Allies Resume Offensive Movement as Ge
HARRISBURG dSBh TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII— No. 263
TRACE BUILDING DF
HARRISBURG BV MAP
Old Line Drawings and Topo
graphical Sketches to Be Col
lected For Purpose
CITY PLANNERS TO DECIDE
Suggestion of Park Expert Man
ning; Asks Loan of Data
of Years Ago
Harrisburg and vicinity within a
radius of three miles is to be mapped
by the City Planning Commission In
such a way as to show the extensions
and the topographical development of
the town and surrounding territory
from the early settlement days to the
present time.
The scheme was adopted by the
commission following the recent visit
of Park Expert Warren H. Manning
and after Mr. Manning had carefully
explained the purpose of the method
and the excellence of the results that
will be obtained.
Much labor and time heretofore lost
In the making of surveys, in searching
records and looking up titles can
readily be saved by the accumulation
of data and maps from year to year
and the information can be kept on Hie
and under the jurisdiction of the com
mission. In this way as the city grows
and spreads the data marking its de
velopment can be kept on record In
the commission's office.
Got Any Oltl Maps?
In order to carry out this scheme
It will be necessary to collect all pos
sible maps, line and topographical, and
to this end the commission has asked
that any drawings, etc., of the kind
be loaned to it. For instance, if a map
of 1800 could be obtained, another of
.1820, another of 1840, and so on, the
steps in the development of the city
and the nearby country would be easily
traceable and these maps could be used
to make up the on ebig official map.
This will be marked off in squares
in such a way that any plotting or
planning of real estate improvements
In the future could be worked out
with due reference to the development
in the past. The topographical con
tour of the land and its relative po
sition to the city In years gone by nat
urally will be of inestimable value in
the developing of the countryside
within the three-mile limit.
Assistant Superintendent J. R. Hof
fert has communicated with the Dau
phin County Historical Society with a
view to locating all the old maps pos
sible. E. Clark Cowden will collect
and prepare the old drawings and
make up the new official map.
Williams Boomed
For Speakership of
the Next House
Representative George W. Williams,
of Tioga county, is being favored by
some of the men who will sit In the
next House for speaker.
Mr. Williams is a former senator
and was chairman of the forestry com
mission in the last House. He is a
Republican, but inclined to be inde
pendent in the last three sessions. He
is an attorney and was called several
times to preside by Speaker Alter last
session.
A disposition to favor the interior
rather than either of the cities being
manifested among some of the old
legislators.
MERCURY WILL CROSS SUN
Natural History Society to View
Transit From Capitol Ground
A transit of Mercury across the sun's
disk is scheduled to take place to
morrow morning, astronomers assert,
and if no clouds interfere, the pheno
menon will be visible in Harrisburg.
The transit begins at 5 a. m.. before
the sun has risen here, but as four
hours are required for the planet, to
pass over the sun, more than half of
the occurrence may be seen. At 7
minutes 33 seconds past 9 Mercury
will begin sliding off the sun's right
hand edge and 2 minutes 13 seconds
later will be entirely clear of it. Dur
ing the transit, Mercury will appear as
a tiny, round, black spot against the
sun, of such small size, however, that
the common expedient of viewing tne
sun through a piece of smoked .glass
wilt not show it.
A meeting has been called of the
astronomy section of the Natural His
tory Society for 7.45 to-inorrow morn
ing in the Capitol grounds Immediate
ly south of the State Library building,
where the transit will be viewed
through a telescope magnifying 110
diameters and provided with a sun
glass. Any perssn In the city will be
welcome to join the party. Transits
of Mercury occurred In 1894 and 1907
and none will again be visible from
this side of the earth until 1953 and
1960.
CHOCOLATE FOR BELGIANS
The Belgian Relief Committee for
Destitute Noncombatants announce
this morning that the Ilershey Choco
late Company, of Hershey, has given
a carload of chocolate and of flour
for the widows and children of the
sufferers in Belgium.
The American relief committee
abroad advised that no more money
should be sent there but food, and
that all the money received should
be used to buy it. The New York
Belgian relief committee have char
tered a ship which will sail in one
week loaded with all kinds of food
supplies.
PLANTING ON RIVER WALK
Treatment of the River Front Park
in connection with the construction of
the depressed walk above the pumping
station will be similar to that which
has been applied from the water house
southwardly. From Hamilton street
northward to Maclay the embankment
will be cut and filled in such a way
as to allow about two feet of ground
between the western street curb and
the beginning of the slope, a three-foot
slope to the depressed walk and a
walk of about ten feet In width. The
outer slope will extend in a graceful
sweep to the river walk below.
