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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
General Manager Long
InSpectS Main Line

General Manager S. c. Long, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, accompanied
by his staff of assistants in the Phila-
delphia offices. with Noel w. Smith.
superintendent of the Middle division,
and II. II. Russell, Middle division en-
gineer, inspected the New Portage
branch and the Middle division from
Huntington to Harrisburg yesterday.
General Manager Long left Pitts
burgh at o'clock in the morning and
inspected the Conemaugh division and
the Cresson branches, in company with
the officials of the branches, and was
met at the New Portage junction
shortly before noon by special train
from Altoona bearing the Altoona
officials. The inspection party reached
Harrisburg at $50 p. m.
Mr.. Long is on his final lap in the
road inspection to-day and will COM
plete the work this afternoon. when
the party arrives in Philadelphia. The
Pittsburgh division and branches were
inspected Tuesday afternoon and
Wednesday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
RAILROAD NOTES

Long whistles when approaching
junction points on the Middle division
points have been cut out.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
will make extensive improvements at
Hagerstown this year.
President Samuel Rea, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, with Mrs. Rea and
daughter, Miss Ruth Rea, were in AL
toona Yesterday.
Charles T. Jones. 25S Verbeke street
inspector at No. 1 enginehouse, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, is i'll at his
home.
Two more large steel girders for the
Cumberland Valley bridge, at Front
street. arrived to-day and will be plac-
ed in position tomorrow.
Steel cross girders on the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad bridge were plac-
ed in position at Front and Mulberry
streets this morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
New York Central
Has Improbable Year
Nfctial 10 The Telccrnth

New York, March 26.-The annual
report of the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad Company for
the year ended December 81, 1914.
made public yesterday. shows that the
company's gross earnings decreased
S9,942,I5S, or per cent. to S112,-
141,051. Operating expenses were re-
duced S9,3S1,S $50. so that net operating
earnings decreased only S561,427 to
S2S,707,946. Decreases in incorporating
income, together with larger fixed
charges, etc. brought down the net
income available for dividends $4,554,-
SS6 to $S.6SS,612. equal to only 3.S4
per cent. on the $225. .5S1.066 of capital
stock compared with 5.S6 per cent. in
the previous year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
ALLIES MAKE ANOTHER ATTACK
Bv Associated Press

London, March 26, 1905 p. M
The British battleships Queen Eliza
beth and Agamemnon and the cruiser
Cornwall entered the Dardanelles
straits Wednesday night to protect
mine sweepers, according to a dis
patch to Reuters Telegram Company
from the island OF Tenedos dated
Thursday. At 10 o'clock Turkish ar
tillery at Erenkui fired five shells and
the forts at Kilid Bahr also fired. The
British vessels replied with twenty
rounds. To this the Turks made no
reply.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
ENOLA SIDE
PhtIadeIphia DIvision-235 crew first
- after 2.4l n M: 22S. ~. ~ Z

philadelphia DIvision-235 crew first
to = after 3:45 p. m: 22S, 22i, 2Oi,
239
Engineers for 22S. 224.
Fireman for 20I.
Conductors for So, SO.
Flagman for 80
Brakemen for %. 81. 80.
I7lagmen up: Reitzel. Ford.
Brakemen up: Campbell, Werts,, Van
ding. Waltham. Kone. Goudy. Lentz'
Myers. Summey. Shaffner, Wolfe, Shu-
Ter. Musser. Fair.
Middle DivIsiOn-t1S crew first to go
after 2 D. m: 215. ia. 24S. 24S. 244.
Slow freight movement Will, be con-
tinued over Sunday, March 2S.
Laid Off: III. 120.
Conductor for ia.
FlaSman for 1l4.
Brakeman for ia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
Standing of the Cre,Us
HARRISBURG SIDE

Philadelphia Diyision-11S crew first
to go after $3.50 p. M: 107. 1O6. lie,
lis. 119, 129. 1O9. los. III, 1O4, 127.
Engineer for 105.
Conductors et % for Il iO7. IN, iiO4.
Flagmen for 106. III.
Brakemen for 1O7, 1O6, 116, 115, 12s.
100. 104.
Engineers up: Dennison, Wambaugh.
Wolfe. McCauley, Burg, Streeper, Pow
ell Earhart. Smith. Madenford, Huber.
Geesey. Sellers. W elsh Ressinger. Fos-
ter Gable First. Sober. Hindman,
Criswell, Davis. Bssinger, Seitz. Kautz,
Manloy. Tenant. Goodwin, Grass, Long.
Firemen up: Whichelio, Mofftt. Nc
Neal Chronister McCurdy, Dunlevy.
Nentzer, Packer, Lantz, Everhart, PEN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
TANzER CASE POSTPONED
Rr Atsncintcd Prsss

