fillies' Airmen Inflict Heavy* Loss JCH„ Geima % NavaL Base aL Cuxhaven HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIII— TO WELCOME 1915 111 CITY'S TREE Light on Municipal Pine to Flash Welcome to Glad New Year BIG PARADE ON FRIDAY Procession to Have 4 Divisions; Prizes Announced; Rules Laid Down Harrisburg's 1916 New Year's cele bration will lie the biggest in the history of the city. A midnight revel and a big parade Friday afternoon — both under direction of the Mum mers' Association—will be the big features. The celebration will start New Tear's Eve in Market street, between Market Square and Front street. Everybody is expected to bring along a tin horn, cowbell, or some other noise-making device. I'lans call for a gathering around the municipal Christmas tree at 11:45 o'clock Thursday night. Ten minutes later with two taps on the courthouse bell, all lights will go out on the tree. At two minutes before midnight, buglers will play taps. On the stroke of midnight the buglers will sound The reveille, and the courthouse bell will ring in 1-9-1-5. Then the lights on the tree will flash and the big [Continued on Page 4] New Policy at Sing Sing Causes Inmates to Lead Better Lives; Many Reform Special to 'l*<• Telegraph New York. Dec. 28. Beneficial re sults of the new welfare system In troduced In Sing Sing prison are already being shown. Warden Thomas Mott Osborne told members of the West Side Young Men's Christian Association yesterday. Given better accommoda tions anil more liberty in the conduct of prison affairs, the convicts, Mr. Os borne said, have shown their apprecia tion by better conduct and evidences of a keen desire to lead better lives. Common sense methods and the appli cation of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, the speaker said, were bringing about these results. Warden Osborne told of an inmate, a gambler, who had come to him volun tarily and asked him to keep his money for hint, saying that lie hail thrown his dice into the river. Another had re turned sixteen stamped envelopes wliirh hail been stolen from the printing office. Hut the most remarkable indication of reform came from the shoe department, the foreman of which told liim that not a shoe liad been stolen since Decem ber 7, whereas for two years prior to that date, not a shipment of shoes had escaped shortage at the hands of the convicts. Why. there has been such a wave of righteousness that it is sweeping me and others off our feet.' said the speaker, who added that instead of crowds locked up in cells awaiting punishment there has not been one < ase of punishment since December 1. Miss Genevieve Clark's Engagement Announced Special to The Telegraph Washington, D. C„ Dec. 28. "The Speaker of the House of Uepresenta . tives and Mrs. Champ Clark announce * the engagement of their daughter. Miss Genevieve Champ Clark, to James M. Thomson, of New Orleans. The wed ding to take place in the early summer at Bowling Green. Missouri." The above brief announcement, given out yesterday afternoon, was for the greater nart of Washington society the first Intimation that Miss Clark, who made her debut on New Year's Day. 1914. bad become engaged to a well known newspaper publisher, who has been a friend of her father's for a number of years and Miss Clark's suitor since his first meeting with her. This meeting took place in Baltimore at the national Democratic convention. Mr. Thomson, who is some fifteen years the senior of his fiance, is the owner and publisher of the New Or leans Item. He will take his bride to that city to reside after a honeymoon that will occupy all of next summer. FINED FOR CHEKIUXG FILM < nnadlnn, Arretted In ''Movie," Talk* of Aniiral to ltrltaln Special to The Telegraph Pittsburgh. Dec. 28. Declaring Ids intention of taking bis case to the t?ritisli Consul with a request that it be reported to the State Department. Paul Steurnagle, oi Sewickley, a sub urb, paid a $H fine 'n Central police court yesterday morning. He had been arrested Saturday night at a motion Picture show «vlieo lie be • inie enthusiastic, threw bis hat into tiw air and cheered when a film show ing Canadian recimcnt inoiiceverlng / on Salisbury Plain. England. was thrown on the screen. He was warned li\- an usher, but continued his applause. He said he recognized several persons In one of the regiments with whom he had gone to school in Canada. THE WEATHER For llnrrlshur.. and vlrlnllj: Partly cloudy to-nlctil mill Tuesday; warmer tn-nlmlii nltb lowest •temperature about -.