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THOUSANDS RARCH ON THE
CAPITOL IN LOCAL OPTION
FIGHT TjUS AFTERNOON
CwtlHtJ From First P"l*>
diet church on State street to hold an
overflow meeting.
Remarks were made in the church
by Judge Davies, magistrate of a Phila
delphia police court. There were rnany
cheers for "Billy" Sunday and many
songs from the recent evangelistic cam
pnign in the Quaker City.
Sacrificing their dinners, the Phila
delphians marched in a body to the
capitol from Grace church and crowded
. the House of Representatives before
the adjournment of the morning ses
sion. in their efforts to get seats for
the afternoon hearing.
A "Local Option" Sunday
At this morning's meeting in Chest
nut street hall the big crowd unani
moiisly passed a resolution that next
Sunday will be designated as "local
option Sunday" ana e\j?ry church in
the State fihat was this
morning wi3 pass resolutions which will
be sent to the Representatives in the
(JeneraJ Assembly. The resolutioi/asks
that every church, every Sunday
school.'Bib.le class and young people's
organization pass such resolutions.
At the cJose of the meeting the sug
gestion of Dr. George W. Shelton, of
Pittsburgh, that "the saloon would
down the church if it could, but the
church could destroy the saloon if it
would,"' was hailed with delight by j
the big crowd. The individuals in the
audience were requested to telegraph
to pastors thßt these churches could
take action next Sunday.
The big hall, which was decorated
with knots of national colors, was filled
with 1,500 Harjisburgers when the
out-of-town delegations began arriving.
When th*- two special trainloads of
Philadelphuans stormed the hall at
11.30 o'clock singing "Billy" Sunday
campaign jivmne the meeting had to be
adjourned because the crowd was to
big to handle.
Sunday's Name Brings Cheers
J. Denny O'Neil, County Commis
sioner of Allegheny, and chairman of
the State local option committee, set
the crowd wild at the outset by read
ing a telegram from the Rev. "Billy"
Sunday, tbe evangelist who recently
closed his campaign in Philadelphia
and who worked hard for the passage
of local opition in this State. The tele
gram rea<L
"Sorry I can't be there. I will
work and pray for the movement."
Samuel E. Gill, chairman of the
State Sunday School Committee, prom
ised 200.000 supporters for local op
tion in a telegram to the chairman.
Dr. Sharpless Is Chairman
Mr. O'Xeil introduced Dr. Isaac
Slarpless, president of Haverford Col
lege. who acted as permanent chairman
of the meeting. The Rev. Floyd W.
Thompkins. rector of Holy Trinity
church, Philadelphia, offered prayer.
George E. Alter, former Speaker of the
.House of Representatives: Dr. George
W. Shelton. both of Allegheny, and
John J. Koll>. of Philadelphia, a per
sonal friend of Governor Brumbaugh,
constituted a committee on resolutions
on motion of Mr. Alter.
John R. Farr, Congressman from
county and Speaker of the
•House of Representatives in 1899. was
the first speaker. He said it was one
of the pleasures of his life to vote for
the Hobson prohibition resolution in the
national (House.
"Any - legislative body,'* he said,
"that turns down die people's wish as
expressed all over this State for sub
mission to the people of this question
of whether they should have liquor or
not fails to recognize the purpose of a
legislative body. '
He bewailed what he said was the
fact that it is mostly the "unprogres
sive man who does tne voting at the
polls.'' 1
IHenry W. Temple, Congressman of
Washington county, was interrupted at
the outset of his speech by tie entrance
of the resolution committee with two
resolutions to Teport. One was a lengthy
one supporting local option and wa3 pre
sented by (Mr. Alter and was adopted.
The second setting aside next Sunday
as "local option Sunday" was present
ed by Dr. Shelton. It also was adopted.
Temple Favors Prohibition
Mr. Temple continuing said:
"Governor Brumbaugh has surprised
a good many people. Many of us voteo
for him thinking he would not carry out
his election pledges and many of us
voted against him thinking he would
not carry out liis pre-election pledges.
We were both fooled and we are glad |
of it. If we cannot get local option
this time let us help to get another
Legislature that will give it to us. and
we can do it.
"I should like to see State-wide pro- j
hibition, but we have no opportunity to
get it now, so 1 am in favor of the
• Williams local option law. although
where there are wet and dry counties
besides each other, there is leakage from
the wet county into the dry county.
The question now is on t)he Williams
bill and we have a good opportunity to
pass it."