New York. March 26.-The case
against Miss Mae Tanner. who was
held in $1,000 bail on charge of
using the mails to defraud after she
had begun a $50, 900 breach of promise
suit against James W. Osborne, will
not be submitted to the federal grand
jury before Monday next. according to
an announcement by United States
District Attorney Marshall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
THE READING


Harrisburg Diyislon-1 crew first to
GO after 12:15 p. m: 10. IS. 16,. %, .:
East-bound: 62. 20, 56, 61. 81. "a, %.
Fireman for 6S.
Brakeman for /. IS, IS.
Engineers up: Upton. Wood, Morrt-
son. Middaugh, Glass. Fetrow, Martin,
Kettner. Wyre, Barnhart Sweeley.
Firemen up: Carl. Rambaugh' enron
King, Anspach, Fulton.
Conductors up: Sipes. Kline.
Brakemen up: Machamef, are
Ayers, Shearer, Grimes. Page, Painter,
Slentz Gardner. Hinkle, Motter, Halnes,
Kapp, Holbert. Hoover, Yoder, McHenry,
HartZ
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
KRAKUs SENTENCED TO DEATH
BY .4ssoeiatcd Prcss

Wilmington, Del. March 26.-In the
court of oyer and terminer this morn
ing the motion for a new trial of the
case of Peter Krakus. alias Melba, con-
viCted of the murder of Policeman
Francis X. Tierney on March 6, was
withdrawn by his counsel, David ].
Reinhardt. The court then sentenced
Krakus to be hanged at the county
workhouse on Friday, May IA.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
BURY MRS. BECK

Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Bren-
neman Beck, wife of O. II. Beck, 500
Strawberry street, were held this af-
ternoon in the Fourth Street Church
of God, the Rev. William n. Yates Off
ciating. Burial was made in Paxtang
Cemetery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
Every Man Read

This treatment is said to have
acquired a wonderful reputation
throughout the East, owing to its
peculiar propensity to fortify the
nerve force and generate health
and consequent personal mag
netism, so essential to the happi-
ness of every normal human be-
ing. 1t is claimed to be a bless
ing to those who are physically
impaired, gloomy, despondent,
nervous and who have trembling
Of the limbs, dizziness, heart pail
pitation, cold hands and feet, in
somnia, fear without cause, tim
idity in venturing and general in
ability to act nationally as others
do. Also of vast benefit 10
writers, professional men, office
workers and the victims of So
ciety's late hours and over-indul-
Sence in wines, liquors, etc.
By preparing the treatment at
home secretly, no one need know
Of another's trouble, while the
ingredients are much used in fill
ing various prescriptions, so that
even the purchase of them sepa-
rately need occasion no timidity.
If the reader decides to try it.
get three ounces of ordinary
syrup sarsaparilla compound, and
one ounce compound fluid balm
wort: mix and let stand two
hours; then get one ounce COM
pound essence cardiol and one
ounce tincture cadomene com
pound mot cardamom) mix all
together, shake well and take
a teaspoonful after each meal and
one at night.
This contains no opiates what
ever and may also be used by
women who suffer with their
nerves with absolute certainty of
prompt and lasting benefits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
SERVICES FoR MRS. HARRIS

Funeral services for Mrs. Daisy +.
Harris, aged II, will. be held Monday
afternoon, at o'clock: at the home OF
Sr.. 1212lA North seventh street. Burial
will be made in the HARRISBURG Gene
terry. She is survived by one brother
and one sister. She was resident OF
Brooklyn and came to this city last
October to visit her parents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
MRS. DELL DIES FROM
ATTACK or PNEUMONIA

Mrs. Isabella Winterod Dell, aged Sc.
widow of the late Henry Dell, and
mother of the late William II. Dell, ex-
Councilman of the Third Ward, died at
her home, l106 Green street. last even
ing, after an illness of pneumonia. She
was born in Lewistown in 1882. Funeral
services will be held Monday after
noon. at o'clock. the Rev. Ellis y.
kremer officiating. Burial will be
made in Harri Shnlg CemeterN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
Deaths and Funerals
SERVICES FOR MRS. PROUD

