SENATE GIVEN FISKE LETTER Warns That Navy Is Unpre pared For War; at On# Time Short 19,600 Men By Associated Vrcst Washington, April 22. Secretary Dnniels transmitted to the Senate to day his response to the l.odge resolu tion adopted April 12 calling: upon Vsm to submit il letter from the iiuvy general hoard dated August 3, 1914, and a communication from Rear Admiral Bradley A. Klske, then aid for operations, dated November 9, IMI 4. The com inunicat fons were de scribed in the resolution as warning the secretary that the navy was un prepared lor war. They were first mentioned publicly when Representa tive Britten asked Mr. Daniels to pro duce them during his examination be fore the llouse Naval Committee re cently and he refused. Admiral Fiske's letter is a lengthy document beginning with the state ment that the writer urgently requests "the attention of the secretary to the fact that the United Slates Navy is unprepared for war." Search of the files of the Navy De partment and the General Board failed to disclose, however, any such letter trom the general board as that men tioned In the resolution, according to Secretary Daniels. A letter from Admiral Dewey, president of the board containing this statement, is trans mitted : Department Inefficient "Admiral Kiske's letter is a careful analysis of the situation of the navy In the early days of the European war and contains the statement that "if this country avoids war during the next five years, it will be accomplished only by a happy combination of high diplomatic skill and rare good for tune." It asserts that the navy was 1 hen short 19,600 men and that while the ships were well organized and "pretty well drilled" that the depart ment itself was neither "organized nor drilled in a military way." "Perhaps this Is nobody's fault," the letter continues, "and may be at tributed to the fact that our navy has never had to light a serious enemy; certainly not in a hundred years." Admiral Kiske then appends an argument for the creation of a navy general staff. Commenting on this letter. Secre te Daniels in his communication to til.' Senate says: "This communication was not fur nished to me and 1 did not know of its existence until long after It was written. It was tiled with the chief clerk without my knowledge that it had been written. Although Rear Ad miral Flake was in my office daily he did not tell nie that he had placed the communication on file." The secretary adds that the first search of the Hies of his department had failed to disclose the Fiske letter as it had been withdrawn by an officer who "looked it up several times but could not find it." The copy trans mitted, he adds, was obtained by the department from Admiral Fiske at Mr. Daniels' request. FRONT STREET OWNERS WIN PAVING BATTLE [Continued from First l*age] case of several years ago, in which t the city paid for the Reservoir Park Uontage. "l'. Rrlnser. frontage of 100.16 feet: C. Howard Lloyd, frontage Of 51.75 feet, and Harry Rlneard, front age of 152.5 roet, were the property owners who carried the fight into court in test cases. •Judgment Against City In deciding against the city the plaintiffs are awarded .lodgment in sums respectively of $401.(59. $235.58 and $(511.53, with Interest in each in stance dating from November 12. 1914. In brief President Judge Kunkel holds that the property owners on the i eastern side of the street are liable for cost of paving only to the center line ! of the street,, as the half on the west- ' ern side abuts on park property, or city "nonassessable" pj-operty. The Opinion Judge Kunkel's opinion on the sub ject follows: "At the time the paving and curbing of Front street was finished and the assessment to pay the cost thereof was made, the strip of land lying between 1 the low water mark of the Susque hanna river and the western line of that part of the street which was paved was held and owned by the city for 1 vblic park purposes. Rut whether Fiont street was bounded on the west ern side at low water by the river or by the public park, the result of this litigation must be the same, if the western boundary line was the public' park. It was bounded by the property of the city of Harrisburg. In either event the street was bounded on the west by nonassessable property. Nonassessable I Property "The character of the property was expressly excepted out of the assess ment which was authorized to be made to pay the cost of paving and curbing the street. The ordinance authorized Ihe cost of paving and curbing to be ; apportioned among all the property j fronting along both sides of the street, 'except the cost and expense of paving and curbing In front of nonassessable ; properties.' There was, therefore, no : authority to make an assessment which I would Include the cost of paving and curbing along or in front, of the river ! or the park. That part of the cost of the improvement was assumed by the city itself, as it had the power to do. "The assessments against the de fendants. so far as they represent the cost of the paving and curbing in front of the property forming the western boundary of Front street, were made without authority and cannot be sus tained." POSSE SEARCHES FOR LONE BANDIT [Continued from First Page] course of an hour the man drew two revolvers and compelled the guard to pass his hat before the passengers who stood with hands in the air. About