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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
DESTROY EGGS"
BY BUCKETFULLS
High Cost of Living Is Not
Threatened; They're Cater
pillar Eggs

Eggs are being destroyed these days
in the River Front parks by the buck
etfuls.
City Forester o. Ben Gipple and his
assistants are the destroyers; the mill
lions of eggs of countless caterpiIars
are the objects of destruction.
Were working steadily through
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
Mayor Meals Gives His
Views on Trolley Strike
Settlement Possibilities

Mayor Ezra S. Meals who has been
suggested as an arbitrator in the car
strike this morning said: The de-
mands OF the strikers could be arbi-
trated without recognition of the union
by the company l believe. The jitneys
operating without a license will be
ordered off the streets when there is
regular car service, as the Chlef OF
Police explained this morning.
The strike should be settled. It's
costing the city and county money;
the strikers and the company are not
gaining anything; businessmen are
complaining about a decrease in sales,
and so far nothing has been done.
Jitneys are operating and in some in
stances machines are being used and
overcrowded, so that the safety of the
public Is at stake.
The strikers are willing to arbt-
trate. Let them go TO work, get the
cars running on schedule, and adjust
the trouble. The union can still exist,
so can the local division. The con-
venience of the public should not be
staked on recognition. or nonrecogni-
ton of the union.
The authorities are trying to be
fair to the strikers and to the COM
pany but the public must be con-
sidered. There are a number of COM
petent people in the city who could
settle this strike to the satisfaction of
both company and strikers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
PITY THE room JUNkMAN,

By .fESoelqffd FFfss
Washington. July 26-Junk men in
the United States collected $114,O 600
worth of scrap iron and other metals
last year. the Geological Survey an
nounced to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
PUBLIC DEMAND FOR
STRIKE SETTLEMENT
IS WITHOUT RESULT

Railways Company Still Insists It Will Not Recognize Union
and Men Will Not Meet Officials Except as Organize
tion; Adjustment of Other Differences Hinges on
Recognition; Thorpe Warns of "FOrOard Labor"
Movement Here
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

MR. TgoRpF GIVES AcPFE1IE'yr rEPus &
Harrisburg cepresdent Thorpe Of the Garments
union said this afternoon that the strikers are willing to &
treat with the Traction COMPANY under the oIIoving
terms Of agreement. This agreement made and entered
into. this 1916. bv and between the
Harrisburg Railways COMPANY partv of the FIRST part and
their employees members of Division 100 parties Of the
second mart +e cor,nsr,, p, ,gr.o 20 ,,so+ md a. @
the duIy authorized and accredited an, com
ro,ss on al Grievances chat NAV, ,-. d;r;, M ,;f.
Of this ggreenen+ the cor,nanv 70 b. fair an, met i II
it's dealing with its employees
Pottsvie Pa July 26.-The Wabash creek broke its
Tar1aous earIy, ,,orpiry
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

GIOBE-DENIOCRAT TO BE CENTS
ST. Louis, July 26. - The st. Louis
Globe-Democrat to-day announced an
increase in the price of its daily
edition in St. Louis from one to two
cents effective August l. The high
cost of print paper is given as the
cause of the increase.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

The funeral OF Bishop William Terry
Eveland, who was electrocuted when
his steel fishing rod touched a live
wire near Mount Holly Springs, will
take place Friday afternoon. Services
will be conducted at the home of his
CONTINUED on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
MUSSER MEETS COMMITTEES OF LOYAL
EMPLOYEES TODAY TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS

oIice Chief Ze Declares Jneys Must Get OFF Streets
When Normal Car Schedules Are Resumed; DynG-
mite on Tracks at Rutherford; Railways President
Denies Rumor He Will R esign and Explains Position
of Directorate on Strike
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-12

