-/i r; tamed For Safely of American Steamer Pretolik omtnunipaw Sale HARRISBURG Qfislib TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— Xo. 287 TWO MILLIONS FOR PURSES OF SHOPPERSHERE! Savings Funds, Associations and Industrials Put Vast Sunt Into Circulation BIG RUSH ALREADY ON Stores Filled With Thousands Who Have Followed "Shop Early" Advice Two million dollars, it is estimated, will be turned loose between now and Christmas in the city and Steelton, from Christmas savings funds, beneti oiary and employes' asoclations, and in salaries to the thousands of people employed in industrial plants alone. This big total of money—the largest amount, it is believed, that has ever been released for years—will be in the hands of the thousands of employes in a few days. The Pennsylvania railroad, Phila delphia and Reading Railway Com pany and the Christmas Savings funds alone have about $1,350,000 .to be scattered prior to the holiday season. The two millions from the indus trials does not include the salaries to be received in the business and mer cantile establishments in the city. Business in every line in the city, ac cording to the manufacturers and mer chants. is at its best, and the pros pects of a record breaking year, in output, salaries, and receipts is pre dicted on all sides. The enormous amount of money to be released to the public means much iti Harrisburg, and based on an esti mate that 25 per cent, of $2,000,000 will be spent for Christmas cheer, will mean that one quarter of a million dollars will change hands and much of the motiev stay in ifarrlsburg. Big Kush Is On Extra clerks, delivery boys, cashiers .snd floor forces in the stores indicate that the big rush prior to Christmas is on. For more than a week, the mer chants have had their windows and counters devoted to a display of Christ mas goods. With practically every industrial manufacturing plant within the city boundaries running full time and ship ping a capacity output, it is easily un derstood iiow the big pile of money in salaries, savings funds, and associa tions accumulated. Thousands have started the "Shop early" movement and the money in circulation in the next two weeks will reach startling totals according to businessmen of the city. The source of the money is traced to the savings fund and the railroads tirst. The banks having Christmas Savings Funds association announce that the total of all checks to be sent out shortly will reach about one-half a million dollars. The Pennsylvania railroad in pay ments to employes being made this week, are giving three-quarters of a million in the city alone. The Reading Railway. Pennsylvania Steel company, Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Works. Central Iron and Steel company. Harrisburg Foun dry and Machine Shops, the Elliott- Fisher Typewriter company, combined with other industrial plants including the W. O. Hickok Manufacturing com pany, the Harrisburg Silk Mill, Blough Manufacturing company, the Harris burg fJtoe Manufacturing company, Lalance-Grosjean Manufacturing com pany, and all of the smaller companies will release hundred of thousands of dollars. Women's and babies' shoes, socks, stockings, underwear, mattresses, typewriters, book binding machines, tin plating, shrapnel cases, steel cast ings and plates, air cylinders, silks nnd cigars are only a few of the many things turned out in large quantities in the city and are being shipped to all parts of the world. Orders for these supplies are flooding into the offices of the plants and keeping the ma hines humming in some places a ful". 24-hour day. Honolulu Wants National Republican Convention San Francisco. Dec. B.—Honolulu >wll make an effort to get the Na tional Republican convention and to 'bat end. the island residents have pledged SIOO,OOO and in addition are prepared to charter two special steam ships to carry the delegates, accord ing to I.orrin Andrews, Republican National committeeman from the ter ritory of Haw-aii, who is en route to Washington to-dav. THE WEATHER For HarrlNliurK and vicinity: In arttied neqther, probably light ruin thin afifrnoou or to-n Iffhts Ihurmlnj fair; sliKbtl) warmer to-night, with lowest temperature about 35 degree*. For Eastern IVunKvlvanln: Rain this afternoon nnd probably to nights Thursday partly cloudy: not much change in temperature: fresh and strong MonthncNt win da. River 'J'lie Susquehanna river and all Its brunches will probaly fall slow ly or remain nearly stationary. A stage of about JWI feet Is Indicated for Harrisburg Thursday morn ing. General Conditions The storm that waa central over Manitoba, Tuesday morning, has moved southeastward with In creasing energy and now covers the greater part of the country «*ast of the Mississippi river with Its center over Ontario. There bas been a general rfae of 2 to t'J degrees In temperature on the Mississippi river. Temperature: H a. in.. 30. «Un: Rise*. 