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?& A V!!Zr VOL. 77—NO. 42.
FIVE IN PERIL
AS RUSSELL
HOME BURNS
Head of Mt. Holly Clay
Works Is Seriously
Injured and May Not
Recover
HIS SON LEAPS
FROM WINDOW
Cook and Her Two Children Escape-
Aquarium Containing a Fish Valued
at SI,OOO Destroyed—Danger in
Exploding Chemicals *
(Special to the Star-Independent.)
Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 22. W. 8. Russell,
kead of the 'Mt. Holly clay works and
regarded as one of the wealthiest resi
dents of the Cumberland Valley, was
seriously burned, and' his son, Richard,
escaped with his life by jumping from
a second story window in his night
clothes, when the handsome Russell
home near the mountain, about a mile
south of Mt. Holly, was totally destroy
ed by fire which started at 12.45
o'clock this morning. The elder Rus
sell may not recover from his injuries,
but the son, a student in the Carlisle
(High school, is unhurt. The only other
persons in the house, a woman cook and
her two children, escaped unharmed.
After his escape from his burning
home, the older Russell was removed
to the Mt. 'Holly Inn. Attending phy
sicians say ho inhaled flames and that
his condition is very serious, although
they entertain some hope of saving his
life. Mrs. Russell, who was visiting
relatives here last night, went to her
husband's bedside this morning, mak
ing the trip in an automobile.
!Mrs. Mary Fuhrman, cook in the
"Russell home, and her two children,
were sleeping on the first floor when the
fire broke out and they all escaped
after snatching up a small amount of
wearing apparel. With the home, a
handsome frame structure, all of the
furniture, save a piano, was ruined. An
aquarium, containing many fish and rep
tiles, and also a hot house, were de
stroyed.
One Fish Worth SI,OOO Is Lost
One of the fish in the aquarium was
•valued by Mr. Russell at SI,OOO. The
total loss will amount to at least
SB,OOO. It is partly covered by insur
ance.
An overheated furnace is believed to
have been the cause of the fire. The
explosion of cftiemicals, wtih which
young Russell experimented in a min
iature laboratory on the ground floor,
awakened those in the house.
By that time the fire had gained
much headway and the son found it
necessary to escape from tho building
by jumping from a second-story win
dow. He first dropped a mattress out
of the window. Then he snatched his
clothing and jumped.
The elder Russell made a dash down
the stairway from the second floor, but,
it is said, afterward ran back to get
some valuable papers which ho kept in
a box in his sleeping room. On his
second rush from the house he was en
veloped by the flames. He was ex
hausted by the time he got outside.
Persons attracted to the scene of the
fire by the blowing of the whistle at
the clay works by George Starrier, tihe
night watchman, threw an overcoat
about Russell and rushed him to the inn.
Nearby Buildings Saved
A bucket brigade was formed by
neighbors and the fifty employes of the
clay works, and in that way the barn,
located nearby, in which were stabled
many horses, was saved.
Russell takes keen interest in collect
ing different kinds of reptiles and fish,
and his aquarium, situated within a few
leet of the house, was quite large. This
was totally destroyed and the fish
were boiled and burned when the flames
attacked the aquarium. A hot house, in
which Russell had many rare plants,
also was ruined.
Russell figured in the newspapers re
cently when he began a civil suit in the
Dauphin county court against Congress
man Arthur R. Rupley, of Carlisle, mak
ing a claim for S2OO on an "I. O. U."
which he alleges was given to him by
Rupley.
Takes Deserters Back to Barracks
Captain of Police Joseph P. Thomp
son left for Portsmouth, Va., at noon
to-day with three United States marines
who were absent from their barracks
there without leave. They got tired
wandering over the country and gave
themselves up to Captain Thompsou on
Tuesday. A standing reward of SSO
is paid for the return of each deserter.
Brakeman's Foot Amputated
William Kope, of Hummelstown, a
brakeman in the Rutherford yards of
the Philadelphia and Reading railway,
fell from a car yesterday while at work
\and was seriously hurt. He was taken
to the Uarrisburg hospital where his
foot was amputated.
c Star- Jtikjictikni
515.000 LOSS BY FLAMES
IN FIFE BENDING PLANT
Valuable Motors and Other Electrical
Apparatus Damaged by Fire Early
To-day Firemen's Good Work
Saves Main Building
Stored motors and other costly elec
trical devices were damaged this morn
ing at 6 o'clock wben the electrical
shop, a part of the rolling mill of the
'Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending
Company, was gutted by Are. The fire
will not result in any inconvenience
in the running of the mills, as the ap
paratus damaged was the reserve sup
ply.
