12 SPENT MORE THAN $16,000,000 FOR UPBUILDING CITY Inspector Grove Reports Op erations of Eleven Years to Council NEAR 2 MILLION IN 1916 Only Three Other Years Since 1906 Out-topped Twelve Months Just Closed Harrisburg expended more than $16,000,000 116,388,441 to be ex act —in new building operations during the past eleven years. That nice round sum. by the way, ■was put into some 3,671 buildings, or at least permits for the erection of that many structures were Issued. These Interesting figures on Har risburg as a building city are contain ed in the annual report for 1916 of Building Inspector James H. Grove, which was submitted to-day to City Council. Prepared by Joseph W. Ibach, ciiief j clerk to Mr. Grove, the report as sub- i mitted to the commissioners to-day | is a gem of its kind from the briefly j typed statement of the city's activity j during the past twelve months to the big sheet of statistics that cover In , detail not only the variety, cost, ma- I terlal, etc., of every building but the detail of expenditure down to the j last cent, by months, by wards and by years from 1906 to 1916 inclusive. The Records What was expended in new build ing operations month by month dur ing the past year and year by year during the last eleven years, has been . staled in the Telegraph, although it won't be amiss, perhaps, to mention ; again that just 367 permits were : issued in the period ending December 31, 1916, involving an outlay of sl,- | 830.923. September was the record i month, just $406,075 nearly half a million, mind you was expended in that month alone. February was the short month, as $31,460 was the month's building bill. Erection of the great warehouse and freight distributing station of the Pennsylvania railroad on South Sec- ; ond street at an expenditure of close to $400,000 boosted the Second ward into first place among the thirteen j with a grand total of $445,050. The ; Tenth was second with $325,660 and ; the Ninth was third with $319,306. ] The tail-ender was the First, which only built $10,025 worth. Only Tliroc Bigger Of the nearly $2,000,000 which was expended during the past year, just: $631,825 was put into new dwellings, $992,030 In other types of new build ings. $128,440 In additions, and $78,- 628 in remodeling. Only three other years 1909 with $2,120,825. 1907 with $1,874,143. and 1906 with sl,-1 859,840 out-topped 1916. In his typed statement of the year's , operations Building Inspector Grove ! calls attention to the following big j new buildings of a business, religious, ! educational and public purposes: The New Structures Addition to the Sylvan Heights j Orphanage, St. Lawrence German Catholic church and parochial school, Messiah Lutheran, Christian Scien- J tist. and Covenant Presbyterian ! church (addition), Chisuk Emuna ! synagogue. T. J. Dunn cigar factory, j J. C. and Edwin Jennings, shirt fac- \ tory. Hershey Creamery and Penn- \ syivania Milk Products company, the j Dr. Charles C. Cocklln garage, the j Keystone bank, the D. P. and S., 1 Pennsylvania railroad, and Capital | City Junk company warehouses, the j C. Ross Boas, the J. L. L. Kuhn and j Jacob Tausig's sons, business build- ; ings. The city netted just $1,000.50 in ' fees for building permits and $115.55 | for billboard fees. Hat of Mississippi Rye Is Made For President Washington, D. C., Jan. 9. The! fuzzy old beaver hat which Abraham j Lincoln always wore and which his j admirers claimed was the most or-' iginal piece of headgear ever adopted ! by that President must now cede the palm to one which President Wilson | will wear as soon as the warm weath er arrives. It is made of rye. If the | President won't wear it it probably will be sent to some museum of j curiosities. The distinctive hat which President! Wilson has been picked out to wear' •will be constructed from the ground up of rye straw grown along the Mississippi river. In a letter to Secretary Tumulty to- j day A. J. Hibbett, of Hattiesburg, . Miss,, state that just as soon as the : straw hat season opens he is going to send the President the rye hat. "Please let me know when you put ! away your derbies and your felt 1 Kellys in Washington,"' Hibbett i wrote, "and I will send the President the most originial piece of headgear , ever seen." ICE liOlttiES IIKPOKTKD Ice gorges at Waterville, in Pine creek, in the northern part of the Mat", and at Columbia, were reported to-day. but no trouble is expected at either place. At this point, according to Forecaster E. H. Demain, the river will be free of lloating ice by nightfall. Fair weather with little change in tem erature, is predicted for to-morrow. POLICE BAI.I, FEB. 21 The annual police ball will be held this year at Winterdale hall, February 21. The committee in charge includes. Captain Joseph P. Thompson, William Baltlmser, George Wieseman, Herman Kautz. Fred Essig and Oscar Carson. The proceeds of these annual events are used for the Police Quick Charity '• Fund. GIVE GREECE 18 HOIKS Piraeus, Greece, Jan. 9.