THE WEATHER FAIR TO-NIGHT AND TO MORROW QMallcd Hepart. rift I 5E AB «. L, ,s?J? D VOL. 77—NO. 134. 3 HUGE GRAVES TO RECEIVE 140 UNIDENTIFIEDHEAD; U. S. PLANS ON LUSITANIA HORROR NOT YETREVEALED Bodies of Identified Americans, Covered With Stars and Stripes, Are Remov ed From Scattered Morgues and Taken to the Cunard Line Offices on the Water Front by British Sail ors—Crowds in the Streets Uncover as the Dead Are Trans ported BODIES ENCASED IN CHEAP COFFINS Many Children and Lit tle Babies Still Lie in the Morgues—Little Hope For the Recov ery of Anjr More Bodies at Scene of Disaster—No Extra Session of Congress Probable, at Least for the Present, In Con sequence of Calamity By Associated Pr*s9, Queenstown. May 9, Via London, May 10, 1..">7 A. M.—Affidavits made bv Miss .lessie Taft Smith, of Brace ville. O.: Dr. Howard L. Pisher, Major I'. Warren Pearl and Robert Rankin, of New York, are the only permanent records of the Lusitania disaster ob taiue t by the Cnited State* consulate here. Ail are brief and none reflect? seriously upon the behavior of the Lusi tania's crew except what some wit nesses consider the lifeboat fiasco. The affidavits of Miss Smith and Mr. Ran kin were cable.! to night to Secretarv of Bryan. while those of Major Pearl and I>r. Fisher were sent to Am bassador Page at London. Notables in Cheap Coffins Beginning at noon to-day at Consul F-ost's orders the bodies' »f the iden tified Americans, covered with the Stars and Stripes were removed from scat tered morgues and placed side by »ide in the Cunard Line offices on the water front. A" they were carried through the streets by British sailors the crowds uncovered, ' heap brown coffins con tained the bodies of Charles Krohman, Issac F, Trumbull, of Bridgeport, Conn.; Mrs. Henry D. MaeDona. of New York; Charles H. Stevens, of At lantic City; Dr. P. s. Pearson. New York; I). Walker, New York; Dr. Pear son's secretary, Mrs. Bride. Hugh Compton, 17 years old: C. T. Broderick, of Boston; Herbert Ellis, of New York. an t Mrs. Spillman, of Detroit. Mr. Frohman's secretary arrived to take charge of his employer's bodv. Huge Grave for Unidentified Dead One of the survivors to night iden t lied the body of Mrs. K. P. Shvmer, of New Y'urk, the American widow of an English nobleman, who subsequently married an American and had been living in Now Y'ork. She was on her way to London an i her name probably will be added to the list of American dead. Her body will be sent bark to the United States as well as those of the -others, some of them starting to night. A whole company of British soldiers to-day completed the digging of three huge graves, each 30 by 20 feet, in whu h the one hundrei. and forty odd unidentified dead will be buried to morrow. The moving of bodies up the hill to the cemetery will begin at 9.30 n. m. and continue until 1.30 p. m. Then at the last ten or a dozen—the number to be determined by the hearses available—moves to the cemetery the funeral procession will form and march to the graves. Mounted police, soldiers and civilians will participate. There will be a .joint service, clergymen of all creeds joining in saying prayers. Cover Babies With Flowers Many children and little babies still lie in the morgues like so many dolls. The townspeople covered theni witl» flowers to-day and it is probable these little ones will be placed in a grave to gether. Some on crutches, many limping and nearly all bruised, the survivors left their hotels in silent groups throughout the afternoon. There were some Americans, many Canadians an I Eng lish. The presence of so many chil dren on the ljusitania was due to the tact that Canadian women were going «* Star- Jnkpenitent AMERICAN WOMEN LOST ON THE LUSITANIA ■ V "t" pj MRS STtWAtIT SOJTXAM MASON Among the Americans who were lost in the dectrnrtion of the British steamship l> beyond an emphatically phrased note to an actual severance of diplo matic relations with Germany—still was undetermined. Late to day the President will *go to to ad dre* a gathering of four thousand nat ' utilized Americans. It is generally ex ' pet-ted that he will refer to the situa ! tion produced by the sinking of the | Lusitania. though not divulging defi | nitelv the course the Cnited States gov ernment intends to pursue. When the Cabinet meets to-morrow | the President will probably present to 1 his colleagues his ideas of what the j government's policy should be. It is now certain that the President < imlloueri on >lnth l'n«r. BKKXsroRFF REGRETS LOSS OF SO MAXY AMERICAN LIVES Washington. May 10.