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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.