Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, October 26, 1915, Image 1

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HARRISBURG %SSMm TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 251
AUTO STUDENTS'
CAR SKIDS AND
SNAPS OFF POLE
Machine Plays Mean Trick
While Men Are on Way to
Another Smashup
THREE ARE INJURED
Bus Crashes Through Fence
«nd Overturns in Field
Along Road
While on the way to Hummelstown
this morning to remove an automo
bile which was wrecked in a smash-up
in that town Saturday morning one
man was badly injured and three
others hurt when the machine in
which I hey were riding skidded at
Derry street and Poorhouse lane,
sir ashod into a telegraph pole and
broke it off. then crashed through a
fence and turned over in the field be
side- the road.
The men in the auto were:
Arthur Shimmcl, 1032 Herr street,
fractured right leg, bruises about the
body; taken to Harrisburg Hospital.
L. E. Miller, Shiremanstown, driver,
bruised and cut.
Jacob Bentzel. New < 'umberland,
and William Johnson, Port Royal,
slightly injured.
Taking Auto Course
The men, who are taking a course
in auto repair work at the Auto Trans
portation machine shop, 5 North Cam
eron street, left this morning for Hum
melstown to get the machine which
was in the smash-up Saturday when
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gay, Philadel
phia; Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Barnes,
Philadelphia: Miss Mary Fox and Rob
ert T. Fox, of Hummelstown, narrowly
escaped death.
William M. Felton, owner of the
machine, who conducts the course in
auto work, preceded the men in an
other car and did not know that the
accident had happened until he
reached Hummelstown.
The four men were speeding out
IJerry street, they said, and were just
going off the paved street when the
car skidded. Tn the crash which fol
lowed one of the wheels was torn off
and hurled across the road and a tele
graph pole was broken off near the
jk_ cross-arm. The car then plunged
through the fence over a low embank
ment into the field.
Shimmel was taken to the Harris
burg Hospital.
Railroad Companies
Will Be Represented
at Forestry Meeting
The forestry services of the Penn
sylvania railroad, the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company and
possibly the Susquehanna Coal com
pany, will be represented at the
meeting to-morrow of City
Forester Harry J. Mueller and
timber owners of Daut>hln county at
the log cabin of John W. Relly above
Rockvllle. Organization of the Sus
quehanna Forest Fire Protective Asso
ciation Will be completed at this time.
The forestry protective department
of the Penns.v includes about 10 000
acres of woodland and will be repre
sented by John Foley; the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company
preserves comprise about 15,000 acres
and the Susquehanna Coal Company
timber holdings cover some 5,000 to
10,000 acres.
Edward S. Bryant, special organiza
tion agent ol the Federal Forestry
protective bureau for Pennsylvania
will also attend the nieeting;.
Servian King Is Ready
to Die With Country
London, Oct. 2G.—A dispatch to the
Daily Telegraph from Rome says that,
telegrams from a German source state
that. King Peter of. Servia has issued
the following proclamation:
"Age has taken my arms from me.
T, who was elected your king, have no
longer the force to guide my armies to
the war in defense of the fatherland.
"I am but a feeble old man who can
do nothing but bless Servia's soldiers
citizens, women and children. But "i
swear to you if a new invasion shall
bring upon us the shame of being con
quered. I shall not survive the ruin
and I, too, shall die with the country."
TALK I'OK 12 HOURS
New York, Oct. 26.—A twelve-hour
street meeting at Fortieth street and
Fifth avenue with continuous speak
ing to-day was one or the features of
the closing week of the suffrage cam
paign here.
THE WEATHER
For Harrlshurg nnd vicinity: Part
ly .lou.lv to-night nnd Wrilnea
day slightly cooler 'Wednesday.
For Kastern I'emisyl vanln: Partly
cloudy to-night and Wednesday
•omrivhnt cooler Wednesday;
moderate south and southwest
wind*.
niver
The Susqnehannn mlrcr and Ita
principal branches will fall alow
ly or remnln nearly stationary
except the loner portion of the
W eat llrnnoli, which will rlae
slightly to-night. stage of
about 4.2 feet Is Indicated for
IVnrrlnburic W ciincNilny morning.
General Conditions
The dlsturhnnce from the North
west, which wns central nenr
Winnipeg Monday morning, hns
moved enstward to the I.ake Su
perior region with aomewhat de
creased energy.
