Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, November 26, 1915, Image 1
Submarine of the Allies Sends German Protected Cruiser Frauentob to Bottom HARRISBURG SSSSgi TELEGRAPH LXXXIV — No. 277 EQUIPMENT : AT CENTRAL IRON .AND STEEL WORKS Greatly Increased Output Will Be Bcsult of Receivers' Action NEW 100-TON FURNACE Remodel and Enlarge Present Battery of Open Hearths; Install Big Crane The addition of one new 100-ton open-hearth furnace, the remodeling and enlarging of the present battery of four open hearths and the erection of a new 150-ton capacity ladle crane, is planned by the receivers of the Cen tral Iron and Steel Company, at the plant in South Harrisburg. This new equipment will greatly in crease the company's output of steel by the end of next year when the im provements are expected to have been completed. Remodeling of the four' open hearths will be started first. Each fur nace, when it is taken off for general repairs, will be rebuilt so that each will be 41 feet 6 inches by 15 feet and 5 feet 6 inches from the sill line to the plates of the pan. This will increase each furnace from its present capacity of 60 tons to about 100 tons. Crane Vlrcady Ordered The new 150-ton capacity ladle crane has already been ordered and is expected to be delivered about the middle of next month when it will im mediately be put in place. The old 100-ton and 65-ton capacity ladles and equipment will be retained and hearths of 120 to 130 ions will be tapped into the two ladles with a divided spout. . Tn addition to enlarging the present battery of four furnaces, it is pur posed to build a fifth furnace of 100 tons capacity at the south end of the plant and to extend the pit side of the present building. The reconstruction of the present furnaces will proceed as rapidly as possible and work on the new furnace will be started just as soon as an ap propriation is made. Central Running Full Time At the present time the Central Plant is running full time with a la»gc number of orders on hand. V About 200 more men are employed tills year than at the same time iast >ear and the prospects for continued operation are good, according to plant officials. one of the things that is helping ' antral book large orders at the pres ent timo is the excellence of Its steel plates, obtained by superior methods in pouring the molten metal. The exacting requirements that are now made upon steel plates, particu larly in the boiler and firebox grades turned out by the Central plant, have, necessitated improved methods of manufacture. At the Central plant an improved method of "pouring" has been devised and patented. This new method is de scribed In full in the current Issue of the Iron Age, a trade journal, by Rob ert H. Irons, general superintendent at the Central plant. Chambersburg Boy Declines W. and J. Football Honor By Associated Press Washington, Pa., Nov. 26.—Maurice M. Witherspoon, ot' Chambersburg Pa., yesterday elected captain of the \Vashington and Jefferson football • team of 1916, to-day declined the honor. He explained that he expected to He explained that he expects to enter at Chicago next. Fall, and would not be. available for the team. Wither spoon played with the varsity team three years, his work as tackle during the past season bringing mention of . bis name as one for possible nil-Am erican honors. ill, VST FI?RNACE SOf,r> By Associated Press Sharon, Pa.. Nov. 26.—1t was an nounced here to-day that A. W. I'hompson, of Chicago, president of the Inland Steel Company, has sold control of the Sharpsville Blast Fur nace to A. S. Davison & Co., of Pitts burgh. The furnace, which has been idle for three years, will be over hauled and placed in operation early in December. The furnace has its own ore and coke connections. AIDS NEED MONEY Another letter has been sent out bv the officials of the Associated ViU So i ipty asking for funds to finance the work during' the coming season. The budget last year for the Children's Aid and Associated Charities was almost *V' 00 It,aM 1 t, a M ?