—Count Bern storff. the German ambassador, to-dav expressed in person to Secretary Eirv an "his deep regret that the events ! of the war had led to the loes of so ! niamv American lives." The phrases used were those of the ambassador in a written statement given out after his call. Whether the expression was made on instructions from his government or on his own initiative, was not made j clear by the amwassidor nor explained j by Mr. Bryan. THE HERMAN SUBMARINE 1-39 SANK LUSITANIA, IT IS SAII) London, May 10.—The "Central News" has received a dispatch from its correspondent at Genoa who says | a telegram received there from Munich declares that the German submarine U-39 was responsible for the sinking of the Lusitania. St. Paul Passes Floating Bodies Steamship «St. Paul, Via Wireless to 1-ondon, May 10, 4.20 A. M.— Manv floating bodies were passed at 11 o'clock yesterdwy morning twenty miles west of Kinsale. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1915—12 PAGES. EPISCOPALIANS HERE FOR EVENT Observancs of Diocese Anniversary "Will Start To-night With j General Reception BISHOPS WILL BE AMONG SPEAKERS Big Evfent of Celebration Will Be Serv ice at St. Stephen's Church To-mor- row Morning When Bishop of Long Island Will Preach Prominent men in the Protestant Episcopal Church, including the Bishop of Maryland, the Rt. Rev. John G. Mur- ray; the Bishop of Bethlehem, Hie Rt. Rev. Etheiibert Tal'bot, an«l the Bishop ! of Central New York, the Rt. Rev. | Charles T. Olmsted, arrived in this city to-day to attend t-he celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Harrisburg Diocese and of its first bishop, the Rt. : Rev. James Henry Darlington, which will open to-nig'ht with a general re- I ception ami'continue until Wednesday j night. Because of the distance they 1 have to come, two of the bishops who i will take- prominent parts in the pro ! uram did not arrive to-day as haF. Sweeney, and the , Bishop of Cuba, the Rt. Rev. Hiram ; Hulse. Both are expected to arrive to ' morrow. The Rev. William Dorwart. of ! Newj>ort. assistant secretary of the Dio ; cese since its organization, in whose i charge was to have been much of the I routine work of the Diocese convention j opening to-morrow night, will be un ! able to attend the sessions because of sickness Nearly two hundred visitors nre now in the city, entertained by members of local Episcopal churches. Speakers for This Evening At the general reception at 8 o'clock this evening at the 'Masonic Temple the speakers will - include: The Rt. Rev. John G. Murray, Bishop of Maryland, who will be the honory chairman of the meeting; the Rt. Hev. Ethelbert Talbot, Bishop of Bethlehem; the Rt. Rev. Francis Hoder, Polish Old Catholic church; the Rt. Rev. Charles T. Olm sted. Bisiiop of Central New York; the Rev. Dr. George E. Reed, fofmer presi * ontlmird on Eleventh Pace. SERIOUSLY INJURED BY MULE Young Man Kicked by Animal Near Duncannon Duncannon. May 10.—Walter Beers, aged 22 years, of Penn township, was kicked by a mule on Saturday after noon and is in a serious condition. He was unhitching a pair of mules, when one of them kicked him in the face and the heavy wagon passed over him. He received a broken nose and a gash across the forehead and a hole in the back part of bis head. FAT LAW-MAKERS BARRED BY JITNEY BUS DRIVERS Representatives Swirtz and Ostrander, ; Who Weigh Considerably More Than 2 pounds. Are Advised By Chauffeur to Ride in Trolley Car J; Wanted—Thin, lanky lightweights for passengers in jitney busses. JAat, < heavyweights make ibetter trolley pas | senders and need not apply. | Tlint sort of an advertisement, may be ex|»eeted soon to appear on placards on the eventy-eight jitnev busses in Harrisburg if the newest