16 APRIL'S ARBOR DAYS ARE FIXED Governor Issues Proclamation Designating Two Fridays in Next Month Friday, . April 12, and Friday, April 26, were to-day designated by Governor Brumbaugh as the spring \ arbor days for Pennsylvania, in a proclamation in which he makes ap peal for planting of fruit and nut trees, and the planting of trees about public places, as well as ad vancement of general reforestation. Tn his proclamation, the governor "WHEREAS, A wise people will never sacrifice a permanent good for a temporary gain; and "WHEREAS, Pennsylvania to-day, can correct the error of a former time and make her future population increasingly happy and healthy, by planting trees and thus manifest a wise provision and do a worthy ser\ - ice, and "WHEREAS, It is increasing ly manifest that this great com monwealth needs great reaches of forests and widely distributed areas of shade to the end that our people may not lack in tho essential resources that are ne 'cessary to their well-being, now "THEREFORE, I, Martin O. Brumbaugh, Governor of the- Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania, do hereby designate and sot aside "Friday, April 12, and Friday, April 26, 1918 as ARBOR DAYS. "Our environment has much to do with the kind of people we are. To build a home and roar children in a barren waste, is wholly unwise. To live in the presence of trees; to know their practical and mystical ministra tions; to environ our homes with trees whose shade ana fruits are ministrations of the greatest value; to hear the songs of birds with the songs of our mothers, to realize that ' 'f 1 thus speaks to us in ministr> that is holy. Without it life lacks much that it craves and needs. One cannot think of a treeless country as a great coun try. If we are to have a con tinuous llow of life-giving water in our streams; if we are to avoid devasting floods and dead ly droughts; if we are to main tain our rapidly increasing pop ulation in health and happi ness; if we are to provide recre ation that is wholesome and helpful; if we are to increase the necessary animal life to pro vide food for our people; if we are to multiply the Hocks of in sectdevouring - and song-thrbat ed birds; if we are to restore and maintain the Pennsylvania that was once our happy herit age, we must plant trees. "There is 'increasing demand for fruit and nut bearing trees in Pennsylvania. Our great highways, now happily becom ing satisfactory avenues of trav el for our people and of trans portation for our products, should be lined with these trees and their products utilized to keep these highways always in excellent condition. Thus our many matchless piiles of scenic splendor can be made also a source of grateful shade and en during good for our people. "It is not only a duty imposed by law, but an obligation im posed by every sane considera tion to encourage the humane treatment of all living things that are not harmful to human life. Our song birds are among our blessed ministries. They should be protected and wel comed. We need trees for their refuge and nests. It is most im portant that Arbor Day should include among its dominant features, some reference to our feathered friends. Let Bird Day be made part of Arbor Day. Teach our children that when they plant a tree, they plant a home for birds, that these birds must be our companions if we are to live aright and that there are few songs, if any, in the heart of a people,' if birds are not singing at dawn from tree top and forest fastness. A boy that harms a bird, is not a good American boy. "Trees should be planted about our homes, our churches, our schools; in our, public parks, along our streets and highways; and on our remotest mountains. Memorial trees, in honor of great men and women and great events in our history should have commanding place. An example of this is to be found on the campus of your State Capitol, where a row of trees, each bearing the name of an honored colonial governor, is now planted. Let the love and loyalty of our peple find tilting expression in a widely-ranged observance of Arbor Day. "In home and . pulpit, and school, assemble the citizenry of this great Commonwealth and impress the meaning and value of the day and then out in the open, under the bending sky, in God's glorious sunshine set trees as memorials of your fixed purpose to make Pennsylvania the most life-conserving and beautiful Commonwealth in all the wold." SOLDIERS TO BE CITIZENS Atlanta, Ga.