j;"T . -.s W".-- V-jej-.C 5--:.. i '• * . . 1 . ' ' '' ■■ '**" » _ • Thousands Throng Hanisbutg Today For Big Local Option Demonstraiioi HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV — No. 79 LOCAL OPTION HERE BY THOUSANDS CHEERING, S THRONGS ENDORSE GOVERNOR'S BILL J. Denny 0 Neil Presides at Chestnut Street Auditorium, Where Crowd Far Too Large For Hall Adopts Ring ing Resolutions Reported by ex-Speaker Alter; Big Hearing This Afternoon on Hill and Governor Will Speak Tonight at Meeting Over Which Senator Oliver Will Preside; Liquor Men in Woeful Minority Thousands of representative Petin « sylvanians to-day wrote "Tuesday. April 0." In srreat white letters on the pages of the history of the Keystone State as the day upon which the peo ple's voice declared In speech and song for the right to «ay whether or not It shall harbor the liquor traffic at its doors. \nd behind the thunder of the voices was the ominous mutterings of No vember elections and the threat of Ihe polls. All day was the time, and Harris burg's greatest auditorium, several of Its biggest churches, the courthouse steps and the rotunda of the Cupitol Itself were the places. I'or, this was "l.ocal Option Day" in Pennsylvania history and men and women from all over the State, In rc s|>onsc to Governor Brumbaugh's ap peal for an expression of sentiment on the Williams lrill before the I.cgi«la- Itnrc, gathered to the liumlicr of close to 10.000 to voice tlieir approval of the measure. Great Sleeting For many and many a day Harris luirg will remember that great meet ing at Chestnut street auditorium this morning. And this afternoon there was an other scries of demonstrations when thousands marched to the Capitol for the meetings oil the llill and to-night there will Ik* still further demonstra tions when great gatherings are to be held at 8 o'clock in Chestnut street hall and at least two of llarrlshurg's largest churches. Pine Street Presby terian and (irace Methodist. Senator Oliver will preside at Chestnut street and Governor Brumbaugh Mill speak. From Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, from faraway Greene county to the shores of l'.rie's lake the crowds poured Into the city during the late hours of last niglit and the early hours of to day. Three S|)ecial Trains Philadelphia alone sent three spe cial trains bearing 5,000 voeiferouslv singing enthusiasts; Pittsburgh sent along close to 300. And the. big body did more than lift its voice in song and speech for local option. It adopted resolutions that ought to have much the same effect on Capitol Hill as the distant thunder of a 4 2-centimeter battery on the watchful sentries of Paris. Some of Pennsylvania's leaders in the fight for local option Regardless of polities wore the white ribbon flags to-day and they hurled an expression of opinion of Pennsylvania's greatest problem in voices that were more than insistent. And the answering roar of the great audience when some par ticular point was .driven home readily testified as to where the expression was mutually agreeable. A few of the Speakers Such speakers as J. Denny O'N'elll, •who was temporary chairman of this THE WEATHER For II arrlahurg and vlclnitrt Fair to-night an.%. I.owest temperature, M. Mean temperature, 40. normal temperature, 4U, hl-Rin!" n® . 8 . eßS '° n * rx - Jud « f ' J- M. Gal \V ,p ' Butler: ex_t *onsressnian Henry i , ashington: the Rrv. Dr. „ arp,ess ' President of Haver- Vns,. 2 e: 1 John K. Fair. Scranton: K. H. Rockwell, for mer member of the House. Wellsboro: < onßresman s. H. Alillor. Mercer, ami a „ George, president of the r «if r - '*•—these were n few °i morning speakers. ' ip f" re t,l<> meeting really got under a 5 the great mass meeting expressed Its opinion by resolution. Ex-Speaker •eorge K. Alter, of the House, offered a resolution providing for the appoint ment of the committee on resolutions and pr Sharpless, the chairman, named Mr. Alter, the Rev. Dr. George /m* Second Presbyterian ' !"