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d"c a^"™ d vol. 77—NO. 126.
FORESTER WOULD SPEND
SIOO,OOO TO $160,000
DDT HASN'T DOT A CENT
City Commissioners,
Who Failed to Make
Budget Provision
Except for Mueller's
Salary, Are Con
fronted With Prob
lem of Meeting Big
Expenses if New Bu
reau Is to do Any
thing
$2,000 ASKED FOR
WOULDNTGOFAR
Forester Declares That
Amount of Money
Would Only be
Enough to Clear Up
a Small Part of Front
Street Park —He
Wants to Remove
20,000 Destructive
Poplar Trees to Do
Which Would Eat up
An Amount Equal to
the Entire $ 100,000
Park Loan
If, as recommended by City Forester
Harry J. Mueller, the City Commission
ers decide to remove the 20,000 or
more North Carolina poplar trees—also
known as seven-mile rooters-—from
this, Father IHarris' town, statisticians
estimated to-day, it would only cost
somewhere between SIOO,OOO and
$160,000. These expert mathematic
ians expressed the opinion that the
work might be done for the whole
amount of the park loan, SIOO,OOO, ap
proved by the voters in 1913.
The proposition of removing the pop
lars, along with other forestry matters,
has been submitted to the City Com
missioners and next week they will be
asked to pass an ordinance giving the
Forester an appropriation to carry out
a his work during the 1915 seasou. If
it is decided to remove all poplar trees,
the Commissioners will have to give
Mr. Mueller as much as SIOO,OOO.
However, some of the Commissioners,
when asked about it, squinted, squirmed,
blinked and then smiled. Then they
passed along th.? "tip" that "we will
not do anything like that."
It is intimated, however, that the
Forester may got a part if not all of his
first requisition of $2,000 for other
work he believes to be necessary.
How Far SSOO Went
The members of the City Commission
all are familiar with the fact that the
Forester began his knife and ax work
in Front street park, some five or six
weeks ago. with a force of eight men.
This already has cost the City ssoo—
SSOO more than had been an
ticipated. As one student of the for
estry situation remarked to-day:
"The City fathers seem to have lost
sight of the fact that a City Forester
can do nothing unless some funds are
put at his disposal."
Some of the Commissioners have sud
denly awakened to the fact that the
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BAND CONCERT MONEY' FOUND
$114.01 Still Remaining in Similar
Fund From Former Years
The Harrisburg Band Concert Asso
ciation will get unexpected help in its
campaign to raise funds for summer
• band concerts in the city if persons
who formerly financed band concerts
will co-operato with the present asso
ciation and turn over a surplus fund
of $114.04 which is on deposit in a lo
cal bank for band concerts.
This amount will almost pay for an
afternoon and evening concert. The
association will take action at its next
meeting and make application to the
men whd had charge of the fund in
former years for a transfer of the
• funds.
NEWSBOYS WILL ORGANIZE
Invited to Meet at 8 O'clock To-night
to Form a Social Club
With a view to forming a newsboys
organization, newsboys and carriers of
this city have been invited to attend
a meeting to be held at the Harrisburg
•News Agency, 108 Chestnut street, this
evening, at 8 o'clock.
The organization will be of a social
t nature. It is believed the boys will
open a club room in the central section
of the city where they can meet and
have a good, social time. TheTe are
about 250 boys of the city eligible to
membership.
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ONE PROPERTY OWNER A 1
'HARDSCRABBLE' BEARING
Viewers Announce That Next Friday
Will Be the Last Day on Which
Owners of Properties to Be Razed
May Submit Their Claims
Only one owner of property in
" Hardserabble " submitted himself
this morning for examination before
the iboard of viewers who will deter
mine damages and benefits incident to
the razing of that section of the city
for the "opening'' of Front street be
tween Herr and Calder streets. Those
who have not yet been heard by the
viewers will have only one more op
portunity to express their opinions as
to the values of their homes.
This will be at a meeting to be held
by the viewers next. Friday, at 10 a.
m. Following that, the viewers decid
ed to-day, they will take up the ques
tion of benefits, if any, resulting to
the property owners on the east side
of the street, through the proposed im
provements. The viewers also will hear
those owning property on the east side
who may want to testify and then will
conduct hearings at which the city
may present its side of the case deal
ing with present property values,
damages to be sustained and benefits
that mav accrue.
J. H. Cook was the property owner
who testified this morning. He esti
mated the value of his property at
$4,200. Arguments dealing with pro
cedure and methods to be followed
bythe viewers in determining the dam
ages and benefits were presented brief
ly to the viewers by Casper Dull, rep
resenting J. H. Kurzenknaibe, and by
City Solicitor Seitz.
