12 From Uptown Merchants Come Messages SCHWAB TO BlTIil) VKSSELS: BUYS BIG CALIFORNIA YARD Special to the Telegraph South Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 4. — That Charles M. Schwab expects to en ter the shipbuilding industry on an extensive scale —though war vessels will not be built—became known yes terday when it was announced that he had just acquired the United Engi neering Workß, at Alameda, Cal., across the bay from his Union Iron Works. The purchase price is said to have been considerable more than $1,000,000. Three ships, where the largest mer chant vessels can be built, are to be constructed. ® ~ [C] KAISER SHOES the kind that wear for Boys and Girls to $1.98 Acme Shoe Store 1210 X. Third St. Jos. Copllnky. Prop. B k TORIC LENSES MANY people are wearing correctly fitted glasses but still have an uneasy feel ing In their eyes. This is usually caused by sensi tiveness to different kinds of light. Sir William Crooke's glass eliminates harmful rays of light. Rinkenbach-fitted lenses, made from this glass will > give genuine comfort. Rinkenbach's JEWELERS OPTOMETRISTS 1215 N. 3rd St. Try Telegraph Want Ads Snerial Cash Pay the *?"!?.. A Or FURNITURE Handler I now " lr,l# l "" 1 up . $5.50 Curtains Our February Furniture Sale |a 48 inches wide, 3 yards long, I 1 •-! ,1 Iri exclusive patterns; real heavy IS DOW lUKICF W2ty With tu6 |[| jJ, designs. _ J • II I If notice -owing to the Greatest Values we veever given B| Ilim J J fact that we are selling this far © J 8 ,|,!a WPI hplow mamifartnrpr's met ot Our business Is based on just two things—the merchandise and If B ft. J jnanuiacturer S cosr—at „ 1P prices. Wc *cll only the best furniture and bedding we can 9 111 ' % the unheard-of price of i tHf, it buy—the kintls wliieli we know we can recommend for satisfactory V _]• ? 1 Ttfl' f will be sold for cash only. Ami "wo sell this guaranteed merchandise at In,he |,a y n,c,it ° r deposit, au goods! Special 00 up may be held for future delivery. *■ *11? 6 •\J\J *■ — —_—__ __ _ _ All Sizes For All Dining Set—including 5 side and 1 arm chair, genuine leather slip Kinds of Rooms C seats, solid quartered oak frame—A No. 1 construction; plank top - »>> table, quartered oak, golden finish, heavy pedestal, scroll legs; buffet v . rso and c * oset the highest 6 WOr^ v Designs iVletal Bed hoods. Highest grade Armstrong's Linoleum Two-inch post; one-inch fill- } So-carta. Prices from sanitary and dor ers; full sizes and single sizes. \jl\J XlL' abk ' Attractive, clean-cut pat f* - jt* _ _ Ai a a a terns in all desirable colors. Special ?>IZ.OU up 20% off on all grades FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 4. 1916.' DANUBE RETURNS |. TO PEACEFUL AIR' i Fields and Hillsides Again if Being Cultivated by Huns t a I I FISHING FOR MINES \ 1 ! t Hazardous Occupation Is In- [ dulged in by Serbian Monitors ! ji (Correspondence of Associated Press.) 1 Semlin, Austria-Hungary, Nov. 15. J —A month ago the scene of fierce!] combat between the armies of Austria- | Hungary and Germany on one side. ' and Serbia on the other, the Danube ]: lias now returned to more peaceful i i aspects. Were it not for the partly 1 1 ruined towns and villages on its Ser- 11 bian bank, four miltiary pontoon!' bridges, and boats and barges loaded i with troops and army materials, all!' j traces of the struggle would be lack-j I ing in the Danube landscape. Stamped Covers in any size Give us the size of the ! piece of furniture for ! which you wish a cover; ' select the linen from our . stock of piece linens; J choose the monogram 1 and design; and we'll cut : \ and stamp a cover for ] '] you. '• —of particular advan- 1 tage in those cases i where a standard size ! cover is slightly too j small or too large. < 1 c TKe Wimi\S EXCIM& j iKlrd Street at Herr 1 i The Shop lad i vidua! ! Along the Hungarian bank men j plough broad and fertile acres in the I plains, and where the hills and moun- j tains come close to the water hundreds ! of women and children gather grapes, j the harvesting of which was retarded | by the military operations. An occa- j sional smoking stack brightens the j impression that life along the Hungar ian shore is again normal, though