I Charles M. Schwab, Great Steel King, Addresses Commerce Chmter Tonight
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TO FOLLOW CITY
BEAUTIFUL IDEA
IN CAPITOL PARK
Governor to Confer With Plan
ning Commission on Exten- j
sion Problems
TO WIDEN STREET
"Happy to Cf-operatc With
You," DccSarCs gate's
Executive.
treatment of the Cipi)ol
PnrX intension problem on a scMe
that will combine Harrisburg's "City
Beautiful" idea with Governor Brum
baugh's p'j,n to provide un attractive
setting for the Capitol of the Com
monwealth, will be the subject i\f a;
join conference in the near future be
tween the Capitol Park Extension
Commission, Boavd of Public Grounds
and Buildings ard the City Planning
Commission.
In a letter to Governor Brumbaugh
recently, Edwin S. Herman, president
of the Planning Commission, sug
gested that the Mty and the State
bodies get together on the problem
and In reply Governor Brumbaugh
stated that he will ask Superintendent
S. B. Ram bo to arrange the meeting.
For "Cltj Beautiful".
! Incidentally, the State's Chief Ex
ecutive reiterated his previous state
] fint lit that he wishes to co-onerate in
"very way to brinit about the develop
ment of a beautiful Harrisburg be
' cause a beautiful city will mean a
beautiful Capitol."
President Herman, among other
things, called the Governor's atten
tion to the proposed treatment of the
Park Extension insofar as relates to
the crossing of the Pennsy tracks at
State street, and the proposed plans
for widening of Walnut, Third and
North streets.
Mr. Herman's Letter
"We are confidently hoping,con
cluded President Hirman. "th<y your
".eal of approval wili have been daced
upon a definite Capitol Park lan in
treating the old and tht? new ictlons,
and that this may be done b ore tile
next session of the Legislate so that
i your thought may be embed*. 1 in any
uei>.vssary legislation. To be perfectly
am much interested in this
•"'hole ph, vid 1 feel so onfidenc
tat your insight ' wJwV
>reatment harmonizes withf the best
thoughts obtainable, that I .would like
to see it definitely settled. I' know that
you have given his matter c onsiderable
thought, and realise what an Impor
tant undertaking it is, and my fear is j
that should there be del.Uy that It
might influence, in some rrlanner. the
whole treatment. If you sHiould agree
nith any of thc-jq suggestions, the
writer would be yVmSed to/follow any
suggestions that you woubjl think ad
visable." ) ,
Tlie Governor's Vircws
And this ls Governor Brumbaugh's
-eply: 1
Mr. Edwin S. Herman,' President,
City Planning Commission,
Harrisbun?, Pa.
Mr. Dear Mr. Herman:'
I am grateful to yo for your
letter of September twenty-fifth
and I shall immediately ask Mr.
Rambo to arrange for 4 date con
. venient to both your Commission
and the Board of Public Grounds
and Buildings, in order that we
may go over the entire situation
to which you refer.
I am with you deeply interested
In the proper working out of this
entire project, with a view to
making Capitol Park and its ex
tension an integral unit in the de
velopment of a beautiful Harris
burg, because a beautiful city will
mean a beautiful Capitol.
There ought to be no differences
of opinion here which honest men
cannot work out and adjust, and
we shall be very happy Indeed to
co-operate in any way we can
with you.
Very truly yours,
M. B. BRUMBAUGH.
CARSON INSTITUTE WANTS GAMES
Carson Long Institute, formerly the
New Bloomfield Academy, would like
to arrange a football game with some
Harrisburg independent teamjior S.'it
nrdi.y, October, 7 at Bloomfield.
Write or phone to D. Willard.
THE WEATHER-
For HnrrlMbiirß and vlclnltyi Fair
* and warmer to-nighl and Tues
day.
For Ku*<crn l'enimylvanla i Fair
warmer in nortli and
went ' portion*; Tu-xduy fulr,
warmer; (otic iiortlicuHt to
outhruat wlndn.
Hlvi-r
The main river will .fixe Nllftlitlv or
remain nearly otutlonnry * to
night and rail alowtv 'l'urHdi.y.
The tributaries will tall xlonly
or remain nearly atatlcnary.
tieneral Condltlonn
The high prennure urea that cen
tered over the Great Central Vnl
leyx, Saturday morning, Ix drltt
-7 in a xlowly eastward mid Ix now
central over the t'piier Muxque
ff hannu Valley. Under Its liilln
n .'e cool weather and clenr
xkiex have prevailed over the
I eastern half of the country, ex
(cept the Florida peninxula, where
rain hax fallen. Froxtx, heavy In
place*, occurred ttenerully | n the
Interior of the Atlantic Mafra
and In the Ohio Valley and Teii
neaaee Sunduy and Monday
morning* and freezing temperu
ture occurred at fllnithaiutoii,
V., thlx morning.
