Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 1, Hammond, Lake County, 18 June 1906 — Page 4

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES AN EVENING NEWSPAPER PUBBY THE LAKE COUNTY COMPANY. Terms of Subscription: Yearly $2.50 Half Yearly 1.25 Single Copies 1 cent. Entered at the Hammond, Ind. postoffice as second class matter. Offices in Hammond building, HamInd. Telephone 111. June 18, 1906

ARE there no politically sound, healthy men in Democratic ranks, that the "canned candidate" must be dug up, regenerated through the boric acid-formaldehyde-hot iron treatment and served as pure food on a Presidential platter? PAYMASTERS give us to underthat if putridity permeates packing houses, they find their counterpart in the National currency. One dollar bills are declared so old, worn and filthy that frequently those obliged to stand over them for sevhours are made positively ill by the stench while several have been known to contract blood poisoning by handling them. It is an evil which they assert could be easily remidied, as the President has dicontrol. THE Pope is said to be languishin the Vatican and fretting at his incarceration. As this is the era of progress, why does he not break the barriers like a man; throw open the doors of the Vatican and walk froth in the freedom of Rome? Not only would applause fing from King and peasant, but from the entire world. OUR Navy yard contains $500,000 worth of canned meats and there is $750,000 worth on our warships. Rear Admiral Harris declares the meats were inspected from hoof to can, and there have been no comregarding it in the Navy. So, the papers which announced that, "The Navy may dump meat overhad no more authority for the statement than their own imagOfficials would not dare dump it without explicit orders from Rooevelt. THE utter absence of discriminais the glaring fault of the beef exposure. The loss to cattle raisers nd farmers is beyond estimate, and they are in ferment or discontent, while the banking interests are fearof great damage. Some of the packers are using entire pages of the leading newspapers to express their animosity to the President in open letters, declaring if the vile methare employed in some establishit is only fair that their names should be published so that all may not suffer; that the good and bad may not be indiscriminately juggled together into a nauseating hodgeThey seem to think that the harm done them through some men's corrupt management, is simto punishing the Popes for the crimes or the Caesars. THERE is much food for thought in the statement of Dr. Davis, of Richmond, president of the state board of health, before the State municipal league at Marion WednesThe State of Indiana is doing all it can to preserve the lives of inof prions, asylums, etc., who are of the non-producing class, and is doing all it can to kill the produc ing class-those who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow." He pointed out the fact that the san itary conditions in the prisons and other institutions are so neraly ideal that they may be advertised as health resorts, while factory employes, the women in stores and children in schools are subjects to the depressing influence of bad sanitation. He de clared that the lack of sanitation in for the large proportion of the degeneracy of the race. Gray Matter. THE metoric rise of a man whom we all knew as A. F. Knotts, attor ney and ex-mayor of Hammond, to a position high in the councils of the most gigantic trust of our day demthe fact that ideas have a real commercial value. Corporaions are ready and willing to pay fabulous sums for plain ordi nary "gray matter" if they can get the right kind. The other day Mr. Knotts was ed what in his opinion contribut most to his success. His reply rather surprising. don't suppose I do 75 cents of work a day," said he, "I am or my ideas." further questioning brought fact that Mr. Knotts' sole to observe, evolve ideas and m for execution. teel corporation pays him a year for this and one asks "Does he earn it?"

One illustration will suffice to anthis question. A great quanof water is used to cool the rollin the mills which becomes polwith chemicals and sewage from other sources. It was the origintention to drain this water into the lake through sewers which were to be built for the occasion. But sooner or later on the complaint of the cities which receive their

