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Firm of Henry Gilbert
& Son Begins To-day
a Celebration of Its
75th Anniversary
HAD FAITH IN
RAILROAD PLANS
Founder of the Business Sold the Axes
and Saws With Which Engineers
Blazed the Right of Way of the
Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh
The hardware firm of Henry Gilbert
& Son, 219 Market street, to-day be
gan celebrating the completion of sev
enty-five years' existence. The firm was
established by Henry Gilbert, long a
familiar figure in Harrisburg affairs, in
1840, at .No. 9 'Market street, and
though he has long been dead his najne
still is retained by his son and grand-
Bon who now own the business.
LMt. Gilbert was one of Harrisburg'b
original live wires, and it was not long
before his industry, enterprise and gen
eral grasp of possibilities in Harrisburg
led him to seek larger quarters, and he
moved the establishment to 219 Market,
street, where the business is now lo
cated. The house was originally owned
(by a man named Graydon, one of Har
risburg 'a original Abolitionists, and it
was there that the advocates of free
dom for the slaves met ami laid their
iplans for the future. iMen of such prom
inence as Wendell Phillips came to
these conferences.
Mr. Gilbert conducted the business
•by himself until 1872, when he took
into the Urm his son, Spencer C. Gilbert,
changing the name to Henry Gilbert &
Bon, which it retains to this day. The
head of the firm, Henry Gilbert, died in
1887, and the business of the and
growing establishment devolved upon
Spencer C. Gilbert, who about three
years ago took into active partnership
•with him, his son, Henderson Gilbert,
who had for some time before that been
identified with its interests.
Extended Credit to Pennsy
From time to time, as the demand
arose, the large store was increased in
size until now it occupies all the floors
of the large building, extending back
to Blackberry street. The firm has. be
sides the Market street store rooms, its
own warehouse, siding and stables. An
interesting feature of the anniversary is
a display of the old books and docu
ments pertaining to the history of the
firm Which are on exhibition in the Mar
ket street show window.
One of fhe incidents in the history of
the firm is that it sold the first bill of
nia railroad from Hnrrisburg to Pitts
nia railroad from arrisburg to Pitts
burgh, the bill consisting of saws, axes,
etc., to blaze the way for the engineers
engaged in running the line.
When Henry Gilbert sold this bill of
goods to the men engaged in pushing
the railroad project, he was told by one
of the pull'backs in the community that
lie would never be paid for the goods, as
the Pennsylvania railroad would never
tie built, ljater on another man put his
head in the store door and called out:
"Has the Pennsylvania railroad
tredit here?"*
The elder Gilbert answered that it
had.
"I'm glad of it," said fhe man, "it
is the only place it has any credit."
Helped Pennsylvania Steel Co.
Henry Gilbert had faith in the rail
road project and was confident it would
win, and time showed his wisdom. He
nlso had fait'h in the establishment of
the Pennsylvania steelworks in Steelton.
A telegram now displayed in the win
dow announces that the site had been
obtained and that certain people were
ready to take $30,000 worth of stock.
It is the original, signed by Mr. Gilbert
and .1. Donald Cameron. The firm has
I>een identified with many moves made
in the last three-quarters of a century
that looked for the progress of Har
risbnrg.
Many telegrams and letters were re
ceived by the firm members to-day from
friends in many parts of the State ten
dering congratulations. During the day
many friends called in person to ex
tend good wishes.
GYPSY BAND ORDERED AWAY
Police Dnly Impressed With Skill In
Manipulating a Ten Dollar Bill
A band of wandering gyjisies was
ordered out of Harrisburg thin morn
ing after a visit of three days in
■which members of the band read palms
and did a few feats of legerdemain.
They were encamped near Wildwood
Park.
The first the police heard of the
bind was when one of the women re
moved a $lO bill from thq pocket of
a man in the Hill market house, at
Fourteenth and Market streets. She
returned it to the man so clevelv that
he does not know how she did it.
