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"WAS FIFTY YEARS yiCO." i2Sr Provides For Vacating of Four $50,000 to Be Paid in Return GOES TO FINANCE COMMITTEE If It Passes Ordinance Will Be Followed With Elaborate Improvements by Railroads The new ordinance giving to the rennsvlvanla and Cumberland Valley Itallroad Companies certain rights In Smith Harrlsburg. tiv fnnble the ere. Hon of a freight station rnid to pro. lde a freight yard, including stihweye at Front and Second streets, was pre cnfed In Common Council lust night. Th ordinance was presented by Mr.

Page, of the Second Ward, his colleague, Mr. Peace, president of I'ommon Council, and was referred to the committee on finance. The ordinance, which differs In terma and pro. visions from the measure defeated last year, provide for the vacating of four streets and a number or alley, and Kivea to the city loO.nnn, with provision that all consequential damages he paid hy the city. The ordinance when passed will be followed with Immediate work on one of the most elabornte Improvements the Pennsylvania and Cumberland Valley Railroad Companies have made In Harrlsburg In many years.

It Is understood the work will Include the double tracking of the Mulberry street, bridge; a double track system from the bridge to the Pennsylvania Railroad station, and a commodious freight station building tn South Second street, extending from Mulberry to Meadow lane. The ordinance 1 as follows: Text of Ordinance The ordinance follows in full: To authorise the: vacation of Men. dow lane, Bucher street, street and portions of Third street. Mulberry street, Court street. River street and Mary street, and authorizing the changing of the grade of Second street and line of grade of Front street, and changing the linej of Mulberry street.

and the construction of suitable; bridges to carry the Cumberland Val ley Railroad Company tracks over Second street and Front street and a foot wax under the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company tracks to the line of the east sidewalk, under certain conditions, stipulations and agreements. Whereas, the vacation of Meadow lane, Bucher street. Cox ptreet and portion of Third street. Mulberry street. River street and Mary street and change the grade of Second street and change the line and grade of Front street and the change In line of Mulberry street are made necessary for the construction and development of the proposed freight station and yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and elimination of grade crossings over the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company tracks; Whereas, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company have acquired all the property south of Mulberry street and east of Second street for the purpose of enlarging and improving their local freight yards, and the elimination of grade crossings: Whereas, it is believed that the construction and development of these works will be a benefit to the City of Harrlsburg and its Inhabitants; therefore.

Section 1. Re It ordained by the Select and Common Councils of the City of Harrlsburg. and It Is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, that the following named streets and portions of streets be and the same are hereby vacated, viz: Meadow lane, from Second street to Mulberry Bucher street, Cox street, Third street from a point on the eastern building line of Third street twenty five feet south of the northern building line of Mulberry street to a point on the western building line of Third street thirty feet south of the northern building line of Mulberry street to Meadow lane; all that portion of Mulberry street between the western side of Third street and the astern side of Second street south of a line thirty feet south of the northern building line of Mulberry street, and also that portion of Mulberry street between the eastern side of Second street and the western side of Second street; also that portion Mulberry street from the western side of Second street to a point thirty. five feet west of th western side of River street south of a line thirty feet south of the northern building linn of Mulberry street and extending to the eastern side of Kront street, distance 12 feet south of the northern building line of Mulberry street; Court street south of a line thirty feet, south of the northern building line of Mulberry street, end Mary street east of the eastern side of Sec Continued on Late News Flashes FLIES 674 MILES IN SEVEN HOURS Berlin, June 10. Marcel Brlnrlenjonc Ie Moulinals, the French airman, made a reniarkaable flight this morning from Vlllaooublay, France, to the Johannlsthal Aerodrome, dolus the distance of 674 miles In 7 hours and 4 minutes, or approximately mile In 37 4 5 seconds.

CHARLTON MUST GO TO ITALY Washington, June 10. Porter Charlton must return to Italy to an. awer the charge of having murdered his wife in June 1910 at Lake The Supreme Court so derided to day. WILSON NOMINATES FORD Washington, July 10. Cornelius J.

Ford, of New Jersey, a labor leader, was noml rutted by President Wilson to day to be publlo printer. Closing Minutes in Wall Strset New York, June 10. The market cloned Arm. Bull operators showed Increasing confidence on the upward movement. There woa more general buying for the Jong account and the late recovery was carried considerably further.

