BIG NEED HERE IS DWELLINGS AT MORE REASONABLE RENTS SAY REALTY MEN
MANY MODERATE
RENTS NEEDED
Real Estate Men Say Big Dc
man Exists For Houses at
From $lO to $lB
Harrisburg needs many more homes
that may be rented at from $lO to $lB
monthly.
"*» This Is the opinion of practically
every real estate man in the city, and
some of them go so far as to say that
the Inability to supply the present de
mand for houses of this type has
brought about a "house famine."
"At present," said Joseph M. Means,
manager of the rental department of
Miller Bros. & Co., "with the exception
of one in Cameron's Extension, we
haven't, a single house in the city listed
for rent, at less than S4O monthly."
"We have dally calls for houses
renting between $lO and $18," con
tinued Mr. Means, "but we have much
difficulty in meeting the demands."
It is the opinion of many real estate
men that builders have a profitable
field before them in Harrisburg if they
will design an attractive home that
might be rented at a moderate sum.
The demand already exists and a ready
market can be found for homes of
such a type."
June quarter sessions sheriff's .sales
will be conducted in No. 2 courtroom
at 2 o'clock Thursday, June 8. At
least a dozen properties are scheduled
to go under the auctioneer's hammer.
Construction of the new water pipe
lines in the Bellevue Park district will
be completed within a few weeks, after
which superior service to that newly
built up section will be possible.
Alterations on the fourth floor of
the Harrisburg Hospital will be started
early next month with a view to turn
ing the upper floors into a maternity
ward. The nurses who had their quar
ters there will be housed at 113 South
Front street after June J.
The new Young Apartments, the
ptoreroom and apartment building at
"4 North Second street, which had
recently been constructed by Colonel
A. C. Young, have all been occupied.
TODAY'S IIEAI.TY TRANSFERS
To-dav's realty transfers,include the
following: Mary M. Bellow, Jackson
township, to W. R. Snyder. $650; M.
I/oulse Vogt. Enhaut, to M. Muzie, $700;
(i W. P. Enders. Halifax township, to
Charles Matter, $160; O. G. Wickershani.
Steelton. to Sarah Sachs; Alice Snyder,
llummelstown. to T(. B. Snyder; Iva J.
Killinger, 15 South Nineteenth street, to
Yerna M. Eleherly; Oett.vs and Gettys,
2243 North Second street, to John C\
Herman; Fanny M. Eby. 502-04 Market
street, to Samuel I'ealban, all for $1
each; George A. and Margaret White
side's executors. Fourth and Strawberry
streetsfl to H. A. Gable. $9,925; William
E. Moesleln. 111"-17 South Second street,
to Samuel Samuels.- $1; F. Gerhart's
heirs. South Hanover township, to P. A.
Gerhart, $3,600.
VERDUN BATTLE TURNS
IN FAVOR OF FRENCH
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tack here 1» on the Italian positions
east of the Assa valley.
Gen. Gallieni Idolized
By French For Saving Paris
and Winning Marne Dies
By Associated Press
Paris, May 27, 8.25 A. M. —General
Joseph S. Gallieni. former minister of
war. died at Versailles to-day.
The death of General Gallieni, while
not unexpected, created a profound
impression, as he was idolized by the
French people, particularly the poor,
who regarded him as the savior of
Paris during the critical days of Au
gust. 1914. His funeral will be the
occasion of a notable military and civil
demonst ration.
Varied Military Career
Of all the French generals in the
European war few had a better filled
life than General Gallieni, who, on
the outbreak of the great war in Au
gust. 1914, was appointed military gov
ernor of Paris. Born of a military
family at St. Beat. April 24, 1849, he
had reached the age limit fpr retire
ment in 1913, but was maintained in
active service by decree, the minister
of war holding that the services he
had rendered as governor-general of
Madagascar Justified an exception gen
erally made only in favor of generals
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NEW HOME OF HUDSON SALES CO.
Contract has been awarded C. A. Sollenberger. a local contractor, for erec
tion of the new service station and salesrooms of the Hudson Sales Company,
East End of the Mulberry street bridge, for 1. W. Dill.
Contractor Sollenberger has already started work and a frame building
which formerly occupied part of the site of the proposed salesrooms has been
razed. Workmen are about ready to start the foundations.
The new home of the Hudson Sales Compan will be a two-story brick
structure, 22 by 60 feet, of thoroughly fireproof construction. The first floor
front will be used as salesrooms and the second floor will be devoted to storage
and repair shop. Robert A. Williams, 28 South Third street, is the architect;
who have held a supreme command in
the face of the enemy.
