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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
Three MORE British ships
VICTIMS OF SUbMARlNESN
RAIDS OFF english COAST

London, March 10.-An Admiralty
announcement issued last nj ght, shows
that German submarines yest' srday sank
three British steamships. THE state
ment says:
"The steamship Tangistan, was sunk
by German submarine off Sc arborough
at 1880 o. 'clock, the morning of March
8. Only one man of her "a 'ew of 3S
men were saved.
1.-THE steamship Blackwoo,l Il was sunk
by submarine, without warning, off
Hastings at O'Clock, the morning of
March 8. Her crew of II was saved.
"The steamship Princess; Royal, of
Glasgow, was sunk without warning by
a German submarine at 8 .15 o'clock,
the morning of March 8, a Liverpool.
Her crewNof "a was saved. -
This brings the total i,umber of
ships sunk in the German blockade" "
TO 10. Tie loss of the Tangistan,
Blackwood and Princess Royal-the
two former cargo boats ARID the latter
once coastwise passenger steamship
indicates that German subni arines again
are raiding at widely separated places
around the British Isles. As the boats
were torpedoed in period of less than
nine hours it would seem Irrobable that
each was sunk by different subma-
rine.
Scarborough, off which port the
Tangistan was sunk, is .edl the North
Sea, in Yorkshire; Hastings is on the
En- ohsh Channel in Susse and Liver
pool is on the Mersey ear the Irish
Sea-
The Tangistan, the largest of the
sunken vessels, was of 2,2;93 tons dis.
placement. She was built in 1906
and owned by the Stric b. Line, of
Swansea.
The Blackwood was b rlilt in 1907
and belonged to the Tyn eside Line, of
North Shields She was of TAI tons
The Princess Royal was owned by
M. Langlands & Sons, of Glasgow. She
was steamship of $50 tons displace-
ment and was built in 1912.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
SENATOR CROW is As TO-DAY
Flowers and 45 Lincoln Pennies Placed
on His Desk This Morning

Senator William E. Crow, of Fay.
ette county, is As years old to-day,
having been born in German township
Fayette county, or March 10, 1870.
He has been newspaper man, lawyer
and politician in his time, and first
came to the Senate in 1907, and has
twice been reelected. He served as
President Pro Tenn. of the Senate in
1911, and has been chairman of the Re.
publican State Committee for two years
Few were in the secret of this be.
ing the anniversary of Senator Grow e
birth, among them being Secretary w
Harry Baker, who had the Senator s
desk decorated with huge vase of
Killarney roses and ferns when he en-.
tered the Senate this morning.
Senator Moore, of Allegheny, collect.
ed 45 Lincoln pennies from his col.
leagues and put them on Senator Crow Is
desk, one for each year. There was a
great deal of handshaking and congrat.
ulations were expressed.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
PLAN NEW 10TH ST. BRIDGE
County Commissioners Propose That
One Be Built for 5000

The County Commissioners this
morning said they plan to replace the
Nineteenth street truss bridge over, the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad, which
has been condemned by County Engi-
neer Hershey as too light for the heavy
traffic of that thoroughfare, with a
modern two-span concrete structure to
cost in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The County Engineer, the Commits
sioners say, has been delegated to get
into communication with the Harris
burg Railways Company, whose tracks
cross the present structure, and also
with the Philadelphia & Reading Rail
road Company, for the purpose of re-
lieving the county of bearing the total
cost of the proposed bridge.
The present bridge is one-span af-
fair and, as the one suggested >wil be
of two spans and require the erection
of central pier on the right Of way
of the Reading, that company Is approv-
al of the idea first must be obtained
before the bridge plans are prepared.
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Vote TO BUY MCCORMICK
PLOT FOR ASPHALT PLANT
City Commissioners Decide, S-to-2, to
Purchase Site For $6,8S0, and Pro-
vide Funds For the Erection Of
Buildings There

