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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-10
The City Will Compel
People to Vacate by
That Time and Begin
Demolishing Houses
THE LAST DAY
TO FIX VALUES
Condemnation Proceedings viii Be
Started Against Property Owners
Who Do Not Otherwise Come to
Terms-City viii Give Security

BY April certainly not later than
April 15-eity officials said to-day,
every house on the river side of
/" Hariscrabble will have been vacat-
ed and the work begun of razing the
buildings, preliminary to the reopening
of Front street, from Herr street to
Calder.
To-day is the last day on which
property owners in the Hardscrab-
Bile" section may submit to City Soil
citor D. S. Seitz estimated values of
their properties. Up to noon eighteen
owners had presented their claims.
These cover the estimated cost and
damages to fifty per cent. of the forty
or more homes and will be submitted
to tine City Commissioners at their
meeting next Tuesday.
Solicitor Seitz said he will offer
these estimates without making rec
concentrations and win leave these
matters entirely up to the commission
ers. He will, however, suggest to the
commissioners the advisability of get
ting in touch with real estate dealers
with view to getting their ideas OF
the market values of the houses.
Unless agreements are reached on
the price question with all property
owners, the City Solicitor will within
the next month or two be directed to
start condemnation proceedings against
those owners who cannot otherwise
come to terms with the city.
That will make necessary the ap.
pointment of a board of viewers to fix
the amount of damages to be sustained
by the owners through the loss of their
properties. Bonds then viii be fled by
the city as security to the property
owners, the homes be razed and the
street opened as planned.
Viewers then again will go over the
ground and determine what benefits
have been derived by the propert =
owners ON the east side of Front street
through the improvements. Assess
ments then viii be levied against the
latter.
If agreements are reached between
the city and any number of property
owners without condemnation proceed
ings, the owners in those cases will be
asked to vaeate and they will receive
the city's bond as security for pay,
ment of the consideration.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-10
LATE WAR news SUMMARY

The German line that stretches
across France for more than 200 miles
is said by the French war once to he
giving way before the attacks of the
allies. The oficih statement from Ber-
lin to-day gives few details Of the
lighting in France, although asserting
that the allies in one instance were re-
pulsed with heavy losses.
The French announcement says that
the allies have prosecuted the offensive
successfully at points scattered much
of the way across the country. Specific
mention is made of the capture OF
trenches, Of victories in artillery duels
and of advances of 200 to 600 yards.
These onslaughts have led to spirited
counter attacks by the Germans who
yesterday are said to have made no less
than six of these attempts in the Ar
gonne.
The German statement is confined so
far as the lighting in the west is con-
cerned. to reference TO the conflict
in the Argonne where it is stated an
attack of the French was repulsed.
The German military authorities say
that in the east the advance along the
vistula river is being continued and
that a small Polish town has been cap
tured. As TO the campaign in the South
ern Poland where, according to unof.
fetal sdvices from Berlin, the Russian
wings have been thrown back. the way
ONCE statement merely says that at.
tseks of the enemy were repulsed- To
the north, in east Prussia. the fghting
has diminished in intensity, apparent.
" pending the outcome of the battle
west Of Warsaw. In this region. says
the German war ONCE, only artillery
encounters are taking place.
The naval battle in the South At.
lantic and the illness of the Emperor
William diverting attention to-day
from the great struggles now in pro
gress in Belgium, France and Poland
The fate of the small German cruisers
Dresden and Nurmburg. which at las.
accounts were being pursued by British
wsrships had not been disclosed.
The British admiralty preserved its
silence as to the makeup of the squad.
ron which sent to the bottom the for.
mldsble German cruisers Scharnhorst
Continued on Ninth PAGE.
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ST0UGHS LAWYERS TO APPEAL
VIII Demand Trial by Jury for Evan
gelist on Slander Charges

Hszleton, Dee. 10.-No defense will
be made by the attorneys of Henry ".
Slough, the evangelist sued for SANDER
damages totaling 100000 by Max
Ffiedlander, Fl. ". Jacobs, William
Cullen and John Fierro, who were
scored by Slough during the campaign
in HazletOn last spring.
Attorneys Walsh, of Pittston, and
Harris Hamln and William Goeekel. of
Wilkes-Barre, viii arbitrate the case
December 21. Stough's 5 lawyers declare
they will avail themselves of the con-
stitutional right to jury trial and will
appeal from the decision of the arbitra-
tors to court.
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STOUGH HERE In FEBRUARY
May Address Anti Saloon Convention
Prom Tabernacle Platform

