Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 11, Hammond, Lake County, 29 June 1906 — Page 2
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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
In Social Circles
Master Robert Mott has Charles Law of Chicago as his guest.
Miss Dorothy Crumpacker is visrelatives in Valparaiso.
Mrs. R. S. Groman is expected home today from South Bend.
Mrs. Ira Dickenson attended a luncheon in Chicago yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Saur are spending the week-end in Dyer.
and a few friends at whist this afterat the Hotel Carleton.
Mrs. Hunt of Franklin, Ky., is visiting Dave Hunt, Will Harringand the Stinsons, who are all relatives of hers in this city.
Mrs. McAleer and Mrs. Shortridge went to Cedar Lake this morning and will be joined by W. J. McAleer and E. L. Shortridge Saturday.
ORTHERN PRISON
State Institution at Michigan City Cares For 785 In-
tent upon harmonizing their acts the exact spirit of the laws, the
ent managers at Michigan City have accomplished all that can be achieved In this branch of their work with the exceedingly meager allowance of
$6,000 which the legislature has plac
ed in their hands for the purpose
YET IS ALMOST SELF SUSTAINING the violations have consisted of
Mrs. Eugene Cooper and baby and Lillian Borman, will go to BloomMich, tomorrow to spend a month with Mrs. Cooper's parents.
Miss Marlon Deming is entertainMiss Josie Porter of Rensselaer.
Misses Ida Erhardt and Lucille Trout spent the day with friends in St. John.
Mrs. M. Ruhstadt and daughter Fannie visited friends in Chicago this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralin and their daughter Mary, are going to OsN. Y., July 1.
A. G. Slocome was in Hammond this morning on his way to Lowell to spend the week-end.
Sister Bartholmew of St. John, was the guest of the Sisters of the local hospital last night.
Bert Scott, 340 Plummer avenue, received word today of the death of his sister in Southern Illionis.
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Mesdames H. F. Meikle and E. A. Mee saw "The Clansman" at Mcyesterday evening.
Miss Frances Hutton will go to Grand Rapids, Mich. Tuesday for a month's visit with her uncle.
Mrs. M. Mahoney returned to Cedar Lake today after spending a few days with her daughter Irene.
W. F. Whinery leaves next Tues
day for El Reno, Oklahoma.
There will be four excursions on
the Monon to Cedar Lake Sunday.
Mr and Mrs. Joseph Scherr of Whiting were in Hammond this morning to be the guest of her son.
Miss Mary Neff went to her home in Warsaw, Ind. this morning to spend the summer with her mother. sisters of the north side school went to the home in Lafaytoday, to spend their vacation.
Mrs. Mary Malo and daughter of Michigan avenue, will leave Sunday for an extended visit in Detroit and Canada.
Mrs. J. W. Sawyer, 46 Clinton street, had the members of the Marquette Club as her guests this afternoon.
The social given by the Deborah society of the Christian church last evening in Harrison park was well attended.
Mesdames W. J. McAleer and E.
L. Shortridge and daughters went
Shortridge and daughters went down to Cedar Lake last evening for a few days visit.
Miss Wood went to Detroit to visit her sister and after a short
stay will leave for her home at Har bor Beach, Mich.
Mrs. Charles Hohman will be
hostess to the Evening Whist club
this evening at her home, 389 South
Hohman street.
Miss Elizabeth Garrison, who has been entertained by Miss Mary lbach
returned to her home in Rushville,
Ill., this morning.
Miss Rose Summers returned to
her home in St. Joe Mo., today. Miss Bertha Maleitzki accompanied her
as far as Chicago.
Mrs. Catherine Ahles returned to
her home in Brunswick after spend
ing a few days at the home of her
son Albert Maack.
Mr. and, Mrs. Hervon and children will leave Saturday morning for Monroe. Mich., where they will
spend the summer.
Miss May Atwood who has been
visiting her sister Mrs. Charles
Sherard, returned to her home in
Lowell this morning.
Mrs. Abe Marks is the guest of friends at Ft. Wayne. Mr. Marks will join her tomorrow. They will return after the Fourth.
Miss Lillian Krinbill went to Cedar Lake this morning to join the teachers of the Oliver Goldsmith school of Chicago at a picnic today.
Miss Anna Stephenson of Ora, Ind.
who has been the guest of her sister
Mrs. W. C. Harrington, went to Chi
cago this afternoon for an extended visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Du Frane with their
son Leon and daughter Ruth and the
baby will take an excursion July 1, to Oswego, N. Y., and other eastern points.
This afternoon Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Paxton and baby and Mrs. Paxton's
mother, Mrs. Cosgrove, went to
Delevan Lake, where Mr. Paxton has rented a cottage for a month.
THE CITY
Mr. McCall, the attorney for the
U. S. Steel Co., was in the city today.
R. L. Miller went to Crown Point
this morning on real estate business.
The master Mason degree will be
conferred upon Karl Griffiin tonight.
The Hammond Saengerbund held
its weekly meeting last evening at
Chopin Hall.
John Elam, ex-revenue collector
and now postmaster of Valparaiso, was in the city yesterday on busi
ness.