Mrs. Ella M. George. State president
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, for the passage of the
local option bill for the sake of the |
wives and mothers in tie State and pre- j
sented to the conference a letter from
a woman in Green county, where there
are no saloon, to the effect'that more
people have automobiles in that countv i
for the size of it t"han in any other i
county in the State. "Phis she referred
to in "support „f her theory that stamp
ing out the saloon works for happiness. '
She was greeted with a Chautauqua j
salute and three ringing cheers when 1
she was introduced.
Philadelphians Arrive
"This large meeting will avail us
nothing if we do not get the Legisla- ;
ture to vote for the bill," declared !
Congressman-elect S. H. Miller, of
Mercer county. "This is a case where
individual work with the Representa
tives count. Show the leaders of the !
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party in power that it will be to the
interest of their party to enact such
legislation and this bill will become an
established fact. Politicians aet first
for the benefit of the party and sec
ond for the benefit of the people, and
if we can show the dozen leaders that
it is to their interest first to support
it, it will pass.''
P. H. Rode well, of Tioga, former
member of the House, who sponsored
the local option bill in the last session
of the General Assembly, said:
"This Legislature has no right to
sav that the people have no voice in
; whether they should have liquor or
! not. If this bill is defeated it will be
1 the greatest blow that ever befell the
Republican party."
The progress of the meeting was in
terrupted bv the Commonwealth band
playing "Tipperary" at the doorway
of the hall and the sessiou was stop*
pod while the band led the Philadel
i pliia delegation through the building
! which was already overflowing with
the crowd. There was no room-for thus
crowd of visitors and thev filed in one
door to the front of the liail, past the
platform which was crowded, and out
through another doorway.
The "official local option song" set
to the tune of "Tipperary" was sung
las the crowd filed through. "The
Brewers' Big .Horses" and other songs
I were sung.
Huntingdon Delegation Here
Each man wore a white ribbon and
i was carrying a small American flag.
After the cheers and songs stopped, J.
VY. Galbraith. former Judge of Butler
county, was introduced. He said local
option would succeed because the con
science of the people was back of it.
Ihis was the first declaration of the
sort that the Philadelphia delegation
had listened to and they made the most
of the opportunity to cheer.
The crowd was so great that it was
difficult to maintain order. One knot
of optionists at a time would break out
into song, and the meeting was ad
journed after announcements of the
rest of the day's meetings were made.
The Philadelphia delegation went to
Grace churoli for the morning overflow
meeting. They will leave the city at
9 o'clock to-night.
Almost a hundred optionists from
Governor Brumbaugh's own county of
Huntingdon were present in Chestnut
street hall and were given seats of hon
or on the stage.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED IN
CHESTNUT SJREET HALL
The following resolutions were
adopted at this morning's conference in
the Chestnut street auditorium, being
presented by George E. Alter, , former
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives:
Whereas, the sale of intoxicating
liquors has produced most serious an I
vital problems and, as these become
more fully appreciated, the people are
justly claiming the right to a more di
rect part in deciding the question
whether such sale shall be licensed in
their respective communities:
And whereas, in the absence of any
method by which the voters iu the
several counties may lawfully and di
rectly pass upon the question of license
or no license, they are attempting to
determine this important question
through the election of judges express
ly or impliedly committed to the grant
ing or the refusal of licenses, through
which method a system of county local
option is, in effect, operative iu a large
and growing number of the counties ot
the State:
And whereas, the election of Judges
upon any issues other than judicial
ability, fairness and integrity, and par
ticularly upon an issue relating to the
manner in which they will decide eases
to be heard in court, is a prostitution
of the most sacred office in the gift of
the people the result of which is a
great weakening of that confidence in
the judiciary 50 essential to the pre
servation of OUT institution":
And ( whereas. the Governor of the
Commonwealth, elected under an ex
press pledge to favor a county local op
tion law. is faithfully adhering to that
pledge, the redemption of which he be
gan in his inaugural 'address- wherein 1
he said: "Let this vexed question be
taken from partisan control and given
directly to the people. They will solve
it better than we can. The selection
of Judges in the several districts should
no longer hinge upon this question. Itj
has already worked harm to the judiei-1
aTV and has lessened the regard of our
people for the integrity and capacity j
of the final legal guarviians of the peo- 1
pie's sacred rights. It "is a dominant!
issue in the public mind. The party
that has given this great state its in
dustrial and educational development
has now the sacred opportunity of giv
ing the State a great moral uplift. I
trust we shall not fail the people in
this issue. '
And whereas, this principal of home
rule has been applied successfully in a
majority of the States of the Union and
the right to its exercise should no long
er be denied the people of Pennsylva
nia.