—Ministers of the entente powers to-day handed to the Greek government an ultimatum giving Greece 48 hours to comply with the demands CJ, ; 'ined in the note drawn up by France. Oreat Britain ! and Russia on December 31. MIL STARKEY CONVALESCENT W. P. Starkey, general superin tendent of the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Company, is rapidly re covering from an operation for appen dicitis. Mr. Starkey was taken sud denly ill a day or two before Christinas and an operation was at once decided to be necessary. Dr. George Kunkel was assisted by Dr. Bowman. WAITE CAN NOT COME Henry M. Waite, the city manager of Dayton, Ohio, who was Invited to address a luncheon meeting of the Chamber of Commerce regrets that it is Impossible for him to come to Har risburg at the present time. It is the hope of President Tracy that the Dayton expert may be able to come here later. TO GIVE LECTURE The Rev. Roy A. Strock, president or the Lutheran Church College in Guntur, India, will lecture in the St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Green Mid Seneca streets, this evening. TUESDAY EVENING, ' ' A ' OmCEJRS ,ENjo_YJH.a MUSKAB Qscltl-,&±£*Aez&ce. Being musically inclined by nature, the Austrians have their music at the front just as they have it at home In se?ves°vit P ha C musk-a e i & * gI "° UP ° f Austrian ° k e,s in 11 of the Galician front* enjoying Sim" "Pray For Me," Girl's Last Words; Claims She Was Forced to Suicide Baltimore, Md., Jan. 9. "Pray for me and kiss me good-by," were the last words spoken by Esther An derson, 16 years old. to her mother, shortly before she died yesterday in a hospital from the effects of poison she declared she was forced to take because of threats made by her 17- year-old sweetheart, Andrew Kuhn. He is now ill and under police guard In the same hospital In which the girl died. FIND WOMAN DEAD FOR SEVERAL DAYS IN ROOM Unable to account for the disap pearance of Martha Thomas, friends broke into her small room Sunday morning and found that she had been dead for several days. She had no relatives or close friends in the city and had rented a room at 945 North Seventh street. The body was taken to the funeral parlors of Walter J. Hooper. THREE STEAMERS SUNK London, Jan. 9. The sinking of three steamers of entente nationality, two of them vessels of more than 2.- 500 tons, is announced by Lloyd's Shipping Agency. They are the French steamer Alphonse Conseil, the Brit ish steamer Lesbian and the Japanese steamer Chinto Maru. BUILD WINTER HOUSEJ)F PETROL BOXES 'A BARRACKS OF BOXivS ' Al ' kinds a J} d varieties of houses'' and huts have been erected by soldiers on the various fronts of the Euro I pean theaters of war. but it remained for a number of inventive British "Tommies" to erect a winter home of net ml the e fron7 8 ' S Somme battieline of the boxes in which tins of petrol are carrfed to OH MAN ! ... ... ... ... ... ... ... By BRIGGS r~r — (i wouiw't C~ ' ' ' "" " ~ 1 I ** * I * You MfN HAve \ M 'SS TH-. BisoUiioiders of local ittink'.ng Inntl tulioae to-day elected the following directors; HarrisiiUFH r?atio-.iai Bank —Edward Bailey. Henry A, Kelker, Jr., Host) A. Hic.Uofc, W, I*: CJorgae, A, H. McCreath, George yi r ; Jteiiy. Thomas T. W'olrman. These dit-ector'n' will meet Tuesday, January Ih, fop arguniK&iioti, I'amji I'urtin Trust Company (KUC- Bssor tq fcisth ptrpei Bank)- falser, Dr. Ueorge 1,, Brown, Charles W. Burtneit, J, Allan Donaldson, Rob ert A. Bnders, Bertram U, Galbrulth, K. A. Hartnian, John H, Kroanier, John Lappley. Joseph I l *, Miller, Ful raei' J. Keif, Hugo Schutaenbach, W. Scott Stroll, S. W. Shoemaker, George C. Trlpner. The annual meeting of the directors will be held Tuesday, January 16. ~,,,,, Merchants National Bank —William M. Donaldson. W. L. Stoey, John I'. Dapp, P. H. Vaughn, C. W. Lynch, H. O. Miller. Lewis Dellone, L)avid li.. Tracv, William Witman. The annual election of officers will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Allison Hill Trust Company—V. J. Althouse, Hiram Blllett. D. M. Book, John J. Landls, K. M. Lebo, D. 1. Mil ler. John K. Royal. A. B. Musser-It. Frank Ober, Morris M. Strohm, \\ tl- Uam M. Hoerner. The annual election of officers will bo hold to-morrow. First National Bank—Jackson lierr ! Boyd. William S. Snyder. Jolin ox | Weiss. W. T. Hlldrup. Jr., Will am Jennings. A. C. Stamm and William I£> star key. Directors of' the East Harrisburg ! Cemetery Company were elected to day as follows: J. H. Mcllhenny t lln- I ton M. Hershey. S. S. Miller. D. H. I Swope. John J. Hargest, K. K. lrazer. I Officers —J. H. Mcllhenny. president, jJ. A. Miller, secretary-treasurer and ! manager. , . , . . G. <\ Potts was elected president ot the Farmers' Market company to suc ceed his father, M. G. Potts, who will retire from active service. Daniel M. Dull was chosen secretary and Dr. \ . Hummel Fager, treasurer. The I stockholders elected the following di- I rectors: Mr. Dull, Dr. l'aver, O. C. Potts, M. G. Potts and William lloer "Vtockholders of the Forney Broth ers Shoe Company yesterday after noon elected the following directors: James W. Miller, J. G. Felty. I'. H. Davis, J. Frank Palmer and A. c. I of the 801 l Brothers Manu facturing Company elected by the di , rectors follow: President, t harles . 