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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-10
Off FOR AN OUTING

Mrs. William Crump, of lit Ever
green street, with her son, James
Crump, and daughter, Miss Hannah
Crump, have gone to Ocean City, N.
j., to spend ten days at the Horswood
cottage. They will stop at Philadel-
phia on the way home to visit John
Crump
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mccormick, of
2346 North Sixth street. and Miss
Violet A. Wright have returned from
a trip to Jersey City and West Point
Miss Elizabeth Gross Eby and Miss
Beatrice Louise Thomas have returned
to Philadelphia after visiting Miss
Jennie M. Eby at the Hedges.
Grantham.
Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Boyles, of 632
Reilly street. will leave Tuesday for a
two weeks visit among friends in
Cumberland county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-10
ROOMS FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Two nicely furnished
rooms with board. Both on second
floor All improvements. Use of Bell
phone. S14 Capital street
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-10

FOR SALE-Five- passenger touring
car. body and roomy and newly rein-
ished, genuine leather trimmings. Price
$500. Apply Universal Motor Car CO..
Sixth and Kelker streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-10
Too Late For Classification
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Five-pas touring
car 40-horsepower. Continental engine,
4-cylinder. Roomy and comfortable
body. just overhauled and painted.
Genuine leather cushion and backs.
Demountable rims. tires and tubes
good Extra tire and rim, windshield,
Jacks tools, lights, plungers and cha
mois skins, etc. Must sell for room
VIII demonstrate for quick sale; $3.50
will buy 1T. Apply f745 North Sixth
street
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-10
No VIEWERS WANTED
IN LOWER SWATARA
Road Changes Are Agreed Upon
and Nobody Wants DAM
ages, Court Is Told

In motion court
to-day Maurice r.
Metzger, attorney
for the supervisors
of Lower Swatara
to W n S h | p, petit
toned for a change
of road and said
that no viewers
w ere necessary"
This is the first
petition of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
FIFTY RESERV|STS
Of FSTEEITONMUST
REPORT FOR SERVICE
Believed That 400 Austrians in
Central Pennsylvania VIII
Return to Colors


Simultaneously with the announce
ment from Philadelphia that con-
sui General Won Grivicic. of the Aus
troll Hungarian consulate, has devised
a plan whereby the 10000 Austrian
reservists registered at the Philadel-
phia consulate may be sent to Austria
without infringing on the U. S. neu-
trality laws, more than fifty reservists
in Steelton this morning received
notice to report for service. They
were allowed "a hours in which to re-
port at Philadelphia. Many of them
have already left and more will leave
to-day
Steamship agents here and others
interested in getting the reservists
back to Europe, estimate that more
than 400 subjects of Franz Josef in
this vicinity will return to the colors.
While the majority of these are from
Steelton many are from Harrisburg,
Columbia and Waynesboro.
One party of fifteen men asked the
Jiras-Bachman Estate, steamship
agents, at Front and Chestnut streets,
for transportation to Austria this
morning. They were volunteers and
not regular reservists. They were in
formed that there was as yet no
means for their transportation but
that they would be notified immedi-
ately upon arrangements being made.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
French Make Official
Report of Fight Near
MueIhauSen August ii

Paris. Aug. IS, $40 p. M.-An Off
cial report of the fighting between the
French and Germans in the vicinity of
Muelhausen issued to-day says:
The fighting, which started on Au-
gust IL, was continued on August II
under thrilling conditions for the
French. 1t may be summed up as
follows:
THE first phase was an attack on
two French battalions by German
forces greatly superior in number
The two French battalions fell back,
but. being reinforced during the night
assumed the offensive, well supported
by artillery.
This counter-attack caused the
Germans to retreat precipitately leav-
ing behind them a large number of
killed, wounded and prisoners.
The Germans abandoned battery
of artillery, three machine guns and
several wagonloads of ammunition.
THE French troops followed up
their advantage and on Wednesday a
French battery surprised the Twenty
first Baden Dragon Regiment while
the men We're dsmounted. In a few
minutes the regiment was destroyed.
"The effect of this double success
was Immediately perceptible. Not only
was the forward movement of the
German troops stopped. but their col
the French. In the course of this
pursuit the French found on hill and
in neighboring villages many German
soldiers who had been wounded in the
fight on August IL.
mine German officers and 1000
wounded men fell into the French
hands as prisoners.
THE poor quality of the projectiles
used by the German heavy artillery
was convincingly demonstrated during
the bombardment of Pont-a- Mousson.
More than 100 shells, containing enor-
nous charges of explosives, weighing
altogether 220 pounds each, We're fired
from a battery of 21-centimeter NOR
tars at a distance of about six and a
quarter miles. The total result of this
avalanche of iron explosives was four
killed and twelve wounded in the
town"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED

