Germans Continue Their Advance and Will Again Attempt to Reach Waisaw HARRISBURG ? l|Slliti TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— No. 286 COST OF GOVERNMENT GIVEN TO CONGRESS Appropriations Asked For Are $3,- 392,962 Less Than Current Fiscal Year MILITIA FIGURES REDUCED Army and Navy Appropriations Alone Show Marked Increase Over Last Year By Associate J Press Washington'. Dec. 7.—Estimate? presented to Congress to-day put the cost of conducting the government during the fiscal year 1916, which be gins on July 1. next, at $1.090.775,134. This sum is 53.392,982 less than the Congressional appropriations for the current fiscal year ending next June 30 and $17,906,643 less than the esti mates for the current year. Without salary increases of any kind, no estimates whatever for new buildings and all items reduced by order of President Wilson to what de partmental heads consider the mini mum. the estimates represent the ad ministration's effort to keep the gov ernmental expenditures within its in come which has been decreased by the European war. The Present Estimates By grand divisions, the estimates submitted to-day are as follows: , legislative establishment $7,641,049 Executive establishment.. 31.M5.589 Judicial establishment .. 1.240,580 Department of Agriculture 20.706,013 Postal service 297,355,164 Foreign intercourse 4.607.182 Military establishment .. 105.566.849 Naval establishment .... 142,619,003 Indian affairs 9,538,4(3 Pensions 166,100,000 Panama canal 18,931.865 Public works 79.917,541 Miscellaneous 82.843,325 Permanent annual appro priations 121,567,207 j [Continued on Pago 9] f BUSINESSMEN SENSE BIG TRADE BOOM HERE Textile and Iron and Steel Inter ests Showing Signs of Revival LEADERS ARE OPTIMISTIC Harrisburg Placed on High Plane as Commercial and Distri buting Center In a review of Harrisburg's manu facturing and distributing activities and possibilities. Frank J. Price, staff correspondent of the Philadelphia I<edger yesterday declared that this city is beginning to sense a big trade boom. Mr. Price quotes such men as Hen derson Gilbert, president of the Cham ber of Commerce and Edward S. Her man of John C. Herman and Com pany. He declares Harrisburg to be one of the leading commercial and dis tributing cities of the country. His review in part is as follows: "The lmpo-tance of Harrisburg as a manufacturing and distributing center [Continued on Page 13] 3.000 WHITE TO SANTA CI.AIS •I. I>. Gluck and Aids are Handling Aii|M»als at Hotel Astor Special to The Telegraph Xew York. Dec. 7.—The thousands of children of the poor who wrote let ters to Santa Claus last year and got answers in the form of practical gifts are advised that his headquarters is in the Hotel Astor this year. As usual. John D. Gluck. founder of the Santa • 'laus Association, is handling Santa's business for hime. For five days now Mr. Gluck and his office force of 250 volunteer workers have been handling 3.000 appeals by transferring them to wealthy persons who are interested. A number of stenographers out of employment have volunteered their services. The association appeals for postage stamps and contributions for printing expenses. XEW YORK POIRE IN I FORM IS FOI'NI) IN WOMAN'S THI NK Special to The Telegraph flta Liverpool. England. Dec. 7.—A wo ™ wan was sent to the workhouse in Ormskirk. twelve miles from here yes terday, who does not remember what her name is nor where she lives nor where she came from, except that she "came across the water In charge of Sister Caire" and had been robbed. Her clothing is marked Kate Fitz patrick, but she denies that that is her name. A Xew York police uniform was found in her trunk. THE WEATHER. For Harrlaberg and vtelaltyi Rata or »<m to-night; elouriy and ralHer to-morrow. |Onli| to nlrr trouble, the weather forecaater waa unable to -unimarlre ■reneral condition* tip nntll the time of (oins to preaa.l Temperature! « a. ni., SR. !»un: Rlaea. filS a. m.s «eta, <i3t p. m. Mooa: Rlaea. fill) p. m. Rlier SiHiri l.« feet above low water mflrk. Vraterday'a Weather Higfeeat temperature. 