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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
100000 Army Rifles
Have Been Made Since
u. S. Entered World War

Washington. Feb. 23.-Seven hum
dred thousand army rifles have been
produced in the United States since
this country entered the war, says a
statement made public to-day by the
Ordnance Bureau of the War De-
partment. During the week ending
February 8, the daily production was
sos Enfields and LAP Spring
fields, or a total of 9,247 service
rifles added to the stock every day.
In addition the government received
Is, lis Russian army rifles during
the week, making a total weekly
rifle output of 72,152 weapons of
this class.
Summarizing the work on rifles,
it is shown that 100000 is be-
ing spent for that arm alone and
that 200 army officers. $4,000 men
and 10000 women are employed on
the manufacture of rifles and cart
ridges. There are two government
and three private plants making
rifles and one government and nine
private plants making cartridges.
1t is pointed out that the modi-
fled Enfield rifle has been fully test
ed and more than justifies the
claims that have been made for it,"
As to it's accuracy of fire, it is noted
that a regiment of colored troops
made forty-four out of a possible
fifty score with this weapon at short
range. although many of the men
had never fired military rifle be-
fore
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
Virtually Every Boy and
Girl in City to Enroll
in the Junior Red Cross

Every indication points to a Junior
Red Cross enrolment in Harrisburg
of about 1880 - and that is the
total number of pupils in the city
schools.
There are about the same number
of pupils in the schools of Dauphin
county outside the city. And Super
intendent Shambaugh of the county
schools believes that his pupils will
do just what the city boys and girls
are doing.
Shimmell school is another hundred
percenter, it develops. Every pupil
in every room in the big building
belongs to the Junior Red Cross. 'The
officers of the auxiliary at SHIN
nell are Anna V. Crowl, chairman ;
Margaret Sullivan, vice-chairman {;
Liliah Zug, treasurer, and Gertrude
Huber, secretary.
Cameron school is also 100 per
cent. OF the S33 pupils only. S33 are
members of the Juaior-and 122 of
them are Seniors, too. During the
last few months the Cameron build
ing's twenty rooms full of pupils have
contributed over $1,000 to the various
Harrisburg war campaigns.
Mrs. Lyman ID, Gilbert is very much
pleased with the success attending
the efforts of the pupils. She would
like to hear Just how each room
put over" the campaign; and let
ters with this information addressed
to Red Cross headquarters, Front and
Walnut streets, will reach her.
The Junior campaign will continue
for several days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
RAILROAD RUMBLESI
January Coal Record
Lowest Since September

Bituminous coal production in the
United States during January fell to
the lowest rate since September,
1916, and this alarming depression,
as it is called in the bulletin of the
United States Geological Survey
which gives the figures, is attributed
to unprecedented congestion of the
transportation system of the coun-
try, induced in part by the unusually
severe weather.
The January output, including
Ignite and coal made into coke, is
estimated at 42,727,000 net tons, or
but $1,000 tons more than the De-
cember output, though January had
one more working day. The first
month of this year is about 100000
net tons behind January, 1917, in
face of the fact that coal is now un-
der government control and the need
for it is greater than ever.
February, so far as the record
goes-and it is carried up to Feb
uary 15-indicates that production
has been at the rate of 1,70S,0OO tons
per working day. This is distinct
advance over the 1,643, ,0OO-ton aver
age for January but it is falling
off from the 7,000-ton average
for February, 1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
HARDSCRABBLE IS
ARGUED AGAIN
All Legal Points in Park Case
Are Gone Over in
Court