the | masses of soldiers in the streets and j along the river jetties indicate that the region is still in the base zone In j rear of a large army. The Associated Press correspondent made the trip up the Danube from ! liom Palanka, Bulgaria, to Orsova, ! Hungary, aboard the Austrian moni- j tor Sava, a craft into which all the; fruits of experience in Danube warfare during tilt last year have been em- j bodied. For a boat of her tonnage the 1 Sava, as also her sister ship, the 1 Temes. must be looked upon as a re markable example of how much heavy { and light artillery may be crammed into small space. Her main battery j would do credit to a small cruiser. I while a speed of from 22 to 26 knots makes the Sava class an enemy to be respected. On Board a Monitor The monitor left boni Palanka at 5.30 a. m. Driving sheets of rain and a cold wind drove everybody into the! ship's cubby-hole of a mess room. Hot tea and rum helped to cheer those 1 whom a long walk through Lom Pal- ' anka's muddy streets, and finally a tight-rope performance on the tim- I bers of an uncompleted jetty had rob bed of good humor. The officers land men of the Austrian Danube fleet i have all seen service in the navy, and ! being a genuine seafarer and a light-! ! hearted Austrian to boot, the com mander of the Sava explained to the passenger that in addition to having run the risk of slipping from a wet string-piece of the Jetty into the deep, muddy water of the "blue" Danube, he might, during the course of the day, sail skyward, impelled by a Rus sian mine. "We have so far fished up over five hundred mines." he said. "We have reason to believe that there are an other three hundred in the river, but the heavy rains which have made life in Serbia for our troops one long round of bad language, have also caused the river to go up about four feet. The Sava draws a little over four feet and the mines generally lie from two to four feet under the normal water level., So we are fairly safe." "It would be interesting to know how the Russians hoped to get those mines out of the way in case they had to do the job," continued the com mander. "The worst type of them all, also of Russian manufacture, remains alive, ready to go off at the slightest touch, so long as you exert the slight est pull on the ring by which it is ; moored. At tlx*? same time the mine cannot lie brought out of its horizon tal. or floating position, without its electric contact arrangement becom ing alive. Then, off she goes. The I only way of getting rid of these mines; is to shoot them. Probably that is how ! the Russians intended to get rid of them afterwards. If they did they overlooked the fact that the mine has i first to be found and that in dragging j for it you are bound to upset it suffl- I February Furniture Sale A carload of Bed Davenports just unloaded and placed in this Sale at Record Breaking February Prices These are not Davenports made especially for this sale. Everyone of them is a regularly made, high-grade Davenport and guaranteed satisfactory in every way. The only cheap thing about them is the price. Free^With Every 1 Free With Every Davenport Davenport Our February sale is full of big furniture bargains. • Better take a look at our values this month before making your purchase. We can save you money. "t~I Brown & Co., lis" credit 1217-19 North Third Street Furnishes V ' ciently to cause the explosion." Reduce Artillery Positions Thd sun rose on a Danube that seemed a lake of fluid mud. The monitor division commander came on deck—a very dignified but affable man j of about 45, and the very "beau ideal" 1 of naval officer. From him the Asso ciated Press correspondent learned | what part the Austrian monitor fleet had played in the crossing of the Dan ube by the troops of the Central Pow- j ers. The heavier guns and mortars', hud been assigned to reducing several j Serb artillery positions near Belgrade, j while the machine guns had been J trained upon some infantry positions! , close to the banks. The monitors had I I succeeded in enl'duding several Serb [ I positions. The result was a rout, said i ; the division chief. One of the roles; of the monitors had been to draw the I lire of