LIGHT ON ABSENCE
OF CITY PLANNEHS
✓
Umberger Didn't Know
His Invitation to
Wharf Confab was
Meant for Board
HE DIDNT TELL
OTHER MEMBERS
Says They "Feel Injured That Their
Absence Was Taken as Indication
That Their Action" in Opposing
Ordinance "Was Not Sincere
How it happened that none of the
members ot the City Planning Com
mission, which had on February 15 in
formed the City Commission of its.op
position to the ordinance giving the
Harrisburg Light & Power Company the
right to bui H a coal wharf on Har
gest's Island, was not present at the
meeting of the City Commission which
!<assed the ordinance finally last Tues
day by a vote of 3 to 2. was explained
in a letter written bv B. F. I'mberger.
secretary of the Planning Commission,
and made public by him to-day.
The Cmberger letter says that but
one member of the Planning Board re
reived an invitation to confer with the
City Commissioners on the wharf ordi
nance. The member who did receive
that notice was I'niberger himself,
he dlid not attend the proposed confer
ence because of a death in his family.
He supposed the invitation was in
tended for him individually, rather than
as secretary, and s0 did not inform the
other members of the Planning Com
mission.
The PI mining Boor.f secretary in
sists. Ttowever. that the Planning Corn
mission ha>! legitimate reasons for dis
approving the plan to permit the light
company to build a coal wharf on the
island and adds that those reasons no
doubt would have been ablv supported
fiad the Planning Commission been rep
resented at the conference on Tuesday.
I'nVberger s letter was received' bv
Citv CleWt Miller and it will l>e read
to the City Commissioners at their meet
log nert Tuesday. The letter in full
follows:
The Umberger Letter
"In view of the fact that vour
honorable body passed the ordinance
.No. IS6 without the presence of anv
member of the City Planning Commis
sion, I feel it incumbent upon me to
say that no number of our Commis
sion. except myself, had notice of your
request to be present at vour meeting,
through a misunderstanding. The no
tice was mailed by the City Clerk to me
as secretary of the Commission, and
was delivered to mv business office on
Wednesday morning, the seventeenth
instant. Owing to a death in mv fam
ily that morning. 1 did not see my
mail until a&out Friday or
and then glanced hurriedly through it.
1 took the notiee for a personal one
and notified Mr. Taylor by phone I
could not be present.
"It seems now that the notice was
addressed to the Planning Commission,
nnd I ought to have notified the other
members of the Commission. The
fault, if any is to be found, was mine.
1 make this statement so that you mav
lsnow no discourtesy to your honorable
body was intended, and so that the pub
lic may understand that the action of
this Commission in disapproving the
ordinance was founded on good reasons
and made in good faith.
Planning Board Feels Injured
"This Commission devoted consid
erable time and study to the ordinance,
and disapproved of the same because
the members believed it was against
the best interests of the city. Their
findings and the reasons therefor were
sent to you in a communication of the
fifteenth instant, in language so plain
they could not be misunderstood.
First, that the passage of the ordi
nance would not eliminate present con
ditions. but only relieve them. Second,
that the Commission was convinced
that the suggested site is not the only
available one. nor the proper location.
Third, that the granting of the privi
lege asked for would establish a bad
precedent. To these reasons was add
ed a statement that their decision was
reached after very careful considera
tion. This language could not be mis
ui'derstood. and, in fact, was not mis
nnderstood.
"While the members of the Commis
sion do not want to be understood as
practicing discourtesy to your honor
able body, yet they feel that all of the
facts were before you. They feel in
jured that the fact of their absence
was taken as an indication that their
action wa« not sincere and genuine.
Speaking for the other members of the
Commission, their probity and standing
is such that they would not be guilty
of toying with so important a question.
Speaking for myself. I am of opinion
that the river frout is worth more in
dollars and cents to Harrisburg than
all the coal in the river. With great
respect and sincere regret for per
sonal lapse (which, uuHer the circum
tsances. I am sure, will be exiyisedV I
am, respectfully,
"B. F. Umberger, Secretary."
Former President Talks to Educators
By Associated Press.
Cincinnati, 0., Feb. 25.—Advocating
a plan which would make a national I
standard of education practical bv en
larging the Bureau of Education into a
university, consisting of a corps of ex- j
perts who would pass upon the effici
ency. thoroughness and economy of the I
various schools system, former President
WilliamVH. Taft addressed the Depart
ment Su erintendence of the National
Educational Association here to-day.
No Action Against Judge Dayton
Wellington, Fab. 25.—N'o action:
will be recommended to this Congress'
by the House Judiciary Sab-Committee
hearing .-harges against Federal Judge
Dayton, of West Virginia. Chairman
McCillicuddy began preparing a report!
to-day which may serve as the basis of j
any action the Sixty-fourth Congres<!
decides to take.
Rutgers College Registrar Dies
By Associated Press.
