8 QUEEN CITY OF THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY MECCA DF THOUSANDS Business Concerns Show Their Activities on Floats to Big Old Home Week Crowds FIREMEN'S DAY TOMORROW 20,000 People Expected to At tend "Big Day" of the Celebration By a Stnff Correspondent Chambersburg, Pa., July 29.. The Queen City of the Cumberland Valley was to-day the hostess for countless hundreds who came here to see the great Industrial parade and enjoy the various events of the Old Home Week celebration. From early morning until noon the crowds were arriving and it is esti mated that one of the largest crowds ever attending a celebration In the Cumberland Valley is here. The pa rade was the greatest of its kind ever seen in this vicinity and the hundred prettily decorated floats made one of the most Interesting processions to bo found any place. Besides being inter esting, the floats were quite instruc tive, for a number of them displayed the manufacture of various articles. These, as when ready for the market, instead of being sold, were thrown out to the crowd as souvenirs. Floats Attract Attention On® of the floats which attracted much attention was that of the Wolf Company, manufacturers of flour mill ing and other machinery. A com pletely equipped flour mill occupied the big: float and flour was manufac tured on board. Flour, after being ■prepared, was put In two-pound sacks and given to the crowd. Eyster & Snyder, another enterpris ing firm here, had an exceptionally fine float, and men on the wagon made tip cups which were given to the spec tators as souvenirs. Big crowds fol lowed the display of the Cumberland Valley Creamery Company, for that concerns manufactured ice cream all along the route and pleased the spec tators by throwing ice cream bricks at the crowd. The Chambersburg En gineering Company had a hig hydraulic press on a float and stamped souvenirs which were given away. C. V. R. R. Big Feature A good-sized portion of the parade was taken up by the Cumberland Val ley Railroad Company. Employes of the concern on the road and in the shops paraded in a body, each man carrying a cane. -T. B. Wood's Sons' Company had a big float in the parade and all of the employes of that plant marched along. A. J. Holllng Planing Mill Company had a porch constructed on a float and exhibited all kinds of finished frames and other woodwork. The Forbes Granite Company placed a five-ton monument on Its float, which was decorated in green and white. On the float of August Wolfe & Co. a con crete house was erected. In front of the building was a terrace of natural grass and the whole made a very pret ty appearance. Blair and Reifsnyder had a featherboarded house on their float. A unique exhibit in the parade was the display of John Schall, pro prietor of a local garage. Mr. Schall had a big motor truck gaily decorated and about eight feet above the floor of the machine had a small automo bile standing on a platform. The "auto In the air" was filled with children and they made things lively in every street. These and many more floats made to-day's parade a memorable one and one which was praised by all who •witnessed it. Dr. J. C. Greenawalt was chief marshal of the procession and had for his committee In charge T. J. Brereton, H. B. McNulty, G. Fred Glbbs, B. B. Holler and W. H. Fisher. This morning at 10 o'clock the thir teenth annual meeting of the Cumber land Valley Volunteer Firemen's Asso ciation, whose efforts have been largely responsible for the success of Old Home Week, met in the main room of the courthouse. The association transacted routine business and dis cussed the possibility of establishing a relief department through which the families of deceased members would receive benefits. Yesterday's parade drew an excep tionally large crowd here and secret orders were here from many parts of the valley. The floats were decorated In an attractive manner and received much comment. The local lodge of Knights of Pythias received the first prize of S3O for having the prettiest decorated float, nnd a second prize of S2O was awarded to the Columbus Dodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel lows, of Chambersburg. There were some other prizes offered to out-of town organizations, hut one of the rules of the contest was that all com peting organizations wouid have to place their entries before noon. None of the visitors complied with this regu (aton and the prizes were not awarded, iAt a meeting of the prize committee next week it Is believed the money will be returned to the firemen. To-night the Oront Eastern Carnival Company, which has been holding forth in the Second strict show grounds thin week, will have a num ber of special attractions. The