The star-independent. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, January 19, 1915, Image 1

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    THE WEATHER
CLOUDY TO-NIGHT
AND TO-MORBOW
Metalled Report* Page H
VOL. 77—NO. 39.
BRUMBAUGH BECOMES GOVERNOR;
100,000 ATTENDING FESTIVITIES
Oath of Office Taken
by the New Chief
Executive Shortly
After Noon —T hen
Comes the Big Mili
tary. Civic and Fire
men's Parade Which
Is the Spectacular
Feature of the Day—
Reviewed by the
New Governor
TWO ELEPHANTS
WITH MARCHERS
City's Firemen, Natty
Despite All-Night
Battle With Flames,
Win Loud Cheers
Along Line —Political
Clubs Splendid in
High Hats Dozens
of Bands Play "Tip
perary " —State Police
Look Warlike The
Guardsmen and State
College Cadets Con
spicuous
Dr. Martin G Brumbaugh, of Phila- !
delphia, witli exercises at the Capitol, I
starting «t noon, to-day, W.urif Gov- |
ernor of Pennsylvania, succeeding
.lolin K. Tener. The inauguration |
ceremonies were pretentions in the ex I
troue, including the big oarade which
followed, and were viewed by 100,000
persons, fully 50,000 having come from
various parts of the State. They had
been crowding into Harrisburg for the
las* two days. Incoming trains during
tiie eariy hours of to-day brought large
delegations and marching clubs.
Dr. Brumbaugh was sworn in soon
after noon on a stand erected near
Third and State streets, directly in
front of the Capitol. Klder William
Swigert, of Huntingdon county, who at
one time taught Dr. Brumbaugh, of
fered the invocation and then Chief
Justice J. Hay Brown, of the Supreme
!p I I jh|
FRANK B. M'CLAIN
Inaugurated This Morning As Lieuten
ant Governor of Pennsylvania
Court, administered the oath of office. !
Prank B. McClain, Lieutenant Gov- |
eruor-elect, who had previously been
sworn iu in the Senate chamber, pub- '
licly proclaimed Dr. Brumbaugh (iov- j :
ernor of Pennsylvania. The new chief .
magistrate of the State then read his |!
inaugural address, which will be found I (
in another column. j.
After the Governor made his inaug- 1
ural speech. State officials, Mayor Roy- J f
al, of Harrisburg, aud others, together i '
with Dr. Brumbaugh, were escorted by j,
the Governor's Troop over the route I
of tihe parade. About thirty automo-!'
biles contained the Governor's party.
While the Governor and his party !
were going over the parade route the ,
parade was forming in the central sec- i
tion of the city and just before the
start was made th- Governor and his '
party took their places on the review- ] '
ing stand at Third and State streets. >
Dr. Brumbaugh, wl o arrived here >
last eveuing, spent the night at the '
Executive Mansion on Vront street. A
little while after 11 o'clock this morn- '
ing, in company with retiring Governor
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GOVERNOR MARTIN G. BRUMBAUG
) j Tener and State official" he went to '
the executive offices at the Capitol.
51 Shortly before noou Dr. Brumbaugh.
j Governor Ter.er and the members of 1
' | their party formed in the main corri
( 1 dor of the Capitol anil after the mem
; bers of the House and Senate and in
vited guests wen; seated on the graud
stand, walked to the stand.
| After the inaugural anu the parade
i the new? Governor and his party went
|to the Executive Mansion, where !
' jluncheon was served
' 4 *ve liovWrnor's reception titkes •
place to-night in the House caucus room !
11 from 8 until 10 o'clock, aud during |
i these hours a band will play in the ro
tunda of the Capitol.
Governor Tener left Harrisburg im- j
mediately after the inauguration of his I
successor. He started for Chicago to
appear as a witness in a baseball case !
in the courts, he being president of the
National league of Baseball Clubs.
PARADE IS SPECTACULAR
FEATURE OK INAUGURATION
A monster street parade, made up of
Republican marching clubs from most
of the large cities of the State; dozens
of bands, a provisional regiment of the
National Guard, firemen and two ele
phants—real symbols of the "O. O.
