Thousands View Body of Bishop Shanahan Lying in Siate at the Cathedral
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
■ "\r -\r , \T i r \t i a BIT'C ARRIER ® CEXTS 4 lil EEK.
•LAAAV ISO. oy MNGIE COPIES a CENTS.
REWARD OFFERED
TO ONE BRINGING !
HILL FIREBUG To|
JAIL AND JUSTICE
People of Big Residential
District Living in Terror
of New Outbreak of Incen
diarism; Private Watch
men and Detectives on the
Job
CITY POLICE ADMIT
THEY ARE RAFFLED I
Arson Believed to Be Work
of Some Fire-mad Brain;
SSO Will Be Handed Over
to Person Gathering Evi
dence Leading to Arrest
and Conviction
SSO Reward
To the person or persons gather
ing evidence leading to the arrest
and conviction of the firebug or
firebugs responsible for the series
of incendiary lires in the Allison
Hill district, the Telegraph will pay
a reward of fifty dollars.
Relieving that the safety and pro- j
teetion of the people of Allison Hill!
depend upon the immediate arrest and j
conviction of the firebug who has been
burning sclioolhouses, factories, stables
and other buildings in the Allison Hill
residential and industrial district, the
Telegraph to-day offers a reward of
SSO to tlie person or persons gathering '
evidence which will lead to the arrest j
Mid conviction of the incendiary.
It is hoped that City Council, the l
School Board and individuals will add
to this sum sufficient to induce private
agencies to prosecute a work so neces
sary to the protection of life and prop
erty—a work which the local police
force up to the present time has been
unable to do successfully.
Hill People In Terror
Ever since the outbreak of .the first
series of incendiary fires a month ago
when three sclioolhouses were set
n blaze the residents of the Hill have
been living in constant terror that a
new outbreak might occur.
Over Saturday and Sunday a second
series of fires, not so serious as the
first, because of prompt action on the
part of the city fire department, point
ed conclusively to the hand of the fire
fiend.
William L>. Windsor, head of the city
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President Flayed in
Verse by Owen Wister
Sferial to the Telegraph
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 22. Owen
Wister, the distinguished author,
gave out the following poem for pub
lication yesterday:
TO WOODROW WILSON":
FEB. 22, I*l6.
Not even if 1 possessed your twist in
speech,
Could T make any (fit for use) fit
you;
You've wormed yourself beyond de
scription's reach:
Truth if she touched you would be
come untrue.
Satire has scared a host of evil fames.
Has withered Emperors by her
fierce lampoons:
History has lashes that have flayed
the names
Of public cowards, hypocrites, pol
troons;
You go ityimune. Cased in your self
esteem.
The next world cannot scathe you*
nor can this:
No fact can stab through your com
placent dream.
Nor present laughter, nor the fu
ture's hiss.
But if its fathers did this land con
trol.
Dead Washington would wake and
blast your soul.
—Owen Wister.
Five Lose Lives When
Boardinghouse Burns
By Associated Press
New York, Feb. 22. Four men
and a woman lost their lives to-day
in a fire which destroyed a theatrical
boardinghouse over a restaurant in
the theater section of this city.
Early reports said that a' number
of the actors and actresses who were
stopping in the house had perished,
but the dead were identified later as
employes of the boardinghouse and
Thomas Keratsas, one of the pro
prietors.
! THE WEATHER
For HnrrUhars mid vicinity* r«ir
and warmer J \\ edne*day
fair, uhli no clinosf in tempera
ture.
For Kowtern Penn».vl\aula : o\ereant
to-nlalit and Wednesday;
warmer; moderate aoutb Mind*.
General Condition*
Legal holiday—no report, Weather
flureati eloaed.
Temperature! S a. m.. 30.
Sunt Rlaeft, 6:49 a. in.; aeta, 5: ##>
p. m.
Moon: Rineiv, «t4O p. m.
River Stage: 4.7 feet aliove lo%v
ivater mark.
Yeaferday'a Weather
llitthent temperature, iCT.
I.oweat temperature. 10.
Mean temperature, Ifl.
.Normal temperature, 31,
I !!
! I
-*—• ia .aafiffr
j IF WASHINGTON WERE HERE j
Were he alive today, what then?
j Would there lie words and controversies held #
I'or national preparedness or peace? 5
| He knew the cost of war. Were we prepared
That day at liexlngton? Old courage cease t
| At Might of armament so strong men smiled
At our self-confidence as at a child? 2
( Were he alive today, what then?
