Thousands Crowd Grassy Slopes of Reserv HARRISBURG QfiSlSk TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 225 * MARDIGRAS IN MARKE CLOSES IMPROVEMENT Governor's Troop Attempts to Destroy Bridges Across the Susquehanna in Mili tary Maneuvers at Reser voir Park This Afternoon; Companies D and I Battle to Preserve Them; Thou sands in the "War Zone" CITY FIRE APPARATUS IN EXHIBITION RUN Street Cabaret With Dancing in Principal Streets to Be Climax of Three-Day Ob servance; Bands, Fantas tics and Theatricals Will Feature Fun Making \ Tonight's Program 0 P. M. Mardl Gran, with ilanelne in Market street between Htver avenue anil Front ptreet and with fantastic* and theatrical* In Mar ket Square {acinic Market utreet west. 11.30 P. M. "Good-nlßlit." J With exciting military maneu vers on the slopes of Reservoir Park and an exhibition of the fire apparatus in Market Square. Harrisburg. this afternoon car ried out the last day's program nf the big three-day Municipal Improvement celebration. To-night the three days of pa rades. carnivals, exhibits and so on that have been held to coni- memorate the fifteen years of improvement will end with a grand hurrah in the street cabaret. Hundreds of people turned out! to see the local military com-j inands, Companies D and I and I the Governor's Troop do some real battle tactics at Reservoir; other hundreds watched the dis play of the old and new fire ap paratus. The streets of the central busi ness section to-night will hardly hold the thousands who are ex pected to crowd the thorough bred. Harrisburg "In the Middle" of Opposing Armies; Battle on Harrisburg. figuratively speaking was more or less "in the middle" this afternoon between the trenches and the bridgeheaa. The military maneuvers that were a feature of the big ttiree-day Municipal Improvement Celebration held at Reservoir to-day. Companies D and I of the National Guard and the Governor's Troop parti cipated in the maneuvers and they worked out on a large scale a certain problem that included the western en trance of the city via the Market street bridge and the slopes of Reser voir park. The problem was this: The Gov ernor's Troop was a "just-pretend" cavalry vanguard or screen for the army that was waiting somewhere back of Jonestown. It had spent the night there. Companies D and I were the vanguard of the opposing hosts of the enemy that had spent last night in Mechanicsburg and were enroute here to capture Harrisburg. The Qavalry men's job was to get posses sion of the bridgehead if possible and destroy the viaduct so the enemies couldn't get into the city. Companies D and I were to have the job of pre venting the Troop from getting pos session of the bridgehead. On paper that looks a cinch, doesn't it* Military that looks a cinch, doesn't it? Military tough one and one well worth trying to solve. Anyway the military com panies worked at it this afternoon while thousands of folks watched ad miringly. How well one side or the other succeeded can only be told when the smoke of battle has cleared away —in other words when the referees finish their job. Tonight's "THE" Night of Great Celebration ! Yo! Ho! For the Cabaret! fit you don't want to have more fun than a crutch to-night, you shouldn't come in. or up, or down town. To-night's to be the "big night" and the last night of the great three-day municipal improvement celebration and thousands of people will crowd the streets of the central section from 9 o'clock until midnight for the big street cabaret. "Harrisburg can look forward to something unique in its history of celebrations, something the like of which it has never witnessed before," is the wholly uneniightening tip the committee of arrangements passed out to-day. All Plans Complete Plans for the big night on the streets were completed to-day by Frank H. Hoy. Jr., general chairman of the cabaret committee. His sub chairmen, including C. Floyd Hopkins, In charge of the stage program; R. R. Seaman, in charge of the moving stage; C. A. Backenstoss, in charge of the gypsy camp; Cy Heckert, for the street dancing, and Harry Beck, •who will conduct the country fair on {Continued on Page 12.] { SCENES FROM THE Fully fifty thousand people saw the water sports on the river yesterday from the bridges, the wall and the steps. Even more saw the decorated boat parade and fireworks last night. Two of the floats that attracted attention were the Telegraph s ••Battleship" and the John C. Herman and Company "submarine," King Oscar. 'Twasn't safe cruising for the battleship with the U Boat hanging around. In the canoe arc seen Mrs. W. J. Nicely and Miss Nelie Spahr who won the 220-yard canoe race for women. The other picture shows the crowds on the city's "front steps." CITY RANKS AMONG FIRST IN COUNTRY Expansion Along Building Lines in Last Fifteen Years Regarded as Wonderful As an example of the modern, pro gressive city, with no moss-covered ancient ideas to clog its advance, Har risburg is now ranking among the foremost municipalities of its size and larger in the character of its buildings. The growth in this respect has been alnn st unbelievable in the last few years and the constructive character of the spirit of progress has given to Harrisburg some of the most substan tial, well-built, attractive and complete buildings and plants that can be found anywhere. The majority of people do not realize the great change that has come over the city, and in the celebra tion over improvements are apt to overlook one of the most important phases of the city's development. Buildings arc Substantial On other pages to-day, the Tele graph presents a special feature of some of the new, up-to-date buildings which have