* Organized Labor and Mummers Celebrate hew W' ■ HARRISBURG Sfilliii TELEGRAPH LXXXVI— Xo. 1 12 PAGES MUMMERS AND LABOR ORGANIZATIONS NEW YEAR PARADES TEE! HEE! DID YOU SEE "THEM FUNNY MENS?" Thousands Cheer, Yell, Hoot, Weep and Laugh; Some Circus, Eh! NO DIGNITY? THE IDEA! Dind't You Pipe the Plug Hats That Led Off Greatest Mummer Parade Ever "Crazy Komic Klowns, hoboes, hand- j somely decorated floats, gaily dressed members of many big organizations.' s Uncle Sam. the "coon and the donkey," 1 3 a miniature fire department, a few! j comic bands, and an endless variety of | other costumes, worn by hundreds of v hilarious mummers, made the big pa- j c rade this afternoon the best Harris- j j burg has had in recent years. ! £ As division after division rolled by t under the clouded skies thousands of 1 people lining the streets cheered, j yelled, hooted and laughed until they ' < cried, and then cried, at the antics of i the participants and the make-ups of ' the jokesters. 1 ] The "Circus" < Not nearly enough can possibly be t written In a mere newspaper about 1 the turn-out ot the South Harrisburg t Amusement Association, the West End display, the Moorhead Knitting Com-. ] pany's elaborate feature, the Barnum t and Bailey, Jr., circus. It's a cinchi] the judges will heave a sigh of relief i when the prizes have been finally < awarded. 1 < But something surely must be said < about the "circus." : i From some warm place near the j kitchen stove the family "tabby" was given a whole lot of publicity. It's all t very nice—if you're the family oat —4-4 to be bragged about among the neigh-. I bors, to be petted and pampered and i allowed to have your own sweet say as to whether or not a mouse be per mitted in the house. It's quite an other thing to be placed in a wire netting cage, mounted on an express wagon, and hauled over the streets while thousands of folks grin appreci- : atively at the card on the side of said express announcing that one is "Our Wild-cat." It's enough to make the meekest pussy in the world wild: "Wild!"' No Wonder That ones friend, the house dog. fills a similarly doleful Job In the follow ing express wagon labeled broadcast as "Our .T doesn't help the mat ter. i The rv from the neighbor's | yard dldi .11 to mind a bit. how ever, that is styled "Our Ostrich" and prob ne caged quietest "ex hibit" of "—Ms the "great American bat. QI That wi a brick sus pended by' from a. cross-bar of the cage The "Ca 1 . And the Quakers Lots could be written about the "polar bear"—the more or less soiled Teddy-bear that stood straight up In! his wagon; the pair of human mon keys who gamboled about in their fur suits and surreptitiously chewed to bacco behind the bars the "calliope" that wound up the procession. Be cause an old steam boiler was pressed into service and the music was fur nished by the "operator" who pro duced results with an accordion didn't alter the effectiveness of the exhibit. Then there was tbvblj turn-out of : the Moorhead folks—ffretty girls and rather good-looking youths—some of 'em, that is—in Quaker costumes. But wl.at's the use? This is the space limit. Dignity? My, Yes ! Of course, the dignity pi I of the [Cootinned on l'a™c J] SWITZERLAND FIRM Geneva, via Paris. Jan. I.—Presi dent Schulthess. of Switzerland, sends a message for 1917 to the American people through the Associated Press, declaring that nation will remain ab- i solutely neutral. NEW YEAH QUIET IX LONDON" London, Jan./ I.—The third New ! Year's eve of the war was extremely quiet in the British capital. The din- j ner tables in the restaurants were well , filled, largely by soldiers, but all the establishments closed at 11 and few persons lingered In the streets or-else- ! where to watch the death of 1916. THE WEATHER] i——______ Vr Hnrrtbarg and vlrlaltyi Warmer <-da>, nlth probably anon or rata: rain or anon and warmer weather to-day and to morrow. ('•mailt for the Week For Citt ern Peaaaylvanta and New Jer sey i told weather beginning oi the week, followed by rUlnit tem perature by Tuesday and moder ate temperatare thereafter to the clone of the week. Kxrept rain or naow Wednesday or Tharaday the week will he generally fair. Note—l esral holiday.. Xo bulletin* on river condition* or weather In •ther parta of I nlted Mateo. iam Rlaea. 