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THE WEATHER, For Harriabnrs and vlcinltyi Fair to nixht and Thursdny; warmer to night, with, lowest temperature about 50 degrees. For Eaxtern Pennsylvania! Fair to night and Thursday, warmer to nlsht; moderate southwest winds. River The Susquehanna rlvrr and Its tributaries will fall slowly or remain nearly stationary. A stage of about 3.4 feet Is Indicated for Harrisburg; Thursday morning. General Conditions Pressure continues high over the Eastern part of the country, but it has diminished decidedly over a broad belt of country extending ifrom the West Gulf region north through the Mississippi Valley, the Plains States and the Lake Region Into Canada.

Fair weather has prevailed throughout the country, except along the northern boundary from Michigan eastward to the Atlantic ocean and in some localities in Florida and Kfw Mexico, where light showers have occurred. There lint been a general rise of 2 to 16 degrees In temperature east of the Rocky Mountains in the last twenty four hours, except in the Atlantic States from Virginia so itbward and In the East Gulf States, where It is somewhat cooler. Frosts occurred this morning in West Virginia, the Interior of Virginia and In some localities la Aew York and Pennsylvania. Temperature! a. ra 48.

Sum Rises, 6:54 a. m. sets, elm n. m. Moon i moon, September 27.

3:34 a. m. River Staget 3.4 feet above low water mvk. Curtain Rises To Night on Great Fashion Show of Uarrishurg7s Stores The Harrisburg Rotary Club, meeting at the exhibition rooms of the Cumberland Valley Telephone Company, last evening gave its hearty endorsement to the new hotel plan, authorized the appointment of a committee to assist in the sale of stock and pledged its moral and financial support to the great undertaking. In addition the club witnessed a working demonstration of the new automatic telephone to be Installed In Harrisburg and passed resolutions endorsing It from the standpoint of the telephone user.

On recommendation of President Howard C. Fry the Rotarians guaranteed the expense of a campaign In Harrisburg to be undertaken next April by the Boy Scouts of America wnereby money will be raised to York, Sept. 20. Norman C. Beard, 40 years old, after a quarrel with his wife at home last night went to the cellar, hanged himself with a window cord to the joists.

His wife cut him down. The police found life still remained and Beard. Then he fought like a tiger and was rushed to the hospital and put in a strait Jacket. He will recover. CURE FOLLOWS PRAYER Reading.

Sept. 20. John L. Hart man, paralyzed for nine years since an attack of ts phoid fever in 1907, left his invalid's chair after a fervent prayer for health, and walked up street. He says he walked fully four miles and seems fully cured.

WILLIAM H. BENNETHUM. Jr. Chairman General Committee on Arrangements. GREAT BULK OF Y.

PROGRESSIVES 1 BACK WHITMAN Republican Leaders Declare His Victory Proves Bull Moose Have Returned BACON RUNNING CLOSE Incomplete Primary Returns Give Cajder Majority of 4,661 Down State New York, Sept. 20. Incomplete returns from yesterday primary elec Riprapping of the River Front slopes above Hardscrabble was not advised against by City Engineer M. B. Cowden, according to that of ficial to day.

In an endeavor to explain his fail ure thus far to take hold of the future washout problem along the water front In the West End, City Commissioner E. Z. Gross declared that he had finally had his conference on the subject with City Solicitor D. S. Seitz and that Mr.

Seitz had referred him to Mr. Cowden. Mr. Cowden, according to Mr. Gross, had advised against the riprapping.

Continued on Page 13 Camp Hill Presbyterians Will Organize New Church Camp Hill, Sept. 20. People of Camp Hill will organize a fresDy terian Church to morrow evening. The Rev. C.

B. Segelkln, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Steelton, will preside and the Rev. LV. George E. Hawes, pastor of Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, will preach the sermon.

The Rev. Dr. Lewis S. Mudge, pastor of Pine Street Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, will conduct the service ordination and installation of the elders of the new church. Trustees will be elected and they will be authorized to make ap plication to the Cumberland county court for a charter.

A committee will be appointed to select a building site The Rev. T. J. Ferguson, of Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, will make the invocation and Elder E. Z.

