! % Battleship Alabama Sails For Hampton Roads to Enforce Neutrality of U. & HARRISBURG ifSlflli TELEGRAPH LXXXIV — No. 72 COMMITTEE TO AID LOCAL OPTION MEET Churchmen of Every Denomina tion Supporting Big Campaign For Bill's Passage GOVERNOR IS CONFIDENT Great Rally May Have to Be Held on the Island: Halls Too Small A committee of fifteen prominent residents of llarrisburg. 'men who hr.ve been identified with various movements, has been named to have charge of t'ie local arrangements for the big local option demonstration in support of Governor Brumbaugh and the local option bill nest Tuesday. The committee will include K. Wallower. K I\ Weaver and others and a meet ins- will be held within a few days. The support of churchmen of every denomination in Harrisburg has been enlisted in the bis campaign and at the midweek prayer services the atten tion of everyone will be called to next Tuesday's demonstration. Governor Brumbaugh has been given the support of committees in every county in the state and his mail is laden with responses to his invi tations to men to come here on Tues day. The Governor expressed himself as confident of local option this morn- ! ing. "I am getting promises of support from manufacturers, business men, professional men, men in every walk of life, and I expect that the gathering here next Tuesday will lie one to show how strongly the people of our state feel on local option." he said to-day. The plan is to nave the first mass meeting at 10 o clock in the morning. Thousands of Philadelphiuns are com ma by special train ami will arrive be tween 11 and 12. If t'hestnu Street J Auditorium is not big enough, the; people may so over on the island, ac- | cord Ins to one suggestion made to-day. i In the afternoon the public hearing j will be held In the hall of the House.! At night the Governor will speak at a 1 ereat rally. It will be one of tcreatest days I known in legislative history in many i years. Odenwald's Scheme to Leave Harbor Detected New York. March 29. —How the I <i«rinan steamer '-Menwald tried to slip out of San Juan harbor March j -'1 without clearance papers and how she was stopped by American nuns at i « harbor fort, were told in detail to-! day by officers of the steamer Brazos, j which reached here to-day from San i Juan. The Odenwald. they said, had been taking on coal and provisions for sev era.l days. As she sank deeper in the, water. n»en In boats alongside painted the water line hisiher on her hull. When she tried to get out the fort fired two shots from a rapid tiring gun. These were disregarded. A seven-inch gun threw a projectile so close to the Odenwald's bow that i the spray it kicked up splashed on the' steamer's deck. That ended the at-! lempt and the odenwald returned to! her anchorage. German agents of the Odenwald, the! Brazos officers were informed, had , asked toe customs house for clearance papers but they had been refused. General Von Kluck Hurt by Shrapnel Explosion By Associated Press Berlin. March 29. by wireless to Sav ville. —The report of the progress of the fighting issued from headquarters to-day relates among other things that < leneral Von Kluck. the German com mander who led the famous German j rush into France in the early days of j the war, has been slightly wounded by! shrapnel fire while inspecting advance ! positions of his army. The condition ! of the general is described as satisfac tory. DIKE NOT ALLOWED TO nt;HT By Associated Press Paris. March 29. 5.15 A. M.—The French government has refused the request of the Duke of Orleans that he be granted permission to enlist in . the foreign legion under an assumed ( name, says the Francaise In an article ' which deals at length with his efforts to obtain service under the flag of his country. Early in the war he sought! to have amended the law passed in i HB6 forbidding him to enter France l or serve in the army. He agreed to I resume his exile If permitted to right ! but his efforts were fruitless. THE WEATHER For HnrrUliut-ic ami vicinityi Fair and colder to-night. with loivr>t tfmpcrnturp ahnnt IN dcgreea; Tularin? fair, continued cold. For Kaatern Prnnnj lvanla: fair to night. colder In aoutb portion; Turadar fair: moderate northwext win da. River •>» marterlal change* will occur la river condltlona for ar\ernl data. A atage of about -1.11 feet la Inill. catrd for llarrlahurg Tundnr morning. tieuernl Condltlona A dlaturliaiicc of moderate energy ion central over the I tiper s't. Uawaw Valley moving nortli eaatnanl, hna cuuacd Unlit anow oter tile greater jmrt of the northern hnlf or the country ea»t of the Mlaataalppl river la tlie laat twenty-four houra. It la lO to 22 ilegrrea warmer than on Maturdax morning along the \tlantlc enact from \ or th Caro lina to Maine. Temperaturei S a. m,. 