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HARRISBURG SfsHßf TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 161
EVERY DEPARTMENT
OF BIG PIPE WORKS
AT FIE CAPACITY
Fifty Per Cent. Increase in Num
ber of Employes; Every
Inch of Space in Use
HAVE TO TURN DOWN ORDERS
Large Contracts With Foreign
Countries; Work to Con
tinue Full Blast
Every department running at full
capacity, an increase of fifty per cent.
In the number of employes, and the ad
dition of four new buildings within the
past few months is the record the
Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending
Works, according to W. T. Hildrup,
Jr., secretary-treasurer and general
manager of the plant.
The addition of the new buildings
together with a large amount of new
machinery is due the big increase in
orders received this year by the com
pany.
Mr. Hildrup In speaking this morn
ing of conditions at the plant said that
the shops had been expanded to the
full extent and that additional build
ing on the 22 acres of ground owned
by the company would be impossible
as all available space has been used.
One Department Doubled
One of the new buildings erected is
SSO by 200 feet with a floor space of
more than one acre. More than one
half mile of private railroad tracks has
been added to connect the shops, while
new machinery has been installed for
making seamless gas cylinders. This
department has been doubled in the
capacity of its output. ,
As fast as new machinery arrives
additional men will be employed by
the company. Owing to lack of space
for necessary equipment according to
Mr. Hildrup, large orders for cylinders
and billets have been declined.
Recently a large United States Gov
ernment order for three-inch shrapnel
was completed and shipped. At
no shrapnel is being sent out
r from the local plant. The machinery
used in manufacturing the cases is
also used for turning out large air
cylinders.
When the American order was be
ing handled 1,000 cases were made in
one week, but It is believed that with
new machinery Installed this amount
could be increased if necessary.
Big Danish Orders
Many of the orders being handled
are American ones, although the Pipe
Bending Works has just landed a large
contract with the Danish Government
for pipe coils. This is a duplicate of
a contract filled just six months ago
and shipped to Denmark via Liver
pool, England.
At present officials are figuring on a
hid for a Government order for air
cylinders to equip a number of sub
marines. The contract will not he let.
It is believed for some time, but it is
understood that many of the large
manufacturing concerns in the country
are after the order.
100 Per Cent. Capacity
Mr. Hildrup also said that from
present indications the work at the
plant would continue at 100 per cent
capacity Indefinltey, depending largely
upon domestic orders.
In speaking of detectives supposed
to be employed at the plant, Mr. Hild
rup said that six men are paid by the
company to guard the property and
keep tresspassers away from the shops.
The men are also commissioned as
officers by the Governor.
Uncle Sam's man will stop
every day with news from Home,
if you will cali the Circulation
Department on the phone.
Never mind letters, they're time
takers.
You can't afford to spend any
of your precious vacation time
"getting used" to »trange news
papers.
That's why right now
you'll order the Haxrlsburg Tele
graph sent to your vacation ad
dress.
THE WEATHER
For llnrrisbunr and vicinity; Fair
to-night and Wednciday} not
much ell mm,- in temperature.
For Eautern Pennsylvania: Prob
ably fair to-night and Wednea
dayt not much changre In tempera,
tnres light, variable wind*.
River
The Worth and West brancbea and
• the main river will continue to
fall. A atase of about M feet
lit Indicated for Harrlaburg
Wednndar morning.
General Condition*
Freaaure la low over the entire
country except In the fiulf State*
and Florida and iu Oregon, where
It la about normal.
Local ahowers, mostly light, have
fallen In the Great Central Val
leya and In New Jeraey. Central
Pennsylvania, East Tenneaaee
and extreme Southern Florida,
and in a few placea in the Far
Weat. Temperature continue*
high and haa rlaen > to 14 de
gree* at ■ majority of the ata
tlona, the moat decided positive
f cbangea occurring in New Ens
land and Rnstern Xen York.
Temperature: 8 a. m., 7.
Sunt Rises. 4:441 a. m.; seta, 7t34
p. m.
Moon: First quarter, July 19, 4:09
p. m.
River Stage: 7.2 feet above low
water mnrk.
Y'eaterday*a Weather
Highest temperature, 86.
I.oweat temperature, 60.
Mean temperature, 76.
Normal temperature, 74.
