TREASURV FUNDS ' JUIE NOT SO HIGH End of April Finds Smaller Amount in Cash Than at the Close of March Business _ The statement of the April opera tions of the State ja Treasury shows that the aggregate of the balances at Jfifiwvsn the er "' of April is IV JEtoßflitt J600.000 less than J,IJCITOCTffI the total bal nolflnLlUfH ances at the close jM(ilHU||||k| Q f March business. I PI bW The statement of April business is as follows: Receipts—General fund, s9l 4,462.- 96; sinking fund. $128.54; school fund. $2,676.86; motor vehicle licenses, *227,444; total. $1,144,742.36. Payments —General fund, $1,678, 6<4.10; motor license fund, $100,000; total, $1,778,674.10. Balances—General fund, $4,435,- 699.38; sinking fund. $Bl 4,657.59; school fund (uninvested), $9,131.24; motor license fund, $898,072. Total balance at end of April, $6,- 167,560,21; total balance at end of March, $6,791,491.95. Public Service.—The Public Service commission will hear the complaint of the Philadelphia Milk Exchange against the rates of the Pennsylvania railroad for hauling milk in vicinity f of Philadelphia when it meets here Tuesday for the first May session. Fourteen rate cases from various parts of the State are scheduled for the week, while over twenty applications for approval of contracts of various kinds, abolition of grade crossings and for incorporation of electric, jitney, taxlcab and traction companies are listed. Among the eastern cases for abolition of grade crossings is for Keim street, Pottstown, where the Philadelphia and Reading proposes to place an undergrade. Encampment Orders.—Formal des ignation of the places and times of the encampments of the organizations of the National Guard is made in general orders Issued to-day by Adjutant Gen eral Stewart. Mt. Gretna has been se lected for the First brigade from July 10 to 17 and the Third and Fourth brigades from July 9 to 16, while the Second will encamp with the Four teenth infantry and the signal corps company at Indiana August 7 to 14. The Mt. Gretna encampment will be as a provisional division under com mand of Major General C. B. Dough erty. The joint camps will be as fol lows: First Cavalry, Mt. Gretna, July 10 to 17; Engineers, Belvolr, Va., Au gust 8 to 17; Batteries A, B, C and D. Tobyhanna. August 8 to 17, and Field Tospitals, Tobyhanna, July 15 to 23. New Hat Order.—Announcement is made at the National Guard headquar ters that an issue of United States army service semistiff brimmed hats will be made to the organizations of the State militia during June. Requi sitions must be made for the hats be fore June 1. and none will be tilled after June 30. Board to Moot. The State Indus trial Board will hold hearings on the proposed rule to prohibit employment of any one under 16 in tobacco fac tories on Friday and Saturday of next week. The Friday hearings will be held at Boyertown and Reading and on Saturday at Wilkes-Barre. Visits will be paid to tobacco factories in place. Supreme Court. The May session of the Supreme Court will be held in Harrisburg commencing May £4. The list will Include State tax cases and central counties with a few transferred from other districts. A special sitting of the Dauphin county court for the hearing of State tax cases will be held May 6. New Complaint.—A complaint was tiled with the Public Service Com mission to-day by the Electrical Con sumers' Adjustment Company of Philadelphia against the Philadelphia Electric Company in which discrimi nation is charged. The complainant company, which audits light and power bills and combines properties for the purpose of securing cheaper electricity, applied to the respondent for a combination contract, known as a blanket contract, for various con sumers of electricity in the city of Philadelphia. The application was refused and it is alleged that the re spondent has already issued similar contracts to certain preferred con sumers and has advertised such com bination rate in their schedule, which I has been approved by the Public Service Commission. Attended Conference. —L. R. Pal mer, chief factory inspector, was at Allentown to attend the inspectors' conference. Penn Conservation League Is Assured River Island Will Not Be Given Away Thfe Pennsylvania Conservation league has taken up the city's cam paign to prevent the leasing of the is land in the river opposite Kclker street to B. J. H. Douglas and preservation of the bit of ground by the city. Bishop J. H. Darlington declared to day that the league has had assur ance from Governor Brumbaugh that he will not sign any permission granting the use of the jsland to the applicant. This will establish a prece dent for other islands through the Commonwealth, It is believed, and will provide a way whereby Harrisburg, as well as other municipalities can ac quire lafld of this character fo ruse as parks, bathing houses and by canoe ists. Central Seniors to Give Play For Steele Memorial Members of the Senior class at the Central High school are busy making final preparations for