! ro , h ' Pittsburgh, and I.ouis .1. Kolb, Philadelphia, as the committee. *' ,r " " "I-ocal Option Sunday'' A,v ' u ' n ex-Speaker Alter offered his resolution declaring emphatically for local option, the people rose in their seats and cheered. But that wasn't all: X ® xt Sunday— April 1 I—was fixed by resolution as Pennsylvania's "Lo cal option Sunday when everv church and Sundaj School and Bible class will go on reclrd by resolution or petition to the legislature as to its stand on the question. Furthermbre the question will be 10 t neme of many a .sermon. The text was suggested by the Rev. Dr. Shelton and greeted with cheers just before meeting adjourned for the noon recess: The saloon would destroy the church if it could; the church could destroy the saloon if it would!' How's that for a theme?" shouted Dr. Shel ton. F-l-nnne! screamed the crowd. Throughout the morning the big room was not without its war-like sug gestion in more ways than one. Sinir Looal Option Song An informal choir cT more than a hundred men organized and trained for but a few minutes early this morn ing: in the parlors of the Common wealth presented "Pennsylvania's Lo !'?' °? t, ° n s«n ß —set to the marching , the tro °l ) B of Old England— rriL a J " onK - Way to Tipperary." hat song of the fighters in the trenches of Europe seemed to set the pace for the spirit of the day The great crowd whooped the chorus re gardless of tenor or I,ass or soprano requirements whenever the band got the foot-moving air a-going While Pennsylvania's problem in sofar as its economical and public pol icy phases are concerned were pre sented by the masculine speakers the tender appeal of the women and chil dren of Pennsylvania was dramatically voiced by Mrs. Ella M. George. S|)caks For 37.000 Women She represented 37,000 women she declared, "the cream of the Keystone State." 'Tis said the folks on Capitol Hill heard the shout that greeted that statement. Once more during the morning did the voice of the people express itself more impressively. That was at the opening of the session when the great audience rose and sang "America " With the arrival of the Philadelphia delegation the audience let loose what remained of its enthusiasm and cheered like mad as the 5,000 flag bearing visitors from the Quaker City trooped into and around the hall. When gallery railing and steam-heat radiator —dull of steam at that, too window sills and the border of the stage had been filled up with any visi tor who got a toehold, then the crowd good naturedly oyerflovved upon the press tables. Patriotism the Keynote Something should be said about the appearance of the hall and the excel lent arrangement* that had been made to accommodate the crowd. The drap ings of tlass and bunting added a touch of patriotic gaiety to the occasion. In the streets for hours before the morning meeting began the white-rib boned delegates were moving toward the auditorium. Some fifty odd Boy Scouts of Troops 4 and 18 under the guidance of Scoutmaster J. J. Schriver stood about the corners ready and will ing to assist the incoming visitors to (Ind their way to the hall. Their serv ices had been tendered to Governor Brumbaugh and Scoutmaster Schriver showed the Governor's kindly letter of acceptance with more than ordinary pride. The organization at Chestnut Street Auditorium was perfected soon after 10 o'clock when J. Denny O'Nell, Alle gheny, as temporary chairman, called the body to order and introduced Dr. Sharplesa as the permanent presiding officer. The invocation was offered b'v the Rev. Dr. Floyd W. Tomkin, of Philadelphia. Just before the session adjourned for lunch announcement was made of the parade to be held this afternoon. That procession formed In Market Square and marched to the Capitol. Another gigantic mass meeting is scheduled for the Chestnut Street Auditorium this evening, when Gov ernor Brumbaugh himself will talk. United States Senator Georsre T. Oliver will be chairman. The overflow meet ings have been arranged for at Grace and Pine Street Churches. (4 JUDGE JL. C. WOX Marysville, April Eucius C. Wox. an active and w*ell-known resident of Marysville, and associate judge of Perry county, died at his home hero yesterday, after being In ill health for the past four years. Mr. Wox was born at Fort Defiance, Ohio, seventy-four years ago, coming to Perry county when he was but two years old, making this county his home until his death. "When he was 16 years old he taught school In this section, and after four years of suc cessful teaching he entered State Col lege and was a senior when his class disbanded to