Campers and Cottagers Forced to Seek Safety on Hill Sides as Creek" Overflow Banks LXXX\ 111 NO. 170 16 PAGES Dail M^ter P at S the d Po'st a^Hsburg ' aSS HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVEN ING, JULY 23, 1919. ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPIES UHMC cniTiniU 'J NEWSPAPER IN HARRISBURG TWO CENTS HUME. LDI 1 lUIN CAMPERS ESCAPE TO HIGH GROUND WHEN TWO DAMS GIVE WAY Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls Crawl to Mountain Side When Waters Sweep Over Boundaries of Raging Creek HIGHWAYS ARE COVERED AND CELLARS FILLED WITH WATER Straining under continued pressure from the recent rains, the big dams at Mt. Holly and Laurel gave way partly last night re leasing torrents of water which swept down through the valleys with great force. Big camps of Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls located along the streams were inundated, the boys and girls being forced to climb to higher ground. The girls are from Elizabethtown and the boys are from this city. The youngsters managed to save most of their property, and at no time were in danger. The water, however, swept out many gardens, carried out portions of highways and a bit of railroad, drowned three horses, did much damage to crops, tilled cellars, washed away small outbuildings and caused much inconvenience. Neither of the dams were washed-; entirely away. Holly dam gave way j on but one side while the big flood gates in the Laurel Ice dam was swept away. Entire Section Footled When one of the floodgates at the ice dam at Laurel gave way ( last evening due to the high water J in the Mountain creek, the entire ; section of the valley from Laurel to Mt. Holly Springs where the 1 stream flows into the Yellow Breeches creek, was flooded, the water washing out the roadways, covering bridges, carrying away a small cottage and a tent, and sur- ; rounding a girls' camp at Pine Grove Park. I There was no loss of life except ' at Huntsdale where three horses j were crossing a bridge when it gave . away. They were drowned. The I cottage and tent at Laurel just be- I low the dam were untenanted. Huckleberry pickers had left the tent late yesterday afternoon. Ef forts to locate it and the cottage P failed. Highways Covered The floodgates on the roadway side of the dam held and with the water in the creek above the dam ; receding no further damage is ex- | pected. Just after the one flood- i gate was washed out the water in . the creek below went up in height j more than six feet, covering the road j and the railroad tracks of the Phil- j adelphia and Reading Company, j Cottagers along the roadway at first | feared that they would be com pelled to leave, but the water only , came up to the doors. Twenty Camp Fire Girls from j Elizabethtown were camping at Pine Grove Park and were maroon- j ed when the high water surround- j ed them. J. R. Williams of the 1 State Forestry Department, by go- [ ing up the railroad Anally managed . to reach the girls. He took them j to the cottage of Mrs. S. J. Harris, j of. Harrisburg, where they spent the ; night. Tracks Carried Away Between Toland and Gardner's, two villages along the Reading rail- I way, the tracks were washed away five feet. Bridges along the creek i were covered to the top guard rails. ; It has not been determined yet whether any of them have been washed away, but it is believed that . most of them have been damaged ! and must be repaired before they ! can be used again. Much damage | was done to the roadway through ! the small valley also. Boy Scouts Move Reports early this morning said that the Boy Scouts of Harrisburg who have been camping this sum mer at Mt. Holly Springs Park were ! compelled during the night to move their tents and effects to high ' ground along the mountain. The j boys at no time were in danger and ] their training stood them in good ' stead in their difficulty. A great body of water rushed down Mountain creek when one side of Holly dam was swept out. The torrent rushed down the val ley digging out gardens and carry ing away small property. A num ber of cellars were flooded and the creek was at its highest point to day in recent years. The dam backs up water over an area of between ten and twenty acres and supplies water for the Mt. Holly paper mills. Recent rains have caused a strain on the struc ture. "Word from the scout camp said that at no time were the boys in danger. They had their tents pitch ed on fairly low ground so as to be near the water. Their camping field quickly was flooded when the creek began to rise to unusual heights. MAY RIN SHAMMO Democrats may run Calder Sham mo for recorder of deeds at the fall elections. His name was mentioned for the place at a conference of Democrats last evening. Democratic candidates are not coming forward in any numbers. THE WEATHER Harrisburg nnil Vicinity: Fair to night and Thursday, not much change In temperature, lowest to-night about US degrees. Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair to night and Thursdny, no change In temperature. Gentle variable winds, mostly west and north west. Itlver: The main river will rise except the upper portion will begin to fall late to-night or on Thursday morning. All trib utaries will fail to-night and Thursdny. A stage of about 8.3 feet Is Indicated for HarHsbarg Thursday morning. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ®jc otac- Independent. HERE'S THE NEW DOPE Fair To-night and To-morrow ! ?!?!?' Forecaster E. R. Demain, of the Harrisburg Weather Bureau, says so. After a number of petty wrang lings, resulting in much rainfall during the past ten days, St. Swithin, who has held sway for the past several days; Old Sol and the Weatherman held a caucus. The Weatherman's announce ment is the pleasing result. Yes, Pigs Is Pigs, and Ice Cream Is Ice Cream, but When Is Dough Dough? Pigs is pigs! So is ice cream ice cream! But, pray tell, when is ice cream a luxury? Dealers would like to know. Clerks of the Internal Revenue De partment in this and other cities wish the aforesaid dealers did know. They have literally been besieged with queries on the subject of late days. Despite the fact tnat the 20-day period of grace given to file returns on the new luxury tax is past, deal ers still straggle into internal rev enue offices. They confess a pain ful ignorance of what is and is not taxable under the provisions of the new luxury tax visited upon you and me and Mr. Commonpeople on May 1. A baked piece of dough, in com mon parlance, a cone, placed about a portion of ice cream is a luxury, saith official Washington. Ice cream, on top of or adjacent to, the baked dough of a pie is not a luxury, the Fame aforesaid official Washington decrees. Dealers would be pleased to have this same official Washing ton differentiate. Bolshevik! Granted Armistice of Eight Days in Search For Peace Tvomlon, Tuesday, July 22. A Bolsheviki delegation has arrived at Kishineff with an offer of peace to the commander of the Rumanian Dniester troops in behalf of Nikolai Lenine. the Bolshevik premier, ac cording to a Berlin government wireless dispatch. An armistice to last eight da* s has been concluded on the Bes sarabian front and the delegation has gone to Rumanian headquar ters. Mooney Did Not Get Justice, Says Investigator By Associated Press. Washington. July 23. Thomas J. Mooney did not receive full jus tice in his trial at San Francisco for alleged connection with the Preparedness Day bomb explosion, according to a report of John B! Densmore, former special agent of the Department of Justice, who in vestigated the case for the govern ment. The report dated November 1, 1918, was submitted to the House to-day in response to a resolution. "The p'ain truth is," the report said, "that there is nothing about the case to produce a feeling of con fidence that the dignity and majesty of the law have been upheld. "There is nowhere anything re sembling consistency, the effort be ing a patchwork of incongruous makeshift and often of desperate expediency." MURDERED IN BED By Associated Press. Glassboro, N. J., July 23. Mrs Clara Sabor, 30 years old. was mur dered in bed early to-day. Mrs Jennie Krasge. of Wilmington, Del.! her mother, was shot and seriously wounded. Mrs. Krasge said the shooting was done by masked burg lars, but shortly after the tragedy the police arrested the husband of Mrs. Sabor and held him without bail. FAMOIS MINSTREL DIES By Associated Press. Snn Diego. Cal., July 23.—George H. Prim-ose, famous minstrel, died to-day, following a severe illness that began one month ago. He was born In London, Ont., 66 years ago. How Your Six-Room Cottage Looks After Seeing Your Wife and Children Off For a Two Months' Vacation READY TO TURN ITALIAN PARK OVER TO CITY Executors of McKee-Graham Estate Confer With Plan ning Commission Executors of the McKee-Graham estate this afternoon discussed with the City Planning Commission and Mayor Keister, Commissioner E. Z. Gross and City Engineer M. B. Cow den the offer to give the city with out cost the Italian Park tract just west of the site which has been sold to the city school district. It is understood the estate will transfer title to the park district provided it is improved by the city within a reasonable time. While the executors said they would not insist upon providing a lake or pool