6 f mtrnwawwutara JO I * •"•TMinru [Robinson's »' TMHMIWII ■ ■ i I 25th Anniversary Sale Friday Specials $lO to sls Suits A considerable reduction on our "Clearance Price" Is our motto during till* Anniversary Sale. $7 to sls Coats $3.95 Just about a half dozen in this lot, so make your selection early. $1.25 Handbags 090 Black leather handbags, in six different styles, new shapes. $1.25 Flouncing 090 15-inch 10 mbroldercil Flouncing In Voile and Swiss. 75c and $1 Bands 250 Embroidered bands. 7 to !» inches wide. Pillow Cases I2.\o0; Friday only. 25c Bolster Cases 200 42x72; Friday only. 10c Outing Flannels Plain and stripes. 39c Night Gowns 250 Cambric Gowns, neatly t "immeil. 10c Infants' Sacks 50 Flannelette sacks in a va riety of colors. 75c Linoleum... .290 In remnant lengths only; big variety of patterns; Friday only. 25c Silk Hose 12*^0 Tan only, all women's sizes. -5c Organdie, 41 inches wide, white only. 20c Voile .... 12^0 y rm tfPTW* SRBWIfi CIH7G Q I n I • GIT A TRANSFER Robinson's! ft' 1 ' imiiDuctMii ' a *" 1 1 —» =a KAISER IN CONFERENCE WITH PROMINENT .MILITARY FEARERS Bondon. Feb. 11. 12:il p. m.—The situation in the eastern arena of the lighting is occupying the attention of the military authorities in Berlin in very large degree, if reliance may be placed on news dispatches reaching London fro mtlie continent. Accord ing to these Emperor William re turned hurriedly to Berlin from the Polish war theater and at once held a prolonged military conference, sum moning for this purpose General Von Moltke. Count Von Aulenljerg, General Von Keasel and many other well known leaders. EMPEROR DEPRESSED OVER HEAVY LOSSES IN EAST London. Feb. 11.—According to the correspondents of certain neutral Danish newspapers Emperor William finds the situation generally hopeful, but ho is described as greatly de pressed over the terrible price in men Germany has had to pay for compara tively limited advances against the en trenched Russians. One acount reach ing Paris by way of Warsaw places the German losses on the Bzura and the Rawka fronts at 45,000 dead. This report is absolutely without confirma tion and it has not even been repeated from any other source. WITH THE FRENCH WOUNDED The Woman's Sacrifice Paris. Feb. 9th. 5.30 P. AI. Away! from the battlefield one sees war stripped of its glamor. We see the heroic work of rurses who are on duty day and night. There Is devo tion, self-sacrifice, suffering patriot ism—qualities which only a great war and its terrible consequences can in spire to the highest development. The women everywhere are helping and everywhere one sees self-sacrifice and devotion to country. The women of the United States do not know how fortunate they are. Here there are plenty of women who suffer in silence, whose strength is out of proportion to their ambition. Their hands are tied by some chronic dis-' ease common to womankind; .hat weak back, accompanied by pain here or there, extreme nervousness, sleep lessness, maybe fainting spells or spasms, are all signals of distress for women. She may be growing from girlhood Into womanhood, passing from womanhood to motherhood, and later suffering from that change which leaves so many wrecks of 'Women. At any or all of these pe riods of a woman's life she should take a tonic and nervine, prescribed for just such cases by a physician of vast experience in the diseases of women. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription has successfully treated more cases the past fifty years than any other known remedy. When you feel dull, headachy, backache, dizzy, or perhaps hot flashes, there is nothing \ you can accomplish, nothing you con enjoy. You can find permanent re lief in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip tion. It is sold by medicine dealers, or trial box by mail from Dr. Pierce. ( Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. V.. on re ceipt of 50 cents, or one dollar for 1 large box.