Funeral services for Mrs. Catherine
Proud, widow of John r. Proud, who
died at her home, 114S Market street,
Monday, were held this afternoon at
the home, the Rev. Clayton a. Smucll-
er officiating. Burial was made in
PaXtang Cemetery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-26
pattern for a suit to have any desired

pattern for a suit to have any desired
color, plaid or stripe draped within
the frame and get an intelligent con-
ception of how the material will ap-
pear when made up into a suit. George
W. GeiStwhite, custom tailor at -
South Fourth street, received one of
these yesterday and is proving itself
an object of interest to the many who
have seen it demonstrated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-17
JURY FAILED To AGREE
IN CASE Of WINCHESTER
SUIT AGAINST THE CITY is HARD
FOUGHT

The case if Winchester versus City
Of Americas, which was tried in the
city court Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday, may result in a mistrial. The
case was hard fought throughout, and
was referred to the jury at 2:3O
o'clock yesterday afternoon. At 10
o'clock last might the jury had not
reached a verdict. The plaintiff, Mrs.
c. R. Winchester, sought to recover
damages in the sum of $4,000 from the
city, because Of the grading of the
street in front of her residence on
Prospect Heights. She was represent
ed by ]. E, Sheppard, Esq, while City
Attorney e. A. Nisbet and Judge ]. A.
Hixon represented the city. A host of
witnesses appeared in the case, and
the proceedings aroused considerable
Zeal interest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-17
MERCER PROHIBITION
ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED

MACON, Ca, Oct 16.-The first meet
ing of the Prohibition Association of
Mercer university was held Friday
night when plans for the present year
We're announced. Announcement was
made that the w. c. T. U. of Macon
had offered a prize for the best essay
written by Mercer boy or Wesleyan
girl on "The Relation of Alcohol to the
National Welfare" The winning essay
will be sent to compete for the state
medal, and if the winner there, it will
compete for the national prize.
The usual contest between the col
leges of the state for the prize offer
ed the best speaker will be held again
this var. Mr.. H. C. Hodges, who
won second place in this contest,
which was held in Macon last year, was
elected president of the association.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-17
GLLAX THEATRE
HAS PURCHASED
FINE INSTRUMENT
THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR ONE
TO ARRIVE

To the end of affording patrons the
best popular music, as we'll as ex-
cellent pictures, the management Of
Americus' newest movie theatre, the
Calax, has purchased a magnificent
Instrument, the Cremona, which will
be installed Monday or Tuesday next.
The Cremona embodies all the sweet
toned orchestra and hand instruments,
as well as pipe organ, and that pur-
chased for the Galax is said to have
cost $4,000. The music, which will
include all the latest selections, will
lie changed at frequent intervals, and
Galax patrons are assured the best
musical features along with the best
of screen productions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-17
First Methodist Church.

At the morning service the large
number of people who applied for
membership I'M the First Methodist
church during the revival will be re-
ceived into full connection.
The pastor will have for his theme
for the morning hour, Are There Dis
appointments in the Religious Life"
The evening service will be held at
$50 o'clock, and the subject for the
sermon is Stealing a Mans Religion -
Special programs for music have
been arranged for both services and
b" the chorus choir for the evening.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-17
FurlOw Lawn Baptist.

Rev. r. L. Bivins will occupy the
pulpit at the regular morning and
evening services. The subject for his
discourse is Surrender" and
ire evening sermon, LAS God Sees the
Heart"
Sunday school at $50 o'clock, and
evening services at 7:45 o'clock. B. Y.
f u meeting at o'clock, Sunday ev
ening.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-17
Church SERVICES
First Baptist Church.

The regular morning service will
be held at IL o'clock, with preaching
By the pastor, Rev. Lansing Bur-
roughs. Evening service at 7:45
T, m. Sunday school at $50 o'clock.
Calvary Episcopal Church.
Holy Communion at 1880 a. m. This
will be the corporate communion il
Chapters B and c of the Church Build
ing society.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Morning prayer, litany and ser
mon, II a. m.
Evening prayer, at 7:30 p. m.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-17
ANNOUNCEMENT.

y Nearly two months ago the =
= Times-Recorder added the Sun >
= day edition to it's publications, :"
which gave a daily afternoon y
\ newspaper six days in the week =
: and the Sunday paper. Except '
= with the great metropolitan dali .
y les, where an afternoon paper is y
= circulated with a Sunday edition =
= it is the custom to issue the pa =
= per each afternoon, except Sat .
: urday. 4
\ When the recent change was =
: made the Times Recorder had =
= this in mind, but rather than =
: make too many changes at one :
= time the Saturday afternoon pa =
= per was continued until ar =
= rangements could be completed =
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4 By emitting the Saturday af- .
= ternoon paper more time will be =
4 allowed on the Sunday paper-so :
= in future the Times-Recorder =
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y except Saturday, and on Sunday
= morning Watch for it. :
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-17
Christian Science Church.

