Three Bisiind Batiks lire How Raging in Theater of War With Mo Decisive Result „ HARRISBURG iSsllfc TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— No. 217 CITY TAX APPEALS LIKELY TO BE HELD EARLY IN NOVEMBER Duplicate Must Be Completed and Turned Over For City's Use by January 1 5-DAY NOTICE IS NECESSARY School List Need Not Be Submit ted Until April of Next Year While the City Commissioners, sit ting as a board of tax revision, have not yet decided definitely upon the dates for hearing appeals from the 1915 assessments, It is understood that the time will be early in November. Preparation of the tax duplicate for the use of the city must be completed by not later than January 1. 1915, and this means practically that the work of the assessor and the tax revi sion board must be finished at least three months earlier this year than before. The fact that the municipal year begins January 1 instead of the first Monday in April from now on is responsible for the change. Just as soon as the assessor com pletes his work the dates for hearing appeals can be set by the board of tax revision and Council w ill adopt a reso lution announcing the dates. Council recently asked the city solicitor for some information relative to the com pletion of the city assessment, chief of «hich were the following: Council Seeks Information When must the city assessor com plete his assessment and notify prop erty owners of increases? When shall tax revision board take up appeals and give public notice of appeal days?; When must board complete assess ment and hearing and have duplicate! for delivery to the city? When shall the school tax duplicate be com- ] pleted and turned over to the school j At uthorities ? k In answering Council's request City Poicitor Seitz pointed out that the as sessor should complete the triennial assessment and the annual assess ments in intervening years on or be fore September 1. The work is not yet finished but It will be but a mat ter of a few weeks, as only the an nual assessment is now being pre pared, the necessary changes in prop erty valuations, omissions, errors or additions need be considered. The ; assessor is required to give five days' notice to the property owner of such changes and fix a time for a hearing. The board of tax revision is also re quired to allow five days' notice for appeals when any change is made in the assessment. No advertisement but a written notice to the taxpayer af fected is required. The board of tax revision must complete its assess ment and hearing before December 1. This allows a month for copying into the duplicate. The school tax duplicate must be completed and turned over to the school authorities on or before April 1 of each year. ' Straight Dealer Talk it. H. Durbfn, the advertisings tnanager of one of the largest mid most successful department stores in the country recently addressed a meeting of buyers in New York. He made a strong plea to lo cal merchants to support the manufacturers who advertise in aewspa pers. Such national advertising. Mr. I iJurbin declared, should insplrrt the retailer to coine out and say I carry "'such and such a prod uct." Mr. Liurbin gave this advice to the buyers: "Do not forget that the goods you have In stock are to be sold right there in your town and that the way to sell them Is to ! advertise in the home newspaper. "Pay no attention to the man ufacturer who sends you a lot of circular matter, saying, 'We are soing to buy n spread In the Hun and Moon Magazine on such a date and we hope you will ••o-operatc with us by advertis- I Ine In your local newspapers I that you handle our product. Late News Bulletins NOTHING KNOWN OF SHARP STORY Washington, Sept. 12.—Slate Department officials were surprised to rend dispatches to-day from Paris that the newly anpolntcd ambas sador. William G. Sharp had given a public Interview regarded there as Indiscreet. Xot only had there been no word received at the Depart men of the Interview hut officials said they had no other Inkling of the Incident from any source. ACTION DELAYED ON WAR TAX BILL Washington. Sept. 12.—Because of a I»eniocratlc revolt in the House against (lie freight tax proposed in the war revenue bill. Democratic T,eader l/ndervvood to-day decided to await the return of President \Vll s on to tb-» capital before introducing the measure. APPROPRIATIONS ARE REDUCED Washington. Sept. 12.—Republican opposition to the River and Harbor bill, coupled with the falling customs revenue because of the European war. had the effect to-(!ay of inducing Democratic leaders to strike out $18,500,000 of the $52,000,000 originally proposed. It Is not jet satisfactory, however, to the Republicans. All reductions were made proportionately. London. Sept. 12. 2.40 P. M.—Major Charles A. Ilodekln. wllo has been directing the American relief work in France and Switzerland, ar rived to-day In London. He says all the Americans wanting to leave Switzerland have been cared for. Many still remain there who regard their position a.