2 runs POST OF tin FORESTER City Commission Ad vances Ordinance Creating New Posi tion at $ 1,000 a Year PLACE MAY GO TO M'FARLAND Agreement Adopted for Taking Over Land on West Side of North Front Streeit—Harrisburg to Pay Part of Paving Assessment The office of City Forester, a posi tion through which it is intended to regulate the planting, trimming and .-are of shade trees in the city, will be rreated if an ordinance introduced by Commissioner Taylor at the regular meeting of the City Commissioners this afternoon passes finally. The Commis sion passed the bill on first reaiiug and it will come up for second reading and final passage one week from to-day. This official will have practically the same duties as would a Tree Commission. Park Commissioner Taylor this after nooii said he is not vet in a position to fay who will bo suggesto.i to the Com mission for appointment to the new post, although tho name of J. Horace Mo Far land already has been mentioned in connection with the office. Tho sal ary of the Forester, the ordinance pro vides, shall not exceed SI,OOO. and Commissioner Taylor said it is the plan to pay that amount. The new official will have no titled assistants. Tho men who will have to do with the planting and caring of trees will be taken from tho corps of park department employes. The Commissioners to-day settled finally the question of taking over the (•round, between the western curb of North Front street an i the low water mark of the Susquehanna river, from Keiker street to Mac lay. Deeds to be given for the ground by the ten or twelve property owners will be accept ed bv the city through the City Solici tor in return for which the city will satisfy liens entered against that real estate to cover the cost of paving the west side of Front street betweeu Kei ker and Maclav. This plan ws* one of three suggested by City Solicitor Seitz and was rec ommended by the legal adviser at a conference with the Commissioners to day in view of its being the best plan for obtaining the ground speedily an i at the cheapest cost. The Commissioners, in a communica tion from the Chamber of Commerce, were aske., to attend a "Conference on Foreign Trade." to be he'id in Fahne etock l»ali "next" Tuesday. The con- fercnce if being hel l to day although the Commissioner*, excepting the May or who wis schedule! to make an ad dress at the Conference a; 2.30 o'clock, understood it was to be he! I one week from this date. The letter was received j after Tuesday's ineetine of the Com missioners an.: did uot yet before them officially until to-day. COURT TO Bill D GOLF ("LI B HOI'SE Psrk Commissioner Taylor Plans to Erect Building in Reservoir Park A golf house, 60 feet long an.i 30 feet w;de. will be erected :n Keser voir Park earii next spring, under the plans of M. Harvey Taylor, Commis sioner of PBrk, announced to-day. Warren 1!. Manning, the landscape architect of the park department, oa a brief vis.t here yester. iy seieete.; the site. a. spot on the woodaU siooe immediately back of the Elk monu ment. Mr. Manning also inspected the river front improvement work as well as the work incident to the proposed new Reservoir Park entrance. Specifi cations for the new club house will be drawn up at once and sent out for bids. While the contra •t may be Jet this year, actual work on the building may not be began before early spring. Two Damage Suits A claim for $.'.000 damages :« madi 1 in a suit file ! to-day by Robert Rosen berg, counsel for John P. Forsythe, against Edward W. Weiss. While iii the defendant's employ a bar fell on For sythe'j £eot. Another kmage suit file 1 to- was a >I.OOO claim made by Hughes against John and Thomas C. Black. A stone fell or Hughes, while he was in the employ of the defendants, he alleges. Verdict for Defense A verdiet in favor of the defense this morning was returned by a jury in the ejectment suit of Isaa ' D. West agiinst Alfred F. Hanna. The action involved a strip of ground situated in and adjacent to the borough of by kens this county. The principal? in the salt both claimed to have title to the reai estate. At a former trial thi ooort directed the jury to render a vfrdict in favor of the defense. The Supreme Court then granted the Wc-t's appeal for a rehearing, setting forth that certain questions of fact should have been left to the jury to decide. Nothing Fcr Argument Argument in the city'? tax suit against the Smith-Premier Typewriter Company, this morning was continued to the December argument court. (Sty Solicitor Seitz complained that the de fendant's "answer"' in the case, is not specific, and did not raise legal questions npon which the argument eould be centered. Typhoid Fever Fatal Steve Dannich, 1221 South Kint'n street, died at the Harrisburg Hospital at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon of ty phoid fever. He was admitted yester day afternoon in the last stages of thej disease. ' CAPITOL HILL RATES ARE REASONABLE. SAYS THE AMISSION Even Though Lewistown Pays More Than Huntingdon for the Same Service. It Cannot Complain About Charges for Mifflin County Town The Public Service Commission has found that the rates of the Pennsylva nia Central Light and Power Company in the borough of Lewistowu, are just and reasouabie and the complaint filed by J. Price