allow the student* to join the Union army for service In tho Civil war. Mr. Wox served three years In the cavalry and when his term ex f Continued on Page 9] TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1915. KILLIEIIIIIITS TO CHILD ÜBOR Governor's Bill Passed by House on Second Reading Practically Without Change The House of Representatives to day voted down by 102 noes to 92 ayes an amendment proposed to the ad ministration child labor bill which would have made the limit of hours ten hours a day, and 5 4 per week in stead of nine per day and 51 per week. The bill was amended In a number of minor details and passed second reading:. Soon after the reading of the bill Mr. Baldwin, Delaware, offered an amendment changing the hours for minors between 14 and 16 from 9 a day to 51 a week to 10 hours-a day and 54 per week. Mr. Cox, sponsor for the bill, promptly opposed the amendment, saying the Governor with his knowledge of children had met the people advocating different scales of hours, half way, and that the bill was a step in advance. Mr. Cox asked the members of the House if they would vote to commercialize child labor and declared that it was a poor argument to put dollars and cents above children's future welfare. Mr. Cox was supported by Mr. Llp schutz, Philadelphia, who declared an effort was being made to grind the labor of children Into "dollars and diines." in reply to Mr. Baldwin declared that neither State nor national sta- [Continued on Page 9.] Full Crew Repealer Out With Favorable Recommendation The bill to repeal the full crew law was reported out to-day by the rail road committee of the House with a favorable recommendation. Repre sentative Sinclair made the report. The bill will be placedon the calend&r Immediately and a hot fight over it is pending. The measure was the subject of two big hearings during the past two weeks. WIT CROWD IT OPTION HING | Temperance Forces Throng Capi tol and Overflow Into Capitol Park HOLD BIG MEETING THERE Their Songs and Cheers Resound Through Statehouse as Argu ment Proceeds Tile greatest crowd ever gathered for ii legislative hearing packed the I ! hull of the House of Representatives, [ I crowded the corridors leading to tlie j i legislative chambers and overflowed j l into tlie park surrounding the State i Capitol for the hearing accorded by | j t'"' House law and order committee j 'on the Williams hill this afternoon. I ! While the hearing was in progress an I overflow meeting was held outside and . the songs of the crowd wen- liorne I through tlie open windows of the State House. i Hours liefore the hearing began all | the room was taken up and the ser gennt-at-ai'ms was compelled to take | the oflicial mace to o|Wn a way through | the crowd for committeemen. Chairman George W. Williams, of j tlie law and order committee, prc ; sided and the memlters of the com- ! j niittfe sat 011 the rostrum. The speakers aiinounvcd were: For the Hill—The Rev. .?. .1. Curran. | W ilkes-llarre: John A. McSparran, i i master of the state Grange: City i ■ Treasurer William M< Coacli. Pliiladel phia. and ex-Representative C. K I Swift, Heaver. I Against the Hill—Congressman A. J. ! Rarchfeld, Pittsburgh: Dr. S. G. von j Hosse, Philadelphia: R. ,1. McGrath, Pittsburgh, and John O'Brien. Scran | ton. ; " Crowd Sings America The hearing began with singing of | "America, '- which started in the rear j of tlie chamber and was quickly taken tip by the big crowd and sung to the waving of hundred of small American j flags. Many women were present, isome tsamljng on chairs, and they | joined in the singing. Every member of the committee an jswered to his name when the clerk ;called t'ne roll. One hour was al lotted to each side. | Congressman Bcrchbeld was given a |n Isy greeting when he was intro du ed as the first speaker. He said tha he spoke for the German-Amer ican alliance and said his friends were apposed to local option and prohibi tion. saying lows which could not be enforced should not be enacted. The congressman said that people in the liquor business should conduct their business so »s not to arouse just criticism and declared prohibition led to • the very things it sought to pre- I vent. He said there should be coin ■ pensation for losses through law and denounced treating. The Brooks