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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-27
5 DROPPED FROM FORCE
OF PUBLIC WORKS BOARD
Three Engineers, an Assistant and an
Inspector Are Let Co Because There
Is No More Work for Them to Do
Board to Be Abolished July 1

The first cut in the engineering force
OF the Board of Public Works, which
is TO be abolished ON July l. or i'm.
mediately after the present big city
Improvements are completed, was made
to-day, when five engineers, assistants
or inspectors, were dropped because
there is no more work for them to do.
Those retiring are Henry NJ. Gross.
Lemuel D. Dubois, Joseph Bingam, en-.
gineers; Frank S. Keet, assistant, and
William Halbert, an inspector. Only
Chief Engineer Joel D. Justin and his
stenographer, Miss Sarah Powell, and
two other engineers, Elbridge Cowden
and Lou Shoatf, are retained.
The reduction in the force was de-
cided upon in conference between the
two members of the Board of Public
Works, E. c. Thompson and J. William
Bowman, and William Fl. Lynch, Com.
missioner of Highways. Lynch said
this afternoon that all of the engineers
will be reinstated if their services are
needed before the Board of Public
Works goes out of existence. He add.
ed, however, that Cowden and Shoalf
too, will havc to go in a couple of
weeks unless more work develops for
them to do.
Those employees who were dropped to-
day, Lynch said, had been EN- mployed
recently in preparing estimates on the
Improvement jobs which have not yet
been completed by the contractors. BY
July l, when the several big public
Improvement jobs are completed, the
members of tine Public Works Board
and all engineers then in the Board s
employ viii be dropped permanently
and the department abolished.
Under plans now being prepared by
the public works engineers, the coal
wharf at Market street and the river
will probably be abolished and the
eightyfoot gap in the river wall closed.
However, the question of whether the
city can legally close the wharf has
arisen and City Solicitor Seitz next
week will be asked to give his opinion
on that subject. Should Seitz decide
that the city can close the wharf, then
the Sucker Brothers Construction
Company, which has the contract to
build the wall, will be authorized to
close the gap.
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Former Attorney Cen
eral of State Sue
cumbS in Savannah
After Long Illness
FOR MANY YEARS
IN PUBLIC LIFE
Leading Member of Lancaster County
Bar Was Also An Editor and Pub
hsher-Active in Democratic Coun-
oils Of State and a Fine Orator

William Uhler Hensel, of Lancaster
former Attorney General of the State
widely known in Pennsylvania jour
nalistie and legal circles and prominent
for years in politics, died in Savannah
Georgia, last night. after long illness
He was 6S years old.
Mr., Hensel was prostrated by illness
several months ago, and it was feared
he would die then, but ne rallied and by
careful nursing in his country home
near Lancaster he was in a short time
considered out of danger, although very
weak.
Two weeks ago he accepted the in.
vitatlon of former Senator j. Donald
Cameron, who for some time has been
residing in Donegal, in Lancaster eoun
ty, and who was Mr.. HenSel's lifelong
friend. TO visit him on his houseboat
the Conewago, then in Southern waters
the object being to restore Mr.. Hensel 5
health. The sojourn apparently was
beneficial at the start, for letter re
Gently received by Thomas Lynch Mont
gomery, State Librarian, from Mr.. Hen.
sci, who was then on the Cameron
houseboat "in Florida waters" as he
expressed it, stated that he was much
better but was still very weak. Al
the time of mis- death Mr.. Hensel evi-
IDENTIFY had arrived in Savannah where
he suffered relapse. The body will
be sent 10 Lancaster.
Mr. Hensel is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. John A. Nauman, wife
of a member of the Lancaster bar, and
several brothers and sisters, all resid
ing in Lancaster county.
Native of Lancaster County
Mr. Hensel was born in Quarryville
Lancaster county, in 1851, and after
attending the Lancaster schools, entered
Franklin X Marshall College where he
was graduated with henors in 1870
with the degree of A. B.
In 1873 the degree of A. NJ. was
conferred on him by the college, Sub
sequently both Dickinson College and
Washington 4 Lee University conferred
on him the degree of LII D., and in
1912 Franklin & Marshall, his alma
mater, conferred on him the degree OF
Lift. D. as an honor for his services as
a member of its Board of Trustees, of
which he was president. He was ad
mitted TO the bar of Lancaster county
in 1878, having while studying law
been a reporter on the Lancaster "In.
telhgencer.'
Mr. Hensel through all his life con.
tlnued active in journalism, although
Continued ON Third Page.
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FIVE Liners START FROM
j. S. FOR BLOCKADED ZONE

