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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
American Lcngue
Yesterdays Scores
National Lea suc

At Philadelphia R.H. Il
Boston .. .11000 20 0 % Z !
Philadelphia. 0 0 0 0 0 0X-3 6 2
Batteries: Rudolph and Gowdy;
Alexander and Killifer. Umpires,
Quigley and Byron.
At New York
Brooklyn York game post
poned-wet grounds.
At Cincinnati
Pittsburgh Cincinnati game post
poned-rain.
At st. Louis
Chicago-St. Louis game postponed
rain.
American League
At Boston r. He
Philadelphia 0 10000 O-S 10 8
Boston go. l 3 1 0 0 90 1 x-6 IL o
Batteries: j. Johnson and Schang;
Seibold and Ruth. Umpires, McCor-
mick and Connolly.
At WASHINGTON R.H.E
New York % / 001 90 10 IA 6 o
Washington 0. 1 000O 1908 8 2
Batteries: Shocker and Nune-
macher; Dumont and Henry. Um-
pires, owens and Dineen.
At Cleveland R.H.E
st. Louis =. O1O012OO o. /
Cleveland 49,. 00002 0 0 O0-2 Z 2
Batteries: Davenport and Sever
old; Coveleski and O'Neill Umpires,
O'Loughlin and Hildebrand.
At Chicago
Detroit-Chicago game postponed
rain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
CASINO STARS TO SHINE

An interesting match will be stag
ed on the Casino alleys tonight
when five-man teams composed of
the stars of the Casino Tenpin Lea
que will oppose each other in an ex-
hibition match. The men who will
participate are Basch, Ross, Buttorf,
Montgomery, Trace, Haas, A. Miller,
Atticks, Farley. Barnes and Weber.
The prize winners of the league sea-
son which just closed will be an
nounced after the matches tonight
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
U-BOATS SINK VESSELS
FA STER THAN SHIPYARDS
ARE BUILDING THEM

the present rate of destruction by
submarine.
The balancing figure in the world
struggle" said Lord Percy, lis the
tonnage the United States can sup
ply"
To Pool Shipyards
Lord Percy's announcement was
the first intimation that the ship
ping conferences had actually re-
suited in any agreement. 1t was then
taken as a forerunner of very wide
degree of cooperation in which the
present tonnage and the future build
ing powers of this country will be
pooled with the allies to defeat the
German submarine menace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
Poet Leureate Halls U. S.
as Brother in Blood

London, Nay Robert Bridges
the poet laureate, has written the
following sonnet, which is publish
ed in the. Times under the heading
ITO the United States of America: !"
Brothers in blood! They who this
wrong began
To wreck our common veal will
rue tn : day
When first they challenged free
men to the fray,
And when the Briton dared the
American.
Now are we pledged to win the
Rights of Men:
Labor and Justice now shall have
their way.
And in a League of Peace-God
grant we may
Transform the earth, not patch up
the old plan.
Sure is our hope. since he who
leads your nation
Spake for mankind, and ye arose in
awe
OF that high call to work the
worlds salvation:
Clearing your minds of all estrang-
ing blindness
In the. vision of Beauty and the
Spirits law.
Freedom and Honor and Sweet
Loving Kindness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
WOMEN WILL TAKE PLACE
OF MEN CALLED TO ARMY
IN PENNA. r. r. OFFICES

Women will be employed by the
Pennsylvania Railroad in the event
of heavy draft on employees for SER
vice in the army. They will be given
positions in every department where
they could prove capable. This an
nouncement was made to-day. 1t is
understood that when the demand
for womenl for railroad work comes
complete plans for filling the vacan~
cies will be announced.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01

Positions which women will be
able to fill include clerical work.
They will be found useful in ticket
S ces, and it is believed would make
good ushers using megaphones to
call trains. Those who prefer me-
chanical work will be furnished light
work IN machine, pattern, paint and
other shops. 1t is understood that all
trainmen will be exempt from the
army call.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
How Welsh and KiIbane
Measure Up For Battle