Resolved: That feeling it our bound
len duty to support the Governor and
a high privilege ,to enlist under his
courageous leadership in this righteous
cause, we. the men of this conference,
gathered from every part of Pennsyl
vania, do hereby pledge ourselves to
aid, by all fair and honorable means,
the effort to secure for our Common
wealth a country local option law, to
the end that the courts may be freed
from the imminent peril by which they
are now threatened and the people of
the rounties given the local control to
which they are fairly and justly en
titled:
Resolved that, in our judgment said
legislation should be enacted now and
we hereby give our unqualified approval
t% the county local option bill, intro
duced by Hon. George W. Williams,
and pending in the General Assembiv
at this time.
CONCERT AT CHESTNUT STREET
Program Will Be Given in Adjoining
Room puring Local Option Speeches
During the local option meeting iu
tho large auditorium at the Chestnut
street hall to night the sixth annual
Star Concert of St. Augustine's Epis
copal church will be held in the smaller
assembly room of the buildiug.
The concert will be one of the big
events of the season for the colored
population of the city. R. W. Hayes,
the negro tenor, will have capable as
sistants iu the rendering of a program
of vocal and instrumental music.
Odd Fellows to Install Officers
Officers of State Capital Lodge No.
70, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
will be installed at a meeting to be
held in the hall, *3-04 North Second
street, this evening. The installation
ceremonies will be in chanje of Dep
uty Grpnd Master William Q. Schrein
cr, of the southern district. A class of
nine candidate* will also be initiated
•as members of the lodge.
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HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1915.
UNPRECEDENTED THROW
IN ROUSE ASM LOCAL
OPTION IEARINC STARTS
CmIIhM Prom First Pace,
flow meeting was in progress with
severaj thousand local
optiomste cheering, presided over by
the Rev. Dr. S&elton, of Pittsburgh.
The strains of the band from the out
side floated into the House aud the
i cold water folks smiled. As the clock
sounded 2 o ''dock the crowd settled
down patiently to wait half an hour.
Option Speakers Announced
It was aunounced that the speakers
| for the local optiou bill would be Fa
' tlier J. J. Curran, Wilkes-Barre; James
IM. Spanen, Lancaster, head of the
; Grangers; William McCoaeh. City
i Treasurer. Philadelphia, and the Rev.
C. F. Swift, Beaver, head of the Local
Option League.
Against the bill it was announced
that the speakers would be Joseph E.
O'Brien, Scrantoh; Congressman A. J.
Harchfield. Pittsburgh; the Rev. 8. G.
\on Bussc, Wilmington, Del., formerly
of Philadelphia, and Robert J. McGrath,
labor leader, of PittsUurgh.
The entrance of James Mulvihill,
I head of the Liquor Dealers' League,
who is directing the fight against the
bill, was a signal for cheers and ap
plause among the antis, the first of the
day. Tlie antis at this poiut made a
protest because their speakers had not
been provided with seats, but this was
soon adjusted aud another wait ensued.
While waiting somebody in the gal
lery began to sing "America." In an
instant the great crowd caught up the
refrain and sang it with a will, fairly
shouting it and waving small American
flags. It was a very inspiring scene
and seemed to put everybody in a pa
triotic good humor. Loud applause
greeted the chorus.
The clerk to the committee at 2.25
called the roll of the committee, and
virtually all of the members respouded,
one absentee being Shaaber, of Berks,
veteran of the Civil war, said to be
an opponent of the bill.
Antis Get Floor First
The first speaker was Congressman
A. J. Barchfeid. of Pittsburgh, who
was cheered to the echo as he arose
to speak in behalf of the German Al
liance, of Allegheny county, in oppo
sition to the bill; for the Btate, and
for himself. The German-American
Alliance, he said, is a body of law
abiding American citizens with a
membership of 159,000, opposed to lo
cal option and prohibition iu every
form because they hold such things
are a deprivation of the rights of in
dividuals which should remaiu invio
lable. They believed in the enforce
ment of the law. They decry "treat
ing" and have abandoned it. Men
1 whose appetites must be curbed are not
(it tor citizenship iu a great republic,
prohibition does not prevent. In Maine
it lias been a gigantic humbug, he said,
| and .IU egregious failure.
