Joint Congressional Committee dpenslnquiry on'EHZads and Other Common 'Carriers HARRISBURG iallßS> TELEGRAPH No. 270 14 PAGES LXXXV— APPROVES PLAN ► TO LIGHT CITY VIA WATER FUND rtil Harrisburg Interested in Mayor's Suggestion For Re ducing Millage IS BIG MONEY EARNER Meals Emphasizes Advantage to Taxpayers; "Let Court Decide" He Says Mayor Meals seems to have struck a popular chord in his suggestion that the surplus funds of the Water De partment be utilized in meeting the cost of city lighting. This would mean the saving of a mill and a quarter in taxation and relieve the City Council of a lot of worry at the present time. Briefly stated, the water works, which are owned by the city, earn about $60,000 over and above all ex penses every year. These funds have been invested' in city improvement bonds so that at the present time the department is actually out of debt, . provision having been made for the redemption of all Water Department bonds when they fall due. Plenty of Money When the Department of Finance this week shall have purchased the| $60,000 of monds authorized by the loan for the motorizing <>f the tire ap paratus of the city from the Water De partment surplus there will still re main as of November 1 an actual cash balance in the water funds of SBO,- 896.17. The earnings of this depart ment. have been increasing right along and notwithstanding the appro priation of $60,000 from the surplus for the purchase of the bonds to be issuer, for the motorizing of tire ap paratus there will still be the usual big balance at the end of the year. As the subject is more generally dis cussed it is believed that a reasonable solution of the matter is the use of the surplus water funds for paying the cost of all city lighting, amounting to approximately $70,000 a year. Spitz's Views City Solicitor Seitz decided several years ago that Water Department funds could not be used for anything save the reduction of the debt of the department until all obligations against the department had been ex tinguished. At the present time there is practically no debt anil instead of increasing the tax rate it is held to be good business to utilize this fund for city lighting. It has been the policy of the city financiers to invest the excess funds of the Water Department, in city bonds paying 4 per cent, and this policy has . worked out in the practical liquida % tion of the entire Water Department debt. City Commissioner Gorgas, Superin [ Con tinned on Page 12] Three Men Burned in Explosion at Gas Plant Three men were badly burned by a back explosion of. one of the boilers at the Harrisburg Gas company this morning. The injured are: Robert McClajn, 326 South River avenue, face and arms badly burned; B. K. Robin son, 1158 South Cameron street, burn ed about body; K. Brownewell, Pen brook, burned about body. McClain's condition was too serious to be moved from the hospital. The others were taken to their homes. No More Juicy "Cuds" in Jaws of City's Police Drinking, smoking, chewing and the use of profanity while on duty are strictly prohibited for city police men, according to the new ' depart mental rules and regulations which will be submitted to-morrow to City Council for approval. The rules have been carefulv pre pared by Mayor E. S. Meals and Chief of Police Wetzel after a careful sur vey of similar regulations of other cities. Mayor Meals to-morrow will offer bis ordinance to provide thirty new officers for 1917 and he may introduce the ordinance providing for'a mechan ician to take care of all the motorized vehicles in the department. This job, he says, should carry a salary of not less than $1,200 a year. THE WEATHER For IlnrrlNhiirK ninl vicinity: Fair to-night and TueMilnj i voider TilFMtlu ). For HiiKtcrn Pennaylvnnliii Fnir to-night and Vueaduy, colder Tuesday. Forecant for (lie Week Beginning Sunday, November 111. llllli. For KiiNtern l'enn.vlvanin mid Xev Jersey: Cold wciithfr durliift the first half of (lie week, followed by mllell warmer tli-- second hull; fair vintll after Thursday, when the weather will become unset tled with probably rain. 11l ver The main river with Ilri tributaries will fall sliithtly during the next twenty-four hours. A stage of about 8.7 feet Is Indlealeil liy Tuesday morning. Genernl Condition* An area of low pressure Is moving off the New 10 n Kin nil region, while mi area nl liigli pressure prevails over (lie Northwest. A second ary high oeeuples the southeast of the Lnlted States. | Temperatures are above the sea sonal averuge over the greater part of the country. No precipitation was reported from practically all tile stations, with the exception of .01 Inch nt Sheridan and .111 Inch at Wll liston. Indications are that fair wenther will continue In this vicinity to night and Tuesday, eoliler Tues day. Temperature! S a. m., 42. Sum Itises, <1:57 a. m.s sets, 4:l,*i p. m. Moon) New moon, November 2.