Germans Engage in New Offensive M HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 101 "SPECIAL LICENSE TIG FOB JIMS HEBE AD Driven Must Pay $5 Fee For Hiring Privileges in the City "BUS" GOES TO RUTHERFORD Others Run Between Middletown and Harrisburg, Beginning Today Special license tags for Jitneys and other autos used for hire were re ceived at the office of the City Treas urer to-day. The license fee is J5 and must be paid by owners and drivers who haul passengers or hire autos for ,loy rides and special trips. The new taps are triangular in shape, painted black and have white letters and numbers. The tags read. "For Auto Hire." and grlve the year and number. The police department will assist license inspector William D. Block in enforcing the license laws. Captain Joseph t». Thompson, said to day: "Jitneys are getting too numerous. They are causing congestion on busy thoroughfares and traffic officers are kept on the jump preventing acci dents. Every jitney must have a tag and st!ck close to traffic rules. I have issued orders to arrest any jitney driv er who runs his car into a crowd of people ahead of a trolley car. in or der to get patronage. People who want to ride in jitneys will hunt them up. The jitneys can do business without placing the lives of pedestrians in jeo pardy." Announcement was made to-day I that Inquiries had been made at the} office of the City Treasurer regarding | a license to run jitney cars to and from j Middletown. and Rutherford. Begin ning this afternoon three jitneys will run every hour between Harrisburg' and Rutherford: and every half hour between Middletown and Harrisburg. The latter will run after midnight and It is understood there will be no ex ess in fare over that charged by the Harrisburg .Railways Company. Not Enough Seeds Ready to Supply Children in Civic Club's Contest Showing the wide-spread Interest fXeing taken in making Harrisburg City Beautiful," more than six children applied for enroll ment in the Civic Club garden contest 1 this morning and asked for a package] of seeds. Six hundred packets were dlstrlbut- j ed within the first hour of the opening, of the contest. After that, members of the Civic Club garden committee took the names and addresses of the applicants. Seeds will be mailed to them. \ On the distribution committee are Miss Martha W. Buehler. Mrs Edwin S. Herman. Miss Anne McCormlck. Mrs. C. Lingley Hosford, Mrs. Charles R. Fager. Miss Mary Robinson, and Miss I/etltia Brady. American Steamer Damaged by Bombs From German Aircraft Washington. P. C., May t.—Ameri can Minister Vandyke, at The Hague, reported to the Statp Department to day that the American stranier Crush ing. from Philadelphia for Rotterdam, was damaged by lx>mhs dropped from C.crman aircraft In tlie North Sea. but that no lives were lost. Stough Party in City For Short While To-day Fred W. Cartwright. custodian of the Stough Evangelistic party, was in Harrisburg to-day enroute to Read ing. The Stough revival starts at Reading to-morrow. The Rev. Henry W. Stough and party reached Harrisburg from the West this afternoon and were In Har rlsbur*' for a short period. Don't put it off —the money you can wisely spend today will help others pay others who pay yrm. Buy-It-Now THE WEATHER For Harrlabnrg and Tidal*?! G*»- * rally fair unit Similar; altghtl)' cooler to-night, with lowest temperature about 42 de (reta. For Kaatera Peaaaylranla: Gener ally fair to-alght and Sunday I allghtlT cooler to-night In south portion; gentle to moderate winds, becoming northwest. River The main river will Hae to-night ► and begin to fall Sunday. The North Branch nad lower West Branch will fall slowly to-night and Snnday. The Jnnlata and j upper West Branch will remain nearly stationary. V stage of I about 5.0 feat la ladlcated for Harrisburg Snnday morning. General Conditions K# material changes In -the dis tribution of prraanre over the country hare occurred alnce laat rr pert. Moderately heav> rains have fallea la tew Kagland sad light acattercd ahowera have oc curred In the Middle Atlantic State# and In the region of the Great Lakes. Tempertrturei 8 a. m., 52. Sum Rlaes, siWt a. m i aets, flis# p. m. Mooni Moon rlsea, 10.OT p. m. River Stagei 4.4 feet above low water mart. Yesterday's Weather Hlgfeaat temperature, W, I.nwsst temperature, 57. Mean temperatare. S3. Hernial temperatare, 3d. RIVER FROIR WALK COMPLETE MAY 20 George D. Stacker, Superintend ent, Sayt Only Unfavorable Weather May Prevent CLOSING OF GAP NEXT Construction of Additional Flights of Steps Will Be Taken Up After Granolithic Walk By May 20 the 3-mile stretch of steps and walk along the River Front will be completed with the exception of the gap at Market street, according to George D. Stucker. general super intendent of construction of the Stucker Brothers Construction com pany yesterday, unless the weather or river conditions should seriously inter fere with the present program of the