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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28
Greece Now Fears Loss
of Epirus as Well as
All Eastern Macedonia
BY associated Press

Athens, Aug. 81, via London. Aug.
rs. - The landing of the first con-
tingent OF Italian troops at Chimara,
a small seaport of Albania on the
Strait of Otranto, causes gloom
throughout all Greece. The Greeks
now see not only Eastern Macedonia
in the hands of the Bulgarians. whom
they expelled from there three years
ago. but Northern Epirus in, the hands
of the Italians.
Following the landing of the Italian
troops the Greek civil officers were
temporarily relieved of their functions
and the telegraph wires were cut, but
this damage was soon repaired.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28
British to Release Dutch
Fishing Boats on Conditions

London, Aug. 2S.-The Daily Mail
says an agreement has been signed be-
tween the Dutch Fishing Association
and the British government regarding
the future disposal of Dutch herring
catches and providing for the release
of from 120 to $50 Dutch fishing boats
which have been laid up in Scottish
ports for some weeks past.
The vessels will he released, the
newspaper says, on condition that Ger
many receive no more than 20 per
cert. of the seasons catch. Holland
will retain another 20 per cent for
home consumption, while the remain
ing SO per cent. will be sold to neutral
countries only. On every barrel of
this 60 per cent the British govern
ment agrees to pay a bonus of 80 shil-
lings to the Dutch owners. The Daily
Mail concludes by saying that fisher
men believe America will get most of
the so per cent. which goes to neutrals.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM IN LONDON
London, Aug. 2S. - Rumania's dec
laration of war against Austria Hun
gary, while not unexpected, aroused
the greatest enthusiasm in London.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28
GREEKS IN DEMONSTRATION
By associated Press

2S.-Fifty thousand Greeks Joined in
a demonstration before the residence
of Nenizelos, the former premier, to-
day and cheered him with boundless
enthusiasm when he urged them to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28

send a committee to King Constantine
to urge him to support the present
government and prepare the army for
a probable rupture of existing con-
ditions"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28

be decided on by the Teutonic Allies,
either in the way of leadership or by
utilizing her soldiers when needed in
the rapid shifting of troops from one
front to another
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28
LABOR UNION

A meeting of the Central Labor
union will be held in the rooms of
the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor,
222 Market street, TIT o'clock this
evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28
mo- CHANGE EAGLES, MAMIE

Application was made to the Dauphin
County Court to-day to change the
Harrisburg Aerie, Fraternal Order OF
Eagles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28
GIRL DIES FROM TYPHOID

OPCtTuI 10 ZIG tItsTHPH
Millersburg, Pa, Aug. 2S. Miss
Alma Hoff, aged 10 years, died at her
home here on Saturday night from
typhoid fever.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28
BELL-I991-UNITED

To you who buy,
and to you who write
about the doings of
this store, remember
this:
1T is far better for
this store and for those
whose dependence is
upon their work here,
to add a new customer
each day through con-
scientious effort, rather
than find it necessary
to add falsehood to our
daily announcements
to induce crowds to
look at goods!"
Practice Makes Perfect
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28
Predetermined Play

No indications have been received thus z of the immediate
effect the military situation in tn. Balkans which becomes
of preponderan importance the doubtless
by Rumana by her opponent which had making
Preparations for this eventua 1t to be expected Rumania will
follow plan of campaign mapped by the high council of the
entente whether against Hungary Bulgaria
both An indication that Rumana moved in with pre-
determined plan allies
declaration of made the day ays
against Germany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28
RUMANIA DECLARES WAR
ON AUSTRIA.HUNGARY
IContinued From First Pagel

Runana has entered the with the allies. Official
made Berlin that the of of
with Hungary proclaimed in Bucharest yesterday
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28
May Pour Through Passes

