THE WEATHER FAXR TO-KIQHT AND TO MORROW OHtIM RrpwL Pas* • VOL. 77—NO. 77. WALTER REFUSES TO MEND STREETS; LYNCH ASSERTS HE'LLHOLDUPS3,7SOPAY Asphalt Repair Con tractor and City Highway Commis sioner Have An Open Rupture When the Former Says He Will Ignore Notice to Re sume Work on the T horoughf ares To morrow DECLARES HE HAS FILLED CONTRACT Walter Maintains That Repairs Becom ng Necessary in Winter Just Past Are Not Included in Agree-! ment Covering Fiscal Year, 1914—Lynch Insists Contract Is in Force Until April 1. and Says City Will Proceed on the Bond If Walter Doesn't Do Work An Open rapture between City High way Commissioner W'iUiam H. Lynch find Charles P. Waiter, who has the contract to do the asphalt street re pair work, developed to-day when Walter emphatically declared that his contract with the city has closed aud i that he wiil not do any further street repair work under the contract as or dered by Lynch. The Highway Commissioner simul taneously announced that his ten-dav notice to Walter to begin at cnce re pairing city streets becomes effective tomorrow and that unless she contrac tor goes on with the work "the city will proceed on the bond" and Walt er's claim for $3,750 for one-quarter installment of the $15,000 annual con tract price which has not yet been paid to him. will be rejected. The five-year contract with the city entered into in 1910 with Walter for the latter to keep the asphalt streets in repair in consideration' for which he was to get $15,000 annually, ends on April 1. next, according to Lynch, and the contractor and the Highway Com missioner now are at odds on the ques tion of what constitutes a year's work. Walter Says Work Is Completed Waiter takes the ground that his share of the work for the fiscal year, I 1914, has been completed and that not- i withstanding the fact that the contract official;* will not expire until April 1, he is not required to do anything more. Sir.ce h«> has been paid but three quar terly installments on the last year's work, he said, he ha# made claim for i ' the balance, or $3,750. J, Lynch and other city officials main- I I tain, according to the Highway Com- j m.s*:oner that Waiter is in duty bound 11 to on with the work of repairing ' street defeats immediately after the ex- j, pi ration ol the usual ten days' notice j to get on the job. That ten days" notice j expires to-morrow. Lynch says Walter i cannot be released from his contract J until he completes the unfinished work, < which the Highway Commissioner in a notice seat out on February 20. has called upon him to do. ! "He has agreed by his contract to j keep the streets in repair and begin 1 the work eacn year woen ordered to 1' i do so by toe Highway Department," said Lynch. '"He has been given the t proper notice and ualess he goes oa j with the work we will be obliged to * proceed on his bond.*' "Will be paid the quarterly in- s staKment of $3,750. which he claims r is yet due himf" Lynch was asked. * "No, sir. He wiil not get that oa- Cljc Star- ItikpcnktttJ ■ »f^lyH ■ W»*v -m* HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER LYNCH ' Says Contractor Wa'ter Must Repair j Streets or Lose $3,750 on Contract 1 less he restores to good conditions those streets that now are out of re i pair," Lynch replied. Statement by Walter The contractor let it be knowu this | afternoon that the break between him : and the Highway Commissioner oc ; curred several days ago. or when Wal- I !or raised the contention that his work j tor 1914 was tinisihed last fall. i "It has been the practice." Walter . said to a Star-Independent reporter to j day, "to begin the street repair work j iu May of each year and finish it iu the ; fail. That was considered a year's,, work and I was paid regularly in quar terly installments, the first in July, the second in September, third in January and the last in March. "It was generally understood that! tiie city's asphalt repair plant would be iu operation by April 1 of tihis year. I aud since my work ordinarily never did start before the first of May. there would be nothing for mt to do. "Officially I have had no notice to ,go on with the work this year. I can not understand what became of Lynch's | letter if he did write me, but I wiil i l ontißurd oa Elrvrath Pace. Hfifliii; BILLS MPASSED Two of Principal Ap propriation Measures Fail as Congress Ad journs Sine Die BOTH HOUSES QUIT AT NOONi In Lower Branch Last Hour Is De voted to Paying Tributes to Speak er Clark, Representative Underwood and Republican Leader Mann Bjr Atiorwt-rt ?r«j, Washington. March 4.—At 12.04 p. m. the Senate adjourned sine die. At 12.11 p m. tie House adjourned sine die. althougn the House clock had been turned back to noon. Washington. March 4.