2 11 nt wtwfN 11 M I • SIT A TRANSFER ■ Robinson's ■ n THuromMMO -o THE BEST $15.00 EASTER SUITS FOR WOMEN Why is it that this store is famed for its $1.1.00 Suits for '^3,; - Wotnen and Girls? The answer r - fw la SPECIALIZATION! feature of suits at this price. f Manufacturers of suits know /) )1 "A iWrMInOK we demand more (and get it) W ? $ 15.00 practical purposes. Jackets ii f empire and Eaton. Flare L i "/V PUMPS and LACE I BOOTS for EASTER I " ew orc< ' *°P Combinations Y'v. A Extremely smart Easter Footwear—light in weight, u uCTII dainty in design and un it \ equaled in price for such very seasonable merchan s2.so, $3.50, $4.50 CLASSIC WAR Selected by J. No. ;m>. THE CHARGE AT BY HON. CHARLES I'uder the hickories' fluttering arch— "Halt!" and we formed on the hill's green marge. Clearly the order rang: Forward march, Quick —trot, gallop-—charge!" Down the decline with a thundering rush. fluttering sabre and fluttering rein. Up with a dash through the belt of brush; Out, and across the plain, Kept we no order of rank or tile: Never a rowel spared flank that day Charging the enemy's work a mile— A mile and a half away. Terribly regular musketry rang: Cannon-shot bounded and ploughed along; and rifle-ball whistled and sang Their horrible death-song. Half of the last half-mile behind. All of the squadron but one I led: Harry's gray thoroughbred ran like wind, Clattering just ahead. Oh. the wild rush of that mad career— Thunder of hoofs like the surf on the shore! Kuightly as ever charge! old cavalier Ilarry tramped on before. Turned in his saddle, so proud and fair. Smiled when he saw that we two led; Lifted his sabre-arm hij:h in air, Waved, and pointed ahead. Not a breath after I saw him bound. Heard his lips utter a quick, low cry. God in His pity drive sight and sound Out of mv ears and eve! SPECIAL EASTER OFFER A large gi!t-franied picture, size 10x16. given with every 25-cent pur chase of White Floating soap or a 25- oent bottle of furniture polish. This is ]>ositively the best offer ever made to the putilic. See this offer in our win dow. Grand Union Tea Co., 208 North Second street. Dr. William B. Bigler Dies Dallastown. Pa.. April 2.—Dr. Wil liam ii. Bigler, one of the oldest and KINNEY'S EASTER FOOTWEAR Never a more complete or better assortment of Shoes for Easter wear shown anywhere at anv price than our line at * $1.98 Come in and look them over and compare to the values you get for $3.00 and $3.50 elsewhere. Ladies' Pumps and Oxfords White Canvas Shoes, high and with gray or putty colored top- | OWt with hi ~ or m<Hli heels pings; lace, pump or Colonial .. . • ? , ... stvle; the latest C 1 QQ a " 9izes ln . Misses and Children's, 98* Ladies' Colored Top Shoes, the 7I 7 big seller of the season; all the Men's Shoes—Any style you wanted 3hades in cloth or suede wish; taa or black, lace or bnt toppings; lace or button, .ton, high toe or English with 51.98 leather or rubber soles; all Good Misses' and Children's Shoes in patent or gun inetal. Special, Full line of Bovs' Shoes at 98* 98* Extra Special for Saturday—Men's Taa Vivi Blucher Shoes, g\o 9i.HO grade VOC G. R. KINNEY & CO. 19 and 21 North Fourth Street • /' , .. .-r \.¥* ; ■. ■■*■■■ ' HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT. FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1915. Howard Wert VALLEY MALOY MAUEEY-DEGROFT Forward I spurred to a desperate pace, Caught at him falling, with sickening dread; Looked only once in the white, set face, Knew that mv comrade was dead! Straight in my stirrups, I cursed thein then. Raved at them all for a dastard crew; Dared and defied theiu to meet with men— Cowards, aud'that they knew! Breathing the batteries' horrible breath, Grapeshot and canister sweeping the plain. Caring no more for that storm of death Than for an April rain! Grief's burning passion my tongue dis charged, Hatred that broke in a blasphemous veil. At that mad moment I could have charged Into the gates of hell Under a tree in a low. green space, Peacefully babbling, a brook flowed Softly I laid him, his pale, dead face Turned to the summer sky. Down at his side, in the gross, I flung, Pressed the dear dead face up close to my own; One maddened moment my heart was wrung— Then it was turned to stone. Back I rode into the fight once more. Fought with