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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11

explained that inquiry had revealed
the tact that other cities got the same
hose for nlnety-five cents and the
agents agreed TO sell ii for this sum,
too.
L. n. Lebo, a well-known contrac-
tor appealed to Council this morning
TO pave Nineteenth street from Derry
TO the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad /: it paved the street at All,
and, IN any event not TO pave SWata1a
street as already provided for by ordi-
nance, before it paved Nineteenth
street. Mr.. Lynch explained that it
might be possible to pave from Derry
to Swatara but said that there isn't
sufficient intersection money available
to permit the paving of the whole
stretch of Nineteenth.
Paving bids for Second and Reel
streets as awarded by Mr.. Lynch to
the Central Construction and Supply
Company were approved and Council
acted similarly on the award 10 the
Studebaker Corporation of America
the contract for furnishing a new
combination street sweeper and
sprinkler. a letter from President
Charles p. Meek of the Citizens F'irA
Company asking that Council take
steps to provide a home for this, one
of Harrisburg's oldest and most faith
iul tireighting organizations, before
their present house in the Capitol Park
Extension is taken from them, was re-
ferred to Commissioner Gross. The
quarterly report of City Sealer II. ID.
Reel showed that 1,159 inspections
had been made, go seals had been
made and lS9 weights and measures
condemned. tSiXty-nine visits 10 city
markets were made. City Solicitor
Scitz was instructed to ask the court
TO appoint viewers in the opening OF
Fifth street from Reels Lane to
Wiconisco
A new ordinance providing $3.50 TO
repair the flood damaged sewer in
Nagie street from Race to Front was
offered by Mr.. Lynch. Because of an
error in printing final action on the
measure providing for new detention
cells in the police station was post
poned for a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
Use "Gold" Grounds Over
and OUer; Trooper Pays
Dollar For Cigaret

Pershing's Camp at the Front in
Mexico, April 8. by aeroplane and
motor truck to Columbus. N. NJ, April
10. Gold is the word which has
been adopted along this front to de-
scribe coffee. A teaspoon of coffee
will buy more than q gold coin, and
the rich color of the coffee, enhanced
by it's scarcity, has fixed the nickname
firmly for this campaign.
An officer at this camp to-day, deal
ing out the days coffee ration to a SOL
dier, advised him to save his coffee
grounds for second boiling in case of
temporary delay in the arrival of
new supply trains.
"I save NINE" said the officer.
How many times do you use the
same grounds?" he was asked.
"One set of grounds l used eleven
times" he replied. THE last few
times was just drinking suggestion,
but it kept me happy"
Another officer offered one dollar
gold for cup OF well used coffee
grounds and his bid was refused.
Dollar For Cigaret
Tobacco is the only article which
has approached coffee in the exag-
gerated value which this campaign has
placed on a few ordinarily common
place commodities. One soldier who
was flush" with coffee. sold a tea
spoonful for three cigaret papers.
Reports coming from the southern
area of this front, where the swiftly
moving point" of the American ex-
petition is penetrating new territory
faster than supplies can be forwarded
for the men. to-day brought new high
cost of living scales.
At a town which two days ago was
the advanced front, but which is now
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11

we'll to the rear. man is said to have
paid one dollar apiece for ordinary
American cigarets. Sugar was OBJ
tanned for the relatively low figure of
fifty cents a pound gold while soap
brocght one dollar and seventy-iive
cents per cake.
Trooper Lives Among NillaistaS
One negro trooper has discovered
that it is not necessary fatal to be left
alone in Villa territory. The trooper
for some reason, possibly as discipline,
was dismounted when on April / his
command ran into party of Villa
soldiers concealed behind rocks at
Aguascalientes, north of Guerrero.
When the Villa men opened fire the
American troops went at them so fast
that the dismounted man was left
completely behind. When the chase
of the bandits had ended his comrades
were literally over the mountain and
miles away.
The trooper hunted Mexican
farmhouse where he obtained a meal.
For two days he lived alone among
Mexicans in a community said to be
filed with Villas friends. On the
third days he was picked up by an
other command of the negro regiment
to which he belonged
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11

