Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 41, 29 December 1913 — Page 2

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -I I.E G R AM, MONDAY, DEC. 29, 1913 IROAD SUPERVISORS GOVERNOR FERRIS St. Louis Woman Interprets Classic Dances of Old Japan h CHRISTMAS PLAY PLEASKAUDIEHCE St. Andrew's Schoal Entertainment Sunday Night LETTER MAY COST DIPLOMATIC POST SPECIAL AGENT WAS MERELYALUHATiC C. & O. Men Here Have Hearty Laugh Over Fel -low Workmen at Marion. IN DEFIANT MOOD JOBS POLITICS Xew Iaw Provides Election Tells Uncle Sam to Keep Hands Off Calumet Strike Troubles. of Officials But Prescribes No Method. i Was Decided Success.

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Probe Into Panic Which Cost Lives of 72 Women and Children. BIG RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 29. In scholarly language Governor Ferris of Michigan today told the United States government, as represented by Special Investigator John P. Densmore, to mind its own business. Densmore stopped here between trains for a conference with the Michigan executive before going to the copper country to investigate the strike for Secretary of Labor Wilson. "The federal government has no business in the copper country," said Governor Ferris. 'If Michigan were not doing its duty it would be the federal government's duty to step in, but Michigan is doing its duty. There is a grand jury in Houghton right now, from which Mr. Moyer or anybody else can get fair play. Mr. Densmore left immediately after the conference for the north. MANY THRONG INQUEST CALUMET, Mich., Dec. 29 A crowd that filled the Red Junket town hall and theatre building and overflowed into the streets, gathered today to attend the public Inquest into the deaths of seventy-two persons in the Calumet ChrlstmaB eve panic disaster. Coroner Fisher ordered that the crowd be quiet, and threatened with ejection from the hall any one who Interrupted. Several hundred surged about the doors unable to press Inside the building. Tall miners who had gained positions In the door way shouted back to the outsiders what was going on Inside the hull d!ne Trouble was anticipated. Affidavits obtained by the coroner and his deputies give more than a score of different versions of the panic. Several persons who were scheduled to appear as witnesses today had made affidavit that the cry of fire was raised by a man who wore a button of the CitiEens Alliance. Others swore that the man who started the stampede wore no Insignia whatever. The man has been described in sworn statements as wearing a heavy black beard, smooth face except for a mustache, absolutely smooth faced, middle aged, youthful, well dressed, shabbily clothed, sober and intoxicated. Many members of the Citizens Alliance, an organization of business men of the Calumet district who are hostile to the cause of the striking miners, were in the crowd that filled the halls this morning to offer testimony refuting the charge that the panic was planned by the Alliance. Funerals of seven more of the victims were held today. The funeral committee of the Western Federation of Miners directed the burials. ESCAPED CONVICT BURGLARIZES HOL E Eschenf elder Is Returned to Reformatory After TwoDay Freedom. Instead of returning to the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville of his own free will, after escaping to celebrate Christmas, Harry Eschenfelder, sentenced two years ago from the Wayne circuit court, was taken back Sunday by Captain N. A. Warren. The captain captured Eschenfelder while he was attempting to burglarize a house at Salem, Ind. Three charges will be filed against the escaped inmate at the reforma tory. He will be charged with the ' alleged burglary at Salem, the theft of a suit of captain s clothing when he Institution, and being a fugitive. Trains Young Boys. Young Eschenfelder, whose record at the reformatory was good, and who soon would have been eligible for parole, escaped Christmas eve by sliding down a wire from the- second story of the administration building. He left a note saying he wished to spend Christmas outside and would return Friday. While operating in Richmond, Eschenfelder trained a band of young boys whom he took with him looting cars In the Pennsylvania yards. He was caught by Pennsylvania detectives, and convicted on the charge of petit larceny before judge Fox. TUESDAY COTTAGE PRAYER MEETINGS Beginning with tomorrow the cottage prayer meetings In connection with the Honeywell evangelistic campaign will be held lu the morning. The hour will be between 10 and 10:30 o'clock, four mornings each week, viz.: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings. The prayer meeting committee, consisting of all the district overseers. Is asked to meet at the tabernacle for a short conference Wednesday at 3:15 p. m., immediately at the close of the Bible hour. The ministers are urged to be present at this meeting. Places reported In time for press announcement for Tuesday morning's meetings are as follows: Rev. B. E. Parker, 20 S. 14th. Dr. D. W. Stevenson, 408 S. 15th Harriet Moorman, 122 S. 16th. Mr. R. W. Philips, 424 S. 12th. Herbert S. Weed, 308 N. 11th. Mr. McKee, 27 N. 13th. Mrs. Rleker, 1023 N. 11th. Charles E. Bell, SOS National road, West. John Duke, 411 Lincoln. Mrs. Mary Compton, 348 Randolph.

