Ual Pennsylvania Joins With City in Extending Hearty Greeting to Royal Belgian Party LXXXVin— NO. 250 24 PAGES Dai, &au P c r ep at Wom oCaVHaSr''HARRISBURG. PA. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1919, WARM WELCOME QUEEN GIVES THOUSANDS BRAVE MIST AND RAIN TO PAY HONOR TO RULERS OF BELGIUM Tree Planted by Royal Party Will Serve as Monument to Pleasing Visit of One of War's Heroes QUEEN TELLS OF WOMAN'S SPHERE WHILE KING VISITS STEEL MILLS Harrisburg entertained King Alber, Queen Elisabeth, Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium and a distinguished party of American and Belgian statesmen and officers to-day in a manner that will mark this as one of the red letter occasions of the city's history. The party came to stay only an hour and a half, but were so much interested in what they saw that they held up their special train nearly a half hour longer in order to more thoroughly inspect the Capitol and the great Bethlehem Steel plant at Steelton, where thousands of tons of munitions used along the Belgian front were manufactured during the war. The day was overcast but for all that the downtown streets presented a brilliant spectacle, and all along the way taken by the King and his party the streets were lined with flag-waving school children and thousands of cheering spectators. The arrangements were in charge of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce, E. T. Stack pole, chairman, and the reception committee was headed by Vance C. McCormick, who had met the King in Belgium. Mr. McCormick and Secretary Warren R. Jackson went to Newport to-day, where they boarded the King's special train. When the approach of the train was heralded at the Chamber of Commerce offices in the Dauphin Building, the traffic commit tee got the members of the reception committee into the waiting automobiles at the corner of Market street and Market Square and drove to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station where the Plaza had been policed in order to prevent congestion. At the station the party was joined by the Governor and Mrs. Sproul, who shook hands with the Mayor and Mrs. Keister. The party entered the station shed through the upper entrance just in the rear of the Plaza Hotel, which had been roped off and marked by a lane of small evergreen trees leading down to-the tracks. Q-. Train on Time As the train pulled into the depot promptly on the minute of 9 the Naval band in full uniform began to play and the committee and Red Cross workers lined up to recei\e the royal party, first off the train was Mr. Jackson, then Mr. McCor mick and after them Colonel Charles Patterson, brother of Andrew S. Patterson, of this city, who is the representative of the United States Army with the King's party. They directed attention to the rear of the train where King Albert stood on Ihe platform ready to alight. As he stepped to the ground the crowd cheered and he and all others of the partv came smartly to salute when the Belgian anthem was played by the band, remaining in that position as the band swung Into the "Star Spangled Banner." After shaking hands with the Governor and Mrs. Sproul the King and the Crown Prince, with their attendants and guests, took their way to the waiting automobiles in the plaza, it being announced that the Queen was slightly indisposed J and would not make the trip until later, when she expressed a desire to he taken to the Capitol and to Steelton. A Democratic Monarch King Albert was dressed for the j weather. He is a democratic mon arch if ever there was one. Clad i in the khaki uniform of un °<beer of the Belgian Army, he looked precisely as t 1 e picture of htiu made during tY.i war when he was battling with the German hosts and published broadcast in this country, except that the strained expressed and the lines of care had given way to a good-natured smile and a keen , glance that took in every detail of what he saw. Prince Leopold was similarly clad and neither- looked as though he would be averse to a ducking if the rain continued to fall as it had earlier in the morning. He is a good looking, slender lad, not unlike thousands of young Ameri cans of college age, and he, too, had his father's good-humored smile and a rather taking way with him. Many Cheer Monarclts The couple were cheered repeat edly as they went to the automo biles in waiting and the traffic com mittee of the Chamber had things arranged so well that the trip was begun before many were aware that the train had arrived. The plaze and Market street were