German Warships Are Reported to B HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH * LXXXIV— No. 100 "MS" WIS - inn Epidemic Expected to Affect Rail ways Company's Dividends; 22 Operating MAY HURT CITY TREASURY Mayor Thinks Special Regulations May Have to Be Passed to Handle Situation "JitneylUs" ha« hit Harrisburg. The new disease Is spreading rap- Idly. Officials of the Harrisburg Rail ways Company fear the epidemic will seriously affect trolley patronage. Mayor John K. Royal Is of the opinion that special rules and regu lations for jitneys may have to be passed to keep them within bounds. President Frank B. Musser, of the Harrisburg Railways Company, says he notices the jitneys are on the in crease and sooner or later there will be a decrease in patronage on the street car lines. President Musser said to day: "There has been a decrease in traffic, due to dull times, but we have not been affected by the jitney business an yet. We will feel it later on. and as to what course the Harrisburg Rail ways Company will take T cannot say. "I can only cite an Instance in an other city where the jitneys caused a decrease in car service, and later when the people became tired of the jitneys it wu rather difficult to get the car service back. The Public Service Com missioners were appealed to and gave notice that the traction company was not required to run cars at a loss. "The city derives a l>ig benefit from the trolley business—at least $2 5,000 each year—and. should patronage fall off, the city loses out. It is a question whether the city would get as much out of the jitneys as they will lose by decreased trolley patronage." Twenty-two Jitneys In Town At present twenty-two jitney cars are operated in Harrisburg. Drivers and owners of these cars claim the new business is strictly an individual enterprise and that no corporation Is back of the Jitnev.service. There are several combinations of oar owners, who hire drivers and pay them a per centage on the amount of cash taken in. Five Jitney drivers stated to-day •s. that the averaee daily earnings of a jitney is $6. Two drivers said on three days they made $lO clear each day. Tn estimating the profits the daily expenses are based on $2 a day for drivers and the cost of gasoline. One man said he had made SSO clear in a week and then paid out for repairs. The drivers say they hire their cars for so much a day. The only city regulations for jitneys are the traffic rules. No car is per mitted to stand any length of time at any one point on a busy thoroughfare. None of the jitney drivers have anv particular route. They go to the Hiil district or any part of the city. If a [Continued on Pago 13.] Ready to Distribute Keys For Reservoir Tennis Clubhouse Keys for the new tennis clubhouse at Reservoir Park have been received and they can be had by the club mem bers upon application at the park de partment offices to-morrow. The en trance fee will have to be paid before the Individual keys are distributed. The house committee met this after noon at the clubhouse and enrolled cdditional members, passed finally on the court and eluhhouse regulations and arranged for throwing open the structure. Because of the recent heavy rains the four lower tennis courts were too soft to permit the workmen to add the finishing touches which would have made them ready for service to-mor row. The chances are the new courts will not be ready before Monday. Buy-and you will become a seller as well as a buyer. This is the time of all time for the F. S. A. to make vast strides.— Let's All Get Busy Buy-It-Now THE WEATHER For Harris burg and vlclalty ■ Fair to-night and *a«urdnyi all R htly pooler to-night. For Kaatern Pennsylvania! l'nrtlr cloudy to-night! Saturday fair; moderate, variable winds. 