f' If IB m Comimrce Chamber, Municipal League, Ro HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH T VVYV XT,, OA} BV ( AHIIIKUS || CENTS \ WEEK l-AAA V I\IO. SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS'. ,20,000 PAMPHLETS WILL TELL VOTERS OF SCHOOL NEEDS Campaign For Proposed $1,250,000 Loan Will Be Offi cially Started at Meeting of Board Friday; Com merce Chamber, Rotary Club, Civic Club and Students Will Help Boost For Building Much Needed PAGEANT OF CENTRAL AND TECH PUPILS SATURDAY, NOV. 4 Captain Stine, U. S. Recruiting Officer, Will Be in Charge; Quick Action Necessary to Get Results; Will Not Mean Heavy Tax Burden, Points Out Dr. Yates Harrisburg's campaign for the proposed $1,250,000 new high school loan will be actually started at the meeting Friday when the School Board opens bids for furnishing the 20,000 explanatory and educational pamphlets for distribution among the people of the city. The leaflets will bd prepared by J. Horace McFarland, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce high school committee and will be modeled largely on the lines of similar pamphlets that were dis tributed during the city's improvement loan crusade. 'Plain truths about the high school problem." or a similar slogan will be adopted by Mr. MeParland who will have charge of the publicity cam paign. The Chamber of Commerce, the Ro tary Club, the Civic club and the stu dents of the high schools themselves will help boost for the passage of the loan. I*upi Is to Parade A feature of the high school stu dents' participation will be the pa geant of Central and Technical pupils arranged for Saturday afternoon, No \ ember 4. Captain H. M. Stine. Uncle Sam's recruiting officer in Capitol park, will be in charge of the parad its. Two bands will furnish the music and after the parade the students will go to the island where a. football game will be in order. Election day, November 7, is only three weeks away and interested citi zens believe quick action is necessary if the loan problem is to be put prop erly before the people and to this end the Chamber of Commerce commit tee is bending its efforts. Need For (Juick Action Present plans of the school board provide that the new girls' high school together with the converted Technical high school be turned into a boys' in stitution, by not later than 1919 —if the proposed loan measure goes through. If the people of the city decide to borrow the million and a quarter to relieve the city's high school problem, then plans lor immediate relief will be mapped out by erecting the pro posed junior high school on Allison's Hill and for the remodeling of the Camp Curtin building for the same purpose. As soon as these structures are ready to accommodate the junior high r.chool pupils the Central and Technical high schools will be relieved of just that many of its freshmen stu dents. Naturally this will provide more room for more high school youngsters. Ready by 1919 Work could be started on the two junior high schools in the Spring or summer of 1917 so that these hutl'd ings should he ready for occupancy by not later than September. 1918. The Hill school, of course, will be located at Chestnut and Nineteenth streets where the School Board already owns suiAclent ground to aliow the erection of a suitable structure. Operations in cidentally on the new girls' high school itnd the remodeling of Techni cal high to accommodate the high school girls and boyfv respectively will L'o started within the year and they should bo ready, unless unforeseen de lays prevent, by not later than Sep tember. 