Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 184, Hammond, Lake County, 23 January 1907 — Page 5
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1907.
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana.
Indianapolis, Jan. 23. Declaring that a reduction in freight rates ordered in December by the Indiana Btate railroad commission is a violation of the constitution of the United States, the Vandalia Railroad Co. filed suit lu the United States circuit court asking that the order be declared void. The railroad company made as defendants in the suit Union B. Hunt, William J. Wood and Charles V. Mc Adams, as members of the railroad commission; James Bingham, attorney gen
eral; Elliott It. Hooten, prosecuting
attorney of Marlon county, and Gustav A. Schnull, William J. Griffin and Geo.
G. Griffin, members of the firm of
Bchnull & Co. Company Had a Grievance.
The suit Is the outcome of one of several freight rate cases which were
(considered last year by the railroad commission. Trior to the commission's action, the Vandalia Railroad company
Lad a schedule of rates for freight of various classes which obtained throughout the state, and which, the company
declares, was not extortionate. During
December Schnull & Co. filed a suit before the railroad commission, in
which it said that the rates charged to points between Indianapolis and
Terre Haute were unreasonable. Justllled by the Commission.
The commission investigated the
charges and on Dec. 14 made out
new schedule of rates, which it notified the company must be put In effect by
Feb. 1. There was a material differ
tnee in the original schedule and that
ordered by the commission; in fact,
so much difference, the railroad com
"pany says, that It cannot carry on its
business from the revenue. . Basis of the Hallway Snit.
Basing It sargument on that portion
of the constitution which declraes tha
no person can be unlawfully deprived
of his property nor denied protection
the company asks that the order be set aside bv the court and that its former
schedule of rates obtain again.
PREDICTION AS TO FRUIT
RAILROAD NOTES. Harry Heath of the Erie road, who
has been on the sick list, is reported better today.
E. S. Norria, chief dispatcher on the
Huntington division of the Erie road.
13 on the sick list this week.
William Kauff, an Erie machinist
from Huntington, is in Hammond today on business at the Erie shops.
The Monon early train was thirty
minutes late this morning, delay being caused by a hot box at Monon, Ind.
Thomas Miller of the Chicago Wabash
freight office transacted business In
Hammond yesterday.
Several immigrants passed through
Hammond last night on the Wabash
road.
Agent Hickok of the local Wabash
office reports a steady increase of both
passenger and freight traffic this month
over that of last.
The section men working on both
sections of the Wabash road at La-
Porte, Ind., have gone on a strike
Their complaint is low wages.
Clifford Edgerton, who has been firing
on the Chicago, Indiana and Southern
road, has quit and will take a Job with the Stein-Hirsch Glue works at west Hammond.
Che Kid Bngineer
By FRANK H. SFEARMAN
Capynght, 1900, by Frank H. Spemrmaa
asm
l HEN the big
strike caught us at Zanesville we had 180 engineers and firemen on the payroll. One hundred and seventy-nine of these men walk-
It was a favorite trick of Neighbor's. Whenever the old fireman got to "bucking" about his engineer the master mechanic threatened to discharge tlie engineer. That settled it Dad Ilamilton wouldn't for the world be the cause of throwing another man out of a Job, no matter how little he liked him. The old fellow went back to work mollified, but it was evident that he and McNeal didn't half get on together. The boy was not much of a talker. Yet he did his work well, and Neighbor said next to Foley he was the best man we had. About a week later Foley came into the office one morning very much ext A. 1
Cliea- or lf-tora tr me I can eet them
"Did you hear about the boy's getting t f 3tofflce wlthout a guardpounded last night Georgie McNeal? .
It's a shame the way these fellows act
postoSce," grumbled Dad after a pause. "I get a letter twice a week that I think more of than I do of this whole road, and I propose to go to the postoffice and get it without asking anybody's permission." "They'll pound you again." Georgie looked out into the storm. ""Well, why shouldn't they? I've got no friends." "Got a girl back in Pennsylvania ?" "Yes, I've got a girl there, replied the boy as the rain tore at the cab win
dow. "I've had a girl mere a good while. She's gray headed and sixty
years old that's my girl and if she
LOST One pair et of m valua xcept to owner. A liberal reward for retwrn ta Joha Smith, No. 676 Eat Stat atreet, Hammond, Ind.