the Senior class play to be Riven probably during the week of commencement. At present a little mystery prevails because it Is not known just xvhat the play will be. It is said that the stu „ dents have chosen a college play to present to the public. Forty charac ters, all students of the Senior class at the High school, will participate. The pupils are being trained bv Miss Annauel Swartz, elocution instructor at the school, and who is well-known because of the many students she has trained for contests during the past few years. The money derived from the play will be used for the purpose of plac ing in the school a memoriam in honor of the late Professor William S. Steele. TECH WINS 17-INKING GAME Tech High this morning defeated the Lebanon Valley Reserves, in a 17- innlng contest, score 5 to 4. Chal lenger pitched for Tech and allowed but eight scattered hits. He fanned 15. Brown was on the mound for Lebanon Valley and also had 15 striks outs, and was hit 10 times for bases. BREAKS LEG IX FALL Mrs. Mary Firing, 1553 Xorth Sixth street, fell this morning while mar keting in the Verbeke street market house, receiving a fracture of the right leg. She was taken to the Har- Pteburg hospital SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 1, 1915. QT&& 1 AAiDDLeTo\*T> BOYS GIVE VIILIBLE TIPS ON CLEAMING UP Scouts Will Systematically "Scour" Borough; Everything in Readi ness For Campaign A number of suggestions as to how to make Steelton a cleaner town were made by members of Troop 3, Boy Scouts of America, at a meet ing last evening at the home of their scoutmaster, Oliver Green, Lincoln street. Members of the troop expressed their desire to accept Burgess Fred Wigfleld's invitation to co-operate with the borough authorities in a clean-up week starting Monday. Some of the suggestions made by the boys were: "Check the practice of fish huck sters celaning flsh and throwing the scales in the street. "Have nil grocers remove their garbage instead of standing it in front of their stores or along the curb in barrels. "Ask all school children to stop throwing waste paper on the streeets in front of the schoolhouses." The Scouts not only offered these suggestions hut they decided to do all that they could to see that they were carried out. Each boy pledged him self not to throw any more paper on the streets and to help make the borough a "spotless town." During next week Jacob Meshey, highway commissioner, will have an extra force of men and wagons at work removing garbage. The tirst section of town to Tje visited will be the lower end foreign section. Be ginning at Third and Highland streets Monday this entire section will be cleaned. The remaining parts of the borough will be visited later. MRS. DEMMEY ENTERTAINS F. F. EMBROIDERY CLUB Mrs. Harry Demmey entertained members of the F. F. Embroidery Club at her home yesterday. Those present were Mrs. George Grecnhour, Mrs. John Snyder, Mrs. George Miles, Mrs. John Dinger, Mrs. Charles Wright, Mrs. George Wattchman. Mrs. Sue Tomilson. Misss Anna Montgomery, Mrs. James Miles, all of Harrisburg; Mrs. Samuel Wilson, of Bressler; Mrs. William Bowers and Miss Eleanor Fackler. of Oberlin; Mrs. Samuel Shroll and Mrs. Harry Demmey, of Steelton. STEELTON CHURCHES Trinity Episcopal—The Rev. S. H. Rainey. At 8. holy communion; 11, "Practical Christianity;" 7.30, "What Is Truth?" Sunday school, 10. l-MIDDLETQWfI- - -1 FAIRIES AND GOBLINS MINGLE AT C. E. SOCIAL The monthly social of the Senior C. E. Society of St. Peter's Lu theran Church was held at the parsonage in Spring street, last even ing. The members were costumed to represent characters in a fairy tale. The feature of tile evening was a mock marriage ceremony performed by the Rev. Mr. Bergstresser. The bride was Miss Ivy Hoffman and John Kohr was the groom. Refreshments were served to; Ivy Hoffman, Lillian Hoffman, Mary Gingrich, Reba Hend rickson, Geraldlne Brandt, Carrie* Hoffman, Goldie Douglas, Grace Bow man. Anna Bachmoyer, Elizabeth Seltzer, Kathryn Alleman, Martha Jane Bergstresser, John Kohr, Harold R»uffman. Grant Gerberich, Bruce Peters, W r illiam Brown, Maxwell Brandt, M. E. I>eber and the Rev. and Mrs. Fuller Bergstresser. ELMER GESSEY DIES Elmer Gessey, son of John Gessey, 1 of Allentown, died yesterday from complication, of diseases. Burial will be made in the Middletown Cemetery Monday morning at 9 o'clock., LADIES* AID MEETS The Ladies' Aid Society of the Church of God met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eli C. Brinser, North Union street, last evening. The tenth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Brinser was celebrated. .MIDDLETOWX PERSONALS Charles Lute left to-day for Read ing. Philadelphia and New York. Miss Bess Hevel left to-day for Reading. Miss Goldie Douglass, of Harris burg, is visiting Miss Carrie Hoffman. DR. ISER TO PREACH The Rev. Dr. G. W. lser, superin tendent of Xorthwest District of Philadelphia Conference, will preach in the Methodist Church Sunday morning. Governor's