The regular Sunday services will be
held at II o'clock. Prayer meeting
services Wednesday evening.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-17
Universalist Church.
No services here today.
Presbyterian Church.

A congregational meeting will be
held at the Presbyterian church at II
o'clock.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-17
COTTON MARKET

AMERICUS, Ca, Oct. 16.-The cot
to market, locally, is quiet and steady
today, the situation being unchanged
from that of yesterday. Spot demand
continues good at prevailing prices.
The future market opened at a de-
cline of six piints in the December op-
ton, which, however, was regained
ard the close was the same as on yes
terday, 1850 for December.
The futures market Saturday was
quoted as follows: Open Close
December .12.54 1850
March ............... 1928 1900
The Americas spot market was un
changed from yesterdays quotations,
which were as follows:
Fully good middling ......... 12cc
Good middling ...............11 3 DC
Fully middling ...............11 1-2c
Receipts today, especially of old
cotton, were good, and sales made
were around above quoted prices.
Evening star., 1915-05-23

There were thousands of other con-
tracts and agreements that would lapse
automatically the moment the first hos
tile soldier set foot in the city. Men
had laughed for a generation at the
medieval expression in many printed
legal forms that provided that the sign
that might occur under "the acts of any
foreign prince or potentate." Now, sud
denly, these medieval words were alive.
The mails were piled high in the post
office and in every substation. The
whole United States was striving to
settle urgent affairs with the city. and
the city was trying as desperately to
settle with the United States. 1t was
impossible to handle the mass. 1t re-
mained in bags for days. untouched,
while the postal forces. heavily in
creased from nearby cities, struggled
with the accumulations of days before.
The long distance telephone systems
were so crowded that connections could
be obtained only by asking for them
many hours in advance. Telegraph dis
patches were twentyfour hours old
before they could be forwarded. and
steadily their increasing accumulation
was leaving the armies of swift oper-
atorS farther behind.
During the days of frantic perpleXity
there had been talk of dismantling the
factories and shipping their ma
chineries to the interior. But when
the owners of the city's $4,000 manu-
featuring establishments faced the
problem they realized that it could not
be done. They were not like the gov
ernment, that could afford to pull
plants apart and move them at more
Evening star., 1915-05-23

A1Uc MHEKE THE eooN5

ible land and marine flying machines,
and the Norwich factory for tractor
biplanes and hydromonoplanes had been
captured almost in the beginning
AS the army entered Bridgeport, an
other column advancing parallel with 1t
captured the great manufacturing city
of Waterbury in the north. With these
two cities, the invaders conquest OF
New England was complete. Excepting
only Portland in Maine. he now pos
sessed every city of more than 10000
population He possessed every source
of manufacture. He held every port
on the northern shore of Long Island
sound He held the three great harbors
of New England. In addition to the
vessels building in Bridgeport, he pos
sessed Fore River. with battleship
and two destroyers on the ways; Quin-
cy. with eight submarines in course of
construction, and the Portsmouth navy
yard with one.i
The division that had taken Water
bury turned southerly to the coast after
it passed through that town. to join
the division that had taken Bridge
port. and was pressing westward.
An hour later the American army. ap-
prised by it's spies. began to block the
rock cuts on all the New York Central
systems leading northward out of New
York city. When New York heard this
news. it knew that it had been aban-
doned.
In that moment of despair. the popu-
lation would have done what every
loosely knit. Heterogeneous multitude
does almost spontaneously in the face
of catastrophe. 1t would have grown
into mobs to riot against itself. If the
huge population had been organized. il
it had possessed a single will. nothing
could have prevented it and nothing
could have withstood it. But facing
the overwhelming numbers were a few
thousand men who were moved by a
It has heen pointed out often that within
n radius OF less than hundred miles around
New York city there is a large percentage of the
works and factories which the government
depends for much Of its war material.
IL Vessels actually building in places named
when the last annual edition of the Navy Year
DJsk Gas published.
Evening star., 1915-05-23

