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U. S. Demand to Keep Port Open May Be Enforced With Cruiser Des loines HARRISBURG ifililfc TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 60 CITY TO RESURFACE YARDS OF HIGHIWS New Plant Will Turn Out Asphalt For Widespread Repair Work Early in Summer WALTER GOES ON JOB TODAY Cuts Are Marked and Sheeting Will Be Started on Several Streets in a Few Days The turning: out of enough asphalt to provide for the resurfacing of hun dreds of square yards of Hamsburg's streets will likely be one of the first big jobs of the new city ssphalt re pair plant, according to City Commis sioner W. 11. Lynch, superintendent of streets and public improvements to day. The proposed plant will have a ca pacity of at least 1,000 yards daily and when it is put into service, the wheels will turn out the material as rapidly as possible. Commissioner Lynch and City En gineer M. B. Cowden liave just return ed from a trip to Camden and Wil mington, Del., where they watched the municipal plants in operation there. Karrisburg's own plant will be model ed after these. Advertisement for bids for the plant will be made just as soon as the deed for the McCormick site in South Harrisburg is formally transferred. "All that we're waiting on now." said Mr. Lynch, "is the recording of the deed, li is our hope to get the struc ture built and ready for action by not later than May 1." Contractor Walter Begins Kcpairs Alderman Charles P. Walter, the repair contractor whose contract with the city expires April 1. to-day made a tour of the city with Inspector Jo seph Bumgardner of the bureau of highways for the purpose of determin ing just where the repairing will ">e made. The various "cuts" were mark ed. Some of the concreting work was completed to-day and the alderman • \pects to begin putting down the as phalt to-morrow. Several new paving operations would be undertaken this Spring if there were any funds in sight for intersec tions and nonassessable property. The biggest stretch, perhaps, is Herr street from Cameron to Fourteenth. An or dinance is now being prepared for this improvement Mr. Lynch says but he cannot Introduce it because there is no intersection money in view. Dinner Club Pays Final Respects to Prof. Steele Tiie weekly luncheon of the Wash l»ay Dinner club, usually a very lively occasion, was a very subdued affair to day. The members who are all mem bers also of the Harrisburg Rotary club, were sorrowing for their com panion. Prof. W. S. Steele, whose fu neral was held this afternoon. Most of those who attended the luncheon at the Engineers' club at noon, planned to attend the services. <'lark E. Diehl, who as a member of the school board, had much to do with bringing Prof. Steele to Harrisburg years ago. spoke very feelingly upon the late principal's excellent service to the city as head of the Central High school. Dickinson Seniors Slip One Over on Juniors Members of the senior class of Dick inson College will hold their annual banquet at the .Metropolitan Hotel to night. The toastmastcr will be Pro fessor C. G. Slienton. tillU. MESHED FROM FIAMRS Tno Dimcnnnnii Homes Destroyed by Eire Yesterday Morning Special to The Telegraph Duncannon, Pa.. March 15. Yester day morning the homes of George Sel- I"is and Ills son-in-law. George Hess, were burned to tin- ground by a tire that started in one of the outhouses. The origin Is unknown. The loss is esti mated at SIO,OOO, partlv covered by insurance.. Mr. and Mrs. Hess had been away from town and came home on a train while their home was burning. Their ■ laughter. 16 years old, was carried from the second tloor in an unconsci ous condition, having been overcome by sinoke. She has recovered. HAJiGS HIMSEI.E Special to The Telegr.tph Mifflintown, Pa.. March 15 Harry Whitendale, 38 years old. supposed to be a resident of Berwick, hanged him self in the wagon she«l on the George Hower farm, at Mifflintown. yesterday. MAHOr.n I.EWARS OIKS Gettysburg, Pa., March 15. Harold S. l-.ew.ars, husband of Elsie Singmas ter. the author, died last night at the honie of Dr. J. A. Singmaster. president of the Gettysburg Theological Semi nary. THE WEATHER Kor Hnrrlsliurg and vicinity! Clondv and unsettled to-nlglr| nnd Tnra d«y, with probably occasional rain. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Unset tled to-night nnd Tucnday, with probably Incnl rains: warmer to night In north portion. lllver There has been n nllglit rise In the .iuninta river | clgewhere -the river obaervera throughout the dlatrlet report with one exception n nearly stationary condition. \ atuge of about 4.."