lined by Boy Scouts, service men in uniform and I an occasional policeman, the crowds j remaining well back behind the ! lines. The Scouts and the service I men came to salute as the long lines of automobiles swung into Market j [Continued 011 Page 12.1 THE WEATHER! Hnrrlf.bnrg and Vicinity. Continu ed unsettled weather with probably nhowera to-night or Saturday. Not much change In temperature, lowest to-night about Bit degrees, Eastern Pennsylvania! Showers probably to-night and Satur day. Moderate east winds. Rlveri The Susquehanna river nnd all Its branches will probnbly fall slowly or remain station ary. A stage of about 4.0 feet Is Indicated for Harrlsburg Sat urday morning. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH KING ON EARLY TRAMP, ASHAMED ' OF OLD CLOTHES Leaves Sleeping Car at New port For Stroll Along Railway Tracks Newport, Pa., Oct. 24.—"0, no! No! 1 can't do that. Wait until I change clothes." Sa said King Albert, of Belgium, to John S. Eby, former Perry county Representative in the State Legisla ture, when the latter encountered His Majesty strolling along the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and expressed the desire to Introduce him to several score of Newporters who had gathered about the special cars. Stop at Newport The train on which the royal party is traveling laid over in New j port for more than seven hours this ! morning so that the travelers might I have undisturbed sleep. Being rest ed, up, the King, attired in old clothing, emerged from the cars and started to stroll about the borough, the Ip-st crowned head to set foot in Perry county. "Good morning, King Albert," Mr. Eby greeted him when he recog nized His Majesty strolling along the tracks toward his train. The King's answer was a genial handclasp, which gave to ex-Representative Eby the distinction of being the first Perry countian to grasp a foreign ruler's hand 011 Perry soil. "Now, King, I would like to intro duce you to to these good Perry countians," Mr. Eby said as they arrived at the cars after conversing briefly in their walk along the rail road tracks. Albert Speaks to Crowd He was scarcely presentable, the King remonstrated briefly, but Mr. Eby finally persuaded him. Being introduced around, the King shook hands with the hearty band of warm supporters of his democratic prin ciples. During his early morning walk I about Newport the King came in j contact with a quartet of hunters. I Noticing the guns the King asked I the men what they were going to | do. When told that the mountains j about Newport offered much game in the way of squirrels, pheasants, quail, deer, etc., he remarked, "That is fine I wish I had the time I would like to stay a week and go hunting." He spoke a few words with the crowd and briefly extolled America, . her people and paid a hearty com pliment to Perry county when its war record was briefly related to him. FITZGERALD IS UNSEATED Washington, Oct. 24. Without a record vote, the House late yester day unseated Representative John F. Fitzgerald, of Massachusetts, formerly Mayor of Boston, and seated former Representative Peter F. Tague. Both Fitzgerald and Taeue are Democrats. QUEEN IN HER FIRST INTERVIEW URGESSUFFRAGE Advocates Votes For Women, but Does Not Believe in Sex Equality LAUDS U. S. FACTORIES Declares Styles Change Too Fast; Preference For Tur bans May Establish Mode Queen Elizabeth, of the Belgians, advocates votes for women, but she does not believe in the equality of the sexes any more than in employ ing militant methods to obtain suff rage. She said so to-day in tha first interview she had given in America. The Queen spoke just before the parade. "You ask if I have gained any im pressions from the factories I have visited," Her Majesty said. "I have been very much Impressed with the clear-eye, red-cheeked girls I have seen in your workrooms. I think their evident happiness is due to the pure air, the cleanliness and the generally splendid surroundings. It is my hope that employers of working people in Belgium and all over Europe will model their fac tories after those in the United States. Mnst Protect Women "We have lost so many men in war," she added sadly, "that the women must work, and as women are the mothers of the race every thing possible should be done to pro tect them." Queen Elizabeth lias very definite ideas on the education of girls, it developed. She does not believe in the separation of the sexes in school, although she emphatically advocates educating girls along one line and I boys along; quite another. ; "The