Archibald, Correspondent Who CarriedLelter Dumba, S. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH .XXXIV— No. 220 EDUCATIONAL MEETING STARTS CELEBRATION Improvement Week Plans Are Completed, Commerce Chamber President Anno unces; Need /Wore* Autos For Big Tour of City BNTER AT ONCE FOR THE WATER CARNIVAL Program Includes School Ex hibit, Playground Meet, Auto Trip, Merchants' Night, Reception, Dollar Day, Parade of Children, Unveiling of Memorial Tablets, Water Carnival, Illuminated Boat Parade, Fire Apparatus Run, Mili tary Maneuvers and Mardi- Gras Don't Forget to Decorate! Every businessman, merchant, boatowner and other citizen in Har risburg is especially urged to do his or her share toward making the big Municipal Celebration a grand suc cess by decorating and illumin ating businosshouses, store, boat, canoe and residtnee during the three days but particularly on Friday night, "Water Carnival Night." Now then Everybody —Decorate! ' 1 All Harrisburg is on its toes wait ing for the start of the big Municipal Improvement Celebration to be held Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. Celebration week was really begun yesterday in the city churches when pastors made the pro gress of the last fifteen years the sub ject of their sermons. But the big doings proper will start Wednesday evening when a Public Educational Meeting will be held in the Technical High school at 7:30 o'clock. . The program of the educational meeting announced this morning is re plete with interest in features. In addition to the exhibit of the work of pupils, Dr. F. E. Downes will speak on Educational Progress. He [Continued on Page 6.] Lykens-Wiconisco Miners Organize a New Board of Trade Coal miners in the Lykens-Wlco riseo district have organized a new T-oard of Trade and to-day the or ganization was formally chartered by the Dauphin County Courts. The new body is to be called the Lykens-Wiconisco United Mine Work ers Board of Trade. The purpose is to encourage and protect trade and commerce in Lykens and Wiconisco and the surrounding district. The in come aside from the returns from real estate will not exceed SIO,OOO annually and the charter privilege is to he per petual. The quarters will be in Lykens and it is understood that plans are i.nder way to erect a new building. The incorporators for the first year will be John Parmer. Edwin L. Rowe and A. Fritz, Lykens, and Philip Craw ley. James Kelley. A. A. Dodd. W. A. Foster and John Hosgood, Wiconisco. Messrs. Dodd. Foster and Hosgood, to gether with James Snangler and John Krobath. Lykens. will be the directors for the first year. St. Peter's Cemetery Is Chartered by Court Application for the Incorporation of St. Peter's Cemetery Association, in Powls Valley, Halifax township, was made to-day to the Dauphin County Court and the charter was handed down a short time later. The asso ciation will provide a burying ground in the valley. Following are the trustees: H. R. Landis. Charles I. and William O. Glace. Louis Wagner. C. C. Sweigard. These, with A. S Lyter, Elias Etz veileler, S. G. Ryan, Fulton Knowiff and S. B. Hoffman, comprise the in corporators. I THE WEATHER. W Harrlsburg and vicinity! Partly cloudy, probably showers to-night or Tuesday. Slightly cooler Tues day. Eastern Pennsylvania! Increas ing cloudiness to-night probably followed by showers In enrly morn ing or on Tuesday. Somewhat cooler Tuesday. Moderate variable winds becoming aouth. River The Susquehanna river and Ita principal branches will remain near, ■y stationary. A stage of about 3.0 feet Is Indicated for Harrisburg Tuesday morning. General Conditions A disturbance of considerable energy Is central over the I.ake Superior region, moving eastward. Temperature! 8 a. m., 00. Suns Rises, 5.80 a. m.; Sets, fl.Ort P. m. Moon i Full Moon, Sept. 23, 4.35 a. m. River Stage i. Four feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 78. Iyoweat temperature. 