P."—was the most spectacular feature j
this afternoon of the iuaugural cere- j
monies'which marked the induction to!
office of Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, :
Pennsylvania's new Governor,
i The parade started from Front and i
Market streets, the point of formation, i
j promptly at 1 o'clock, and traversed
i the crowded route, just as had been j
| originally planned.
in so far as was noticeable, the only I
! change from the original lineup was the j
! position of the South Philadelphia Re- !
j publican Marching Club. This is Wil- I
liam S. Vare's club and> he successfully |
j fought the plan to put his clubmen at '
; the rear of the second division, half j
a mile or more away from the eight '
I hundred or more marchers representing i
"Strawberry Jim" McNiehol's aggre- j
j gation, the Philadelphia Republican i
I Club. The Vare crowd, of something 1
j like six hundred members, fell in line j
J immediately behind the other delega
tion from the Quaker City,
i Two Real "G. O. P. " Elephants
The elephants, one monster "Jum
. bo "and a brother "Bill," who was aj'
; trifle smaller, were in line immediately !
behind the first hundred of McNiehol's i
i marchers, and each animal bore the ,
j"G. O. P." placard. ,
Twelve companies of the National ]
j 'ruard, six of the Eighth regiment and '
I six of the Fourth, headed by Colonel j
I Joseph B. Hutchison, Chief of Police'
j of Harrisburg, made up a part of the:
first division and they won enthusiastic !
applause all along the route. So .lid the ! :
battalion of State College cadets, who l
j made a splendid appearance.
The hundred or more men from Hunt- i <
j ingdon county, the boyhood home of!'
: Governor Brumbaugh," spared no time 1
>or expense in preparing for the walk- ■
j around. As thev went along the line ! t
l they were greeted by the cheering thou- I
! sands and the marchers '' were there ' ,
with the noise too."
Some of the banners they carried 1
contained such inscriptions as these: 1
"Our boy, our friend, our neighbor 1
was present to witness the ceremonv
Huntingdon county;" "Solely for the 1
People;" "Good Roads;" "No Prom- i
ises;" "Honestly frank, frankly lion- l
est;" and "1916, Huntingdon to Har
risburg to Washington." ]
Every now and then one of the '
many bands would hit up: "Its a Long, 1
Long Way to Tipperary," and "Pri
vate Tommy Atkins," the marching
songs now being used by the British
soldiers in the great European war. ]
The Hands everywhere made a hit, the i
crowds of spectators cheering and join
ing in whistling of these popular airs. I
Fire Apparatus Hastily Polished
Except for the fact that lines of hose i
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1915—12 PAGES.
1 ln,v along Market street, from Front to
the Square, and some also were to be
seen in Market Square, there was little
or no evidence, so far as the parade
was concerned, that Harrisburg firemen
were on duty nil last night fightiug one
of the most stubborn and dangerous
fires the city has hud in months.'
Some ol' the firemen, who were fight
ing the biaze up until noon, did not
| have sufficient time to prepare for the
parade and their apparatus was return
ed to thoir Alehouses. Other appa
ratus, however, was as clean and bright
j as though it hud not been need at tlw
; big blaze. ,
The elephants wore especially attrac
tive to the youngsters. The ol ler
folk", too, realized the significance ot'
the two '"G. O. P." mascots being in
| line.
The Highland Quard Pipe Hand,
which accompanied one section of tho
i South Philadelphia Republican Club, the
\ are delegation, got special upplauso
all along the line. The Highlanders'
dress was in true Scottish style. The
men wore regulation kilts and their
knees were bare, but none of lh t > boys
from "Bonny Scotland" complained ot
being cold. While the parade was be
ing formed the Highlanders entertained
the marchers and North Front street
residents tvith Scottish dances and dit
ties.
The Philadelphia Delegations
The Philadelphia Hepub.icans made
a splendid appearance. Members ot' the
McNichol division wore silk hats, car
ried yellow canes and wore tan gloves
and tan spats. Yellow canes a-!so were
carried by the Vare delegation and
| their dress otherwise was similar to that,
of. the McNichol forces except thai,
-their gloves an I spats were smoke col-
I ored. '
To those marchers who had expected
the parade would make an early get
away, possibly at 12,30, the wait along
'the river front became almost a hard
j ship. A chilly wind from the northwest
' made standing uncomfortable and many
i sought shelter on porches, back of tree's
and in vestibules of the Front street
j homes.
