Pan-American Diplomats Con! Southern TELEGRAPH LXXXIV — No. 210 FIREMEN'S UNION j SAYS PAID DEP'T IS NOT NECESSARY Raps Chamber of Commerce and Its "Expert With Correspond ence Education" HAMMER'S UNDERWRITERS Declare It's Too Bad if Insurance Men Are Permitted to Dic tate to City In a statement issued to the news papers to-day the Firemen's Union sharply raps the Chamber of Com merce and the underwriting expert ■who recently made a report to Council on the city's fire protection needs at the request of the Chamber. The Firemen's Union authorized the statement at a meeting held last Tues day evening. It was prepared later this week by Millard Tawney, mem ber of the Royal Company, and to-day was approved and issued by Colonel H. C. Demming, president of the Union. The Union contends that it would he foolish, among other things, for the city to establish i paid Are department of 90 "trained" men at a cost of $120,000 a year when the present vol unteer companies have 3,000 mem bers. can command 500 fire fighters at rContinued on Page 3-1 John P. Scott to Deliver Oration at Centennial of Negro Masons of Pa. John P. Scott, most worshipful Rrand master, will deliver the oration r.t the centennial celebration of the Grand Ix>dge of Negro Masons of Pennsylvania, which will be held in Philadelphia on September 23-24. The address of welcome will be given in Musical Fund Hall. In Locust street, by Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg. of that city. Grand Secretary W. H. Mil ler will respond. Hundreds of delegates will he pres ent for the celebration. The commit tee has made tentative plans which In clude a banquet, streef parade and a competitive drill for cash prizes by the uniform rank of the order. Boroughs Will Appeal to Public Service Commission The council of Penhrook determined last evening to test the raise of water rates before the Public Service Com mission as predicted in the Telegraph Wednesday evening. Highspire and Hummelstown are willing to join forces in the protest. Borough Solici tor Svvartz said that if the court hold that the Penhrook ten-vear agree ment is a definite contract in place of an indefinite one the water company can be enjoined by law from raising the water rates within the life of con tract. But if upon investigation it Is found that the water company is not in a position to pay interest* on the bonds and is not making any money, the Public Service Commission would be justified in granting an increase rather than have the company de clared insolvent But before the raise goes into effect every effort will be made to prove the validitv of the Penhrook contract. If time limit has expired In other boroughs, their con tention would have no bearing on those whose contract are still in ef fect. The paving contract from the State was read but as there was a mistake with reference to a block beyond the borough limit, the contract was re ferred back to highway department for correction. Conscription Will Cause Industrial Revolution By Associated Press London. Sept. 18. 1.32 P. M. The executive committee of the Amal gamated Union of Railway Servants tmanimouslv endorsed to-dav the statement in the house of commons on Thursday of J. H. Thomas that con scription would bring on an industrial revolution and that the railwav work ers would stop work. THE WEAfHER HnrrUhnrc and vicinity t Un settled. probably nhtmer* to-nischt or Sunday. Xot ttiurh change In temperature. Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy, probably nb«mcrM late to nlcht or Spiwdny. Moderate tem perature. Light to moderate var iable %Tlndn. River Tlie main river will remain aesr lv •'tatlonerv to-night and full alotvlv Sunday. The prlncloal trl- butarlea will nrobnbly continue to fall *l-Mv»y. A atnjre of about 4.0 feet la Indicated for *un»ln> morning. General Condition* <hower« have fallen in Florida and on tb» Texan eoaat and In the middle Mfaalanlpnl and lower Mis souri valleys and there were arnt tf-r«d "hoHen In the England and Middle Atlantic Stntea and In and Xorth Dakota. Via* been a general fall of to 14 denrrces In temperature In the timer «t Lawrence valley, the Atlantic Mates from Xirfh Caro lina northward. In the Ohio valley and In the southern States. Temperwtnrei * n.. W. Sunt Rises. 