Bryan Issues Third and Concluding Section HARRISBTJRG ifiilgls TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 141 PRESENT PROSPERITY SMEARED WITH BLOOD OF EUROPE-PERKINS Noted New York Financier Tells Chamber of Com merce Wilson Tariff Is Ruining Business; Urges Nonpartisan Commission TAKE BUSINESS OUT OF POLITICS HIS PLEA Constructive Federal Pro gram Regarding Corpora tions and American Mer chant Marine Nation's Greatest Needs Today's prosperity is on a false, basis and real prosperity in this coun-] try must come throught the elimlna-l tion of business from politics, was the I declaration of George W. Perkins, the | noted New York financier, in an ad-1 dress before the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce at it's noon day lunch eon today. Mr. Perkins declared that the pres ent day prosperity in the United States "has been built up at the ex pense of our fellowmen who are suf fering under the affliction of the frightful European War. "Indeed much of our prosperity,' declared the speaker, "is smeared with the blood of .our fellowmen, who are j being killed in Europe by hundreds of thousands with war ammunition we are manufacturing. "Every well-informed businessman knows that berore this war broke out we had gathered considerable down ward momentum in the . business world under the Wilson tariff; that had It not been for the war we would by this time be flat on our Industrial backs because of the Wilson tariff; v>J. the Wilson administration which us this tariff is proclaiming that the war and not the Wilson tariff caused the acute business troubles of recent months. There never was a more absolutely false doctrine preached." Mr. Perkins declared that the three prime requisites for permanent pros perity are: First: A jiermanent ex|iert, non-partisan tariff commission. Second: A Merchant Marine. Third: A constructive Federal program regarding corporations. "Therj are other requisites," the financier told the 150 Harrisburg businessmen, "but the above are of first importance." Mr. Perkin's address in full is as follows: "There is not the slightest doubt in the minds of thoughtful men in touch with affairs in this country that such prosperity as is with us today is to quite an extent on a false basis. It is prosperity that has been built up at the expense of our fellowmen who are suffering under the affliction of the frightful European War and who are so situated that they must of neces sity come to us for the various wares we have to sell. Indeed, much of our present prosperity is smeared with the blood of our fellowmen, who are being killed in Europe by hundreds of thousands with war ammunition we are manufacturing. While our men are working overtime to make war Implements which are bound to wound and malm the soldiers of Eu rope, our women are working over time to make socks, bandages, etc., to be used in taking care of the men GOING ON A VACATION? Before you leave home don't forget to order the Harrisburg Telegraph sent to your vacation address; otherwise you'll miss something every day you're away. No matter where you go, the Telegraph will follow you and keep you posted on what is doing in Harrisburg and the rest of the busy world. You won't fish, bathe, dance and play all the time, and you'll long for news from home if you don't get the Telegraph. The cost is Just the same as when you are home, 6 cents a week. A postal addressed to the Circulation De partment will bring you the next issue. THE WEATHER For Harrlaburn and vicinity t Prob ably •bimer» to-night and Satur day! continued warm. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Incrras ln( cloudiness to-night) Saturday probably showers! moderate, variable wlnda. River The Snsqaehanna river and Ha main branches trill probably tall slowly or remain nearly station ary. Showers within the next i thlrty-alx honrs may possibly k canae a rise In aome atrenma of the ayatem. A stace of about 3.4 feet la Indicated for Harrisburg: Saturday awrning. General Conditions Showers have fallen In the St. Law rence Valley, Xm I3n(land and nlmK the South Atlantic coast. Also In Montana and (he Cana dian provinces of. Manitoba and Alberta. Another disturbance, less pronounced, 1* central over Utah. Temperature: 8 a. in.. 72. Sunt Rlsea, 4:3 a a. m.| nets, 7:35 p. m. Moon: First quarter, June SO, f>:24 a. m. Hlver Stage: 3.8 feet above low water mark. Yeaterday'a Weather Hlffheat temperature, SB. Lowest temperature. «8. Mean temperatnre. 