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HARRISBURG aSUSi TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 263
BRANDS TALE OF
VICE CESSPOOLS
AS ''PURE
Police Captain Declares In
vestigators Would Pat Evi
dence Before Him, if They
Really Knew of Any Open
Hoase of 111 Repute
"SOCIAL SURVEYORS"
WAITING, THEY SAY
Reform Manager States De
tectives Are Still Work
ing and Will Lay Proof Be
fore Authorities "At the
Proper Time"
"Fakes, pure and simple," is what
Acting Chief of Police Joseph P.
Thompson to-day branded the stories
given to the press yesterday by A. H.
White, State manager of the Amer
ican Civic Reform Union.
The published stories Included ex
tracts of addresses made by Mr.
White and Captain Owen O. Wlard,
president of the International Asso
ciation of Licensed Detectives, in six
churches of this city and the suburbs.
In these addresses before the church
people of the city, both speakers de
clared that Harrisburg is filled with
vice cesspools and declared conditions
here to be "on a par with conditions
in Pittsburgh and Chicago." Both
speakers claimed that their remarks
were based on facts gleaned after a
careful social survey of Harrisburg.
"I do not Intend to get into a
controversy with these good gentle
men," said Captain Thompson this
morning. "But I have no knowledge
of houses of ill fame which are wide
open; I know of no soliciting being
done in the open: and as for wine
rooms, there are no public drinking
houses in this city which conduct
rooms for private drinking parties.
Those who drink in this city, do so
in public drinkigrooms, where to
the best of my knowledge the laws
of the commonwealth are being
obeyed.
Where's the Evidence?
the acting police chief, "I should be
more than pleased to have the evi
dence laid before proper authorities
and prosecution will follow. It seems
to me that the investigators, if they
are sincere, will come to officials with
their complaints about conditions and
will not prate and chatter in the city
churches.
"Harrisburg was cleaned up under
Colonel Hutchison and the houses of
ill fame were closed. They are still
closed. If any are running open, I
would thank these vice Investigators
to let me have the evidence."
A. H. White, the Civic Reform
Union manager, this morning when
asked why he does not lay the evi
dence he has gathered with the aid of
bis "detectives" before the police,
said:
"We have the evidence, all right, all
vjght, and when the time comes we
will lay it before the authorities."
"But just where are some of these
places?" Mr. White was asked.
"We know," sagely smiled the in
investigator, "but we're not ready to
tell."
Mr. White said that "Captain"
Wiard yesterday succeeded in closing!
up a house of bad character in North
Third street, by pulling a copy of the
law in such cases from his pocket and
reading it to the inmates.
"The madame and the girls at once
left the place," beamed the whiskered
Mr. White.
French Forces Well
Supplied With Shells
By Associated Press
Paris, Nov. 9.—"Every branch of
the munitions service has been ex
tended to a formidable extent," said
Minister of Munitions Thomas in an
interview granted a Paris newspaper.
"With one or two exceptions the
demands of the commander-in-chief
for all kinds of shells now are more
than covered. The estimates of Gen
eral Joffre, who Is especially anxious
about shells for the 155 millimeter
guns, have been exactly met while his
estimates for the 105 and 120 milli
meter guns have been exceeded. The
number of shells demanded for the
75's varies dally but on the whole they
are being virtually covered."
THE WEATHER
For Hnrrlahnrg and vicinity i Fair
and colder to-night i \> erinraiday
fair, continued cold.
For FJaatern Pennsylvania! Fair to
night and Wednesday) colder to
ft IK ht J moderate went winds.
River
The Suaqurhnnnn river and all Its
tribut Hen will fall slowly or re
main nearly stationary. A stage
of ahont 3.8 feet Is Indicated for
Harrisburg Wednesday morning.
fieneml Conditions
W The storm that was central over
• the eastern end of Lake Superior,
Monday morning, has moved
eastward to the St. Lawernce
Valley and the high pressure
area from the Northwest now cov
ers the greater part of the coun
try vast of the Rocky Mountains,
with Its center over the l : pper
Mississippi Valley.
I.lght rains have fallen generally
In the St. l.awrenee Valey, Middle
Atlantic Statea and the Ohio Val
ley.
It Is 2 to 18 degrees warmer In the
Atlantic Statea from Maine to
South Carolina and In the Upper
St. Lawrence Valley. Upper Mis
souri Valley and over the Plateau
region.
Temperature i 8 a. ra.. 44.
Sun Rlsesi 6i>44 a. m.; seta, 4iK4
p. m.
Mooni First quarter, November, 13,
BiOS p. m.
River Stagei 3.K feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
fliarheat temperature, 80.
