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12 LIMITED OFFER Fully Participating Stock Preferred Capital Stock Seven per cent. (7%) CUMULATIVE DIVIDENDS Par $50.00. Price $50.00. Limited to 7% dividends. (SMALL DIVIDEND FIRST YEAR) COMMON CAPITAL STOCK NO DIVIDENDS FIRST YEAR. Par, $50.00. Price, $51.q0. No limit as to dividends or values in the within equity in Company's holdings. It is very likely that the CUMMINGS COMMON STOCK will sell up as high as SIOO.OO per share within the next ten-year period, because of wonderful advance in values of our real estate holdings between Market and State streets on CAMERON STREET, the only street running entire length of city. There will be no bonuses for stockholders to teinpt and mis lead, nor any gifts of any kind to any individual, firm or cor poration. Why place your money at 3 or 4 per cent, when you can get 7 per cent, or more with SAFET\ ? Preferred share holders, may subscribe for but one share of COMMON to each TWO SHARES of Preferred Capital Stock, each kind at prices stated above. No salaries will be paid any official or director until after the 7 per cent, dividends are all fully paid. Street car fare only will be allowed them to look after Company and this means share holders' interests. (In order to accommodate WORKERS, WORKINGMEN and ANY PERSONS of limited means WHO WOULD LIKE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OFFER they will be allowed to buy stock in installments to suit each subscriber—no dividends will be allowed until stock is fully paid for, and then only the amount mentioned.) All Properties Now Held Are Rent Producers. TAKE ANY CAR LINE TO EXAMINE OUR IMPROV ED PROPERTIES, CAMERON STREET, (West Side and North of Market Street). Street Car Lines pass properties on three sides—namely, Market Street, State Street, Cameron Street. Act on your individual judgment—after looking prop erties over. When requested our representative will accom pany possible interested persons to site. Subscriptions should be accompanied by certified checks for ten per cent. (10 per cent.) of amount of CAPITAL STOCK WISHED. Better j look properties over before mailing your check. We will incur i no debts, except first mortgages, which will be as large as pos- j sible, so shareholders can get bigger dividends on factories, j warehouses, and storerooms owned now or purchased later. | Cummings Realty Company j Proposed Capital Stock, $200,000. Full Paid and Non-Assessable Shares, $50.00 each. Preferred Stock SIOO,OOO. Common Stock, SIOO,OOO. HARRY B. WITMAX, l.cmoynr, F«„ President. WAIiTGIt 11. CI MMIXUS, UUS liunkel Uuilding, Hurrl*l>urK, l'n„ Treasurer, HITHER TELEPHONE REACHES US SUPREME EFFORT OF GERMANS REPULSED [Continued From First I 'ago. ] official French advices the defenders of Verduu.have held firm except at one point in the region of Dead Man's hill, where the Germans gained 500 yards of French trenches. It is now reported from Paris that the main on slaught has diminished in extent, be r I pUNERAL SPRAYQ I I AND DESIG N»J J New Cuinb -in •• loral Co, P .New i uinlHT iiPd, I'a. Camp Hill The Suburb of Natural Beauty; Co out with us and Inspect our new addition. "Cooper Heights," with its concrete walk, electric lights, water and gas with Its fine build ings and bungalow sites. We will help you select a lot and build you a home. One hundred bungalow designs and plans to select from. West Shore Realty Co. Baer & Rice Umoync Trust Co. Building l.einoyne. Pa. Bell Pbone 3198-J A Profitable Genie | There's a Modern Genie that turns pianos, long silent, into Player Pianos: living things of music, playing now the raggy trot and now a time-honored classic. This modern genie is the adaptable player piano action built by the Charles E. Bard and Company—an instrument which converts the ordinary straight piano into a full 88-note player piano without altering the case. Do you realise the unlimited field this genie has in which to operate? Of the ten million pianos now in the United 1 States, six million are but seldom used. In this enormous field the mod ern genie will prove effective and will protlt. The laborious method of I I hand playing is becoming passe. This is the day of the Piano Player! I THE INVESTMENT SECURE Bard actions are favorably known throughout the Piano world. The factory is now busy building player actions for piano manufacturers. These actions will mean yearly contracts which alone will pay all over head and operating expenses and still leave a nominal profit. But our big field lays in the convertible actions —a field without competition. OUR CONDITION The factory building is erected and free of debt. All machinery is in stalled and paid for. There Is no borrowed money—no outstanding notes in the company. With one exception all bills, have been dis counted. There is no indebtedness of any sort with the exception of small current bills. But we need working capital, and here's your II opportunity. The company is now selling 400 shares of stock to create this working capital. Common is at par, SSO. Preferred is at par, SSO. If you've money to invest we can think of no better plan than to talk it over with any of the following officers or directors. They're all men you know— have known for years, and the industry is a Harrlsburg industry, located right before you—always! May we send you our booklet, telling vou of our plan, our plant and our prospects? It will interest you. CHARLES K. BARD SAMUEL S. FACKLER President and General Manager Vice President ALBERT ALLEG DR. THOS. A. THORLEY Treasurer Secretary J. HARRY SHEESLEY Director OR COMMUNICATE DIRECT Charles E. Bard & Co. 921-23-25 HEMLOCK STREET ■ ■ TUESDAY EVENING. .ing limited to a front of about two ! miles between Cumieres and hill No. j 304 west of the Meuse. Berlin views the Verdun operations 1 confidently, pointing to the ground gained in a difficult region and the losses Inflicted on the French. The statement Is made by the Overseas | News Agency of Berlin that since the beginning of the battle more than ! 36,000 French have J>een captured. It ; also is said about 25 square kilometers !of ground has been occupied west of Ithe Meuse. ! With the exception of the Verdun J sector no military operations of par ticular significance are reported from ' any of the battle fronts. The change of seasons is interfering with move i ments on the Russian. Ttalian and Mesopotamian fronts, although on each of these lines there are signs of increasing activity, which is expected to become more pronounced as the Spring advances. Cummins Running Far Ahead in lowa Election By Associated Press i Des Moines. la.. April 11. Senator [Cummins, Republican candidate for the : Presidency, is running far ahead in | the number of votes cast in yesterday's i primary for President Wilson, the ! Democratic candidate, i In some precincts the names of Root, | Roosevelt. Hughes and Sherman had i been inserted in the ballot In place of Cummins. Hughes appeared to be the favorite, and as far as can be learned Sherman got one vote in tiie State. Ei ; mer J. Burkett, of Lincoln. Neb., is be lieved to have polled nearly twice as 1 many votes for the Republican Vice- Presidency as did his opponent, Wil liam Grant Webster, of Chicago. MANY TAKE PART i IN PORCH-WINDOW BOX CAMPAIGN All Sections Represented Among Those Helping Make the City Beautiful Amons the most recent, entrants for place in the Telegraph s Porch and Window Box Campaign are: Dr. H. M. Vastine, 109 Locust street. Mrs. Katherine Wissler, S2B Harris street. Mrs. John H. Olsen. 330 Harris street. H. H. Bair, 1909 Penn street. All of these will place window or porch boxes about their homes. They are only a few of those who have taken up the movement in the past few weeks and every dav sees the number STOW. Mrs. Olsen's letter, accompanying: her entrance blank, is typical of the interest shown. It is as follows: To the Editor of the Telegraph: Enclosed you will And two cou pons filled out for porch boxes. I think it is a fine idea to make the city beautiful in this way. 1 take rnuch Interest in my porch in the summer time and I and my next door neighbor desire to participate. MORE LOCAI, OPTIONIBTB Local option party pre-emption pa pers were filed to-day for the Second Representatives, Thirty-ninth Sena torial and Twenty-seond Congressional districts of Westmoreland county, and for the Twelfth Representative and Twenty-nine Congressional districts of Allegheny. LOCAL OPTION TO BE DISCUSSED Important Conference W T ill Be Addressed by the Gover nor Tomorrow Night The plan and scope of the campaign for the election of members of the next Legislature pledged to local option will be discussed to-morrow evening at a conference to be held in the Commonwealth Hotel, this city, by men identified with the local option movement In Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other cities. J. Denny O'Neil, Dr. George W. Shelton, Dr. H. W. Tope and others will be here and Governor Brumbaugh will make an address. The local option advocates have lately been pre-empting the name and are preparing to make their campaign