' Fifteen Cars Operated Today; Strike-Breakers With Blackjacks Arrested j HARRISBTJRG fcSfigfe TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 165 FIRST STEPS TOWARD SETTLING STREEI CAR STRIKE President F. B. Musser Meets Men "as Individuals"; An other Meeting Arranged For 2 O'clock Tomorrow Afternoon; IS Cars Operating With New Employes as Crews; Arrest Two Strike-breakers With Blackjacks; Complain of Police Inactivity "HAVE MEN TO OPERATE CARS WHEN WE GET PROTECTION"—MUSSER Strikers Receive Notice With Pay Envelopes to Report For Work at Noon Today, or Consider Themselves No Longer Employed; Great Union Demonstration To night; No Trouble on Valley Lines; Union Executives Charge Thug Importation and Overcrowding First steps toward what may prove a settlement of the dif ferences between the striking carmen and the Harrisburg Railways Company, were taken this morning when a number of the strikers met with President Frank B. Musser, and conferred over general conditions for more than two hours. Immediately after the conference President Musser stated that the men met him as old employes and individuals and discussed grievances and misunderstandings, and as some of the men had to leave another meeting will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Protection Inadequate Says Musser President Musser stated shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon: "We have men to operate the cars and will put them on the lines as soon as we are sure of adequate police protection. The new men on the cars are trained and have been warned not to carry any deadly weapons. I have invited Sheriff Caldwell to make a search. "The notice given the striking employes this morning was a formal one effective at noon. We must fill up our crews if they do not return. 1 do not think that any more cars will be placed on the lines to-day, as several of the ones being operated were so badly damaged that they were sent to the barns and others substituted. "The police are not giving us adequate protection. At Market Square this afternoon a crowd collected with an officer within fifty feet of them, but no effort was made to disperse the men until more than 50 had collected. Sheriff deputies saw one man hurl a stone through a car window, it has been reported to me, but made no arrests." David Cassel, dispatcher for the Railways Company, reported this aft ernoon that while piloting a crew to Twenty.third and Deny streets, a mob attacked them at Twelfth and Market streets, in the presence of deputies, one man, according to Mr. Cassel, hurled a stone througn the car win dow, but the deputies made no attempt to arrest the offender. At Fourteenth and Derry streets another mob threw stones and fruit at the crew, the men narrowly escaping serious injury. On the return trip a similar attack was made. An officer who was there at the time grabbed a boy who threw one of the stones, shook him. and then left him go. According to the dispatcher the deputies were apparently afraid to make any arrests. Hugh L. McLaughlin, one of the striking carmen, who attended the conference this morning, issued a statement in regard to the meeting (Other Strike News Page 2) THE WEATHER For Harrisburg vicinity t Purt lj' cloudy to-night nud Friday; not much change In (•nipcruturr. For Eastern Pennsylvania* Purtlj cloudy to-night and Friday; proli ably showers In southeast por tion; northeast to nortli Mind* Increasing somewhat. Hlver Tlic Susquehanna river ana all It* brunette* will pr«*hably continue to full slowly. ,Y stage of about ;I.S icct is indicated for Harris b'lrg Friday niornluK. General Conditions The tropical storm appears to be central oif the Southern Virginia const* moving slowly northward or northeast waril. The wind at Hat terns at S a. m. to-day was twenty-eight miles front the uorthwrcnt, with cloudy weather, and the highest velocity for the last twelve hours was lifty-twn miles an hour from the north. Showers IIHVC occurred over u con siderable part of the Southern half 'it the country eai»t of the Hocky Mountains and along the Middle Atlantic coast, anil there were showers in the Lower .Mis souri, Middle and Upper Missis sippi valleys nnd along the west ern border of the Ureat l.akes. It is 2 to 12 degrees cooler over the eastern part of the Plains States and In the Mississippi Vnllcyt elsewhere temperature changes have been slight. Temperaturei S a. m., 7ti. Sun: Rives, liM a. m.s seta, Ti'JO p. in. Moon i Last quarter, to-morrow, <1:33 p. m. River Stage: 3.1t feet above low water mark. Highest temperature, Ki, Lowest temperature, 7a. Mean temperature. 