, Arctic Explorers Reach Civilization With Tale of Discovery of New Country HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV— Xo. ISB URGES SPECIAL COMMISSION TO CONSIDER ALL R. R. DISPUTES Situation Deadlocked; Presi dent Will Confer With 640 Members of General Brotherhood Committee in Effort to Speed Up Nego tiations PUNS CALL FOR EIGHT HOURS BUT NO OVERTIME Details Not Worked Out, but if Railroads Give Shorter Day Men Will Be Urged to Abandon Time and Half- Time Demand; Would Create Federal Commis sion By Assocuttd rrtss Washington. Aug. 16.—Out of the deadlock between the railroad mana gers and the brotherhood leaders a new proposal appeared today for a special commiss;on to consider not only the present dispute, but all others in the future. While President Wilson, the mana gers' committee and the spokesman xor the men awaited the arrival of the employes committee of 640. which is expected here from New York to morrow for the next White House' conference, administration officials and the representatives of the two sides considered the commission idea with a degree of seriousness which indicated it wou'd come into the nego- ] tiations as one of the next steps in the President's attempt to avert a na tion-wide strike. Representatives of the railway man agers were favorable to the plan, in principle and administration officials investigating its availability found that A. B. Garretson, spokesman for the men. while a member of the Fed eral Industrial Relations Commission, made a report favoring such an idea as an enlargement of the present Fed eral Board of Mediation and Concilia tion. It was realized on all hands, however, that the proposal was merely ir. the status of a suggestion which must pass the test at further confer ences with the President. Meanwhile the situation remained [Continued on Page 7] C. of C. to Furnish the Fireworks For Kipona The executive committee of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce has decided to make its co-operation with the Greater Harrisburg Navy take the form of "furnishing and con ducting the fireworks as the contribu tion of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce and its members," as the official resolution reads. The officers of the Chamber plan to have the fireworks exoeed in beauty and effectiveness the display made last fall. The display will be concentrated In aerial effects that can be seen from almost every place along the river front instead of low "set pieces" that can only be viewed by a limited num ber of people. THREE DEAD IX AUTO ACCIDENT Jackson. Miss., Aug. 16. Three men were killed when an automobile In which they were riding last night svas struck by an Illinois Central pas senger train at a grade crossing here. THE WEATHER For Harrisburg and vicinity: Gen erally fair to-nipht anil Thurs day; not much change in tem perature. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Gener ft 11 7 fair to-night and Thursday; not much chance In temperature: llcht variable winds. River The Susquehanna river and all its branches will probablv fall slow ly or remain nearly stationary. 1 stage of about 3.0 feet Is indi cated for Harrisburg Thursday morning. General Condition* Pressure has increased somewhat oyer nearly all the Eastern half of the country, most decidedly over >ew England. The low presure.area over Western Can ada Is moving down over the Mis souri Valley. Light to moderate showers have fallen in the Middle Misslssipp. and Lower Ohio valleys nnd along and near the Atlantic coast. There has been a general rise of 3 to 12 degrees In temperature, except In the Southwest. Temperature: S a. m., flfl. Sun: Rises, 5t17 a. m.s seta, 7:01 p. m. Moon: Last quarter. August 20 7:53 n. m. River Stage: S feet obeve low-water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, «0. lowest temperature. 