The English army could have been
sent over to France and Belgium more
quickly and more safely. English mill
tary authorities even think they could
have kept the Germans out of Belgium
and northern France at the beginning
of the war, II they had had the tunnel.
The original British force would have
reached Mons two weeks earlier than it
did and that perhaps would have turned
the tide of war. Submarines cannot en-
ter tunnels, and German mines could not
have injured the tube, although they are
said to be floating freely over the sur
face of the Channel now.
Mr.. Arthur Fell. Member of Parlia-
ment, one of the principal advocates of
the tunnel since the war began, pointed
out that as an army transport alone the
tunnel would have saved England $780,
, 100000 in one year, the total estimated
cost of the enterprise, half of which would
be borne by France. England has now
several million men in France who have
to be transported by sea. All the food
they consume, the stores and shells they
need, have to be packed for this short
Channel passage as il for a voyage to
New York or Australia, whereas IL the
tunnel were in use they would be put
direct into trucks at the factory and car
ried to the base in France where they
are needed.
Even before the British army in France
was as large as it is now, there were
10000 British workers there engaged in
unshipping and transporting stores for
the army. Their labor would be entirely
saved by the tunnel. Those 10000 men
constitute an entire army corps, and the
cost of maintaining an army corps for
year is $40,000.000. This force has now
been at work upwards of two years.
The saving in this respect is only
small part of the total, for the cost OF
prolonging the entire war is incomparably
greater and the less of lives can hardly
be estimated in money.
The stations from which the tunnel will
start at the French and English ends
have already been built In accordance
with previous laws which authorized the
preliminary stage of the enterprise 1t is
a curious fact that nature has made this
undertaking easier than any other engi-
neering enterprise of similar Importance
would be. The Panama Canal was re-
markable for its difficulties; the Channel
tunnel will be equally remarkable for it's
simplicity. But there is no way in which
the engineer could change world condi-
tions more than by the tunnel
Everybody who has made the passage
across the English Channel from Dover
to Calais must have noticed the high,
white chalk cliffs that line the shores on
both sides. Now this chalk continues
under the sea all the way across the
Channel. Eight thousand .borings have
been made into the chalk and it Is certain
that 1t goes all the way across to depth
OF several hundred feet. Chalk 10 the
best material in which to construct
tunnel
The ease with which the Channel tun-
mel may be built has been demonstrated,
for section two thousand yards in Length
has been constructed from the stations q.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-12

1t was believed by Englishmen that in
case of war the English end OF the tun-
mel might be seized by surprise land
ing party and the tunnel then used to
carry the large army of France into
England, which. before the present epoch,
maintained only a small regular army.
Now England and France are allies and
are likely to remain so for long time.
All the danger to England is, and has
been for some years, from Germany.
When the tunnel was first proposed. Eng
land depended almost entirely on her
navy for defense and possessed navy
which was not approached by any other
country. In recent years Germany has
built navy which threatens to rival that
of England and may perhaps some day
surpass 1t. l. England lost command OF
the sea in time OF war It would be a
great advantage to have a tunnel by
which the friendly army of France could
be brought into the country and ems
ployed In its defense.
Furthermore the invention of aero
planes and dirigible balloons has done
much to destroy the military isolation
which the sea formerly gave to England.
1t is admitted that the power OF attack
by the aerial arm will constantly increase.
German submarines have already
caused serious embarrassment by their
ueStTuCt1Ou VI lOOu oulpS III tuC tiSiiity
of the British Isles and may even yet
cause more serious trouble. Admiral Tir-
pitt, as every one understands, said that
he would starve England by this means
and win victory for Germany by 1t.
If the tunnel had been built food from
allied and neutral countries, such as
France, Italy and Spain, could go by all
rail to England and would not be exposed
to submarine attack
As far as the remote danger of an at
tack on England by the tunnel is con-
cerned. there will be ample means to
repel it. At the English end section
of tunnel will consist of concrete valve
which can be turned by hydraulic turn
table mechanism SO as to block the pas
sage. In addition there would be mechan-
ism for flooding the tunnel. Each Of these
mechanisms will be in command Of .
separate military officer. In addition
there will be batteries of great guns COM
manding the mouth OF the tunnel
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-12
Hou This
Great
Enterprise
Would
Radically

