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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
LEXINGTON

Pacific & Ark AYES Grounds with tennis
courts adioin Reach. Only popular priced
hotel where GUESTS may go from HOUSE
streets. which &c prohibited. Use of BATH
HOUSES and care OF suits FREE. RUN
MING WATER IN rooms. ORCHESTRA.
sl.5O and up daily, IS. to $3.50 weekly. Amer.
can plan. WHITE SERVICE. GARAGE.
Booklet. PAUL C ROsECRANs.
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TAKEN To HOSPITAL

Shippensburg, Pa, Aug. g. Two
people weretaken to the Harrisburg
Hospital from heer on Saturday, Miss
Kathryn Hoch and Mrs. John Strohm,
both suffering from appendicitis.
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Resorts
ATLANTIC CITY, n. J.
THE NELLUNDY

VIRGINIA AVENUE AND BEACH
Private baths, running water: newly
Rates, $3.50 up daily, $3.50 up weekly.
e. H. LUEDY.
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HOTEL WILLARD FIR,

New York Ave. and Beach, cool loca-
tion; Cap. 400; elevator. private baths;
excellent table; bathing privileges;
s12.SO up wkly; $500 up dIy. Booklet
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SERVICE AT DAUPHIN
SfeeiaI % M Tfleernbt

Dauphin, Pa. Aug. 8 One OF the
most delightful twilight services of
the season was held at the Wallis Bum
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The Frontenac centu'fg eiose tg ReSss. Ays.
A modern high-class, home-like hotel;
Cap. ESQ; finest hotel section. central TO
every attraction; ocean view rooms,
cool porches. metal beds, elevator;
white service. IS. $40. $12.5o weekly,
Booklet w, F. WATTS
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BUuDs HOUSE ON GRAvEYARD

Angle, American Express Agent has
started operation on a new dwelling
opposite the one now owned by him.
The new building is being erected
where an old grave yard was located.
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
Maklnu.G Gardens.

A Chicago man has given $l,0O0 to buy seed for gardens to be made in the vacant lots of the city. There is help to a noble municipal enterprise There is nothing that will so enhance the beauty of city as wellmade gag dens. garden is the workshop of the soul. It not only awakens the bet ter natures of men. but it crowns the table with vegetable delights that make good blood where greater spir- it's dwell There is nothing that re- fleets more joy than q well-made gar den. It conduces to good citizenship. It drives away selfishness. meanness, grief, disappointment and fills the heart with beautiful impulses. Every vacant lot given over to waste is wasted opportunity, and indicates a lack of true enterprise in the citizen ship. There ought to be an organiza- tion in every city to make the vacant spots blossom as the rose. Talk about education-here is chance for the best that can be had.
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
REAL TRUTH IN THESE LINES
One Might Criticize Them as Poetry, But They Contain Lesson
 Worth Heeding.

A Quincy travelling salesman. who keeps open most observant eye in his travels around the country, notic- ing the influences which affect eity's prosperity, sends to the Herald what he terms good piece of poetry The poetry may be open to question. but the sentiment Is one which every Quincyan should have deeply inn pressed upon his mind. and hence it is worth repeating. It is as follows:
 If you want to live ia the kind of town like the kind Of town you like, you needn't slip your clothes in a grip and start on long. long hike. You'll only find what you left behind, for there's nothing that's really new. It's knock at yourself, when you knock your town. It isn't the town its you. Real towns are not made by men afraid lest somebody else gets ahead. When everyone works and mo- body shirks, you can raise a town from the dead. And if while you make your personal stake, your neigh bors can make one. too, your town will be what you want to see. It isn't the town-it.s you"
 The Quincy man further says in his letter It will be a good thing to put in the paper for Quincy people who go to Chicago and St Louis to buy their goods. For these very per sons it Is here reprinted.-Quincy Her aid
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
Home blun|
 ' y Helps y 1
NEED FOR CITY PLANNING
Many intelligent Men Do Not Seem to Understand What Is Meant
 by the Term.

