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12 Long Months of Prosperity
52 Weeks of Health
366 Real Happy Bays
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POLICY IS VOID;
WIFE PART OWNER
Judge McCarrell Fixes Status
of Joint Ownership in In
surance Opinion
In refusing new
J/jl )( Hi trials and overrul
ing motions for
—-S—judgment despite
the verdict in the
action brought by
' ■■"jUJI John H. Pal m
•I lld HKIsI against the Hen
'a P RPiSrFirlls Franklin Fire In-
B rrrrH mt iff surauee Company,
Additional Law
Judge S. J. M.
McCarrell to-day definitely settled the
status of a beneficiary's claim on a fire
insurance policy when the claimant's
wife is part owner of the property in
sured. If the beneficiary states in the
insurance agreement that he is sole
owner of the property and it Is sub
sequently discovered that his wife Is
joint owner, the whole policy, accord
ing to Judge McCarrell, becomes void.
Paint had begun an action to recover
SI,OOO insurance on his house and
contents which were burned.
Final County Inspection of Weights.
—Harry A. Boyer, county inspector of
weights and measures, to-day tiled his
final report for the year with the
County ('omniissioners. During De
cember Mr. Boyer tested 685 scales
sealed 612, adjusted 32 and con
demned 43.
Daily City Balances Earn 58,887.18.
Daily city bank balances earned the
city treasury $6,887.18 in interest, ac
cording to the report compiled late
yesterday afternoon by City Treasurer
<l. M. Copelin. These sums represent
the amounts which were deposited
from day to day In various banks.
Bailey Earns Neat Sum for State.—
County Treasurer A.- H. Bailey yester
day paid to the State just $228.53, rep
resenting daily balance interest paid
by local banks for mercantile and
hunters' licenses, etc.. which had been
accumulating in the county treasury.
HOLIDAY~DANCES
SPREADING GRIP
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to follow, and the epidemic will have
added several to its number, says Dr.
Raunick. Very late hours, insufficient
sleep, carelessness about draughts
when overheated between dances, and
r general heedless lack of the ordinary
precautions is just as sure to count
you out for a few days as though the
germs were handed to you or. a silver
platter, insists the health officer.
Another thing that is a source of
great wonder to Dr. Raunick as well
as to all who have lived in the mod
ern age. is the apparel now worn by
the women and girls. Take for ex
ample the fur about the neck—now
you see it and now you don't, because
it has been shifted to the ankles and
the neck Is perfectly bare. And yet
milady keeps right on going and does
not seem to suffer much, or if she does
she refuses to admit it. But one's vi
tality is unquestionably diminished by
lack of sleep, and when one dances
one cannot sleep, and when one's vi
tality is diminished one's resistance is
less, and, as Dr. Raunick says, you
run a far greater chance of acquiring
grip if your resistance is below nor
mal. "Quad erat demonstrandum," to
speak geometrically.
Prominent Folk Have It
Just now Harrisburg is doing its
best to emulate Philadelphia in the
spread of the grip epidemic which has
seized its quota in every institution and
establishment in that city. Capitol
Hill seems to be suffering as much as
any other, with Auditor General Pow
ell, Commissioner of Labor and Indus
try John Price Jackson, and A. B. Mil
lar of the Public Service Commission,
laid up with almost any one of the
three, grip. La Grippe or influenza.
Doctors state that the epidemic is con
lined largely to the women and chil
dren, but whether the fact that their
resistance is less or their dresses too
short is the cause, Is not mentioned.
Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city health offi-1
cer. gave it out as his opinion this
morning that the epidemic is spread
ing, and what we need badly is a good,
cold spell.
Doctors. Too! Sure!
Even the doctors themselves are not
immune. Dr. William E. Wright has
.iust recovered from a recent attack,]
and were are others laid up who have !
had to put themselves in the position!
of patients. The Rev. W. N. Yates,
school director, is also a victim. Indi-1
•ations point to a slim attendance at
the meeting of the Harrisburg Acad-'
emy of Medicine to-night at 8.30 fori
the election of officers for 1916. Many!
of the physicians will probably be out
treating patients, but the meeting will j
not be postponed, according to the!
president, Harvey F. Smith.
The Hariisburg hospital has been I
suffering to the extent of two doctors,
Benjamin Oarflnkle and J. O. Crist, I
and five nurses, three of whom are
now on duty again. The polyclinic
hospital had but one nurse incapaci
tated and one patient developed a
slight attack while in the hospital. |
G. W. Kirchwey Appointed
as Sing Sing Warden
fiy Associated Press
Albany, N. Y.. Dec. 31. George W.
Kircliwey, of New York, former dean :
"f the Columbia Law School, was ap- |
pointed agent and wardt-n of Sing Sing •
prison to-day by John B. Riley, State !
