MONDAY EVENING, HXHJRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 24, 1917,
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COURT FEELS
WAR'S EFFECTS
Dlany Jurors in Army, While
Others Are Working on
Government Contracts
The effects of war made itself
IFelt In September criminal court this
morning when It was opened by
{Fudges Kunkel and McCarrell. '
A number of jurors were found to
(be enlisted in the army; others were
excused because they are working on
government contracts for army sup
piles and there were other slight
hindrances attributed to the world
wide conflict.
Jacob Hess, a Steelton merchant,
"was made foreman of the grand Jury
and the court excused Harry Dill
man, Millersburg, and Jacob A. Nls
ley, Steelton. Of the petit jurors
the sheriff was not able to locate
John Allen, Fifth ward, city, and
Harry S. Brandy, Derry township.
Joseph I. Claster, city, and Hikes
Nell, this city, have enlisted In the
•rmy.
Casper J. Mehring, Sixth ward,
•'Sent my boy to the front on Sat-
lirday," he said, and he was excused
Ibecause his attendance in court
would interfere with his tailoring
business. Thomas P. Moran wants
to assist in the .plans for a publicity
campaign to get recruits from Har
risburg for the army and he was
excused until Thursday morning.
Emerson S. Minnis, Fifth ward, is
dead; John Shellenhamer, Derry
township, is suffering with a frac
tured leg.
In Judge McCarrell's court John
Pardo would not make a defense to
a charge of pistol toting and he re
fused to plad guilty, so the court
pent him to jail for four months.
J. W. Wrlteleather pleaded guilty to
a charge of larceny and was paroled
and bail was forfeited in the case
of Sarah Yoselowitz, who failed to
appear to answer to a charge of lar
ceny. Hello Balowich, of Steelton,
was put on trial just before noon on
a charge of assault and battery.
Three Middletown colored girls.
Mabel Johnson, Bertha McCurdy and
Sarah Johnson, were tried in Judge
Kunkel's court on a charge of as
saulting William Fink, Middletown.
The girls said Fink called them
"nigger" and Fink said they lied. He
said they pounced upon him without
warning. The girls also said Fink
"hissed his dog on us." The case
went to the jury just before court
adjourned.
Only Five Per Cent,
to Go From Here to
Camp Meade October 3
State Draft Registration Headquar
ters to-day received a telegram from
Provost Marshal General Crowder
changing the percentages of ship
ment o> drafted men to mobilization
camps from Pennsy?vania. The move
ment will start October 3 and be ex
clusively of white men.
Teritory tributary to Camp Meade
Will send five instead of forty per
cent, and may send the five per cent,
on one day.
Camp Lee will start twenty instead
of forty per cent, October 3.
Camp Sherman territory will start
thirty instead of forty per cent, the
same day.
The following appointments as
members of local draft boards were
announced at State Draft Registration
Headquarters to-day:
Erie county No. 2—The Rev. J.
Frank Nash (vice Harry S. Foye).
Luzerne county No. 4—A. C. Shaw
<vice Prof. W. L Dean)
Philadelphia county No. 37—Two
additional members, making five in
ajl: Samuel L. Baron, Howard Eccles.
Westmoreland county No. 3—John
H. Trescher (vice S. L. Tropper; Dr.
T. A. Klingensmith (vice Dr H. J.
Stockberger).
Sensational Evidence
of German Treachery
in Hands of the U. S.
Washington, Sept. 24.—While there
5s no indication of what will be the
State Department's next disclosure of
German intrigue in America or else
where, it is known that disclosures as
sensational as any yet published are
being held in reserve and may be
made at any time.
One of the things the State Depart
ment has is a list of persons who
received German money in passport
frauds, the munitions plots and prac
tically all the other activities of Ger
irien intrigue here which took place
between the beginning of the war in
August, 1914, and the entry of the
United States into the conflict. This
list is said to contain scores of names
end the amount of money represented
runs very high.
From time to time the Department
also probably will make public certain
evidence to dispose of the denials of
those who have been involved in the
disclosures already made.
ANNOUNCE BIRTH OF SOX
Enoia, Pa., Sept. 24. Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Newmyer announce the
birth of a son, Walter Edward New
myer, on Saturday, September 22.
