Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 126, Hammond, Lake County, 13 November 1906 — Page 1

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TOT YOL. 1, NO. 126. NIGHT HI6HER LIF Office Ssekers Overwhelm Chief, Causing Woes of Ward Politician. BIOIISJS SHARE Board Vacancies To Ee Filled Now That Election Is Over ' Other Appointments. Special to Lake County Time. Indianapolis, Nov. 13. Election over, there Is no cessation to the strenuosity for the chief executive of the state. Now; it is seekers after office. There are vacancies on state boards, police boards different commissions of various kinds that have been open for some time. The governor postponed his appointments until after election and the result is that he is leading the life of a ward politician placing his patronage. Hammond comes in for a share in the distribution as a vacancy exists Jn Its police board, and another will be created Jan. 1. In fact, vacancies either do exist or will soon be made in each of the fourteen cities that have the metropolitan police boards. These cities are Anderson, Elwood, Elkhart, Hammond, Jeffersonvllle, Kokomo, Lafayette, Logansport, Marion, Michigan City, Muncle, New Albany, Rich mond and Vincennes. The five citie in which vacancies now exist, includ' Elkhart, Hammond, Marion, Richmond, and Vincennes. In each of the latter cases it means two appointments, one for the present vacancy and the other to take the place that is to be vacated by the expiration of an incumbent's term. The 'present police board of Hammond is made up of George Plerson and J. J...Ruff, and the retired member is T. E. Knotts. It i expected that a successor to the latter may be appointed at any time. This expectation exists in the cases of the vacancies in the other four cities. No word concerning any of them has been given out from the governor's office as yet, though it is known that there have been many applications for each of the places for some weeks. A city Judge is to be appointed at Jeffersonvllle, too. riaces on the different boards are to be filled, too. Jan. 1, 1907, another member will bo appointed on the board of control of the Indiana Institute for the blind; the Indiana school for the deaf; the centra!, southern and northern hospitals for the insane, and two on the board of the eastern hospital, one vacancy existing now. There is one vacancy on the state board for the examination and registration of nurses; two vacancies on the state pharmacy board. Jan. 1 one member is to be chosen for the board of trustees for the state prison and one for Purdue university. Feb. 13, 1907 the commission of the present commissioner of fish and game, Z. T. Sweeney, runs out, and either he will be reappointed or his successor chosen the former, so far as any information is obtainable. On Feb. 25. 1907, there will be an appointment made on the board of the state soldiers home. Later in the spring appointments will have to be made on the state board of charities; the boys school board; the chief of the department of I inspection; the state board of medical registration and examination; one member of the railroad commission; one trustee for the soldiers and sailors' orphans' home, and two members of the board of trustees for the woman's prison. The republican member of the state board of tax commissioners will be chosen March 15, 1907, too. In addition to the above three trus tees will have to be chosen for the new industrial school for girls, as soon as the institution is ready. The buildings arc about ready now, and these ap pointments may be expected any time Hammond may be represented in some of the foregoing appointments but, of course, this is all specuatlon. WHITE FISH FAST DIX UEASI G. Detroit. Mich.. Nov. 12. That the white fish of the great lakes are pass ing as rapidly from existence as did " the millions of bisons which at one time swarmed the American prairies Is an undisputable fact, and with the realization that with the departure of the whitefish Industry the United States government loses one of Its most re munerative Industries, and also one of the most valuable food products on 1 the market, it is strongly urged that some remedy ho adopted at once. A man prominently connected with one of the government first hatcheries and who is well informed on the ques tion of fish culture and propagation. cays that the one and only successful remedy is to promptly increase the ca pacity of th various hatcheries. "The government should be willing to expend tan times the amount of money it now does on the propagation of the whitefish," said the hatchery man, "because the whitefish is the - most valuable fresh water fish known, and even exceeds the value of salmon J50 per ton in the eastern markets while considerable more is paid out yearly for the Pacific coast hatcheries,

