Russians Are Evacuating Warsaw 1o Strengthen Line and Insure Final Victory
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 177
1 COMMISSIONERS,
BOWMAN, GORGAS.
LYNCH, WILL RUN
Formally Announce Th?ir Candi
dacies For Re-election v
in November
MAYOR STILL RETICENT
Taylor Will Make Statement on
Matter Within Short
Time
Three of Harrisburg's first City
Commissioners —Harry F. Bowman,
Superintendent of Public Safety; Wil
liam H. Lynch, Superintendent of
Streets and Public Improvements, and
William L. Gorgas. Superintendent of
Finance and Accounts —to-day for
mally announced their candidacies for
re-eleetion In November.
Mayor John K. Royal whom, so ru
mor hath it, would like to be a com
missioner, said he is "not a candidate
at this time." What the future might
bring forth, however, he said he
couldn't tell.
City Commissioner M. Harvey Tay
lor, Superintendent of Parks and Pub
lic Property, declined to talk as to
whether or not he will be a candidate
other than to reiterate his statement
of a week or so ago—that.he will
make a statement In the course of a
few days or a week.
The Announcements
Commissioner Bowman, who with
Commissioners Taylor and Lynch, re
duced the city's tax rate for the pres
ent year from nine and a half to nine
mills, and conducted all of the public
Improvement work that has helped'
advance Harrisburg another step In its
progress as a modern, up-to-date city,
announces his candidacy In a more or
less formal interview.
Mr. Lynch simply said:
"Surely I'm going to be a candidate.
Tou can say that much, if you wish.
As to whether or not I'll have any fur
ther statement to make, that I'll de
cide later. I may Issue one later in
the campaign."
Said Mr. Gorgas:
• "Well, I didn't care particularly to
make any announcement as yet but
since the question's been asked why
I will say that I had rather thought
I'd be a candidate. Yes, you may say
that I'll be a candidate."
"Report had it that you were con
sidering the mayoralty candidacy. Mr.
Gorgas. Is there anything to that?
Or do you mean to run again for City
Commissioner ?"
"Oh, there's nothing ir that mayor
alty report," said the Commissioner
of Finance. "I won't be a candidate
for Mayor; I'll run again for Com
missioner."
Said Mayor Royal:
"Why, really, I've nothing to say as
yet. At this time I'm not a candidate
and I haven't decided fully whether I
shall run or not. I may have a state
ment to make later, but I haven't
given it a very great deal of thought
thus far."
Bowman Has Done Wonders
Mr. Bowman, who as superintendent
of public safety has done wonders in
his own department by reducing water
rents, completing important pipe line
extensions and Improvements and in
augurating a dozen and one other im
portant changes that all aim for the
betterment of the city, summed up his
work in a concise little interview:
pensioners on July 1. The bulletin
"Yes." said he, in answer to a ques
tion. "I am a candidate and I've taken
out my petition blanks to-dav. My
pledge to the citizens of Harrisburg
two years ago was that if elected 1
promise to give my entire time and
attention to the office, and will work
for the economical and progressive
betterment of the city, always keeping
in mind the interests of the taxpay
ers'." continued the superintendent of
public safety.
"And this,", he went on. "is what I
have accomplished: Reduced the
minimum charge for water from J 6
to $5; reduced the price of water
meters from $11.50 to $8.50; reduced
the price of water from 12 V 4 cents per
100 cubic feet to 10 cents per 100 cubic
feet, which gives the consumer 20 per
( cent. more water for $5 than he for
merly got for $6; I also made several
reductions covering all small manu
facturing plants and small hotels and
restaurants. (With these reductions
there was a net earning f«r the year
ending December 31, 1914, of
$80,915.93.)
"I also assisted in making a re-
one-half mill in the city tax
platform shall be the same as
.-<tie one I adopted two years ago and
which I believe I have fulfilled. Fur
'thermore. I shall do as much better as
It Is possible to do."
THE WEATHER
For Harrisburg and vicinity) Part
ly cloudy to-night and Tuetdar,
with probably showers and some
what cooler weather.
For Eastern Pennsylvaniai Partly
* cloudy to-night and Tuesday,
■ / probably ahowera and somewhat
• cooler) gentle to moderate winds
becoming north and northeast.
_ m . lUver
The main river and Its principal
branches will rise allghtly or re
main nearly stationary. A stage
of about 3.0 feet la Indicated for
Harrisburg Tuesday morning.
General Conditions
I.oral ahowera have fallen In the
Middle Atlantic States and In the
Ohio Valley, East Tennessee and
in the Carollnas.
