Meager Dispatches From Theater of War Indicate Slight Turn of Events in Favor of Allies
HARRISBURG ifiSllto TELEGRAPH
f XXXIII— No. 231
NUMBER OF PRAYER
SERVICES IN STOUGH
CAMPAIGN INCREASE
Second Ward Leads Tonight's
Schedule; Third Ward
Last With Two
BILLY SHANNON LEADS WORK
Actual Work on Huge Tabernacle
Will Not Be Started Before
October 10
With the Arrival of W. W. ("Billy")
Shannon, preliminary organiser of the
stough campaign party, in this city
yesterday afternoon active efforts will
begin to boost the number of neigh
borhood prayer meetings held through
out Harrisburg and suburbs Tuesday
and Friday evenings
According to the report of Miss
Caroline R. Keefer. chairman of the
neighborhood prayer meeting commit
tee. to E. F. Weaver, executive secre
tary. the number of prayer services
to be held this night far outreaches
those of previous meetings. Seventy
two meetings are scheduled for to
night, the Second ward leading with
thirty-one scheduled. The Third ward
will have the fewest number, two.
A feature of the preliminary cam
paign activities under "Billy" Shan
non's direction will be a series of
open-air meetings in different sections
of the city and suburbs. To-morrow
night a union prayer service will be
held in Kpworth Methodist Church,
Twenty-first and Derry streets, with
Mr. Shannon as the chief speaker of
the evening
Work On Tabernacle
E. F. Weaver, the executive secre
tary. this morning stated that actual
work on the construction of the great
tabernacle will not likely start before
October 10. At this time several score
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'THE WEATHER
fn-nlphf nnd Wednesday; r* firmer \
to-nlffht.
For KfiNtrrn IVntiM.vl* nnln: Fair
to-night nnd probably \\<*<lnc«-
dnj, *>ith rifting temperature;
moderate variable wlndn.
Hlvrr
The main river ITIII fall nlonly to
night and Wrdnfiday, A »tage of
about .«.*» of n foot Ift Indicated
for Harrlftbiirjc AVednrftdnj
morniag.
(«rnfral Condltlonn
» rfjimire ban decreased ovrr nearly
all the territory represented on
the map, except In the Southern
Rooky Mountain region and the
Plainft Slate*, where It HON rlnen.
I.lghi acattered niliouern have fal
len in MnftnarhiiMetta, Northern
Michigan, Mlnneaota, Alabama,
I'Oulftlana nnd I'tuh.
Temperature ehnngeft have been
alight over the enfttern half of the
country alnee laat report, except
along the northern border off *|lie
Cireat l.nke«, where It Ift warmer.
Frontft were general again thin
morn inu. In the Interior of %cw
York and Pcnnnyhnnla.
Temperature: K a. ro., 4'i,
Sun: niaeft, 3»58 a. m.; aetn, 5:5;»
p. m.
Moons Full moon, October -t.
River Stage t Seven-tcnthx off a
foot above low witter mark.
Yewlerdny'ft Went her
lllghcftt tcmiicrnture, «f.
I.owent tcmiicrnture, 10.
Mcnn temperature, ftl!.
Normal tempernture, til,
MARRIAfiE UCFAKES
David W. Sheet* and Hat tie S.
Brown, Tokens township.
VIJo Meolenorlc and Stana Dutelovlc.
Steeltnn.
Raiser Kunkel and Katharine Hoth,
city.
Joseph R Zimmerman. Fnirview
township. York county, and Myrtle M.
Shope, Lower Swatara township.
No registration
NO VOTE
The man who does not register
will not be able to vote on Novem
ber 3.
Saturday, October 3
is the LAST DAY on which to
REGISTER.
Pay taxes and register.
Late News Bulletins
REVOLUTIONARY LEADER ARRESTED
IjOfirinn. Sept. 21). 2.50 P. M.—V dispatch to the Kvening Star from
Petroffrad says the famous Russian revolutionary. Vladimir Bourtzoff,
who returned to Kussiu to fight for the lands from which he escaped,
while a prisoner in Siberia, has been arrested.
REV. M. J. GERAGHTY DIES
Philadelphia, Sept. 21). —The Very Rev. Martin J. Gorughty, O. S. \
formerly provincial of the Augiistlnians, died last night at Chestnut
Hill, Pa.. when' he was rector of the Catholic Church of Our Mother of
Consolation. He was 14 years old. Father Geraght.v was elected pro
vincial in 1902 and held the office until last summer.