S2OO was gathered in the observation i ;i r. At the entrance to the second sleep ing car, a brakeman and James Sherlock, conductor, faced the rob ber Sherlock hesitated a moment 4>bout raising his hands and the bandit fired, the shot going wild. In the sleeper, the brakeman was pressed into service and another S2OO was dropped into the hat. When the collection was finished, the robber handed the guard a watch. "There's the watch I got on rfiy last holdup and which I promised to re turn at this time," he said. "If you'll slow down the train, I'll get* off here, otherwise I'll go to Rpwlings with you." As the train slackened speed for the Edson tunnel, the man dropped to th* ground and ran in the direction of Iho "Robber's Roost" country in the Flk Mountain region. The bandit who robbed the Fnion Pacific Overland Limited at Corlett Junction, promised the porter who collected for him on that occasion, he would return a watch he had taken upon his next exploit. SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH APRIL 22, 1916. RAILROAD RUMBLES RAILROAD HEADS TO MEET MEN Will Discuss Recent Demands at Chicago Willi Four Brotherhoods Cleveland, Ohio, April 22.—Repre jsentaiives of the railroads in the ■ L'nlted States and of the four nTiTroacT employes' brotherhoods will meet at Chicago, April 2 7, to discuss the recent demands of the brotherhoods for an eight-hour dav. Announcement to this effect was made here to-day by W. G. l-.ee, president of the trainmen's broth- I erhood. At the Chicago meeting arrange j ments will be made for a later confer ence at which, time the brotherhoods' demands will be considered in detail. The April 27 meeting was suggested to the brotherhoods by the representa tives of the railroads in a letter re ceived to-day. Acceptance of the proposition was decided upon at once. In addition to the eight-hour day I the brotherhoods are demanding time and a half for overtime in freight and \ yard service. Standing of the Crews HARRISBURG SIIIK Plitliiilel|>hiH Division— l 23 crew first I to go after 4 p. m.: lU2, 181, 106, 127, 112. 128. 101. I Engineers for 123, 102, 131. Firemen for 123, 131, 112, 128. Conductors for 102, 127, 101. 1 Brakemen for 123, 102, 131 (two), 106. 128 (two). 101. Engineers up: Blssinger, Befever, j Gray. Cable. Howard, Seifert, Grass, J. liable. Raid win, McGuire, Kautz, Mat ter, Kurd. Speas, Keane, Albright, Ten nant. Madeford. Wiker. Firemen up: Steckbeck, Earliart, Shawrield, Dietrich, Minnlch, Peters. Flagman up: Hartman. Brakemen up: Mumma, Kersey, fin ders. Border. tllilille Division— 27 crew first to go after 12:40 p. m.: 24, 224, 216, 243, 214, 239, 235, 252, 250, 27, 24. Preference crews laid off until 12:01 a. m.. April 25. Conductor for 24. Brakemen for 27. 24 (two). Engineers up: Burris, Albright, j Firemen up: Colyer. Bruker, For syth e. Showaiter. Conductors up: Coup. Corl, Berger. Brakemen up: Powell, Heed, Sauer wine, Hemminger, Gebhart. Fleck, lUilne. Heck, Sebelist, McNaight, ; Brown. t aril fretvN— Engineers for 6, third 8, 12, 14, sec | ond 24. 36. Extra. ! Firemen for 6, second 8, 14, second | 22. first 24, 54. Extra. Engineers up: Boy. McCartey, Eelby, Fulton. Fells. Firemen up:: Wagner, Rirhter, Keiser, Ferguson, Six, Pensyl, Waltz, I Hail, Brady, Snyder. Deseh, Graham, Fry, Dougherty, McKillips. KNOI.A SIDE I'hllnrirlpliin Division— 232 crew first to go after 4:15 p. m.: 228, 21 1. 256, 20i, 205. 239, 246, 219, 251, 238, 208, 212, 253, 235, 23. 244, 24X. Engineers for 225, 211, 256, 239. 346. Firemen for 211, 201, 239, 246, 219, 251. ] Conductors for 6, 12, 19, 35, 50. Flagmen for 11. 14. 33. 46. j Brakemen for 1, 5, 19, 32, 35. 51, 53. Conductors up: Nicholas, Thomas. Middle Ulvlnlon— lll crew first to go after 1:30 p. m.: 101, 109, 112, 114, 108, , 107. 223. 225. 21 8, 228. Slow freight movement closed down ! from 6 p. m. until 12:01 a. m„ April 24. Engineers for 111, 109. 114, 107. Firemen for 111, 101, 112, 114, 107. Conductor for 109. Flagman for 112. Brakemen for 101, 109, 112 (two), 10S. lnrd t rews —To go after 4 p. m.: Engineers for first 124, 134, 132, third 121. first 102. Firemen for 122. 134, 130, 132, first 102, second 102. ! Engineers up: Branyon, Bretz, Pass more, Anthony. Flagmen up: Rlnn, Blddlck, Kline, I Yost, C. H. Hall, Hlnkle, U C. Hall, | Blown. HEADING CREWS | The 21 crew first to go after 12.15 jp. m.: 16, 5, 11. The 63 crew first to go after 12.15 p. m.: 71. 61, 51, 65. 60, 70, 59, 53. Engineers for 2, 58, 5. Firemen for 60, 19. Brakemen for 51. 57. 59, 62, 65. 5. 11. 21. Engineers up: Woland, Richwine, Fortney, Weirman, Martin, Tipton, Merkle, Fetrow, Crawford. Firemen up: Alvord, Smith. McMul lin, Hornfeltz. Haldeman. Cottenhain. G laser, Barr, Yowler, Stoner, Warfel, Rumbaugh, Sullivan, Smilev, Ellicker Conductors up: Snyder, Markley, Si pes. Brakemen up: Pittinger, Shipe, Heck ert, Atney, AVood, Boltz. Grimes, Meals, Stephens, Desman, Bailey, Wise, ller ! shey. Smith, Pletz, Windenhelser. Davis, Fleming, Dean, Guinther, Paxton j Rheam, Scott, Green. REDUCTION CO.'S VOUCHER HELD UP [Continued from First Pane] at one section of the city and not • turn to that district until the whole i territory had been covered. Hundreds of Complaints This order relieved the situation, ! and it is believed now that the regular ; schedule will be followed out for the first time In weeks. The strike and Ps ; resultant disadvantages, however, has caused the city health authorities more than a little trouble, according to Dr. Raunick, and hundreds of com plaints have been received. Annual "clean-up week" held each Spring, may not take place because of the situation at present. The bonding company will probably send a man to Hatrisbtirg in the near future, accord ing to Dr. Raunick, to investigate conditions. Unless a regular schedule is resumed in a short time, It will be almost im possible, according to the city health officer, to have a clean-up period, as It will keep all of the Reduction Com pany employes busy making the usual collections. The Reduction Company 1 has the contract for removing ashes and garbage from the city until February 1. 