7:2S a. M.i aeta, 4it ttooni Fall mooa, Jannary 8 ,2.46 a. m. River Stage t 4.T feet helow low water mark. Yeaterday'a Weather Htjxheat temperatare. SO. I.oweat temperatare. IH. Mean temperatare. 24. Normal temperatare, 3®. LABOR OBSERVES DAY WITH 8-HOUR DEMONSTRATION Miniature Engine, Coal Car and Cab Driven by Brother hood Men UNIONS AREIREPRESENTED Trainmen Turn Out in Overalls t and Work Caps; Weather Makes Start Late Inclement weather interferred this' morning with the eight-hour parade, I kept away some of the men and caused | a slight delay in the start. More than J 300 labor organization men of the city, i however, were in line with two bands, decorated floats and uutomobiles. C. K. Zimmerman, chief marshal, I with his corps of aids and a platoon of police were in the lead, followed by a band; White Block Lodge, No. 127, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, i and Division 709. Almagated Asso-, trlation Street and Electric Railway' Employes. In the second division was another 1 band, representatives of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine-1 men. No. 752, Bricklayer's Union, No. i 71. Plumbers and Steamtltters A. U. ' Local. No. 5 20. Carpenters and Ma chinists. Small representations from other organizations were in line also, but marched with the larger delega tions. The parade formed at Second and Reilv streets, proceeding east in Reily to Third, to Hamilton, to Sixth, to Market, to Market Square, counter marching in Market, to Mulberry street, to Thirteenth, to Market to : Cameron street, where the men were dismissed. Prizewinners are to be an nounced late to-day. LITTLE DOING IN CAPITOL ! Washington. D. C., Jan. I. t-HnMlon tf Sew Year's Day In Wash-1 : ington was without many of the official features which have marked the ad , vent of the new year in the past. President Wilson held no New YeaT reception, a custom he omitted when ' he came in office, and Secretary Lan- j sing did not give the customary diplo- | matic breakfast. Secretary Baker, of i the War Department, and Secretary Daniels, of the Navy, however, held j receptions. Cablegrams from prac tically all rulers of the world, wish- 1 ing the President a happy New Year, arrived at the White House. They came front the heads of belligerent and neutral nations of Europe as well as from the presidents of South and ! Central American republics. CROWDS AT PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia, Jan. 1. The New Year shooters' parade, the big feature jof Philadelphia's observance of the j coming of 1917, was witnessed to-day ' by dense crowds that were packed into Broad street, over which the fantastic procession wended its way. Great French General, Retired, Re-enlists as Artillery Private Perpignan. "ranee, Jan. 1. 4.35 A. M. —General Gerard Amanrlch, com mander of the Legion of Honor, who had retired from the service, has joined the army as a private in an ar tillery regiment. General Amanrlch Is 65 years old and is now at the regi mental depot at Versailles. Two Inaugurations For Governor in Arizona Phoenix. Ariz.. Jan. 1. Rumors that an attempt would be made to prevent the governor-elect from en , tering the State House drew a large crowd to the grounds of the State cap itol here to-day ready for the cere mony Inaugurating a Governor of Arizona. Two men. Thomas E. Cainp ; bell. Republican, Governor-elect, and Governor G. W. P. Hunt, incumbent, j claim the office. Adherents of each i maintained there would be a double in -1 auguration. The ceremonies were set j for 10 o'clock. The statement administration leaders would make was that Governor Hunt had been elected and would hold the |%lflce. The Campbell managers declared Campbell having been duly declared ; elected and being in receipt of a certi ficate to that effect would take over the otflce "or know the reason why." Campbell has been officially de clared elected by the State canvassing board and given a plurality of thirty votes over Hunt. Certificate was is . sued December 21, by Secretary of j State Osborne. I Hunt is contesting the election on i grounds of alleged fraudulent voting in several precincts. The courts are in specting the ballots as preliminary to a formal contest. Hunt asserts that the inspection so far bears out his con tention. although it is not a recount. On this basis he refuses to give up the office. SOUTH CAROLINA'S NEW CHILD LABOR LAW EFFECTIVE Columbia. S. C., Jan. 1. South Carolina's new child labor law pro hibiting the employment of children under 14 years of age In the textile establishments went Into effect to-day and employment of about 2.400 chil dren automatically ceased, according to figures of the Btate Department of Agriculture. The old law made the minimum age j limit for employment 12 years. CUTTER BLOWN UP London, Jan. 1. —The cutter Pro tector has been blown up. The njm ber of men lost Is unknown. