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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
Local Option Bill on
Second Reading Monday
Evening in the House

The Williams local option bill will
be voted upon on second reading in
the House Of Representative next
Monday night. An agreement was
reached shortly after noon to-day that
the bill, which was reported out of
committee by Mr.. Nickerman, of
Allegheny. should be made a special
order on second reading on Monday
night at o'clock, and on third read
ing next Wednesday morning at II
o'clock.
Governor Brum baugh was smiling
to-day over local option prospects. He
had received excellent reports and
more members are reported about the
Capitol to have lined up with him.
Apparently he was satisfied with his
birthday and the local option outlook
together.
1t was reported last night that Rep
resentative Warren Graham. of Phila-
delphia, had lined up for local option
Other Philadelphia men claimed are
Wilson. Cox. McNichol and Walsh and
there are hopes of McClintock. The
Governor is said to have three from
York. too.
This afternoon d. Clarence Glib
honey is arguing his compensation bill
before the House law and order COM
mittee.
A shower of petitions for local op-
ton reached the House to-day. They
came from York, Lancaster, Clear
field. Allegheny. Fayette. Butler.
Franklin, Blair and Bedford.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
VENUS AND JUPITER
To KISS At DAWN
She's Been Tumbling Over Herself
to Get at Him For Several
Months

VIII Dawn blush crimson tomorrow
morning? The shy and proper god
dess certainly should, when she sees
the unusual sight destined to occur.
Jupiter and Venus, the morning stars,
are fated TO draw close together in
rapturous embrace and finally kiss
or so mighty near it. there'll be moth
ing to It,
The envious Mars, red in the face
with rage, will be peeping above the
horizon to watch the romantic oc-
currence, while the moon will dis
creetly hide her face. If the weather
is clear tomorrow morning, these two
bright stars, close to each other,
should be readily recognized above the
eastern horizon between 4.30 and 5
o'clock in the morning. BY Friday
morning they will again be farther
apart. The brighter one is Venus, the
other Jupiter, and as the occurrence
is comparatively rare. It will he well
worth getting up to see.
The odd feature of the incident is
that Jupiter is not pursuing Venus.
as might be eXpected--on the con-
trary. Jupiter has been moving along
sedately minding his own business
and untroubled by feminine wiles
while Venus has been pursuing him,
and almost tumbling over herself to
get to him, for several months past
Maybe she wants the vote!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
CALLED HIM CROOK
BECAUSE HE REFUSES
TO VOTE FOR LIQUOR
Representative Cromer Says Pitts
burgh's Mayor and Coroner
Jamison InsuIted Him
FIST FIGHT ALMOST RESULTS
Couldn't Be Driven From Support
of Local Option, So They
Called Him Names
FIST FIGHT ALMOST RESULTS

In their efforts to procure votes
against the local option bill. Mayor
Joseph G. Armstrong and Coroner
samuel c. Jamison. of Pittsburgh.
clashed with several members of the
Legislature from Allegheny county late
last night and in one instance blows
were struck. The first clash occurred
in front of the Capitol and another in
Thlrd street at the end of the Capitol
grounds.
Armstrong and Jamison first ap-
pealed to Representative Wylie. of
WilkinsburG, in front of the Capitol at
the close of the session last night. to
vote against the local option bill.
Wyie, who is an ardent local option
ist, refused to listen to their argu-
ments. While they We're talking Rep
resentatiNe Cromer, of Pittsburgh
walked out of the Capitol and joined
the crowd. The Mayor and Coroner
look up the question with Cromer and
IN the discussion the lie was passed
and a fight was prevented only by
other members of the party interfer-
ing. Later Jamison again went after
Cromer in Third street, the result be-
ing that Cromer struck Jamison in
the face. Friends parted them before
further damage could be done.
Cromcr's Version
Representative Cromer's version of
the affair follows:
Just as ! walked out of the Cap
ltol last night at the close of the ses-
sion | was accosted by Mayor Arm
strong who was talking with a party
of friends. The Mayor said to me,
'Cromer either you or Hans Ridan is a
crook. I thought the Mayor was jok-
ing and | laughed and asked him what
the trouble was. He remarked that he
was serious and again called me a
crook. / told the Mayor he was a liar.
Some one in the crowd asked if I dared
to call the Mayor of my city a liar. I
and | would call any man a liar who
called me a crook
Coroner Jamison then called me a
1ar and a crook. | would not take
that from any man and l started after
him. | was grabbed by several men
in the crowd and pushed away. Mayor
Armstrong then put his arm in mine
and we walked away. The Mayor
aroiogized for what had been said and
We shook hands and parted friends.
Later as | was walking down Third
street to my hotel | passed a crowd
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
DARDANELLES FORTS
AGAIN BOMBARDED; TWO
SHIPS ARE HIT BY SHELLS
Messages From Vienna Say State of Siege Will Likely Be
Proclaimed in Austria Because of Russian Advance;
Petrograd Announces Capture Of Three Villages and
2,7OO Prisoners in Carpathians

