HARRISBURG BOY, CARL BECK, HERO OF GREAT ATHLETIC GAMES, KEEPS TECH ON MAP HILL LEAGUE OPENS SEASON Galahad Stars Meet Reading Today in First Battle of the Year Reading versus Galahad, will be the opening attraction Monday even ins in the Allison Hill baseball league, when the quartet of teams will usher in the fourth season on the Seventeenth and Chestnut street Mayor Keister is picked to throw out the first ball and start the teams amid the greatest amount of rivalry that has existed since the inception of the league. Ralph Black will be the umpire, and he will start the contest promptly at 6:30. The four teams will play 4 8 games during May, June and July. With the ex tra hour of daylight. Hill fans will see plenty) of good seven innings contests. Manager Pressler will again be in j charge of the Reading aggregation, | and a glimpse at his roster shows that his opponents will have a battle I royal every time they oppose his | team* George Levan again corneal to the fore, as one of the best all-j around players in the league. The' league would not seem complete without him in the lineup. He has j played practically every position the Railroaders, and does them all | equally well. Manager Pressler will j depend upon George to land a num-j of victories for him. When not in the box, George will fit in as a general utility player in any other position. The lineup of players in cludes Timothy J. Euker, Albert H. 'Ehling, Lewis H. Hanson, Gordon J. Piatt, Mervin H. Lescure, G. Dewey Shartle, Chester D. Ellenberger, Donald C. Werts, Victor A. Ibach, George H. SwaAz, John H. Lynch, j Jr., George H. Levan, Earl Mo- Curdy, William M. Cullen, Talog H. i Davies. Earl McCurdy will captain) the aggregation. Signs Up Good Men Manager A. H. Fritz has an aggre gation representing the Galahads, that looks very much like a Tech high school nine. He has signed up eight former Maroon athletes. "Mickey" Boyd will captain tha team and play first base. His long experience will make, him a good leader to balance some of the young er eiaterial on the team. D. C. Hawley, a former manager and cap tain of the "Green Sox" will also appear in the lineup. Several new faces will be seen in Galahad uni forms, and the team looks like a winner. The roster is: D. C. Haw ley, Charles I. Boyd, H. M. Hinklo, Gordon C. Holland, Harry B. Mill er, William M. ReifT, G. H. Gilbert, Howard Holsberg, Prank E. Boat man, Harold F. Cobaugh, Clifford C. YVingard, William Fortna and Leslie Poland. Manager Earl W. Killinger has rounded up a nine that should make all the other teams hustle to keep in 'he running with the Rose wood . Sumo of the best athletes in the city have been picked to rep resent the Rosewoods on the dia mond, and the team has a big fol lowing rooting hard for another championship. The team received a severe blow in losing "Snowball" Winters, who leaves to-morrow to join Uncle Sam's forces. He was considered one of the best tossers in the league, and the most consistent winner. Good List of Players The list of players is: Elwood E. • Mell, Warren E. Lyme. M. H. Caton, Norman L. Johnson, Fred D. Vree land, Edward Geary, William R. Shafer, Edwin B. Harris, George E. Bender, William S. Hoerner, Walter C. Dunkle. M. H. Thompson, C. G. Harmon. W. G. KHlinger, E. W. Kil linger, Harry Marks and Lynn Mc- Earl Killinger will captain the team. Manager Murray jr. Washburn has been busy all spring rounding up iv team that would keep the Hick-A- Thrift aggregation in the running in tho Hill league. lie has made sev eral good catches in landing clever players. Among these is "Shorty" Miller. Most of his last year's players are in the lineup, together with several Central and Tech stars.! His players are: Harold J. Murphy, C. F. Lingle, Lester E. Garverioii, Carlton Goodiel, Dana F. Griffin,; Blair E. Smith, Carl L. Beck. Ray- 1 mond S. Gearhart, Eugene E. Mill er, A. R. Hockenbrocht, William A. j Zeigler, J. L. Kirby, Noble L Frank,' .T. W. Irwin and George E. Sheaffer. The signed contracts of several oth- 1 er star players are