Aged Father Is Visitor at Capitol Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh took part of to-day off to show the sights of the Capitol to his aged father, George Grover Brumbaugh. The eld er Brumbaugh, who was not able to come here for the inauguration, is spending the week-end at the execu tive mansion and this morning came to the Capitol for his first visit. He was accompanied by his son, Frank Brumbaugh and his wife, who live near him in Huntingdon county. The Governor acted as guide, taking his relatives through the legislative halls and visiting some of the departments. The party then looked over the executive department and the Gover nor's father sat in the chair of his distinguished son. Dr. Brumbaugh said that he did not know whether he could persuade his father to pro and play Trolf this afternoon or not. The Governor's father.is about seventy-five years old. Two Bills Approved by Governor Brumbaugh Governor Brumbaugh to-da.v ap proved the Clark Senate bill establish ing the size of containers, baskets and trays. Four standards to be known as the pony, standard and jumtfo baskets a,nd the standard tray are created and when vegetables or fruits are sold by the quart box or container the cubi cal contents shall be sixty-seven and one-fifth cubic Inches. Violation of the act is to be a misdemeanor. The Governor also approved the Llndsey House bill amending the act establishing the State Industrial Home for Women by giving the commission or trustees the power of eminent do main and right to purchase 500 acres i for controlling water supply and pro viding ttiat when accommodations for seventy-five persons are made the Governor shall appoint a board of managers STEELTON CHURCHES St. Mark's Lutheran-—The Rev. Wil liam B. Smith, pastor. 10.30, "Pure Religion;" 2, Sunday school; 6.45, Christian Endeavor; 7.30, "Is There a God?" First Presbyterian The Rev. C. Benjamin Segelken, pastor, will preach at 11; evening worship In the taber nacle at 7.30: Sabbath school at 9.4 5. First Reformed —The Rev. Charles A. Huyette. Morning service and Sun day school, opening together at 10; Mrs. C. E. Hlllis will address the con gregation; Christian Endeavor, 6.45. Xo evening service during the evan gelistic campaign. , Grace United Evangelical—The Rev. J. M. Shoop, pastor, will preach at 10.30 and 7.30; Sunday school, 9.15; Christian Endeavor, 6.45. Main Street Church of God—The Rev. G. W. Getz. pastor, will preach at 10.30 on "Delight in God's House;" Sunday school, 2. First Methodist —The Rev. W. C. Sanderson, pastor, will preach at 10.30; Sunday school, 2. Centenary United Brethren The Rev. A. K. Wier, pastor, will preach at 10.30 on "The Church and the High ways of Steelton." STEELTON CLUB HOLDS "TRIAL" O.N ASSAULT CHARGE More than a hundred members of the Steelton Club crowded the "court room'' on the third floor last evening to witness the trial of J. R. Nauss, a member, who was charged with as saulting Walter Keister, another mem ber, and leaving him bruised and bleeding in a lonely street Saturday evening. Nauss was represented by Assistant District Attorney Frank B. Wickersham. Keister's defense was pleaded by District Attorney M. E. Stroup and W. R. Boyd. Squire T. V. Gardner acted as "Judge." The jury brought In a verdict of "justifiable assault." Of course it was a mock trial. Penn. Steel Co. Employes Pay Tribute to Major Bent Vice-president J. V. W. Reynders of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, this n#>rning commented on the high tribute paid the late Major L. S. Bent by steel company employes. He said: "Special acknowledgement has been received from the family of the late Major Luther S. Bent in connection with the flowers which were sent by employes of the steel company. "Although the Major had been out of direct touch of the men for twenty years, the esteem in which he was held was evidenced by the spontane ous desire of the men to join in an expression of their feelings. "Although the amount of each in dividual subscribtion was limited by the committee in charge, the sum raised was far in excess ol' the ex pectations and an additional floral tri bute is to be placed on Major Bent's grave on Memorial Day." STEELTON SNAPSHOTS To Preach Series.—The Rev. G. N. Lauffer, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, will commence a series of ser mons on Joseph to-morrow evening. His first subject will be "Joseph Sold Into Egypt." Workman Injured.—lrvin J. Bates, of New Cumberland, was struck in the stomach by a swinging iron bar at the Pennsylvania steel plant yesterday. His injuries are not serious. Entertains Seniors. Miss Marie Alleman entertained members of the senior class of the high school at her home in Xorth Front street last even ing. Games, dancing and music were followed by refreshments. Alumni Meets.