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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-05
CONTINUATION
SCHOOLS OPEN
HERE ON FEB. |
$50 Pupils Will Fill the Desks,
Says Superintendent F.
+. DowneS
IPLANS MATERIALIZING
Ten Firms Will Discharge All
Boys and Girls Under
Sixteen Years

The new continuation schools, in
stituted by State law to so into ef-
feet upon the first of January or rea-
sonably soon thereafter, allowing Il
number of days of grace in which
to perfect the details of the plan, will
in all probability open in this city
February first.
A recommendation that the schools
be opened ON this date will be made
by f. e. Downs, superintendent of
schools, at the meeting of the school
board on Friday evening. School board
officials have been extremely busy of
late preparing information and work
ing out details preliminary to the es-
tablishment of the continuation
schools. Every employer of child
labor in Harrisburg some time ago
information as to the status of his
business as applied to the minors in
his employ. Replies have been re-
ceived from practically all the firms
thus addressed. and they have been
divided into classes, comprising un-
employ minors; under another head
those who employ minors before and
after school; under another, a list of
those who do not employ minors at
all; and lastly, a group of ten firms
that will discharge all boys and girls
under sixteen years of age as soon as
the law is actually in effect.
$50 VIII Attend Schools
From these replies it was estimated
that a few less than $50 boys and
girls in the city between the ages of
IA and Is will have to attend the
continuation schools according to
law. The number is very moderate,
and somewhat less than was antici-
pated, but it was materially decreased
by the thirty or more minors who
have been or will be discharged.
The names of all pupils who will
have to be schooled have been OBJ
tanned and everything is in readiness
for the working out of the plans and
| the appointment of teachers and the
| location of the schools. These details
will probably be determined upon
| Friday evening at the board meet
! ing. Thereafter correspondence will
! be held with all the employers and
/
with it's recommendation will be
made public.
! Two Schools Likely
1t looks to DR.. Downs now as
| though two schools will have to be
opened and he will probably make
! that recommendation to the board
| In his letter to employers of child
labor in this city, the superintendent
quoted sections of the law which are
| the most vital, referring to the EN-.
| ployment of minors, and telling in de.
tail of the method of procedure with
reference to the issue of certificates
which become the property of the
/ employer and must not be given to
/ the minor at any time.
Until employers shall receive Motif
cation that the schools have been es-
! tablished minors between fourteen
and sixteen in their employment may
! work fifty-one hours per week as
! specified in the law.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-05
Badly Bruised SurUiUors
of Persia Describe Their
Experiences When Landed
BY Associated Press

London, Jan. A. The survivors
of the British steamship Persia which
was torpedoed in the Mediterranean
last Thursday reached Alexandria,
Egypt, according to the account sent
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Ncsterlay's Weather
Highest temperature, 81.
Lowest temperature. -.
Mean temperature. 33.
Normal temperature. 80.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
'HEALERS' ARE FACED
WITH FRAUDORDER
Trio Alleged to Have Contracted
to Bless Handkerchief Of
Sufferers.

There II surprise In store for tbose
persons In various parts OF the tynitod
states who have been following the
directions Of the Rev. Francis scb,at-
ter and the Rev. A. schrader. for The
United States Postoffice today descend.
ed on both OF them and on plain Gus
Algard. untitled retainer.
The department, in addition to issu-
ing fraud order against the three
men. warning the public not to SUBJ
scribe to their divine healing" treat
ment. disclosed marvellous system by
which. II alleged. they sought TO
prey on the credulity OF the sick.
The three men are now under In
dictment In Los Angeles. where the
Rev. Mr.. Schrader Is In jail, awaiting
divine assistance or 5000 ball to OBJ.
tain his release. The Rev. Mr.. Schlat-
ter and Algsrd are In New York. Eff
iorn are being made to extradite them
According to the Postoffice Depart
meht the trio had n new method of
collecting offerings. They directed in
quirers 70 send\handkerchiefs to them
to be blessed. These handkerchief.
after being blessed. would be returned
and the owners directed to cure them
selves by rubbing the handkerchief on
the parts OF the body where you feel
worst" Fresh handkerchief should
be sent to be blessed each week, said
the healers, and with them each time,
"as large an offering as you can
afford" Each night at s O'Clock, II
was explained. prayers would be Of
fered for the handkerchief users.
The department alleges that Schlatter
and his companions did not offer the
prayers promised and expresses Arm
belief that the blessed handkerchief
possessed no power to heal.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
OPERATOR
OFF FOR NEW YORK
R. w. Bender to Attend Meeting Of
Old Telegraphers.

