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HARRISBURG iSSlfii TELEGRAPH
LXXXV — No. 300 12 PAGES
GERMAN AGENTS
AT THE HAGUE
MAKEPLANSFOR
PEACE MEETING
Already Preparing For Hotel
Accommodations For Their
Delegates to Proposed Con
ference
SWEDEN BACKS NOTE
OF U. S. TO KAISER
English Newspapers See
Eagerness For End of War
in Suggestion of Germany
For Early Meeting
London, Dec. 27.—11.44 A. M. —A
uispatch from the Hague to the Ex
change Telegraph Company says Ger
man agents have arrived at the Hague !
to make preliminary arrangements 1
for German delegates to the peace |
conference suggested in the German |
reply to President Wilson's note. j
The dispatch follows:
"In view of the preparatory meet-1
ing of delegates to a peace conference
suggested in the German reply to
President Wilson, German agents j
have arrived at the Hague and are i
making inquiries for hotel accomo
dations for German delegates."
Although Reply Is
Unsatisfactory, Another Step
Toward Peace Is Seen
Washington, Dec. 27. Germany's j
reply to President Wilson's peace note j
had not been received here iji official j
form to-day and officials were reserv- j
ing their comment.
Despite the disappointment because I
Germany has not acceded to the 1
President's suggestion and laid down J
her terms the general view prevailed I
that the reply was another step for- |
ward in the peace movement.
The United States undoubtedly is i
expected by Germany to transmit* the J
sense of her reply to the entente bel
ligerents and the immediate outcome ;
depends upon whether the allies will
enter a conference before terms have !
been Jaid down. It was pointed out '
that the way ha<l not been closed <
, for Germany to lay down terms as the j
allies demand. In a diplomatic negoti
ation of such magnitude and scope of
ficials do not look for results to be im- 1
mediately apparent but expect the way :
to be paved carefully and slowly. The j
next move will not be determined un
til after the official text of the reply '
has been received. President Wilson
will discuss it thoroughly with the '
cabinet, probably Friday.
Other Peace News on Page 12.
Widespread Retrenchments
to Be Made by Chicago in
Effort to Meet Big Deficit
Chicago, Dec. 27.—Plans for re-!
trenchments in 1917 in the various!
municipal departments to meet a de- 1
licit of $4,000,000 in Chicago's purse I
were announced to-day by the city's !
budget committee and according to i
department officials will mean various !
curtailment of efficiency in several!
branches of city service. The plans in
elude:
A twenty per cent, reduction on the
normal number of street lights 1
Seven hundred fewer policemen.
Abolition of twenty-two lire com
panics. I
,> i? l, wL ria ,V on of 100 l>°itions in j
the Health Department and of several
hundreds persons in various city hall
departments. '
Big Fire at Lancaster
Endangers Hospital Patients
Lancaster, Pa., Dec. 27.— Over %i
hundred patients in the Lancaster 1
General hospital were endangered!
this morn ng when tire, destroyed the !
main building of Prank Bowman's I
box factory adjoining the institution '
causing a loss of $30,000. The hosDi-!
tal rapidly filled with smoke and steps
were taken to remove the patients
if necessary, but firemen kept a weil'
of water between the tire and the hos
pital and the latter was not seriously
endangered. ' >
New machinery which will be im-1
possible to duplicate was recently in- '
stalled in the factory. The loss is only-t
half covered by insurance. A defec- :
tive flue caused the blaze. i
THE WEATHER] I
'
For IlarrUburK "<1 viilnllyi l{ a i„
thl* nftemuoii and proiiolily |o
nlKhti warmer to-niit'it, lh
lonrat temprrnturc uliuut 40 ilr
■ reeji Tb.irj.dnv f„lr „ud voider.
I'or I'.anKrn I'ennN) I vunla i Iti. In
mid warmer to-ii.Klitt Thuritdiiy
probably (air; colder in nortb
and west portions.
General Condition*
The center of the western disturb
ance has moved nortb to .Mani
toba, Its eastern cad reaching
southeastward lato the Middle
Atluntlc States. It has caused
rain, heavy lit places, itenerally In
central and southern districts,
except along the tiulf coast aud
In Florida, and ruin, sleet nnd
anow In northern districts cast oi
the Mississippi river, except In
New Unnland, where rain has not
yet hcKuu.
