Passage of Eight-Hour Day Bill Will Be Sufficient
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXV— No. 201
STRIKE ORDER TO BE
RESCINDED
HOUR LAW
Congress Hastens Action on Legislative Program as the
Brotherhood Heads Give Assurance That a Shorter
Work Bill Will Be Satisfactory; Wilson Summons
Chiefs For Conference Before Meeting Administration
Leaders
AS LAST RESORT PRESIDENT WILL APPEAL
TO MEN TO JOIN IN ORDERING RECALL
Insists Employes Have No Right to Imperil Industries of
Nation Under Present Conditions; House and Senate
Determined to Prevent Tieup; Believe Legislation Can
Be Rushed Through in Another Week
Washington, Aug. 31.—Congress put all other affairs aside to
day and devoted itself to enacting President \\ ilson s legislative
program to avert the railroad strike.
But the President, overlooking no possible means to prevent the
threatened public calamity, did not depend on Congress alone and
continued unceasingly his efforts to get the brotherhood heads to
postpone their strike order.
Just before noon the President went to the Capitol, and con
ferring with the leaders, urged them on to the speed necessary to
get the bills through the legislative machinery of House and Senate
before Saturday night.
Then returning to the White House, he called the four brother
hood heads before him for another appeal to delay their strike while
Congress, by law provides what the railroads have refused.
Although the brotherhood leaders reiterated that only a
"favorable settlement" could delay the strike, and that they were
powerless to postpone it, one of them admitted he believed the rank
and file of the men, in view of the efforts being made in Congress,
would vote to delay it if there were time for them to express their
wishes.
The President expects that the action of the railroads in issuing
embargo orders against perishable freight, thus affecting food, will
have some effect in quickening action by Congress.
Statements of brotherhood leaders
that if the eight-hour law is passed
by Saturday night the strike order
will be rescinded, led the President
to redouble hts efforts to have the
measure rushed.
Will Probably Be Prevented
Out of that, out of proposals to
have Congress pass a resolution ask
ing the men to delay, and out of many
other Indications coming from the
very inside of the situation, there
came again the indefinable intima
tion that the strike could be pre
vented if Congress by Saturday night
has not actually enacted the Presi
dent's program, but has it on the way.
Back of it all, President Wilson was
holding another card—a direct appeal
to the rank and tile of the railroad
men to realize that Congress is about
to give them what they ask and to
stay at their posts.
The President was still determined
to-day to do this, if necessary, but
was hopeful that it would not be.
House Gets Into Action
While the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee was hearing the rail
road heads and the brotherhood lead
ers the House managers got into action
and agreed on a bill, introduced by
Representative Adamson and ap
proved by President Wilson, providing
the eight-hour day, pro rata pay for
overtime and a commission to investi
gate the new conditions. They plan
ned to rush it through while the Sen
ate was working. It did not include
the compulsory investigation features
of the President's program but there
were indications that he would be
satisfied with enough to prevent the
men from striking and take up the re
mander later.
Meanwhile employers and men had
THEWEATHER.
For Harrlxhurg nnil vicinity: Fair
to-night mill Frldnyi not much
chnntcc In temperature.
Fur Knxtern I'ciiuaylviinia: Fair
tn-ulitht timi Friday, little chanue
in temperature; muilerutc xouth-
Hmt nllKln.
River
The Susquehanna river nn<l Its
tributaries trill remain uearly
xtatlonnry. A xtniee of about li 3
feet la Indicated for HarriMliuru
Friday morning.
General t onditlonx
A alight deprexxion from the Cana
dian ftorthwent, now central over
\ortltem Minnexota, In connec
tion nltli another dlxturhaiice of
nearly the Maine xtreiiKth, had
cnuacd lleht sliouerN in the
\\ extern Canadian provlnccx and
Northern Mlnnexotn and liKht,
Mcnttereii >hon«m In the Hock;
Mountains and the nrntern por
tion of the IMainx St at ex. I.ljtht
■ liowerx have fallen on the Texan
conxt, over the Florida penin
xula and nlonic the South Caro
lina eoaat and In the I'pper St.
■j«wrencf Vnlleyt cl»c»liere the
veather liax heen fair throuitlioiit
(he territory reprexented on the
map. There hax heen a general
rlae of 2 to 111 dc|[rcci> In tempera
ture over nioxt of the country
east of the Rocky Mountainx.
