THIS WEATHER
. RAIN TO-NIGHT
AMD TO MORBOW
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VOL. 77—NO. 105.
THOUSANDS MARCH ON THE CAPITOL IN
LOCAL OPTION FIGHT THIS AFTERNOON
Practically Impossible
to Enter or Leave
Hall of House of Rep
resentatives an Hour
Before Time Set For
Hearing This After
noon on Brumbaugh
Bill, So Great Is the
Crush—Three Big
Meetings Are Plan
ned For To-night
When the Governor
Will Speak
MORNING SESSION
OVERFLOWS HALL
Philadelphia Delega
tion of More Than
1.000 Merely Able
to March Through
Chestnut Street Au
ditorium. Then
Holds Rally In Grace
Church—Next Sun
day Picked For "Lo
cal Option" Day-
Message From 'Billy'
Sunday Brings
Cheers—3,soo to
4,000 Visiting Op
tionists Parade the
Streets Singing Tem
perance Songs—Foes
to Bill Strongly Rep
resented
More than 2.500 persons in Chest
nut street hall this morning pledged
themselws to work for local option.
It was the opening meeting in the
day V big demonstration in favor of
the legislative bill for which Govern
or Brumbaugh is fighting with all his
night. Chestnut street auditorium was
filled to overflowing a#d many of those
who went there were able merely to
march through. There was a morning
overflow meeting in Grace Methodist
Episcopal church, State street. By noon
it was estimated that between 3,500
and 4.000 out of town local optionists,
chiefly from Pittsburgh and Philadel
phia, were here to lend .the weight of
their presence to Governor Brumbaugh
in his fight. The anti-local option
forces also were largely represented.
Ihe supreme effort was put forth
this afternoon when the optionists
marched to the Capitol building where
the Law and Order Committee of the
House held an open meeting on the
county unit local option bill.
The crush at the Capitol just be
fore the Law and Order Committee
heading started this afternoon was
probably without precedent, so great
was the crowd. By 1.30 o'clock access
to the hall of the House was almost
impossible.
George W. Williams, of Tioga coun
tl, sponsor of the bill, which has the
backing of Governor Brumbaugh, and
chairman of the House committee,
presided at the hearing. Speakers on
ea ( -b side of the question were given
an hour to address the committee.
An afternoon overflow meeting was
held on the plaza at the State street
entrance to the Capitol building, fol
lowinijj a parade of the optionists be
hind the Commonwealth band from the
Commonwealth hotel. The j«arade
moved at about 1.30 o'clock.
Three meetings will be held this
evening. The biggest one will be held
in the Chestnut street auditorium at
8 o'clock. Governor Brumbaugh will
be the principal speaker. This will be
the only address which Governor
Brumbaugh will make to-day, but he
was an interested listener at the hear
ing this afternoon in the House.
Overflow meetings will be held in
Grace Methodist church and Pine
Street Presbyterian churches this
evening.
Go to the Capitol Before Noon
The Philadelphia delegation, number
ing more than a thousand men, arrived
in a special train shortly after 11
o'clock and headed by a band marched
through the Chestnut street auditorium
•luring the course of the meeting there.
The men then marched to Grace Metho
t'oatlnued on Second Pace.
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UNPRECEDENTED THRONG
IN HOUSE AS THE LOCAL
OPTION HEARINC STARTS
The hall of the House of Represen
tatives never saw sueh a jam of people
as was wedged iu upon its floor this
afternoon when the Law and Order
Committee met to hear the argument*
for aud against the Williams local
option bill, advocated It* Governor
Brumbaugh.
Literally every inch of space was
taken an liour before the time set for
the hearing—2.lSO—and it was a dif
ficult matter to get in or out of the
big hall. Every seat was taken; every
aisle was crowded with persons stand
ing: along the sides people stood four
deep aud the lobbies near the doors
were jammed so that the doors could
not be closed.
The crowd extended down the
grand stairway and out into the cor
ridors. The galleries were packed and
what was unusual, even the aisles and
the passageway in the gallery were
jammed, men and women using the
space used for the clerks an.l some
more bold than others held down the
steps of the Speaker's rostum.
The heat was insufferable and to
clear the atmosphere all of the big
windows were opened by direction of
Chief Clerk Oarvin, who saw to it
that there was a bit of comfort. The
space in front of the Representatives'
desks was occupied by twenty-five
persons favoring the bill and twenty
five opponents. The crowd at the
clerk's desk was finally cleared out
and the members of the Law and Or
der Committee took scats in that
space.
