Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, December 10, 1915, Page 25, Image 25
Baking Powder Absolutely Pure i > Avoid All Substitutes MAGIC POWDER TOWN IN HEAP OF ASHES [Continued From First Page.] ty-flv® thousand persons hardly a building remained, though the great explosives plant nearby and company villages at either end of the town escaped undamaged. The loss is put at $1,000,000. Thousands of refugees who through out the afternoon had stood helpless as their homes and places of business mimed were housed during the night in Petersburg and Richmond. Many of those who saved their household goods stood guard over their effects with repeating rifles all night. Mili tiamen from Richmond and special guards from inside the DuPoint plant helped the Hopewell police force to keep order. looter is Hanged Although many were injured, only »ne death is reported. A negro, caught looting, was said to have been strung up to a tree at the edge of tow n. The fire started in a restaurant when in oil stove toppled from a box in the kitchen. A hotel caught fire next and i noon the flames, driven by a stiff wind, j were eating their way through banks, 1 stores, hotels and dwellings. The only j hurch in the town was one of the! irst buildings to go. An eleven-year-old boy was the hero j nf the flre. Twice he rushed into a. building and each time reappeared! with a baby in his arms. The explosives plant, which works; •lay and night at top speed, ceased i • perations only long enough to make sure none of its buildings would burn. | 'nee when the fire got close all the iiands were turned out to pour water >n the building, but a shift of the wind turned the flames in another di ection and the plant started up again. There was little insurance, it wasj said, on the buildings, which were lammed together, wpod and brick, in a space covering about sixty acres. Department of Justice Is Investigating Fire Washington, Dec. 10.—Chief Ble laskl, of the Department of Justice, , Bureau of Investigation, to-day in structed his agent at Norfolk to pro eed to Hopewell. Va., and make a horOugh Investigation of yesterday's disastrous fire. A report within a few days is expected. Federal .agents investigating fires n powder plants and munitions works have failed to find basis for govern mental porsecutlon and officials doubt ed if the Hopewell Investigation would -eveal anything upon which the fed ;ral government could take action. TO SKXD RELIEF Richmond. Va., Dec. 10.—Governor Stuart Is awaiting reports from agents he has sent to Hopewell to Investi gate the necessity for State relief measures. A joint session of the city •ouncll here will tske up the subject o-day and the Richmond Chamber of 'ommerce will meet for the same pur pose. Newspaper relief funds have been opened and Richmond expects to halve organized aid In Hopewell be fore night. Petersburg and Norfolk <re taking similar measures. WILL REBUILD AT ONCE i Norfolk. Va., Dec. 10.—Advices to lay direct from Hopewell say the work •f rebuilding will start at oonce.! Businessmen met this afternoon and determine to put up a better character >f structure. Tents are being sent by the State military authorities to are for the homeless and sheds have :>eeti built in which they can prepare ;helr food. Battalion of Troops Guard Smoking Ruins Petersburg, Va., Dec. 10.—A bat talion of Virginia troops is guarding the. ruins of Hopeless and no dis order of any character is reported. A meeting of citizens to-day began ef forts to have all new buildings of brick. Three fire insurance men es timated the total loss at $2,000,000. The Du Pont po-.vder plant is op erating as usual and there have been no developments In the case of the man arrested Wednesday afternoon with nitroglycerine In his possession. The arrest was confirmed today by the Du Pont police force, although officials of the company refuse to talk. The city council of Petersburg has ap- -Doooooc2ooooQaoda^^ <iß^^M^2££22££22222™22S«22*™i|o| | This Establishment Has | Enjoyed a Reputation For | Good Printing ' for almost a century. While the volume of g ; business has been steadily incredSing the quality of work is far above the average. ig Who does your printing ? g The Telegraph Printing Co. £ Printing—Binding—Designing—Photo Engravinf LHARRISBURG, PA. I FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 10, 1915. I propriated $5,000 for relief purposes. | The Petersburg Chamber of Com : merce and Retail Merchants' Asso ciation have contributed about $2,000 | and a committee representing those bodies is at Hopewell Issuing food and clothing. Churches have ben opened here to refugees who may use their, for sleeping quarters. Work of erect ing temporary buildings in Hopewell has begun. , No Word From Gebhardt's in Destroyed Powder Town No word has been received at a late hour to-day concerning Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gebhardt, formerly of this city, and