4llied Forces Are Gradually Pushing Back Right Wing of KaiseFs Army" HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXII1 — No. 234 CRITICISING WILL COMICTORS FOR NOT REMOVING BIG ; DEPOSITS OF SILT; Engineers and City Officials Thor-j oughly Out of Patience With Contractors For Apparent In difference in Carrying Out This End of Contract FEW WHERE THERE SHOULD BE A HUNDRED WORKMEN Steam Shovel Works Spasmodically Where Great Quantities of Stone, Rubbish and Dirt Are Awaiting Removal; Board of Public Works Urging Haste While the Stucker Brothers Con struction Company, the contractors on the liner Front Improvement, have been making considerable headway in the reinforced concrete work, there has been much adverse criticism of their manifest failure to remove the rubbish and accumulations of silt be tween the wall and the main cu:rent. I'nder the contract they are re quired to remove this deposit to a depth of two feet, and while there has been some effort along this line, it has been so Inadequate and appar ently indifferent that the engineers and other officials of the city are thor oughly out of patience. Starting at Iron alley, in the south ern section of the city, all kinds of material has been allowed to remain, so that in the event of the closing up of the dam the space along the wall would be tilled with rocks and rub bish of every sort. Promises and Promises The contractors have promised time after time to remove this mate rial and as it is badly needed for till ing between the slope and the main j [Continued on Page S] | THE WEATHER]! For HarrlnlmrK nnil vicinity: I'nlr ! 10-nijilit Hli<l >ntiir«lu% ; warmer Saturday. For KnMrrn 1 Vntiay Iva uln: Fair ti»-i)lgtit. warmer In north por tion: Saturday fair,4 warmer; gentle northeast to aontheawt w ln<l«. River The main river will remain nearly Mtatlonar> to-night and Satur day. A Ntaue of about .7 of a foot IN indicated for llarrinliurM; Sat urday morning. (ieneral Condition* iontlitionM eon t inue unsettled iu the t.ulf region and Ils-ht to mod erately heavy raias have falleu iu the tiulf State*, rxxcept Texas, and In Western Tennessee, South < arolina. Georgia and Florida in the last twenty-four hours. The temperature has risen a! a ma jority of the stations represent ed on the map wlnee last report, the most deelded plus changes noted, 14 to 22 degree*, oeeurring In Western South Dakota and Wyoming. Tempera-lure: S a. in., 4S. Sun: Rises, 6:02 a. m.; Nets, ff:4B p. m. , Moon: Full moon. October 4, 12:.%!) a. m. River Stage: Seven-tenths of a foot ahuve low-water mark. Yesterday** Weather Highest temperature, tit;, lowest temperature, 4H. Mean temperature. T»7. Normal temperature. 60. No registration NO VOTE The man who does not register will not be able to vote on Novem ber 3. Saturday, October 3 !s the LAST DAY on which to REGISTER. Pay taxes and register. Late News Bulletins GERMANS TO LEAVE BRUSSELS i>ondoii, Oct. 2. 5.05 P. M.—ln a dispatch from Vmsierdain the correspondent of the Central New- says advices reaching llicrf tu-day from Brussels set forth that there is every reason to anticipate the early withdrawal or the tier mans from the Belgian capital and wounded men are being sent Imck to Germany he says ami the German official docu mcnts are being packed up. THEY'RE AT IT IN MEXICO Xaco, Si mora, Me\., Oct. 2.—Tile liattlc of Xaco i>cgun -liortly be fore noon to-day. With a cavalry screen and skirmishers deployed in llic van. Governor Mnytorcna launched his main force upon General Itcnjamin llill's Carran/.ita army of IhOO entrenched within llic town. Hill was prepared either for assault or Tor siege. TWO KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE Vniontovvn. I'a.. Oct. 2.—Mr*. Matilila Bridge, of franklin. I'a., mid Mrs. Margaret Craft, of Brownsville, I'a.. were killed, ami Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Town-end. of Inlontown. seriously injured when the auto mobile in which tlicy were riding was struck hy a liiiltimore and Ohio passenger train at a crossing here to-day. ENGLISH WILL LAY MINES Ixindon. Oct. 2. 2.55 I'. M.—The ofliclal information bureau an nounced to-day that the government had decided to lay mines in cer tain areas as a counter stroke to the German procedure. 2,000 RUSSIAN OFFICERS CAPTURED Berlin. Oct. 2. by wireless to Sayville. K I.—A statement given out In Berlin says that there arc about 2.(100 Russian officers, including 18 generals, at present licing held as prisoners of war in the various detention camps in Germany. TAKE MONEY FROM AMERICAN PROPERTY Washington. Oct. 2.