6 STATE SOLDIERS WELLCAREDFOR Well Housed, Well Fed and Their Health Is Efficiently Safeguarded Pennsylvanians in the military service at Fort Oglethorpe and Camp Hancock are well housed, well fed and their health is very efficiently safeguarded by modern sanitation. This reassuring report is made by T. De Witt Cuyler, director of the Sanitation, Medicine and Red Cross Department of the Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety. Mr. Cuyler, who has Just completed u personal inspection of these camps, found conditions most satisfactory and so states in reporting to the Safety Committee. The Fort Oglethorpe camp, at Chlckamauga, includes an officers' training camp of 4,000 men of whom about 50 per cent are Pennsylvan ians. These men impressed Mr. Cuy ler as being high class and of more mature age than the men In the pre vious training campa. They are rated as most earnest students for commissions by Colonel Sl6cum, of the Thirteenth Cavalry, who :s in command. Electric lighting is one of the mod- Security Trust Company Solicits your subscription for Liberty Loan Bonds You make the subscription through this bank We do the rest 36 North Third Street Tomorrow a Remarkable Sale\ WomejVs_ and Misses Sample Lines, One and Two of a Kind Fourth and Market Sts. E n * ranc e on N. Fourth St. fAll This Season's Newest Original Models Shown Here For the First Time Fine All-M 00l Serges, Heavy Taffetas and Satins Colors: Navy, Black, Gray, Myrtle, Beetroot. Bergundy, Copenhagen, Taupe, Royal, Etc. SERGE DRESSES — £$ Made to Sell From $12.50 to $37.50 /%yl\ Sale Price $8.40 to $24.40 J§|\ A* Silk or Satin Dresses — M |j\ Made to Sell From $20.00 to $42.00 U \\ i) Sale Price $12.40 to $24.40 Sizes 16 to N) NO CHARGE FOR ALTERATIONS CK ttycuxUbuiy" j Greene's —4th and Market—Entrance on North Fourth Street will remain open until nine jf/ j o'clock each evening this week I f for the purpose only ef hand- vII Hi ling LIBERTY LOAN sub- ujSjl script ions. IHI^H THURSDAY EVENING,* ern features of Camp Hancock, Au gusta, 6a., whera 25,000 Pennsyl vania guardsmeniare training under General W. G. Price. In both camps the water supply and drainage ya tems are especially commended and the policing arrangements handled by the new military police are de clared to be superior to the old provost-marshal methods. Pennsy Foreigners Show Desire to Become Citizens Of the forelgn-'JOrn employes of the Pennsylvania bines East of Pitts burgh and Erie, nearly 63 per cent, have either become naturalized citi zens, or have taken out their first papers or definitely expressed their intention of so doing. This is brought out in a report which has Just been completed, covering the situation as it existed on July 30, 1917. There were at that time in the ser vice 25,721 men of alien birth. Of this number 5.003 were found to be fully naturalized, while 3,069 had taken out their first papers, and 5,064 had an nounced their intention of applying lor naturalization. The remainder, consisting of 9,585 men, represents the number who have not yet expressed their intention with regard to becom ing American citizens. The report shows that altogether employes of forty-three different na tionalities are in the Pennsylvania Railroad service. The races, which are represented to the extent of 1,000 or more, are in the order of the num bers employed, as follows: Italians, 8,125; Austro-Hungarians, 3,977; Irish, 3.064; Russians, 2,186; Germans, 2,069; English, 1,833, and Mexicans, 1,370. Races numbering between 100 and 1,000 are: Swedes, 518; Greeks, 496; Norwegians, 269; Polish, 263; Scotch, 234; Serbs, 134, and Slavs, lt)s. ALL NEWS OF THE RAILROADS LEMOYNE BRIDGE IS UP TO STATE Head of Cumberland Valley Says Railroad Has Nothing to Do With It The Cumberland Valley Rqjlroad j Company has nothing" to do with changes to the bridge crossing the railroad at Lemoyne, according to a letter received by the Harrlsburg Telegraph from Thomas B. Kennedy, assistant to the . president of the company, in reply " to a fetter asking about