BRUMBM HEIRS
FIRST BUGLE CALLS
Governor, in Camp at Mt. Gretna,
Was Among Early Risers
This Morning
GUARD INSPECTION BEGINS
Eighth Regiment Will Be Inspect
ed Tomorrow by Adjutant
General Stewart
By Associated Press
Mount Gretna. Pa., July 13.—The
tioops comprising the First, Third and
Fourth Brigades were down to hard
work to-day. This is the fourth day of
the Instruction camp. The first of the
fit Id inspections began at 7 a. m., when
the inspector-general of the guard.
Colonel K. J. W. Sweeney, with Ad
jutant General Stewart and others, in
spected the division headquarters.
Later the officers inspected the various
headquarters of the brigades. Every
thing was found in fine condition.
The troops of the Fourth, Sixth and
Eighth Infantry will be inspected to
morrow. All the Philadelphia troops
will be inspected Thursday morning.
One of the instructive features of
this year's camp \va» the arrival from
Washington. D. C., of the wireless
message squad of six men.
The squad came overland from the
national capital in a big radio tractor,
tht third machine of the kind built by
the United States War Department foi
the use of the army.
Governor Brumbaugh was up early
to enjoy the first bugle calls of tht
day. He seemed greatly pleased with
his first tour in camp as the chief
executive. He mingled with the offi
cers and the rank and file everywhere
and the "glad hand" was accorded
him.
Harrisburg Guardsmen
Entertain Many Visitors
Harrisburg companies of the Eighth
regiment, National Guard of Pennsyl
vania, in camp at Mt. Gretna, have en
tertained hundreds of visitors. Com
pany D had more than 150 on Sun
day. Company I had nearly as'many.
Among those who visited the Har
risburg boys in camp were: Mrs.
James T. Long, Jr., Miss Nora War
ren, Mrs. A. S. McManus, Mrs. Lau
rence Mathias, Mrs. Harry Heagy.
Mrs. P. S. Sprout, Guy Shepley, Chaa.
Sprout, William Brehin. George Shick
ley, Robert Thompson, James Wood.
Charles Koppenhaver, Guy Sprout.
Miss Maud Gilbert, Miss Hazel Bow
man, Mrs. Ellen Zeiders, Mrs. Ger
trude Zeiders, Mrs. Minnie Yingst.
Mrs. Stella Dolson, Miss Blanch Horst,
Fred Swartz, Miss Irene Little. Mrs.
James H. Blain, Mrs. Howard Shiek
ley. Miss Grace Shickley, Mrs. John
Diener, Mrs. S. J. Myers, Miss Anna
Myers, S. Powell, Jr.. Ed. T. Ulrich, C.
M. Shive, Ed. K. Bretz, Charles H.
Bretz. Miss Martha Kepner. J. W.
Russell. Charles Arnold, Miss Elsie Ar
nold, John B. Stauffer. Miss Emma
Davis, Mrs. Maggie Jacobs. W. E. De-
Hart, Mrs. Clyde DeHart. Walter My
ers. Maurice Esworthy, Mrs. Charles
W. Smith. Lydia Mc'Cord. Mrs. Ralph
Colburn. Miss Annie Schell, Miss
Catherine Warner, Miss Mary Straub,
Gus Kreidler, A. G. Myers, former
Majors of the Eighth Regiment Owens
and Garver, Mrs. Lillian Stepp, Lewis
Stepp, Raymond Steep, Earl Stepp,
Mrs. Frank Harder, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Harder, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bretz,
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stevens, Mrs. J.
B. Hutchison, Miss Quigley, Miss Dun
can, of Harrisburg, and Miss Jewel
Raush, of New York city; Harvey
Reese and ex-Captain Laubenstein.
The Harrisburg boys are having a
areat time in camp. According to one
of the guardsmen: "PrivateCarney has
picked up a stray dog which is his
constant companion. Private Sansom
is fast gaining a reputation for know
ing it all; he is a regular bureau of
information. Sergeant Heagy has a
new peak hat and he never loses an
opportunity of letting the visitors see
it. He has some bright bathrobe,
too."
Old Men Charged With
Having Committed Murder
Forty-Seven Years Ago
By Associated Press
Bedford, lowa, July 13.—Crowds
gathered here to-day from half a
dozen counties for the preliminary
hearing of Bates Huntsman, Samuel
Scrlbner. John and Henry Damewood,
charged with the murder of a Missouri
cattleman and his son near Slam,
lowa, forty-seven years ago.