FALL
1 1917
An Announcement _
For Men and Young Men
For Fall and Winter, Holman announces
the addition of a line of "twenties" which I i '■ML
will occupy the same place in their field
which the "fifteens" have taken in theirs. M
Custom-made Suits and Overcoats,
twenty dollars up / \
Custom-made Shirts, V
two fifty up • V
A. W. Holman $ m
228 Market St.
TELLS LITTLE KNOWN
OF HOW McCORMICK'S ISLAND
W4S ACQU
J. Horace McFarland, Member of Old Park Commission
Relates Interesting Interview With Donor; Never
Wants Liquor Taken to Island and It Always Must
Be Used For Park Purposes
The little known story of how Mc-
Cormlck's Island was given to the
city by James McCormick, who re
cently died is related for the first
time by J. Horace McFarland, who
was a member of the old Park Com
mission at the time.
Mr. McFarland's story follows:
"Now that James McCormick has
been laid away, after a beneficent
lifetime, it will be in point to tell
the story of the acquisition of Mc-
Cormick's Island as a park by the
city of Harrisburg—a story which
could not be told while Mr. McCor
mick was alive, because of his ha
tred of all semblance of display or
self-gratulation.
"It was during the last year of
the control of Harrisburg's park sys
tem by the old Park Commission,
that one day I was called to the tele
phone to answer the inquiry as to
whether or not I would see Mr.
James McCormick if he would call
upon me at my office. Of course I
replied instantly that not only would
I gladly see him at my office if he
came, but, what would be much
more appropriate, I would jUBt as
gladly call on him at his home, or
his office, or anywhere else.
"The reply was that he preferred
to come to my place of business. This
he did, the same day, accompanied
by his son and his secretary.
"I had no inkling whatever of the
purpose of the visit, when Mr. Mc-
Cormick said to me, rather hesitat
ingly, "Do you think, Mr. McFarland,
that the Harrisburg Park Commis
sion would be willing to accept Mc-
Cormick's Island as a gift to the
city for park purposes if I should
offer it?"
"There was but one answer to
make to this suggestion, and I made
it in saying that while I could not,
of course, bind my associates, I be
lieved they would be, as I was, over
joyed at the opportunity to acquire
this beautiful tract of more than a
hundred acres, ideally situated, for
park purposes.
. "Mr. McCormick's answer was,
"Well, I did not know whether the
thought would be agreeable or not,
but if you think the Park Commis
sion would like to have the island, I
will prepare to transfer it to their
custody for the city. All I want to
stipulate is that the tenant shall not
be distiybed in his occupant of the
cultivated portion of the island until
the end of the term for which I have
leased it to him.
Must Be Used Only As Park
"We then had some further con
versation, and Mr. McCormick cour-
U. S. TROOPS IN RANGE
OF GERMAN GUNS
[Continued from First Pa#c.]
had he been blindfolded. An invita
tion was extended to mess and it was
accepted.
"I'm afraid we can't offer you
very much to eat," said one officer.'
"You see our cook is ill and just at
this moment we are getting along
best we can. But we can give you
plenty of beans and —well plenty
more beans." He ended with an
apologetic laugh.
Best Ever
So Boston baked beans were
served, the first the correspondent
had seen in two years of knocking
about which had taken him from
revolution-torn Dublin to the Mo
hammedan revolt on the northwest
frontier of India. And they were
the best beans ever canned or that
ever will be canned.
During the meal the correspond
ent fell into conversation with a
young officer who comes from one of
the famous and wealthy families
of the United States.
"How do you like it out here?"
asked the correspondent.
The officer gazed reflectively
through the open door of the mess
room out across the open and be
yond the camp. As far as the eye
could reach there was a scene of
devastation and desolation. Here and
there shattered walls of a building
reared themselves to mark the spot
where' a farmhouse, or perhaps a
village had stood.
I.and I,aid Waste
For miles could be seen shattered
trunks of trees that had been smash
ed by shells as though rent by light
ning. Occasionally the eye met .<
little graveyard with its wooden
crosses —some for German soldiers
and some for British. In places
there still were remains of German
dugouts, for the enemy had held this
territory at one time.
Grass was growing -over all this
but could not conceal the myriad of
mounds that marked the lips of great
shell craters which pitted the entire
zone. The officer returned from his
contemplative gaze and answered:
There For Business
"Well, it isn't exactly the same
as Forty-Second street and Broadway
here but we didn't come out looking
fot- the "great white way." We are
here for business and we like it part
ly for Itself and partly because w<
teously accepted my suggestion that
in order to protect this munificent
gift to the uses to which he intended
to have It applied, he should make
his gift conditional upon its con
tinual use for park purposes. I did
this in order to protect the city from
the shortsightedness of the incidental
officials, who might, as it may be
remembered, was once suggested in
reference to Wtldwood Park, desire
to divert the gift to some other pur
pose than that of promoting health
and recreation for all the people In
the city.
