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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-05
Believes fire MCENDIARY
Chief Kinder Turns Investigation of
Shearer Building Blaze Over to
State Department

Circumstances surrounding the fire
in the second floor of the Shearer
building, 204-2G6 Market street, at
Ills o'clock last evening were so sus-
picious that Fire Chief Kinder re-
ferred it to the State fire marshal, who
placed deputy in charge of an in
vestigation, according to Fire Chief
Kinder to-day.
The latter learned that papers in
this room were swept into the center
of the floor yesterday preparatory to
removal and when the fire was discov-
cred last night this paper had been
pushed into a corner of the room and
was burning. Chief Kinder is of the
opinion that some one from the outside
went into the building and fred it..
The paper had been piled around a
steam pipe in an effort to allay sus-
picion.
An alarm was turned in from Box
112, Market square, but one hand ex-
tinguisher was sufficient. This is the
second fire in that building in two
days, the first occurring Wednesday
afternoon. That time it was found in
the stairway and wires were believed
to have started it. The loss from both
fires will not exceed $25.
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WORK TO START March IS
City Directs Resumption of Improve
ment Operations That Will Mean
Jobs for Several Hundred Men

Work on new city street paving and
grading and the laying of sections of
water mains will be begun on or about
March 10, according to plans of High
way Commissioner William H. Lynch
and Public Safety Commissioner Harry
+. Bowman, announced to-day.
Lynch this morning issued the usual
ten day notice to the Harrisburf Rail-
ways Company to prepare for street
paving on Derry street, between Twen-
ty-third and Melrose, and a similar no
tice will be given to the Central Con-
struction Company, contractors for this
work, within the next two or three
days.
The Railways Company will have
much preliminary work to do on the
Derry street job that may prevent the
paving contractor from getting on the
job until few days later. All con-
tracts for water mains have been let
and the next batch to be awarded will
be let at the meeting of the City Com
missioners next Tuesday, so Mr.. Bow
man announced.
March 15 really will mark the Of
fetal opening of the city Improvement
Woih IL WOdthoi pciHftS, tndI Defng
much earlier than had been the custom.
These jobs will give employment to sew
eral hundred men.
Paving jobs under contract that will
be completed first, include: On Market
street, from Nineteenth to Twenty
first, and one Nineteenth street, from
Market to Chestnut. However, the
Derry street job will take the lead and
that alone. it is estimated, will mean
at least two months work.
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Solicitor. at Direction
of Lynch. Makes De-
mand on Contractors
BackerS
WALTER TALKS
OF COMPROMISE
He Has Not Begun to Mend Streets,
Though Ten Days Notice Expired
Last Night-Insists He Has Met
AL Contract Obligations

With the expiration last night Of the
ten-day notice to Charles p. Walter
to proceed at once, under his $4,000
a-year contract with the city to repair
the streets, and the contractor to-day
not having gone on with the work, City
Solicitor Seitz, at the direction of Will
liam Fl. Lynch, Commissioner of High
ways, this afternoon forwarded let
ter to the Title Guaranty and Surety
Company, of Scranton, which is on
Waters bond, calling upon that con-
Germ to go on with the repairs.
In the meantime Walter, conferred
with Highway Commissioner Lynch,
protested against the latter "proceed-
ing on the bond' and suggested not
only the possibility that the whole
matter possibly can be arbitrated, but
that the city officials are "acting too
hastily" To both Lynch and repre-
sentative of the Star-Independent,
Walter declared:
81 will not say point blank that 1
will not do the work, but do say that
l do not think l am legally bound to
do it; that my attorneys have advised
me there is no work remaining that l
am required under the. contract to DO
and if | do go on with the work it will
be under protest.
Commissioner Lynch sthis morning
took the stand that further d5iay is
dangerous, in view of the condition of
the streets, and that as head of the
highway department, it is up to him
to see that the streets are put in good
condition during the term of the Walt
er contract, which he contends is in
force until April l..
Nothing to Arbitrate, Says Lynch
Lynch maintains that those streets
that are not in repair by April must
be repaired by the contractor or at the
latter s expense, without regard to how
long it will take after. that time. Lynch
added that he expects to hear from the
bonding company within the next few
days and intimated that he expects the
street repair work to be started in the
very near future.
''The contractor has suggested to me
that the matter be arbitrated,' said
Lynch, "but in so far as l can see his
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TO Sell PILGRIMS REFUGE
House That Sheltered Persons Who
Came Here on the Maynower to
oG Under Hammer

