Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, October 20, 1914, Image 1

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    Mllies Continue Offensive Operations
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 249
JHY QUESTION OF
:r MdJOilin FOR WHOLE
REPUBLICAN TICKET
No Doubt of Result, Says Writer
After a Tour of the
State
DRAGGING IN NAME OF T. R.
Last Desperate Effort of Fusion
ists Is Doomed to
Failure
Special iff The Telegraph
Wilkes-Barre. Oct. 20. After a
thorough canvass of a large part of
the State and talking with men of all
parties I am persuaded that the cam
paign from now to the end simply
meona an increase of the majority for
the Republican ticket. There can be
no doubt about the result after an
Investigation of the conditions In all
sections of Pennsylvania.
In my interviews with the potential
leaders of the principal parties here
and there it has developed that the
third party movement is practically
negligible. Thousands of. Colonel
Roosevelt's followers have ceased to
regard the Washington party as any
thing more than an, annex to the
Palmer-McCormick wing of the Dem
ocracy. And this fact has had a tre
mendous bearing upon the changed
conditions everywhere. Voters who
two years ago were enthusiastic ad
herents of the Bull Moose cause are
now outspoken in their support of the
Republican ticket.
I/lnlng; Up For "M. G."
Of course, there are still a few rad
ical Bull Moosers who are hopeful
[Continued on Page 8]
"Welly" Jones Heads
Mummer Directors
Three committees of the Harrisburg
Mummers' Association held busy ses
sions last night. The board of directors,
which will be a governing body, organ
ized with the election of Wellington G.
Jones a chairman; Robert F. Gorman,
vice-chairman, and Thomas Keesey, sec
retary.
The finance committee elected Samuel
Koen, chairman, and Robert Buck, Sr.,
secretary. William E. Orr was made
chairman of subcommittee.
THE WEATHER
For lfarrl*l>urg nnd vicinityi Fair
and NllKlitly warmer to-nlglri{
Wednendny fair, warmer.
For Eaiiterii Pennsylvaniai Fair to
nlKlit, NllKlitly warmer In north
and weat portion*; Wednesday
fair, warmer; gentle to moderate
wind*, becoming; Moutherly.
River
The main river will remain nearly
atatlonary to-nigbt and Wetlnen
day. A Ntase of about 1.3 foot Is
Indicated for Harrlnhurg Wednes
day morning.
General Conditions
pre**ure ha* Increaned over
nearly all the country In the la*t
twenty-four hours, the center of
highest preMNiire being loeated
over the Middle Atlantic State*.
It 1* H to 14 degrees cooler In Utah,
Nevada, Montana, Northern Cali
fornia and New Mexico nnd
slightly cooler In New Kngland,
the Interior of l'enn*ylvanla and
In the Dlstrlet of Columbia.
Tempera-lures 8 a. m., KB.
Sunt Rises, 0:20 a. m.| sets, 5:20
p. m.
Moon» New moon, tlrat quarter.
October 25, 5i44 p. m.
River Stages 1.8 feet above low
water mark,
Yesterday's Weather
Iflghent temperature, 40.
I.owent temperature, 58.
Mean temperature, 53.
Normal temperature, 54.
MARRTAC«R LICENSES
Howard F. Dougherty, Chicago, and
Anna J. Liongr. Emmlttsburg, Md.
Roy Krebs, city, and £adie Glngferlch,
Middletown.
DO THEY PAY?
This little "lost" advertisement
appeared in Saturday's issue of the
Telegraph:
IJOST
LOST—Cameo pin, between 983
North Second street and Bell
Telephone Co.'s office, between 7
A. M. and 2 P. M., Saturday. Re
ward if returned to 933 North
Second street.
Yesterday the owner of the pin
received it from the party who found
It and located the owner through the
Telegraph Want Ads. Do they pay?
'
American Shoes
March Forward
When It was reported that one
p of the European armies was
equipped with American shoes, it
was remarked that "these shoes
would only march forward."
In an Industrial sense Ameri
can shoes are going ahead this
Fall to a greater extent than
ever.
Demand Is heavy and factories
busy.
Just now the stores are show
ing the Fall styles—all of them
creditable to our American shoe
makers.
But for your Individual need
some shoes are better than
others.
It would be well to post your
self as to the merits of the dif
ferent brands and the stores
selling them, by reading the ad
vertising In the Telegraph.
TO USE I CUDS
OFSIIUSMII
TABERNACLE 'TRAIL'
Executive Committee Denies Re
port That Stough Has Demand
ed SIO,OOO to Come Here
GETS LAST DAY OFFERING
Rev. J. T. Spangler Tells of Ef
fects in Other Cities as Found
by Personal Investigation
About two carloads of sawdust will
be used next week when the "sawdust
trail" is laid in the Stough tabernacle,
which is now well on the way to
completion.
