BELGIANS RETREATING FROM ANTWERP JUST BEFORE CITY WAS TAKEN BY GERMANS - *"*»■" 11 *■'" , < jjJUJ^j(fl^®2s?^''^« hMkHP* t^HMß^ '-rs&M&BfrQ •iSfitoiii^'^^PlH^BßßS^EPl.^^T^^^^B^Mi^^fflHlH^BwMilSdmfiliiHßißHßifflS^EnHll^^^^Bß^BßwßHßßalP^t" '■ ;• .■: ~j,".| THE- FAMII_>A»R LONDON MOTOR BUS" WHICH ' FICUREt? * (c)N.V HERALD PROMtNEMTLV IN THE RETREAT FROM ANTWERP" . won eras I lACKTIfINIWEHP City Gradually Return- 1 ing to Normal Condi tions Following Ger man Occupation NO TRIBUTE YET I LEVIED ON TOWN Germans Thus Far Have Only Demand-! Ed Supplies lor Their Array—Ba- j keries, Meat Shops and Grocery Stores Opening in Poorer Section Antwerp, Oct. 23, Via Roosendaal to 1 London. Oct. 24, 1.20 A. M. —Antwerp gradually is returning to normal condi tions. About 150,000 of its 35u,000 inhabitants most of whom fled the city when the Germans occupied it, have returned to their homes. Some baker ies, meat shops anil grocery stores are I opening in the |x>orer section of the city, and a few old women with dog; • arts are offering apples ami vegetables in the once busy markets. The German Hag Hies from the tower of the cathe-J dral of Notre Dame but Belgian priests j are reading mass as usual. Belgians, Gorman soldiers and Ger man officers, many of whom have their j wives with them, are living quietly in the leading hotels which are forced to keep open for the army. The streets virtually are deserted except for the gray German automobiles which dash along at mad speed, carrying officers ciad in smoke gray uniforms. No Tribute Levied on City No tribute has been levied on the city at yet. except that the Germans have demanded supplies for their army, (ieneral Von Huehne is governor gen eral of the military government. .Maj.ir • ieneral Von Bodenhausen, commander of the fortress of Antwerp, will be in-1 stalled shortly as civil governor to take, charge of the issuance of passports and other duties which have been performed bv Henry Diedrich, until recently Amer ican consul general at Antwerp, and the Belgian burgomaster, M. Davoss, acting in conjunction with German sol diers and many plain clothes German detectives. General Von Buehne has given as surance that Belgians will not be forced , to dig entrenchments or do other work ; for the Germans if they return to the Belgian cities. Every consideration is being shown the Belgians by the Ger mans that the kindness makes the Bel gians suspicious as they believe, they' say, that a trap is being laid. Over' 12.000 Belgians returned to Antwerp to-day and probably half that number; from Holland. Towns Filled With Frantic Belgians The only trains running from Ant werp are to Roosendaal, Holland. Hour ly service is being maintained botii ways during daylight hours and all trains are crowded. All the Holland border towns are filled with frantic Belgians who move about anxiouslv seeking relatives anil are afraid to re turn to their own country. Virtually all the highways in the! north of Belgium and in the south of) Holland are filled with refugee pe destrians and dog an I horse carts load ed with furniture and clothing. Barns, I farm houses, haystacks and cars on side tracks furnish shelter for those travel-i ing families. Holland is harvesting its sugar beet crop and some of the refu gees are employed in this work. Country About Antwerp Desolate The country about Antwerp is deso-' late, as the Belgians levelled many for-1 osts to give the forts a better chance at I the approaching enemy. It is estimated j that about three hundred buildings were destroyed in Antwerp by bombs, most of these structures being resi dences. The hotel De L'Kurope and the j Taverne R ovale. on La Place Yerte, were among 25 large buildings de ! stroved by fire caused by bombs. La mier and other leading business streets were untouched but all the large busi ness houses are still closed despite the efforts of the Germans to restore nor j mal conditions. Hundreds of ships are lying in the canals and at the docks, efforts to open I shipping being unavailing as Holland J controls the mouth of the Sehelit riv er. The factories nil are closed and the' j American consulate is looking after the i business