MI8S CLARA BLATTNER. Miss Clara Blattner has the distinction of being the first English- ' speaking woman to interpret the old Japanese classic dances. She recently danced before the Japan Society at the Hotel Astor at New York and her performance was enthusiastically applauded by her oriental audience. All the dances are performed with unusual rigidity, being entirely devoid of the swaying movements of our more modern dances. Miss Blattner with her mother, Mrs. Elise Blattner, spent six years in Japan, studying the language and tho dances. Mrs. Blattner is scheduled to soon deliver a lecture on Japan, with stereoptican Illustrations, before the National Geographical Society In Washington. Special Hearing Set For Bridge Squabble

Board of Works Gives West Side Improvement Association Chance to Present Definite Proposal At Meeting Next Monday. To gtve the West Richmond Improvement association an opportunity to present the board of public works a definite proposition regarding the change in the grade on the Main street hill and the raising of the bridge, action on the proposed paving of Main street from Fourth to Second streets was postponed until Monday morning. Arguing that citizens are losing time and power climing the hill each year, T. C. Hubbard, representing the Improvement association, said the city officials placed in office to do the bidding of the people could raise the bridge in two years, and should do so before going to the expense of paving. He said the citizens were demanding the raising of the bridge and the elimination of the grade. He further contended that a fill from the east end of the bridge to Third street would create 900 feet of property frontage which would be of great value in a few years. Points To Crossing. To provide for the crossing of the C. and O. Hubbard said a regular grade crossing would have to be established. H. R. Robinson, representing the Robinson company, doubted if it were policy to abolish the present overhead crossing and make a grade crossing when under present conditions the people on the streets are safe from the railroad trains. He said in reply to Hubbard's statement that the interurban tracks made the overhead bridge dangerous, that a grade crossing would more than double the danger to children and everyone who crossed the tracks. City cars, intemrbans, wagons, motor cars, and persons on foot, he said would have to stop before crossing the tracks. j Mayor's View. 1 "If you or the West Richmond Improvement association can go before ; the county commissioners and get them to order the Main street bridge raised or replaced with a concrete , structure, I will be in favor of post-1 poning the pavement of the Main street hill." said Mayor Zimmerman, ! explaining his attitude to Mr. Hub-1 bard. "But you cannot get them to do it. It will be fifteen or twenty years be fore any thing is done with the bridge" J the mayor continued. "In the meantime it would be economy to have the i street paved. It is continually washing I out and has to be repaired with mac-; adam several times a year." That the citizens would oppose any attempt to make a grade crossing on i Mam street was the firm conviction of Mayor Zimmerman and members of the board. Charges Pressure. Hubbard chareed that undue influ ence was brought to bear on the coun-

ty commissioners when the bridge was built that It was placed four feet lower than required in the specifications. President Kennepohl of the board of public works who was a member of the committee when the bridge was built said he knew of no such pressure. Should the city decide to change the grade line of the street, both the railroad and the interurban companies would have to conform to the new grade line, was the opinion expressed by City Attorney Bond. Mayor Zimmerman said the intemrbans should never have gone over the bridge, and it was with that understanding that the franchise was granted to the company when John Lontz and Perry Freeman appeared before council asking it. No sooner was the franchise granted than the cars crossed the, bridge, he said. Postponement on the paving was agreed to by the board to give members of the improvement association a chance to appear before the county commissioners and sse what action that body would take on the bridge question. In case the order for the improvement goes through ?3,300 was set as the city's part.