41. l.oweat temperafnre. :»n. Mean lfi«p»r«l;ir», 3®. A •ratal tempera tare, 35. STORM SWEEPS OVER ATLANTIC SEABOARD Unknown Warship, Believed to Be One of Belligerents, Ashore Off Delaware Coast CITY SUFFERS WIRE TROUBLE Gale Sweeping Northward With In creasing Intensity; Mariners Warned to Seek Harbors Storms sweeping along the Atlantic seaboard from Cape Hatteras to Maine to-day shut off communication 'between Harrisburg and the outside world for several hours. It was 10:16 before any news reached Harrisburg by way of Asso ciated Press wires. Railroads east of Harrisburg had their troubles with wires and poles, and all trains were ordered to run on cautionary signals j until complete communication was ; restored. An unknown warship is reported ashore off the Delaware coast. ' While storm warnings were sent | out from Washington, they reached some sections too late to be of value. Between Harrisburg and Philadelphia ;the Western t'nion and Postal Tele , graph companies were unable to take care of business until about noon, be cause of wire trouble. Western Union [Continued on Page IS] WARSHIP IS STUM. FAST By Associated Press Baltifore, Dec. 7. —According to a dispatch from Ocean City. Md„ timed 10 a. m., to-day, the steamer sup posed there to be a warship, which grounded five miles below that place yesterday, was still fast this morning and blowing her whistle continuously | for help. ; The high sea and fog prevented as sistance being rendered either from I the shore or the sea. BRITISH STEAMER IS SUNK BY TRANSPORT German Ship Destroys Charcas Off Coast of Port Corral, Chile CREW IS LANDED SAFELY Vessel Carried No Passengers Ac cording to Agents in New York City By Associated Press Valparaiso, Chile, Dec. 7.—The British steamer Charcas from Xew York October 1 has been sunk at sea off Port Corral, Chile, by the German | transport Prinz Eitel Friedrich. The ! crew of the Charcas has been landed | forty miles north of Valparaiso. Xew York, Dec. 7.—The Charcas was in the service of the Xew York and Pacific Steamship Company. W. jR. Grace and Company, local agents (of the line, said to-day that the ship j carried no passengers and that she j probably had discharged the greater j part of her cargo before meeting the | Prinz Eitel Friedrich. Birds of a Feather Flocking Together For Poultry Show Birds from Indiana. Connecticut, Xew York and Missouri have been re ceived for the poultry exhibit of the j Central Pennsylvania Poultry Asso : elation and Xational White Wyandotte j Club which opens in the Chestnut I .street hall to-morrow morning. Wire pens have been arranged in ithe hall for the accommodation of inearly one thousand birds and it is j expected that this will be one of the I largest and best exhibits in the State. I The four judges will begin early to ! morrow morning to inspect all the en j tries. To-day shipments of fowls are 1 being received. Most of them will be j here by midnight. | SICK SAILORS IN LIVERPOOI, j Say Men on Slilps art* Anxious for Rattles to Begin By Associated Press Liverpool. Nov. 24 (correspondence of the Associated Press). —The hos pital ship China, chartered by the Brit ish admiralty, put into Liverpool yes terday with about two hundred sick sailors, collected from various war ships in the Xorth Sea. Some were in rather bad condition and had to be carried on stretchers to the waiting ambulances, but the majority were able to walk. From one of the con valescents a small Idea of their life in ! the Xorth Sea was gathered. He said: "It is beastly cold out there, but we ■ don't mind. At times life is a bit I monotonous, but we bear it all nicely. "Some of our vessels had a look more than once'at the German ships. ! ar.d If they would only come out we ! could settle the whole lot quicker with ' our big guns. The Germans do nnt i touch our big ships, but only the smaller ones. There are not so many ! German submarines about as people 1 think.' , HARRISBURG, PA., 519.000 BUDGET FOR REVIVAL MADE UP Cash in Hand Not Yet Totaled, But Expected to Run Well Over Amount Needed TO COLLECT FOR CHARITY Trailhitters Now Total 4,108; Evangelist Tears Out Cer tain Ministers E. A. Tleffelfinger. treasurer of the Stougli