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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
STORK makes FIRST TRIP
here BY TWILIGHT ROUTE
New Anesthetic Is Tried for the First
Time in a Childbirth Case in Har-
risburg in Connection With Caesar
can Operation

Twilight Sleep was used in child
birth for the first time in this city at
the Harrisburg hospital yesterday aft
ernoon and the results were to-day pro-
nounced by the staff surgeons to have
been entirely satisfactory. The sur
geons performed Caesarean operation
while the patient was under the new
anesthetic.
A boy was born to Mrs. Charles Fry,
"a years old, of West Fairview. She
was sent to the Harrisburg hospital yes
terday afternoon by her family physi-
elan and her condition was such that
surgeons deemed it best to use "twi-
light sleep" Both mother and child
are reported as resting well this aft
ernoon.
The twilight Sleep method has
been used here in other forms of sur
gerry recently with success, patients re-
covering sooner than under the ordi-
nary anesthetic. There are now three
patients in the hospital who underwent
operations while under the influence of
twilight sleep
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
EXPLAINS SCHAEFfER'S $50
Downes Says State Superintendent Re
ceived 1t According to Custom
Other Officials Paid

The payment of $50 to DR.. Nathan
C. Schaeffer, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, for a speech before
the city teachers institute, was dis
cussed to-day by City Superintendent
F. Z. Downes, whom the County Com
missioners yesterday asked to explain
why such charge should be made.
DR.. Downes said the payment was
made according to custom" and that
the $50 was not actually charged by
State Superintendent Schaeffer.
Under the State law the County
Commissioners made payment to-
ward meeting the expenses of the in
stitute. The City Superintendent was
required to file an itemized expense ae-
count. This showed $50 given to DR..
Schaeffer, and the Commissioners ask
ed DR.. Downes about the item.
The Commissioners did not protest
amounts paid to Reed B. Teitrick,
Deputy Superintendent of Public In
structioa, and DR.. j. George Beeht,
Secretary of the State Board of Edu-
cation, both of whom spoke at the To-
cal teachers institute.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
Tonight Is Final OPP
portunity to See the
Best and test in
Motordom
TO PICK WINNERS
OF DOOR PRIZES
Managers Myton and johnson Pleased
With Returns Of Week-Exhibits
Better and Business Conditions
Steady-Auto Education Provided

Harrisburg is about educated TO the
mysteries of automobiling. Having had
two shows running since last Saturday
night, accommodating almost capacity
crowds for week. exhibitors have but
tonight to get the late auto-showgoers
in line. The gates will close at mid
night tonight on what has been the
most successful week of united effort
on the part of all dealers of self-pro.
PEELED vehicles for the general advance.
ment of the business.
The horseless age has not arrived as
yet, but from trip around the Kelker
street hall and the Arena, where twin
shows are in progress, one is convinced
that that era is not far off. If you
have business which takes you on
short trips over the city, if you are rich
or poor, there is a machine and it is
on display at the automobile shows.
Cars for every known purpose are dis
played and if you have not picked your
machine at either of the shows it is be-
cause you are not in a business which
requires one, do not have the money to
purchase or have not been to the auto
shows.
This is not the fault of the ex-
hDbitors, who have spent every effort
to give Harrisburgers the opportunity
to make selections. They have produced
shows which include stock machines of
most every representative make. Me-
chanical mysteries have been simplified
by the exhibition of cut-out engines
and other working parts. 1t required no
Continued on Twelfth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
late WAR news summary

The attack of the Dardanelles was
resumed yesterday, notwithstanding the
heavy losses of the allied feet on the
preceding day. No official announce
ment has been made concerning the re-
suit of yesterdays operations, but un-
Official advices are to the effect that
little was accomplished on account of
unfavorable weather conditions. A Con-
stantinople dispatch says that the sink
ing of the British battleships Irresist-
ible and Ocean and the French battle
ship Bouvet, ascribed by the British
Admiralty to floating mines, was due
to torpedoes
The Turkish positions on the main
land near Smyrna are being strength
ened and large reinforcements have
been sent to the assistance of the de
tenders. Efforts are being made to re-
pair the damage already done to the
defenses on Smyrna and to plant mines.
The new naval policy of the allies
is now in operation against Austria, ac-
cording to word which has reached
Rome. The commanders of the Anglo
French feet In the Adriatic have been
notified to prevent transportation Of
all goods to or from Austrian ports.
The government OF the Netherlands has
Continued On Twelfth PAGE.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
THE REV. I. |. TOMKINSON.
FORMER resident. dies
He Passed Many Years in This City,
Helped to Found Ridge Avenue
Church and Served AS Pastor of
Stevens Memorial

