. 111 11 J "Hl" , m t t ■:' • .jvvmmm./* ■ rr-*V*fr-'*-'*r " r —nww'V-l." v » < : ■• '• _ , T , IIPr . -V C/fy's Thousands Cheer Departing Troops as 7hey Match to Serve the Flag s HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 145 DRASTIC RETALIATORY ACTION AGAINST MEXICO FOR MASSACRE CONSIDERED BY US. HARRISBURG SAYS A PROUD GOOD-BY TO MEN IN KHAKI Companies D and I With Headquarters' Staff Entrain For Mt. Gretna Mobilization Camp Amid Shouts of 50,000 People; Great Throngs Thrill as Troops of Today and Veterans of Other Wars Go Marching By; Celebra tion Exceeds Farewell of Spanish War Days TEARS AND CHEERS AS LAST GODSPEEDS ARE SAID AT ARMORY Little Gray-Haired Mother Kneels and Prays as Her Son Answers to His Name at Rollcall; Senator Beidleman Points Out Fatal Results of Unpreparedness; Sobs Echo Strains of "Good-by, Little Girl, Good-by" They're our hoys, OURS, who march so bravely hy, Not regulars sent from the Posts with banners waving high; But husbands, sons and brothers who a week ago were here, Sharers of the home life, so unutterably dear. ' It's our flag, OURS, that sends the clarion call \cross a mighty nation and the tools of commerce fall. \\ hile the fathers of our children take up their arms to-day. Old Glory says she needs them, there is no other way! It's our prayer, OURS, who stay at home and wait, That God in loving mercy let not the end be late. If war must be our portion, give us faith and strength and then, Our honor undiminished, Lord, give us I—V1 —V rnr,i -re*- ANNA H. WOOD, Written For the Telegraph. With all the might of its thousands of aching throats and eager hands, clamoring church and tire bells, screaming fire sirens and factory whistles, and crashing bands—Harri .burg to-day said good-by to some of its sons and husbands and fathers who started to carry The Flag to Mexico. Companies D and I of the Eighth Regiment, together with the headquarters staff, entrained this morning for mobilization at Mt. Gretna. 1 he Governor's Troop, the city cavalry command, will move to Gretna to-morrow morning. In years and years the city has never turned out so thoroughly to man, woman and child of its citizenry as it did to-day. Thous ands of people lined the streets from the armory at Second and Fors ter sticets, all the way to Union Station. And when every available l.it of curbing, pavement, telegraph and telephone pole, abutting brick or lumber pile, office window, roof, automobile, balcony could hold no mor e of llarrisburg's folk, the thousands of visitors from nearby towns who flocked in on early trains and trolley, got a toe or tooth hold from other possible vantage points. Where the Tears Were Hid Harrisburg was more than ordinarily gav with <nasses of flags and bunting as i( the old home town had tried its best to bury its lace in the folds of the only colors in all the world—to hide its tears. I hat's why the marching men in khaki saw only the smiles along the way; the tears followed the final clang of departing locomotive bells as the long trains pulled out of Union Station. Harrisburg, incidentally, took a half holiday; stores closed* businessmen left their desks; factories were shut down; business generally was suspended, and many of the city's leading citizens in business or civic life, marched along with the" "boys" to the depot. Department stores and other business houses turned out with great forces of clerks; the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club hre department, the Post Office force, the Boys* Brigade and then older fighters of fifty and twenty years ago -'the Grand Army men and the veterans of the Spanish-American— tramped along in tribute to those who went away to-day. \\ hile you watched the thousands in the civic vanguard tramo n to u " ° { „ "America," "Stars and Stripes Forever." "Yankee oodle, Dixie and that sort of quick-stepping martial stuff, and >ou noted the type of Harrisburg s men who have served the Flac— and the youngsters who can render equal help to the Flair— vou