7K. I Normal temperature, 71. -m;- HHmfW m mfrj \ K sbm» % J| GEORGE W. PERKINS. PERKINS' POINTERS - ' ON PROSPERITY "Our present prosperity is smeared with the blood of our , fellow-men, who are being killed in Europe by hundreds of thou- , sands." "Had it not been for the war, we would by this time have been flat on our industrial backs because of , the Wilson tariff." "What we must have is a per manent expert nonpartisan tariff commission." "The need of an American mer chant marine is one of the three prime requisites for permanent prosperity." "What we need is a constructive federal program regarding cor porations." "The tariff and the trusts have been the greatest assets of our poli ticians and the greatest liabilities of our businessmen." wounded by the war implements we are furnishing. "This kind of prosperity is new to us and wo are not taking to it very kindly and are not happy as we think it over. We all pray that it will not [Continued on Page 4.] McAdoo Is Suggested as Bryan's Successor Washington, D. C., June 18.—The weight of political consideration in the selection of a Secretary of State to succeed William J. Bryan is being dis cussed in political and official circles. Should President Wilson decline to ap point Acting Secretary Lansing and name a man with political strength, the conclusion will be that he Is look ing to his own political future in 1916. One story circulated is that Secre tary of the Treasury MeAdoo may be transferred to the State Department. Another Is that Colonel House, the President's close friend and adviser, Is to be named. Von Bernstorff Will Deny Story About Emissary By Associated Press Washington, D. C., June 18.—Count von Bernstorff, the German ambas sador, had an engagement to-day for a conference with Secretary Lansing at the State Department to personally deny the accuracy of published reports that a safe conduct obtained for Dr. Anton Meyer-Gerhard had been used to return to Europe Alfred Meyer, a German purchasing agent of war mu nitions. Noted Airman and Author Die in Fall of 500 Feet Parts, June 18.—Lieutenant Regi nald A. J. Warneford, the young Ca nadian who gained fame on June 7 by blowing to pieces a Zeppelin over Bel gium, was killed yesterday by the fall of an aeropane at Buc, France. Lleutennat Warneford was piloting the machine, which had as a passen ger Henry Beach Needham, author, formerly of Philadelphia, who also was killed. Lieutenant Warneford and Needham fell from a height of 500 feet HARRISBURG AMONG HOTTEST CITIES IN V. S. A. Harrisburg, for the second time this week was among the hottest cities in the country to-day. This afternoon the thermometer ascended to 88 de grees, seventeen degrees above nor mal. In the streets the ninety degree mark was passed. A brisk up-river- wind, however, alleviated conditions bearable. At Phoenix the mercury rose to 106. Showers to-night and Saturday are expected to bring weather conditions down to somewhere near normal. MRS. ELIZABETH A. KEED DIES Chicago, 111., June 18.—Mrs. Eliz abeth Armstrong Reed, mother of the late Myrtle Reed, the novelist, and herself a widely known authoress, is dead. CONCERT AT RESERVOIR To-night's concert at Reservoir by the Municipal Band will begin at s and will last until 10 o'clock and the program will be as follows: Part I—March, "Old Berks," M. A ■ Aithouse: overture, "Maritana," w V*. Wallace; intermezzo, "After Sun i set." Arthur Pryor; humoreske. ! Dvorak-Lanipe; selection, "Sari," Emmerich Kalman. I Port ll—March. of Coun try," M. A. Althouse; selection. "Martha," V. V. Flotow: Ballet in termezzo. "Kldorey," J. L Von o e r i Mehden; "Melody of Peace," Carroll Martin; •waltz. "Cecile." F. W. Mc- I Wff selection. "Algeria," Victor Herbert 1 HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1915. 113 CEimUL SENIORS RECEIVE DIPLOMAS One of Largest Classes Ever Grad uated From High School, Despite lech's Growth HONOR STUDENTS GET PRIZES Dr. Haas, President of Muhlenberg College, Delivers Princi pal Address One hundred and sixty-three mem bers of the senior class of tne Central high school received diplomas this afternoon at the forty-second anhual commencement exercises of the school held in the Majestic Theater. This is one of the largest classes that was ever graduated from the institution despite Technical high's rapid growth. The program opened this afternoon with a inarch by the high school or chestra. Prayer was ottered by the Rev. Dr. Lewis S. Mudge, pastor of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church. A short selection by the orchestra pre ceded the salutatory oration, "The Little Red School House," by Miss Margaret Johanna Wiesman. Another selection by the orchestra followed, after which Miss Mary Caroline Hat ton spoke on "The Value of High School Mathematics." George G. Fox, fourth honor student, spoke on "The Spirit of Commercialism." The vale dictory oration was given by Miss Naomi Howard Bevard, who chose as her subject "The Power of Music." Dr. John A. Haas, president of Muhlenberg College, deivered the ad dress to the graduating class, which was followed by a selection by the or chestra. Two prizes