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N BU?i BM HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EV ENING, DECEMBER 14, 1918. os, 'NEW"APBII I* 9 HA'*RISBUKG" 9 SI TWO CENT^ 15 HOME EDITION MAGNIFICENT SETTING FOR NEW CAPITOL IS PLANNED Monumental Bridge Honoring Soldiers at State Street Is Only Part of Improvement Planned by State Board and Famous Architect FORMAL ENTRANCE TO THE BUILDING PROPER Great Plazas and Walks to Take Place of Present Hap hazard Ramifications; Im posing Office Buildings Are Planned For Future Models and detailed sketches and plans for the great monumental bridge to be built by the State of Pennsylvania as a memorial to its soldier and sailor sons in the war with Germany as the crowning fea ture of the Capitol Park extension will be in Harrisburg" early in tl.e coming legislative session so that the state lawmakers may be able to see the comprehensive scheme adopted by the State Board of Public Grounds and Buildings a short time ago. These models and plans are being made un der direction of Arnold W. Brunner, the New York architect, who design ed the Cleveland Civic center and various New York projects and will cover a program extending over a period of years and including not only the bridge, but the improvement of the old Capitol Park and the- em bellishment of t|ie extension. The houses have been razed with a few exceptions used for state purposes on the twenty-nine acres to be made into the additional park and prepara tory filling will go on during the win ter under direction of Superintendent George A. Shreiner, of the Public Grounds and Buildings. Three Distinct Phases The great project will have three phases: The memorial bridge, Which will lie almost half a mile long, reaching from the edge of Capitol Park and spanning t lie valley to the brow of i Allison Hill, where it will connect with streets leading to parkways. It will be eighty feet wide with ornate features and two huge pylons at the western end, one devoted to the Army and the other to the Navy, each containing a vaulted chamber to contain names of Pennsylvanlans in the war. The formal entrance to the park, which will replace the antiquated stone steps at the western entrance at State street and be 120 feet wide with spaces for ceremonies such as inaugurations, being tlanked by terraces and driveways, which will be worked out with an enlargement of the 700-feet plaza in front of the building and a relocation of the walks and drives in the old park, [Continued on Page 12.] Final Plane Being Made to Open Penn-Harris Preparations are going rapidly forward for the formal opening of the Penn-Harris Hotel on New Year's eve —Tuesday, December 31. This big event will mean a recep tion and subscription dinner to the stockholders and their guests at five dollars per plate. most of the prominent citizens of Harrisburg are stockholders it promises to be a notable occasion. Horace Leland Wiggins, the manager with his force is busy as a nailer getting ready for ihe big night. Invitations will he sent out within a few days. MII)I)LKTO\V\ MAX SHOT After accusing John. Klinger of a serious offense, William Campbell was hit in the leg by one of the two shots tired by the accused man, in Market street, Aliddletown, this aft ernoon. Campbell's injury is not serious. Both men live in Middle town. BOM) PAYMENT l)l T E The third payment on the last is sue of Liberty Bonds, sold on the government plan, will be due next Thursday, pecember 19th. This amounts to 20 per cent, of the total value of the bonds and will make a total of 50 per cent, already paid on them. THE WEATHER Par Ilnrrlaliurg nml vicinity! Clnuily lu-nlKlit IIIMI Sunday, probably occnMlonul ruin; n urinrr to-night, with lowest temperature nliout 55 degrees; cooler by Sunday night. For F.nntrrn I'ennsy Ivnnln i Huln to-night| warmer In south por tion) Sundny ruin nnd slightly colder by night I moderate south nnd southwest winds. Hlver The Susiiuehiinmi river nnd nil Its brunches will rise slowly or re nin 111 nenrly stutlonnry, except the t'pper West llrnnrh nnd the Junlntn, which will probably full somewhnt to-night or Sunday, A stage of nhont 4.S fret Is In dicated for llnrrlsbnrg Sunday morning. General Conditions The Southwestern disturbance hns overspread nearly all the east ern hnlf of thr llulied Stntes, nnd Is now