After prolonged lull in the oper-
tions at the Dardanelles, tighting has
been resumed on small scale. An
official report from Constantinople
says the batteries at the entrance to
the straits We're bombarded yesterday
and that n cruiser and destroyer were
struck by the Turkish fire.
Messages from Vienna to Rome quote
an Austrian official as saying that a
state OF Siege probably will be pro-
claimed in Austria, on account of
popular unrest occasioned by the ad-
vance of the Russians through the Car
pathians. 1t is reported also that En-
peror Francis Joseph has decided to
make the territorial concessions de-
sired by Italy provided that nation
will take up arms for Austria and
Germany. This report, however, is
not generally credited in Rome.
The Austrian announcement that
the Russians have been checked i'm
the Carpathians is disputed at Petro-
grad, where it is said that further ad-
vances have been made. UZsok pass
apparently is the key to the situation,
and on account of the strong forces of
Austrians and Germans massed in this
district the Russians have been unable
| to force their way through. The last
/ Russian official report. however, an
nounced the capture of three villages
and 200 prisoners in the fighting near
the pass.
British Discuss Issues
The British parliament meets to-
day for consideration of some of the
important Collateralissuesp presented by
the war. 1t Is expected the liquor
problem will be discussed and the gov
ernment may announce its decision in
favor of a measure concerning the
governments plan for utilizing the ma
tons resources for the manufacture
of war munitions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
NEW BUREAU HELP To
TAX REVISION BOARD
All Realty Transactions Will Be
Carefully Filed If Pending Ordi-
nance Is Passed

The troubles of City Council will be
materially lessened when it sits as a
board of tax revision and appeals if
the ordinance providing for the estab-
fishing of a bureau of realty registra-
ton becomes a law.
The measure introduced by Mayor
Royal upon suggestion of City Solici-
tor Seitz is an echo of the old BIZ
cameral system of councils as it was
originally offered in Select way back
in January, 1911, but it eventually
died in the subcommittee of finance,
to which it had been referred.
BY the terms of this ordinance the
bureau which will be att>.ched to the
City Engineers office will not only
map and tabulate all the properties
in the city in books made for the
purpose. but the changes in properties
by sales, etc, in the future will be
TCnufinun1 nm DaUa I
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14

When William Howard Taft comes
to Harrisburg tomorrow to lecture he
will be given a welcome as warm and
enthusiastic as when he came here as
President of the United States.
Every minute of his time in the city
Will be occupied with series of talks,
luncheon. dinner, reception and
sightseeing trip about the city.
The ex-President will arrive at
Union Station from New York at 2.35
o'clock. He will be met by Governor
Martin G. Brumbaugh. Headmaster
Arthur II. Brown. of the Harrisburg
Academy and II. NJ. Hoke. In auto
mobiles this party will be whisked to
the Academy, where Professor Taft
will talk to the students at o'clock.
After a talk to the Academy boys
Mr.. Taft will go TO the Capitol, where
he will address a joint session of the
House and Senate. An automobile
trip through Harrisburgs parks and
along Riverside Drive will follow.
Dined by Governor
At the conclusion of the sightseeing
trip the former President and a party
of prominent State officials will be the
guests of Governor Brumbaugh at the
Executive Mansion. Dinner will be
served at o'clock and covers will be
laid for fifteen guests.
Mr.. Taft will go to the Technical
nigh school auditorium at o'clock to
deliver his lecture. His subject will
be The Sign of the Times" This lee
ture will be under the auspices of the
Harrisburg Academy
Following his lecture Professor
Taft will be the guest of the Yale
alumni in Harrisburg. A number of
prominent alumni to-day are planning
a reception at the Harrisburg Club in
his honor.
The former President will spend the
night with Governor Brumbaugh at
the Executive Mansion and will leave
-sarly Friday morning for Nsw York,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
SWAT THE HOUSE FLY? DEAR NO!
SLAM "TYPHOID FLY' NEW CRY
Central High Students Must Call Disease Carrier That ckes Baby
Nose by Its Real Name

