President Wilson's Plan For Peace in M HARRISBURG Iggfjlll TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 179 - INITIAL PLANS FOR 810 RIVER CARNIVAL TO BE THRESHED OUT General Committee to Arrange Great Fete of September Cele bration Will Meet Tonight PERSONNEL IS ANNOUNCED Possible Status of Finances, Tenta tive Schedule of Events and Prizes to Be Considered Initial steps toward perfecting the actual working plans for the big river carnival that is to be one of the chief features of Harrisburg's three-day public improvement celebration, Sep tember 23, 24 and 25, will be taken to-night when the general committee of arrangements meets in the offices of C. Floyd Hopkins at the Colonial theater. The meeting lias been called for 7:30. In calling the meeting Chairman J. : R. Hoffert, assistant park superintend- ' ent, to-day announced the personnel of the committee whicn he Tias asked to serve. The members are: C. Floyd Hopkins. Robert W. Hoy, George W. Bogar, Ira Kind ler, Thomas M. Keller, Gilbert M. Oves, A. P. Dintaxnan, Harry ("Mayor") Berrier. M. Harvey- Taylor, W. K. Meyers. E. J. Stack pole, Vance C. McCormick, and J. R. Hoffert, chairman. In announcing this personnel this morning Mr. Hoffert said he had not yet received replies from several but added that because of the com paratively short time remaining in i which to arrange the details of the fete, he considered 1* advisable to I announce the committee and call It together as early as possible. At this evening's meeting the com-' mittee will determine Just what it will j be allowed to spend for the carnival, discuss a tentative program of events, talk over the number and character of I the prizes and arrange such other de- i tails for the general program. Subcommittees it is expected will be named to handle certain ends of the I carnival and this will also be discussed ' at to-night's meeting. Teachers Attend State Summer School State College, Pa., Aug. s.—Penn j State's summer school, with a total enrollment of 1024, is the only one! of its kind that admits exclusively! teachers in the public schools. It is j now the largest summer school in; the State and is surpassed by few in i the country. From Dauphin county the following teachers are in attendance: Hilda M. ' Eby, Estelle M. Lubold, Florence A. i Wehr. of Elizabethville; Albert E. ' Fisher, Helen Krall, Helen C. Markell, j Vera C. Peiffer. Rebecca J. Shoe-j maker, Edward P. L. Shope, Martha \ C. Sparrow, of Harrisburg; Linnie ' Hess, Alice A. Jumper and Edythe Steeee, of Steelton; Carrie C. Shope,, o: Halifax; Eva F. Stoner, of High spire; Mrs. Florence Stull, of Lykens; and Clarence E. Swalm, Gertrude M. Swalm and Lillie B. Wise, of Wil liamstown. The Misses Markell. Sparrow and I Shoemaker, of Harrisburg. filled prominent roles in the historial I pageant, "Father Penn," produced here Aug. 2 by the summer session 1 students. COLLEGE STUDENT DROWNS Easton. Pa.. Aug. s.—Elbert B. 1 Pickell, of White House, N'. J., a Laf ayette College student, was drowned ' in the Delaware River here to-day when a boat loaded with stones which he was bringing across the river was swamped and sunk. Next to eating one's cake and sharing it, too, is going on a vaca tion and knowing ail 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. 1 THE WEATHER For HarrinburK an«l Tlclnityi Gen erally lair to-night and Friday. j Not much change In tempera ture. For Eastern Pennaylvanlai Partly I cloudy to-night ana Friday. ' Moderate nortneaat to enat wind*. , River L The West branch and probahlr the W uppc;- portion of the Xorlh lirniwh nil", tall tu-nlght nnd Friday. The lower portion of the Siorth branch ! win rlne to-night and prohnhlv begin to rail Friday. The main river will rise to-night nnd Fri- j day. A stage of about 7.S feet Is Indicated for Harrisburg Friday 1 morning. General Conditions The weather continues unsettled from the upper Mississippi Valley eastward through the lake region with two small centers of dis turbance, one over Wisconsin and the other over southern New England. Temperaturei * a. m.. 70; 2 p. m„ St. Sum Rises, 5.07 a. m-s sets, 7.15 p. m. Moon! Jfew moon, August 10, 5.32 p. in. River Stage 5.6 feet above low f water mark. Yesterday's Weather ITlghest temperature, 87. Lowest temperature. <lO. Mean temperature, 74. Normal temperature, 74. TWO WOMEN NEAR DEATH WHEN AUTOS CRASH ALONG RIVER I Front Wheels of Alleged "Joy Car" Locks With Another Machine GIRLS HURLED TO ROAD frimmelstown Man Owns Wrecked Motor; Wasn't Home Last Night ! Two women believed by the police to have been members of a joy riding ! party narrowly escaped death last | e\ening about 9 o'clock when the tour ing car In which they were riding locked wheels with another car on the I River road near Coxestown. According to witnesses, the car con taining the alleged "joy party" was; i speeding in an effort to pass another j j southbound machine when its front' : wheels locked with a third car which j was proceeding north. This car is said j |to have belonged to a man by the ! name of