78. Normal temperature, 75. Getting used to strange newspapers is like breaking in a pair of new shoe:*—mighty uncomfortable. Order the Harrisburg Telegraph mailed to your vacation address if you would enjoy real comfort. Six cents f. week will bring lite Telegraph :o ,vou no mat- • tcr where you arc# BY CARRIER* 0 CENTS A WEEK. SINGI.E COPIES 2 CENTS. similar to the one made by President; Musser, and then with other strikers | conferred with John J. Thorpe, vice- ! president of the Amalgamated Asso- j oiation of Street and Electric Railway j Employes, and Patrick Gilday, chief of ; the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitra- 1 tion of the State Department of Labor i and Industry. Mr. Gilday stated that the meeting! this morning would probably bring' favorable results. Superintendent of Transportation Felix M. Davis, of the company, an nounced this morning that fifteen cars were being operated by the company on city lines and to Steelton; all by new employes who have been hired within the last few days. Two of these strike-breakers were arrested this morning by the police for carrying blackjacks, and another per son was arrested for throwing eggs at the cars. According to railways officials, the cars sent out this morning will be kept on the lines unless the violence be comes too great and serious results follow. Every effort will be made to maintain the service Superintendent Davis announced. Strikers Paid The company employes were paid this morning at the offices of the Har risburg Railways Company for the time they worked until the strike be gan on Sunday morning. With their pay envelopes, those who have walked out received the following notice: Vou will please report In uni form Thursday, July 20, 1916, at noon at tlic cat barns of the com pany. Failiny: in this, we shall have to consider that you have voluntarily resigned from the com pany's employment, and, in that event, please turn in tile com pay'.s property now in your pos session. Harrisburg Railways Company. F. B. Musser. President. Union officials said that all of the men had remained loyal to the organ ization, and that new members were . being added again to-day. The 1 strikers said little concerning the con , ferenee this morning between Presi | dent Musser and some of the employes and are awaiting the result of the , meeting to-morrow afternoon. Superintendent Davis said that none of the strikers responded to the | notification given this morning when i they were paid. Crowds Orderly Although new men were employed to operate the cars, the crowds in the streets remained orderly with few exceptions. In the outlying districts jof the city, stones • were hurled through some of the car windows. Sheriff W. W. Caldwell continued to swear in deputies and at noon to day fifty-eight were in service in var -1 ious parts of the city to maintain or der. At some of the downtown street i intersections crowds gathered and Jeered the "strike-breakers" as they were called but the officers prevented disturbances. Superintendent Davis said that he was not sure whether any more cars would be sent out late to-day, and did not know when the ones being Op erated would be withdrawn. No at tempt was made to re-establish serv [Continued on Page 9] TAKE MINE-LAYING U-BOAT London, July 20. The first official announcement that Great Britain had captured a German mine-laying sub marine of the U-35 class was made in the House of Commons to-day by Thomas James MacNamara, financial i secretary of the admiralty who said that one of these vessels would be , brought, to London to be viewed by the 'public. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1916. HOW THE DEUTSCHLAND MUST SN IN ) ■ .. ,J, .... v {?2 in k f L *" ra * ,ill« beyond capes Henry and Charles He must submerge before he reaches that lfiift else structure** o'keei fll't and L\? ° f ~ at T , The from super they will not show above the JSrfJS. If I "thT I £. pe . r J? C 0 ? eB l w ' reless a, ? d other masts must be taken down so her'and ten feet beneath the deepest part of the ° f Wa,er the Deutschlan <* wl » have ten feet above she maTbe a ablt t ?o rß g o el o« e wUh S" jiXo'pM ?'Vw'tStflit'Tbow'the*waVS ° n ** b ° ttom "" darkne »- At nl * ht READY TO LEAVE PORT ANY MOMENT Deutschland Captain in Uni form Has Manifesto Pre pared; Test Engines By Associated Pr*ss Baltimore, July 20. Prepared to leave port at any moment, Captalr Paul