residents in Hopewell for eight months. No fears are felt for their sufety. however. Mr. Gebhardt I was superintendent in one of the che- I mical plants of the Du Pont Powder •Company, ai Hopewell. As a metal lurgist. Mr. Gebhardt has held several positions, one in Canada and another with the Lackawanna Steel Company, in Buffalo. He is a graduate of the High school, class of 1907. His wife was Miss Mary Bennethum before her marriage and is also a graduate of the 1907 class. Both are I widely krfown in the city. Miss Benne thum is the daughter "of William H. | Bennethum, Sr., manager of Dives, | Pomeroy and Stewart. J Efforts were made to communicate • with them, but word was received from Richmond that no telegraphic wires are open to the town destroved | by Are. AUTO DEALERS ARE UP IN ARMS [Continued From First Page.] and "an imposition." There lias been a generally mistaken impression that the tax on gasoline would be 1 cent per gallon. The rate as actually given by the President was 1 per cent., which is infinitely lower, but still an enor mous burden in the course of a year, particularly with the gradual increase j iin the cost of "gas." The price was [ raised 1 cent per gallon Just this week. The consensus of opinion of men in i a position to know seems to be that I the passage of this revenue act will j mean a tremendous drop in the auto mobile industry. One dealer in the [city has figured It out on the basis of I past sales and future Indications and j estimates that the business will fall off about 33 per cent. Another prominent | dealer and salesman gives It as his opinion that the decrease in sales will act in such a way that it will be a loss to the government in the end through the falling off of revenue from dealers' licenses, drivers' and state licenses, etc.. and that the revenue obtained through this new act will not com pensate for the loss to the countrv's prosperity caused by the depression in this particular industry. E. H. Mauk, president of the Uni versal Motor Car Oompanv, said this morning: "The law would be an im position. not only on dealers, but like wise on the purchasers o. cars. It is a double tax, and the condition of the industry at the present time does not justify such discrimination." Manufacturers of cars all over the country have sent to their representa tives petitions, which are to be kept in confidence and returned with informa tion and estimates on the probable effect of the law in their particular community. The headquarters of the manufacturers' association are located in Detroit and it is likely that orders will be given from this source in an i effort to create public sentiment and j endeavor to prevent the passage of the I law. Andrew Redmond. the automobile i dealer, in discussing the proposed tax | recalled an attempt several years ago to put the same sort of law through 1 both as a federal act and a state act. It was defeated, however, in both • cases. It is Mr. Redmond's opinion, j as well as that of many other.-whohave j made a close study of conditions, that this is merely another attempt on the i part of the Democratic administration ' to get around the question of tariff | revenue and protection of home in -1 dustries by seizing upon the first thing | at hand that looks as though it might i produce revenue with the least crlti | cism. without the least consideration j of equity. i There will be a meeting of a large J number of local dealers of this city ! some time next week, at which time j definite action will follow a discussion of the proposed law and a decision will be reached as to how best to meet its exactions equitably In case it should • go through. GARRISON HINTS AT CONSCRIPTION .Secretary or War in Report Emphasizes Need For Big Reserve Armv j W ANTS 500,000 MEN (Declares Preparedness Is Needed "So Long as Right and Wrong Exist Special to The Telegraph Washington, D. C., Dec. 10.—Sec retary of War Garrison declares in his annual report to th« President, made public last night, that if the adminis tration plan for a continental army fails, the United States will face some form of compulsory military service. In what many men in official life characterize as the most remarkable report ever made by a Secretary of War, Mr. Garrison passes quickly over the widespread routine activities of the War Department and devotes practically all his words to the sub ject of mlltary preparedness, the need for which he sums up by saying: "So long as right and wrong exist in the world there will be an in evitable conflict between them. The rightdoers must be prepared to protect and defend the right as against the wrong." Answers All Arguments Unsparing in his arguments in an swers to those who would have no increase in the country's military preparedness. Secretary Garrison de clares that the American people must view their responsibilities and meas ure up to them. 500.000 Soldiers Needed "If the determination arrived