Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 141, Hammond, Lake County, 1 December 1906 — Page 1
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HAMMOND, Z3XrX3Xj-Tr-. VOL, 1, NO. 141. NIGHT EDITION. HAMMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1906. ONE CENT PER COPY.
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OE OF LABOR PROBLEM
American Desire to Engage in Occupations Enabling "A Front," Makes Importation of Alien Workers a Necessity.
Aprupun of the constant protest against the "alien flood" that It Is claimed ! threatening; to TPtp away the heritage of American born Hons of toil, THE LAKE: COUNTV TIMES has taken the trouble to make a few Inquiries with a veirv of setting at the other aide of the story. The question of alien labor is of peculiar Interest to Hammond, as the center of one of the most important industrial regions of the state, and what promises to soon hold a similar position with reference to the country at larte. As Much, all questions atfcctlug labor have a direct bearing upon the community and Hammond may be regarded as an average criterion representing labor conditions. Hammond employers have been up against the labor propoaltion in a manner that has forced them to reflect that if it were not for the so-called obnoxious alien laboring element, building operations, railroad construction and street improvements and in fact, all manner of industries in which rough, unskilled labor figures, would be at a standstill. Political speakers and lecturers of a sociological turn have been prone to deacaut eloquently against the Importation of foreign labor and in this connection the "alien flood" proposition has been worked to a fracxle. "ALIEN KMIOI) " O. K., AS ti LITTERING PLATITUDE. As a glittering platitude this is all right. It sounds well from the plat form and it looks well in print. Hut the theory is unsound, lie tore it can be made to stand for a real principle, Americans will have to be taught to work with their hands and to demonstrate a willingness to work In the fields allotted to unskilled laborers, before the importation of foreign labor can be regarded as a menace to anybody in particular other than to the imported laborers themselves. A large employer of unskilled labor in speaking on the subject this morning said: "This honl about the 'alien flood' Is all rot. We have got to look to the foreign countries for all of our unskilled labor and the majority of skilled labor for that matter. There are no American laborers. "It takes about one generation in this country to settle the hash of the laborer. Even the children of foreign born laborers refuse to follow in the footsteps of their fathers, though their ancestors for generations back had followed that line of occupation. Did you ever see an American with a hud on his nhnulderf Did you ever see one employed In a street gang or on railroad section work? No. They prefer to earn less money at occupations where they will not be obliged to harden and soil their hands. They choose to work fourteen hours a day as clerks In the stores, or In railroad offices, or anywhere where so-called 'soft jobs' abound. In many Instances they are paid less than the average day laborer who nowadays gets from 92.00 to 92.50 a day, and they are obliged to wear clothes that cost them far more than the apparel of the laboring man. AVhnt In this country corresponds to the laboring element In foreign lands is here made up of underpaid clerks, ditto stenographers, third class bookkeepers and the like. ' They work longer hours, receive in many instances, less pay, but are enabled to 'put np a front.' CLIMATE DKEEDS SHAME OP TOIL. "There seems to be something In the climate of this country that Is death to pride In real toll. The result is that America Is breeding a race of puny stenographers, round-shouldered clerks, starving lawyers and doctors, and excuses for clergymen. That American men will not work with their hands,
, especially, at the uerk ot a ttmiaos ialrcr U proTcs by the S act -that eat na y K
put an ad. In the newspapers for laborers at from $2.00 to $2.50 n day and let It stand there for days, and If anybody answers It at all, which Is doubtful, the 'applicants will be foreigners mostly, who can speak little or no English. On the other hand, let an advertisement for a clerk or a stenographer at $12 a week be inserted, and the advertiser Is overwhelmed with respondents. "One generation is enough to change the aims and ambitions of an entire race. A laborer comes to this country with a wife and they rear a family on Amerlenn null. YA hat do the children of this couple dof Are they laborers or even skilled mechanics f Perhaps the latter, but rarely the former. They get a nmatterlng of a comiiierclnl educutlon that fits them for a position In an ollice; or they go to high school and if they are brighter than the average they n:uy study law. The chances are that a first class plumber at most, is ruined to make a mighty poor lawyer. Hut they seem to figure it ont that It's too bad to waste so much education and refinement on a plumber. " Even in the manual tralntug schools the students who are learning the nse of tools, are not doing so with any view to entering the ranks of mechanics as workmen, but are fitting themselves for 'bosses to tnke charge of men who do the real work. FARMS SEHVB AS EXAMPLES. "Tnke conditions on the farms, and they exemplify my meaning. The American farmer is rapidly becoming extinct. The majority of those who tnnke their living along agricultural lines nowadays are Swedes aad Germans. "When the American people learn that a grnmmer or even a high school education does not unfit a man who has a gift for being a plumber, to be a plumber, and that a plumber perliups uses his brain equally with the average $12-a-vcck ollice man, and gets paid a good deal more for it, and that It is
quite as high class to carry a hod or dig In the streets as to drive a delivery wagon, then we may talk sensibly about restricting the importation of labor. Also that a man who earns $13.50 a week as n laborer working nine hours a day, can have as much joy out of life as the man who speeds ten hours a day collecting bills for $0.00 a week, with equal facilities for 'improving his mind,' especially when the brntus are scarce In both instances, it will be time
to prate about restriction of the importation of labor.