07. Mean temperature, 72. I A nrlusl temperature. M. Several of the Girl Canoeists Who Will Compete in Big Water Carnival on River Friday Afternoon ' 7 Above are a few of the entrants for the water sports of the Great Municipal Improvement Celebration to he held Friday afternoon. Crack amateur canoeists have entered in the races and lively sport is promised when the local rivals compete. In the upper left hand corner of the etching: is Miss Nellie Spahr, 114 Cumberland street, and 011 the right is Mrs. Frances Nicely, 1116 North Third street," both entered in the canoe races. Below Mrs. Nicely is her husband, W. J. Nicely, who Is also entered in the canoe events. The other two canoeists, Miss Helen Schaefer and Logan Hamm, are visiting in this city for several weeks and have planned to spring a surprise on the paddlers of this city. COL. HUTCHISON SLAMS MEALS IN INTERVIEW Comes Back in Strong Lan guage at Candidate For Mayor Colonel Joseplv B. Hutchison, Chief j of police, came back with a terrific i slam at Dr. E. S. Meals, who. fr. an 1 interview with a well-known woman ! writer In the Telegraph on Saturday i took Mayor Royal's police force to 1 task and outlined some of his ideas on the mayoralty situation. Colonel Hutchison declared he Is not I a candidate for reappointment and j said that as a member of the force : he ''will not be in his <*leals') way j to open houses of prostitution under , police surveillance and systematizing. ' The colonel's statement was full of ! pepper from start to finish and he did ! cot mince words in any particular. He i said: | "I cannot account for Dr. Meals | attacking me. I am not a candidate for offlce by the votes of the people I pnd neither am I a candidate to be ; retained as chief of police under him ; should he become Mayor of the city. "I need more to retain my self respect than I do the position. So ; that Dr. Meals need have no fear that [Continued oti Page 14.] Youthful Forger Spent $2,100 Buying Rum and Chasing the Chickens "Bought rum and chased "chick ens'!" That, in brief, Is the way George IA. Redseckor, self-confessed forger, | quickly disposed of the more than | $2,100 he obtained from local banks I and loan companies, according to one ; of counsel who helped prosecute the i young man in the Dauphin County I Courts this morning. Redsecker got | from three to six years in the Eastern ; Penitentiary. • Redsecker pleaded guilty to ten 'charges of forgery. In eight he j forged the name of his father to j notes: in the other two instances he ! forged his father's name as power of | attorney in putting up some hundreds jof shares of Pennsylvania Railroad stock. This had belonged to his father. John C. Redsecker. Red secker, Pr., represented himself to be his father and by putting up the stolen securities as collateral was able to obtain $1,450 from the First Na tional Bank, $525 from the Mechanics 'Trust Company and $l4O from the | Co-operative Loan Company. Redsecker was trying to obtain some $1,600 in a similar way from the Security Trust Company when he was apprehended. Archbishop Ireland May Be Named Cardinal By .IssocialeH Press Rome. Sept. 19, 8.55 p. m.. via Paris, Sept. 20.—Because of Jealous ies that Inevitably would be housed by selecting new cardinals among the belligerent nations, and also on ac count of the difficulties that foreign cardinals would encounter in cpming to Rome, the Pope has intended not . to hold another consistory until the war is over. But owing to vacancies in the Sacred College—the last new cardinal having been created May 19, j 1914, the idea of a consistory is again I rumored in Vatican circles. It is being suggested that the Pope will not create Cardinals belonging to the belligerent countries but appoint only those living in Rome or neutral countries. In this case, it is said, i Archbishop Ireland of the United States may be included. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915 1,600 RAILROAD MEN HERE FOR BIG BALL GAME Two Special Trains Bring Rooters From Many Points Along the System Pennsylvania railroad shop teams from Philadelphia and Williamsport battled at Island Park this afternoon for the Atterbury cup and the cham pionship of the big railroad system east of Pittsburgh and Erie. Two special trains, one from Phila delphia, another from Williamsport, brought some 1600 rooters, half a dozen bands, two giant 8-foot mega phones, and a hundred tin cans care fully filled with shot. These served as •'rattlers" at the game. Harrisburg's shop men demonstrated their interest in the closing light of the league by taking a half holiday. The guests were here from North umberland, Sunbury, Renovo and other points between here and,Williamsport and from Philadelphia and nearby points. The bands included the Gaskln military band of Williamsport, the Sunbury and Renovo shop bands and two musical organizations from Phila delphia. One of the Philadelphia bands was the famous Clown aggrega tion that has figured in so many New Year "shooters 'parades.' Bank Messener Beaten and Robbed of $2,000 New York, Kept. 20.