r. w. Bender. veteran wire chief Of
the local offices OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company. and one Of the old
est employees. has left Washington to
attend the meeting OF the Old Time
Teiegraphers and Historical Association
In New York. The ''graybeards" are the
guests OF Thomas A. Edison.
Mr. Bender has been in the employ
OF the Washington office Of the West
tern Union for fifty years.
He began work here In the offices as
a telegraph operator. In 1856. and since
then has risen to the position OF wire
chief. having charge Of all the sending
and receiving work done over the WASH
ington Western Union telegraph wires.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28


visr asking me TO meet him in the
evening. I met him at the Walton
and he invited mo to go TO the thea
tor. l had no baggage with me ex-
cept a small handbag. as ] had plan
med to remain here only for the day.
Intending to return to New York the
same day After inviting me to go
to the theater. Mr.. Gravier suggested
that I leave my bag in his room. and
! agreed to do so.
"On our return from the theater we
had omething to eat on the roof garden
OF the hotel, and about l o'clock I told
him II was time for me to go TO my
nephew's home. snen remembered
my handbag In his room.
1--WE stopped by at the room TO get
It. We had barely stepped into the
room-tust as I was about to pick up
the handbag near the dresser a woman
jumped out Of the closet, She was tall
and dark, and 1 don't believe / ever
saw her before. She had a revolver in
her hand. She said nothing.
She began to shoot. The first shot
struck Mr.. Gravier in the left side.
tried to rub to the door. but before
could l was shot. That Is all re-
member"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
Bulgarians Capture
Few Serbian Trenches

PARIS, Sept. 2S.-The Buigarians took
Q few elements of Serbian trenches in
attacks of Kamakchalan ridge, but sur
fered such heavy loses that they did
announced today.
All other Bulgarian attacks in Mace
donia were repulsed
The Bulgarian war office, in a delayed
statement received yesterday, announced
that the Serbians were thrown back on
the whole front by attacks in the
Kamakchalan region.
On the allies right wing, a Bulgarian
column came under allied fire near
wing two Bulgarian attacks east and
west OF F1orina were checked by
Franco Russian fires.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
Roumanians Repulse Foe
In Vulkan Pass Sector

BUCHAREST. Sept. "a dlstinet
koumanian victory over the Austro. Ger
mans who attempted to invade Rou-
reported today. a'
The Roumanians have driven the Teu-
TONS northward more than eight miles
oy strong frontal attacks and threats
against the Teutonic left flank. The
skirts Of the coal town OF Petrosenv
where Fighting is now going on.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
ALLIES RENEW ATTACK
IN WEST, SAYS BERLIN
Admits Losses At Some Points
North Of Somme.

BERLIN, Sept. 2S-Anglo-French
armies renewed their attacks between
the Ancre and the Somme last night,
but on the greater part of the front
were repulsed. the war office announced
this afternoon
Northwest OF Rancourt and east of
Gouchavesnes, the French retained Ger
man trenches. Near Thiepval and east
OF Eaucourt l'Abbey the fighting IL still
going on with the result in doubt. The
first Anglo-French attacks on the Nor
val-Bouchavesnes line were repulsed
with heavy enemy losses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
MOUNTED TROOPS
WILL START MONDAY
Third Regiment will Entrain for
Border on Wednesday, Gen.
eral Harvey Announces. .
Continued from First Pageo

