HOD GOES BUCK TO THE CAMP Dr. Brumbaugh Greatly Interested in the Way the Soldiers Are Working in the Field Governor Brumbaugh, who came back to the city last night from Camp Schall, at Mount Gretna, to keep some : Important appointments and to clear i up business matters, returned to the j encampment of the national guards- j men and will remain there until Thurs day night of Friday morning. The Governor said that he had en- Joyed his first day at an encampment ■ and looked forward to the next two days with the soldiers. He was much interested in the inspection work and 1 the sanitary care. During the morning the Governor had a number of callers, among them Judge John W. Kephart, of the Su perior Court; Senator Franklin Martin, Cumberland; Representatives W. L. | Adams, Luzerne, and C. A. Shaffer, i Columbia; Dr. Adolph Koenig, of the 1 State Medical Bureau, and other prominent men. Commissioner John Price Jackson was in consultation with the Governor to-day regarding the organization of bureaus In his department. It is stated that the new workmen's compensation bureau will not be called for organ ization for some time to come. The three men named to the com pensation board have sent the Gov ernor their acceptances. As the ap pointments were purely personal ones, the Governor is much gratified at their cordial acceptances and offers to do all in their power to make the administration of the law a success. Governor Brumbaugh to-day named J R. Eichinger as justice for New | Cumberland. He tills a vacancy. Rav b. Shipp. of Sunbury, was appointed a notary public. State Will Carry Own Fire insurance Now The first steps toward creation" of I the new State fire insurance fund. ! whereby the State will carry its own |: fire insurance, were taken by the State i Sirking Fund Commission to-day when ' i'. ordered transferred to the new State >' fire Insurance fund $175,000. This amount is the sum in the sink- < Ing fund over and above the bonded ; < dtbt and is the nucleus of the State . fire insurance fund which it to re- ! ceive other items of state revenue until i it reaches $1,000,000. < It will save the State thousands of i dollars a year now spent for fire insurance. REFUSES TO DISCUSS HOLDUP 1 By Associated Press Washington, D. C.. July 13. The i British Ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring- < Rice, to-day refused to discuss the at- i tempt to hold up his automobile nearji Glen Cove. L. 1., on the night J. P. < Morgan was shot by Frank Holt, but!] at the British embassy accounts of the j i affair were substantially confirmed. 1 ] OIL OX FIRE ! i The Relly chemical apparatus was t called to Sayford and James streets i last night when oil leaking from an 1 automobile caught fire. The services i of the firemen were not needed. j XAGIC STREET PICXIO JULY 17 ] The annual picnic of the Nagle Street Church of God Sunday School will be held at Williams Grove Sat utday, July 17. The trains will leave Harrisburg at 7.45 and 11.53 a. m. 'S ' j |Q 3 * ' i 1 ' s *- : "~ '''' TUESDAY EVENING. PETITION READING TO ABOLISH DEATH TRAPS [ Continued from first Page.] i Murray, "and the other will be sent 1 to the Reading Railway Company." HummeUtown Long Sought For Safety I The borough council of Hummels ! town last evening addressed a letter j to the Harrisburg Telegraph setting j forth its position clearly on the matter j 01 grade crossings in that borough and ! showing that the council has en- I deavored for a long time to better con ditions there. For many years back i councilmen and borough officials have | been trying to have the Railroad Com j mission place watchmen at their cross ings and last Fall made an unsuccess ful petition to the Public Service Coxrt mission to have the most dangerous | err ssing removed to a safer point. Rased upon misinformation, the Telegraph put the town council in a false light in this respect. To show their side of the case. Burgess T. M. Murray and ex-Sheriff H. Wells Buser, accompanied by Borough Clerk C. H. Miller and Councilmen D. C. Rhoads, Joseph Burkholder. James Yontz, Geo A. Zeller, Samuel B. Zerfoss, W. F. Shoemaker and members of the coro ner's jury*whlch investigated the re cent accident In the borough, came to this city this afternoon. The minute books, which they brought with them, show that at intervals of every few months for many years, thirty-two times within the memory of the pres ent council, the borough has petitioned the railroad company to take some action looking toward the protection of the people. They have asked for watchmen, safety gates and subways, and at times were led to the belief that relief was near, but nothing was done aside from putting on one davlight watchman until the order of the Pub lic Service Commission put a watch man at the crossing after the tragedy of July 5. The letter follows: "Hummelstown. Pa.. Julv 12. "To Editor of the Telegraph: "We beg leave to call your attention to the numerous inaccuracies in the Telegraph of July 10, 191 S. under the heading of 'Grade Crossing Relief.' "Nearly the entire editorial is un- ! fair and unjust, and a reader can nr rive at but one of two conclusions, j either the Borough Officials of Hum- ! melstown have been criminally negli- 1 gent, or the representative of the I Public Service Commission who gave out the Information on which the 1 editorial was based maligned the citi zens of this borough, and for fear j that a few readers might come to the' former conclusion, we will