DR.. Henry W. Slough is scheduled
to address the State convention of the
Anti-Salcon League in this city on
Monday, February 1. There viii De
meetings at 1890, and s o'clock,
and five thousand delegates are expect
ed 10 be present.
1t IS expected that DR.. Slough, who
will then be conducting an evangelistie
campaign IN Altoona, viii address the
gathering from the platform he is now
using in his local campaign, for efforts
are to be made, it is said, to secure
the use OF the Slough tabernacle for
convention sessions.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-10
HIS LIVING IN PARIS COSTLY
Former Ambassador Herrick Now
Wants to Earn Some Money
6u Associated Press

Cleveland, Dec. 10.-Myron I. Her,
rick, former Ambassador to France, ac.
companied by Mrs. Herrick, arrived
here early to-day and was escorted to
his home where he will rest up for q
public reception to be given in his
honor at Central armory this afternoon
1t feels good to get back, ." said Mr.
Herriek, as he stepped off the train on
which he had been accompanied from
New York by a delegation of promi
nent Clevelanders
He declined to discuss the plan OF
friends to boom him for President in
1916 and said he would have "to earn
some money! as his duties in Paris
had cost him 100000.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-10
Commissioners in Spe-
cial Session To-day
Strive to Keep With.
in 9-Mill Tax Rate
SEVERAL NEW
EXPENSES ARISE
ias Posts on Mulberry Street Bridge
Are Dangerous-Must Be Repaired
Assistant Plumbing Inspector
Asked for at 5000

The City Commissioners, in extraordi.
nary session starting Mt s clock this
afternoon, began putting into shape the
annual budget and tax levy measures
for 1915. Departmental estimates were
placed in the Lands of the City Clerk
and work at once was begun on pairing
down estimates so that the general total
will be low enough TO be covered bv
nine-mll tax rate, decrease of half
mill from that of the present wear.
The Commissioners by late this a fter-
noon expected to have the ordinance in
shape so that it can be printed in time
for the regular meeting next Tuesday.
by holding a special meeting on Frida-
of next week the Commissioners hope to
pass both measures finally on that day.
Highway Commissioner William ii.
Lynch put in his estimates this after.
noon. The total is $117,105, which, he
says, Is an increase of less than five per
cent. over that of this year, when al.
lowance is made for the facts that this
official ''year is only nine.month
period and in 1915 it will be twelve
months.
In addition to his Water Department.
budget, Commissioner Bowmans esti.
mates, coming under the head of the
Public Safety Department, were offered
to-day. He said they are a proportion.
ate increase of approximately 81, 400
over this year. New requests covered
by the Bowman and Lynch budgets in
clude the following;
Some of the New Expenditures
Eleven thousand dollars for eduip.
ment and operation of asphalt repair
plant.
Automobile truck, costing $2,5OO. to
be used at the asphalt plant.
Fund of $1,000 out of which cost
of repairing posts on Mulberry street
viaduct shall be paid.
Sixteen new cluster light standards.
eight on Walnut street and eight on
Locust street.
Fifteen additional arc lights for vari-
Gus sections of the city.
Assistant to P. J. Bradley, Plum bing
Inspector, at annual salary of 5000.
The majority of the estimates con.
Continued on Ninth Page.
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Greatest This Year In the History of
the Industry
BY ASSOCIATED Press.

Washington, Dee. 10.-The United
States this year has produced the
greatest crop of cotton in its history
More than sixteen million bales, 15,.
$4,000 of lint cotton and Inter cot.
ton unofieislly estimated at from
100000 to $4,000 bales, are the
crop.
The. total production for the season
viii amount to 15,S66,000 bales OF
500 pounds gross weight, the Depart.
ment of Agriculture announced to-dSy
in It's final estima4e of the crop.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-10
TOO MUCH MEAT IN TRAINING
Probable Cause of Captain Brickley's
Attack of Appendicitis
By Associated Press.