Werts, of Lewistown, has been dismissed. The Commission does not consider it fair to order the reduction of a rate which is shown to be reasonable on ac count of a fact that in another com munity the company is furnishing cur rent at a price below the cost thereof. This comment is occasioned by the fact that a less rate is charged in Hunting don than in Lewistown. The Commission has issued an order that the Krie Railroad Company must improve its passenger and freight serv ice to and from Kennard Station, Mer cer county. The complaint was fi'.ed by J. E. Callahan, C. G. Freeland and M. Little representing the people of Kennard and was occasioned by the fact that the railroad company had discontinued the operation of passen ger trains 219 and 220 between Green ville and Moadville. Close to a Million Close to a million dollars was taken into the State Treasury yester-tay. from tax sources, the figures totaling $936,- 435.67. while the payments were $4 23.- 171.95. At this rate the receipts for the year will be very close to those of last vear. when thev totaled $35,000,- 000.' Harrisburg Paid The Harrisburg school district has received its share of the year's school appropriation, amounting to S46,SSS. The warrant was issued by the Depart ment of Education and cashed at the .State Treasurv. In an envelope postmarked Reading yesterday came to the State Treasury a fifty-cent piece wrapped in several thicknesses of paper, it was placed to the credit of the conscience fund. Complain of the -ell The Marion Rural I/. n e Company, represented by John F. Stiekel. H. A. Sellers and others, who have eoustrocl ed a telephone line from their resi dences ;n Antrim and Guilfordtownships, Franklui county, to the exchange of the Bell, loratei in tireencast'e. com plain to the Public Service Commission that since July 1 of this year the Bell has refused to furnish exchange serv ice because the rural line has connec tions with the Cumberland Valley Tele phone Company. lue complainants say that there is nothing in the contract be h typhoid fever at Lehigh University at the beginning of the term and lingered until Saturday. Commissioner Foust attended the funeral. Pay Day on the Hill This was pay day on Capitol Hill, and monthly checks were being distrib uted all over the big building. Chief Garvin Here Thomas H. Garvin, chief clerk of tho House of Representatives, was at the Capitol today looking after the prep arations for the meeting of the Legis iature in January. Scad Contract Awarded Twenty-six coirtraf-tors bid on on'' Ptate-aid contract for a hijrhwav in Butler count- to-day. The contract «JS awarded by State Highway Com missioner Bigelow to O'Brien Brothers, of Avoca. Luzerne county. Thev bid J55.T02.61. but when checked it was found that the bid should be $55,474.61. A feature of the biddinj was that one firm from Ohio, one from Xew York and one from Went Virginia •ought the opportunity to construct highways in Pennsylvania. The high way. which is to be constructed ftf brick block, is one runnine from the southern borough line of Butler in a southerly direction through Bvitler. Summit and Jefferson townships to a point in the ro«d near the Mechlin school house in Jefferson township, a distance of nearly four miles. Discuss Closing Shops Sunday The local branch of the Journeymen Barbers' International Union will hold a meeting to-night to discuss ways and means of helping in the campaign against open barber shops on Sunday. It has been reported that one union shop runs on Sunday and this will be taken up at this meeting. Artistic Printing at Star-Independent. HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT. TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1914. CLEVER TEAM TOPS THE NEW BILL AT ORPHEUIH Morriseey and Hackett Provide Good Entertainment at Vaudeville Hour* j —Other Attraction* of Merit on the Program It is not very often that a "man and girl team" tops a vaudeville bill at the Orpheum, but Morrissey ar.d Hackett, a clever |>air of performers, head the show there this week aud they deserve the headline position. They do none of the accepted things that a "man and girl team" usually dues. Their offering is rather a '"take-off" ou "poor old vaudeville." They have an unusually funny mov ing picture scene, the film being used in connection with the act, a part of the acting in front of the camera hav ing been done by the pair. It is at well arranged number, the orchestrations tittiug well in every part. The man is a clever mimic and the girl is sprightly and attractive. A long, thin person, in "The Piano Movers," has a very funny dance, bui he uses it in the same act he has ap peared in here before. That, however, detracts little from his Entertainment. A clever pair of girls are the Brit nelle sisters, who, with Stevens, do a travesty called "Ye Olden Days and Present Ways,'* The entire bill has merit. PASSENGER RATE INCREASE Pennsylvania Public Bervice Commis sion May Set Date Late To-day to Hear Protests By Associated Press. Philadelphia. Nov. 24. —The Penn sylvania Public Service Commission probably will announce late to-day a date for its Wearing of the protests against the railroads increasing passen ger rates. A mass meeting called to protest against the increase in rates was held in one of