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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 233
. IMPROVEMENTS TO
' BE KEPT GOING.
THINKS TO HELP
OF CITY BHIHKERS
Three Institutions Come to Munici
paKty's Aid in Handsome Fash
ion So That There May Be No
Cessation of Work Along River
TAKE BONDS AT 4 WITH
6 PER CENT. AVAILABLE
PatrioHic Action Means That Ac
tivities Can Be Rapidly Pushed
Before Cold Weather Sets in, by
Contracting Firms
Much gratification was expressed
by the city sinking fund commission
ers to-day when they announced that
they had lieen successful in arrang
in« with three of the local banks for
the floating of sufficient Improvement
funds of the third municipal loan to
i continue the important public work
\ now under way.
After a conference with Edward
.Bailey and James Brady, the heads of
the three important hanlting in
stitutions concerned. Mayor Royal
City Treasurer Copeiin and \V.
1,. Gorgas. head of the ilnance depart
ment of the city, announced that the
Harrisburg National Bank, the First
National Bank and the Harrisburg
Trust Company would take over the
remainder of $132,000 of the third
(v loan at four per cent. These bonds
■ will be issued in the denominations of
SIOO, SSOO and $ 1,000.
inasmuch as the bonds will not be
i ready before the first of November,
the banking institutions hava agreed
to accept the certificates of City Treas
urer Copelin to the amount of $70,000
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[TIE^ATHEit
For Knrilithiirg and vicinity: Fair
. fo-nlp,l»t hihl Fridays not niurh
I chtugr In tempera!nr«\
I J-nr Rum tern IVimimvl viiiilhi Fair
I' to-iilnht and Friday; gentle north
to eant wind*.
River
The main river will fall alowly to
night and Friday. A Ntage of
ahont .6 of a foot la Indicated for
i Harrlnhnrjt Friday morning.
L General CoaMtMil
" Tfce (inlf HHturm haM apparently
made no progreaa nortliunrd dur
ing the Inwi twenty-four liourna
and aeeniN to be lowing energy. It
hnn enuard light to moderate
ralux aluee laat report In the
L t■ ulf StateN.
II JLoeal nkoirerfl have occurred In
the Interior of Xew York* Went
K TfnnoHHer, I tali. Vevmln. Idaho
and Oregon* elaewhere througli
out 'lhe territory repreNt'uted on
A. the ma> the weather liu* been
R: fair.
j'Hll the Ohio Valley j.nd tlie l.ake
|H' region, the Pacific StateN, u part
H of Ihe Itocky mountains and In a
■ fen other localltlea It In Htome-
H* what cooler.
■ Temperature: s a. m.. fill.
■ Punt Rise*, 0:Ol a. in.: ,1:10
■ |>. m.
■ Moon: Full mnion, October 4, 12:50
| a. m.
I Blver Stage: Six-tenthw of a foot
I above lon-natfr mark.
Yeaterday'a Weather
I lllghent tfmperatiirc, TO.
I Lowent teinpcrature. I.
I Jpfenn tempernture, «M>.
V formal temperature. tlO.
MARRIAGE IJCBKSBS
William R. Simpson and Flora H
city.
Wallace C. Oaten and Zada A. Beck,
•Warriora* Mark.
/" -s
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 I.AST DAY on which to
REGISTKR.
Pay taxes and register.
Late News Bulletins
Philadelphia. Oct. I.— \ telephone message front Huntingdon, Pa.,
whore the Rev. George lloyer Brumbaugh. father oAlarlln «. Brum
baugh. Republican candidate for governor, Is seriously HI said tlmt the
imllent was slightly Improved to-dav.
DR. BRUMBAUGH'S FATHER IMPROVED
Washington. Oct. I.—The British government to-dur through Am
bassador Sir CccilSprlng-Hioe, notified the state lVuartment that
Great.Britain wonlil not Interfere ivltli shipments of foodstuffs from
the United states to Holland.
GREAT BRITAIN WILL NOT INTERFERE
South Bethlehem, Pa.. Oet. I.—Presl.le.it R. G. Gri-e. of the Belli
lehem Steel Company, to-day Informed thirty-seven representatives
of various motor tr.uk manufacturing firms that the roeommcndatlons
for the types of 1.000 motor tmeks for several foreign eoi.iitries have
i 1 1? i speeial commission wnl here, hut that no contracts
would be let to-day. It was not stated when the announcement of
the successful bidders would lie made.
