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THE WEATHER
FAUt TO-NIGHT
CLOUDY TO MORROW
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IT HORSE. HELD
IA OA L OF $509
He Is Identified by Miss
Waters, of State Hos
pital, As Man Who
Accosted Her
SHE FACES HIM
IN POLICE COURT
Bays She Is Positive He Is the Man
Who Approached Her on the Street
and Ran Away When She Com
plained to a Policeman
Clarence Dorsev, a negro, was iden
tified in police court this afternoon by
Miss Frances Waters, a nurse at the
(State Hospital for the Insane, as the
man who followed her for almost four
blocks in the heart of the city between
S and 9 o 'clock last evening, and who
escaped when Miss Waters appealed for
aid to Patrolman Coleman, at Third
and Waluut streets, but was arrested
in the Eighth ward early this morning
by Patrolmen McCann and Parsons.
Dorsey was held under SSOO bail by
Mayor RoyaJ for appearance in court
on a charge of assault and battery with
attempt to rob.
Patrolman Coleman, who chased the
negro who annoyed Miss Waters
through back streets, looked at the man
who later was arrested on suspicion and
identified him enough to satisfy Lieu
tenant Worden. who committed him to
jail to await further identification by
Miss Waters.
Miss Water 3 was first approached by
the negro on i»econd street just above
Pine street. His attentions antoyed
her and she turned out Pine street to
ward Third street. At Court and Pine
streets he asked her to turn down Court
street and she brushed past him and
continued on her w»v to Third street,
turning down Third ee. o Walnut,
where she walked up to Patrolman
Coleman.
Miss Waters barely had time to
speak a few words, pointing out the ne
gro, when he made off out Walnut
street, turning toward Market on Aber
deen. The policeman ran to Fourth
and Walnut streets in an effort to head
him off. thinking he was making toward
a house well known to the police, near
Cowden and Strawberry streets, where
it would bo easy to elude pursuit.
The negro «aw the policeman turn
into Strawberry from Fourth street
and he turned on his heels and disap
peared in one of the back streets.
Miss Waters immediately made a
full report to the police, giving a de
scription of the man. which was given
in turn to all of the policemen on duty
last night. The arrest of Dorsey was
made from this description.
OUT-OF-DOOR WORK GIVES
JOBS TO MANY CITY MEN
Improvements Along the River Front,
in Second Street and Market Square
and Elsewhere Reduce Number of
Unemployed in Harrisburg
City Improvement work now is well
started for the spring, with many men
employed ajid scores of others to be
added within the next several weeks.
The Stucker Brothers Construction
Company has its regular force working
on the river wall job in the northern
part of the city and yesterday made a
record run by laying 77 blocks of the
concrete pavement at the top of the
wall. These paving blocks are six feet
square.
The Central Construction & Supply
Company is busy setting granite curb
ing preliminary to paving Derry street,
while the Harrisburg Railways Com
pany is relaying its Second street
tracks, in and around Mulberry streets,
where improvements have been maile
incident to th c subway construction.
Work on this new line has so far ad
vanced that the railways company
will, within a few days,—possibly to
morrow, —begin laying the concrete
base for the paving.
• With an enlarged force, W. H. Op
perman is making rapid headway with
the construction of the new sewer sec
tions iu Second street and Market
square.
Since work liar been completed on
the dirt fill along the river front, be
tween Calder and Maelay street, City
forester 11. J. Mueller has been laving
plans for tree planting along the riv
er front and work to that end was be
gun this morniug. Young c lm trees are
to be planted, forty feet apart, all
along the river front. Oriental plants
and shrubbery also will be placed along
the bank, under the supervision of the
'.Forester. This is Mr. Mueller's first
tree planting here since he was appoint
ed several weeks ago. Until to-day he
had been busy removing dead trees and
trimming others.
Typhus Fatal to Dr. Magruder
Washington, April 9.—Dr. Ernest P.
Magruder, of this city, one of the phy
sicians at the head of the American
Red Cross unit in Serbia, has fallen a
victim to typhus fever. iHis death was
reported to-day from Belgrade to Bed
Cross headquarters here.
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GOVERNOR NAMtS
MILITARY STAFF
New Members Are
Young, Kolb, Gribbel,
Cummings and Shoe
maker—s Retained
COLONEL O'NEILL
MADE GENERAL
Contemplated Increases by Railroads in
the Charges for Carrying Soldiers
May Interfere With Tentative Plans
for Guard Encampments
Announcement was made to-day by
Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart,
chief of staff of the National Guard,
that Governor Brumbaugh has appoint
ed the following members of his staff
with the rank of lieutenant colonel:
James Elverson, Jr., Philadelphia, re
appointed; Oliver S. Hershman, Pitts
burgh, reappointed; Thomas E. Murphy,
Philadelphia, reappointed; Samuel D.
