Harrisburg Elks Gather on Slopes of Reservoir Park to Celebrate Flag Day HARRISBURG iSSSIIi TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 138 PREPAREDNESS WAR IS URGED BY FLAG DA Until Day When Wars Shall Be No More, American Men Should Be Taught Use of Gun, Declares Speaker at the Elk Observance in Reservoir Park RITUALISTIC SERVICE ATTRACTS HUNDREDS Concert by Commonwealth Band, History of and Tri bute to Flag Features of the Celebration MYER KABATCHNICK Exalted Rnler of Scranton Lodge No. 12 3, B. P. O. E. At the first public observance of Flag Day ever held in this city. Myer Kabatchnick. past exalted ruler of Scranton Lodge No. 123, B. P. O. Elks, creator of the day's observance, be fore a vast throng assembled in Res ervoir Park, made a stirring plea for greater preparedness for war through out the United States of America. "As we stand here today," said the speaker, "with thought for our coun try and with reverence for her flag, we cannot dim our.eyes to the furious struggle abroad, nor dull our ears to the rumble of cannon and the death song of.shot and shell beyond.the seas. The people of other lands are writh ing in the agony of wars, perhaps the most appalling in history; royalty and peasant, castle and hut, are alike suf fering from the remorseless hand of pain and death: men 'of the same blood and kin are at one another; the work of centuries are the prey of a moment's fury; and the golden wheat fields of yesterday are the blood-soak ed battlegrounds of today. The boun teous harvests of other years are no more. The seeds of war yield their fruit in widows and orphans. In pain and poverty and misery. Our sym pathy goes out to the afflicted of all nations, and our prayers go forth that they may soon enjoy the blessings of peace. Urges Preparedness "Still, until there will be methods for peacefully enforcing international arbitration, there will be war, and some will he righteous and some un righteous. and while wo hope we may with honor be spared the necessity of becoming involved in any conflict, the American people will have to be pre pared. if necessity compels, to en force their rights and maintain their honor, with all the might and patriot ism of their historic past. "And, until that day when interna tional arbitration shall be made prac ticable through effective enforcement cf international decrees—if we are ■wise, we will Instruct the men and wo rn .->n of our country somewhat In the lessons of war and warfare. Some where, from the age of kinder garten to the age of college diploma, wc will find time to teach the youth I THE WEATHF.P For Hirrlahiri and ytHnltji Partly cloudy and cooler to-night «lth lowMt temperature about 5S de grees. Turadny (air, continued cool. For Eastern Pennsylvania! Partly cloudy and cooler to-night. Turn day fair, continued cool. l.lght variable wludx brooming north east. River The Susquehanna river and all Ita tributaries will fall slowly or re main nearly atationary except the loner meat branch which "111 rise (•lightly. A stnge of about 3.7 feet la Indicated for Hnrrlnhiirg Tues day morning. General Conditions The disturbance that was central over Eastern South Dakota Saturday morning. baa moved northeastward and Is now pasalng down the St. I.awrence Valley. It was attend ed by thunderahowers and high winds generally over the territory under Ita Influence. It Is slightly cooler than on Sirturday morning ■ lon* the New England and Middle Atlantic coasts and 2 to 14 decrees cooler over nearly all the territory between the Rocky Mountains and the Mlaalaalppl river. Temperature, N a. m., 74. Ron rises. 4.3d a. m.t seta, 7.34 p. m. Moon i Xew moon, flrat quarter, 0.24 a. tn. River Stone I 3.7 feet above low wa ter mark. Yeaterday'a Weathei Rlfkeat temperature, A3. Lowest temperature, 45. Mean temperature, 74. Koraid temperature, 70. of America, the art of handling a gun and saber, something of the imple ments of battle, of intrenchment and tactics, on sea as well as land. Not that we should become a military na tioft, but that if occasion ever arose, we would all know something of the requirements of wartime.