Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 175, Hammond, Lake County, 11 January 1907 — Page 1

THE WEATHER. Cloudy and wanner tonight minimum tonight about f reeling; Saturday rata aad warmer. VOL. 1, NO. 175. NIGHT EDITION. 12 PAGES. HAMMOND, INDIANA, PRID AY, JANUARY 11, 1907. 12 PAGES. ONE CENT PER COPY. SOUTH CHICAGO POOR , ROCKEFELLER! BIG CAR WORKS DELUGED BY OLDS ITS 0 CALUIET G RISE RAPIDLY NUN OF

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10,000 liEWWB Additions to Steel Plant. Ore Docks and Ship Yards Completed or Under Way. South Chicago, Jan. 10. Judging by the Increase in capacity of the Illinois Steel company' plant here during the past year, there is no danger of the new plant at Gary interfering with the business at South Chicago where 10, 009 men are now employed. The new additions to the plant consist of an open hearth furnace for the manu facture of a superior grade of. steel, a looming mill, a structural iron mill. and . additions to the blast furnaces The company now has forty blast furn aces in operation at these works. On account of the increased demand for steel plates throughout the country it has been necessary to also erect an additional plate mill, the original One proving Inadequate. Early last spring improvements were commenced on the ore docks and these were com pleted In time to handle the ore un loaded during the past season. The unloading arrangements and machinery are of the latest types, consisting of four travelling cranes, operated by elec triclty, and each . carrying two clam hell "grabs" which scoop up Ave tons of ore each descent. With these faclli ties It is possible to unload a 18,000 ton cargo In six hours. The dock capacity was also in creased. During the season the com blned consignment of ore for the South Chicago and Jollet works of the com pany, was 3,400,000 gross tonav More Worts at South DeiS. j TheJpiersatlonal Harvester company is also Increasing the- capacity , of its South- Chicago steel plant by the erection of a" merchant mill which will cost $75,000. - It will hot be ready for oper-! atlon for several months. . ; On the east side of the river at 108th street, the new blast furnaces ; of the Federal Furnace company are nearly ready, for work to commence. During the summer large consignments of ore were received and the two new furnaces will start in the course of a month to convert this into pig Iron. This new plant will employ about 1,500 men. It It the purpose of the company to start erecting another furnace as soon as construction work is finished on the present two. Ship Yard Busy. At the yards of the Chicago Ship BlUldlng Co., 101st street and the river, Building company, 101st and the river, there Is great activity. There are two boats on the ways now. One 600 feet long, being built for the United States Steel corporation, will be ready for launching about , the end of February. The other measures 560 feet and will be the property of W. A. Hawgoaa and company of Cleveland, to be launched in the summer. Following these a passenger boat will be built for the Goodrich Transportation company of Chicago. Besides the contruction work there is a large amount of repair work to attend to. and a number of vessels waiting for the dry dock. About 1,000 men are employed at the yards, but this number is scarcely enough to handle the work on hand. The company finds It hard to get enough ship builders, as the present activity is universal in all the ship yards on the lakes. , None of them are in a position to take a contract for a boat to be delivered before late in the fall. The United States Steel corporation proposes to build forty ore carrying vessels within the next ten years, that is at the rate of four a year. These boats will all be 600 feet long and have a capacity of 12,000 gross tons. It is probabla that one of the four each year will be built at the local yards. Business Me Pleased. At the South Chicago Business Men's association's annual business meeting anff" election of officers last night, J. Bchlossen, the retiring president, addressed the meeting before retiring. He spoke briefly on the growth and advantages of the association. The officers elected were: President, A. F. Kestermier; vice president, T. M. Tobin; secretary, A. L. Blocker; treasurer, Chas. Belgmer; executive committee, J. Schlossen, John Black. R. M. Brown, Chas. Kriewitz, Jr., Kill Lykke, A. L. Blackwood and J. Sorensea. Library for Judge. About 600 volumes of law books have been placed in the local branch of the municipal court for the nucleus of a law library. The library will be for the use of the presiding Jurist, Judge Goodnow, the members of the court staff and the attorneys. The library will be in Judge Goodnow's office. WALSH BANK PROSPEROUS. Bedford. Ind., Jan. 10. The stockholders of the Bedford National bank held their annual meeting today. The report of the officers shows the last year to have been the most prosperous in the bank's history and declared a semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent. John R. "Walsh controlled this bank until hi crash in Chicago a year ago.