—The annual meeting of the High School Alumni Associa tion will he held the evening of May 4. Officers will be elected and plans made for the annual banquet. / ELMER CRAWFORD Funeral services for Elmer Craw ford. who was killed at the Pennsylva nia steel plant Thursday, will be held in the Church of God at Highsplre to morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Rev. B. L. C. Baer will officiate and burial will be made in the Highspire Cemetery. GARRET MLEIN Funeral services for Garret Mlein, who died yesterday, will be held Mon day morning in the Highsplre Church of God. The Rev. B. L C. Baer will officiate and burial will be made in the Highspire Cemetery. BANQUET FOR COMMITTEE The building committee of the Ger man Quartet Club will be guests ot honor at a banquet in the club's hall Monday evening. The committee was recently dismissed at the conclusion of all business relating to the erection of the new hall. An engraved resolution of thanks will be presented to each member. The committee includes Christian Tlttiger, Joseph Blasi, Anton Breinich.,Carl Bolbecher, Frank Hoch, Joseph Gabner and Henry Sieb. I-HIGHSPIRE" 777^ HIGHSPIRE PERSONALS Robert Loudermilch, of Halifax, spent several hours in town Wednes day, visiting his sisters, Mrs. E. S. Poornian and Mrs. George W. Lebo. Mr. and Mrs. John Lynch, of Mid dletown, spent, last Sunday in town, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Bard, of Penn street. Miss Mary Good, of Progress, was the week-end guest of C. E. Good and family. East End. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence loiter and children. Clarence and Kathrvn, are spending the week-end in Palmvra with Mrs. Leiter'« parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Snyder. HOLD FLOWER SALE The choir of the Church of God is conducting a flower sale in E. D. Ruth's storeroom, Second and Rail road streets. . HIGHSPIRE CHURCHES United Brethren—The Rev. H. F. Rlioad. 10.15, "Prayer for Guidance;'' 7.30, "Prince or Slave;" Sunday school, 1.30; Christian Endeavor, 6.30. Local Suffrage Workers to Open Headquarters The Harrisburg Woman Suffrage I party, of which Mrs. John Oenslager iis chairman, will open local head- Iquarters next Tuesday in the Masonic [Temple, Third and State streets. A welcoming committee will be on hand from 2 until 9, and refreshments will [be served. j The headquarters in the Masonic | Temple will remain open until election and will be the rendezvous for all the local suffragists. Literature will he I distributed from there and the entire local campaign will be run from there. SiGLER CO. FACTO IS NOW COMPLETED Orders Pour in From All Over Country; Cost of Equipment and Building SIOO,OOO Announcement was made this morn ing by C. M. Slgler, president of the Sigler Piano-Player Company, that the new factory of the company at Car lisle and Seventeenth and Derry streets, on the old Ensminger Lumber Company plot, is now completed and yesterday was turned over by the con tractor. Joseph W. Pomraning. The new factory, with site and equipment, represents a total capital Investment of SIOO,OOO. The capital stock of the company Is SIOO,OOO. From present indications the Sigler company will soon be one of the most important in the city from the national manufacturing viewpoint. The com pany has agencies in New York, Balti more, Pittsburgh. Philadelphia. Chi cago, Washington. Spokane, Wash., and dozens of others of the larger cities of the United States. Orders are com ing in, according to Mr. Sigler, from all over the country and the Sigler company is helping quite materially in the work of putting Harrisburg on the national manufacturing products map. At the present time thirty-five employes are working in the factory on the Hill and the output of the plant is from five to ten thousand a year. In addition to an adaptable action which can be put in any piano the Sigler company is now pushing two types of player action for the use of piano-player manufacturers which are said to be among the very best in the music trade. At a recent stockholders' meeting of the company the board of directors was increased from three to flve mem bers. This board is as follows: C. M. Sigler. president; Charles E. Bard, vice-president; John W. Thompson, secretary and treasurer; William R. Gratipner, of the Graupner brewing firm, and Harvey B. Bair. Charles C. Stroh is attorney for the company; John C. Shumberger is the auditor. Mr. Sigler said this morning that within a few days he will exhibit the company's product in Chicago, New York and Boston. A public housewarming will be held at the new factory at a later date. TOLL ALL NIGHT TO FINISH TABERNACLE [Continued from First Page.] by the Rev. Dr. W. N. Yates, pastor of the Fourth Street Church of God, Harrisburg. First Service Tomorrow The Rev. Mr. Hillis will conduct bis first service to-morrow evening at 7:45 o'clock. Services will be held j every evening of the week, qxcept Mondays, throughout the campaign. In the evangelistic party are: The Rev. C. E. Hillis, Mrs. Hillis, who will lead the women's work and sing; Professor Lawrence A. Stahl, an evan gelist. who will direct the big chorus of 400 voices, and W. N. A. Yates, pianist. The