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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18

for next year. compared with $S3,-
500 appropriated this year.
Salary Increase
The increases include men employ
ed at the filter plant pumping sta
ton and on the various water lines.
improvements which are included
are the construction of a six inch
water main from Division street TO
Vaughn street in Second street, to
supply the Fourteenth ward with
water, estimated cost $500; guard
ing water supply. $4,000; purchase
of electrical centrifugal pump with
5-million gallon capacity to be at
tached to 20-inch main in Cameron
street, $4,000.
In the health department esti-
mates a salary increase for Health
officer Raunick; $4,000 for a mu-
nicipal hospital for contagious di-
seases, and additional funds for con-
tingent expenses form the principal
increases; increases in the salaries of
the food inspectors and plumbing
inspector are requested also.
In the lighting department esti-
mates are made for four new cluster
light standards at Sixth and Ver-
beke streets. costing $61S.70; cable
for UNDERGROUND extension to Briggs
and Cowden streets, $4,000; and ex-
tending fire and police alarm sys-
TENS to Fourteenth ward, S2,T61
bring the total to s67,721 for main
tainance of all citv lighting. This
year the cost was $64,60S. Salary in
creases also are submitted in the esti-
mate.
One of the biggest expenditures
to be provided foR is the garbage and
ash collection bureau; the estimate
totalling $S7,034 for this depart
ment. Under contract the city had
been paying $4,000 to have all the
collection and disposal work done
She budget estimate includes the cost
of the ash and garbage supervision
work, equipment and labor for mu.
nicipal ash collection and $4,000
for eleven months payment on th>
garbage contract which has beer
awarded to Hagy Brothers.
Await Estimates
Estimates for the fire department
and city engineering office have no
been submitted but will probably bt
turned in this evening when Counci
and the commissioners-elec NEE
again.
In the park department there i!
probably the smallest increase asked
Slight salary increases for the de
partment engineer and clerk are ask.
ed. The total estimate for next yeal
is $49,O36. This year $42,47G wa.
appropriated.
Among the important provision.
for improvements which are made
in the park estimate are the fol-
lowing: COMPLETION of riprappine
along river bank from Calder tC
Hamilton streets, $3,565; plantinl
along River Front, $S,89S.S5, an in.
crease from S4.230 because of ad.
ditional planting needed along top oi
banks which have been riprapped
and $4,000 for the construction Of
part of the roadway in Wildwood
Park so that it will border the lake
eliminating a big grade and danger.
Gus drive along a high bluff.
Estimates of revenue for 1918 fol.
low:
City valuation. s53.70O,00O; Zine
mill tax rate. $4S3.300; water de.
partment. $4,000; railways, S23,.
600; mercantiley tax. $4,000; fine.
and forfeitures. $4,000; high IL
cense. $4,000: other sources. $40.
900; total, S752.000. With the Ia,
rate at ten mills the total from taxe.
would be $5S7.OOO: and the tota
revenue. sS06,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18

the camp. Taps were sounded by the
bugler while each casket was wrap
ped with a flag and placed on
large truck. The entire squadron OF
the One Hundred and Thirty-Third
Aviation and Signal Corps, located
at the camp accompanied the BODIES
to the station.
Whatever investigation is to be
made of the burning to death OF
three soldiers in the guard house at
Middletown, none will be permitted
to Coroner Jacob Eckinger, accord
ing to Major Garrison who is in
charge of the aviation camp. "1ll
make the investigation" the coroner
was told when he offered to probe
| the tragedy.
Since the fire, which occurred
early Sunday morning, there have
been all sorts of rumors regarding
the responsibility for the death OF
the three soldiers. Until the War
Department makes an investigation
none of the officials at the aviation
camp will talk. 1t was said to-day
that the father of Private Gallagher
gave notice that after the burial oil
his son he would go to Washington
and personally request Secretary OF
War Baker to see that a rigid in
vestlgation was made.
| What remained of the burned
guard house has been destroyed. il
Is said that one guard who was or
duty told the men not to burn the
tnr paper in the stove. 1t was also
said that the paper was folded into
small pieces and packed into the
stove.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18