interests of citizens of the al l f lied countries. The Stars and Stripes] | fly from the offices of the Red Star Line, the American Petroleum Com-j | panv and other American concerns. (iff Killed During Bombardment It is estimated that sixty persons' were killed during the bombardment of Antwerp. Theopile Lemaire, Argentine consul at Antwerp, was the most proroi nent victim. He wtn killed in the eel i lar of his home by a bomb which came through the roof and floors and struck him. Because of the bombardment it was necessary to bury his body 011 the spot where for three days it was guarded. Ijater it was reinterred in I the cemetery with the Itodies of Cap - tain Hammond and 49 English soldiers. The wounded were left in the Bel gian military hospital by the fleeing j forces who were unable to take all with them. Most of the British marines were wounded in the legs, their injuries i being slight. They were badly in need of clothing and asked Consul Dieder ich to help them before the Germans! sent them to prison. Probably not over: i 20 other Englishmen are in Antwerp. Officials' Narrow Escape I Consul Diederich and the Amsterdam vice counsel, Harry Sherman, both nar rowly escaped death during the bom bardment. They lived on the south side of the city where the shelling occurred. ' The operators of a Zeppelin dirigible ! ! balloon dropped a bomb within 200 feet of .Mr. Sherman's home and the house adjoining Mr. Diedrich's resi | denee was completely wrecked by a | bomb. Persons having proper credentials : may enter and leave Antwerp without] trouble. German officers are busy every ! where making maps of the eitv and I supervising the policemen in an effort ! ro restore normal conditions. The I j streets are cleared by 9 o'clock a night. There has been no friction be [ tween the Belgians and the Germans.) The German officers proceed as if they 1 I expect to remain in the city perma j nently. German forces constantly are enter- i ling and leaving the city, apparently! for the fighting line. Petrol supply aii-1 i tomobiles, horse drawn commissary I | wagons, infantrymen, artillerymen and I cavalrymen are starting south daily.! ! The clean uniforms of the men and i J their fresh horses indicate that these' ' troops have seen little service. King and Queen With Army | London, Oct. 23, 7.110 A. M.—A dis patch from Amsterdam to Keuters Tele-1 gram Company says that the newspa-! pers Hau^lelsblad, of that city, learns I tEat the Belgian king and queen arel still with the Belgian army. ' rTARRTSBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT. SATURDAY EVENINC.. OCTOBER 24. 1914. !"" ~ 1 RUSSIAN AND TLRI O-GERMAX FLEETS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY j London, Oct. 24, 3.03 A. M.—The | ; Milan correspondent of the "Post'' has j j this to say of the situation in the Black! ! Sea: j "Although there is iittle news from | I the Black Sea where a week ago the '■ Russian and Turco-German fleets were! ; in dangerous proximity, it is evident! 1 that no battle lias taken place. "It is believed that v the Tureo-Ger-| t man fleet which was outnumbered de-1 spite the superiority of the Goeben,' ; withdrew into the Bosphorus and that' the Russians, having replied to the j I Turkish parade with an effective conn-; ; ter demonstration, have returned to i ! their home port." Chase Hostile Planes From Paris Paris, Oct. 24.—Two German aero-1 > planes were seen coming toward Paris' yesterday from Compiegne, but a squadron of French machines pursued the Germans, who disappeared to the 1 northward. Horses to Feed French Fort Collins, Col., Oct. 24.—Two car j loads of horses were shipped from here j to-day destined for France. Agents of' the French government said the animals ' would be used for food and not for j military purposes. Rush Order on War Blankets N'orristown, Oct. 24.; —To till a large order for blankets to be used by armies at war in Europe, the Woodstock mills ! here are working to fullest capacity, making from 1,200 to 1,400 woolen J blankets daily. It is said by a member 1 of the firm tliat the present order will 1 keep the mill running for three months. Duke of Roxburghe Wounded Eondon, Oct. 24.