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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02

company's lines was materially re-
duced because of the strike and every
train which left the Brooklyn bridge
was literally jammed by the thou
sands of delayed residents of Brook
lyn who almost fought to get abroad.
Hours after the accident it was
difficult to determine exactly how it
happened. The crash came in a dark
tunnel and the hysterical survivors
were unable to give a coherent ac-
count of their experiences. Many of
them insisted that a second train haa
p~loughed into the rear of the one
which had carried them and this was
the theory of District Attorney Lewis
until he had carefully sifted the evil
dence at his command, He finally
determined, however, that only one
train was involved.
Mr.. Lewis n the police asserted
the train was running fully forty
miles an hour when it took the curve
and plunged into the concrete side
wall of the tunnel. 1t was difficult
for them to believe at first, they said,
that there could have been such
heavy loss of life unless two trains
had been involved. The tunnel was
completed only recently and it was
declared that only a motorman thor
oughly familiar with the line could
have negotiated the curve safely even
at moderate speed.
When the first car jumped the track
i. sideswiped the west wall and ran
along the ties for nearly one hundred
feet. The cars behind crashed through
it, then buckled against the roof and
fell.
The gloomy tunnel was quickly
converted into a shamble. The
wreckage burst into flames, increas-
ing the indescribable panic among
the passengers. Almost every pas
senger in the first car was killed or
desperately injured. Many of those
unable to drag themselves free of
the w~reckage are believed to have
been burned to death. Dozens of the
bodies removed were aharred beyond
recognition and only a few of them
have been identified.
William Lewis, the train dispatch
err, pressed into service as a MOTOR
man, and Samuel Russof, a guard on
the train, were arraigned in a police
court to-day on a charge of homicide
and were held for examination on
Thursday. The magistrate refused to
grant a request made by an attorney
for the transit company hat the de-
PENDANTS be admitted to bail.
Lewis told Mayor Hylan and the
District Attorney to-day he went to
work at 5 o'clock yesterday morning
as a train dispatcher and that at 4.3O
in the afternoon he was assigned as
a motorman on the Brighton Beach
line, being willing, after nearly
twelve hours of work, to take this
new job because he wanted to earn
extra money for his family.
When his train was moving down
grade toward the tunnel, just prior to
the accident, it was going thirty
miles an hour, Lewis is alleged to
have explained to the authorities,
and he was unable to decrease it's
speed because the breaks did not
seem to work properly. Lewis de-
clared he rescued several women be-
fore he became panic-stricken and
fled from the tunnel. He is 20 years
old.
1t was reported that a citizens
committee was being organized to
ask the government to assume fed
eral control of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02

Here is real Yankee gameness,
limited at in a letter from Private
Lewis S. Gibbons, Company l, 18TH
Infantry, A. e. F., to his father,
Alex. Gibbons, who lives at S31
South Front street. Just to let you
know l am getting along we'll and
feeling fine" a Y Lewis, only | had
a little accident with an air bomb,
got five wounds. But don't worry
about that because J. will come out
o. K. What I'm worrying about is
how dad is feeling.
Looks as though by the time l
get out of the hospital the war will
be over; though l am to be shipped
to another hospital soon. The boy
from Dock street over here was ask
ing about me the other day. Well,
so long, dad, will write you again
soon; my leg is too sore to write any
more" A cheerful hero and invalid
this Harrisburg boy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
Schools to Open Nov. II,
Board Decides; Woman
Named as Tech Teacher

Public schools in the city will not
reopen until Monday, November II.
the board of directors taking this
action yesterday following a short
discussion of the epidemic situation.
DR.. c. l.. l.. Keen. n of the members,
said that. while the state and city
gave permission to open on Tuesday
at noon, he believed it would be safer
to wait until the following Monday.
A plan to make up the time lost
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
AUSTRIAN FLEET
SURRENDERS TO
SLAVS IN SOUTH
Allied Ships Have Entered the
Dardanelles; Crews at
Bola in Mutiny