co-operating churches include the following: First Presbyterian, First Methodist, Centenary United Brethren, First Reformed. Main Street Church of God and the East End Church of God. of Steelton; the United Brethren Church of High spire and Neidig Memorial United Brethren, of Oberlin. During the Hillis campaign all the co-operating churches, with the ex ception of the First Methodist, will discontinue their evening services. The official board of the First Metho dist Church last evening decided that services in that church would be held as usual. The volunteer chorus of 400 voices now being organized by Professor Stahl will sing for the first time in the tabernacle to-morrow. The choir will not rehearse this evening as had been planned. Girls Held as Leaders of Denver Boy Burglars Special to The Telegraph Denver, Col., May I.—Damage es timated at not less than SI,OOO is at tributed to a band of youthful burglars headed by two white girls under 14 years of age and composed of white and negro boys. The boys, it is charged, broke into the home of the Rev. A. N. Cameron, a Baptist mis sionary, destroyed a valuable collection of Chinese curios and carried away many other articles. Nine boys and two girls were ar raigned before Judge Lindsey In the juvenile court to-day on charges of delinquency. Broken Chinese idols, torn Chinese scrolls and books and broken dishes were introduced in evidence by the Rev. Mr. Duff, a friend of Mr. Cam eron and himself a missionary. Several hundred dollars' worth of articles, including several hundred lan tern slides of views in China, were recovered at the home of the children. The trials were continued for two vyeeks. Mrs. Jones Returns Home From Big Convention Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones, regent of the Keystone chapter. United States Daughters of 1812, this city, is home from New York, where she attended the national conference of the order, this week. The president national elected is I Mrs. Alice Bradford Wiles, of Chicago, l who succeeds Mrs. Slade, president for the past eighteen years. Mrs. Wiles Is a highly cultured woman of dis (tinguished ancestry and an ardent suf ; fragist. Many delightful entertain ments were given the delegates, among them theater parties and a banquet at the Astor Gallery given by the New York city chapter, with favors of sil ver nut dishes, enameled with the In signia of the order, presented by the Buffalo chapter of which Mrs. John Miller Horton is regent. AIRMAN'S PLUNGE TO DEATH v BEFORE MOVIE CAMERA What hazards photoplay perform ers take in their endeavor to furnish realistic thrills for the film drama is graphically illustrated in a photo graph reproduced in the May number of Popular Mechanics Magazine, which shows an airman making a fa tal plunge to the earth before the lens of a movie camera. Spectacular real- Ism was wanted-, and death was the I result. The scenario called for the destruction of an aeroplane In mid air, and for this a dummy machine was used. The airman was passing over the craft when the explosion oc curred and it is assumed that the force of the detonation destroyed the equilibrium of his machine. The pho tograph was taken an instant aftefr the dummy plane was blown to pieces and shows the other machine in the act of tilting over at the beginning of its 300-foot dive to the earth which ended In the death of the pilot. WAGE INCREASE FOR WESTERN EMPLOYES Arbitrators Grant Slight Conces sions to Enginemen and Firemen Special to The Telegraph Chicago. 111., May I.—An arbitration award advancing to some extent the rates of pay of some 64.000 locomo tive engineers, firemen and hostlers employed on the 140.000 miles of line of ninety-eight western railroads in the great area of the United States and Canada bounded on the east by the Illinois Central and the great lakes was signed here yesterday. The award Is effective May 10. Judge Peter C. Pritchard, of Rich mond. Va., chairman of the board, ex plained his position, and said that while in his opinion the men in cer tain branches of the service were en titled to greater advances than were made, he had to make concessions in order that an award might be made, and he found much of a hopeful na ture in the award. The essential concessions to the men were: Standardization of rates of pay on the weight of locomotives on drive wheels. Overtime pay to passenger firemen arid engineers, ranging from 44 to 75 cents an hour, respectively. Seniority Riglits Enginemen of steam power may transfer to electric power when in stalled without loss of seniority rights after May 1. 