A general rise of 2 to 24 degrees In
temperature hns occurred cast
of the l.ake Iteglon and south
and east of tlie Ohio river In the
Inst twenty-four hours, being
moat decided In the I pper Sna
quehanna Ynlley.
Temperature: S a. m., 4R,
Sunt Rises, <1:28 a. m.| sets, 5i13
p. m.
Moon: ntaes, 7:52 p. m.: last quar
ter, 11:40 a. m., October 80.
River Stage: 4.4 feet above low
wnter mark.
yesterday's Weather
Hlirfceat temperature, .~N.
1.0 west temperature, 33.
M»an temperature, 44,
Knrninl temperature, 30.
DEMOCRATIC
ENDORSEMENT
FOR MR. STROUP
Organ of Democrats in Dau
phin County "Heartily Com
mends" Him as Dist. Atty.
FEARLESS IN OFFICE
Put Liquor Law Violators Out
of Business and Drove Out
Loan Sharks
The inconsistency of the Demo
cratic campaign now being waged
against Michael E. Stroup, for re-elec
tion as district attorney, Is clear>y
shown by the fact that when there
was no political advantage to be gain
ed the Democrats openly endorsed
Stroup's course in the district at
torney's office.
They did not do this merely in
private, but the Patriot, generally
recognized as the mouthpiece of the
Democratic bosses in this county, not
once, but repeatedly approved the
course of Mr. Stroup in the conduct of
his office.
In the issue of Monday, December
15, 1913, when it was not known that
Stroup would be a candidate for re
election and when therefore the
Patriot felt free to express its true at
titude toward him, that newspaper In
a leading editorial said:
"District Attorney Michael E.
Stroup Is to be heartily commend
ed by the people of Harrisburg
and Dauphin county, on the earn
est and effective manner in which
he presented to the court the
evidence gathered by him and the
police department under the di
rection of Col. Jos. B. Hutchison,
and the ability with which he
prosecuted the case, against the
proprietors of two so-called hotels
that under successive, different
names have long exerted a pesti
lential Influence among the young
of both sexes in this city. » « •
The action of the district attorney
and the court in these cases will
have a widespread influence in
promoting good order and mor
ality. Iti will help to quiet the
anxious hearts of many fathers
and mothers. It will save some
boys and girls from the path that
leads straight to perdition, and
will help toward providing more
and better food, clothing and
shelter to women and children
now pinched by want."'
Now Mr. Stroup's friends are won-
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Pestered Papa So
He Couldn't Read; So
He Just Left Home
Every time Monroe Wise sat down
of an evening to peruse the paper, the
wife ami the youngsters pestered him
so he just couldn't read: so he left
home.
That was the reason given in Octo
ber divorce court this morriing when
Mrs. Katie Wise sued for divorce.
From the time her husband loft the
house in a rage just because the chil
dren quizzed him while he was read
ing the paper about "current events"
until to-day she has never seen him.
All Certificates of
Employment Now Held
Are Valid Under New Law
Attorney General Brown has given
ar. oral opinion to the Department of
Labor and Industry to the effect that
certificates of employment now held
by minors are valid and are to be con
sidered valid until the holders reach
the age of sixteen.
The opinion will affect thousands of
children, who will now be able to
work.
The written opinion will be given in
the course of a few days, the Attorney
General having been prevented from
writing it because of the meeting ot
the State Board of Pardons.
Entire Armenian Race
in Kerasund Massacred
By Associated frcss
London, Oct. 28.—A dispatch lo the
Daily Mail from Odessa says:
"The Turks have massaeretl the on
[ tire Armenian population of Kerasund,
on the Black Sea.'"
Kerasund lies seventy miles west of
Trcbizonile on a rocky promontory.
The town lias a population of 21,000.
The number of Armenians in the town
is not known. Kerasund does a large
business In the exportation of nuts and
nut kernels.
Porter Charlton Will
Serve 4 Months in Jail
Como, Italy. Oct. 26.—Porter Charl
ton, the American, who lias been on
trial here charged with murdering his
wife in 1910, was yesterday condemned
to six years and eight months' im
prisonment.
Charlton will have to serve only four
months more, a.-: the five year's and
four months he has already spent in
prison, pending trial, apply on the sen
tence given him, and to this is added
an allowance of one year granted by
the crown to all who were in prison
at the beginning of the war.