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 10.-Too
much meat in tine training diet of the
Harvard football squad may have been
responsible for the attack of appendi-
citis which kept Captain Brickley out
of the game most of last season, in the
opinion of DR.. Richard C. Newton, pres
ident of the New Jersey State Board Of
Health.
In a letter to one of the university
publications. DR.. Newton says: sThe
idea that meat eating may cause ap-
pendicitis is so prevalent that it would
seem to have some foundation in fact.
He suggests that this extremely i'm.
portant matter deserves all the study
and research necessary to elucidate the
question:
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Say Allies Are In Dixmuds

London, Dec. 10, 4.59 A. Nun
confirmed reports which have reached
Amsterdam, according TO the core
spondent of the "Morning POST state
that Dixmude has been occupied by the
allies.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-10
To Give Luncheon for Mrs. Tener

One OF the farewell functions 10 be
given for Mrs. John X. Tener, wife of
the Governor, during the last few weeks
OF her residence in this city, will be
next Thursday afternoon, when Miss
Caroline Pearson aud Miss Mary H.
Pearson will entertain at luncheon in
her honor at their residence, sos North
Front street.
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Son of Berwick Minis
ter. a Sunbury Back
slider and a H o b O
Also PenitentS
ONE MAN GIVEN
A NEEDED BATH
During Excitement at Last Nights Aft
er Meeting Woman for First Time
Refuses DR.. stough's Appeal to Join
Husband on Front Benches

The after meeting at the Slough tab.
ernaele last night, when the evangelist
shook hands with the trail hitters as
they stood to their feet one by one
mad more thrills from beginning TO end
perhaps than any former gathering at
the front seats.
There were the usual married couples
husbands having gone front at the per.
suasion of wives, or wives at the i'm.
portuning of husbands, or both at the
urging of personal workers. There were
Young men sndyoung girls. too, in the
throng of about eighty penitents. Blu,
there were some extraordinary eases in
addition, which made the meeting stand
out.
One of the first men to shake hand.
with Or. Slough was "A full-blooded In.
dian, who said that he was from Ne
orasks, had attended the Carlisle In
dian school, had later been playing pro
fessional football and baseball. but was
now down and out, through booze.
He promised that he was going to lead
different life.
Another penitent was a man from
Sunbury who had hit the trail there
but he testified that when he came Il
this city with the Slough party month
ago he "went out for n couple hour.
with the boys" and after his return tC
Sunoury could not content himself un
I'll, he said, he "came back to this dirty
rotten old burg to get right with God.
He intends to take course in tn,
Moody Bible Institute.
Minister'S Son There
In hetcompany was also the son OF
minister of Berwick who had coop
Grated in the Slough campaign there
The Young man had come to this city
with the sole intent of hitting the trail
Fer e first time sifee the opening
of the efmpaign, a woman in the audi
enee last night refused to join her hus
band on the ''mourners BENCH DR.
Stough had asked one of the unaccom
Continued ON seventh Page
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-10
U. S. unhued Steel Tonnage

New York, Dee. 10.-The untitled
tonnage of the U. s. Steel Corporation
on November so totalled 3,S24.592
tons a decrease of 136,505 tons from
October.
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IN tire Force of De-
stroy ed Structures
Put to Work Remov-
ing Debris
LOSS PLACED
AT $7.OOO.OOO
Eleven Out Of Eighteen Buildings
Licked Up by Flames-one Man Is
Known to Have Perished in Big
Fire
IS Associated Press.

