Fighl Promoters Are Rapidly Completing For Champion HARRISBURG Sfiliifa TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— eon expects BIG DEMONSTRAIION Leaves For Philadelphia, Declar ing He's Satisfied With the Present Situation PROMINENT MEN SPEAKERS 96,000 Methodists and Leading Businessmen Aiding the Fight *o\ ernor Brumbaugh left to-day for Philadelphia declaring that he was en tirely satisfied with the local option situation and pleased with the support that is being given to him from all parts of the State. He expects a great demonstration here Tuesday with many residents of Dauphin. Perry and Cumberland counties taking part. Among the speakers at the monster local option demonstration to be held in Chestnut Street Hall Tuesday will be Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, Alba B. Johnson, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadel phia: Congressman S. H. Miller, of Mercer; Wjlliam McCoach. city treas urer of Philadelphia: W. W. Follans bee. of Pittsburgh: Dr. C. C. Ellis, of Juniata College, Huntingdon: ex-Con grcssman Andrew R. Brodbeck, of Hanover; County Commissioner J. Denny O'Xeil. of Pittsburgh: ex-Con gressman W. D. B. Ainey. of Montrose; E. Z. Wallower. of Harrisburg, and ex-Congressman Charles E. Patton, of t'urwensvllle. This is only a partial list of the speakers. Many mure are expected to respond to the invitations of the com mittee of arrangements. A Jinal meet ing will be held in the Commonwealth Hotel parlors Monday evening. The Philadelphia delegation special train will be met Monday morning at 11.30 o'clock by a band at Union Station. Iliimlrv.ls of Letters Hundreds of encouraging letters are beinK received by the committee and i ards and posters are being distributed iu every county in the state as part of the plan of working up public in terest in the question of local option and she passage of favorable laws. The Governor has been particularly struck by the action of religious bodies and when he received the petition signed by 9t>,000 members of the Cen tral Pennsylvania Methodist Confer ence late yesterday afternoon he ex pressed great pleasure. Every day j .Jfk. churches and religious bodies are pouring in letters and telegrams en dorsing his stand and telling him that he will be remembered in their pray ers. Among the telegrams received by the Governor was this one: Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, Harrisburg. Pa. In behalf of 713 women mem bers of W. C. T. U. of Fayette • ounty. X ask that you consider the oppression of license system as praeticel in the courts of Fay ette county when you make ap pointment of an associate judge for otlice now vacant. (Signed) County President. MRS. KATE RITENOVR. Business Men Avoid Eight One hundred businessmen, includ ing some of the most prominent men in Philadelphia have signed a state ment calling for the passage of the county local option bill, and advocat ing the calling of an extra session of the Legislature if the present session does not pass such a bill. A committee of businessmen has been formed to assist the Governor. At a preliminary meeting a few days ago. the committee drafted a state ment expressing what is believed to be the opinion of businessmen of the com munity. An executive committee con sisting of Alba B. Johnson, Louis J. Kolt>. James Mapes Dodge, Daniel R. Greenwood. Thomas Raeburn White, Samuel S Fels and Albert T. Turner, obtained the signatures .if others who have decided to identify themselves with the movement, and has volunteer ed to assist in bearing the expenses of the State campaign. CLOVER CLUB DANCE VPRIL !» Under the auspices of the Clover Club, a pretty April dance will be held 1 in Benton Hall, North Front street, Friday evening. April 9. Elaborate preparations are being made by the committee in charge. The hull will be decorated ar.d Weiger's orchestra will furnish music for the dances. THE WEATHER FOP llnrrlfttiurc nml viclnltyt l'nir to-night ami Saturday) not nim-li <-tinn»«- In lin|>r rnt lire: Innnrl trmiM-rnlure to-night abnul trrri- Ins. 1 "or Kaatrrn IVnns\ I \ ania : Fair t«>- ll licitt anil Saturitu? : not inui li • hanue in temperature: light to moderate variable n lnd». Klver The «ii«<|iielianna river nnd all It* hrani-he* will continue to fall ■ lowly to-night and Saturday. V Mtage of about I.