water supply from Lake Michigan, the government would have comthe Gary plant to tear up and reconstruct the whole drainage sysof the nort h side involving enormous expense. Mr. Knotts saw the danger and suggested that although the mills were located on the lake shore it would be best to incline the sewers from the lake and run them into the river which some day will be drained into the drainage canal. This idea alone probably saved the steel company Mr. Knotts' salary for a year. This is a day when brains are for sale. But according to the employthere is quite a stringency in the market. Between Trains Said the Stork, "Amid riches and pelf, I'm afraid I am laid on the shelf; And with race suicide Where the wealthy abide, I am making a goose of myself." It is said that one woman can drive a man to drink, but ten can't make him sign a pledge! "You seem very much attached to your little toy spaniel." "I am indeed, dear. It will just break my heart when the breed goes out of fashion and I'll have to get rid of him." First He-"When I go to a bur lesque show I feel like the prodigal son. Second He-"How's that." First He-Like the Prod and his fondness for the fatted calf. Where there's a bill there's not always a pay. After an investigation a trustee becomes a trusty. Homewood houses a young lady who has a reputation among her friends as an inveterate practical joker. Now for the practical joker there always comes a day of reckonOne morning one of her gentlemen friends called the Homewood girl over the phone at a time he knew she would be in. A conversation some thing like this ensued: "Is this Mr. Blank's residence?" "Yes. This is Miss Blank speak ing." "I am the telephone inspector and wish to inspect your instrument. Please step to the right and say hello. The girl complied and the bogus inspector said it was very good. "Now please step to the left and say hello." This maneuver was also success ful. "Now step back three steps and call again" said the tormentor. The gile graciously complied. "Now walk around the block three times and see how a practical joke feels." Bang went the receiver, and now Mi Blank is looking for the perHer day of reckoning had come. The story of the smart horse is going the rounds of the papers in Indiana. Vincennes claims to have a horse which chews tobacco. Westhas one that wears pantaloons and a coat. Valparaiso has one that drinks beer. Well Hammond has one that chews tobacco, drinks beer, looks into looking glasses, notices the peekaboo waist and picks its teeth after a meal. This same horse never allowed a democrat to ride it and showed the greatest respect to "Billy" Gostlin. The telephone bell rang in the office of Cotton the house mover. The proprietor responded in per"Hello! Who's this?" asked the voice at the other end. "This is Mr. Cotton. Who's that?" "This is Gary," answered the disvoice. "Is the whole town calling me up?" asked Cotton. "No, returned the positive end of the wire; "Just Knotts-Tom Knotts." "Oh, how do you do?" cried the house mover. "What can I do for you "I want you to send over a lot of jack screws, rollers, timbers and a windlass," answered Knotts. "What do you want to move?" asked Cotton. "About 40 tents" said Knotts, hanging up the receiver.

MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT OF LAKE COUNTY TIMES

MODERN MACHINERY

PERFECTING PRESS THAT WORKS LIKE LIGHTTYPESETTING MACHINES THAT ALMOST TALK FOR THEMSELVES

THE BEST PLANT IN

Ten Thousand Complete Eight Page Papers Printed in One hour. .Sumptuous Quarters and Ample Facilities

In launching the Lake County Times, the Lake County Printing and Publishing Company would call atto the equipment of its esPart of this is its new press. The new machine is a Goss Printing press, built by the Chicago firm of that name. Being a new perfecting press it is able to print from four to eight pages at the rate of 10,000 copies per hour. This mahas been in running order dur ing the past week and the paper has been regularly printed on it. On this page is printed a represenof the machine as it stands in the Times office. The machine, howmust be seen in operation to fully appreciate its fine mechanism and the almost human intelligence with which it does its work.

MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE

Few if any papers published in cities the size of Hammond have such a complete and expensive machine, but the Times recognizes the fact that it will be a pioneer among paof its class in adopting the latest and most progressive machine. Many readers of this paper have already witnessed the working of the press and the mode of stereotypthe forms of type for the press. Process is Interesting. First a matrix is secured from the type which is dryed out in a double steam table carrying a presof 60 pounds of steam. The matrix is then put in a circular cast ing box, with a water back, for the purpose of cooling quickly the plate, and other late improvements, and molten metal is turned into the box. The cast is taken from the box and first passed through what is called a tail cutting machine by which the surplus metal is cut off by a rapidly revolving circular saw. It is then put through a planing machine by which the inside of the circle is made to conform exactly with the cylinder of the press, and with some GOSS