at by those whose knowledge, skill, and ex perience makes their judgment prac tically exclusive is accepted," the re port says in part, "we should have in this country a force of at least 500,- 000 men ready for instant response to a call in the event of war or the imminence of war. It is surely not necessary to state the many reasons why this force may not be supplied by a regular standing army of that num ber constantly under arms. There is no legal way that the National Guard can in time of peace, be governed, of ficered, or trained by the National Government; and there is no legal way, excepting by volunteering, that it can be made available to the nation in time of war to any greater extent than specified in the Constitution, which confessedly fulls short of the necessary uses to which an army may have to be put in the event of a war with a foreign nation. "It becomes necessary, therefore, to devise some method of m. king avail able for the use of the Nation in time of war a national force in supplement of that part of the national force, to wit, the regular army, which is con stantly under arms; a part of the army, in other words, to be raised and maintained by Congress and governed in all respects in accordance with its directions." Commercial Men to Be Guests of Commerce Body The next luncheon meeting of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce will be held on Tuesday, December 21. in the banquet room of the Har risburg Club. It will be given in honor of the commercial traveling men, sales managers, district manag ers. general agents, etc., who travel out of Harrisburg or make this city their headquarters. Flavel L. Wright will address the meeting. Mr. Wright is not only an eloquent and stimulating speaker, but is a salesman himself and in acting as the chamber's spokesman to the J salesmen present will speak to them from knowledge gainpd through actual selling operations. Every traveling man, general and district agent, etc., who makes head quarters in Harrisburg, is expected to tile his name with the secretary of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce in order that an invitation may be mailed to him. The date selected for the meeting was selected by the United Commer cial Travelers as they believe that more salesmen would be in the city at that time than any other day in the year. The Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce desire to have as many of those men present as possible in order that they may be tolil how much the city of Harrisburg appreciates their ef forts 1n building up the city as a com mercial center and in acting as per sonal boosters and missionaries for Harrisburg. McMillan Expedition is Good For Another Year Clinton. La., Dec. 10.—Word that the McMillan arctic expedition in North Greenland was in good condi tion in April and amply provisioned I for another year, is contained in a letter received to-day by Mrs. Je rome Lee Allen, of Maquoketa, near here, fror.* her husband, a wireless operator with the expedition. The let ter dated April 6, was carried out of the North by an Eskimo who sledged four hundred miles to South Greon ; land. The party had just received news of the European war. the letter sakl, and were anxiously awaiting the arri val of a ship. Every one was well save Professor Tanquary of Illinois, who was suffering with frozen feet. Should the party be unable to return to the United States by Fall, Mr. Al len writes, they would be well able to make out for another year. To Hold William Penn Highway Conference in Jan. The Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce Is in correspondence with a number of William Penn highway enthusiasts, along the route, with a view to holding a meeting in Harris j burg. It is proposed to have a one 'or two-day conference between the representatives of various cities and i the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce, sometime in January. City and county officials and every body interested in the William Penn highway will be Invited to come to Harrisburg. The purpose is to dis cuss plans to give the new route through Pennsylvania a national rep utation by showing Its advantages, and giving publicity to the list of prominent cities touched by this high way, throughout the United States. LLOYD TAKFS OATH Carlisle. Pa., Dec. 10.