—Vincent J. Maloney, a messenger of the Chatham and Phoenix National Bank, was held up in a Harlem street to-day by two men and robbed of a satchel con taining $2,000 in cash and a number ot checks. While one man threatened him with a pistol the other beat him over the head with a blackjack and then snatched the satchel. Maloney was taken to a hospital seriously in jured. The thieves escaped. Daylight holdups of bank messen gers in New York have been more or less frequent during the past year or two notwithstanding efforts of the po-- lice to cope with the evil. Numerous citizens saw to-day's holdup, but the men had disappeared through a hall way and over fences to the next street before they could interfere. Governor Brumbaugh to Speak in Oberlin Church Governor Brumbaugh to-day accept ed an invitation to speak in the Neidig Memorial United Brethren church In Oberlin next Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Governor Brumbaugh told the school children there when they turned out to meet him on his cam paign tour last Fall that "he would come back some day and speak to them,' and In this manner he will ful fill that promise. Tho occasion will be the annual rally day and harvest home service. BAR CUTS MAN'S ARTERY James Black, Workman On Wall (Jap, Steps On Reinforcing Steel With Painful Results While at work on the river wall gap this morning James Blacl(, a laborer, residing at the Hershey House, stepped on one end of a steel reinforcing bar. The bar tipped, and struck the man on the right jaw. The sharp metal tore a gash In the workman's cheek and severed a small artery. It was several minutes before the rush of blood could be stopped sufficiently to permit the victim to go home. The accident was the first to occur on the gap job. ATTENDANCE REACHES 10.000.000 San Francisco, Sept. 20. Attend ance at the Panama-Pacific Exposi tion has reached the 13,000,000 mark, it was announced to-day. The average daily attendance since the exposition opened has been 61,3)' 250,000 RUSSIANS ENCIRCLED; BIG BATTLE IS NEAR British Accept German Claim That City of Vilna Has Fallen RETREAT IS MENACED Great Deal of Speculation at Present as to Objective of Russians By Associcted Press . London, Sept. 20, 11': 4 2 p. m.—The Russian army menaced, since the fall j oi Vilnk, by the German encircling j movement is estimated variously ut | 250,000 to 500,000 men. The condi- I tions under which the Russians are at- j tempting to extricate themselves fur- j nisb a striking: parallel to those which! followed the capture of Warsaw. They j may precipitate'one of the greatest, if not the greatest battle which has been fought on the eastern front. Although no official confirmation I has been received in London from I Petrograd this morning of the fall of j Vilna. the British press has accepted [ the German claim readily in view of | the situation that bad been develop- i ing. Great concern is expressed for I the retiring Russian forces. So far j as can be judged. Field Marshal Hindenburg's troops have flung a loop about the Russians over a front of some 200 miles and are not only in i their rear, but are menacing serious- j ly the single railway line and the few available wagon roads stretching to | the south. As was the case at Warsaw, the number of Russian prisoners left be hind « h the evacuation of Vilna was not . Apparently the only way in w.iich the retiring forces may ] ameliorate the seemingly bad situation | ! is by a counter blow. ! It Is pointed out that Von Hinden [Continued on Page 14.] Keene and Enders Will Not Support Mcllhenny For School Treasurer Dr. C. E. JJ. Keene and Robert A. Enders, Republican candidates for the school board, issued the following joint statement this afternoon: "We, the undersigned Republican candidates for the school board in Harrisburg, having been misrepre sented in certain newspapers, wish in this way to correct any misunder standing our friends may have on this score. We are independent candidates, pledged to nobody. It has been said that, if elected, we will support George W. Mcllhenny for re-election as school treasurer. This we will not do. We are not pledged to Mr. Mcllhenny or anybody else, but we do not hesitate to say that we will not vote for Mr. Mcllhenny. "C. E. L. KEENE, "ROBERT A. ENDERS." 