- rather than be raw recruits and novices. "We must demonstrate as a nation that we can make sacrifices for pos terity, until all the world will look with longing and admiration to this land of freedom and its flag, until there will be no wavering in the des tiny and eternity of our nation and its causes, until the voice of the peo ple will resound through the earth with the praises and joy, the blessings and patriotism of life under the folds of the 'Star Spangled Banner'." The I-'lag Day observance was un der the direction of Harrisburg Lodge, No. 12. B. P. O. E. The program included special ritual istic exercises, patriotic music, tribute to and history of the flag, and the ad dress by M. Kabatchnick. Th» master of ceremonies was Benjamin W. Dem ming. exalted ruler of Harrisburg lodge. The exercises opened with a concert by the Commonwealth Band, under the direction of W. Fred Weber. The exercises which were of a most impressive character started at 4 o'clock. The Elks, Including many out of town members of the order, went by trolley car to the park. They were met at the new Market street park entrance by the Commonwealth Band. In a body, they marched to the Meade D. Detweiler monument where short exercises were held. The program proper opened with the singing of "America." by the Elks and the crowd. The ritualistic exer cises followed. Michael E. Stroup gave a history of the flag. The song. "Pennsylvania." was followed with a tribute to the flag by Horace A. Segel- [Continued on Page ".] Special Park Guard Appointed to Protect River Front "Steps" Beginning to-day George Greena baum will go on duty as an extra park officer to guard the city's river wall and steps from the depredations of youthful vandals who persist in dam aging the concrete by rolling rocks down the slopes. During the last few weeks not only have the walk and the steps been chipped and cracked, hut the newly planted shrubbery and the freshly filled slopes ha>e suffered greatly. Prompt arrests will be made and the offenders will be severely punished. < >fficer Greenabaum will put In a part of the time seeking the boys and others who have been making a more or less lucrative practice nf stealing golf balls that are lost in the shrubbery -along the Reservoir links. In many In stances. It Is said, the boys hide in the bushes and pick off the golf balls as they land in various parts of the ureens before the golfer approaches. Then the boys sort out and sell the balls again. New Motor Chemical Combination Apparatus Due Here on June 23 Word has been received by Commis sioner M. Harvey Taylor that the new motor chemical combination apparatus for the Washington and the Hope fire companies will reach Harrisburg by June 23. The motor tractors that are to be connected with the Friendship steamer and Mount Vernon hook and ladder truck will be attached and sent back to the City about August 1. Military Needs of U. S. Discussed in New York By Associated Press New Tork, June 14. —Soldiers, sail ors. statesmen, clergymen, representa tives of labor and of business met here today to discuss the military needs of the nation. The National Security League, with which the Idea of tl\e gathering originated, named it the Peace and Preparation Confer ence. To supplement arguments to be advanced by a number of prominent speakers the league has Installed In the Hotel Astor an exhibit of the ma chinery of warfare, ranging from small arms to a Whitehead torpedo 21 feet long. The first speaker today Is William M. Pendergast. Cltv Controller, who will deliver an address of welcome. The afternoon program calls for speeches by Colonel E. Lydicker, the chairman: Captain Mathew E.'Hanna, U. S. A., retired Major George Haven, Hudson Maxim, the Inventor and Col onel John H. Dunn. WHARTON STVDFNTS TO FORM MORRIS CLUB At a meeting of nil students of the Wharton Extension School of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania In the State Library lobby Wednesday evening at 7.3f> o'clock a Kobert Morris Club will b? organized. The club will have social and scho lastic aims, being directly affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1915. MEMORIAL FOR LYMAN 0. GILBERT Fund Established For Purchase of Book» For the Harrisburg Public Library $2,000 FOR IMMEDIATE USE $5,000 in Bonds Given For a Per manent Fund in Memory of Eminent Attorney Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert has offered to the Harrisburg Public Library a fund for the purchase of books for tha use of the people of Harrisburg and vicinity as a memorial to her husband, a life-long resident of this city, and