- feet Ih Indi cated for llnrri»burg Saturday morning. (■eneral Condition* A dinturbanee that hnx appeared over the Florida penlnmiln lia* I-H u»ed rain generally In the t.ulf and South Atlantic Statea. Fair weather baa prevailed over the remainder of the eastern half of the country, eieept in the I l.ake region, when- Know flurries W * have occurred. Prex*ure ho* In ' «-reaaed over the Middle \tlantle and New Kngland State*, anil contlnnea high over the rest of the country ea*t of the Hoeky Mountain*, except the »«uthea»t ern portion. A disturbance off the Northern Vaplllo eoa*t hna canned rain In Wanhlngton, Ore gon and Montana, and light pre cipitation. moMtly unow, ha* oc curred In Colorado. South llakoia and \Ve*tern Mi**oorl Tempera ture change* bate been moatly ■ light, with a general rl*lng ten dency. The moMt decided plua change* note. X to 13 degree*, occurred In Nevada. Idaho, Mon tana. North Dakota and North ern Florida. Temperature: Sa. ni.. 30. Snni Rl*e*. Sl l4 a. in.; aeta, 8:34 p. m. Mooni Ilium, p. m . Klver Stagei 4.4 feet above low water mark. Yeatertlay'* Wentber Hlghe*t temperature, IS, I.oneat temperature, X*. Mean temperature, 4t). Normal tempeintnrr, 't. No. 76 NOTED ARTIST PASSES HIS 84th MI ' H " fiV; ■ = ,/ -..v ;*/ '..'' : '- ; ''■ : - : i; . '\' * *■ ' ■-■ .= - ' x ' * - ■' ■/" \V" ' j '. ■■-'"■■'■■ "■ ' The Froehlich Studio J. AUGUSTUS BECK Noted artist of this city who is to-day celebrating his eighty-fourth birthday anniversary. Hundreds of hla friends honored the aged artist with many a little token of remembrance. J. JUSTUS BECK 84MSOLD TODAY Has Done R!anv Famous Pieces; Remembered by Friends From All Over Country J. Augustus Beck, artist, is celebrat iing his eighty-fourth birthday to-day. . , Mr. Beck is a citizen of whom any city may be proud. Born at Lititz in ? 1831, the son of Professor John Beck, , he was educated at the Lititz Academy {of which his father was principal. He I showed a decided taste for sculpture in carl;, youth and wont to Italy to perfect himself in the art, studving under Crawford. One of his famous piece? is the slab presented to the Washington Monument Association in [Continued on Page 4.] BIS, HE LICSSTER, IS liMEO COLLECTOR President Wilson Makes Another Recess Appointment; Place Wanted For Van Dyke I Washington, April 2.—President jWitoun to-day gave a recess appoint to Benjamin F. Davis as collector of i internal revenue, Ninth district of Pennsylvania. Mr. Davis lives at Lancaster and was chairman or tne Lancaster county Democratic committee and of the com ( mittee which "reorganized" the Dem ocratic party by putting in a new set of bosses in 1911. He is known as the stormy petrel of Lancaster poli ! tics. ! J ust before congress adjourned Mr. Davis was picked by the bosses, al j though many Democrats wanted War , ren VanDyke, now of this city, seere- I tary of the State committee," for the place as a mark of appreciation of his work. Davis was not connrmed and this appointment is a recess selec tion. Davis Is well known in this city where he has figured in Democratic gatherings. HOLI) CHAUFFEUR WHO HIT Miss GAITHER Charged with running down Miss Jessie Oaither with an automobile, and seriously injuring her more than two months ago, Henry Green, a chauf feur. was fined $25 and later held un der SSOO bail for court by Mayor Royal. It was testified that Green, after striking the woman speeded away. SHIP FOOD BY PARCEL POST By Associated Press Chicago. April 2. Shipments to Germany and Austria of parcel post .packages containing food have in creased within the last two we»>ks I from 223 packages-daily to 1,200 post inlXKula auJd tu.dav. I HARRISBURG. PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1915. PURE SPRING WATER AT FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS Digging Artesian Well Right Under Curb in City's Main Thor oughfare For Metropolitan Hotel's Uses An