German Submarines Continue Their Attacks on British Vessels in North Sea HARRISBURG SSISKi TELEGRAPH LXXXIV — No. 104 MICE PUN OF REORGHiI FOR CEIMI I. IIS. CO. Creditors' Committee Formulates Method of Putting Plant on Its Feet Again URGE OPERATION OF MILL Provide For New Committee to In clude Bondholders, Creditors and Stockholders A plan of reorganization for the Centra.l Iron and Steel Company of this < ity was made public to-day by the Creditors' Protective Committee of the company with offices in the Pennsyl vania building, Philadelphia. The Creditors' Protective Commit tee including James B. Bonner, J. Her vey Patlon, B. H. Jones, and H. F. Knapp. secretary, has addressed a comprehensive communication to the merchandise creditors of the Central Iron and Steel, who have deposited their claims under an agreement sign ed July 1, 1912, after the company went into the hands of the receiver. Under the reorganization plan, which was formulated by the Credi tors' Committee in conjunction with a committee appointed by the bondhold ers, a reorganization committee is to be appointed which shall acquire the property and the assets of the Central Iron and Steel Company and transfer them to a new company In considera tion for securities to be distributed to the bondholders, creditors and stock holders, and to be used for the pur poses of the reorganization and by the new company. The Creditors' Committee says in its reports that it feels that the best in terests of the creditors will be served by operating the plant and making improvements from time to time from I money as secured by the sale of new I bonds and as the additional funds of! the company will permit. The report of the committee sets forth that with the assistance of t'hailes MacVeagh and \V. W. Cor lett as counsel, a great amount of time and attention for a period of more than two years has been spent on the working out of the reorganization plan. The securities authorized for distri bution to the bondholders , creditors and stockholders which are to be used bv the new company and for the pur poses of reorganization include a series, A and B, of first mortgage bonds. . A to be for 5500,0m0 and B for $1,300,000; two series of debenture bonds, A to be for JtiOO.OOO and B for [Continued on Pago 5.] Entry Lists For City Beautiful Garden Contest Will Close at 6 O'clock At 6 o'clock to-night entrv lists for the Telegraph's "city beautiful" gar den contest will close. After that hour entries, whether they be by letter, phone call or post card, will not be considered. On the letters and postcards the postmark will be considered as a guide. If you hurry therefore you may still have a chance of getting your notification on file with Miss M. W. Buehler, 23 2 North Second street, chairman of the outdoor department of the Civic Club. French Toy Poodle Is^ Latest Police Mascot The police department has a mas cot. Tt Is a French Toy poodle. The new dog has been named "Skinner." Special orders were issued to Johnny Orlssinger and others, that the new mascot is here stay. The mascot arrived yesterday a'fternoon. Tt is a gift to the department from Charles (Skinner) Johnson, the local fish mer chant. RISC F.niployers are buy ing it now to help you to help tlieni.— Buy wisely—but buy now and there will lx> more opportunity for employes. THIS IS THE TIMR OF \LL TIME FOR THE U. & A TO MAKE VAST STRIDES.— Let's all get busy. Buy-It-Now THE WEATHER For Harrlshnrjt and Tielnltyt Fair to-night and Thiimilaji not nmeh change In temperature. For Eii»tern Pennsylvania t I'nrtlv cloudy to-night and Thurmlavi moderate northwest nnd west wind*. Rtver The main river anil Its two princi pal branches will rise ullghtlv or remain nearly statlonarv. The Juniata will fall slightly to-night and Thursday. A stage of about 4.5 feet Is Indicated for Harrla l>urg Thursday morning. General Conditions The disturbance that nai central over the I pper Ohio Vallev, Turn day morning, has moved north eastward and la non central over "Northern New Kngland. It has caused showers In the Inst twenty-four hours generally over the northern half of the country east of the Mississippi river. Temperature! 8 a. m.. HO. Sum Rises, BtOI a. m.s sets, TiOa p. m. Moon i New moon. May IS, 10(31 p. m. River Stage: 4.8 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather TTl«hes« temperature, (IS, I.oweat temperature, 4t>. Mean temperature, 52. Normal temperature, 58. THE NIGHT BEFORE 11. S. CONSUL AT LYONS: «S LIFE 111 OCEIj Was Passenger Aboard Steamship! Sant' Anna, Now at Naples HOME WAS IN WASHINGTON State Department Officials Have Not Been Notified of Tragedy at Sea Naples, May s.