? feet la Indicat ed for Harrisburg on Tuesdav mornlng. General Condltlona Cloudy and unae-ttled condltlona prevail thin morning uenerally over the country, with the excep tion of the Sew England S*tates and the Southweat. Unsettled conditions may be ex pected to-night nnd ' Tueaday, with oecaalonnl rain. Terapera'tnrei 8 a. m„ 34. Sunt Rises, fliia a. m.j sets. fliOT p. m. 'loon: Xew moon, to-day, 2i42 p. m. Ill>er Stagei 4J5 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, no, 1.0 west tern pern tnre. Z7. Mean temperature, 41. Aormal temperature, 3T, MRO-HIS IRE MOVING CENTER WEST New Phase Noted in Attempt to Relieve Przemysl, Says Dispatches YOUNG TURKS IN DANGER British Admiralty Announces the Sinking of Three More Steamers by Submarine A phase of the campaign in the East has developed, in an attempt by Aus tro-Gernian forces in Gaiicia to relieve Przemysl. For this purpose the cen ter has been shifted westward, follow ing the recent ineffective movement in Eastern Gaiicia, and troops have been concentrated to lift the siege of thti Galician fortress, wnose resistance month after month to the investing Russian army has been one of the striking episodes of the campaign. A Paris newspaper publishes a re port that before his resignation Pre mier Venizelos of Greece offered 9,000 men to the entente powers for the Dardanelles expedition. The former premier is now quoted as urging the abandonment of neutrality by Greece on the ground that by striking now she will be able to expand her terri tory largely. Bulgaria is represented as considering the expediency of enter ing the war but as being undecided whether, in such event, she would as sist Turkey or her opponents. The young Turks, under whose lead ership Turkey went into the war, are said to tind the present position in Constantinople a difficult one and a report from Greek sources says they may flee from the capital. In France and Belgium offensive op erations at present are chiefly with the [Continued on Page 0.1 PLAN UNION OF ALL CATHOLIC SOCIETIES Knights of St. George Back of the Movement to Cement Forces For Social Betterment Plans for the organization of a county federation of Roman Catholic Societies to T>e affiliated with the State Federation, were launched yesterday at a meeting of the Roman Catholic- Knights of St. George held in St.. Fran cis' Church. The movement was instituted in an effort to join the Catholic forces in Dauphin county; to cement the bonds of fraternal union among the Catholic laity and Catholic societaies: to foster and protect the Catholic faith; to bring about a betterment of conditions In social life and to aid charity. The Knights of St. George appoint ed the following committee to arrange for a meeting of representatives of various Catholic societies; E. J. Kried ler. Adam H. Suter, J. F. Eckenrode, Augustus 11. Waldschmldt, John A. Czerniski and Robert F. Gorman, [Continued on Pace 9.] SAY PREnY GIRLS ' STOLE IN CAHOOTS Served as Maids in Adjoining Residences and Passed Articles Over the Fence j March quarter sessions court opened [to-day with nearly 150 cases listed for ! trial, chief of which perhaps is the J case against John J. Hargest, Jr., I charged with involuntary manslaugh ter in connection with the death of ! Miss Grace Maugans. The girl was lone of the party which (largest, as I chauffeur, was driving when the auto ] mobile collided with a Valley Trae ! tion Company car at Front and Wal | nut streets several weeks ago. Har j gest is slated for trial Friday, but it is j not likely that it will go to jury be ! fore June quarter sessions as the I grand jury will only consider the case !on Friday. Theodore H. Molts, who I must answer to a similar charge, is also slated for trial Friday. I Jonas M. Rudy, clerk. Thirteenth 1 ward, city, was made foreman of the grand jury. William C. Fors, a Derry : township brakeman, was the only grand juror excused. Three petit i jurors were excused subject to call. They are Charles W. Burtnett, of the ! firm of Evans and Burtnett, whole ; sale grocers, Seventh ward, city; S. Brady Caveny. Jr., a clerk, Second | ward, city, and a son of Alderman S. f Continued on I'age »1 Fire in Subway Ties Up Traffic Over Two Hours By .Associated Press New York. March 15.