American Destroyer Wins Battle With U-Boat About to Attack a Fleet Of Merchant Ships HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 40k LXXXVI— Xo. 239 22 PAGES GIANTS AND SOX BATTLE FOR HONORS Champions of National and American Leagues Meet in Chicago For World's Championship; Great Crowd Braves Cold Weather to Watch Opening Contest of Baseball Classic 1 2 3 45 6 7 8 91011 RHE N. Y. Ul Ch g . HQtiEIIKHSINiiH BBH By Associated Press Comiskey Park. Chicago. Oct. 6. The Chicago White Sox, pennant winners of the American League, and New York Giants, champion of the National League, did battle to-day in ; the first fray of that blue ribbon j event of our national pastime —the j world's baseball series. Some thirty odd thousand persons saw the Giants go over the top and assail the pale hosed warriors of the American League on their home lot on the south side. Play Ball First Inning—Umpire O'Loughlin gave decisions on ball and strikes; I Umpire Klem gave decisions at lirst: base: Umpire Killer, at second base, | and Umpire Evans at third bas. j Burns up. Strike one. Strike two. 1 Ball one. Ball two. Ball three. | Burns singled sharply over second, after the court was three and two ( Herzog up. Herzog filed to Joej Jackson on the first ball pitched ! Kauff up. Strike one. Kauff sent; up a high fly to Jackson who almost dropped the ball. Zimmerman up. | The crowd booed Zimmerman. Ball one. Cicotte tried to pick off Burns at first. Strike one. Burns stole second. Foul strike two. Zimmer man flied to Felsch. No runs, on-j hit. no errors. Second Half—John Colling up. Foul, strike one. Strike two. Ball one. Foul. John Collins blazed a hot single to right. McMullen up. i McMullen sacrificed. Sallee to Holke.! J. Collins moving to second. Eddie j Collins up. Ball one. Ball twu Fletcher threw out Collins at John Collins going to third on the: Jackson up. Herzog made a circus catch of Jackson's Texas Le:.guer. No runs, one hit. no error. Second Inning—Fletcher up. Ball one. Strike one. Cicotte kept the gall around the Giants' knees.; Fletcher fouled out to Gandil. Rob-i ertson up. Foul, strike one. B.TJII ! one. Strike two. Cicotte tossed ou* j Robertson at first. Holke up. Bill: one. Foul strike one. Foul, strike | two. Holke beat out a slow roller to Edciic Collins. McCarty up. Cicotte i caught Holke'dead asleep off first; base with a quick throw to Gandil. No runs, one hit. no errors. (Continued in Bulletin Box) Groat Holiday All Chicago made holiday today. Every artery that led to Comiskey Park pulsated with a ureat crowd fevered with excitement. Hundreds unable to gain admission to the park hung around the outside of the high walls and followed the game as best they could from the spectators who shouted to them the progress of the play. It was a perfect October day and made to order for baseball. An Indian summer sun helped bake out the base paths made sodden by Fri day's downpour, while a warm, southerly breeze blew across the field. The big stands blazed with the na tional colors. A large section of the stand was filled with hundreds of members of the Officers' Reserve f'orps from Fort Sheridan. The usual brass band piped its latest tunes to entertain the gathering crowd. l ire Bnll Field The groundkeepers worked all morning upon the playing field. Gas- I oline was poured over the ground and set afire to take up the moisture THE WEATHER | For llarriaburis :inrl vicinity: Fair <ind cooler to-nlisht, with front; lowest temperature about -to dr- Krees; Sunday fair, continued eool. . For Kantrro PmnijMania i Fair nnd colder to-niiiht, with 1 rout I Sunday fair, continued eool; di minishing nortbweat wind. River The Soaqnehanna river and all lu branches will fall alowly or re main nearly atatlonary. A ataiie NliKhtly above 3.4 feet la Indi cated for Harrlaburie Sunday morning. Temperature■ 8 a. m. ( 48. Sum Itlxea. (JrttS n. m l aeta, 3iM p. m. Moon: Hlxea. o|4o p. ni. Hirer Matte: 3.4 feet above low water mark. Yesterday'* Weather lllKheat temperature, 113. Lnwent temperature, SO. Meun temperature, .VI. Aormal temperature, 58. How Giants and Sox Lineup for First Game Indications late this afternoon shoved that the hatting order for tlio lirst 'tame would be us fol lows: NEW YORK— CHICAGO— Burns, ll'. .T. Collins, rf. Herzog, Jb. McMullen, 3b. Kauff. el. E. Collins. 