....... - * • —• —r- —• Wilson Confident DiUiculiy Wilh Turkey Diplomatic HARRISBURG gfSg&l TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— No. 273 STOUGH CIMPMGN . WILL COST 119.01 Closed "Strategy" Meeting Held by Managers and Evangelist at Market Square Church SESSION LASTS FOUR HOURS Ministers Unload "Things on Their Minds"; Plan Union Thanks Service Dr. Henry \V. Stough, the evangelist, this morning conferred with the ex ecutive committee of the campaign and the co-operating ministerium at a special sesion in the Market Square 'Presbyterian Church. Just what the meeting was for and what measures were discussed could f not be definitely learned, as newspaper men were barred from the session. It is understood, however, that ways i and means were discussed toward cre mating greater interest and increased activity among tbe campaign workers throughout the city, as the results thus far have not been quite as en couraging as expected, according to the campaign managers. The budget was discussed during tbe meeting and a sreat union Thanksgiv ing service at the tabernacle was con sidered. Following the meeting a committee composed of the Rev. K. K. I'urtis, secretary, the Rev. W. X. Tates. president, and the Rev. F. T. Cart wright. associate to Dr. Stough, met the press representatives. Expenses to Be $19,000 The only facts given for publication are that the expenses ot' the campaign will amount to about $19,000 and that there will be union Thanksgiving Day services at the tabernacle for the co operating churches at 2.30 o'clock, No vember 26. The expenses for the campaign are the largest in any city that Dr. Stough has visited. The reason for this is that the tabernacle in this city at State and Cowden streets is the best and the sec ond largest that has ever been built in the country. The cost of erecting the tabernacle alone was annonuced by E. Z. Wal lower. chairman of the finance com mittee. as $11,378. The session was called at 10.15 o'clock this morning and did not ad journ until shortly before 1. Dr. Cart wright said that the meeting was called to decide the question of union evangelistic and Thanksgiving Day services. He also said that each min ister that came was supposed to un load "anything that was on his mind" and open the suhject for discussion. Mr. Cartwright says the session was "* strategy meeting." « * After almost three hours of it the ministers and executive committee left and Dr. Cartwright said that he thinks that all of them went away without any antagonistic feeling toward each other and that the ministers are pleased with the work that is being done. Ten Couples Reunited Ten married couples were among the ninety-odd trailhltters who re sponded to Dr. Stough's call of "Who soever Will, Come," at the tabernacle last night. Each pair stood up to gether as the evangelist gave his con gratulations for reunited Christian love, and declared their promise to es tablish family altars and work sin cerely for the "harvest of the Lord that is just beginning in Harrlsburg." Dr. Stough said of them, "It Is like falling in love again for these couples to me together. I don't believe mar ried people know how to love each other properly until they are united in Christ." Some of ttie Trailers Other notables among the confess ors who hit the sawdust trail last night were W. S. Roebuck, the builder of the tabernacle, and chairman of the committee in charge; William Ziegler, subquarterback of the Central high school football team; A. W. Holman f-nil wife, manager of the Doutrich and Company store. Elderly men in fine clothes and boys in rough blue shirts sat side by side, and tender girls cuddled close to stout matrons o the mourners' benches as Dr. Stough rushed up and down his platform in a frenzy of enthusiasm to win souls, with the perspiration streaming down his cheeks, his collar wilted and his voice choked with emo t" jn. The converts confessed aloud to Dr. Stough as he grasped each by the hand. They told of their willingness to endure persecution, to surrender their lives and give up everything to the cause of Christ, and to exert every effort to bring others to the front. "Prepare to meet thy God." was the [Continued on Page 12] THE WEATHER for Ilarrlahiirc and vicinity: la ■ettled weather to-night and Fri day, probably rain: colder Krlday. For Kaatera I'ennaylvanla: Haln to night and Friday, mow In north portion! eolder Friday: frrah northeast wind* Increasing to night. River The main river will rlae alonly to night and Friday. A ataffe of about S-H feet la Indicated for llarrlabnrg Friday morning. Cieneral Conditions Tbe dlaturhani-e from Western < anada la noit central over the Ijike Keglon and In connection with n disturbance that has ap peared off the South Atlantic coast, is causing unsettled neather over 'the greater part of ■ the Kaatern half of the country, P with some snoiv nlong the north ern border of tbe I.akea and light ralna along the Mouth Atlnntle const. Tno areas of high pres sure cover the greater part of the Western half of the I'nlted Mates, one central over the Missouri Valley- and the other over the Middle Pacific alope. Temperature: H a. in.. 26. Mm: Klses, Hi.