Three of the strikers piled on him
while he was going Into the postofflce
and thumped the life out of him. The
C. O. Bergen, special agent for the
freight department of the Pennsylvania
road, with headquarters at Chicago, was in Hammond on business yesterday.
Although the car shortage Is being remedied In some of the large cities Hammond is still without cars. Firms here have considerable difficulty to get even ono car a day.
Within the last two weeks freight traffic on the various roads entering Hammond has picked up with a Jump and a bound which promises to make up for the slack business the first of season.
A special meeting of the Western Passenger association will be held in Chicago today to consider recommendations made by the' rate clerks as to the publication of summer tourist
rates. In view of the two cent a mile
bills adopted by several states and like
ly to be passed by many more, some
of the railroads are opposed to grant
ing the usual reductions In summer tourist rates and those for conventions
and other events which, cause an In crease in passenger traffic.
Believers In Old Signs Say There Will
Do Plenty in. Part of the
Hoosier State, lioonville, Ind., Jan. 23. A number . of citizens who are believers In old signs relative to good or bad crops say that according to precedent southern Indiana will have plenty of fruit this . year. Jan. 12 was '"old Christmas" and as has been handed down for hundreds of years the okl saying is that if rain falls and drips from the eaves of buildings on this day there will be plenty of fruit the following year. There was a general precipitation over this part of the state on that day and if this sign be true fruit growers will be repaid for their efforts with fine fruit. Some of the old residents say that during their lifetime they have watched the weather upon this day and It has never failed but once or twice.
Packing Plant Burned.
Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 23. The
packing plant owned by Heine and Louis Kern, on the river bank, in the southern part of the city, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $12,-
000. There is a belief that the fire started from defective wiring, although there is a suspicion of incendiarism. Fleming Donovan, of the city
fire department, was blown off a build Ing by the high wind, and severely In Jured. Some Legislative Doings.
Indianapolis, Jan. 23. The house
killed the bill to prohibit the dredging of Lake Wawasee and the bill to
abolish capital punishment The sen
ate passed the bill to permit land own
ers to hunt game on their own land
when the land Is in two townships
Senator Slack's anti-lobby bill was
killed and Senator Farber's bill was
ordered engrossed.
Whether several western railroads
are violating the Interstate commerce
law by paying commissions to scalp
ers, labor agents and others controlling
passenger business Is a question that is worrying the Railway Ticket Protec
tive bureau, the Western Passenger as
soclation and the passenger officials of
most of the lines.
Recently the protective bureau ob
tained evidence that one of . tho leading
railroads was supplying ticket scalp
ers with an unlimited number of tick
vts, charging full tariff rates for them
at the time of delivery, but allowing
the scalpers handsome commissions
at the end of each month on all tick
ets sold. One scalper has sold the tickets to strange patrons of the road at the full rate charged by the rail
roads.
ed out One fireman just one stayed cowardly hounds, to Jump on a man's
witn tne company; that was Dad Ham- back that way!"
"ton. "Foley," said I, "that's the first time "Yes," growled Dad, combating the they've tackled one of Dad Hamilton's
protests of the strikers' committee. "I engineers."
know it. I belong to your lodge. But "They'd never have done It if they I'll tell you now an' I've told you thought there was any danger of Dad's
afore I ain't goin' to strike on the getting after them. They know he
company so long as Neighbor is master doesn't like the boy."
mechanic on this division; ain't a-goin' "It's an outrage, but we can't do
to do it an' you might as well quit anything. You know that Tell McNeal
If you jaw here from now till Christ- to keep away from the postoffice. We'll
mas, twon t change my mind nar a get his mail for him."
bit." "I told him that this morning. lie's
And they didn't change It Through In bed and looks pretty hard, but he
the calm and through the storm, and won't dodge those fellows. He claims It stormed hard for awhile, Dad Ham- it's a free country," grinned Foley.
BY THE WAY, WHAT ARB YOUR EYES WORTH TO YOU? Yet you go right on, using the old out-of-date methods of lighting your rooms straining your own andyocr children's eye, under the dim ray of the inconvenient, dirty and dangerous oil lamp. THINK IT OVER, and let us give you a price on piping or wiring your house for up-to date Gas or Electric Lights. South Shore Gas & Electric Co. 147 So. Hohraan St. Phone 10 IT MAKES THE HOUSE A HOME."
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Uton, whenever we could supply him with an engineer, fired religiouslv.
