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Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

Like many other young college men who have offered their lives to their country, Charles M. Schwab, 2nd, nephew of Charles M. Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel com pany, has left his studies at the Pennsylvania State college and en- listed in the naval reserve. < He is now serving in the transport services but vii lsoon be sent to the Military, Academy at Annapolis for training as an ensign.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

FOR RENT-2 nicely furnished iron rooms, suitable for two gentlemen il
 each room, with board. Mrs. E. Shel
 don, Winwood addition. g.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

FOR RENT-Nice big sunshiny room.
 nicely furnished with piano, wal beds and stove. Over Independent
 Fuel Co.,, Main st. 16J
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

FOR RENT-Nice big sunshiny room
 nicely furnished with piano. wal
 beds, and stove. Over Independen: Fuel Co.,, Main st. 13t
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

AGENTS-The Bradley Gas Saver for Fords. The best seller on the mar ket. Can be demonstrated in min utes. Big commission. The Co., operative Sales Co.,, 947 Georgia st., Los Angeles. 146
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
Money To Loan.

S50,000 to loan on improved city prop erty or for building. on easy terms of payment. T. A. Hughes, over Bank O. Bisbee. 697
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
Agents

I'VE A NEW LINE OF SOAP, FIX tracts, toilet goods, perfumes, etc, for agents; 10 per cent profit; sam ples free; write quick. Lacassian
 Co.,, Dept. 65, St. Louis. Mo. 173
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
FOUND

FOUND-Gold ring. Address Yaselski
 Box 2242 City. 160
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

WE do general house cleaning, solder
 ing, plumbing, repairing furniture, stoves and painting. Phone TAP, Gim- enes. Reasonable prices. 52
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
Furnished Rooms

FOR RENT-Nice room for ? gentle
 men, 7S Upper Lowell, $10. 16
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
PROFESSIONAL CARDS

PAT CLEARY, painter. Member Builders Exchange. Box 1495. 347
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
Miscellaneous

OLIVER TYPEWRITER ro trade for
 40 shares Jerome Verde, if taken at once. B. Y. K, care Review. 156
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
Red Cross Gains $44O.4O
From Benefit Performance
at the Majestic Theater

A well filled house greeted the
players in the Red Cross benefit per-
Iormance, held in the Majestic
theater this morning. After the
overture. Hail. Glorious America, +"
c. Floyd Hopkins, manager of the
theater, introduced Mayor Keister to
the audience. In short address.
the Mayor congratulated the people
of Harrisburg on their support of
the Red Cross and other war or
ganizations. The victory, will be
won by the nation that stays in the
war the longest" he said. Mrs. Roy
j. Cox, a local soloist, sang "The
Star Spangled Banner" with much
feeling. The regular program of
vaudeville acts followed.
Every service contributed by the
actors and actresses, the stage en-
ployes, the boxoffice and theater en-
ployes and managers, was donated
to the Red Cross Society, and the
theater was given by the owners.
Wilmer and Vincent. 4. -
Total receipts of the benefit per-
formance will be given to the Red
Cross Society. The gross receipts
are $4,000. OF this amount. the
sales of various organizations were.
Boy Scouts, $3.50; Rotary CIub
.$224.75; Box Office, $1,000: Pretty
Baby Company s11O.15.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
Council Meets to Plan
For Garbage Disposal

Members of City Council. the Health
Department ana commissioners-el
held an informal conference this aft
ernoon to discuss the garbage dis
posal question. 1t is probable that a
definite recommendation will be made
at the regular session of Council next
TUESDAY as result of the conference
to-day.
a number of the officials predicted
that 1t Is not likely the city will do
the collecting and disposal of garb-
age, but the question of which dis
posal system should be adopted in
awarding contract is the one which
must be decided. One of the bids
submitted was by Hagy Brothers,
gho operate a piggery at Rohrers-
town to dispose of all garbage COL
lected in Lancaster. This bid was SO
per cent. lower than the next highest.
submitted with specifications that the
garbage will be disposed of by re-
duction. Representatives of the vari-
Gus firms bidding were present.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
Eye Witnesses Tell
of Horrors Resulting
From Ship Explosion