ing limited to a front of about two
miles between Cumieres and hill No.
304 west of the Meuse.
Berlin views the Verdun operations
confidently, pointing to the ground
gained in a difficult region and the
losses inflicted on the French. The
statement is made by the Overseas
News Agency of Berlin that since the
beginning of the battle more than
$4,000 French have been captured. 1t
also is said about 20 square kilometers
Of ground has been occupied west of
the Meuse.
with the exception of the Verdun
sector no military operations of par
ticular significance are reported from
any of the battle fronts. The change
of seasons is interfering with move
ments on the Russian. italian and
Mesopotamian fronts, although on
each of these lines there are signs of
increasing activity, which Is expected
to become more pronounced as the
Spring advances.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
Governors Record Is
Refutation of Charges, ...
Headquarters Say

The Brumbaugh headquarters to-
day gave out a statement in substance
as follows:
Good deeds speak loudly for those
who perform them, and all the subter-
fuges in the category of crooked poll
tics couldn't wipe out the warm regard
that right-minded citizens throughout
the State have for Governor Brum
baugh. Governor Brumbaugh's rec
ord is an open book. To read it is to
admire and to strive to emulate him.
Moreover, his record as Pennsylvania s
Executive is ineffacable. Mud thrown
by the opposition spatters into so
much ineffective dust"
Among the letters endorsing the
Brumbaugh candidacy given out by
the headquarters to-day are those from
+. 3. Wonsetler, insurance man, Nor
ristown; C. NJ. Ritner. Carlisle; c. S.
Garman, cigar manufacturer, Denver,
and G. A. McAnulty, Blairsville. The
deluge OF kilograms and letters con-
tinues TO pour in, says the statement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
ASK EMBARGO AGAINST
EXPORT OF PAPER
[Continued From First Page ]

continued From First Page.
printing out of the domestic trade
that uncertain and prohibitive prices
are now the rule. Here are some eX-
amples:
One of the first elements of news
paper printing to feel the pressure of
war demands was the metal supply
Lead is produced chiefly in the United
States, but the foreign demand has
been far stronger than the domestic
market, and lead has jumped from
$4.25 per hundred weight before the
war to $7.25 this week.
The tin used in type metal is to a
great extent under English control,
and is exported only with the permis-
sion of the British Government. In
1914, block tin was quoted in New
York at an average price of $40. To-
day. limited quantities of the same
tin bring $50 in hundred-p pound lots.
Antimony, the hardening constituent
Of type metal, is also used in shrap-
mel and in the asphyXiating gases used
by the belligerents. The most care
fully smelted varieties of this metal
came from Europe before the war, and
were quoted at SS to 50 per hundred
weight. The present supply is being
the European metal is unobtainable,
and is priced about S44.
Stereotype metal, leather betting,
printing rollers, glue, wool blankets,
stereotype blankets, gum arabic, wrap
ping paper, twine, soft coal and every
other item are up. Type founders
supplies have advanced twenty per
cent. and news ink that sold in 1914
for $50 now costs $100
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
COUNCILS FAULT IF
NYMPHS FAIL TO DANCE
CONTINUED From First Pagc.l.


man notified the city fathers that the
insurance premium on Chocolate
King" Hershey's lovely gift to Har-
risburg expires on April "a. The
policy calls for $4,000.
Councils Little Movement
Mr.. Neal suggested that the policy
be renewed for a year at a cost of
$3.50 and that If the statues were not
confined for a whole year, the city
could reclaim the difference.
Whereupon the Council of Pennsyl-
vania's city Beautiful started a
modern little dance all its own-it
side-stepped
At the suggestion of Commissioner
Gorgas the city fathers lay the matter
over for week.
In the meantime the commissioners
with the possible exception of Messrs.
Lynch and Gorgas, were willing to
make suggestions as to what should
be done about it. And here are some
of the chuckled suggestions for saw
ing the cost of Insurance.:
Store 'em in one of the new deten-
tien cells at police headquarters.
Store EN- atop of the concrete
cover of the Oak Knob reservoir
Stand 'em up at the Twenty-frst
street entrance to Reservoir until the
city can find funds to place the foun-
tain at the site on the River Front
attthe foot of Locust street as chosen
by the 'art commission"
Estimates as to the cost of placing
the splendid masterpiece of Donate
as made by the sculptor himself placed
the cost at $4,000. If it cost more
than that to erect a permanent foun-
tain that would add to the beauty of
the water front, he promised to un-
dergo the excess expense himself.
But, Council to-day sadly shook its
head and declared that for the life
OF it, it couldn't see where 1t could
dig up the $4,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
MANY TAKE PART
IN PORCH-WINDOW
BOX CAMPAIGN
All Sections Represented
Among Those Helping Make
the City Beautiful