While counting his money at her re
quest he mjssed the $lO and obeying
her command to reach in his trousers
pocket he found the bill there. This
exhibition was calculated to bring on
a profitable business in palm reading
but the gypsy woman had no customers
in the market.
This morning the tiand was wander
ing down Sixth street asking to be
permitted to read palms in grocery
stores when the police stopped the
'business. The gypsies hastened to leave
the city when informed that the pen
• Ity for palm reading is SIOO fine or
to days in jail.
m Star- ftJtikpcnknt
MAYOR STOPSJHE JITNEYS
But, Wait a Minute! Read This and
Then You Will Understand Why
They Continue to Bun
"Hey, Steve! What do you think of
iMayor Royal stopping the jitneysl"
'"That's a pretty note. What did he
do that fort"
"0, lie just wanted to get on."
Ha! ha! That's a funny one, but
the Mayor doesn't think so.
It hap(>ened yesterday that few, if
any jitneys, were run. That caused
some one to start the joke which in
turn gave rise to the rumor that His
Honor had put his foot down on the
Sunday operation of the five-cent buses.
Fifty times—-the Mayor estimated
them himself—His Honor was com
pelled to deny this morning that he in
terfered with the new mode of trans
portation.
The jitneys, you know, are regularly
licensed and can do business in Harris
burg the Mayor holds he has no
right to interfere and there the whole
thing rests.
Everybody being more or less inter
ested in jitney transportation these
days, the story had many willing
listeners and consequently the Mayor 's
official day was a series of interrup
tions.
Nine more jitney drivers to-day paid
15 license fees to operate in flarris
burg, sweeping the total to thirty-one.
This beats tihe "beat record the police
department had of the jitneys. A cor
ner copper who had twenty-six
"spotted" thought he had them all. He
has a few more to couLt and tben some,
judging from the Saturday night busi
ness.
PUNCHBOfIRDSToFsCfIRD
Police Put the Ban on Petty Gam
bling Devices After Chamber of
Commerce Urges It
Punchboard gambling is at an end
for a while. No longer will it be pos
sible to get a five-dollar meerschaum
pipe for a jitney. The' police have
frowned on the game which, according
to them, has been flourishing in cigar
stores and pocket billiard rooms in
Harrisburg.
The Chamber of Commerce request
ed the aid of the Police Department in
breaking up the game. This morning
orders were issued to the daylight force
of coppers to notify all merchants 011
their respective districts to do away
with the game.
The Chamber took the step, accord
ing to the secretary, E. L. McColgin,
because of the complaints of the mem
bers. Mayor Royal's aid was sought
and prosecutions will be brought where
it still flourishes.
The game was easy to play. The
player paid a jitney or a dime and with
a sharp instrument punched a board in
one of the numerous holes provided
for that purpose, a slip of paper being
punched out of the hole each time. If
the player was lucky he won some
thing. If he didn't he paid more
money and tried it again.
MOVE BY DISBROW CREDITORS
Persons With Claims of $30,543 Seek
to Administer Estate
Creditors of the late Charles A. Dis
brow, who following the death of Mr.
Disbrow abandoned their plan to have
a court inquiry to learn his real estate
holdings, to-day petitioned Roy G'. Dan
ner, Register of Wills, to issue a cita
tion directing Mrs. Disbrow, the widow,
to show cause within ten days why the
Commonwealth Trust Company should
not be appointed administrator of the
Disbrow estate.
Attorneys representing the creditors
are Charles C. Stroh. Charles H. Berg
ner and Jesse E. B. Cunningham. They
assert that their clients' claims against
the Disbrow estate total $30,543.35.
One of counsel for the creditors this
afternoon said that formal objections
will be raised should the Register grant
letters of administration to the widow.
The Register this afternoon apprised
j Mrs. Disbrow of the creditors' plan to
I name the administrator and informed
| her that any objection she may have to
j that plan must be filed within the next
| ten days.