1918. Samuel Gardner, of the Reduction Company, when the employes were on a strike, made every effort to relieve the situation and had the men at work again within the time allowed by the health bureau after a special meeting. FORMER RESIDENT DEAD Special to the Telegraph Pottstown, Pa.. April 22.—George P. Deacon, treasurer of the North Coven try school district, died yesterday. Be fore moving to his estate near here, where he erected a handsome home, Mr. Deacon was a resident of Harrisburg. He was 46 years old, an alumnus from the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Germantown Cricket Club. The survivors are a widow, who was before marriage. Miss Mary Veager, of Columbia, and two children, Emma and George. No funeral arrangements have been announced. George P. Deacon had a wide acquaintance In Harrisburg. He was for seven years manager of the branch of the Remington Typewriter Company in this city. Mr. Deacon was promi nent In golf. His home was at Hll chester near Pottatown. SHOP LEAGUE TO I START MONDAY • City Commissioner E. Z. Gross Presents Silver Cup; Will Throw Out First Ball - ; The baseball season of the Rucknow 3 j Shop League will open Monday at noon J Willi a game be I ween Planing MIR and t j Blacksmith Shop tejnns. Arrange-- t : ments have been made for a big open i | ing. The first ball will be thrown by s : City Commissioner E. Z. Gross. The . I grounds are in excellent shape for the . j opening game. Commissioner Gross, who is a strong - ' supporter of the shop league, has pre . | sonted a silver cup which will go to the club winning the championship this year. The cup Is on display in the 1 window of C. Ross Boas, jeweler, Mar ■ street. The cup will be presented . to the league officials on Monday. Railroad Notes 1 Charles E. Woland, 416 South Four teenth street, a fireman on the Phila delphia and Reading railway, who re cently underwent an operation at the Harrisburg Hospital, is still very weak. [ James K. Rinn, treasurer of the I i Mutual Beneficial Association of Penn- L I sylvania Railroad Employes, will spend , | Easter in Harrisburg. Passenger train No. 9 on the Phila i delphia and Reading railway, due in ; Ilarrigburg at 10.10 last night, was I , held up by heavy freight traffic. R. E. Smith, employed by the Penn , sylvania Railroad at Marysville, who . was visiting in Canton, Ohio, has re ■ turned home. ! William Swope, employed at Lewis _ town Narrows, is ill with pneumonia. | The Heading mines have been closed down since Thursday. Work will be ■ | resumed Monday. A. D. Phillips, formerly peneral agent of the Western Maryland at Phlladel i phia, has been transferred to New 1 York. He is succeeded in Philadelphia I by George Davis. William IT. Keffer, superintendent | of the Reading division of the Read • ills', residing at 936 North Fifth street, j is receiving many congratulations upon 1 | the arrival of a daughter. Mother and ■ ! child are doing nicely. EASTER FAIR, FORECAST OF WEATHERMAN [Continued from First Page] creased slightly over the prices of for • mer years. | Big orders have been placed in some instances, and the city will be a riot iof gay colors to-morrow. The prom ise that the sun will shine, was the biggest news of the day for many peo • pie in the city. Churches have arranged appropriate services: a number of benevolent, folk have sent out notices that they will i distribute candy eggs, and other little i tokens; and the city mails have been I j crammed with hundreds of cards and j greetings of the season. Easter Week to Be Cold and Unsettled Say? Washington I Washington, April 22.—Easter week ! will be cold and unsettled over the ■ i northern part of the country with j j probably local snows in the northwest I : but in the south and on Pacific coast [normal temperatures ajnJ fair weather [will prevail, said the weather bureau | to-day in its forecast for the week ' i beginning to-morrow. Want Nomination Papers of Mining Inspectors to Be Declared Defective Declaring that the nomination papers filed by William Reid, Scran , ton, for the Republican nomination for mining inspector for the sixth dis trict of Columbia, are defective be cause Reid is a resident of the second and not of the sixth district of Columbia and that he is further in eligible because he has failed to pass the required examinations for mining inspector. James O'Donnel and Wil liam Singleton, of Centralia, to-day asked the Dauphin county court to rule that the candidate's papers are in* alid. President Judge Kunkel fixed 10 o'clock Thursday of next week for the hearing. UNVEIL STATUE AS PART OF CARNIVAL [Continued from First Page] . everting at a meeting of the