Serbian Forces Are Being Pursued Along Entire Front, Berlin Advices Claim ILAJUUSBURG < fSSmm TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 268 TO REVISE 1916 CITY ASSESSMENT UPWARD IS PLAN Valuation as Fixed by Asses sors Is Too Low Council men Say INCREASE ONLY *1,505,815 Decrease in First, Third and Fourth Wards Total Over SIOO,OOO Revision "upward" of the 1916 city triennial assessment as completed by the city assessors, will probably be made by City Council before it finishes sitting as a board of tax revision and appeals. The net increase in city valuations as levied by the assessors totals only 51,505,545. Councilmen generally de clare that these figures as compared to last year's assessment is much too small, that decreases were made where the values should have been the same, if not.increased. Council, it is understood, is deter mined to exert every effort to keep the city mill rate for 1916 at nine mills if possible, certainly not more than nine and a half. To keep the mill rate down will be impossible un der the figures as submitted by the assessors, it is contended. This means that either the tax rate will have to be raised or the assessment revised "upward" considerably. The city assessment as compiled by the assessors shows a total valuation of $51,842,599 as against $50,336,754 tor 1915. This means an increase of 51.606.533. However from this must be deduced a total'of $100,688, which represents the decreases in the first, third and fourth wards. Where There Vrc Decreases In the Fourth ward, Councilmen ontend. there should be an increase rather than a decrease in property valuations. The decrease amounts to .'7 2.365. In' the Third ward the de crease i5^55,793. This is bro ight about it is said by the clearing away of the V -Mulberry and Fourth street "fire dis trict." However, councilmen hold that the clearing away ofv the buildings should not lie counted'as a total loss in valuation in view of the fact that the district will be built up in the near future. Furthermore it is point ed out, the owners of the destroyed properties reaped considerable benefit from the insurance. The First ward decrease totals $.2,530. This is due in part to the inactivity of the old "Lochiel mills" of the Pennsylvania Steel company and to the inactive [Continued on Paso 1:5.] Dies While Talking to Friend From Effects of Slow Acting Poison Mrs. Simon P. Griffith, aged 32, 1332 Herr street, who died suddenly while talking to Mrs. Michael Shatter, with whom she lived, committed suicide by taking a slow-acting poison, according to Coroner Eckinger. A physician who was calle.d in could not account for the sudden death and Coroner Eckinger ordered a post mortem. Mrs. Griffith, a short time ago. narrowly escaped being burned to death while she was living in -Re gina street. At the time her husband was being sought by the police, charged with stealing an automobile, and was arrested a short time after. She is survived by her husband and a baby, Simon, P., Jr. Funeral services will be held to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock at the funeral chapel of C. H Mauk. undertaker. Sixth and Kelker streets, the Rev. E. A. Pyles officiating. The bodv will he taken to Washington in the afternoon for burial. 400 Prepared to Join Pittsburgh Regiment By Associated Press Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 15.—Leaders of the movement to form in Pitts burgh a regiment of secretary Gar rison's proposed continental army, an nounced to-day that some 400" men had already declared their intention of joining the organization which will be perfected at a meeting in Carnegie Music Hall on Wednesday night. The plan includes the maintenance of a summer training camp and, winter quarters where the men can be kept fit and ready for service at all times. Back of the organization are the Pittsburgh business and professional men who spent a month at Plattsbur? last summer. THE WEATHER For Hnrrldhnrs anil vicinity: Fair and enliler to-night anil Ttiesilny j freezing temperiiturr to-night. For Kuntf-m Pennnylvaulnt Fair and eoliler to-night anil Tnemlay; 1 fresh nortliweht tvlnilx. Hivrr The «imc|iichnnnn river and Its main hraneiieN will rl*e slightly or re main nearly stationary. I stage of about 3.11 feet Is Indicated fi.r Hnrrlnhurg Tuesday morning. (•eneral rendition* The rapidly railing pressure In the So lit Invest, menlloneil Saturday, developed Into a well defined storm nhleh has moved north eastward and IN now central over Kastern New York State. It was attended hy rain over the eastern half of the country and in n por tion nf the Southwest, with some snow In .Northern Michigan and Is lielng followed hy rising pressure and colder weather. Temperature! 8 a. m.. 42. 4un: Rises, <l|4» a. M.i acta. 4:40 p. m. Moom Full moon, November 21. 