BY a vote of TO Mayor Royal
and Commissioner Taylor dissenting
the City Commissioners at an adjourn
ed session this afternoon passed finally
the ordinances carrying appropriations
totaling $4,000, providing for the
purchase of plot of Mccormick Es-
tate ground on South Ninth street, as a
site for municipal asphalt repair
plant and authorizing the CONSTRUCTION
of the plant.
For the ground the trustees of the
Henry Mccormick Estate will be paid
$3.50, less two per cent, which goes
as commission to Rabbi Samuel
Friedman, who acted as their real es-
tate representative in the transaction.
This money is to be paid out of the
$25,000 loan authorized in 1918 and
consequently the balance, or so much
thereof, as is necessary, will be ap-
piled to the cost of erecting the plant.
Commissioner Lynch announced, fol-
lowing the meeting, that he will begin
advertising next week for bids for the
construction of the plant and that the
proposals likely will be opened and
the contract awarded during the last
week in March, so that the plant
should be in operation possibly by
May /.
Taylor opposed the ordinance pro-
viding for the purchase of the MeCor-
mick ground, he said, because ne thinks
the pripe is excessive
The Mayor said he opposed the
measure because of the protest filed by
First ward residents. he contended
that they should be given the same
consideration as the Cameron street
merchants and manufacturers who sue
cessfully opposed placing the plant in
their section of the city.
Gorgas voted with Lynch and Bow
man, he said, because the Planning
Commission recommended the plot as
the logical site. Bowman and Lynch
gave that also as their reason for ia
voring the ordinance and besides they
said another site where there. is a sid
ing cannot be had except for a higher
price.
Action on the ordinance making an
appropriation to pay the cost of repair.
ing the Friendship Company steam
fire engine was postponed for one week.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
late WAR news summary

Another of the Germa submarines
which have been seeking to enforce
Germany's naval war zoiie decree has
gone to the bottom. Tile British ad-
miralty announced to-day that the U-2O
built in 1913, had been d estroyed.
The German auxiliary cruiser Prinz
Eitel Friedrich, which has succeeded
in evading for months a. large number
of British warships, resp ;hed Newport
News, Va, to-day, and may be intern
ed there.
Bombardment of the, Dardanelles,
which was again inter upted by un-
favorable weather condi tlons, is report
ed unoficially, to have been resumed,
and the allied feet to lgave made fur
ther progress in the rIarrows. Berlin
and Constantinople, how ever, persist in
statements that no seritHis damage has
been inflicted except tO the weaker
Notifications at the eGtrance to the
straits.
A dispatch from Geneva gives a
Vienna report that It slian warships
put to sea, and probably are on their
way to the Dardanellefi This report
lacks substantiation.
Germany has taken f,lrther measures
to conserve food supplies. The Bundles
rath has ordered the appropriation,
Continued ON MI, A Pare.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
c o m m issioners Will
Ask People to Ap-
prove Bond Issue For
Improvements
FOR PAVING AND
A NEW BRIDGE
Plan Is to Submit to the Electors q
Proposal to Borrow Money. Most of
Which Would Be Used For q
Walnut Street viaduct

When the voters at the election next
November select their choice of can.
didates for City Commissioners they
also will be asked to approve or dis
approve a s350,000 or 100000 i'm
provement loan providing for con,
crete viaduct at Walnut street and fur
ther street paving work-so City Com.
missioners, among them William l.. Cor
gas, said to-day.
Residents of Allison Hill are besieg-
ing the City Commissioners for another
outlet to the Hill. A majority of the
Commissioners this morning en-
phatieally declared that notwithstand-
ing the fact that the City can, by ordi-
nance, increase its Indebtedness to the
extent of possibly 100000, they will
not endorse making any heavy expendi-
ture without first having the matter APP
proved by the voters.
Commissioner Gorgas said plans are
now being laid to submit the Walnut
street bridge loan question to the voters
for approval, but he added that it Is
too early to say who will be the sponsor
for the ordinance carrying that loan
proposal.
In view of the fact that the City
now has little or no money to pay the
cost of paving street intersections ex.
cept those on which paving already
have been authorized, Mr.. Gorgas add
ed that no doubt the electors will be
asked tn pass upon a 100000 loan for
that purpose.
The voters in 1910 disapproved OF
the plan to build bridge over the
Pennsylvania railroa> at Walnut street
defeating proposed 100000 loan by
vote of $3.50 to 2,451. The pro.
POSED $50,OoO paving loan which the
City Councils in 1913 sought to have
approved, was defeated by IA votes, the
official count being 3,94S against and
1874 for it.
The City also will be obliged to pro,
vide money to pay damages incident to
the wiping out of the Hardscrabble .
district, and while the sum may run
up to or even exceed $4,000, the ex.
act amount will not be determined until
after the viewers pass upon the open
ing of North Front street, between
Herr and Calder.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
German Boat Goes to
Bottom When RAM
med by Torpedo Boat
Destroyer Ariel
CREW SAVED AS
THEY SURRENDER
VIII Be Held for Trial in Connection
With the Sinking of Merchant Yes
sels-U-2O Probably Sunk the
Blackwood Yesterday

