Railway Officials Plan lo Confer With Brotherhoods on Length of Working Day
HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXV — No. 19
HALF MILLION
MEN IS BRITISH
LOSS IN BATTLE
Official Figures Arc 549,467;
Balkan Situation Under-
going Change
AUSTRI AN S ADVAN CIN G
Greeks Are Reinforcing De
tachments Along Albanian
Border
Afore than half a million casualties
have been suffered by the British
forces so far in the war. The official
figures pivinp the total up to January
9. made public to-day, place them at
349,467. the number being made up of
24.122 officers and 525,345. men.
Operations which may have an im
portant bearing upon the Balkan sit
uation are now taking place in Al
bania. The situation there is some
what clouded, but it appears that the
Austrians and Bulgarians jointly are
making the most of what appears to
be their present opportunity to over
run the country, in which little effect
ive opposition to tlieir action is appar
ent. The entente powers seem to be
placing reliance on Essad Pasha, who
favors their cause, to hold the forces
of the Teutonic allies in check tem
porarily, but what measures, if any.
are being taken to assist him are not
yet apparent.
Greeks Strengthen Force
. i'! 1 # Greeks are said to be rein-,
forcing their detachments at Albanian
border points and developments as to
the attitude to be adopted by the
Greek government, in view of the Bul
garian activities in Southern Albania,
are being closely watched by entente
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Garbage Collecting Co.
Fined SSO For Failure
to Follow Schedules
Fines aggregating S3O have been
imposed upon the Pennsylvania Re
duction Company for failure to make
proper collections of garbage in var
ious parts of the city.
The penalties were ordered by the
City Bureau of Health and Sanitation
and grew out of the unusually large
number of complaints that had been
received around the first of the year
from many parts of town. Scores of
residents kept the phones and mails
busy with bitter messages to the
Health Board offices as to the appar
ent indifference of the garbage con
tractors.
Child Poisoner Forces
Acid Down Baby's Throat
While Mother Is Nearby
By Associated Press
New Tork, Jail. 28.—Four-weeks
old Julius Clemens died to-day from
the effects of a quantity of acid forced
down his throat by an unidentified man
while the child was sitting in a go
cart outside of a candy shop in the
Bronx yesterday.
Mrs. Charles Clemens, the baby's
mother, had stepped into the shop,
leaving her 4-year-old daughter
to watch Julius. When the mother
rushed to the street in response to the
girl's screams she found that the
baby's mouth, chin and neck had been
burned by a strong acid and the child
was crying.
"A man did it." said Leonia. "He
gave baby something."
The police have been unable to ob
tain a clue to the identity of the child
poisoner, and also are at a loss as to
his motive.
Warden Drops Dead After
Electrocuting Negroes
By Associated Press
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 28. —Warden
Sale, of the North Carolina peniten
tiary here died of apoplexy to-day
after he had superintended the
electrocution of two negroes.
The warden appeared agitated as he
unstrapped the bodies of the negroes
from the electric chair and shortly
afterward became unconscious. He
was dead when physicians reached
him.
1 THE WEATHER]
For Harrlnburg nnd vicinity: Grn
ernlly cloudy and colder to-night
nnd Saturday: lonrit temperature
to-night about freezing.
For Eastern Pennsylvania: Cloudy
nnd somen hat raldrr to-night
and Saturday, probably rain In
south nnd rain or anon In north
portion) moderate northwest to
north wlnda.
River
The \orth llranch will eontlnue to
rl«f alovly, except the upper por
tion will heKln to fall late to
night or on Saturday. The Junl
nta nnd Went lironrh will fall
slowly or remain nearly station
ary. The main river will IteKln
to rlae alowly to-nlicht and con
tinue to rlae Saturday. A stage
of about 0.3 feet la Indicated for
llarrlshurg Saturday morning.
General Conditions
The atom that centered near Chl
cngo. Thuraday morning, haa
moved rapidly northeastward to
the .North Xtlantlc const, follow
ed by the cold, high preaanre area
whleh la central over Alberta,
"UK Ita front extending aoutli
eastward Into the l.ower Ohio
X alley.
