In Will, Mrs . John D. Rockefeller Bequeaths Bulk of Her Estate to Charity HARRISBURG Siiiifis. TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 89 PEI® II MURE FOB NEWEQUIPIMENT Will Spend $2,000,000 on Rolling; Stock; Local Shops Will 1 Be Benefited FREIGHT CARS TO BE OF STEEL Juniata and Altoona Will Build Engines; Taken as Token of Return of Prosperity — Where Money Will Go For New Equipment All of the $20,000,000 -will be ! expended by the Pennsylvania Rail- j road on new equipment and for ; material for locomotives and cars, ; which will be built in its own ; shops. The new equipment will consist of: 76 standard freight locomotives, 88 shifting locomotives, 50 standard coaches, 3 4 combination cars. 4 2 baggage and mall cars, 15 baggage and express cars, 5 horse express cars, 2,000 steel box cars, 2,500 gondola cars, 4,91 & coal and coke cars, 244 refrigerator cars, 102 flat cars. In accordance with an announce ment made late yesterday afternoon at Philadelphia the Pennsylvania Rail road, Company entered the market to day for $20,000,000 worth of new equipment. This is the largest order placed by any railroad in several years. Cars and locomotives will be included in this order. The new equipment, it is said, will be built at the Pennsylvania Railroad shops. This does not Include Har risburg, as the local shops are for re pair work only. However, it is the belief of Superintendent William B. [Continued on Pag© 3] School Board to Buy Uptown Plot For New Building For $8,668.75 j When the question of purchase price I for the Sixth and Mahantongo street j plot for a new school building was | broached at last evening's meeting of the school board, the Rev. Dr. Wil liam N. Yates, thought the board ought to discuss the matter behind closed doors. "Let's go into executive session," suggested Director Yates. "Don't let's!" objected some of the others. However, the suggestion carried. From its original offer of $9,125, the; Harrisburg Realty Company knocked' off 5 per cent, the new offer being $8.6ti8.75. So after they had discus sed the whole thing pro and con, Di rectors Houtz, Warner and Yates de cided that they were against the pur chase. Furthermore, they wanted to 1 explain. "Let's adjourn now and open the j doors," suggested Mr. Houtz. "Don't let's chorused the others. So the plot was bought at the price offered by a vote of 6 to 3, Directors ] Yates, Werner and Houtz voting to gether against the proposition. Edward Moeslein, a former Demo cratic member of the board, and a realty expert said the plot was only worth $7,000. Letters from J. L. L. Kuhn, George W. McWilliams, Robert A. Enders and others well acquainted with realty values in the West End thought the site worth at least $9,- 000. Queen Will Leave King If Greece Joins War Special to The Telegraph Paris, April 17.—1f Greece joins the Triple Entente Powers, the Greek Queen declares she will leave King Constantine and return to Germany, according to a telegram from Athens, received to-day by George D» Maisiere, a French writer. JOHN BOXY MUCH IIHTTER New York, April 17. Mrs. John Bunny, wife of the noted "movie" com edian, said to-day that her husband's condition had shown such improvement during the night that she expected him to be out of danger soon. THE WEATHER For Harrlsbur e and vicinity: Fair tn-nlichti lowest temperature about 40 degrees; Sunday fair, with riding temperature. For Kastern Pennsylvania: Fair to-nicht and Sunday) front to— night;, rising temperature Sun day. River The Susquehanna river and all Its trliiui iries >vlll continue to fall slowly. A stage of aliou-t 4.7 feet is Indicated for Harrisburg Sun day morning. Oeneral Condition* Loral shower* fell in the Atlantic State* from \orth Carolina north ward and In the ('pper Ohio Val ley aud over the eastern portion of the Lake Region In the last •twenty-four hours. Showers con tinued In Colorado and \cw Mexico, being again heavy In New Mexico, the total rainfall for the last forty-eight houra at Itos well amounting to 4.2: Inches. Klsew here throughout the -terri tory represented on the map the weather has been fair. It la 4 to HI degrees warmer In the Northwestern States and the Western Canadian provinces and aomewha-t cooler over the l.ake Region and In the Ohio and Up per Mississippi valle>s: clxcwhcre the temperature change?) huve been •omcwhat Irregular, but not very decided. Temperature: S a. in., 48. Sims Rises, 5:21 a. m.j seta, fli3» p. m. Moon I New moon, first quarter, April 22. River Stage! 