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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
Drummer TO MEET
BOARD ON CAPITOL
EXTENSION PLANS
Preliminaries For Treatment of
Capitol Park Will Be Set
Forth by Architects

Plans were made to-day for a meet
ing of the State Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings to be held next
week for discussion of the tentative
plans for improvement of Capitol
Park and treatment of the extension
by Arnold w. Drummer, the New York
architect, and Warren III. Manning, the
Boston landscape authority, who was
retained as consulting architect. Mr.
Brunner and Mr.. Manning made a
number of visits to the city in Decem-
Der and have outlined their prelimin-
ary plans for the information of the
members of the board.
Governor Brumbaugh, who has been
greatly interested, has not yet fixed the
date for the meeting, but it will be
after the Legislature adjournS for the
week in all probability.
Auditor General Powell, q member
of the board, said to-day that he was
awaiting the tentative plans with con-
siderable interest because of the i'm
portance of the proposition and sc
that the appropriation needs could be
estimated. General Powell is in ac-
cord with the idea of having the Capt.
tol Park the center of the city's park
system and of making it a fitting COM
plement to the Capitol. While in
Washington General Powell made
some observations upon the landscape
plan for the National Capital and also
visited some Western capitals, noting
the park treatment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
TRAINMEN HEAD
HAS SUBSTITUTE
PLAN FOR LAW
Lee Suggests Board of Eight
Equally Divided Between
Railroads and Operators

Washington, Jan. 10. - w. c.. Lee,
head of the Trainmen's Brotherhood
to-day presented substitute plan for
President Wilson's railway labor Iegis-
lation to the House Commerce Com
mittee.
A board of eight equally divided be-
tween railway workers and operating
officials, appointed by the President
would solve all the present difficulties
over working conditions, he said
would command unqualified support
of the four brotherhoods and despite
the fact that it would be evenly di-
vided, he predicted there would be no
deadlocks
Lee appeared primarily to oppose
the Adamson bill to compel ninety
days notice of strike or lockout
Let the President create, so as to
take 1t out of politics." said Lee, "a
board of eight members for handling
this work, four practical railroad
workers, such as conductors, brake
men, trainmen or engineers, and four
practical operating officers
There would be few deadlocks on
such board, despite the fact that IL
was evenly divided. Men who know
their subject as these men should
would seldom be without q majority.
Under such n plan both sides would
get justice and there would be no
necessity for the Adamson bill now
before you or any other legislation
relative to hours or wages"
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Young Wife Arrested For
Murder of York Co. Farmer
Shot While Holding Child

York, Pa, Jan. 10. - Harry Dellinger,
rs years old, farmer of BroGue, fifteen
miles south of York. was murdered BY
charge of shot fired into the back of
ms head as he sat by the stove in the
Kitchen of his home, last night His
young wife, arrested this morning by
ork officers for the crime, asserts her
lrnocence, declaring that the shot was
hred as she iay in bed in the adjoining
room Dellinger. she said, was holding
his three-year- r-old son, Clarence, in
his arms when she rushed out to see
what had happened. A single barrel
shotgun, with which it is believed the
murder was committed, was found
under the bed in which the couple slept.
Neighbors say that one of frequent
quarrels between the couple occurred
last night. in the presence of
j. w. Allen, living nearby, Del
linger accused his wife OF withholding
ing $40, whuich he claimed he had given
her In the morning. At midnight Mrs
Dellinger went to the homes of both
Allen and John Warner and told them
somebody had shot her husband. Her
story was discredited and she evident
ly returned home and spent the night
In the house with her son, year-old
baby girl and tho dead body of her hus-
band A boy of the neighborhood,
going to the house this morning, spread
the report of the crime.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
ASHES LITTER
YARDS in ALL
PARTS OF CITY
City Health Officer Blames
Labor Shortage For
Condition
NEED HUNDRED MEN
Impossible to Maintain Sched-
ules Unless More Help Can Be
Obtained, Says Raunick