St John, n. B., Dec. Eye wit
nesses of the Halifax explosion
reaching here to-day told details of
the horrors through which they
passed. In the party were fourteen
young women students from Mt. st.
Vincent Academy.
Esmond p. Barry, st. John Postal
clerk, was at Richmond during the
worst of the catastrophe.
1T was terrible" he said. "peopIe
dying in our car like flies. Some of
them came to the place with noses
shot off, eyes put out, faces slashed
with flying glass, limbs torn and
distorted. On one occasion while we
worked around a wrecked building
we could see a little baby fifty feet
or more underneath a burning mass
crying for aid. We could not get
within thirty feet of the child and
had to watch while it burned TO
death. Men and women and chill
dren were lying in the streets and
hundreds must be buried beneath
the wreckage."
j. &. Gillespie, train conductor
said that at Richmond fully fifty,
per cent. of the buildings collansed
Babies were lying in the streets
dead. Ernest Cameron, Canadian
Pacific telegraph operator and nII
his family were killed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
WAR RESOLUTION
PASSES IN SENATE
HOUSE TO FOLLOW
Prompt Declaration Agains
Austria-Hungary Follows
Presidents Message
ACTION is UNANIMOUS
Following House Action Fina
Draft of Resolution Will
Be Prepared
BY associated Press

Washington, Dec. with les.
than an hours debate, the Senate to
day passed the resolution declarint
war on Austria-Hungary
The resolution was adopted by tn,
Senate unanimously, "A to 0. Senator.
Gronna, of North Dakota; Norris, o
Nebraska, and Vardaman, of Missis.
sippi, who voted against the German
war declaration, supported the reso-
luton. Senator LaFollette. of Wis
consin, left during the speechmaking
and did not cast his vote.
Meanwhile there was every indica-
tion the resolution would pass in the
House with only one dissenting vote
Representative London, Socialist
Members were so sure of 1t that they
deserted the chamber in droves to
escape the speechmaking and return
later for the voting.
After the House acts, the two reso-
lutions will be reconciled OF one sub
stituted for the other.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
Stunned by Disaster,
Halifax Bends Energies
to Care For Wounded
By Associated Press

Halifax, n. S.. Dec. stunned
by the magnitude of the disaster
which has overwhelmed the "garri-
son city by the sea-" the people of
Halifax to-day bent all their ener-
gies to relieving the injured, feed
ing the hungry, sheltering the home
less and gathering their dead.
A heavy snow storm set in early
to-day, and while this in a measure
impeded the work of relief and res
cue it served to aid the firemen in
fighting the flames which still burned
iiercely in many places among the
ruins in the devastated district.
Reports from the improvised
morgues and from hospitals,
churches, schools and private resi-
dences seemed to bear out last
nights estimate that at least 1000
lives were lost when the Belgian re-
lief steamship limo collided with the
French munitions steamer Monte
Blanc, causing the detonation of A.
600 tons of trinitrotoluol, one of the
CONTINUED on Page 20.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07

The report as given out by the
Navy Department isl as follows:
THE following report was re-
ceiyed from a navA commander at
Halifax
while fifty-two miles at sea the
explosion of a munitions ship was
seen and heard. Upon arrival as
sistance was offered to the authori-
ties and the following learned con-
cerning the circumstances leading
n -.~lNSio~'
"a Belgian relief ship collided
with a French munitions vessel
loaded with three thousand tons OF
II. n. n. and large quantity of
ben2ine. Due to the collision the
benzine caught on fire and as soon
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07

Returning from Philadelphia this
morning after an interview there
with food administration officials.
Donald Mccormick, in charge for
Dauphin county, gave out the gov
ernment's decision on the size of
bread loafs and the instructions for
their ingredients. The baker must
follow specific weights or multipes
thereof which shall be net weights,
unwrapped, twelve hours after bak-
ing. No. l, a siXteen-ounce unit, not
to run over seventeen ounces; No. 2,
a twenty-four- unit, not to run
over twenty-five and one-half ounces.
The licensee is instructed in mix
ing dough for bread or rolls not to
use the following ingredients in
amounts exceeding those specified
below, per unit of 1876 pounds of any
flour, or meal or mixture thereof:
Sugar - Not to exceed three
CONTINUED on Page 25.1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
GERMANS THROW
A MIGHTY FORCE
AT PIAVE LINE
Big Operation in Italy Is Rep
etition of Former Turn
ing Movement
NEW POSITION STRONG
Russian Prisoners Released bv
Austria Return Home to
Spread Peace Talk

