Brifish Taking Large Numbers of Prisoners in Continuation of Ancre Dr"? HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH No. 265 14 PAGES LXXXV— RIVERSIDE ASKS • TO BECOME PART OF MUNICIPALITY More Than Enough Residents Petition Harrisburg's Council For Annexation RIPRAP ORDINANCE Gross Says He'll Advertise Again; Drivers Want More Money Riverside to-day formally asked to be annexed to Harrisburg. The request was contained in two Jetitions signed by more than 60 per cent, of the taxable residents of the growing little suburb to the north of the city. The next step necessary to include Riverside within the municipal bound aries will be the adoption of an ordin ance by Council authorizing the an nexation and City Solicitor D. S. Seitz will be asked to prepare this legisla tion as soon as he is able to return to his desk. Upon motion of Mayor Meals to-day the Riverside petitions were referred to Mr. Seitz with in structions to prepare the ordinance. Pass Riprap Ordinance Council unanimously passed on final reading the Grots ordinance authoriz ing the riprapping of the river front slopes north of Hardscrabble. This action followed Commissioner Gross' report on the inadvisability of treating the slopes with concrete rather than riprapping. Mr. Gross said he will ad virUse for bids this week. A few weeks ago bids were asked but the sole pro posal received was not considered. Legislative authority for the work was pending in Council at th-> time. City fire drivers to-day petitioned Council for a raise of salary and sug gested that provision for more money be incorporated in the 1917 budget. The drivers now receivo S6O per month. At the suggestion of Mr. Gor gas the commissioners will consider whether or not the city should carry its own workmen's compensation lia bility or whether it should be insured by the State. The latter plan will cost approximately $3,000 and pro vision for this sum would have to be made in the budget. The departments have been paying the men their sal aries while off duty because of injur ies received on the job. \nv Legislation New legislation offered to-day in cluded an ordinance by Mr. Gross authorizing the transfer of $1,191.30 In balances accruing from Island rent al. caoip, forester's salary, etc., to the park contingent fund. This is neces sary he raid in order that the depart ment can "come out whole" at the end of the year. Mr. Gross was also given permission to sell the Good Will fire horses as the apparatus is soon to be motorized. Mr. Lynch offered a resolution au thorizing the surrender of the $25,000 bond of the Cumberland Valley Telephone Company since it has filed its substitute bond of SIO,OOO. City Begins Month of Thanksgiving With Tidy Balance of $429,513.68 Harrisburg began the Thanksgiving month with the tidy sum of $429,513.- 68 in its official purse according to the monthly report for October as submit ted to Council this morning by City- Treasurer H. F. Oves. The balance, October 1. was $434,41 3.44, the re ceipts during the month were $63,236.- 70 and the expenditures were $67,- 136.46. The. balance was distributed as fol lows: Cash in office. $3,238.57; First National, $91,275.11; Central Trust, Commercial and Security Trust. $5,000 each: Allison Hill. Citizens and Sixth street. SIO,OOO each; Merchants. $20,- 000; East End. $25,000; Harrisburg National and Harrisburg Trust. $35.- 000 each; Union Trust. $45,000; Me chanics. *60,000; Commonwealth Trust, $70,000. SINKING FTTND COMMISSIONERS TO CLIP COUPONS OX THURSDAY Some $6,800 in interest coupons will be clipped by the sinking fund com missioners of the city at a meeting to be held for that purpose Thursday af ternoon. The coupons will represent the semiannual interest on $170,000 worth of bonds in the sinking fund. The commission is composed of Mayor E. S. Meals, City Commissioner W. L. Gorgas, superintendent of fin ance, and City Treasurer H. F. Oves. THE WEATHER For tlarrlaburK anil vicinity I Fair and much colder to-nljcht with a cold lowest temperature about 25 degrees; Wednesday fair and colder. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Over cast find much colder to-night, probably snow flurrleM In moun tain districts! cold nave In south ern portions Wednesday fnlr and colder) fresh northeast winds. Klver The Susquehanna river and all Its branches will fall slowly or re main nearly stationary. A ilatr of about 3.7 feet Is Indicated for IlarriaburK >Vedneduy morning. General Conditions The cold wave from the Northwest has overspread the eentrnl pnrt of flic country and its effects are lieirliinliiN; to be felt In .New Knc- Innd nnd In the western portions of the Middle and South Atlaatle States. Snow has fallen In the St. I.nwrence Valley, .Northern New England, the l.ake Region. I'ppcr Mississippi Valley, In the Middle Plains States and North ern Rocky Mountain region, nnd rain and anow In Tevaa, l.oulal ana, In the Ohio Valley and the Interior of Xew York State and light rains In portions of the Middle and South Atlantic Stntea and In Tennessee. Tempera tore i 8 a. m., .12. Sunt Rlsea, otso a. m.s seta, 4i50 p. m. Moon t l.nst quarter, Novenaber 17, 5 p. m. River Stagei 3,(1 feet above low water mark. Yesterday' Weather Highest temperature, .">4. l.owest temperature. 