03. Mean temperature, 72. Normal temperature, 72. VACATION SEASON IS AT ITS HEIGHT Rest and recreation will not be complete unless you have all the news from home every day. Your favorite newspaper, the Harris burg Telegraph, will fill the bill. Phone the Circulation Department before you leave home. The next Issue will meet you, no matter where you go. Six cents a week, postage pre paid. BY CARRIERS (I CENTS A WEEK. (INGLE COPIES 2 CEXTI. HOW ASSOCIATED AID SOCIETIES ARE HELPING POOR BOYS INTO HUSKY YOUNG CITIZENS OF HARRISBURG rr jMMpFjjr wl I il^ Here are some of the boys In the Associated Aid Societies camp at Fay etteville on the (arm of Dr. James A. Black Below from left to right are Mrs. James F. McKee. of Pittsburgh; Miss Virginia Black. Mrs. J. R. Black and Dr. Black. All of whom are interested in the outing of the youngsters, and are aiding in making it a success. JOE NOW SITS WHER IN THE SUN OF Question of Who's Who as Boss-Bruin of Paxtang Settled For All Time in a Shallow Grave Until one chilly, gray day last May. Joe. the giant cinnamon bear of the Paxtang park zoo, had the whole cage and runway to himself, all the dainties admiring visitors cared to bestow, and the undisputable right to pick and choose his own place in the sun. Then on that memorable Spring day Teddy arrived from his haunts among the Cumberlands of Virginia. The two didn't get along well from the start. That Joe had intimated to Teddy, that he. Joe, was a regular BIG CHANGES IN SCHOOL SYSTEM Get Ready For Opening; Hocker Made Steele Build ing Principal Improvements in the present public , schools courses, the opening of the \ new W. S. Steele building, and other big changes in the school system were i announced this morning by Superin- ! tendent F. E. Downes. In the continuation school course, [Continued on Page 3] MOVE TO PROTECT EXCHANGE London. Aug. 16. The forthcom ing loan to be issued in the United ; States for Great Britain is regarded in banking circles as a preliminary move to protect exchange, which recently has been showing signs of drooping. The amount of the issue is so small, however, that the belief is expressed that a more comprehensive operation, which will include countries allied to Great Britain, may be undertaken in the near future. 1 157 WARSHIPS ADDED TO NAVY Officers Planning to Put Into Effect Provisions of Big Policy By Associated Press Washington, Aug. 16. Naval offi cers virtually had before them to-day the task of carrying out the largest program for building warships ever adopted with a single appropriation by any nation. Although technically not completed, the naval bill, carrying 5315.800.000 had been approved in its main provi sions by Congress and was in the hands of a conference committee only (Continued on Pace 5] HARRISBURG, PA... WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1916. bear, a bear from Colorado, a husky 600-pound bear that would brook no foolishness, was evident. Teddy inci dentally must have made it equally plain that he was some bear himself, that while he wasn't from Missouri, he was from a State whose natives are accustomed to being shown just the same. When Toddy Started Something The crowds who flocked to the bear [Continued on Page 3] PIPE MILL GETS BIG SHELL ORDER Will Be Finished in England; No Great Increase in Employes An order for 200,000 high explosive steel shell forgings of the 4.5 inch size has been received by the Harris burg Pipe and Pipe Bending Com pany from the Fritish Government, it was announced by officials of the company to-day. Formal signing of the contract will be completed this week, and work started on the order next week. The order, according to W. T. Hil (Continned on Page 3] MISS BI'RKE BRIDE OF EARL London, Aug. 16. The Earl of Cottenham was married to-day to Miss Patricia Burke, daughter of the late J. H. Burke of California. Walter Winans gave the bride away. The Earl of Cottenham's first wife was Lady Rose Neville. She died in 1913. $11,500,000 SPENT ON POOR ROADS M. H. James of This City Tells What State Expends on "Maintenance" Surbury, Pa. Aug. IS.—Eleven and a half million dollars every year is Penn sylvania's contribution for poor roads, third and fourth class postmastera of the State were told during their con vention to-day by M. H. James, of Har risburg. secretary of the William Penn Highway Association. Figures produced by the William Penn secretary show that each year the townships of Pennsylvania spend 15,500,000 in maintaining earth roads, Continued on Pace 10] AID SOCIETIES' BOYS' CAMP IS REAL JOY SPOT Youngsters Given Taste of Ret ter Things Than They Ever Get at Home Twelve youngsters, all.boys, whose parents are unable to furnish means for a summer outing, are being cared for and having the time of their life at the camp of the Associated