The Rev. Theophilus Lessey Tomkin-
son, former resident of this city and
one time pastor Of the Thirteenth Street
Methodist church, now B. +. Stevens
Memorial church, died yesterday after
noon at his home in Wilmington, Della
ware. He had lived in this city until
recently and attended Grace Methodist
church. He was a member of the Cen
tral Pennsylvania conference.
Mr.. Tomkinson was born at Pultney-
vile, n. Y, July l9, 1886. Coming to
this city as a boy to learn the potter
trade, he wassconverted here and joined
the Locust Street Methodist Episcopal
church. He was one of group of young
men who founded the mission which has
developed into Ridge Avenue and st.
Paul s Methodist churches, When he
entered the ministry he was stationed
by the Philadelphia conference in Mary
land and Virginia. When the Whining
ton conference was formed he became a
charter member.
After filling important appointments
in that conference he was transferred
in 1887 to the Central Pennsylvania
conference and stationed at the Thir-
tecHln CUTeeI cHurcn IN UnlS city. he
also served at New Cumberland, Ber-
wick, Phillipsburg, Williamsport and
Mount Carmel. After nearly half a
century in the ministry he retired be-
cause of i'll health and took up his resi-
dence in this city. Recently he moved
to Wilmington.
He leaves his widow, two sons,
Charles, of Plainfeld, N. j., and Hor-
ace, Seelmore, Pa; one daughter, Mrs.
William Hunt Carson, of Cambridge,
Nd; three grandchildren, and brother
and two sisters at 604 Boas street, this
city, the Rev. William, E., Martha M
and Ellen F. Tomkinson.
The funeral services will be held at
Grace Methodist church, Wilmington
at $50 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon
AT the arrival of the body here on Mon
day morning at 12,45 O'Clock burial
will be made in the East Harrisburg
cemetery. Brief services will be held
at the grave. The Rev. DR.. John D.
Fox will probably Officiate.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
BROTHER OF FUGITIVE
MURDERER Sent TO PEN
John Filler Whose Kinsman Killed Wife
and Her Alleged Paramour in Steel
ton Twelve Years Ago, Is Sentenced
for Attempted Burglary

Echoes Of the crime in which Will
liam Filler, now a fugitive from JUS
tice, shot and killed his wife and her
alleged paramour, in Steelton twelve
years ago, were heard in Judge McCar-
rell's side of criminal court last even
ing, when John Filler, said to be a
brother of the fugitive, was sent to
the penitentiary on a robbery charge
for a term of from eighteen months to
three years.
John Filler, while intoxicated, broke
into the home of Mrs. Emma s. New
conner, 1923 Derry street, on the night
of March 10 and was captured before
he could make getaway, the police
having been attracted to the home by
Mrs. Newcomer screams. When Filler
was called for trial yesterday afternoon
he pleaded not guilty, but later made
a confession.
The defendant is 23 years old and,
according to his story to the court, ne
has been living in Harrisburg about
fifteen years. Further than that ne
would say nothing regarding himself.
Charles Mollere, 9O3 North Third
street this morning was convicted on
charges of felonious assault and point
ing a revolver, growing out OF an at
tack he is alleged to have made upon
his wife and Miss Annie Krebs at the
Mollere apartments week ago.
Witnesses declared that Mollere had
made an attack upon his wife and also
shot at Miss Krebs when she entered
C.uAgun~A nm Twelfth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
Those on Board lap
land Witness Fight
B e t w e e n Torpedo
Boat and Submarine
LINER ESCAPES
FROM TIE SCENE
Captain of British Steamer Steers His
Vessel in Zigsag Course Under Fun
Head of Steam to Dodge the Sub
marines Torpedoes
By Associated Press.