Among the most recent entrants
for place in the Telegraph's Porch
and Window Box Campaign are:
DR.. Fl. NJ. Vastine. 100 Locust street
Mrs. Katherine Wissler, S2S Harris
street.
Mrs. John II. Olsen, $50 Harris
street.
II. H. Bair, 1909 Penn street.
All of these will place window or
porch boxes about their homes. They
are only a few of those who have
taken up the movement in the past
few weeks and every day sees the
number grow.
Mrs. Olsen's letter, accompanying
her entrance blank, Is typical of the
interest shown. 1t is as follows:
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Enclosed you will find two cou-
pons filled out for porch boxes.
| think 1T is a fine idea to make
the city beautiful in this way.
take much interest in my porch
in the summer time and / and
my next door neighbor desire to
participate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
Appoint Committees to
Arrange Convention
For Sons of Italy

In accordance with the action of the
State committee of the sFigli D'ItaliaiA
Sons of Italy, at a meeting held or
presided, has selected convention
committee. The latter will have
charge of the arrangements for the
convention of the order to be held
in Harrisburg May 2S-31, at Chest
nut street auditorium. The COM
munity represents the three local
lodges, Carlo Alberto, 272, San
Michele, 329. Cittadini Italo- American.
The committee includes the following:
Salvatore Acri, chairman; V. Il.
Salerno, vice-chairman Giovanni
Almeno. corresponding secretary:
Agostino Branca. financial secretary:
Giuseppe Bruscla, treasurer; Luigi
LAMA, Gugliemo Cozzoli, Michele
Cerzullo and Giuseppe Lavia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
GOVERNOR GETS
BIG OVATION
[Continued From First Page

lContlnued From First Page.
mented by the fact that their assess
mentS. constitute a part of the county
assessments, and it may well be q
matter of concern for you to determine
to what extent local government
should be accorded to these boroughs
TO determine their own basis of as
sessment, in order that they may pro-
vide adequate funds to care for their
streets, their sewers, their schools
their water supply and the other es-
sential things that make up q pros
porous, healthy community.
The Governor said that the various
aspects of the right organization of a
borough will necessarily be the sub
ject of detailed discussion by the gath
ering," and he asked the delegates to
give the new borough code, passed at
the last session of the Legislature, a
fair trial. Finally he made a plea
that every citizen of every borough in
the State stand ready at all times to do
his part for the welfare of the COM
munity when called on for public
duty.
The big audience cheered the Cover
nor to the echo when he concluded.
Commissioners Jackson was chair
man of the session this afternoon and
in opening the meeting he spoke of
the work which the Department of
Labor and Industry can do in assisting
the boroughs of Pennsylvania He
urged the cooperation of the boroughs
and the department and said that both
would be benefited as a result.
When Governor Brumbaugh con-
cluded his address, Commissioner
Jackson introduced Joseph w. Hunter,
first deputy highway commissioner of
Pennsylvania, who talked of the re-
lation of the borough and the highway
department and how the highways in
Pennsylvania can be improved by
both the department and the boroughs
working together
Another speaker at the afternoon
session was Nelson McVicker, mem
ber of the Legislature from Allegheny
county. who talked on the Borough
Code and What II Means to the Bor-
ough." Mr.. McVicker helped frame
the borough code. The last speaker
this afternoon was Z. A. Weimer, pres
ident of the Pennsylvania Building
Code Commission.
Delegates from boroughs in every
part of Pennsylvania registered at the
sessions to-day of the fifth annual con-
vention of the State Association of
Boroughs and 1t was predicted that by
this evening there would be 400 dele
gates in attendance. Each borough
has sent from one to three delegates to
the sessions, which are being held in
the hall of the House of Representa-
| tives. in the Capitol. Members of the
association began to arrive last even
ing and when T. +. Chrostwaite, of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
Mexico Will HaUe u. S.
ProtectOrGte Is Prediction
,SteeiaI to tho Tclceraeh