4 River * The Weat Branch, Upper North Branch and the Juniata will fnll slowly or remala about station ary. The lower North Branch vrlll rise to-night and begin to fall Saturday, The main river will rlae slowly to-night and Sat urday. A ataae of nliout 1.0 feet la Indicated for Harrisburg Sut nrday morning. General TondHlona I'nder the Influence of the dlaturli aaee that waa ventral north of the Great I.akea, Thursday morn lac and which haa developed aoutbeaatnard to the Middle At lantis coast, local thnndershowera have continued In the Middle At lantic and New England States aad over the eaatern part of the Lake Region. Temperaturei 8 a. at.. SO. Sun: Rlaea, Brtff a. m.; seta, 0.57 Moom Rlaea, RiRA p. m. River Stages 4.1 Wet above low water mnrk. Yeaterday'a Weather Highest temperature, 70. Lowest temperature, 4#. Mean temperature, 02. Normal temperature, 30. Mr ▼_* IjBL ; "jfl The etchings show how the boys and girls of the Children's industrial. Home are taught the useful arts that BO to make for stable manhood and worn inliood. . There is probably no. Institution In the city which is doing more for the little folks whom Kate hw treated none'too kindly. POPE IS URGED TO ABANDON NEUTRALITY Belgian and French Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops Unite in Appeal By Asso~'iatrJ Prcrt Home, April 29, 7.25 P. M.—Bel gium and French cardinals, archbish ops and bishops have united in an ap peal to Pope Benedict for the Vatican lo abandon the attitude of neutrality it has maintained since the beginning of the war. They say they cannot un [Contlnued on Page IS.] Revengeful Mink Bites Holes in Auto Tires Benzonla, Mich., April SO. Bert Peters has solved the mystery of his automobile tires. Since last September in spite of the fact that he has had his small car out of the garage only a few times, he has had to buy nine new tires. The first exploded early one morning after he had been driving the car at night. When it happened the seiond time he grew suspicious and when he found the third tire mutilated he came to the conclusion some enemy was chopping his tires with a hatchet. He doubles-padlocked the garage. The other morning he was asleep In his room when a sharp explosion awakened him. Seizing his gun he sprang to the garage Just In time to find a mink crawling dazedly across the fldor. Bert killed It. Now he recalls that Just before the first tire blew out last September he ran over a mink. He thinks that tlte mink's mate has been biting holes in his tires to revenge the killing of its life partner. GERMANS AGAIN RAID BRITISH COAST TOWNS Zeppelin Is Believed to Have i Carried Men Across the Channel By Associated Press London, April 30. Noon.—The oast coast of Knglnnd has been subjected to an aerial attack accompanied by the usual infliction of material dam age, but without casualties of any sort Like former raids this one of last night Is marked by differences of opinion as to the type of air machine used by the Germans, but most people agree that a Zepiielln carried the raiders, who arrived in the small hours of the morning and spent a brief timn over [Coutinued on i'age 13.] CHILDREN'S INDUSTRIAL HOME TOMORROW LAST DAY TO ENTER TELEGRAPH "CITY CONTEST \ i, To MISS M. W. BI7EHT..ER, 232 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa. 5 |i Outdoor Department, Civic Club o£ Harrisburg. S j Please enroll me In the "City Beautiful - ' Garden Prize Contest an- J J nounced by ex-Postmaster E. J. Stackpole on behalf of the Telegraph J ? through the Civic Club of Harrisburg, as a competitor for j[ Porch Front yard Rear yard 1 Window box Building or Office Decoration 5 I[i (Mark "X" for entry desired) i |!; (Signed) S If you haven't enrolled as yet In the Telegraph's "city beautiful" prize gar den contest, only twenty-four hours In which to get busy. The application list will close to-morrow evening. To further assist the prospective gardeners who may not have notified Miss M. W.' Buehler, chairman of the outdoor committee of the Civic Club, of his or her intention to enter the competition, the Telegraph herewith prints a blank application form which can be easily tilled out by merely marking the garden choice with an "X", .signing name and address and mailing it to Miss Buehler. The time for planting the gardens throughout the city Is rapidly ap | proaching and scores of prospective planters are getting ready. fiEW fffSTEM S*VK~ BIMDSJUm "Continuous Slip" Car Tracing Method Goes Into Effect Tomorrow Railroads throughout the United States to-morrow. May 1, will Inaugu rate a new system for the handling and tracing of "foreign" freight cars. It will be known aa the "Continuous Slip" system. Each year