I . - Bulgarian Forces Capture Serbian City of Nish Following Violent Batlle HARRISBURG iSlllli TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 261 MAYOR-ELECT TO INTRODUCE MANY UNIQUE CUSTOMS Asserts He Is Against Police Superintendent; Will Stop Speeders "SHOOT AT THEIR TIRES" Meals Declares He Is Going to Stop Practice With Drastic Action and Fines > > Some of Mayor-elect Meals' Hopes and Plans For Term Not to create office of Superin tendent of Police. Include Bureau of Health and San itation in Department of Public Af fairs under jurisdiction of mayor. Amendment of traffic ordinance to include regulation of jitney "parking" privileges. Establish one-way drive on Third street and on Fourth street between Walnut and Market. Require parking of automobiles on north of Capitol Park side of Walnut street In front of theater. Prohibit use of police ambulance for hospital purposes In hauling pa tients between residence and insti tution except in instances where pa tient is too poor to pay for service. To require Harrisburg hospital to maintain its own ambulance.* Equip officers on outside city dis tricts and those on beats along streets used as automobile speed ways with red bull's-eye flashlights to stop speeders. Instruct officers, should speeders fail to obey orders to "shoot at the tires," lie-establish "block system" for trolley cars. Not opposed to Bertlllon or finger print systems at Police Headquart ers but absolutely opposed to ex penditure of appropriation of funds for "apprehension of criminals" for such purposes unless productive of results. Abolish office of police captain. Create office of captain of detec tives. Provide at least four patrolmen for plain clothes duty. favorable to incorporating Fire Department as part of Depart ment of Public Affairs. Favor reapportioning eouncllmanic departments by making Commis sioner W. L. Gorgas Superintendent nf Parks and Commissioner-elect E. Z. Gross Superintendent of Finance. Endorse proposed development plan for Capitol Park extension. i After settling with a reporter the momentous problem of whether he should or shouldn't carry his ulster or only his raincoat along on his southern trip, Dr. Ezra S. Meals good-naturedly risked missing liis train last evening to discuss some of his hopes and plans as the next Mayor of Harrisburg. Mayor-elect Meals left at 11 o'clock for a week or ten days' visit to Balti more, Richmond, Roanoke and Lynch burg. although his principal objective is to attend the wedding of his niece. Miss Helen Meals, daughter of Ira J. Meals, at Roanoke. "If 1 take my raincoat and it gets too cold down there," finally decided the traveler, "maybe Brother Ira will buy me a new overcoat. Now, then, young man, what do you want to know ?" No Superintendent of Police Mayor-elect Meals was asked whether or not it was true that he intended to create the position of su perintendent of police; and, if this were true, was William S. Tunis to get the job, as had been rumored. "One of the papers last evening Quoted me to the effect that 1 had inti mated that the office of superintendent of police was to be provided. The trouble about you fellows, sometimes, is that you say only what you want to say and don't say all you're told in an interview for your papers. What I did say," went on the Mayor elect, "or at least what I meant to say, is that the 'aw provides for the superintendent of the department just like it names the other councilmen as superintendents of other departments. Of course there'll be a superintendent of my de partment. And," continued the future chief executive, "I'm to be the super intendent. There's to he no such office as superintendent of police created." "Then it's not true about Tunis?" "Why, certainly not. Now what would Billy Tunis want with a job like that? Why," and the Mayor elect chuckled, "I'm told that Billy goes to bed nt 12 at night and gets up at 12 [Continued on Page 14.] THE WEATHER For HarrlsliurK and . vicinity: Fair, continued cool to-night, with lowest temperature alinut 3H dr- Krees. Sunday fair and aome what warmer. For Hastcm I'enns.vlvnnlni Fair, continued cool to-niKht and Sun dnyi light uorth WIUIIH becoming variable. River The \nrth Itrnnch will rise Mllght !