Lit, Philadelphia, reappointed; Benja
min Wolf, Philadelphia, reappointed;
Edward M. Young, Allentown, Lehigh
county; Louis J. Kolb, Philadelphia;
John Gribbel, Montgomery county; J.
Howell Cummings, Berks county, and
Henry W. Shoemaker, Altoona, Blair
county.
It was also announced by Adjutant
General Stewart that the Governor has
appointed Colonel C. T. O'Neill, of Al
lentown, commander of the Fourth regi
ment, senior colonel of the division and
a colonel for sixteen years, to be briga
dier general commanding the Fourth
brigade, succeeding Brigadier General
J. B. Coryell, Philadelphia, whose com
mission expired. General Coryell was
formerly commander of the Twelfth
and Sixth regiments.
It also was announced at National
Guard headquarters that Brigadier
Generals C. M. Clement, Sunbury, com
mander of the Third brigade, and Wil
liam G. Price, Jr., Philadelphia, com
mander of the First brigade, have been
reappointed. They were assigned to
the same commands.
Governor Brumbaugh 's staff appoint
ments number three, fewer than those
of Governor Tener. The aids ou the
Tener staff nltt- reappointed in the list
of to-day are James W. Fuller, Jr.,
Catasauqna; Walter T. Bardley, Phila
delphia; Andrew B. Berger, Pittsburgh;
C. C. Pratt, New Milford; Samuel D„
Foster, Pittsburgh, who just has re
signed as chief engineer of ttio State
Highway Department; William H.
Kaul, St. Mary's; Frank Connell, Erie,
and Lewis E. Beitler, Philadelphia .
Within a few days general orders
Cnntlnned on Thirteenth Pas*.
VICIOUSLY ATTACKED BY CAT
"Johnnie" Hayes, Peanut Vender, Ter
ribly Scratched on Hands by Pet
Johnny Hayes, who hangs up his hat
at 611 Walnut street when not selling
double-jointed peanuts, went about his
work with his hands swathed in band
ages to-day, all because he did not
speak in his usual cheery voice to his
pet tabby cat when he went into the
cellar of his home early this morning
to get a bucket of coal.
Tabby, not recognizing its master,
leaped from a dark corner and dug both
front paws into Johnny s hands, inflict
ing terrible scratches on the left one.
Only the little finger of the right hand
was scratched.
Haves applied at the HarrisbuTg
hospital for treatment, where his name
■was registered as "John R. Hayes."
Few persons know nini by any "other
name than "Johnny."
I). C. 81'CORMICK A DIRECTOR
Chosen to Succeed Late John Weaver
On Chestnut St. Market Board
The stockholders of the Chestnut
Street Market Company, besides de
claring the regular semi-annual divi
dent of 2 1-2 per cent., at their meet
ing last evening, elected the following
board of nine directors:
W. J. Lescure, H. E. Hershey, Don
ald C. McCormick, Samuel Kunkel,
John Hoffer, Jr., J. H. Shopp, C. H.
Bergner, Robert McCormick and
George W. Reily. Donald C. McCor
mick succeeds the late John Weaver.
All the other directors were chosen to
succeed themselves.
The directors will meet on May 11
to elect officers and transact general
business.
LORIMER MUST STAND TRIAL
Former U. S. Senator Charged With
Wrecking Chicago Bank
By Associated Press,
Chicago, April 9.—William Lori
mer, former United States Senator and
other officials of the defunct La Bailee
Street Trust and Savings bank, must
stand trial on State charges of con
spiring to wreck the institution.
This was the effect of a decision in
criminal court to-dav by which a mo
tion to quash the indictment was over
ruled and twenty-four of the twenty
five counts in the document were sus
tained.
Great Grandmother at 40
Marion, Ind., April 9. —By the birth
of a boy baby to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Cole, Nelson street, Mrs. Bertha Shriv
er, 32, and Mrs. Ella Moonshower, 49,
both of this city, became grandmother
and great-grandmother, respectively.
Mrs. Cole, the mother, was 15 years
old in January, and Mr. Cole, the fa
ther, is 18 years ><ld.
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1915-14 PAGES.
me DEPAIIffIEIT
STORE INVOLVED
Receivers Are Appoint
ed For the J.B, Green
hut Company In New
York
FORMERLY WITH
SIEGEL CONCERN
Receivership Was Applied for in a Suit
Brought by the Monmouth Securi
ties Company, Based Upon an Al
leged Indebtedness of 9200,000
By Associated Press.