Lowest temperature, S4.
Mean temperature, 47.
>ormal temperature, 44.
CAPTAIN THOMPSON
Acting Chief of Police Declares Vice
Investigators are Fakers.
ITALY INDIRECTLY
WILL AID SERBIA
Troops Will Be Sent to Albania
to Meet Threatened
Invasion
RUSS CABINET CHANGES
I
Steamer Dacia, Changed From
German to American
Registry, Sunk
Infantry activities have been re
newed on the front in France, Paris
reporting continued fighting by the in
j fantry arm in the viciriity of Ix>os,
where the allies gained much ground
in the September drive. Artillery ac
tlonn in the Champagne district and
in some other sectors of the front are
reported.
Premier Skouloudis, of Greece, is
quoted in Athens as declaring the
Greek chamber will be dissolved un
less it supports the new cabinet.
A hint that Italy may aid Serbia
indirectly by sending troops to Albania
to meet a threatened Bulgarian inva
sion of that country is contained in
a semiofficial note issued in Rome.
Greece, under heavy expense through
her mobilization, desires further finan
i cial assistance from the entente allies,
j Paris hears, and her request for an
addltlofial advance of $8,000,000 is be
ing considered sympathetically.
Reports of changes in the Russian
cabinet are confirmed in part, at least,
by an announcement in Petrograd of
the retirement of Minister of Agricul
ture Krtvosliein, who, it is slated, was
relieved at his own request because of
ill health.
The steamer Dacia, which after hav
| ing been changed from German to
' American registry was seized by the
French while on a voyage from New
York to Rotterdam with a cotton
cargo and later sold in prize court pro
ceedings, has been sunk in the Medi
terranean by a German submarine.
She had been renamed the Yser. Her
crew and the passengers from a lost
Italian steamer she had on board were
landed.
Wilson Quotes Scripture
to Support Defense Plan
Special to The Telegraph
Washington, D. C., Nov. 9.—ln a let
ter to Seth Low, who congratulated
the President on his Manhattan Club
speech in advocacy of national pre
paredness, President Wilson quotes
from the Scriptures words which
ex-Pfesldent Roosevelt recently used
in an argument for better defenses.
The President wrote to Mr. Low:
"I am particularly gratified that you
should so fully concur in the position
I took in my speech to the Manhattan
Club. There is a quotation from Eze
kiel which I have had very much In
my mind recently in connection with
these important matters. It is the sec
ond. third, fourth, fifth and sixth
verses of chanter 33
" '2. Son of Man, speak to the chil
dren of Thy people, and sav unto them,
when I bring the sword upon the land,
if the people of the land take a man
of their coasts and set him for their
watchman.
" '3. If. when he seeth the sword
come upon the land, he blow the
trumpet, and warn the people:
" '4. Then whosoever heareth the
sound of the trumpet and taketh not
warning; If the sword come and take
him away his blood shall be upon his
own head.
" '5. He heard the sound of the
trumpet, and took not warning, his
blood shall be upon him. But he that
take»h warning shall deliver his soul.
" '6. But If the watchman see the
sword come, and blow not the trum
pet, and the people he not warned; If
the sword come, and take anv person
from among them, he Is taken awav
In h.a Ininulty; but his blood will I
require at the watchman's hand'."
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1915
MAYORROYALHAS
FELT MUCH LIKE A
"HOUNDED STAG"
So He Tells Council in Asking
Acting Chief's Dis
missal
THOMPSON RELEASED MAN
Mr. Gorgas Agrees That Matter
Go Over Until Next Week;
Copelin Interceded
During the last few months Mayor
John K. Royal has had a curious feel
ing—he has "felt like a hounded
stag."
The Mayor confessed this to Council
this afternoon when he recommended
the dismissal from the police force of
Acting Chief ol' Police Joseph P.
Thompson. In doing so, incidentally,
he practically admitted his inability
to handle his own police force.
Council, on motion of Mr. Lynch
and seconded by Mr. Gorgas, voted to
lay the matter over tor a week until
the facts can be investigated.
The Mayor asKcd tor the dismissal
of Captain Thompson at the tailend
of a letter setting forth the reason. It
appears that on October 2 4 one Harry
Deen was arrested on a disorderly
practice charge and after the hearing
October 21, he was locked up for thir
ty days because of his 1 allure to pay a
tine of $25. The Mayor said he im
posed the line because Deen had re
sisted an officer and he considered it
only his duty to "stand bacK" of his
policemen.