com pany, which will play in Harrisburg next week for the benefit of the tire men's convention fund, has numerous shows, a motordrome, with two men find a woman, a large number of small concessions and many free attractions Tonight, also, there will be a band concert in the square and the first pro duction of Benjamin Franklin. Jr.. will be given in the New Theater. The play was written and is being staged by local talent, all of the -*ongs and choruses being written by Chambers burg people. i>ast evening an interesting session of the carnival committee was held in the offices of B. H. Overpeck, man ager of the Bell Telephone Company here Final plans for the big affair on Friday evening were gone over, and according to Indications, the event will be one of the week's pleasing features. ■Last evening also a committee of tire men met to arrange for the placing of visiting grpnien in the four divisions of the parade to-morrow. To-morrow will he Firemen's Day and between twenty-five and thirty companies will be in line, together with sixteen bands. Altogether it is estimated that about 3,000 men will be in line. Four States, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, will he represented. Companies will come here from Hagerstown, Winches ter, West Chester, Waynesboro, Ren ovo, Martlnsburg, Carlisle. Shlppens burg and other towns through the valley. The day will he the biggest of the week and is expected, according to those in authority, to draw not less than 20,000 visitors. TWO OUT IX FIGHT Nannie Bryant and George Morgan, both coolred. had a razor fight at 16 Cowden street shortly after midnight last night. Both went to the Karris burg Hospital and later both were sent t<> lall The woman had twelve stitches placed In an ugly gash In her right wr'st. while Morgan had six stitches put in hi# left arm. • WEDNESDAY EVENING StAJtRISBURG s&£&£& TELEGRAPI? JULY 29, 1914 'ENES FROM THE BIG FRATERNITY PARADE WHICH FEATURED CHAMBERSBVRG OLD HOME WEEK CELEBRATION YESTERDAY BHH^T^|v^T^ iaaiaal^^nn "^^SBSj&jjjSSSSSjSjj^^SSjjSR9BBSS&S H - • ;■ ,i. .;_■' BL The photographs above snappe d by a staff photographer of the Telegraph show scenes from the Chamb ersburg Old Home Week celebration. Above, from left to right, are: Cnights of Pythias float In big secret fraternity parade; Quindar Lodge of Red Men of Chambersburg; float of Oriole Council, 877, Jr. O. U. A. M., Chambersburg. Below are seen 'he Knights of AJalta float; Dr. J. C . Green'awalt, chief marshal of fraternity parade, and the Hagerstown Od d Fellows. T. M. JONES GETS HONORABLE DISCHARGE Interesting History of Bill That Makes Him State's Youngest Soldier Special to The Telegraph Washington, D. C. July 29. The military record of Colonel Thomas M. Jones, an old-time Harrisburg news paper correspondent, is corrected by a bill favorably reported yesterday by the House military committee. It ap pears that Jones went to war at the age of 12, and acted as a drummer boy from September IS, 1862, to the follow ing April, when his father compelled him to return home. He was in a com pany which had not entered service at the time. By the provisions of the bill. Jones is mustered into the service and honor ably discharged. The correction does not carry any pension, but permits Jones to become a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Jones served in the Union army as a member of one of three unattach ed independent companies from Penn sylvania, being a drummer in Company C, Independent Regiment, recruited in Warren, Pa., and commanded by Cap tain DeWltt C. James, a son of the fam ous General Joseph James, of Warren. The company came to Harrisburg dur ing the first week in September. 162, and was minus a drummer. It was camped on the field at Second and Fors ter, owned by the late Mrs. Sara Haley, and was known as Camp Haley, there being two other companies there. On September 6 Mr. Jones applied to Captain James to be enlisted as a drummer, and was accepted, and from that time until the company was or dered to Washington, in April, 1868, he performed his duties as a drummer faithfully. When the company was or dered to Washington the young drum mer was astounded to discover that the little ceremony of being "iistered into the service had been withheld In his case, and his parents were loth to let him go to the front. He lost his place as drummer after serving to the best of his ability. Many old soldiers still residing in Harrisburg knew him as a drummer In the army and have offered their as sistance in securing him an honorable discharge, holding that as he served he had a right to the honor of a dis charge. The War Department at Washington, however, declined to Issue a discharge on the ground that he