In the forty-five years of his mili
tary career Gallieni had participated
in some of the dramatic episodes of
the war of 1870, explored the Upper
Niger and imposed a French protec
torate over the region; pacified the
colony of Indo-China, deposed Queen
Ranavalo of Madagascar and con
quered and developed the colony. Be
tween times he had written four
notable books on exploration. For
work in Africa he was promoted a
general.
GalUenl was recognized as not only
the conqueror of Madagascar, but as
the author of its prosperity.
On August 27, 3!»14. with the Ger
mans threatening Paris, he was given
the important posts of commander of
the entrenched camp and military gov
ernor of Paris.
At once his organizing ability and
energy were shown. In a few days the
city was surrounded by new field forti
fications, heavy artillery was posted at
all vantage points, a complete system
of telephonic and telegraphic com
munication was established around
the city.
After the notable part, taken by
General Oallieni In the battle of the
Marne, when he rushed 80,000 troops
of the Paris garrison to the battle line
in taxicabs at the crisis of the struggle
and thereby turned the tide of victory
In favor of the French, he was ap
pointed minister of war in the recon
structed cabinet.
Eliminated Red Tape
As war minister General Gallienl le
voted himself with remarkable energy
to the elimination of red tape in the
administration of the army. He .ilso
dealt with a heavy hand with officers
who had secured posts through favor
itism or political influences. His ilrst
act was to forbid civilians to write to
the generals in the field In regard to
military matters and his next was to
send to the front a number of able
bodied soldiers who were occupying
safe billets in the rear. Like General
Joftre. he was relentless in forcing the
retirement of old officers whose ac
tivities or abilities were not equal to
tbo demands of the war. By revision
of the exempt lists he added 80,000
men to the army.
In February of this year General
Gallieni took over the direction of the
department of aviation, but. shortly
afterward he was taken ill with kid
ney trouble and was compelled to re
sign on March 6. Since then he had
been fighting a losing battle with
death.
Gerard Is Convinced That
Peace Is Now in Sight
By Associated Press
Berlin. May 26, via London, May 27.
—United States Ambassador James
Gerard is convinced that peace is in
sight, according to an interview pub
lished in a Munich newspaper to-day
from its Berlin correspondent. Mr.
Gerard is quoted as saying:
"Nothing can shake my confidence
that peace is on its way."
The ambassador referred to the set
tlement of the differences of the Unit
ed States and eGrmany as preparing
the way for President Wilson to take
itp the question of peace. "President
Wilson," he said "has much greater
freedom of action now to deal with
the immense world problem . which
will determine the future attitude of
nearly all the countries of the globe.
"I am very optimitic regarding the
progress already made of the idea that
the war should be ended, even among
belligerent nations. The wise and
moderate words of the German chan
cellor regarding Germany's readiness
to make peace had probably their
strongest echo in America and
strengthen the impression that Ger
many will take all further steps calm
ly and with confidence. •
Germany Would Welcome
Col. House on Peace Mission
By Associated Press
Berlin, May 27. Another visit by
Colonel E. M. House to Europe would
come as no surprise to the Initiated
here. The American rumors to this
effect are regarded as having a certain
basis in fact, although the opinion pre
vails that the trip would naturally be
postponed until after the national con
ventions.
It is hoped here that should Colonel
House pay such a visit, he will come
this time as a harbinger of peace, or
at any rate to prepare, if possible, the
foundations for a peace proposal, diffi
cult as this task is recognized to he.
Whether recent events are enoutrh to
Induce the entente allies to retire from i
what is looked upon here as a losing!
game and whether the changed tone of I
the utterances of Premier Asquith and:
Sir Rdwarfl C?roy and what Is consld-1
ered a disavowal of their intention to;
crush Germany as a nation, and" a
commercial rival or dismember the
Empire, are indicative of receptivity j
toward reasonable peace proposals is i
an uncertain factor in the reckoning- |
MAY ANCHOR OFF
CITY FRONT WALL
Gross Will Insist Upon Uni
formity in Distance For
Floating Boathouscs
To Insure uniformity of anchorage
for floating boathouses throughout the
entire length of the city's water front
< 'ity Commissioner E. Z. Gross, super
intendent of parks and public prop
erty, said to-day that he will likely
establish a standard distance from
the lower step of the wall for the pur
pose.
The question was raised recently by
one boat liveryman who asked perinis*-
sion to moor his float to the "front
steps" of the city.