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Eeports Against Diversion of More Water. FAVORS CESSPOOL PLAN Would Cost more Than Ditch, But Could Be Built by Installments. . The plans for a Calumet auxiliary to the drainage canal for the purpose of including all of the territory south of 75th street in Illinois and Indiana in the sanitary district, have been dealt a body blow by the International commission which recommends In an indirect manner the building of filtration beds to provide for the disposition of sewage even though it will cost a larger sum that the canal. If there is no appeal from this commission and certain Chicagoans have their way, Hammond will become a cesspool. The following excerpts from the report of the commission will give an idea of the commissioners manner of arriving at their conclusions: "A careful consideration of all circumstances leads us to the conclusion that the diversion oflo.OOO cubic feet per second through "the Chicago river will, with the proper treatment of sewage from areas now sparsely occupied, provide for all the population which will ever be tributary to that river, and that the amount named will therefore suffice for the sanitary purposes of the city for all time. Incidentally it will ' provide for the largest navigable waterway from Lake Michigan to the " Mississippi river which has been considered by congress. "We therefore recommend that the government of the. United Statat pro-; bibit the diversion of more than: 10,000 cubic feet per second for the Chicago drainage anal." v.-- ' : : ; The international waterways com mission consisted . of Brig len O-i JT&rnst, chairman, and George Clinton and E. E. . Haskell, members of the American , section; George C.; Gibbons, chairman, and W. F. King and Louis Coste, members of the Canadian section. "Chicago obtains Its water supply from Lake Michigan, and to avoid polluting It It must either dispose of its sewage otherwise than in the lake or place its Intakes for water at a great distance from the city. The topography of the county favors the discharge of sewage Into the Desplalnes river, a tributary of the Mississippi, through two depressions in the divide which separates that river from Lake Michigan. East to Divert Calumet River. "The slope on the lake side tf the divide is drained by two streams, the Chicago river and the Calumet river, into which the sewers of the city empty. By a cut through the northerly depression the flow of the Chicago river has been reversed and di verted into the Desplalnes river, instead of into Lake Michigan, and by a cut through the southerly depression the same process can be applied to the Calumet river. "To make this reversal effective, the channels must be large enough to take all the water which falls upon the respective drainage areas during' the most violent rain storms. This amount second for the Chicago river and 15,700 cubic feet per second for the Calumet river. "It is now proposed to apply to the Calumet river treatment similar to that applied to the Chicago river, viz.: To reverse its flow so that instead of discharging into Lake Michigan It shall discharge into the Desplalnes, but for a part of the new route it must follow the drainage canal already excavated for the Chicago river. "Although the Chicago drainage canal was designed to carry 10,000 cubic feet per second, it is found to have, in its completed rock portion, an actual capacity of 14,000 cubic feet. This additional capacity fixes the amount which it is proposed to divert from the Calumet at 4,000 cubic feet per second. Any greater amount from the Calumet will overtax the drainage canal at the expense of the richest part of Chicago and for the benefit of the suburban part. "The diversion of 10,000 cubic feet per second will lower the levels of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron. Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence river, besides the important connecting channels, the Detroit and St. Clair rivers, by amounts varying from 4Vi to 64 inches for different waters, and the diversion of 14,000 cubic feet will lower them from 6 to S inches. The diversion of 20,000 cubic feet will lower Lake Michigan and Lake Huron about 13 inches and Lake Erie about 11 inches. "The cost of restoring the depth in the harbors of the great lakes and the channels between the lakes is estimated at $10,000,000 and of restoring it in the Welland and St. Lawrence canals at $2,500,000. "The extension to the Calumet region of the method of sewage disposal already applied to the Chicago river is not necessary to preserve the health of Chicago, there being other and bettr methods available for the Calumet region, .Tha final cost of these raeth