43. Mean temperature, .10. formal temperature, 42. 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Preliminary plans have been made and a resolu tion providing the machinery for the inquiry is ready to be introduced soon after Congress convenes next month. It was stated to-day that evidence was being collected but its details were not disclosed. The plan is to call those actually in charge of cam paign finances before the Senate Committee and investigate the details of their transactions. Various reports concerning use of money in certain states nave come to Democratic headquarters as well as Republican headqquarters. Investigation into alleged attempts to colonize illegal voters in Indiana and West Virginia particularly was begun several weeks before the elec tion. In those states Democratic leaders are planning to contest the election of United States Senators. Before the polls had closed last Tues day charges of corruption were be- [Continued on Page ll] Norwegian Torpedoboat Fires on German Ship Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 14. The Morgenbladt says a Norwegian torpedoboat has fired upon a German steamer which refused to stop when passing Stavangcr. The Norwegian fired a shot at the rigging, tho newspaper says, then boarded the steamer and dismantled her wireless. Since the beginning of the war for eign ships have not been permitted to carry wireless installation when in Norwegian waters. BEEF AT RECORD PRICE Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 14.—A rec ord price for beef cattle was paid at the local stockyards to-day when forty head, averaging 1,357 pounds each sold for $11.40 per hundred pounds. The previous high price was $11.35, paid in December, 1914. COLGATE TO SUCCEED S.iOLER | Trenton, N. J., Nov. 14. Governor [ elect Walter E. Edge conferred with Governor Fielder here to-day and af terward the former announced that the position of adjutant general made vacant 1 y tho death of General Wilbur F. Sadler, would be tendered to Austen Colgate, of Essex, Mr. Edge's princi pal rival for the Republican nomina tion for Governor. Governor Fielder will make an ad Interim appointment and the new Governor will send Col. Colgate's nomination to tho Jk-nate for confirmation, 10 HURT IX SOUTHERN WRECK Charlottesville, Va., Nov, 14. David B. Johnson, president of Win throp College, Rock Hill, S. C\, and also president of the National Educa tion Association antl eight other pas sengers were injured, the engineer killed and the fireman badly scalded when a Southern Railway passenger train from Augusta to New York was j wrecked In a collision In the yards here early to-day. Dr. Johnson suf- I fered contusions and a sprained neck. ' DENY DUMBA IS DEAD Vienna, Nov. 14. There is no foundation for the report recently published in the United States of the death of Dr. Constantln Dumba, for mer Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the United States. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1916. HOTEL CATERING • TO NEGRO, NEED Dr. Crampton Says Colored Man Is Often Shabbily Treated Careful census of all the colored women of the Tenderloin who have no "visible meaLns of support" is to be kept by the Dauphin County Colored Law and Order league and reported to the Dauphin county courts at Janu ary quarter sessions, according to Dr. C. H. Crampton. president of the or ganization. Dr. Crampton, who was one of the chief witnesses for Theo. S. Frye, the State street hotel keeper, who is try ing to get the court's permission to transfer his license to 1012 North Sev enth street In the face of vigorous op position, discussed the league's pro posed activities yesterday. In the opinion of the league presi dent. the trouble which certain ele ments of the negro population may give to the police authorities could be localized If a hotel which catered par ticularly to the negro element should be permitted within the city limits. Frye's hotel filled this demand, ac cording to Dr. Crampton, and if his petition for transfer is refused he will be forced to close up "his business be cause the State has acquired his prop erty for Capitol Park extension pur poses. Furthermore, Dr. Crampton said Frye was one of the hotel keepers whose co-operaflon had been asked by the league to break up the recent law lessness which has been traceable to lieexoes from other sections. It was in speaking of the league's (Continued on Page tl] Troops Along Border Are Feeling Effects of Cold Wave Now Blanketing Country Washington. Nov. 14. The cold wave from the Rocky Mountain re gion continued to move eastward to day nnd freezing temperatures had extended