US IDE 1 STMfI PARADE Big Street Demonstra tion Is Arranged to Take Place a t 1 0 O'clock To-night REVIVALIST TO TALK ON SQUARE Donations of Clothing and Food Re ceived at Tabernacle Last Night Are in Hands of Associated Chari ties lor Distribution What promises to be the biggest street demonstration of the Stuugh evangelistic campaign in this city will take place to-night, weather permit ting. Leaving the tabernacie at 10 o'clock, a parade expected to comprise nine or ten thousand marchers, with three bands, will pass through tho principal streets of the business sec tion. and halting in Market square will participate in a brief service of preach ing and song. Dr. Stougli will prob ably speak, making his first appearance at an out-door meeting. To-night will be nominally Church and Sunday school night at the taber nacle. The original intention was to have members of local churches and ' Sunday schools form a great parade anil march in a body to the building, but that plan was not deemed feasible because the tabernacle would not be able to accommodate so large a throng. Three Divisions With Bands There will accordingly be a parade after instead of before the tabernacle service, in which the entire audience can join, together with any persons un able to gain entrance to the building. There will be three divisions, the first composed of the stougli party, the executive committee and the choir, and the other two of the tabernacle audi ence, In halves. There will be a band for each section. James W. Barker, chairman of the Sunday school and children's work committee, will be chief marshal and the tabernacle ushers will act as aids. Hie route will be from the tabernacle to State street, to Fourth, to Walnut, to I hird, to Market, to Fifth and coun termarch on Market to tile square. Tho parade will move about 10 o'clock and the service at the -ipiare will not con tinue beyond 11. according to present plans. Dr. Stougli will giv c a siiort talk an I there wjll be chorus singing. Rain or snow would oi course prevent the demonstration from taking place. Donations to Be Distributed The articles of food and clothing ta ken by thousands of persons to the tabernacle last night as donations to the poor ot t lie city were this morning taken in charge by the Associated < haritics. There is enough of cloth ing. canned goods, potatoes, flour and foodstuffs on hand, according to a stnte ii cut from the Associated Charities of fice. to hold out for more than a week. All requests received in Dr. Stougli's mail for aid have been turned over to the Associated Charities, and at that office large numbers of solicitations are now pouring in. No food or clothing will be given oat until ihe case of each !i' I'iicant is investigated. In other words, the donations will not be dis tributed tr persons merely for the ask ing. but. v. i I iic iced fiiii;- in homes of tin- worthv poor. Boy Has Faith in Dr. Siough In telling of the variety of letters he recti ves in hi., mail, Dr. stougli last night said that he has gotten a request from a boy in a nearby town for an illation suitable for tin Christmas sea son. The boy said that he was on the program for exercises at school, and thought that perhaps Dr. stougli would oblige him l>y writing an "orig inal" oration for him. During his sermon the evangelist em ployed burlesque to a inrge extent. He er acted the 'building of Noah's ark. and told of the social ambitions of Lot's wife. There were .">3 trail-hitters. Dr. Stougli will preach to women only tomorrow afternoon on "The White Sla\e Traffic," the last of the series. To-morrow night there will be a pa rade by the booster chorus, the last street demonstration of the campaign, and the climax of this week's activities. Sunday services will be held as usual. Dr. Stougli preaching morning and evening at the tabernacle and to men only in the afternoon. Party Anxious to Leave Although nothing definite has been said as to whether there will be a final meeting oo Monday, it is unlikely that there will be one. since Dr. Stoui.li is required to appear on that day at W; Ikes-Bar re us defendant in four slander cases. Xfembers of the party are desirous, too, of returning to their homes as soon as possible, before the vaccinations to which they were recent ly submitted give them trouble. WILKESBARRK COMING Independents to Play in Chestnut Street Auditorium The Harrif'ourg Independents will play a strong Wilkes-Barre team a, Chestnut street auditorium to-morrow night. The Wilkes-Barre team has es |e ially strong line-up this year, com posed of Howe, and Jenkins, forwards; Nolan, centre; Feinberg and Brooks, guards. Jenkins as been tried out bv the Eastern League on several occasions and is one of the fastest forwards in the coal regions. The public will be assured of e very fast game. By request the management of the Independent* have decided to play tiie National rules, as t'hese rules are used by the Eastern League teams and the coal region teams, and by doing this both teams have an equal advantage and assure,l a faster game. Herman | Karly will referee the ganic Saturday night. Ihe game will be called at 8 p. in. and will be followed by dancing. ; At the Photoplay "The Naked Truth." ' a five-reel drama dealing with the atorv of a reil wrniati; takrn from life, giving tin' leal joy 8 and xorrows and the love of two women for one man. The good woman and frhe hud both want Pierre, riiig drama ha.s been adopted from the !