New Brunswick. N. J.. Feb. 25. i
Irving Strong Upson, registrar of Rut-i
gers College, died to-day of heart dis- j
ease. He was 60 years old. '
OOTCOIHE.OF CONFERENCE
DY GERMANS TO DISCUSS
U.S. NOTES NOTYETKNOWN
Berlin, Feb. 25.—Nothing has beeu
made known up to the present time of
the conference of German statesmen
last night to discuss the American
identical notes on marine warfare and
the feeding of civilian populations sent
by tiie United States government to
both Great Britain and Germany.
This meeting was held iu the residence
of Dr. Von Bot<hmtin-Hollwcg, the Irn
perial Chancellor. Among the states
men present was Gottlieb Von Jagow,
the ttjreign Minister. No further de
tails have been jjiven out in Ber.in of
the leported sinkiug of a British trans
port by a German submarine. It is
being explained here that the under
sea boat in question sent only a brief
wireless announcement and that details
of the occurrence probably were not
known even to her crew because of
the limited field of observation of sub
marine periscopes. Furthermore, the
submarine may have had no other op
portunity to use its wireless Apparatus.
The crew of the American steamer
Evelyn, which weut down in the North
sea as a result of striking a mine, ap
parently have all reached Bremerhaven,
the second boat having been picked up
by a German steamer.
Neither the American embassy nor
the German Admiralty has as yet re
ceived a detailed report concerning the
loss of the American steamer Carib.
which struck a mine and sank the aft
ernoon of February 22 off Helgoland in
the North sea. The circumstaucea un
der which these two ships were
wrecked are being investigated thor
oughly. The Ameriaen consul at Brem
erliaven is taking the deposition of the
master of the Evelyn, whose statement
will determine the responsibility for
the Evelyn being off the course de
scribed as safe by the German Ad
miraltv.
The German announcement that a
British troop transi>ort had been sunk
by a submarine has not been borip'
out from London, where it has beeu
said that this report doubtless referred
to the torpedoing of the British steam
er Branksome Chine, a government col
lier. which was attacked the afternoon
of February 23 in the English channel
at a point south of Beaehy Head.
THE DACIA ALIYIOST ACROSS
ATLANTIC WITHOUT SEIZURE
New York, Feb. 25.—The steamship
Dacia, which sailed from Norfolk Feb
ruary 11 for Rotterdam with cotton in
the face of assertions that she would
be seized by British men-of-war, inas
much as she had been « German vessel
at the outbreak of the war, has almost
completed her trip across the Atlantic
without interference on February 23,'
according to messages received here to
dav.
These messages asserted that the Da
cia was 400 miles west of Landsend,
England, on that date and would pro
ceed through the English channel to
Rotterdam if not taken.
The Dacia is owned by Edward N.
Breitung, of this city, whp purchased
her from the Hamburg-American Line
and changed her registry, placing her
under the American flag. Mr. Brei
tuug also purchased the Seguranea of
the Ward Line, an American vessel,
and had her remodeled as a freighter.
The Seguranca is now loading with pro
visions for Rotterdam and is expected
to sail from this port within a day or
two.
HICH COST OF LIVING IS
SHOWN IN U. S. EXPORTS
Washington. Ferti. 25. What in
creases have been made in the export
of foodstuffs from the United States
since the European war began was dis
closed to-day by the Department of
Commerce in a detailed statement of
exports for the seven months ending
with January. In all. $377,400,000
worth of breadstuffs and meat were sent
abroad which, compared with the same
seven months of 1914 was an increase
of JISS,OOO.OOO.
One hundred million bushels more
of wheat were exported than last year;
35,000,000 bushels more oats; 10,000.-
000 bushels more corn; 40,000,000
pounds more fresh beef; 34,500,000
pounds more canned beef; 1,500,000
barrels more flour; 1.000.000 pounds
more pickled beef: 22.000.000 gallons
more gasoline, naphtha, etc., and 111,-
000,000 gallons more jesidum, fuel oil,
etc.. was sent abroad. At the same time
there was was a great decrease in the
export of cotton.
GREAT BRITAIN WILL FIIiHT
IF FRANCE AND RUSSIA Ql IT
London, Feb. 25, 4.15 P. M.—Pre
mier Asquith took weasion in the
House this afternoon, in replying to a
question, to endorse the opinion ex-,
pressed recently by First Lord of the
Admiralty Churchill in a newspaper in
terview that Great Britain would con
tinue to fight to the bitter end, even
should Franee and Russia withdraw
from the war.
The Premier pointed out that Mr.
Churchill had declared with special em
phasis that he eouki not conceive of
such a contingency as this, "but "
added the Premier, "I am in complete
agreement with him. 1 see, no reason
to .Hffer from the views he has ex
pressed.''
Enough Potatoes to Feed Germans
Berlin, Feb. 25, via London, 2.55 P.