%4 a. m.; sets, 4:4<l p. m. . Moon i First quarter, November --'4. Hon a. m. \ Hlver Stnge: 2.3 feet above low a water mark. ' Vesterday'a Wenther Highest temperature, 37. I.ones) temperature. 'J«. * Mean temperature. :12. •Normal temperature, 41. HOW THE BIG STOUGH TABERNACLE LOOKS BEFORE THE CROWDS BEGIN POURING IN 'fit ® ,f w- : ". •, -- i,. ■.-.. . - . .... . ; :::.. .":, . win i wyi i [ijriyi^gggj BO! The etching snows an interior view of the Stough tabernacle looking toward the platform and choir loft. The building is so large that the camera was unable to net more than a part of the vast expanse into the view. The building seats 8.000 easily and with crowding another thousand can be jammed into the seats and choir loft. RECKLESS DRIVING ! CAUSES BAD SPILL i Iron Company Head Chases Of fending Driver to Get Num ber, bat He Escapes Reckless driving charged against! Joseph Alberts, who runs a Packard | auto for hire, came nearly causing a, J bad accident on the Harrisburg I j bridge about 8:30 o'clock last night. I ITlie Packard car hit a runabout j buggy belonging to Harry and Frank I Wingard who resides in Woodbine; I street, smashing the one side of the I buggy and throwing the occupants! out. Alberts this afternoon was or- ! dered by Mayor John K. Royal to pay . a fine of fifteen dollars for reckless, driving, and to pay for damages to j the buggy. Robert H. Irons, general superin tendent of the Central Iron and Steel I Company, who with Mrs. Irons were enroute to Camp Hill in their car. a'.so I bad a narrow escape through the reck- j less driving of the man in charge of the Packard car. Mr. Irons gave chase] in order to learn the number of the I j Packard car, but fearing that the i i young men in the runabout had been | j injured, Mr. Irons returned to the j bridge, and the Packard car got away, j According to testimony given at the .police station this afternoon the driver , of the Packard car, drove at a i breakneck speed over the bridge, blowing his horn loudly and giving little heed to other cars on the bridge. The Irons car barely scraped being hit and the Packard went into the runabout buggy, throwing the oc cupants out. Later a hub belonging to a Packard car was picked up on the bridge and the police started in search of a Pack-! ard car needing a hub. A car was found in front of the Hershey House; with one gone. The driver was found | to be Alberts. Dillsburg Liveryman Receives Team Stolen by "Apple Buyer"; i P. A. Fries, the alleged bogus apple j I buyer and bad checkinan, is still at j | large. liveryman R. E. Swartz, of I Dillsburg, has recovered his horse and I | buggy, however. He got the team at! ' Churchtown last night, where Fries j j left it, saying he would return. I It is the belief that Fries took h* j ! team to make good his escape. He; | reached Churchtown Tuesday morn- i :ing at 10 o'clock, and left on trolley at 10.30 o'clock for Carlisle Beforej his departure Fries told the livery- ; man that he was buying up apples and i would return Friday.. WIIjSON TO VISIT DAUGHTER By Associated Press Washington. Nov. 19.—President! Wilson plans to leave Washington for j iWilliamstown, Mass., next Wednesday! ito visit his daughter. Mrs. Francis B. j ] Sayre. The President will be there | j Thanksgiving Day. Mrs. Sayre re cently lias not been well. KEADV TO WED, MAN DIES 1 By Associated Press I Manchester, X. H.. Nov. 19.—Timo jthy F. Cronin was found dead in a ! ravine in the outskirts of the city yes i terdav after his fiance. Miss Amelia Schultz, who was to have been tnar : ried to him had waited in vain for I several hours with the rest of the j wedding party at St. Joseph's Church. jCronin was frozen to death while he | lay unconscious after falling into the ravine. SEVEX-POUXD BASS CAUGHT Special to The Telegraph Hagerstown, Md., Nov. 19. The largest bass taken from the Potomac Iri vpr in many years was brought to (ibis city yesterday by William Morin. !The fish weighed seven pounds. HARRISBURG, PA., BLIZZARD MAY HIT PEIIA. TOMORROW All Depends on What Storm Now Over Lakes and Another Along Coast Chance to Do An old-fasliioned blizzard may hit ! Harrisburg before another twenty-four . hours passes. The blizzard is, of course, just a I possibility, according to E. R. Demain. i i weather forecaster—but then the pos- ] | sibility cannot be denied, i If a storm traveling eastward now j centrally located over the lakes arrives | here before another storm moving northward along the coast. Harris j burg will have to use the snow shovel, j Zero weather was recorded early i this morning in Pes Moines. lowa, I while Duluth, Minn., records a minus I four degree temperature. The cold weather has gripped the whole coun try. As far