contractors. ednesday the contractors began work on the putting down of the side walk from "Hardscrabble' southward and by noon to-day the half of the sec tion from Herr street to the pumping station had been laid. As soon as the granolithic walk has all been put down the contractors will proceed with the construction of the additional sections of steps that will be required to close up the gap at Market street and so provide an unin terrupted walk along the Susquehanna from Dock street to Herr and from Calder street to Maclay. Complete by May 20 "'We conlidently expect to have the walk completed to Market street by May 18 or 20." declared Mr. Stucker, "unless we should be confronted with difficulties in the way of high water or unfavorable weather. While we [Continued on Page 5.] TULIP TREES ONLY 111 MARKET STREET Forester Mueller Officially Desig nates That Type For Highway From Cameron Eastward Tulip trees have been officially desig nated by City Forester Mueller for planting in Market street from Cam eron street eastward. Twenty-five or thirty years hence the section of Harrisburg's business street will be gorgeous in Spring and summer-time with masses of green and deep yellow flowers of a type simi lar to the magnolia blossoms. In discussing the problem. Forester Mueller said that from now on when ever a tree is planted on the highway the tulip will be selected. The healthy trees that now exist along the street, of course, will not be taken out until they die or are destroyed in some other way. This may mean under these circumstances, he said, that the street may not be lined with tulip trees for a good many years to come. It is not likely that any kind of trees will be planted from Cameron street west ward. While tulip trees will be used for Market street, the red oak will be adopted for Eighteenth street. Emer ald and Second streets. Front time to time sections of streets that have not been planted will be designated for some particular type of tree. WATERHOUSE PLAZA ALONG RIVER WALL Commissioner Bowman Solves the Problem of Protecting Embank ment at Pumping Station City Commissioner Harry F. Bow. 1 man has solved a problem which has . been giving him more or less concern I for some time and in the solution of the problem he has provided an ad mirable plan for treating the river ; embankment at the pumping station. . For several years there has been ! difficulty in protecting the river slope ! immediately west of the city's water i works inasmuch as the river bank pro i jects outward at an angle which makes it a shining mark for the water at 1 every high stage. Commissioner Bow i man has had the matter under con sideration for some time and has final ly determined to protect the embank ment and the water pipes at that point by a concrete wall that will harmon ize with the front steps and walk at that point. This will obviate for all time the ragged embankment which has been washed away with great [Continued on Page 9.] Hazleton Strike Ends; Resume Work Monday By Anociatei Prest Hazleton, Pa., May I.—Through the mediation of James A. Steese. of Har risburg, and John A. Mofflt, of Wash ington, D. C., representing, respect ively, the state and federal labor de partments. the strike of the two hun dred stripping hands at the operations "f J. D. Dugan has been settled and work will be resumed Monday. The! contractor has agreed to reinstate the j firemen charged with having caused ' the strike. The mediators found that the sys tem of paying the employes is the same as has been In effect for years and that there was no wage trouble. Mr. Steese Is chief clerk in the De partment of and Industry. HARRISBURG. PA., SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1915. iMASKED MEN HOLDUP TfIOLLEY: GET B .500 Drive Passengers From Car, Then Speed Down Steep Mountain Grade; Silk Mill Pay "! HIDING IN THE MOUNTAINS i Money Was in Charge of Crew; Posse of Policemen and Volun teers Join in Search By Associated Press Shainokin, Pa.. May I.—Two rob- U'rs, wcariiij; ilispilses, leaped on a trolley car near here to-day and se i i cured a suit case containing SII.MM) I j which llie Sliamokin Silk >llll Com -1 j pnny wa« sending under care of the I I crew to pay employes at Trcverlon. ; | seven miles from here. , j The robbers after chasing the crew | and twelve |>aveneers from the car 1 ran the trolley down a sleep grade to '; within one mile of Trcverton. They i then made tlieir escape into the moun tains of Trish Valley. ■ The car crew. \\ llliam Gable, mo torola n. and Harry Dunkelbcrger. con | ductor, hurried to the office of the silk 1 company and reported the robbery. A I large number of persons. Including a number of policemen, started al once a search of the mountains for the thieves. | GERMANS EORCED OUT BY CANADIAN ADVANCE Shots From Machine Guns Fall on Dominion Troops Like Hail By Associated Press Ottawa. Ont.. May I. —The story of what he describes as "a great and glorious feat of arms," the desperate battle fought by the Canadian division to check the recent German advance near Ypres, was told in a cable com munication from Sir Max Aitken, the Canadian record officer, given out by the militia department here to-day. The account describes how the Cana-1 dians, the majority of them raw re-1 • emits, met the German rush after the latter had released the asphyxiating gases and how. although greatly out numbered. they succeeded with heavy I losses, in recovering four British guns and much ground by a brilliant dash. Four Zeppelins Sighted Off Coast of Norfolk I.ondon. May 1, 4.07 A. M.