one of the eminent attorneys of the State. The fund is to be established by a donation of $5,000 in securities, the interest to be devoted to purchase of books, the principal constituting; a separate fund in the investments of the Library. A further donation is of $2,000 in cash, which is to be im mediately available for additions to the list of books in the Library, which is being so liberally patronized by the residents of the city. Mr. Gilbert, during his life was much interested in the work of the institution, and Mrs. Gilbert, who has been active in the movements for the civic advancement and welfare of the people of the city, shared his interest. Through her ef forts the Library has been enabled to make some purchases of books which have been much in demand. The Lyman D. Gilbert Memorial, which will be accepted by the Board of Trustees of the Library tonight at their monthly meeting, is the first to be established for the Library since it has occupied the building erected through the munificence of the late Mrs. Sara' J. Haldeman-Haly. The books purchased through the money supplied by the gift will be specially marked and the plans will doubtless contemplate the acquisition of vol umes of much value to the people of the city. WHOLE JURV LITTLE TOO ran BOX When Talesman Porter Takes Seat One Chair Just Couldn't Hold Him; He Weighs 365 The weightiest Jur.v ever empaneled was called this morning to try the first case of June quarter sessions and one of the chairs in the jury box just couldn't bear it; it creaked, sagged at the legs, and finally bulged out at the arms. Eleven of the jurors all told, would probably weigh in at about the aver age avoirdupois of that many men; the twelfth man, John L. Porter, swung the balance. Mr. Porter is a young and good natured Dauphin merchant. When he took his seat he sat heavily, so heavily that the chair walled aloud, there was a splintering of wood and bits of the shattered arms fell to the floor. Mr. Porter glanced over his shoulder, noticed the [Continued on Page ".] COUNTY P. 0. S. OF R. SIHS BY WILSON Delegates of 3,000 Men Praise President and Governor in Convention More than one hundred representa tives of Dauphin county camps, P. O. S. of A., in annual session in the hall of Washington Camp, -No. 16, Satur day unanimously pledged their sup port to President Wilson in whatever actions he might deem necessary in respect to the present international situation. Governor Brumbaugh was lauded for "his courageous stand on measures for the benefit of the people of the State." [Continued on Page 7.] Federal Agents Find Another Witness to Testify in Stahl Case By Associated Press New York. June 14.—Heinz Harden berg, the latest witness detained by the government in its Investigation of the Lusitania affidavits, arrived here day and went to the office of the bureau of information of the Depart ment of Justice. It was believed that hK> would testify before the federal grand Jury which Is looking into a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States by those who obtained the sworn statements that the Lusi tania had guns on board when she sailed on her last voyage. Hardenberg was taken Into custody by the gov ernment Saturday at Cincinnati. He has already made a statement before representatives of the Department of Justice in Cincinnati and at Washing-! ton. where he stopped yesterday. The federal agents say that Hardenberg came here last March and resided at a boarding house in Hoboken where to-day and went to the office of the Gustav Stahl. one of the affidavit mak ers now under arrest on a charge of perjury, made his home. He had been described as a member of the Germnn army aviation corps, but it was said to-day that he Is not connected with the army, although at oni time he was employed as a ma chinist by a German aviation com pany. A dozen or more witnesses are ready to appear before the grand jury. Stahl will have a hearing Wednesday on the perjury charge. CHICAGO CAR STRIKE GREATEST IN HISTORY 14,000 Persons Thrown Out of Employment as Result of Disagreement STRIKEBREAKERS CALLED IN Tie-up Affects Every Branch of City's Activities; Media tion Fails By Associated Press Chicago. 