—The "Pall Mall Gazette,'' says that the Duke of Rox burghe, captain of the Scots Guard, was wounded while on service in France. [ His wounds, however, are not danger ; ous. The l>uke of Roxburghe, in 1901! I ! married Miss Mav Goelet. * British Officers Still Falling j Eondon, Oct. 24. —\ British casual ty list issued yesterday, but dated 00-j tober 18, reports 10 officers killed, in-j I eluding Lieutenant Sir R. G. V. Duff, 'of the Second Life Guards and 29 ' wounded. | British Torpedo Boat Refloated London, Oct. 23, 4.20 P. M.—The] ! British torpedo gunboat Dryad, which 1 | went ashore recently at Kirkwill, off! I the coast of Scotland, has been refloat ! ! ed. An examination shows that she ! has received no damage. Says German Retroat Was Precipitous London, Oct. 23. 4.50 P. M.—in a] dispatch from Warsaw the correspon 1 I dent of the Reuters Telegram Company' | says that the German retreat from War ] jsaw was so precipitate that the soldiers ' had to abandon their food supplies. Many of the prisoners taken are ex hausted from hunger. One complete unit of SOO men ha? been captured by the 1 Kussians. MECHANICSBURG Dr. Smucker Preaches Sermon at Metli- j odist Anniversary Services Special Correspondence. Mechanicsburg, Oct. 24.—Last even-1 ing the sermon of the anniversary week j of the Methodist church was preached j liy the Kev ('. A. Smucker, pastor of : the Stevens Memorial church, Harris-I burg. There will be 110 service this I evening. To-morrow will be Okl Folks'. Day, when the sermon will be preached ' by the Rev. A. llouck, of Carlisle. Last evening <1 tine lecture was giv- j en in Columbian Hall, Irving College, before the faculty, the student body | and a few friends ol' the college. The \ lecture was given bv Dr. Seeling, of | ork. It is Dr Seeling who revived I the custom ot paying a rose as rental j for the chui'ch in Manheim. He gave | very interesting facts concerning Baron Stiegel the founder of that ' church. The first quarterly conference of this ! conference year was held last evening in the First I' B. church. The Rev. W.! H. Washinger, district superintendent, had charge. A meeting of the Progressive party I is announced to be held in Franklin hall this evening. The speakers an- ' nounced are Dr. .1, H. Kreider, Fill- j more ,\la 11st and George U Reed. Mrs. Elizabeth Witraer is in Steel- ] ton, called there by the illness of her grandson, Witmer Thompson, who had j I>is collar bone broken in a football j game 011 Thursday. At the meeting of the Woman's Club | held at the home of Mrs. George Fulton ; last evening Miss Jjile George was elect- I ed delegate *o the fall meeting of the ! Cumberland Valley league of Woman's ! Clubs, to be lu-ld .11 Newville November I 6. The Rev A. R. Steck. D. D., of Car lisle, president if the board of trus- j tees of Irving College, was a visitor to | the college yesterday. Dr. Ruth Deeter, of llarrisburg, is j the guest of Mrs. Calvin Clenflenin, | West Main street. The Rev. E. D W?igle, D. D„ of I Camp Hill, was a visitor here vester-1 day. W. Kline, Republican county; chairman, was a visitor here yesterday. Miss Dover, of Harrisblirg, was in | Mechanicsburg last evening. She is a | great-great granddaughter of Baron ! who was the founder of Man- i heim and of the red rose rental for one j of the churches. Frank Comfort, of Philadelphia, is j visiting his mother, Mrs. Laura Com-I fort, West Main street. Norman Bucher, of the class of 1914 of the High school, who is now a stu dent in Lebanon Valley College, spent' a short time at the High school vester- j day, when 011 his way to his home in j Shepherdstown to spend Saturday and ! Sunday. Walter Zeigler, of Independence, I Kan., is visiting relatives in this place and vicinity. Candor is telling the other fellow something about himself that makes hi in sore at you. SIIKIIG IF FOIR DAN VESSELS ! First Graphic Descrip- ( tion of Sea Fight in Which Torpedo Boats Were Destroyed BRITISH OFFICER TELLS THE STORY Ensrlish CJruisfir Undaunted and Four .tiiigiisn uruiser unaauntea ana 1 our Torpedo Boat Destroyers Partici pate in Naval Battle Off Dutch Coast Proved Disastrous to German, London, Oct. 24, 2.13 A. M.