The loss will reach $15,000, but is
entirely covered by insurance. This
applies both to the building and the
contents. The only mill now in use
which was damaged 'by the lire was the
rolling mill, a part of the roof of which
was destroyed. This can be replaced
in forty-eight hours and the work in the
mill will not be halted in the mean
time.
The building, which is on the State
street side of the plant near the Penn
sylvania railroad and adjoining Ivelley's
coal yard was seen to be on fire at 6
o'clock and an alarm was turned in
from Tenth and State streets. The
firemen were in service for more than
an hour. The peculiar construction of
the frame building, which had a cor
rugated iron covering made it a diffi
cult fire to fight.
The firemen did excellent' work in
confining the flames, for the most part,
to the original building, keeping them
from seriously damaging the rolling
mill, of which it was a part, a partition
only separating it from the main build
ing.
Officials of the company who investi
gated this morning believe that the fire
started from an overheated steam coil,
a part of the heating system.
BASEBALL MEN MAY RESIGN
Rumored That Two Harrisburg Direc
tors Will Quit —No Meeting
Yesterday
Not only in the management of the
Harrisburg club in the Tri-State League
will there be a change but it is rumor
ed that two of the directors of the
Pennsylvania Exhibition Company,
owners of the Harrisburg franchise,
will resiign at a meting to be held
some afternoon next week.
A meeting of the board of directors
was scheduled for yesterday afternoon
but a quorum was not present and noth
ing was done. The recent gossip about
the local team is but an unconfirmed
rumor and nothing definitely will be
known until after the directors meet.
How Cocklin's loss as manager ami
now the coming resignation of two of
the directors back of the team will af
fect baseball here, of course, can only
be speculated upon.
The directors will prepare for the
coming annual meeting of the league
which will be held in the near future
in Philadelphia. President George M.
Gralmn has not yet announced the date
for the meeting. Club representatives
will go to the meeting prepared to take
a stand on the size of the league cir
cuit and a salary limit. There lias been
some discussion albout a lower limit for
the league, but this proposition has
few supporters. William S. Tunis will
likely represent the Harrisburg club.
CHAYNE TO HAVE CITY POST
Planner, to Appoint Him Next Week as
Second Assistant Assessor
Horace A. Ohayne, 407 North Sec
ond street, for twenty years a book
keeper with the old Boas Plauing Mill
Oonijwmy and who during the last three
years has been employed in a similar
capacity with Wit man Brothers, whole
sale grocers, Tenth street, will, at next
Tuesday's meeting of the City Commis
sioners, be named the second assistant
to City Assessor VV. H. H. Bickley, so
City Commissioners said to-Jiay.
At the same time Howard C. Town
send will be reappointed first assistant
at an annual salary of $1,200. Chayne's
salary will be S9OO. a year.
Carothers Joins Villa Force
M Paso, Tex., Jan. 22.—Word was
received here early to-day that George
O. Carothers, special agent of the Amer
ican State Department, had joined Gen
eral Villa's headquarters in the field bo
low the city of Chihuahua.
ASK FOR SI4JQOO 1N FEES
Seventeen Constables Submit Claims
Based on Recent Court Decision
Making County Liable
Seventeen city and county constables,
whom the Dauphin County Court, in de
ciding a test ease brought by George
W. Charters, holds are entitled to in
creased back fee charges as providled in
the act of 1901, to-day presentod their
itemized claims to the County Commis
sioners amounting in all to about $14,-
000. The back fees charged by tho
constables amount to $9,984.68, the
interest charges total $4,002.73 and
the costs of the court case will run to
$140,10 so that the total claims against
the county approximate $14,127.51.
The Commissioners to-day held up the
bills pending an inquiry as to the cor
rectness of the charges.