Quiet, Orderly Crowd
It was a very quiet orderly crowd
at the outset, and there was 110 dem
onstration by either side. Cold water
folks and liquor folks were jammed
together in one great throng, incapable
of moving in any direction. The local
option people wore white badges bear
ing the words "Local Option," while
the opponents of local option wore
small American flags.
Outside of the C-apitol a big over-
Coßtfimed on Second Page.
MCOKMICh MARCHES IX
THE RANKS TO CAPITOL
More than 500 optionists headed by
the Commonwealth band and two
troops of Boy Scouts from Harrisburg
marched from the Commonwealth ho
tel at 1.30 o'clock to the plaza in
front of the State street entrance of
the Capitol where an overflow meet
ing was held. The of the march
ers and the tunes of the band could
be heard by the committee holding the
hearing inside the Capitol in the hall
of the House.
The troops of Boy Scouts were the
surprise of the afternoon. «T. J. Shriv
er. scoutmaster of Troop IS, of the
Covenant Presbyterian church, re
ceived a reqin-st of Governor Brum
baugh to head the parade and he
augmented his troop with that of
Troop 4 of the Iminanuel Presbvter
ian church, marched at the head of
the procession which went north 011
Second street to Third aud then to the
front of the State House.
Fully a thousand were awaiting the
arrival of the marchers and the plaza
was crowded when the speeches began.
\ ance < . McCormick, defeated Demo
cratic candidate for Governor, was in
the parade from the time it left the
Commonwealth hotel, marching in the
ranks.
Br. George W. Shelton. of Pitts
burgh, presided at the meeting. Prin
cipal speeches were made bv Congress
man M. Clyde Kelly and the Rev. Br.
A. h. Piper, pastor of the Immanuel
Methodist Episcopal church, of Har
risburg.
BItI'MBAUGH AND OLIVER
WILL SPEAK HERE TO-NIGHT
Governor Brumbaugh will make his
only speech on this, the day of the pub
lic hearing on the bill, in the Chestnut
street auditorium this evening. The
meeting will open at 8 o'clock.
After tthis hall is filled the Grace
Methodist ehurcn will be o ened and
if that is not sufficient to handle t'he
crowd the Pine Street Presbyterian
church will be opened.
At the meeting in Chestnut street au
ditorium W. W. Pollansbee, secretary of
the Pollansbee Tin Plate Company, of
Pittsburgh, will a -t as temporary chair
man. He will present United States
Senator George W. Oliver, of Pitts
'burgh. who will act as permanent chair
man. The presiding oflicers of the other
two meetings have not yet been deter
mined. Among the speakers for to-night
will be:
A. Mitchell Palmer, Judge of the
Court of Claims, Washington, D. C.;
George E. Alter, of Allegheny, former
Speaker of the House; George B. Reim
ensnoider, an attorney, of Sunbury; A.
R. Ruplev, former Congressman, Car
lisle; E. Z. Wallower. of this city; Dr.
C. C. Ellis. Juniata College, Hunting
don. and W. G. Landes, general secre
tary of the Pennsylvania State Sabbath
School .-association, of Philadelphia.
Voting on Wet and Dry Question
Chicago, April 6.—The principal is
sue in the township elections in forty
five Fllinois townships to-day is the
wet and dry question. Nearly 400 sa
loons, it is estimated, will be closed
should the anti-saloon forces win.
Dauphin County Pays $21,956.41
The State Treasury gathered in
$21,956.41 as license tax money from
County Treasurer Bailey, of Dauphin,
up to yesterday afternoon.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6,'1915 10 PAGES.
EFFOfiTTO All
[ill BILL FAILS
House By Vote of 102
to 92 Preserves
Brumbaugh Measure
As It Is Reported
LIVELY DEBALE
PRECEDES VOTE
Rothenberger Asks Appropriation
Committee to Present Itemized Ac
count of Expenses Incurred in Vis
its to Inspect Institutions
When the fox child labor bill came
up for consideration on second read
ing in the House of Representatives
this morning Representative Baldwin,
of Delaware, offered an amendment
making the hours of employment ten a
dav and 54 a week instead of 9 a day
and SI a week. The amendment after
a long debate was defeated by a vote
of 102 to 92.
