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HAKRISBURG iSllSi TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 183
TO UNVEIL MEMORIAL
TO FOUNDER
DURING CELEBRATION
Bronze Tablet Implanted in Huge Boulder to Mark An
cient Site of Harris' Ferry South of Market Street
Bridge
Impressive Ceremonial Will Precede Pageant of Burning
Old Trader at the Stake on Friday, September 24;
Hopkins Meets Committee Today
The unveiling of a bronze tablet and
market in memory of John Harris,
will be one of the big events of the
September municipal improvement
celebration.
This definite announcement was
made to-day by C. Floyd Hopkins, in
charge of arrangements for the big
fete. The tablet will indicate the spot
where the old ferry that was run be
tween this side of the Susquehanna
river and the west shore by John Har
ris usrfd to dock.
The Pennsylvania Historical Com
misslcn is having an appropriate
bronze tablet made, which will con
tain, in concise form, the historical
facts connected with the spot where
the John Harris ferry used to land its
passengers some distance south of
Market Street bridge. This bronze
tablet, made in the form of a key
stone. will be implanted in the side
of a huge boulder set in a substantial
base so that it will remain for hun
dreds of years to tell this part of the
story of the founding of Harrisburg
to future generations.
Ceremonial Sept. 24
The ceremonial, at which this mark
er will be unveiled, will take place on
li WORK OUGHTS
ON RIR ILL GAP
Commissioner Lynch Says Whole
Idea Is to Complete Job Be
fore Big Celebration
C. V. BRIDGE IS A PRECEDENT
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High Water Has Delayed Opera
tions —Will Pass Lynch Wall
Ordinance Tomorrow
Work on the construction of the
River Front steps through the gap at
Market street will be rushed night as
well as day, if necessary, in order to
complete the job before the big public
improvement celebration September
23, 24, 25, according to William H.
Lynch, superintendent of streets and
public improvements to-day.
Up to date this year the Susque
hanna has been unreasonably high
and the street commissioner is eager
to start the Job so that a finished wa
ter front may be provided for the
thousands of people who are expected
to be Harrisburg's guests.
Rain has interfered very materially
with the operation of the contractors
on all the public improvement work,
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After your swim In the ocean,
you will be ready for a quiet rest.
Then is when you will want your
favorite paper, so that you may
know what is going on at home.
Going on your vacation and read
ing strange newspapers is like
breaking in a pair of new shoes.
Enjoy reading comfort by hav
ing the Harrisburg Telegraph
mailed to your vacation address.
THE WEATHER
For Harriaburg and vlclnltyt Fair
to-night and Tnf«da!| not much
change In temperature.
For Eaatern Pennaylvanla t Partly
cloudy to-night; Tueaday falri
gentle to moderate neat to north-
Meat wlnda.
River
The main river and the North
Hranch will probably continue to
rfall nnd the Weat Branch will
remain nearly atatlonury. A atage
of about 5.8 feet la Indicated for
Harrtaliurg, Tueaday morning.
General Condltlona
Shower* have fallen generally over
the Upper Ohio Valley nnd the
Middle Atlantic Statea and there
were ahonera alao In the Ipper
St. Lawrence Valley, Northern
New England, Eaat Tenneaaee,
Florida, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Kanaaa, Wlaconaln and Colorado,
the heavleat ralnfalla reported
occurring on the weat coaat of
Florida nnd In Oklahoma and
Southweat Kanaaa. It la 2 to 8
degreea warmer than on Saturday
morning over practically all the
eaatern half of the country.
Temperature! 8 a. m., 68| 2 p. m„ 80.
Snni Rlaea, Sill a. m.| aeta, 7il»
p. m.
Moons New moon, Augaat 10,
p. m.
River stage) 6.5 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Hlgbeat temperature, 82.
Loweat temperature. 04.
Mean temperature, T3.
Normal temperature, 74.
the afternoon of Friday, September
24, to be followed Immediately by the
huge pageant of the burning of John
Harris, now being worked up by the
various tribes of Red Men. I
There will be an address appropriate
to the occasion, harking back to the
early days when the frail craft of the
John Harris ferry took passengers
back and forth across the river in
stead of the several bridges over which
thousands of people now pass every
day.
It was in 1753 that the State of
Pennsylvania granted landing rights
for this ferry, but there are records
which show that the ferry had been
running for 50 years prior to that
time. Members of the Pennsylvania
Historicaly Commission who will un
doubtedly be on hand for the unveil
ing are:
W. C. Sproul, Chester, Pa., Hampton
L. Carson. Philadelphia: Dr. George
P. Donehoo, Cowdersport; William H.
Stevenson, Pittsburgh: A. E. Sisson,
Erie, and Thomas Lynch Motgomery,
curator, Harrisburg.