London, Nov. 2.-The Allied fleets
have entered the Dardanelles, the
Evening News announced yesterday.
Members of the crews of the en-
tire Austrian fleet at Pola' have mu-
tinted, seized all the ships of vari-
Gus nationalities there and declared
they will obey only respective ma
tional governments, according to a
Budapest dispatch to the oss Vische
Zeitung of Berlin.
A German wireless dispatch picked
up by the British admiralty last
night says that, according to an
imperial proclamation. the Austro-
Hungarian navy has been handed
over to the south Slav national
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
Our Pledge

The Front Market Motor
Supply Company makes the
pledge never knowingly to
purchase any raw materials
or manufactured articles, re-
gardless of quality, work.
manship or price, made in
Germany or by German
sympathiZers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
Private Jacob Left
Wounded During Battle

Word has been received to the eff
feet that Private Jacob Left, Com
pany 1, One Hundred and Forty
sixth Infantry, formerly an employee
of the circulation department of the
Telegraph, has been wounded in
France. Mr.. Left, who has been over
seas for six months received a ma
chine gun bullet wound in the Amer
lean offensive north of Verdun. He
is now in a base hospital in Paris.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02

My Two Years in Turkish Harems.
by a Christian girl carried into cap
tivity, in next Sundays New York
American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02

u.e MoNelIIs sold TabIets. Aav.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
MAY CONTROL PRINT PAPER

washington, Nov. 2. Govern
ment control of the newsprint paper
will be distributed to all newspapers
in the country to protect the smaller
newspapers, is being considered by
Chairman Baruch, of the war indus
tries board. December 1 is the date
the control would become effective
under the present plan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02

Il used Cuticura Soap and oint-
ment. l seemed to rest more after
using them, and after using two cakes
OF Soap and two boxes of Ointment
my face was healed" (Signed) Miss
Catherine A. Casselberry, $3.50 Locust
St, Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. IS, 1917.
Prevent further trouble by using
Cuticura Soap for all toilet purposes.
Sample Zach Frss by Nail. Addrsss no.,.,.,d.
,OuheurA, Dept. H, Boston" Sold everywbere
soap &c. Ointment 5 and Soc. Talcum &c.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
Dug 1850 Graves
in 43 Years

MiddIetown, Nov. I'D. L.
Smith, who has been sexton for
the Middletown Cemetery Asso-
citation for the past forty-three
years and resided in the house
adjoining the cemetery, moved
from there to the Laverty prop
.erty in East Main street. While
Mr.. Smith was sexton, he dug
$500 graves. Mr.. Smith will be
succeeded by Soloman Brady.
who will move into the house
made vacant by Mr.. Smith.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-12
CHAPTER XVII.
Out In Front.

After tea Lieutenant Stores of our,
section came into the dugout and in
formed me that was ''for" a reconnOI-
terlnG patrol and would carry six Mills
bombs.
At II 80 that night twelve men, our
lieutenant and myself went out In
front on patrol in No Mans Land.
We cruiSed around in the dark for
about two hours, just knocking about
looking for trouble, on the lookout for
BoChe working parties to see what
they were doing.
Around two In the morning we were
carefully picking our way about thirty
yards in front of the German barbeG
wire, when we walked into a BOchs
covering party nearly thirty strong
Then the music started, the fiddler rem
dered his bill, and we paid.
Fighting In the dark with a bayOnet
Is not very pleasant. The Germans
took 1t on the run, but our officer was
no novice at the game and didn't fol-
low them. He gave the order down
on the ground, hug 1t close"
Just In time, too, because volley
skinned over our heads. Then in low
tones we were told to separate and
crawl back to our trenches, each man
on his own.
We could see the flashes of their
rifles in the darkness, but the bullets
were going over our heads.
We lost three men killed and one
wounded in the arm. If it hadn't been
for our officers quick thinking the
whole patrol would have probably
been wiped out.
ITO be Continued)
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-12
cover the Top"
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Serving In France
tCopyrig ht, 1917. By Arthur Guy Hmpeyl
SYNOPSIS,

