Germans Moving West in Great Numbers Preparatory to Attacking Ostend
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 245
ELECTRIC CLOCK OH
„ MUNICIPAL TREE TO
HIDUNCE NEW YEAR
Mummers' Association Will Make
Big Noise When 1915
Comes to Town
PRIZES WILL TOTAL SI,OOO
Not Yet Decided Whether Parade
Will Be Held Morning or
Afternoon
Suggestions for a noisv welcome to
the New Year, with an electrical clock
feature, were given hearty endorse
ment by the Harrisburg Mummers'
Association last night.
At a meeting held at the Mayor's
office representatives of twenty-three
clubs, lire companies, bands and other
organizations were present, including
delegations from Steelton, West Fair
view, New Cumberland and other
nearby towns.
Wellington G. Jones, a member of
the board of directors, explained plans
and announced that the mummers
will,award prizes amounting to S 1,000
in cash for the most elaborate and the
best fantastical costumes, the finest
float and the club having the most
men in line.
Every individual who enters the pa
rade for a prize must be registered
under the name of a club. Clubs, on
depositing e fee of $5, may become
members of the Mummers' Associa
tion, which entitles them to send three
representatives to business meetings
of the association. These members
will have equal rights with the present
members.
Plans for the erection of a large
electrical clock above a municipal
Christinas tree at Front and Market
streets, as suggested by the Telegraph,
were made. The mummers will wel
come the New Year with a big noise
at the stroke of 12. Whether the
parade will he held in the morning or
afternoon of January 1 will be decided
at a meeting to be held November 6,
at the Hassett Club.
Mayor Royal, members of the City
Commission and members of the
Chamber of Commerce favor the New
Year's celebration and have offered
their assistance. Francis H. Hoy, Jr.,
has been appointed chief of staff by
Clarence O. Haekenstoss, chief mar
shal of the mummers' parade.
Next Wednesday night another
meeting of the association will be
held at the police station.
Republican Meeting
at Horstick's Store
♦ A Republican rally will be held this
at Horstick's store, 1902 State
street, at which several speakers, in
cluding John C. Nissley, candidate for
the Legislature, will deliver addresses.
THE WEATHER
Kor HurrlxlHirK anil vicinity: Hiiln
thin afternoon, io-nlght ami Fri
day; not much change in tempera
ture.
Kor Hunt!*rn Pennsylvania i Unset
tled to-night and Frlilay, prob
ably lorn I mint; ueotle to mod
erute eaut wind*.
Itlver
The main river will remnln nearly
Hfntlonary to-night and probably
rlxe somewhat Friday. A Ntnc'e
of about ..S." of a foot IN indicated
for llarrixhiirK on Friday morn
ing.
General CoiidltlnnM
A low prexNiire that prevailed over
the HOutheaMtern portion of the
L'nlted Wate* since tile ilrxt u(
the week ha* tie* eloped into a
dlNturlinnee of mime Importance,
now central over Northern
Georgia, which ha M I'IIUMCII gen
eral, anil in some CIIKCM, heavy
ralnn.
Temperature 1 X a. m„ -18.
Sum Klxex, ttslO a. m.; set*, 8i27
p. ni.
Mount New moon, October 111, 1:33
a. m.
Hlver Stage: Rl|(h t-tenth* or a
foot above low-water murk.
Yew<erday*» Weather
H Ighext temperature, ."i7.
I.owent temperature. .">l.
Mean temperature, 54,
Normal temperature, 55,
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U A IUII AGE I.H'KXSKS
Flemues C. Hamaker. West Fairview,
and Mary F. Miller, Cumberland county.
Chester Wright. Newport, and Mabel
Stohl, Mlllerstown.
Ross James Neidelth nnd Rstella
Helstand Metzler, Lancaster county.
Late News Bulletins
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. IS.—Woman Suffrage was almost unanimous
ly endorsed this afternoon by (lie stale Federation of Woman's Clubs
In annual business session in tills city. The Federation includes about
25C clubs with an enrollment of 00,000.
l.ondon. Oct. 15, .1.30 P. M.—Fire in tile government arsenal at
Trieste, the principal seaport of Austria-Hungary on the Adriatic sea,
has virtually destroyed an Austrian dreadnought under construction
there, according to a Central News dispatch from Home. Six torpedo
boat destroyers also were damaged by the lire which quickly enveloped
the workshop. It Is alleged ~:hat a quantity of wood work In the ar
senal was soaked with petrol. A number of workmen have been ar
rested.