expected to 1 reach this manager today. Monday night will usher in the fourth season for the Hill league. The first season's contest was won I by the Reading team, as was last year's. The second year saw the Rosewood team victorious. Each team has its stars, and the quartet looks better balanced than ever. The diamond has been placed in good condition, and patrons predict the best season in the history of the league. Poor Pitching Defeats Harrisburg at Lancaster A hotly contested game of ball was played at Lancaster yesterday by a Harrisburg team with Johnson and Winter pitchers and Peters bn£k of the bat. Harrisburg lost this battle through the wlldness of its Hinging staff. Winter relieved Johnson in the ninth after one man was out, with a runner on first and second. The first two men who faced him walked and forced in a run and that tied the score. The next hitter, Hecker, intentionally stepped in front of one which forced in the win ning run. Following is the score: HARRISBURG AB. R. H. O. A. E. Garverich, If .. 5 0 1 5 0 0 Shafer, 3b 5 I 2 3 3 0 Kuker, ss 4 0 1 3 4 1 Thompson, cf .. 5 0 2 1 0 0 Johnson, p 3 1 1 0 1 0 Walters, 1b,.... 4 1 2 ti 0 0 Wcigle, 2b 4 2 3 3 0 0 Peters, c 4 I 3 4 0 0 Ehling, rf ....*.. 2 0 0 0 0 0 Winter, p...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 36 6 14 25 x 8 1 LANCASTER AB. R. H. O. A. E. .Myers, ss 5 1 1 1 3 1 t lershock. If ... 4 2 1 1 0 0 Houck, rf 5 1 2 0 0 0 Vogt, c 3 1 1 5 3 0 Bowman, 2b ... 4 2 2 6 1 1 Fritsch, 3b 3 0 0 2 1 0 J. Hecker, cf .. . 3 0 0 5 0 0 H. Hecker, lb . 3 0 1 7 1 0 Mellinger, p... 3 0 0 0 7 0 Totals' 33 7 8 27 16 2 xOne out when winning run was scored. * Harrisburg . 00140001 o—6 Lancaster ..00200110 3—7 Two-base hits, Weigle, Hershock. Home run. Bowman. Sacrifice hits. Ehling, Bowman. Struck out, by Johuson, 3; Mellinger, 5. MONDAY EVENING, SNOODLES —H6 Placed the Cow in a Bad Hole. / v. / Ye-e-es • / INO-r —— l ( iuc eer Tfi' V * I t / TaeftE ISNT X f -fourocr Feu-eft's J\ /OX } ° ( A** £ ow / (juriJ 1 \ UP "to SOME rectos J / Tts, N HCAveM <F H*T WWM I KNOW / VlntW . \ 1 Oft. HES *F J*OUE ] \ STo PS CH£wlN' l~friei>| WE'LIN P jgr (Kc ) -i Capital City Sports The Harrisburg Academy lost its fourth straight game Saturday when Baltmore Polytechnicaf school scored five runs against the AcaQemy's three. The game was a pitcher's bat tle and Pitcher O'Keefe, of Baltl-i more came out on top allowing only four hits. Esquerro. the Academy's South American twirler was pojinded for seven safetes which were bunched and proved disastrous for the Acad emy nine. The work of the fielders was fair and there was little choice between the two teams in this re spect. Baltimore scored three runs in the first inning when Kelley walked, stole second and scored on O'Keefe's double. Smith fled out to Bateman and O'Keefe scored on Grace's single. Grace advanced to second on a sac rifice fly and tallied the third run when Wood singled over short. Wood was caught stealing third and put out the side. The other two runs tallied by Baltimore were scored on errors fol lowed by timely singles. The Academy scored in the second when Esquerro drove in Stone with a two-bagger. In the ninth the Academy's hopes rose when Hawkins pelted the pill for two sacks and scored Wren and Lauder milch, who got their bases on 'errors. O'Keefe then pulled together and fanned three men. It was never known to fail. After Mayor Keister had presented "Snow ball" Winters with a purse on Sat urday, the St. Mary's Catholic Club, engaged in the opening battle with the West End A. C. cut loose and decimated "Snowball" for four runs. St. Mary's won eventually and "Snowball" was not greatly agitated over the result, for it was his last appearance as star twirler for many a day. He goes into government service this week. West End threat ened to cop this opening game at the crack of bat, sending over one mark er in the first and piling up four more in the second. Looked like good night for St. Mary's but then you can never tell an umbrella by the cover and St. Mary's when she got