U. S. Anxiously Awaits Reply to Note Ask HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIII — MUNICIPAL BDATHOUSE (LONG lER FRONT TIM'S SUGGESTION Will Ask Council to Appropriate Funds For Erection of Modern Boat Livery TO CHARGE SMALL RENTAL hundreds of Canoeists and River men Heartily Favor Com- - missioner's Plan Before another year lias rolled round Harrisburg W 'U boast of a munlH|>al boathouse along the River Front if a plan suggested by Commis sioner M. Harvey Taylor can be mate rialized. In brief, Commissioner Taylor's plan is this: .To ask city council to appropriate enough to pay for the erection of an attractive, commodious and modernly equipped boathouse with lockers, land ings, etc., and to pay for the mainte nance of a keeper or keepers. Owners of boats or canoes who may wish to enroll to be charged a nom inal sum until after the cost of the structure is paid back after which only sufficient rental or dues to be charged for boat storage or member ship to guarantee the cost of upkeep. "In other words," said Commis sioner Taylor, "my idea is to have the municipal boathouse plan work out on a self-sustaining basis." The plan of course is only in the tentative stage but the canoeists and boatmen all over the river heartily favor the scheme. Harrisburg's boat ing colony already numbers hundreds and the completion of the river dam will mean that additional craft will be on the stream by the end of an other season. Build It in Impressed Park Just where the proposed structure should be constructed is a matter of the future but Commissioner Taylor's idea is to build it between the Market and Cumberland Valley bridges in the depressed or secondary park. The commissioner indicated this in a tentative way in his letter to Stucker Brothers' Construction company re fusing to permit the dumping of the earth from the Front street subway excavation at that point. Scores of line young trees help make the second ary park an ideal spot and it is be lieved that by constructing the boat house close to the embankment a scheme of shrubbery and vine plant ing could be devised which would not interfere with the view from the park. The location is also considered ad visable from the viewpoint of con venience and accessibility. The water would be of sufficient depth there to make access easy; furthermore, it is above the swifter currents that flow under the Cumberland Valley bridge. Then again it is the most centrally located point and is convenient to trol ley service fronj all the city and sub urban lines. Villa Will Not Use Gen. Huerta's Bathtub Special to The Telegraph Washington, June 27.—Gen. Fran cisco Villa will soon have a SI,OOO porcelain bathtub. A firm in Chicago, according to information received to day, has tilled the rebel leader's order and has shipped the tub to Juarez. It is believed that Villa plans to carry his new tub to Mexico City to substitute it for that now used by Huerta. There is said to be no bath tub like Villa's SI,OOO purchase either in the White House or in the home of any Cabinet officer here. DRUMMERS MI ST HE 21 By Assoeial.tr **ess Columbus, Ohio, June 27.—Travel ling salesmen under the age of 21 will continue to be debarrc,* from mem bership in the United Commercial Travellers. The supreme council of the order in session here yesterday re jected a proposed amndment to the constitution providing for admission of young drummers below voting age. Late News Bulletins ROBINSON SIGNS CONTRACT New York, .tunc 27.—The Brooklyn National I.cague Club to-day signed Manager WUhert Robinson to a contract covering 1015, 191(1 aiul 1017. Tills sets at rest all rumors regarding a change in the manage lient o rthe Snpcrbas. BATTLESHIPS REACH NAPLES Naples, Italy, .lime 27.—The American battleships Missouri and Idaho, with a large number of midshipment from the Naval Academy at Annapolis on board arrived here to-day. ASSURANCE COMPANY HEAD DIES Toronto. Ont.. June 27.—A cable message received at the head offices of the Canada l,ife Assurance Company to-day announced the deatli of E. \V. Cox, president of the company, at Folkstone, England. Mr. Cox had recently undergone an operation for a throat affection. ■ JAPANESE PRESS AROUSED Toklo. Japan. June 27.—The Japanese press generally expresses Indignation to-day at the attitude of the Ct.ited States in the Callfor nian anti-alien land controversy as outlined In the correspondence hc trwen the two governments recently published. Several of the news papers Insist that a remedy must IK* found for the "Insulting" situation. SHIPS WII& BE SOLD Washington, June 27.