Some of the marchers carried what I
looked like "thermos" bottles anil oth
jers carried .just plain bott'es, evidently |
accepting the weatherman's "tip" that
[the lay would be a cold one, and they
had no difficulty in keeping warm and
'staving off discouragement attending
! delay. °
The crowd along the route of the
paiadc wasn t anything like as largo
! as the one that witnessed the big pa
rade during the Firemen's convention
held in Harris-burg last October.
Rush for Points of Vantage
In the streets of tho business section
the people were standing six and eight
deep on the sidewalks and this was
equally true on other streets. When tho
Continued on -event h I'nde
UK. UOLLIN A. SAWYER DIES
Father of St. Stephen's Rector Suc
cumbs at His New Jersey Home
The Rev. Dr. Rollin August Sawyer,
So years old, father of the Rev. Rollin
A. Sawyer, rector of St. Stephen's
Protestant. Episcopal church, this city,'
died yesterday morning at his home at
Moutclair, N. J. The cause of death
was general debility. Funeral serv
ices will be held to-morrow and burial
will be made Thursday in the Thomas
Litchfield cemetery.
Dr. Sawyer had iiQt been active in
the ministry for the past few years, but
was engaged in literary work.* He bore
the degree of Litfc.D.
The Rev. Mr. Sawyer, of tihis city,
has gone to Montclair and his place
will be filled during the week by other
local clergymen.
Catholics Can Eat Meat Fridays
London, Jan. 19. 3 A. M.—Cardinal
Bourne bus dispensation to the
Catholics ot England to eat meat on
Fridays an*' fast days In a pastoral
letter he says this step is necessary be
cause of the high price of fish anil the
usual substitutes for flesh.
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FIREMEN A T WORK ON 810 MARKET SQUARE BLAZE
i BROWN UNO WO3D3 AUB
| SELECTED FOR CAEIHET
Philadelphian Appointed Attorney Gen
eral and Westmoreland Man Is
Made Secretary of the Common
wealth—Hiatt, Private Secretary
Governor-elect Brumbaugh arrived in
■ Hnrrisburg last evening at 7 o'clock,
ami an hour later aunouneed in the
Executive Mansion to a large crowd of
newspapermen, the names of two of his
chief Cabinet advisers. In doing so the
Governor-elect seemed to en,joy the sur
prise manifest on the faces of those
about him. The men ap]K>inted are:
Attorney General-t-Fraucis Siiuuk
; Brown, Philadelphia, whose name was
urged by the Vare influence iu the
Quaker City.
Secretary of the Commonwealth—
lilANO-.j SHUNK. BKOWIN
Picked £y Governor Brumbaugh to Be
Attorney General
Cyrus E. Woods, Westmoreland, who is
regarded as a compromise between
•'esse E. B. Cunningham, for Attorney
General and the reappointment of Rob*
ort McAfee, for Secretary of tlie Com
monwealth.
James B. Hiatt, of Philadelphia, was
CYBUS E. WOODS
Appointed to the Post of Secretary of
the Commonwealth
appointed private secretary to Gov
ernor Brumbaugh.
The news of the appointments goon
spread. The appointment of Mr.
Woods created the greatest surprise.
Continued on Third rage.
SMS THE PEOPLE
I'OMfi'
Gov. Brumbaugh, in
Inaugural Address,
Points Out Evils of
Too Much Legislation
FEW ADDITIONAL
LAWS NEEDED
Urges Legislature to Adopt a County
Local Option Law and Makes Plea
for Good Roads—State Civil Serv
ice Law Favored
Governor Brumbaugh, in his inaug
ural address delivered to-day immedi
ately alter he took his oath of office,
said the people of Pennsylvania have
been "over-lawed." "We have gone
too far upon the theory that legislation
is the cure of our social, economic
political ills," he said. "We have ac
tually made legal criminals when, as a
matter of duty, we should have address
ed ourselves to the vastly more worthy
task of educating our people into au
increasing love for liberty, respect for
law and devotion to our American civil
ization. ''
The Governor said the State needs
few additional laws. He urged that leg
islation should be facilitated so as to
give to the people the few vital enact
ments they need and that wheu this is
done the Legislature should adjourn.
