German Enveloping Line Within Eighty Mile HARRXSBURG ISsHHS. TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 172 , PLAN BIG AUTO TRIP TO SEE WHAT CITY'S PROGRESS HAS BEEN "Improvement Celebration" Will Open With Tour by Com missioner Taylor WILL MAP ROUTE TOMORROW Hopkins and Park Head Will Go Over Course; Active Plans Now Under Way Active preparations for Harrisburg's big three-day "Improvement Celebra tion," September 23, 24, 25, to com memorate the completion of the big improvement program' covering the last fifteen yaars, will be started to morrow by C. Floyd Hopkins, the big theatrical manager who has charge of the festivities. To-morrow afternoon Mr. Hopkins, with Commissioner Taylor of the Park Department, will go around the entire city by auto to plot a route for a big auto run which will be one of the opening events of the celebra tion. On this run, which will cover every point improved during the last fifteen years, Commissioner Taylor will act as host to the several hundred guests who will be invited on the trip. Among the guests will be the present city officials, members of the Planning Commission, members of the old park commissions, former councilmen, members of the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Municipal League and all others who had an active voice in the planning of the big improvement campaign which has so much benefited the city and made it second to none in the State from both the practical and the aesthetic viewpoint. Mr. Hopkins and Commissioner Taylor will carefully inspect the var ious points of important improvement and will map out the best and quick est way for the auto party to "see Harrisburg." No Hurry-Up Program For Preparedness Says War Secretary Garrison By Associated Press Washington, July 27.—Secretary Garrison returned to-day from a brief holiday and began preparing a state ment for President Wilson on the mili tary preparedness of the country. "There is no hurry-up program for preparedness," said the Secretary. "We are proceeding: with that calm ness and deliberation which we hope will insure good results. I hope to submit a general outline of reorgani zation." Sir Edward Grey Holds Up Note's Publication By Associated Press Washington, July 27.—Sir Edward Grey cabled Secretary Lansing to-day that the British government has in preparation another note to the United States on the orders in council, and asked that the note delivered yester day he withheld from publication pending receipt of the new communi cation. Therefore, yesterday's note will not be published to-morrow morning as had been planned. Up In the mountains, down at the seashore, or anywhere you may be spending your vacation , days, the Harrisburg Telegraph reaching you every day is like re ceiving "a letter from home." Did Harrisburg win the ball game? Who pitched? Is the weather hot? Where was the big fire? Your .favorite newspaper, the Harrisburg Telegraph, will have all the story—a paper published in a distant city might give the item in a few lines. Phone the Circulation Depart ment now. THE WEATHER For Harrlahnrg and vleinitri Tart ly cloudy to-night and Wrdnra days not much change In tem perature. For Eantern Pennsylvania! Partly cloudy to-night nnd Wedneidoyt moderate temperature! light, variable wlndn. Blver Tliiindrmhowera have occurred gen erally In the Suaquehanna Valley during the laiit twenty-four liouna, being auftlclently over the .\orth Ilrnnrh to rauar a nllght rl»e tn the river at Wllkea-Harre and prohahly generally below Towanda. IV o derided changes will occur In river condition*. A. ■ fttage of about S.B feet la IndicHt cd for llarrlaburg Wedneaday morning. General Conditions A decreaar In pressure over the Middle Atlantic and New England States was attached In the last twenty-four hours by thunder showers over the territory af fected, the heaviest rainfalls re ported occurring over the .North Branch of the Susquehanna river. Temperature changes have been somewhat Irregular, but not very decided. Temperature! 8 a. m., flSi 2 p. m.. 78. Sun: Rises, 4i58 a. m.