Aid So cieties, at Favettevtlle, on the farm Of Dr. James A. Black Harry Baker, of Shippensburg, a student of Lebanon Valley College, is [Continued on Pace 4] KING G VST A VIS SEES GAME By Assvciatcd Frets | Stockholm, Aug. 16. The first i game of football played here to-day by the American soccer team against | All-Stockholm resulted in a draw. Each team scored a goal. King Gus | tave V witnessed the contest. MRS. KEINER GETS 30 DAY PAROLE Dr. Ruch Says Woman Taken to Insane Hospital Is Normal Mentally Special to the Telegraph Carlisle, Pa.. Aug. 16. —Mrs. Walter T. Keiner, wire of one of the pro prietors of Hotel Plaza, Harrisburg, I who for three weeks has been confined 1 in the Cumberland County Insane Hos ; pital to-day was released on a 30 to 60- dav parole. The order liberating Mrs. i Keiner was issued by Judge S. F. Sad [ ler, following a statement in open j court by Dr. W. T. Ruch, medical ; superintendent at the local insane hos pital. that in his opinion Mrs. Keiner i was now sane. If at the end of her , parole. Dr. Ruch requests it, Mrs. ! Keiner will be liberated. Mrs. Keiner was formerly Louisa i Ralious, a member of a prominent [Continued on Page 7] Bashful Son's Wedding Reminds Father of Old Adage of Pig and Acorn After the last housekeeper on Levi j Rider's farm, near Marysville, went off to get married at Christmas time, ' Levi suggested to his 20-year-old son, j Paris Truman Rider that he write 'way down to Ardmore, Tenn., for the young half-sister of Tom Hick, Rider's son-in-law, to come up and "keep house." Incidentally Rider, Sr., poked : his son, Paris, in the ribs and said ; something . facetiously significant ; enough to make Paris blush and say j "aw, shucks, you g'wan." However. Paris wrote to the girl he had never seen in the little town at the foothills of the Cumberlands. Once ,a week their latters passed; then twice a week. It was in the course of this ; correspondence Rider senior suspected that the question of whether he was to have a daughter-in-law was settled. ; Anyway two weeks ago Annie Lee i Campbell came to Marysville. She 1 picked out the bashful Paris Truman lin the station crowd. To-day they got a license, although Paris "'lowed he hadn't talked much to Annie 'bout the i weddin' just yit." Recorder James E! Lentz suggested that there was no time like the present and his deputy recom mended the Rev. James S. Armentrout j : assistant pastor of Pine Street Presby- ; 1 terian church for the job. As they left the marriage bureau Rider, senior, openly beamed his ap proval. "As I says to Paris 'way last Christmas." grinned the father, "when I advised him to try for Annie, 'y never can tell. Many a blind pig gits the acorn!" SCORE HURT IX CRASH By Associated Press Providence. R. 1., Aug. 16.—More than a score of persons were injured early to-day when two electric cars traveling in opposite directions crash ed into a coal truck which was at tempting to cross the tracks in Broad street. Ten of the injured were re moved to a hospital, although it was stated by physicians that all of them probably would recover. The truck i was caught between the cars and de-! moiiehed, J RUSSIANS NOW SECOND GREENLAND START NEW DRIVE FOUND IN FAR NORTH IN CARPATHIANS BY A After Capture of Jablonitza, Chief Gateway, Take Series of Important Heights 3 5 8,000 PRISONERS French and Rritish Are Rusilv Strengthening Positions Along Sonime By Associated Press The Russians after a considerable j period of inactivity in the Carpath- j ians, are moving aggressively against j the Teutonic forces there. Following! the taking of Jablonitza, one of the chief gateways to Hungary, reported 1 last night, they have captured a series of heights west of Yorokhta and Ardzemoy. Petrograd reports an Aus- ] trian retirement to the west in this region. The movement is considered of im- i portance as tending more effectively to protect the left flank of the Kus sian armies moving northwestward in the Stanislau Halicz region in their advance on Lemberg. Prisoners Total 358.000 Russian captures of prisoners from June 4 when General BrussilofT in augurated his offensive, to August 12. j are officially reported by Petrograd] to have totalled more than 355.000 men. Along the French front in the i Somrne legion there was no marked activity during last night. The British