It Is 2 to 14 degrees cooler than on
Saturday morning over nearly B ||
the country east of the Rocky
mountains.
Temperature! 8 a. m., T4i 2 p. m., Rfl.
Bum Rlaea, 5)03 a. M.i acts, 7)19
p. m.
Moon: New moon, August 10, 8>52
p. m.
River Stage t 3.9 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 88.
Low eat temperature, 72.
Mean temperature. SO.
normal temperature, 74.
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PATROLMEN MUST
KEEP LOOKING FOR
VICE AND CROOKS
Police Chief Says His Men Must
Be More Than Figure
heads
GET PENCILS AND PADS
Have to Post Successors on Their
Beats When Changes
Are Made
Beginning to-day, all patrolmen will
be held responsible for any law vio
lations in their respective districts.
Notice to this effect was given in an
order issued by Col. Joseph B. Hutch
ison.
The order requires that special at
tention be given to disorderly houses
and complaints regardin acts of im
morality. Failure to report the ex
istence of a disorderly house, accord
ing to the new order, will mean a
hcarge of neglect of duty against the
officer.
Each patrorman was instructed to
provide himself w:m a pencil and
small pocket tablet and to make note
of robberies, thefts of automobiles and
bicycles, and report promptly to the
department. When an officer is
cha.nged from one district to another,
or is succeeded by another patrolman,
he must report all violations, and sus
pected disorderly places, to the officer
succeeding him. Col. Hutchison said:
"Patrolmen are expected to be
more than figureheads. They are at
times loth to overlook complaints
given them, and frequently tell the
persons making the complaints to
come to the office. In the future they
must take the complaint, report it to
the office, and get busy inquiring into
the complaints. In the future, where
a prosecution is made on informa
tion received, the patrolman who has
failed to do his duty will be punished
accordingly."
POPEL, EXPRESSMAN, DIES
Aged Colored Man One of Oldest
Residents of the City
Samuel Popel, aged 77, died at his
home at 63 4 Calder street Saturday
night at 7:30. His death was caused
by a stroke with which he was stricken
Wednesday.
Mr. Popel was one of the oldest liv
ing colored residents of the city. He
was born in 1838 in a house built bv
his mother at 110 Filbert street, but
was forced to move to his daughter's
home when the work was begun on
the capital park extension.
Mr. Popel was often seen about the
streets when he drove his local ex
press wagon. He also ran a small cjgar
store near his home, but upon moving
from his old home he retired from
active work. He is survived by his
only daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Scott.
Funeral services will be held from
his home at 634 Calder street Tues
day morning at ten thirty. The Rev.
Wm. Mays will officiate. Interment
will be made in the Lincoln cemetery.
Says Everybody Goes
to Bed at 8 O'clock
in Philadelphia
Writing as a taxpayer to the Public
Service Commission, John H. Fow, of
Philadelphia, a former legislator and
widely known in this city protests
against the Philadelphia subway and
overhead transit plan because, he
claims, it does not pay to run cars in
that city after 8 o'clock as everybody
goes to bed.
He refers to the promoters of the
scheme as idealists, who apparently
have no knowledge whatever of tho
habits and domestic lives and the in
dustries of the city. Fow writes that
it is a well known fact that a centrally
located club can not he run in Phila
delphia because very few members
leave their homes in the evening.
"Even the great Union League hardly
has a baker's dozen some nights with
in its walls," he says.
As a taxpayer, the former legislator
wants to know why he and others
should be compelled to pay for the
construction of a subway that will
place an indebtedness of over eighty
millions on the city in addition to the
millions "Philadelphia already knows.
SUMMER SCHOOL OPENS
Study in Morning; Sports in Afternoon
at Academy
With an enrollment of nearly a
score of pupils, the Academy summer
school opened this morning for a' six
weeks' session. More than twice that
amount of students have signified their
intention of enrolling.
Sessions will be held in the morning
during the hot weather. The after
noon will be deVoted to sports which
will include swimming, tennis and
baseball.
LITTLE FIGHTING ON PENINSULA
Constantinople, Aug. 1, via London,
Aug. 2.—There have been no important
actions on either side in the last fort
night on the Oalllpoli peninsula. Even
the British bombardment of the
Turkish positions has lessened cou
siderably in its intensity.
Next to wtlnt one's cake and
sharing it, too, Is going on a vaca
tion and knowUig all about what
is going on at home. For six
cents a week the Harrisburg Tele
graph will keep you in touch
with all the doings.
Call the Circulation Depart
ment. The next Issue will meet
you no matter where you go.
