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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
GOVERNOR TALKS
ON HIS IDEAS ON
CHILD LABOR Dill
Wants Pennsylvania to Have Very
Best Laws on the Subject in
the Whole Union

Governor Brumbaugh to-day made
his position plain on the child labor"
bill presented in the Senate by Mr..
Phipps, of Crawford county, the meas
ure prepared by the Pennsylvania
Child Labor Association. Il favored
the Phipps bill when presented, but l
did not stand arbitrarily back of it
for the reason that | believe there is
a better solution of the problem" said
he. The bill is an Improvement over
existing conditions and if it is en-
acted the State will have one of the
best child labor laws in the Union. but
if the changes 1 have in mind are
child labor law of all and that is what
we should have. We should lead"
The Governor said that he was ap-
preaching the question gradually fol-
lowing the lines of his inaugural ad-
dress. 1t has been known for a long
time that he felt that no child under
sixteen should work in school hours,
but be given the fullest educational
advantages possible to fit the young
ster physically and mentally for the
serious work of life. He will work for
this plan, but if it should develop
that conditions now are unfavorable
the burden of children between / 4 and
l6 should be so lightened that they
can be given opportunity for education
for two years. The continuation
school idea is strongly favored on
Capitol Hill.
DR.. Brumbaugh means to get the
best child labor law possible while he
is Governor Just as he means to OBJ
tain the best workmen's compensation
act. The latter act will be made pub
lie next week. Last night the con-
ference at the Governors residence re-
suited in approval of the bill for the
commission form of administration,
the three commissioners to be named
by the chief of the Department OF
Commerce and Labor.
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British Steam Collier
TOrpedoed by German:

Havre, via Paris, Feb. II, las a. m.
The British steam collier Dulwich,
bound from Hull to Rouen, was tor
pedoed by a German submarine 20
miles northwest of Cape De La Heve
at o'clock last night. The torpedo
struck the middle starboard side.
AS the crew took to the boats the
submarine which torpedoes the ship
was seen speeding away. The Dull
wich sank in 20 minutes.
Twenty-Five members of the crew OF
81 men were picked up by the French
destroyer Arquebuse and brought to
Havre. Seven others rowed to Fe-
camp. The fate of the other two is
unknown.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
COMMERCE BODY
HAS GREAT TIME ON
FIRST DAY OF TRIP
Trade Extension Excursion Party
Meets Most Distinguished Citi-
zens in All Towns Visited
[By staT Correspondent

Sunbury, Pa, Feb. lit has been
a great start of what promises to be a
great trip.
The Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce trade extension party arrived
here on schedule time aboard it's
special train after very eventful
journey from Harrisburg. Sunbury
turned out its most distinguished citi-
Zens to meet the visitors and the party
was escorted to City Hotel, where
luncheon was served.
AIillersburg was the first stop and
the Harrisburgers found the town flag
flying at full mast in a whipping breeze
and a large number of the representa-
tive business men and manufacturers
of that thriving Dauphin county town
out to meet them. The delegation was
headed by II. NJ. Fairchilds, former
burgess and one of the live wires of
the place; ]. w. Brubaker, another
prominent citizen, and II. NJ Bowman.
"a businessman well known all over
the county. They were escorted over
town and made the entire trip without
rubbers, due to the fact that Millers-
burg boasts of more than two miles of
well-paved streets.
See Big Fire Drill
At the Johnson Bailey Shoe Com
pany's plants as the visitors lined up
before the building a fire drill alarm
ployes of this popular industry piled
out pell nell while the Harrisburgers
cheered and gave the Harrisburg yell,
followed by Whats the matter with
Millersburg?"
The Millersburg bunch distributed
business literature and the Harris
burgers responded with presentation
of Harrisburg booklets.
In the public square they were well
coined by II. w. Bowman. who spoke
in the absence of the burgess. who
was i'll, and John S. Musser, former
president of the Harrisburg Rotary
Club and president of the Dauphin
Electric Supply Company, responded.
At Herndon the Harrisburgers were
met by c. A. Riland secretary, and
j. L. Brewer, president. of the Board
of Trade, and the speaker of the occa-
sion. the Rev Charles A. Arner, pastor
of the United Evangelical Church,
was introduced by L. ]. Tressler, a
well-known business man. At the re-
quest of President Henderson Gilbert,
the response was made by Gus NJ.
Steinmetz, of the Harrisburg Tele-
graph.
The Sunbury delegation included w.
w Fisher, president, A. w. Leib, vice
president, ]. G. Yarnall, treasurer. and
Amos Bloom, secretary, of the Sun
bury Business Mems Association, and
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RUSSIAN ARMY ENVELOPED
BY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
BRITISH SHIP TORPEDOED
German Dispatches Say Invaders Were utterly Defeated
at Most Points" and That $4,000 Russians Were
Made Prisoners; German Submarine Again Active
in English Channel; German Note Presented to the
American Ambassador