New York, April 9.—'Receivers were
appointed to day by Federal Judge Hand
for the J. B. Greenhut Company, wliieh
operates a large department store in
this city. The receivership was applied
for in a suit brought by the Monmouth
Securities Company and the defendant
consented to the appointment. Walter
C. Noyes and William A. Warble were
named as receivers fey the court. The
amount of their bond was fixed at
SIOO,OOO.
The J. B. Greenhut Company had an
authorized and outstanding capital
stock of $6,000,000 and a bond issue
of $6,000,000 sinking fund gold six
per cent, bonds. Under the provisions
of the bond issue, $150,000 worth of
the bonds were to be retired annually.
The Central Trust Company of New-
York is trustee.
Was Identified With Siegel-Cooper
Two corporate changes have been
made since the incorporation of the
original firm, Greenhut & Co., Novem
ber 16, 1910. The first occurred when
Greeuhut & Company became consoli
dated with the Siegel-Cooper Company
under the name of the Greenhut-Siegel-
Cooper Company. In May of last year
the firm name was changed to the J. B.
Greenhut Company. J. B. Greenhut is
president of the firm.
The department stores conducted by
the company, long known as the Siegel-
Cooper stores, Occupies both blocks on
Sixth avenue, 'between Eighteenth and
Nineteenth streets.
Assets of the store are listed in the
complaint of $7,465,419, including
Continued on Thirteenth Pace.
FIRST STRAW HAT OUT
Its Wearer Brought Out ' 'L. Y." and
Kept It on Allison Hill
Residents of Allison Hill who -went
to the movies on the Hill last evening
were treated to the first straw hat of
the season. A brave young man donned
the summer headgear and strutted about
Thirteenth street, impervious to the
"kidding" he received, until after 11
o 'clock.
The hat was an "1. y." and will
have to be swathed in a" grey band if
it wants to be in the best class this
season.
NOTEDWINESE EDITOR TO
BE MOZZLE CLUB'S GUEST
Hon. Ching Fu Ki, Head of the Depart
ment of Journalism at University
of Shanghai, Expected to Speak in
Native Tongne at Dinner To-morrow
An invitation has been extended to
the Hon. Ching Fu Ki, dean of the de
partment of journalism of the Univer
sity of Shanghai, China, to be the guest
DEAN CI UNO FU KI
Distinguished Chinese Journalist to At
tend Muzzle Club Dinner
of honor at the annual dinneT of the
Muzzle Club, composed of the newspa
per writers of Harrisburg, which will
be held in the Harrisburg Club to-mor
row evening.
Word was received to-day from Dean
Ki that if possible he will stop in Har
risburg a few hours on Saturday even
ing to attend the dinner. He "is now
on his way from Siyi Francisco, where
he has just arrived from Shanghai, to
the Chinese Embassy, in Washington,
where he will be a guest during a brief
stay in America. This is his first visit
to America where he proposes to study
the journalistic methods of this coun
try. He has not yet mastered the Eng
lish language but has promised, through
his American-speaking secretary, to
Continued on Eleventh Page.
BETHLEHEM GOES
TOllslll MARKET
Steel Stock Makes Sen
sational Gains and
Losses In To-day's
Transactions
2,000 SHARES
CHANGE HANDS
Nearly All the Dealings Are in
Small Amounts, However, Many
Odd Lots of Lees Than One Hun
dred Shares Being Involved
New York, April 9.—lnterest in to
day's stock market centered mainly
around Bethlehem Steel by reason of
the sensations! movement in that stock
yesterday. The opening transactions
consisted of 2,000 shares at 110 to
107, compared with yesterday's close
of 105. The stock tjicn declined to
105, 104 and 103. It soon recovered,
however, selling at 115. Nearly all
the dealings were small amounts, many
odd lots of less than 100 shares chang
ing han. is.
From 111 Bethlehem Steel went
back to 108, then up again to 111.
The stock became less prominent as
other shares ascended on the largest
first hour of business recorded since
the days immediately preceding the
war. At that time, however, the activ
ity was on falling prices. To-day's
early trading was all in the other di
rection, the rise being accelerated by
peace rumors and favorable domestic
trade conditions as reported by the
Treasury Department. Failure of a
large local department store was with
out effect or sentiment.
Higher prices were scored in all
parts of the list later in the day, U. S.
Steel holding its place as leader' with a
gain of over four points on enormous
trading. Total dealings uip to 2 o'clock
exceeded 900,000 shares, which estab
lished a record for any day since the
latter part of last July.