—Fire early to-day in the new subway under con struction in Seventh avenue between Forty-second and Firty-fifth streets tilled the subway with smoke, tied up traffic on a portion of the old Broad way subway and some of the adjacent | surface lines and drove hundreds of | guests from the hotels clustering about Times Square. CHOLERA VICTIM ON SHIP By .4 ssnciated Press New York, March 155.—The Greek steamer loannina, which arrived here to-day from Piraeus, Greece, with 259 passengers aboard, was held up at quarantine by the health officers until they had definitely determfned the na ture of the illness of leim Glaho, a steerage passenger. who showed symp toms of Asiatic cholera. HARRISBURG. PA., THOSE "TIPPERARY" VEILS r-*CL_ J THE 50N C>o VOL) i'POSE. \ , V Jrm-■■■■■■, \ ( TMT CORTA\N HAS ) / \ WSA?P&«RE)TOj/ FOUR YOUTHS RIS RESCUE LITTLE Climb Ladder to Steep, Slippery Roof, Togged Out in Their Very Best Sunday Clothes The days of chivalry when bold knights went gaily forth to battle and I perform feats of daring and deeds of kindness, aren't all past. You thought they were? Listen to the story of Uuke Butt. Elmer Krone, Edward Schriver and Philip Waldlev, j four youths of Steelton, who have earned a place in knightdom. All four! are athletes who have shown their! prowess on Steelton football fields, j baseball diamonds and on the cinder ; track. It was 'long about 11 o'clock last night when these four youths were returning from —well nobody's busi ness. Near Front and Trewick streets. Steelton, they were startled by the plaintive wails of something in dis dress. From far above their heads came the faint, pleading sounds. "Why, there's the baby on that roof." exclaimed "Monk" Krout, as he gripped Luke Butt's sleeve. "Hurry, fellows, we must set it down," commanded Pliil Waidley. From a nearby shed Sclireiver ob HARDSCRABBLE VIEW IS NOW UNDER WAY Board Goes Over Ground and Pre pares to Meet For Organization in Council Room Tomorrow "Ilardscrabble" was officially "view ed" to-day by the board of commis sioners recently appointed by the Dauphin county court to determine the question of benefits and damages, j incident to the opening of Front street j from Ilerr to Calder streets, j Attorney Paul G. Smith. J. D. Salts man and Karl Steward constitute the | board. Report to the court will be | made September 27. I To-morrow morning the board will l meet in the council chamber to organ ize and to arrange the schedule of hearings. There will be many of these and the viewers will plan a list of dates upon which interested property owners may present testimony. The question of relative land values will be discussed by experts. SUBWAY WORK IS HELD CP Connecting of Gas Mains on South Second Street Delays Excavations Work on the completion of the South Second street subway excavation job has been held up for a few days pending the connecting of the now big gas mains being placed in Second street. The gas company is laying a new main down Second street through the subway to replace the pipe that feeds i the lower end section via Meadow Lane. As soon as the line is finished, the old pipe in Meadow Lane will be cut off and the excavation work can |be resumed. It is hoped to complete i the job Sunday. Sunday is chosen in order not to interfere any more than possible with the residence supplies as the connecting job will require sev jeral hours at least. FIRST FORESTER ORDINANCE IN City Solicitor Seltr Preparing Measure to Govern Tree Planting The first ordinance relative to the conduct of the City Forester's Depart ment —prescribing what will be re quired in the way of tree pruning, trimming, planting, re-planting and fixing the fines and penalties is now being prepared by City Solicitor D. S. Seltz for introduction in City Council to-morrow. Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor will offer the measure. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1015. tained a long ladder. Placing It against a coal shed all four youths climbed to the roof. It was then placed against the side of the two-and-a-half story house of Samuel F. Coulter, Jr., from which the sounds came. While the other three men held the ladder, Krout made the perilous climb to the roof. Grasping the eaves he drew his body onto the steep roof, the shingles of which were already wet and slippery from the dew. Foot by foot he worked his way towards the little spot of gray from wliich the sounds came. Reaching the place he gathered a little warm body into his arms. Back over the dark roof he slowly worked his way to the ladder. Carefully, he handed his burden to Schriver, who stood below. As Schrtver passed the bundle to Butt there was a disturbance. He let out a cry of pain, there was a flash of gray, and someone's cat shot from his arms and disappeared. Surely the days of chivalry are not past. WILSON HANDS 016 PLUM TO PALMER Selects Him For Chief Justice of United States Court of Claims A. MITCHELL PALMER By Associated Press Washington, D. C„ March 15.