• r< ncli novel of that name and is trulv a beautiful production. Adv.*»* ' SCHOOL CHILDREN HELP * IN RED CROSS SEAL WORK Dr. C. B. Phillips Thinks That All Records Have Been Broken by (Jale of More Than 60,000 Seals by Pupils After three days of vigorous activ ity the 10,000 odd youngsters of tho city's public schools to-day closed their part of the Red Cross Christmas seal campaign of *l9l 4. I'util the returns from the various teachers are filed with Dr. C. R. Phil lips the exact number of the tiny Yuletide stamps that were sold will not be known but Dr. Phillips, who is chairman of the sub-committee for school sales, said he believed last year's record was broken. In 1913, 50,000 seals were distributed in the schools. Karly this week the 1914 allotment of 60,000 were taken around to the dif ferent buildings. In most of the schools during the last three days set aside for the active selling, the storyfof what is done with the proceeds of the campaign was im pressed upon the youngsters. About eighty per cent, of the net receipts are turned over to the anti-tuberculosis so ciety here and the funds distributed for trolley tickets for the needy children and grownups who can't afford or are too ill to travel front their homes to the dispensary for daily treatment. Some is used to buy tickets for the poorer ones destination is Mont Alto or Cresson, some is used to buy clothes for the long, long journey; some more money was used last year to furnish the "window tents" for the shutin patients—the clever little canvas can opies which are suspended inside the open windows in such a way as to pro vide shelter for the occupant of the bed and at tile same time provide ample light and air and sunshine. School buildings, rooms and pupils settled exciting little rivalries as which was the better way of disposing of the seals. From all appearances, however, the Cameron building will lead again as last year an I a peculiar co-incidence is that small Miss Mary Welconier, a sister of tire record maker last year. Miss Katlierine Welcomer, will be the star salesgirl of that building. The room is taught by Miss Anua Whit meyer. Miss Whitmeyer's room inci dentally is the star room in a star building thus far. To-morrow will be "Druggists' Day" in the merchant series of salesdays and the following well known mer chants will take part: George A. Gorgas, E. Z. Gross. Frank K. Kitzmiller, Brindle's Pharmacy, Wil liam F. Steever, C. M. Forney, ( roil Keller, Golden Seal, J. H. Boiler, J. C. McAlister, Logan Drug Company and B. H. .fenkins. The stationers' florists, insurance agents and artists will also observe to-morrow as their special day for past ing the seals on their packages. They are as follows: Florists, Schmidt's. It ley's; insur ance, William E. Essick; artists, Mar guerite Jacobs. The need for speedy and liberal financial support was emphasized by former British Ambassador to the United States, James Brice, in a letter to Miss Mabel Bordman. of the Amer ican Red Cross, calling attention to tho deplorable conditions existing in north ern France. The letter reads: .Miss Board man:— Communications have reached me as to the frightful state of distress, beggary, and, in deed, ruin which prevails over North ern France wherever tlip German arm ies have been. The conditions of the people are altogether deplorable. I have been asked to see what could he done to obtain American relief for these people, and naturally turn to you to know whether you can suggest names of rich and charitable persons in the Unite 1 states who would be likely to exteiul help to the sufferers in these regions. The distress in Belgium is, of course, also severe, but I do not know how much can be done while tho Ger man armies are actually occupying its territory. How little we think, you and I, that the most tremendous and horrible ca lamity that has ever fallen on mankind by its own fault was so near. Very truly yours, .IAMBS BRICE. First receipts of the Ked Cross Pi vision of the Home and War Relief Committee were those from the sale of candy at the Orpheum theatre. Mon day night, amounting to thirty-four do! lais. This division follows the work of the Re I Cross Society throughout the world, collecting funds, to send sur gical and medical