Warships of Allies Reported to Have P
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— Xo. 47
• URGE CITY'S CHURCHES TO
: HELP RELIEVE INTENSE WANT
i IN HUNDREDS OF NEED Y HOMES
• 1 1 "O-MORROW every church and Sunday S<*liool in llarrishurg will he «
• i asked by the llarrishurg Montr ami War Relief Committee to help ♦
in the work of relieving the city's hundreds of needy poor. ♦
J If money Is not inixtl at once the work of the Relief Committee •
• mnst enw March 19. \s hundreds of men will he out of employment J
J until the beginning of the Spring Improvement operations, this means *
, that hundreds of women and children will he without the necessities J
, of life for weeks. ,
J Feeling that the Church in Harrisburg will open wide its purse in J
, this exigency, the W»js and .Means Committee lias addressed the fol- «
4 lowing letter to the pastor of every church: •
• „ «
♦ "Dear Sir: , j
!"The Home and War Relief Committee, through contributions <
amounting to over SB.OOO, has been able to partially relieve the distress <
of the unemployed In this city throughout the past winter. All of this «
♦ money has been or will be spent in Ilarrishurg. Already more than <
♦ four hundred families, of which men liavc been out of employment. '
♦ have been assisted by giving work to the women. Xotw ithstantling w hat ]
i lias thus been done, appeals for help continue In as great numbers as ,
♦ at any time in the past. This urgent need will continue, at least, until <
t April Ist. but funds on hand and In sight will not permit the work to »
♦ be carried on beyond March 15th, if so long. <
, "Will you not. therefore, read this letter to each de|>arimeut of J
« your Sunday School, at the services on Sunday. February 2Mth. and earn- «
♦ estly appeal to it. and to its class organizations, to appropriate on that •
♦ day, from their treasuries, such amounts as they may. in their gen- •
J erosity, feel able to give to relieve the intense want still so prevalent '
I In our city. !
♦ "Please send your contribution promptly to John K. Sweeney, treas
♦ urer, care of Mechanics' Trust Company. Hnrrisburg. Pa.
« "With deep appreciation. I am, on bcliair of the Committee,
I "Yours very truly,
J "W. M. DONALDSON". Chairman
» "Ways and Means Committee." !
♦ I
SCHMIDT TAKES OVER
HK BAKING CO.; TO
ORGANIZE BIG FIRM
New Concern Will Be Capitalized
at Half Million; Will Probably
Control Both Plants
A new baking company with a capi
talization of $500,000 to lie called the
Capital City Baking Company, with
Bernard Schmidt as the controlling
head will be organized as soon as pos
sible. The new company will take
over the Harrisburg Baking Company
property.
Mr. Schmidt said this morning that
negotiations were completed last night
with members of the Andrews family,
who control the Harrlsburg Baking
I'ompany, relative to the purchase of
their property and that the Capital
City Baking Company will be formed
as soon as details are decided. lie
• ould not say definitely but intimated
that a new corporation will be a hold
ing company t'or the control of the
llarrisburg Baking Company and the
Bernard Schmidt Bakery. He did say
that both plants will be continued
practically as they are at present with
the same individual management and
the same styles of bread products.
It is understood that John E. Fox
will be one of the three directors nec
essary to the formation of a corpora
tion.
Submarine U9 Believed
to Have Been Destroyed
By Associated Press
Christiania. via London, Feb. 27,
.".50 A. M. —Wreckage picked up near
• 'hristiania appears to indicate a dis
aster to the German submarine U-9.
The German submarine U-9 has
played an important part in fie naval
activities of the war. It sank the
British cruisers Hogue, Aboukir and i
Cressy in the Xorth Sea on Septem
ber 23 and eluded pursuit. On Oc- i
tober 25 it sank tlie British cruiser,
llawk.
A Dutch steam trawler reported No- '
\ ember 1 that it nad met the U-9 in a
disabled condition oft Haak's lightship,
neor Helder. on the north coast of
Holland. Its trouble had been caused
bv becoming entangled in fishing nets.
There have been no reports regarding i
the U-9 since that date.
RUSSIANS FIGHTING FIERCELY
By Associated Press
London, Feb. 27. 7.17 A. M. —A dis
patch to the Times from Petrograd
■ays that Information has been re
ceived in the Russian capital that sev
eral units belonging to the Two Hun
dredth Corps, which was surrounded
by the Germans In the retreat from
East Prussia, still are fighting stub
bornly and probably will be able to
rejoin the Russian army.
