P opulalion of Monasiir Flees as Position HARRISBURG ifislslli TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 271 VINDICATE WHO LET DEFECTIVE CHICAGO "No Doubt I Shall Be Called a Murderer" Says Dr. Haiselden After Last Gasp From Infant, Doomed to Idiocy if Permitted to Live, but Jury Clears Him CRITICISM AND SUPPORT FOR DR. AND MOTHER Parents Wait in Corridor While Child's Body Is Racked by Convulsions; Thought It Best to Let Na ture Take Its Way; Ty phoid Fever Caused Mal formation By Associated Press Chicago, Nov. 18. Complete vin- Jication of Dr. Harry ,T. Haiselden, ho declined to operate on the defec tive Bollinger baby and thus sr.ve its life, will be recommended to the coro ner's jury which is to conduct an in piest to-day. The recommendation for vindica tion will tie made by Dr. H. G. W. Reinhart. chief coroner's physician, who conducted a post mortem on the "ix-day old infant an hour after its ieath in the German-American Hos pital last night. Coroner Peter M. Hoffman had indicated that unless the post mortem proved the child a men al defective Dr. Haiselden might be :ried for criminal negligence. Chicago, Nov. 18.—The question ivhether his life should have been fought for or whether it was right to let him die is over, insofar as tho tiny, unnamed, six-days-old defective son of Mrs. Anna Bollinger is himself •oncerned. The child died in the German-Am erican Hospital here at- 7.C0 o'clock last, night, with Dr. H. J. Haiselden, <-hief of the hospital staff, standing firmly to his position that he could not use his science to prolong the life of so piteously afflicted a creature. He held to the end against a storm of ad verse criticism And of emotional ap peals that came to him in scores of letters and hundred of telephone mes sages. Mother Stood Firm Nor did tho mother weaken as the child's death approached. She main tained that it would be too horrible and cruel to continue such an exist ence by any means. While there were no lack of opin ions. especially from his professional brothere, upholding Dr. Haiselden, the physician was not entirely proof against the agitation he had caused. Once he was moved to bitter rejoinder against his critics. "It. would be a moral wrong," he said, "to permit this child to live. It seems to me that a city which allows a Black Hand outrage a week, a thou sand abortions a day and an automo bile accident every round of the clock, is hardly in a position to criticise a man who holds that death is prefer able to life as a defective." Just then the telephone rang in the ward and the doctor answered it. When he came back he said: "A woman. She asked me to save the child. In the end she called me names. Yet if lie grew up he would •>e a hopeless cripple and would suffer from fits." "Would his mind be clear? Would his soul be normally alive?" a man in the room asked. "He Is Dying" "That I do not know, but the i hances are against it." The shapeless bundle In the little cot stirred and the physician went over to it. He bent over the child and said, with a sudden accession of feel ing: "Not much longer to wait, little one." Then he turned to those around him (Continued on Page 18.) THE WEATHER For Hitrrixhnrfc nod vicinity: Fair «hln afternoont ln<*reaalnf? clouill* ne*« nnrf wHrmrr 10-nlghf, foU lowed by rnin Friday. For HuMcrn I'm nny l vanln: Increa*- liib (Toudluena anil warmer to nffrhf; Frlilny rain; variable »lndff, lieeomlnK fn*«h «outhea»t. Klver 1 H«- Went Branch trill remain uta tlonary and prol»itl»ly Friday. The lower portion of the North II ranch will rlfte "lichtlv o-nlfcht and probably fall Friday. The main rlv«r Mill rlne afowly to-night ami Friday. \ «tni;c of about 3.7 feet la indicated for Friday morning. General C ondltlon« The high procure area tn the Fait '•a* drifted slowly eastward with liicrcaKlnit Mrrngth; It la now ••entral over the SiiNqqachanna Valley. Temperature: H a. m., 2S. *ntit Bines, fts4s a. in.; net®, 4:4il P. m. >lnoi»: Full moon, November -I 12i36 <i. in. River Stage: 3.0 feet above low water mark. enterday'a \% eather lllglicat temperature, 47. I.owcnt temperature. 31. Mean temperature. 