At a meeting held in the Chamber
of Commerce rooms this afternoon,
Manager Hopkins conferred with the
committeemen who will assist in giv
ing publicity to the preparations and
arrangements for the big event.
300 MEXICAN BtllTS
CROSS TO BORDER
In Battle 60 Miles From Browns
ville; Three U. S. Soldiers
Were Wounded
GUARD BEING REINFORCED
Trains Stopped Because of Fear
That Outlaws Would Attempt
to Wreck Them
I By Associated Press
Brownsville, Texas, Aug. 9. Five
. Mexican bandits and one Mexican wo
jman were killed in the fighting yes-
I terday at Norias, li 3 miles north of
j here. For an hour fifteen Americans,
eight of them United States cavalry-
I men, stood off the attack of sixty Mex
-1 icans. Five of the Americans were
I wounded, three of the latter soldiers.
'The fifteen Americans were saved
I from death just as their ammunition
| gave out by the arrival of 17 Texas
| Rangers.
j Brownsville, Texas, Aug. 9. —With
the expectation that United States sol-
I iliers sent to Norias Ranch last night
I would relieve the situation there caus
ied by the attack of Mexican bandits,
border officials here to-day turned
their attention to reports that 3(10
Mexicans had crossed the border into
Hidalgo county, Texas, in small par
ties, and apparently were making
their way to a concentration point.
What this portended none of the offi
cials would venture a guess, but it
was admitted unusual precautions
were being taken by peace offcers and
ranch officers to prevent outbreaks.
Details of the fight at Norias Ranch,
60 miles north of Brownsville, last
night, were awaited here with interest.
Owing to the isolated nature of the
country and the fact that the bandits
cut all telephone wires from the
ranch, only merger reports had been
received early to-day.
Fourteen ranchmen, later reinforced
by a detachment of United States sol
diers and Texas rangers, repelled all
attacks of tre outlaws who left sever
al of their number dead when finally
they retreated southward. Five of the
Americans were wounded, three of
the number being soldiers. All pas
senger trains were stopped last night
for fear they would be wrecked by
outlaws in passing through the af
fected district. Col A. P. Blacksom,
commanding the lower Texas bor
der patrol, to-day dispatched addi
tional troops to Byford, Raymondvllle
and Sebastian, to strengthen the de
tachments at those places.
Telegraph Invites Views
of Boys and Girls on
City Improvements
In view of the great interest in
I the September celebration of the
: first big program of improvements
for Harrisburg, the Telegraph de
! sires to get the views of the girls
i and boys of the city upon the value
! of these improvements to them.
In order to encourage these ex
pressions from the school girls and
boys of Harrisburg the Telegraph
is going to offer a series of three
prizes for papers not to exceed 200
words in length upon the theme,
"Why is Harrisburg a Better City
For the Girls and Boys as a Re
sult of Improvements of the Last
| Fifteen Years."
This contest will begin Septem-
I ber Ist and continue to September
15 inclusive. All papers will be
submitted to a committee of com
petent judges and prizes of $5.00,
$3.00 and $2.00 will be awarded for
the best three papers.
Further particulars will be an
nounced later. Public and private
schools are included. The most
meritorious of all the papers sub
mitted will be printed.
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HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1915.
Now That We Have It What Are We Going to Do With It ?
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HA YT/AN &OASBOA T P*eIFJOi/£
Washington, Aug. 9. Officials in the Navy Department are wondering what Rear Admiral Caperton is
going to do with the Haitien gunboat Pacifique, which he captured at Port-au-Prince, on Saturday. The Paci
fique comprises the entire Haitien Navy, so there is no danger of a naval engagement in which the Haitiens will
attempt to rescue the boat. Who said our navy was inefficient? To capture a country's entire sea-fighting
force at one fell swoop is no small task. But then it was a small navy.
SMALL CAR JITNEYS
PAY; LARGE DON'T
Drivers of Big Machines Have
Quit Business in Many
Instances
373 NOW LICENSED HERE
Cold Weather Will Cause Many to
Quit Is Opinion of One
Driver
Now that the first craze of the Jitney i
has been pr.ssed over, the men in the
Jilney business are beginning to figure
up their losses and gains, and the gen
eral consensus of opinion seems to be
that it does pay for the small car—
but not for the large.