Myer. I The "joy car" bore license tag 49452, | ! issued to John H. Wise, of West Main ! street, Hummelstown. Efforts were made over the telephone to get in touch with Wise, hut his wife said he had not been home last night and she j knew nothing of an accident. When the machines locked wheels I the rear of car 49452 skidded and I , stopped against the curb. The shock ] ! jolted the two women from the ton : neau and threw them to the hard I i roadway. The automobile was badly I ! wrecked. Both front wheels and the , • axle were broken. The mud guards I were stripped off and the frame badly j I twisted. The Meyer car had a broken ' axle and wheel and badly dented mud j guards. I After the accident the women were ! I hvrried away before their names could j be procured. Occupation Will Likely Be of Long Duration By Associated Press | Port Au Prince. Haiti, Aug. 5. —The marines who landed last night from the American battleship Connecticut had by this morning completed the oc cupation of the city. They are in possession also of the barracks at Dessalines. The people of Port j»u Prince are ' generally of the opinion that the Am-! erican occupation will be of long! duration. The marines are observing a very correct attitude, which is creat-: ing a good impression. There is no change in the local poll- | tical situation. The national as-1 sembly is awaiting the decision of Dr. j Rosalvo Bobo whose revolutionary j forces drove out the last government under the late President Guillaume as! to whether he desires to be elected to; the presidency. Harrisburg P. 0. S. of A. Plan Big Showing at Reading Convention Local Patriotic Sons are planning to 1 make a great showing at the golden j anniversary jubilee and State conven-| tion which will be held at Reading on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdav,! August 24-26. After the street parade Thursday,; SSOO in prizes will be distributed. Har-} risburg camps are planning to get a I share of them. 4 Harrisburgers Near Death by Drowning Four Harrisburgers narrowly es-' caped drowning in the Suscjuehanna i river at the Cove yesterday afternoon : when their rowboat capsized near! midstream. They were Jennie, Jean, Blanche and Paul Donnelly, of 1923 Penn street. The brother was rowing when a treacherous current twisted the boat throwing the girls to one side. The boat keeled over. Paul yelled for help ! and Robert W. Marshall and Charles! Marshall, of 1525 Fulton street and I Frank Holstein went to the rescue. So swift was the current that they did not succeed in reaching shore with the gi/-ls until nearly a quarter of a mile below. COMBINE CHARITY WORK John Yates. Pittsburgh, to I>ad Chil dren's Aid and Associated Bodies With the announcement of the selec tion of John Yates, a Pittsburgh! charity worker, to head the combined | work of the Associated Charities and I the Childrens' Aid Society, reports ofi the merging of these two organizations! has been confirmed. At different times' the two societies formally agreed to combine with Mr. Yates as the head ! The new official will assume his cflico \ about the middle of September. The i I way for the election of Mr. Yates was paved by Mrs. Elsie V. Mlddleton and j Miss Hazel lone Clark, who have re signed respectively as secretary of the' ! Childrens' Aid and of trie Associated I Charities. I Mr. Yates Is a graduate of Prince- | ton and Syracuse universities and has; a wide experience since graduation ln| the work of organized charity. fHERE ARK A FEW IMPORTANT 1 DATES TO KEEP IN MIND August 24—Final day for filing prl mary petitions for State offices with Secretary of Commonwealth 1 August 26, 31 and September 11 City registration days. August 31—Final day to file prl- I mary petitions for county and city i offices with County Commission- ' ers. September I—Final day to be as- I sessed for November election. September 2—Return day for regis tration lists to County Commit- 1 sloners. 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 puy taxes In order to vote at Fsll elections. November 2—o»npral elections. »; HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1915. L THE RAILROAD BRIDGE AT WARSAW OVER THE VISTULA j ** '*"• ~ According to dispatches from Berlin, the Russians have already withdrawn from Warsaw. Not the least important strategic value that the Polish capital will give the kaiser's army is the railroad facilities out of War saw to the east, north and south. The railroad bridge «nanning the Vistula at this point will give the Germans splendid facility to maintain a garrison there and a hea m larters for the army which they will send out against the Russian positions farther east. LABOR FAMINE IS NOT FEARED HERE Withdrawal of Europe's Thousands Not Effecting Local Industries NO TROUBLE GETTING MEN Railroad Companies Have Em ployes on Short Time, They Explain Reports of a probable labor famine, should the industries throughout the United States receive big increases in orders, are not worrying local manu facturers. It is said that 14,000,000 more men are now under arms in Europe than there are soldiers in time of world peace. This huge withdrawal of workers Is forcing Europe to buy things in the United States besides v.