*» decrees. For EuNlern f'cuiiM.vlvnnini Partly elond y ami Tueailays minimhnl mariner to-night; mini ••rate vorlnlile wind*. ltlver All streams of tlie Susquehanna river xjxtem will remain goneral b Icebound nnd nearly station ary. t.eoeral ( "million* l.lKht rains have fallen In the laat 1» rnly-fniir houm 111 the South \tlaut|e. t.nlf and Southweatern State* and in Oregon, and there were anow flurries In Northern New P.nielnnd, Weatern New York. Minnesota. I tab anil Idaho and In tlie Canadian protlneea of Manitoba nnd Hritlah Columbia. The temperature ban moderated decidedly over nearly all the eountry ainee Snturilay morning, ewept In Florida nnd a few lo calltleM of amall area In the Went, where It Is niiinen hat colder, Tcmperaturei N a. m., IS. Sum Illsea. 7s2ess | London. Dec. 28, 3.50 a. m.—Flight ! Commander Francis E. T. W. Hewlett. I who is supposed to have lost his life Un the Cuxhaven air raid, was the sou lof Maurice Hewlett, the novelist. gSTTTrTr TO DISMISS UK'S FERRY TOLL FIGHT Ten-year-old Application For Con demnation Proceedings to Be Discontinued Preliminary steps taken in 1905 by Dauphin county to condemn as a toll bridge the section of Clark's Ferry viaduct, extending between the ferry and Benvenue, will be formally discon tinued to-morrow, it is understood,! when the county's application for a hearing on the subject is called up on the December argument court calen dar. if the movement that had its incep tion nearly ten years ago had material ized the structure would have been taken over by the county and thrown open as a free bridge. The Pennsylvania Canal Company, which secured from the State the privi lege to build a uride for use in towing the canal boats across the Susquehan na at the Clark's Ferry dam, wanted sti,soo for if. Application for the ap pointment of a board of viewers was made at the time", btif the'case never got before the courts, as County Soli citor William 11. Middleton held that the canal company did not have au thority to turn over the bridge. The | corporation, he declared, obtained the [Continued on Page "] Warmer Weather, but Not Enough to Spoil Skating, Is Coming Moderating weather, but not enough high temperature to spoil the skating, is the promise of the forecaster for to morrow. The prediction for Tuesday is slightly cloudy and a minimum tem perature of about twenty-five degrees, which is considerably warmer than the recent low level of the thermometer. The temperature on Sunday morning, one degree above zero, was the lowest ever registered in December during the twenty-seven years' history of the Har rlsburg station. The skating at Wildwood is irood, and is being indulged in by large crowds every day. The l iver is not con sidered safe, although the ice is smooth at many places. Handle 350,000 Parcel Post Packages in 1914 Parcel post business during the year ending Thursday, December 31, will show an increase of fifty per cent, over that of last year. Since the par cel post system was inaugurated, Jan uary 1. 1913, business in Harrisburg has increased almost 74 per cent. Because of the fact that only at in tervals during the year parcel post packages are counted, and records made of business handled, actual fig ures for the year are not available at this time. It is estimated that be tween 350.000 and 400,000 parcel post packages will be this year's record. Outside of the annual Christmas rush, the number of parcel post sacks handled at the local Post Otticc daily is from 150 to 200. During the first year for parcel post mail, the largest number of packages handled in one day was TOO. During the present year the best day showed a record of 1,100 packages. There were many days on which 800 packages and over were handled. A conservative estimate shows a daily average of 750 parcel post pack ages handled each day in Harrlsburg. WILL PRESENT NOMINATIONS By Associated Press "Washington, Dec. 28.—President Wilson expects to send to the Senate this week nominations of the five members of the Federal Trade Com mission. It was said at the White House that while he has not finally chosen the commission he has narrow ed his list of ellgibles down from 300 to a few men. LABOR MEN IN SESSION By Associated Press Philadelphia, Dec. 28.—Workmen's compensation and "unemployment" were topics for discussion at the an nual meetings hero to-day of the American Association For Labor Leg islation and the National Conference on Unemployment. Some sessions of the tW'O conventions'will be held joint ly and many prominent men were on the programs for addresses. I'RHMH I.OSE SOME THEXCHES By Associated Press Paris. Dec. 28. 