No other man In the service could
have done It without getting killed,
"But I told him he'd get over that Idea if he stuck out this trouble."
It was three days before McNeal was
able to report for work, though he re-
Parsons Is Promoted. Word has been received in the local
offices that R. S. Parsons, well known over tho entire Erie system as engineer
of maintenance of way at Cleveland,
has been promoted to assistant general superintendent of the system. The
change was made last Wednesday, and It has caused the many friends of this popular official much Joy to learn of his promotion. lie will continue to have his office quarters at Cleveland.
Fast Run on Lake Shore. A remarkably fas run was made by the Lake Shore's Twentieth Century limited from Chicago to Elkhart last Friday afternoon. Engineer James Downey, with engine 4 810, covered the distance in exactly 10S minutes, seven minutes better than the schedule, which is the fastest of any train on the road.
but Dad was old enough to father any ceived full time just the same. Even man among the strikers. Moreover, then he wasn't fit for duty, but he
he was a giant physically and eccen- begged Neighbor for his run until he trie enough to move along through the got It. The strikers were Jubilant heat of the crisis indifferent to the while the boy was laid up, but Just
abuse of the other men. His gray hairs and his tremendous physical strength saved him from personal violence. Our master mechanic, Neighbor, was another big man, six feet an inch in his stockings, and strong as a drawbar. Between Neighbor and the old fireman there existed some sort of a bond a liking, an affinity. Dad Hamilton had fired on our division ten years. There was no promotion for Dad; he could never be an engineer, though only Neighbor knew why. But his Job of firing on the river division was sure as long as Neighbor signed the payrolls at the roundhouse. Hence there was no surprise when the superintendent offered him an engine, just after the strike, that Dad
refused to take It. "I'm a fireman, and Neighbor knows it. I ain't no engineer. I'll make steam for any man you put in the cab with me, but I won't touch a throttle for no man. I laid it down, and I'll never pinch It again an no offense t' you. Neighbor, neither" Thus ended the negotiations with Dad on that subject; threats and entreaties were useless. Then, too, In spite of his professed willingness to throw coal for any man we put on his engine, he was continually rowing about the green runners we gave him. From the standpoint of a railroad man they were a tough assortment; for a
I fellow may be a good painter, or a
handy man with a jack plane, or an
expert machlnest even and yet a fail
ure as an engine runner.
After we got hold of Foley, Neighbor
put him on awhile with Dad, and the
grizzled fireman quickly declared that
Foley was the only man on the pay
roll who knew how to move a train.
The little chap proved such a re
markable find that I tried hard to get
some of his eastern chums to come
out and join him. After a good bit of hustling we did get half a dozen
more Reading boys for our new corps
of engine men, but the East End of
Some people, not Positively, there h familiar with our no cost for the inmethods, believe stallation; you pay there b a charge only the rental and for installing a the regular charges Chicago telephone for tolls when used The cost will fit your purse
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HAS A CORNER ON TEETH.
How -Romanian Kill Hogs-
Vincennes, Ind., Jan. 23. Several Roumanians who have made this their
home for two years threw a big hog on its Kick and sat on it. while one
member cut its throat. Instead of scalding it, they burned straw over the dead body until all the hair was singed
off.
Black Snate "Was Out Too Soon. Greenfield. Ind., Jan. 23. o. C. Tate, dairyman, while driving to the city, encountered a blacksnake in the roadway. The snake was as lively as it might have been on a July morn'.ng, and it was with some difficulty that the reptile was killed. lieheaded by His Own Train. Covington. Ind., Jan. 23. While phunting n string of empty gravel cars In the IMg Four railway gravel pit west of this city, William I. Smith, brakeman. fell under the wheels and was beheaded.
Two Mine Shooters Killed. Clinton, Ind, Jan. 23. John FuskJ and Mike Lysake, shooters In Ilooloy Crrove mine, were killed by a dust explosion. This is the twelfth accident this month.
Elktooth John, of Montana, Controls the Market. John D. Losekamp, of Montana, has only 40,000 teeth left, savs the New York World. Elktooth John, as he is sometimes called, has for 25 years been buying the molars of elks, until a short time ago he was the possessor of 80,000 elks' teeth. He is the "elktooth king" of Montana, if not of the entire west He corners the market and turns it loose at pleasure. He is the head of a kind of elk-tooth trust, against which no small potato in the elktooth line may hope to buck successfully. Losekamp formerly bought dresses
from the Indians, the dresses being
decorated sometimes with 500 teeth. Any hunter with elk teeth in his pos
session was sure of a purchaser in
Losekamp.