—Authority to sell the battleships Idaho and Mississippi' Mas finally conferred on I "resident Wilson to-day by the adoption of the completed conference report on the naval appropri ation bill In the Senate. Arrangements have IM>CII practically com pleted fo rthe sale of the two battleships to Greece. COMMENT O MEDIATION Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 27. —The Argentine newspapers to day made rurthcr reference to the success of the mediation confer ence at Niagara Kails. CIRRIIII DELAYS ACTION ON MESSAGE ISKING FOR ENVOYS Constitutionalist Leaders, How ever, Believe He Will Send Men to Meet Delegates WILL NOT HALT CAMPAIGN Press Dispatches Say Rebel Chief tain May Give His Answer to Washington Today By Associated I'ress Washington, D. C., June 27.—Ad ministration officials and Constitution alist representatives in Washington still were waiting to-day for Carranza to decide whether he would send en voys to Niagara Falls to discuss with Huerta's delegates conditions for the [Continued on Page 3.] City Officials Confer on Need of Funds For The Dam Operations Members of the Board of Public Works, the Superintendent of Streets and Public Improvements and City Solicitor Seitz will have a conference with the members of City Council next Monday evening regarding funds for the emergency work on the river dam and Paxton creek. An ordinance will then he passed making the nec essary provision for the contingencies and expenditures which could not be anticipated in the original specifica tions. This morning a conference was held by the officials In charge of these un dertakings with the City Solicitor and the estimates and reports of the en gineers were considered. It was then decided to have a further conference with the City Council. Meanwhile there will be no suspen sion of the work on the dam or along the creek, and at the present rate of progress all the important public work under the original program should be completed before next winter. . , It is expected that the steam shovel will be operating along the river wall north of Calder street next week, re moving the deposits and low shore line. BBS! OPENING ENTHUSIASTS WILL CONTINUE THE FIGHT Predict That Hundred Citizens Will Attend Meeting of Council Next Tuesday More than 100 persons will attend the meeting of council next Tuesday to protest against the city's inactivity in not opening Brlggs street. Such was the prediction made last night at a meeting of several residents of the sec tion in which the silk mill is located. The residents met in the store of Jo seph Claster, 6 V 4 North Second street, and discussed the progress of the movement toward the opening of Briggs street between Second and Front. An outlined plan of carrying the [Continued on Page 3.] UNVEIL CARNEGIE STATUE By Associated Press Dunfermline, Scotland, June 27.—A statue of Andrew Carnegie was un veiled in Pittencricff Glen, ono of the city parks, to-day. The park was pre sented to the municipality in 1903 by Mr. Carnegie together with an en dowment of ?2,500,000. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1914. ) 16 PAGES JOHNSON AND MOHAN BOTH CUIM VICTORY BEFORE FIGHT STARTS Champion Says He Was Never More Confident of Winning Than He Is Today [MEN IN GOOD CONDITION Moran Will Enter Ring at 195 Pounds While Johnson Will Weigh 210 ' \ i By Associated Press Parts, June 27.—French sportsmen and thousands of Americans and other foreign followers of boxing were gathered In Paris to-day awaiting the beginning of the fight to-night for the heavyweight championship of the world. Frank Moran, of Pittsburgh, and Jack Johnson, holder of the title since he defeated Jeffries July 4, 1910, at Reno, will meet In the ring at the great Valedrome D'Hiver at 10.30 o'clock to-night to light for twenty, rounds under Queensbury rules. On every hand the question was dis cussed whether the white challenger was capable of wresting the title from its negro holder. Each of the pros pective combatants expressed strong confidence in his own chances of vic tory, but the betting odds on the event were 3 to 1 in favor of Johnson. Johnson said to-day: "I was never more sure In my life than 1 am to-day. It Is now a ques tion of true sportsmanship. If Moran f Continued on Page it,] Car Works Buys Land For Big Improvement Rumors are persistent of an exten sive enlargement of the plant of the Standard Steel Car Company at Mld dletown. Officials of the company, however, are