Hundreds of back yards and alleys
in all parts of the city are Uttered
with garbage and ashes, which in
many localities have not been COL
lected for weeks.
The condition, DR.. ]. NJ. J. Raunick,
city health officer, declared to-day, is
due to the labor shortage in the city.
Give us one hundred men and the
city can be cleaned up in a week." the
health officer said this morning as he
spoke of the conditions existing all
over the city. "The Reduction COM
pany has wagons out and we have a
number of extra ones out, but with
only one man on each wagon, it is
practically impossible to maintain
schedules"
For weeks the situation has re-
mained unchanged. In the early part
of December, owing to the many COM
plants that were made about lack of
service in ash and garbage collections.
Council authorized the health de-
partment to proceed and hire addi-
tloldl Wd6OIlS iuu men 10 ne pdlu out
of the bond furnished by the Pennsyl-
Vania Reduction Company as surety.
The bonding company for the re-
ducuon company, is the American
surety Company, of New York. A
representative came to the city after
the surety company was notified and
went over the situation. Additional
wagons were sent out then in various
sections of the city which had not been
visited for weeks, but scarcity of labor
again prevented any big results, it was
explained to-day.
In speaking of the situation this
morning, DIR. Raunick declared that he
would again discuss the ash and gar
bage collection problem in his annual
report to City Council
Says Cooperation Comes Late
Residents of the city offer US CO.
operation and send committees to see
officials of the department, when it is
too late. The present contract for
garbage and ash collections expires
next year. If the peope of the city
want to cooperate they should see
that the proper arrangements are
made by Council when it provides for
collections in the future"
Raunick Suggests Expert
The health official also suggested
that it might be a good plan to bring
an expert to the city to study the stu
alton and give report on a possible
solution. Referring to the fact that
Council had given the health depart
ment authority to handle the ash sit
uation and hire additional teams and
men. DR.. Raunick said that even in
the city number OF local contractors
would have been willing to contract
for the work but could not, be-
cause they said they were unable to
get enough men for the teams.
May BE Legal Snarl
ch
completely the instructions of Coun-
Gil and hire men and wagons, paying
for them with the money guaranteed
by the bond of the reduction company,
city officials to-day in speaking of the
problem, predicted that in all prob
ability the bonding company would
take the matter into court for a deci-
sion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
TWO EPIDEMICS
IN 1916 BREAK
DISEASE RECORD
Total of 1929 Cases of Conta-
gion During Year Reports
Health Department
$3.50 HAD MEASLES
4O2 Afflicted With Typhoid; 76
Deaths From Both
Occurred

With two big epidemics of typhoid
fever and measles in 1916 all records
for cases of contagious diseases re-
ported in one year in Harrisburg were
broken, according to totals tabulated
to-day in the City Health Department
office
During the last year 1929 cases We're
reported, almost three times as many
as in 1915. OF this number $3.50
cases were measles, the result of the
worst epidemic of its kind in the his
tory of tie city For two months
large numbers of cases were recorded
daily, schools and public amusement
places were closed to children and
other general quarantine regulations
enforced by the health department
under the direction of DR.. j. NJ. J.
Raunick. During the year twenty-one
died from measles and complications
which set in as q result of this disease.
402 Typhoid Cases
The other big epidemic followed
late in the summer when 400 cases
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Blames Extravaganza
For High Cost of Living

Washington, Jan. 10. - Profligacy
and extravaganza of the American
people in pursuing pleasure were con-
demned in the Senate yesterday by
Senator McCumber, of North Dakota,
in opposing proposals for an embargo
on food products. The high cost OF
living. he said, was largely due to
American extravaganza, citing figures
to show that Americans spend thir-
teen billion dollars annually for liquor,
tobacco, automobiles and "othet
amusements.'
This revelry in extravagant habits"
he 49,, -thes IInquenchable demand for
amusements. for continuous mental in
toxicants is undermining the sturdiness
of our younger generation. The Am
erican people seem obsessed with the
idea that the main thing in life is
amusement. play, entertainment"
An embargo upon food, in view of
present prices of farm labor and ar
ticles used on the farm, in addition to
land values would be most unjust and
class discrimination. he declared.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
FARM BUREAU
PLAN WILL BE
FORMED SOON
Sixty Influential Agriculturists
of County to Meet Next
Wednesday