New York, March 20.-Passengers
aboard the British steamer Lapland,
which reached here to-day from Liver
pool, witnessed battle in the English
channel between British torpedo boat
which escorted the Lapland and Ger
man submarine. The Lapland, crowd
ing ON all steam, fled in zigzag line
from the eombatants.
The Lapland picked up her naval es-
cort outside the entrance to Liverpool
harbor. Before the steamer left Liver
pool it was stated that submarines were
in nearby waters. Steamer and convoy
were not far from Liverpool when the
torpedo opened fire.
The raider fired torpedo at another
vessel Passengers aboard the Lap
land watched the progress of the missile
through the water and saw it went wide
of its target, Meantime the torpedo
boat 5 guns had quickened their fire to
a fusillade of shots. The Lapland s
captain ordered full speed ahead and
the steamer shot forward. To dodge
torpedoes and TO afford The submarine a
poor target, the Lapland was steered
at intervals abruptly to port and to
starboard in zigzag course. Runnin @
at her highest speed the steamer left
the combatants behind and made the
safety of the open sea.
The Lapland carried lis passengers.
In the steerage Were two American
boys, Harold and Howard Hudson, of
Bridgeport, Conn.,, twins, about Is years
old. who had attended school near Lon
don, The bows wanted to see actual
warfare and enlisted in the British
army, giving false ages and not men
tioning their nationality. Their par
ents in this country learned what had
happened and invoked the aid of the
State Department to secure their re-
lease. Through the efforts of Ambassa.
dor Page at London the two boys were
released.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
AMETHYST, IN dash, CUT
Cable IN DARDANELLES

London, March 20-The casualties
reported sustained on the British cruiser
Amethyst were the result of smart
piece of work which she performed IN
the Dardanelles when, it is stated, she
was entrusted with the difficult task of
cutting the telegraph cable connecting
Kiid Bahr with Chanak, says the
Malta correspondent of the Reuter- Tele-
gram Company. The correspondent con-
tinues:
''She succeeded in lifting and cut
ting the cable undeteeted, and had start
ed on her return journey when she was
discovered. She then had to run the
gauntlet of forts on both sides of the
Narrods, becoming the target of a
veritable hail of fire. Going at full
speed, although frequently hit, she sue
ceeded in getting beyond the range of
the guns and reaching the entrance TO
the straits.
. A British Admiralty report issued on
March II, stated that in the fighting in
the Dardanelles on March 8 the Ame-
thyst made dash into the Straits. She
was struck by several shells and had
% men killed, 19 severely wounded
and 1S slightly hurt.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
P. r. R. FINISHES EXCAyATING
Work on Second and Front Streets
Nearly Completed

Announcement was made this morn
ing by Superintendent Martin, in
charge of the construction work in
South Harrisburg by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, that all excavations
will be completed within short time.
Two steam shovels have been constant
ly at work for the past several months
and all work on the excavating of
Front and Second streets is about fin
ished. Work on the grading of the
streets, it is said, will start within
the near future.
Work on the erection of the new
steel bridge at Front and Mulberry
streets, spanning the subway, will be
started early Tuesday morning. A
large force of men will be placed at
work and huge derrick erected to as.
semble the parts. 1t is believed that
the erection of the other bridge at Sec
ond street will follow.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
PITTSBURGH FIRM Will
BUILD c. Y. R. R. BRIDGE
Announcement Made To-day of Award
to Grayce Construction Company
of Contract to Erect S75O,OO0
Structure Across River Here

To the Robert Grayee Construction
Company, Pittsburgh contracting
firm, it was announced here to-day, mas
been awarded the contract to build the
new mile-long, double-traek concrete
arch bridge over the Susquehanna riv
er, from Mulberry street, this city, to
replace the present single track steel
structure of the Cumberland Valley
Railroad.
Officials of the railroad company
would not say positively when the
contractors will begin actual work on
the structure, but let il be known that
the successful bidder has been in
structed to make preparations imme
diately for going ahead with the work.
Neither would the railroad officials
make public the amount of the propo-
sal submitted by the Pittsburgh firm,
which was the low bidder of SO com
panies that submitted figures, but engi
neers have said that the total cost of
the bridge will run to the neighbor-
hood of s750,000.
The bids of the thirty-eight con
tracing firms were opened by NJ. C.
Kennedy. president of the Cumberland
Valley Railroad, at his Chambersburg
office, ON Thursday OF this week. Until
the engineers went over the estimates
and made comparisons the low bidder
was not known.
The new bridge will be built one
side at 4 time. The one-half to carry
the south side track will go up first.
Work on the second half will be start.
ed Immediately after the first section
is put into service. Recently the Penn
sylvania Steel Company completed its
contract under which the present steel
structure, carrying the Cumberland
Valley tracks over the river. was
moved bodily for eight and one-half
feet northward to make room on the
southern part of the piers for the first
half of the new structure
About 40 spans will 90 to make up
the new concrete structure which will
be of the barreled arch type.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
WeSterners Ready to
Close For Opera
House Plot. Says an
AuthoritativeReport
PAPERS PREPARED
: FOR SIGNATURES
Apparently Well-substantiated Story in
Circulation That Transaction Will
Be Closed Next Week With Weight
man Estate, the Owners