—The United States consul at Lyons, one of the passengers aboard the steamship Sant' Anna, which has arrived here from New i York, is reported to have committed j suicide during the voyage by leaping overboard. He was on his way to his post in France. The Sant' Anna sailed from New York on April 20. New York. May 5. —The passenger list of the steamship Sant' Anna con tains the name of Frederick Van Dyne, American consul at Lyons. France. Mr. Van Dyne engaged passage through G. W. Moss, the Washington agent of the Fabre I.lne. No word has been received by local agents of the line concerning the re ported suicide of a passenger of the Sant' Anna. Washington. D. C., May s.—Fred erick Van Dyne, a resident of this city and American consul at Lyons, had been at his home here for several months in ill health and sailed on the Sant' Anna. Neither the State Depart ment nor his family had received any advices to-day on his reported dis appearance, but feared it was true. HEART OF THE CITY SCOURED MEIERS Nature Helps in Crusade, Washing Away the Dust and I Dirt Nature turned in yesterday to help Harrisburg in the labor involved in the annual "clean-up" week by pro viding showers that completely routed whatever little specs of dirt remained on Allison Hill after thrifty house [ Continued on Page 7.] Hope Engine With New Motor Tractor Attached Expected Here Saturday By Saturday evening 'the Hope fire engine with the new Christie motor tractor attached, will be in Harrisburg, according to advices City Commission er M. Harvey Taylor got to-day by phone. The Front Drive Motor Com pany of Hoboken, N. J., which is con necting the tractor to the steamer, notified Mr. Taylor that the apparatus will be shipped to-morrow. An op erator from the factory will be sent along to run the machine and instruct candidates for drivers for a few days. The old horse drivers will be given preference in trying for the chauf feurs' jobs. As soon as the Hope arrives the Pnxton steamer which is being hous ed for the time being at the . Hope house, will he taken home. [ln a few weeks at most the Friendship steamer with tractor connected, will be back in town again. The engine is now under going a thorough overhauling. HARRISBURG. PA.. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1915. ROTARV CLUB HIS SCHOOL SURVEY PlilU Will Bring Expert Here to Try to Solve Local High School Problem The Harrisburg Rotary Club, through I its educational committee, has under- I taken to have made a survey of the i public schools of Harrisburg with I special relation to the high school I problem. The committee, consisting of E. Fred 1 Rowe. John F. Whittaker and Dr. j Samuel Z. Shope. chairman, made a report at last evening's meeting of the ' club recommending that the club au- I thorize the committee to procure the ! services of a noted educator to make I the survey. The committee. Dr. Shope said, has a man in mind who will give two weeks to the work, but he did not care to five the name at this time. The club authorized the committee to proceed. The chairman also presented an exhaustive report on the subject of improving the efficiency of the public school system and expressed the belief that a junior high school would do much to better conditions here. This report in full follows: Slx-Yenr High School "Among the many problems receiv ing the attention of educators and [Continued on Page 10.] RAX FOR MAYOR: TO UK HAXGED Baltimore. Md„ May s.—As un moved as if he were the central figure in a stage drama. Benjamin E. Davis, four years ago candidate on the So cialist ticket for Mayor of Baltimore, was sentenced yesterday, the mayor alty election day, by Judge McLane In the Circuit Court for Baltimore coun |ty. to be hanged for the murder of his [wife, Mary Annie Davis, at St. Denis, lon July 28 last. t Three More Trawlers Blown Up by Germans By Associated Press Hull, England, May 5, 11 a. m.— I Three more British trawlers have I been added to the list of those blown •up by German submarines in the 'North Sea Monday and it is feared | others also were lost as they were i shelled and fired upon with rifles by the crew of a submersible. The crews of the trawlers lolanthe, Hero and Northward Ho have landed here, re porting the destruction of their boats. No lives were lost aboard any of the three. SWOBODA MAKES DEFENSE By Associated Press Paris, May 5.