Washington, April IL. Professor
Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard
University, predicted in an address be-
fore the Navy League of the United
States yesterday afternoon that within
five years Mexico will be a depend
ency of this country. He said:
II should be willing to risk my
reputation, which / have not yet ac-
quired as a political prophet, by say
ing that within five years the So
called republic of Mexico will be to
the United States in the same status
as the republic of Cuba, that is, that
it will be an independent republic un-
der the benevolent superintendent of
the United States. that there will be
something resembling the Plat
amendment"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
Cummins Running Far
Ahead in Iowa Election
BY Associated Press

Des Moines. Ia, April II. - Senator
Cummins. Republican candidate for the
Presidency. is running far ahead in
the number of votes cast in Yesterdays
primary for President Wilson, the
Democratic candidate.
In some precincts the names of Root,
Roosevelt. Hughes and Sherman had
been inserted In the ballot in place of
Cummfns. Hughes appeared to be the
favorite, and as far as can be learned
Sherman got one vote in the State. Ell
mer J. Burkett, of Lincoln, Neb., is be-
lieved to have polled nearly twice as
many votes for the Republican Vice
Presidency as did his opponent, Will
liam Grant Webster, of Chicago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
City to Get Hose
One Nickel Cheaper;
Big Program Today

Harrisburg will be required to pay
only ninety-five cents instead of a dol
lar per foot for the 1850 feet of fire
hose 1t recently bought from the BIZ
Lateral Fire Hose Company, accord
ing to a statement City Commissioner
T.. u. Gross, superintendent of parks
and public property, made to-day in
Council. After the contract had been
let at the price of a dollar Mr.. Gross
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
SENATE WANTS
INVESTIGATION OF
STANDARD OIL
Adopts Resolution to Have Re-
suits of Findings Since
Dissolution
BY Associated Press

Washington. April II. = without
debate the Senate to-day adopted a
resolution by Senator Kenyon, Re-
publican, directing the Attorney Cen
eral if not incompatible with public
interest to submit to the Senate all
reports of investigations made by the
department into the Standard Oil
Company since the Supreme Court
decree of dissolution against that
company and particularly any investi-
CATION in gasoline prices.
Dealers Face Ruin
Senator Kenyon read to the Senate,
resolutions adopted by the Western
OIL Jobbers' Association, at St. Louis,
petittoning Congress to supplement
the Sherman law to make effective the
decree of dissolution against the
Standard Oil Company, and declaring
1t to be the sense of the association
that the dissolution decree was a
failure.
A letter to Senator Kenyon from
counsel for the association declared
Independent oil jobbers of the Mid
die West would be driven out of bus
mess and faced financial ruin, unless
an end was brought to discriminatory
prices of gasoline dictated by the
Standard Oil Company
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11
MORE LOCAL oPTIoNIsTs

Local option party pre-emption pa
pers were filed to-day for the Second
Representatives, Thirty-ninth Sena-
torial and Twenty-scond CongressionaI |
districts of Westmoreland county, and
Tor the Twelfth Representative and
Allegheny.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-11

official French advices the defenders
of Verdun have held firm except at
one point in the region of Dead Mans
hill, where the Germans gained 500
yards of French trenches. 1t is now
reported from Paris that the main on
slaught has diminished in extent, be-
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-26
HOW TO Be WEATHER WISE
Nature Supplies sigma ~ Which
Conditions May BE Fairly
F0recasted.