12:36 p. in. fiver Stage: S.B feet above low water mark. Highest temperature, SO. lowest temperature. 35. Mean temperature. 43. Kormal temperature, 42. FAMOUS NEGRO LEADER, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, DIES Famous Negro Educator and i Author Succumbs at His Tuskegce Home 56 OH 57 YEARS OLD ■ ■*"" .... T-\ BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Special to The Telegraph ! Tuskegee. Ala.. Nov, 15.—Booker T. | Washington. foremost, teacher and leader of the negro race, died yes terday at his home here near the Tuskegee Institute, of which he vast ; the founder and president. He was 38 or 37 years old. Hardening: of the arteries, following a nervous break down, caused death four hours after : Mr. Washington arrived from New | York. i Accompanied by his wife, his secre [Oondnucd on l*ag? 9.] GOVERNOR WILL OPEN CONFERENCE ; Welfare Meeting Will Bring Prominent Men to Harris bury This Week I Governor Brumbaugh will open the j third Industrial and Public Welfare | Conference at the State Capitol to j morrow morning and the tirst ad- I dresses will be delivered by the Gov ernor, Highway Comissioner Robert J. Cunningham and Dr. Nathan C. i Schaeffer,Superintendent of Public j Instruction. The sessions will last un ■ til Thursday evening. An interesting feature of the con j ference will be tlie address of Warren 11. Manning, the park expert, on the j "Capitol Park and its Relation to the j City of Harrisburg.", to-morrow even j ing. This will be public and a large I attendance is expected. Most of the departments of the I State government have brought in | their Held men to take part in the con ; ference and for general meetings, over !i 200 having been brought in by the Highway Department alone. This de partment will have special meetings of its men twice a day in the House , caucus room at the Capitol. The State ; Fisheries Department has also called iin its men and the Public Service j Commission will have all inspectors i and other special men here for confer ; ences with Chairman Ainey. In addition to the State attaches, j hundreds of members of the Engi ! neers' Society of Pennsylvania, which inaugurated the conferences in 1913, i will be here. The fourth a «nual exhibit opens its doors to the t,. neral public at 7:30 | this evening in the car barns of the 1 Harrisburg Railways Company, Hcrr | and North Cameron streets. The floors of two mammoth build [ Continued on Page IS.] Mighty Mean Thing For Her to Do, Wasn't It ? Miss Rcynaine Boyer, a pretty Cen j trai high school lass, and Mark Phil j lips, the gallant Tech youth who took | her to the Buckneli-Gettysburg game Saturday, only saw the tirst half of the j gridiron battle. As a certain well ■ known cereal manufacturer says, "There's a reason," and here it is: Right in the midst of the most ex citing forward pass a big, burly, brass buttoned, blue-coated policeman came up, got into the auto in which Mark had taken Romaine to the game, and —think of it!—arrested Mark: Said liefhad stolen the car. and made him drive to the police station. At the police station? Why, there sat Mrs. P. J. Phillips, of 1833 Market street, talking to Captain Thompson, acting chief of police. "O, did you take the car?" Mark's mother frowned. "You didn't ask me whether you could take either it or a girl to the game." Now do you wonder that Romaine cried ? REV. HARRIS HI'YS OIJ> . SCHEFFER PROPERTY The old Scheffer property at 23 I South Second which for years has housed the rNiiefTer printery, has been purchased by the Rev. W. S. Harris, 1851 Whitehall street, for a I price said to be close to $25,000. In j all probability a modern six-story ! building will be erected, but whether j it is to be an office or apartment 1 building has not yet been decided. HARRIS BURG, P/l, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15. 1915 REINSTATE MAN WHO CRITICISED MARRIAGE PLAN Assistant Postmaster Removed For Opposing Wilson's En gagement to Wed NO OTHER CHARGE MADE President Ordered Him Back to Position After Getting Facts in Case Washington, D. C.. Nov. 15.—Presi dent Wilson to-day instructed Post master General Bxirleson to reinstate George Burkltt. removed as assistant postmaster at Winnetka, 111., because he criticised the President for his en gagement to be married. The Presi dent qualified his instructions by tell ing the Postmaster General that Bur kltt should be restored to his position if there were no other charges against him. Announcement of this action was made to-day by Secretary Tumulty after a brief conference with President Wilson. It was said unofficially that the President entirely disapproved of discharging Burkitt for making the remarks accredited to him. Should Not 11c Dropped In published correspondence be tween Burkitt and Postmaster Kloep fer, of Winnetka, it was stated that Burkitt had been given demerits for other things than the remarks about the President's engagement. That Burkitt denied. The President did not go into that feature in his instructions to Postmaster General Burleson, but made it clear that Burkitt should not [Continued on Page B.] HOM) M'ANGO CITY El Paso, Texas. Nov. 15.