Settlement of Mexican Trouble Depends on Attitude of General Carranza
HARRISBURG lllSlll TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 132
CITY PLANNERS TO
BE OF ASSISTANCE
IN LIGHTING PLANS
George B. Tripp Mentions New
Civic Body in Paper on In
terurban Illumination
COMMITTEE REPORT FEATURE
Harrisburg Electric Head Makes
Valuable Suggestions at Na
tional Convention
Special to The Telegraph
Philadelphia, Juno 4.—Suggestions
fox- the installation of a nation-wide
system of interurban highway elec
tric lighting were incorporated in an
interesting report submitted this
morning at the thirty-seventh conven
tion of the National Electric Light
Association by George B. Tripp, vice
president and general manager of the
Harrisburg Light and Power Company
and ■chairman of the special commit
tee on interurban lighting.
In recommending 100-candlepower
high-etflciency mazda lamps with re
fractors for the purpose, Mr. Tripp
explained that the committee's inves
tigations by personal observation and
correspondence indicated two things:
first, a great lack of information in
hand about interurban lighting of
highways: second, a unanimous desire
on the part of central station men to
obtain information in detail regarding
the latest developments in lighting
units suitable for highway lighting.
In conclusion, Mr. Tripp's report
suggested that a new committee be
appointed early enough to permit the
body to make a thorough and wide
spread investigation so as to present a
definite report at the 1915 convention.
In part Mr. Tripp's report was as
follows:
.Suburban and Interurban Lighting
Every suburban and interurban
highway that is not adequately
lighted offers an opportunity for
the installation of such of the
lighting systems suggested in this
report as are best suited to the
local conditions. The greatest
opportunities are offered by the
highways frequented in.the main
by automobiles and horse-drawn
vehicles. The Lincoln Highway
is one of the great projected high
ways that should be properly
lighted.
People generally have not been
accustomed to adequate Illumina
tion at night on suburban and in
terurban roads, and only those
who have occasion to travel these
roads at night realize the disad
vantages of the inadequate illu
mination now in effect.
Even though the need of ade
quate lighting is recognized, com
paratively few people have any
idea of the best methods of light
ing different kinds of roads.
Therefore, in order to accomplish
the correct Installation of high
way lighting, it will be necessary
to do a large amount of educa
tional work with the public gen
erally and with the various light
ing committees of civic and mu
nicipal bodies.
Such educational work should em
phasize the danger of accidents
and rcbbcries that might occur as
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Bones of Soldier Killed
in Battle of Gettysburg
Found Buried in Garden
Special In The Telegraph
Gettysburg, Pa.. June 4. While
Charles tlaner, who owns and lives at
the Rogers House on the Gettysburg
battlefield was putting a tile drain
through his garden he cams upon
evidences of a grave. He secured
several other men and upon investi
gation found the skeleton of a man
about two feet below the surface.
The bones were very much decayed,
but the larger ones were easily rec-I
ognizable, the skull being intact until
exposed to the air. There is no doubt
but what the body was that of a sol
dier killed in the battle here. Found
among the bones was a battered bul
let, a remnant of a belt and bayonet
scabbard, a brass button, a cap box
with a half dozen percussion musket
caps.
Late News Bulletins
Vera Cruz, June 4.—The price Provisional President Ilucrtn de
mands for Ills retirement is the legalization of his official acts since
his appointment to the provisional presidency, according to advices from
the capitol to-day.
London, June I.—An attempt to forcibly to "hold up" King George
at to-niglit's court at Buckingham Palace is the latest conspiracy charged
to the suffragettes. The Evening tSandard. which Is responsible for the
story, says the police discovered elaborate plans for obtaining access to
the court, including forged cards of admission. The alleged plot is
credited to Sirs. Einmellne Pankliurst.
Associated Press Boat (By Wireless) —Later this afternoon It was
learned tliut the withdrawal of the Vauitie was caused by the loss of two
men overl»oard and difficulty in recovering them and not by tin? parting
of the forestay sail sheet.
Washington. June 4. —Prospers of an attempted blockade of Tain
pieo by lluerta gunboats took the position of chief interest in Mexican
affairs here to-day and administration officials, informed of the latest
development only in news dispatches, declined to indicate their policy
although they Informed Admirals Badger and Mayo of the situation.
Quebec, June I.—Twelve of he crew of the steamship Empress of
Ireland, who perished in the St. Lawrence disaster, were hurled here to
day with fitting ceremony. The funeral procession, moving to the music
of military bands, passed between double rows of son-owing spectators
Everywhere Hags were at half mast.