3 Injured in Cycle Accident Along River Three persons were Injured In mo torcycle accidents along the River Road last evening:. An automobile knocked Doehne Peters from his machine and ran over his chest at Second and Forster streets when the motorcyclist swung into the auto rather than hit two women who were crossing the street. Peters got up and rode to the end of the River Road before returning home. He complained that his chest was just slightly sore this morning. The second accident occurred near the Rockville bridge when Albert Noffsinger with a sidecar occupied by a girl crashed into the rear of a carriage. Both were badly scratched and bruised. The machine was wrecked. Auto Hangs Over Bridge With Nine Persons in It A big touring car, containing nine persons from Philadelphia and Har risburg, hung over the edge of a con crete bridge near Pleasantville, N. J., yesterday after the machine had crashed through a fence which flanked the side of the structure. Harrishursrers who are reported to have had the narrow escape from <*eath, according to dispatches, were Mr. and Mrs. Seaman Burris. George S'chulz.man and Louis Pursener. The City Directory docs not contain, any of these names. The only similar one is Sylvester Burris. of the Harrishurg Club, and he denies that he was in the accident. The car was driven by a Philadel phia man. who lost control, throwing it into the bridge. It hung on the edtte, threatening to go down into the water any minute. The nine occu pants were packed in the machine to tisrhtly that they could not pet out All the women in the party fainted, but were soon revived. Passtnsr auto mobilists pulled the auto from its pre carious position with ropes. Dr. Hawes Preaches at Market Square Before unusually large conerega tions the Rev. Dr. George Edward HaWes preached his first sermons in Harrlsburg since he was chosen per manent pastor of Market Square Pres byterian church yesterday, morning and evening. Special music was a feature of both services. In the morning at It o'clock he preached on "The Great. Revealer" and in the evening on "Awakening of a Soul." The church was prettily dec orated for trie occasion. ITAMAN VOT.CAXOKS ACTIVE Hi' Associated Press Paris, Sept. 20.—Multiple eruptions of the Italian volcanoes are now occur ring says a dispatch from Rome. Ve suvius, Aetna and Stromboli all are ac tive, a singular phenomena never be fore recorded. None of the eruptions, however, is of a character to cause alarm BIG REPUBLICAN VICTORY AHEAD, SMITH DECLARES "Old Guard'" Unpopular; People Will Nominate Ticket, He Says NO HAND-PICKED SLATE; • i ~~ I Leaders Merely Support Hon est, Independent Candi dates, He Asserts "I have just returned from a tour! ; of the county." said State Committee- { i man Frank A. Smith, former Repub- ! I j I lican county chairman, "and 1 iind, | conditions most favorable for a sweep j ing Republican victory at the polls in j November, if the right kind of men | are nominated, as I have no doubt | they will be. I "1 believe in using the same meth i ods in politics that I have found suc cessful in business. Honesty and fair i play with everybody always win out lin the end. There has been a good deal of talk in certain circles of slates j and factional differences within the i ranks of the Republican party in this I county. It would be folly for me or anybody else to say that the pro- I gressive element of the party is not | back of one set of candidates who go i before the people next Tuesday. In (deed, nobody is trying to disguise this I fact. On the other hand, if the so called younger element is supporting a 'slate,' it is not one chosen by any leader or set of leaders, but rather the leaders getting behind the most likely and independent candidates that came into the field. | "There is such a 'slate,' if slate it can be called, and I am Indeed proud to be one of who are support ing the candidates named thereon. And there is just one reason why those who believe In the kind of adminis tration of county affairs displayed by- Henry W. Gough, for instance, found it necessary to line up behind certain of the candidates. It is this: "The old