endeavor to state the facts as they are. "An examination of the minutes of the Borough Council, as well as the! correspondence with the Philadelphia Reading Railway Company, will show that the Council made frequent j efforts to have the Railway Company either place watchmen or safety gate's at the railroad crossings in this! borough. "Now as to the matter of a petition ' for a crossing before the Public Serv- j Ice Commission. A narrow road' about fifteen feet in width, known as the Round Top Road, crosses the rail road in a cut. This is a very dangerous crossing, and the borough authorities requested the Public Service Commts-I sion to grant them authoritv to aban-j don this crossing and in lieu thereof: have a crossing on Water street. This' street is forty feet wide and is on ai level with Second street. This is the ■ opinion of the citizens pf Huramels-' town would make a very much better and safer crossing, than the one on l the Round Top Road, the Public Serv- [ ice Commission thought differentlv. We trust that you will give this com munication the same publicity in vour paper .as was given to the editorial. ' 'Respectfully submitted by the i Borough Council of Hummelstown D. C. RHOADS. JOS. BURKHOLDER, j JAMES YOT'TZ. GEO. A. ZELLER, SAM'L B. ZERFOSS, WM. F. SHOEMAKER."! SMALLEST DONKEY IN THE WORLD BROUGHT HERE BY SPORTSMAN WHO NEVER KILLED AN ANIMAL „ _ MINNEHAHA SMALLEST DONKEY IN THE WORLD .„„,; v . »°rk.—The Bronx Park Zoo is the proud possessor of the smallest Mann e r y t Worl , d .' h , rou P ht here by Hugh H. Tyrwhitt-Drake. of Cob Tree huMr o one i En f land ' who ai?" delivered to the Zoo. a lioness, a reed birds of P uinac< J. two dyk dyks, some small mammals, two giant £« Paradise and a collection of birds of prey. 3 L l ll le « on Jf*y 18 bl l t twenty-nine inches high and is now with foal. h „%lf/S»/orS!S!Slfu»* ' """ „ Z< ,„. Bhr h „ hundreds of wild animals and owns the largest private menagerie in the world. President Is Stronger Than Party in U. S. Washington, D. C., July 13.—Presi dent Wilson is much stronger poli tically with the people of the United j States than is his party. He is stronger than he -was six months ago, due gen erally to his treatment of the Euro pean situation, particularly the Lusi j tania incident, ! Whether or not this popularity is of ! a kind that can be turned to political account in the election in 1916, is un certain. depending largely upon future ; developments in the foreign relations |of the United States. The President's economic and domestic policies and his ; Mexican record are unpopular. These conclusions are based upon i letters received in response to inquiries sent out by The New York Suns Washington bureau to more than 500 I political friends and acquaintances {throughout the country. WIMON STUDIES SITUATION By Associated Press Cornish. N. H., .Tuly 13 —President i Wilson devoted his attention to-day to a detailed study of the situation grow ing out of the receipt of the latest , German note on submarine warfare. I After a game of fcolf with Dr. Cary T. ; Grayson, of a course near here, he I retired to his study with the official I text of the note before him. HARRISBITRG frfSßfr TELEGRAPH French Losfe Cemetery and Trenches at Souchez By Associated Press Taris. July 13. The loss of the Souchez cemetery and adjacent trenches by the French which was in dicated In the French official state ment of yesterday while regrettable does not affect the principal defenses in the region according to French military writers. It is a warning. [ however, says Colonel Rousset in the Petit Parisian, that will not be neglected. STUDYING TYPHUS FEVER TO PREVENT ITS SPREAD In an attempt to discover more ef fective methods of treatment the health authorities of the United States are making a careful study of typhus fever, which is now ravaging the ar mies of Europe, says the July Popular Mechanics Magazine. One of the cur ious features of this study is a wax model, over a foot long, of the insect that transmits the disease. This model is a marvel of mechanical and tech nical skill and is about one million times the size of the living Insect. It is made from microscopic measure ments of the original. More than a year was spent in its construction, the cost of the completed model being close to one thousand dollars. Armenian Survivors Say They Were Kicked Off Submarine by Germans By Associated Press Newport News, Va.. July 18.—The British steamer Victorian arrived here to-day with four negro muleteers, sur vivors of the British mule ship Ar menian, sunk by a German submarine June 2 8 with the loss of more than a score of lives. The negroes asserted that when they attempted t(r scramble aboard the sub marine they were kicked oft bv the German sailor#, who laughed at them. Joseph Austin Holmes Dies at Denver, Colo. By Associated Press Denver, Col., July 13.—Joseph Aus tin Holmes, director of the Federal Bureau of Mines at Washington and a widely known geologist, died at his home here early to : day of tuberculosis. Dr. Holmes had been in poor health for several months. He came to Den ver about four months ago with his family in the hope of regaining strength, but grew steadily weaker. Dr. Holmes was 65 years old and a native of South Carolina. He had been director of the Bureau of Mines since its creation by Congress in 1910. Pre viously he had been chief of the technological branch of the United States Geological Survey in charge of investigation of mine accidents. His service of the federal government be gan in 1904, when he was nlaeed in charge of the United States Geological Survey laboratories for testing fuels and structural materials at St. Louis and later at Pittsburgh. By Associated Press Washington. D. C„ July IS.