Gross, of Harrisburg, will read the Scripture. "Elder J. Henry Spicer, of Harrisburg, win offer prayer and the Rev. J. Leonard Hynson, of Lebanon will pronounce the benediction.

The service will begin at 7:30 o'clock. TELEGRAPH'S PRESS BREAKS; RED LIXE OFF FOR FEW DAYS Due to the breaking of a part of the machinery on the color deck of the Telegraph newspaper press last evening this newspaper will appear for several days without the customary red line at the top of the first page. Delay in readjusting the press following the accident was responsible for the late distribution In some parts of the city last night. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV No. 218 HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916.

20 PAGES CITY EDITION MSGLK lOlMES 1 IKMI, CITY EAGER FOR RISE OF CURTAIN ONFASHIONSHOW Thousands Await Chance Tonight to "Oh" and "Ah" on Brilliant Streets ROTARY CLUB GETS BEHIND NEW HOTEL FOR HARRISBURG MONSTER BATTLE IS RAGING ALONG EASTERN FRONT SOME OF THOSE WHO ARE HELPING TO MAKE FALL OPENING A SUCCESS BY EXPLOSION AT MOUNT UNION Pledges Moral and Financial Support to Big PRIZES FOR WINDOWS COMMITTEE AUTHORIZED Judges Will Be Busy; Fantastic Parade and Great Dance in Square Friday "To night's 'tne Word and deed to day were surely; obedient children to that big thought that was expressed in every business house and store In the city's commercial section, central. Hill and West End. Proprietors and floorwalkers glanced more frequently at watches; the girls behind tho counters were an evening or two ahead In their thought; clerks were secretly thankful that the weeks of preparation were all over to day; window decorators added the last, touches behind the curtained display windows of scores of stores and went i home happy and hoping. It is "The Xlfiht" i For to night the big three night cele bration of Harrlsburg's first uniform i merchants' Fall opening begins and I the curtain will rise at 7.30 o'clock on, the "window dressing contest." To morrow night there will be Infor mal "doings, the crowds will just stroll about the streets and look at the windows. The board of Judges window dressing experts from out of town will be the busiest of busy men.

They'll be Judging windows to night and to morrow night. Just a word to you. Mr. Merchant, If you haven't obtained a display card from the Chamber of Commerce. These cards, which announce the fact that the store In which the card is displayed is an entrant in the "dressing" competition, must be in the window; the Judges will not consider a window which is not so marked.

On Other Evenings Briefly speaking, the program for the three evenings is tnis: At 7.25 o'clock to night the city "white way" will be darkened, when the street lights will be turned off and the electric signs and window lights will be turned down behind the deeply curtained windows. A few minutes later the clamor of the Are bells will give a clty wlde notice of the fact that Harrlsburg's merchants are about to show what they can display In the way of the very latest in Fall coats and suits and stockings and hats and shoes and other things. At 7.S0 o'clock the lights will flash on asaln and the scores of curtains will rise on the big Fall fashion show Ami th Crowds Whew! By that time it is safe to say that Market Square, Market street and the other streets upon which the gaily lighted stores front will hardly be able to hold the crowds. In Market Square t) mpnntime there will be a band concert. This has been arranged by David Kaufman in front or tne itaui man Underselling Stores.

1 To morrow night, 'tis true, will be more or less "show night." But then on Friday evening oh! my, that to be tho finale. That whole southwest section of Market Square is to be turned Into a gigantic cpen alr dance floor where hundreds of gaily costumed dancers will frolic for hours in mad pre Hal lowe'en capers to the music of the Municipal band. On With the Danee From 9 o'clock until midnight the dance will go on. A grand march will be the first number. To enter the march one must be costumed and oti The unmasking will follow the grand march, after which everybody can slip into the great roped oft enclosure and dance.

Handsome silver cups will be awarded to the wearers of the most original and the most comical feminine and masculine costumes. V. Grant Forrer, assistant park superintendent, is to be the chairman of the board of judges. Costumers will De nere irom iew York on Friday to distribute costumes at a reasonable ngure. i ney wm mane the Commonwealth their headquarters.

The Marshals Plenty of policemen, it is true, will keep the crowds outside the ropes and in addition to the officers there will be thP following gaily costumed raar A. H. Kreidler, Otto W. Plack, Fred S. Lack, S.