When Welsh and Kilbane clash
In the important battle in New
York tonight, all the physical ad-
vantages will be with the light
weight dictator. Welsh will have
height, reach and weight, but 1t is
in weight only that the English
tage.
Kilbane's skill and hitting pow
ers are expected to offset any of
the physical advantages held by
Welsh.
Here's how the two champions
size. up:-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
LOCAL LEADER
OFF TO ELMIRA
Takes With Him Entire
Squad; Opening Game To-
morrow With Colonels

At noon tomorrow the HAIR
RISBURG TELEGRAPH'S Guess
ing Contest will close. The per-
son guessing correctly, or the
nearest to the total number of
runs Harrisburg VIII score dur
ing the first two weeks of the
season, will receive a season
ticket. Send in your guess to the
Sporting Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
BY, ASSOCIATED Press

" a.ISAVtIa!td FFtSS
Washington, May l. - The United
States has already placed consider
disposal of the entente allies. Lord
Eustace Percy, ship expert with the
British Mission, said to-day that the
government had supplied certain ves-
sells to be used according to the allies
needs but refused to indicate what
they were or if they were the seized
German ships.
Lord Percy declared that the pres
ent rate of British construction of
ships and the present estimated AM
erican rate could not keep pace with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
REJUvENATING TOLEDO CLUB

Toledo, o., May DEMONSTRATION
of the Toledo American Association
Baseball Club is in progress. Roger
Bresnahan. owner and manager. an
nounced that John Bates, outfielder.
released recently by the Louisville
club, had been signed and will report
there to-day. The Toledo club to
date has won three and lost fifteen
games this season. Two infielders are
being negotiated for,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
TED LEWIS is WINNER

: Columbus, Ohio. May Tied
Lewis, the English welterweight,
'outpointed and outfought Johnny
Griffiths, of Akron, Ohio, in seven of
the twelve rounds of their bout here
last night. Lewis was on the agrees
T. sive throughout the bout.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
W. F. Darby Resigns From
Steelton School Board
After Is Years Service

After serving thirteen years as
president of the Steelton school board
w. +. Darby will tender his resigna-
ton at the board meeting tonight.
The cause is believed to be i'll health.
1t is not known who will succeed
him
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
CAMP HILL TENNIS PRIVILEGES

At a meeting of the Camp Hill
High School Athletic Association
yesterday afternoon it was decided
to allow only members of the asso-
citation in good standing to use the
tennis courts on the school campus.
Some trouble had been experienced
with persons other than school stu
dents using the courts without ten
mis- shoes. The interclass tennis
league will open the season next
Tuesday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
MEADE MEMORIAL PLANNED

1t is proposed in a bill offered in
the Senate to-day by Senator Sproul,
of Delaware, to erect in the city OF
Washington statue in memory OF
General George Gordon Meade, the
hero of Gettysburg. The bill appro-
PIRATES $4,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
FLENIMING TRIMS MAGUIRE

frankie Mcguire lost to Buck
Flemming, Philadelphia, on points
last night at the Olympia A. A., Phil
adelphia. Mcguire tried to land a
kayo but Flemming's defense was to
strong. and in return he bothered the
former with stiff left iah.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
ROCHESTER, GETS KIRBY

st. Paul. May 1.-Larus Kirby. out
fielder. purchased from Little Rock,
was sold to the Rochester Interna-
tionals yesterday by the st. Paul
American Association club.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
KELLBERG TO LECTURE

]. Fl. Kellberg will deliver a lecture
on photography before the Harris
burg section of the Pennsylvania
Photographers at Reading to-mor-
row.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
Miss Talbot, Largest Woman Subscriber to
 British War Fund

London, April 14.-The largest wo- man subscriber to the war loan in England is Miss Emily Talbot, of Gal morgan. Miss Talbot. who is seventy seven years old, is the daughter of c. R. M. Talbot. who sat in the House of Commons for sixty years and died in 1890 leaving a fortune estimated a, S,000,O00 pounds to his daughter. Her land holdings of over 10000 acres in- clude several thousand acres of valu- able local deposits and nearly the whole of Port Talbot and the Port Talbot railway and doc.1s.
 Miss TaIbot's contribution to the war loan is estimated at 100000 pounds. This is quite characteristic of the woman, who has been known to go to great lengths to avoid publicity in connection with her philanthropies. Her favorite device to avoid publicity is to contribute a comparatively small sum to a charity in her own name and then add two or three much larger do- nations anonymously. Thus, her open subscription to the war lean was for 80,000 pounds, although in a rounda- bout way it has become known that she is the holder of about fifty times that amount.
 Miss Talbot, despite her age, keeps her hand on her own business affairs, and her property has greatly increased in value during her twenty seven years stewardship. She has a Lon- don house on Cavendish Square, but spends considerable part of her time in Wales.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
INSULTING THE PRESIDENT