NOTED EVANGELIST IS INPITTSBURGH Billy Sunday Opens Campaign With Tirade on Smoky City Folks. PITTSBURG, Dec. 30. "Come on, you forces of Iniquity in Pittsburg that have made the church a cuspidor and a doormat to wipe your dirty feet on! Come on you traducers! Come on you triple extract of infamy! Come on you assassins of character! Come on you sponsors of harlotry! Come on you defamers of God and enemies of the church! Come on you bull-necked, beetle-browed, hog-jowled, peanutbrained, weasel-eyed, four-flushers, false alarms and excess baggage! "la the name of God I challenge and defy you. It is mighty easy to lie about a man when he isn't on the job. I'm here now for eight weeks. Come on and I'll deliver the goods, express prepaid! "Why, an angel of heaven could not come to Pittsburgh, live for a day with the people you live with and then get back Into heaven without being bathed in lysol, formalin, carbolic acid, ether and bichloride of mercury!" This was the declaration of Rev. Dr. William A. Sunday to 11,000 persons who greeted him in the Bellefield tabernacle. It came at the close of the first of three services which marked the opening of an eight weeks" evangelistic campaign which Mr. Sunday will conduct in this city.

Beautifully portrayed living pictures of the Virgin the Child and Joseph were the features of the taiiVaux which were given after a Christmas play at the St. Andrew's school !at night to a crowded house. The two tableaux entitled, "And there were shepherds," and "Oh, come, all ye faithful." In the St. Andrews school Christmas play, "Santa Claus Expected," the audience was greeted by a chorus of twenty of the school's prettiest little girls and twenty boys, the girls acting as the fairies and the boys as brownies. Costuming and effect were well carried out. Had Special Choir. The thirteen members of t?ie cast taking the principal parts were coached by Prof. Joseph Richter. principal of the t-:chool. The music was played by Miss Elizabeth Kennepohl while a special choir composed of Mrs. Elizabeth Gegan, Miss Leona Bmuing, Miss Bertha Maag, Mrs. James Gates. Joseph Wessel, L'rban Gausepohl and Robert Korves sang during the intermissions. The play opened with a musical number in which the children tell of their plans for receiving Santa Claus. Zilla (Miss Margaret Cutter) and Claude (Olivia Geier), plan to make a street waif, Zo (Rosella Vosemeier) happy at Christmas time and are rewarded by a letter from Santa Claus. Santa's workmen, the brownies, are lost and captured by the boys. They are finally released, Santa appears and the play closes in song by the entire cast, including fairies, brownies and the principles of the play. Miss Eva Aubin, as the Queen, took one of the principal parts and was easily the favorite of the evening. The Cast for the Play. Queen Eva Aubin Boleta Ruby Weishaupt Zilla Margaret Kutter Claude Olivia Geier Dimple Mary Pardieck Verda Mary Winters Olga Mary Hablng Donna Helen Geers Zo Rosella Vosmeier Cupids Virginia Buche, Mildred Bussen Taddy Joseph Grothaus Santa Claus Clarence Geier Musical Numbers. Overture Piano Duet Ring the Bells Chorus Rock-a-bye Baby Dimple Santa! Santa! Claude and Zilla Jolly Boys Are We Boys Who'll Buy My Flowers Zo Santa's Fairies Fairies Santa Is Coming Chorus The Sleigh Ride Chorus Taddy Santa Claus Taddy Parade of the Nations Boys and Brownies 'Tis Almost Time Donna Jingle Go the Bells Chorus Fairest Queen ....Queen and Chorus Happy Christmas ..Boleta and Chorus Bright Stars Verda and Olga I'm Here Again Santa Claus Good Night Chorus