* absolutely safe and will not leave. London. Sept, 12, 2.40 P. M. —Herman B. Duryea. the American turfman, was advised to-day that Durbar 11, this year's Kpsoni Derby winner, and Shannon, the winner of several French ra<-es, are safe out side the war zone In France. There are other valuable race horses, however, still In danger of being captured. London, Sept. 12. 3.45 P. M.—A pretentious residence within sight of Windsor Castle was raided to-day by the police who seized a quantity of German correspondence. The occupant of the house, u German, was arrested and is now held In detention camp for German prisoners. Capetown, fnlon of South Africa. Sept. 12. via I<ondon. 3.40 P. M. —The German bark Heinz. Hfl days from Cardiff with coal and coke, was captured by a British ship and brought to Simonstown to-dav. PENNSY VETERANS HOLD IDTH OUTING AT COATESVILLE Special Train Carries Philadelphia Division Men to Lukens Iron and Steel Plant TAKE TRIP THROUGH MILLS I . Boiler Test, Concert and Banquet Are Big Features of the Day Sfecial to The Telegraph Coatesville, Pa., Sept. 12.—Members of the Philadelphia Division Veteran Association of the Pennsylvania Hall road to the number of 600 to-day were guests of the Lrnkens Iron and Steel Company, of this place. It is the tenth annual outing of the association. The special train which left Harrisburg at 8.10 this morning reached this place at 10 o'clock. The special was made up of fourteen cars. The vets were met by the entire offi cial and clerical forces of the Lukens Iron and Steel Company and the steel company band of fifty pieces and then escorted to the mills. After dividing the vets into groups, each group being in charge of compe tent guides, a trip through the big plant was made. Every department [Continued on Page 7] FILLER IN VERA CRUZ By Associated Press Vera Cruz, Sept. 12.—Paul Fuller, representative of President Wilson, ar rived here from Mexico City last night. Mr. Fuller said that he had complied with his instructions to present his message, adding: "I got all I ex pected." He characterized tlie situa tion as "not altogether dark." RELIGION SHOULD BE TAUGHT HOUR IIOAY 111 SCHOOLS. HE SAYS Thinks It Should Be Part of Every Curriculum; Two Hundred Attend Institute Half an hour before and after school should bo set aside each day for religious services, according to Dr. William E. Chancellor, a well-known text-book writer of New York, in speaking this morning before the first city teachers' institute of the year. The meeting was held in the Cen tral high school auditorium and more than teachers attended. Dr. Chan cellor used "The Teacher as a Social Engineer" as his theme. Dr. Chancellor is a thorough advo cate of the religious service in the public schools and the before-and-af ter session service has been urged for years by the New York educator. Dr. Chancellor also talked about Presi dent Wilson and went into detail as to the national chief executive's early life and history. Dr. F. E. Downes, superintendent of city schools, presided at the session to day. A feature of the program was music by Professor E. G. Rose. Dr. Downes touched briefly upon the opening of schools this Fall and called attention to the fact that there are now about 300 instructors on the city's public school staff. He spoke of the need of a seven or eight grade course instead of nine. Dr. Chancellor decried the failure of many young folks to thoroughly master a common school education, in New York he said the average pro portion is about sixty-one pupils to each teacher. T.ack of thorough edu cation is the cause of much of the great city's crime, he said; the four gunmen who were executed for killing [Herman Rosenthal —were graduates of the city's high school. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1914, HIS HAND TO THE PLOW / X r J ' r \ J|L "Having put my hand to the plow, I shall not look hark, but forward. [ffl*]? 3 ! plowing as straight a furrow as I know how to plow, as straight as God U », / / helps me to plow. In the assurance ot my steadfast determination to deal . f I I honestly and justly by all, 1 invite the support of all clean, honest, earnest, \ I loyal citizens."—Dr. Brumbaugh in his Pittsburgh speech. *""" 9.360.000 Lolly-Pops Sold in Harrisburg in One Year Thirty Thousand Eaten Every Day by Men, Women and Children of the City How many lollypops do you sup pose are sold in Ilarrisburg every day? Thirty thousand! The flgTires were procured by a Telegraph reporter this morning. In other words, the average consump tion is more than a third of a lolly pop per day for every man, woman and child in the city. And in the words of the now rather ancient popular melody, "everybody's doin' it." Grown folks eat just as many as the youngsters. The D. Bacon City of Caraveli Reported Destroyed by Heavy Earthquake By Associated Press Lima. Peru, Sept. 12.