was never mustered. There was but one wav to get a discharge, and that was through an act of Congress. Congressman Kreider cheerfully agreed to introduce the hill, and after its Introduction, and while it was in the hands of the committee on military affairs, of the House, Mr. Kreider kept continuously at work to have the hill reported. But it takes a long time to get a hill of that character out of com mittee, even though It is supported, as was that of, Mr. Jones, with affidavits from the commanding officers of his company, showing his service. Recently Mr. Jones enlisted the in terest of Congressman A. Mitchell Pal mer and General Willis J. Hillings, both personal friends, in the bill, and Mr. Kreider had two allies who gave him vcrv material assistance. The bill now goes to the House, where it is raid its passage is assured, the word of the committer carrying favorable action, and it will then go to the Sen ate where the action of the House is always endorsed and passed. When the CZAR NICHOLAS OF RUSSIA REVIEWING VET fRONT St. Petersburg. July 29. —Czar Nicholas of Russia is the man who holds the power to throw all Europe' into war. The first movement of Russian troops outside that country's borders for the purpose of aiding the Servians in their war with Austria will be the signal for Oermanv and Italy to taae i*l> arms in Austria's behulf. France and England, who, with Russia, makeup the triple entente, would be forced to stand by their ally. "Hattie, the Hugger," Robs Man Hurrying to Catch Train Affectionately She Runs Up and Embraces Him and Then Wilbur Mock, a Philadelphia trav eling salesman, was attacked by Hattie Dutton, colored, known to the police as "Hattie the Hugger," at an early hour this morning, and relieved of a pocketbook containing S2B. Mock had been visiting a friend in the upper end of the city. In order to get to the Pennsylvania Railroad station in time for the 1.10 a. m. train, he took a short cut down Cowden street. At Forster and Cowden streets a patrolman notified Mock to be on his bill is sent to the President it is un derstood that there will be no delay in its being approved. The completion of the affair will give Mr. Jones the dis tinction of having officially been the youngest soldier from Pennsylvania in the Cnion army. He was but 12 years old six days before he enlisted. GETTISI9 REM TO GO HOME TO FIGHT (Continued From Page 3) are hereby nottlled that in due time a personal notice will be is sued to them, giving them full no tice and Instruction as to the pro l ceedingß to be observed by them In joining their respective regi ments. According to the records of the con sulate at Philadelphia, there are 150,000 Austro-Hungarians living in Eastern Pennsylvania. About one fifth of the number, or 30,000, are available for service. Of the 300 Croatlans In Steeiton. subjects of Austria, it is doubtful that ail of these will return to the call of arms, since many have applied for naturalization papers. Intending to be come citizens of the United States. TRY TO LOCALIZE WAR By Associated Press Vienna, July 29.—Germany and Italy to-day continued their efforts to local ize the war declared yesterday by their ally, Austria-Hungary, against Servla, and the efforts of all the European diplomats are being directed toward the same object. DRI.OIAH HRSERVES OUT By Associated Press Brussels, July 299. The Belgian Cabinet decided to-day to rail out im mediately three classes of the army re serves. Steals His Wallet guard, as two men had been held up in that locality within the past three weeks. At Briggs and Cowden streets, Mock met the Dutton woman. At first he supposed her to be drunk when she ran up and started to hug him. But when he felt the woman's hands in his pocket Mock started to fight. The won| n then tried to get away and began pelting Mock with bricks. She finally broke and ran. Mock lo cated the patrolman and they found her hiding behind a step in Briggs street. At the'police station S3O was found In her waist. HARRISBURG GARDENS IS NEWEST SUBURB Tract in Camp Hill Contains More Than a Million Square Feet ' Another suburban *7* P' ot °f land is, the J. ' latest subject of ex / S ?- ploitation by the Har- J. kp risburg realty pro- mott " rs - Harrisburg is rapidly becoming a ''"oE 25T city distinguished for fjp"jw its admirable sub- A,4 Jfsa urbs, and another Ja. project launched this week proposes to increase the number of Harrisburgers who will find sub urban dwellings. Harrisburg Gardens is the name se lected by the Wilbur Land Company, who is financing the proposition, for the new suburban district, which is situated a short distance from the Valley Railways lines in Camp Hill. The ground is at the crest of the hill, and is one of the most delight ful locations in this vicinity. The tract contains more than a million square feet. There are no stipulations, it is un derstood, regarding the character of the homes to be erected, but in order to stimulate building the Wilbur company is to dispose of some lots without charge to those who will promise to build at once. To Build In Maclay Street.