THE WEATHER
For llarrlabaric and vlclnhy: Fair
to-night t Sunday partly cloudy,
i-patlnurd cold.
Far Kantrrn Pennsylvaniai Fair
to-night i Sunday partly cloudy,
winllnofd cold: fresh norths rat
it In da.
River
The main river, with all Ita trlhn
tarlea. report falllas condNlona
thla moraine. They nlll continue
to fall during the next twenty
four hour*.
A atage of about 12.2 feet la Indi
cated by Sunday morning for llar
rlaburg.
General Condition*
The effeet of the aoriheaatera dla
t nrhance la allght!> felt on Ita
iveatero border, having raoaed
anon flurries at several atattona.
It haa held In cheek the progres
alve movement of an area of high
preaaure to the went of tt, phlrh
has, as a consequence, built ap In
atreagth.
Temperature: 8 a. ■„ 26 .
Son: Rises. Hi* a. m.: aets, 6:SI
p. m. »
Moon: Full moon. March 1, 1:33
p. m.
River Stage: 74.3 feet above low
mater mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, W.
■ finest temperatare. 28.
Mean temperatare, 84,
Normal temperature. 32.
W.U.HENSEL. FORMER
JTTORIY GENERAL.
DIES 111 SIM
Carried on Law Practice in Lan
caster With Chief Justice
J. Hay Brown
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VILUAU U. H£NSEI<
By Associated Press
_ Savannah, Ga.. Feb. 27.—William
Uhler Hensel. of Lancaster. Pa., for
i years a prominent Democratic leader
jin Pennsylvania and formerly presi
' dent of the Pennsylvania Bar Asso-
I ciation and Attorney General of Penn
jsylvania, died here last night. He
1 was 63 years old. The body will be
sent to Lancaster.
Lancaster. Pa.. Feb. 27.—William
Uhler Hensel was born in Quarryville,
, Lancaster county, on December 4.
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Keep Train at Full Steam
to Convey the Sultan of
Turkey From His Capitol
By Associated Press
, Paris. Feb. 27, 5:15 a. m.—The
( "Matin" this morning prints a dis
patch from Its correspondent at Atli
i ens. who repeats the story published
! several times recently that the sultan
of Turkey is preparing to leave Con
stantinople and that to this end Im
-1 peria.l trains are kept with steam up
in the railroad station. The inhab
itants of the Prinkipo islands In the
sea of Marmora not far from Con
stantinople have been instructed to
hold themselves in readiness to leave.
Second Elliott-Fisher
Class Will Start Soon
The second salesmen's class of the
] Elliott-Fisher Company will start a
i month's study Monday with about
twenty-five men, a few of whom are
Harrisburgers.
Employes in the company's service
at its various branches in other parts
of the country are brought here for
the instruction. The course is designed
to fit men for the salesmanship of the
Elliott-Fisher products all over the
world and is in charge of the staff of
officials of the local factory. One
class was conducted with much suc
cess in January and others will be
started at Intervals as the needs of
the service demand.
Mongolian Sailing Under
, Own Power to Halifax
By Associated Press
New York, Feb. 27. —The Allan I
Steamship Mongolian, which sent out i
a wireless call yesterday for help be
cause she was leaking badly 400 miles !
oIT the coast of Nova Scotia, is head- i
ing for Halifax under Her own power!
and should reach there, to-morrow,
local agents of the line announce here
to-day. The United States coast guard
cutter, Seneca, is convoying the Mon
golian which has aboard 200 passen
gers bound for Glasgow.
Fears for the safety of tlje vessel
have been set at rest, it was said by
wireless messages telling of the Sen
eca's -resence and the ability of the
"*">"-olian to travel under her own
steam.
HARRISBURG. PA., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1915.
ANGLO-FRENCH SHIPS REPORTED
TO HA VE PENE TRA TED DARDANELLES
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HERE'S AN ETCHING OF THE ISLAND COAL WHARF AS PLANNED
BY EXPERT MANNING FOR THE CITY PARK DEPARTMENT
—I.)~T l~ I f
At the recent session of the City Planning Commission at which the ordinance to lease a plot on the
island to the Harrisburg Light and Power Company for a coal wharf was under consideration. Warren H. Man
ning. landscape architect and park expert and consultant for the Planning Commission, submitted a tentative
sketch for the proposed wharf and hopper, which will be generally followed out the electric company officials
declare, in the construction of the island dock. The accompanying etching is a reproduction of Mr. Manning's
plan. The scheme will include the construction of a coal hopper and a little room for the hoisting machinery.