Pittsburgh. June 4.—With two persons (lead and a dozen Injured
as a result of last night's motorcycle racing accident here. Coroner
Jamison to-day began investigation or motorcycle racing in Pittsburgh
Archer Armstrong, of New York, whose maclUne left the track and
dashed among the spectators, was said to l>e Injured beyond hone of
recovery, and William H. Vanderberry, of Philadelphia, another racer
was so seriously hurt that hospital doctors would not venture the onin
lon that he would get well.
Washington. June 4.—One of the foreign ministers in Mexico City
advised the embassy of his country hen- to-day that Ilucrtn regarded the
receipt of the recently landed cargoes of arms as strengthening his posi
tion with the constitutionalists, but that it had not clianeed the dictator's
attitude toward mediation. s
Wall Street Closing.—Chesapeake & Ohio, ',2'/, : liehlgli Vallev 135
Northern Pncillc, 110)4: Southern Pacific, »3: Colon Pacific 15.VC M
& St. P.. WH.;: P. It. It.. 111%: Heading, Mil %New York Central
91 : Canadian Pacific, 194}<j; U. s. Steel. Hl'i.
DEMOCRATIC GANG
RIDES ROUGH SHOD
OVER COMMITTEE
Nothing Not Dictated by Palmer
and McCormick Allowed
to Be Considered
"CHEAT AND A FRAUD"
So Says Flynn of White House
Twins and Little Fellows
They Control
Democratic State committeemen and
county leaders who remained in the
city to-day were still dizzy over the
unheard-of procedure of the bosses
Sesterday in taking the framing of a
party declaration of principles out of
the hands of the State committee and
placing the drafting and promulgation
of the document in the power of a
hand-picked committee. This action,
taken late yesterday afternoon, was
the most amazing piece of political
machine bossism ever known in the
State and the charge of Representative
John M. Flynn. of Elk, in the State
committee session yesterday afternoon
that the action "was a cheat and a
fraud" and "a piece of political she
nanigin" found many an echo In the
city last night and to-day.
Democratic leaders and observers of
yesterday's proceeding said that it
showed the hollowness of the Demo
cratic protestations about the people
ruling and opened to question the sin
cerity of the declaration for local
option. There is no doubt that
the machine headed by Palmer,
McCormick and Morris controlled yes
terday's meeting two to one and that
it could have forced through a reso
lution declaring the moon was made
of green cheese if the bosses desired,
and why the men who run the. party
organizatiorf refused to allow the State
committee to have a voice in framing
the platform passed comprehension of
many men. Some thought that the
leaders wanted to avoid a showdown
on the issue because some of the fel
lows who stand with Palmer and
McCormick are not as ardent in their
declarations for local option as are
the two nominees. In fact, there are
some county bosses who may not be.
for local option. At any rate, whether
it was to shield these followers of Pal
mer and McCormick or to avoid a row,
it was the most arrant piece of ma
chine. politics ever played in Harris
burg. and that is saying a great deal,
even when the Palmer-McCormick
leadership is mentioned.
How It Was Done
The row started when the harmony
songs of Palmer and McCormick and
Dan Hart were still in the air. The
last of the candidates had been dis
played when a mild-mannered, erst
while insurgent from New Castle,
named C. H. Aiken, put In a reso
lution for a committee of nine to meet
with the candidates and draft a plat
form. At the bottom of this reso
lution was written In a handwriting
said by some to havn been that of A.
Mitchell Palmer these words: "and be
authorized and empowered to prepare
and publish a declaration of princi
ples." When this was slipped through
Chairman Morris told the committee
men to elect their division chairmen.
The committee was named with Aiken
as chairman and a lot of specially
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William Collins, Perry
County Farmer, Commits
Suicide by Hanging
Special to The Telegraph
Blain, Pa., June 4.—William Col
lins, a well-known farmer living two
miles southeast of Blain, committed
suicide this morning. Ills body was
found hanging in the barn by his wife.
He is survived by his wife, who
was Miss Lizzie Gutshal, and five
daughters, two of whom live in Har
risburg, also by a step-son living In
Blain. Mr. Collins for some time has
been suffering from a nervous af
fection of the stomach, and this is the
only reason that can be assigned for
the act. Funeral arrangements have
not been made.
HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1914.,
M'CORMICK SETS NEW
PACE FOR PRIMARY
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES
Admits He Personally Spent Enor
mous Sum of $33,274.73
For Nomination
BULK IS NOT REPORTED
More Extravagances Will Be Made
Public When Palmer-McCor
mick League Reports
Vance C. McCormick, who estab
lished a record for expenditures in the
campaign which .resulted In his elec
tion as Mayor of Harrisburg in 1902,
has set a new hish mark for cost of
primary election campaigns in Penn
sylvania in 1914. According to hid
sworn statement filed at the Capitol
late yesterday afternoon, he spent
$33,274.73. The statement of the
Palmer-McCormick campaign commit
tee, which paid most of the expenses
of his campaign tour and contributed
to the cause .of the White House twins
in the counties of the State, has yet to
be tiled, and when It does come along
there can be gained some idea of what
it cost to put McCormick over as the
Democratic nominee for Governor with
all the forces of the national adminis
tration and the whole State machine
behind him. Suffice it to say that his
account of $33,274.73 is as memorable
a mark in a State primary campaign
as was his historic campaign for
Mayor. Verily, running for oflice is
no longer any sport for a poor man.
Fifteen Times More Than Ryan
The McCormick expenditures, which
arc* more than twice those of Boies
Penrose, who was a target of all par
ties opposed to the Republicans, are
about fifteen times greater than those
shown on the statement of Michael J.
Ryan .his rival for the nomination.
Ryan says he spent $2,723.49.
Mr. McCormick received one contri-'
bution of $5,000 from his sister. The
McCormick newspaper gives this ac
count of his statement:
"His expense account contains 282
items,, showing the expenditure of
every cent. The summarized account
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BOLE MOOSEOS HERE
TO PRIME PUTPORM
10 EEECT OFFICERS
Boss Flinn Again National Commit
teeman; Detrich Chairman;
Lindemuth Secretary
| Bull Moosers are holding forth at
I the Hoard of Trade this afternoon,
j but. unlike the. Democratic State com
mittee, the Washingtonians have no
quarrels in their household. The meet
inK is the first to he held by the State
committee under the state-wide law
and the attendance was, as one man
put it, "hopeful."
The committee will adopt a plat
form right in open meeting where all
men can discuss it. It will declare for
local option on a county unit, woman
suffrage, protective tariff and nation
wide prohibition. The national and
state administrations will be rapped
and Wilson's canal tolls stunt criti
cised. Judging from advance hints,
the Bull Moosers have no time for
Democrats in or out of power.
William Fllnn is here bossing the
job. lie sat in on the framing of the
platform with State Treasurer Young,
William Draper Lewis, candidate for
Governor; Gifford Plnchot, who would
be senator, and other leading lights.
Flinn will be re-elected national com
mitteeman; A. Nevin Detrich, hopeful
and happy, will be re-elected chair
man, with H. D. Ijindemuth. Schuyl
kill. as secretary, and State Treasurer
R. K. Young as treasurer.
All of the war horses of 1912 are
here and the talk Is all about what
"the Colonel" is going to start in Pitts
burgh on June 30, and if reports
bumping about the hall are correct he.
is booked to speak in every county,
although no one has any dates
George F. Holmes, of Philadelphia,
is on hand with choice phrases for
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1,678 Coke Ovens Shut
Down During Past Week
By Associated Press
Connellsvllle, Pa., June 4.—Further
curtailment in the coke industry was
shown In the weekly review of the Con
nellsvllle Courier here to-day by the
statement that 1,678 coke ovens were
shut down during the week, bringing
the total since May 1 to almost 5,000.
Production fell off 13,602 tons.
Ambassador Entertains
King and Queen of Spain
Madrid, June 4.—Colonel, Joseph E.
Willard. United States ambassador,
and Mrs. Willard had King Alfonso
and Queen Victoria of Spain as their
guests at luncheon at the American
embassy to-day. Kermit Roosevelt and
the British and German ambassadors
also were guests. A Russian ballet
troupe performed for the entertain
ment of the guests.
PREPARE FOR ARRIVAL
OF MEMBERS OF. I. W. W.
Tarrytown, N. Y., June 4.—ln anti
cipation of the arrival here eome
time before Saturday of an army of
several hundred members of the In
dustrial Workers of the World to fol
ilow an announced plan to hold a
'public demonstration against the ar-
I rest of thirteen of their number last
! week. Sheriff Doyle to-day assigned
'special deputies to sentry duty on all
[principal roads leading into Tarry
town.