CHAPTER T-Fired by the news OF the
sinking of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Ameri-
can, leaves his office in Jersey City and
goes to England where he enlists in the
British army.
CHAPTER II-After a period of train
Ing Empey volunteers for Immediate serv-
Ice and soon finds himself in rest billets
somewhere in France" where he first
makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres-
ent Coolies"
CHAPTER III-Empey attends his first
church services at the front while Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV-Empeys command goes
into the front-line trenches and Is under
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER V-Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the British Tommy, IF you
are going to get 1t, you'll get 1t, so never
worry"
CHAPTER vI-Back in rest biliets, EN-
pey gets his first experience as a mess
orderly.
CHAPTER VII-Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER VIII-Back in the front-line
trench, Empey sees his first friend of the
trenches go West"
CHAPTER IX-Empey makes his first
visit to a dugout in Suicide Ditch"
CHAPTER X-Empey learns what con-
stitutes a days work" in the front-line
trench.
C1AP1Efk A1-hmpoy goes over tIIS
top" for the first time in a charge on the
German trenches and is wounded by
bayonet thrust,
CHAPTER XIII-Each Tommy gets
an official bath.
CHAPTER XIV-Empey helps dig
an advanced trench under German
fire.
CHAPTER XV-On listening post"
in No Mans Land.
CHAPTER XVI-Two artillerymen
put one over" on Old Pepper, their
regimentaI commander
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-12

TN the observation post the officer
used to sit for hours with a powerful
pair of field glasses to his eyes.
Through a cleverly concealed loophole
he would scan the ground behind the
German trenches looking for targets
and finding many. This officer, Cap
tain A by name, had a habit of
talking out loud to himself. Some
times he would vent his opinion, same
as common private does when he's
wrought up. Once upon a time the
captain had been on Old Peppers staff,
so he could cuss and blind in the most
approved style. Got to be sort of a
habit with him.
About six thousand yards from u.s.
behind the German lines, was a road
In plain view of our post. For the last
three days Fritz had brought compa-
MES of troops down this road in broad
daylight. They were never shelled
Whenever this happened the captain
would froth at the mouth and let out
a volume of Old Peppers religion
which used to make me love him.
Every battery has a range chart on
which distinctive landmarks are noted
with the range for each. These land
marks are called targets, and are num-
bered. On our battery's chart that
road was called Target IT. Range
5000, 3 degrees 80 minutes left D 23s
battery consisted of four as hOwit-
zers, and fired 35-pOund H. e. she'll
AS you know, II. E. means high ex-
plosive.' l don't like cumming up nv
own battery, but we had record in
the division for direct hits, and our
boys were just pining away for a
chance to exhibit their skill in the
eyes Of Fritz, -~~
ION the afternoon of the fourth day
Of Fritz contemptuous use of the road
mentioned the captain and / were at
our posts as usual. Fritz was strafe-
Ing US pretty rough, just like he's doing
now. The shells were playing leap
frog all through that orchard.
Il was carrying on a conversation
in our tap code with Cassell at the
other end. 1t ran something like this:
"'Say, Cassell, how would you like
TO be in the saloon bar of the Kings
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-12
Copper River
and Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHTTINA AND KENNECOTT

CdlI4NA AMI hENNECOII
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays
and Fridays
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays Wednes-
days. Thursdays and Saturdays
The above schedule subject to change without
notice
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from a. m. to p M, except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
one hour before departure of trains.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25

in these departments Of play.
Crab was second in putouts at
third. Baker made 202 and the
Redville midget 17S. Zimmerman
made 349 assists, Baird 1872 and
Groh 331, with the others quite
ways in the rear.
OF all the third basemen who
played in upwards of 1870 games
Groh was the only one to make
less than 20 errors. He committed
only IS all season.
However, it is his remarkable
ability at killing off hits and for
being able to get on base so much
that makes him the king bee at
third. Zimmerman is his only
close rival in the National league,
while Weaver and Baker are the
only ones who come near him in
the American. Were Weaver to
play regularly at third he probably
would outshine Baker but on the
number of games played Baker
has the call in that league.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
TIGER TEAM
BEATS Arm Y
Nine EASILY