reticent and refuse to confirm the reports. It Is known, however, that additional land is being purchased and that certain proposed changes In the line of the street rail way company near the plant are under discussion. The Standard company has plants also at Butler, In this State, at Hammond, Ind., and Baltimore. Its general offices are at Pittsburgh. NUDE BATHING IN SUSQUEHANNA MUST STOPI-HUTCHISON Police Chief Says He Will Not Tolerate Annoyance to Canoe ists and Park Strollers Nude bathing In the river must cease. The lid went on at noon to-day after Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison, Chief of Police, received a complaint that a small army of nude bathers were disporting yesterday afternoon and last evening. An old city ordinance prohibits nude bathing in the river. Evidently, says the chief, few people know of this. Between the hours of 5 and 7.30 o'clock last evening there were no less than 100 bathers in the river between Maclay and Race streets and nearly 50 per cent, of these bathers were naked. In order to enforce the ordi nance Colonel Hutchison will arrange for. the use of a motorboat and will have several patrolmen watch the river closely. Orders were also given the day patrolmen to keep a close watch on the river front and arrest all bathers without the proper bathing costume. This order includes bathers who go to Island Park. It Is in the vicinity of the Island where many nude bath ers were seen last evening. Many of those who were not naketj were as offensive to people passing over the Market street and Walnut street bridges last evening as those who were nude. Many bathe in their summer underwear. Colonel Hutchison stated that the one thing most needed is an ordi nance specifying the kind of bathing suits to be worn by river bathers. Ford Plans to Double His Auto Plant's Size Special to The Telegraph Detroit, Mich,, June 27.—Henry Ford, after giving away 10,000,000 of the year's profits to his employes, is spending five millions more on addi tions to his tremendous plant, which will almost double it in size and make it, according to Orley H. Dawson, su perintendent of construction, the larg est factory of any kind in the world. In the last three seasons the com pany has manufactured ahout half of the automobile output of the entire world. The principal additions will be seven new factory buildings, each six stories high, 60 feet wide and 900 feet long. These will cost $500,000 each. A power plant to contain the largest gasoline engine in the world, and to cost $1,500,000, will complete the ad ditions. The Ford plant now covers 4 5 acres. When the new buildings are finished it will cover 85. The buildings will be completed in time for the rush of business in the Full. When the entire factory is run ning full capacity more than 40,000 men will he employed. The increase in number of men needed would make Jobs for more than the entire number who were out of employment in the city last winter. AND THE WORST p£%s\ . Has to Enlist in Army to Get Legacy From His Aunt So Oberlin Youth Up and Does It; Sent to Columbus, 0. to Join the Cavalry Recently Mrs. William Ralph, ofi Oberlin, called her nephew, John E. Longenaker aside and showed him her will in which there was a clause leav ing- a handsome little inheritance to John. "But, John," she said, "before you can get this inheritance you must show that you are patriotic. You must serve an enlistment in the United States army." So yesterday Longenecker appeared RECKLESS DRIVING 111 STEELTOII STIRS BURGESSTO ACTION Car Hits Woman in Front Street; To Place Four Traffic Cops Tonight As she was about to board a trolley car at Front and Jefferson streets «to go to Harrisburg to shop, about 9:30 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Lester Mathias, 412 North Front street, was run down by an automobile driven by C. B. Whlteaell, n. P. n. No, i. Hur lock Creek, Pa., a town near Wilkes- Barre. She was picked up and rushed to the Harrisburg hospital in the White sell car where it was found that she was suffering from a lacerated head and injuries to the spine. Her condi tion is not believed to be serious. There were live passengers in the Whltesell car which was enroute to Gettysburg. Witnesses of the accident say that the automobile attempted to pass the trolley car as Airs. Mathias and Mrs. Minnie Morrow, a companion, were boarding the trolley. Mrs. Morrow was on the step of the trolley when Mrs. [Continued on Pajje B.] Another Tennis Court af Twelfth St.; May Build