There was an apparently wellsub-
stantiated report in circulation to-day
that the vacant ground at Third and
Walnut streets, the site of the old
Opera House which was burned in
1907, has changed hands; that it has
been purchased from the Weightman
estate by western hotel company
name as vet kept seeret-and that the
agreement transferring the property
to the hotel company will be signed by
the purchasers in Philadelphia within
the next few days, the attorney for
the Weightman estate already having
signed it. The negotiations are with a
view TO the construction of hand
some new hotel on the site.
The report is so definite as to have
placed the purchase price at 1925, 700,
but the names of those interested in
the purchase have been kept secret.
They represent large hotel company,
however, and are convinced that Har-
risburg needs new hotel and that the
best location for it is the site at Third
and Walnut.
Recently representative of the
Star-Independent had an interview
with a representative of the Hamil-
ton Hotel Company. of Indianapolis
and was informed that a project to
build hotel here was in process of
incubation, but no information could
be disclosed at that time, 1t was said
that negotiations were then in progress
to obtain the Third and Walnut street
site, and that representative of the
Continued ON Twelfth Page.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
HURT in Crash With AUTO
John Minsker and Two Sons Thrown
From Wagon in Collision Near
Home at Dauphin

Dauphin, March 20.-John Minsker
of Clark IS Valley, near this place, was
badly injured when thrown from his
wagon in collision with an automobile
in the Narrows at O'Clock last night
His two sons, Simon and John, who
were with him in the vehicle, were also
thrown to the road but escaped injury
Mr.. Minsker was returning home
with his sons from a public sale near
Harrisburg, when his team was struck
by an automobile coming from Dau-
phin. He was thrown to the road on
his head, and in semi-conscious con-
dition was hurried to the office of DR..
A. c. Coble.
The horses ran away as the collision
occurred and were not caught until
some hours afterward. The wagon was
entirely demolished.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
Accident at Steelton
Plant Most Costly.
Save One. in the Last
Thirty-five Years
LOSS WILL BE
CLOSE TO $4,000
5OO-pound Missile, Hurled Out Top Of
One Building, Falls Through Roof
Of Another 1000 Feet Away When
2-ton Flywheel Breaks

A two.ton fywheel, propelled by
1,2O0-horsepower electric motor, few
apart late yesterday afternoon in the
2S-inch finishing mill of the Pennsyl-
vania Steel Company's plant in Steel
ton with such force that 500-pound
section of the wheel was hurled through
the roof of the mill and, going thou
sand feet further, crashed through the
top of the 44inch mill. Damage done
to the buildings and more particularly
to costly machinery installed in both
of them is unofficially estimated at
$4,000.
No person was injured, but several
workmen almost miraculously escaped
being struck by flying pieces of machin-
cry. 1t was the most destructive mis-
hap, except the burning Of the mer-
chant mill many years ago, mat had
occurred in the big Steelton plant since
November, 1879, when a 3o-foot fly
wheel attached to the engine of the
roll train in the old rail mill proke and
so badly damaged the wooden building
that it was replaced with steel struc-
ture the following year.
Cause of Accident Puzzle
The fywheel of the electric motor
that broke yesterday was but four feet
in diameter but was solid piece of
cast iron. The cause of the wheel
bursting and separating into various
parts of unequal size could not be ex-
planned by officials of the company this
morning. They said the matter was
being investigated. Men who worked
near the place of the explosion unof-
ficially advanced the theory that the
wheel had an unseen flaw and that the
high rate of speed at which the ma
chinery was operated caused the dis
integration of the iron circle.
At the time of the accident the
motor driving the new roll train was
being tested out. without warning
rain of heavy projectiles began, doing
damage more than 1000 feet away,
but not one of the employees received
scratch. William Shipp, machinist,
standing almost against the motor, had
particularly narrow escape.
One of the flying missiles struck
the electric crane over the hot bed and
damaged the operating machinery Of
| the crane so badly that it will take at
least two weeks to place it again in
commission.
Machinery Badly Damaged
One of the heaviest missiles to leap
into the air, estimated to weigh at
least 500 pounds, rent a large hole in
the roof over the 2S-inch mill and was
hurled through space at least 1000
feet, finally coming down through the
roof of the new 44-inch mill. 1t land
ed with such force against the roll
train table in the latter mill that that
piece of machinery was forced loose
from it's foundation as if a giant had
plucked it up bodily.
Smaller pieces of metal Int steam
and waterpipes which were snapped
like pipe steams. Some machinery in
the nearby 32-inch mill also was dam
aged, but it did not suffer as much as
that in the other two mills.
Until the machinery is repaired,
which will take several weeks, the ex-
act cost of the accident will not be
known, but it is believed it will ap-
proximate $4,000.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
4 women "F|ENDS' Cured
Released From Almshouse Ward Where
They Had Been Under Treat
ment for Drug Habit

