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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
RESERVE MILITIA
WELL UNDER WAY
Tentative Selections Have
Been Made by State Of
ficials For Companies

Details of the location of the or
ganizations of Pennsylvanla's Re-
serve militia will be announced soon
after Governor Brumbaughs return
to Harrisburg as the places where
units will be placed have been tenta-
lively arranged. There will be three
regiments of infantry and a squadron
of cavalry.
1t is probable that regiment will
be located in the Philadelphia dis
Pittsburgh and scranton districts
with companies located in places
where the state owns armories, al
though in some places like Harris
burg where the armories are own
ed by associations the Governor says
stances companies will be divided be-
tween places, one platoon being To-
Gated in each town.
The companies will. be in charge
Guard. including some who by rea-
son of slight disability, were unable
to enter active service or were re-
1ected. A number of them are at
work making up their lists. Among
the places under consideration are
Reading, Allentown. Bethlehem. Lam
caster, Wilkes Barre, Easton, Norris
town, West Chester, Pottsville and
Lebanon In eastern counties; Harris
burg. York. Williamsport. Tyrone.
the central section. and Erie, New
Castle. Bradford. Butler, oil City,
Franklin. Washington, Greensburg
and Latrobe, Unlontown and Con-
nellsville, Grove city. Meadville, In
diana or Blalrsvlllo and possibly a
Beaver county town.
Definite selectionis will not be
made until the Governors return.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
WHY'S Tells How to
Buy or Sell a Used Cal

To those motorists who anticipate
selling used car, or buying one,
John n. WHY'S, head of the WHY'S
overland Company, of Toledo, Ohio,
offers several suggestions which
should prove valuable both from SER
vice and economical standpoints.
At this season of the year, the used
car business is one of the most inn
portant factors in the motor trade.
Find the new car which best ans
Wers your requirements and gives
you the best value for it's list price
before you attempt to market the
old car" is the first suggestion Mr.
WHY'S makes. Dealers have been
known to offer from $500 to $1,000
for the same used car on a trade
deal, and the extreme range of Of
fer simply means that the dealer
offering thousand dollars is prob
ably exchanging for it a new car
listed for much more than its actual
value. The $500 offer may have
been a better bargain, from the
standpoint of value received.
after you have found a reliable
dealer who sells the car best adapt
ed for your needs, you can then look
around for the most satisfactory of
fer for your old car. Any reliable
dealer may be expected to give you
a reasonable and satisfactory price.
IF you are buying a used car, BY
no means purchase on appearance
alone. Again, the most important
suggestion to bear in mind is that
you do business with a trustworthy
dealer. BY so doing, you avoid the
possibility of finding yourself in pos,
session of a stolen car, which may be
taken away from you at any moment
The history of the used car, which
you contemplate purchasing should
be gone into most carefully. You
Should know how long the dealer
has had it on hand, how many miles
it has been run, and whether the
dealer bought it new or second hand
when you have gained this IN
formation, you should thoroughly eX-
anime all of it's mechanical parts
Pay special attention to the COM
preston, the cooling system, the
transmission, carburetor and brakes
Defects in any of those parts may
cause trouble and annoyance in the
future.
WHY'S Overland distributors and
branches, handle used cars strictly
on a business basis. Each of our
used cars is put in as nearly per-
feet mechanical condition as possible
and repainted before it is offered to
the public. And then, a reasonable
p>ice is axed on it, the price VARYING
according to the service which the
car has rendered before we obtained
it."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
Businessmen Want Better
! Roads to Aid in War