Aguas Calientes, Mexico, r)ct. 15.—Unofficial reports of the residts
of the peace conference her-» yesterday say that a successor to Gen
eral Carran/.a for the presidency of Mexico is to IK* named soon. These
reports, which are brief, do not explain when General Carran/.a is to
resign, or how. but indicate that the conference finished its work suc
cessfully last night.
Xew York, Oct. 15.—Two expeditionary forces of Portuguese
troops for one of which English transports were used, sailed from Lis
bon on September 10 to reinforce garrisons in Portuguese possessions
In Africa which adjoin those of Germany. This was made known to
day by C. Rangcl He Sampalo, Portuguese consul general at New York.
Washington, Oct. 15.—Inquiry to the preparedness of the United
States for war "offensive or defensive" by a national security commis
sion was proposed in a joint resolution 'introduced In the House to-day
by Representative Garduerli, of Massachusetts, who recently returned
from the war zone in Europe.
Richmond, Va., Oct. 15.—The American Rankers' Association to
day adopted a resolution declaring "a prompt and lilx-ral increase in
railroad rates throughout the United states is essential In order to
enable the railroads to llnancc their mature obligations."
Panama, Oct. 15.—Colonel Goetlials declared to-day that lie was
unable to say when the channel agniii would lie navigable, hut he
hop«-<l within a few days.. The slide licgan at a late hour yesterday aft
ernoon and became serious during the night for the main movement
was observed.
San Francisco, Oct. 15.—After la-lug granted clearance for Valpar
aiso with a cargo of coal to-day the American freighter Sacramento
formerly the German Kosmos liner Alexandria, was halted outside the
Golden Gate by a revenue cutter and brought back to port. Captain
Anderson, a wireless o|>crator and two sailors were brought usliore in
n launch and the Sacramento anchored off Alcatras Island.
HULL BOY SETS 11
HEWS HO OF THE
CITY NEWSPAPERS
Tech Student Has Best Wireless
Station Between This and
Philadelphia
FLASHES FROM SAYVILLE
Set Entirely Homemade; Says
the Machine Is Not
Dangerous
How would you like to get the war
news of Europe right from the front
in less than three hours after the bat
tles have taken place? Yes, and get
lit before even the newspapers get it?
"Impossible!" you say. No, it isn't.
If you understand the wireless code
you can get it right in this city at the
wireless station of G. Webber Knight,
1545 Walnut street.
Mr. Knight gets all the news of the
war, long before the papers publish
it, but owing to the government re
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Professor Resigns So
That Harvard May Get
Gift of $10,000,000
By Associated Press
Cambridge, Mass.. Oct. 15. Hugo
Munsterberger, professor of psychology
lat Harvard I"nlversity, last night said
: that lie had offered his resignation to
President Lowell. This action Is the
result of a letter sent by Major Clar
ence Wiener, of London, to the over
seers of the college to tile effect that
lie would change a will by which Har
i vard would receive $10,000,000 unless
| Professor Munsterberg was dismissed
from the faculty.
'< "Unwarranted pro-German utter- 1
] Races," by the famous psychologist in
| c onnection with the war were given by
Major Wiener as the reason of his at
titude.
"I sent my resignation to President
Lowell so that there might be no em
barrassment In the matter and that the
faculty might be left free to act with
out having to consider my feelings,"
said Professor Munsterberg.
Major Winer, a member of the class
of 1 ;tdO Ht Harvard Is the proprietor of
the Wiener News Agency, Strand. Lon
don, England. He was horn in Phila
delphia In IS7S. He attended Harvard
one year, going to Cuba in 1597. Dur
ing the next year he was on the staff
of General Frederick D. Grant In Porto
Rico. In 1890 he went to South Africa
as a war correspondent. Subsequently
he saw stirring service there anu or
ganized a band of scouts. He was eight
times wounded in South Africa. M: jor
I Wiener has been reputed to be im-
I mensely wealthy.
SPECIAL NIGHT FOR
LOWER END FOLK
AT FOOD EXHIBIT
Steelton and Middletown People
Will Be Honor Guests
of Big Show i
Managers of the Harrisburg Pure
Food Exhibit to-night will observe
"Steelton and Middletown Night."