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ods is greater than that of the one proposed, buf works can be developed as the population Increases and only part of their cost need be incurred at present, while their greater efficiency Justifies the increase of final cost." HIS HER CANDY; FORGES CHECK Tillie Mark Thought That Was the Easiest Way to Get Money. Little Tlllie Mark, thirteen years old and living at 103 152nd place, has a sweet tooth. Her appetite this morning led her to the police station for an offense which had she been a few years older might have landed her in the state penitentiary. The child by her own confession is a forger, and was apprehended while in the act of attempting to pass a fraudulent check made out to the order of S. Lukowski and signed with the name of Emily M. Wiley. Tillle presented the check at the window of the First National bank. The check had the earmarks of forgery and the teller at once was suspicious. The little girl was questioned regarding it and her answers being unsatisfactory the police were notified and she was taken to the station. The officers in a short while had secured a tearful confession from the child, who admitted she had made out the check, but her story was so simple and straightforward and she was evidently so Innocent of the enormity of her crime, that the hearts of the bank officials were touched and they de cided not to. prosecute her. Tillle works for Mrs. .Wiley, the woman whose name she forged. Last night she came home and asked her mother for five cents with which to hnv rnnnv. The Marks are poor people and to them a nickle looks as big as a cart wheel, so Tillle was told not to entertain such extravagant notions and the subject was apparently dropped. Tlllie, however, knew or a good way her employer had of obtaining money which cost nobody anything. She knew where Mrs. Wiley kept her check book and made out a check as she had seen her mistress do, with the result as stated. GARY SAYS OUTLOOK IS GOOD. Only Danger In Iron and Steel Trade Is Ynreasonable Prices. Chicago, Jan. 10. E. H. Gary, chairman of the U. S. Steel corporation, said on Monday that the outlook for 1907 is remarkably good. The unfilled orders on hand, he said, are larger than ever before and the daily bookings now exceed capacity. Although the output has been Increased about 25 per cent in the last five years the sales for 1906 largely exceeded production. As a result the unfilled orders are sufficient to keep furnaces and mills fully occupied for the greater portion of the year 1507. Mr. Gary believes that if the legislation recommended by financiers is secured, there will be no cessation of business for lack of money. One danger to be feared, he says. Is that the demand will influence manufacturers to unreasonably increase prices. LOST Some wonderful opportunities to make money will slip through your flagfrt If you don't read today's real estate advertisements In THE LAKE COtTXTV TIMES. This Issne of THE LAKE-" COUXTY TIMES consists of 12 pages. See that yea set it all

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Bowser Has Project to Enlarge State of Indiana -Appoint Committee. : -ti S peeiai t rSLse'-laaai y "TUk.. ': '? Indianapolis, Jan. 11.- It is thought here that A. J. Bowser, Joint senator from Lake and Porter counties will Introduce a bill in the legislature either today or tomorrow which will tend be of great value to the entire Calumet region. The bill provides that the submerged land along Lake Michigan may be filled out with earth to a line where it reaches a depth of twenty-five feet. The bill, it is said, will provide that before the filling shall begin the government of the United States or the proper officials shall have established a dock harbor line in front of the premises owned by the company in question and shall have consented to the filling In with earth between the shore and such line. It provides that the owner shall' in no case fill in such submerged land beyond the harbor line established. It is provided also that owners of property along the lake when they DAVID E.

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Prosecuting Attorney of the Thirty-first Judicial district, who pro canted two of the four men In the Michigan Cfty prison condemned to hang. In case the hill now before the legislature to abolish capital punishment passes with am emergency clause, they star Btt bang, aad air. Boone's work will " bare been la vain.

fill in and reclaim the submerged land shall thereupon become the owners In fee simple of such reclaimed land. "Indiana in Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties, has about fifty miles of lake front. By this plan it is believed that many companies will be induced to establish their plants in the state by the enactment of the law. Of the forty-eight , committees that were appointed yesterdayafternoon by Lieutenant Governor: .jMilleryLen. Bowser was appointed on tolfieJcommittees. The committees and the other committeemen are as follows: Committee- on Cities" and Towns W. It. Wood, Kirkman, Pearson, Bow