—The Prussian Minister of Agricul
ture. Baron von Sehorlemer, discussing
the food question in the Diet to-da"
said that quantities of potatoes would
be brought in from Poland, and that
large supplies were left in East Prus
sia. where the Russians had been. "I
believe I can express the hope," he add
ed, "that the potato supply for human
food will suffice.''
Place Ban on Absinthe
Geneva. Via Paris, Feb. 25, 5.25
A. M. —The militarv governor of
Strassburg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine,
has prohibited the sale or consumption
of absinthe. Persons who violate t#e
order will be sentenced to a vear's im
prisonment.
German Gold for Amsterdam
Amsterdam. Via -London, Feb. 25,
6.51 A. M.—The "Telegraaf" says it
has learned that a special train is
bringing $4,000,000 in German gold
from Berlin to this city.
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HARRTSBtTRfi STAR-INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1915.
IREAT BRITAIN IN ENTIRE
ACCORD WnHTRE RUSSIAN
DESIRE FOR ACCESSTO SEA
i ! London, Feb. 2a, 3.23 P. M. —Sir
Edward Grey, the foreign secretary, an
i nounced in the House of Commons to
i day that Great Britain was in entire
[ accord with Russia's desire fat access
; : to the sea.
> "With Russia's desire for access to
. the sea England is in entire aceorJ,"
! the foreign secretary said, iu response
to a question from Frederick W. Jo
wett, whether England knew of and ap
.'proved the statement of the Russian
Foreign Minister, M. Sazouoff, in the
' Duma, that "Russia intended perma
nently to occup Constantinople."
s | The foreign secretary responded he
■ | was uuaware that M. ' Sazanoff had
' j made any such statement but, he ad>
i! Ed, "the statement 1 have seen was
S that M. Sazanoff had said that tbj
events on the Kusao-Turkish frontier
■ would bring Russia nearer realization of
■ | the political-economic problem bound up
,with Russia's access to the sea. "Witn
. these aspirations, he continued. "Eng
■ laud is in sympathy. What form their
i realization will take will no doubt be
■ settled in the terms of peace."
' The announcement of Sir Kdward
Grey marks one of the most important
developments iu the European pjlitical
situation since the beginning of the
war. Russia's desire for a warm wa
ter port and unrestricted outlet from
the Black Sea has long been one of her
most cherished national aspirations.
Speaking in the Duma on February 9,
Premier Goreuiykin said:
"Turkey has marched with our
enemy, but her resistance already has
been shattred by our glorious Caucasicn
troops, and the radiant future of the
Russians on the Black Sea is beginniug
to dawn near the walls of Constanti
nople, ''
The attitude of Great Britain in the
event that the fortunes of war should
favor Russia in the struggle with Tur
key has been an open question.
NO U.S. WARSHIP TO CONVOY
AMERICAN TOBACCO REN
New \ ork, Feb. 25.—A committee
j of tobacco manufacturers who usually
: go to Amsterdam every spring to buy
at auction their supplies of Suiuatara
j tobacco for six months recently sent a
letfer to the Department of State tell
ing of their fears to travel through the
| war zone and intimating that they
| would be glad if the authorities woul 1
j send a battleship to convoy the vessel
j on w irfch most of them would sail for
Holland. An answer from Counsellor
Lansing, of the State Department, made
public to-day by the Leaf Tobacco j
Board ot' Trade follows:
"You ar» informed that the depart
ment must for the present, in view of J
j the disturbed condition of affairs in Eu
rope, leave it to each person contem
plating a visit th-re to decide for him-j
I self whether or not it would be wiser i
, to postpone his visit until affairs there
|in shall have resumed their normal
j state.''
A* they pay import duties of almost j
Slo.ooti.ooo. the manufacturers, it is]
stated, expected a different reply to i
their request for a convoy.
LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
Caatlauril From First face.
political development since the opening
of the war. The foreign secretary an-:
nonnced that Great Britain was in sym
pathy with Russia. He referred to Rus
sia's hope of obtaining Constantinople '
as a result of a '.var with Turkey.
The second week of Germany's sub
marine campaign opened to-day with
the loss of two more British ships. The
steamers Western Coast and Deptford
were sunk off the English coast, either
by mines or torpedoes.
Previously ten vessels, seven of them
British, have been sent to the bottom.
Germany apparently is preparing to
extend the field of these operations, for
three submarines have been sent to
i Pola, presumably for use in the Adri
i atic and Mediterranean.
The American proposals for cessa
i tion of this form of warfare and the
admission of foodstuffs to Germany are
before the German and British govern
ments but there are no indications
whether they will find acceptance.
Germatl«'s claim to an overwhelming
victory in Bast Prussia, resulting in the
actual annihilation of the Russian
tenth army, is denied categorically by
the Russian general staff. The admis-'
sion is made that two army corps suf
fered heavily during the retreat, but
the remaining corps are said to have
escaped from the German surrounding
movement. Efforts of the Germans to
! clinch their victory by striking a de
cisive blow in Northern Poland are
. leading to continuance battles all along
this section of the front, the outcome
of which the Russian staff does not at
tempt to forecast.