Park Commissioner E. Z. Gross
asked City Solicitor Seltz for an opin
ion on the subject and this is what he
got in reply:
"Neither you or the council have
the power to grant anyone the right
to a permanent landing place any
where within the limits of the 'Harris
grant'—the section of river front ex
tending from a point 100 feet south
of South street to Paxton. This grant
v.-as made for a street and for a pub
lic landing place. The public there
fore has the right to land and em
bark anywhere within these limits and
no one may permanently monopolize
any portion to the exclusion of
others."
"We'll fix a minimum distance limit
at which the floating boatliouse mav
be anchored from the wall," said
Commissioner Gross to-day. "This will
apply to the entire River Front and
not in the Harris grant only. No
gangplanks may be put down, but the
liverymen will have to transfer their
palrons back and forth by small boat
or some other way."
REMOVE MAN'S EYE
Physicians at. (he Harrisburg Hos
pital yesterday afternoon removed the
left eye of Orville Jacoby, of Bigler
ville. Jacoby injured his eye while
cutting wire at his home last week.
Next German Attack Is
Expected in Northern Russia
By Associated Press
London, May 27. The naval cor
respondent of the Times asserts that
the next great German offensive prob
ably will be begun in northern Russia,
taking the form of a combined land
and sea attack from the gulf of Riga
and across the Dvina, heralding an
endeavor to advance toward Petro
grad.
In concert with this campaign some
observers anticipate a simultaneous
blow at the British front in France
and Flanders, and here also, it is be
lieved. an effort may be made by sea
as well as by land.
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HARRISBtTRG TELEGRAPH
HURRYING COUNT
OF STATE'S VOTE
State Department Is Making
Every Effort to Advance
the Computation
With over a dozen counties to hear
from even in the matter of returns
of election of national delegates and
State committeemen officials and at
taches of the department of the Secre
tary of the Commonwealth are com
mencing to fear that they will have
little time to complete the list of
State committeemen before the meet
ing called for next Wednesday in
Philadelphia. In order to advance
matters requests were sent to coun
ties that votes for national delegates
and alternates-at-large and district
and State committee members be
counted first. Approximately half of
the counties reporting complied with
this request, hut in other cases com
plete returns were filed.
Efforts are now being made to get
the returns on delegates anil com
mitteemen from the remaining coun
ties and indications are that the de
partment will have some work to do
on Memorial Day. However, it is
figured out that official returns will
be in hand before the Republican
national convention meets.
W'Hiam Price, candidate for Re
publican alternate-at-large, filed an
expense account showing an expendi
ture of $l,OOl, the largest sum car
ried by any report yet filed. Of this
amount SI,OOO was paid to the
"Straight Republican Ticket Com
mittee." State Chairman Roland S.
Morris, candidate for Democratic
delcgate-at-large certified to $121; W.
W. Hindman to $149; Congressman
D. F. Dafean to $521.14; John T.
Kinsely to S6O and Fred Brenckman
to $80.50.
Charles Palmer, candidate for su
preme court, certified that he did not
spend more than SSO and C. B. Dough
erty that he did not spend a cent for
alternate-at-large. Others certifying
to less than SSO were W. P. F. Fergu
son, candidate for Prohibition na
tional delegate and senator; R. E.
Cochran and John T. Murphy.
MAYOR MEALS ASKS
FOR 'MEMORIES'
[Continued From First I'ago.]
of J 2 all flags be lowered while,
during five minutes devoted to mem
ories, each citizen of Harrisburg,
with bared head, opens his heart
to a new baptism of patriotism.
(Signed) E. S. MEALS.
The Mayor was much better this af
ternoon and his physicians allowed
him to sit up a short time in a chair.
His recovery is expected now, but
every effect is being made to keep him
quiet until he can leave the hospital.
POST NO. Itfl TO HAVE CHARGE
OP PEN BROOK MEMORIAL
Members of Post No. 116, G. A. R.,
will have charge of the Memorial Day
services at Mumma's Cemetery, Pen
brook. Exercises will start at 9.30
o'clock in the morning. The veterans
and school children will march from
Penbrook Square to the cemetery. The
program will include singing by the
school children; an address by the
Rev. Luther Henry, pastor of Luther
an church; recitations, and firing of a
salute by Camp No. 15, Sons of Veter
ans guard.
LETTER CARRIERS' MEMORIAL
The annual memorial services of
Harrisburg Branch No. 500, National
Association of Letter Carriers, will be
held to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock
in East Harrisburg cemetery. An In
teresting program under the direction
of a committee of which H. C. Young
is chairman has been prepared.