commit- ! tee in the park offices and while no ! definite action was taken pending the! withholding by Council of necessary j j funds to erect the statue, it is certain ■ , that the matter will be discussed at i • the big mass meeting of canoeists, i > i motorboatmen and other river en- Mthusiasts to be held In the near fu-j , j ture. A. P. Dintaman's boat pavilion ' ! i will be the meeting place. "Return" Postcards Within a day or two "return" post card Invitations to all who are Inter i ested in aquatic sports will be sent j out by V. Grant Forrer, assistant super intendent of the park department, re- 1 II questing their attendance at a mass • meeting to decide how funds can be i > i raised for this year's carnival. That the question of finances of' I course. Is the big nut to be cracked! satisfactorily before a carnival can i be planned, was the concensus of the s I committee's opinion and it was de -1 cided to take proper steps to secure I ] financial aid either from the city or '; from the various civic and cominer (! cial bodies. I j Council will be asked first and a committee consisting of Ira C. Kind i ler. Thomas M. Kelker and Martin i Keot was named to draught a resolu > tion on the subject for presentation ; to Council. This, of course, will be > passed upon by the main body of . canoeists. To Obtain Sentiment The Intention is to obtain the senti ment officially of all the hundreds of canoeists and other pleasure craft owners to submit to the city commis sioners and this will be obtained, it is , expected at the mass meeting of the interested water sportsmen. Those [ who can't attend the meeting will be asked to Indicate on the "return" post card whether or not they favor asking Council for an appropriation. No sum was specifically decided upon last evening although the com mittee generally favored a request for at least SI,OOO. Should Council refuse to help the project by declining to provide an ap propriation, then the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Mu nicipal Reague, the Civic Club and other civic and commercial organ izations will be asked to co-operate. George W r . Bogar and Ray E. Stewart were elected members of the com j millee last night LOOK FOR REPLY BY NEXT WEEK [Continued from First Page] I ambassador, is away on a brief trip. •It is known that he has advised his government to modify Its submarine 1 warfare to meet America's demands. I Washington, D. C„ April 22. —Chair- | man Stone, of the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee has an appointment :to go over the situation with President Wilson Monday evening. The Presi dent then will inform Senator Stone of any information at hand from Ger many up to that time. When the American note was dispatched, offi cials said they considered that a reply by the end of this week or the begin ning of next would satisfy the demand for an immediate answer. At Monday night's conference the President probably will acquaint Sen "*tt>r Stone-wlth hia plans for the next step so that the chairman may in turn inform the Senate. Von Bernstorff, Incriminated by Papers, Wants Them and All Copies Handed Over Washington, D. C„ April 22. —Pa- ' pers seized in New York by the De partment of Justice from Wolfe Von ! Igel, former secretary of Captain rranz Von Papen, recalled German military attache, will not be restored to the German embassv until Count Von Bernstorff returns to Washing ton from a week-end trip. The Ger man embassy has been Informed the documents will be sealed and re tained meanwhile by the Stale Depart ment. State Department officials re iterated to-day that Count Von Bern- storff will be asked to distinguish l>e [ tween the official and personal mat- I tor in the documents. BcrnstorlT Incriminated j It was not believed to-day that the j German embassy would agree to this I P^ oee^u, ' <! contending there is no au | t hority for the removal of papers of . any kind from the person or posses sion of a diplomatic agent. Embassy officials are disturbed at the idea that I the Department of Justice intends to keep photographic copies of the pa pers and it was said that Count Von BernstortT would demand not only the originals but all photographic copies, plates and a catalog of the docu ments which is understood to have been made by the Justice Depart ment. Ambassador BernstorfT Is under- I «tood to be awaiting Instructions from j Berlin. While officials declined to dis- 1 cuss the papers, it was pointed out 1 j that some of the documents were said jto have passed between Count Von BernstorfT and Captain Von Pnpen, the I \ vi, hdrawn German military attac he. , dealing: with matters affecting Amer- I lean neutrality. Taft Accuses Both Sides of Violating Neutral Rights of United States | Chicago. April 22. Ex-President 1 lart. addressing the Mystic Athletic s Club last night, accused both Germany | I and Great Britain of violating the | neutral rights of the Vnited States, and declared that President Wilson was right in his new note to Germany I He said: , "In the present war for twenty | months we have pursued, as strictly |as we could, the course which the | rules of international law lav down | for neutral powers, but this lias not .kept us isolated from the struggle. In the heat of war, and in making re prisals for violations of the laws of war by each other, belligerents have ignored the case of the neutrals, and