5.40 a. m.; acts, ft.Oft p. m. Full moon. Sept. 23. 4.US p. m. River Stagei Four, feet above low water mark. Yeat*r4«?r*a Weather Highest temperature. M. ? owest temperature. Men® temperature. 7*. Normal temperature, 65. GOVERNOR WILL BE | A SPEAKER AT BIG RECEPTION THURSDAY Improvement Celebration Week Gets Its Start in City Churches Tomorrow AUTO TOUR AIDS NAMED Plans For "Burning of Harris" Pageant Completed; Commit tees Meet Next Week r Canoeists Notice! During the parade of the dec orated floats and boats on Water Carnival night. September 24, no canoe, motorboat or other craft will be permitted within the river basin unless it carries one or more lights, either Japanese or Chinese lanterns, electrical dis play or similar illumination. This is to safeguard all craft from possible collisions as well as to insure a prettily Illuminated effect on the river. Instructions to this effect will be given the police boats.—J. R. Hofrert, chair man of water carnival commit tee. Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh will be one of the speakers at the great municipal improvement cele bration reception on Thursday night, September 23. This announcement was made at noon to-day by A. Carson Stamm. chairman of the committee on speak ers. The big reception will be held at Chestnut street auditorium. Other speakers will be Spencer C. Gilbert, E. J. Stackpole. Vance C. McCormick, and J. V. W. Reynders. Celebration week in Harrisburg really begins to-morrow with service in many of the local churches. On Monday the various chairmen will go over their final plans. Several of the committees are arranging for final meetings on Tuesday. '■ Great Indian David H. Ellinger. chairman of the , Red Men's committee had the final [Continued on Page 11] One Man Killed When Gasoline Cars Exploded By Associated Press Toledo. Ohio. Sept. 18. —One man | was killed and heavy property loss sustained this morning when two cars of gasoline exploded at the plant of the Hickok Producing Company, man ufacturers of gasoline. The victim of the explosion is M. Markel. an employe of the plant. Fire started in the ruins of the wrecked storage house ana in less than twenty minutes the debris was a mass of flames. Flying sparks also set fire to a train of box cars, which was de stroyed. Several residences were dam aged badly also by fire. Fire of Undetermined Origin Destroys Barn Fire of undetermined origin, shortly | after 10 o'clock this morning, totally \ destroyed a large bahk barn, corn crib ; and pig pen on the J. A. Dunkle Es -1 tate farm in Swatara township, half ' a mile east of Steelton. The loss Is J4.000. The blaze wag discovered by John I Arnt. the tenant on the farm. When j discovered, the flames had already eaten through the roof and east cor ner of the big frame structure. In a i few minutes the entire building was a mass of flames. With the help of the farm hands, three horses and all 1 the farrti implements were removed ! from the barn. The season's* entire | crops were burned. When it was seen that the flames ! could not be conquered by a bucket ; brigade, the Steelton firemen were i called out byan alarm from box 41, 1 Lincoln and Harrisburg streets. When ■the firemen responded they succeeded in getting a. stream on the house which they saved. They were too late, how | ever, to save the barn and outbuild i lngs. The blaze was spectacular. A col umn of smoke rose into the sky for a hundred feet and with the licking flames could plainly he seen In Steel ton and on the Hill In Harrisburg. Will Face Firing Squad to Protect Woman's Name Special to Thi Telegraph Denver. Sept. 18. father than blacken a woman's name. Joseph Hill strum. convicted on circumstantial evi dence of the murder of a grocer in Salt Lake-City, ha* chosen death at the bund." of a firing squad, as the Utah law allows. O. N. Hilton, of Denver, will leave for •Salt Lake City next Saturday to plead for a commutation of Hillstrum's sen tence. He says there is more than a reasonable doubt of the man's guilt. During Ills trial Hlllstrum refused to divulge the name of a Salt Lake City woman who. he says, shot him during a quarrel. The crime for which Hlllstrum was convicted was committed in October. 