Another record crowd was present
last night at the exhibit. To date the
attendance has surpassed all expecta
tions. The crowd was so large last
night that it was impossible to close
the show at 10.30, and it was 11
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MI SICALK AT \Y< >RMLKYSIHJRG
Wormleysburg, Pa. Oct. 15. —The
Sunday school class of Mrs. J. J. Hem
mer will give a musical and literary
entertainment in St. Paul's United
Brethren Church this evening at 8
o'clock. The program will be divided
into two parts, each of which will be
made up of numbers by some of the
best talent in the town and vicinity.
HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1914.
A TOUCHDOWN SURE
Prom the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
JURY WHEEL AGE 68
TAKES A LAST SPIN
IN COUNTY SERVICE
On Duty Since 1846, It Performs
Final Whirl For Sixty
Talesmen
After nearly seventy years of con
tinuous duty, through war time and
in peace. Dauphin county's jury wheel
served for the last time this morning
when a panel of sixty talesmen was
drawn to act at the special term of
common pleas beginning November 16.
Henceforth the good men and true
of Dauphin county will be selected
from the brand-new steel wheel that
is to supresede the aired frame re
ceptacle. Early in December the new
wheel will be dusted off. oiled and filled
by the jury commissioners and the
court with about 900 names, each offi
cial contributing 300. The following
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Speakers of Note at
West End Republican
Club Rally Tonight
The West End Republican Club will
hold Its annual campaign rally this
evening at the clubhouse and some
lively speaking is promised by 11. A.
Douglas, fie club president, who is in
charge of the arrangements. A largo
audience Is- expected.
Congressman A. S. Kreider is com
ing from Washington for an address
and will bring with him one d>f his
Republican colleagues in Congress,
who will speak on national issues.
Senator E. E. Heldleman will talk
on State issues and there will be
speeches by Joshua W. Swartz and
Augustus Wildman, Republican candi
dates for the Legislature in the city
district.
Styles For Men!
Will London Still dominate
the styles for men?
Will there be a new and dis
tinctly American note In cloth
ing?
What will be the influence of
the war oa male attire? That
there will be distinct changes In
many classes of apparel us a re
suit of European conditions is
apparent. They may not. how
ever, manifest themselves until
Spring styles arc ready.
In the attire for Fall and
Winter are many attractive pat
terns and fabrics even if distinct
novelties are infrequent.
The stores are now showing
these new thlngH and the adver
tising in the Telegraph gives the
news of their whereabouts from
day to day.
EXHIBITS OF FIRM
LIFESUGGESTED
FOR RURAL SCHOOLS
County Superintendent F. E. Sham
baugh Urges Children's Dis
play For December 4
Exhibits of farm products to be ar
ranged by the school children of the
country districts to stimulate interest
and study in agriculture are suggested
by Professor F. E. Shambaugh, county
school superintendent, for all schools
in Dauphin county as a feature of
patrons' or rural life day, Friday, De
cember 4.
The suggestion is embodied in a let
ter which Professor Shambaugh has
sent out to the county school teachers.
The details for arranging the displays
are left to the judgment and discretion
of the teachers, although Professor
Shambaugh urges their co-operation
by inviting the parents of the scholars
to attend.
In addition to the exhibits the
superintendent suggests further that
appropriate programs be arranged.
The movement is in line with the
parent-teacher organizations, which
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Negro Held on Charge
of Trying to Burn
Down Sweetheart's Home
Charles L. Madison, colored, was
arrested last night by Constable Smith
on a charge of arson, made by Joseph
Dorinall.v, a deputy (ire marshal. Some
time ago Madison is said to have at
tempted to set on lire the home of his
sweetheart. Anna Brlseo, 1216 North
Seventh street, when he discovered
that he had a rival. He was held by
Alderman Hilton under $2,000 ball.
Work on Boyd Memorial
to Start April 1, 1915
The Boyd memorial committee of
the Pine Street Presbyterian Church
made a report at the congregational
meeting last evening on the purchase
of property In South street diagonally
opposite the rear of the church as a
site for the John Y. Boyd Memorial
Institution for Men and Boys. The
property has a frontage of 50 feet in
South street and 105 feet in Myrtle
avenue. The church will gain posses
sion of the property after April 1,
1915, and building operations will fol
low immediately.
Local Men Honored
by the Golden Eagles
Norfolk, Va., Oct. 15. The Su
preme Castle, Knights of the Golden
Eagle, in session here, elected Past
Chief E. S. HOSB. of Harrlsburg, to the
honors of past grand chief and a mem
ber of the supreme castle.
F. C. Hoffman was appointed on
several prominent committees.
THOUSAND STOUGH
COMMITTEEMEN TO
CONFER TONIGHT
All Workers in Big Campaign to
Hold Conference at Pine St.