o long, noever, as ii is impossinie io gei unynoay unt a 'Dago' or a
'nigger to work In a section gang for love or money, we had better be thank ful that there are niggers and Dagos to be had."
Sworn Statement of PAID Circulation of Lake County Times for month of November 1908. During the month from Nov. 1 to December 31, 190'J, The Lake County Times has increased its circulation from 5,859 copies daily to a dailv net paid circulation of 6,351. We cordially invite a committee of business men, or any advertiser to satisfy himself by inspecting the subscription books of this office, making a personal count of all circulation, examining receipts of paid subscribers, watching delivery from
press to homes by carriers, or m any other manner he may desire.
0,
Gross. 1000 CT-2 1000 G,03S 10 0,013 10 Sunday. 1000 .01 11)00 6.0S2 iio o.o is 100(1 0,1 Oil 1000 0,112 13 0,114
11, 1900 Sunday. 12, 1000 0,152
Aov. 13, 1!0 0,101 Nov. 14, 11M6 0,100 Sot. 15, 1000 6,170
10, looa o,i!s 17, lf00 0.109
IS, 1000 Sunday.
10, 1000 0,250 20, 1000 0,20S 21, 1000 0,275 22, 1300 0.2S3 23, 1000 0,204
Nov. 21, 1000 0.30S Ko.t 25, 1000 Sunday. Sot. 20, 1000 0,310 Sot. 27, 1000 0,335 Sot. 2S, 1000 0,340 Sot. 21), 1000 Holiday. Sot. 30, 1000 0,351
Sot. 1, Sot. 2, Sot. 3, Sov. 4, So v. 5, Sov. 0, rov. 7,
Sov. Sot.
Sot. 10,
Sot. Sov.
Sov. Sov.
S O.T Sot. Sot. Sot.
Sot. Sot.
155,505
Street mmond. Mall. Country. Sales. 2,000 2D0 2.507 200 2.071 300 2,517 200 2.074 302 2,517 200 2.075 304 2.517 200 2,075 300 2.557 200 2,077 30S 2,503 1MJ0 2.07X 300 2,500 200 2,S1 312 2,509 200 2,0.S1 314 2,500 200 2.0S1 310 2.5S0 225 2.9N2 3 IS 2.5S0 225 2.0S4 310 2,5NS 225 2.9V5 321 2,50S 225 2.0S7 320 2.001 225 2.000 32S 2,600 225 2.001 331 2,637 225 2.004 335 2,639 225 2,007 338 2,640 225 2.005 341 2,044 225 3.001 343 2,050 225 3.003 345 2,600 225 5.004 350 2,605 225 3.000 354 2,075 225 3.005 357 2,0S1 225 3.009 359 2,0S3 225 74,9S 8,145 65,018 6,100
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SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY.
Jhiengo. Deo. "I. Albert Young'. tvitlT Cornelius 1. Shea an.l a number f others who were indicted on a charge f conspiracy In connection with the te.i nister's strike, took the witness itand today as the first witness for the state before Jude Ball. Youns declared under oath in the trial of labor leaders charged with conspiracy that Cornelius 1 Shea, Jeremiah McCarthy, himself and some others had received bribes to call a strike against Montgomery Ward & Co. "I got as my part." testified Young, "Robert Noreen. representative of the garment worker's union, met Shea, myself and the others in the stock rxchange building and divided $1,500 between usJto call a strike. Shea then laid: "We will have to make good." The strike was called the next day."
Miss Levlne says she gathered up the bills, while the chase was in progress, deposited the money to her father's credit. She then went to the criminal court building-, -where she had been
summoned as a witness in a case of burglary brought by her father against a young man who stole goods from his cloak store. The chase after the robber lasted for blocks and caused great excitement. The man dashed through alleys to elude his purusers and es
caped.
