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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
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NMAALlOl1R0sa q aLliITO OpsRlAnseE An
FAIR
To BEST ALL OTHERS
Never in Associations History Has
Prospect For Successful
Week Been So Bright

The fifteenth annual exhibition of
the Middletown Fair Association
which belongs next Tuesday, promises
to eclipse its predecessors both in its
extent and attendance. The fair con-
tinues four days.
Tuesday will be devoted largely to
the children and a special program
of athletic events has been arranged.
Silver and bronze medals will be
awarded the winners in these events.
Horse racing starts Wednesday and
will continue Thursday and Friday.
Never has finer or speedier col
lection of trotters and PAGERS been
secured to race over the local track
than the one brought together by
racing secretary, W. W. Conklin. Mr..
Conklin enjoys a wide acquaintance
among the horsemen of the State and
has obtained entries from owners new
to Middletown race goers.
Among the many light harness
starts that will be seen in action dur
ing the meeting is Waverly, 2:04 Il f.,
owned by ]. c. Parker. of Sunbury.
This horse is the holder of the pres
ent track record at Middletown and
will likely be sent against it as he is
reported to be in great shape just
now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
McGinnis Gives Order
For School Opening

With just one more week of vaca-
ton time left, Steelton's small boys
and girls are preparing for the open
ing of another school term. Superin-
tendent l.. E. McGinnes has issued an
order setting August 81 as the open
ing of the school term. The order is
as follows:
Pupils will meet as follows to be
assigned to their respective schools.
West Side district, at West Side
school on Tuesday, August %, at 9
o'clock a. m.
Major l.. S Bent district, at Major
l.. S. Bent school, Tuesday, August
25, at p. IN.
"Hygienic district. at odd Fellows
Hall in Adams street, Tuesday, Au-
gust 25, at p. m.
High School and FELTON, districts,
in room I of the High School build
ing, Wednesday, August %, at 9 a. m.
'Fothergill district, at the Fother-
school, Wednesday, August 26, at ?
p. m.
East End district at the East End
school Monday. August 81, at Q a. m.
Pupils in the grades below the
High School that have not been ex-
amined and pupils that are to be ad-
mitted to the schools for the first
time will meet in room "a of the
High School on Thursday, August %,
at 9 a. m. for assignment.
High School pupils who were not
examined in all the subjects and
those who are prepared to take a re-
examination in particular subjects
will meet in the main room of the
High School on Friday, August 2S,
at a. m"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
Correspondent Tells of
Taking of MueIhausen
By Associatcd Prets

London, Aug. 90. 4 a. ma dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company from its Paris correspond
ent says:
THE battles of Muelhausen and Alt
kirch lift the curtain practically for
the first time on the operations of the
chief belligerents. The losing of a po-
sition and its recapture in a war so
colossal is merely an episode which
serves to indicate the strength and
weakness of the opposing forces. The
strategy which enables us to re-take
Muelhausen was as follows:
we knew from aviators that the
Germans had between the French
froniet and Muelhausen a compara-
lively small force and that the major
part of their army was amassed on
the right bank of the Rhine. With
this knowledge our objective in the
attack was to cause them to fall back
we obtaining control of bridges on the
Rhine to enable us to repulse a coun-
ter attack if it should come on the
right bank.
The Germans installed artillery
and earthworks. The attack was
brilliant and forceful and as the Ger
mans were strongly fortified our sue
cess was also a valorous deed. The
enemy suffered heavy losses, but as
night was approaching our cavalry
was forced to abandon active pur-
suit"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
6RethRoADE QeA@ss
RE|NSTATES THREE
RAILROAD TRA|NMEN
President Lee Orders Harrisburg
Trio to Be Readmitted to
Local Lodge