Plymouth, Mass, March 5.-The only
remaining house in America which has
sheltered persons Who came here on the
Mayfower in 1920 is to be sold at auc.
tion next month by order of the court.
The house was built in 1866 by a
son of John Howland, the last Nav
flower survivor, and it is assumed that
the elder Rowland was a caller at the
sons home. In course of time the
building fell into decay, but upon the
organization of the Society of the De-
scendants of Pilgrim John Rowland of
the Ship Mayfower, the property was
acquired and restored Through the So
ciety's failure to satisfy note, judg-
ment against the organization was OBJ
tanned. The court order for the sale
of the property followed.
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IDENTITY OF DRUCCED
YOUTH Still A PUZZLE
Friends of Both Roy Singer and Ray
Senger Are Wondering If Either
Can Be the Roy Sanger, of Har-
risburg,'' Reported in Hospital

Mystery surrounds the case of Z" Roy
Sanger about 81 years old, the
youth who was reported in dispatches
from Hagerstown yesterday as having
been taken from a Western Maryland
freight train Wednesday in Cumber-
land, Nd, half starved and evidently
under the influence of some kind of
drug. He gave his home as Harrisburg,
Pa.
The man referred to as "Sanger, &"
it was asserted here to-day, may be
one of two cousins, Roy Singer, son of
Mrs. Lillian Singer, of Hainlyn, or Ray
Singer, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Singer, of Dauphin. Both boys are near
Fl years old and both are away from
home.
Mrs. Harry Singer, of Dauphin, last
night 'phoned to the superintendent Of
of the hospital in Cumberland, Nd.
and learned that the drugged youth is
on fair way to recovery and has been
discharged from the hospital. His name
was recorded as 'Roy Sanger, Harris
burg, Pa. :" The superintendent ad.
mitted that the drug which had been
given to the boy by two men who, he
said had travelled in the freight train
with him from Hagerstown, made his
tongue rather thick and a mistake may
have been made recording the name.
This has complicated matters some
what and caused anxiety to both the
Dauphin and the Hainlyn family. Mrs.
Harry Singer has written the hospital
asking for description of the patient
and in this way she hopes to solve the
mystery. The Dauphin man has blue
eyes and sandy hair while the Hainlyn
man has dark hair and dark eyes. I'm
til the description arrives nothing def
mite will be known.
Ray Singer, of Dauphin, according
to his mother, has been going under
the name of Troy" and has been
away from home for three years. He
had written home regularly until six
weeks ago. Mrs. Lillian Singer could
not be reached this morning, but neigh
bors said her son had not been around
the house for week.
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RUSSIAN BLACK Sea FLEET
STEAMINC ON TO BOSPORUS

London, March 5, 3J2S P. M.-The
Russian Black Sea feet is steaming to-
ward the Bosporus, says dispatch
from Rome. The Bucharest correspond
ent of the "Giornale DTtalia,'' of
Rome, telegraphs that the Russian fleet
has passed Burgas, Bulgaria.
Burgas is situated on the western
shore f the Black Sea near the east
ern extremity of the Balkans. 1t is rs
miles north Of Adrianople.
Should the Russian fleet attack the
Bosporus it presumably would have
to deal with the Turkish fleet, which
is supposed to be in that region, and
the most powerful member of which is
the cruiser Sultan Selim, formerly the
German cruiser Goeben.
The Bosporus is about 1S miles
long and from one-half to one and one
half miles wide. 1t is defended with
modern Notifications which guard the
approach to Constantinople at the
western end.
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z FREICHTERS DESTROYED
IN Attack BY SUBMARINES