—Advertisement. THURSDAY EVENING, tl£Me^£Qe^t P. R. I MACHINISTS IE MiY MISTAKES Safety First Committee Makes Valuable Discovery at Sun bury Shops In recommendine a new floor be neath four lathes in the Pennsylvania Railroad machine shops at Sunbury a safety first committee made a valuable discovery. Beneath the old planks was found nearly 1,000 pounds of scrap iron. This iron, it is said, represents mistakes made by machinists, who dropped the iron through a hole in the t floor to avoid trouble. Since this discovery at Sunbury all holes found in floors of the Pennsyl vania Railroad machine shops, it is said, will be closely scrutinized. Fol lowing: the discovery at Sunbury a number of machinists attended a din ner, at whie hemployes told of another hole through which much valuable Iron had been dropped during the past twenty-five years. The iron l'ound in clude broken tools, defective bolts and parts of machinery for engines and cars, many pounds of nuts with broken threads and parts of small wheels. P. R. R. Directors Hear of Big Business Ahead Spec ial to The Telegraph Philadelphia. Feb. 11.—11. C. Frick. multi-millionaire steel and railroad man, is optimistic concerning business conditions. "Business conditions are better than they have been," he said nt the Ritz- Carlton last evening, "and they will continue to improve." Mr. Frick came to the city to attend a meeting of the Pennsylvania's board of directors and a dinner in the even ing. He was asked whether it was true, as rumored in financial circles, that he was not altogether pleased with the manner in which the Pennsylvania Railroad is being managed at present. "That is a matter I do not care to discuss," he answered. Ask For More Cash For Railroad Expenses The directors of the. Pennsylvania Railroad yesterday decided to request the stockholders for authority to in crease the indebtedness of the com pany at the next annual meeting 540.000.000. Authority exists, under action of the stockholders taken in March, 1909, to increase the indebted ness $80,000,000, so that the total au thorization will be $120,000,000. The $49,000,000 of consolidated mortgage bonds recently sold are a. part of this authorization. There will therefore be $71,000,000 of authorized increase remaining to meet the capital require ments of the company and whl |. tat'ons for an informal party at lier home. 339 Crescent street, on the evening of February 16. RAILROAD "COMBINE" RAPPED BY TRAINMEN [Continued from First Page.] Railroad, the Lackawanna Rail road. the New York Central Rail road. the Delaware and Hudson Hallroad, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, the Pitts-. burgh, Suminerville and Clarion Railroad and the Cumberland Val ley Railroad. Five of these cor porations are Pennsylvania cor porations, and a considerable part of the stock of two of them is owned by Pennsylvanlans. Eleven of the thirteen are practically for eign corporations and eight of them are actually so. Railroad Power With Legislature Briefly stated, their announce ment declares, they Intend to pre sent the question of the repeal of the full crew laws to the public; but why, is left to conjecture. The power to repeal the laws is vested in the Legislature. The senators and representatives in the General Assembly are chosen by the people to perform such service and the Constitution of the Commonwealth declares that the legislative power of this Commonwealth shall be vested in a General Assembly which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Hut the senators and representa tives are bound by the obligations of their oaths to fidelity to con science and the Constitution. The power behind the throne, how ever, the politicians, are free alike to moral and legal restraints and a lobby composed of thirteen rail roads may lo.ok good to them. Besides there is an advantage in an appeal to an audience fa miliar with the subject. The aver age citizen knows about as mtlch concerning the practical operation of a railroad as the man in the moon knows about building sew ers. And this is not an aspersion upon its intelligence. Railroad ing is a trade peculiar to itself. Men who have had no experience in the service have no idea of the requirements of a safe and sane conduct of a train. They all know that it is necessary to have an en gineer and a conductor on each train and that there is a flagman, fireman and brakeman carried. But they have little idea of the duties of each of these emploves and might easily be made to think that a train equipped with air brakes could get along without a brakeman. Importance of Full Crew But railroad trainmen know the importance of. a well-equipped train with its burden of human or commodity freight. To keep all trains on all roads