the proposed changes. The letter sent to Dr. Kennedy on October 23 is as follows: Dear Sir: The whole West Shore is keenly interested in the talked-of new bridge over the Cumberland Valley tracks at Lemoyne. Almost every day 1 am asked whether or not the company has any plans for the Im provement, and so I am passing the question along to you. 1 would be very much obliged in deed if you will let me have any information you may have for the newspaper on this subject. Sincerely, WEST SHORE REPRESENTATIVE. A reply to the letter was received this morning. It follows: Dear Sir:— Replying to your letter of the twenty-third instant. This company does not have any plans for any changes in the Ross fnoyne street bridge at eLmoyne. The bridsre in question is a link in State Highway Route No. 250, and 1 presume that if the authori ties desire any changes in this bridge they will so arrange. Verv trulv yours. ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT. For some time the West Shore Fire men's Union has been making efforts to have some protection afforded to pedestrians at the southern end of the bridge through the railroad com pany. The'letter from the company official tiircws new light on the sub ject tnd the union will probably work j along other lines. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NEW OFFICIAL IS KNOWN HERE Builds Many Branch Lines For Pennsy; Has Record Career; Bapid Promotion JOHN K. JOHNSTON John Kilgrore Johnston, superin tendent of the Philadelphia division, has an excellent record as an efficient railroad head, lie has been In serv ice thirty-seven years, lie was born In Westmoreland county, May 8, 1860. Mr. Johnston spent his boyhood in Westmoreland county, and was educated at Greensburg Academy. As as young man he spent much time In mine surveys and general work of this nature, an experience which well fitted hini for certain phases of the railroad life he was to follow. His milroad career began in Jan uary, 1880, when he worked in the engineering department of the Penn sylvania railroad on a corps engaged in the location and construction of branch lines in the Connellsville coke legion. Here he gained more experi-. ence in work connected with mining operations. From 1882 to ISBS he worked on construction of branch coal and coke lines on the South Pennsylvania. From this work he went to the Schuylkill division at Reading, where he remained _from January, 1885, to January, 1887. Builds Many Branches His work consisted in the building of branches to manufacturing plants, right-of-way surveys, and in the many miscellaneous engineering and practical problems that are incidental to the operation of a recently con structed railroad. He next became assistant engineer of maintenance of ways at Altoona. While there he had charge of the office under M. W. Thomson. During this time unusual ly important work was being done by this office, to wit: the laying of third track on middle and Pittsburgh divi sions and changes in Altoona yard. Mr. Johnston made the sewage sur vey of Altoona. Rapid Promotions In October, 1888, he was appointed assistant supervisor of the Tyrone division. His following steps were these: November, 1889, to December, 1889, assistant supervisor middle division at Mifflin; December, 1889, to February, 1891, supervisor Mo nongahela division at Brownsville and Monongahela City; February, 1891, to December, 1894, supervisor Schuylkill division at Norristown; December, 1894, to November, 1895, supervisor Philadelphia division at Middletown; November, 1895, to March, 1897, supervisor Philadelphia division at Paoli. He was made assistant engineer of the middle division of the Philadel phia and Eriq railroad, March, 1897. He then was made assistant engineer of the Schuylkill division of the Pennsylvania railroad, and later as sistant engineer of the middle divi sion. November 1, 1902, he was ap pointed principal engineer at Altoona and upon the retirement of S. S. Blair,' he was appointed superintend ent of the Tyrone division, November, 