1' I* 111 to 34 degreea colder In the
lake rralon. l.ower Ohio. Middle
and I ppcr Mlaslsalppl valleya.
Temperature: S a. m„ 52.
«Un: Ttlaea, 7:17 a. m.| aeta, 5:18
P. m.
Moons New moon, Febrnary 3, lltofl
u. m.
Hlver Stage: 111 feet above low
water mark.
Yeaterday'a YVenther
Highest temperature, US.
I.« west temperature, 47.
Mean temperature, US.
Normal temperature, 28.
NAMES BRANDEIS
TO FILL SUPREME
COURT VACANCY
i
President Wilson Selects
Widely-Known Lawyer to
Be Associate Justice
IS COMPLETE SURPRISE!
I
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
By Associated J'ress
Washington, Jan. 28. —President
Wilson to-day selected Louis JD. Bran
deis. of Boston, to be associate justice
of the Supreme Court to succeed the
late Justice Lamar.
Mr. Brandeis' nomination went to
the Senate to-day. It was a surprise
everywhere in official circles. Mr. !
Brandeis had not even beetj mentioned
for the vacancy.
-Mr. Brandeis is a lawver who has
been much in public life during the
last three years not only in legal work,
jbut in various movements for social
betterment. He is a Kcntuckian bv
birth and is 60 years old. He was born
and educated in Louisville and later at
| Harvard University and in ISTS began
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DUCKS FLY NORTHWARD, BEES
HUM,-BUT^KEEP
Mercury Didn't Fall Below 52 Last Sight; Cold Wave on Way
brom \\ est Will Soon Hit Harrisburg
Dillsburg, Pa.. Jan. 28. —The mild
weather of the last week is causing
the trees to bud. particularly the ma
ples. ■ Wasps and bees were seen fly- j
ins around yesterday in sections near
here.
Dauphin. Pa., Jan. 28.—Ducks were I
seen here yesterday flying northward. |
Colder weather with a drop in tem
perature to freezing is forecasted at
Harrisburg's first touch of the cold
wave which is moving eastward.
Must Keep Typhoid
Records at Hospital
in Accurate Manner
More accurate and efficient meth
ods of keeping records of the typhoid
and other contagious disease cases at
the Harrisburg Hospital will be in
sisted upon by the City Bureau of
Health and Sanitation.
The question of failure to report
typhoid cases as they develop in the
hospital will be considered at a spe
cial meeting of the bureau to be held
next week, probably Thursday. The
t bureau is now probing the apparent
neglect on the part of the hospital to
file a record of certain cases.
The State Health Department rules
require the filing of reports of typhoid
and similar cases as they develop. In
quiry has been made by the State au-
I thorities. however, as to the failure
iof the local hospital in a few in
| stances to comply with the regula
| tions. This will be insisted upon, ac
cording to Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, even
| if a new system of record keeping
j must be installed at the hospital.
Hundreds Made Homeless
by Heavy Floods in Ark.
By Associated Press
Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 28.—Hun
dreds of persons are homeless and
have asked for aid and thousands of
I acres of land are inundated in the
lower reaches of the White and the
Arkansas rivers. Upstream, with the
Arkansas four miles wide at Mulberry,
I is a volume of water which rivermen
I believe will cause the worst flood in
25 years when it pours down stream
and into the overflow that is backed
up because of high water in the Mis
sissippi.
CRI'DK OIL <fI'MPS AGAIN
By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Pa.. Jan. 2S.—A further
advance in the price of crude oil was
announced by the principal purchasing
agencies here to-day, ten cents being
added to the more important grades.
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1916,
WARNS OF TIME
WHEN RELATIONS
MAY BE DARKER
President Tells Americans to
Prepare For More Strained
International Affairs
;CO M M ENTS ON LIARS
i
I
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Takes Cracks at "Humbugs" in,
Mexican Snarl; Urges
Big Army
By Associated Vress
New York. Jan. 28.—President Wil-j
son returned to Washington to-day, I
leaving a message to Americans to i
prepare for a time when the inter- 1 ,
i national relations of the country may j
j not be so bright as to-day. Frankly!
admitting his change of mind on thej
preparedness issue within the year, he j
called upon Americans to insist upon 1
a body of 500,000 trained citizens who
will serve as a national military re
serve immediately available under
conditions of danger.