artesian well digger in the busi est part or Market street is such a strange attraction that every passer by stops to look and incidentally to get splashed with muddy water from the engine. For five days a gang of pro fessional well diggers with a steam driven drill belonging to Kohl Broth ers, of 441 Market street, have been at work on the pavement in front of the Metropolitan Hotel sinking an ar tesian well to provide a private water supply for the hotel. The drill has already sunk about 100 feet and a tlow of 20 gallons a minute is running. A depth of 150 feet is expected to provide a suffi cient quantity. The hole is encased with a section of eight-inch pipe about 12 feet down, below which it CHIEF EllEfiir P. Si R. CO. IS BEAD Stroke of Paralysis Sustained Wednesday Night Fatal to William Hunter By Associated Press Philadelphia, April 2. William Hunter, chief engineer of the Phila delphia and Reading Railway Com pany, died in a hospital here to-day from a stroke of paralysis sustained Wednesday night. . r " was 60 years of age and had been in ihe service of the Reading for many years. The Reading's chief engineer was stricken as he was waiting for a train in the terminal here to take him home. Mr. Hunter was born May 25, 1854, at Moselem. Berks county. He was graduated from the Polytechnic Col lege of Pennsylvania in 1872 and en tered the service of the Philadelphia and Reading as rodman, serving until 1876. Then he left the employ of the road and went into business for him self. A year later he re-entered the rail road business, serving from 1877 to IS7B as division ennineer of the Pitts burgh and Lake Erie Railroad. In 1878 he returned to the Philadelphia and Reading Railway. He was first assistant engineer, then assistant road master. and on August 9, 1900, was made chief engineer. He has a wife, two sons. Fletcher and Nicholas, and a daughter. Lillian. COWXTIIIC LOSES PROPELLER By Associated Press New York, April 2.—The steamer Corinthic arrived here to-day from Hull in ballast after a long and stormy passage during which she lost her propeller and drifted helplessly for four days. TIN PLATE MILLS ACTIVE By Associated Press Pittsburgh. April 2.—Business is re viving in the Rheet and tin plate mills throughout the country, according to John Williams, president of the Amal gamated Association of Iron, Steel and 1 Tin Workers. 1 APBILI aie MY 11 an circles Transactions Settled For Cash in Recorder's Office Alone Total Nearly $85,000 88 INSTRUMENTS WERE FILED Record 12 Below Number Entered on Same Day a Year Ago; Most Changes in County While April 1. 1915, was a mighty busy day for the clerical force in the county recorder's office, yesterday just twelve less deeds, mortgages and other Instruments were handled than on the first day of April of 1914. All told, eighty-eight were filed yes terday. as against a round hundred that marked the record for the first of April last year. The property trans fers alone In which the money was paid over yesterday amounted to just J53.764. In addition to these there were many in which "one dollar and other considerations" was the price mentioned. "We were just about twelve behind last year's record so far as we have been able to determine thus far." said Deputy Recorder Nlssle.v Mumma in i speaking of yesterday s business. "On [Continued on Pace 4.] No Incendiary Device Found on La Touraine By Associated Press Hf re, April 2, 5.40 A. M.— Expert J chemists who are investigating the !causes of the fire aboard the steamer I I*a Touraine, now express the belief that it was not the result of an ex plosion but originated in three large cases of textiles which were stored in i the baggage hold. j The investigation has disclosed the experts assert, that the flames could ! not have been caused by spontaneous ;combustion and from this they con clude that the contents of the boxes 'must have been set on fire. They have i found no traces of an incendiary de vice. , $300,000 FIRE OX AI.URICH ESTATE By Associated Press Warwick, R. 1.. April 2.