801 l vice-presidents, Samuel Gardner and John P. Melick; treasurer. Wil liam A. Boll; secretary, C. Day Rudy. I These men. together with Dr. J. M. Peters, were elected directors at the meeting of the stockholders. Directors of the Mlddletown, llar ! rlsburg and Steelton Railways com pany: East Harrisburg Railways Com pany and Citizens Passenger Railways Company re-elected the following ottt cers yesterday: F. B. Musser, presi dent: B. F. Meyers, vice-president; John' O'Conncll, secretary and treasur er of all three companies. These are subsidiaries of the Harrisburß Hail ways Company. At the meeting of stockholders of the Great Southern Lumber Company vesterday. Major I-ane S. Hart this city was re-elected a director of the company. No other local men are in cluded in the board of directors. Stockholders of the Devlne and Yun gel Shoe Manufacturing Company met fate this afternoon to elect directors. Thinks Mexico May Embroil U. S. in War With European Power 1 Washington. D. C.. Jan. 9.—Possi bility that some European power might claim indemnity from Mexico for damages done its citizens there | were pictured to the Senate Military Committee to-day by Dr. David Jayne Hill, president of the American De fense Society and former ambassador ,to Germany, as one of the arguments for preparedness. "I think the possibility of such a de mand highly probable," Dr. Hill said. "We might be called upon to permit collection by that power through a fleet sent to a Mexican port, to en force collection ourselves or pay the indemnity ourselves." PAINTKR.V IMON IX) INSTAI.I, Painters' ami Decorators' Union No. 411 will meet to-morrow evening at 221 Market street. Installation ot' of ficers and other important matters wil lie taken up. JANUARY 9, 1917. JOHN E. FOX CITY SOLICITOR Ex-Scnator Elected to Fill the Vacancy Caused by Scitz Death ATTORNEY JOIN E. FOX Ex-State Senator John E. Fox, of the law firm of Fox & Geyer, was to day unanimously elected City Solicitor hy Council. He succeeds Daniel S. Seitz. John E. Fox is one of the most widely known lawyers in Pennsylvania and has for a long time been one of the leading members of the Dauphin County Bar Association, having served us its president. He has been identified with important cases, including the Capitol graft cases. He was elected state senator from Dauphin county in 1900 and served twelve years. This Is the Birthday Anniversary of— ' Hi l&Mr FRANK B. BOSCH. President of the Motor Club of Har risburg, prominently connected in contracting and business circles and generally well known citizen. Mr. Bosch's activities cover a dozen or more lines and with whatever he has been identified he has been always a dominating figure. ' Want to Know Just What Ambassador Gerard Said Washington, D. C., Jan. 9. The re port by the Overseas Agency that Am bassador Gerard at a public welcome back to Germany had said that, "Never since the beginning of the war have the relations between the I'nited States and Germany been so cordial as now," were officially inquired into by the State De i partment yesterday through a cable to the Ambassador personally. Officials, in making this announce ment, refused to add any further com ment except that they wished to know exactly what he had said. WOULD MARK CAPITOL DHV Washington, Jan. 9. The greatest crowd of recent years packed the Sen ate galleries to-day for the debate and vote on the bill to make the National Capitol dry. The first big fight was on the amendment to submit the question to the people of the District of Columbia on a referendum which is supported by the liquor interests and others. iThe line-up on that point was so close lhat while both sides claimed the votes it was apparent that neither felt se cure. RINGTOWN GIVEN ' ITS WATER PLANT ' Decision Says That Local Com pany Has Failed to Meet the Requirements 4 The Public Service Commission in an opinion filed by Commissioner James Alcorn, has granted the borough of Ringtown, Schuylkill county, a certifi cate of public convenience to construct and operate its own water plant over \ the protest of the Ringtown Spring Water Supply Company, which Is de clared In the course or the opinion to appear to be "a private and close cor poration" mainly supplying the green houses of Its residents and not to be furnishing an adequate supply to the town. "Approval of this application will not produce necessary competition between the borough and the protestant" says the opinion "as the protectant failed to provide itself with adequate facilities to supply water to the in habitants of the borough for domestic, purposes of tire protection and ac cording to the testimony could not do 30 without