Th© seventeen constables and the
bills of charge* whic-h they presented
are as follows:
George W. Charters, $1,336.79; John
G. Hill, $306.42; James H. Johnson,
$748.71; Henry Miller, $646.40; Kich
ard R«ese, $805.83; Harry Roat,
$712.22; 11. H. Sinkfield, $827.98;
Jeremiah Still, $842.21; W. IJ. Wind
sor, $408.32; David' C, ("bal longer,
$739.50; Peter R. Day, $835.97; Har
ry Emmanuel, $1,193.38; W. G. Gar
man, $2,082.68; Alexander Gibbons,
$440.75; Robert Gottschall, $873.73;
James W. Haines, $356.99; John H
Stipe, $826.53.
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1915—14 PAGES.
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HE EXPLOSION
01 U.S. MISER
Warship Had, Just Com
pleted Steaming Trial
of Four Hours When
Disaster Occurred
NINE INJURED;
SOME GRAVELY
Rear Adiriral Howard's Report of Ac
cident Says Endurance Runs Were
Attempted When Boiler Tube Was
Ruptured, Due to Low Water
By Associated Press.
On Board U. S. S. San Diego, La
Paz, Mcx., Jan. 21, by Wireless via
San Diego, Cal., Jan. 22.—Four men
were killed and nine seriously injured
ThursdUy afternoon on board the
armored cruiser San Diego when a boil
er tube blew out after a steaming trial
of four hours had been completed.
The dead:
Oscar J. Wyatt, El Centro, Cal.;
Ambus J. Hardee', Jopliu, Mo.; Wil
liam P. Elliott, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Clif
ford A. Western, Davenport, Cal. All
were firemen.
The injured:
Benjamin H. Tucker, R. B. Glidden,
Darrell L. Varnado, William H. Miller,
Ernest A. Ledwith, Charles W. Peter
son, firemen; Oeorge Ohio, water ten
der; Emanuel A. Shippi, seaman, and
Patrick A. Merriman, coal passer.
Immediately after the accident the
cruiser left for Guaymae. where she
arrived at 2 o'clock this (Friday) morn
mg.
The Snn Diego is the .flagship of tho
Pacific fleet and is in command of Cap
tain Ashler 11. Robertson.
Washington, Jan. 22. —A brief offi
cial report to the Navy Department on
the explosion aboard the cruiser San
Diego said that some of thp nine in
jured were in a grave condition and
others were not so badly hurt. The
next of kin of the dead were notified
at once by the department. Rear Ad
miral Howard's report gave this ac
count of the accident:
"The San Diego completed her four
hour full power trials and made 21.45.
Just as the completion of the trials,
a tube in No. 4 boiler ruptured, due to
low water. Endurance runs were at
tempted. A full investigation has been
ordered. Am proceeding to Guaymas."
PTOMAINE KILLED PRIZE DOtiS
Miss Kennedy's Pets Will Lie in a
Burial Plot of Their Own
Hempstead, L. 1., Jain. 22.—Cham
pion i'arkneiik Blackthorn and Sham
rocks Boy, the valauble Pomeranian
dogs belonging to Miss Marian Kenne
dy, which died on Tuesday afternoon,
were not victims of poison givcto them
by some person who wanted to kill
them. An autopsy shows that they
died of ptomaine poisoning.
Some food left outside the house at
Fair Oaks, the Kennedy place, was eat
en by the Pomeranians and their dain
ty stomachs were upset. Miss Kennedy
yesterday morning siaid that she was
not fully satisfied that the dogs died
from that cause, but, as the veterinary
had performed an autopsy, she must
take his word for it.
The dogs will be put in little boxes
made especially for them and buried in
a plot fenced off in a large pasture on
the Kennedy place.
U. S. DROPS AS'SEA POWER
Goes From Third to Fourth Place As
France Advances
By Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 22.—Tho United
States will drop from third to fourth
place among the world's sea powers
with the completion of all ships under
construction up' to July 1, 1914, ac
cording to the calculations in the navy
year booik, issued to-day by the Senate
Naval committee.
France will move from fourth to
third place, according to the official
table.
Lodge Sees U. S. in Great War
By Associated Press«
Washington, Jan. 22.—Attributing
to the administration an intention to
buy German ships interned in American
ports if the ship purchase bill is passed,
Senator Ixxlgo to-day declared in the
Senate that the measure '' would bring
us within measureable distance of war,
not with England alone, but with
lOrauce, Russia and Japan."