The viewers expressed displeasure
because so few of the property owners
are taking an active part in the hear
ings and apparently "neglecting their
own interests." In those case where
property owners have retained attor
neys, the lawyers were urged to have
their clients at the hearing' next Fri
day and to be prepared to close the
hearings io so far as the west or river
side property owners are concerned.
The forty-two houses that consti
tute the " Hardserabhle " section that
is to he raz<M, are owned by twenty
eight individuals of whom fewer than
a dozen have testified before the view
ers.
GERMAN WARSHIPS SEEN OFF
BELGIAN COAST, IS REPORT
Fans, April 30, Via London, 2.10
P. M.—German warships have been
seen off the Belgian coast, according to
an official statement given out in Paris
to-day.
Large shells to the number of nine
teen have fallen on Dunkirk.
have been several dispatches
in the past week indicating that Ger
man warships were at large in the
North sea, evidently having evaded the
British men-of-war which for many
months have ben doing patrol duty In
front of the German naval bases on the
eastern side of the North sea.
The latest report along this line was
brought in by Captain Scott, of a Swed
ish steamer, who declared that he had
seen in the North SOP. German fleet
numbering no less than sixty-eight ves
sels of all classes, from battleships to
torpedo boats. The Scott dispatch did
not say where or when the ships had
been sighted, but the inference was
that the incident had occurred wdbhin
a week.
Dunkirk is on the northern coast of,
France, within a few miles of the Bel
gian frontier. It is at the northern en
trance of the English channel and is
to the east of Dover and to the west of
Ostend.
GRAPHAPHONE HEAD DIES
Newspaperman Was Pioneer in Devel
oping Talking Machine
New York, April 30. —Edward L.
Easton, president of the Columbia
Giaphaphone Company and a pioneer in
the development of the talking machine,
died to-day at his home in Areola, N.
J., of a complication of diseases.
When the talking machine was in
the early stages of its development Mr.
Easton gave up his profession of law
and organized the Columbia Phonograph
Company. Four years later, in 1893,
w'hen it was consolidated with the
American Graphaphone Company, he
became president of the consolidation,
known as the Columbia Graphaphone
Company, which position he occupied
until his death. Mr. Easton was for
merly a newspaperman.
MISSING WOMAN'S BODY FOUND
Mrs. Lulu Hopkins Committed Suicide
by Hanging at Trout Bun
Williamsport, Pa., April 30.—The
body of Mrs. Lulu Hopkins, 34, who
had been missing since April 21, was
found to-day hanging from a rafter on
the second story of an out-building
near her home near Trout Ruu.
A search had been made for her over
the countryside and on the mountains
for days. 11l health was the cause of
her act.
HARRTSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1915—16 PAGES.
SCENE ON BOARD DECK OF BRITISH WARSHIP OFF THE DARDANELLES
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On the left hand side of the picture can be seen a party of marines who are in readiness to act as a covering party to the demolition party of
men, who can be seen drawn up on the right, wearing their white cap covers .md carrying (he various implements necessary for their work.
KILLS Li HATES
FOR THE CLERGY
Governor, Himself a
Preacher, Calls the
Plan "Undue Dis
crimination"
RUNS COUNTER
TO CONSTITUTION
He Also Vetoes the Bill Setting Aside
Fart of Liquor License Receipts
For Police Pension Funds in the
Larger Cities of the State
Among four bills vetoed by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh to-day was that
authorizing railroad and other trans
portation companies to give reduced
rate* of transportation to clergymen.
In vetoing the bill the Governor, who
himself has often occupied the pulpit,
issut*! the following:
"These ministers merit at the hands
of the people and of the Common
wealth the highest consideration, but
they must, like all other citizens, con
form to constitutional and statutory
provisions. They have no legal status
other than that of citizens, however
high they should be esteemed by all
persons for their unselfish and holy
services.
"Section 2, Article 17, of the con
stitution clearly intends to prohibit
I absolutely any undue or unreasonable
discrimination between individuals.
No special concessions to any one are
permissible. The act of May 31, 1907,
indicates clearly that this permission
is mandatory by making it a misde
meanor even to attempt its violation.