° fa '' ,his year, a little less than SI,OOO has been received. [THE WEATHER For Ilnrrishurg utin vicinity: JI B . settled anil warmer, proliubly rain •u-nllfhti Saturday rain and warmer. For Kaalrrn I'ennsy'lvnnta: Cloudy and warmer to-night; Saturday increasing cloudiness, probably rain in the afternoon or by nlglit. Mariner; moderate south winds. River % *'l»e *iiM<|tirhaiiiui river and all us tributaries will fall slowly to night nnd prohaltl.v Saturday. V static of about 4.1 feet is indi ••atnl for Harrisburg, Saturdav morning. General Conditions l*reftsurr i« high along the Atlan tle and Pacific roasts. .1 dlsturb ance of moderate strength cov ers the (>rent Central \ ailevs anil 'be l.akc llegion with Its center near l.nkc Superior. A general rise of - to 24 degrees in temperature II;IN occurred over the eastern ball' of lite country since last report, except In the lllddle Atlantic and New England states, where it In slightly colder. Temperature! S a. m.. 84 Sum Rises, 7:tW a. m.| act*. 4 • p. nt. Moon: Rises SHN n. m . River Slnice: t.fl feet above lon- I «Htfr murk. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 17, l.nnest temperature, ,"l«, Mean leinperature. Its, .Normal temperature, US DANCE OF SPRING FOUNTAIN WILL GRACE RESERVOIR Council Will Accept "Choco late King's" Offer of Bronze Statue - - I BOWMAN HAS PLACE City Must Provide Necessary Concrete am! Granite Setting For Work of Art | Where will Harrisburg place the | fountain of the "Dance of Eternal Spring?" That the splendid bronze statue of three dancing ladies symbolizing Sculptor Guiseppe Donato's conception lof perpetual Springtime will be form lally accepted by the city at Tuesday's I meeting of Council is certain. | Milton S. Hershey, the "chocolate Iking," offered the statue to the city | Wednesday evening following the de cision by a Dauphin County Common Pleas jury that he was indebted to I Donato for the price of the fountain, i City Commissioner Harry F. Bow j man has a place in mind he says but | he will not divulge the location until i he presents a resolution to that effect I Tuesday. The water department is, ]the only branch of the municipal gov ernment which lias the $3,000 or ;54,000 that, will have to be provided to jset up the fountain and inasmuch as all the other fountains in the city are under Mr. Bowman's jurisdiction, it lis generally believed that Council will turn Mr. llershey's gift over to his care. Reservoir Slopes Suggested j Several points have been suggested | but the slopes of Oak Knob. Reservoir : Park, appears to have right of way of lopinion thus far. Half a dozen or more petitions to Council are now be ing circulated, it is understood, re questing that this point be selected. Other places mentioned are Harris Park and the new plaza of the punip- I ing station. The fact that a handsome fountain will be donated to the city this Spring | [for the plaza precludes the placing of the Donato statuary at that point. [Miss Fannie Eby has informed Mr. I Bowman of Iter intention to present a |fountain to the city for the plaza. She is now collecting data incident to the carving of the proposed plaza fountain i now. The eity will have to provide the necessary concrete and granite setting for the "Dance of Eternal Spring." This will include a concrete base to support two great granite bowls or basins, one of a seven foot diameter.the other Tour feet across. Below the lower basin will be a pool of appropri ate size and this will be surmounted by a low balustrade. Six heads of ' "Pan" and on the balustrade three | smaller heads to support the big basin i will be included in llershey's gift. Do inato himself will likely supervise the 'setting up of the statue, j The jury Wednesday evening re it urned a verdict in Donato's favor of I $23,931.25 less the $2,066.87 which | Hershey had paid on account. Inter est dating from September 11, 1912, 'was included in Donato's favor. He |settled for $20,000 whereupon Her |shey turned over the fountain to Mayor Royal. An Ideal Setting In modeling the "Dance of Eternal Spring" Guiseppe Donato kept always in mind a natural setting of trees and greenery as a back ground and in or ,der to get the proper effect, he stud ied the conditions of the Hershey es- Itate for several months. The beauty !of the natural surroundings of the | slopes of Oak Knob, Reservoir, is con sidered an ideal setting. Thousands |of people passing out Market street rand into Reservoir via Trolley or the !Twenty-first street entrance would get | a view of the fountain from a distance if it were placed on the Reservoir I slopes. Child Smothered by Drunken Uncle Who Sleeps Across Cradle Wilkes-R.irre, P#.. !S'ov. 26. An thony Koslow, aged 5. was smothered 11 0 death at his parents home in Lark ; ville, near here .early this morning, when his uncle, George Koslow, whom II ho police allege, came home in an In toxicated condition, threw himself |over the child, who was in a cradle and slept on his body until he was aroused this morning by the child's | mother. j The man when taken before (lie authorities, claims lie does not re member returning home, and did not. j know of the tragedy until he was [awakened to-day. Koslow is held t while Coroner James Marley is con ducting an investigation. Pennsy Brakeman Knocked From Train and Killed Harry T. Allen, aged 34 years, 1422 Green street, brakeman on the Phila delphia division of the Pennsylvania P.ailroad was last night knocked from his train near Morrisville, N. J., and instantly killed. It is thought he was hit by a bridge or some other obstruc tion. A widow. Ethel Allen and two ! young daughters survive. The funeral arrangements are in charge of C. H. Mauk, the undertaker to whom the body was sent to-day will be an nounced later. Brakeman Allen was a member of the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen and Pennsylvania Rail road Relief Department, John Harris Council, Junior Order American Me chanics. and T.,ady Adolphia Council, Daughters of America. FIND WOMAN DK.VI) ON FI.OOR OF HER HOME After not being seen for two days, neighbors of Mrs. Belle Collins, Ver beke and Center streets, fearing for her safety broke into her home and found her lying dead on the floor this afternoon. f'oroner Kckinger was notified and is Investigating the case. I! is probable that a post mortem will be held to determine the cause i.f death. The body was turned over to C 11. Mn.uk. undertaker. Sixth and i Kelker street?. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1915 | Ford and Peace Ship to Carry Pacificists to Europe \ J v J a ? :x "•• ! I i ... I Henry Ford, from a picture made at the Hotel Biltmore on Wednesday I last, and the Steamship Oscar 11. which he has chartered to carry a delega tion of pacificists to Europe. The ship will sail from New York on Decern- ! ber 4. Ford hopes to hi' able to end the war. so that the men in the trenches | will be able to spend Christmas at home. Among' the prominent peace propo gandists who have been invited to sail on the vessel are Jane Addams, John j WanamaHer. Ida Tarbell and others. Thomas A. Edison was also invited to I accompany the party but will not be able to accept Mr. Ford's Invitation. | The ship will proceed to some neutral country where a peace conference will be held. The millionaire automobile manufacturer announced that the 1 expedition woujd in no way be official, although he hoped to be able to secure 1 the sanction of President Wilson and other neutral rulers for the peace move. I FORD IS HAYING TROUBLE FILLING | HIS PEACE SHIP Majority of Leading Americans Seem Reluctant to Stop War by Christmas Special to The Telegraph New York. Nov. 26.—Henry Foril and his assistant, Eouis P. Lochner, who is secretary of tlie Chicago Peace ! Society, seemed to have some difficulty last night in telling just who will and who wtU not sail on the peace ship, Oscar 11, which Mr. Ford has charter ed to go to Europe in an effort to stop the war by Christmas. Something went wrong with the telegraphed invitations, which said that "Jane Addams, Thomas Edison nnd John Wanamaker have accepted" the invitations to sail oil the Scandi navian-American liner on December i 4. Mr. Ford said last night, when this | part of the invitation was read to him | that it was all wrong. "T wis* you would strike that out I of the invitation," said the Detroiter |to the reporters. But. the mistake had already been made In 11J invitations I sent by wire. Nothing was said about j correcting these, and there did not ! seem to be a feeling that it was im portant to do so. Who made the mis take did not