The German War office announced
to-day that in the recent defeat of the
Russians in the Mazurian lakes region
of East Prussia, NOR than $4,000 pris-
oners were taken. The invaders, it is
said, were utterly defeated at most
points" only remnants of the Rus
sian army escaping after a battle of
nine days. An earlier official Ger
man statement said that 26, 900 Rus
sions had been captured.
The Russian army at the other end
OF the eastern front also is in danger,
according to the correspondent of a
Berlin newspaper who states that the
force which penetrated Bukowina has
been enveloped by Hungarian
troops. Again a battle is believed
to be pending near Czernowitz.
Germans reply to the American
note concerning the rights of Ameri-
can vessels in the war zone which the
Berlin government announced will be
established around the British Isles
tomorrow, was delivered to Ambas-
sador Gerard. who forwarded it to
Washington.
Another British vessel has been
sunk by a German submarine. 1t be-
came known to-day that the collier
Dulwich, which went down yesterday
in the English channel was torpedoed.
Formidable Army Assembled
An Athens dispatch states that a
formidable army has been assembled
for new campaign against Serbia.
This army is described as amounting
to 100000 men, made up in part of
Germans. The army which Serbia
now has in the field is estimated at
about one-half this size.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
COUNCIL MAY TAKE
STEPS To CLOSE UP
GAP IN RIVER WALL
Action Likely in Near Future If
Electric Co. Can Abandon Mar
ket St. Wharf For Island
QUESTION OF TIME" LYNCH
Plan Prepared; Twenty Years
Limit For LeasehoId; Debris
Outside Wall to Be Removed

Legislation will likely be introduced
in City Council in the near future au-
thorizing the closing of the coal wharf
gap in the river wall at Market street,
If the Bowman ordinance granting the
Harrisburg Light and Power Company
the. right to construct a new wharf on
the island is passed finally next Tues
day.
Months ago, it is understood, the en-
Gineers of the Board of Public Works
worked out a plan to provide for the
abridging of the unsightly opening in
the str. ch of improved water front.
but the board could not recommend
this to Council so long as the coal
Landing was permitted to remain at
that point.
BY unloading the fuel on the island
the electric light company, of course,
would no longer require facilities at
Market street and as this firm handles
more than 80 per cent. of the traffic
there, the first big step in the elimina-
tion of the nuisance would be pro-
Nided for. In time, it is believed the
unlOaulnS OF coal from the other
fleets would be done away with.
To Do Away With Biggest Fleet
Besides the electric light company
there are only two or three smaller
coal and sand companies whose fleet
moor at Market street and it is be-
lieved that after authorizing the clos
ing of the gap in the wall at this point,
\ huncil could follow such action with
0gislation confining the traffic to the
Paxton street wharf or the landing
at Herr street
The closing OF the gap at Mar
ket street will undoubtedly come in
time, said Commissioner w. H.
Lynch, superintendent of streets and
public improvements to-day, but, of
course, this will require legislation in
the form Of either a resolution or an
ordinance in Council.
The question of whether the gap
could be closed before the contractors
finish the wall entirely is a question.
BY the agreement between the city
and Sucker Brothers Construction
company the work must be completed
by July l. Now the city can hardly
expect the electric light company to
abandon the landing place until some
other place is provided"
Ready to Begin Work
The company, it is said, has ordered
its construction materials subject to
delivery upon the passage of the
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SHIP PURCHASE BILL
IS PASSED BY HOUSE
Voted on as Amendment to
Weeks Naval Auxiliary Measure
Early Today
By Associated Press