"However, the Supreme Court has
specifically held this class of people
does not fall within the category ot'
items in which reasonable discrimina
tion is permissible. The mandatory
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MOTOR CLUB TO BUILD ROADS
450 Members Urged to Turn Out In
Overalls on May ae
Every member of the Motor Club
of Harrisburg—there are 450 of them
—will be unged to get into overalls
or working clothes oil Wednesday, May
2'6, which has been proclaimed "Good
Roads Day" in the State, and lend
every effort he can in helping push
along the road improvements in this
section of the State.
The club has secured permission
from the State Highway Department
to concentrate most of its efforts on
sections of the direct road from Har
risburg to Gettysburg in Cumberland
county. Road drags have been provid
ed for and the great, force of motor
ists will drag the roads, dig gutters
ami do any work that the loaders tell
them to do.
In addition delegations from the
club will be designated to lead the
movement for the repair of Dauphin
county roads and these spots are now
being picked out so that they can be
assigned early in May.
TIRES DELAY ROPE STEAMER
Luther Kearns to Drive New Automo
bile Apparatus
The Hope steamer, which is in the
factory of the Front Drive Motor Com
pany in Hoboken being equipped with
a motor tractor, is being held up on
account of the delivery of a set of rub
ber tires for the steamer. The exact
time of its delivery in Harrisburg is
not kuown.
The company will send a representa
tive to Harrisburg with the steamer
to instruct the Hope driver in han-~
dliug the machine. Luther Kearns, the
present driver of the Hope steamer,
will be given the post as chauffeur, it
is exuected.
RAILROADSSAY NEW ORDER
WILL NOT LAY MEN OFF
Declare It Is an Erroneous Idea That
Clerks Will Lose Their Jobs
Through System of Dispatching
Freight to Be Effective To-morrow
The belief that the "continuous
home route" system of dispatching
freight, which becomes effective to
morrow on the Pennsylvania and Phil
adelphia and Reading railroads, :is well
as many other roads west of the Mis
sissippi river, would make it necessary
to furlough a number of car checking
clerks, was declared by railroad of
ficials here to-day to be incorrect. They
said no men will loee their jol»s as a
result of the change.
The new system has been adopted
by many of the large railroads in the
eastern and western territories this side
of the Mississippi river, as well as by
small roads and branches coming in
contact wit h. I bum.
I nder the new system when a car
leaves one rond a "continuous home
route" card will be attached to it,
which will accompany the car until its
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MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS
IN ARMENIA IN PROGRESS
Julfa, Transcaucasia. April i.'9, via
Petrograd and London, April 30,- 4.05
P. M. —A renewal of the recent massa
cres of Christians in Armenia is now
in progress in the whole district of
Lake Van.
(J. A. R. MEMORIAL DAY PLANS
E. B. Hoffman Chosen Chief Marshal
for the Parade
E. B. Hoffman, commander of Post
No. aB, G. A. R., was elected chief mar
shal of the Memorial Day parade, to
be held May 31, by the committee on
arrangements last night. Tho commit
tee also decided to hold the Memorial
Day services in the Derry Street United
Brethren church, the sermon to be
preached by the pastor, the Rev. J. A.
Lyter.
The services will be attended by the
veterans from the three posts of the
city, together with the Sons of Vetor
ans, Spanish-American War Veterans
and Veterans of Foreign Service, who
will meet at the hall of Post 58 and
proceed to the church in a body.
In making their reports it was found
through the sub-committees that there
is not enough markers on hand to sup
ply the grave of each deceased veteran.
Following this a committee, consisting
of Thomas Numbers, Charles Beaver
and dames Auter, was named to go be
fore the County Commissioners and ask
for more markers.
J. George Becht, secretary of the'
State Board of Education, was chosen to
deliver tho address at the Harrisburg
cemetery.
VETERANS TO HOLD REUNION
127 th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun
teers, to Meet at Country Club
Upwards of ono hundred members of
the 127 th regiment, Pennsylvania vol
unteers, will attend the twenty-seventh
annual reunion of the regiment at the
Harrisburg Country Club next Monday
afternoon.
The regiment includes members from
all over the United States, but none
outside of Pennsylvania will be in at
tendance. They will meet in the rooms
of Post No. 58, G. A. R., shortly before
noon and will take a Rockville trolley
car between 12 and 1 o'clock for the
club.
The .program "of the afternoon will
include a dinner, to be followed by the
regular business session.
Logan McKee Out of Hospital
Logan McKee, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerc* of Pittsburgh,
who was stricken with acute appen
dicitis Wednesday afternoon after a
hearing before a Senate Committee,
was discharged from the Harrisburg
hospital this afternoon. He left for
his home at 2.45 o'clock.