7i15 a. m.: sets, 4i3t ti. m. Moon: First quarter. December 13, fli.W a. m. River Stage: 3.7 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 3-S. f.owest temperature. 33. Mean temperature. 30. Normal temperature, 31. i SAVED FROM ' j j Four thousand two hundred Armenians were recently saved from the Turks by the French, who took them to a camp in Port Said. The Turkish authorities told the Armenians living in Suedia to sell their possessions and he ready in seven days' time to be moved to a distant part of the country. During their week of grace they climbed the nearest mountain, which dominates the Syrian coast and there they fought off the Turks for seven weeks. They could not have held out much longer, when a French warship noticed a large Red Cross flag on Hie top of the mountain. A boat was sent ashore and, the situation having been explained, other boats were brought and the entire party of refugees were taken off. The needs of these poor people are now being taken care of by the Armenians and English of Cairo. THINKS SHE'S ONLY 21; FINDS HER AGE IS 22 Waits Whole Year to Bring Suit. Believing She's a Minor Until pretty Miss Lillian Swails be gan her suit for $5,000 damages against the Valley Railways Company to-day, she never really knew her true age. | To-day's her birthday, by the way, and thereby hangs this tale: Miss Swails was one of the more or less fortunate victims of a fatal auto mobile accident that startled a cele l brating city on New Year's eve, 1914. Miss Miss Grace Maugans, Samuel Weber and .John J. 1 largest, Miss Swails was motoring down Front street when a Valley Railways Com pany car collided with, the machine at Walnut street. EJoth. it is understood were speeding. When the autoists were carefully removed from the debris of the battered automobile Miss Maugans was scarcely breathing. Miss Swails was in little better shape. Hargest and Weber escaped with more or less severe bruises. Miss Maugans died at the Harrlsburg hospital a short time later without regaining con sciousness. For weeks it was believed that Miss Swails might share the same fate. Incidentally Hargest, the chauffeur, j was twice indicted by a Dauphin (Continued on Pago 12.) BRIGHTBILL WINS MAJORITY OF THE POULTRY PRIZES i " Penna. Branch Organizes New Independent Association; Show Continues S. W. Blight bill. of Penbrook, won the majority of prizes offered for the finest exhibits at the third annual poultry show of the Central Pennsyl vania Poultry Association, being held | in the Kelker Street Hall this week. The big prizes for special birds were awarded this morning, .Mr. Bright bill's entries taking a number of first prizes. The awards for the utility pens of I Leghorns follow: Pinehurst Poultry j Farm, tirst: E. E. Mrubaker. second; Klizabethtown Poultry Farm, third: I. Frank Park, Middletown, fourth; S. C. Babble. New Cumberland, fifth. The winners in the White Wyandotte utility contest are: P. Edgar Hess, tirst, S. C. Babble and O. E. Brown. Theodore Wltman, of Allentown, was the judge of these awards. M. H. Banks was awarded the S2O gold inodal for the best cockerel in the exhibit. Other awards follow: Best pen—S. W. Brightbill, Pen brook, silver cup offered by the Pa } trlot. j Best bird in entire exhibit—Park [ Place Poultry Farm, Allentown, Daced fContinued on Page 9] Two Carlisle Women Hurt in Accident Near Hogestown Special to The Telegraph Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 8. Two well known Carlisle women were injured in an automobile accident at Bryson's Bridge, near Hogestown, last evening about t> o'clock. Mrs. B;. R. Plank, wife of Dr. Plank, and Mrs. Raphael S. Hays, wife of the manager of the Carlisle Frog. Switch and Manufac turing Company's plant, had been in I larrisburg during the day and were returning home in the evening. At a point near Hogestown the machine skidded on a bad piece of road, strik-i ing a telegraph pole with great force.) <)ne wheel was knocked off and the <ar otherwise damaged. Mrs. Plank was severely cut by being thrown into the broken windshield, but Mrs. Hays, who was driving, escaped with only some painful bruises. Harry Bruhl, of Carlisle, came along in an automobile shortly after the accident and brought; the two women to their homes. 