Governor Brumbaugh sent communi
cations to each member shortly before
the bill came up in which he stated
that the hours were fair and the bill
dealt "humanely by childhood and
justly by the manufacturers."
Mr. Baldwin declared that if the
hours of juvenile labor were reduced
below the hours of female labor the ul
timate result would be that the juve
niles would lose positions and many
families in want would suffer through
the inability of juveniles to obtain po
sitions. Mr. Baldwin said that no ob
jection had been made to the 54 hour
law and the widows and childreu de
pendent are asking for it.
Representative I'ox, Philadelphia,
sponsor of the bill, said that even 9
hours a day was above the physical
endurance of the minor, but that those
interested in the child labor bill were
willing to concede the 9 hours beeause
it is a step forward. He said the man
ufacturers were not looking for uplift
and he asked the members who were
Continued on Second Pair.
FOES OF LOCAL OPTION
PRESENT HL'tJE PETITION
Early this morning crowds began to
igi.ither at the Capitol and although the
hearing on the local option measure
was not scheduled until this afternoon
at 2.30 o'clock, long before the House
was called to order every hit of space
in the big hall was taken up by friends
or opponents of local option. So great
was the confusion at times that the
Speaker could scarcely be heard. There
were hundreds of local option badges
in evidence, and the opponents, of local
option were out in force.
The loi-al optionists were led by
Representative Vickerman, of Alle
gheny, who was very much in the lime
light arranging for the hearing, while
the anti-local optionists were mar
shalled by James Mulvihill, of West
moreland, president of the State
Liquor League, who had a great many
followers from all parts of the State.
A feature of the morning was the
carrying into the Capital of a petition
on a reel, five feet in diameter, which
liquor men said contained the names
of 337,000 people opposed to local
option. It was surmounted by a ban
ner telling what it was. This huge
petition was taken to the door of the
House, placed in the ante-room, where
all could see it, and then taken out
by the Fourth street basement door.
It was gotten up by the Wholesale
Liquor Dealers' Association of Phila
delphia. and purported to represent
signers from every county in the
State. A delegation of the association
accompanied the petition.
Chairman Williams, of the Law and
Order Committee, which has the local
option bill in charge, announced that
each side would be allowed one hour
in which to present its case, and they
might divide it as they pleased, but he
proposed, by direction of the commit
tee, to close the speechmaki,ng when
the two hours were up. Governor
Hrumbauyh was announced to attend
the meeting, but not to speak. The
Governor will make his address at the
Chestnut street hall meeting to-night.
GOVERNOR TO ENTERTAIN
LAWMAKERS TO-MORROW
The reception to be given by Gover
nor Brumbaugh at the executive man
sion to-morrow night, beginning at 9
o'clock, will be to the members of the
Senate and House, heads of depart
ments, the Public Service Commission
and the legislative newspaper men, the
ladies being included.
The Governor will be assisted in re
ceiving by Lieutenant Governor and
Mrs. McClain, Secretary of tho Com
monwealth and Mrs. Woods, Attorney
Geenral and Mrs. Brown, President
Pro Tem. of the Senate and Mrs. Kline,
Speaker of the House and Mrs. Ambler,
and Adjutant General Stewart. The
reception will last from 9 to 11 o'clock.
.The executive mansion will be beauti
fully decorated with flowers and an or
chestra in the palm screened alcove will
furnisb music.
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Here is the steamship Prins Maurits. reported sunk off Cape 11 at torus, with a crew of fifty and four or u...rc
passengers. Wallowing around in great sens whipped up by the worst storm that has swept the Atlantic coast In many
years, a uuniber of vessels searched In vain for the steamer, but nothing was seen of her, and It is feared that all on
board are lost, unless some good Samaritan ship appeared on the scene.
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Mi EXPENSES
Bowman, in Annual
Report, Shows the
Saving Effected By
Economic Methods
GERMS ARE KEPT
OUT OF SUPPLY
Commissioner Says That Competitive
Bidding Has Been Responsible for
Materially Reducing Expenses—Re
ceipts Fall $5,000 Below 1013
Harrisburg's water supply during
1914 was perfectly free from disease
geruis aud practically free from bac
teria and common dust, according to
tests made by Dr. George H. MolKt,
city chemist and bacteriologist, as re
ported in the first annual statement of
Harry l-\ Bowman, Commissioner of
Public Safety, which was presented to
the City Commissioners at their meet
ing this afternoon.