-ar munitions, which at other times it would produce at home. It is reported that this drain on the. United States will cause a big slump In available labor, notwithstanding that one year ago there were 1,000,000 idle "men workers. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany employs many hundreds of foreigners as track hands and in other branches of labor. That many quit the company when the war broke out, is not denied. However, :J» present, track hands are not a scarcity in this section. Superintendent William B McCaleb of the Philadelphia Division said to-day: "We are employing all the men we need as track hands ana In branches of work where foreigners have been hired. Even if there snould be a de mand for more men, it would be possible to fill the positions without any hard digging. Of course condi tions might arise that would attract men to other employments, but even at that there would be little trouble In filling every position. "Because of the depression in rail road business the men nave not been making full time, except at long inter vals. Should there be a rush of work on which foreigners or ordinary laborers are employed It would have to be an unusual increase to neces [Continued on Page 4.] INDUSTRIAL BOARD HEARS REQUESTS i Boiler Manufacturer Also Takes a | Fling at the New Code Drafted For the Country j The State Industrial Board ad- I journed its session last night at Pitts burgh to meet on August 18 at FH'la -1 delphia. At Pittsburgh yesterday nb ! Jections were voiced to the proposed | boiler code and the board also heard testimony on the proposition to give : women employes of hotels, restaurants I and hospitals two half-days of each j week off duty rather than one whole day each week, j Proprietors of the smaller hotels , argued in behalf of two half-days a ! week, while the managers of the larger j hotels wanted the law fixed so that | each woman employe might have twenty-four hours continuously away from duty. This latter contention was supported by James H. Maurer, iresi j dent of the Pennsylvania State Fed , eration of Labor: I Representatives of hospitals spoke i for the two half-days, while one en , tire day was desired by those repre senting children's homes and similar - institutions. METROPOLITAN* PICXIC Scores of policyholders of the Met ropolitan Life Insurance Company, i with their families were guests of the local division officers at a picnic at iPaxtang Park, to-day. John Heath- Icote was in general charge of the j sporting events, he was assisted by | his staff of assistant* and collectors. I There were prizes for the winners in th 9 various »venl L LEHIGHTOIII Ml HELD FOR TIN WRECKING Confesses He Threw Angle Iron Under Scenic Limited Near Springville, Utah BURNED STATION AT ULSTER Disappeared From His Lehigh Val ley Home Short Time Ago; Supposed to Be Insane By Associated Press Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 5. Harry G. Hontz, who gives Lehighton. Pa., as his home, is in jail here to-day, having surrendered to the police last night and confessed that he wrecked the Scenic Limited, on the Denver and Kio Grande Railroad near Springville, Utah, last Monday when several cars left the rails and many persons nar rowly escaped injury. Hontz said he threw a piece of angle iron under the train as it was passing to avenge himself on the rail road because a brakeman had ejected him from a freight train. Hontz said he was arrested by Thomas Burge, then a special agent for the Southern Pacific and now of the Denver and Rio Grande in Nevada, in 1910, and sent to prison for wrecking a semaphore and sending a hand car against a mail train at Fernley, Nev. The story was confirmed later and Hontz was recog nized by Burge as the man arrested und convicted In Nevada. Hontz told the police he was responsible for sev eral other railroad wrecks and also the burning of the Lehigh Valley sta tion at Ulster, Pa.. June 6, last. He haid he was in the Government Hospital for Insane at Washington, for a time when a members of the United States Marine Corps. Widowed Mother Still Resides at Lehighton By Associated Pr*ss Allentown. Pa., Aug 5. Harry G. Hontz, imprisoned in Salt Lake City, Utah after having confessed to hav ing wrecked the Scenic Limited on the [Continued on Page ".] CONTROVERSY OUR FRYE IS UNSETTLED Germans Say Course Is Justified and Reiterate Willngness to Make Reparation Washington, D. C„ Aug. 5. The controversy between the United States and Germany over the sinning of the American ship William P. Frye still remained unsettled with the publica tion to-day of the latest German note again justifying the German course and reiterating a willingness to make reparation for the ship. Replying to the last American rep resentations, Germany, in justification of the sinking of the Frye adheres to her previous claim that the act was not in contravention of the