"Then, just as he was about to
leave, Mr. McCormick said: 'Oh yes,
there is one other thing I want to
be sure of, and that is that no in
toxicating liquors shall ever be used
on McCormick's Island.' I told him
that this could be arranged, at least
In sof ar as the definite prohibition
of the sale or giving away or use of
intoxicants on the island was con
cerned, but that it would hardly be
fair to the city to stipulate a rever
sion of the land to his estate in the
event that some lawbreaker should
use whisky on the island contrary
to regulations. To this he cheerfully
agreed.
"I communicated at once with my
associates by telephone, and a meet
ing of the Commission was immedi
ately arranged. Messrs. Disbrow,
Hershey, Brady and Bailey were as
delighted as I was at the munificent
gift, equal, indeed, to one-eighth of
the whole park system at that time.
"No difficulties occurred in ob
taining access to the island under
the arrangement provided by Mr.
McCormick with the tenant, and in
less than four weeks from the time
the subject was first broached, a
girls' camp was established in the
lovely grove at the lower end of Mc-
Cormick's Island, under the capable
and energetic handling of Mr. For
rer, then superintendent of parks.
That this camp became popular and
a real beneficence to the city hardly
needs to be more than suggested.
"The good people of Harrisburg
are in these days, I fear, losing sight
not only of the underlying spirit
which has made possible the mar
velous progress of the city in the
past fifteen years, but they are for
gettng some of the men whose
beneficence, liberality and self-sacri
ficing spirit made possible this prog
ress. It is well at this time to call
attention to one of the men, whose
splendid life has just ended, and
whose spirit of interest in his city
is here set forth in only one of the
many Instances which might be re
counted."
ought to like it. We want to do our
bit and we are more anxious to do it
than ever before.
"I think that some of our boys
who have crept up and stolen a look
at the fighting lines have been a lit
tle disappointed in a way. Of course
they read of what it was like over
here but it did not seem quite right
not to see banners flying on the bat
tlefield and not to witness troops
moving out in the open. But they
all are tremendously impressed with
things in general. They realize
more than they did what a vast busi
ness this is. And they are all anx
ious to do a bigger part.
Hard as Nails
"The health of the camp is ex
cellent and the men are as hard as
nails. We are all ready for the call
to real action."
The American quarters are very
simple. One officer proudly dis
played quarters that he had built
out of airplane wings which had
been discarded by the British and
had been presented to him by a colo
nel.
The reported high reward offered
by a German officer for the first
American soldier brought into the
German lines, dead or alive, has im
mensely amused the Yankees.
"We aren't worrying about it any,"
laughed the officer. "We are here
and 'Fritz' can some after us any
time he is ready. We will be wait
ing*
MRS. RIDDLE GOING ABROAD
Philadelphia, Sept. 24. Follow
ing her original plans, made when
Miss Nancy Coleman, she had in
tended to sail for France to take up
hospital work, the present Mrs.
Georne Biddle will sail for the war
Eone shortly.
The wedding of Lieutenant Biddle
and Miss Coleman took place early
in September, at the home of the
bride's father, B. Dawson Coleman,
in Rlttjenhouse Square, and after a
brief honeymoon, Lieutenant Biddle
sailed for France.
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TEXT OF GERMANY'S REPLY
TO POPES PEACE APPEAL
Amsterdam, Sept. 24.—The text of
Germany's reply to the Pope's peace
note, addressed to Cardinal Gasparrl,
Papal Secretary of State, follows:
Herr Cardinal:
Your Eminance has been good
enough, together with your let
ter of August 2. to transmit to
the Kaiser and King, my most
gracious master, the note of his
Holiness, the Pope, in which his
Holiness, filled with grief at the
devastations of the world war,
makes an emphatic peace appeal
to the heads of the belligerent
peoples. The Kaiser-King hae
deigned to acquaint me with
your Eminence's letter and to
entrust the reply to me.
His Majesty has been following
for a considerable time with high
respect and sincere gratitude his
Hollness's efforts in a spirit of
true Impartiality to alleviate as
far as possible the sufferings of
the war and to hasten the end (jf
hostilities. The Kaiser sees in
the latest step of his Holiness
fresh proof of his noble and hu
mane feelings, and cherishes a
lively desire that, for the benefit
of the entire world, the Papal
appeal may meet with success.
The effort of Pope Benedict is
to pave the way to an under
standing among all peoples and
might more surely reckon on a
sympathetic reception and the
wholi-hearted support from his
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Majesty, seeing that the Kaiser,
since taking over the Govern
ment, has regarded it as his prin
cipal and most sacred task to
preserve the blessings of peace
for the German people and the
eWorld.
