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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
Expensive Proposition
to ect Front
Street With Present
Cameron Driveway
MANNING THINKS
SUBWAY NEEDED
Necessary to Go Beneath Cameron
Street and Nearby Railroad Tracks
to Insure Safe Travel-Land There
Is Held at $4,000 an Acre

Officials of the Pennsylvania and the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad com.
panies and the PENNSYLVANIA Steel
Company were in conference to-day dis
cussing the practicability of extending
the Cameron parkway from the present
terminus at Cameron street, across the
site of the old Harrisburg rolling mills
to the Susquehanna river, some distance
below the present terminus of South
Front street.
This plan is one of several suggested
by Warren H. Manning, of Boston,
Harrisburg Park Department S land
scape architect, and is being considered
now in view of Mr.. Manning's present
visit here and also because work on
the project would be begun this summer
If the general idea as laid down by
the architect is to be carried out.
Mr.. Manning made it plain to-day
that there will be little or no difficulty
in continuing the parkway down along
the river front from the present south.
ern end of Front street to the point
where the turn is to be made in cross
ing over to Cameron street. He added,
however:
Cost Would Be $4,000 to $4,000
"The one difficult problem will be
to extend the roadway over the rolling
Continued on Ninth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
Child RUN Down BY AN AUTO
Catherine Watts, 8 Years Old, Knocked
to the Street While Waiting
On Parade

While playing with some other lit
tie children at Second and Muench
streets, this morning awaiting the ar
rival of the circus parade, Catherine
Watts, S-year-old daughter of Charles
N. Watts, 2245 North Second street,
road foreman of engines of the Har-
risburg yards of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, was struck by an
automobile.
The little girl, it is said, stepped
from the pavement to look down See
ond street to see if the parade was in
sight, when the auto, which is said to
be owned by resident of Middletown,
struck her. In falling the child s head
struck the pavement. When picked up
by pedestrians she was in an uncon-
scious condition. She was placed in the
machine that run her down and quick
ly rushed to the Polytechnic hospital.
Upon examination it was found the
child was suffering from a confusion
OF the scalp with suspected fracture.
The police were notified of the acct
dent through the hospital authorities,
who secured the name of the owner of
the car, but refused to make his name
public.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
FORMER U. s. SENATOR YOUNG.
ARRESTED In AUSTRIA, FREED

Vienna, May 6, Via London, 1885
P. M.-Former United States Senator
Lafayette Young, of Des Moines, Iowa.
accompanied by a former American
deputy consul at Berne, Switzerland.
was arrested at Innsbruck, Austria, yes
terday, on suspicion of espionage di-
rected against Mr.. Young's companion.
Mr. Young was promptly released,
with apologies, after few hours de-
tention in his hotel, but his companion
was held in custody in the hotel until
to day before he was able to satisfy the
suspicious Of the authorities, who ap-
parently had been warned to look for a
man of the same name.
Mr.. Young arrived in Vienna this
morning. Speaking of the incident he
said he saw no reason for complaint.
He left later in the day for Berlin.
Des Moines, Ia, May 6.-F'ormer
Senator Lafayette Young left here for
his European tour January 26, first Wis.,
iting London where he spent a month";
He was in Belgium for ten days and
since has been in Paris and on the
French battlefelds. He was in the
French trenches in the northern part
of France, April 10, 16 and II.
Mr.. Young is in Europe in the capac-
ity of war correspondent of his own
newspaper, the Des Moines "ECapital."
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
Streets Thronged With
Crow d S Including
T thousands h S From
Nearby Towns
FINE HORSES
A RARE SIGHT
Wild Animals, Including the Spotted
Oriental Um-pah and the Rhinocer-
os From the River of Doubt, Shown
in Cages-Two Shows To-day