—Dr. Jo seph A. Holmes was regarded by his associates in the government service as the father of the Bureau of alines, I which, by a campaign of education and experiment, has largely reduced the death tolls among the underground workers. He also was accredited with making "safety first" a national move ment. He took it for the slogan of tha i mine bureau s wortt and it spread to all phases in industrial activity. REMEDY FOR CHICK F N FLE AS Make a 5 per cent, solution of a good commercial disinfectant, and thoroughly spray the ground and all woodwork where the chickens lay around in the day time. Soak every thing good and plenty. If you prefer, you can make a good Insecticide by mixing together two tablespoons lard, one-half pint crude carbolic acid, and one gallon kerosene (coal oil). Melt the lard and dissolve it in the kero sene. Add the carbolic aeld and mix thoroughly. Spray as previously ad vised. Buy a dime s worth of 33 per cent, mercurial ointment. Verv slightly grease the sides of the chick's head and under its beak where the fleas are attached. One application is sufficient Lse this poisonous ointment sparingly on small chicks as too much will kill them through absorption of the mer cury. The mature fowls should be greased at the same time, as they are un doubtedly affected. If thev are lousv ?V H1 ;u rub a ,itlle oi the ointment V"?er the_ vent, covering a piece of flesh the size of a silver quarter. This is a positive cure for lice, advises Frank C. Hare, in Farm and Home. MBKRTV BELL AT SPOKANE By Associated Press I Spokane, Wash., July 13. Thou sands of persons viewed the Liberty Bell during its four-hour stay here to-day. Patriotic exercises were held Governor Lister was one of the speakers. JULY 13, 1915. TOO BUSY TO TAKE SUMMER VACATION {Continned from Fta*t Page.] Mr. Lynch, "there's no possibility about It. And If you didn't know that you should know. You're one of the bondsmen." „ "You're opposed to the closing of the gap in the wall at Market atreet," declared Mr. Taylor; "I believe that's the purpose of this resolution." Both the Mayor and Mr. Gorgas denied that they were oppoaed to the Improvement. Not Enough Money Commissioners Lynch and Taylor then specifically pointed out that there lsn t enough money in the Board of I u ,P Uc Works fund now to pay off the full amount of the Opperm&n award because SB,OOO or more of the sum ?I r ; Gor * as Kave as a balance is withheld by the terms of the contract as the 15 per cent, estimate for com pletion of the job. On the other hand, there would be enough to pay for the completion of all the improvement, including the closing of the gap, with the funds in hand. The city is responsible for any and all of the improvement It doea," added Mr. Lynch with evident relevance to the disposition of the arbitrators' award later. "The city is responsible and it will have to pay the bills." Yes, that's true," admitted Mr. ibf" the city ' of course > Is respon- During the discussion between Mr. Gorges and Mr. Lynch as to the lat t,eor(?®vltlent i&norance of the fact that 58.000 of the board of public works' lund was really owing the Stucker Brothers Company, Mr. Gorgas rather heatedly inquired: Do you mean to say the books of the superintendent of finance are not kept properly?" I of them had chimneys of willow en cased In clay. Summer houses of various shapes and designs were built back of the lines later, the most com mon type being made of four long boughs bent toge.ther in a sort of tepee, with a roof of basketwork woven in. On the top of the dyke were the loopholes from which the defenders fired at the Russians on the other bank. Eaoh man had excavated for himself a niche, man-high, roofed and lined with osiers, from which he could attend to the principal taak of a soldier in full comfort and se curity. Sod was cut and brought from a distance and the outside of the housef and the slope of the dyke were care fully sodded with the loving care of a good lawn artist. With the coming of Spring, gardens had evervwhero been laid out, each shelter-hut having at least one, with a decorative border of stone or sod before the door. When the correspondent visited the scene the basketware homes were empty. Polish peasants were turning over the straw l n the beds, searching for money or trinkets, which might have been lost, or were earning awav the doors, -windows and furniture, while the soldiers who had built them were miles to the eastward ln CIOKO pursuit of the retreating 1 Rus- TEXTILE MILLS TO CLOSE / By Associated Press New Bedford, Mass., Julv 13.—Every textile mill in this city p'robably will be shut down during the first -week of August as a result of a vote taken bv the textile council last night, when officers of the council announced that the manufacturers" association had re fuf-ed to grant a request that the op eratives be given a week's vacation. ' ALLIES ADVANCE 200 YARDS Paris, July 13.—The Athens corre spondent of L'lnformatlon informs his paper he haa received from Mytll ene news to the effect that after an other serious battle on the G&llipoll peninsula the allies' right wing has advanced 200 yards and that the bom bardment of the inner Dardaneliej forts continue. 9