thousands of dollars are spent in penalties for not returning "foreign" cars to the railroads to which they belong, and in the salaries of route clerks, ear tracers and agents. The new system, it is said, will do away with this expense. [Continued on Page 0] • N j HARRISBURG. PA., FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1915. While there are the SIOO In cash prize* offered through the Civic Club by ex-Postmaster E. J. Stackpole on behalf of the Telegraph to be dis tributed for best front or rear yard, porch or window box gardens, there Is a very great deal to be gained aside from the material end of the compe tition. Behind the whole movement Is the Telegraph's desire to spread the "city beautiful" Idea in order that be fore the end of the summer Harris burg shall be flowering because of many more home gardens. Now don't forget the time. To-mor row's the final day for notifying Miss Buehler. Clip the blank above from to-night's Telegraph, fill it out and mall It at once. LOBSTER PROVED Tlf BE "JUST LOBSTER" Chef Charged With Cruelty Is Freed After Case Wa« in '♦Court Three Years Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia, April 30.—Legally de fining a lobster as not being a domestic animal. Judge Patterson yesterday re lieved John Handucoltur, chef at a Broad street cafe, of a charge of cruelty in "pegging" lobsters, and In cidentally ended a much-discussed puzzle which has been before the court for three years. Whatever a lobster may or may not be zoologically was not determined, excepting that the law statutes of the State neglect to {Continued pa Tnse 6 J - CHILDREN'S HOME 111 NEED DF FUNDS Want to Wire Building to Do Away With Fire Danger at Institution If you're just a kid and have never visited the Children's Industrial Home at Nineteenth and Swatara streets, Just now is a good time to enlist the es corting services of a mere grown-up and to make tne trip. The Home has figured to some ex tent in the newspapers of late because of the mysterious fires that broke out in different parts of the building and which may have been productive of [Continued on Page t] Confesses Murder 13 Years After Crime By Associated Press Pittsburgh, April 30.—Haunted by the memory of his crime for thirteen yeurs, during which time he wandered over much of the world, Antonio Rizzo approached District Attorney It. H. Jackson in the corridor of the court house here yesterday and confessed that he had killed Mikelango Distano in Sharpshurg, Pa., in 1902. Rizzo said that after the murder he went to Eng land and 1 >ter to South America. He ftyurned to the United States in 1906, locating at New Haven, Conn., where he has been ever since. His conscience troubled him, however, and he decided to come to Pittsburgh and give him self up. Rizzo, whose hfiil was fixed at SIO,OOO, claimed he acted in self defense. MOTORISTS WILL HELP Oil "GOODHUE" OUT Local Organization Intends to Get Out Workers; Will Concentrate on Nearby Stretches Every member of the Motor Club of Harrlsburg will be urged to get into overalls or working clothes on Wednes day, May 26, and lend every effort he can in helping push along the road improvements in this section of the State. May 2f> has been proclaimed a State wide "good rouds" day by Governor Brumbaugh and the Motor Club with its 450 members will do their best to make It a success. Anticipating the move for a good roads day, the board i (Continued uu l'agu 13.} ] 18 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT. GERMAN FLEET APPEARS OFF COAST OF BELGIUM; SHELLS FALL IN DUNKIRK Twenty Persons Reported Killed in Bombardment; Marked Progress Made by Allies in Their Land Efiorts to Gain Dardanelles; 4,000 Germans Almost Annihi lated by Belgian Artillery; Fighting Continues in the Region of Suez Canal An'offlcial statement from Paris says that German warship have appeared off the Belgian coast and have bom barded Dunkirk. Twenty persons were killed. The presence of the German high sea fleet in the Xorth Sea has been re ported several times recently, and an official statement issued in Berlin's few days ago spoke or several expedi tions of this kind, which were made without encountering the British fleet. The captain of a Swedish