Atlantic City. Sept. 22.-The Gem
cral Resolutions Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, in war convention here, re-
ported for favorable action a set of
resolutions, twenty-four in number,
which completely covered the many
important subjects vital to the nation
and to business in conduct of the
war.
Military roads played prominent
part in the work, the resolution touch
on them follows:
Whereas. 1t is essential that all
the transportation facilities of the
nation should be brought to the high
est state of efficiency in order that
foodstuffs may be moved most eco
nomically from the farm to the mar
ket, that manufactured products be
moved at the lowest cost from the
factory to the consumer: and,
Whereas, The public highways of
fer good, prompt and economical
means to supplement transportation
by rail and water, therefore,
Be 1t Resolved. That the prompt
inn rovement of our public highways
is important and should be forward
ed in every proper way"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
GOVERNOR URGES
CAMP LIBRARIES
Asks That People of Penn
sylvania Remember the
Young Men in Camps

In a proclamation issued to-day
Governor Brumbaugh calls upon the
people of the State to contribute to
the funds for the establishment of
Libraries at the camps and canton
ments. The Governor declares in his
proclamation that the object Is most
commendable and that Pennsylva-
mans should see to it that the SOL
diers are provided with the best of
reading and plenty of It,.
The proclamation is as follows:
Whereas, The Secretary of War
has designated a National Liberty
War Council and has laid upon them
the obligation to raise a million dol
lars to purchase libraries for our
soldiers and sailors wherever as
sembled; and
Whereas, This Council has
promptly and patriotically entered
upon this service and calls upon all
citizens to contribute generously to
this important fund; and
Whereas, Pennsylvania, always in
the van of national endeavor, and
rich in all good service has the obli-
cation laid upon her people to pro-
vide fully one-tenth of this sum; !;
and
Whereas, 1t Is most commendable
to give our men in service all the as
sistance in our power including such
reading matter as will inform their
minds, widen their vision, add to
their recreation profitable assistance
and continue for them the facilities
to remain even in war times peo-
pie with the reading habit.
Now, Therefore, /, Martin G..
Brumbaugh, Governor of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, con-
vinced of the great importance OF
this wise and helpful service to our
men at the front and believing thor
oughly in the wisdom and necessity
of this movement, do hereby call
upon and urge our citizens to make
prompt and liberal contributions to
this fund and for their purpose.
Should any one wish TO donate
books or current magazines, lists of
these should first be seSt to State
Librarian Thomas l.. Montgomery,
president of the American Library
Association, Harrisburg, Pa, and to
\ l. - h
wise directed by the National Lii
brary War Council, all contributions
in money. Let Pennsylvania see to 1t
that her loyal men at the front are
subs tantially sustained and support
ed by all our people
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
THORN PREPARES
SOLDIER VOTES
Gets List of Places Where
Pennsylvanians Camp;
Question About Regulars

Chief Clerk George D. Thorn. of
the State Department, to-day secured
ment the names of the places where
Pennsylvania military organizations
are located and at what camps Off
GERS and men are being trained pre-
paratory to making arrangements for
taking the vote of the soldiers in
time of war. The state authorities
will probably ask the War Depart
ment for information as to what Reg
ular Army organizations contain
Pennsylvanians. but whether any at
tempt will be made to take the vote
of the Regulars from this state is
be requisite to voting. AS this year
there are county and municipal cleo
tions only it is likely that the state
will print a pamphlet of all NOM
nations, as was suggested for last
year when the Pennsylvania division
voted at El Paso.
The camps where Guardsmen are
located are at Augusta and Mineola
while there are, Pennsyivanians N
Camps Lee, Meade and sherman ano
officers training at four camps. These
are matters of public knowledge but
whether location of Regular Army
regiments or names of Pennsylvanians
in them can be obtained is for the
War Department to decide.
While here this week Governor
Brumbaugh said that he hoped t6
have worked out a system whereby
the votes of Pennsylvanians who
numbered more than ten in a unit
could be taken.
The naming of commissioners. the
Governor. said would be taken ur
very shortly, but nothing has been
determined as yet regarding those tC
go to France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
ITALIANS FLY
BIG AIRSHIPS
OVER CAPITAL
Large Passenger-C Carrying Ma
chimes Demonstrate War
Possibilities in Flight
BY Associated Press

