'iist S/lessage to Congress Will Treat of National Preparedness For Defense
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 280
* MAYOR URGES ALL
TO LIGHT CANDLES
ON CHRISTMAS EVE
City Executive Endorses Tele
graph's Suggestion For
Front Windows
SPIRIT OF YULETIDE
Tapers Should Glow at Stock
ing-Hanging Time, Follow
ing Old Custom
"Lighting the candles in the win
flows of the homes of Harrisburg on
t'lirlstmas eve would revive an ancient
but very beautiful custom, which to
my mind, would help to bring about
a truer appreciation of the spirit of
• 'hristmas-tide.
"Harrlsburg's people would cer
tainly do well to follow out the sug
gestion. It is a very pretty sentiment
and t would certainly urge its gen
eral adoption all over the city."
Mayor John K. Royal the city's chief
executive, thus endorsed the Tele
graph's suggesUon for the revival of
the pretty old-time custom in the
homes of Harrisburg folks on Christ
mas eve.
When Old England Was "Metric"
Long, long years ago when old
England was really "merrie" and the
< louds of war were not rolling across
the horizon, the people celebrated the
eve of the birthday by placing lighted
tapers in the windows. The hour was
.lust about when the small folks of the
house had hung the stockings and
hustled oft' to bed to await the com
ing of the rotund and jolly old fellow
who even at this late day turns up
a stub nose at automobiles because he
prefers reindeer.
The adoption of the custom in Har
risburg lies of course with the people
themselves; the candles may be light
ed at dusk and kept burning for ju;-t
»B long as father or mother prefers.
The chances are that the mysterious
ivorld-old hour of stockjng hanging
ime—the hour that the church bells
might be calling to Christmas eve
services—will be the universal choice.
lx>l the Candles Point tlie Way
such mere man-made
ights as gas and lamps and electricity
thould be tabooed for the time wherc
aver this is practicable. The burning
andles alone should light the windows
and point The Way.
In urging the people of the city to
observe the quaint old custom Mayor
Boyal said he didn't think a "procla
mation" would be necessary or exactly
appropriate.
"This is a matter that will rest en
tirely with the individual and the re
quest of the mayor in a proclamation
wouldn't, and shouldn't lie the en
tirely proper thing to my mind." said
the mayor. "It's a very beautiful
sentiment as I've said before, and I
think everybody—at least so far as I
they are able—would approve of it I
and would carry out the. suggestion.
Certainly it Is a real sentiment of the
gladdest season of all the year.
"And." concluded the mayor, "I be
lieve Harrisburg's people will think
the same way."
Germans Place Orders
For $40,000,000 of Copper
By Associated Press
New York. Nov. 30. Orders for
topper aggregating about 200,000,000
pounds, nearly one-fifth the annual
production in the United States, have
been placed by German representatives
with copper concerns in this country,
it was reported to-day. As copper is
quoted at 20 cents a pound, the cost of
the German purchases amounts to I
S 40,000,000. Instances where the con
: racts have been filled, the metal has
'•een placed in storage under an agree- i
ment to ship it to Germany imme- j
diately after the war.
The orders placed in America I
amount to nearly four times the an- j
nual production of copper in Germany. '
America produced 1,110,062,000 pounds !
of copper in 1914. Within a few
months the German government has
been commandeering copper wherever j
it could be found in the German em
pire.
HARRISBURG CI.I ll TO
hold AXMAI. MEETING
Next Monday evening the annual
meeting o fthe Harrisourg Club will
be held for the election of three mem
bers of the Board of Governors and for
the other business of the year. The
business meeting will be followed by a
dinner at .30 o'clock.
I THE WEATHER 1
I—______
lor Harriabnrg and vlrliilty: I'nlr,
continued colli to-night and \Yed
nfnlnyi loHfut temperature to
night about 2.1 dfurrra.
for I Eastern Pennsylvania! Fair to
night and Wednesday; aomrivhat
• olilcr to-nliclit In nortbruxt por
tion; muilrratr nnt niuiln.