Planting on the slopes will be started
soon under the direction of Park Com
missioner Taylor.
STOU9H NOW GETTIG
DM TO BED ROCK
Preaches In Serious Vein; Tom
foolery Used to Draw Is
Being Eliminated
WILL ORGANIZE BOOSTERS
Lectures Tonight on "Home Ma
kers and Home Breakers;"
Discusses Christianity
The first of Dr. Stough's lectures of
general appeal will be given to-night
in the tabernacle on "Home Makers
and Home Breakers," or, as the evan
gelist announced last night, "why so
many young men and women go to
hell."
With the approach of the end of the
first week of the campaign, during
which the evangelist has endeavored
to make his introduction to the city by
sensational methods, the plans of the
party are taking shape for the serious
work of the revival. The big 1,050-
voice choir is well under control of
Professor Spooner and is becoming fa
miliar with the hymns used in the ser
vices.
The booster chorus of children will
be organized to-morrow afternoon by
Professor Spooner at a big hoys' and
girls' mass meeting to be held at 2.30
o'clock. At this service Dr. Stough
will give a special lecture to young
folks on "Railroad Signals," a new
subject especially prepared for a city
with a large railroad population such
as has Harrisburg.
Preaches Serious Sermon
With the largest attendance of the
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FRAZER LEADING BY
UNOFFICIAL RETURNS
Believe Judge Kunkel's Chances
May Be Bettered by Of
ficial Figures
Unofficial but practically complete
returns in the Supreme Court judge
ship tight to-day indicate that Judge
Frazer, of Allegheny, has a slight lead
over President Judge George Kunkel,
of the Dauphin County Court.
But hopeful Dauphin county sup
porters of the presiding judge believe
the official count will show a difference
in the figures to such an extent as to
give Judge Kunkel the victory.
The newspaper and returns from
other unofficial sources give Judge
Frazer in the neighborhood of 2,000
majority over President Judge Kunkel.
Attorneys and other friends of Judge
Kunkel were recalling hopefully to
day that the official count for Superior
Court judge last year gave Judge Kep
hart some 20,000 more votes than the
unofficial returns.
To-day's newspaper dispatches from
Chester and Tunkhannock, respect
ively, show that Frazer polled 8,935
and Judge Kunkel 11,162 in Delaware
and Frazer 640 and Judge Kunkel 970
in Wyoming county.
WONT I)isci:ss RUMOR
Hut If Stewnrt Retire*. Loser of Su
preme Court Race Will (iet Place
Justice John Stewart, of the Penn
sylvania Supreme Court, to-day de
clared at his home in Chambersburg
that the statement that he contem
plated resigning from his seat upon
the state's highest court was "wholly
unauthorized" and that he did not feel
called upon to deny or affirm such a
report. The opinion prevails in Cham
bersburg that because of the health
of the justice he will resign before
long and this view is shared by Frank
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FULL CREW UINiS
KILLED 111 MISSOURI
Bill Passed by State Legislature
and Signed by Governor
Is Rejected
By Associated Press
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 6. Missouri
has rejected decisively the full crew
law, which was passed by the last Leg
islature, signed by Governor Major and
which went before the voters on Tues
day for referendum.
The direct result of the defeat of
the bill came yesterday, when the
Frisco system placed all of its three
shops in Springfield, Mo., on full time
and took the same action in its shops
at Kansas City, Mo., and Memphis,
Tenn.
Within the last year four Western
States, Kainsas, Texas. Oklahoma and
Missouri, have turned down the full
crew bills. In the first three the bills
have either been killed in the Legisla
tures or vetoed by the Governors. In
Texas so much pressure was brought
by the farmers that the Legislature
failed to pass the bill.
ROBBERS GET sls IN CASH
Office Safe Isn't Touched by Intruders
Police Looking For Clues
Burglars broke into the office of the
Capital City Junk Company, Tenth
and v. alnut streets, last evening, and
stole fifteen dallars in cash. The
money was In a small drawer under
a typewriter. The safo in the office
which had been left open was not
touched. The police department was
notified.
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1914.