1919. The Tax Rate Increase The question of whether or not the proposed loan will entail any partic ular increase in the mill rate was dis cussed briefly this morning by the Rev. William N. Yates, chairman of the special School Hoard committee. THE WEATHER, For Harrisburg rind vicinity: la. Mettled to-night and Thursday, probably ruin; wanner I lonrat temperature to-night aliout -10 _ degree*!. For Petinsylvnnini Unbi lled to-night nnd Thursday, prob ably ralni nnrmer to-night In nortli and neat portions) warmer Iburaday; moderate, posslbly frcsh northeast Minds. .... River i "'""luehnnna river and Ita branohfn Mill fall Mlotrly or re main nearly Mtatioiiary to-night, lulit mar cauac a rlhp In nomr or ©f the fttrcaniN of the nyntem Ihiirnday. A Mas** of about 11.3 f.TS . ' B dlcnted for Ilnrrlnburit 1 hurinlny morning. General Coiulitlona The tntpiral storm la central near the Middle ttulf ronst. It hna caused general ralna In the (Julf States, Georgia and Tennessee In the last twenty-four hours. There has been a general fall of 2 to 38 ilegrers In temperature over nearly all the eastern hair of the country, being most decided In the Middle Atlantic and New Eng land States. It Is 2 to .'ill degrees colder In the Northwest. Temperature* R a. m.. .in. Man Rises ■ OiZD a. m.; aeta, 5:21 p. m. Mooni Sen mnon, October 2(1, jsjj p. m. Illver Stages 3.3 feet above low wnter mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature. III). I.onest temperature. -111. Mean temperature, 54. .Normal temperature, 34- i . I The present tax rate of ten mills. I he pointed, was destined to cover cost i of operations, etc., and to provide for j the paying off of a deficit. All told I this ran into something like SIOO,OOO | and practically a full mill had been apportioned for this purpose. This | deficit will be cleared off in the next I two years and this would mean ordin- [Continucd on Pago 3] "DEVELOP YOUR RIVER FRONT," IS EXPERT'S ADVICE llurrisburg Has Finest in Coun try, but Has Neglected Finishing Touches "Harrlsburg has the finest River ! Front of any town 1 have ever visited | and I have oeen in all the large cities ,of this country and Canada. 1 was i litre in 1910 and was so impressed ' with the possibilities that I came back on my way from New Orleans espe cially to see what progress you had I made In Its development. You have laid a splendid foundation, but you | have woefully neglected the finishing touches." This is the view of Alexander Stuart, vice-president of the American Park ! Superintendents' Association, and su- [ Continued on Page 2.) West Indian Hurricane Sweeping Across Gulf Coast at 90 Miles an Hour Clip Washington, Oct. 18. The West I Indian hurricane which has been driv ing through the Caribbean sea and ' Gulf of .Mexico this week. Is rapidly ; approaching the American coast and is expected to move inland somewhere I between New Orleans and Apalachico i la. F!a. Hurrican warnings were or dered by the Waether Bureau at 9 |a. in. to be hoisted between those points. Indications were that the | storm hod increased in intensity as it | nearcd the coast and all marine and i other Interests along the gulf were given warning. TIDE CP TWO FEET New Orleans, Oct. 18. The wind 1 was blowing 72 miles an hour from 1 the northeast at Pensacola, Fla., at 8.15 this morMng. A report to the j Weather Bureau here said the barom- I eter at Pensacola showed 29.40 and a | tide two feet higher than normal was i running. MONTGOMERY CUT OFF i Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 18.—A tel<S ' phone message from Pensacola at 9:10 a. m. stated the wind had reached a velocity of 71 miles an hour, after which there was a lull, the wind dropping back to 61 miles an hour. The storm center apparently is headed 'directly toward Pensacola. The last wire, a telephone circuit, into Mobile from Montgomery failed at 11:15 a. m. The gale was unoffi cially estimated at from 90 to 100 miles an hour. Although the tide is high, property damage at this time was reported as slight in comparison ! to the July hurricane. COTTON TAKES BIG JL'MP New Orleans, Oct. 18. The most sensational advance of this extra ! ordinary season in cotton ocurred , around the opening of the market to day as the result of the rqmor that the tropical hurricane had struck the cotton region near Mobile. Prices were lifted 63 to 89 points, nearly $4.50 a bale' on the strongest months. ;The July option went to 19.17 cents a : pound, the highest price