Among the witnesses here was Sam
uel Anderson, whose plans for a civil
suit against the defendants for a divi
sion of $20,000 treasure said to have
been buried on a farm near Siam,
lowa, led to an Investigation by the
state attorney general's office and the
arrest of the four men. The money
was said to have been taken from the
I cattleman by a gang of counterfeiters
who murdered him. Mrs. Maria Col
lins Porter, of Quitman. Mo., who as a
girl witnessed scenes following the
alleged murders, also was here to
testify.
YORK OFFICIALS HERE
I A party of York city officials visited
I Harrisburg to-day to Inspect the new
! section of Rocmac road laid bv the
I State Highway Department near" Pax
: tonia. In the party were F. Z.
Stouffer, W. H. Lindsay, Felix F. 3en
sel, city commissioners, and C. A.
Boyer, head of the highway depart
ment, and C. F. W. Waller, city en
gineer. Representatives of Hartley &
Zelgler, contractors, accompanied the
inspection party, which came here by
automobile. A trip over the city parks
and through Bellevue was made after
the Inspection. The York commis
sioners were much pleased with Har
risburg's park development.
CHEAPER NITROGEN PREDICTED
• Hot Springs. Va., July 13. W. H.
Bowker. of Boston, addressing the Na
tional Fertilizer Association convention
here to-day. declared one of the bene
ficent effects of the European war
'. would be cheaper nitrogen and pre
dicted it probably would be disclosed
that the German chemists had found
new processes for making that ele
ment, probably extracting it from the
air.
HARRISBURG, PA,. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1915
HARRISBURG SOLDIERS DO CIRCVS "STUNTS" AT MT. GRETNA CAMP
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Harrisburg's citizen soldiers are spending their leisure moments in various ways and not a few of them
are seen doing acrobatic "stunts." The Telegraph photographer happened to be in the camp of Company D
when a number of the men were building a pyramid and the above etching is the result of the visit.
1 OF W PISS
MEDICAL "EXAMS"
Unusually High Averages Made;
Announce Names of Suc
cessful Candidates
The State Bureau of Medical Edu
cation and Licensure to-day announc
ed that 205 of the 229 persons who
took the State examination for licenses
last month had been successful. The
percentage of failures was smaller
than usual.
The Bureau finished Its work here
to-day and the certificates to tho sue- ;
eessful candidates will be Issued in a >
short time.
The names of the successful ones are j
as follows:
James R. Allison, Philadelphia;
George L. Armitage. Chester; Jacob,
B Burt, Lawson, Md.; James A Bau-j
cr, Pottsville: Lydla R. Bauer. Phila
delphia;. Edward L. Bauer, German-,
f Continued on Page "]
Lid Down on Street
Fakirs and Walkers
Who Beg For Money
The lid was clamped on two street
privileges to-day. Captain of Police
Joseph P. Thompson did the clamp
ing. First, beginning to-day, street
fakirs are barred. Second, walkers
from coast to coast must be visitors
only. They may not try to sell any
article to raise money for the trip.
Policewomen to Censor
Magazines in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pa.. July 13.—Magazines
transgressing the bounds of morality ;
and propriety will fare badly in Pitts
burgh hereafter.
Orders which establish four Pitts
burgh policewomen as, in effect, a
bureau of censorship to pass upon all
magazines which are sold In the city,
and which require the bureau of police j
to be on the watch for obscene or Im
proper material in those publications, -
were issued to-day by Charles S. Hub- i
bard, director of the department of
public safety.
The penalty for transgression, Di-1
rector Hubbard says, will be the pro- \
hibition of sale of the offending issues
in Pittsburgh. Newsdealers who fail,
to observe such prohibition will be
subject to arrest, according to the
director, upon a serious charge.
Silk Mill Now Running
at It's Full Capacity
The Harrisburg Silk Mill, which hasj
been In operation for over twenty-six
years has had a most successful year,
officials announced to-day. Notwith
standing the fact that un addition was
built to the mill last year, the plant is
now taxpd to its fullest capacity,
i About 400 workers are employed in
; the mill ordinarily, but now more than
500 are employed.