Washington, Sept. 20. - Three
Italian airplanes, piloted by Italian
military aviators, flew about 200
miles without stop to-day from Lang
ley field at Hampton, Va, to the
capital, and landed without mishap
in Potomac Park near the White
House grounds.
The big Caproni airplane, piloted
by Lieutenant Silvio Resnati, the
Italian military aviator. was the prin-
cipal machine in the flight and car
f1ed beside its pilot, nine passeng-
ers. Secretary Lane, who was to
have been passenger did not make
the flight. Friends, arguing that he
already has flown twice, prevailed
upon him not to take the adventure.
His son, Franklin K. Lane, Jr., an
army aviator, was a passenger in the
Fiat machine which flew ahead of
the big triplane, being smaller and
faster. The Fiat was flown by Lieu
tenant Ballerini and the third ma
chine, Pimolio, was flown by Lieu
tenant Baldioli.
Watched by Crowds
Eagerly watched by great crowds
the birdmen, making the fight IN
about two hours, circled over the
city, the White House, the Washing
ton Monument and then glided down
to earth. The big Caproni landed in
the polo field in the park with one
of the smaller ones, but the other
smaller plane landed across the river
in Virginia, but on level ground.
The flight, arranged by military
authorities, was surrounded by q
great deal of secrecy. At the start
ing plane no information was avail
able of the personnel of the parties
accompanying the pilots, and at sPo-
tomac Park here everybody was rul-
ed oft the field. The landings, there
fore, were viewed from afar
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
Letter List

LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN
the Post Office, at Harrisburg. Pa,
for the week ending September %,
Ladies List - Mrs. Penle Bones,
Mrs. Bremen Iron e. Medal Co., Mrs.
David Brindle, Mrs. Barber Care,
Rosie Chamey, Nellie Crist, Mrs.
Sarah Fazier, Leydia Crate, Lizzie
Hughes, Mrs. Charles Jackson Mar
garet Jones (2), Katherine Kelzie,
Mrs. Joseph Keller. Elizabeth butz.
Mrs. II. MacRay, Ruth Pondexter, Sun
dae Romick. Mrs. Josephine Rose
Esther Shalton, Mrs. Samuel Silber-
man. Mrs. Matte. Simpson, Ethel F.
Smith. Mrs. ,Edyth WAGNER, Fannie
Mrs. Francis Tyson, Sara Young.
Gentlemen's List = Geo. Allen, W.
II. Baxter Howard s. Beck, ]. w. Ben
nett. r. +. Bichee, James Boulloch
Dewey Brown. Edmond Carson. Rocco
Codine, G. w. Dixon, John Doe, J.
Harry Erp, W.. II. Finley, Ralph
Gable, George Gahagin, Grayton g.
ton. Wade H. Harris. Harold Hopkins
James Kaleet. Harry Kurtz. Robert
John Minnich. Harry Moore, Lee
Mosley, George Pescan. Willie Ray
mond, Jone Rose. Charles Sanders
II. e. Smith. John Henry Smith. J. p,
Stetser, Charles. Summers, Edward
Toomey, James A. Zone.
their mai mail matter natter addressed to their their
street and number, thereby insuring
FRANK c. SITES.
Postmaster.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
NEW SHOWERS
BEING INSTALLED
Five New Baths to Be Built al
Y. M. C. A.; New Boys
Work Secretary Is Here