At the present time 373 cars are
licensed as Jitneys by the city, and of
this number, according to corner po- j
licemen in the central parts of the
city, about 260 cars are on the Job all ;
day long.
Of this number by far the. greater
part are in the small car class, al
though there are quite a number of
the larger makes doing a rushing busi
ness.
Since the organization of the Jitney
Club of Harrisburg the drivers have
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UNCLEAN PRODUCE ]
DEALERS RAPPED
i
i I
I Urge Housekeepers Not to Patron
ize Butchers and Bakers Whose
Shops Are Polluted
In the monthly health bulletin is
sued by Dr. J. il. J. Raunick, city
health officer, to-day, a hard whack
is taken at grocerymen, butchers,
marketmen and bakers who do not
screen their goods against the ravages
of the typhoid fly. Discussing the
"Foods and Markets" subject in the
general propaganda against typhoid,
the bulletin says:
"The careful, intelligent housekeep
er will not patronize the market, gro
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Ohio State Fair Man
Secretary Keystone Co.
A. E. Bair, president of the First
National Bank, of Goldsboro, and J. W.
Fleming, secretary of the Ohio State
Fair, were ele«ed directors of the Key
stone State Fair and Exposition Com
pany, at a meeting in the Kunkel
building, on Saturday afternoon. Mr.
Fleming was also made secretarv of the
Keystone Company .ind will take that
position following the Ohio State Fair
the coming Fall.
At the same time the directors rati
fied the contract entered into bv Presi
dent J. W. Hawthorne and the Graham-
Burnham Company, of Chicago, design
ers of the Chicago speedway, for plans
to cover the construction of the Key
stone speedway on the company's site,
near Middletown.
Motorist Injured
When Hit by Truck
at 18th and Derry
Victor Slioop, aged 21, of 1909
?."orth Seventh street, while riding Ills
motorcycle in Eighteenth street, near
Worry, was struck by an auto truck
owned by the City Transfer Company.
He was thrown from his machine, re
ceiving a compound fracture of the
lert leg. severe contusions and lacera
tions of the body.
BO I/TON SHOP CHANGES HANDS
, The Bolton Barber Shop, 18 North
i Third street, has been bought out by
. Robert W. Gillett, a former employe
!at that place. Mr. Olllett annouhces
|to the former patrons of the Bolton
| Barber shop that new furniture and
i other equipment will be Installed at
I once in order Xo make the shop one
jof the best aos most up-to-date one
|in the city. Mr. Gillett has secured
i the services of Ml«s Ruth Dawley, an
experienced manicurist from the Jef-I
I fereon Hotel, Richmond, Va.
BRAZILIAN MINISTER
IN MEXICO TO LEAVE
Carranza Prepared to Expel Him,
but Representative Took
Initiative
REPRESENTED UNITED STATES
Lansing Is Now Considering Send-!
ing An American to Troubled
Country
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Aug. 9. Car
ranza officials here said to-day the
Brazilian Minister at Mexico City, the
only diplomatic representative the
United States has in Mexico, has been
withdrawn by his government because
General Carranza was prepared to, ex
pel him from the country as he did
Senor Ortega, the Guatemalan Min
ister.
The Brazilian minister reported to
the State Department to-day that no I
reason had been given for the expul
sion of Senor Ortega and tnat he hlm-j
self intended to sail Wednesday from i
Vera Cruz on a French liner for the j
United States.
It is believed here that Carranza ex- j
pelled the Guatemalan and was pre-1
paring to expel the Brazilian because j
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INSURES HER LIFE ~
| FOR SUFFRAGE CAUSE
Mrs. Frank Roessing, State Pres
ident, Names Association
Beneficiary
f : 1 II
MRS. FRANK M. ROESSING
Application for a $5,000 life Insur
ance policy, with the Pennsylvania
Woman Suffrage Association named as
btneflciary, was filed here to-day by
Mrs. Frank M. Roessing, president of
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GROCERS TO COMPLETE
PICNIC PLANS TONIGHT
The Harrisburg Grocers will meet
to-night in the Metropolitan Hotel to
complete the plans for the annual
grocers' picnic to be held Thursday
at Hershey Park.
The complete program of the day
will be arranged and other minor
business items will be disposed of. A
record crowd la expected this year.
Thousands of persons from this city
usually go on the outing.