tenderfcy among nhauffeivs develops. It' you don't believe it ask Dr. W. A. Ostran der. Assemblyman representing Mc- Ke-jn county in the Legislature, or ; Representative J. W. Swartz, of Har- | j risburg. Dr. Ostrander is a heavyweight. He I tips the scales at .67 and Mr. Swart/, ■■•an move the scale dial to 237. They wanted to take a ride in a jitnev bus on Saturday evening but the pleisure /of the chauffeur's company was denied to them. "Can't haul you. gentlemen. N'oth ing doin.' " bluntly remarked the ' driver as the lawmakers were about to j enter his car. I 'Why notf was the puzzled an -1 swer. " > ou're too fat. Heavyweights I should ride in the trolley car. Fords 1 were not built for fat men," w..is .he ! j chauffeur's reply as he tooted his horn ; and away. Decrease in Unfilled Steel Tonnage By Assoi tnted Prwii. New York. May 10. —The unfilled | tonnage of thp I'nitef States Steel l or- 1 i poration on April 30 totaled 4.11>2,244 | tons, a decrease of 93,505 from March, j Frank Sentenced to Death By Associated Press. Atlanta, (Ja., May 10.—Leo M. j Frank to-flay was resentenced to be hanged on Tuesday, June 22, for the murder of Mary Pbagan. STEELTON'SINSTRELS READY ran BTH SHOW Home Talent Tunmakers Have Been Preparing for Eight Weeks for En tertainment To-morrow for Benefit of St. James' Catholic Church After eight weeks of careful drilling 1 by Gwylim Watkins. the Original Home: Talent Minstrels, composed of the' bestj funmakers ip Steelton and vicinity. are ready to stage the eighteenth annual show in the Steelton High school audi torium to-morrow evening for the bene fit of St. James' Catholß* ohureh. 1 The program consists of all new jokes, new skits and many odd features 1 which will eliminate all* dull minutes. The sale of tickets has exceeded the : expectation of the managers, more than one-half of the entire seating space in the large auditorium having been re served up to noon to-day ami the pros-1 1 pects are that every seat will be sold ■before the program starts to-morrow j' evening. Daylor and Lynch, who originated 1 . the organization and have been its man-1 j CMtlBKd ea Seventh Pua i< COUPLE STRUCK BY A CAR WHICH . KILLED MAN AND INJURED WOMAN ~ . • < - MR. WILLIAM S. PIPES HDSBAND DEftD, ' WIFB IS DIE IF TILEfWOIS I Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pipes, 66 and 64 Years Old, Struck on W ay From Church MAN IS PINNED UNDER VEHICLE Trucks Have to Be Jacked Up to Re lease Him and His Death Soon Fol lows—Mrs. Pipes' Skull Is Frac tured—She is in Critical Condition \\ iliinm 8. Pipes. renrti old, 415 South Thirteenth street, a deacon, in the Market Street Baptist church, was killed on his way home from that chureh when lie was struck by a trolley car of the Paxtang line of the Harris burg Kail ways Company, at Fourteenth and Derry streets, last night. His wife, 64. who accompanied him, also Was struck. Her skull was fractured so badly that lier recovery is doubtful. Mr. Pipes died soon after being ta ken to the Harrisburg Hospital. His wife was taken to the operating room where physicians operated to remove the pressure on the brain caused by the broken bone. She has remained in an unconscious state ever since and lier condition early this afternoon waa said to be critical. The couple had stepped back to al low the trolley car to pass as they ap proached the track. Witnesses said the niotormau. Charles Page, had the car under control and released his brakes as he saw them step ofl' the track. Thinking the motorman was slowing down for a stop at Fourteenth street the couple stepped onto the track again and were struck. Mr. Pipes was thrown under the ear which passed over his legs and Mrs. Pipes was thrown to the side, falling ion the adjoining track, her head strik ing a rail. She was rendered uncon scious and was tiiken to the hospital . in an automobile. The car had to be jacked up to re lease Mr. Pipes, who was taken to the hospital in the police ambulance. He was dying when admitted. The funeral of Mr. Pipes will be | held at his home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. W. H. Dall man, pastor of the Market* Street Bap ! tist church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Harrisburg Cemetery. WOMEN OF UPPER END TO WORK ON EOOO BOfIDS DAY Motor Clubs of Millersburg and Lykens, as Well as Business Men and Farm ers, Generally Will Respond to the Governor's Appeal Good Roads Pay, as proclaimed by Governor Brumbaugh, to be held on May 2-6, is going to be generally ob served by the people of Upper Dauphin county and when they get through the roaJB in that section are going to bo ! real roads, the joy and delight of those who travel over "them. The motor clubs of Millersburg and Lykens, the business people of the Up per End, the farmers and even the women and children arc all going to turn out on that day, anil work on the highways. More than 300 persons in the Lykens motor club have announced their intention of working on the roads all day, and the Millersburg club mem bers will add another 100 to the toil ers. To this number must be added the business men and farmers who will get out their implements and endeavor to do their best work in making the thoroughfares better. The women will go along with the road builders and provide and serve the luncheon for them, and the chil dren, both boys and girls, will go along to pick up stones. All of the Upper End is entering into the spirit of the occasion, and ex tensive preparations are being made to devote the entire day to road making. MRS. WILLIAM S. PIPES mm ARRIVE IT MR AT m No Serious Mishap Mars First Half Day of Harrisburg Pub licity Run 270 PERSONS IN THE PARTY Autoists Are Greeted Enthusiastically in All the Towns Visited—Tire Trouble in a Few Cases the Only Inconvenience Encountered (Special to the Star-Independent.) Norristown, Pa.. May 10.— All the 07 cars that left Harrisburg early tliis morning in the three-day publicity run had arrived here by noon, without seri ous mishap. In one or two cases slight inconveni ence was .caused through tire trouble. The party was received enthusiastically in all the towns and cities through which it passed. The participants have been elaborately entertained every where, especially at the Xorristowu Club. {Sixty-seven automobiles got away from Harrisburg, the first at ti.3l o'clock this morning, starting a three day trip through Eastern and Southern Pennsylvania. New Jersey and Dela ware, on an errand of publicity—to put Harrisburg on the automobile map, as ,it were. The run is being held under the auspices of the Motor Club of Har risburg. The six.y-seven car* included five autos carrying the officials and altogether the Harrisburg party num bered in the neighborhood of 270 per sons. Four machines that had been en tered dropped out over night. Sixty seven. however, got safely away under the guidance of \V. R. Douglas, starter and finish judge. When the cars lined up in Market Square there was much impatience and the last in the lino made such a howl that the starter changed the interval i of leaving until it- was one car every Continued on Eleventh I'affe. E. M. HALDEMAN FOUND DEAD Member of the Dauphin County Bar Is a Victim of Heart Trouble Edward M. Haldeman, for years a j member of the Dauphin county bar, was found dead iu his apartment at 204 Ijocust street, last night. Coroner I Eckinger was called and said death was due to heart trouble. Mr. Haldeman was 54 years old and at one time was Dauphin county chair man of the Democratic party. It is believed he died eight or ten hours pre vious to the finding of his body. Mr. Haldeman was a grandson of Jacob M. Haldeman, a son of the late John Haldeman, and a nephew of the late Richard J. Haldeman. Through marriage the family was connected with the family of Simon Cameron, Secretary of War under President Lin coln. Mr. Haldeman was one of a family of five children of whom two survive,— Mrs. Mary Armstrong, wife of the Rev. J. Newton Armstrong, formerly of this city, now of Blairstown, N. J., and Robert Haldeman, of Camp Hill. The funeral arrangements had not been an nounced late this afternoon. 5 I'ERISH li\ TENEMENT FIRE Blaze Starts in Barber Shop on First Floor of Building By Aftocialcj Press, Pittsburgh, Pa.. May 10.