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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No 281
P. R. R. TO BUILD
FREIGHT SPUR TO
ENTER YARDS OF
PENNA. STEEL CO.
Half Million Dollar Improve
ment to Include Steelton
Freight Station Planned by
Pennsy
GROUND IS OBTAINED
FOR THE BUILDINGS
Tracks Will Follow Old Tow-
Path From This City; New
Intercepting Sewer Will
Likely Be Built in Big Mill
Town
Confirmation of the old rumor that
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will build a new freight spur along the
iowpath that follows the abandoned
Pennsylvania Canal from Harrisburg
to Steelton, is looked for in the very
near future in Steelton municipal cir
cles.
That the railroad company has al
ready obtained ground for the erection
of a new freight station and has plans
drawn for the laying of tracks between
the Elliott-Fisher Typewriter works to
•ap the yards of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, a short distance be
low Trewick street. Steelton, is report
ed in usually well-informed circles in
Steelton to-day.
Has Acquired Place For Station
Already, it is said, the railroad has
acquired the long brick stables along
the canal, just bolow Trewick street,
and a blacksmith shop, Just above Tre
wick street, formerly owned by the
Steelton Transfer Company, for the
site of the proposed new freight sta
tion. Just a short time ago the Steel
ton Transfer Company disposed of its
business and equipment and, it is un
derstood. arrangements are already
being made for removing the stables
and blacksmith shop.
The purposed Improvement scheme,
it is intimated, \*Ml include the aban
donment of the present Pennsylvania
freight station in the West Sido and
probably the abandonment of the pos
senger station, now little used excepf
lor the handling of baggage and mail.'
While the men who arc in a posi
tion to know Just what the plans in
clude decline to talk, it is intimated!
that the proposed new freight station,
new spur and the improvements nee-1
eae&ry to carrying out the project will I
mean the expenditure of more than
half a million dollars.
May Build Big Sewer
Tf the bed of the old Pennsylvania
<anal is used in building the new
freight line it would be necessary to
flll a considerable portion 6f it and
this, it is said, would necessitate the
building of a new intercepting sewer to
drain the upper end of Steelton. In
fact, it has been intimated in well
informed sources that the project in
cludes a new sewer of thirty-six-inch
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Bystander Killed When
Train Strikes Wagon
fly Associated Press
Alientown, Pa., Dec. J. While
standing in front of a barbershop
along the tracks of the Central Rail
road in Welssport this morning, Geo.
Schott, aged 35, of that place, was in
stantly killed as the result of a grade
crossing accident.
As an eastbound passenger train
cleared the crossing, a team of horses
driven by Joseph Moyer approached
it. The Scranton flyer, screened from
the driver s view by the wagon cur
tains struck the wagon, hurled It
against the building, and crushed the
life out of Schott. The driver of the
team escaped injury.
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! THE WEATHER
For Harrlnlnrt and TlflnltTi In
creasing cloudiness, probably fol
lowed by light rain to-night or
rharsdayi slightly warmer to
with lowest temperature
about frcemlng.
*'or Kaatern Pennsylvaniai Increas- I
'"K cloudiness followed by light |
rain late to-night or Thursday* i
somewhnt warmer to-night; mod- 1
••rate variable winds.
River • ]
The Sasquehanna river and nil Its
branches will fall alowly or re- J
main nearly atatlonnry. A stage ,
of abont 4.0 feet Is Indicated for !
Harrlaburg Thuraday morning.
tifofnil Condition*
1 he small ilepreaaton that was cen
tral over \orth Dnkotn, Tuesday
morning, has moved southeaat- j
- ward to Wisconsin, causing i '
'•loudy weather In the I.ake He- !
glon and Ohio Valley.
It Is slightly colder In the Middle
Atlantic mid New England States.
Temperature! H a. m.. a«.
Sum Rlaea, 7 iOM a. M.i sets, 4t40
p. m.
'loon. New moon, December ft,
River stage! 4.1 feet above low
water mark.
Yeaterday'a Heather
lllgheat temperature. 37.
I .on eat temperature. 2».
Mean temperature, XI.
-Normal temperature, 37.
NEW HICKOK MANUFACTURING
BE READY FOR OCCUPANCY BY JANUARY 1
The new plant of the W. O. Hick
drawing allows the buildings as they
the left is the Pennsylvania, railroad,
trance to the main building, a struetur
The right section of the main bui
storage plant; beside it, the railroad
bins. To the right of these is the larg
trial railroad connects the shops.