S. Eberts, Frank B. Bosch, Joseph Claster, Joseph Wallazz, John S. Musser, F. F.

Davenport, O. C. Bickel. Mercer B. Tate, W.

S. Essick, J. M. Delaney, H. R.

Long, John Grey, D. L. M. Raker, Ross R. Seaman, James P.

McCullough, Ira Romberger and Stanley G. Jean. Members Also Pass on Automatic Phone and Boy Scout Movement Rotary Committee Named; Will Meet This Evening Howard C. Fry, president of the Harrisburg Rotary Club, this afternoon named the following committee of the Rotary Club, in accord with a resolution passed last night, to co operate with the Chamber of Commerce committee in raising funds for the new hotel for Harrisburg: John S. Musser, chairman; Ralph W.

Dowdell, Wm. S. Essick, A. E. Buchanan, Carl M.

Kaltwasser, W. Grant Rauch, Samuel P. Eby. Arthur H. Bailey.

Elmer E. Lawton, George E. Whitney, Edward Frazer and Gus M. Stetnmetz. The committee will meet this evening at 7:30 at Mr.

Musser's place of business, the Dauphin Electrical Supplies Company, 434 Market street. it J'''' i 4, v.V HA '7 T44jV DAVID KAUFMAN Chief Marshal, Fantastic Parade PIKE TO READING ORDERED REBUILT Great Victory For Motor Club; Order Seventeen Miles Macademized The hearing this morning before Commissioner Michael J. Ryan, of the Public Service Commission, on the complaint of the combined motor clubs of Harrisburg, Palmyra and Reading against the Dauphin and Berks County Turnpike Company for not keeping their pike in repair, resulted in the order being made public requiring the turnpike company to resurface and rebuild with macadam the entire length of highway extending for a distance of seventeen miles rrom xne uaupnin county line to a point at the eastern end of Werners viiie. It is stipulated that the work must finance a Boy Scout campaign in thisjtion ln New york state fall t0 decide be finished by July 1. 1917.

Forty city on a well organized working basis for the coming three years. Plans for this will be announced later. The resolution was introduced by William B. Bennett. Hotel rian Endorsed The endorsement of the hotel proposition came after a series of addresses on the subject by J.

William Bowman, president of the Chamber of Commence, E. Z. Wallower, E. J. Stackpole and Ed.

S. Herman. The club took heartily to the idea. For a number of years it has been urging the formation of a hotel com pany and the fact that the movement has been undertaken by Harrisburg people and is backed by local capital was very pleasing to the Rotarians, All of the speakers were optimistic as (Continued on Page 18.) Longer and Less Flaring Skirts to Be Worn This Fall New York, Sept. 20.

Long and less flaring skirts are indicated by the Fall fashions, says the semiannual re port of the Silk Association of Amer ica. They will be of ankle length, fre quently made of pleats, and requiring as much or more material than last season, is the prediction. Paris fash ions, it is asserted, have not favored the extremely short, almost freaky skirts which have been worn here this year. The wearing of these skirts ungues tionably has increased the demand for silk hosiery, both fancy and plain, says the reports of the experts. American People Rank Last in Thriftiness St.

Louis, Sept. 20. The American people rank last In thriftiness according to J. Lloneberger Davis, vice president of the St. Louis Union Trust Company, who addressed the convention of the National Association of Life Underwriters here to day.

"It is significant," he said, "that ln the United States where wages are notoriously high, 99 people out of each 1,000 have saving accounts, whereas in Australia there are 300, in Eng land 302; in Germany 317; in France 346: in Belgium 397 and in Switzerland 554. John G. Jones, of the Alex ander Hamilton Institute, said that the time is nearly passed when life in surance men are to be looked upon as nuisances. Son Here Gets $25 of Half Million Dollar Estate Howard I. Colton, 1825 Whitehall street, son of he late George W.

Col ton, Brooklyn, N. was cut off with only $2o worth of furniture in his father will, according to a dispatch from that city, while the remainder of the estate, amounting to 5499,010.05, was given to his daughter, Harriette 1350 Pacific street, Brooklyn. Mr. Colton, wno was 87 years old. was a noted civil engineer and a laree amount or his estate is in securities.