And— CUnOUS IlUlc tinghn S ' wa >' down your toes didn't you? Then Companies D and I and the officers of the Eighth's staff came tramping, tramping past! ' M Down Second street to Market and on out Market street the soldiers marched Over that same street a little more than a year ago rode a very famous cavalry command of the regular armv And at the head of one of its troops was the officer who has taken his last ride across the Lnknown Border—Captain Charles T. Boyd. MANY A TEAR AS WOMEN FOLK SAY GOOD-BY When that trig, grim-visaged young ster In khaki has grown silvery-halr efi a-d tottery, he'll still remember with pleasing thrill, Saturday, June 24, in the year of our Lord, 1916. And thousands and thousands of people of the city and the surround ing towns will ever recall that dale as one to be marked in red letters In the calendar of Harrisburg's "big deys." For this is the day that Harrls burg officially told the officers and men of the Eighth regiment staff and (Continued on Page 1] BY CARRIERS 6 CENTS A WEEK. SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS. 50,000 CHEER GUARDSMEN AS THEY MARCH BY Through a massed lane of 60,000 ; cheering people irom this city and fi, rr .°. Un ! li ? K towns. Harrishurg's I khaki-clad troopers marched to the f i Pennsylvania railroad station this . t morning to entrain for Mount Gretna, , where they will prepare for the bor , der, Mexico —and whatever lies be : | yond. Tt was a parade the like of which . Harrisburg has not seen since the I ! stirring days of 1898 when th® sinking II of the Maine sent a thrilling wave ] [Continued on Page 4] HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1915. HOW THE THOUSANDS MASSED IN MARKET SQUARE TO SEE HARRISBURG GUARDSMEN MARCH AWAY TO GRETNA - att - <flß BK The glimpse of Market Square above shows how patriotic Harrisburg crowded into Market Square to see the troops off to Mt. Gretna and Mexico. Below 4s a group of the city's guardsmen coming to a halt in Second street. Senator E. E. Beidleman is seen making the farewell address at the armory. SIXTEENTH IS FIRST TO REACH CAMP BRUMBAUGH Western Regiment Informally Opens Mobilization; Hard at Work • By Associated Press , Camp Brumbaugh, Mount Gretna. 1 Pa., June 24. Pomp and circum stances. once so much a part of the > military life, were conspicuously ab- j sen), and hard, manual labor by per spiring. shirt-sleeved gangs of men the most obvious thing in the world j when, at (i a. in. to-day, Camp Brum- ' bangh was opened. General orders providing for the j [Continued on Page 1] One Little Gray-Haired Mother Kneels in Prayer as Her Boy Falls in Line When you say' "good-night" to that best girl whose hair has turned to silver you may think of this little inci dent that occurred this morning on the balcony of the City Grays armory. It's not exactly a tale of cheers —nor tears. Half a dozen of the fairer spectators watched the crowds and the troops. from the balcony. Among them was a ! sweet-faced old lady of sixty-five or. thereabouts. Now and then she smiled i as she listened to catch the tramp, tramp of marching feet on the street! near by. Somehow you got the ideaj that she smiled to hide the trembling! lips; anyway, she smiled a very great deal. As the stacato commands of officers and the steady plap-slap of many foot steps announced the approach of the marching companies 'round the armory corner most of Ihe balcony spectators turned to watch. Only one had no eyes for (lie passing marchers. "Why, look at that old ladv," sud denly whispered a man from the street as he pointed to the balcony. Some boyish soldier's mother was kneeling in prayer. AM- VKTF.BANS, ATTENTION: Captain l.nuhrnsteln requests (he Trlmrnph to annotinre that nil vet erans will at the Courthouse at S nvlock, Sunday morning, to art aa on escort for the Governor'* Troop, whfch will leave for the mobilisation ramp at Mt. I.retna an honr later. Inasmuch n* the de parting soldiers to-day were given a splendid fnrewell demonstration. It la hoped that