DA KING ATTKMl'T AT HOLDUP. Chicago, Dec. 1. A daring attempt at hold up was attempted this morning' in front of the First National bank building by a lone, bandit. Bessie Levine, laughter of a State street cloak manufacturer reports to the police that she iras held up by a man who tried to get her money which she carried in a hand bag. She had $467. The robber tore open the hand bag In which the young woman was carrying: the money for deposit in the bank. Bills and coin were scattered in the street when the g-irl resisted desperately. After a short struggle, the man fled without securing the booty, she said. Police officers and citizens gave chase through the crowded downtown district.
HOTEL FIRE CAUSES PAXIC.
Chicago, Dec. 1. In a panic caused by a fire in the Marquis hotel. 47 Clark street, two women and a fireman were severely injured and thirty persons oc
cupants of the hostelry were thrown into great excitement at 3 o'clock this morning-. There was an explosion and
a fire which attacked the building.
I en women were carried from the
building by the firemen and policemen
partly overcome by smoke. The in jured are:
Mrs. Lydia Ellis, proprietor of the
hotel, burned about the face and neck
Sergeant John Doherty, burned an cut by explosion of gas.
Miss Anna Wagner. Alma. Mich
burned and cut in explosion of gas.
The fire started from an overheated
furnace in the basement. While th
firemen were extinguishing the blaze
the hotel filled with smoke and threw the guests into a wild excitement. After the fire had been extinguished a gas pipe sprung a leak and just as the firemen were about to leave a terrific explosion shook the structure, knocking the firmene from their feet.
RECAPITULATION. Total Net, Hammond 74,698 Total Net, Mail 8,145 Total Net, Country (delivered by carrier) 65,018 Total Net, Street Sales 6,100 Total Net Circulation 153,961 Samples and' Waste . . 7 . . . . 7i . . ..... 1,634
Total Gross Circulation 155,595
I, Eugene F. McGovern, being duly sworn state upon oath that the above statement of circulation of the Lake County Times for the month of November is true to the best of my knowledge.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this December 1, 1906. My commission expires Nov. 12, 1908.
Circulation Manager. JAMES K STINSON, Notary Public.
WRITE RICHARD SCHAAF;
GET CREDIT FOR DOG TAX.
He May Kidnap the Animal If the Owner Cannot Show a Receipt for Amount Due County. Richard Schaaf, jr., Is not going to be bothered with any embarrassing questions about his dog tax receipts and so he is getting everything In tip-top condition before the first of the year. Mr. Schaaf collects the county tax and as several people have at various times sent him the required amount for taxes and forgot to state to whom the amount should be credited, Mr. Schaaf would like to have them send a request for their receipt. The genial fourth ward politician also wishes to inform all owners of dogs that if they cannot show a receipt for their county dog tax they will have to either pay up or suffer the loss of the dog and so It behooves those who have sent money and failed to include their name and address, to do so at once, or have words with the collector.
OBSERVATIONS OF ARTIE
TRAFFIC OX GIFFORD ROAD. We are told that the Gifford railroad which now runs to the Hebron and Lowell road, is hauling every day from that point on an average of five car loads per day of farm products, including corn, oats, hay and live stock. The new Dinwiddie elevator is now doing business which is a great accommodation to the farmers in that neighborhood who have heretofore been obliged to haul their crops from five to seven miles. The work of building the road farther has practically stopped until next spring.
"The career of n faithful public servant has come to an end," said Artie feelingly, "Albert Morris has been canned. Albert was a willing worker and would as soon take a cow to the pond to accommodate some cop or lead some green young bride nn groom to the alter for Judge McMahan as to catch a Gary murderer with his own dog. Albert wore a celluloid collar and had spots o' what I suspicion was once Pleasant Remembrance chewln' tobacco on the front of his shirt but he would sooner hunt criminals and be seen proudly walkln' to the jail with one ' them than do anything else except feed lovers Into MrMa ban's marriage mill. Morris was never stuck on hisself although he's done a lot o' heroic things. I've a good notion to write to Carnegie about him. But I wonder w hat he's going to do now. He might ten bar or be a janitor of a church or get some brass buttons and a cop job like Freddie Frnnkc.
Fair tonight and Sunday; cooler; minumuni temperature tonight about 15 or 20 degrees above zero.
FIENDS
WIFE
Confidence of C. Long Betrayed by One on Whom He Looked as Brother.