Rumania has a border line as long
as the whole Russian western war
front on which to choose her point of
military attack. In what direction her
first blow might he aimed is only in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-28

beds include different
a bedroom
Handsome mahogany
Mostly full although single
Prices from 395 for continuous
the finest mahogany period design, at S3475;
ents auinoo each bed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04

port will display ut all times red
flag of at least sixteen square feet
surface"
Safeguards Being Taken.
These government regulations" said
Captain Dunwoody. provide for anchor
age OF vessels carrying explosives in
the safest places In the herbor. have
two motorboats running night and day
from one anchorage TO another. seeing
that these rules and regulations are
obeyed. There isn't the slightest
chance that Gravesend Bay will be
abandoned as an anchorage for vessels
carrying explosives"
City officials and officials of the
Bureau Of Combustibles OF the Ameri-
can Railway Association, which en-
forces the regulations Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission regarding the
interstate shipment Of explosives, de-
clared yesterday that the danger, so far
rs Greater New York is concerned, has
been greatly exaggerated.
Because of the enormous quantities
Of explosives used in constructing the
dual subway system, the Fire, Police
and Dock departments adopted rules
regulating the handling of explosives
more than two years ago. Fire Com
missioner Robert Adamson said yester-
day that these regulations designated
eleven docks as the only places in the
greater city where explosives could be
landed.
They are: In Manhattan, foot Of
West l57th Street. foot of West 1Sdth
Street, foot of West Forty-eighth
Street, foot of East Nineteenth Street,
foot OF East Eighty-sixth Street. foot
of East 1Osth Street; in Brooklyn at
the foot of Clinton Avenue; in Queens
at the foot of Sixth Street, Long Island
City: in Richmond at Donovan's dock
in Port Richmond, at Johnson's dock
in West New Brighton, and at Brady's
dock in Clifton.
1--WE believe We have reduced the
danger 20 a minimum" said Mr.. Ad-
amson. I'VE cannot interfere with
munitions and explosives passing
through New York. The courts have
held that such traffic is under the
direction Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission exclusively. and that in
dividual cities and towns have no
authority or power to pass and attempt
TO enforce local regulations. save those
governing storage and transportation
within the city"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
THIRTEEN HURT WHEN
CAR JUMPS SWITCH
All Plnloned Beneath Jersey
Freight Carrier.

Thirteen men were hurt. three OF
them seriously, yesterday, when an
open freight car. loaded with laborers'
jumped the track Of the Central Rail-
road Of New Jersey at the foot Of East
Twenty-eighth Street, Bayonne. Forty
men had boarded the car at Jersey
City and were being hauled TO the new
Lehigh Valley Railroad pier in Bay
onne. The engine got safely over the
switch al Twenty eighth Street, but the
front wheels OF the car jumped on,
pitching the car down four-foot en-
bankment.
Several of the men were hurled q
distance Of fifteen feet or more, but
escaped without injury. Thirteen were
pinned beneath the car, and remained
there until wrecking crew with JACKS
raised the car and got them out
The most seriously hurt were
James Broskey forty, Of 32i
Wales Avenue, Jersey City; Felix
Mastery, sixty-one, Of 2S Centre
Street, Jersey City, both taken to Bay
onne Hospital, and John Cockeronei
forty-two, of 395 First Street, Jersey
City, taken to Jersey City Hospital.
They will recover The other ten
were treated in the emergency ward
of the Jersey City Hospital.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
CRAIG COLGATE WEBS
MISS SALLY BRIGHAM
Vale Man and Bride Will Spend
HONEYMOON in West.

Miss Sally Brigham, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Dana Brigham, of S42 Arhity
Street. Flushing, and Craig Colgate;
con ~ Robert Colgate, were married
Yesterday se% I'd gU afternoon at o'clock in St.
Johns Episcopal Church, Sanford Ave
nue., Flushing The Rex. George ,is,sd &c
cles, pastor Of the church Gfnei an
After the ceremony a dinner was
served at the home of the bride. The
couple left last evening on an extern
sive Western trip, 1t is expected that
thew will make their home at Locust
Valley, Long Island.
MIR. Colgate, who was graduated
from Yale, is well known in club cir.
cles. He is a member of the Piping
Rock. the Union. the Knickerbocker,
Nassau Country and other we'll known
clubs. NJ,
His bride is popular along the North
Shore. She is a member OF the Green
Twigs. an organization which has done
considerable charitable work in Flush
ing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
OLD u. S. GUNBOAT
BLOWN FAR ASTRAY
Detroit lowed Into San Juan
from 1000 Miles Away.