River
Ihe Susquehanna river and all Ita
tributaries will fall slowly. A.
singe of about 4.1 feet Ik Indicat
ed tor Harrisburg Wrdnradijr
morning.
t.cncral Condition*
The ntorm that na« central near
l ake Huron. Monday morning. la
, mating "lowly northeastward
down the St. I.awrence Valley. It
caused light anon In the la»t
tvienty-four houra for over the
ureater part of the I.akc lUdon i
and In the Ohio Valley and the
Interior of »n York Stnte and
rain In New England.
It I* 'J to 'JO degree* colder over ,
practically all the rountry east
of the Mississippi river nnd 2 to
22 decrees warmer in the Plains
states and the Hocky Mountains.
Temperaturei R a. m.. 30.
*uni Rises, 7:07 a. m.t aets, 4:40
l». m.
Moon i Xew moon, December 6, i ; 04
River Jtngei 4J feet above low- !
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Hlfkeat temperature, 4(1.
temperature, 3S.
Mean temperature, 43.
Normal tempcriitnre, 37.
GRADE CROSSING
TO BE ORDERED
CLOSED, BELIEF
Residents of Wormleysburg
and Camp Hill Confident
Viewers Will Agree
: NEW ROAD NECESSARY
i
• Relieved Railroad Companies
Will Have to Enlarge Sub
way at Walnut St.
By ROBERT F. GORMAN
J Residents of Wormleysburg and
J Camp Hill and the farmers who reside
: I between the two towns, are confident
; that the members of the Board of
Viewers who yesterday heard testi
. inony on the closing of the grade
. crossing at Ferry street. Wormleys
burg, will recommend to the Cumber
. land county court that the road be
closed and that the Pennsylvania and
»| Northern Central Bailroad companies
. jbe instructed to enlarge the subway
; at Walnut street, in the upper end
i j of the borough and open a public road
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Anonymous Note Warns
Central Principal to Keep
Rote Out of Basketball
i i
1 "Professor Dibble:
I "I advise you to keep Harry
j Rote out of basketball for his
I own personal safety.
"A Resident of Lebanon."
I The above note was found this
I morning scrawled on a small strip of
J paper lying under the door of the
I Central High school by John Dough
erty, janitor.
He handed it to Professor H. G.
| Dibble, principal who said later that
j he did not consider it a serious affair,
j but a prank of one of the students,
i The students of the school also con
] sider it a joke of some one who wrote
| the note to ridicule the attacks on
! Role by Lebanon High school sup
! porters.
■
Dynamite Found at
Pipe Bending Plant
Not the Work of Spies
Workmen of the Harrisburg Pipe!
and Pipe Bending Works when they j
found a small end of a stick of dyna- l
mite in a car of coal at the plant yes- I
terday. apparently fearing an attempt
to blow up the place by German spies
alleged to be at work in this country,
reported the find to W. T. Hildrup. Jr.,
secretary-treasurer and general man
ager of the big plant.
Mr. Hildrup said to-day that the
1 small piece of dynamite weighed
scarcely an ounce and had In ail
probability been dropped by men
working in the coal mines when they
split a large stick. It was too small,
aecordtng to Manager Hildrup. to do
any damage. He does not believe that
it was placed in the coal with the In
tention of causing an explosion in any
i part of the pipe bending works.
! Mr. Hildrup claimed that none of
! the miners know where the coal Is be
j ing shipped after it leaves the col-1
lieries and that the explosive had \
dropped into the shipment acci- ]
j dentally.
Sends False Warning That
Auto Tires Spread Disease
By Associated Press
I Detroit, Mich., Nov. .10. Several '
| hundred persons living in all parts of
I the United States and Canada have '
! received a uniform typewritten letter, i
I dated Detroit, Nov. 17, and signed "J.
