Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, May 06, 1915, Image 1

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    Crisis at Hand in Negotiations Between
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 105
■PIEMYSP.U.
DISCHARGED ITS MEN
II) WHOLESALE LIES
FOB JOINING UHIOHS
Organizer of B. of F. R. E.
Tells of Conditions in This
City During Shopmen's
Strike Last Summer; At
tacks W. G. Lee
TELLS INVESTIGATORS HE
IS GUILTY OF TREASON
Declares B. of R. T. Head Is
Cause of Suicides, Great
Loss of Property and
Breaking Up of Homes
By Associated Press
Washington, May 6.—Hearings were
continued to-day before the Federal
Industrial Relations Commission into
labor conditions on the Pennsylvania
Railroad Involving its telegraphers
and shopmen.
W. H. Pierce, an organizer of the
Rrotherhood of Federated Railroad
Employes, resumed his testimony con
cerning the Pennsylvania shopmen's
strikes at Altoona and Harrisburg last
year. He had asserted that conditions
among the shopmen never would be
what they should be until the railroad
company extended the men the right
of organization the same as to em
ployes of the transportation service.
Pierce, questioned by Commissioner
W'einstock. insisted that the Pennsyl
vania discharged, in wholesale lots,
men who joined the Shopmen's union.
"I do not say the Pennsylvania rail
road objects to five or ten per cent,
of their men being organized, but
"hen the organization shows great
strength, the company sets its ma
chinery in motion to wipe them out
of existence."
Opens Attack on T,ec
Pierce attacked W. G. Lee. presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, for his part in the 1914
shopmen's strike.
"Mr. W. G. Lee, president of the
trainmen—l should call him brother,
but don't—because it's a disgrace—"
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West End Site For
City Star Laundry Is
Purchased For $26,500
W. E. Orth, proprietor of the City-
Star Laundry, 114-416 State street, to
day purchased the property at Sixth
and Herr streets. It Is understood a
laundry plant will be erected by Mr.
Orth within a year.
The property purchased to-day was
a part of the D. D. Boas estate and was
sold by George E. Etter, real estate
agent. The consideration was *26 500
The plot fronts in Sixth street 182
feet and extends along Herr street 106
feet.
The present location of the Cttv-Star
Laundry is on property which will be
a part of the Capitol Park extension
and must be vacated before July 1.
1916. Mr. Orth is not prepared to an
nounce his plans at this time.
MARKETS 8.5 MILES FROM FARMS
By Associated Press
Washington. D. C., May «.—Ameri
can farms are on the average 6.5 miles
from market, the farthest awav aver
aging 8.7 miles, according to the De
partment of Agriculture, which has
.iusl completed an inquiry. The num
her of round trips per day averages
for all farms 2.1 and for the more
remote farms 1.6 trips.
Don't "wait
a while"
If everybody did—the whole
country would stand still.
THIS IS THE TIME OF ALL
TIME FOR THE U. S. A. TO
MAKE VAST STRIDES.—
Let's all get busy.
Buy-It-Now
THE WEATHER
For Harriaborß and vicinityi I'b
■ettled to-night and Friday; prob
ably raini not much change In
-temperature.
For Baatern Pennsylvania! Unset
tled to-night and Frldar; prob
ably rain, except generally fair In
southeast portion to-nlKhti gentle
,tu moderate nlnda, becoming
southeast.
RlTer
. The main river and the loner North
Branch and l.oirtr Went Branch
■. will continue <o rise slorrly. The
upper Xorth Branch and Upper
West Branch and the Juniata will
fall slowly or remain nearly sta
tionary to-night and probablr
rise aomewhnt Friday or Krlday
night. A stage of about 4.8 feet
Is ladlcated for Harrisburg Fri
day mosnlng. (
General Conditions
Light showers have fallen In yere
Vork. Northern Pennsylvania and
along the northern border of the
Great I.akes In the last twenty
fonr hours.
Temperature) 9 a. m„ 52,
Soni Rises, SiOO a. M.i seta, 7i03
Moon i Sew moon. May la, lOiSl
a. m.
River Stagei 4.5 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, as.
Lowest temperature, 4R.
Mean temperature, M.
.Normsi temperature, 58.
