2 FIREMEN'S Convention Week SPECIAL THIS WEEK ONLY WE WILL POSITIVELY GIVE Free Without Cost AS A SOUVENIR A $5.00 ARTICLE to every customer ordering a Suit or an Overcoat. Choice of 250 Styles of Regular S2O & $22.50 Suitings s: $15.00- A GUARANTEE OF Unconditional Satisfaction Goes With Every Order Harrisburg's Oldest and Only Original Popular-price Tailors Standard Woolen Co. Branch of the World's Greatest Tailoring Organization. 19 NORTH THIRD STREET Corner Strawberry Avcnuo ALEX. AGAR, Manager NOTICE: You can order your suit now for future delivery and still have the privilege of the $5.00 souvenir. WE DELIVER FREE ALL OVER THE STATE 12.800 MEN WILL MARCH IN PARADE Continued Krnm Hrit Tnge. be in place by 1 o'clock and division marshals must report at headquarters at. that time as ready to move. The head will move promptly at 1.30 o clock. At street intersections where trouble with crowds may he expected Chief of Police Hutchison will station bluecoats. The following schedule of trolley cars was announced this morn ing: Revised Trolley Schedule "All Market street traffic will be closed at 1 o'clock until after the pa rade is o*er. The Third street cars will be operated as far as Third-and Walnut streets as long as possible be fore the parade. Fourth and Sixth street and Rockvilie cars will be op erated as far as Fourth and Walnut streets until the arrival of the parade, and cars on the State street lines will be run as far as Fourth and Walnut until the arrival of the parade, after that to Fourth and State streets. "Steelton, Hill, Reservoir Park and Oberlin cars will run to Fourth and Market streets until halted by the pa rade. After 1.30 o'clock Steelton cars will conic into the city by the Vine street route. The Capital street line will be discontinued until after the pa rade is over and the Second street line will be run from Riverside to North street as long as possible before the parade.'' 12,000 Will Be in Line Participating will be S.OOO uni formed firemen, independent of the bands accompanying the various com panies. In ail, it is expected that there will he more than 12,000 men in line. No official list of apparatus has been prepared, but many of the visiting companies will bring appara tus, most of it automobiles, and persons along the route will see almost every type of lire apj>aratus in existence. Following is the formation of the pa fade as issued to the division marshals by Mr. Holstein this morning: Division A—Form on North Second street, right resting ar ('alder street. Second —Form on 'Muench street, right resting on Xorth Second street. Third Division —Form on Kel ker street, right rearing on North Sec ond street. Fourth Division —Form on Hamilton street, right resting on North f-econd street. Fifth Division—Form (i/i Harris street, right resting on Noruh Second street. Sixth Division—Form on Reily street, right resting on North Second street. Seventh Division-—- Form on Calder street, right resting on North Second street. Kighth Division • —Form on Broad street, right resting on North Second street. Ninth Divi sion—Form on Cumberland Street, right resting on North Second street. Tenth Division—Form on Herr srteet, right resting on North Second street. Kleventh Division—Form on Boas street, right resting on North Second street. Twelfth Division—Form on Korster street, right resting on North Second street. Thirteenth Division— j Form on Briggs street, right resting on North Second street. Fourteenth Division—Form on North street, right resting on North Second street. Joseph P. Thompson, captain of po lice. who will head the squad of police at the head of the parade, yesterday inspected the entire route of march to see that it was in proper shape. In but two places were building operations being carried on and in each instance the contractor promised to have the j street cleaned up in time not to hamper the movement of the firemen. The entire route has been gone over ' by the asphalt repair company and bad ; places in the street paving repaired. A change, since the line of formation was arranged, has been made by thief , Marshal Hoistein. A hand, the Mount Cnion, of fifty-five pieces, which has j been hired by the firemen's union, will march immediately behind the police- j men and before the officials of the | parade. The change was made because ! the front of the parade, under the original plan, would be 200 feet ahead i of the first band. ' OFFICES AND STORES WILL OBSERVE HALF HOLIDAY , All Harrisburg city, county and ( state offices, the schools, some factor , ies and other industrial plants, and , muuv business houses will loin the fire , men of Pennsylvania, who are now in I convention here, in their big celebra , ti on to morrow. The city schools will • be closed all day, both to morrow anil 1 ridav. The City Commissioners have ssued an order designating Thursday as a holiday and requesting the sus-- pension of business in the afternoon. Similar orders have been handed out • i by the County Commissioners and al though State officials have not re Ijceived a formal holiday order from the , (■overnor, all have been given to un | derstand that they will not be required ;to remain at work during the after noou. Ail of the attaches of the Depart , j inent of Public Buildings and Grounds [ i will have the entire day witfc *rhe ex j ception of the guards and elevator men. I here are so many attaches of the de partment who arc members of Harris burg fire companies that Superinten ' dent Ram bo said to-day he would let them all off to enjoy th<>siay. The Capi- tol will be open as usual and visitors will be admitted to all of the places o" interest, but in the afternoon there will be no guides. AH of the larger business houses will close for the day at 1.30 o'clock , 111 the afternoon. The firemen will make things exceptionally interesting during the afternoon so that while the city will be having a holiday the streets will bear evidence of the in -1 creased activity. Harrisburg will not be alone in join ing tne firemen in their celebration 1 radically every school in the eountv • will he closed and the same close-down order will be effective with the coun ' i tv s industries. 