The general committee arranging for
the Harrisburg Foundry and Machine
Works excursion to Willow Grove on
Saturday, August Is. held their final
meeting last evening and completed ar
rangements for carrying a crowd to this
popular resort.
These excursions to Willow Grove
originated through the medium of the
employees of this company and they
have for the past twelve years carried
through an extremely interesting ex-
cursion each year.
From present indications the crowd
this year will be in keeping with those
of former seasons and possibly exceed
in numbers to a considerable extent
those attending the previous excur-
siops.
Many new attractions have been add
ed to the park in Willow Grove and
aside from this. persons taking ad-
vantage of these excursions have an op-
portunity to visit Philadelphia and re-
turn home the same night. Arrange
ments have been made with the trac-
tion company to have cars meet all
trains from Willow Grove so that
everybody may be carried to their
homes without any difficulty.
Tickets can be purchased from any
of the committee or at the ticket office
of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
way Company early Saturday morning.
the 18th nst.-Advertisement
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
Eight Vessels HoUer
Near Pacific Coast
BY .4tSocfntcd PrcsS

San Francisco, Aug. 13.-AcCordine
to the captain of the German cruiser
Leipzig now off this port. eight ves-
sells flying the flags of the bellgerent
nations are on the Pacific coast each,
daily expecting conflict with one or
more of it's adversaries. That he is
engagement in which his command
may be involved may be shown by his
remark to Varon Won Schaak. acting
consul for Germany, who visited the
Leipzig yesterday, accompanied by
newspaper men.
1T would not take us long" he said.
81 believe we could dispose of them
at the rate of one a day."
The trip to the vessel was arranged
b. a San Francisco newspaper in the
interest of two sailors aboard the
Leipzig reported in need of hospital
attention.
Baron Won Schaak and the newspa-
per men were received aboard the
Leipzig by Captain Huan and arrange
ments were made for the landing of
the sick sailors. Captain Huan an
nounced his intention of entering this
port soon for coal and said his duties
might keep him i'm this vicinity for
some time. He also said that he is in
constant communication with the Ger
man cruiser Nurnberg, which is how
ering outside the port. When asked
whether he would seize American
coal if being transported in British
vessels, he answered:
II cannot do that"
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SENATOR PENROSE
IS NOT DISTURBED
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far ahead of the standards of twenty
five years ago and the efficiency and
application of strict military and busi-
ness principles mark a progress al
most as great as that from the stage
coach to the steam engine.
In fact, If any criticism were to be
made, 1t would be that some of the
requirements are too eXacting to i'm
pose on the guardsmen. At any rate.
the National Guard of Pennsylvania is
a body of clean, healthy, vigorous
and intelligent men. They can be
compared favorably with any other
similar body of men in the country
and cannot be surpassed anywhere
"One of the best improvements in
the guard In recent wears has been the
construction or armor1es by the State
This work ought to be kept up and
liberal appropriations should be forth
coming. fine armory tends to stim-
ulate interest in the guard and the
armory buildings can be used for
many civic occasions, making it gen.
orally useful to the locality, fully JUS
tifying Its expense.
I'm view of the rapidly increasing
and exacting duties that are required
of officers and enlisted men | have.
after careful consideration, come to
the conclusion that the militia pay
bill ought to be passed by Congress.
''It is true the bill will constitute a
radical departure from the original
idea of a National Guard, but we
move in the age of rapid progress and
it is hardly fair to expect the large
amount of work now required of the
officers without allowing them a rea-
sonable and moderate compensation.
THE United States, of course. oc-
cupies a neutral position in the Euro
pean crisis. It is sincerely hoped that
1t is beyond the realm of possibility
for the United States to be drawn into
the conflict, but no man can foresee
what unexpected contingency might
arise with respect to this country and
Mexico. Should the occasion arise
the National Guard will respond to
a man and form a nucleus of as fine
an army as ever encountered an
enemy"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
NORTH SEA MINES
EXCITE INTEREST
Of j. s. NAVY MEN
Three Types Of Explosives Used
in War For Protection
of Forts !
BY Associated Press