Uurgess, M. D„" intimating that if!
j there are contagious diseases in their ]
j respective localities, the same possibly i
' could be traced to a certain make of
I automobile tire. The factory in which '
(these are made, the letter says, is
I located near a pesthouse in an eastern
I city. "Being a brother stockholder,
II thought you should know of this,"
! the letter concludes.
I Coroner J. E. Burgess, of Detroit,
I has received more than 300 replies to
>;this letter and more are coming in
every mail delivery. Every one of
them denounces him as a "meddler,"
i a "lunatic" or worse.
The coroner declares he did not
write the warning letter, never heard
of the company mentioned in it and
ridicules the idea that an automobile
tire could spread disease. He has
asked the post office authorities to
find the author.
Complete Half New C. V.
Bridge by This Evening
Concrete work on the first half of
' the Cumberland Valley Railroad
| bridge will be completed by 6 o'clock!
j this evening. This is in accordance
j with the contract held by the Robert
'. Grayce Construction Company, to I
i have half of the work done by Decern- ;
j her 1. It is the first time this has
been accomplished on a large railroad
contract, according to statements 1
made by officials to-day. If the fill,
and other work can be completed,
trains are expected to be running bv i
February 1.
Work on the second half of the con
crete part of the bridge will start early
iin April, or earlier, if weather per
j mits.
j
Lafayette Alumni Annual
j Dinner at Harrisburg Club
j Lafayette alumni of this section of'
the state will have their annual dinner !
lat the Harrisburg Club on Januarv 11 i
! with Governor Brumbaugh as the!
j guest of honor. Secretary of the Coin
] monwealth Cyrus E. Woods, Deputy |
Attorney Goneral Emerson Collins,
■ Herman L. Collins, the newspaper
i writer, and others will be guests.
; The committee in charge is com-
I posed of John E. Fox, chairman;
■ Frank P. Snodgrass. secretary; Casper
j Dull. W. W. Davis. Dr. J. George
I Becht. W. H. Earnest, Charles K. Boas
i and F.' A. Godcbarles.
HARRISBURG. PA., TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1915
DAUGHTER OF ENGLAND'S PREMIER WEDS TODAY I
*
J*7ISS VTOIsE'T j?SQVITJ-r,
London. Nov. 30.—Miss Violet Asqulth, (laughter of Premier Herbert
Asqulth and Mrs. Asqulth, was married to-day to her father's secretary
and right hand man, Bonham Carter.
The wedding was to have taken place some time ago, but was post
poned on account of Miss Asqulth's illness, contracted while nursing her
brother, who was wounded at the front.
Among the many presents received by Miss Asquith was a gold Ink
stand and a diamond brooch, presented by parliament.
300 BURIED IN
MINE EXPLO
25 MAY BE DEAD
Fayetteville, W. Va., Nov. 30.—An explosion occurred at noon
to-day in mine No. 2of the Boomer Coal and Coke Company at
Boomer W. Va. Three hundred men were said to be in the mine
when the accident occurred, and it was not known here whether any
escaped.
Boomer is located twenty-two miles from here. Additional news
said that three explosions had occurred immediately after the first
flash, and the rescue parties were being organized from the miners in
neighboring workings. A relief party also was made up here and
left at 2 o'clock for Boomer.
Telephone advices report that all but twenty-five of the miners
have come out of the mine and company officials say that indications
are that these twenty-five are alive and will be brought out as soon
as the smoke clears away.
ASSIGN MEMBERS
| TO COMMITTEES
Will Require Several Days to
Work Out; Republicans Get
Representations
By Associated Press
Washington. D. C., Nov. 30.—Demo
i crats of the House Ways and Means
| Committee met again to-ciay to assign
members to committees in continua
tion of the work of organization for
j the coming session of Congress. It
; probably will take several riays be
fore the assignments can be worked
lout.
The committee as a result of
; Minority leader Mann's request for
larger Republican representation on
iall committees in view of the in
creased minority membership has ten
tatively agreed to add one additional
j Republican to the Ways and Means
Committee, Appropriations, Military,
! Navy and Judiciary committees,
i The Special Rules Committee of the
■.