fcers, and eighty cavalrymen and
three officers, together with Ninety
four colored, recruits for the First
s ssp gattaii9n VIII bs, BE
Immediately afterward they will be
marched to 'Rosslyn and to entrain
The artillery. cavalry. and recruits
win travel over the Southern railroad
by way Of Lynchburg. Bristol, Men,
pills. Santa Rosa, and El Paso.
Separate Sections for Infantry. -
The three battalions of the Third
Regiment. as well as the supply and
machine gun companies and sanitary
troop will be paid Tuesday. Each OF
the battalions will leave on a sep
srate section OF the troop train Wed:
nesday evening. The sections viii
consist OF sixteen cars each and VIII
leave Rosslyn at intervals OF fifteen
or twenty minutes.
The first battalion. com ma nded by
Major Joseph +. Hodgson, Will occupy
the hrst section and leave about q
o'clock Wednesday. The second bat
talio nwill depart a quarter OF an
which will be accompanied by Coll
onel Young and his staff, Will pull
out at $3.50. according to plans made
today. ,.....
Arrangements Made ut Conference.
Arrangements for dispatching all the
local mllitiamon to the border In COM
pliance with Secretary Bakers orders
were completed at a conference held at
the mobilization camp about noon to-
day.
The conference was attended by Cen
eral Harvey. Colonel Young. Major
French, Major ]. G. Whitaker, camp
quartermaster; Capt. Horace p. Hobbs.
Capt. Will II. Chase. OF the supply COM
pany. and William Volandt civilian
clerk In Major Frenchs office, who will
attend to all the transportation details.
IL was decided to allow Captain Chase
sufficient time to complete the distribu-
ton OF heavy clothing and overcoats to
the soldiers and to give Major Whitaker
opportunity to provide sufficient food
stuffs to, ration the militiamen for ten
days after the time OF their departure.
or equal Importance with these two
subjects. however. was the question OF
paying the soldiers before sending them
away. The officers agreed that since
the militiamen will be mustered for pay
Saturday morning. and the money and
all the agencies for distributing the
funds are at hand, II would be best to
pay the soldiers.
Todays reports showed s23 enlisted
men and nifty officers In the Third Regi-
ment. with twenty-elght privates absent
without leave. Details OF armed SOL
diers were sent TO Washington by many
OF the company commanders to arrest
the absentees and return them to camp.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
LLOYD-GEORGE TELLS
U. S. TO keep OUT
Declares Britain Will Resent
Any Effort by Neutral to
Restore Peace.
Continued from First Page,

while he was remaking the map OF
Europe without the slightest regard for
the wishes, of its people, the British
people were preparing to pay the price
we t ths ar must rs Ss paid for the time to
It is one thing to look back on the
pounding the British soldier took the
first tive years OF the war. but a az.
be avoided during these months when
II seemed the finish Of the British
army might come quickly.
gns viii sleg nST to MAKE It sets An
soldier was ridiculed. held in con-
tempt. Now we intend to see that
Germany has her way. The fight
must be to the finish--to knock
Dropping his coiloauiaiisms, the
half-smile fading from his face.
Lloyd-George continued In more
"The whole world. including neu-
trails of the highest purposes and
Humanitarian with the best motives,
must know that there can be no out
size intsrfersnss at this stare;
when she was not prepared to nght.
She will tolerate none now that she
is prepared. until Prussian military
despotism 10 broken beyond repair
No Regret in Germany.
There was no regret voiced in Ger
many over the useless slaughter. There
when the few thousand British citizens
who never expected to be soldiers.
whose military education started only
a few months previously, went out 10
be battered, bombed and gassed. TO re-
could fire-went out. fought and Gied
like sportsmen without even q grumble.
1T repeat that there was no whim-
perirpg then and the people who are
now moved TO tears at the thought OK
rounds of the unenual contest dry-eyed.
None of the carnage and suffering
which Is to come can be worse than
the sufterinRs of those allied dead who
war machine before It began to falter.
But in their determination to carry
the fight to a decisive finish, there Is
something more than the natural de-
mand for vengeance.
War Can't Be Stopped.
THE inhumanity. the pitllessness OF
the fighting that must come before a
lasting peace Is possible Is not compar-
able with the cruelty that would be in
remains a possibility OF civilization
again being menaced from the same
quarter. Peace now. or at any time be-
fore the Anal and complete elimination
of this menace. is unthinkable. No
man. and no nation with the slightest
of the temper of this
citizen army OF Britain's. which took
Its terrible hammering without a whine
or grumble. will attempt to call halt
now"
but how long do you figure this can
and must go on?" Lloyd-George was
asked.
There's neither clock nor calendar
In the British army today" was his
quick reply.
Thine is the least vital factor. Only
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
GREEK KING WILL
/. MAKE DEMANDS
CONTINUED from First parel