GARRISON TO INSPECT CAMP
Washington. Sept. 29.—Secretary Garrison to-morrow will enter Into
all of the ardors of army camp life at Kousli Point for four davs. where
he will inspect a maneuver camp consisting of three inrautry regiments
and a cavalry regiment from the eastern department. Major General
liconard Wood Is commanding and Secretary Garrison will share all of
the ups and downs or real Held duty with his former chief of staff.
Baltimore, Sept. 29.—Following a conference to-day with Curdlual
Gibbons, bishops in attendance upon the convention of the American
Federation of Catholic Societies adopted a report protesting against the
recognition by the United States of any government in Mexico that does
not guarantee religious liberty. This report was later adopted bv the
convention.
Washing-ton. Sept. 29.—Senator Reed's fight on the Clayton Trust
hill conference agreement took on the aspects or a filibuster to-day when
he resumed the attack. Calls Tor quorum and searches tor absentees
followed In quick succession. The Missouri Senator charges the con
ferences with having pulled the "teeth" or the bill.
Washington, Sept. 29.—Representative McCoy, or Kast Orange, N .1
was nominated by President Wilson to-day to lie a justice of the district
of Columbus Supreme Court.
New lork, Sept. 29.—Cluirlcs S. Mellcn, former president of the
New ork. New Haven and Ilurtrord Railroad Company, was the first
witness this afternoon before the special Federal Grand Jury empanelled
at President Wilson's suggestion to Investigate the alleged criminal as
pect* of tlie New Haven railroad management.
FUNK TELLS REASONS
WHY GIRLS TAKE WAY
j OF "THE OPEN DOOR"
Former White Slave Agent Blames
Dance Hall, Obscene Litera
ture and the Saloon
! WHITE SLAVERY IS UNCOMMON
| Declares Women Who Take the
"Easiest Way" Do So With
Their Eyes Open
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"The Open Door" by J. Clarence
Funk, attorney of this city, with offl-
I ces in the Telegraph building, is the
j title of a remarkable treatise on the
j questions of "white slavery" and com
] mercialized vice.
I Mr. Funk's observations are based
j upon personal investigations made as
a white slave agent of the United
| .States Department of Justice in Har
; rlsburg. The conclusions reached are
j the more valuable and forceful be
! cause they come not from a Prohibi
j tionist or a professional reformer, but
from a lawyer.
I Mr. Funk declares that most girls
: are not forced into a life of shame
|as is commonly supposed but that
I most women enter disorderly houses of
I their own volition because it is the
("easiest way." He states that "white
slavery" even in the large cities is
I comparatively rare,
j Among other influences which Mr.
j Funk declares leads women through
I the "open door" are:
I—The public dance linll.
- —Obscene literature.
—Cigarct smoking on part of
! women.
I —The saloon.
| s—Liquor.
I Results of Preventive Methods
| Mr. Funk savs that no really suit
able plan has been worked out despite
ithe efforts of vice commissions to prc-
I vent prostitution, lie points out that
"quarantine" only spreads the plague
to respectable neighborhoods; that
j segregation—vice centralized means
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FEW HORSES WILL
BE IN FIREMEN'S
CONVENTION PARADE
Division Marshals Will Ride in
Automobiles; Aids and As
sistants to Walk
With the exception of a mounted
police squad, there will be very few
horses in the firemen's parade other
than those drawing the fire apparatus
and the veteran horses that have been
| pensioned by ths city. Chief Marshal
Howard O. Ilolstein. his chief of staff
and assistant marshals will ride in
automobiles.
Division marshals will in all proba
j bllity uso automobiles, if sufficient
I number can be had. Division aids
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Mayor Royal Going to
Conference in November
| Interest in Harrisburg municipal
circles will center next November on a
'"onferenee 'if American Mayors to be
i held in Philadelphia. Mayor John K.
I Royal U:ts stated that he believes the
j conference will be one of the most
important municipal gatherings ever
held in the history of the country and
he intends to be present if he can at
all arrange his dates.
The meeting is of further interest
here, because on the committee of ar
rangements is 1,. H. Kinnard, vice
president and general manager of the
Bell Telephone Company of Pennsyl
vania, M ho at one time, was a resident
r of Harrisburg.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1914.
I
When Brumbaugh was cutting timber to help pay
off the mortgage on his father's farm— WHERE WAS McCORMICK?
THREE COLLISIONS ID!