Chain of Crane Wraps
Around Man; May Die
Caught in a heavy steel chain on an
electric crane at the Harrlsburg Pipe
and Pipe Bending Works, this after
iioon, Clarence Holman, aged 29 1108
Plum street, received a compound frac
ture of the right leg, and serious in
juries when the chain wrapped around
him. Holman who Is a laborer em
ployed by the pope bending works, was
taken to the Harrlsburg Hospital
whore physicians do not expect him
to live. Holman is married und has a.
family.
HAnRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1915
ARMENIANS FLEEING FROM
TAM4S-* KX/*<X
One of the first pictures to reach this country showing Armenians fleeing for their lives before the Turks,
who are reported as committing the most horrible atrocities on the Christian Armenians.
The picture shows Armenian refugees being taken aboard a French warship, which took them to Port Said,
where several thousand of the refugees are now congregated. Other refugees are fleeing into Greece.
BERLIN REPORTED
READY TO SUBMIT
TERMS OF PEACE
Prince Von Buelow Will Soon
Offer Terms to Wilson
and King Alfonso
STORY REACHES LONDON
Dispatch Sent From Madrid
Not Verified From Any
Other Source
By Associated Press
London, Oct. 26, 1:38 P. M.—A re
port reached here to-day that Prince
Von Buelow. former German chancel
lor, will shortly submit to President
Wilson and King Alfonso, of .Spain,
an outline of the conditions on which
Germany might be disposed to discuss
terms of peace.
The report is contained in a Renter
dispatch from Madrid, and has not
been corroborated from any other
source. The dispatch Rives as author
ity Prince Camporeale. ail Italian no
bleman, who is a brother-in-law of
Prince Von Buelow. The report was
first published in Madrid, the cor
respondent says. In the form of n mes
sage from Rome.
JOHN P. GUYER
MAKES CHARGES
"Dauphin County Law and
Order League" Alleges Elec
tion Law Violations
Warrants for the arrest of live men
charged with alleged violations of elec
tion laws were sworn out to-day before
Alderman A. M. Landls, Sixth ward,
by John P. Guyer. clerk in the Poor
Board and general secretary of what
he terms the "Dauphin Coi'.r.ty Law
and Order League."
It is said \he hearing will bo held
Monday evening.
Those against whom the charges
were preferred are:
D. E. Newman and Harrison Keim,
first ward, making false affidavit to
the effect that they could neither read
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Mayor Loses One
More Chance For
Gallery Playing
To the evident chagrin of Mayor
John K. Royal. City Council will meet
as usual next Tuesday afternoon—elec
tion day.
When the question of adjournment
was broached at the close of this aft
ernoon's six-minute session City Clerk
Miller called attention to the fact that
along by assenting. Heretofore Royal
Royal waited: so did Mr. Oorgas. Then
to the evident surprise of the Mayor.
Commissioner Lynch said:
"Oh, I don't see why we shouldn't
meet as usual."
Commissioners Taylor, Bowman and
Gorgas admitted that there was no
reason and the Mayor reluctantly went
along by assenting. Heretofore Rayol
has waited until one of the majority
commissioners objected, whereupon he
has made an extensive morning news
paper play to the galleries.
Council approved the renewal of
the $5,000 three-year bond offered by
the Bell Telephone Company to guar
antee t.he replacing of street paving in
l.ioper shape where conduits have
been laid down.
Ordinances authorizing the opening
and grading of Summit street from
Mount Pleasant alley to Chestnut:
changing width ot Bellevue road from
Twenty-first to Pentwater roud, and
striking Brown street from Sixteenth
to Seventeenth street from the city
official map, were postponed because
the City Planning Commission has not
yet acted upon them. I
THREE GERMANS
HELD ON CHARGE
OF CONSPIRACY
Rearrested After Being Freed
on Charges of Plotting
Against Steamships
NOW IN NEW YORK CITY
•
Will Be Arraigned Later Before
U, S. Commissioner Hough
ton on Flynn's Complaint
Washington. D. C., Oct. 26.
Officials of the Department of
Justice expressed doubt to-dav
whether tlic Federal Government
can make out a case against the
men implicated In the plot to blow
up munition ships sailing from
the United States. Detailed in
formation as to what evidence,
has been collected by the New
York police or the secret service
was still lacking to-day and the
department will not reach a deci
sion In the matter until all data
lias been examined. The liurcati
of Investigation of the Justice De
partment has lieen interested in
the case only indirectly but Chief
A. 11. liiclcski said to-day that he
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AROUND WORLD
IN OPERA CHAIR
That Is the Way You Can See
It at Travelogue Thurs
day Night
The motion pictures in the Tele
graph's travelogue by Frank R.