resigned following q stormy session OF
the cabinet with King Constantine.
Presumably his resignation followed the
Kings reported decision to range his
armies alongside those of the allies.
Contradictory dispatches from Athens
left the situation greatly clouded today,
but II appeared probable that former
Premier Venizelos' arrival at Crete,
where he received an enthusiastic well
come. forced the hand of the King.
Venizelos caused a proclamation to be
given wide circulation throughout
Greece. offering the King one more
chance to Join the allies. The alterna-
tive was a revolution.
The Greek battleship Hydra and the
cruiser Para are known to have Joined
the allied fleet In the Mediterranean,
under control of the revolutionists,
said an Athens dispatch. but rumors
that other naval units have followed
them are not confirmed.
Several more Greek army officers ar
rived at Salonih yesterday, and offer
ed their services to the allies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28

offered the public by the banking nrm
next week.
The city Of Paris will use the funds
provided by the bond issue to increase
hospital facilities. build orphan asylums,
care for widows OF soldiers. and to main
tain the unemployed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
Paris to BORON
$4,000, 900 in N. Y.
Goes Outside Of France for First
Time to Negotiate Loan
or Money.

NEW YORK. Sept. 2s.-Paris II Dor.
rowing money for the first time outside
arranged for the city here through
Kuhn. Loeb a Co., It was announced
The loan will take the form OF i've
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
Like anO penBo
ForYuneMothars!
Most women look

Most women look
upon becoming q
mother. for the hrst
time. as something
full of unknown
mysteries, gon
and pain; q time Of
distressing days and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
Printer Asks For Cheap
Burial In Washington

The request that he be buried at me
is made In the viii OF Walter L. Brooks,
A printer, who died September n last.
The will, which leaves all the property
to Ethel G. Brooks, was written at
Clarendon, Va, August % last. II was
filed today for probate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28

months. These are misguided con-
illusions. Mothers Friend" used
daily before confinement, will prove
Its great value as an allay to those
distressing pains and assist nature In
doing It's work with ease and comfort.
Get Mothers Friend" at your drug
glst.
The young mother should become
acquainted with the information con-
tained in q book on Motherhood that
will be mailed free to all who write.
Address
tn. Bradneld Regulator Co..
al Lamar Bldg.
Atlanta. "a.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
Injured, Asks Damages.

Ailtsing permanent injurits to his
right arm that prevent him from fol-
lowing the occupation OF a plasterer.
James MacDonagh today brought suit
In the District Supreme Court for SIS
900 damages against the d. 8. Schaffer
Company. Of Baltimore.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
French Artillery Shells
Lines Along the Somme

PARIS. Sept. 2S.-French artillery
vigorously shelled German organiza-
lions on the Somme front last night.
but there were no infantry attacks, the
war office announced today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28

Corduroy Suits, at $500.
Corduroy Suits, with
two pants, $500.
Juvenile O'coats, suit
able for little girls, SIS up.
School O'coats, So up.
P-B's Best School Suits,
So up to $40.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28

Sweaters of the better
kind, So TO $50.
Guaranteed Hose-Sizes
to 8 at zoe; 6 pr. for 100;
sizes ga to IL, Zoe
straight.
Boys Fall Underwear,
entire line ready.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
THE WEATHER REPORT.

forecast for District Of Colunbi.
Maryland and Virginia - Probabiv
t sn1wers and thunderstorms tonight and
southerly winds. iresh,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28
TEMPERATURES.
(U. s. BureauO

SUN AND MOON TABLE.
Bun rose. .....,.6:0O Sun sets,....,5,b7
Moon rises 7:25 am. Moon sets 6:l5 D. m.
Light automobile lamps at 6:27 D. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-28

MOTHERS, thru gears of
experience, hare found the Par
|-ker-B Bridget Boys Store a sat
isfactory place to shop. "P-B"
means quality-serUice-satis-
faction-modest prices.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