—News has reached here that a tremendous earthquake has destroyed the city of Caraveli, In the department of Are quipa. The report says the people are in a panic but no mention is made of loss of lives. Caravelia is a town of about 4,000 inhabitants, 130 miles northwest of the. port of Mollenda. Karly in Au gust, a year ago, the place was wreck ed by an earthquake but has since been rebuilt. THE WEATHER For Harrlahurg and vicinity! Fair to-night and probably Sunday; not much change In temperature. For F.aMern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy and continued cool to night! Sunday probably fair with rlilng temperature! moderate northeaat and eaat nlndn. River The main river trill continue to fall alowly for nevernl day a. A atage of about 1.3 feet la Indicated for Harrlahurg Sunday morning. fienernl ' • The dcpreaalon that naa central over the f,owfr Ohio Valley Fri day morning, haa dlaappeared. It canaed light ahowera In the laat twenty-four houra In the Atlantic, South Atlantic, Raat Tenneaaee, the I'pper Ohio Valley I and In Southern Michigan. I Temperature! Ba. m., R4. Sum Rlaea, r»i42 a. M.i acta, 1!J22 | , p. m. 1 Moon! Rlaea. 10i20 p. m. | River Wagei 1.4 feet above low water mark. Yeaterday'a Weather Hlgheat temperature, A3. Louent tcmperntiire, 50. Mean temperature, M. Normal temperature, (18. \ Second Fly Contest of the Civic Club Acr.t»*T A TO SEPTEMBER !« >.% far flrat prlsei several other primes, and K rents a plat (or all flies lirotmhf la oa the SOIk of Sep. tembrr. V- .... VOTERS Every voter should bear tbese day* In mine!, if he wants to vote In November. LAST DAV To pay taxes, October 3. REGISTRATION DAYS September 18. October 8. | Company, local manufacturers of the confection, stated this morning that there are 500 boxes, each containing 72 lollypops, sold in this city by the candy jobbers every day: And so, if i you wish to do a little arithmetic, you'll see 30,000 is in reality a low estimate of each day's sale®. To go on . you will sec there are 180,000 pieces of the candy sticks sold every weeK of six days, and in a year at this rate t there are sold— Nine million, three hundred and | sixty thousand. Will Have Lines and Data For "Hardscrabble" Ready Within 2 Weeks Within ten days or two weeks the J property lines and other data relative jto the "Hardscrabble" district, the i western side of Front street between I Calder and Herr street, will be pre- I pared by City Engineer M. B. Cowden | and certified to City Solicitor D. S. j Seitz. i This will mcnn that the city solicitor can arrange for conferences with the j affected property owners with a view | to acquiring their lands at a reasonable i figure. Where no figure can be agreed j upon thirty days' notice of the city's intention to begin condemnation pro ceedings will be given after the city's legal adviser will ask the court to ap point viewers. Six months may elapse- before adjust ments may be made and it is generally expected that the residents will not he asked to move from the district in | question before April 1, 1915. Traffic Picks Up on Trunk Lines of East Special to The Telegraph New York, Sept. 12.—Traffic, offi cials of various trunk line roads agree that traffic during the first eight days of September increased materially over that of August. They attribute the gain to the revival in export traf fic, especially grain. This traffic, al though below normal. Is beginning to pick up appreciably and the outlook for further gains according to officials is bright. Freight earnings of the roads gen erally in the first week of Septem ber are below the corresponding week a year ago, but not sufficiently below to be dangerous. All agree that earn ings reports for the month of August will be bad Indeed. : Tire Thieves at Work in Garages of City Automobile owners are up against more trouble. Tire thieves are work ing in Harrlsburg. Within the past two days the police department has been notified several times of the\ theft of auto tires. Last night the thieves took a tire from the Olewine auto at the garage and also removed two tires from the auto of Dr. Louis C. Goldman. 710 North Sixth street. The thieves re move the extra tires b£ cutting the straps. MARKF.T IIASKKT NTOI.RX The police wore notified of another ■ market basket robbery this mornlm? Mrs. F. D. Sawyer, 1135 Cherry street] was the victim. Her basket was taken from a stall In the rear building of the Chestnut street market. FIX IXdPEITIOSf DATKS I September 22 and 23 have been fixed by the officials of the Pennsylvania | Railroad for the annual track Inspec i tlon of the grand division from I'itts- I burg to New York . City. GEill RETREAT IS IT CONCLUSIVE. IS BELIEF 111 LOHIDOII If Kaiser's Forces Break Through Center of Line, Situation Will Change By Associated Press London, Sept. 12, 2.03 P. M.