His utterances at New York were
regarded as expressing the keynote of;
the preparedness campaign through-]
out the Middle West upon which he ;
starts late to-day. He spoke before!
the Railway Business Association ban-:
fore a gathering of 700 clergymen and [
at the banquet of the Motion Picture I
Board of Trade.
"I ca'nnot tell you what the inter-1
national relations of this country will I
be to-morrow," said the President, atl
the railway business association ban-,
quet, "and I use the word literally. I
And 1 would not dare keep silent and |
let the country suppose that to-mor-i
row was certain to be as bright as to -1
day."
Ready to Fight
Applause greeted his assertions that
"I always accept, perhaps by some!
impulse of my native blood, the invi- j
tation to a tight." and that while!
America stands for peace its people j
are "ready at any time to fight for j
the vindication of their character and;
their honor."
Suffragists who attempted to obtain i
from the President a promise to sup- j
port a woman suffrage amendment to,
the Federal Constitution were disap- 1
pointed to-day by their failure to elicit j
anything more than a reassertion ofi
1 his opinion that the suffrage issue!
! should be settled by the States.
Comments on l.iurs
Not the least interesting please of'
1 j the President's visit was his speech i
'.to the Motion Picture Board of Trade!
I where his outspoken comments on
1 "liars" and their efforts to deceive
I him as to the Mexican situation and
I i the expression of his views of men
> I who attempted to "humbug" lilrn stir
■ i red his audience to laughter. The
II President put in a sixteen-hour day
': here.
11 The President spoke earnestly on
t the subject he had selected for him
i: self, sounding time and time again
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Last night the mercury did not go
below 52 and to-day climbed slowly,
but the cold wave is expected to pre
vent a record similar to the one
made yesterday, when the thermom
eter registered 6S before 2 o'clock in
the afternoon.
Big drops in temperature were re
corded in the Middle West this morn
ing. The storm center causing the
warm weather of the last week, has
moved out to sea off the northeastern
coast, and is being followed by colder
weather in practically all parts of the
country.
t Grave Anxiety Felt For
British Steamer With 300
on Board, Long Overdue
By Associated Press
London, Jan, 28.—Grave anxiety is
felt regarding the British steamship
Appam, which left Dakar for Ply
mouth on January 11 with 166 passen
gers and 134 in the crew. When about
| four days out wireless communication
with the vessel suddenly ceased. A
dispatch from Hull to Lloyds says that
the British steamship Tregantle re
' ports having passed at sea on January
i 16 a lifeboat with the Appam painted
[ on the stern and the bok knocked
away.
, Two or three other steamships com
ing in the same direction as the Appam
. a e also overdue.
Among the 166 passengers on board
i the Appam were Colonial officials.
A report from Lisbon recently an
nounced that mines had been discov
ered in the Bay of Biscay.
The lifeboat with the name Appam
painted on the stern reported by the
steamship Tregantle was passed by
that vessel in Latitude 3 3.2 4, North
Longitude 14,32 West.
The Appam, of 7781 tons gross, 425
[ feet long and 57 feet hoam was built
> in 1913 by Ilarland and Wolff at Bel
i fast, Ireland. She was owned bv the
, British and African Steamship Xavi
, gation Company.
STEAMER DISABLED
Queenstown, Jan. 28.—The Allan
line steamship Pomeranian arrived
here yesterday in tow.