But he cannot buy them any more and make a reasonable profit, for any Crow Indian nowadavs knows the
value of an elk tooth.
Losekamp is disposing of his teeth
to a firm in the east at the rate of 400 and 500 a month. The firm takes
them for watch fobs for members of
the society of Elks.
In Wyoming a jeweler has made a
specialty of souvenir spoons, the handles of which are decorated with
elk teeth. An elk-tooth bracelet, stud
ded with diamonds is another Wyom
ing novelty.
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tor htmt anoct news.
The boy reached for his throttle through
a rain of iron blows.
wiiat Dad thought no one could find out I wanted to tell the old growler what I thought of him, but Foley said
It wouldn't do any good and might do
harm, so I held my peace.
One might have thought that the injustice and brutality of the thing would have roused him, but men who have repressed themselves till they are gray headed don't rise in a hurry to resent a
wrong. Dad kept as mute as the
sphinx. When McNeal was ready to
go out the old fireman had the 244 shin-
flcials kept all but one of them on their ing, but If the pale face of his engineer own divisions. ' That one we got be- had any effect on him he kept it to
cause nobody on the East End wanted himself.
him. As they rattled down the line with a
'They've crimped the whole bunch, long stock train that night neither of
Foley," said L answering his inquiries, them referred to the break In their which wasn't much, but by every man
There's just one fellow reported here run. Coming back next night, the doing something they got things fixed,
he came in on 5 this morning, same silence hung over the cab. The
Neighbor's had a little talk with him, only words that passed over the boiler
but he doesn't think much of him. I khead were "strickly business," as Dad
guess we're out the transportation on would say.
that fellow." At Oxford they were laid out by a
"What's his name?" asked Foley. Pullman special. It was 3 o'clock In
"Is he off the Reading r the morning and raining hard. TJn-
"Claims he is; his name is McNeal" er sucn circumstances an hour seems
all night At last Dad himself broke
the unsupportable silence.
"He'd have waited a good bit longer if he had waited for me to talk," said
the boy, telling Foley afterward.
"Ileapd you got licked," growled Dad
after tinkering with the fire for the
twentieth time.
"I didn't get licked," retorted Geor
gie: "I got clubbed. I never had a
chance to fight"
"These fellows hate to see a boy
come out and take a man's job. Can't
ian
"There she comes," said Dad as the headlight of the Pullman special shone faint ahead through the mist. "I'm mighty glad of it" said Geor
gie, looking at his watch. "Give me steam now, Dad. and I'll get you home In time for a nap before breakfast" A minute later the special shot over the switch, and the young runner, crowding the pistons a bit started off the siding. When Dad, looking back for the hind end brakeman to lock the switch and swing on, called all clear, Georgie pulled her out another notch, and the long train slowly gathered
headwav up the slippery track.
As the speed Increased the young R. IU, Chicago, Cincinnati A Loulavtn IU lU, Michigan Central n. R. m4
man and the Old relapsed into their Elgin, Jollet A Eastern U. IU and Chic ao, Lake Shore A Eaxtern 1U IU
usual silence. The 244 was always a
free steamer, but Georgie put ner through her paces without any apolo
gy, and it took lots of coal to square
the account.
In a few minutes they were pound
ing along up through the Narrows. The
track there follows the high bench between the bluffs, which sheer up on
one side, and the river bed, thirty feet
below the grade, on the other.
It is not an Inviting stretch at any
time with a big string of gondolas be
hind. But on a wet night it Is the last
place on the division where an engi
neer would want a side rod to go
wrong, and Just there and then! Geor-
gle's rod went very wrong indeed.
Halfway between centers the big
steel bar on his side, dipping then so
fast you couldn't have seen it even in daylight, snapped like a stick of lico
rice. The hind end ripped up into the
cab like the nose of a swordfish, tear
ing and smashing with appalling force
and fury.
Georgie McNeal's seat burst under
him as if a stick of giant powder had
exploded. He was jammed against the
cab roof like a link pin and fell sprawl
ing, while the monster steel flail
thrashed and tore through the cab with
every lightning revolution of the great
driver from which it swung.