Washington, Aug. 13-Planting OF
floating and other types of contact
mines in the North sea and their dis
tribution around the entrance to the
principal ports continue to arouse Of
fetal interest in Washington and in
cite speculation as to the ultimate eff
feet on neutral commerce of these
weapons of war.
Germany began planting t. e mines.
and the British government decided
to do the same thing in self-defense,
according to notifications yesterday.
The result that 1t is perlous for mer-
chant ships to enter the North Sea.
Secretary Daniels, of the Navy de-
partment who was asked for a state
ment explaining the use of such mines,
turned the request over to officers of
the department, and they furnished
the following memorandum.
There are three types of mines in
use
First The anchored contact mine,
which is a mine anchored in a def
mite locality usually a channelway
where ships must pass through to at
tack. These mines explode when a
vessel strikes one, and therefore must
be accurately charted in order that
innocent ships might be piloted in and
out of a port without danger. Such
mines are held depth of 5 or 20 feet
certain amount of reserve buoyancy.
They are charged with varying
amounts # high explosives. depend
ing upon their size, and may contain
as much as 800 pounds
THE second is the anchored control
mines. These are generally similar to
the contact mines, except that they do
mot explode on contact, but are eX-
ploded by means of electric wires
from fortified control stations on
shore. They are usually arranged in
groups, so that several are exploded
at the same time. Since these mines
are exploded only at the will of the
operator on shore, innocent vessels
can pass over the mine field without
danger. These mines can be planted
long in advance of hostilities.
"All anchored mines must become
ineffective if they by accident come
adrift from their moorings.
The third is the floating mine.
These are generally of much smaller
size, and are sown in the probable
paths of the enemy. Inasmuch as
they are alike harmful to friend and
foe, they are made to sink at the end
o. one hour, in accordance with the
terms of The Hague convention
Mines are generally alike in prin-
ciple, but the different nations may
have different means of accomplishing
the same result"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
ReUenue Loss For Year
May Be 500, ,OOO, 900

Washington. Aug. 13.-The question
of w@ys and means for raising about
100000. 900 to offset the loss of the
United States in import duties expect
ed to result from the European war
was up for discussion at a conference
to-day between Secretary McAdoo and
Chairman Underwood of the House
Ways and Means Committee. Treasury
experts had prepared statement
showing imports from the warning
countries and figures indicating what
might be raised by increased taxes on
liquors and by adding to the income
tax. The experts Informally admit
that the probable loss in revenues NAV
be nearly 500. 900, 900 for this year.
Plans being informally discussed in
clude one to change the internal reve-
nue. tax on cigars and tobacco to make
II an ad valorem tax instead of q fiat
tax on amounts, IT being estimated
that about forty million could be
raised in this way. An increased tax
on beer according to estimates. would
bring in $30,000.00O. No change in
the income tax could be effective until
after July /, 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
Declares French We're
Victorious at MueIhausel
BY associated Press