—Congress shewed an unexpected burst of speed and practically "aished its work to day in the e?rlv hours before the time of adjournment Two of thi principal appropriation bills, the postal bill and the Indian bill, faiied at the last moment and joint resolutions were passed extending the current appropriations for the Poitof- I fice Department and the Indian Bureau ; over the next fiscal year. The House, cleaning its slate before 10 o clock, settled down to wait for coon. Democratic Leader Underwood, making his la*t speech on the floor— for he goes to the Senate in the Bixtv fourth Congress—declared the House had done its work and it would not be the fault of that body if the govern ment 's finances were not cared for. President at the Capitol The Senate, after concurring with i the House extension of the postal and Indian appropriations, went into execu tive session ta work on nominations. ' President Wilaon went to the Capitol 1 1 at 10 o'clock and promptly began'! signing tih accumulation of bills and 1 resolutions. All hope of passing the ' ship bill, the Philippine bill or the con- j raatlHi l mm Ucirxk Pace. HARRISBURG, PA.. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1915—14 PAGES. GERHAN nmiiinAL BASK GOES ORDER r Institution Identif.ed With Pittsburgh Brewing Co. Fails to Open Doors To day FAILURE IS LAID TO PROHIBITION - Local Option In Ohio and West Vir ginia's Going '•Dry" Said to Have Made Large Inroads on Brewing Company's Business . Bj Pnsj, Pittsburgh. Ph., March 4.—The Ger ; man National bank, of Pittsburgh, did j not open its doors t'or busines, at 9 o clock this tuoruiug. A notice on the j door s.< id it had ben closed by order I of the Controller of riie Currency. | Officers an! directors of the German [ National arc prominently identified with the Pittsburgh Brewing Com. any, whose securities recently suffered heavily on the Pittsburgh Sioik Kx change because, it was said, the enact ment of prohibition laws in West Vir ginia and tiie extension of local option in eastern Ohio territory, in which the j brewing company formerly did a large j business. Had Deposits of Over Five Millions ;• The German National «as >rgauivd in 1904 with a capital of $500,000j and on December 31 last reported de posits of |h,024,923. Its surplus and uudivided profits on that date were $.<94,265. Its dividend rate was 12 i per cent, annually. A. A Frauenheim. vice president of the haul is a director in the Pittsburgh Brewing Company, and fi. J. Vilsack. a director in the bank, is vice president of the brewing company. Tiie German Xatioual was one of the member bauks of the Pittsburgh Clearing House Asso ( ciation. Little excitement attended the dos ing of the institution, although a large crowd gathered in front of the bauk uig house soou after the notice was J pi>»ted. No Promise to Depositors J. P. W Krertmann, cashier, issued a statement iu which he said the di- : j rectors last night went over the uusi aess of the institution carefully and Continued on Klnrnth Pasf. STATE'S DEPOSIT OF sl4 '.OOO j SKIT RED BY A BO.XDI.NO CO. j Banking Commissioner Smith was ad vised early to-day of the failure of the German National :>ank. but, as it ,|oes not come unde.- his jurisdiction, he had no iuterest in it. except to notify his, examiners in the western part of the State to keep a ei<>se watch on any i S:ate institutions teat the failure migrht ; affect. The State had a deposit of $140,000 I in tiie German National, but it is se cured by a bonding company to the I extent of $200,000. and the State will, have its money intact by next week. I said the Commissioner. HARRISBURG MAN DRUGGED Ycuth Who Takes Powder Prom Stran gers Is Found in Freight Car in Weakened Condition 1 Special to the Star-Independent.) Hagerstown, Md.. March 4.—Suffer j > n S from the effects of some unknown | drug and alnio't unconscious from ex-j | IKisure. Roy Sanger. 21 years old. of Harrisburg. Pa., was taken from a Western Maryland freight train yester-! day and hurried to the Western Mary- S land hospital. Cumberland, Md. Fie, suffered hallucinations from the effect of the drug which he said was given by some unknown person. Sanger said he boarded a freight train in Hagersto en in the morning with the intention of going to Cumber land in sear hof work. He said while in Hagerstown he met two men who were also looking for work and left on the train with him, taking refuge from ; the cold in ar. open box ear. Shortly befqje reaching Hancock, he said, one i of the men, who had but one arm. of-; fered him some kind of powder, telling him it would protect him from the se vere weather. He said that when the train arrived at Hancock the two men w4io were riil- i ing with him jumped out the door and escaped. Shortly after leaving Han-! cock he was seized with jevere pains i i and his tongue became so numb that he was speechless. Just before reaching Cumberland he i was discovered by the members of the j train crew, who had him removed to j the hospital. At ;ae hospital last night i his condit'on was snid to be improved and it is thought he will recover. The name of Roy Sanger does not appear in the harrisburg city directory. Night Watchman Held for Court J. P. Lingle, a night watchman for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, was held under S3OO bail at a hearing before Alderman Hoverter last night, charged with attempting to rob