Koenig, commander of the Ger man merchant submarine Deutsch lanu, put or. his uniform to-day for the first time since he landed here 11 ago and for several hours this morn ing studied the charts of the Patapsco river and Chesapeake bay with Captain Frederick Hinsch, commander of the North German Lloyd liner Neckar. when Captain Koenig went back abroad the undersea liner he took with him a duplicate manifesto of the ship's cargo. Another copy was ready to be taken to the customs house. Captain Koenig said he would not leave his ship again and indicated an early departure, but said nothing that would give an idea Just when the sub mersible would leave. It was understood the Deutschland's engines and submerging machinery had been given a final test and were found to be in perfect condition. 200 FISHERMEN' LOST By Associattd Press London, .July 20. Two hundred fishermen are believed to have lost their lives in a monsoon off the coast of Colombo. Ceylon, according to a dispatch received by the Exchange Telegraph Company. A large fishing fleet was caught by the. storm and more than 100 boats have failed to return. PEACE CAMPAIGN j IS ON IN GERMANY Supporters of Prince Von Wedel Steering Clear of "Annexation Policy" By Associated Press I Berlin. July 19. via London, July 20. | —The German National Committee 1 for Securing Honorable Peace, has j drafted an address to the country : which will be published within a few 1 days calling for the support of Chan- Icellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg and the I influencing of public opinion in the [Continued on Page 8] Butcher Held on Charge of Murdering Employe Sfecial to the Telegraph Altoona, Pa.. July 20.—Altoona police yesterday arrested Joe Roussi, a meat dealer of Williamsburg, charged with the murder of his employe. Basilio Gugliandolo. aged 27, also of Williams burg. The crime occurred on a lonely bit of State highway between this city and Huntingdon. The victim's head was shattered by a charge from a shot- I gun. The body was dragged from the road to a field where it was discovered jby the dead man's wife. The evidence | is circumstantial. Man Who Killed Friend Makes Self-Defense Plea Special to the Telegraph Georgetown, Del., July 20.—Charged with murder, Dr. W. A. Parker, a den tist. of Lewes, was lodged in Jail yes erday morning. Parker is charged with shooting and killing Postmaster Ebe T. Lynch, of the same town. Dr. Parker, it Is said, had been drink ing and going into the ice cream sa loon of which Lynch was proprietor, became abusive. Lynch put the dentist out. Parker went home, a distance of over a half mile, secured his shotgun and. going back, opened the door and without warning poured a charge of shot into Lynch's head. Parker was hurried to Georgetown and put in the jail, where he refused to see anyone. He is still unable to real ize exactly what he has done and in sists that Lynch was after him and that he fired to keep Lynch from kill , ing him. Tlie men were friends. SAVES COMRADE'S LIFE UNDER FIRE Harrisburger in Marine Drags Fellow Soldier From Ocean at Haiti A v,-rr* * ]JT GROVER C. BOWERS Grover C. Bowers, of Harrisburg, | aged 25, a United States marine is to receive a medal of honor and SIOO in gold for saving a comrade's life j while under fire during the attack on ! Puerto Plata, May 2"\ when American forces were forced to drive the Haitien ' rebels out of their stronghold there. Bowers is a former Harrisburg [Continued on Page 9] EPIDEMIC KILLS 31 BABIES TODAY Next to Highest Toll of Plague; Infantile Paralysis Has Caused 487 Deaths By Associated Press New York, July 20.—0n only one , day since the inception of the epidemic of infantile paralysis on June 26 have more fatalities from the disease oc curred than in the last twenty-four hours. During this period the plague i killed 31 children and there were 119 [Continued on Page 8] Youth Could Not Resist Shooting at Pennsy Train Fort Wayne, Ind., July 20.—Kenneth j Gallagher, the farmer boy wno shot j and wounded five passengers riding on I the observation platform of the j Broadway Limited, Pennsylvania train near this, city last Thursday, is held in the county jail under bond of S3OO I awaiting trial Saturday. He stated in city court that he and | a companion were going after the cat- I tie when they saw the train approach ; ins and that he could not resist a si range temptation to shoot, thinking thai no serious results would follow. |li is said that the boy fired both bar : rels of a double-barreled shotgun I pointblank at those sitting on the plat- I form. J RAINBOW PHOTOGRAPHER DIES By Associated Press Baltimore, July 20. Dr. William \ Simon, professor of chemistry at the | College of Physicians and Surgeons, I and an adept in autochronamatic pho [tography, died to-day at Eaglesmere, I Pa. Dr. Simon had the distinction of j having taken a photograph of a raln i bow probably the only one ever taken. ! He was born in Germany in 1844. ROTARIANS ELECTING By Associated Press Cincinnati, Ohio, July 20.