Oh! Here come the eleph 'nts! Look
at 'em pop' was the remark heard
from the lips of many an eager boy
or girl this morning, as the Barnum
circus parade passed through principal
streets of the city.
For fully two hours before 10
o o'clock, the time set for the parade to
start, large crowds were assembling in
Market, Sixth and Second streets. When
word was passed along the line that
the parade had left the show grounds,
these streets became so thickly peopled
that pedestrians found zigzag course
the easiest route to pursue.
The first of the four sections of the
circus train arrived here from Lancas.
ter shortly after midnight. At the
Paxton street siding hundreds of eager
persons watched the trick of unloading
the monstrous wagons and so quickly
was 1T done that when daybreak came
everything was in readiness at the show
grounds, Sixth and Mahantonga
"sreets, several miles from the place of
detraining.
Stupendous, staggering and su-
peru, In the grandlloquent language
of the posters, the circus parade moved
IN impressive grandeur this morning
over the announced route. From the
clowns, with pallid but excessively joy
1ul countenances, to the long string of
elephants which brought up the rear.
the eavalcade was joy and delight.
While the spotted oriental um-pah,
which is studiously avoided on dark
nights in its native heath in zooland.
together with the bloody sweating
Behemoth of Holy Writ were con,
cealed in closed cages for the later edi
fication of those who attend the circus.
many of the cages were thrown open
and about everything of any standing
in the natural history books was in
line.
The lions, just as tawny as ever and
with just as luxurious. Dom Paul Boards
as they wear in pictures; the tigers,
sleek, striped scions of the cat family,
with their insulting, bland stare; the
alert leopard, jaunty jaguar, rhinoceros.
perhaps from the River of Doubt:
naughty hippopotamus-al were there.
Some were in open cages and some in
closed, but all were there.
Thoroughbred Horses Attract
There were chariots and tableaux
wagons galore, and many of the artistes
who appear in the circus rode through.
bred horses attended by gallant cava-
Continued on Seventh Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
5 YEARS FOR HOVERTER
Man Involved in the Schaefferstowr
Bank Scandal Sentenced To-day
in the Federal Court

Especial to the ar-Independent)
Sunbury, Pa, May 6.-Arthur j.
Hoverter, the Lebanon life insurance
agent indicted on three charges of aid.
ing Alvin Binner, the suicide cashier
of the First National bank, Schaeffers-
town, in the misapplication of s1S,-
1921 of the institution 8 funds, at 2
O'Clock this afternoon was sentenced by
Judge Charles B. Wilmer, sitting in the
Federal court here, to serve five years
IN the Lebanon county jail.
Hoverter's counsel, Mr.. O'Malley, of
Scranton, made a strong plea for lenien.
cy, but Judge Wilmer pointed out that
the defendants criminal acts covered
a period Of many months; that he was
determined in his intention to get away
with the banks money, and that he,
therefore, did not deserve to be dealt
with leniently.
Hoverter pleaded guilty to all three
counts of the indictment. HE failed.
however, to carry out his avowed
threat to "expose" others who, he had
informed the police, also were impli.
Gated in the bank wrecking plot.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
kALTWASSER ANSWERS
MANNING'S LETTER

When a copy of Mr.. Manning's s let.
ter was shown to Mr.. c. NJ. Kaltwas.
ser, general manager of the Harrisburg
Light & Power Company, this after.
noon, Mr.. kaltwasser made the follow
ing statement:
am absolutely at a loss to ac-
count for Mr.. Manning's position as in.
dicated in his letter to the papers. At
no time did the company object to
spending money properly to treat the
buildings. The objections which the
company raised covered such points in
the plan that effectively interfered
with operation of apparatus. To dis
cuss these points ] arranged for con
ference ON last Tuesday with Mr..
Manning and our Chief Engineer, Mr..
b. F. Wood. At the end of the confer
ence it was generally felt that our OBJ
Jections could be taken care of salts
factorily.
The material ordered is such as is
absolutely necessary in the construc-
tlon of skeleton frame work.
Mr. Manning position ! can only
explain by the fact that he absolutely
misunderstands our position. Regard
less of contracts or ordinances we must
build on the island in a manner that
cannot be criticized. He cannot do
other than act fairly and honestly with
the people. That is what we aim to do
and we regret sincerely that We can.
not have the benefit of the advice of
Mr.. Manning on this problem.
. We are perfectly willing to comply
with any suggestions of Mr.. Manning
to make the wharf architecturally at
tractive so long as they do not inter.
fere with the operation of our appa-
ratus and | am sure that there will be
nothing that is not attractive in the
appearance of the plant when we are
through with its construction.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
w. H. Pierce Says
PennsyDisc in
Wholesale Lots Men
Who Joined Union
ATTACKS w.
TRAINMEN HEAD
Claims Latter Was Guilty of High
Treason When His Organization
Failed to Support Shopmen In
Strikes in This City and Altoona
By Associated Press.