New York. Oct. I.—The form .1 retirement of William Barnes as
chairman or the Republican State committee marked the organization
meeting here to-day of the New state committee. Uixlcr the new pri
mary law this committee has a nicml>crship of 150. Ju « rs t (ask was
to elect a cl.alrmai. as successor to Mr. Barnes.
* o W^« ln J s,^ n • ,9°'' !•—President Wilson said to-day mat the outlook
ii sett lenient in Mexico was very good. Tin. President said
. uU . tuken "P ttPl'eals Tor the relief or nuns and priests
? at present there was little this government can do.
Toklo, Oct. I--—-Japanese vessel, supply ship Waknmlva Marn, has
oetn was destroyed by German!. One man aboard wa* killed and six
were injured.
Fpuncisro, Oet. I.—Hill ffwltlie, a younflr puftjii«t flchtliiir at
142 pounds, died to-day from injuries lie reeeive<l lier* last night in a
tfli-round ljo.it with Arthur P. "Knockout" Carroll. The fl«st arrets
■made were those of Bert McColloiigh, the referee; Carroll the sur-
J >r) '"; i P al - and (iregory Mitchell, the matchmaker. ' All were
■ltargpd with manslaughter.
It. ,^* w Vort ; '•—Elbert H. Gary. chairman of tile United States
TOteet corporation, announced this afternoon tliat he Imd resigned as
Jlroctor from all companies with which he bad l>eon previously con-
Lcorpo y XOep where l,,eHe companies were not aflill nlr( i with, the
THREE LOCAL MEN
NEARLY KILLED IN
AUTOMOBILE SMASH
Two in Reading Hospital; Driver,
in Jail; Hit Pole at
Sharp Curve
ON WAY TO ATLANTIC CITY
Big Pullman Car Demolished; Po
lice Charge Speeding and
Recklessness
Heading. Pa., Oct. I.—Three Har
risburg men in a big Pullman auto
mobile narrowly escaped death this
morning at 4 o 'lock when the big
machine ran into a telegraph pole at
Fourteenth and Perktomen streets,
this city.
The car was demolished. Two of
the occupants of the car are in St. Jo
seph's Hospital ivith serious injuries,
but both are expected to recover. The
injured are:
Charles G. Ix*lthciser, 172*!
North Third istreet. Harrisburg,
fractures of the right leg and arm
and possible Internal injuries.
.lames •>. Itorabnilffli. 1702
North Penn street. Harrisburg.
broken fingers, severe cuts and
lacerations and possible internal
injuries.
The driver of the car. E. T. Snyder,
a chauffeur, of 1715 North Seventh
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Small Dealers Must
■
Pay the Democratic Tax
Not satisfied ith placing a tax of
2 cents upon evitry gallon of gasoline,
naptha and similar products, which
tux hits right aid left, the rich and
the poor, the Democratic tax of
$105,000,000 mutt also be borne by
every p«*rson whose business it is to
sell, or offer for sale, manufactured i
tobacco, snuff, igars or clgarets.
Every Buch deal«t. however small his
business, will be fquired to pay $4.80. 1
POLITICALINJECTION
INTO SYNOD CAUSES
LIVELYABIENTS
Resolution to Epdorse McCormick
Bitterly I ttacked by
Chui hmen
[_ [
Injection of pol ics in the form of a
resolution approv'lg the plan of the
conference of temperance forces held
in this city recently when Vance C.
McCormick was indorsed for gover
noi Glfford Pinclot for senator and
other candidates indorsed for various
otlices, caused a lively hour in the
sessions of the East Pennsylvania
synod of the Luth ran Church at Old
Zlon Church this morning.
The offering of the resolution was
denounced as out >f place and several
clergymen said icat no matter what
was done they proposed to vote as they
pleased. The resolution was finally
adopted by 78 to !5, about 100 refus
ing to vote at all.
The resolution as one of the early
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HCNTIXt»SEASON OPENS
The hunting ioson for hear and
ducks opened thig norning. The river
is low and the j mountains are still
dense with and few' Harris
burg hunters hit ihe trail.
lONVISNTIOA AT I.YKEXS
I.ykens. Pa.. Oct. i. A district Sun
day school convention will be held in
the Cnlted Brethi*" Church, of Lykens
on October 16.' Pi ifessor Shambaugli,
county superintend nt of schools, will
deliver nn :iil<lr«-»' on "The Ureater
' ami More Kfficient Sunday School."