vigorously in every part of the State. Preliminary work is said to have shown brisk interest in the campaign on the part of businessmen. Edward aanp, of this city, who was elected Republican Jury Commissioner last Fall, to-day filed his papers to run as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Legislature on an avowed local option platform in the Harrisburg city district. Mr. Dapp has been backed by many prominent and influential men. Governor's Record Is Refutation of Charges, Headquarters Say The Brumbaugh headquarters to day gave out a statement in substance as follows: "Good deeds speak loudly for those who perform them, and all the subter fuges in the category of crooked poli tics couldn't wipe out the warm regard that right-minded citizens throughout the State have for Governor Brum baugh. Governor Brumbaugh's rec ord is an open book. To read it is to admire and to strive to emulate him. Moreover, his record as Pennsylvania's Executive is ineffacable. Mud thrown by the opposition spatters into so much ineffective dust." Among the letters endorsing the Brumbaugh candidacy given out by the headquarters to-day are those from F. B. Wonsetler, insurance man, Nor ristown; C. M. Ritner. Carlisle; C. S. Garman. cigar manufacturer, Denver, and C\ A. McAnult.v, Blairsville. The deluge of telegrams and letters con tinues to pour in, says the statement. GOVERNOR GETS BIG OVATION [Continued From First Page.] I mented by the fact tlia* their assess ments- constitute a part of the county ! assessments, and it may well be a I matter of concern for you to determine |to what extent local government should be accorded to these boroughs (to determine their own basis of as sessment, in order that they may pro ■ vide adequate funds to care for their streets, their sewers, their schools, their water supply and the other es sential things that make up a pros perous, healthy community. The Governor said that the various iaspects of the right organization of a 'borough will necessarily be the sub- Iject of detailed discussion by the gath ering," and he asked the delegates to give the new borough code, passed at the last session of the Legislature, a fair trial. Kinally he made a plea that every citizen of every borough in the State stand ready at all times to do his part for the welfare of the com munity when called on for public duty. The big audience cheered the Gover nor to the echo when he concluded. Commissioner Jackson was chair- I man of the session this afternoon and in opening the meeting he spoke of | the work which the Department of j Labor and Industry can do in assisting the boroughs of Pennsylvania. He | urged the co-operation of the boroughs and the department and said that both ! would be benefited as a result. When Governor Brumbaugh con cluded his address, Commissioner Jackson introduced Joseph W. Hunter, tlrst deputy highway commissioner of Pennsylvania, who talked of the re lation of the borough and the highway department and how the highways in Pennsylvania can be improved by both t-ae department and the boroughs working together. I Another speaker at the afternoon i session was Nelson McVicker, mem ber of the Legislature from Allegheny county, who talked on the "Borough Code and What It Means to the Bor ough." Mr. McVicker helped frame the borough code. The last speaker this afternoon was E. A. Welmer, pres ident of the Pennsylvania Building Code Commission. Delegates from boroughs in every part of Pennsylvania registered at the sessions to-day of the fifth annual con vention of the' State Association of Boroughs and it was predicted that by this evening there would be 400 dele gates in attendance. Each borough has sent from one to three delegates to the sessions, which arc being held in the hall of the House of Representa tives. In the Capitol. Members of the association began to arrive last, even ing and when T. F. Chrostwaite, of HARRISBCRG TELEGRAPH SENATE WANTS INVESTIGATION OF STANDARD OIL Adopts Resolution to Have Re sults of Findings Since Dissolution By Associated Press Washington, April 11. Without debate the Senate to-day adopted a resolution by Senator Kenyon. Re publican, directing the Attorney Gen eral if not incompatible with public' interest to submit to the Senate all reports of investigations made by the department inlo the Standard Oil Company since the Supreme Court ' decree of dissolution against that j company and particularly any investi gation in gasoline prices. Dealers Face Bnin Senator Kenyon read to the Senate, resolutions adopted by the Western I Oil