Two at Reservoir Park Another tennis court is being laid out tor the Twelfth street playgrounds in order to accommodate the demand of the pluyers. Furthermore, begin ning Monday the same registration rules that apply to Reservoir will be in service at the Twelfth street grounds. If the appropriation holds out, two additional courts will be established for Ueservolr Park, according to City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor. In this event the courts would bo placed on the slop© Just beyond the shelter east of the present courts/ at the recruiting station in Altoona and enlisted for a term of three years. He said that he was a son of John T. Longenecker of Oberlin and told of qualified. Longenecker was accepted qualified. Longenecker wa saccepted and sent to Columbus, Ohio, to serve in the cavalry. Longenecker is well known in Steel ton and was formerly a student at Susquehanna university. His aunt, Mrs. Ralph, is reputed to be wealthy. This City Loses Convention Because of Its Lack of Hotel Accommodations The committee on time and place of next meeting of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association recom mended tat the next annual conven tion be held in Harrisburg in June, 1915. When action was taken at Buena Vista Spring yesterday, several travel ing men of the Association stated that Harrisburg was all right, excepting the hotel accommodations: and that re cently they have found It impossible, to secure sleeping rooms at our hotels unless they sent in a reservation from two to eight days in advance of their coming. The association, numbering over 1.000 members, decided to go next year to Forest Park, in Pike county. Passed Worthless Check to Get a Drink Is Charge On a warrant charging him with false pretense, W. A. Thomas, a local real estate agent, 20.t!l North Fifth street, was to-day arrested by Detec tive Harry White. The prosecutor Is .1. I'. Kankey, of Ulizabethtown. Thom as Is chnrged with passing a worthless check for s!>o over Mr. Sanlcev's bar. Thomas denied passing the check, lie returned to Kllzabethtown this after noon. Boy Swimmer's Arm Broken When He Dives While swimming in the pond in Cameron Park yesterday afternoon, Bernard Peace, aged 12, of 24 South Third street, Steelton, fractured his left arm. He struck his arm on a stone while diving. PKNNSY BHAKIOMAN HURT Struck by a freight car In the local yards this morning, G. F. Kichardson, of Penbrook, a brakemf>n on the Pennsylvania railroad was brought to the Harrisburg hospital suffering with an injury to the chest. He had been employed by tl*e railroad company one week. "LUCILLE LOVE" Subsequent chapters of the "movie" serial. "Lucille hove," will be pub llslieu bV tho Telegraph on Mondays instead of Saturdays. To-day "The Million Uollar Mystery" begins, with succeeding instalments each Saturday. FIGHTTO CLOSE ILL STBS Oil SMITH TO BEGIN TOMORROW Church Council Will List Every Merchant Who Fails to Shut Up His Shop Tn the efforts to bring about a gen eral Sunday closing movement, the Civic Council of Churches will open its acmpaign in Harrisburg to-mor row. The first action will be to se cure a list of all stores, barber shops and shoe shining places doing busi ness on Sunday. This list of names will be placed in the hands of the committee in charge of the Sunday closing move ment. Notices will be served on the i proprietors of the stores and other business places that beginning July 5, it will be the purpose of Civic Coun cil to prosecute all who violate the old blue law which provides for a close observance of the Sabbath. The po lice department has received notice of the proposed action of the Civic Coun cil of Churches. During the week many inquiries have been made at the police depart ment by local business men as to what they shoud • do. Some Arms say they have secured counsel and will fight any attempt to make them close up on Sunday. Others have in formed tlie police department that they would pay their lines if arrested and continue to sell. Colonel Joseph Hutchison an nounced to-day, {hat as chief of po lice, it would be his duty to make ar rests when the proper warrants were sworn out. As to the outcome of the arrests lie could make no statement. "It is a matter for (lie courts to de cide," added Colonel Hutchison. Nearly 10,000 Pupils to Be Transferred in September Between nine and ten thousand stu dents will be transferred to higher grades when school reopens in Sep tember this year, according to figures obtained from I''. 