President Wilson Receives Surviving Officers of Civil War at White Honse HARRISBURG isSSmM TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 229 U. B. CONFERENCE CHURCH EXT New Charge to Be Established in North Philadelphia at Cost of $75,000; Congre gations Assessed For Cer tain Sams; Will Send One of Strongest Men; Ordain Candidates MINIMUM SALA RAISED Reading Trinity to Sell Pres ent Site and Rebuild; Re orts on Denominational In stitutions Made; Mission Work Up A new United Brethren church In North Philadelphia, the third of that denomination to he established in that city, ■was assured this morning when the delegates of the East Pennsylvania United Brethren conference, in session in the Sixth Street United Brethren church, completed some of the plans started at yesterday's session. The new project, when fully under way, will cost at least $75,000 it is be lieved. The chapel will he located on the site in Wyoming street, between Twelfth and Camac streets, on which the conference church extension so ciety now holds an option. Each church in the conference dis trict will be assessed a certain sum to he raised for the general fund of the new church, which will be called the Logan Mission, North Philadelphia. Work on the building will be started in less than three months it is be lieved. Pledge 5t.970 The Rev. Dr. D. D. Lowery, confer ence superintendent, in a crisp talk this morning urged the pastors to raise an additional sum of $2,000 on pledges for the new charge. Responses came at once, and when they had been totaled, it was found that $1,970 had been pledged. The two biggest amounts recorded came from Hershey and the Sixth Street church, this city, for SIOO each. The others named the following extra amounts: Fifty dollars each from Covenant. Lancaster: My erst own: Trinity, Lebanon: Derry Street. Harrisburg: Hummelstown; Mountville; New Holland; sixty dol lars. Salem. Lebanon. Twenty-five dollars each: Jackson ville: Catawissa: Zion. Reading: Leb anon Circuit: Intercourse: Centerville; Paradise: North Hampton: West Wil low and Refton: Mt. Joy: State Street, Harrisburg: Oberlin: Birdsboro: Ot terbein, Harrisburg: Lykens; Salem. Reading: Linglestown: Mt. Carmel: Middletown: Manheim; Pequea: West Philadelphia: Coatesville; Palmyra, Second: First, Philadelphia: Denver: First, Palmyra: Trinity, Reading: Belle Grove: Ephrata; Florin: Union: Millersburg; Shamokin: Berne. Thirty-five dollars: Hlghspire; Ly kens Circuit. Thirty dollars: Penbrook. Twenty dollars: First, Harrisburg: Valley View: Avon. Fifteen dollars: Elizabethtown: Jonestown: Hillsdale: Royalton: Chamber Hill: Bethany, Lebanon; Me morial, Lebanon; Tremont; Hopeland; First, Allentown. Ten dollars: Tower City: Williams town; Allentown: Shaefferstown: North Queen. Lancaster: Manor; Sun bury; Cressona; Grantville. five dollars from C. S. Earley. This is one of the biggest under takings of the church extension so ciety, but Judeing from the success of the Second Church in West Philadel phia, Fifty-Ninth and Catharine streets, it is believed that this opening will prove successful. The West Phila delphia church was started two years ago at an expense of $40,000. To Send Good Man Officially nothing could be learned about the new pastor for the North Philadelphia chargo. but it was under stood by all of the delegates that some minister with years of experience In one of the best charges of the confer ence district, will be sent to the new field of labor. The assignment will be made Sunday morning, when the ap pointment will be read. The church extension committee Im mediately after the present conference sessions will start work on plans for the building. Work will be rushed to have it completed and a good report ready for the 117 th annual session next Fall. The place for the next conference is not decided. Lebanon Valley towns [Continued on Page «.] THE WEATHER For Harrisburg and vlclnltyi In rrrulßK cloudiness, probably fol lowed by rain latr to-night and on Friday; not much change In temperature. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Cloud-r to-nights Friday probably rains fresh ea«t wind*. River The Korth and West branches «||l probably fall slowly or remain nearty stationary. The main river will rtae slightly. A stage of about 3.6 feet la Indicated for Harrisburg Friday morning. General Conditions Tb ' h "« apparently passed Inland and la probably now central over Southern Mississippi. It has caused rain In the South Atlantic, Middle and East Gulf States and Tennessee In the last twenty-four hours, the heaviest reported occurring In -Northeast Florida. frosts were reported this morning from Central Pennsyl vania. Interior of New York Michigan and Mouth Dakota. Teraperaturei 8 a. m., 48. Sum Rises, « a. ra.i sets, 5i50 p. m. Mooni New moon, October 8, 4i47 p. m. River Stage 1 3.1 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, (Ul. I.orient temperature, 43. Mean temperature, .VI. *nrmal temperature, 61. Suburban Towns to Get | Final Edition | TT7"I TH a desire to give the readers of the Telegraph as VV complete a paper as possible on the several edifions gn some changes in delivery have recently been