II you want fine weather, look for
fine weather signs. Here are some
Of the most reliable, for they are
based upon scientific facts:
When the sun sets in sea Of glory,
that is, when the sunset sky is red,
you may expect clear weather on the
following day.
At night, when the moon is clear
and shows clear edges, with no halo
or ring OF mist surrounding 1t, there
is little danger OF rain.
When the wind blows steadily from
the west, the weather will continue
fair; it very rarely rains in our eastern
states with the wind in the west.
Watch the smoke from chimney
or from your campfire-it is a good
barometer. II the smoke rises high
it means clear weather. The smoke
will also show from which direction
the wind is blowing; so will flag on
an upright flagstaff.
A gray early morning, not heavy
cloudy one, promises fair day.
A heavy dew at night is seldom fol
lowed by rain and you will remember
wet feet, dry head.
Animals are said often to show by
their actions what the weather will be
and there is reason in this Some o.
them certainly have a knowledge o.
coming storms. We are told thai
spiders are especially sensitive tc
weather changes, and when they max,
new webs the weather will be fair; i
they continue spinning during
shower, it will soon clear off.-St
Nicholas.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-26
Business Portion
Of Needles Burned;
Five Lives Are Lost

Needles, Cal, June 25.-Fire swept
the desert town Of Needles early
today, destroying the entire business
section and causing the death OF at
least five persons, who were trapped
while sleeping in two hotels which
were destroyed. Several others were
injured, escaping from the blazing
structures. The loss was estimated
at $l7S,000.
!, Fifteen business houses and four
residences fell before the flames. The
fire started from an unknown cause
an hour after midnight and spread
rapidly among the wooden buildings.
The firemen were liable to get it
under control until cfter daylight.
4 Several heroic rescues were made
from the smoke-illed hotel walls by
iiremen and volunteers. Survivors
we're being checked over and search
was being made for bodies today
Needles lies on the banks OF the
Colorado river, the California-Arizona
boundary. The Santa Fe railroad
maintains large shops here, which
were saved from the flames. The
town has been the principal Quitting
point for the new mining camp OF
Oatman, Ariz. There are 5000 inhab-
itants here.
A large number of Mexicans reside
at Needles. Wednesday peace officers
were sent here from San Bernardino,
the county seat, to quell disturbances
that resulted from brawl between
Mexicans and Americans.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-26

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You can have Q free copy Of Q wonderful
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today,
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-26
NEW LORD KITCHENER IS ON
HIS WAY HOME FROM AFRICA

Correspondence o. The Associated Press.)
London, June ls.--Thc new Lord
Kitchener. elder brother and heir Of
the late secretary Of war, who was
Colonel H. z. c. Kitchener, u re-
ported on his way home from south
west Africa, where he has been serv-
ing in the campaign against the Ger
mans.
Although 50 years old, the new earl
placed himself It the disposal Of the
government At the outbreak Of the
war, and began active duty at once.
He served in Burma in 1891, being
mentioned in dispatches, and in the
Manipur expedition In the same year,
being again mentioned In dispatches.
He married In 1877 the only daugh.
ter Of the late Lieutenant Colonel
franklin Lushington. A son, H. Z,
F. c. Kitchener, served in China in
1900 and 10 serving in the present
war. There il also daughter.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-26
War Department Impatient.
TWO BULL M00SERS
CALL ON ROOSEVELT

Oyster Bay, N. Y, June z5.-Ches-
ter H. Rowell and Irwin R. Kirk
wood, progressive national commit
teemen from California and Missouri,
respectively, and R. H. Post, former
governor Of Porto Rico, conferred
with Theodore Roosevelt at his home
yesterday.
Mr.. Post said he came to ask
Colonel Roosevelt to use his good
offices in obtaining snake serum
from a noted physician in Brazil for
the benefit Of American troops in
Mexico.
Another visitor was Nicholas Long
worth, son-in-law Of the colonel, who
Joined Mrs. Longworth here.