COUNCIL WILL TAKE
UP SEWER PROBLEMS
No Special Meeting Will Be Called
However; Bureau of Health
Petitioned by West Endert
While no special meeting of City
' >Council will be called to consider the
sewer problems aboift which rest
dents of the West End and Allison
Hill yesterday afternoon petitioned the
city bureau of health and sanitation, it
is understood that the question will
he discussed at the regular meeting of
the City Commissioners on Tuesday.
That the sewers in sonje sections of
the West End are not adequate to
carry away the surface and the house
drainage was admitted to-day by City
Commissioner Lynch but he declared
that he could see no remedy just now.
To that end he favored the proposed
conference of some of the county and
Stat* health authorities with the Har
risburg councilmen to discuss a plan.
Mr. Lynch attributes the fault to the
fact that when most of the city's sewer
system was Installed, the streets wore
unpaved and the storm drainage did
not flow off so rapidly as Is the case
with paved streets. The State wishes
the city to Install a dual system, Mr.
Lynch says, one system to carry off
surface only, the other to carry oft
the house drainage. The only way this
could be provided for he said, was by
floating a loan and he declared he is
not prepared to say whether or not
this would be done this year.
The river front interceptor is more
than ample to cary off the sewage,
Mr. Lynch added, and he thinks the
primary fault lay with the house con
nections.
Warsaw Campaign Proves
Puzzle to Observers
By Associated Press
London, July 29, 11:55 a. m.—Ex
cept from Sokal, Galicla, where* the
Russians claim by a counter offensive
to have thrown back the Austro-Hun
garians across the Dniester river, little
definite news reached London this
morning from the Eastern nattle front, i
To the east of the Narew river, the ]
extent of the German advance from I
Ronan is marked by the capture of j
the village of Goworowo which lies
only six miles from the river.
The exact status of the operations
on the eastern front is proving a
puzzle to students of the Warsaw cam
paign, even Petrograd being uncertain
whether the vast operations between
the Bug and the Vistula rivers mark
the crisis of the battle or only a pause
to allow one side or the other to draw
breath or rearrange Its forces.
DENIES RUMOR THAT HE
CONTEMPLATES THEATER
Work on remodelling the Victoria
and Photoplay theaters on Market
street into one big picture playhouse,
is under way.
Manager James George denied to
day that he contemplated taking over
another playhouse at this time as was
rumored. His present, plans call for
an attractive new playhouse, seating
2,000 people, to succeed the Victoria
and Photoplay theaters. He added,
"I have no time to think about any
other playhouse just now."
p- LOADED SAILING SHIP CAUGHT
Rome, via Paris, July 29. News- |
paper dispatches received from Tunis
say that an allied warship captured a
large Greek sailing ship off Cape Mata
pan and rowed it to Bizerta. Five Turk
ish officers are declared to have been
found hidden aboard the ship, which
was laden with provisions and arms
and ammunition intended for the rebels
of Cyrenaica.
EMPRESS IN EAST PRUSSIA
By Associated Press
Berlin, July 29, by Wireless to Say
ville, L. I. Empress August Vic
toria and the Crown Princess Ceceilie,
who are traveling through East Prus
sia on an inspection of the villages
destroyed by the Russians, reached
Neldenburg yesterday and visited the
hospital there.
A $1925 Car at
$1550
Chalmers Six-48
Seven • Passenger Touring Car
We introduced this car at $1925.
Over 10,000 of them are in active use.
Without cutting the value one iota
we now offer this car at $1550.
The plant is working on a production
four times greater than ever before.
Consequently we are now able to sell
A Quality Car
at a Quantity Price
This is the best value we have ever offered
and the sales for the past week prove that
the wise motor car buyers in this neigh
borhood realize it.
Stop in and see the car they arc ell talking, about.
KEYSTONE MOTOR CAR CO.
1019-21-23-25 Market St. Harrisburg, Pa.
Both Phones
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THURSDAY EVENING, HARBISBURG TELEGRAPH JULY 29, 1915.