Russ Halls Tacoma Tigers won
their fourth straight practice game
yesterday afternoon at Athletic
park, taking the SO LIST infantry Of
ficers' team into camp with a 10
to l score. Weak pitching by
TOngate, who worked six innings
for the officers with nothing to
offer but a straight ball.
Eddie Pillett pitched three in
nings and allowed one scratch
hit. Heinie Menth worked the rest
of the game for the professionals
and was hit three times for one
run. McNulty, the new second
string catcher OF the Tigers, play
ed half the game and proved that
he Is a clever backstop with good
judgment and good arm. Lock
err, California youth who has
come to try out for the first sack
position, gave good impression
In his first game.
The next practice game will be
staged Sunday, when the Tigers
meet the 361st infantry regimen
tai ball team.
Yesterdays score:
r II Il
1lSefs ........... IL ID l
Officers ............ l
L. Pillett, Menth and Stevens,
MeNulty; Tongate, Appleman and
Towson, Stoke.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
Beaver Team
Looking Good

VANCOUVER, B. c., April 20.
Bob Brown, manager of the
vancouver Braves, is more than
pleased by the way his team is
shaping up. His infield will have
Gil Stoke ON first, Roy Brown on
second, James Hamilton on third
and Cook at short. Ike Wolfer,
Red Stewart and Delbert Bemis
are the outfielders, all heavy hit
tiers. Boelzelle will catch. The
pitching staff is still little weak,
but some good twirlers are said
to be on the way.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25

Chicago White Sox, who played
third only uart of the time, was
high among the American league
third sackers with .2S4, while
Home Run Baker of the Yankees
was second in the American
league with .2S2.
He led all the big leaguers in
the number Of games played at
third; in runs scored; in hits and
doubles made; in fielding percent
age; and made fewer errors, the
number of games considered, than
any other third sacker.
On the season Groh made 1S2
hits, 81 runs and 80 doubles, and
had a fielding average of 800
Zimmerman made la hits; Mil
ton Stock of the Phillies scored
&c runs; Red Smith of the Boston
Braves made 81 doubles, and
Baker and Weaver each fielded al
a .949 clip: These were the third
basemen who stood second to Groh
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25

They don't have to be big to be
great.
Remember what Bob Fitzsim-
mons said, "the bigger they are
the harder they fall and fall they
all did until Jeff came along.
The smallest ball player in the
game today is the king of his po-
sition.
Heine Groh is the greatest of
third basemen. Groh is so small
that he might be lost in crowd.
His main rivals, Heine thinner
man In the National league and
Frank Baker in the American
league, are almost twice as big
as the diminutive Heine. but they
can't pry him out of the third base
throne.
Groh last year was the best
hitter Of all big league third sack
ers. His average was .304. Heine
Zimmerman was the closest rival
with .297. Buck Weaver of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
Stadium Golf
Tourney Soon

Stadium high school golfers
have issued their annual challenge
to the golf players among the fac
ulty members, and a big tourney
between students and profs is i'm
pending. The faculty players will
probably be Profs. Hunt, Perkins,
Post, Westgate, Deal, Bell and
Duggan. The student lineup will
be Kenneth Kelso, Alvin NAL
strom, George Hayden, Pat Har-
vey, James Kirkbridge, John Kirk
wood and Tom Carpenter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
BASEBALL SEASON
OPENS NEXT WEEK :;
TIGE ALL READY

SEATTLE, April 25. - The
question as to where Pat Eastley
will play ball this year is kicking
up quite a fuss in p. c. |. circles
The former Seattle twirler has
not signed with Aberdeen, or any
other club, but he is a rafting
good hurler, and he would be in
a uniform in a minute IL the own
ers could sraighten out the tan
gle which is keeping Pat from
playing ball.
Jack Sullivan is after Eastley
for his Aberdeen club, and as the
Kittens are short on pitchers, it
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
MOVIES
PAT EASTLEY STlRS UP
Quite LEAGUE FUSS

looks as tho Sullivan ought to be
given the first chance at the for
mer Giant star. Eastley, who was
supposed to have been traded to
Russ Hall, refuses to play with
Tacoma, while he is willing to 60
to Aberdeen.
A meeting is set for this after
noon at which the Eastley matter,
and several others trades or sales,
will probably be settled. Bob
Brown is coming down from Van
couver; Russ Hall is here from
Tacoma, and Dug and Sullivan
will meet the visiting maguates
and try to do some business.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25