—Approximately 1,800 foreign born soldiers at Camp Gordon will take out their first citizenship papers this month, it is announced, having been informed that only Unit ed States citizens are eligible for pro motion in the Army. WARD LINE I Direct (ovice oo (at 'taa (ram New Yak to HAVANA Sitting! cany Satnrdmi I lfTYirn FORTNIGHTLY nU.AIVU SAILINGS • To Progreao, Vera Cru* and I Tamplco. Frequent calls at I j Nassau, Bahamas. Literature C ■ tt full information on request. P NEW YORK AND CUBA MAII. I I S. S. CO. |8 ' Foot t Wall Street, New York 1 Or any Railroad Ticket Office I or Authorized Tourist Agency 8 WEDNESCPST EVENING, fi'Mi .m in A-rm " MARCH 27, 1918. SCORES SEEK PLOTS FOR WAR GARDENS [pontinucd from First Page.] same hour the entire United States school garden army mobilized. The vast plan has been so carefully worked out that there was not a sin gle hitch in the program. The Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Education, called upon state and county super intendents of schools and also upon the Governors of the different states, the mayors of the difrerent cities, and school superintendents in cities, towns, villages and suburban com mittees, and asking everyone of these people to fall in line and get to work in the greatest practical volunteer campaign that has been started since the war began. Huns Work Gardens, Too The Germans organized their gar den army years ago and just because they did do that very thing they have been able to laugh at the rest of the world for so long. For back of every bullet and be hind every shell and under and over every cloud of poisonous gas and running every submarine and direct ing every aeroplane is a man who must keep up his energies with food. We might as well send our men to the' trenches to face cannons and air ships and poison gas and explosives, dressed in a suit of pajamas with nothing but their bare hands for weapons, declares the federal gov ernment, as to send our army over seas without enough provisions to keep them not only alive but in fight ing trim when they get there. Where are we going to get the food to send them? We have just one storehouse from which to draw, and that storehouse is in the fertile fields and the rich harvests of our own country. Our troops abroad need flour and sugar and coffee and tea and corn and meat—wo must send them these things or be ready to bow our heads under the German heel. Plots Are Blind, deaf and indifferent, the people of the United States are now beginning to realize what this food question means and to-day, when Superintendent Watts, disposed of the first plot, over live million school children were mobilizing into an army with otlicers and privates and sergeants, with drill and hard work, preparing for splendid service. Har risburg was right on the job. Two weeks ago Shirley Watts be gan plowing with a Cleveland trac tor and this morning he announced that 653 plots will be ready for gar dening within fifteen days. All plots will be ready by April 10 and the regulations order that the renter must start working within six days after securing his garden. The charge is $1.50 for each lot, a very considerate charge for the total ex penses falling to the Chamber of Commerce runs into the thousands and it is only fair that the renter should contribute something. It is proposed both to plow the lots and fertilize them. Furthermore the ren ter will have the services of a gar den expert from start to finish. Less than SI,OOO will come in from the renters, and the fertilizer expenses alone will amount to SI,BOO. Hence it is that the Chamber of Commerce will be heavily burdened. Superintendent Watts is doing the plowing himself, with co-opera tion of the Harrlsburg Auto Company which furnishes the savage little cat erpillar plowing tank. He esUmates that this machine is saving,s4.so an acre, as compared with the old style of plowing. The plots now being cultivated and fertilized are 500 at Bellevue; 75 at Nineteenth and Pax ton and 75 at Reel and Division. With these three sites Harrisburff will have 3.0 acres under cultivation as war gardens. Twenty-five acres will be assigned by the Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee and five acres will be given to school children. I/eases Are GiTen It is imperative that this project be carried on with system and or der, so the repter signs an agreement requiring, among other things, that he must keep the plot free from weeds and keep it cultivated. Failure in these, forfeits the plot. Neither can a plot be transferred without consent of the Commerce committee. Upon the assignment of a war gar den the applicant is given an iden tification card, a duplicate of which is kept by the Chamber of Com: merce. The gardener is required to carry this card, the purpose being to prevent persons appropriating other plots after being assigned a plot of their own. Secret Pump Was Used by Germans in Gauge Plot Against Navy, Charge PhiladelplUa, March 27.