ser, Hawkins, Klstleriand-Etotsenburg. : Committee on Enrolled BillsBowser, KHng and Ranke. ' Committee?,' on ' Elections Hugg, Roeniler, Bland, Cox, Bowser, Springer, Strange, Slack and Kistler. Committee on Rivers and Waters Kling, Beardsley, Durre, J. W. Parks, Bowser, Benz and Shafer. Committee on State Library Bowser, Goodwine and Ranke. Committee on County and Township Business J. W. Parks, Cox. E. E. Moore, Bowser, Hanna, Forkner, Mc Cain, Hawkins, Moss, Tyndall and Stotsenburg. Committee on Fees and Salaries Kirkwood, Mattingly, Lane, J. W, Parks, Koehne, Ornodorff, Hanna, McCallum, Bowser, Gonnermann, P. Parks, Shafer and Tyndall. Committee on Labor Wickwlre, Mc Cain, Peizie, Bowser, Gonnermann, Shafer and Patterson. Committee on Finance Goodwine, Beardsley, Crumpacker, Klrkman, T. T. Moore, Farber, McCallum, Benz and McDowell. s.t v 1 1 BOONE

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ard Steel Car Co. Will Plat Part of Site. 200 H0USES BUILDING Estimates Indicate That 1,500 People Will Settle in Eastern Portion Before Summer. The work on the new plant of the I Standard Steel Car company is pro gressing with remarkable rapidity on! account of the temperate weather that has been the rule thus far this winter. nrA s 41 ..... I u" "l l orx on the plant has been on the southeastern side of the tract, but now the few frame build ings wnicn occupy the central and western sections of the site are being removed and work in those districts will begin at once. One of the most important developments Is the fact that the whole eastem portion of the tract to a depth of 1600 feet from Columbia avenue is not to be included in the territory to be devoted to the mills, but it is to be platted and sold as lots. It also develops that the Standard Steel Car company is not going to rely on the people of Hammond to provide homes for their employes, but - will erect two hundred houses at once on some of the lots in these plats. Fifty Houaes to be Built. In addition to this the HammondGary Realty company will erect in the neighborhood of fifty houses on the Morris piat, just across Columbia avenue, and several other property ownera wm Duild from one to ten houses. l . It .is .safe . to estimate that before 1 spring la very far advanced there will be three hundred houses built in Columbia avenue and. the abutting side streets., This rneans that .there , will be an I added population of 1,500 In the vicinity of the car works within the next six months and it is a matter of conslderable speculation -as to . just what I effect this will have, on the real estate values in this vicinity. This much is certain. What has been known as the outskirts of the city will then become "in town" prop erty and there is sure to be great building activity in all of the terri tory between the plant and the city. Columbia Avenue Graded. Columbia avenue has been graded and is now ready for the many carloads of crushed stone that have been ordered for it. The paving of this street will go on at a rapid rate as it is essential that a thoroughfare be provided to permit the hauling of supplies and material to the placea where they are most needed. As it is. it would take a traction engine a day to haul an ordinary load of stone through the sand to the place where it is most needed. At present the only thing that is delaying the work is the lack of men. Angus brothers could use several hun dred men if they could get them and the stringency in the labor market Is felt by all of the other contractors. SPEECH OF THE T0WNPUMPHeinle you mean ' to tell me dat yon hat not read der governor'a speech to Messrs. Bowser, Simon nnd Dwyer! I guess you hat been In der TurnTcrein again Instead of cultivating your home life. ' Tell, I see ware he says somdlng about Inheritance tax.' Do yon dink dat van a direct drive at our personal welfare? I dink It Iss Just intended to keep der man wat hass nuddlng down. His blan lsa dls. Wen you ere wat he calls a direct heir nnd get more den $20,000 yon pay on it nnd wen you ere wat he call a collateral heir nnd get f 1,000 you pay tax on dat. Sow issent It a shame der only time wen we fellows haf a chance to get somedlng for nuddlng; we haf to pony up alreddy. I vill make a close canvass of all mine relations, I vill find how nearly dead ere aomc of mine uncles and annta nnd If dare la a show for me I Till start a agitation ng-atast dls business of robbing Peter to pay FauL Of course de scheme has its goot side too, but yon can nefer tell ware you haf some old nncle sticking around wat Till soon gif yon hiss blessing. I guess it is a toss up mlt head I win und tail you lose, vat Heine T Do you dink, dat Ed Simon hass took a box of LaVeadors mlt himself wen he went down to Indyunoplisf The Chicago Tribune will on Sunday publish the costliest newspaper atory ever ourrhascd. The Quest of the Moat Beautiful Woman In Chicago.' The Tribune paid 25,000 for the ex clusive use tt thla atory which has been the talk f the world for a month 1 ox more Adv,