Between these structures there will be the derrick and boom for hoisting the coal from the flats The hopper
and machinery buildings will not be more than twenty-five or thirty feet hi ill and the tallest point in the group
will be the outswinging derrick boom. When raised to the Highest point this will be a little more than fortv
feet high. The buildings will be constructed so as to give what Mr. Manning calls a "monolithic effect," as an
ending to Pine street. The buildings will be painted green so as to follow the natural color scheme of the cling
ing vines, shrubbery and young trees which will be planted around the buildings. Work will likelv he started
by March 10 it is expected and it is hoped to have the whole structure completed by the middle of April.
ASK SEITZ OPINION
ON CLOSING WHARF
Board of Public Works Decides to
Obtain Solicitor's Views Pend
ing Recommendation
At its meeting yesterday afternoon
the Board of Public Works decided to
obtain an opinion from City Solicitor
D. S. Seitz relative lo closing entirely
the unsightly gap In the river wall at
Market street and thus eliminate the
coal wharf. Upon the solicitor's reply
will depend the character of the legis
lation on the problem which the board
will recommend to Council.
In the meantime James Shope. a
former employe of the board and now
in the park department, and Elbridge
W. Cowden. one of the assistant engi
neers of the board, will prepare neces
sary etchings for the treatment of the
point. This will Include the closing of
the gap in the wall. By the terms of
the recent agreement between the city
and Stucker Brothers Construction
Company, the wall contractors, pro
vision is made for the building of five
more sections of steps at Market street
jso that the opening will be narrowed
i to eighty feet.
] Commissioners Bowman. Lynch and
i Taylor and City Engineer Cowden yes-
I terday visited both Paxton and Ver
j beke street landing with a view to
i determining just what should be done
by way of treatment for the accommo
dation of the coal fleets, which, with
the exception of the Harrisburg Light
and Power Company, will land at Mar
ket street. The high water, however,
prevented a thorough inspection of
conditions.
The board decided to suspend the
bulk of the improvement operations
' until the weather opens up again and
i the entire staff of the field and office
i men. with the exception of Principal
i Engineer J. D. Justin and Assistant
' E. W. Cowden and I>ewis Shoaf, were
! temporarily suspended for several
i weeks.
DECORATION FOR HIM)EN BURG
i Berlin. Feb. 27 (by wireless to Lon
don, 9.33 A. M.). —Emperor William
, has conferred the decoration of the
i Pour le Merits Order upon Field Mar
j shal von Hindenburg. the German
j commander on the eastern front.
M.E. CHURCHES ASK
MINISTERS TO STtf
Address Resolutions to Annual
Conference to Be Held at Sha
mokin in March
Methodist churches are preparing
for the Central Pennsylvania Metho
dist conference to be held March 17
to 24 at Shamokin.
! Prior to this conference the Metho
idist churches of the Central district
will hold their fourth quarterly con
ference in their respective churches.
Five of the seven Methodist Episcopal
churches In Harrisburg have held their
conferences and two more will have
j their sessions next week.
Each one of the congregations is in
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THIEVES TAKE CHOICE MEATS .
VEGETABLES AM) DELICACIES
Thieves entered the home of A. F.
Bartolet, a conductor, 17 South Fif
teenth street, last night, and cleaned
out the refrigerator. They also visited
the cellar and carried off potatoes and
other vegetables. From the refrigera
tor they took hotter, eggs, meats, two
pies and other eatables.
Mr. and Mrs. Bartolet were away.
PLAGUE OF WAR DUE
WOMEN OUT OF S
So Declares Rabbi Wise in Address Before National Peace Confer
ence at Chicago; Working For Early Cessation of War
By Associated Frist
Chicago. Feb. 27. —A national peace
conferance was opened here to-day for
the purpose of adopting a plan by
which the sympathy, influence and aid
of the American people may be ten
dered nations involved in the Euro
pean war and the cause of early peace
promoted.
The conference which was attended
by peace advocates from all parts of
the nation was held under the auspices
of the Emergency Federation of Peace
forces. Miss Jane Addams, of Chi
cago. was the chairman. The confer
ence will close to-morow night.