southward to the Mexican border where the troops were feeling their effect. The coldest, place to day was Lander, Wyo.j where it was 10 degrees below zero. Pueblo, Colo., nnd Valentine, Neb., reported 8 below; Charles City, la., and North Platte, Neb., 4 below and Huron, S. D., 2 below. The advancing cold was being felt l throughout the Middle West and prac | tlcally nil States east of the Mississ . ippi river, hut it seemed to be losing I its intensity as it moved eastward. : Snow has been falling in New Eng i land, interior Now York, the Great ■ Lakes region and the I'pper Mississ ippi valley, while rain, sleet and snow were falling in the Ohio valley and Tennessee, sleet and rain in the west gulf States and rain in the middle States and southern New England. Much colder weather Is predicted to overspread the Atlantic and East Gulf States to-nipht and Wednesday and the upper Ohio valley and lower lake region to-night. Cold wave warn ! ings were issued to-day. Middle At i lantic States, except interior New | York and the East Gulf and South I Atlantic States, except lower Florida, i El Paso, Texas, reported 22 degrees San Antonio, 28; Del Rio, 30; Corpus |Christi, 34. and Brownsville, 38. At i Chicago, 18 degrees was reported while St. Paul reported six, St. Louis 16; Omaha, ' 4 and Indianapolis, 20. [Condnilnl on Paige OJ TO TOUCH 25 TO-NIGHT Cold weather to-night, with the tem perature about 25 degrees, some snow Hurries and more cold to-morrow, with a slight rise in the temperature. This, in brief, is what to-day's weather map forecasts for Harrisburg. The cold wave from the west will be in full force to-night. JUNIOR HIGH IS DISCUSSED Professor W. A. Geesev Shows Advantages of System to Youth Some of the obstacles Harrisburg must overcome in solving the junior high school problem were interestingly discussed in a general way this morn ing by Processor W. A. Geesey in his talk before the grammar and high school sectional meeting of the Dau phin county teachers' institute. "Some Problems Arising Fiajm the Junior High School" was I*ofessor Geesey's theme, but his handling of the subject was of especial interest to Harrisburg folks in view of the recent [Continued on Page 7] German Embassy Does Not Believe Master Spy Got Letters From Oscar II Washington. Nov. 14. The Ger man embassy does not believe that Karl Armgaard Graves, self-styled international spy, secured from the steamship Oscar 11, as he says, the letters he Is alleged to have used in an attempt to extort $3,000 from Countess von Bernstorff, wife of the German ambassador. Graves will be arraigned for p. preliminary hearing here to-morrow before United States Commissioner Taylor. The Oscar II arrived at New York November 1, having left Copenhagen October 22. According to the German embassy the latest date on the docu ments taken from Graves is September 6. The packet containing the papers probably was sealed at the German Foreign Office on that date. It is un believable, embassy officials declare, that the packet could have been kept in Europe nearly a month and a half before being dispatched. Extra ordinary efforts (tre being made to de termine the identity of the messenger who brought the packet to the United States and the ship he traveled on. The era bass; feels that the messenger hav.ing. Jost the packet through acci dent or theft, might have feared to report the loss. "Just Gotta Carry Gun" Says Southern Negro If you are a colored man from the South, you just gotta carry a revolver," declared Thomas Brown, six foot tall who hails from Atlanta, Gn., this after noon during a hearing at the police sta tion. Brown was arrested at noon by Pa trolmen Bryne and Hylan. He had in liis possession a 38-ealiber automatic revolver and a quart bottle of whisky. Brown said: "These Northern darkles don't like us fellows from the South. They rob us and make trouble for us whenever they can. judge. 1 was held up in the subway last Saturday and houg;it tiie revolver for protection." Brown was held for court. INDIAN EXPERT DEAD New York. Nov 14—Robert G. Val entine, expert on Indian affairs, died at the Hotel Manhattan early to-day from heart trouble. He had been stricken a short time before while dining. Valentine was the expert who in vestigated conditions at the Carlisle Indian School some time ago. EX-CONGRESSMAN GEORGE niES Washington, Nov. 14. Former Congressman Henry George, son of Henry George,, of Single Tax fame died here to-day after a long Illness. He formerly represented the Twenty first congressional district* of New York. He was flfty-four years old and maintained his home In New York City. HIGH SCHOOL FOR THREE BOROUGHS Lemoyne, Camp Hill and Wormleysburg Hoards May Proceed A joint high school for Lemoyne, j Camp Hill and Wormleysburg may be I the outcome of a meeting of school j boards of these districts in the offices I of Robert I. Myers in the Lemoyne j Trust Company building next Monday | night. Residents of