Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 278, Hammond, Lake County, 13 May 1907 — Page 1

TUB WEATUEE.

Fair and 'warmer tonight rndar fair with lacreaIfiR cloudlnens and thowera by night.

Contract SatsscrtSors 9297 Sires! Sales - - - 980 Total, Yesterday 10277

VOL. 1, NO. 278.

HAMMOND, INDIANA, MONDAY MAY 13, 1907.

ONE CENT PER COP.Y.

RELIEF Pill

IP OF

111 CANAL

ts One of the Features of the Jamestown Exposition.

DITCH Ifl MINIATURE POPULACE 13 SATISFIED

Greatest Engineering Project of the Age Will Be Shown Moulded in Clay at the Big Fair.

FRANCHISES

ARE AWARDED

The Steel Trust Will Put in Its Own Public Utilities.

WANTED A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WHO V1LL SHINE WITH REFLECTED LIGHT.

Gas and Electricity in Less Than Year Temporary Water Supply in Month.

Norfolk, v a.. May is. booking over

the parapet wall of concrete a foot thick and breast high one may see in

mi nature at tin; Jamestown exposition

the Isthmus of Panama, as it will ap

pear after the great ditch has heen dug

by Uncle Sam. A civil engineer, C. II.

Johnson, who is in tho employ of the

Panama canal commission, is superin

tending the construction of the great

relief map, a line piece of topographical work which covers a sixth of an acre

near one of the government buildings. There is a popular fallacy that the Pacific ocean is four feet 'higher than the Atlantic at the Isthmus, but there Is no scientific data to substantiate that proposition. The fact is that in that latitude the moon fails to make

Its impress on the Atlantic, ocean while

It gives the Pacific a tide of twenty

five feet. If one, starting out to comprehend the situation would get his bearings It is necessary that he should understand at the outset that the Isthmus does not extend north and south as he may suppose, though its hills are B. continuation of the mountain range which in South America is known as the Andes and in North America is known as the Itoeky mountains. Nor does the Isthmus run east and west as Borne maps seem to indicate. The general direction of the canal extends from Panama on the Pacific northwesterly to Colon on the Atlantic. People in Panama instead of looking landward to see the sunrise and out over the Pacific to see it set, really look eastward to see the sun rise in, an estuary of tho Pacific, and see it set on the land horizon of the west v Rigiit: here it may be said" that the topography of the country will seem greatly changed after the canal has been built, for it is part of the scheme

to build two great dams, one near either end. which will result at the Atlantic end in the formation of a lake covering about a hundred square miles, flooding a country of that area, to take up tho waters of the Chagres, and turning countless hills into islands, while at the Pacific end another lake will similarly take care of the waters of the Kio Grande. The topographical map shows the work of the French company. Their canal started at Cristobal on the Atlantic and extending to a point near Guton locks, nearly six miles, is barely four feet deep now. There were otner bits of excavation also, including some work at Culbera nearer the other side.

canal may be briefly

Starting at the Atdredged channel some

miles through Ltmon

ater to the shore line.

The American described thus:

lantie there is a

four and a half

Hay from deep w;

Then there are two and a half miles of moderate cutting through low or swampy land to F.aton Hill where there are three locks each 27 1-3 feet high that lift a ship to the summit level of the canal. Once above the locks, a ship finds herself in the great arti

ficial lake through which a channel Is

buoyed. This is Lake Gaton. She fol

lows the buoys for twenty-three miles until she reaches Gamboa, the point at Which the Chagres, coming down from the mountains meets the lake. Just be

yond this point she meets the next hard cut the beginning of the Culebra. This Is eighty-two feet above the sea level, the canal's summit. The whole length

of the canal from deep water is 49

line

miles, while the length from shore to shore line is 41 miles.

lne heaviest cutting in the Culebra cut Is between what is known as the

86 and 3S mile points, but there are

three miles of deep cutting. This excavation is through an indurated clay. Tho deepest part of the cut is 2j0 feet and millions of cubic yards will have to be taken out. Tassing through this a vessel will find itself at Miguel lock of 27 1-3 feet and 31 miles from the entrance. She Is dropped into the lake formed by another lock of 54 2-3 feet at the Ta"clfic which forms the lake into which the liio Grande flows. This last lock