1915. The board was un able. because of (he newness of elec tric railroad service, to fix rates of pay in detail, but named $4.30 a day as the minimum for motormen In passenger service and $2.50 for their helpers; $4.75 for motormen in freight service and $2.75 for helpers. Enginemen of milk trains, circus trains and other irregular service re ceive thej rate accorded on through freights, an increase amountirvr to from 10 to 1 5 per cent. The men will'be paid for delay while in their cabs at initial and filial ter minals, and for time in excess of thirty minutes spent in preparing their en gines for service. Swltjh enginemen will receive an advance in daily pay of 23 cents on small engines and 15 on large ones. Pay Fop (Idleness Men held away from home termi nals shall, after 22 hours' idleness, re ceive a minimum day's pay of ten hours, based on last service, out of each succeeding 24 hours until he gets a run. i Through freight wages rates were I advanced 5 to 20 cents, increasing with I weight of engine, and 23 cents on j some of the extremely heavy engines.! Way freight enginemen will re- I reive 30 cents a day more than through freight men. Surprise tests will be conducted in such a way as not to endanger life, limbs or nerves. Firemen will be assigi.'(f where as sistance is available in keeping coal forward. Where firemen on big engines deem] an assistant necessary the matter may. If necessary, be adjusted through arbi tration. EARNINGS FALL OFT The March statement of the Penn sylvania Railroad system, given out last night, fails to reflect any improve ment in business. Gross earnings of the system in the month fell off $2,- 4 79,221 and net earnings showed a de crease of $123,097. For the month of February the system reported an in crease in net earnings of more than $900,000. ENGINEERS ELECT DELEGATKS Harrislmrg Division, N'o. 74. Broth erhood of I.ocomotive Engineers, will hold a bimonthly meeting to-morrow afternoon. This division has elected J. NO "ROUGH STUFF" IN NEWSIES' CLUB New Association Frowns on Lying, Stealing, Swearing, Drinking and Gambling "We do not approve of lying, steal ing, swearing, gambling, drinking in toxicating liquors or smoking cigar ets," with this commendable creed, "newsies" last night organized Har lisburg Newsboys association. No. 1, at a meeting in the rooms of the Har risburg News Agency. R. 1. Brinser was temporary chair man. 11. F. Eyster, circulation mana ger of the Telegraph addressed the boys. The following declaration of principles was adopted: "Recognizing the importance of an associations for the advancement of boys who work for a livelihood, the object of this association is to teach them self government and brother hood: to encourage Industry, thrift and rationnl economy; to assist and en courage the needy and unfortunate; !to promote honest methods In all business dealings: to establish har monious relations between each other; to familiarize them with the little courtesies, which make for true man hood and to teach them in boyhood, while character is forming their duty to themselves and to society, and thus develop in each the charac ter and spirit of good and progressive citizenship." Officers were elected as follows: President. Wagner Hoffman; vice president, Morris Koplovitz; secretary, David Klawanslc.v; treasurer, Arthur Koplovitz. These boys and Fred Hus- Iton, J. Darron and Samuel Sealton will comprise the board of governors. The next mfceting will be held Friday evening at the News Agency. . QUARTER-MILE RAILROAD EARNS 5t,000.000 The shortest railroad in America and at the same time one of the most profitable is the Grand Island Rail way, which constitutes the only rail link in the transcontinental trade route that connects Fort McPherson, on the arctic circle, with settled parts of Canada. This curious railroad is owned and operated by the Hudson's Bay Com pany. It Is a quarter of a mile long and cost less than SBOO to build, the rails being of wood, with strap-iron facings. The rolling stock consists of two dilapidated flat cars which are pushed by hand along the rails. The freight rate for all classes of commo dities Is $2.50 a ton, and some idea of the \olume_ of traffic can be had from the fact that in its B0 years of opera tion the Grand Island Railway has earned profits of more than a million dollars.—From the May Popular Me , chanics Magazine. J. Stroh delegate to the triennial meet ing of engineers at Cleveland next week. The alternate is E. T. Oulp. Division No. 75 will be represented by Ira J. Mosey; No. 668 by Miles Coyle. and No. 459 by Andrew Rhull. AWARD AUXILIARY PRIZES Winners in the voting contest of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen were announced last night. The auxiliary - met at White's Hall and counted the votes. Mrs. W. N. Bitting won the first prize, a diamond ring, having a total of 4,560 votes; second prize, a gold watch, went to Mrs. J. Preston with 1,840 votes. One prize, $lO in gold, went to Oscar Wickersham. Standing of the Crews HARIMSBI'RG SIDE Philadelphia Division ll4 crew to, go first after 4 p. m.: 126, 130, 116. 119. 127. 112, 105. Engineer tor 13(1. Firemen for 11'4. 116, 130 Conductors for 116, 1. , Flagmen for 112. 