the theatres this afternoon. Almost every business and Civic Asso ciation in this city and suburb, a'ong with country clubs, churches, private schools and Commuters' Associations from this State and New Jersey were represented. Personally invited to be present or send a representative to explain the railroad's side of the controversy, Sam uel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, refused to attend or to send any of his subordinates. In his letter of declination Mr. Rea declared that as the question of the proposed increase had been put up to the Public Service Commissions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and the Interstate Commerce Commission, he could see no re to "the region of high political Idi ocy." Statements to-day by the War Office at Berlin, Paris and Petrograd, the con tinental centers of official Information concerning the war, left generally In doubt the outcome of the fighting In the east which unofficial reports say has resulted In a Russian victory. The Rus sian War Office makes an Indeflnlto statement that the Germans have re treated, and gives no Indication of the extent of the movement. The German version Is that the fighting is still In progress snd that the decision Is yet to be reached. It Is said seml-officlally In Berlin that no doubt is entertained there as to an eventual German victory, but that the arrival of Russian rein forcements has postponed it. In Belgium and France both the French and Oermtn statements say the lighting lags. There is continued activ ity in the Argonne region, where, ac cording to th« French War Office, the allies have made progress. The bombardment of Belgian coast towns by British warships has been re sumed, it is said In Berlin, causing a number of casualties among the inhabi tants but inflicting only slight injury to the German troops. The German official press bureau in Berlin denies the British statement that a German submarine has been sunk off the coast of Scotland by a British pa trolling vessel. The American consulate at Warsaw has been damaged by a bomb dropped from a German airship. Ambassador Marye at Petrograd reported to the State Department at Washington that several persons in the street were kUled and that windows of the consulate were broken, although no one in the building war injured. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO GREAT WAR LOAN CLOSED TO-DAY Ix>ndon, Nov. 24, 2.40 P. M.—Lists of subscriptions to the greatest war loan in history, amounting to £350,- 000;000 sterling ($1,750,000,000), or rather more than half the total of the British national t. were closed this afternoon and the loan, it is freely stated in the city, will be a great suc cess. although no official figures as yet are available. Coming at a time when the lxmdon Stock Exchange is closed and immedi ately after £300.000,000 of fresh tax ation had been imposed, the result is considered remarkably indicative of the determination of the country to enable the government to prostvute the war to a successful end. The subscriptions poured in from the provinces and from insurance houses and banks, colonial as well as from the t nited Kingdom. The offerings ranged from a modest £95 to the biggest insur ance companv's subscription of £1,000,- 000. The enormous number of applications created considerable pressure at the Hank of Kngland, and some days must ela.se before it is possible to announce the allotments. The cash payment of £2 per hdndred required with the appli cations will temporarily take off the market some millions of pounds ster ling.'' FIFING OF TI'UKISH FORTS ON I . S. LAUNCH ISN'T SETTLED Washington, Nov. 24.—The firing of Turkish forts at Smyrna upon the cruiser Tennessee's launch last week will not be considered a closed inci dent until further reports are received, but President Wilson told inquirers to-day he considered Ambassador Mor genthau's report of an explanation bv two members of the Turkish Cabinet "evidently clears up the facts." He did not say whether he consid ered th,> inforin.il explanation as satis factory, OBJECT TO MOVING HOTEL Eleventh Ward Residents Attach Sig natures to a Remonstrance At a mass meeting in Augsburg Lu theran church. Fifth and Mueneh streets, several hundred signatures wera placed to a petition which will be filed as a remonstrance to the court applica tion of Patrick Sullivan, who seeks to remove his hotel from 727-729 State street to 1819 North Third street It is claimed by the remonstrants that the hotel, at the proposed location, is not a necessity to the public and that the granting of the liquor license application would be detrimental public good. The Rev. IHhrvey Klaer, pastor of the Covenant Presbyerian church, presided at the meeting. Professor P. E. Downes, city superin tendent of schools, made a formal pro test against the license transfer. Sev eral others made addresses along the same line. A committee of six was ap pointed to make a house-to-house cau vas of the Eleventh ward, with the view of obtaining signatures to the pe tition. James A. Stranahan has been employed as counsel to oppose the granting of the Sullivan application, which will be presented to the Dauphin county court on December 8. CITY MAY NOT APPEAL Hardly Likely Harrlsburg Will Contest South Harrisburg