HARRTSRTTRC, PA THURSDAY EVENING OCTOBER 1. 1914.
OFFICERS VIEW RUIN THEIR
**•« >s H>.. * * "Si,. *0 , *» *' << v ?-<"' V" *' M
lieutenant Ceegar, the German commandant at Dinant, Belgium, at right, with the' German professor charged
with the task of re-organizing the schools of the town. The men are inspecting the ruins of the town shortly after
it hud been shelled anil tired by the Herman invaders.
Palmer Hasn't Been at Steelton
Here is the truth from an editorial
In the Philadelphia 1-edger:
"Most of us, in one form or another,
feel the business constraints created
I)>' adverse cor:"* Jons overseas, but
look forward confidently to an extra
ordinary trade revival when the war
is over.
"Nevertheless, Just now there is a
cry for help in our midst that requires
prompt response no less than the ap
peal from noncoiubatants of Europe.
Millworkers In Kensington are idle,
and some of them are desperate.
Their distress is voiced by Mrs. M. W.
Ketcham, secretary of the Hichinond
Soup Society, who has worked among
them for years and is their friend.
She deserves aid, in the name of wives
and children who are destitute and
near starvation."
PURE FOOD EXHIBIT
OCTOBER 12-17 IN
CHESTNUT ST. HULL
Success of Last Year's Show Leads
to Local Interests Taking
Over Work
FRANK SMITH
Who Will Manage Food Exhibit
j Hatrisburg had its first "pure food
■ show" last year. So keen was the ln
jtereßt taken therein that local people
'came to the conclusion that Harrls-
I burg was big and progressive enough
'to have an annual pure fot d exhibit
lof its own.
'''he wholesale grocery firms of Wlt
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MINK OFFICIALS KX IX ATI ON
Ijykens. Pa., Oct. 1. An examina
tion for mine officials was held in the
Lykens high school building Tuesday
evening. Eighteen officers were exam
ined. consisting of the engineers, fore
men and assistant foremen. A similar
examination was conducted last night
for fire fosses and otli«r officers.
About twentj'-flve took examinations.
A Mitchell Palmer, Demo atic can
didate for United States senator, salt
yesterday at Clarion:
"Senator Penrose is saying that the
tariff is the chief issue, and is raising
the cry of calamity under a Demo
cratic administration. Hut I have
been going up and down the hills and
dales of Pennsylvania as well as lie,
and nowhere are there visible signs of
a slackening of the State's great in
dustries. You men <>f Clearfield coun
ty, in the heart of the soft coal region,
know better than any on>- else that the
production of coal in this State this
year has been greater than It ever was
before. You know that men won't pro
duce coal unless other men will buy it,
and you know that men won't buy
coal unless they need it to turn the
| wheels of industry."
BiwnF
I MORE CASH 10 MEET
! CONVENTION EXPENSE
Finance Committee Chairman Says
$1,200 Additional Must Be
Obtained This Week
Members of the finance committee
of the Firemen's ITnion resumed ac
tivity to-day in search of more cash
to defray the expenses of next week's
celebration. Howard O. Ilolstein, the
chairman, believes that $1,200 addi
tional will meet ail requirements.
This he hopes to get by private contri
butions, and from the sale of but
tons Tag Day. Saturday.
Badges were distributed to the com
mittee last night and routine business
was transacted. Kadi committee will
be designated by a special badge. At
a meeting to-night at headquarters a
program will lie planned for the car
nival to be held at Seventeenth, be
tween Derr.v and Market streets, and
for the races and drills on Friday af
ternoon.