—News of a decisive engagement from east of Vitry-le-Francois, where the army of Saxony and parts of the armies com manded by the Prince of Wuerttem berg and General von Buelow are fiercely striving to break through the French right and center still hangs tire and the anxiety of both forces grows keener as it Is recognized that the result of the battle in this quarter is likely to have a decisive effect upon the whole line. Should the Germans smash through the center of the French line in this district they would turn the line of French frontier forts and seriously en danger the rear of General Castle man's Sixth army corps, already en gaged up to the hilt with a corre sponding host of Germans before Nancy. It. is fully realized here that the driving back of the German right wing and right center in no way is con clusive and that as the Franco-British forces rallied after their long retreat so may the Germans turn and retrieve their present reverses. Public is Warned The public is warned that the pres ent situation is merely the first phases of the battles and that the first stage of a titanic struggle between the na tions which will continue so long as the main armies remain intact as they are at present. The latest unofficial reports from the plains of Champagne tell of con siderably larger numbers of German guns and prisoners being captured than were mentioned in the last official communication. Belgian official reports speak of a rout of the Germans by troops mov ing. southward from Antwerp, but while there is no reason to doubt that the Invaders are evacuating parts of Belgian territory It seems probable that they are purposely avoiding bat tle. as the main object of their south ward move Is to get in the fighting zone of the Marne and to relieve pres sure there. The Prince of Wales relief fund has reached a total of $12,500,000. Co-operative Store That Sells at Cost Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia, Sept. 12. • A store run without profit, selling goods at cost. In which the saleswomen receive no wages and the customers are owners of the stork in trade, was opened last night at the C.'ohockslnk Settlement House. 1726 Germantown avenue It signalized the opening of a rampalgn against the high cost of foods waged by more than 100 families In the neighbor hood through co-operating In buying. Appreciation of the co-operative movement was shown at the first sale last night, when women with large market baskets began to form a line in front of the store an hour before the opening time. As the store is to be run on the co-operative plan, only enough food was ordered for immediate needs. About 100 families secured meat, tea and coffee at prices whlrh furnished an effective argument as to the value of co-operation. Thirty-five cent coffee sold for 19 cents; 45-cent tea went for 25 rents, while meat ranged from 10 to 20 cents a pound below the market prices. MNKMAN KIIiLKD B. S. Webb, a lineman employed by the Pennsylvania Bailroad. was struck by a westbound local near Royalton at 10 o'clock this morning and in stantly killed. Deputy Coroner C. R. Brestle, Middletown, took charge of the body. Webb was about 30 years . old. He lived in Lancaster. 14 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT. GERMANS FALL BACK BEFORE FIRE OF ALLIES Official Dispatches Say Kaiser's Forces Are Hastily Re treating, Offering Little Resistance as They Go; Ber lin Is Silent as to Fate of Its Army East of Paris; Fresh and Stubborn Fighting Breaks Out in Galicia; Servia Continues Successful Offensive Against Austria London, Sept. 12, 3.58 P. M.—A Central News dispatch from Rome says: "A telegram received here by the Messaggero from Patrograd states that the second battle in Gali cia resulted even more satisfactorily to the Russians than the first. The losses of the Austrians are esti mated at 130,000, of whom 90,000 are prisoners." I lie French war office announced at 3 o'clock this afternoon I ( Paris time) that the Germans in FraVice were retreating generally and offering only a feeble resistance. A British official announcement says that British troops have crossed the river Ourcq and this (Saturday) morning are pursuing the German right wing whose retreat is rapid. It is declared that the F hird trench army had captured all the artillery of one German army corps. Up to early afternoon no statement had been issued by the Ger man war office. The latest official German report said that their forces had captured a fortress southwest of Verdun and news dis patches indicate a purpose on the part of the German general staff to surround and cut off from the line of tne allies, the strongly fortified city of Verdun. News dispatches indicate that the Russians have not over whelmed the Austrians in Galicia as had been claimed. Fresh and stubborn fighting in that Austrian province is reported and this has | given rise to the speculation, that the German corps brought from j the west may have been thrown into Austria to support the Austrians instead of proceeding to East Prussia to reinforce the Germans already there. The situation in East Prussia is in doubt but there is nothing to indicate that the Russians have made any notable advance west since their reverse at Allenstein. They were last reported attacking Koc nigsberg, while the German troops were said to be moving toward that stronghold. Advices received by the French embassy at Washington tell of the retirement of the German center east of Paris, but these obviously refer to fighting of yesterday or earlier, the details of which | were made known in official dispatches from Paris last night. | A dispatch from Rome says that Pope Benedict XV has charged the foreign cardinals to urge their government to cease hostilities and convoke a peace conference. A news dispatch from Pctrograd says that the Servians arc con tinuing successfully their offensive operations against Austria. Pope Benedict Asks Cardinals to Assist in Ending Great War By Associated Press Rome, Sept. 11, via London, Sept. 12, 6.18 A. M.