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1917 NICE BIRDIE—NICE BIRDIE J BOTH COX AND BALDWIN CLAIM VICTORY WON Contest Closing With Inter i changes of Vitriolic State ments WILLIAMS STILL IN RACE General Belief Fight Will Xot Go Outside of Party Lines The contest for the speakership of the lower house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly of 1917, which car- I ries with it control of the trend of the | legislation for the session and will 1 have a far-reaching effect upon the gubernatorial campaign of 1918, is closing with interchanges of vitriolic i statements and conflicting claims. The Republican and Democratic caucus meetings will be held to-night, and while no one would make predictions, there was general belief that the con test would not go out of partv lines. Briefly summarized, the " situation early this afternoon was that adher i ents of Richard J. Baldwin. Delaware, and Edwin R. Cox, Philadelphia, the | leading rivals for the Republican speakership honors, both claimed [ enough to win. but the Baldwin people [Continued on Pace 10] LILAC PAJAMA GIRL'S MURDERER WORE SILK SHIRT Score of Detectives Seeking Its Owner to Solve Brutal Slayer Philadelphia, Jan. 1. Although a score of detectives are working 1 on the mystery Surrounding the murder of Grace Roberts, a young artist's j model, known as the "lilac pajama girl," in her apartments here Satur day, no definite clue leading to the identity of her slayer had been found up to an early hour to-day. The-girl's body was found late Saturday night by a janitor at the apartment house 1 where she lived. She had been brutally beaten, her skull crushed, ap parently with an electric flatiron and a silk stocking was tied tightly about her neck. Despite the fact that there were many evidences of a desperate strug gle in the girl's room, other occu pants of the apartment house declared [Continued on Page ll] Further Peace Negotiations Are Considered Doubtful Washington, Jan. 1. The reply of the entente allies to Germany's peace proposals had not been for warded to-day and the indications were that it would not be sent on be fore to-morrow at the earliest. There is no Intention to dejay it be- I yond the time necessary to make cer tain that a complete and accurate copy Is being forwarded to all the cen tral belligerents. The peace situation outwardly remained uncharged with the probabilities that there would be i no further move by the United States' at least until the entente governments have replied to President Wilson's i note. The hope that the entente reply to the German proposals had not closed the door on further negotiations were undiminished but the German embas sy's attitude that they had been made doubtful by the reply was reflected generally. Although It was said some time ago that Germany would not permit a con ference to be blocked by a demand for terms the German diplomats feel that the tone of the entente reply makes an approach to terms very difficult. The hope for progress toward peace negotiations now has turned to the replies to the President's note. FEDERAL CENSUS GIVES THIS CITY 72,015 ON JULY 1 Increase of 7,829 During Last Six Years U. S. Bureau Figures Show STATE'S TOTAL 8,522,017 Nearly All Third Class Cities Throughout Penna. Make Good Gains I Figures compiled by the Census Bureau at Washington, L>. C\, gives ! Harrisburg an increase in population in six years of 7,829. The census of j 1910, gave the total population of this : city as 64,186. Figures secured from ■ the chief towns and boroughs in Penn sylvania up to July 1, estimates this city's population as 72,015. The total population of Pennsyt * [Continued on Page 3] SCHOOLS OPEN TO-MORROW Harrisburg's 12,000 school children will get back to work to-morrow after the annual Christmas vacation of ten days. The next vacation to