the strength and the rage of ten, So may God never, till battles are o'er, Suffer that men fight men! widely-known physicians in the State and an historian of considerable prom inence, died at his home here earlv yes terday morning. Infirmities of old "age caused death. He is survived t>v one son and two daughters. Dr. Bigler cele brated his 81st b.rthday anniversarv recentlv. Lawyer's Removal Notice C. 11. Backen.»toe. Esq., 'has removed his law offices from 14 North Third street to the Bergner building (Rooms •Nos. 203 and 204 socond floor) north west corner of Third ami Market streets, Harritfburg, Pa. (Entrance on Third street). IN TWOWEEKSSTEEL ORDERS LARGEST SINCE WAR BEGAN France Places Order for 100,000 Ton) of Bars With the Lake Company— England Also After Some Great Amounts New York, April 2.—"The Iron Age" says orders placed ill the past two weeks with steel works in this country by European governments have exceeded those in any fortnight since the war began. An important French steal interest has just placed 100,000 tons of bars with a steel works through a Central Western dealer and specifications for 45,000 metric tons of 2-iu. and 3-in. rounds applying on this order are already in hand. Ne gotiations are pending for 30,000 tons additional. Deliveries are to be made at the rate of 2'5,000 tous a month. That this country must furnish large amouuts of steel first and last to France and England is daily more evi dent and the urgency of the need will relieve shipments on these contracts from the uncertainties of ordinary ocean transport, the governments them selves providing vessels in some cases. Export business both with belligerent and neutral countries is larger than is generally appreciated. As a partial offset to the low railroad demand, its effect on the effort to establish higher prices in the domestic market is a fac tor to which consumers are giving more attention. Naturally specifications on I.loc. and 1.15 c. contracts for plates, shapes and bars have gone in in good volume in the past week, in view of the ad vance bv important producers to a 1.20 c., Pittsburgh, basis for the second quarter. The effect of this advance, as with the change to the 1.15 c. basis on March 1, is to cause buyers to hold off while the supply-and-demand test is made. At such a time jobbers' stocks bought at 1.05 c. and I.loc. may be come active. The efforts of the steel companies to parry out the step process of advances iu plates, shapes and bars have held many consumers down to short deliver ies, but shipments on old contracts will extend through April and May in some cases and, in the easo of bars, through June. Already third quarter business is being considered here and there, most ly in bars, and the Steel Corporation has indicated that for that delivery it will ask 1.25 c. for bars as well as plates and structural shapes. In domestic business new buying in most liftes has been less than ship ments, production of finished mute rial in March being the largest in months, and an excess of shipments over orders is indicated for the immediate future. The call for steel bars for agricul tural machinery has been better month by month. In iron bars mills have had difficulty accumulating specifications for a week's run at a time. Recent buying of rails by the Erie amounts to i! 1,000 tons, all placed at Pittsburgh. Scarcely 1,200 cars are up for bids. Locomotives bought for ex port since the war started are about 250. There are still prophecies of im provement in structural demand, but current contracts are only a fraction of capacity. A recent letting in the East was at $32.50 for the steel erected. The volume of line pipe work ig again considerable. Recent contracts in clude 30 miles of 8-in. pipe for a line to Independence, Kansas; 23 miles of S-in. pipe for the Dominion Natural Uas Company, one-third being placed in Canada and two-thirds at Pittsburgh; 20 miles of 6-in. pipe for Oklahoma and 90 miles of 6-in. pipe taken in the Wheeling district for a Western oil line. A number of automobile builders have taken out all the special sheets covered by their early contracts and are placing new orders. Nearly 70 per cent, of hot-sheet mill capacity has been active lately. Steel companies at Pittsburgh and Youngstown have made round sales of semi-tinished steel, largely sheet bars, but also a good percentage of forging billets, car repair work being particu larly active. The whirlwind in Buffalo pig iron has passed. From 350,000 to 400,000 tons was swept up in about 10 days. Some sellers there have advanced prices to $12.50 for No. 2 X, second quarter, and sl3 for second half. In other districts the Buffalo cuts have led consumers to expect concessions which have not yet been offered, and therefore buying waits. SUNDAY CAMPAIGN COST $68,500 Surplus of About $2,500 in Philadel phia Committee's Hands Philadelphia, April 2.