| nets, 7:24 p. ra. Mooni Rises, Bill a. m. River Stage: 3.8 feet above low mater mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 80. I.owest temperature, flfl. Mean temperature, TO. Normal temperature, 75. MAYOR WARM UNDER COLLAR AS BOWMAN QUIZZES MR. GORGAS Declares Public Safety Head En tirely "Out of Order"—He Only Wanted to Know CITY FINANCIAL CONDITION Commissioners Put in Liveliest Ses sion in History—Seitz Says Wall Gap May Be Closed City Council put in the liveliest ten minutes of its existence this afternoon when Mayor John K. Royal declared Commissioner Harry F. .Bowman, "out of order" because the superintendent of public safety insisted that Council "had a right to know the financial condition of the city." Mayor Royal heatedly declared that Mr. Bowman was criticising the method in which Commissioner W. L. Gorgas, as superintendent of finance and accounts, was conducting his de partment. Commissioner Bowman jumped to his feet at the mayor's declaration. "Nevertheless," he vigorously in sisted, and he pounded a fist on his desk to emphasize his point, "I still say that this Council has a right to [Continued oil Page It.] KITCHENER VISITS - THE BRITISH FRONT Goes to Ypres, but Not a Shell Fell; Examines Results of Artillery Fire WATCHES TRENCH ATTACK Witnesses Successful Attempt on Part of Troops to Take German Position British Headquarters, France, July 10. (Correspondence of the As sociated Press)) An otherwise dull week at the British front has been relieved by the visit of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, which is the more in teresting because it is the first time [Continued on Page 9.] HORSE ON PARLOR SOFA Runaway Beast Comes In by Window and l.les Down to Rest Special to The Telegraph New York. July 27. A horse whfen didn't stop to ring the bell dashed into a parlor in Yonkers yesterday morning and lay down on a sofa. It took four policemen half an hour to get him out. by way of the diningroom and kitchen. He was rather badly, cut, as he went in through a window. QUESTIONS MAKING OF 'PHONE RATES Attorney Holds Public Service Commission Exceeds Its Au thority in So Doing James Collins Jones, attorney for the Keystone Telephone Company, of Philadelphia began the argument In the attempt of the Public Service Commission to fix uniform rates for the telephone companies of the State this morning with an attack upon the jurisdiction of the commission which made such an Impression upon the commissioners that Commissioner Pennypacker who is presiding ques tioned him at some length at the con clusion of his remarks. Mr. Jones claimed that the act creating the commission gave It the right only to supervise and correct the public service corporations of the State and that when it attempted to [Continued on Page 11.] fin: RE ARE A FEW IMPORTANT DATES TO KEEP IN MIND August 24—Final day for filing pri mary petitions for State offices with Secretary of Commonwealth. August 26. 31 and September 11 City registration days. August 31—Final day to file pri mary petitions for county and city offices with County Commission ers. September I—Final day to be as sessed for November election. September 2—Return day for regis tration lists to County Commis sioners. September 21—Final day to pay poll taxes for primary election. September 21—Fall primaries. October 2—Final day for out-of town voters to pay taxes in order to vote at Fall elections. November 2—General elections. t Will Make Civic Club Contest Awards July 31 Flies killed in the Civic Club's contest will be measured at 11 North Market Square from 9 to 12 o'clock, morning of July 31. Five cents a pint will be paid for all flies and nearly S2O is offered in prizes. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1915 LATEST AMERICAN VICTIM OF GERMAN U BOAT •• *' © IN-S The American freighter Leelanaw, which according to dispatches from London, was torpedoed by a Ger man submarine off Kirkwall, Scotland, and sunk on July 25. The commander of the German craft ordered <- aptain L>. B. Delk and his crew of 32 to abandon their ship and then sent her to the bottom. The captain and the crew took to their boats and reached Kirkwall in safety. The Leelanaw was owned by the Harby Steamship company of New York and was en route from Arch angel, Russia, to Belfast, Ireland, with a cargo of flax. She had carried a cargo of cotton from the United States to Archangel previous to loading with the flax. The German government in a manifest issued on April 18, declared flax a contraband of war. TROOPERS AT GRETNA SOAKED 111 STOII Big Maneuver With "Enemy" Thursday and Friday; to Sleep Under "Pup" Tents By Associated Press Mount Gretna, Pa., July 27.—Penn sylvania's cavalrymen, together with the New Jersey, Maryland and United States army troops now encamped here underwent as «av«re a rain storm last night as has visited a militia camp in this State for several years. For tunately the lightning was not severe and there was little wine, but for more [Continued on Page 9.] Woman's Liberty Bell Goes First Thousand Miles of State Tour Special to The Telegraph Dußois. Pa.. July 27.