MT. J. Horace Mcfarland, president of the American Civic association, took as the subject of his annual ad- dress at the convention of the associa- ton in Washington. Wanted-Ameri- can City Planning for American Cities By way of introduction, he said: "It may truthfully be said that to the average intelligent American, be he mechanic or business man. doc tor or professor. preacher or politician, the words city planning at once re- fer themselves as part of q vague propaganda for the city beautiful having to do with permanent or tempo rary courts of h0Hor, extra iIIumiha- tions, and other forms Of municipal frippery. It Is a serious fact that this complete misunderstanding exists to such large extent among the many excellent people who call themselves practical and who really try to be good citizens. This fundamental error of conception prevents these good peo- pie. nest essentially necessary 10 the efficient progress of orderly city mak- ing, from realizing that city planning which is at all worth while is con- cerned first. with means of inter- communication, with transportation, with markets and house sites and fac tory locations, with water and sewer age, with parks and playgrounds. and all the other factors of prosperity, ef- ficiency and convenience, rather than with appearance or ornament as es sentials When We shall have estab- l.shed in the minds of these unknow- ing citizens the plain fundamentals of that larger use of architectural and economic principles which have to do with the community efficient. there will be far less trouble in bringing about the use of common sense in those municipal operations concerned in the framework and structural de- tails of our towns and cities"
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
Where the sIowes+l cad

When motor trucks loaded with am. intuition are dispatched to the front. from depot in the rear of the firing lines, it is now self-understood that the slowest trucks go in front. while the fastest bring up the rear. This was found necessary because of the tendency of ammunition drivers to 20 at top speed, when the call for shells and cartridges comes. If the slow trucks are in the rear of the column. the latter is strung out over miles of road, with great gaps between trucks offering an inviting target for an at. tack by recennoitering armored motor cars or cavalry.-Scientific American
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
soIdlers, Queer Biscuits.

The Indian and Australian can make their own army biscuits; the former is a "chupatty," the latter "damper." A chupatty results from the mixing into a stiff paste by an Indian of flour. salt. and water, and baking it on a metal dish over a hot fire But the Indian cook seems necessary ingredient to make it tasty as well as nutritious
 Damper needs four, baking powder. water and wood. A hole in the ground is the oven. Fill it with wood. and while that is burning make your dough Then lay it on a large stone, cover it with tin. and cover the tin with the hot wood ashes. and the re- suit will be damper.
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
Plant Snapdraqons.

Have a bed of snapdragons for the garden. These old-fashioned weeds, as they are sometimes called, have become very popular. As table flower they surpass most any other. Sow the seed inside in pots, or out side when weather permits, broadcast. When the plants are five inches tall set them in rows two inches apart each way. Close growth gives the best effect and bloom. All eolors and both tall and dwarf are consistent bloomers.
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
Woman JudQe,

A woman seems particularly fitted to act as a judge of the women who pass through the police court, and it is her juvenile court experience which has enabled Mary NJ. Barteime of Chicago to be such an efficient judge, and so well beloved of the offenders who are brought before her.
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
Learning to Talk Real English.

Mack Gretchen, formerly a Kansas newspaper man, who is now in the em ploy of the insular service in the Phil ippines, tells this story to show that the natives are gradually adopting American ways: While making a trip out in one of the provinces recently he met small Filipino boy of whom he inquired: Young man, do you speak English?" The youth stiffened up promptly and replied: Yes, speak a small I talk few. What a hell you want t?'--Kansas City Star.
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
Great Fioht Aoainst chinch euos.

To fence against chinch bugs, 1,50O miles of barriers were laid down to protect cornfields last year. This cost $40,500, including labor. The aver age yield of the protected field was 9 bushels to the acre. and 1t is esti- mated that the barriers added to the yield of corn the value of $7147l0 This sort of work has to be done by eo-operation.-Farm and Preside.
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
Many Things Are Mysteries.
~>~~0~

Many Things Are Mysteries.
 Just what electricity is no one knows, but the fact is not astonishing No person knows what anything is. What is carbon? What is iron? What is oxygen. What is phosphorus? No one knows what any of these sub stances is, yet, of course. there are theories which explain in part. In the same way there is an electrical theory which is only of comparative ly recent origin.
 This theory states that everywhere throughout the universe, filling all spaces and all substances, there Is
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13

an allpervading material known as ether. It is this ether which trans mits the light waves from the sun through the enormous distance pe- tween that heavenly body and our own atmosphere, which only extends a short distance above the earth It is the ether which transmits heat from the incandescent filament with in the vacuum bulb of an electric lamp to the glass itself and to the surrounding air. So electricity may be merely part of this ether in mo. Practical Talks on Farm En- gineering."
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
City Gardens.