\ dlnturhanee, now central over
Southern Ijta*-, has eauxed light
rnins and auo.va over a consider
able part of the weatern half of
tlir country, together with u
general rise of 2 to 1U ilegrex in
temperature xlnee Saturday
morning over the Central Yal
leya and the Southwest.
i,; Temperature! S a. in., 42.
Sun: Rises. oiO3 a. m.| sets, ri4S
I i p. m.
f Moon: First quarter. October 4,
I ■• ! II n. m.
L. OTlver Stage! 4.8 feet above low
-1 water niark.
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1 Veater4ay*s Weather
■ Highest temperature, <ll.
K t.owext temperntnre. SI).
& Man temperature, 50.
%'.-MSI temperature. GO.
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WE WILL MAKE
THINGS HUM AT
STEELTON-SCHWAB:
Steel Magnate Interviews Re-j
j porter Whc Goes to In
terview Him
ASKS MANY QUESTIONS!
Inquires If There Is Any Steel
ton— Han'isburg Annexa
tion Sentiment
Charles M.' Schwab, chairman and
Eugene G. (/race, president, of the
: Bethlehem 'Sieel Corporation, the
•' honor guests at the annual dinner of
jthe c"n&o*'/er of Commerce this eve-
I
j tilng. arrhed in the city late this aft
ernoon.
Mr. Sctwab passed through the
city shorty after noon in his private
car Lore to, on his way to Lebanon,
where h addressed the recently
organized Chamber of Commerce at
its first big dinner and met President
Grace, Vi'e-President W. F. Roberts
! and General Manager Quincy Bent,
i who had gone to Lebanon previously.
I Schwfb Docs tlic Interviewing
I While tie Loretto was being switch-1
led from the Union Station to the
Philadeljhia and Reading station,;
I where v was attached to a Reading!
engine preparatory for the run to!
Lebanoi as a special, the Steel King |
interviwed a reporter from the Tele- i
graph or ten minutes.
Mr. Schwab smilingly declined to
reveal tny of his future plans for de
veloping the recently purchased Steel
ton plfiit, declaring that he is going
to "taK about that this evening."
He isked the reporter many ques
! tions about the city and expressed |
I much interest in what he was told
about'the community's plans for pub
lic mprovements, particularly the
j plan for floating the big new high
j sohcol loan and for the erection of a
I new million dollar hotel,
i Vlien told that this evening's din
ne' was to mark the dawn of a new
eri for the city the steel magnate
e-.pressed his approval of Harrisburg's
aiterprise by declaring, "We'll make
things hum at Steelton."
When asked whether he had further
plans for extensions at. Steelton, and
particularly whether it is true that
the Bethlehem interests plan to
greatly enlarge the Bridge Shop
(there, Mr. Schwab intimated that lie
] would have something to say about
that this evening.
I Talks of Annexation
| He also expressed much interest in
the relations between Steelton and
Harrisbu rg and inquired whether
there was much sentiment favoring
the joining of the two municipalities.
Mr. Schwab, however, declined to
express any opinion on the subject of
annexation himself.
I Mr. Schwab inquired whether Gov
ernor Brumbaugh was in the city and
said he would like to call upon the
Governor if he was in town.
| The steel king expressed much
pleasure when told that this evening's
dinner was to be the largest affair of
ttye kind ever held by the Chamber of
Commerce and reiterated his assertion
that if the community planned to be
really progressive the Bethlehem in- ]
terests would do their bit by "making J
things hum at Steelton."
At Lebanon
Mr. Schwab arrived in Lebanon at
1:35 and immediately went to the
Lebanon club to address the Chamber
of Commerce.
The committee which met him there
! included: B. Dawson Coleman, the
steel man; James Lord, president of
the American Iron & Steel Mfg. Co.;
John Penn Brock, vice-president of
the same company; E. R. Coleman,
j Frank B. Dutton, manager of the
Lebanon furnaces of the Bethlehem
Steel Co.; Lloyd Wolfe, local manager
of the Lackawanna Iron & Steel Co.,
and George F. Speaker, president of!
the Chamber of Commerce.
Milk Famine Caused by
Deadlock of Dairymen and
Distributors Hits N. Y. Hard
New York, Oct. 2. —The first effects
of a milk famine were felt here to-day
as the result of the deadlock between
dairymen arid distributors over the
price the former shall receive for their
product. It was estimated that milk
trains brought to this city last night
<IOO,OOO less than the usual 2,500,000 i
quarts.