Hardly less intense is the campaign
in the Carpathians. The Petrograd an
nouncement claims successes for the
Russians in small engagements. Dis
patches from the front to Swiss news
papers assert that the Russians are win
ning consistently, and that the Aus
trians have lost more than 3,000 men
at Dukla Pass.
r-
AMERII'ANi RED CKOiS DOCTOR
SENT TO SEKVIA DIES ABROAD
y Paris, Feb. 25, 5.05 A. M.—Dr. i
James F. Donnelly, of the American Red !
Cross Mission, sent to Servia» died yes- j
terday at Nish, says a dispafVu to the !
Havas Agency from Saloniki. The body j
will be sent to the United States bv j
way of Saloniki.
Dr. Donnelly, whir was a resident of
New York and a graduate of the Uni- j
versity of Louisville, went to Servia*
late in ..ovenvber with five other doc- ;
tors and twelve nurses sent out by the
American Red Cross. He had seen hos- j
pital service in Louisville and in New
York. He held a royal medical decree i
in Holland.
Grateful for American Relief
London. Feb. 25, 4.25 A. M.—Bel-!
gians in Brussels observed Washing- i
ton's birthday as a holiday to Vernon -!
strate their gTatitude for the work of j
the American Relief Commission, writes |
a correspondent in Rotterdam. School !
children were given a holiday and near- j
ly eyerv Belgian wore a miniature
American flag in his button liole.
IT PAYS TO USE STAR
INDEPENDENT WANT ADS. I
SUGGESTS IDEAS FOR NEW
STATE COMPENSATION LAW
M. W. Alexander, Safety Expert, Tells
Business Men at Chamber of Com
merce Luncheon what Should Be
Embodied in Proposed Measure *
Pennsylvania litis au opportunity to
put into its workmen's compensation
law a lot of new features of interest to
both the employer and employe from
the working out of the various laws
now in force in tweuty-four States and
both and Germany, according
to Magnus W. Alexander, the safety ex
pert for the General Electric Company,
of Lynn. Maw., who spoke at a lunch
eon meeting of the Harrisburg Cham
ber of Commerce to-day.
He gave a general idea of what a
compensation law should be, warning
the business men who heard him of
what provisions should be enacted into
Pennsylvania's law, fair to both em
ployer and employe. He dissected his
subject into foil parts and ably illus
trated the points he wanted to make in
regard to each. v "
He advocated first a measure that
would work to promote the prevention
of accidents discussing under tbus head
ing a provision which makes a single
liability on the employer and to work
man to receive but one compensation,
cautioning the men to see that the
Pennsylvania law require* that the
money be paid the employe when it i
lime him.
He said prompt ami adequate medi
cal attention to the injured employe is
one of the important features of such
un act because lack of it often is re
sponsible for i'on tinned disability. He
advocated a definite scale of compen
sation ami impressed on his hearers the
advisability of providing a simple meth
od of tdministratioii.
This, he said, could be done by the
Department of Ln-hor and Industry,
but- its decisions iu appealed cases
might be construed to be in favor of
either of the parties •'because of the
appointment of the State employed by
political affiliation, suggesting that
this department collect the available
data of an appealed case and present
it to a common pleas judge who shall
make decisions without a jury.
One feature that will giv? a one
eyed man, for instance, an opportunity
of getting a job under this law he
would make it so that the empiover
would be responsible for the loss "of
but one eye in case of Ins being ren
deied blind. This is not in any law so
far enacted ami has kept iu numerous
instances men from employment when
malingers of big businesses do nor care
to undertake that liability. In after
years a big men out of work
will be if this feature is not
enacted in s,,uch laws.
He advocated first an act that could
be accepted 6r allow the parties to
take advantage of their common law
rights and later a compulsory law. He
excepts three cases of injuries from
compensation, self-inflicted wounds, in
juries due to intoxication and disregard
for safety rules and appliances.
. Mr. Alexander is au expert on com
pensation laws, having been on the orig
inal commission which drafted the
Massachusetts law, assistant in draft
ing the measure which is now before
the Indiana Legislature and is now the
safety expei t for the General Elec
tric Company. More than a hundred
members of the Chamber of Commerce
heard hint.
KIDNAP PAIR OF
STORE DUMMIES
Contlnnrd From First Pass.
j dummies were found The clothing
1 had becu removed from each ami there
was some evidence that the robbers
each took a punch at the dummies be
fore abandoning them. A coat was
found in a lot ofT Catherine street and
! a pair of trousers was dropped by the
! thieves on the pavement within a fen
feet of the Yoffee store.
Although their load was heavy, the
men who carried the whiskey bottles
speeded away from the stores far fast
er than those who carried the dummies.
Persons who saw the fugitives say one
man carried a dummy on his shoulder,
while another |Ait Bis arms about the
store fixture and ran. permitting the
i dummy's feet to drag along on the
; ground.