aid to hospitals and organizing branches for the manufac ture of supplies so desperately needed. Throe Skaters Res:ued William Ihling, 107 Hanua street, was rescuel from the river last even ing after he had broken throw all the ice while skating. He was battling in water up to his neck and was almost exhausted when Edward Rupp, of South Front street, heard his cries and made his W'ay to tine hole in the ice broken by Ih'ling and completed the res ,ie. Ihling was too weak to walk to his home and Rupp carried him. He suffered from exposure and was placed under the care of a physician. Harry Fry, of Rockville, and another youth, were rescued from Wildwood Lake, where the ice gave way when they wpre skating. Huston Accepts Reduced Pay Accepting the County Commission ers' ruling that eight hours, instea entrance to the homes of Charles \ . Rotiiro. k. 1833 Fulton street and John Andrews, 1847 Fulton street. Cottonseed Crop Increases Washington, Dec. 18.—Cottonseed of the crop of 191 * crushed prior to December 1, amounted to 2,493,0.">0 tons, compared with 2,192,276 for 1913, the Census Bureau announced to day. HARRISIfURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1914. STEELTON FOOTBALL'STAR' NAMED FOR WEST POINT loatliurd From First Page. best student® in the High school, standing high in his Masses. Walter K. Fasuacht, the first alter nate, is a son of Samuel Fasna-cht, of Palmyra, Lebanon county, a promi nent merchant of that town. Young Kasnacht is a student at the Lebanon Valley College, in Annville, and is de scribed as a vpunig man of ability, standing higli in tho community. His aye is nineteen. Paul Carl, the second alternate, re sides in Williamstown, and is a son of Lincoln C. Carl, an attorney of that town. He is said to be well qualified iu every way to enter the big military school. • COURTHOUSE MINT TO BE OPENEO Court To-day Deorees That H. Homer Matter May Be Let Into a Defense In an opinion filed at noon to-day Judge McCarrell directs the opening of the judgment entered by the Home German Bau Und Spa Verein of Har risburg against H. Homer Matter, an attorney and specifies that the defend ant may be let into a defense. Matter wi;,pealed from assessments made against him by the building and loan associations, for alleged "negligence of payments" which from time to time had fallen due on loans he had ma le. He now will be allowed a trial by jury. Want Company Dissolved The court this morniu'j fixed De cember -8 as the time for hearing testimony on Attorney General Bell's application to have dissolved the char ter which in 1907 was granted to the Wilson Laundry Machinery Company. It is alleged that the defendant com pany has failed to comply with those provisions of its charter which sets out that the company shall complete its plant within seven years after the granting c f the charter". Paid on Bridge Contract The Ferro Concrete Company to-day was paid $12,000 on account iu con nection with the construction of the barreled arch concrete bridge over the Swatara creek between Middletown and Royalton. The contract price of 'he bridge is $1 7,050. The bridge will "be completed within a week or two at which time the contractor will get the balance of the money. May Seek New Bids M. Harvey Taylor, Commissioner of Parks, may readvertise for bids for the construction of the proposed bridge over Spring creek at Cameron street. Four contractors did submit proposals last Tuesday, although t'hev are con sidered high. Mr. Taylor is now seeking to know whether it would not be ad visable for the city to 'build the bridge and not award a contract. Street Grading Estimates Estimates on stree" gracing jobs have been prepared by the hoards of viewers as follows: Nineteenth street, Chestnut" to Mulberry. $548; Twentieth street. Market to Chestnut, $1,170: Mulberrv street, Eighteenth to Nineteenth, $94 7; Hildrup, Nineteenth to Twen tieth, $1.01,; hestii.it. Eighteenth to Nineteenth. $193. The damages and benefits wiii b« asssetssel by the viewers within the next few davs. Marriage licenses George T. Ko h an ! T. Buf fington, \\ as'hinttoii township. Harrv B. shellhamer and >.\lary T. j ijasky, Harri.