—After a j day and night of pleusure the mem -1 hers of the International Rotary Clubs, ; in convention here, got down to busi ness to-day. There are three presi dential candidates- in the field, William Gettinger, of New York; Robert H. Cornell, of Houston, Texas, and Arch i 1 C, Clump, of Cleveland, . J MOST STORES TO CLOSE SATURDAYS Will Give Sales Forces Longer Week-end Holiday Dur ing August Harrisburg stores generally will be closed Saturday afternoons and even ings during August. This has been decided upon in order that the sales forces of all stores may have a proper vacation. The Friday afternoons that they have been receiv ing were of little benefit to them. After a Friday afternoon off they were com compelled to return too tired for a long day's work. The change had been made by the stores mainly for the benefit of their help, so that they could have Saturday afternoons and all day Sunday, making practically a day and a half. As an to tlx* public [Continued on Pa#e 7] "Anointed" With Lard He Gives Devil Merry Chase Special to the Telegraph Chicago. July 20.—Another negro who, 1 like Henry J. Mclntyre, the insane | slayer of four persons here, worried | about the sins of the negro race, oc j cupied the attention of the police to , day. He was George Flower, a laborer, | who, in scant attire and his body 1 "anointed" with lard, was racing up i and down in front of his home trying to "drive the devil from the race," ; when a policeman arrested him. Detectives were at work In the ne gro section In which Mclntyre lived to ascertain homes where weapons are kept. DISCUSS POWERS OF COMMISSION Expect Announcement Soon; Fletcher to Go to Mexico August 1 By Associated Press Washington, D. C., July 20.—An nouncement that settlement of differ ences between the United States and 1 Mexico will be made through a Joint comniitsion is looked for in the imme diate future. Only final approval by President Wilson and General Car ranza is lacking. It wa. said to-day. Powers to be conferred on a com [Continued on Page 7] Hold Driver Who Turned Auto Over River Bank Fred Hummel, aged 25 years, of i Hummelstown, to-day was held for j court by Alderman Edward Hilton of j the Fourth ward to answer a charge of driving an automobile while in toxicated. Hummel was one of the three Hummelstown men who were more or less injured in an automobile accident near Riverside about 1 o'clock this morning. The injured were: Joseph T. Early, aged 45, contusions and abrasions on the body, fractured left leg and internal injuries. Taken to the Harrisburg Hospital. Harry Wit man, aged 37 years, lacerations of the body and thigh, gash on the head and sprained wrist. Taken to the Harrisburg hospital and later sent to his home. Fred Hummel, driver of the car, bruises on the head and body. Ar i rested and later turned over to Alder man Edward Hilton. Frank Oenslager of Riverside brought the men to the hospital. EXTEND WEST SHORE GAS LINE The Harrisburg Gas Company has obtained permission to lay a pipe line under the walk on the Market street bridge to supply gas for the West Shore towns. The work will be start ed as soon as the material, ordered several weeks ago, arrives. The gas line which only runs to Wormleysburg will be extended to Enola and West Fairview. The new line is designed to prevent any possible break in the supply to the Cumberland Valley ; towns and to Increase the ettlelency of service. _ SEEK NAME FOR CITY'S ANNUAL RIVER CARNIVAL e Committee Appointed to Select Permanent Appellation; Invites Suggestions MORE DETAILS MONDAY Big Navy of River Enthusiasts; Will Hear Reports on Phases j of Organization What shall Harrisburg call its an- I nual aquatic celebration on the Sus quehanna? What's in a name? The commit-1 tee appointed at the initial meeting of the city's canoeists, motorboatmen and j other river enthusiasts to report upon a proper and distinctive name for the [Continued on Page 5] Try to Clear Up Poison Mystery; Victim Now Has Fighting Chance to Recover By Associated Press