Counsel for tlie creditors this after
| noon stated that this procedure coin
-1 cides with their original plan to get in
i formation concerning some property
! transfers that Mr. Disbrow made during
1 the year preceding his death. This
data, it is planned, is to be obtained
through the administrator.
4 SUFFER FROM COAL GAS
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Bentz and Fam
ily Barely Escape Death
(Special to the Star-Independent.)
Lemoyne, Pa., May 3.—Mr. and
Mrs. Wesley Bentz and two children
had a narrow escape from asphyxiation
early yesterday morning when the
house became filled with coal gas. A
fifth member of the family escaped the
poisonous fumes, his bedroom being in
a different section of the house.
The family was aroused when Inza,
the elder daughter, arose to get a drink.
She had only walked a few feet when
she fell to the floor. This aroused the
rest of the household. Mrs. Bentz final
ly got to a window, which she flung
wide open, allowing fresh air to enter
the rooms.
Dr. John W. Bowman was summoned
and rendered medical aid to the fam
ily. He said Mrs. Bentz threw the
window open just in time.
The gas came from the furnace,
where a fresh fire hail been started.
The furnace door blew open and al
lowed the gas to escape.
Big Fire Raging In Ironton, O.
By Associated Press.
Ironton, Ohio, May 3.—The Masonic
Temple and Opera House have been de
stroyed bv fire, which started at noon
to-day. "Fhere seemed but little hope
of saving the entire square of business
buildings in the same block, as the
flames continued to spread this after
noon.
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1915—10 PAGES.
CHILD LM
ura-n
Friends of Measure Say
They Have Enough
Votes to Block the
Plan to Amend It
EYES DIRECTED
TOWARD SENATE
Third Class City Bill, Altered to Elimi
nate the Non-Partlsan Feature, Is
Ready to Be Reported—General Ap
propriation Bill Soon Before House
AM eyes in legislative circles are
turned toward the Senate to learn what
that body intends to do with the child
labor bill at its meeting to-night.
The bill passed second reading in the
Senate on Thursday last, at which time
Senator Snyder, of Schuylkill, an
nounced that efforts will be made to
amend it to-night, but the friends of the
measure say they are not in the least
concerned as they claim thirty-four
votes to be cast in favor of the bill just
as it came from the House and that
there will be no amendment permitted
if it will in any wav alter the original
purpose of the measure.
The Clark act embodying various
amendments to the third class city bid
proposed by the city solicitors' associa
tion, as well as a few that were put in
the bill in Senate committee, wiH be re
ported in the Senate to-night with no
further changes, which means that the
bill will be deprived of its non-partisan
features.
It is expected t'hat this week the
workmen's compensation bill will came
out of the Senate ccjmmittse, but not
until a conference has been held by
•Governor Brumbaugh and a delegation
of twenty-six Senators to-morrow after
noon. It is not intended to amend the
bill so as to destroy in any way its orig
inal intent.
The House to-night will have 76
bills of a general character to take up
on third reading. The House is rapidly
clearing its calendar. It has disposed of
the general bulk of the appropriation
bills and will get out the general ap
propriation' bill t'hi* week.
OUT OF JAIL AND IN AGAIN
E. A. Meckley Sentenced to 5 Months
For Theft By County Court
Kdward A. Meckley, of Peubrook,
formerly an usher at the Pennsylva
nia railroad passenger station, in this
city on Saturday completed a six
months' jail sentence imposed by Fed
eral .Judge Witmer on a charge of
rifling parcel post packages and he was
sentenced this morning by Judge
George Kunkel, of the Dauphin county
courts, to a five-month jail term for
stealing an Adams Express package of
jewelry.
| Meckley is 42 years old. The ex
press package he confessed to stealing
i contained jewelry worth $75 and was
J being shipped from Providence, R. I.