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Taft to Lecture Here •
on His Plan For Peace
Ex-President William H. Taft will
lecture in Harrisburg December 30 on
his plan for the prevention of war and
will at the same time answer the ques
tion as to whether or not this country
is prepared to meet successfully an
Invading army. He will come under
the auspices of the Society of Friends
and the Arbitration and Peace Society
of Pennsylvania. The lecture will be
delivered, probably, in the Technical
high school auditorium. .
IT AFT DEPLORES
; ISLAND POLICY
• Exchanges Hot Shot With Sec
retary Garrison on Philip
pines Situation
Washington, D. C„ Nov. 30. Ex-
President Taft and Secretary Garrison
of the War Department, locked horns
over government in the Philippine
Islands under the present administra
tion.
Secretary Garrison in Washington
vigorously attacked the former Presi
dent, charging him with giving his
support to "statements mendacious in
character and mlscbievious in intent"
in relation to present conditions in
our Far Eastern possession.
In his reply from New Haven Mr.
Ta ft flat footedly denied that it was as
a Republican that he criticised the
administration. He hoped for a Re
publican administration, he said, to
i reverse the present policy, because he
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TO-NIGHT WIIjIJ BE CO 1,1)
| The coldest night is scheduled for
I to-night. According to forecasts at the
local weather bureau the temperature
will drop to 25 degrees. At 8 o'clock
this morning the mercury showed 30
degrees. Previous cold days were No
vember 18 and 23. when the temper
ature was 27 degrees. The cold
weather will continue to-morrow and
Thursday. Friday is expected to be
slightly warmer.
SILK UMBRELLA
BUYS EIGHT DARK
AFRICAN BELLES
Sailor (lets Mansion to Root;
Offered 100 Girls For
Red Scarf
TREAT PRETTY ONES FINE
Reauties Disport Selves in
Ocean and Lounge on Reach;
I giy Duskies Whipped
Special to The Telegraph
Philadelphia, Nov. 30. Having
given I'm Cum Slum Kay Pogeas,
chief of the Opobos of West Africa, a
silk umbrella, which he itad admired,
S. W. Hie key. chief officer of the four
masted schooner Judge Boyce, which
arrived here yesterday, was given in
return etght Opobo slave girls, a pal
ace in which they might live until he
made a return visit to their land and
a days feasting at the chief's own
castle with the latter's five hundred
wives.
The sailor also had a red silk scarf
In his possession, which I'm Cum Slum
Kay Pogeas hinted he would like to
own. When Hickey held onto the
scarf the chief began bidding for it
and only stopped when he reached
one hundred slave girls. Hlckev kept
the scarf.
Snug in port, this is the story told
by the sailor yesterdtfr after a trip of
seventy-six days. The schooner brought
a cargo of 2t>2 casks of palm oil here
from Opobo and Calabar.
Ugly Ones Work
From observation. Hickey declared.
It looked to him as though the gentle
men of < ipobo couldn't be too kind to
their ladies, that is if they were pretty.
Otherwise, he said, they seemed to
take a delight in inflicting cruelties on i
them. While the ugly ones worked j
from early morning until late at night, i
the beauties took four ocean dips daily. [
rubbed themselves with palm oil and :
laid on the beach In the hot sun. j
Every now and then they liked to Vie!
diverted by watching one of their ugly!
sisters get the whip.
Meal Ijastcd All Day
I Hickey had paid several previous |
visits to Opobo and had heard strange
rumors, but only by accident he saw
the opportunity of seeing for himself
how the natives live, he explained.