The voluminous report gives a com
plete history of the workings in the
Public Safety Department—chiefly with
reference to the water division—detail
ing financial conditions, repairs and
improvements made and carrying com
parisons of 1914 statistics wiflh t'ho9e
of the previous year. The report shows
that much money was saved during the
year and also declares that the paring
down of expenses did not in the least
impair the efficiency of the department.
Thirty-three new fire hydrants were
installed during the year; 524 "tars"
were made to mains, the majority being
connections for domestic use; thousands
and thousands of feet of new water
pipe were laid, the greater part of
which was six inches or more in diam
eter; 1,046 meters were repaired and
tested, of which 328 were found to be
frozen and 334 new meters were in
stalled.
The Water Rates Reduced
The genera! reduction of the water
rates, chiefly the rtit of $1 from the $6
minimum charge for domestic use, and
the fact that tliel arge •manufactories
did not work full time during the year,
Coatlnued on >'lnfh Pncr.
AUTO PLUNGESJNTO RIVER
Three Young Men Are Drowned When
Machine Goes Through an Open
Drawbridge
B.i/ Associated Press.
Newark, N. J„ April 6.—Three
young men, members of the Montclair
Academy Alumni Association, were
drowned early to-day when an automo
bile in which they were riding with
four others plunged through an open
drawbridge into the Passaic river. Gor
don Knapp, of East Orange, was the
onlv one of the victims recovered.
The men were returning home from
a dinner in New York and wore given a
ride in the automobile by William J.
Bittles, Jr., who was saved with three
others. A gateman at the drawbridge
was knotked into the water and was
rescued, but suffered severe injuries.
From a list of the occupants of the
car, the police later fixed the identity
of the two missing men as Clarence
Stanton and Eugene Stephens, iboth of
Newirk.
King'B Son, 14, Enlists in Army
Dunkirk, April 6—The Duke of
Brabant, eldest son of King Albert of
Belgium, although only 14 years old,
has enlisted in the Twelfth infantry.
He was marching in the ranks with a
rifle on his shoulder when the regiment
was reviewed by his father and the
queen at Broqueville.
THREAT OF INJUNCTION
MAY HALT THE PLAN TO
CLOSE RIYER WALL CAP
Strenuous opposition to the plan to |
close the gap in the wall along the riv
er front at Market street has been
raised and is cause for the temporary
abandonment ot the whole plau, so the
City Commissioners announced at a eon
ference following their session this aft
ernoon.
Mayor Royal and other City Commis
sioners let it be known that they have
been warned not to proceed with the
plp.ns to close tihe wall gap at the pres
ent coal wharf, a representative of the
Harrisburg River Coal, Sand Stone
Company threatening, they said, to take
out a court injunction and stop the
work if it is attempted.
Besides. Commissioners Gorgas and
Lynch boh said that the City now may
Lynch both said that the City now may
of the improvement, which will entail
an expense of upwards of $5,000.
The money must come out of the
loan under which the intercepting sew
er and the rivet wall are financed and
the present statu., of affairs, they said,
indicates that the previously planned
work will "eat up all money avail
able. ''
The deed by which John Harris in
1784 surrendered that section of tihe
river front between South and Paxton
streets, the Mayor said, will prohibit
the closing of the wall at Market
street, where a wharf for years has been
maintained.
City Solicitor Seitz recently ren
dered an opinion to the Board of Public
Works holding that the city has au
thority to close the gap with a wall
such as is proposed iu plans recently
prepared by the engineers of the Board
of Public Works. The Public Works
Board, however, did not close the wall
at Market street, under its original
plan, because of the threatened court
proceedings. This information all was
laid before the City Commissioners this
afternoon.
An ordinance changing that section
of Plum street, between Pear and
Boas streets, to Grant street, is pro
vided in an ordinance introduced to
day by Commissioner Lynch. The
measure passed first reading. Commis
sioner Taylor introduced a measure ac
cepting a 12-acre tract of land which
has been donated to the city by Mrs.
Helen Boyd Dull for the continuation
of the Cameron parkway.
He also introduced a bill amending
an ordinance by which half an acre of
additional ground is to be acquired
from the Paxtang Cemetery Associ
ation. No additional money is to be
paid, this to he considered a part of
the twelve-acre tract which Taylor re
cently bought for the continuation of
the Cameron parkway.