2b. Zimmerman, 3b. Jackson. If. Fletcher, ss. Felsch, cf. Robertson, rf. Gandil. lb. llolke. lb. Weaver, ss. McCarty, c. Schalk, c. bailee, Cicotte, |i. Umpires—Evans and O'Lough liti, American League: Klem and Kigler, National League. and when the teams took the dia ! mond for practice it was found to be perfect. "The White Sox are right and fit." j said Manager Rowland before the i same. ""We expect to win and there j will be plenty of action. Yes, it may be Cicotte, and possibly Faber j who will do our pitching." I Manager McGraw agreed that the j Giants were going to meet a good I ball club, but believed the final in j ning would show the New York Club I in front. • j All night long a line of 1 two or i three hundred persons, including a i few women, stood in line at the win j dows where at 10 o'clock this morn ing the 13,000 remaining pavilion I and bleacher seats were to be sold. . Drizzle of Rain It was cold and most of the night there was a drizzle of rain, punc tuated from time to time with a pelting gust that penetrated to the marrow. Some quit, only to reappear before dawn, but mostly they obey ed the imperative order of the god of baseball and stuck. Sunrise was delayed somewhere in i the fog. Through the long hours a | ghostly line stretched its length along the fence of Comiskey Park, j Electric lights showed dimly through 4 rain-washed globes; banners hung Tlimp, froln neighboring billboards. jThe only cheerful thing in sight was the flicker of the gas flame under coffee boilers in a makeshift canvas shelter across the street, although there was some cheer, too, in the steam and the odor which arose | from frankfurter boilers, the owners .of which did a thriving business 1 through the night. Build Small Fires \ The reluctant gray of the morning had not appeared when newsboys ! came shouting on the scene with "all about the world's series" and were relieved of their supplies in short order. A nearby lumber yard served to supply fuel for innumerable small fires over which the fanatics of the game huddled and studied out the stories, taking care, however, not to leave their places in line. Amused policemen, who found the yccasion much more to their taste than tramping lonely beats, kept order and settled more than one dispute as to position. The papers helped wonderfully to while away the hours. I.ine Grows Rapidly New arrivals came now in groups and the lines grew rapidly until they wound out of sight of the ticket windows around corners into side streets. Vender* With peanuts be gan to appear, others with horns and other noise-making instruments and even toy balloons. The business of the coffeemen, which had languished when the newspapers came, revived briskly, and many a small boy or girl came running with hot lunch in a pail for some one who had stood | the long, hard vigil. By 7 o'clock fifteen hundred per | sons were in the lines. There were I probably thirty women among them. I They were for the most part well dressed and prosperous appearing. Some of them explained that their money had been sent back to them after the reserved seats had been allotted and that they "just had to see the games" and had sacrificed some hours of sleep to do so. There were also a number of sai.lors. At 7.30 tarpaulins were removed from the base lines and the grounds were pronounced reasonably fit for the contest about to be put on. At this hour. also, the score card sales men brought new brightness into the lives of those in line with their cries of "you can't tell the players without a score card." Most of the dyed-in th"-wool fans there could have told the players in the dark but they bought the cards anyway. O'l.oiiEhlln Honored The gate of the bleachers was opened at 10 a. m. and the crowd surged through. Policemen maln [Continued oil Page 15.] OVKHCOATS M VKK AI'PKAIt A.NCB Overcoats were generally worn by those who stood In the chilly October ' breezes to-day and watched the pa- I lade. Frost is predicted for to-night. I with a low temperature of forty de grees. To-morrow Is to bf fair and; I continued coo* HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1917. VETERAN OF BIG LEAGUES VS. THE BUSH LEAGUE MANAGER \ J " McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, is pitted against Clarence Rowland, manager of lot, i S ?- X, . I ln 1 le , world s !" es V MeGraw is a veteran of the big leagues. Six times he has won the pen nant in the National League with the New York Giants, and once the world championship. Rowland went from the Three-1 League to the White Sox. He was laughed at, but he has made good. McGraw will use the old-time baseball tactics; Rowland is more inclined to the new. GERMANS DRAW BACK LINE TO SAFETY POINT British Shellfire Works Havoc on Kaiser's Hosts in Flanders By Associated Press British Front in France and Bel gium, Oct. 6. At some places in tho new line established bv the British attack in Flanders the Ger mans were reported to-day to be in such exposed positions that they had pulled back their defenses a short distance. British patrols f'.