Bremen, via London, March 5, 1910
A. M.-The destruction of two freight
ers by torpedoes in the English Chan
mel was witnessed by the captain of
the American tank steamer Gulf Light
from Galveston, February for Bre-
men, which arrived IN the Weser
Thursday morning with cargo of cot
ton, according to a story printed in
the "Morgen POST"
The captain is quoted by the news
paper as saying the ships were attack.
ed by submarine. One Of them is 70.
ported to have been loaded with rice
and the other with coal. The captain
says the "Morgen Post" asserted that
he passed safely through the mine
fields by following directions issued by
the German admiralty.
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sale OF DRUGS CUT OFF;
USERS Seeking Relief
One Woman Took Bottle Of Laudanum
Day-Four Apply at Hospital
County Physicians Busy With Care
One Had Twenty Cases

That the new federal law placing
the sale of all drugs under the control
of the internal revenue department so
that the purchaser of any habit form
ing drug may be traced is causing a lot
of suffering in Harrisburg, four per-
sons--aimost nervous wrecks--having
applied at the Harrisburg hospital for
relief.
Since March l, when the law went
into effect, it is impossible to get drugs
except on physician s prescription and
persons addicted to the use of drugs
have fonnd it practically impossible as
one prescription may not be filed more
than once.
One particularly distressing case
came to the attention of the Harrisburg
hospital officials. A woman who did not
disclose her identity telephoned to that
institution. She said she had been ac-
customef to using bottle of laudanum
each day and was almost insane. The
hospital authorities could do nothing
for her. Three others have applied for
treatment at the free dispensary.
One man with leg off to the knee
said he was given narcotic at the
time of the accident which made the
amputation of his leg necessary and
had been addicted to the use of drugs
since that time; another said he has
been using morphine for six years. The
fourth applicant, a well dressed man,
who has also been using drugs for near
ly six years, attracted the attention of
the physicians. His nervous condition
was pitiful and efforts were made to
prescribe a harmless substitute but it
was of no avail. Physicians believe he
will die if he cannot get the drug.
Scores have gone TO private ply
sieians for relief. The Dauphin coun-
ty poor board is considering establish
ing ward at the almshouse for the
treatment of those persons who become
violent. AT first they are being referred
to the county physicians, one physician
reporting twenty cases yesterday. A
regular course of treatment is pre-
scribed, the dose getting less each day
until the desire for the drug is killed.
Many of the users of habit-forming
drugs laid in supply.
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GERMANS INFLICT HEAVY
losses ON THE BRITISH
With ARTILLERY At YPRES

Berlin, March 5, via London, $40
P. M.--The war office to-day gave out
the following statement:
"Western theatre of war: South of
Ypres we inflicted considerable losses
on the British, with artillery FIRE. In
the positions in she Lorette hills which
We took away from the French coun-
ter attack was repulsed yesterday aft
ernoon.
'In the Champagne district yester-
day and last night the French con-
tinued attacks north Of LIE Mesnil. All
their attacks were repulsed and our po-
sitions were maintained.
Attacks on our positions at Van
quois, east of the Argonne, and in the
forest Of Consenvoye, east of the
Meuse, failed. All attempts to dispute
our possession of ground captured in
the last few days in the district of
Badonviller failed. An attack under
taken last night with considerable
forces on the heights northeast of
Celles broke down with heavy losses to
the French. Several night attacks also
were unsuccessful and over 1000 dead
Frenehmen are lying before our en-
tanglements.
Eastern theatre of war: The stu
alton around Grodno (Northern Po-
landD is unchanged. Russian attacks to
the northeast and north of Lomza failed
with heavy losses to the ensmy. Many
prisoners of the First and Second Rus
sian divisions of guards are in our
hands.
Further on, as far as the Vistula,
the situation is unchanged. A few ad.
vances by Russians east of Plock were
unsuccessful and strong night attacks
executed by the enemy east of
Skierniewice failed completely"
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THE CARIBAND EVELYN, US.
Ships, both SUNK BY Mines

Washingtno, March 5.-Commander
Gherardi's IS supplementary report on his
investigation of the sinking of the
American cotton steamers Carib and
Evelyn by mines in the North sea, re-
ceived to-day from Berlin, says:
"Both boats sunk by mines; no false
directions given by the British. Boats
simply ran on mine felds.''
1t has been said that the ships were
off courses furnished by the German
authorities and were following routes
given by British officials.
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late war news SUMMARY