LAFRfINCE GETSCONTRfICT
FOR CITY FIRE APPARATUS
Commissioners at Meeting To-day
Make Award for Two Combination
Wagons and One Motor Tractor at
Bid of SIO,BOO
With the Democratic members—
Mayor Royal and Commissioner Gor
gas —voting "no" and decrying the
plan to be "unfair," the Republican
City Commissioners this afternoon put
through Commissioner Taylor's plan to
award the contract for three pieces of
fire apparatus—two combination wag
ens and one motor tractor—to the
American LaFranee Fire Engine Com
■pany under that company's private bid
of SIO,BOO. The award was made by
an ordinance adopted by a 3 to 2 vote.
A similar vote was recorded, the Demo
crats again being in the minority, when
Commissioner Taylor sought the approv
al of his award of the contract for two
additional motor tractors to the Front
Drive Motor Car Company, of Hoboken,
N. ,L, for $7,200. This award was
made under proposals,obtained through
competitive bidding.
All other bills were rejected. The
American LaFranee company was one
of the high bidders and would not have
received the contract for any of the
five pieces of apparatus, Taylor said,
had the award tveei. made under the
competitive bidding plan. Taylor se
lected this method of fire ap|>aratiis, he
said, after the Morton Truck & Tractor
Company, of this city, the low bidder
for the npparatus, withdrew its bids,
presumably because Taylor hail planned
to give it a contract for only two pieces
of apparatus.
Commissioner Taylor argued that
the adopted plan was the only feasible
wav to (jet the five pieces of apparatiiM
Cnillmtd on Sreoad I'ue.
ME VICTIM
HIKA Hi
British Steamer North
lands, 2,000 Tons,
Sent to Bottom In
English Channel
SANK 10 MINUTES
AFTER BEING HIT
The Trawler Agantha Attacked Off
Longstein and Sunk by German
Submarine—The Crews of Both
Sunken Vessels Were Rescued
London, April G, 11.21 A. M. —The
British steamer Northlands, of 2.000
tons, with a cargo of iron ore, wns sent
to the bottom by a German submarine
rin tho Knglish Channel oil Beachy
Head on Monday morning. The North
lands sank in ten minutes. Her crew
of 24 men were picked up later by the
Belgian steamer Topato.
The Northlands wns built at West
Hartlepool in 1 900 an I was owned by
the Northlands Steamship Company,
Limited, of Cardiff.
New York, April fi. —The British
steamer Northlands, sunk by a subma
rine in the Kngilsn Channel Monday
morning, should not be confused with
the White Star liner Northland, now
in the Dominion service, according to
the agents here. The Northland left
Liverpool April 1 with 189 passengers
for Halifax and Portland, Me.
Blyth, England, April 6, 12.42 P.
M.—The trawler Agantha was attack
ed by a German submarine yesterday
off Ixmgstein' and sent to the bottom.
The crew of 13 men were rescued by
thv Swedish steamer Tord and landed
here to-day.
Sinking of Italian Ship by Germans
Genoa, April 5, 9.35 P. M., Via
Paris, April 6, 1.30 A. M. —Additional
reports received here regnrding the
sinking by a German submarine of the
Italian steamer Lugi Parodi indicate
that she was torpedoed near the Span
ish coast. If these advices are well
founded they show that German under
water craft are able to operate at a
greater distance than had been sup
posed from their home base.
A dispatch from Genoa last night an
nounced the sinking of the Luigi Pa
rodi, which left Baltimore on January
22 with a cargo of coal consigned to
Augusta, Sicily.
Germans Seize Swedish Steamer
Copenhagen, April 6. —The Swedish
steamer England, from Buenos Aires
for Gothenburg, has been seized by the
Germans in the Baltic and taken into a
German port. The England was loaded
with maise and bran. She had dis
charged part of her cargo at Gothen
burg and was proceeding to Stockluflm
when seized.
DYNAMiIE HALTS TRAINS
Explosion Feared in Burning Shed
Does Not Occur and Trnffic
Is Resumed
Palmyra, April 6. —The burning of
a small shed containing dynamite, at
a stone quarry between this place and
Annvillo at 3.45 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, caused the delay of the
Philadelphia & Reading local due at
Harrisburg nt 4.40 as well as of sev
eral freight trains.