New York, Feb. 27.-Five passenger
liners bound for ports in the war zone
set by Germany around the British Isles
were included in to-day's sailings from
this port. Hundreds of passengers were
aboard
The Lusitania, now the largest az
well as the fastest passenger ship trav-
cling the Atlantic, had many cabin pas
sengers booked for Liverpool. The
American liner st. Paul for Liverpool
the Holland American steamer Rotter.
dam for Rotterdam, the Touraine for
Havre and the Kristianifjord for Ber.
gen Were the other sailings.
Americans flags and the words
American Line' in letters four feet
high. were painted on both sides of the
st. Paul s hun. Two more American
flags were painted on her bows. The
Rotterdam was marked for identified.
ton by lettering on her hull giving her
name and destination.
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Continued on fourteenth Page.
STR0UP QUITS LIQUOR CASE
District Attorney Withdraws as Coun-
sci for Berrysburg Hotel

District Attorney NJ. E. Stroup, who,
with Horace A. Segelbaum, had been
counsel for William II. Bowman, pro-
prietor of the st. Lawrence hotel, Ber-
rysburg, whose application for a renew
al of his liquor license has been held up
pending the court 8 inquiry into the
charge that the hotel has been violating
the liquor laws, this morning obtained
permission from the Dauphin county
court to withdraw from the case. He
indicated that his withdrawal was not
meant In any way to prejudice his for
.mer client s chances of getting a re-
newal. Stroup told the court he
thought 1t was the most advisable
thing for him to do. He said:
when consented to represent Mr..
Bowman there were no charges of a
violation of the law preferred against
him. Since that time such charges have
been preferred, and 1 deem it inadvis-
able and inconsistent with my position
as District Attorney-no matter wheth-
er these charges are we'll grounded or
MOTTO represent him in this matter,
and have sc advised Mr.. Bowman.
With the permission of the court, T.,
therefore, desire to withdraw as attor-
ney for the applicant.
Judge Kunkel made this reply:
.'We think your action unquestion-
ably is proper. AS a public officer and
representative of the Commonwealth,
we cannot very well see how you can
represent the Commonwealth in criminal
matters and at the same time represent
one who is charged with violation of
the law. We will :llow your applica-
ti0n."
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-27
CRANDPRIX AUTO RACE ON
Thirty-five Entries in Contest Over
Panama-Pacific Exposition Four
Mile Course
By Associated Press.

San Francisco, Feb. 27.-Thirty five
drivers turned up their cars to-day for
the sixth Grand Prix automobile race
scheduled to start at 1920 a. m. on the
Panama-Pacific exposition fouy-mile
course. The ears were started three
abreast at intervals of fifteen seconds.
With ideal weather and track
which experts declared was in perfect
condition, it was thought new record
might be made. Two right angle turns
and other irregularities in the course
offered, however, formidable handicaps
against fast time.
Every precaution had been taken to
guard against accidents to racers and
spectators. Beside the Grand Prix cup
cash prizes amounting to $1,000 were
the rewards for the successful contest
ants.
At the end of the tenth lap d. Res
ia, in Peugeat, led. Time, 35.44.
Ruckstell, in Mercer, was second, nine
seconds behind. Following were Alley,
Hughes, De Palma, Rickenbacker. Res
ta Is average was 6S miles an hour.
Earl Cooper was forced out of the
race on the second lap by broken con-
neetion rod.
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FIRE IN COVENANT PARSONAGE
$500 Damage to Home of the Rev.
Harvey Kear 49,

Fire starting in some rubbish in the
basGaeHSeof the parsonage of i, the
Covenant Presbyterian church, at 521
PETER street, did $500 worth of dam
age at noon to-day. The Rev. Harvey
Klear, pastor of that church, who re-
sides in the damaged dwelling, is at a
loss to account for the fire other than
that children who were playing in the
basement this morning, accidentally
kindled the blaze.
The fire charred the joists which sup.
port the first floor and good portion
of the basement. The district fremen
were called from Box 213, Fifth and
PETER streets, and were in service
twenty minutes.
A defective fue in the home of
George Walters, 1902 Fulton street,
caused slight fire last evening. An
alarm was turned in from Fourth and
Hamilton streets, but the fremen were
not needed.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-27
schmidt INTERESTS BUY
HARRISBURG BAKING CO.
Two Largest Bakeries of Harrisburg
Are to Be Operated by the Capital
City Baking Company, About to Be
Incorporated