1913." A grocer was killed by two bandits. As they ran from the store Morgan's son fired, presumably hitting one of the men. Three hours later Hlllstrum called on a physician to dress a wound in his breast. FOREIGNER HURT BY AUTO Special to The Telegraph Mt. Union. Pa., Sept. 18. —Paul Max well. a son of a prominent hardware merchant of town, while driving a car | from the Woman Suffrage demonstra tion, hit an unknown foreigner and the car ran over the man. He is in a critical condition at the office of Dr. McClain. HAND CrT IN MACHTVFRY Special to The Telegraph Florin, Sept. 18.—Winfleld Esben shade. of near town, while operating a circular saw this morning, had his shirt sleeve caught and his right hand drawn into the machinery. The thumb, first and second fingers were severed. His condition Is serious from loss of blood. HARRISBUM EXPERIENCED MEN BADLY NEEDED 1 TEACH AGRICULTI County Superintendent Pointfl Value of Teaching Farminfl Methods WOULD RAISE STANDM Principals and Superintend! Gather Here For Their I i Annual Conference Teaching of agriculture in j schools by inexperienced was condemned by principals perintendents of Dauphin countj^J • their annual conference to-day j Technical high school. , The need of trained teachers Is khis j subject was brought out by thi »nen ; ; who gathered from all parts of, the | I county. F. E. Shambaugh, coaKy ■ superintendent of schools, who. unSpr , : difficulties. has been striving to hafp ' ' farming methods taught in the ruf&l | schools, said that he is opposed to hav- ; ] ins unexamined persons in charge of j : a subject so important as agriculture. ! but that he highly favored its addl- J tion to the curriculum of the schools. "Many of the teachers who are in structing pupils in this subject in our j schools are doing so without a cer tificate." W. R. Zimmerman, assist ant county superintendent, said. "This I should not be allowed. The subject I ought to be taught in the schools, but | experienced. examined and well | trained men should have charge of I that branch of work." | Open discussions were allowed on i each subject brought up by the men. 1 The majority of Ihe principals opposed ; having untrained teachers in charge ■ of agriculture in rural schools, but • favored adding the branch to the I course of study. They claimed that this would prove a failure also unless ! experienced Instructors were obtained ! for the subject. The new child labor law which was enacted at the last session of the legislature was discussed by Millard B. King, of the State Bureau of Voca tional Education who answered nu rContlnncd on Page 11] W. E. Seel Entertains Friends at Ferncliff Special to The Telegraph Paxtang. Pa., Sept. 18.—William E. Seel and members of his Ashing party I will return home this evening. Since Thursday Mr. Seel has entertained a score of his Paxtang and Harrisburg friends at Ferncliff Clubhouse. Benton, Lancaster County, near the Pennsylva nia-Maryland line. The party went to Benton Thursday morning by train and in automobiles and from that time until mis afternoon spent much of the time on the river. Of course there were other amusements, too, and the party had a most delightful time. Twice each y£ar. Mr. Seel takes a number of his Paxtang neighbors to the clubhouse and this week's trip was the second cf the year. Among those in the party are: S. S. Peace, George IC. Martin, Arthur H. Bailey. James ! Relchley. Howard C. Fry. Irvin R. ' Lyme. Dr. D. I. Rutherford, F. L. Wright. D. C. Kochenderfer. Ed. Davis, I Howard Rutherford, W. E. Seel, S. Mil | ler. Ralph I. Deihl, Harry Fry, Robert ; F. Gorman, all of Paxtang; John K. I May. Henry E. Hershey, Ashton D. j Peace, Dr. S. X. Traver and S. Bruce : Mingle of Harrisburg. Mrs. A. R. Furman Hit by Jitney in Third Street Mrs. A. R. Furman. of Philadelphia, mother of Paul N. Furman, chief of | the State Bureau of Statistics, was i seriously injured when struck by a j jitney at Third and Forster streets ! this morning. Mrs. Furman, who Is | 65, had been at market and stopped i to make some purchases at Third and I Forster streets. In crossing the street . she tried to avoid a jitney coming \ up town and was struck by one going j in the opposite direction. Mrs. Furman's side was seriously bruised, her head and collarbone j broken. She was taken to the office lof Dr. J. W. Ellenberger. She re i sides with her son at 1001 North Sev- I enteenth street. The jitney carried license No. 123,- 994. It wai in charge of J. J. Hock man. who was enroute to the Verbeke market. Hockman said he tried to avoid the accident, lie was instruct ed to call at the police station and make a statement. Names of other persons who witnessed the accident are also being obtained by the police department, which Is making an In vestigation. Mrs. Furman was taken to the Harrisburg Hospital this after noon. Erb Is Reported to Be Calmly Awaiting Crisis By Associated Press New York, Sept. 18.