2:45 P. M. An of ficial statement ramo out of Paris this afternoon reading as follows: "fn Bel gium wo have continued to advnnee. To the west of Lombaertzyde wo arc actually at the foot of the sand dunes on which the enemy has established his line of resistance. At a point south •of Yprfcs we have lost a section of trenches near HollebecUe." HB PEOPLE JOIN ISIS SHIES CLUBS Thrifty Folk of City Begin Storing Up Cash; Five Banks Have Funds Almost 20,000 people of Harrlsburg j and nearby towns have begun their i 1913 Christmas savings funds In five j Harrlsburg banks conducting these | clu lis. Several years ago the Christmas sav- , ings idea was started and each year: the number of persons making pay- | ments has increased until the total i has almost reached 20,000. In the 1914 club the Union Trust! Company paid out hundreds of thou- i sand of dollars to more than 12,000 j people. The 1915 club will be even i larger, it is believed. Two new banks to take up the Idea this year are thel East End Hank. Thirteenth and How-j ard streets, and the Citizens Bank, j Thirteenth and Derry streets. Last year two of the banks began I ,<•1x1 lis and each report a successful year i with a much better one In view for! 1 91*. One of these, thd Ctflntnferclal, Iliad more than 1.400 members for the j [opening year and expects to have at | least 2,000 members for 1915. The [Security Trust Company, 36-38 North 1 Third street, announced that approxi [Continued on I'age 7] President's Fifty-eighth Birthday Is Celebrated Quietly at White House By Associated Press Washington, Dec. 28. —President Wilson was 58 years old to-day. There was no special celebration marking the occasion, the President spending the day quietly surrounded by his family. It was the first time Mr. Wil son had celebrated his birthday at the White Hons*. East year the event was observed at Pass Christian, Miss. President Wilson received numer ous letters and telegrams of congratu lation to-dav. Some of them were i from personal friends in all parts of j the country while other were from the | rulers of the world's nations. All brought a feeling of happiness to the [ President as he read them, i As a continuation of his plans to get as much rest as possible during the holidays, President Wilson contem plates seeing few callers during the week. His plans call for a conference with Representative Underwood, of Alabama, the majority leader in the House on the administration's legisla tive program and a reception to a delegation of Sunday school pupils from New Jersey. One Killed, 8 Hurt By Bombs in Indian Church Special to The Telegraph San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 28. When service was in progress yesterday af ternoon at the Vedante Temple, of a Hindu cult, at 29G3 Jackson street, and Swaml Triguniatia preaching, a young man walked up the aisle, hiding some bulky article with his hat. Stopping in front of the platform, he dropped his hat and a bomb hidden underneath it. Swaml Trlgunlatia's were crush ed. The bomb thrower, whose Identity has not been established, was blown tlfteen feet away and killed. Eight members of the congregation were bad ly injured. The interior of the temple was wrecked. POLICE TO GO TO SCHOOL By Associated Press New York, Dec. 28.—The Board of Education, it. became known to-day, has under consideration the petition of 240 Now York policemen asking that courses pertaining to their work be offered In one of the evening high schools. Course of study in charter provisions, penal code, English, police rules and regulations arc being map ped out and classes are expected to be organized within a few weeks. TWO VESSELS COLLIDE By Associated Press ProvincetownJ Mass., Deo. 28.—The five-masted schooner Dorothy Palmer, and the United Fruit Company steamer Limon were in collision near Peaked Hill Bars off the end of Cape Cod early to-day, but without serious damage to either vessel or injury to those on j board. BISHOP l-'OU 25 YEAIIS By Associated Press Duluth. Minn., De •. 28.—Archbishop John Ireland will be. among the Cath olic clergy In Duluth this week to at tend the anniversary services which will celebrate a quarter of a century's work by the Right Uev. James Me- Uoldriek as bishop of the Duluth dio cese. The celebration begins to-day. 10 PAGES AIRMEN CAUSE HEAVY LOSS TO GERMAN NAVAL STATION AT CUXHAVEN Aerial Raids Across English Channel Are Center of Inter est in England Today; Details of Damage Done Are Still Lacking; Counter Attacks of Germans Check Onslaughts of Allies in West; End of Campaign in Poland Is Believed to Be Near The Russian forces which have been attacking the Galician fortress of Cra cow have been driven back fifty miles, and Cracow is now free from imme diate menace. It is asserted in Petro grad that the Russians have improved their strategic position by falling back. The capture of Cracow, however, long has been sought by Russia, being re garded as an important step on the way to an invasion across the Silesian border. Elsewhere in the east few changes have occurred, the Germans having relaxed for the present their assaults on the Russian line west of Warsaw. The French war otfice says to-day that further progress has been made by the allies, particularly in the Meuse region. The admission is made, how ever, that a trench south of Ypres was lost to the Germans. The