A contract has been closed with the
Harrlsburg Film Company to make a
moving picture of the parade on
Thursday, October X. Iteports pre
sented show a busy time with the dec
orators throughout Ilarrlsburg. The
official decorations are going up rap
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Special Patrolmen to
Do Duty Next Week
With the monthly change of patrol
men in effect to-day. Colonel Joseph
B. Hutchison announced the appoint
ment ol' the following special officers
for police duty during the firemen's
convention week. They will report
for duty Monday:
M. B. Johnston. 1319 Berrvhlll
street; Harper F. Heishley, 29 Ever
green street; Ray Hoover. 1616 Penn
street; Hnrr.v Hart. 1047 South Cam
eron street; Kdward White, South
Twelfth near Magnolia; Charles Moore,
125 Dock street; Harry B. Roblson,
1002 South Cameron street: George
Marshall. 41.1 V'erboko street; Clifford
Johnston. Marlon and Sayford streets;
George Sanders, (107 Race street: D.
H. Brandt. 917 Nftrth Sixth street:
Carl B. Harman. 838 South Cameron
street; Arthur Chnnoweth, r>B3 Show
ers street: Hyram Wagner, 12 North
Cameron street; •V. B. Kennedy,
Race street.
TEMPLAR FIELD DAY
I EXPECTED TD DIM
5.000 TO THE ISLiD
Parade Moves Promptly at 2:30
Tomorrow Afternoon From
Third and State Sts,
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A. HOAVAPD THOMAS
Grand Commander of ilie Orand
Qomtnandery of Pennsylvania
Impressive featur-s will be Included
In the first annual tl®ld day exercises
of the Knights Templar at island
Park to-morrow afternoon. Final de
tails were worked out last night by
the committees In charge. With fa
vorable weather, it Is expected that
5,000 people, including many from
I surrounding towns will witness the
j exercises at Island Pork.
Admission will b« by ticket, which
can be obtained from meqibers of the
committee. The pat >de. Held day
events and the reception and dance
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Register on Saturday^*
In making woek-onl
Voter, don't forget tint
Js tlie last day
have immHiß
i of a -rood clu^H
Is clear.
| her that
The
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12 PAGES. * POSTSCRIPT i
Both Wings of Allied
Armies Are Closing in
on Kaiser's Great Army
Paris War Office Announces, However, That General Sit-'
uation Is Unchanged; Allies Make Progress North of
Somme and in the Southern Woevre District; Japa
nese Siege Guns Sink German Torpedo Boat De
stroyer; Fighting in Far East Begins in Lat
est German Casualty List Carries 8,000 Names jj
Slight advances by both wings of the allied armies are indi
cated in an official statement issued by the French War Office at
J. 45 o'clock this afternoon. At the same time the general situation
is described as unchanged.
"We have nevertheless," says the statement, "made progress
on our left to the north of Somme and on our right in the southern
Woevre district."
The brief announcement from Paris affords the only light from
official sources thrown on the great struggle in Northern France
to-day. Not before since the war began has the censorship been
so severe.
The latest Berlin announcement made last night said that the
allies had been repulsed at Albert, 18 miles northeast of Amiens
and that the German attack in Argonne was progressing steadily
though slowly.
The most recent word from the Belgian War Office also given
out last night stated that the Belgians were successfully repulsing
the attack of the Germans on Antwerp.
Fighting in the Far Fast has begun in earnest with an attack
by German warships on land positions of the Japanese who are be
sieging Tsing-Tau in furtherance of their campaign against the dis
trict of Kiao-Chow in China. The refusal of Germany to withdraw
from this leased territory caused Japan to declare war.
An official statement issued at Tokio to-day says that Japanese
siege guns sunk a German torpedo boat destroyer while a Japanese
mine sweeper was sunk off the harbor and a Japanese supply ship
damaged.
NO DEFINITE RESULT IN JAPAN
The somewhat vague Japanese statement gives the impression
that the battle continues without definite result thus far.
Nothing is made known of the progress of the fighting in the
eastern theater of the war to-day. A news dispatch from Petrograd
under yesterday's date.says that a German squadron bombarded
Windau, a Russian seaport in the lialtic on September 24. The
i forts replied to the fire of the ships, which, after destroying the
llightltous, withdrew. General Von Auffenberg, commander of the
i First Austrian army, is reported ill with cholera at Vienna.
FOOD'SHORTAGE IN SWITZERLAND
News dispatches from Switzerland state that Austria is con
fronted with a serious shortage of food supplies.
A correspondent at Paris referring to the events of yesterday
says that the Germans continue a fierce attack on the allies in the
angle formed by the rivers Oise and Aisne in the direction of
Tracy-le-Mont. Yesterday's, statement by the French war office
said that the Germans were repulsed at Tracy-le-Mont.