—Newman Erb, wealthy railroad reorganises was re ported to-day to be in a comfortable and satisfactory condition, no change having taken place since he recovered from the tlrst effects of the two poison tablets he swallowed by mistake four days ago. Mr. Erb is confined to his summer home at Daal, N. J., where, surrounded by his family, he is calmly awaiting the crisis which four physi cians have told him may be expected to-morrow or Monday. SUFFRAGISTS EDIT SUN By Associated I'ress Wllliamsport, Pa.. Sept. 18.—Lead ers of the woman's suffrage party in Lycoming county edited the Williams port Sun to-day, issuing a thirty-page paper. Mrs. Robert Fleming Allen, county chairman, was general manager and Miss Anne Oalbr<h, managing editor. CHANGES IN CONSULAR SERVICE By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Sept. 18.—The following changes In the consular service were announced to-day: Charles L. Livingston, Pittsburgh, Pa., consul at Swansea Wales, transferred to Barbados. Maxwell H. Moorhead, Pittsburgh, Pa., consul at Rangoon, India, transferred to Swansea. KO COMES HOME ~~) When a Frenchman returns from the front and takes a stroll down a Paris Boulevard he is beset by scores of pretty girls who insist on testify ing their admiration. Some of the officers have flowers pinned all over their coats, making them look like large bouquet 3. The French women perhaps are more loyal to the army which at the front is saving their homes than the women of any other country at war. HARRISBURO WOMAN IS LEAVING URUMUH Mrs. Robert M. Labaree, Formerly of This City, Reported to Be Homeward Bound By Associated Press Petrograd. Sept. 17, London, Sept. 18. Dr. Clarence D. Ussher, Mr. and Mrs. Yarrow and thirteen other persons comprising the mis sionary staff at Van, Turkish Armenia, passed through Petrograd to-day on their way to Bergen, Norway, having had to abandon to pillage and flame the result of seventy years' work at Van. Aged hut dauntless, Mrs. Reynolds broke her leg in the hurried flight from Van and died at Tiflis two days before her husband reached there from America. Mrs. Ussher died of (Continued on Page 16.) KEENE, ENDERS AND ~ " SUM FAVORITES Unpledged Candidates For School Board Are Popular With Voters Friends of Robert A. Kndcrs and Dr. C. E. L. Keene, Republican can didates for the school board, were to day indignantly denying that pledged to vote for school treasurer should they be elected. The newspa per report circulated to that effect to da/ was designed entirely for the pur pose of putting these candidates in a I false light. Tl>ey repeated that they [are absolutely Independent of any man lor group of men and. will go to the 'school hoard only with the idea of t giving the school district their un | qualified services. i The school board contest Is one of [the most important to be decided in [November, and the nominations on [Tuesday must be most carefully made. The school board -expends more than a half million dollars every year, not counting money for new buildings erected, and wields an enormous in (Continued on Page 16.) WHEX CUPID SNEERS Pretty 16-Year Marysville Bride and Youtliful Husband Wed For some reason or other Cupid turned up its nose this morning at the j recorder's office and did some real business in the office of Prothonotiry | Harry F. Holler. Melvln N. Wolf and { Sarah E. Shone, his pretty-16-year jold bride came down from Marysville j to-day, got a license and then confided in a friend in Mr. Holler's office, the latter enlisted Alderman E. J. Hilton's services and the magistrate came down and officially tied the knot In the rear room of the prothonotary's office. The couple were attended by Bert Hoover, of Highspire, Assistant Dis trict Attorney Robert E. Fox and Deputy Prothonotary Elmer E. Hum meL • - - • SEPTEMBER 18, 1915. TEUTONS WILL SOON TAKE CITY OF VILNA Fall Will Place Germans in Pos session of Big Part of Petro grad Railroad By Associated Press London, Sept. 18, 11:56 a. m.