Sixty influential farmers of Dauphin
county have been invited to attend
meeting to be held under the aus
plces of the Harrisburg Chamber of
Commerce at the Engineers Society
Clubhouse, Front and Chestnut streets.
at noon Wednesday, January "a. when
the formation of a Dauphin County
Farm Bureau will be discussed.
The gathering will be preliminary
TO an organization meeting to be held
in the near future. Officials of the
extension department of the PennsyI-
Vania State College will explain the
workings of the farm bureau. f. p.
Weaver and E. K. Hibsman, of the
School of Agriculture at State Col
lege, will attend the meeting.
Under the plans formulated by the
agricultural department of the Har-
rlsburS Chamber of Commerce a farm
agent, State College graduate, will
be obtained for Dauphin county on
July l. The agent will have head
quarters in Harrisburg, but will spend
the greater part of his time travelling
throughout the county.
Editors of Dauphin county news
papers have been invited to attend
this meeting as guests of the Harris
burg Chamber of Commerce.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
To Close City Offices
as Tribute to Bowman

City Council will meet tomorrow
morning to adopt resolutions of re-
gret because of the death of City
Commissioners Harry Il. Bowman.
City offices will probably be closed
on Monday afternoon as a tribute of
respect while the funeral is being held.
The health department, plumbing and
building inspection bureaus will meet
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock to
adopt resolutions of regret. Commits
sioner Bowman was superintendent of
these bureaus. Acting pail bearers
were chosen this afternoon. They will
be Ralph. Herbert, William, Jesse and
Walter Garverich and Assistant City
Solicitor E. Bruce Taylor. all nephews
of Commissioner Bowman.
Funeral services will be held on
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock with
the Rev. Thomas Reisch. pastor of
Christ Lutheran Church, officiating.
Honorary pall-bearers. are to be chosen
late to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
Miller Exonerated of
Responsibility For Death
of His Invalid Son

FOLLOWING a hearing at Hummels-
town to-day, coroner's Jury exoner-
ated Harry Miller of all responsibility
for the death of his 21-year-old son,
Clayton.
Miller is charged with the murder
of his son by starvation and was ar
rested on order of District Attorney
Michael E. Stroup. Late this after
noon Miller will be given hearing be-
for Alderman James DeShong at his
office, Third and Harris streets. The
Millers reside near Hummelsto
The coroner's jury included Wells
Booser, David Hetrich Thomas MUIR
ray, Frank France, S. w. Gingrich and
George Greenawalt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
428,O0O Prisoners and
SIS Guns Captured by
Russians in Last Year

London, Jan. 19.-More than 42S, 900
officers and men were taken prisoner
by the Russians during the past year
and 525 guns captured, according to
the Russian service organ, as quoted
in Central News dispatch from Pc
trograd to-day. The journal closes its
review of the war operations during
the year with the following approxi-
mate figures of men and booty taken:
officers, S,770; men, 100000; guns,
525; machine guns. 1861; trench NOR
tars and mine throwers, 421: more
than 80 per cent. of the foregoing was
yielded by the operations of General
Brussiloff
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
Scores Risk Lives to Walk
Across Ice-CIogged River

Detroit, Mich, Jan. 19.-Scores of
persons risked their lives this morning
by walking from Windsor, Ont, to De-
troit on the ice-clogged Detroit river.
For the first time in fourteen years
ferryboats between the two cities have
been unable to get through. Detroit
policemen were ordered to prevent any
more persons from crossing on the ice.
A powerful ferryboat with 800 pas
sengers aboard tried to make the trip
to Windsor this morning, but was COM
PEELED to return to the local dock
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
$4,000 Syrians Reported
to Have Starved; Many
Are Committing Suicide

Rome, via Paris. Jan. 19.--Five hun
dred and ten thousand people have
died of starvation in Syria, according
to information received by the Cor
riere d'Italia. Lebanon is said to have
suffered particularly, while at Beyrout
inhabitants are said to have been
picked up on the streets nearly dying
of hunger.
The number of suicides is increas-
ing to appalling proportions. Similar
horrors are reported as occurring in
Palestine and parts of the interior in
hahted by Christians
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
RED CROSS SEAL
SALES FOR 1916
HIGHEST EVER
School Children Sell 250,732;
Just 1858 More Than
in 1915