—Fire last night on the Warwick Neck estate of former United States Senator Nelson W. Aldich, burned his stables and gar age. The loss is estimated at $300,000. passes through hard rock which needs no casing. The management of the Metropoli tan Hotel Is having the well drilled to furnish a private supply for general purposes and also for drinking if it stands the test of purity. Many arte sian wells drilled in this neighborhood go 300 or 400 feet deep, but the flow of water at the comparatively small depth of 100 feet leads to the belief that 150 feet at the Metropolitan Hotel will be sufficient. The last artesian well to be drilled in the center of the city- was one In the rear yard of Commonwealth Ho tel about twenty years ago. One was drilled last Spring on North Fourth street at the rear of the Fink Brew ery. . TO MIFM PUM TO CLOSE MP HILL Commissioner Lynch Says Ques tion of Substitute Location For Wharf Will Be Considered Before introducing in Council the legislation necessary to provide for the closing of the gap in the river front wall and the elimination of the coal wharf at Market street City Com missioner W. H. Lynch, superintendent of streets and public improvements, will confer with his fellow-commis sioners on the suitability of substitute landing points. In the meantime no definite action on the plan submitted to the Board ot Public Works last evening will be taken "Ninety-nine per cent, of the people one meets unquestionably favor the. closing of the gap in the wall at Mar ket street and doing away with the coal landing," said Commissioner Lynch this morning. "The Dress of the city seem to be advocating it and [Continued on Page ll.] NEW REPRESENTATIVES GET CHECKS FROM UNCLE SAM By Associated Press Washington, April 2.—More than a quarter million dollars sent out of the capital to-day will not only gladden the hearts of old members of the House but will give a large number of the approximately 140 new representa tives their first experience in receiving salary checks from Uncle Sam. CRUSHED BETWEEN TRUCKS Wesley Diehl, of Paxtang, was caught this morning between two trucks belonging to the Keystone Stone Company, sustaining a com pound fracture of the right ankle. He was admitted to the Harrisburg hos pital. CHARLEY FLECK IS ILIi Charles T. Fleck, desk officer at the police station, is confined at his home. 132 Verbeke street, with an attack of la grippe. Officer Scheihas is taking 'liia place. JOHKSH IS CMIIG HIS BICKERS UEIY He Wants to Fight Sam McVey Saturday Despite Their Opposition DISTRIBUTORS KEPT BUSY Arrangements Are Rapidly Being Completed For Champion ship Battle [ Havana, April 2.—Discussion to-1 l day between the tight promoters re- 1 garding Jack Johnson's proposed ex-1 ! hibition bout with Sam McVey led to | some sharp exchanges. This bout is advertised to take place in the stadium on Saturday. Jack Curlcy, Harry Frazee. and others are I ; urging Johnson to cancel it for fear of injury to himself 48 hours before he is scheduled to go into the ring «nd battle with Jess Willard for the world's heavyweight championship. [Continued on Pago I.] Sunday Campaign Cost Philadelphia $116,000 Special to The Telegraph ' Philadelphia, April 2.—Expenses of 'the "Billy'' Sunday campaign in this ' city are approximately $63,500, and, •'according to Edward H. Bonsall, treas urer of the campaign committee, there ! will be upwards of $2,500 surplus This will constitute a fund to be expended by the committee, co-operating with ■ churches, in the work of revival con l servation. j "Billy" Sunday's personal offering up j to last night .had reached $53,138.50. AI'STRIAN STEAMER DESTROYED By Associated Press Paris. April 2, 12.30.—An Austrian j steamer loaded with arms and ammu j nltion on its way from Semlin to Panc zova. both ports on the Danube, struck | a mine in the river last night, says a 1 Havas dispatch from Nisli. It explod i ed with terrific force. I | SEIZE PARCEL POST PACKAGES By Associated Press j Toulon. April 2. 12.25 A. M.