^burg. ' Alfred ]•'. Smi'lCt and Florence 1. j Shoop Enterline. ! George Hammond, Buffalo, ami Ger j truiie, B. Buchanan, Boston. Mass. Paul B. Durn'ba ]), Lemoyne, an.l Pan j'nie B. Day, Trindle Springs. COLD WAVE IS DEPARTING Mercury Dropped to Five Degrees This Morning—Snow and Kain to Take Its Place As (i departing sJaip the cold wave Nliat has given Harris/burg the coldest December weather in twenty-six years, sent the nuvcurv to five degrees this morning, one degree hiyher than Uie record established Tuesday morning. | Since that time until to-day the tem i perature has not approached* any closer j the freezing point than twenty-five, i Storms are coming east from the j western lake region and Southern Cali ! foruijj, causing snow and rain and de cided rises In temperature in the lake region and the Mississippi V.illev. The speedy development of the high pres sure across the country g-ave the Sus . quehanna Valley falls in temperature last night, registering five decrees here, six below the forecast of yesterday. The special river station at Towanda i reported a temperature of twenty be ; low zero. i There was an unusually heavy iio.ir frost this morning, forecasting the ap proach of a depression, whi'h will cause increasing cloudiness here to night, according to the local officials of the weather bureau. A minimum | temperature of twenty decrees is lixed for Harrisiiurg to-night. Snow or rain will probably result to-night or to morrow. PUZZLE FOR SHERIFF'S OFFICE Mysterious Note Dropped in Box and Explanation Is Being Sought j A mysterious note containing j um- | bled and confusing words ami figures . was dropped into the letter 'box at the j-Sheriff's office bv some unknown per son this morning and county officials now are searching for an explanation. To reproduce the note, which is a two i page affair with scribbling on both j sides of the paper, would be impossible. v The only item on the note is the name and address of an indi ■ vidua! who mavibe a student at the Car j lisle Indian school. It is as follows: • "William Henry Hoffman, Carlisle In , dian School.'' The writer apparently tried to quote passages of Scripture; wrote something about his "knowing more than you think I do," and intermingled words and figures so as make them absolutely incomprehensible. 25 CENTS SAVES A LIFE Bed Cross Division of Home and War Belief Association Welcomes Con tribution of Any Size If you haven't made your contribu tion to the Rod Cross Division of the Home and War Relief Association, get busy! No matter What amount you can spare, it will do good work in saving some war victim from death. Here is an ide« of what fifty cents will do, when exipcnded 'by the "Red Cross: One cent will buy iodine to disin fect a wound. 1 One cent will buy cotton to dress the wound. > five cents will buy the bandages. Kight cents will pay for the tem porary splint. Ten cents will provide chloroform for the operation. Twentv-flve cents may save a limb or a life. Through the efforts of the Red Cross "Nurses," who did volunteer duty at the Orpheum yesterday, $48.70 was added to the relief fund. Monday at 9 o'clock headquarters, 7 South ' Front street, will open, when instructions in rolling bandages and the preparation of other surgical supplies will be given. LATE WAR NEWS SU (MM Continued From Flmt Page. its announcement of yesterday that a great victor}' had been gained over the Russians. It is said merely that the re treating Russians are being pursued. The last of the venturesome crew which sailed on the German cruiser Emden have been captured by British war3hips. About forty of the Germans who escaped on Cocos Island when the Emden was destroyed by the Australian cruiser Sydney set sail in a schooner. They were reported to have seized a collier with the intention of resuming sea raiding. Bombardment by a British squadron of Turkish fortifications in the Gulf of Saros, north of the Dardanelles, is said at Athens to have routed the Turks and inflicted heavy damage. Dispatches from Nish assert that enormous losses were inflicted on the Austnans in their reeent defeat by the Servians. It is said that "innumer able" bodies lie unburied along the line of retreat of the Austrians. The German squadron which attack ed the eastern coast of England, caus ing the death of about KM) persons, is said in Berlin to have sunk two British destroyers and damaged badly a third. The British Admiralty states that two warships were struck by German shells and that five men were killed and 13 wounded, but makes no mention of the loss of any vessels. Both Berlin and Vienna assert that a decisive defeat has been inflicted on the Russians and that they are retreat ing along the whole line, their resist ance broken. These statements are not borne out, however, by the Russian military authorities who say that one of the Gorman columns advancing on Warsaw has been routed and that else where there have been no significant changes. Emperor William is said to have im proved in health sufficiently to permit ot his return to the front next week. The British South African forces are soon to undertake a campaign against the neighboring Dossessions. Premier Botha considers that the rebel lion in tho Union of South Africa has been crushed definitely. IXTEKXKI) CIVILIANS TRADED BV GERMANY AM) FRANCE Bernre, Switzerland, via Paris, Dee. li. Midnight-—The exchange of in lerned civilians i Germany and France has been almost completed. About 8,- 000 from France and 3,000 from Ger many have passed through Switzerland bound for t'heir