San Juan, Porto Rico, July 2s.-Ai-
most eighteen years to day after she
had fred on the old Spanish fortihca-
tions of FL MORO at the entrance. 10
San Juan Harbor the barge Detroit,
formerly a United States gunboat,
and in the SpanishAmerican War
part of Admiral SIMPSONS fleet, was
towed into port this week. with tale
Of having encountered two hurricanes
but a few hours apart and being blown
back here almost thousand miles
after having been within four hundred
miles Of New York.
Captain Madison laid most OF the
Detroit's ill-luck TO the fact that she
had aboard what remained Of the cargo
of the schooner Forest City, which
burned at the wharf here on New
Years Day. after encountering foul
weather and sickness on an eighty day
voyage from the west coast Of South
Africa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
VETERANS TO HONOR
FARRAGUT TOMORROW
Annual Banquet Will Be at the
Hotel Preston.

after the crew OF the good ship Far
ragut Naval Post, No. SIC, G. A. r."
reads an announcement, "has held the
services at the Farragut statue, Mad
ison Square, Fifth Avenue and Twenty
sixth Street, to commemorate the
fifty-second anniversary of the victory
Of Mobile Bay, fought August 3, 1864,
anchor will be raised and the ship will
sail course due east to the Hotel
Preston Fourth Avenue and Twenty
sixth Street, where she will cast
anchor, and visitors allowed on board,
from the sterboard side, Twenty sixth
Street gangway."
Proceeding, naval veterans who re-
ceived their invitations yesterday TO
the annual banquet of the Farragut
men noted that at the hotel "a full
cargo will be In waiting to be slowed
away, and visitors will be expected to
assist the crew." The cargo slowed,
the smoking lamp will be lighted and
an old-time sailors dog watch held.
Sherburne c. Van Tassell, commander
of the post, and George Blair comprise
the committee in charge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
Fire Burned Two Hours
Before Blast, He Saws

Washington. Aug. 5.-Frank McMan-
amy, who investigated for the Inter
state Commerce Commission the big
explosion at Jersey City last Sunday,
returned to Washington to-day and re-
ported that the fire was burning on
Black Tom Island at least two hours
before the blast occurred, but that he
found no evidence that munitions were
stored on the island more than forty
eight hours, the maximum time al
lowed for transshipment at any port.
Details of the report vert not made
public. The commission will consider
it tomorrow and decide whether fur
Their action shall be taken.
Representatives Eagan and Hamill,
OF New Jersey, called at the White
House to-day to urge that Edgar E.
Clark, Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner, who supervises shipment Of ex-
plpsives, go to New York and continue
the inquiry. Decision on this point
has not been reached.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
BRIDGE TOURNAMENT
AT NhRRAGANSETT
Prizes Awarded and Tea Served
at The Towers.
Try T,lsusph 10 The Tribune. J

Narragansett Pier. R. l., Aug. 3.-Nar,
ragansett's cottage colony was well
represented at a bridge tournament and
tea which took place this afternoon IN
The Towers, on Ocean Road, for the
benefit of the Village Improvement
Association.
Three prizes were awarded the WIN
ners in the tournament, and following
bridge tea was served in The Towers.
The first prize went TO Mrs. FRANK
Samuel. of Philadelphia; the second
10 Miss Edith Blanc, Of New York, and
the third to Mrs. +. W. Robinson OF
Philadelphia. Vt
Mrs. Human Bird, Of New York, and
Mrs. Alexander Brown, Of Philadelphia
presided at the tea tables.
Mrs. Frank Samuel, Of Philadelphia
is president of the improvement Soci-
ETY.; Miss Anna Lou Grimes, OF Ken
tucky, secretary, and Miss Bessie Rob-
inso,, Of New York, treasurer.
Maxwell Greene. former United
States Consul to Bermuda, and Mrs.
Maxwell Greene, have arrived at the
Mathewson. ~, vi
c. Perry Beadleston, Of New YORK
and William Potter, of Philadelphia
are registered at the Casino.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan Belmont ana
RAYMOND Belmont, Of New York, were
here to-day for the Point judith polo
tournament.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04