It Is 2 to degrees warmer over
nearly nil the eastern half of the
country and 2 to 30 degrees colder
between the Rocky. Mountulna
and the Mississippi river.
Tempernturei R a. m., 30.
Sum Hlsea, 7i-0 a. in.; sets, 4i47
p. m.
Moon i New moon, first quarter. i
Deeemlter 31, 7i07 a. ni.
Blver Stage. 4.11 feet above low- 1
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 34.
lioweat temperature. 24.
Meun temperature. %
Normal temperature, 31.*
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SOLVING THAT ASH CAN PROBLEM
— 1 J*sr-v ~T"wowTis FULL- j p /j/
—, VcVl \ & i/M W ASUCANS SOON 7 K N \ \ \(Zu,
=; y;jf' y .
~~ ' MOTPO RECEIVED"
MANY HOUSEHOLDS ARE FOPCE-D TO H TSWWILM ENOUGH ASHCANS FOR ms TO
FIND ADDITIONAL RECEPTACLES FOR HOLD ACCUMULATIONS UNTLC THE ASH
MIR GARBAGE AND ASHES. §M T \ VAN COMES AF?ODND:'
WYQV I VES-HECCX?NERED 1. r ,4R^rA
|a WN J A VHAP^B A URi ? TT lz
W SISTE^OEwaCASE
1 '— l "ALL HAIL the king"" THE SPARE ROOM BOWL AND PITCHER
' HANDY, HOUSEHOLD ASH RECEPTACLES.
TEUTONS NEARING
GREAT RUMANIAN
| OIL STOREHOUSE
Von Mackensen Making New
; Headway in Drive on Braila
Where Grain Is Kept
OTHER ARMY IS CLOSE
jDobrudja Force Hammering at
Bridgehead Opposite; Heavy
Firing at Verdun
While the peace discussions are pro-
I ceeding, active military operations,
i except in such remote iields as those
|of Egypt and the Tigris, are being
j vigorously prosecuted oniy on the Ru
| manian front.
In this war area the latest reports
[ show Field Marshal Von Mackensen
I making new headway in his advance
; toward Uralla, the great Rumanian
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THIRTY BELIEVED
DEAD IN TORNADO
; Broken Wires Delay Full Re
port of Arkansas Dis
-1
aster;
Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 27.—Reports
I to-day from central Arkansas which
! was swept by a tornado yesterday
j show that ten persons are known to
ibe dead and that a score of others
j may have lost their lives. Of the
i known dead, five are white and five
are negroes. Wire communication
i with parts of the district swept by the
storm, has been cut off and it may be
|a day or two before the exact num-
I ber of dead is known and the property
I loss established.
Much apprehension was felt here
to-day regarding the fate of the State
convict farm nt Tucker, southeast of
here, where 325 State prisoners were
at work. The farm was believed to
have been directly In the storm's path
and as all wire connection with it was
lost when the tornado first descended,
it was feared some of the convicts
might have escaped during the confu
sion. J. It. Burkett, warden of the
State penitentiary here, is on his way
to the farm with a strong detachment
of guards.
Passengers arriving here to-day
brought further reports of the wiping
out of a negro settlement at Keo, be
tween here and Tucker with a loss of
seventeen lives. Accurate information
on the situation there, however, is
lacking.
WIFE KII.T.S HU SB AM) AS
HE SPURNS HKll XMAS GIFTS
Philadelphia. Den. 27. Mrs. Joseph
ine Richards' Christmas generosity as
expressed in gifts of shirts and under
clothing to her husband. Houston, led
her to a cell In the central station last
night, accused of his murder. During a
quarrel between the husband and wife,
based upon his objections to the cut and
fit of the clothing, she Is said to have
stabbed him with a butcher knife He
died in a patrol of the Kigth and Jef
ferson streets police station, en route
to St. Joseph's Hospital.
"HE WAS GOING TO KIM, .ME"
Pittsburgh. Pa., Dec. 27. Mrs
Elizabeth Kuhn is charged with shoot
ing her husband. James W. Kuhn, a
Pennsylvania Railroad employe, in their
home late Mondav night. According to
the police, she said:
"It was his life or mine. He hit me
with the revolver and said he was going
to kill me. Then the trigger went olt
and he fell back. Maybe I pulled It, or
maybe It was accidentally discharged. I
don't know. But he was going to kill
lue."