A movement has been started to make Chicago a city of gardens. That is an example which ought to spread to every city and town in the country.
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13

Miss Muriel Thompson of the Brit ish First Aid Nursing Yeonmany corps, who was personally decorated by King Albert of Belgium with the order of Leopold II for her bravery in rescuing wounded men from the trenches under heavy shell fire
The Monticellonian., 1915-05-13
cnrrect Incatinn

Did the victim of these blackmail threats live in continual trepidation?"
 "No, sir. He lived in tenement house"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-18
People of Atlanta
See Franks Body

ATLANTA, Ca, Aug. 17.-Leo
F. Franks body was brought to At
lanta this afternoon and secreted in
a barn until crowd searching for
1t threatened serious trouble. II
then was taken from the barn to an
undertaking establishment. where to-
night steady stream of persons
passed to piew 1t. The temper of the
people seemed not so much to wreak
vengeance upon the lifeless form, but
to personally assure themselves that
it really was the body of Frank.
Forty policemen were on guard at the
undertaker's establishment, and a crowd
that blocked traffic stood for hours In
front of the place The body was shown
just as 1t had been cut down from an
oak tree at Marietta. this morning.
Because of the insistence OF the people
to see the body. 1t had not been defi-
nitely determined tonight whether funeral
plans first arranged could be carried out.
A member of the undertaking firm stated
positively late today that the body had
been secretly placed in a private home.
He said he had been charged by friends
of the family here to take the body
from its first resting place to the for
mer home of Frank here at an opportune
time
From there. he said. it was to be sent
to Brooklyn for interment. No one with
out authority to speak could say tonight
just what would be done.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-18
Five Stacks of Wheat
Burned Near Blair

BLAIR, Neb., Aug. 17.-(special.)-A
terrific electrical storm. coming from the
northeast, swept down on the bottom
and bench lands north of Blair last even
ing about o'clock, during which the
lightning struck wheat stack. standing
In yard of ten stacks belonging to
Oscar Matthews. Five stacks were COM
pletely burned and several others badly
scorched. Neighbors quickly responded
TO calls for help and assisted in saving
the remaining stacks. The Matthews
wheat was considered some of the best
on the bottom land. He carried insur-
ance on the entire wheat crop. Three
and one-half inches OF rain fell in about
an hour.
There are many acres of wheat still
standing in this vicinity. which cannot
be cut. as the ground is too soft to take
In binders. Grimm Brothers alone have
about 15O acres that Is standing up In
good condition, but cannot get in to cut
It, A great deal of the wheat in shock
Is growing and is so damp as to prevent
threshing.
The average yield as threshed so far
will go about twenty-five bushels.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-18
Rate Commission
Reports Upon Rock
Island Rail Muddle

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-THE Inter-
state Commerce commissions report on
Rock Island railroad financial affairs
made public here late today, says the
commissions investigation has demon
strated the need of legal limitation OF
railroad security issues and has empha-
sized the need of a law to fix responsible
ity for dissipation of corporate funds.
The report declares that 1.-The property
Of the railroad company will be called
upon for many years to make up the
Drain upon its resources, resulting from
transactions outside the proper sphere in
which stockholders had a right to sup
pose their moneys were invested.
This record" It adds, emphasizes the
need OF railway directors who actually
direct. There are too many passive di-
rectors who ncquiesce in what is being
done without knowledge and without in
vestigation."
The report says Il appeared 70 be the
idea OF those in control of the Rock
Island that II was no concern of the
public what was done because OF the cor
porate function so long as rates were
reasonable.
The aggregate losses found to have been
sustained by the railway company I'm
connection with the transactions respect
ing exchanges of stock I'm connection with
the ST. Louis & San Francisco Chicago
Northern Consolidated Indiana Coal
company ana Rock Island improvement
company and others were S20,O00OOO. be-
sides payments by the railroad prior 10
June 30, 1914 TO financial institutions in
connection with the issuance of bonds
commissions aggregating more than
10000 and suffering discounts of more
than s17.T0O,00O
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-18
.SLATON DISCUSSES
HANGING OF FRANK
Man Who COMMITTED Sentence Says
He Prefers Lynohing by Mob to
Illegal Execution.
SHOULD BE LESSON TO GEORGIA