good 94id ready took "Snowball's" measure accurately. With the score knotted, 5-5. St. Mary's had the punch to put over one more run In the ninth, getting the decision. It was a fast, clever game, interesting as any big league event. The slaughter at Steelton on Sat urday was gory enough to have twig ged a grin from Kaiser Wilhelm. The Steelton huskies picked up poor harmless Albright College and when they got through hurling them all over the diamond the verdict was 28-1. When the collegians got over their one run, gallant classmates gave the school yodel and all hands cheered up, but the joy was short. Not another tally came over ,and Steeltoh scored when she felt like it. Stutz, the former Tri-Stater, and Bud Weiser, of New York State league fame, were the heroes of the fray, each clouting out homers in big league style. Stutz stood out pre- Baseball Summary; Where They Play Today YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League ■St..Louis, 3; Cleveland, 0. Detroit, 3; Chicago, 2. SATURDAY'S RESULTS American League Philadelphia, 1; Washington, 0 (11 innings). • New York, 5; Boston, 4. Detroit, 2; Chicago, 1 ((11 in nings). St. Louis, 4; Cleveland, 3. National League Chicago, 3; St. Louis, 0. .Cincinnati, 3; Pittsburgh, 1 (first game). Pittsburgh, 4; Cincinnati, 3 (sec ond game). SATURDAY'S RESULTS Brooklyn, 3; Philadelphia, 0. New York, 4: Boston, 1. Pittsburgh, 5; St. Louis 4 (10 in nings). Chicago, 1; Cincinnati, 0. STANDING OF THE CLUBS American licaguc W. IJ. Pet. Boston 12 5 .70G | Cleveland 9 B .600 j New York 8 8 .500 Chicago t; r .500 1 Detroit 5 6 .455 Philadelphia 6 8 .429 1 St. Louis 6 8 .429 Washington 5 10 .333 National Ix-ague W. L. Pet. New York 14 1 .933 | Chicago 11 3 .78G j Philadelphia 8 7 .533 Pittsburgh 7 7 .500 I Cincinnati 8 10 .444 1 Brooklyn 5 10 *333 i St. Louis 5 13 .313 j Boston 3 12 .200 SCHEDULE FOR TODAY American I/eague Cleveland at Chicago. St. Louis at Detroit. Boston at New York. Washington at Philadelphia. National I.eague Cincinnati at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. New York at Boston. , eminently Vith 5 hits and 4 runs to his credit as well as a fine line of chatter, for which ho Is noted. He also staged several brilliant plays the shortstop station. "Buck" Ramgey started the mound work for the Steels and although the well-known twirler had been credited as being an old-timer sev eral seasons back, performed like a coming yoflngster and proved that he still possessed a kick. Clarke, a local favorite, bids fair to be the league fence buster. Hershey saw a rattling and rattled game on Saturday when the Ituxton nine of Harrisburg, beat the Hershey outfit 17-4. Ruxton used Pitcher Shay all through the fray and he kept Hershey to eight hits, while the Har risburg bunch were very free with Pitchers Sulam and Stover. At Highspire Ralph Green captur ed first honors and a leg on the Na tional Sportsman trophy cup Satur day afternoon at the regular month ly shoot of the Highspire Rod and Gun Club, with a clean break of 25 targets. A. Shaffner won second place in the shootoff of a tie with three other members by breaking ten straight. T. Gross won third place: N. Green a gold charm: J. Cover, a silver charm; H. Green, a bronze charm, and A. Gross, the seventh prize. in the opening game of the Cen ] tral Iron and Steel League Saturday afternoon the Blast Furnace handed i the General Office a trouncing with a j score of 17 to 10. A large crowd was | on hand to witness the Initial con | test in the Munition Shop League and the playing was snappy. Spencer |)Hall officially opened the league race j when he tossed the first horsehlde | sphere to Pitcher Williams. That Uncle Sam can play baSeball as well as fight was proved on Sat urday at Lebanon when the Steel League team there got upset by a United States Infantry team, 6-1. Harry Thompson, who was drafted by rtie Washington club and then drafted some more by Uncle Sam, was the chief stumbling block to Bethlehem. He kept the few hits scattered and was lucky that his teammates rapped