Back of tfte J. G. Peters department
store and cut of the glare of the elec
tric arc lan-.f, under which they bad
' been working, the thieves stripped the
dummies of the cloth'ng and abandoned
them. Constables this morning were
| searching for the robbers and later
were joined bv Countv Detective Jaines
T. Walters,
JOKE EMBARASSES t'OI'PLE
Use of Her Initials in Matrimonial
Quest Annoys Mrs. Ibaeh
When Mayor Rose, of Los Angeles,
I Cal., in response to a letter containing
j the initials, "R. X. P.,'' a fortnight
or more began a search for a hus
' band for a pretty HarrM>urg miss, lit
tle did he know that he was aiding in
i ('laying a prank o.n Mrs. Victor A.
Lbach, 1845 Herr street, this city, that
j had been planned by a girl acquaint
j ::nce in a spirit of fun.
The initials given in the letter by the
| other girl, are those of Mrs. Ibaeh's
| lunie before she was married. The let
j ter to Mayor Rose asked him to search
for a husband for the owner of the
! initials. Of course, the chief executive
was williirg. and consequently many let
! ters addressed to "Miss R. X. P., were
' received at the Herr street home, where
I MTS. Ibach and her husband are board
! ers.
To-day Mr. and Mrs. I'bach asked
th'at it all be explained. They realized,
they said, what fun their friends had
out of the prank, but the Ibachs began
to view the matfer seriously when it
got into the newspapers.
Now the young woman who caused
the Ibachs ail the trouble is sorry,
'cause she never thought it woul-i
amourtt to more than a joke. She has
quit laughing about it and prefers to
let the victim of her joke hljve the
last laugh. The huwband of Mrs. Iba<-h
is a son of Citv Detective Joseph
Iba«'h.
Garman for Superior Court Bench
Friends of Judge John .M. Garman,
of Luzerne, applied to-day for blank
nomination petitions in the State De
partment, and announced they propose
to present his lhame as a candidate for
the nomination for Superior Court
Judge. Judge Garman is an "Old
Guard" Democrat, and was elected to
the Luzerne county bench fwithout op
position. At a dinner given in his hon
or last week in Dallas hie boom for
Superior Court Jndge fras launched.
PRZASNYSZ IS TAKEN BY
THECERMARS AND tO.OOQ
. RUSSIANS AJ PRISONERS
Cwttiuid Croat Flrat Pats*.
' Russian prisoners. In Po!and| south of
the Vistula, the Russians advanced to
I Mogily, which is southeast of Boli
mow, and occupied this position. Their
> forces in this movement outnumbered
i ours five to one. Otherwise there is
i nothing of importance to report in this
i region.
i "It is characteristic that the com-
I wander of the Fifty-seventh Russian
' reserve division, taken prisoner *1 Au
gustowo, asked German ofluers whether
, it was true that Antwerp was being
besieged by the Germans and soon
would fall. When the situation 011 the
western front was explained to this
Russian officer he refused to believe
; that the German western army was on
' French soil."
Although the capture of Przasnyst
' has not been reported from Petrograd,
I recent dispatches from that city stated
that tieaM* fighting was in progress in
the region in which the Gorman victory
' is now claimed in Berlin. Przasnysz in
1 a.bout fifteen miles from the cast Prus
sian frontier, almost due north of War
' saw, and has a population of about
j 10,000. Following the expulsion of the
' Russian army from East Prussia the
Germans inaugurated an aw*iult 011 the
fortified line in Northern Poland to
' j which the Russians feel back. Of these
i battles the most violent has been in
, | progress at Przasnysz.
I Do Not Report Przasnysz Fallen
Petrograd Via l.otidon. Feb. 25,
~2.37 P. Xf. —The Germans appfiy to
, i have concentrated large forces near
. j Przasnysz. which is now the center of
| their attack in the region north of the
. Vistula. The action about Ossowetz,
| which had been the chief point of at
|l tack by the Germans, is becoming less
• i intense.
Serious fighting is teported also
further to the north, at Shtabin and
1 Yastrzemb, points between Grodno and
Augustowo. but there is little informa
tion concerning the character of these
actions. According to otKeial comment,
i the Germans have exaggerated the mag
nitude nf their victories along the East
; Prussian front, and from the Russian
i viewpoint the fighting in Northern Po
land "is only now beginning."
The Germans claim that they have
I brought to a brilliant finish their win-
I tor campaign is characterized here as
' premature.
Scattered by Russian Cavalry
j The German detachment which cross
ed' the river Niemen at three points
on February 23 has been scattered by
I Russian cavalry ami part of this force
I has been captured. Some of the pris-
I oners had in their possession explosives
and tolls which indicated they were in
tending to blow up the railroad lead
I ing from Vilna to Warsaw.