made which will §3s give the final edition to more of the suburban towns. Of course, our readers understand that the news cannot be print- S3 ed before it happens and that it is necessary to issue several editions of the 1 elegraph, starting early in the afternoon so that the readers at a distance may get as complete a paper §« as it is possible to give them on the earlier steam and trolley <§) schedules. ' Through the co-operation of our agents in a number of the towns changes are now being made which provide a consider- 52S jg able number of towns with the latest edition containing the last item of news before the big press starts in the afternoon. {0? Here and there the Telegraph may be a trifle later in reach- ing the homes of the people outside of the city, but the gS readers will understand they are getting a much more com- c§) jgg plete newspaper as a result of the change. These readjust- §§ ments also mean more complete earlier editions for the gS Kg remoter communities. G® H'B'G RAILWAYS EARNINGS IN SIX MONTHS $910.72 Directors of Company Explain Dividend Cut in Letter to Stockholders In a letter to the stockholders of the Harrisburg Railways Company, enclosing the reduced dividend of one per cent, on the preferred stock for the six months ending to-day, instead of the usual two and a half per cent., the directors sav: "The directors greatly regret the necessity for reducing the rate, but In view of the unfortunate condition of business for the last six months they feel that no other course Is open to them. "The earnings since the first of January have decreased to such an extent that after setting aside bond charges, the amount necessary for de preciation and repairs, the net earn ings. after the payment of the divl dend on the first of April, amount to only $910.72. You will, therefore, see that the present dividend is paid out of the surplus account, and not out of the earnings of the past six months. "You may naturally ask the cause for the decrease in the net earnings. In the opinion of the management. [Continued on Page 6.] WIRELESS CARRIES VOICE 2,500 MILES Navy Department Pleased With Results Attained by Bell System By Associated Press New York, Sept. 30.—Wireless telephony from the Atlantic sea board to Hawaii, a distance or 1,000 miles. Is ail accomplished fact. By the special wireless tcle -1 phone developments which have been made by the engineers of the American Telephone & Tele graph Company and of the West ern Electric Company, sjjecch was transmitted last night from Wash ington to a wireless station near Honolulu. By .Associated Press Washington. D. C„ Sept. 30.—Navy Department officials were enthusiastic to-day over experiments resulting for the first time in transcontinental wire less telephone communication. By this means, the human voice was suc cessfully transmitted yesterday from the Arlington wireless plant to the Mare Island, Cal., naval station, a dis tance of 2500 miles. The wireless telephone apparatus and methods were deevloped by the engineers of the Bell system. President T. M. Vail, of'the American Telephone [Continued on Page 10.] Two Men Hurt When Auto's Axle Breaks When the axle of an automobile driven by Robert Jacobs, 217 South Front street, broke as the machine was skimming over the pike below High spire last night, two men were Injured and two others had narrow escapes. The injured were J. R. Comstock, of Mechanlcsburg, probable fracture of the right leg, and George S. Com stock, also of Mechanicsburg, severe body bruises. The former is now in the Harrisburg hospital. The accident occurred when the ma chine struck a depression in the road which caused the recently-repaired rear axle to snap. The tonneau drop ped to the road as one of the wheels rolled afway. Bumping over the pike, the machine swerved, lurched and turned a com plete circle. The two Comstock broth ers were thrown from the machine and landed in along the side of the pike. Both Jacobs, the driver, and J. H. Peake, the other passenger, man aged to stick to themachine and es cape inliiry. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1915 RUBENDALL FOR DANNER AND EBY; BOSSES ANGRY Democratic Vicc-C ft airman Playing Favorites to In sure His Own Job Tliere is more friction in the Demo cratic fusion machine camp. The bosses are at odds not only over the knock-down and drag-out personal campaign of Sheriff Harry C. Wells and John Efty for the minority place on the board of county commissioners, but are angry over the attitude of C. W. Rubendall, deputy county register, who hag decided that he will play the fusion game only so long its it meets with his own views. Rubendall, whose activities in the last fusion campaign won him a place under Danner. who is up for re-elec tion at this time, Is now openly con centrating his efforts for Danner and Eby, and doesn't c»re a hoot for the remainder of the mule ticket nomi nated last. week. Rubendall had been promised the Dauphin County Democratic machine support for the post mastership of Millersburg:. He had been a resident of that town only three years and three of the older citizens who have stood by the party through thick and thin <Continued on Page 10.) DR. J. W. HILL IS SUED BY WOMAN Lucille Covington, Who Ran Minister's Lectures, Alleges Breach of Promise New York. Sept. 30.