the ball at timely moments. One of the greatest crowds that ever attended a ball game at Colum bia, was present on Saturday when the soldier boys from Camp Meade, all of whom live in Columbia, came back on a short furlough to play the local team under Jimmy Sheck ard, once famous otitfielder with the Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn. Sheck and lives in Columbia and it was his idea to pull off this game before any more Columbia boys "go over." The event was preceded by a smashing parade and the whole countryside turned out. The game was one grand display of patriotism rather than se rious baseball but the soldiers were keen to win and they did so, trim ming the boys handled by Jimmy Sheckard by a short margin. EUROPEAN CHAMPION BACK IX) BOXING AFTER I YEARS j i Georges Carpentler, European heavyweight champion before the war, but since it began one of the heroes of the French, has returned to boxing, and this photograph shows him in his teaching costume at the Ecolo Milltaire de Joinville Le Pont, where he trains French soldiers to box just as Is being done in the American Army. At the beginning of the war Carpentier was one of tho great auto drivers in France. Then he took up flying and made a suc cess of that. i HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH! CARL BECK IS STAR ATHLETE Wins Four Prizes at Cham pionship Games, Keeping ' Tech High on the Map Carl Beck, Tech's best all-around athlete, proved his superiority Sat urday morning at the annual inter scholastic track and field champion ships of the Middle Atlantic states by scoring seventeen points and car rying off the individual honors from a big field of stars. He wasthe only Maroon athlete at Philadelphia, yet his great work placed Tech third in the final results. "Cuckoo" won the high hurdles in 17 seconds flat: won the low hurdles in 26 4-5; tossed the twelve-pound shot 46 feet, 2inches, and landeA third place in the broad jump. He was easily the star of the meeting, and hl3 work surprised the Philadel phia critics. The meet was held un der the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, and the best schoolboy athletes of the East gathered to the meet. Beck easily won the honors with his seventeen points. Davis, a Mer cersburg lad, was secoVid wi\h thir teen points. Mercersburg tallied in all fifty-five points: St. Benedict's! School, of Newark, was second with eighteen points. Beck came in third with seventeen. Had others of the Tech athletes entered the competi tion. the local school would have been sure to have at least won sec ond place. Last year at Easton, with half of the squad, Tech tied Mercers burg for second place, being nosed out by Perkiomon by two points. On Decoration Day Tech will have a chance to even the score with Mer cersburg, as both schools are repre sented in the Lafayette meet. Beck is a sophomore at Tech, and, with two years more of high school competition in high school sports, he should have enough medals to go into the jewelry business. year as a freshman he made the football, basketball and track teams and was the champion wrestler of the school. This year he has played on all of the athletic teams, and will undoubtedly have the largest number of "Ts" ever won by any other student. Last Thanksgiving he scored six touchdowns against Central In the final game between the two schools. As a member of the basketball quin tet that won the. Central Pennsylva nia inter-scholastic basketball cham pionship, he scored a greater num ber of goals from his guard position than did all of his opponents from forward. On the track team last spring he was an all-around star in half a dozen events. He holds the school record for the shot put, high and low hurdles. In the Pennsylva nia high school meet on the Island last spring he scored four firsts, two seconds and ran a quarter-mile on the winning relay team. The only sport In which Beck has not won a "T" is in baseball, for the reason that the Maroon school is not represented by a regular team on the diamond at the present