>und the forward shell hole defenses in one section abandoned. The Germans suffered severely In the British attack Thursdav and n trip along the battle front east nnd northeast of Ypres showed hundreds of bodies of German soldiers in the debris. At many places shell craters were tilled with the dead. Here and there were wounded, sometimes un der a pile of corpses, which the British stretcher bearers had not been able to reach. Thousands of Bodies Along -one section of the Aus tralian front a thousand bodies were counted. A little further south there was another lot of 700. Some of these had been prisoners who were making their way back within the British lines when they were caught in their own barrage nnd killed one officer of the Prussian guards who was captured near Poly gon wood said that British shellltre did terrible havoc among his men. A British airplane with an Aus tralian as its pilot had a remarkable experience yesterday. The pilot and observer kept at work despite the clouds and the rain. The Germans tired many shells at the plane but it continued in action. When the pilot was finally forced to volplane down behind his own lines, it was found that his machine had been struck so often that it was of no further use. Neither the pilot nor the observer was injured. To-day the pilot asked that he be allowed to go up again. His su perior officer, however, thought that he had had enough excitement for the time being and refused permis cion. Grand Rush For Wholesale Houses When Liquor Gaugers Arrive When the government gaugers took up their work in this city this morning, retail liquor dealers wasted no time in getting in touch with tho wholesalers in an effort to Increase depleted stocks before the new war tax should become effective. The gaugers visited the arid officially laid a tax In addi tion to the tax on spiritous liquors now in force, amounting to approxi mately 55 cents a quart on whisky. One Harrlsburg wholesaler will bo required to pay in addition to the regular tax, $13,000 on the liquor in stock. In an attempt to get there first, several retailers, who knew what was going on, made an effort to beat the gaugers to the wholesale houses. While many retailers were disap pointed, several, it Is said, udded substantially to their stocks at the old price. Peru Votes to Break Off Relations With Germany Lima, Peru, Oct. 6. —The Peru vian government probably will soon break off diplomatic relations with Germany. The first step was taken yesterday when Congress by almost unanimous vote decided In favor of such a course. The Peruvian government on Sep tember 26 Instructed Its minister at Berlin to present to the German gov ernment a demand that satisfaction be given within eight days for the sinking of the Peruvian bark Lor ton. It was added t)at if the de mand was not met diplomatic rela tions would be broken. CAR TERMINAL ORDINANCE TO GO TO COUNCIL Legislation Providing For Doubletracking Walnut Street Ready For Action An ordinance providing the neces sary franchises for the Valley Rail ways Company to doubletrack Wal nut street, from the river bridge to the proposed terminal at River street, will be introduced in Council next Tuesday, it was announced to-day. It is understood that the ordi nance includes provisions that the Valley Company will abandon the use of tracks in Walnut street, from River to Second street, and in Sec ond street to Market Square. When the entire improvement scheme is finished much of the car congestion in the central district of the city will be relieved. J 1 " 01 " many weeks the plans for the Walnut street car terminal have been considered. Finally the City Plan ning Commission and Municipal League, together with city officials approved a tentative idea which has been carried out in detail and em bodied in the ordinance to be sub mitted on Tuesday. Two Tracks to Terminal These plans will provide for two tracks from the Walnut street bridge to the terminal building at River and Walnut streets. The terminal building itself will be large enough to provide a big loop so that all cross-river cars will come into it crossing the \\ alnut street pavement on the south side, and turning come out again and go west in Walnut street. Two entrances, one*in "Walnut