il is always higher at the center than
at the shores. Tho lake is situated
in the crater OF an old volcano and is
the only large bed Of natural asphalt
ir the world. Nature has resolved the
earth's elements into just the right
kind of an asphalt for many uses. AS
an illustration, the oil derricks on the
side of the island are pumping petrole-
um Oil and every ten gallons of oil
when refined has a basis of one quart
of asphalt; but nature, in her caldron
called Pitch lake. has done this refin-
ing for herself.
The natives dig the asphalt out in
blocks with picks just before dawn
while 1t is yet brittle and cart il to the
tramway in wagons drawn on the sur
face of the lake. The tramway runs to
the sea by natural incline OF 1856 feet,
gravity furnishing the motive power
both ways. Within twenty-four hours
after the asphalt blocks have been
taken from the lake the lake has filled
up the cavity by it's springs The
British once tried to build a tramway
across the lake. Having surveyed the
basin. they drove posts in the surface
OF the lake every 100 feet. placing
them in line with transit. In twenty
days one post moved twenty -four feet
more than a foot a day. and that IL
did SO is no small wonder, for the is
lands in the lake have been known to
move twenty-five feet in a year Ihis
is due to the asphalt springs which
feed the lake from its bed bringing In
luVVV tons "A year. AS soon as the
asphalt springs bring the fresh supply
Evening star., 1916-01-09

city. because it furnishes place, under
proper supervision, where the boy with
an overabundance of energy may have
it directed into channels where it will
be beneficial to him, instead of using 1t
in q way which is harmful to him, and
a menace to the community.
THE purpose of the various activities
on the Fairgrounds is a three-fold one.
to develop the boy mentally, physically
and morally, and we are endeavoring to
lay the greatest emphasis on the moral
We believe that soccer
and otter games of higher organiZa-
ton. such as base ball, basket bali.
volley ball. etc. can do this in way
unexcelled by any other method. Games
Of this sort, taught boys in the proper
way, under leaders of high character,
lay the foundation for higher citi-
zenship by the development of their
moral as well as physical nature. They
teach him self-control, loyalty, fair
ness, cleanness of living, obedience apd
consideration of others, which is the
basis of high character.
Then, too, there is no other place in
Evening star., 1916-01-09

recorded when the Tower of Babel was
in construction. a cement made of as
phalt being used. Ancient authors,
Herodotus, Aristotle, Strabo. Pliny and
Homer, mentioned asphalt under one
OF its corelative terms-petroleum,
pitch or bitumen. The Egyptians spread
bandages with asphalt paint and
wound them about their mummies, thus
aiding preservation.
The first modern use of asphalt was
in 1898, when some sidewalks were
made of it in Paris. In 1870 it was
used for the first time in the United
States, in Washington, for a street
pavement in a small way on New
Hampshire avenue. The first preten-
tious use of it was in street pave
ment in Newark y. J. In 1872 Union
Square, n. Y, was paved with it, and
in 1876 Pennsylvania avenue, Wash
ington. was paved with Neuchatel rock
a asphalt. Altogether, in 1900, in the
United States. there were 100000
square yards of asphalt pavement. 50
per cent of which was the Trinidad
prOdurt
Evening star., 1916-01-09

of asphalt to the surface the tropical
sun evaporates the oils still in ii and
il hardens. An average of $1,000 tons
of asphalt has been taken from the
lake every year for years and The sur
face of the lake is being lowered at the
rate of one inch a year.
Here and there all over Pitch lake
there are depressions, some as large as
six feet square, in which rainwater
settles, and on Sunday morning the
unique custom exists among the peas
ant women of the island of bathing in
these rainwater ponds. &. G. Gilbert,
the metallurgist, who has charge of the
asphalt exhibit at the museum, says his
model is arranged to illustrate Pitch
lake only as it appears on week days.
From an artistic point of view the
lake is a dismal. chaotic place, but
from commercial point of view 1t is
quite different. So interesting did il
become to Texas man that he waxed
enthusiastic and wrote a poem about
asphalt, from which an excerpt follows:
am elastic. vivacfous. tenacious.
fmpervious To weather and frJst
In purity non limitations.
Aud always worth what cost.
Other literature on the subject of
asphalt is. limited to technical journals
and papers delivered before engineer
ing societies for the most part
The first known use Of asphalt was
Evening star., 1916-01-09
Simple Headache Remedy.

Headaches caused by exhaustion may
be relieved by very simple means. Put
on loose clothing. loosen the hair and
secure bowl of hot water and sew
eral towels. Wet the towels in the
hot water and apply back of the ears
and to the base of the brain. Change
the cloths often. A hot foot bath will
hasten the cure.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

the New CoedGmes Have Gained Following
Among School Boys and Gn1he Championship SWor< the Playground
Ofa-Schoo Washington Divided Various Dnsde School Champions
SocceTenni Have Place. the Playground Schedule for CVe of Basket
Ball o Physical andM Development.