time. However, he can take a turn at the great national game and has signed with the Hick-A-Thrlft team of the Allison Hill League. Tuesday even ing he will hold down third base for the Washburn aggregation against the Rosewood aggregation at Seven teenth and Chestnut streets. Clar ence Beck, a brothef, graduated from Tech two years ago, the most popu lar and best athlete ever to go from Tech. The older lad went to State College, where he captained the State freshman eleven. Then he en tered the service of Uncle Sam and was assigned to the Usaac camp at Allentown. At once he was elected captain of the Usaac eleven. Both brothers have their following, and any time you want to start an ar gument just ask the question as to which is the better athlete of the Beck boys. Believe Me, Boy, This Was Some Battle The Harris Juniors, direct descend ants of old John Harris, played one terrific game of ball on Saturday with the Boas A. C. and the whole world may read from the appended score sent in by the treasurer of the Harris club Just what happened. R. Harris Jrs 3 3 2 0 5 2 1 13 3—32 Boas A. C. ... 2130 1 5 4 8 5—29 Five Buffalo Babies Are Born Same Day Allentown, Pa., May 6. —Five buf faidfcs were borne on one day in General parry C. Trexler's game park, ten miles north of Allentown, making him tlje owner of forty-sev en bison, believed to be the largest herd owned by an individual on the continent, and rivaling those of the United States and Canadian govern ments In the great game preserves of the Rockies. The forty-seven have ihcreased from three, with which he originally stocked his park In 1911. There would be more but for the fact that some of the buffaloes killed one an other. There always is a fight for the mastery of the herd, now headed by a shaggy old bull named Carranza, himcelf a battle scarred warrior. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator— Ad. NEWS OF INTEREST Cat Western Trains; Eliminate Fast Traffic Chicago, May 6.—One-third of all the passenger trains between Chi cago and the Pacific Coast will be eliminated after June 1, according to word received from Washington by railway officials last night. This step, it was said, would save approx imately $12,000,000 a year and cut off 728..000 miles of train haul. R. H. Aishton, regional director of the Western railroads and assist ant to W. G. McAdoo, Director of Railroads, said that under the rev olutionized plant of handling traf fic, passengers would no longer have a choice of routes. Traffic to the west coast and intermediate points would be divided between four lines, as follows: To Los Angeles and Junction points—Santa Fe. To San Francisco and Junction points—Union Pacific. To Seattle and Junction poin'ts— Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. To Portland and Junction points —Northern Pacific. The cut in service would take off three through trains from Chicago to Los Angeles, two to San Fran cisco and three to Seattle and Port land. More than forty local trains would be dispensed with also. It was expected that the Chicago- Kansas City, St. I-ouis-Kansas City and Chicago-Omaha traffic would be given consideration next week when officials take up reduction of service from the Missouri River to Texas and the Southwest. HAI<RI<<BVRG SIDE Philadelphia Division The 127 crew first to go after 4 o'clock: 124, 102, 115. Engineer for 12". Fireman for 102. Conductor for 124. Brakeman for 102. Engineers up: Blankenhorn, Stef fy, Mohn, Lefever, Simmons, Brod aclier. Firemen up: Lutz, Shank, Clopp, Vogiesong, McLaughlin, Willard, Shoemaker. Conductors up: Solomon, Gal lagher. Brakemen up: Bair, Miller, Mader, Collier. Middle UlvlMlon —The 24 crew first to go after 2.45 o'clock: 33, 304, 43, 238, 237, 17. Engineer for 31. Fireman for 43. Flagman for 3if Brakemen for 33, 32. Engineers up: Leppard, Dunkle, Leiter, Howard, Hawk, Wadsworth, Lelb, Swigart, Tettermer, Moretz, Rowe, Earley, Titler. Firemen up: Johnson, Clark, Clouser, Myers. Conductor up: Crimmel. Brakemen up: Leonard, George, T. P. Leonard, Foltz, Hemminger, Good man. Yard Board —Engineers for 12C, 3-15 C. Firemen for 3-15 C, 23C. Engineers up: Biev§r, Ney, Myers. YVeigle. Firemen up: Brown, C. E. Sheaf fer, C. W. Sheacer Troup, Swomley, Mowery, Welsh, Smeigh, Rupley. BNOLA SIDE Philadelphia Divlalon The 223 crew first to go after 3.45 o'clock: 210. 