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1915
AMERICAN OFFICERS AND SCENE OF SNIPING OF AMERICAN SAILORS \
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- STfSEEI SCE.KE IN POR.T AV
The picture shows a typical street scene In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, anil an insert of Rear Admiral Caperton.
Txvo American sailors were killed by snipers when Rear Admiral Caperton landed a party to protect Americans
and foreigners in Port-au-Prince following the uprising which resulted in the lynching of President Guillaume,
Sam and other officials. Caperton has asked for reinforcements. More than 500 marines aboard the U. S. S.
Connecticut are now speeding toward the scene of the trouble.
SCHWAB "EXPERT"
MAKING IIENM
OF LOCAL PLANTS?
That's the Story, but Officials of
Interested Companies Know
Him Not
PURCHASE OF MILLS PUN
"C. R. Thomas" Say» He Finds
Mills Hereabouts All
Right
Local industrial circles were stirred
this afternoon by the announcement
that C. R. Thomas, an expert high in
the employ of Charles M. Schwab, of
the Bethlehem Steel Company, was
here to take an inventory of the plants
of the Pennsylvania Steel Company
and Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bend
ing Company with a view of ultimate
purchase.
Mr. Thomas has spent the last two
weeks in the city supposedly going
through, the plants of the two com
panies, which now are loaded with
foreign and domestic orders. He said
that he has already been through the
plant of the Maryland Steel Company
at Sparrows Point, Md., a subsidiary
of the Pennsylvania Steel Company,
and found it satisfactory. Mr. Thomas
would not say whether his company
contemplates purchasing it or whether
they expect to place some of their mil
lions of dollars of war orders there.
The expert asserted that he was not
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WARSAW STILL HELD
BY RUSSIAN FORCES
News of Polish Capital's Evacua
tion, However, Is Expected
at Any Moment
Warsaw Is still In Russian posses
sion, according to the latest dispatches
to come to hand from the continent.
News of its evacuation Is expected at
any moment, however, for nothing has
occurred In the past twenty-four hours
to Indicate any other outcome to the
German advance.
There has been no Important fight
ing In the Gnllppoll peninsula for two
weeks. Reports from Athens say that
a serious fire In Constantinople has de
stroyed 3,000 buildings, including a
military hospital.
The Italian authorities, according to
a late estimate, have in their posses
sion something over 17,000 Austrian
prisoners.
Last night saw infantry encounters
in the Artois district and fighting
with han grenades near Souchez, in
Champagne, and In the Argonne, ac
cording to the French official state
ment of to-day. Nowhere were the
Germans successful.
Reports Submitted
A French investigating committee
has submitted k further report on al
leged violations of accepted rules of
warfare by German troops. The re
port says the Germans killed French
wounded; use French prisoners as a
shield against French attack and oth
erwise treated the military and civil
ian prisoners with inhumanity. The
British steamers, the Cllntonia and
the Fulgens are reported to-day to
have been sunk by German cubmar
lnes. Germany has not yet decided
whether the American note regarding
submarine warfare should be an
swered, says a message received from
Berlin by wireless telegraphy. She Is
awaiting the text of the next Ameri
can communication to Great Britain
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CITY POST OFFICE TO
DISTRIBUTE 40 CAR
LOADS OF CATALOGS
Great Shipment Shows Harrisburg's
Growing Importance as
Distributing Point
TO COVER 150 MILE RADIUS
Bulk of Distribution Will Fall on
Rural Carriers; Business
Growing Steadily
, Emphasizing the importance of
I Harrisburg as a center of distribution
I forty ear loads of catalogs of three of
the largest mail order houses in the
United States will be distributed
through the local post office to resi
dents of the first and second zones
.within the next month.
Arrangements have been completed
for the distribution of the first con
signment of twenty-six freight car
loads from a big New York firm by
Montgomery & Company, which is
handling the transfer. The catalogs
will be shipped to this city by freight.
They will be already packed in gov
ernment sacks and the work of mail
ing them will be done by Montgomery
& Company. The other fourteen car
loads, which will also be transferred
by Montgomery & Company are being
shipped by two big Middle West
houses.
This will be the largest shipment of
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liiM BUILDING
■ON MOT STREETS
Planning Commission Suggests Re
strictions in Passing Upon
Hoffer Estate Plot
Building line restrictions of fifteen
feet on the 50 and 60-foot wide high
ways, and twenty-foot restrictions on
the alleys were recommended, by the
City Planning Commission to-day in
considering the tentative plan for the
development of the Hoffer estate tract
Just each of the city. This is on the
line of the proposed new city encir
cling parkway drive.