Jobbers' Association, at St. Louis, petitioning Congress to supplement the Sherman law to make effective the decree of dissolution against the Standard Oil Company, and declaring It to be the sense of the association that the dissolution decree was a failure. A letter to Senator Kenyon from counsel for the association declared independent oil jobbers of the Mid dle West would be driven out of bus iness and faced financial ruin, unless an end was brought to discriminatory prices of gasoline dictated by the Standard Oil Company. Hanover, president, called the meel .lng to order at 10.45 o'clock this morning the hall was well filled. Sessions will be held tills afternoon, this evening and to-morrow morning and afternoon and the convention will conclude with a reception to the dele gates by Governor Brumbaugh In the Governor's reception room at the Capi tol at 9 o'clock to-morrow night. In opening the convention this morning President Chrostwaite traced the history of community building from the beginning of the world and pointed out how community improve ments and developments run side by side with civilization. He also talked of the conditions of thoroughfares and lighting and sanitation systems in the cities of the ancients and compared them with the systems of the present day. Need for Better System Mr. Chrostwaite spoke of the forma tion of boroughs in Pennsylvania and of the great number of prosperous communities in the State to-day. "The history, growth and development of the boroughs in Pennsylvania," he said, "should make lis conscious of our strength and our possibilities an<i of our needs and necessities. It may be safely said that boroughs have devel oped in this Commonwealth in spite of an obsolete, incomplete, chaotic, cumbersome, inconsistent, incompre hensible system of laws, and surely with out any uniform or organized method of judicial construction. We seek and need no special favors: we are entitled to none: but we do need, should have, can have, and probably will have, that elastic, breathing, self-conforming, un hampered. healthful, easy-to-be-known and quick-to-be-adapted system of government which will give us in Its fullness all our birthright due us through the ages of community bulld ) ing." ' • Population of 2,500,004) Mr. Chrostwaite also gave some In teresting figures pertaining to bor oughs of the state. He said: "The boroughs of this State have a popu lation of close to two and one-half millions. In the last ten years they have gained in population about 46 per cent. This gain is about twice as much as any other class of municipali ties in the State and nearly four times as much as the rural increase in popu lation. There are 50 per cent, more boroughs in the State entitled to be ; cities than there are cities in the State, and the population of the boroughs entitled to be cities is about three fourths the population of the cities of the .third class. Boroughs over 5,000 population have over 300,000 more people than all the cities of the third class. The population of the boroughs is now greater than the whole popu lation of the State when the general borough act or 1851 was passed, yet neither the Constitution nor the Legis lature has seen fit to give these bor oughs the iigiit of local home rule nor has seen fit to pass any broad, gen eral legislation during the past sixty years. The population of the boroughs of Pennsylvania exceed the population of the Stales of Wyoming, North Da kota, South Dakota, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona. Utah, Oregon, New Mexico and Alaska." Offer Resolutions At the conclusion of the opening address the following- resolutions, of fered respectively by John D. Meyer, solicitor of Edge-wood borough, Alle gheny county; G. F. Greine'r, secretary and solicitor of Ridgway, Elk county, and W. W. Hall, solicitor of West Pittston, Luzerne county, were passed: Resolved, That a committee of throe be appointed to submit nomi nations for officers of this association, in accordance with the constitution to be adopted, they to report at a session of the association to be held ooni day afternoon. Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to prepare a constitution for this association, they to report at the session to be held on Wednesday afternoon. Resolved, That a committee on reso lutions. consisting of five members, be appointed, to whom all resolutions shall be referred without debate, they to report at to-morrow afternoon's session, when debate thereon may be had. To-night's Speakers The speakers at the session at 8 o'clock this evening will be J. Elmer Saul, burgess of Norristown; Charles F. Gettemy, director of the Bureau of Statistics of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: A. W. Powell. Auditor General of Pennsylvania, and A. C. Pleydell. secretary of the New York Tax Reform Association. The purpose of the whole conven tion is to bring the boroughs of Penn sylvania in closer contact with each other and secure legislation which will enable them to work on the same basis and assist In their uplift. The call for the convention was issued by Governor Brumbaugh and arrangements for the sessions were made by the Division of Municipal Statistics and Information of the Department of Labor and In dustry. Paul N. Furman, chief of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of the Department of and Industry, was one of the speakers this afternoon and after talking of the work of his division said: "The department is always willing and anxious to take up, investigate and render all helpful and possible aid in the administration of your activi ties, and it is absolutely necessary, In order to do this promptly and effi ciently, to have your co-operation. "The division will be glad to take up with any of the inunicipalilies of the Commonwealth, or their officers, any subject of administration and will fur nish the information just as soon as it can be gathered and properly tabu lated. but this cannot be done without your help," TROOPS BEUEVED TO BE IN BIG BATTLE [Continued From First Page'.] peculiarly difficult 1o operate in any i numbers against Villa in the district! where he is now fleeing. The efficiency of the American troops was highly praised by General Francisco Bertani, the Carranza com-1 mander at Madera, now on a trip to Juarez. He said Colonel Dodd han-I died him when In a masterly way in the Guerrero tight, holding the Villa! bandits long enough to cause them to I waste an Immense amount of ammunl- I tion and then scattering them. The Arrieta brothers are said to be fortifying the c ity of Durango, but for what purpose has not been indicated. I A plot of - wide dimensions, hatched In El Paso and backed by the people who are financing Felix Diaz in a I movement against the de facto gov- j ernment. of Mexico is believed by the ] police to-day to have been unearthed j by the arrest last night of fifteen Mex- j leans accused of being implicated in j the flight across the border of Gen- I eral Ynez Salassar. Agents of the Department of Justice aided the police in making the ar rests. most important of which were General Marcelo Caraveo and Gen eral Ignaclo Morelos Zaragoza, who like Salazar were along the well known and trusted of the late Vlc torlano Huerta lieutenants. The prisoners were questioned for the better part of the night by the police and secret service officials. This story was pieced together from their admissions and the authorities believe they have discovered the essential de tails of the plot. Diaz Backers Dissatisfied The backers of Diaz it Is said be came dissatisfied because his own military reputation was limited and he had no man with his movement In whose generalship the Mexican peo ple had confidence. They were also anxious to reinforce the Diaz cam paign in Southern Mexico by a similar insurrection In the northern part of the republic. A soldier was wanted of ability and Salazar was selected. He was amply supplied with funds and proceeded to organize his followers from El Paso. Emissaries were sent into Mexico to try out the sentiments of various Carranza gar risons and to stir up the people by spreading reports that Carranza was In the pay of the United States and that General Pershing's expeditionary force was really the advance guard of an army of occupation. There has been plenty of evidonce that such re ports have been circulated in Juarez and have caused a considerable Im pression on the peons. Bitterly Opposed to TJ. S. Salazar's plans were not yet ripe when he learned that he was in danger of betrayal. He became alarm ed and fled across the border on Sun day accompanied, it is believed by only a handful of his most trusted adherents. His exact plans at present, as well as his whereabouts, are unknown but the proclamation he left behind him, coupled with statements made by men who had known him well in El Paso, leave little doubt that his attitude to ward the United States is one of determined and bitter hostilities. I.incs Are In Danger Tie is opposed to both Carranza and I Villa, and is expected to attempt to rally the Mexicans on a platform