3H. .Normal temperature, 41. : Cause and Effect in Notable Baby Case i The Babe's Deformities Closure of the intestinal tract. Paralysis of nerves, right side of face. Absence of the right ear. Blindness of one eye. Neck absent, shoulders | malformed. I The Doctor's Opinion "I am allowing naure to take her course. There is no brain development to regis ter suffering:. Soon nature i will make blank her mls j take. "Many say arbitrarily life is life and should be pre served, Dut I cannot see the argument in the vast debt which would accrue in in stitutions like this. "If, after being given this i < ase to decide, I should al low this child to live, T would consider myself guilty against the race. I consider this a favor to the race." ! The Mother's Opinion "I love the little deformed one, but the doctor told me it would be an imbecile, a criminal. Left to itself, it has no chance to live. I consented to let nature take its course. This baby, if al lowed to live, would be a burden to itself." RIGHT TO LET CHILD DIE SAY DOCTORS HERE Dr. J. B. McAlistcr, Shite Medi i ciil Head, Thinks Haiseklcn "Did His Duty" JUSTIFIED IN COU RS E City Health Officer. Dr. ri • i naumek, Concurs in Opinion; Nature Solved Problem I Dr. H. ,T. Ilaiselden, chief of the ! staff of physicians in the German- American Hospital, Chicago, did only his duty when ho decreed that tho 6-day-old baby of Mrs. Anna Bollinger be allowed to die rather than live a life "barren and useless," is the opinion of Dr. ,T. B. McAlister, 234 North Third street, president of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and one of Har risburg's leading physicians. This view is also shared by Dr. John ; M. J. Raunick, secretary of the City Board of Health, and others. "Under the circumstances, as I un derstand them." declared Dr. McAlis ter, "the Chicago physician was justi fied in his course. Had the child lived it would have been an absolutely help less mass, subject to constant suffering. Where Nature Solves Problem "Furthermore," continued the presi dent of the State Medical Society, "Dr. Haise'den did not do anything to cause or hasten the infant's death, fie only deflined to perform an operation which might have prolonged its life," and the physician placed considerable emphasis on the "might." "The physician only left Nature take her course and solve the problem for him," added Dr. McAlister. Thinks Course Proper Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city health officer, holds the same views as Dr. McAlister. Said he: "1 think Dr. Haiselden's course was proper. X believe the whole profession is beginning to feel the same in such cases where there is no hope for a healthy child." The superintendent of nurses at the Harrisburg Hospital also has some views on the subject. She "isn't ex pressing them, however," she says. Surgeon Claims it Is Necessary to Defend Race From Mentally Defective By .Associated Press Chicago, Nov. 18. ln a signed statement to-day Dr. Haiselden gave ] his case: "I say again that it is our duty to I defend ourselves and the future gen- I nations against the mentally defec tive we allow to grow and suffer among us, and add to our burden and | our problem. All conscience savs it i is our duty. "Farmers select the best stock for reproduction, the best seed, without rust or other disease, for sowing. [Continued on Page 15.] FIVE LOST WHEN BOAT SINKS By Associated Press Amsterdam, Nov. 17, via London. Nov. IS. — According to newspaper re ports the Norwegian steamer Ulriken, 1454 tons from New York for Hotter dam, has been sunk with the loss of Ave members of her crew. The steamship Glenmore. on arriv ing at Rotterdam from New York, re-! ported the Ulriken struck a inine near I Galloper light. HARRISBURG, PA., PAN GRINS AND LADIES DANCE ON WALLS OF COURT Dauphin Jury Listens to Fa mous Art Case Midst Grapes and Slim Ankles SCULPTOR WANTS $25,000 Chocolate King Is Defendant—• Guiseppe Donato's Experts From the walls of No. 2 courtroom to-day the lifelike penciled face of Pan grinned sardonically down upon a November common pleas jury. From the opposite walls very lovely ladles —ln crayon—danced gracefully on the edge of u big fountain and tossed hunches of grapes and