in the new park, they said they pre ferred that plan of development and wanted the city to determine defi nitely whether this could be done before the officials gave up the plan. The representatives of the estate were T. McKee Graham, Malcolm McGriffin and H. E. Leety, who came to this city from Pittsburgh. During the morning they conferred with the Planning Commission members and were given detailed information of the situation here by Ed. S. Herman, president of the commission. Following the session this morn [Continued on Page 15.] $500,000 ASKED TO EIGHT BIG FIRES By Associated Press. Washington. July 23. Congress was asked to-day by Secretary Lane for a special appropriation of 3300,- 000 to fight forest fires in Montana, Idaho and Washington. Latest re ports from Idaho, he said, declare the fires "cannot be extinguished save by a heavy rain of which there is no immediate prospect." WHEN IS AN EGG FRESH? AYE, THAT'S THE QUESTION All the State's Men and All the State's Experts to Examine Humpty Dumpty Chemists of the State Department of Agriculture will gather with Sec retary of Agriculture Rasmussen and Director of Foods James Foust to night to determine the question of "when is an "egg a stale egg"? Under a law recently approved by Governor Sproul it is a misdemeanor to sell a stale as a fresh egg and the chemists *to-night are going to try to decide Just what constitutes a stale egg Special Agent Robert Simmers, of Philadelphia, has brought to Harrisburg dozens of eggs of va rious ages. Some are a week old, others two weeks old. some have SPROUL ORDERS MORE FREQUENT BANK PROBES Reorganization of Banking Department Means Addi tional Safety Reorganization of the State Bank ing Department so that examina tions of financial institutions can be made two or three times or oftener a year, which has been one of the primary policies of the Sproul ad ministration since it took office, has been in progress in a quiet way ever since the approval of the new bank ing code and ipidly as competent and experienced men can be secured they will be put on duty as bank examiners. Governor William C. Sproul, who has been in constant touch with Commissioner of Bank ing John S. Fisher since the affairs [Continued on Page 15.] Cloudburst Inundates Town and Destroys Homes By Associated Press. Vellsboro, Pa., July 23. A cloudburst, which occurred over this place late last evening, rendered nearly a dozen families homeless, completely destroyed over three miles of the track and roadbed of the New York Central Railroad be tween' here and Wellsboro Junc tion, and washed out several bridges, causing a property loss estimated to-day at $200,000. The storm broke shortly after 7 o'clock and within a few minutes time the whole town was flooded, streets being from two to three feet under water. Houses were washed from their foundations, barns and outbuildings swept away and trees and telephone poles leveled. Nearly a score of automobiles left standing in the streets were completely de molished. been in cold storage for a month, and others have been in cold storage for three and six months. Director Foust has gathered a dozen of eggs that have been laid by local hens to-day. The food experts claim that they can determine by physical appearance the difference between a stale egg and a fresh egg, but they are un able to determine the difference be tween stale eggs and cold storage eggs. All of the chemists of the Department and some of the agents in large cities have been summoned dorse various candidates. U.S. MUST LOWER PRICE OF FOOD TO SELL IT HERE Committee Awaits Final De cision on Stores Held at New Cumberland Unless Lieutenant J. R. Boyle will | offer a new price list for Government food, that will show greatly reduced prices, the local food committee will positively refuse to consider a pur chas. it is not probable there will be a meeting of the committee be fore Monday. Lieutenant Boyle had not returned up to noon to-day when Captain H. M. Stine, chairman of the subcommittee left the city to be gone several days. In the meantime there is much gossip throughout the city because of the little headway the committee >s making. Some people are under the impression that they will not get a chance to buy Government food at a reduced cost. Regarding this opinion Captain Stine said to-day: Not in Fnvor of Prices "I am not in favor of relieving the Government of food, now in ware houses, at the prices quoted. No other city has made a definite pur chase as yet except Altoona, and it is understood that the carload to be sent to that city is not positively contracted for. If we accept the goods at SO per cent, of the Govern ment