—Allied 'cruisers during the past week seized more than 2,500 parcel post packages sent from Germany aboard various ships. GOVERNOR TO TALK TO TELEPHONE 111 150 Pretty Girls Will Attend "Operators' School" at Y. W. C. A. Building Announcement was made this morn ing that Governor Brumbaugh will address the convention of the Eastern Pennsylvania Telephone Association of Pennsylvania to be held in this citv April 7 and 8. One of the big features of the con vention will be a "School for Opera tors ' to be conducted in the Young Women's Christian Association build ing. Fourth and Walnut streets. About 150 chief operators from the independent exchanges in this district [Continued on Page 4.] ■WORK OH ILL ROMS : WILL SIT Main Governor Brumbaugh Telegrams Deputy Commissioner Hunter to Marshal His Forces Governor Brumbaugh to-day direct ed that work be started on the repair of the State highways on Monday. A telegram was sent to Joseph W. Hunter, First Deputy Highway Com missioner, who is in charge of the de- P pnd ' n S 'he appointment of a Highway Commissioner to succeed E M. Bigelow, directing him to begin work. The telegram is as follows: Joseph W. Hunter, Jenkintown, Pa.: "Want you on Monday to begin work on state highways. The plans being all made, will you quickly get the force on the roads? See me soon. M. G. BRUMBAUGH. The plans for the repair work on the routes of the state have been [Continued on Page ll.] Scarlet Fever Patient Creates Stir in City By Associated Press Philadelphia, April 2. lntent oil | reaching the Philadelphia Municipal! Hospital where they hope to save their i child's life, Brogero Pestomac and his wife brought their scarlet fever affl icted six-month-old son from their home near Easton, Pu., to this city to day. The plight of the family was discovered by a policeman at a rail road station and they were sent to the hospital. The Philadelphia health authorities are incensed because an Easton phy sician is said to have directed the par ents to come to this city for treat ment. The father showed a letter said to have been signed by Dr. L. J. Villo chi, of Easton, advising them to seek treatment at the municipal hospital, i The Pestoniac's live at Martin's Creek, j a small settlement, near Easton. ALLIES' AVIATORS DROP BOMBS ON TWO GERMAN CITIES; SUBMARINES BUSY Turkey Denies She Is Planning to Conclude Peace With Russia; Fighting in Carpathians Is Unusually Bitter; Russ Announce Substantial Gains; Considerable Damage Done in Mullheim by Allies' Armies Raids by two aviators of the allies In the German province of Baden in flicted damage in the cities of Mull heim and Neuenburg. The destruc tion of property in Mullheim is de scribed In a London dispatch as con siderable, although only slight dam ago was done in Neuenburg. A decided extension in the range of operations of German submarines is indicated by a Lisbon dispatch to the effect that the l'-2S has been op erating oft the coast of Spain. The British steamer South Point, which went down off Cape Finisterre, is said in have been torpedoed by the U-28. It is more than 700 miles from Cape Finisterre to the nearest German sub marine base. The cape is about 500 miles north of Gibraltar. The suggestion that Turkey was on the point of suing for a separate peace with Russia is repudiated by both the Turkish and Russian ambassadors at j Rome. The former is quoted by a I Rome newspaper as saying there was no reason why Turkey should seek j peace, in view of what is described as ■the excellent military position of his country. The Russian ambassador Is j said to have declared his government i never would conclude a peace sepa ! rately from Great Britain and France. I The lighting In the Carpathians is described in Berlin dispatches as un | usually bitter. The Russians, push ling their way through deep snow, are | persisting in their efforts to dislodge the Austrians from the passes and heights, but are said to have accom- I plished little in the way of definite I successes. The Russian war office, | however, states that substantial re sults have been achieved. In the campaign in Northern Poland an im portant victory is claimed over the I Germans, who are said to have re- I' treated hastily in one section of the from west of the Xiemen river. Say King's Action Has Solved Liquor Question T.ondon, April 