of uncompromising opposition to this ; country with a demand for the im mediate withdrawal of the American 'loops under the penalty of war with Mexico. Dispatches from Columbus which told of extraordinary precautions taken to guard the town last night were accepted here as proof that the American military authorities regard the Salazar move as of grave im portance. No one was willing to ven ture a prediction as to what would result if Saiazar made an attack on the American lines of communication but it was felt that the military pre parations at Columbus showed that the authorities believed such an eventuality was not impossible. Washington Credits Report That Villa Has Succumbed to Rigors of His Flight By Associated Press Washington. April 11. Unofficial and unconfirmed reports that Villa is dead reached the Carranza embassy to-day and were given some degree of credence by officials there. The reports were represented as having come from Queretaro, General Carranza's provisional capital. They were unsubstantiated by the latest dispatches to the War and State Departments. The reports of Villa's recent injury, however, and the rigors of his long and hurried (light in which he has been variously reported as being carried on a litter, on the shoulders of his men or in a carriage over the rough Mexican trails, gave some color' to the possibility that the bandit chieftain may have been un able to survive the hardships of the flight in his disabled condition. Only 1,000 Troops in U. S. Official estimates of the number of troops in Mexico and on the border available for an emergency were given at the War Department to-day Gen eral Scott, chief of staff, announced that 18,565 troops now constitute the border patrol. General Pershing has about 12,000 men in Mexico, including those hold ing his line of communication. How greatly the mobile army has been drawn upon for the Mexican expedition and border service was also disclosed by General Scott, lie esti mated that only four thousand troops remain in the United States, not en gaged on the border. Use "Gold" Grounds Over and Over; Trooper Pays Dollar For Cigaret Pershing's Camp at the Front in Mexico, April 8, by aeroplane and motor truck to Columbus, N. M., April 10. Gold is the word which has been adopted along this front to de scribe coffee. A teaspoon of coffee wljl buy more than a gold coin, and the rich color of the coffee, enhanced by its scarcity, has fixed the nickname firmly for this campaign. An officer at tills camp to-day, deal ing out the day's coffee ration to a sol dier, advised him to save his coffee grounds for second boiling in case of .temporary delay in the arrival of new supply trains. "I save mine," said the officer. "How many times do you use the same grounds?" he was asked. "One set of grounds I used eleven times," he replied. "The last few times I was just drinking suggestion, but it kept me happy." Another officer offered one dollar gold for a cup of well used coffee grounds and his bid was refused. Dollar For Cigaret Tobacco is the only article which has approached coffee in the exag gerated value which this campaign has placed on a few ordinarily common place commodities. One soldier who was "flush" with coffee, sold a tea spoonful for three cigaret papers. Reports coming from the southern area of this front, where the swiftly moving "point" of the American ex pedition is penetrating new territory faster than supplies can be forwarded for the men. to-day brought new high cost of living scales. At a town which two days ago was | the advanced front, but yhich is now APRTL 11, 1916. Easter Needs at After-Easter Prices That's the great, big advantage you enjoy in this Wednesday sale of seasonable merchandise. It's a doubly important occasion, because prices nowadays are going up instead of down. But we bought early at a distinct advantage and we're willing to give you an opportunity to buy the same way. Extra Special Easter Sales — Pretty New Models Il.adies' Trimmed Huts, values up to OQ ami dM fiQ 80.00 and SB.OO each; Our Price Extra Special—l .allies' New Dress (Skirts; newest models; all wool poplins. French plaids, stripes, checks and plain eolors and blatk $4.89, $3.89, $2.89, $2.49 Wednesday Special—Children's New Easter Dresses: if j A(\ pretty style; all sizes up to 15 years; values $2 and $2.50; ea. " 1 .utiles' and Misses' Newest Model Spring Coats; sold elsewhere at SH, $lO and sls; Our Prices $6.89, $5.89, $4.98 Wednesday Morning Special, 10 to 11 A. M. — O 3/. „ 1 Standard Apron (dugham; yard " /4v ■ Children's New White Dresses for Easter; this season's latest I styles at our always IX)WEST PRICKS. 