Before the infantile paralysis plague
can be halted on the lower East Side,
clean up of greater proportions than
that district has known In years will
have to be made. This was the sub
stance OF report handed to Police
Commissioner Woods yesterday by Ser
geant ii. A. Taylor, who made per-
sonal tour Wednesday of the Monroe,
Rivington. Eldridgc and Madison Street
sections.
He found sanitary conditions Of the
most dangerous type. Hundreds Of
stray cats, dirty and hungry. prowled
from flth-strewn Easements. nosed into
uncovered garbage cans. and came into
direct contact with hundreds OF chill
dren.
Millions Of blue bottle" fies-be-
lieved to be carriers Of the infantile
paralysis plague about un-
screened fruit stands, and over the dirt
piled high in Railways and corners.
then rose to soar through windows not
providing with netting.
OF the many fruit stands along the
street. only one was covered with net
ting. In the basement Of the tene-
ment at SO Market Street, a dark, filthy
room was found in use rs an ice store,
AN ideal place for typhoid germs to
breed" was Sergeant Taylor's com
ment.
At 80 Monroe Street, where a case OF
infantile paralysis had developed, al
open fruit stand was located in the
basement. Beside it sat mother. an
infant pressed against her breast. She
know of the infantile paralysis case,
she said. but hadY't been told by the
Health Department that filth and dirt
might be doing their part in the spread
of the epidemic.
Cats Help Spread Plague.
Half dozen stray cats-all of them
grimy-were leisurely proving be-
meath an uncovered fruit stand. at 81
Monroe Street, while hundreds of flies
swsrmed on the stand itself.
Where's your netting" Sergeant
Taylor asked a white-haired old woman
who owned the stand.
Right here" she responded, jerking
forth a crumpled, dirty mass OF cloth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
MRS. CHAMBERLAIN WEEDS
Widow of British Statesman Becomes
Bride of Clergyman.

London, Aug. 3.-Mrs. Joseph Cham
berlain. widow of the British states
man. and the Rev. William Hartley
Carnegie. rector of st. Margaret's and
Canon Of Westminster, were married
AT Westminster Abbey at s o'clock this
morning
Mrs. Chamberlain before her first mar
,iscc was Miss Mary Endicott. of Mas
sachusetts, daughter of the late Will
am c. Endicott, Secretary of War IN
president Cleveland's Cabinet She
was married TO Joseph Chamberlain
when he was Colonial Secretary under
the late Marquis Of Salisbury.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
East Side Children in Peril
of Plague Play Amid Filth
Police Inquiry Shows Sanitation Is Ignored by Projectors
of Dirty Soda Fountains and Fruit Stands. While
Streets and Tenements Reek.

which had been concealed in a corner
Of the stand.
Soda Fountains Filthy.
Hardly a fruit or vegetable stand in
the entire neighborhood was found
properly shielded from flying dirt and
insects. Scores of soda fountains
mere holes in the wall for the most
part-were reeking with flies and NTH
These were patronized mainly by chill
dren, who drank from half-washed
glasses. Many vile Easements and hall
ways were found.
Inquiries made by the police ser
peant showed the Health Departments
campaign of education" against the
plague had not yet penetrated to the
sordid parts of the city where 1t is
most needed. Men and women found
sitting in dirty Railways, where death
had already claimed n victim by the
epidemic, apparently had no compre-
hension of the part cleanliness plays In
infantile paralysis prevention.
At % Market Street Sergeant Taylor
found soda water stand, the lower
part of which, he says, was Uttered
with refuse and filth.
Fruit Is Uncovered.
How long since you cleaned this
place out?" he demanded Of Charles
Bermen, the owner.
Last winter" came the artless reply,
Hasn't an inspector visited you
lately?"
Eyes. But he only examined the hot
water tank"
Didn't an inspector tell you to keep
it over your fruit and vegetables
ooh. yes" she replied, smilingly.
"But | simply had it off while | was
putting some fresh tomatoes with the
old ones"
Cleanliness Is Ignored.
Baby Morris Lieberman died Of in
fantile paralysis in the tenement at
III Monroe Street a few days ago. In
the basement of that house Sergeant
Taylor Yesterday found butcher shop,
swarming with flies. Near by was the
inevitable soda water fountain, patron
lied by children and alive with flies.
woman in the house knew Baby Lieber-
man had died, knew the Health Depart
ment had tackled up the usual yellow
sign, but had not been warned OF the
importance Of cleanliness.
At the market under Williamsburg
Bridge. near Pitt and Delaney Streets.
uncovered fish, swarming with flies,
were being offered for sale. The door
was sickening. Several inches of stag
nant water covered the basement moor
of the building. ct 22S Madison Street
formally occupied by "The Jewish Morn
ing Journal" but now vacant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
TRUTH In ADS
AGAIN VICTOR
Mails Closed to Two Con
Germs Accused of De-
frauding Autoists.
From Tho Tribune Bureau