>'. The West Itrnnch and the ninln river will fall slowly or re main nearly stationary. A stage of about Il.fi feet In Indicated for Harr|Mburn Sunday morning. General Conditions The disturbance that was central «>n the .Southern Hew England coast Friday morning, lias punn et! off eastward Into the Atlantic ocean. It caused light precipita tion In the Sew F.uglnnd States • n the Inst twenty-four hours. Moderately heavy rains have fallen In Southern California. It Is 2to 14 degreea cooler over nearly all the country eaut of the l.nke Region and south and east of the Ohio river and n fall of 4 to IS degrees In temperature has occurred In the States nlong the northern border from Mluneaota westward. Temperaturei 8 a. m.. Sfl. Sn«! Rises, Ai4» a. M.i seta, 4i»7 p. m. Moont New moon, to-morrow, 2iR3 a. nt. River Staget 3.6 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Wratlio Highest temperature, 53. Lowest temperature, 32. Mean temperature, 42. Xjrmal temperature, 4«. WORK ON FAIR GROUNDS WILL START SHORTLY , Bids For Grading Keystone Ex position Grounds in Hands of Contractors i SIDINGS ARE APPROVED Project Will Advance State In terests Educationally; Big Chance For Sports i Work will be commenced upon the ; grading of the property of the Key : stone State Fair and Industrial Ex ! position as soon as bids are in from I the various contractors who are now i figuring on thfe work. It is generally I conceded that the completion of this | immense project, which includes the building of a two-mile speedway and i grandstands, will be a credit to the , builders and a source of pride and I commercial and industrial interest to I the entire East. j The property, consisting of 410 acres of land, lying between Middletown and | Highspirc, on the main line of the , Pennsylvania Railroad, with a mile | and a half frontage on the Susque j hanna river, and the Harrisburg trol | leys running the full length of the j property, along the Middletown ma j cadamlzed pike, is held by the Key j.stone State Fair and Industrial Ex. I position, and will be devoted to the . furthering of state interests both from '.the viewpoint of an educational insti _ tution and also as a scientific sporting [Continued on Page #.] P.A.B.WIDENER, FINANCIER, DIES AT ELKINS PARK prominent in Politics and Was Director in Many Cor porations By Associated Press Philadelphia, Nov. 6. — P. A. B. Widener, widely-known financier, died at his home at Elkins Park, near here, to-day. Death is believed to have been due to advanced age. For several years past, Mr. Widener had been gradually withdrawing from directorships of a number of corporations in which he had formerly been active. At the time of his death he was a director in the Land Title and Trust Company of this city, Philadelphia Traction Company, International Mercantile Marine Com pany and the Jarden Brick Company. Mr. Widener was born In this cltv November 13, 1834, and after receiv ing a public school education started his business career as a butcher He soon became interested in politics and for more than 20 years he bore an active part In all the Important po litical movements in the city. In 1873 he was appointed by Governor Hart [Continued on Page 9.] JAPAN TO MAKE LOAN By Associated Press London, Nov. 6. —The Times says to-day that, it hears that arrange ments are afoot in Paris for the is suing of a loan to France from Japan, probably in five per cent, bonds. GOVERNOR OPENS GREAT VIADUCT Goes to Tunkhannock to At tend the First Use of the Notable Bridge Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh and President W. H. Truesdale, of the Lackawanna railroad, this afternoon opened for traffic the wonderful Tunk hannock viaduct, which is on the Scranton-Binghamton cutoff of the lackawanna and because of Its daring is considered the ninth wonder of the construction world. The viaduct is half a mile long and [Continued on Page ».] CI .EM EN CE At* HEADS COMMITTEE By Associated Press Paris. Nov. 6.—Georges Clemenceau has been elected president of the Sen ate Committee on Foreign Relations and also to the chairmanship formerlv held by Charles Freycinn. now vice president of the cabinet. The former premier will thus preside over two of the most important Senate commit tees. I*l Uii'ir. 2nd <lnnr. 3rd Quar. 4th ((unr. TOTAI, Harvard. . . 9B IB ME] PI HH Princeton. . |Q] BH ||] BBf H Steelton . BE HE ■■ ■■ ■■ Tech .•. mm be ■■ ■■ KM Central H.gh HQ |Q ■■ WW ■■ Wilkesbarre . ■Q U SB UU- HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1915. f ~ ; —y | Beautiful Daughter of Submarine Inventor to Wed ] | ' t ' ' \f \ - ' t '&. W, jA £ ;Jg- ■-% M /. ''*•*. '■ *'• S >7*i) J New Haven, Nov. 6.