INVESTIGATION OE
DISASTER UNDER WAY
U. S. Department of Commerce
Examines Witnesses
in Chicago
By Associated Press
Chicago, July 29.—Examination of
witnesses in the Inquiry of the United
States Department of Commerce, into
tha cause of the Eastland disaster be
gan here to-day under the personal
supervision of Secretary Redfleld.
Witnesses including the officers and
crew of the steamer and a long list of
survivors were summoned to the Fed
eral Building to tell their versions of
catastrophe.
While this Injuiry was progressing,
United States District Attorney Charles
F. Clyne prepared to empanel a fed
eral grand jury to Investigate the
question of criminal responsibility for
the accident. In the State's attorney's
office efforts were directed to deter
mine the extent of jurisdiction of the
State grand jury over the persons held
by the grand jury for grand jury's
action. Doubt was expressed over
th 6 jurisdiction of the State over fed
. eral officials.
District Attorney Clyne hinted that
a number of well-known excursion
| steamers "might have to come off the
I lake."
I Speaking of possible action by the
| State grand jury United States Dis
trict Attorney Clyne said:
"If any action against those respon
sible is ordered by the State grand
Jury, we will demand the right to en
ter proceedings against the two steam
boat inspectors and the boat captain,
named by the coroner's jury, In ad
vance of any action which may be
taken by the State's attorney following
indictments by the grand jury."
"No. 396" Lies in Morgue
at Chicago Unclaimed
By Associated Press
Chicago, 111., July 29.—1n the morgue
of the Eastland dead there still lies
the body of "No. 396," an 8-year-old
hoy, unclaimed and unidentified. Ex
cept for a hole in the knee of his
trrusers, there is no distinguishing
mark about his apparel and none of
the thousands of searchers for the
missing could place him, so the public
has claimed him for Its kin.
A mound of flowers is rising about
the little body and to each wreath is
pinned a kindly message. "For 396, a
poor kid," reads one. "For No. 39fi—
the poor little kiddie," is another. An
other voices a spirit of resentment
against those responsible for the dis
aster.
More than a dozen have volunteered
to bury the lad and the Boy Scouts
have offered to give him a military
funeral.
it is believed that No| 396 did not
belong to the families of any of the
Western Electric Company employes.
Coroner Finds Woman
Died From Starvation
Tn the opinion of Coroner Jacob
Eckinger, and the police, Mrs. Brid
get Dunn, aged SO, found dead, at her
home 1508 Howard street yesterday,
died from starvation and neglect. A
son, John (Biddy) Dunn, known to
the police, who was found in the house
in a drunken stupor, was allowed to go
to-day, after sobering up. According
to the coroner Dunn after finding his
mother was dead called an under
taker and went to sleep again.
AUSTRIAN'S TAKEN ASHORE
By Associated Press
New York, July 29.—Passengers ar
riving here to-day on the liner Noor
flam from Rotterdam said the steamer
was detained 33 hours off eDal by a
British patrol boat while three Aus
trian passengers were taken ashore
and questioned. The three were later
returned to the steamer.
LACKAWANNA IS
AFTER TOLL ROAO
# ———
Delegation Asks Highway Commis
sioner to Get Rid of the Gates
Near That City
State Highway Commissioner Cun
ningham was urged by a committee
of Lackawanna county citizens to ap
ply as much of the appropriation for
the purchase of turnpikes as possible
to the acquisition of the Roaring
Brook and the Providence and Ablng
ton turnpike, Lackawanna county.
Both these roads lead out of Scran
ton. One of them, the Providence and
Abington, being known us the North
ern houlevard. Commissioner Cun
ningham told the delegation that he
had entered into negotiations with
both of these turnpike companies and
hoped to be able to acquire the prop
erty at a reasonable figure. The dele
gation was headed by Mark K. Edgar,
secretary of the Scranton Board of
Trade, R. A. Zimmerman, of Scranton,
Hugh B. Andrews, secretary of the
Scranton Automobile Club, Edward
McCormick and Horace Beamans,
Burgess of La Plume.