! to Erie, Pa. He committed this theft
j several days before the parcel post
robbery, but the federal case was
acted upon first.
Addie Bennet, colored, and Mike
Sorwich, picked up by the poliee when
a Cowden street house was raided re
cently, pleaded guilty to a statutory
charge and each was sentenced to pay
a fine of sls and the costs.
MONSTER EAGLE IS SHOT
Blamed for Carrying Off Small Lambs
of Farmers' Flocks
By Associated Press,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., May 3. —A moun
j tain eagle, measuring seven and a half
i feet from tip to tip of its wings and
weighing 35 pounds, was shot to-day at
Hays Corners, about 12 miles from
here, by Ollie Hay. When brought
down it hail lamb's wool in its talons
anil the raisers in this section are now
looking for its nest to verify the the
ory that it carried off several of the
small lambs of their flocks.
The farmers say the eagle was pow
erful enough to carry off a normal
three-year-old child. It is the first
eagle ever shot in this section, accord
ing to aged farmers who have lived
in the vicinity all their lives.
CLEAN UP WEEK OPENS
Collectors of Rubbish Will Be Busy To
morrow on Hill North of Market St.
In the Hill district south of Market
street garbage wagons were plentiful
to-day, giving evidence of the opening
of Harristmrg \s clean-up week. Extra
wagons and collectors were put on this
morning by the Reduction Company,
and the work of the men covered prac
tically all of the district set aside for
the day.
To-morrow the wagons will go
through the Hill district north of Mar
ket street. All residents in this section
of the city are expected to have their
vgrds and cellars clean and the rubbish
dirt ready for the collectors.
Charles E. Blpper Injured
Charles E. Ripper, 25 South Fif
teenth street, foreman of the Star-In
dependent composing room, suffered a
painful laceration of th e forehead at
noon to-day when the top of an auto
mobile he was riding in came loose and
fell, when the ei\r was crossing the
Mulberry street bridge. He was taken
to the office of Dr. M. L. Wolford
where the wound wh dressed.
ITALY WILL SURELYENTER
WAR AT AN EARLY DATE, IS
OPINIONOFU.S.OFFICIALS
Washington, May 3.—Such advices
as have come to the United States gov
ernment through official and unofficial
channels within the last few days indi
cate that Italy's preparations clearly
tend to her participation in the war at
an early date.
Aside from her extensive military
preparations and orders for war sup
pljes, the expected public appearance of
King Victor Emmanuel at the Gari
baldi celebration at Rome Wednesday
is looked upon there as of much sig
nificance and then in
favor of war would not be surprising.
Heretofore all such popular outbursts
have been given no official sanction
and at times have been repressod, but
present indications are that Ihe point
is almost at hand when a final decision
cn Italy 's policy would be reached.
American diplomatists in Europe,
some of whom are in touch with the
Italian situation, believe the decision is
now only a matter of days and arrange
ments already are being made to ac
commodate Italian interests should the
emergency arise.
The recent call to Rome of the Ital
ian Ambassadors accredited to Great
Britain. France, Germany and Austria
was generally taken to foreshadow
Italy's final decision.
JAP ULTIMATUM TO CHINA
IS IMMINENT, SAYS PAPER
Tokio, May 3, 5.30 P. M.—The "Ji
ji Shimpo," a Japanese newspaper of
good standing, issued an extra edition
this afternoon in which it made the
statement that Japan would send an
ultimatum to China, the Chinese reply
to the latest Japanese communication
regarding the demands of the Tokio
government 'being considered unsatis
factory.
GERMAN SUBMARINE AMUCK
AMONG TRAWLERS: 2 SUNK
Aberdeen, Scotland, May 3, 12.42
P. M.—Trawlers making port to-day
declare that a German submarine sunk
two trawlers within flft£ miles pf
Aberdeen Sunday. The crews of the
two vessels were successful in escap
ing and to-dav they came into port.