—The j first good descripton of the sea tight: I last Saturday which resulted in the j I sinking of four German torpedo boat' I destroyers off the Dutch coast by the' ' British cruiser Undaunted and the tor ■ pedo boat destroyers Lance, Lennox, I Legion and Loyal, is given by an of-j | ficer of the Undaunted. | "When heading northward,'' the of-1 | ficer said, "we saw the smoke of four; | German vessels. The eaptain immediate-j ly ordered 11s to clear for action and j jto chase them. We steamed at top j j speed with the destroyers in pursuit j | of the Germans." It was an unforget- i J table sight. Our nerves were strained I i and everybody was as keen as mustard over our luck, Germans Overtaken in Flight "The Germans turned about and i i fled but we had the advantage in speed j ; and soon they were in range of our 6-1 : inch bow chasers. Seeing themselves [cornered they altered their course to j get a better strategic position and an swered our,lire, aiming mostly at our j I ilestroyers. "Lusty cheering rang from our ships j ; as the first German destroyer disap , peared. A shell struck her just below | the bridge and she toppled over on her : j beam ends like a wounded bird, then | 1 righted herself to a level with the sur i face and finally plunged bow first be ' neath the waves. It was all over with j her in two minutes. "In less than an hour after we had 1 sighted the Germans her second de- ! j stroyer was out of action. She was j I ablaze fore and aft, showing what the ' J fearful shell work was doing. .As one j | shell hit her the funnels, bridge, tor-1 J pedo tubes and deck fitting all disap- I peared like magic. No Time to Rescue Drowning j "We actually passed over the spot i where the first vessel was sunk anil ' for the space of a couple of seconds as; | we tore through the water at a rate of j | over thirty knots an hour we saw poor j j wretches floating about clinging to j I charred and blackened debris and other I wreckage. It was a pitiable sigh but we ! had two more combatants to put out of action and were forced to speed along | and tried to forget the sight. | "The second ship, still a mass of j | flames, had sunk to the level of the i water and we soon had the remaining two holed and maimed. Their firing was ( very poor though several of their shells 1 flew around and cast shrapnel bullets; | about us. J "The enemy fired many torpedoes,! lone of them missing the 'Undaunted's j j stern by only a few yards. Fortunate- j | ly we saw the bubbles it maile as it ap- j proaehed and thus avoided the fate of j j the Aboukir (a British cruiser sunk re-j j cently by a German submarine). "An hour and a half after the Ger-' mans were sighted; all was over with ; them and the order was given to save | life.'' People profit more by experience in j speculation in which they make than! in those in which they lose. ■IN TO KICK OUT DRONES Says He Will See to It That Every Man in the Capitol Earns His Money LARGE PARADE IN UNIONTOWN ! Republican Candidate for Governor Re news His Pledge i'or Local Option —Promises to Protect Workers— Will Not Be Bossed (Special to the Star-Independent.) Uniontown, Pa., Oct. 24. — Dr. Mar tin G. Brumbaugh made a baker s doz en speeches yesterdav in Favette coun ty. After he had seen the parade last night of 3,000 men with torches and red lire, 13 bands and 85 automobiles, with thousands crowding the sidewalks and cheering, he made a speech in the Uniontown Opera House before 1,200 people, to whom he said: "1 shall be satisfied and happy with the verdict at the polls on November Dr. Brumbaugh made the first speech of the evening so that he could speak again to 1,000 men at an overflow meeting. "You can vote me in or you can vote me out of this election,'' said Dr. Brum baugh. "But von can't vote ine in or out of the fight which I pledge to make for my platform. lam not in this contest simply to win an election but to win rights for the people in Penn sylvania and for these rights I will light as long as I live.'' Dr. Brumbaugh again gave his pledge 'for local option —"County by coun ty," adding, "and I don't want any hypocrite