—The Woman's Liberty Bell arrived here this evening, completing the first thousand miles of its tour of the State. Since its start from Sayre, in Bradford county, on June 23. the huge bronze symbol of the women s appeal for political indepen dence has passed through twenty-one counties and visited 162 towns ano cities. Approximately 500,000 people have seen it and assisted in the en thusiastic receptions that have greeted it all along 1 the route. Leelanaw Captain's Wife Glad She Didn't Go on the Voyage By Associated Press Philadelphia, Pa,, July 27. "My, but I'm glad I didn't go," said Mrs. Edythe M. Delk, of 640 South Fifty fourth street, the wife of Captain Eugene B. Delk, commander of the Leelanaw, in discussing the torpedo ing of her husband's vessel. In her hand she held the cablegram by which her husband had informed her of the sinking of his ship. It read: "Leelanaw sunk. All saved. Will be home in August." When the Leelanaw left New York on May 17 for Arch angel, Russia. Mrs. Delk had begged her husband to take her along. "Never Spank 'Em," Says Mother of 21 Children By Associated Press Kansas City, Mo., July 27. The secret of raising children correctly, applied by Mrs. Dellie Dill, of Kansas City, Kan., who at 4 7 has been mother of twenty-one children, seventeen of them living, is that she always sends them to bed on time, but never fol lowing a spanking. Mrs. Dill isn't at all troubled nor worn out nor wrinkled nor bothered with gray hair. She has a countenance radiant with smiles, and she is about the happiest looking woman that can be found. Her heart was touched when she read an appeal of two de serted children who wanted a home. She offered to take care of the orphans. "Never whip a child," Mrs. Dill said. "If It doesn't behave, put it to bed." Besides rearing her own eight sons and nine daughters, she is helping to care for two grandchildren. Becker Gets Respite Until Friday Morning New York. July 27.—Upon the re quest of Supreme Court Justice Ford for more time to consider the appii cation'for a new trial made by Charles Becker, under sentence of death for instigating the murder of Herman Ro senthal, the gambler, the execution of the former police lieutenant was post poned last night from Wednesday until Friday morning of this week. XEILSEN PLANS OUTING Captain Pat Neilsen, of the Salvation Army, Is preparing for his annual out ing for poor mothers and children. The place will be selected to-morrow and it Is probable the date will be August 14. Attractive contribution boxes are being placed in the stores throughout the city. 1111 DETAILS 1 LEEUMW SIIIIG Officials at Washington Refuse to Comment Pending Investi gation By Associated Press Washington, July 27.—Details of the sinking of the American steam ship Leelanaw by a German submarine were to-day awaited by officials of the United States government, pending which they were reserved in their comments. A full account of the destruction of the Leelanaw is not expected until the American consul at Dundee, Scotland, has completed his investigation. The inquiry was to begin there to-day wtlh the arrival of the vessel's crew. FA LI, 304) FEET AND LIVE American nnd Observer In Aeroplane Accident, Scouting far Villa Special to The Telegraph Nogales. Ariz.. July 27. Piloted by James Dean, an Amerieart, who hah William Glassen as an observer, a scouting: aeroplane belonging to the Maytorena garrison at Nogales, Sonora, fell 300 feet yesterday. The machine was wrecked, but Dean and Glassen es caped with slight injuries. LINDSAY JOHNSON DEAD Manila. July 27.—Lindsay Johnson, director of the Philippine Census, died to-day of tropical ulcers and blood poisoning. Phila. Society Woman Flung From 40-Foot Cliff by Unknown Man By Associated Press Bangor, Me.. July 27. lt became known here to-day that Mrs. George W. Childs Drexel, of Philadelphia, was attacked by an unknown assailant, be lieved to be $n Italian, near her sum mer home at North Istesboro Satur day afternoon. She was pushed violently from a narrow path running along the top of a 40-foot bank, overhanging the rocky shore, and was saved from being dash ed to death on the ledges below by the fact that her clothing caught in the branches of a tree which grew just be low the summit. Mrs. Drexel hung there until rescued by men attracted to the scene by her cries. The assail ant escaped, and it is thought he has succeeded in making his way from the island across Penobscot Bay to the mainland. Mrs. George W. Childs Drexel Is one of the best known of the socially prominent women or Philadelphia. Before her marriage she was Miss Mary S. Irick, of Vincentown, N. J., a member of the widety-known New Jersey family. For her activities last winter In be half of the poor, through the estab lishment of a "bread line" at the In asmuch Mission Mrs. Drexel earned the title of "The Lady Bountiful." She has long been active In charities and philanthropies. Many Desire to Hear Col. Graves Deliver Talk Acceptances to the membership luncheon of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce, which takes