A dispatch from Queenstown on
January 25 announced that the Pom
eranian outward bound from Glasgow
for Canada, had been disabled in a
• terrific gale, had lost one of her pro
i pellers and her rudder and was mak
; ing for Queenstown, escorted by an
other vessel. It was stated that all on
board were safe. ,
(MAY SOON BE EMPEROR AN 1
V. 1 J
ARCHDUKE CARL AND ARCHDUCHESS ZITA
According to dispatches from Rome, the aged Emperor Franz-Joseph of
Austria has suffered two strokes of apoplexy and is now in a critical condi
tion. Archduchess Zita. wife of the Archduke Carl, nephew of the Emperor
and heir to the throne, is in constant attendance on the aged monarch. Arch
duke Carl is with the army in the field.
$13,000 RAISED !
BY TWO JEWISH j
RELIEF BODIES
Small Collectors (lather More
Than $1,600 in "Tag Day"
Campaign
Jewish war reKef contributions
from this city and vicinity will total
more than $13,000 it is estimated. ,
The propoganda to raise money to]
relieve their hundreds of thousands!
of eo-religlonlsts 011 the war fronts of |
Europe was begun in this city January
16 when a Huge mass meeting of
Jewish people was held in the Technl- I
cal High School. At that time morel
than $6,400 was raised in an hour]
and a half.
The campaign was culminated yes-1
terday in a widespread observance of
"Jewish war relief day." This date
had been fixed for observance
throughout the nation and the State
by proclamations issued by President
Wilson and Governor Brumbaugh.
Jews and Gentiles were urged to con
tribute what they could.
Two committees conducted Harris
burg's campaign.
One headed by David Kaufman
operated under the jurisdiction of the
American Jewish war relief commit
tee. The other headed by Kabbi
i Silver conducted its campaign on be
j half of the Central Relief committee
lof New York. Both committees were
served by scores of young Jewish
men and girls who acted as solicitors.
The amount raised yesterday by
the Jewish war relief committee can
-1 not be definitely announced until all
jthe checks and cash contributions are
I totaled. At a meeting held in Lebanon
i last evening Rabbi Freund collected
: S7OO. Steelton also contributed several
1 hundred dollars. Checks are still
| coming in from various people in tho
I city and surrounding towns. The
synagogues have not all been heard
from. .
Rabbi Silver reported to-day that
his group of volunteer workers col
lected SI6OO. including the contribu
] tions from Steelton. This, with the
; sum already raised prior to yesterday,
; brought the total up to something
1 like $5,600. All the money collected,
|of course, will go to the aid of the
i Jews on European war fronts. This
I fund raised by Rabbi Silver and the
| money raised under the direction of
jthe Jewish war relief committee,
I amounting to something over $6,400,
! will run llarrisburg's contribution to
jat least $13,00(1 and probably more.
Thirteen Arrested in
| Chicago Bank Robbery;
Much Booty Recovered
By Associated Press
Chicago, Jan. 28. Much of the
j $15,000 stolen from the Washington
; Park National Bank in the raid yes
terday, was recovered to-day by the
police and among thirteen persons
taken Into custody the authorities be
lieve they have the five who partici
-1 pated in the robbery.
Through a woman who was ar
rested with one of the suspected men
word came to the police to-day of
rooms which had been recently rented
in a West Side apartment building.
Detectives went to the place and
forced their way into a room occupied
by five men and three women. While
they were breaking down the door a
newsboy in the street outside saw a
pasteboard box fall at his feet. He
kicked it and ten and twenty dollar
bills fell out. The boy called a
policeman nearby and they replaced
the money In the box. Then the
squad of detectives appeared with
their prisoners and took charge of
the moneybox.
| At detective headquarters the
money was counted and it totaled
$7,800.
JAPS CAPTURE COTTON TRADE
By Associated Press
Washington. Jan. 28. Japanese
manufacturers have captured the
American cotton goods trade in China
so completely, says a Department of
Commerce report issued to-day that
all hope of renewed American business
lies in an entire change of the class
of goods manufactured for Oriental ex
port.
EVEN IF MECA IS
A TRUANT HE IS
NO LESS POLITE
12-Year-Old Steclton Foreign
Boy Untangles Little Con- <
vcntionalitv
Even if Meca Vueltic, aged 12, docs
play "hookey," a lack of politeness
can't be churned against lum. Ha
aired his knowledge of the conventions
in January juvenile sessions this morn
ing.