Washington, Feb. 17.-The govern
ment ship purchase bill, as an amend
ment to the Weeks naval auxiliary
bill was passed by the House at 1.20
o'clock this morning by a vote of
215 to 121.
The passage of the bill followed a
14-hour parliamentary struggle which,
until after midnight threatened to ex-
tend for a long period, because of "a
determined filibuster lead by Minority
Leader Mann who yielded only after
administration leaders decided to ap-
ply second special rule to bring the
fight to an end.
Nineteen Democrats voted against
the bill. They were: Bathrick, Borch-
ers, Galloway, Dies, Donohue, Fitz-
gerald. Gerry, Gordon, Jones, Kindel,
Kitchin. Morrison. Moss of Indiana
Page of North Carolina. Saunders,
Slayden, Whitacre, White and Wither-
spoon.
All of the Republicans present
voted against the bill and five Pro-
gressives Joined with the Democratic
majority for it, as follows: Bryan,
Kelley of Pennsylvania, Mcdonald,
Lafferty and Murdock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
British Raiders Again
Attack German Positions
Special to The Telegraph

London, Feb. 1.-THE air wing of
the British navy. aided by some French
aviators, yesterday made another
massed attack on the German positions
along the Belgian coast in an effort to
destroy or damage the submarine base
at Zeebrugge, the guns at Ostend and
Middelkirke and the aerodrome at
Ghistelles.
According to the official report good
results were attained. Forty machines
We're utilized, as compared with thirty
four in last Fridays attack. Yester-
days raid accordingly was the great
est aerial onslaught in history.
While the British airmen were drop
ping their bombs on the gun positions,
the supply trains and barges and the
trawlers used in mine laying and mine
sweeping operations eight French air.
men attacked the Ghistelle aerodrome.
thus preventing the German aviators
from making an attempt to cut off the
British machines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
WHY DO JOKESMITHS PESTER ONE
WITH "HOUSE OF MYSTERY' STUFF
Restaurant Bakers Position Suddenly Turned Into Just Job; Tiny
Foot and Matted Mop of Baby Curls-O-o-oh!

Ordinarily being the baker in we'll
known Market street restaurant is a
pretty fair position even If one does
have to turn out before daylight every
morning, but when fresh guys in the
neighborhood persist in narrowing a
fellows feelings with almost tangible
evidence of a murdered 4-year- old
baby. that position ceases to be a
position.
1t gets to be just tough job.
Which is the gist of the plaint of
the baker. Cause and effect are the
direct results of these stories about
that Allison Hill "house of mystery"
and the finding of the skeleton of
girl in the cellar the other day.
The kitchens of the restaurant open
upon a sort of courtyard and the yard
leads into a building in Blackberry
street that is being used by the Kauf-
man stores as sort of a temporary
warehouse. All sorts of things from
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to the toy Department are

the tinware to the toy department are
stored there.
Early yesterday morning the baker
glanced out of the window and in the
dim half-light saw the tiny foot and
a wealth of matted red hair protrud-
ing from a newspaper on the stone
ags. When he had recovered his
breath and locked the door and placed
hatchet where it could be reached in
a hurry he told the boss. The latter
says he always thought he was ordi-
narily phlegmatiC. He had a look at
the weird package in the newspaper
and discovered he isn't so very. very
phlegmatic at all. Eventually an In
Vestigation disclosed the low down
trick that some fresh jollesmith in a
nearby factory had tried to slip over
on the baker.
Wrapped in the paper was a victim
of the Kaufman fire-a great, big,
one-time beautiful doll.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
SKELETON MYSTERY
IS STILL UNSOLVED
Police Diligently Searching For
Some Trace of Bessie Guyel,
Dentists Maid

No further developments in the
identification of the skeleton unearth-
ed last Friday in the cellar of the
house, 1873 South Fourteenth street,
have come to light to-day, but the
diligent searching of the authorities
may be expected to bring to light
some important clue at any time.
District Attorney Michael e. Stroup
says that all the powers at his com
mand. as we'll as the force of the local
police department, will spare no efforts
to solve the mystery, and apprehend
the criminal.
County Detective James T. Walters
expects to search for Bessie Guyer, the
girl who was said by Dr. Charles E.
Ayres to have lived with him as q
nurse girl during his residence at the
house in 1902.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
RUSSIAN ARMY ENVELoPED
BN .fSsocintcd Prcts

