RAILROAD
WAGES
Shall they be determined by
Industrial or
Federal Inquiry?
To the American Public:
Do you believe in arbitration or indus
trial warfare?
The train employes on all the railroads
have voted whether they will give their leaders
authority to tie up the commerce of the
country to enforce their demands for a 100
million dollar wage increase.
The railroads are in the public service—
your service. This army of employes is in
the public service—your service.
You pay for rail transportation 3 billion
dollars a year, and 44 cents out of every
dollar from you goes to the employes.
On all the Eastern Railroads in 1915, seventy-five per cent of the
train employes earned these wages (lowest, highest, and average
of all) as shown by the payrolls—
Paaaenger Freight Yard
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I Rente Average Range Average Range Average
E*tem.
Conductor, 1831 %% , 642 1145 ,3,5
Fireto«D 1128 1109 935
Br, l *™. Ijg H4l jg 973 1085
The average yearly wage payments to all Eastern train em
ployes (including those who worked only part of the year) as
•hown by the 1915 payrolls were—
Pae»enger Freight Yard
Engineers. . . . ♦ .$1796 $1546 $1384
Conductors 1724 1404 1238
Firemen 1033 903 844
Brakemen. ..... 1018 858 990
A 100 million dollar wage increase for
men in freight and yard service (less than
one-fifth of all employes) is equal to a 5 pei
cent advance in all freight rates.
The managers of the railroads, as trustees
for the public, have no right to place this
burden on the cost of transportation to you
without a clear mandate from a public tri
bunal speaking for you.
The, railroads have proposed the settle
ment of this controversy either under the
existing national arbitration law, or by refer
ence to the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion. This offer has been refused by the
employes' representatives.
Shall a nation-wide strike or an
investigation under the Gov
ernment determine this issue?
National Conference Committee of the Railways
ELISHA LEE, Chairman. A. S. GHEIG, As.u to
P. XL ALBRIGHT, Gen'l Manager , St* Louis & Sen Francisco Railroad.
Allan tie Coaat Lin. Railroad. C W. KOUNS, Cen'l ilar.a n .r,
I* • BALDWIN, Gen'l Manager, * Atchison, Topeka ik Santa Fe lUilvia
H. v. McMASTER. Cant Manager.
C. L. BAADO. Can I Manager, Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad.
New York, Haven & Hartford Railroad. N n
K- H. COATMA.N.
Soothers Railway. Norfolk «nd We.tern Railway.
ft. E. COTTER, Cm'l Manager, JAMES RUSSELL. Can't Manager,
Wabash Railway. Denver A Rio Crande Railroad,
f. £- CROWLEY, AwL Vtee-President ** sr -HOYER, Resident lice-Pre
New York Central Railroad. Pennsylvania Lines West.
C. H. EMERSON, Gen'l Manage* W - I~ SEDDON, Vice-President,
Great Northern Railway. Seaboard Air Line Railway.
C H. EWING, Gen'l Manager A* J. STONE, Vire-President,
Philadelphia & Reading Railway Erie Railroad.
* GRICI r P ®- »• WAID, VUePre*. * Can't HauM
Cfeaapeaka & Ohio Railway. Sun«t Central UnM.
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' FRIDAY EVENING,
NEWS PRINT SHORT,
PAPERS MUST CUT
Size Decreased and Economics
Forced to Avert Famine
in Supply
New York, Aug. 4. Unless there
Is a concerted curtailment of waste of
news print paper—savings that can
be effected only by reducing the size
of newspapers, refusing unsold copies
and cutting oft the drain of exchanges
—newspapers of the United States will
be on the bread line, figuratively
speaking. They will be compelled to
take their material on allotment, re
ceiving no more than manufacturers
can give them from vanishing sup
plies. That a famine in news print
paper -will result within a few months
unless these economies are effected
was the prediction of paper manufac
turers yesterday.
At the present time in the United
States and Canada fifty mills are work
ing three shifts of men eight hours
daily and six days a week. Their out
put for June—the last compilation—
was 140,151 tons, representing 95.4
per cent, of their maximum produc
tion, the highest efficiency ever attain
ed in the industry. This output repre
sents an Increase of 27,000 tons a
month over the mark for June, 1915,
but even this tremendous increase has
been Insufficient to feed the demand.
Full production has had to be aug
mented bv 5,000 tons more a day,
which was drawn from a rapidly de
pleting reserve stock.
The mills are at the peak of their
capacity. They can turn out no more,
although they have the materials and
the men. In June of 1915 the maxi
mum of efficiency derived from ma
chinery was 78.9; this year it reached
the mark of 95.4.
With machinery making this record,
men operating the day around and
every other aid given to production,
still the outlook for the Fall fails to
brighten. New mills cannot be put up
in weeks or even months; generally it
takes a year and a half to get a mill
working. New machines have been
ordered; in a few weeks several that
turn out fifty tons a day will be in
operation. But these added to the
machines now producing cannot save
the situation at the present rate of
consumption. Machinery cannot be
ordered in wholesale lots at the pres
ent time with most of the big steel
plants turning out munitions in pref
erence to wood grinders.