—A dls i patch to the Mall from Wells on the i coast of Norfolk, says that four Zeppe- I lins were seen at 6.30 o'clock last night | eight miles ofT the coast by the ob server at the life saving station. They } were moving southward. Warnings im mediately were sent to all towns with jln a considerable radius. No airships j have been seen by any of the other [coast stations in this vicinity. ! APPEALS IN COAL TAX j CASES AREUNDER WAY President Judge Kunkel Upholds Anthracite Tax Act; Exception Likely by Tuesday President Judge George Kunkel last night decided that the anthracite coal tax of 1913 Is constitutional, but it is expected that immediate steps will be taken to appeal the case to the Su preme Court of Pennsylvania, with a possibility that the case may ultimately be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States through the claims of the coal companies that it is in vio lation of the federal Constitution. The effect of the decision of Judge j Kunkel, provided no appeal is taken, ; would be to have the $4^500,000 of coal tax collected at once. One-half of this money would go to the Commonwealth and the remainder would be divided between the nine anthracite producing counties, of which Dauphin one. The share of ea<Ji county would be determined on a basis of population and when the county had received Its ! portion it would subdivide the money I among its municipal divisions on a basis of population. Of this Harrls -1 burg would get approximately $2,500. All of the boroughs and townships of the county would share, some of them actually getting more cash than Lykens or Williamstown, which produce the bulk of the coal, while farming town ships In the lower end would benefit from the tax on the natural resources [Continued on Page 18] Charles Lavender Convicted of Murder at Chambersburg Special to Tht Ttlrgrafh Chambersburg, Pa., May I.—This morning the Jury In the trial of Charles Lavender for the murder of Charles Winters, both colored and of this citv, came into court with a verdict of sec ond degree murder. Judge GlUan re fused a motion for a new trial and sentenced the negro to from twelve to fifteen years in the penitentiary. Four Jurors voted for first degree. | Esther Roos, Who Will Christen New Battleship Arizona |j V /I jjfln jWr pppHHHP® V * v- T' / KPW' 'A-'- T ..*• Roos. Prescott. Arizona, May l.—Governor Hunt has named Esther Roos. IT years old. of this city, to christen the I'nited States battleship Arizona, which will be launched from the Brooklvn navy yard on June 19, next. EXTEND TIME FOR COHITEST ENTRIES Wednesday, May 5, Fixed as Final Date For Receiving Applications Because many of the prospective entrants in the Telegraph's "city beautiful" prize contest have been unable to get in their application to day an extension of the time limit has been decided upon and Wednes day, May 5, at 6 o'clock was definitely fixed as the final date for receiving the applications. Since the announcement a few weeks ago by the Civic Club of ex- Postmaster E. J. Stackpole's offer on behalf of the Telegraph of SIOO in prizes for the best home gardens— front or rear yard, window box or porch—gardeners, large and small, throughout the city have been hurry ing to get their plots ready for the campaign. Consequently the list of notifica tions of entry to the contest have been unusually large, but some competi tors have asked that the time limit for filing the notifications be extended for a few days. The contest will be in charge of the outdoor department of the Civic Club and Miss M. W. Buehler, 232 North Second street, is receiving the appli cations. So, if you haven't filed your notifi cation as yet, don't delay longer. Wednesday at 6 p. m. Is the final hour. TOIL ILL miGHT TO FINISH TABERNACLE Extra Force of Men Striving Hard to Get Building Ready For Opening of Campaign Backed by the Ministerial Associa tion of Steelton and vicinity and with eight churches co-operating, the Rev. C. E. Hillis and party will commence a six-weeks' evangelistic campaign in Steelton to-morrow. Throughout last night and during to-day an extra force of workmen toiled with feverish activity to put the finishing touches to the big taber nacle at Second street and Buser's Run, where all the meetings will.be held. Under the glare of electric | lights the workmen