W. S. Roebuck, chairman of the
building committee, said to-day that
the big building will probably be en
tirely completed by the early part of
next week. The sawdust will be put
down after all the other work is fin
ished. It will cover the entire floor
space, 240 by 172 feet, and will be six
inches deep. Over the main isle trail
many conversions are expected to be
made by Dr. Stough.
More than 230,000 feet of lumber is
being used in the erection of the taber
njyle and about a ton of nails and a
ton of bolts have been used already.
By this evening the root will be fin
ished and the waterproofing com
pleted. To-morrow work will be
started on tlje sides.
I'-xecutive Oommtttee Meeta
Last night a meeting of the enter
tainment commitee was held at the
Stough headquarters and to-night a
meeting of the executive committee
will be beld there. To-morrow night
the shop and factory committee will
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PLANS FOR RESERVOIR!
PARK ENTRANCE ARE
APPROVEDBY EXPERT
Bids For Construction Will Be
Asked; Manning Inspects
Extension
Bids for the construction of the
proposed new formal entrance to
Reservoir Park at Market and Twenty
first streets will likely be advertised
for by City Commissioner M. Harvey
Taylor, superintendent of parks, be
fore the end of this week and opened
ten days later.
Not only is It the park officials' in
tention to begin the work on the new
roadway this Fall, but it is expected
to complete the work before the cold
weather sets in. The plans as prepared
by Assistant Superintendent J. R. Hof
fert were approved to-day by Park
Expert Warren H. Manning- following
I a visit to the site.
'J'lie Parkway Extension
; In addition to approving the new
I Reservoir entrance Mr. Manning and
the park officials visited the proposed
extension of the parkway along the
river front south of the Iron alley ter
minus in such a way as to join the
Cameron parkway. Engineers of the
State Water Supply Commission and
[Continued on Page 4]
VILLA MOVES ARMY
INTO POSITION TO
IMPRISON CHIEFS
Delegates to Convention of Mili
tary Heads Thrown Into Panic
by General's Action
By Associated Press
San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 20.—The
Mexican consulate here to-day re
ceived a reiwrt from Mexico City stat
ing that General FranHsco Villa cre
ated a panic among the delegates to
the convention of military chiefs in
Agtias Calientes to-day by moving an
army of 18,000 men Into position
where lie can envelope the city and
Imprison tlic entire conference.
SUFFRAGISTS AT SCRANTOV
Tho Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage
Association will hold its forty-sixth an-
I nual convention at Scranton, Novem
| ber 19 to 24. This will be the last
convention before the question of wo
| man suffrage Is decided at the polls
|in November, 1915. Mrs. Robert K.
Young and Miss Hannah J. Patter
!son, of this city, will attend the con
vention. I
COURT TO FIX MURDER DEGREE
Special to The Telegraph
Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 20.—The case of
Max Morganthau, the Harrlsburg rag
picker who confessed to killing J. W.
Rupp. a farmer, near Mechanlcsburg,
last May, will be argued on October
29. The court will be asked to fix
the degree of murder.
SHOPMAN HURT
Lesley J. Renner, 21 years old, of
West Fairview, was admitted to the
Harrisburg Hospital and was treated
for Internal injuries received while
working at his machine in the Enola
shops.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, O CTOBER 20, 1914.
OH, YES, BUSINESS IS FINE!
COUNTRY DISTRICTS
STRONGLY IN FAVOR
OF REPUBLICANS
Majorities For Ticket Are Pre
dicted by Workers Reporting
to County Chairman
Districts In the eastern part of Dau
phin county that were strongly Pro
gressive two years ago will give hand
some majorities for the Republican
ticket this Fall.
This was made evident last evening
at Republican rallies In the lower
end of the county, where Republican
committeemen from the surrounding
country reported to County Chairman
Horner.
That district Is feeling very keenly
the hard times due to the Democratic
mistakes at Washington, and the
voters are demanding a change. For
Instance, the quarries at Hockersville
are almost at a standstill, due to the
business depression throughout tho
land, and many men are out of work
or employed only part of the time.
Whereas, under the Taft Administra
tion the quarries there turned out and
shipped dally twenty-six cars of lime a
week, now only ten cars are being
shipped. Under Republican rule
eighteen cars of crushed stone a day
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COUNCIL APPOINTS i
SEYMOUR POLICEMAN
AND DROPS MURPHY
Retention of Dismissed Officer
Prejudicial to Discipline,
Say Commissioners
Council this afternoon settled an
other grave police problem—the ques
tion of the appointment of a patrol
man —by naming George W. Seymour,
1070 South Cameron street, to succeed,
Andrew E. Murphy, resigned.