246, 232, 245. Firemen for 246, 232. Conductor for 110. Rrakemen for 223, 232, 245. Brakeman up: J. P. Cushing. Middle Division —The 112 crew first to go after 4.30 o'clock: 228, 225, 215, 111, 250. Engineer for 111. Brakeman for 112. Vard Board —Engineers for 3rd 126, Ist 102, 112. Firemen for' 2nd 126, 2nd 104, 112. Engineers up: Ewing, Fenlcal, Hanlon, Holand, Quigley, Herron, Feas, Lutz. Firemen up: Hail, Bainbridge, Huber, Martin, Jones, Holmes, Yeagy, Conly, Campbell, Nolte, Handiboe, Klpp, Haverstlck. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT Middle Division —Engineers up: D. G. Riley, J. Crimmel, F. McC. Buck, R. E. Crum. R. M. Crane. W. D. Mc- Dougal, O. L Miller, G G Keiser Firemen up: R. F. Mohler, W. 15. Hoffner. A. L Reeder, R. A. Arnold, 1 R. E. Look. G. B. Haas, F A. Pottleg er, E. E. Ross, J. C. Kerber, J. L Fritz. Firemen for 21, 19. 69, 19. 11 Philadelphia Division Engineer up: M. Pleam. , Firemen up: F. H. Cook. W. E. Aulthouse, J. Cover, ffm. Shive, F. L Flyd. J. M. Piatt, J. M. White. E. D. McNcal. Engineer for 30. Firemen for 604, 5560, 626. THE READING Tlio 10 crew first to go nfter 1.45 o'clock: 51, 55, 89, 4. 2, 12, 22. 15. 73. Engineers for 55. 69, Brd. Firemen for 55. 6!, 2, 12,15, 22, 256, 2-258, Lebanon work train. Conductor for 73. Flagmen for 69, 73. Brakemen for 61, 69. 2, 12, 22, 256, Lebanon work train. Engineers up: Seibert, Clouser, Kohl, Warner, Griffith. I Firemen up: Brady, Durbrow, Sea -1 sholtz, Kitnqr, Bohner, Fitzgerald, j Derkert, Patterson. Miller, Demdorf, j Crouse. Sowers, Fessler. Brakemen up: Tiawltz, Mackey, Ensmlnger, Seiler, Swartz, Bashore, Jones, Gallagher, Flyer, I',. Ensming -1 cr, Bennlnghove. REPRIMANDS FOR RULE VIOLATORS The Middle Division Bulletin Shows Minor Offenses Dur ing Last Half of April Reprimands and short suspensions feature latest bulletin for Middle di vision headquarters at Altoona. Not one man lost his job. Superintend ent N. W. Smith comments favorably on the good work by the men, and in his next efficiency bulletin, looks for a high percentage. Offenses chalked up for the week ending April X brought worthy reprimands. One man will lose his pass privileges for the balance of the year for mis using his cardboard. The bulletin fol lows: Exceeding speed limit, one pas senger engineman reprimanded. Causing engine to run through switch, one passenger engineman reprimanded; one baggageman rep rimanded: one passenger brakeman reprimanded. Leaving rear brakeman after stop ping at block station, one passenger engineman suspended one round trip; one freight engineman reprimanded; one passenger conductor suspended one round trip. Honoring ticket in error reading via another railroad, one passenger conductor reprimanded. Palled to Answer Duty Call Collision, one yard conductor repri manded, one freight brakeman sus pended two round trips; two hostlers suspended seven days. Falling asleep while on train re sulting in riding past point where ordered to relieve crew, one freight fireman reprimanded. Failing to report for duty after having been properly called, one freight fireman suspended one round trip; two freight brakemen suspend ed two days. Not being on hand when wanted for duty, one freight fireman repri manded; two freight firemen sus pended two days; one freight brake man suspended two days; one freight brakeman reprimanded; one yard brakeman suspended two days; one yard brakeman reprimanded. Derailment, two yard brakemen reprimanded. Draft Collision Draft collision, two freight brake men reprimanded; fifteen yard brakemen reprimanded; nine yard brakemen suspended one day; one yard brakemah suspended two days; one switchman reprimanded. Displaying proceed signal in error which allowed train to enter track