—The cify of Yilna is now virtually invested on three sides. The troops of Field Marshal Von Mackensen have reached a point near Vileika, 37 miles south east of the city. The fall Vllna would place in possession of the Ger mans a considerable section of the railroad' to Petrograd, a portion of which, between Dvinsk and Vilna, they already hold. On the southern end of the battle line the Russians continue to gain suc cesses, their latest achievements be ing the capture of 1,300 men along the Stipe. Little activity is reported from the center of the line where a (Continued on Page 16.) lirToMiis DISCUSS MEXICAN PRDBEMS Pan-American Representatives and Secretary Lansing in Con ference in New York Xew York, Sept. 18.—Secretary Lansing and the Pan-American diplo mats continued their efforts to solve the Mexican problem to-day at a con ference here in the Hotel Biltimore. The diplomats had before them the latest official information relating to the relative' military supremacy of the contending factions in Mexico. Their accepted policy was that eventually the party which can demonstrate its superior strength and its ability to en force a stable government shall re ceive support and recognition. There was no thought that this question could be settled at to-day's meeting. One point apparently already agreed upon was that General Carranza would be asked to send a representative to meet the conferees. Similar invita tions will be extended to the other leaders. New Charities Society to Be Organized Tuesday For the purpose of dissolving the Associated Charities of Harrisburg and the Children's Aid Society of Dauphin county, a special meeting of members will be held at the Y. M. C. A Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock. Immediately afterward a meeting will be held to organize a new society fo continue the work of the Asso ciated Charities and the' Children's Aid Society. A constitution and by laws will be adopted and officers will be elected. On the joint committee in charge are Mrs. George Kunkel. Mrs. M. E. Jacobson, Mrs. Homer Black, Mrs. F. J Hall. Mrs. William Henderson, W. B. McCaJeb, George W. Reily, Donald McCormlck, F. J. Brady and Vance C. McCormick. - 18 PAGES MEALS FOR SUFFRAGE, HE TELLSWOMANWRITER;ALSO WANTS AID OF CHURCHES Candidate For Mayor Whacks] Present Police Force and Newspapers; Talks on Platform • POUNDS TABLE TO EMPHASIZE REMARKS He's For Parks; Hedges on Curfew; No Red Lights; Interview Hopes He Means It • BY MPS ANNA H. WOOD Perspiring, but energetic and thor oughly in earnest. Dr. Ezra S. Meals, candidate for Mayor, sat at his office desk and discussed his platform from th-> woman's viewpoint. "Above all," he said, "I promise the people if they elect me that 1 will run a safe, sane and clean town. One thing you can be sure about. I will catch the crooks and run to earth the wrongdoers as they are not being caught to-day. I can't believe in giv ing the crapshooter 30 days and let ting the murderer work his way through the courts to freedom." There is that in the doctor's keen, kindly eyes which forces home the truth of his purpose. He spoke of the abolishing and wip ing out of the infamous red light dis trict. Should such conditions arise again during his administration, he says he believes the problem could be met by strict police surveillance and systematizing. Takes Crack at Police "Why, 1 ran this city before with a i dozen less police than they have to- I day and I had a better, more decent place," he boasted. "The town itself is not bad. not a bad place at all. The real people of Harrisburg never caused any trouble. It is the outside I crooks and sneaks and professional thieves who come here. Look what this jitney business has become when young women are not safe who ride in them! Where are your police? Xo! Any department needs a head and I would see to It that the police force were controlled and managed. That's «iore than they are to-day! I used to tell my men to get busy and catch !t RUSS ADVANCED POSITIONS TAKEN C Berlin, Sept. 18, via London, Sept. 18, 5.30 P. M.