Berlin, via London. Feb. II. 1890
a. m.-The Russian army in Bukowina
has been enveloped by the Austrian
Hungarians between the Pruth and
Sereth rivers, a correspondent of tho
Tageblatt says in a dispatch from Bis
tritZ. A general battle may be expected
therefore, south and east of Czerno.
WitZ
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
THRESHERMEN BILL
INTRODUCED IN HOUSE
Measure Permitting Judges to Sus-
pend Jail Sentences First Killed
This Session

The bill drafted for the Thresher-
mems Association of Pennsylvania for
regulation of traction engines was in
troduced in the House to-day by Mr..
Spangler. York. The bill divides such
motor vehicles into two classes, farm
machines and draft machines. The
maximum weight in the first class is
2S,000 pounds and the width 112
inches and in the second class 32, 900
pounds with 120 inches width. The
bill provides for licensing of the State
Highway Department with numerous
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
GEORGE GRAY
MAKES TWO MORE DECISIONS
By Associntcd Prcrs

Hazleton, Pa, Feb. 1.-Two more
decisions in mine grievances on which
the Anthracite Cancellation Board was
unable to agree were rendered to-day
by eX-Judge George Gray, of Whining
totn, Del, the umpire named to settle
the disputes. He sustains the conten-
ton of the miners of the Harwood
Coal Company, who demanded pay
ment for replacement of props where
squeezes occur or other extraordinary
conditions prevail. He rules against
the request of Audenreid miners of
the Lehigh and Wilkes Barre Coal
Company for specified rate on GER
tain grades of work on the ground
that no agreement to this effect was
embodied in the contract drawn up
between the scale committee and the
superintendent.
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CONTINUED on Page 81
Boys Held Under $1,5OO
For Highway Robbery

Albert Heagy and John r. Gibb
were held for court under $500 bail
after preliminary hearing this morn
ing before Alderman Charles E. Muir
airy on charge of highway robbery
preferred by James F. Higgins. of Aus
tin. The two men were arrested last
week IN Ohio by Constable Haines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
WILL COMPLY WITH DECREE
Steeial TO The Tel.ernhh

Washington, D. c., Feb. 17.-Secre-
tary of State Bryan to-day announced
that the United States would comply
with General Carranza's decree re-
quiring diplomatic representatives of
foreign governments in Mexico to con-
duct their negotiations directly with
him and not through his military COM
manders.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
Aged Woman Falls
Dead in Throng at
Broad Street Market

Mrs. John III. Deming, aged II
years, of 5O1 AIuench street. died of
heart failure while purchasing sup
plies in Broad street market about
o'clock this morning
She was alone and died before med
ical assistance could he obtained. She
Is survived by her husband and one
daughter, Mrs. B. T.. Umberger. 427
PETER street. Funeral services will be
held at the daughters home Saturday
afternoon at O'Clock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
WILL SUSPEND SHIPPING
By Associated Press

London, Feb. II. 1910 a. m.-The
Exchange Telegraph company's Am
sterdam correspondent is authority
for the statement that the Batavia and
shipping lines and services be-
tween Folkstone and Flushing will be
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Continued on Page 1O.l
WANT 500, 900, 900 FOR LOANS

Paris. Feb. 16, IL p. ma bill pro-
viding for credit of $1OO, 600. 600
from which loans can be made to
small business interests ruined by the
war thereby enabling them to start
again, will be introduced in the Cham
Der of Deputies by Georges Berry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17

suspended for few days after Thurs
day, February Is, the date on which
Germany announced it's determination
to begin blockade of British waters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinity, Fair
tonight and Thursday; not much
change in temperature: lowest
temperature Tonight about 30
degrees.
For Eastern PennsyIvanIa. Fair
tonight and Thursday; not
much change in temperature;
moderate north winds.
River
The Susquchanna river and all Its
tributaries will fall Tonight and
Thursday, except the lower pOr-
tion of the main river, which will
remain nearly stationary to-
night. \ stage of about lis feet
~ Indicated for Harrisburg
ThUrsday morning.
General Conditions
he barometer continues high over
the eastern half of the United
states. with center of highest
pressure over the Lake Region.
Thc disturbance from the Pa
cific Ocenn hns moved Inland and
now covers practically all the
western half of the country with
It's center over Western Canada.
A general rise of 2 to 30 degrees i'm
temperature has occurred over
nearly all the territory west of
the Mtssissippi river, while east
OF the river Ii In to 10 degrees
cooler with the line of freezing
temperature extending into Ten
neshee.
Temperatures n. m., 81,
suns Rises, Oi5I n. M; sets, 5:3S
y. m.
MOOni First quarter. 9i5S ID. m,
River StaEet 12.S feet above low
water mark.
Yesterdays w hthcr
Highest temperature, Al.
Lowest temperature. 80.
NeRn temperature. 3S.
Normal temperature, 80.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
WANT STATION