—Miss Margaret Lake, daughter of Simon Lake, the inventor of the submarine, is engaged to marry Herbert Diamond of this cltv according to announcements issued to-day. Miss Lake is a talented linguist and pianist and was educated abroad while her father was visiting in London. Paris and Berlin. She is noted for her beauty. Mr. Diamond is a Vale man of last year and is now working for his Ph. D. JAIL WARDEN TO BE ELECTED BY PRISON BOARD County Commissioners Have Nothing to Do With It; May Be W. A. Mcllhenny Contrary to widespread opinion, the newly-elected County Commissioners are not entitled under the law to select a jail warden to succeed William W. Caldwell, who was elected Sheriff last Tuesday. In fact, none of the men elected at that time will have any say or influence in making this" ap pointment. Senator Beidleman said to-day, in reply to a question, that he had abso lutely no way of knowing who the prison board had In mind for the place and added: "I have not recommended and will not recommend any person for the position." It is currently rumored about town that the choice of John H. Mcllhenny and Wm. B. Meetch is William A. Mcllhenny, a brother of John H. Mc llhenny. at present a clerk in the County Commissioners' office, who it is understood, will not be employed there after January 1. Mr. Meetch and Mr. Mcllhenny are Influential with the other members of the board and It is said they will be in position to put William Mcllhenny into the wardenship about to be vacated by Mr. Caldwell. The prison board is made up of John H. Mcllhenny, William B. Meetch. Lane S. Hart, John J. Har gest, Luther W. Ryan and B. Frank Ober. John H. Mcllhenny was for merly warden of the jail. DARDANELLES TO BE SEEN IN FILM Famous Traveloguer Will Take Audience Through Famous Territory The Dardanelles—the narrow strip of water lying in front of Constan tinople and around which one of the bloodiest of history's battles is raging —is to be passed through by Tele graph readers to-night In the trav elogue, "Around the Mediterranean and Through the Dardanelles," by Frank R. Roberson, famous t raveioguer, at the Chestnut Street Auditorium. Constantinople, the goal toward [Continued on Pago 9.] SUPPLIES JUMP IN PRICE By Associated Press Washington. D. C., Nov. fi.—Medical supplies and surgical instruments, absolutely needed for the navy, have advanced in some instances from 200 to 1200 per cent, in price since the outbreak of the European war, ac cording to the annual report of Sur geon General W. C. Rraisted of the navy, made public to-day. NISH CAPTURED BY BULGARIANS AFTER LONG FIGHT Austro-German Forces Fast Crowding Down on Ser bian Armies Nish has been captured by the Bul garians. This Serbian city, which has been the national capital during the 1 greater part of the war, fell into the hands of King Ferdinand's forces after three days' fighting, the official an nouncement from Berlin states. From the north the Austro-German forces are fastcrowdingdown upon the Serbian armies. The taking of Var varin on the Morava, about 40 miles northwest of Nish, is officially report ed. Kralievo on the western Morava, where the Serbians have been desper aately resisting the Teutonic onslaught for several days, also has fallen. Three thousand prisoners were cap tured by the Austro-German forces at Varvarin. The Greek cabinet situation is still unsettled. King Constantino is re ported from Athens to have prevailed [Continued on Page B.] SERBIAN SITUATION IMPROVES By Associated I'ress Paris, Nov. 6.—"The Serbian situa tion has improved in the view of the British and French staffs at Salontkl," says the Petit Parislen's correspond ent, wiring Friday. "British troops, in splendid form, now have taken their place in the first line.'' TO ASK SEITZ OF TENURE OF MAYOR Council Wants Legal Opinion on Royal-Copelin Term Tangle City Council next Tuesday will like ly ask City Solicitor D. S. Seitz for an opinion on the question of whether or not the terms of office of Mayor John K. Royal and City Treasurer O. M. Copelin expire the first Monday of December or the first Monday in Janu ary, according to City Commissioner W. H. Lynch to-day. The question has been bothering municipal and legal circles for the last few days in view of the curious mix-up in the wording of the Clark act relative to the election of mayor or city treasurer, and the old 1899 act. "Commissioner Ilowman will not be here for Tuesday's meeting and X do not know how the other members of Council feel about this matter, but I think it is quite likely that we will ask for Mr. Seitz's opinion," said Mr. Lynch. "Wo haven't got much time any more you know." In tho next few weeks the city com missioenrs will prepare the 