2■ —" The King's action has solved the liquor question as with a stroke of the pen." This striking declaration was made CAPTAIN DELANEY SERIOUSLY ILL Harrisburg lt was reported lata this afternoon that Captain John C. Delaney, form*' Stwte Facto y Inspector, is seriously ill it his home in Chavy Chate, Washington. Herman P. Miller, Senate librarian, a dost iend of Cap tain Delaney, has gone to his bedsida. INCREASE.CAPITAL TO $500,000 Harrisburg—The Capital Ci;y Baking Company, which was chartered a few weeks ago with a capital cf $5,000, to day filed papers at the State Department ir.c easing it to $500,000. Incorporators are: Earnard Schmidt, John E. Fox and A. G. Eden. ORDERS DOCTOR'S PROSECUTION State Commissioner of Health Samuel G. Dixon to day directed the prosecution of Dr. L. V. Villochie, of Easton on the allegation that he had violated the quarantine laws of the State in sending a child named Mary Pistonese, ill with scarlet fever, from Martin's Creek, Northampton county, to Philadelphia, for treatment. Washington, April 2.—Business conditio:, l throughout the country show a steady improvement, according to re ports made by Secretary Redfield at to-day's cabinet meet ing. The secretary presented extracts from various re ports better conditions in many lines. New Castle, Eng., April 2, 2.5S P. M. Three Tyne trawleis, U:e Gloxiana, Jason and Nellie, were sunk by the Geimau submarine U-10 yesterday. After all the members of the ciews wcie safely in small boats the Germans blew up the tiawlera. Lewistown, Pa., April 2. —Frad C. Shauer, of Lewis town, who w.as among those injured in the explosion of the paint tank at the Standard Steel Works, yesterday, died in the Lewistown hospital late last night, making four dead. A. A. Shatzer diad on his way ta the hospital. J. K. Gib boney, another out of the injured, is in a critical condition. Washington, April 2.—"Black" smallpox in Vera Cruz was reported to-day in official dispatches. The State Depart ment's summary said: "The number of cases of smallpox of the black confluent type is on the increase throughout the city., MARRIAGE LICENSES Walter Boyer and Idn PietMchlte, Heading. H^ or y Kupp and Minerva B. McManmny, elty. * POSTSCRIPT. 16 PAGES to-day by temperance reformers in Glasgow. and there is sonio Juatlllca tion for it in the news from that city, which has an unenviable record for drunkenness, that shipyard workers are refusing to enter public houses, that littio or no liquor was called for to day in restaurants and clubs, and that tearooms were crowded to capacity. Profusion of Bright Flowers Lends Festive Easter Air to Streets Easter flowers are more plentiful than ever on account of MI excellent early season Hundreds of thousands of bulbs of tulips, hyacinths and other bulb plants that are grown in Hol land were sent to this country Instead of to England, because of the war. Local llorists report their wares in better shape than most years. The calls for all kinds of Easter blooms are heavy and there Is a special demand for the combination baskets of bloom ing and foliage plants, n hich sell all the way from $2 to S2O. Single hyacinth blooms, tulips and daffodils, average 25 cents each, and the potted plants up to $1.25. Easter lilies range from 75c to $5 a plant; lilac bush ■» V 1 to $5; azaleas $1.50 sin gly. anil from sl2 to sls for a full plant. Cut flowers, sweetpeas, violets, roses and other winter hothousa- va rletles aro selling at the averagel prices. Flowers being displayed at the flor- 'Sj, ist stores and at the hothouses are / j beautiful and lavish in variety and T quantity, and Easter Sunday will «' doubtless be one of the mos* showy in ' recent years. Easter coining one week / earlier this year than last, the supply,- of the early flowers Is better, and th( blooms in o more natural state. TO I*I.AN CONCKKTS t M. Harvey Taylor, president of tlia IHarrisburg Hand Concert Association, I lias called a business meeting foe to jnight at police headquarters to con sider plans for raising fundsxfor cou« certs in the parks, this summer."
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