Undertaker Chas. Neidow was call
ed to Dalton. today to assist his fa
ther there in the embalming of Mrs
Wichtman.
Warren Smith, at one time the
cashier of the First National bank of
this city, was in the city today meet ing some of his old friends.
Frank Stuart, who was local
freight agent of the Lake Shore railat South Chicago, has accepted
a position with the Indiana Harbor
railroad and will move his family
here.
The students of the local Chicago
Business College are enjoying a ten
days vacation. The school will re
open on July 5 although a number of the students will take up their
work again on the 2nd.
Jesse J. Smith, an old Hammond
resident, has been in the city reold acquaintances. Mr
Smith is in charge of the night trick
of Western Uniion operators in ChiHe has about 150 men under
him.
While Dr. E. F. Fowler of Chicago
was driving from that city to Ham
mond yesterday his horse stumbled
and was severly injured. Dr. J. D
Ebright was called to attend the
animal while Dr. Fowler was com pelled to return on the train.
Miss May Warner, who has been the guest of Miss Ona Smally, 40 Doty street, leaves for her home in Columbus Ind. tomorrow.
Mrs. E. A. Mee is entertaining the members of the Afternoon whist club
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BUY your fire-works at the 5 and
10 cent store.-6-26-lw. Niagara.
It is estimated that the cataract of Niagara is 31,000 years old. The height of the falls was at one period 420 feet. It is now 160 feet.
Instead of Spoils System, Large Exto State, and Brutal Habits of the Past, Reformatory Policies Have Been Adopted, and Businessand Economical Methods Charthe Management. Special Correspondence. With an average daily count of 795 inmates, an average dally disburse
ment for all purposes of $342.15, and
an average daily earning for the state of $149.96, making the average net
(Special Correspondence) Chicago, Ill., June 29, 2 p. m.WHEAT opened firm in sympathy
Of with stronger markets abroad and a
nearly 1,500 men paroled there have firmer tone in the coarse grain mar-
been less than 25 per cent of viola- kets. The advance was of little conand by far the greater part of sequence, however, as it was taken
advantage of to sell wheat. The news from the southwest was of a very bearish character. Predictions of larger returns from the winter wheat belt than any of the crop exerts have as yet estimated was one of the most pronounced influences
inor
infractions of the parole conditions and not new crimes. With a larger appropriation for supervision this showing would be vastly improved, excellent as it now is. Disastrous Fire in 1904. By a disastrous fire occurring Sept 17, 1904, the prison lost three large factory building. and the store-house, together with supplies of all kinds sufficient to last six weeks. It is worthy of note that throughout this trying experience there was not the slightest disorder among the inmates and that a large number of them were
released in the yard to aid in fighting
Grand Vaudeville
and
F
amily Theatre.
H. BROOKS,
Proprietor and Manager
that caused the general selling and resulted in a decline of 2 cents per
bushel in July and 1 1/2 cents in September; also the reports from the spring wheat district were not nearly as gloomy as heretofore. CORN.-The market opened exactive and higher and the
advance was well sustained until the
Week of June 25
The Original
the flames, which they did assiduous- weakness became so apparent in
ly and cheerfully; a thing that would wheat. Then there was a disposi-
Car
cost per man of 24.48 cents per day
for the care and subsistence of the have been wholly impossible under tion to take profits by the early buy
olinian
men and the maintenance, repair and
improvement of the ground and build
ing, the Indiana State Prison at Mich-
gan City may confidently submit to
any examination on the score of econ
omy in management. And when along
with this there is taken into considthe remarkable advance there to be seen in the methods employed for the protection of society against the ravages of crime, there is just and ample ground for profound pride throughout the state.
The figures given are for the period
of two years ending Oct 31, 1904, the date of the latest biennial report of
the institution, and are calculated from the following summary:
Yr. ending Yr. ending Oct. 31, Oct. 31, 1903. 1904.
Disbursements.. $121,604.65 $128,166.47 Earnings 52,259.82 51,089.87
Products of farm 3,094.33 3,031.30
The average dally population in 1903
was 774.58 men; in 1904, 795.35 men.
Small Per Capita Expense.
For each inhabitant of Indiana there
is a yearly outlay of 2 3/4 cents for all the purposes of the state prison; for every $100 of taxable property within the state there is an annual contribu
tion of about half a penny for this in-
stitution, containing 800 convicts, or one for every 3,250 persons in the state.
Remembering that every person is
threatened by crime constantly and that nearly everyone is at some time
made a victim of it in some form, this seems to be an absurdly small price to pay for the work that is accomat Michigan City.
It is gratifying to know that em
inent prison experts from a number
of states and countries agree that the Indiana penitentiary has in recent years risen to the front rank among
penal institutions and has achieved a standard of efficiency that is at this time nowhere surpassed. If a greater proportion of the people would take less interest in the morbid and senaspects of prison life and more in the true purposes for which
penal establishments are maintained, public sentiment would substantially
hasten the approach toward com
pleter protection from criminal enterSensible Policies Adopted.