111., June 14. —What is said to be the greatest street car strike the United States has known began here at 4 o'clock this morning. Fourteen thousand persons were thrown out of enipli&ment, 1,310 miles of single, eUvated and surface track rendered idle and a burden thrown on steam roads .automobiles, vans and other vehicles which they were able to meet only in small part. For four hours not a car moved. Then a South Side elevated train carry ing a few passengers made a round trip as a test. As a result it was announced that an attempt would be made to run trains with strikebreakers and guards every fifteen minutes. The surface lines made no attempt to work. Business was not paralyzed, but it was benumbed. The tie-up in one way or another affected every branch of the city's activities. The rupture over hours of service and wages was discussed last night when Mayor Thompson admitted that his attempt at mediation was a failure. The company posted tickets, adver tised for strikebreakers and W. D. Mahon, national president of the street car employes, returned to Detroit, the better to direct the financial phases of the strike. A carload of strike breakers was reported to have arrived secretly from Cincinnati. Delivery of the United States malls puzzled the post office officials. Re organization of the street car delivery system will have to be undertaken, it [Continued on Page ".] 01 PBIITENTim ■ BILL IS APPROVED Governor Signs the Measure For Ultimate Consolidation of the Two Institutions Announcement was made at the Capitol at noon to-day that Governor Brumbaugh had signed the Hess House bill providing for modification of the plans for the construction of the new western penitentiary so that, it shall ultimately become the sole State penitentiary and accommodate inmates of the eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia as well as those of the western penitentiary at Pittsburgh. The new penitentiary is now being built in Center county where State forestry lands were set aside for its use and additional properties purchased so that the inmates may do farm work and help the institution to become self supporting. In connection with the approval a [Continued on Page 7.] PEIISVIV FILL OLD STEELTON ML Contemplate Building New Branch Line Into Steel Works; Would Mean New Station That the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is contemplating building a new branch freight line into Steelton along the bed of the old Pennsylvania canal is the substance of a rumor cir culating in well-informed circles to day. The running of this new spur would necessitate the filling of the old canal bed for several blocks below the Elliott-Fisher typewriter plant i'.nd the erection of a new freight station, pre [ Continued on Page 7.] Two Men Lose Lives When Vessels Collide in Long Island Sound By Associated Press New York. June 14 —C. K. G. Bill ings' steam yacht Vanadis reached Glen Cove. Long Island, early to-day with the body of of John J. Brown, of Boston, one of the two victims of a collision in Long Island Sound last night between the yacht and the big passenger steamer Bunker Hill, of the Metropolitan IJne. The body of the other victim, George H. Kendrick, also of Boston, was brought back to New York by the Bunker Hill when she returned earlier in the night with a hole In her side thirty feet high and nearly twenty feet long. Brown and Kendrick and three others injured in the accident were passengers on the Bunker Hilj, hound for Boston. The Vanadis rammed the passenger steamer in a thick fog off Eaton's Neck at the eastern end of Huntington Bay. The yacht backed out of the hole In the Bunker Hill's side with her bow smashed and fes tooned with Iron bedsteads and other furniture swept from the staterooms of the sound liner. Stories told by some passengers re garding the behavior of the Bunker Hill's crew await official Inquiry. It was said that some of the negro deck hands rushed to the boats and refused to stirrender their places. The coroner at the Cove began an Investigation this morning soon after the Vanadis ar rived. Passengers did not leave the steamer, as the vessel waa not in danger of sinking. , Thousands of Little Peons Are Starving feb * v - • ' :> .*m. -, ~«r. * *♦ ><A * flf «>* i ■* <ifr* ./ - ■# /M J?" JmliMV„ *•< V M *^mmm + a iWI I • fl Hi'■» ' *km JB " N ' - .