—George E. Lloyd, district attorney-elect of Cum berland county, (his morning took tnc oath of office before Prothonotary Weary In the courthouse here. Mr. .Lloyd resides in Mechauiuaburg. BOYD MEMORIAL WILL MEET NEEDS OF 1,000 , Will Be Ready For Occupancy Shortly After Christinas; Music, Lounging and Banquet Rooms Provided; Facilities » For Club Athletes and Gym-] nasium Training Is of Very Best Judging from present activities and the expectation of the contractor, the John Y. Boyd Memorial will be ready for occupancy shortly after the Christ mas holidays. Work on the building is progressing rapidly and plans are being laid by the directors to have a housewarniing early In January. It is estimated that the structure will meet the needs of more than a thousand men ( and boys, members of the Pine Street 1 Presbyterian church and Sunday school, and of the Beth any Chapel and Division Street Mls jsion. The gymnasium, readingrooms, ! lockers, stage, and bowling alleys are the last word in building construction, and will furnish pleasure to thousands for generations to come. When completed this clean, well built structure will be flanked on either side of tho entrance in South street by two bronze lamps. The win dow ledges will be decorated with (lower boxes, of the same nature as those which the Civic Club will this winter endeavor to have located in front windows and on porches all over the city. The first object that will strike the eye of the visitor will be a bronze memorial tablet to the founder presented by the men and boys ol Pine Street Church and Sunday school, which will be set up in the, vestibule. The first room is to be the lobby, which will lend itself to the use of ti»e members as a rending and lounglngroom, where newspapers, magazines and library books may be enjoyed. A large fireplace will in crease its cozlness and one section of the lobby may be converted into a committee room by the use of "ac cordion" door?. An additional fea ture of this room will be a piano and a Victrola, from which it is evident that music is to be a consideration. Hoys Well Provided For Next comes the boys' clubroom, well equipped with games and boys' books. On the same floor, likewise. Is found the boys' locker-room, with 120 modern lockers, and across the hall therefrom, the boys' shower room. The entire first floor is to be covered with battleship linoleum. The semi-indirect lighting system Is to lie used ail over the buidling. Stepping downstairs into the base ment for a few seconds, we find a combination bowling and billiard room, with four regulation Bruns wick Balke-Collendar alleys and two tables, one a combination billiard and pocket billiard table and the other merely a pocket billiard table. Here also is the grill and kitchen, which will be absolutely up-to-date. The grill will be capable of accommodat ing about one hundred men, but will be peculiarly well adapted to class meetings. Here, also in the basement is an other committee room. "Shorty" Miller In Charge Eugene E. Miller, the famous local athlete who led the football team of Pennsylvania State College and who has attained fame In other sports will act as physical director and will have entire charge of gym classes. He wil co-operate with Charles B. Thomp son. who will have direct manage ment of the building. The responsi bility of managing the affairs of the hall will rest upon the shoulders of these two men. On the second floor tho main room ALLIES TARGET FOR NEW ATTACK [Continued From First Pago.] j conflict is assuming that the major! part of the Bulgarian army has di- i verted its attention to the allies. The I outcome of the battle now in progress ; is awaited with great anxiety in Eng land, as it will determine in great measure the immediate future of the entente powers in the Balkans. Numerical superiority of the Bul garian forces already has been dem onstrated, in the initial encounters with the British. Grave doubts are voiced here as to the ability of the British forces to repell the increas- i ing momentum of the Bulgarian at-1 tack. There is no indication, how ever, that the British or French have yet found it necessary to withdraw ] further than the positions mentioned in recent official communications.!, With the Bulgarians in their posi-! tions at Demir-Kapu and advancing) west of the Vardar in the neighbor- : hood of Petrovo, south of Strumitsa station, the French wedge in Mace donia is threatened from both sides. The allied retreat toward the Greek ■ border thus far has been accom plished in good order without seri ous losses. Montenegrins Resist The resistance of the Montenegrins! has lost nothing of its stubbornness t and the plight of the Serbians flee- j ing into Albania is said to be grow- | ing less serious. But military affairs i in these sections have become of com- | paratlvely small Importance, and have little bearing on the main situation ! which, since the Serbian retreat, has shifted southward. Hard lighting continues on the western front, where the Germans, have been compelled to relinquish all but a small part of the advanced trench captured by them east of Butte j de Soualn. There have been no im- ! portant developments on the other! fronts. Situation Grave London press comment indicates! that the British capital considers the j situation of the allied armies in tho j Balkans as grave following the re cent clashes with the Bulgarians which have resulted in the with drawal of both French and British lines. Direct advices from Vienna are that the central powers, according