of $2 6 and sls were then given to Mtss Bevard and Miss Wiesman. The prizes were given by the alumni association and the class of 1907, Funk O. Witherow pre senting the prize for his class. Harry A. Boyer, president of the School [Continued on Page 6.] MB IIMTL* KILLED *T LYKENS George Foster Meets Death and Others Have Narrow Escape When Prop Falls When a prop fell from the roof of a tunnel in the Short Mountain col liery at Lykens last night George Fos ter, a miner, was instantly killed and several other workmen narrowly es caped death by a slide of coal. Foster was in the lead of a group of miners who were working far back in the mine, which is in Short Moun tain. They were busily working and had no warning of the slide until the prop fell, releasing tons of coal and shale. Foster was knocked down by the prop and covered with the debris. Several of his companions were caught In the slide, which held them waist deep in coal until help arrived. Foster was dead when dug out. Cor oner Eckinger will make an investi gation. TROLLEY LINE PROM THIS CITY TO MAINE Completion of Nineteen Mile Gap Makes Continued Service to Portland Possible Trolley service from Harrisburg to Portland, Maine, before snowfall is almost a certainty. The distance between the two cities is 543 miles. At present this con tinuous trip from the capital of Penn sylvania to the big Maine city la im possible because of a 19-mile gap be tween Washington and Hackettstown, N. J., running along Lake Hopatcong. At Easton yesterday the directors of the Easton and Washington Trac tion Company voted to build a line which will close up this gap. The con tract for building the line will be awarded within a month and work will be rushed that the road may be com pleted by December 1. From Harrisburg the trip will be made by way of Hummelstown, Her shey, Lebanon, Reading, Allentown, Easton. Hackettstown, Port I-.ee, New York city and thence along the New England coast to Maine. SARGENT SCHOOL GIRL CAMP INSTRUCTRESS Miss Ruth Little, of Cambridge, Mass., Selected by Park Commissioner Some of the real outdoor "stunts" that have helped to make the Sargent' physical school aud camp for girls In New Hampshire famous the world over will be in order at the McCor mlck's Island girls' cainp this summer, and the program of fun and physical development will be taught by one of the graduates of the Sargent camp— Miss Ruth Little. Announcement of Miss Little's ap pointment as instructress for the girls' camp for 1915 was made to-day by City Commissioner Harvey Taylor in connection with a general discussion (Continued ou Page 4.7 "HARD LUCK" BABY NOW AN HEIRESS I . : j ■BMI m f'M »i - • : xwvmwm •••• xnß&mnMtt* Mmki^onumi^jiaax r-lAßJoreit I/OPEJ3, MARJORIE ADAMS New York, June .—ln the spacious apartment of Mrs. Frank M. Loper, seven-months-old Marjorie Adams, daughter of Capt. Percy E. Adams, of the Thirtv-eighth Royal Engineers, crowed in delight. Little Marjorie is the "hard luck" baby, who came to New York from South America in March aboard the United Fruit Steamship Tenadores. fos ter child of the boat's two hundred passengers and crew, among whom was Mrs. George R. Goethals. daughter-in-law of Colonel Goethals. The child was born in Cerro de Pasco, Peru, the highest city in the world Nine days later her mother died and Captain Adams started for Eng land to join his regiment. With him were Marjorie, her brother, Cyril, three, and her sister, Sylvia, sixteen months, in charge of an Indian nurse who died on the voyage. ~ ~ "She is Miss Marjorie Adams Loper, now.' said Mrs. Loper Poor Captain Adams was a clerk for Mr. Loper in Peru. When he went to the front we were more than pleased to take little Marjorie. Mr. Loper is a member of Adolph Lewisohn and Sons. He applied papers of adoption shortly before Captain Adams arrived in New York The Captain's other children have been sent abroad to live with his sister ln-flaw. The Lopers are wealthy and Marjorie will inherit a large fortune some day. FOUR BIG BLUECOAIS LIBERTY BELL GUIS Largest Men on Force Will Do Spe cial Duty While Nation's Relic Is in City Four tall Harrisburg patrolmen will guard the Liberty Bell while it is in Harrisburg July 5. The probable selections are: Sergeants J. Frank Page and Grant Eisenberger; Patrolmen John Kess and Joseph Van Camp. These officers are all over six feet, six inches in height. Guarding the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to the coast will be tour of the tallest officers from the City of Brotherly Love. Chief Marshal Arthur D. Bacon will meet with his special aids at the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce rooms to-night. Plans for the parade and other details for the reception to the bell will be discussed. The fol [ Continued on Page 4.] BIG STORM IN WEST CAUSES 