-—Expenses of the "Billy" (Sunday campaign in this city are approximately $63,500, and, according to Edward H. Bonsail, treas urer of the campaign committee, there will be t upwards of $2,500 surplus. This will constitute a fund to be ex pended by the committee, co-operating with churches, in the work of revival conservation. "Billy'' Sunday's personal offering up to last night' had reached $53,- 138.80. The check given Mr. Sunday for $51,136.85 on the last day of the cnm.i>aign was returned to the Land Title and Trust Company yesterday, bearing the evangelist's endorsement-, under which "Billy" had written, "Thanks, old Philadelphia." 200 FLEE AS FIRE FLASHES Explosion of Sawdust Blower Destroys Big Box Factory New York, April 2. —An explosion in the sawdust blower of a big cigar box factory at Avenue C and East Seven teenth street yesterday set the build ing afire and sent nearly 200 men and women employes of the place down the fire eseapes to safety. Five minutes after the alarm bells in the factory ran» the entire a four-story-and'- structure, was a mass of flames. Half a dozen firemen working on the roof were rescued by companions working with extension ladders. Nicholaus Altliaus, owner of the fac tory, said all his employes had been ac counted for. Several women em ployes fainted during the rush to get out and were assisted from the build ing by other women. President Confirmed Soldier's Dismissal Washington, April 2. President Wilson has confirmed the sentence of dismissal imposed by general court-mar tial at Naco, Aria.,* upon Second Lieu tenant John P. Markoe, Tenth cavalry, who was found "having be come violently drunk." Lieutenant Markoe was appointed to the Military Academy from St. Paul, Minn., and was graduated last year. THREE KILLEDAT LEWISIRWN Two Other* Likely to Die, Four Lass Seriously Burned In Steel Works Explosion Lewistown, Pa., April 2.—Three men are dead and six injured, two fatally, as a result of an explosion in the bor ing mill at the Standard tHeel Works last evening. The explosiou occurred in a tank containing 200 gallons of paint, tempered with benzine, which let go as nine men were dippiug heavy steeT wheels, with the aid of an over head electric crane. The dead, all residents of Lewistown, are: Houier Detra, 21 years old, head crushed to a pulp and body frightfully charred; Abner H. Knepp. 55, burned to a crisp; A. A. Shatzer, 40, foreman of the gang, standing on the edge of the tank, died on way to hospital. Fred C. Shatzer, 64 years old, of Lewistown, and James K. Gibboney, 35 years old, of Yeadertown, are said to be fatally burned. Charles Woods, John Jlannon and Stewart Hess, of Lewistown, and Anthony Geible, of Rurnham, are suffering from severe burns and injuries from flying debris. Those who witnessed the explosion say it was due to an electric Bpark that dropped from the crane brake into the tank, igniting the benzine used to thin the paint. IRONING BOARD AS CLUB Laundress Beats Intruder, Who Drops Thirty Feet From Window Greenwich, Conn., April 2.—With an ironing board, Louise Lehman, laundress in the lvoni9 of George L. Storm, vice president of the Surbrug Tobnceo Company and director of the Tobacco Products Company, of New- York City, fought a 'burglar single handed and forced him to climb out a wiudow and drop thirty feet. The po lice got no trace of the intruder. Miss Lehman heard a noise in Mrs. Storm's room, and through the key hole saw the burglar inspecting dia mond rings and ther jewelry in a bu reau drawer. "What are you doing here I" said Miss Lehman, rushing into the room. "Leave this 'house at once." The mar. dropped a diamond ring and fled after the laundress struck him several times in the face with the board. Tho residence of Clifford Mallory, of the Mallory Steamship Company, also was entered by burglars this week. The thieves overlooked silverware and took nothing o& value. Dies Upon Return From Service Chester, Pa., April 2. —Returning from the Chester tabernaele where he attended services Wednesday evening. Edmond E. Bailey, 39 years old, went to his home in t'he Shober apartments, sat down on the side of his bed and died. His 'body was discovered by George Shober when he went to awaken Bailey yesterday morning. Mistaken for Burglars, Faints Hazleton, Pa., April 2.