—Seizure of 500.000 pes«is by .Mexican soldiers from an American property was reported to-day through Foreign Con sular representatives in Mexico. The money is believed to have lieen taken hy the same band which seized $1,500,000 pesos in which a British corporation was interested. MAYOR PROCLAIMS 1 NEXT THURSDAY A CITY-WIDE HOLIDAY Stores and Manufacturers Will Close Places of Busi ness at Noon BIG OVATION FOR FIREMEN Asks Whole Town to Turn Out as Mark of Respect to Men Who Fight the Flames Next Thursday, by official procla-1 mation of Mayor John K. Royal, will be one big city-wide holiday in honor of the visiting firemen, who will march iin the big parade of the Pennsylvania j State Firemen's Association, j The Mayor's proclamation is as ; follows: ' I'KOCI.AM vriox: Wlierriis, Tlie Pennsylvania Slate Firemen's Assoc-iation will bold it- annual convention in llar risburg Detober 6. 7. 8 and », bringing to till- city a large num ber of x isitor-s. and on Thursday (lie largest demonstration or Its kind ever held iu the State will take place, therefore. I. John R. Royal. Mayor of llairisburg. do Itroelaim Thursday. October H, 1914. a holiday and request the merchants to close their respective places of business at 12 o'clock lioou as a mark of respect til those who voluntarily give their services to save property from tire and to lielp others in dis tress. JOHN' K. ROY A 1,, Mayor. j Mayor Royal to-day highly com- I mended the men who have been yvork i in« hard to make t lie event a success, j He expressed a hope that the weather would be favorable all next week, and i that every visitor would leave Harris j burg feeling that they had been roy ally entertained and that HaTrlsburg ; was a good place to visit and to live. Details for the big time are working 1 out nicely. All over Harrisburg un usual activity was in evidence to-day. [Continued on Page 7] TO BREAK Ml FOR ROGE STOOGH | TABERNACLE OCT. S E. Z. Gross to Turn First Shovelful of Earth; the Rev. William N. Yates to Make Address Ground for the huge Slough taber nacle to be erected at Kilbert, North' and Cowden streets in the Capitol Park Extension district, will be broken i I Monday morning. October 5, at 8.45 ! ] o'clock. Announcement to this effect was made this morning by William S. Hoe- i buck, chairman of the tabernacle committee. Fully live thousand peo-! pie are expected to be present at the' ground-breaking ceremonies, linpres-; sive religious ceremonies will mark the j ground-breaking. The complete pro-j gram will not be announced betore to ! morrow but tentatively it includes an; ' address bv the Rev. William X. Yates, chairman of the co-operating rainis terium; prayer by the Rev. E. E. Cur tis secretary of the miniaterium. and the breaking of ground by E. Z. Gross, i hairman of the executive committee. Letters were sent out this morning by Mr. Roebuck to all the co-operating church pastors telling them to an- ; nounce the ground-breaking ceremon- j [Continued on Page 7] DOCTORS TO MEET i A meeting of the Council of the 'Academy of Medicine will be held to-, j night. The County Medical Society I will hold a meeting at the Academy of j Medicine next Tuesday evening. Henry ' V. Walters will deliver a short address 1 i on a technical subject. IIARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTORER 2, 1914, THE WHITE HOUSE TWlNS—lntroducing a New Playmate f BE A NCE BOY MITCHIE \ " v. I *ND GIVE HIM YOURTOY ] / AW LET HIM \ I CO BACK AND \ V- — I PLAY /N HIS J / \OVVN YARDI y TEMPLAR FIELD DAY I AT ISLAND PARK IS IMPRESSIVE EVENT Peace Prayer With Knights Uncov ered, Inspection and Review Big Features Xever in the history of this city has there been seen a more impressive, more beautiful or more entertaining ceremony than the first annual field day exercises of Division No. 10, Knights Templar, held this afternoon at Island Park. Ideal weather conditions, perfectly groomed and splendidly uniformed men. beautiful women in the stands and along the reviewing lines, to gether with stirring martial music, made the event one long to be re membered. While the entire program from the parade to the island to the linal review j was replete with interest, the features that impressed the assembled thou ! sands the most, perhaps, were the flag ; raising and salute, the peace prayer with the knights uncovered and the i inspection of the division by A. How ] aril Thomas, grand commander of the I grand cotnin&ndery of Pennsylvania* The IVacc Prayer The peace prayer, offered by the itev. ilarrj Nelson Hassler, pastor of i the Second Ueformed Church, was as : follows: "O God. who hast made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and who in Thy holy Word hast taught us that One is our Father, even .God. and that we are all brethren: We pray Thee in this dark hour of international strife that Thou wilt open the eyes