for which he held holding order and which was occupied by an opposing train, one signalman suspended Wyo weeks. Failing to display signal promptly resulting in detention to passenger train, -one signalman suspended one day. Failing to divert cars in accord ance with instructions, one clerk reprimanded. Absence from duty without per mission, one hostler suspended one day; one groundman reprimanded; one store attendant deprived of bo nus for first half of April. Leaving his place ol' duty without permission, two machinist helpers deprived of bonus for first half of April; one shop hand deprived of bonus for first half of April; one shophand suspended seven days. Faulty workmanship to locomo tive resulting in detention, three ma chinist helpers reprimanded: one machinist helper suspended two days. Faulty inspe'etion of locomotive re sulting in detention, one locomotive inspector reprimanded. Altoona officials of the Pennsyl vania Railroad report busy times at the shops at that place. Orders are on the books to keep the men busy for aver a year. Plans for the Enola Shop League are nearlng completion. Teachers' Retirement Tables Are Published The Pennsylvania Teachers' Re tirement Board, which is providing for the establishment of the state teachers pension system has isstied a table of payments required from sal aries of teachers to enable them to participate in the system which is now being distributed among the 40,000 teachers in the State. Prof. H. H. Baish, the Secretary, in a statement issued says that the rates of contribution are based on an ac tuarial investigation of the service and mortality records of teachers ihroughout the country. The contribution from school em ployes are computed to be sufficient to pay one half of the retirement allowances. "The rates" he says, "are lower for mfcn than women on ly because the mortality among men annuitupts is higher than among women, resulting in a small number of payments to men, consequently In a reduction in the cost #of the al lowances. The rate at which the employe begins to contribute is com puted to remain constant through out the remainder of the service." The tallies issued give the percent age of salary required from 18 to 61 years of age. At 18 mfn are list ed at $3.33 and women at $3.69, while the payment at 22 is $3.81 for men and $3.78 for women. At 30 it is $3.42 and $3.96; at 35, $3.55 and $4.16; at 40, $3.74 and $4.45; 15, s4.tyl and $4.83; at 50, $4.34 and $5.29. MAY 6, 1918 Altoona Shops Show Big Increase in Men • Altoona. May s.—More men are on the Pennsy payrolls at pres ent than any time in the history of its industries here.' A greater amount of \tork is provided for them and they are earning and re ceiving bigger remuneration than ever, which will undoubtedly con tinue indefinitely. Juniata shop forces have sufficient orders scheduled to keep them oper ating with a maximum output from now until April 1, 1919, an official explained to a Tribune producing the schedule showing ex actly how much they have to accom plish. Larger engines are being con structed for latter day conditions, and this has served to reduce the number completely weekly. The shops are \rushing out five locomo tives a week, almost one each work ing day, and strenuous efforts to in crease the weekly capacity to six are being made. Although Altoona car shops have comparatively few new passenger cars to construct. 2,000 N-25 all steel box cars, 100 F-21 flat cars, 115 N-5 steel cabins, 250 X-21 cars and a number of other types, includ ing ordnance department trucks for the government, remain to be com pleted. Twenty PB-70 passenger coaches of last year's program, also must be built. Altoona machine shopmen have many engines to be groomed for the heavy tasks devolving upon them as result of unprecedented traffic. The winter proved unusually severe on motive power and the shops are not caught up with repair duties. The boiler shop employes are en gaged in helping Juniata shops by making boilers for new engines and thus speeding up the work of creat ing