Just S3,673 more Red Cross Seals
were sold by the school children of
Harrisburg and Dauphin county dur
ing the campaign OF 1916 than that of
1915, the totals announced to-day by
DR.. c. r. Phillips, chairman of the
Red Cross Seal committee, show.
The total number of seals sold
by the school children in the
1916 campaign-which ran through
out week just before Christmas
was ESQ, 1872. In 1915 the total num-
Der sold was 167,059.
These figures mean in actual money
received to fight the great white
plague just $2,507.32 in 1916, and ST.
67O.59 in the year previous.
This was not the total amount re-
ceived from all sources during the
campaign, however, the grand total OF
seals sold in Dauphin county for 1916
being 364,170, totaling S3,641.70 in
money.
DR.. Phillips, the chairman, pointed
out, in announcing the totals, that the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
TROOPS WILL NOT
DRILL PUBLICLY
FOR SOME TIME
Captain Jack Says Men Must
First Become Thoroughly
Acclimated

An invitation to the members of
the GoVernors Troop to attend Sunday
morning services at Market Square
Presbyterian Church and several re-
quests from citizens to have the troop
drill in Market Square were turned
down to-day by Captain George G..
Jack. He said this action was neces-
sary from health standpoint and that
until the men became thoroughly ac-
climated he would be obliged to de-
cline invitations for any public appear
ance of the troop in a body. Captain
Jack said:
II would like very much to have
the troopers attend church in a body.
but there are Il number of them suf-
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
HARD FIGHTING
STILL RAGING
IN RUMANIA
Russians and Rumanians Ap-
parently More Than Hold
ing Their Own

Heavy lighting is still in progress
on the Rumanian front. with the Rus
slams and Rumanians apparently more
than holding their own, for the time
at least, against Field Marshal Won
Mackensen's armies Elsewhere in the
field of military operations there have
been few activities of importance.
This holds true of the Franco Bel
gian front where the quiet has been
broken recently only by the British
activities north of the Somme which
have resulted in advances for them re-
Gently near Beaucourt- -Sur-Ancre. In
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
PRUSSIAN DIET
AIMS CRITICISM
AT GOVERNMENT
Favors More Unrestricted Use
of Submarines, but Makes
No Attacks on u. S.

Berlin, Jan. IS, via London, Jan. 10.
The Prussian Diet took upon itself
to-day the role of critic of the govern
ment, which the Reichstag at it's latest
session refrained from doing. Never
theless the prediction which was heard
yesterday that the session would be
marked by the most vigorous attacks
on Chancellor Won Bethmann-I1oll-
veg. turned out to be incorrect. The
speech of DR.. Won Heydebrand, con-
servative leader, who is associated with
the Centrist and National-Liberal par
ties, in favor of a more unrestricted
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
ELEVEN CRUISERS
SCOUJR OCEAN FOR
ELUSIVE RAIDER
Belief That She Has Armed at
g. Least Two Captives Creates
CONSERVATION

Norfolk. Va, Jan. Wireless re-
ports picked up here last night say
that at least eleven, If not more, allied
cruisers are now searching for the
German raider playing havoc with en-
tente merchant ships in the South At
lantic. They are strewn along the At
lantic coast from 800 miles south of
the Virginia Capes to within a few
hours steaming of the place where
the German rover was sighted.
War vessels known to be engaged in
the search for the raider are the Brit
tsh cruisers Essex, Glasgow Suffolk,
Lancaster, Cumberland, Vindictive,
Edinburgh Castle, Drama and the de-
ICOnIinucn on Dnoc 4
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
COUNTY MUST PAY
CITY'S BILL FOR
EXTRA ELECTION
Will Cost at Least $4,000, Say
Commissioners, to Fill
Vacancy

City Council in all probability will
have to provide for a special primary
and special general election to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of City
Commissioner Harry +. Bowman, said
City Solicitor John E. Fox, to-day.
Mr.. Fox is preparing an opinion on
the question to be presented to the
Commissioners next Tuesday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
72-YEAR-oLD MESSENGER

Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan. 10. - There
is a messenger boy" in Pittsburgh
who has three grandchildren. He is
William Jones, seventy-two years old,
who runs" messages for tie Postal
Telegraph Company. and his employ
ers wish they had more like him. He
is called the best boy on the force"
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FRENCH TIME TO BE
ONE HOUR FASTER, FEB. IL

Paris, Jan. 1S. - The government
already is considering the question of
advancing the legal time by one hour.
1t has informed the committee on edu-
cation that it is in favor of the step.
1t is believed that the new time will
take effect February Is.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
Let All Flags Fly
at Halfmast in
Honor of Dewey !!