The British Admiralty confirmed to-
day reports Of the sinking Of two Ger
man submarines, the US, which the
French Admiralty previously announced
had been destroyed by a torpedo boat,
and an unidentified submersible rammed
by the collier Thordis.
The captain of the American steamer
Gulf Light, on arriving at Weser, Ger
many, is reported by Berlin newspa-
per to have said that he witnessed the
destruction of two steamers by Ger
man submarine.
The first reports Of definite effects on
American trade of Great Britain 3 re-
taliatory policy against Germany come
from Bremen. It is said that several
American vessels which had been tag
ing on cargoes Of German goods, par
ticularly dyestuffs, unloaded these car
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The question was being asked in mu-
nicipal circles to-day: 81
'Did the City actually get bargain
when it contracted to pay the Brown
King Construction Company $4,000 to
haul and dump $4,000 cubic yards of
earth down the river bank for the fill
between Maclay and Calder streets'"
The point was raised since it has be-
come known also that the same COM
pany is delivering far greater amount
of earth-something like 10000 yards
to fill low piece of land belonging
to the Henry Mccormick estate, be-
tween Dock and Paxton streets.
Moreover, according to a statement
obtained from Frank Martin, real es-
tate agent and business representative
of the Mccormick estate, the Brown
King Company, which is excavating for
the Pennsylvania railroad improvements
along Second street, south of Mulberry,
apparently is only too glad to have a
place to dump this 10000 yards of
dirt, free of cost, to the McCormicks,
and actually asked permission of the
Mccormick estate to place it on their
property gratis.
City Proposes to Buy More
The question as to whether the City
got goou bargain was regarded as
especially pertinent at this time in view
of the fact that Park Commissioner VI.
Harvey Taylor announced yesterday
that he will ask the City Commission
in its meeting next Tuesday to author
ize him to contract to pay the Brown
King Company for from 5000 to 5000
more yards of dirt, for North Front
street, at the same rate the $4,000
yards were paid for, or &c 2-3 cents a
yard.
This dirt is needed, according to Mr..
Taylor, in part to replace the dirt that
was washed away by the flood of last
week and in part to complete the fill,
the original amount of earth obtained
for that purpose not having been suf-
fieient. At 26 2-3 cents, 5000 more
yards would cost the City about $1,000.
1t was learned this morning that the
contractors, when at their wits end
to know where to dump the large
amount of dirt they have been taking
from the South Second street excava-
tions, of their own violation asked the
Mccormick Estate to permit the COM
pany to throw about $4,000 cubic
yards of earth on the law land belong
ing to the estate, and in consideration
of the privilege the contractors even
agreed to grade the land just as the
MeCormicks would have it.
After that agreement was entered
into between trustees of the McCor-
mick estate and the contractors it was
found that not all of the $4,000 cubic
yards of fill would be available for the
Mccormick land-that not much more
than $4,000 or 10000 could be sup
plied-since the city desired $4,000
yards for the Front street fill. and
agreed to pay twenty-six and two
thirds cents cubic yard for it.
Asked Estates Permission
Frank. Martin, representative of the
Mccormick estate, to whom one of the
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Believed Man Found
Dead Along Tracks
Was G.. NJ. Sadler of
Williamsport
w AS BURIED
UNIDENTIFIED
Supposed Victim, Whose Property Is
Found To-day in Travelling Case
Concealed in Field, Had Been Miss
ing From Home Three Weeks