London, March 10, 2.35 P. M.-The
German submarine U-20 has been sent
to the bottom, according to statement
issued to-day by the British Admiralty.
The submarine, according to the Of
fielal announcement, was rammed to-
day by the British torpedo boat destroy.
er Ariel. 1t went to the bottom. The
members of the submersible' s crew sur
rendered and were saved. The location
of the sinking of the submarine is not
disclosed in the Admiralty announce
ment.
The captured crew will be deprived
of all special privileges as was done
in the case of the men on board the
US, and they will be held for trial in
connection with the sinking of mer-
chant vessels.
The U-2O probably is the submarine
""ANh ySStoiudp ouuh tHo hrlL154
steamer Blackwood.
The submarine U-20 was built in
1913. She had displacement of $40
tons and speed of II knots on the
surface and IL knots submerged She
was equipped with four torpedo TUBES,
two on the bow and two in the stern.
Comparatively she was one df the
larger German submarines, the us and
the U-9 having tonnage of only 800
and submerged speed Of not more than
eight knots. The maximum radius of
boats of the U-2O type has been given
in marine circles of 1000 miles.
The loss of the U-2O makes the sew
enth German submarine to be destroyed
since the beginning of the war, accord
ing to statements given out officially in
London.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
TO make Street REPAIRS
With Cash WALTER SEEKS
Lynch Says He VIII Spend ss,75O
Claimed By Contractor and Let the
Latter Sue If He Wants to, Unless
Bonding Company Acts

William H. Lynch, Highway Com
missioner, said this afternoon that if
the bonding company backing Charles
p. Walter who has the SIS, 5,000-a-year
street repair contract and who has re-
fused to do any more work, declines to
repair the streets, then the city will
proceed with the work and pay for it
out of the 1915 quarterly installment
yet due on the Walter contract and to
which Walter lays claim
Lynch further stated that the So
100 is ample to pay the cost of all
street repair work necessary now but
added that since the city is well pro-
teeted against any loss on this contract
he is disposed to give the bonding COM
pany ample time to consider the ques-
tion of completing Walters alleged
unfinished contract.
A Scranton trust company, which is
Walter surety, was told of the con-
tractor IS refusal to go to work on Sat
urday and up until noon to-day had
not advised City Solicitor Seitz of its
intentions. Walter yesterday took the
stand that the necessary ten-day notice
directing him to 60 to work, was not
received by him until March 5, so that
he has until March 15 to decide upon a
course of action. Lynch contends that
the time for Walter to decide long since
his expired, yet he to-day said that so
far as he is concerned no suit will be
brought against Walter to compel him
to carry out the contract.
eff Walter and his bonding com,
pany both refuse to do the work, -
said Lynch, "it will be up to the city
to do it and pay for it out of the So
750 which would be due Walter on
April 1. If We do the work, then it
will be up to Walter to prove his claim
that his contract with the city for the
street repair work has expired and that
he is entitled to the money!
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
THE SITUATION IN mexico
Developments Awaiting Carranza's An.
swer to U. 8. Note Demanding
Improvement in Conditions
By Associated Press.

Washington, March 1c.-Develop-
ments in the Mexican situation to-day
were awaiting General Carranza' an
swer to the American note demanding
an improvement of conditions in Mexi-
co City. There were indications that
the reply would be favorable.
Conflicting dispatches as to the
evacuation of Mexico City during the
last "a hours caused much doubt. A
dispatch from Vera Cruz yesterday at
10 a. m. indicated General Obregon
was still in control. The Villa agency
had dispatches from Juarez saying Oh
regon's troops evacuated yesterday
and were replaced by Zapata troops.
No changes were made in the naval
orders which are sending the battle
ship Georgia and the armored cruiser
Washington to Vera Cruz to reinforce
the fleet of small craft there.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
BROOKLYN EX-MAYOR DIES
Wife, Ill in Adjoining Room, May Soon
Follow Him in Death
By Associated Press,