1903, which position he held until this time. Superintendent Johnston is a mem: ber of the commission appointed by Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh to select a site for a home for feeble minded women. Former Pennsy Clerk Is Busy Man in Georgia •I •: • jlggl W - A i . WILSON O. BLACK Harrlsbuig in well represented in the various Quartermaster depart ments of the Army. At Camp Han cock one of the busy men is Wilson O. Black. He was formerly with Major Edward C. Schell. He was or dered South some time ago. Black is a son of A. Wilson Black, 139 Nortfh Thirteenth street, the well-known veteran Pennsylvania Railroad con ductor and Civil Way veteran. Before entering the Army the young man was a clerk at the Pennsylvania Kail road Station. BUY BONDS IN PANAMA Panama, Oct. 25.—Dr. Bamon Valdez, president of Panama, and members of his cabinet have sub scribed liberally to the American Liberty Loan. W. B. M'CALEB STILL IN CITY ij Expects to Attend Rig. Hail road Meeting Tonight With His Successor Former Superintendent William B. McCaleb, who was yesterday pro moted to general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad water companies east of Pittsburgh nnd Erie, I is still in charge of the Philadelphia ! Division. He expects to take up his new duties in Philadelphia on Mon "day. His offices will be located in the Commercial Trust Building, near Broad street station. He expects to be in Philadelphia to-morrow, but will not assume official charge until next week. The new head of the Philadelphia Division, is expected in the"city some, t'me late this afternoon. He has been on an official trip to Philadelphia and New York City. Superintendent John ston is no stranger in Harrisburg and has many friends who are waiting to give him a warm welcome. Important Promotion General Superintendent W. B. Mc- Caleb will head one of the most im portant departments on the main line. He expressed his regret to-day on leaving Harrisburg and spoke in the highest terms of the city as a pro gressive municipality and to the kind treatment and many courtesies according him by the people of Har risburg during his fifteen years as a resident. He is pleased with his promotion, because lie will be near his friends here. "I will see you quite often," he said to-day, when many friends called to bid him fare well. To Attend Dig Meeting , He has arranged to attend the t meeting to-night of the Friendship • and Co-operative Club, which will l give him an opportunity to say good , by to manv employes and department officials, 'in the event of Superin -1 tendent Johnston reaching Harrisburg s in time, he will also be present at s the meeting, to be held in Eagles' i Hall, Sixth and Cumberland streets, f Another speaker to-night will bo 1 the Rev. Robert Bagnell, D. D., pastor p of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. He has addressed previous meetings - of railroad men and is popular with e Pennsylvania Itailrbad employes. The . meeting will be a patriotic session 1 and a record attendance is expected, f The committee on entertainment has e arranged for a smoker and refresh ments. General Manager Makes Liberty Bond Appeal A final appeal for Liberty Loan subscriptions from employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad was made to day by Assistant General Manager F.. Ij. O'Donuel, through the general superintendent of the company, under whose jurisdiction the campaign has beon carried on. The appeal was telegraphed to all parts of the railroad and copies placed in the hands of all individual workers, directing them to concen trate their closing efforts toward in ducing' holders of the ZVj per cent, herds of the First Loberty Loan to exchange them through the company for 4 pei cent, bonds. Reading Railway Gets Material For Engines Reading. Oct. 25. Railway Company is now getting the material for its new locomotives, to be built at the local shops. These in clude ten shifters and five PaciljC tvpe passenger engines. An official of the company stated that there are good prospects of Rotting these l° c .