12 DEATHS Houses Wrecked, Stock Killed and Much Property Damaged by Wind and Rain By Associated Press Kansas City, Mo., June 18. —Twelve persons were killed as a result of the wind and rain storm that prevailed in this section of the Southwest last night. More than a score of others were injured, none fatally. Five members of the family of John Burgess, a farmer near Onaga, in Pottawatonie county, were killed and two seriously injured in a tornado which swept the country early to-day, according to reports received at the Topeka offices of the Union Pacific railroad. The same report asserted that houses were wrecked, ptock was killed and much other property dam age done. DR. MEYER-GEMIII TELLS OF CONDITIONS Voo Bernstorff's Representative in Berlin in Conference With Officials By Associated Press Berlin, June 18., via London 1:45 p m.—The effect of the arrivval of Dr. Anton Meyer-Gerhard, who has come from the German Embassy at Wash ington with messages bearing upon the German-American situation, upon the preparatory work of Germany's answer to the American note, is not thus far perceptible. Count Von Bern- Storff's emissary began to-day the first of a series of important conferences with officials of the foreign office. He spent most of yesterday with the Sec retary of State for the Colonies, Dr. [Continued on Page 4.] SUGGESTS MEDIATION IS THE WHY BUT' Former Secretary Bryan Issues Third Concluding Section of Statement Washington, June 18.—Former Secretary Bryan in the third and con cluding section of his statement on "The Causeless War" issued to-day, suggests mediation as "the way out." As a preventative of war, Mr. Bryan proposes universal extension of his In vestigation commission peace treaty plan. "Mediation," the former Secretary of State says, "is the means provided Iby international agreement, through which the belligerent nations can be l brought into conference; time for in vestigation of all disputes is the means by which future wars can be averted and the cultivation of international friendship is the means by which the [Continued on Page 4.] FISH CODE GETS GOVERNOR'S HOOK Dr. Brumbaugh Says It Would Hurt Sport For the Common People The proposed Keystone State "fish code" was to-day announced as vetoed by Governor Brumbaugh in a charac teristic message in which he shows he has been hearing from the people. The bill was presented by Representa tive Walsh of Philadelphia, and in vetoing the "code" the Governor says: "We are so regularly changing the fish code of Pennsylvania that few know the law and many unwittingly disobey it" The governor remarks [Continued on Page 4.] SUBMARINE SINKS SUBMARINE By Associated Press London, June 18.—It is officially an nounced that the Italian submarine Medusa has been torpedoed and sunk by an Austrian submarine, says a dispatch from Rome to the Stefanl Agency. 'SILENT CURFEW' IN EFFECT TO-MORROW Police Will Take Names Of All Children Under 15 Years Who Are in Streets After 9.30 Beginning to-morrow night at 9.30 o'clock, the names of all boys and girls under 15 years found in the streets without parental or adult escort will be taken by patrolmen as one of the measures adopted by the police to enforce the new "stlent" curfew law. Officers will make daily reports to the police station. 1-etters will be sent to parents call ing attention to the fact that their children were out after ».30 on a cer tain night and requesting that the parents see that It does not happen again. If the parents fail to look after [Continued on Page 4.] lo PAGES GOVERNOR CUTS OFF MO* Trims General Appropriation Bill in Manner That It Was Never Trimmed Before TO KEEP WITHIN INCOME Practically Every Department Hit —Fire Marshal's Department Heavy Losers Governor Brumbaugh has cut $1,381,570 frojn the general appro priation bill carrying the funds for the conduct of the state government, which provided for $32,731,146.42 when It was sent to him in the closing hours of the Legislature. The cut is the most extensive in a general bill in years, probably the greatest, and dozens of items are reduced by the Executive as part of his program of making the appropriations stay within the "predictable income." The Governor's action on the bill is dated June 16 and begins with a cut of SSOOO from the $7,500 item for clerical, contingent and stenographic expenses in his own department and reduction of SI,OOO from the $4,000 contingent fund of the Executive Controller. Practically every department is cut, the contingent funds being heavy suf ferers. The item in the State Department [Continued on Page 4.] Wire Trouble From Coast to Coast as Result of Borealis Extensive reports of interruptions to telegraphic service from New Yorlc and San Francisco this morning fol lowed the beauty of an aurora borealis, which lighted the whole of the north western United States and Canada last night. Harrisburg is too far south and east to be able to see the phenomenon. At San Francisco trains were dis patched with difficulty and wire serv ice through the northern states prac tically had to be abandoned. Cable service to New Foundland from New York was seriously hampered and wire service disturbed. A peculiar feature of the electrical disturbance was that only east and west lines were affected. JITNEYS GET $1,000,000 Philadelphia, June 18.