price, it will mean prices even higher than present retail pries. Bargains ane what the people look for and what they should have." Other committeemen are of the same opinion and argue that be cause the Government paid such out landish prices when they bought the goods, is no reason why the people should come to the rescue and pay even more than is asked at retaii. That this opinion prevails in other cities is shown in the announcement that as yet no sales have been made by the Government to municipalities It is the belief here that the local committee will formulate a bid and ask the Government to sell thir goods to Harrisburg at the price offered. The latter will be based on the pres ent cost of canned goods and meats. America to Sign Peace Treaty With Turkey By Associated Press. Washington, July 23. The United States will sign the treaties with Bulgaria and Turkey, it was announced to-day at the State De partment. Although the United States never has been actually at war with Bul garia and Turkey, it will sign the treaties to show its concurrence in the terms imposed upon these allies of Germany and Austria. Like those with the Teutonic powers, the treat ies change boundary' lines and create new nations, some of which, partic ularly Armenia, probably will ask that the United States act as man datory for them under the League 1 of Nations covenant. CLOTHING AND SHOES CERTAIN TO BE HIGHER Suits Are to Cost Fifteen to Twenty Dollars More Next Winter, Say Tailors ARE FIG LEAVES COMING? Twenty Per Cent. Added to Price of Shoes, Is the Prospect Harrisburg will revert to the fig leaf-barefoot mode of living if prices in clothes and footwear as predicted for the winter do not alter. Take the question of clothes, for example. Local tailors are unani mous in saying that ihere will be an increase of at least fifteen or twenty dollars a suit this winter. Overcoats will suffer the same treatment. The ready-made clothing dealers are al ready getting into action for the colder months. A. L. Sims, merchant tailor, says there is an absolute lack of wool and gives this as one reason for the high cost of suits. The tremendous demahd on wool for soldiers' uni forms for so many countries has re sulted in the shortage, says Mr. Sims, and we are now getting none from England at all. Cotton also is being put up to a prohibitive mark. Shoe Problem Serious Joseph D. Ross, another well known of Harrisburg, likewise pre dicts a great rise in price for the winter. Mr. Ross says that it abso lutely impossible to sell suits for the prices that existed as late as last winter, and predicts a fairly steep rse. The shoe question is also going r?, a- a ser ' ous one. Fron Franks and Claflins comes the story that shoes are going to approach twenty dollars a pair, and the same condition will prevail throughout the smaller mak ers' The Harrisburg Shoe Company is going to raise their prices, as will all other shoe companies in this vicinity. L - \- z ' secretary and treas urer of the Harrisburg company said this morning that he expected a re tail rise in price of about twenty per ZiHh, A t Present the price of green hides is 51 cents a pound, and this is before they have gone through any refining processes. Mr. Fritz says this is an unprecedented price. He makes the prediction that there will be a 40 per cent, rise in wholesale prices, and retailers will naturally be forced to put their prices up also Shoes which formerly sold at six and 8 wi " K ° up to twelve and fifteen; they stand now at eight and twelve. Mr. Fritz sees no relief from this condition for some months and says it was unforeseen. 25 Rebel Bands With 35,000 Men, Operate Against Carranza Army By Associated Press. Washington, July 23. Twenty five distinct bands of rebels with a strength of about 35,000 men now are operating in Mexico, according to a tabulation which has fust been published in Mexico City.' Oppos ing them Carranza has a foice of about 60,000, which, however Is ab'e to control little more than'the railway lines with a narrow strip along the Pacific coast from Guay mas to San Bias and the territoiy around Tampico. Retail Clothiers to Meet in This City in 1920 The State Retail Clothiers' Asso ciation of Pennsylvania at its an nual convention in Erie, to-day ac cepted the invitation of the Har risburg Chamber of Commerce, to hold its convention in Harrisburg next year. More than 700 clothiers attend the annual sessions of the association. An invitation to the association, through its secretary, T. S. Morgan, of Williamsport, was extended sev eral days ago, prior to the conven ing of the convention, and this in vitation was followed up yesterday by a verba! representation