Views on Local Option
Mr. Brumbaugh urged tho Legisla
ture to enact a county local option law,
he declaring that the people have a
right to decide for themselves whether
intoxicating liquors should be solfl in
their counties. He said the question is
a dominant issue in the public mind.
"The party that has given this great
State its industrial and educational de-
C out In nod on Third Page,
RUSStfINTORPEDOBOATS
SINK I TURKISH VESSELS
Sevastopol, via Petrrfgrad, Jan. 19.
—A detachment of Russian torpedo
'boats hav-p entered the bay of Sinope,
a Turkish port 011 the Black Sea in
Asia Minor, and have sent to tho bot
tom a Turkish steamer and three sail
ing vessels.'The crews of adl four ships
were saved. The name of the steamer
appears to have tx-cn the Meorgcs.
No date of this engagement is given,
but the news is deemed to be trust
worthy.
LATE WAR NEW SUMMARY
A further advance in the effort to
pierce the German line above St. Mi
hiels, near the eastern end of the bat
tle line in France, is announced in the
official communication to-day from
Paris. It is said that another German
field work in the forest of Lepretre was
captured and that 500 yards of the
German trenches have now been occu
pied.
At the same time the allies are at
tempting to press forward to the north
west of St. Mihiel. These two move
ments, if successful, would either cut
through the German line or compel the
Coatlaucd on Ninth Pace.
MR. SNYDER FOR 55 YEARS
ft LftWYEH IN HfIRRISBURG
To-day Marks the Anniversary of the
Oldest Member's Admittance to the
Bar of Dauphin County—He Still
is Vigorous and Active in Profession
To-day Eugene Snyder, attorney-at
law, No. 10 North Third street, notes
as a red-letter day, for it marks the
fifty-fifth anniversary of his admittance
to the bar of Dauphin county after a
course as a student with the late Benja
min Franklin Etfer. his brother-in-law.
Mr. Snyder is the oldest living member
of the Dauphin county bar and as such
and for his many excellent qualities as
a lawyer and a gentleman is honored
by his follo-w-attotucys ano 1 nil who
know him.
The houses Nos. ft) and 12 North
Third street, back in October, 1536,
were as one. and the building was occu
pied by Mr. Snyder's parents, his father
being Charles A. Snyder, for years
prominent in the affairs of Harrisl>urg.
In October, 1836, Mr. Snyder was born
there, so that he now is in his 79th
Continued on \lnth rase.
FOURTEEN MEN SHOT IN RIOT
Four of Them Mortally Wounded in
Pitched Battle Between Strikers
and Deputy Sheriffs
By Associated Press,
Roosevelt, N. J., Jan. .19. —Fourteen
men were shot, four of them being
mortally wounded in a pitched battle
between 250 striking laborers and 50
deputy sheriffs at the plant of the
American Agricultural Chemical Com
pany here to-day.
The fight occurred when the strikers
stopped a Central Railroad of New Jer
sey train from Elizabethport to see if
the train brought strike-breakers to the
plant. There were no strike-breakers
about, but a fev office employes who
were with tihe passengers started an
outcry, believing that the strikers in
tended to harm them.
In answer to the call fifty deputy
sheriffs, armed with rifles and revol
vers, ran to the scene from the com
pany's plant, where they had ueen sta
tioned for the past two weeks. A gen
eral encounter between the deputies and
the strikers followed
At first only stones were used. Then
some one fired a shot. This was the
signal for a fusillade, which came ap
parently from both sides. None of the
deputies was injured, but many of the
strikers fell. Most of the wounded
men were shot through the legs, .is the
deputies tired low. The strikers dis
persed, some of them carrying the
wounded men away.
The four most seriously v>minded
were taken to a hospital at Elizabeth.
It was said these men probably would
die.
Bethlehem Steel's Increased Dividend
By Associated Press,
New York, Jan. 19.—The Bethleliem
Steel Corporation to-day declared an
annual dividend of 7 per cent, on its
preferred stock, which is 2 per cent,
in excess of the distribution made a
year ago. The dividend is payable in
quarterly installments of 1% per cent,
each. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation
has received large orders from foreign
governments vithin the last several
months for munitions of war.