The Harrisburg Baking Company
with six-oven plant at Cameron and
Swatara streets, was absorbed last
night by company of Harrisburg cap,
italists headed by Bernard Schmidt,
owner of the Schmidt Bread Bakery,
at Eighteenth and Holly streets.
The management of the South Cam
eron street plant was placed in the
hands of E w .Manbeek, formerly man.
ager of that plant and later manager
for Bernard Schmidt at his Eighteenth
street bakery. James A Andrews,
manager for the Andrews Brothers, of
Erie, who operated the Harrisburg
Baking Company, turned over the reins
of management this morning.
Both the Schmidt and Harrisburg
bskeries will be operated by a new
company, which will be known as the
Capital City Baking Company. Appli-
cation for charter for the new com.
pany will be made to the State Depart
ment by Fox Il Gnyer, Harrisburg at.
torneys, on March %.
Neither plant will lose its individual
ity. according to Bernard Schmidt. The
Minus VI UtbdA UdhCu uOW DN
the two concerns will be continued. Mr..
Schmidt said there will be no change
in tine size of the loaves now being sold
nor in the price, notwithstanding the
fact that the price of -four is above
normal. Mr.. Schmidt would not make
public the price paid for the Harris
burg bakery.
The plant of the Harrisburg Baking
Company was opened in 1908 with
four ovens, and the business has stead
lily increased until two more ovens
have been added Mr.. Schmidt went
into the baking business in a small
way on Derry street in 1891. His
Thirteenth street plant was opened in
1900. That plant was destroyed by
fire in 1911 and the construction of
the new plant at Eighteenth and Holly
streets was then started. This plant
was opened April s, 1912. Six ovens
are operated there and the combined
output of the two bakeries to be op-
Grated by the Capital City Baking Com.
pany will total $1,000 loaves of bread
q day.
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WORK ON THE new AICKOK
PLANT TO Start IN MONTH
Announced To-day That Buildings to
Cost 100000 Will of Themselves
Occupy Five Acres of the Nine-Aere
: Plot Facing On Cumberland Street

1t was announced to-day that the
Hiekok Manufacturing Company's new
plant 10 be erected along the Pennsyl-
vania railroad tracks near Cumberland
street, will occupy nine acres and the
buildings alone will cover five acres.
This plant will be built because the old
zone has to be abandoned, having re-
Gently been sold to the State for S21O,-
600.
Work on the new plant is expected
to start within the next month, and the
buildings will be completed early in
the fall. Work viii be rushed on every
part of it. Day Zimmerman, of Phila-
delphia, architects and engineers, who
are regarded as experts in this class of
work, are preparing the plans, which
are almost finished and viii have charge
of the work when the contract is let.
The new buildings will cost about
100000 They will be of concrete,
brick and steel. The front part will be
two stories high and contain the offices.
The rest of the plant will be one-story
in height of saw-tooth roof con-
struction by which the light will ali
come from the roof.
II is the intention of the company to
move into the new building much or
the present machinery. but a large lot
of new machinery will be purchased and
put under the new roofs. The entire
plant will be modern and thoroughly
up to date and with a roof tank for
water for use in the various depart
ments and in case of fire.
The buildings will contain the iron
and brass foundries, the machine shop,
wood shop, paint shop, blacksmith shop
and modern plating department, all OF
which will be thoroughly equipped with
modern machinery for the manufacture
of the products of this old-established
company.
As soon as the company has moved
from its present location, which was
first occupied by the founder of the
firm more than half century ago, the
State will sell the old buildings to the
highest bidder. They will be removed
at once and there will be another big
hole in the Eighth ward.
1t is possible that all of the build
ingS viii be cleared away within a year,
including the manufacturing plant
proper and the old shoe factory front.
ing on State street near the bridge
across the Pennsylvania railroad.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-27
Flood Has Washed Out
Fill and Barred Rocks
Between ,Maclay and
Kelker Streets
TAYLOR CANNOT
ESTIMATE LOSS
1900 of the $4,000 Yards of Dirt to
Be Dumped Under the $4,000 Con-
tract Had Already Been Placed on
River Bank by Hauling Company