home countries up to date. It is believed that all the French and Germans now have been repatriated, but that there are still some thousands of Germans detained in France. It is hoped, however, that all these Germans will be at home by Christmas. It is under stood that Austria has interned no I'rench civilians. TiiSNKS GROVE WILL WIN City Officials Base Their Belief on Statements Made in Court by Judge McCarrell Basing their belief on statements made by Judge McCarrell at the close of the court trial last evening, city offi cials to-day were of the opinion that James H. Grove, Harrisburg's Building Inspector, will be cleared of the con sj iracy charge which was lodged against him in legal proceedings brought agains* hi jn and John Waguer by James J. Lynch and W. F. Martin. Lynch and Martin are contractors who erected an apartment house at 603 York avenue for Wagner. One of the walls of the building "bulged several inches and when the Building Inspector condemned the structure and ordered it razed the contractors charged him with entering into a conspiracy with Wagiifer to cheat them out of their money, something like $2,600. Injunction proceedings were brought by the contractors to restraiu either or both from tearing down the ibuild ing and it was upon that preliminary restraining order that a hearing was held. Testimony was taken and at the close of the hearing last night Judge .McCarrell announced that it "is my present notion that this injunction tihould be dissolved." The Court previously stated that no evidence had been adduced lo support the roiiHpiraijv charge. The Court made no final decision in the matter, however, saving counsel will be-given an oppor tunity to present argument on the le gal questions involved. If argument is to I>e offered, a day will be fixed for .ome time early in January. Until then no decision will be rendered. To dissolve the injunction, which the contractors had so.ight to have made ■permanent, will mean that the Building inspev-tor may carrfr- out his order to raze that ipart of the building which he considers to be dangerous. Head of Catholic Society Dies By Associated Press. Hornell, N. V., Dec. IS.—Joseph Cameron, Sunreme Recorder of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association of the United States' and Canada, died at his home hert to-day GRANTS 5 PER CENT. INCREASE ON FREIGHT Continued From Ktrnt Pace. oug considerations presented, we agree in the conclusion that by virtue of con ditions obtaining at present, it is nee eseary that the carriers' revenues be supplemented by increases throughout official classification territory. What ever the consequenses of the war may prove to be, we must recoguize the facts that it exists, the fact that it is a calamity without precedent and the fact that by it the commerce of the world has been disarranged and thrown into confusion. The, moans of transpor tation are fundamental, and indis pensible agencies in our industrial life and for the commonwealth should be kept abreast of public requirements. Sources of Additional Revenue "The original report, besides approv ing a rate increase in c«ntrail freight association territory, suggested ten sources of additional revenue for all carriers throughout official classification territory; the present report, recogniz ing the existence of a new situation since July 29. acquiesces in a territor ial extension of the relief granted to the Central Freight Association lines by permitting the carriers' to file tariffs provnling, with certain exieptions spec ified, for horizontal rate increases in official classification territory. It. is ex pected that the constructive work sug gested ill the original report for the purpose of conserving and augmenting the necessities of the carriers generally will be carried forward without inter ruption. "Carriers will be required to keep au account of the additions to their reve nues from incleases in rates subsequent to July 29, 1914, and from new charges and to repo.t separately thereon to the Commission at the end of 12 and 24 months, respective^." After stating the exceptions, hereto fore given, the decision proceeds: Reasons for Previous Decision "In our original report we declined, for reasons there stated, to allow in creased rates in Central Freight Asso ciation territory on cement, starch, brick, tile, clay and plaster. On further consideration in the light of the exist ing situation, these rates may be in creased throughout official classification territory under the limitations herein set forth. "Joint rates 'between official classi fication territory on the one hand and southeastern territory, the southwest and points on or east of the Missouri river on the other may be increased not to exceed live per cent, of the division of the rate accruing to the carriers in official classification territory. On these