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ger Any But Veteran War Horse. SENATE ISJITHE LEAD This Branch of Legislature Get! Down to Business While Housa Is Thinkinsr About It. (Special to Lake County Time.) Indianapolis, Jan. 11. The senate) lead off today with a mass of bills that were introduced. Starting at tha head of the roll call, Lleutenant-Gov-ernor Miller began to call for new bills. and tne way ther Pured In would have startled anyone but the old-tlmera around the chamber. Public denosi. tory bills, two cent fare bills, one bill aimed against the Standard Oil company, one with a bearing on temperanC lel8latlon' ono further regulating B uuni-iueB were a eiarier, out8,de of sundry resolutions, one of W,,,CK ttt,iea "r me election or the Un,ted State Senators by popular voie - ana anoiner wnicn made additional Quaiincations ror the voters. In fretting these bills and resolutions introduced the senate is days aneaa 01 ins House, in fact. The senaiB M at - work real work this week- and th house will probably not start In before the first of the week. StTaws Shor How the Wind Blow. Tne personel of some of the senators committees shows the way the wind hlows as respects certain legislation. oenaior samara, ior example was named chairman of the banking committee. it wh .Caniard who, two years ago, made such a strong fight for the present private banking bill. Today he Introduced anothe? bill. stronger in Its termsthat the one that was passed two years ago. It was roi erred to his committee, of com. Wickwlre la the chairman of the com mittee on labor. Wickwlre is known as a strong labor man, fo prospects look good ; for the labor interest during the session. Forber as the chairman of the insurance committee will probably be counted on to do steady work on the matters that will be placed before this committee. The house and. the senate listened to the governor's message yesterday afternoon for three hours. In that time he delivered about two thirds of it. omitting much with reference to insurance. This was finished before five o'clock, and both houses adjourned. Outside of the complaints of several whose measures the governor did not particularly advocate, the general impresslon of the message was favorable, "Maaa of Sound Facts." .-It was not an oratorlcal 'effort in r ... i u senators today, "but it had a mass of sound facts." For the most part the 150 members listened to the long reading very carefully. For one thing, the strong recommen-, datlon In favor of an Income tax will probably prove of enough force to Insure the enactment of such a law. Wickwlre of the senate and Babcock of the house have prepared income tax' measures that they will fight for throughout the session. Wickwlre is an old Inheritance tax man, having Introduced such a measure before. Bab- i cock is the youngest man in the house, j but is counted by his colleagues as be ing a very level headed young man. A bit of politics that was played, 1 and disastrously at the caucus of the . democratic members of the house came to light today. It seems that in order; to find if there could be such a thing as a democrat that was favorable to ! the governor. Representative Joe Cravens introduced a resolution Into the caucus, appointing a committee to con-; fer with what of the Insurgent repub licans they could find with referenca to opposing Branch for speaker. Th purpose of the resoultlon was plain. . Democrats Itally to Governor. They soon found out, according to the story: Six of the democrats imme diately protested against any such act ion, thus giving good proof to the state ment that the governor would get some supporters from the democrats. In the senate the so-called reform forces were beaten, five to six. Here it partook somewhat of the nature of a, personal victory for Wood, however. as a victory for the Taggart organiza tion. Benz, Bingham, Moss, Parks, Patterson and Stotsberger supported Woods and Kistler. McDowell, Ranke, Shafer and Tyndall supported Slack, who was supposed to represent the reform element of the party. Whatever the outcome of this party caucus vote was, however, is it probable that Slack will be the real leader in the senate. as he will be In closer touch with the machinery that will do things. The striking advertisement of E. A Klnkade, the Heme Builder, on the tenth page of this issue will well repay the reader even If he does not want to buy. Adv. The Sew York Store, 72, 74 and 7 2nd street, South Chicago, advertises its January Clearing Sale on page 8 of today's Lake Countt Times. Lock at It for bargains. Adv.

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