central near Georgi an hay. It haa rnusrri rain In the Inst twenty-foor hours gen erally from the Plains Stntes eastward to the Atlantic ocean; elsewhere fair weather hss pre vailed, rxcept In the North Pa cific Statea, where rain con tinues. How Capitol Will Look From East Side of Park Extension - " ~ S* ' I aHH aBM : S ALLIES EXTEND TERM OF TRUCE PACT TO JAN. 17 New Armistice Period Is to End at 5 O'clock in the Morning DELEGATES AT TREVES Germany Notified Entente Re serves the Right of Occu pancy From Bridgehead DUTCH FRONTIER IS LINE Neutral Zone East of Rhine From Cologne to Frontier Is Designated By Associated Press ('openltugon. Dec. 14.—The Ger man armistice has been extended until 5 o'clock of the morning of January 17, according to a dispatch from Treves where the delegates of the various countries have been in conference. This prolongation, it is added, will be extended until the conclusion of a preliminary peace, subject to the consent of the allied governments. The Allies have notified Germany that they reserve the right to oc cupy the neutral zone east of the Rhine from the Cologne bridgehead to the Dutch frontier, according to a dispatch from Treves. British Ministry Aims to Reform Its House of Lords, Says Bonar Law By Associated Press Ix>ndon, Dec. 14.—The reform of the House of Lords will be one of the tasks undertaken by the coali tion ministry, if it is returned to power in the election taking place in the United Kingdom to-day, A. Bonar Law, chancellor of the ex chequer, declared in a speech at Glasgow Friday. Mr. Law said the coalition gov ernment believed that a second chamber with adequate strength was necessary in any democratic country hut it was not intended that it should be hereditary chamber. The government, the chancellor continued, intended to give the new upper house the strength that could alone come from direct acce-f; with the people. The chancellor reiterated his previous statement that tho govern ment would see that the empire's naval safety was not imperilled at the peace conference. He was not afraid of Bolshevism in the United Kingdom. CLUBROOMS FOR YANKEES MAY BE OPENED IN CITY William Jennings Announces Plans For Two Big Recreation Centers Designed For Uncle Sam's Fighting Men William Jennings, chairman of the' war camp community service for j Dauphin county, announced to-day that arrangements had been made j for the opening of two clubs —one I for the white soldiers, 307 Market [ street, second floor, and the other for colored soldiers, 126 South Sec-, ond street. P. O. Osterhus, representing the War Department and Navy Depart ment commissions on training camp activities of the war camp com- j munity service, is here to-day in con- ! sultatlon with Mr. Jennings. The diretor of the local clubs, Lieutenant: A. W. Neate, will arrive here Mon- j day morning and take (personal' BERNARD SCHMIDT SELLS BAKERY TO LANCASTER FIRM Rig Plant at Eighteenth and Mulberry' Streets Gets New Manager BACK TO OLD STAND Schmidt Company to Enlarge Plant at Thirteenth and Walnut Streets Schmidt's bakery. Eighteenth and Mulberry streets, has been purchas ed by Crist Gunzenhauser, of the Gunzenhauser Baking Company, inc., Lancaster, Bernard Schmidt announced to-day. The Schmidt Company will continue business at the plant of the Dandy Baking Com pany, Thirteenth and Walnut streets. The Schmidt bakery was originally located at the latter place, and did business there up to July, 1911, when it was burned. It later was rebuilt. The plant at Thirteenth and Wal nut streets will be thoroughly mod ernized and is to be enlarged in the near future. It will do a wholesale business only, selling to grocerymen. Bernard Schmidt recently con cluded the sale of the Harrisburg Baking Company to Edward S. Man beck, manager of that plant for a number of years. No consideration was announced on any of the transactions. The Gunzenhauser Company is one of the largest in Eastern Pennsylvania. CITY RUSHING TO MEET RED CROSSQUOTA Loyal Women Workers Can't Wait Until Drive Opens There was no holding them at all. They would work. The Red Cross drive for Christmas memberships—covering the year 1919, was presumed to start Monday morning at 8 o'clock. As a sort of concession to the hundreds of work ers who wanted to do some thing, it was arranged that volunteer mem berships might be