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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.
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uncomfortable. Order the
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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
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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 )
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{?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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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