lines in the Pozieres region where trenches were recently taken from the Germans are being consolidated but the relative positions of the opposing forces have not changed. At Verdun there was an artillery bombardment east of the Meuse but ; no infantry activity. Rival Aviators in Raids Raids by both Austrian and Italian ! airmen occurred with frequency in the region round Triest and Gorizia, where rival aviators are endeavoring to inflict material damage behind the opposing lines. Italian aircraft aided by French machines, have bombarded munition plants and air sheds at Muggia near Triest, and Austrian avi ators have made another raid on Ital ian depots and positions near the mouth of th elsonsco. In each case marked successes are claimed. There is renewed discussion of ef forts to induce Rumania to play a more active part in the European war. i Germany, anxious to insure Rumania's, continued neutrality. Is reported by a I Bucharest newspaper to have offered her territorial compensation to the j end at the expense of Austria. The Italian progress is continuing | from Gorizia southeastward toward ; Triest. in which direction additional ; Austrian trenches are reported cap | tured. A Milan newspaper dispatch carries I a report that the Germans will take ! over the defense of Triest, sending es pecially organized troops. Italv and Germany are not formally at war with one another, but the taking of such I a step as this would be unlikely with out a declaration of hostilities between ! the two nations. Their relations have j recently been increasingly strained over commercial and other questions. Teutonic resistance to the.Russian pressure in Galicia is increasingly strong, now that the Austro-German forces apparently have settled them selves along their newly established lines. Berlin reports only miner fighting : north of the Dniester, while Petrograd ! announces a check to the Russian a<3- [Continued on Page 7] Girls Are Auctioned Off at One Dollar a Pound New York, Au*. 16.—One dollar a } pound is the price actually paid in i several instances for immature voung | girls auctioned off here by white' Slav. I ers to proprietors of disorderly re (sorts. Assistant District Attorney | Smith. prosecuting the campaign i against the vice trust, declared. I "We learned to-day that in one ln lstance agents of two disorderly i houses got into a dispute over the ! value of a girl who had been put up j for sale," said the Assistant District j Attorney. "They finally agreed upon j a price of a dollar a pound. After j that It became a common practice to weigh all girls and announce their weight to bidders." i From men and women now under I arrest and awaiting trial Smith has ■ obtained the most amazing confes sions of the workings of the white ' slave gang. Not only did they systematically set about to obtain school girls for resorts, but in East Twenty-second street they maintained a house, where , young girls, sometimes partly and I sometimes completely disrobed, were | sold to the highest bidder. Rattler Kills Famous Taxidermist at Pittsburgh ! Pittsburgh. Pa., Aug. 16. Bitten ;on the hand while showing a den of rattlesnakes to a class of students from the University of Pittsburgh yesterday ! Gustav Link, for 19 years taxidermist, at Carnegie Institute here, died in a | hospital here to-day. Link concealed the fact that he had been bitten until afte rthe class had left his room when he told his assistants. He was hurried to a hospital, and there being no serum in the city to counteract the poison, two tubes were ordered from York. It did not arrive until Link was dyiijg QUAKES ROCK ITALY By Associated Press London, Aug. 16.—The cities of An cona. Pesaro and Rimini, Italy, were shaken by an earthquake early this morning, says a Stefani News Agency i dispatch from Rome to-day. No dam age was done to Ancona, but at Pesaro and Rimini houses were wrecked and i« is feared that at Rimini there has j been loss of life GAS CVT A CENT By Associated Press Chicago, Aug. 16. Gasoline was reduced to 17*4 cants a gallon bar* ,to-day, a cut of one cent. i n ~ M Arctic Explorer Who Discovers New Land v VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON Who remained in the Arctic to continue work or expiorincr newiy-discovered land north of Prince Patrick Land. EXTEND MEDIATION WORK