SAYS CO. BREAKS
FAITH WITH CITY
Park Expert Calls Attention to
Change of Design in Island
Coal Dock
VIOLATION OF AGREEMENT
Company's Manager Says It Is
Willing to Comply With All
His Suggestions
Warren H. Manning, of Boston, the
landscape architect who has been the
park counselor of Harrisburg since
the beginning of the park develop
ment, is in the city this week and is
much pleased with the progress that
has been made since his last visit. He
is quite uisappointed, however, over
the lallure of ine liarrlsburg Light
and Power Company to make guod us
promise regarding the architectural
features of the coal dock now being
constructed on the east side of the
island near the city (liter plant. It was
generally supposed that the design
which was discussed at tho original
conference between the Department of
Parks and the officials ot' the light and
power company was being carried out.
In a letter to the Telegraph to-dav and
the other Harrisburg newspapers Mr.
Manning says:
"1 was asked to consider the ques
tion of establishing a coal handling
plant on the island at an earlier visit.
At this conference the engineers of
the company asking for the privilege
and the engineer of the Department of
Parks and Public Property agreed that
conditions made it impracticable to
establish a plant on the opposite side
of the island, or at its upper end.
"I was then, and am now, of the
opinion that such a plant would better
be on the island where public utility
structures are already established than
on the city shore.
The location of this structure at
the point in question, in my mind,
hinged largely upon the practicability
o! making it so architecturally at
tractive as to be a worthy oblect in the
view from the shore and the basin I
believed then, and I now believe, that
this can l»e done.
It was my understanding that the
company hail given assurance that
they would go to a very considerable
expense to accomplish this purpose.
"Acting for and through the Depart
ment of Parks and Public Propertv I
arranged with a competent Ilrm of
architects to prepare plans, which
were transmitted to the company- with
the expectation that there would be
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CHILD SHYER SIVS
ANOTHER IS MARKED
In Letter to Mother of Murdered
Boy He Declares He Will
Continue to Kill
MRS. MURRAY COLLAPSES
Mother of Little Victim Gets Note
Just Before the Funeral
Services Begin
New York, May 6.—The letter writ
ing murderer who killed 5-year-old
Eleanore Cohn and 4-year-old Charles
Murray, has written to the Murray
boy's mother, telling her that ha will
commit another murder when the
present excitement over her child's
death subsides.
TKe letter was received to-day at
the time the little victim's body waa
about to be buried. Mrs. Murray read
one paragraph and collapsed. The
missive was taken to police headquar
ters to be examined for finger prints.
The murder of the little boy, who
was killed by knife wounds in his
abdomen the night of May 3. was pre
ceded by a similar threat contained in
a letter addressed to Mrs. Cohn. the
mother of the little girl who was kill
ed March 29. Both children, the po
lice believe, were killed by the same
per',on.
The letter to Mrs. Murray was mail
ed in this city at 7.30 o'clock last
night and was delivered to-day, while
preparations were being made for
funeral services for the body.
East Side mothers, alarmed, are es
corting their children to and from
school in the neighborhood to-day.
CLEf-UP CiMPU
HAS EDUCATED PEOPLE
Health Officials Greatly Pleased
With Way Citizens Are
Co-operating
That "Clean-up" week already has
become more than an annual muni
cipal institution was attested to-day
by officers of the Health Department,
who declared that so firmly has the
Idea of c) manliness taken hold of the
people that they do not wait, for huge
piles of rubbish and grime to pile up
but keep disposing of it all the time.
"There is no better argument than
this for the Institution of 'clean-up'
week," said Dr. J. M. J. Raunick. "The
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ENTHUSIASTIC ALIA* RECEIVED
By Anojwtfii Press
Sydney. X. S. W., May 6.—The de
tails of the operations of the allies
against the Dardanelles have been re
ceived with enthusiasm. Recruiting
shows no sign of diminution.
HARRISBURG. PA.. THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1915
TWO VICTIMS OF NEW YORK "JACK THE RIPPER"
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CHARLES MURRAY LEOXORE ANNA COHEN
New May 6.—One tenement section containing hundreds of thou
sands of foreigners is in a furor over the murder of two children by a
.lack the Ripper. ' More than 100 detectives of the police force are on
the hunt for the murderer, who they believe is a maniac luckv enough
so far to escape.
Kenore Anna Cohen, five years old. was attacked in the second floor
hallway of her home, in the tenement at Not 3.i2 Third avenue. March
I.'. Her abdomen was slashed. No sound was heard by tenants. The
murderer made a clean escape.
i harlie Murray, four years old, was attacked In the ground lloor hall
way of the tenement in which he lived. No. 270 First avenue. His abdomen
was ripped open with two long knife slashes in precisely the same man
ner as that of the little girl. The crime was committed swiftly and in ab
solute silence, at the dinner hour, with tenants in their rooms on all sides.