—The Tribuna says that Pope Benedict XV has entrusted to the foreign cardinals the task of con fidentially urging their governments to cease hostilities and convoke a peace conference. The papal delegate at Washington has also been instructed to urge the assistance of Washington in bringing about peace. "Kaiser, Like Napoleon, Mast Fall," Says Briton Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia. Sept. 12. —England. If victorious, will demand that Germany vield the Kiel Canal to Denmark or that the canal and its surrounding ter ritory of gchleswig-Holstein be con verted Into a neutral State; and the British Government also will Insist upon limiting Germany's sea power. This view was expressed last night by George Henry Laxton. a textile man ufacturer, of Bradford, In Yorkshire, England, now visiting this city. Although not speaking with au thority. Mr. Laxton believed his pre diction to be representative of the de sires of the majority of English manu facturers. He added: "Of course, we would Insist upon the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine to I France, but England herself has no de sire for Continental territory. The ! English people are simply determined ! upon breaking the militarism which has had its heel upon the nerk of I Europe for so many years, and the Kaiser, like Napoleon, must be made | to bite the dust." I Mr. who left London on Au -1 gust 22, said that he was sure busi ness conditions In both England and America would remain sound. "I am an ardent Tory," he added, "but 1 must praise the Liberal administration for its handling of the situation. Asqulth, Grey and Churchill are strong men of the highest ability." England and the English people, Mr, Laxton added, were taking the war calmly. "I have seen more excitement near a New York bulletin board over I the war news than I ever saw In Lon don," he said.. King Participates in General Engagement By Associated t'ress London, Sept. 12, 9.05 A. M.—The Antwerp correspondent of the Dally Telegraph sends the following: "A courier brings news of fighting at Hofstade near Malines. King Al bert motored out and participated In the general engagement which is ap parently going well. The German ar tillery figured considerably but the j Belgian Infantry, well supported by I guns gradually forced the Germans back. Von Kluck Believed to Be Placing German Army in a Dangerous Position By Associated Press Paris, Sept. 12. 6.20 a. m.—The ad mirable discipline of the censorship was reevaled by yesterday's communi cations, which showed that the only ones outside of the military authori ties who knew of the whereabouts of the French forces at the beginning of the great battle were the Germans. The lattern learned of It none too soon and their diversion from the route to Paris, heretofore attributed to fear of the Paris defense works, was simply a clever maneuver to escape a desper ate situation. The Germans penetrated France in three columns, hut the force consisted of five armies and at least 800.000 men. The plan evidently was for a quick, direct attack on Paris by Gen eral Von Kluck, while the armies of General Von Buelow, the Princes of Wuerttemhurg and Saxony and the Crown Prince dealt with the other armies of the allies. The audacious commander of the German right wing, surprised by the resistance of the allies at Guise and Compiegne, was rendered cautious and must have discovered the presence of the army of Paris on his flank. He showed his resourcefulness bv a sharp counter movement against this pro tecting force. The critics give Von Kluck full credit for skill as well as hardihood, and referring to General Joffre's plans, say it is a match be tween masters in the art of war. Gen eral Joffre failed, they believed, by the narrowest margin In gaining one of the most brilliant victories in his tory. It is generally thought that this looping of the loop adds immensely to the dangers of Von Kluck's army. The worn-out forces, doubling on their own tracks, necessarily must lose courage. It is argued, as well as Htrength, and have to count, not onlv with the extraordinary endurance of the allies, but with the constant dan ger from the flying column of the comparatively fresh army of Paris. Kreisler, Violinist, Is Reported Killed By Associated Press London. Sept. 12. Persistent ru mors were circulated to-dav to the effect that Fritz Kreisler, the famous violinist, was killed In the recent bat tle at Lemberg. At the beginning of the war, it was reported that Kreisler was with his regiment at Gratz. It Is Impossible to obtain confirmation of the news, but from a reliable source, it was learned that Kreisler was anions the troops sent out to meet the advance of the Russians. tOther War Xews Pages S, 11, 18),
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