—The Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill, for five years pastor of the Metropolitan Temple, former pastor of the Grace .Methodist Epis copal Church, Harrisburg, close friend of ex-President Taft and one of the workers for his re-election In 1912 and now president of the International Peace Forum, was sued in the Su preme Court yesterday for SIOO,OOO damages for breach of promise by Miss £,ucile Covington. The Rev. Dr. Hill, who is married r.nd is the father of John Warren Hill, deputy assistant district attorney, em ployed Miss Covington for about six months in 1910 manager of his lec ture bureau. He left New York to fill a lecture engagement in Detroit yes- [Continued on Page 10.] U. S. Senator Sherman Seeks Protective Tariff Boston, Mass., Sept. 3i>.—"lllinois will Join with Massachusetts In restor ing the American system of protec tion," declared United States Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman, addressing the Home Market Club of this city last night. "No prohibitive rates are to be laid," he continued. "They must be high enough to be protective to legi timate industries which find here nat ural advantages capable of producing articles in quantity equal to our do mestic. needs." Senator Sherman, who is Illinois' candidate for the Republican noinina- Hon for the presidency, talked straightaway party politics, In dis cussing the subject nearest the heart of the club, insisting that Republican principles and policies are essential to national well-being. Referring tothe peace argument for the re-election of President Wilson Senator Sherman suggested that the Executive had but followed the exam ples of other American Presidents who had refrained from involving the country in European and Asiatic con flicts. He said: An overwhelming majority of the American people properly favor his peace policies with Kurope and Vila di plomacy on disturbing questions of in ternational law. That neither requires nor Justifies approval of his costly and destruct've mistake in our Internal affairs." WANT WEST SHORE UNDER DIRECTIONS OF CITY PLANNERS Desire Them to Take Charge of District Between Camp Hill and River UNIFORM DEVELOPMENT New Highway to Wormleys burg Will Probably Be Built; Other Improvements One of the most important and com prehensive pieces of work undertaken by the City Planning Comlssion will be laid before it within the next few days by a committee of Camp Hill council, C«rl K. Deen and Robert L,. Myers, asking that all of the terri tory lying between the western bound ery of Camp Hill and the Susquehanna river be taken under the supervisory care of the commission. In this section lie Camp Hill and the rapidly growing suburb of Washing ton Heights, with its sehoolhouse, stores and church, and many houses along the Carlisle pike. The committee will ask the commis sion to number the streets running parallel with the river all the way from the river back to the western borough limits of Camp Hill. They are now known by name and much confusion exists. The committee is looking for ward to the no-distant day when the whole section between Camp Hill and the Susquehanna will be one big com munity and they desire that the plan ning commission, which has authority under the law, shall not permit it. to be cut up into undesirable plots. Uni formity of development for the pro tection of all the property owners is one of the big objects. Camp Hill has been careful in its development, but mistakes have been made even there, and it is to guard against errors in the future that the commission's guiding care is asked. Pike Becoming Congested The Carlisle pike, now the main ar tery of travel between the river and Camp Hill is becoming congested dur ing the busy hours and on Sundays, and the committee will ask the Plan ning Commission to lay out another road to .loin Wormleysburg with Camp Hill. It is known that the Planning Com mission members think well of these plans and it is expected that they will give their hearty co-operation and the service of their engineers to solving the problems submitted, for it is real ized that in a very few years the boundary line of Harrisburg in destined to leap across the. river and take in the whole West Shore. Progressive Camp Hill has taken the first step in this direction. Dr. C. R. Phillips Is Accorded High Honor Dr. C. R. Phillips received notifica tion to-day of his election to a fellow ship in the American Academy of Medicine. This is one of the high est honors in the medical world. The Academy is devoted largely to the study of medical sociology and Dr. Phillips has devoted much time to this branch of work. American Sailing Ship Vincent Sunk by Mine By Associated Press Washington, I>. C„ Sept. 30.—The American sailing 1 ship Vincent was blown un September 27 by a mine off Capo Orloff, in the White Sen, Jintl is a total loss. The crew was saved, hut Captain Ainliei'inan and three men were injured. Tlioy are being treated in a hospital at Archangel. Consular dispatches to the State Department to day reported the disaster. Force of Hurricane Greatly Diminished By Associated Press Washington. D. C., Sept. 30.