PROPOSES CHANCES IN THE
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
Brumbaugh Would Take Away Educa
tional Functions From That Branch
of the State Government—Farmers'
Institutes May Go
A rumor that the friends of local
option will hold fcaok tneir proposed
measure to 'be submitted to the legis
lature until all ,oi tuo "personal piat
lonu ' legislation ol 'Governor iirum-
Liaugu na» oeen introduced and is fair
ly well advanced is said to have no
oasis. U lien asked about it this morn
ing, Governor ilruiuDaug'n said he know
noiiung wnatever oi such a pian.
rtegaruing nis "personal" legislation
the governor saiu that he does not
know that it win be introduced next
wteK, out he ratner intimated that it
win not oe reauy tlien, and that there
wnl be such a rush oi bills next week
that it would mane no diirerence if the
other plattorm bills were not introduc
ed in uie rusu.
Governor Brumbaugh said, regard
ing tiie agricultural educational pro
jeci advocated in ins inaugural address,
that ue nad in mind the iact that the
federal government gives a certain
amount lor, agricultural education, and
that its donation to the State could be
combined \Vlwu-wliat the State gives for
tnat purpose aud the agricultural edu
cational scheme centralized in the State
Gollege.
To him it would be wise to central
ize the educational features of agricul
ture, aud make the State Agricultural
Department purely administrative.
"Teaching functions," said the Gov
ernor, "should be separate and distinct
from administrative functions."
Under this new idea of the Govern
or's the farmers' institute policy which
now exists in this State may be done
away with and all educational matters
relating to the farmer centralized. In
any event the State Agricultural De
partment will be divorced from the
educational features of the department
as now administered.
Asked whether the story that the
Public Service Commission is to be re
duced in membership from* sftven to
five, Governor Brumbaugh smiled and
said such a story had no basis.
SNOW IS HEADED THIS WAY
Scheduled to Arrive This Evening and
Continue Into To-morrow
A stonn from the southwest, the in
fluence of which was felt over three
fourths of the country to-day, threat
ens to bring snow to Harrisburg to
night and to-morrow. The storm caused
snow last night in the Mississippi Val
ley, bwt rlid not Teach bltzrnrd propor
tions. Unless the storm develops un
usual strength in its course northeast
ward, the snowfall will not be unusu
ally heavy here.
The heaviest fall reported this morn
ing was in St. Louis, which had five
inches of snow. The minimum tem; era
ture forecasted for to-night is twenty
degrees.
Lynching Bee in Georgia
By Associated Prrxs.
Arlington, Ga., Jan. 22.—Peter
Morris, a negro, charged witfh the mur
der of a farmer, was taken from the
custody of the Fariey county Sheriff
late last night and lynched.
OLD IKIES
ON HIB FIT
CAUSE HI
Persons Living in the
Neighborhood of Fill
Complain of Lawns
Obliterated by Paper
DUST SIFTS
INTO HOMES
Member of City Commission Pleads for
Patience and Says That Men Are
Employed to Prevent the Conditions
Which Are Complained Of
Old ne-wspapcrs that almost obliter
ate the lawns in front of Froirt street
homes, between Peffer and Mueneh
streets, and even north and south of
the latter two thoroughfares have
caused dwellers in the neighborhood to
protest against the plan of the city to
make part of the river bank fill by the
dumping there of the ashes collected
by the Pennsylvania Reduction Com
pany, which has the contract for col
lection of ashes and garbage from
twelve of the thirteen wards of the
city.
Those who are complaining point to
the established fact that in addition
to "clean ashes," which the city has
directed the Reduction Company to use
dn making the fill, considerable quan
tities of decayed or decaying vege
tables, such as old potatoes, lemon and
grape fruit rinds, pumpkins and so
forth, are being emptied and left ex
posed along the bank of the river, and
that in addition to the eye-sores that
the lawns of the neighborhood have be
come by reason of the papers which
litter them, the dust, every time a cart
of ashes is dumped, shifts into the
Koatlnued on Eleventh Pace.