—Fritz Bierat, a German official of the Unit ed States Gauge Company, Sellers ville, Pa., now engaged on war con tracts for the American Navy, au thorized and directed the erection in the plant of a secret testing device which enabled those in the alleged plot to foist on the government de fective gauges certain to prove de ficient when most needed and likely to cause the injury or deaths of many of Uncle Sam's sailors, it was brought out by the government at the hearing yesterday of Bierat, Geo. Schubert and W T illiam Helnrichs. The men are three of the four ex ecutives of the gauge company who were arrested several days ago by federal secret service agents on the charge of conspiracy. Frederick Schubert, brother of George Schu bert, and general manager of the plant, is ill and was unable to at tend the hearing, but he, as well as the other three defendants, was ad mitted by United States Commission er Dong to the same bail as previous ly fixed, $5,000, for further taking of testimony in the case next Tuesday. Last Call Issued For Filing Income Tax Report The last call for income tax returns will sound on Monday next, and in order to oblige a numerous popula tion who have put off this duty to the last. Internal Revenue Tax Collector H. A. Vollmer has started to keep.lils office open at nights. Beginning with this evening, his office, now on the second floor of the Post Office build ing." will be open all day, until 6 p. m. and then from 7:30 to 9:30. Those who do not fill out blanks before Monday are liable to punishment for evading the requirement of the law. All single persons who earned or received SI,OOO during 1917 must fill out an Income tax return, and each married person who earned.or receiv ed $-.000 last year must do the same. Assistance in filling out these returns is given freely at the office of the internal revenue tax collector in the Post Office. PRISONERS FOR FARM WORK ReKlna, Sask. Action has been deferred by the Provincial Govern ment In connection with the proposal to release bootleggers and others convicted and Imprisoned for minor offenses. The jails are becoming fill ed with bootleggers as the act does not give the magistrate or judge the op tion of imposing a fine, and it has been suggested that In view of the need for labor on the farm, that these men could be let out of prison on sus pended sentence providing they were willing to help in the work of pro duction • FIRE DESTROYS AUTOS IN CITY GARAGE [Continued from First Page.] McCormlck home at 101 North Front street. When Rogers discovered the fire, flames were shooting out the middle and back of the second floor of the garage. The center of the conflagration was at the elevator shaft, which accounts for the fact that no cars were saved on the sec ond floor. Rogers rushed to the first floor of the garage where he aroused William Meyers, the night man at the garage. Rogers stated that Mey ers was asleep when he aroused him. Mr. Wolfe, the owner of the garage, who lives almost directly back of it at 119 Strawberry street, was quickly summoned. Fire Chief Kindler arrived on the scene soon after the alarm was turned in, and directed the drivers of the fire apparatus to run the cars on the first floor out on to the surrounding streets. The fire had at tained such headway on the second floor that it was impossible to as cend the stairs or save that part of the building. Fire Chief Kindler feared that the sparks from the flames would drop into a gasoline tank of one of the machines on the first floor and spread the ruin to the sixty motor cars located there. For that reason the men ran the motor cars to places of safety before turn ing all their attention to the fire on the second floor. Flames Spread Rapidly The flames spread so rapidly along the woodwork, fed by the gasoline in the automobiles, that at the ar rival of the firemen the second floor was a seething mass of flames. The fire was one of the most spectacular in months, as the flames leaped many feet into the air, throwing up dense black fumes of smoke from the gasoline and oil. The fire was punctuated by loud crashes as the debris of the roof fell onto the ruin ed machines on the