Expenses total $7,729.40. making the total inheritance for the daughter, who was named as executrix, $491,280.65. WIFE SAVES HUSBAND'S LIFE AFTER QUARREL the fight for the Republican nomina tion for the United States Senate between Robert Bacon, former ambassador to France, and William Calder, of Brooklyn, a former member of Congress. The vote in 4,303 districts out of a total of 5,719, gave Calder to day a majority of 4,661, but Bacon's campaign managers hoped that later returns from outside New York City would wipe out this lead. They based their expectations on the fact that Bacon made his best run up State, where 2,999 districts thus for reporting out of a 'total of 3,640 gave him a majority of 2 4,645.

This was more than offset by the heavy vote his opponent received In New York City. Continued on Page 13 COWDEN IS NOT AGAINST RIPRAP City Engineer Says He Didn't So Advise Park Commissioner Gross witnesses were caned Deiore the commission by the attorneys representing the three motor clubs, who were Frank B. John Fox Weiss, Gabriel Mover, of this city, and William M. Wolfe, of Reading. The witnesses were mainly motorists from Lebanon, Annville, Palmyra and Harrisburg.

The turnpike company is likewise Instructed in the order to rebuild a number of bridges that are in need of repair, put up guard rails where necessary, take a dangerous curve out of the road at Lebanon and effect such other changes as are designated. The decision of the Public Service Commission is regarded in the light of a victory for the Motor Club of Returns from yesterday's primary i Harrisburg, which was instrumental in bringing about the action against the turnpike company. F. 7 1 iv. ii.

i to Be Placed Next Week SMALL CHANCE OF I HUGHES ON WAY Labor Leaders Say 700,000 Workers Will Go Out With the Trolley Men New York, Sept. 20. Despite the attempted intervention of a committee of businessmen, there seemed to be little prospect to day of averting general strike in sympathy with the street railway employes. Labor leaders aver that the proposed general walk out will involve about 700,000 work ers in all trades. A second conference of the business men with the Mayor and chairman of the Public Service Commission was called to day but it was the feeling of those most directly concerned that the situation had reached an absolute deadlock.

Lnion leaders have promised to withhold their order for a sympathetic strine until after Thursday. Throughout the night elevated trains, together with subway trains at points where they run on elevated (Continued on Page 18.) Transfer Privilege Is Granted Patrons of Valley Railways Co. As a result of the efforts Of the West bhore Firemen's Union, additional transfer privileges were to day grant ed Dy tne vaney Railways Company, The concession followed a brief hearing l.eld this morning before the Pub lie service, commission. The new transfer order is effective November 1. It was also announced that the present method of handling school tickets would continue.

The transfer will be issued from WestFalrviewSquareto any other point on the West Shore south, including Lemoyne, White Hill, Camp Hill and New Cumberland. Persons from those four towns also will be able to transfer to cars taking them to the West Fair view Square. Attorney Arthur R. Rupley was present as. counsel for the West Shore Firemen's Union.

E. B. Cunningham was counsel for the Railways Company. During the hearing President Bishop and Superintendent Sense man, of the Valley Railways Company, asked for a recess and conferred with their counsel. Subsequently they announced their willingness to grant the transfer privileges as requested.

22 REPORTED SHOT AS SPIES Amsterdam, Sept. 20. According to a press aispatcn irom Maastricht sixty two persons have been on trial at Hasselt, Belgium, on charges of espionage of whom twenty two were condemned to death last Friday. It is rumored the advices state, that these persons, including M. Golen vaux.

Burgomaster of Namur, have al ready oeen snot. J. WILLIAM BOWMAN President Chamber of Commerce NO SCHOOL TAX INCREASE WHEN BIG LOAN PASSES Advertisements of Special Vote PLAN WIDE PUBLICITY One Junior High Likely to Be Placed on Allison Hill Advertisements of the special vote to be taken In the city November 7 on the proposed loan of a million and a quarter dollars for high school im provements will be placed in the news papers next week by school officials. Aceordlrnr to tit schonl authoritiR it is. not believed that the proposed loan, approved yesterday afternoon by tho School Board, will necessitate an increase in the tax rata the voters approve it.