82. Sum lUaea, 5i05 a. M.i arta, fli2B p. m. Mooat Full moon, March SI, 12i38 a. m. Hlver Stagei 4.S feet above low water mark. Yeater4ar'e Weather Hlyheat temperature, in. T.oweat temperature, 2I». Mean temperatnre, 3I». •Normal temperature, 13, New West End Playground Which Commissioner Taylor Proposes to Bay For City, and How Plot Will Be Arranged For Children M \ ?IS§S \ \n\ \ yX A ( • \ v \ \ VlvM 'V"A' * \ t X, —U \ W\ Vm, v «" \\ i f * %. « r Y Vrj e ~~ * J rouer* sr/eecr r.,,t tiL' ,'M approves Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor s plan to purchase the Fifth and Emerald street plot for a West End playground, the park superintendent expects to lav , . ho 'ra.t and ln ft a, j equipment as will provide one o the mo«t modern recreation places for children in this section <>f the State. The accompanving sketch prepared bv flii ~n . >i» . s , <le P a^J ment ®|j°" 8 Just what the commissioner has planned for the grounds. As it is 405 feet long, covering the stretch from Emerald street bevond ' Ctirtin . ,„' 1 ("'"I J -cneca. there will be ample room for running track, field house, tennis courts, etc., baseball diamond, etc. The field house will hardlv he built this venr but it is ? Ck ' "i| th 120_yar ? -t'-algnt-away at least three tennis courts, a bai'eball diamond,volley.playgroundand basketball courts, be flooded to pro^ hie f*>r ska ting. equipment tha, go to make up a modern playground. Around the sides bieaciicrs win be erected. In the winter time the low ground will JIM DIES IFTER LONG ILUIESS Was One of City's Foremost Citizens; Active in All Civic Matters j James M. Lar.iberton. one oT the : best known of Ilarrisburg's native citizens, who hade been In failing j health for seme time, died last night at 8.30 o'clock at his home. 11l North ! Front street, in his fifty-ninth year. Mr. Lambert on was active in many | phases of Ilarrisburg's life, a promi nent member of the Dauphin county j'ar, earnest in church affairs, high in reemasonry, strongly interested in civic matters and municipal improve ments. and well-known throughout the (country, especially among Yale men. ; He was a fellow classmate of William 111. Taft, former president, in the fa [Continued on l'ago 5.] 120 PERSONS DEAR 01! STEAMER FUA 1 j 140 Passengers and Crew of 120 on Board When She Was Torpedoed By .-hsocialtd Press | j London, March 29, 3.4G P. M.—The ! 1 report of yesterday that the British i steamer Falaba had been sunk by a 1 German submarine was confirmed to day. The Fafatja was sent to the bot i torn yesterday afternoon off Milford | Haven, an inlet on the coast of South | Wales. The loss of life probably was ! heavy. | The Falaba left Liverpool on Sat . urday for the west coast of Africa with 140 passengers and a crew of 120 ! men. Her officers stated that when ; the German submarine appeared it ! whistled thrice as a signal for the , steamer to prepare her lifeboats but j that before this could be done a tor i pedo struck the ship near the engine j room. Three of the Falaba's lifeboats were swamped. A fishing boat appeared on i the scene and saved 140 of the passen ! gers and crew. Captain Davis, of the liner, was pick ed up dead. RAILROADERS WILL PARADE TO FULL CREW IIFAKING ! Arrangements wero made late this j afternoon by the local committee of conductors and trainmen to have full j crew advocates parade to the Capitol i to-morrow afternoon, i It is the purpose to have the Train j men's band head the procession. All visiting delegates, trainmen and oth ers interested in the full crew law, will I meet on Market Square not later than 2'clock. RKMOVIXi Bl ILDINGS IV PREPARATION FOR BAKERY Removal of the old framo buildings ! In