13 called Lallooa (the mouth). The trip across the lake is of several miles, and this ends the journey. All this is shown in the relief map, hills, valleys, water courses, lakes, islands Rnd even the ships themselves, the largest that are contemplated made to scale, as the chart is, will be seen .in the locks and in the lakes and in the canal, and actual water will complete the realism of the scene. The scale is about one foot to two thousand, saving that the vertical dl- ' mensions are exaggerated, otherwise, the hills, some of which are as much as SOO feet high, would not show up 'at all In a map 122x60 feet. The canal where cut is 200 feet wide and has a depth of 40 feet. In the lakes It has a varying width and depth but' never less than 40 feet

May 11, 1507, will be looked back upon as one of the most important dates in the history of the now far famed steel city of Gary for last Saturday afternoon tho board of trustees passed four franchises in which the rights to the principal public utilities were granted to representatives of the United States Steel corporation. The franchises are said to be fair to both the grantee and grantor and not only Include ample protection to the cltv. but are liberal enough so that the

various companies will not be hindered in the development of the utilities they represent. Saturday was franchise day with a vengeance. While tho meeting of a week ago had been tense with potential outbursts of indignation on the part of some of the citizens of Gary the meeting last Saturday was just tho opposite. The citizens were reconciled to the fact that the interests of the great corporation which gave birth to their city were identical with their own and when certain changes in the franchises were agreed to by the representatives of the steel company they were passed without a dissenting vote. Franchises Pmmm Without Comment. The meeting was called to order with all of the board members present. In various parts of the room sat the three or four representatives of the steel company. After the franchises were read they were passed with little comment and less formality. The franchise provides that the gas and electric plants are to be in operation HTn" less than a 'year and the water works are to be completed within three years, but the com

pany expects to iurnisil Wilier im.u

temporary wells witmn a monin ana electric lights and gas will be available within two months. The completion of the plants that will permanently

supply the great future population Garv will require a longer period

time. Tho action of the board will now make it possible for the workmen to continue the work of erecting the power station, laying the mains, cables and conduits and will result in tlu; immediate purchase of other equipment which altogether will cost several millions of dollars. Horn I' ii tier Lucky Star. Gary is fortunate in having been brought in to existence by such a wealthy corporation, for there are few of the mushroom cities that have sprung up in this region of marvelous industrial development that have not had to pass through that period of chaos clurin their devolpment in which even

i.MtviI necessities such as fuel

14"- ' and illuminating gas, water and l..-c

trie liehts and adequate transporta

tion facilities have been secured

after years of waiting and at an enor

mous cost.

Folowing the adoption of the fran-

Kt, Priiipnt E. J. Bufnngton, on

the r-art of the United

corporation, thanked their action.

A franchise was also awarded to the s.with Bend & Chicago Electric

Railway company, which concern represented by Mayor Darrow of Porte.

The franchise had been drafted after careful consideration and provides for n trunk line through the city, the right

of wav of which crosses five streets

This line will not be a local one,

will operate between the cities which the line was named.

The citv of Gary has safeguarded its

rights and although the franchise

granted for fifty years. there clause nroviding that the city

compel the line to elevate time.

GARY ALREADY HALF BUILT One Year Since Work First Started; Another Will Witness Finish.

"Commoner.

Fcrec Doubled Within Few Weeks and World Will Stand Aghast at Result.

WHEAT SOARS

BOVEJ IRK

Reaches 3 Cents Beyond

Expectations of Most Confirmed Bulls.

5,000 MEN ARE BUSY TENSION 15 STRAINED

Market Jumps From 9134, Saturday's Closing, to 9495 at Today's Opening.

HI EiOS

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Milk Producers Complain; Milk Consumers Have to Pay.

FARMER INTRUST KICKS Can't See Where He Gets Off at With Everything Going Up and Nothing Coming Down.

of of

the

States Steel

trustees for

La

but for

was

is a may

at any

WESTERN STEEL CAR AND FOUNDRY RESUMES WORK.

Branch Which Down Owing ow ltunning tlnue to Huu

Was Forced to Shut to Lack of Material, Full Force. Will (on-Hereafter.