TENDING WOUNDED BR I
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Binding the wound of an English aviator who was shot while soaring above the German line on the
HARRISBURG IS MUCH
LIKE GERMAN CITIES
John Price Jackson Compares
Town to Enterprising Munici
palities of Fatherland
"During my recent trip , in Europe
for the purpose of studying conditions
of labor," said John Price Jackson,
i the State Commissioner of Labor and
j Industry, "I gave particular attention
to the fine system of city planning and
building in force in the German ein
t pire. As a result of this study and
my previous knowledge of civic con
ditions in the United States I Inci
dentally concluded that Hurrlsburg
came nearer holding any carrying out
the German civic ideals than any othei
city in this country with which I was
well acquainted.
"The similarity between the beauti
ful German cities and Harrisburg is
indicated by the magnificent system of
parks, the water front improvements,
the playgrounds for the grown people
and the children, the cleanliness and
good paving in the alleys as well as
the streets, the highly improved water
supply and construction on sewage dis
posal, the effective system of schools,
particularly the new Technical High
School, the character of the railway
stations, the tendency to eliminate in
dusty from residential streets, meth
ods of the park commission, etc.
"In other words, as in Germany,
Harrisburg has apparently started the
execution of an effective and efficient
system of development which takes
into account the welfare, health and
happiness of its people, which in turn
Includes rot only cleanliness and pure
air and water, but also beauty in con
struction and environment. I believe
the patriotic citizens of Harrisburg
who have been mostly responsible for
the promotion of Harrisburg's welfare
during the dozen years past deserve
the thanks of the people, not only of
the city but of the state."
MOUNT HOLLV PARK
111 DMIGERFROM FIRE
New Conflagrations Have Broken
Out Near Hunter's Run and
Are Burning Fiercely
Special to The Telegraph
Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 6. Two more
forest fires have broken out in the
South Mountain near Mount Holly
Springs. One near Hunter's Run is
spreading rapidly and has reached the
upper end of the park at Mount Holly.
A big force is fighting it.
The fires near Boiling Springs,
which have been burning for several
days, this morning took a fresh start
and are now racing eastward along
the mountainside.
At Doubling Gap Springs the fire
fighters succeeded in turning the blaze
at a run which feeds the lake at the
hotel and stopped its approach about
a half-mile away.
Seven or eight small fires have
broken out in Kennedy's Valley, rear
Doubling Gap Springs, and are now
rapidly burning into one, although
being energetically fought by a big
force. The land burned ovfer is mostly
owned by the Tomb Lumber Com
pany and a big lot of cut timber has
been destroyed and their large saw
mill Is threatened.
HAUCK-HAGY WKDDING
Special to The Telegraph
Marietta, Pa., Nov. 6.—Miss Ada Z.
Hagy was married to-day to Samuel
Hauck, of near Schoenck, by the Rev.
D. L. Fogelman, pastor of the United
Brethren Church at Schoenck.
GREAT GEOGRAPHER OF
COUNTRY IS DEAO
Father of Farley Gannett Did Note
worthy Work For the
Science
HENRY GANNETT
Henry Gannett, aged 68, for many
ycai*s one of the most prominent fig
ures in scientific circles in Washington,
D. C., passed away yesterday after
noon at 2 o'clock at his home, 184 0
Biltmcre street, Washington, D. C.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Mary Chase Gannett; one son, Farley
Gannett, well known in this city us en
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WELFARE UWS ~~
WILL BE EIUCTEO
Governor-elect Brumbaugh Is Tak
ing Steps to Get the Mes
sages Into Shape
Welfare legislation will be strongly
urged by Governor-elect Martin G.
Brumbaugh, who is already preparing
for the duties of the chief executive
of the Commonwealth which office he
will assume on the third Tuesday of
next January.
Since the election he has met a num
ber of Republican members-elect of
the Legislature and others prominent
in the councils of the party, and he is
encouraged to look for nearty sup
port throughout his administration.
There is reason to believe that bills
are already being drafted to carry out
his campaign pledges for a Working
men's Compensation act, for a Chijd
Labor bill, and for the several other
uplift measures which he so ardently
advocated on the stump and which
were endorsed in his personal plat
form adopted by the Republican State
Committee.
The Governor-elect, in his message
to the Legislature, will, without doubt,
recommend the enaction of a Local
Option bill. This Issue which was
fought out at the primaries and at the
general election in the several legisla
tive districts will confront the legis
lators at the outset of the General
Assembly. The opponents of local
option claim majorities in both the
Senate and the '
GERMANS SAY Mil
DESTROYED CRUISER
Yorck Is Believed to Have Been
Sunk by Explosives Laid by
Kaiser's Men
By Atsociattd Freis
Berlin, via Rome, Nov. 6, 1.25 a. m.
