) o rall a City of I " T ' . 'ofP ? W -N. T7 , • TfoNeut wu ■ £*f'wr< jik HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4ft > •-/ ' ' ®k Slac-jJnbcpttt&enl. ' * ' LXXXVII— No. 274 24 PAGES "JKiaKW HARRISBURG, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1918. •■ , iS*.S!KS. :S",SfJiW u u " ™, HOME EDITION WILSON GIVEN TREMENDOUS OVATION AT FRENCH PORT GREAT GUNS ROAR WITH THUNDEROUS SALUTES FOR U. S. Wild Acclaim Is Given to President by Thousands of French People IMPOSING NAVAL SPECTACLE MARKS ENTRY Op' BIG FLEET By Associated Press Brest, Dec. I 3. —President Wilson reached the harbor of Brest on board the steamer George Washington at 1 o'clock this afternoon amid the deafening salvos of artillery afloat and on shore and at 3.24 o'clock stepped on shore —the first time an American President had trod on Euro pean soil. The arrival was the culmination of an imposing naval spectacle which began as the Presidential fleet rounded the outer capes, then passed the entrance forts and moved majestically into the harbor, where the George Washing ton anchored at the head of a long double column of American dreadnoughts and destroyers and the units of a French cruiser squadron. Leaves For Paris I here was a thundering cannonade as the President's launch left the George Washington and landed at pier. No. 3. He was escorted to the tribune amid cheers and salvos and the notes of the "Star Spangled Banner." I resident \\ ilson came ashore with Mrs. \Vilson, who carried an American flag and a bouquet. President Wilson left Brest for Paris at 4 o'clock this after noon. , . • . Crowd Tenders Frantic Ovation President W ilson's progress from the pier to his train was amidst a vociferous welcome from the throng in the streets. 1 lie President delivered a brief address after landing at Brest, thanking Mayor Goude for the Breton welcome given him. He then drove through the cheering crowd, the frantic ovation con tinuing until he reached the railway station. Great Cheer Rolls Across Harbor The presidential fleet was first sighted at 11.30 o'clock this morning fifteen miles off shore. The sea was calm, and the stately fleet moved landward under skies which were steadily brightening alter a dark and gloomy morning. It was more than an hour later that the fleet was signaled at the entrance of the harbor, and a great cheer arose from the waiting cro\yd as the cloud of black smoke showed that the Presidential party was near. Ahead came a single destroyer, showing the way to the fleet, and close behind loomed the battleships Pennsylvania and Wyoming, flying respectively the flags of Admiral Mayo, com mander of the Atlantic fleet, and Vice Admiral Sims, commander of the Anjerican naval forces in European waters. Then came the George Washington, bearing the President, flanked on either side by the battleships Arkansas, Florida, Utah, Nevada, Oklahoma, New \ ork, lexas and Arizona, by French cruisers and by a great flotilla of American and French torpedo boat destroyers. Salute Boom Gun ForGun The entrance to the harbor is a narrow straight a mile wide, with forts crowning the towering cliffs on each side. Through this avenue the imposing pageant moved, each of the ten forts contributing its cannonade and the 'ten American battleships answering gun for gun. As the fleet neared the inner harbor the land batteries and the assembled war craft took up the thunderous salute, while the quays, the hills and the terraces of.tli eold Breton city rang with cheers from the enthusiastic multitude. At the same time all the war craft, merchantmen and transports dressed ship and manned the yards, while the strains of the American anthem floated over the water, mingling with the roar of the guns and the shouts of the vast crowds. Wilson Acknowledges Plaudits of Crowd • The George Washington came to anchor off shore while the battleships ranged themselves in double column on either side. President Wilson witnessed the spectacle from the deck of his steamer, waving greetings and acknowledgements as the cheer ing throngh ashore vied with the artillery in the Old Worlds' first tribute to the American President. Soon after the arrival of the Presidential fleet Stephen Piehon, the French foreign minister, and Geftrges Leygues, the ministry of marine, who were at Brest to meet the President on behalf of the French government boarded the George Washington to extend their first greeting. American officials also went on board to make the arrangements for the landing of the President. A singular feature of the welcome to the President was the suppressed interest of the German prisoners at Brest. It was evident that their interest in the visitor was as keen as that of the huge crowd thronging the town, but the authorities kept these Germans in the back ground. Among those who lined the route to the station were delegations of patriotic societies and other organizations and throngs of people .from the neighboring local ities, attired in gala-Breton costumes. The first to greet the President, besides the French