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EDITION. Coroner Will Make Effort to Fix Blame for the B. & 0. Wreck. 10 CALLGHAMD JURY OSicials May Have To Answer Before Special Eody For Criminal Negligence. Special to Lake County Times. Valparaiso, Nov. 13. While the debris is being cleared away at Woodville where the B. & O. wreck occurred yesterday morning, J. C. Carson, of Valparaiso, coroner of Porter county, is marshalling his witnesses and gathering evidence for the inquest. This, however, may not begin until Thursday. An attempt will be made to fix the blame for the catastrophe and it is more than likely that one or more ofiicials and employes will have to appear before the grand jury and show cause why they should not be indicted lor criminal negligence. Coroner Carson expressed a determination to make the inquest a thorough one In order to fix the blame. He will insist on having every member of the train crew, especially of the first section of the immigrant train, present and if necessary will arrest them in order to Insure their attendance. The blame thus far seemingly falls on the crew of the first section, they naving failed to display the proper lights as they passed the eastbound freight train which stood in the sidetrack at "Woodville. The first section should - have displayed green lights in order to show that a second .train . was following closely and it should have also given the proper signal when it passed the freight. The lack of care and energy display ed by the officials of the road In prosecuting the search for the missing yes terday was a matter of criticism. It was declared that the hired crew of searchers stopped work at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon despite the fact that the number of missing was still large. Crowds of thieves, vandals and relic hunters prowled over the wreckage until late in the evening, picking up watches, rings and money, and occa sionally turning over the bones of the victims in their eagerness to find valuables. Later residents of Valparaiso, eight miles distant, volunteered to keep guard over the wreckage until midnight. Mary Semianas, who came from Poland with her three children to meet her husband, a laborer at Indiana Harbor, was pitched through a window, but climbed back to rescue her children. At the hospital it was found that none was injured seriously. The stories told by the sufferers were graphic in all the simple force of the untutored thought. There was scarcely a family in all that old world gathering that had not a death to report and a sudden ending to the dreams of years. All had relatives In or near Chicago who had sent for them to share the bounty of the great America, A 14-year-old boy, Alexander Naruslewicz, who had gone to Poland for Ids mother, and was bringing her and his sister to the home he had prepared at 147 Henry street, told this story while lying on a hospital cot: "We weie all asleep in the bunk, when suddenly all the seats began to pile on top of us, and the people began to cry and scream. I was caught, hut I managed to pull my feet from under the seats and then I began to dig for my mother and sister, who were bur ied. I could not get them before the fire came, and I stood there and saw them burn to death." The boy himself had a scalp wound and a broken ankle. Three children journeying from Russia alone to the home of an elder brother at 6t Hastings street escaped with slight injuries. They were Mary, Fanny and Jacob Lewin, tneir ages running from 7 to 14 years, and they an naa oeen tagged cy ineir uncle in Kief and sent out of the dangers of Russia. They became separated dur ing the wreck, and met again in the hospital to rind each had a small in jury. .Some excitement was caused by the report mat railroad attorneys were circulating among the injured getting statements signed. The members of the Polish National alliance gave out orders to the immigrants not to sign any papers and intimated that cqlective suits would be brought agairSt the company. LIST OF THE KNOWN DEAD INJURED IN B. & 0. WRECK. Many of the Dead Could Not Be Identified Iajured Are in Mercy Hospital. THE KNOWN HEAD. AELONIA, MIZA, IS years old. bound from Vienna to South Chicago. CILLERS, ALBERT, 25 years old, fireman of pai. :nger train; crushed to