Milton T. Robinson. H. B. Huber and
Samuel H Derrick have been ordered
relnstated to Harrisburg Lodge, No. SsS.
brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, by
". q; Lee, of Cleveland, Ohio, grand
PRESIDENT of the lodge.
The order followed a hearing in
which charges that the trio were Car
rNlng water on both shoulders" by act
ing as informants of inside brotherhood
matters to w. b. McCaleb, superinten-
dent of the Philadelphia Division, Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, at this
place, were probed. These men admit
ted they had a consultation with SUI
perintendent McCaleb following a meet
ing of their order and the other rail-
way orders called together by w H
PIERCE, president of the Federated
Brotherhood of Railway Employees. who
asked that his newly organized order
be given aid by the older orders.
At least one of the accused men, It
was alleged, opposed this proposition,
and Superintendent McCaleb learned of
it Charges of treachery were made
and formally preferred at the local
lodge by 2. H. McGinnis. President
Lee held that the trio were not violat-
ing their brotherhood loyalty by telling
any one of the meeting. because II was
not conducted under the rules and d-
rections of the Trainmen's Union.
II viii be remembered that President
Lee, shortly after the joint meeting Of
the brotherhoods, withheld aid of the
older organization to Pierces brother
hood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
PLAN PARKWAY IN
BED OF OLD CANAL
Will Do Away With NauseOus
Nuisance; To Ask For
Appropriation

Following a vigorous protest from
property owners along the old Penn
sylvania canal plans have been de-
Eeloped by the borough authorities for
finally doing away with the canal
nuisance and making a submerged
parkway the entire length of the
stream from Locust street to the bor-
pugh line.
Borough engineers yesterday began
to run lines preparatory to laying the
plans before council at its next meet
ing, at which time Chairman E. C.
Henderson. of the highway commit
tee, will ask for an appropriation to
carry out the work.
If Henderson's plans are accepted
lby council there will be high dam
erected in the canal a short distance
above Locust street and the old canal
locks near the borough line will be
torn out so that the water will run
reward Harrisburg and out into the
river through an outlet where the old
locks now are.
To keep the stream from rising and
flooding cellars along its course the
east side of the canal will be filled to
within about ten feet of the west bank
of the stream. This will make a chan
mel about ten feet wide and about a
mile long. The filled land will be
graded and sodded to make the park
way.
Ground for filling the old canal bed
will be taken from the cross streets
TO be paved from Walnut street north
df Henderson's plan is adopted The
eight sewers that now empty into the
canal will be carried over to the new
channel and turned so that they throw
water toward Harrisburg. Huge catch
basins, holding possibly forty cubic
yards of sediment, will be placed near
the end of the sewers to catch the
dirt and debris washed down from
the hills so that the new channel will
not fill up as the canal has done.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
Curtain Will Soon Drop
on First Act, Declares
Times Correspondent
BY Associated Press

London, Aug. %. A. M-The Bou-
1ogne correspondent of the Times, de-
scribing the entraining of the British
heavy field artillery for the front, but
giving no indication of where the
british camps are situated SAYS:
To those of us who have watched
the coming and going of the expedi-
tionary force it is plain that we are
coming to the end of the first act. The
curtain is about to drop"
Among the German papers receiv-
ed in London is the Strassburger Post
which gives the Emperors rescript
issue after the German victory at
NIuelhausen and addressed to army
headquarters. The Emperor said:
II am grateful to our God who is
with us. I thank you and our brave
troops for the victory and express to
all who took part in it my imperial
thanks which your chief war lord ad-
dresses to them in the name of the
datherland."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
Issue Warrant For York
Auto Drivers Arrest

Stepping away from the Civic Clubs
new drinking fountain near Front and
Locust streets last evening, Micheal
was run down and struck by an auto
mobile. Cedesco was hurled twenty
feet and sustained a sprained back
and number of body bruises.
A warrant has been issued for the
owner of the car. Judge N Sargent
Ross. rs South Queen street. York He
will be arrested to-day. charged with
operating his car recklessly and fail
ure to sound any warning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
Austrian Warships
Cannonade Imaginary
Foe For Six Hours
BY Assocfatcd PrcsS

London, Aug. %, 6.55 4. MA
dispatch tothe Havas Agency from
Rome says that the correspondent of
the Giornale DTtaIia at Trieste relates
that during Thursday night the Aus
tria feet engaged in a violent artillery
with an imaginary fleet. Ac-
cording to the correspondent the mis-
take was discovered only after a six
hours CaunOnade
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
PIONEER AVIATOR NARROWLY
ESCAPES DEATH IN RIVER

Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 22.-OrvilIe
Wright, pioneer aviator. and Lieuten-
ant Whiting of the United States navy,
were recovering to-day from an acci-
dent in which they nearly drowned
yesterday when a hydroplane carry
ing them broke and threw them into
the middle of the Miami river here.
They were fifty feet in the air and
were dropped suddenly into the river
Both managed to escape from the
wreckage and swim to the shore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
Whereabouts of British
Troops Still a Mystery

London. Aug %. A. M.-The Eng
lish press gives no intimation as to
the Whereabouts of the British expedi-
tionary force. With the approach of
critical operations in the vast cam
paign the greatest curiosity and anX-
iety are expressed as to when the
British troops will come into the fight
ing line.
Various descriptions, dated from
unnamed camps in France appear in
the papers here, telling of the excel
lent condition of the British Tom
mics" 1t is announced, however.
that the authorities will not allow the
soldiers to write home to fritnds
Therefore some light may be expec-
ed speedily on the mystery under
which English relatives and friends
have become little impatient.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
Coal Train Jumps Switch,
Is Wrecked at Millersburg
Special to The Telegraph

Millersburg. Pa, Aug. %. - The Ly-
kens Valley coal train was wrecked last
night. while attempting to cross the
switches from the Lykens Valley Rail-
road to the main tracks of the North
ern Central Railroad at the Lykens
Valley junction while en- route to Har-
risburg. \ switch was turned wrong.
and while the engineer saw the error.
1t was too late to control his train. He
reversed. but there was too much
weight behind. The locomotive was de-
rallied and several coal cars blocked
both main tracks. The engineer and
fireman jumped and escaped unhurt
The engine ploughed into the ground
for several feet and knocked down a
large steel semaphore Sunbury and
Millersburg wreck crews cleared away
the wreck
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
AUiators Drop Bombs on
German Entertainments
Rp Associated Prcss

London. Aug %, 11.4S A. Mn a
dispatch from st. Petersburg the cor
respondent of the Reuter- Telegram
Company says the Russian general ad-
vance both on Austria and Germany
is progressing without interruption.
A big cavalry engagement of the
northern army on Friday was a Sc
we're blow to the Germans in East Prus-
sia An entire German battery was
captured. Aviators are throwing
bombs on the German entertainments
and military buildings.
Three Austrian army corps are en-
gagged in the Austrian ?Servian theater
of war. They are wedged In the juno
tion of the Drina and Yadal rivers. In
a battle of four days duration the Ser
vians captured sixty Austrian guns
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
WILSON EMO Us RIDE
By Associated Press

Washington. D. c.. Aug. 22.-Presi-
dent Wilson took long ride to-day
long before the capital was awake. He
arose before o'clock and was speed
ing through the country soon after
He returned to the White House
shortly before 9 o'clock. took up some
routine work in his study and planned
to see no visitors during the day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
AVOIDS DISCUSSION
Of JAPS ULT|MATUM
CONTINUED from First Page

CONTINUED from First Page.l
between Germany and Japan the first
duty of the Idzumo would be to con-
voy the Japanese liner Shinyo Maru
out of the harbor Monday. although
more stern war duty may be her lot
should hostile warships be encoun-
tered outside the Golden Gate.
While in drydoclI the Idzumo was
guarded by a Gordon of sentinels from
its crew and as an additional pre-
caution twelve policemen were added
to prevent any meddling with the
caisson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
Two Railroad Men Hurt
When ScafoIding Falls

When scaffolding surrounding a
signal bridge one and a half miles
east of Mount Union on the Pennsy's
Middle division collapsed suddenly
yesterday afternoon two men had mar
row escapes from serious injury at
2l5 o'clock Each victim of the acci-
dent fell twenty feet Had a train
been passing at the time the men
might have been fatally hurt. The
injured:
V. NJ. Longenecker. aged %. single.
of Petersburg: right arm sprained and
bruised: taken home.
Sheldon ]. Herncane, aged %, mar
ried: resides at Huntingdon: back
sprained and lacerated and confusion
of head: sent home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
sTEELTON PERSONALS

Ed. L. Daron. of Scranton. was a
business visitor here to-day.
Frank J. Reitzel. Pine street. is
spending ten days in Atlantic City.
Eber Reitzel is spending two weeks
with his uncle, F. s. Reitzel at Ard
more. Pa.
Miss Sadie Mentzer. of PhiladeIpia.
returned to her home after spending
two weeks with her brother. James F,
Mentzer. Pine street.
The Rev. Bertram Shay and son
guest of Robert SHAY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
1860 Americans Sail
on Ryndom For New York