expect to com plete their work before midnight to day. On account of this delay in com pleting the tabernacle, the ceremonies of dedication will be held to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock instead of this evening as had been planned. The dedicatory sermon will be delivered [Continued on Page 9.] President's Train Stops Suddenly; Passengers Safe By Associated Press New York, May X. —President Wil son spent nearly three hours here this morning on his way to Williamstown, Mass.. to attend the christening of his grandson. Francis Sayre. He was joined here by Miss Margaret Wilson, his daughter, who has been spending several days In New York. While the President's train was pass ing through West Philadelphia early this morning the airbrake on the en-1 gine Jammed and the train came to a j sudden stop. Several panes of glass were broken and a water bottle in the President's car fell to the floor with a craah. Everyone on the train was shaken, but no serious damage was done. The President will arrive In Williamstown at 4 o'clock thia aft ernoon. PARK EXPERT COMING | TUESDAYTO INSPECT River Front Slopes, Playgrounds and Parkway Will Be Looked Over Next Week ! Harrisburg's river front, parks, playgrounds and the proposed line of j the parkway east of the city, the site i of the grade or culvert crossing the ; Philadelphia and Reading tracks near .Paxtang, and an Inspection of Wild wood, are scheduled on the annual Spring program of Warren H. Man ning, the city's park expert, who will be here for the purpose Tuesday. I Mt Manning, it is expected, will devote considerable time to the river i front slopes and In order to show him 1 the character of the work that is pro posed. Park Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor is pushing the grading of the slopes above "Hardscrabble" as speed llyas possible. One big gang of men were put to ! work on the slopes north of "Hard j scrabble" Thursday, under the juris- I diction of G. T. Irvin. Mr. Taylor will put another gang on the same job south of Market street early next week, probably Monday. SIX I.INERS SATT, New York, May l.—The largest i j number of trans-Atlantic travelers to ; leave New York in a single day this Spring had booked passage on six big liners leaving port to-day. The Lusl -1 tanla alone had aboard nearly 900 :j cabin passengers and a large number lln the steerage. on 111 vice DEN. MOTHEB FEAAS Harrisburg Woman Asks Rosej Livugston to Help Find Her There Is a mother right here In Har risburg: whose heart is breaking with anxiety as to the fate of a daughter I who was lured from her home, in this ! ' the last few weeks, and i who has disappeared so completely that I I no ™, t !' at ' e of her has found. ! .. Th , s mother heard Rose Livingston, ! the Angel of Chinatown." tell yester ' day afternoon, at the Technical High | School, of her work in rescuing girls 1 i 5^, 0^ n w "' te slavery. She went to Miss Livingston at the close of the meeting I ! and begged her to try to find her daugh- i ter and brine her back to her. She j gave the rescue worker a picture and ! ! a description of the girl and told her all she knew of the facts of her disap- i pea ranee. K Miss Livingston told of this plea at . her evening meeting. She promised the I big audience of men and women of Har- ' rlsburg. ns she had promised the bereft I mother, that she would start searching for the girl as soon as she got back to ; j New York on Monday morning. She ! said that of course the girl might not I be anywhere near New Tork. but that I i.e " a< ' 'rlends in the underworld In I all parts of the country and that she would send the description of the girl to all of them and ask them to help her find where she could be located. The people in the audience were shocked by this Intimation that the tenacles of vice were reaching Into their own homes. Eighteen Chicks Jump Out of Thirteen Eggs Dexter. Me.. May I.—Ralph C. Blethen claim!; the Xew England rec ord for hatching chickens. Three weeks ago he placed thir teen eggs beneath one of his prize; Plymouth Rock hens. This morning when he Inspected the nest he dis covered eighteen chicks. His onlv explanation Is that some of the eggs must have double yolked. Yesterday when he inspected the. neat durtng the absence of the hen, i the shells of the original thirteen i eggs were in the nest. GALLIPOLI PENINSULA IS BEING SEVERED FROM MAINLAND BY ALLIES French and British Forces Victorious in Terrific Fighting* According to Official Dispatches; Four Zeppelins Sighted Off English Coast; More Shells Dropped on Dunkirk by- Germans in Their Effort to Get Posses sion of Coast The Galllpolt peninsula, which forms diameter. Ten more shells feil 111 the European side of the Dardanelles, : is described in unofficial dispatches , ae being gradually cut off from the J mainland by the British and French } forces. It is said to be no longer pos sible for the Turks to pass back and forth between