Market stre»t. near Tenth, to make [ room for the new bakery building. Is I under way. Two structures will be re | moved this v/eek. The tenants In other buildings have been ordered to move, and will vac-ate soon. Plans for the new building ate not ' '•nmplet*. but are expected In Ilarrln hurg some time this wwk at which time a meeting will be held for the oi - x sanitation of the new company. HARRISBURG. PA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1915. WILD WOOD PARK THIS SUMMER TO HAVE "MAN Commissioner Taylor Will Provide Mounted Cop With State Con stabulary Sized "Billy" For Duty in Big Recreation Stretch . .Wildwood Park is to be provided this summer with a mounted police man, who will carry a long-handled regulation size State constabulary '•billy." Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor, superintendent of parks and public property, made that announcement yesterday and added that the horse and equipment will be obtained in tline to have the new "lone horseman of Wildwood" ready to do business— uniform and all—by the time the park season opens. The mounted cop is considered ad visable not only from a point of econ omy but because it will provide better protection. During the past season three officers patrolled the park, by the new arrangement only two will be necessary, one mounted and the other a-foot. The officer who will do CHUM EFFORTS TO RAISE SOOIIE H Submerged Vessel Finally Located Outside Harbor Entrance at Honolulu By Assmialcd Frets Honolulu. March 29.—Hope of rais ing the United States submarine F-4 'submerged outside the harbor since | Thursday morning was again revived I last night when vessels engaged in i the rescue work reported they had | llnally located the missing craft in which 21 persons are believed to have . perished. j Heroic attempts of the las'. 4 8 hours Jto bring to the surface from a great jdepth an object that appeared to be the submarine, resulted in the discov j ery by two divers Sunday that it was ■ only an old anchor, probably lost by I the battleship Oregon. The divers • went to a depth of 215 feet, but failed | to find any trace of the K-4. Refusing *o l>e disheartened by this j discovery, hundreds of rescue workers, 1 although tired by their long work ami J without sleep for many hours, re doubled their efforts when another i body believed to be the F-4 was lo cated. Portions of a vessel's upper struc ture have been brought to the surface by the grappling apparatus of the va jrious boat* and it is this which makes i the rescuers confident they are from 'the F-4. The dredge California, whose chains i are thought to have been securely j fixed on the body, will be moored in la position directly above it and tug ! bouts will crisscross It in all directions (with their drag chains in an elTort to II wind them Into a net around the hulk. A big naval crane having a lifting capacity of 150 tons dead weight will then attempt a direct lift on the sub- I marine if the chains are made fast to | the craft. j NOTK VIRTUALLY COMPI,KTED Washington. March t!>.—Transmit tal of the American not» to Great Bri-' tain in regard to the British order in! counsel against commerce to and from ; Germany would. It was believed, to- I day. be awaiting the return of Presi-' I dent Wilson from Annapolis to-mor-i j row. The note, however, virtually lias 1 I been completed. .duty by horseback can cover the en- I tire length of Wildwood much more rapidly and more frequently than his jless fortunate brother a-foot. In addition to providing better po lice protection in Wildwood Commis sioner Taylor thinks that the mounted policeman can act as a sort of a fire warden in that he can keep a more watchful eye on fires in the under brush and tress. The hald a dozen or more fires in the woods yesterday sug gested the plan. The commissioner put a goodly portion of Palm Sundav | fighting some blazes with Fire Chief I Kindler. While tiiese did little dam age it was only because they were dis covered in time. Commissioner Tav | lor declared to-day that he believed ; t ' lo fires were due to carelessness of tramps or ethers, who threw matches in the underbrush or who started bon- I fires :n violation of park regulations. BJTTLESHIP READY TO i ENFORCE NEUTRHLITV Alabama Sails From Philadelphia En Route to Hampton Roads By Associated Press Philadelphia. March 29.