—Five per sons were burned to death, two were seriously injured and a number were saved by jumping from third-story win dows into a life net when fire early to day destroyed an Italian tenement house. Louis CJatano and Tony Bcarifo have been identified among the dead, but the other bodies were charred beyond rec ognition. The fire started in a barber shop on the first floor. . fl'f POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE CENT AIRSHIPS IN RAID CLOSE TO LONDON Serieus Damage toProp erty and Loss of Life Reported at South End SEVERAL SHOPS BURNED AT LEIGH Four Zeppelins Said to Have Dropped Forty or Fifty Bombs At Latter Place—Man and His Wife Are Badly Burned London, May 10, 10.15 A. M- —Two ! Zepplin afrshi|w are reported to have dropped 'bombs nn Westclift'-nn-Sca, near South End, but no fatalities have ■ been re|K>rted. Loudon, May 10, S.lO A. XI. In : coming passengers on trains from South Knd, a seaside resort in Essex, rejiort an air raid there in which ne rious damage was done and which caused some loss of life.' 1 London, May 10.—Warning of the approach of hostile air craft was given Botith End at -.52 o'clock this morn ing. Several machines took part in the 'aid but whether tliev were Zeppelins or aeroplanes the residents were un able to State as the weather was cloudy. Bombs struck houses in various parts of the town but no deaths have been reported. One man and his wife were badly burned in a fire started by an incendiary bomb. One resident told of three bombs dropping near his home, none of which caused damage. It is reported that several shops were burned at Leigh, a town near South End. Four Zeppelins are said to have dropped forty or fifty 'bombs there. AMERICAN MISSIONARIES ARE REPORTED IN GRAVE DANGER Tiflis. Via liondon, May 10. 3.5.1 A. M. —American missionaries in the 1 Vilayet of Van, where the Armenians appear to be weakening after a fierce resistance auginst attacking Turks an»l Kurds, are reported in grave danger. The American missions aro located in the eastern suburbs of the Vilayet, where for 14 days the Armenians have been standing off their besiegers. Elev :en hundred Armenian boys and girls and thirty American citizens have ta ken refuge in this quarter of the town, A Rumored German Check lyondon. May 10, 2.47 I'. M.—The Exchange Telegraph Company publishes a dispatch from its Copenhagen cor respondent, declaring that the Hermans have met a severe check to the west ward of Milau, capital of the Russian p: ovince of Courland. Numerous j forces of Russians in strong positions j compelled them to retreat. Advised of China's Acceptance Washington, May 10.—The State Department lias been advised officially of China's acceptance of Japan's ulti matum, Secretary Bryan said to-day, but he could not say whether the terms were satisfactory to the United i States. Tokio. May 10. 10.30 A. M.—Pre mier Okuma is quoted as having stated | that China's acceptance of Japan '« demands has removed the "roots of ; much trouble.'' LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY A further victory for the Austro-Ger man forces in Galicia was reported to day in a dispatch from the Austrian press headquarters. Having completed the first stage of the battle by breaking the Russian lines in Western Qallcia, the Teutonic allies were said to have begun an attack along the Carpathians further to the east, driving back the Russians between Lupkow and Uzsok passes. It was estimated that the num ber of Russian prisoners taken in West ern Galicia would be increased to 100,- 004). The German adventure in the Baltic provlncei; of Russia was reported at Copenhagen to have been checked. ; Strong Russian forces operating from Mi tau were credited with having com pelled the retreat of Germans who pene trated I'Mi rnllee or more into Russian territory. No mention was made of the fate of Libau, capture of which the Ger- Continued on Mnth Pace. WALL STREET CLOSINQ New York, May 10.—Prices fell away again in the later dealings, but recoveries of 2 to 5 points followed renewed rupport. The closing was heavy. Liquidation and short selling provoked further severe declines to day, with substantial rallies at the end.