operating in Pennsylvania up to that standard may cost 51,500.000 a year. But it guarantees the safetv of pas sengers and freight, and probably saves more than that amount each year in guaranteeing immunity from wrecks. During 1913, the first year under the full crew bill, not a single passenger was killed on the Pennsylvania railroad. In 1914 the same splendid record was made. It is not claimed that this splendid achievement in rail roading Is ascribable entirelv to the full cr6w. but it may justly be claimed that the full equip ment had something to do with It. For these reasons It is not fair either to the General Assembly or the railroad trainmen that this immense lobby is addressing itself to the public rather than to the Legislature. The full crew law does not re quire the employment of men whose services are not necessary, and it does not mean emplovrnent without service. It means safetv to lives and property of the pub lic and we submit that it is better that our legislation should con serve life than create dividends. The full crew bill has not in the two years it has been in force im paired the prosperity of the rail roads or added needless expense to the operation of transportation companies. It has fulfilled Its mission of making safety first a principle in railroad operation and marked an era of freedom from calamity in railroading that is a credit to the transportation com panies and an honor to the State of Pennsylvania. The wage-earners of the rail roads of Pennsylvania are not rich enough to enter into competition with the thirteen railroads in the combination to fight the full crew law in a campaign before the pub lic. But they are firm in their convictions that the law has worked good results both from the viewpoint of labor and capital and they will contend with such en ergy as they can command for the • maintenance of the just principle expressed in the law in question. Must Not Awake Sleepers Is New P. R. R. Order The Pennsylvania railroad is direct ing the attention of its employes to the necessity for reducing noises around sleeping cars during the night The company's notice to employes says: "We wish the co-operation of all em ployes in order to avoid complaints. Employes at passenger stations and on trains on freight tracks should en deavor to avoid all loud talking and unnecessary noise by engines blowing off steam while passing or shifting cars opposite passenger stations." RAILROAD NOTES Berks county commissioners ara trying to find a way to make railroads pay for prisoners sent to jail for train riding. A similar question was raised in Dauphin county some time ago, but no decision was reached. John R. Ossman. cashier at the Philadelphia and Reading Railway freight department, has joined the veteran employes" association of that company. Thirteen more electrical earn are ready for service on the Pennsylvania railroad. They were built at the Al toona shops and will be used between Paoll and Philadelphia. The Baldwin locomotive plant has received a rush order for 100 engines for France. They are to be of the narrow gauge type. SCHAEF'STOWN BANK FATE IS IN BALANCE [Continued from First Page.] whether the stockholders will make the additional investment. Rumor had it here this morning that holders of 210 shares have agreed to put up the spot cash. Middle town Man Will Pay D. B. Kieffer. the .Middletown cat tle dealer, who is said to owe $12,000 on overdrafts, sai dthls morning that his affairs with the bank were in so tangled a conditio nthat he does not know just where he stands, but he declares be will do his utmost to make every penny good. Irwin Horst's debt of $15,000 Is also expected to be paid within a short time, possibly before the end of the week. Uriah B. ilorst. the bank president, also stater that Dinner's bond of $15.- 000 also looks like a gilt-edged asset HARRISBURG Cs3s3i? TELEGRAPH 5a | Two More Days | I Piano Selling 1 i Sale Closes Sat. Night. Used j Among the Bargains For Tomorrow 1 II The Greatest Piano Sale this city has ever known is drawing |j 11 to a close, and those who want to take best advantage of the |§ g opportunity had better take it this evening or to-morrow. § j| Don't wait longer. Come in " mn'|(|n)':'' '||f 1 gat once if you want one of W 1 'fi I ' 1 -> these beautiful instruments, or |ll | |j j .. j H at least come and see and hear 111 1 Iffii IBffllOllll Ml SIHIII Mill —fll • I gi them. Never mind whether J J IIIIIjIP™"'""'ji 1 j|j you are ''ready" or not---you j| fj g know we are making terms to g i9l | I mrm II H suit your personal convenience. II J 1! n illllil.i'! 