v HARRISBURG (££&> TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 303 12 PAGES CHY TO COLLECT ASHES AND MAKE REDUCTION CO. FOOT THE BILL City Health Officer Empower ed to Employ Such Men, Wagons, Etc., as May Be Necessary to Remedy the Situation DR. RITZMAN WILL LOOK AFTER "CLEAN-UP" JOB Commissioner Lynch Offers Resolution to Bring About Solution of Problem; Bud get Ordinance Passed; Calls For $755,982.25 Harrisburg to-day took initial steps toward solving the ash collection prob lem when City Council adopted reso lutions directing Br. J. M. J. .Raunick, director of the Bureau of Health and Sanitation, to proceed with the collec tions on behalf of the city. By the terms of the resolution, Br. Raunick is empowered to employ such men, wagons, etc., as may be neces sary to remedy the trouble about which thousands of Harrisburg's citizens have been complaining for several years. The city's activity on its own behalf becomes effective January 2 and the bill must be footed by the contracting company, the Pennsylvania Reduction Company, or its bondsman, the Ameri can Surety Company. Br. Kit/.man in Charge Br. Raunick. who was present when Council took this step, announced that the assistant city health officer. Dr. A. S. liitzman, will supervise this work and that all complaints, etc., should be that all complaints, etc., should be filed with Dr. Ritzman at the Bureau of Health. By special delivery letter Assistant ) City Solicitor E. Bruce Taylor last evening notified the surety company of I Council's contemplated action to-day | and another letter notifying it of the action taken to-day will so out in to day's mall. The resolutions, which, it is hoped, will bring about a solution of a nerve racking, cuss-producing problem of several years, were offered by City Commisisoner W. H. Lynch, supported by Park Commissioner E. Z. Gross. Both commissioners Cross and Corgas spoke-briefly in endorsement of the motion. The Contractor's Failure The resolution calls attention to the ! fact that the "Pennsylvania Reduction i Company, the contractor for the col- | [Continued on Page X] 8-Hour Parade Committee to Complete Plans Tonight Chief Marshal C. R. Zimmerman, of the New Year eight-hour-day parade, will meet to-night with the members of the booster committee and repre sentatives of the various organizations. In answer to a circular letter sent out early this week, several more accept ances have been received, and It Is expected there will be twelve organ izations and ten floats In lino. Two cash prizes will bo awarded. One will go to the organization or business firm having the most attract ive and appropriate float: second prlzo will go to the organization having tho largest number of men in line. Any individual or organization not entered may do so Monday morning, said the chief marshal to-night. The parade will form at 9.30 Mon day morning at Front and Kelly streets. The Judgos will review tho parade at Thirteenth and Market streets. A change was made to-day in the route and it will be as follows: Out Rctly to Third street, to Ham ilton, to Sixth, to Market, io Market Square, countermarch to Tourth. out Fourth to Mulberry street bridge, to Thirteenth, to Market and dismiss. NEW RECORD FOR CLEARINGS Philadelphia, Dec. SO. —Hank clear ings and balances In Philadelphia for 1916 set up a new record. Tho clear ing house to-day announced that the Philadelphia clearings lor the year were $13,033,317,712, as compared with $8,803,633,292 last year. The balances for 1916 were $1,327,486,740, as compared with $847,076,564 in 1915.' I THE WEATHER For llnrrlfcliurjc nml vicinity t I'nlr and continued cold 10-iilklil ami Sunday) lotvrMt temperature to ■illllit about 20 deltrreH. For KaMtern reiumy Ivinilai Fair, continued cold tu-niKh) mid Sun. days Ketille to moderate north went to uortli wind*. ltlver Tile lower portion of tho Went liruiicli nml probably tho upper portion of the main river will rise aomewhal | other Htreama of the •.vateni will full nlottlv or re* main nearly Mtaiioiniry, A atage of nhout 4.7 feet Is indicated for Harrlxburi; Sunday mornluif. The lee at ltenovo moved out at -li.HO p. in., Friday, ou aliout Met en feet of ttnleri It liiim probably gorged near l.ock Haven. Ueneral Condition* Under the Influence of marked lilirh preMMiire, fair weather lium pre vailed over nearly all the I'nited States during the last twenty four liourK, except in the (iiill nnd .South Atlantic StateM and In Southern California, where IlKlit rain* fell. There linn been a further fall of 2 to tH deicrecN In temperature In the Atlantic and Ciulf StateM mid In the Ohio Valley anil TeiuteMHCc. Temperaturei S a. na. f 2-. Sun: Hlmcm, 7:2N a. m.; Nets, 4:48 p. m. Moon i Netv moon, flrHt quarter, to-morrow, December Ul, 7:07 a. m. River stanej 4.7 feet above low water mark. Vcaterday'n Weather HlichcMt temperature, 32. l.oweNt temperature, 22. Mean temperature. 