AMERICAN GIFTS
SID LIVES 10
WAR YEAHS AGO
Edward Moeslein .Fran
co-Prussian Veteran,
Tells How Soldiers
Got Aid in Trenches
GRATEFUL TO
UNITED STATES
Harrisburg Man Gives Convincing
Word-picture of Terrible Suffering
of Fighting Men as It Must Be To
day—Collections Start Monday
Ragged and unkempt with open
wounds from the bayonets or bullets
of the foe in the freezing winds of the
north, 50,000 soldiers stood at atten
tion on the sodden, half-frozen grounds
on the outskirts of Rouen, France. Some
wore parts of shoes, others had wrap
ped their fejt in rags. None had uni
forms oi sufficient weight of material
to keep them warm. Their faces were
emaciated and wan. For three months
they had been existing, mainly on un
cooked foods which they had dug from
the ground as they hurried along in
an endless series of battles. There was
no grade to condition of hunger or
want. Officers and men were in the
same plight.
Along those scarred ranks, between
files, came oxen and horse-drawn cars,
Officers, without regard to rank, dealt
out warm clothing, underwear and coats
and trousers, along with shoes and
warm knitted scarfs and socks. As
the carts went on the ranks broke and
wavered, as the soldiers began clothing
themselves against the biting wind.
And as they did it, their eyes streamed
tears otf joy. Some knelt in prayer.
Others cheered. Sterned-faced officers
and privates who had laughed us bul
lets and shells tore their ways through
bodies of their comrades, wept openly
and unashamed.
The reason for -this unusual demon
stration was that relie-f had come to tnc
starving, suffering soldiers of war torn
Europe. And this relief had come from
America.
Experiences of a Harrisburg Man
That scene was ennacted more than
forty years ago in the German armies
invading France during the Franco-
Prussian war. At least one of Har
risburg's citizens took part in it—stood
in those suffering ranks and received
his portion of the life-saving supplies
—and, with thousands of others of his
comrades, knelt in prayer of' thankful
ness to the generous American people,
whose kindly charity had saved them
suffering—even life."
A few ilavs ago that veteran told
the story to some of the men and wom
en who are directing the operations of
the Home and War Relief Committee
here. He told of the heart-felt thanks
of the men who had suffered privations
which their own countrymen and wom
en had been unable to assuaige, owing
to the fact of the army's having been
Continued on Sixth I'nße,
J. B. DUKE'S BIG BARN BURNED
Thought Fireproof, Loss Is Estimated
at $25,000
Somervtlle, N. J., Jan. 22.—One of
the big bams on the 20,000 acre estate
of .lames B. Duke, near here, was burn
ed last evening. The building was a
handsome structure oif rough stone and
contained hundreds of tons of hay. The
blaze illuminated the cbuntry for miles
around.
Thie fire started at about 8 o'clock,
when the 125 firemen of the Somerville
■department were at a banquet. The men
scattered at the first alarm and were
soon ait the fire with their apparatus
and prevented the spread of the flames
to the house of Superintendent David
Smith and other costly 'buildings. A
barn that stood on the site of the one
destroyed last'night was burned some
years ago, and the structure now in
ruins was betlieved to be fireproof. The
fire was well under way before it was
discovered. The loss is estimated at
125,000.
UNION TRUST HEAD RESIGNS
Charles S. 801 l Retires to Take Up Pri
vate Business
At a meeting of the board of direc
tors of the Union Trust Company
Chiarles 8. 801 l resigned as president,
owing to the fact that the growth of
the institution required so much of
his time that he could not give his per
sonal affairs their proper attention.
John P. Meliek is vice president. Mr.
Boll's successor has not been chosen.
Mr. 801 l has been president of the
Union Trust Comj>any since its or
ganization in 1906, the company hav
ing its headquarters in its own'build
ing in Market Square, one of the first
office buildings of its size in the city.
Mr. 801 l said to-day that he intends
to devote all of his time to his own
private business.
Controller Q-ough Is IU
The condition of Henry W. Gough,
Controller of Dauphin county, who for
several days has been suffering from an
attack of grip, was such to-day that
his physician advised against his going
out of the house. The Controller this
afternoon could not speak much above a
whisper, but he wa« not confined to bed.
LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
The Germans have halted the French
advance designed to cut communica
tions with the Important fortress of
Metz, in Lorrain, and isolate the Ger
man forces in the St. Mihiel region. The
official statement from Berlin to-day
says that the French lost heavily In an
attack near Font a Mousson and
were repulsed. The French statement
acknowledges that the Germans have
retaken part of these lost trenches.