single will. and who were f1rml y welded
togethe for its accomplishment.
They were the police. Whatever their
faults were. they possessed the one
thing that all the city and all the Unit
de States lacked. 1t was organized
discipline. In the face of millions uno
organized and undisciplined, the 1900
policemen of the city, armed with no
visible weapons except clubs, main
tanned the peace They scarcely needed
the assistance of the 10000 men who
had been enlisted hastily as volunteer
militia and deputy sherins. and who
patrolled the streets with rifles and riot
guns.is
Their work was facilitated by the fact
that for many days past there had been
a great disarmament in the city. Under
the autocratic latitude of martial law.
Ali suspected individuals had been
searched wherever they were met
Houses had been visited. Warned by
the riots in Connecticut, the authorities
had stripped every sporting goods shop
and every pawnbroker's establishment
Of weapons, and stored them under
heas ~ guard in the armorieS.
II had been a necessary precaution.
During the days that came after the
enemy forces had begun to land, fac
tory after factory and industry after
industry had stopped. Now the greater
mart of the city was dead. Seventeen
thousand longshoremen and stevedores
loitered in the waterfront streets. with
/ a 600 sailors of all nationalities, whose
ships were tied up. Fifty thousand un-
skilled laborers wandered around town
with nothing to do. Altogether 1t was
estimated that on this day there were
900. 900 people in New York whose oc-
cIpations had been lost, and fully as
many again who were working on halt
fime,i<
Evening star., 1915-05-23
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drab were scouting and lying in cover
with machine guns.
On the green hills behind Bennington.
Vt. where Yankee breastworks had
been thrown up in the revolution, there
were more batteries. Here outposts
and patrols guarded the road leading
to Lake George. the last gateway to
the territory held by the American
forces in New York state. North of this
were Fermont's Green mountains
barriers indomitable as of old when
Ethan Allen, wroth at Congress. threat
ened to retire into those Businesses and
wage eternal warfare against hell
the devil and human nature in gen.
eral'
The long barrier thus running north
ward from CONNECTICUT like a wall
separating New England and New York
would check any except a powerful.
well supported force advancing with
the determination to break through.
Long before such an army could make
its way, the Americans could either
front the enemy in battle. or retire
safely beyond his reach.
The invaders could not break through
the wall by rail The railroad line that
led from Greenfield. Mass, to Troy and
Albany had in II famous link that
was vital to it's operation. This link
was the celebrated Hoosac tunnel, bored
for four and three-quarter miles
through Hoosac mountain. 1t was now
a solid mass Of blasted and piled rock
that could not be cleared away in the
time demanded by any military opera
.!cn.
In. the south on the Long Island
sound coast of Connecticut were other
ruins almost as big and as costly. They
were the wreckage of Bridgeports big
cartridge factories. blown up as the
hostile patrols entered the outskirts of
the town.
II was the last source of ammunition
and arms supply in New England With
1t there were lost. too. three subma-
rines that were on the stocks in the
harbor ship yards, and the works that
had been manufacturing naval sea
planes and military tractors for the
armys flying scouts.
The aerial motor works of Hyde Park,
in Massac chusetts. the. Marbiehead fac
tOs. '-.''' -'' - l
Evening star., 1915-05-23

The leaders of commerce and finance.
the most resourceful of the city's busi-
ness men. were utterly unable to sug-
gest anything. The chamber of COM
merce, that had met many crises and
evolved practical plans of action, could
suggest nothing now.
The banks were practically closed.
The United States Treasury Depart
Is Strength Of total force. including all in,
divduals October 1, 1914, 1910. II is held
that New Yorks conformation, long and narrow,
makes il an unusually easy city 10 control. as
II is possible prevent mobs from combining
and trouble he confined 10 limited areas.
- Bureau OF census 4. 5, 1914.
Evening star., 1915-05-23

If any men adhered to the belief that
the city might gain anything by de-
stroying its approaches. telephone
message that came through from Port
Census ONCE tabular statement issued il
1a1l Figures for all boroughs of Greater
New York. and include only establishments con
ducted under factory system. Building and sim
liar industries and small establishments pro
dncing less than $500 worth of products veal
are NOT counted.