(. In Galicia the Austro-Ge-man
! fortes have occupied a new front ex
tending from the Carpathians to Stan
] islau. The feature ot' this trout is its
j thinness. The rear of the Austro-Ger
| man lines touches Rumania. The line
of communication is riiaintained not
| far from the rear but from the flanks
being parallel with the Carpathians.
It is reported that the city of Wyszo
! grod, on the Vistula, has been damaged
seriously by German shells.
, Official communication from the Ger
man war offices to-day announced the
capture of Przasnysz, described in the
foregoing dispatch as the center of the
German attack. It may be that the
j German news is of later date, reporting
' a development in the battle referred to
j a^ove.
RUSSIAN TROOPS REINVADE
1 Bl KOYYIXA IN NKW ATTACK
London. Feb. 25, 5 P. M. —Russian
tioops have reinvaded Bukowina and
■ reoccupied Sadagora. 011 the railroad
; four miles north of Czeronwitz, accord
ing to a dispatch received by i.he
"Evening News" from Mamoruita, in
Rumania. The Austrians, the corre
spondent adds, are pushing up their
j troops toward the Czernowitz to meet
this new Russian attack.
6(HI Tons of Flour For Belgium
New York, Feb. 25.—Dr. J. L. Mag
nes, of the American- Jewish Relief
Committee, announced to-dav that he
had arranged with the purchasing de
partment of the commission for relief
in Belgium, to buy six hundred tons of
flour, which will be shipped to Pale
stine aboard the I'nited States collier
Vulcan.
, English Aviator Falls to Death
London, Feb. 25, 3.17 P. M.—Lieu
tenant Dawson C. Downing, of the
Royal Navy Flying Corps, was killed
to-day in a fall from a biplane during
a flight at the central flying school.
MRS. FRALICK, 90, DIES TO-DAY
Body Brought From Phoenixville to
Home of Her Son for Burial
I Word was received in this city of j
the death of .sirs. .Sarah M. Fralick,
; formerly of Harrisburg, which occurred I
in the home of her daughter, '.Mrs. Harry I
Weidle, Phoenixville, early this morn
ing. General debility was given a* the
cause of death. Mrs. Fralick was 90 j
i years old.
The body was brought to Harrisburg i
this afternoon and taken to the home:
of Samuel K. Fralick, a son, 2219 Jef !
i t'erson street. Funeral services will be j
' held there to-morrow afternoon at 2
| o'clock, be conducted by the Rev.
A. S. Williams, pastor of Curtiu Heights
; tM. E. church. Interment "will be made
in the Shoop Church cemetery near
[ Pen'brook.
Mrs. Fralick leaves seven children as
follows: George, Samuel K.. Lewis L,
•John H., Louis B„ all of Harrisburg;
| Mrs. Adam Bell, Hummelstown, ami j
j Mrs. Harry Weidle, Phoenixville.
RE-ELECTS DR. SURFACE
He Is Also Beekeepers Choice for Secre
tary of Agriculture
The eleventh annual meeting ,of the
Pennsylvania State Beekeepers' Asso
ciation came to a close last evening
with an address on "Relations of
Leagues to the Soil and Beekeeping";
by Dr. H. A. Surface, who was re-elect- j
ed president of the association. Dr.
{Surface was endorsed for Secretary of
Agriculture to succeed Secretary N. B.
Critehfield, whose term expires this
•week.
The annual election resukeM! as fol
low?: President, H. A. Surface, Har
risburg; vice presidents, E. A. Wiemer,
Lebanon; C. N. Greene. Troy, and -E.
J. Strittmatter, Eberoiiburg; secretary
treasurer, H. C. Klinger, Liverpool.
CAPITOL
STATE PROBING SMALLPOX
Farmer Afflict ad With the Disease
Travels About Indiscriminately
in OtarlQn County
The State Health Department was to
day informed of a ease of smallpox in
Farrington township, Clarion county,
from which serious consequences may
ensue. A farmer residing at a point
near to Kane anil Johnsonburg who has
been suffering from the disease has
j been traveling about indiscriminately,
j and been in contact with many people
; before the nature of the disease was
! discovered. He was at once qua ran
' tined and every precaution has 'been
takn to prevent a spread, but it is
feared that an epidemic may ensue.
Was Commission Counsel
James W. King, the Philadelphia at
torney who committed suicide by jump
ing into the Potomac river at Washing
ton, and whose body was found yester
day, was a member of the Pennsvlva
nis Commission to the Panama-Pacific
Exposition and held the position of
counsel to the Commission. Governor
'Brumbaugh will appoint his successor,
EVANCELICAL CONFERENCE
Opens in Reading With Bishop Praying
That War Countries Soon See
Folly of Their Course
By .issocintcd Pi cas,
Reading, Pa.. Feb. 25.—The opening
session of the Fast Pennsylvania Evan
gelical Conference was featured by the
address of Bishop S. C. Breyfogel. this
city. He prayed that the war-stricken
countries open their eyes anil see the
folly of their course. Bishoip Brey
fogel's annual sermon was on "The
Call of the Hour—A More Real Sense
of God."