increases involve a change in the relationship under the long and short haul rule between intermediate points and more distant points outside of offi cial classification territory, relief from the fourth section of the act must first be secured on regular application. Kates in Trunk Line Territory "Interstate rates to ami from New England from and to points in trunk line o>r central freight association ter ritory, where necessary to pre serve established relationships between points or ports in New England and •points ou' ports in trunk 'line territory, may be increased not to exceed five per ceut. "Subject to the maintenance of the established Atlantic port differentials, rates to and from New York may ba increased not to exceed five per cent., and rates to and from Portland, Bos ton. Philadelphia and Baltimore, may tie increased to the extent necessary to maintain said differentials. , "Except as otherwise above apee j• ' lied rates in official classification ter- I l itory may be increased by not more I than five per cent.; but rates increased I since July 29, 1914, may not now be i again increased so as to exceed those ! then in effect by an aggregate of more i than five per cent, of the intra terri-. i torial rate, or of the portion or divi j sion of the inter-territorial rate accru | iny to the road or roads in official j classification territory as the case may i be. "If fractions in excess of one-half a mill are rounded upward, fractions less than one-half a mill are to be dis carded. Carriers May Suspend Tariffs "in some instances anil in part cause of the pendency ot' this iproceed iug, we have recently suspended pro posed increase] rates in this territory. Carriers may, if they so elect, now cancel . such tariffs so suspended and file in lieu thereof tariff's which con form to the limitations above specified, i If that is done such suspensions will be vacated. "To the extent above indicated we noiw modify our previous findings, and •carriers affected may file effective on not less than ten days' notice, such tar iffs as do not offend against the re strictions above stated." The exceptions from the proposed increase of rates are stated in the de cision as follows: "1 - Rail hake-and-r&ij, lake-and-trail ! and rail-and-lake rates. It is shown on bile record that since the rail car | Hers acquired ownership and control of the Jake lines successive increases have been made in the rates via laike tending to lessen the differences be tween them and the all-rail rates. Bates on Coal and Coke "2—Rates on bituminous coal and coke. Not long since these rates were investigated anil maximum rates were prescribed by the commission. The key rates upon bituniious coal—the rate from the Pittsburgh district to Younjis town, and the rate on lake cargo coal to Ashtabula —have been fixed in the light of the various factors which enter into the transportation of such coal. The prevailing rates are remunerative, and the financial condition of the prln cipal bituminous coal carriers is in marked contrast with that of many of the other carriers in official classifica tion territory. Twice in the not dis tant past the rates on bitumious coal have been increased five cents a ton, and would seem now to be as high as may fairly be allowed. It must be remembered also that the carriers are not seeking general increases in rates on a anthracite coal, and both kinds of coal are used in competitive mar kots. As to coke, the rates controlling the greater volume of traffic now mov ing in official classification territory, have recently been set by the commis sion upon a basis which was specifical ly designed to guard against shrinking the carrier's revenue t'hero from, and which really resulted in substantial ad ditions to their earnings on that tariff. "3 —Rates on ajuthracite coal and iron ore, largely because they are be fore us for review in other proceed ings. '' 4—Rates held bv unexpired orders of the commission. Explain Revenues of Carriers "These figures serve to emphasize our previous finding ot the need of car BR£2i il FANCY BOX GOODS| (f Christmas candy in fancy boxes from 25# to $5.00 per 1® M box. Other horo6-made candies in splendid assortment, all CH L made here under our own personal supervision, oi' the best I Clear toys, lb Brazil and Walnut Taffies, lb. H' i Assorted Cream Nut Cara- 40< W 9 mels, box 25£ Chocolates and Bon Bons, Xd/| B Assorted Chocolates, box, '>° x. ......... ... ft 4 f OK.*. Glazed Nuts and Fruits, box, f/W i 4«? Philadelphia Traction kii Iteadins ."-Js; Storage Battery Union Traction 1-toa! U.S. Steel J Chicago Board of Trade / Chicagro. Dec. 18, ,(914 Wheat— Open High how Close December J 20"5» 121'J ILO / ism; May i:M',i 121V4 123 V. 1231! July 117 117 1 lc/: 110*4 Corn— December H4 1 , «4 , 70' i tih,v r () '* flats— December IS'.. IK-, May .*2 1 2 32% jf,» 5-1, 13