Jacob Kinley had been suggested by
Mayor John K. Royal as Murphy's
successor when he recommended the
latter's dismissal because of insubordi
nation, failure to report, etc. In sub
stituting Seymour's name Commis
sioner M. Harvey Taylor pointed out
that in view of the fact that the rela
tions between Murphy and the head of
the police department had become so
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Harrisburg Folks Take
Look at the Comet's
10-Million-Mile Tail
About 150 persons gathered in the
park at Front and Forster streets at
6.30 last evening and with opera
glasses, field glasses, binoculars and a
three-Inch telescope viewed the Dela
van comet. It was visible to the un
aided eye, though no longer so bright
as it was two weeks or more ago,
when nearest the earth.
The head of the comet Is now about
250,000 miles in diameter. Thirty
globes as big as the earth, placed side
by side like beads on a string, would
fall Just a little short of spanning the
width of the comet's head. The tall,
which extended northward several de
grees, Is about 10,000,000 miles long.
SAYS STEELTON IS
"CLEANEST" TOWN
HE'S M SEEN
Lew Dockstader Wants to Know
Why Mill Town's Smokestacks
Aren't Puffing as of Yore
Lew Dockstader, the black faco
minstrel man, who has been coming
to Harrlsburg off and on for the last
twenty years, says Steelton is the
"cleanest" town he ever saw.
"Steelton is the cleanest town I ever
saw," declared Lew, this morning.
"Why there Isn't a bit of smoke con
taminating the atmosphere. And I
didn't see a dirty man about one of
the mills as X came through on the
train. Fact is, I didn't see anybody,
clean or dirty. What's the matter with
that burg anyway? Why, X remem
ber the time when the smoke was
coming out of those chimneys so fast
that the sky over Steelton put the
blackest face I could make up to
shame."
It was expi -ined to Mr. Dockstader
that the Democratic tariff and the
war has played havoc with the busi
ness of the lower end mill town.
"If something isn't done pretty soon
to make business better in this coun
try, I'm going out of the show business
and rent a peanut stand," said Lew.
Dockstader is at the Orpheum this
week.
JMAIJECALL~IS"
BURDEN TO FATHERS
OF MAYS TAFT
Rock on Which It Was Founded
Becomes Rock on Which
It Founders
'l
By Associated Press
Washington, Oct. 20.—The United
States should draw from the European
war a lesson regarding its own con
duct, said ex-President William H.
Taft in an address here to-day be
fore the American Bar Association.
In discussing the charges of violation
of treaties by European nations, Mr.
Taft said that this country should put
itself in such a position that it could
fulfill to the letter the obligations Im
posed by Its treaties, and he recom
mended legislation to that end.
In his address, delivered as presi
dent of the American Bar Association,
Mr. Taft also said that the Progressive
party was reparting from "the prepos
terous nostrum" of the recall of judi
cial decisions because It apparently
had become a burden to the party.
In speaking of the European war,
Mr. Taft said that President Wilson
should have the warmest approval and
slncerest co-operation in his efforts to
maintain the strict neutrality of this
country.
BURGLARS IN STORE
Burglars entered the hardware store
of Snlvely Ryder, 306 Verbeke street,
last night, and carried away ten dol
lars' worth of merchandise.
INTO THE PIT HIMSELF
Edward Sklnn*r, of Chambersburg,
who come to Harrlsburg yesterday to
have Wayne PeSllvey arrested for de
frauding Skinner's mother out of a
board bill, landed In jail himself, last
night, intoxication was the caua».
HUNTINGDON COUNTY
WILL GIVE KUNKEL
IMMEHJORITY
Well-known Citizens Declare in
Favor of Dauphin County
Nominee
Special to The Telegraph
Huntingdon, Pa., Oct. 20.—Hunt
ingdon county will give Judge George
Ku«kel a handsome majority for State
Supreme Court judge. The sentiment
is strongly In his favor. Many promi
nent men are out openly in his behalf.
Thomas F. Bailey, a well-known
member of the Huntingdon county
bar and a director of the First Na
tional Bank of Huntingdon, says:
"Judge Kunkel has always stood very
high in the opinion of the bar of
Pennsylvania. The judgment of the
people both in him and in the courts
was put in severe test at the time of
the trial of the Capitol graft cases,
where it was thought by many lawyers
that the courts .would show subserv
iency to political influence. Judge
Kunkel's reputation came through
that ordeal unscathed, and was
brighter at the end of the trial than
at the beginning."
Horace B. Dunn, practicing attor
ney in Huntingdon, and serving second
term as a member of the Legislature
1 [Continued on Page 11]
DEM LEWIS' fffllE
WILL BE 1 BILLOT
FOB NOVEMBER 3
• 1
Dean Withdrew as Washington
Party Man, but Forgot He
Was on Another Ticket
The name of William Draper Lewis
will go on the official ballot as a can
didate for Governor at the November
election. This was discovered to-day
when the official certification of names
for the ballot was made at the State
Department at the Capitol, and is be
cause the dean forgot to withdraw as
a candidate of the Roosevelt Pro
gressive party when he withdrew as
candidate of the • Washington party.