Much publicity of the Junior hi school system and the use of the money in meeting high school needs in the city for at least ten years is now being planned. Should the loan be approved, probably the first step to be taken will, be the purchase of add! tional property adjoining Technical high school for the extension of that building so as to accommodate all boys for the senior high school. Although Continued on Page IS TO MILWAUKEE Calls Railroad Law a Force Bill; Says Administration Coerced Congress Chicago, Sept. 20. The special train carrying Charles E.

Hughes on his campaign trip through the Middle West passed through Chicago early to day enroute from Springfield, 111., where he spoke yesterday afternoon and last night, to Milwaukee, Wis. The day's program for the nominee calls for a speech at. Greenbay, wiieie his train will stoD for an hour and a half. Brier addresses from the rear platform of his car are to be made at Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Ap pleton, Oshkosh and Fond T.n. Mr.

Hughes will reach Milwaukee at 6 o'clock to night and will maUe, a speech there, departing early to mor Continucd on Page 15 Number of Lives Lost in Rioting After German Losses in Somme Are Made Known London. SeDt. 20. Rah in which a number of lives were lost, took place at Chemnitz Saturday noon, according to a Central News dis pa ien irom xne iiague. The dispatch savs the rloti ner fit arfod when the news arrived, of tho hoaw iuooco ui iiemnitz worKmen in the Somme battle.

Crowds asmmhisH me streets ana sang "The Internationale." They refused to disperse and were cnargea Dy riussars. Five Hussars were killed and 300 armed with revolvers were arrested. Sweden, Often Scourged by Infantile Paralysis Has Not Found Cure Stockholm, Sweden, Sent. 20. What can be done to cure and prevent infantile paralysis? The Associated Press correspondent has put this question to all of Sweden's leading authorities on Doliomvelitis as the disease is scientifically known, and their answer has been the same: 'We don't know." This answer is the more discourag ne view or the fact that Sweden almost alone among European coun tries, nas teen repeatedly scourged by the epidemic, and, as a result, has a number or physicians and bacteriologists who have devoted themselves for years almost exclusively to the study cf the disease.

Nowhere else except in the Rockefeller Institute of New York have such exhaustive investigations een made, and the sum of them all is the answer given above: "We doa know." Teutons Concentrating Against in Menacing Drives of Russians and Rumanians powers under on Mackensen. Latest reports from the fighting in Galicia and Volhynia show the Teutonic forces on the offensive and claiming decided advantages over the Russian armies under General Brussiloff. As has frequently been the case when decisive developments were lacking, Petrograd to dav is silent re garding the operations alonr the Russian front, reporting merely that there nave neen no important happenings. Turkish troops which appear to have played an important part in stiffening the lines of the Teutonic allies in the east, have been successful in the recent fighting in Galicia, Constantinople announces to day. A 48 hour battle wtih superior Russian Continued on Page 15 Cotton Dry House at Plant of Aetna Explosives Company Completely Destroyed BOTH CLAIM ADVANTAGE! MANY EMPLOYES INJURED Entente Winning in Macedonia; Greece Reported to Have Sent Ultimatum Fighting on a huge scale is in progress along the eastern war front, whence the center of interest has shifted following the let up in the heavy allied atacks along the Somme in the west.

Evidence is accumulating that the central powers are now devoting their main attention to the conditions In the east, concentrating large forces against Rumania, notably under Field Marshal Von Mackensen in Dobrudja. and putting all possible available men in the field to stop the Russian march account of this many of them es on Lemberg by way of Halics and the menacing drives of the Russians and Rumanians in the Carpathians and Transylvania. Both Sides Claim Advantage Both Berlin and Sofia report the development of a great battle on the line me Russians and Rumanians have latien up in Dobrudia to defend tho railroad route into interior Rumania from Constanza, on the Black Sea. The engagement, they declare, is turning ravor of the force of the central Bodies of Killed Torn to Shreds; Wounded Taken to Huntingdon Hospital Mount Union, Sept. 20.