and favored particularly typhoid
fever germs, giving it the name, ''ty-
phoid fly"
Miss Tatnal had an able ally in her
plans to get the students to give the
pest it's proper designation. Professor
James A. Smyser, another Instructor
in zoology at the school, is drilling
his classes into the use of the term.
At first the students had some diff
ficulty. House fly was heard on all
sides. but when threats of decreases
in percentage came to several of them
they readily mastered the new name.
vowing vengeance on every one of
the typhoid flies that came in sight,
which, it is thought, is just what the
instructors want--to get the students
to help in the swat the typhoid fly
movement this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
Sunday May Be Asked
to Conduct Prohibition
Campaign in England

New York, April 14.-"Billy" Sunday
is to be asked to go to England to
wage a prohibition campaign among
the working men of that country, ac-
cording to the Tribune to-day. A re-
quest for Sundays address, it says,
has been made of its London CORE
spondent by Sir Henry Edward Ran
dali, director of the businessmen 5
campaign for prohibition in England.
so that a cable message might be for -.
warded to Sunday asking him to en-
gage in revival tour of England for
the purpose of battling against liquor
Sir Henry is quoted as saying h"
hoped Sunday could make arrange =
ments to close his present campaie ,,
at a reasonably early date so that h ,
might go to England.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
Central High! Typhoid Ely!
Let us slam him, You and ]!
Revised Mother Goose.

Never let me hear any of the boys
or girls in my classes use the name
house fly when speaking of that pest;
it's name is the typhoid fly" firmly
but kindly said Miss Grace Tatnal
the other day to all of the members
of her zoology classes at the Central
High School.
"Why. Miss Tatnal?" came the
chorus of questions.
Because that is what the pest is,
and it should be called by its proper
name
She then went on to explain that
the common ordinary fly that spoils
lot of pleasure was a germ carrier
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
ROOSEVELT AND TAFT
!. EXCHANGE GREETINGS
No Signs of Feud When Ex-
Presidents Meet at Louns-
bury Funeral

New Haven. Conn. April 14.-For
the first time since they came to the
parting of the ways Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt and Professor William II.
Taft former Presidents of the United
States, met yesterday and shook
hands at the funeral services of their
mutual friend. Professor Thomas r.
Lounsbury. of Yale.
The services were held in the Bat
tell Chapel and the Taft Roosevelt
meeting came in a little anteroom of
the chapel. Colonel Roosevelt and
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg md vicinity: Fair
tonight and Thursday, continu-
ed cool, lowest temperature to-
night about 3S degrees with light
frost In exposed places.
For Eastern Pennsylvania; Fair to-
night and Thursday. not much
change In temperature; light
frost In exposed places IG-nlghtt
moderate nOrtherly winds.
River
The Susduehanna river aud all fta
branches will continue Ia fall uu-
Ill rain occurs. 4 stage of about
G.2 feet is indicated for HarrIs-
burg Thursday morning.
General Conditions
Under the Influence of the strong
the eastern half of the country.
fair weather has prevailed gem
orally east of the Rocky Noun
tains during the last twenty
four hours except I'm Iowa, where
local showers occurred.
Temperatures n. M, 40.
Suni Rises. $3.50 a. MT sets. 6.4I
ID. m.
MOOnf New moon, first au.rter
April -. 1880 n. m.
River Stages 6.5 feet above low
water mark.
YeSterday's Weather
highest temperature. -,
loves temperature. ~.
Negn temperature. AZ.
Normal temperature, 80,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
NEW CHURCH WILL BE
BUILT ON CAMP SITE
Two Hundred West Enders Ready
to Start Campaign to
Raise $4,000