street and the other in Strawberry street, near the Square, will l>e need ed to accommodate passengers. A single track will be retained in Walnut street from Second, so that the Valley and Harrisburg lines will be intercommunicating in case it is desired to send cars of the one com pany to points on the other line as in cases of ptcnics and other similar occurrences. With the elimination of the car traffic from the West Shore lines at Second and Walnut streets and in the Square, the Harrisburg Railways Company officials can provide for re routing all cars northbound In Sec ond street, and can do much to help the police in solving many of the central district traffic problems. It is reported that upon the com pletion of the Valley Company im provements in Walnut street a move may be made to make extensive changes in connection with the Peo ple's bridge at Walnut street, which is now used for the 'cross-river cars. This may result in reconstruction of the bridge tb meet the increasing traffic on the lines. Cash Prizes For Essayists; Liberty Loan Lessons For Scholars Start Monday On Monday the Telegraph will be gin the publication of the short Liberty Loan lessons which will be taught In the city schools beginning Wednesday of next week. The Telegraph and others have arrunged to award prizes of 110 and to to high Bahool pupils, and $lO and s6' to grade pupils who In a 200- word essay best tell what the Lib erty Loan is, why It Is, and what It wi'l do for the United States. On Monday the Telegraph will print another Liberty Loan Primer by "Girard," of the Philadelphia Telegraph; and this will be a great help to pupils, who should clip it and preserve It, The publication of the lessons starts Monday evening. The teach ing begins Wednesday, The short 200-word essays may be submitted at any time after October 17. NEW WAR TAX IS REAL TEST OF PATRIOTISM Your Favorite Brands of To bacco doing Up One and Two Cents Sherman's definition of war will ho heartily endorsed by the average Harriaburger within a few days. To gain a man's favor, give him sin ex ceptionally good dinner, says one maxim. To make a man howl, get a stranglehold on his pocketbook, says another. The real test of patriotism will come when you saunter into your favorite tobacconist's Monday and he tells you that for the term of the war, the package of cigarets which you have been purchasing for ten cents will cost you twelve. King Oscars, by the same token, will stand you six cents each. Some dealers, to gain your favor, may delay the increase for a few days, but the higher price will be in force everywhere within a short time. The new tax law catches every thing but pipes and smokers' sup plies. The war tax bill becomes ef fective at once. All tobacco dealers are compelled to pay the increased tax on stock they have on hand. For this reason cigarets are billed at 50 cents per thousand additional to the price now in force. Other increases are proportionate. Dealers are being advised by wholesale houses that all 5-cent and 10-cent packages of ci garets and tobaccos should be sold at 6 and 12 cents respectively. Warning has been given that in no case will the government take the initiative in securing returns, al though all re'urns will be verified: Everybody 'concerned should com municate promptly with the nearest revenue officer. Lancaster is head quarters for the Ninth revenue dis trict, of which this city is a part. Deputy collectors are located in Har risburg. Persons failing to make returns will be designated as tax slackers, and penalties will be enforced against them. According to Internal Reve nue Collector Roper, the following persons must make returns to the government: Tliosp Who Must Pay "All individauls receiving incomes of more than SI,OOO a year. "All corporations, joint stock com panies and associations. "All distillers, rectifiers, wholesal- [Continued on Page 15.] American Patrol Ship Founders in European Waters While on Duty By Associated Press Washington, Oct. 6.—An Ameri can patrol ship foundered in Kuro pean waters on the morning of Octo ber 4, while on duty. The Navy Department has no In formation of the cause of the loss of the ship and has ordered an in vestigation. There was no loss of life. Further Information of the Inci dent, which was reported by Vice- Admiral Sims, Is being asked for by the Department. There Is noth ing In the department's announce ment to indicate the class of the ship. Mdst of the American patrols are destroyers. The lost ship was an auxiliary, not one of the regular Navy list and was on mine sweeping work when lost. The report that she foundered is taken here to mean she was lost In rough weather. 