the European and Asta tic sides of the strait. Their main forces are reported to be between the towns of Gallipoli, at the further end of the straits and Maidos which lies on the straits about two-thirds of the way down the peninsula. Official advices have not made clear the extent of the operations of the Bri tish and French forces. A British statement of last night gave the im pression that the fighting had been restricted to the end of the peninsula, i across which it is said an entrench led line has been established. From | several sources it has been reported ■ that the British also have crossed the I upper end of the peninsula, reaching j Gallipoli. There is no confirmation ! of this however, except in an official I German statement which said there ! had been severe fighting for two days at Gallipoli. The Constantinople official reports state that the Turks are making con sistent headway in their attacks against the land and sea forces of the allies. The situation in Flanders shows lit tle change, although the French claim a further advance for the allies. The 15-incb shells with which the Ger mans yesterday bombarded Dunkirk, hurling them perhaps twenty mtles from ono of their huge guns, are said to have blasted in the ground craters lln some instances forty-five feet in ♦ STOrli. DISAPPROVES OF AWARD. Chicago, May I.— Disapproval of the arbitration award made to 54,000 locomotive engineers, firemen and hostlers employed on ninety-eight railroads operating west of Chi cago • expressed to-day by W. S. Stone, grand chief engi neer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. "The engineers have gained practically nothing by the award," Mr. Stone said. Peking, May I.—The Chinese government has definitely refused some of the most important demands made by Japan. Shamokin, Pa., May I.—Milton Bitting and Fenton Neihart, young cx - revorton, were arrested while aescend inS --*Ou..lu.n near tr.erc. iney aic suspected of being impii v c.tcu ia l.i~ holdup of the trolley car. About $l5O was found on them. Deo .vioi.-.cs, May 1. The Board of Bishops of the Methodist i-piscope. Church in ses; .on nere to-day accepted the o/ertuie of cnurch unity made by the Methodist Episco pal Church, South. % RUSSIAN STEAMER SUNK London, May 1. The Russian 2,000 ton steamer Svorono, bearing JWelsh coal to Archangel, a Russian port on the White Sea, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine believed to be the U-23 on Friday at noon near the Blasket islands, on the West Coast of Ireland. The Svorono's crew of twenty-four men, mostly Russians, bare ly had time to take to the boats when the vessel sank. All were rescued. REFUSE TO REINSTATE KNAUFF Cincinnati, May I.—The National Baseball Commission to-day refused the application for reinstatement of Benny Knauff, Brooklyn Federal League Player, who signed a New York National League contract-on last Thursday. 32,000 ON STRIKE AT CHICAGO Chicago, May I.—May 1 was ushered into Chicago to day with the most serious labor situation in the building in dustry in fifteen years. By the addition of 1200 bridge and structural iron workers, the list of union workingmen on strike or locked out was swelled to 32,000. MARRIAGE LICENSES David E. HnaMckrr, Mew Cumberland, and Hfln Grove, city. 16 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT. Dunkirk last night, killing or injur ing several persons. Fighting continues all along the ex tended Russian front. Chief in the new attaches of the German movement In the north aimed apparently at the Bal tic provinces of Russia. Tattle is known concerning this movement, however, beyond the German announcement of yesterday that they had penetrated more than 100 miles from the Prussian frontier. Britain Lifts Embargo on Trade With Holland Tjondon, May I.—The British Ad miralty announced last nlglit. that trade between England and Holland may be resumed. Passenger traffic is not permitted under this ruling. Daring Aviator Captured When His Engine Stopped By Associated Prtss Milan, via Paris. May I.—A motor which stalled suddenly while he was 2.000 feet in the air was responsible for the capture by the Germans of Roland Garros, the famous French aviator. Garros was flying over the Tngel munster-Oourtrai railroad when a train passed. Tie made a wonderful swoop from a height of fi.ooo feet until he was 120 feet from the ground, describ ing a series of daring circles over the train, and then dropped a bomb which blew up a section of the track. When sentries opened fire upon htm at close range he dropped another bomb and rose to a height of 2,000 feet. Sud denly the motor stopped and the aero plane swayed dangerously, but Garros volplaned safely down and made a suc cessful landing. He sprang out. set fire to the machine and took refuge in a cottage. Pursuing soldiers found him after a long search crouching in a ditch behind a thick hedge.
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