ACCUSES A. KEIPLIfIG
HDBART depot IS ROBBED
About Twenty Dollars in Money and Express Vouchers Taken.
THIEF IS CAPTURED
! Swears Out Warrant For Faithless Swift Retribution Descends Upon tha
One's Arrest on Charge of Assault and Battery.
Culprit Who 1 Arrested at Glen Forest
After being as Damon Is to Pythias
for years, Charles Long of Indiana
Harbor yesterday swore out a warrant
for the arrest of Albert Kelpllng,
charging him with assault and bat
tery upon his (Long's) wife. Kelp
llng furnished bonds and his case will
come up ror trial Derore justice nei-
land.
From the charges preferred against
Keipling it seems that he has abused
the trust and confidence placed in him
by his friend Long, coming to th
latter's home ostensibly to visit him
in particular, but really as It appears,
to see Mrs. Long.
Both Keipling ana Long are em
ployed as skilled laborers in the In
land Steel plant at Indiana Harbor
and work side by side. They were
The Nickel Plate depot at Hobar
was robbed last night and thereby
have two Nickel I'late depot agent established reputations for themselves
sleuths of unusual astuteness and
men of mighty daring. At least tha sleuth end of it applies to two, though
the heroism was only demostrated byone of the amateur detectives Th
- - v result of the astuteness and bravery
combined is that the thief was captured
only an hour after he committed hU depredation, and he has already had
his preliminary hearing and has been held to the circuit court under bonds.
ihe hero of the hour Is the Nickel
IMate operator at Glen Forest wh
scented the thief from afar and arrested him. The first Sherlock Hnlm.a
is Agent William McLaren of Hobart,
or pernaps nis wile, as it does not ap-
Total Net PAID Daily Cir culation Dec. S, 1906,
together much of their time and the pear with whom originated the bright
fact that Long rented his home from idea which led to the capture of tha
Keipling at a "f iendly price, proved thief. The latter's name is Anthnnv
only another tie for the friendship of Stermeirs and the amount he got away
ins iwu men. Willi WflB 120.
Keipling s hopes of winning his The robbery occurred between K
inena s wire came to a suaaen ena, 6 o'clock, which la the McLarens' .
however, on Thanksgiving day, when per hour. Mr. and Mrs. McLiareir-rCTS; he is claimed to "have" became un- gone about an hour and when they re-
usualiy bold in nis attentions. Mrs. lumeu iney rouna mat the cash draw
Long screamed and awoke her hus- er naa oeen rinea. Besides the $20
band, who lay asleep on the second that was missed the thief also got a lloor. Hearing the cry of his wife he number of express vouchers which
rushed down stairs and took in the however, were valueless. The safe
situation at a glance. In his anger he which contained a considerable sum of
attacked Keipling, striking him re- money w-as untouched.
peatedly. Mrs. Long, not wanting to see the friends fight on her account,
tried to separate them and In trying
to do so was accidentally struck by
her own husband.
Long lays no blame on his wife.
As soon as the loss of the monev
In the cash drawer was nntii nr
Laren recalled the presence of a suspicious looking stranger who had been hanging around all day and was at that time conspicuous by his absence.
He was at once suspected as the culprit and the agent immediately noti
fied the operators of nearbv station
IN LOCAL ROGUE'S GALLERY, to be on the lookout for the suspect.
At Glen Forest he loomed up, walkinjr
XV. B. Reading Wanted at St. Joseph, into town on the wagon road leading
FORMER HAMMOND LAWYER
NICKEL PLATE HAS PLANS
FOR COSTLY NEW DEPOT.
Board of Public AVorlta Inspects IJrnvr-
ings "Waiting: Rooms, Lavatories and Ticket Office Are all Attractive. The board of public works yester
day afternoon inspected the plans
for a new Nickel Plate depot which were submitted to them by the railroad company. The new depot, the location of which is not yet determined, is to be a beautiful structure of brick and stone and will compare favorably with the best suburban stations in Chicago. The depot is to be a long one with a ticket office In the middle and extending back from the platform only about one half of the width of the depot. Rooms are planned for lavatories and these will project into the main room of the depot from the rear of the building In such a manner as to divide the building into two parts.
One of these parts will be used for
a ladies waiting room and the other will have a baggage room partitioned off which will leave a small room for
a gents waiting room.
The depot will be finished nicely and
win nave an or tne conveniences that are usually found in a depot of this
size. It is estimated that It will cost
between $25,000 and $30,000.