taken Thursday and Friday, it was thought that this would give ilie workers pause, as the [Continued on Page 12.] • churge of the two clubs. These clubs will provide what'hus been so long needed —service for the soldiers in the army depots near Harrlsburg.' It Is the purpose that full jyl-: vantage be taken of these clubs and that the citizens of Harrlsburg will also use them, more especially as a ; means of getting in contact with the [ soldiers. It is desirable that the churches and the various societies and organizations have representa tives at these elubrooms at various times, and use them as a means of bringing the boys In closer contactj and gl\e them a little bit of home-! life while they uro stationed in our' vicinity YANKEE SANTA CLAUS VISITS IN LORRAINE By .4ssociated Press Mctz, Dec. 14. —Knights of Co- I lambus workers yesterday began j tho distribution of more than $50,000 worth of American toys to j the children of Lorraine. Christ- I mas trees laden with parcels have j been placed along the roads. Each | parcel bears a card reading: I "From the land of Washington to the children of the land of La- ! fayettc and Foch. Merry Christ- | mas." LOCAL BANKERS ASSURE SUCCESS OF FIFTH LOAN More Than Half Million Dol lars Already Guaranteed For First Peace Loan With the fifth Liberty Loan sched uled for April, the banks of the Har risburg district of the Third Federal Reserve already have guarantee! $561,500 of the loan through the. pur chase of United States short-term cer tificates of indebtedness. Local bankers predict, moreover, that more than $3,000,000 of the next loan, the first Peace Loan, will be un derwritten by the banks during the six or seven more Issues of short [Continued on I'agc 12,] BUT ONE FIRM OFFERS BID FOR ASH CONTRACT .$60,000 Asked to Collect Rub bish in City For Next Twelve Months Stees, Simonetti & Company, the firm collecting ashes and refuse in the city at present under an | agreement with the Bureau of Ash j and Garbage Inspection, was thft only i bidder for the contract next year, J asking $60,000 to do the work. One other proposul was received by Com- j missioner S. F. Hassler from Irvin! Gardner for $69,733, but without the j certified check which was required. 1 Dr. Hassler said he had not de- . cided whether he would recommend i the awarding of a contract to Ihe company, as he thought the estimate rather high. This year it cost the city $40,000 for collections of ashes since March J. Council may be ashed, Commission er Hassler said, to decide whether the city should tuke over the collec tion' work and hire teAms or award the contract. Although an opinion lias been given that the city must contract for such work. Dr. Hassler said u way 1 may be found to have municipal collections at a saving of a few thousands of dollars. If the contract Is awarded the coat of ash collections will represent about one mill of city tax. This will not Include the amount .paid tor gurbago collections, which would bring the total cost of the work to $84,000 for' next year, or an aver age of $7,000 a month. Council will probably be asked to act on Tuesday so thut the cost of the collection work cun be included in the budget ordinance which wHI be considered at nightly conferences next week. EXCESS PROFITS WILL CLOSE ALL GROCERY STORES Food Administration Deter mined to Check Upward Trend in Prices MUST FOLLOW THE LISTS Agents to Keep Close Tabs on \ Local Restaurant Men Grocers who fail to conform to the f;,ir food prices issued by the Dauphin county food administration twice weekly, will be penalized by being forced to close their stores, the Dauphin county food administra tion announced to-day. The functions of the food admin i istration henceforth will he to keep grocers, dealers and restaurateurs within the limits of reason when | they fix the prices for their com j modi ties. The state food adminis- I tration this morning notltied the j local administration to be drastic in his action against violators or | gougers. A committee of representative grocers make up the fair food prices twice weekly. All grocers must ob serve them, it was pointed out this morning. Consumers can protect themselves from apparently exor bitant prices merely by comparing their grocers' prices to the list which [Continued on Page 12.] SERGT. BENNETT, 'BIG BILL' OF THE GRIDIRON, KILLS 