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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
NEW YORK STATE
AUTHORITIES PAY
FINEGAN TRIBUTE
Great Loss to the State Opinion Of Associates of Noted
Educator Who Comes to Pennsylvania to Become State
Superintendent of Public Instruction

testing his capacity, his soundness
of judgment and his executive abil-
ity, | have put more and more re-
sponsibility upon him, and finally.
with the permission of the board,
entrusted to him the direction of
the department during my absence
of the last year. How fully he has
met that responsibility you know as
we'll as /.
But it is more than n personal
loss. 1t is a great loss to the State,
with whose schools he has been
indcntifed so closely. SO helpfully
and for so many years. l cannot
undertake to speak for them, but
I have urged the teachers and ofa
ficers to make their tribute for
themselves. Especially will he be
missed by the normal schools and
by the district superintendents, with
whom he has been ir closest and
most helpful relationship.
And then he will be markedly
missed in the legislative work, the
burdens and the battles of which he
has so effectively borne and waged
on behalf of the schools through so
many years. He has been, in his ad-
vancing positions, a man of single
purpose, of indefatigable industry, of
indomitable energy, of clear mind
! and of courageous expression and ac-
! ton.
New York may we'll be proud OF
| what one of her country schoolboys
has achieved through the training of
her schools and of what she is,
through him, able to contribute to
the training of the children of an
other great State"
The regents adopted the following
resolution in accepting DIR. Finegan's s
resignation:
| Voted that this board has
| learned with profound regret of
the proposed departure of Dep
uty Commissioner Thomas E.
Finegan from the service of the
University after more than a
quarter of a century of dis
tinguished service. 1t expresses
its entire agreement in the re-
marks of the president of the
University regarding DR.. Fine
gan. and assures him that he
carries with him to his new
field of labor the best wishes of
every member of the board and
of every one connected with the
University. The University is
losing the services of a most
distinguished educator who has
well earned a National reputa-
tion in the great cause to
which he has dedicated his life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
MAUK REFUSES TO
DISCUSS CHARGES


have been lodged against Mauk, who
is now out of Jail under 5000 bail for
a preliminary hearing before Alder
man c. E. Murray tomorrow after
noon at 3 o'clock. Mauk was ar
rested last night after Investigations
by County Detective James Walters,
when the facts were brought to the
attention. of District Attorney Mich
ael e. Stroup. The information was
placed before Alderman Murray
who issued a warrant for Mauk's ar
rest, which was made by Constab BILE
Grove.
The investigation which brought
the gruesome allegations to light was
ordered by District Attorney Stroup
after relatives of Howard Nc
Cracken, of Altoona, who died in the
State Hospital last week, called at
tention to the alleged shoddy burial
given McCracker.
The body of McCracken, who died
in the State Hospital last Thursday,
was turned over to Undertaken Mauk
by Coroner Eckinger for burial.
Relatives are said to have made ar
rangements for the funeral to take
place on Monday, but when they ar
rived in this city on that day, they
declare they found that the body had
beer buried on Saturday.
A fee of SIS for minister's services
is said to have been charged by
Mauk, but when he could not fur
nish the name of the officiating
clergyman, relatives became dubious
and, investigating. found that none
had been employed. Mauk is said
to have admitted that this was prob
able since he was out of the city
hot do v,.I It
fee charged.
Suspicious then, relatives became
desirous of viewing the corpse and
secured a permit to have the body
eXhumed. Said to have been clad
only in underwear and with bundle
of excelsior covered only with a piece
of linen, the body is declared to have
been found in a rough pine box, COW
cred with black paper. A total of
$120 is said to have beer paid by
relatives for the casket, ministers 8
services, embalming, shroud and
other incidentals. The facts were
then placed in the hands of Alder
man Murray and then in the hands
of District Attorney Stroup and the
investigation followed.
The second case, the one in which
a pasteboard box, tied with rope, is
said to have been used, is that of an
infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
VanBuskirk, 2917 Bank street,
Pittsburgh. The death of the child
is said to have occurred on Octo-
Der 13 and the facts said to have
been revealed when the body was
exhumed to be buried in the same
plot of ground with the father, who
died on March /.
In neither of the cases were the
bodies embalmed, according to the
information made against Mauk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
WILLARD'S NEED is
HARD BLOWS TO PUT
HIM IN GOOD SHAPE
Champion Can Take HedDy Raps Without Apparent EHect
Archer Goes After Stouer Antagonists; Monahdn Not
in Shape: Dempsey Ends Vacation Today