There will be no showers at the
Y. M. C. A. next week because five
new shower baths are being installed.
In addition to the shower baths
there will be an enormous hot water
tank which will give the bathers
twice as much hot water as the one
now being used in the building.
These improvements are being
made in preparation for the opening
about October 1 of the physical de-
partment, which is under the direc-
tion of G. w. Miller.
New Secretary Here
A. III. Dinsmore, the director and
organizer of the boys department of
the Y. M. c. A. arrived last even
ing and after looking around this
morning expressing himself as we'll
pleased and favorably impressed
with the city.
On his trip here he stopped at
Minneapolis, st. Paul, Lincoln, Neb.,
Chicago and Pittsburgh. He found
that all the Y. M. AS in those cities
were devoting both time and money
to the boys work. In the North Chi
cago building the boys had more
space given to them than to the
men. The East Liberty branch of
the Pittsburgh Y. NJ. c. A. is re-
modelling so that they may have ade-
quate quarters for the boys Minnea-
polls is breaking ground for a new
twelve-story building. Mr.. Dinsmore
also found that a number of the Sec
retaries of the clubs are being trans
ferred to war work either in Europe
or in cantonments throughout the
United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
FALL OPENING
CLOSES TONIGHT
Merchants, However, Will
Continue to Keep Stock Up
to Present High Standard

The Fall Opening which the mer-
chants of Harrisburg have been
holding for the last three days, closes
tonight. While the merchants of the
city have always been noted for the
assortment and quality of their goods
yet the Fashion Show marks the
formal opening of the fall and win
ter departments.
All of the garments designed for
street wear are made of dark color
ed materials. Most of the street suits
and coats are made of dark blues,
greys and black, also of very dark
maroon. The hats are either blue,
gray, black or purple. There are all
shades of purple and that color
seems to have come into It's own
again.
Although the formal opening closes
tonight the merchants will have
shipments of new fall and winter
garments to show their patrons un-
til the wearing apparel begins to ar
rive for the spring wear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
STATE GUARD IS
HARD AT WORK
Infantry Regiments Learning
How Way Is Made in
France

Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga, Sept.
%. = All officers in the field will be
required to take instruction in mill
tary tactics and the latest methods
officers training camps. It was an
ncunced to-day. This work will start
in few days. Men of the engineer
ing regiments started to-day to build
tiers for the use of officers. These
trenches will be surrounded by barb
ed wire entanglements and dummies
to be used in bayonet practice.
Meanwhile. men of the infantry
regiments are learning to make dug
outs with small trench tools.
The work will continue. until a
great number of individual trenches
ed by communicating passages. When
the trenches are completed the men
will be instructed in all the mys-
teries of camouflage, of which the
French are masters.
Engineers also are employed in
putting the rifle range in shape. The
men are engaged in filing in a four
teen-acre wooded swamp at the range
200 rifle targets. forty pistol targets
and forty machinegun targets.
Consignments of smoke bombs for
use at the artillery range are ex-
bombs Win be used for Held artil-
lery training in the three-inch field
pieces and the 4.7inch guns.
The. health of the camp continues
ical department say all records have
been. broken. Two deaths out of ap-
proKimately $4,000 men in more than
month. and both of these due to
accidents. is declared to be almost
Electric wiring of the camp. vir-
tually the last work to be done, is
almost completed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22
THIRTEEN NEW
SCOUT TROOPS
Executive Committee Finds
Movement Is Making
Splendid Progress

At a meeting of the executive
committee of the local Boy Scout
council yesterday afternoon Mt
headquarters, 200 Calder building, a
report was received showing that
thirteen new troops are now in the
process of organization.
At the request of Troop 13, per-
mission was granted for that troop
to increase the membership to forty
members. Upon application from
the troops of Lemoyne and Middle
town these troops were affiliated
with the Harrisburg council. The
committee approved of the pro-
posed training school for Scout
masters and steps were taken to ar
range for local representation with
the troop committees of the coun-
Gil. For the fifty boys who served
in the Boy Scout campaign last May
service badges were authorized. The
council appropriated money for a
supply of Mayor Mitchell's cook
books, 'Hints to Housewives, which
Is published by the Food Supply
committee of New York. These
books will be sold by the Boy
Scouts. Scout Executive J. H.
Stfne was authorized to cooperate
with the local liberty loan committee
quarters in. the second big drive to
sell Liberty Bonds. The Boy Scout
rally which is to be held October
IL was approved and sanctioned.
Those who were present at the
meeting of the local Scout council,
We're: William B. McCaleb, presi-
dent; p. S. Herman, David Kauf-
man, Howard G. Fry, Samuel p. Eby
and Scout Executive J. H. Stine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22