A MOTTO PROCLAINS that it teach old dogs tricks It is certainly difficult for Congressman E. J. Hill to learn that there parisans in America today
 His noe addressed to the temporary organization for serving the of Fairfield county unfortunate delivery contained bitter assault upon the and the president of the United States such would place the body in danger if he should make the speech in Bridgeport factory in the presence of body of American workmen
 This is dime to the government of shy shally ing the president of dy dalyng which is the crude Ian guage selected by Mr. Hill for voicng his bitter parisanshp
 True the president has been slow war; but have the American people, He has not been swift to anger but neither have they Now that declared his with terrible swfness toward victory early and complete.
 1t is time for the offensive paranship to be st ed Mr. Hill must forget that he is Republican and remember that he is American.
 The organization which unwitngy received this insulting accusation against the government should itself by eli mnang the letter from its records unworthy to De recev ed into movement which proposed promote unity and employ the utmost of Fairfield county harmon inus, patriotic whole.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
Oe DmRead co
 Eseskeia6At >6u
MAJ. BURKE WAS FAMOUS INDIAN FIGHTER AND SCOUT, BEFORE HE
 BECAME LONG, HAIRED SNOWMAN

now Colonel Edwin P. Brewer, Uj s. A., retired-and Old Scout Johnny Burke dropped a few paces behind to shake hands oyer and over again and recall old times the reporters whis- pered among themselves along these lines; Isn't that just like the old Major-standing all our kidding about never having been west of Buffalo ex- cept as press agent for the Bill Show and letting us keep right on thinking him only longhaired circus man?'
 Once in the grillroom the Major happy as small boy, and his soldier friend of the plains talked of the days that were. Abashed newspaper men sat around the grillroom table in si- lence and as they listened they saw 6 virile part of glorious country in the making And not once was there a word of boastfulness; 1t was just a reunion of two empire builders, joy- full in a chance to live again the days of the Injun, signal fires, the lonely cry of the coyote, the tomtom of the half crazed savages in the night and the whang of bullets
 Remember the Old Mans boy, Burke-the one that was spending his Christmas holidays at the post when hell broke loose among Sitting Bulls gang? He is lieutenant
 Get out, Pan-Major! Not that kid that sneaked away from the of- ficers' wives and young 'uns we'd locked up when the hos-tyles came? Gosh, how time passes! Seems like yesterday Pan = Major-that you found that kid out in the snow pop ping away with a rifle he'd picked off a dead soldier and yelling, Gee. Pansy, I potted one of the sons O guns!' and kept on shooting till you grabbed him by the ear and sent him back to the post under fire.
 "How that boy (this from the beaming Pansy Brewer) must have been envied, Burke, when he got back to his schoolmates after the va cation, eh? We'll. he's six-footer now"
 | You don't tell me! Remember how he cried to be taken along when I was sent out to the peace confer. ence with the hos-tyles? He"-
 You were selected to make the peace terms, Major Burke?" one of the reporters, who had been listening wide-eyed, asked the snowman press agent whereupon Major Burke mumbled something.
 Major Took 8 Chance.
 '.You bet Major Burke made the peace terms" said Major Brewer. T saw him ride away-and thought then: Johnny Burke wifi never come back to us gain.' Three times be- fore I had seen such a peacemaker ride away and three times they died when they got within gun fire of the powwow. But that day Major Burke here insisted upon riding away in zero weather, absolutely alone, to the hostile camp forty miles away.
 Major Burke knew, and we knew, that he was about the only man in the United States that at least stood a chance of riding up to Sitting Bull and his tribes and getting away with it. So he asked to do 1t alone. And he did and peace followed"
 And from that day until the last one Major Burke took up his quarters in the press office, those re- porters approached Major Burke in infinitely more respectful a manner than had been their wont in the days when they had thought him merely lovable snowman. He had known
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
SEVEN BILLION BOND BILL