•—'""^* (k jfl| jmtC This is one of the hundreds of thou sands of little peons of Mexico who have been brought to the verge of starvation, by the continual fighting there for several years. The little girl is of the class of Mexicans which the President wants to help. MEXICAN SITUATION DEVELOPS FAVORABLY Ultimate Peace Near, Is Belief of Many Interested in Welfare of Mexico By Associated Press Washington. D. C., June 14.—Atten tion of Washington officials was focussed again on the military sit uation in Mexico, where there was a possibility of important developments which might bring ultimate peace in the southern republic. Chief interest centers in the outcome of the prospect ive battle between Carranza troops and Villa forces for the possession of Mexico City, now in the hands of Villa's men. Advices received here from Car ranza sources at Vera Cruz said that General Pablo Gonzales, a Carranza commander, who is now moving toward Mexico City, had been ap proached by members of the conven tion party from the Mexican capital with an offer of an armistice. ISK COST TO WIDEN MARKET ST. SUBWAV Commissioner Taylor Will Offer Resolution in Council Re questing Figures Initial steps toward ascertaining the probable cost of widening the Market street subway on the south side.to the building line and the elimination of the abrupt kink in the roadway, will be taken by City Council to-morrow when Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor offers a resolution asking the city en gineer for the desired information. Commissioner Taylor intended sub mitting the measure at last Tuesday's meeting but held off for a week when Commissioner H. F Bowman asked for a week's postponement of [Continued on Pa*re 7.] And Lastly, Bryan Will Tell How to End War By Associated Press ' Washington, June 14.—Former Sec retary . announced through friends here to-day th'ftt he will issue another statement proposing a means of ending the war. The statement, which will be issued Tuesday or Wednesday, will not deal with the resignation from the Cabinet but with "the war. as'lt is; the causes that led to it and the way out." The statement will be entitled the "Causeless War." It was said it would be Mr. Bryan's last statement "for the present." l > DID'NT PI-AY FEDS Harrisburg Independents did not play the Pittsburgh Federal league team to-day. The Pittfeds enroute to Newark passed through Harrisburg late this afternoon. A doubleheader was played at St. Louis yesterday and the Pittsburghers missed connections for Harrisburg. Manager J. Harry Messersmith received word late last I night that it would be impossible fori Pittsburgh to reach this city In time, j WANT COAL EX PORTS CONTINUED j By Associated Press Stockholm, via London, June 14. The newspapers here say that the British government proposes to open negotiations for the continuance of coal exports to the Scandinavian coun tries. 12 PAGES MORE OPEN SPACE IS CITY PLANNING IDEA Building Line Should Be 15 to 20 Feet Back From Front of Lot, Commission's Idea 10TH WARD SCHOOL EXAMPLE Proposed Structure Will Be Erected Ample Distance From Street; Fruits of the Years Radical departure from the old j method of locating school buildings' will be followed in the construction | of the proposed .new Tenth ward ] structure at Fifth and Mahantongo streets in accordance with the sugges tions of the City Planning Commis sion. Instead of building flush with the building line the new school house will be located far back from the side [Continued on Page 12.] Sailor Unhurt After Leap Where Harrisburg Man Met His Death New York, June 14.—T0 convince doubting friends that he could jump from the Brooklyn bridge without in jury to himself. Daniel Calone, a sail or of Mount Vernon, N. J., took a header from the top of the structure and started pulling for the shore. He was arrested on a charge of attempt ed suicide. Two weeks ago Henry Clark, a former resident of Harrisburg, made the jump and was killed. WANTS WORK CONTINUED By Associated Press Washington, June 14.—Secretary McAdoo, in a letter, which was on its way today to each of the foreign dele gates to the recent Pan-American Fin ancial Conference here, makes impor tant recommendations looking to a continuance of the work begun by the conference. DR. JOHN H. MoCOLLOM DUES Boston, June 14.—Dr. John H. Mc- Collom, professor emeritus of contag ious diseases at the Harvard Medical School and formerly superintendent of the Boston City Hospital, died to day. He had been in ill health for several months. Dr. McCollom waa born at Pittston, Maine, 1 843. l* iffi c ? T ■ I t has been mink by a Gei nan subma £ ? • w was given two minutes to take to the I I boats and was landed at Plymouth. 