The milk companies announce, that
j hospital and homes in which there are '
children who are ill will receive first
consideration and for the present will
obtain a full supply. Some of the milk
now arriving here is coming from
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois and
Canada.
Bold Bad Robbers Give
Innkeeper Holdup Warning;
Get Shot For Their Pains
Chicago, HI., Oct. 2.—After tele
phoning to the proprietor of an inn at
Burr Oak, a suburb, that they were
coming to hold up his place, six armed
men drove up at the inn in a com
mandeered automobile early to-day
and attempted to carry out their threat
They were met, however, by the pro
prietor, a waiter and a bartender, all
armed, and in the ensuing pistol fight
ene of the robber band was killed and
another seriously wounded.
The dead man was recognized as a
Chicago police character known only
as "Peggy." He had a wooden leg
The wounded robber stumbled into a
hospital and said he was Daniel Hart
man. The four uninjured members of
the band escaped.
COTTON CROP HARD HIT
Washington. Oct. 2. Sto:ms and
insects have wrought havoc with the
cotton crop this year and caused a
loss of almost 3,000,000 bales through
out the growing season. The crop will
be approximately 11,367,000, equiv
alent 500 pound bales, according to
the Department of Agriculture's fore
cast made to-day basing i<s estimate
on the conditio?! of the crop on SBD
TXember ?6.
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1916.
STEEL MAGNATES WHO WILL ADDRESS CITY'S BUSINESSMEN AT
ANNUAL DINNER OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THIS EVENING
CHARLES M. SCHWAB EUGENE G. GRACE
STEEL MAGNATES
HONOR GUESTS AT
DINNER TONIGHT
Schwab, Grace, Roberts and
Bent Will Meet Business
men of City
AT LEBANON TODAY
Will Be Whisked About Town
in Autos by Reception
Committee
Harrisburg to-night will honor the
great steel king, Charles M. Schwab.
The man who heads the great Beth
lehem Steel Corporation with the mills
that never cease from turning at Beth
lehem, Steelton. Lebanon and Spar
rows Point, Md„ will be the guest of
honor at the annual banquet of the
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce in
the Masonic Temple to-night.
Eugene G. Grace, the youthful presi
dent of tho Bethleliems, and the man
whom Schwab declares is chiefly re
sponsible for the steady growth and
development of his mills, will be hon
ored with his chief.
Quincy Bent, general manager of
the Steelton plant, and W. F. Roberts,
vice-president of the Bethlehem Steel
Company, too, will be among the
guests of the evening.
And Harrisburg intends to make
this dinner one which will leave no
doubts in the minds of these great
captains of the steel industry that here
is a city ready and willing to do its
part in whatever plans may be laid for
the future development of that in
dustry.
Two score men prominent in the
business life of Harrisburg and sur-
I rounding territory will sit at the table
.this evening with the guests of honor
at the annual banquet of the Chamber
j of Commerce.
I Coming from his home in Chicago,
Mr. Trefz reached the city at noon to-
I day. Mr. Schwab and Mr. Grace, trav
eling by special train from Lebanon,
will arrive here shortly after 4 o'clock
this afternoon. They will be met at
the train by a reception committee
from the Chamber of Commerce and
will be taken for a short automobile
ride about the city and to Steelton
They will then return to their private
car and dress lor dinner, arriving at.
jthe banquet hall shortly after 6
o'clock.
I The forty who will sit at the honor
guests' tabic will include the following
men:
Charles M. Schwab,
Eugene G. Grace.
W. F. Roberts, vice-president Beth
lehem Steel Company;
Quincy Bent, general manager Beth
lehem Steel Company;
J. William Bowman,
Edward 1,. McColgin.
Edward F. Trefz,
E. Z. Wallower,
I Spencer C. Gilbert,
W. F. M. Murrie,
Congressman A. S. Kreidcr,
George Pomeroy,
J. F. Auchs, vlue-presldent Phila
delphia and Reading Railway;
George Pallas Dixon, vice-president
Pennsylvania Railroad;
Mooreluad C. Kennedy, president
Cumberland Valley Railroad;
George A. Stewart, Shlppensbur
Samuel Kunkel.
David Kaufman.
VY T. Hlldrup, Jr.,
W. M. Ogelshy,
William M. Donaldson.
George I l '. Watt,
Edward Bailey.
George B. Tripp,
Henderson Gilbert,
E. J. Stack pole,
William Jennings,
DonaliJ McCormlck.