Superintendent of Prisons, to succeed I
Thomas Mott Osborne. No conditions I
were attached to the appointment, i
which contained no limitations as to |
the length of Its duration.
In a brief statement, outlining his
plans. Professor Kirchwey said lie con
templated a continuance of the Mutual
U'elfare League founded by Osborne and
»n improvement of industrial work at
the prison.
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< O*KEV
JjON'T WORRY—There is a cure for
repulsive. sorehead fchickeniiox).
CONKKY'S SORKMRAn REMEDY
quickly heals the sores and purities
the blood. Dealers Everywhere. I
FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 31, 1915
LAFAYETTE SONS
PLAN A BANQUET
; Eastern College Men to Gather
at Harrisburg Club
January 11
I
alumni from all over Cen
tral ■ Pennsylvania will gather 'round
the banquet board in the Harrisburg
Club Monday evening, January 11. for
the first reunion of the followers of
the Maroon and White ever held here.
The gathering of the Eastonians
may lead to the formal organization
of a Lafayette Alumni Association for
Central Pennsylvania.
For weeks an active comrfiittee, con
sisting of Casper Dull, '77, W. W. Da
vis, "89. Dr. J. George Becht, '9O,
ex-Senator Fred A. Godcharles, "93. Wil
liam H. Earnest. '97, Charles K. Boas,
11, Frank P. Snodgrass, '9O, secretary
treasurer, and ex-Senator John E. Fox,
'BS. chairman, has been working on
the details and the outline of the
plans as announced by Mr. Snodgrass
to-day indicate one of the jolliest gath
erings of Lafayette men since their
student days.
Governor Brumbaugh to Attend
Some of the foremost men of the
j State will be guests. These will In
clude Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh,
Dr. Nathan Sehaeffer. Superintend
ent of Public Instruction; Dr. John
I Henry McCracken, president of Lafay
| ette, and Dr. William B. ("Bill")
I Owen, of the faculty.
! Other guests will include representa
tive graduates from other colleges and
universities. Dr. Arthur E. Brown,
, emy, will represent Harvard; Hen
derson Gilbert, Yale; Dr. William
M. Irvine, principal of Mercers
burg Academy, Princeton: President
Judge George Kunkel, Franklin and
Marshall; Additional Law Judge S. J.
M. McOarrell, Washington and Jeffer
son; John E. Dapp. Gettysburg; Paul
:G. Smith. Bucknell University; Dr.
John Price Jackson, State Commis
sioner of Labor and Industry, Penn
sylvania State College: John R. Geyer,
I Lebanon; George L. Reed, Dickinson:
| Percy L. Grubb, Lehigh, and A. Boyd
! Hamilton. University of Pennsylvania.
Fresh From College
Then, too, there will be a repre
sentative from the undergraduate body
of Lafayette and a quartet from the
college glee club. Lafayette's grad
uates expect to sing and cheer as they
did on football field and campus in
years gone by and the college quartet
I lias been invited to add a touch of
I "pep" to the singing and cheering of
I the later years. Not ir songs and
I cheers and the reunion of the class
mates will the spirit of Lafayette be
suggested, however: footballs, cups,
banners and other trophies which the
Eastonian warriors have wrested from
athletic foes will be hung on the walls
of the banquet hall of the Harrisburg
Club. Flags and bunting of Lafayette
j colors will help out in the decorative
i scheme. The music will be furnished
j by Weber's orchestra.
The Toasts
!! From seventy-five to a hundred
graduates are expected to attend the j
dinner. Dr. Becht will be toastmaster
, and among those who will respond to
1 toasts will be Governor Brumbaugh,
j Dr. McCracken. Dr. Irvine, Dr. Owen
i and Deputy Attorney General Einer
j son Collins. 'S4.
j The menu will be arranged on liand
j some souvenir folders bound in the
i college colors and containing on the
j cover page a reproduction of a famous
| portrait of that gentleman of France
after whom the East on college was
! named—the Marquis de Lafavette.
MANY LOSE LIVES
WHEN CRUISER SINKS
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extent and violence. Russia maintains
a mysterious reticence concerning her
military operations there. It seems
certain, however, that extremely im
portant events, the full significance of
which arc not as yet officially dis
closed, are occurring at the only point
where Russian armies can bring any
pressure to bear on the Balkan situa
tion without actually crossing Ru
i manian territory.
Many reports reach here that the
Austro-German and Bulgarian forces
are not only abandoning all prepara
tions for an advance in Macedonia,
hut are actually withdrawing troops
from this front, their action being at
tributed to the Russian offense in
i Bessarabia, but most of these dis
patches bear the impress of the wish
being father to the thought.