Rotterdam, Aug. 21, via London.
Aug. %. $40 A. M.-Thirteen hun
dred and sixty Americans sailed for
New York on the steamer Ryndam
late tonight. Another party of 1900
is expected to sail from here Satur-
day. Too hundred refugees arrived
here and at the Hague this noon,
None was greatly troubled and few
needed assistance of any sort. More
are due here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
Setback at Lorraine
Declared Unimportant
Rp Assoeiated Prest

Paris, Aug. %, 455 A. M.-Col.
Leonce Rousset, writing for the Petit
Parisien says:
The situation is good. The slight
setback in Lorraine is unimportant.
On the whole the German staff's plan
of invasion may be said to have failed.
They sought to crush us with a light
ming blow. but is we who will carry
the war into the enemy's territory"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22

cation of all the laws on the subject
OF taxation, except purely local laws,
prepared by the Legislative Reference
Bureau. The code is a mere triffie of
some $4,000 words long and is admi-
rably adapted to light some reading
for those who banker after this sort
of thing.
The last Legislature directed the
Legislative Reference Bureau to pre-
pare codes of laws on all classes of
subject and to present to the session
of 1915 such as may be ready. Three
arc virtually ready. They are codifica-
ton of taxation laws, borough laws
and corporation laws. The taxation
code came from the printer to-day.
and the two others will soon be
ready.
The codifcation has been going on
for more than a year by a force of
lawyers and laymen working under
the direct supervision of James Nc
Kirby, assistant director of the bu-
reau, and the first result of their la
bors is going broadcast through the
mails: the taxation code is a pamphlet
of more than 250 pages, document
size.
I'VE want criticism on this draft"
said Mr. McKirdy to-day. I'VE cannot
say that it is perfect. but we believe
that it contains every existing law
on the subject of taxation. This code
establishes no new law; it merely ar
ranges those which exist in a compact
form in one act If such a code be
enacted every other taxation law will
be repealed, as was the case with the
school laws when the school code was
enacted in 1911.
1--WE believe the supply of this code
is sufficient for all demands, and any
one will be furnished with copy who
writes to us for it. We want 1t to
be read and considered as widely as
possible"
The bureau expects to follow the
same plan of distribution of the other
codes when they are ready.
The code is divided into fourteen
chapters, several of which, such as
township, county and State taxes, have
a lot of different articles; the State
chapter has fifteen different articles
The general plan is the same as that
of the school code of 1911, except
that the sections in the taxation code
are numbered seriatim from section
one in each chapter or article; in the
|scho, code the sections are number
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
USE POTATOES IN BREAD

London, Aug. 22. 4.45 A. M.-The
Rotterdam correspondent of the Daily
says that because of a
shortage of flour the bakers in Rotter-
dam are making bread composed of
equal parts of -four and potatoes. The
mixture is palatable.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
BURY HEIsEY TOMORROW

Funeral services over the body of
Harry G. Kelsey, who jumped into the
Susquehanna river April l. will be
held from H. Wits funeral chapel to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock Burial
Middletown
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
TWINS DIE

Twin children of Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Bekelic. South Third street.
died last evening Funeral services
will be held this evening from the
st. Mary's Croatian Church. The Rev.
Anthony Zuvich will oficiate and
burial will be made in the Mount Cal
vary Cemetery
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
Inquest Into Boys Death
Will Be Held Tonight

Coroner Jacob Eckinger will hold an
Inquest this evening in H Wits Sons
undertaking establishment over the
body of Clayton Beshore, the Enhaut
boy who was killed by a motor truck
Thursday evening. The jury will con-
sist of David c. Devlin. Ross d. Saul.
II. c. Watson, William y. Shipp. Ralph
w. Earnest and William Bannan.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock in the
Enhaut Church of God Burial will
be made in the Oberlin Cemetery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
STFEITON CHURCHES

Central Baptist Church: Bible
school at $50 a. m.
Main Street Church of God. James
NJ. Waggoner, pastor, will preach at
1O:30 a. m. and at 1880 p. m; Sunday
School, 9:15 a. m: c. E. $50 p. m.
First Methodist Episcopal-At 1920
sermon by DIR. Silas Swallow; at 1880
address by r. NJ. McNeal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
BIBLE CLASS OUTING AUG. %