place at the Harrisburg Club at noon Thurs day, July 29. are coming in rapidly. Colonel John Temple Graves, the noted editor and orator, who will ad dress the members upon "Our Need of ar> Adequate Navy," is well known by reputation to most of the members. A second card to the members is being mailed this afternoon. This card PUts it squarely up to the members that have friends who want to attend the luncheons to secure the appli cations for membership of such friends, hs they cannot be admitted to thi meetings otherwise. Colonel Graves will come up from Washington on the train reaching Harrisburg at 11.15 o'clock Thursday. He will probably return to New York or Washington the same afternoon. STRIKERS GO RACK TO WORK New York, July 27.—About 1,500 men who had been on strike for sever al days, returned to work to-day In the plants of the Standard Oil Compar and the Tld»water Oil Company in .Bayonne, N. J, 'BLACK WEDNESDAY' IN CHICAGO TOMORROW Many Hundreds of Silent Proces sions Scheduled as Result of Eastland Disaster CORONER HOLDS INQUEST Eight Different Investigations Into Tragedy Will Be Held Chicago, 111.. July 27. Scores of funerals to-day pas*c<l through the strifts of Cicero aiul other \Ve>t hide suburbs that suffered heavily In the Eastland disaster. To-morrow, which will see the passing of many more of these silent processions, lias been named "black Wednesday" hi Chicago. Free funeral service has been pro vided for those families left destitute and plans have been completed for community funeral services to-mor row ill the various churches of Cicero and neighboring suburbs. Coroner's Inquest Taking of testimony at the Coroner's inquest into the cause of the Kastland disaster was lieftun to-day. The first witnesses to arrive were [Continued on Page 9.] mill REBELS STORM PRESIDENT'S POLICE Executive With Few Loyal Troops Bravely Resisting the Attack By Associated Press Port an Prince. Haiti. July 27.—The revolutionary movement against the government of President Guillaume ; broke out in this city at daybreak to-day. Rebellious troops of the govern ment attacked the presidential palace at 4 o'clock and continued firing upon it for two hours. There were a num ber of casualties. President Guillaume Is in the palace resisting the attack of the rebels. The building itself Is in flames. The president has with him a few loyal troops. Supported also by his personal staff, he is making a cour ageous defense. Included among the victims of this attack on the presidential residence Is the chief of police of Port au Prince. The movement was started by a regiment of soldiers who had been dis bsinded by President Guillaume and who resented this treatment. [Continued on Page 4.] Bomb Wrecks Bedroom of Foreman Superintending Big Ally War Contracts Dallas, Texas, July 27. A bomb placed under a bed in the home of W. T. Moore, foreman of Padgitt Brothers Saddlery Company, here last night completely wrecked the bedroom. Moore and his son were hurled from the bed and injured. Padgitt brothers have large con tracts for saddles and harness for the French and English governments. Mr. Padgitt said his company had no friction with labor and he had no Idea who placed the bombs. FRIGHTFCI, STRUGGLK OX Berlin. July 27, via London, 2.35 p. m ' —The battle between the Italians and Austriuns along the Isonzo river are described by the correspondent in the Tyrol of the Lokal Anzeiger as the "mightiest and most frightful of the i world war." The great struggle has lasted a i week, the correspondent says, without 1 any decision having been reached. ! The principal Italian onslaught has. been directed against the Doberdo. J 12 PAGES 3 LOCAL BOYS ARE NOW ENLISTED IN BRITISH REGIMENTS One in Canadian Infantry; An other With Scottish High landers SOON TO GO TO THE FRONT One "Tommy Atkins" Worked Way to England on Tramp Steamer Increasing the number of Harris burgers known to be either defending or preparing to light for the English frown to three, word was received in tiiis city recently that Jacob C. Bern heisel, of 1411> Regina street, and Har old Kline, an eighteen-year-old boy have enlisted. "Dutch" Bernheisel as he is better known throughout the city was a member of Company I, Eighth Regi ment, National Guard of Pennsylvania for three years prior to his departure from here several months ago. Bernheisel had often expressed the desire to participate in active warfare and early this Spring gave up his posi tion as brakeman with the Philadel phia and Reading Railway and went to Canada. He enlisted in Company C, Thirty-Third Battalion, English Volunteers and is now stationed at. London. Ontario, Canaoa. In a letter to friends, he wrote there was every [Continued on Page 4.] To Resume Work on Federal Building