°" motives out by January. The material for the repairing of freight and coal cars is coming in and the conditions generally are better than they were during the summer. The Reading's new passenger equipment, forty coaches and ten combination cars, ordered nearly a year ago. will be delivered early next vear, probably early in the spring. The cars will be in U3e before the summer of 1918. President Dice Urges Liberty Loan Activity President A. T. Dice, of the Phil adelphia and Reading Railway Com pany, has issued a circular to Ihe officers and employes of the com pany, calling attention to the im portance of every one subscribing for Liberty bonds. "To carry on the war," he says, "the government must have money as well as men. We must all sacrifice something and, when we think <io\v great is the sacrifice of those who gives up their lives, we cannot fail to realize how greatly important it is that we should help to end the struggle from which there has been no escape." EASTERN STRIKE SETTLED Boston. Oct. 2 3.—The wage con troversy between the Boston and Maine railroad and five thousand freight, yard and station employes, was settled to-day shortly before the hour set for a strike through an agreement to arbitrate. The men will remain nt work pending adjustment of their demands. Suffer From Piles no matter how long or how bad— go to your druggist today and get a 80 cent bo* of Pyramid Pile Treatment. It will givo quick relief, and a single box often cures. A trial package mailed free In plain wrapper if you ■end us coupon below. FREE SAMPLE COUPON PYRAMID DRTTO COMPANY, ISM Pyramid Bid*., Marshall, Mich. Kindly send me a Free sample of Pyramid PilcTrettment, in plain wrapper. Name rtreet ..., City State.. I'■1'■ 1 ——■* Standing of the Crev s II A Kill SHI Itii SIDI2 I'hilndrlylilii IllvlMlon—The 129 crew first to go after 4 o'clock; 114 124, 103, 122, 130, 112, 102, 127, 104. Fireman for 129. Conductor for 127. Brakemen for 129, 114, 130, 112. Engineers up: Yeater, Black, Ho gentogler, Baldwin Maxwell, May. Uemmill, Brooke. Andrews, StefTy. Firemen up: Kepner, Wcigle. Conductors up: May, Bitner. Brakemen up: Corpman. Hocli, Me dian, Kugle, \ Hilillf Division —The 217 crew first to go after 12.D0 o'clock; 222. 451 242, 244, 247. I.aid off: 21 33, 22. 35. To follow layoff: 31, 19. 28. Brakeman for 217. Engineers up: Blazzard, Fesher, Nu- Ford, Rathefon, Brink, E. R. Snyder, Burris. Firemen up: Zaring, Schell, Adams, Primm, Eensenbacli, Qault. Brakemen up: „ Pierre, Johnston, Frank, Feagley, Danner. Yard lloard —Kng'ineers up: Auman, Miller, Beaver, Esslg, Ney, Boyle, Shipley, Revle, Weigle, Ulsh, Bost dorf, Schiefer, Rauch, Shade, McCorU, Snyder. Firemen up: Houdeshel, Ripley, Speese, Peters, Biever Jr., Yost, Kin ger, Troup, Disslnger, Young, Wright, Sellers, Fitzgerald. Bitner. Miller. Engineers for 4th 7C, 2nd 15C, 3rd 15C 23C. 35C. Firemen for 2nd 7C, 29C. EN OLA SIDE Philadelphia Dlvlnion —The 214 crew first to go after 3.45 o'clock; 203, 235, 227, 216, 217, 209. Engineers" for 203, 235, 227, 209. Firemen for 214, 227 217, 209. Conductors for 14. 17, 27. Brakemen for 03, 09, 17. Conductors up: Sturgeon. McComas. Middle IllvlMlon—The 216 crew first to go after 3.35 o'clock; 229 248. Laid olt: 109, 105, 104. Ynrtl Board —Engineers up: J. Hin kle, Sheafter, ICapp, Fortenbaugh, Gingrich. Myers. Firemen up: Morris, Sanders, Cash nian, Taylor, Mllliken, Kenneday. Sad ler,Walters, Dougherty, Meek, Holmes, White. Firemen for 3rd 126, 2nd 102, Ist 104, 109. PASSBJiGEII DEPARTMENT Mldillc Dlvlnlon Engineers up: Liley, ltenninger, Crimmel, Alexander' Celly, Spotts, Graham, Buck, Crum, iparver Miller, Kelser. Firemen up: Dysinger, Gates, James H. Brenner, 6 South Fourth St. Six Hour V'-Sm Sale EXTRAORDINARY m£S. J '>2o# Garments Counts From Which To Make Your Selection. out-of-Town Shoppers Invited to Attend This Special Sale Read Carefully. Note the Article That You Desire and Come Within The Hour Specially Advertised. 9 to fO A. M. I to 2 P.M. ,3 to ft P.M. $1.