neutrals are being ground between upper and the nether millstones. "Roth sides in the war have vio lated our own rights as neutrals.' Expresses Unqualified Admiration of Wilsons Message to Germany Paris. April 22. Unqualified ad miration of President Wilson's nies < sage to Berlin on the submarine issue is expressed by Georges Clemenceau. ;in his newspaper L'Homme Libre. In an extended analysis of the message M. Clemenceau says: "What strikes one above all in this piece of world diplomacy which the I chief of the American republic has | submitted to the national representa tives is its tine, impassive objectivity, ■neither complaints nor criminations | Facts. No signs of literature, con trary to what we have seen in the case of other countries nothing too, of the learned lawyer by happy surprise. I Simple strong words of statesmen. I "The right, the August imprescripti ble right which the Pilgrim fathers of, the Mayflower brought from Europe, i their sons are bringing back to us un der a shield of iron forged by their i own strong hands. "Hail to you, American citizens who | march back into the history of Europe | under a great arch on the front of ! which Washington. Jefferson and so i many others have carved the noblest | claims of humanity! "What the Kaiser may decide to do ; is unimportant. Withdrawal or batn-| | bast—it will he all the same in the i | end." HOUSE TO STICK BY MILITIAMEN I l Chairman Hay Insists Revised Army Bill Must Recognize Guardsmen Washington. April 22. When the Senate and House conferees on the Administration army bill meet for their first session Monday, Represen tative Hay, chairman of the House Committee on Milita.-y Affairs, is pre pared to lay down the basis for an agreement between the two branches. In general terms, this proposition will jbe that the Senate must abandon its i provision for a volunteer army, and accept the House provision for recog nition of the militia as a part of the first line of defense, in return for which the House will accept the Sen ates proposal for a. larger standing army. If the conferees can agree on these general terms, the bill must, be rewrit ten, and it can be said authoritatively that the House will accept no proposi tion that does not include the National Guard as the principal force next to the regular army. The National Guard has stronger backing In the II ous J than in the Senate, and mem bers are determined to give the mili tia the recognition they believe is its due. The Hay bill, which passed the House, raises the strength of the regu lar army 1o 142.000 and provides for strengthening and recruiting the milt- 1 tia to a point where It will, in the i event of war, become a part of the! first line of defense. The Chamber- i lain bill, which the Senate passed, fixes I the limit of strength of the regular! army .it 2r.0,000 and provides for the I organization of a "olunteer army of I 400,000 designed to come next after! the regulars, and take precedence over the National Guard WILL DETERMINE IF TROOPS ARE RECALLED [Continued from First Page] j shlng will be prepared for any sit | nation. DISCUSS l>«'\t-|o|>lllCllf S I'ntil late lasl night Generals Scott and Funston discussed the develop ments of the pursuit of Villa that j hegan with promised co-operation by j Carranza troops and ended, or prac tically ended, with a warning to j Colonel AV. C. Brown, at Santa Cruz, by a Carranza official that he must not advance south of mat point. It is understood that the establish ment of other bases and new lines of communication were talked of, but the details of the fighting at Pnrral and ' the abrupt halt in operations that came as a result were discussed at lensTffT General Pershing's reports, which nre said to contain recommendations that radical changes be authorized, probably will be gone over carefully to-day. Still Marking Time Overnight dispatches from the front 1 indicated no renewed offensive actlvitv. | The pursuit of the bandit chieftain re j mained practically at a standstill and the impression is gaining strength at J departmental headquarters that the troops would be withdrawn. High army officials here remained almost indifferent to the suggestions ] that the manifest hostility of Car ranza's troops might be due to work by agents of Felix Diaz or those of any other aspiring enemy of the de facto government. Department of Justice agents have failed to discover any tangible evidence that Diaz is making headway along the frontier and all reports to army headquarters indicate tl.at the officers of the Carranza garri sosn who are showing so marked an antagonism toward the Americans are wholly loyal to the first chief. Red Cross Nurse Declares She Saw Villa Enter Auto in Los Angeles By Associated Press I.os Angeles. April 22. Mrs. Hose Cohn, a nurse who perrornied Red Cross work in Mexico during 1913 and 1914, reported to the Federal author ities here yesterday, that she was con- I fidenl that she saw Francisco Villa, ' the Mexican bandit leader, on the I street here last Wednesday afternoon. | Officers are investigating the report 1 made by Mrs. Cohn but expressed the opinion that the nurse probably saw a | man who resembled Villa, i Mrs. Cohn said that she was stand ; inn on a corner near the business dis trict when she saw the man believed to have been Villa enter an automo bile with two Mexican women. They drove away toward the residence dis trict before they could be pointed out to any one by the nurse. "I don't know where they came from," Mrs. Colin said. "They walked to the curb and seated themselves in a large black motor car, the driver of which was a Mexican. Before I had time to act they drove away. Constant Movement of Carranza Troops Are Due to Activities of Diaz By Associated Press El Paso, Texas, April 22.