Italian Headquarters in Northern
Italy (Thursday), Dec. (By The AS
sociated PressJ big operation
which the enemy is. attempting in the
north is virtually a repetition of the
turning movement he executed six
weeks ago in the great offensive
above Gorilla.
The Austro-Germap attack on Me-
lctta not only affects the lines in that
region but If the enemy could pierce
through and drive his way southwark
on the plains it might place him on
the lett Hank of the Piave lines, much
as the Duke of Aosta has his third
army at Gorilla with the enemy on
his left flank. The line east of Asiago
probably is stronger to-day than be-
Continued on Page 26.1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
Ia Under Close Guard
to Prevent Further Escapes
From Smallpox House

City health authorities to-day had
not located Susie Jones. 1921 North
Seventh street, who is suffering
from smallpox and is now at large
somewhere in the city or vicinity.
The house at 1921 North Seventh
street, is now under close guard as
there are fourteen more colored per-
sons under quarantine there. Three
cases of smallpox have developed at
the place in the last two weeks.
With the woman at large there is
danger of a serious epidemic the
health officials state. State Health
authorities have also sent out notices
and are cooperating in the search
for the woman. AS there are few
marks on her face it will be difficult
to detect that she In a victim of
smallpox, health officials said.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
BRITISH RETIRE IN
CAMBRIA REGION TO
STRENGTHEN LINES
Evacuation of Several Villages West of Cambria by Gen
eral Byng Means Shortening of Lines and
Stronger Defenses - " -..-

German wedges driven into the
salient before Cambria have COM
PEELED the British to evacuate several
points and they have given up to the
Germans several villages west of
Cambria as well as the Bourbon wood.
The retreat was carried out so well
that the Germans continued to shell
the emptied positions for several
houIs after the British had left them.
The British line had shortened and
was made more capable of strong de-
fense as result of the retirement.
1t is indicated from British head
quarters in France that General Byng
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
Relief Train Sent .
by Massachusetts
Delayed by Wreck

Waterville, Maine. Dec. THE
relief train sent to Halifax by Gov
ernor Mccall and the State Public
Safety Committee of Massachusetts.
was delayed for more than an hour
early to-day by a freight wreck on
the Maine Central Railroad at
Burnham Junction, thirteen miles
from here.
Five freight cars had been de-
rallied just ahead of the train and
the tracks were piled high with
wreckage. Telegraph poles also had
been knocked down, cutting off
communication between this city and
Bangor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
Soldiers Invited to Attend
Big Recruiting Rally

Charles C. Stroh, chairman of the
committee on speakers of the Dauphin
County Committee of Public Safety,
issues n special invitation to the SOL
diers who are home on f'Irloughs, to
attend the meeting at the Courthouse.
Saturday evening, when Lieutenant
Hector McQuairre, of the Royal Ar
tillery. Will make the principal ad-
dress. The latter will tell of his ex-
periences in the trenches, and where
he was wounded, and it is thought the
talk will be of special interest to the
boys who are going abroad. Mr.. Stroh
also asks that the soldiers now on
duty at Middletown. attend the meet
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
FIERCE FIRES RAGE IN MANY SECTIONS
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY
Heavy Blanket of Snow Interferes With Rescue Work.
but Proves Great Help in Checking Flames; Third
Red Cross Relief Train Leaves New York; Mcrgues
Improvsed From Schools, Churches and Homes

Washington Dec. T. - Five thousand are believed
have been killed in the explosion in Halifax harbor and
the fire which swept North Halifax and Dartmouth,
N. S., according to advces from naval commander
reaching the Navy Department early to-day The Navy
dispatch said these figures had not been verified however
The which from naval commander who wit
messed the explosion from point 81 miles off Halifax and later
the arbor render aid said that all Of North Hall
fax destroyed three ships sunk and many others damaged
he ruins of buildings burning ercey in North Hall
fax, the dispatch concludes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
HEART ANDA
DOLLAR WILL AID
THE RED CROSS
Ask That Liberty Bond Cou-
pons Be Used as Mem
bership Fees

will you have a. Red Cross mem
bership in your home this Christ
mas?"
This paraphrase of a well-known
advertising slogan is going to be
heard rather generally in Harrisburg
and Dauphin county a week from
Monday. when the Christmas drive
for $4,000 additional Red Cross mem
berships opens.
"a heart and a dollar is all you
need"
That is the official slogan for the
campaign. The committee in charge
of the drive is preparing every weap-
on known in modern campaign war
GContinued on Page 1871
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
CURTAIL CITY'S
SOCIAL'SEASON
BECAUSE OF WAR
Fair Dancing Partners Wall
For Return of Khaki
Clad Fighting Men
ALL BIG EVENTS ARE OFF
Society Leaders Take to Knit
Ting and Small
Parties