A few desirable lots In McIIle and Woodlawn subdivisions unsold. Low prices. Easy terms. Inquire of agent on ground, or at Hammond Realty Co. office, Hammond building. adv.
H. TV. Williams went to Chicago to day on real estate business.
John Dinwiddie of Moline, III., spent
today with friends In Hammond.
The Success Shorthand School of CM ago, see page 6.
Michigan, On the Charge of Bigamy
Many Other Charges Against Illm. At Hammond police Quarters yesterday morning was received an additional
picture for their rogue's gallery with a description and the characteristics of
one of Hammond's one time brilliant
lawyers.Wilbur Bryan Reading. Read
ing Is wanter on the charge of bigamy by Sheriff Joseph Tennant of St. Joseph,
Mich., of Berrien county.
The description and the appended
charges sent out by the sheriff are as
follows:
"Reading is 5 feet 9 Inches In height;
38 years of age; hair, dark brown; weight, 148 pounds or more; hands small with large veins; complexion
sallow; smooth shaven, but can grow a beard very quickly; slender built; has a bald spot on the back of his head;
stoops a little; smokes cigars. He is
an expert bookkeeper and accountant
and had practiced law for some time.
Has been connected with a soft drink
firm and has formula for the mak
ing of a soft drink, would probably try
to sell It to some brewery company or he
might engage in some of the above
named businesses.
He left his wife In Indiana and was
married In St. Joseph last summer to
a young lady with whom he Is now sup
posed to be living and who answers to
The following description. Her name Is
Miss Hope MacDonald; she is 28 years
of age; trained nurse by profession:
rather stout and fine figure; black hair;
dark eyes; about 5 feet In height and
will be well dressed. Wire all Informa
tion at my expense. Arrest and hold.
notify me and I will send officer for
him at once."
Readings first wife, who was for
merly Miss Effle Farmer of Crown
Point, where Reading spent his boy
hood days and where he met his first wife, who now lives in Dayton, O. Her
husband left her in the beginning of last September, saying that he had to go to Chicago and New York on busi
ness. In his absence he married Miss MacDonald, who according to her let
ters to her relatives, thought him to be a single man, wealthy and resid
ing in Chicago. After his marriage he took her on an honeymoon trip through the east, always putting up at the
best hotels.
Miss MacDonald s original home Is
In TVest Liberty, of this state, and It Is said that Reading became engaged to
her last March. His first wife's pres
ence he explained to Miss MacDonald
as being a widowed cousin of his and that she was employed by him as a housekeeper. The bigamy charge against Reading is, however, only one of the many different onces on which he Is wanted In .various parts In the United States.
from Hobart to that place.
Charles Behler is the operator thera
and he had taken the nrecautinn tr
arm himself In case the suspected mar came his way and showed flsrht whan
being taken Into custody.
As the lone stranger approached
Behler- went out to meet him and at the point of his revolver told hftn ha was under arrest No resistance wai made and the station agent triumphantly backed his prisoner into tha
station. Where he held him until tha town marshal from Hobart, whom ha
notified, came to take charge of the prisoner.
The latter admitted his guilt and
gave his name as Anthony Stermeirs. He said he was 20 years old and cam
from Hamilton, O.
Xn arrival in Hobart he was placed
in the Jail, where he was kent nnMl
this morning, when he was given a preliminary hearing before Justice,
Mathews. He was held to the circuit court in bonds of $300.
C. C. & L. ON OWN RIGHT OF WAY.
Rumor that Xw Road "Wonld I?n
Chicago Over the Erie Is Officially Denied. The report which was circulated
some time ago that the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad company
would abandon the right of way that it had secured through Hammond and Instead gain an entrance Into Chicago over the Krle railroad, has been of
ficially denied In a recent Interviewthat Attorney MIlo Bruce had with
representatives of the company. Mr.
Bruce said that in the interview ha learned that the railroad company was sincere in all its work and that thcra was no thought of passing up Hammond on the South Hohman street depot. Although there was talk some time ago that the new road Is making negotiations with the Illinois Central people In order to gain an entrance Into Chicago, it is now understood that they may go in over the PennsylvaniaMuch of the right of way belond tho state line has already been secured and negotiations are under way for the balance.
CHURCH FACTIONS FIGHT.
Trouble has been brewing for some time between various factions of the orthodox Jews at Indiana Harbor. Yesterday the trouble, the exact nature of which could not be learned, reached a climax, and as a result several of the parties to the affair were arrested. The case was tried before Judge Da Braie. but no verdict was rendered la the hope that the attorneys la the caso might reach an agreement.