rpHE same spirit that prompts us I ~(i%et*7~~ _J_ to celebrate the completion of jL-Hq— municipal Improvements that pjp^«>irtTl'jp make our city a more attractive place pipil \ in which to live, should impress us bt ft . with the importance of beautifying our Individual homes so we may en tertain visitors with that comfortable feeling which comes from knowing r = )T that we have done the best within our means to perfect the home beautiful. Our specialty is Interior decorating n ' ]j=--rvj|*iHMQ£&B| and Interior painting. We invite your inspection of the newest in wall pa- -■■■ pers, draperies, lace curtains, up holstery, lamp ihtdM, ran Uld car- The Blake Shop 225 North Second Street DR. STOCGH ni,ES APPEAL Wilkes-Barre. Pa., Sept. 23.—Attor r.ey James Scarlet of Danville, chief counsel for the Rev. Dr. Henry stough in the slander suit brought by Wil liam C'ullen. a councilman of Hazleton to-day tiled an appeal from the award of $2,700 found by arbitrators against Dr. Stough. At the same time the at torney made provisions to pay cosls to the amount of S3OO that have been incurred. Councilman Cullen aod three other prominent residents of Hazleton each brought suit to recover $50,000 dam- IMany Surprises Await You At "The Woman Shop" To-morrow, Friday |Be Sure and Pat Oar Store on Your List, As the Savings I Will Be Immense on SUITS, COATS, DRESSES, SEPARATE SKIRTS, WAISTS, PETTICOATS, HOUSE DRESSES, KIMONOS -WjrtßT In order to give my many friends the opportunity to inspect my store and merchandise, who cannot arrange to come during the day, we will remain open to morrow, Friday, evening until 9.30. IRVING E. ROBINSON. amusements amusements Ma, «"° Majestic Theatre ~ y 7.30 to 10.30 high class TAtDEVii.i.E Saturday _ A Blk Show to Celebrate Improve- | | A Pp SABIN AND . w>,,k ' u/ti\L BONNER Max Burlesque Circus DEVIL THE ACT The Cirenteat nod KunnleM Animal DFY!\if\l BEAUTIFUL Act In Vaudeville. lIL I 11 vLI/J Claude & Mar- Pearl Bros Yf)l CA! * SKE A Mat 10c, 15c. , j COMPLETE P\/*>nincr 100 CleVeland and SHOW IIY AR. evening, Mimical Comedy HIVING ANY 10c, 15c, 25c. couple Burns vine afteii 7.: i« Bringing Up McManus THURSDAY EVENING, SSJtRISBtJRG TELEGRAPH! SEPTEMBER 23. 1915. ages from the evangelist, slander be ing alleged when Stough, during his Hazleton revival accused the four of being responsible for many forms of vice that Stough declared flourished in the mountain city. STRONG GUARD ON* DUTY By Associated Press El Paso, Tex., Sept. 23.—This city last night was under the strongest mil itary guard in years. Doubled provost guards were stationed at the two bor der bridges and patrols in the down town Mexican districts. MONSTER STEEL COMBINE FORMING [Continued From First Page.] a new corporation to lie organized. No coiitirnintlon of tills report could be had. Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 23.—A plan has been presented to the attorney general of the United States prelimin ary to the consolidation of a number of independent steel companies into a concern which would be a formidable rival to the United States Steel Cor poration. The companies which would he braced in such a consolidation, should no objection be raised by the Govern ment, would include the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Bethlehem Steel Com pany, Cambria Steel Company. Mid vale Steel, Lackawanna Steel. Crucible Steel and Jones and Laughlin. The recent legal victory of the steel trust has encouraged steel and financial in terests to press forward with their plans for a second combine. Swab Dominant Factor The dominant factor in the new ! combine, according to stories heard yesterday, will be Charles M. Schwab, lirst president of the United States Steel Corporation and recognized as the leading spirit in the steel trade in this country. It was also said that Henry C. Frick would have no great interest in the new concern, in tact it was said that Mr. Frick was now sell ing out his large holdings of Cambria Steel stock. One of the preliminaries to the new combine was the acquisition of the Midvale Steel Company, and it is un derstood that plans now are shaping for control of this great armor plant to pass to new parties, said to be re lated to the Schwab interests. A sec ond step will be the