second floor. Each time a section of the roof fell in, great showers of sparks were thrown high into the air, and fire men kept a sharp watch on sur rounding buildings to prevent spreading of the flames. Because of the intense heat of the fire, the da'nger of gasoline explo sions and the falling debris, firemen were at a great disadvantage, and merited much favorable comment for the efficient way they rescued the cars from the first floor. Early in the fire the elevator fell from the second floor to the first with a great crash, thus cutting off all means of salvage for the doomed contents of the second floor. Insurance on Cars On the second floor, which is con structed of concrete, seventy-five motor cars of all makes are 'com pletely ruined. Half buried under a mass of steel roofing, burned em bers of the rafters and the debris of the fire, and soaked with water, the cars on the second floor are beyond hope of repair. Few of the cars, it seemed this morning, are covered Dives, Pomeroy t\ ; r —— t New Cupid Hats ,Kb We are pleased to announce the arrival of I Prayerßooks mL-O Hats of the latest Parisian inspiration, ~pOT Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Second Floor, Front. Better grades of rosaries in bet- " Suits For Critical Young Fellows The average young fellow these days, knows what clothes lie wants and soldiers kit, including prayer jgWgdf , , , . ,i book, bla"k rosary, crucifix and NmNRUB Hji /' // x knows where he gets them. identification card. Special, $1.25 ggS : Catering to such tastes demands a stock of distinctive clothing, and we Rnnhc know that the suits we have in this Easter display are the latest designs and hf most approved patterns. White and white , Flannels, cassimeres and other fabrics in Military, Trench and English °Bmck doth and leather m P i a "n | // ..-Xll" models and fancy bindings.. 25c to $2.50 11 || / N K-^r w ' ' _ ~ _ Vest pocket prayer books, with /// II $20.00, $25.00, $30.00 and $35.00 K "' mt * o '- Co, ° mbu ",S to M ., s Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Second Floor. Divej, Pomeroy Stewart, iuo* Men's Walking Gloves . I Suits and Coats For The Latest Models in Boys' For Easter Wnm „ n - „. Suits,lneludingtheFamous Silk, Grey, Mocha and Tan Cape Styles Omen and MISSeS 0 \^ng S 'oc£ioS'°L%"} a!!d Many Styles to Xe- Military Models in tan, light and dark greys, chamois. Pair $1.50 i\/r i 4 ' n ' checks, mixtures and tweeds, with extra pan- Silk suede-lined gloves in brown OCierCLie 111 P TICC "pants, sizes 6to 18 years .... $7.50 and $8.50 and grey. Pair $1.50 Trench models and English models with patch Grey silk-lined suede gloves, Women who know pockets. Norfolk style ill variety of shades; sizes Genuine black head B rey S . ,hc cost ol A 9* IBf 8,0 18 '* ' ' *' to slso ° gloves with black embroidery. Pair, nc quality materials V/\ BOUS WCISH SllltS Tan kid glovS with are invited to profit by Military and trench models, Russians, Middy broidered stitching. Pair, t ' us special Easter ■/ ) 1 |)|fj I/yTh f\S\ blouses with sliort and long trousers, khaki; sizes $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 showing of suits—the , Men's Handkerchiefs .garments presented \MJ : W /1 fcr"" Boys' Top Coats; sizes 2]/ 2 to 10 years, French cambric handkerchiefs with hair line cluster this week for Women ! S j 'J 1J i i jpP' M $5.00 to $lO 00 stripes in color /.dozen $1.40; each .... 35? , and Misses are! dc- A Hemstitched linen handkerchiefs 2.c, 35 c and 500 vel dof gabardinc ; L_ \\ I Iff J -J Im Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Men's Store. i• r ii jrp • _i finished in a manner c- Rich JtLmbroidcrcd hffccts in 1 mported Kid IjCaUlllUliy inrnmGCl that stamps them at gp \3 The styles arc more varied than you would expect them . once as distinctive ™ * to be with manufacturing conditions in France so topsy Cotton W-aiStS blu<; isf "ored color hon K h there are many other STd"'" 1 "' C Bra white or white with black BUtching; pair 7R ,. handkerchief linens have been used with a lavish hand in LOOtS °* tlUe W OOlens For Spring whiJorwhTe ' n black making up these cotton blouses, still fresh in their boxes. Coats for every Sprine occasion ' Two-clasp silk sriovea, with Uoublo iinfier endu; in whitc. biuck The trimmings are tucks, laces, organdie and hand-em- broidery and the individual to collars and cuffs a" I°' W , raolor, "E' palr^ 1 "°: C '*T k '°. "Ir*'.. w . h " 0 . or . "'"i.Sli'r very refreshing. Choose in this special Easter group. for street, I-or formal wear. Kid Kjoves with two pearl clasps; in white with black stitch at $1 .5 to $10.