Those bloody footprints on tlie fro7.cn snow J
I Of Valley Forge their silent message send.
Could such a leader fail, a heart which bled £
| But through its suffering held out to the end,
| \ mind fJod-fearlng, humble, simple, true, S
A will with power to see and force to do? «
Were he alive today, what then? |
He stood for peace if peace were nobly sought. S
Hut would he sec tlie flag his hand unfurled J
{ Held light in men's esteem, his country's name
A by-word with the nations of the world? i
! If Washington were here what would he say
In these grave problems facing us to-dav? I
» —ANNA H. WOOD • 1
f Written for the Telegraph. S
BISHOP'S BODY
LIES IN STATE
AT CATHEDRAL
As Doors of Groat Church
Swing Open Hundreds File
in to View Remains
The body of the late lit. Rev. John
jW. Shanahan. bishop of the Diocese
iof Ifarrisburg. was taken into St. Pat
rick's Cathedral shortly after three
o'clock this afternoon and at 4 o'clock
the doors of the great church which '
, tlie bishop built, were thrown open to
tthc general public so that the prelate
j might be seen for the last time.
Bishop Shanahan's body was laid on
I the catafalque in the rectory and was
carried into the church by J. W. Ro-
I denhaver. P. 11. Vaughn, Eugene
: Waltz. George Weitael, Sr., A. 11.
Kreidler and 1,, it. Simonetti. The j
I bishop was attired in the robes of his
[Continued on l'aftc 12.]
MAISIE SAW THE i
BIG SHOW SO SHE
CALLED UP FLOSS
• Chum May Have Been a Wee
, Bit Stupid About Details
of tlic Display
' In her fox furs, rabbit-topped boots
. and pheasant-breast Spring straw, she
; went to the big show last evening.
) lier bosom friend Flossie hadn't fin
| ished breakfast when the phone jin
gled this morning.
j "... Oh, dear me, why she's
j surely there. Please ring again—Oh,
is this you, Floss? Listen, \ e went to
[Continued on rage 7. ]
50 SUSPENDED FOR DANCING
By Associated Press '
Greencastle. Ind.. Feb. 22. Fifty I
Depau University students have been
suspended for a week because they
violated tlie college rule against
dancing. The students attended a
ball given three weeks ago during the
midyear recess.
MIX ICR DUOS AT 107
Special to the Telegraph
Ilazleton. Pa.. Feb. 22.—John Sudrie,
107 years old. died yesterday at Crys
tal Ridge, where for many years he*
| worked in Uie mines.
HARRISBURG, PA„ TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1016
WHOLE COUNTRY
PAYS HOMAGE TO
GEO. WASHINGTON
National Figures Participate
in Monster Celebration
at Washington
Washington, Feb. 22.—Every agency
of the American government paused
to-day to pay homage to the memory
of George Washington in the capital
which bears his name.
President Wilson, Secretary Daniels.
Ambassador Jusserand and other na
tional figures gathered at a celebra
tion at Continental Memorial Hall un
der the auspices of Associated Patri
otic societies.
Both houses of Congress suspended
business while Senator Johnson, of
Maine, and Representative Raker, of
California, read General Washington's
farewell address, with its poignant
phrases warning against "insidious
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PRIPET SWAMP
I BRISTLES WITH
MACHINE GUNS
Mild Russian Winter Enables
Germans to Mold Eastern
Lines With Ease
By Associated Press
Pinsk. Russia, by Courier to Berlin,
Feb. 21, via London. Feb. 22. The
mildest winter of decades along the
present German lines in the East has
been an important factor in render
[Continued on Page ll.]
Just One George Washington
in Town Says Boyd's Book
If some curious soul with a voice
like a Krupp gun should stand on
the dome of the Capifol to-day and
shout the name George Washington
he would be answered by—
•George Washington. 413 Filbert
street, laborer."
There may be other Georges in
town, but if there are Mr. Boyd fails
to mention it in his big red book.