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NORTHERN INDIANA hand chiseling the plate is ready for the press. When the paper consists of eight pages there are eight plates which are clasped to the cylinders of the press, which when in operation, revolve against corresponding cylinders which are covered with rubber and felt blankets. The cylincontaining plates also come in contact at another point with inkrolls which deposit ink upon their surface. The paper from a continous roll, several miles in length, is fed through there receiving cylinders and into the folder which folds the papers and delivers them in the form they are served to customers. When more than four pages are printed additional pages are placed upon the press which corresponds in all respects with what has just been described and a roll of paper is brought into use and the products are brought together before entering the folderand folded into the compaper. Every part of the paper is built in a way to delight the me chanic. The press has demonstrated that it is a complets success. Wanted the Best and Got It. The Goss Printing Press Company within the past few years has taken front rank in the construction of perpresses. The largest press in the world was installed in the ofof the New York Herald by this company in May last, a description of it appearing in the Sunday Herald of May 18. It has a capacity of 150,000 eight page papers an hour, being practically 12 machines in one. The Goss presses are rapidly working their way into the leading newspaper offices of the country and it has been necessary to greotly enlarge the works of the company to meet the deupon them. After a thorough trial the Lake County Printing and Publishing Comis capaable of meeting all re-EIGHT-PAGE NEWSPAPER

quiremems and "standing up" und.

the severest strain to which printi machines can be subjected. This costly ptece of machinery has been installed behind a plate glass window on the ground floor of the Hammond building and can be seen in operation daily. It is in charge of competent mechaics who will be glad to explain its mechanism to all woh seek to be enlightened upon the wonderful progress of this department of newsmaking. Marvelous Linotypes. The Times plant is equally as well supplied with other machinery which corresponds in every way with the big newspaper press. Two Mergenhaler linotypes set the type for the daily edition. They are the most the market today, and enable each operator to do the work of therr typeEvery line of type is cast anew, giving a new clean face of type every day. This is one of the most wonderful machines built, and is well worth the walking down Fayette street where their operation can be seen from the streets since they are standing in front of the big windows in the full light. It would be well worth the while to follow a piece of news from the hands of the writer to the printed paper. The editoria rooms are separate from the mechanical rooms of the plant, and five typewriters make it possible to write every piece of "copy" on a machine . It then goes to the linotype machines and the type goes through the new proof press, and then to the proof reader then to the make-up man, and finally to the steortyping department. From Table to Stereotype. Here a great vat of boiling lead is in readiness. A page of type is put into a steam table and under heavy pressure a perfect proof of the whole page is taken in specially prepared paper. This impression is then fitted in a die and the molten lead poure over it. In less time than it takes to tell it. a full page plate is cast curved to fit the cylinder of the ro tary press. It is clamped in place still so hot from the furnace that the stereotypers must handle it with leather to protect their hands; the word is given and the press begins to toss out the papers all folded for distribution. The whole complicated process has consumed a little over a half hour from the time the last copy comes from the editorial room until the big press is counting off the pa pers. We have made the assertion that the Times is the best equipped news paper plant in Northern Indiana. It also has one of the best equipped job departments in the territory. With a complete new outfit of the latest styles in job and advertising typesetan expert printer in charge of the department we can turn out as handsome work as any shop of its kind. Anything from posters and calling cards to the finest class of wedding stationery or an eighty page book we are able to turn out in the shortest possible time consistent with good results. Job Work Plant the Best. The feature of our job departof which we are most proud, is the Optimus job press. This press will print a sheet 25 inches wide and 38 inches long or a postage stamp an inch square and yet runs so easily that a silver dollar will balance itself on the frame of the press when it is in full motion. This press is especdesigned for half tone and two color work and enables us to put out a class of work we have never been able to handle before. Embossing, steel plate script card printing, as well as the finest class of color work we are putting out, and it is a class of work of which we are not ashamed. Now that we have installed linomachines we are ready to turn out piece work for other shops and we are already assured of plenty of this class of work. For the longer runs in our job department of 50,000 and 100,000 runs we have put in a flat stereotyping outfit, which will make a cast of any piece of job work from a card to a full page bill. By this we mean to save the wear on our new type faces, and thus always give our patrons work which has not been blurred by old worn out type. PRESS