There will be no sound of revelry
IN Harrisburg this winter. Kaiser
Wilhelm has put the muller on So
cial gaiety more tightly than it has
ever been clamped since the days
OF the Civil War. AS for dancing.
Mrs. Marlin Olmsted well expressed
the situation to-day when asked if
the charity ball would be held: ,
"Nobody's dancing except over
there. A ball is a ball and YOU
have to have dancing. We must have
money for the Associated AH So
ciety but we will probably give a
theatrical entertainment for no one
cares to dance now. Times are too
critical"
Take to Knitting
With one accord all elements of
society in Harrisburg have plainly
concluded TO sacrifice all the usual
delights of a winter season. The inn
pulse was spontaneous and the fair
women who in other years took such
pleasure in giving dinners and dances
Continued on Page 131
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
Yankee Birdmen Wounded
During Battle With
Hun Planes in France

Washington, Dec THE American
Army airmen lighting German air
planes on the western front have suf-
fcred their first casualties. Two men.
corporal and a private, were total
reported wounded.
No report of the engagement in
which the Americans were wounded
was forwarded. They are:
Corporal Walter A. Warren; sister,
Mrs. Ida Smith. 900 Smith street,
Dublin. Ga.
Private Edward F. Ebsen; father.
George II. Ebsen.- Buffalo, Mo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
Don. Mccormick Announces
Receipt For Guidance of
Harrisburg Bakers
NO PRICE IS FINED AS YET
Sugar, Milk and Shortening
Are Cut Down in
Quantity
Reel Gathers Data on
Bread Prices in City

Harry ID. Reel, city inspector of
weights and measures, said to-day
he has completed a thorough in
vestigation of the local bread
situation and has compiled figures
on the prices and weights Of
loaves from the various bakeries.
He announced he will give COM
pletc information to Food Ad-
ministrator Donald Mccormick
when the standard weight for
bread goes into effect. Inspector
Reel said he could not understand
why one group of stores could re-
tain a full pound loaf of bread
for seven cents while other bakers
contend the price should be two
or three cents higher for fair
profit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07

could have maintained himself or
the aC.ated line. but the cost in
casualties would have been greater
than the strategic value of the posi-.
tions. Berlin, in its latest report
claims the occupation of Marcoing
about four miles southwest of Cam.
brai. Minor German attacks south OF
Bourbon wood and near La Vacque-
rie have been repulsed by the Brit.
ish.
Violent fighting continues in the
northern Italian front between Asia
CONTINUED on Page %.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
Philadelphia Blaze
Calls Out City's Entire
Fire-Fighting Force
BY Associated Prc,c

Philadelphia, Dec. NEARLY all of
the city's fire-hghting force was sum-
moned to blaze which swept a five
story building of the oil cloth and
linoleum plant of Thomes Potter and
Sons, Inc, here to-day The flames
were confined to the structure in
which the fire started but the fremen
were greatly hampered by dense
smoke and six alarms were turned in.
Officials of the company said the loss
would not exceed $4,000. Service on
the New York branch of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad was held up for about
two hours. long lines of hose being
stretched across the tracks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinity; Fair
and continued cole Tonight,
with lowest temperature about
25 degrees; Saturday increasing
cIoudIness, probably snow.
For Eastern Pennsylvnnia; Fair
and continued cold tO-niEhtj
Saturday, Increasing clOudincss,
probably snow In north and
west portions; moderate north
west to north winds.
River
The Susquehanna river and all it's
tributaries will fall slowly or
remain nearly stationary. A
stnge of about 40 feet is indl-
Gated for Harrisburg Saturday
morning.
Temperatures 8 a. M, 2S.
Suni Rises,( 7;17 n. MT sets, 4s3S
p. m.
Moon; New moon, December II.
River Stages Four feet below low
water mark.
Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature, 80.
Lowest temperature, 81.
Mean temperature, 81.
Normal temperature, 10.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07