additional equipment. Railroad Notes H. D. Long, chairman of the com mittee on arrangements for the Friendship and Co-operative Club outdoor meeting, has called a meet ing of his co-workers for to-morrow night, at Grace street rooms. Bolger Beam, a retired Pennsyl vania Railroad engineer, is doing his bit. Besides his little farm in Cum berland county, he has a big garden near Paxtonia thait he looks after. Special Duty Engineer W. D. Bowers has started his war gar den near Losch's Run. John Bright, well.known passen ger conductor on the Reading, who has had a siege at sickness, is back on duty and was warmly welcomed by his friends. Charles G. Baird, head of the Three Hundred and Fourteenth Battalion, Telegraph Engineers, %nd known to hundreds of railway men, died in France. A native of Phila delphia, Major Baird was for many years connected with the Pennsyl vania Railroad's headquarters in Philadelphia. William Witherow, formerly con nected with the Great Southern Des patch Freight Line office in this city. Is looking after transportation at Marsh Run. One effect of the elimination of through passenger trains is that the remaining trains are so crowded that all upper berths of the Pull man sleepers are occupied, giving the Pullman Company a full return on the cars In operation. But the traveler asks, why not put on a few more sleeping cars? The new Philadelphia and Read ing timetable will be out May 28. It is said; one or more trains will go back on the schedule. * "They Shall Not Pass" The demonds of high costs will not be able to batter down the bulwark of King Oscar Quality The price has changed to six cents, but the quality holds. JOHN C. HERMAN & CO. Makers 9 CHANGES MADE AT ENOLA YARDS R.G.Cunningham Transferred to Harrisburg; G. W. El linger His Successor Enoln, Pa., May 6.—Several im portant changes in the official ranks of the local yards were made re cently, it became known t<-day. Robert G. Cunningham, assistant trainmaster, who has had charge of the Knola and Marysville yards for the last several years, has been transferred to the Harrisburg yard district. George W. Ellinger, an as sistant trainmaster of Harrisburg, will succeed Mr. Cunningham. An other big change of importance is the appointment of A. H. Landis who has been placed in charge of the railroad facilities at the two big government depots in this vicinity, namely at Middleotwn and Marsh Run. It is rumored here that several local railroad men will be transferr ed to Marsh Run to assist Mr. Lan dis with the work at that point. Mr. Cunningham, who was moved from here, has been in charge for more than three years. He succeeded George W. Fisher, then general yardmaster, who was later retired. Mr. Cunningham during his term here made many changes which greatly increased efficiency among ihe employes. Tuckahoe, Built in 27 Days, and Lancaster Launched in Delaware Philadelphia, May 6.—Two big ships were launched from Delaware river shipyards yesterday, one ot them the most quickly built ship afloat. The Tuckahoe, a 5,500-ton naval collier, was launched at the New York shipbuilding Company, seventy five per cent, complete, twenty-seven days and three hours after the first piece %r steel was put down. It will be in service in ten days. The Lancaster, a 10,000-ton cargo vessel, was launched at the Sun Ship building Company's yard at Chester, the third turned out at this yard since last fall. The launching of the Tuckahoe is the biggest achievement yet in America's shipbuilding program, and was pronounced by Director-General of Shipping Schwab as the heaviest stroke delivered at the Hun in months. The two launchlngs brought the shipbuilders of the nation to Phila delphia yesterday. Not only were the men who are building America's bridge of ships to Pershing here, to congratulate the workmen who put the world's record over, but Presi dent Wilson sent a personal message of greeting and General Pershing re ceived a full cable telling of the suc cessful battle in the shipyards.
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