—The bat tleship Alabama, which was given hurry orders Saturday night to sail to Hampton Koads to enforce Ameri can neutrality, left the Philadelphia navy yard at 9 a. in. to-day. The battleship is well stocked with pro visions and has aboard a large supply of ammunition and coal. ! Tho Alabama was in reserve when j the order came and had on board only [Continued on Page 7.1 Says Christians Care More For Easter Clothes Than For Work of Church In liis Pa!m Sunday sermon, veslerday morning, the Rev. I>r. J. A. I,ytei. pas tor of Derry Street United Brethren Church, declared most Christians are more interested in their Kaster clothes about this season of the year, than they are in the work of the church "If the Christian people of Harrls burg were one-half us enthusiastic about the Saviour's work as they are about that new Kaster bonnet, that darling Kaster frock or that Kaster «uit." he told the congregation, "this city wouid experience surh a revival as would make the Stough campaign seem insignificant." I>r. L.yter declared It Is conventional to t>, enthusiastic about sports, poll tics. business and so on. but qultf un conventional to be enthusiastic about Jesus Christ. Austria Makes Definite Offer to Cede Territory By Associated Press Paris, March 29. 5.10 A. M.—Aus tria has made a definite offer to cede to Italy a part of the province of T rent at the close of the war, the Petit Parlsiene's Rome correspondent says he has been Informed. He adds that the proposal was made on Thurs day and that the Italian government deterred its reply. CITY PLANNERS WILL IIBPECTMUI Taylor Will Not Urge Passage of West End Site Measure Until Commission Investigates Until the City Planning Commission has had a chance to look over the proposed new West Rnd playground site at Fifth and Emerald streets, City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor, su perintendent of parks, will not call up the ordinance authorizing the pur chase on second reading. The commissioner made this state ment, this afternoon following a meet ing of the Planning Commission when the drawings were shown the mem bers and the purposes of the park su perintendent were explained. I Commissioner Taylor had arranged to take his fellow members of council [Continued on Paee 7.] P. Ml. IS URGED TO HASTEN SUBWAY City Planning Commission Com municates With R, R. Relative to Paxtang Crossing I Construction of the proposed culvert under its? tracks near Paxtang to pro vide the necessary undergrade connect ing link in the city parkway was for mally urged upon the Philadelphia and Reading Railway this morning by the City Planning Commission. With the recent acquisition of the A. E. Endera. the Paxtang Cemetery Association and the Helen Boyd Duil tracts and prospects of an early set tlement of the Prospect Hill tract, City Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor is ready to plan the construction of the three-mile stretch of driveway that is to connect Cameron parkway with Reservoir park in an uninterrupted line. The only point at which the road way would be Interrupted would be at [Continued on Page ".] Another British Steamer Destroyed by Submarine; Crew of 23 Men Rescued By Associated Press London, March 29, 2:45 p. m.—The British steamer Aguilu was sunk by a German submarine this morning off Bishop Rook. Her crew of 23 men was saved. The Aguilu was a vessel of 1,204 tons She was owned in Liverpool. Bishop Rook is on the Heilly Islands at the entrance to tile English Channel. I A dispatch from London last night | said that the Agulla had sent out dls i tress signals to the effect that she was I being pursued by a submarine. WORK' OX C. v. BItIDUK IS 4IIOIT ITKAUY TO START Arrival of machinery and material from Pittsburgh, to-day. is said to he an indication of an early start on the Cumberland Valley bridge. The Penn sylvania Steel Company expects to have all the girders in position at Front ami Mulberry and Second and Mulberry streets, within the next three days. Work on the brldsre proper may start , on or about Thursday 12 PAGES PREMIER'S MOTHER DIES By Associated Press Halifax. X. S., March 29.