of the people and those who in Thy name are intrusted with the au thority of government to see and understand their right and true relation to Thee and through Thee to one another. Teach them by Thy Spirit that hatred and vio lence are not strength, but weak ness; that the true safeguarding tit a nation Is not to be found in weapons of war, but in those eter nal principles which make for righteousness and truth and brotherhood and peace. (Jive to those who shall suffer in the war now raging the consolations of Thy grace. Heal the sick; coin fort the wounded: minister to the dying; and bind up the broken heart. Bring, we pray Thee, to a speedy end this international strife; and hasten the time when peace shall flourish upon the earth, and all shall dwell together in unity and love, and war shall be no more. We ask it in the Name of our Saviour, Jesus • 'hrist. Amen." Following the exercises at Island Park the visiting ladles were taken in automobiles to places of interest throughout Harrisburg. This evening a reception and dance will be held at chestnut Street Auditorium. En route to the island the three commanderies comprising Division No. 10. Arthur D. Bacon, of Harrisburg, In command, paraded over the principal streets and marched to the island via the Market street bridge. AGKI) WOMAN HI KT IX FALL Mrs. ('. \V. Bodly, aged 55 years, 2115 Jefferson street, was treated at Ithe Harrisburg Hospital yesterday af ,'ternoon for a fracture of the left I wrist received wh*s she fell down 'stairs. , CELEBRATION OF lOLE FURNACES IN LEBANON COUNTY Banner Raising Will Tell Voters of Iron City What to Avoid in November William Draper Lewis, who with drew as Washington party candidate lor Governor in favor of Vance C. McCormick, who stands for the Dem ocratic tariff; Congressman Arthur R. liupley. who has some queer ideas on the tariff for this section, and some Bull Moosers and Democrats are go ing to invade Lebanon county to-mor row night to speak at the raising of a mule ticket banner. McCormick will be pt*aised and the familiar Lewis speech repeated. The celebration will come at a pe culiar time and has already been her alded as in honor of the seven idle furnaces of Lebanon county. l.eba non has nine furnaces and the stacks of but two are showing smoke. Twent.v-flv»* thousand tons of iron are stored in the yards of the Pennsylva nia and Lackawanna Steel Companies and the rolling mill men of Lebanon are working two days a week. The celebration coincides with the suspension of the great plant of the AtnerU an Iron and Steel Manufactur ing Company for the week. It closed last night until Monday and its fur ther operations are more or less un certain. Lebanon, which used to be found from afar by the pillar of cloud by day and by the pillar of lire from it* fur naces at night, is suffering from the blight of the Palmer metal schedule. Hence the banner-raisinsf fits in as an object lesson of what to vote against. Colored Women of City Form a Suffrage Club Colored folk of this city yesterday afternoon met at the home of W. Jus tin Carter, attorney, 527 Maclay street, and organized a woman suffrage asso ciation which will be an auxiliary to the Central Pennsylvania Association, of which Airs. Mabel Cronise Jones is president. Mrs. AV. Justin Carter was elected president of the new association and other officers will be elected within the next two weeks. Parlor meetings will be held in various homes through out the colored sections of the city during the fall to enlist recruits for the cause. Kach member will be ex pected to bring three visitors to each parlor meeting. When the association grows to the size where the renting of a hall is warranted, arrangements will be made to procure one. PKACK OBSERVANCE AT ST. STEPHEN'S CHI RCH Sunday. October 4, the day appoint ed as "a day of intercession for Inter national peace." will be observed in St. Stephen's Church by the use of the special service prepared by Bishop Greer, of New York, and sanctioned by Bishop Darlington, and by the preaching of an appropriate sermon. BVIIiIJING PERMITS Building permits for the erection of four houses were granted yesterday George Creznic will build three two stock brick mansard houses in Herr street on the northeast corner of Mon roe at a cost of $2,400; F. A Stitt, one two-and-a-half story brick and frame house, $2,500. at Jefferson, at [the southeast corner of Boss. EXPECT LIVELY ROW IN COUNCIL OVER ' COP'S APPOINTMENT Commissioners Will Not Likely Confirm the Mayor's Appoint ment of Kiniey and Specials Prospects for another very lively row were of the brightest when City Council met this afternoon in special session. The meeting did not begin until af ter 4 o'clock but from