Washington. Aug. 3.-"Truth in ad-
vertising and honesty in selling" won
another victory to-day in the action OF
the Postoffice Department in denying
the use of the mails to the lnterna-
tional Automobile League, Inc, the
International Automobile League Tire
Company, of Buffalo, and A. c. Bidwell,
president of both concerns.
Postal officials expressed the. belief
that the governments sction in this
case sounds the death knell of numer-
Gus enterprises which have victimlzed
thousands of motor car owners in all
parts of the country.
Bidweli has been indicted by the
Federal Grand Jury in Rochester
charged with using the mails to fur
Their a scheme to defraud, and by the
grand jury Of Fayette County, Penn
with two Of his agents, on the charge
of conspiracy to defraud.
W. II. Lamar, Solicitor General OF
the Postoffice Department, said: "The
order which became effective to-day
concludes one of the longest and most
important hearings ever held by this
Office The hearing occupied forty SIX
days and revealed remarkable COM
plexity and variety of practices en-
ployed by the president of the league
and his agents. For years this league
has been using the mails 20 obtair
money from automobile owners, deal
ers and iobbers of automobile sup
plies"
The inquiry into the league was
made at the request of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World anC
the American Automobile Association
10 protect motor car owners as a par
of the nationwide campaign OF tbs
Advertising Clubs for Truth in ad
vertising and honesty in selling"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
WIDOW OF FOUNDER
OF HAMMOND DEAD
Was One of Richest Women In
Indiana.

Hammond, Ind, Aug. 3.-Mrs. Thorn
"a Hammond, seventy years old, widow
of the founder Of this city, and re
puted TO be one Of the wealthiest
women In Indiana, died here to-day.
Forty years ago Mr. Hammond and
his bride settled on the site which
later grew into a city and manufsetur-
ing centre. Mr. Hammond, who at ono
time served his district in Congress,
died two years ago. Mrs. Hammond
had been active in philsnthropiic work.
She leaves three children and fourteen
grandchildren.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
So DEAD; HOMES
SWEPT BY FLOOD
Many Missing as Cloud
burst Strikes Tennessee
Valley Late in Night.

Middleboro, KY, Aug. 3.-While the
waters which overlooked the banks Of
Blair's Greek, near Tszewell, Tenn,
late last night and early to-day. have
rot receded and have impeded the
work of recovering bodies and rescue,
it has been definitely established that
thirty-six persons were lost as the
result Of the cloudburst. The revised
list of dead follows:
Robert Johnson and his wife; Mrs.
d. c. Edmonds, her four children and
two grandchildren; the Misses Lille
and Minnie Wiley, daughters of Mr..
and Mrs. s. II. Wiley, of Monroe, Mich;
Bush Ferguson, his wife and seven
children; W. T. Zachery, his wife and
five children; Thomas McBee, his wife
and seven children, and Bob Chanley
and his wife. The Wiley girls were
visiting their grandpother.
Rescue parties returning from the
stricken district late to-day report that
the water is all over the little valley
and that apparently every home along
Blair's Greek for distance of six miles
has been washed away. some eSIlndte
that the death list when finally COM
plete will total fifty, but others be
ieve that it will be held down to thirty
or thirty-five at the outside. Rescue
parties that went into the valley to-
day brought out number who have
been made homeless, and these are be-
ing taken care of in Tazewell and in
fsrmhouses in the neighborhood.
These survivors tell thrilling tales
Of escape. but the majority are confined
70 simple statements that the water
came upon them during the night and
that before they had time to fee their
homes were floating away. Rescue
parties stayed in the valley tonight
with the expectation that they could
start work in earnest in the morning
if the water began to recede.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
ASKS AID FOR ACTORS FAMILY
Association Appeals for Fund for
Widow and Two Children.

The Widowed Mothers Fund Asso-
citation, in an appeal for aid for a
family, says: -.
Ten years ago, while on tour, in Chi
cago a vaudeville artist, who was tray-
cling with his wife and twO Babies,
was bitten by trick dog, and died
after an illness Of few days. HIS
family was brought back TO New York
by the wife's father, who was old and
poor himself, but who helped until ne
died. The widow began TO work at
once and is living with an old grand
mother and an aunt, who IS Janitress
Of the building.
"The two children are now thirteen
and eleven years old, and it is neces-
sary for the mother 70 give them a
little more space. She has appeal ed
to the Widowed Mothers Fund Associa-
ton. 1872 Bowery, for aid with rent, and
will continue to work for her living
expenses. Any one wishing 70 con-
tribute toward a fund to assist the
family with $40 per month for one
wear, will please address Mrs. Henry
Zuckerman, 81 Broadway, or at the
rooms of the association"