—Advice3 from Torreon last night stated that the Carranza forces commanded tjy the Arrieta brothers, are holding Duango City. Durango State, and that General Mariano Arrieta has been made Carranza governor of the State. DEFENSE CONFERENCE MEETS Washington, D. C„ Nov. 15. The National Defense conference of the Women's Section of the Navy I.eague met for the first time here to-day. Hundreds of delegates were In attend ance from throughout the country. CAPTURE OF 8,500 SERBS REPORTED Bulgarian Forces Take 7,000 Soldiers, Together With Six Cannon Capture of 8,500 Serbians is reported by German headquarters in to-day's official statement. The Bulgarian forces operating in Serbia took 7,000 of these, together with six cannon. The Serbians continue to be driven back all along the line, it is announced. Berlin claims a somewhat decided success for German arms along the Styr river. General von Linsingen's troops have cleared the entire western bank of the river of Russians, it is declared. The Russians appear to have begun an offensive movement in a- neiv re gion. the German war office reporting Russian attacks near Smorgen, east of Vilna, which were repulsed. In the latest official report by the Italian gen v [Continued on Page 13.] 2 Boys Hit by Auto in Critical Condition Struck by an automobile, owned and driven by Frank S. Gans, 402 Briggs street, two small boys were ser iously ifljured just before noon yes terday, when they ran In front of the machine as It was entering the Market street subway at the Philadelphia and Reading railway side. The injured boys are: Jacob I.clb, aged 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren I-eib, 1206 Walnut street, fractured skull, bruises of the body. Mahlon I.eib, aged C, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Eeib, 10 North Six teenth street, fractured skull. Both boys were rushed to the Har risburg Hospital, where physicians to day are making desperate efforts to save their' lives. The youths are cou sins and were returning from Sunday School when the accident ,happened. They started to cross the' street by themselves, running around the rear end of a car which had stopped, and dashed in front of the approachig automobile, which hurled them more than sixty feet. Gans after he had taken the boys to the hospital, re ported to the police. Hevwas re leased by Mayor Royal on hi 3 own cognizance. Unconfirmed Report Says Adriatic Has Been Sunk New York. Nov. 15. —There was a report this morning in maritime cir cles that the steamship Adriatic had been sunk, but the report did not state whether the steamship was the big passenger ship of the White Star Line or was the British 3teamshlp Adriatic which left Kymassi. Greece, on Octo ber 13, for Philadelphia, and passed Tarifa, Spain, October 19. The White Star liner Adriatic ar rived in Liverpool on November 11 and was not scheduled to leave for New York until November 24. a re port became current on the maritime exchange that it was the Adriatic of | the White Star Elne that was in ♦ rouble. The other steamship Adriatic, bound for Philadelphia from Kvmassll should be about in mid Atlantic to day. Officials of the White Star Line said thls mornlnpr that they had no infor rtiation regarding the Adriatic other than that she had arrived safely last Thursday in Liverpool. They did not credit the report. H'B'G GIRL FIRST WOMAN T ECUADORIAN .S MISS PAULINE SHEAFFER Guayaquil. Ecuador, S. A., Nov. 6. With a holiday crowd of ten thousand wildly-cheering Ecuadorians as specta tors, Miss Pauline Slieaffer, a plucky American girl from Harrisburg,' Pa., to-day made a successful aeroplane flight with Clodomero Fiqueroa, the daring Chilean aviator, thereby be coming the tirst woman in Ecuador to ride in the air. WANT TO START M RIGHT? GET WEDDED AT PAXTANG Burgess Smullwood Will Perform Ceremony Free, Pay For License and Give First Couple $5 in Gold Burgess Thomas W. Smaliwood, of Paxtang, retires from his office on January 1. Since the borough's in corporation the "mayor" has had va rious duties to perform, such as sign ing new ordinances and issuing orders for the welfare of the community. In fact he has done all that the burgess in a small borough is empowered to do with the exception of performing a -marriage ceremony. And this Is just what he wants to do. He explained to-day that in addition to having the honor of being the town's tirst burgess, he wanted to SCHOOL PAYMENT IS FALLING SBORT State Funds Will Not Permit of Rapid Sending Out of Checks to Districts Unless there is a pronounced spurt in the revenues of the State before the j close of