an early hour this morning the followers of the "3 to 2" divisions were getting ready for the expected fray over the confirma tion of Jacob Kiniey as a successor to Andrew E. Murphy as a patrolman, and of the special officers to serve dur ing the firemen's convention next week. Mayor John K. Royal last evening announced a list of appointments of special officers. The question of con firmation must be solved by Council it was learned by Commissioners Bow man and Lynch after a conference with City Solicitor Seitz. Roth of the commissioners refused to discuss the probable action of Council this after noon other than to say that they had known nothing of the appointments except what they had seen in the papers. Nor would the' commissioners talk on the possible outcome of the Mur phy-Klnley appointment. Both declared they thought a pub lic hearing should be given. Murphy 011 the charges of insubordination, etc., preferred by Mayor Royal. It is un derstood that Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor is of the same opinion. Municipal circles to-day freely pre dicted the failure of Council to con firm Kinley at any rate, by at least a three to two vote. C. I. and S. Man Says Men Are Not Furloughed Ke>ports that the Central Iron and Steel Company's plant had been par tially closed down and that between 200 and 400 jnen were furloughed in definitely were denied this afternoon by Assistant General Superintendent John K. Shepherdson. Mr. Shepherdson said the plant was still working and that while some of the departments were on short hours due to lack of orders, the employes worked when there was any work to do. Mr. Shepherdson said that owing to the business depression the orders at the Central Iron and Steel Company plant are few, but work would go right along without any shutdown as long as possible. Man Who Escaped the Constable Gives Self Up After being at large since last Thursday, when he escaped from Con stable James Johnson, Charles John son, 310 Cumberland street, walked In to the office of Alderman A. M. I.andis, 2?9 Calder street last evening at 6 o'clock and posted ball to the amount of SSOO for a hearing this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Johnson has been ar rested by Constable James Johnson on charges preferred by his wife. 20 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT | Allies Are Steadily I Pushing Germans Back to Belgian Frontier Turning Movement of British and French Has Brought Extreme Left Wing Within 30 Miles of Belgian Bor der; Terrific Fighting in Progress Near Roye; Berlin Says Battle in France Remains Undecided; Bulgaria Planning to Enter Struggle; Allies Bombarding Chief Naval Station of Austria-Hungary; Antwerp Holds Back Germans London, Oct. 2, 3.50 P. M.—"The Germans have suffered heavily everywhere under the well directed machine gun fire of the Belgians," according to a state ment cabled from Antwerp by the correspondent of the Central News. "At the Wavre and St. Catherine forts alone (outside Antwerp) the German dead may be counted by the thousands. At several points the corpses I lie in heaps. Entire companies have been exterminated while the other troops were driven back at the point of the bayonet. The turning movement of tTie allied armies in Northern France lias brought the extreme of their left wing within about thirty J miles of the Belgian frontier. An official statement issued by the French war office at ft o'clock this afternoon says that part of the battle line stretching directly north and south has been extended north to a point south of Arras. This line on which the allies are attempting to envelop the German right wing under General Von Kluck, has been pushed gradually toward tiie Belgian border as the Germans widen their front in defense, until it extends some fifty-five miles from the Angle that rests on Tracy-le-Mont. Severe fighting continues on the left wing of the allies ing to Paris statement, a most severe struggle in the region of Roye, a town twenty-six miles east of Amcens and about midway on this battle line. Here the Germans have concentrated strong forces probably with the purpose of breaking through the front of the allies 1 and isolating their forces to the north. The Paris statement adds that the Germans attempted to bridge the Meuse, near St. Mihiel, but their pontoons were destroyed. BATTLE REMAINS UNDECIDED ' In a statement receieved by wireless from Berlin the j headquarters announced that the great bat tie in France remains un-H i decided. Tile Germans with their heavy artillery are hammering positions of the allies at many points. The latter were repulsed their attempts to break tlie German lines. The German statement says that the heaviest losses have been in the Arfconne region. 