the Serb and British artillery j ! along the river, and, monitors being j thoroughly detested by the Serbs, the ruse had worked, although ordinary. field artillery could do no more than J blister the paint on the monitors' ar mor, as an inspection of the ship j showed. The Sava had been very lucky, ex- j i plained the division commander, | though her sister ship, the Tcmes, | whose original namebearer still rusts I and rots in the Save river west of Gypsy Island, had not been so fortun ate. A heavy shell struck her deck, penetrated a hatch into the crew's I quarters, and killed and wounded nix. | But otherwise the Temes did not suffer land, as if to prove the remarks of the I commander, the monitor at just that | moment made a bend in the river, ' heading another large convoy of I barges. With a patrolboat in tow, the Sava j nosed her way through the liquid | mud, past low-lying banks, submerged [islands, marked only by tree tops, | miserable Serb and Rumanian villages, ! and the houseboat watermills peculiar j to the Danube. Scenically a trip on | 'the Danube in the late Fall is not un interesting. This is especially true in ! the hill region close to the famous I i "Iron Gates." The yellow and gray j : foliage of tlie willow trees is effective- j j ly contrasted by the blue of the hills in the background. Where the hills J Iconic close to the river, their sides] I form a crazy-quilt of all shodes of the | reds and tans of autumn foliage and j j the somber green of the conifers. I The correspondent talked to an Aus trian official who on the previous day! J had been in Turn-Severin (Rumania.) | j for the purpose of inducing the Serb j poplation of Kladowa, who tied | i there, to return to their homes. Every j guaranty was offered but it seemed j that the" Austrian had to compete wtih I a Russian agent who also made offers, j The Austrian lost out. despite the fact that Kladowa already had a Serb! burgomaster and a civilian adminis tration. Mill Rncc of Mud ' There has been little fighting in the I I Kladowa region. The fort or citadel, , an ancient Turkish structure, recently reinforced by some modern redoubts,; was abandoned by the Sorbs. Cattle l and sheep grazed on the glacis and in the moats. Anciently, the fort com manded the western limits and Kazan j little but fractured masonry. The channe'. of the Iron Gates was a mill race of turbulent mud. Though j the Sava pulled hard against the; treacherous current, she needed eigh- I teen minutes to fcet into quieter water. | A turn brought the ship within sight of Orsowa and Ada Kale, the latter, up to 1913, the last outpost of Turkey in Europe. Fearing that Serbia might annex the island, the Austro-Hungar ian government took possession nomi nally, though leaving to the Turkish j population every right and preroga-1 ttve it iiad ever enjoyed, including the i privilege of carrying 011 smuggling in 1 tobacco with whosoever it pleased. At Orsowa some of the Central Power troops crossed the river. The town itself showed signs of the recent and former artillery lire of the Serbs from the opposite bank. How the Austrians and Germans succeeded in scaling the cliff-like elevations on the Serbian shore is hard to understand. Dislodging an enemy entrenched on top of the Hudson Palisades looks less difficult. But many a man tumbled and more were drowned before they set foot on Serbian soil. Nevertheless the attack was successfully carried through asul will probably remain one of the monuments of the great war. Americans Revive Road Orsowa lie.' on historic ground. Here the Iron Gates end and the i [Continued on Opposite Page.] On the Down Grade Are the Prices of Sweaters Now, if Ever, Is the Time to Effect a Real Saving Lot No I.—Light Tan Sweaters with heavy roll collars; sizes 38, 40, 42. Guaranteed all wool. E* Former price $6.50, now vr Lot No. 2.—Navy and Maroon Sweaters, roll collars; sizes 34. 38, 40, 42, 44. Formerly Olflk $4.50, now Lot No. 3—Navy, Maroon and Oxford Sweaters, heavy rope weave with roll collars; sizes 38, d? 0 OC 40. Formerly $4.50, now Lot Xo. 4.—Navy Sweater with Byron collar, exceptional value at the original price which was $3.00. Sizes 34, 36, 38, 42, 44. Now selling at