—The West Indian hurricane was centered over the interior of Mississippi this morning, but it had greatly dimin ished in force. The storm, however, is r.ot over, as it maintains considerable intensity and is causing general rains throughout the South Atlantic and East Gulf States and Tennessee. Dur ing the night it caused winds of hurri cane force on the Middle Gulf coast and the Weather Bureau ordered a continuance of storm warnings along the Gulf coast from Mobile to Cedar Keys, Via., and on the Atlantic coast from Jacksonville tc Wilmington, N. C. Indications are that the storni is moving in a northeasterly direction and that it will cause rains during the next thirty-six hours everywhere east of the Mississippi river except in the upper lake region. Man Mixed Up in Gun Fray Arrested Here Calvin Meßride, alias McWtlltams, alias Harris, was brought to Harrls burg early this morning by Justice of the Peace Kalph C. Crow, and Con stable John Shur of Lemoyne. Me- Bride is charged with being drunk and trying to enter the home of his former wife at Lemoyne. He was arrested in Philadelphia early in the year for practicing den tistry under a fictitious name. It was also said that the certificate he prac ticed under had been stolen from an other dentist named Meßride. A Philadelphia dentist shot at Meßride when the latter accused him of being a fraud. Mcßride's veal name is said to be McWilllams. He practiced in Harriaburg several years ago. Superior Court Returns AdnniN, Hlalr, Clarion, Indiana, jFlfmon, Northampton loiintlra to day *l«l official return* of ttr vote for Superior Court nomination* at (be Capitol to-day. The total of the vote of tnenty-rlicht eountiea I mmi Head 10-1,2*111 Hunelton Orlatl.v #4.»32| rainier .">n,3N4li Wnllaee INI,IMUi Wllllaina '<16,1170. JUST LIKE WE DID IN '65 ■■■ " <£3Sii2 '.vMawattasa.'ssM/yx* G.A.R. D&Vrt CORPS* An incident of the G. A. R. Reunion at Washington. A veteran drum corps marching down Pennsylvania avenue, the same as thev did fifty years ago at the Grand Review. WAR VETERANS HAVE BUSY DAY Central Pennsylvanians Prom inently Mentioned in Re ports of Parade Washington, Sept. 30. —Most of the two hundred Civil War veterans taken to hospitals yesterday when they,be came exhausted in the G. A. R. par ade, had fully recovered to-day and were ready for participation in the remainder of the annual reunion pro gram. A majority of the aged men stood the march from the Capitol to the White House well, but others were forced to drop out of line because of exhaustion. Hospitals and emer gency relief stations established along the route of the parade in Pennsylva nia avenue were kept busy, but there were no fatalities. Most of the cases were treated and immediately dis missed. The veterans had a busy day before (hem, the program being featured with a reception at the White House by President Wilson to the surviving offi cers of the Civil War, a business ses sion at Camp Emery, headquarters of the G. A. R. and the dedication of a Jubilee tablet at Manassas, Va. Among those expected to attend the White rCoalinued on Page 9] $700,000 Addition Is Planned For Cramps Philadelphia, Sept. 30. lmprov ements and addition to the plant of the William Cramp & Sons Ship and En gine Building Company, to cost about $700,000, will be made in the nea' future. Plans have been drawn for the rearrangement of the yard, the construction of new buildings and the enlargement of some of the shipways. Contracts have been let or are about to be let amounting to $400,000, and con tracts for the rest of the work will be let between now and the first of the year. Although it has been rumored in shipping circles that this company was to expend between one and two mil lion dollars on its plant, this was denied by officials. It was also said (additional launching ways were to be j built, but this alco was denied. Africans Play Big Part in Battle of Champagne By Associated Press Paris. Sept. 30. "lt was by no means easy work," said one of the wounded at the Grand Palais Hospital in describing the battle of Champagne Saturday. "Never have we seen any thing like the barbed wire entangle ments. Our shells ploughed up thou sands of stakes but there was an in numerable number left which we had to pull up under the enemy's fire. The wire was so thick it was extremely hard to cut. In many places our at tacking columns came against Chivaux de Frlse behind which the Germans lurked. We pelted them with bombs as hard as we could and the sappers, who came behind us did the rest "The machine guns which stormed at us—that's why so many of us were hit in the legs—were soon put out of business. Then our cavalry turned up. They had gone so long without a chance to fight on horseback that they were keen to get into it. It was a fine dash and the Gvmans bolted on all sides. What they left behind tn the way of material, arms, effects and equipment was unimaginable. Their flight turned Into a panic when they saw our African contingents after them. The Africans certainly cut them up frightfully with the bavonet " LOSS OF Lira FEARED Mobile, Ala., Sept. 30.