r INFORMATION received from London
makes it appear probable that the
- British Government is now secretly
but rapidly pushing the completion of the
Channel tunnel from England to France
England has become convinced that 1t
can win the war only by rushing rein
forcements and supplies straight to the
western battle front without the delay Of
transshipping at the Channel
The Tunnel would allow England to
throw a vast force by surprise at any
point of the German front.
Experts have demonstrated during the
war that the cost of building the tunnel
$50. 000, 000-woud have been paid for
by the saving of time and labor alone
during the war. without counting the
saving of life and the military advan-
tages that would have been gained The
fact that prominent Englishmen have
published this argument during the war
alone makes it probable that the Govern
ment would begin the work.
The British, of course, maintain secrecy
concerning this important military under
taking, but the great number of workmen
now employed by noted engineering
firm at Dover makes it appear certain
that the work is under way. The men are
living within an enclosure, and the entire
barbed wire defences and Notifications
entirely surrounding it,
1t is comparatively easy to maintain
secrecy about the matter, because the
tunnel had already been begun before the
war. Thus there were in existence an
underwater section where the men could
work without observation, an enclosed
yard with railroads for the disposal of
excavated material, and all the necessary
tunnel building apparatls
q The military Importance of the tunnel
may be judged from the fact that Ii would
enable England to put soldiers on the
western battle front in FIVE hours
The German General Staff is believed
to ne treating the report of the tunnel
building very seriously. 1t is thought
that several newly invented German war
devices may have bearing on this prob
lem. English newspaper dispatches state
that the Germans have a new submarine
with a mining compartment on the under
side. II is suggested that this may be
used il an effort to reach the tunnel by
mining where the protective covering of
the tunnel is thinnest and blow it up.
The English now know that they would
have saved thousands of men, many hun
dreds of ships, millions of money spent
for transport and other war expenses,
and perhaps would have won the war by
now If they had built the tunnel. They
understand that 1t would have saved its
cost several times over.
II the tunnel had been built the wound
ed British soldiers who are now coming
over from France with many delays and
much suffering would have been making
the journey from Calais to Dover under
the Channel in forty minutes and in alb
solute security. There would have been
no Sussex disaster, and scores of Eng
lish ships lost in the Channel might have
been saved. The feeding of England
would have been facilitated
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-12
Change War Conditions and Pay for Itself
in One Year as an Army Transport
Without Counting Many Advantages

the French and English ends. The upper
layer of the seabed under the Channel
consists of white chalk. somewhat pene.
trable by water. There is about a hun
dred feet of this. Beneath 1t is layer
of gray chalk quite impenetrable by wa
ter anL about two hundred feet deep
Beneath this is tremendous stratum of
gault clay impenetrable by water. The
tunnel will be constructed in the lower
part of the impervious gray chalk. 1t
will have $50 feet of impervious clay
above 1t. At points near the shore,
however, this covering layer is greatly
reduced.
Sir Francis Fox, a noted English
engineer, has drawn up plans for the
tunnel. 1t will be bored by rotary steel
cutter constructed on the principle of the
carpenters bit. AS the bit cuts into the
chalk a rotary loader will pick up the
fragments and drop them on little rail-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-12

London by fifty miles than Paris is.
AS already stated, the work will cost
about sS0.000,000. and it was estimated
before the war that it would yield s5.-
100000 year net revenue. About 1900,
600 persons crossed the Channel between
England and France in the year before
the war. This is small number consid
ering the 100000 people in ENGLAND
and the immense number on the Euro
pean Continent The Channel passage
evidently discouraged them. 1t is believed
the number will rise to 100000 when the
tunnel is completed and conditions have
become normal after the war
When we consider that this short tun-
:. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-12
Photograph Of Recently Engaged Upon

mel of twenty-five miles will put the most
important island empire in the world in
direct communication with the chief land
mass of the globe extending from the
shores of the Channel to the Pacific, its
importance becomes amazing. 1t may
seem surprising that it has not been
executed yet, but it must be remembered
that the English are conservative and
that their insular position is the domi-
mating fact in all their history. The tun-
mel was talked about as long ago as Ma
poleon's time, when there were carica-
lures published showing the French
army marching under the Channel to
England.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-12

points the grade will rise to summit
under the middle OF the Channel at the
rate of one in one thousand. The idea OF
making a summit is to provide for drain
age At each of the low points near
shore collecting basin will be placed
into which the drainage water will flow
by gravity and from which 1t can be re-
moved by pumps.
The passage will occupy about half an
hour. while the present water passage
takes about two hours and half. A man
will be able to leave London at s o'clock
in the morning and be in Paris at
o'clock in the afternoon. The present
battle front on the Somme is nearer to
Copyright. 1916. by the Star Comp
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-12

way truck which will-carry
them back to the land.
The undertaking, when
completed, will consist of
two single-track tunnels,
each of eighteen feet in
ternal diameter, and thus
large enough to accom-
modate the French and
English railroad trains
when supplied with special
electric locomotives. A
demand, however. has just
been made to increase the
tracks to four.
The two tunnels will be
placed thirty-six feet apart,
measured from centre to
centre, and connected at
distances of 100 feet by
cross galleries.
At the English end the
tunnel starts from the his
toric Shakespeare cliff,
near Dover, said to have
figured in Shakespeare's
King Lear" and in France
1t will emerge at Sangatte,
a few miles from Calais.
the nearest large town. It's
total length will be a little
more than twenty-five
miles. On each side 1t
will enter the cliffs a short
distance from the shore
and drop down on a grade
of one in eighty for about
two miles through the i'm
pervious gray chalk. From
each of these two low
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-12