FOUR MORE ASPIRANTS
i Quartet of Prospective Candidates
I File Nomination Petitions With
Commissioners
j Four more aspirants for nomina
tions filed their petitions to-day wltji
i the county commissioners. They are
Theodore Fehleisen, a policeman, who
I wants tht> Republican and Democratic
; nominations for constable fo rthe Tlrd
iward; Lane Harman, second precinct
1 Wiconisco township, who wants the
■ Republican inspectorship, and Samuel
!A. Foster of the same district who
I filed a nomination petition for the
[Democratic Judge of elections. s
| CHARITIES SECRETARY TO QUIT
! It is understood that at a meeting of
i the board of directors of the Asso
ciated Charities late this afternoon
Miss Hazel Clark will tender her resig
nation from the secretaryship. Miss
Clark has been secretary for the Chari
ties for two years.
KING PLANS CONFERENCE
! London, July 13.—An Athens dis
! patch to the Daily Mall says that a
I conference Is to be held at Athens at
|an early date between the kings of
1 Greece, Rumania and Bulgaria.
3 comes
TOO BUSY TO TAKE
SUMMER VACATION
Mayor Wanted One Bad, but
Finally Withdrew "Loafing"
Resolution
City Commissioners Bowman. Lynch
and Taylor will be too busy this sum
mer working out the city's public im
provement problems and transacUng
other business of Harrisburg to take
a vacation.
That's the sentiment the three ex- •
pressed this afternoon when Mayor
John K. Royal's resolution amending
the rules so as to provide but one
meeting a month came up.
So Mayor Royal reluctantly with
drew his resolution.
Commissioner Bowman mentioned
that he had some water pipe contracts
and numerous other jobs to occupy
his attention. Commissioner Lynch
spoke of the repair work, sewer jobs
and many other problems of like
character to work out: Commissioner
Taylor spoke of the park problems
that will occupy his attention through
out the summer. All three have said
ever since Mr. Royal offered his
measure that they will be busy and
desired to give the taxpayers the bene
fit of their time. To taloe a vacation
would necessitate special meetings.
/In withdrawing his measure Mayor
Royal said he couldn't see the neces
sity for meeting right along each week
when, In his opinion, there wasn't
much to be done. Commissioner Gor
gas didn't say a word.
Tiff Over Arbitrators' Award
Council had another little tiff over
the arbitrators' award in the W. H.
Opperman Interceptor controversy
when Commissioner Gorgas offered a
resolution directing council to settle
with the contractor for the full ver
dict of $22,787.09. And when Com
missioner Lynch asked that the meas
ure go over for a week in accordance
with councllmanic rules, Mr. Gorgas
said that there was enough money in
the interceptor fund to pay the award
—123,156.18.
"What's charged against that?" in
quired Mr. Lynch.
"Nothing that I know of so far as
the nooks show," said Mr. Gorgas.
"Don't you know that by the terms
of the contract with Stucker Brothers
about SB,OOO or more of that is with
held for the fifteen per cent, estimate
pending the completion of the job?"
"That might possibly be true," said
Mr. Gorgas.
"That IS true," promptly returned
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Explorers to' Camp at «
Pine Grove Furnace 10
Days Beginning July 26
The Explorers' Association, the old
est camping organization In Pennsyl
vania, will pitch their tents at Pine
Grove Furnace, in the South Moun
tains, July 26. They will remain in
camp ten days.
This will be the forty-fourth outing
of this organization. The party this
year will number twenty-five.
Efforts to Find "Pearce"
in South Unsuccessful
" New Orleans, La., July 13.—Efforts
of the police to locate "Pearce" the
mysterious letter writer, who says he
placed bombs aboard the British
steamships Baron Napier and Howth
Head, which left here July 8, so far
have been unsuccessful.
Captain Goudy, of the Baron Napier
has reported a search of the vessel
failed to disclose any bombs. The
Howth Head which is not equipped
for radio communication was ex
pected to put Into Norfolk to-day for
coal.
CONCERT AT RESERVOIR
To-night's concert at Reservoir bv
the Commonwealth band will include
the program postponed from a date
arranged for last week. Conductor
W. Fred Weber has bis band in excel
lent shape for this evening's treat
which will begin at 8 and last until
10. 1
GAME PRESERVE FOR
JliiS COUNTY LIKELY
Wild Life League of Pennsylvania
Now Considering the
Project
A game preserve In Dauphin coun
ty is a near future probability.
At a meeting of the Dauphin Coun
ty Branch of the Wild Life League of
Pennsylvania, held last evening, in the
Calder building, the executive com
mittee was instructed to select a suit
able site and report at the next meet
ing.
Announcement was also made that
Joseph E. Phillips, represen
tative from Clearfield county, recent
ly appointed Assistant Field Secretary,
will visit Dauphin county shortly. The
members of the committee to select a
game preserve, are:
Robert Irons, chairman; R. G. Cun
ningham, W. O. Hickok, 111, R.. C.