—•Hearing some one on the steps of her home at Weatherly, Mrs. William Hartz scream ed "Burglars!" and called her hus band, who found Mrs. William Mi-Claiu. who 'had «ome to buy yeast, lying, badly hurt, at the fo<rt of the stairs.* She had fallen there after she fainted from frigiht w'heu the alarm was given. Church 117 Years Old to Be Razed Reading, Pa., April 2. —The old Mertz church, near Drvville, this coun ty, which has stood 117 years, will wit ness its last service on Sunday, Ajpril 11, when the 2'34th semi-annual com munion will be celebrated. The cTiurch will be torn 'down to make way for a new Lutheran and Reformed Union chun'.h. ' 1 ' *FRAMHRS Ot THI CONSTITUTION OVTOS US.Au** NO! George Washington— "Father of His Cbuntry" Jli EERY AMERICAN knows that without "Immortal Washington our National Independence would have been impossible § ft; Ml Few, however,know that the greatest battle of \X4shingtons life was (ought to secure for his countrymen the Constitution c# f j die United States. Almost immediately after the Revolution it seemed that all the great sacrifice of blood and treasure had f been in vain. The original thirteen states refused to work in harmony, either in spirit or in lav. The new Republic was tottering Jjj; ® |3| I to its foundations. At this critical period in American history the most brilliant men of each state met in convention and unanimously Mp :|K| <|3j|V elected as Resident—undoubtedly the most momentous gathering of the kind die world has ever known. Here he displayed as great ability as law-maker as he had as a warrior. For months the Fathers of the Republic labored, and finally adopted our present National Law. which {brewer sjarantees Religious, Commercial and Personal Liberty. This was in 1787. Seventy years later Anheuser-Busch A : fej established their great institution upon the tenets of the Federal law which Washington did 90 much to create. Like all of the great men Hf fflK ||3 of his time, be was a moderate user of good old barley brews. Fx three generations Anheuser-Busch hawe brewed honest malt and hop : jP| beers. "Ib-day 7500 people are daily employed to keep pace with the ever-increaalng public demand. The great popularity of their || famous brand —BUDWEISER — due to quality, purity mildness and exquisite flavor, has made its sales exceed those of any BBLtfi" .I_J other beer by millions of bottles. ANHEUSER-BUSCH "STLOUIS, U.S. A. Vinton to St. Louie are couruoualy invited to iaapect M. P. Johnson KHm Wholesale Dealer Harrisburg, Pa. j Means Moderation L : Early Spring Sale Men's and Young Men's Clothing, Furnishings, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Etc. This will give you an opportunity to buy all your Easter needs at a great saving. Call at our store, compare our prices fi and merchandise and you will be convinced that you can make $ your dollar reach as far as two elsewhere. | These Are a Few of the Many Special Prices Which Will Prevail Until After Easter I Men's smart np-to-the-minute Boys' latest styles Norfolk Suits Men's Dress and Work Pants: I Hand-tailored Suits with patch with patch pockets; worth £ *\ Q Q worth up to 82.00 Sale ft £* w pockets; worth *22.30. ffO QC up to $0.30. Sale price, price JuC U Sale price, <Ol £- _ —————————— Boys' Norfolk Suits with patch M , „ ilk _ Men's fine Hand-tailored Suits in pockets, in grey, blue or brown; Blue or Brown; worth o>T\ t\r worth up to $4.30. Sale £ F siue P nce - MV\. $18.30. Sale price, ... <piJ,i7o —————————— ——————_ ————— :n>c Silk Four-in-hand Ties, n q Men's fine Suits: worth AT Ar ¥"!?.