GOVERNOR NAMES
10 REFEREES FOR
COMPENSATION
They Will Be Assigned to Dis
tricts by the State Board
Soon
Governor Brumbaugh to-day an
nounced the appointments of the ten
workmen's compensation referees and
tilled a number of other positions in
the State workmen's compensation
system as well as the vacancies in the
State Water Supply Commission and
State Board of Education.
The t£n referees will be summoned
here for a conference with the Com
pensation Board in a few days and
will be assigned to their districts by
the Board. The appointments are as
follows:
W. B. Scott, attorney-at-law, Phila
delphia.
Jacob Snyder, boiler Inspector,
Roaring Spring, Blair county.
L. E. Christley, attorney-at-law,
specializing in business law, Butler.
Paul Houck, clerk to county com
missioners of Schuylkill and "former
legislator, Shenandoah.
Thomas J. Dunn, safety expert and
liability adjuster, Pittsburgh.
W. W. Champion, attorney-at-law
and formerly engaged in teaching and
lumbering, Willlamsport.
George W. Beamer, attorney-at-law,
Scranton.
George C. Klauder, Bala, Mont
gomery county.
E. K. Saylor, superintendent water
works and former factory inspector,
Lancaster.
Charles H. Young, attorney-at-law.
New Castle.
H. C. Hubler, attorney-at-law,
Scranton, was appointed assistant
counsel to the Compensation Board.
Harry Myers, chief of police of .Vc-
Keesport, and J. B. Means, former
register of wills and businessman of
Brookville, Jefferson county, were ap
pointed chief clerks in the Compensa
tion Bureau.
The Governor also announced the
appointment of Oliver S. Kelsey, Lock
Haven, former member of the Legis
lature and businessman, to be a mem
ber of the State Water Supply Com
mission to succeed B. F. Focht Con
gressman-elect, resigned.
, T; (sarher ' superintendent
of Philadelphia schools, was appointed
to succeed the late Dr. W. C. Jacobs,
Philadelphia, as a member of the
State Board of Education.
Miss Helen Glenn. Franklin. Ve
nango county, was appointed State su
pervisor of mothers' pensions under!
the act of 1915.
i Average Price of Meat
Animals Show Decrease
By Associated Prcjs
| Washington, D. C., Dec. 1. The
average of prices of meut animals—
bogs, cattle, sheep and chickens—puid
by producers decreased 7.3 per cent,
j from October 16 to November 15, the
I Department of Agriculture to-day an-
I nounced.
I In the last five years the prices de
icllned In like period 4.2 per cent On
| November 15 the index fibres of
j prices for the meat animals was about
! ■> per cent lower than a year ago; 7
i per cent, lower than two years ago;
| the same as three yeurs ago and lS.fi
(per cent, higher than four years ago.
CAM, FOR RKV. YATF.S
The Westminster Presbyterian
Church, of Allentown, has extended a
call to the Rev. W. O. Yates, pastor
j of the Olivet Presbyterian Church, this
city, whose resignation takes place
April 1. 1916. The resignation has
been accepted, by the Church council
land by the Carlisle Presbytery. The
1 llev. Dr. Yates naid to-day that he
lia; not decided whethefc. or not he
accept th otall from Allentown,
HARRISBURG, PA., 1
ok Manufacturing Company, covering
will look when occupied by the com
while on the right Is the Paxton creek,
e 250 feet long and 190 feet deep, is a
ldlng contains the wood shops, whilo
siding. Just back of the lumber stor
e iron and brass foundry and in the
Work Started on Installation of Machinery in New Build
ings; Covers Four Acres; Business Increasing Offi
cials Announce; Export Trade Grows
Complete in every detail, the new
plant of the W. O. Hickok Manufac
turing Company, facing on Cumber
land street, between the Pennsylvania
railroad and the Pnxton creek, will ba
ready for occupancy by January J,
1916, according to an announcement
made by the officials to-day.
Work has been started on installing
the machinery In the new buildings
and by next Spring the old structures
will be vacated. The business on the
present site was begun in 1844 by
W. O. Hickok and gradually grew to
Its present size. From a small build
ing to a plant covering about four
acres is the history of the progress
made. The present company is con
ducted by W. O. Hickok, 3d, now presi
dent of the firm.