~, SIOO a. m. Klver Stages 3.8 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, .1-1. lowest temperature, 112. Mean temperature, ■l.i. Normal temperature, 111 RAISING THAT $300,000 DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN DEFICIT \ —. j HOW DARK THE DAYS M GETTING" PUSHES BICYCLE RAILWAY LABOR 60 MILES ON HIS UNITES IN FIGHT 60TH BIRTHDAY ON ARBITRATION Frank F. Stevick Takes Hide on New Wheel Given Him by His Wife Hiding a bicycle sixty miles on his sixtieth birthday—-one mile for each year—is the feat Frank P. Stevick, 1011 Worth Third street, has under taken to-day. "I'm no great pedestrian, like Dr. Pager, who can walk a mile for every year of his life, but I can push a bicycle as far as anybody my age," said Mr. Stevick to-day when he called at the editorial rooms of the Telegraph for a written message to the Lebanon News. "I look for a very pleasant, ride," he added, "especially since I am using the brand new wheel which my wife gave me as a birthday present. 1 am taking along my young friend, J. Paul Walmer, who lias rooms at my house, and who is quite a bicyclist himself. [Continued on Page S] Newspaper Advertising Aid to Work of Humane Society Pittsburgh, Nov. 20.—A small ad vertisement once a week in every daily newspaper in Pittsburgh has proved 'he best investment ever made by the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society in the spreading of its work, accord ing to the society's annual report, just issued. A record of telepTione calls was kept and these showed a tremen dous increase. The report says: "This striking increase is attributable to the fact that in January tho policy was adopted of carrying in each of the daily papers in this city a half-inch advertisement soliciting reports of cruelty to children, aged persons and animals. The society never made a better investment in the direction of attracting public notice to its utility, promptness and efficiency." TWO DEAD IX EXPLOSION New York, Nov. 20.—An explosion due apparently to a defective boiler cost the lives of at least two men—• the captain and engineer-—-on a tug boat, tho Rambler, on the Brooklyn water front to-day. The bodies of two other men, a fireman and a deck hand, are believed to be in the hold of tho vessel, which sank at her pier. A score of other persons working on lighters in the vicinity were injured. DIG FOR 50-YEAR OLD SNAKE-BITE Johnny Doyle's Huskies Seek Bottle o' Whisky on Dead Man's Chest I-osh Run. Pa., Nov. 20. —In years gone by, it hud not been unusual for some camper, fisherman or huntsman to return to Harrisburg after a few | Continued on I'afire 81 Twelve Heroes Start to Give Solar Plexus to High Cost of Living Chicago 111.. Nov. 20.—Twelve heroic individuals, six men and six women, employes of the city health depart ment. ate their Thanksgiving dinner yesterday and then gav© their solemn words to eut nothing for two weeks but the scientlllc diet provided by a public economy commission. They will attempt to demonstrate the theories of ihe commission that the high cost of living is duo in a great degree to the apparent willingness of the public to pay any price demanded for its lux uries and that the public's health as well as its purse would be Improved by an intelligent diet. John Dill Robertson, health com missioner, says he expects to feed the twelve for S2O a week, or at a trifle more than 8 cents a meal or 25 cents a day. The squad weighed in at 8.20 n. m. this morning. Their weight will bo carefully watched each day of tho two weeks. They will bp given three care fully prepared meals each (lay and will be expected to do their regular work and will be permitted to drink only water between meals. HARRISBURG.. PA..MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20 1916 300,000 A. F. of L. Members Join 100,000 Brotherhoodmen to Uphold Adamson Law Washington, D. C., Nov. 20.—Amal gamation of the tour railroad brother hoods with the labor organizations representing other lines of railway em ployment was effected hero yesterday at a secret meeting. This action, taken in advance of the meeting of Congress, when labor matters of -vital interest are to be considered, means that all employes of the railroads of the coun try are now combined for higher wages and an eight-hour day. The brotherhoods have fought their battles without the assistance of the American Federation of Labor. They have stood alone for many years, wag ing their labor fights without outside influence. In agreeing to combine with the labor unions associated with the American Federation of Labor there was formed what is probably one of the most powerful labor organizations the world has seen. In the railway organizations which [Continued on Page 7] RII.ES RATE SHEET RIXDIXG I-lazleton, Pa., Nov. 20.