war taught me," she said, "that there is no equality of the sexes. My husband was a soldier and I was a nurse. So it was with all women. The future should see work divided along the same lines. [Continued on Page 12.1 Minister's Wife Dies Under Overturned Auto; Pupils Save Man's Life Caught beneath a light automo bile in which was was riding when it skidded and overturned at Beaver Station about two miles east of llummelstown,. Mrs. Irvin L. Beaver, j Reading, was instantly killed late this morning. She was 51 years old. Her husband, the Rev. Xrvin L. Beaver, editor of the Reformed Church Record and former pastor of the Olivet Reformed Church, Read ing, escaped with slight bruises and scratches. An X-ray picture is be ing taken at the Harrisburg Hospital of his left arm, which was injured in the accident. Mr. Beaver was driving the automobile. The proximity of pupils of tjie Beaver school .located nearby, is re sponsible for the Rev. Mr. Beaver's escape with his life. When the auto mobile overturned, he was caught beneath the seat and was able to breath only with difficulty. Pupils noticing the accident, rushed from the schoolhouse and- quickly right ed the automobile, preventing his suffocation. He was exhausted when the machine was removed. st)t £tar-3itfcpcitfttnL IS GIVEN KING ALBERT; IMPRESSIONS OF U. S. GIRLS Royal Guest on Plaza Before Capitol . ' -L . ' /. . ■ ■ "... • ■; ■ ■ • FINAL APPEAL MADE TO AVERT COAL STRIKE Direct Plea Made to Wilson 1 After Both Groups Reject Two More Proposals By Associated Press Washington, Oct 24. Final ap peal was made direct to President Wilson to-day to prevent the strike of half a million soft coal miners, called for November 1, after miners and operators, meeting jointly with Secretary Wilson, had turned down two propositions to negotiate a new wage agreement. While on the point of breaking up, the two groups heeding the plea of Secretary Wilson, agreed to return at 4 o'clock this afternoon to receive a message the secretary [ hoped to bring from the President. Position Unchanged "The miners and operators still occupy the same position as last night," Secretary Wilson said. "I made a suggestion as a new basis of settlement which was rejected, the operators refusing to accept and the miners saying that, while it was not satisfactory, they were willing to consider it." Mr. Wilson outlined the terms of his proposition, as follows: "That the pick mining price be advanced 15 cents per ton. "That machine mining, yardage, deadweight and day wages be ad vanced in the same ratio. "That the day work shall be eight hours from bank to bank. "That there shall be a Saturday half holiday. "That with these changes the exist ing agreement continues into effect until March 31, 1922. Expect to Go Home Soon "That while the legal termination of the war will not take place until some unknown time in the future, the increase in the cost, of living is an existing fact; therefore, these changes will go into effect as of No vember 1, 1919." Mr. Wilson was plainly worried and hurried away to consult other Jifficials before proceeding to the White House. Some members of the miners group said the "blow up" had about come and they expected to start for home to-night. FAMILY OF FIVE MUST HAVE MINIMUM OF $2,262 A YEAR And This Includes Only One and a Half Hats a Year For the Rife; the Baby Gets sl7 For Clothes; Food Totals $773.93 and Clothes $513.72 By Associated Press Washington, Oct. 24.—Official es timates for a "health and decency" budget for government clerks place the minimum annual expenses of a family of five at $2,262; an unmar ried woman at $1,083 and a single man at SI,OOO. These figures were made public to-day by Dr. Royal Meeker, chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in connection with the investigation of Federal sularies by a congres sional committee. The food item in the family budget amounts to $773.93. The clothing bill for the year is put at $'>13.72, of which the husband is allotted $121.16, the wife $166.46, eleven-year-old boy $96.60, the five yeur-old girl SB2 50 and the baby (two years) $47. Housing, fuel and light are placed at $4 28 and mis KING ALBERT AT CAPITOL For a few minutes before the brief welcome in the Capitol building, King Albert, with others of the royal party, and Governor and Mrs. William C. Sproul stood at the entrance while thousands cheered them. • The King, Gov ernor and Mrs. Sproul are shown above. ARBOR DAY TREE PLANTING HALTS BECAUSEOFRAIN Memorial Exercises Postponed but Evergreens Will Be Set in