New York, March 10.-Charles A.
Schieren, formerly Mayor of Brcoklyn,
died to-day of pneumonia. Ia an ad-
joining room his wife lay SO ill of tho
same malady that it was thought she
could not live the day out. Mr.. Schieren
was 73 years old; his wife is the same
age. They had been planning to cele-
brate their golden wedding in Noven-
ber.
Mr.. Schieren was elected Mayor Of
Brooklyn ON the Republican ticket in
1893. He was one of the founders OF
the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Dur
ing the past year or two he had retired
from the directorates of several fnan-
cial and other institutions.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
$4,000 BAIL FOR LARGEST
Driver of Auto That Figured in Fatal
Crash Is Arrested and Put
Under Bond

Arrested this morning on a charge
of involuntary manslaughter, John
largest, Jr, the chauffeur who drove
the Inflated auto that crashed into a
Valley Traction Company car at Front
and Walnut streets on the night of
January l, resulting in the death of
Miss Grace Mapgans, furnished a
$4,000 bond to appear at preliminary
hearing before Alderman E. J. Hilton
on Friday morning at 10 o 'closk.
hargest made no effort to escape ar.
rest. The warrant was served by Con
stable Charles Smith. Later young
largest was released, his father, John
largest, formerly Register of Wills of
Dauphin county, furnishing the neces.
sary bond after Judge Kunkel fixed
the amount.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
BALTIMORE BANKER TO SPEAK
Henry F. Baker, of Garrett & Sons, to
Address Chamber of Commerce

Henry F. Baker, of Baltimore, q
partner in the banking house of Rob
ert Garrett & Sons, former president
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, the leading commercial or
ganization of that city, and one of the
most prominent citizens of Baltimore,
will address the members of the Har-
risburg Chamber of Commerce at lunch
con at noon next Friday in the Harris
burg Club
The rebuilding of Baltimore since
the great fire and the great strides
that city has since made as a CONNER
cial and industrial center and seaport
will be the subject of Mr. Bakers ad-
dress.
The Chamber of Commerce expects
the many business men of this city who
have come here from Baltimore will
make the luncheon for Mr.. Baker the
occasion for reunion. 1t is also ex-
pected to stimulate the cordial rela-
tions that already exist between Har-
risburg and Baltimore.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
owner OF DAC|A. Seized
BY French, files PROTEST

Paris, March 10, 1910 A. ME-. N.
Breitung, of New York, owner of the
steamer Dacia, has entered a protest
against the seizure of his vessel by the
French maritime authorities. He has
engaged Paul Govare, president Of the
French Association of Maritime Law, to
defend his interests.
The Dacia belonged formerly to the
Hamburg American Line. She changed
her registry and became an American
ship after the outbreak Of hostilities.
Laden with cotton and destined to Ger
many she was on her way from the
United States to Rotterdam when picked
up at sea by French cruiser and taken
into Brest. Her case is to come up be-
fore the French prize court.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
HIDE BABY IN QUARRY
Foreign Parents Dispose of Body Rather
Than Bear Funeral Expenses

Workingmen in Cubler's quarry at
the east end of Steelton came upon the
body of baby this morning at 8
o o'elock. 1t was covered by a bed com
fort on which stones and sticks were
laid so it would not be blown away.
Coroner Eckinger had the body re-
moved to Wilt Is undertaking establish
ment where it was examined by ply
sician who said that the baby was born
dead, evidently of foreign parentage,
and had been hidden in the quarry to
avoid burial expenses. The body was
hidden sometime during the night at a
spot in the quarry which Is not now
being worked. The county will likely
bear the expense of burial.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
Populace in Mexico City Starving

Washington, March 10.-The Next
can Red Cross to-day appealed to the
American Red Cross through Secretary
Bryan for food for the starving popu-
lace in Mexico City. The appeal said
the famine in the Mexican capital was
rapidly growing worse. Secretary Bry-
an said the State department would CO.
operate with the Red Cross as far as
possible.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10