'OLD GLORY' WAVES
THROUGHOUT BELGIUM
i
Peasants Revere Stars and Stripes
as the Symbol of Their
Salvation
By Associated Press
Brussels, Feb. 16.—The American
lag now has the right of way on Bel
gian roads and flying from the ware
houses and stations of the commission
for relief in Belgium as well as from
its automobiles it forms about the
only bit of color in this desolate land.
The passing peasant not only gives
cars bearing the "Stars and Stripes"
clear way but stands at salute as they
go by. The flag flies from the barges
carrying relief food and It again waves
from the warehouses and stations, but
care is taken that It Is not used with
out authority.
To the Belgians the American flag
is the outward symbol of their relief
from possible starvation and they re
vere it accordingly, extending to it
the same respect they would pay to
their own banner were they allowed
to fly it.
ENGLAND WANTS 116
HEAVY MORTON CARS
Order For Commercial Tracks
Totals $400,000; Must Re
Delivered Within 60 Days
An order for 116 commercial trucks
of three and five ton capacity, aggre
gating a total price of about f 400,000,
was received this morning by the Mor
ton Truck and Tractor Company from
the British government.
The contract calls for delivery with
in sixty days, and cars will be shipped
every week as fast as completed.
Work will begin on the new cars
within a few days and in addition to
the recent order of 300 tractors from
the Russian government and other lo
cal orders, will keep all departments
of the plant working to full capacity.
The trucks are of the same design
as the smaller size worm-drive com
mercial trucks, some of which are used
in this city.
SURTAX'S ELDEST SISTER DEAD
Amsterdam; via London. Feb. 27,
10.15 A. M.—A dispatch received here
from Constantinople relates the death
of the eldest sister of the present sul
tan of Turkey. Djemile Sultana. She
waa born in 1843.
Edwin D. Mead, of Boston, In an
address said that in the present Euro
pean crisis the neutral nations had
been silent too long.
"TTm' HlMrni'r of women from the
councils of State partially, if not
largely, is responsible for the continu
ance of the plague of war upon
earth." said Dr. Stephen H. Wise,
rabbi of the Free .Synagogue of N»w
York. "Is War Cureless?" was the
question he discussed. The belief that
man was born a fighting animal and
must forever remain one, he called
"the most immoral of all moral
heresies."
! MISS CRAMP BLAMES
SCHOOL TRUSTEE NOW
! '
Says He Told Her Wife Wu to Be
at That Dinner, and Decides
to Stay at School
Miss Helen Irene Cramp, the Gut
tenberg. N. J., schoolteacher, well
known here, who resigned Thursday
because of the notoriety received after
she and Charles W. Blackmore, a
trustee, had dined together In a New
York restaurant, and after he was ac
cused of having written her a letter
beginning "Hello, Girlie," withdrew
the resignation yesterday.
"I'm going to stay here," she said
last night to a reporter for the New
I York World, "and what's more. I'm
I going to take charge of my classes on
Monday.
Had Talk With Principal
| "I had a talk with Principal Miller
to-day. He says I am a good teacher.
He brought an affidavit for me to sign
In which all blame for that New York
dinner is thrown on Mr. Blackmpre. I
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SICK WOMAN TIED
FROM BORNING HOME
Mrs. Harvey B. Klaer's Mother
Carried to Street When Flames
Eat Through Manse
Fire which started in the cellar of
the home of the Rev. Harvey B. Klaer,
pastor of Covenant Presbyterian
Church. 521 Peffer street, shortly be
fore noon to-day, caused damage es
timated at S2OO. Mrs. Lee. mother of
Mrs. Klaer, who has been ill for some
time, was in bed on the second floor,
and was carried to a place of safety
by neighbors.
The origin of the flre is not known,
but it is believed to have started In a
pile of rubbish. The flames spread
rapidly to the first floor and were eat
ing up through the partitions near
the dining room when the firemen
arrived. Considerable cutting was
necessary to get to the flre.
Neighbors gave valuable assistance
in helping to get Mrs. Lee from the
house and saving the household ef
fects. Water did slight damage to
carpets and furniture. Soon after this
alarm came in. the noon lest was
made from Box No. 61, Second and
Cranberry streets, and many thought!
it was a general alarm. /
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IIIIES' WUPS
KEEP HAMMERING AT.
DIMES FORTS
Necessity of Releasing Wheat Sup
ply Causes French and British
to Make Fierce Attack
ONE SHIP THROUGH PASSAGE?