a for eign trackwalker. The arrest was made Monday by Capt.un Barclay and Lieu tenant Rote, of the railroad police force, who said that the alleged hold- > np occurred near Flickinger's crowing, west of Liicknow station, February 20. TAYLOR 10 ASK FOR MORE MONEY FOR RIVER FILL Wants From 3,(MM) to 5,000 Cubic Yurds in Addition to Original 15,- 000 Contracted for—Only 500 to Park Commissioner Taylor let it be known to-day that he will ask the City at the meeting next Tues day to grant hiiu an addition appro priation with which to obtain between 3,000 and 5,000 additional cubic yards of dirt to use in making the fill along the Front street river bank, botwcon Mao lay and Calder streets. The original [■ contract called for 15,000 vardh to be dumped there but (*rt of the earth de | livered under this contract was washed ' awav by the flood last week and, it is now heid by Taylor that even if there » had been no wash out more than the _ original 15,000 yards would bo needed ' j to complete the till. Under Uie tirst contract with the j Brown-King Construction Company, ■ which is grading the site of the pro pose! Pennsylvania Rai'.road freight, station south of Mulberry street, ;he City was to get 15.000 cubic yards of ' dirt, thrown over the river bank, for > SI,OOO or at the rate of twenty-six and ~ two-thirds cents a yard. r As much additional dirt as may be nece>sary to complete the till can be ob tained at the same rate, and it is under \ 1 that provision of the contract th.it Tay- j i lor expects to get the 3,000 to 5,000 I'OKlinril »» Klr< rnlh Pave. GIVES THE CITY POWER TO ; PURCHASE A RIVER BRIDGE Measure Introduced in the House by ' Representative Ete.n Would Per- j rnit Harrisburg to Acquire Either | Market ot Walnut Street Viaduct Representative A. C. Stein, of Alle gheny county, at the close of the ses t sion of ;.he House yesterday introduced ' a b:ll which if it becomes a law would ! i enable Harrisburg to purchase either I i, the Harrisburg or the People 's bridge over (he Susqneh.tnna ri\er between i here and Cumberland county. The ;>ili authorizes municipalities to ■ ■ purchr.ac the entire capital of bridge companies owning bridges situ- i a ted »\ i oily or (tartly within tiie Limits | of suuh municipalities and exempts t ho j capital stock and i>onds of such compa : n.es. aft At. i-timm-v b> -tlie city, from I State tax*:ion The purchase shall be maftp of the entire capital sto> k and the city shall control the operations of the bridge as soon as it vbtftiiu pos- j j session thereof. There is uo provision in the bill to i j make such a bri is;e free from toll afte r I | it is purchased by the city, that being with the municipality. Neither is there any provision designating the necessary steps Ur be taken in the ne gotiations for the purchase. CITY WILL PRUNE TREES FREE. ASSERTS FORESTER Mueller Announces That Requests for Such Attention Will Be Complied With in the Order in Which the Applications Are Made i '"Bring your tree troubles to us!" I is the advice of Harry J. Mueller, the new City Forester, who to-day gave out j | a statement in which he urged the prop , erty owners of the city to co-operate j with hiin in caring for the shade trees ! on city highways. The forester points out the necessity for earing for the trees, shows their relation to the prop erty owner and the highway and offers advice as to how to get the services of his detriment without a cent of j cost. He says: "When a department for the plant ing an I care of street trees is estab- j I lishel in a city, there frequently arises \ ; a misunderstanding with the property j | owners as to the relation the shade tree iiears to the street. Since the placing ' Coititonl ob Thirteenth Pose. THIEVES «ET JEWELRY One Steals Pins and Watches While Other Buys 25-cent Pin Two pins and two watches, valuei at $lO9, were takeu trom the window of; the jeweirv store of Allen T. Attirks, 1251 Derry street, yesterday afternoon' at 4.30 o'clock. Two smooth .crooks : went into the store and one purchased a pin for twenty-five cents, engaging 1 the attention of the clerk while the other iifted the valuables out of the ; window. The theft has been reported to the police and before 10 o'clock last night i look-out notices had been sent broad- • | cast for the men together with a de i scription of the jewelry. Governor to Entertain Superior Court : Governor Brumbaugh, it was an- j 1 I nounced to-ilay, will entertain at din- j < ner in the Executive Mansion, on Mon-! i day evening next, in honor of the mem- j i bers of the Superior Court. Besides I the members of the court there will be:, present the members of the Governor's Cabinet and other 9tate officiate, the ] judges of tbe Dauphin county court and a number of prominent attorneys. Heavy Fighting in Mexico Attnciatetl Prc*t. ] Washington, March 4.