>.8, and " p All our $35.00 and $39.50 Silk Waists All Wool Serge Dresses Suits and Coats TWO IS Tbuye'r'!! For SIO.OO. At $25.00 SI.OO Each pftnr°irM XC nnr e nri" 0 rcfun< * 8 ' no Alterations at cost; none C. O. None sold before or after this charges, none on approval. _ . .neciil time Alteration at cost D - or approved . special time. • First Floor II to 12 Noon I to 2 P. M. 4 to 5 P. M. i7.DB $21.50 I#o Sin[ Camiso i es $8.50 Wool Serge Dresses Women's and Misses' for 29 c For $3.98 „ Suits One to each purchaser. I PI nit Floor per cent, off on all Skirts of pure ail wool . . _for Friday and Saturday. - 0 .. Flrnt Floor ror 512.98 15 per cent, off on all Plush —————————— . Coats for Fridav and Satur- SIOO Corsets all day Fri- Alterations at cost; none ex- oaTS lor -Friday ana c>atur £ Qr J , changed. day. * ' VlVit Floor" '' I South street jjadiesjflasfyionablc(Dutcx(jj)armenfe Market If i V For K i Ivi ' 11 11 i ji Old Conct comfort with utmost a at most 00 SI.OO to $3.00 lAt All Dealers WEINGARTEN BROS. Inc., New York Chicago San Francisco I OCTOBER 25, 1917 Thompson, Hugging, Cornpropst, Kel lej\ Bealor, Schrauder, ltamsey. Engineers for 49, cpld. 43. Firemen for 1. 29, 069. Phllmlrlphlit l)lrlln Engineers up: Eippi, Eindley, Gibbons, Gillums, PI earn. Firemen up: Piatt F. Floyd, Cover, Dodd, Aulthouse. Firemen for 26, 878, 628. THE READING The 3 rt-ew first to go after 1.43 o'clock: 17. 14, 16, 21, 19 .6. 10. 20, 2. 71. 54, 65. 57. 58. 53. 59. 56, 62, 63. 66. Engineers for 56, 58, 59. Firemen for 53, 59, 63, 10, 21. Brakemen for 53, 62. 68, 71, 2, 15, 19. 20. Engineers up: Motter, Massimore, Bowman. Warner, Beecher, I^ackey. Firemen up: Corpman, Klngsbor ough, Hess, McKee, Brougiier, Selioetz' Her Christian Duty To Othe Had Be en Troubled for Years With Gall Stones Until Fruit ll 3 ola Brought Relief. S S; Anvr ic who hag ever suffered the I fslr agonj Di gall stone troul>le will un- VS. 4 ' : WB& derstand the sense o£ gratitude that ■ mßf. impelled Mrs. M. E. Eaucks. lied • IMM Hon, York Co., Pa. (It. F. D. No. 1), wr 'tc to the Pinus laboratories as follows: "I feel It my Christian duty : to anyono suffering from gall stones siilliSLv ,0 write this testimonial. I sufferod * for several years with gall stones and ' W severo attacks of gall colic. The best doctors in our community could not help me; the only thing they recom mended was an operation, which I hesitated to permit. I am very thank i-~ i ful I hoard of Fruitola and Traxo and ■f np ir t- t attpl/q Used it. Have not had an attack for MK£>. M. H.. two years and gladly recommend Fruitola and Traxo to all who suffer with stomach trouble or gall stones. Fruitola and Traxo are prepared in the Pinus laboratories at Monticello, Ills., and can be purchased in drug stores; a doctor's prescription is not necessary. Fruitola is a pure fruit oil that acts as an intestinal lubricant, disintegrating the hardened particles that cause so much suffering and dis charging the accumulated waste to the sufferer's intense relief. One bottle is usually sufficient to indicate its efficacy. Traxo is a tonic-alterative that is most effective to rebuild and restore the weakened, run-down system. A booklet of special interest to those who suffer with stomach trouble! can be obtained by writing to the Pinus Laboratories, Monticello, Illinois. Fitzgerald, Deckcit, i U. Myers, Erb, Smith, Busliey, . .r, Stolil, SWArtz. Conductor up: Hall. Brakemen up: Greenwood, Zink. Fel-t ker, Pnxton, Gochoneur, Hamilton. Informal Hearing on Increasing Freight Rates Washington, Oct. 25.—Informal hearings upon the railroads applica tion to increase tfanscontinental rates and adjust rates to intermedi ate points, involved in the inter mountain rate cases, will be held by Attorney Examiner Thurtell, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, beginning November r> in New York. Other hearings announced to-day are November 12 at Chicago and No vember 21 at Portland, Oregon.
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