Presbyterian Church
A bit? Stousrh campaign committee
meeting of over 1.000 persons will be
held to-night in the Pine Street Pres
byterian Church. Every committee of
the Stough campaign will be repre
sented. betters have been sent out
by E. F. Weaver, executive secretary,
to each of the 1,2 00 committeemen in
the city.
At this meeting final plans for the
work of the campaign will be dis
cussed. The general committee meet
ing will be followed by meetings of
each committee separately, when plans
for the particular lines of work will be
considered.
R. E. Boswell will try to take a
census of the churches In Harrisburg
on October 25 In one hour. Mr. Bos
well says that this can be done if the
1,500 volunteers needed respond. All
volunteers are to notify Mr. Boswell,
30 North Eighteenth street, or call
Bell phone 2 880 W.
The women's assembly, conducted
under the women's work committee,
met this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in
the Ridge Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church.
125 G. A. R. Veterans
at District Reunion
Men of the local Grand Army of
the Republic posts, numbering more
than 125 members, left this morning
at 8 o'clock for Lebanon to attend the
eighteenth annual reunion of the Mid
dle District of Pennsylvania.
There was a parade at 1.80 to-day
and a banquet will be served this
evening. At 8 this evening a big
campflre will be held at the same hall.
Addresses will be made by Depart
ment Commander Wells, Comrade
McElroy. of the National Tribune.
Washington, D. C.; Comrade Saltz
gaber, Commissioner of Pensions, of
Washington. D. C.; General Stewart,
Ma.ior M. A. Ghcrst and others. Miss
Irene Wagner, daughter of the late
Comrade Wagner, of Post No. 58, this
city, will sound "taps."
DIRECTORS ORGANIZE
Directors of the Harrisburg Cham
ber of Commerce met this afternoon
at the Harrisburg Club for organ
isation. The meeting was called for
4 o'clock. Two candidates, Hender
son Gilbert and David Kaufman, were
mentioned as probable successors to
George B. Tripp, the retiring president.
IIOYE TAKEN TWKI.VE TIMES
By Associated Press
London. Oct 15. 4:10 A. M. A
Paris dispatch to the Dally Mall says:
"During three weeks of violent light
ing between Hoye and Dasslgny, Roye
Itself has been taken and retaken
twelve times and has been the scene
of the fiercest hand-to-hand encounters,
while all the villages In the neighbor
hood have constantly changed hands."
16 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT
German Forces Within
Few Miles of Ostend;
Allies Make Progress
Official Statements From Paris Say French and British
Are Holding Germans Back at Many Points; Kaiser's
Lines Are Unbroken, According to Berlin Dis
patches; Austro-German Force Driven Back Near
Warsaw
Paris, Oct. 15, 1.02 P. M.—The newspaper Franc
Du Nord, declares to-day that when the Germans
were defeated at Arras they lost from 12,000 to 15,-
000 men who were surrounded by the French in some
marshes.
The Germans who are moving on Ostend are reported to have
occupied Bruges, fifteen mlies east of the former city. This report
is confirmed from neutral sources.
A German official statement coming' direct from Berlin by wire
less says that their troops in Belgium are now marching in part
towards Ostend and in part hi a southwesterly direction toward the
hrench frontier. J here has been heavy fighting east of Soissons
and the Argonnes the Germans have at no point lost ground, it is
declared. French claims of successes in the Woevre district are
denied.
1 his afternoon's French official statement announces that the
allies have made marked progress in the region of Lens and between
Arras and Albert. On the center the allies, it is said, have advanced
in the direction of ( raonne while a German offensive movement to
the north of Saint Die has been definitely checked.
A dispatch from Petrograd says that the Austro-German army
was completely defeated Wednesday in the neighborhood of War
saw, Russian Poland, suffering enormous losses in casualities and
prisoners. A wireless message from Berlin says that it was officially
announced there to-day that the battle to the east of Wirballen in
Russian Poland continues after eleven days of fighting, favorable to
the Germans. Repeated advances of the Russians having been re
pulsed with heavy losses.
A Russian advance in Fast Prussia is suggested in a dispatch
trom Amsterdam which quotes a German correspondent at Rasten
burg as reporting that the civilian population of Goldap has evacu
ated the town for "military reasons and precautions."
Goldap is in East Prussia, ten miles from the frontier and about
thirty-five miles north of Lyck where the Russians were recently
reported, which city it is connected by rail.