The railroad passes near where tho
shed was burning. Word of the danger
was sent the train crews by Dispatcher
C. E. Campbell, in fear that the dyna
mite would explode. There was no
caps with the dynamite, however, ami
it did no damage.
The explosives stored in the shed
were to he used for blasting in the
quarry. The place caught lire through
sparks carried by the wind from a field
which was burning nearby.
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE. ONE CENT.
U. S. AWAITS
NEXT MOVE
OF BRITAIN
American Note to, Brit
ish On Proclaiming
Blockade Against
Germany Published
IS COUCHED IN
FRIENDLY TERMS
Denies Right of Great Britain and allies
to Blockade Neutral Ports and Re
iterates That U. S. Will Insist
Upon Its Rights
Bji Associated Pre**.
Washington, April fi.—With the pub*
ligation to-day of its note in reply to
the British government 'a order in coun
cil proclaiming a virtual blockade
against commerce to and from Ger
many, the American government rested
its case. (Ireat Britain is now looked to
to make the next move and her course
is awaited with interest in official and
diplomatic circles here.
The note, though couched in the most
friendly language, denies the right of
(ireat Britain and her allies to block
ade neutral ports and reiterates tile in
tention of lhe United States to insist
U'pon its rights ll declares that to ad
mit that right "would lie to assume an
attitude of unneutrality toward tlio
present enemies of Great Britain which
would be obviously inconsistent with
the solemn obligations of this govern
ment in tlic present circumstances and
for Great Britain to make such a claim
would be for her to abandon and sot at
naught the principles for which she Ims
consistently and earnestly contended in
other times and other circumstances."
More Drastic Than Actual Blockado
The communication takes note of
Great Britain's declaration that the en
forcement of the order is left largely to
the discretion of the prize courts, the
customs officers anil the navy, and the
hope is expressed that the order will
not be enforced in surh a way as to
prevent, the free transit of neutral ves
sels from one neutral to another through
the cordon of British warships.
"This government, therefore," the
note say's, "infers that the commanders
of His Majesty's shi; s of war engaged
in maintaining the so-called blockade,
will be instructed to avoid an enforce
ment of the proposed measures of non
interference in such a way as to impose
restrictions upon nentjal trade moro
burdensome than those which have been
regarded as inevitable when the ports
of a belligerent are actually blockaded
by the ships of its enemy."
Serious Interruption of Trade
It is then added that many possibili
ties are seen for "serious interruption
of American trade," which would " iin-
Continued on Second Page.
German Submarine Entangled in Net
I'aris, A-pril 6 5 A. M. —A German
submarine has become securely en
tangled in a net specially designed for
that purpose and placed off Dover, ac
cording to the "Petit Journal's'' Dun
kirk correspondent, who adds t/liat the
French naval authorities expect to cap
ture the submersible when it comes to
the surface.
Germans Suspend Parcel Post Service
Berlin, Via London, April 6, 9.57 A.
M.—The German postal officials have
suspended until further notice parcel
post service to Argentina, Colombia,
Costa Rica. Greece, the Italian colonics,
the Dutcih West Indies. Panama, Portu
gal, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.
LUTE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
An attack which the German mili
tary chiefs regard as the opening of a
new phase of the western campaign has
been initiated by the French in the
section of the front between the Meuge
and the Moselle. The official statement
from Berlin to-day says '.hat the
French employed strong forces with a
large amount of artillery in making as
saults at several points yesterday.
The fighting was particularly spirited
jin the neighborhood of Vordun and
I Pont a Mousson. Berlin expects a con
tinuation of these attacks.
So far as is shown by the German
; statement, little was accomplished by
I these assaults, although it is admitted
that in one section the French gained a
j temporary foothold. The official state
i ment from Paris gives few details of
I the fighting, beyond the claim that in
two places advances were made.
On the eastern front there has been
further fighting near the Russian bor
der The German War Office says that
Russian attacks were repulsed.
Germany's new and powerful subma
rines are striking effectively at British
Continued on Second I*ase.
WALL STREET CLOSING
By Associated Press,
New York, April fl.—Buying of the
Harrimans was rosumed in the final
hour, with weakness in minor railways
and some specialties. The closing was
strong. Further extensivo selling for
home and foreign interests provoked
some irregularity in to-day's market,
but the undertone was consistently firm.