campaign executive committee, at 1.20 this afternoon announced that the $19,000 expense budget has bean practically made up. The actual cash in hand has not been totaled, but is expected to run well over the $19,000 mark. During the next week it is expected that collections for charitable pur poses will be taken up at the taber nacle. Within three days the executive committee and co-operating minis terium of the campaign will definitely decide whether to continue the re vival over another or several more weeks. With five of the six weeks' campaign about over, the trailhitters now number 4,108, according to offi cial reports. Tells Ministers to "flit the Trail" In a vigorous, definite ultimatum Dr. Henry W". Stotigh. the evangelist, last evening served notice upon those ministers whom he charges with hav ing failed in their promises of co operation to either " 'hit the trail' and get right with God and their fellow- Christians or withdraw from this cam paign:" The ultimatum was embodied in a two-page typewritten statement which Dr. Stough read from the pulpit in the crowded tabernacle Saturday night. In it the evangelist directly charged some of the ministers of the city with having pledged themselves (to help the campaign in every way. j but in failing to do so by hindering i [Continued on Page 12] 10.000 RED CROSS SEALS FOR LODGES Dr. J. M. J. Rannick, Head of Fra ternal Order Work, Has Began Distribution SALE OFFICIALLY ON TODAY Phone Lecture by S. B. Watts and Exhibition Drill by Shriners Features Just 10,000 of the Red Cross Christ mas seals have already been distrib | uted among the 130 or more secret and fraternal organizations of the city. ! Announcement to that effect was 'made to-day by Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, jcity health officer, who will have {charge of the lodge and fraternal or der end of the 1914 campaign. The i sale officially opens to-day and from : now on until Christmas the many, 'many wheels of the big campaign ma chinery will be in motion daily. In practically all of the city churches ■and at the Stough tabernacle refer -1 ence to the opening ol' the sale was i made yesterday—"Anti-Tuberculosis j Sunday." Harrisburg established a new record i last year when more than 200,000 ! seals weer disposed of, but this year's | results will exceed that figure, the j committee hopes, and to this end 300,- 1000 have been received. I The tiny Yuletide "stickers" will : be sold In the usual ways—through 1 department and other stores, manu ; facturing plants, lodges, churches, 'schools, by booths in the Post Office l and other places, at a public lecture Iby Shirley B. Watts, of the Bell Tele phone Company, and at a big drill and concert by Sienibo Patrol and Band of the Mystic Shrine. One of the features of the cam paign will be the series of "Merchant Days," a day being set apart for every line of the mercantile trade upon which those engaged in that particu lar business will sell the seals. The supplies of Christmas stickers will be carried around by the Boy Scouts of i the city, who, under the supervision i of Edward Manser, scoutmaster, have been enlisted in the campaign. Watts to Lecture 1-Yidav The lecture by Shirley B. Watts on the use of the telephone and, inci dentally the part it takes in the Red I Cross campaigns, will be given in i Technical High School auditorium on i Friday, December 11. The lecture j will he profusely illustrated. While Ino admission will l»e charged, those who attend will be expected to buy- Red Cross Christmas seals from the staff of pretty girls who will go through the audience. Tuesday evening. December 15, the drill and concert by the Myotic Shriners is scheduled for Chestnut Street Auditorium. To that, too. there will be no charge, but a plan is being worked out for the sale of the seals. The drill and concert last year by the Zemho members netted more than S3OO. BATTLESHIP KANSAS SAFE OFT' THE DELAWARE CAPES Philadelphia, Dec. T.