Verdicts At an executive session following their regular meeting afternoon the City Commissioners, with City So licitor D. '"j. Seitz, discussed the advisa bility of taking an appeal frnm the de cision of the jury in the damage suits against the City, in which verdicts of Jli»0 each were awarded to the plain tiffs, Benedict Schlitzer,Barbara Koenig and Marv Miller. The suits involved the City's taking parts of the plaintiffs' property for the reopening of South Front street. The Commissioners would not gay what ac tion was decided on other than the matter was placed in the hands of the legal adviser, although it is understood that- the City will not ask for a re hearing. Such action is believed bv city offi cials to be "the bejrt way out" in view of the fact that even if another jury would reduce the amount of damages to less than $25 aipiece, the City would have to pay the "costs, which would 'be very large in the event of a second hearing. HOSPITAL WANTS TURKEYS Only One Had Been Received by Early Afternoon of "Donation Day"— Other Gifts Received The eollwtion of the Thanksgiviug Day donations for the Harrirfburg iHos •pital started this morning and at 2 o'ekfek this afternoon there seemed every reason to believe rhat in spite at the many contributions made toy Har risburg to the Belgian relief and other European war funds, the response from this city and vicinity lias been fully as generous as last year. Early this morning the horse-drawn vehicles and automobiles lent by manv of the merchants of Harrisburg started collecting the "donation bags" which were distributed a few days ago, and by early afternoon they had gathered in between 300 and 400 bags and sev eral hundred glasses of jellies and jars of preserves. By that time only one turkey had 'beeu received, although five or six more were promised. Many more could be used. Although several checks have been received, for which the hospital authori ties are thankful, they say that much more money is needed. The members of the Womnn's Aid Society, headed by Mrs. Henry Mc- Cormick, wore at the hospital all ilav and will be there throughout to-morrow receiving and separating the donations so as to 'be able to tell just w>hat has 'been given. All of the potatoes, apples, beets, pears and tho like are placed in separate barrels wihile the breakfast foods, jellies, preserves, flour and things of that kind are arranged on the shelves of the store rooms of the hos pital. The vehicles will continue gather ing donations to-morrow. COMPILE THE CONGRESS VOTE Return Judges of This District Find A. S. Krelder Won by !o, O 1 ~rl" '" " uw l *'"« oairej. dwliu au» •■ ulf. CtaieS and make, at home yourself, the stvlish but economical lothes which are accurately described and beautiful]v illustrated in the new McCall Fashion Publications. Get the New McCall Book of Fashions To-day If It's Stylish It's McCall—lf It's McCall It's Stylish E. M. SIBLE, 1300 Market Street A. H. FRAIM, 2032 Sixth Street HARRISBURG, PA. VARE TO HELP BRUMBfIUGH Leader Who Has Been at Odds With Penrose Favors Carrying Out All Platform Pledges (Special to the Star-Independent.) Philadelphia, Nov. 24.—With Wil liam H. Wilson, of this city, expected to announce his candidacy within the next few days, organization leaders an ticipate a lively skirmish for the sup port of Penrose in the contest for the Speakership of the next State House of Representatives. Wilson is the fa vorite of tli<> Yares for the place, but, it is generally conceded that Senator Penrose will determine the nomination of the Republican caucus. Senator Penrose is said to have no particular interest in the contest furth er than the assurance that the inter ests of the organization will be pro tected, and is said to be willing to ac cept either Wilson, Baldwin, Hapgood or Ehrhardt. Congressman William S. Yaro in an address at the Old Guard dinner of the Young Republicans last night. predicted that the next Legislature would be in clined to progressive legislation. "I believe that every pledge made in our State platform ought to be car ried out," he declared. ''As far as I am 'concerned, I shall endeavor to as sist in seeing that the pledges made to "the people are carried out to the let ter." Congressman Yare attributed Brum baugh 's vigtorv to his strength among the independent voters and to what he termed "the mistakes" of the Wilson administration. REEFER'S HAT IN THE RING Another Democrat Announces Himself in County Commissionership Race The scramblo for the County Com missionerships is growing, Charles S. Keefer, of Upper Paxton township, hav ing announced himself to-day as a candidate for the nomination on the Democratic ticket. On last Saturday the Star-Indepen dent announced that Harry C. Wells, the present Sheriff: Samuel Taylor, at present Jury Commissioner, anil Albert Gardner, Ninth ward, ail of this city; Bartrain C. Shelley, Steelton, and Dr. D. W. Shaffner, Enhaut, all would be candidates on the Democratic ticket. Keefer is a former Harrisburg po liceman. His announcement was made in a letter to the Star-Independent, as follows: "Editor, the Star-Independent, "Harrisburg, Pa.: "Dear Sir:—Being a reader of your paper, I noticed you published a list of the candidates for the different coun ty offices. I respectfully submit my