south as Florida eight j degrees within freezing temperature ! was reported this morning. It is possible that extremely cold ; weather will prevail over the entire i eastern section in a few days. Son of Elliott-Fisher Export Manager Killed in Battle of the Aisne William Janssens, 19- year-old son of Lawrence C. Janssens. of Perdix, export manager of the Elliott-Fisher Typewriter Company, was killed in the battle of the Aisne. Harry, aged 21, (another son. was injured; Lawrence, Jr., the third son, escaped uninjured, t The brothers were in the French | army as noneommlssioped officers. They enlisted in the same engineering company in Paris. The news has just i been received by Mr. Janssens here. When the company entered the bat tle it was composed of 1,200 men. After i the battle 200 were left, i Harry is believed to be in West J Flanders now, after having received a j commission, and Lawrence is in the | commissary department. 14 Buildings Destroyed by Fire at Girardville Early This Morning By Associated Press j Pottsville, Pa.. Nov. 19.—Fourteen j'uildings used as business places and j residences combined, were destroyed jby fire in the business district of Gi : rardville. early this morning. The loss lis SIOO,OOO. The water supply gave ! out and water was pumped from a 1 sulphur creek running through the town. A building was razed by dyna | mite to check the spread of the fire i but this was unavailing. A large brick building finally checked the onrush of the flames. One fireman was killed ; and another was injured. 255,7 "fl PRESBYTERIANS ARE NOW OX "SUSPENDED ROLL" Special .o The Telegraph Philadelphia. Nov. 19.—The Presby terian Church has placed more than a quarter of a million members on the "suspended roll" within five years. They have lapsed, dropped out. moved away from former homes and never been heard of again. As the Rev. Dr. William P. Fulton expresses it. they "slipped back into the world; fell away; were relegated to the ecclesi astical scrap heap." Presbyterian records show that in 11910 there were 48,956 on the "sus pended roll." In 1911 the total was 154,143; In 1912, 01.266: in 1913, 50.927. | and in 1914. 50.484. The grand total! | 25G.776, is equal to about one-sixth of the total Presbyterian membership ii, the United States, which was 1.368,150 in 1913, according to the Christian Ad vocate census estimate. THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1914. U. S. INVESTIGATING ATTACK ON LAUNCH President Wilson Is Determined to Keep This Country at Peace Washington, D. C„ Nov. 19.—Al though the Navy Department contin ued every effort to get a further report to furnish the missing links in the chain of incidents connected with the firing upon the cruiser Tennessee's launch by the Turkish forts at Smyrna, nothing had been heard early to-day from Captain Decker or from Ambas sador Morgentliau. As nearly a week was taken in get ting the last message through to the State Department from Ambassador Morgenthau at Constantinople, infor mation is expected from him before Captain Decker is heard from. Yes terday he got through his first report of the incident within a few hours. Secretary Daniels said to-day he would not state whether the North Carolina and Tennessee would remain in Turkish waters, until all of the facts were known concerning the firing at Smyrna. Some naval officers have urged that the cruisers be withdrawn. May Retain Vessels Officials believed, howeyer, that mis sionary interests for which the cruis ers were dispatched to Turkish waters, might insist the vessels bo retained as a moral force making for the protec- [Continued on Page 5] Auditors Look For 33 Cents Between Order Book and the Vouchers Failure to locate 33 cents some where between the order books and the vouchers of the Poor Board in 1913 delayed the completion of the audit for 1913. So instead of sub mitting their work complete to the county commissioners to-morrow, the county auditors may not be able to get through with it before next Wed nesday's session. The chief trouble, it appears, lay in j the difference of voucher numbers on [the books and on the.vouchers Issued, jln recording the numbers of the [vouchers issued from the Poor Di- I rectors' office, a number here and there 1 may have been inadvertently skipped, I it is believed, while the totals of the I sums issued by vouchers and accord- I ing to the order books were balanced properly. County Controller H. W. Gough and his assistant, Fred Holtzman, xvorked for two days assisting the auditors to find the 33 cents. A similar mistake in the dog license book also kept the auditors guessing. FIRE DESTROYS PORTION OF MILLIIEIM BUSINESS BLOCK By Associated Press Bellffonte. Pa., Nov. 19.—A big part of the business section of the borough of Millheim was destroyed by a tire to day, the second time within a few years. The fire broke out at 3 o'clock this morning and burned until 8, de stroying ten business places and resi dences and damaging several others. The loss Is estimated at from $30,000 to $40,000, partially covered by insur ance. The post office was among the buildings burned. RECEPTION FOR RED CROSS By Associated Press Washington. Nov. 19.