The murderer escaped without leaving the slightest clue.
The utter recklessness displayed by the criminal of this tvpe is shown
in the fact that both crimes were committed about the dinner hour, in
the open hallways of crowded tenement buildings, with a polyglot, excit
able population teeming on all sides. The cleverness displayed by both
murderers is evident from the manner in which thev made their appear
ance on the scene of the crime and their escape afterward. Despite the
pools of blood found beside the bodies of both little victims, and the cer
tainty that their assailants must have carried away long bladed. bloody
stained knives, no person was found in either case who had seen the mur
derers depart.
"CIRCUS JITNEYS" AND OPEN
CARS IN FIERCE
Both Have Big Day; Crowds Fight to Get Into Motor Buses; Rush
Starts Early
Open competition between jitneys
and the Harrisburg Railways Company
was shown to-day when more than
fifty jitney owners placarded their
machines "To the show grounds, 5
cents."
The railways company in turn
brought out the open cars for the first
time this season. All day the jitney
men hauled big loads of passengers to
the big tents at the west end of the
city and late this afternoon were bring
ing the people back to the central part
of the city.
The trolleys, however, had their big
HOUSE PASSES NUIIVf
MEASURES FINALLY
Third Class City Law Amended;
Local Bills Pass Second
Reading
The House passed finally to-day the
bill amending third class city law by
providing for erection into a city of
two or more contiguous boroughs.
Other bills passed:
Requiring purchase money mort
gages t® be recorded within 30 days
to have priority of lien.
Regulating appeals from auditors
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CHILD BADLY INJURED
BY BIG TOURING CAR
Little Girl Was Running Across
Street to Buy Toy Balloon,
Witnesses Say
little Florence Watt, the 8-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. N.
Watt. 224 5 Xorth Second street, did
not see the big parade to-day.
For days Florence, like all her other
playmates, .talked and dreamed of
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iIAM'S PAVrMON DEDICATED
By Associated Press
San Francisco, Cal., May 6.—Slam's
pavilion, which was transported In
150,000 separate pieces from Bankok,
was dedicated to-day at the Fanama-
Paclflc Exposition. The building is a
reproduction of one of the pavilions
In the grounds of the royal palace at
Bankok with the umbrella fslgn of
royalty) and Buddha as the predomi
nating features of the exterior. J
day, car after car running with big
crowds. The drivers of the jitneys
started in early in the morning, some
of them before T o'clock, for the day's
business. Sign painters had their busy
day yesterday getting ready for the
rush.
This is the first time since the intro
duction of the jitney in this city that
the merits of the trolley and jitney
were brought under close observation,
the jitney drivers having a slight ad
vantage because of their rapid runs
from the business district to the show
grounds.
liOVDS HIKE
FOR PEIfSYIIi
Governor Signs Bill Putting It
Under State Regulation; Other
Measures Approved
Regulations for Insurance In Penn
sylvania on the Lloyds plan are pro
vided in the bill approved to-day by
Governor Brumbaugh. The bill places
the control of associations or Individ
uals engaged in such business under
control of the Insurance Commissioner
who will require bonds to be tiled with
his department The Governor also
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GOVERNOR TO WORK
ON GOOD ROADS DAY
Places Himself at Disposal of State
Highway Commissioner as
Volunteer
| Governor Rrurnbaugh informed State
Highway Commissioner Cunningham
last night that he would place himself
at the disposal of the State Highway
Department on the "state-wide good
roads day," Wednesday. May 26. The
Governor explained to, Commissioner
Cunningham that he wanted to 'par
ticipate with the other citizens of the
commonwealth on that day and that
he knew of no better way to do so than
by putting his services at the disposal
of the State Highway Department.
From every county in the state ad
vices are being received at the State
Highway Department that intense en
thusiasm is being aroused over the
"state-wide good roads day" plan, and
every effort is being made to enlist all
citizens for work on that dax.
CIRCUS ROLLS INTO
101 ON 4 TINS
Elephants, Snake Charmer, Weenie
Wee, Clowns, Acrobats
Jugglers, Magicians
THEY'RE ALL HERE TODAY
Thousands See Big Parade and
First Show at Sixth and Ma
hantongo Streets
'Oh the drums were heard and the
piccolo's note.
As the circus uptown paraded.
And the old trick mule and the
whiskered goat, i(
And the elephant umber shaded.
The circus is here —Barnum and
Bailey's. It rolled into town early
this morning, coming upon tour long
trains from Lancaster, where per
formances were given yesterda>.
