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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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Supply and their mission is to
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message of great value to some
one —perhaps the very message
YOU linve been waiting for.
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spend from day to dey glancing
through the advertising may be
the most protltable minutes ot
your life.
Read the messages from the
Ambassadors of Commerce In
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