HARRISBURG, PA.,WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1916.
RIVALS WAITING
NEWS FROM CAUCUS
MEETINGS TODAY
After Interchange of Verbal
Shrapnel the Headquarters
Are Quiet Today
After last night's battle of the type
writers, in which statements by rival
political leaders flew across the state
and the headquarters of Richard J.
Baldwin and Edwin R. Cox, contend
ers for the speakership, had exchanged
regards, things were quiet to-day about
the political camping grounds, but the
guards were all out in the first line
trenches snd the scouts were watching
the trains and each other. More at
tention was being given to-day to the
division of the loaves and fishes in the
patronage of the House than anything
else, each side announcing it was so
sure of the result that it was wise to
get things apportioned. However, all
awaited news from Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh.
The Cox people to-day announced
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J. K. BOWMAN 50
YEARS MERCHANT
Started in as Bookkeeper; Has
Seen Business Grow With
the City
i -i
IS
HBEB " Warn
1H
JOHN K. BOWMAN
Fifty years ago yesferdav John K.
Bowman, a bank clerk, came to Har
rlsburg from Meehanicsburg. He hired
as a bookkeeper and salesman with
the late C. L, Bowman, his cousin, a
dry goods merchant, located at l>ont
and Market streets. To-day Mr. Bow
man is a member of the firm of Bow
man & Co., at 314-318 Market street,
[Continued OH Page 3]
JAP I>IJET OPENS
Tokio, Dec. 2 7.—The diet was opened
to-day by the emperor, who in his
address from the throne expressed his
gratification that the relations between
the empire and the treaty powers were
growing closer. He declared that the
alliance with Oreat Britain and the
convention with France were becom
ing stronger and called attention also
to the new convention with Russia,
which he termed a matter of con
gratulation.
ADAMSON LAW IS
TO BE IGNORED IN
MAKING PAYROLLS
Railroads Will Not Be Parlies
| to Any Action That Might
Nullify Court Proceedings
New York, Dec. 27.—Pending the
decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States on the question of the
constitutionality of the Adamson eight
hour law, the railroad managers de
clare they will not be parties to any
action that might tend to nullify or
anticipate in any way the court pro
ceedings. The railway workers of the
country are being notified that the
Adamson law will be Ignored in mak
ing up payrolls after January 1 and
"until such time as the issue is finally
determined in the courts."
The notices contain the first formal
declaration that pending the decision
of the court there would be no com
promise on hours of wages between
the railroads and the brotherhoods.
The notice posted by the New York
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CHINESE
TO U.S. SAYS KOO
I
Trust Americans and Believe
in Their Business
Integrity
The address before the Chamber of
j Commerce luncheon to-day by Dr. V.
K. Wellington Koo, the minister from
China to the United States, was one of
the ablest and most informative talks
made before the Chamber since the
luncheons first came into vogue. Dr.
Koo presented China and its commer
cial relations with the United States
in a new and clearer light.
President David K. Tracy introduced
W. T. Ilildrup, Jr., as an acquaintance
rContinued on Page 3j
Rescue Ships Are Unable
to Find Trace of Steamer
Maryland Reported Sinking
Nantucket, Mass., Dec. 27.—The
steamer Maryland, which reported bv
wireless on Christmas night that she
was sinking, had not been found to
day. The coast guard cutters Acush
net and Gresham, which had pro
ceeded from Woods Hole and Boston,
respectively, to the position approxi
mately 200 miles southeast of this
island where the Maryland sounded
her distress calls, sent word this
morning that they had found no trace
of the steamer. The cutters had
cruised in those waters for several
hours after it became known that the
vessel's wireless had been p.it out of
commission, evidently by a flood of
water which swept into the engine
room.
Baptist Minister Is Dying
After Being Shot For Burglar
St. Louis, Dec. 27.—Rev. Lot E.
Doty, a Baptist minister, is in a seri
ous condition to-day from a gunshot
wound Indicted by a patrolman who
last night mistook the clergyman for
a burglar when he was making a pur
chase in a store.