During the silver jubilee celebration
of Camp Curtin Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church, from April 10 to
81, more than 200 West End church
people will participate i'll campaign
to raise S3S000 for a new building
The new edifice will stand in front oi
the present chapel which stands or
the historic site of old Camp Curtin
where thousands of Union soldiers
were mustered into service.
Not from a casual desire, but from
absolute necessity, the people arounC
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
Pope Contributes $55,OOO
to Sufferers in Europe
BY associated Prsss

Rome, via Paris, April 14.-Pope
Benedict has sent to Cardinal Mercer
$4,000 for the Belgian sufferers from
the war Accompanying the donation
was letter expressing the pleasure
of the pope that relief committees for
the Belsians had been formed in vari-
Gus countries.
The pope also sent $4,000 to the
bishop of Cracow for the Polish war
sufferers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14

HdTrlSDuTS, SteeItOn and COIumbla
compare we'll with other places of
their size in the United States and
Canada in fire losses for 1914.
This city's population is reckoned as
Sc, 000 and the per capita fire loss was
S1.S6 while the total loss was S117.S7S.
II cost each person about forty-two
cents for the maintenance of the local
department. 1t cost the city $685.
for fire protection. During the year.
232 alarms were answered. ON Janu-
airy l, 1915. the city had fourteen sta
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Hope Engine Quits City
Service as Horse-drawn
Steamer; to Get Tractor

To-day the Hope fire engine left Har-
rlsburg for Hoboken. N. Y. as horse
drawn apparatus-to return within ten
days as modern motor tractor driven
steamer.
The Hope Will be equipped with the
have been purchased for Harrisburg,
the Hoboken firm having agreed to
give Harrisburg one of the machines
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14

deputation representing the various.
women's societies in London.
SIX thousand of the women, Mr..
Runciman said. had declared them
selves willing to work in armament
factories, 1000 in clothing factories,
l10O In dairy work, 500 as gardeners,
1000 in varioiis branches of agricul-
tural work. 1000 as shop assistants,
500 as leather workers and 5000 in
clerical work. Six hundred women
had been given employment at the
Board of Trade. Mr.. Runciman added.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
CITY FIRE DEPT. IS
RUN VERY CHEAPLY
Per Capita Cost of Maintenance
Here Only AZ Cents; Still
Less at Steelton
LOSSES NOT HEAVY, EITHER
Other Cities With More Expensive
Systems Have Much Heavier
Damages

OF thirteen cities of the United
States, approximately the same size as
Harrisburg. not one maintains a fire
department nearly so Cheaply as this
city's. according to a table compiled
by Fire and Water Engineering" a
New York City publication.
Comparative costs of maintenance
for 1914 are shown by the following
table:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
WILL NOT SANCTION PROPOSAL

Melbourne. April 1.-THE common
wealth government has declined to
give sanction to the proposal of Mel
Nelson, trade commissioner to the
United States. for subsidized mail
service between San Francisco and
Sydney, declaring that the amount Of
mail carried between the two ports
was insufficient 10 warrant 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
TAFT WILL BE GUEST
Of GOV. BRUMBAUGH
Will Not Have a Spare Moment
During Stay Tomorrow; to
Arrive at 2.35 O'clock
TAFT PROGRAM

Arrive. Union Station, 2.25.
O'Clock.
Address joint session House and
Senate at 4 O'Clock.
Auto trip about city.
Dinner at Executive Mansion. 6
o'clock.
Lectures at Technical II. s. Au-
ditOFium. s o'clock.
Reception by Yale Alumni at
Harrisburg Club follows.
Spends night with Governor
Brumbaugh at Executive Mansion.
Leaves for New York Friday
morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
CHILDREN TO HEIp ETrROpE

New York. April 1.-THE first step
toward the organization of children
throughout the United States to aid
the children of Europe will be taken
mere mere tomorrow when the young ap-
IN q proposed league will be enrolled
at the production of play to be given
by stage children.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
THE LADY OR THE OFFICER?
By Associated Press