i Board of Works Routine Matter Orders for the paving of two streets were confirmed by the board of public works Monday, and a remonstrance on the paving of North Tenth street was referred to the new council which will hold its first session the evening of January 5. Without protest or remonstrance the board confirmed the resolution to pave East Main street from Twenty-second to the corporation line. The city's part of the improvement was established as $1,000. For the paving in front of Glen Miller park the city will be assessed as any other property owner, in addition to the $1,000. As the remonstrance against the improvement of Neff street from Fort Wayne avenue to Sixth street and North Sixth street to the Pennsylvania tracks was not signed by a resident property holder, the board confirmed the resolution. The city's part was determined as $1,500. The railroad company objected on the grounds that it would interfere with changes at the freight station which were being contemplated. Referred to Council. Fourteen of e'xteen resident property owners remonstrated against the paving of North Tenth street from J to H streets. After establishing $2,400 as the city's part, the board referred the remonstrance to council. An assessment roll on the opening and widening of West Sixth street to the Knollenberg lane was ordered. The board approved the primary assessment roll on the improvement of 6treets in the Reeveston addition. The total cost was $18,121.80, of which the city pays $154.59. Herman Zwicker was relieved of $74.53 on the 8nal hearing of the assessment roll of South Seventh street from J to L. This amount was assessed against Lots 1, 9, 10 and 11, owned by H. H. and Josephine Runge. Mr. Zwicker complained against the high assessment, which in his case amounted to almost $2,000, said that such a course pursued by the board of work would reduce the citisens to beggars instead of making honest taxpayers of them. Widening of North Third street, near D, will occupy the time of the board of public works at a session Wednesday morning. City Engineer Charles has been ordered to present plans for the proposed change. The sentiment of the board is that condemnation proceedings should be instituted against abutting property at once. The board will not meet Thursday, New Year's day, but has set Friday as the day of hearing on the vacation of the alley south of North a street which passes through the property of the Robinson company's plant. The company wishes the alley closed to enlarge its foundry. In the last year 41.620 books were published in Japan, while Germany, the most bookish of European nations, had only 31,281 volumes to her credit.

Auditor Bowtran discovered today that some serious entanslemect are to be expected unlets some imm-dtatv1 ste; s arc taken to straighten out t!i mix up a: inj? from the new law n;atinfr u- t::e flection of township real supervisors. The bill passed by the last legislature pro-, ides that the superv isors shall be elected at the general election in the fall. No provision is made as to how they shall be voted for. Thus thre may be three precincts and several more road districts in a township. These prvcincts and road districts may fall to cotneide. The law does not specify whether the supervisors shall be elected from the township at large, or be the residents of their own districts according to the present custom. Goes into Politics. Then again, by having the supervisors elected at a general election, instead of at a special election, as has been the rule for several yt?ars, the office will be thrown isto politics with which it has never been associated since the organization of the state. Instead of the several candidates gathering at the country school house on the day set for election and announcing their candidacy there and being selected on their merits on their need of the office, they must now secure their party nomination and make the same race for election the same as other office seekers. This will mean that Progressives seeking this office will be compelled to seek the endorsement of a party primary next spring. Auditor Bowman will confer with the attorney general next week on the manner In which the supervisors must be voted for under the provisions of the law.

PLOT TO DYNAMITE IS NOW SUSPECTED SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29. Police today said they had obtained evidence that Charles King, one of the three men arrested on a sailboat laden with explosives and firearms, had a long record as a dynamiter In the east. They said a confession was expected later today from H. G. Hannon, the youngest of the trio, who was carrying an Industrial Workers of the World i card when he was arrested. Joseph Brown, the third prisoner, refused to talk. From the actions of the three men, detectives working on the case 6aid today they were convinced when Hannon confessed he could relate a plot to dynamite the tower which carries the cables which supply San Francisco and other cities on the bay with electric light and power. SHOT BY ACCIDENT WHILE HUNTING; HURTS NOT SERIOUS A wire fence, a loaded shotgun, an accidental discharge, and Herbert Roberts of Boston is in Reid Memorial hospital, where he was taken Saturday afternoon with a load of No. 6 shot in his left hip. Roberts and a friend were hunting a mile east of Boston. Roberts had just crowled I tnrough a wire lence. His companion was following, carrying a gun which was pointed toward Roberts. A wire caught the trigger, discharging the load Into the young man's hip. Attending physicians at the hospital say no serious results are exepected. NEW TRUNK MYSTERY FOR GOTHAM POLICE NEW YORK, Dec. 29. Another trunk mystery confronted the New York police today when the body of a : man, the arms and legs bound with ropes, was found in a trunk in the Bronx on the front porch of a Pitt street home. Neighbors told the authorities that ! the trunk had been dumped from a push cart by two boys. Thousands of excited citizens gathered on the scene and police reserved had to be called out. Apparently the victim had been tortured to death. There were more than a dozen stab wounds in the head, , chest and abdomen. HANS SCHMIDT NOW AWAITING HIS FATE NEW YORK, Dec. 29. Hans Schmidt, confessed slayer of Anna Anmuller, may know his fate before night. When court reconvened today there remained only the summing up of features of the defense and prosecution and the court charge to the jury to complete the case. During the night Schmidt was on the verge of collapse. Judge Olcott for the defense, argued that the prisoner is suffering from an incurable form of dementia praecox and did not know the nature and quality of his act when he murdered Anna Anmuller. TO ATTEND FUNERAL Members of the county council and the board of commissioners are planning to attend the funeral of W. H. Cook in a body. Mr. Cook was a member of the county council. The naming of his succeesor will be the first order of business when the county council ' meets next Saturday. His term of office would have expired next year. IIURTY ASSAILS . POOR COOKING INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29 "Poor cooks are killing people every day," says Dr. J. N. Hurty, state health commissioner. "Bread is a source of a great amount of disease that can be prevented. If the center of the bread that comes to your table will not reduce to crumbs when it is kneaded in the hands, and It it mashes into a solid mass resembling putty and smells sour, beware.",. A , -; , -