The patrolman said Dr. Doty Had
been pointed out to him as a robber
and he shot when the minister re
fused to comply with bis command to
hold up his hands. Dr. Doty waa
putting some change in his pockets
and the patrolman said he belloved
he was drawing a revolver. ,
1916 BUILDINGS
TOTAL $400,000
MORE THAN 1915
! Year Just Closing Shows Esti
mated Expenditure of $1,830,-
923 on Operations
ONLY 3 WERE GREATER
| Records For Past Ten Years
Prove Closing Twelve Months
Is One of Leaders
Building operations in Harrlsburg
during the year Just closing involved
an estimated expenditure of more than
$400,000 above the twelve-month end
ing December 31, 1915, according to
official figures now being compiled for
the annual report of the building in
spection bureau by Joseph W. Ibach,
the clerk.
All told 378 permits were issued
during this year and these represented
[Continued on Pace 31
"GLAZE STORM"
HITS THE CITY
tumbling Far From Lost Art;
Traffic Is Held
Up
The first "glaze storm" of the winter
!s here. It covered the trees, trolley
wires and pavements with ice. Toilers
, had some difficulty in getting to work
vhis morning. Tumbling was a feature
iof the day. The middle of the streets
was the safest place for walking
Itain started to fall last night and
with the temperature at 24 degrees the
pavements were soon sheets of ice
ice formed on the trolley wires and
held up traffic.
Warmer weather Is due with a prob
ability of rain to-morrow. Fair and
colder weather Is the forecast for
Thursday night. With , a continuation
or warm weather a break up of the Ice
on the river is expected. Present In
dications are that December will pass
out mildly. "
It Isn't Sleet Anymore,
Ice Storm and Glaze Instead
V ;' Sl^ nK, °, n \. V- C - Dec 27.—The
old-fashioned "sleet" is going out of
style this winter before the newer
ice storm" and "glaze," the Weather
Bureau officials reported to-day in
their campaign for more uccurate ter
minology for various kinds of frozen
rain. Sleet is officially described as
small globules of rain frozen before
striking the earth. When rain freezes
after fulling und forms a glassy cout-
Ing on the ground, trees and wires, the
condition is called a glaze, and when
this is severe and accompanied by
wind it Is reported as an Ice storm.
The Weather Bureau hopes to elimi
nate what it considers improper use of
the word "sleet," as it has caused sub
stitution of the term "tornado" for
• cyclone" when a violent storm of
small diameter Is meant.
DANISH HARK SUNK
London, Dec. 27. Lloyd's Ship
ping Agency announces that the Dan
ish bark Josan has been sunk.
CONFIRMED BY WASHINGTON
Washington, Dec. 27. Official in,
formation has been received here that
Sweden had addressed a peace note to
the belligerents and sent copies to neu
trals urging consideration of terms foi
peace.
SEE NEW ERA
IN EDUCATION
OF THIS STATE
Organization Work, Summer
School Development and Stale
Aid Are Discussed
SEEK UNIFORMITY
Urge Organization of Teachers
Specializing in Modern
Languages
Hundreds of teachers, school super
intendents and widely known speakers
from all parts of the state gathered
to-day for sessions of the sixty-seventh
meeting of the Pennsylvania State
Educational Association in the Tech
nical high school, acting on important
school problems In such a manner
that a new era In educational work
will probably be developed rapidly in
the next few years.
Extensive organization work, de
velopment of summer school courses,
State aid in public school work—every
phase of the work in the schoolroom
from the education of the small child
to the efficient high school and special
course teacher—was discussed In the
I big sectional meetings in the morning
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Barbers of City to
Observe Holiday Hours
on New Year's Day
For the first time in historv Har
risburg barbers will enjoy holidav
hours on New Year's Day. It was de
cided at a meeting of the barbers'
union at labor headquarters, 221 Mar
ket street, lust evening that New
Year's Day hours will be for all shops
from 7.30 a. m. uutil 10 a. m., the
shops to be closed the remainder of
the day and evening.
Officers were elected as follows at
the meeting last night: Charles An
derson, president: Harry Bowers, vice
president: E. L. Wagner, financial sec
retary; H. Robinson, recording secre
tary; Harry Schurtz, treasurer; A.
Mosschetti, guardian; L. Hoover,
guide, and Harry Poulson, E. E. Wag
ner and Harry Schurtz, delegates to
Central Labor Union.