The building line restriction is a
part of the general scheme now being
followed by the city planners to elim
inate the erection of buildings in al
leys or streets of twenty-foot widths.
By this plan the building line on a
50 or 60-foot street is established fif
teen feet back from the street line,
while on the 20-foot streets or alleys,
the building line la fixed at 20 feet
from the street line. This practically
means the el'mlnation of buildings in
the alleys as the average sized lot is
not deep enough to permit the erec
tion of a duelling 20 feet in from the
alley.
The Planning Commission also sug
gested that the roadway which will
serve as the continuation of Market
street through this plot, be 80 feet
wide. On the tentative plan a width
of but 50 fee' Is allowed.
Because 91l the planners could not
attend to-day's session the annual re
port of the Commission to Council was
not formally passed upon. This was
also true of Park Expert Warren H.
Manning's report relative to the devel
opment of the city's "river basin."
TO START BRrDOE SOON
It is expected that tho Pennsylvania
Railroad will start work on the ox-1
tension of the Division street bridge to
Wildwood Park sometime this week.
Much of the material is being turned
out at the local shops and it will re
quire very little time to put the bridge
addition together.
CYCLIST TOSSES BABY
HIGH II All OUT OF
COACH, CHILD UNHURT
Machine Smashes Into 7-Month-
Old's Carriage on
Allison HUI
MOTHER STANDING NEARBY
Screaming, She Rushes to Doctor,
Who Says Youngster's
"0 K"
Efforts are being made by the po
lice to ascertain the identity of a mo
torcyclist who after crashing into a
baby coach and throwing a seven
months-old baby to the pavement, at
Mulberry and Derry streets, Saturday
evening sped away.
The baby coach with the child In it
was standing along the sidewalk Just
around a curve in the street, while
the mother was talking to a friend.
The motorcycle came around the cor
ner at a fast rate of speed, struck the
coach and knocked the child seven
feet into the air, witnesses say. It
fell to the pavement. The mother
screamed, picked up her baby and
ran to the office of Dr. W. H. Widder,
who after an examination said that,
with the excention of several slight
bruises, the baby was uninjured.
As soon as she was assured by Dr.
Widder that the baby was not harmed,
the mother left without giving her
name. Witnesses of the accident were
unable to learn the woman's name.
GREAT CROWDS SEE
EUIIEMI OF BECKER
"Sacrificed to Politics" Inscription
on One Floral Tribute Sent
to Home
New York, Aug. 2.—The funeral of
Charles Becker executed in Sing Sing
prison Friday for instigating the mur
der of Herman Rosenthal, was held
to-day from the Church of St.
Nicholas of Tolentine, the Bronx.
The church was filled with men and
women, and the overflow stood in the
street outside. So great was the crowd
around the church and the Becker
home, nearby, that police reserves had
to be called to handle it.
Carriages to take part in the funeral
procession extended several blocks
from the church. One" cartage was
filled with floral tributes. The largest
of these was a floral cross, bearing the
inscription "Sacrificed to Politics." a.
card conveyed the information that It
had come from "a friend." \
The undertaker employed by Mrtt
Becker said the pallbearers had betsA
selected this morning but he was un-/
der Instructions not to divulge their
names.
Before the body was taken to the
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HERE ARE A FEW IMPORTANT
DATES TO KEEP IN HIND
August 24—Final day for filing pri
mary petitions for State offices
with Secretary of Commonwealth
August 26. SI and September 11 _
City registration days.
August 81—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—Oeneral elections.
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HARRISBURG WINSII
111 BUTTLE AT
TORONTO, SCORE 4-1
Kraft's Homer, Following 2 Singles
Do the Trick For
Indians
I
WARM PITCHERS' BATTLE
Tooley Couldn't Play and Line
Was Shifted Materi
ally
Special to The Telegraph
Islnnd Stadium, Toronto, Ont., Aug.
2.—Kraft's homer following singles
fry Mowe and Witter swung another
victory for the Indians from Harrls-
I burg, Pennsylvania, to-day after an
exciting eleven-inning battle royal.
Score: Harrisburg, 4; Toronto, 1.
In addition to Mr. Kraft's sensa
tional four-bagger, a feature of the
holiday game was the pitching duel
between Enzeman and Cook in the
eleventh. Up until that great inning
Cook had much the better of the
bargain and he deserved to win. Enze
man had improved as the game jogged
along and after the fourth he allowed
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Cheer Up! It's Only
38 Out at Winnipeg
Out at Winnipeg, close to the border
line of North Dakota, the temperature
to-day was 3 8 degrees. Frost was re
ported in some places. This was the
only cool spot on the map to-day.