ministerial! representatives were Andre Tardieu, French high commissioner! to the United States, the mayor of Brest, Ambassador Sharp,! Colonel E. M. House, General John f. Pershing and General! Tasker H. Bliss. He'll Be All Right as Soon as He Collects Himself COUNCIL WANTS TAX RATE KEPT DOWNIN 1919 City Commissioners to Dis cuss Budget at Special Session City department officials have started to prepare estimates of funds J which will be needed next year. I These will be submitted to the City j Commissioners who will probably | hold their first conference on Mon- j day night to go over the appropria-! tion items. To-morrow bids for the collection I of ashes, rubbish and refuse in the ! city next year will be opened by Com- J missloner S. F. Hassler. City officials anticipate that there will be a con siderable increase in the cost of this work if Council intends to provide for weekly collections of waste dur- 1 ing the coming year. >Some of the j Commissioners declared that the | present system of collections every < two weeks is far from satisfactory and that the new specifications pro viding weekly collections in the win ter and semimonthly in the summer [Continued on Page 20.] GREATEST "Y" HUT IN WORLD, SAY SOLDIERS Middletown Soldiers Show That Army Life Is Not All Work • and Sleep; Organization Splendidly Equipped For Work Among Men Know whore the best camp Y. M. C. A. hut in the country is to be found? Washington, D. C.? New York? Buffalo? You' wouldn't guess in a year. Good, not because of size, but be cause of its cheerful home-like quulities, its coziness, and entertain- j nient features —that the Y. M. C. A. hut in the aerial camp at Aiiddle town, erected by the soldiers with the help of the Mlddletown civilians, and run by the soldiers, under the supervision of JL. V. Bergen, detailed as "Y" secretary by the Y. M. C. A. War Council in New York. Any Soldier Knows Any soldier from the aero squad ron's naw ojrmn at. Middlatnwn will NEWS OF PEACE CLRES 2000 YANKS OF SHELL SHOCK By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec. Li. —More than two thousand Anierieaii sol diers in France suffering from shell shock were cured by news of the signing of the armistice, Surgeon Gcncfttl Ireland to-day ' told the Senate Military Commit, tee. Of 2,300 shell shock patients, the general said, nil except about ! 100 were well almost immediately. E. D. HILLEARY ASS'T GENERAL FREIGHT AGENT Big Promotion For Harrisburg Man; Will Be Succcc(ft|| Here by C. H. Morgan Announcement was in this city to-day of the appointment of E. D. Hilleary, of Harrisburg, to be assistant general freight agent of the Philadelphia ant) Rending, tlie Atlantic City Railroad and Port [Continued on Page ll.] tell you they have the .best "Y" in the country You'll be skeptic, of course. That's the way the Tele graph felt, so a representative was sent down to puss his oplnio'n on the hut and its equipment. "Say, fellows," was his greeting I when he returned, "Know where the best 'Y' hut in the country- is'.' Down at Middletown. You should see it. Stage, player piano, Victrola, dancing, movies, cards library—say, wouldn't it be great to be a sol dier?" Room For Everybody The aero "Y" hut is 100 by 40 feot in size, and easily can accom [ Continued on Page 18.] 'GAITHER SEEKS i TO THROW OUT THE GOVERNOR J Commission of Defense and Executive Named in In junction Suit Walter H. Galther, private secre j tary to the governor during khe Tener administration, this afternoon | filed a suit in the Dauphin county | courts, asking that an injunction lie granted against the members of the State Commission o.f Safety and-De fense, restraining that body from permitting Governor Brumbaugh to act as historical director and the Governor from acting as such. The members of the commission, who j recently named the Governor, also a .member bf the commission, r> write the history of Pennsylvania's part in | the war. and authorised him to select i his assistants, are indicated by name ! in the papers and the injunction, if | granted, would restrain the Governor from acting as histoi ian or front re leelving pay fdr his services. . The writ is returnable in fifteen | days and answer must be filed by the Governor'and members of the j board in thirty days. Ciiargcst in tin* Dill In pint .lie bill fh equity, says: , "That it is unlawful for ituyono j holding any office or position of i trust or power, to use or employ I the powers 01 •privileges thus being [Continued on I'nge 22.] Suits For $45,000 Brought Against Central!. and S. For Disfiguring Burns i Claiming they have suffered terri-i , ble burns because of negligence of j employes of the Central Iron and! Steel Company, attorneys for Nell: i Maloney and Norman Skillen filed! | separate damage suits for them agninst the co'rporallon, asking $20,-1 ■ 000 and $25,000 respectively. The men. In their statements, suy I i they were burned August 15 while' : painting stocks at the steel company I ! plant. Maloney alleges lie had giveii 'lnstructions to workmen not to send, [any gas* Into the stocks