All the legal points which have
been reserved in the Hardscrabble
proceedings were argued before
Judges KunkeI and ,McCarrell this
morning by attorneys for the properly
owners and by City Solicitor John e.
Fox.
George r. Barnet, counsel for some
of the owners, was the first to take
up the various points of law in con-
nection with the city's proceedings
to open Front street from Herr to
Calder street.
While Mr.. Barnet discussed most
of the phases in question, he devoted
CHI of his argument to the appi-
cability of the act of 1871 and also
as to it's constitutionality. He quot
ed conflicting statements from pro-
ceedings at that time, one showing
that Front street was to be only
sixty feet in width, the other that it
should go to the low-water mark.
The report of one board of commits
sIoners fixing the width at the low
water mark has never been hpally
approved, it was argued.
William NJ. largest was the next
to take up the argument for the
owners, devoting much of his talk to
the unconstitutionality claims. He
declared the act of 1871 deprives all
owners from property rights and
from receiving sufficient damages
for structures built on public high
ways after that date. Decisions IN
other cases We're given in support of
the claims.
City Solicitor Fox depended the act
by declaring that it is a state law
similar in effect to others, and de-
clared that it gave the owners due
notice that Front street was pub
lie highway in which they could not
erect any structures except at their
own risk.
4 number of questions We're asked
by the court during the proceedings
as a number of acts of Legislature
passed from 1860 to 1874 were
brought into the argument to show
the relevancy of certain clauses in
connection with the laying out of
the city at that time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
PENNSY EXTENDS
"SHIPPING DAY"
All Divisions East of Pitts
burgh Are Now Included
in the Order

The shipping day" or sailing
date" plan for accepting and for
warding less-than-carload freight on
the Pennsylvania railroad has been
extended to cover the service on all
of the twenty-five divisions east of
Pittsburgh and Erie. Schedules pro-
viding shipping days" for each di-
vision have been worked out and
the new method placed in actual
operation on all portions of the east
ern lines.
Harrisburg Included in the Order
While the management of the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad believes that
further study of less-than- carload
traffic and longer experience with
the shipping day" plan will prob,
ably point the way to additional
economies. beneficial results nave
already been achieved, with the gem
eral cooperation of the shipping
public in making the plan success
full.
Reports from all divisions, which
have just been compiled, show that a
total of 654 cars are being saved
daily in the transportation or less
than carload freight on the lines east
of Pittsburgh. through the operation
of the shipping day plan. In addl,
ton, twenty-five distributing local
freight trains per day have been dls-
continued altogether. by substituting
tri-weekly or semi-weekly pickup
service for daily service on DIVISIONS
and branches where trathc Is llsht'
The crews of these trains have been
transferred to other and more essen
tial duties elsewhere in the freight
hn
are being similarly utilized.
Started i'm September
The shipping day or sailing
date" plan for handling less-than-
carload freight was first put INTO ell
feet by the PENNSYLVANIA railroad on
September 4, 1917. when IT was IN
augurated in this city. 1t was snort
ly afterwards established in Balti-
more. Buffalo, New York, PITTSBURGH
and other great traffic centers. ana
was then extended as rapidly as
practicable. to cover all portions OF
the Pennsylvania railroad east OF
Pittsburgh.
The purpose of the plan is, as far
as possible, to concentrate less-than-
carload freight automatically lnto
carloads. each for a single destina-
tion at the point of origin. With THIS
object i'm view, shipping days have
been established for each station. TO
various specified destinations. Less
than-carload freight is accepted
only on the dates named and the
cars sail" at definite hours as per
published schedules.
Five and a half months expert
ence with the shipping day plan
has shown that it not only econo-
mizes in the use of car space, but
gives shippers more regular service
and reduces the length of time ship
ments are in transit. Moreover, by
largely eliminating rehandling at
freight transfer stations it has less
ened loss and damage and the
amount of freight going astray. 1t
has also been effective in reducing
congestion of teams and trucks al
freight stations, and has economical
in the amount of labor required
both by shippers and by the railroad
in handling less-than- carload freight
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
New Cumberland Is
Making Bid For Big
U. S. Military Depot

New Cumberland, Feb. 23.-New
cumberland hopes to be considered
in the matter of locating big gov
ernment warehouses near this place
and has been assured by the War
Department that the site in this
vicinity will he decided purely on its
merits.
At meeting last evening plans
were discussed as to how to meet the
local housing problem should the
depots be located near this town and
q committee was appointed with that
in view. At the session i'm the fire.
house a New Cumberland Municipal
League was formed with :. y. Straub
as president; Kirk Wire, as secre-
tarN. and Luke Butt as treasurer.
The New Cumberland speakers eX-
pressed the opinion that the site
near that place is superior to the
Others under consideration and will
lay their views before any govern
ment agents who may be sent here
30 seek them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
CHORISTER SPEAKS TO
BOYS IN GYMNASIUM