Close in on Bulgars
I Active operations in the Near East
I are now centering in Albania where
,the Serbian army is said to be suffer-
I ing from harrassing attacks made by
' Albanian forces. From the progress
they have made in Albania It is pre-
I dieted that the Italians will soon clash
! with the Bulgarians in that territory,
j Paris newspapers asserts the entente
| forces operuting in Albania soon will
have the powerful support of Essad
i Pasha, the Turkish leader there.
Athens claims that the diplomatic
situation shows a growing cordiality
i between Greece and the entente pow
-1 ers, France having assured the Greek
I government that the occupation of the
island of Castelorizo was a necessity
of war and only temporary.
No special importance according to
this report, is attached to the island,
as its status is undefined.
To < 'ompel "Slackers"
A historic meeting of the British
cabinet, at which the final draft of
the compulsion measure will probably
be adopted is expected to-day. The
bill, it is reported, will embody the
following principles:
Compulsion to be applied to all
single men who fail to attest: for this
purpose the machinery of the Earl of
Derby's plan to be made statutory
and the provisions of the law to be
enacted to apply only for the duration
of the present war.
The labor conference on compul
sion came to no decision as to its at
titude, but a strong feeling of sus
picion toward the reported cabinet
solution of the problem Is manifest.
The labor leaders probably will not
settle upon a policy until the rank
ard tile have had an opportunity to
express their opinion.
, The Montenegrins admit the recap-
ISTEELTONI
QUARTET CLUB TO j
AWAIT NEW YEAR
Grip Causes Postponement of!
Celebration; Watchnight
Services in Churches
| New Year's Day will be quietly
observed in both Middletown and
! Steelton although the entrance of the
j year at midnight will be given a
j rousing greeting in both boroughs ac
cording to plans discovered to-day.
j The big feature of the celebration
jin Steelton will he the watch night
I event in the German Quartet Club
j hall which begins at 8 o'clock. Mas-
I queraders will be present for the an
nual funfest, and addresses, music and
other features are included in the
program which closes at midnight
with the old year.
The Community Christmas Tree
celebration program of this evening,
will not be given, owing to the epi
demic of grip which has invaded
Steelton. Committeemen, residents
and school children, are suffering
trom the epidemic causing the post
ponement of the event.
Many of the churches will have
watchnight services with addresses
by the pastors, after which refresh
ments will be served during the so
cial hour.
43rd Anniversary of
Centenary U. B. Church
The forty-third anniversary cele
bration of the founding of Centenary
United Brethren Church will open
Sunday and will be continued until the
following Sunday night. The Rev. A.
K. Wier, pastor, has completed an in
teresting history of the church. Includ
ing the charter members and the pas
tors, since its organization almost half
a century ago.
The celebration of next week will
mark the completion of improvements
and additions to the church started
seven months ago and costing about
$12,000. The committee on building
included G. W. Parks, ,1. F. Mentzer,
W. 11. Cumbler, E. E. Herman. M. C.
Zerbv and the Rev. A. K. Wier. Im
provements and additions to the
chutcli in recent years have cost more
than $30,000, It is estimated, while
many new members have been added
by the work of the pastors and with
the aid of evangelistic campaigns. The
charter members of the church, which
was organized in 1872, follow: John
Shaffner, Mrs. John Shaffner, Samuel
Nlssley, Mrs. Samuel Nlssley, Jennie
Nlssley, Uriah Harpel, Mrs. Uriah Har
pel, Mrs. Samuel Reitzel, Samuel Relt
ssel, Fannie Reitzel. Fannie Mohn, John
IJngel. Mrs. John Llngel, George Gurt
ner. 'Mrs. Moses Young. G. W. Parks,
and Agnes Parks. Pastors of the
church from its organization to the
present time follow: The Rev. Van.
Hoff Gusweiler. 1873-1874; the Rev. J.
H. Light, March, June, 1874; the Rev.
Lewis Peters, 1874-1876; the Rev. H.
C. Phillips, 1876-1880; the Rev. J. M.
Muinma. 1880-1882; the Rev. J. R,
Hutchison. 1882-1885; the Rev. Lewis
Peters. 1885-1888; the Rev. E. L.
Hughes, 1889-1892: the Rev. Joseph
Meredith. 1892-1893: the Rev. E. Lud
wig, 1893-1896; the Rev. J. M. Shelley,
1896-1899; the Rev. A. R. Myers, 1899-
1907; the Rev. E. A. G. Bossier, 1907-
1913; the Rev. A. K. Wier, 1913.
Post 351, G. A. R. to
Install New Officers
Members of Sergeant Samuel W.
Lascomb Post. No. 351, Grand Army
of the Republic, will install officers
for the year at a meeting to-morrow
afternoon at 3 o'clock. Following are
the officers for 1916: Fred Dengler,
commander; Samuel Weaver, senior
vice-commander: C. A. Gallagher,
junior vice-commander; John C. At
tlck, quartermaster: David R. jioft
man, chaplain; William W. Gemmlll,
surgeon; John McAfee, officer of the
day; Charles E. Scott, representative
to department encampment; George
Hoopes, alternate.