—The battle ship reported to have been In trouble off Ocean City Sundsy was the Kan sas. She Is at anchor oft the Dela ware Capes waiting for the weather to moderate and had not been in trouble. SERVIANS OX DEFENSIVE Paris. Dec. 7. A dispatch from Xish, Servla. reports that the Servians since December 4 have resume a vigor ous defensive. The Austrian troops on Friday, the dispatch says, pursued the enemy's right wing as far as the Kolubera river nnd it was there that • lie Auntrians surrendered one of tbeir i batteries. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1914. GERMAN FORCES TAKE LODZ; RESUME MARCH TO WARSA W FRENCH STEADILY INVADING ALSACE J A, Bonhomme, to the south of which is Tete de Faux, which the French claim to have captured. This spot dominates the frontier and has served as an observatory for the Hermans. B. Rurnhaupt, which the French have oc cupied, according to reports from Paris. BELT LINE ON HILL URGED BY RESIDENTS • ■= i * 4,000 Sign Petitions Urging Im proved Service on Progress and Reservoir Lines PUBLIC MEETING TONIGHT All Night Service Another Demand; Growth of District Makes Changes Necessary | At r meetin ; to-night in the Shain- I rock (ire company house. Fourteenth and Herr streets, a formol petition will be framed for presentation to the Harrisburg Railways Company urging a belt line on Allison Hill and im proved car service on the Reservoir Park and State street lines. The meeting, which is open to the public, has been called for S o'clock. A permanent organization for further ing the interests of the Allison Hill district will likely be affected and of ficers will in all probability be elected who will push the projects which this organization may from time to time be urging. During the past several weeks pe titions urging the belt line and im proved car service have been circu lated throughout the Hill district and already nearly 4,000 residents have signed the papers. Belt Ijinp Badly Needed The petitioners will point out to the Railways Company that all the ■ traffic in the rapidly expanding sec tions lying north of State street must i be hauled by the Progress car.? which ■ results in congestion at the busy hours of the morning ind evening. The Hill people also will ask for a faster schedule on the Reservoir line because of the rapid growth of the section between Market and Derry streets together with Bellevue Park. An all night service will also be urged. i $53,000,000 Needed For Waterways of Nation in Fiscal Year of 1916 Washington, IJ. C. t Dec. T. —More than $53,000,000 is estimated for im provements and maintenance of the nation's waterways and harbors during the fiscal year of 1916, which begins July 1, 1015. The great waterways require the larger part of the money. The total of the works is made up of a compara i tively small number of large items and ' a comparatively large number of small I items. The Mississippi river estimate •is $10,500,000: the Ohio, $9,884,000; the Hudson, *3,670,000; the Tennessee, more than $3,000,000: the Columbia and the Missouri, $2,500,000 each, and the Delaware. $1,500,000. EVEI.YN NESIHT THAW IS BUILDING $25,000 HOME Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 7. Evelyn N'psbit Thaw is building a $25,000 home in Washington Road, Mount !<ebanon township, which is rapidly nearing completion and soon will be ready for occupancy. It is a spacious i bungalow, one of the finest in the sec tion. | Few persons even in the immediate neighborhood of the bungalow knew until recently that the wife of Harry Thaw was the purchaser of the prop erty on which the home is being erect ed. Two large lots were bought last April through the . Mount I<ebanon I-and and Trust Company, and deeded by the actress to her mother. Secrecy surrounded the transaction. Work was started last August. , FIVE SEEK JOB IS THE CITY FORESTER Commissioner Taylor Considering Qualifications of Quintet For New Office FOUR WERE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS | All Have Had Theoretical and Prac tical Training—No Appointment Five candidates are in the field to date for the position of city forester i for Harrisburg. They are: C. Aubrey DeLong, Livonia, Center county, Pa. Harry J. Mueller, Bellefonte, formerly of this city. Edwin 1). Workman, city. H. S. Makibbin, city. L. Lelioy