Thev're all here —the elephants, the
"rhino," the marvelous snake charm
er, the smallest man ever born to
live, the living skeleton, Weenie Wee,
the animated chocolate eclair, clowns,
riders, bee-you-ti-ful horses and rid
ers, acrobats, jugglers, magicians—all
are here. Boneless popcorn in bales,
freshly shucked antiseptic peanuts,
lemonade as pink as the blush ot a
maid, tinsel, blare of horns, music,
pomp and circumstance, the odor of
tanbark and sawdust all are on tap
to-day—red letter day for youthful
Harrisburg.
The parade this morning was wit
nessed by thousands. There were
many new features. The old standbys
■were all in line; the lumbering ele
phants, with their investigating
trunks; twenty tiny ponies four
abreast, pulling a golden chariot; open
cages; tableaux wagons and ornate
floats —cowboys, gallant cavaliers and
handhome women all were in line.
Hetl-Clieekoil Babies—l'm!
M Hoy, Jinimie, look at de taßurs.
Sure enough there were four tigers
in one cape pacing restlessly to and
from nnd licking their chops at sight
of so many healthy'hoys passing their
barred prison. Two gaunt lions each
a lean and hungry Casslus, in the
cage immediately following—were oc
cupied during the entire parade in
taking a sort of mental census of the
red-cheeked babies lining the route.
The trunks of over a score of ele
phants kept weaving in and out for
peanuts.
At the Show Grounds
Twenty tents —big and little —have
been pitched at the show grounds at
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JAPAN'S ULTIMATUM 1
ARB IN PEKING
Threat Is Forwarded to the Japa
nese Legation in Chinese
Capital
PREPARED FOR DELIVERY
Dispatch Says It Will Likely Be
Given to Chinese Government
This Afternoon
By Associated Press
PEKING, CHINA, MAY «. 8:15
P. M.—THE ULTIMATUM OF JAPAN
ITO CHINA REACHED THE JAPA
JNESE LEGATION TO-DAY. IT
j PROBABLY WILL BE PRESENTED
ITO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT
THIS AFTERNOON.
Washington, May 6. —Official dis
patches from Tokio and Peking re
ceived here to-day indicated that while
an ultimatum to China by Japan was
iconsidered possible, the step actually
I had not been taken when they were
j sent.
Secretary Bryan to-day continued
his policy of refusing to discuss the
far eastern situation or to reveal to
any extent the department's advices.
He said, however, that there had been
no suggestion of mediation and refus
ed to predict what the course of the
United States would be.
worn
■TO SEEP*
Speaker Ambler Goes Ahead With
Business; Vocational Educa
tional Bill Out
The House to-day endeavored to
compete with the circus parade and
only succeeded because Speaker Am
bler went ahead with the work and
members who had climbed to win
dows or gone out to see the animals I
came hustling back to look after their;
bills. The Speaker declined to grant i
any recess and went ahead with the;
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BUC'HMAN GOES TO FRONT I
By Associated Press
State College, Pa.. Slay 6. F. N. I
D. Buchman, secretary of the college '
T. M. C. A. at the Pennsylvania State'
College, will spend the summer in'
Europe ministering to the spiritual j
needs of the troops in trenches and
men in hospitals. |
ALLIES' LANDING FORCE
ENCIRCLED BY TURKS ON
GALLIPOU PENINSULA
furkish War Office Contradicts Official Statements Made
by French and British; Allies Reported to Be Un
able to Advance; Crisis at Hand in Negotiations Be
tween Austria and Italy; Berlin Papers Say Italy's
Entrance Into War Is Likely
Reports of consistent progress on
the part of the allied forces at the
Dardanelles were contradicted in an
otflcial statement to-day from the
Turkish War Office. It was said the
troops which landed on Gallipoli
peninsula were in a precarious condi
tion, being <yiclrcled by Turkish forces
and unable to advance. The state
ment was made that only two points
of the peninsula—Seddul Bahr and
Avi Burnu—were held by the allies.
Dispatches from French and Brit
ish sources said further success had
been won by the allies. An attack by
Turks on the encampment at Krithia
resulted disastrously for them, ac
cording to these advices, the Turks
having left 1,500 dead behind them
after their repulse. A British corre
spondent asserted that the tip of the
peninsula and the entire western side
were under control of the allies.