5.1 f«t above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest 'temperature, 1)4. I.owest temperature. 111, Mean temperature, 52. Normal temperature, 31. ( SOME OF THE DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS FOUND BY HOUSING INVESTIGATORS V u ATHLETES POUR INTO CITY FOR BIG MEET 185 Members of P.R.R.Y.M.C.A.'s Compete For Honors in Many Events Athletes from many eities are in j Harrisburg to-day. They come lor \ the big "System Meet'' at Chestnut i street auditorium, which started this ! afternoon at 2 o'clock. On the entry I list were 185 athletes representing ! twenty-four Pennsylvania Railroad | Young Men's Christian Associations, east of Pittsburgh and Erie. Preceding a program of thirty events. General Secretary Frank H. Gregory, of the local P. R. ft. Y. M. A. welcomed the athletes and ex l pressed a hope that this meet would tie the most successful ever held un der the Big System sanction. Chairman J. M. Itice, of the athletic committee, responded. He gave an interesting report on the success of athletics along the Pennsylvania rail road system and announced the fol lowing associations aa being repre [ Continued on Page B.] Paymaster Held Up and Robbed of Factory Pay Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia, April 17. A satchel containing $3,600, the pay for 4">o em ployes at the Tutelman Brothers & Alexander shirt factory, JefTerson ami American streets, was stolen by two bandits in an automobile, aided by an employe of the Arm, shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The hold up took place in Jefferson street. Just east of Germantown avenue. William Tutelman, head of the firm, was sbot at three times by one of the men in the car. Then he was black jacked and lay on the sidewalk while the machine sped eastward, dodged around a freight train and disappeared with the two bandits and Nathan Schmidt, who has been a shipping clerk for the firm for nearly three years. HUERTA SAYS HE NEVER HELPED FOREIGN POWERS By Associated Press New York, April 17. Victorlano Huerta, former president of Mexico, 'declares in a statement published by the Hi-rald to-day that he had never given Japan or any other foreign gov ernment right or concessions on the coast of Xx>wer California. "I never gave any rights or privi leges to any foreign nation that would affect the autonomy or integrity of I Mexico." he said. HARRISBURG. PA., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1915. IS. ROCKEFELLER'S WILL IS PROBATED Bulk of Her Estate Valued at $2,000,000 Is Bequeathed to Charity By Associated Press New York, April 17.—The will of the late Mr. John D. Rockefeller was filed in the surrogate's court to-day. She leaves bequests in the neighbor hood of $500,000 and valuable articles of Jewelry to friends and relatives, the rest of her estate which is esti mated in all at about $2,000,000 is be queathed to charitable Institutions. [Continued on Page 9.] Would City a Yellow Flower Garden If plans of the suffragists material ize, the entire city will be a complete background of yellow, the official suf frage color. At a meeting late yesterday after noon the flower committee, an auxili ary of the Committee of Fifty, took preliminary steps to place the seeds in every home. The Pennsylvania Wo man Suffrage Association has prepar ed packets of seeds, containing enough for 500 yellow plants, which it is sell ing. In the future, at all suffrage social functions, a color scheme of yellow will be carried out. Efforts will be made to place yellow flowers In res taurants and hotel dining rooms. Mrs. Frank A. Smith is chairman of the flower committee. Other mem bers are: Mrs. Walter F. Maguire, Mrs. Paul Gendell, Mrs. C. M. Cole, Miss Sarah McConkey, Mrs. J. G. Ingram, Mrs. C. J. Freund, Miss Maude Kennedy, Mrs. George A. Gorgas, Mrs. H. Bindley Hosford, Mrs. W. W. Galbraith, Miss Eleanor Walter, Mrs. David Kaufman, Mrs. George Kunkel. Mrs. Horace Por ter, Mrs. Horace Whitman. Mrs. W. C. Baldwin and Mrs. C. H. Kaltwasser. To Baptize Five in Susquehanna River Five new members of the Third Zion Baptist Church, will be received into full membership of the church to-mor- I row morning, when they will be bap- ! tised in the Susquehanna river. The Rev. Walker Carter, of Winches- 1 ter, Va.. assisted by the Rev. Milford 1 Ball, pastor of