Campers and Cottagers Forced to Seek Safety on Hill Sides as Creek" Overflow Banks
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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
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$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
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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.
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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
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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.