to lie or misrepresent me ou a moral question on which 1 have spok en as clearly as I would speak to a kimlergarden child in Philadelphia. State Too Grand to Have a Boss "I also believe that it is rbsolutely right to allow the people in each part I of this Commonwealth,'county bv coun ty, to determine for themselves whether or not intoxicating liquors shall be sold in the several counties. I made this I statement in my primary platform and I stand for local option now, as I have stood for it in the past, and shall stand for it to the end. 1 want no man or group of men to be misled on this is sue, or to misrepresent me in a matter upon which my whole life has been a definite pronouncement and a consist ent record. "It has been intimated that if I 1 were elected Governor somebody, some j where in some way, would control me jin the performance of my public du I ties. I want to say to you that 1 have absolutely no boss and never will have; | i hat I am hand-free and heart-free to j serve the people of this Commonwealth | honestly, openly and fearlessly. Penn sylvania is too fine a State, too splen ! did in her record of patriotic achieve j nients, too grand in her industrial ac tivities, to have a boss. Will Kick Out the Drones "Pennsylvania, because of her varied I industries and tremendous industrial ac tivities, employs armies of women work j era, who also deserve at our hands not i only .just, but chivalrous, protection in ! order that they may work under condi ! tions which shall in no way interfere with their health or impair their power jto give to the State a generation of j strong, vigorous children." In pledging a clean, capable, eonsci ! entious performance of his duties as j Governor, when chosen, Dr. Brumbaugh | said: I "I shall see to it that every other ! man in the Capitol earns his money or I I 'll kick him out.'' PENROSE MM TO VARE Senator Says "Incident Is Closed" \ When Asked to Discuss De mand of Congressman (Special to the Star-Independent.) Philadelphia, Oct. 24.—Open revolt | of the Vares against Penrose, expected : as a climax of the challenge to Senator Penrose by Representative Vare on the i floor of Congress, Thursday, failed to materialize yesterday. The political •world waited anxiously for some em phatic reply from Penrose and further attack from Vare, but in vain. Representative Vare demanded that. Penrose deny the accusation imputed j to hi in, namely, that "Vare had actu ally paid $5,000 to the late (Mayor Rey jburn." Senator Penrose mifde no defi | nite reply. He contented himself with j saying that "the incident is closed." Representative Vare returned from j tthe capital early yesterday. He would not admit that the incident was closed, but refused to comment in any way \ upon the situation. He refused to give any indication as to what his future j political course would be. I An adviser of Representative Vare said that the future course of the Con gressman had not. been decided, and would not be until some more definite utterance comes from the newspaper j that published the statement complain :cd of in the Washington speech. He I said 'that Representative Vare was pre- Uared to protect 'his personal honor at I any politic al cost, and tlhat action might, j bo expected if there is not a satisfac j torv repudiation of the story. The Vare workers, remennbering the I days of 1911 upon reading the speech \ of 'Representative Vare yesterday, has- I tened to the offices of Senator Vare. They went prepared to enter the tig'ht on election day to deefat Penrose. Near- I ly all of the South Philadelphia ward j leaders and some from outlying wards | saiw Senator Vare. They came out con ; vinced that there would be no imme j diate open revolt against Penrose, but ! were impressed with the fact that the j Vares were interested in the State ticket and that no extra efforts should be made to get out votes for Penrose. The fight agains*t Penrose's leader ship, it was declared by one Vare lead er, will not be made at this crisis. The war is only postponed, he said, until next year when a city ticket is to be elected. HARRISBURCERS LED MARCH Central Democratic Club at Head of Line in Parade Held Before Rally in Reading (.Special to the Star-Independent.) Reading, Oct. 24. Democratic Berks county last night gave an ova tion to the Palmer-McCormick cam paigners. Following meetings at Kutz town and Fleetwood in the late after noon and a reception at the American House in the early evening, more than .