(M) Thc co1ors fabrics ad weaves are interestingly complete. " S: K,d' gloves' with one pearl' 'clasp and' K k.' Pitching;' in khaM • Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart. Second Floor. 11l fact every coat wish call be realized in our Coat Scrtinn n " ith brown - Krey with white, or tan with ecqu; pair $3,25 . J V.J V.W. viai ovcuun. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor. HOW ROOF FELL IN AT THE GARAGE FIRE ' "t " A S<;\ s y•; v>"< >■• , • g " • , .- , £SS3& by insurance. The loss on this floor to the motor cars alone is $75,000, Mr. Wolfe said this morning. The heaviest individual loser is George B. Zech, the local Buick agent. Mr. Zech had fifteen cars on the second floor last night, every one of which is a shapeless ruin to-day. Four of the cars were new machines, one of which he had brought from Steelton yesterday, llis cars are not insured, he said. Three cars which were ruined in the early morning conflagration were stored in the garage last night for the night only, and were to be removed early this morning. I). W. Anderson, of Clearfield, motoring home from Florida, with his fam ily, placed his five-passenger touring car in the garage late last night. This morning he exhibited a small iron burr as the only part of his car salvaged from the wreck. His loss is SBOO. The car was uninsured. I .one Cars in Fire E. It. Ileller, of Wapwallopen, Pa„ came into the city last night and left his car at the garage. This morning he was informed that it was among the misshapen objects that had once been cars on the second floor. His loss is $1,250. A large touring car belonging to Emelio Russ, who conducts a store on the Square, was destroyed in the fire, lie declared this morning that be had intended to sell the car to day. It was uninsured. Another car owner was on hand this morning who had his touring car at the gar age for repairs, and by oversight ne glected to take it home last night. It is an uninsured loss. Origin Is Unknown The salvaged cars were run into Market Square and the side streets adjoining the garage. AB their own ers appeared this morning, they were asked if their cars were stored on the iirst or second floor. If they replied "on the second," they were told without hesitation they would never see their cars again. If stored on they llrst floor, they were directed to go out on the street and look for them. The origin of the fire remains a complete mystery. Fire Chief Kind ler could give no reason, nor could Mr. Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe said he knew of no possible way the lire could have been started. The night watch man had been on the second floor a half-hour before its discovery without seeing signs of lire. Fire fighters had to combat the worst heat in many months to ap proach fighting distance of the lire this morning. The heat was so in tense that windows in the Union Trust Building and the new build ing of C. Ross Boas were broken during the height of the conflagra tion. Mrs. E. Z. Gross, 23 North Third I street, wife of the city commissioner, was on the scene early this morn ing, serving hot coffee to the weary firemen who had been fighting the flames for two hours. Many of the firemen worked many hours with out rest. Tliey were at work all morning pouring water into the em bers and tearing away the debris that blocked the way to the half buried machines. To Rebuild at Once Mr. Wolfe this-morning made no announcement regarding the steps ho will take to continue his busi ness. He announced to several of the persons who stored their cars in his garage that he would arrange as soon as possible to take care of them. The building will be rebuilt at once, according to the Common wealth Trust Company trust officers, who now hold the lease. The prop erty loss Is fully covered by Insur ance, and there will be no change in the tenants at the present time, they announced. Other cars which have been Iden tified among the ruined are two trucks valued at $1,500, belonging to John C. Herman and Company; and a touring car valued at $2,785, belonging to Boone Abbot, super intendent of the Harrisburg divi sion of the Philadelphia and Read ing railroad, and Frank Masters, civil engineer of the Pennsylvania rail road, of the Engineers Club. Work on clearing out the debris began to-day. C. C. Page, 308 South Fifteenth street, lost a new touring car in the (ire. The touring car was a six-cyl inder model, und had been newly purchased yesterday by the owner. 