"We are opposed to robbing men
I without just compensation.'' be said.
"The present high income law meets
: all demands. When the majority of a
I community do not desire breweries the
county refuse to giant them." (Ijoud
I and derisive cheers aud shout of
I "Oh!'') As the speaker went on he
; was frequently interrupted by decisive
' cries, lie paused a moment and then
i said:
I'iiis is the same kind of feeling
that led to the burning of old sore
eyed women as witches at the stake iu
the dark ages!"'
I This was greeted with vociferous
j cheering, which increased as the
speaker said he was an American citi
zen aud had the right to free speech.
Theu he went on to extol the Ger
man-Americans and denounce the bill
because he slid its passage would be
a blow aimed at the individual liberty
of every man.
The spirit of iutolerance is re
pugnant to the spirit of the age," he
j added. '"This lo al option measure in
fringes on the rights of man."
lie then spoke of alleged vices in
| the army resulting from the prohibi
tion of the canteen, and said there is
hypocrisy wherever prohibition pre
vails.
Father J. C. Curran, of Wilkes-
Barre, was the next speaker and he fa-
I vored the bill. At the beginning of
| Father Curran's remarks this report
closed.
103 MEMBERS VOTE NOT TO
SUSTAIN GOVERNOR'S VETO
A break between the Republican or
ganization leaders and Governor Brum
baugh was apparent last night when
j 103 members of the House voted to
I pass the Habgood bill, carrying $46,-
| 000 to pay back bills of newspapers
for advertising constitutional amend
ments, over the Governor's veto.
Eighty-three members voted with the
Governor.
It requires a two-thirds vote, or 138,
to make a bill become a law after it
has been vetoed, and, while the Hab
good bill lacked 35 votes of passage,
yet the balloting was considered signifi
cant. One more vote would have
brought the total up to a constitutional
majority, euough to pass a measure on
third reading in the lower house. Hab
good did not vote, but it was consid
ered a victory for him, for his vote
would have made it a majority of the
House.
TO GIVE TELEPHONE EXHIBIT
Cumberland Valley Company Will Show
Improved Methods in Their System
Improved methods now being used
in the telephone world such as secret
service, the automatic exchange and
the automatic signalling system will be
shown at a free exhibit on "Tele
phony" to be held in the Cumberland
Valley Telephone Company building,
227 Federal Square, to-morrow and
Thursday, in connection with the con
vention of fhe Western and Eastern
Independent Telephone Associations of
Pennsylvania in this city April 7 and 8.
Delegates to the convention will be
gin to arrive in this city to-night and
to-morrow morning. To-morrow after
noon delegates will be registered in
the Cumberland Valley Telephone Com
pany building. To-morrow evening the
annual dinner of the Associations will
be held at the Harrisburg Club, Front
and Market streets, at 8 o'clock. \
Lumber Crushes Man's Finger
Milton H. Reed, an, employe of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company", was ad
mitted to tho Harrisburg hospital thi»
morning suffering with a badly lacer
ated finger on the left hand, which he
ree< ived when a pile of lumber fell on
his hand at Front and Mulberry streets.
FINANCE
PRICES AGAIN ASCEND AT
OUTSET OF MARKET TB-OAY
Bethlehem Steel-Repeats Its Daily Per
formance of a New High Record,
Rising to #4y„ an Opening o*in of
2 Points
\
By Attociated Pre**,
New York, April 6.—Prices were
again pushed upward at the ou'tset of
to-day 'B market operations, all the lead
era, as well as numerous specialties, par
ticipating in greater or less measure.
Bethlehem Steel repeated its familiar
daily performance of a new high record,
opening with a block of 1,200 shares
at 93 to 94, and then rising to
an overnight gain of 2 points. Union
Pacific. Great Northern, Northern Pa
cific and Atchison were up a point or
more, in most instances attaining their
best prices. Some heaviness was
evinced by Pennsylvania, Baltimore and
Ohio, Ohesa{>eake and Ohio and Smelt
ing. Selling for profits soon caused
recessions from the top.
Recurrent heavy selling met the ini
tial advance, with the result that most
gains were soon lost. Commission
houses reported a preponderance of sell
ing orders, particularly in specialties.
Dealings in the firs* hour again exceed
ed 200.000 shares, witih some modera
tion later. Bethlehem Steel lost most
of its further rise, traders preferring
to await the outcome of the annual
meeting to be held later in the day.