CHANGES IN REVENUE BILL
" By Associated Press
■Washington, D. C., Aug. 4.—Radical
charges have been proposed by sub
committees in the revenue bill, which
will be considered to-night by the full
Senate finance committee. Chairman
Simmons said to-day the nature of
the amendments: could not be made
public until the committee had passed
on them, but it is understood that in
the munitions tax section copper has
been eliminated and certain other
commodities not mentioned in the
House bill have been added to the
taxable list. Minor changes are said
to have been made in the income and
inheritance tax provisions.
MURDER MYSTERY CLEARED
Pottsville, Pa., Aug. 4.—The murder
of Joseph Futtiatuttl, a detective, at
Big Mine Run, this county, January 30
last, was cleared up yesterday by the
confession of Joseph Frolo and Domi
nic Frusco, prisoners in jail at this
place. Both asserted to State police
men that they were alone responsible
for the crime. They declare that they
shot their victim in the woods at the
instance of Anthony Frolo, a cousin
of Joseph Frolo. who said he would
kill them if they failed to carry out
his desires. The self-confessed mur
derers were brought back from Syra
cuse. N. Y., where they were trailed by
troops of the State constabulary sta
tioned in this city.
When Briny Waves Stop, Look, Listen!
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ANN PENNINGTON, FAMOUS PLAYERS-PARAMOUNT STAR.
The wild waves have evidently hinted to Ann Pennlnerton that the water"!
fine. She has donned her most becoming bathing suit and a.carefree mannei
for a swim. The costume Is easily explained. It's just one stripe after an
other, alternating purple and white. The material is taffeta and the bloomen
match the purple. Neptune's daughter probably never dreamed of a bathlnj
cap like this, but it's Just the thing for a beach costume, Miss Pennington r»
oently became a Famous Players-Paramount star
harrisburg telegraph
NO ELECTION FUND
FOR GUARDSMEN
One of the Problems Which
Must Be Taken Up by the
Attorney General
The question of how the Common- j
wealth of Pennsylvania is going to'
pay the expenses which will be in
curred in holding elections in Novem- |
ber for members of the National j
Guard who are in federal service is |
one of the series which must be;
worked out before arranging for the
elections according to Deputy At- j
torney General Joseph L. Kun, to |
whom has been referred the letter of
Governor Brumbaugh inquiring as to
what methods must be followed to |
enable the soldiers to vote.
Mr. Kun said that there was no -
appropriation available, the specific;
appropriations act of 1909 forbidding:
payment of any money not appro- \
priated for a definite purpose. Art-;
other question which has been raised
is whether Guardsmen must be regis
tered or enrolled at their home dis
tricts before voting in the field.
An opinion was given to-day to
George H. Wirt, chief forest fire war
den, to the effect that there is no pro
vision in the State laws relative to
the forest fire service which would
forbid employment as a local warden
of a person not a citizen of the United
States.
In another opinion given to the
Auditor General, Mr. Kun holds that
an attorney appointed to appraise an
estate for collateral inheritance tax
cannot act for the administrator of
the estate as well.
This Is the Birthday
Anniversary of—
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C. O. JONES
i Special agent of the Equitable Life
, Assurance Society of the United States,
| with offices in the Telegraph building.
He was born in Delaware, Ohio, with
! his home at Okeson, Pa. Mr. Jones
came to this city last October, prior
to that he was engineer of concrete
construction at the Panama Canal.
SOUTHERN* LEGISLATOR STABBED
By Associated Press
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 4. Thomas B.
Felder, of the Atlanta bar, widely
known for his part in the South Caro
lina dispensary cases of severa.l years
ago, was stabbed and seriously injured
here last night. G. K. Vesson of East
Point, Ga., doorkeeper of the Georgia
House, was arrested charged with the
! stabbing, which occurred in a hotel
i lobby in the presence of scores of
I members of the general assembly.
Kelder and Vesson are said to have
I quarreled over legislation seeking the
recall of Savannah city officials.
Great Money Saving
August Furniture Sale
Nearly everything in our store reduced to real money-saving prices. Let us
show you that we are not simply talking but are really doing what we say.
Our Special McDougall Kitchen Cabinet Club
Just Started—Only 26 Members Form the Club
I » Places in your home one of the
Call at our store and get the parti-
During the month of August we will adhere to our usual sum
mer custom of closing our store Friday afternoons and keeping
] open Saturday afternoons and evenings.
IY ou are invited to attend the band concert which will take place the coming
Saturday evening, corner Third and Broad streets. While in the neighborhood, be
sure to take enough time to investigate our August Furniture Sale.