West Orange y. j.. Dee. 10.-When
the fire which swept the ten-acre manu-
featuring plant of the Thomas A. Edi.
son companies here was extinguished to-
day hurried inventory of the dam.
age revealed that eleven of the eight
cen buildings had been destroyed. 9TH
ers had been damaged and that the loss
would approximate s7.000,000. Seven
thousand men are employed at the plant
and half of these, it Is estimated, will
be out of work temporarily.
The entire force OF employees was put
to. work to-day at removing the debris.
Under the active supervision of Thomas
A. Edison they began tearing down the
concrete walls which had to be remov ed
while the embers were cooling. I'm
mediate steps to rebuild have been ia
ken.
One Man Perished in Flames
At least one man perished in the
flames. This became known to-day
with the finding of charred body in
the ruins of the film house, where the
explosion occurred which started the
blaze. Two other men, both workmea,
were reported missing.
The flames were beaten back from
the laboratory and workshop of Mr..
Edison, where were stored innumerable
records and materials gathered from
ever. corner of the world, the result of
more than 80 years of the inventor S
efforts. At the height of the fire a
force of men removed the most valuable
records TO Mr.. Edison's home, not far
away.
3 Newark. \. J., Dec. 10.--,Thamas ~
Edison last night watched the destrse-
tion by ire of the greater part of his
immense manufacturing plant on VAL
ley road, West Orange, which bears his
Continued on Ninth Page
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British Naval Victory
in South Atlantic Is
Chief Topic of Dis
cuSSion in London
A COMP ARSON
OF SEA BATTLES
In All Naval Engagements Of Present
War Thus Far There Is . Great
Disparity Between Losses OF Vic
tor and vsnquished

London, Dec. I0.-The British navy
has squared the account with Admiral
Count Won Spec. In the most important
naval engagement in point of guns
and tonnage yet fought in the war.
Vice Admiral SIR Frederick c. D. Stur-
dee's cruiser squadron yesterday en-
gSeed near the FalklSnd Islands the
German squadron OF Admiral Won Spec,
sank his flagship, the a-mored cruiser,
Scharuhorst, of 1880 tons; 3 sister
ship, the Gneisenau, and the light
cruiser Leipzig, OF $3.50 tons.
The light cruisers Nu-nberg and
Dresden escaped ami are being pur.
sued by the victorious British fleet.
Two eolEers attached to the German
fleet were captured.
Admirslty's oficial Statement
The official statement of the ad-
miralty, published by the press bureau
last night says some survivors OF the
Gneiseusn and Leipzig were rescued.
No mention is made OF any survivors
OF the flagship Seharnho-St. and it is
believed Admiral Won Spec went down
with his ship. The eomplScements OF
the Seharnhorst aid the Gneisenau
were s65 men each, that of the Nurn,
berg was ss2 and of the Leipzig ass.
Tins more than 1880 officers and men
were aboard the three ships sunk, and
1t IS believed the total German loss
was not far from 1900.
The British casualties are unofficial,
ly reported as three in killed and
wounded.
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Discussing Victory in London

London, Dee. 10, 1857 P. M.-The
British naval victory in the South At.
lantie Is being discussed in England TO-
day almost TO the exclusion of all other
phases OF the war news. The last word
regardlng the naval engagement was
that the British squadron, after sinking
the German cruisers Schsrnhort, Gnei-
sensu and Leipzig, with the loss of near.
~ 1000 men, was pursuing the aeeinr
Dresden and Nuvnberg, the other two
vessels present when the action opened.
The British public is awaiting anxious.
ly for news Of the outcome of this
chase.
Naval observers, commenting on the
action of the Falkland Islands. makes
note of the fact that in all naval en-.
gagemenSs in the present war there is
great disparity between the losses of
the vietors and vanquished. In the
case Of the British cruisers Monmouth
and Good Hope, sent TO the bottom by
German squadron of the coast of
Chile early in November, the Germans
were practically unscathed and the
same is true of the British in their
victorious engagement in the South At
laDric
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Santiago, Chile, Dee. 10.-Reports
received here Of the sinking Of the
German cruisers Seharnhorst. Gneisenau
and Leipzig by British warships off the
Falkland Islands say that the Nernberg
and Dresden, the two other German
cruisers in the battle, were badly dam
aged.
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MouteEidiO, Uruguay, Dee. 10
Wireless reports received here indicate
that the German cruisers Dresden and
NUrucerg, survivors in the engagement
with an English fleet December s, in
which the Seharnborst, the Gneiseuau
and thA Leipzig were sunk, closely pur-
sOed byn British warships are heeing
IN the Erection of PORT Santa Cruz,
on the Argentine coast, north of the
Atlantic entrance 10 the Straits of
Magellan and west Of the Falkland Is
lands
II is reported here also that the
Geramn auxiliary cruiser Prime E;tel
Is cruising in the South Atlantic and
that she has on board 1900 German
soldiers.
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Defeat Means AnnihiIation

In other words, defeat AZ sea means
virtually annihilation and the loss of
all crews with the exception of such
men as the vietors may be able TO save.
This is attributed to 8 great extent to
the fact that naval engagements have
been between ships of unequal arma-
ment. The German guns outranged the
British of the coast OF Chile and the
role Was reversed of the Falkland Is
lands Nevertheless, it is argued that
even with ships Of similar armament
the disprcporti0n of losses between the
victor and the vanquished would be
greater by far thar anything possible
in land warfare.
Barton County democrat., 1914-10-09
GAVE A SHOWER.