—A troop train left Juarez to-day with several hundred members of the Juarez garri son on board who have been ordered to Casas Grandes. According to Mexi ! ran officials, these troops are not in | tended as a reinforcement of the Casas ] Grandes garrison, but will replace the j soldiers now there who will be sent to I Madera. j Villa has become a minor figure in i the situation as far as El Paso is con i e'erned. Those who do not believe be is dead are willing to admit, that his prestige is gone anil that he has ceased to be a factor in Mexican affairs. Apart from the question of withdrawal o" the American troops, interest there is directed to stories received from Mexi can sources dealing with the alleged so read of the Felix Diaz movement in Northern Mexico. It seems certain that there is some basis for these stories, which are accepted as sub stantially true by American officials here. The constant movement of Car ranza troops, no detachment being al lowed to remain in one place for more | than a few weeks at T time, is believed | to have a close relation to the activi i ties of Diaz and his followers. Federal I and local officials here are satisfied that attempts are being made on a j fairly large and apparently organized i.stale to tamper with the commanders j of the Carranza commands, lint so far ! ihere has been no indication that such j attempts have succeeded in any in [ stance. Concentration of Troops at Columbus Is Being Pushed Forward Rapidly By Associated Press Columbus. Mexico, April 22.—The new concentration of troops at Colum bus rapidly was being pushed forward I to-day. Of the 2.300 men ordered here i from other border points to be held subject to the orders of General Per | shing. expeditionary commander, the | Seventeenth Tnfantry had arrived to- I day from Eagle Pass, Texas, as had I the first battalion of the Twenty-fourth | Infantry, which until recently had been 1 stationed at Del Rio. Texas. The Sixth Cavalry is expected here from Har lingen and other Texas stations to morrow or Monday. The troops will be held here at least until General Scott, chief of staff, makes a report to the Secretary of War on his conference with General Funston. Supplies are being rushed to the front that General Pershing may com plete the reoutfitting of his command during the lull in the Mexican op erations, which, according to reports here to-day, continued all along the 500-mile American line of communi cation. The body of Albert Hartman, Troop K. Thirteenth Cavalry, was brought here to-dav. It was the first case of a soldier dying at the front to be brought to Columbus. Preparations were made at camp to-day to observe Easter Sunday. Tt was arranged that five regimental bands shall play at an Easter service. Women of Columbus have sent sev eral large Easter boxes of cakes and candies to the troops in the field. AGAINST WATER COMPANY ! Equity l*riH'trilliiK» to Take- Over Plant nnil Appoint lira-elver Instituted Equitv proceedings to restrain the Hummelstown Consolidated Water Company .rom Interfering with the j taking over by the Commonwealth I Trust Company, trustee for the bond i holders, oi the plant and equipment of 1 the wntei company were begun in the i Dauphin County Court, to-day. The Commonwealth Trust Company also wants a receiver a'molnted to conduct ' the water utility's affairs. The company l must answer In thirty days. The bill In equity tiled for the Com ! monwealth Trust Company, trustee, by Attorney C. H. Bergner, states that the company Dorruweo $125,000 in J9OS and 1 gave a mortgage to the trust company for that sum; that it failed to pay Its interest or Btate taxes, and that in ac cordance with the provisions of the 'mortgage, the trustee may take over | the plant and ask for a receiver when ' iMLvmfeHti fall. I Advance Sale For Schumann-Heink Is Larger Than McCormick's j The advance sale, particularly from j surrounding loivns, (or the concert to ' i tie Klvven by Madam Shumann-Heink j in Chestnut Street Auditorium, on the evening of Ma" 9, far exceeds the ! record-breaking: demand for tickets : | that marked the appearance of John ' ) McCormack, the famous Irish tenoi, here more tiian a year ago. i This is not remarkable when it is I considered that there are in all the J world to-day scarcely more than a half dozen musical celebrities whose i names are familiar to everyone, anil iliat of these the name of Schumann- ! I lleink is second to none. Hut is not ! alone by the masses that this wonder- j ■ ful singer is In demand. Since ISHti | ! Alme. Schumami-llclnke bus been in al most continuous request at Be.vretuh for the contralto roles of Kestspiel- I i bans, and in these roles she lias p->»- I j .iiiK. 4r f .| llu | | n rrrrnt yearn It was her llrst appearance at He.wuth 111 1 !