Tunnel
thu Mel ands
Evening star., 1916-12-28

Old Man. Coyote has eyes almost as
sharp as mine and nose quite as keen
as yours. Some one has caught Danny,
but 1 don't know who it can be unless
it is Hooty the Owl"
ut isn't Hooty." declared Reddy. for
I have watched Hooty and he still goes
hunting for Danny every night. l have al
ways looked on Danny as belonging to me-
you know, and I am rather put out about
this" Reddy grinned as he said this
Roughleg grinned, too. Just a little
mistake on your part, Reddy. Just a
I've had an eye on that fat Meadow
Mouse for so long that l consider that
he belonged to me- But seeing that
neither of us is likely to get him we
won't quarrel about the matter. The
question is, who did get him? 1t wasn't
me. 1t wasn't you 1t wasn't Granny
Fox. 1t wasn't Old Man Coyote. 1t
wasn't Hooty the Owl. Was tt
Roughleg paused and looked down at
Reddy meaning1y.
Was it who?" demanded Reddy.
Shadow the Weasel: was it he who
cheated us out of a dinner on Danny
Meadow MouSe?" replied Roughleg.
Now, you've Thought of something"
barked Reddy. 1T must have been
Shadow. ] wonder I didn't think of
him before this. OF course. that is who
it was. He is just that kind of fell
low, sneaking around and hunting
where he has no business. Have you
seen anything of him about on the
Green Meadows?"
Not a thing" declared Roughleg;
but that isn't surprising. He might
have done it in the night and I
Danny Meadow Mouse has gone. We
know who didn't catch him. and if we
can find that Shadow 1 have an idea
We'll find out who did"
Evening star., 1916-12-28
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Evening star., 1916-12-28
FASHIONS

A raincoat for a small boy or girl is
practically indispensable, winter or
summer. One of the worthwhile fea-
lures of winter raincoats is that they
may be made of material sufficiently
heavy to afford protection from cold and
from rain at one and the same time.
There are a number of chemical pro-
cesses by which fabrics are rendered
waterproof. and while in all cases it
is not possible to guarantee that heavy
downpour of rain will fail to penetrate
fabric so treated, it will usually with
stand an average shower. Hence the
old-fashioned raincoat that was a rain
coat pure and simple-nothing more
has been relegated to oblivion. and in its
place has come garment that does not
advertise itself as exclusively for rainy-
day wear.
The attractive little coat shown in the
sketch is made of rainproofed English
suiting in wide checked pattern, and
Evening star., 1916-12-28
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Evening star., 1916-12-28
IIIIILEStoR!E!s IIII
IrBEDTInE
by THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright, 1916. by T. W. Burgess.)
Shadow the Weasel Is SuS-
peCted.
Suspicion is a hateful thing
Because so seldom it is right.
A name that always has been good
Twill often blacken over night.

And then. too, a name that Is already
black it will make blacker still. You
know how easy it is to suspect one who
has done wrong once of doing wrong
again, even when there isn't the least
bit of proof. Yes, sir, suspicion certain
ly is a hateful thing. There is nothing
that makes more unhappiness in this
world. Ask Sammy jay; he knows He
is suspected of doing great many
things he doesn't do at all. just because
he does some things which are not al
together nice. 1t is just the same way
with Reddy Fox. He is suspected of
stealing a great many chickens he never
so much as sees. Some one else steals
them and Reddy is blamed.
Now, when Danny and Nanny Meadow
Mouse were missed on the Green Mead
ows each of those who hunted for them
suspected the others. Reddy Fox SuS-
pected Old Man Coyote and Roughleg
the Hawk and Hooty the Owl. Old Man
Coyote suspected Reddy Fox and Rough
leg and Hooty. Roughleg suspected the
other three. and Hotty did the very same
thing. But after while each discov-
cred that all the others were still hunt
ing for Danny and Nanny. so then they
tried to think of some one else to sus-
pect.
One day Reddy trotted over under a
tree in the top of which Rougheg the
Hawk was keeping watch. Good morn
ing, Roughleg,' said Reddy. Danny
Meadow Mouse seems TO have disap-
peared very mysteriously. / don't sup
pose you happen to know anything
about it?"
Roughleg's keen eyes twinkled as he
looked down at Reddy Fox. "And l don't
suppose that you really suppose that I
would tell You if I did, said he.
Reddy laughed. Il don't suppose do"
said he. But I do know that you don't
know what has become of him, because
Evening star., 1916-12-28
Friday Clearance of
BOYS OVERCOATS AND
SUITS AT $4.75.

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BO- }, OVERCOATs, including coats
.or the junior boy to 10 years
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Reduced to S.75.
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