About forty of the young
friends of Miss Grace Hammond
treated her to a miscellaneous
shower on Monday evening of this
week at the home of Miss Alberta
Brining, the event being comph-
mentary to the marriage of Miss
Hammond to Mr.. Ray A. Miller,
of Wichita, which will take place
at the home of the brides mother,
Mrs. E. A. Hammond, on Wednes-
day evening of this week. The
evening was most pleasantly spent
in playing games of various
kinds, and a number of vocal and
instrumental selections were rem
dered. A fine luncheon was Serv-
ed and the evening was a most
enjoyable one in every way, and
it was not until a late hour that
the guests departed with best
wishes for the bride-to-be and for
all the happiness that the world
affords.
Barton County democrat., 1914-10-09
TAKES DOWN THE PRIZE.

Talf about your soil of Illinois
and Iowa, it doesn't begin to COM
pare with that of the bully old
Jayhawker state, and Henry
Schultz, of near Heizer, has a field
that takes down the big prize in
this state, as far as we have heard.
Mr.. Schultz has one field that has
been farmed to wheat cOntinu-
ouSly for the past AZ years, and
the field this year averaged "a
bushels of wheat to the acre, and
outside of a little manure no fer
TIMER of any kind has ever been
used on the place. If any of our
readers have a field that can COM
pare favorably with this, we
would like to hear about it.
Barton County democrat., 1914-10-09
SOME THINGS GOVERNOR HODGES HAS DONE.

Rebuilt the Twine Plant and Shops destroyed by
fire at Lansing without calling the Legislature together
and without borrowing money on the states credit.
Established the policy of selling the entire output
OF the Kansas Twine Plant to Kansas farmers at cost
Rebuilt the Power Plant and Water Works at the
Kansas penilentiary.
Completed Memorial Hall.
Built two new State Hospitals.
Paid the old debts of the StubbS administration
aggregating in all three-quarerS of million dollars
Has not increased the State Tax Levy which raised
from nne-enths of mill to one and two-tenths mills
under the StubbS administration.
Has improved the fire protection, water supply and
sanitation at most of the charitable institutions where
conditions had become intolerabe.
Has united the government of the big schools of
the state by placing them in charge of single board
Under this board these great schools have been brought
into harmony and working cooperation and last wear
has been pronounced the most successful in their history
He has increased state aid to the high schools of
the state for normal and manual training and for domestic
science.
he has established system of purchasing supplies
for all of the state institutions as Semannua lettings at
which the lowest bidder gets the contract and the State
saves not less than hundred thousand dollars year
thereby.
He has established the state publication of school
books and the sale OF them to the people at actual cost
Two OF these books being sold to the people at
less than half what they formerly paid
He caused the law taxing the nheritances of wi
dowS and orphans to be repealed
He caused the Legislature to make provisions for a
woman factory Inspector who visits all the establish
ments where women and girls are employed and sees
to that the sanitation moral surroundings and general
comfort is provided as required by law
Has caused the WorkingmenS Compensation Act
to be enlarged in scope to adequately provide
for dependent families.
Has visited personally each one of the twenty-five
state institutions at least once; some of them twice and
some OF them three to six times in order to make himself
personally familiar with their needs and conditions He
Is the only governor that has ever done So
He has enforced the prohibory law better than if
has ever before been enforced
He has shown himself to be man of moral cor-
rage by defying the liquor interests and declaring for
national prohibition.
lie has given women an important place in the af-
fairs OF the state by appointing them as supernendents
OF several OF the states Institutions members of the more
important boards, and also to numerous places of mpor-
tance in every institution
These are only few of the things which Governor
Hodges has accomplished but they are sufficient to en-
title him to a second term.