5 Former Football Star Picks Off Enemy in Machine Gun Nest How lie picked off three of the five members of a gun crew and downed two snipers while making observa tions to assist in rooting out a Hun gun nest, is related by Sergeant Wil liam H. Xlennett, 319 I/ewls str?et, serving with Company D. One Hun dred and Twelfth Infantry, "Big Bill" ot Harrisburg football fame, in a let ter to his parents. in one of the Inter engagements, while his unit was lying in a ravine and a machine gun anJ several snlp [Continued on Page 12.] SUNDAY SET ASIDE AS DAY OF PRAYER THROUGHOUT STATE Governor Suggests That Appeal Be Made For Divine As sistance to Fight Influenza Plague Governor Urumbaugh to-day pro claimed to-morrow to be a day of pruyer that the intiuenzu plague may pass from Pennsylvania. The Gov ernor asks all ministers to pray to morrow that the discaso may be stayed. -* The proclamation is as follows: "The influenza epidemic, which has already caused the deuth of up wards 'of 40,000 citizens of Penn sylvania and has laid its menace up on above 800,000 citizens still con tinues its ravages in many sections of the Commonwealth. The specific cases of distress and death are so full of touching Incidents, the suf fering of our people has been so BAND OF THE OLD EIGHTH INFANTRY TO BE SENT HOME Sent to Camp Meade to Be Mustered Out at Once PART OF FORMER GUARD Reorganized by Lieutenant Clark When War Was Declared TRANSFER SINCE WAR All Musicians Recruited From Harrisburg and Sug urban Towns The Sixtieth Pioneer Infantry Bandt familiarly known as the old Eighth Uegiment Band in which Harrisburg has been particularly in terested because of the fact that practically every member is a Har risburg man. probably will be mus [ tered out of the service next week and its members returned to their ; homes here and this immediate | vicinity. Located at Cnntp Wadsworth, S. i C., during the past nine months, j Lieutenant David M. Clark, band ; leader, and 34 other members of the I organization, were transferred to Camp Meade, Md., during this week for immediate discharge. Because of the tremendous amount of work entailed by the discharge of the de velopment battalions, depot brigades and several other units, the actual mustering out will not take place for several days at least. The band of the Old Eighth Regi ment of the Pennsylvania National Guard was organized by Lieutenant Clark. The original band of the unit was mustered out of the Fed eral service in February 1918, [Continued on Pago 12.] Reichstag Convoked by President Fehrenbach; Elections in February By Associated Press Amsterdam, Dec. 14.—Konstantln Fehrenbach, president of the Reich stag. has convoked a meeting of that assembly, "reserving further indica tion of the time and pluce of meet ing," according to a report from Berlin. The German government has not yet set a date for elections for a constituent or national assembly. Unofficial reports have said they might be held in February. universal the efforts of our physi cians, our nurses, our volunteer workers so admirable that we had hoped ere this thut the scourge would have ceased. "Human efforts have only les sened, not stkyed the sweep of this lingering malady. We have done our utmost. Is it not time to call upon the power of the Divine to aid us. He is a present help In time of (rouble. He wil aid if we re pent and call upon Him with pure hearts. "Impressed as I am with the need of God's help and with the earnest [Continued ou Pago 12.] PARIS ROCKS WITH ROARING WELCOMES TO THE PRESIDENT Another War Must Be Made Impos sible Wilson Tells the French TROOPS LINE THE HIGHWAY Paris Crowds Break All Precedents in Cheering Paris, Dec, 14. —President. | Wilson made his entrance into Paris at 10.15 o'clock this morn-1 ing. The President's arrival at the capital was greeted with a ! salvo of artillery in salute. The dense throngs gathered to greet j the American executive hailed | his coming with volleys of: cheering. Voicen r.otp- in Welcome Huge crowds were massed around j the Bois ou Boulogne station await-; ing the President's coming. As he! alighted from his train a roar of | welcome went up that loft no doubt I of the cordiality of the welcome I given by Pa .