1916 city budget. This must be passed before the present council ijoes out of office. The fa.ct that every effort will be made to hold the tax rate to nine mills will preclude the making of very little change in the way of salary appropri ations. according to Mr Lynch. That would indicate, he said, thnt nothing could be provided for additional sal aries. Little credence is given in city cir cles to the newspaper story of an ef fort to reform the old park board to conduct the city's park affairs. "I ilon't see how that can be done," de clared Mr. to-day. "The law doesn't provide for nor permit the es tablishing of such a board." BRYAN'S ATTACK CAUSES BREAK IN DEMOCRATIC LINES Former Secretary Is Getting "Square" For Remark Wilson j Made in 1908 Campaign LEADERS ARE DISTURBED, j National Defense Issue Boldly Drawn Between Party's Foremost Men Special to The Telegraph Washington, D. C., Nov. C.—Wil liam Jennings Bryan's reply to Presi dent Wilson's speech on national de fense in New York Thursday night has caused a break in Democratic I ranks which is unmendable. Bryan is | "squaring" himself for the attack i made on him by Wilson in 1908 and ] the division In the party promises be- j yond all doubt to keep the President out of a second term. This attack marks the beginning of a factional fight in the Democratic party. President Wilson's advisers had fully expected that Mr. Bryan had left the Cabinet with the specific in tention of leading a pacific campaign and would be found not only oppos ing the administration's preparedness policy, but the candidacy of Mr. Wil son for a second term. The attack vas directed against a speech In which President Wilson had planned to sound the keynote of the coming campaign. The President had timed his utterance to a month before the opening of Congress, which gives sufficient time for it to permeate [Continued on Page 11] TEN LOSE LIVES IN FACTORY FIRE AT BROOKLYN,N.Y. Many Others Reported to Have 1 Been Seriously Injured by Jumping DEATH LIST MAY GROW Blaze Spread So Rapidly That Women Had Little Chance to Escape by Associated Press New York, .Vov. <!.—A number of women and fir Is are reported to liave lieen killed 'ji a lire wliieli swept through a six-story candy factory at No. 385 North Sixth street in the Wil liamsburg section of Brooklyn to-day. The lire started In the quarters of the Diamond Candy Company, located on the third and fourth floors and spread so rapidly that many of the women and girls were forced to Jump from windows and lire escapes. All of these received serious injury and ambulances were called from eight hospitals to care for them. At 2 p. m. the i>ollce rc|H>rtcd that at least ten persons had lost their lives as the result of the lire. Straits of Gibraltar Again Passed by Germans By Associated Press Paris, Nov. 6, 12:30 P. M.—The straits of Gibraltar have again been passed by German submarines which on Thursday sank two French and one Italian steamship. The crew of one vessel Is missing. $7,000,000 CONTRACT LET Sfecial to The Telegraph Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. G.—lt was an nounced here to-day that the Union Switch and Signal Company had booked contracts with foreign Gov ernments for shells to the value of 7,000,000 and a plant was being erected adjacent to the company's works at Swissvale, a suburb, where the projectiles will be made. | TELEGRAPH j: :! TRAVELOGUE i! COUPON . i This coupon and 10c < i < > will admit holder to ■ i ; | The Roberson Travelogue J | ;: "Around the Mediter-:; ranean and Through the Dardanelles" Saturday Eve., Nov. 6th j; :I Chestnut St. Auditorium '' J | On«-half the house only avail- '' | • i able for coupon admission. ! ! I •« ........... WAR SUPPLY MEN BACK OF DEFENSE PROGRAM-BRYAN Declares Munitions Financiers 1 Arc Trying to Upset Amer ican Policies RAPS HVPt IEN PRESSj Scoffs at Cry of War Danger j in Lecture at Tech High School William Jennings Bryan, former Secretary of State, before an audience that nearly filled the Techical High school auditorium, last night, lectured on "The War in Europe and Its Les- I sons For Us." Declaring that the military prepar edness propaganda which is sweeping | the country, and which has been given j added strength by the national de fense program, announced by Presi ; dent Wilson, has been started by man jUfacturers of war materials who know jthey must dump their products in the j United States instead of in Europe | after war, Mr. Bryan took a wb'ck at the whole propaganda and branded the talk of national danger from war as tommy-rot. Mr. Bryan spoke on three phases of the Question: I—The War as it is and its in- I jury to neutrals. 