—1n the first decision rendered since the new agree ment between the anthracite coal miners and operators became effective last April, Charles P. Neill, of Wash ington, D. C., umpire of the concilia tion board, ruled to-day that the rate sheet as tiled is binding on the em ployers. that the burden of proof rests upon which ever side contends against the rate and that, the evidence must be convincing. He declared that he will in all doubtful cases sustain the rate sheet but pointed out to the men that the circumstances under which a rate is paid must be conclusively proven. ORDER DISTANT REBUILT Amsterdam, via London, Nov. 20. According to the Telegraaf the Ger mans'have ordered the owners of houses which were wrecked in Dinant, Belgium, in August 1914, to rebuild as rapidly as possible. If they are unwilling to re-erect their houses they must remove the wreckage and make the site into a garden. The town of Dinant, the Telegraaf says, lias been ordered to rebuild one belfry of the church toward which the Ger mans offer a subsidy of six hundred pounds from the Belgian budget. The town has protested against the order. GOVERNOR BRUMBA UGH ISSUES THANKSGIVING PROCLAMA TION FIXING THURSDA Y, NO VEMBER 30 GOVERNOR MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH to-day proclaimed Thursday, November 30, as Thanksgiving Day in Pennsylvania. His proclamation follows; Not alone because it is a time-honored custom, but particularly for the reason that a tetate, like an individual, should never forget the supreme source of authority and the steady guidance of Almighty God, it is fitting that we should set aside one entire day for thoughtful sur vey of our progress and our destiny. Pennsylvania has abundant cause for gratitude to God. Save for a visitation of suffering and of death to our children, which lias now happily passed, the people of this great State have been blessed with good health and with abundant crops. We have not wrought upon our soil in vain. We have blended our resources and our toil into many forms of utility and of enrichment of our people. Flood, fire and storm have been kept from our borders. Accidents in our industries, still too frequent, have been reduced, and suffering for the first time hu manely compensated. Our people have passed into a day of rich hu manitarian treatment. Our government has been steadily devoted to prosperU serving our people with gifts of health, happiness and In the bounty vouchsafed us let us not forget our needy citizens not even the stranger within our gates, them and those beyond our borders, whose hearts turn our way, receive from us a gciodlv share of the good given us by our Heavenly Father. A people that is not generous cannot worthily live in Pennsylvania. We must give K'adly and generoualy If we are to prosper permanently and patrlotic ally - no. unremembered child of Pennsylvania sit in sorrow on our Thanksgiving anniversary, hot us follow the guidance of our hearts as well as our heads on this day of gratitude and generosity. Above all else take thought for Pennsylvania, our beloved Com monwealth. and resolve to hold its welfare high in our purposes and to do our part in making it, under God and in His name, the cleanest safest, sweetest place in which to labor, to live, to serve. Ueverentlv and gladly let us on this day gather in our several places of worship and publicly express our gratitude that a Protecting Providence has kept us In peace blessed us with material and spiritual gifts, granted us unnumbered favors and blessings, and given us abundant reasons for thankfulness and for offering sincere supplications that we may continue to be a heaven-helped people. . That this may be done, and done with a propriety worthy of our best traditions and our great destinv, 1. Martin Grove Brumbaugh Gov ernor of this Commonwealth, do st apart and designate THURSDAY, as THANKSGIVING DAY. ' Given under mv hand and the Great Seal of the State, at the City of Harrlsburg, tills eighteenth dav of Wo vemtier. In the year of our Ixird one thoiißnnd nine hußd"d and forty-first d ° f the Commonwealth the By .be Governor. MARTIN G ' BRUMBAUGH. CYRUS E. WOODS. Secretary of the Commonwealth. CHIEFS TO HOLD CONFERENCE WTH WILSON ON LAW Brotherhood . Head to Discuss Plans of Co-ordination With A. F. of L. Washington, Nov. 20. While it! was insisted they came only to "pay [ their respects" the heads of the four | great railway brotherhoods made an I engagement at the White House to-1 day to confer with President Wilson late in the