10. Downes, superin tendent of schools this morning. With the addition of first-year en rollment, the army of children will be considerably augmented:* Schools in the hill section, it is believed, will be very much crowded until the comple tion of the building now being erected. Aged Woman Fractures Her Skull in Fall Down Steps Falling down a flight of cellar steps at her home in Bendersville yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Sarah Peters, aged 72 years, fractured her skull. She was admitted to the Harrisburg Hospital. Mrs. Peters- is in a critical condition. .MRS. CATT (iOKS TO LONDON New York. Juno 27.—Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the Inter national Woman Suffrage Alliance, sailed for London this morning to at tend a board meeting of the Alliance whlcft will be held in London this month. I * POSTSCRIPT. ABSOLUTE (EST OF 4MONTHS ORDERED FOB COL JOOSEITi Physicians Say He Is Suffering From Enlarged Spleen and Loss of Vitality ONE TALK IN PITTSBURGH Campaign Trip Across Continent Has Been Abandoned; Was Planned For September fl.v Associated f ress Oyster Bay, N. Y., June 26.—Four months of absolute rest has been pre scribed for Colonel Roosevelt by his physicians, who informed him that he was suffering from an enlargement of the spleen and a loss of vitality as a result of tho malarial fever he con tracted in the South American Jungles. "But in four months the campaign will be over," the Colonel said to-day. Consequently, ho added, he considered it an impossibility for him to follow his physicians' advice. Cdlonel Roosevelt lias abandoned bis campaign trip across the conti nent, which had been arranged ten tatively for September. He also tele graphed to Pittsburgh that he would make only one speech there on Tues day night. Two had been arranged. The change in tho ex-President's plans came after an examination made last night by Dr. Alexander Lambert, of New York. Dr. Lambert came to Oyster Bay and spent more than an hour in inspecting his patient. Then he told him that he must rest for four months. lie urged the Colonel to give up his trip to Pittsburgh, to make no speeches during the campaign and as far an possible to give up everything that would tax his strength. He ex plained, the Colonel said, that it would require a long period to shake off the effects of the malaria and that if this were not accomplished tho disease might become BO securely fastened upon him that he would never recover his full strength. It might even Im pair his mental vigor, the physician said. Colonel Roosevelt declined to heed the warning. He said it would be an Impossibility for him to give up hi* campaign work. Government Is Prepared to Respond to Emergency Calls For Food Supplies By Associated Press Washington, D. C., June 27.—The promptness with which the govern ment is prepared to respond to emer gency calls for food supplies is shown by a report to the Navy Department to-day from Captain Coffman, com mandant of the Boston Navy Yard, on the distribution of provisions yes terday to citizens of the fire stricken city of Salem, Mass. Within two hours . after Governor Walsh at 9 o'clock In the morning had requested Captain CotTman for food suplles, three thou sand pounds of loaf bread had been - distributed and seven thousand pounds more were supplied later in the day. In addition, eleven tons of proviso ions were also furnished. I THE WEATHER For Harrlsburg nii<l vlelnltyi Un- / settled ivmthrr probably nbon- IT« I lilx afternoon or to-night | Sunday generally fair. For Kastern Pennsylvania i Unset tled to-night anil Similar, prob ably occasional nhowcri) moder ate easterly winds. lilver ' The Susquehanna river and Ita prlnelpal branches will rise slightly or remain about station ary to-nlKbt anil .Sunday. A otags of nliout 1.5 feet IN indicated for Harrlsburg Sunday morning. General Conditions The center of the western disturb anee liiin moveil northeastward ta the lipper Mississippi Volley nit In increasing energy. It has i. nseit general showers lu 'the last twenty-four hours over the Mis souri and I pper Mlsslslppl val leys anil loeal showers In the Upper Ohio Valley, the Interior of New York and in Central Penn sylvania. Temperaturei S a. m„ 72. Sun: Ulsex, 4i3S a. m.| sets, 7i35 p. m. Mooni First quarter, June 30, 2|24 a. m. lilver .Stages 1.4 feet above low water mark. Vesterilay's Weather Highest temperature, N7. Lowest temperature, 73. Mean temperature, NO. Normal temperature, 73. 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