Meca. who is * 4-foot-2-lnch Steel
ton youth, talks splendid English.
Only he doesn't care for school. And
so the truant officer got him. Assist
ant District Attorney Wickersham
quizzed him this morning as to his
indifference to school work.
"You go to Pearl Hill, don't you?"
inquired the county prosecutor. "Don't
you like her?"
Meca didn't answei-.
"Ton go to Pearl Hill, don't you?
Pearl Hill is your teacher, isn't she?"
"No, sir," said Meca.
"Why, who is?"
"Miss Hill," said Meca.
He was released on probation.
An Echo
Another echo of the North Third
street tragedy of several years ago
which sent Mrs. Louisa J. Bryan,
mother of Mrs. Martin Fleming, to
her death—and the husband to spend
the remainder of his life behind the
bars of the Eastern Penitentiary—was
; heard in juvenile court this morning
when John Bryan was arraigned for
stealing. John, with four other young
sters, who purloined some flashlights,
small tools, etc., from the stores of
Andrew Redmond and the West End
Electric Company. All were probated.
John's mother was Mrs. Louisa J.
Bryan. Up until the dreadful hour
when Martin Fleming's bullet ended
her life she had cared tenderly for the
boy. Since her death John's life hasn't
been exactly one of froses, according to
the juvenile court officers. His father's
religious faith is not the son's, the
court, was told. And when John was
arrested he begged the probation offi
cers not to tell his father that he fre
quently attended the church of his
mother.
Some Advise to the Court
Another youngster who had to face
the court on a truancy charge en
lightened Additional Law Judge McCar
rell somewhat on the school regu
lations. In releasing the youngster
the court advised the boy to attend
school every day.
"Go to school every day and on Sun
day," suggested Judge McCarrell. If
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Cumberland Valley Phone
Company Buys Perry Line
The Cumberland Valley Telephone
Company of Pennsylvania, 227 Federal
Square, this city, has purchased the
line of the Eastern Perry Telephone
Company for $10,025. The line ex
tends from West Fairview, through
Marysville, Duncannon.New Buffalo to
Montgomery's Ferry.
The sale was made at a meeting of
the Perry Company's stockholders at
Duncannon. Formal acceptance of
the sale was received by the C. V. T.
I this morning. The sale must now be
! confirmed by the Public Service Com-
I mission. ,
Watch Several Suspects
of School House Fires
State authorities are continuing
their investigation of the three school
building fires on the Hill more than a
week ago but as yet no arrests have
been made. Several persons are be
ing watched, according to Information
available and a number have been
<loselv questioned but in each case
they have proven their whereabouts
on the night of the fires to the satis
faction of the State authorities.
One man was taken to the tire mar
shal's office this morning and put
through a rapid-fire line of question
ins but he was permitted to go.
22 PAGES CITY EDITION
OFFICIALS PLAN
TO CONFER WITH
BROTHERHOODS
Leading Railways to Organize
Conference Committee to
Meet Employes
WILL AFFORD MEDIUM
Realize They Have No Ade
quate Method of Meeting Ex
traordinary Situation
By Associated Press
New York, Jan. 28.—Officials of the
leading railways of the United States
are considering a plan to organize
a general conference committee of the
railway managers of the whole coun
try to negotiate with representations 1
of the four brotherhoods of railway
employes which are voting on the
question whether to demand an eight
hour working day. It is stated that
it this plan is put into effect it will 1
be the first time in the history of the
country.
The plan har been proposed because
it is realized that the railway officials
j have no adequate method of meeting
(the extraordinary situation now con
fronting them. Never before has
j t here been a labor movement of such
j magnitude among railway employes,
say the officials.
Conference Now
There is at present a conference of
railway managers in each of the three
districts into which the country is
divided but the functions of each are
restricted to the territory in which its
road operates. There are also the
. American Railway Association with
, members from all parts of tht United
j States but it has none of the powers
■ proposed to be conferred upon the
| general conference,
i Although the plans for the proposed
conference committee are not fully
| developed-the general aim is to draw
Its members from among the railway
I managers composing the conferences
iof the eastern, southern and western
j districts.