CONTINUED from First Page.1
idea of what Germany's terms would
be were a peace conference called,
is contained in the note.
In the field of hostilities the Brit
ish campaign in Flanders alone
commands widespread interest at
the moment. To-day's report shows
General Haig to be holding fast to
all the valuable ground he gained
in the great attack of Thursday in
the face of the most persistent Ger
man counter attacks. I The Germans
heavily increased their losses in
these efforts, the British Official
statement notes, but failed to achieve
any compensating gain.
Little Success
The only point at which the Teu-
tonic thrusts were even temporarily
here the Germans were immediately
driven out of the small section of
ground they had penetrated.
Three counter attacks in all were
delivered last evening by the Ger
mans. Apparently they had become
exhausted by the failure of the first
two efforts, for the third attack,
made east of Langemarck, did not
have to be faced by the British in
lhS eli tliiCiy Dtluk
able to cope with it.
Fresh Forces
New energy seemed impaired to
the Germans during the night, prob
ably by the bringing up of fresh
troops, for heavy fighting was re-
ported this morning in the vicinity
of Tower Hamlets, where the Ger
man resistance from the first has
been most desperate. The British left
held fast under this attack but there
was uncertainty in the early advices
as to the situation of the right in this
section.
Another phase of the entente cam
paigi against German-held Belgium
territory had q development to-day
in a British naval attack on Ostend
Naval works there were bombarded
this morning by vessels of the Bel
Fian coast patrol with results that
are pronounced satisfactory by the
British admiralty. In the course of
the engagement three German sea-
planes were shot down.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22


ing from the disorder of election day
in which they hold the police respon-
sible for not suppressing it, has cul-
minated in the calling of mass
meeting to be held next week to take
some action with regard to the pros
ecutiCn.
James A. Carey. mercantile ap-
praiser of this city. who was badly
blackjacked in the melee in which
Policeman George A. Eppley was shot
and killed, is improving. Physicians
have not yet determined whether his
skull is fractured.
easy Money" and Protection
According to the police, Falcone
has told them that Sunday he was
introduced here to two strangers,
who told him there was some "easy
money" for him if he would go where
they told him. make a lot of noise
and do a little rough house work"
He would be protected, they said,
have all his expenses paid and get
SO or SIS a day.
He put the proposition up to some
other men, the police say Falcone
told them. and got sixteen to agree
to go into it. They all went to
Philadelphia Monday, he said, get
ting there at II o'clock. They were
taken to a hotel, he said, and in the
afternoon they went to the Fifth
ward, where their work was mapped
out for them.
Arm Thirty Thugs
Each was told, he said. to wear a
white ribbon in buttonhole in his
vest. Some were supplied with black
Jacks and others with pistols, he said.
Next day they were joined by an
other gang, which made an aggre-
gate of about thirty men. They wan
dered about the ward in pairs, he
said but the first two days aside
from a few scuffles We're uneventful
On primary day, Wednesday, the
gangs were ordered to be up early
to get to work.
Falcone said that he knows moth
ing about the murder of Eppley, but
that he was tipped off things had
gone wrong and / had better skip"
All the gangs left Philadelphia hur-
riedly without stopping for their
pay, he said.
Aided by Detectives
He said that as they were wan
dering about the ward they met vari-
Gus men. who, they were told were
detectives and politicians who would
protect them IN case of trouble.
The police say that Burkhardt also
admits going to Philadelphia with
the gang. but claims he got back be-
Ifore the day of the shooting. Dem
nichy and Brannall deny they had
anything to do with the proposition
to go to Philadelphia.