appear. But it was only one of several misunderstandings. [Continued on Page 11] RUMANIA IS NEW BALKAN PROBLEM ! [Russia's Concentration of 250,- 000 Men on Rorder May Mean Intervention I-iondon. Nov. ■ 26, 12:30 P. M. Greek affairs have emerged from the uncertainty which for some time has been a potential menace to the allied campaign in the Balkans, Rumania's problem now commands chief atten tion in Europe. Although Rumania is beset with difficulties somewhat similar to those which caused Greece to hesitate, she is not involved in the [Continued on Page I.] SUFFRAGE PETITION IN N. V. By Associated I'ress New York, Nov. 26. The trans continental trip of the great petition signed by i>o,ooo women voters asking for a woman suffrage amendment to the federal constitution ended here to-day. Mrs. Sara Bard Field and Miss Frances Joliffe, who carried it from Sun Francisco by automobile 1 will rest a bit hefore finishing their journey to Washington to present the petition to President Wilson 011 De cember 6. . CENTRAL WALLOPS TECH HIGH 34-0; 8,500 SEE GAME Poor Coaching Leads to Down fall of Maroon and Gray; Almost a Walkover Central. 34: Tech, 0. That tells the story of yesterday's game better than anything else that could he written as a lead to the ; story of the annual Thanksgiving struggle for the city championship be tween Technical High school and Cen tral High. Tech was outclassed, that's all there was to it. And the pity of it was they shouldn't have been. They had as j plucky eleven on the Held as has been | seen in many a year; they fought long J and hard against the inevitable; they struggled until the very last minute of play to score. But they weren't coached. Whit ney's system of tackling was amusing ly absurd. His system of running the ball was —well, punk. What should 1 have been a well oiled machine was | a bewildered group of eleven indivi duals who didn't seem to know how to play together. And that's what enabled the J.lue and Gray to roll up that pile of Usurps. • Keven before the game was half over, in the Tech stands there was talk [■Continued on Page 19] HALF MILLION IN CHRISTMAS FUNDS I Prospects Bright For Close of Old and Opening of New / Year "Distribution of close to half u mil lion in Christmas savings together with the thousands that will be paid out by the railroads and the big manu facturing plants in December salaries (Continued on Page 16.) To Give Borough Street Car Line Free of Debt as Christmas Present By Associated Press Pittsburgh, Pa.. Nov. 26. Gilbert F. Myer, president of the Realty Com pany of McKeesport, has offered to the borough of Port Vue, a street car i line with all equipment, franchise and free of all debt of encumbrance as a Christmas Rift. All that is requlrtKi of the borough is the promise that the line will be operated five years. The question will be decided by the Port Vue council next week.- • , POLICEMAN AND WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN ALLEY Mystery Surrounds Death of J Pair; Both Shot Through the Heart WIFE OF POLICE CHIEF He Is Believed to Hold Key to Case; Shooting Followed ! Wine Boom Quarrel By .Associated Press St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 26.—1n William Street, assistant chief of police of Madison, 111., known as the biggest j policeman in Illinois, rests to-day, the ' police beliece, the power to clear up! the mystery of the death of his es tranged wife, Mrs. Catherine A. Street and Patrolman Charles F. Barmeier, of the St. Louis police department whose bodies were found in an alley last night, each shot through the heart. Street, with a bullet wound in thei right leg. was arrested a few hours) after the shooting but denied he had fired the shot which had taken the life of either. According to a bartender and others. Street had quarreled with his wife in a wineroom near the scene of the shooting and within a block Sirs. Street's home. Kroni the wine room. according to witnesses. Street took his wife into an alley. Patrolman Barmeier followed them and just as i the trio were out of sight of witnesses, I five shots were heard. I When several men rushed to tlio! alley they found the bodies of Bar- : I meier and Mrs. Street within a few! feet