Some stock which did not slump badly in the early break recovered fully and the general level was from two to ncany unir point anove ine nay a Plan Is Included in Summer Schedule For Reservoir Cook ing Classes WILL EE OPENED ON MONDAY Canning Preserving, Baking Also to Be Taught; Applicants' Blanks in Telegraph MISS FRANCES HAMILTON Instructor at Reservoir Cooking School Reservoir Park, especially that little much windowed pavilion Just west of the administration building, certainly will not be a congenial place for anybody afflicted with at least one of Mr. Rockefeller'a alleged life sorrows, after Monday, June IS. In fact the region of that pavilion It's to be the Reservoir Park summer cooking school again won't he at all cheerful fur anyone with despeptlc tendencies. It's going to be rather a mouth watery place most all summer. Plan have not yet been definitely completed by Miss Frances Hamilton, the instructor, for the opening of the school, but some of the details have been worked out, and among other new ideas that will be developed will be a course of Instruction In how to prepare, daintily, artistically, appe tizlngly and properly, trays for invalids; to serllize and fill bottles, can and preserve fruits, for wee brother and sifters; to bake real good cakes as nearly as possible like the kind mother turns out; with some Inside tips as to the best, and most economic methods of planning the meals for the family.

The New Plan Rome of these Ideas were partially worked out Inst year, although not so far advanced, perhaps, as the cake baking, filling the bottles, canning and preserving and the preparation of the trays. The meal planning Idea, how Continued on Pace 6. Front Street Problem Is Just Two Weeks Nearer a Solution Front street's paving problem got about two weeks nearer to ultimate solution last evening by the action of city Councils upon the Hoy ordinance providing for "fill" along the embankment between Maclay and Division streets. The measure directs the Highway Commissioner to advertise for bids for approximately 4,600 cubic yards of material for the purpose, to be pUred Ht necessary points, and so strengthen the embankment and hold up the western curb. There Is $3,200 provided for the purpose.

Select passed the measure finally last evening and II was read for the first time In the lower branch. And this means that unless a special meeting be called In the meantime. Common will pass the ordinance finally at the next regular meeting, after which It will go to the Mayor. The upper branch also got a little nerer to a solution of the Derry street paving problem by passing Daugherty ordinance authorizing the paving and curbing of that highway from 180 feet, east of Eighteenth street to Twenty second. lowest, (speculative bonds alwi lin I I Hill Shares Go Crashing Downward in Opening Minutes of the Market INDUSTRIALS ALSO DECLINING Sharp Decline of American Stocks in London; Pacific Down Over 4 Points fly Associated fre i New York.

June 10. Wall streets Interpretation of the effect on the railroads of the Minnesota rate decls Inn was shown at the opening of the stock mket to day when railroad stocks ilnmnA.t Ha.ll.. mil 1. I I Hill 1 which were directly concerned In the Minnesota case, were the heaviest sufferers hilt vlrln llv nil In fell to the lowest level of the year with losses extending to more than four points. The decision In th case ns handed down by the Supreme Court unanimously dt 'lde In favor oi tne Mates and Federal control.

The railroads thus lost their fight on the big urtnclnlx I citse. They hud hoped through thlsl iniKHiion in snnKe 11r most of the burdensome rntex whiVh I ties of many States have fixed for imra siate trartic and to establish the control of the Interst ito i I Commission In all cases where there is a conn ct net ween Its and the authority of the fitate offi cials. The effect of the rtecint ic run tain the oower or the Ktuta rii.nj commissioners and State Legislatures io nx two cent passenger or other rates on business vrlniivniv 1,1.1. the States, provided always that the rates are not confiscatory. No longer win ne possinie ror the railroads to Continued on Page iiir IVNIit BILL 0 WEIR Has Been Working For Measure and Will Now Press For Its Passage largely through the Instrumentality of Senator Reidleman, the Martin mine dockage bill was to day reported out of committee and placed on the Pen ate calendar after having been passed by the House.

Indications are that it will be passed. Senator Reidleman said this afternoon that hes doing all for the measure he can. When a committee of the mine workers waited on Senator Beidleman some time ago and asked him to move for the discharge of the committee from further consideration of the bill he declined to do so, but said he would use his utmost efforts to have the bill brought out In proper order. Bince that time he has been working in behalf of the measure and would have had it reported out last night but for the absence of several mine union officials with whom he desired to confer concerning it. Today, at his request.