—Con tractor C. A. Sollenberger will build two 2 % -story brick houses on the nortb side of Maclay street near Orange, for M. C. Clay. The build ings will cost $5,000. ANOTHER STOIIGH MASS MEETING Oil SUIM John Buckley of Wiconisco Will Be Speaker at Session in Grace Church Plans for another interesting Sto ugh mass meeting for next Sunday at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, State street, »'4 were completed by ' |JU| the local committee MM last n 'S ht - The meet " *4 ySSJ' ' ns start at 3.30 j o'clock and the prin- Ct'Ai - cipal speaker will be BLMjJjB fIL John Buckley, of Mr. Buckley, who is IffsT AaJ an interesting talker, 'Si nrT i 'is engaged In the mining business in the upper end of the county and has been identified with successfui evangelistic campaigns. The committee will announce other features later. The meeting Sunday afternoon is for everybody. | Bishop to Visit York. —Bishop U. F. ! Swengel of the Evangelical Church, |of this city, will preach next Sunday morning at Bethany Church in York. This will be the first official visit of Bishop Swengel to this congregation, rsisliop Spengel is a member of the Central Pennsylvania conference, and has served a pastorate at Trinity Church, York, and a term as pre siding elder of York district. He is a loader in the Christian Endeavor work and a trustee of the United So ciety of Chris Man Endeavor and the National Anti-Saloon Eeague. Dr. Swengel was elected senior bishop of the United Evangelical Church at the session of the general conference, which met in Canton, Ohio, in October, 1910. France Continues to Prepare For War; Army on Move to Frontier Paris, July 29.—France continues quietly to prepare for war. The troops of the active army are gradually con centrating near the frontier. A military guard has been placed in the great flour mills at Corbel!, near Paris, which in the event of war would be taken over b.v the army. The bakers in Paris are laying in large stacks of , flour and the city authorities, to pre vent all possibility of famine in the capital, started forming to-day a re serve store of 15,000 tons of flour. | The police department is exercising a general surveillance over Atistrians i>nrt Germans In Paris, where many of them reside. The prefect of police to day ordered the discontinuance of the service of the public at tables on the sidewalks and terraces In front of cafes In consequence of disorder which has occurred since the beginning of international tension. ICOICIL TO TAKE | FREQUENT INSPECTION I TRIPS OVER TOWN Commission Believes It Can Thus See What's to Be Done Better City Council will take little auto trips of inspection about town every couple of weeks or so. The commis sioners decided that this morning fol lowing a trip to Summit and Market streets to look over the grading prob lem, up town to inspect a small side street which is to be paved, and then out to the proposed new formal en trance to Reservoir Park at Twenty first and Market streets. Council incidentally may meet in special session late this week or Mon day of next week to decide just what plan, if any, will be adopted to settle the Summit street problem. All the Councilmen and City Engi neer Cowden met at Summit street. This has been the grading bone of contention for years. Summit street at present ends abruptly in a (light of steps on a bluff some hundreds of feet south of Market. To grade the street to Market itself would be far too cost ly. City Engineer Cowden, however, has suggested two other plans. One provides for the grading of Mt. Pleasant street from Evergieen to Summit: tho other calls for the closing of Summit street to tra%c at the cluff and construct a series of steps for pe destrians from the bluff to the remain ing portion of Summit street below the bluff. Both plants will cost several thousands of dollars. The Councilmen thought so well of the inspection trip that they unani mously decided to try It again—often, probably as much as twice a month. It affords them better opportunity to see what they wish to do. (iOODBV, PROW) WOULD! Goodby, proud world! I'm goifig home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine; Too long through weary crowds I roam— A river ark on the ocean brine. Too long I am tossed like the driven foam; But now, proud world, I'm going home. Goodby to Flattery's fawning face; To