be granted the pupils will be Washington's Birth day. POLICE CHIEF RAILS AT FLYING-PASTING PLASTERED Somewhere in Philadelphia a flying pasting corps of a Quaker City bill posting company can well chuckle with safety and satisfaction at the way they got out of Pennsylvania's Capital City during the police department's "dog watch" yesterday morning. They—the members of the flying pasting corps, that is—are the fel lows who decorated trees and tele graph poles and even the swinging wires across Market street with sug gestions as the advisability of casting legislative votes for Mr. Cox for Bishop Darlington Writes Prayer to Be Offered During Assembly Session The Rt. Rev. James H. Darlington, bishop of the Harrisburg Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in a commuhication to the clergy of the diocese has included a prayer for Gov ernor Brumbaugh, the legislators and all other officials, with the request to the ministers that it be used as often as convenient during the session of the legislature. The text of the prayer follows: "O God. the Fountain of Wisdom, Whose will is the law of happiness for ctates as for individuals: we beg Thy guidance and blessing for the governor and the legislative assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and all those in positions of official trust: grant that personal responsibility to God and man may be recognized by all, that truth and justice may rule in the deliberations of our senators and representatives: that their decisions may promote Thy glory and the gen eral welfare of our citizens both in body and soul; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord. Amen." TAX ON" CATSUP USERS Boston, Mass., Jan. I.—Another Item is to be added to the high cost of liv ing. Beginning to-day, a charge of 10 cents Is to be made by Boston's leading restaurants when patrons use catsup. Restaurateurs say they are hard hit by the upward trend of food prices and must retrench on the catsup. CHAMPION LIFTER DEAD Cincinnati, Ohio. Jan. I. Henry Holt Grewe. who several years ago was reputed to be the champion heavy weight lifter of the world, died here to-day. Holt Grewe had a nation wide reputation of having met nearly all of the heavy weight lifters in the country and having emerged from each test of strength undefeated. 1 COUNTY READILY BREAKS RECORDS IN YEAR GONE BY Dauphin Boards and Offices Show Results of Application of Efficiency Methods LENTZ IS A LEADER Poor Board Follows Suit; Few Changes in Office Personnel; Reorganizations Both county find city at noon began the new fiscal year of 1917 and while the day was observed generally as a holiday in the county and municipal offices the official departmental heads and boards met long enough to re organize or transact such other busi ness as pertained to opening the books for n new twelvemonth. With the exception of a couple of clerical dismissals by County Recorder James E. Lentz and the rearrange ment of the county physicians staff by the Poor Board, the dawn of the new year brought practically no change in the personnel of any of the offices. County Records Broken In all the county offices new records were established for amount of busi ness transacted. County Recorder Lentz whacked all [Continued on Page 2} speaker and the feasibility of not dropping in a ballot for Mr. Baldwin for the same Job. In scarlet and white and black and blue and letters blaeed their messages —lurid tips something like this: "How can anyone vote for Baldwin and then face his own flesh and blood V" Ugh! All sorts of gruesome sug gestions like that stared the plodding churchbound Harrisburger in the [Continued on Page 10] | Shorter Day For Many Who Work in Big Dept. Stores of Harrisburg J The Dives, Ponieroy and Stewart, | Bowman and Company and Kaufman Underselling department stores to-day announced as a New Year's greeting to I their hundreds of employes that be ginning to-morrow morning the stores , will not open until 8:30 o'clock, lieie , tofcre the opening hour has been 8 i*'clock. The hours in force under the change will be 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. n>. during five days of the week and 8:30 a. m. to 9 p. m. on Saturdays. I The managements of the various | stores said the action had been taken I in accord with the trend of the times toward a shorter working day and in order to give better service to then patrons through the medium of an ; active, efficient and contented working ; force. THI.