—Rus / % sian advanced positions have been taken in an attack on the | % Dvinsk bridgehead and the Russian front has been.broken \ through, to the south at several points between Vilna and I % the Niemer. river, it was officially announced by German i % army headquarters to-day. ( CAREFUL CONSIDERATION PROMISED ) \ Berlin, Sept. 18, 12.50, via London, 3 p. m.—The German C % Government will give it careful consideration to the evidence ,( % concerning the circumstances which attended the sinking of & J the steamship Arabic, submitted by the American Govern- ( ■ ment through Ambassador Gerard. Gottlieb Von Kagow, K \ the Foreign Minister, made a statement to this effect ir# I ■ interview last night with the Associated Press. S FRENCH GET POSITION ON PENINSULA Paris, Sept. 18, 2.40 P. M. The capture of a Turkish l position on the Gallipoli peninsula by the French forces was i announced to-day by the war office. BURMAN BREAKS WORLD'S RECORD Providence, R. 1., Sept. 18. Bob Burman broke the I world's record in the first of the automobile events on the | new -speedway here to-day. Burman covered the mile in 45.73 seconds, .47 of a second faster than the record made j by Louis Disbrow at St. Louis in August, 1914. I Geneva, Sept. 18, 10.45 A. M., via Paris, Sept. 18, 2.50 i P. M. The Lausanne Gazette, says it has learned that the 1 German government has decided to issue a declaration an- 1 nexing to the German empire the occupied territories in France and Belgium. , 1 Berlin, Sept. 18, by Wireless to Tuckerton, N. J. A I message from Constantinople, as given out here to-day by the Overseas News Agency quotes Enver Pasha, Turkish a minister of war, aa saying that a great German army was to m go .0 Turkey. MARRIAGE | David E. Ginmich, Kant Hanoyer, and Klla B. Aunffvt, Pcnhrook. Mk Mike Vfrßot nnd Helen C'ejunec, Steeltun. Hoover Cireen and I.aura Mi?der, city. S Mel %In K. Wolf and Surah K. Shone, Mury»vllle. nninnftnriiiinfinTin onnft * POSTSCRIPT the crook, not to 'phone to headquar ters to give his name anil address and have a warrant issued befor they run him in. Remember the case of Sen ator Alexander? He was held in Capitol park one night by two negro women. One threw her arm* around him while the other picked his pocket. They (rot away with the goods while the cops were asking the Chief what to do about it. The pocketbook was found afterward in Front street park, empty, and the women were never caught." ••Whack! Whack!" Dr. Meals is much given to empha sizing his remarks by bringing a large 1 capable fist down upon a convenient 1 piece of furniture. i "Do I believe in parks and play -1 grounds Of coure I do," lie con [Continued on Page 15.] Telegraph Essay Contest Closes Next Friday Have you sent in your essay to the Telegraph on "Why Is Harrisburg a Better City for the Boys and Girls as a Result of the Improvements of the Last Fifteen Years?" No. this is not lor you, Mr. Grown-up. It's for the youngsters in the grades of the city schools. The contest closes next Friday morning at 10 o'clocK. Be sure to have your essay in by that time. The closing date was to have been Tues- I day, but the Telegraph knows how hot ■ it's been during the last week and be lieves that in fairness to all the date I should lie advanced a bit to give the contestants a chance to write during the cooler weather promised by the Weather man for next week. Prizes of $5, S3 and $1 will be. given to the writers of the three best es says and the prize winning articles will be published in the Telegraph. The essays must be kept within 200 words. DFNTIST IS CONVICTKD Spcrial to The Telegraph Pottsville, Pa.. Sept. 17.—After a trial that lasted nearly two weeks Dr. Oscar B. Crawford, a leading dentist, was convicted to-day of two charges brought by Miss Rose Zacko. a patient, who alleged she had been drugged in Crawford's office. BEAUTIFUL HOME TU RNED Marietta, Sept. 18.—Fire caused by a defective flue destroyed the beauti ful home of Mrs. Barbara McCord. near Mount Pleasant, yesterday morn ing, entailing a loss of $5,000.
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