perhaps two sparring partners ca
pable of trading wallops with VIII
lard instead of being on the receiv-
ing end. Harry Willis, the giant ne
gro heavyweight. is available. but
Willard will not tolerate a negro in
camp, because after winning the
championship from Jack johnson, he
established a color line.
Monahnn Knocked Out
Walter Monahan, a veteran in Will
lards service, is the chief sparrins
partner in camp, but experts pointed
out that he is not in condition To
withstand Willard's attack. as he
has been in the Army for several
months and has had no opportunity
to condition himself for the Cruel
ling work. Monahan was knocked
out in his first go with the cham
pion yesterday.
Jack Dempsey is spending the last
day of his vacation to-day. The
challenger already chatting under the
restraint of idleness. will resume his
conditioning grind at his Maumee
Bay shore camp tomorrow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06

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the tunnel each morning. The trip
to-day formed at 6.25 O'Clock. John
McGroarty was the notorman and
Jimmy Kehoe the brakeman. l was
riding or the head end of the trip
and the cars were filled with men.
In the last car were several kegs of
powder. l do not know whether any
men were in this car. The last car
was just inside the mouth of the
tunnel when McCroarty noticed the
wire hanging low. He stopped the
trip and started ahead a few hun
dred feet to ascertain the cause OF
the low wire. He had travelled ahead
a few feet when he again stopped
and told me to go out and tell an
other motorcar runner on the out
side to pull the trip out again. Nc
Groarty also shouted to the men in
the cars that they had better get
out ard walk. l saw some night
shift men going out and l told them
TO notify the runner to pull the trip
or cars out They said they would
The men in the cars were in the
act of climbing out and the night
shift men had left when there was
binding flash. There was not
much conclusion and the flame was
gone in a little while. Every man
in the tunnel was affected by smoke.
We men who were on the front were
affected but we escaped the force of
the flames. Then we started to
help the injured and take out the
, bodies of the dead.
Il am not sure how the accident
happened. The wire was hanging
llow. 1t might have touched the
metal of the car. Some of the men
l am sure were drowned as they
piled on top of each other in the
sulphur creek which runs along the
side of the tunnel"
Seward Button, chief of the State
Bureau of Mines. informed the Asso-
ciated Press that the State code
contracted regulations governing the
storage of explosives in magazines
and working places, but was silent
on the transportation of the same.
Mr.. Button declared this was a grie
vous omission in the law and that
acting on his own responsibility he
would issue regulations to-day which
! would check the present careless
methods and insist that they be obey
ed until the same can be enacted into
| law.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
Reading Railway Decides
to Delay Building Of New
Bridge; to Repair Old One

improvements to the present
bridge of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway Company are be-
ing planned for the near future. II
was announced by officials at the
local offices of the railroad. To what
extent improvements will be MADE
and what the nature OF those
planned is not known by ofhc'als
here. .,,
little assurance of the construc-
tion of a new bridge across the Sus-
Guehanna to replace the one now IN
csc was given today. This matter IS
being handled in the office OF the
chief engineer in Philadelphia, and
so little is known here concerning
the proposition.
Ofticials in the local offices were
of the opinion to-day, they said
that the matter will not be taken
M in the near future. The fact
that improvements are being
planned to the present bridge is ad-
vanced by them as one reason.
The proposed new structure
would be a two-track affair, accord
ing to the tentative announcements
issued some months ago. The pres
ent bridge contains but a single
track.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06