27. Normal temperature, 31. TRAINMEN BACK OF EIGHT-HOUR DAY < - I bhh J|HH||hv fflßf j , M IHH . *$U aHB GEORGE C. "BAM FORD CTi.ZmriERN AN-chief MAP. FRANK MOT^DAN- CHAIRMAN .JOSEPH 5. WAGNER 1 WILLIAM M. PETERS CLAPENCE W. MILLER WILLIAM F. DONACHY WILLIAM F. BARBOUR —Photos by Roshon. When the members of White Block Lodge No. 127, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen first discussed plans for an eight-hour day parade, as a New Year's Day feature, it was the belief that the legality of the Adamson law would be established. The parade was to have been a ratification demonstration. This being impossibl eat this time because of no decision having been handed down, Monday's parade will be a general eight-hour booster celebration. The men in charge are much en couraged over the prospects for a large tournout and will meet to-night to complete details. The men pictured above include the chief marshal, chairman and active members on the local committee. They have been working hjird. 1,700 ENTRIES RECEIVED FOR MUMMER PARADE 13 Cluhs Will Be in Line New Year's Afternoon; Marshal Issues Orders Entries for the mummers' parade on Monday afternoon at I o'clock number 13 clubs and 1,70*0 persons. In addition to this representation there will be 20 floats. No entrance fee foi individuals will be charged. The route will be as follows: Form on State street with right resting on Third, to Market, to Fourth,' to Wal nut, to Third to North, to Sixth, to Maclay, to Third, to North, to Second, to Market, where the chief marshal [Continued on Page .1] Miss Gutelius, Who Led Jail Prayer Services For Thirty Years, Is Dead Minn Ellen Gutelius, aged 70, one of tho most active charitable, reform ond religious workers in the city, died at the Harrisburg Hospital yesterday morning. She is ourvived by two sis ters. Mrs. F. A, Shaffner, of Carlisle, and Mir. L,ydia Mous, of Westminster, Md, Funeral services will be held in tho Reformed Salem Church to-mor row afternoon ut 3 o'clock, Tho Rev, Ellis N. Kremer will officiate. Tho body will be taken to Littlestown, Adams county, Monday morning by Undertaker Hoffman for burial. For many years Miss Gutelius and her sister, Jennie Gutelius, deceased, conducted a notion store at 28 North Second street. She was vcrv netive in the religious services of tho Y, W, C, A. held at the Ijauphln county Jail and had conducted prayer services there for thtry years. For about eighteen years she had conducted prayer serv ices in the wards at the Harrlsburg Hospital, Miss Gutelius was a former teacher of a large women's Bible class at the Reformed Salem Church, Up until the lust two Sundays she had not missed r, session at tho church in twelve years, Fondness For Pickled Pigs' Feet Leads to Arrest of Murderer Kansas City, Mo., Dee. 30.—Fondness for pickled pigs' feet led to the arrest in Kansas City, Kan., to-day of T. Fos ter, alias Joe Clarke, a negro, who, the police say, is wanted in McLe moresville, Tenn., in connection with the killing of another negro there. Clarke had just left a restaurant where he had consumed an extra large portion of his favorite dish when two defectives entered. "That boy can cat more pigs' feet than anyone I ever saw," said the pro prietor to the detectives. The officers remembered receiving a report a few days ago from which said that Foster's chief peculiarity was his fondness for pickled Digs' feet, and that he boasted of his arnllty to con sume more of that article of food at one meal than any negro In Tennessee. Foster's arrest Immediately followed and according to tho detectives he ad mitted the killing, pleading self defense. He said ho wi;uld ruUirn without requisition. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1916. 