the church, and the i Rev. Walker Tolliver, of Second Zion Church, will conduct the service, which < will besjin at 10 o'clock. I The Telegraph's camera yesterday pictured some of the housing condi tions as found by John Ihldor, Held secretary of the National Housing Com mission. The upper picture to the left shows an up-town section. In the foreground there is a lot made vacant by order of the Board of Health, as the house was foun4 to be so unsanitary that its removal was necessary. The arrow points to tWo rooms in a tenement whtrh are occupied by a man, his wife and four children. The rooms rent for $6 per month. To the right is shown a section near the Peon>tyiw««aft'railroud,#ltMte. to Herr street, and it tells graphically the story of close unsanitary housing. To the left In the mid dle row is pictured' a condition cxistin'g within the shadow of the Capitol. In one of the yards in the foreground is a pile of ashes and rubbish which al most fills the small "'breathing space." On the right is a stable, the second floor of which is occupied by four families. There are four rooms there and with one family to a room. Entrance to the rooms is gained by the exterior staircase. The rooms runt for $1 per month each. Below on the left is Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, of the Board'of Health; John Thlder, of the National Housing Commission, of New York, ahd John T. Molitor, chief of the State Bureau of Housing. • PLUG TO BETTER fflsiconiTHS Chamber of Commerce and City Officials Will Take Steps to Improve Situation Planning to deprive immediate bene fit from the two-day housing investi gation, the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce und city officials, will hold a joint meeting soon to discuss reports made at the open meeting in the Pub lic Library last night. Inquiries will be made in other cities where ordinances governing housing conditions are in force. Copies of. these ordinances will be secured by Health Oflieer J. M. J. Raunick and President Henderson Gilbert, of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce. It is understood that John Molitor, chief of the State Bureau of Housing, will co-operate with the city authorities in bringing the desired relief. John Ihlder, the New York hous ing expert, who with Health Officer J. M. J. ltaunick and others made a two .day survey of housing conditions in Harrisburg, gave some startling tacts in his talk to the public last night. He gave the city credit for taking ad vantage of its natural surroundings and doing good work, but he also told of many localities where housing con ditions needed immediate attention, particularly the Seventh ward, which in the opinion of Mr. Ihlder, is worse than the Sibletown district. Ho said: "Your parks and streets give the same impression aB a person well dressed. But when you look over the fence into the back yards, Harrisburg does not appear in a favorable light. Many of your people want to get too much money out of the land they own. They build houses in which peo ple cannot breathe, or even have day light. There should bo city and State laws governing housing, and you can not get them too soon." Ready to Distribute Garden Plots Among Needy Poor of City Thirty-seven garden lots, each 25 by 100 feet, will be parceled among the heads of as many families by the Har risburg Benevolent Association, Moil day as a part of their general propa ganda to enable needy residents to whack a substantial slice from the high cost of living during the sum mer. Workers garden No. 1, Thirteenth street near Sycamore, was made ready for planting, lato yesterday afternoon. The ground was ploughed and harrow ed for the greater part by volunteer labor and afterward surveyed by Tech students. The tract near the Schimmell school building will be placed in shape for planting next. It is expected that it will be ready about Wednesday. The Copelin garden in Sibletown will be the ! third placed in condition. GOVERNOR VETOES II MORE BILLS Doubts Fairness and Constitution ality of Bridge Purchase and Intestate Decedent Measures Governor Brumbaugh to-day vetoed two more bills, making the total of measures failing to receive approval rise to eighteen. Both of the bills ve toed to-day were House bills. In vetoing the bill to permit munici palities to purchase the capital stock of bridge companies owning bridges wholly or partly within their limits and