THE American Red Cross needs
at this time, more,than it ever needed
before, the comprehending support
of the American, people and to the
facilities which could be placed at
its disposal TO, perform its tasks. 1t
will be our duty of mercy for this
struggle.
abroad in France and Flanders
you come nearer to the true agony
of the situation. How can J. describe
it? Think of the worst earthquake,
of the worst floods, that nave
scourged and shocked you here at
home; multiply the horror of your
impression a hundredfold, and YOU
will come near the horrors of Marne
and Aisne. Multiply them a thousand
fold, two thousandfold and you have
before you a picture of misery, pain
and death as on the great battle
fields of Russia and in the mountains
of Persia and the Caucasus. Try to
conceive long trenches of men suf-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
BIG INCREASES ASKED FOR
BY CITY COMMISSIONERS IN
MAKING UP 1918 BUDGET

With big increases in the majority
of the city departments asked for in
estimates for the budget for 1918.
CITY Commissioners and Mayor Eeis-
ter will probably be compelled to
hold executive sessions every night
this week in order to have the lis.
OF oXpen litures for next year ready
for Council next Monday.
With the tax rate at nine mills
erXt 3ear, and other revenues added
the total amount which would he
availG bic would be about the same us
for This year, according to Finance
Commissioner Gorgas. An increase
to ten mills will add $53,70O, max
ing total of about $4,000, 1t is
| catimate but even with this in
crease the officials are facing a bis
1rol'iem in pairing down many of tho
items, manq of which are salary IN
crtascc.
III the police department, in ad-
ditioH TO asking for increases in the
salaries of officers and patrolmen, 6,
number of other minor additions are
incldded, bringin gthe total for next
year 20 $9S,525, in comparison with
SS0.T,1 for this year. This does not
include Mayor Keisters request for
nineteen additional policemen, one
| moro sergeant and the salaries of the
three patrolmen in United States
service, adding $29.320 more.
Decreases Noted
In the City Solicitors estima le
! there il a slight decrease because of
number of claims which had -
be paid tlis year and which will not
be included next year. The city
cle"'i department also shows a re-
ductio as the salary of an assistant is
eliminated.
A 500 salary increase for Inspec-
tor Harry ID. Reel. of the Bureau of
| weights and Measures, is the largest
increase in this department Another
salary increase of $500 for City Con
troller Dewitt A. Fry, is submitted
In the Bureau of Revision OF
Iaxes and Appeals another big in
crease is asked. A salary increase OF
5000 for the city assessor, and 500
Tor contingent expenses, bring the
total for next year to Sill, ,595 in com
parison with $3.50 appropriated
this year.
Miscellaneous expenses, including
appropriations to make payments
or interest on loans and to the sink
ing fund total $17S,44O. This year
the total was $177,049.
improvements Planned
including number of important
improvements, increased cost of la
Tor and materials. the estimate for
the Highway Department for next
year is S213,111.33. The total appro-
! rTiation this year was $150,429.O7.
Among the items in this departm
budget are the cost of widening and
| paving North Third street Walnut to
North street, $25,00O; paving street
intersections, Cameron street, Herr
to Calder streets, $3.50; expert to
| plan for Improvement on Mulberry
street bridge, reducing danger from
ao cldents. $1,000; first payment for
fourteenth ward drainage system,
$4,000; salary increases; additional
funds for manholes; repairing as
phalt strets out of guarantee, street
sweeping and removal of snow and
other smaller increases in funds for
supplies and maintenance.
Salary increases for practically all
OF the employees of the Water De-
plrtment are submitted in the
Dudget estimate. which is s132,400
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18

fering in torture from poisonous
gas or from liquid flame, soldiers
disflgured by shell wounds are in
describable.
Leave the trenches and retire be-
hind the firing line with me. Here
we are on roads lined with men on
stretchers, some dead, some mortally
wounded, hundreds upon hundreds
suffering from various causes Tho
middle of the roadway is filled nv
dozens of ambulances. After each
action, there is a mile or more RI
hospital trains waiting to convey the
wounded to base hospitals, where
they are tenderly nursed back TO
health.
1t is a most satisfactory fact TO
know that the Red Cross was able
to be called into the field and to
send to Europe the first actual holm
that we have extended to our allies
in the form Of those six base hos.
pital units, which were called and
sailed. Inside of three weeks the
whole six units were on the wafer
going to Europe. where they gove
relief to those who were caring for
the wounded the past three wears.
1--WE who are here should devote
as much time as possible in raising
funds and preparing things Cor their
uses.
How thankful we should be for
this faithful organization and its
honorable president, Woodrow Will
son. Everyone who claims the
Stars and Stripes should give a help
ing hand and an open purse. 1t may
seem impossible to some, but where
there is will there is a way. A
woman of Middletown, Ohio, had
tho will and found a way, her VAL
uoble gif+ was hen ard "welve eggs.
when auctioned o.. Fought the
sum of two thousand and two dol
lars, ($2,002), little she thought 1t
would contribute that sum to the
funds of the Red Cross. May each
and every one give their support to
this worthy cause"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
Cures Colds I'm India

LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tab
lets remove the cause. e w.
GROVES signature on box. SOC.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18

a substitute. If you crave real
beauty, make sure of it and don't
try to satisfy yourself with cheap
emotionalism. And if you like
cheap emotionalism, take yourself in
hand and teach yourself that in lik-
ing the ugly you handicap yourself.
In your interests great part of
your destiny is involved. You can't
afford to let yourself go on liking
the wrong things; you can't afford to
find your satisfaction in the unwor-
thy. For If you do, you will swing
toward the petty, the contemplate.
the weak and even the vicious.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
Pope Warns Teutons
Not to Aid Turks

Rome. Dec. IS (Tuesday).--Accord-
ing to the "Messagero." the Pope has
addressed a circular letter to all
bishops in the belligerent countriep
declaring that IL any Christian state
aids the Turks in an attempt to re-
take Jerusalem it will be condemned
by the Holy See.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
SERVICES HELD
FOR SOLDIERS
BURNED in CAMP
Hundrc lis Attend Funeral of
Young Victims of Guard
house Tragedy

Impressive services were held at
Middletown this morning for the
three soldiers who We're burned to
death early Sunday morning as re-
suit of fire at the guardhouse at
the United States camp near Middle
Itown. The services were conducted
Dy the Rev. DR.. Thomas c. McCar-
rell, pastor of the Middletown Pres
byterian church and were held at
the Pennsylvania Railroad station at
Middletown. Several hundred citi-
Zens attended.
Each body was enclosed in cas-
ket, and the latter placed in a metal
case. That of Private r. Wiley was
SHIPPED to Rockford, ILL.,, and that of
Private w. J. Kramer to Detroit,
Mich. Parents of Private Edward i.
Gallagher of Munhall, Pa. were at
the services and accompanied the
body to their home.
Brief services were first held at
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
MISS VARNEY ACQUITTED
By Associated Press

Dedham, Mass. Dec. 1s.-Miss Har-
riet A. Varney, a nurse of West Up-
ton, was found not guilty of the
murder of Mrs. Pauline Keyes. the
ten months bride of George H.
Keyes. a Boston real estate man, by
a jury in the Norfolk county superior r
court here early to-day. The jury
deliberated more than rour hours.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
HOUSE MAKES REPORT
TO CHIEF EECUTIVE
BY tfSSocidtcd Press

Washington, Dec. 1S.-Colonel f.
NJ. House, who recently returned
from Europe, where he attended the
interallied war conferenc as head of
tn American mission, was at the
White House to-day to make a per-
sonal report to President Wilson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-18
RED CROSS NEEDS AS 4
LITTLE GIRL SEES THEM

= ROWN folks are not the only who realize
+. o & Co,
received from his young daughter Buffalo
Red that will
little girl wrote school
and fell
Cross Here is the little Miss
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-10
Norwich Employment Bureau Report
Nearly IS Per Cent of Total Number Applying Were Furnish
ed HeIp-TotaI Number of Situations Secured During
Fiscal Year Was 2,313-Local Agency Shows Big Gain
for Year.

the superintendent employ assistants,
who must be paid Jout Of the salaries
of the superintendent, and this at
least should be repaid in the form or
higher compensation.
There are at present 80 private en-
ployment agencies in the state. These
agencies have been inspected from
The department, and are the cause of
more or less trouble. A person VIII
take out a license for a year, pay the
fee, and at the end of that period will
cot renew the license. If some clients
have been picked up during the year
the person who conducts the agency is
very apt to continue to furnish help
after the expiration of his license
without troubling to secure new Ii
cense. A number OF complaints of this
kind have been investigated by the de-
partment during the past two years.
Even when violations are discovered
it is difficult to get the local prose-
cutor to bring the offender before the
court. But one license was revoked
during two years. and that was be-
cause of the agency moving to an IN
suitable place.
There has been but very little COM
plant on the part of persons using the
licensed employment agencies as to the
kind of treatment accorded them. The
statute passed at the last session of
the general assembly has eliminated
most of the trouble relative to the re-
rurn of the clients money when a po-
sition was not secured. At the present
SiIne most of the complaints that come
to the department are made by pro-
prietors of licensed agencies that other
persons who have not taken out a. Ii
cense are conducting a private en-
ployment bureau.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-10