NEW YORK CITY CAUSE
INJURIES TO SCORE
j |
Subway and Surface Lines Are 1
Blocked as Result of
Accidents
Hy Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 29.—Three collis
, i lons of subway itnii surface cars sent
j eighteen persons, ninre than half of
| them women, to hospitals to-day. Two
|of the injured were said to be raor
j tally hurt.
Four persons were injured in a
I crash between subway trains at One
»j Hundred and Sixty-second street and
| t«exington avenue. The subway was
i blocked and tens of thousands of per
' sons were delayed on their way to
j work.
i Six persons were the victims of a
> j collision between surface cars in the
center of the One Hundred and Forty
fifth street bridge over the Harlem
river. < >ne car that had been struck,
1 deserted by crew and passengers, and
not held by its brake, shot down the
incline <>f the bridge and crashed into
' another trolley car at the end of the
bridge.
Fight more persons were taken to
hospitals as the result of till? acci
dent.
. The day's chapter of transportation
mishaps also included the elevated
service. The last car of a Second
street train caught lire. There was a
! panic among the passengers, three wo
men were injured and traffic was
blocked for nearly an hour. 1
Worst in History
The traffic congestion that followed :
the collision in the subway was the
| ] worst in the history, of the city. At
several stations more than 5,000 per- 1
! sons crowded on the platform and
! those nearest the rails were forced en- 1
jtirel off and in some cases walked '
j along the tracks between stations in '
| perilous proximity to the deadly third •
I rail. Surface cars were crowded,
i Milk wagons, trucks and delivery cars 1
!of all descriptions were hired by the
thousands to get downtown and a
'steady stream of these vehicles, laden
jto overflowing with men and women
I rolled south through the chief thor
oughfares during the early forenoon,
j Adding to the difficulties of the sit
uation was the stubborn flame that £
| blazed up when the trains crashed. 8
,Kor ten blocks along Lenox avenue •
I every manhole belched forth black c
(smoke. Firemen tried to fight the 1
blaze by putting their hose through
! these 30-inch openings but made lit-"
tie headway. The underground fire v
' raged fiercely for more than two f
hours. J
RESIGN ATIO X ACCEPTED s
By Associated Press J
Washington, D. C., Sept. 29.—Presi
dent Wilson has received and accepted
i the resignation of Dr. Louis Livings
ton Seaman as a first lieutenant of the
medical reserve corps of the army on
the Inactive list. The resignation was
written before Secretary Garrison ,
j called upon Dr. Seaman for an ex- {
planation of his alleged criticisms of ,
the conduct of the German campaign i
in Belgium.
JOHNSTON* ELECTED '
London, Sept. 29, 2.02 p. m.—Sir t
Charles Johnston was to-day elected (
I Lord Mayor of London Tor the term l
of ono year beginning November 9, |
;103 4. lie succeeds Sir Thomas V. \
ißowatcr. Jl
GERMANY'S FOREIGN
MISSIONS MUSI BE
HELPED BY AMERICA
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Lutheran Synod Learns $31,000 a
Month Is Needed or Foreign
Work Must Cease
■' Jk pm
■L MR
BL j^KKm
RRV. STANLKY BIIXHEIMER j
Norwood Man, Who Will Address
•Synod To-night.
More than 350 delegates. clerical
and lay, attended the opening busl- j
ness session of the Kast Pennsylvania i
Synod of the, Dutlieran Church in Old j
Zion Church, Fourth street near Mar- |
ket, at 9 o'clock this morning.
The session was onened with tho
singing of a hymn and prayer by the
Rev. S. W. Herman, pastor of Zion !
Church The sermon of the morning
was preached by the Rev. C. P. Moflitt,
of Philadelphia, who took as his sub
ject "An Obtrusive God."
The first business of the session
taken up was roll call, followed by
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DISCOVERS NEW COMET
By Associated Press
Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 29. The
discovery of a new comet by Profes
sor Clarenge T. Haggerty, of the New
Mexico College of Agriculture and Me
chanical Art, was announced by the
Harvard College Observatory to-day.
A telegram from Professor Haggerty
to the observatory said that the comet
would be visible to the naked eye and
gave its position as right ascension,
nothing hours, 05 minutes, declina
tion minus 45 degrees at 11.30 p. m.
September 25.
French Deny Sinking
of Warship at Cattaro
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Sept. 29. —Official
dental of the sinking of a French war
ship by the Austrian forts at Cattaro
was made to-day by the French ad
miralty through the embassy here.