Berlin communication states that Nieuport has again been under bombardment by British warships and that a few civilians were killed or wounded. It is asserted that' attacks by the allies have been unsuccessful. Transporting Refugees The American cruiser Tennessee is transporting 500 refugees of various nationalities from Jaffa, Syria to Egypt. Captain Decker of tho Tenn essee reported to Washington that per mission to remove the refugees had been granted by the Turkish authori ties. The initiative In military operations apparently has been left for the time being to the airmen. Aerial raids across the JOnglish Channel to the lower Thames, over Freiburg, Xancy, Met* and Sochaczew, Russian Pt ind, and on the German naval base at Cux haven inflicted considerable damage in the aggregate. Details of the Cux haven expedition arc still lacking, and i although Berlin asserts that the Brit lish aviators accomplished nothing, it lis said in Hamburg that some damage i was done. It is evident, however, that | the heavy fog prevented the British from carrying out fully their plans. | Activity on land and sea apparently •is diminishing. Even in Russian Po «uup UP 'nai^^mf^aip^flr^^Kjay SCRANTON BUYS "CHARLEY" MILLER J A dispatch from Scranton late this afternoon, announces % the sale of Catcher "Charley" Miller, of the Harrisburg Tri- C State, to Scranton. Manager Bill Coughlin, of Scranton, C closed the deal with Manager George Cockill on Saturday, j| but the papers were not filed until to-day. No price is men- C 1 tioned. Catcher Miller was the leading catcher in the Tri- % State last season. jj Clarence Himes, aged 16 years, was this afternoon com mitted to jail for court, by Mayor John K. Royal, to answer a charge of larceny. Himes was wanted for a year on the charge of robbing the butcher shop of Hull Brother:;, in North Seventh street. Charles Grayson .alias John Brown, was held under S3OO bail for court after a hearing before Alderman Kramme this morning. Grayson was charged with snatching a pocketbook from Miss Katherine Stangle, on Christmas morning just as she was about to enter the St. Lawrence , German Catholic Church, in Walnut street I Winter Haven, Fla., Dec! 28.—Harry Alvey, his wife t and three children were burned to death early to-day when £ fire destroyed their home near here. t Washington, Dec. 28.—The Federal Reserve Board ap- • prove ito day rediscount rates of per cent, on maturities C up to thirty days and 5 per cent, on maturities between K thirty and ninety days for the Phialdelphia Federal Reserve { Bank. This is the first bank to establish a rate below five C per cent. k New York, Dec. 28.—Fred Hoyt, choir singer in a I Bowery Mission, pleaded guilty to-day to the theft of SI4OO » in jewelry from an apartment house, but besought the court's | clemency on the plea that he stole only to benefit the poor. ( Low bidders on the erection of a light arch concreto bridge over Spring Creek, in Cameron parkway, opened by | Park Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor late this afternoon were: Murphy & Son, Chambersburg, $1687; Ferro-Con crete, c«y, $.1,015. The low bidder on the construction of the | new Reservoir park golfhouse was J. H. McKelvey, house ' only $1919; house, porch and painting, $2,331.50. ' ) , MARRIAGE ' 1 I Mato C'uiiko mill Vein .Wulior, Strrlton. ) I Rrnjamln /.tiimirruian, York, and Uracc Glah, l.ancantrr. k • POSTSCRIPT land the lighting is becoming less se vere, without a decision having been reached. Vienna admits that the Aua trians have been compelled to re treat before the Galician Carpathians, and in Berlin it is said that the at tempt to cross the Bzura river in tho advance on Warsaw has been aban doned. In the west the onslaught of the al lies would seem to have been checked by the counter attack of the Germans, mans. Captain and Commander of German Cruiser Sunk by Mine, Sent to Jail By Associated Press Copenhagen, via London, Dec. 28, 4.15 a. m.—According to the Hamburg Echoe. a courtmarial has been held at Wilhelmschafen to try the captain and the commander of tho German cruiser Yorck, which was sunk by a mine in Jade Bay in November. Three hundred members of the crew were lost. The oftlcers were charged with dis obedience, negligence and manslaugh ter and were found guilty, according to the Eehoe. Captain Vieper was sen tenced to two years' conllnement in a fortress and Commander Cleve to one year's imprisonment. MUCH DAMAGE AT CUXHAVEN By Associated Press London, Dec. 28, 3.54 a. m.—The Daily Mail's Copenhagen correspond ent says he learnes from Hamburg : that considerable damage was caused [atCuxhaven by the British air raid. IGERMANS RELY VPON HUNGARY* By Associated Press London, Dec. 2S, 4.10 a. in.—The | Times says that it learns from a trust- I worthy source that the recent mission I"Continued on Page 7]