—A vigorous defense against the charge of espionage pre ferred against him was made by Ray mond Swoboda when he was examined yesterday by Major Jullien, of the Paris permanent court-martial, says the Petit Journal. In an effort to prove his assertion that he really had impor tant business deals on hand he gave the names of persons who loaned htm 2,500 francs, knowing that he was about to realize handsome profits. MEDICAL RESEARCH AWARDS By Associated Press Paris, May s.—The French institute has announced that the Osiris prize, which amounts to 183,000 francs be cause no award was given in 1912 has been awarded chiefly for discoveries In medicine. Drs. Chantemesse and Vldal, discovers of antityphoid vac cine, will divide 50.000 francs while an equal amount will go to Dr. Vin cent whose researches resulted in the finding of ether vaccine. WOMKX TO I.EtVR CHtXA By Associated Press Hankow, China, May B. The Jap anese Cnnsul-Oeneral recelv/td Instruc tions from Toklo, yesterday, directing him to order Japanese Women and chil dren to lie prepared to leave Hankow if«r Japan by to-day's steamer. . REVENUE MISERS ADVANCED 111 HOUSE Jones Bond Tax Bill Passed; Auto License Measure Special Order Monday Two of the bills framed to increase j State revenues for highway Improve- ! ment were advanced by the House to- j day. The Jones bill, regulating the I collection of the 4-mill tax on all bonds and other evidences of indebted ness at the source, was passed finally by a vote of 165 to 13. .Mr. Jones ex plained that it meant that the Com monwealth would get $1,500,000 that Is not being paid now and that the in come was to be dedicated to highways. The Lipschutz bill, increasing the State license fees for registration of . automobiles, was amended and passed I on second reading after a long dis cussion. The amendments were made by H. I. Wilson, Jefferson, who esti [Continuetl on Page 7.] Driver of Automobile Owned by Government Fined $5 For Speeding By Associated Press ! Washington, May s.—Secretary I Tumulty went to police court to-day to testify for a White House chauf feur, who a traffic policeman testi fied, exceeded the speed limits while drivtng the secretary home from the executive offices. .Mr. Tumulty told the judge that the big automobile bearing the coat of {arms of the United States was going ,as slow as possible, but nevertheless lit cost the chauffeur $5. 1 Federal Judge Defies Executive Interference By Associated Press ! , Butte. Mont., May s.—Judge George M. Bourquin, of the Federal District Court, who ignored a rule of the De : partment of Labor in passing on an ! application for citizenship to-day, de i clared he would resist any attempt of the executive department of the gov ernment to Interfere in the conduct of ihls court. i "We all know," he said, "that the executive department, at Washington has controlled Congress. But this court will never submit to control. There has been a great deal of talk In the departments as to what they would do to the courts unless the lat ter did as they desired. "This court is dependent on laws passed by Congress, and while It ex ists as a court It will be conducted without Intereference from depart ments of the government." SEBASTIAN HAS CONFIDENCE ' By Associattd Press Los Angeles, Cal., May s.—Encour aged by what he considered was an overwhelming verdict given him by the people In the municipal primary yesterday. Charles E. Sebastian, first choice candidate for mayor, was ready to appear in court to-day to resume the stand In his own defense against the charge that he nnd Mrs. Lillie Pratt contributed to the dependency of Edith Serkin, Mrs. Pratt's halfslster. TAX BILL UP TO GOVERNOR By Associated Press Sacramento, Cal., May 5.—A con stitutional amendment.giving the legis lature power to overturn the present tax system in California, which was established In 1910, was placed In the hands of Governor Johnson to-day for his signature. The bill passed' the senate some time ago and last night passed the assembly. It will be sub mitted to a vote of the people at the L uext election. 'DECLARES ALTOONAIS CONTROLLED BY P. B. R. Perham Says Every Person in City Must Bow and Sing "My Com pany, 'Tis of Thee" W. W. ATTERBURY ON STAND Tells of "Spy" System Inaugurated to Benefit Employes and the Public By Associated Press Washington, D. C., May s.