8-HOUR PROBLEM BACK TO TRAINMEN FOR NEXT STEP Brotherhoods Place Next Step in Controversy Before Membership New York, Dec. 30. Tho 400,000 railroad employes affiliated with the four trainmen's brotherhoods will de cide the next step which will be taken by their authorized committee which has been handling their side of the controversy over the operation of the [Continued on Pago 7] Monster New Type U-Boat Shells British Freighter New York. Dec. 30. —Tho British freight steamship Chicago City, from Bristol, England, December 11, was fired on and stopped by a German sub marine December 14 when about 120 miles off Fastnct, according to a re port of the crew on her arrival here to-day. Tho Chicago City was saved from being sunk by the timely appearance of a British destroyer attracted by the firing. Two shots were fired by the submarine, the men said. Captain Crinks stopped the vessel and the men were getting Into the lifeboats when the destroyer hove in sight. The submarine is described as being of a new type, more than 200 feet long and painted dead black. Two guns were seen mounted on her deck. It was evident she was maneuvering into a position from which to discharge a torpedo when the destroyer was seen, the crew said, and she immediately sank from sight. LETTER TO TAILOR HERE SHOWS HOW WAR-WEARY SOLDIERS ARE LOOKING TOWARD UNITED STATES How the eyes of war-weary soldleri Hre turning toward peaceful America ; | us their mecca following the gi-eat war j in Europe, how the kindly spirit of 1 Americans toward unfortunates in the war zone is appreciated by those in ; the midst of the conliict and how mid all the publications that have found their way into the trenches and be yond one soldier chanced upon the advertisement of a Harrisburg busi nessman and wrote him as a possible friend in need is shown by a letter ; received to-day by A 1 J. Simms, secre tary of the Custom Cutters' Club, of Harrisburg. The letter, which is self-. ( explanatory, follows: "Camp do Zeist. Nov. 21, 1916. "My Dear Sir: "Pardon me if I call your attention for a moment to a Belgian soldier,, prisoner interned in Holland and who j was in civilian ,a custom cutter. "Find your name and address by chance, I was so free to send you this letter with hope of good luck, that you will help me, when It Is possible, i however I are a stranger for you. "We have here'ln our prisoner life as much spare time to study, but un- • fortunately I have not the necessary means for doing It. Out of Belgium 1 < SCOURING CITY FOR NEGRO WHO ATTACKED GIRL Miss- Mildred Walker Knocked Unconscious by Intruder in Her Home Returning home last evening, Miss Mildred Walker, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson A. Walker, 1615 Regina street, was knocked un conscious by a negro when s' discov ered him on the second Iloor of her home. The negro escaped and city police to-day scoured the city to tind him. [Continued on Papre 7] Big Magazines and Periodicals Raise Prices Owing to Cost of Paper New York, Dec. 30.—Owing to the increased cost of white paper and other materials necessary to printing and art work, several magazines of national circulation announced to-day Increases in the price of subscriptions. Other periodicals have already given notice of a similar jump in price. Sev eral of the smaller magazines in New York have suspended publication and others are planning to merge with publications controlled by the same in terests. Publishers explnln that many of them have had to renew their con tracts for paper nt this time and to pay nearly .10 per cent, more than this Item has cost them in the past. The rise in subscription prices an nounced to-day ranged from 20 to 33 1-3 per cent. wo cannot get anything, the frontiers are shut since a two years, Therefore I write you to ask you to help me, as possibly, by sending some tailors' or cutters' booklets or publications, for gents or ladies, and which you don't use more; or perhaps an old cutting book, 1 should be very much obliged to you, "I hope, Mr. Simins, that you will excuse my request by considering our difficult situation, Your kindness can make possible that the sad time we must still stay here become more use ful and agreeable. "Accept, my dear sir, the expression of my respectful sentiment and before hand my best thanks. r Yours most gratefully, "Eugene Ongenaert, Soldier, "Belgiaji Interne, sth Regiment, 2d Bat., 4th Comp., "Camp do Zeiat, Holland.'' Not only will Mr. SJtnms, whose tailoring establishment is equipped with a large number of such publica tions as requested, send the desired books, but