Haldeman, all of Harrisbwrg, and W.
D. Matheson, Middletown.
B. P. 0. Elks Reported to
Be in Good Condition
By Associated Press
Los Angeles, July 13.—The Benevo
lent and Protective Order of Elks is in
a flourishing condition both as to fin
ances and membership, according to
reports submitted to-day at the an
nual session of the Grand Lodge of
the order.
Fred C. Robinson, grand secretary;
Charles A. White, grand treasurer, the
board of grand trustees and the com
mittee on auditing made their reports.
During the year ending April 1,
1915, 43,085 new members were ad
mitted to the order, bringing the to
tal membership to 442,658. There
were 16,228 members dropped from
the rolls: 232 expelled; 7,843 demitted
and there were 4,701 deaths. Thus
the net Increase in membership was
14,081. Ten new lodges were added,
bringing the total to 1,326.
There is a surplus of $694,547 in the
treasury of the grand lodge, while sub
ordinate lodges have net assets of
$26,515,739.
W. F. Schad, of Milwaukee, was elect
ed grand leading knight; William
Lown. Saginaw, Mich., grand loval
knight: E. R. Ingersoll, Seattle, grand
lecturing knight; Thomas E. Donahue,
New London. Conn.; grand tyler and
Charles Black, Oklahoma City, grand
Inner guard. Fred C. Robinson, Du
buque. and Charles A. White were re
elected secretary and treasurer, respec
tively.
STRIKERS GET ADVANCE
By Associated Press
New York, July IS. The first
change in the strike of 10,000 pants
makers which, according to the labor
leaders, may Involve thousands of
other garment workers in affiliated
organization, came to-day when one
of the large firms acceded to the
union's demands and reinstated 300
strikers at an advance of $2 a week.
PURCHASE TORPEDO NETS
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., July fs. For
experimental purposes the Navy De
partment has purchased several tor
pedo nets to hang around battleships
and protect them from torpedo at
tacks. Secretary Daniels said to-day
these were of the same type as those
employed by European navies. Ex
periments are now going on with the
nets aboard one of the ships on the
Atlantic fleet.
BOY SCOUTS TO PLANT TREES
By Associated Press
Albany, N. Y„ July 13.—Steps have
been taken by the New York State
Forestry Association to enlist New
York Boy Scouts in a Statewide move
ment to reforest denuded land. The
association will give 500 bronze
medals which scoutmasters will award
to scouts for reforestry and tree plant
ing along State highways and muni
cipal watersheds.
MILAN PAPERS COMMENT
By Associated Press
Milan, via Lugano to Paris, July 13.
—The Milan newspapers give a great
prominence to the German reply to
the American note. In commenting
on the reply, the Corriere Delia Sera
expresses the opinion that President
Wilson will take an energetic atti-i
tudA.
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ALLIES ADVANCING ON!
GALLIPOUPENINSULA
Entire Force Pushes Forward 200
Yards, According to
Dispatches
RENEWED ACTIVITY IN EAST
Attitude of Rumania Toward Two
Groups of Belligerents
Under Discussion
There arc signs of renewed activity
I by the Teutonic forces along: the east
ern lighting front. Petrograd offi
cially reports lively engagements along
the East Prussian front, in the Hobr
and Narew regions and further to the
southwest between the I'lssn and Ro
soga rivers. There also has been light- I
i.ig- in the Przasnysz region along the
line nortli of Warsaw.
In eastern Galieia, where quiet has
prevailed for some time, Teutonic at
tacks along the Zlota Llpa and the
Dniester are reported. The Upper Bug I
river, near Busk, also has been the
scene of renewed lighting.
Coincident with this news, come re
ports through Petrograd that Field
Marshal Von Mackensen's army has
been strongly reinforced and tliat it
soon wUI resume active operations.
Resumption of heavy assaults by
the Germans in the Woevre region in
France is interpreted by Paris military
observers to mean that the failure of
recent attempts to break through to
Vardun by way of the Argonne is be
ing followed by a similar effort in tills
new direction.
Through Mytilene and Athens, Paris
has received a report that as the re
sult of another batUe on the Gallipoli
peninsula the forces of the entente
allies have advanced 200 yards.
According to an Athens dispatch to
a London newspaper the Kings of
Greece, Rumania and Rulgariu are
soon to meet in conference at Athens.