4 HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1915 MANNING URGES NEW WEST SHORE jSUBWAY AND ROAD | Leads Highway Down From i Camp Hill to Join With j Proposed State St. Bridge By ROBERT P. GORMAN I Warren H. Manning 1 , the Boston { landscape designer and the expert of the Harrisburg City Planning Oommis- J sion. recommends a wider subway at | Walnut .street. Wormleysburg. in con i lieetion with his plans for the future ! development of the territory adjacent to Harrisburg. Mr. Manning, in a letter to the Tele graph, expresses pleasure at the inter est West Shore residents are taking in the plans for the development of the lower end of Cumberland county and especially in the proposed road be tween Wormleysburg and Camp Hill, which would pass under the Pennsyl vania and Northern Central Railroad i Companies' tracks at Walnut, street, j Wormleysburg. At the present time a | number of petitioners are endeavoring: ' to have the grade crossing at Ferry ! street. Wormleysburg, closed. Residents of Wormleysburg do not j object to the closing of the road, but I they want the railroad company and • the county to make the present private toad through the Walnut street sub way public and at the same time con tinue a road to the farms now reached by the road across the railroad tracks at Ferry street. Persons in Wormleys rContinued on Page 2] ATTEMPT TWICE I TO WRECK TRAINS AT MILLERSBURG find Kails Tied Across Track; Railroad Detectives Seek Culprits Special to The Telegraph ) Miilersburg. Pa., Dec. B.—Two un -1 successful attempts were made last , night near this place to wreck trains Jon the Pennsylvania Railroad by ! placing ties across the rails. Both I times the obstructions, according to • reports, were discovered by a track ! walker. Detectives from Williamsport | and Sunbury were here to-day investi | gating. They left this afternoon to j find the trackwalker. I The first obstruction was discovered I shortly after 9 o'clock about one i quarter mile north of the Miilersburg | station. Train No. 68. coming south. ; was due at 9:52. A brakeman on a - southbound freight train reported that | the trackwalker had removed the , lies. I One-half hour later the ties were | again discovered by the trackwalker ; within a few teet from the point ! where they were previously placed. I This discovery happened about the i time of the arrival of a northbound I freight train. This train stopped to I report that two boys had been found ■ stealing a ride, and to turn the illegal , riders over to the Miilersburg author -1 ities. i At first it was supposed these boys knew something about the ties. They | were questioned closely but could tell ; nothing and were later discharged. | [ The name of the trackwalker who dis covered the rails was not given. Young Bride Forgives Husband Who Shot Her: ' Special to The Telegraph i Philadelphia. Dec. 8. From her cot in a hospital. Mrs. Mary Santore. a 15- I year-old bride, yesterday sent through I her brother-in-law a message of for giveness to her 19-year-old husband Joseph Santore, which contributed to sei ure his admission to trial by Magis- ' trate Pennock In the City Mall Police Court, .-'antore was accused of shoot ing his wife at Broad Street Station Sunday night in on endeavor to pre vent her from going to Baltimore to go upon the stage as a chorus girl. The message to Santorr declared that she was glad he had shot her. because If she had gone to Baltimore with her winter ami joined the theatrical troupe uhv might have regretted it. GERMAN FORCES CONCENTRATING AGAINST ALLIES i Heavy Fighting Reported in I Southeastern Serbia; French in Precarious Shape By Associated Press I-ondon, Dec. S. 12.12 P. M.