Soon Postmaster Frank C. Sites gives the satisfying assurance that work will probably be resumed on the enlarge ment of the Federal building in the near future. Meanwhile he is using bis good offices to have the rubbish and debris that has littered Locust street for some months removed. It is believed that the remainder of the work can be finished without any ob struction of the street and sidewalk. Under the revised plan a short wall will fringei the Court averue sidewalk to a height of about four feet, upon which will be placed a coping. The mail wagons will enter from a opening near Walnut and Court streets and leave the enclosure the same way. This will not interfere with the drive way or the sidewalk in Locust street. r COMPLETE WIRELESS TO JAPAN ■ 1 Tokio, Japan, July 27. Wireless communication was I successfully inaugurated tQ-day between the new station at I j | Funat a&hi, near Yokohama, and the Hawaiian islands. Mes- I I sages by wireless telegraphy between Japan and the United | P States will be regularly accepted in the future. 1 I AUSTRIANS BOMBARD COAST T fc Rome, July 27, via Paris, 4.30 p. m. Light Austrian 1 cruisers and four Austrian torpedoboat destroyers at dawn 1 to-day, bombarded several points on the railroad which runs alon- the shore of the Adriatic between Senigallia, 16 miles 1 west northwest of Ancona, and Pesaro. ' GERMANS SINK DANISH STAMER 1 Copenhagen, July' 27, via London, 3.06 P. M. -r- The ( Danish steamship Nogill, bound from Gothenburg, Sweden, i |> I for the i Tyne and laden with railway ties, has been sunk • i in the North Sea by a German submarine. The crew of T i ner was landed at Wilhelmshaven, near Bremen. I • £ * GERMAN U BOAT SINKS FRENCH SUBMARINE 1 Berlin, July 27.—8y Wireless to Sayville.—The French 1 1 submarine Mariotte was destroyed by a German submarine J on July 26 in the narrows of the Dardanelles, according to a * 9 dispatch from Constantinople to the Mittag Zeitung. Thirty-,,! one members of the French submarine's crew weVe captured. I BELIEVE NINETEEN MINERS PERISHED ' I Christopher, Ills., July 27. Nineteen miners were | trapped in one of the entrances of Moderwell Mine No. 1, < here to-day, by an explosion of gas. It is believed all have 9 perished. I I GERMANS SINK NINE TRAWLERS j London, July 27, 5.17 P. M.—Apparently determined to ' ' t demoralize the British supply as much as possible, two Ger- ' man submarines have appeared suddenly among the fishing t fleet off the North coast of Scotland and by shell fire sunk ' nine trawlers. ► ■ MARRIAGE 5" ni,, i j' A. Ilc» m Kurd ner, Lemoyac, and Helena Dauber. Hnmmelatowa. The Rev. Edgnr Erne»t Snyder and Mora Irene Forrer, city. | Vlr 1 "»»»» m<{ ♦ POSTSCRIPT IMW-PETRHD HUD IN DANGER OF GERMAN CAVALRY Enveloping Movement Continues With Energy; Russians Holding Firm in Some Places SINK 40 COALING VESSELS Terrific Losses on Austro-Italian Frontier; Quiet Along Western Front The German advance on Warsaw continues to-day to be the most im portant development in the lield of war. It Is being conducted wifh energy and the Russian resistance has brought furious fighting along p. wide front. Nevertheless, the latest reports Indi cate that the German movement to en velope the Polish capital is progress ing. A Russian official report admits that tin Germans are attacking the advance defenses of Novo Gcorgletvsk. fifteen miles northwest of Warsaw, but at the same time recites a number of in stances in which the Germans have been either repulsed or unsuccessful in their attacks. This is notable at Pultlisk, thirty miles north of the capi tal of Russian Poland. At Ivangorod, also, fifty-five miles southeast of War saw, attacks by German troops have been successfully repulsed. The battle is still raging with terrific fury on al most the whole front between the Vieprz and the Bug rivers. Furthermore, Petrograd announces the destruction in the Black Sea of forty sailing vessels laden with coal for Germany. The casualties In the fighting on the Italo-Austrian frontier have latterly been very heavy, according to a news dispatch received by the Tribune of Geneva. The Austrians are described as fighting with utter contempt of death; the Italian artillery has mowed them down lu masses. The Austrian los-os would appear to be heavier, ac cording to this newspaper. The Italian army has lost a general officer on the Austrian frontier. General Antonio Cantore was killed in battle while at the hend of his men. An American oil steamer, the Maver. ick, has been held up in the Java Sea bj a T)utch warship as a suspect. There have been no developments of any moment on the western front. The French official report of to-day recites [Continued on Page !).]
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