Toledo, June 6.-Sparring partners
capable of handing out punishment
instead of absorbing it is the need
OF Jess Willard's training camp. il
the champion is to get hardened for
his championship contest with Jack
Dempsey here July 4. boxing experts
declared to-day.
Willard can stand with his hands
at his sides. il he so desires, and
allow the present sparring partners
in camp to drive blows at his jaw and
stomach without apparent affect. but
sporting experts said that was no
indication that he could expose his
vulnerable parts when Dempsey be-
gins shooting his gloved hrsts at
him.
Challenger Powerful Fighter
The challenger is a fighter of the
Fitzsimmons type, with powerful
forearms and terrific hitting power,
and capable of stopping a foe with
either hand.
Ray o. Archer. manager of the
heavyweight champion. is due in
New York to-day 10 locate one and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06

New York State authorities have
given an expression of much re-
gret at the departure of DR.. Thomas
e. Finegan to become Pennsylva-
MIA Superintendent of Public In
structior.
The Albany Argus, of May 80,
says:
The State Board of Regents, in
session yesterday, accepted the resig-
nation of DIR. Thomas e. Finegan,
deputy state commissioner of edu-
cation, who has accepted the post OF
Superintendent of Public Instruction
! of Pennsylvania. Tribute to the
memory of DIR. Henry p. Warren,
late head of the Albany Academy.
was also paid by the regents. who
requested DIR. John ii. Finley state
commissioner of education, to attend
the funeral services yesterday after
noon, and authorized the, closing OF
the work of the Department of Edu-
cation for the day OF o'clock, as
mark OF respect
DR.. 'Finegan's resignation was pre-
sented by DR.. Finley 1t is to be-
come effective September l. AT Dr.
| Finegan's request that he be allowed
time to acquaint himself with ms
new duties simultaneously while
W1nOlnH up uIS dilbitS III 'tS
York State department. In MS
resignation DR.. Finegan said:
| 1T is needless to say that i sever
my relations with this work WITH
| the keenest regret, and that l shal
always cherish the opportunities
that have been given me here anc
the associations, official and other.
wise, with you and with the boaro
of regents"
Every member of the board OF re-
gents expressed regret over the los'
of Dr. Finegan's services, and ex
pressed appreciation of DR.. F1negan
work during the years of his con
nection with the department. TIT
following statement was made b!
DR.. Finley:
| Loss to Department
81 have. most regretably, to begl
my report to you this month by ON
cially advising you, as l have alread!
advised you personally, of the ap
preaching withdrawal of DR.. t1negai
from this department. 1t is los
to the department and to the stat
which | caRnot adequately apprals
in a few sentences. My Temptation
is to put first my personal loss, 10
nv first thought was that l did no
know how l should be able to go o.
without that vigorous, ever actiV
force at my side. I found him her
when / came to the office. and atte
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
ROSE SHOW OPENS
WITH PRETTY BLOOMS
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more than double that of one year ago.
and there will be a strong rivalry for
prize honors.
Competitors entitled to prizes must
be amateur florists. Local florists have
exhibits but they are not included in
the prize offers. Mechanicsburg offers
big group of beauties. Steelton,
Highspire, Middletown and other towns
also contributed a number of fine ex-
hibts. The prizes are:
First. blue ribbon second, red; third,
yellow The awards will be for the
best basket of roses. any class; gen.
eral display, any class: white rose
tone bloom), any class; pink rose Zone
hIoom). any class; red rose Cone
bIoom). any class; yellow rose Zone
bloom), any class vase of white climb
ing roses; vase of pink climbing roses
vase of red climbing roses; vase OF yell
low climbing roses vase of white roses
(three blooms), any class; vase OF pink
roses (three blooms). any class; vase
of red roses (three blooms), any class
vase of yellow roses tthree olooms)'
any class.
The Rose Show VIII continue thls
evening and tomorrow.
Judges Are Busy
The Judges included 5. S. Pennock.
philadelphia, president of the Ma
tional Rose Association of America,
and a recognized authority on roses
in the United States. H. Hanson, New
Cumberland; H. Riebe, supsrtnten-
dent of the Berryhilie Nursery; Miss
Ebv. Grantham. and Miss Minister,
this city While the exhibits '|ere
being judged no person except tne
Judges were permitted in the Hail.
The best part of the afternoon was
talxen up by the judges in their work
4 feature of the exhioit to-ht, II I
viii he a lecture by ]. Horace NC
Farland. of this city, who IS prom :
nently identified with the Nat'onai
Rose Association OF America anu
who. has one of the largest eNhlolts
at this show. His subject VIII De o.,
"American Roses" This lecture VIII
be Illustrated. the pictures all TO De
In coIors No extra charge VIII pe
made for this lecture. the ADMISSION
to the show, including all side iea-
lures ,
Florists exhibiting are Charles
Uttley, and the Bctryhill NURSERY.
Each have an elaborate dIsplly ana
in addition to rare blooms OF roses
have numerous other flowers IN
nloom. the exhibit of Mr.. Uttley, m
Guiding Cleopatra's Hover, SladiolaS S.
part of the large display by the
Rerrvhill Nursery is fountain.
Around the latter are large banks OF
! 1owers in bloom. In the center or
the fountain is light adding to The
neautifu! picture.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
Realty Men to Hear
Expert Give Address