Copelin Interceded
Friends of Deen had interceded to
obtain Deen's release he said, but be
cause of the enormity of the offense
the Mayor said he didn't
feel he could release the inan. A
"prominent first warder" whom the
Mayor afterward admitted was Ed
ward Towsen, had been among those
who interceded. Towsen, according to
the Mayor, declared that he spoke
on behalf of a "prominent city offi
cial."
The official was City Treasurer O.
M. Copelin, Mr. Royal's running mate
for Council and the slatee for the city
treasurership had things turned out
differently at the polls on Tuesday.
Other Occurrences?
However Mayor Royal said he look
ed up the matter and discovered that
Deen had been discharged from jail.
The papers were signed "John K.
Royal, per T." This Indicated Cap
tain Thompson to the Mayor.
"Dldnt' this ever occur during your
administration under the other chief
of police?" asked Commissioner Tay
lor.
"Not to my knowledge," replied the
Mayor. "At least," he recollected
"not so grave a case as this."
"Isn't this up to you as head of
[ the department to act?" Mr. Taylor
wanted to know.
X» Discipline In the Department
"Why there is no discipline in the
| department," declared the mayor rue
fully. "For the last few months I've
I felt like a hounded stag. I don't
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"Adam and Eve" Estes
Happy in Maine Woods
Boston, Mass., Nov. 9. Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Estes of Gray, Maine, are
getting along very well in their back
to-nature experiment. In which they
are trying to live "like Adam and Eve"
In the Maine woods.
A reporter found Estes dressed in a
deerskin turned inside out. His face
was covered with red whiskers and his
hair came down nearly to his chin. He
carried a heavy wooden club about
three feet long, which he termed his
automatic rifle.
In his other hand was a place of
porcupine meat blackened hy fire and
dirt, which he eagerly gnawed now
and then. The weather, when a re
porter found them, was anything but
adapted to the garments worn by
"Adam and Eve" Estes. The wind
blew and snow and rain alternated.
Estes said that with a club and stones
it is easy to knock over partridges,
porcupines and rabbits. He and his
wife have constructed nets from vines
that enable them to catch all the fish
they need.
Plans For Introducing
Budget System Discussed
Washington, Nov. 9. Plans for
| instituting a "budget" system for
handling appropriations in the House
of Representatives were up for con
sideration to-day before a special
committee of that body. Recommen
dations will be prepared, if possible,
for submission to the House when
Congress convenes next month.
Two plans are under advisement.
One Is to create a committee on ex
penditures to meet at the beginning
of each session. With the aid of an
estate of revenues for the approach
ing fiscal year, this committee would
be charged with apportioning to the
various committees the maximum
amount to be spent.
The other plan is to enlarge the
existing committee on appropriations
to Include the chairmen of the other
appropriation committees, such as
that for the army, navy and post office
and charge the appropriations com
mittee with the duty of handling all
appropriation bills.
Unpaid Villa Soldiers
Raid German Consulate
I San Antonio, Texas. Nov. 9. A
mob composed of unpaid Villa soldiers
and women, raided the German con
salute in Chihuahua, Mexico, burned
the market house and lotted the head
quarters of the confiscation agency,
according to a delayed message re
selved here last night from Corrall,
near Chihuahua. Chihuahua levied a
forced loan of SIOO,OOO Mexican gold
on the merchants and wealthy resi
dents in order to obtain monev with
which to pay the rioting troops, the!
message stated.
\ Member of Austrian Royal Family as War Nurse j
:
The picture shows Archduchess Maria Theresa, of Austria, second cousin
of the aged Emperor Franz-Joseph, nursing the Austrian wounded in a mili
tary hospital in Vienna.
FRANCE TO SPEND
$160,000,000 HERE
WHEN WAR ENDS
Industrial and Commercial
Commission Members to
Arrange Purchase
By Associated Press
New York, Nov. 9.—Five members
of tho French Industrial and Com
mercial Commission landed here to
day from the steamship Lafayette and
said they came to arrange for the pur
chase, at the conclusion of the war, of
at least $160,000,000 worth of struc
tural iron and steel, machinery and
industrial supply. All supplies of this
character, the commissioners said,
were formerly imported from Ger
many.
The commissioners said that while
they are here primarily to purchase
[Continued on Page 12.]
Second Day of Clean-up
on Allison Hill
The second day of llarrisburg's an
nual Fall clean-up came and went
without any startling happening in tho
north district of Allison Hill, except
that a few more tons of dirt and rub
bish are gone, and the backyards and
alleys present a surprisingly clean ap
pearance.
Yesterday and to-day more than 250
wagonloads of rubbish and garbage
were removed from the north and south
sections of the Hill.