Ed. S. Herman,
David Traoy,
W. L. Finch, New York;
A. C. Stamm,
Andrew Patterson,
Robert McCormlck.
i George A. Shreiner.
William B. McCaleb,
George W. Rogar,
W. P. Starkey,
C. W. Burtnett,
The Rev. E. N. Kremer. D. D..
A. D. Racon.
GREAT STEEL KING
HERE TODAY STILL
'CHARLIE' TO FRIENDS
WHENEVER I talk with Charlie
Schwab for tlv-e minutes 1 have
an irresistible impulse to grab
my hat, rush out and do something,"
said a friend of the steel master the
other day. "His enthusiasm electrifies
one." says Merle Crowell in the Sep
tember American Magazine.
My first impression of Mr. Schwab
was exactly that. It came on a cold
night last winter, when the moonlit
snow lay still as silver around his man
sion of cream granite and stone on
Riverside Drive, New York city. Wait
ing in his art gallery, I was studying
one of Rosa Bonheur's ptUntings when
a man came through the door at my
left. It was the Steel King.
As we sat down I began to have the
feeling that had come with my first
visit to a power plant. Tall, solid, but
tinglingly alive, Mr. Schwab seemed the
shelter for some tremendous force,
some current with a How as constant
as a dynamo's. I thought of the great
steel mills on the banks of the Lehigh,
where twelve years ago a few half
deserted buildings were waiting to be
strippeil of machinery, and I began to
understand the industrial miracle of
Bethlehem. There was something as
drlvlngly irresistible in the man as
there is in his Cyclopean plants, which
lead the world in the output of arma
ment and fine steel. Yet his brown
eyes were very kind, and his voice—
I have never listened to a man with
a voice as friendly as the steel mas
ter's. It has none of the nasal reso
nance so common among Americans.
'lt is at; soft as velvet and as clear as
tungsten steel. It compels confidence.
For nearly sixteen years Mr. Schwab
NEW COURTHOUSE
MOVE TO BEGIN
Commissioner Wells Puts
Problem Up to Solicitor
Phil Moycr
Following the action of tlie Septem
ber quarter sessions grand Jury in rec
ommending the erection of a new
courthouse. County Commissioner
Harry C Wells to-day asked County
Solicitor Phillip S. Moyer to investigate
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START FOUR-DAY
MEMBER CAMPAIGN
Will Build Commerce Cham
ber to Point of High
Efficiency
To-morrow morning at 10 o'clock
approximately one hundred well
known business and professional men
of Harrisburg will start out on a four
days' Intensive campaign to build the
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce to
the point of high efficiency determined
upon by the present board of directors.
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SECOND GAME
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Boston - naiacMrmi—
Philadelphia {DEIBMMMMHfIn
Batteries—Phillies, Damaree and KillfiTer; Boston, Reulbach and Gowdy
FIIIST GAME
New York QtDEDEICUWaHHM
Brooklyn QQQQEinHIIII
Batteries New York, Schupp and Rarlden; Brooklyn, Coombs and Miller.
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has been known as America's greatest
salesman. To talk with him is to
understand why. With the background
of that evening, I was ready to appre
ciate a story which I heard later.
Seveial years ago, in the midst of
the development of his Bethlehem
Steel Company, Mr. Schwab found it
important to sell some notes. So he
went to a financier. With his cus
tomary enthusiasm the magnate
sketched the happy condition of the
steol industry and the bigger things
just around the corner. So well did
he present his case that the light of
Bethlehem's furnaces might have betu
borrowed from the rainbow.
"Why, there won't be any trouble
selling those notes," said the financier.
And the steel man went happily back
to his New York office. A little later
he was called to the telephone.
"Mr. Schwab" (It was the financier
speaking), "would you mind dictating
in a letter Just what you said to me?"
So the .steel magnate dictated a let
ter and took it over to him.
"Why. Mr. Schwab, that isn't the
same thing at all," said the man of
money.
"Yes, it Is," protested Bethlehem's
president.
They went over the letter together,
and tho financier was forced to admit
that it contained exactly what Mr.
Schwab had said.
"Well," he said, "you're right, but I
can't sell those notes unless you dictate
that talk into a phonograph."
In ISO", at the age of thirty-five,
Charles M. Schwab became president
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FIRST NATIONAL
PRESIDENT DEAD
James Brady Dies, Aged 74;
Grew With Bank's
Business
James Brady, aged 7 4 years, presi
dent of First National Bank, and
prominent in banking and financial
circles throughout the State, died last
night at 9.30 o'clock, at his home, 510
North Second street. Mr. Brady had
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FIRST GAME IS
WON BY PHILLIES
Airtight Pitching by Alexander
Gives Them 2 to 0 Vic
tory Over Boston
National League Park, Philadelphia.