The attitude of Rumania toward
the two groups of belligerents is again
1 widely under discussion. According to
statements made by corrcspondc :ts on
the side of the entente allies she has
lieen given a month to accept or reject
Austria's offer of territorial compen
sation for active military assistance of
friendly neutrality.
APPLY MUNITIONS WAR ACT
London, July 13, 3.15 P. M.—The
British government has decided to
apply the munitions war act to the
South Wales coal strike on the ground
that the strike is prejudicial to the
]Continued on Page 7.[
PROMINENT MEN MENTIONED
Washington, July 13.—Among the names mentioned for
places on the new Bureau of Invention in the Navy Depart
ment were Alexander Graham Bell, Simon Lake, Orville
Wright, Professor R. A Fessenden, John Hays Hammond,
Jr., Hudson Maxim and Henry Ford.
Washington, July 13.—0n the theory that the safety
of the country may rest upon the adequate development of
its commercial gun and ammunition factories, Secretary
Garrison announced to-day he had decided to accept the
resignations of Lieutenant Colonel Odus C. Horney, and
Major William A. Phillips, of the Army Ordnance Bureau,
Mary Wein, 16 years old, who boards with p,lr. and Mrs.
Henry Weigand, Good and Williams streets, Steelton, was
assaulted by an unknown man who entered her bedroom
last night. She was found in bed unconscious with a deep
gash back of her left ear. This is the third assault of the
kind within two months. No arrests have been made.
Late this afternoon the thermometer on the top of the
Post Office Building reached ninety degrees.
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London, July 13, 3.25 P. M.—lt was officially announc
ed to-day that the subscriptions to the Great British war
loan reached a total of almost £600,000,000 ($3,000,-
000,000.
New Orleans, July 13. Two more letters signer
"Pearce" in which the writer threatens disaster to British
merchant and mule ships, were delivered here to-day,
Kansas City, Mo., July 13. Unusually heavy rain,
which did considerable damage, threatened lives and flood
ed rivers and creeks were reported to-day in Western Mir
souri and Eastern Kansas.
Penns Grove, N. J., July 13.—One workman was kill
ed and three others were seriously injured to-day in an ex
plosion that wrecked two small buildings of plant No. 2 cr
the Du Pont Powder Company at Carney's Point, near here.
Boston, July 13.-—A fire in the forward handling room,
within ten feet of 9,000 pounds of powder, on the Battle
ship New Jersey, in dry dock at the Charlestown navy yard,
was extinguished by quick work of seventy-five of the crew
to-day. -
MARRIAGE
Harper 9. Miller and Elisabeth Kearnev, rltr.
l.rßoy 1,. Sehrelner and Nellie E. Houilenhell, city.
Hubert Stlne and Maude Bennett, Carlisle.
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PETITION READING TO
ABOLISH DEATH TRAPS
AT HUMMELSTOWN
Burgess and Delegation of Coun
cilmen Call on Division Su
perintendent Stackhouse
SENDLETTERTO SERVICE BODY
Position of Borough's People Will
Be Expressed in No
Uncertain Terms
Headed by Burgess Murray a dele
gation of Hummelstown councilmen
called on R. J. Stackhouse, division
superintendent of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway Company late
this afternoon to discuss with him the
possibility of eliminating grade cross
: ings through the borough, especially
the trap in which six members of tho
Cassel family were killed last week.
The decision to call on the Reading
official was made last evening at a
| lengthy session of council during
i which it was brought out that at least
| thirty-two letter requesting the
placing of a night watchman at the
| fatal crossing had been sent to the
| railway and that one letter was ad
dressed to the Public Service Commis
sion asking that body to help the peo
ple obtain safety devices.
Two petitions, that will strongly ex
press the position of Hummelstown
people in the matter of grade crossings
are now being prepared.
"One will be sent to the Public Ser
vice Commission, so that body cannot
escape the responsibility of ordering
[the Reading Railway Company to re
; move the death traps or at least have
them properly guarded," said Burgess
[Continued on Page B.]
Men Who Attempted to
Take Life of Bulgarian
King Get Death Sentence
By Associated Press
London. July 13.—The death sen
tence has been passed on two men
who were charged with attempting to
assassinate King Ferdinand of Bul
garia, says the Daily Mail's Sofia cor
respondent. This is the first news re
ceived in London that any attempt had
been made on the life of the Bulgarian
king.