-—Mrs. An drew Borden, mother of Sir Robert Borden, premier of Canada, died early to-day at her home at Grand Pre. —w - « I FALLS FROM GIRDER / Hairisburg—Jacob Albert, of Highspiic, fell from a M steel girde this morning while workii Pennsylvania ' # Steel Cor T a concussion of the brain. He 1 # '.he Y. aburg hospital in an unconscious 1 9 condition. His condition is serious. 1 # 2 CHRIS : 3 AMERICAN LA FRANCE APPARATUS 1 k nd one American La France j K tractor and two American La France motor chemical com- J K bin iratus will be recommended it is understood by 1 K an ordin: be pres in City Council to-morrow. J K The entire outfit can be purchased for SIB,OOO. Other than j %to adn e will put i an ordinance felative'to purch J I iratua Mr. Taylor this afternoon refused to dis- J C cuss the subject. C Harrisburg—John L. Good, New Cumberland; Walter | I George G nan, of 1 own; John O. Crist, Pine . Summitt, and Samuel W. English, of Landisburg, were ' I chosen i the Harrisburg Hospital by t | Board o I WILSON TO INSPECT MORENO ■ Annapolis, Md., March 29t—The naval yacht Mayflower | # with President Wilson and party on board arrived off Anna- J M polis harbor this morning and anchored near the new Argen- J § tine battleship Moreno. President Wilson is to be the guest K € of honor at luncheon given by the Argentine ambassador on J C board the battleship this afternoon. I FILE BRIEFS IN RAILROAD CASE | C Chicago, March 29.—Briefs in the Western Railroad ) C wage case were filed with the Board of Arbitration to-day by C James M. Sheehan, attorney for the railroads, and by William i S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- i % men and Enginemen. Oral argument was begun and -was ( % expected to last two, and possibly three days. % Hazleton, Pa., March 29.—Edwin S. Regan, a sixteen- | % year-old Freeland boy, student at the Mining and Mechanical ( % Institute of that town, confessed to-day to County Detective % McKelvey that he tried last week to burn down the building | a and that he a!so attempted to fire the home of Professor § J Dennis, one of the instructors because of a grudge. ■ I MARRIAGE LICENSES J K Karl tlnrkriimin and Charlotte Vila ma, city. 1 * POSTSCRIPT. GERMANS. II NORTH OF POLAND, PUT TO FLIGHT BY RUSSIANS Petrograd Dispatches Say Kaiser'* Troops Abandoned First Line Trenches TURKISH FORTS BOMBARDED Strict Censorship on Military News After March 31 Ordered in Italy German troops in the north of Po land have returned to the attack, cen tering their movement in the region oC 11 lie Skwa river near the Prussian bor [der. An otHcial announcement from Petrograd says that the Germans fail ed in an assault made with a division of Infantry and that the Russians, ad vancing in turn, compelled their op ponents at one point to abandon their first lino of trenches. The claim is made also that further to the south on the Pilica river, German forces were put to (light. The Petrograd version of the fight ing in the Carpathians represents that victories have been won at several points, giving the Russians access to northern Hungary. So far as is known however, no considerable movement in this direction has been Inaugurated and Vienna insists that the Austrian* have gained successes in the mountain fighting. Forts Bombarded Suite of the Turkish forts at tba Dardanelles were bombarded yester day by Indirect fire from the gulf of Saros, but the warships of the allied fleet did not attempt to enter tho straits. Two French battleships dam aged in previous lighting proved to have suffered so severely that accord ing to a Paris dispatch they are to re fturn to France and be put in dry dock. Italy has decreed a strict censor ship on military news, beginning March 31. A Paris newspaper pub lishes an unverified report that Aus tria has agreed to cede part of Trent to Italy at the close of the war, in return j for Italy's neutrality. TEDDY SMXtiSHV AllltlVES By Associated Press New York. March 29.—Four-year old Teddy Slingsby, central figure In a Hr't.Wh •nwstiif involving property val ued at $500,000, reached here to-day, a passenger aboard the steamer New York, from Liverpool, with his mother, Mrs. Charles 11. P. Slingsby.
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