President Admits Error in One Assertion About the Beef Inspection Bill MAIN CONTENTION REASSERTED Court Provision Must Come Out, He Says, or the Bill Will He a Failure Declines to Discuss the Charge of Iiupunging the Committee and Take Another Slap at Judge Humhprey. Washington, June I8.-Another chapter has been written in the controversy between the president and Chairman Wadsworth, chairman of the house agricultural committee, in the reply of the president to the letter Wadsworth wrote him on the beef inspection bill. The reply is as caustic as th president's first letter to Wadsworth and is as follows: Acknowledge One Error. "My Dear Mr. Wadsworth-In the first place, I wish promptly to acknowledge the one portion of your let ter in which you are, in the main, right. I was in error in the statement, which I accepted from Senator Beveridge. that there was no provision for making the plants accessible at all hours to the inspectors. The provision was put in in another place; but it is not as good as the original provision. The court provision is the one to which I most object: although by no means the only one to which I object: it is one of many. As regards this, I wish to repeat that if deliberately designed to prevent the remedying of the evils complained of, this is the exact provision which the friends of the packand the packers themselves would have provided. Court Provision Not Needed, "It is absurd to assert that any such provision is needed. Why have you not put such a provision in the postlaw as it affects fraud orders; in the law as it affect fraudulent entries of homesteads, etc.? Congress cannot take away the constitutional rights of the packers, or of any one else, to the protection of the courts. But such a provision as that under consideration does not represent a desire to secure the constitutional rights of any man. It represents doubtless, in some cases, an honest though wholly mistaken conin other cases it represents a deliberate purpose to interfere with efadminstratlon by trying to prothat the courts shall in reality do. administrative work which they would be the first to assert their into perform. Objects to Reference to a Judge. "If the bill as you reported it from the committee were enacted into law, you would have the functions of the secretary of agriculture narrowly limit ed so as to be purely ministerial. When he declared a given slaughter house insanitary, or a given product unwhole some, acting on the judgment of the government experts, you would put on the judge, who had no knowledge what ever of the conditions, the burden of stating whether or not the secretary was right. SLAP AT JUDGE HUMPHREY Court Provision Would Nullify the Benefits of the Bill. "In Chicago, for instance, you would make any judge whom the packchose to designate, and not the exof the department of agriculture, the man te decide on any question of any kind which the packers thought it worth while to dispute. (You may possibly remember the recent judicial decision in Chicago, in which the packwere concerned.) I wish to repeat that this provision is, in my judgment, one which, if enacted into law, will nullify the major part of the good which can be expected from the enactof this law. "You assert that the packers insist upon having a rigid inspection law passed. If they sincerely desire a rigid inspection law they will insist upon this provision being taken out. Leavit in is incompatible with securing a properly efficient law. "To so much of your letter as speaks of my having made inuendos about a committee of the house, or of your knowledge of the English language, etc., it is not necessary to make any answer. "You state that if I or my adviser will point out specifically wherein the bill fails to accomplish my purpose, 'it will be promptly remedied.' I am hapto tell you that I have today seen a member of your committee, Mr. Adseeing him by request of the speaker. I went over with him towith Mr. McCabe and Mr. Reynthe various points in which the bill as you have reported it fails to accomplish our purpose and made the specific recommendations necessary in each case to remedy the failure, and in each case Mr. Adams stated that he personally would accept the alterations we proposed. "He agrees with me that the court review proposition should be excluded. He agrees as to the dozen other changes which we think should be made. If these changes,which Mr.Adams says he thinks should be adopted, are adopted, your amendment will become as good, as the Beveridge amendment-in Mr. McCabe's opinion, somewhat better