V. S. Steel was under pressure and Un
ion Pacific shewed the effects of realiz
ing. Toward midday Reading and
Amalgamated became features of
strength, with irregularity elsewhere.
Bonds were steady.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
QUOTATIONS
Furnished by H W. Snavely, Broker.
Arcade Building, Walnut and Court
Btrdfeta
New York, April 6.
Open. Close.
Alaska Gold Mines .. . 36% 35%
Amal Copper . 63% 64%
Amer Beet Sugar 45% 4a
American fan 32 31 Va
do pfd 96*4 96
Am Car and Foundry Co 49 48%
Am Cotton Oil 4" 4"
Am lee Securities .... 31% 31
Amer Loco . 33 32'/,
Amer Smelting 67% 6"%
American Sugar 107 107%
Amer Tel and Tel ..... 119% 119%
Anaconda ." 29% 31
Atchison 100% 100%
Baltimore and Ohio .. . 72% 73
Bethlehem Steel 93 88%
Brooklyn R T 91 90%
California Petroleum . . 13% 13%
Canadian Pacific 164% 164
Central I>eatiher 35% 35%
Chesapeake and Ohio . . 44% 44%
Chi. Mil and St Paul . . 90% 90
Chino Copper 39% 39%
Col Fuel and Iron ..... 29% 29%
Consol Gas 120% 120%
Corn Products 11% 11%
Distilling Securities .. 6% 6%
B "e 27% 27%
Krie Ist pfd 44% 4 4
•General Electric Co . . 148% 149
Goodrich B. F, 43% 48
Great Nor pfd 120 119%
Great Nor Ore subs .. 36% 35%
I nterHjoro Met 16% 16%
Interboro Met pfd ... 69% 68%
Lehigh Valley 137% 137%
Louis and Nash 119 119
Mex [Petroleum 70% 68%
Missouri Pac 14 13%
National Lead 63 62
New York Cen S6 86%
N Y, X H and H 61 59%
Northern Pa? 107% 106%
Pennsylvania R. R. ... 106% 107
People's Gas and Coke . 122 122
Pittsburgh Coal 22% 22%
do pfd 95% ' 95%
Press Steel Car 34% 34%
Ray Con. Copper 21 21
Reading 146% 146%
Repub. Iron and Steel . 23% 23%
do pfd 80 80
Southern Pacific 88% 88%
Southern Rv 17% 18
do pfd 57 57 %
Tennessee Copper .... 30% 30%
Texas Company 138% 141
Union Pacific," 127% 128
U. S. Rubber 65% 65%
U. S. Steel 50% 49%
do pfd 106 106%
Utah Copper 57% 57%
Vir.-Carolina Cheiri. .. . 23% 23%
W. U. Telegraph 65% 65
Westinghouse Mfg .... 70 70
UHLERSUCCEEDSFOSTER
Governor Brumbaugh Appoints Phila
delphian as Head of State High
way Engineers
Colonel Samuel D. Foster, of Pitts
burgh, chief engineer of the State High
way Department, who last week placed
his resignation in the hands of Govern
or Brumbaugh, was informed yesterday
afternoon by the Governor "that the
resignation was accepted. At the
same time Governor Brumbaugh an
nounced the appointment of William
D. Uhler, of Philadelphia, to succeed
Colonel Foster as the head of the en
gineering division of the department.
Mr. Uhler ha.i for some time been
connected with the Philadelphia High
way Department. He will assume the
duties of his position at once. Colonel
Foster's resignation was placed m the
Governor's hands last Wednesday, on
the day Edward M. Bigelow departed
for Pittsburgh, having resigned as
head of the department.
$1,500 FIRE DESTROYS BARN
Poultry and Fanning Implements Lost
In Early Morning Blaze
Carlisle, April 6.—A fire which de
stroyed a barn aloug with farming im
plements, resulting in an approximate
loss of $1,500, occurred at the farm
of Harvey Shaeffer, one mile north of
Carlisle Springs, at 5 o'clock this
morning. The farm is tenenftd by
Walter W. Shaeffer.
Mr. Shaeffer was burned about the
hands and body.
A. T. Dice, Jr., Gets Promotion
A. T. Dice, Jr., son of A. T. Dice,
vice president and general manager of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Company, was appointed assistant
yardmaster of the Reading division.
For some time he has been located on
the Atlantic City division.