STEAMER ON FIRE
St. John. N. B. Feb. 22.—The Brit
ish steamer Arracan, loaded and in
i the outer harnor ready to sail, was
slightly damaged by fire of undeter-
| mined origin early 10-dav-
FIVE DEAD, 50
HURT IN WRECK
ON NEW HAVEN
Fast Speeding Special Crashes
Into Passenger Train Stopped
by Breakdown
FLAGMAN GIVES UP LIFE
Stands in Middle of Track
Eractically Waving Flag Un
til Too hate to Leap
By Associated rrtss
Milford, Conn., Feb. 22.—At least
Ave persons were killed and more than
fifty passengers were injured to-day
1 when the Connecticut river special.
No. 79. from Springfield, Mass., for!
New York, over the New York, New I
Jersey. New Haven and Ilartford Rail-'
road, was run into by a special pas-'
I senger train. This train was made up
in New llaven to carry passengers,
who otherwise would have gone on
the regular express from Boston to
Xew York, leaving New Haven shortly
after 11:30.
The dead are said to be a flagman
who had gone back to protect his
train which had been stopped by a
broken air pipe: Engineer Curtis and i
Fireman McGinnis. of the special \
and a man and a woman passenger on
that train whose bodies have been 1
seen under the wreckage.
Sacrifices Life
It is said that the flagman lost his'
life in a futile attempt to stop the
special running up the track so close
to the engine that he could not es
i cape. His body was cut to pieces.
I The rear end collision followed a
moment later.
The Connecticut river special had
stopped about a mile and a half east 1
of Indian river bridge because of ai
; broken air pipe. The flagman went i
back with his red flag. The ("onnecti
| cut river special was drawn by ai
motor while the special, which had'
been made tip at New Haven shortly j
after the train left, was drawn by a
, locomotive. It approached the stalled I
train at a good headway, it is said, j
| and as yet it is unknown whether,
, Engineer Curtis applied his brakes
upon seeing the flagman's warning. 1
Freight Train Drawn Tn
At the time of the collision a freight
train was running west on the next
, track. When the smash came a pas
senger coach was forced over against
i the freight adding to the mixup. The j
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Thinks He's "Billy" Sunday
and Starts Revival
After "looking upon the red. red
. i wine," a man believed by the police
jto be John Brodnie, South Front
| | street, imagined he was "Billy" Sun
-1 day and attempted to start an im
promptu revival in the West Side,
Steelton, this morning. When plaored
under arrest by Patrolman John
Wynn, after a tussle in which the of
ficer was severely scratched and
bruised about the face, Brodnie in
sisted that he was being persecuted
; because of his religious beliefs and
sank to his knees at Front and Lo
cust streets, the center of the business
. section, and declined to accompany the
officer.
' Finally. Chief of Police IT. P. Long
• naker ordered him loaded into a pa3s
-1 ing beer wagon and there feeling at
home, he was quieted and hauled to
' the borough lockup.
. COLONEL HUTCHISON IS
REPORTED AS RECOVERING
Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison, who
■ is in the Fountain Springs Hospital,
Ashland, is improved to-day. Dr.
1 J. C. Biddle who performed an opera-
F! tion on the Colonel's throat to-day
r wired: "Colonel Hutchison recovered
»I from serious operation on Sunday,
Lj Condition good."
ROUGH TRIP FATAL TO TWO
By Associated Press ,
j New York, Feb. 22. —Two deaths
I which were attributed to the vessel's
rough passage, occurred on the Amer
ican Hine steamship New York which
arrived from Liverpool to-day en
cased in ice. Airs. S. A. Wallace, of
Everett. Mass.. died last Sunday of
heart failure ascribed in part to the
rolling of the ship. February 15 John
Haughey, coal passer, was crushed
I under coal.
KING GEORGE RECOVERED
By Associated Press
London. Feb. 22.—King George has
j now completely recovered his health
and his medical advisers have given
him permission to resume his visits to
the troops in training.
GEO. E. MILLER DEAD
By Associated Press
Allentown, Pa., Feb. 22.—George E.
Miller, for six years general superin
• tendent of the Lehigh Valley Transit
s ; Company, died of pneumonia here
, this morning, aged 49 years. He was
, one of the best-known railroad men in
Pennsylvania, lie was born in Potts
i ville.
MURDERER KILLED BY TRAIN
By Associated Press
Lexington. Ky„ Feb. 22.—The search
■ for Bally Mulling, who was accused by
the police of having killed Quincy Dve
and fatally wounded R. A. Mattox, at
| Paris, on Sunday, ended to-day when
Muilins and an unidentified man were
1 run over and killed by a Louisville
• and Nashville train near Elktns, Ky.