Prussian- American treaty or international law. The whole contraversy hinges on article 13 of that treaty, tne Amerlcau contention being that it specifically protected the Frye fr<..m being sunk, although not protecting a contraband cargo. Germany, on the otner hand, contends that the articie only obli gates her to pay damages. In again offering to pay ror the ship, Germany accepts the American pro posal that the amount of damages be fixed by two experts, one to »>e selected by each country and pledges prompt payment with the stipulation, how ever, that it shall not be regarded as payment for violation of American rights. Should that method be un satisfactory the United States Is in vited to arbitration at The Hague. Tt Is considered likely that the com mission method will b*» satisfactory to the United States provided, however, that no treaty rights are waived. {Continued on Toge 3,J WILSON PEACE PLAN ; UNFOLDED BY LB Representatives of Latin-American Republics Asked to Help in Mexico WANT RAILROAD OPENED Next Appeal to Mexican Factions Will Be Final, It Is Understood Washington. April 5. President Wilson's plan for bringing about peace to Mexico was unfolded late to-day by Secretary Lansing to the diploma tic representatives of six Latin-Ameri can republics, who have been asked to co-operate in efforts to end the revolutionary struggle in the southern j republic. j A peace conference to be partici pated in by all the Mexican factional I leaders is the President's first aim. jThis he recently asked for In a com iniunication to the leaders calling on I them to get together in an attempt to end their strife. The next appeal, it is understood, will be final and If any faction refuses, an arms embargo will ! follow against that faction, j The President's plan is also said to Include immediate steps to open up the railroad between Vera Cruz and ! Mexico City for the transportation of i food supplies to the starving people |of the capital. Failure of the Mexi can leaders to keep open the road, it | was said, might result in joint mill- Itary steps by the United States and the Latin-American nations to that end. Participants in to-day's conference with Secretary Lansing included the Ambassadors from Brazil, Argentina and Chile and the three ranking min isters of the American republics, nam ely those of Bolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala and Paul Fuller, a confl [Continued on Page 10.] DOG BITES SMALL CHILD Playing with his pet dog in the vard of his grandmother, Mrs. Edward Koons, Saturday, little Harry Bow man, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bow man. was severely bitten in the right cheek. TDD MANY FRILLS IN SCHOOLS SAYS DIXON Commissioner of Health Talks at Race Betterment Conference in San Francisco By Associated Press San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 5. X "Eugenlcs and war," by David StaW Jordan, chancellor of .Stanford Unl-» verslty and many other addresses were on the program for to-day's session of the National Conference on Race Bet terment in session here. There are too many frills In the public schools and not enough instruc tion along practical lines according to a paper written by Lir. Samuel G I Dixon. Commissioner of Health for the State of Pennsylvania and read to the conference. "The currlculeum now used by our educators." Dr. Dixon said, "demands radical alteration. We are teaching much the ordinary and not enough of the practical, everyday occupations." Dr. Dixon also discussed eugenics from the standpoint of sentiment. "We cannot afford," he wrote, "to dis courage sentiment in the selection for marriage." OFF TO REPORT KRIE FLOOD Theodore E Seelye, of the firm of Farley Gannett. Consulting Engineer, has gone to Erie as a representative of the Engineering Record of New York, to report the flood ,of August S. which newspaper accounts state has cost many lives, ajid several mil lions of dollars worth of property damaged. 12 PAGES DEATH LIST MOUNTS 111 STRICKEN EI; SUPPLIES FOR WEEDY Estimates Today Show That Loss in City May Total $5,000,000 GUARDSMEN ARE ON DUTY Clean-up Begins and All Efforts Possible Will Be Made to Check Disease Erie, Pa., Aug. 6.—Working In re lays under a scorching sun, police, firemen and volunteers to-day con tinued their search in the masses of wreckage piled along Mill creek by. Tuesday night's freshet for the bodies believed to be in the debris. Some headway was made during the night and anxious crowds moved from temporary morgue to temporary morgue every time the report was spread that another body had been uncovered. There still remain, how j ever great piles of ruins that have not been explored and friends of the many missing persons siiudder when they j think of what these unsightly heaps 1 may hold. ; One body was recovered during the J night, that of a foreigner, although there were many reports of other finds to disappoint the weary watchers along the ravine. The body was taken to Coroner Hanley's morgue, to which place the others had been re moved, and it was then