Judging from the primary election re
turns the Roosevelt Progressive party
does not mean much numerically, but
the fact that the name of Lewis will
appear on the ballot when there was
loud objection among Washington
[Continued on Page 11]
Reading Rotary Club
Will Visit This City
Members of the Reading Rotary
Club, organized last year by menpbers
of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club, were
due to arrive in this city late this aft
ernoon by automobile to be the guests
of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club at din
ner at the Colonial Country Club this
evening. The visitors will be taken
by automobile all over the city and
then to the Country Club, where din
ner will be served at 6.30 o'clock.
In the party will be E. J. Berlet,
vice-president of the International
Association of Rotary Clubs, who will
deliver an. address at the dinner to
night.
12 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT 1
Germans' Plan to Find
New Route to Paris Is
Frustrated by Allies
British Naval Forces Arc Supporting Left Wing of Army
Which Extends to English Channel; Japan Occupies
More German Islands For Military Purposes; Husre
Conflict in Progress Along Vistula River
That the allies are frustrating the attempt of the reinforced
extreme right wing of the German army to skirt the English Channel
ports with the supposed object of finding a new rout to Paris, is in
dicated by the French official statement give out this afternoon
which asserts that the Belgian army is maintaining its position on
the river Yres.
Further actions, the statement adds, are being fought betweerf
the allies and the Germans in the region Yres, Belgium. From Yres
the allied left wing extends to the English channel where it is being
supported by British naval forces.
Along the remainder of the 360-milc battle front stretching from
the North Sea to Switzerland, where the defenders and the invaders
have been deeply entrenched for thirty-seven days, the only activity
noted is that in the region of the Meuse river where heavy fighting
goes 011 incessantly principally in the vicinity of Camp Des Romains.
French batteries at St. Mihiel, south of Verdun, are reported to
have destroyed an entire battery of German artillery which had been
particularly active in sweeping the French positions.
There is a dearth of news from German sources concerning the
operations of Emperor William's forces either in France or in Rus
sia.
A huge conflict is in progress along the Vistula river, in Russian
Poland. Dispatches from Petrograd declare that after fierce fighting
to the west of Warshaw the Germans have been driven back towards
their main positions on a line from Skiernewice, near Lodz, to
Sandomir, on the Galician border.
GERMAN ISLANDS OCCUPIED
Russian official reports say that large forces of Austrians crossed
the river San have been repulsed.
In the Pacific ocean Japan has occupied "for military purposes"
the German islands in the Archipelagos of Marshall, Marianne and
Caroline. The groups lie from 1,000 to 1,700 miles east of the Philip
pines, and include the American island of Guam. The occupation
of Yap, one of the Caroline islands, gives Japan control for the Ger
man cable station which connects China with the Malay Archi
pelago.
Tokio officially announces that the German torpedo boat S-90,
after escaping under cover of darkness from Tsing Tau, ran ashore
at a point south of Kiao Chow bay and was destroyed by the Japan
ese blockading squadron. It was the S-90, according to a message
from Tsing Tau, which sunk the Japanese cruiser Takachiho.
Advices from Bucharest, Rumania, by way of Berlin, reiterate
earlier reports that a big Russo-Turkish naval engagement has been
fought in the Black Sea.
James W. Gerard, the American ambassador at Berlin has suc
ceeded in arranging for the release and departure of all Englishmen
in Germany over 55 years of age. Similar exchanges have been
arranged for the nationals of France and Austria.
King George and Queen Mary returned to London to-day from
Sandringham.
Berlin announces that the German warships sunk a British sub
marine in the North Sea, last Sunday.
Commission Recognizes
Depressed Conditions
Washington, D. C., Oct. 20.—The
Interstate Commerce Commission to
day officially recognized "depressed
market conditions" in deciding a case
involving grain rates from Montana
to eastern destinations begun by the
Railroad Commission of that state
against various northwestern roads.
The commission held "that the rea
sonableness or unreasonableness of
freight rates cannot be guaged solely
by the ability or inability of shippers
under depressed market conditions to
market their products with profit un
der existing rates."
It further was held that the rates
assailed were not unreasonable.
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Cross Examine Willard
in Freight Rate Casti
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Oct. 20.—To
day's hearing before the Interstate
Commerce Commission on the appli
cation of the eastern railroads for in
creased freight rates on their conten
tion that financial exigencies brought
on by the European war make theo)
needful was devoted largely to a cross
examination of President Willard, of
the Baltimore and Ohio, OR the rela*
tions of that system to the Cincin
nati, Hamilton and Dayton.