exempting the capital stock and bonds of such companies from State taxation the Governor says: "This bill contemplates the exemption of the capital stock and bonds of certain bridges from State taxation. The con stitution, article IX, section 1, requires all taxes to be uniform upon the same classes of subjects, within the terri torial limits of the authority levying the tax. This exemption of said Dower is of uncertain propriety within the meaning of the constitution. If there are to be exemptions of securities held by municipalities these exemptions should be general and not special." The Governor vetoed the bill relat ing to administration of the estate of an intestate decedent for these rea sons: "This bill defines a method of procedure in the administration of the estate of an intestate decedent. The oath of office should be administered by the register of wills. The register should see the individual he appoints. See act of March 18, 1832, section 32. Section 3 of this act makes a classifi cation that is of doubtful constitu tionality." $50,000 Contributed to Charity by F. J. Heppe Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia, April 17.—The sum of $50,000 was given to the poor of Phil | adelphia yesterday by Florence J. Heppe, head of the firm of C. J. Heppe !& Sons, piano merchants, 1117 and Ilia I Chestnut street, who gave his check ! for that amount to the Girard Trust Company for the purpose of establish ing a perpetual fund. ANNE MORGAN TO HELP GIHT<S New York, April 17. —Women com posing various relief societies here took steps to-day toward putting into effect a suggestion by Miss Anne Mor gan urging a permanent nation-wide organization of women to aid the un employed of their sex. Miss Morgan sußgested the idea last night to the I emergency relief committee to help unemployed Jewish girls. SAYS WAR MUST SOON END I Tokio, April 17.—Count Okuma, the 1 Japanese premier, speaking to-day to i a number of journalists on the Euro pean war. expressed the opinion that hostilities soon would have to come to on end owing to the exhaustiop of the belligerents. 14 PAGES 3,500,000 MEN TAKING PART IN GREATEST FIGHT OF EUROPEAN STRUGGLE Battle Along 115-Mile Front Being Fiercely Waged in Carpathians; Russian Losses Reported 500,000; Czar's Forces Checked; England Expects Another Airship Raid From such scattering reports as are permitted from the eastern front it is becoming gradually apparent that the greatest battle of the war. at least so far as concerns the number of men engaged, is being fought in the Car pathians along the 115-mile front from Bartfekl, in Northern Hungary, to Stry, in Eastern Gallcia. This line roughly parallels the boundary be-! tween Hungary and Galicia. running through a difficult mountain region, through which the Russians hope to break a way into the heurt of Hun gary. German war correspondents style this battle the greatest in the history of the world and it is estimated that 3,500,000 men are taking part. Ac cording to the German reports, the Russian advance, which a week ago seemed to be threatening the integrity of Hungary, has now been checked definitely. It is said that the Russian losses in killed, wounded, sick and prisoners are 500.000. Russian reports throw little light on the situation. The official statements of late have mentioned detached en gagements. in which some local suc cesses have been claimed. Newspaper dispatches from Petrograd are simi larly restricted. R appears probable, however, that the Russians have sus tained at least a temporary check. This is indicated by the statement in the latest official Petrograd report con cerning the bad condition of the roads, which hinders military operations. A Paris dispatch from Rome says the belief ts general in the Italian capital that Austria will attack Italy | should that country's determination to enter the war become evident. It is added that this possibility is viewed complacently, on account of the strong concentration of Italian troops along the border. England is expecting another raid by German airships following three attacks in rapid succession. The Ger man aerial attack yesterday on Amiens, France, resulted In the kill ing of seven persons and wounding of eight. j Amsterdam. Holland, April 17, via I London. 