TRAGIC DEATH OF
A WEALTH! 11
Found Dead in Ceme
tery at Media With
Bullet Wound in the
Mouth
SUICIDE THEORY
GIVEN BY POLICE
Hunter Brooke's Body Found on Lot In
Which His Parents Are Buried—
Was Member of Weil-Known Phil
adelphia Family
By Assaciatrrt Prrsn.
Philadelphia, April 30.—The liody
of Hunter Hrooke, .Jr., 47 years old, a
wealthy resident of Garden City, L. 1.,
and a member of a prominent Philadel
phia family, was found to-day in a
cemetery at Media, Pa., near here,
with a bullet wound in the mouth. The
body was found on the lot in which
Broqke's father and mother are buried.
The police believe he shot, himself, but
they know of no motive.
Brooke was born in Media, and was
graduated from Swarthmore College.
About fifteen years ago he went to
Garden City and made his home with
his sister, -Mm. John Branden Austin.
He came to Media yesterday from (far
den City anil after eating dinner with
his aunt, went out to the cemetery.
The aunt refuses to say anything
whatever concerning the matter.
Brooke married Miss Kli&abeth
Ball, of Philadelphia, last June.
MURDERER WIVES HIMSELF UP
Haunted by Memory of His Crime Com
mitted 13 Years Ago
By Associated Press,
Pittsburgh, April 30. —Haunted by
the memory of his crime for 13 years,
during which time he wandered over
much of the world, Antonio Rizzo ap
proached District Attorney R. H. Jack
son in the corridor of the Court House
yesterday and confessed that ho had
killed Mikelango Disano in Sharpsburg,
Pa., in
Rizzo said that after *he murder he
went to England and later to South
America. He returned to the United
States in 1906 and located in New Ha
ven, Conn., where he has been ever
since. His conscience troubled him,
however, and he decided to come to
Pittsburgh and givo himself up. Riz
zo, whose bail was fixed at SIO,OOO,
claimed he acted in self-defense.
TEMPERATURE DUE FOR FALL
Thunder Storms Gradually Lower Mer
cury—Hail Here Yesterday
The temperature which has been great
ly in excess of normal since the begin
ning of t>he week is slowly getting back
to normal and a further drop an tem
perature js expected to-night. The hvg-h
'temperature has been tempered gradu
ally by thundred storms. Yesterday's
storm was accompanied by hail and
heavy rain which totaled .36 of an inch
in a few minutes.
The storm now central over the plain
States has increased in intensity and is
causing big drops in temperature, and
in some places dn the north snow has
fallen. The weather will continue fair
'bo-night and to-morrow.
4,000 GERMANS REPORTED
ANNIHILATED BY BELGIANS
Havre, April 30, 4.30 A. M.—The
virtual annihilation of 4,000 Germans
who crossed the Yperlee over a bridge
near Stoenstraate is described by the
newspaper "Vingtienie Siecle." Bel
gian heavy artillery destroyed t>he
bridge while field artillery showered
them, with shrapnel.
Many tied handkerchiefs to their
bayonets and raised them in sign of
surrender, but immediately their quick
firers, the newspaper says, opened fire
and mowed them down. Many sur
vivors were made prisoners by the Bel
gians.
20 KILLED.4S WOUNDED. BY
SHELLS THROWNON DUNKIRK
Paris, April 30, 2.30 P. M.—The
French War Office this afternoon gave
out a report on tho progress of hostili
ties, reading as follows:
'' We made progress yesterday to the
north of Ypres, in the region of Stoen
straate. The city of Rheima received
500 s>hells, of which many were of a
[ incendiary nature. These missiles start
ed several fires, but it was found pos
sible to circumscribe them and to put
them out quickly.
"In the Champagne district the
enemy shelled one of our ambulances,
wounding a doctor.
"German warships have been report
ed at large off the coast of Belgium.
"Dunkirk yesterday received nine
teen sfhells of large calibre. Twenty
persons were killed and forty-dve
wounded. Some houses were de
stroyed. ''
BRITISH STEAMER MOBILE
SUNK BYCERMAN SUBMARINE
London, April 30', 2.40 P. M. —The
British steamship which was reported
last night to have been sunk by a
German submarine off the Isle of
Lewis, North Scotland, was identified
to-day as the British steamer Mobile,
carrying a cargo of coal.
The Mobile's crew of 23 men were
landed to-day. The officers said that
tho sinking of the- Mobile occurred on
Wednesday. The crew wa-s given ten
minutes to take to the boats. They
drifted about for nine hours, before
they reached land.