ever record ed on the local future contract boards. | WHEAT BREAKS A LI. RECORDS I Chicago. ()ct. 18. All high prices since the European war began were outdone to-day in the wheat market here. Notwithstanding a jump yes terday of more than 7 cents a bushel the market to-day ascended further 4 74c, with December touching $1.68 ,as against $1.63 <4 to $1.63 % at yes terday's finish. IIARRfSBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY-EVENING, OCTOBER IS, 1916 WHO SAYS CURFEW SHALL NOT BLOW TONIGHT ? i CAUSE w\ 4OIN TO THE ) C ~~~ SHOW- t(lf IF IT AWT OVER j \ I , I s O'CLOCK t CAM HEY! ITS AFTER , <*SAMNW-, ] ) PUT THESE o6R r*, An' 9 O'CLOCK-WHAT ) ALL RIGHT YWOTHMtYA \ DEN "THEY CANT CHASE I ARE VA' DOW' OUT ( M.STERCOP-'OOT J 1 WE OOT >' <** TWSLATE? ( | OOT^N^SreALSOMt I %VOU 70 \ 7 —V _y I'LL FIX you so WMKI |BH| I ( you'll never even u v v v tf i K>Sf>ER /'l'l'i 11 Children UNDER is >•"-- hwe WEN ,TS T ' ME to retire—THE TO SUON A WRITTEN EXCUSE TO \iniiiriiniinnuinn iiumi ■ mini mmi ABOVE: PICTURE IS A SUGGESTION STAY OUT AFTER 9 O'CLOCV. LJLMIIHHIIII|HHHI(L(LFLLL/<L TU THE MDS. Cx K \ •• ' ' Q£> - * (HE CERTAINLV LOOKS \ £ fj* \ ) .' '/ xjikT , J DBPHRATt-fU_ ) X/ && A ■. _ . *' . ( HAVETOfteCOMWENoW V* # ) /"' /HE WAS our AFTER ) FOR A MEDAL \ 1 ; "%.. (KM 1 TWATK.' ) " I ARRESTED HIM T~~ „ V - ff.® c ~ . _ / ONLY APTERAHARO / —("" ohalu Not Blow To-ni&ht j / ) .—. C"T"S >4 WHAT VIILL HAPPEN WHEN THE VWISTLE. f no j C 6CTS ° F H( ) N J \ Hl* VIU'I* FFS ETC° —. THE POLICE WILL MOW is HVEAMT Foe TMECV. ® E W " t T ° WAKE A (fccUtoxLo J LET US HAVE NO MORE TEMPORIZING HARRISBURG is paying the penalty of official supineness and pennywise-pound-foolishness. An inexcusable typhoid fever epidemic has not only brought sorrow and suffering in its wake, but the fame of a fair city has been tarnished beyond the power of words to describe. There must be no more temporizing. No more backing and filling over the cost; no more fear of political or personal conse quences of drastic official action. If existing law is not sufficient let the emergency suggest the method and the procedure. We have been told for weeks that the trouble is not with the water—thank heaven for that!—but that this disease lurks in the ice cream and milk dispensed to a helpless' community. That being true, why, in the name of all that is reason able, have dealers in this liquid and congealed invitation to death been permitted to continue selling to the people without let or hindrance? .Why should the sale of ice cream and milk and cream be allowed under the circumstances? Choke the scourge at its source! Demand that every ounce of the creamery products sold in Harrisburg be subject to inspection daily without regard to the number of inspec tors. Let competent and courageous men be employed for this necessary and important service. Why wait for still more deaths and the misery •of stricken households, where wageearners are unable to provide for their families, before striking the blow that will end the reign of the colon bacillus? Stop the traffic in all ice cream and milk products not officially inspected. The people of Harrisburg will back with their approval all requisite steps to this end, but let us have an end of watchful waiting! "WE NEED YOUR HELP", SAY WILSON COLLECTORS NAMED TO GET FUNDS After several weeks of strenuous appeal and hysterical argument, which fell upon the unheeding and un sympathetic ears of certain prominent Harrisburg Democrats, the "Auxiliary Finance Committee of the Democratic National Committee for the County of Dauphin, Pennsylvania," has at last been created. These are the gentlemen who have been induced to Nine Perish, Six of Them Women, in N. Y. Fire New York. Oct. 18. Two more bodies were found to-day In the fire swept ruins of the Oakes Dye Manu facturing Company's plant In Queens borough, bringing the number of vic tims up to nine. The dead, of whom six were young women, include Harry C. Cook, 42 years old. treasurer of the company and the chief