- OST OF THE amendments offered to the bond bill
 within the spirit of the bill. They merely define with more accuracy what the bill intends.
 This country loanng money to the Allies in the nterna tiona legality unity or brotherhood The term matters little and the loan is without charge.
 It interest but only the interest the government pays to the citizens who advance the money.
 Certainly oan Christian in spirtf fraterna in profit the individuals in finance who may chance to participate in it's handling.
 Neither directly indirectly should private persons single profit from transactions connected with bounty The possible transactions should be scrunzed way close by specific denunciation and penalty
 people willing 10 spend their for behalf But they not willing to rce riches into individual pockets along the way.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14

the old West and had fought through it as a scout from Civil war days up through Indian warfare until the capture of the aged Red Cloud and Sitting Bull in the last great Ghost Dance war of the early '90s-always excepting occasional absences from the plains at the beginning of the present generation whenever Bill Cody need ed his business services.
 Despite his long career as scout and plainsman he was born in New York city, in the old Seventh Ward, in 1S44. His parents, who had come from Del aware, died when he was an infant, and he was brought up to young man. hood among relatives in Maryland.
 Major Burke met Bill Cody when Buffalo Bill was chief scout for Gen. Phil Sheridan, just after the Civil War and their friendship lasted until the end. Because of his part in bring ing peace among the last of the Sioux to rise, two Pontiffs, the late Pope Leo XIII and the late Pope Piuz IX.. re- ceived Major Burke in private audi ence when the Major was in Italy with the Buffalo Bill Show.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
FAMINE IN EUROPE

T1 ANIME STALKS in Europe, only little way from prey Millions constantly hungry there, and have been. with famine which may this hunger is less than nothing.
 Tlage is the most neglected industry and the hardest to because demand for transport has been by land and that land everywhere there hungry the ferng elements by which big crops maintained soil that has been in cultivation for centuries
 said that the difference between famine and no famine is left to nature if in addition to the of fertilizer the should prove unruitfu there should be general aure conditions would nnentable.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
ALLINC RUBBER co. 1l26 Main st.
Fire In Manho1e
 Disables Phones
 to Submarine Base

New London, April 14.-Fire in a manhole at the junction of State and Main streets today GU. out of com mission 300 pair telephone cable and cut off communication on 400 tele. phones. including those to the sub marine base up the river and the ship building yard in Noank. The fire was caused by the upse.t.ng of light ed candle used by workman in the manhole, the flame igniting a pot of paraHin.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
Was Close Friend of "Pan- sy" Brewer, Gallant Com mander of Custer's Old Regiment, The Fighting Seventh U. s. Cavalry.

Washington, April 14-Showmen all over the country are mourning the death of Major John M. Burke, fa- nous scout and Indian fighter. For more than fifty years the Major had been associated with Buffalo Bill, both on the plains and in the show busin ess. He was seventy-four years old and death was caused by pneumonia.
 One day, about eight years ago two or three reporters, who every few days made Madison Square Garden a port of call while the Buffalo Bill show was playing there, were sitting in the press office talking snowman small talk with Major Burke, who was publicity man for Bill Cody from the earliest days of the Wild West Show until evil times fell upon that attractive aggregation of daredevil ri- ders.
 The Major lacked the slim grace fulness of figure that was sone of the maryels of Bill Cody, even a score or more years after Buffalo Bill had pass ed the age when belts usually are let out a bit. In fact, the Major was portly, but what with his silvery hair that fell about his shoulders when permitted to do so, but which usually was fastened in tight knots with hair pins under his black sombrero; his flowing white side whiskers; his year around black frock suit; his low turn ed down collar and white pique dickey, and above all, his big cluster of dia- monds which took the place of era Mo cd nd therefore never wore one)-all these hirsute and sartorial affectations of the Major and his always interesting flow of conversation made him quite as picturesque a figure in his own fashion as Bill Cody was in another way. ~
 Pansy Brewer Appears. \ Amid the chaffing into the press de- partment of the Garden came a tall man his hair iron gray, his clean, cut good looking features tanned by wind and sun, and although he was getting along in his fifties his waist was as slim as Bill Cody's.
 God bless my soul! It's Pansy Brewer!" almost shouted Major Burke as he jumped to his feet and clicked
 