'liillil!ll|B|M li f 8 g. Remember; you assume no risk at II P H I I IP W all in buying a piano at this sale, for IIJI 1 F///E1 I ) II M we guarantee every one. Come early gT L j | J —they will sell quickly, and the big- \ Willi dty § gest bargains will naturally go first. iQr This Used Player-Piano Only $225 Just a Few of the Bargains Are Here Illustrated jl Store Open Until 9 O'clock This Evening' lj | J. H. Troup Music House § I: Troup Building 15 S. Market Square I and that if those three items are paid, amounting to a total of $37,000, there would be only $4,000 to be accounted for by tho stockholders. It was stipulated yesterday that 25 per cent, of the assessment be paid to-day, 25 per cent, to-morrow morn ing and 50 per cent, on Saturday morning. Surety Co. Liable For $15,000 Yesterday afternoon Bank Examiner Logan conferred with representatives of the surety company in an effort to have the $15,000 bond of Binner turn ed over quickly. Mr. Logan told the Schaefferstown people this morning that there may be some delay in get ting It, but the surety company Is liable. No explanation was given the stock holders of how Kieffer and Squire Horst had become, so deeply indebted to the bank. At the afternoon meet ing President Horst said: "I'm sorry It went, that way, but it i couldn't be helped. Smarter men than j we have been fooled. 1 believe that If we can start again, we'll make up thiß loss in a • short time. Things may turn up to reduce tho loss, and when the $22,000 owing from these two men comes in the stockholders will be |reimbursed. And If we don't put up this money and reopen the bank all will be lost." Woman Sobs "I <'un't" After he linished. he asked for tho| people to talk. One woman said all she' had In the wyrlu was tied up in the bank, and she was crying when she got to her feet. "I can't make that much up. I have five shares. It only means put ting more money in for others to get." Logan. who had been silent throughout the meeting, talking only when Mr. 1 lorst got a whispered ex planation of what could be done, started to talk then. "Under the present conditions the bank can be reorganized if you stock holders put up the money. The comp troller will meet you half way and do all he can to see that the bank is re opened. You need a bank here. If it is reopened there will be no question lof solvency. It will be a solid bank. A receiver will be appointed by tho comptroller, 1 think, but that will not interfere with the opening of the bank." Insurance Policy Start of Tragedy Mrs. Binner, wife of the suicide j cashier, will be wirll provided for j through the insurance policy for $15,- 000 which, she says, brought all the trouble on her husband. It was this insurance policy that first made Ho verter and Binner friends and led to the business relationship which has put Hoverter behind the bars and caused Binner's death. Although no bank director would I allow himself to be quoted to-day on I any of the transactions which involve I Ivleffer and Squire Ilorst, there were I explanations as to how these men got 'into the affair. I Kieffer U"a cuttle dealer and a» FEBRUARY 11, 1915. ' such took notes from farmers and others with whom he dealt. These he turned Into the bank where Binner dis counted them. Many, it is said, may be worthless unless KiefCer makes good. Horst is a clgarmaker and two years ago bought much leaf tobacco. His obligations aro said to be personal notes drawn to pay for the tobacco. He has a farm and tobacco warehouse valued at more than $20,000. Kept Two Balance Sheets So bad is the condition of books in the bank that little can be learned of the true condition of affairs lor weeks. It was a one man bank. Binner was cashier, teller, clerk and had not taken a vacation in two years. lie had re fused assistance although a clerk was offered him. The condition of the books indicates that he kept two bal ance sheets, one for his own dealings and the other for the board of direc tors. j LUNCHEON TO DEBUTANTES Mri. J. V. W. Heynders of SteeltoVi, entertained informally at luncheon yesterday in honor of Miss I