Charles Nj. Alexander, convention
chorister of the State Y. NJ. c. A.
convention, which closed here to-
day, spoke to a crowd of 40 or so
boys assembled in the Central Y. NJ.
c. A. gymnasium this morning, urg-
ing the boys to join the Pocket Tes-
lament League. Thirty-three boys
signed pledge cards, agreeing to
read a chapter each day, and ]. Will
ham Bowman presented each of
them with a copy of the New Tes-
lament. The boys had just finished
a Bible study, and had gone up to
the gymnasium when Mr.. Alexander
chanced into the building.
The Bible study class is a regular
feature of the Saturday boys pro-
gram. Two teams nave been
chosen. They are the Iroquois
team, with Stewart Taylor as leader,
and the Sioux team, with Stewart
Nissley as leader.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
HOTEL FOOD MAY
BE REGULATED BY
NEW HOUSE BILL
Agriculture Committee Favors
Measure Giving President
Wide Powers

Washington, Feb. 23.-CompulsoryA
food conservation is necessary in the
opinion of members of the House
Agriculture Committee which to-day
submitted it's report on the bill Civ
ing the President power to regulate
public eatinghouses and the distribu-
ton and manufacture of foodstuffs.
The bill does not directly affect
householders.
The report recalls that the Presi-
dent has no power to enforce eco
nomic consumption under the exist |
ing food law and that the success
OF conservation plans depends entire
lN upon the voluntary co-operatiorH
of the people. The appeals to save
food have met with gratifying re
suits the report says, and adds "bu
there is a small per cent. of people
who either wilfully or for lack of
understanding fail to respond to the
call made for patriotic duty"
Compulsory Methods Necessary
THE food situation as it affects
us and our allies" the report con
tinues, lis becoming so cridcally Sc
rious as to warrant the committee in
the belief that the necessity is upor
us of adopting compulsory methods
of conservation in certain we'll de
fined directions. 1t would be foolish
for us to shut our eyes to the facts
1t would be cowardly in us to fai
to attack the problem of waste il
foodstuffs in the most vigorous
manner.
THE bill is designated to meet
situation which is closely allied I'd
tn Enron /
all of our eXportable surplus of cerI
tain foods, there is never going to Id
more than just enough of such foodl
available for consumption in tht
United States. In order to prevent
local shortages, 1t is necessary tina
this normal supply be Distribute,
with absolute equality Throughout
the country, and such distribution il
further essential in order to enably
the best possible use of our surpluv
products. From time to time therI
may be temporary shortages in cerI
tain foods. In such a case the Presi
dent should have power to contro|
the distribution in such a way thai
the shortage is spread out as evenlj
as possible"
Waste i'm Eatinghouscs
In discussing public eatinghousI
control it is charged in the repo1
that the consumption, paftlculaflI
in high priced restaurants AMI
J hotels, per capita is nearly double d
normal
The bill authorizes regulations Il
| eliminate unnecessary use of essen
! tial foodstuffs by manufacturers ol
! food products" said the report. IN
/ would be possible to effect a grea|
saving in food products by requirin|
! higher milling of the mixture of I'M
/ gradients in bread which cannot b|
so readily shipped abroad"
! Although it does not authorize
! rationing system for consumers il
! the language of the report, lit woulI
! permit the President to limit thI
| amount of any given product whicl
may be shipped into a particulaI
district or delivered to a particula'
distributor" The President can,
effect, ration the distributors so tina
a threatened shortage can be sprea
out as evenly as possible throughor'
| the entire country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
Residents of StOckyard
Districts Spend 81, 100000
For Liquor, Says Report
BY ASsocintcd PrcsS

