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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 <lown. Many survivors we: u
made prisoners by the Belgians.
Massacre of Christians
in Armenia Renewed;
Labarees 100 Miles Away
Julia, Transcaucasia, April 2l>, vi i
Petrograd and London, April 30, 4.0">
P. SI.—A renewal of the recent maf
sa<T<*» of Christians in \rntenla is now
In progress in the whole district of
I/ake Vnn.
Mr. and Mrs. Itobert Labaree, mlr
-1 slonaries in Persia, and the latter for
! merly of this city, are at least a hujt
' dred miles i'"om the scene of the prer
| ent massacre, which is taking placj
I across the line In Turkey.
CHINA'S RKPIjY READY
Peking. April 3ft. The Chinei"
j statesmen will meet the Japanes
1 plenipotentiaries to-morrow, when the:
j will present China's reply to the las'
[ list of demands submitted by thu
Toklo government.