The French secretary for the navy
has made known that this news is
entirely false and that there is nothing
to justify such a report. Up to date
(September 28) no French warship
lias been touched by an Austrian pro-
Jectiie, said the admiralty statement,
which attributed the report to the Co
logne Gazette.
VAN DYKE IS 'IT
STUCK ON HIS JOB"
j US CASH COLLECTOR
"Recalls" He Sent Begging Let
ter to "One" Hotel Man;
There Were Others
The feat of riding two horses in
this campaign is becoming more and
more difficult for the Democratic can
didate for Governor. It was bad
enough to place him on a Washing
ton party ticket—a party which is
strong for a protective tariff while he
is for Wilson and free trade—but it is
even worse when he strives to repre
sent himself as the only temperance
man in the State when representatives
of his personal machine are appealing
to hotelkeepers and others to con
tribute to the campaign fund. This,
however, is only a small part of the
rank inconsistency that has character
ized the Palmer-McCormick move
ment.
Perhaps nothing has caused such a
sensation as the printing in the Tele
graph yesterday of a fac simile repro
duction of a letter sent from the State
Democratic finance committee to a
hotelman of this city appealing for
cash to help elect McCorniick.
The letter was signed by T. Kittera
Van Dyke, who explains that he was
; recently chosen by State Chairman
i Morris to help collect money. He ex
plains in the letter that he "is not
I stuck on the .lob," manifestly realizing
j that it is not an easy task to collect
money for a multi-millionaire candi
| date who confesses to having spent
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Pretty Girl Shot to
Death During Quarrel
in Her Country Home
By Associated Press
Doylestown, Pa., Sept. 29. Flor
ence Cope, 18 years old, a pretty girl
of Buckingham Valley, near here, was
killed by her uncle, John Cope, at
her home last night while she was
trying to save her mother from being
shot by the uncle. Cope, who wore
neither hat nor shoes when the killing
occurred, escaped to the woods and a
large party was out to-day searching
for him. The girl's father, Clinton
Cope, a farmer, was cutting corn by
moonlight while the tragedy was being
enacted in the house nearby.
The uncle had been visiting at his
brother's home and last night he ana
the girl's mother quarreled over his
alleged drinking habits. The girl had
gone to bed and when she heard the
quarrel she rushed down stairs in lier
night clothes and stepped between her
mother and the uncle, who had a shot
gun in his hands. Whether the girl
was deliberately shot by the uncle or
received her death wound accidentally
has not been determined. She died
two hours afterward.
Miss Cope was a graduate of a high
school and was a student in a Phila
delphia business college.
SEVEN VESSELS ADMITTED
By Associated Press
Washington, D.' C.. Sept. 29.—Seven
foreign vessels with an aggregate of
23,000 gross tons were admitted to
American registry under the recent
act of Congress during the week end
ing September 20, according to the
Department of Commerce to-day. Six
were Knsliali and one German vessel.
Battle of the Aisne
Rages Without Result;
All Attacks Repulsed
Germans Hurled Their Masses Against Allies Often, but
Each Time They Were Forced to Retire; Heavy Can
nonading Continues Between Argone Forest and
River Meuse; Germans Prepare For Siege of Ant
werp ; Galicia Cleared of Austrians
London, Sept. 29, 4.07 P. M.—The official news
bureau announced to-day that the cruiser Emden has
sunk four British steamships and a collier. The Emden
has been operating in the gulf of Bengal. She was
reported recently at Madris, where she continued a
brief bombardment of that port and later at Pondi
cherry.
Wei Hsien, China, Sept. 29.—Chinese troops to-day
blew up and destroyed the railroad bridge at Tayu-Ho,
six miles west of here. The sound of the explosion could
be heard in this city.
I lie terrific battle now in its eighteenth clay in the Aisne district
to the north of Paris continues to rage but its violence is generally
held to portend a decisive result in the near future. Furious hand to
hand fighting is going on and the losses to both the allied and Ger
man armies are enormous.
Several times the Germans hurled their masses of troops against
the trench left wing but in every case they were repulsed, accord
ing to official statement issued by the trench War Department this
afternoon. It is asserted a heavy cannonading is going on between
the Argone forest and the river Meuse the allies have made some
progress.
I he German general staff, Berlin advices say, claims that the
situation on trench soil has not changed and it is emphatically de
nied that the battle at any point of the line is going in favor of the
allies.