while they were painting them, lie claims his j left Skillen for a few minutes and j w-hile away tlie fumes of gus were turned Into the stack. Skillen was overcome and fell, landing on u hot pipe. Maloney rescued him, but he' was seriously burned. Maloney wus overcome also, suffering disfiguring burns. EDWIN H. FISHER IS APPOINTED AS WILL REGISTER Governor Names Popular Man to Succeed the Late Roy C. Danncr WILL BK A CANDIDATE Will Seek Election For Full Term at the Next Election Edwin H. Fisher, chief clerk to the county commissioners for the last three years'and for a long time one of the prominent residents of East Hanover township, was to-day appointed by Governor Brumbaugh as register of wills to succeed the lnte Hoy C. Danner, of Susquehanna township. Of late Mr. Fisiher has been resid'ng in Penbrook, not far from the home of Mr. Danner. Governor Brumbaugh's selection of Fisher was highly commended when the news became lftiown about the city early in the afternoon. The Rust Hanover man had been urged by many men active in affairs throughout Dauphin county and the appointment was everywhere recog nized as a good one. Numerous con gratulations were telephoned from boroughs and rural districts to the county commissioners' office during the day. Mr. Fisher will qualify a few days. .Ho won the place over a large hold of appiieants. He will he a candidate for the full term next fall 'and his nomination and election are generally conceded already. The new register of wills was born in Lebanon county and when a lad his family removed to East Hanover township, where they have since le sided. Mr. Fisher was a school teacher for twenty-three years and assessor of the township for twenty two years. For eight years he was roadmaster and long active for im proved highways. Ho was an a'tcche of the House of Representatives for one session. Few men in Dauphin county have a wider acquaintance. German Helmets and Trophies of Battle Are Making City Mails Heavy Dens of many Harrisburg men and youths with relatives or friends in tho United States service on foreign Oelds are beginning to take on quite a war like aspect. Rooms are cluttered and walls well hung with trophies gath ered by Yank soldiers in their engage ments with the Hun. German helmets are making up the greater amount of trophies that are I elng received in this city. Shoulder straps cut from the uniforms of dead soldiers with the number of the regi ment in which the dead man was serv ing, buttons, hucklcs, bayonets, caps end other parts of enemy equipment are increasing the huge bulk of war relics thnt the adventurous youths of the city are gathering to bring and send home. Hun belt buckles with the inscription, "Oott mit Tins," in laised letters, form some of the more interesting of the relics. For all this great bulk of material, totaling thousands of pounds, youths , are paying at the rate of twelve cents per pound from their meager wages. Tlie quantity of it received In Harris burg has fallen off within the past several days. The height of the shipments was received within several weeks after the signing of the armis tice and after the bigger drives of September and October. • "H A FFI.ING" FO It 111 Oil RX Complaints that turkey "raffles" are being conducted anywhere in the city or county if received at the District Attorney's office will be investigated at once and arrests made, It was said to-day. City police also were givoa orders recently by Mayor Kelster to make arrests If any "raffling" is found, CUBAN STRIKE SETTLED Havana. Dec. 13.—The committee directing the general strike has re scinded the strike.order and the men are instructed to return to work im mediately. ALL WAR VIEWS TO BE SENT TO W. C. ALEXANDER WILLIAM C. ALEXANDER, of the Moorheud Knitting Company, having been ap pointed by Mayor Keislcr chair man of the Harrisburg committee to get data for the historical rec ords of the Pictorial Section of the War Department, asks that persons having any photographic views of war parades, troops on the march or other war-time ac tivities, send them to him. All the important phases of war ac tivity from every section of the country are to be placed on rec- I ord, and It is desired to have ' Harrisburg woi represented. I Colonel C. W. Weeks is in charge ' of the work at Washington. Send ! pictures to William C. Alexander, chairman war pictorial commit- i tee, Moorhead Knitting Company, j Harrisburg. i THE WEATHER] for IlnrrlNlMirg nnd vicinity! ll* In thin afternoon, to-nltcht nnd Sat urday! wurmrr to-night, with lon est temporal ore nbont 4S de green. I'or Lantern Pennsylvania: Itnlii I to-night nnd Sntnrdny: wurnier to-nlghti moderate MoiithenNt to i nouth winds. liver 'I he Sunqnelinnnn river nnd prfh- I iilily nil Its trlbutnrlea will rlae somen hut. A stage of obout 4.4 feet la Indicated far Harris burg Saturday morning. BOTTLE TRADE MAY FORCE U. S. AGENTS TO CLOSE Bootlegging Grows Because It Is Easy to Get ' Whisky POLICE KEPT . VERY BUSY i Raids May Be Like One That Closed Vice Dens The closing of barrooms in llarrisr