Another violent battle is in progress
in Alsace, in which troops are engaged
in hand to hand struggles. The Berlin
War Office asserts that the French were
driven from the heights near Sennheim.
In the eastern campaign no change
is reported to-day.
A dispatch from Berlin to Copen
hagen states that the German aerial
raid on the east coast of England on
January 19 was the work of Zeppelins
of the latest type, with full crews, and
armed with heavy guns.
A conference was held in Paris be
tween Representatives of England,
France and Russia who it is said has
under consideration a joint loan of $«,-
000,000,000.
Heavy fighting is in progress once
more along the western front. Unoffi-
Continued on Eleventh Cage*
GERMANS REPORT DEFEAT
OF ALLIES IN IMPORTANT
ENGAGEMENTS IN FRANCE
Berlin, By Wireless to London, 3.15
P. M., Jan. 22.—Defeat for tho allies
in two important engagements is an
nounced in an official statement given
out to-day by the War Office. A French
attack near Pont a Mousson, where the
allies are attempting to cut the German
communications with Metz, is said to
have been repulsed with heavy losses
for the attackers. In Alsace the French
wero driven out of the heights near
Sennheim. The Germans were compelled
to evacuate a trench near Berry Au
liac, but gained some ground in the
Verdun region. There is no change in
the eastern campaign. The statement
follows:
"On January 21 in the western the
atre of war, a continuous rain rendered
im)>ossible any important fighting be
tween the coast and tho canal of La
basse. Artillery duels took place near
Arras. One of the trenches which we
took on the day before yesterday, to the
southwest of Berry au Bac, was aban
doned and blown up. It had been part
ially destroyed by tho collapse of the
wall of a factory.
attaclf -of Vc .lnn
was repulsed easily. After tl.e battles
of tho day before yesterday to tho south
of St. Mihiel small French detachments
still held out in the neighborhood of
our positions. By means of an advance
in the region before our front was
cleared of all Frenchmen as far as their
old positions.
"The battle for Croix-des-Larmes,
northwest of Pont a Mousson, con
tinues. A strong French attack on the
recaptured part of our positions were
repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy.
"In the Vosges, north of Sennheim,
our troops drove the enemy out of the
heights of the Weilerkopf hills. We
took two officers and 125 men prisoners.
"In the eastern theatre of war the
situation is unchanged. Our attacks
on a branch of the Szucha made slow
progress. There is nothing new east of
the Pilica."
EXCITEMENT OVKR ARREST OF
AN ITALIAN CONSUL AT LIEUE
Rome, Jan. 21, 10.35 P. M. —Con-
siderable excite:, .lit was caused here
to-day by news of the arrest of Filippo
Grcppi, the Italian vice consul at Liege,
a member of one of the best known
Malinese families and who had a Bel
gian wife.
The Foreign Office, answering inquir
ies regarding the case, said it was
awaiting precise information from the
German authorities while in the mean
time it was working for his liberation.
It seems, however, according to infor
mation already received, that Greppi's
arrest was caused because of contraband
postal matter.
Kissmiller Hurt Under Box
Clarence kissmiller, 1229 A Bailey
street, a driver for the Peipher line, suf
fered a fractured right leg this morn
ing when a heavy box fell on him at
the plant of the Blough Manufacturing
Company, Reily and Pulton streets. He
was taken to the Harriirtiurg hospital
for treatment.
I*l3. FORD'S MTIC TASK
Auto Magnate Would Take All Sing
Sing Convicts and Make Men
Out of Them
By Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 22.—Henry Ford, of
Detroit, manufacturers of automobile.*,
will guarantee to take every convict
out of Sing Sing Prison and make a
man out of him. He so stated to-day
when he appeared to testify before th>
United States Commission on indus
trial relations which is investigating the
great philanthropic foundations of the
country and the cause of industrial un
rest.
"The philanthropic, foundations may
do some good," said Mr. Ford, "but
they are not adequate. My idea is
justice and not charity. I have little
use for philanthropies as such. My idea
is to aid men to help themselves. Nearly
all are willing to work for adequate
reward. We have all kinds of crip
ples in our empJoy and they are making
good. We have a great many who have
been in prison and who arc outcasts
from society. Every one of them ia
making a good showing and is gaining
in self-respect and strength of char
acter. We will guarantee to take
every convict out of Sing Sing and
make a man of him."