Mrs. Norah Hosie, 1924 North
Sixth street, is IN the Harrisburg hos
pital in serious condition with her
lower jaw bone shattered By outlet,
and Stephenson W. Keys, a chauffeur,
1117 James street, is dead, suicide,
following the latter s sensational at
tempt to murder the woman at Wyeth
and Basin streets at 9 o'clock this
morning. Crowds of people were near,
going to or from the Verbeke street
market. few blocks away.
No more spectacular shooting ever
occurred in Harrisburg and hundreds of
marketers viewed the body of the man
as it lay on the sidewalk in front of
1417 Wyeth street for more than an
hour before its removal was ordered by
Coroner Eekinger.
Morbidly curious persons blocked the
street and policemen had trouble in
keeping them from removing the COW
ering from the body.
Two teeth, shot from the woman 5
jaw, were found on the street and were
eagerly gathered up by spectators to be
kept as mementoes of the crime.
There were no spectators to the
actual shooting, so far as the police
have learned. A crowd of workingmen,
unpaeking a case of lining in the Har-
risburg Leather Products Company
plant, at Basin and Wyeth streets,
heard two shots fred in quick success
sion and, looking from the doorway,
saw the woman reeling in the center
of the street aud the man lying on
the sidewalk, the revolver by his side
The man evidently had shot them
both. They were bleeding profusely
He Dies ir Few Minutes
The woman collapsed in sitting po-
sition on the steps of the leather com
pany plant and the workmen ran to
her assistance. Keys already was un-
conscious and was gasping his last. He
lived but few moments afterward.
When the woman looked .around and
saw Keys lying On the sidewalk she
uttered a shrek and tried to call his
name, but her mouth >was filed with
blood and she could not talk.
Few persons have been found who
had seen the couple together before the
shooting but one person in the crowd
that collected at the scene of the trag-
edy, said Keys had met the woman
in Reilly street and that they had walk
ed to the corner where Keys opened
fire.
The police were on the scene of the
crime IN few minutes and the woman
was hauled TO the hospital. When the
crowd collected the police demanded a
,cover for the body of Keys and a
piece of heavy wrapping paper was OBJ
Continued on Ninth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
Gladys Vanderbilt Recovering

London, March 10, 3.41 A. M
Countess Lazlo Szeebenyi, formerly
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, Of New York,
is recovering from the smallpox, which
she contracted while nursing wounded
in an Austrian hospital three weeks
ago, according to Budapest dispatch
to the "Post," dated March 2.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
Action on Third Judge nelaue6

When the Nissley House bill provid-
ing for an additional law Judge for
the Dauphin county court reached the
final passage stage in the Senate to-day
Senator Sproul, of Delaware, asked that
it go over for the present. This was
agreed to, and it viii not receive public
consideration until next Monday night.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
Beds Come Quickly for Poor

The Board of Poor Directors of Dau-
Phin county yesterday appealed through
the news columns of the Star -Independ-
ent for two beds to care for a destitute
family. In twenty minutes this morn
ing offers of five beds were made to
the Directors, more than enough for
immediate needs. /
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
WALL STREET CLOSING
By Associated Press.

New York, March 1O.-Cessation Of
the buying movement in the ssai hour
provoked renewed selling and prices
yielded generally. The closing was ir-
regular. Stocks moved siuggishly and
with q downward tendency for the
greater part Of to-day's session.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
o. B. Mcoonkey "Opens Law ONCE

Charles B. McConkey announced to.
day that he has opened offices for the
general practice of law in room No.
304, third floor, Bergner building,
Third and Market streets.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
Increase in U. s. Steel Tonnage,

New York, March 10.-The untitled
tonnage of the United States Steel
Corporation on February %, totalled
4,3 45,371 tons, an increase of 96,800
tons over January.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
SHOOTS DOWN WOMAN IN STREET and
THENTAKES HIS own LIFE WITH BULLET

Stephenson w. Keys.
Chauffeur and Lately
Restaurant Owner.
Sends Revolver Ball
Through Jaw of Mrs.
Norah Hosie. Fires
A nothe er Through
Own Brain and Dies
In Few a Minutes
Woman In Hospital
But Will Recover
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Senate Adjourns Till MONDAY

The Senate, after clearing its cal
endar this morning, adjourned to meet
next Monday evening at o clock.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-10
EXCITEMENT in
MARKET CROWD

Great Throng Presses
A b out Body In
Street and Police
Have Trouble Pre-
venting Curious Per-
sons From Removing
Covering Are
Gathered For Sou
! mir s-Man Had
Been Attentive to
His Victim But the
Police Do Not Know
What Led to Quarrel