Howard, city. All of the applicants state that they I have had practical as well as theoret ical experience—qualifications which City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor, superintendent of parks and public property, has insisted upon in select ing' Harrisburg's first city forester. The Applicants Mr. DeLong is well known through out the State in connection with for estry work. Mr,_Mueller is a former Central High School boy, who has | graduated from the State Forestry jSchool at Mont Alto and has since : been in the employ of the State or in business for himself. Mr. Work man. also a Central High School boy, .is a State College man having gradu ated in the forestry department; Mr. | Makibbin Is a Harrisburg Technical I High School boy with forestry school experience. His practical work has been confined to the care of the trees In Capitol Park during the last year or so and he is highly recommended by Superintendent Samuel D. Rambo, board of public grounds and build ings. Mr. Howard Is a forestry stu dent, having begun his studies in that line of work shortly after his gradua tion from the Central High School. • Xo Hi'comiiicnilalion Tomorrow No recommendation for the ap pointment will be submitted to coun cil to-morrow, however, according to Commissioner Taylor as he wishes to inquire carefully into the qualifications of all the applicants. "What wc wish to combine is theoretical and practi cal knowledge of the work with effi ciency, and to do this I wish to go into the record of each very carefully. At any rate there is no particular liurrv to name the man before the first of the year as the money for his salary will not be available until after the budget for 1915 is effective." SI,OOO >'o Bar Several local tree trimmers have also applied for the position, accord ing to Mr. Taylor but these will not likely be considered. While the salary of SI,OOO a year is not considered especially attractive by the applicants, they all express an eagerness to undertake the work for I the prestige the office will bring and with the hope of additional emolu ment in the future should the ap pointee make good. KRKXCH (iKTK UKDKR OK MKRIT Special to The Telegraph liondon. Deo. 7.—During his visit in France King George conferred the Order of Merit on Sir John French. 1 commander of the llritisli forces on the cpntlnent. He also pinned the Vic- j toria Cross on the first Fast Indian, laulUiar to win the decoration. 14 PAGES Important Polish City Captured by Kaiser's Soldiers Is on Direct Road to German Objective Point; Battered Servian Army Rallies Before Advance of Aastrians; Conflicting Claims Made Regarding Western Situation In Kussian Poland, wliere more than anywhere else, the fortunes of battle have liecn unevenly distributed, there apiiarciKly ha* lieen another of the swift changes which have made the situation a ••onfnsetl one since the iM-u'inniug of the war. The success with wliicli the (Jermans succeeded in rallying their forces anil renewing the offensive after escaping front the Kusslan enveloping movement. Is In dicated by the Berlin announcement, which has not la-en contradicted in Petrograd, that the ini|K>rtant Polish city of Ixxlz. has again been captured l>y the Germans. From IXMI/. the road leads to Warsaw, the objective In the two previous German advances. Prom Kusslan soim-es conies the in timation of a new offensive plan. Cra cow. It Is said, is now under the lire of Kussian artillery, and Kusslan strat egy contemplates a shirting of the main attack from Central Poland to Emperor Yoshihito Is Anxious to See Final Blow in War Struck By Associated Press Tokio. Dec. 7.—The opening of the Diet today with a brilliant function. Emperor Yoshihlto's address dealt in part with the war. "I am happy to announce," the Em peror said, "that the friendship of the empire with treaty powers is growing in cordiality and that the alliance with Great Britain and the ententes with France and Russia have been cemented in the present critical stage by stronger bonds of amity. Our army and navy have crushed the en emy in co-operation with our allies, and piece in the Orient is gradually be ing restored. But the great war is not yet ended. We rely on the loyalty and bravery of our subjects. We wish to attain the final object as quickly as possible." ( ■ -K COUNTRY IN STORM'S GRIP e - . ?