—With the Serbian armies in retreat behind the Albanian and Montenegrin fron tiers. it is reported the bulk of the German and .Bulgarian armies is being I concentrated against the allied armies [ holding the southeast corner of Serbia. Heavy fighting has been in progress there for the last few days. There is no confirmation of hints from various sources that the French troops have been forced definitely to abandon the positions heid by them since the beginning of the campaign*. The fall of Monastlr and the south ward progress of German and Bul garian forces, however, have placed the northern wing of the French ex pedition in a precarious situation and I withdrawal from the an»;le formed by I the V'ardar and Cerno rivers appar ently has begun. Allies Reinforced I Constant, arrival of fresh forces and war materials at Saloniki give evi- I dence that the allies have ncf intention !of abandoning their efforts in this region. Although the Germans have an nounced the capture of Ipek, Monte negro, the pursuing Austrian and Bul (Continued on Page 12.) | REPUBLICANS TO i MAKE NO FIGHT ; AGAINST DEFENSE I Will Take No Partisan Stand j if Program Is Not Framed by Democrats in Caucus By Associated Press Washington, Dec. 8. Senate Re | publicans will make no partisan light on the national defense program if it iis not (rained by the Democrats in I caucus. ! Senator Gallingcr, the Republican leader, told President Wilson to-day that the Republicans want the army and navy strengthened and arc willing to co-operate with the Democrats. £f ter Mr - Gallingcr said President vv ilson had told him he would not ap prove of the Democratic caucus mak ing the defense plans partv measures. "I agree with the thought in the minds of the President and Secretary I Garrison in the preparation of the ad (Continued on l'age 12.) Art Commission and Sculptor Seek Fountain Site The city's recently created art com- ' mission filled its first job to-day. The commission, including Park Su- ! perintendent M. Harvey Taylor, Presi dent E. S. Herman, of the Planning Commission: J. Horace McFarland, ot' | the Municipal league; Mrs. William I Henderson, o»' the Civic Club: M. J. j Kast, of tin- Southern Chapter of | Pennsylvania Architects, and Giuseppe Donato, the sculptor, made an auto mobile tour of possible sites for the I M. S. Hershey fountain with a view to I recommending the most advisable | place for Council's consideration. I .Most everybody knows all about the | fountain by this time—it s that "Dance j oi Kternal Spring'' that the chocolate I king turned over to the city. He did this after he had lost the suit which Donato brought in the Dauphin county | courts to recover $25,000 for his work |on the splendid piece of art. So It will suffice to say In referring to it that the commission wus first taken to the storage warehouse to view t he statue. The coverings were taken of!' the three ladies who dance on the edge of the fountain bowl and the art commission saw some reul art. The trip included visits to Front and State streets, Third and State streets, the slopes of Reservoir Park, the for mal entrance to Reservoir at Twenty first and Market streets and Harris Park. J 200 CHRISTMAS BASKETS TO BE GIVEN TO NEEDY Jacob Tausig's Sons, Jewelers. Will Distribute Yuletidc Cheer to City's Poor KNOW ANY DESERVING ? Just Fill Out Coupon and Asso ciated Aids Will In vestigate Cases Jacob Tausig's Sons, jewelers, of 4 20 Market street, have offered to Rive, through the Telegraph, SSOO for the purchase of 200 Christmas baskets for the worthy poor of the city. This newspaper has accepted the generous offer and the baskets will be dis tributed, the day before Christmas by the Associated Aid Society. In order to get the names of persons throughout the city to whom the bas kets should be given the Telegraph will publish In each Issue from now until Christmas-time a coupon, which may be tilled out and mailed to the Telegraph by any person knowing such a family. The names thus submitted will be turned over to the Associated Charities for investigation, and. if found worthy, baskets will be sent to the addresses the day before the great holiday in ample time for preparation of the Christmas dinner. . The baskets will be made up not merely of groceries, but each will con tain "the makings" of a real Christmas feast. In giving bis reasons for this gen erous offer Herman D. Tausig, who. with Edwin P. Tausig, constitutes the Tausig firm, to-day said: "We felt that we would like to give a testi monial of our appreciation for the manner in which the people of Harris burg have patronized our store. They have made the Christmas season al ways a pleasant, one for us all through the nearly llfty years of our business, and In looking around for a manner In which to express ourselves we hit. upon this Christmas basket idea as likely to spread holiday cheer in 200 homes that otherwise