slim ankles toward high heaven. The ladies were garbed for the part. too. Piled here and there on the coun sel table, on the court stenographer's desk, on the counsel table, or perhaps reposing out of sight on the judge's ros trum, were enlarged photographs of Pun and his daughters, the sltm-ankle and-grape-tossing ladles. All in all, the staid old courtroom was never so jarred from the dignified tenor of its ways. The walls bore the appearance somewhat of an artist's studio while the artist was struggling In the throes of the development, of true art. The trial of Guiseppe Donata's $25,000 assumpsit suit against Milton S. Hershey, the "chocolate king," is the cause of it all. The First Glimpse of the Fountain Donato declares he entered into a contract with Hershey to carve a great fountain typifying the "Dance of Eter nal Spring" for Hershey Park. Tho chocolate king wouldn't accept the price Donato fixed and the suit re sulted. Mr. Hershey to-da.v said he saw the completed fountain for the iirsl time when it was uncrated venter day in the little station at Hershey for the jury to inspect. It had remained, disowned as it were, on the station platform for some two years. Her shey, it is understood, will deny he (Continued oil Page tB.) Girl Contracts Anthrax From Improperly Treated Fur Neck Piece and Dies By AssociateZ Press New York, Nov. 18. —Miss Sophia Rosen. IT years old the third anthrax victim in this city within the last few months, died here to-day. The girl is believed* to have con tracted the disease, which is common among animals, by wearing a fur neck i piece, the skin of which had not been properly treated. A culture taken from her neck showed anthrax bacilli. Rescuers Work 1,500 Feet Underground in Search of 22 Buried in Explosion Ry Associated Press ! Seattle, Wash.. Nov. 18.—More tliuu ; hours after tho explosion which i wrecked the Northwestern Improve. ; moot Company's coal mine at Ravens dale, with the loss or 31 Uvea, squads ,of rescuers are to-day digging through the debris 1500 feet under ground in search of 22 bodies still in the mine. After tho recovery of three bodies yesterday, bringing the total number of identllied dead to nine, the workers found their way blocked by a heavy fall of rock and eoal and progress into the depths of the level was made slowly. Coldest Night of Season; 27 Here; 19 at Dauphin i l-asl night was the coldest nik'lit on |record for this Fall, according to the I local weather bureau. The mercury [dropped to 37 decrees officially in the city, while at Dauphin a temperature lof 1!i degrees was reported. Rain to-morrow with fair skies and | weather not too cold on Saturday is the cheerful forecast. The temper ature went up slowly to-day and to night the mercury is not expected to go much below 35. Three Motorcyclists Crash on River Road; AH May Die Blinded by tlie bright light of the motorcycle driven by Arthur Noffslng er, three motorcyclists including Noff singer, crashed together last night while running at high speed along the River Road near the Harrisburg Acad emy. All of the men were seriously injured. The injured: William Hepner, Twentieth and Bropkwood streets, fractured skull, fractures of left hip, toes on left foot, lacerations of the face and arms. Not expected to live. Arthur XolTslngcr, 1262 Juniper [street, compound fracture left an kle, probable fracture of skull, lacer ations qf body, and fractured left wrist. C'omtition critical. Frank I .owls. 22 North Fourteenth street, severe lacerations and bruises of the body, suffering from shock. Se rious condition. The three men left Schriver's pool room near thirteenth and Market streets, for a trip up Front street, and after passing Division street, speeded up. At the turn in the road at the Academy. NoWslnger and Hepn.-r col lided. l_,ewis was hurled to onei side and the other two riders to the ieft of the road. They were picked up uncon scious and brought to the Hariisburß' Hospital. OTTi GOES tn» By Associated t'ress Pittsburgh. Pa„ Nov. 18.