Thsi beautiful memorial 70 Mary
Baker G. Eddy, founder of Christian
Science, erected in Mt. Auburn Gem
etery. Cambridge, Mass, has besn
turned over to the Christian Science
Board of Directors by Gilbert S. Bar
low of New York, who had charge of
the construction. a year and half
was required to complete it. Christian
Scientists from all over the world
have contributed, as expressions of
sentiment the entire cost of more than
$4,000
The site on which the memorial IS
located is not only one of great
natural beauty, but on account of its
grade has rendered possible d more
picturesque and interesting treat
ment enthusiastically than would be
possible on q perfectly level To-. The
plot, which is approximately so feet
square, slopes gradually from. tire
level of the roadway to the lake with
a drop of about 10 feet. The memorial
consists of a circular open cot7nnade
Of eight columns, resting upon a etyio-
bate of three steps, surrounded on The
1ront by q circular platform Slightly
above the natural grade. from which
platform a, double flight of steps leads
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-10
STORY THAT U-55 WAS
SENT TO CONVEY THE BREMEN
New Haven Register Explains les
Presence HeEe Last October.

New Haven, Conn., April .e--An ex-
PLANTATION of the presefce OF the Ger
man submarine us in American va
tiers last October, during which that
craft destroyed several steamers off
Nantucket Shoals on Sunday October
s. is given by the Evening Register
today, basing its account upon what
IL says is excellent authority.
The Register says the U-5S was sent
70 these waters to convoy the sub
mersibIe merchantmen Bremen, which
left Bremerhaven on August 20, last,
for New -Eaptaln-Koenig of
ported that he narrowly escaped cap
ture off the New England coast by two
British and two French cruisers. Cap
tain Rose of the U-5S was told to try
and sink these cruisers and at least
10 wait for the Bremen off Newport.
The U-53 was of the coast on October
] but did not see- the cruisers Cap
tain Rose failed to get a wireless mes
sage from the Bremen and finally on
the 7th went into Newport. He Is said
10 have asked as his first question:
where is the Bremen p" and to have
been told that it had been lost. In
two hours the U-5S left and the next
day sank craft on the shoals
The officials of thez-EaS4ern For
warding company are Saia toFhave re-
Gently stated that they-lzneR -the Bre-
men was lost at sea.
Added interest to this story is given
by a statement made by Edward Mac
Farland of Hartford. home a few days
ago on leave. from the British steam
er Harmatten. to the effect that gun
uers on this vessel sank the U-5S re-
Gently.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-10

T. fhs Test Of Time

Years ago this Norwich resident told
q good results from lsiaE Dams KID
ney PMS. Now Daniel ). Grown. pro-
rriefor repair shop. OF Summer St..
confirms the former statement-says
there has been no return of the trouble.
Can NORWICH people ask for more con-
vfncing testimony?
Mr.. Brown says:
'arhe results that followed the use Of
Deans Kidney Pills. procured at
SEWN & Sons Drug store, were so
satisfactory IN my case. in view OF my
experience, I can heartily recommend
them as an excellent medicine for ton
ing up the kidneys and relieving all
nents, due to their disordered coudi-
ton"
The above statement was given
August rs, 1908, and on May Is, 1916,
Mr.. Brown said: IT have had no oc-
casion to use Doan's Kidney Pills
since recommended them in 1908.
My cure has been a permanent one"
soc, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co. Affgrs.. Buffalo. y. Y.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-10
GERMAN LODGE IS
LOYAL TO UNITED STATES
So Says State President Baier in
Statement Yesterday.