Steelton Snapshots
Elect Officers.—Members of Steelton
Lodge. No. 411, Knights of Pythias,
elected the following officers last
night: Chancellor commander, George
W. Dress: vice-chancellor, IT. C. Light,
IH. K. Fries; master of work, H. W.
Foulkers; master at arms, IT. R. Rupp;
inner guard, W. A. Slilpp; outer guard,
Chauncey Cargil: trustee, D. J. Bech
told.
To Repeat Cantata.— The cantata,
"In David's Royal City," will be re
peated by the choir of the Grace
United Evangelical Church Tuesdav
night, January 4.
ISSUES CARDS FOR TEA
Miss Helen Vickery, Cottage Hill,
has issued cards for a New Year's
tea to be given to-morrow afternoon
from 4 to 6. Miss Dorothy Wall, her
guest, will be Introduced.
JOSEPH DENNIS DIES
.tosepli Dennis, one of the oldest, and
most widely known residents of the
borough and an employe of the Penn
sylvania Steel Company for many
years, died this morning at his home,
529 North Front street, from a compli
cation of diseases. He was 70 years
old.
Mr. Dennis came to the borough
more ihan forty years ago and worked
until recently at the open hearths of
the Pennsylvania Steel Company.
Later he was employed by the high
way department of the borough for a
short time. He is survived by his
wife and one sister. Funeral services
will probably be held Monday at the
St. James' Catholic Church, followed
by burial at the Mount Calvary Ceme
tery.
GERMAN LIEI TENANT
DESERTS W ITH PLANE
By Associated Press
Paris, Dec. 31. —"A German aviation
lieutenant, accompanied by his me
chanic. deserted with an aeroplane,"
says the Calais correspondent of the
Excelsior.. "They flew over the Dutch
border, being greted by volleys from
the frontier guards, and landed at the
village of Aardenburg. They have
heen interned at Flushing."
ture of Raskova Gora by the Aus
trians, but declare they have had suc
cesses elsewhere, making 1,500 pris
oners in an engagement in the Sanjak
in which an Austrian detachment was
wiped out. On the Lovoen (Dalma
tian) front the Montenegrins report an
Austrian repulse.
Berlin has reports that the Greek
government has again protested
against fortification by the entente
allies o fterritory around Saloniki.
An Austrian official report declares
that the French submarine Monge
was sunk by an Austrian Adriatic flo
tilla on Wendesday last, one officer
and fifteen men of the submarine be
ing made prisoner. .
GRIP TAKES HOLD
I ON CAPITOL HILL:
jMorc People Sick With the
| Winter Ailment Than Known
For a Long Time
.
More people con-
V\ \ i S/j nected with de-
Ov\\ jV-V/y partmenls of the
SSX\\ A (t, State government
f arf! s ' ck with the
\s Krip tllan I,aß ever
fcjfc-awgyyljjM been known on
Capitol Hill and!
I JsSIWwWbW owing to illness
MinugjilL some ° f tiie offices i
M" have been working i
with small forces. I
in one department :
alone five people were reported ill !
with grip yesterday and most of the i
heads of departments or deputies i
have been doing extra work to handle
matters which required immediate I
attention and which they did jno.t
have people to do. The worst havoc !
has been among the stenographers,
many of whom live in nearby towns.
Several of the victims of the grip
have been messengers and men who
looked over the mails, and as the
i mail is one of the biggest things at
; the Capitol just now there has been
some to keep things moving.
One of the' effects of the epidemic
: has been more open windows in the
' big granite building than is ordin
arily the case at this time of the
year.
Hush For Auto Tags.—Attaches of
the State Highway Department will
keep "watchnight" to-night in the
mailing rooms of the automobile divi-
I slon, but it will be owing to the de
mands for license tags for 1916 which
have swept into the department in
the last few days. As is usually the
■ case many people have waited until
almost the last minute to file their
applications for licenses and the con
sequence is a rush. It is expected that
a record for 1916 licenses to be issued
before January 1 will be made.
Record Will Be Good. —State
health officials, who have been study
• ing reporls on contagious and Infec
tious diseases believe that in spite of
1 outbreaks of typhoid and other dis
, eases that the State record for 1915
will be good. It is thought that the
birth record will run higher than
known and the deaths from the dis
eases against which science is work
ing will show a decline.
Pluns More Conferences. —Plans are
! being made for more conferences be
■ tween the State fishery authorities
i and the commercial trout growers.
Plans being made call for co-opera
tion in many details for next sum
■ mer's work.
Visiting Home. —Hale Hill, corpora
i tion clerk in the Auditor General's
I Department, is visiting his home In
! Pittsburgh.