1 A Perograd correspondent says that tiie Germans from four ' points are attempting to concentrate on southern Russian Poland I where a decisive bat tie is expected. Interest in the attitude of Bulgaria is revived by a dispatch Rome saying that all Bulgarian army officers in Italy and land have been ordered home at once. The French minister of finance declares that the financial situsß : ation of France on October 1 was entirely satisfactory, i, ALLIES BOMBARDING POLA A dispatch from Venice says that a Franco-British squadron ■ | has begun operations against Pola, the chief naval station of Austria j Hungary. * I Dispatches from London indicate that the expected battle be- I jtween the Russians and the allied armies of Germany and Austria at ■ I Cracow has begun. ~*&■ The "Idea Naxionale" of Rome, the nationalist party organ, de-- 1 jclares that the minister of foreign affairs, Marquis Di San J 1 : who is reputed to be opposed to Italy entering the conflict has re-*:- I signed from the cabinet. rrl The most recent advices from Belgium report that the German 1 attack upon Antwerp continues against a stubborn resistance. ~ t A Montenegrin official report says that the attack on Sarajevo .. capital of the Austrian province of Bosnia, has been begun. Earlier } advices from Xish, Servia, said that the Servian war office thought an-. ? attempt to take the city would be un^dvisable. ' Operations Against \ i 9 Chief Naval Station in <■ Austria-Hungary Opened By Associated Press j London, Oct. 2, 4.0S A. M. —A dis patch from Venice lo the Dally Mail 11 reports that the allied lleet has begun , operations against Fola. the chief na val station of Austria-Hungary. - King Uses Balloon to Survey Operations By Associated I'ress lUndnn, Oct. 2. 3.47 A. M. —An I Antwerp dispatch to the Daily Mail says: I ! "Kins? Albert is to be seen con _ stantly in the danger zone, lie is re- I ported to have ascended yesterday in _j a balloon to survey the operations. I I The enemy shelled the balloon, but t | the shells fell short. "In attacking the gap between the s'liiezel and Breendonk forts the Ger f I mans made their first acquaintance ' 5,1 with the surprise defense works. [ L i Many of them were electrocuted on 9! touching the barbed wire entangle- ments. , i t Germans Reported to Have Lost 8,000 Killed By Associated I'ress London. Oct. 2. 2.47 A. M. —A dis- I patch from Antwerp, timed 10 o'clock * Thursday night, says: "The German attacks on Antwerp ' t continiH?. The Belgians responded - from Forts Breendonk and Waelhem 'at 1 o'clock this morning. The Ger -!mnns tried in vain to damage the i. i forts with their heavy guns. Shells r, fell in the village of Blllehroeck. de t molishlng the town hall and a mill, t It is reported that the Germans lost - 8,000 killed at Kort Wavre-St. Cath i erlne" " Indian Troops Reach France; German Right Is Being Turned Back By Associated Press London, Oct. 2. 10.20 a. m.—Though all reports seem to agree that the Ger man right in France has been bent back, the cautious tone of the hrlet official statements indicates that the battle of the Aisne is far from de«.i-'- cided and the British public, showing the patience that has characterized it since the outbreak of hostilities finds a sentimental stimulus In the safe ar rival of the tine Indian contingent on French soil" and the bull terrior-like resistance of the Antwerpians, who, headed by their king, seek to check the German besiegers. Whether two forts have fallen near Antwerp, as the Germans insist, or whether the Belgians have so far re pulsed the artillery onslaught Is a matter of conjecture here. London papers, both editorially and in tjieir news columns, embellished with pictures, make a feature of the landing of the Jndian troops and con gratulate the War office on the sue- J cessful feat, of moving away transports m from India without a single loss, ■ If the battle of Craeok is in full M sway then it Is unquestionably one offl the greatest struggles of this war and'lH possible the forerunner of even colossal engagements which will ra.uk% , in Silesia. . ] Nothing definite has been heard in , A the last twenty-four hours of whereabouts of the German but Petrograd dispatches say he undoubtedly present at the engag«7 ments on the Kast Prussian frontier®, where, the Russians insist, the troops have met reverses and are be* ing driven back. 2.500,000 MEN AT CRACOW London. Oct. 2, 4.10 A. M.—lt Is officially announced at Vienna, ac cording to a Home dispatch to the • j . Kxchange Telegraph Company, that I the Austro-German army concentrated 1 lat Cracow numbers 2.&90.00O men.
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