a large number of veterans nlll he present to escort the troopers to-morrow morning. WRECK ON MIDDLE DIVISION HOLDS UP TROOP TRAIN Passenger Engineer Injured; AH Steel Coaches Save Lives of Passengers Two men were injured and troop trains from West ern Pennsylvania were delayed for an hour when a fast west bound passenger trair. crashed into the rear end of a freight near Millers town .on the Middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad at 2.30 o'clock this morning. The injured men were Andrew J. Gardner, 658 Emerald street, this city, passenger engineer, lacerations about the head and face, a sprained arm and bruises," and E. E. Ford, fireman, also of this city, bruises and lace rations. That none of the passengers was injured was due to the all-steel construction of the train. Wreckage was strewn over the east bound tracks for hundreds of yards and delayed the on-coming troop trains until the debris could be removed. Colored Citizens Form Law and Order Society Representative colored men of Har risburg met at the office of Dr. Charles H. Crampton last pight and formed a Law and Order Society, the purpose of which is to aid the authorities in their efforts to prevent crime in this com munity :ind to i un down criminals. As soon as the society learns of the arrival of a suspicious character in town his presence will be reported to the police and every effort will be made to impress upon the public that the colored people as a whole are de voted to good citizenship. Dr. Crampton, who was elected president of the society, said to-day: "Patrolman Hippie, who was killed by a colored man yesterday, was a Rood friend of the colored people. We were very fond of him. He was a Rood officer and we hope the law will deal promptly and vigorously with his slayer. Our society will send a floral offering frim his colored friends to grace his bier. We propose to Rive our hest efforts to the authorities in putting a stop lo crime in this com munity." Other officers of the society are: Fred Darrow, %'ice-presldent; S. J. Lewis, secretary; Frank Robinson, treasurer, , FORT THIAUMONT CAPTURED AFTER HARD FIGHTING Germans Take Outer Verdun Defense; Claim Fort and Village of Fleury ! The battle of Verdun continued last : night with the utmost violence on ! both sides of the Meuse. The French war office announced to-day that the | French have regained a large part of | the ground lost northeast of Verdun inear hills 320 and 321. Undertaking a vigorous offensive, [Continued on Page 1] Italian Shoots Negro; Victim Likely to Die i John Quawn, colored, aged 38 years, IPS Cherry street, is in the Harris | burg Hospital in a critical condition, I with a bullet wound in his abdomen. He was shot shortly before noon by Joseph Pullatto, an Italian, residing in Tenth street, near Paxton. Both men are employed at McCreath Brother's coalyard, Race street. Pullatto was j arrested at his tiome this afternoon and is in jail. The shooting occurred at the coal I vnrds when Pullatto accused Quawn of trying to rob him. Without any warning Pullatto pulled a 32 caliber i revolver from his pocket, flred and j made his escape. [THE WEATHER, 1 For Hnrrlnhiii-K nml vicinity: Prob ably Nhnueri to-nlsrhtt Sunday linrtl.v cloudy; not much change In temperature. For Enntcrn Pennsylvania i I'rob nlily loeal ahotvera to-ulKhti Sun i day partly cloudyi moderate ■outherly wlndn. River The Suaquehannn river and prob ably all Ita hranehea n-11l continue to fall alowly. A atuße of about fl.il feet IN Indicated for Harrla burs Monday morning. Tempernturei 8 a. m., OA, Muni Rlaea. 4i4T a. m.| net*. TiST p. m. >loon i .\ew moon, June rn>, 5144 , a. ro. j River Stage) 7.2 feet above low water mark. Yeaterday'a Weather Hlarheat temperature. To. I.oweil temperature, M. Mean temperature, IIS. Normal temperature, 72. 16 PAGES DEALINGS WITH CARRANZA NEAR BREAKING POINT Only Seven Men in Addition to Seventeen Captured Have Survived Treachery of Gomez at Carrizal, According to Fragmentary Reports; Decisive Move Will Not Be Taken Until Gen. Pershing Sends Complete Accounts Washington, June 24.