State President Frank A. Baier of
the Sons of Hermann, announced Mon
day afternoon that the organization
pledges its undivided loyalty to the
United States of America in the pres
ent controversy. However muoG we
may regret the conditions. we stand by
our adopted country" ne said. The
SoIs OF Hermann take no part in re-
ngious, political or national disputes
The dispensing of charity is our chief
aim"
Orders have gone out through the
German societies in Hartford and
elsewhere in the state TO refrain from
arguing about the war and more es-
pecially to stand by the president of
the United States in the present grave
situation. The singing Of German
national songs in the clubhouses has
been discontinued and in many cities
the Stars and Stripes float from the
fla gstaffs.
Loyalty to the United States by
Germa n-American citizens has been
expressed by officials of German So
cieties throughout the state and while
many members depiore the shaping
of events which resulted in war with
Germany, there are nearly all Aneri-
can citizens, either native born or ma
turalibed and without hesitation say
America first"
There are two subordinate lodges of
the Sons of Hermann in this city, Ger
mania Lodge and Inmergruen Lodge.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-10

TO lower platform at the lakes edge
The scheme has no prototype and is
merely screen of columns open to
the sky. inclosing a flower srown
circle.
The material used for the memorial
Is Bethel white granite. the inscription
In the frteze and upon the top of the
pylons being of white bronze let deep
into the stone work. The detail which
on account of the size of the reprod uc-
ton is only indicated, is entirely floral
In form and free IN treatment the
wild rose and the fnorning-gl be:ng
used as the main motives 1t IS inter
est1ng enthusiastically to note that
while It is extremely free in treatment
and not at all conventional, it is gen
orally very classic in feeling Tie
extreme width of the material IS
about fifty feet, and the colonnade IS
eighteen feet in diameter. The columns
themselves are fifteen feet in height
and are similar in general character
to those in the Clepsydra of Andron-
icus of Cyrrhus. The large pylons
were exhibited at the American Insti-
'tute of Architecture in New York a
short time ago, and experts pronounced
them the finest pieces of carved gran
tie ever executed.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-10
NORWICH TOWN
Rev. George II. Strouss and Choir OF
First Baptist Church Made Easter
Glad at sheiterins Arms - Song
Story Of The Resurrection at Meth
odist Church

At the sheltering Arms Sunday,
Easter lilies. hyacinths. jonaui1s, has-
kets Of flowers and ported plants
made rooms and halls most attractive.
Rev. G. II. Strouse and eighteen MEM
bers of the West Side Baptist choir
were present. The young people sang
with spirit selections used during the
evangelistice campaign.
In his address on the Resurrection,
Rev. Mr.. Stronse said: It is impossible
to comprehend the fun messake or
Easter, it seems too good to be true
Had Jesus remained IN the tomb no
wonderful salvation would be ours All
we enjoy Of the resurrection comes
from the valley of suffering. The time
is coming when sin VIII no more reign
The hour destined to bring deliverance
is always striking on Gods clock and
when God says, Enough, it is enough.
Jesus sees now a wave Of sorrow roll
ing over the world and will not be su :
premeiy happy until sin is subdued.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-10

Damage estimated at 100000 was
done by fire which started about s
o'clock this morning in the Bank
building, SO Weybosset street. Stock
of Taylor. Symonds & Co., wholesale
dealers in dry. goods. and of adjacent
business concerns was damaged by
flames, smoke and water, about three
quarters of the loss being in the
wholesale concern.
Three fremen were injured and
three overcome during the fire for
which two alarms were sounded. Capt.
Gabriel Landrigan of Hook and Lad
der was so badly cut on one foot
that he was removed to the Rhode
Island hospital.
For two hours a stubborn fight was
made by the firemen to prevent the
flames from spreading to the stone
building in the rear occupied by the
Norton Taxicab company in which is
a tank containing 500 gallons of gaso-
line.
While Ause is not
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-10

a pleasure TO have eQrps and see how
'Gets-It' gets them off in a hurry and
without the least pain. I can wear
tight shoes, dance and walk as though
i never had corns.'''
.fGets-It" makes the use Of toe-irri-
tating salves, hundling bandages
tape, pIasters and other things not
only foolish, but unnecessary. Use
this wonderful discovery, Gets II, I"
It Is the new, simple, easy, quick. way,
and it never fails. Yo0'n never have
to cut q corn again with knives or
scissors, and run chances Of blood
poison. Try 'Gete.1ta tonight,
.'Ge4s-It'' Is sold everywhers. csc
Il bottle or sent oR-HaseiPt OF price by
ESImHrence4-&zCp. .Chicagn, nj
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