The search tor Muilins had assumed
I almost state-wide proportions.
| $850,000 HOME FOR INDIGENTS
By Associated Press
Lancaster. Pa., Feb. 22.—A $350,000
home for indigent elderly men and
. their wives on his farm in this county,
I I is provided for in the will of Jacob S.
i j Peacock, wealthy steel manufacturer
.[and prominent clubman, who died
suddenly last w<*ek at Miami, Fia.
WIFE MADE HIM WOO HER PRETTY
ADOPTED CHILD, PRINCE SWEARS
As Flashing-eyed Yvonne Listens, Fositer-Mother's Husband
Says It Was Tiresome lo Make Love lo Her al Princess'
Orders; Yet He Called Her "Little Kizi-liizi"
New York, Feb. 22. —Bending for- Court Justice Clarke yesterday a re-
I ward in the witness chair, his swarthy markable story of his life with Mme.
! chin usually resting upon the palm of Almee Crocker Gourand Miskinoff and
one hand. Prince Alexander Miskinoff
of Kahedla, Caucasus, told Supreme [Continued on Pago 14.]
TURKISH LOSSES
ATERZERUMARE
PLACED AT 40,000
Russians Following Up Victory
by Chasing Ottoman Groups ;
in All Directions
1 The Turks lost heavily in the fight-
I ing resulting in the capture of Erze
rum by the Russians, according to a
1 j Petrograrl dispatch to-day which esti
' : mates tlielr losses as 40,000 killed,
■ I wounded and prisoners.
'| Following up their victory ener
! j getically, the Russians are pursuing
j the Turks westward from Erzerum as
■ I well as to the north and south, as the
- Turkish forces have split and fled In
I all directions. The different Ottoman
» groups, according to Petrograd ad
i vices, have been cut off from com
munication with each other, while the
Russians are declared to have solidi-
I lied their own lines so that their ad
> vance is rapidly becoming a forward
[Continued on Page 6.)
; Sends Quotations From
Bible on Postal Card;
Woman Is Held For Trial
Special to the Telegraph
JI Lewistown, Pa., Feb. 22. Miss
_ j Sarah E. Taylor, of Saltillo, Pa., has
j | been lodged in I he Mifflin county jail
i here at the instance of the postal au
thorities, charged with sending de
• jfamatory matter through the malls.
, j In default of $2,000 bail the woman is
' being held as a federal prisoner until
j March 13. when she will be given trial
] at Scranton.
Miss Taylor, who is about 36 years
old, says that she copied several pass
; ago* from Scripture upon a postal
i card, which she then mailed to a
• woman In lier neighborhood. One
i passage was a biblical allusion to a
i woman of ill-repute. This latter pass
) oge, the postal authorities say, is using
i the malls for defamalory purposes.
The woman says that she mailed the
j scriptural quotations to the other
woman with the hope that by reading
them she would reform from what she
• considered were evil habits.
' Chicago Woman Official
' Is Accused of Grafting
Special to the Telegraph
I Chicago, 111.. Feb. 22. A sensational
I allegation of graft was made yesterday
bv Alderman William K. Rodriguez,
who said that Mrs. Page Waller Katon.
' lecturer, author, and head of the Bu
reau of Social Survey under Mrs.
1 Ijouise Osborne Rome. Commissioner of
t, the Bureau of Public Welfare, had been
I compelled for months to nay over ap
, | proximately one-third of her salary to j
' Mrs. Rowe.
! The payments. It was alleged, wore t
! always made in cash, and wero said to
I | be for the benefit of a needy relative i
, of Mayor William Hale Tho-iiDson.