It may be that the despon dent Belgian will hold down a custom cutter's Job In Harrisburg after the war. How the man procured his ad dress Mr. Slmms does not pretend to know, unless through the advertising columns of some publication. EXPLANATION OF,- FIRST NOTE SENT TO BELLIGERENTS Not Presented Because It Was Not Influenced bv Mis- conceptions Rerlin, Dec. 29 (Via London, Dec. •10) lt has been learned that a few days ago President Wilson sent a sec ond note, explanatory of the first, to the central powers and the entente nations. This note has not been pre sented. The reason for the withholding of the second note is said to be that the German reply, received in the interim, showed tl.at the German government had not been influenced - by the mis [Continued oil Page 7] Seventeen Couples Will Start 1917 United D. Cupid had a chance to-day to welcome the dawn of the new year with a more than ordinarily broad smile if Dauphin county marriage license bureau statistics are at all significant. Seventeen couples applied for licenses. The applicants were: Oscar Marlin Bufflngton, Hummels town, and Violet Isabel Thompson, Middletown; Clarence W. Stone and Martha Anna Hurst, Bresslcr; Clyde Norman Chamberlain, Waynesboro, and Anna Katherine McKenzle, Cham bersburg; Warren O. Brossman, Sink ing Springs, and Lillie May Myers, Krltztown: Klread It. Becher, Reading, and Mary C. Jones, city; Joseph E. Hall and Hazel B. Robinson, city; Paul Revere Hollenbach and Laura Marie Moretz, Steelton; Ralph L. Taylor, De troit, and Pearl Rebecca Bogner, city; Alvin M. Campbell and Maude R. Um berger, city; Ralph P. Fox and Lucinda liowe, city; Jacob N. Pillow, Palmyra, and Mary E. Resich, Millersburg; Da vid Coleman, city, -and Mary E. Shive, Lemoyne; Clarence K. Weaver, Mount Joy, and Elizabeth B. Prosey, Salunga; Allen G. Rumberger, Fleming, and Anna M. Wilson, Sandy Ridge; Harry L. Novingcr, Upper Paxton, and Lulu H. Reigle, Washington township; Pres ton Crowell. Jr., and Alice Stevens, city, and Walter Scott Coble. Worm leysburg, and Winifred M. Swalls, city. PAPERS HUSK THICKS Kven Wffklj Piilillcntlonn Kind It Nec etiNnry to IncrriiMe ItrvrllUP Ilraddock, Pa., Dee. 30, The Brad dock Dally News-Herald announced tlmt after January 1 the price of single copies of the paper, will be advanced to two cents on account of the Increase In cost of materials, Carlisle, Pa., Dec, 30, . The first Cumberland county newspaper to an nounce an advance In rates, following the soaring prices of news print paper, was the recently consolidated Newvllle Times-Star, a weekly, which will after January 1 bo $J.25 a year in the county and $1.50 outside. Other newspapers, both daily and weekly, are expected to announce advances. Allentown, Pa., Deo, 80. On ac count of the exorbitant price of white paper the Lehigh Register, a weekly, founded seventy years ago, which for a generation lias been owned by tbo Allentown Chronicle and News, sus pended publication with this week's is sue. Pennsburg, I'a., Dec. 30. ln yester day's issue of Town and Country, Pennsburg's weekly newspaper, the publisher. Dr. Charles Q. Hillegas, an nounces tliat the subscription price has been raised from $1.50 a year to $2, ALLIES FIGHT STUBBORNLY AS THEY FALL BACK Heavy Rear Guard Actions as Invaders Press Ahead in Rumania TAKE MORE PRISONERS In Engagement Along Molda vian Frontier Guns Are Captured, Too The Russians and Rumanians are fish ting a heavy rear gruard action as they retire toward the line of the Serth in the Northeastern Wallaeliia and Southern Moldavia. To-day's German army headquar ters report shows steady progress for Held Marshal Von Maekensen's ar mies along the entire front between the Rumanian Carpathians and the Danube, despite the strong resistance they are encountering. At the same [Continued on Page 7] Drunken Farm Hand Kills Young Girl While Asleep Camden, N. J.. Bee. 30.—Mary Sea man, 14-year-old daughter of John J. Seaman, a farmer, living near Glen loch, N. J., fourteen miles from Cam den, was shot and killed while in bed early to-day, according to the police, by Thomas Conway, 32 years old, a farm hand employed by Seaman. After shooting the girl Conway at tempted to cut his throat and then shot himself in the breast. He was taken, seriously injured, to a hospital here. The coroner attemnted to question Conway, but all that could be learned from him was that he had been drink ing and that when he tried to commit suicide he "lost his nerve." Diaz Filibusters Are Reported Across Border Washington, B. C., Dec. 30.