MEN DEMAND INCREASE
By Associated Press
Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 9.—Formal
] demand for an eight-hour, workday
with pay of time and a half for over
time work was to be made to-day on
the Locomobile Company of America
by ite employes. The action was In
accordance with a decision reached at I
a meeting Saturday night of about 8001
of the company's workmen. * •
SERIES OF ACCIDENTS
OVER TIE WEEK-END
Autos Crash in Derry St. and By
stander Is Run Down by Jitney
While Looking On
CAR GOES OVER RIVER BANK
Boy on Wheel Thrown to Street
and Hurt; Two Motorcyclists
in Hospital
Starting late Saturday afternoon
with the motorcycle accident at Lawn
ton, in which two men were hurt, as
reported exclusively in the Telegraph,
a number of persons in this city nar
rowly escaped serious injury in a se
ries of accidents over the week-end.
Saturday evening the second acci
dent occurred at Seventeenth and Der
ry street, when Harold Houtz, 1629
'North Sixth street, driving his jitney
j crashed into another machine coming
west In Derry street. Witnesses said
[that the machine which collided with
Houtz was racing with another car,
[when the accident occurred. No one
was injured. A bystander, however,
I was struck by another jitney coming
jwest in Rerry street, but he was not
I seriously hurt. His name has not
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TURKISH BATTESHIT
BUNK BY SUBMARINE
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Majority of Officers and Men
Composing Crew Reported to
Have Been Saved
By Associated Press
Constantinople, Aug. 9.—The Turk
ish battleship Kheyr-Ed-Din Barbar
ossa of 9,900 tons displacement, form
erly the German warship Kurfust
Friedrlch Wilhelm, has been sunk by
a submarine of the entente powers,
according t" an official announcement
issued to-day by the Turkish govern
ment.
A majority of the officers and men
composing the crew of the battleship
was saved. The official statement
telling of the loss ( of the battleship
adds:
"The loss of the Barbarossa, which
was sunk this morning however, re
grettable in itself, does not affect us
except that it places the strength of
our ships compared to' that of the
enemy in the ratio of one to ten."
Three Fast Men Signed
by Harrisburg Club ?
In order to rehabilitate Its injured
team, the Harrisburg International
League management has purchased
several top-notch men, It announced
this afternoon. The "buys" s-e as
follows:
Catcher Reynolds, of the Jersey
City " Skeeters."
Inflelder Lowe, of the Boston
Nationals.
Pitcher Smith, New York
Americans.
These three men will join the club
in;mediately. It is further announced
that the management is now nego
tiating for another major league
pitcher.
Greatest Wheat Crop in
History Being Harvested
By Associated Press
Washington, Aug. 9.—American
farmers are harvesting the greatest
wheat crop ever grown in any one;
country. It may reach a billion bush
els. Department of Agriculture ex
perts to-day estimated the crop at
966,000,000 bushels, basing their cal
culation on the condition of the crop
August 1. Bumper harvests of other
cereals and food crops are indicated.
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PERFECTING PLANS j
FDR MEXICAN APPEAL
Tentative Draft of Note Has Been
Sent to President Wilson
at Cornish
RESUMEMEETINGS WEDNESDAY
Gutemalan Minister to Mexico
City Ordered to Leave Mexico
by Carranza
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Aug. 9.—With the
conference Tietween Secretary Lansing
and the Latin-American diplomats
over the Mexican situation in recess,
administration officials to-day again
turned their efforts toward perfection
of a new appeal to the factional lead
er." which will embody a plan for per
manent peace and will go forward
with the approval and backing of the
six governments participating in the
conference. A tentative draft of the
appeal already had been sent to Presi
dent Wilson at Cornish, N. H„ and it
wfis indicated that every effort would
be made to have it in acceptable form
wher. the conference is resumed in
New York.
Announcement that the conference
probably would be resumed on Wednes
day was made by Secretary Lansing
following his return from New York,
where he yesterday conferred with
Secretary McAdoo regarding the Mex
ican situation, although he said that
plans for financing a Mexican govern
ment were not considered. The prin
cipal object of his mission, he said,
was to discuss with Mr. McAdoo plans
fcr the Pan-American financial con
gress to be held in Buenos Aires in
September.
Optimism Dampened
Optimism fostered by Carranza's ac
tion Saturday in expressing willingness
to participate in a neace conference
wns dampened by renorts that he had
ordered Dr. Juan J. Ortega, Guate
malan minister at Me'xico Citv, to leave
the country.
In view of the fact thit Guatemala
is represented in the Pan-American
conference, the exnulsion of the diplo
mat was taken to indicate an un
friendly attitude on the part of Car
ranza. Dr. Ortega, it was said, has not
been on friendly terms with Carranza.