A delegation from Cambria county
called on State Highway Commissioner
Cunningham and Chief Engineer Uhler
to-day with reference to a change
of State Highway Route 5 4 between
Ebensburg and Indiana. The delega
tion sought particularly to have that
part of the route lying between Ebens
burg and Belsano changed. Chief En
gineer Uhler told them that he would
work up the engineering and legal
points and see whether or not the de
partment had the power to change
this route. The. delegation was headed
by Senator Tompkins of Cambria
county and consisted of Webster
Griffith of Ebensburg, W. C. Smith,
and John Cunningham of Twin Rocks
and T. P. Burns of Nanty Glo.
ENGLAND MUST BE
FEARED BY U. S.
[Continued From First Page.]
the main he dwelt upon the urgent
necessity for national preparedness.
"I think this is a land of peace," he
said, "a republic of peace-loving men
and women, and I think we have in
our minds no greater hope than that
this country of ours shall always be
tlif. conserver of our own peace and
the preserver of the peace of all coun
tries. Yet we stand to-day face to face
with the bloodiest contradiction of the
principle of peace In the world's his
tory. No man less than a consti
tutional and criminal optimist can fail
to see that we live in the midst of suf
ficient apprehension and danger and
that, we are not any more exempt from
war than any other country is exempt
from war.
Most Helpless Nation
"We have the same conditions sur
rounding us that surrounded Europe.
We have policies, principles, interests
that may move against us at any time.
We have the Monroe doctrine, the
Panama canal, and above all, the
threatening question of our competi
tive commerce to make it possible that
we may at some time be submerged in
war ourselves. We are at this mo
ment engaged in a diplomatic contro
versy with the central nation of the
great war. We are engaged with no
less seriousness or earnestness with
England In the great question of her
interference with neutral ships and
the destroying of our trade.
"Yet in view of these entirely pos
sible eventualities we are, with the
single, solitary exception of the re
public of China, the oldest, the largest
and the most helpless nation in the
world, the least prepared nation for
war In all the universe. When the
history of these times has been written
it will he set down as one of the mar
vels of the age that a nation so virile
In its force and so tremendous in its
development has been willing to stand
still for so long a time in a condition
of unpreparedness to defend itself.
"Within the last two years we have
been absolutely compelled to discredit
any statement in regard to the navy
which came from the Secretary of the
Navy—the executive head of the
United States navy.
"Only recently has he justified him
self for his years of sleepiness by nam
ing the board of experts that will set
tle our difficulties if Congress appro
priates the money, and we must all
urge Congress to do that.
What England Could Do
"A navy is the first defense of na
tions. Nations with great navies have
never been successfully asjsailed and
hove never been overthrown. Eng
land, with the greatest navy in the
world, has not been attacked by a for
eign enemy in 1,000 years.
"If we should enter Into war with
England to maintain our self-respect,
or for any other reason, England, with
her great navy, might come to our
shores and batter to pieces all our har
bors, destroying property that cost
more than 100 or 1.000 navies such as
our own cost. The Queen Elizabeth
might hatter down the defenses of
Sandy Hook and the armies following
lay all our eastern seaboard under
tribute.
"We are face to face with the great
est emergency this republic has ever
known.
"Delegates were sent to the second
Hague conference to exhaust every re
source of their brains and their diplo
macy to construct such treaties of
peace as they could devise. They met
in session four long months, and when
that convention ended the representa
tives of every nation on earth had
signed treaties for peace. Yet before
the backs of the delegates to the sec
ond Hague conference were turned
this world was sunk in the bloodiest
war in history. Those are the treaties
on which Bryan hangs his irridescent
dream. They are scraps of paper in
deed. profitless in the sight of men
ar.d pitiful in the sight of God. Peace
treaties will not preserve the peace of
the world. Nothing less than pre
paredness will preserve the peace of
the world.
"We need an army for the national
defense and. above all things .a navy."
CAVALRYMEN ROUT
FOE AT MT. GRETNA
[Continued From First Page.]
ation by squadrons against an Imag
inary foe. They were informed that
certain forces of known strength were
at certain points of the maneuver
grounds and they were assigned cer
tain duties in dislodging them, turn
ing their flanks, "rolling up the ene
my's flanks and crumping his front or
In other tactics of offense.