LEPERS DRANK WOOD
ATiCOHOIi; FIVE DEAD
Honolulu, Feb. 23. A band of |
' lepers at. the leper settlement on the j
1 , Island of Moloski found a tin of wood I
■ I alcohol and drank it, with the result
■ | that four men and one woman arc,
■dead and several others are seriously
I ill. according to word received here to-
JUUV lit am. Um ssltjemftnt. i
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T TEN ARE REPORTED KILLED ?
| New York, Feb. 22.—Ten persons were killed and six- *
\ teen injured in the wreck of passenger trains near Milford, e
| Conn., to-day, according to reports received by the local I
I offices of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- A
* road. Six of the dead were passengers and four were train- 1
I men. JL
J AMBASSADOR GERARD HURT 3KIINQ I
£ 22. — A dispatch to the Exchange Tele- f
1 graph Company says that James W. Gerard, American Am- I
& bassador to Germany, broke his collarbone while skiing
1 yesterday near Munich and also injured his left aide. It is |
J said his injuries are not lerious. <C
{ DINGLE SUNK: ONE SURVIVOR
* London, Feb. 22.—Sinking of the British steamship X
\ j Dingle is reported by Lloyds. There probably is only one \
] ! survivor. N» «etaii3 kavs bees received. The Dingle, £
« • J tons j f
Ii MULTIMILLIONAIRE DIES IN WEST ?
! Pueblo, Colo., eFb. 22.—Mahlon D. Thatcher, Pueblo |
! millionaire banker died this morning. He was 76 years old. • [
Thatcher was born near Gettysburg, Pa., in 1839. His *
estate is estimated to be worth from $10,000,000 to S2O,- g »
000,000. :
COURT DISCUSSES SHORT SKIRTS \
Harrisburg.—"Nowadays one may see most any style ■
on the streets," declared Additional Law Judge S. J. M. Mc- ; *
Carrell this afternoon in license court. The court's obser
vation was in response to the statement of James J. McClel- , f
lan, proprietor of the Savoy, that the dress of the cabaret !
singer in the "green room" was "no shorter than the styles ■ ►
I that you can see any time on the streets." The Savoy re- 1
J
j i i monstrance will likely run well into to-morrow's session. | J
*' CHINESE REBELS DEFEATED \
I 1 Peking, Feb. 22.—Rebels made an attack yesterday on||
governor's mansion at Chang-Sha, capital of the province i
of Hu-Nan. They were repulsed and captured. The leaders g »
were put to death. ' .
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Bum** A. Cilcliell and Olive A. Bcalor, Uncuttr. 7
John E. Simpson and Mary K. Kchaeffer, York Spriusa. X
Inane A. KeH-hncr nail Pearl K Boyer, city. • I
Henry C. Nbuaiper and Thereaa Dietrich. city. *,
Kdwln H. G ruber, South Hanover, and Baaale Oell* Shiva, t.nlon De-Tk
ponlt. g_
1 iSl'■»"lib" »» Vl#|' Ii w^i
STORY OF PINK
| LIGHTED CABARET
IN COURT TODAY
| Dauphin License Judges Hear
Tales O'Nighls in Savoy
Green Room
v
HOW MABEL ENTERTAINS
Impossible For Witnesses lo
lio Into Full Detail About
Singer's Dress
The long awaited story of the pink
j lighted 'green room" cabaret of th®
! Savoy was told to-day in Dauphin
! county license court.
! The hearing was the third airing of
the scores or more remonstrances tiled
in the combined campaign of the city
churches and the Dauphin County Uw
and Order and Xo-l..ieensc Leagues
against the veliccnsing of as many
hotels for I91(j.
The tales that were told of the wine
rooms of the bt. Charles and the Har
ris had editied or startled the crowded
courtroom—it depended on which side
you sat —from day to day, but develop
ments of a character to make one
gasp had lie.en promised for the airing
| of the tight against the Savoy.
The Story Is Told
I And these tales were told this morn
| ing hy John P. Ouyer, Held secretary
J of the Dauphin County I-aw and <">rder
I.eague, and the Fiev. Harvey Kiacr,
president of the No-license League.
The curious courtroom heard all
about how "Mabel," the cabaret singer,
entertained; how she was—or .."as not
—clad; how the men and girl patrons
of the "green room" on the fifth floor
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East Penna. U. E. Delegates
Gather For Conference
1 Ministers and lay delegates from
; the three districts of the East Penn
i sylvania conference to the United
i Evangelical Church will arrive In this
j city to-morrow for the opening of
their twenty-second annual session.
The Missionary Society will hold a
business meeting at 2:30 o'clock to
- morrow afternoon, and in the evening
. at 7: SO an address will be made by
1 the Rev. Agide Pirazzinl, professor of
Hebrew Exegesis in the Bible Teach-,
ers' Training School, New York City.