The national conference is Intended
| to afford the operators and the broth
|crhoods a medium through which the
| eight-hour issue can be discussed as
j affecting the entire country without
splitting the negotiations into districts.
The proposal is understood to have the
endorsement of labor officials who as
serted that they wanted to confer with
the railroad officials as a general body.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MAY GO DRY j
Washington, Jan. 28.—Prohibition in the District of '
Columbia is the object of a bill reported without recommen- |
elation to-day by the Senate Committee which handles the ,
local affairs of the Capital. Leaders on both sides expect
the question to be fought out in the open at this session of j
Congress. ,
GRANT INCREASES IN COAL RATES
Washington, Jan. 23.—Prop«sfcd ir--refcsts of 25 cents
per jross ton on bituminous coal in carloads fram the Ches
terfield, Pa., district to Providence, Auburn and Olneyville,
R. 1., were approved to-day by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
MRS. WALLOWEfi GWTft LITTBIS
Harrisburg. ®rs. Ifary B. Wallow* this afternoo:: .<
was gTant«l i«tteri of administration on the estate of her
husband, W. W. Walloper. In tha diforc# court t© be heid
next Monday, Mrs. Walloper is listrtl as in » |
divorce proceedings instituted by her late husband.
I
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS TO IMPROVE SPORTS J
Philadelphia, Jan. 28. The Association of College
Presidents of Pennsylvania, which includes in its member-
ship the directing heads of all the educational institutions in I
the State, at a meeting here to-day began what was describ- i
ed in a resolution as a crusade to eliminate from intercol- (
legiate athletics certain practices which it is claimed are I
"demoralizing secondary and preparatory schools" and I
"rapidly subordinating intellectual development in the uni- I
versities to athletic Superiority."
SPECIAL AGENT GOING TO GUATEMALA
.El Paso, Tex., Jan. 28.—George C. Carothers, special '
agent of the State Department, will leave here to-night for '
Washington, having been recalled by the State Department '
from the Mexican border. According to information here
he will proceed from Washington to Guatemala. He re
fused to discuss his mission in that country.
HA RRIAGE ,
Millard McCoy, Barn Its, NIHI Mmmii May Went*, Plaloslleld. I
TWO TRAINS HIT
AUTOS; WRECKED;
THREE ARE DEAD
Fast Speeding Express Trains
in Ohio and New Jersey Are
Thrown From Tracks
AUTO PARTIES KILLED
Fifty Passengers Hurt When
Panhandle Limited Slides
Into Gulley
Three persons were killed, three
others so seriously injured that
their recovery is doubtful and
forty-seven passengers slightly
hurt early this morning when two
fast speeding express trains in
Ohio and New Jersey were
wrecked after crashing into auto
mobiles on grade crossings.
Newark, Ohio, Jan. 28.—one man
was killed and a portion of a fast New
York-St. Louis "nnhandle Limited
train flopped over into a fifteen-foot
gulley, injuring a mail clerk and bruis
ing and shaking up forty-seven passen
gers, shortly before last midnight,
when the train struck an automobile
at a crossing fifteen miles from here.
Lee MeCormlck, 24, of Aetna, Ohio,
driving the automobile, was instantly
killed.
James Masters, mail clerk, was seri
ously Injured when the locomotive,
three mail cars and two Pullmans
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To Send 1,500 Army Coats
to Russian War Victims
More than 1500 army overcoats—-
the entire stock of J. T. Ensniinger,
100 South Second street, were pur
chased to-day by Simon Miehlovitz,
dealer In junk, residing at 18 North
Thirteenth street, to be shipped to
poor people in Russia. The coats
cost several thousands of dollars and
will be sent to New York for ship
ment probably next week, according
to Mr. Michlovitz.
Sir. Michlovitz said that the coat*
were bought to aid in the relief work
being done in the warring nations in
Europe.