to ex pressions in authoritative circles, are confident o* being able to meet suc cessfully any moves made by the en tente allies in the Balkans. Vienna announces the successful continuance of operations against both the Serbians and the Montenegrins with the capture of more than 1,000 prisoners. Sorties Repulsed Austrian troops have been heavily counter attacking the Italians and have captured part of the Italian po- ! sitlon near Dolje, northwest of Tol mlno, Vienna reports. Renewed at tacks by 2 General Cadorna's forces against the defenses of Gorlzla havs been fruitless it is declared. Constan tinople announces that the British ex peditionary force in Mesopotamia is offering less vigorous resistance to the Turkish attacks. British sorties have been repulsed with heavy losses. It is claimed. A recent British official an nouncement was made that reinforce ments were arriving at the front for i General Townsend's army, which re-1 treated down the Tigris from Bagdad I after the battle of Ctesiphon. ! Sinking of the Danish steamer ! Minsk, of 1,292 tons is reported by j London. Her crew was saved. In the recent engagements in South [Serbia. Uic Bulgarians took ten guns ■ i j j mralin. A * . } - k ij. EUGENE E. MII.LER "Shorty" Will Be Physical Director of Boyd Memorial Is the large and well-lighted gym nasium, which is undoubtedly one of the finest, if not the finest in the city. It is 20 feet high, 70 feet long and 35 feet wide. A winding Rtalrway at one end leads up to tho gallery from which spotlights may be thrown on the stage at the other end, com- I pletely fitted outw ith footlights and all the other necessary paraphernalia to satisfy a real theatergoer. It is planned to give numerous perform ances on this stage, probably by classes. To one side of the gym nasium there is a little anteroom into which the gym apparatus may be moved when it Is desired to convert the room into a banquet hall, where fully 300 men can be seated com fortably, and easily served by means of a dumb waiter that connects with the kitchen. Basketball will be one of the fea tures of the gym work, and black boards will be installed that may be pulled up against the ceiling and out of the way when not in use. The Roof Garden Last, you come to the roof garden, which will be an undoubted feature in the summer time. The building, starting In January, will be open every day from It In the morning until 11 at night, with the exception of Saturday, when it will be opened two hours earlier in the morning for selected boys under twelve years. It will also open at that hour on legal holidays. Boys' classes will be held In the afternoons and men's in the evening. On Sunday it will be devoted to Sunday school serv ices from one to three in the after noon and from then on till 6:30 for social purposes. The time from B:3ft to 10 on Sunday evening will be re served for men only. The cost of building and the ex pense of Installing all the equipment was provided for in the will or the donator, but the current expenses and the upkeep of the hall will be taken care of henceforth in the church budget. In every way it is a com plete, modern structure, well-lighted and heated by city steam, and cal culated to meet a long-felt need which is in this way filled for at least one of the churches of the city. | from the British Berlin reports. Cap- I ture of 1,200 prisoners by the army jof General Von Koevess, in Eastern Montenegro is announced. The Montenegrin war office reports . a setback for the Austrians on De cember 8 near Dubotchitza, the Aus trian forces being compelled to re tire after a repulse of their attack. | On the western front, Berlin de clares a French hand grenade attack on the position recently taken by the Germans northwest of Souain, in the Champagne, was repulsed. Paris as serts that progress was made in driv ing back the Germans south of Saint Souplet, in the Champagne region where they had advanced. The Italians are declared, in a wire less dispatch from Berlin, to have , sustained serious reverses in Tripoli in engagements with tribesmen. They are reported to have lost 6,000 men | killed, the advices state. ELE V ATORSWITH WHEAT ARE BURNED [Continued From First Page.] shipment to Great Britain and her allies. The fire which started at 2 o'clock this morning was virtually under con trol four hours later although the two elevators were still blazing. The blaze , had its origin in the shaft of the main i elevator and was driven by a strong | northeast wind into the grain bins | below. The firemen were handicapped iby a maze of railroad tracks on I which were many freight cars, i Although the elevators stood on the •shore of Erie Bay it was impossible owing to lack of marine apparatus to I fight the lire from the water. ! One company ot firemen saved the third elevator by dllmbing into it and | fighting back the blaze, j An investigation of the origin of the I fire will be requested. No other