made by the Chamber through William Strouse, of this city, former presi dent of the association, and member of the Merchants' Council of the Chamber. Word was received from Mr. Strouse this morning that the invitation of the local organization was accepted. This is the fifth con vention which has been booked for Harrisburg as a result of the activi ties of the convention committee of the Chamber. Centra! Labor Union to Keep Free of Politics The Central Labor Union, of Har risburg. will henceforth take abso lutely no part in politics. Action to this effect was taken at a special meeting of the organization last evening. In previous years the or ganization was accustomed to en dorse various andidates. Further plans for the annual Labor Day events of labor organizations of the city, were made at a meeting of the general committee in charge of arrangments, at a meeting last evening. Events this year will be much the same as heretofore. H. L. McLaughlin is chairman of the com mittee and J. R. Hurst is secretary. TO VISIT "OVER THERE" Athens George, formerly proprietor of the Victoria Theater and inter ested in numerous business ventures about the city, will leave to-morrow on a trip of four months to the oth er side after which he expects to re turn to Harrisburg. Mr. George will visit Paris, London, Berlin, and the battlefields of Europe. One of Four Brothers Home From Army Mission COL. CHARLES M. STEESE One of four brothers, all of whom were officers in the Army, Colonel Charles M. Steese is visiting his par ents at Mount Holly Springs. He has just returned from Army serv ice overseas, where he was given a commission as colonel for his work in France. Colonel J. G. Steese, a brother, was sent to France recently on a special mission from the Secre tary of War. Gross to Run Again For Park Commission Place E. Z. Gross will not be a candi date for mayor, but will run for park commissioner, the office he now holds, on the Republican ticket. Gross is expected to formally an nounce his withdrawal from the mayorality race to-day or to-morrow and to take out papers as a candi date for city council. When this news got about to-day, friends of V .Grant Forrer, assist ant park commissioner, said that with Gross in the field for park com missioner, Forrer would not allow his name to be used. Forrer's friends had been urging him to run, but he had not taken out papers. ©4*4 , 4* c $ s 4'4 9 4 , 4 , 4* 4* 4" 4* 4-4*4* * £ f 5 J WOULD UTILIZE NAVY WIRELESS J T *** • wH 4 L 4* t 1 4 -% ** > 4> T 1 '""' 2 T X $ " : j ifi * i' i T . dc- yj 4 x • 4* ? J '" -$ X 4* T IT X x T + WASHINGTON V> QUITTER ji 4 ' W A! hM| T x j •<, flj X X OH 4* J X X h 9 T * T ST BEING DEMOBILIZED X *i T 4* f e£* §* 4 ibeer discharged since the armistice was signed. More XI than 22,500 reserve officers hav< *jr 4* I are on duty. X the reserve force on duty •j* aboard '■ mparts. T 1 MARRIAGE LICENSES I * T ' •A 1 " . _ wl,ll MoK. Venter nnd Vnnn Krentrmnn, Harrlnburgi LeatcrW ± tn?Tn?T J ° h " C " ® 4*4 , 4 , 4*4 , 4*4"i' 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*4*4 t 4*4 , 4*4 t 4*4 , 4 , 4 , 4 , 4*4 , 4 t i® PRICE OF BREAD IS REDUCED BY LOCAL BAKERS Size of Loaf to Remain the Same at Cheaper Cost CENT OFF TO CONSUMER Housewives Took to Baking When Prices Went Up Week Ago The price of bread in Harrisburg has been reduced. Instead of going up a half-cent a loaf to the retailer, it will be reduced a half-cent a loaf. The new scale of prices to re tailers goes into effect to-morrow, according to announcement of the ! bakers to-day. When it was decided to advance | certain grades of bread a half-cent a loaf the announcement was made ! that it was to discourage the use of j the small loaf, due to the fact that it : required more workmen to make | the smaller loaf and that the price of labor has gone up. Economics Proposed I The bakers also announced that they were making the advance in j conformity with the bill which the ! Governor was expected to sign, J making the pound loaf a standard jin Pennsylvania. The Governor ve | toed this bill and this is one of the | reasons, the spokesmen for the J Harrisburg bakers said to-day, they were able to offer the smaller loaf [Continued on Page B.] Dog Run Down by Auto Is Nursed Back to Health The owner of a fine white setter dog can have the same by applying to Frank Stewart, 1512 North Fourth I street. The dog was run over by an au tomobile near Stewart's home last ! week and Stewart, who is a lover of I dogs, took the injured animal to his I residence and nursed it back to | health. The animal is well bred, white with black ears.
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