223 RECRUITS
FROM HERE IN
LAST TEN DAYS
Nearly Equal to Total Enlisted
in 1916; Breaking
Records
Captain William F. Harrell, of the
local recruiting station this morning
declared that despite the large num
ber of recruits making application for
enlistment tho American people In
general do not seem to realize that the
nation Is really at war and that a for
mal declaration of war has been is
sued. Many recruits from the outly
ing districts do not seem to be able
to grasp tho fact that they may be
needed for real action, although with
some of them that Is tho chief at
traction, "Tho average man will
rather aeo active service that to be
held at a station in time of peace,"
Captain Harrell says.
Acting upon the authority of the
War Department colored applicants
can now bo accepted for original as
signment to the infantry or cavalry.
The requirements have been made
easier and men who can neither read
nor write will bo accepted provided
they can speak the English language.
223 Tills Month
In a report made this morning to
the War Department for the first ten
days of April, Captain Harrell was
able to report a total of 223 enlist
ments. For a corresponding period in
February onlv 36 men were enlisted
from this station. This total for April
almost equals the entire number of
men enlisted during 1910.
Quartermaster Quirk of the
recruiting station this morning left on
a trip through the Cumberland Valley
to Interest young men In the advant
ages of the navy. During his absence
the local station will be in charge of
Charles Rife of the naval reserves who
came hero this morning. He was ac
companied by two Jackies on a leave
of absence from their ships stationed
in Hampton Roads, near Norfolk.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING,
ACTION ON WAR
FUND DELAYED
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board, that tho Auditor General as a
member would be placed In the posi
tion of being required to pass as au
ditor on the correctness of his own
expenditures, which the Governor
said lie believed to be Irregular
not In conformity with good business
principles.
Tho Qovernor In his message cites
numerous Instances, Including those
of tho Civil War, In which similar
funds were placed solely at the dis
posal of governors. Other States, he
points out, are even now doing this.
A bonded Indebtedness will be re
quired to raise the money proposed,
tho Qovernor says.
Gives Hl* Heaxon*
The Governor sets forth his con
clusions as follows:
"Under these circumstances. In order
that there shall be no further delay In
placing Pennsylvania solidly and pa
triotically In line with the National
government in defense of our national
honor and li) protection of our people
and industries, I hereby express my
wilingness. if in Jour judgment you
so consider it wise, to have a similar
board, made up of the Governor, the
lieutenant Governor and the State
Treasurer, all of whom are State-wide
elective officers, to act as a disburs
ing body as provided in the proposed
loan bill. The other surviving State
wide elective officer, namely, the Audi
tor General, Is not included in this
list for the very important and neces
sary reason that it Is incompatible
with good public administration to
have any official expend money and
subsequently audit his own expendi
tures. The law places upon the Audi
tor General the important and neces
sary obligation of auditing all expendi
tures made under these or other Acts
of Assembly in which money is ap
propriated for any purpose whatever,
and for that reason it is not deemed
wise that he should be included in the
Board which will expend the money
but that he shall be left free to be the
auditor of the expenditures of the other
officials herein indicate*!."
Message Debated
Debate on the motion to submit the
message to the appropriations com
mittee brought out expressions of pa
triotism from Senator Jenkins, Sena
tor Eyre and Senator Vare. The mo
tion of Senator Eyre referred to the
message as a lecture to the Senate.
This brought Senator Jenkins to his
feet with the assertion that the time
for a message from the Governor was
ripe; that Pennsylvania should take
her place at the front of States In the
war movement.
"The people of Pennsylvania want
the Legislature to act," said the Ger
mantown senator, "and why should
we delay action. lam opposed to the
disposition of the message as provided
by the motion of the senator from
Chester. lam no new convert to pre
paredness and upon the sinking of the
•Lusitanla urged legislation to that
end."
Senator Vare believed, in the ab
sence of senators who had already
started home it would be best to re
fer the message to committee. He re
cited the action of his brother in join
ing with Democrats in the enactment
of war measures in Congress. He re
pudiated the language of Senator Eyre
in referring to the message.
Replying, Senator, Eyre said that
he stood second to no man in his
loyalty to the State and nation and
would not play second fiddle in the
movement of preparedness, being will
ing to vote for $200,000,000 as Penn
sylvania's share toward the prosecu
tion of the war with Germany. Sena
tor Jenkins retorted with tho remark
that the Pennsylvania Snate wasn't
going to be a war orchestra, it was
going into the war movement to the
music of drums.