Six men were killed and a number injured at 6 o'clock this morning when a terrific explosion completely destroyed Ihe cotton dry house at the plant of the Aetna Explosives Company here. The men were changing shifts at the time, the night workers Just going away from the building at the time. caped injury. Tho dry house stood away from the other buildings about 400 yards and was located along the river bank. The bodies of tho men killed were blown into bits, which were scattered over the ground in the vicinity of the demolished building.

Many of the injured workmen were badly hurt and were immediately taken to the Huntingdon Hospital. The bodies of the dead arc at the plant. The workmen killed were: George Stair. Orbisonia; Elmer Pyle, Orbi sonia; Clayton Clark, Marietta; Elmer Bair, Orbisonia; William Lehman. Portage, and Charles Vlsch, Orbisonia.

Twenty one men were employed in the Of those hurt it is thought that only three have received serious Injuries. The explosion occurred in dry house and that building was blown to atoms, parts of it being found more than half a mile away. Dry house standing a short distance away, was somewhat damaged and at one time was on fire. It is stated that 100,000 pounds of powder exploded. There hiive been rumors for several days that the contracts held by the company had been filled and that the plant would shut down in a short time.

Many of the men employed in other parts of the works will not resume work, it is said, to day and will leave town. CURRENT AT EL PASO THAT VILLA 1 CAPTURED CHIHUAHUA IN SECOND ATTACK El Paso, Sept. 20. Rumors were current here to day jthat Chihuahua City was captured by Villa in a second at i tack last night. General Francisco Gonzales, commandant at i Juarez, and Consul Garcia declared the rumors were without.

foundation. According to the rumor the attack was precededa 'by mutiny of a large part of the garrison. The bandits were said to occupy the municipal and federal palaces and two for tified hills. 'COMMISSIONERS CONSIDER MANY BORDER PLANS i New London, Sept 20. Further consideration of the various plans suggested for the control of the border fig ures to day in the conference of the Mexican American joint commissioners.

It was not expected any plan suggested would be added soon for recommendation to the two governmentsa i and it appeared probably that notwithstanding the reluctance of the Mexican members to discuss the internal affairs of their country, such questions as the American commissioners consider related to the general situation would be taken up. BREAKERS BOYS STONE MINERS Hazleton, Sept. 20. Boys who struck at the Hazle iton shaft colliery, of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company to day stoned miners on their way to work and forced suspen of the operations employing about 1500 men. The boys quit because they want to be on a regular schedule, claiming that when there is nothing tor them to do they are sent homefl after making partial shifts.

MASONS CONSIDER CHARITY PLANS Pittsburgh, Sept. 20. The Supreme Council, Thirtv third Degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons of i the Northern Jurisdiction, in session here to day considered I the report ot the committee appointed three years ago to in vestigate the feasibility of an organization within the Supreme 1 i council to administer bequests for charitable, benevolent and philanthropic purposes. The problem of creating such an or ganization was said to be attended with considerable diffi culty as the northern jurisdiction covers fifteen States with different laws governing the disposition of such bequests. SENT THREATENING LETTERS TO WILSON Pittsburgh, Sept.

20. Accused of sending threaten ing letters to President Wilson, Morns Diamond, of Bay City.B 1 was being held by the police to day to await examin 1 ation by a physician as to his sanity. Diamond, who was known i as James C. Wilson, was arrested by federal agents who de alter questioning him that he was of unsound mind. 'SURRENDER TO FORCE" LEADS TO "CIVIL WAR" Green Bay, Sept.

20. The pathway of "surrender ito force" Charles E. Hughes told an audience here to dav. inl renewing his attack on the administration for the Adamson law, leads to but one end, civil war. Mr.

Hughes referred to the action ot the administration as unpardonable." FURLONG REFUSED PARDON The Mate Board of Pardons to dav re jiusea paraon to ueorge uriong, convicted in the Dauphin" county court of having a wife here and wife and six children in Massachusetts. A letter was read from Judge McCarrell saying tnat tne man am not aeserve clemency and the boardl i concluded the case shortly alter the hearing began. MARRIAGE LICENSES Aadrew Parker and Anna Frances Jonnson. eirr. Frank Miller Booth and Helen Mirines (maw, Philadelphia, Frank Benjamin McOill.

Middletawn. and rell MnM Laaeaater. Joaenk Bmrtm and Annie Oattop, Mlddletown. Sate,.