Governor at Reception To-night
Governor Brumbaugh and other State
officials will hold a publie reception in
the House caucus room in the State
O-apitol this evening from 8 until 10
o'clock. The public should enter the
park at Third and North streets and
proceed to the main entrance to the
Capitol. The south entrance will be for
automobiles. Eater in the evening the
Governor is expected to make a brief
visit to Chestnut street hall, where the
"Big Q" Society will hold a ball.
I
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE CENT
FlfiE LOSS IS
*100,000;
9 MEN HURT
Kaufman Stores Wiped
Out and Adjoining
Properties Damaged
by Flames Which
Chief Kindler's Men
Keep From Spread
ing Further in Heart
of Congested Busi
ness District
BATTLE LASTS
INTO AFTERNOON
Smoke-Eaters Work
for More Than Half
a Day on Blaze Start
ing at Night Which
Attracts Thousands
of Inaugural Visitors
—Big Losses Through
Flooding of Cellars of
Market Street and
Square Properties
All the Are companies in the city
by four successive alarms, were called
to tight Haines that started iu the cellar
of the Kaufman Underselling stores, 4
to 8 South Market Square, at 11
o'clock last night. The it tunes wrecked
two buildings of the Kaufman stores,
and damaged seriously the third Kauf
man building, to the south, the lowci
floors of which house the grocery store
of S. S. Pomeroy. Other important
business buildings in that closely built
district for hours were menaced by
flames. Water spread through cellars
of many buildings in the block and
caused much loss. Estimates this morn
ing placed the entire loss at between
$90,000 and SIOO,OOO.
The fire was under control at 4
o'clock this morning, but a big force
of smoke-eaters still were on tha job
this afternoon. Nine firemen were
treated in hospitals or by private physi
cians for injuries received during the
loug battle with the flames, but only
one man was so seriously hurt as to
have to be admitted to a hospital ward.
It was the most spectacular blaze
in llarrißburg for years and the Market
Square plaza for hours after midnight
was crowded to capacity with persous
attracted by the excitement, in tho
crowd were hundreds of persons from
other cities, brought hero for the in'-
augural exercises to-day.
Market Street Cellars Flooded
It will be days before an accurate
accounting can be made. Two of the
Kaufman buildings are believed to be
a total loss, along with the contents.
Firemen say that the only part of the
Pomeroy stock that is saved is the
canned goods. Thousands of dollars of
damage was done by water to the
stocks in the cellars of the building*
along Market street, adjoining the
Kaufman store in the rear.
"No theory as to the origiu of tha
fire has been advanced," said Chief
Kind'ler this afternoon, whose only in
formation as to the start of the blaze,
he said, came from the uight watch
man who discovered it in the eellar near
the elevator shaft.
It became a serious problem this
morning coping with the stubborn blaze
in tho cellars of the Kaufman and
Pomeroy stores, and frequently after
daylight there would be big bursts of
flame. By noon the firemen, many of
whom had worked for thirteeu hours,
still were flooding the cellars of the
burned buildings to quench the smould
ering embers.
I Fire Chief Kindler, who took per
sonal charge of the fire fighters, stayed
throughout the morning. He announced
that he would not take part in the in
augural parade and that enough fire
men would be kept on hand to keep the
flames from breaking out anew
Changes to steamer connections had to
be made at noon, the Susquehanna and
Hope steamers being moved to the
south end of the squaro so that the in
augural parade could be move.l out
Market street from b'ront street with
out encountering hose lines.
Peter Bonmiller, 1637 North Third
street, a watchman in the Kaufman
store discovered the blaze at 11 o'clock
and running to Market square told
Contiuurtl on Seventh I'aße
WALL STREET CLOSING
New York, Jan. 19.—Active trading
was resumed in the final hour, Beading
increasing its gain to 2 paints. Brook
lyn Transit also became a feature. The
closing was strong. All records foi
strength and activity since the reaump
tlon of business were surpassed by to
day's stock market. The entire list
moved forward under the lead of for
mar favorites.