steamer re ported that on crossing tho North sea a few riays ago he encountered a , large number of German warships. Marked progress apparently has been made by the allies in their efforts to win the Dardanelles by land opera tions. Reports of this fighting are fragmentary and often conflicting, but they Indicate that the British have succeeded in establishing two lines across the Galllpoll peninsula, on the European side of the Dardanelles,; one near the tip, the second at thej other end near the entrance to the Sea of Marmora. Severe Fighting Reported Significant In this connection is an official report from Berlin based on j advices received there from the Dar- j daneiles. In this statement It Is said | severe fighting has occurred at the I town of Galllpoll. This town lies on] the straits at the entrance to the Sea of Marmora. This statement tends to | confirm the report of last night that I the British had pushed their way] | across the peninsula at this point, i j Such a line, if held, would cut off the [Turkish defenders of the peninsula! I from assistance In the way of supplies and reinforcements from Constanti nople. An official statement from the Bel gian government says that a German attack from Steensteraete was re pulsed. This may refer to an engage ment described In unofficial advices as disastrous to the attacking party. It Is said 4,000 Germans were almost anni hilated by the Belgian artillery. A Lond,on dispatch says desultory WOMAN'S BODY HANGS FROM RAFTER Williamspcrt, Pa., April 30. The body of Mrs. Lulu Hopkins, 34, who had been miising since April 21, was found to-day hanging from a rafter on the second story of an outbuilding near her home, near Trout Run. 11l health ! was the cause of her act. KAUFF CANNOT PLAY IN NATIONAL New York, April 30.—President Tener, of the National League to-day notified Robert B. Ward, president of the Brooklyn Federal League Club, that Kauff would not be i permitted to play in the National League at this time. ' ANOTHER TRAWLER SUNK 1 London, April 30, 2.11 P. M.—The Trawler Lily Dale has been sunk by a German submarine in the North Sea, ' seventy-five miles off the mouth of the river Tyne. The crew faas rescued. i Paris, April 30,. 4.20 P. M.—A dispatch from Athens to the Havas Agency says the city of Gallipoli, on the Euro , pean side of the Dardanalls near the entrance to the Sea of Marmora, has been captured by the allies. I f • Amsterdam, April 30, via London, 5.15 P. M. The Tele&raaf published a dispatch saying the town of Zee -1 brugge, on the coast of the North Sea in Belgium has been heavily bombarded. Zetbrugge is a base of the German | submarine, fleet, I London, April 30, 5.10 P. M. The Reuter Telegram Company has received a dispatch from its correspondent at v. - in, saying that the American steamer Cushing, from Philadelphia, arrived at Rotterdam to-day and reports having been attacked by German airmen in the North Sea last Wednesday. Amsterdam, April 30, via London, 4 P. M.—The death 1 at Constantinople of Prince Sabah Eddine is announced in a telegram received here to-day from the Turkish capital, i The prince was a son of the late Sultan Murad V, and was one of the leaders of the Young Turk party. ( San Francisco, April breaking cold weath er and high winds in half a dozen far western states abated somewhat to day after causing widespread damage. This may be increased in fruit districts by frost to-night. MARRIAGE UCENSES John Petrln, lJnffalci, and Katie Sajißger, John J. Cantor and Mary A* Sunrt, wTeoAlaeo. fighting continues in the region of fin Suez Canal. It 1b asserted the Tuv..s [Continued on Page 7.] 4,000 Germans Killed by Field and Heavy Artillery of Belgiar.3 Havre. April SO, 4.30 A, M.—T!"' virtual annihilation of 4,000 Gornio ■! wlw cms'cd the Ypcrloe over a brld , ■ near Steenstrnate is described by tl.-< newspaper Vlngticme Sicele. Beljli 'i heavy artillery destroyed the brld-- while Held artillery showered the i with shrapnel. Many tied handler<- chiefs to their bayonets and rais< I them In sip of surrender but imme diately lliHr own quick tirers. t.l > newspaper says, opened lire and mo v - od tliem , vi i Petrograd and London, April 30, 4.0"> P. SI.—A renewal of the recent maf sa