—Ex- Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania, has been selected by President Wilson for chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims to succeed Judge Charles B. Howey, wnose resignation is to take effect April 1. NOTED INVENTOR DIES By Associated Press Chicago, March 15.—Henry Scsslon-t, inventor of the vestibule antltelescop- Ing device used on most railroad pas senger cars, the airbrake for street oars and several other railroad devices died at his home here jesterday, 1 INDEPENDENT PHONE MEN KIN API Leading Men of Field to Address Convention of Eastern Penna. Association The second annual convention of the Eastern Pennsylvania Independent Telephone Association will be held in this city April 7-8. Representatives from independent telephone companies throughout eastern Pennsylvania, part of New York, Virginia and West Vir ginia will attend. The headquarters of the convention wil! he in the Cumberland Valley Tele phone Company's building, 22" Wal nut street, where delegates will regis ter and receive the official convention badße. The sessions of the convention will lie held in the old Board of Trade building. 112 Market street. The convention will be a joint gath erinK of the Rastern Pennsylvania Telephone Association and the West ern Pennsylvania Independent Tele phone Association and some of the biggest men of the telephone world [Continued on l*age 9] HUNDREDS PAY LAST RESPECTS TO STEELE With Simple, but Impressive Cere monies Body of High School's Principal Is Buried With simple but impressive cere ! monies, Professor William Sherman j.Steele, principal of Central high school, I was buried this afternoon. A huge bank of flowers from organizations and j students of the school attested to the ] high esteem in which Professor Steele ] was held. Between the hours of 10 and 1 i o'clock thousands of students, patrons, i teachers and personal friends of the family, called at the home at lfi22 | State street, to pay their last tribute. Deep silence prevailed as the throng of people parsed through the room in which he lay, and little groups of stu dents, that collected on the streets, were unusually quiet and separated af ter a few words of greeting. lyings were placed at half mast on all of the public school buildings. Both [Continued on Page 9.] Church Building Being Fitted Out its Armory For Governor's Troop About April 1, the Governor's Troop will occupy the A. M. E. Zion Church i building in State street, as an armory. It is understood the church building will be used by the Governor's Troop until the State is ready to tear it down to complete the Capitol Park exten sion. Oldest Native This County Is Dead, Aged 92 Elizabethville, Pa., March 15.—Mrs. Philip Wilbert, of this place, the old est native of Dauphin county, died here aged 92 years, early Saturday morning. She was born in Armstrong valley, Just across the mountains from this place, and lived her whole life in the upper end of Dauphin county. Her maiden name was Motter and she came of one of the oldest families in Central Pennsylvania, Mrs. Wilbert Is survived by the following daughters- Mrs. D. A. Miller, Mrs. J. C. Lenta, Mrs. Albert Bechtel anil Mrs. Welling ton Kllinger. The funeral will be held to-morrow with services at her late home, conducted by the Rey, Dr. RhoaUs,.of JSlizaUetJtivllto. 14 PAGES BLOCKADE OF MEXICAN PORT IS ABANDONED; U. S. DEMAND GRANTED United States Was Prepared to Keep Waters Open by Using Cruiser Des Moin es; Farmers of Country Pro tested Because of Action of General Carranza By Associated Press Washington, D. C„ March 15.