Washington, May 6.-Hearings
were continued to-day before the Fed
eral Industrial Relations Commission
into labor conditions on the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad, involving its telegraphers
and shopmen. w. H. Pierce, an organ
izer of the Brotherhood of Federated
Railroad Employees, resumed his testi-
mony concerning the Pennsylvania
shopmen s strikes at Altoona and Har-
risburg last year. He had asserted
that conditions among the shopmen
never would be what they should be
until the railroad company extended
the men the right of organization the
same as to employees of the transpor-
tation service.
5. l.. Long, general manager of the
Pennsylvania, was ready to take the
stand following the completion of Mr..
Pierce's testimony.
Wholesale Discharge of Men
Pierce, questioned by Commissioner
Weinstock, insisted that the Pennsyl-
vania discharged, in wholesale lots,
hieh Hho Jolneu tHe snOpmen union.
81 do not say the Pennsylvania
railroad objects to five or ten per cent.
OF their men being organized, but when
the organization shows great strength,
the company sets its machinery in mo-
tlon to wipe them out of existence"
Pierce attacked w. G. Lee, president
of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, for his part in the 1914 shop
men IS strike.
Scsthing Opinion Of Lee
"Mr. w. G.. Lee, president of the
trainmen-I should call nim brother,
but don't, because it's a disgrace, !"
said Pierce, "came to Harrisburg and
addressed joint meeting of shopmen
and transportation men. Lee said to
those men that if the Pennsylvania
railroad discharged one of the shop
men for joining the union, we have
$4,000 union transportation men and
SS,5OO,OO0 in the treasury and will
use every dollar and every man against
the railroad if they discharge those
shopmen.
1.-The trainmen said to the shop
Continued on Ninth Pagc
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
late WAR news SUMMARY

The battle in Western Gahcia,
launched few days ago with an Aus
tro-German attack from the Cracow
region, has developed into one Of the
greatest encounters of the war. Petro-
grad dispatches admit that the situa-
tion is a serious one, although it is as
serted that the advance has been
checked. At Vienna and Berlin, how
ever, 1t is claimed the Russians have
begun general retreat that their
whole position in the Carpathians is
precarious and that the entire eastern
campaign may turn on the events of
the next few days.
Vienna advices say desperate bat
tie continued all day yesterday and
Continued ON Ninth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
WALL STREET CLOSING
Bu Associated Press

New York, May 6.-Prices recorded
general Improvement in the last hour
under lead of the metal stocks and
specialties. Bethlehem Steel gained
o IL points. The closing was strong.
The foreign situation was again the
foremost factor in to-day's irregular
market. Recoveries in the later deal
ings coincided with reports that nego-
tiations between Italy and Austria
were proceeding favorably.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
Thoroughbred Horses Attract
CIRCUS ATTRACTS GIRL
Hazel Smith Leaves Home at Clarion
and Is Met Here by Police

The circus posters near her home pro-
vided too big a temptation for 7-year-
old Hazel Smith, of Clarion, to resist,
and she ran away this morning bound
for the big tent in this city.
The police here were notified of her
eseapade and met the 1850 train at the
Pennsylvania station, on which the
young lady arrived. They took her to
the Crittenton Home to await the ar
ril al of her relatives.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
CUBAN QUAIL ARRIVE HERE
Game Commission Imports Them to Re
lease for Breeding Purposes

A big wooden crate perforated with
numerous air holes was received at the
State Game Department this morning
by Secretary Kalbfus 1t contained
the first consignment of quail from
Cuba, ordered by the Commissioner
some time ago when the supply of Mex
lean quail was shut off by the United
States Government through fear of dis.
ease.
The birds will be released at once,
and if they can be bred in healthy
condition it is proposed to import many
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
Trolley Struck Auto

While rounding the curve at Union
and Emaus streets, Middletown, troll
ley car of the Harrisburg Railways
Company at 1.25 o'clock this afternoon
struck the A. HI. Luckenbill auto de.
livery truck. The trolley fender was
crushed and the auto was somewhat
damaged. No person was injured
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
Entertaining Captain Halberstadt