burg by federal agents is a possi bility ' that presented itself to-day. The increasing practice of bootleg ging which is giving the local police much trouble and the point blank refusal of many saloonkeepers to co-operate was said to lie bringing the drastic issue to a point. The threatened use of provost guards in Philadelphia and the im mediate taking of action there hav ing for its purpose the revocation of license as a measure to break up bootlegging In that city, are caus ing honest hotel proprietors in llar rlsburg to contemplate steps to break up the pernicious practice in this city. The liquor dealers realize that their own efforts to break up bootlegging would result in putting u cjuicker curb on the practice than any ac tion of the authorities. They realize, moreover, that the authorities can take the same stringent measures to break up bootlegging us they did to break up disorderly houses. Some Honest Healers Some dealers, who carefully avoid selling liquor where it is likely to get into the hands of sodiers, decry the practice of certain other dealers who are not particular, apparently, whether or not soldiers consume the 'W& Washington—Permanent government ownership of 9 1 1* E f telephones and telegraph lines as an auxiliary of the Post *r; jC Office Department is proposed in a bill introduced to-day fl| Chairman Moon, of the HousePpst Office Committee, 3E JL Postmaster General Burleson announced that President *§§ A &' f red the measure. | SOVIET EXIIORT.ER ARRESTED IN GOTHAM it it X New York—Ellis O. Jones, purported author of a &, T-document spread broadcast here yesterday, "proclaiming" !<s that a reign of Bolshevism would begin in this country i J, e i T at noon to-day, was arrestpd this afternoon on the Mai; T at Central Park when he attempted to deliver an address. X - BERLIN FIXES JUBILEE DAY •{• T Amst rdam -Januar '1 has been fixed as a day of •3p MP general rejoicing in Beflih in honor of the revolution, ac- T' i % |X rding to the Zeitung Am Miltag of Berlin. The an- V nouncetnent fixing the day was issued by the Ebert gov- ||S 4 emment. The I il Ibe marked by an open air • 14* * | 14* *' 4* YANKEE ARMY STANDS ON RHINE jj i <L Washington—The American army marching into Gei * 3J many has come to a. stand on the Rhine. General Wj 4j Pershing's report for yesterday says there-was no advance il I | during the day. * j OUR SHIPS TO RETURN THIS MONTH ' *, £ "T * P Washington—Every capital ship of the ' American , j, navy now in Europe, including the dreadnaughts, will re- J * X turn to home waters this month. T|jey may be expected ' 4* in New York ./bout Dec. 23. J X SOUTHERN REPUBLICS REPLY TO U. S. t ? Washington—Chile and Peru have replied in friendly J 'terms'to the-identic note of the United -States urging T <4i upon them the importance of adjusting amicably their T X, .controversy over the provinces of Tacna and Arica. w X 4 Chic'ago—The major league jeason of 1919 will not -J* £ open until May 1, if the club' owners of the National W X League agree to adopt a 140-game schedule at the joint X 4 meeting -> ith the American League in New York oh |H| January 16. jj* . ' •S.X MARRIAGE UCENSES T j Samuel Over. , hcler. HnrrUbars. X WILHELM DREADS BOMB THROWERS; FLING AT DUTCH By Associated Press LOXDOX, Dee. IS.—Scores of detectives, tiic pick of former Em peror William g force of sleuths at I'otsdum, are staying at Amer oufteii, shadowing every move incut of Herr llolienzollerii, ac cording to the Amerongen corrc spoiidcnt of the Express. Herr Ilohcnzollerii is said to lie In con stant dread of lionili throwers and other assassins and, always carries a small revolver. The former emperor's suite and detectives have added at least one hundred to the population of the village of Amerongen, the corre spondent states. THIS HAGI'K, Dec. 11.—"Swit zerland refused lo admit the for mer < erman emperor when he fled from Germany and Holland ought to have followed the exam •ple of the republic," vectored M. Havcnsteyn, a i evolutionary So cialist, In the lower house of the Dutch parliament yesterday. "The former emperor," lie con tinued, "should not he handful over to the Allies, hut should be sent to Germany for trlul l>y a people's tribunal. The Dutch workers will oppose every at tempt to drag Holland into n war on the question of the former em peror." liquor they sell over their bars to be carried away from the premises. They feel that such actions might ; lead to another federal cleanup here. The presence In the city of a large number of discharged soldiers, who while no longer in the array, still wear the uniform, has caused an in , crease in the amount of bootlegging, I it is pointed out. These men no long -1 or feel the necessity for being bound by army regulations, and yet lower the standards of the uniformed men by drinking while wearing their uni forms. Many Sohliefs in City j The great number of soldiers home I on furlough, also make bootlegging j more currant and at the same time, [Continued 011 Page ■!.]
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