Chicago, Feb. 23.-Packers repre-
sented at the stockyards wage arbi-
tration to-day introduced evidence
bearing on welfare work done among
their employees pension systems and
even summer resorts maintained for
women employees.
Swift & Company, for instance, ac-
commodated 900 women at Fish
Lake, Ind, last summer.
Elbert Beeman, of Wilson & Com
pany's welfare department produced
a map of the polyglot section known
locally as Back of the Yards" The
witness said only 40 per cent. of the
residents of this district were en-
ployed in the yards. The map show
ed 225 retail food stores and 800
saloons.
Mr.. Beeman read report made
by the Y. NJ. c.. A. in 1912 showing
gross receipts on their saloons aver
aged $4,000 a year. Residents of
the district, he said, spend 4,500, 900
a year in those saloons. Since 1912
he added, the number of saloons has
Increased 25 per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
SAVING OF FOOD
A WAR DEMAND

Continued from First Page.
that is actually here to-day. The
wheat must be taken now and dur
ing the next sixty days and shipped
abroad as fast as ships can carry it.
or we shall fail in our support of
the armies and civil population of
England, France and Italy; and to
fail now is to invite disasters to our
own arms and to the great cause in
which we are enlisted.
1t is not a question of the price
OF the substitutes or other charac-
ter of the substitutes obtainable, or
whether their use in bread making
is acceptable to the consumer. We
can get along with less bread with
no injury to the health of the peo-
pie, and to consult mere convenience
or preference of taste in time of
grave war emergency is neither pa
triotic nor prudent.
If our people do not wish to
mix oatmeal and cornmeal with
flour in bread making. let them eat
oatmeal, breakfast cereal, corn muf-
fms and fried mush and reduce their
bread consumption correspondingly.
being thankful that these whole
some foods are obtainable in Amer
lea in abundance, and that our own
supply can neither be ieopardiZed
by hostile U-boats or made depend
ent upon the generosity and sense
of duty OF the people of another
nation.
1t is time for the American peo-
pie to realize that we are at war
and that demands upon us for sac
rificc and sclf-denial are war de-
mandS."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
Spanish Steamer Sunk
by German Submarine;
Second Vessel Detained

Madrid, Friday, Feb. %. - The
Spanish steamer Maria Caspio has
been sunk by a submarine. on her
way to New York with a cargo of
cork. The crew was picked up by
the Spanish steamer Claudio Lopez
Y Lopes, which also was stopped by
the submarine but later allowed to
proceed.
The captain of the Caudio Lopez
Y Lopez had the greatest difficulty
in inducing the commander of the
submarine to allow him to continue
the voyage. The submarine comman-
der wanted to sink the liper because
she was carrying a number of cars
consigned to the Spanish northern
railroad, which is partly French
owned
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
BRITISH MEET
ARAB ALLIES AT
JERICHO'S FALL
assistance Welcome After
Long Contest Against Su-
perior Enemy Numbers
DN BANKS OF JORDAN
General Allenby Now Free to
Choose a Line For
Advance
On BANKS OF JORDAN