Roberson, famous traveler, on Ger
many, Thursday and Friday even
ings, have been received recently
from Europe and will be shown
for the Hrsr- time in Harrisburg.
They depict actual scenes at the
front, troops in the trenches. Held
batteries in action, intimate vlew«
[ of the kaiser and General von Hin-
I denfcurg and scenes in Berlin
; showing the German people
gripped in the mightiest of world
[ wars.
Unusual interest has been aroused
lover the announcement in the Tele
[ graph that it Wds bringing to Harris
|burg Frank R. Roberson, the world's
greatest traveler, who in a series of
graphically illustrated travelogues at
the Chestnut Street Auditorium, coin
[Continued on Page 12.]
Plans Complete For Fund
Raising Campaign at
Calvary Presbyterian
A campaign to raise between $6,000
and $7,000 was formally launched yes
terday by Calvary Presbyterian
Church, which plans to erect a Sundav
school annex. The addition is planned
to seat between 400 and 500 persons.
Active canvassing for the fundK will
not be started for about a month. Plans
have not quite been completed, but to
date call for a brownstone structure to
harmonise with the present building.
This church branched out from Mar
ket Square Presbyterian Church In
1885 and only a few years ago became
Independent. The Rev. .-avid Schilling
was the first pastor. He was succeeded
by the Rev. Harry B. King, who was
pastor for nineteen years. Tlie Rev.
Frank P. MacKenzie is the present
minister In charge.
DISCONTINUE PARCEL SERVICE
By Associated Press
Berlin, Oct. 25, via London, Oct.
26, 11.18 A. M.—The parcel post ser
vice to America has been discon
tinued until further notice. No offi
cial reason for the discontinuance Is
given. . ... _ (
PROVING FIGGERS
WONT LIE, BUT
LIARS'LL FIGGER'
Bowman Tells Truth About
"Bunk" Handed Out by
Mayor Royal
SURE WERE "JUMBLED"
His Honor Forgot to Tell That
Big Increases Were in
Ijis End
With characteristic cunning the
minority "nonpartisan" members of
City Council this morning through
their newspaper organ attempted to
defend their incompetency by quoting
appropriation figures rather than
figures showing the actual expenditure
in maintaining city departments dur
ing the last two years.
"All this is absolute bunk printed
with the deliberate purpose of trying
to hoodwink the people." declared
City Commissioner Harry F. Bowman,
superintendent of public safety In
speaking of the curious jumbie of
comparisons between the cost of the
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RUSS PREPARED
TO HELP SERBIA
Turkish Troops Will Meet Any
Effort to Land Forces on
Black Sea Coast
According to Paris advices, Russia
has completed her preparations for
the dispatch of strong forces to help
Serbia.
Turkish troops will meet any effort
Russia may make io land an army on
the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, It Is
reported from Athens, and they al
ready are being concentrated. Gerr
muns will have charge of the defense,
another report states. The Athens
report declares it Is feared that the
Bulgarians could not be counted upon
to resist the Russians.
A Bucharest account of the crossing
of the Danube by the Austrians in
the vicinity of Orzova, near the Ru
manian frontier, mentions the pres-
I ence of a Russian battery with the
Serbian forces and of a Russian
steamer on the Danube, which is de
clared to have bombarded Orzova.
Teutonic troops are making nfore
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Republican Club to
Entertain Nominees
The Harrisburg Republican Club
will tender a reception to-morrow
evening to the Republican candidates
at the clubhouse in North Second
street. The county and city nominees
will be present and several of the
leaders will deliver addresses.
There will be music and a roast pig
and sauerkraut supper will bring the
evening to a close.
LUTHER R. KELKER BURIED
The funeral of Luther R. Kelker,
historian and genealogist of note, was
held this afternoon at 2 o'clock, at
his home, "Hohenhelm," near Steel
ton. The Rev. Dr. George Edward
Hawes, pastor of Market Square Pres
byterian Church, conducted the serv
ices. Burial was made in the family
plot at the Harrisburg Cemetery. .The
honorary pallbearers were: Judge
George Kunkel, Judge S. J. M. Mc-1
Carrell, State Librarian Thomas Lynch i
Montgomery. William M. Donaldson, I
Spencer C. Gilbert, Samuel W. Flem- !