To Kcturn Monday. Governor
• Brumbaugh is expected to return to
the city on Monday.
Com mission Next Month.—The State
> Commission of Agriculture is sched
' uled to meet In this city next month.
' Its members will attend the meetings
of the State Board of Agriculture.
Hush For Oleo Licenses.—The rush
for 1916 licenses for the
,sale of oleomargarine is greater than
ever known at this time of the year.
Probably 1.600 will be Issued by mid
-1 night to-night. The 1915 list shows
not far from 2,900.
Must Kliow New Tags. State
Highway Department officials to-day
reiterated their warning that 1915
automobile license tags would not be
legal to-morrow and the whole force
of the department was engaged to
day in rushing tags to owners who
have applied late or whose applica
tions were held up by the delay in
1 shipment of a car of tags. It is ex
pected that all who have filed to-day
will receive their tags by to-morrow
or Monday. The income from auto
mobile license applications has been
between $40,000 and $50,000 a day
lately.
Holiday To-morrow. To-morrow
will be a holiday at the Capitol and
there was a rush to clear up busi
ness to-day. Most of the departments
closed soon after noon to-day.
Movie Act Upheld. The Phila
delphia courts yesterday upheld the
right of the State Board of Censors
to order changes in pictures. This
settles an important question as the
suit was a test.
Public Service Hearing.—The Ohio
Valley Water case is being concluded
at Pittsburgh by Commissioner Rill
ing to-day. . Tlie commission will re
sume sessions here on Monday.
Uncle Sam Joins In. The United
t States authorities have joined with
the State in prosecuting people who
"fntten" oysters. Federal and State
agents w ill co-operate.
Can Iluild Bridge. The State
Water Supply Commission last night
approved the application of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
for the right to reconstruct its bridge
at Sunbury.
KING BOOZE WILL
BE KNOCKED OUT
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closing to-night. Under the Mulct law
repeal, statutory prohibition Is re
stored. pending the action of the next
legislature and the people on the pro
posed amendment for prohibition,
which is to be disposed of within the
next two years.
In Oregon the manufacture or, sale
of any kind of intoxicating liquor is
absolutely prohibited. L rug stores are
not permitted to sell liquor for any
purpose with or without a doctor's
prescription. Each family may import
for personal use' a maximum either
of two quarts of spirituous or vinous
liquors or twenty-four quarts of malt
liquor In any period of four successive
weeks.
In the state of Washington the
initiative prohibition law permits resi
dents to purchase from dealers outside
the state two quarts of spirituous
liquor or twelve quarts of beer each
twenty days.
Idalio 'Has Drastic I/aw
Idaho will go dry to-night by virtue
of statutory prohibition. Most of the
state has been dry under local option
and only about 150 saloons will be
forced out of business. Idaho's pro
hlbtion law Is said to be the most dras
tic in the Union. It not only pro
hibits the manufacture and sale of
liquor, but makes poasesslon of any
kind of malt or spirituous liquor a
crime, excepting wine for sacramental
purposes and pure alcohol for medi
cal. scientific and mechanical uses,
which is procurable only on an order
from the probate court.
CI.OSF AT SUNDOWN
Columbia. S. C., Dec. 31. The
South Carolina dispensary system un
der which 15 out of 44 counties oper
ated liquor dispensaries will cease to
exist at sundown to-day. Individuals
may obtain through shipment one gal
lon of liquor a month for personal
use. Certain spirits are permitted\for
the church, arts and sciences.
ROY 41. TO CLEAR DOCKET '
Mayor John K. Royal wll turn over
to Ills successor on Monday a clean po
lice docket. In order to do this he has
ordered a police court session for Mon
day morning, at 9 o'clock. All arrets
mnils between Saturday afternoon, st 4
o'clock, and Monday morning, will be
taken cßre of by Mayor Royal.
PjgAggogfeg/
READING PROFITS
TAKE BIG JUMP
November Surplus of Railway
Company Shows Surpris
ing Increase
|
I Gross receipts of the Philadelphia
iand Reading Railway Company for
November showed a. remarkable In
crease, equal to something more than
|3O per cent. Both net and surplus
| likewise far outran corresponding
; earnings for the same period a year
ago.
Gross receipts amounted to $5,083,-
490, compared with $3,984,042. Net
showed $2,127,652, a gain of $893,908.
Surplus for the month reached $1,357,-
402. compared with $464,077 last year,
a jump of $893,325, or virtually 200
per cent, increase. Receipts from
July 1 aggregated $23,088,941, against
$20,479,647. Net for the five months
amounted to $8,848,948, against $6,-
487,586 and surplus $4,997,698, com
pared with $2,639,252, close to 100
per cent, ahead.