Senator Crow re. ported the bill out. Senator Reidleman will press for Its passage. Many Servians Have Been Killed in Fight By Associated Press London, June 10. Jdany Servians were killed to day In a serious encounter between Servian and Bulgarian troops near the small town of Makres.

News of the encounter came In a special dispatch to the Belgrade Mall Journal forwarded here. imoKF.UAGK FIRM FAILS Hy Associated rress London, June 10. The failure was announced on the London Stock Exchange to day of the old established brokerage firm of Engelbert Schloesser. The liabilities could not be ascertained this morning. The failure of the firm was due to heavy commitments through German connections In Canadian Pacifies, Rio Tlntos.

Steel stocks and other American securities. COMMKNCEMENT AT LEHIGH By Associated Press South Bethlehem. Junes. The forty fourth scholastic year at Lehigh University ended to day with the com mencement exercises of the class of 1913, held In Packer Memorial Chuch at 10.80 o'clock this The alumni address was delivered by Wallace Mcllvalne Scudder, '73, editor and publisher of the Evening News, of Newark, N. J.

CONTINUE LOBBY INQTJIRY it By Associated Press Washington, D. June 10. Ex members of Congress, attorney! and others who have represented special Interests In Washington, continued testimony to day before the special nenate committee in search of the "lobby." Ex Governor Carter, of Ha. wall, was waiting to testify when the committee assembled to day. DECISIONS TO BE MADE By Associated Press Belgrade, Servla, June 10.

The Servian minister of war to day de. clarod that the question of war or peace between Bulgaria and Servla would be decided In two. or three days. i SENATOR BED EI DOCKAGE bCIG i TELEGRAPH HARRISBURG Vol. lxxxii.

Xo. HARRLSBURG, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1913. 14 PAGES POSTSCRIPT PRESENT FREIGHT "IT BEATS ME HOW SAMUEL SO DIRTY" COMPENSATION BILL TO BE RESTORED TO DEPOT SLUIVIP SEVERELY AS ITS TEACH SMALL MAIDS HDWTD PREPAREAN INVALIDS MEALTRAY STOCKS DIME TO G1TY COUNCILS Hi 0 DEC ON ON 01 wmm i tmwm, ran i VfwE 'Wit 11 Netci tttmTKe money laundry at Wat Mngto it turning out HfiOt Couldn't Say Whether Enemy Has the Fleetness of a Brick Though Victim Might Have Got a Start on Missile, But That's About All Whether or not the most willing of runners could get a good start when he saw another stoop to select a brick for the ostensible purpose of whaling It at the willing one, may be open to argument; hut whether the willing one could really defeat the moving brick and the purpose of the one who threw the brick, is hardly open to question. That was one of the problems discussed very briefly by a witness and IMtrict Attorney M. E.

Stroup In June criminal sessions during the trial yesterday afternoon of Albert Bentney. a negro, charged with felonious assault upon William Stewart. The finer points of a case like that frequently turn up In criminal court. Bentney, Incidentally, was convicted. Bentney was accused of having stabbed Stewart in the stomach.

Bentney admitted that he had stabbed to defend himself from the attacks of Stewart; Stewart was the person he saw stoop to select the brick. Stewart's purpose, a witness pointed out, was unmistakable. The prosecution con ended that Bentney didn't try to get away, but wanted to fight. Fifty Years' a School Teacher; Miss Johnson Receives Purse of $300 MISS FANNIE JOHNSON At her desk In the Wll'lard school building this morning. Miss Fannie Johnson was sitting at her desk Just before the opening of school looking out of the window with a faraway look In her kindly eyes.

And the look grew farther and farther away for the school teacher was thinking that when the clock struck nine It would be just fifty years since she rapped for order In her first school. And then somebody came In. It was former assistant district attorney, W. H. Musser.

Behind him came D. D. Hammelbaugh, secretary of the school board, and Walter Diet rick. "Good breezed Mr, Musser. "Why, bless me, if here aren't some of my boys," beamed Miss Johnson.

And then someone laid a little package on the desk. When 'Miss Fannie opened It she found a purse with Just $300 Inside. The money was given by former pupils In honor of the occasion. "Now. when Bentney saw Stewart roach for that brick." inaulred Mr.