these districts are ; agitating a school for the trio of bor oughs and are appealing to the dl- ; rectors to proceed without West Falr \ iew and East Pennsboro township, I the districts that defeated the loan. ! A proposition for the joining of the [Continued on Page -1] Identifies Man as One of Blackmailing Gang Who Procured $5,000 | Cincinnati, 0., Nov. 14. lt be came known to-day that Thomas J. | Corcordn, of the Corcoran - Victor j Company of this city, recently ldentl i fied George Bush in New York, as one 1 of three men who on October 13, 1915, i obtained $5,000 from him. Bush is ; being held in New York in connection with blackmailing operations. Corcoran said that three men rep resenting themselves as Federal offi cers called at his place of business on October 13, 1915. and served him with a warrant charging him with violating the Mann white slave act. Corcoran insisted that he was not guilty but the alleged officers started to take him in jail. While on the way to the jail they explained to him how lie could get out but that it would take $5,000, and he consented. After securing the money Corcoran said, "I beckoned to an officer as I was pay ing over the cash, but he stood as if ! lie didn't see me. Before I could at tract his attention the men had fied." Bush who is held in New York is ex pected to be brought to Cincinnati for trial in the Corcoran case. Too Much Wilson, So He Gives Up Citizenship Helens. Mont.. Nov. 14—The Rev. Francis Von Clafenbeck. of Tillamook, Ore., has sent his naturalization papers anil a letter resigning bis citizenship to the District Court clerk here. The letter in part said that "to see a man returned to power aftnr an admin istration and policy such as we have seen during the past four years is too much for me." Three Killed, One Hurt When Engine Blows Up Easton, Pa., Nov. 11.—Three men | wore killed and one was seriously in ijured and later died when an engino lof an eastbound freight train on the | Uelnwnre, Laci near Hainesburg, N. J„ to-day. The engineer, fireman and head brakeman were killed outright. An injured trainman died at the power house at Slatoford, Pa., where he was taken. Tho dead Include Patrick Gallagher, the engineer. All the dead men re sli'ed at Scranton. The engine was pulling a train of 70 loaded curs and, was assisted with a pusher ensine. When the train neared Hainesburg, the boiler of the front engine explod- I ed and was blown off the track. The trainman who was badly In jured was placed on the pusher and started for the Stroudaburg hospital, but the man died when the engine reschfd Slats Ford, Pa. The bodies of the dead men were taken to Sran tcn. CITY VALUATION FOR 1917 LIKELY OVER 52 MILLION City Assscssor Thompson Fin ishes Tentative Computation of Properties PREPARING FOR BUDGET Increase in Improvements Will Probably Total More Than $700,000 Harrisburg's assessable valuation upon which the city's mill rate for 1917 will be based for budget purposes will total approximately $52,000,000 according to tentative figures compiled to-day by City Assessor James C. Thompson. The valuation last year was ssl 865,000. Assessor Thompson anil his assist ant, C. 11. Townsciul, aro hurrying as much as possible on the assessment figures in order that they may present the city commissioners with a good brills upon which to begin the 1917 budget preparation and within a few days the exact figures will be available. Close to $300,000 had to be lopped off the city's revenue earning prop erties, the decrease being chiefly in the Second, Fourth and Eighth wards. In the Second ward the elimination of properties to make way for the new Fennsy freight station and warehouses —improvements by the way from which the city derives no income— will mean a loss or approximately $35,000; in the Fourth ward, the chief loss will be noted in the trans fer by the McKee estate of the prop [Contlnued on Pace 0] President Cancels Cabinet Meeting to Clear Up Routine Washington, D. C., Nov. 14,—Presl dent Wilson canceled the Tuesday Cabinet met ting artil all other engage ments to-ilay so he could dispose of the pile of routine work which has accumulated during the campaign. The executive offices were thronged with visitors. Word has gone out that very few new appointments will be made. The President, it was said to-day, would like to find places for some de feated senators and representatives, but cannot appoint them to boards and commissions created by Congress because of legal restrictions against it. IVj % !s % £ V 1 \ a ' ' " J jj n. % j J | J ' ■ j # # ' . . ' t . Lansing's reports t ' • n.nd I | f j . | ' 'I ERS BOOST CO 1 # Nov. 14—F W Whcat6n, a di , I ' ■ | a J J ■ -i.'i'.f;. I j / 2 j f ■ 1: >(' W < c { ' a ! * II | V ! I' I M agreement by the Mexican- £ B [ American Commission on the principle and essential points M |# of the plan *or the withdrawal of the American troops / | C rom Mexico and of the other questions that have arisen f | be