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GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS. The nomination of George Fred Williams for the post of United States Minister to Greece has been held up by the committee on foreign relations a a result of the disclosure of a letter written several years ago by Williams to Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, in which Williams called President Wilson's "History of the American People" "a joke." and declared it to be "full of Toryism." WILL SUGGESTION BE MERELY FARCE? Question Whether Charity Board Names Infirmary' Head Problematical. Just what action the board of county commissioners will take on the recommendation of the county Board of Charities in reference to the appointment of a superintendent of the infirmary Is problematical. Most of those familiar with the workings of county politics figure that should the choice of the commissioners be the choice of the charities board, the board will be allowed the privilege of naming the superintendent. Should the selections of the two boards differ, the charities board will not be allowed the privilege of naming the superintendent, it is believed. Learning that the board of charities was to be permitted to recommend an appointment to the commissioners, the county board of education in a special meeting held two weeks ago endeavored to line up behind some candidate for county health officer. The effort was abandoned after It was learned from a county commissioner that the recommendation of the Board of Charities would carry but comparatively little weight when the time came to select a superintendent for the poor farm. Before this information was obtained the county board of education vainly struggled for over an hour to line up for some candidate that would be satisfactory to all. The only thing upon which the members could agree was that some candidate other than Dr. King would be desirable. JAMES PAUL ELOPES Richmond Youth Weds Wealthy Illinois Girl. Palladium Special.1 VALPARAISO, Ind.. Dec. 29. James H. Paul and Georgianna Beatty. the former of Richmond. Ind.. and the latter of Mascouth, 111., both students of Valparaiso university, eloped Saturday to Covington, Ky., where they were married. The absence of the elopers did not become known until this morning, when an investigation revealed the whereabouts of the runaways. The bride is the daughter of the head of the Beatty Lumber and Coal company in the Illinois town, and Is very wealthy. The bride's youthful years, it is said, caused the couple to leave the state. Both expect to complete their college terms. NO DAILY REPORT ON THE FINANCES OF LOCAL REVIVAL Thinking that such action would smack too much of commercialism, the Committee of One Hundred has decided that the amounts of the collections taken at the Honeywell revival services will not be given out from day to day as was originally intended. S. Edgar Nicholson, chairman of the committee, stated today the collection of last night was considered very satisfactory. The attendance he estimated at 3,000. BOBBINS AND BOARD MET SATURDAY EVE Methods of the street department and the new system of accounts conceived by Alfred Bavia formed the v pics of discussion at the Saturday night meeting of Mayor-elect Robbins and members of his beard of public works, C. E. Marlatt, Alfred Bavis and John McMJll. City Attorney Bond also met the new board. No system was adopted the discussion being merely to acquaint the mayor-elect and the board tije w-ork of the street department. FRIENDLESS 3LN REFUSES CHARITY Without friends or relatives to care for him. Charles Nichols has been lying sick at 13 South Sixth street for a week. Efforts of patrolmen to persuade him to go to the hospital were futile, until today. Half paralyzed, he was found in a deplorable condition today according to Patrolmen Vogelsong and Wenger. who took Nichols to Reld Memorial hospital in the city ambulance