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death under engine; body taken to residence at Garrett, Ind. IXGUKED, MRS. S., and two children. MUSK, ALEXANDER, 5 years, Utica, N. Y.; fatally burned. ', MUSK, .ANNA, 5 months old. MUSK? MRS. CATHERINE, years old, Utica, N. Y. RABIFAMKKKA, AARON, 9 years. RAB1FA.MKEKA, MRS, CUR A. RABIFANIKEKA, JOVA, 2-years. RARINOVITCII, MRS. IL, ticketed from Russia to 469 South Morgan street from Kels, Poland; killed in wreck la i i .' Continued on rage 6, Third Column. GOVERNOR SUPPOSED TO FA VOR CONDO FOR SPEAKERSHIP If Representative In Successful In Ilia Rave for This Honor, Abolishment of Capital Punishment May be Looked For. (Special to Lake County Times.) Indianapolis, Nov. 13. The selection of Representative Gus Condo as one of the members of the legislative committee shows up the mind of the governor upon the question of speakership of the house. He Is putting in his plug for Condo, and unless all signs fall In off years, Condo will be successful in his race. The last three speakers of the house have been members of the legislative committee, whose duty it is to investigate the needs of the various state departments and offices. Samuel Artman, Henry Marshal and Sydney Cantwell were all appointed on this committee and all were successful in their race for speakership. Not only did they have a better opportunity in this way of becoming acquainted with the members of the house, but they had the opportunity of sizing up general Institutional conditions in such a way as to enable them to act more intelligently on them. This in itself gives such a candidate a certain prestige. The abolishment of capital punishment may be looked for if Condo is chosen. He Is an earnest supporter of the abolishment of capital punishment and his position in the chair of the house, coupled with the Influence of the governor, who is known to be hostile to capital punishment, will probably be sufficient to push through such a bill in the legislature. " LOST PARADISE " PLEASES. Stock Company at Towle's Presents Old Drama to Good-Sized Audience. The Imperial stock company opened a week's engagement at the Towle opera house last night, presenting "The Lost Paradise" to an enthusiastic audience, and play and players gave more than ordinarily good satisfaction to all present. The attraction is a new one to our theater patrons, but if last night's production can be accepted as a criterion, the attendance will be large every night. The attention to detail and the scenic effects caused much favorable comment. Pleasing specialties between the acts enlivened the waits, and were introduced by Solora; Craine, Long and Craine, and the Meltottes. "The Christian" Is announced for tonight, and being Its premier presentation in Hammond at popular prices it should fill the house. The company carries all the scenery to mount and produce it adequately, and a performance above the average is promised. The Imperial Stock company will have an amateur night on Friday night immediately after the performance of "Wormwood," which will be the play on that night. The contest is open to all local amateurs doing a specialty of any nature, and prizes will be awarded to the mcst successful. THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight, with minimum temperature near the freezing; point. Wednesday, rata r suw.

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Chicago, Xov. 13.- A rear-end collision between a heavy stock train and a through New York Lake ' Shore & .Michigan Southern passenger train at the Thirty-first street station early this morning threw hundreds of passenger Into n panic and caused slight injury to many. The heavy stock train engine crashed through the rear end of a Pullman car ns It were an egg shell. No lives were lost because no passengers were In (be last conch. The engineer, S." M. Lucas, and the fireman, George Brown, escaped by jumping as the engine went through the Pullman sleeper, totally wrecking it. The passenger train, It was reported to the police, drew up at the Thirtyfirst street station southbound at 7:05. The freight train was coming from the south at a high rate of speed. When it got near the passenger train Engineer Lucas saw he was running on the same track as the through train. He reversed his lever and threw on the air brakes. When the passengers felt the shock and heard the grinding of steel and iron on wood they became panic-stricken. Many were hurt In attempting to escape from the cars, their fears being Increased by the remembrance of the accident on the Baltimore & Ohio at Woodville.

Qulncy, 111., Nov. 13. The authorities today closed on alleged "baby farm" from which babies had been sold, It Is charged, for from twenty-five cents to two dollars each. James Faulkner and his wife, who, it Is alleged, peddled the babies, were arrested. The raid on the place followed an expose by a Chicago paper, which has led to an awakening to the evils of the traffic In babies In and about Chicago. Some of the startling facts declared to have been revealed by the Investigation, conducted by a minister, who is chairman of the State Board of Charity, sayt "Women have been given babies and then presented with fraudulent adoption papers, which they believed bound them to care for the babies. "Infants, while but a few hours old, were taken from the farm and peddled. "One child was taken on the street In a market basket and given away a few hours after It was born." .

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tion of the case. Faulkner and his wife are still in jail In default of bonds. Mrs. Inman, also charged with being a "peddler" of babies, was released on

bonds. The ease is to be heard within The case which first attracted the nf n infant for two dollars. ine mother.