\. - . r?•, .1 t:> i..f • e < T' - ill * nt out of service at 12.25 this afternoon <?• cto the scorn- no raging throughout the country. At mtc;v .., thereafter a few straggling messages were received but r the ...rt ;« c,,jaj;iiic comrnuni,;H:.>n between this city an>i Ihi . :e pin,: by the regular route was suspended. The We, rem Union, the Postal and telephone campanies were all su ••in-..; severely. Early in the day the-following com muniv ion s re.eived from the Associated Press: Editor the I Mc h—"Wires all down between this city and Phil- Ik delplpa. Bad sleet storm east. Will probably get wires via a v.; '.e a : oi-te before long." What news was received to day in ia:-ri burg came by a roundabout way. The west is suffering now as well as the cast- The entire country is in the .... the . . • Local ;-V. -u . L '„ R. Dc %..n sa -- iU - .--'.err. x>n thai the r.r.cw ..ill continue t-j ---■ . •a. ; e;-_- . >• . . . e iollov.:,. 6 . A. .a a .. the .; ,ma] », which oaiitc out .at 3 o'clock instead of 11, snow and rain ' •cover the. entire United States. It wa ; snowing as far west as Helena, Out., and raining as far south as Austin, Tenas, and i - in i-'lorida. The tiver bui'edn, issued at the sai.:. ihn 'u.iicatet. a rise in the "Susquehanna and its tribu taric .. Tne bulletin follows: "All the streams of the 'Sus quehc. ina rive; system will probably rise somewhat to-night and Tuesday except the upper portion of the north branch which will remain nearly stationary. A stage of about 2 feet is indicated for Harrisburg, Tuesday morning.' I TO ELECT SCHOOL BOARD HEAD At a special meeting for the purpose at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon, the School Board of Harrisburg will elect its president and vice-president for the ensuing year. The present incumbents, Harry A. Boyer and Harry M. Bretz, respectively are expected to be chosen, although some opposition is expected. The Rev. Dr. William N. Yates had been spoken of for president, although it was understood that Adam Houtz also had presidential aspirations but withdrew in Dr. Yates' favor. I, MARRIAGE LICENSES „ I Samuel loiulm MrMlllnr. t. ollrice Station, Tex* and Carrie Ainllu 1 ' Lebu. Halifax. 1 Uabrlrl Maragrn, Lebanon, and Terealaa Uodoro, cltr. I 1 * POSTSCRIPT tlie south, involving HII attempt to push on from tlie rettlou pf Cracow ami enter Germany across the Sile sian lx>r<lei', with llreslnu the objec tive. such a move probably would lu volve a lraite relnfowement of the ltusslan army in Uaticia. The battered Servian army appar ently lias rallied IK-fore advance of the Austrian*, who have Itecn sweep ing northwestern Servla bare of de fenders. lit Is reported from M«h that the Servians have resumed the of fensive and driven back the Austrian tight wine as far a.s the Kolubara river. Oflicial statements concerning the fighting In the West still are confined to references to detaclul cngngments. with conflicting claims of ,-rnnU ad vantages. In the main the situation to-day appeared to l>e much the same as for the last month. Wilson Opposes Inquiries as to Preparedness of United States For War By Associated Press Washington, Dec. 7.—President Wilson announced to-day he was op posed to Representative Gardner's plan for investigating the prepared ness of the United States for na tional defense, because he thought it was an unwise way of handling "a question which might create very un favorable international impressions." GIRh JOINS GERMAN ARMY AS BOY; IS A NURSE NOW Berne. Dec. 7.—Amonn the re cruits at Kenitz in West Prussia, a story here has it, was one handsome youth of nineteen, who got on very well with the preliminary trainini; and rifle practice. But one day it was discovered that the youth was a girl. She vainly implored the p thorlties to allow her to go to tint front, but was sent to Danzig to train as a hospital nurse.
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