2—The False Philosophy of the War and Its Results. 3—The Road to Permanent Peace. Ho declared this to be the biggest, the most horrible and the most severe war with regard to neutral nations that the world ha" ever known. He reviewed the cost of the war in money and blood; spoke of the new ways men have used to kill each other, such [Continued on Page 11] BULGARIANS DRIVEN BACK By Associated Press Saloniki, Nov. 4, via Paris, Nov. 6. I —The Bulgarian force which has been 'engaged for several days in a battle I which French troops around Valan dovo has been driven back beyond Koutsavona almost to Radovitsa, ac cording to reports received here. The battle continues near Strumitsa. , DEATH LIST REACHES TWENTY T I NEW YORK, NOV. 6. TWENTY MEN \ND f I GIR > AND MORE THAN J I . k' ■ tED, ACCORDING RNOON, IN A FI I I SWEI T THROUGH A FOUR-STORY WOOD | I TORY BUILDING IN NORTH SIXTH STREI T, IN ( I TH !AMSBURG SECTION OF BROOKLYN I i TO-DAY • I I AMERICAN MARINES IN BATTLE I Vv ishington, Nov. 6. American marines in Haiti have C I had two more engagements with revolution!- • ri a 1 can f< 1 has occupied 1 I bordei A patrol was attacked at another point. No fi men % 1 can c< ualties were reported. One hundred a I ing sent from Charleston, S. C., to the island. C FIFTEEN PROVINCES FAVOR MONARCHY C Peking, Nov. 6.—Fifteen of the eighteen pr es o C ' CI to have Voted i ft a mc ic.-:hy. m WILL PUBLISH LATEST NOTE MONDAY { ' W ishington, Nov. 6. Secretary Lansing announced to- * I day that the American note to Great Britain on inteiferences ■ with n'utral trade was delivered to the British Foreign t Office yesterday and by mutual agreement between the C ' United States and Great Britain will be published K taneously in this country and in Great Britain Monday ® mornir C I Washington, Nov. 6. —Carranza forces to the north »r' south of Villa's retreating army are concentrating for'a blow a which the de facto leaders hope will end the strife in North- W ern Mexico. Major Genen. n reported to day t, ■ General Obregon, Carranza's chief- commander, would ar- \ rive at Douglas, Ariz., to-morrow to begin organizing a cam J paign 1 Naco Ariz., Nov. 6. H. R. Thigpen and James Miller,' a® Ameii MI doctors, and two chauffeurs, A. L. Wilson and J J. D. Bylant, who were reported by General Villa to have £ . been shot, arrived here to-day from Villa Verde, twenty-tw g miles south of Sonora. 1 i i MARRIAGE LICENSES Howard A. llnr, K r llllfl ffettle K, Krutrr. York. | i J!, irrj "• l'«oki»r«l t city, and A mile NrMlllfn, Rorheratown. I < larence Cameron Neldlgli, CampbflHonn, and Sylvia May Nye, Pal- POSTSCRIPT— FINAL 16 PAGES HERSHEY PLANS FURTHER STRIDES ALONG ALL LINES Town Just Closes Most Pros perous Year in Its History; Plant Is Booming MANY BUILDINGS ERECTED Social Center Building, Only One of Kind in World, Is Being Contemplated With a record for expansion in tha year ending October 1, surpassing that of any other year in the town's his tory, Hershey, the town made famous by M. S. Hershey, of chocolate farno, is formulating a program of still i greater development for the coming ■ months. I During the month of October the | big Hershey chocolate works turned | out its sweetened product at full capacity. Four hundred and fourteen full carloads and thousands of smaller shipments of Hershey products left the Reading freight yards there for all parts of the world, during October alone. And this feverish activity in business has been reflected In every other branch of the town's life. Within the present year the Hershey Chocolate Company has added five great stone and cement buildings with more than ten acres of lloor space for factory purposes; it has more than' doubled its power equip ment; it has placed many specially constructed machines in its factories and has become the largest simyle buyer of cocoa beans in the world. The increase continues. Erecting; Vow "Prlntery" Construction work has been started on the new "Prlntery" building wltU [Continued on l'agc 18.] Rumanians Prepare to Disarm Russian Ships By Associated Press London, Nov. 6, 7:29 A. M.—Ru manian authorities have taken the necessary steps to bring into Ru manian harbors and disarm vessels flying the Russian flag which are loaded with arms and ammunition for Serbia, says a semiofficial statement, issued at Bucharest and received herj by wireless from Berlin.
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