ing, Joshua W. Gross, Frederick I
Kelker, Henry A. Kelker, Jr., Edwin i
C. Thompson. James C. Thompson
apd William Thompson. I
MILLION WISELY
SPENT FOR CITY
UNDER MR. LYNCH
Placed Municipal Asphalt
Plant in Operation With |
Big Saving of Money to
Taxpayers; Super vi s e d\
Laying of Miles of Sewers, j
Paving, Curbing and Grad- j
ing; Constructed Bridges j
at Dock, Mulberry and
Walnut Streets Over Pax
ton Creek
COMPLETED GREAT WALL
AND DAM ACkOSS RIVER
i _
Finished Paxton Creek Im
provement; Saw That
| . City Streets Were Properly
Named; Made Extensive
Repairs in Many Places;
Personally Looked After
Work to Insure It Being
Done in Economic and Effi
cient Way
Under the economic supervision of
City Commissioner William H. Lynch,
Superintendent of Streets and Public
Improvements, Harrisburg's new as
phalt repair plant turned out 14,911.8
square yards of asphalt "top" at a
cost of only $6,002.84.
July 14, Commissioner Lynch
placed the plant in commission and
the figures quoted show what has
been done to date.
Of the more than 14,000 yards of
material just 9.028.3 square yards
were used for repairing streets by the
city alone. Of the remainder the city
put down 3,221.1 yards for the Har
risburg Railways Company and
2,662.2 yards for the gas company,
plumbers, etc., that are classed as
"private." Of course, these jobs are
paid for by the firms or individuals
for which the work Is done; all told,
the bureau of streets has sent out 143
bill* covering the various "cuts."
The total cost' for manufacturing
STEEL CORPORATION DECLARES DIVIDEND
New York, Oct. 25—The United States Steel Corpor
ation to-day declared its quarterly dividend of If' 4 per cent,
on the preferred stock. No action was taken on the common
stock dividend.
PANTHER HAS NARROW ESCAPE
New York, Oct. 26. The repair ship Panther of the
United States navy had a narrow escape from being hit by
a 14-inch shell fired from the proving grounds at Sandy
ifook to-day. The large projectile flew directly over the
Panther and struck in the ocean about a mile beyond her.
Shells are said to have fallen close to several other ships.
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH IN READING
Reading, Pa., Oct. 26.—A fire in the St. Cloud Hotel,
in the heart of the business district this forenoon, created
great alarm but it caused very little damage. Esther Fire
stone, aged 4 years, daughter of one of the domestics, and
occupyin; room in the s-rvr.nts' quarters was burned to
death. - .
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BOY SHOOTS HIS FATHER
■1 • 1
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Oct. 26. —Raymond Barnhart, aged
13 walked into the town hall at Forty Fort, near here
to-day and told the police that he shot his,father, Will ;
Barnhart last Saturday night at the home of his aunt, when
his father attacked his mother. The victifn of the shooting
has been in a hospital in a serious condition and, until ..
boy's confession, the shooting was a mystery.
VILLA SEIZES AMERICAN PLANT
El Paso Tex., Oct. 26.—Confiscation of the Chihuahua
plant of the American Smelting and Refining Company by
the Villa State government of Chihuahua was announced
to-day by C. L. Baker, legal representative of the corpor
ation.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 26.—Prosecution of the officers
of the Union Paper Box Company through the destruction
of whose factory on the North Side by fire yesterday twelve
girl employes and a tnaiVlost their lives, was announced to
day by Coroner Samuel C. Jamito*. Tke men are charged
w'ith neiligence.
. MARRIAGE
I>. Krnnklln Mahrr, St. I.OIIIM, MO.. >ud Urlen E. Feldt, Mlllcmhn*.
John W. I.rime, city, and Idm J, Lehman, I'enbrook.
ISltvood William Millard and Anna May Hendrlcka, Mt. Joy.
14 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL 1
WILLIAM H. LYNciI
Superintendent of Streets and Public
Improvement.
the 14,911.6 square yards of asphalt
top, the Incidental 0.610 yards of
binder and the 1,879.35 yards of con
crete was $14,208.29, The return
which the city will gain from the
"private" will total $8,205.35, leaving
the total cost of manufacture to the
city of the balance —$6,002.94.
The splendid manner in which Mr.
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Henry M. Stlne
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>lichacl K. Stroup
COUNTY CONTROLLER
Henry W, (>OUKII
COUNTY TRKASURKVI
Mnrk Mummn
DIRECTORS OF POOR -
Fernando Lou<lernilleh
F. H. Snavely
SCHOOL DIRE( TORS
Robert A, Kndera
G. E. IJ. Keene
A Carnon Stamra