 1 o'clock Sunday morning. Patrolmen Larsen and Shallias later arrested Edgar Bostrlorf and R. H. Shugart. Both men were said to be intoxicated. They denied meeting any one on the bridge. Meyers said he would look the men over this after noon. STATE-WIDE PRIMARIES ARE IX PROGRESS IX IOWA TO-DAY By Associated I'rcss Des Moines, la., June I.—State-wide primaries are in progress in lowa to day to select candidates for the Re publican, Democratic, Progressive and Socialist parties for United States I senator, members of congress, gover nor, lieutenant-governor nnd full State jand county tickets. $-10,000,000 LOST IX i»i:i New York. June I.—A large surety company of this city in a report just made public places $40,000,000 as a conservative estimate of the defalca tions throughout the United States in 1013. Thefts of $4,000,000 were pub licly reported, while insurance poli cies paid because of burglaries and Other evidences of loss bring the total up to the first figure. THE RECEPTION COMMITTEE IS READY HML! HAIL! Hjl U|| m sI THE GANGS All THRE 1 HERE His HI New Health Rule May Send Up the Price of Soda Water Pharmacists Considerably Peeved Because They Must Pay , Fee Under Sanitary Code in Effect Today Rumored increases in the price of soda water and an investigation of a dozen or so pharmacies and other places where the summer beverage is disposed of at a nickel a glass brought to light to-day the fact that while so far but one place has actually ad vanced the price of the beverage to 10 cents, the matter will be discussed at a meeting of the pharmacists on Wednesday night in the Chestnut SUPPLIES ON KARLUK TAKEN FROM WRECK Members of Expedition Are Be lieved to Have Passed Com fortable Winter in North By Associated Press Seattle, Wash., June 1. —Cable dis patches from St. Michael and Nome, Alaska, indicate that when Vilhjalmur Stefansson's exploring: ship Karluk was crushed in the Arctic near Herald Island, northeast at Siberia, January 16 last, the men saved all their instru ments, supplies, dogs and food and left only the crushed hulk and its coal cargo when they headed cost over the ice to camp on Wrangell Island. The experience of the Karluk proves that the drift of the ice sheet from [Continued on Page ll] DMMOCHATS AT WASHINGTON WORRIED OVER ROOSEVELT Hy Associated Press Washington, D. June I.—Colonel Roosevelt's statement, the President's blundering course with respect to the Grand Army and the Memorial day exercises, and the tolls repeal question all combined, are creating a situation in which the feeling in all parties has assumed an Intense degree of bitter ness. The campaign will nnt terminate un til the elections this Fall is already be ing opened in Congress, and this is ikely to see the issues clearly defined. The Democrats, although in complete control of all branches of the govern ment, are on the defensive, with pub lic sentiment running strongly against them. They know this themselves, and are both worried and exasperated. AERONAUT DROPS TO DEATH By Associated Press Denver, Colo., June I.—Harry Bunkstrom, aeronaut, fell 2,000 feet to his death here yesterday. A strap that connected his wrist with the para chute bar broken when he cut loose from his balloon. *30,000 FIRK AT WAYNESBORO Special to The Telegraph Waynesboro, I*a., June 1. Five stables were burned, two warehouses damaged and livestock perished in a blaze in the centra! part of town late Saturday night. The loss is estimated at SCARLET FEVER IX PRISON By Associated Press Auburn, X. Y., June I,—Eighty per cent of all the convicts and guards ex amined in Auburn prison show symp toms of scarlet fever, according to a statement made to-day by a special deputy of the State Health Depart ment. street school building. It is understood that the threatened increase is due to the fact that the retailers are more or less peeved at having to pay out five good dollars milk inspection fee under the new sanitary code of the Board of Health. A. M. Rickert, Eighteenth and Wal nut streets, is the pharmacist who to-day raised the price of the summer drink. REPRESENTATION OF REBELS IS DISCUSSED After Two Hours' Session Question Was Still Undecided by Mediators By Associated Press Niagara Falls, Ont., June 1. —After a two-hour conference between the mediators and the American delegates to-day the question of admitting the Constitutionalists to the negotiations for the settlement of the Mexican problem was still undecided. It was learned, however, that the desire of the United States to have the Constitutionalists heard before a final agreement is signed here has im pressed the three mediators and they are taking a more favorable view of it. After to-day's conference Justice •Lf.mar dictated the following state ment : "We had a conference this morning in which we continued the discussion of a point on which wc had not agreed on Saturday. The matter is still un der discussion, but we found in our talk this morning that we were not so far apart in our construction of cer tain phases and we are still quite hopeful." Arrested For Attempting Counter Revolution Washington, D. C., June 1. —Brig- adier-General Bliss reported to the War Department to-day the arrest of Quevado and his followers at El Paso yesterday. It is understood Quevado was heading a new counter-revolution in Chihuahua. He will be sent to Fort Wingate, N. M., with other Mex ican refugees. Quevado was in the Huerta army which surrendered at Presidio, Texas, but escaped at that time. The Brazilian minister in Mexico City informed the State Department to-day that Gregario Alcarez, servant of Captain Rush, of the battleship Florida, who went through the Mex ican lines, now is held in the military [Continued on Page 0] Case Against Governor of Kansas Is Opened By Associated Press Topeka, Kan., June I.