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE CENT.
BIG BATTLE
NOW RAGING
IN FRANCE
Fighting Has Continued
Uninterruptedly for
Three Days Between
Nieuport and Ostend
MANY GERMANS
ARE WOUNDED
Exceptionally Heavy Artillery Firing
Going ou in Region of Cernay and
Thann in Alsace—Deadly Work of
Projectiles Recorded
By Associated Press,
Amsterdam, via London, Jan. 22,
9.08 A. M.—Between Nieuport and Os
tend a hard battle has continued un
interruptedly for three days, despite
rain, Hooded trenches and almost im
passable roads, says the Sluis, Holland,
correspondent of the "Telegraaf." The
correspondent reports large numbers of
German wounded passing Sluis.
Berne, Switzerland, via Paris, Jan.
-2, 1.10 A. M.—Exceptionally heavy
artillery firing is going on in the re
gion of Cernay and Thann, in Alsace.
Th 0 German wounded state, according
to reports that come over the border,
that the frozen ground makes shell lire
much more deadly as the projectiles
in striking the hard surface, explode
with increased violence, scatterin™
frozen clods 0 f earth which cause ugly
wounds,
FEROCIOUS TIGHTING IN
HAND-TO-HAND BATTLES
IN ALSACE,SAYS REPORT
Paris, Jan. 22, 2 50 P. M.—The re
port on the progress of the war given
out by tho French War Office this aft
ernoon says very determined infantry
fighting, with ferocious handto-iiaul
encounters, is going on to-day in Al
sace, but thai the situation at S; is
sons is showing U o change. Other in
fantry encounters mentioned appear to
be of minor importance. Artillery ex
changes, in which the French were suc
cessful, occurred between Vpres and
the Oise, near Berry Au Bac ami in
the Vosges, whilt in the forest of
Apiemoni the Gcrjrau artillery drove
the French away The statement fol
lows:
"In Belgium the enemy yesterday
bombarded Nieuport with a fair degivV
of violence. Our infantry made sum.:
slight progress to tlu east of Loin
baertzyde highway. Between Ypres
and the Oise successful operations on
the part of our artillery against field
works, batteries and detachments of in
fantry of the enemy tjou place yester
day.
"From the Oise lo the Arguune:
The situation in the vicinity of Soissijiis
shows no change. Near liirrv Au Bu •
a trench which we vere compelled to
evacuate following a violent bombard
ment was recaptured by us. In the re
gion of Perthes the •ueniy deliverc 1
an attack during the night of Januan
,20-21 at a point northwest of Beauso
jour, but without success.
"Between the Mease and the Mo
selle: To the southeast of St. Mihiel,
in the forest of Apremont, an exceed
ingly violent bombardment made it im
possible for us to retain the German
trenches occupied by us yesterday for a
distance of ISO yards.
"To tilie northwest of Pont a Mous
son, in the forest of Leprctre, the ene
my yesterday recapturad a portion of
the trenches taken by us January 20,
but we are maintaining ourselves at
all other points of this position.
"In the Vosges the jnemy hnrlcl
against St. Die six projectiles of great
calibre, without, however, doing any se
rious damage.
"At a point between Mount Bun
homme and Mount Schluct there has
been an artillery engagement, iu which
the Gerninn batteries were reduced to
silence.
"In Alsace the infantry fighting in
t'he region of Ilartinnnn and Weiler
kopf is going on with great ferocity.
The struggle is actually hand-to-haml.
In front of Dannemarie our artillery
dispersed gatherings of the enemy."
WALL SIREET CLOSING
By Associated Press,
New York, Jan. 22.—Speculativ«
favorites declined to their lowest iu
the last hour, Reading falling I :M bo
low yesterday's final. Virginia Certifi
cates advanced six points on the recom
mendation hold West Virginia liable foi
its share of the debt of the Virginia
at the time of the former's secession.
The closing was heavy. Persistent sell
ing, largely for foreign account, caused
a general reaction in to-day's stock
market, after an early period ol
strength and activity.