Coal Company Short
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company showed up less
creditably. November earnings show
a gross business of $3,616,595, com
pared with $2,954,468, a gain of $662,-
127. Sine July I the reeclpts of the
company have been $13,131,853, a gain
jof $127,825 over last year: net aggre
j gated $380,353, or a loss of $79,940,
and surplus of $340,353, likewise suf
| fered a deficit of $79,940.
Earnings of the Reading company,
both for November and since July 1,
ran on a par with the 19J 4 statement.
I Total November receipts were $573,-
[513, compared with $572,687. Net
showed $558,136. a deficit of $8,015
i compared with November, 1914, and
surplus amounted to $100,470, deficit
jof $2,683. Since July 1 the com
i pany's total receipts were $2,851,037.
iagainst $2,817,715. Net during this
| period reached $2,816,068. a gain of
■ $34,003, and surplus $527,735, coin
' pared with $467,065.
Reductions in Coal
Rates Again Postponed
By Associated Press
Washington. Dec. 31. Reductions
in rates on anthracite from the Penrt
sylvanla fields to the Atlantic seaboard
were again postponed to-day by the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
j They will become effective April 1 in
-1 stead of January 1. They were orig
inally ordered for October 1 and have
been twice extended.
The commission wants to give the
coal roads time to work out the new
rate schedules they have been ordered
to make.
Heavy Rails For Lehigh;
Will First Make Tests
The Lehigh Valley railroad has pur
chased 2,500 tons of 136-pound rails.
Ti» is the heaviest rail ever rolled
for a steam railroad and the mainten
ance of way department plans to ex
periment with It with a view to Its
adoption as standard by that line.
The 136-pound rail means that every
running yard of it weighs 136 pounds.
Growth of heavy traffic and a desire to
attain that best possible efficiency for
its rails Is responsible for the experi
ment.
The new rails will be seven inches
high and 6 inches wide a the base.
When it is remembered that a 110-
pound rail is only six inches high and
inches wide at the base, the dif
ference is readily apparent. The in
i creased height and width means a
much better rail in every way, ac
cording to Lehigh Valley officials.
The design for this rail permitf the
rolling of the best quality of steel, and
the height and other dimensions are
such as to make this rail less liable
to break than other rails. The weak
est point In the track is at the joints
between the rails, and the height of
the 186-pound rail insures , greater
strength than is possible, with a light
er one.
New York Central Changes
Affect Passenger Agents
New York Central announces the
following changes, to take place Janu
ary 1: W. R. Barnet, assistant general
passenger agent, having resigned to
engage in other business, the following
appointments are made effective Janu
ary 1, 1916: C. C. Howard, assistant
general passenger agent, with office at
Grand Central Terminal, New York;
W. V. Lifsey, assistant general passen
ger agent, with office at 1216 Broad
way. New York: Harry Parry, assist
ant general passenger agent, with
office at 377 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Interstate Ruling May
Improve R. R. Conditions
By Associated Press
Washington, Dec. 31.—The Inter
state Commerce Commission to-day
declined to suspend schedules of the
Pennsylvania, New York Central and
other trunk line railroads which pro
vide for a reduction from 30 to 15
days in the allowance of free time on
export freight.
This means that the commission has
approved the free time allowance re
'duction beginning January 1. It may
I improve congested freight conditions
at the port of New York. The reduc
tions apply also to freight shipped to
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nor
folk and Newport News.
Scientists Hear Talk on
Railway Disease Uncertainty
Special to the Telegraph
Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 31. lvy L. .Lee,
who Is a member of the staff of the
Rockefeller Foundation and who was
formerly executive assistant to the
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
yesterday delivered an address on "Un
certainty—The. Railroad Disease." be
fore tlu American Association for the
Advancement of Science in session in
this city. He said, in part:
-At the end of nearly ten years of
regulation we now find the railroads
subject to the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and to the separate and
unrelated commissions of 'forty-six
States, all with very wide powers over
railroad rates and practices. Further
than that, the four years 1912 to 1915,
inclusive, saw the Introduction in forty
three State Legislatures of 3,020 bills
relating to railroads, of which 442 be
came law.
"The distinguishing .'act about the
svstem of railroad regulation which
has so far been developed in this conn- I
try is that it is Indefinite, inconsistent,
and not yet established on recognised
principles —in ottvr words, that there
Is in It "nothing certain by uncertainty.'
The rsllroads have no standards as to
what the various regulating bodies will
consider reasonable rates." 1
\ very liberal patronage dun 1
1 and wish them all 1
1 A-HAPPY'N EW ' YEAR 1
1 -LSfn Frank J. Consylman. 1
1 WithDoatrtch&Co.
' Standing of the Crews
HARHISBURG SIDE
I'hllndrlpliln Dlvlaloa—l32 crew first
to go after 2 p. m.: 119, 114, 103, 105.
Engineer for 105.
Flagman for 114.
Brakemen for 114 (two).