afternoon. It was expected j that the eight-hour day light and probably the plans for co-ordination | of the brotherhoods with the Ameri- ! can Fedeiation of Labor would be dis-i cussed if only briefly. The leaders will see the President i at 5:43 and at 6 o'clock the President! will confer with Representative Adam- ( son, author of the present eight-hour j law and vice-chairman of the joint congressional committee which Began an investigation on the railroad situa tion to-day. In the President's address to Con gress next month he will make recom mendations for the remainder of the legislative program which was un finished when Congress adjourned. The brotherhood leaders oppose that part of the President's recommenda tions which proposed investigation of railroad controyersities before a strike or lockout is permitted. The American Federation of Labor has also gone on record against the rec ommendation. Joint Committee Meets The first session to-day of the joint congressional committee investigating the broad subject of transportation developed into a preliminary meeting at which Chairman Newlands made a general statement of the purposes or the investigation and practically all the prospective witnesses maneuvered to avoid appearing first. Each wanted the other to take the lead, because, all said they wanted to avoid having their plans prejudiced. The railroads were not ready to go on and the State Railway Commissions said they preferred not to bo heard until the first week in December. LOAN ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Waynesboro, Pa., Nov. 20.—Direct ors of the Waynesboro Building and Loan Association on Saturday elected the fiollowing officers: Daniel ltine hart, president: William H. Gelbach, vice-president; D. W. Hess, treasurer; R. E. Ktouffer, secretary; Watson R. Davison, solicitor. ALLIES DRIVE ON VIGOROUSLY PAST MONASTIR Helentlessly Pursue Germans and Bulgarians After Capture of Macedonia Capitol The victory of General Sarrails armies on the western end of the Macedonian front which resulted yes terday in the capture of Monastir, is being vigorously followed up. ' The German-Bulgarian forces which evacuated the city as the result of the successful flanking movement by the French and Serbians, are still in full retreat. Paris reports to-day and are being relentlessly pursued. Already several towns north of Monastir have been taken by entente troops, pushing, fContinued on Page 8] MUSIC CAUSES UPROAR Home, via Paris, Nov. 20. An at tempt to introduce some of Wagner's music into a concert conducted by Toseanini resulted in an uproar last night which brought the perform ance to a premature conclusion. The orchestra had commenced the funeral march from Gotterdammerung when I there were lout! shouts of "it is for the victims of Padua." A storm of | imprecations against Wagner and I Germany came from all parts of the | great auditorium and the concert had to be abandoned. An A';strian aviator bombarded Padua on November 11 and accord ing to jiews dispatches, killed 32 per sons and injured about twice that number. All the dead were said to be noncombatants and most of them women and children. RECOMMEND <)ID AGE PENSIONS Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 20.—A rec ommendation that old age pensions be paid to members of the United Mine Workers of America after they are 65 years old and to disabled miners under that age will be made bv tho special committee appointed by John P. White, president of the organ ization. to investigate the matter. The committee now is framing its report It has been malting its investigations for the last four months. The report will be submitted to the next biennial convention of tho organization in In dianapolis in January, 1918. TRAIN HITS AUTO; 2 DEAD, 3 HURT York County Farmers Arc Struck on Grade Crossing on Wrightsville Pike | lork, Pa.. Nov. 20. Two men were In.stunt.ly killed and three others seriously injured when a Pennsylva nia, railroad express train hound for Philadelphia, struck an automobile on I the Stonybrook grade crossing on the I wrightsville turnpike about live miles Last of \ ork at 6.45 this morning | The occupants of the machine were Vork county farmers bound for Lan caster to buy cattle. The dead are Henry Lanius 65 years, and William Leib, 50 years. The injured, at the York hospital, [Continued on Page 8] Germany Is Planning to Make Lithurria a State; Army Will Be Raised Paris, Nov. 20. Germany Is about to follow up her declaration of Polish independence with a similar an nouncement regarding Lithuania, ac cording to dispatches from Switzer land to the morning newspapers. The dispatches say that the new state will probably receive Prince Eitel Krled rich, second son of