Boston, Mass.. July 20. Hospital physicians attendng Dr. Wilfred E. Harris, president of the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy, said to-day that he had a "fighting chance" to recover from the three bullet wounds inflicted Tuesday by Dr. Eldrtdge D. Atwood, also an osteopath. Meanwhile the po lice are endeavoring to clear up the mystery of the death by poisoning of Dr. Celia Adams. Dr. Atwood's fiancee, a few hours before the shooting of Dr. Harris. The autopsy failed to reveal "when, where and under what circum stances this poison was received." Dr. Atwood told the polite he left Miss Adams about 1 o'clock Monday night at the Park street subway sta tion and what ho first learned the next morning that f.ho had been found un conscious in her office. It was said to day by the police that she regained consciousness tor a moment and made several attempts to speak to a phy siciun who asked her if she had taken poison. She did not reply, but nodded her head. An analysis of the young woman's orgars was being made to day by a chemist to determine the na ture of the poison that caused her death. Dr. Atwood is in jail on a charge of intent to kill. N W W — 1 STROUP INSISTS ON ORDER I Harrisburg. District Attorney Michael E. Stroup ii C f I that he will prosecute to the limit any persons guilty of If 1 order in connection with the street car strike. Citizens 9 I have the right to use the streets, or to rid? or; public con- f§ I -yances he said and the law will be enforced. Violence S ? c tolerated. «K f All persons arrested on such charges face a maximum pen- 0 I 1 rried gainst carrying concealed deadly weapons under a jfl m . D is- J I fens to help preserve order. M 1 f I (Cincinnati, July 20. President Herrmanr. announced 1 1 C T McGraw, of the New York Nationals, to trade \ | « Mj Killifer to the Giants f or Christy Mathewson, Outfielder j 9 •• 1 Infieldet McKetchnie. < i HERSHEY MUST PAY BONUS , I Harrisburg. Decision to-day by the Superior Court ; J that the Hershey Chocolate company must pay Paul Sny- 1 j the * I ay for collection by forty odd other employes of similar .1 x 9 a the Supreme Court. <t 1 EXPECT CAPTURE OF VILLA ANY MOMENT M i Galveston, Tex., July 20. —The capture or Francis 5 I facto govemm< atarily f J d according to a cablegram received by '.: he Mexican® | consul here. The message said a Villa messenger captured ■ y by Car .; : : troop-, yesterdr.y tqld of Vil' whereabouts. A - I MOTHER DROWNS BABY; TAKES BICHLORIDE I £ Believed to have been demented, Alice Gutshall. aged j 1 25, this afternoon held her 8-month baby under water in the [ & bathtub until it was drowned and then took bichloride of*! I mercury tablets in a suicide attempt. She was rushed to the ; 3 hospital. I { MARRIAGE LICENSES , | Brian Matter, city, and Olive Sufiart Good, Camp Hill. 1 Anthony George Kroaovlc, Mteelton. and .11 arj Elisabeth Hogen- I toiler, city. I CITY EDITION 12 PAGES FRENCH TARE FIRST GERMAN LINE ON FRONT OF FIVE MILES Resume Driving Offensive and Drive Teutons Back Along Both Sides of Somme; Push East From Hardecourt and Carry Lines Close to British Right Flank. SEYECOURT FARTHEREST SOUTHWARD POSITION Hard Fighting on Austro- Italian Front; Vienna Claims Repulse of Three Strong Attacks With Roll ing Stones; Paris Reports Progress at Verdun The French have resumed their driv ing; offensive along the Somme, In Northern France, forcing back the Ger mans on a wide front both north and south of the river. According to this afternoon's Paris bulletin, the German first line trenches from Barlieux to Soyecourt, south of the Somme, a distance of five miles, fell Into French hands. North of the river the French at tack pushed east from Hardecourt and carried trenches along the Combles- Clery railway. The operations here are close to the right flank of the British advance, Combles itself being little more than three miles southeast of Longueval, for possession of which British and Germans are still fighting. The French push forward at Soye court marks the farthest southward point carried I v them in their offen sive. Berlin on Tuesday mentioned French activity there, declaring that an attack on the town was repulsed. Hard fighting continues on the Aus tro-Italian front. Vienna reports ar tillery engagements at various points, increased activity extending even to the Isonzo front. Near Borcola pass the Austrians announce the repulse of three strong attacks, stones being [Continued on Page 7]
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