Galicia has been almost cleared of Austrians according to an
nouncement at Pctrograd and the Russians, crossing the Carpathian
mountains have entered Hungary and arc driving back the Austrian
reinforcements sent against them. The invaders swept across the
>mountains into the Ung and Var district which is about 180 miles
jnprthcast of Budapest, the Hungarian capital.
GERMANS PREPARE FOR SIEGE
Germans .estimated to number 150.000, are reported from Rotter
dam to be preparing for a siege of the Belgian fortress of Antwerp.
Austrian siege guns have been brought up to take the places of the
large German guns which arc now being used in the fighting in the
district of Aisne. Belgian official communication states that German
heavy artillery fire directed at two forts ten miles from Antwerp,
ceased when the forts replied to the bombardment.
The activity of the Zeppelin dirgibles stretches over a wide area.
Six bombs were hurled to-day at two Belgian towns, in one of which
a convent was damaged and another < ierman airship created a panic
at the town of Bialystok, sixty miles across the Russian frontier.
The Japanese are drawing the military cordon closer around the
German territory of Kiao-Chow in the Chinese province of Shan
Tung. An official Japanese statement to-day announced that the
Japanese are driving the Germans toward Tsing-Tau and that the
Japanese fleet aided by the army has bombarded the litis fort.
Russia has extended the suspension of specie payments for
another month.
DEMOCRATS MfJHT
I. R. TO LET EM OFF
EASY IN SPEECHES
Executive Committee Here to Esti
mate How Much McCor
mick Must Spend
The Democratic State executive
committee, as the high council of the
machine Is called .at the Market
Square windmill, began a session in
the whispering rooms on the fourth
floor of the hcadquartors building at
noon to-day. The meeting Is called
ostensibly to act on fusion nomina
tions, but in reality it is a call for all
cards on the table so that the cost of
the. campaign can be worked out and
plans made to overcome tho tide in
favor of the Republicans.
Before entering the whispering
rooms the members of the executive
committee said that there was no
chance of further fusion and that Pal
mer would not be asked to commit
political suicide. It was stated that
the meeting would have no fusion
proposition before it and could not
act on it if it had, although everyone
knows that the machine does as it
pleases and then says that it does so
in the name of the people.
Soft Pedal FOP T. It.
Some li tie perturbation was shown
about the effect of Roosevelt's
speeches assailing the Democrats, and
he will be asked to put on the soft
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Russia Buys 100,000
Barrels in Pittsburgh
Sharon, Pa., Sept. 29.—The Russian
government, through its American
representative, has cldsed a contract
with the Pressed Steel Car Company,
a subsidiary of the Petroleum Iron
Works Company, of this city, for
100,000 steel barrels. These barrels
are somewhat similar In construction
to the steel barrels used by crude oil
companies in this country and It Is
understood that the Russian govern
ment will make use of them in their
petroleum trade. Germany used to I
make all these barrels. i
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GERMANS PUD FOR
SIEGE OF ANTWERP
WITUIII FEW DAVS
25,000 Naval Men Are Moving
From North Sea Towns to
Belgian Capital
By Asfociated Press
Rotterdam, Sept. 29, via London, 3
A. M.—The activity along the Belgian
frontier indicates that the Germans
are planning for a siege of Antwerp
within a few days. More than 25,000
men. German naval reserves, have
been brought from the North Sea
towns of Kiel and Hamburg to Brus
sels and are being held In readiness to
serve on an Improvised German fleet
should Antwerp and Ostend be taken.
As a direct result of this move the
Dutch authorities along the Scheldt
have increased the watchfulness for
during a siege of Antwerp England
might like to send reinforcements
through the Dutch Scheldt which
would be a breach of neutrality, while
on the other hand a German victory
would bring danger of an attempt on
the part of Germany to use the mouth
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Extry! Extry! Newsies
to Have Theater Party
as Telegraph's Guests
Extry! Extry!
' Read all about the newsies' theater
party!
Here's the news:—
The Telegraph circulation depart
ment has decided to take all its news
boys and carriers to the Majestic
theater Thursday night. And who do
you think's playln"? None other than
Kirk Browh and in "Sherlock Holmes,
the Detective," at that!
Oh, it's going to be some party, fel
lows, with reserved seats right down
in front! What?
The gang's to meet at the circula
tion department rooms Thursday even
ing at 7:30 o'clock and Howard F.
E.vster, circulation manager of the
Telegraph, will hand each lad a
ticket.