__ B ! OUBB Suita : worth Sale prlCe CiC up to $14.50. Sale price, $7.95 l 98? ——_ pnce Men's 73c Dress Shirts. Men's Suits in blue serge and Men's fine Dress Pants; values P " pin stnpes; worth up to A J Qr* np to $3.00. Sale <f»n fkC $12.30. Sale price, ... price, Men's and Boys' 73c Dress A ——— —^__________ Caps. Sale price *ti C Boys' latest styles Norfolk Suits Men's Dress Pants; values up —————— with patch pockets; worth AO QQ to $4.00. Sale A| QP Hats, Underwear and Shoes at re up to $8.50. Sale price, s%)•*.fO price, v* duced prices. OUTLET CLOTHING CO. 404 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Pa. | Open Late Every Evening Two Doors From Fourth Street 5 ALL CONIRACTORSTO RESIST Anthracite Region Faces a Carpenters' Strike —Willing to Sign Wage - Scale, hut Balk Otherwise Tainaqua, Pa., April 2.—Although the contractors were willing to sign the wage scale of 37 cents an hour for journeymen aud 45 cents for foremen, they rejected a number of other propo sitions of the local union, and as a re sult more than 100 organized carpen ters went on strike yesterday. A meeting of all contractors of the southern suthracite region has been called for this town this afternoon for the purpose of organizing their forces. Several hundred are expected. Tie Up Ail Mahaooy Building Mahanoy City, Pa., April 2.—A1l building operations are tied up in this region because several scores of car penters and plumbers, with their ap prentices aud assistants, are on strike over wages and hours of labor. Divorce Appeal of Grant's Son Fails Carson City, Nev., April 2. —The Ne vada Supreme Court has denied tihe ap peal of Jesse Root Grant from the judg ment given at Golitfield, refusing him a decree of divorce from Elizabeth Chapman Grant. Grant, who lives in Sau Diego, is a son of the late Presi dent. STREET RAILWAY SOLD Hanover Trolley Line and Light Plant Change Hands York, Pa., April 2.—The Hanover ami McSfherrystowu Street Railway Company was sold yesterday by J. W. ( Stacey, president of t'he York Trust Company, and his associates, to inter ests connected with Brooks & Co., of Scranton. James A. Linen, Jr.', of Scranton, is , t'he new president. The new board of di rectors consists of 'C. R. Bedford, Scran -1 ton; Edward L. Allen, Hanover; James A. Lin in, Jr., J. E, Weiseufluh and F. B. Arfherton, Seraruton; B. W. Frazier, . Philadelphia, and Ellas S. Lewis, York, Pa. The sales carries with it tlhe Hnn over Light, Heat and Power Company. The capitalization of these companies is $ 13'5.000. TO KEEP FARM IN FAMILY NAME Berks County Man's Will Aims to Per petuate Homestead Reading, Pa., .April 2.—That a farm i in Oley township, which 'has been in the testator's family three generations, 1 remain in the family in perpetuity is the request made several times in the will of Henry C. Geissler, a Reading 'business man* and 'bank director, who died la*t week, leaving an estate of $150,000. The will, covering nine typewritten pages, is one of the longest and most peculiar recorded here. The actual cash distributions of the estate is deferred until tthe great-grand children, tllu- fourth generation, reach the age of 21 years. DELIGHTED TO SEE THE BLAZE Children Set Straw Stack Afire; Bam Saved by Hard Work Uniou, April 2.—(Several children of Frank McConnell were playing with matches yesterday afternoon in the barn yard and set a straw stack on tire. The tire communicated to the barn ana 'burned off two doors before tlhe flame* could 'be extinguished. The hard work of the neighbors saved the large struc ture. The children failed to give an alarm, claiming they delighted in seeing the iblaze. SPECIAL BANK DIVIDEND Ten Per Cent, to Shareholders Who Saved Their Institution Schaefferstown, Pa., April 2. —The first special dividend of ten per cent, on its capital stock of $50,000 was de clared yesterday by t'he board of direc tors of the First National bank. This is in keeping with the pledge made 'bv the directorate to the share 'holders in asking that they pay an as sessment of $l7O on each share to savo the'bank, after discovery of tihe defalca tion of its cashier, Alvin Burner, whose suicide on February 6 last disclosed a shortage of $42,500. Stove Polish Almost Kills (Boyertown, Pa., April 2.—Katie, 22- year-old daughter of Frank Grill, of Bally, was seriously burned when the receptacle which she used to polish the kitchen stove exploded and enveloped her body in flames.
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