London. April 1.-THE following
story of Kitchener is told by the Shelf
field Daily Telegraph: The War Sec
retary heard that distinguished and
recently married officer was being Wis
tied by his wife at his headquarters in
the field.
"0ne of YOU must come home,p was
kitchener's wire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
$4,000 British Women
Offer to Do Mems Work
.StcciaI to The Telegraph

London, April 14.-Thirty-th three
thousand women hao registered them
selves for special war service up to the
end of March This statement was
made last night by Walter Runciman,
president of the Board of Trade, to
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First Bird Hotel" to
Be Placed in Harris
Park in Near Future

Harrisburg's first bird hoteP Is to
be located in Harris Park
The section of the River Front Park
selected lies between Mulberry and
Paxton streets and boasts of the tallest
trees along the river, perhaps, and as
there is ample room there CITY Commits
sioner NJ. Harvey Taylor and City For
ester Mueller are both of the opinion
that this site will be the more desir-
able.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
BATTERIES BoMBARDED
BY Associated Press

Constantinople, April 13, via Wire
less to Berlin and London, April "A,
S.55 A. M.-An official statement is
sued by the Turkish war office to-
night says: Some enemy patrol ships
to-day (Tuesday) bombarded unsuc-
cessfully the batteries at the exit of
the Dardanelles. A cruiser and a de-
stroyer both were struck by shells"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
President Lincoln Was
Shot Just so Years Ago

Fifty years ago tonight at $3.50
o'clock, John Wilkes Booth stole into
the box which President Abraham Lin
coin and his family We're occupying and
shot the President, the wound causing
his death the next morning at 7:22
Capitol, here, April 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
MPORT DIrTy sJTspENDEn

washington. d. c., April IA, -
Spain has suspended until further no.
uce the import duty and transpor-
tatlon tax on coal, which in the case
of American coal amounted to 81 .O6 a
ton. according to a cablegram from
Ambassador Willard received to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
TO PENSION STATE EMPToYEs

The bill providing for the retirement
of State employees who are perma-
nently disqualified by reason of physi-
cal or mental disability to perform
their official duties. passed the Senate
finally to-day and was sent to the
House.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14


spnbury Pa, April l4-F. c. sohope. married, and the
father OF sis, children was killed to-day when oaa aaugle
swinging hammer at the Pennsylvania Railroad earshops
missed bolt he aiming at and struck schops on the
head, fractprins his skull.
AUSTRIANS LOSE IMPORTANT GROUND
After r~elvehour battle the Russians have captured
another section Of the mountain barrier between caioa and
Hungary dispatch from Lenberg Caica tells Of Rus
sian attack the Austrian forces at lIezoloroz in the east
Bosds The Austians forced give ground and it
said that main mountain this section considered
mPrsgna5le has passed the hands of the Russians
CHILD LABOR BILL OUT SOON
Harrisburg The Cox child labor BILL which has the
support Of Governor Brumbaugh will be reported out Of
the judiciary special committee Of the Senate next Wednes-
day morning after public hearing Tuesday afternoon It
! has already passed the House.
Washington April l4--Major General Frederick Funs-
ton, commanding the American forces on the Mexican bor-
der is route to-day from San Antonio to Brownsville
Texas to take personal charge Of the Situation there
Newport News, Va, April 1.-THE German commerce
raider Kronprinz Wilhelm learned to-day is in need
of bocF tubes which cannot be supplied at this port and
must be manufactured elsewhere To procure and install
the tubes it is said would require least three weeks
Washington, D. C., April l4-Arrangea5onts have been
completed for the shipment America oi two cargoes of
German dysstuH which paid for by the american i'm
porters before March Il and at Rotterdam This
information conveyed to the State Department to-day
Washington, April TO- = President Wilson formally
opened the American League baseball season here to-day
tossne out the FIRST bali used here IN +te i - -
tween Washington and New York.
London April A. sls P. M-The British government
has decided against placing cotton on the contraband list
MARRIAGE LICENSES
and Lykens
NIkoIoya Steelton
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14

Robert j. Cunningham. county con-
troller of Allegheny county, appointed
as State Highway Commissioner by
Governor Brumbaugh last night and
promptly confirmed by the Senate, will
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-14
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Charles DaEwnugh, WcOniSco,
SpiridOn EVanOn and Stepkarrka
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