bookkeeper, three as sistant bookkeepers, the telephone op erator and three stenographers. In vestigators to-day expressed belief that those who perished tarried In an effort to save the company's books, which were found preserved in a safe, and were then overcome by acid fumes before tlio flames reached them. The property loss is estimated at upwards of $176,000. serve as the collectors of cash for the Wilson cause: Samuel Kunkel, H. E. Hershey, T. K. Van Dyke, Henry B. McCormlck. Benjamin M, Nead, Casper Dull and Dr. J. Ross Swartz. In the touching and beautiful letter sent to worthy Democrats to-day many of whom will not respond to the [Continued on l-tgc 3 J C. I. & S. Co. Receivers Will Pay Creditors 20 Per Cent Receivers of the Central Iron and Steel Company have asked the court in the usual way for permission to pay the creditors of the company twenty per cent, of their claims. This payment of one-fifth will be made In a few days and It is stated upon ex cellent authority that other pay ments will be made from month to month until the entire indebtedness Is wiped out. It Is conrtdently ex pected that all claims will be settled in full in four or six months. RESURRECT HUSH QUESTION' London, Oct. 18. The Irish ques tion was again brought to the fore In the House of Commons to-day with the introduction by John Itedmond of a motion criticising the system gov ernment of the island. TYPHOID FEVER EPIDEMIC WANES REPORTS SHOW Only 24 New Cases; Health Officers Urge Continuing of Precautions Harrisburg's typhoid ' vcr epidemic, probably the worst in 0 history of the city, is abating:, according to Dr. •T. M. J. Raunick, city health officer, in n statement which he made to-day. With only twenty-four Aiew cases in the last five days, some of which are secondary ones, the crest has been passed, according to the health official. Dr. Raunick. however, issued a wavn'ng to residents .of the city to continue taking precautions and also to watch their milk supply. Milk deal ers also are being instructed to watch [Continued on Page 7] Shortage in Print Paper Is Growing Much Worse j New York. Oct. 18.—Recent develop ments in the while paper market In j dicate that the shortage which was ! predicted early this year is an actual condition and that the prospects are not encouraging; to the publishers. I The scarcity of print paper has in the last few weeks caused the newspapers to institute economies hitherto un ! known In the business and to look I around for additional methods of con- I serving the stock in hand. Even al lowing for drastic reductions In con i sumption next year, experts point out j that the demand will not come up to I the supply. The public, it was said I yesterday, must realize that smaller i newspapers are due. I The situation has become so serious ! that a dozen different remedies have i been advocated and adopted recently. ! Cutting down the size of the paper or ithe advertising is only one of these. ! Raising the price of tlie newspaper and i watching to detect the smaller waste of j space are other devices adopted. J A Gordon Mclntyre, a retired official iof the Canadian Pulp and Paper As sociation and an authority in the paper I trade, has been chosen by the American j Newspaper Publishers' Association to 'start a new department, lie will con | fer with the publishers and act as their representative iu negotiations with the paper manufacturers. To some of those in the newspaper publishers' i ranks it looks as though the country | dailies and weeklies, which cannot or i will not contract for their print paper ;in quantity, will be forced to sus | pend. TO PARADE FOR JITNEYS t l.ahor Organisations to Join ill Street Demonstration Representatives of more than a dozen labor organizations of the city met last night at the headquarters of the Pennsylvania Federation of I.abor, 222 Market street, to arrange for n big parade and mass meeting on the night i of November 4 to urge citizens to vote for the amendment to the Jitney ordi nance, reducing the license fee and bond. H. M. Brooks was chosen marshal of the parade. Other labor organ izations will be represented at the next meeting and all workers of the city, bolb. organized and unorganized, are j to be Invited to the parade. BLUE IXmtJK HOI.DS STAG More than 750 members of the Blue T.