London. Feb. 23.-Much impor-
Tance is attached to the arrival of
the British on the banks of the Jor-
dan, Reuters Limited learns from
an authoritative source. General
Allenby's advance from Jerusalem
was carried out under great diff
culties. 1t was made during heavy
rains and when the British had to
march over hills comparable only
10 masses of slippery soap.
Possession of Jericho is an impor-
tant step toward establishing touch
between the British and their Arab
allies. The British will be in direct
contact with the Arabs for the first
time. which should be a great en-
couragement to them as they have
fought a long and hard contest
against superior enemy numbers.
British Position Defined
General Allenbys force is now
encamped along the Jordan, which
probably is fairly high. 1t is a swift.
deep and narrow stream with a very
treacherous current and is in a
country which will supply food and
Fodder. With the latest advance the
British position is quite we'll defined.
The right flank rests on the Dead
sea and the left in the Mediterra-
mean, so if the enemy wishes to
attack he can only make a frontal
assault. The British now control
the Dead sea and have access to the
rich lands east of the sea. They
also menace the railway running
toward Damascus, while the country
has better roads than that around
Jerusalem.
Capture of Jericho. the military
correspondent of the Daily Tele-
graph says, deprives the enemy of
one of the CHIEF local points in his
defensive scheme in Palestine.
Motor E1otilla Endangered
The advance the writer adds,
SHOULD result in the clearing out
of the enemy from west of the Dead
Sea since it gives the British a line
right across Palestine. 1t endangers
the enemy's motorboat flotilla which
has had its base at the mouth of the
Jordan, and cuts off from any Turks
now left west of the Dead Sea. as
well as from those on the east where
they are exposed to the bold raids
of the Hedjaz Arabs. their means of
support from this source.
Arabs East of Dead Sea
1t must not be forgotten that the
ARABS are working their way up the
Hedjaz railway and already have
been in action directly east of the
Dead Sea. Turkish forces acting in
Hedjaz and southern Arabia already
virtually are cut off from the out
side world. General Allenby. haV-
1ng scattered the Turkish forces
concentrated west of Jericho, now is
free to choose a line for an advance
northward by whatever route seems
best"
The Daily Chronicle in its editorial
comment says:
Much depends on how the Jeri-
eho advance is followed up. So far
At has been pushed forward with
most encouraging rapidity i'm spite
of the handicap of rainy weather
We may perhaps hope that the inn
petus of General Allenby's move
ment will carry him forward much
Farther"
The newspaper adds that the first
troopers. to water their horses in the
historic Jordan We're Austrian cav
alry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
Officials Court-MartiaIed
For Death of Private
By Associated Press

Louisville, KY, Feb. 23. - News
dispatches received here to-day from
Washington assert that Lieutenant
Colonel ]. II. Allen, medical reserve
corps, and Major Milton Board,
medical corps. officers at Camp Zach
airy Taylor, the new National Army
cantonment near here, have been
ordered by the War Department to
appear before a court-martial for
trial in connection with the death of
Private Otto Murray, a selectman.
from Cumberland county, Ky.
Murray, it was said, was ordered
hack into training before he fully
had recovered from an attack of
measles. The case against Lieuten-
ant Colonel Allen is understood to be
based on the technicality that as
head of the medical reserve corps, he
was responsible for the acts of his
subordinates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
WISE MEN OF GOSHEN
CUT PATH THROUGH SNOW

LouisViIIe, ky.,-The wise men OF
Gotham of old have been eulogiZed /;
of Goshen to come in for their
share.
Goshen is a hamlet in Oldham
county, four long country miles from
Prospect, just inside the Jefferson
county line to the east of Louisville.
Recently these men of Goshen.
fifteen in number, congregated at
the top of the long hill which re-
cedes from Goshen to Prospect, and
found that the four-mile stretch of
road was, like the surrounding coun-
tryside, buried under seventeen
inches or more of snow. Not track
was to be seen breaking the mo-
notony of the endless blanket of
white.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23


Nenient to dump, or pay private col
lectors to do the work.
Only an Oral Reply
Council. although it notified the
Pennsylvania Reduction Company
and the firm bonding that corpora
tion that a cleanup must he made,
has received no reply. other than a
verbal promise to one of the Com
missioners that the work will be
done. When it will be started or to
what extent it will be carried out
was not intimated.
The attitude taken by some of the
members of Council indicates they
wilIS not wait on the company. but
viii order the cleanup, then charge it
to the bonding company. Commits
sioner Lynch declared himself in fa-
vor of this plan almost two weeks
ago. and maintained his stand for re-
moval of all the refuse which has
been dumped in the streets and in
vacant lots.
Must BE Cleanup"
Commissioner Gross, in speaking of
the situation to-day. said: There
must be a cleanup and at once. We
can not decide what to do about flu
ture collections unit the new bids
are received, but the piles of ashes
which we saw on the inspection trip
should be. removed as soon as pos
sible and action taken to prevent a
repetition of such conditions"
DIR. Hassler said to-day Council
will be given report on Tuesday
of the bids he receives for district
collections and aso favored the clean
up move. Mayor Keister and Com
missioner BURNETT have added theI
endorsement, too.