party leadership—at the head of which stood the Mcllhennys. the Meetches, Harry L«. Hershey and their relatives—had become distaste ful to the rank and file of the Repub lican party. Four years ago this lead ership plunged the party into uncalled for and inexcusable defeat. Good men went down before a wave of public sentiment that had nothing against, tbem except that they were backed by what the public chose to term the 'Old Guard'. "When in 1912 I was chosen county chairman the first thing I did was to call a meeting of the county commit tee—an almost unheard of thing—yid ask for a reorganization along lines that would nut the machinery of the party into the hands of the rank and file. The rules which were framed at my suggestion give the voters the right to select their own committeemen and the committeemen the right to elect their own chairman. Thus the com mittee and its officers became the creatures of the rank and file of the Republican party, and not independ ent of it. The voters may now change leadership at will. "It was not long until I discovered, whether right or wrong, that the voters bad determined to have no more or what they termed 'Mcll hennyism' in this county. It. was per fectly apparent that the old leadership was so unpopular that it had to be replaced if the party was to remain at the head of the column in Dauphin I county. "Those identified with this discred ited Mrllhennv leadership realized this and evidently determined to make one more final effort to eet back into rower this year. Earlv in the Sprins? it became apparent that they, with John Fox Weiss, were setting up a slate with th's purpose in view. Know- IPP that nobody with the brand of McTlhennyism upon him could be elected and desiring to give the voters an opportunity to vote at the general elections for candidates absolutely unpledged and of high caliber per. sonally. some of the younger leaders have got behind crood substantial men as they came out for each of the offics to be filled. They are not the candidates of any msvn or set of men. All that they nrr pledsred to do is to conduct the offices honestly, efficiently and without orders from anybody. "As T said, the men we are support ing ar» absol"t»'v free from anybodv'i dictation, end 'f any of their names appear on the slnto T hear Is being cir culated bv the 'Old Guard' it is not hv their seeking. The issue is clearly 'McTlhennv'«m' air>!nst the rule of the rank and file, and t*>e rnnk and file are aminp to win on Tuesday by a big majority." 4 Sen** Ouofar Harrisburg Academy The WorrUhur? Acndemv, hern rnUr.lv refinNhod within and and has had nil 'te walls rind redecorated arid the entire huildlrx* '■onqinted. it? n***- srar ""iH "'lll cessions on TVednes 'nv """in" with ap enrollment of over IKO hovn. The r.i' l«s almost rAl*inlrlA(l *vl!T It* repf-Tt- frt" npoiinnnCV -V>OMt t»n dn'-s ,»f nn.,,, aVK I 111 ntMitll"" l ♦'le ♦l'lrtv.flvA hoard ing rinnils ■"Mil he 'lotions eoHa«r'« and of th<> masters' Th* 's ar> attractive mf.dnrn -» ivjfii „ii conven iences »pd Is hnllt *rt nro for a Inr«re ' number: 'of students with one lartre cor r»mn-> room, ten nincrle ron>"i nnd ten dpnh'c moms. TV>n hovo will Ti nil *Tiel» T>*e etiirlent* ii«H fr«*r\ n'l "iir*»m of Ik. i^olitdlnc- AmerV» ri"d T» n l'\ V«'» y~..1- Vrn' ,T«v«rr C. Vnnl»e''v Vtofl'-f>c; r.T'fnlpfy TVMI Infill A* by fV| r> jr Tirowp. nnd Dr. fZt>nrer* **#l «"*rd fr>r^^ r "ni^vjr»«on follow* T HfV. P. will from the Scriptures and off«r nra.v*r. 16 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT ARCHIBALD BACK i IN U. S.; CANE IS TAKEN FROM HIM Man Who Carried Dumba Let ter Promises to Issue State ment Soon ADMITS CARRYING NOTE Denies He Knew Contents and Says Prosecution Is Unfair Xcw York, Sept. 20.