—The Phila delphia Rapid Company is losing busi ness at the rate of $1,000,000 a year to the jitney. HARRISBURG LANDS NEWARK CLUB £ Harrisburg will get the Newark team of the Intel I national League. Pledges necessary to assure the transfer m were announced late this afternoon. The first game will I likely be played with the Providence, R. 1., team next Wed- A nesday or Thursday. J Marysville. The general store of Cunningham I Bitting, at Marysville, was entered last night. The robber ' I I stole a complete new outfit of clothing for himself. | I Washington, June 18. President Wilson has no in- Ipi tention of going outside his official family to find a Secretary L | I of State and those close to the White House said to-day his 1 principal reason was his wish to appoint a man already in touch with the foreign questions before the administration. t Robe may be the mi • j L i t Short Hills, N. J., June 18.—Jerome P. Ti ' * amateur < champion took tht lea lin . the nations! open golf championship when he J card of 37, 36, 73 for the morning's 1. Tlii I 1 score of rday makes Travers* score i"or 54 holes 221. ► Jk BRITISH LOSE CAPTURED GROUND J > I Constantinople, June 18. Am inspection of ( ; ' the Turkish positions arc Avi Burnu, on the west coast of j Gallipoli peninsula made by a correspondent of the Asso- 1 , ciated Press, shows that the British have now lost most of i , the ground formerly held in that district. 1 f Washington, June 18.—Count Von Bernstorff, the Ger ! man Ambassador, late to-day personally informed Secretary ► * ® Lansing that neither he nor any member of the Embassy J ' i' 9 staff had any knowledge of a Dr. Alfred Meyer, said to > have been secretly in this country buying war supplies. 1 ' , Berlin, June 18, via London, 4.44 P. M.—Official an- I | * nouncement was made here to-day that an allied force which ! ' attacked German position north of La Bassee, northwestern | > i ® France, was destroyed, only a few succeeding in retreating. ; < Galveston, T*k., June 18. General Pablo Gonzales > j I yesterday expected to occupy the City of Mexico in a few 1 * I I hours, following the capture of Texcoco, fifteen miles from I the capital, according to dispatches received to-day by the ' * 1 Constitutionalist consulate heie from Vcui Cruz. MARRIAGE LICENSES —•! l)nvld K. Mnrk anil Mahcl M. Kay lor. Mlddletown. •iforgo 11. Oeklnx and l.enna Stanton, city. - ) C. Ruaael Mahin and Jennie liojrr, city. 1 > ♦ POSTSCRIPT TEUTONS'LOSS OK BUM FRONT IS PLOCED IT 100,000 Russian War Office Says Austro- German Advance Was Made At Great Cost RUSS BEING PUSHED BACK Heaviest Fighting of Several Weeks Is Reported on Western Front The assertion is made by the Rus sian War Office, in a review of recent fighting in Galicia, that the Austro- German advance has been made at the cost of great losses. In two days' fighting near Stry, the Teutonic forces are said to have lost '"tens of thou sands of men," and one section of thirty-eight miles on the Gallcian front, between May 29 and June 15, their losses are placed at between 120- 000 and 150,000. Reports from Berlin and Vienna however, indicate that the ' Russians are being pushed back steadily all along the front. The latest communi cation from the Austrian War Office says the Russians are nowhere able to resist their opponents. Negotiations between the allied powers and Balkan States are again under way. According to information reaching Berlin from Sofia, Bulgaria demands territory from Roumanla, Greece and Serbia in return for her participation in the war with the al lies. A Berlin dispatch expresses doubt whether former Premier Venizalos, of Greece, in case of his return to power following his victory in the elections, will be unconditionally in favor of going to war. The deadlock in Galli poli peninsula and the reported fail ure of Bulgaria and Roumania to ac cept the latest offers of the allies are advanced as reasons for this view. The heaviest fighting of several weeks is now in progress on the west ern front, in consequence of the new attacks by the French and British. Each side is sustaining severe losses, and although reports from Berlin and Paris are at variance It is evident the French have made some gains In the I district north of Arras.
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