—The suit of Mrs. Luella West against Governor George Hodges for $2,315 damages based on an alleged attack In the Governor's office when, it is charged. (Governor Hodges struck the woman as she. sought to carry copies of his pri vate correspondence from the office, vas called in the Shawnee county cir cuit court here to-day. FRENCH CABINET DECIDES TO RESIGN At Session Tomorrow Statement Explaining Action Will Be Drafted By Associated Press Paris, June 1. —The French Cabi net under the premiership of Gaston Doumergue has decided to resign. The resolution was taken at a cabinet council to-day. The chief factor in bringing about the resignation of the government is understood to be the uncertainty of its ability to control a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, where some changes in the numerous groups were brought about by the recent general elections. There is also some diver gence of view in regard to the three years military service. BELIEVES CHILD IS MISSING WINTERS GIRL OF INDIANA By Associated I'rcss Find ley, Ohio, June 1. Probate Judge Dorsey planned to-day to issue nn affidavit charging Mis. Emma Thrappe with failure to keep her fos ter daughter in school as a legal means of holding the woman, who is under surveillance here in connection with the belief that the 11-year-old girl who is with her may be the missing Catherine Winters of New Castle, In diana. Mrs. Thrappe insists that the child is her own granddaughter and her adopted daughter. CLEMENCY IS URGED By Associated Press Washington, June I.—A delegation of labor representatives headed by Representatives Gorman and Sabath, of Illinois, presented to President Wil son to-day a petition signed by one million laboring men asking executive clemency for Thomas M. Ryan and 20 others convicted in the dynamite con spiracy. ■Mayor's a Busy Soul Ma yor John K. Roys I had a busy police court session this afternoon. He heard the cases of seven drunks, two street-walkers and other peace dis turbers who were landed In the police net during Saturday. Starting the Graduates Right A JUNE is the month of College and School Commence ments, occasions casting before them the shadows of preparation. Demands on the family purse arc large and numcr | ous. / It is a time when the advertising in a careful news- I paper like the Telegraph must be of immense service. Read it carefully. Use the information it gives. Buy only after complete knowledge of where choice can be made to.the best advantage. To do so means a saving of time, and the guarantee j of satisfaction. Merchants who advertise are the men ? who stand behind their promises and who make good— -1 they are worthy of confidence. 12 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT. UNREST FELT LESS IN U. S. THAN OTHER COUNTRIES-WILSON Says Prosperity Wil! Come With a Jump if Business Men Be lieve It Is Coming WILL NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS President Refers to Chairman Gary's Statement That Condi tions Will Improve fl.v Associated Press Washington, D. C., June 1. —Presi- dent Wilson to-day again expressed his conviction that any present unsatis factory condition in business was not general, hut was less felt in the United States than any other part of the world. Mr. Wilson reiterated his view at the lirst conference he has had with the Washington correspondents sinco the Mexican situation became acute. Questions, however, on that subject and on the Niagara Kails mediation conference were barred. In reply to inquiries concerning tho business situation as discussed In his statement last week to representatives of the Illinois Manufacturers' Asso ciation and other similar organizations the President said it was his impres sion that any unsatisfactory condition centered very largely about the rail way ofiicers and that which reflected in the steel industry and in other in dustries closely allied which depend especially upon railroad development for prosperity. The President referred to a statement by Chairman Gary, of the. United States Steel Corporation, that tho general outlook in the steel business was good. Hotter Times Ahead The President believes prosperity would come with a jump if the manu facturers believed it was coming. Ho does not believe the tariff has anything to do with the depression. Secretary Kedlield's statistics of exports over im ports was cited by the President as proof. Discussing the Clayton trust bill, the President said he did not under stand the act was designed to grant to labor organizations any privileges they do not now enjoy. It is the purpose of the act, as he understands it, to define the rights of labor organ izations more clearly and remove any doubt of their rights which has been created by various court decisions. It is not the understanding of the Presi dent that the labor organizations aro to be given any privileges denied to other organizations. TKY 'IX) FIX WAGE SCAMS By Associated Press Columbus, Ohio. July I.—Dele gates from local unions of the Ohio United Mine Workers began arriving here this morning for the convention this afternoon preceding the joint con ference with Ohio operators to be held to-morrow irf an attempt to tix a wage scale and end the present strike. THE WEATHER l-'or Harrislmrg nnil vicinity: l"n --settled weather to-night and Turmlay, probably occasion!! I *howcr*i not much change in temperature, li'nr Kustcrn I'ennnylvanlu: Unset tled to-night nml TciiMitny, proll ■iltly local shower*) gentle shill ing wind*. Illver The Susquehanna river nml ll« prin cipal tributaries will probably continue to full xlowly to-night unit Tuesday. A stage of about feet IM for Ilurri*- hurg T lien tiny morning. tiieuernl Condition* Showers have fallen in the Inst twenty-four hour* over the southern mill western portions of the I.like region. In the l.owcr Oliio anil Upper Mississippi val leys, the Plains Stntes mill Itucky Mountain region, along the west const of Florida null In the St. Lawrence Valley. It is somewhat cooler thnn on Fri day morning in the Ohio \ alley nnil 'the I.like region. A general rise of to Sill degrees in tempera ture has occurred from the Mis souri river westward to tile l*a clllc const. Temperatures S n. in., lit) '1 p. m.. 70. Sun: Itlses, l:."!l a. in.; sets, 7:-« p. m. Moon: First quarter, ll:(KI p. in. nlver Stagei -.7 feet above low water innrk. Yesterday"* Weather Highest temperature, K.l, l.oweW temperature, SS, Mean temperature, 70. Kormnl temperature, UK. >1 VIIRIAUF I.II'ENRES Janies AV. Nelson, Brooklyn, and Mary Kerr Blaikic. city. William (Jatewood and Bertha Smith, city. Samuel Carter and Jane Hawkins, city.
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