Place Because of inclement weather Park. Commissioner E. Z. Gross an nounced at noon to-day that the Arbor Day memorial tree planting exercises which were to have been held this afternoon in Reservoir Park, have been postponed. It is possible the Park Department will arrange to hold the memorial and dedicatory services within the next week. As only a few trees were to be planted this fall it is believed that department will arrange an ex tensive program for the spring Arbor Day at which time the remaining number of trees will be planted. Ninety-six soldiers and sailors from Harrisburg gave their lives dur ing war service, and in honor of each one the city will plant a white pine, attaching to it a bronze marker giv ing the name, rank and date of death of each man. Despite the inclement weather to day many residents of the city planted trees, having made prep arations yesterday. Many of these trees were taken from the city nurs ery during the day and delivered bj f truck together with a booklet of instructions on how to plant and care for trees. Planting in the city parks will be continued for about a week under the direction of V. Grant Forrer, assistant park superintendent, and Mr. Baltimore. Old trees and younger ones which have died will I be replaced, particularly in River Park. cellaneous expenses at $546.82 a to tal of $2,262.47. Must Have Newspaper If tha wife was especially com petent in the art of shopping, did her own sewing and practiced all household economics the budget might be reduced, it was explained, to a "rockbottom minimum" of f ' 025.56. ' The bureau, in compiling these es timates, makes a hat allowance for the wife of one and a half huts a year, $lO for a winter hat and $5 for a summer one, the winter hat to be worn two years. An item of $8.40 is allowed for a newspaper, held by I)r. Meeker to be u neces sity. The family amusement ap propriation is set at S4O, which also includes magazines, though in gen eral such luxuries as the latter, it was pointed out. are to be enjoyed ut the public library. CUTS CEILING TO FORCE WAY INTOSTOREROOM Clever Thief Fills "Sample" Cases and Drives Away in Taxicab Boring a hole in the floor of the Lochier Hotel with an auger and bit, a thief last night stole suits, shirts and other haberdashery worth ap proximately SI,OOO, from the store of McFull and Son, Third and Mar ket streets. A man, registering at the Lochiel Hotel on Wednesday night is sus pected of the theft. He is believed to be in a Central Pennsylvania city J where two of the three sample cases of goods taken by him, are being held by Pennsylvania Railroad police. A hole of sufficient size to admit a man's body led from the third floor of the Lochiel Hotel to the second floor of the McFall ; establishment. By the use of a j rope, the man went to and from the : McFall establishment. Gathering the suits, shirts and I other stuff together, the man dis i carded a huge quantity of other ma ! terial which he threw in a muss in | a corner. Bundling the others to ! gether with tape measures, he pulled j them into his room in the hotel. I Registering at the hotel on Wednesday evening, the stranger is | said to have passed the remark that ! his sample cases had been mislaid. I On Thursday morning, however, he | appeared at short intervals, taking three cases with him. Leaving a call for 2.30 this morn ing, he left the hotel at 2.45 with his three cases, the porter assisting him in removing them to the street where he had called a taxicab. The driver of the taxi reports that two of the three cases were checked and that the man went aboard the 3.10 a. m. train for Altoona. The two cases have been located in Al toona and are being held by the Pennsylvania Railroad police. The theft was discovered by em ployes of the hotel shortly after the man left. BOMB WRECKS HOUSES By Associated Press Ciiarlcrot. Pa. ,Oct. 24.