EFFORTS TO AMEND
CHILD DHL FAILS
CMtlaa*4 PIMI Vint Pack
friend* of the Governor to vote against
the amendment.
Optometry Bill Defeated
The optometry bill regulating the
practice and providing for a board of
optometric examiners under fhe super
vision of Uie Bureau of Medioal Educa
tion anil Licensure of the Department
of Public Instruction was defeated on
linal passage in the House this morn
ing. Last night the House passed the
optometry bill placing them under their
own board.
'Representative Rothenbergor. of
Berks, introduced a resolution asking
the Appropriation committee to present
an itemized account of expenses for all
moneys spent an their trip to various in
stitutions and to designate the hours
and days spent on such trips When the
House was in session. The resolution
stated tthat the ewpenditure of State
money was entire'lv unnecessary as the
State Board of Public Oharities had
already done t'he work. The resolution
was laid aside for printing. The House
recessed until 8 o 'clock to-night.
LAFRfIKCECETS CONTRACT
FOR CITY FIRE APPARATUS
Caallnued Prom Pint Pace.
for SIB,O-00, the balance in the tire
apparatus loan fund, which now is
available.
The Mayor thought "the only way
to be fair to the bidders" would be
to roadvertiae for bids, since the Mor
ton company withdrew. To give the
American LaFrance an opportunity to
put in a special offer after the amounts
of the other proposals submitted by
tire appsratus firms became knowu,
and then accept that offer, the Mayor
said in his opiaion is most unfair to
the other bidders. The LaFrance com
pany's latest offer, the Mayor pointed
out, is comparatively $2,600 less than
the one submitted under the competi
tive bidding and he said, "I cannot
understand how a firm can cut prices
that way unless it was originally in
tended to skin the city."
Taylor said hp thought the city
would be getting a bargain through
his latest buying plan, besides he said,
he spent severij days dickering with
the American LaFrance company be
fore it agreed to furnish the two' com
bination wagons and one tractor at
his price of SIO,BOO. "We had many
telephone conversations and a num
ber of Jetters passed." he said, "jnd
they called me a.Jew and everythiing
else.''
Commissioner Taylor sought and
obtained a postponement of action on
his pending ordinance which provides
for the purchase of a plot at Fifth
and Emerald streets, to be used ax a
playground—for $27,000. A similar
strip of ground immediately north of
the plot in question, Taylor said, has
been offered by Joseph L. Shearer, Jr.,
for $26,500. Besides the owners of
the $27,000 plot verbally havo agreed
to cut $1,00.0 from the purchase price.
CIGARETTE CAUSES FIRE
Blaze at 438 Market Street Calls Out
the Firemen
When firemen were cailed out to ex
tinguish the flames in one of the rooms
of fhe Bergstresser 'house, 438 Market
street, last nig'lut, they fouud the door
of the apartment occupied bv Philip
Crawford looked. When entrance was
gained a (bathrobe, flannel shirt and
razor strop hanging on the door were
found to 'be burning, ''following an in
vestigation Fire Ohief Kindler said a
lighted cigarette had ignited some of
the wearing apparel.
A slight fire of unknown origin broke
out in t'he cellar .beneath the billboard
at Third and Walnut streets yesterday
afternoon at 4 o'clock. The .Friendship
truck was called out and the blaze ex
tinguished in a few minutes.
('. V. H. R. ANNUAL REPORT
34,525,410 Passengers Carried One
Mile During Year 1914
A total of 1,688,075 passengers were
carried on the 163.65 miles of track of
the Cumberland Valley railroad during
the year 1914. Each passenger rode on
an average of 11.29 miles, of 34,5*25,-
440 passengers carried one mile. This
was a decrease of 2,139,238 in com
parison with the. year 1913.
The freight department carried 2,-
756,584 tons one mile, a decrease of
546,748 tons from 1913. The net rev
enues from freight per mile was $5,-
735.41, a decrease of $543.39 over the
f-recediug year.
AUTOMOBILE CO. CHARTERED
B. F. and W. B. Blough and George O.
McFarland Are the Incorporators
The Harrisburg Automobile Com
pany, with a capital of $5,000, to deal
in automobiles and automobile supplies,
was chartered to-day. The incorpora
tors are W. R. Blough, B. F. Blough and
George G. McFarland, Harrisburg.
Charters were also issued to tihe
Bank of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia,
with $50,000 capital, and the Miners'
Mutual Fire Insurance Compaay, of
Shamokin.