Senator Eyre went on to say that
he was not a Penrose-McNichol sena
tor nor a Brumbaugh-Vare man. He
represented the Nineteenth district
and was in the Senate for the pur
pose of serving the best interests of
the State.
The motion to commit the message
to the committee prevailed and it is
"expected action will follow at the
Senate session next week. . The Sen
ate adjourned until Monday at 9
o'clock.
PROMPT ACTION
IS EXPECTED
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mittee with prospects of prompt action
by Congress.
The bill also contains a provision
giving the Secretary of the Treasury
authority to issue, as needed, $2,000,-
000.000 in one-year treasury notes to
anticipate the tax receipts which will
result from the war revenue bill. The
provision was put in so as to prevent
any possible handicap to the nation's
military needs through delay in rais
ing the $1,750,000,000 proposed as the
amount to be raised by taxation.
Scheduled For Friday
Chairman Kitchln, introducing and
reporting the bill to the House, an
nounced that it would be called up
Friday for action.
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New York Central tracks in the upper
part of the city. Fueratein is said to
have been a peddler, and was shot after
his failure to obey the Guardsman's
command to movo away from the
tracks.
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GERMAN PLOT IS
SEEN IN BLAST
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lng, from the explosions yesterday at
the shrapnel-loading plant of the Ed
dystono Ammunition Corporation at
North Eddystone, near Chester, place
the number of dead at 12", the majority
girls and young women. Between 125
and 150 men, women and girls were In
jured, at least ten being so burned
and torn by shrapnel fragments that
death was momentarily expected.
Twenty-three others employed in the
structure which was blown to splin
ters are missing.
Although police and company officials
worked through the night attempting
to establish Identities of the dead they
were hampered by the condition of the
bodies and the fact that the time book,
recording all employed in tho structure,
was destroyed by the first blast of the
explosion. Some of the victims, com
pany officials believe, were blown into
the Delaware river, so that an exact
calculation of the death list may never
be possible.
The energies of investigators to-day
concentrated on sifting the narratives
of survivors. Four separate investiga
tions were begun: Federal, State an<F
municipal .and an inquiry by company
officials. The entire force of special
agents of the Department of Justice's
Bureau of Investigation in Philadel
phia was assigned to running out a
maze of leads, many of which were ad
mitted to bo based mostly on rumor
but from which Information of Impor
tance might be developed.
Captain Walter Wllhelm, general
manager and vice-president of the mu
nition company, started a separate in
quiry, while police of Philadelphia and
Chester Investigated several angles of
the disaster. The Stpte investigation is
in charge of Iew palmer, chief of the
Bureau of Inspection of the State De
partment of assisted by a corps
of inspectors.
Gangs of laborers, guarded by pick
ets, worked until an early hour to-day
clearing away the wreckage of tlio "F"
building. Work was resumed as usual
to-day in all departments except the
box, loading and shell base depart
ments, which were housed in the ruin
ed building. The plant will be in com
plete operation on April 24, it was an
nounced.
When the extent of the disaster was
realized, Chester citizens immediately
began raising a subscription fugd for
the Injured and their families. Five
thousand dollars was subscribed in a
few hours, and measures were adopted
to increase this amount. Officials of
the workmen's compensation fund an
nounced that the State would be call
ed on to furnish but a comparatively
small amount, as most of the victims
were young women with no depend
ents.
Instances of conspicuous bravery |
were numerous during the work of :
rescue. A short distance from the site
of the building destroyed is the smoke
less powder magazine of the company,
while nearby, in the opposite direction,
is the building where the shells are
charged with smokeless powder. While
the exploding shrapnel filled the air
with thousands of bullets, a force of
guards stood coolly on the two en*
dangered buildings and played streams
of water on the roofs and sides to pre
vent additional tires with resulting ex
plosions.
RGVISB 1,1 ST OF DEAD
After making a careful investiga
tion, W. M. Wilhelm. general manager
of the murtitions plant, said this af
ternoon that llti are dead as a result
of yesterday's explosion. Forty-six of
the' dead have been Identified, but the
remaining bodies are so badly mutilated
that identification Is almost impossible.
Between fifty and sixty injured per
sons remain in the hospitals and of
these eight are so seriously hurt that
they may die. In addition persons not
connected with the plant have made
Investigation and report that thirty
six are missing. Many of these, if not
all are'thought to be alive.