Chief Um Cum Slum Kay Pogeas, ac
companied by a few dark-faced nobles
of his kingdom, made a visit one day
to the Judge Boyce. The sun was so
hot Hickey was standing under a silk
umbrella. The chief had seen many
an 'umbrella, but never before a silk
one. Only a hint of his desire and it
became his outright. The present of
the slave girls followed. The next
day the chief sent for Hickey to come,
to a feast in the palace and the sailor,'
half fearful, accompanied the royal
soldiers. The meal was of fruit and
vegetables, a combination never given
the common people of Opobo. To aid
his digestion some weird African
music was furnished. The meal lasted
an entire day.
U. S. Official One of
Twentv-Three Stabbed
by "Poison Pen" Letters
Special to The Telegraph
New Vork, Nov. 30.—Men who have
recently been the target of "poison
pen" letters sent to their fiancees or
brides of a few weeks, are keeping the
telephone wire into the office of Wil
liam J. Kinsley, handwriting expert,
buzzing.
The names of four more men who
j had been the object of base insinua
tion have been added to the roll in the
hands of the postal authorities, mak
ing a total of twenty-three couples
whose happiness has been tainted by
the unknown writer.
Although neither the? post office in
spectators nor Mr. Kinsley would di
vulge the name of a single one of
those who have suffered from the an
nonymous pen. Assistant United
States Attorney Thompson, one of the
federal trust busters, admitted his
bride of a few weeks had received one
of the letters.
The letters in the possession of Mr.
Kinsley and Mr. Fitch showed an
exact likeness in writing and phrase
ology. They extend over a period of
a year and a half.
From his experience In criminal
i cases Mr. Kinsley is sure that the let
ters were written by a woman, who Is
at least unbalanced, If not the Inmate
of an asylum.
y(kc 'Vrcrte "pvot?
'
To-<lay Is the first scrip* of the tklrl
week of tbc contest. There are two
weeks left, and the competition la
j wailnK atrong. It baa heen thought
heat to defer printing the correct llat
of aourcca until the contest la over,
when the llat will be printed in full.
Contestanta are again reminded that
the ten quotations printed laat week
must be In by Wednesday evening of
this week.
The selections this week wIU be con
fined to the following writers! William
(ullen Bryant, Browning. Chesterfield.
l.oliUmlth, Kipling, I.•well, l.ongfellow,
Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Thackeray.
36—"Truth crushed to earth shall rise
again
The eternal years of tiod are herat
Rut lOrror, wounded, writhes with
pnln.
And dies among hla worshippers."
a"—"Ah! Ynnltaa Vaaltatum! which of
ua is happy In this world f which
of us has bis desiref or, having
it. Is satisfied f—come, children,
let ua shot up the box and the
puppets, for our play la played
out."
28—"Kcod. I have got them. Here thev
are. My cousin Coa'a necklaces,
bobs nnd all. My mother shan't
cheat the poor soula out of their
fortln neither. O ray genua, la
that yoaf *
29—"After frennled Hour* of vralttnic,
When the ICarth and Skin were
dumb,
f*ealed in nnfol voire dictating
An Interminable lum,
(hanging to a tangled «tory
'What *hr nald you Maid I aald'—
Till the raooa arose in glory.
And I found her—ln my head.**
30—-'"Nuiiaet and evening Mar,
And one «-lear eall for me!
And may there be no moaning at
the bar.
fl hen 1 yut out to aea,"
BRITISH ALON
LOST 600,000
SINCE START
SERBS IN GOOD
ORDER RETIRING
FROM MONASTIR
Civil Population Has Fled and
City Is Deserted; Rulgar
ians Moving In
PLANES SINK U-BOAT
Rritish Fall Rack to Tigris Re
fore Superior Number of
Turks; Russians Gain
By Associated Press
London, Nov. 30, 12.2S P. M.
Monastir. In Southwestern Serbia, has
been evacuated. Serbian troops, hav
ing accomplished their purpose of de
laying their enemy's advance until the
civil population of the town had time
to escape, have now left the city, and,
according to reports, are retiring in
good order. Bulgarian occupation of
the town is apparently a matter of
only a few hours.