SEES FLAG HE SAVED IN WAS
Representing the Coursin Street
Methodist church, of MrKeesport, Cap
tain C. C. Fawcott who is in the city in
the interest of the local option hill,
came to Harrisburg yesterday 4'or the
first time since 1861.
During t'he war Captain Fawcott was
color sergeant of the Sixty-third Reg
iment, P. V. 1., anu was stationed at
Camp Ourtin for a time. He saved his
flag many times from the enemy and
saw it yesterday for the first time since
1863, when it was presented to the
State hy the regiment.
Two Arrested on Bobbery Charge
Charged with robbing John Tanner,
641 Calder street, of his watch, Ed
ward Mason and William Jackson, both
colored, were arrested last night by
Policemen Brine and Owens. The al
leged holdup occurred on Cowden
street off Market, and when the police
arrived on the scene Mason tried to
escape. He ran up Cowden street with
the officer in pursuit and it was not un
til the latter opened fire on him that
he was captured.
Roceptlon for Ninety-two
A reception will be given this even
ing at 8 o'clock at the Fourth Re
formed church, the Rev. Homer S. May,
pastor, to the ninety-two new members
received during the Easter season.
There will be a musical program and
COMEDY IS SUPREME ON
PLEASING fIRPBEUM BILL
Sub Mann m Funny u Ever in V«-
hlcU, "Lots and Lots of It"—
Lawtons, In Character Songs, Have
Delightful Act
Comedy is supreme on the new bill
nt the Orpheum, which might safely be
judged to be even better than last
week's exceileut show. Sum Mann is
as funny as ever in his vehicle of the
Beasou, "Lots anil Lots of It," a real
estate play, which is really pleasing.
Diamond and Brennan, in their
sketcih. "Nifty Nonsense,'' hnve some
new things to do, and they do them
rather better than most performers
who present "boy and girl" acts.
Bradley and Norris, "Tn Loveland,"
may seem to have a sort of flirtation
act, too, but it proves in the end to be
an exhibition of skiUfnl bicycle riding.
Holt, the mimic, deserves all the
loud applause he draws fortih, ns does
Trovotto, the violinist, who cannot
make his eyes behave. And r.s delight
ful an act as any of the kind which
lias appeared at the Orpheuin lihis sea
son is that cf Charles, Mabel and Alice
Lawton, in pleasing character songs.
U. S. AWAITS NEXT
MOVE OF BRITAIN
CaaltnnrU From Ktrai< I'liitr.
pose upon His Majesty's government
■heavy. responsibilities for the acts of
the British authorities. The note con
cludes with the hope that the British
government, "having considered these
possibilities, will take the steps neces
sary to avoid them, and, in the event
that they should unhappidly occur, will
be prepared to make full reparation for
every act which under the rules of in
ternational law constitutes a violation
of neutral rights."
While the American note (Toes not
ask a reply President Wilson told callers
to-day he expected one. The President
described the American note as not be
ing argumentative but just, a statement
of the understanding of the United
States 011 the law in the ease.
Other international questions were
not discussed by the President witill
callers. He refused to make any com
ment on the Japanese situation, saying
the question was so fluid that no defi
nite statement could lie made about it. .
The President said he was awaiting
further information about the case of
C. Thrasher, drowned in the sink
ing of the British shi.p Falaba by a
Herman submarine before deciding" 011
representations to Germanv.
PECOUD CONTINUES DARING
EXPLOITS IN CAME OF WAR
Paris. April S, 5.15 A. M.—Auother
daring exploit has been added to the
long list of those successfully carried
out by Adotphe Pegoud, t.he famous
French aviator, who is reported to have
attacked and brought down a German
Taube near Saint Menehould while he
was alone on patrol duty April 2.
The report of the incident says that
when Pegoud saw the German approach
ing he tiew rapidly toward the hostile
air craft and sent it to earth with a
few well-placed shots. Pegoud then
landed beside the Tsube and took pris
oner the German pilot and observer,
neither of whom was injured.
Earlier in the same day Pegoud is
reported to have driven off three other
German aeroplanes, one of which had
dropped nine bombs on a railroad sta
tion.
Pegoud, who first gained fame in
1913 as the originator of the feat of
flying upside down in an aeroplane, was
awarded the French military medal
early in March for services rendered
the army during the war.