I NEW DOCK STREET BRIDGE IN THE MAKING ■ lj
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Big Black Bear Swims
Across River at Dauphin
Two in Boat Find Out It's Sure Enough Bruin as It Walks
Cross Bar
Dauphin Is very much excited to
day, because early this morning a big
black bear swam across the river. Old
timers, who remember when ba'ar
wuz plenty on the mountains here
abouts, arc talking about getting down
their muzzle-loaders—'the one grand
pap used in the Mexican war—and go
ing in pursuit. Rruin must have walk
ed down the hill in the wee small
hours, because the first that Dauphin
knew about it was when John Hocker
and his wife told the story. He said:
"My wife and I were coming across
the river in a boat this morning to
Dauphin. I noticed a large black
animal swimming towards us.
FIVE HURT AS AUTO
SIS INTO TRUCK
THAT DOESN'T STOP
Party From Hanover on Way to
Orphans' Home Celebra
tion at Loysville
Five persons were thrown from an
auto going from Hanover to Loysville
this morning just as their machine
got at the western stretch of the Mar
rlsburg bridge. Cornelius R. McCosh,
proprietor of the Hanover Ice Com
pany, 21 West Chester street, Han
over, was hurled through the wind
shield of his own machine. He struck
the floor of the bridge and his fore
head was fractured. Robert McCosh,
his son, who was the, only one to cling
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Control of Stock and
Bond Issues Taken Up
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., June 4. The
Rayburn bill for Federal control of
railroad stock and bond Issues is the
fixed business of the House to-day.
Representative Adamson, of Georgia,
chairman of the interstate commerce
committee, who is In charge of the
measure, expected to complete gen
eral debate on it late to-day. The
consideration of the bill, section bi
section for amendment, probably will
begin Friday, with the expectation of
House leaders that it will be con
cluded and that all three anti-trust
measures will be disposed of probably
late Saturday.
CRUSHED CAR ON THE BRIDGE
{I J I / | .1,/,, ' WB^^BFil
"At first I thought it was a deer,
but as it got nearer I saw it was a
bear. It reached a sand-bar in the
river, anrf as it walked across the bar
It could be plainly s°en to be a bear.
I watched it until it reached the other
side of the river and disappeared into
the mountains."
Several trackmen who were at work
around the point of the mountain
saw the back object swimming in the
water.
They all said it was either a trained
seal or a bear; as the circus went
by several days ago they decided it
was a sure-enough bear.
T. R:S SOW WILL BE
MARRIED IN ROOM 111
MAGISTRATE'S HOME
To Comply With Laws Civil
Ceremony Cannot Be Per
formed in Embassy
By Associated Press
Madrid, June 4.—Because Ambas
sador Willard desires to observe all
the requirements of the Spanish laws
in respect to foreign marriages, the
magistrate of the Buenavlsta district
will perform the civil marriage cere
mony for Miss Belle Willard and Her
mit Roosevelt on June 10. The Amer
ican embassy is situated In the Buena
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Great Cavity Found
on California Mountain
By Associated Press
Bed Bluff, Cal, June 4. —Forest Su
pervisor W. J. Rushing, after, an in
spection made on Mount Lassen, which
last week was in eruption, reported
to-day that he found .1 cavity 100 feet
in diameter covered with ashes about
a foot thick. He says the hole is 100
feet from a frozen lake In which the
ice is melting and the water running
into one of the heated fissures forced
up ashes and mud.
It is thought another geyser is be
ing formed similar to those at Bum
pass Hell, nearly four miles distant,
where steam and water are being
thrown out nearly all the time. The
phenomenon, is a geyser action and
not vojcanic.
HOPE 10 OPEN NEW
DOCK ST. BRIDGE TO
TRIE 111 2 MS
Steel on Big Viaduct Is All in
Place; Concrete Work
Under Way
Within two weeks, barring inclement
weather or other unforeseen inter
ruptions, the new Dock street bridge
over the Pennsylvania railroad tracks
should be completed and open for
traffic.
Work on the great steel and con
crete viaduct has been progressing
rapidly and the structure now is far
enough toward completion lo present
an adequate idea of the character of
the bridge that will form the connect
ing link between the extreme lower
section and the south end of Harris
burg west of the Pennsy.
Practically all of the steel is in place
and work has been started on tho
concreting for the bridge base. The
job is being hurried as consistently as
possible and the middle of June, it is
expected, will see the viaduct in such
shape as should permit the laying of
the trolley tracks.
Its Massive I.lnes
The massiveness of the bridge is the
feature that appeals to the average
eye. Great steel girders more than
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iiIZA'S ANSWER
EXPECTED TO REACH
MEDIATORS TODAY
Constitutionalist Agents Will Not
Talk of Exchanges With
Their Chief
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., June 4.—Car
ranza loomed up again to-day in the
mediation situation. Upon his mes
sage to the South American envoys
hung the immediate scope of diplo
matic endeavor to bring order out of
war's chaos in the southern republic.