—Heavy fight- j ing between Villa and Carranza forces i near Sabinas, in which the Carranza t forcea lost many and retreated after I catting off one column of Villa troops, ] was reported to-day in official dispatch i to-day to the State Department. t Ml SITE TO 1. S JADE PUBLIC i Answer to Plea to Les sen Danger to Neu tral Shipping in War Zne FRIENDLY TONE OF DOCUMENT 1 But a Definite Statement la Reserved Until It la Learned What Obliga tions the British Government Is Willing to Assume By Associated Pits*. ; Washington, March 4.—The official text of the German government's reply to the American note suggesting that Germany and Great Britain agree on a plan to lessen danger to neutral ship ping in the war zone was made public here to-day. It follows: •'The imperial German government have takeu note with great interest of it he suggestion of the American govern ment that oortaiu principles for the conduct of maritime war on the part of Germany and Riiglaud be agreed upon foi Hie protection of neutral ship ping. They see therein new evidence | of the friendly feelings of the American , government towards the German gov ; eminent, which arc fully reciprocated : by Germany. Want Wat According to Rules "It is in accordance with Germany's wishes also to have maritime war con ducted according to rules which, with out discriminttiely restricting one or | the other ol' the belligerent powers in ' Hie use ot their means of warfare, are , equally considerate of the interests of s neutrals and the dictates of humanity, j Consequently it was intimated in the 1 German note of the sixteenth instant that observation of the Declaration of London on the part of Germany's ad versaries would create a new situation,' from which the German government would gladly draw the conclusions. • • Proceeding from this view, the | German governr >t>4 have carefully ex amined the sug;estion of the American government ami je'ieve tnat they Can actually see in it a suitable basis for the practical solution of the questions : which have arisen. The Sowing of Mines "With regard to the various points i of the American note they beg to make the following remarks: "First —With regard to the sowing i'ontißued oil Klrventh I'ikc. U. S. WILL INSksi ON RltiHT j j TO (JET GERMANY DYESTUFFS; Washington, March 4.—The United | , States will insist on its right to get | I dvestuffs from Germany, if England j continues to do so. Although the President of the Brit ish Board of Trade in Paliament de clined yesterday to commit his govern ment to the right of American shippers j to get dyes tuffs, it was declared here I to-day on high authority that the t'nit ed States would insist there should be I no discrimination. COETHALS A MAJOR GENERAL i Nominated in Recognition of His Serv ices in Building Panama Canal and Confirmed By Associated Pros. Washington, March 4. —Colonel George W. Goethals was nominated to be a major general to-day in recogni i tion of his services in building the Pan j ama Canal. Four other nominations for promo- I tions of officers associated with Colonel i Goethals were presented at the same time and all were immediately confirmed in an open session of the Senate, an unusual proceeding. The other nomina i tions were: Brigadier General William C. Gorgas I to be major general, medical depart ment. Colonel H. F. Hodges and Lieutenant ! Colonel William L. Sibert to be briga ! dier generals of the line. Commander H. H. Rousseau, U. S. I N.. to be rear admiral. The bill providing for the promo , tions extends the thanks of Congress to the officers. * ANXIETY OVER BERNHARDT Aged Actress' Condition Causes Alarm Among Friends Bordeaux, Via Paris, March 4, 5.10 A. M. —Sarah Bernhardt, whose condi tion was considered excellent for sev eral days after the amputation of her right leg on February 22, receitly has felt a reaction and her condition for the last 48 hours hes caused her friends some anxiety. It was announced by her physicians last night, however, that she was some what better. To Preach Golden Rule to Coppers The Rev. Jacob Kurtz, 650 West King street, York,' a personal worker in the home mission field, will seek per mission from Chief of Police Hutchisin to preach the golden rule to the mem bers of the Harrisburg police force. The Rev. Mr. King is distributing card* which he requests to be nailed on tbe door posts. AWFUL BATTLES IN WHICH TRENCHES ARE LOST ANO RETAKEN BY THE GERMANS Paris, Maroli 4, 12.10 A. M.—The following supplementary official state ment was issued late last night by the French war office: "It can be stated that in the Argon ne, where we had been constantly at tacked since December, the roltw, and in the last week have been reverted. To-day we have gained the indisputable ascendancy. The effect is salutary in these locations, of which the is the tlieutre to feel that more and more the enemy is at our mercy and that our moral superiority is assured." The statement gives the details of one of these eugagement-s which it says "occur daily auu show the splendid ardor of the troo|w." Explode Mines Under Trenches "Action began in a ravine near Fon taine Madame at 8 o'clock in the morn ing, five companies being charged with the attack. We exploded three mines under trenches of the enemy while our artillery crushed them under a hot