He said, among other things: "It is
,1 fateful hour. The church of to-day
faces conditions some of whiel* are ap
palling. conations which, unless
changed, threaten disaster to Christian
ideuls and chaos to the moral order.
"Sin has left the mark of Cain upon
the face of this age. The greed for
money lias destroyed the more humane
sentiments. Political dishonor has dis
credited some of the most cherished in
stitutions among men."
A memorial service for the departed
members followed. The report of the
examining board was made. The ex
amination for the tirsit year was taken
by .1. Harper Kinsey; llarrv Maneval
and Charles W. lfarner, second year;
.Monroe S. Mumina, for the third year;
W. S. Adams an I 0. P. Martin, the
fourth year.
Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 23. Bishop W.
H. Fouke, of Napersville, HI., to-day
opened the 21st annual session of the
East Pennsylvania Conference of the
United Evangelical church in Emman
uel church. The annual report of the
Woman's Missionary Society of the
conference showed that during the last
year $37,697.60 was received for mis
sionary purposes, or $3,000 more than
in. 1913, divided to districts as fol
lows:
-Ulentown, $13,112.50; Harrisburg,
$11,504.85; Reading, $13,080.2'5.
PLAN TO RAISE BREAD PRICE
Pittsburgh Bakers Agree to the Boost
and Federal Department of Jus
tice Starts Probe
B.U Associated Press.
Pittsburgh, Pa., S*eb. 25.—Inquiry
into the plans of luwil bakers to in
crease the price of dread is being made
by the Federal Department of Justice
here. i
The Master Bakers' Association of
West Pennsylvania at a meeting Sat
urday agreed to boost the price one cent
u loaf on all sizes retailing under ten
cents but no date for the advance was
fixed.
New York, Feb. 25. —The wholesale
price of bread, which was recently
raised to five cents a loaf is to be re
i stored to four cents, according to re
i ports published to-day. In faet th.it
there was much agitation when'the cost
of bread was raised, followed bv inves
tigations into bread industry, i 9 one
reason given in the re[»ort for the plan
to restore the old! prices. Another rea
son is that most of the smaller baking
companies, instead of following the lead
of the big concerns, continued to sell
bread at five cents to their retail trade.
The Attorney General's inquiry into
the increased cost of wheat and bread
will be resumed to-morrow.
WANT NEW TRI,U FOR BECKER
Affidavit of Witness Says Latter Tes
tified Falsely at Trial '
By Associated Press,
New Vork, Feb. 25.—A motion for a
new trial for Charles Becker, the former
i police lieutenant convicted for the niijr
der of Herman Rosenthal, was made
iin the Supreme Court io-day. Bec'ker's
! counsel said he based his motion on
: newly-discovered evidence to the effect
(that one of" the State's witnesses to a
| material fact hail testified falsely at
' Beckrr's second tri^l.
Attached to the papers was the af
fidavit of .Tames Marshall, made in
■Philadelphia recently, in which Mar
shall repudiated a part of his testimony
at the second trial.
THK NEW KAUFMAN STORES
Contract Let For Building to Take
Place of One Destroyed
David Kaufman, proprietor of the
Kaufman Underselling Scores destroye*l
by fire, will rebuild at his old location
at 4, 6 and 8 South Mfirket square,
and has engaged C. Howard Lloyd, an
architect, and has let the contract for
building to W. 8. Miller.
The new building will include the
first floors of all three buildings and
have eighty feet of window space. The
new store will open for business in the
fall. The temporary store at 9 North
Market square, will be open soon with
a new stock of spring goods.
William B. Cunningham *
William B. Cunningham, 50 years
old, 310 street, died in fche
H'arrisburg hospital this morning' of
heart troubl£ He was admitted to that
institution February 21 in a critical
condition.
PITY THE POOR VIEWERS!
EVERYBODY JS KICKING
Neither the City, Nor the- Property
Owner Who Oets Benefits Nor Yet
the Property Owners Who Are As
sessed, Are Satisfied With Rulings
Dissatisfaction with divisions of the
board of viewers who"assessed damages
and bemvfitu incident to the opening
ami gp».ding of sections of Mulberry,
Twentieth and Hildrup streets is being \
expressed from three sources. This is a
city improvement that required expen- ,
sive cuts and fills and left the beautiful
old Hildrup mansion now occupied by
Arthur E. Nelson, high above the street
: level, while the ground back of the
house ie much below the street grade.
Nelson to-day took an ajvpoal from
decisions of viewers, oontemlinig that
the damages allowed him are inade
quate and th'.lt the tienefits assessed
. against him are inequitable. Other
| property owners, affected by these grad
ing jobs, also appealed. Some of them
I said that Nelson rdiould not have been
| allowed damages to the extent of those
I awarded to him, and that they should
) lie assessed for only such amounts as
would be required to finance the im
provement.