as the fire started the crew aban-
doned the ship. reaching shore be-
fore the explosion took place.
Practically all of North Halifax
was destroyed and all of the win
dows and doors in Halifax and Dart
mouth were demolished.
1T is believed there are 5000
dead but these figures cannot be
confirmed. The explosion sunk three
ships and badly damaged many 9TH
ers. The ruins of the building are
now burning fiercely in North Hal
flax"
A further report from the Ameri-
can naval officer said he had landed
guard to aid the city authorities
in policing the city and cooperating
in every way in the relief work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
DRAFT BOARDS
FEAR RETURN
OF AUSTRIANS
Would Mean That More Men
Would Have to Be Called
For Examination

Local draft boards to-day are wor-
ried less the declarations of war
against Austria will mean the send
ing home of scores of Austrians and
Hungarians who had been drafted
Elizabethville and PaXtang boards.
If the Austrians, all of whom
waived exemption claims, are to be
classed ~as enemy aliens and sent
back home, it will mean that the
three Dauphin county draft boards
will have to call several hundred
more men for examination to fill the
quotas.
Steelton is said to have forty-five
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
INDIANS BURN sToREHoUsE

Nogales Ariz, Dec. 7.-Yaqui Indians yesterday at
tackled Esperanza seventy miles south of Guaymas Son
according to message received here to-day and
burned the office and store house of the Richardson Con
struction Company, American firm. Nothing has
been heard from about thirty Americans living in the
vicinity
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
MONTE SISEMOL TAKEN

Berlin, Dec. Monte Sisemo was captured by
storm, the official statement says.
BRITISH PLANES BOMB GERMANS
London Dec. British naval airplancs on Wed
nesday and Thursday continued their bombing raids on
German military works in Belgium, the British Ad-
miralty announced to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
HALIFAX DEATH LIST NOW 5000:
SNOW IMPEDES RESCUE WORK
SAILORS FROM
u. S. VESSE Ell
PATROL CITY

Estimate of Deaths Made by United States Naval Com
mander in Stricken City Is Regarded as Fairly Accu-
rate Although Not Official; Business at Standstil;
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
MAXIMALIsTs OCCUPY MARIE pALAcE

London, Dec Am armed Maxmast force has
occupied the Marie palace, according to Reuter- dis
patch from Perograd and has expelled the al-Russian
commission in charge of the elections for the constituent
assembly
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
MARRIAGE LlCENSES

Sine w. Wentz aud ID. Shank NewvIIe, Oh
NJ ObeFIin, $. Rechley, Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
FRENCH DRIVE OFF ATTACKERS
RELIEF TRAIN HELD BY WRECK

Waterville Maine, Dec. 1.-The relief train sent to
Halifax by Governor Mccall and the State Public Safety
Committee, of Massachusetts, delayed than an
hour early to-day by freight wreck the Maine Cen
trail Railroad at Burnham Junction thirteen miles from
here. Five freight had been de-aed just ahead of
the train and the tracks piled high with wreckage
Telegraph poles also had been knocked down. cutting off
communication between this city and Bangor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
CONTINUE ACTION ON AsIAGo

Rome, Dec. 7.-On the Asiago plateau the battle is
continuing without interruption, says to-day Official
report
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07
SINGLE AIRPLANE CAUSES MOST DAMAGE

SINGLE AIRPLANE CAUSES MOST DAMAGE
London, Dec. Most of the damage done in Lon
dor yesterday morning in the German air raid appears
to have been the work of single arpane which lowered
the city and dropped FIVE explosives and two in
cendiary bombs.
FRENCH DRIVE OFF ATTACKERS
Paris, Nov. 1.-Two attempts made by the Ger
attack the French lines of the Mouse in the
Verdun region last night, after heavy bonbardnc.t
The attacking forces the office announced to-day
driven off by the French fire.
1000 ITALIANS TAKEN-CLAIMS BERLIN
Berlin Dec. -Four thousand more Italians have
been captured in the Austro-German offensive on
the northern 'front.' bringing up the total to $4,000 ac
cording to to-day's official communication.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07

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