announcement shortly of the exercising of the option on the Pennsylvania Company ma jority holdings of Cambria Steel stock. The Pennsylvania Railroad not long ago confirmed the report that William H. Donner, president of the Cambria Steel Company, had an option on the Pennsylvania Company holdings of Cambria Steel and Penn sylvania Steel. TURKISH SUPPLIES RUNNING SHORT [Continued From First Page.] been successfully dealt with and driven back. The British steamer Croningen of 9,880 tons and the Norwegian steamer Forsvik of 1,107 tons, have been blown up. One member of the Cron ingen's crew was killed and several injured. The Rorsvik's men escaped ] harm. BELGIANS SENTENCED Amsterdam, Sept. 22, via London, Sept. 23. —For smuggling letters into Holland, a German court martial at | Antwerp has sentenced three Belgian i citizens to death and 33 others to hard labor in prison for terms ranging from lifteen months to ten years, according to Echo Beige. AMUSEMENTS "PHOTOPLAY DE LUXE" BETTY NANSEN "The Song of Hate" WIN. FOX'H Six-part Photoplay l»ns«>il on Snrdou** M l,n Town," l-'ir*t lOpiNorie of Pathe'M Great I Serial OF THK \ WW* Friday anil Saturday "The t'lr- I onlar StalrciiNe." v ORPHEUM ROTH PHO.NKS 53 TWICE TO-MOIIHOW HtUHV II Kit.\A III) PIUCNKVI'S The Americans in :< Yankee Doodle BurlenqueM, fea turing .lolinNton, Huekley mid Hen Small. 150 fuMclnntlnK KITIN. PHU KS: >lat., 35e anil 30e| \iKht. 13c to 75c. TO-MORROW AM) SATURDAY Mat. Dally Sept. 1!4. 25. SKATS NOW SELLING Mat. 25c and 3iV; t'lilldren. 1 WKBKf L EXPOSITIONS Jb n-'jhPanama CAN4 SI.OO for 10 Arrow Collars. Any style f ™ SI.OO for Two SI.OO 4-in-hand Ties SI.OO for Sweet-Orr $2.00 Working Trousers & SI.OO for $1.25 and $1.50 Sargent Working Gloves —— . / Now, Men, To-morrow, Friday, is your opportunity to save money on yoar New Fall Outfit A f Nothing doing after Friday on the above prices. Will you be here to help celebrate? 8 H. Marks & Son, 4th and Market Sts. J i Ik Two Small Children Die From Burns at Hospital Funeral services for Willa May Dawson, two year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Dawson, of 20 Sheaffer street, the second child to die from burns in the Harrisburg Hospital this week, will be held Saturday after noon at 2 o'clock from the funeral chapel of S. S. Speese, undertaker. Burial will be made in the Lincoln cemetery. The Dawson child was burned about the face, neck and arms August 22 while her mother was out in the yard. She does not know how the child re ceived the injuries. The other child was John Raymond Weaver, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Weaver, of 502 South Cameron street, who died Tuesday night from burns about the body, twenty-four hours before the girl died. His funeral will be held to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock from the Catholic church. Gettysburg, after which burial will he made in the Gettysburg ceme tery. AMUSEMENTS —————>—— REGENT To-day Bosworth presents ELSIE JANIS —IN— "BETTY IN SEARCH OF A THRILL." Written by herself. A heart throb in every scene. Paramount. To-morrow, one day only, JESSE L. LASKY presents the brilliant novel and success ful play "BREWSTER'S MILLIONS" With EDWARD ABELES. Paramount. TO-NIGHT Gran d Theater OIiKIIY STKKKT "THE JUGGERNAUT." Tie colnaaua of modern railroad dramnM In Ave purls, featuring: ANITA STEWART, BAR LiC WILLIAMS, WM. DUNN. ALSO "THE CITY TIGRESS." I'VaturliiK JULIA SWAVNE GOR DON in three porta. VICTORY FOR U. S. IN LATEST FRYE CASE [Continued From First Page.] retaliations have made absolute con traband practically everything which was conditional under the Declaration of London. One thins: seems to officials certain —German naval commanders now are ordered to exercise the rights of visit and search with respect to all Am erican ships to determine what cargo the vessels carry, thus making it practically sure that none will be at tacked without warning or ample time for passengers and crew to be trans ferred irrespective of the cargo. Considered with reference to the en tire controversy between Germany and the Cnited States the Frye note is re garded as an indication that the Ber lin Foreign Office is anxious to avert a break with the Washington govern ment. This Increased to-day the In terest