Pemperaturei A a. m„ 04.
Sunt Klxex, 3i31 a. m.| xetx, fli3o
p. m.
Moon i Flrat quarter, September 4,
11i28 p. m.
River Stakei 3.3 feet above low
water mark.
Yeaterday'a Weather
Hlgliext temperature, 7fl.
Iyowext temperature, ,%4.
Mean temperature, flfl.
• Normal temperature, GO.
BY CARRIERS O C'BWTS A WEEK.
SINGLE COI'IKS 2 CHXTS.
a public hearing on the President's
legislative program before the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee. The
men opposed the compulsory investi
gation feature and the employers op-
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Strike Would Close Coal
Fields and Render 175,000
Miners Idle in 24 Hours
By Associated Press
Hazleton, Pa„ Aug. 31.—1f a nation
wide railroad strike Is started Monday
it will cripple the mines of the anthra
cite coal field and approximately
175,000 employes will be rendered idle
within twenty-four hours after the
transportation tie-up. Officials of the
mining companies estimate that the
collieries could not be worked two
days without cars to handle the output.
A railway strike would have a dis
astrous effect on the anthracite Indus
try. The market has been short and
exceptionally brisk this summer, dur
ing ■» hich the mines have not lost any
time owing to slackness, the first in
yean? that they have been kept in
steady operation during the warm
season.
Sixteen Instead of One
Romper Day Celebration
Planned For Tomorrow
Instead of one great Romper Day
gathering at Reservoir, to-morrow,
each of the city's sixteen playgrounds
will celebrate the closing of the 1916
season with individual programs.
The big Reservoir observance hao
been called off by Dr. Samuel Dixon be
cause of danger of infantile paralysis.
On every playground, however, the chil
dren have rehearsed their songs, drills
and folk dances.
Incidentally, attractive exhibits of
raffia and sewing work, domestic sci
ence products, etc., will be arranged
The raffia winners follow: Maclay
grounds. Ruth Drawbaugh; Hamilton
Joy Matter; Boas, Marian Lesher- C'al
der. Margaret Taylor; Cowden Mar
garet Emanuel; Twelfth, Frances Niss
ley and Savilla Reed; Emerald Stella
Patterson; Penn. Violet Mitchell- Res
ervoir, Dorothy Martin; Sycamore' Marv
Kain; Harris Park, Katie Hulda; Heilv
Ruth Blair. '
STONE OF STO.VKMKX HEKK
The Rev. Dr. H. C. Stone, of Phila
delphia. originator of the Stonemen's
association, was in Harrisburg a short
time to-day. He stopped off on his
way to Altoona long enough to ad
dress 500 shopmen of the Pennsylva
nia railroad at Seventh and Reily
streets. He strongly advocates "Good
Fellowship." He referred to the
rapid growth in membership of the
Stonemen's association.
KNOW BURGLARS, SAY POLICE
City dectectlves, at work on the Alli
son Hill robberies, have obtained tv
clue which may lead to the arrest ot
at least three persons, it was learned
to-day. Although nothing definite was
said, police officials intimated that the
identity of the burglars was suspected
but that so far no arrests can be made
as enough evidence has not been
obtained to make convictions certain
HARRISBURG, PA..THURSDAV EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1916.
RAILWAY LABOR
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W. S. Carter, president Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men; William S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers: W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmon, and A. B.
Garretson, president of the Order of Railway Conductors.
PENNSY PLANS TO !NOTIFY FAIRBANKS
CARE FOR 3,000 OF NOMINATION
Beading Makes Canvass of Men;
Dice Asks Employes to
Remain Loyal
Considerable strike preparation ac
tivity about the headquarters of the
Philadelphia division was seen to-day.
Heads of departments called to report
on conditions, and to receive orders
for further preparations.
One official said: "We have been
making preparations for this strike for
two years. To-day we are in good
shape."
"There are cots, beds, cooking
utensils and everything necessary to
care for 3,000 men at the shops and
roundhouses. Even shower baths have
been provided," he added.
Superintendent William B. Mc-
Caleb, of the Philadelphia division,
was not ready to give any estimate
of the number of men who will re
main loyal. He said this was im
possible until the strike is on.