—Hospitality that marked the reception of Red Cross units delegated to Germany and Austria-Hungary upon their arrival in Breslau, was described to-day in a report from Consul Seltzer to the State Department. A luncheon In their honor was given, the report stated, | and so groat was the crowd that gatli- | ered outside the hotel that the -police had to make way for the automobiles ' which carrtad the units for Austria I to the railway station. WELFARE CONFERENCE WILL CLOSE TODAY Dixon Discusses Housing; Com pensation and Safety Leg islation Considered Pennsylvania's second annual indus trial welfare and efficiency couferunoe, which has stimulated interest in "safety j j first" throughout the wholo stato and i especially in this city, will close late 1 to-day at the Capitol. This morning i compensation acts were discussed in a big general session and during the morning numerous sectional meetings were held at which various phases of j safety work were taken up and men and women of acknowledged promi nence in various lines gave their views. One of the most notable addresses of the, conference was that of Dr. Sam uel G. Dixon. State Commissioner of Health, who dealt with the vital propo sition of housing in the meeting of the section on hygiene. The commissioner has been organizing a state bureau to take charge of housing conditions and has been studying the problem at close range for two years. In the safety section C. L. Close, head of the safety bureau of the big United States Steel Corporation, pre- I sided at a meeting at which many leaders in industry presented addresses on safety and sanitation, including blast furnaces, electrical apparatus and work, boiler construction and op eration. explosives and other matters were presented. Miss Alice Hamilton, of the government bureau of statistics, presided at the hygiene section, at which lead poisoning, brass foundry precautions and similar matters were [Continued on Page 9] German Attack Proves Predominant Feature of Day's News in London By Associated Press London. Nov. 19. 12.17 P. M.—The unexpected blow delivered on the Kussian center by General Von Hin denburg with the German army which had retreated from before Warsaw J was the predominant feature of the ; news reaching London to-day, from ' the eastern arena of war. | No change of importance has been I recorded for some days past in the : western arena where Flanders is still j the scene of heavy fighting. In spite lof adverse weather conditions and 1 flooded trenches the Germans appear |to be holding their positions from which, at intervals, they launch the (attacks for which territory from the I Belgian coast to Arras has become famous. The allied warships are still off the coast, hurling shells inland when op portunity offers. The Belgian army remains in the region where the floods have been the worst, and some dis j patches says that in certain places they have been fighting from small boats. MISS NIKIRK HONORED Special to The Telegraph Hagerstown. Md., Nov. 19. Miss Elizabeth Nikirk, of Lovettsvilie, Vir 'glnla, was the honored guest at the i home of Clinton Shafer, of 71< Mary ; land avenue, on Tuesday evening, No jvember 17. The evening was spent ;in games and fun. Refreshments were ! served to the following: Miss Edna i Warner, Miss Helen MoClarey, Miss i Elizabeth Nikirk, Miss Myrtle Snyder, | Miss Daisy Hartle, Anion Garven, Al j vey Bowman, Russell Shaffer, Robert' Shaffer. Mrs. Millard Booth, of Lo- I | vettsville, Va., Mr. and Mrs. Clinton 1 ; Shafer. Carl Fry, Carl Shafer, Wil- 1 liam Shafer and little Mary Shafer. | BRKSXAHAN APPOINTED MANAGER By Associated Press Cincinnati. Ohio. Nov. 19. Uogcr Brosnahatt was to-day appointed man- ! ager of the Chicago National League Banoball Club. He succeeds Henry O'Kay. liresnahan nlgnrd a contract for three years, but the figures in this document were not announced. 14 PAGES SUDDEN GERMAN ATTACK RESULTS IN VICTORY FOR EMPEROR WILLIAM'S ARMY Russian Military Officials Admit Reverse in Russian Po land; Petrograd Announces, However, That Her Troops Are Steadily Pouring Into East Prussia; Paris Reports Hopes of Allies Are Again Rising as They Believe the Germans Are Fast Weakening; Cannon ading Reported Off Swedish Coast Violent lighting has been resumed within a two-hour motor ride of the ' gates of Paris. At Tracey-le-Val, ' where the main battle line from the north swings to the eastward at the point nearest Paris, a German ad vance led to a violent encounter. The Germans attempted to recapture the town, won by the allies a few days ago, but, according to tho French War Of fice staetment to-day, they weer re-! pulsed with heavy losses. In Flanders the artillery duel, de scribed during the last