London, Aug. 13. 12.15 p. m, = A
dispatch from the French foreign
minister issued by the French en-
bassy here to-day reiterates that the
French troops behind Muelhausen,
Alsace, have not retired bbut have
VIGOROUSLY resisted an entire German
army corps"
The minister adds:
The Belgian army and the forts
around Leige are intact and are pre-
pared to resist all attacks.
There has been no important
change in Lorraine and there is no
truth in the report that the sixteenth
regiment of infantry was taken pris-
oners by the Germans at Briey in the
department of Meurthet-M t-Moselle."
At the end of his communication
the French minister said France is
gratified bby the attitude of Ameri-
ca"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
IMPLEMENT FIRMS
REMOVAL MEANS MUCH
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respect and a building that will be a
credit to your city.
I'VE have at present at Waynesboro
fftytwo employees in connection with
the Waynesboro branch and that mum
ber will be required to conduct our
Harrisburg Branch. OF this list, nine
are travellers who naturally will not
be transferred with the exception of
their work and headquarters
1T SHOULD mean quite a little to
Harrisburg as we hope to retain all
our capable and worthy employees
and who naturally will want to seek
homes in your city. We, as you pos
sibly known, maintain seventeen
branches, located from the Atlantic to
the Rockey Mountains, and have job
bing connections on the Pacific coast.
We also maintain thirteen sub branch
es. which located throughout the coun-
try and which give us an extremely
large outlet for the distribution Of our
line"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
WAR WILL AFFECT
PRICES, THINKS BIG
D. P. s. NJ N A GE R
But He Doesn't Believe Harrisburg
Has Cause For Much
Concern

Yes, the war will undoubtedly
have great effect ton merchandising
in this country" said William H.
Bennethum, Sr., manager of Dives
Pomeroy & Stewards Harrisburg store
to-day, in reply to a question as to
what havoc the far-flung lines of war
were creating in the great mercantile
fields in this country.
But, he continued lit will be
extremely difficult to tell just how
far-reaching ii will be because nobody
knows how long the war is going to
last. For that reason it is impossible
to forecast with anything like ac-
curacy or any near approach to it
the possible effect of the war on
prices here So far as our own stocks
go we are pretty we'll fixed for the fu-
ture, and subsequent operations will
depend largely on the duration of hos
tilities
Then, too, it may be possible that
England may be able to clear the seas
or at least make a pathway across suf-
hcient to permit the plying of her
commercial ships OF course even in
that event, prices on goods upon which
we are dependent on Europe would be
higher on account of the greater riskk
in transporting them and also by rea-
son of the greater cost of production.
Lines Hit Hardest
Il
For instance, in the linen trade. which
we divide between Great Britain and
Germany, it is highly probable that the
latter country wiuld be unable to pro-
duce linens, and an overdemand would
send prices up. Outside of linens the
only other articles upon which we are
absolutely dependent on Europe are
toys and dolls, nearly all of which come
from Germany. Laces and embroid-
cries are imported in great quantities
from Great Britain and France and
Germany, but only because of the SUI
perior quality, and Americans must con-
tent themselves with homemade goods
of this kind in all probability Velvet
is another article not produced in this
country and here again we will have
to use the American made velveteen.
Going into the commissary depart
ment, to speak in war terms, America,
as you know, is pretty we'll able to take
care of herself. and about the only
article that will be missed from the
American menu will be Swiss cheese,
which has gone up from twenty-four to
forty-two cents.
Little Cause For Worry
so far as Harrisburgers are con-
cerned, | don't think the war is going
to affect them much. Our own stock is
well made up, and we will absolutely
not advance nrices until we have to
purchase again. Our firm has always
been optimistic. One of the founders
used to say. You can always buy
goods and in my own thirty two years
experience l have found that the case"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
Whitman to Inquire
Into High Food Prices
BY Associatcd PresS

New York, Aug. 3.-Investigation
of an alleged conspiracy to increase
the price of food in New York City
was to begin to-day by District Attor-
ney Whitman, who announced that
wholesalers, retailers and others hav-
ing knowledge of food prices would
be given an opportunity of appearing
before one of his assistants to tell their
version of the upward trend of prices.
In the event that certain persons
whom the district attorney has in
vited to attend this inquiry fail to ap-
pear, he announced that they would be
subpenaed in John Doe proceedings.
Two other Investigations to be set
in motion to-day were those under the
auspices of Mayor Mitchell and Presi-
dent Marks of Manhattan borough.
Mayor Mitchell announced that the
would appoint a citizens committee
of fifty to look into the situation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
LEWIS TELLS HIS
TROUBLES TO 7. R.
Dean of Pennsylvania Law School
Says It's Not True He's to
Lose Place on Ticket