I care not a whit for the language of the amendment. What I am con cerned with is to have it accomplish the object I have in view, namely, a thorough and rigid, and not a sham, inspection. In my judgnunt the amendas reported by you fails to aethis object; whereas the Bevamendment, and the house amendment with the changes which Mr. Adams has stated he will gladly accept, both substantially accomplish the purpose I have in view. I will gladly accept either, or accept any alof either or of both which will accomplish this end. Yours truly, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." ADAMS OF WISCONSIN BUSY He Tells His Colleagues the Presi-Views-Beveridge Talks Washington, June 18.-Members of the house committee on agriculture, inAdams of Wisconsin, assisted by several officials of the department of agriculture, devoted some time to a discussion of various features of the amendments proposed by the house committee to which the president ha pointed out his objections. Adams, who was at the White House Friday, and was made acquainted with the president's views, explained them in detail to his colleagues on the comA suggested amendment which Adsays emanated from the departof agriculture officials, and which it is said is favorably considered by the president, has been brought for ward to eliminate the objections set out by the president to the court review proposed. This new proposition is designed to give the secretary of agrithe final control of the situaso far as the question of the fitof the slaughtered animals for human food is concerned, by the inof the following clause in th paragraph of the amendment relating to the inspection and condemnation at the post-mortem examination of such animals: "Which, in the judgment of the secretary of agriculture, are unsound, ununwholesome and unfit for human fond." This clause is suggestto take the place of the word "found to be unsound, unhealthful," etc. The proposed amendment is exto meet with opposition from the packing interests, who object to delegating such final authority to th department officials. ; Senator Beveridge says that in hi opinion "the Wadsworth substitute does make the omission referred to. [Omission as to night inspection.] It provides, to use its exact language: 'An examination and inspection of all meat food products; * * * and for the purposes of such examination and inspections said inspectors shall have access at all times to every part of said establishment.' The Wadsworth subdoes not permit inspectors in the packing house for any other purHe says that the lack of specify"night" in the bill is not comfor by the words "at all times." FREDDIE MUTH NOT FOUND Philadelphia Boy. Who Was KidStill Missing-Police Say They Know the Kidnapers. Philadelphia, June 18.-Freddie Muth, the 7-year-old boy who wa lured from school and kidnaped last week has not yet been found, and nothing has developed in the case to lead to the whereabouts of the child or his captor. The police still mainthey know who abducted the boy and that they are on his trail. Special services were held yesterday at the Sunday school attended by Fredand reference was made to it by the pastor at the church services. Hunof curious persons visited the scene of the kidnaping, which has crethe greatest of interest. The continued strain on the parents, who moexpect their child to b brought home by the police, is most severe. Mrs. Muth is under a physicare. Miss Rogers Was Godmother. Chicago, June 18.-The steamer HenH. Rogers was launched at South Chicago, Miss Marian Rogers, niece of the Standard Oil vice president, breakthe bottle of wine on the bow of the craft. The Rogers is 600 feet long, and is the largest on the lakes. Thrown from a Burro Killed. Colorado Springs, Colo., June 18. John T. Baldwin, the 18-year-old son of C. A. Baldwin, a millionaire of this city and San Francisco, was killed in North Cheyenne canon near this city. He was thrown from a burro and bis kull fractured. BUMPING THE BUMPS Clayton Root, Veru Parry, and Sherriff Douherty came over from Crown Point this morning in G. J. Clarks "Stoddard Dayton. They report the roads very rough in places and at the eight mile gait they were running the vibrations they received were exhilibrating to say the least. Efforts will be made by the conthe county commissioners to make many needed repairs bethere and Hessville.

Farmer-"How do you like the country?" Summer Boarder-"First rate. All it lacks is asphalt paving, electric lights, saloons, theatres, bowling alleys and a subway to be an ideal place to live in."