—James F. 3. I Archibalrl, the American correspond ent who was intercepted by British authorities while carrying a message from Dr. Constantin T. Dumba, the Austro-Hungarlan ambassador. to 1 Vienna, arrived here to-day on the liner Rotterdam. Several Secrfet Service men boarded the Rotterdam at Quarantine early to-day, immediately went, to Archi bald's stateroom and questioned him lor some time. The Secret Service men were reported to have searched Archibald, his baggage and the state room and to have taken away a cane belonging to the correspondent. Archi bald denied this and would not admit having even talked to the Secret Serv ice men. » After leaving Quarantine Archibald said: "I do not know anything about the [Continued on Page 14.] New. Blast Furnace Placed in Operation at Penna. Steel Mills The Pennsylvania Steel company to day placed in operation its new Xo. 5 blast furnace at Steelton. The new stack will have a capacity of 500 tons of iron daily. It is equipped with a skip hoist for loading and the two largest gas-blowing engines in the world furnish it with air. A new standpipe has been erected to keep a constant water supply on hand. R. V. McKay, superintendent of blast furnaces, Is in charge of the stack. | DUMB A RECEIVES PASSAGE I New York, Sept. 20. lt was learned to-day that Dr. i Constantin garian Ambassador, ■ ! whose recall was asked by President Wilson, has reserved M passage c ier Rotterdam which sails from this port t Tuesday, September 28. C VIEWERS ARE APPOINTED f I Harrisburg.—Viewers to assess the damages inciden to C I the taking over of parkland at Potter's Field were appointed K K as follows late this afternoon: Harry C. Wright, Paul E. & v Smith and Earl E. Graeff. They will report October 14. C CLAIMS WILL WAS FORGERY Harrisburg. Claiming that the will of Mrs. Emma C. ' i 9 Hess, who died in 1912, was a forgery, Helen A. Coleman, < . m one of the heirs, has brought the matter to the attention of I J the court. j ■ t FRENCH ARTILLERY ACTIVE £ C Paris, Sept. 20, 2.30 P. M.—The official statement given k ! out by the French War Office this afternoon describes M great activity on the part of the French artillery at various F , points along' the battleline in France. f PROSPEROUS CONDITIONS NOTED 2 Chicago, Sept. 20. The Railway Age Gaaette in its | I current issue calls attention to a decrease in car surplusages as indicating more prosperous conditions. The August sur- I pluß was reduced by 76,000 cars. \ CARRANZA CURRENCY INCREASED 1 Washington, Sept. 20. Advices from Vera Cruz tq ' 1 the Carranra agency here to-day said the meeting of the 1 l Pan-American conference in New York has materially in creased the value of Carranra currency. 1 SBO,OOO LOST IN FIRE ' Malone, JM, Y., Sept. 20. Fire, starting from an oil burning locomotive destroyed the 3hops of the New York ' and "Ottawa Railroad at Santa Clara, N. Y., to-day. The ' loss is estimated at SBO,OOO. 1 MARRIAGE LICENSES i < Raymond L. tarnnlti, Cunilirrlnnil county, nnd Elate O. Grimm. Dan i phi,i county. I William Valentine SnvldKe and Sadie A. Miller, Mifflin. I FIRE ON STEAMER ATHINAI AT SEA COSTS ONE LIFE / Tuscania and Roumanian Prince Succeed in Rescu ing 469 Persons FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY News of Abandonment of Ship Came in Radiograms Last Night By Associated Press • ISew York, Sept. 20.—'The local of fice of tlic National Steam Naviga tion Company of Greece, agent* for the steamer Athlnal received a wireless message to-day from Cap tain lleKiazldcM saying he had nhan i doned the Atiiluai owing to tile Are which ita« destroying the ithlp. The captain's mmHiicc said all passengers and crew had been sav er. The British steamer Human lan Prince and HI survivors on hoard, the others, Including the captain were on the Anchor liner Tuscania. The first broke out In one of the forward holds at 4 p. m. l-'rlday. This was slightly more than 24. hours nfter the vessel bad sniled from Xew York for Greece. Halifax. N. S., Sept. 20.—The Greel steamer Athinal was destroyed by fire i at sea with the loss of one life, ae j cording to a message received by th.® I Marine Department to-day. The I steamer Tuscania rescued 408 paa | sengers and crew and the steamer 1 Rumanian Prince 61 others. News of the abandonment of th« vessel came in radiograms late last night to the marine department from Captain McLean of the anchor lin« [Continued on Page 14.] NONMIIJITARY FACTION TO TAKE PART IN CONFERENCE By Associated Press El Paso. Tex., Sept. 20.— A non military faction, looking to the solu tion of the Mexican situation is in pro cess of formation and will ask to be represented before the Pan-American Peace Conferences, according to a high official here in Mexican military circles. The official said to-day that the group was composed largely ofi wealthy Mexicans and included mem bers who are Carranza sympathizers, representatives of the Villa and Zapata factions and of the former Huerta group.