>I when the war began, that caused lier temporary embarrassment in being marooned in the midst of war scenes In I (iermany and which caused her to hurry ' home, for Schumann-lleinke is a loyal land unhphenated American, naturalized and devoted to her adopted country. I Mnie. Schumann-lleinke is one of the ; best-loved and most petted singers in I the world, but she is absolutely un spoiled by popularity. The mother of eight children, she lives for her fam ily. She is entirely unaffected una | natural, and even goes to the extreme jof refusing positively to use any | "make-up" when she appears on the ! stage. She is very generous with her encores and has promised to sing some •of the song's that have made her famous f and which continue to be among her 1 most popular offerings during her en- i gagement here. i In order to permit even those of ; slender purses to enjoy the concert the j j management has arranged a large nuni- | ! ber of seats at exceptionally low prices! ! for an attraction of the kind. No Contests Filed Against Petitions No notices of any contests of nomi- j noting petitions tiled at the Capitol j i hail been received at the Department : of the Secretary of the Commonwealth ! when the office closed for the day and ! as tar as known the Rev. W. X. Yates will not enter a contest because of re jection of his Republican and Demo-i cratio papers. About forty candidates' petitions l j were returned to thein without being ! filed as the result of apparent defects. ; In several instances it was discovered I i thai candidates had failed to make! ! affidavits to the petitions and in others] the number of signers was short of ! the legal requirements. To-da.v Secretary- of the Common-1 wealth Woods received a letter en-( ! closing a petition from a man in a i northern county who had mailed his .petition at 4:30 on the afternoon of, ] Tuesday, the last day to file. This peti- ' i tion arrived here at 5:110 the next morning and was returned. The citi- j jzen who desired to be n candidate | wrote to Mr. Woods that the petition | should be received and filed anyway jin the interest of good government! | and because the sender thought the 1 Governor would insist upon It being I filed. It was not filed. The withdrawal of Howard M. hong 1 as a Republican legislative candidate; !in the Twenty-first Philadelphia dis- j strict was received yesterday. DEKRBK TEAM RAXftl KT i The annual banquet of the degree ; (team of John Harris lodge, Knights of! j Pythias, was held in the banquet room; of the Pythian Hall Association build- I ■ing, Wednesday evening. Those present! were: C. A. Cornman, Harry A. Boyer, !R. K. Eslienour, Jonas M. Rudy, S. I Brady Caveny, J. C. Benfer, J. B. \ j Colestock. IS. A. Stevens, Charles W. | ! ISrb. :i. D. Reel, Joseph P. Yungel, W. j A. Walton. Jerome lletrick, W. F. Bom-I j gard/ne.r, R. T. Burganstock, John W. i [ Bowman. Joseph A. Rudy, Ben Rice, i ] Walter Stabler, Ralph Hoover, R. H. j Balmer, W. E. Franklin, Harry Hud- I gins, Charles V*. Forman, Samuel Shank, Chester Corpman, Alfred Workman, Horace Stallman, J. Herman Hain. Wen* ! dall Crabbe, B. E. Bbersole. D. C. j Greenly, M. J. Ebersole and H. W. J. j | l.anglftz, ; A full course turkey dinner was 'served and the members all thoroughly • enjoyed themselves, music was fur nished by M. L. Morgan and Alfred ! Minicli. C. A. Cornman, the degree captain, introduced Harry A. Boyer as jtoastmaster who called upon all those ; present for a few remarks. The coin ' mltte who arranged for the banquet ] consisted of C. A. Cornman, Charles I W. Erb and H. D. Reel. Governor Plans to Spend Easter Here | Governor Brumbaugh did not re iturn to llarrisburg from Washington I I to-day. At his offices it was not known I whether he would arrive before night, i Reports from Washington to-day were j 'to the effect that the Governor had ! j recovered and hoped to leave for i Hnrrisburg later in the day. Present plans are for the Gover- j nor to keep his engagements to speak j I at Boston next week and if he is able) he will leave here on Monday. Xo information regarding the Gov ernor's stumping tour has been given j i out from his headquarters. I KNIGHTS TO ATTEND ST. FRANCIS j 'Co-morrow is the thirty-fifth anni versary of the organization of The I Kniehts of St. George, and tlie mem- I bers of Branch 16S will attend high | ' mass in a body at St. Francis' Catholic I Church at S o'clock. The mass will be sung by the children's choir, under the | direction of Miss Matilda Schmidt. At 'lO o'clock another nigh mass will be | | held, to be sung by the regular choir, 'under direction of Mrs. Carl Wret man. with vespers and benediction In ! | the evening at 7:30. The celebrant of !all these services will be the Rev. D. J. j | Carey ' 111 II.DINU KELLER HOME ! Ground was broken this week for the new residence of Mrs. J. P. Keller, which will adjoin the residence of her ( | son, Dr. William L. Keller, In Front i 'street just north of Emerald. Mrs. lvel- i ! ler is at present living at Second and j Walnut streets. Plans are under way i 'and work will shortly he begun oil sev. ! eral additional residences that will be erected in the. same neighborhood this Spring. CLEAN "FRONT STEPS" Fire Chief John C. Kindler sent the Hope Fire Company engine to Front and Boas streets, to-day to pump water for cleaning the "front steps." Work will be pushed next week to clean off all the mud, stones, branches of trees and twigs, washed down dur ing the Spring freshets. The clean up is under the direction of the City ■ Park Department. HOLD FOUR I Thomas Churchman, William Wat kins, Harry Palmer and Fred Piper (were arrested early this morning by jcity police, charged with disorderli i ness at the home of Emma fields, in Cowden street. The woman said that I 'the four men came to her home and [started a "rough house." They were i given a hearing this afternoon. HELD FOR SLASHING Charged with fighting in the ward early to-day, William Reed, and Ro bert Steel. 