the Commonwealth's year on 1 November 30 the official year may ' end without the whole of the State I school appropriation being paid. Un ! der the school code the school ap propriations were payable in July, but : it is doubtful if $3,000,000 has been paid out. Payments have been made :as the money was in hand and sev eral times the issuance of checks has been suspended because of the low state of the general fund. 1 State Treasurer Kobert K Young, [Continued on Page 12.] Pursuit of Serbs Is Pushed Along Entire Front, Berlin's Claim By Associated Press Berlin, Nov. 15, (by wireless to Say ville). —Announcement was made by the war office to-day of the capture of 8,500 Serbians with 12 cannon. Of these 7,000 prisoners and six cannon were taken by the Bulgarians. Pur suit of the Serbians is being continued all along the front. PUT BAN ON SPEECH By Associated Press Copenhagen, Nov. 14, via' London, Nov. 15. —Nearly 3,000 persons who had gathered to-night at a hall where Erllng Hjornson, son of the Norwegian dramatist, was to deliver a lecture upoil the impressions of the war he had gained on three, fronts, refused to permit the speaker to eo on with his address. The flight started from the long, level green in the rear of the ex clusive Jockey Club, where hundreds of the highest dignitaries of the snappy little South American country were gathered on the broad verandas, and ended more than a mile away near the National Shoe Factory, of [Continued on Page 7.] have the distinction of being the first burgess to perform a wedding in the town. His desire is not without its Inducements. The "Mayor" doesn't care whether the couple who would entrust him with tying their knot live in Paxtang or not. What he wants is the cere mony and he offers to pay for the mar riage license, perform the ceremony without a fee and give the first couple a five-dollar gold piece. The bur gess' offer is good until the first of the new year when his place-will be taken by Burgess-elect J. H. Sheesley. | y(kc "Wrote fUt? There IN n Fn*clnntlon In Sreklng Out Ihr Author of Quotation* I Which Yon Know AH Well A* Your Own Name, Hut They Are Not A> Bmmy to Find A» It Seem* At Flr*t Glance. Try It and See For Your, j aelf. ! v i TO-MORROW NIGHT FIVE quota tlonx from Ntnixlaril norka by men whoar namri have been fn , miliar to thin I other generation!!, I here anil abroad, will appear on Pane | 1 of the Telegraph. Every H tu<lent In ' both Illicit achoola, the Academy, the j pnrochlal NCIIOOIN and boxlnc** college* I* eligible .to try for one of the hnnd xotnc prlxeN which the BcneroNlty of the more prominent hook-dealer* of the elty In co-o iteration with the Telegraph haw made ltoMNlblc. The content will run for four week*, Ave quotation* being printed 'on the Name page every Tneaday, Thursday and Saturday of rack of the four wceka, with the exception of ThankNulvltiit Oay. The anaivna muNt lie taade clearly and distinctly and iniiNt come aa CIOHC to the aource aa poNnlble, giv ing the net. and Ncene, and the charac ter who apoke the norila, If a playi the chapter, If a book, etc. The prime* for the beat live contest ants are aa follow*t Flr*t—lls w«»rth of book*, to be ae cured by the winner at any of the four book dealer* mentioned below.. An order muat Hist be *ecnred front the Telegraph, which offer* thl* award. Second—A complete Net of Aldworth'a "Tennyaon**," In thirteen volume* bound In limp leather, value 914.. of fered by Dive*. I'omeroy and Stewart Third—A biographical edition t B a | s volume*. of the complete work* of Jahae* Whltcomb Hlley, bound In lleht "lire Krecn cloth, with gold-atamped lettering, value lU'. Offered by David W. Cotter*!. Fourth—Full leather hound edition of WfhatrrV I'nahrldged Dictionary value SH. Offered by the Central Book Store. Fifth—Complete aet. In aeven vol ■imea, of Shake*peare*a work*. value Offered by the Evangelical Book Store. HERE LADIES! ARE YOUR SPECIAL 10 COMMANDMENTS Thou Shalt Place No Club Be fore Thy Home Says Dr. Smucker WHAT? NO VAIN SHOWI! Mustn't Harass "Thy TiredHus- j band"— Poor Dear!; and No Whist Prizes! A unique set of laws governing wo men were given by the Rev. Dr. Clay ton Albert Smucker, pastor of Stev ens Memorial Episcopal Church, last evening in the tirst of his series of one man joint debates. Speaking on "Perils and Rules of Conduct for Mothers," Dr. Smucker laid down the following "ten com mandments:" \ —Thou shall have no man except thv husband. H—Thou slialt nlace no club, social I circle, pleasure organization or mis sionary society before thy home. [ Hl—Thou shalt not waste thy hus band's substance on gay raiment and [vain show. I IV—Thou shalt not let the petty j vexations of the household disrupt the family harmony and harass thv tired I husband. V— Thou shalt not feed thy fam ily with idle gossip and neighborhood scandal. Vl—Thou shalt not