All the Nation tomorrow will
honor the memory of Admiral
Dewey, hero of Manila Bay, whose
body is to be laid away at Wash
ington.
Harrisburg should not he forget
fui of its privilege and its duty to
. join in hoEoring the hero of the
Spanish American War.
Let all flags be at haIfmast
throughout the, day in every part
of the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
SCARLET AND GORDON TO PROBE?

Philadelphia Jan. l9It reported here to-day that
former Judge James Gay Gordon this city and James
Scarlet Of Dane had been tentatively agreed upon as
counsel the proposed investigation of State Departments
by States Senator Pcnrose several days
ago resolution providing for committee Of senators and
members OF the House said will be introduced in tho
Legislature Monday night Judge Gordon according the
report willing consent Of Mr. Scarlet has
yet been obtained 1t was also reported that State
Senator Baldwin Of Potter county may be the chairman
of the Joint committee Senator Baldwin was member Of
the Can Commission appointed by tho Senate some years
: ago
EXPECT WIIPPLE TO DIRECT PROBE
Washington, Jan 10. Members of tho House rules
committee investigating the alleged leak" on President
Wilson's peace apparently we're confident to-day that
Samuel Whppc noted Boston lawyer would accept the
committees invitation act its counsel in the inquiry
WILSON CONFERS WITH STEERERS 5
Washington, Jan. 10 In effort clear the les
sadvc calendar Of administration before the
House with questionable political power
President Wilson at the Capitol to-day with the
Senate Steering Committee
POSSE KILLS THREE BANK ROBBERS
olanugee Okla. JAN ia posse of ten which !
left carly to-day in search for alleged band robbers
returned about with the bodies OF Oscar Poe Will
Hart and Harry Hart The men killed were engaged in
skirush with the posse about miles southwest Of as
TODD SUGGESTED FOR SMITHS PLACE :
Harrisburg-Tbe name OF Samuel c, Todd executive
controller being heard Oh Capitol Hill possible
Banking Commissioner Mr. Todd is banker having been
connected with Washington county banks for years prior
being named executive controller
MARRIAGE LICENSES !
Daniel and
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Emory Fisher
Pau kIcI and zoaD Dubyk, stecIto
Hay Weaver Harrbu
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg aud vicinity: Fair
tonight and probably Saturday;
not much change In temperature,
lowest Tonight about 20 degrees.
FOR Eastern Pennsylvania; Fair to-
night; saturday increasing cIOudI-
nessi not much change In tenn
perature; moderate west winds.
River
Ine Susquehanna river and all It's
nutnrIes Will fall slowly or re-
main nearly stationary without
material changes i'm ice cOndI-
tlOns. A stage of about 81 feet IL
Indicated for Harrisburg Sntur-
day morning.
General Conditions
A disturbance from Canada TINT
Overspread the nOrthenHtern nor
tion of the United states is pass
Ing oil the North Atlantic cOasf' It
caused westerly gales from the
Lake Region eastward to the At
Iantte ocean and light snow In
the Ohio Valley and In Michigan.
Northern PENNSYLVANIA, Western
New York and In New England
and the ST. Lawrence Valley. An
other disturbance from Western
Canada Is now central over North
Dakota. Pressure has Increased
over the sOuth-centrnl pnrt of the
cOuntryi Ii continues high, but
has decrensed considerably west
~ the Rocky sO~-Suns.
Temperatures a. M, "a.
suni Rises, 7i1S n. m.
MOoni New moon, january %, 2,4O
q. m.
River Staget 5.2 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature, 30,
Lowest temperature, %.
Mean temperature. "a.
KoSmaf Temperature. 2S.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
SPANISH SHIP SUNK

London, Jan. 19.-Lloyds announces
that the Spanish steamer Vale has
been sunk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-19
General Conditions
Temperature, 8 a. M. "a.

Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature, 30,
Lowest temperature, IS.
Mean temperature, "a.
KoSutaf Temperature. 2S.
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