It was a frightful moment. Any
thing thought or done must be thought and done at once. It was either to
stop that train, and quickly, or to
pound along until the 244 jumped the
track and lit In the river, with thirty
cars of coal to cover it
Instantly so Dad Hamilton after
ward told me instantly the boy,
scrambling to his feet, reached for his throttle reached for it through a rain
of iron blows, and staggered back with
his right arm hanging like a broken
wing from his shoulder. And back
again after It after the throttle with
his left; slipping and creeping care
fully this time up the throttle lever un
til, straining and twisting and dodg
ing, he caught the latch and pushed It
tightly home, Dad whistling vigorous
ly the while for brakes.
Relieved of the tremendous head on
the cylinder, the old engine calmed
down enough to let the two men col
lect themselves. Rapidly as the brakes could do it the long train was brought
up standing, and Georgie, helped by
his fireman, dropped out of the cab.
and they set about disconnecting the
engineer with his one arm the for
midable ends of the broken rod.
It was a slow, difficult piece of work
to do. In spite of their most active
efforts the rain chilled them to the
marrow. u.ne train crew gave them as much help as willing hands could.
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"McNeal?" echoed Foley, surprised.
"Not Georgie McNeal 7
"I don't know what his first name Is.
He's nothing but a boy.
"Dark complexloned fellow?" "Perhaps you'd call him that; sort of
soft spoken."
"Georgie McNeal, sure's you're born. If you've got him you've got a bird. He ran opposite me between New York and Philadelphia on the limited. I want to see him fight off. If it's Georgie. you're all right"
oiej " TT, ;r " blame 'em much neither."
me any time. nen i xoiu reignuor
about it he pricked up his ears. While we were debating in rushed Foley with the kid, as he called him. As luck would have it Neighbor put the boy on the 244 with Dad Hamilton, and Dad proceeded at oace to make what Foley termed "a great roar." "What's the matter?" demanded Neighbor roughly when the old fireman complained. "If you're goin to pull these trains with boys, I guess it's time for me to quit. I'm gettln' pretty old, anyhow." "What's the matter?" growled Neighbor, still surlier, knowing fall well that if the old fellow had a good reason he would have blurted it out at the start. "Nothln's the matter, only I'd like my time." "You won't get it," said Neighbor roughly. "Go back on your run. If McNeal don't behave, report him to me, aad he'll sit Ma time." .
"Whose job did I take?" demanded
Georgie angrily. "Was any one of
those cowards that jumped on m In
the dark looking for work on this engine?" There was nothing to say to that Dad kept still. "You talk about men," continued the young fellow. "If I am not more of a man than to slug a fellow from behind, the way they slugged me, I'll get off this engine and stay off. If that's what you call men out here, I don't want to be a man. I'll go back to Pennsylvania." "Why didn't you stay there?" growled Dad. "Why didn't your Without attempting to return the shot Dad pulled nervously at the chain. "If I hadn't been fool enough to go out on a strike, I might have been running there yet," continued Georgie.
I 4Qujitto naie kept fiwa froiajta
called In their flagmen Just before daybreak and started home. When the
sun rose Georgie, grim and silent, the
throttle In his left hand, was urging
the old engine along on a dogtrot
across the Blackwood flats, and so,
limping in on one side, the kid brought
his train Into .the Zanesville yards,
with Dad Hamilton unable to make
himself helpful enough, unable to showi his appreciation of the skill and tho
grit that the night had disclosed in the
kid engineer.
The hostler waiting in . the yard sprang into the cab with amazement
on his face and was just in time to lift a limp boy out of the old firemen's arms and help Dad get him to the ground, for Georgie had fainted. When the 244 reached the shops a few minutes later they photographed that cab. It was the worst case of rod smashing we had ever seen, and the West End shops have caught some
pretty tough looking cabs in their day. The boy who stopped the cyclone and saved his train and crew lay stretched on the lounge In my office waiting for the company surgeon. And old Dad Hamilton crabbed, Irascible old Dad Hamilton new around that boy exactly like an excited old rooster, first bringing ice and then water and then hot coffee and then fanning him with a time table. It was worth a small smashup to see It The one sweep of the rod which caught Georgie's arm had broken It In two places, and he was off duty three months. But It was a novelty to see
that boy walk down to the postoffice
and hear the strikers step up and ask how his arm was, and ta see old Dad
Hamilton tag around Zanesville after
him was refreshing. The kid engineer
sad won his surs.
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