It would appear as though the sub
marine ran amuck among the Aberdeen
fishing fleet. In addition to sending
two to the bottom it chased three other
trawlers for twenty miles. A patrol
boat was then seen approaching, where
upon the submarine submerged.
THE GERMAN ADVANCE TO THE
RIVER NIEMEN IS UNCHECKED
Petrograd, May 3, 12.45 P. M., Via
London, 2.25 P. M.—The spectacular
advance of German forces along a hun
dred-mile front, extending from the
Baltic sea, near Libau, in a southeast
erly direction to the northern tributar
ies of the river Niemen, continues un
checked.
It has not disturbed Russian activ
ity in the region south of the Niemen,
where, according to information re,-
ceived ■here, consistent successes are
being won by the troops of Emperor
Nicholas.
$300,000 JIORE TO BUY FA UK
Extension Commission Feels Confident
of Getting Additional Appropriation
The Capitol Park Extension Com
mission has been in conference with the
heads of the Senate and House Appro
priations Committees and, it was
learned to-day, the members have
every reason to believe their request for
$300,000 from the state to complete
their work of acquiring Eighth ward
properties will be appropriated without
any question.
Commissioners Gilbert, Kunkel and
Todd all have been before the commit
tees, and with Mr. Etter, the Com
missioners' real estate expert, explained
at length the work that has been done,
together with what remains to be ac
complished before the entire park ad
dition, complete in every particular,
can be turned over to the state.
The acquisition of the property so
close within the amount originally ap
propriated was the cause ot' favorable
comment by some legislators who orig
inally did not see how it could be done.
POLICE FREE PAIR OF GIRLS
Parents Being Willing, They Are Per
mitted to Resume Trip
Two girls, 16 years old, taken by the
police from two youths in the Penn
sylvania station Saturday afternoon,
when the quartet wa« about to start
for Atlantic City, were permitted to
continue on their way alone this morn
ing, Police Captain Joseph P. Thomp
son being assured that the parents of
the girls were willing that they take
the trip.
The young men also were released.
The girls are from Mt. Uiiion, Pa., but
their names have been withheld by the
police.
Weil-Known Canadian Barrister Dies
London, May 3. —James Stewart
Tupper, a well-known barrister and eld
est son of Sir Charles Tupper, former
prime minister of Canada, died yester
day at Oxford. Mr. Tupper was born
in Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1851 ana
was educated at MeGtiU University.
SOCIETY MEMBER
MISS
MARGARET F MBf* - ~
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New > ork, May 3. —Miss Margaret F. Andrew*, who is a prominent, mem
ber of society, is engaged to Wed Mr. Morgan Belmont, son of Mr. August Bel
mont, of New \ork. The wedding, is expected to take place in the near future.
SMS DRINK IS II
iniE
Labor Leader Refutes
Statement by Lloyd
George on Dereliction
In British Navy
PLACES BLAME
ON EMPLOYERS
Member of House of Commons Asserts
There Is Less Drinking in England
Than Before War and Says Chan
cellor Is Mistaken
Bii Associated Press.
London, May 3, 3.20 A. M.—Will
Crooks, labor leader in the House of
Commons, declares in a newspaper in
terview that there is less drinking in
England than .before the war and that
Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd
George was mistaken in the statements
he made regarding the subject.
Crooks asserted that if less work is
being done at private shipyards some
cause other than drink must be sought
and that this accusation has been spread
broadcast by employers to cover up
their own shortcomings. In his inter
view ho says:
"I have not the slightest hesitation
in saying that the Wooiwich arsenal
could turn out a third more work than
it is doing now The men have insuffi
cient work to do because of lack of or
ganization. Moreover, although the war
has lasted nine months, no accommoda
tions yet have been provided for the
men to get their meals."