Stockholm. Aug. IS. The neutral conference for continuous mediation, resulting from Henry Ford's peace movement has decided to establish bu reaus in Berne and Stockholm and headquarters at The Hague, with Louis P. Lochner in charge. Mr. Lochner will leave here within a few .lays. It is planned also to appoint ! committees of ten members each in Denmark. Holland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, whose duty it will be | to watch the political situation in the belligerent countries -with the object of promoting peace. ' the jitney ordinance this afternoc . were dis- I ged Alderman CJ. Householder, of the Tenth A Ward. They were arrested on June 30. On advice of I City Solicitor Daniel S. Seitz they were discharged. Others I arrested on the same charge are: John Kauft'man, Edward T F. Eisely, jet al. I. T. Grove. J. C. Dunkelberger, Amos 1 Titzel, Helen M. Zinn. A. S. Krantzman, Ruth Himes. ! f H. C. Staub, A. R. Stine, Charlie Singer, H. Z. McKay. They will i e given a hearing later. The hearing of the ten 11 strikers, charged with being implicated in -an attack on a ; ' olley car, was continued until 7 o'clock this evening by g J Alderman Deshong, owing to the absence of a material wit- I ness. . L Berlin, Aug. 16.—8y Wireless.—ln view of reports that ' j Germany was apprehensive over the proposed sale of the \ '■ Danish West Indies to the United States, the Foreign Min-' * 1 ister, Gottlieb Von Jagow, made the statement to-day that ! t i th German government was not opposed to such a trans-1 ? I r ' f ' 1 TWO NEW U-BOATS COMING? ; T London, Aug. 16. Two new German submarines o;' * 1 ze v.-ill depart shortly for America, according to !, T a Central News Dispatch from the Hague. It is said these' ► 1 * , I e made trial trips on Helgoland. ' £ WILSON COMPLETES SETTLEMENT PLAN | \ ! Washington, Aug. 16.—President Wilson late to-day-i --completed a definite plan for setlement of the threatened | railroad strike, which he will submit to-morrow to the gen-* eral committee of 640 representatives of the employes and I to the managers' committee. The plan involves the ac-l J ceptance of a basic eight-hour day, with regular pay for » overtime and an investigation by a commission of otherj ► issued. | BOY THIEVES ARRESTED ( , Clarences Wilson and William Jenkins, both aged 16,', , I were arrested this morning by Detective Schclhas for <' t making a general haul at the boathouse on Independence' * Island. A pocketbook containing SB, a raihoad ' pass, a , ( watch and fob were the articles taken. 1 » ;• MARRIAGE I Paris Truman lUder, Marj.vllle, aud Annie Lee Campbell, Ardmore. 5 Teas. I V Penrose Weaver aud Luura Katbertne Travita, Steeilon. ' » JF Horace Dwlght Jackson, Progress, aad Ruth Elisabeth Barehan, altr. Ml VU 1 1 »■ yy m CITY EDITION 10 PAGES Six Members of Stefansson Expedition Reach Nome After Three Years in Polar Regions With Tale of New Land That Has High Moun tains on It; Trace 200 Miles of its Shoreland BRING MASS OF SCIENTIFIC DATA Thirty Tons of Specimens Are Also Brought Back; Men in Good Physical Condition Despite Hardships Suffer ed During Years in One of Least Known Sections of Earth By Associated Press Nome, Alaska, Aug. 16.—Six mem bers of the Vilhialmur Stefansson Arctic expedition who arrived here yesterday on the power schooner Alaska, to-day related their ex periences in the Polar regions during , the last three years. They said I Stefansson who remained in the Arctic ! to continue his work of exploring new i lv-discovered land north of Prince Patrick land, probably would not re turn to civilization during the present season. The party aboard the Alaska waa under Dr. Rudolph Anderson. Stef ansson's chief subordinate who had been exploring and charting the coast ; line bordering Union and Dolphin Straits and the Coronation Gulf region far east of the mouth of the Mackenzie river. All of the party which left here on the Alaska in July, 1913. returned with the exception of Daniel Blue, engineer, who died at Bailey Island in May, 1915. The members of the party here are: Dr. Anderson, J. J. O'Neill, geologist, John R. Cox. surveyor, Dr. Jenness, anthropologist, J. Johnson, oceano srapher and entomologist, and George Wilktns, photographer. The schooner [Continued on Page 10]
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