Engineers up: Weiker, Yeater, Max
well, W. C. Albright. Binkley, Eefever,
Kltch, Brubaker. MoOowan, Supplee.
Firemen u»*: Morris, Deltrlch, Slump.
Hepner, Coble, Smith, Johnson, Fisher,
Glllums. Minnlch.
Flagmen up: Miller, Hartman, Mar
tin.
Brakemen up: Felker, Dengler,
Wright, Buck.
Ml<l<llr mvision—"> crew first to go
after 2:45 p. m.: 23, 244, 234, 243, 241,
252. 218. 248.
Firemen for 5, 23.
Conductor for 23.
Flagman for 23.
Engineer up: Snyder.
Fireman up: Elebau.
I'nril » Tew*—
Engineers for second 8, 12, 14, IS. sec
ond 22, third 22, third 24, 62. 64. Three
extras.
Firemen for 6, second 8, fourth 8, 10,
20, first 22. second 22, first 24, 26, 28, 48,
62. 62. 64. Three extras.
Engineers up: Blosser, Malaby. Bodg
ers. ,f. R. Snyder. lx»y. keiby. Fulton,
Fells, McMorris, Runkle, Wise, Watts.
Firemen up: Snyder. Pensyl, Waltz,
Brady, Graham, Fry. Dougherty. B. F.
Eyde, Glassmyer, McKllllps, Ewlng,
Keiser, Heeler, Berrier, Pieffer, Snell.
Fleisher.
KNOI.A SIDE
Plillndelphln Division—249 crew first
to go after 12:45 o'clock: 250, 234, 203,
229. 209, 226, 257, 239, 221, 255. 230, 244.
236. 227.
Engineers for 226, 242, 245, 250, 258.
Firemen for 203, 230, 234, 242, 245,
250. 257.
Conductors for 227. 244, 255.
Flasmen for 230, 239. 244. 255.
Brakemen for 2u3. 209, 221 (two), 227,
229, 234, 236. 255 (two), 257.
Conductors up: Eibliart, Murlatt.
Brakeman up: Smith.
Middle IHvlxlnn—232 crew first to go
after 1 p. m.: 227, 246 229, 221, 23C-,
215. 249. 452. 237.
ur«l Crew*—To go after 4 p. m.:
Engineers for second 124, third 126,
104. second 102.
Firemen for 112, 122, 130, 104, first
102. second 102.
Engineers up: Kling, Smith, Miller,
Turner, Reese. Kepford.
Firemen up: Waller, Gelling. Fleck.
Cumbler, E. C. Hall, C. H. Hall, Bick
hart, Handiboe, Sellers.
THE READING
HnrrlNliurji Division—ll crew first to
go after 8 a. in.: 10. 1. 4, 5, 9. 6, 8, 7, 3.
East-bound 69, 58, 62, 52.
Engineers for 52, 6..2, 69, 1, 8, 9, 10.
Firemen for 62. 5, 6, S, 10, 14.
Brakemen for 62, 69, 1, 6, 8. 9, 10.
Engineers up: Wyre, Fraunfelder,
Merkle. Ferner, Morrison. Griffith,
k auffman.
Firemen up: Woland, Geib, Grim,
Dowliower, Keefer.
Brakemen up: Hinkle. Taylor. Smith,
Miller, Connel, Emeriek. Holbert,
Kline, Boltz, Stephens, Gray, Miller.
Carnival Dance on Stage
at Majestic Tonight
A carnival dance, which Manager
Hopkins says is the same as any other
dance except that the stylish steppers
appear in grotesque costumes, lias been
arranged to add the grand finale of the
I New Year celebration at the Majestic
Theater to-nigln.
At the close of the vaudeville per
formance with its injections oC extra
celebrations, the affair is to conclude
with a danct. on the stage to which all
masqueraders will b» invited.
While the applause of the audience
will guide the judges in making their
decisions in the various contests, never
theless experienced Judges will reserve
the light to make the final decision. The
judges will be. Robert Hoy, William
Orr and Robert Bux.
VICE CHANCELLOR EMORY RESIGNS
Bv Associated Press
Trenton, X. J., Dec. 31. Chancellor
Walker to-day accepted the resignation
of Vice Chancellor John It. Emory, of
Morristown, as a member of the Court
of Chancery. Mr. Emory is 73 years
old and has served three terms of seven
vears each as a member of the court,
ill health is the cause of the resigna
tion. Chancellor Walker will announce
his selection of a successor to Mr. Em
ory next week.
Harrisburg Retail Druggists
SOOE to Receive New Medicine
An "External" Vapor Treatment That Relieves Colds Over
Night, Croup in Fifteen Minutes. Coupon Below Good
at Your Druggist for a*2sc. Package Free.
Nothing to Swallow. Comes In
the Form of a Salve, and is
Vaporized by the Body Heat
When Applied Over the Throat
and Chest.