—Only the scantiest authentic details
of the sinking of the Gerinan cruiser.
Yorck are available here. The Ad
miralty has received from Wllhelms
haven little beyond the announcement
of the time and place of the accident
and number of men saved.
A fuller report, it is expected, will
probably be available soon. It is defi
nitely announced, however, that the
sinking was due to a German mine
and not to hostile attacks. The ship,
which was under way, presumably
swung outside of the channel through
a mine field and touched one of the
powerful German mines, which mode
short work of the big cruiser.
The conduct of the crew, In the
moment of disaster, is described as
exemplary, and there is much regr-t
over the destruction of the cruiser—
the heaviest individual loss as yet sus
tained by the Germany navy.
The loss of the Yorck is counterbal
anced, in the German opinion, by the
news of the daring raid of a German
squadron into British home waters to
Indulge in what is described here as
••'a bit of rat-hunting on its own ac
count."
The report from the commander of
the squadron states that the Germans
suffered no loss or damage.
In well-informed quarters the Brit
ish report of the sinking of a German
submarine by the destroyer Badger is
strongly questioned. So far as known
no German submarines have been de
stroyed beyond those whose loss was
reported earlier.
The Admiralty authorizes a positive
denial of the assumption that the
mines off the northwestern coast of
Ireland were laid by commercial
steamers under a neutral flag. The
mines, it is staed, were laid In a man
ner fully conformable to the usages
of war.
LOWER LIGHTS TO BE BURNING ?
New Electric Standards Alone: River
Wall in Spring, Perhaps
Reservoir and River Front Park
lights have' been switched out of com
mission for the winter and from now
until about May t the moon and the
stars alone will be all that the late
autumn bench-holders need worry
about.
By the time the city Is ready to turn
on the River Park lights again it if
Just possible that the new line of stand
ards along the wall promenade will
contribute their glow to the genera',
attractiveness of the water front.
ITHE WEATHER
For Hnrrlaburg and vlclnltyt Fair
to-night nml Saturdayt not much
change In temperature.
For ICaatcrn I'ennaylvunlat Fair
to-night ami Saturday; light,
northwfHt wlmU becoming
■outlicaml Sunday.
Illver
The mnln rhfr will remain ata
tlonary to-night anil Saturday. A
H* nite of about 1.0 feet la Indi
cated for HarrlMburic Saturday
murnlug.
tiencrnl Condition))
The atorm that waa oaNMlng down
the St. Lawrence Valle.v, Thura
dny morning, haa lagged, caualng
unaettled weather und light acnt
tered ralna In the Middle Atlantic
nnd New Kngland Stntea and In
the St. Lawrence Valley.
A general fall of I! to 10 degreea In
teiniiernture haa occurred eaat of
the ttreat I.akea nnd aouth and
eaat of the Ohio river.
Temperature i 8 a. m., 47.
Sum lllaea, <1:40 a. m.I acta, 4ißß
p. in.
Moon ■ niaca, 7)07 p. m.
Illver Stage■ 1.0 feet above low
water mark.
Yeaterday'e Weather
lllgheat temperature, 80.
ljoweat temperature. 4fl.
Mean ' temperature, .",2.
Normal temperature, 46. ]
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GERMANS STRIKE MIGHTY
BLOW AT ALLIES ALONG
WHOLE LINE OF BATTLE
Renewal of Activity Is Indicated by Report of Severe En
counters at Various Points on Fighting Front; En
gagement in Belgium Has Resulted in No Decisive
Advantage For Either Side; British Warship Meets
Disaster in Dardanelles
Germany is striking another mighty
blow along the whole line of battle.
Recrudescence of activity is indicated
by to-day's official French statement,
which mentions severe encounters at
various points between Flanders and
the Swiss border. Meanwhile fighting
is proceeding actively by land and sea
in the new war zone created by Tur
key's entrance into the conflict, and
a British warship is said to have met
with disaster in the attack on the
Dardanelles.
The battle in Belgium has resulted
In no decisive advantages for either
side. The flerciest encounters center
about a sharp bend In the German
line forming a triangle with the north
ern baso at Dixmude, the southern at
Ypres and the apex at Roulers.
Around this comparatively small area
are compressed great bodies of men j
engaged in so dearly a struggle that,
heedless of the effectiveness of artillery
fire, the opposing forces have pushed
forward until they have come into
actual physical contact. Only sheer
weight of men and metal is sufficient
to win a temporary advance.
The plains of Flanders have thus
been transferred into something like
a gigantic football field.
