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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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-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-
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Viwm*n*n oil
-or.rV ♦»»«■ - m.nt.-i. t"'t Pon** America
r pi,«ncTr>tofl'-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
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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«
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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.