Even the city, through Solicitor
Seitz, haji a kick a|gaiiiat the findings
of the viewers. The city's objection is
centered on the Xclsoii ifosc*4smcnts.
The city contends it will be compelled
to lay out much money because of this
improvement.
The appellants, besides the city and
Nelson, include W. U Gorgas, who, in
cidentally, is oue of the Citv Commis
sioners; A. K. Brough. Churl.* A. Kun
kel ami W. A. Wioigert.
Under the viewers' decisions Nelson
will receive something like $2,200 or
about a SI,OOO less than he contends
he should have been allowed to him.
The appeals all were filed with Pro
thonotary Holler ami will be consider
ed by at a time not yet fixed.
FINANCE
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
QUOTATIONS.
Furnished by H. W. Suavely. Broker.
Arcade Building, Walnut and Court
Streets
New Fork, Fob. 25.
Open. Close.
Alaska Gold Mines ... 27% 27'
Amal Copper 51'.'. 51' .
Amer Beet Sugar .... 37 37 : '*'
American Can 26 26%
do pfd 9 2 92' r
Am (ar and Fiwndry Co 40 40
Am Cotton Oil ....... 45 4414
Am Ice Securities .... 25 25%
American Sugar 101% 101'4
Amer Tel and Tel 118% 11814
Atchison 93'., 94
Baltimore and Ohio .. . 63% 63%
Bethlehem Steel 54'., 54
Brooklyn R T 86 86
California Petroleum .. 17a/, 18
Central Leather 34% 4414
Chesapeake and Ohio .. 40 40
'Col Fuel and Iron .... 23% 23%
Corn Products 9', 9%
Distilling Securities .. 10 10%
Erie 2<l * 20'/*
Erie, Ist pf-l 33% 33%,
Great Nor pfd 113'/* 113%
Great Nor Ore sulis .. 30'. 30"',
Interboro Met 56 55%
Lahigh Valley 131 131%
Louisville and Nash ... 112 112
Mo Pacific 10 1 a I°%
'Nev Consol Copper ... 12 12
New York Central .... 83% 53%
N Y, N H and H 43 43%
Pennsylvania If. R. ... 104 103%
Pittsburgh Coal 19% 20%
do pfd 90 9 2
Ray Con. Copper 16% 16%
Reading 141% 142
Repub. Iron and Steel . 19% 19%
Southern Rv 13% 13%
do pfd 43 43
I Texas Company 27% 27%
| Union Pacific 117% 118' ..
I U. S. Rubber 53% 53%
<1" pM 83% 83%
I U. S. Steel 41% 41%
do pfd 103% 103%
Utah Copper 50«/, 50" 4
W. U. .Telegraph 62 62
j Westinghouse Mfg .... 65 65%
Chicago Board of Trade Closing
By Associated Press,
Chicago. Fob. 25. —Close:
Wheat —'May, 153%; July, 1-5%.
Corn —May, 72%; July, 74%.
Oats—-May, 56%; July, 53 1 ...
Pork—May 17.20; July. 17.55.
Lard—May, 10.17; Juiv, 10.35.
j Ribs—May, 9.77; July,* 10.05.
ROAD BVILDKKS IN SESSION
Experts, in Meeting of Township Su
pervisors, Discuss Improvements
Half a hundred township supervisors
and road builders of Dauphin county
to-dav attended the mid-winter meeting
of the Dauphin county Road Super
visors' Association, which was held in
the Grand Jury room :n the Court
Hcuse. E. I). Measlier, Upper Paxton
township, president of the association,
was in charge of the meeting, and ad
dresses were made by Thomas R. Mc-
Dowell, superintendent of the State
highways of Chester county; W. A.
Wynn, engineer of the bureau of
maintenance of the State Highway De
partment, and C. A. Hardt, assistant
eugineer of the second highway dis
trict, which comprises Dauphin and
other counties.
McDowell spoke on the questions of
road improvement, while Wynn and
Hardt discussed at length the methods
of maintaining roads "after they have
been improved. The otlicers of the as
sociation include E. D. Messner, prcsi
d«nt; vice-presidents, C. F. Harmon, of
Wayne, and John K. /oil, of Hershey;
secretary, I. F. Bogncr, Speeceville,
and treasurer, George Aungst, of Low
er Paxton township.
It was planned to elect a new board
of officers late this afternoon.
ST>O Reward Offered for Body
(feorge Reitmyer, father of Howard
Reitmyer, who was drowned in the Sus
quehanna river at Berwick on Monday,
has offered SSO reward for the recovery
of the body. A notice of this reward
was sent to the Harrisburg police this
morning.
Schaeffer Signs Federal Contract
fl»/ Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 25.—Hermann
Schaeffer, formerly of the Washington
American League baseball club, has
signed a two-year contract with the
Federal League and has been assigned
to the' Newark Club, according to an an
nouncement from Federal headquarters
here to-day.
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