fret thyself be cause thy neighbor'? house Is greater than thine, neither slialt. Thou repine when she smib-s condescendingly from her limousine to thee in a trolley car. VII Thou shalt not serve punch to thy guests nor put up prizes at thy whist parties, lest thy moral advice to thy sons and daughters become a mockery. VIII Thou shalt not pronounce thyself delighted to see an unwelcome caller, neither shalt thou declare to the conductor that thy 13-year-old child is of half fare age, lest thy heart become hollow and thy soul ut terly false. IN—Thou shalt not wear showy dresses over shoddy underwear, nor shine with imitation Jewelry, lest thy children be given to sham and false pretense. N—Thou shalt not allow thy Bible to gather dust, and thy attendance upon divine worship to be governed by caprice or the state of the weather, lest the altar fires of thy heart go out and thy children become Godless. BLOUGIi BROTHERS TO ENLARGE Harrisburg. Blough Brothers Manufacturing Com pany to-day .obtained a pern&t to erect a four-story brick addition to its present factory in Fulton street, just south of Reily, costing SIO,OOO. v MONEY FOR QUAY'S CHILDREN Beaver, Pa., Nov. 15,—-Judge Richard S. Holt in court here to-day ordered that the principal and interest in the hands of the trustees of the estate of the late Senator Mat thew.- Stanley Quay be paid to his five children. The amount was announced as $47463. The court also ordered that in the distribution payment of $4,000 annually to A. G. C. Quay was to be considered. The decision was the outgrowth rj f a friendly suit instituted by the heirs to determine the mean ing of a clause in the will. Senator Quay died in 1904. '■ EMPEROR GOING TO CONSTANTINOPLE Rome, Nov. 14, via Paris, Mov. IS.—-Traveler# 'arriving from Constantinople confirm the report that Emperor Wil liam is expected there. Great preparations are being m.vte for a triumphal reception. • NEW ORDERS ON MILEAGE BOOK Washington, Nov. 15.—A nontransferable railroad mile age book, sold under conditions that it would be forfeited if presented by any other than the original purchaser, may not be forfeited if presented by the purchaser himself for transportation of another person, the Supreme Court so held to-day. SAYS DARDANELLES "WERE WORTH IT* London, Nov, 15, SP. M.—-In his speech in the Houee of Commons to-day Mr. CfhurthiTl declared that ii any oper ations in the history of the world were worth carrying through with sustain#-! fury and utter disregard of life, the.operatiops at tb, Dardanelles "were worth it." ROBERT C. DRAYTON DIES Philadelphia, :>lov. 15. Robert Coleman Drayton, financial vice-prc dent of the Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Company of this city, died suddenly at his home here to-day from a heart attack. Mr. Drayton was promi nent in social circles of Philadelphia. He was 57. UARRIAGE U 4 - Joseph I'nul llnrboron, city, and Kdlth Mary Zimmerman. lamp HID. 14 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL AUTO ON MAN'S NECK FOR HOUR, HE STILL LIVES Two Men Pinioned Under Car When It Turns Turtle at Newville j ;SA VKI) BY M OTO HIS T I Didn't Dare Lift Car From j One Man For Fear of Killing Other Pinioned under their automobile after it skidded and overturned at the . crest of a treacherous hill near New. 1 vilie, last night, Henry Bender and . Roy Shaner. of the I'nion Sales com . pany lay helpless beneath the ma . ohlne for more than an hour before j being; rescued. "I When the machine went over Ken . I dcr who was driving, was caught be | neath. The side of the car rested lon his neck and he was slowly chok- I ing to death when help arrived. Shaner JI was caught across the less, He was | powerless to move. The. accident occurred at the sum , mit of Cemetery Hill, about a mil® I. _____ [Continued 011 Case 12.1 ' Freight Engine Strikes Team at Newport Grade Crossing Special to The TtlegrafU Newport. Pa.. Nov. 1 s.—What might j have proved a serious and perhaps -1 fatal accident occurred on Saturday , at the railroad crossing at the wan®-* L house of F. M. Snyder & Co. Curtis C. Flurle, drayman, an<l Harvey BU , ter, cattle dealer, of 1 .oysville, were ' crossing in a wagon drawn by two mules when the engine of a local J freight, which was doing some shift . ing, came along and struck the team just as It was crossing, one mule was killed instantly, the second was so badly Injured that it was shot to re ' lieve it of its misery, and tho wagon was knocked to splinters. The two • men were thrown out and landed un ! der the warehouse, which stands on stilts. ! The railroad crossing at this point ; is at right angles and. beinp built up I 011 both sides, the view is obstructed. > Flurie and Rltter extricated th'etn t selves and were found to have received some minor injuries and bruises only.
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