the emperor as Its sovereign and will form a state of the German empire with a similar status to that of Bavaria or Saxony. As in the case of Poland, the dispatches add, the first step in the creation of the new state will be the formation of a Lithuanian army to light under Field Marshal Von Hlndenburg. It is esti mated that Lithuania could raise 150,000 men. Single Copy, 2 Cents CITY EDITION STATE CONVEN OF METHOD® 7 MEN OPENS HERE TO-DAY *; t.f.i T Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Send Large Delegation to Great Denominational Rally; Speakers of National Reputation on Three-Day Program CHURCH PUBLICITY WORK FEATURED IN EXHIBIT BY DR. CHRISTIAN REISNER Bishop Berry Presides at Afternoon Session Which Has "Spiritual Preparedness" as Theme; Educational Work Secretary Delivers First Address One of the largest denominational conferences ever held in Harrisburg in years opened this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Chestnut Street Audi torium when the Pennsylvania Con vention of Methodist Men began a three-day session. During the day hundreds of Meth odists from all parts of the State poured into the convention hall to register for the big church sessions, and late to-day big delegations ar rived from Philadelphia and Pitts burgh. Members of the executive commit tee in arranging the convention pro gram are aiming to make the Harris burg conference the best one ever held in the history of the Methodist church in the United States. Speakers of na tional reputation representing practi cally every branch Of Methodist church work are listed on the program and' arrived also during the day. Other Sects Represented A noticeable feature of the hun dreds of registrations was that many of them were men of other denomina tions, some of whom came to the city from distant points to hear the big speakers scheduled to give addresses. All of the men who will attend the sessions are expected to be in Harris burg by nightfall. Hotel accommoda tions were scarce and a number of the visitors were guests of prominent Methodist laymen of the city. MiTfJTTi P Kl 1 l ~f \ iJT~" A p \X/Tl IWOOF) Harrisburg. Picking up a loaded shotgun from a stump while hunting this asternoon, William Raymond Shaffer, aged 27, of J3O Delaware avenue, was instantly killed when the gun was discharged and tore off the top of his head. • Shaffer with John Malone was hunting in the orchar lof Jair.es Heck near Wildwood Park. They stop st il is ::> the m . . 1 lasted their guns aqross a tree iitump. Shaffer picked his up by the barrel when it discharged. He is married and is the father of two chil dren. The body is in the nurgue of Hoover & Son, under- ALLIES*VICTORIOUS IN MACEDONIA Paris, Nov. 20.—Allied troops have been completely victorious on the Macedonian front from the river Cerna to Lake I'resba, according to announcement by the French war office this afternoon. GERMANS IN MACEDONIA REINFORCED Berlin, Nov. 20.—8y Wireless—New German for mations have reached the Macedonian front, it is an nounced officially. The new positions north of Monastb were taken up without pressure from the allies. Serbian advances in the Moglenica region were repulsed. ' AMERICAN STEAMSHIP AGROUND NEAR DOVER Berlin, Nov. 20.—Ths American steamship Siberia, ac cording to wirelsas reports received here, is stranded on the east Goodwin sands.near Dover and is asking for help. The officers of the Siberia say it is impossible to launch boats owing to the heavy seas. MARRIAGE LICENSES Harry llobart Wolf qnil Mnrthn Kllaabrtli Sebright, Gail Berlin. At the big reception hall in the auditorium big exhibits were placed to-day, showing the advancement la Methodist church work In the coun try. Publishing houses also were well represented in the smaller hall. Feature Publicity Late to-day a big exhibit arrived from Dr. Christian F. Reisner of New York City, on church publicity work. Dr. Reisner is an authority on thla subject and has been appointed chair man of the church publicity commit tee of the Advertising Clubs of the World. He is pastor of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, New York City, and has written several books on the value of church adver tising and live-wire preaching. Ilia work during the last few years has attracted attention throughout the en tire country. Dr. Reisner will speak at the session on Wednesday after noon on "Church Publicity." His ex hibit at the auditorium is under the supervision of Dr. C. H. Caswell of New York. Both the registration hall and the main auditorium were decorated In national colors and with flags, and during the day the executive com mittee worked continually to complete [Continued on Page 8]
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