Captain Baird Halberstadt, a dis.
tinguished geologist, of Pottsville, is
the guest to-day of Mr.. Andrew S. Nc.
Creath, 119 South Front street. Mr..
McCreath was entertained in Pottsville
by Captain Halberstadt last week when
the captain had as his guests 14O men
who are eminent in geology, mining en-
gineering and similar sciences. Among
them was Commander Peary, discoverer
of the North Pole.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
10000 Under Djavid
Pasha Are Routed id
Disorder in Dilman1
Khori Region
MUSCAVITES USE
BAYONET POINT
Successfully Repulse Every Assault OF
the Sultan's Forces and Then Id
Counter Attack Put the Exhausted
Turks to Flight
By Associated Press,

London, May GA Petrograd dis
patch to the Reuter- Telegram Company
says:
Dispatches have been received herd
on the defeat by the Russians of
Turkish army corps in the OaucasusI
An effort was made by 10000 Turks
under Djavid Pasha to invade the Dill
man-Khori region which the Russians
occupied.
"The entire Turkish force was
hurled against the Russian positions
but the Muscovites, although numer-
ically inferior, held their ground. Each
successive attack was received at the
bayonet point. The Russians then be-
gan. counter attack and completely
routed the exhausted Turks who retir-
ed in disorder. The prisoners include
the famous Kurd leader Simko.p
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
sixth street, houses so,d.

A real estate deal was completed this
afternoon between Sara B. Wister and
William E. Ogth by which the latter
took over properties 1915, 1917 and
1919 North Sixth street for a total
consideration of $26,500.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
Turks Leave 1900 Dead on Field

London, May 6.-The Turks, con.
siderably reinforced, attacked the al.
lies camp at Krithia early Tuesday
morning, but were repulsed, leaving
1000 dead, according to advices from
Mitylene received by the Exchange
Telegraph Company from it's Athens
correspondent. The allies have advanc.
ed into the interior, the dispatch says
and now occupy positions of great
strategic Importance.
A report from Tenedos SAYS that
British warships continued yesterday
their bombardmerft of Turkish posi-,
tions In the Dardanelles and also OF
Smyrna.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06

was one of their alternatives, and then
to have made a much more thorough
and exhaustive examination of the
whole river basin frontage to deter
mine the most satisfactory place for
handling the river coal, sand and other
products therein, in a less offensive
way than it is now being handled.
If it is decided to go on with the
dock, it would be well to call in archi-
tects of national reputation, such as
Henry Bacon or Charles A. Platt, if
they would come, to pass upon the
architectural treatment of the struc-
ture. Warren H. Manning
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06

Vienna, May 3, via London, May 6,
2.40 P. MA battle of the most des.
perate character continued all night
long and throughout to-day, without a
break, on the West Galician front.
The Austro'German armies continued
to gain ground on the southern Sec
tion of the battle front, capturing
position after position from the Rus
SLAMS.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
VICTORIOUS AUSTRIANS
CONTINUE THEIR ADVANCE:
$4,000 RUSSIANS taken

Vienna, May 6, via London, May
6, 5.20 P M.-The victorious Austrian
advance continues on the entire West
Galician front, according to an official
announcement made by the war Office
to-day Russian prisoners to the num-
Der of $4,000 have been taken.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06
Three MORE Vessels ARE
PUT OUT BY SUBMARINE!

London, May 6, 1852 P. M.-Tht
trawler Stratton, of Grimsby, was SUM
in the North sea yesterday by the gun
fire of German submarine. The crew
was taken on board the submarine.
After the crew had been taken Of
the sea cocks of the trawler wer,
opened, but this method of sinking the
vessel proved to be too slow. Afte,
waiting for four hours, the German.
fred eight shells at the Stratton.
The fishermen were >then ordered Ia
embark in small boat which had been
taken from the Stratton. They landed
at Hartlepool to-day.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06

London, May 6, 1z17 P. M.-The
steamer Cathay, from Copenhagen for
Chinese ports, was either mined or tor
pedoed late last night in the North sea.
She went down in twenty minutes. Her
passengers and the members of her
crew, totaling 43 persons, took to the
small boats and all were landed safely
at Ramsgate to-day.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-06