Oyster Bay, n. Y, Aug. 1S.-Wil-
nee for Governor in Pennsylvania,
journeyed to Sycamore Hill yesterday
to tell his troubles to Colonel Roose-
welt Mr.. Lewis was visibly disturbed
by the report that he was not consid-
cred a strong enough candidate and
that the Colonel's wisdom was being
solicited to get him off the ticket.
In answer to Mr.. Lewis" Colonel
Roosevelt said to reporters. Il told
him that of course l am as interested
in the campaign in Pennsylvania as
in New York: that in both states |
feel we have not only national issues
at stake, but also questions of decent
and clean government which. al
though in one sense vitality and pc
culiarly state matters referring to the
two states, vet are also of such great
importance as to be national in their
scope"
Then the dean of the Pennsylvania
law school made his way down from
that the Bull Moosers of PENNSYLVANIA
were thinking of getting him off the
ticket. He couldn't understand the
report. Such thing as resigning to
have himself replaced by another at
the head of the ticket was impossible.
When he got to the railroad station
and obtained a parcel of zwieback
which he had checked he went on to
say as he munched the brown things
that there was some reason for think
ing of fusion between the Bull Moose
ticket and the ticket headed by Vance
Mccormick independent Democratic
nominee for Governor. because McCor-
mick was fighting Penrose too.
The reporters left him sitting on a
bench on the dock of the Seawanhaka
Yacht Club eating his zwieback. He
was waiting for the motorboat of
Medill Mccormick. the Illinois Pro-
gressive leader, to take him back to
New York.
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INVESTIGATION Of
HIGH FOOD PRICES
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if any would in your judgment be jus
tifiable and warrantable in the cir
cumstances.
'I feel that this is matter which
we cannot let pass by without trying
to serve the country Certainly the
country ought to be defended If pos
sihle against men who would take
advan e of such circumstances to
increase the price of food and the
difficulties of living"
The President took up the question
of increasing prices the first thing to-
day and was impressed by the pressure
of the situation.
Special agents of the Department of
Justice throughout the country and in
vestigators of the Department of Com
merce are available to collect evi-
dence for any action the Attorney
General may think warranted. The
Department of Labor also has a corps
which has become expert in gather
ing evidence of the increased cost of
living.
McReynolds Replies
Attorney General McReynolds at
once replied to the President as fol-
lows:
Il have your letter of August 13 in
reference to the unwarranted in
crease in the price of foodstuffs.
THE head of our special agents
has been instructed to give directions
to his men throughout the country to
begin Investigations in order to ascer-
tain the real facts, and | am sending
the various district attorneys similar
instructions. This should enable us to
secure some definite information in
respect of true conditions.
May I take the liberty of suggest
ing that perhaps the agents of the De-
partmene of Commerce could render
valuable assistance along the lines in
dicated.
when we have become somewhat
more familiar with the exact situa-
ton I hope to be able to make you
some suggestions in respect of legal
proceedings or appropriate legisla-
tion.
The department has for some time
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
Germans Gather For Telling
Blow on Belgian Soil
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French foreign minister denies report of the
by Germans OF French infantry at Bey Meur
the-Et-Nlosele.
Swiss reports before Mue
the neghborng hospital
modations proved absolutely inadequate.
Many Berlin have placed their homes the dis
posal OF stranded Americans.
the nations Of Europe to-day
"
waTsps have been made public since the first outbreak
to
through that certain that the German
official describing to-day the disposition
all business with Britain send
mines and the probability
be given although announced yee
In
idering published
the OF the Belgian armies
to military dispositions
9 & the p Te% % p e oTer h % %o % aS % makes % deu to
estimate the real val value of the news receTed h , forts 1,
artillery and cavalry
taken ne b% Of the German forces concenPaed on the
CONFUSION that lightly guarded
t1ors
1S officially announced that state of
existed bsfsR G Btaa d % S1d s fb since mtdnish
Diplomatic relations between France and Hungary being
Ambassador in London follow
AUS n hos
has placed itself
Germany
of
belief has sent troops the German frontier
the French finds itself Obliged declare the
it reply ommaRGs 0 @ @ @ @ GeGTso accordingly the
eency that the rupture with France having been brought
Great Britain and Hungary from midnight