o. E. Hawk, Youngstown. president
Of the Ohio State Association of Real
Estate Boards. and president of one
of the largest home building companies
in that State, will be the principal
speaker at a big dinner and booster
session of the Harrisburg Real Estate
Board, to be held on Thursday evening.
June 19. at 6 o'clock in the Penn
Harris Hotel
Realty dealers, bankers and all other
persons interested in real estate busi-
ness will be present at the meeting,
which is being planned to show in a
practical way the immediate possibili-
ties for extensive home building heIe.
Mr.. Hawk is known nationally for
his real estate activities and is one OF
the leaders in his State. Local speak
ers will be included on the program also
J. E. GiRple, president of the Harris
burg board, announced.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
MARKET OPENING
SHOWS ACTIVITY
United States Steel Reaches
! New High Ground For Year
at III; Other Metals Gain

New York. June 6. - Buying of
shares went on vigorously on the
stock exchange again this morning.
many popular issues rejecting both
resumption of pool activity and pub
lie interest. Leaders in yesterdays
rie were again prominent. including
tobacco, food, motor leather and
oil hares.
U. S. Steel reached new high
ground for the year at ILL., and top
figures were scored also by other
representative issues. Mercantile
marine, preferred declined 2ss, at
tributed to opposition to the plan of
liquidation. Reading and Texas and
Pacific eacn ruled point higher,
while gains in the specialties ranged
from l to 3 points.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
Lutheran Ministerium
Closes 172nd Session;
Ordains Small Class
By Associated Press.

Lancaster, Pa, JuRe 6.-The con-
vention of the Lutheran Minsterium OF
Pennsylvania. holding its one hundred
and seventy-second annual session here,
came to a close to-day amid rush
of last-day business An effort to au-
thorIze lay readers to conduct services
in vacant congregations failed of
adoption after an hours debate. The
ministerium to-day ordained the small
est class in many years, owing TO the
large number of students who entered
the military service.
There were only three and all have
secured charges. The president of the
ministerium. the Rev. DIR. II. A. Weller.
of Philadelphia, performed the rite of
ordination.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
Hoover and Son Offer Use
of firms PulmOter

Hoover & Son, undertakers, to-day
announced that their lung motor is al
ways ready for instant use. The APP
paratus is valuable in reviving per-
sons overcome by gas or drowning. 1t
was offered publicly because it was
learned that the police pulmoter is out
of order.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06

Cutting down the millions of miles
of space between the earth and the
sun by mere ten or fifteen thousand
feet may not seem much. but by do
ing so Professor David Todd, direct
or of the Amherst College astron-
omical observatory. expects to OBJ
tair, better photographs than were
ever taken before of solar eclipse.
He has a naval airplane on board a
steamship. which will go out of
it's regular course so that he may
have an opportunity to snap" the
eclipse on May 29. several hundred
miles off Montevideo. Upon wealth
er conditions will depend the alti-
tude to which Professor Todds pilot
will accend, but he Intends to go far
above the Anssds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
HOMECOMING NOT KNOWN

Reports that a large part of the
Three Hundred and Sixteenth In
fantry would leave Camp Dix for
home tomorrow were circulated to
day. Mayor Keister, who has been
in close touch with the Seventy
ninth Division, so that a reception
may be in readiness, said he had no
information as to the homecoming
of the soldiers who trained in Camp
Meade
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
Shoots Self Through
Chest in Vain Effort
to Commit Suicide