|erful. George Shanklin gave hin
a preliminary match one night
and Ole won easily. He continued
to win, being matched with better
boxers each time, and was becom
ing quite a local celebrity wher
he enlisted in Capt. Laws hospi
tai unit that went from Tacoma
to Camp Dodge.
Since that time Anderson has
been i'm constant training,
acting as sparriDg partner for
Mike Gibbons, boxing instruc-
or Of the camp, most of the
time. Anderson is being look
ell upon in the east as a pos
sible aspirant for Jess WILL
ards title, but Paul Steele
thinks that the big fellow
needs seasoning and hard
training before he can 60
after the men at the top of
the list.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
Ole Anderson Wins Titles
Champ of 3 Army Camps

Frank Farmer will have to
look to his laureIs when Ole
Anderson comes home from
war!
That's the message which
comes today from Paul Steele,
TacOna's popular light
weight, who is now hospital
sergeant at Camp Dodge, la.
Anderson is the big Ruston
youth who started out last year
as an uncouth husky who looked
to be all arms and legs. Be
boxed a few times in Tacoma and
showed that he was not only will
ing and ready to learn but that he
had mules kick in either mitt.
Has Three Titles.
You can take 1t from me that
IL Frank Farmer is still fighting
when Ole Anderson comes back
from the war, he will lose his
crown" wrote Paul in a letter to
the sporting editor today.
''Ole has developed into
champion heavyweight. He
has already won the cham
pionship of Camp Dodge,
Camp Grant and Camp Funs-
ton, and he is still going. He
meets the champion Of Camp
Taylor next Friday, and it
looks like another walk
away"
Steele Taught Him.
Anderson Is protege OF
Steele's. A few years ago he was
driving butchers cart in Taco
ma. Then he got job at the
smelter. and began taking boxing
lessons in Paul Steele's gymna-
SUM. He was awkward, but pow
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
Open Tanks For
Grammar Riddles

Swimming classes for grammar
school students, abandoned the
first of the year, will be resumed
Saturday, ii is announced. The
first classes will be from to
1880. Beginners are asked to
report promptly at . and those
who can swim should not report
until 10. Glasses will be held in
both high school tanks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
Jess Willard
Gives Up Idea
OF Big Fight

st. Paul and the fact that it is
growing it looks as il l will not
get a chance at Fulton" he said.
A permit to stage the fight will
be granted or refused after a joint
hearing of the Minnesota public
safety and boxing commissions in
st. Paul on May 4.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25

CHICAGO, April 25.-"It's all
off, Jess Willard said today re-
garding his proposed Fourth of
July bout with Fred Fulton. De-
spite the seeming assurances of
Promoter j. c. Miller, who return
ed from st. Paul today, the cham
pion declared the match couldn't
be staged.
The opposition encountered at
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
Omitted Press Leased Wire. }

PORTLAND, Or, April 20. =
Altho Marty Farrell, the New
York middleweight, straight-left-
ed Mick King of Australia, out OF
the decision In their six-round
bout here last night, the Antipo-
dean won the admiration OF Port
land fans by his willingness to
battle and his we'll trained left
found resting place on Farrell's
PROPOSES more than once.
Farrell started the fight by jab-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
King Defeated
ByNeW Yorker

bling Kings nose in the first round
until the clsret appeared. King
replying with short arm jolts to
the body. At the beginning of
the fifth Farrell showed his in
tention to set faster clip and
King rallied and met him with
heavy swings but in the sixth Far
rell was still fresh and King, tho
trying hard, was wild and tired in
consequence Of which the referee
awarded the New Yorker the ver-
dict.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
AMERICAN LEAGUE

8 O . @ 8 Q o . Q o 9 3 8 Q
Standing of the Clubs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25
Close Score

Grant school won a ball game
in the grammar school series yes
terday, defeating the Franklins, .
to Z, in a hard fought game at
the old Y. NJ. c. A. grounds. Bat
teries: Grant-Dwyer and John
son; Franklin--Sandal and Blake.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-25

A Powerful Story of a
WOnlan's Shattered Soul
Healed by the Balm Of Love
and Devotion.