Stroup, "couldn't Bentney have had plenty of time to get away?" "Well, sah, and tne coiorea witness thoughtfully scratched his head, "Ah wouldn' say he could o' got way. but." and he visibly brightened, "Ah would say dat he could got a staht!" "But he could have got away before the brick could have struck him?" "Dat's a mattah mo' or less of opinion," returned the witness doubtfully. "Ah wouldn't like to say whethah Bentney could o' beat dat brick or not." That wasn't the only high light In I Via na aa thnllO'h In trvtnff to ShOW (that Bentney acted without felonious Intentions, James Hau. counsel tor the defense, explained to the court that he couldn't see that such a contention had been supported. "Well," observed President Judge Kunkel.

"If some one stabbed you In the stomach would you say It was with felonious intent, or would you say he was Just trying to tickle you?" Degree of Master of Arts to Be Conferred Upon F. B. Wickersham Assistant District Attorney Frank B. Wickersham will go to Gettysburg tomorrow, where, at the commencement exercises of Pennsylvania College, he will receive the degree of master of arts. Mr.

Wickersham was Informed some months ago that the trustees of the college had awarded him the degree, along with several other notables, and the commencement of the class of 1913 was fixed as the date for the ceremony. The conferring of the degree unon Mr. Wickersham hy Gettysburg College to morrow will have more than nrdlnAry significance for the assistant district attorney In view of the fact that his son, Frank Brewster Wickersham, is now a member of the sophomore class of that Institution. 8,000 Men Construct 250 Miles of Road in One Day's Work By Associated Press Alpena, June 10. Eight thousand business and professional men and farmers in northeastern 1 Michigan yeisterday made road labor ers or themselves and constructed more than 250 miles of roadway between Bay City and Mackinaw City.

Where there had been at sunrise mllei after mile of Corduroy road, sand holes and swamps, nightfall found an almost unbroken stretch of graveled highway. ONLY TWENTY 8CRVTVORS OF BATTLE WITH REBELS I By 'Associated Press Mexico City, June 10. Twenty survivors of the federal garrison which was unsuccessful in the defense of Zacatecas straggled Into Aguascal lentes to day with further confirmation of the capture of that city by the rebel forces a month ago. The reports which the survivors furnished were wired to the officials of the War Department hers. The other members of the garrison, about 800 soldiers all told, were either captured or killed.

cleon Io dered note, daily. UNFROCKED St I Jere Knode Cooke and Floretta Whaley Married by Justice of the Peace By Associated Press Stamford. June 10. Jere Knode Cooke and Floretta Whaley were married by a justice of the peace In the parlors of a local hotel this morning. The witnesses were a party of friends who came here with the couple last evening.

The unfrocked Kplscopal clergyman and his bride came here late last evening after a trip to Hartford and to Wlllimantic to get from Judge Joel Heed, of the Superior Court, a cer tilled copy of the decree of divorce In favor of Mrs. Marinda Clarke Cooke, who was the wife of the unfrocked clergyman. The certified copy was a necessary preliminary to the application for a marriage license in this state. Mr. Cooke found the Judge at the Wlllimantic camp grounds and ob talned a formal signed order, which he took to Clerk Fuller, of the Hartford County Superior Court, and received from the latter officer the desired copy of the decree.

This morning Cooke and Miss Whaler obtained a marriage license as soon as the license clerk's office opened. The services of Justice of the Peace Francis 8. Tipper were secured and shortly after 9 o'clock the marriage service was read. Mr. and Mrs.

Cooke then returned to their home In New York. The divorce decree granted to the former Mrs. Cooke named as corespondent Floretta Whaley, with whom Cooke eloped from Hempstea.1. six years sgo. Two children hia ve been horn to the pair since that time.

Since his expulsion from the ministry Cooke has been working as a house painter. Baby Dies of Poison and Needles in Its Stomach; Murdered By Associated Press New York, June 10, Mystery de. veloped lasfnlght in the sudden death to day of Anna Sorenson, 11 month old, who had been 111 with measles at Woodhaven, Long Island. An au topsy revealed the presence of poison lu the Infant's stomach and two needles were found, one In the liver and the other In the abdomen. Detectives advance the theory that some one with a grudge against the family entered the sick room during a quarter nour mat tne infant was left unattended, and administered the poison.