116, I*/. Brakenun for 130. » Engineers up: Hennecke, Young. l First, Relsinger, Bisslnger. Manley, j Hindman, Seltz, Sellers, Supplee, Good win. Firemen up: Collier, Packer, Which- i ello, Robinson. Mulholm, Arnsberger, Dodd, Spring Farmer. Bushey, Yentzer, CJrove, Martin. Wagner, I.antz, Libhart, Dunlevy, MoNeal. Conductor up: Ropp. Brakemen up: Albright. Wiland. Cox, Mrlntyre. Burk, Brown, Wolfe. Griffie, Collins, Bryson. Shultzberger, Dongler, Baltozer, Forgueson, MrGlnnls. Middle 111 vision 219 crew to go first after 4 p. m.: 216. 225. 12 crews lal<l off at Altoona. Front end: 19, 26, 110, 25, 22, 16. Firemen for 110. 22. Conductor for 110. Brakemen for 19. 22, 16. Engineers up: Mumina. Webster. Simonton, Garman, Wissler, Smith, Havens, Kugler, Hertzler, Free. Firemen up: Rons, Seagrist. Wright, KHrstetter, Pottlger. Elebau. Fletcher. Conductors up: Keys, Fralick, Pat rick. Kberle. Flagman up: Miller. Brakemen up: Strauscr. Fritz. Riss inger, Kane. Stahl, Marlin, McHenry, Bell, Henderson. YARD CHEWS Engineers up: Eandis, Hoyler. Beck, Harter, Biever. Blosser, Rudy, Houser, Meal, Stahl. Crist. Harvey, Saltsman, Kuhn, Snyder. Pelton, Shaver. Firemen up: Ranch, Weigle. Lackey, Maeyer, Sholter, Snell. Bartolef. Gettv, Barkey, Sheets, Balr, Eyde, Ulsh, Bost dorf, Schlefer. Engineers for 6, Ist 8, 2nd 8, 4th 8, 2nd 24, 32. Firemen for 6, Ist 8, 2nd 8, 4th 8, 2nd 24, 32. EXOI.A SIDE Philadelphia Division 225 crow to go first after 3.45 p. M.i 225, 237, 212, 233, 235. 206, 240. Conductors for 25, 33. 1 Brakemen for 07, 12. 25, 40. [ Conductors up: Deewees, Keller, Shirk. Flagmen lip: Snyder. Corrigan. | Brakemen up: Jacobs. Fair, Bovd, j Summy. Werts, Stimeling. Shaffner, | Waltnan, Taylor, Eufz, Musser. Middle Division 236 crew to go after 1.30 p. m.: 244. 11 Altoona crews tn come in.' Front end: 109, 115, 103, 116, 112. 106. Fireman for 116. Conductor for 116. Flagman for 103. Brakemen for 103-2, 112. THE READING Harrisburg Division—The 12 crew first arter 12.15 p. m.: 9, 2, 7, 8, 1, 5, 16, 22, 23, 4. Eastbound: 58, 56, 67, 68, 61, 59. 65, 63. 60. 71. Engineers for 56, 58, 61. Firemen for 67, 4. 7, 23. Conductors for 59. 61. 65, 7, 8, 9. Brakemen for 58, 60. 61, 67, 9,22 23. Engineers up: Tipton, Barnhart, Lape, Morrison, Martin, Fortney, Morne, Woland, Bonawitz, Meckle, Wye®. Firemen up: King. Dobbins, Carl, Sullivan, Bowers, Eongenecker, Dow houer, Kelly, Fulton. I>ex. Conductors up: Neiman, Orris. Brakemen up: Ileckman, Keefer, Ayres, Smith, Kapp. Shader, Paxton, Painter, Bingaman, Hartz, Shearer. | Walrus Couldn't Tell of All Uses of Electricity Boston has an electric patrol wagon. »An electric oven in Toronto turns out nearly 3,000 loaves of bread a day. A downtown apartment house in Buffalo is equipped with 95 electric ranges. Three electric passenger busses are running to outlying districts in Du buque, lowa, as adjuncts to existing trolley sys'ems. Small fractional horsepower elec tric motors have many uses. A maga rlne recently listed 150 different uses for these tiny power producers. Forty electric locomotives have been shipped from the Schenectady plant of the General Electric Com pany to Panama to haul ships through the canal locks. The largest (lour mill in the world, located at Minneapolis, is equipped with 5,580 horsepower in electric mo tors. A number of very large motors are used. This mill in one day turned out 16,125 barrels of flour. On February 8 the Governor of Bombay, India, closed a switch on the 100,000-volt transmission line of the Tata high-head system and energy was transmitted to Bombay for the first time from the powerhouse forty three miles away. The electric lamps used to illumi nate store windows do not always burn all night. In most city stores an automatic switch turns out the window lamps at a certain hour, near midnight. This switch consists of a I clock and a switching arrangement i whereby the lights are turned out at i any time desired. I Following the success on one rail- I road with wireless apparatus on mov | Ing trains, several other large trunk i line roads are making experiments j with the intention of using this serv j ice for traffic purposes.—Electric News Service. MRS. MARY WAGNER Mrs. Mary E. Wagner, aged 72, widow of the late Jacob Wagner, died yesterday afternoon at her \homte>, 1620 >4 North Fifth street, from a complication. She is survived by four sons, Olie, Jacob, Harvey and Ellas Wagner; four daughters, Mrs. Jacob Hippie, Mrs. ' Edward Keys, Mrs. Charles Swiler and Miss Tillte Wagner, twelve grandchildren and one great grandchild. and two sisters. Mrs. Elias Ueiger and Mrs. John McGallagher. Funeral services will be held at the home Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, jthe Rev. Edwin A. Pyles, pastor of I Fifth Street Methodist Church, offi ciating. Burial will be made in the Enola Cemetery. PORTABLE SII/OS ARK USED BY MISSOURI FARMERS Portable alios are being used by n, number of farmers In an agricultural community In Missouri where expe rience Is said to have taught their value. They are so constructed that they may he placed on a wagon and moved to any part of a farm without difficulty or a material consumption of time. By thus being able to carry the silo