—Two dol lar oil, the goal of hundreds of pro ducers throughout the country, wis reached this morning when the South Penn Oil Company announced the second advance in crude oils for the week as follows; Pennsylvania crude. $2: Mercer I P.lack. New Castle, Corning, ■ Cfibcll si.r»3; Somerset. *1.42; Has-! land 70 cents. THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1915. \ CRITIC AND DEFENDER OF WILSON ENGAGEMENT\ GEORGE BUHKITT, Assistant Post- DANIEL C. ROPER, First Assistant master at Winnetka, 111. Postmaster General George Burkitt, assistant postmaster at Winnetka, HI., said he thought President Wilson should have waited a year* after his wife's death before remarrying. Very soon after that he received word from the postmaster that his services were no longer needed. He had been "disloyal to the President." Then he wrote to Daniel C. Roper, first assistant postmaster general. Mr. Roper answered that his case had been "formally and finally" reviewed. After the President himself took up the matter the first assistant issued a statement that he case was yet open. Anyway, the President ordered that Mr. Burkitt be restored to his position. CAMP HILL IS IN MIDST OF GREAT BUILDING BOOM By January 1 at Least $150,000 Will Be Added to Town's Valuation —Camp Hill at present is tn the midst of the greatest building l>oom in its history and when all of the work is completed by January 1 at least $150,000 will be added to the town's' valuation. More than thirty-five homes are now in the course of construction and | (he majority of them are almost com-] pleted. By the first of the new year i all of them will be finished and very few unoccupied. The properties are worth on an average of $4,000 apiee.e but the selling price will range from [Continued on Page 3.] Blackmailer Nabbed Here by Decoy Letter .1. I>. Flick, alias Raymond, was arrested last night by Harry White and John Murnane. city detectives, on a warrant from Lancaster charging blackmail. The prosecutor is Samuel G. Hausman, a prominent businessman jin Ijancaster city. He alleges that j | Flick offered to sell hint letters written J by his daughter containing evidence that might prevent a big sensation, j -Miss Bausman. it is said, is a nervous ; | wreck over Flick's attempt at black j mail. According to Detective Young, of who had mailed a decoy | IStter to catch Flick in Harrisburg, the (Lancaster businessman was to receive In bunch of alleged sensational letters IC. «>. D. ami was to pay $"0 to the | blackmailer. Two letters were to be ! held hack, for which S2O more was to ibe paid. Flick was in Harrisburg | awaiting an answer from Bailsman, i He was arrested in a Market street j j poolroom and admitted his guilt. Flick says he met Miss Bailsman, ' | who is a teacher in the northern part. | of the State, and that the father ob jected to his paying attention to the | daughter, and he wanted to get square. I Flick added: "Had i received the cash.! I I intended to go to Baltimore and en-| list for service with the allies. I guess I Fit get my medicine." ! , Flick claims he was formerly em ! ployed as a chauffeur for the State | Highway Department, in Cambria and Columbia counties. Flick Is not known to the State Highway Department under that name. "Vkc "VrcU 7 Second Instalment of Quotations, i Are These l inen F'amlllar to Vouf j They Should He f i THE Telegraph prints hcloiv tlic seeoud series of quotation* from ! famous writers. Number your I answers according to the numbers I ulven, lest your iiusvver* be discarded.! Illlike them as "Oiniilote us possible mid I mull She answers to the tfrsr fifteen j <|Uotullous, the Inst five of whieh will ' nppear Saturday evenlnff,;o the Liter ary Kriltor so that they will reueli him not later than Wednesday. November «—"ls this a diiKtcer which I see before me. The handle toward my hnndf Come, l.et me cluteb thee, I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." I 7—"Come one. come all! This roek sball fly I'rom Its Arm base ns soon as I." S—"Barkis Is wllllnV' o—"That this nation, under shall have n new birth of freedom, and that Jtovernment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." I(l—"The newspapers! Sir, they are the most vllliunous. licentious abominable. Infernal tll>t ' I thut I ever read them! No, I make ilt a rule never to look Into a ' sen