Plans have been made to care for
800 people at the thirteenth annual
picnic and outing of the mems Bible
class of Centenary United Brethren
unday School, to be held at Boiling
Springs Park, s. turday, August 90
Special cars will leave Mohn street
at o'clock and will stop at Swatata.
Pine and Trewick kstreets. The COM
mittee has arranged a program of
athletic sports and a baseball game.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22

Mr.. and Mrs William Hartman and
Mr.. and Mrs W. L. S. Keim are spend
ing few days in Atlantic City.
Martin Gerhardt. $50 North Front
street, is visiting his parents in De-
troit, Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stroud and Miss Jessie
Cudd- entertained number of
friends al their cottage near Bella
Vista yesterday.
Miss Ethel Beidel is spending two
weeks in Philadelphia and Atlantic
CITY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
TEA FOR LITTLE GIRL

Mr. and Mrs. Sol Beck, 524 North
Second street, entertained at a 5
o'clock tea in honor of the eighth
birthday of their daughter. Ursula.
Among the guests were: Marie Nc
Geehan, Midland. Pa; Ethel and Har-
riet McCauslin, Helen Noog, Harris
burg; Katherine Rauch. Harrisburg;
Marian Waggenbaugh, Ruth, Emma
and Fred Beck and Thomas O'Neil.
of Midland.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
EARTHQUAKE RECORDED
By Associated Press

Hy FNNOtIITtH IFFAN
Washington, Aug ga very sharp
earthquake disturbance at a distance
of about 1900 miles from Washing
ton was recorded on the seismographs
of Georgetown University here early
to-d day. 1t began at 1249 a. m. and
continued 12 minutes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
Financing a Home

G Two or three hundred million dollars
is pretty tidy sum of money, ism it?.
Q Has it occurred to you these days
whenyouread of countries appropriating
such vast sums for war purposes, just
how the money is acquired?.
G Bonds are issued to cover the amount,
certain of which expire at one time,
certain Others at another time, and so on.
Then these bonds are paid from time
to time as they mature.
G Itisthe mortgage planpu and simple
1.-The plan by which countries, states and
municipalities finance big projects.
G The ownership of your home is no
doubt your first great ambition, as it is
with most men. The financing of a
two or three or four thousand dollar
obligation may look like big project
to you. But it isn't half as big as it
looks. Pattern after nations, states and
cities---adopt the mortgage plan.
G 1t is not necessary to have the full
purchase price Of home in hand in
orderd toacquire title thereto. IF that's
all that lies betweenyou and your home,
a mortgage will bridge the gulf.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22

q Providedit's desirable pieceof prop
erty, and you have enough money in
hand to make the initial payment---a
third is usually sufficient---a mortgage
can be arranged at this bank to cover
the balance.
81 Then as interest periods come round,
you can reduce the mortgage by making
what payments you can on the principal.
Thus by degrees the obligation may be
completely y WI ped out.
G What if it does take five, or ten or
fifteenyears? You are striving to attain
mans noblest ambition---you are pro-
vlding sure shelter for you and yours
IN after years, come what may.
Property values increase every year.
Better strike the bargain now when the
home you want is priced more favorably
than it ever will be again. Then twelve
months from now you will be a few
steps nearer the realization Of your one
big hope Of to-day.
G After all the big thing is to make
the start. You'll never get anywhere
until you make a beginning. Early
next week come in and talk the matter
over with us. Monday is none too soon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
FOR RENT

FOR RENT = An eight-room house,
with water and gas. lot for garden
Steelton Heights, opposite Frog Shop
Office. Apply ]. NJ Heagy 80 South
Front street. Steelton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
REsERvIsTs WILL SAIL TUESDAY

Austo- Hungarian reservists of Steel
ton who have been seeking some
means to return to Europe will be
given a chance to sail Tuesday. The
Jiras- Baughman Estate steamship
agency, Front and Chestnut streets,
to-day was notified by the Holland
American Line that it might book pas
sengers of all nationalities for the
steamship Rotterdam, sailing from
New York direct to Rotterdam on
Tuesday.