Heavy Fire Front Forts of Dardanelles HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV — No. 64 MANY BIG REALTY CHANGES INDICATED Remodeling of Bowman's Store Will Probably Lead List of Spring Improvements MANUFACTURERS WILL BUILD Stieff Piano Co. and Ford Auto Co. Will Erect Modern Fireproof Buildings Bntire remodeling of the Bowman A Co. store. 314-16-18 Market street, and rebuilding of parts so as to make a uniform structure of live floors with an additional loft for storage purposes will be one of the largest contracting operations of the summer. William Bowman, of the firm, tills morning said that although partial plans have been drawn by M. I. Kast, architect, the complete details are not ready for publication. The additions will increase the floor space by at least 30 per cent. Business at the store will not be in terrupted at any time, the stock of goods being temporarily transferred from each department as it is remod eled. The largest part of the work will be the razing and replacing of the section of the store that was formerly the old Grand Hotel, making the new section conform to the tinish of the present main part of the store. The reopening of the entire store next Fall will be with completely mod ernized features of best elevator serv ice, passenger conveyors and a roofi observatory on the top of the elevator shaft. The old sections will be finished and refurnished to conform to the new-built floors. The new building will have 28 feet frontage, which, with the present fri nt. will total 54 feet. The length will be as at: present, 210 feet. An ar cade will be formed at the front of the first floor and over the show win dows will be a martiuise, or awning, extending the full width of the pave ment. Busy Season Indicated other building operations for the Spring nnd Bummer promise a busy season for city contractors and work men of the building trades. Work is now under way on the rebuilding of the Ford Auto Sales Company garage in South Cameron street which was destroyed by fire February 4. It will be three stories, brick, as near fire proof as possible, to cost SB,OOO. The Charles M. Stieff piano house, 24 North Second street, will be en tirely rebuilt during the summer. The new building will be three stories, steel and brick construction - ,"""With a front finish of Tennessee marble, pressed brick and plate glass, covering a lot 27 by 9fi feet. Frank Alorrett, eon tractor, will commence work April 1. Work will soon start on the Mer chants Tee Company plant on a plot [Continued on Page 7.] Carnegie Company Will Build $500,000 Tie Plant Special to The Telegraph Pittsburgh, March 19. —It was an nounced here yesterday that an outlay of $500,000 would be made by the t'amegio Steel Company to build a steel tie plant in Homestead at an early date. A. C. Pinkey, president of the Carnegie company, corroborated the announcement and said that work would begin in the near future. The new plant will manufacture steel ties and lie specialties, including steepers used by Kuropean lines. The steel tie business in the past has hardly justified a large outlay of money for special facilities for their manufacture, but with the ever in creasing scarcity of tie timber the business is Improving rapidly. It was also announced by the Car negie officials that a plant to manu facture benzol had been planned and would be built at the New Castle plant of the company. Shutting off or the supply formerly secured in Germany has given impetus to its manufacture in this country. The McClintlc Marshall Construc tion Company yesterday received an order for lfi.ooo tons of structural steel from the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. The steel is to be used in erection of a bridge at Sciotoville, O. MAY PASS ON LIQUOR LAW By Associated Press Washington, March 19.—Prepara tions have been made for considera tion by the Supreme Court shortlv after the Raster recess of litigation involving the constitutionalitv and in terpretation of the Webb-Kenyon liquor law, enacted by Congress in 1913. THE WEATHER For Harrlftburß and vlelnMvt Cloudy and nniifttlnl weather to night and Saturday, with prob ably oeeaNlonal rains not much • 'hange In temperature. For I'aitcrn IV'iuxvlvanln: Gener ally fair over northern portion to-night nnd Saturdays iin*erflf»d In wonlh portion, with probably rain or snow. fllver At Hlnghampton and Huntingdon there wa* a alight rlsp In the river stations, elsewhere through out 'the Nyatern thr conditions have been practically Ntatlonarv wince yeaterday. A atagr of about 4.8 feet la Indicated for Harrls burg Saturday morning. General Conditions Cloudy and unsettled weather pre vail* thia morning generally over the eaatern portion of the "coun try. A alight disturbance e\- tend* over thr Ohio Valley and Tennessee, with light raiaa In Tenneaaee. Thr disturbance will move alowly eastward and cause unsettled conditions In thin lo cality for the nert thlrtr-slx houra, with probably occasional rain. Temperature! S a. m„ 32. Sum niaes. «tOr> a. m.| nets, Ailt p. m. Moon■ Flint nuarter, March 23. 3i4S a. in. River Stage* 4.3 feet aho*r low water mark. Veaterday'a Weather Highest temperature. 43. I.oweirt temperature, 27. 'lean temperature. 3(1. Aormal temperature. 3.5. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE BUILDING AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION IN SAN FRANCISCO, MADE ESPECIALLY FOR THE TELEGRAPH Etchings from photographs of the Pennsylvania building:, at the Pnnama-l'aclflc TOxpositlQn In San Francisco, dedi cator yesterday; exterior, interior and attendants, made by Herman P Miller, Jr., of Harrisburg, especially for tho Tele graph. Tlie single figure is tiiat of Colonel A. G. Hatherlngtori, director In charge of education, buildings and arts; the three figures are those of attendants, all Pennsylvanians; the interiors give some Idea of the decorations which nre the best on the grounds; in one of them appears a painting of Governor Brumbaugh; the statue is one of four j adorning four corners of the Pennsylvania plot. IPROVEMIT WORK WILL START MONDAY Gangs of Men Will Be Placed on Sewer Jobs in South Second and Market Streets ' Work on the new sanitary sewer in ] South Second street and in Market | street will start Monday. This will be I the first important Spring contract to I be looked after by Commissioner W. 11. Lynch. When this sewer is com pleted, it is understood, plans for the public comfort station in Market Square will be taken up. Contractor William 11. Opperman will build the new sewer. It will cost $8,137. This sewer became a neces sity with the construction of the sub way at Second and Mulberry streets fContinued on Page I:s] BEST ClEttO 8F ! CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE Grand Jury Determines That He Was Not to Blame For Fatal Auto Crash John J. Hardest, Jr., driver of the ill-fated auto that on tho night of January 1, crashed into a Valley Rail ways Company car at Front and W*l nut streets, resulting in the death of one woman »r>d injuries to other com panions. to-day was wholly exonerated by the March quarter sessions grand jury of any criminal negligence. 1 largest, who is a son of John Hard est. former register of wills of Dau phin county had been charged witli involuntary manslaughter growing out of the death of Miss Grace Muugans. A coroner's jury, following a hearing immediately after the accident, de cided that Hargest was "negligent in not having his automobile under con trol as it approached the street inter sect Ion." where the crash occurred. Assistant District Attorney Frank U. Wickersham presented the case to the grand jury. Tho witnesses included: County Detective James T. Walters, Kdward Stauffer, C. A. I say that a British torpedo boat was destroyed by the lire from the I'orts of the Dardanelles and that the British battleship Irresistible was put out of action. The Turkish war department an nounced to-day that the French bat tleship Bouvet had been sunk during the bombardment of the Dardanelles. No confirmation has been received from Paris or Lonuon. The Constantinople statement indi cates that the Turkish fleet, whose location has been unknown for sotne time, again Is engaged actively in the Black Sea. It is said to have attacked a Russian naval base on the Crimean coast, inflicting considerable damage. Unofficial dispatches of recent date have described the former German cruisers Goeben and Breslau, now among the principal units of the Turkish fleet, as having been put out of commission and haVe stated that the Russian fleet was on the. way to attack the Bosphorus. • Austria to Defer Transfer What is said to be a presentation of Austria's altitude toward Italy, as set forth in a Vienna dispatch to Home, contains the statement that Austria, if she agrees to make territorial conces sions sufficient to satisfy Italy, will de fer formal transfer of the territory until after the war. Austria, it is said, desires to assure herself that Italy will adhere to her promise of neu trality in return for the grant. This attitude Is described in Home as un satisfactory to Italy. A Paris dispatch i states that Austria Is resisting German I pressure and that several representa NORTHAMPTON LICENSES RENEWED Esston, Pa., March ,19. Judj»e J. 1 is Bredhead to day renewed all the wld liquer license* in Northampton county and refused all of the thirteen ne.v applications. In renewing the old licenses, Judje lt««ke-s ■ said there is no legal efficiency under existing laws to ch jeneral re monstrances as were filed against the ..intieg of any licenses whatsoever, especially as na \l*.»>ion ef the law was alleged, nor objection made to the c :?.i*cter of any of the applicants. BRITISH STEAMS* TOtPEDOED Glasgow, Scotland, March 19, via Lendon, 3 AS P. 11. The British steamer Hyndferd was torpedoed to-day in the English Channel by a German submarine. It is reported that one member ef her crew was killed. London, March 19, 4.07 P. ll.—The British steamer Bluejacket, with wheat frem Liverpeel, has been terpedeed by a German submarine off leachy Head. The crew teok to the beats. The steamer, ahheugh badly damaped, re mained afloat. ' COMPENSATION AMENDMENT PASSED Albany, N. Y., March 19. The State Senate to-day passed the bill amending the workmen's compensation law so as to empower employes and employer , to settle injury claims between themselves. The assembly passed the meas ure last nipht and it now goes to the governor. CABINET TAKES UP BRITISH ORDER Washin ton, March 19.—The note to be sent to Great Britain in the near future, protesting against some features of the British order in council and asking for more detailed information about other features, was taken up at to-day's cabinet meeting. *** ANGLE CASE NEAR CLOSE Bridgeport, Conn., March 19.—State Attorney Homer S. Cummings to-day made the closing argument for the State in the manslaughter trial of Mrs. Helen M. Angle, accused of having caused the death of Waldo R. Ballou, in Stamford, last June. MARMAGL LICENSES I.eater Sipc, York, NQke terri- Itorlal concessions to Italy, according j to a Geneva dispatch to the Petit I Parlslen.