It was said, however, that many
employes of the motive power depart
ment and from among the trainmen,
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600 Barrels of Whisky
Destroyed by Fire
Special to the Telegraph
Hagerstown, Md., Aug. 31. The
plant of the Joseph Savage Dis
t.lling Company, at Waverton, this
county, with 600 barrels of whisky in
the bonded warehouse, was laid in ruins
bv fire earlv this morning. The loss Is
about $50,000, with SIO,OOO Insurance.
The origin is a mystery, though In
cendiarism is suspected. The plant had
been closed and was to have been re-
POLITICIANS AT
GRANGERS' PICNIC
Bcpublicans, Democrats and
Suffragists Attending to Busi
ness at Williams Grove
Special to the Telegraph
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Auk. 31.—To
day was the big day at the Grangers'
Picnic and the crowd commenced
pouring into Williams Grove early this
morning. Hundreds of automobiles
were parked in the fields near by and
on the opposite side of the railroad
horses and carriages were hitched.
The absence of children, owing to the
ruling of the State Department of
Health on iccount of the epidemic of
infantile paralysis, is very noticeable,
but the grown-ups are on hand and
busy gathering souvenirs for the
"kiddies" left behind. Some of the
"adults' looked suspiciously young,
however. Enterprising salesmen are
calling attention of parents with large
placards, such as "Remember the chil
dren at home: take something along
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Bitterly Censures Administra
tion's Foreign Tariff and
Mexican Policies
By Associated Press
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 31.
Charles Warren Fairbanks will be
notified late to-day by United States
Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman, of
Illinois, of his nomination for Vice-
President on the Republican ticket
and will deliver a short address in
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Strike May Cause Many
Newspapers to Suspend
New York, Aug. 31. A very large
number of the daily newspapers of the
United States will be forced to suspend
publication on account of lack of pa
per if a nation-wide 'railroad strike
continues for two weeks, it was de
clared by Lincoln R. Palmer, manager
of the American News Publishers'
Association.
"The print paper situation is acute
from causes entirely outside the prob
lem of transportation," said Mr. Pal
mer. "Many publishers are on a hand
to-mouth basis, getting a carload from
the mill just as they are exhausting
the carioad on hand."
Mr. Palmer explained that there
were only 60,000 tons of news print
pnpc- on hand, and that the daily
consumption approximated 6,000 tons.
He added that his statement was based
on the possibility that the strike
would cause a complete suspension Of
transportation of the commodity. Dur
ing the embargoes declared by the
railroads some time ago, news print
paper was excepted and expedited.
3 DIVISIONS IN
LABOR PARADE
Fully 3,000 Men Will Be in
Line; Marshal Names
Boute and Aids
Frank C. Hoffman, chief marshal of
the Labor Day parade, to-day an
nounced complete ararngements for
the big demonstration, which accord
ing to union leaders, will probably be
the largest ever held In Harrlsburg.
There will be three divisions com
posed of numerous labor organizations
of the city, and all o fthe men in line
will be uniformed. The route covers
the principal streets of the central,
Hill and uptown districts.
Fully 3,000 union men are expocted
to be in line. The parade will form
at 2.30 o'clock at Front and Market
streets, moving east in Market street,
promptly at 3 o'clock.
Formation of Parade
The first division will form In North
Front street with the right resting on
Market street. The formation follows: j
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STRIKE TO HIT
OPERATIONS OF
LOCAL PLANTS
! Several Thousand Employes
May Be Laid Off if Con
troversy Lasts a Week
ITO USE MOTOR TRUCKS
.
Will Transport Materials to
Keep Mills Going; Managers
Have Supplies
Heads of !oeai manufacturing plants
were busy to-day laying plans to meet
the crisis which they fear will arise
should the threatened railroad strike
go into effect Monday.