It Is the opinion of the coroner that the needles had been In the body of the babe at least a week. Life Boat Floats to Surface Where Titanic Went Down By Associated Press Baltimore, June 10. Almost on the exact spot where the Ill fated Titanic foundered a little more than a year ago, the lookout of the North German Lloyd steamship Eisenach, which docked here yesterday, sighted a barnacle covered lifeboat. The derelict was sighted on the morning of June 4, floating keel tip? ward, and the officers of the Eisenach said that from Its appearance it must have been at the mercy of the waves for at least twelve months. WE III PARLOR OF HOTE Electric Clause to Be Removed and State Insurance Provided IS RESULT OF COMPROMISE Friends of Measure Say It Will Be Passed in Effective Form Following the untiring efforts of Governor John K.

Tener, who has la bored for months for a worklngmen'a compensation set It Is beginning to look to day as If the sun of harmony Is breaking through the clouds of strife and what looks like aa sgree able compromise In which the Stata shall Insure employers of labor ssema to be the long sought after solution to the big question. Attorney David A. Reed, chairman of the Industrial Accident Commission, which drew the worktngmen'a compensation act and which baa been supported by the employes throughout the State and opposed most vigorously hy some employers; Senator W. K. Crow, who led the successful fight la the Senate last week for the employ ers, along with representatives of la bor and the others who have been tak Ing a big part In this, the most Important agitation of the session, held a conference last night and another this morning at which It 1 practically agreed to restore the bill to Its original form and add a section which, will give the employer the optional right to take Insurance either with a private company or with the Stata Continued on Pago 9.

$100,000 FOB PRINCETON By Associated Preu Princeton, N. June 10. PresU dent Hlbben, of Princeton University, announced at the commencement exercises to day that Mrs. Russell Sage had promised to give $100,000 for new university dining hall, provided the university raised $100,000 for the same purpose. tT UarriNUurK muu ii iuiii rmr to nlicbt and Wednesday continued cool i light trust la low places to night.

For t'MHtera Pennsylvania! Fair tonight and Weilncnils) frost la intv places 4o nlght moderate north winds. General Conditions The STeat blab pressure area has expanded to the eantwnrd and southward nnd rovers considerably mure territory than yesterday mnrulng. Its center has moved southward from Lake 8u pertnr to the lower portion of the Inke regions. The temperature continues low over the terrl tory under It influence, but has rUm sllahtly over the greater part of tbr lake region and thence eastward to the Atlantic. It Is somewhat roolrr la the Southern Htntrn east of the Mia slasippl.

The dlaturhanee In the neat has not changed much either In position or strength. The gulf disturbance bna moved eastward tu the Florida peninsula, causing mure rain In the tiulf nnd South Atlantln states, the rain area reaching northward Into Tennessee nnd North Carolina. Mbowera have occurred over a considerable portion of the Southwest and la Utah, Nevada, Iduhn, Washington and In the Canadian North weat. Temperature! 8 a. RO.

hnn rises, 4i37 a. m. seta, TiRfl p. Moon i First quarter, June 11, lli4T a. in.

River Mnget 2.5 feet above lew water, mark. Yesterday'a Weather Highest temperature, St. Lowest temperature. 44. Mean temperature.

(12. Normal temperature, 69, MARRIIGH Harry A. Dickey and Eva B. Glddons city. Russell O.

Jacobs and Alice M. Muck ler, city. Klnier B. Gunderman and Carrie Sanderson, city. William I.eKue Sapp, Renovo, and Grace Kvylyn Williams, city.

Frederick W. Schreck and Effle H. Souder, city. William C. Saltsman and Bessie It, Moore, city.

(Detailed deaths Inside pages) Fine Points in Advertising A reader of the Tplegraph the other day was planning a fortnight's fishing trip In the Adirondacks, and In running through the advertising pages chanced upon an advertisement of a sporting goods s'ore. Being entranced by the "out o' door" stmosphere and sportsmanlike tone of the announcement he was soon deeply engrossed. Toward the end, to his sstonlshment, he found complete detailed Information about the very lake on which he expected to spend his vacation. He learned all about the fish and their habits, and the kind of tackle to use and a number of other Useful and Informing points all as If written for his especial benefit by a true lover of the sport! Crystallized In this one ad vertlsement was all ot the information, and more that he needed to complete the rangements for his trip, This Is only. one Instance of the splendid help that present day advertising offers to the readers of the Telegraph..