The business at lirst was small, but
now bookbinding and other book ma-
PROVIDE PLACES
FOR REPUBLICANS
Readjusting Committees; Sen
ate Democrats Wrestle With
Cloture Problem
By Associated Prrss
Washington, V. C., Dec. I.—Senate
Democrats wrestled further with the
problem of cloture when they resumed
their caucus to-day. At the same time
Democrats of the House ways and
means committee continued their task
of readjusting the committees to pro
vide places for the enlarged Repub
lican minority.
The Senate caucus proceedings gave
promise of being enlivened when
Chairman Owens, of the special rules
committee, submitted a report recom
mending a limitation on debate.
Although Chairman Owens had ex
pressed the belief that a cloture rule
would be approved by the caucus and
later by the Senate, opposition was
considered certain from some of the
Democrats on the ground that the
question should not bo made a party
issue and further that the Senate
should not bind itself with restrictions
similar to those In the House.
Because of party opposition and in
the hope of winning the support of
several progressive Republicans, cham
pions of cloture had prepared a rule
limiting each senator to three hours'
general debate on a given measure and
fifteen minutes on amendments, with
no extension of time except by unanl
rtious consent.
The re-election of Senator Clarke,
of Arkansas. President pro tempore
or" the Senate apparently was assured
despite opposition because of his re
volt last session against the ship pur
chase bill. A vice-chairman of the
caucus also was to be chosen. The
names of Senators Pomerene, of Ohio,
and Lewis had been mentioned for the
place.
While the ways and means commit
tee has not half completed its work,
Chairman Kitchen said he expected to
finish by Friday, The work must be
done in time for the House Democratic
caucus Saturday night.
Five Are Missing From
Crew of Sunken Steamer
By Associated Press
l/ondon, Dec. 1, 12.15 P. M.—The
British steamship has been
sunk. Her captain and twenty-one
members of tho crew have been
landed. Five others are missing.
There are three British steamships
Klngsway, of 3,647, 247 and 211 tons
gross, respectively. Tho first of these I
is the only one whose movements re
cently have been recorded, and pre
sumably is the vessel which has been '
sunk. She was 346 feet long, was built I
in Sunderland in 1907 and was owned I
in Bristol. / J
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1915.
four acres, and just being- completed b 3
pany. The view Is taken looking no
The plant lies between the two an
t Ninth find Cumberland streets,
on the left are the machine shops,
age plant arc the boiler rooms, and ba
background the pattern storage struc I
chlnery is being shipped to all parts
of the world and is used in nineteen
different government offices. The busi
ness was incorporated in 1886 and the
grandson of the organlaer- of tlt«
manufactory Is the president now.
At present the following more im
portant machines and supplies are
turned out in tho various departments:
Bookbinding machinery, paper ruling
devices and pens, ruling ink. paging
and numbering machines and book
presses. A new device just patented
by the company, saving much labor,
is an automatic paper feeder for rul
ing machines, folding and printing
presses. It can be adjusted so that
tissue paper or cardboard may be
used. An improved taping machine is
being finished and will be manufac
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ALL WEST SHORE
FOR IMPROVEMENT
Prominent Men in Every Town
Planning Ways to Benefit
Community
By ROBERT F. GORMAN
From one end of the West Shore
to the other these days, the one big
I topic for conversation is Improvement.
Prominent men in every town are
thinking and planning improvements
which will be of the most benefit to
the by the time a
meeting of interested citizens is called
there will be dozens of subjects ready
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Bodies of Fourteen Men
Removed From Mine After
Explosion; More Buried
By Associated Press
Boomer, W. Va„ Dec. I.—The bod
ies of fourteen miners who lost their
lives in mine No. 2 of the Boomer Coal
and Coke Company by an explosion of
a blow-out shot which yesterday at
noon imperiled 300 men were brought
to the surface this morning and taken I
to the temporary morgue nearby.
Soon afterward a rescue party ap
peared with five other men who had
been buried far under ground, and
who, though still alive, were in a crit
ical condition. They were hurriedly
taken to the hospital in the hope that
prompt treatment might save their
lives.