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imprisoned for thirty days. CONTRIVANCE FOR CLEANING TIRE CHANNELS INVENTED. La Porttas Will Manufacture Machine for aMrket Makes Tire -Setting Easy. La Porte, Ind., Nov. 13. William C. Wegner, the well-known wagon maker, has just invented and has applied for letters patent on a mechanism that will reduce the labor attendant upon the re-tlring of rubber wheels on vehicles and will, therefore, reduce the cost of suGh re-tiring. , Until Mr. Wegner invented this little machine, which he calls the "Lightning Time Channel Cleaner," it was necessary for a man to spend several hours In removing the old rubber tire from a wheel, before the new one could be put on. Watsr and dirt works Into the groove, It rusts and clogs up, with the result that this cleaning of the channel is a siaw and tedious process, every wagon and carriage plant in

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Sheets have been leaders In the prosecu a lew days. attention of the authorities was the sale naoy was recoverea ana returned to its the United States the band process was used, in fact, is being used now, and so it remained for Mr. Wegner to study out this little machine which does the work now In less than one minute much better than it could formerly be done in two hours. The wheel Is clamped Into a rack and the little con trivance rastened into the cleaner, whereupon the wheel is given two or three revolutions and the old rubber, dirt and rust is removed in a hurry, leaving the channel nice and clean for the new tire. Mr. Wegner's application for patents on the contrivance has brought it to the attention of manufacturers and others, with the result that they realiz ed at once the practicability of the thing. In consequence Mr. Wegner has had offers to purchase the patents at good-sized amounts and offers to con tract ror his entire output Mr. "Wegner has made no deals as yet, but he will undoubtedly take up the manu facture of the little machine himself then place it oa the market.

nun nrmmi mm nojiu THE SUFFER Solution of Drainage Problem Holds Blow for the Calumet District. EXPLAINED Concerted Effort To Limit Flow Into Big Canal at Expense of Calumet Waterway. John Callan O'Laughlln of the Chicago Tribune has an article In this morning's issue that Is of great interest and consequence to the people of the whole Calumet region in that It points to the fact that a concerted effort Is being made to limit the flow of water In the drainage canal to 10,000 gallons per second at the expense of the Calumet auxiliary, which was intended to drain oil the sewage of the whole Calumet region in Indiana. Some time ago The Lake Countt Time? printed a story which originated In the engineering department of the Chicago drainage board in which it was stated that the engineers had definitely decided to build the Calumet auxiliary, and pointed to the fact that although the construction would extend only to the forks of the Calumet river, it would drain the slimy, foulsmelling stream In Hammond as effectively as if the engineers had constructed the canaL clear to this city. It was also shown that the construction of this canal would some day lead rto the building of one of the greatest systems of "lake to river" harbors that the world has even seen and would be of incalculable benefit to East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Gary as well as Hammond. Mr. O'Laughlin states that in an in terview with a member of the international .waterway commission there were matters of the greatest interest expounded and part of this interview follows; " The people of Chicago," he said, ' must not believe for a moment that the commission has any idea of imperiling their health. The two im portant points it is considering are the health of the people living on the border of the great . lakes and navigation. " The government of the United States is back of Chicago. It never gave formal approval to the drainage scheme, but it never protested against it. The lake navigation interests ap preciated the necessity of Chicago taking measures for the protection of Its health and raised no objection. But the latter interests have become uneasy. The abstraction of 10,000 cubic feet of water per second which the commission in its first report allowed, will reduce the level of the lake six inches. If a greater quantity be ab stracted the level will be lowered still more." Opposes Calnmet Canal. The commission is opposed to the project to connect the Calumet river with the drainage canal, basing Its ob jection not only upon the effect upon the great lakes but upon its view that the scheme will not prove advantag eous to Chicago and will create dim- i cultles with the state of Indiana. In order to have a continuous flow of water at all seasons of the year It Is estimated that it is necessary for the Chicago river to take out 10,000 cubic feet of water per second and the Calu met river 12,500 cubic feet per second. The dimensions of the Chicago drainage canal were fixed by this esti mate. The plan for the extension of the system which has been adopted contemplates making the Calumet a tributary to the drainage canal and drawing from it 4,000 cubic feet per second, this amount being the difference between the flow of the Chicago river and the capacity of the canal. Attention is called, however, to the probability that any water from the Calumet, with its flow of 12,500 cubic feet, will check the flow from the Chicago river. This would result, it is claimed, in the failure of the whole system. Think Ten Thousand Feet Enough. The commission says it was not de sign but accident which gave the drainage canal a capacity of 14,000 cu bic feet per second; that as originally planned its capacity was to be only 10,000 cubic feet. 10,000 cubic feet is regarded as sufficient, and there is no good reason in the Judgment of the commission for the proposed ex tension. This is assuming that there is another way to prevent the pollu tlon of the lake. It is the opinion of expert sanitary engineers, whose ad vice has been obtained by the commis sion, that there are other ways, and It is Insisted that one of these must be adopted, for Chicago cannot hope to obtain the co-operation of the state of Indiana regarding the disposition of the waters of the Calumet. So far as concerns the present drainage canal Brigadier General Ernst, chairmen of the American representatives on the commission will insist that every inch of water up to 10,000 cubic feet be allowed. But another question presents itself with respect to the canal extension to the Calumet.