Although a serious interference
with transportation facilities would
make curtailment of operations at
local plants necessary and throw se\-
eral thousand employes out of work
for awhile, the managers de c'are
that emergency measures taken witnin
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Sailors Adrift on Raft
Six Days Rescued After
20 Drown in Shipwreck
New Orleans. AUK. 31 Twenty
men of the orew of 26 of the Ameri
cnn steamer Admlrai Clark, which
sailed from Port Arthur, Texas, for
Buenos Aires on August 11, P er
at sea when the steamer foundeied
August 16 in a tropical hurricane
Six survivors ar-hed at the quaran
tine station he> e on the fcw-dlsh b^rlc
T "captain James Dan'ol*. master of
the steamer. w\s among t .ose d'owij
ed The six survivors were adrift
in the Caribbean oi n small r»ft lor
six days and 1 2 hours l clore they wore
nicked up bv the Tana several days
ago. They were in a serious condition
from exposure and lack of food.
The Admiral Clark encountered the
hurricane in the Caribbean the morn
ing of August 16. After battling with
the storm all day the doors of the
niessroom were broken in and the
water flooded the engineroom. Ail
the boats had beer smashed or wash
ed away and :l*e irew was forced to
'•imp into the water. The six surviv
ors managed to grasp the painting
raft, which was afloat.
The Admiral Clark was of 24 37
tons, and was owned by the Pacific-
Alaska Navifcauor Company, of Ta
coma, Wash. she carried a cargo of
petroleum.
FOOD ENOUGH
TO LAST MONTH
Dealers Say Commodities "Will
Be Scaree After That
Length of Time
Harrisburg's food dealers, facing a
raiiroad strike, with embargoes on all
shipments by rail, began taking stock
yesterday and to-day and announced
that the city supply will probably last
for n month, although at the end of
that time commodities will be scarce
Much of the local supply of pro
visions in that time would have to be
furnished by growers in the county, as
this is the time of year that vegetables
and fruits on hand would not supply
the demand for more than a week.
tears of a food shortage were ex
pressed in the city, particularly be
cause of the embargo.
Local milk dealers are planning to
bring the supply from Cumberland
and Lebanon valleys by auto truck and
trolley and expect to be able to keep
up the present supply indefinitely by
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MEALS HAS NOT PICKED CHIEF
Mayor E. S. Meals said to-day that
he has not made definite plans con
cerning the police department, and
that Superintendent of Detectives Wil
liam Windsor, Jr., will be in charge
for the present, e may be given an
assistant, the Mayor intimated. The
city executive also said that he had
not considered the appointment of a
new chief of police at present. Ar
rangements at present are only tem
porary, he explained, and changes will
bo announced as soon as decided
upon.
GREECE SOON TO
ENTER CONFLICT
Will Take Step Within - 48
Hours; Rumanians Capture
Bulgarian Town
By Associated Press
Athens, Greece. Aug. 30. via Lon
don, Aug. 31. Kapid development In
the diplomatic situation here to-day
make it appear that within 48 hours
Greece will have abandoned the policy
of neutrality in the war.
King Constantine will receive the
French minister to-morrow (Thurs
day) and the Russian and British min
isters shortly afterward. All staff offi
cers on leave have been recalled for
active service.
The foregoing dispatch was filed in
Athens at noon yesterday and indi
cates that up to that time nothing had
been heard there of the report sent
to London by the official British press
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ANOTHER STEP
IN SOLVING OF
SCHOOL CRISIS
Citizens' Committee Meets the
Board Members to Hear About
Van Sickle Report
PLAN GREAT CAMPAIGN
Rush Arrangements to Lay sl,-
190,000 Loan Before Voters
in November
Harrisburg's new high school prob
lem was advanced one step nearer
ulUmate solution this afternoon when
the special committee appointed on
the subect by the school board met
with the citizens committee, suggest
ed for purposes of co-operating with
the directorate.
Further meetings will be held from
time to time as it is the intention to
complete all arrangements as early as
possible for submitting the question
of a new school loan to the people in
November.
The two committees were due to
meet at 3 o'clock and the session was
more or less brief as the preliminaries
incident to organization, mapping out
a plan of campaign, etc., occupied
most of the time.
The conference this afternoon per
tained to the recommendations which
A. Carson Stamin, president of the
board and Dr. F. E. Downes, city
superintendent, had suggested. The
board meets to-morrow afternoon in
regulur session but it is not likely that
anything relative to to-day's session
will be presented at that time.