entirely new facilities. This opinion is not In conflict with the rul ings of this commission In the applica tion of the borough of Uatli or that of the borough of Benson." Gets Commission of $400,000 Although Big Deal Didn't Go Through Mineola, N. Y„ Jan. 9. —A $400,000 commission for obtaining a war muni tion contract calling for an expendi ture of $37,500,000 bv the Russian government was awarded by the Su preme Court to-day to Charles Fuller, a New York City lawyer. The Brad ley Construction Company was ordered to pay the commission. Russian agents entered into a con tract with the Bradley company, ac cording to the evidence whereby Rus sia was to purchase one billion cart ridges at $37.50 a thousand. For var ious reasons the arrangement did not go through. Fuller claimed he was nevertheless entitled to his fee for making the bargain and the court sus tained him. "Green Book" Shows Up Chicago Police Graft Chicago, 111., Jan. 9.—The inner most workings of an alleged police graft system are, in the belief of State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne, revealed in a little "green book" taken from Police Lieutenant Augustus White, whose ar rest with his companions was the pre lude to 'ie arrest last night of Chief of Police C. C. Healcy at the state's attorney's orders. Confessions have been obtained from some of the men now in custody. State's Attorney Hoyne announced to-day. He declined to re veal names. The. list of the alleged shady hotels, gambling houses and resorts, together with cryptic notations on the pages of the green book, were regarded to-day by the prosecutor as clearly proving allegations of wrongdoing lodged against the police. The little book enumerated places under headings "hotels," "saloons," "gambling,"' "chief's list," "can be raided," "can't be raided," "transient houses" and "disorderly houses." In front of addresses were figures, such as 40 and 150, and following ad dresses so distinguished were addi- 4 tional notes reading: "One way," "two ways" or "three ways." These nota tions were held by the state's attorney to show the amount of protection money paid by the places indicated. CCXARDKU RAMMED Compelled to Abandon Trip to United States New York, Jan. 9. The Cunard liner Laconia, scheduled lo leave Liverpool December 31, with pass engers and mail for New York, was rammed by a small mail boat just prior to her time of sailing and dam aged to such an extent that she was compelled to abandon the trip, accord ing to passengers booked for the Laconia who arrived here to-day on the American Line steamship St. Paul from Liverpool. Among the arrivals of the St. Paul was Alfred Noyes, the English poet, who has returned to the United States to resume his lectures at Princeton University. MRS. ANNA WILLS DIES Duncannon, Pa., Jan. 9. Mrs. Anna E. Wilis, widow of the late J. Y. Wills, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Wilson of Mar ket street yesterday morning, of in firmities due to age. She was aged 81 years and was one of the oldest residents of Duncannon where she lived during the greater part of her I life. Sl.o is survived by four children, I Samuel J. Wills, of South Bend, Ind.; Mrs. Lee Thompson, of Watts town, (ship; William Wills and Mrs. Harry i Wilson, of Duncannon. Funeral ser- I vices will be held at the home of her I daughter, Mrs. Harry Wilson, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. William Willis Sholl will offici ate, assisted by the Rev. Br. George H. Johnston. Burial will be made in the Lutheran Cemetery. Mil. WOODWARD HEHB James F. Woodward, who is to be chairman of the appropriation com- ' mittee of the House, was here to-day. Mr. Woodward Is on Ills way to Phila delphia to meet with Republican lead ers. He looks for most of the old members of tlie committee to be re appointed. HIHI.K STUDY FOR WOMEN Mrs. John Fulton of the Bethesda Mission, formerly the City Rescue .Mission, will conduct a Bible study for women at the Mission, 107 , /4 South Second street every Wednesday after noon at 2.30 o'clock. This will bo followed by a short social session and discussion of the work and needs of the Mission. Mrs. Fulton desires to establish a union service for women, for the purpose of giving a working knowledge of the Bible, deepening the spiritual life, and fitting them for more efficient service in their churches and elsewhere. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT Liverpool, Pa., Jan. 9. George Murray was badly wounded to-day when the gun he was carrying was discharged as he was about to enter a , boat. The shot tore his left hand and part of the discharge entered his right leg. The injured man was taken to the Harrisburg hospital. MAY ADOPT BOY Mr. and Mrs. Thompson L. Ham maker. of Millersburg, were granted permission by Judge McCarrell, to adopt Leo Franklin hiddlck, a minor child of the late Jerry I. and Joyce Llddlck. FOR THROAT AND LUNGS ITUBBOHS COUGHS AND COLDS ECKMAN'S ALTERATIVE •OLD HY ALL LEADING DKUUGI9TS