Attack Is Weakening
Reports from British and French
sources make the claim that the Ger
mn attack is weakening and that the
allies now have a reasonable hope of
driving back their foes to the interior
of Belgium and thus compelling a gen
eral retirement along the rest of the
line.
German advices, however, are no
basis for such a conclusion. Appar
ently the Germans are bringing in
heavy reinforcements in the determi
nation of increasing instead of dimin
ishing the fury of their attack. Em
peror William is said to be at the
scene, personally directing the attack.
Forty heavy German guns from the
Krupp works at Essen are on their
way to Aarras at which point the at
tack is developing with violence, in
pursuance of the supposed new plan
CROSS RIVER MOUNTAIN FIRE
Three forest fires ranged last night within several
hundred yards of each other in the mountains north of Sum
merdale, threatening the greenhouse of H. S. Miller, a flor
ist, near Bella Vista. Many of the homes nearby were en
dangered by the sparks.
The fires were discovered at 8 o'clock and the men of
the vicinity attempted to extinguish the flames, but a call
had to be sent to Enola and several hundred men answered
the general alarm which C. B. Gray, general foreman of the
Enola car shops, sent in.
KUNKEL BEHIND 7.864
Philadelphia, Nov. 6.—Judge Robert S. Frazer, of Pitts
burgh, had a lead of 7,864 over Judge George Kunkel, of
Harrisburg, this afternoon for justice of the Supreme Court.
The revised totals with several counties missing, were:
Frazer 369,432; Kunkel, 361,568.
Lebanon, Pa.. Nov. 6.—The official count in Lebanon
county for Supreme Court Judge gave Frazer 769; Kunkel
5576.
TO MAKE STOUGH PROVE IT?
I
Rumor has it late this afternoon that a conference was
held prior to the afternoon meeting by Dr. Stough and mem
bers of several election boards whom Stough, it is alleged,
accused publicly of having been drunk at the polling places
in certain precincts. The conference supposedly was held
to determine whether or not action shall be taken to make
Dr. Stough prove his alleged assertions. The truth of the
rumors could not be verified.
"HARDSCRABBLE" PLANS GO TO THE CITY
SOLICITOR
Another step in the movement to eliminate "Hard
scrabble" was taken late this afternoon when City Engineer
M. B. Cowden sent to City Solicitor D. S. Seitz the plans
showing the properties which the city will take over in the
formal opening of Front street from Herr to Calder. Thirty
seven properties will be effected on the west side of the
street. Plans were also submitted relative to the opening
cf Front bctv/een South and Liberty and from Harris to
Maclay streets.
MARRIAGE LICENSES,
Daniel W. Cook nud Minnie V. Aakew, city.
Harold W. Crlmniell and Mary k. Mct'nnn, rtly.
Jacob L.uta, city, and Olgn T. Sallll, Mlddlrtown.
of the Germans to pierce the French!
line at that point.
Along the rest of the line the of
fensive generally remains with the
Germans. The French statement sa>3
that In the region of the Argonne for
est, in the Wierve district and further
east, around Nancy, there have been
heavy engagements in some instances
to bayonet encounters. No important
victories are claimed by the French
although minor advances are said to
have been made at various points.
Claim Decisive Victory
In the east the Russians claim a re
cisive victory over the Austrians. They
have recaptured the town of Jaroslau
near the long disputed fortress of
Przemysl, Petrograd reports, captur
ing 5,000 Austrian prisoners. The Aus
trians are now said to be in retreat.
In Poland the Germans have em
ployed the same tactics as in France
by pushing forward their troops as
rapidly as possible and meanwhile
fortifying a strong line to the rear, to
which they might fail back. They
have given way to these selected posi
tions, and the Russians now face the
same problem which confronted the
French and British in France of driv
ing out the enemy from strongly forti
; lied places. For that reason it is ex
: pected that some time will elapse be
i fore the Issues in the east is decided
I definitely.
Russia is prosecuting vigorously the
war against Turkey. Petrograd ad
vices are that Russian forces have en
tered Armenia by two routes and that
several Turkish-regiments have been
captured. The Russian government
asserts that it has sufficient forces in
dependent of those engaged with the
Austrians and Germans to cope with,
the Turks so that for the present at
least Turkey's activities are not ex
pected to affect materially the lighting
in other fields.
Activities Continue
The Turkish fleet continues its ac
tivities in the Black Sea, having bom
barded the fortified Russian seaport
of Batum. No Information has been
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