of each other. By the side of, the policeman was his revolver with ! two shells discharged. On Street, was j found a revolver with one empty chamber but this he pointed out, was ! a precautionary measure adopted by | many policemen to prevent explosion )of the weapon should It fall. His I revolver bore no powder marks and, j according to the police, seemed not I to have been tired recently. | Street said while he was talking to j his wife in the alley, some one called out "now I've got you" and fired, one bullet hitting Barmeier and another his wife. Street said he ran without returning the fire. Wilson Will Take His Fiancee to New York ißy Associated Press Washington, I). C„ Nov. 26.—Presi i dent Wilson canceled the Cabinet l! meeting to-day that be might continue work on his address to Congress. The President wrote until late last night, but was unable to finish it. The Presi dent plans to leave for New York to | morrow morning to see the Army j Navy football game and will flnish the il message before his departure. He hoped to get it to the public printer by noon to-day, but was uncertain. President Wilson will remain in | New York over Sunday. At. the game he will sit first in a box on the Navy I sfde of the field and during the last | half will go to the Army side. The unusually large party which j the President will take with him has | necessitated the use of two private cars. Among those in the party will lie Mrs. Oalt. his fiancee. Miss Bertha | Boiling, her sister, Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo, Miss Margaret Wilson, Sec retary Tumulty and Dr. Grayson, the White House physician. , The President is expec.tcd to spend ! Saturday night and probably Sunday at the home of Col. E. M. House, his personal friend. He will return to Washington Monday morning. I Unrestricted Jitney Competition Drives Trolley Co. to Wail Trenton, N. J.. Nov. 26.—Unrestrict ed competition of jitney busses was given as the cause for the appointment, i.f a receiver for the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad Company in the i United States Court here to-day. The company in its answer to the appli cation for a receiver stated that the jitney competition had caused it a loss of SIOO,OOO. Fire years prior to 1915 the company stated, it earned $200,- 000 a year. The company operates the trolley lines in Atlantic City. The complainant, •H. F. Bachman and Company, aleges the railway is indebted to the West Jersey and Sea shore Railroad Company, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad for $35,000 and also has outstanding bonds of $950,000. Interest to the amount of $23,855, due on the bonds on December 1, cannot be paid. The complainant also avers that the road in losing S3OO a day. Abdul Malik Calls Arab Tribes to Take Up Holy War Against the French By Associated Press Berlin, Nov. 26. (By Wireless to Suyvllle)—The Overseas News Agency' Boys: "It Is reported from Constantinople That Ameer Abdul Malik, grandson of the famous Abdul Kadir, Ameer of Algiere, ha scalled on all Arab tribes to take up the holy war against the \ French. A large number of chief-; tains, with their tribes, responded to the call. The general opinion is that Abdul Kalik will obtain the participa tion of all tribes there. It is reported from Tangier that Morrocan tribes at tacked the French camp at Krelbia." Abdul Mnlik.is leader of the Moroc can rebels who have been reported in dispatches front Berlin on several oc cosians previously during the war, to liot.-n amn viMnrtaw ovan the FrttmA. GERMAN CRU WITH 275 MEN IS REPORTED Frauenlob Victim of Submarine Near Where Her Sister Ship, the Undine, Went Down, According to Semi official Statement; Was Patrolling Swedish Coast When Torpedoed Italians Are Vigorously Pressing Attack on Gorizia; Fall of Fortifications Are Believed to Be Imminent; Snow Falls Along Battle Line in France London, Nov. 20, 12.46 P. M.