"White Paper" on Drink Question
London, May 3, 3.40 A. M.—The
"White Paper 1 ' on the drink question
brings home to the nation in an impres
sive manner the gravity of the situa
tion. What causes the greatest indig
nation in the newspapers is the fact not
Continued on Mnth
THE ALLIED TROOPS LAND AT
KERIKLI, ON ASIATIC COAST
London, 'May 3.—The Athens corre
spondent of the "Daily Mail" tele
graphs this statement:
'•The landing of allied troops on the
Asiatic coast has been accomplished
successfully at Kerikli. This force is
advancing rapidly, according to latest
information.''
In mentioning Kerikli the corres|>ond
ent probably refers to Gheyikli, four
teen miles south of Kum Kale.
Airmen Driven Off by Gun Fire
London, May 3, .2.52 P. M.—A G-er
man aeroplane, coming from the direc
tion of Ostend, scouted over Dover and
Folkstone at noon to-day. It was driven
off by gun fire.
ported that a Zeppelin airship is travel
ing in the direction of England from
the Island of Vlieland, which is on the
northern coast of t'he Netherlands. The
airship gassed over this island at 10
o'clock this morning.
AUSTRIAN BIG VICTORY
IN WEST GALICIA; BREAK
RUSSIANH* FRONT
Berlin, May 3, Via London, 3.34 P.
M.—An important Austrian victory in
the eastern campaign is announced in
the communication issued to-day from
German army headquarters.
The statement is made that the Aus
trian* have pierced and broken the en
tire Russian front in Western Galicia.
It says that in the presence of rhe
Austrian commander-in-chief, Weld
Marshal Archduke Frederick, and un
der the leadership of General Colonel
Von Mackensen, the allied troops yes
terday, after bitter fighting, pierced
everywhere and crushed the entire
Russian front in Western Galicia from
the neighborhood of the Hungarian
frontier to the junction of the Dunajec
river with the Vistula. Such of the
enemy as succeeded in escaping, are in
hasty retreat towards the east, closely
pursued by the allied troops. The
trophies of the victory cannot yet even
be approximately estimated.
The victory in Western Galicia re
ported iby the German war office jt
would appear to be of notable signifi
cance. Prom the junction of the Vistula
with tlip Dunajec to the Hungarian
frontier is about sixty miles. After the
surrender of the Austrian fortress of
Permysl in Galicia, the Russian forces
released from siege work in front of
this position began moving to the south
in the direction of the (Jzsok Pass, and
to the west in the direction of Cracow.
That a great battle was being fought
in Western Galicia was indicated in
dispatches sent out from Berlin several
days aigo. It was then reported that the
Russians, in order to avoid the disas
trous effect of the heavy Austrian artil
lery had vacated all their positions at
Tarnow, which lies 135 miles to the
west, of Lehberg.
A official dispatch from Petrograd
under date of April 29, set forth that
the Aufitrians were concentrating their
forces at Cracow and also in Western
Galicia, evidently with the intention of
undertaking a determined offensive
movement against the Russians.
It evidently is the result of these
various military activities that is re
ported in the announcement from Ber
lin.
LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
An imposing victory of Austrian arms
over the Russian forces in Western Ga
licia was announced to-day by the Ger
man War Office. It is said the Aug
trians, in the presence of their com
mander-in-chief, Archduke Frederick,
pierced and everywhere crushed the en
tire Russian line.
An attack from this quarter has
been predicted in Petrograd dispatches
as an offset to Russian efforts further
east on the Carpathian front.
The direction in which this new and
sudden stroke has been made, evidently
in great force, lies to the south of Rus
sian Poland. The line along which the
Austrian advance was made runs for
about 60 miles north and south through
Galicia, something more than fifty miles
east of Cracow.
Sharp fighting has been resumed in
Flanders. French, German and British
Continued on Fourth Page
Hutchison Ready to Quit Hospital
Chief of Police Hutchison, who un
derwent an operation in the Fountain
Springs hospital, near Ashland, two
weeks ago, is expected home this week.