BROWN & CO. NortSSfLeet
"The Big Uptown Home Furnishers"
FARM EXPERT ON
VALUES OF FOODS
Talks About Milk and Beef as
Understood by the People
of Pennsylvania
"There Is absolutely no explanation j
to the contrary of folks," says L. W. j
Lighty, Farm Adviser of the State
Department of Agriculture. "They
groan and lament about the high price
of beef and ask the lawmakers to do
something or other to either make the
farmers raise more calves or get at
it themselves.
"But the farmers will not and the
lawmakers cannot, so the consumer
had better learn some of his diatetlc j
alphabet and know how to live cheap
ly and wholesomely. Dairy products
will very largely take the place of
meat and reduce the cost of the food
very greatly and at the saime tijne
furnish a more digestible food.
"We eat fool to furnish material
to build body tissues and to keep up
the body temperature and supply us
with the needed energy. Some foods
furnisr. heat and energy largely while
others furnish building material large
ly. Meat Is largely building material as
the aumal tUAt furnished the meat
transformed vegetable growth Into
meat ond we ic-convert it Into human
muscle. The annual also converts the
same vegetable growth into milk from
which we make butter, cheese and
other marketable commodities, and a
large per cent, of these if used as
food are converted into human mus
cle. Therefore, both dairy and beef
animals are kept to convert coarse
vegetable products into human food
but tha dair> cow does it many times
more economically.
"After you feed the beef animal two
years it is killed and four to eight
hundred pounds of meat is secured. If
you have a dairy cow you start to milk
her at two years and if she is a prod
uctive cow she will every fortnight
give you as much actual nourishment
es the entire animal body. In course
of a year she will give you sixteen to
twenty times as much nourishment as
her entire bbdy would afford ajid she
sill continue to thus produce for eight
or ten years. One pound of milk is
equal in food value to fourteen ounces
of beef and you smilingly pay 20c for
the beef and growl like a tiger when
we ask you to pay only three-fourths
of this for milw. And because you re
fuse to pay living prices for milk many
dairymen are changing from dairy to
beef and thus the consumer by his
foolishness l oosts the high cost of liv
ing. When will the consumer use good
judgment in purchascltig food sup
plies? Echo answers. When."
SHOOTS SELF IN HAND
While examining a revolver, John
Myers, a lawyer, of Camp Hill, shot
himself through the left hand to-day.
ITh« wound is not serious. He was
looking at the gun In the office oc
George 1. Baushcr, in the Calder Build
ing.
'AUGUST 4, Isl6.
Crazed by Drink, Farmer
Fires Barns and Crops
Geneseo, N. Y., Aug. 4. The loss of
upwards of J30,00u worth of buildings
and crops was suffered by farmers in
the adjoining town of Leicester last
night as the result of the fiendish ac
tivities of a farmer of that place by the
name of Fred Solsowsky.
Solsowsky spent last evening until
near midnight in drinking at Moscow
and then started for his home. When
he reached the vicinity he set fire to a
neighbor's straw stack. From there he
went to another neighbor's and fired a
barn.
In rapid succession he fired six big
barns filled with hay, wheat and tools,
besides many hay and straw stacks.
The entire country was panic-stricken,
as flame after flame shot from every di
rection.
Fortunately Solsowsky was observed
running across a field just as he had
fired his last barn and he was captured
by husky farmer lads. Chemical fire
companies from nearby villages saved
many homes. Solsowsky has been act
ing queerly of late. He claims he con
sumed three gallons of whisky a week
procured through mail order firms.
A signed confession was obtained
from Solsowsky and he is now also
charged with a SIO,OOO fire of last Mon
day night at a neighbor's with whom
he had quarreled.
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to both business and social printing. Thorough
knowledge of what is just right and the best
of workmanship are elements to be considered
when placing that order for quality printing.
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A Representative will call
Two Majors in N. G. P.
Leave Military Service
Special to the Telegraph
Mount Gretna, Pa.. Aug. 4. Major
Andrew B. Gloninger, of the Fourtri
Pennsylvania Brigade, and Major J. C.
Biddle, assistant to Lieutenant Colonel
Charles E. Koerper, U. S. Medical
Corps, were mustered out of service
yesterday. It was officially announc
ed that the vacancy in the local medi
cal staff caused by the retirement of
Major Biddle had been filled by the as
signment of Major J. F. Edwards, for
merly surgeon of the Second Pennsyl
vania Brigade. Both Major Gloninger
and Major Edwards had been seni back
here from Camp Stewart, El Paso, when
it was discovered that United States
, army regulations do not provide for
brigade surgeon. •"
Lieutenant Colonel Harold Jackson,
U. S. A., yesterday directed the trans
fer of the recruit camp from the site
recently occupied by the Fourth Bri
gade, fully a mile from headquarters
to the site touching the western edge
of the parade grounds and within easy
access from tne park station. This
work was done by the twenty-four re
cruits. received here trom Philadelphia
and Harrisburg.
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