A new.dispatch from Rome says that fire in the Austro-Hun
garial arsenal at Trieste virtually destroyed a dreadnought and dam
aged six torpedoboat destroyers. Several workmen suspected of
iucendiarisn have been arrested. i
Diseases which have played an important part in most wars
arc receiving the serious attention of the belligerents. Cholera is
reported among the Russians and Austrians, typhus among some
German forces; while the British are hurrying medical experts to
France to make war on various ills reported among the British and
French.
Sweeping claims of 'victories over the Servians and Monte
negrins are made at Vienna. On the other hand the Servian govern
ment in an optimistic statement says that Belgrade is no longer in
danger and some government business is being resumed at the capi
tal. Foodstuff is declared to be so abundant that its export from
Servia is permitted
The anti-Austrian war fever in Italy is said to be abating while
Turkey continues in a truculent mood.
Holland is overrun with Belgian refugees and the arrival of
refugees in England has afforded a serious problem for Great
Britain. The United States probably will be appealed to for aid.
Further detachments of Canadian troops were landed in Eng
land to-day.
The British royal family is leaving London for a stay at Sand
ringham, a resort on the North Sea, ninety miles north of London.
SIXTY PER CENT. OF
ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY
LIQUOR, SAYS PALMER
Chief Inspector of Pennsylvania
Department of Labor Ad
dresses Safety Congress
By Associated Press
Chicago, 111., Oct. 18. Sixty per
cent, of the industrial accidents in the
United States are charged to liquor,
K It. Palmer, chief inspector of the
i ennsvlvania Department of Labor,
told delegates attending the Congress
for Industrial Safety to-day.
"It will not be lons." the speaker
said, "before the saloon will be as
much separate-' from the industrial
plant as it is now from the church. As
a matter of business we will have to
furnish workmen better entertainment
than saloons do. Ws also will have
to pay in cash to prevent men from
going to saloons to convert their
checks Into currency."
B. K. Prichett, representing a
manufacturing concern cf Grand Rap-
Ids. Mich., asserted that after em
ployes had been forbidden to line alco
holic beverages arrangements were
made for milk wagons to call at the
factory at a certain hour every morn
ing.
"We then permitted the men to stop
work and go out and buy fresh bottles
of milk." Mr. Prichett said. "We
found this arrangement practically
has solved the drinking problem."
R. W. Campbell, of Chicago, was
elected president of the National
Council at a meeting of the directors.
L. R. Palmer, of Harrisburg, Pa., was
chosen tirst vice-president.
Mr. Palmer, who is the risht-hand
man of Commissioner John Price
Jackson, Is active in the "safety tirst"
movement throuKhout the State. Ho
was the famous rifcht end on the
Princeton football eleven In the nine
ties. Poe and Palmer constitutinK the
All-American ends. Mr. Palmer was
the safety expert of the Jones &
IvOiiKhlin Steel Company at Its plants
In the western part of the State until
Dean Jackson annexed him.
CASE! ACT. OPPOSES
B* "MITCH" PALMER.
SMS WORKING Ml
Wins Case in Court; Palmer's Sue*
cess Would Have Left
Him Penniless
Special to The Telegraph
Gratz, Pa.. Oct. 15.—"Had It not
been for the Casey liability law, which
Mitchell Palmer opposed when it was
before the Legislature, a young work
ing man of Steclton whom I repre
sented in court last spring, who lost
a portion of his right hand through
carelessness at the works, would n.»t
have been able to recover one penny
for his injuries," declared Phil S.
Moyer, a well-} own young attorney
of Ilarrisburg. before an assemblage
of voters here last evening.
"The Casey net placed at this young
man's disposal a law whereby he could
go into court and be In some measure
reimbursed for the loss of his hand.
Xo other law applied, and I say to
you that If Mitchell Palmer had been
successful in killing that bill when he
opposed it in the Legislature this man
would have been without redress and
would have had to face the world a
cripple and without money.
"This is the kind of man Palmer Is,
and yet he dares come before the
voters now pretending to be the friend
of the working man."
Mr. Moyer, John C. Nissley, Vice-
Chairman James E. Lentz and George
Guise were the other speakers. Mr.
Nissley made a hit with his audience
by making a portion of his address in
Pennsylvania German.
The reference to national Issues was
well received, owing to the fact that
the upper end of the county has been
hard hit by the depression brought
about by Democratic blunders at
Washington. Shirt factories that have
not been idle for years are shut down
and many other Industries are work
ing on part time. Indications are for
a big Republican vote throughout this
region.
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