—Labor conditions on the Pennsylvania rail road affecting its telegraphers and shopmen were inquired into from the standpoint of the railroad company at the continuation to-day of the hear ings before the Federal Industrial Re lations Commission. The commission had already heard H. B. Perham, president of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, regarding complaints by that organization against the Pennsylvania. The complaints charged that the railroad company re fused to recognize the telegraphers' unions, made every effort to break up ■existing unions and prevent organ ization of the others. Pennsylvania Railroad officials were heard on these complaints to-day, W. W. Atterbury, vice-president, being the principal witness. It was expected that the inquiry into Pennsylvania con ditions would continue for the re mainder of the week. Perham, as the first witness to-da* f , was questioned by R. >l. Alshton, vice president of the Chicago and North western Railway, on telegraphers' working conditions. Alshton brought out that telegra phers and signalmen on the main line of the Pennnsylvania, where traffic is dense, work eight hours a day. "Isn't that less than any other trans portation employes work ?" he asked. "Yes." Mr. Perham replied, "and the [Continued on Page 7.] RESUME GRADING ON MUCH EWER SCREE Big Force on Job North of Hard scrabble Rounding Off Slopes of River Front ANOTHER GANG ON SOON Foreman Paget Will Have Charge] of Second Group Within Day or j Two; to Hasten Planting Grading operations were resumed on a larger scale on the slopes of I the river front above "Hardscrabble" to-day, and by noon a force of thirty I workmen were busy under the direc [ Continued on P»ec 7.] Japanese Legation Is Preparing to Leave Peking on Warships Peking. May 5, 8.15 P. M.—A Japa nese- cruiser ami four torpedohoat destroyers have arrived al Chin-Wang - Tao. on tin- Gulf of Liao-Tiuw. about 1 150 miles east of Peking, evidently for the purjM»se of removing from China I the members of the Japanese legation. Consul reports from all parts' of the country announce the departure of Jaiianese or their concentration at the Japanese consulates. There is a substantial opinion In i Peking that Japan mav take action in regard to the nonacccptance of her de mands by China without waiting upon I the issuance of an ultimatum. ItlSoiioT NEW PLAZA JIT ONCE Commissioner H. F. Bowman De cides to Start Promenade Stretch at City Pumping Station Work will be started at once on th< construction of the broad new con crete plaza that is to overlook the River Front wall at the city pumping station. Announcement to this effect was made this afternoon by- City Commissioner Harry F. Bowman, su perintendent of public safety, follow ing a conference with Commissioner W. H. Lynch and J. D. Justin, prin cipal engineer of the Board of Public Works. Primarily Commissioner Bowman's purpose In planning the plaza is to protect the embankment that juts Into the stream at that point, particularly during the high water. Sediment Is frequently deposited in the bend be low the pumping station by the eddies caused by the sweep of the currents around the point. In addition to serv ing as a protection to the embank ment the plaza will provide an attrac tive observation and promenading point easily accessible from Front street. From Water Department Funds The improvement will be provided for from the water department funds. Stucker Brothers' Construction Com pany will build the plaza In connec tion with the completion of the grano lithic walk on the wall. The same! price per yard will be arranged for. The proposed plaza will be con-1 structed entirely of concrete and will j i Continued ou Page 44 | DESPERATE IN PROGRESS ALONG CARPATHIAN PASSES One Hill Changed Hands Three Times in Single Battle in Vicinity of Stry; 1,200 Austrians Captured by Rus sians; Nine More British Trawlers Sunk by Ger man Submarine; Others Believed to Have Been Blown Up in North Sea London, Slay 5, 3:16 p. m.—"A Japanese ultimatum to China," cables the Toklo correspondent of the Central News, "grants a de lay of 18 hours." Nine British trawlers were sunk Monday in the North Sea by German submarines. So far as is known no lives were lost in these encounters. According to the cerws of the tishlng vessels, the submarine which wrought this damage is of the newest type. She has an iron cross painted on her conning tower. She ran amuck among the fishing fleet on Monday and sank seven trawlers In quick succession. The correspondent of a Berlin news paper telegraphs that the Austro- German victory in Western Galicia broke down the Russian front for a distance of twenty-four miles. He states the Russians abandoned not only their first line, but the villages in the rear. The Russian war office ad mits the Germans and Austrlans suc ceeded In crossing the Dunajec, but states they were prevented from mak ing a further advance. Desperate fighting is in