Plan Public Funeral
Arrangements are being made by the
Chester authorities for a public funeral
for the unidentified victims of whom
there will be. it is expected, nearly
seventy.
Two arrests of suspects were made
here to-dav and two are reported from
Philadelphia, one of the latter a man
said to have been employed in an Ed
dystone hotel, but who left before the
explosion.
About 300 employes, scared away by
the explosion, failed to report at the
plant to-day. The authorities are re
ticent and nothing can be learned as
to the charges against the persons ar
rested.
HARRISBURG BOY
CRUSHED IN BLAST
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who worked beside him until to-day,
just before the explosion.
Harrisburg Killed
"He was a fine-looking chap." Hy
dock said, "and I had often wanted to
ask him where he came from. Yester
day I had a chance, and he had just
said Harrisburg when there was a low
boom and our room was brighter than
any light I ever saw. We were all on
our feet, and the Harrisburg lad fell
backward.
"I stopped to catch him, then those
behind mo started to push forward to
ward the door. It was a terrible crush
and jam, and two of us went through
the door at the same time as though
we had been tied together doing a lock
step. Behind us came the others who
could escape. Then the sound was
deafening and the heat more intense.
It was hotter than any heat I ever
imagined one could feel, but as we
got into the open we almost staggered
at the change In the air.
One man, Arthur Bergy, was able to
give a detailed description of the scene.
"Superintendent Sheppard, of the
loading room, is the one man who can
tell It the explosion was an accident."
said Bergey. who was one of the load
ing bosses, last night. Bergeji, a for
mer newspaper photographer, has been
working at Eddystone for some months
and was In the center of the room
when the disaster occurred.
"No more than two boxes of powder
were permitted to be opened at one
time." he said. "The first thing I
heard was an explosion. Then came
the flash of fire and at the same In
stant a second explosion of the same
volume. With It the roof of the build
ing lifted and came crashing down on
the girls In the pellet room as the third
explosion followed.
"What caused the three explosions?
If only two boxes were opened accord
ing to the rules, it would seem there
should have been only two explosions.
Superintendent Sheppard had charge
of the distribution of the boxes and
knows how many boxes were passed
into the room and how many were
open.
"With the first explosion I started
for the door, and the man ten feet
behind me had his hair burning when
he reached the yard after me. I stop
ped for nothing. Ai any of us thought
of was safety. We had reached the
deadline wires in the yard when the
third detonation came, and we stopped
and looked back, undetermined what to
do.
"Then came the fourth and most ter
rible report, and with It the flying of
the shells. As the ground began to
plow around us we bolted through the
wires and took refuge, while the fifth
and last rain of shot and shell poured
out upon those who had escaped from
the building. ' #
"You must bear in mind the powder
In those shells is strong enough to
throw them two miles after their ex
plosion. They carry powder good for
five miles to carry the shell and an
additional two miles for the shrapnel,
a total projector force of seven miles.
The powder used will not explode on
concussion. Heat will Are them, but
time fuses are only put on when the
shells reach Russia."
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Address Commerce Chamber
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New York, will address the member
ship of the Harrisburg Chamber of
Commerce on May 2.
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held and whether it will be a luncheon
or evening meeting have not been de
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DRKODAL IS NEUTRAL
The Uruguayan government to-day is
sued a decree of neutrality In the war
between the United States and Ger
many and between Cuba and Germany.
APRIL 11, 1917.
MEARKLK MOTOR IIILIj
IS PASSED BY HOCSK
An attempt to amend the
motor vehicle bill before the House
on second reading so as to compel a
device on the rear to indicate at night
when a turn to the right or left is
made was defeated. Another amend
ment to the bill which would exon
erate from payment of registration
fees by city and county official cars
was also defeated.
Tfie House concurred In the Senate
resolution providing for changing
the names of all State lunatic, insane
and feeble-minded 4nstitutions.
Roosevelt Outlines in Full
His Plans For a Division
Washington, April 11.—Theodore
Roosevelt, following a day of con
ferences with President Wilson and
Congressional leaders regarding his
project for raising a division of troops
for foreign service and seeing numer
ous callers, arranged to leave for New
York to-day.
Colonel Roosevelt also arranged to
communicate more fully in writing
his views on his project to the chair
men of the Senate and House military
committees.
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