Damage that may run into several
thousand dollars has been done by the
high water in the Susquehanna river,
to the river front fill, between Kelker
and Maclay streets, where loose dirt
from the Pennsylvania Railroad i'm
provements in South Harrisburg has
been dumped in the last few weeks.
The exact extent of the damage. how
ever, cannot be estimated until the wa
tiers reeede to a stage below eleven feet
which will bring the top of the con-
crete wall above the surface of water.
The original contract called for
dumping $4,000 cubic yards of earth
ON the bank after placing large stlnes
for foundation. The cost of this to
the City is to be $4,000. Park Com
missioner Taylor said this afternoon
that between 1900 and $4,000 cubic
yards already have been dumped. He
said he will be unable to estimate the
flood damage until the water recedes
Continued ON Fourteenth Page.
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Two HOTELS MUST Close
BARS Pending DECISIONS
Ann Street Hostelry, IN Middletown,
and the Berrysburg Hotel Will
Have to Stop Sale of Liquor Mon
day Until Court Passes on Them

Three liquor stablishments-two ho-
tells and one bottling works-that to-
day are doing business in Dauphin
county will not open on Monday morn
ing. The hotels will be unable to open
their bars on that day, because the
court has not yet decided whether their
licenses will be renewed The bottlins
works of John Mackert, Lenkerville,
will be closed for at least a year by
reason of the proprietor having with,
drawn his application for a new license
The new license year starts on Mon
day. The st. Lawrence hotel, Berrys-
burg, will have 90 close its bar TEN.
porarily on that day because the con-
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-27
GERMAN SOLDIER SENTENCED
TO DEATH FOR PlLLA6ING

Rennes, France, Feb. 81, Via Paris,
5.05 A. MA German soldier named
Carl Vogelgesang, of the Twenty,sixth
Saxon infantry, a native of Eisleben,
has been sentenced here by French
court martial to military degradation
and death, having been found guilty of
pillaging while under arms, of arson
and Of dispatching French wounded.
The principal evidence against this
German soldier were the entries in his
own diary which was found on his per-
son when he was searched after having
been made prisoner by the French, the
fifteen of last September. Vogele-
sang denied before the court that he
had killed wounded men. He admitted
the ether charges, however, but de-
clared that he was acting under su-
perior orders.
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THE ALLIED FLEET BOMBARDS
INNER DARDANELLES UORTS

London, Feb. 81, 4.49 A. NJ. The
allied fleet has bombarded interior
forts in the straits of the Dardanelles,
according to an Athens dispatch to
Reuters Telegram Company. The fire
directed upon Fort Dardanos is said to
have been particularly severe and the
Turkish reply feeble.
The Sedd-El-Bahr lighthouse, at the
entrance to the Dardanelles, is in
flames. The fort of Dardanos is the
first to be passed after those which
guard the entrance to the straits.
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RUSSIANS FIGHT STUBBORNLY
TO REJ0IN THE MAIN ARMY

London, Feb. 81, III A. MA
dispatch to the "Times" from Petro-
grad says that information has been
received in the Russian capital that
several units belonging to the Twen-
tieth corps, which was surrounded by
the Germans in the retreat from East
Prussia, still are. fighting stubbornly
and probably will. be able to rejoin the
Russian army.
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late WAR news SUMMARY

The efforts of the German and Aus
trian armies to crumple both ends of
the long Russian front are reported to-
day to have been checked. Petrograd
states that the German drive at War
saw from the North has been count
cred. The official report from Berlin
says that new Russian forces have ap-
peared in Northern Poland and began
attacks. Near Kolno, the statement an
nounces, 1,1OO Russians were captured.
In Eastern Galicia, at the other end
Continued ON Fourteenth Page.
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Cabinet members, including Premier
Asquith, take the attitude that repris-
ais will be necessary in retaliation for
Germany's submarine campaign. Eng
lands allies, including France and
Russia, which have been considering
the American proposals, were said to
be in full accord with her as to what
steps she would take.
The Washington government believes
that, even though these proposals are
not adopted, efforts will not be wasted
since it will demonstrate to the bellig
erents the sincerity of the purpose of
the United States and the impartiality
of its position.
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By Associated Press.