London, May 6, 12.3S P. M.-The
schooner Earl of Latham was sunk by
German submarine off Kinsale, on the
Irish coast. The crew was permitted to
take to the small boats and was rescued
by trawler. The submarine fred nine
shells at the schooner before she sank.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-08
Government Officials
Left in Suspense by
Conflicting Reports
By .iSsociafcd Press

Washington, ID. c., Dec. S.--Conflict-
ing dispatches from Rome and Lon
don as to the American tank steamer
Communipaw. one reporting her sunk
off Toburk, Tripoli, and the other an
nouncing her arrival at Alexandria,
Egypt, left officials here in suspense.
Official advices from Ambassador
Page at Rome, reporting that an AM
erican ship held to have been the
Standard Oil tanker Communipaw,"
had been torpedoed and sunk. were
received during the forenoon by the
State Department. Ambassador
Pages source of information was not
divulged in his message but it was
thought likely that he had received
the same report as that transmitted
in press dispatches last night from
Rome and that .the message received
from him to-day might simply have
been delayed in transmit.
More details as to the Communipaw
as well as the Standard Oil tanker,
Petrolite, reported attacked by a sub
marine in the Mediterranean last
Sunday are awaited.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-08
Expect 100 Organizations
to Parade With Mummers

Further details for the mummers
parade will be worked out at the meet
ing of the association tonight. In or
der to accommodate the large mem
bership, the business session will be
held in the basement at the police
station.
Additional floats will be entered to-
night. 1t is also understood that the
list of organizations participating this
year will reach 100. The chief mar
shall. +. II. Hoy, Jr., will name twenty
more aids and hopes to be able to an
nounce the number of divisions for
the line of procession.
The committee in charge of finances
has been busy each day. Since the en-
dorsement by the Chamber of Com
merce the solicitors are meeting with
much encouragement. Chances for
raising the necessary $1,000, 1t is said,
are good.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-08
Drummer HAS
DONE BIG WORK
Well Qualified to Talk on Har-
risburg's Architectural
Problems

Arnold w. Drummer, the distin-
guished architect, who will be the
guest of honor at the MONDAY luncheon
meeting of the Chamber OF Commerce
tomorrow, has done some remarkable
work in making over Albany. Before
undertaking his studies there which
resulted in some comprehensive plans
that are now being worked out in
actual construction it was necessary
for Mr.. Drummer to give consideration
TO the fact that the water front had
already been monopolized for CONNER
cial and traffic uses. Notwithstanding
he has been most successful in over
coming conditions and making even
the freight houses and other buildings
on the Hudson conform to the general
scheme of improvement.
The interest in Mr.. Brunner's COM
ing to Harrisburg is emphasized by
the fact that he has done so admirably
at Albany and is in position to discuss
intelligently the problems which are
still before this city. Frederick G.
Howe, in his European Cities at
Work" referring to Germany, says
that provision had to be made for the
mill and the factory for the railway
and for terminals. The art OF town
planning had it's birth in these necessi-
ties. 1t was a protest against threat
cned destruction of the old towns and
the speculative building of the new
In a comparatively short time, says
Mr.. Howe, Germany has built indus
trial communities as beautiful as
Washington. Albany has restored its
water front through the order and
completeness of it's designer. Harris
burg has preserved its water front
through planning of comprehensive
character. Mr.. Brunner's subject will
be Architecture and the City
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-08
Newsies Turn Prize Money
Over to War Sufferers

Nine members of the Harrisburg
Newsboys' Association at the meeting
of the boys last evening received 81
prizes for reciting If" by Rudyard
Kipling, without making a mistake
The judges were the Rev. e. p. Robin
son and Leon Lowengard After the
boys received the money they turned
it over to the found for European War
Sufferers. Those who were awarded
prizes were: Wagner Hoffman, presi-
dent of the association; d. Assenowitz,
Bernard Koplovitz, James Bloom, M.
Swimmer, Samuel Bloom, /. Cohen,
J. Davidson and j. Friedman.
President Hoffman has offered three
prizes for the three best Christmas
stories handed in before February
the first and. prize is offered for the
best four-act drama handed in. The
newsboys' badges required by the new
child labor law will be distributed to
the boys by the association. Samuel
E. Painter was elected associate
member of the organization.