It was not long after the troops sal
lied forth from camp on their various
errands that the first contact with an
enemy was formed and the United
States army umpires began their task
of suggesting, advising and coaching
the militia officers. The field oper
ation was so arranged as to bring the
troops in toward camp by noon, to
avoid a uselessly long ride.
To-day's operation Is really a kind
of "loading up" process, looking to
ward to-morrow's problem, when the
entire force will be divided into two
armies, the "red" and the "blue" and
the commander of each will be as
signed a task in olTense and defense
in combat with each other.
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BECKER'S FATE NOW
IN WHITMAN'S HANDS
[Continued From First. Page.]
sel. Becker will go to the chair with
a dying declaration of Innocence."
No New Revelations
In commenting upon his action
denying a new trial Justice Ford said
that none of the revelations made by
Becker In his recent statement could
be considered as new evidence; that
they were known to Becker before his
first trial and should have been di
vulged then. The power of the Su
preme Court, the justice said, is so
limited by law that he could not do
otherwise, under the circumstances
than to refuse Becker's application.
In his opinion, he said, there was not
enough competent evidence offered to
have changed the result had it been
received during the trial.
To Deputy Warden Johnson of Sing
Sing, who notified him that his appeal
had been denied, Becker said:
"Well I'll die like a man, anyhow."
To Father Cashin, the prison chap
lain, Becker said:
"There is no justice here. I am
confident, however, that I will get it in
the next world. I know that the truth
will come out and that the world will
know that Becker told the truth and
is not the murderer he is accused of
being. I do not fear death but I feel
the stigma which this death attaches
to the name Becker and I feel the dis
tress and sorrow that it will cause my
wife."
Mrs. Becker at Albany
to Make Final Plea
By Associated Press
Albany, N. Y., July 29. Mrs.
Becker arlved here at 11:30 to-day
to make a final plea to Governor
Whitman for her husband's life. Sho
was accompanied by John B. John
son, of Becker's counsel. Mrs. Becker
'did not learn until after her arrival
of the Governor's departure from the
city. She said her plans were uncer
tain.
Governor Whitman and Major
Moore, his military secretary, left Al
bany this morning by automobile for
Camp "Whitman, near Fishklll, to re
view the State troops encamped there.
Before leaving Governor Whitman re
ceived a telegram from Mrs. Becker
asking for an interview. He replied
that he was compelled to leave Albany
but would receive Mrs. Becker on his
return, which will be about 6:30 this
evening.
Governor Whitman had nothing to
add to-day to his brief statement of
last night, saying that, In denying a
new trial for Becker, Justice Ford
had taken the only step possible under
the circumstances.
In no quarter is It believed that a
plea for mercy would change the
executive's attitude. He Is very posi
tive regarding Becker's guilt. The
fact, which became public after Jus
tice Ford handed down his decision,
that Becker had offered to plead guilty
to second degree murder, convinced
the Governor of his belief, based on
the evidence that no Injustice will be
done in executing the former lieuten
ant.
As a result of worry over the Becker
case the Governor is said to be nearly'
exhausted. He had followed every
move as closely as any of the at
torneys and his appearance shows
plainly the effects of his hours of
study and worry.
Shortly before Mrs. Becker's arrival
the public entrance to the Executive
Chamber in the Capitol was closed and
a plainclothes man placed on guard.
An unconfirmed rumor said that the
authorities had learned that some
New York gunmen had arrived In
Albany. Another report was that the
Governor would return to Albany
early In the afternoon and would re
ceive Mrs. Becker immediately on his
return.
After a conversation with William
Orr, Governor Whitman's private
secretary, over the telephone, Mrs.
Becker and Attorney Johnson went to
a hotel. It was learned that the Gov
ernor had notified Becker's counsel In
New York that he would be out of
town during the day, but the message
failed to reach Mrs. Becker before her
departure for Albany.
Becker Is Reported to
Be Bearing Up Well
By Associated Press
Osslning. N*. Y, July 29.—Charles
Becker, condemned to die to-morrow,
was reported to be bearing up well
to-dov under the realization that vir
tually all hope of escaping the electric
chair had been passed.