'The John C. Herman Company lost two trucks used in its whole sale tobacco business. THOMPSONTOWN'S BUSINESS AREA BURNS [(3ontinuc<] from First Page.] out- The loss is placed at con sidcrablyv more than SIOO,OOO. Several persons were hurt fifeliting the flames and a number of women and children suffered from shock and exposure. Several were com pelled to flee from their homes in the early morning clad only in their nightclothing. Persons coming out of the town to-day by automobile and wagon, an nounced that the town now is with out provisions as the only two stores handling groceries have been burn ed out. There also is a scarcity of drugs and medicines. The l/osscs The losses follow: C. D. Stewart's general store. M. E. Schlegel Co., general store. B. F. Cayman's garage. H. C. Rowe's confectionery store, store. Dr. W. 11. Haines' drugstore. Dwellings occupied by B. H. Bran thoffer, Clarence Wetzler, Mrs. Sarah Gayman and Mrs. Keturah Mere dith. The loss at the Stewart store alone is estimated at $40,000. The tiro started from an over heated stove in the cellar of the Stewart store. A strong west wind carried the flames across the street to the Schlegel store and wiped out everything in a direct line. The local fire company managed to stop the progress of the blaze at the home of Edwin Fry.• Driven by High Wind Sparks driven by the wind started several minor fires in different parts of the town, but these were extin guished without loss. The dwellings of Mrs. Irvin McNaight., the Thomp sontown hotel and the home of Mrs. Mary < irows, across the street, were badly charred by the heat which also broke windows. The tire spread so rapidly that Dr. Haines was able to save only one pocket case of medicines. It was with these that he treated Amos Stouffer who was burned when he grasped a live wire and was thrown into burning embers. H. IJ. Long fell through a roof and was burned about the legs and badly bruised. Rowe also was hurt when his place took fire. Dewlstown sent aid but the ap paratus was turned back at Van- Dyke when word was i-eceived that the fire was under control. MILITIAMEN TO FILLCOMPANY Only Need One. More Man to / Complete the New Com pany I of State Militia The Pennsylvania Iteserve Militia had only one man to go to com plete its complement of fifty whe> it linished its work last evening the Armory. Forty-nine men hav<> been accepted for service. A nunr.'- ber of applications are still pending and it is believed the required num ber of men will bo reached at next Tuesday's meeting. Officers of the organization called attention last evening to the differ ence between the lUrrisburg lU* serves and (he Pennsylvania Reserve Militia. While both organizations are open to the same classes for en- ( listment they differ widely in their aims and field work. The Harris burg Reserves were organized with a purpose of drilling a picked body of men for home defense. They are an independent organization, fi nanced by (heir own members and subject to no orders except their own plans for patriotic work. The Pennsylvania Reserve Militia which is also being organized in the city at (he same time is a body of men really designed to take the place of the old National Guard. During the absence of trained sol diers from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it was realized that at any time might arise an occasion when it was necessary to do the work formerly done by the Guard. I They are subject to the orders of [ the Governor of the state through the Adjutant General's Department. They may at any time be sent (o any point where in the discretion of the Governor it is deemed necessary to place armed men.. Both organiza tions are aiming to rlo patriotic work, each in its own particular field. Major H. M. Stinc, with the ap proach of the warmer weather and a coming opportunity to drill on the Island, hopes to have a good attend ance of the Reserves throughout the summer months. The entire unit will be divided into several smaller bodies, each under command of officers who Ma jor Stine has authority to appoint. Men who wish to receive this train ing are asked to report to the Arm ory on Friday night or fo communi cate with the secretary of the or ganizatfon. Box 131, Harrisburg. BAROMETKR OF BUSINESS The humble penny is an unfailing barometer of business. During periods of depression pennies accu mulate in ttie subtreasurles, but when business is brisk they are on the move. AVatch the pennies for an indication as to the condition of business.—Milestones.