President Stamm and Dr. Downes,
a sub-committee appointed by the
hjgh school committee, to consider the
Van Sickle expert report, recently
recommended to the main commit
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FAY STII.I. AT LARGE
Special to the Telegraph
Atlanta, Ga.. Aug. 31.—N0 traT-e has
been found of Robert Fay, former lieu
tenant in the German army, sentenced
to eight years' imprisonment for plot
ting to blow up munition ships at New
York, or William Knoblock, sentenced
for using the malls to defraud, both
of whom escaped from the Federal
prison here by telling the guard they
had orders to repair electric wires out
side the walls. Prison afflcials and po
lice of cities throughout the section
watched all trains and searched At
lanta and vicinity.
rRISiJURG ELOPERS ARRES TED I f
flich., Aug. 31.—An eloping couple was parted L
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■» 1 Mrs. Claire Murray c same !
I »ban I who has taken m< »
4 • ■ holding Charles pending word fromthe Har- ' j-
I risburg authorities. According to Murray's story he picked .
II
led,
i L he theft of his wife. At a late ' *
1 neon n< era
i ' |
I the 1
1 case. I >
f 325 SIGN JITNEY FETITION !
i teen a •
? ore the time limit expired, 2 (: had [
J been attached to th< city's first initiative petition, the pray- : j
? o amend the jitney ordinance. Seventy-two ]
I were added to-day..
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1 VERMONT GUARDSMEN CALLED BACK
i Montptiicr, Vt„ Aug. 31. —Vermont N ds-l J
I men who left Burlington yesterday under orders from the jl
i ndoned.| ►
J their trip bei iuse, according to officer Is would ;
not guaia itct that the troops would reach the border
foi I ,cd'
! throu h'h< to lay on the return to Camp Gates.
I I DISAVOWS OWEGO ATTACK ' f
j Washington, Aug. 31.—Germany, in a note received at ;
9 the State Department to (lay practically disavows any I
1 friendlly intention in the submarine attack on the American 1 '
& steamer O- tatementl I
of facts which is expected to close the case The Owego >
i fired upon in a fog but uninjured. 4 >
i An important meeting of the war canoc committee '
! for the first ar.mir.l Kipona will be held at Dintaman's at
' 7.30 this evening. Prospective crew members from Tech 1
< ® and Central High Schools, the Academy, and Steelton are
I i
1 —rrquf.stfLi in he prcsrnt, • '
'' MARRIAGI LICENSES
< i laalah Ctanliiian anil Ethel Voaa, Steelton.
4 • Vnn Edward late and Helen Olivia Belle Watson, city.
Thomaa Harry Doan, Jr., Berwick, and Marian Virginia Mills, city* .
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CITY EDITION
ICE CREAM IS
CONFISCATED
BY RAUNICK
Health Department Forbids
Sale of Hundred Gallons In
fected With Typhoid Germs
40 CASES IN CITY
Milk and Cream Supply Being
Carefully' Watched by
Board Inspectors
City health authorities this morning"
In their efforts to check the typhoid
fever epidemic confiscated mors than
100 gallons of Ice cream which a local
manufacturer was about to ship to
various parts of the city to retail
dealers.
Dr. J. M. J. Raunlck, city health
officer, stated that all of the cream
was contaminated as It had been
made from a supply which was In
fected. The action followed a report
from Dr. George R. Moffltt, city bac
teriologist. who completed an analysis
of cream tests taken by food inspec
tors of the city. These tests showed
that the cream contained colon bacilli
with traces of typhoid.
That some ice cream has already
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Mexico Takes Over All
Church Properties in Country
Mexico City. Aug. 31. A decree Is
sued last night revives the law promul
gated in 1859 by President Juarez,
putting all places of public worship
under the direct control of the govern
ment. The decree means government
regulation of all church properties in
Mexico.
All property nationalized under the
Juarez law and left to Catholic instltu
' tions anti all property of other relig
ious institutions, ceded to them, after
promulgation of the law are involved.
The Treasury Department will look
after the use. conservation and better
ment of place cf worship, while the
Department of the Interior will control
the opening of new places of worship.
Although (.lie chujvhes are nominally
| in control of the clergy, the govern
ment reserves the right to police
; them. If they are used for other pur
| poses than thos<! prescribed by law
their i.'Bfe tor worship will be suspend
j ed, us will be the case if religious ser-
I vices are discontinued for one year.