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17.--For-
mer Governor John M. Slaton of
Georgia declared today that 1t was
better that Leo NJ. Frank was lynched
by a mob II his legal execution had
taken place in an address before the
San Francisco Center of the Calf
fornia Civic league.
Mr. Slatons address. devoted ain ~
entirely to discussion of the Frank c6se
and the lynching OF Frank. was delivered
in the presence OF most OF the members
OF the California supreme court and other
persons of prominence.
II would prefer Frank to be lynched by
mob" Mr.. slaton said. rather than
that he be hanged by judicial mistake.
"One attacks the civil solution, the
other merely reaches the body.
Lesson 90 Georgia.
This should be a lesson to Georgia that
] hope it will never occur again in our
civilization.
AT bottom the horrible outcome OF the
Frank case was the result of the exalted
position OF woman in Georgia"
Mr. Slaton reviewed the history of the
murder OF Mary Phagan and Frank q
trial to show that the people of Georgia
rallied to the cause of what they thought
was justice.
There are conditions about the Frank
case" Mr.. Slaton said, which constitute
tribute to the state OF Georgia.
mo wonder IL is hard to open the ears
of the people of Georgia to reason. They
forgot the identity of the offender in the
magnitude of the offense.
Those DisaEreeing with Him.
There were many good people. as good
as ], who disagreed with me. because
they said. 1 set aside the verdict of a
jury and interfered with the functions
of ad uly constituted court of law. There
are the thousands of these good people
who disagreed with me. criticized and
condemned me.
But when these good people find out
the truth of the Frank case their general
condemnation will turn into general ap-
proval and they will say to me as gov
ernor of Georgia you saved the state from
stain which never could have been
eradicated.'"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-18
FREMONT STREETS
FILLED WITH WATER
Heavy Rains of Monday Night Drive
the Rivers from Their Banks
Over the State.
PART OF THE GALVESTON STORM

Morning reports to the railroads
indicate rain over practically all Ne
braska Monday night, in most locali-
ties continuing Tuesday. A summary
Of the reports show that the heaviest
downpour was at Fremont and up the
Elkhorn and Platte river valleys a
distance OF twenty miles or so. As
a result Of the unusually heavy rains
the lowlands for miles around Ere
mont are under water to a depth OF
from one to two feet.
A. Fremont, according to the report of
the agent of the Northwestern there. the
rainfall Monday night was $40 inches,
with more than 1.5O inches Monday after
noon, making the totali for the day and
night close to 675 inches.
In the railroad yards in east Fremont
1t was asserted that the water was more
than two feet and that in the main street
from the Union station north it had at
tanned depth of some eighteen inches,
flooding Easements and first floors.
Elkhorn OverfI0ws hanks.
North of Fremont for a distance OF
twenty miles or so, it was reported that
the Elkhorn was out Of its banks ana
that in some places had overflowed the
bottoms, being more than a mile in width.
Similar conditions are said to have
maintained up the Platte nearly as far as
Scribner. All of the lowlands are flooded.
barn buildings rising out of the water
like islands in the sea.
The only washouts reported to the
railroads are along the Union Pacific s
branch south of Beatrice. There, while
the rain was not so heavy as over the
country to the north. the land being more
rolling, the water came in rapidly from
the hills doing more damage This wash
out was not of great extent and was re
paired during the early morning.
Down the Missouri valley from Omaha
there was an all-night rain and it was
still raining at noon, according to a report
to the Missouri Pacific.
In Missouri Pacific territory the rain
during the night was around two to three
inches. Auburn had precipitation of 276;
Fairbury. 1.6S; Fairmont, 1.65. and Ne
braska City and Weeping Water. inches
Galveston storm.
Forecaster Welsh has been trying to
get details of the storm that is raging al
Galveston. but has been unable on &C
count OF the havoc wrought to the tele-
graph wires. there being none left to con.
meet Galveston with the rest Of the coun.
try. The storm now in progress there
according to Mr.. Welsh. is almost du-
plicate Of the hurricane that demolished
the place September 8, 1900. but the hugs
sea wall built -hsL thu city after that storm
is preventing any serious damage. This
is the second time since the 1900 disaster
that Galveston has been visited by q
furious storm. Mr.. Welsh blames the
Galveston storm. at least in part. for the
weather conditions prevailing here, and
has predicted more rain during the next
twenty -four hours
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-18
BRITISH TROOP
VESSEL IS SUNK
BY A SUBMARINE
Transport Loyal Edward is De-
strOyed in the AEGEAN Sea by
Torpedo from German
Subsea Graft.
THOUSAND ARE DROWNED
Or O%.,A -sed Of Fifteen Hun
Board Are Known to
s. Have Been Saved.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT BRIEF

LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE British
transport Royal Edward has been
torpedoed and sunk by a German
submarine. Announcement to this
effect was made officially today. Six
hundred men were saved out OF
1850 troops and 22Q other persons
on board.
The text of the announcement follows;
The British transport Royal Edward
was sunk by an enemy submarine in the
Aegean sea last Saturday morning. Ac-
cording TO information at present avail
able. the transport had on board thirty
seven military officers and 1.S50 troops.
in addition to the ships crew of go Of
ficers and men.
THE troops consisted mainly Of rein
forcements for the twenty-ninth division
and details of the royal army medical
corps
Full information has not yet been re-
ceived, but 1t is known that about 600
have been saved"
First Troop Transport Lost.
So far as has been reported officially.
this Is the first instance in which a
British transport has been attacked sue
cessfully by a submarine 1t had been
a matter OF pride with the British gov
ernment that II had transported hundreds
of thousands of troops across many seas
without the loss of life. II Is probable
that the number of troops sent TO France
and Belgium since the beginning of the
war is considerably in excess of 10000
In addition. large numbers OF men have
been transported to the Dardaneiles.
Egypt, South Africa and Serbia.
The British announcement shows that
the Royal Edward was engaged in con-
veying troops to the Dardanelles front,
having been sunk In the Aegean sea.
The Royal Edward was OF 1l.ll7 tons
gross and J26 feet long. II was owned
by the Canadian Northwest Steamship
company Of Toronto, 1t was built in
Glasgow in 1905.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-18
OF WAH00
AUTO UPSET BETTER

PAwNEE CITY, Neb.. Aug. l7.-(spe-
cial.)-Fred Chase, whose home is near
Pawnee City and who was thought to
be fatally injured in an automobile ac-
cident near Lincoln last week Is i'm
proving and il is thought he VII re-
cover n pneumonia doesn't set I'm be-
cause Of broken ribs penetrating his
lungs. The daughter-in-law. who was so
seriously injured at the same time. will
he in the hospital ten weeks. Both her
legs were broken, one so badly that
section Of the bone had to be removed,
and a silver piece wired into the bone In
its stead.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-18
The Day s War NelSs

BRITISH TRANSPORT Royal Ed
ward, conveying troops 10 the
DardaneIIes, was sunk by a sub
marine in the Aegean sea last
Saturday. Probable 1000 men
were lost.
THE GERMANS have won a new
and important success at KOVnO,
Berlin reports today, capturing
the forts that lie between the Me
men river and Gesia, two and one
half miles 20 the south of KOvnO
proper. Much war material, In
GLIDING 24O cannon and $500
prisoners were taken in the KOvnO
operations, the Germaa statement
announced.
INROADs were made
ON the defenses OF NOvOEeOrgfevsk,
where three forts have beon cap
tured. Al this fortress 1900
prisoners, nineteen cannon aud
other material were taken.
FURTHER PROGRESS by the ar
mics of Prince Leopold of Ba-
vRria and Field Marshal Won
MaekenEen, pressing toward Brest-
LitOysk, is reported.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-18
Fulton Writes of
Bout with Willard

BEATRICE. Neb.. Aug. 17-(special.)-
George Fulton received a letter Monday
from his brother. Fred Fulton. the
heavyweight pugilist, who. in a way,
confirmed the report that he had
knocked Jess willard down at Rochester.
Mimi. on May H. He says that he laid
Willard flat for the count OF five and
that the worlds champion arose and fin
shed the bout, which was for three
rounds.
Fulton viii fight Arthur Pelkey at
Euclaire. Wis, on August and James
Coffey at Milwaukee on Labor day. He
expects to give a boxing exhibition In
this city in October with his sparring
partner, Jack Lester OF Kansas City.
Fulton expects to challenge Willard
before spring, as Willard told him at
the close OF the exhibition at Rochester
that he was the best heavyweight he
had ever tackled.