Though the Austrian. German and
Bulgarian campaign against Serbia is
described by the central powers as fin
ished. and though practically the
whole of Serbia is In their possession,
they have not accomplished, according
to the general belief here, the more
important aim of entirely crushing
the Serbian army. Though defeated
■ and worn out In the conflict against
overwhelming odds, the Serbian forces
j are said to be* still unbroken and
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THE GAP IS CIvOSKD
! City Commissioner Lynch completed
the last foot in the river front work
at Market street yesterday and to-day
the Stueker Bros. Construction Com
pany was engaged in removing equip
ment. It is probable that the next,
job of this sort will be the closing of
the gap in the Front Steps at "Hard
scrabble" —between Herr street and a
point south of Calder.
B. W, KURTZ TRANSFERRED
Harrisburg. B, W. Kurtz, cf Middletown, has been
appointed to a clerkship in tue Bureau of Weights and
Standards in the Auditor General's Department, effective
to-morrow. He has been in the Attorney General's Depart
ment.
RUSSIANS TEST MORTON TRACTORS *
Harrisburg. With a party of Russian officials as
spectators to-day the Morton Truck and Tractor Company
tested out one of the tractors now being made for the Rus
sian government. The truck was loaded with a three-and-a
half ton steel ingot and run sixty-five miles over all kind 6
of roads. The route included Lebanon, Campbelltown,
Steel tori and back to the Morton plant.
EIGHT MAY DIE FROM EXPLOSION
Wilmington, I)e!., {Jov. 30. As the result of an ex
plosion of a large quantity of powder in the Prismatic mill
of the Du Pont Powder Company, this afternoon, eight may
die.
TAKE JITNEUR'S LICENSE
Harrisburg. The, State Highway Department to-day
took away the automobile license of D. N. Howanstein,
Penn street, owner of the jitney driven by an unlicensed
man, which struck G. S. Mish, in South Cameron street, sev
eral weeks ago.
PRISREND FALLS; 3,000 SERBS CAPTURED
Berlin, Nov. 30.—Prisrend, close to the Albanian border, ;
and last of the important Serbian towns in the path of the
invaders pushing the Serbians westward, has been captured'
by the th.n 3,000 men were taken pris
oner and eight cannon were captured when the city fell.
I MRS. JONES SLATED FOR SECRETARY
Philadelphia, Nov. 30. At the annual convention of
the Pennsylvania State Suffrage Association here to-day,
Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones, of Harrisburg, was picked as a
candidate for secretary of the State organization. The re ,
port o r Mrs. Frank M. Roessing showed that the recent cam-■
pak.n h . ' cost $66.000.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Hmjamln I-'. Butler ami Nellie Hohlunon. city.
I
14 PA GES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL
Casualties This Month Were
Nearly 50,000; Greece Is
Awaiting Reply From En
tente Powers to Her Pro
posal; Field Marshal Kitch
ener Back From Near East
Strong Reinforcements For
Austrians Are Thrown In
to the Zone of Fighting
Around Gorizia; Sir John
French Off to London to
Confer With Premier As
quith
Total losses ot' the I'.ritiah in all
fields of war since the beginning of
hostilities total approximately fiOO,-
ftOO. The November lists showed
totals for the month of I,.lofficers
arid 45,1 84 noncommissioned officers
and men.
Greece is awaiting reply from tho
entente powers to her proposal that
the respective general stalTs delinc tho
military features of the allies' require
ments, according 1o an Athens dis
patch, the completion of negotiations
being thus delayed.
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, tbi
British Secretary of State for war, ii
back in London from bis extendeU
trip to Iho near East.
Strong reinforcements of the Aus
trians are reported to have been
thrown into the zone of fighting
around Gorizia. Rome admits that,
positions on the heights northwest of
the city recently taken by the Italians
were penetrated in violent counter at
tacks but declares the Austriafts were
afterwards ejected.
Quiet has prevailed on the Franco-
Belgian front according to Paris, the
war office announcing that nothing
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