That so high a degree of efficiency
has been attained concurrently with
the practice of such economy as is exin the foregoing figures is due to the laws and policies inaugurated
and enforced since the administration of state affairs was entrusted to the Republican party by the elections of
1894. The deadly blight of partisan control has been eradicated from the prison by the superior and representaappointments of Governors Mount, Durbin and Hanly under the law re-non-partisan boards. The insentence and parole laws have been administered in a broad
and enlightened spirit for the good
the regime of brutality and favoritism ers. This effort caused a reaction to that once prevailed. about yesterday's figures and closing New Buildings Erected. was rather weak. The news from the At about that time structural de- corn belt was of a character to stimbegan to be manifest in the ulate buying of that cereal, but the
large and practically new building break in wheat was too severs for the
containing the chapel, dining hall and long holders.
kitchen, and these were of such char- OATS.-Oats were again the most
acter as to be beyond remedy. At active feature of the coarser grain
the same time the prison population markets and the same class of buying
had passed the capacity of the insti- was in evidence today as heretofore,
tution and the problem of lodging the but it, like Corn, had to succumb unwas becoming very serious. der the depression of the other mar-
The fire opened the way for im- kets, closing barely steady at about
provements that were much needed,
the lowest prices of the day.
Jubilee
S
ingers
7 People in all 15c = 20c = 25c
and appropriations were granted for the construction of a modern cellchapel, dining hall and kitchen,
Provisions.-Again higher but the edge was taken off the market after
Sept.
Dec. May
Corn. July Sept. Dec. May Oats. July Sept. Dec. May Pork.
83-82 7/8 86 1/4-1/8
High Low 83 81 83 3/8 81 5/8
Closing
J'ne29 J'ne 28
81
81 5/8-3/4 2 3/4 84 3/4a
85 3/8n 87b
52 1/8
52
58 5/8 to 1/4-3/8 52 3/4-7/8 52 1/8
50
50 1/2 50 3/4
49 7/8
49 7/8
52 1/2a 52 1/4b
50 1/8
52 1/2a 52 3/4b 50 3/8a
37 38 3/4-39
40 1/8 39 1/8-1/4 39 3/8-1/2a 39 /8a 37 1/8-1/4 36 1/4 36 1/2a 36 1/8b
37
39 3/4
37
38 3/4
37 1/8-1/4b 36 7/8a 39b 38 1/2b
July 1712a-25b 1715 1700 1700a 1720 Sept. 1685 1687 1670 1670a 1675 Oct. Lard. July 877 882 875-77 875-77 877 Sept. 895-97 900-02 892 892 895a Oct. 895 902 895 895 895b Ribs. July 945 940 940b 932 Sept. 932 940 930 930-32 725 Oct. 910 915 907 907 905
and for other necessary buildings to the opening on account of packers
replace the antiquated structures that selling pork and ribs. The markets were fortunately burned. The work as a whole was a dull affair without is now actively in progress, giving ac- any notable feature. ceptable employment to a large number of convicts, who labor together dly and harmoniously in GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKET
ing" and bloody insurrections that ac- Month Opening Wheat.
July 82 5/8-1/4
same ground half a century ago. The state possesses no edifice erected by free labor that is better in quality or more economical in construction than these. When they are occupied no penal institution in the country will be better housed than the Indiana State Prison. Binder Twine Industry Introduced. The gradual discontinuance of the admittedly fallacious contract labor system in the prison has made room for the introduction during the presyear of new enterprise to be operon state account. This is the binder twine factory, which has been installed and equipped at an investof $31,000, and which requires the labor of seventy-two prisoners through the year. The output, aver8,000 pounds a day, is sold to the farmers of the state at the smalladvance over actual cost that is consistent with safety, allowing the state 50 cents a day for each convict employed. Contract labor has usually
brought 40 to 48 Cents, though one Amer. Sugar
cents. In the manufacture of binding twine there is no difficulty in the matter of quality arising from the fact that the labor is not free, and purchasers get the same quality that they would get from any factory which is one of the points that induced the board of conto select this particular industry. There is no line of industry open to the prison in which there would be so little conflict with existing interand so wide a diffusion of the
benefits. Every farmer uses binder twine and there is no other concern for its manufacture in the state. No other plant can produce the twine at so little actual cost or sell it regularly at so small a margin. The prison will enlarge its facilities as the business grows, and agriculture will reap the profit. The Prison Farm. interests and betterments, af-
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business of the prison has been conducted on business principles by business men. Spoils System Abandoned. By withdrawing the institution from the machinery of politics and establishing it as a business concern with certain objects to accomplish, two purposes of prime importance were effected: The officers found that merit had superseded "pull." The convicts found great benefit in the superior standard of the officers, and they responded gladly in improved discipline within the walls and improved behavior after release. It also resulted that the prison force, when withdrawn from political work and confined to the emfor which the state was paythem, performed a great deal more labor than they had been doing for the institution and a tremendous economy in that respect was the consequence. Reform Features Adopted. The indeterminate sentence and palaws went into operation early in 1897, since which time, as the experihas developed in the hands of competent managers, the theory of these laws has bean amply justified by experience. Under the former system of partisan management they would have been a miserable failure. Hav-
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ABSTRACTORS
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