-Four women dope iends, who during
the last fortnight had been receiving
treatment at the Dauphin County
Almshouse, to-day were pronounced
cured of the drug habit and discharged
from the institution. None of the
women had been permitted to use drugs
while being cured of the habit after
the federal ban on the sale of drugs
became affected on March 1, last.
In the male ward it has been the
practice slowly to diminish the size of
doses of drugs that the patients are re-
ceiving. No "curedo case have yet
been reported in this division.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
SPRING STARTS TOMORROW
Fine Day to Mark Opening Of Season.
Weather Man Says

Tomorrow will be the first day of
spring. This is the official day set by
the sun itself years ago when the uni
verse began and discovered by astron.
omers after years of labor. Days and
nights will be equal in the distribution
of light and darkness.
The season will be ushered in by q
fine spring day, if the weather man
can be taken seriously. He says Sun
day will be fair, without much change
in temperature. The minimum tonight
will be close to freezing and the maxi
mum tomorrow afternoon will reach
about 45 degrees. This combination
will make fine early spring day and
should bring out lots of pre-Eastej
suits and hats.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
H. FRANK NJ REYNOLDS DIES
Son of Former Publisher Of the "Pa'
triot'' Victim of Appendicitis

SOu OF fOTucI EuulloucI VI tuo 6e-
triot'' a Victim of Appendicitis
H. Frank McReynolds, Jr., born and
raised in Harrisburg, the son of the late
H. Frank McReynolds, at one time pub
Usher of the Patriot" died at his
home in Waterbury, Connecticut, on
Thursday morning, after an operation
for appendicitis.
Mr.. McReynolds was taken seriously
i'll on Saturday last, and his sister,
Miss Mary Y. McReynolds, of the De-
partment of Education, was summoned
to his bedside. Shortly after the oper-
alton he sank rapidly until he died on
Thursday.
Mr.. McReynolds was for years con-
nected with the United Gas Improve
ment Company, as manager, but retired
several years ago. The funeral will be
held tomorrow. He was 56-years old and
is survived by his widow and three
sisters, Mrs. Richard B. Zeigler, Of Phil
adelphia; Mrs. George MCGOWAN ana
Miss Mary McReynolds. A brother, An
drew McReynolds, died in Philadelphia
a short time ago.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
WOMAN EDITORS DEATH LEAP
Mrs. Ellen Heney, Delirious From
Fever, Plunges From Fifth Story
BIZ Associated Press

New York, March 20.-Mrs. Ellen
Heney, editor of the "Woman' Maga-
zine" published in Detroit, and writer of
short stories, plunged FIVE stories from
her room to her death at her home to-
day. She was delirious from typhoid
fever a. the TIM and made her way to
a window during brief intervai In
which her nurse had left the room for
medicine.
Mrs. Heney was 80 years old and
came to this city fifteen years ago from
Blnghamton, n. \.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
police After Auto speeders

Spring has brought out automobile
speeders, according to Chief of Police
Hutchinson, and motorcycle policemen
have been ordered to keep a sharp watch
for violators of the speed law. Already
several scorchers have been arrested
and fined by Mayor Royal.