 almost embraced his visitor. ''I-I beg your pardon, Pan - Major Brew er," cried Major Burke, pink blush es suddenly surrounding his white side whiskers. T didn't mean to address you as 'Pansy. But you know Major, when you were youngster just out of West Point fighting the hos tyles on the plains, the rest of us youngsters used to call you by your nickname. And you were Pansy Brewer to me from then to the day hat we fought together right up to the last big injun uprising this coun- try will ever know, the one at Pine Ridge.
 "Gentlemen, Major Edwin P. Brew CT, Seventh Cavalry, United States Ar my'
 Straightaway there was an ad- ournment to the grill of the Prince Ieorge near by, and as Pansy Brewer
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
A WORTHY MOVEMENT

" HERE IS WORK enough for all to do and more The great
 need is for coordination Unified production IS fertile lit makes great pile of commodities But individuaized ducton like these Europ5 has learned slips cog, holds things back, keeps a nation weak.
 Hence the gentlemen who have united to mobilize the of Fairfield county doing and worthy which not the less admirable because it is the first eff fort of the kind in the United States,
 The advantages of county organization will be felt n all they perhaps be best realized in the promotion of production If it arranged to till all the land in Fair field county putting two staple crops like potatoes and corn the population will attain something like the ability to feed itself .9 p
 Perhaps useful of the mobilization plan its military committee Even this be helpful in obtaining volunteers in the stimulation of that enthusiasm and inter est which creates interest in army and navy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
Military Activity
 Sweeps All Brazil;
 Germans Menaced

Rio JaAeiFo, April 14.-Great activ- ity in military circles is reported by the newspapers, The army staff is said te be studying every phase of national defense, including munitioE production and the protection of the ports. Reports are current that a breach of relations with Austria will probably occur sooa
 Te1egranas from all points in Brazil report patriotic demonstrations. The police In Sac Pau1o were compelled to intervene to save the plant of a Ger man newspaper that was attacked by . mob. The Jornai do Commercio ad-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
SHELL SCARE uNwARRANfED.

New York, April 14---The three inch shell found last night in the press room of the New York Globe and which caused a police investigation, proved to be un1oaded when examined today in the bureal of combustibles. Inspector Eagan concluded the shell probably was souvenir of the Black Tom explosion, owned by an employe of the newspaper.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
WAR IN FRANCE

NEWS that the French astride Hindenburg line is important If the line is stradded, and the French hold position, the must fall be en- veloped in two directions.
 is possible that the position is not firmly held that is not deep enough to be threatening man position, A few days must show.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14

A hearing before the New York Senate Judiciary cenamittee on the Wheeler licensing motion picture reg ulation and licensing bill was called for Thursday, April 19.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14

A charter was granted to the Eisen- huh Compound Go. at Dover, Del.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14

The latest official figures show that there are now in England 27,613 com batant prisoners of war and 30,525 ci. william prisoners.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
Rosa Luxemburg has had 8 stormx

Joseph E. Levi and A. w. Brown, of New York, were elected members of the New York Consolidated Stock Ex- change.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14

vocates the mobilization of all rifle societies in southern Brazil.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-14
Abused Policeman, Rosa Luxemburg Is
 Sentenced to Jail

Amsterdam. April 14-It is reported from Berlin that Rosa Luxemburg, formerly principal editor of the Vor- waerts and leader of the radical Ger man socialists. who has been in pris- on for participation in an antf-war demonstration, has been sentenced to an additional 10 day Imprisonment for abusing policeman Mile. Luxem- burg had been permitted to receive friend but the policeman cut the visit short. The prisoner is said to have denounced the officer in abusive terms and to have flung an ink we'll at him. The sentence. was conrm- ed by the Berlin court of appeals.
 Rosa Luxemburg has had 8 stormy career for several years. She has been imprisoned several times, once in Russia. At the outbreak of the war she was under sentence of one year for making inf1ammatory speeches and was reported to have been shot.