Less than an hour after Becker re
ceived word that Supreme Court Jus
tice Ford had denied his appeal for a
third trial the condemned man threw
himself on his cot. Becker lay with
liis face to the wall and the guard said
he did not move all night. Becker
arose at 7 o'clock to-day. After break
fast he was taken from his cell while
the final preparations for his execution
wore made.
When Becker returned to his cell he
found that all of his clothing, personal
belongings and even the few furnish
ings of the cell had been removed. On
a new cot lay a thin black suit, white
shirt with soft collar and a black tie.
Black stockings and soft felt slippers
were also provided. The left leg of
the trousers was not slit when Becker
I donned the clothes, as the slitting is
done just before a condemned man is
led to the execution chamber.
Father Oashin, the prison chaplain
and Becker's spiritual adviser, was
expected to spend considerable time
with the condemned man to-day and 1
to-night. Father Cashin will also ac
company Becker to the death cham
ber. Mrs. Helen Becker, wife of
condemned man, was expected to ar
rive to-day to spend the last hours
allowed her with her husband. Other
members of Becker's family also were
expected. \
Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of
Sing Sing, announced that he will leave
the prison late to-day.. The warden Is 1
opposed to capital punishment and has
never been at the prison during an
execution. Deputy Warden Johnson
will have charge of the execution of
Becker and Samuel Haynes ,a negro,
who will probably be electrocuted a
few minutes before Becker.
CHRISTIAN SCTENCE CHCRCH
WILL BE BOLT UP TOWN
Members of the First Church of 1
Christ. Scientist ,at a meeting last '
night decided to erect a building on a
lot owned by the congregation at
Front and Woodbine streets.
The architect will he W. W. John- 1
son It Is proposed to first erect a '
building on the rear of the lot, front- s
Ing on Woodbine street, and later erect <
a main building facing Front street. i
Men's Association Will
Take Long Auto Trip
The following members of the Men's
Association of Salem Beformed church
will leave to-morrow morning on a
day's automobile trip. Gettysburg
battlefield, Llttlestown, York and
Lancaster will be visited:
John C. Orr, the Rev. Ellis N.
Kremer, D. D., Ellis N. Kremer, Jr.,
M. I. Kast, C. Russell Small, George
Small, J. William Bowman, the Rev.
D. H. Leader, the Rev. Harry Nelson
Basßler, Rudolph K. Fortna, J. Ru
dolph Beck, John H. Mclllhenney, Ed
win C. Thompson, Henry 8. Gross, J.
Douglas M. Royal, Mayor Jojin K.
Royal, Charles E. Dasher, G. Alvln
Holllnger, G. Milton Potts, William M.
Robison, J. E. Sponsler, Wilson R.
Houser. Charles Swarger, Fred Pat
terson, J. K. Bowman, the Rev. Homer
S. May, J. Wesley Nelll, Joseph
Sheaffer, Cyrus M. HolTer, Oeorge Fay
man, William U. Becker, Dr. J. J. Het
rlck, David S. Hoerner, Clarence R.
Rupp, Edwin R. Dasrier, Harry F.
Hench, F. A. Eyeler, Herbert Rupp,
Paul C. Sheaffer and William Thomp
son.
WATER PRE SSI'RE TOO LOW
Earth Cavetf In On Sewer and Weight
Cracked Connections
Why some of the dwellings in the
vicinity of Eighteenth and Regina
streets suffered to some extent for the
last few months from a lack of water
pressure at their faucets was discov
ered late yesterday afternoon by City
Commissioner H. F. Bowman when
bursted service pipes were found In
Eighteenth street, north of Regina.
Improper tamping of a sewer put in
some months ago had caused tho
ground to cave and this cracked the
service pipes, decreasing the pressure.
Work was begun to-day by City
Commissioner Lvnch on the construc
tion of the big four-foot circular con
crete sewer In the Thirteenth Ward
that will be laid in Eighteenth, Rudy
and Spencer streets.
MOTORCYCLIST LOSES EYE
J. B. Weirman, 1528 Fulton street,
had his right eye removed at the Har
rlsburg Hospital last night. While
adjusting a brake band on his motor
cycle Tuesday night, a screw driver
slipped and struck his eye.
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