Mrs. Hutchison received word this
morning tWat he will be ready to leave
the hospital in a few days. He was
dressed in street attire for the first
time to-day.
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE CENT.
DISASTER TO
GULFLIGHT
CONFIRMED
Officer of U. S. Ship.
Torpedoed Off Scilly
Islands, Gives Report
of Incident
NAMES OF THOSE
WHO LOST LIVES
Besides Captain Gunter, the Wireless
Operator and a Seaman Perished
—Washington, Authorities Aroused
Over Occurrence, Await Details
Ry Associated Press.
New York, May 3.—The two Amen
cans in addition to Captain Gunter,
who lost their lives when the American
steamer Gulflight was torpedoed off the
Scilly Islands, were Charles C. Short,
of Chicago, the wireless operator, and
Eugene Chapaneta, of Port Arthur,
Texas, a seaman, according to a cable
gram received here to-day by the Gulf
Kefining Company, owners of the ves
sel.
The message, a brief one, was sign
ed by First Officer Ralph Smith. It
said that Captain Gunter, whose home
is in Bayonee, N. J., died of heart dis
ease, and that Short and C'&apaneta
were lost. These were the two men, it
is believed, were reported yesterday to
have jumped from the vessel after she
was struck and who were lost because
of the fog that prevailed.
Ship and Cargo Valued at Million
Short's home address, according to
the company's records, was 708 West
One Hundred and Third street, Chica
go. He was taken aboard the Gulflight
at New Orleans, April 7. This was his
first trip aboard the vessel. Chapaneta
shipped at Port Arthur. Including her
officers, the Gulflight had thirty-eight
men aboard, most of them hailing
from Gulf of Mexico ports. Ship and
cargo, according to James Kennedy,
marine superintendent of the company,
were valued at $1,000,000.
Mr. Kennedy said he was waiting
further advices giving full particulars
of the attack on the Gulflight before
communicating with the State Depart-
Continurd on I'agr.
SWEDISH STEAMER SUNK
BY CERIRANS: CREW SAVED
l-iondon, May 3, 11.38 A. M.—The
Exchange Telegraph Company has re
ceived a dispatch from its correspond
ent at Copenhagen, saying that the
Swedish steamer Ellida, timber laden
from Helsingborg for Hull, has been
torpedoed in the North Sea by a Ger
man submarine. She went to the bot
tom in less than three minutes.
The sixteen men and two women on
board the vessel barely had time to
make their escape in one of the small
boats. After cruising about for two
hours they were picked up by a Dan
ish schooner and landed at Lemvig,
Denmark.
TURKS CLAHBE HOLDING
ALLIED FORCES IN CHECK
Constantinople, May 3, Via Amster
dam and tampon, 3 P. M. —The Turkish
War Department to day gave out the
following official statement:
"In consequence of th e attacks pro
ceeding successfully for us the enemy
has not succeeded in improving his po
sition on the coast of the Gallipoli
peninsula. The fire of our batteries di
rected against the enemy at Seddul
Bahr shows good results."
The statement claims that the French
battleship Henri IV and the British
battleship Vengeance have been ilam
aged by shells from the guns of the
Turkish forts and it says that the Rus
sian Black sea fleet demonstrated for
an hour off the Bosphoras and then re
tired rapidly in another direction.
Friction Holds Up Belgian Relief
I/ondon, May 3, 4.15 A. M. —A Rot
terdam dispatch to the "Daily Mail"
says that, as a result of friction between
t'he American Relief Commission and
the German authorities in Belgium two
hundred barges loaded with food for
the Belgians are held up at Rotter
dam.
WALL STREET CLOSINQ
By Associated Press.
New York, May 3.—Lowest prices
ruled in the last hour, Steel falling .1
points under its best quotation, with
proportionate declines elsewhere. The
closing was heavy. New aspects In the
foreign situation, coupled with exten
sive European selling, caused many ma
terial losses in to-day's active market,
especially among war specialties.