—Two housose were slightly damaged by a bomb explosion here early to-day. Police believe that the bomb was intended for Richard Harvey, a steel mill engineer, who lives near the houses which were damaged, and that the bomb was misplaced. The explosion follows closely an alleged attempt to wreck a passenger train carry steel workers at Speers, near here, yesterday. TO ERECT SIX HOMES P. L. Morrow, contractor for C. Glenn Flckes, secured a permit yes terday afternoon to erect six two story brick houses in Emerald street, near T.ogan. The work will cost $20,000. JUST LEARN OF WAR'S END Uackluml, N. Z.. Oct. 24. via Ottowa The British dread naught Iron D'-ke, with Admiral Sir John Jcllicoe aboard has picked up two white men and a native of Christmas Island, who met a landing party from the battleship with revolvers, believ ing the sailors to he Germans. They did not know that the war was over, having been cut off from the outside world for IS months. OM.Y I:\I;M\C; ASSOLIATKI) PRESS SINGLE COPIES iinur cniTIOW NEWSPAPER I.V IIA It It ISIIL R<> TWO CENTS IIUItIL tUI 1 lUIM REPUBLICANS OPEN CAMPAIGN AT BIG RALLY Harrisburg Republican Club Gives Reception to City and County Candidates GREAT VICTORY IN SIGHT But Bright Prospects Will Not Dampen Ardor of Workers Planning For Next Year At the largest meeting in years, members of the Harrisburg Repub lican Club last evening gave their hearty endorsement to the city and county tickets nominated in Sep tember and heard leaders of the party in the State forecast great Re publican victories this year and in the presidential contest of 1920. "This is no 'off year,' " said Em erson Collins, one of the speakers. "What we do this year will be a sign and indication of what will hap pen next year. A united, victorious Republican party in the local elec tions throughout the country in No vember will discourage the Demo crats, hearten timid Republicans and give notice to the country that the Republican candidate ror rresiuent, whoever he muy be, will be elected next year." And that was the spirit of the whole meeting. The fact that the Republican candidates in both city and county are as certain of elec tion as though the vote already had been cast will make no difference to Republican workers this year. They [Continued on Page 14.] * . % A - A i ARRESTED FOR OKE ROBBERY ; T A confess r L X X : " Canton. Charles Rinehart, aged 18, held in connec- T J Tj * tion with the-theft of clothing from a C'inton store to-day confessed that die participated in a $50,000 robbery of the X T Pennsylv%ni/6ffices here of the American Railway Ex- A *r> * pi s C mpany Saturday night. J ' 4 WOULI>" DEPORT ALIEN SLACKERS 4* ;V . *jr 0 - 4# A h ,t citizenship to escape military service during J*, 4* '">t •- ' L ah r depwTatrtm ,bil! t approved to-day by the ■ |jg£ Cm m Ho c cc nniitteil . . y A 4 ' ' ■ Ti i BOLSHEVIK FORCES CLAIM GAINS ' I | 4 •B< nk. o'Tina! by .>'• / •* A laims tfiw 1 ops have recapture ?av- ** 4 4 south of Petrograd by a dashing * attack. * * <4 T ll X ACOL&MING POLITICAL PARTY I I - Formation of a political party among * * ■ < * ' X ,i the railroads was announced to-day by . ► ' * the central committee of transportation, a special commit- t i I t.f c natcd cy railroad men to co-operate with the steel p . (n * 4 o u RAN TED CONCESSION IN AZORES I * * London, —lt was reported to-day in dispatches from M [ 4* * * 4 at toi tugal had granted the United States a t u ... .ii tlie Azores lor a naval station. *|* 4 A ROB SAVINGS BANK X * t * Detroit. The savings bank of Royal Oak was robbed Jj • * *f*tins auernoon by five men, who, after, taking SIO,OOO * 4* in each and Liberty Bonds .escaped. ¥ y i+ ;; 1 MARRIAGE LICENSES ? £ Uforitp (irrgorlv nnd Roir Moiitii, Slpflloni Raymond N. RHgtl.taio A HnrrlMburK. nud Bprthn K. Kxhenour. Ruthrrfordi (irornr E. I.ph- r t mn ■ nnd C' nra E. Houirr, HnrrUlmrxi (hnrlr* H. .liu-ohx nnd Bplln*ir* .T I . Rui|>. Iltirrlnburitt .Vpvin J. (allbert, HurrlNburg. nnd Enthrr M, J. Rnvrr. Stwllon, V COMMISSION OF "UNREST" MAT CONTINUE TASK Urges Report to Wilson That Industrial Conference Is Bankrupt PUBLIC WORKING ALONE Sole Remaining Delegates Dis cussing Course They Will Follow By Associated Press Washington. Oct. 24. John l>. Rockefeller, Jr., chairman of the committee appointed to determine the future course of the public rep resentatives, who now alone consti tute the National Industrial Confer ence, suggested to-day that a report be made to President Wilson that the conference was bankrupt and urging the appointment of a "com mission on unrest" to take up the work of the conference. This suggestion did not meet with the approval of some of the public delegates, who held that the Presi dent desired them to continue the work of seeking some basis of agree ment for industrial peace over the country. Mr. Rockefeller's position Avas that the public delegates, having participated in the full conference, I would be handicapped by public i opinion and that an entirely" new body should be created. Officials of the American Federa tion have been approached as to their attitude toward the proposal that the public group go ahead with [Continued on Page 12.1
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