cause I than spontaneous combustion lins yet I been assigned. B. F. Nead's Boy to Gallop on Famous Hobby-horse The 3-year-old son of B. Frank Nead, a member of the Dauphin county bar, is due to receive an heir loom from Santa Claus that may be come quite a hobby with him; cer tainly it was a hobby for years of his father and grandfather before him. Nor is this a figure of speech. The "hobby" is an old-fashioned wooden rocking-horse and has hauled youngsters of the Nead family since 1863. Recently the horse has been painted and otherwise given a little more of skittish, up-to-date appear ance. It is carved from a solid piece of wood, Is three and a half feet long and two feet high. The names of Its i tiny riders for years and years back are painted on its—er —well, where | the girth strap goes round. rORJiEUI'S DOYLE Cornelius Doyle, veteran of the Civil War and a resident of this city for more than forty years, died suddenly last evening at the home of his daugh ter, Mrs. William Beidleman, 218 Cres cent street, from a stroke. He was 69 years old. Mr. Doyle was born in Bal timore. April 15. 1846. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted In the Union army, serving two years. Later he removed to this place and for the last twenty years was an engineer for the Harrisburg Silk Mills. A year ago he retired because of his health. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon, at 2 o'clocV. at the home of his daughter. The Kev. Thomas Fleisch, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, will officiate. Burial will be made at Pax tang Cemetery. Mr. Doyle Is survived by Ills daughtter and one son. J. L. . I jl Be Independent | A Bank account will make you p so—Start one today 'TMIK FIRST NATIONAL BANK Invites your account I for any amount over one dollar. You can deposit $$ nSs "*■ large or small amounts, and get a regular pass book, vy which enables you to draw or deposit your money at will ) >', fgj On this modern plan you can draw a part of your money PQ without disturbing interest on tho balance, and if your i money has been here three months, you will set 8 per fef i Wg? cent, compounded semiannual)}*. hQ :jj§ One of the strongest and oldest banks in Central Penn- JSS sylvania. rsf- Capital Stock 5100,000.00 ; Surplus *500,000.00 First National Bank 224 Market St. Ba, HARRISnCRft. PENNA. * <; Popular Singer at the Majestic Says It Is Now Being Adopted by the Schools 'Most every vaudeville fan in Harris liurg has grown to like Ed Morton, the popular singer, who Is again warbling his way into favor at the Majestic dur ing the last half of the week. Tt is interesting to note that Mr. Mor ton Is Including in his songs a number that lie says is going to be adopted as DANSEUSE NEEDS REAL LIVE SNAKE Miss Xoland, Baltimore, Insists on Writhing Serpent For Dance Before Miss Katherine Noland, of Baltimore, can do the weird Egyptian "dance of the vases" at the charity ball she says she must have a real live snake! This wasn't to have been publicly known until it was definitely settled whether or not a papier-mache snake wouldn't do as well: somehow the fact leaked out. The "dance of the vases" is to be the opening number of the gorgeous pageant of dancing that is to precede the big ball in Chestnut. Street Audi torium Thursday evening, January 20. Tlic Dance of the Vases The story Miss Noland wishes to portray is that of a captive maiden — so the synopsis has it, anyway—who wishes to obtain her release from bondage when she dances before one of the old Pharaohs of Egypt. It's a very snakey-like, weird enough dance. One can scarcely help associating it with creepy thoughts of tiger skin cov ered courtyards and a lot of coal-black slaves and an only seemingly inter ested king lolling lazily back on his couch and the languorous swaying rhythm of the "dance of tho vases." The orchestra adds Its share to the pic ture with some of that "Salome"-llke variety of music. However, to tell the story properly, Miss Noland Insists that she must have a real live snake. Down to the Fox-trot Tho "dance of the vases" Is only one of a whole lot of numbers which will make up tho most colorful spec tacle of its kind ever seen in this city. For just forty minutes scores of Ilar risburg's prettiest girls and best danc ing youths will tell the tale of the years by the (lances of the various periods. And the history will cover from the days of old Egypt all the way day to these nights of the foje-trot. Every period will be realistically inter preted in costume of the time as well as in the way the dancers step. The tale, period by period, will be unfolded in rhythm across the big floor with all the vividness of a moving picture film. After the pageant, of course, there will be the big dance, in which every body can join. The bir*» will bo twit tering a greeting to another day before the "home waltz" is finished. Nor will the dancing be all; the decorations will be something to make tho hun dreds of guests sit up and gasp about. The great hall will resemble a real tea garden of old Japan. And when you're through with the dance you can step Into the adjoining hall for supper. And Still the Snake! The proceeds of the bl? ball, as you probably know, are to boost the fund of the Associated Aid Society to per mit the continuance of this excellent work among the needy. The Aid So ciety includes the jurisdiction of the Children's Aid work and the social service bureau formerly handled by the Associated Charities. Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert Is president of the Asso ciated Aid; Mrs. Marlln E. Olmsted is chairman of the finance committee, which is arranging the ball, and serv ing with her arc Miss Anne McCor mlck. E. S. Herman. Frank J. Brady and Carl B. Ely. Incidentally, if Miss Noland MUST have a snake, It will be for the committee on arrangements to produce the snake. Aren't you going to the charity ball? WAI.TER GEK Funeral services for Walter Gee, who died yesterday morning at the County Almshouse, will be held to-morrow af ternoon at the Hooper funeral parlors, (501 Forster street. Burial will be made iat Lincoln Cemetery. (i national air. At the present time lie declares tnnt the schools are tnking up the number in New York State and that it is also being popularized in Other places. It's a tuneful SOUK with clever lines and is written mostly along' the lines of America's growth.—Adver tisement. j Theaters Do Their Part in Red Cross Seal Sale | Pretty girls who will feature a I vaudeville act in the Majestic next j week will do their share in boosting j Harrlsburg's Red Cross Christmas seal ! campaign for 1015 by selling the tiny ! Yuletido "stickers" in the audience. At the Colonial and at the Regent moving picture playhouses pretty booths, presided over by just as pretty girls garbed ns Red Cross nurses, will sell you all the seals you want. And stories of the fight against the white plague will be thrown upon the screen so realistically that you Just can't help stopping at the booth in the lobby anil purchasing lied Cross seals. The moving pictures and tlio booths will be part of next week's program at. the theaters —December 13 to 18 are the dates. This display has been ar ranged through the co-operation of Manager C. Floyd Hopkins and Peter Magaro. While arrangements are being made for the theater demonstration tlio se cret societies, business houses, manu facturing concerns, department stores, etc., are selling the seals by the thou sands. More than 11,00 ft have already been distributed among the fraternal orders by Dr. J. M. J. Raunlck, city director of health. Another 4,000 hav« been taken by Shirley B. Watts, local manager of the Bell Telephone Com pany, for distribution among the vari ous departments. ERIK WILD DROP STEAMSHIP HOLDINGS New York, Dec. 10.—The Erie rail road. it was announced to-day by President Underwood, has taken steps to comply with the Interstate Com merce Commission's ruling that rail roads must not operate steamships on the Great Lakes. The ruling, made last summer, goes into effect this month. TRUCK HIT? THOLI.KY An Adams Express Company truck collided with a second strtet trolley car at Second and Locust streets, eariv this afternoon, fortunately with no resulting damage to either, with the exception of a broken Window In the car and >«,. twisted axle for the truck. The driver of the machine attempted to cross in front of the street car in order to turn up Locust Htreet and was struck In the rear and whirled around so that tile front of the truck smashed the window of the car. SOUR STOMACH When vegetable food ferments it causes sour rlsinff in the throat, the formation oC gas in the stomach whtcli distends It and causes pain often ex tending to tho region of the heart and arousing a fear of heart disease. Thin condition is called acid dyspepsia. Heartburn, a name applied to a pain In the pit of the stomach, with palpitation of the heart, results from acid dyspepsia. It is a condition that can be cor rected by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to tone up the digestive organs and by a proper selection of food. Send to-day to the Dr. Wil liams Medicine Co., Schenectady, Y„ for the diet book "What to Eat and How to Eat." It contains infor mation about the diet In health and sickness and is free on request. It gives complete information regarding the tonic treatment of many forms of stomach trouble with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. There cannot be perfect digestion without a sufficient supply of red blood and there Is nothing bet - ter than Dr. Williams' Pink Pillt to enrich the blood and tone up tl.e stomach. Your own druggist sells Dr.' Wil i Hams' Pink Pills or they will b* sent by mall, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, si* boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady. N. Y. —Advei tisement. 25