high [license law was praised and declared jto have brought about the "orderly | saloon" and that if any undesirable | saloons are to be found they are the ! fault of the neighborhood which did | not protest tothe courts. Barchlleld In a Rage I Tlie statements of the congressman j caused some outbursts by his friends i and the local element lauhed at others j until Dr. Barchfield said with consid erable feeling: "This is the same kind ! |of a gathering that sent old sore-eyed I | women to be burned at the stake 200 j years ago. I am an American, a son! of Pennsylvania, proud of by birth | right and I demand free speech." I I "Every demonstration takes fromi the time of speakers." interjected! I Chairman Williams and the audience j subsided. Just as Father Curran was intro i duced the audience cheered and waved flags and handkerchiefs. A moment later Governor Brumbaugh came in and took a seat in the speak ers' platform, receiving a greeting like that given to the clergyman. Father Curran said local option was agitating the whole State and that if local option came, work for those [Continued on Page 13.] Liquor Delegates Bring Long Petition to City The liquor people of the State sent large delegations here to-day. Bach liquor delegate wore a small Ameri can flag on his coat lapel. They brought with them a largely signed petition, wound on a reel and this they placed on view, with an appropriate banner, as the local option hosts pass ed by. This petition will be taken to the capitol as an exhibit for the com mittee this afternoon. The number of liquor men In town was variously estimated from 2,000 by the local option leaders to 11,000 by the press agents of the liquor crowd. But it is fairly certain tha't they failed woefully fh meet their threat to con front the Governor with 6,000 petition ers for the defeat of the local option j law. • j Italian Steamer Sunk Off Coast of Spain I Genoa, April 5, 9.35 P. M., via Paris, | April 6, 1.30 P. M.—Additional reports received here regarding the sinking by | a German submarine of the Italian steamer Luigi Parodi indicate that she was torpedoed near the Spanish coast. Another British Steamer Is Sunk by Submarine By Associated Press London. April 6, 11.21 A. M.—The British steamer Northland, of 2,000 tons, with a cargo of iron ore, was sent to the bottom by a German sub marine in the English Channel oft Beachy Head on Monday morning. The Northland sank in ten minutes Her crew of 24 men was picked up later by the Belgian steamer Topato. KING'S SON UN ARMY By Associated Press Dunkirk, April 6—The Duke of Br a - ! i bant, eldest son of King Albert ot' Bel gium, although only 14 years old, has* i enlisted in the Twelfth Infantry. He was marching in the ranks with a rifle on his shoulder when the regiment was reviewed by his father and the queen at Broquevllie. 14 PAGES GERMAN SUBMARINES ARE STRIKING EFFECTIVELY AT BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS Italian Steamer Sent to Bottom Last Night and Another Is Believed to Have Met Similar Fate; One Under sea Vessel Caught in Net Near Dover, According to Dunkirk Dispatch; Fur fcher Fighting in Africa Germany's new and powerful sub marines are striking effectively at Brit ish shipping and to-day's dispatches report the sinking of two more vessels. The British steamer Northlands and the trawler Agatha were torpedoed near the Knglish coast. The crews were rescued. The torpedoing of the Italian steamer Luigi Parodi, reported last night, is believed in Genoa to have occurred oft the coast of Spain, in dicating a considerably increased range of operations for the large sub marines such as Germany is now using. Another Italian steamer, the Pina,- is overdue at Cardiff by about a month and it is feared she has been torpedoed. It is reported unofficially from Dun kirk that a Gorman submarine has been caught near Dover in nets such as have been placed at various points along the Knglish coast to trap these boats. Military preparations are being pushed in Italy with increasing vigor. A Rome dispatch says negotiations are being continued with Austria and there is still hope of a settlement by diplomatic means. Fighting In Africa Reports of a decisive Russian vic tory in the Carpathians are doubted in Rerlin, where it is said the result of the