—The German protected cruiser 1-rauenlob has been sunk by a submarine of the entente allies, accord ing to a semiofficial announcement made at Petrograd, says a dis patch to the Central News Agency. The Frauenlob is reported to have been sent to the bottom in the same locality where the German protected cruiser Undine, a sister ship of the Frauenlob, was lost. The i'rauciiloh was a protected cruiser of 2,672 tons and was built in 1001. A dispatch published in the Politiken of Copenhagen on Novem ber 11 said a rejHirt had been received that the Fraueiilob had been sunk off the south coast of Sweden. Her sister ship, the Undine, was sunk, according lo mi oflicinl announcement made in lierliii, h> two torpedoes from a sub marine on th<> afternoon of Noveni- Ikt " while patrolling llie South Swed ! isli coast. .Nearly the entire crew was saved. The I'Yaucnloh and Undine both car ; rietl crews consisting of 27."> men each. [The vessels were .'>2K feet long, 10,3 j feet beam ami had a depth of 15.8 | feet. They were armed with ten j 1.1-inch guns and were cquip|H-d with ' two IK-inch torpedo tulies. Itoth cruisers were capable of traveling at a speed of twenty-one knots. The Italians arc vigorously pressing their attack on (•ori/.ia, the storming of additional trenches on the Calvnrio heights, northeast of the city, being reported by t.cucral Cadorna. Aus trian counterattacks are declared to j_njrv n^^^ ujnj ~ n^un Lr^uri*j^-n_ru_r_ | SHOX-IN DISPUTE OVER DOG 1 Scranton, Pa., Nov. 26.—At Hawley, Wayne county, I Xo-day, James McDonough shot William Riley who drop ped dead as he ran out of a store where the .shoot'ng o> cuired. The shooting followed a dispute over the owner 1 ship of a hunting dog. BRITISH LOSE THOUSANDS OF OFFICERS 1 London, No". 26.—Officers' casualty lists for the fprt • night ending November 8 show losses in the* British army ) of 356 killed, 609 wounded and 69 miasing, a total of 1,034. 1 Since the beginning of the war the number killed amountr, | to 6,389, wounded 12,561, and missing 1,752, a gross total I of 20,70:. f KITCHENER IN ROME J Paris, Nov. 26, 4.20 P. M. ~ The amval at Rome of [Field Marshal Kitchener, British war secretary, is announc ed in a telegram to the Havas Agency. The Field Marshal reached Rome from Naples and wen* directly to the British ' Embassy. 1 PAYS BIG BONUS I The National Transit Pumping and Machine Co, of Oil City, was to-day chartered with capital of $2,545,000, the lai£,ett amount of capital authorized for a new corporation in ' a time. The company paid a bonus of $8,483.34\0 the sec et. of the Commonwealth's Department for its inter polation. The National Transit owns all but ten of the 101,800 shares. I El Paso, Tex., Nov. 26.—A (tiepatch to the EI Page I Herald, says: "The Villa garrison evacuated Nogales f Sonera, early to-day after looting stores and saloons, ) Berlin, Nov. 26, via London, 3 P. M.—Serbian troops offering resistance in rear guard actions to the Teutonic advance near Mitrpvitza and Sienica have been driven back | by Field Marshal Von Mackensen's forces, German army headquarters announced to-day. Hot Springs, Ark., Nov. 26.—Thirteen dead and twenty | known injured was the casualty list reported to-day as . result of the tornado which yesterday swept the outskirts* . of this city. . MARRIAGE LICENSES | Klilrldur Klin* llrmlerHiin, llnnovrr, mill Ifln Drew Hclmrcrlinc, Wal ' brook. Mil. John \\ I■l in iti AI lirleht iiml Mnrnnrct Anna Kletcbcr, city. | l*tiul %ill«\v Masnrll nuil llrnrlrtlii Hum*. city. .IVHHV Dmitry, llcrrj tunnililp, mid Idn ft nice Mllllkcn, Blnrk Lick, 22 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL liavi- IK'CII repulsed. I'rogwss for tlie Italian forces on tlie i nrso plateau also is Hnimcd. Quiet on the front .In France Is an nounced b.v Paris. There has been a heavy snowfall in the Vosgcs moun- Injlis. President Rea Leaves Hospital For His Home Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia, Nov. 26.—The Pennsyl \ania Railroad Company announced to day that Samuel Kea, president of the company, has convalesced so satis factorily that he left the Presbyterian Hospital yesterday and Is at his home in Bryn Mawr, near here. DGLGIAK IiAWYKKS |ND (.HUMAN •I IU'KUS CLASH Uondon, Nov. "J6. A series of clashes between Belgian lawyers and German officials have culminated in the deportation in captivity to Ger many of Leon Theodor, chief of the. Order of Advocates of Brussels, and Henri Botsom, former chief of the. same order, says the Morning Post to-day.