Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1908 — FIRST LOAD OF ORE [ARTICLE]

FIRST LOAD OF ORE

Reaches the IDocks at tlary, the New Steel Factory Town on Lake Michigan. EVENT IS DULY CELEBRATED John W. Kern the Chief Orator—Steel - Works to Employ 15,000 Men —State News Notes. Gary, Ind., July 24.— With flags flying and convoyed by the United States warship Wolverine, the United States revenue cutter Tuscarora, the Illinois naval reserve ship Dorothea and the United States lighthouse tender Sumac, the E. H. Gary, loaded with 12,000 tons of iron ore from the Lake Superior deposits and a cargo of Industrial and political celebrities, appeared off the new Michigan harbor of Gary, Ind., and" in a short time ent—sit the new deep water Indiana hortoar on the great lakes —the first boat to enter. Saluted as She Entered. As she entered the harbor she was saluted with twenty-one guns fired by each of convoys and when she came toyuock alongside the great unloading bridges of the billion dollar trust's new steel plant she was welcomed in behalf of Indiana by John W. Korn, the Democratic nominee for vice president. The deck of the E. 11. Gary was the scene of a round of Informal “jollies” between Indianians and the political and industrial luminaries, the Indianians congratulating the steel trust representatives on the opening of the new deep water port and its plant on Lake Michigan, and the steel and industrial officials and the Illinois politicians returning the congratulations.

First Ore is Unloaded.

Then the decks were cleared, the hatches were hoisted and the great unloading bridges were put to work. They dipped down into the hold, grab bed up tons of the ore, swung it 100 feet in the air and carried It 000 feet to the furnaces. The tons were whisked through the <ir as though\he big loads, instead of being among the heaviest of ores, were only of feathers.

Will Cover Five Square Miles.

The guests of the day were taken on a hurried inspection of the plant completed up to date. It is only a part of the plant that when completed in two or three years will employ more than 15,000 men and will cover about five square miles. A parade was next organized and proceeded from the steel plant entrance south through Broadway to the Michigan Central tracks, apd then counter marching returned to Sixth avenue, where the speakers were beard. John W. Kern was the principal speaker.

CATCHES A BIG RATTLER Snake Nearly Six Feet Long, Carries Twenty - Seven Buttons and Twenty-One Inch Girth. Nashville, Ind., July 24.—A rattlesanke almost six feet in length, with twenty-six rattles and a button and measuring twenty-one inches around the thickest part of its spotted body, is being exhibited here by Frank Samuels, the ginseng and snake hunter, or Brown county. It is the largest rattler ever captured In Brown county, and according to the rattles, it has entered upon the tweutyseventh year of its life- 'l’he snake was captured near Weed Patch hill. Samuels in his excursions invariably carries a stout forked stick, in the use of which he is an adept, and he found the rattler napping and pinned it down with the forked stick before it had apportunity for resistance.

Unpleasant Reunion Incident. Mount Vernon, Ind., July 24.—At the unveiling of the soldiers' and sailors’ monument here the veterans of the Civil war refused to march in the parade behind the veterans of the Spanish-American war, and formed a parade of their own. Captain Wins ton Menzies, of Mount Vernon, chief marshal of the day—a captain in the Spanish-American war—had in arranging the parade placed the SpanishAmerican war veterans in front of the veterans of the Civil war.

Farmer Killed in a Runaway.

Greencastle, Ind., July 24.—5. C. Allen, farmer, near Cloverdale, this county, was killed in a runaway. He was hauling hay and had three of his children on the wagon with him. The horses became frightened, and in the effort to stop them Allen was run over and almost instantly killed. The children were badly bruised and one had an arm broken.

Sends Chickens to Bryan. Martinsville, Ind., July 24. —Edgar Swain, of this city, shipped a pair of fine Buff Cochin birds to William Jennings Bryan, Democratic candidate for the presidency, sending them by express to Mr. Bryan’s home at Fairview, hear Lincoln, Neb. The cockerel s named ’‘Hoosier” and the pullet “Nebraska.” Old Man with a Bad Temper. Hartford, City, Ind., July 24.—Henry Bolner attacked his twelve-year-old" grandson, Thomas Kegerrels, with a pitchfork, and he might have killed him had not the boy’s father struck Boltier across the arm, knocking the weapon from his hand. Bolner is seventy years old, but is notecsfor a violent temper.