513 South street, were ar rested, after Reed slashed Steel with a knife, according to the police. HURT IN FA LI, Mrs. Mary Piatt, aged 68, of 438 Hamilton street, fell down the stairs at her home yesterday, fracturing her right arm and right leg. She was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital. ] CITY ARGUMENT IS ON TUESDAY "Hardscrabble" Viewers' Re port Listed For April Term; Stale Test Cuse I »■ "■ l I |i wl» "Hardscrabble" /hi ), 111 viewers' exceptions :,nr ' ,lle legal phase jgg of the act which —precludes anyone to Interfere with the State cattle quar antine regulations jt 1012 are among '" jp raPP P 51» *' ,(! hearings lisled I* IB jatiK Ul Jfclif for argument, court. Motions for new trials, Henry vs. Annie, executrix of | John <\ Harman; Anast Belehas vs. Charles McCaul company; Charles F. Shelter vs. k. W. Case; Catharine Marshall vs. Central Trust company, ■ city, administrator for Catharine Finn's estate; Stale vs. I. W. Dill; rule Ito open judgement, Harry N. Wagen lieim vs. Janko and Mcri Vucenlc; H. A. Gariuan vs. Annie Isaacman; Fred erick E. Ray for Charles Boas vs. Hol | tin J. Church; rule to vacate order, State vs. William If. Shuey; rule to relieve defendant of payment of order. State vs. Martin E. Slamhaugh; mo tion for judgement notwithstanding j verdict, Harvey 11. Gordon vs. Grace IN. Neeley, executrix for estate of -James H. Neeley, reserve question of violation of act of July Tl. 1913, Stale vs. Harvey S. Bomberger and John Funck; exceptions to "Hardscrabble" viewers' report; rule to show cause why return of exemption should not be set aside in assigned estate of Phares It. I tollman: judgement for want of | sufficient defense, Toledo Scales coin | pany vs. Joseph Rappoport; quo war ranto, State vs. following utility com panies, Lackawanna Electric, Pitts ton Electric, Pittstown Heat, Power and r.lght, Piedmont Electric, Gar 'cien City Electric and Avoca Citizens j Light, Heat and Power company. 19lli St. Bridge Finished. The | Ferro Concrete company officially no tified the county commissioners to-day that the new bridge across the Phila delphia and Reading tracks at Nine teenth street is finished. Viewers will ! be asked for Monday. , To-day's Petitions. County and jolty committee nominating petitions < tiled to-day included the following: ! County committee. Republicans, Leroy | u.l toiler. First precinct,Hummelstown; John S. "ran.van, second precinct, sev enth ward; Democratic, Howard <>. IHolstein, tirst precinct. Sixth ward; Adam E. Moeslein, fifth precinct, Sec ond ward: Joseph J. Sansom, fourth precinct, Seventh ward; John W. Fer | ley, first precinct. First ward. Middle | town-! A. F. White, Penbrook; W. H. j McAlicher. first precinct. Eleventh J wart'. City committee, Republicans, j Dr. C. H. Crampton, first precinct Sev enth ward: George Potter. Charles C. lOsborn and John 11. Shaner, second ; precinct. Seventh ward; 1,. 11. Lickci, precinct. Thirteenth ward. [SWEARING OVER PART* LINE SENDS SEVERAL TO JAIL Because, it is alleged, he swore over ;a party telephone line while Mrs. E. ;H. Coeklin, lt>o4 Regina street, was j sending in her grocery order for Eas- I ter, R. J. Carpenter was arrested on a I warrant sworn out before Alderman IKramme, by c. A. Hoke, 1217 North ! Sixth street, who was receiving Mr. | Cocklin's order. When Hoke returned | he found Carpenter and several others in a heated argument, and a short time 'later officer l.arsen served the war rant. Neighbors, liowover. heard the | row, and sent in a riot call. The po ! lice then 'arrested the crowd, charging them with inciting a riot. FRICE EGGS FOR YOUNGSTERS Alderman Kramme will distribute a large number of chocolate to the | children of the city at 10 o'clock j Waster morning in front of his home, at 113 Verbeke streer. Alderman Kramme for several years has been glvipg little j gifts to the youngsters, particularly in ] the West End. and has extended an in vitation to all of them to turn out to morrow morning. GRANDPA DIDN'T" NEED CASCARETS FOR THE BOWELS Two hours a day sawing wood will keep liver and bowels right. ! You who take exercise in an easy chair must take "Cascarets." Enjoy life —feel bully! Don't stay sick, bilious, headachy, constipated. Remove the liver and bowel poison which Is keeping your head dizzy, your tongue coated, your breath offensive, stomach sour and your body full of cold. Why don't you get a 10 or 25- cent box of Cascarets at the drug store and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever ex perienced. Cascarets work while you sleep. You will wake up feeling fit and fine, children need this candy cathartic too. /A Charming Prl«nds «r» oiling or you h»v« m iudden Invitation. Just a moment to look your best. It takes but a (cw seconds to apply Gouraud't u Oriental Cream j and obtain a perfect complexion • a soft, clear, pearly-white appearance that ia alwaya refined and and in good taste— Non-greasy—in use M years. ____ _ 10®. Ur trial else rrrn 7
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