<odge held a stag social last night at the Harrisburg Consistory, A. A. S. U. Masons. The evening was spent in enjoying vaudeville acts by home talent, after wlileh refreshments were served. The menu Included baked beens, cider, doughnuts and pumpkin pies. VL'TO KIIJLS GRAY SQUIRREL A little gray squirrel from Capitol Park was killed by an automobile to day on North Third street. The auto wns too speedy for the little fellow. e t •''..*(! £ I ; ' . •> < . v-ti-r- ! C •;', 1 1 " • ••"•'•I ••I-': >• ■ '* ■•: t'lr State 1 ition and ad- I :; v: tht uhjc ' I'h ■ '.' .;t • ■no s tritary 1 i | * !ii'v " - •, ; < 1 :*V i I ... id ! i 9 ih | • i ■ .... . .. t I I i * I suffered in Mobile property was estimated at not e ii cceding a few thousand dollr.rs. One life was tou, a negro -I , | - .led \ • > .-it j| CAPTAIN BOELKE REPORTED WOUNDED j Pans, Qrt IH. J"j (T,,_h nev.-.n,'ricr vivs it learnti I from an authorized source that Captain Boelke, the cele- i Ibrated German aviator h' teen •v< wounded by a shell from a French anti-aircraft guh. On October Boelke (I brought down his thirtieth entente allied machine. I "T < • M r , | 1 '••••.. .■ shots j ■, in the crowded courtroom of Judge Foell to-day, probably j ( fatally wounding Jacob Klaus, who had been named by her j ! < • Harrisburg,—William Jennings, president of the Com- j I monwealth Trust Company and president of the William J | Pcnn Highway Association, late this afternoon war. elected 1 •jf president 'of the First National Bank to succeed James j j t Brady. W. P. Starkey was elected to the directorate to 1 succeed Mr. Brady. j , Harrisburg Dorsey Eaynham, colored, 168 Ridge <1 street, Steelton, was shot in the chest this afternoon by a J , companion. He is in the Harrisburg hospital. J MARRIAGE LICENSES j t 9 i Daniel llerniMn l.ucker anil Mlsa Bather Mar Kndera, HnrrUhor*. j William Frank Crlder, Oakdale, and Marie Anna Mjera, Lcttlttowi. I ■ Vl#™ I Vlfil 14 PAGES CITY EDITION RUMANIANS MAKE EFFECTIVE STAND AGAINST TEUTONS Belligerents on All Fronts Re doubling Efforts Despite Cold Weather RUSSIANS TO RESCUE Throw Force Into Carpathian Passes; Allies Make Prog * ress Along Sonnne Official announcements to-day from, the entente side report an effective stand by thp Rumanians against Gen eral Von Falkenhayn's armies along the Transylvania border and the Sanginary repulse by the French of heavy German assaults on the new French positions in Sailly-Salllisel on the Ronnue front. The approach of the cold season I# accompanied by no diminution in activity In most of the Europ- n bat tle areas. In some of them indeed, the efforts of the belligerents appar ently are being redoubled. This seems notably true along the eastern front, from Volhynia to Rumania, wlienc® continuous lighting is reported. Further south the attempt of the central powers to drive a wedge be tween the Russians and Rumanians near Dorna Watra, in the southern [Continued on I'ngc 2.] Abdul Aziz Fanson Declares War on Emir Hussein After He Rebels Against Sultan Berlin, Oct. 18 (by wireless). —Re- poits from Constantinople to thft Over seas News Agency say that a powerful sheik of western Arabia. Abdul Aziz Fanson Emir Seid, has declared war on the former Emir Hussein after learning that llie Emir had rebelled against the sultan of Turkey. HURRICANE HEADED NORTH Mobile, Alu., Oct. If. With-the barometer steadily falling and tho wind blowing fifty-two miles an hour at Mobile early this morning, Gulf coast cities anxiously awaited the latest weather reports which would accu rately locate the center of the tropical disturbance reported headed this way. Weather Observer Ashenberger said it was his opinion the storm was driving directly this way.
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