\K 1017 WILI, K.\D WAR | With the British armies In France, [Via London, Jan. 1. —The arrival of 1917 was welcomed on the Western front by the British and French soldiers as a beginning of the end of the great world war. There may be varying views and theories as to how the end is to be brought about, but there is no ques tion that throughout the British army there Is a conviction that the next twelve months will brlhg a victorious peace for the allies. Opinion among th British and Krench fighters as to how the war will end Is divided Into two schools. One believe* that Germany will be willing to grant extreme con cesions and the other that only mili tary pressure will bring them the fruits of victory. Both schools are, however, agreed that this Is the decisive year. WISHES JUDGE HAPPY NEW YEAR; GETS SIX MONTHS New York Jan. I.—William New comb, of 9 Mulberry Btreet, wished Magistrate McQuade a happy New Year to-day and was sentenced to six months In the Workhouse In reply. Newcomb was arrested for begglnfc. 46 WOMEN BURN TO DEATH WITH NO ON St. Ferdinand de Halifax Insane Hospital, Megantic Coanty, Quebec, Destroyed; Scenes of Horror as Female Idiots Try to Escape; Leap From High Win dows; Crouch in Terror Until Flames Caught Them SISTER DIES ATTEMPTING TO RESCUE SEVERAL OF HER UNFORTUNATE CHARGES I : Mercury Registers Twenty Below and Suffering of Home less Is Intense; Old Building in Remote District and Not a Single Man Reaches Place Until All Have Perished; Thirty in Girls' School and 135 Inmates Are Saved; Property Loss SIOO,OOO Montreal, Jan. I.—Forty-six women were burned to death in a fire that destroyed St. Ferdinand de Halifax Asylum at St. Ferdinand de Halifax, Megantic county, Quebec, late Saturday night. Patients of the asylum, of whom i there were 180, were nil women. St. Ferdinand de Halifax is in an i almost inaccessible section of the ! province and communications on Sun- i day are poor. Meager reports ob tained from available sources give no ! intimation of the cause of the fire.! which started while the inmates were i asleep and apparently spread rapidly. I The asylum which cared for ISO! female idiots, virtually was without! protection from fire, being remotely j located from any large towns, j Reports received here described the' :; ENY IjjS \ " EMBERS J* OF HE I | FOR BALD- 9 WIN. 14; FOR COX, 6; N 3 ABSENT, 2. 1 ( MUMMER PARADE PRIZES i Harris, 560 J Race street, <, ' First prue, in comic dress, Albert Sheaffer, Riverside j Drive, dressed to imitate an Old Erin immigrant. i \ CAMPBELL TAKES OATH: NO DISTUBANCE • \'*M Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. I.—Thot ell, Republi- : j to-day. There * ' were no inaugural ceremonies for Governor G. W. P. Hunt, ! ! incumbent, wh< Governor y i <und thtetn • j C 1 rounds 1 | There was no rious disturbances. . a LANCASTER FOR HESS i i - • ' Harrisburg.—Lancaster county will vote for Hess in the speak uisus to-night, it ■ well- ' , > A t I > known Lancaster county leader this afternoon. ' ANOTHER U-BOAT VICTIM i , J London, Jan. I.—Lloyd's reports the sinking of the < 1 Russian steams! Ip Tuskar, 3,043 ton 1 ross by a German ; 1 • ere drowned. j1 Vlf LA FORCES DMI'I'.ATED j M . Juarez, Mex.. Jan. I.—C met and defeat- £. Ed a Villa cor,. Dat Bu-:tiros, ires west of Chi- f. 1 huahua City on '.he Mexican northwestern railroad. j I ' ) VERM Ok OW N , ' j Harrisburg -Ex-G< ided John T. j i ' -sburg Club to day ai. L } About 150 Cox - * ed a parade this afternoon and arched about the center of the city, carry- , * ing banners an American flags. They were headed by a band and attracted considerable attention. Rjw > ! 1 — ; i i * | ; Single Copy, 2 Cents POSTSCRIPT I scenes attending the (Ire as horrify- I ins. The inmates of the asylum were 1 uncontrollable and many of them were | said to have leaped from high win i dows. Cithers In bewilderment ; crouched in terror near the windows j until the flames caught them. I One of the sisters met death in an | effort to rescue several of the unfor itunate girls who were trapped by the i flames. < Water Frozen Owing to the intensely cold weather, [Continued on Page 3]
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