might, be gloomy. We are certainly pleased with the hearty manner in which the Telegraph and the Associated Charities have agreed to co-operate with us." St. Stephen's May Buy Alricks Property, South of Church, For Rectory The vestry of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church mot informally last evening to consider the advisability of pur chasing the W. K. Alricks property situated in Front street, just south of the church and on the corner of Cranberry alley. St. Stephens has an option on the property, but before any conclusion is reached the con gregation will be given an opportunity to express their opinion and share in the purchase, if an affirmative decision |is reached. No pluns have been for | mulated as to what shall be done with I the property when purchased, but it lis unlikely that the rectory will bo i moved from its present location at 309 North Front street. j Colored Civic League to Be Charitable in Scope 1 A civic league of colored citizens of j Harrisburg and Steelton was organ ized at 319 Calder street last evening, ] non-political and non-sectarian in character. The league is to be charitable in nature, the object being community betterment and civic right eousness. The officers elected are: Archdeacon. E. B. Henderson, presi dent: Alphonzo llnrris. vice-president; Dr. James E. T. Oxley, secretary; the Rev. C. J. Henderson, assistant secre tary: John W. Fields, treasurer. lioard of directors: W. B. Winston, [chairman: Augustus Stewart, George I \\". Moody, Albert Shack, Marshall Ficklin, Joseph B. Butler and John 11. Keyser. Second Contingent of Ford Peace Party Under Way Special to The Telegraph New York, Dec. 8. Twenty peace advocates constituting the second con tingent of the Ford expedition to The Hague will sail this afternoon on the Scandinavian American Bine steam ship, Frederik VIII for Copenhagen. Most of the members of the party were unable to make arrangements to leave Saturday on the Oscar II carrying the main Ford expedition. A list of these additional members of the peace party as given out by Mr. Ford's representative, including un i der-graduates of Yale. Harvard, lowa I State, Vanderbilt, Washington, Minne sota. Oregon and Leland Stanford I universities; representatives of the governors of Idaho, Arkansas and Alaska and of fraternal beneficial societies. KKEK TO SETTLE STRIKE' By Associated Press Wilkes-liarre, Pa.. Dec. 8. —W. D. Mahon, of Detroit, international presi dent of the street car men's union, arrived here to-day to help bring about a settlement of the strike of trolley men of the Wilkes-Barre Railway Company. He said he responded to the urgent request of Secretary of Babor Wilson and Mediator Patrick Gilday, of the State Labor Department. A conference with the Chamber of Commerce committee was immediately arranged. VICE-PHHSIDISST KOIIBIOIt IlurßlarM Hiiimack ll"mr \\ hllr Har mltii 11 Is at \\ Ife'a Klrkhnl Special 10 The Telegraph I Indianapolis. Ind.. Dec. S. Burglar* i yesterday looted tlie residence of Vice- President Thomas R. Marshall while ho was at the bedside of his wife in St. Vincent's Hospital. The thieves ran sacked the premises but got little, as the Vice-President has sent most of his valuables to a safety vault. In prepara tion for liis return to Washington. FEARS FELT FOR ANOTHER VESSEL; TANKER Telegram From Alexandria Reports Communipaw in Harbor There, Monday IDENTITY MAY HAVE BECOME CONFUSED Reported Torpedoed Off Tri poli Near Where Petrolite Was Attacked London, Dec. 8, 12.4" P. M. —A tele gram from Alexandria, Egypt, received to-day by Lloyds says that the Ameri can steamship Communip.'v, reported sunk off the coast of Tripoli by a sub marine, arrived at Alexandria on Mon day. it is inferred that possibly some confusion has arisen in regard to the identity of the vessel torpedoed. If the report of the torpedoing of the Communipaw is substantiated she must have discharged her cargo of oil and have been on the way lo another port when attacked. It is recalled that the point at which the Communi paw is said to have been sunk corre sponds closely to the position of the American tank ship Petrolite when it was attacked by a submarine on Sun day. The announcement from Rome of the torpedoing of the Communipaw said she had been sunk near Tobruk, Tripoli. The position of the Petrolite was given as off the southeast coast of the Island of Crete. The island lies directly north of Tripoli, about 