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Max Crawford of Hammond Victim of Collinwood Explosion FATHER HEARS HEWS Former Electrician and Policeman One of Six Victims in Lake Shore Shops. Max Crawford, formerly of Hammond, was scalded to death yesterday as the result of a boiler explosion in the shops of the Lake Shore Railroad company, at Collinwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. H. B. Crawford, father of the dead man, received a telegram last night Informing him of the fact, and the morning papers give particulars of the accident without mentioning names. . Mr. Crawford was one of six victims. The men were working close to the boiler, building the foundation for a dynamo, when the explosion occurred. They were all In the mouth of a sub way facing the end which blew out of the boiler, and those killed were scalded to death by the immense volume of steam which shot out. Engineers at the power house say the explosion was due to the formation of a "mud ring" in the filtering apparatus which clarifies the water before Its passage into the boiler. The shock of the explosion was felt for two miles. Max Crawford was forty years old, and he leaves a wife and two boys, both under four. He was an electrician, and left Hammond three years ago to take the position which he held until he was killed. H. B. Crawford came here twenty years ago, and Max karned his trade in Hammond. : At one time he was a member of the police force. His mother and his sister, Mrs. D. W. McGrath, left on the receipt of the telegram for Collinwood, and will be with the widow and children at the funeral. The elder Mr. Crawford did not know this morning whether the remains would be brought to Hammond or be burled at Collinwood. Mrs. McGrath's husband is on the road most of the time, and she makes her home with her father and moth"' at 200 Ann street. SEWEil CLOSED AGAIN. A report comes from the Lake Front Park that the sewer there emptying into Lake Michigan is again filled with gravel closing up the passage. It is probable that the council and the board of public works will soon take action for the betterment of this sewer. MAY LOCATE IV HAMMOND. W. B. Walsh, real estate dealer, of Frankfort, Ind., accompanied by Bayard Gray, a former newspaper man of that city, were In Hammond Monday afternoon looking over the real estate situation here. The gentlemen made a call at The Times office. Mr. Walsh is thinking of locating in Hammond. In discussing the Tribune article leading Hammond men called attention to the fact that the commissioner, who ever he may have been, was very care ful to assure Mr. O'Laughlin that the proposition to limit the flow would not affect the people of Chicago but would merely prevent the cities in the Calumet region in Indiana from sharing in the benefit that would come to there without cost through the building oi the Calumet auxiliary. It was part of the plan in bulldinj the Calumet auxiliary to drain all thai portion of Chicago which lies south ol 75th street and there must be a question in the minds of those Chlcagoanj who live in the increasingly important south side districts as to how they art going to benefit by the drainage canal if the auxiliary is not built. It is pointed out that the problem oi draining the northern portion of Lake county will become more perplexing as the population of the cities of Hammond, East Chicago and Gary increase! and if the opportunity of going in cahoots with Chicago is lost it may some day cost the cities of this vicinity an enormous sum for a drainage canal of its own. In the opinion of several Hammond business men the necessity for concerted action on the part of the cities in Indiana concerned points to the advantage of the annexation of East Chicago by Hammond. They believe that the whole Calumet region should be heard from on this proposition before the matter is settled and instead of there being no hope of the state of Indiana co-operating with the state of Illi nois regarding the disposition of the waters of the Calumet, it is very likely that the powerful United States Steel corporation, the Gary Interests of which are identical with those of Hammond in the matter of drainage, would assist the neighboring cities to create a. Calumet auxiliary sentiment that .would be productive of results.

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