Grandeur with his wise grimace; To upstart Wealth's averted eye. To supple Office, low and high; To crowded halls, to court and street, To frozen hearts, and hasting feet, To those who go, and those who come, Goodby, proud world, I'm going home. •—Emerson. There's a call for you in IJ the WANT pages of the \sClll Telegraph to-day. It may be a position that wants you. _ It may be a business opening that's calling or it may be a bargain of any one of a hun dred kinds. #lYou cannot afford to miss * " • it, &e it whatever it may, and to realize on it you must read Of f Telegraph WANT ADS to- day and thereafter and find your special "call" yourself. No one else can choose or find it for you. COMMISSIONERS TO INSPECT B BRIDGES! Board Visits Lower End of County Today—To Paint Others commissioners expect to take a look at the viaduct crossing between Mid. dletown and Royalton. The others aro further up the stream. Bids for painting a number of bridges in the upper end of the coun ty will be opened in the near future by the commissioners. The bridges which will he rehabilitated will in clude the following: Upper Paxton township, nesqtie bridge, three miles east of Millershurg Vallerschamp, half mile east of same borough. Washington township, one mila south of Loyalton. Lykens township, Schnffstall's bridge over deep creek. Mlddletown, bridge over Swatara, mile north of borough. Londonderry township, bridge over Iron creek. East Hanover, Alanada creek near Runkle's Mills. Fix Dates For Partition Sales.- August 22 and 20 have been fixed respectively as the dates for the sales in partition of the properties of Ja cob Stephenson and Jacob Hess. Ste phenson's property includes the site of the old Dauphin post office while the Hess property includes a dozen houses in this city. In the Stephen son property the master in partition who will conduct the sales was di rected to file $2,000 bonds; in the Hess case, his bond was fixed at $25,000. Auditors <;et Down to Work. Work was begun to-day by the Dau phin county board of auditors on the books and accounts of the county for 1913. The first accounts to be con sidered are those of the prison board. These will require some days to finish. To Hear ]<oan license Applicant.—• Notice of the application of Robert W. Mc'Connell, of the People's Endorse ment Company, for a loan license has been filed with Prothonotary Harry F. Holler and the hearing in the case has been fixed by the Dauphin County Court for August 24. Son<l Out letters to Ministers. —Min- isters of all the churches, as well as physicians, have been mailed letters requesting co-dperatiyn with the Poor Hoard in the recently launched cam paign to stamp out the specific blood and similar diseases among the coun ' ty's indigent. lioschclli's Condition Serious.—Word has been received in county official ciicles here to the effect that A. A. Hoschelll. who is wanted here as a fugitive on charges of conductinK a disorderly place at the Hose Garden. Hotel Menger, for selling liquor to | minors and for forging a S4OO note against his bail bondsman, is dying in a Chicago hospital. The bondsman, M. P. Johnson, will be expected to pro duce rather than the county authori ties, but it is doubtful if Boschelll will ever recover sufficiently to be brought home. Hunters and Anglers Want Two Commissions United; Wildman Censured At a meeting of the local branch of the Hunters and Anglers' Association last evening in the hall of Samuel H. Garland, the members voted to ask the Legislature to unite the fish ami game commissions of th«j State. A bill with this in view will be prepared for introduction at the next session of the Legislature. The association also passed resolu tions censuring Augustus Wildman for his vote on the hunters' license bill at the last session of the Legislature and a committee was appointed- to in terview the various legislative candi dates in Dauphin as to how they stand on matters of interest to the hunters and anglers. The Wild man resolution in part follows: "Whereas, While the Hunters' and Anglers' Protective Association of » ennsylvania is a nonpartisan organi zation and reluctant t<> engage in political strife of express party pref erences, the members are morally pledged to oppose for office those who betrayed them by giving support to legislation so clearly antagonistic to the best interests of the hunters of tho State, therefore, be It resolved that th«» members of the Hunters' and Anglers' Association of Pennsylvania be re quested to Individually and collective ly exert all their efforts and energy to defeat Augustus Wildman who Is a candidate for re-election to the Gen eral Assembly for the district."
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