A travelling bag unearthed this
morning by boys playing in a field near
Paxton street and the tracks of the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and
turned over to the Police Department
was identified as the property of George
NJ. Sadler, who, it was learned by the
StarIndependent, has been missing
from his home, 3SS Adams street, Will
Transport, for the last three weeks.
This discovery gave such strong grounds
for belief that the unidentified man
found dead near the Reading tracks at
Nineteenth street, last Monday, and
since buried in the Potter's field, was
murdered. The theory is that he was
Sadler and the police and the Coroner 5
Office late this afternoon were working
on this phase of the mystery.
The body, which was buried on Wed.
nesday after futile efforts were made to
identify it, will now probably be ex-
humed.
Bag Recently Buried
The bag was found hidden in an old
boiler in fell and had been carefully
and cleverly concealed beneath moss.
The bag shows signs of having been
buried no more thar-furra few ID avs
and the police Immediately connected
the finding of this grip with the body
OF the man who originally had been
thought to have been killed by Read
ing railroad train at the Nineteenth
street crossing.
Sadley Missing Three Weeks
Following the clue given by let
ter in the bag addressed to George NJ.
Sadler, 33S Adams street, Williamsport,
the Star-Independent investigated and
found that man by that name and
that address left his home three weeks
ago and has not been heard of since.
He left wife and three children.
A post card photograph in the bag,
on which was written a name, prob
ably that of his wife, may be the
means of identifying the man who was
buried Wednesday.
The descriptions given by Coroner
Eckinger of tine man found along the
railroad cut and that of Sadler, re-
ceived from Williamsport, are almost
identical. He IS said IN Williamsport
to be about six feet tall. while Coroner
Eckinger said he was five feet eleven.
The estimated weights almost CORE.
spond.
Mystery in Finding of Bag
It was evident to the police that the
bag was hidden, away, whether by Sad
ler himself, or by thieves who may have
robbed Sadler, attacked him and left
him dying along the tracks after going
through his clothes, is not established.
The information received from viii
Transport was turned over to Captain
of Police Thompson, who said he be-
ieved that there hal been foul pay
and notified Coroner Eekinger who
started investigating anew.
The bag was turned over to Patrol
man Carson by the boys who found it.
1t is square one, such as commercial
men carry. The contents were such as
a man in moderate circumstances would
pack up for trip. Some jewelry, of
little value, was also in the bag.
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Wealthy Mans Dual
Life is Exposed in
Suicldeof LilllanMay
Cook
u, S. OFFICIALS
WATCHING CASE
Head Of New Haven Radiator Company
Maintained Home in Brooklyn
Where He Was Known by the
Name of James Dudley

New York, March 5.-Developments
in the case of Lillian May Cook, the
Brooklyn girl whose body was found
near New Haven, Conn.,, yesterday, are
being watched by the federal authori.
ties, according to Samuel j. Reid, As
sistant United States District Attorney
in Brooklyn. If it is shown that Miss
Cook was taken from Brooklyn to New
Haven in violation Of the Mann white
slave act, Mr.. Reid declared that he
will prosecute.
"We are seeking information, Mr..
Reid said, "and shall act at once if
anything that comes to US justifes pros
ecution.
Woman VIII Suffer in Silence
At the Fourth street house, BROOKLYN,
which is owned and maintained by Vir-
ginius Mayo, head of the Mayo Radi-
ator Company, of New Haven, under
the name of James Dudley, the young
woman occupant of the house, who is
known as Mrs. Dudley, declared that
she had nothing to say and no defense
to make when informed of the revela-
tions made by Mayo of his dual life.
1t was in this house that Miss Cook
worked as a nurse to the two Dudley
children before going to New Haven
to take a place as stenographer in
Mayo's office. Mrs. Dudley said that
~ cannot help what the world thinks
of me and L will have to suffer in ST.
lence.' Miss Cook left the Dudley
home two years ago and remained at
home for year when she was offered
the place in New Haven by Mayo.
Discover Mayo's Duplicity
Until yesterday when Frank Cook
and his daughter, Laura, went to New
Haven to investigate the disappearance
of Miss Cook, they were not aware that
Mayo and Dudley were the same per-
son.
II never had a suspicion that Mayo
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Saw He Stole Bottles of Milk

Pete Patrick, interpreter and politi-
cal boss of the foreign district on
North Cameron street, becoming tired
of losing bottles of milk from his door
step, bad warrant issued this morn
ing for Harry Perkey and then helped
Policeman Kelly serve it. Perkey has
been locked up on a charge of larceny.
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WALL STREET CLOSING
BIZ Associated Press.

New York, March 5.-Trading was
more quiet In the final dealings, but
prices showed no impairment. The clos
ing was strong. Substantial gains were
registered by to-day's stock market,
the advance embracing virtually all
branches Of the List.
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Sale of Flour Is Restricted

Berlin, Via London, March S, 1915
A. M.-The sale of wheat or rye -four
on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
has been forbidden. The authorities
have discovered that thrifty house,
wives who have found it unnecessary
to use during the week their entire
supply of bread cards have been using
the surplus to lay in reserve stock
of -four.