200 miles from the African coast. British Squadrons Are Sent After Submarine fly Associated Press Rome, Dec. 8, 10:.10 P. M. The British authorities have given orders that the squadron of warships at Malta and the Egyptian squadron give chase to the submarine reported to have stink the Communipaw. Descrip tions of this submarine thus far re- [Continued uu Pago 12.] | MOLTEN METAL CAUSES FIRE I | lava-like stream at the plant of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, at 2.45 o'clock this afternoon, when a break-out occurred at No. 4 blast fu • „•. The spurting metal was I checked by shutting off the wind supplied by the giant I blowing engines before much of the 300 tons of metal had escaped. An alajm from box 121 called out the Steclton firemen. I Wilmington, Qsl., Dec. B.—Because' of smallpox de- I veloping; the State wo: ' - njse, here, all the prisoners, up k ward of 500 were vaccinated yesterday. The disease was I brought here by a short-urm man from Kent county, on ! Monday. He ha.3 been ser.t to the pesthouse near Wilming ton. Amsterdam, via London, Dec. B.—frort Cognellee, one I of the most imp< I Belgium, has been completely destroyed by an explosion, } according to the newsoaper Echo De Beige. The explosion I is said to ha\c caused the death of eighty German soldiers. f STATE HOSPITAL INSPECTED I 1 inspected the Karrisburg State Hospital, examining 1 especially into the accommodations for the inmates. The I commissioners stated that everything connected with the v.as ho tug co; c:] satisfactorily. NO DEPUTY NAMED I Harrisburg. The State Commission of Agriculture ) did not name any deputy secretary to-day, but discussed | rural credits, co-operation with State College in field work | and the plans for next year. The names of E. B. Dorsett, } Mansfield: C. E. Carothers, Washington, and G. G. Hutchi- son, Wariiors Mar':, are he 1 about the Capitol as possi f bilities 'or deputy with the usual string of dark horses. I MARKET CLOSES STEADY New York, Dec. B.—Further advances in specialties \ furnished the only diversion of the dull final hour. The i 1 closing was steady. General strength in war shares -and allied issues with some pressure against rails were the out standing features of to-day's market. MARRIAGE LICENSES < hilMlnn Keener, rmbntok, and l.illiau )l«rle Piker, cityi £ I . -w«-safer© IF, I'Hlni .\. C n nntl Florence shmmftxer, *sZfl I■■ %•'*« r uharl and llnr.«*l ftlrllr ( runn, cttys IIONM Wilbur Coiilty MAD KNICIIII >lnl»elle (iorurr, city* <*rorig;r J. WifftttMrller mid Minnie Mflv \loln <«PMPY, iVupor(| John H. IIOWCTM, Jr.* WawhlagtOH Height*, JUMJ Florence* MHC AudcrMoo, city. 14 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL Standard Oil Awaiting Word From Pet roUte Which Was Shelled DO NOT KNOW WAS SENT TO BOTTOM Government Officials Are Left in Suspense by Conflicting Reports New York, Dec. S. A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt, apparently confirmatory or tne report received by" London l>loyds that the tanker Com niunipaw was safe was received to-day by the Standard Oil o;ces here. This message stated that the Communipaw reached Alexandria on Sunday last and would sail for New York on Tues day. The dispatch came from Captain Nordftrom of the Com muni pay and was given out by David T. Warden, manager of the foreign shipping de partment of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. "We are anxiously awaiting word from our vessel, the Petrolitc," said Mr. Warden, "but have received no news except what we saw in the pa pers." Whether a mistake has been made voyage, Standard Oil officials can only doed or whether she was torpedoed after leaving Alexandria on her home voyake. Standard Oil officials can only conjecture. Wouldn't Ho at Spot The Communipaw could make only nine knots an hour. Mr. Warden said and assuming she left Alexandria on Tuesday, or even on Monday she could not have gone :!- r >o miles to a point near Tobruk, Tripoli, off where the original cable dispatch from Homo said the ship had been struck. This dispatch was filed at Home at 7.45 p. 111. Tuesday, the date the Standard oil company had been advised tho Communipaw left Alexandria. "I feel sure the Communipaw is safe," said Mr. Warden. "Hut we are still puzzled as to what, if anything, [has happened to the Pretolite. W'e do not expect any word from her until 'she reaolies Algiers."
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