I •
Harrisburg people, especially
mothers with small children,
will be glad to know that the "out
side" treatment for cold troubles
—Vick's Vap-O-Rub Salve
that has made such a success in
the South, will shortly be intro
duced here. Arrangements are
being made for a number of the
leading druggists to give away
packages free. If your druggist
is one of these the coupon below
will entitle you to a 25c size jar
free.
This treatment is entirely dif
ferent from the usual "Internal"
medicines, which disturb the di
gestion and are especially in
jurious to the delicate stomachs
of children. It comes in salve
form and has a twofold action.
F.or cold troubles you just rub it
well over the throat and chest
and cqver with a warm flannel
cloth. The body heat releases
vapors of Menthol and Camphor,
Eucalyptol, Thyme, Cubebs and
7
FEAR OUTBREAKS
AFTER KILLINGS
Trouble May Follow Deaths of
Seven Negroes Shot in
Pitched Fights
By Associated T
Blakely, Ga., Deo. 31.—Excitement
caused throughout this section by
clashes between white possemeu anil
negroes near liore yesterday in which
seven negroes were killed and two
whites seriously hurt had not entirely
died down to-day. Influential while
citizens who were busy until late last
night in efforts to prevent further
possible outbreaks expressed the be
lief. however, that there would be no
more trouble.
Five of the negroes were shot and
killed and two others were burned lo
death, according to reports here, as a
result of three pitched battles between
the negroes and various bands of
whites seeking to capture Grandisou
Goolsby, negro farmer, and his two
sons, Mike and Ulysses, accused of
assassinating Henry J. Villlpigue, an
overseer who had thrashed one of the
younger Goolsbys. Villipigue was
shot in the neck Wednesday night,
his wife narrowly escaping death
from several other bullets lired after
he fell.
Burned in Cabin
The negroes reported dead as a re
sult of an all day hunt which started
Thursday morning when news of
Villipigue's death spread through the
county, and culminated in pitched
battles in the afternoon were Gnndi
son Goolsby, his two sons, both of
whom were burned in a cabin in
which they sought refuge: Hosli
Jewell, Harry Holmes, James Burton
and Early Hightower.
Jewell and Holmes were killed in
aiding the Goolsbys to stand off a
posse led by Sheriff Howell of Early
county. Burton and Hightower met
death resisting another posse which
sought to search theii mcabin.
It was estimated that there were
several hundred whites in the
various posses, and it was said that
probably half a dozen were wounded.
The killings occurred in the west
ern part of this (Early) county about
ten miles west of here, and near tho
Alabama boundary.
TWO S. 1\ C. A. PRO.SECCTIOXS
Two prosecutions Wfere reported
during the last month, according to
officers of i he' Harrisburg S. P. C. A.,
i who held their monthly meeting yester
j day. The annual meeting of the so-
I ciety will be held next Thursday after
noon at 4 o'clock in the offices of the
president, John T. Olmsted, 5 North
Third street.
EARTHQUAKE RECORDED
By Associated Press
Buffalo. N. Y„ Dec. 31. An earth
quake shock, preceded by pronounced
tremors for forty-eight hours, was re
coHied on the seismograph at Canlsius
College to-day. The quake, which be
gan at 7:30 a. m. and lasted five min
ute, was estimated to be about 2,500
miles southwest.
PREPARATORY SERVICES
Services preparatory to holy com
munion will be held this evening at
7:45 o'clock in Redeemer Lutheran
I church, conducted by the pastor, the
Rev. E. Victor "Roland. Holy com
munion will be administered Sunday
at both morning and night services.
FEEI) ON PHEASANT
West End Republican Club mem
bers last night enjoyed a South African
pheasant feast. Through a friend,
forty-five plump birds, were sent to
the club and last night served as part
of a big dinner. Forty enjoyed the
feast.
Juniper. These vapors are inhaled
all night long, with each breath,
loosening the phlegm and open
ing the air passages. Externally,
Vap-O-Rub is absorbed through
and stimulates the skin, aiding tha
vapors inhaled to relieve the con-i
gestion.
Vap-O-Rub will be found re
markably effective for head colds,
asthmatic and catarrhal troubles,
as well as for deep chest colds,
sore throat, bronchitis, tonsilitis
or incipient pneumonia. Its use is
particularly recommended to
mothers with small children, as
it is entirely external, and can be
used, with perfect safety, on tho
youngest member of the family.
None of the druggists have as
yet received their shipments, but
as the free supply is limited, it ia
advisable to present your coupon
at once.
COUPON NO. 2—A
Good for one 26c package of Vlck'a
Van-O-Rub Salve free. Present this
coupon now and your druggist will
reserve your package.
Name
Address
Note to Druggist— Ho!d coupon
until o«ir salesmen call.