COMPENSATION
IS EXPLAINED
Businessmen Hear Discussion
of New Act at Harris
burg Club
More than a hundred interested
business and professional men gather
ed In the auditorium of the Harrisburg
Club last evening to hear Albert T.
Allen explain the provisions of the
Workmen's Compensation Act, which
will go into effect January 1, 1916.
Mr. Allen Is an expert on the sub
ject, having served In New York and
at present being assistant manager of
the State Workmen's Insurance Board,
but even he was not absolutely clear
on certain phases of th«r law. He
stated that plans were being made and
every possibility considered whereby
the modus operandi of this new act
would not place heavy burdens upon!
the manufacturers, and that as soon I
as the Initial step was taken and the
act once under way, there would be
little difficulty and no appreciable bur
[Continued on Page 3.]
Will Make Plans For
Distributing Baskets
At a meeting of the Board of Man- I
agers of the Associated Aid Society, |
Friday morning at 11 o'clock, plans for
the annual distribution of Christmas
boskets to the poor of the city will
be made.
According to preliminary plans the
churches of the city will be asked to
co-operate with the Associated Aid.
RADIUM DOWN TO *36,000
By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 9.—Radium at
$36,000 a gram Instead of $120,000 a
gram has been made possible by the
Technical Research work of the Unit
ed States Bureau of Mines during the
last year, according to Van P. Man
ning, director of the Bureau, who is in
Pittsburgh Inspecting the work on the
new experimental station being con
structed here. «
DIDNT MEAN TO
CRITICISE CITY
FIRE APPARATUS
Rational Board of Under
writers Explain Attitude on
Motor Equipment
That the national board of fire under
writers in Its October bulletin rela
tive "to Harrisburg's fire department
intended no criticism of the type of
motor apparatus purchased for the
city, is explained in letters to Anson
P. Dare, of the insurance firm of E.
O. Dare and Son, atifl to CUy "Jommis
sioner M. Harvey Taylor, superintend
ent. of parks and public property.
The statements of the national
board's true purpose were made in
answer to the Telegraph's editorial on
the subject in the issue of November
3. Mr. Dare promptly wrote the
[Continued on Page 3.]
French Steamer, Formerly
Dacia, Sunk by Germans
By Associated Press
Algiers, Algeria, Nov. 9, via Paris,
12.35 p. m.—The French steamship
Yser, formerly known as the Dacia,
which was seized by a French cruiser
last February while carrying a cargo
of cotton from the United States to
Germany, has been torpedoed and sunk
by a German submarine.
[ANOTHER VISIT TO
FAIR AT 'FRISCO
To Tour Land From Crest of
Rockies to the Golden
Gate
Harrisburg people to-night are to
have one more opportunity to visit the
San Francisco Exposition and see the
wonders of the Pacific Coast in one of
the most artistic of Frank R. Rober
son's travelogues at the Chestnut
Street Auditorium. The subject was
given last week and made such an im
pression upon the large crowd which
attended that it was scheduled again
for the last week of the traveloguer's
engagement.
The home land from the crest of the
Rocky Mountains to tho Golden Gate
is to be toured in beautiful colored
[Continued on Page 3.]
I TELEGRAPH I
:: TRAVELOGUE il
COUPON
, , This coupon and 100 ' '
, i will admit holder to
'' The Roberson Travelogue '< '•
:: "CALIFORNIA and i:
: THE EXPOSITION" j
: | Tuesday Eve., NoV. 9th ::
;; Chestnut St. Auditorium <'
| One-half the house only avail- ' '
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OFFICIAL COUNT
SHOWS NO CHANGE
IN VOTE RESULTS
Totals of Tuesday's General
Election Are Completed at
Noon Today
SOME REVISED FIGURES
Trend of "Back to Fold" Move
ment Evident in Washing
ton Party Returns
Official count of the vote cast last
Tuesday throughout Dauphin county
for judges of the Superior Court, for
tho various county offices and in the
city alone for Mayor, City Controller,
City Councllinen, Aldermen and other
offices, as completed at noon to-day
by Attorneys Frank E. Ziegler and
B. F Umberger.
While the official figures correct the
unofficial returns in many instances,
the results are unchanged.
In addition to voting for various
offices, Dauphin county and city cast
their ballot on the question of four
amendments to the State Constitution
and the city decided the problems of
whether or not it should increase its
bonded indebtedness to the extent of
$360,000. Of this, $300,000 was voted
for the construction ol' the new Wal-
[Continued on Page 7.]
What Will Local Dealers
Get of Coal Tax Refund?