29 MORE GO FROM HERE TO CAMP MEADE Given Splendid Ovation by City Before Entraining For Maryland I OTHERS PASS THROUGH I Cumberland and Perry Quo tas on Same Special Train With Local Roys Harrisburg turned out this morn ing to do honor to the twenty-nine young men of Dauphin county who left on the 11.50 special train for Camp Meade, Maryland, where they will enter the service of United States. Headed by the Municipal Band, the members of the G. A. R. and the Harrisburg Reserves led the young men as they marched in pa rade through the principal streets of the city. The streets were lined with cheering mobs and once more Harrisburgers proved that they were aware of the honor due the young men who left their homes to light for their country. The parade formed in Front street at 10 o'clock and promptly at 10.4 5 j Chief Marshal Thomas Numbers gave i the signal and the route of parada i was from Front to Second streets. ' along Second to State, to Third, to | Market, and then to the Pennsylva ; nia railroad station where the boys | entrained. All along the line of march the young men received well ! wishes. While the parade was not ! as large in numbers as the previous one, the spirit of the occasion was as enthusiastic, and what the pa rade lacked in numbers the onlook ers made up in cheera and well wishes. Friends Say Farewell The scene at the Pennsylvania sta tion was pathetic. The friends of the young men gathered in large num bers to watch the train bearing their offering to their country. The seri ousness of the departure was em phasized when a gray-haired mother clasped her son in her arms and with a voice broken made him promise [Continued on Page o.] Expects Hardscrabble Appeals to Be Thoroughly Threshed Out in Court City Solicitor Fox expects that the ! appeal of property owners in the | Hardscrabble cases will be thorough ly threshed out at a special sitting of the court in December. Many of the property owners in the section affected have already accepted the awards of the viewers and it is be lieved the whole matter will reach a final conclusion next spring. The City Solicitor stated to-day that the desire of the city wa3 to allow fair compensation for all the properties. The report of the viewers in the various cases growing out of the construction of the Cumberland Valley, railroad viaduct in Mulberry and Second streets will be submitted soon. The testimony was closed and argument made before the viewers I this week. These claims for damages grew out of the vacation of Mulberry street and the change of grade in Second street. Mayor Smith's Hearing Adjourned Until Monday By Associated Press Philadelphia, Oct. 6.—With the hearing of Mayor Smith and eight codefendants on charges of conspi racy to commit aggravated assault and murder in connection with the killing of a policeman by New York gunmen on primary election day, adjourned until Monday, attorneys conducting the prosecution took the opportunity to carefully scrutinize the testimony brought out during the four days' examination of witnesses. Much of this testimony has been sensational and has caused a stir in political circles such as probably no other- similar case in the history of the city. It has tended to emphasize the bitterness that has existed for some time between the Vare faction of the Republican party and the fac tion under the leadership of United States Senator Penrose and State Senator McNichol. Many witnesses remain to be heard when the hearing- is resumed on Monday. In addition to the conspi racy charges Mayor Smith now faces a charge of contempt of court for refusing to produce original reports detectives made to him of conditions in the Fifth ward. Awaiting Jail Term Ex-Banker Flags Trains Chicago, Oct. 6.—Pending a rul ing on Ills sentence to Joliet prison, Wlliam H. Paisley, founder and head of the defunct banking house of W. H. Paisley & Sons, is working as a crossing flagman for the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Electric Railway, at Oak and Cherry streets, for wages of SSO a month, it became known yesterday. Paisley operated three private banks on the North Side. Following their collapse he and his two sons. Oliver F. and James T., were sen tenced to the penitentiary. All are at liberty, however, until the appel late court rules on the appeal, which may not be for a year. Meanwhile the ex-banker blows a whistle and raises a disc bearing the word, "Stop," when trains are passing his, post. ' Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION WITMAN-SCHWARZ REORGANIZATION PLANS COMPLETE Curl K. Dccn and S. H. Coover Take Over Interests of J. Grant Schwarz DEAL INVOLVES .