few days as of furious Intensity, has become still i more violent, on the pari of the Ger mans at least, but here, as elsewhere, the opposing forces are holding fast to their main positions. An official German communication states that heavy fighting has been re sumed in the Argonue forest, around which some of the most severe en counters of the war have raged from time to time during tho last two months. A heavy loss, it is said, was inflicted on the enemy. In a battle be tween two squadrons of aeroplanes, it. is said, one airship of the allies and I one of the Germans wera lost. Turkey's explanation of her act in | firing on the American flag at Smyrna j has not been submitted nor has the ! Navy Department at Washington re j ceived a detailed report from Captain | Decker of the cruiser Tennessee, one i of whose launches was under fire. The | Washington authorities were confi | dent, however, that satisfactory | amends would be made by Turkey anil [that no complications would result. Austria Issues Call Austria is calling for more soldiers. The older men of the landsturm of 1870 and 1890 have been summoned to the colors. Austria apparently has the upper hand In her war with Servla. Reports from Vienna state that the pursuit of the enemy is being carried further, (■ • - EXCHANGE OPENING POSTPONED New York, Nov. 19.—The officials of the Stock Ex * change announced this afternoon th t because of unfore seen difficulties, the plan to reopen the Exchange for deal ing in bonds has been indefinitely postponed. Earlier in the day it was officially stated that trading in this class of se curities would be resumed on Saturday, subject to minimum price». EXCESS RATES NOT EXCESSIVE Nov. 19.—Existing excess baggage rates were held by the Interstate Commerce Commission not to be unreasonable. Charges however, for baggage of excess value, were said to be excessive and a rate was established by the commission at ten cents for each SIOO, or fraction thereof above the agreed upon maximum value. The mini mum charge for increased valuation will be ten cefits. THREE KILLED BY EXPLOSION Rob'nson, 111., Nov. 19.—An explosion in the Dupont Nuro i-ri-te plant near here to-day resulted in the death of tLrce men. They were the only employes in thjt plant at the time. NAVAL BATTLE IN BLACK SEfk'o Pc, i ad, Nov. 19.—There has been a naval encounter in the .ck Sea between Russian and Turkish warships. No del le news of the outcome ha ; been received here as yet beyi id the fact that the Turkish cruiser Goebem sus tained serious injury. i, PRIESTS REPORTED EXECUTED .El Paso, Tex., Nov. 19.—A military bulletin from Guadalajara received here to-day said that four Roman , Catholic priests had been executed by order of General Ama;a, military governor in the state of Micheacaru New York, Nov. 19.—The Chicago, Rock Island and ' Paciiic Railway will not be sold at public auction on Novem- j ber 2 a., ordered by the Federal District Court. ■ WILL NOT SELL RAILROAD NOVEMBER 24 UARRUCE LICE j Crank 9. Seldr'ra, Mcrltou, and Olive K. SUne, Siratara lonniklf, | Rimer T. Hcflabfir, city, and Bertha F. Fort**7. (Iddoaakurff. * POSTSCRIPT and that the Servian retreat at places is attended with heavy losses. Unoffi cial German advices stated that Rus \ sia had sent troops to assist tho Ser vians, but the authenticity of this re port was in doubt since such a move ment of forces would Involve a long sea voyage around the continent of Europe or the Invasion of Bulgaria ot Rumania, neutral countries. Germany's new attack on the Rus sian army in the center of the eastern | battle line stood out conspicuously to- I <lav as of chief Immediate importance in the European war. The sudden as j sault of the Germans In Russian Po ! land, from which territory they were described recently as being driven in disorder, has lent a new aspect to this campaign, which for Germany is not less Important than the conflict in France and Belgium. Russian military officials admit a reverse In this territory and Berlin is celebrating a great victory, but the meagerness of authentic Information from the front makes it impossible to determine the extent or importance of the German successes. Meanwhile Russia is proceeding with her other two adventures in her three-fold cam paign. Her troops to the north, Pe trograd announces, are penetrating steadily into East Prussia, while to tho south they are closing in on Cracow, [Continued on Pago 5] MBS. PEXHKLI) RECEIVES AUSTRIAN GRAND CROSS Berlin, Nov. 18 (via London).—Em peror Francis Joseph has conferred upon Mrs. Frederic C. Penfleld. wife of the American ambassador at Vienna, the Grand Cross of the Order of Eliz abeth, In recognition of her efforts for the welfare of Austrian soldiers. Austrian newspapers empliasi/.e the distinction of this decoration, which, for the first time. Is now conferred upon a woman not connected with the , Imperial family.
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