—Major- General Funston, commanding the American forces on the Mexican bor der, advised the War Department to day that he had been unable to sub stnntiate rumors that a Felix Biax filibustering party had crossed into Mexico from the United States. BANK CLEARINGS TOTAL NEARLY $100,000,000 | Harrisbur •. Bank figures for the year showing the m amount of business handled by the Harrisburg Clearing House, wen c >mplete late this afternoon. They show big M&j increases over last year. The total for the year was $99,- j 946,157.05. December business amounted to $9,607,904.15. M J| Business daring 1915, totaled $87,767,765.04, making an in- ;j\ jl crease fc sl2 7- 392.01. j ( Berlin, Wednesday, Dec. 27,' via London, Dec. 30. < ' i Germany ha cided to r< lease, for internment in Switzer- I ' land, 100 ] of war; fathers of three or more J 1 ! children and inmates of German prison camps for eighteen i 'JM months. This step will be extended, it is slated, shoul a f France di disposition to reciprocate. I plans for £ ! the 200 Americans interned for months in Syria and Pales-, Si tine made by the State Department to-day and communi- J cated to Ambassador Elkus at Constantinople, provide for sending the cruiser Des Moines from Alexandria/ Egypt, to l; 5j t Beirut as soon as the refugees are brought from Jaffa. j SEVEN OF AIRPLANE SQUADRON LAND a * Philadel[ ■ :ia. Dec. 30. —Seven cf the fourteen airplanes , ' v that left ' ed, N. Y., and Governor's Island, N. Y., J MM > in a flight to this city, landed at the Philadelphia navy yard | 1 in two hours ar leaving the tarting point. It was one of j L ► the coldei tdys of the present winter and the aviators an J I ' : their passen were stiff from the cold and were 'covered ; |'J | with aithin casing of ice. The flight of the airplanes, ore ' | ,'j| . of the g-c. : that hak been attempted in this country, ' |*|l v * I number of machines and distance considered, was under- i j a taken for the double purpose of competing for government air lines and test stabilizers and other devices, f RAILROAD STRIKE IMPROBABLE MONDAY J i Cleveland. 0., Dec. 30.—Warren .S. Stone and W. G. r v " :J Lee, heads of the railway engineers and railway trainmen* 1 I|| ' brotherhoods, respectively, arrived in Cleveland to-day I * J following the icjection pf the demand by the manager; j < committee that the Adams o-n law be placed in effect Janvi- J r ary 1. "It is highly improbable that there will be a strike j —Morni.r. ■" tn. > .lid, J I .' 1 Single Copy, 2 Cents POSTSCRIPT PLAN COMMUNITY CLUB TO LIFT UP FOREIGN SECTION Public Spirited Group of Men and Women Will Open Recreation Center |TO ASSIST CHILDREN Child Marriage and Youthful Drunkenness Common in Seventh Ward Organization of the Penn Commun ity Club to improve conditions in the foreign district in Seventh street and vicinity, is being completed by a num ber of residents of the city who for months have been contemplating plans to open rooms for reading and recrea tion for the boys and girls In that distinct. Within a few weeks the house at 1121 N <rth Seventh street will lie opened for this purpose. Special com mittees are at work arranging for im provements and renovations. One of the leaders interested in the work has made the following explanation of the plan for the Telegraph: "For a long time there has been in the minds of two or three persons, who are thoroughly acquainted with the condition of the foreign element of our city in the region of Seventh street, a vision of a work that might be-done to hol]> the children of this commun ity to grow up into a useful and high type of citizen for our city, our State, our country. "Much has been done in an indi vidual way for'these people but the need is of a concerted effort for the uplift and training of these citizens in i embryo. Need First Shown "This need was! brought before an I assembly of ladies some time ago by i one who is personally interested in \ these people and who knows much of j their surroundings and needs. The [Continued on Pane 3] AVAHNS OF KISS AS OHII AGENT Chester, Pa., Dec. 30. ln n state ment to the publics, ii. P. Wright, di rector of public safety, warns against kissing until the present epidemic of grip and pneumonia is over.
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