>,OOO men paraded behind the State candidates they were taken in auto mobiles to the Academy, where the speeches were made. Fifteen hundred men and some wom en were, packed into the theatre, every hundreds'V H- 6 tl "° M bein » '' 11(1,1 «« °" Se ' 1 1 >vas estimated that Toon C " a,rma " H«m' j. Dlmn I e , r ere "" ahl " ,0 F F t the theatre Immediately after the was »t» g rt W r OP / U ;l " over " ow '"eeting was started in Jront of the Court House heard th! , 1,500 > ,ers,,ns there eard the candidates discuss the issues or the campaign. A feature of the parade was the Ce!it?«7"n ~"° menibers of the entral Democratic Club, of Harris and"' l" "c"' h VaiH ' e <-'• McCormick, Then® t , ( ' l overnor - is « member, i entral dub was acompanied h* the commonwealth band, of ilarrisbur .. taded by the American, State and Hariisbnrg city (lags, this -lub led the numerous clubs from Reading, the borough of West Reading, Temple, Heetwoo. Bright ano Arthur B. Clark, candidates for Congressmen at larce came here from Philadelphia. ' ( ongressnian Palmer and Mr. Mc- Cormick, upon their introduction bv the chairman of th. Academv meetiii", Chris tan H. Ruhl, an attorney ami president, of the Berks County * Trust Company, were cheered for ' several minutes. William .1. Rourke, a former City Solicitor of Reading, was chairman of the Court House meeting. Pinchot Calls Penrose a Tool Media, PH., Oct. 24.— Uifford Pinchot, Washington party candidate for t'nited States Senator, declared in H curbstone speech here last nig'it that his Repub lican opponent, Boies Penrose, was nor. lit to represent the people, because, both I at Washington and .it Harrisburg, he ; lias always been the tool of the public I rmlege clique, ever ready to do their Miner Leaps to Death ! Shamokin, Pa.. Oct. 24.—Anthony Pupa and two other miners were en ; tombed by a cave-in at the Greenough ! 'colliery yesterday. A rescuing party 1 found Pupa senseless from want of air. j Some time later lie suddenly leaped to bis feet and plunged down a declivity : and was killed. Lay Church Cornerstone Siiamokiu, Pa., Oct. 24.—A large number ot' priests from the Harrisburg diocese assembled at Roaring Creek yes terday when 'Monsignor Koch, of this I place, laid the cornerstone of St. Mary's Catholic church. The Rev. Harrv i Strickland, of Shamokin, is pastor of | the new charge. r~ - - - i. ■> Directory of Leading Hotels of Harrisburg j The Metropolitan Strictly European For something good to eat. Every thing in season. Service the best. Prices the lowest. HOTEL VICTOR No. 25 South Fourth Street Directly opposite Union Mafinn, equipped with all Modern Improve, oieum; running miter In every rooai| Hue until I perfectly aunlturyi nicely j lurnlnheil throughout. Hate* moderate, liuroiieun I'lau. JOSEPH GIUSTI, Proprietor. THE BOLTON Market Square Large and convenient Sample Rooms. Passenger and Baggage Elevator. Eleo i trie Cars to and from depot. Electrie j Light and Steam Heat; Rooms en suite 1 or single with Batlis. Rates, $2.60 per i day and up. J. H. at M. S. Butterworth, Prop*. THEPLAZA 423-425 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa. At the Entrance to the P. R. R. Station EUROPEAN PLAN F. B. ALDINGEB, Proprietor Hotel Columbus Absolutely Fireproof 90 Rooms and Baths European Plan Maurice E. Russ, Proprietor Third and Walnut Sts., Federal Square The Lochiel Comer Market and Third Streets Entrance on Third Street EUROPEAN PLAN Rooms provided with Heat, Hot and Cold Water. Baths free to guests. W. H. BYERLY, Prop. HOTEL DAUPHIN 300 MARKET STREET European Plan. Rates SI.OO per day ana up. Rooms single or en suite, with private hatha. Luncheon, 11. DO to '2 p. m„ anr Dinner daily, 5 to 8 p. m., SOe Special Sunday Dinner. 12 noon to 8 p. in., 75c A la carte service. i> a. ni. to 12 n m. HURTING & MINGLE, Proprietor. 5