Germans in a New Offensive
I'etiograd, April 30, Via London,
3.50 P. M. —A general German offen
sive movement once more is under way
along the entire Prussian border, from
Tilsit to the Vistula river. The German
advance this time evidently is aimed at
the Baltic provinces which are rich tn
cropn and other food supplies.
LATE WAR "NEWS SUMMARY
A decisive victory over the allied
forces in the Dardanelles region is an
nounced by the Turkish war office in an
official report from Constantinople to
day. This statement, which is in direct
conflict with advices from London and
Paris, says that all the troops which
landed on the Asiatic and European
sides of the straits, with the exception
of the forces at Gaba Tepe, near the
tip of Gallipoli peninsula, have been
driven away, and that several warships
and transports of the allies have been
damaged.
Advices from French and British
sources give the impression, however,
that the landing forces are making
marked progress. From these dis
patches it would appear that the Brit
ish have established two lines across
the Gallipoli peninsula, which if main
tained would cut off the Turkish forcee
from Constantinople. An unofficial re
port from Athens to Paris states that
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PRICE, ONE CENT.
TURKTOWNS
INVADE? BY
THE ALLIES
French and British in
Battles With the Sul
tan's Forces in the
Dardanelles
13.000 OF LATTER
TAKEN PRISONERS
Allied Troops Reported to Have Oc
cupied the Town of Gallipoli After
Heavy Fighting Warships In
Bombardment in Gulf of Smyrna
By Associated Press.
London, April 30, 4.20 A. M.—"lt
is reported from Myteline," says the
"Exchange Telegraph's" Athens cor
respondent under date of Thursday,
"that the French on the Asiatic side
of the Dardanelles, where there have
been sanguinary battles at various
points, have captured 6,000 Turks and
continue their advance successfully."
London, April 30, 4.06 A. M.—The
following dispatch has been received
iby the "Express," from its Athens
correspondent
"I learn from Tenedos that the al
lies occupied the town of Gallipoli aft
er heavy fighting. Allied forces dis
embarked at Enos advanced nearly 20
miles and occupied several villages.
"Three British warships bombard
ed Turkish warships in the Gulf of
Smyrna and it is stated that allied
troops also landed in the neighbor
hood of Smyrna.
"Five points on the Vne between
Enos and Saros were selected by the
allies for the disembarkation of troops.
Another force was landed on the
plains of Troy led to the capture of
8,000 prisoners. Turkish troops con
tinue to arrive."
Paris, April 30, 4.20 P. M.—A dis
patch from Athens to the Havas Agency
says the city of Gallipoli, on the Eu
ropean side of the Dardanelles, near the
entrance to the Sea of Marmora, has
been.captured by the allies.
It is also said that the Turkish fort
at Nagara. on the Asiatic side of the
straits, has been bombarded heavily.
Details of Terrific Fighting
London, April 30, 2.4 8 A. M.—A
Myteline dispatch to the "Times,"
dated Thursday, says
"From creditable informants who
have just arrived from Tenedos and
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ALLIES' LANDED FORCES ARE
DRIVEN AWfIVSAY TURKS
Constantinople, April 30, via Lon
don, 1 I*. M. —An official statement is
sued here to-day s:ivs the allied force*
which landed on the Asiatic side of tho
Dardanelles, have been entirely clear
ed away; that a large part of the
troops which invaded Gallipoli pen
insula has been driven off, and that
warships and t-roo|>s of the allies have
been damaged. Tho statement is as
follows:
"No enemy's forces remain on the
Asiatic side of the Dardanelles. Hos
tile forces at Gaba Tepe (west
of the Gallipoli peninsula, near the
Tip) are obstinately maintaining thoir
positions, under the protection ,»f
shi|*<. From tho other parts of Galli
poli the enemy has been driven off. We
have damaged several warships and
transports."
TRAWLER SUNK BY GERMANS
IN NORTH SEA; CREW SAVED
l>ondon, April 30, 2.11 I'. M.—The
trawler Lily Dale has been sunk by a
German submarine in the North sea,
seventy-five miles off the mouth of the
river Tyne.
A patrol boat picked up the crew ot
the trawler and then went in chase oi
the submarine. The submarine, how
ever, made its escape.
WALL STREET CLOSING
New York, April 30.—The move
ment was more conflicting in the final
hour, some specialties adding to early
gains, while former leaders showed in
creasing heaviness. The closing wag ir
regular. War stocks were very active
and strong to-day, hut standard issues
yielded to selling prossure.