Authorities of the Kxcliange issued
a statement in the afternoon absolv
ing its members from manipulation or
unfair practices in connection with yes
terday's rise in Bethlehem Steel. The
stock was offered in the loan market
after the close of business yesterday
with premium, it was said.
TABERNACLE CHORISTER WELL
Redden, Leader of Music for Maryg
ville Trail-hitters, Quits Hospital
Benjamin Redden choir leader for
Evangelist Hillis, who is conducting
the tabernacle c-ampaign in Marysville,
returned to-day to his evangelistic
work, having fully recovered from an
attack of appendi ; ; tis.
He was stricken on March 11, the
day t>he campaign opened in Marysville,
and was operated on the following day
in the Harrisburg hospital. Mr. Red
den 's recovery was slow, but he is satis
fied to be able to join the evangelistic
party before its departure from Marys
ville. He left the hospital last night.
LABfIRREE TELLS
OFKDHBK
Describes In Detail the
Flight of Christians
From Urumiah and
Other Places
APPEALS TO RED
CROSS FOR AID
Mr. Labarree Also Asks the Presby
terian Board of Foreign Missions
For $50,000 to Relieve the Suf
fering People of Urumiah
By Associated Pros.
New York, April 9.—"A fearful
rate of mortality," amouj the- 10,000
refugees crowded into the yards of the
American mission at Urumiah where,
it is said, 5,000 persons could scarce
ly find accommodations is reported in
a communication received here to-day
through the State Department at
Washington by the Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Missions. So great
was the menace, it is said in the com
munication that for a while it was un
safe for any one to leave the premises
and consequently the bodies of the
dead could not be buried, Later, when
the way was opened, the communica
tion declares, one missionary was kept
busy attending to the burial of the
dead. At times on an average of forty
refugees diedt every day.
The communication which is a copy
of one sent to F. W. Smith, American
consul at Tiflis, Persia, by the Rev.
Robert M. Labarree, of Urumiah, de
scribed in detail the flight of Chris
tians not only from Urumiah but from
all Azerbijan' provinces after the with
drawal of the Russian troops and then
continued in part an follows:
"Of the thousands who were forced
to remain behind, their villages being
C'ontlaned on Blevntk I'age.
LANDMARKS THAT HAVE GONE
FROM SOUTH SECOND STREET
Dr. Hugh Hamilton Tells History of Buildings
in Once Aristocratic Section That Have Been
Wiped Out in Path of Improvements
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FIRST POSTOFFICE, 302 SOUTH SECOND STREET
Building Razed for Railroad Improvements Where John Wyoth, the First Post-
master, Took Charge August 10, 170:1
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THE HISTORIC MANSION HOUSE
The street was originally at the level of the front door where tlio balcony
is seen. The borough cut the street down to bring it to the level with the
railroad tracks. Now they are digging 22 feet down to put the street under
the railroad tracks. This building was at the northeast corner of Second and
Mulberry streets. General Lafayette stopped in this hotel in 1821.
Dr. Hugh Hamilton, who for years
was a resident of that section of
South Second street—one of the very
oldest parts of the city—that has re
cently been razed to make way for
the Pennsylvania railroad froight re
ceiving station and tracks the
South Second street subway, made an
historic address before the Dauphin
County Historical Society last even-
NEW SET OF BIDS SAVES
SI ,135 ONFIRE QUARTERS
Total of Low Proposals For Construc
tion of Royal Company's Home Is
17,402 and Commissioner Taylor
Will Recommend Awards
Through advertising a second time
for bids for the construction of the
proposed new Royal Fire Company 's
house, Derrv street, near Twenty-first,
Park Commissioner Taylor to-day ob
tained new proposals in which the
combined total of the low bids on the
various specifications approximate
$7,402, or $1,133 below the combined
amount of the low bids received on
March 27, last.
With these latest bids the $7,500
appropriated for the erection of the
fire house is sufficient to finance the
improvement and to leave a balance
in the fire house fund. Commissioner
Taylor, after opening the bids, an
nounced that he is entirely satisfied
with the new proposals and will ask
the City Commission, probably at the
meeting on Tuesday, to confirm his
award of the contracts for building
and furnishings, to the several low
bidders.
Some slight changes were made in
Coatlnued on Klrveath I'age.
ing in which he told of South Second
street in the years gone by when it
was an aristocratic neighborhood.
With his talk Dr. Hamilton dis
played photographs of many of the old
buildings which have been torn down.
One of these was Harrisburg's first
poetoffice at 202 South Second street,
Continued on I2ljfhth I>ase.
LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
A further advance in the region be
tween the Meuse and Moselle rivers,
where a concentrated attack was be
gun by the allies several days ago, Is
announced to-day by the French mili
tary authorities. It is said that trenches
were captured at several points, and in
some instances they were choked with
the dead.