Following the announcement yes
terday through the Pottsville office of
the Reading Coal and Iron Company
that coal dealers who had made their
purchases from that, corporation dur
ing the past few years would have re
turned to them the excess charges
made necessary by the enforcement of
the State coal tax, recently declared
unconstitutional, speculation was rife
among the local coal trade.
Practically all local dealers are af
fected by the ruling. Walter L. Mont
gomery. president of the Harrisburg
Coal Exchange said this morning he
did not see how local dealers would
be able to collect their share of the
excess charges as only on some of
their bills were the taxes specified.
They will be unable to collect on those
that are not. Consequently their cus
tomers will not be able to get the re
fund.
AMBASSADOR GOING TO WASHINGTON
Ottawa, Nov. 9.—Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British Ambas
sador to Washington, who has been in Ottawa sioce Friday
last as the guest of the Duke of Connaught, Governor Gen
eral of Canada, plans to leave for Washington to-morrow, it
was announced here to-day. The American note to Great
• Britain regarding neutral shipping, it was said, has caused
the Bi ltis*h Ambassador to curtail his Canadian visit as his
presence in Washington is desirable under the present situ-.
FISHER TO SUCCEED LEBO?
Harrisburg. Edward H. Fisher, of East Hanovei
township, and a watchman on Capitol Hill, is to succeed
D. Frank Lebo, Willaimstown, as chief clerk to the new
Board of County Commissioner:., according to courthouse
rumors to-day. William Hoffr *n, deputy under Sheriff
Welhj will be am >r.g the new dept .'. ;• , it v/as also said, under
Sheriff Caldwell.
IJERRICK IS FOR BURTON
Columbus, 0., Nov. 9—Before leaving here to-day for
Cleveland, Myton T. IJet ick, f governor and forme:
Ambassador Fiance ai > he would not enter
into a contest with forme Ser ator Theodore Burton for the
Republican indorsement in Ohio for the presidential nom
ination next year. Mr. Herrick will support Mr. Burton
for the nomination.
FAY PLEADS "NOT GUILTY"
New York, Nov. 9.—Lieutenant Robert Fay, late of the
German army, and the four men whom the United States
government has grouped with him as defendants to a chargf
of trying to blow up munitions *hips to-day pleaded rtor
guilty to the indictment found yesterday against him.
GREECE WILL BE NEUTRAL
Paris, Nov. 9, 5.10 P. M.—The French government re
ceived to-day from Premier Skouloudis, head of the new
Greek cabinet, formal assurance of "our neutrality with the
character of sincerest benevolence toward the entente pow
ers."
MARRIAGE
Jomcph I.ut, and Aafcllnc Intrlerl. city. \
Alayalua Courtney Jenkins anil Rhodn Ardelln Jenkins, Baltimore.
Jnu* 1,, -roomer and Margaret Marie Silvia, city.
Karl Raymond Sinclair, ISaaton, and Mary Agnea Rhoada, Hlrdaboro.
14 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL
GETS GUNMAN
AFTER RUNNING
PISTOL FIGHT
Fusillade Aimed at Squire
Gardner When He Attempts
to Arrest Desperado
FIRES 1 N T0 CHU W D
Bad Man Empties Pistol, Then
Juinpd Into Canal; Is
Arrested
After a thrilling running: fight whicH
led through the streets of Steelton's
West Side this afternoon Squire T. V.
Gardner, nemesis of Steelton crooks,
single handed overpowered and ar
rested a gunman,'who refused to give
his name. Although more than a score
of shots were exchanged, several of
which were tired at the squire at a dis
tance of only a few feet, no one was
injured.
The' chase started when Squire
Gardner was called to arrest the gun
man after he had attempted to kill
Ralph Miller, of Lincoln street, after
some sort of an argument in the West
Side. Just what started the argument
the police didn't know at a late hour
this afternoon.
The squire and Joseph H. Gore, a
former police officer, were in the West
Side attempting to serve a warrant on
a frequenter of the "Bear Pit," a no
torious West Side place where many
mysterious and gruesome crimes have
been committed.
Started Over Shooting-
As the two olHcers circled the Na
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Bullet Whizzes Through
Window Where Doctor
Stood Moment Before
A few minutes after he had retired
at 10 o'clock last evening. Dr. W. p.
Dailey, 814 South Second street, a
Steelton phvslcian, was shocked into
wakefulness by the crack of a revolver,
followed by the splintering of glass as
a bullet whizzed through his bedroom
window and lodged in the door of a
wardrobe on the opposite side of the
room. It was from a thirty-elght-eali
ber revolver.
Mystery surrounds the firing of the
shot, but the doctor believes it came
from South Third street, where a Ser
bian colony In recent months has been
lettine- off its enthusiasm by discharg
ing: firearms.