tire. "We penetrated iu three different quarters killing all the occupants of the trenches, 7o in tan try men and ujout 30 pioneers. We took 400 wounded prisoners. At 5.30 o'clock we had gain ed at least 350 yards of the enemy's trenches. "This brilliant result cost us rather heavily. We hail hardly time to organ ise our newly captured positions before the Germans, who hail been reinforved, eounter attacked and a desperate tight ensued. They tilled with bombs the trenches which they had lost but our men were able to maintain themselves by hurling back at the enemy bombs passed to them from the rear. Twenty times the enemy attacked and reached the border of our liues but each time was repulsed. I ranch Compelled to Betire "At noon our men still were desper ately holding to their position which re sembled an inferno under the tire of heavy German artillery and a hail of hand grenades. The vicinitv looked like a newly furrowed field. \VWt formerly were trenches hardly were visible. At - o'clock the fighting continued, at that time being marked by a bayonet attack of an entire French battalion, but this failed to stop the Germans who met the change courageously, incidentally using a hundred hand grenades. "One by one all of our men were put j out of the fight. Not a man remained in the trenches who was not killed or j wounded. We then retired to our first position after having indicted terrible I losses on the enemy. LATE WfIRNEWS SUMMARY A British officer of the allied . fleet is bombarding the Dardanelles is quoted in a dispatch from Athens as saying that only two forts now remain : intact. The bombardment of the inner forts was resumed this morning, ten large warships entering the straits for this purpose. The American tanker Platuria has been detained at Kirkwall, Scotland, by order of the British Ad miralty. The Platuria was formerly a j German vessel, transferred to American registry after tho outbreak of the war. The German military authorities ad -1 mit the recapture of Przasnysz, North- Continued on Eleventh I'age. 11. S. TO ENFORCE lIIITMS Congress Invests Presi dent Wilson With Broad Powers to Carry Out Purpose IS EMPOWERED TO USE MILITARY Besolution Passed by Both Houses Be comes Effective With President's Signature and Will Continue Dur ing Existence of the European War By Associated Press. Washington March 4. —All that was needed to-day to enlarge the power of President Wilson to prevent violations of American neutrality by vessels leav ing United States ports with men or supplies for belligerent warships was the President s approval of a reso- j iution of Congress. The resolution, a ! substitute for that previously passed by I the House, was unanimously adopted by the Senate early to-day following a conference at the White House last night between Piesident Wilson and members of the Foreign Relations Com mittee of the Senate and House and otters. It was later agreed to by the House and to aay only awaited Presi dent Wilson's signature to make it a law. Has Hearty Support of Officials As finally passed, the resolution dif fers in some essential particulars from the original House measure. It has the hearty support of State Department of ficials, who pointed out the immediate need of its passage because of the "critical situation" resulting from the European war. Attention was called by these officials to the fact.that the American government had been hindered by inadequate legislation to prevent vessels from leaving the United States with supplies for belligerent warships in contravention of American neutrality. The proposed legislation is, a direct result ot information obtained ('•■tliud OB Eleventh Pue. POSTSCRIPT PRICE ONE CENT. ATTACK ON TURKFORTS IS RESUMED Allied Fleets Renew Their Bombardment In the Dardanelles This Morning 10 BIG WARSHIPS IN ONSLAUGHT Only Two of the Turkish Forts Remain Intact—Allied Landing Parties Find Charred Bodies of Soldiers In Damaged Forts London, March 4, 1.25 P. M.—The allied fleets this (Thursday) morning resumed tlioir bombardment of the iu per torts of the Dardanelles, according to a dispatch received by Router's Telegram Company from its correspond ent at Athens l'ho text of tho dis patch follows: "Tho bombardment of the inner forts of the Dardanelles was resumed j Thursday morning Ten big warships j took part in the operations. According | to a British oflieer, only two of the ■ Turkish forts remain intact. Allied landing parties found the oharred re mains of soldiers in the damaged forts, showing that tho Turks had burned their dead before evacuating these po sitions. '' Unconcerned About Bombardment Berlin, Via London, March 4, 11.30 A M.—Attaches of the Turkish em bassy here profess to be unconcerned regarding the bombardment of the i Dardanelles forts by tho groat allied j fleet. They declare the fortifications are impregnable, that the landing of j troops at the entrance to the straits is impossible and that any attempt to ! 'and a force at some point along Hie j shore of tho Gulf of S»aroa would re- I quire more men than the allies'