been erected during the re cent improvement era. Although not all the structures of this character in the city are shown, enough of them are given to impress the mind with the fact that in building construction of a safe, sane, solid nature, Harrisburg ranks among the foremost cities as does it also in so many other depart ments of civic and business life. Without the private enterprise which has been shown in the replac ing of old sites with the newest and best of buildings. Harrisburg's period of rejoicing would have been lessened to a great extent. As it was, the cup of satisfaction is filled to overflowing and these permanent markers of growth and advancement will keep ever-present the knowledge that the city is young in development, but that this development is taking place in a sturdy and unassailable way. The large poster cards placed upon these buildings by the Chamber of Com merce have been an Interesting feature of the celebration and the number which were put out indicate the tre mendous expansion in building activi ties which this city has witnessed dur ing the last fourteen years. THE WEATHER Hnrrtatiursc and vlclnltyi Fair to night ami probably Sumlnj". \nt much <-hnne Lancaster fair. Welsh got on solely, IJ.I* Morris evidently slipped on ihe i toep bank and fell under the wheels. The top of his head was cut off. Welsh missed his companion, but did nor. know of the accident, and remained on the train until he reached the next station, when he got off and returned to Carlisle. He did not say anything about his comrade and the death not known until this morning about o'clock, when the crew of a special passenger train found the body along wide the track. The coroner is investi gating the case to-day. I FILM FLAMMERS ARE SENT UP I Columbus, 0., Sept. 25.—Dennis Kelly, Columbus capi talist, and his business associates, who, laat June were con victed of defrauding the government of more thnn $1,000,00" in revenue tax on artificially colored oleomargarine, we: sentenced to serve two years each in the penitentiary Moundsville, W. Va., and fined SI,OOO each by Federal Di? trict Judge J. E. Sater here to-day. AMERICAN WOMEN IN FLIGHT Washington, Sept. 25.—Thirty persona are reported t have been killed when thousands of shots were fired in th streets of Cananea, Mexico, Thursday afternoon. N. foreigners appear to have been among the killed. Thir; American women are reported fleeing in automobiles frorr Cananea to the border. BOMBARD BELGIAN TOWN Amsterdam, Sept. 25, via London, 2.27 P. M.—Brit' " warships arain bombarded the Belgian town of Zeebrugi this morning. Three ships were engaged. The flashes their heavy guns were visible on the Dutch coast. FRANCIS C. BOWMAN DIES Wil lamsport, Pa., Sept. 25.—Francis Carleton Bowman, aged 71 years, one of the best known residents of the citv died suddenly to-day at Lock Haven, while enroute by au tomobilc to State College, where his son, Harvey, is a stu dent. He was identified with many business interests here and at one time was the chief backer of the Williamspo*' Tri-State League baseball team. PIONEER LUTHERAN DIES St. Louis, Sept. 25.—Frederick A. Uhlich, 99 years old, known throughout the country as one of the pioneers of Lutheranism in America, died here to-day. With one ex ception he was the last survivor of 700 persona who sailed from Bremen in 1838 in quest of religioua liberty. SUSPECT FOUL PLAY Carlisle, Sept. 25.—Following an inquiry by the coroner late this afternoon into the cause of the death of Charles Morris, who was found dead along the Cumberland Valley tracks near here this morning, Frank Welsh, a companion was h-lr 1 , for fi'.rther hearing. Foul plav is suipected MARRIAGE ! Morton B. Jacobs and Florence E. Dart, both of Harrfsbon. FIRE PROTECTION PROGRESS SHOWN BY APPARATUS Hun in Market Square Wit nessed by Big Crowds; Re view by Officials MOTOR ENGINES CHEAPER Plea For New Loan Made by Firemen With Effective Placards The wonderful strides Harrisburg hag made in Are protection during the last fifteen years was effectively dem onstrated this afternoon by an exhibi tion run of both old and modern ap paratus in Market Square this after noon which attracted thousands ot per sons. Every company in the city partici | pated. The machines were brilliantly shined and gayly decorated for the oc casion. The fourteen companies fell in line at Second and State streets shortly af ter 1 o'clock. Headed by the Com monwealth band and city officials they paraded to Market Square where a halt was made and each company started around the Square in numerical sequence. Commissioner M. Harvey i Taylor, Cliief John C. Kindler and Ed | ward Halbert. assistant chief, with the other city officials and their guests viewed the exhibition from the raised platform in the center of the Square. Motorized tintlDo Cheaper The old hand-pumping engine from Hunimelstown. drawn by four red shlrted firemen was the most ancient piece of apparatus in line. It was built In 179S and attracted much attention. Advantage was taken of the occasion by the firemen to boost the contem plated Are loan. One card bore: "In the Horse Day, This Apparatus Cost * s4o_ a Month;" another, "Horseless Day a Month." On the Hone tractor engine were cards wh'ch read: "S4O Per Month: Now Per Month. Is This a Boost For the Fire Loan?" Other mo torized apparatus bore cards telling of reductions In up-keep from JtiO to 15 a month. CRUSHED BETWEEN CARS Crushed between two cars in the Rutherford yards this morning Coyl Clark, 78 North Eighteenth street, a car repairman on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, received prob able Internal Injuries. He waa taken to the Harrisburg Hospital.