Other parties who had been search
ing: the working* during- the night
came out with the report that they
had been unable to locate any of the
five or six miners still missing, and
their places were at once taken by
fresh volunteers, all of whom are
working under the direction of the
State mine inspectors and engineers
from the Bureau of Mines.
CITY PLANNERS AND MeCALEB
CONFER ON MARKET ST. SUBWAY
At a conference this afternoon of
the City Planning Commission and
William B. McCaleb. superintendent of
the Philadelphia division of the Penn
sylvania railroad, the question of
widening the Market street subway
was discussed. The session lasted
until n late hour this afternoon. The
purpiose was to determine Just what
the city and railroad companies can
do In co-operation to bring about a
het.torlng of conditions In the sub
jvay.
y the contractors, is seen above. The
rth toward Cumberland strete. On
d faces Cumberland street. The en-
In the foreground is seen the lumber
ck of them, near the fence, the storage
ture has been built. A small indus
NEW WALNUT ST.
VIADUCT PLANS
WILL COST S4OO
Engineer Offers to Make Satis
factory Drawings to Save
Expense
Harrisburg will not be put to the ex
pense of $9,000 or SIO,OOO for prepar
ation of plans- and specifications for
the proposed $300,000 bridge across
the Pennsylvania tracks at Walnut
! street.
J The ordinance which City Commls
jsloner Harry K. Bowman will intro
duce in City Council next Tuesday, will
provide, it is understood, for an ex
penditure of but S4OO for the drawing
of tentative plans.
The proposed drawings will not be
workable designs, it is said, but will
show the height of the arches, the
carrying capacity, grades, dimensions,
etc., in such rorm as will give the
Public .Service Commission ample data
upon which to consider the question of
approval or disapproval.
The offer of an engineer to prepare
the data and drawings for S4OO to be
paid conditionally upon the accept
ance of his plans by the City Council,
City Planning Commission and the
Pennsylvania Kailroad Company, it is
understood has made it possible for
the commissioners to go ahead with
the offer of the ordinance.
The question of what might prove
a useless outlay of money for prepar
ation of plans, which has been agitat
ing Council for some time and, it is
said, led to the delay in the introduc
tion of the ordinance this week. The
construction of the proposed bridge
will have to be approved by the Pub
lic Service Commission because it has
jurisdiction over the right of way of
the railroad company. The only way
Council can bring the subject legally
before the Commission is to adopt an
ordinance authorizing the making of
plans.
I Inquiry developed the fact that
I complete working plans and specifi
cations would cost from $9,000 to $lO,-
000. The prevailing opinion in city
circles is that the Service body will re
fuse to approve any plans to cross the
Pennsv tracks at Walnut street and
this made Council very dubious as to
the wisdom of expending so much for
plans that would be useless. The offer
to make satisfatcory drawings for S4OO
I solved the problem.
Inquire Into Seizure
of American Vessels
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Dec. I.—The j
State Department has Instructed Am
bassador Page at London to inquire
of the British Government whether
two vessels of the American Trans-
Atlantic Company, seized while flying
the American flag, were to be requisi
tioned without the formality of prize
court proceedings.
The Ambassador was directed to file
a vigorous protest against such a
measure should he receive an affirma
tive answer.
Bryan Will Join Ford
Peace Party at the Hague
Special to The Telegraph
New York, Dec. Li—William Jen
nings Bryan has finally come out
strongly In favor of Henry Ford's plan
to end the war by taking 200 American
peace advocates to Kurope on the
peace ship Oscar 11, which will sail
on Saturday.
Not only does Mr. Bryan commend
the idea, but he will probably join the
party at Its peace conference of neu
tral nations at The Hague, though he
will be unable to sail on the Oscar IL
RESIGNATION OF
CABINET IS CAUSE
OF SPECULATION
Diplomats Wonder If Happen
ings Have Any Connection
With Peace Moves
MAY AFFECT NEUTRALITY
Rumania Will Deliver An Ulti
matum When Entente Allies
Have Concentrated
Closely following: the visit ol Em
peror i 111 am to Vienna comes the
news that three members of the Aus
trian cabinet have resigned, the with
drawing: members being the ministers
of the interior, commerce and finance.
Their successors have been named.
The resignation and the German
Emperor's visit have given rise to a
wide range of speculations as to the
present state of affairs in Austria,
particularly as to whether the happen
ings have any connection with ru
mored peace moves by Austria or to
concessions that might be desired of
her with a view to the maintenance
of Rumanian neutrality.