Harrisburg is still sweltering, but may
get relief within twenty-four hours.
Rain is falling In the Mississippi
Valley. This may reach Harrisburg
to-morrow and bring cooler weather.
However, it is expected that the relief
will be of short duration, and the lat
ter part of the week will be warm.
The humidity to-day reached 91 at
8 o'clock. It went down to 75, and
remained at that stage all day. Last
night the humidity was 79 degrees.
The temperature reached 78 at 8
o'clock and went up to 82 at noon.
TAKING SCHOOL, CENSUS
Following the usual custom forty
teachers of the Grammar and Pri
mary schools of the city are taking
the annual school census. From
present Indications the total enroll
ment this year will run ahead of last
year. The census, It is expected, will
be completed next week.
GERMAN NOTE IN WASHINGTON
- Washington, Aug. .2. Germany's reply to the last 1
American note on sinking the American ship William P. A
Frye by the auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich began to J
arrive to-day at the State Department. Time for its publi- I
cation will be .rranged later. 1 *
GREAT BRITAIN FORWARDS REPLY
Washington, Aug. 2. Great Britain's supplemental 1 *
note in reply to American representations in interference '
with neutral shipping reached the State Department to-day < >
and will be published in Wednesday morning newspapers. I
Officials refuse to discuss the note.
FREIGHTER RUNS ASHORE »
cisco, Aug. 2. ■»— Life saving crews and tugf. Jfe
early to-day went to the assistance of the American- \
Hawiian steamship Georgian on Duxbury reef, a few miles I t
porth of the Golden Gate, where the freighter went ashore 1
in a dense fog last night. Captain Nicholas and a crew of
more than thirty men are aboard the steamer. ' >
■!
Berlin, Aug. 2, via London, 5.50 P. M.—Mitau, the capi- I
tal of the Russian province of Courland, twenty-five miles ! ,
southwest of Riga, has been occupied by German troops; ' \'
according to the official statement issued to-day by the Ger
man army headquarters staff. < *
Cornish, N. H., Aug. 2.—President Wilson to-day sign
ed commissions of 160 West Point graduates, which had 1 ►!
been sent to him from Washington with a request that he I
sign them as quickly as possible in order that the young of- • t
.ficers may be assigned to their new commands. 1
New York, Aug. 2.—The allies are preparing to con- | M
tinue the war for at least three years more, if necessary, ac- !!
Cording to William Ellis Corey, former president of the ( I
United States Steel Corporation, who arrived on the French |
line " f r om • ; $
Harrisburg. A story current throughout the city to- ! *
day that thirty-six secret service men were guarding the ' '
product of the Morton Truck and Tractor Company against
being blown up by bombs, was laughed at to-day by S. F. • ?
Dunkle, one of the Morton Company officials.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
DEATH HDD COLUPSE
FROM SMITH lit
MPIT/ILJF MEXICO
Residents of Mexico City Eating
Leaves, Grass, Weeds and
Dead Animals
CARRANZA ARMY IN CITY
Seat of Government May Be'
Moved to Capital During
Present Month
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Aug. 2.—Official
confirmation of the reoccupatlon of
Mexico City by Carranza's army under
General Gonzales reached the State
Department to-day from American
Consul Silliman at Vera Cruz. A mes
sage to the American Red Cross from
Mexico City says there.have been cases
of death and collapse from starvation
in the capital.
The Red Cross message was from
Charles J. O'Connor, the society's re
lief agent at Mexico City.
"Prices already are prohibitive," it
said. "There is practically no corn in
the city. Authentic cases of death
and collapse from starvation. Some
people are eating leaves, grass, weeds,
dead horses and mules."
Consul Silliman's message said
Mexico City was occupied by the Gon
zrles forces Friday night "on urgent
orders of General Carranza," and
added:
"A severe tight occurred Friday
afternoon at a point east of Guadelupe.
Director of telegraph states telegraph
communication is expected by Sunday
afternoon the latest. Communication
with Tula via Paehuca is being pushed
northward. Occupation of Zacatecas
by Obregon's force confirmed. It is
stated that General Gonzales is going
directly Into Mexico City instead of
lingering as before and it is expected
that communication will be restored
at once. It also expected that Car
ranza will move his entire government
to Mexico City during August."
MONTH'S REVENUE $50,125.01
Increase of $20,000 Over Same Period
Last Year
During the month of July, the first
month in the new fiscal year, revenue
collections at the local office In the
Federal building totalled $59,125.01.
This amount represents taxes on beer,
tobscco and cigars, and for special
revenue stamps. The collections for
July, 1914, were $39,462.03.