—A wireless dispatch received here early to-day from the steamship Creole at New Orleans said that both sides of the Mississippi river had overflowed south of that city as a result of yesterday's West Indian hurricane. No detail* were given, but It was feared that there had been loss of life. 16 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT ATTACKS INEFFECTUAL By Associated i-rcss Petrograd, Sept. 2». via London. Sept. 30, 3:35 a. m.—The official com munication from official headquarters issued to-night reads as follows: "In the region northwest of Friedrichstadt ineffectual German attacks were de livered at Liquet' and LeTioukch. northwest of Birshalen. The attacks were repulsed by artillery fire." TWO OFFICERS KITiLED London, Sept. 30. ■— The British casualties in the recent offensive ac tion on the western front included Lieut. General Sir Thompson Capper and Major General C. H. Thesigor, both killed. Wilmington, Del., Sept. 30.—The trucks of six cf an or der of automobiles being built at Baldwins at Eddystone, i Pa., for Russia, were brought here to-day on a teat trip, three Russian princes being in the party. The result of the test was not made known here. Karrisburg. The six* ears tested at Wilmington were machines made by Baldwins according to specifications of the Morton Truck and Tractor Company of this city, which sub -let a portion of a contract for more than 300 machines. The teats were made under the supervision of Ross Morton, of this city and a local testing crew. DYNAMITE USED BY RESCUERS Lansford, Pa., Sep. 30.—Dynamite blasts were used to day to drive crosscuts in hope of reaching the nine men who have been entombed in the I oster tunnel of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, Coaklale, since Monday at 11 ' a. rr... Thee cuts, or headings, the officials believe, will en i able the rescuers to reach the mine workers in the quickest manner possible.- _ M WANTS "PROPER" PENSIONS FOR WAR NURSES Washington, Sept. 30.—Colonel David J. Palmer, com mander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, an nounced, in a speech at the opening of the first business ses sion of the encampment to-day that the organization was to make an effort to secure "proper' pensions for Civil War nurses. It was an executive session. WILSON EXAMINES ESTIMATES Washington, Sept. 30.—President Wilson to-day began examining the annual appropriation estimates prepared by cabinet members for presentation to Congress in Decern'-- The President had instructed that the estimates be kept aa low as possible, and that strict economy be observed. Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 30.—Seven or eight white sons and seventeen negroes we~e drowned and a score more injured at Frenier, La., in yesterday's storm. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 30.—Employes of the Lackawanna Steel Company will receive an increase in pay of from 8 t 10 per cent, beginning Saturday. About 6,000 men will benefit. ••/ . • UlAtitU/iOL LiCtNUbS Inrarl Hartmun Kill* noil Killih V. Uitaer, clt>. Drulwker, Braver Station, and I.ula Margaret Haines, Samuel Miller and Myrle Zelgler. Mlllerabnrg. IMPORTANT GAINS MADE BY FRENCH ON WEST FRONT Footing Made in German's Second Line of Defense in Champagne Region | RUSSIANS TAKE BRACE England Regards Action in West as Only Beginning of Great Movement Berlin. Sept. :iO. via London, 3.10 I*. M.—?.oss of another po sition in Franco to tin* allies ns a result of the KfWt battle now in progress is announced in the offi oial statement from the war office to-iiny. The CGermans lost hill No. 101, near Massises. Further important gains by tlio French in the vigorous continuation of the general offensive movement of the entente allies on the western front arc reported by the Paris war office to-day. French troops sained a footing in the (Germans' second line or defense ill the Champagne region, it is an nounced. They have taken an impor tant defensive work of the GcrinMß south of Rinont. which is four miles northwest of Massiges, back of which lies an important junction on the rail way which parallels the German front in this region. The allied attacks along a front in the west totaling less tlian thirty miles are regarded in Kngland as only a be ginning of the offensive movement. The Russians arc still holding off Field Marshal von Hindcnburg's at tacks at Dvinsk but arc apparently having more difficulty in resisting the energetic movement he is nuiking against them near Osmiana, southeast of Vilna. in the development of a sweep to the southeastward in an effort to head off the Russian barono vichl army. Potrograd admits that the Russians have licen forced to retiro somewhat in the Osmiana region. While the Russian forces are seem ingly in a retrograde movement again iu Yolhynia. they are keeping the. up per hand in Galieia, according to the last reports, driving back the Teutons in combats along the Stripa. The Greek chamber has ratified the. government's decree of mobilization . and authorized a 830,000,000 loan.
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