Mine Sweepers at Work in Straits
Under Protection of
Fleet's Guns
Ijoudon. Feb. 27, 12.15 P. M.—A
fleet of British and frrm li warship*
continues to hammer away to-day at
the (loot* of the Dardanelles, the straits
which close Russia's rich granary;
and the very real necessity of reletis
ing the huge supply of wheat on the
shores of the Black Sea causes the
general iK-lier that the present attack
the Dardanelles Is a serious un
dertaking and not merely a demon
stration.
Official announcements declare that
after tlte reduction of the four outer
Dardanelles forts mine sweepers went
to work within the straits under the
protection of the guns of the lleet,
while unofficial dispatches front Athens
ami Home assert that at least one
French warship actually lias pene
trated the passage.
AIjCOIIOL SUPPLY SMALL
By Associated I'rtss
Berlin, via London, Feb. 27, 11.25
A. M.—Germany's simply of alcohol Is
so far below the demand that the so
called "spirits centrat" organization
which primarily supplies the army's
needs has announced that it will be
compelled to limit sharply deliveries
of brandy and spirits for other pur
poses, especially for drinking:. About
40 per cent, of the former amount will
be allowed the larger Industries for
use in March and slightly more to
smaller concerns.
ST EG LE LEADC UH^Y
New Yu: , eb. 27.—Charles R. CriiTt: . tori
Richard P. Stegier, the German naval reser\:. t, now in the '
Tombs on ,< f fraudulently obt /, |
p !ss->ort, i ♦ • -by that if his c'-ie ; , ,
or conspirac le would instruct him to ; guilty
throw himself on the mercy of the court. '
I W . : >JOT CALL EXTRA SFF ON
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1 special at- calle
» BRITISH SHIP TORPEDOED
I Dieppe, Feb. 27, via Paris, SA. Wl.—lt is re- |
ported here that British merchant ship has been torpedoed
in the English Channel off Saint Valery-S • -Somme.
French torpedoboat destroyer has gone out from Dieppe i
to the ass«<itance of the British ship.
CONFLICTING REPORTS* 1 •'
Washington. Feb. 27.—Minister Van Dyke at Th.: '
6-day an unofficial report
I crew of the American steamer Evelyn sunk
| the North Sea had been lost Yesterday h sent
official re-.'.' ? 1i it the missing boatload >va •; /s.
) ■"< l< i\ i t'.S
l Athens, !' 27, via London.—An allie ,
1 s to-day penetrated
1
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1 here tO-< Intepe was destroyed.
-GERMAN AEROPLANE RAID
I London, Feb. 27.—German aeroplanes r a,de a raid oi |
positions of the allies near Nieuport, and a French aeronaut i
dropped bQ.nl .s on Metz. ,
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| MARRIAGE LICENSES
J l -"-". i : s i
Hentfy, and KlUabrth I'lßlacht, I aloa UtfNlt, jj
* POSTSCRIPT.
Another British Merchant
man Reported Torpedoed
by Submarine in British
Channel; French Warship
Rushes to Its Assistance
FRENCH PRESS AGAINST
PROPOSAL OF THE U. S.
Sultan of Turkey Makes
Plans For Hasty Depart
ure From Constantinople;
Great Battle in Poland Is
Still Undecided
By Associated Prtss
I'aris. Feb. 27, 11:16 a. ill. —Ths
\tlicns correspondent of the Matin
has forwarded the following:
"After the complete destruction of
tl»e forts al the entrance to the Dar
danelles. the allied fleet penetrated the
straits and shelled the interior forts.
It proceeded down the Dardanelles li
miles from the entrance."'
Another British merchantman is re
ported to have been torpedoed by a
submarine in the English Channel.
A French warship has gone to the as
sistance of the vessel, the Identity of
which has not been established.
A Paris dispatch says that the
French press is unanimous In its op
position to the Informal proposals of
the United States to Great Britain
and Germany concerning the admis
sion of food supplies to belligerent na
tions for the civil populations and the
cessation of submarine attacks on
merchantmen. Great Britain's allies
also are said to have advised her that
they favor the policy of cutting off
supplies from Germany.
Clashes between the factions favor
ing and opposing war continue to cre
ate disturbances in Italy and the plan
of the government to suppress public
meetings for the discussion of this
question led to a turbulent scene in
parliament yesterday. Premier Salan
dra. who on more than one occasion
previously defined Italy's policy ns
armed and watchful neutrality, ssld.
In addressing parliament, that he did
not know whether the nation was des
tined to march to war.
Warships of the Anglo-French fleet
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