1 <
> TWO KILLED FREIGHT 1
I Marietta, Dec. 27.—Nicholas Gifjc, aged 36 years, and 1
Patrick McGinnis, aged 45, were instantly killed early this 1
, morning when struck by a fast eight east bound on the I
low grade line of the Pennsylvj 1 .iiroad at Shock's <
* Mi}ls. Both bodies were found al< n : the tracks by William j
Romano,'a trackwalker.
! WHEAT JUMPS UPWARD AGAIN
' Chicago, Dec. 27.—Big export sales resulted today in a <
| Steep advance for wheat. Gains in value amounted to 61$
1 cents a bushel on some trades. "• he market closed unsetled, ,
L but to 67 8 net higher with May at 173' B to 173 and July *
K at 141 1 ; to 141S- It was estimated Europe had taken '
k 2,000,1)00 bushels or more within the last twenty-four hours.
i EX-BELGIAN MINISTER COMING
i Tiieodore Marburg, exministei to Belgium from the J
, United States, under Tait, will . ddress the Ilarisburg Cham- j
ber of Commerce next Thursday, January 4. Marburg is j
* prom nent in the League to Enforce Peace work and will ,
discuss the European peace preparations.
I
TO TAKE OVER PLANT FEBRUARY 1
> Sly announced to-da
* that chwab wiil take over the large coke plant operated by '
I the .i met Solvay Com, • Steelton,
PENNA. CO. DECLARES ANOTHER DIVIDEND |
, Philadelphia, Dec. 27. —The Pennsylvania Company, <
! which operates Pennsylvania Railroad lines west of Pit* |
l burgh, to-day declared a dividend of 4 per cent., making j
■ eight tor the year. This is <■ of : per cent, over
1915.
f VENIZELOS LETTER URGED WAR
Washington, Dec. 27. —Copie of a letter from former (
I Premier Venizelos to General Korakas, head of the Greek <
1 revolutionary movement in Athens, calling for extreme i
f
> ctfo: to -bring Greece into war on the side of the allies, ,
! even to "the destruction at the proper hour of all designated j
t persons no matter who they may be" were delivered to the
State Department to-day by Greek Charge Vouros for its ,
( information. The letter was said to have been seized in the
f gene d's house and was dated November 25. !
\ MARRIAGE
John I - rdrgrtvr, Tower City, and Martha P. Cooprr, IjkfM. I
L flU'hnril I. Hone, city, and Dorothy H. Matter. Wlconlaeo.
Walter J. Ulerer and May William*, WlconUt-o.
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Single Copy, 2 Cents
SHULER TO GET
WINDSOR'S JOB
AS BOSS SLEUTH?
Both Mayor Meals and Bureau
Superintendent Amazedly
Deny Report
| WHO'S WHO IN POLICE
Adoption of New Rules Revives
Story of Schellias and
Lowery
Adoption yesterday by City Coun
cil, of the new police rules and regu
lations revived the rumor in city circles
that important changes in the official
personnel of the police department
are to be made early in the year.
Mayor E. S. Meals, however grln
ningly denied knowledge of any
"shake up."
The re-arrangement in the person
nel, so rumor had it, is that William
L. Windsor, Jr., superintendent of tha
detective bureau is to be succeeded as
head of the detective force by George
; W. Shuler, one of the subordinates.
Furthermore Paul Schelhas, so runs
'the report, is to be relegated to uni
, form and his place as a plain clothes
man is to be taken by Patrolman
Harry Lowery, one of the mayor's
latest appointees.
To all questions on the subject
Mayor Meals turned a smiling
answer.
"That's the one pipe dream I
hadn't heard of," said he.
"The new rules as adopted finally
yesterday settle for all time the ques
tion of who's who in authority at
police headquarters its Chelf of Po
lice J. Edward Wetzel."
For some time it is said there had
been wars and rumors of wars in tha
l department's official family, informal
j rows having begun as far back as
former Chief Zeil's administration. In
I the rules that were submitted by the
mayor, the authority and responsibil
ity for the police department head is
indisputably placed with the chief.
And this, so 'tis said, isn't to Super
intendent Windsor's liklng.He seemed
as equally surprised, however, as the
mayor when the question was put to
him.
"Now wl.ere on earth did that re
port originate," said . he in amaze
i ment. "Truly I'd heard nothing of
it! Yuh understand me?"
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