Local C. & O. officials are ttV..ir heaving sighs of relief that the rscard the experience which be foil their co-workers at Marion, who were victimized by a lur.atic. who posed as a high oflioial of the company a:nl who almost revolutionized comfany a'fairs in that city and practically ivbuiU the Marion C. & O. ras'enger station before it was ascertained that lie wa an taiposter and also crazy. The action of this lm.tio. wM! ;uite an expanse to the company, were beneficial to it in many respects, and he is being tnioti a popular hero by Marion people for the implements he accomplished at the station According to local C & O. men this lunatic one day recently walked irto the Marion passenger station and presented his card to the ticket agrnt, which set forth the fact that he was a "special agent" of the company. He then ordered all the benches cleaned and varnished and rearranged; he ordered hardwood floors placed In the

waiting room and the toilet room thoroughly cleaned and repaired; he reduced the time engineer waited for orders and straightened out the congested conditions In the railroad yards, and all of his orders were promptly obeyed without question. While he was superintending the work of the carpenters engaged in remodeling the passenger station some one was inspired to question head quarters regarding this "special agent" and learned to his horror that there was no such man on the company's payroll. The police were then notified and the demented "special agent" who had created a new epoch in railroad affairs In Marion was locked up. It Is whispered by local railroaders that this lunatic evn borrowed a dollar off a ticket agent, making him take it out of his own pocket because it was against the rules to loan out the company's money. It Is also whispered that C. & O. men at Marlon are stiU "setting 'em up" to their tormentors. SPRING COOP UPON RAILWAHTRIKERS Telegraphers Find Frisco System Has Provided Telephone Service. ST. LOUIS, Dec 29. Freight and passenger trains on the Frisco railroad system are being operated today by telephone exclusively following the lockout of 400 telegraphers who were threatening to strike, and the removal of telegraph instruments from stations throughout the system. The .'double coup of the railroad's locking lout Its telegraphers and arranging for i telephone service for dispatching trains, dumbfounded the telegraphers. Another conference between the grievance committee and the officials of the railroad was scheduled for today in St. Louis. j The system employs 700 station agents ana ou operators. To prevent possible interference with the wire service, arrangements have been made to place guards along the railroads at Intervals of five miles. An increase In wages had beea demanded. WILSON GETS EGGS BY PARCEL POST PASS CHRISTIAN. MIss Deo. t. ''No admittance to politicians." Is the word that went out of the winter white house today when President Wilson learned that a number of souUiern leaders of his party were planning to interview film on patronage and other questions during bis vacation. Members of his party were told to keep their weather eye open and "shoo" away all visitors of a political tendency. If possible. The president is deeply disappointed because of the continued cold weather. He had to golf under leaden skies today. The president has for breakfast every day the freshest of fresh eggs, which are sent by 'parcel post. DONN ROBERTS GETS A TRIMMING TODAY GREENCASTLE. Dec. 23. James ! L. Randle. of Greencastle, was reelected chairman of the fifth congressional ! Democratic organization over Dona Roberts on the fifth ballot today. Mr. Randle received 72 out of 128. Rob erts got the olId vote of Vigo county. After the convention the Terre Haute crowd marched to the Big Four station headed by the band, which played "Hail. Hall, the gangs all here. What the Hell do we care?" GOTH'-M BANDITS IN DARING RAID TODAY NEW YORK, Dec. 29. Six roask4 motor bandits carried out early today, one of the boldest raids ever perpetrated by automobile bandits In this city. They held up thirty patrons cf ' "Young" Wagner's pool room at Zt i Thompson street, robbed them of 100 In cash and took all the watches, stl"k pins, rings and other Jewelry In sight. Then they dashed out to a high powered automobile and escaped. The robbery took place one block from a police station. ANOTHER BATTLE ON THE BORDER COMING PERFIDIO. Tex., Dec. 29. Scout of the Mexican Federals In Ojiniga reported there today that they had sighted the advance guard of the rebel army marching from Chihuahua. This news was followed by the desertion of the town by the women and children. United States troops are preparing to enforce their order that no Americans must be imperiled by the firing of the two armies.