The note was expected definitely to
to be confined to the dispute between
Huerta and the United States, or to
include the entire problem of Mexico's
pacification, with the Constitutional
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Shamrock IV on First
Sail Stretching Spin
By Associated Press
Portsmouth, Eng., June 4.—Sham
rock IV, Sir Thomas Lipton's new
challenger for America's cup, went
out to-day for her first sail-stretching
spin in the vicinity of Spithead. She
was accompanied by Shamrock ill.
The wind was light and fluky and
inadequate to test the capabilities of
the challenger. Under her huge main
sail and her sloop foresail she ma
neuvered handily, however, and pick
ed up quickly after tacking.
The towering mast of the new yacht
'dwarfed that of the old Shamrock.
14 PAGES. * POSTSCRIPT.
SCORES ABANDON
FERRY IN MIDDLE
OF RIVER; HUNDREDS
RETURN ON FLATS
Picnic of Hebrew Ladies' Ai<J
Society Almost Turns InJtp
a Wetting
TRY TO SHOVEL OUT WATER
AS NEAR PANIC PREVAILS
But Brave Crew of Ensminger
Craft Have to Abandon the
Attempt at Last
Nearly 150 persons or more had a
narrow escape from being drowned in
the Susquehanna river yesterday when
water was discovered filling the ferry;
owned by E. C. Ensminger, 1122 Green
street, while carrying passengers from
this city to Independence Island,
where a picnic was being: held.
Twfce within the same day and but
several hours apart it was discovered
that water was filling the ferry as it
reached the middle of the river whilo
loaded with passengers. By the prompt
action of those who were in charge oC
the craft, the passengers were all
taken from the boat and placed in
roaw boats and sand flats that wero
quickly summoned.
The picnic was being held on Inde
pendence Island by the Hebrew
Ladies' Aid Society. All day yesterday
people were being taken to and from
the island by the ferry. Yesterday
afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock a
party of more than one hundred peo
ple including men, women and chil
dren were placed on the ferry. Short
ly after the boat started for Inde
pendence Island which was just oppo
site the short on the other side of tho
river. As the craft loaded with the
passengers reached the middle of the
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Bill For Erection of
Home For Lepers Is
Introduced in House
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., June 4.—The
presence here of John Early, tho al
leged leper, resulted in the intro
duction to-day of two bills to provide
for a national bome for lepers.
Representative Johnson, of Wash
ington, introduces a bill to authorize
the surgeon general of the Public
Health Service, to select an island in
any insular or territorial possession
for use as a national leper home, ap
propriating $150,000. Representative
Britten, Illinois, introduced a bill to
leprosarium, at. a site to be selected
appropriate .$500,000 for a national
by a board comprising the surgeon
generals of the army, navy and Pub«
lie Health Service.
MONUMENT IS UNVEILED !
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., June 4.—Reprew
sentatives of every State in the Con
federacy, officers of the armies of the
North and the South, members of tho
Cabinet and many distinguished guests
gathered here to-day for the unveil
ing of the Confederate monument in
Arlington National Cemetery. Presi
dent Wilson was the principal speaker
on the program.
THE WEATHER
For Harrlsliurg null vlolnltyi T"n
si-ttled weather to-night and Fri
day, probably occasional showers;
not much change In temperature,
l-'or Fastern l'cuiisylvania: Showers
to-night and probably Friday;
moderate to fresh wind*, mostly
south.
Hlver
Thr \orth mid Hf«t brandies will
probably rise somewhat to-night
and Friday, except the upper por
tions. which will likely begin to
fall Friday. The Juniata will
■ ■reliably n<rt change materially.
The main river will remain near,
ly stationary to-night and rise
slightly Friday* A stage of 2.3
feet la Indicated for Harrlsburg
Friday morning.
General renditions
Showers have fallen over a belt of
eountry extending; from Montana
and Wyoming eastward to the
Atlantic coast, being mostly llgh-t
to moderate except In Wisconsin,
where 4.32 Inches of rnln fell.
Temperature: 8 a. m., 42.
Sunt it INCH, 4,37 n. m.; seta, 7128
p. m.
Moon ■ Full moon, Jun. 8, 12tl8
p. m.
River Stngei 2.2 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 80.
I .owes t temperature, 53.
Mean 'temperature, CO.
Normal temperature, 87.
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