—Gen eral Carranza has abandoned his blockade of the port of Progreso on urgent representations from the United Slates. The Mexican gunboat Zaragosa has been called off and two American ships laden with sisal *or the United States were cleared without Interfer ence. Rear Admiral Caperton, command ing the American tleet in Mexican waters, reported the raising of the blockade in his official dispatch to-day and reported that the Zaragosa had returned to Vera Vruz. The admiral's dispatch telling of re lief of the situation crossed a new note from the United States which was sent on its way to Carranza this morning giving notice that the United States was determined to raise the blockade and. if necessary, use the cruiser Des Moines to do so. It became known for the first time to-day that last week the Mexican gunboat had stopped one American ship with a shot across her bows, had held up another, and had interfered with British shipping . Seriousness Noted The seriousness of the situation growing out of the blockade of Pro- STPSO was pointed out by Secretary Houston, of the Department of Agri culture. who advised the President that 200,000,000 pounds of twine are used each year in the United States in binding grain, tlax ami corn crops and that nine-tenths of the supply is made from sisal grown in Yucatan and exported through Progreso. Telegrams from manufacturers and farmers in the grain-growing states pouring into the White House and the State Department pointed out that un less sisal was obtained through Pro greso the harvesting of this year's grain crops by usual methods would be embarrassed and would have to be done almost entirely by hand. Secre tary Houston believed the situation a very serious one for the grain-grow ing states. Since February 25 the State Depart f a count k ■ government rnians thai t c € 1 waters sur C S was made ; .. . t | ;NIED C {Rome, S , March IS, 9.2u | A. M.— The r lay that Francis. J Joseph, em peri rejected ti % > been given au- S thoritative tic; % NEW SUBMARINE LAUNCHED -5 Quincy, Mass., March 15.—Submarine 1-3, built for the I United Stj ipbuilding Corpor- 4 ation, was launched to-day. Mrs. Charlotte S. Atkins, wife % Lew M. i the craft % I New Yoi * I the Mayo Radii n May Co % who comt here recently, was made the defen C ant to-daj tier, a former £, ' clerk er two-yea . old girl. 1 Washington, tendency of - c I papers of the c is made by | Charles R. Miller, editor in-chi . of • ew York Times, ' I before the S Ship.Lobby Invest Committe g Chairman Walsh had questioned Mr. lv length as J editorials and ne stc ies • iring on the ship # bill. | Paris, Ma: lent cannonading is F going on at a to the northeast of Dunkirk, accordin £ I to a dismal eaport to the Ila /as News Agcnc} £ i The belief in Dunkirk is> that a British squadron if bombard ing the sand dunes around Nieuport. C MARRIAGE LICENSES I i riirmff Croft Kline llemleriion and Mary Keumayer, city, J" I Knlpli H. Welter ami ll<'h»li- A. Trimmer, York. & Wnjne A. Hummel, Mteelfon, mi<l Beatrice A. Hoyer. Mlddletowa. J) * POSTSCRIPT. merit had steadily protested to Car ranza against closing Progreso, where there have been factional troubles be teen Mexicans nominally under his control. The people of Yucatan, it was said, obtained all their food from out side sources and were as anxious that the embargo be raised as was the I nited States. Carranza allowed no food to go into Progreso since there has been a blockade. Would Not Interfere The American notice made it plain that the United States hail no inten tion of interfering in the factional troubles at Progreso, but was inter ested only in the sisal finest ion. The Spanish Ambassador Riano an nounced to the State Department that his government had accepted in prin ciple an apology which Carranza lias offered for having expelled the Span ish minister from Mexico recently on the ground that he was concealing in his legation Juan Caso. a Spaniard, whom Carranza accused of wording in the interests of General Villa. As Carranza suggested to the Spanish government that it would be better for Spain to send another minister, it was said that it would be dime. It has not been announced who the new minister will be. 13 SHIPS SUNK BY WILUELM By Associated Press Rio Janeiro, March 15. The Ger man auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Wil hclm, which lias aboard 500 German sailors, has sunk thirteen vessels since she began her raid on commerce, ac cording to the passengers and crew of the French steamer Guadeloupe, who were taken to Pernahibuco by the British steamer Churchill. SEND SUPPLIES ABROAD Supplies of various kinds for the Servian I Jed Cross were shipped to day by the Ked Cross division of the Home ami War Itelief Committee, which sent more than ISOO articles in four boxes. Xeed for the supplies was said to be very great, by members of the Tied Cross Society in Washington. Work on other supplies goes steadily on at headquarters. 7 South Kron: street, where a large force of volun teers is working each day.