9 UPHOLD INSURANCE LAW 1 Washington, June 14.—The Supreme Court to-day up- 1 m held the validity of the Pennsylvania law laying on foreign j ' insurance companies an annual tax upon all premiums on 1 | life Insurance by residents of Pennsylvaia, whether paid at » one of the agencies in Pennsy: nia or at the home office of 1 , insurance companies in other New York, June 14.—Theodore Roosevelt's views on I ( i unpreparedncss an vesented at the pea & an ation conference here to-day. al I j i pacifists', the Colonel says, .'tie at best, an unlovable body j : of men and taken as a whole are probably the most unde- I ! ( sirable citizens that the country contains. The prime duty 9 * \nslsts, is to prefare itself so that it can V I protect itself. K i* I , Harrisburg. Adjutant General Stewart to-day an- L < I nounced that the Governor had appointed Charles G. Cress- ' , ! well, Philadelphia, to be colonel of the Third Infantry, Phil , adelphia, to succeed the late Caldwell K. Biddle. Thomas S. ' | ' ; Crago, Congressman-elect, was reappointed lieutenant col- ! , onel of the Tenth Infantry, and Robert B. Herbert, Greens- > * burg, advanced from second to first lieutenant of Company 1 ! I, Tenth Infantry. I J < 1 Washington, June 14.—The Supreme Court to-day de- .j ; , cided the long standing Virginia-West Virginia debt case I } ' holding West Virginia should pay $12,393,929 as its net ! share of the Virginia debt at the time of the partition of the | | < 1 states. ! Wannsboro, S. C., June 14.—A white man named Eisen- . j • hauer, and Utes Smith, a negro, charged with criminal as- 1 , sault were killed and five officers were wounded, Sheriff j I A. D. Hood probably fatally, during a riot here early to-day ' * when a mob attempted to take Smith from the officers. ! < I During the fighting that followed, Smith's body was riddled ' ' with bullets. * ( MARRIAGE LICENSES ■ ! Hot M. Martin, I.nncanter, and llara J. Colambla. [ John Coatra, Jr., anil Mary Brent, Wlrunlacu. t harlm w Kblndle, IVnbrook, and Kthel M. Harbord, Hlgbagplre. Harry I'hllllpn and Grace F*alrlns«r, Mlddlrtntvn. a | I Charlea M. Carl and Bertba H. Uolfrribrrger, Ltngleatowa. , > 5* W'" M iV'W M W"' ■II »«JTf * POSTSCRIPT HEAVY FIGHTING OH GMIIPOLI PENINSULA Engagement Resumed Between Allies and Turks Who Are De fending Approach to Capital 20,000 KILLED IN GALICIA 3,500-ton British Steamer Sunk in White Sea by Running Into Mine Heavy fighting has been resumed on Galli|>oli Peninsula between tlio French and British forces and the Turkish army wliich Is defending the approach to Constantinople. Tho Turkish War office announces that at tacks of the allied forces against the right wing of the Turks were repulsed and that the attackers were thrown hack to tliclr original positions with heavy losses. A press dispatch from Petrogrud says 241,000 men ill the army of Gen eral Von Mackcnsen were killed as tho result of an attack on the Russian positions near Mosciska, in Gnlicia. The Austro-German attempt to cap ture Lembcrg is said to have been given up. Official dispatches, however, indicate no marked change in Galicia where the fighting Is continuous and | severe. Occupation of the Carinthian town of Valcntina hy the Italians is an nounced officially at Rome. Along the Isonzo river a Imttle of large propor tions apparently have won some ad vantages, the Austiians have brought up w-liiforcrmentfi and are offering de termined resistance. The 3.500 ton British steamer Arn dale lias been sunk in the White Sea hy a mine.. A German submarine set fire to a Danish schooner, after plac ing her crew on another Banish sail ing vessel, which was permitted to proceed. Other War News Page 8. FIRE IN* SHIP'S CARGO Cherburg. June 14.—The British steamer Toftwood from Galveston, May 15, via Newport News, 24th. for Havre, has arrived in the roads here with fire in her cargo, part of which must be discharged. FIREMAN LOSES LIFE Philadelphia, June 14.—1n a cour ageous effort to save a baby less than a year old during a ,fire in a dwelling in the southern section of this city, John McGowan, a fireman, was over come by smoke and died soon aftef being taken to a hospital.
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