delegation of New Market resi-
dents will petitionA the Public Service
Commission tomorrow for station.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
LAND SLIDE BURIED HOUSE
Rr AsSocintcd Prc.r

Rome, Feb. IA land slide caused
b. the torrential rains at Varcosabina
buried house occupied by eight per-
sons. None of those entombed : has
been rescued.
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Yesterdays w hthcr
Highest temperature, Al.
Lowest temperature. 80.
MeRD temperature. 3S.
Normal temperature, 80.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-03
NEW STAFF NAMED.

Agricultural College, Miss, June g.
The new staff of the College Re-
! fector were elected last week and re-
suited as follows: II. l.. Simmons,
editor-in-chief; H. D. Falls, business
manager; T. M. Robinson, associate
editor; w H. Stanton, assistant bust
ness manager; Clay Lyle, assistant
editor; NJ. F. Knost, associate bust
ness manager; ]. F. McAlister, news;
b. F. Anthony, news; L. w. Anderson,
locals; A. b. Cruet, agriculture; E. l..
Hobby Y M. c. A.; w. E. Worsham,
exchange; NJ. E. Smith, alumni H.
LOer, athletics.
Better men ethan those selected
could not have been secured. Mr..
Simmons entered the junior class last
fall and although this is his first year
at A. & NJ. he has made a splendid
record in the literary side of the col
lege activities. At the beginning of
the school term he was elected to the
DemOsthenian council, after having
won the Melien medal in oratory. He
was one OF the representatives in the
triangular debates, being one of the
A. & Ms standard bearers against
Millsaps. H.s- Falls has been identi-
fed with the literary activities of the
college for two years. He was one of
the colleges Representatives in the
victorious Mo0rhead debate of 1914,
tives in the double-header with Clarke
Memorial College this spring. In ev-
cry undertaking he has demonstrated
that he has business qualifications
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-03
EXERCISE AND HEALTH

years of
result
sednary habits
employed the working essential
useful, although the field preferable.
This condition en-
their bodies automobiles
muscles that their faithful
they little ills
merely symptoms o physical
A familiar walking the
the will be
humanity
emphatic behooves person
placid aifciay aided life strike promptly
muscles
efficient the machines that treacherou
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-03
PIRATE GOLD AND SUCH

By the light of varicooed candles while
been hidden there the bold
wilderness, and that section a O N the
in
ties in
lined boxes seventeenth
only treasure
implements finding the
a
with companions
with awlun val
uaes only the Nachez
applied
farm Magnolia
dividend Mississippi soil unequaled
be done little do the
exchange
spades shovel and will
instead of night, they'll a moreo
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-03

for use at the filtration plant and pub
lie buildings, it being estimated this
amount will last one year.
City Clerk Scott was responsible
for the statement last night that this
coal was the cheapest price purchased
by the city in many years.
The contract went to the Fletcher
Coal Co., which charges $500 per ton
delivered at the filtration plant, and
1921 delivered in the city.
The city will not accept mine
weights and Mr. Fletcher will have to
submit his coal to being weighed on
the city scales, a process to which he
is said to have readily acquiesced.
AT yesterdays session the city also
opened bids for years supply of
chemicals for the filtration plant.
Reports were heard from the chief
of the fire department, chief of the po-
lice department, the city clerk, super
intendent of the water works plant
and and others.
Ordinances were passed looking to
the issuance of refunding certificates
for pavement notes which Iall due this
and which under an enact
ment of the last session of the legis-
lature may be extended for several
years.
All three commissioners were pres
ent at yesterdays session, and on the
whole a good deal of business was
transacted