Crisis Has Come
Rome, Vienna and Berlin advices
indicated that a crisis had come in the
negotiations between Italy and Aus
tria. In Rome, where it had been felt
of late that war was inevitable, there
has been a sudden revival of hope of
a peaceful settlement owing to the
fact that Austria is said to have real
ized the necessity of making substan
tial territorial concessions. Vienna
regarded as significant a visit of the
Italian ambassador to the Austro-
Hungarian foreign minister although
the outcome was not disclosed
Berlin newspapers said Italy's par
ticipation in the war must be regarded
as not unlikely.
Claims were made in Petrograd that
the victory of the Russian army of
the Caucasus over the Turks an
nounced yesterday was an important
and decisive one. A force of 30,000
Turks which attacked the Russians
in the Dilman-Khori region was said
to have been repulsed with heavy
losses, and compelled to retire in dls
otrler.
Still another neutral steamer has
been sunk in the North Sea, although
whether by a mine or torpedo has not
been established. The Danish vessel.
DESPERATE BATTLE IN PROGRESS
Vienna, May 5, via London, May 6, 2.40 P. M.—A bat
tle of the most desperate character continued all night long
.and throughout to-day, without a break, on the West
Gahcian front. The Austro-German armies continued to
gain ground on the southern section of the battle front, cap
turing position after position from the Russiana.
HEAVY WIND STORM STRIKES WEST
Ardmore. Okla., May i.—Three persons were injured
and much property damaged here to-day by a heovy wind
storm. It was reported that Wilson, Okla., noor here, was
hit by a storm which blew down forty buildings, but that no
one was serioualy injured there. Winds of almost tornado
proportions were reported over a wide soction o! southern
Oklahoma.
SIEGEL SETTLEMENT APPROVED
Boston, May fi. A final settlement of tbe claims
against the Henry Siejcl Company ®f Boston, mn a basis of
27*4 per cent, was approved to-day by J. U Olmstead,
referee in bankruptcy.
LITTLE GIRL HURT y f
Harrisburg—A little girl named Helen Cox, address not
known, while on rolling skates was seriously hurt late this
afternoon when confused by traffic, she fell on her head
against the running board of a jitney, driven by John Bret/.
She was taken to the office of Dr, J. Ross Swartz, 236 North
Third street.
ROBBERS GET $lO7
Harrisburg—Robbers entered the home of C. H. House
man, 2121 North Second street, last night and stole $lO7 in
cash.
CATCH RUNAWAY GIRL
Harrisburg—Hazel Smith, aged 17 years, a runaway
girl from Clarion, was found in Harrisburg to-day by Lieu
tenant Ldward Warden.
Glutton, W. Va., May 6.—Ail passenger agents of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia were to-day
ordered to sell tickets at two cents a mile and withdraw
from sale" the rebate tickets at two and one-half cents. This
action came in response to an injunction granted yeaterday.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
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( ktrlM Mi eavrr and Llulr Hatdorf, Wlronlaco. ,
George Delbert Rherm and Anna Pearl Rankrn, city.
16 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT.
Cathay, from Denmark for China, wan
blown lip, but her passengers an»l
crew, numbering 43, escaped.
Greatest Battle Races
The battle in Western Galicia.
launched a few days ago with an Aus
tro-German attack from the Cracov.'
region, has developed into one of tin;
greatest encounters of the war. Petro
grad dispatches admit that the situa
tion is a serious one, although it is
asserted that the advance had been
checked. At Vienna and Berlin, how
ever, it is claimed the Russians have
begun a general retreat, that theTr
whole position i»t the Carpathians is
precarious and that the entire eastern
campaign may turn on the events of
the next few days.
Vienna advices say a desperate bat
tle continued all day yesterday and
that the Austrlans and Germans took
one position after another from the
Russians.
The German invasion of the Baltic
provinces of Russia, which is regard
ed lightly in Petrograd, is said in Ber
lin to be an important movement, un
der the personal direction of Field
Marshal Von Hindenburg. His aim
is believed to be the capture of
and Riga, which would enable him to
harass Russian communications with
Petrograd.
In Belgium further gains have been
made by the Germans. The official
Trench statement concedes that tha
German won positions on the disputed
hill Xo. fit near Ypres. and that tlio
British were able to retake only part
of them. Sharp lighting is in progress
elsewhere along the western front, but
apparently with no decided changes.
MILITARY AGREEMENT
Turin. Italy. May 6.—A military
agreement has been concludede be
tween Rumania and Bulgaria which Is
preliminary to a formal political al
liance make it obligatory for those'
nations to support each other In easo
of war, according to a Saloniki dis
patch to the Gazetta D 1 Torino.
[Other War New* on Paces A and 11.]