1 .tulles' Newest AH Wool Poplin Tailored Suits; tf? 1 C OQ B s2l) and SB9 value; Easter Sale I "rice wlv.OO Special $2.00 Dress Skirts: all new styles; QQ BHj One Day Only I7OC Wg Wednesday Special—Boys'New Suits, Norfolk styles, 1 QQ H $4.00 values: sizes up to 17 years; Wednesday «DA»S7O I Indies' $1.50 and $2.00 l.ong Kimonos; special CQ I Wednesday Sale OJ/C g Ladies' New Trimmed Hats, worth up to fn jq | $3.50 each; Sale I'rice I 12(vc Fancy Plaid Dress Ginghams: special Ql/ I Wedesday. at O /2C 4j| Children's New Easter Hats; pretty styles; (-j * Q hE $2.00 value, now V 1 .Ttl? KM Girls' Dresses: slz.es up to II years: pretty QQ M styles; now */OC Iffl New Tailored Suits, shepherd checks, serges and poplins; all I the correct styles; prices $8.89. $9.89. $10.89, sll I Extra Special—Nottingham I. ace Curtains, SI.OO -i qq 1 values: special, pair vl."8 n Girls' New Plaid and Fancy Percale Dresses up to a Q 1$ years; Special Price TTI/C I Ijtdles' $3.50 value New Silk mouse Waists: d» | QQ 8 new Spring colors <MI«7O I SMIT H' Si -412 Market Street well to the rear, a man is said to have paid one dollar apiece for ordinary American cigarets. Sugar was ob tained for the relatively low figure of fifty cents a pound gold while soap brocght one dollar and seventy-five cents per cake. Trooper Lives Among: Vlllaistas One negro trooper has discovered that it is not necessary fatal to be left alone in Villa territory. The trooper for some reason, possibly as discipline, was dismounted when on April 1 his command ran into a party of Villa soldiers concealed behind rocks at Aguascalientes. north of Guerrero. When the Villa men opened fire the American troops went at them so fast that the dismounted man was left completely behind. When the chase of the bandits had ended his comrades were literally over the mountain and miles away. The trooper hunted a Mexican farmhouse where he obtained a meal. For two days he lived alone among Mexicans in a community said to be tilled with Villa's friends. On the third days he was picked up by an other command of the negro regiment to which he belonged. Mexico Will Have U. S. Protectorate Is Prediction Sfecial to the Telegraph Washington, April 11. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard University, predicted in an address be fore the Navy League of the United States yesterday afternoon that within five years Mexico will be a depend ency of this country. He said: "I should be willing to risk my reputation, which I have not yet ac quired as a political prophet, by say ing that within five years the so called republic of Mexico will be to the United States in the same status as the republic of Cuba, that is, that it will be an independent republic un der the benevolent superintendence of the United States, that there will be something resembling the Piatt amendment." COUNCIL'S FAULT IF NYMPHS FAIL TO DANCE [Continued From First Page.] man notified the city fathers that the insurance premium on "Chocolate King" Hershey's lovely gift to Hnr risburg expires on April 24. The policy calls for $20,000. Council's "I jit tie Movement" Mr. Neal suggested that the policy be renewed for a year at a cost of $230 and that if the statues were not confined for a whole year, the city could reclaim the difference. Whereupon the Council of Pennsyl vania's City Beautiful" started a modern little dance all its own —it side-stepped. At the suggestion of Commissioner Gorgas the city fathers lay the matter over for a week. In the meantime the commissioners with the possible exception of Messrs. Lynch and Gorgas, were willing to make suggestions as to what should be done about it. And here are some of the chuckled suggestions for sav ing the cost of insurance: Store 'em in one of the new deten tlcn cells at police headquarters. Store 'em a-top of the concrete cover of the Oak Knob reservoir. Stand 'em up at the Twenty-first street entrance to Reservoir until the city can find funds to place the foun tain at the site on the River Front at'ithe foot of Locust street as chosen by the "art commission." Estimates as to the cost of placing the splendid masterpiece of Donato as made by the sculptor himself placed the cost at $4,500. If it cost more than that to erect a permanent foun tain that would add to the beauty of the water front, he promised to un dergo the excess expense himself. But, Council to-day sadly shook Its head and declared that for the life of it, it couldn't see where