—Relations between the United States and the de factor government of Mexico are close to the breaking point to-day as a result of the apparently well-founded belief that Ameri can cavalrymen deliberately were massacred Wednesday at Carrizal by Carranza soldiers. Secretaries Lansing and Baker were early at the White House to-day conferring with President Wilson. It is known that the pu - sibilitv of drastic retaliatory action against the Mexican forces in Chihuahua was given grave consideration. If the Carranza goven - ment accepts responsibility for'the attack at Carrizal it is considered virtually certain by ofticials that occupation of most of Northern Mexico will be ordered by President Wilson to take place as rapidly as the necessary military forces can be placed at the disposal of General Funston. Only Seven Survivors Action must await further reports from General Pershing. Mis message last night indicating that only seven men of the two troop of cavalry had survived in addition to those taken prisoner, had not been supplemented at an early hour. Deliberately Led Into Trap It is believed the first act of the Washington government when fuller information is at hand will be to demand repudiation of the Carrizal attack bv the Carranza government. Preliminary re ports have convinced officials here that the American troops wer u [Continued on Page S] ATTENTTOTn!! £ Harrisfcurg—Members c' the Chamber of Commerce. I Rotary Club and all other civic orj arc requested I to meet at 5 o'clock to-morrow morning at the courthouse) j to escort the Governor's Troop to Union Station for entrain- f i ing to Mt. Gretna. * , CARRANZA PREPARING REPLY TO NOTE f j I Washington, June 24.—An official dispatch from Mexico K City to-day said it was reported there General Carranza was f < t preparing a reply to the last American note and that it would be published in Mexico City probably to-morrow, without J i waiting for its delivery to the United States. JL * STRIP RELIEF DIVISION FROM DRAFTING BILL T ' Washington, June ?A. —Stripped of its $1,000,000 relief I provision for families of militiamen, the Senate Military J I Committee to-day orde ably reported tl | I ' lution adopted by e .tcrday to auth 5 )' in; Guard ir of the Ui '•s. f j I A sub! tit ite for the relief provision directs that militiamen * < having dependent families should be discharged at once. X !, DEMOCRATS ORGANIZE Ilarrisburg. Democratic county and city committees 1 > 1 met this afternoon, re-elected officers, adopted resolutions ! 1 i 9 boosting the administration, the tickets, etc., and heard ' I speeches by H. B. Saussaman, Congressional candidate; F. & George D. Herbert, Senatorial candidate, and others. Fred C? L. Morganthaler, this city, was re-elected chairman of the *£ J county committee; ex-County Commissioner John 11. Eby, § | I Lykens, was made vice-chairman: J. Douglas M. Royal, son K ; of ex-Mayor Royal, was elected secretary, and Charles E. f < I Dasher, was chosen treasurer. Morris Emerick, Charles D. £ I Stucker, and A. Wells Booser were all named in order for j ( j the treasury job, but all fought shy, of it. Howard W. Jones was re-elected chairman of the city committee. 1 \ , ALLIES WILL SUBORDINATE ORDERS * 9 Washington, June 24. Representatives of the entente ' * i allies have signified to the United States government their ■ willingness to subordinate their munitions contracts in this 1 country to the needs of the United States in the present < I emergency. I MARRIAGE LICENSES Hcary I,chimin Knauh and Mauri M. Brrimrranrr, city. I.eroy Jolitmon. Ohrrlln, anil Kannlr Mink. city. I'rfd Andrew* Sturm anil Kllaalirlh M. Kruner, cltj, ira 1.. Shonlf anil tnna 11. (.unity, city. ' Millard Hay tumbler. Ilutlcr. anil lirarr F.dna Mtephcaa, Philadelphia ■ Mark H. Ilarnian, Kllr.nhcthilllc. and B. I. Marklr, Washington town.' hip. 1 Qi V||--iii W. ii CITY EDITION
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