seen that twenty victims of the disaster had been identified, although it was known that at least 15 more had been lost. Figures compiled by the authorities lead to the belief that at least forty others have been lost, the majority, it is believed, being in the foreign sec tion around Xinth street where many foreigners lived in two or three houses that were washed away. Work of clearing up the citv was commenced in earnest this morning. The naval militia was called out to reinforce the National Guard men on duty guarding the stricken section, and sightseers were kept away from the working gangs. These men were detailed in parties under 2competent [Continued on Page 7.] .. BRITISH STEAMSHIP SUNK ... Py Associated Press London. Aug. s—The British steam ship Costello, of >9l tons net. has been sunk, the crew, with the exception of one man who was drowned, has been saved. *> l*» H BETHLEHEM TASSES 300 JfaARK w New York, Aug. S.—Common stock of the Bethlehem 1 Steel Corporation, whose rise has seen few parallels in the £ history of the New York Stock Exchange, passed the 300 I I mark to-day. It sold during the morning at 301, a gain since l I the begirinii i 9 points. The company was | ; incorporated in 1904 and the stock has never paid a dividend. I f WILL MAKE MUNITIONS IN IRELAND 5 '<, London, Aug. s.—The Ministry of Munitions has de- I | cided to undertake the manufacture of munitions on a large I scale in Ireland. A representative of the Ministry will re side in Dublin and have charge of the organization Of Ireland I as a munition producing area. » INSTALMENTS FOR AGED FORESTERS , Providence, R. 1., Aug. 5. Members of the Catholic 1 I Order of Foresters past 70 years of age will receive in instal- 1 ments the amount of their life insuianee in ten paymcnts-in- ; I stead-of having the entire sum paid to their beneficiaries I after death, as a result of action taken at the Internationa! * Convention of '.he organization. | VILLA TO CONFER WITH CAROTHERS ' El Paso, Tex., Aug. s.—General-Francisco-Villa at Juarez to-day. While the precise object of his visit was a matter of conjecture it is said he is to confer with George Carothers, special agent, and with General | Felipe Angeles. I 1 STUCKER FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY ' 1 Formal announcement of his candidacy for District At torney on the Democratic ticket was made to-day by Attor- "j ney Robert B. Stucker. > JERSEY CITY. TEAM MOVES l New London, Con., Aug. s.—The Jersey City baseball I team will play here the balance of the season, according , reports to-day. The.first game will be played Monday. ' Commodore Plant, a prominent banker, is said to be back of the project. < Lexingtpn, Ky., Aug. s.—Colonel R. Henry Owens, who ® a number of. years ago was one of the most famous figures , on thoroughbred race courses in the country, died here day. Colonel Owens was 73 years old. 1 MARRIAGE David W. I. Herb, Lykena, and Florence Irene Strnyer, Grata. " 1 S»Iv«»or« Patandl and Anne Bucclnr' City. « ' *• Lincoln Duncan, Oberlin, and Artenaa Hoiiaer, Mlddletown. * POSTSCRIPT win FILLS sirs OFFICIAL STATEMENT ISSSIED BK GERMANS Wireless Message From Berlin to Tuckerton, N. J., Tells of City's Capture DESPERATE BATTLES NOTED Comparative Quiet Prevails on Battlefields in West, Ac cording to Dispatches By Associated Press Berlin, Aug. 5. (By Wireless to Tuckerton, X. J.) —Warsaw was taken this morning by German troops, HC <-online to official announcement made at German army headquarters. Yesterday and last night Bavarian j troops under the command of Prince Leopold broke through the rorts of the outer and inner lines of the city's de fense where the rear guards of the Russian troops made a tenacious resistance. Continuing, the report from head quarters says: i "The German armies under General | Von Kchol/ and General Von GallwiU I advanced In the direction of the rond j between l.om/.a. Ostrow and Vyszkow and fought a number of violent en gagements. The brave and desperate resistance of the Russians on both sides of the road between Ostrow and Ko/.an was without suet-ess. Twenty two Russian officers and 1,810 soldiers were taken prisoners. The Germans also captured 17 machine guns. "German cavalry day before yester day defeated in Couriand a detach ment of Russian cavalry at points | near Gcnac/e Birshi and OnlsKt/.pty. A total of 22J5 Russian prisoners was I taken. "The situation near and to the north of Tvangorod remains unchanged. ' I "The campaign is being continued | between the upper Vistula river and i the River Bug. German cavalrymen have entered Wladimlrn-Wolyi Is k ou the Bug river. "In the Vosges there has been a new engagement near the Lingekopf." London, Aug. s.—German cavalry forces are scouring Poland In such numbers that the Warsaw-Petrograd line always is in danger of being cut. At Kuplschki, 50 miles west of Dvlnsk, heavy fighting is In progress, with the Russians resisting stub bornly, as the breaking of the defensu [Continued on Page 7.]
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