Oct. 2.—Airtight pitching by Alexan
der gave Philadelphia a victory over
Boston to-day by the score of 2 to 0
In the first of the six games that will
decide the championship between Phil
adelphia and Brooklyn. Th fans were
surprised when Moran trotted out Alex
ander to pitch the first game, as the
great twlrler received a bad beating
at the hands of Brooklyn on Satur
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BERLIN ADMITS
RUSS GAINS IN
LEMBERG DRIVE
Concede Advantages Won in
Renewed Attacks on Gali
cian Capital
PUSH FORWARD A MILE
British Nearer Baupaumc;Ger
man L-Boat in Arctic Sinks
Three Steamers
Successful resumption by the Rus
sians of the offensive In Galicia draws
attention anew to the eastern war
theater In which the operations have
been partly of comparatively small
importance since General Brussiloff's
dri\e for Letnberg was held up some
time ago.
Berlin and Vienna concede that ad
vantages have been gained by the Rus
sians who are attacking from both
i northeast and southeast of the Gali
i " capital and have gained ground
south °f Brzezany in the latter district
and along the Brody-Zlochoff road in
the former.
On the southeastern front in Mace
donia the British have maintained the
advances scored in their attack Satur
day near the Struma, beating off Bul
garian counter attacks and retaining
the two villages captured along the
road to Seres, according to London to
day.
Serbs Win Great Victory
The forward movement along the
Struma synchronizes with a Serbian
success o nthe westerly Macedonian
front. The long continued struggle in
the Kaimakcalan district has resulted
in the Serbians not only securing pos
session of the principal heights on the
region southeast of Monastir, but in
| an advance of more than a mile north
I of the main peak where the village of
Kotchovie has been taken.
Recent operations by the French
along the -Homme front appear to have
been mostly in the nature of minor at
tacks, probably preparatory to some
larger movement in the Peronne re
gion, while the British main effort has
been directed to the thrust toward Ba
paume along the road from Pozieres,
where an advance on a front, of more
than a mile and a half was announced
by London last night. Paris to-day
reports a French success in a local
operation east of Bouchavesnes north
of Peronne, where a trench and some
prisoners were captured.
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] ' MII-ITARY ACCORD KEACHEW
j , the entente powee. are belied in circle*, do
i Constantme to b# nearmg completion and it is even aa^ert-
ed in some quarters that a military accord has ben already
T secretly reached but is being kept secret pending the
{ MARRIAGE LICENSES
I *'"■>' Rllxithcth .IrfTerxon, cHr.
I ."f i i r T ■"<! HfUecoa Ann Weakley, city.
I i art Cloud Itudy and Ulad>n Ada l,eedy, city.
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14 PAGES, CITY EDITION ,
HUGHES CERTAIN
OF VICTORY AFTER
HIS SECOND TOUR-
Returns to New Y<Vk Pleased !
at Indications orPm|y
Success \
ROOSEVELT SLAMS "W^SON
Charges He Sacrificed Natioy'g
Honor; Actions Arc \
Cowardly
New York, Oct. 2. Charles E.
Hughes got back to New York yester
day after a week's rest before swing,
ing into the final lap of his campaign
for the presidency. He was husky of
voice as a result of two weeks of
strenuous campaigning which took
him into seven States, but his general
condition was much better than his
physicians had expected. Mr. Hughes
expressed the opinion that a brief re
spite would put him In the best form
and that he felt full of energy.
The nominee held a conference with
National Chairman Willcox to-day at
the Astor. He expressed pleasure over
the results obtained by the last tour,
and felt that things were going favor
ably. Mr. Hughes will rest In New
ork until after the reception in his
honor at the Union League Club on
Tuesday evening, at which Colonel
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Harrisburg's Electorate
Officially Notified of
New High School Loan
Harrisburg's electorate was officially
; informed by advertisement to-day for
; the first time that It will have tlio
I opportunity November 7 of voting
upon the question of whether or not
the city's high school problem shall bo
settled by the erection of additional
high school buildings.
In the legal "ad" the School Board
calls attention to the fact that the
question to be voted upon will be tho
i proposed increase of the school Indebt
edness to the extent of $1,250,000. Tho
, purpose will be to build a new girls'
1 high school, enlarge the Technical
j high school sufficiently to accommo-
I date all the boys and to build three
juntor high schools.
i The percentage of increase for tho
I school debt will be .0241, as the city's
last assessed property valuation was
1 $61,8t;5,638, and the amount of tha
existing debt is $916,606.05.