suauer." STUBBORN FIRE BURNS BUILDING IN LANCASTER Flames in Heart of Business District Cause Loss of $20,000 Special to The Telegraph Lancaster, Pa.. Nov. 18. One of the most spectacular tires seen in Lan caster for a long time broke out early this morning in the Jacobs Clothinji Store in the heart of the business sec tion and before the blaze was under control the building which houses the [clothing store and the Hardwickes j Candy Company was badly gutted. Tho loss, according to various esti mates made to-day will reach at least $20,000. When the fire companies arrived on the scene the building was a mass of flames and although tons and tons of water were played on the structure the firemen appeared to make little headway. The lire was being fed from some source but it was not until a while later that it was discovered that broken gas mains in the big building were causing the trouble. Then the supply was shut off in the street. The building in which the lire oc curred has two big storerooms in. the first floor, the one occupied by the clothiers and the other by the candy company. On the second floor is the Lancaster office of the Prudential Lite Insurance Company and the third floor is used for storage. The candy com pany 103S may reach SIO,OOO. The building was owned by Charles A. L>. Zook who purchased it a short time ago. The loss is partly covered by insurance. The new motor apparatus of the Lancaster department was used for the fir.st time to-day and did good service. Some of the firemen were directed in their work by Mayor Harry L. Trout, a former fireman, who has taken an active Interest In increasing the etll ciency of the Lancaster firemen. The cause of the fire is given as spontaneous combustion. I Two Hurt When Cycle Crashes Into Jitney Two men were painfully injured at noon to-day in a motorcycle smash up at Nineteenth and Derry streets. The injured men are: Ross Fulton, aged 22. Rutherford Heights, employ ed by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, fractured, right knee, body bruises and lacerations, and Cornelius Hoffman, 231 South Fourteenth street, fireman on the Philadelphia and Reading, badly bruised knee and contusions of the body. Both were taken to the Har risburg Hospital by Walter Cook, 1301 BerryhSll street. The men told the physicians that they were driving out Derry street and crashed into a jit ney at the corner. They di<> not | know who was driving the auto. 1 DR. JKFFKRS. I'RKSIDKNT OF YORK INSTITI'TIi, DIKS By Associated Press York. Pa.. Nov. 18.—Dr. Kiiakim Tapper Jeft'ers, president of the York [Collegiate Institute and widely known Presbyterian clergyman, died here early this morning at the age of 74 years. Prior to his coming here in 1593 he was for some years professor of theology in Lincoln University. He was the author of several textbooks. PRIN2S AUGUST WILHKLD FUCKS New York, Nov. 18.—The German merchant steamship Prinz August Wll helnt, which tied for safety to the Co lombian port of Santa Marta at the heginnig of the war, steamed out of j the.harbor, in the. direction of Haiti on the night of November 11, according' to word brought here to-day by Cap-| tain Drake, of the British steamer Tartuirero. 18 PAGES PENROSE IS NOT OUT AS CANDIDATE •FOR PRESIDENCY Denies Report Sent Out From! San Antonio, Texas, That lit- J Is in tin: Field I NONE IN FIELD, HE SAYSi j Question of Nominee May Bei I nsolved I ntil Convention j Is Heady to Vote Denton, Texas, Nov. is.—Boles Pen- i rose. I'nited States senator from Pcnn-; sylvan la, to-day made the following - j statement concerning reports last' night from Han Antonio, Texas, that he would announce shortly his candi dacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. "I have been men tioned for the presidential nomination next year but there is no authority I froru me for the statement from San Antonio last night that my announce ment is shortly to be made. As a ! matter of fact there are no candidates j for the Republican nomination yet j other than complimentary votes and ! boosts for favorite sons and for neigh boring States' favorite sons, and the ■ probability now is that the question lof a nominee will be *|uite unsolved until the convention lias acted. Some !of the greatest Republican Presidents I have been of such convention nomina j tions. Lincoln, Grant and Hayes, not Ito mention others, have been in this class." Senator Penrose was here for a few minutes during the passage of the Liberty Hell to-day. The Earlier Dispatch The dispatch received over Asso ciated Press wires said: San Antonio, Texas, Nov, IS. — Boies Penrose. I'nited States sen ator from Pennsylvania, said here yesterday that he would he a ean j didate for the Republican nomi nation for the presidency in l!Ht>, but refused to discuss his plans j beyond saying that he would make I a formal announcement later. Mr. Penrose was in San Antonio as one of the party escorting the Liberty Bell from the Pacific Coast to Philadelphia. 1 BROTHERHOODS WILL DEMAND 8-HOUR DAY j Cleveland, Nov. 18. The four railroad brotherhoods, , including more than 350,000 firemen, conductors j and brakemen on all railroads in the United Stat* are pn j paring to make formal demand about March 1 that the rail- i roads grant them an eight-hour day at the same pay they ] I now get for ten hours. Action will be taken at a meeting of j the Executive Committee of the brotherhoods in Chicago, j 1 December 15, when ballots for a referendum will be pre- | I pared. The votes are expected to be tabulated before j 1 March 1. i ► SERBIAN DEFENDERS RETREATINQ j ' Athens, Nov. 17, via Paris, Nov. 18. —Five thousand j Serbs who have been defending Babuna Pass against tht i attacks of 20,000 Bulgars have been forced to abandon their J positions ire retreating on Prilep, according to advice; J from Saloniki. I I ■ l GOING TO RELIEF OF MONASTIR 1 Paris, Nov i. British troops well supplied with ' artillery left Saloniki for Monastir, Tuesday, says a Havas ' dispatch from Athens 1 BRITISH RESUME OFFENSIVE London, Nov. 18, 6.14 P. M.—The British army at the Dardanelles has resumed the offensive and captured 280 ' yards of Turkish trenches. ' J. HORACE McFARLAND ELECTED . Dayton, 0., Nov. 18.— J. Horace McFarland, of Harris burg, Pa., was elected a vice-president of the Nation Mu 1 ' nicipal League this afternoon. ' AWARD TOWN HALL CONTRACT 1 Wormleysburg, Pa., Nov. 18. The contract for the 1 ' new town hall and firehouse was awarded last night to J. C Stiickner, of Enola. At the last meeting of council ar. I ordinance was passed authorizing the erection of the build ' ing at a cost not to exceed $3,000. Work on the new structure 1 will probably be started next week. ' MARRIAGE LICENSES Mi-lioliik «url<nir<-h, (iili-nprr, mid Mnrj Mnljiiiirli. Slrrltm, I l.eun Kirk rn.\N»n nml Z.rriti'h \unr* Mhumnn. I.Hnruxlrr. I POSTSCRIPT— FINAL SERBIANS WITH INFERIOR FORCE VAINLY TRY TO STEM DEFEAT Victorious Bulgars Sweeping All Before Them; Evacua tion of Monastir Is Inevi table; Population Now Fleeing FRENCH WIN STRIKING VICTORY IN LONG FIGHT News From Balkans Con tinues to Be Patch Work of Unconfirmed Rumors and Contradictory Assertions; Kasturino and Prilep Fall B.v Associated Press London. Nov. IS, 12.H0 l'. M,—News from the Balkans continues to bo a patchwork of unconfirmed rumors and contradictory assertions, without otll clat statements to establish clearly tliu present status of affairs. The Serbian armies, with insufficient ammunition and inferior numbers, have been at tempting vainly to meet the wide turn ing movement of the Bulgarians, threatening Prilep and Monastir. Some dispatches from Athens report. Prtlep I already is in Hulgarian hands. Alt I admit the Serbian position there in I untenable and that evacuation of the ! city is inevitable. I A striking victory for the French | Continued on I'use 11] j STUDENTS I'LGK QUARANTINE \T «KTTVS|*ruu COl.l.l'.tiE Special to The Telegraph Gettysburg, l'o.. Nov. IS. Tlio epidemic of scarlet fever took a seri ous turn in Gettysburg Wednesday p\cning, when two cases of the dis ease were found at Pennsylvania Col lege. Taking the announcement that the fever existed as a warning, scores of students immediately made prep arations to leave for their homes, be fore a (quarantine is placed on the in stitution.
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