Daniel Weaver, 20 years old, said
to have been despondent because of
a long illness, shot himself through
the chest shortly after noon to-day.
The bullet passed over his heart
and came out his back. He was ii
chance to recover, it was said at the
hospital where he was taken. Wea-
yer is an advertising agent for a
Philadelphia firm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
Senate Adopts Borah
Resolution to Grant
Irish Peace Hearing

Washington, June 6. = Senator
Rorah's resolution asking the American
peace delegates at Paris to secure
hearing before the Peace Conference
for the Irish delegates. headed by Ed
ward Devalera provisional president
of the Irish republic was adopted to-
1ay by the Senate. go to !. Senator
Williams, Democrat. of Mississippi.
cast the negative vote.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
Plans Made For
New Apartment House

Plans have been made to construct
an apartment house at S02-04-o6 Capt.
tai street by the owners. Samuel Leh-
man and 1. Freeman. Six apartments
will be provided on the present site of
three old buildings. A building per-
init will be taken out soon it is under
derstood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
EASILY FIXED

Hurrying to the side of the con-
ductor a passenger eagerly inquired:
DO you think that l will have
time to get soda before the train
starts?"
"Oh, yes" answered the conduc-
tor.
But. suppose" suggested the
thirsty passenger, that the train
should 80 on without me?"
I'VE can easily fix that" prompt
~ replied the conductor. "T will go
along and have one with you."-
Argonaut.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
POKER AND HEARTACHE
IKnoxvilla SantinoI1

"It says here that poker is bad for
the heart" said the Old Fogy, as he
looked up from the newspaper he
was reading.
YES" commented the Crouch.
Sometimes a session at poker makes
that organ ache"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
Bill to Repeal Daylight \
Saving Law Next October
Gets Committee Approval
By Assoctated Press.

Washington, June 6. - Favorable
report on the bill to repeal the day.
light saving law on the last Sunday in
October was voted to-day by the House
Interstate Commerce Committee,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
REsERyE MILITIA CHANGES

George Stewart, Altoona, has
been appointed first lieutenant of cav
airy and assigned to the squadron Of
the Reserve Militia as quartermaster
] Osborne Whitley. of York, has been
appointed second Lieutenant of Com
PAM L, First Infantry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
HER HABIT

"You will marry again, no doubt ?"
we ventured. with a rising infection.
II presume So" replied the fair
divorcee. "at least, such has been
my custom."-St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06
STATE PROBE OF
ACCIDENT STARTED

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The Cordova daily times., 1919-06-04
WICK IS AGAIN
 CONVICTED OF FALSIFYINC

WASHINGTON, June 1 iby Asso- ciated Press) ).-James Wickersham filed his contest for delegate to con- gress from Alaska yesterday and claims that he received majority of the votes last November.
 While in Alaska a few weeks ago, "Jim, the Quitter,' declared that he had filed his contest on May 3, month before he really took this action, and upon this presumption he endeavored to secure affidavits for his contest. But the residents of this territory were aware of Wick's tactics and re- fused to fall for his bluff. Another lie or two on the part of the man who is attmepting to represent Alaska at the national capital, when a majority of the voters have repudiated him, does not seem to make any difference to Wickersham.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-06-04
MEXlCANS DENY ARE IMPENDING
 OUR TRADE

WASHINGTON, June (by Asso- ciated Press) The Mexican embassy has made a diplomatic protest against Speaker Gillett's speech before the Pan-American congress, declaring that Mexico is the greatest impeachment to an estimate of satisfactory trade rela- tions between the American republics. The protest says Gillett's utterances are false as far as they relate to the state of Mexican commerce. It is ex- pected that the state department will deny responsibility for the speech.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-06-04
MORE STEAMERS TO BE PLACED
 ON PACIFIC

WASHINGTON, June (by Asso- ciated Press) Chairman Hurley, of the United States Shipping Board, told the Pan-American commercial confer. ence of the plans to establish steam ship lines between American Pacific ports and South American Pacific ports, with Central South America planning line from Seattle to the West and South American coasts. The new steamship lines will enable the establishment of better market routes