The German v. ar office says the bat
tle is proceeding with Increasing fierce
ness and heavy loss of life, but that
the efforts of the allies were unavailing.
On the contrary, it is said, the Germans
succeeded capturing trenches from the
French,
The village of Drei Gratchen, which
the Germans captured only to lose on
the following day, has been again taken
from the Belgians, the Berlin state
ment announces.
In the German campaign against
Russia a new fighting has developed
north of Suwalki, the result of which
Continued on Eleventh Pace.
Injured When Knocked Fro A Bicycle
Harry Wilhelm, 17 years old, 1419
Market street, was knocked from his
bicycle by an automobile at Cameron
and Berryhill streets this morning, sus
taining a laceration above the left eye
and bruises of the left arm and left
leg. He was treated at the Harrisburg
hospital.
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE CENT.
TRENCHES
ARE CHOKED
BY CORPSES
British Troops Repel
Night Attack of Ger
mans at Eparges
With Awful Result
LATTER CEASE
THEIR ATTACKS
At Ailley the Allies Capture New
Trenches and Repulse Two Counter
Attacks—Take Six Machine Ouns
and Two French Mortars
Paris, April 9, via .London, 2.40 P.
—The official communication from
the War Office this afternoon follows;
"'British troops rebelled during the
night of April 7-8 a German attack. We
left unoccupiod in the teeth of the
enemy Germpn trenches at Mparges
Whic.li were completely choked with
corpses, and we repelled at the close of
the day two counter attackg by the
"In the wood at. Ailley we captured
uow trenches and repelled two counter
attacks, as already reported. We aleo
secured six machine guns and two
trench mortars. The enemy censed his
counter attacks after middav."
Joffre Rushing His Advance
London, April 9, 11.55 A. M.—Th®
French movement between the Meusa
and the Lorraine frontier is developing
a distinct offensive, with General Joffre
pushing his advance, while the Germans
are making fierce counter attacks. This
is the substance of the latest dispatches
reaching I>ondon from the continent.
According to an analysis of the sit
uation by the French General Staff, the
French offensive movement of the last
few days has been on three sectors. The
first, is on a front of fourteen miles to
the east of Verdun, the actual line run
ning southeast from a point near Etain;
the second on a front between St. Mihiel
and Pont a Mousson, where the French
are attacking from the south, and the
third is in the north in the vicinity Of
Gussninville, where the French now
d(Alioate the valley of the Orne and
are threatening the railroad beyond the
river Ornc with attack.
1,000 Dead Germans on Field
The French advance is thus being
pressed from three bases in throe differ
ent directions. Affording to Pnris offi
cial reports French forces on fronts
many miles long have occupied new
ground measuring from several hundred
yards to two miles deep. That the Ger
man resistance to these advances has
been stubborn is indicated by the
French report that the Hermans dn
one point of the attack left 1,000 dead
on the field.
SI'ES A BROKER FOR $1,400
William Russ Goes to Court With
Claim Based on Stock Transaction
A civil 11 it 011 n claim for $1,400,
filed in the office of the court clerk
this morning by William Russ, of this
city, against H. W. Suavely, who for
several years has conducted a stock
brokers' office in the Arcade building,
Court anil Strawberry streets, led to
the confirmation by Mr. Suavely this
afternoon of a report that a Now
York brokerage firm with which ho
transacted business has failed.
Mr. Suavely said he had no state
ment to make other than that his wire
connection with the New York firm
was cut off yesterday and that while
he had a "substitute" wire connec
tion, he was not doing business to
dav.
Russ' lawyer and Suavely both said
that the suit is based upon a stock
transaction. •
At the office of Lescure, Suavely &
Company, North Market square, it was
said that H. W. Snavely is in no way
connected with that firm.
Assemblyman Jumps to Death
'Milwaukee, Wis., April 9.—Chris
topher Paulus, 61, a member of the
State Assembly, to-day jumped from the
tenth story of the First National bunk
building and was instantly killed.
Discovered Diphtheria Bacillus
Berlin, April 9, Via London, 4.30
P. M.—The death is announced of Pro
fessor Frierii-ieh Ijoeffler, the German
scientist who in 1884 discovered the
diptbtheria bacillus. Dr. Loeffler was
born in 18S2.
WALL STREET CLOSING
Mew York, April o.—Dealings la the
final hour became increasingly active
at highest prices of the day. Steel's
rise ran to over Biz points. The closing
was buoyant. The strength and activity
of to-day's market exceeded any session
of recent years. Gains in leading stocks
ran from 3 to fl points.