DR. P. D. RTCRGIX DIES
By Associated Press
Hartford, Conn., Aug. 9.—The Rev.
Dr Paul D. Rergin, at one time presi
dent of the Christian College at Shan
tung. China, and a prominent member
of the. Presbyterian Board of Missions
is dead nt his hotne In West Avon
Conn., at the age of 55.
M'ADOO'GOES TO WALL STREET §
New York, Aug. 9.—William G. McAdoo, secretary of I
the treasury, went to Wall Street to-day to discuss with A
i bankers, it was reported, the financing of the administra- |
tion'g plo.i: iur upbuilding Mexico. Mr. McAdoo conferred I
! here yesterday with Secretary of State Lansing concern- If
ing the Mexican situation and uther jqatters. J
LOANS DEMANDED IN MEXICO >
I El Paso, Tex., Aug. 9. H. C. Myles, diplomatic agent I
of the British government, v.uo notified to-day of force< f
loans asked of Grabtree Brothers at GcmeX Chi I
huahua and Pudcclla and Company of Saltillo, cot >
ton dealers in the Villa territory. Ths amounts demandei f
were not made public. • 4
AMERICANS SUBJECT TO REGISTRATION 1
London, Aug. 9, 5.55 P. M.— The British Foreign Of- \
J fice to-day notified the American Embassy in* London that J
i Americans resident in the United Kingdom as well as all L
aliens will be subject to registration under the British na- f
, tional registration act. f
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SEND TENNESSEE TO HAITI I j
j ■ Philadelphia, Aug. 9.—The cruiser Tennessee docked at X *
the Philadelphia navy yard to-day. Upon her arrival the ' \ »
I First Regiment of marines embarked with provisions for a .
three months' expedition in I-faiti, ready to sail to-morrow ' ,
under the comand of Colonel Waller. The field equipment
' consists of seventy-three machine guns, seven wireless sets, '' i
■ , seven miles of cables, and several motor trucks. I
4 1 NOTHING KNOWN OF PEACE OFFER •
Copenhagen, Aug. 9, via London? 4.36 P. M. —Persons 1
<• in close teach with court■ circles here declare that they I
, know nothing regarding the peace offer alleged to have \
j I been made by the German Emperor to the Emperor ofRRu- t >
sia, through the King of Denmark. The reported proposal ' *
, was said to have involved the trade of a part of Poland for
* Galicia. 1 ».
. Lightning yesterday buuu the bell cupola of the 1 ►
United Evangelical Church, Lemoyne. A cornice was '
i knocked off. The house of Police Captain Thompson, 1105 ® ►
Capital street, was also "struck by the lightning.
■ MARRIAGE LICENSES ~
Jngeph Gfnalrr ami Maggie Rebecca Rudy, Hummelatown. .
Charles Roaelll and Anna Donatl, city. I '
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RUSS FORCED FROM
OLD BUTTLE GROUNDS
Anstro-Germans Making Deter
mined Effort to Entrap or
Crush Enemy
GRAND DUKE'S LINE SPLIT
Rome Dispatches Recount Activity
by Italian Troops, Result
ing in Gains •
Mile by mile the Austro-Germans
are pushing the Russians back from
the old fighting ground about Warsaw,
meanwhile making determined efforts
to entrap or crush the armies of the '
Grand Duke Nicholas before they
have a chance to make good their re
treat to their new defensive positions.
Particularly successful operations
looking to this end are reported by
Vienna, where the claim is made that
the Austrian army has forced the
Russians in disorder across the Vleprz
near Lubartow and southwest of
Miechow. Unofficial advices from
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School Director Houtz
Says He's Out of Fight
For City Commissioner
Adam D. Houtz, city school director,
who has been considered as in the
field for a councilmanic job this Fall,
this morning issued a statement to tho
newspapers to the effect that he is not
a candidate.
School Director Houtz, It is under
stood, has been campaigning ever
since the last election with a view to
election as a city commissioner. He
explains that owing to the recent
death of his father, numerous obliga
tions have decended upon his should
ers and that for this reason he is com
pelled to announce that he is out of
tho contest. His statement is as fol
lows:
"In justice to the many who
have so wonderfully befriended
and encouraged me as a candidate
' for Council I have this announce
ment to make:
"That owing to the very recent
death of my father and many
obligations resting upon me, I find
myself compelled to announce
that I am out of the contest for
City' Council. I will return to the
School Board where I yet owe two
years of service as a director.
Most Respectfully,
"ADAM D. HOUTZ."