name for County Commissioner on the Democratic ticket. "Your respectfully, "Charles S. Keefer. " Millersburg. Pa., R. No. 2, "Nov. 23, 1914. "Upper Paxton township." Several aspirants also have come out for the Republican nomination for County Commissioner. Mr. Stroh Appointed Receiver In connection with the handling of the Pennsylvania property of the Pleas antville Water Company, Pleasantville, N. J., a concern now in the hands of a New Jersey receiver, the Dauphin county court has appointed Charles 0. Stroh, a Harrisburg attorney, as ancilliarv received of the concern. Books and papers, the property of the water company, which it is "said are now in the possession of Pennsylvania water companies, are what Mr. Stroh seeks to obtain. At Church of the Brethren At the Church of the Brethren on Hummel street Thanksgiving services will be held at 7.30 o'clock in the even ing. The Rev. A. M. Hollinger will be in charge. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Three rabbit hounds, from 14 to 19 months old; Just starting; from 14 to 19 inches tail; colors blade, white, tan and orange; or will ex change on poultry or what have you? Address P. Box N, Fleetwood, Pa. PLAN HOI FiGHT 10 RETAIN HGUCK Continued From I'lrst I'nnc. tistics, etc., so that he has little to do, and now that it is proposed to abolish the office just as Secretary Houck has been re-elci.'ted for. another term the friends ol .Dr. Jlouck are beginning lo voice their opposition to legislating him out of office before a single year of his new term has expired. In May next ho will bo commissioned for four years more, his present commission expiring at that time. To Fight for Houck If he is deposed there will be vacan cies on the '.Board of Pardons, Board of Property, Board of Agriculture and Dental Council, he being a member of all those 'bodies. It is held by his friends that no State officer, elected bv the people of the State, for a certain number of years, cwi he legislated out of office, and the friends of Dr. Houck will make a vigorous effort to defeat tho proposed amendment. It is said f some circles that the amendment will not again 'bo offered for consideration in the legislature, but will be left to die without consideration. At the last election J>r. Houck ran close to Dr. Brumbaugh in the number of votes polled, obtaining 5'40,000 in all, and in the two previous times lie was elected he ran very far ahead of his ticket, so much so that it is al leged he pulled his companions on tho ticket to positions of safety, and this by his personal popularity throughout the State. To legislate him out of of fice now, his friends say, would be the height of ingratitude. Kven if the pro posed amendment is offored there wiil be such opposition to it in the Legisla ture as will attract Houck's friends all over the State, and if it is not defeat ed in the Legislature, the tight against it, it is asserted by the secretary's friends, it will be carried to the polls and a regular campaign made against, it by the educational interests with whom Dr. llouck has been identified for half a century. May Test Law Reducing Powers If the office is abolished the number of members on the Board of Pardons will be reduced to three, and no par [ don can be issued then unless the I Board unanimously agrees, for the con ; stitution says that three of the mem [ bers of the Board of Pardons must reo | ornmend before a pardon can be grant ! ed. The constitution also delegates the powers of'the Secretary of Internal Affairs but legislation has shorn him of many of those powers, and there is a hint that even this legislation may be subject to test ill the courts. | No'information, however, is obtainable regarding when or where such action is to be started. ARRESTS MADE BY S. F. C. A. Will Not Permit Horses to Stand in River While Unloading Coal The regular monthly meeting of the Harrisburg Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was hold yester day afternoon at the headquarters in the "Telegraph" Building. Preliminary arrangements were made for an Old Folks' Concert, which will be held in the Technical High School on Easter Monday. This concert will in a general way follow the lines of the 0110 given by the Society two years j ago which was a decided success. A report was received from Sar geant C. J. O'Donnell, peace oftieor of the Society, in which it was Ttatel that there had been during the month forty complaints and six arrests for violations of tho cruelty laws. The Society has warued those op erating along the river front in the coal industry, not to permit the horses to stand in the river while unloading coal from the flats to the carts, and it is understood that the controllers of this industry arc contemplating tho erection of runs to remove the So ciety's objections to their activities. Barker, as Candidate, Spent $447.99 James W. Barker, a defeated Wash inn party candidate for the Legislature from the city district, has filed with Prothonotary Henry F. Holler, a rc 'port showing that" he spent $447.99 during the recent campaign. Mr. Barker has no unpaid debts, his report says. He received a SIOO contribution from John A. Affleck. Mr. Barker contribut ed $75 to the Washington party county comhiittce. The rest was spent for printing and advertising.