into a field, the cost of haul ing fodder to it is reduced as well as la considerable amount of time saved. —From the May Popular Mechanics Magazine. MASONS TO OBSERVE 12TH mum Youngest Blue Lodge Making Big Strides; Master Masons and Consistory Are Growing Harrisburg I.odge, No. 62#, Frea and Accepted Masons, will celebrate the twelfth anniversary of their con stitution Friday evening. June 4, with an elaborate banquet at Masonic Tem ple and the committee of arrange ments have the details well in hand and invitations will be issued in about ten days. This is the youngest Blue lodge in Harrisburg, but one of the most progressive and its social func tions are always enjoyable. Benja min W. Demming is worshipful mas ter and Samuel D. Hansom the secre tary. Harrisburg Council, No. 7. Royal and Select Master Masons, is 57 years old this year and recognized the event on Thursday with a special meeting I in the afternoon and evening. Twenty i four new members were admitted and > a large number of out-of-town mem | bers wore present. Supper was served in the banrii|et hall and prominent ! speakers addressed the assemblag#. i Wilbur S. Barker, the thrice illus trious master, was in charge. Harrisburg. Consistory, Ancient Ac cepted Scottish Kite Masons, Valley of Harrisburg, will be fifty years old in November of this year, and will hold a special anniversary meeting at a date to be decided in the near fu ture. The improvement being made at the North street cathedral will be completed during the summer and will give this organization of Masons much needed additional room. The commander-in-chief, Frederick J. Smith, is having a very successful term and the consistory is growing rapidly. WATERHOUSE PLAZA ALONG RIVER WALL [Continued from First Pago.] regularity two or three times every year. Plaia at Pumping Station The plan as agreed upon follows a suggestion of the engineers of the Board of Public Works and will re sult in a beautiful plaza between the water station and the concrete balus trade. Immediately on the completion of the wall and the walk next week the space back of the wall will be planted with shrubbery and otherwise made attractive. There has already been much praise for the beautiful sur roundings of the pumping station and Commissioner Bowman's decision to create a permanent plaza as part of a practical scheme for protecting the dissolving embankment will be gen erally approved. Tl»c City's Asset Now that the river front improve j ment has progressed to the park stage !of development the people generally are realizing its tine character and the splendid asset which the city has in this clean front along the entire length of the city. AVith the additional plant ig that is now contemplated and the completed grading of the slope this feature of the city's adornment will have no rival anywhere. May Day Fete at Camp Hill Great Success Eleven children, from 6 to 12 yeari of a#e, took part this afternoon in the presentation of the playlet, "Robin Hood." In Willow Park, Camp Hill. The boys and girls were taught their parts in the little play by members of the Camp Hill Civic club. The enter tainment was in charge of the Outdoor committee, of which Mrs. L. H. Den nis is chairman. Early this morning a number of the children hung rustic May baskets, filled with moss and flowers, on the door knobs In the town, following tha old English custom which is still ob served. The children were taught to make the baskets from Southern smilax. Yesterday the boys and girls gave a rehearsal before their parents and sev jeral invited guests, the playlet being i given in the home of Mrs. Dennis in honor of the first birthday of I.ind ley H. Dennis, Jr. The decorations were made to represent a forest scene, the guests occupying the next room. Refreshments were served to the guests after the entertainment. Geraldine Farrar Visits Leo M. Frank in Cell Special to The Trtrgraph Atlanta, May I.—lt became known here to-day that Geraldine Farrar, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, which is appearing here this week, yesterday visited Deo M. Frank, under death sentence for the murder of Marv Phagan. She entered his cell in the Fulton county .tall and discussed his case with him for almost an hour. Miss Farrar went to the jail accom panied only by her traveling compan ion, and every precaution was taken to prevent her visit or Its object be coming public. Frank and his attorneys to-day de clined to say anything concerning the prisoner's conversation with the singer or the purpose of her call. SAYS FRENCH WERE EXPEM/ED By Associated Press Berlin. May 1 (by wireless to Say ville). —Included in the news items given out to-day by the Overseas News Agencv is the following dispatch, dated Constantinople: "The French soldiers who landed on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles all have been expelled." Use Your CREDIT and secure every advantage which honesty and integrity warrant. 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