it could dig up the $4,500. City to Get Hose One Nickel Cheaper; Big Program Today llarrisburv will be required to pay only ninety-tlve cents instead of a. dol lar per foot for the 1,250 feet of fire hose It recently bought from the Ri- Lnteral ('"ire flose Company, accord ing to a -statement City Commissioner K. Z. Gross, superintendent of parka and public property, made to-day in Council. After the contract had been let at the price of a dollar Mr. Gross explained that inquiry had revealed the fact that other cities got the same hose tor ninety-five cents and the agents agreed to sell it for this sum too. E. N. Leho, a well-known contrac tor appealed to Council this morning to pave Nineteenth street from lJcrry to the Philadelphia and Heading Railroad i:' it paved the street at all, and. m anv event not to pave Swutara street as already provided for by ordi nance, hetore it. paved Nineteenth street. Sir. Lynch explained that it. Mil-hi be possible to pave from Dcrry to Swatara but said that there isn't sufficient intersection money available to permit the paving of the whole stretch ol' Nineteenth. Paving bids for Second and Heel streets as awarded by Mr. Lynch to the Central Construction and Supply Company were approved and Council acted similarly 011 the award to the Suidebaker Corporation of America the contract for furnishing a new combination street sweeper and sprinkler. A letter from President Charles P. Meek of the Citizens Fh% Company asking that Council take steps to provide a home for this, one or Ilarrisburg's oldest and most faith !ul firetighting organizations, before their present house in the Capitol Park Extension is taken from tliem, was re ferred to Commissioner Gross. The quarterly report of City Sealer H. I>. Heel showed that 1,139 inspections had been made, 970 seals had been made and 189 weights and measures condemned. Uixty-nlne visits to city markets were made. City Solicitor Seitz was instructed to ask the court to appoint viewers in the opening of Fifth street from Heel's Lane to Wiconlsco. A new ordinance providing SSSO to repair the flood damaged sewer in Xagie street from Race to Front was offered by Mr. Lynch. Because of an error in printing linal action on the measure providing for new detention cells in the police station was post poned r or a week. ASK EMBARGO AGAINST EXPORT OF PAPER [Continued From First Page.] printing out of the domestic, trade that uncertain and prohibitive prices are now the rule. Here are some ex amples: . One of the first elements of news paper printing to feel the pressure of war demands was the metal supply. I-ead is produced chiefly in the United States, but the foreign demand has been far stronger than the domestic market, and lead has jumped from $4.25 per hundred weight before the war to $7.25 this week. The tin used in type metal is to a great extent, under English control, and is exported only with the permis sion of the British Government. In 1914, block tin was quoted In New York at an average price of S4O. To day, limited quantities of the same tin bring $55 in hundred-pound lots. Antimony, the hardening constituent of type metal, is also used in shrap nel and in the asphyxiating gases used by the belligerents. The most care fully smelted varieties of this metal came from Europe before the war, and were quoted at $8 to $9 per hundred weight. The present supply is being Imported from the Far East, because the European metal is unobtainable, and is priced about $44. Stereotype metal, leather belting, printing rollers, «lue, wool blankets, stereotype blankets, gum arable, wrap ping paper, twine, soft coal and every other item are up. Type founders' supplies have advanced twenty per cent, and news ink that sold in 1914 for SBO now costs SIOO. Appoint Committees to Arrange Convention For Sons of Italy In accordance with the action of the State committee of the "Flgli D'ltalia Sons of Italy, at a meeting: held on March.l 9, Guiaeppe Di Silvestire, who presided, has selected a convention committee. The latter will have charge of the arrangements for the convention of the order to be held in Harrisburg May 28-31, at Chest nut street auditorium. The com munity represents the three local lodges, Carlo Alberto, 272, San Michele. 329, Cittadini Ttalo-Ameriean. The committee includes the following: Salvatore Acri. chairman; V. F. Salerno, vice-chairman: Giovanni Aimeno. corresponding secretary: Agostino Branca, financial secretary: Giuseppe Br use la, treasurer: l.uigi l.anzn, Guglielmo Consoli, Michele Cerzullo and Guiseppe Lavla.