* to its latest guest. Point-arc Greets President Presldei t Wilson was greeted by! President an. Madame Poincarc, Premier Clemenceau, Andre Tardieu, I French hign commissioner to the United Slates and other high offi-' cials. The formalities of the greeting! over, the President entered a car riage with President Point-are. Mrs. Wilson, with Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the President, followoti in another carriage, accompanied by Madame Po in care. The party drove I 4* ni* v-ir*l" Th Q m PRUSSIA TO VOTE FOR ASSEMBLY T J|| IT Copenhagen—The Prussian governmetn announces mi- I *P. officially. according to a*dispatch from Berlin, that elec- X L Np tions to the constituent assembly of Prussia shall be fc I i T held eight days after the elections for the German consti- <JL | tuent assembly. * . t X ? jj BULGARS FIRE GREEK TOWN* | T Saloniki—Travelers arriving here from Bulgaria, par- _ X X ticu'lai ly Thrace, declare Bulgarians continue to oppress ▼' |Xd maltreat Greeks. Agithopulos, on the Black Sea and X |4 habited solely by Greeks, has been Bred by Bulgarian J® Jfe it is reported. "j* | ? | '4* BAN LIFTS ON EXPORTS T X Washington-+-Almost unlimited export of commoditie . jy y.o the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Japan and 3 ▼ JL 4 their colonies was announced by the War Trade Board | X effective December 16. X || | l-i LEVIATHAN IN TOMORROW WITH YANKS X ! * jjL X New York—The American transport Leviathan brinf- I Xing between 8,000 and 9,000 officers and then from tb< X IT* pP overseas military and naval forces, reported to-day by . X 1 -£* a wireless that she would arrive off Sandy Hook early to- Jy J jJ morrow morning. Among the passengers are Major X jXdcnerai Barnett, head of the Marine Corps, and Lord X IX X X Decies, of the British army. ▼ ♦ WIFE MURDERER FOUND SANE X I ejt X h New York—Charles E. Chapin, former city editor of X 2 the New York Evening* World who confessed to having shot and killed his wife at the Hotel Cumberland, Sep- X Xtember 16, has been found legally sane, according to the JP X report of a lunacy commission filed to-day. J CATALONIA LEAVES PARLIAMENT X jfrj Madrid—Catalonia no longer is represented in the X XSpanish parliament. The twenty-six deputies from that T led by Senator Cambo, abandoned their seats X 4on Thursday night. < .Xj $ MARRIAGE UCENSES A Oacar K. Smith ami Amanda Hoof, Mteeltoni Jnntea Haaaan and j X Urace Mnrta, HarrlaburKi Uer*f /.upovlc and Km ma Hnbner, * T Stlni Hnlph Delbler, Mifflin town-hip, and Mnranrrt n. Hoover, J 4l Herrjaburitt Harvey H. Kallngler, Weat Knlrvlm, nnd Florence K. T T Herbert, Heektoa Mllla. | YANKEES GUARD BIG BOCHE GUNS By Associated Press Cohlcnz (by courier to Nancy)., Dec. 14.—Thousands of parts of aig German guns, guarded by \merlcan troops here, arc await ng formnl transfer to the army it occupation. Coblenz has been )no of the German army's princi pal assembling points for heavy artillery. Hundreds of motor trucks, vast quantities of ammunition and other materials also have been assembled here. American sol diers are guarding also 1.400 army wagons which were to be turned over under the terms of the armistice. immediately to the residence of Prince Alu rat in the Rue de Mon orail where the President will reside wft.le in the French capital. French Troops Fine Way The route to the presidential resi dence was lined with French troops in solid array along its entire length. The welcome given by the crow.ds as the Presi t drove by was voci ferous and hearty. The city was making a vast fete of the President's coming. Crowds Are Enormous , The passage of the Presidential train from Brest to Paris gave evi dence of the interest the population attached to the President's visit. At every station along the railway crowds of men, women and children waited through the night for the passing of the train, hoping to catch a glimpse of the American Execu tive. Through the night along the routo their cheers could be heard as the train slid by in the darkness. The crowds broke all precedent. Salute of 100 Guns The platform at the railway sta tion was carpeted in red ahd palms adorned the broad stairway. Tho band of the Republican Guards play ed the "Star Spangled Banner" when the Presidential train, decorated with tho Stars and Stripes, arrived. An ar tillery salute of one hundred guns announced the President's arrival. Continued on Page 2
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