in Germany's attitude toward the negotiations over the Arabic. The note says: "The German naval forces are not to destroy American merchantmen which have loaded con ditional contraband, even when the conditions of international law are present, but to permit them to con tinue their voyage unhindered if it Is not possible to take them into port." Germany gave this assurance "in order to furnish to the American gov ernment evidence of its conciliatory attitude." High Wages Are Paid in Cities in West and South Washington. D. C., Sept. 23. —The Department of Labor to-day made public the results of an inquiry into the union scale of wages and hours of labor for ninety-three of the prin cipal trades in forty-one of the leading cities of the country prevailing in May, 1914. The trades include those of the brewing and beer bottling, building, ; freight handling, granite and stone, metal, mill work and printing. The highest scales per hour paid in May, 1914, in a few of the principal trades were: Bricklayers, 87.5 cents, in Dallas and San Francisco; carpen ters, 65 cents, in Chicago; painters, 70 cents, in Chicago; plumbers and gas fitters, 75 cents, in Chicago, Dal las, Portland, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Seattle; sheet metal workers, 68.8 cents, in Chicago and San Francisco; structural iron work ers, 70 cents, in Cleveland; freight handlers, 60.b cents, in New Orleans; compositors (English newspaper), day ■ work, 75 cents, in Seattle. \ In fifteen trades there was a reduc [ tion in hours of labor between May, | 1913, and May, 1914, seventy-seven i eported no change and one reported i i.n increase. SXOWS ENOANGKR TROOPS \ Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, j Sept. 20, via Paris, Sept. 23, 11.30 a. ;in. (delayed In transmission) —Winter ] snows are already falling in the Alps rendering still more perilous the work of the TnUian and Austrian troops who are in warfare in the mountanious regions near the border. SHIP SEARCHED FOR OPIIUM Chester, Pa., Sept. 23. The Am erican schooner Pendleton Sisters docked at the wharves of the Amer ican Dyewood Company here to-day. This ship was reported to have six Chinese stowaways and $50,000 In contraband opium aboard, but search by customs and immigration officials tailed to reveal anything of a sus picious nature. $12,000 FOUND ON* WOMAN* New York, Sept. 23.—Mrs. Henry \V. Watson, of Langhorne, Pa., wife of Representative Watson, of the eighth congressional district of Penn sylvania, died suddenly yesterday on a Sixth avenue surface car. The police say that they found $12,000 in cash, and jewelry valued at more than $50.- 000 on her person. BREAKS ARM SKATING Cecil Smith, Court and Cherry streets, while roller skating last night 'ell and fractured her right arm for he third time in three years. She was reated at the Harrisburg hospital. THE NEW SUITS and DRESSES ARE ARRIVING DAILY AT Our New Department Friday—sl6.so Wool Poplin Suits in all shades for Friday $9.90 $12.50 All Wool Serge Dresses .$6.90 $3.00 Corduroy Skirts;|9Bc Waists—all shades— Friday $1.83| Friday 39<; 8 Raincoats, sizes 34 to 38, values up to $9.50. Friday special $2.98 MEN'S CLOTHING DEPARTMENT On the Second Floor The Unadvertised- Items —Shop for the unadvertised items. There's many a nugget of economy throughout the store. \ U N PRieE D STORE ) Local Lodgeman Taking Big Part in Convention John P. Scott, most worshipful grand master from Harris Chapter, No. 26, R. A. M., is one of the princi pal speakers scheduled to talk at the centennial celebration of the Grand Lodge of Negro Masons of Pennsyl vania being held in Philadelphia to day and to-morrow. The address of welcome was given by Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg of Philadelphia, and was responded to by Grand Secretary W. H. Miller. Hundreds of delegates from all part l " of the State attended the sessions and participated in the celebration to-day. PATROLMEN GET BLANKS Return blanks for city patrolmen were sent to-day to Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison, chief of police, by District Attorney Michael E. Stroup. They will be filled out and presented at. the opening of criminal court on Mon day. The blanks will be given to the patrolmen at roll call to-night. 11