$500,000' Biggest Wholesale Grocery House Between Pittsburgh and New York City Tho Witman-Schwarz Corporation, with a capitalization of J500.000, has absorbed the Witman-Schwarz Com pany, big wholesale grocers, it was announced to-day. Carl K. Deen, as president and treasurer, and S. R. Coover, secretary and general manager, are the con trolling factors in the new corpora tion, having taken over the Interests of J. Grant Schwarz, who retires from the business after twenty-nine years, during whltfh he saw it develop from a very small beginning until to-day it is the largest wholesale grocery firm between Pittsburgh and New York City, Mr. Deen was secretary and treasurer of the old company and Mr. Coover was general manager of the Harrisburg business. The deal is one of the largest in recent bus iness history of Harrisburg. A. C. Botts becomes cashier of the new concern and J. Charles Forney [Continued on Page 7.] t * 1 :: <y> * | J SECOND HALF OF SKCOND X Second inning—Felsch up. Stnkc one. Strike two. X Sallec was working his famous cross fire. Ball- one. J] * i Fe!s;h sent up a lofty fly to Fletcher. Gandil up. Ball ► 4 Heine Zimmerman „ ( ,JJdropped Gandil's line drive, but threw him out at first. * ' T* ' * ftt Weaver up. out Weaver at "r r-1. No runs, no hits, no errors. * * X 4* •P T ? f Third Inning, First Half—McCarty up. Strike one. > IT Ball one. Strike two. Felsch gathered in McCarty's * J4jlong drive. Sallee up. The Chicago outfielders shifted * i & , | IJp with every Giant hatter. Ball one. Weaver caught Sal- j r (▼"lee's fly. Burns up. Strike one. Ball one. Ball two. * * ♦ * |1 Strike two. Ball three. Foul. Foul. Burns walked. up. Ball one. Foul. Ball one. Ball two. Foul * " sg. strike one. (landil ran to the Giants bench and caught • * X Kauff's foul. No runs, one hit. Flo errors. „ > 4 f * T. Second half—Schalk up. Ball one. Strike one. Zim * * T *' <l* * ► T got his man at first. Cicotte nr. Hall one. Strike on' •* * T * ® • Strike two. Cicottee drilled a single over the middle bag ► ' It > IX John Collins up. Ball one. John Collins single'dto righ'. J* * Cicotte was out going to third, Robertson to Zimmer ► j mria. On the throw to third John Collins wen tto second • * J McCullen up. McMullen singled scoring J. Collins. Thfc !• ' ♦ official scorer a two-base hit. Eddie Col „ , lllins up. Strike one. Ball one. Ball two.. Strike two *' T Ball three. Eddie Collins fouled to Fletcher. One run, I tHree hits, no errors. * * \t J f STEELTON MILL BURNS A ELTON-HOFFERS FLOUR MILL CAUGHT * J T FIRE ABOUT 3.30 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON |X AND AT 4 O'CLOCK IS BURNING FIERCELY A J | T GENERAL ALARM HAS BEEN SOUNDED AND * * J HARRJSBURG COMPANIES WILL PROBABLY BE I ! Z r c ' 2 Tr> HELP. . ;; | MARRIAGE LICENSES [ [ 4 „ Wkjtnitr (.. Sollenberiter, IlnrrlNburit. and BllMfccth P. Sfcerer, -I. .f™. j"''n Hornay, Jr., itnd Mary Knllnl, Steeltoni Stone- V 7* wall JMokxon nnd Nannie V. Cheekit. liarrlNburgi Utorge I. Bauacber. JL t£ Hill. nnd r.mmellne R. Mtevena, HarrlaburKi Walter K. T ~ Moore, Hutberford Helithta, nnd Mnrle V. C. Itlcbnlne, Harrlaburs. Hr 9 O U.S. DESTROYER VICTOR IN FIGHT WITH SUBMARINE German War Craft Sunk, Ac cording to Official Statement OTHER FIGHTS REPORTED American Navy Has Had Nu merous Encounters With U-Boats By Associated Press W asliington, Oct. 6—Details of a fight between an American , destroyer in European waters and a German submarine, in which the submersible was de stroyed by depth bombs, were announced by the Navy De partment to-day. Ihe name of the destroyer and the time and place of the engagement are withheld in the Navy Department's announce ment. Announcement was made in the following statement: "The Secretary of the Navy au thorizes the publication of this ac count of an engagement between an American destroyer and an enemy submarine: "Tills is one of a nuinlier of encounters of a more or le.ss sim ilar nature, the details of which have been made public in tills | manner as soon as possible "(A feature of interest attaches to this engagement hecause it was the occasion for a letter of appreciation from the British admiralty which ex pressed admiration for the efficient and seamanlike conduct of the of [ Continued on Page 7.]
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