1 | Postmaster Frank C. Sites has issued a notice to the effect lhar the main poatoffice, the mill and Ma -lay stations closed to-morrow from noon ;n --1 ; til 7 o clock in the evening, ('a. p;s ' wi'U make the 7.15, rt Kessel and Fort Broc •Jhen (respectively east and north of iLierre) which were no langer able to resist tlie destructive power of the Oer man siege guns. The capitulation of Antwerp, accord ing to Oerman military authorities, ean be only a matter of a couple of days. The Oerman general staff in its re port to-day on the situation in the west ern arena of the war, says the lighting on the Oerman right wing in France ha.\ 'been successful. LATEST SUMMARY OF THE EUROPEAN WAR SITUATION The baibtle in the north of France continues with great violence. Neither side has made material gains so far as known. The French War Office in its after noon statement says that the battle front extends virtually to the Belgian frontier. The fighting is described as \ iclent, but no claim of advantage is made. The Oerman general staff announce,! to-day that toe fighting on the Oerman right wing had been successful. Another wireless dispatch from Ber lin says it is reported in government circles that two more forts at Antwerp, Horts Kessel and Brocchen, have fallen •before the Germans. The capitulation of the city is regarded in Berlin as dose at hand. A dispatch from Amsterdam savs that a German torpedo boat dest.rover has oeen sunk by a mine off the Kstu ary of the Kims in the North sea. A British news agency declares that the Oerman vessel was sunk bv a British submarine. A Pekin dispatch quotes a Oerman news agency as saying that Japanese forces have occupied the Island of Yap of the Caroline group in the Pacific. A report from Petrograd savs that Russian heavy artillery is bombarding Przemysl and that Austrian field for.es that attempted to relieve the fortress were defeated and compelled to retire. hast night's German official state ment said that the new Russian ad vances against East Prussia had been checked and that Russian forces have been defeatej in Russia,, Poland. Tokio announces that the War Office believes That the Japanese have sunk a Oerman cruiser ami two German gun boats i„ Kiao-Chow bay. An official statement issued in Vienna says that. German and Austrian forces surprised the enemy in Russian Poland and drove the Russians back across the Vistula. Ossowitz Fired by German Shells Berlin,».t. ~ Via The Hague and! London, 4.25 P. M —The German: forces on the frontier of East Prussia have assumed a strategic defensive movement. They abandoned the bom bardment of Ossowetz fortress, in Rus sian Poland. After setting the city of Ossowetz on Ere with shells thev were able to retire with their siege guns and a pontoon traih. They destroyed the railroad on the frontier and are I now holding in check superior Russian forces from heavilv-entrenched posi tions near Drostken. Poincare Back From Front Paris, Oct. 7, 3 F M.—President Po in rare, accompanied by Premier I Vivani and Minister of War Millerand, | returned to Pars last night after his; trip from Bordeaux to the line of bat-1 tie. The President and his Ministersl reached army headquarters Monday morning. They spent several hours! with General Jofl're, commander-in chief of the French forces, and then i proceeded to the British headquarters, where they called ii|■ m n • i'<«~ '■ m*\ J White satin ovinia* gown bordered with skunk fur. The corsage top, whicl Tails In a d*ep cape at the back, la of lace, the design outlined with gold thread. spent for services of architects and engineers and expenses of comm s sious, transportation, Pullman fares and other such matters. In fact, to be I able to give to the penny the cost of | t his unbusinesslike way of handling State funds. We anticipate that this ' matter will be covered in a similar manner by the Economy and Efficiency Commission, j "Thcf'e lave been employed by ti.o i State in the past year, and I say this for example only, 200 draftsmen and 'SO engineeis and 25 architects. The Auditor General does not want to be unfair and does not want the impres sion to gel. out that this is a ham sand wich administration and he realizes that, nobody will think, as far us his office is concerned, that it. is (,o he a chain pjigtie breakfast affair. I "What we are really trying to do I is to cut overhead expenses to a rea sonable proportion of the total amount expended.'' Bethlehem Low Bidder for Armor Washington. Oct. 7. The' Bethlehem Stef-1 Company was the lowest bidder to-day for 22,122 .tons of side armor for three new battleships. The bid was $4115 a ton. The Midvalo Steel Com pany of .Philadelphia made the lowest bid, J4S6, for turret armor. i Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey Tren'ton, X. .1., Oct. 7. The Rev. Paul It. Matthews, of Panbault, I.Miiin., was to-day elected Protestant Kpi.-vo;al Bishop of New Jersey at a special ses- I sion of the diocesan convention. He succeeds the late Bishop John Scarbor- I oug'i:.