great mountain battle is still in doubt. A German correspondent at the front points out that Russian ad vices in consequence of local victories will make their offensive movements more difficult. Further lighting has occurred be tween Belgian and German forces in Africa. An official report from the Belgian Congo says that an invading German force was defeated and pur sued into German tcrritorv. An attack which the German mili tary chiefs regard as the opening of a new phase of the western campaign has been initiated by the French in the section of the front between the Meuse and the Moselle. The official statement from Berlin to-day say* that the French employed strong forces with a large amount of artillery in making assaults at several points yesterday. The fighting was particu larly spirited in the neighborhood of I INDIANAPOLIS POLITICIAN? GUILTY Indianapolis, April 6.—A1l of the twenty-seven defeftd % [ ants, including .Mayer Dor.n M. Robert , > the I Haute election fraud case, were found guil i I day. The case has been on trial in the F F Since March 8. Judge Anderson announced that sent r would be passed on the twenty-seven I guilty and the eighty-nine who have pleaded* guilty . F Monday. | NUNS DRIVEN FROM MEXICO f New York, April 6.—Six Spanish nuns, who said J:cj 1 were driven from a convent near Vera Cruz by Cu-v | trcops who besieged the convent six days and threa^ K their lives, reached New York to-day aboard a Spa u K steamer. a ft GERMANY PROTESTS TO UNITED STATES L Washington, April 6.—Germany has protested to K United States against the detention of the Hamburg Amer / | can liner Odenwald at San Juan, Porto Rico, under the i # I trality regulations. k V TROOPS OCCUPY WARMBAD # I Capetown,- Union of South Africa, April 6, via n # I 5.25 P. M.—Troops of the Union of South Africa have oc * i pied Warmbad, a town in German South West Africa, 20 W ■ miles north of the Orange river, without opposition. ■ | nouncement to this effect was made officially here to 3 f TREASURY BILLS OVERSUBSCRIBED J London, April 6.—Six months treasury bills to } amount of £15,000,000 wre offered to-day and were ovt. i- f i scribed. The bills were issued to replace a similar am M . due soon. WARSHIPS BOMBARD FORTS J I London, April 6, 5.42 P. M.—The Reuter Tele M I Company has received a dispatch from its corresponded -M Athens saying that British warships again bombarded th C i. forts at the entrance to the guilf of Smyrna, Monday, accon 1 - M ! ing to the report of the captain of the Greek steamer A read-.a. I ! MARRIAGE LICENSES 1 f ®' ew l* Donlcnmck, Wlconlnco, and Anna Gtrbagf, Newark, If. J. ■ * POSTSCRIPT. Verdun and Pont a Mousson. Berlin expects a continuation of these attacks. So far as is shown by the German statement, little was accomplished by these assaults, although it is admitted that in one section the French sained a temporary footholil. The official statement from Paris gives few details of the fighting beyond the claim that in two places advances were made. On the eastern front there has been further fighting near the Russian bor der. The German war office says that Russian attacks were repulsed. New French Gunpowder Doubles Explosive Force Paris, April 6.—The Army Bulletin to-day makes the first official refer ence to the new powder which has been talked about mysteriously for months. The bulletin says that, without en tering into secret details, the new ex plosive recently put into use doubles the explosive effect of the shells of three-inch guns, the famous French "755". Alcohol Barred in King's Households After Today T-ondon, April 6.—Teetotallsm will be enforced in nil the king's house holds beginning Wednesday. An offi cial announcement just issued, dated April 6, says: "By the king's command no wines or spirits will be consumed in any of his Majesty's houses after to-day." XO CHANGE IX ITALY Rome, April 5, 9.20 P. 81., via Paris, April 6. 1.30 A. 81.—There has been outward change in the situation re garding the maintenance of Italian neutrality but military preparations are Jieing pushed with ever increas ing vigor. Information obtained froui reliable sources, however. Is to the ef fect that negotiations are being contin iued and there yet Is hope of reaching la satisfactory understanding so that war may be averted.