In his first speech from the
throne at the opening? of the
German Reichstag on June 25,
1888, the Kaiser promised that his
love of the German army and his
position toward It should never
lead him IVito temptation to cut
short the benefits of peace unless
war were a necessity, forced on
us by the attack of the empire or
its allies.
The German army should safe
guard peace for us and should
peace, nevertheless be broken, it
would be In a position to win it
with honor. The Kaiser has, by
his acts, fulfilled the promise he
then made in twenty-six years of
happy rule, despite provocations
and temptations.
In the crisis which led to the
present conflagration, his Maj
esty's efforts were up to the last
moment directed toward settling
the conflict by peaceful means.
After the war had broken out,
against his wish and desire, the
Kaiser, in conjunction with his
high allies, was the first solemnly
to declare his readiness to enter
into peace negotiations. The Ger-
man people supported his Majesty
in his keen desire for peace.
Germany sought within her na
tional frontier the free develop
ment of her spiritual and material
possessions and outside the impe
rial territory unhindered compe
tition with nations enjoying equal
rights aud equal esteem. The
free play of forces in the world
in peaceable wrestling with one
another would lead to the highest
perfecting of the noblest human
possessions. Disastrous concate
nation of events In the year 1914
absolutely broke off all hopeful
course of development and trans
formed Europe into a bloody bat
tle arena.
Appreciating the importance of
his Hollness's declaration the Im
perial Government has not failed
to submit the suggestion con
tained therein to earnest and
scrupulous examination. Special
measures which the Government
has taken in closest contact with
representatives of the German
people, for discussing and an
swering the questions raised,
prove how earnestly it desires, in
accordance with his Holiness's
desires and the peace resolution
of the Reichstag on July 19, to
find a practical basis for a Just
and lasting peace.
The Imperial Government greets
with special sympathy the lead
ing idea of the peace appeal
wherein his Holiness clearly ex
presses the conviction that in
the future the material power of
arms must be superseded by the
moral power of right.
We are also convinced that the
sick body of human society can
be healed only by fortifying its
moral strength of right. From
this would follow, according to
his Hollness's view, the simulta
neous diminution of the armed
forces of all states and the insti
tution of obligatory arbitration
for international disputes.
We' share his Hollness's view
that definite rules and a certain
safeguard for a simultaneous and
reciprocal limitation of arma
ments on lpnd, on sea and in the
air, as well as for true freedom
of the community and high seas,
are the things in treating which
the new spirit that in the future
should prevail in international
relations should find first hopeful
expression.
The task would then of itself
arise to decide international dif
ferences of opinion, not by the
use of armed forces but by peace
ful methods, especially by arbi
tration, whose high peace pro
ducing effect we, together with
his Holiness, fully recognize.
The Imperial Government will
in this respect support every pro
posal compatible with the vital
interest of the German Empire
and people.
Germany, owing to her geograph
ical situation and economic re
quirements. has to rely on peace
ful intercourse with her neigh
bors and with distant countries.
No people, therefore, has more
Veason than the German people
to wish that, instead of universal
hatrefl and battle, a conciliatory
fraternal spirit should prevail be
tween nations.
If the nations are guided by this
spirit it will be recognized to
their advantage that the impor
tant thing 1 Is to lay more tre
upon what unites them In th
, relations. They will also succ®'
In settling Individual points
conflict which are still undecid
in such a way that conditions
existence will be created whl
will be satisfactory to every na-tli
and thereby a repetition of th
great world catastrophe wou
appear impossible.
Only on this condition can
lasting peace be founded whl'
would promote an intellectu
rapprochement and a return
the economic prosperity of humi
society. This serious and since
conviction encourages our con
dence that- our enemies also mi
see a suitable basis in the ide
submitted by his Holiness for a
proaching nearer to the prepar
tion of future peace under cond
tlons corresponding to a spirit
reasonableness and to the situ
tion in Europe.
Many Aliens Are Given
Chance to Be Citiz<
By Associated Press
Washington, Sept. 24. Assls
Secretary Post of the Departmen
Labor, has written to Senator Ca
of New York, informing him that
department heartily approves his
to provide for naturalization in t]
months of approximately 600
aliens who have signified their In
tion of becoming American citis
but who, under existing regulati
must wait two years before ac
is taken on their declaration of
tention.
About half of the 600,000 declari
are of military age and would
liable for military service under
terms of the pending alien d
bill.