Home claims further progress for
the Italian armies in their desperate
struggle for Gorizia. The current offi
cial statement from Vienna admits a
slight withdrawal by the Austrians
from a small portion of the Gorizia
front.
Balkans Dominate
[ Sinking of the British steamer
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M.MtYSYILLE REPUBMCANS
HOLD ROUSING SESSION'
Special to The Telegraph
Marysville, Pa., Dec. I.—The Marys
vllle Republican Club held its regular
monthly meeting in the clubrooms last
evening. Various matters pertaining
to the success of the club were dis
cussed.
The membership of the club is 104,
and the stability of the club Is bring
ing in applications from well-known
Republicans in the town and county.
The club has purchased furniture, car
pets and a full supply of chlnaware,
all of which have been paid. An or
der for additional furniture and a
heating apparatus will be let within
the next week. Arrangements have
been made for an address in the near
future by a Congressman from the
New England States.
\
% ' >€■ The in-.f ent tu if rage forces
V er IS and rep- 1
1 resent
1 1l ' the f ylvania State '
S Suffrage Convention here to-day and launched what is '
\ :ede if the new administration, '
9 ; which was' elected yesterday, administers jffairs with a !
C high hand. I
( ROBBED WHILE THEY SLEPT
£ >, Dec. I.—Tv. Chicago, Mil-
S »ukec as the
9 Pioneer Limited, lost valuables and money early to-day j
J t St. Paul or M'inne
¥ it night rifled their berths whiie they were asleep
1 RE 15,000 SERBS AND WAR MATERIAL /
■ . —An"official report given out at the Bul
-1 g®nan under date of November
I I
J : 16,000 an I
I 17,000 Serbians. They also captured 50 field cannon and' I
9 howitzers tomobiles and a large amount m
1 of war material. C
1 PASSENGER AGENT ACCOUNTS SHORT
Harrisburg— Philadelphia and.Reading Railroad'dete £
arrested Anthony Zangct. raph operate I
and assistant passenger agent at the Middletown station, C
• a charge of embezzlement. The company is reported to have K
I found shortages of from S3OO to S4OO in accounts. there. ft
Carlisle, Dec. I.—Fire,yearly this morning, destroyed (
1 two frame dwellings in the west end of town owned by the w
I Cumberland Valley Railroad Co. land occupied by the fan; C
lie*, of Kemy Hershey and Harry MeiUei, Firemen catri« \
three women from burning buildfng in their night clothes. "®
1 The statement of claims for $20,000 which Earl E. »
Kre:;-er i his widowed mother, Ma «ret Kreiser, both S
oi R n, re cntly brought against tie Pennsylvania %
Rail, ad Company was filed with the Dauphin county M
couits to-day. The boy, Eai.', was sitting on the tracks when
a shifu**; engine struck him. ■.M
MARRIAGE LICENSES (
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CAUSE OF POWDER
EXPLOSION WHICH
KILLED 30 YOUTHS
IS DEEP MYSTERY
Searching Investigation Fails
to Disclose Tangible Clues
in DuPont Disaster; Warn
ings to Teutonic Employes
Found Posted on Trees For
Days Past May Be Work
of Spies
FRAGMENTS OF BODIES
HURLED QUARTER MILE
Were Torn to Shreds; Vic
tims Mostly Boys in Their
Teens; Six More May Die;
Now Only Big Hole in
Ground Where Pellet Pack
ing House Stood; Spark.
From Horseshoe May Have
Caused Five Tons of Black
Powder to Let Go
Wilmington, Del., Dei-. 1. Al
though a searching investijjat lon into
the cause of the disaster was started
by officials of the Du Pont Powder
Company immediately after the ex
plosion which caused the death of 30
workmen ana the serious injury of
six others in tne company's up|i~r
[Hagley yards yesterday, nothing- of a
[tangible nature had been discovered
up to an early hour to-day.
Every employe who was near the
building that was destroyed was put
[through a thorough examination, but
without, throwing any litrht on the
mystery. Not one of the 26 men who
were in the pellet packing house es
caped, and there is now only a bis
hole in the ground where the building
stood. The investigators admit that
there is but little possibility of the re
sponsibility ever being placed anil
company officials, while declaring that
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