Washington, Feb. 27.-An indication
of the British government S attitude to-
wards the American government S in
formal proposals to Great Britain and
Germany for the removal of dangers
to neutral shipping, officials here
thought would be forthcoming to-day.
At any rate, an answer is expected in
few days. The German government S
attitude on the issue is already known
to be favorable to making concessions
and as supplying the basis for nego-
tiations between the nations involved.
Officials here learned to-day through
unofficial sources that some British
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-27
EIGHT OF EVcLYA'S Crew
LOST WHLN Vessel SA.K

Washington, Feb. 27.-Minister Van
Dyke at The Hague cabled to-day an
unofficial report that eight of the crew
of the American steamer Evelyn sunk
by mine in the North Sea had been
lost.
Yesterday he sent an unofficial re.
port that the missing boat load was
safe.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-27
Moulin Rouge Ablaze in Paris

Paris, Feb. q, $50 A. M.-The
Moulin Rouge, well known as a center
of the night life of Paris, caught FIRE
early this morning. The entire fre<de-
partment of the center of Paris was
called out in an endeavor to put out the
flames. SIS
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-27
Reported That Mer-
chairman Meets a
Disaster Off Saint
Valery-Sur- -Somme
FRENCH VESSEL
GOES TO ASSIST
Wreckage Picked Up Near Christiania
Indicates That Submarine U-O, Ger
many's Terror of the Seas, Has Met
Fate She Melted to Others

ny ASSoCiultd iFcSS.
Dieppe, France, Feb. 27, via Paris, 5
A. M.--lt is reported here that a Brit
ish merchant ship has been torpedoed
in the English Channel off Saint VAL
ery-Sur-Summe. A French torpedo boat
destroyer has gone out from Dieppe to
the assistance of the British ship.
Christiania, via London, Feb. 27,
$50 A. Wreckage picked up near
Christiansand appears to indicate dis
aster to the German submarine U-9.
The German submarine U-9 has play
ed an important part in the naval ac-
tivities of the war; 1t sank the British
cruisers Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy in
the North Sea on September 23, and
eluded pursuit. On October 25 it sank
the British cruiser Hawk.
a Dutch steam trawler reported No
vember l that it had met the U-9 in a
disabled condition off Haaks lightship
near Helder on the north coast of Hol-
land. Its trouble had been caused by
lbeeoming entangled in fishing nets.
There have been no reports regarding
the U-9 since that date.
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FORTY WARSHIPS Of Allies
SHELLInC TURKISH FORTS

Athens, Feb. 81, via London, 5.12
z. M.-An allied fleet aggregating
forty warships to-day penetrated the
Dardanelles straits as far as Hortari
and within range of Fort Intepe ON the
Asiatic side, according to reliable infor-
nation reaching here to-day.
Fort Intepe was destroyed. Various
Turkish engagements also were bonn
barded. The ships are now within range
of Fort DardanoS.
A French squadron is cruising under
the forts at the entrance to the straits,
which are now entirely dismantled
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Paris, Feb. 81, Ills A. M.-The
Athens correspondent of the "Matin F"
has forwarded the following:
" After the complete destruction of
the forts at the entrance to the Dard-
anelles, the allied fleet penetrated the
straits and shelled the interior forts.
1t proceeded down the Dardanelles IA
miles from the entrance
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1915-12-22
Send JAWBONE
. FOUND BY Diver
TO washington
All Records for Identification
Now at National Capital,
Says Lieut.. Lando

Because all the records of identifi-
cation of the F-4's crew we're returned
to the navy department at Washington
after they had served their purpose
here in identifying what was left Of
the submarines dead, it will be neces-
sary to ship to Washington the human
jawbone found yesterday in a pile of
battery zinc from the craft by a Ha-
waiian boy diver while he was diving
near the Inter-Island drydock
Superintendent Alec Lyle of the dry.
dock turned over the pathetic frag-
ment to Chief Carpenter Clark of Pearl
Harbor today. and Clarke will deliver
it to Rear Admiral Clifford J.. Boush.
commandant at Pearl Harbor.
The only thing that cal. be done.
said Lieut. Ellis Lando, former aide
to Admiral Boush, this morning, "will
be to ship the jaybone to Washington,
because all F-4 Identification records
are there. having been sent back after
there was no further use for them
here. From the records there 1t may
be possible to identify the fragment.
There is no means of Identification
here at present"