A French committee is appealing for winter clothing for the
troops, declaring that a long campaign iii cold weather is a possibility.
France has revived the office of field marshal of France.
The 38th German casualty list published to-day contains the
names of 8,000 officers and men killed, wounded or missing.
Russians Take Important
Positions From Germans
By Associated I'rcss
Washington. Oct. I.—Colonel Geol
jewskl, military attache of the Rus
sian embassy to-day issued the follow
ing official report from Petrograd:
"On September 28 after stubborn
fighting our troops have captured the
German position at Augustown and
Kopetz. On September 29 we took the
defiles between the lakes at Slmno,
|Sere.l and Lejpuny.
"The Germans have been driven
back Into the region between Suwalkt
Sejn.v and Marianpol. Our advance
continues the bombardment of Ossow
jf 17., but without success. At Schutkin
and at Aiulrejew only two important
skirmishes are reported."
William Orders Army
to Exterminate English
By Associated I'rcss
London. Oct. 1, 4.45 A. M.—The
Times to-day says that it is able to
give from a thoroughly trustworthy
source the text of an order issued by
Emperor William to Ills army on Au
gust 19. It follows:
"it is my Royal and Imperial com
mand that you concentrate your ener
gies for the immediate present upon
the single purpose and that is that you
address all your skill and all the valor
I of my soldiers to exterminate first the
treacherous English and walk over
General French's contemptible little
army."
Germans Bombarding
Japanese Positions
By Associated Press
Tokio, Oct. 1. 1.50 P. M.-—A severe
engagement has been opened by the
j German warships which cannonaded
the Japanese positions near Tslng-Tau
east of Government of Klao-<*how,
the German leased territory in China.
Two officers were killed. German aero
planes assisted the warships.
The German war office announces
that an artillery duel at Tslng-Tau
«jjUlnues. A German torpedo boat
< the harbor yesterday
this ship
is stated that
was sunk by
■ t was officially
■"rnoon that a
Hr otT Klao
sunk.
BT ilrteen
General Von Aaffenburg
Suffering From Cholera
By Associated I'rcss
London, Oct, 5 A. M.—A dispatch to
t In? Exchange Telegraph Company
from Rome states that General Von
Auffenberg Is suffering from cholera,
ax-cording to a telegram from Vienna.
Paris, Oct. 1, 6.4.". A. M.—lt is offi
cially announced by Austria-Hungary
says a dispatch from Rome to the
Havas Agency, that General Von Auf
fenberg, commanding the first Aus
trian army Is ill.
General Von Auffenberg, who was
minister of war in the Austrian cabi
net from September 19, 1011, until
December 9, 1912, was in command of
the Prat Austrian army when war
broke out. With the army of the
General Dank I he began an offensive
campaign in Russian Poland and had
some preliminary successes in various
Russian territory as far as Lublin.
The Austrian reverse at Lemberg,
however, changed the situation In th«
north and fora time the. position of
General Von Auffenburg was serious.
By desperate fighting he managed to
,retreat safely to Rzeszow, Galicla,
where he again formed a Junction with
General Dankl an dthe two armies re
tired toward Tarnow and i 'racow. The
last definite news received of General
Von Auffenburg was that he was com
manding the center of a new an'lex
tended defensive front with his baMfeL
Tarnow.
French Hold Ground M
Under Terrific FiM
By Associated Press
Londt.n, Oct. 1, 3.37 A. M.—The
respondent of the Dally / fH
Amiens under date of Sunday'in
scribing the heavy lighting
Peronne, which has been taken aJH
re-taken at various times, says
impossible to hear of the dogged
age of the French troops wlthoutS
thrill of warm admiration.
"At 11 o'clock one morning,"hesa>fl
"the French advance was subjected
to a terrible concentrated Are and It
seemed Impossible for the troops to
hold their ground. The French artll
llery had to abandon position after
position. At 2 o'clock the shells be
gan to fall around the cross roada
where the staff was located and th«
general in command was urged to quit,
| "No," he said, "so long as 1 stay here
we cannot retreat nnd we have sim
ply got to hold on."
DARI)\\ELLKS CT.OSKTI _
London, Oct. 1, 5.22 A.
'patch from ConstnntlnoiU^H :
I llavas agency statv"tl^^|
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