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.
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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."