progress farther east on the Carpathian side. In the region of Stry, It is said, one hill ehangedxhands three times in a single battle and that 1,200 more Aus tria ns were captured by the Russians. Unofficial reports from Saloniki say that two Turkish aeroplanes which at tacked the allied fleet at the Dar danelles were brought down by the fire of the warships. The aeroplanes, manned by Germans, attacked the fleet with bombs, but it is said no damage was done. Relations between Turkey and Bul garia apparently have become more uncertain. Turkey is sending troops hastily to the neighborhood of Adrian ■ople after having withdrawn them for use on the Gallipoli peninsula. Austria's answer to Italy's minimum demands is expected to-morrow and it Is believed in Rome its character will determine the course of Italy. Not withstanding the king's declston to re main away from the patriotic cele bration in connection with the Garl- MILLSKSBURG BRIDGE BILL PASSES Hmrisburj —-The Stidlaman bill for tke construction of a bridge across tke Susquehanna riv»r between Miilers burg *nd Crows Landing, Perry county, was passed finally in the Senate to-ciay and joes to the House. It carries $275,000. BURGLAR STRIKES WOMAN Harrisburg Frightened by. a burglar which entered her room early this morning, Mrs. Edward M. Hawthorne, 2305 Prospect street, fell across tha bed in a faint. When she awoke she had a black eye. The woman believes the burglar struck her. Ha did not steal anything. COAL COMPANY APPEALS Harrisburg Th« first appeal from the recent decision of President Judge Kunkel in declaring constitutional, the 1913 anthracite coal tax act, was made this afternoon by the Alden Coal Company, of Plymouth. Middletown, Pa., May s.—Stricken with kcart failure, Alexander M. Imler, aged 72, a vetercn of the Civil War, dropped dead on the street near his home, late this afternoon. GULFLIGHT CARRIED LARGE FLAG Pensance, England, May 5, 3.38 P. M.—At the inquest to-day into the death of Captain Alfred Gunter, of the American oil tank steamship Gulflight which was torpedoed May 1 off the Scilly Islands, the verdict reached was "heart failure accelerated by shock caused by the torpedoing of the ship." Evidence given at the inquest showed that the Gulflight was flying a very large American flag at the time she was torpedoed. TURKISH REGIMENT ANNIHILATED Paris, May 5, 3.55 P. M.—A dispatch from Mytilene to the Havas Agency says that a regiment of Turkish troops was annihilated during fighting at the Dardanelles last night and that the allies transported 1,000 more prisoners to Tene dos and Moudros. The dispatch also says that a squadron or warships of the allies again bombarded forta at the Dar danelles and Thurkish encampments on the coast MARRIAGE LICENSES William K. II ii in en an<| Ada 1.. Hart, city. Vincent Karheck. Wlronlsco. anil Krlnla Zalkn, Lykena. Mortln H. I.orkrrnian, Glen Rock, and Mabel IS. Gallatin, York. • POSTSCRIPT. 12 PAGES >aldl memorial to-day it is now be lieved in Rome that there has been no essential modification of the situation. CHINESE CAPITAL QUIKT Peking, May s.—The Chinese capi tal is remarkably quiet In the face of what the Peking Gazette calls "the gravest peril in China's modern his tory." Most of the people of the city are going about their business as usual apparently with no knowledge of the problem which confronts their country. British Erecting Big Station in Jamaica By Associated Prtss New York, May 6.—To supply a need felt by the British navy, a power ful wireless station is being 'built on the highlands of the island of Jamai ca, 3,-000 feet above the level of the isea. according to the Rev. George B. I Stallworthy, a Unitarian clergyman who reached here tp-day aboard the steamer Juan after a five months' visit to the island. Mr. Stallworthy said a force of about 300 men had been working on the plant for two months. The new station is being constructed by the British Mr. Stallworthy asserted, and no details as to its equopment or range had been permitted to become public, except that the plant would be a very powerful one with a long | radius of effectiveness. RCSS FRONT BADLY BROKEN Berlin, via London, May s.—The southern wing of the Russian army (in West Galioia has been broken along a front of 36 kilometerß according to a dispatch received by the Tageblatt from a special correspondent. The attack was made with such determin ation that the Russians were forced to abandon villages back of the front which served as quarters. (Other War News Page I) .*
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