TECH BOYS TO HONOR HEROES
Tech High students will honor the
memory of the soldiers and sailors
who died in the Civil war by placing
a wreath on the Soldiers' and Sailors'
monument at Second and Stale streets
Tuesday morning. Thomas Stacks, a
junior, is in charge of the arrange
ments to place the wreath.
MEMORIAL DAY AT POST OFFICE
On Memorial Day the main post
office and Hill and Maclay stations
will be closed from 10 a. m. to 12 p. m.
All carriers will make their first de
livery and collection and the 5:40,
7:30 and 10:20 p. m. collections.
MADAME DIECLAFOY DIES
Paris, May 27.—Madame Jane Dieu
lafoy, author, explorer, chevalier of
the Legion of Honor and possessor of
the unique privilege, accorded by the
French government of wearing male
apparel, is dead.
SuKtfxtlona and IXI mil tin Given Free.
J. M. SMITH
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DEMAND ALLIES
END MAIL PIRACY
Note to England and France on
Seizure Policy an Ulti
matum
Washington, D. C„ May 27. Presi
dent Wilson has informed the British
and French Governments that the
United States "can no longer tolerate"
the wrongs which citizens of this coun
try have suffered as a result of the
illegal practices of those governments
in seizing malls passing between the
United States and other neutral coun
tries and the United States and the
Teutonic Powers.
The President's note, demanding
that the British policy shall be altered
so as to conform with international
law, was made public by the State De
partment to-night.
The document, which had been her
alded as a vigorous one. is even more
sharp in tone than had been expected.
Mistake Klgltt to Judge
The allied policy is characterized as
consisting of lawless practices, and
the United States declares that to sub
mit to a continuance of this policy
"would open the door to repeated vio
lations of international law by the bel
ligerent powers, on the ground of mili
tary necessity of which the violator
would be the sole judge."
"Manifestly, a neutral nation can
not permit its rights on the high seas
to be determined by belligerents," says
the President, "or the exercise of
those rights to be permitted or denied
arbitrarily by the government of a
warring nation. The right of neutrals
are as sacred as the rights of belliger
ents. and must be as strictly observed."
"Only a radical change in the pres
ent British and French policy, restor
ing to the United States Its full rights
as a neutral power, will satisfy this
Government," concludes the note.
In another paragraph, the note
serves notice "that this continuing of
fense has led to such losses to Ameri
can citizens and to a possible responsi
bility of the United States to repair
them that this government will be
compelled in the near future to press
claims for full reclamation upon the
attention of His Majesty's government
and that of the French republic.'*
Great importance is attached in dip
lomatic quarters to the tone of the
communication to the two allied pow
ers and to the fact that the President
employs the same basic arguments for
the maintenance of international law
during the war which were used
against Germany.
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[ larged and beautified under p>lanr|
f I prepared by Warren H. Manning. J
I Lots will be sold with the per- J
I petual care provision.
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EAST TERMS
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Builder
213 Walnut Street. Harrisburg, Pa.
Bell Phone 797-M
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2011 N. SECOND ST. JlO LOCUST ST.
MAY 27, 1916.
To Mark Site of Fort
Granville Memorial Day
On Memorial Day at 2:30 o'clock j
the State Historical Commission, withi
appropriate ceremony, will place a
marker near the site of Fort Gran- j
ville, of French and Indian War days, j
or the side of the State highway about
one mile of Lewistown, on what wasj
a link in the old Philadelphia and.
Pittsburgh turnpike, and which is j
likely to become the William Penn;
highway across the State.
Thomas Lynch Montgomery, the,
S'ate Librarian, and the curator of j
the commission, will deliver the ad
dress at the unveiling of the marker,
which will consist of a native gannister j
stone, upon which will be placed a
bronze tablet in the shape of a key
stone, surmounted with the coat of ;
nrms of the State, which will give a ;
history of the fort.
George R. Frysinger of Lewistown,
a member of the committee of his
torical research of Mifflin county, has
labored indefatigably to the end that
the site of this fort which figured
so prominently in the early history of
the Juniata Valley, might be suitably
marked. George F. Ross of this city
rendered material assistance in de
termining the location of the fort
from the original land records in the]
Department of Internal Affairs. The
Historical Commission is performing
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2033 N. Second St., 50x162 ft.
Sixth St., above Hoffman's Woods, .
206x100 ft.
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No. 206 Walnut Street
Fronting S3 feet 0 Inches, ex
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222 Market Street
Evergreen Street House
Now vacant—all improvements;
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Bcrgner Building