3.27 P. M. —A hbstile airship j at 1.30 o'clock this morning dropped i fwelve bombs on the city of Strass m m u* ™ mt ui ■ mm - u v w "^Y I GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS SHOT J Berlin, April 17, by wireless to Sayville. The Lokal C Anzeiger of Duisburg, Rhenish Prussia, says it learns "from C an absolutely unimpeachable source,'' that the reported sick- C ness of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholavitch, commander-in- % chief of the Russian forces was due to a shot in the abdomen C fired by the late General Baron Sievers of the defeated Rus- % sian Tenth Army. J York, Pa., Aprl 17.—The planing mill of Jacob Beitzel ■ I & Sons, engaged extensively on government contracts, was » I completely gutted by fire which broke out at 9.30 o'clock W I this morning, entailing a loss of $30,000, covered by insur- ff !ance. A large quantity of finished mill work for federal f buildings was destroyed. f Washington, April 17.—Admiral Howard, commanding # the Pacific fleet off the west coast of Mexico reported to the # Navy Department to-day that he had ordered Commander f Noble E. Irwin, of the cruiser New Orleans, to proceed at g once to Turtle Bay, Lower California, and report on the 9 jf activities of Japanese naval forces there. ■ 1 THREE KILLED IN MINE • Roderfield, W. Va., April 17.—Three men were killed | ain a mine of the Davy Pocahontas Coal Company near here ( J this morning, when a pocket of gas was exploded by a shot. ( ■ Only six of the 200 miners usually employed in the pit had K gone to work to-day. f / BALDWIN GETS $20,000,000 ORDER 1 t New York, April 17.—1t is understood that the Baldwin P C Locomotive Works has received an order for $20,000,000 9 ( for war material. This order is separate from the one sent C from Russia yesterday to the American Locomotive Com | pany. I 11 Pittsburgh, April 17. George W. Guthrie is on his i j way home from Tokio because he has been at his post for J almost two years and in that time has had no vacation. I This statement was made to-day by his brother, R. W. i i Guthrie at Pittsburgh, attorney, who further said that some i important personal matters claimed the ambassador's atten- 1 ' tion and he would likely remain in Pittsburgh a month look- < l ing after them. i MARMaGE LICENSES J Milton J. White, IllKhnplrr, nnil Margaret Kttrle, Mlddletonm. C Imvrcnoe K. t'ulladiue, city, mi.l Klnle May Ileum, Palmyra. § I Stewart J. I.each and Florence Anderson, York. ■ * POSTSCRIPT. burg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine. Searchlights showed It disappearing in a northerly direction under bom bardment of antiaircraft guns. Two persons in Strassburg were slightly wounded; otherwise no dam age was done by the bombs from the airship. A report 1s published bv a Prussian newspaper that Grand Duke Nicholas, Russian commander-in-chief, has been shot in the abdomen by General Baron SI overs, commander of the Russian. Tenth Army which was defeated <and driven from East Prussia last Febru ary. The general is said to have com mitted suicide. There is no confirma tion of this report, official or other wise, from any other source. .May lie Yesterday's Raid The official German statement of to day, evidently referring to yesterday's raid over England by a German aero plane, says shells were dropped on Greenwich, in the metropolitan district of London. Dispatches from London yesterday said the aeroplane ap proached no nearer than thirtv milca from the city. Unofficial advices from Berlin are that considerable damage was done b ythe Zeppelins which raid ed England twice this week and that officers and men on British patrol boats were killed or wounded. The French ministry of marine an nounces further naval operations against the Turkish forces which pro ceeded against Egypt. It is said a French battleship shelled a Turkish position near the Egyptian city of El- Arish, which is close to the border of Palestine. There were no important engage ments in France yesterday and in the east operations are being delaved bv the Spring thaw. The Berlin official announcement says a small position near Arras was lost to the allies, but that other engagements resulted to tho advantage of the Germans. HOWLS pi:rfkot score Tn bowling 300 to-day on the Casino alloys Joe Harnes, a local bowling star, reached the climax in Individual rec ords. It was the first time this score has ever been bowled In competition in Harrlsburg. Once before 300 wai bowled on an open alley.
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