LATE WAR~NEWS SMIARY
Continued From Flrat Pag*.
shipping, and to-day's dispatches re
port the sinking of two more vessels.
The British steamer Northlands and the
trawler Agantha were torpedoed near
the English coast. The crews were res- ,
cued.
The torpedoing of the Italian steam
er Luigi Parodi, reported last night, is
believed in Oenoa to have occurred off
the coast of Spain, indicating a consid
erably increased range of operations for
the large submarines such as Germany
Is now using. Another Italian steamer,
the Pina, is overdue at Cardiff by about
a month and it is feared she has been
torpedoed.
Germany Protests to Uncle Sam
Washington, April 6.—-Germany has
protested to the United States against
the detention of the Hamburg-Ameri
can liner Odenwald at San Juan, Porto
Rico, under the neutrality regulations.
J. M. WIX DIES OF PNEUMONIA
James At. Wix, formerly proprietor
of the Paxtonia hotel, died very sud
denly yesterday at his home at "Colonial
Acres, near Hainton, following an ill
ness of pneumonia. For tihe past sev
eral years Mr. Wix had 'been a promi
nent trucker north of Penibrook. Sur
viving are'his wife, IMrs. May Wix; two
sons, Leißoy R. and 'Harry C., and his
uiothor, Mrs. Mary E. Wix.
Funeral services will be held at his
home Thursilay afternoon at 2 o'clock,
the services to be conducted 'by the
Rev. J. 0. Forncrook, pastor of the
Pen-brook Church of God. Interment
will be in the East ceme
tery.
Joseph Lilley
Joseph Lilley, aged 46 years, died
suddenly t"his morning at 'his home, 638
Mhiench srtreet, from heart trouble. .He
was an employe of the Division street
transfer of the Pennsylvania railroad.
He was a member of the Brotherhood
of America and the United Brethren
church, Columbia. Surviving are his
widow and two children, Alfred and
Mrs. Cloyd Collier.
Funeral services will be held at his
home Thursday evening at 7.45 o'clock
and will ibe conducted by t'he Rev. 8.
Edwin Rupip, pastor of t'he Ottertjein
United 'Brethren church. The Wiv will
he taken to Columbia Friday morning
<by Undertakers T. 'M. !Mauk •& Son,
where interment wi'll take plaice.
Visiting Representative Habgood
Representative R. P. Habgood, of
McKeaa county, is entertaining his
wife and three children and .Mrs. Hab
good's sister, Miss Emily Sheaffer, of
Rochester, N. Y., at his apartments,
1621 North Second street.
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COURT
MANY NEW BUUHNMS
Inspector Grove Issues Permits For
Structures Costing SI I,'JOO
Building permits for new buildings
ami improvements costing $11,200
were issued by Building Inspector
•lames H. Grove, as follows: Harry
Suavely, one-story brick garage, 120ti
Derry street, $200; Charles Cooper,
one-story frame stable, 905 South
Twentieth street, $100; Mrs. I{. L.
Lutz, two-story brick stable, 1345
Howard street, $1,200; F. A. Gibson,
addition to three-story home at 1111
North Third street, SSOO.
Copenhaver & Garrett, four, two and
one-half story brick houses, Mahan
tongo and Lexington streets, $7,500;
Charles H. Reese, remodeling 5S North
Eighteenth street, $«>00; Klizabeth A.
Miiler, two-story brick garage, 512
North Second street, s3o'o; .Tohu
Giede three-story brick
house, 1312 North Third street, SSOO.
Letters Granted
Letters of administration 011 the
estate of John Klinger, late of this
city, to-day were issued to William H.
Hoover.
Marriage License
Lewis 'Donicmack, Wieonisco. anit
Anna Garbage, Newark, N. .T.
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McFall's Is Not a
High-Price, But a
High»Grade Store
'"THE men who wear
the shirts, ties, hats
and furnishings we en
dorse stand apart from the
average—the qualities are su
perior at the prices asked
elsewhere. As a test try a
McPall shirt at any price aud
note its unusual value.
Open Evenings
McFall's
Hatter", Jlen'a FiiruiMhcr* ami
Shirt Mukern
THIRD AND MARKET
TO THE PUBLIC
Would you like to see
the various methods used
in the transmission of
speech?
Then, you are cordially
invited to visit the ex
hibit on "Telephony" in
the Cumberland Valley
Telephone Building on
Federal Square.
The exhibit will be open
to-morrow and Thursday.
Phone Exhibit
227 Federal Square