The Western

company which since Wednesday of material has

Steel Car and Foundry b.as been closed down

on account of a lack begun work again.

An important meeting of St. Agnes Guild will be held this evening in the parish room of St. Paul's Episcopal church to make final arrangements for ."social evening." ' AH members are urgently requested to be present.

Only the mills were closed, the car works having continued in operations. During the shut-down 300 men were out of employment. There has been some apprehension that the whole plant would be shut down but the officials of the companv

deny that this is true and have explained the temporary shut-down by saying that they were unable to get the materials needed. There has beed some apprehension on the part of the employes regarding the prospect of work for this summer but their fears are unfounded as the officials declare there Is no prospect of the mills closing.

Receiving but 90 cents for an eight gallon can of milk during the month of

May, and with a five cent cut facing

them for the month of June, the farm

ers throughout Lake county, who are members of the Chicago union, other

wise known as the Milk Trust, feel

that the residents of Hammond are not

the only ones who are feeling the "squeeze" that Is being handed out by the octopus. It is true that they receive a larger sum for their cans dur

ing the winter months, but with the cost of feeding greatly increased, and with other hardships that they are facing, it is the general feeling among the cow owners around and- about Hammond and other cities in Lake county, that they have bought a gold brick. "But what can we do," said a prosperous farmer of Schererville, who is at present in the trust, and who sees his labor going for naught, "we are under paid for our milk, but how can

we be sure of our receipts if we don't belong to the trust." In these sentiments lie voiced the general feelings of the farmers who are at present in the trust. He exhibited to the representative of the Lake County Times a contract with the trust. He was to be paid 90 cents a can during May and in June was to receive 83 cents for the same amount of milk. In July the price was to advance a little and so on until the winter high price of $1.20 cents a can was reached. The farmer then explained how he came to be a member of the trust. "We formerly received more money per can than we do at the present time. For the privelege of doing business with the trust we pay two cents a can, the year round as a tithe. This further reduces our profit. We get one benelit from the union, and that is we are

sure or our money wnen ine montn s business is over, whereas-formerly we would have to wait several months at

a time lor our money, zsesiues we are sure of our sales and it was because of these two benefits that we are members. Both End Lose; Middle Wins. "You say that the people of Hammond will have to accept a raise of one cent a quart during the summer months?" he continued. "Why how can that be, when we have to stand for a cut, how is it that the consumer has to stand for a raise? Where do the increased profits go? Take for example this month, and I will show you just how much we make on this business at the low price that Is paid to us for a can r,r milk. During- May the cow is out to

pasture. The feeding is supposed to warrant the reduction, according to the trust, but this is a wrong idea. The grass is just starting to grow, has no nourishment and is very scanty, and the result is that to keep our cows up to the standard we are compelled to feed them night and morning, as we did in the winter so we lose just that amount. In June when we are paid S3 cents a can the feeding is a little better and July again sees the turn in

the richness of the grrass on our prairies where the sun burns it and the

sand blowing over it makes it poor for feeding purposes. In winter we have to feed the animals and the cost

of grain is high. During the last year.

with nearly 100 cows, I did not make

one cent, and according to the present

outlook, I will go into the hole this coming year. But as I said, what can we do." Farmers I P Against It. This was the general feeling among the farmers who are members of the trust, and they Included about all the milk producers. A farmer outside the trust was a rare person around Hammond. One was found who had a small Independent business and he was a little better off than his neighbors who were in the union. He claimed that he got a little better profit out of his cows than his neighbors, even if he did not get his money as quickly. He received a higher average per can the year round than did his competitors, but had some trouble in finding people

to handle his milk. Now that the trust

people refuse to sell the milk to the

grocery store or the small storekeeper

the independent man has this branch of

the business to advance on, and from

present outlook he will take advantage

of it. They're GueNMtug Why. In Dyer, Schererville and other out

side cities and towns, the residents have a great advantage over their cousins and friends in Hammond. The

price of milk in those places is five cents a quart delivered at the house.

while ITamraond "Kittstr- pay seven and eight cents for a poorer quality. Yet Hammond consumers double and triple the quantity and should receive any

advantage that could be offered, but

not so. The city is supplied mainly by

agents of the trustand the orders sent out every six months by the trust, from their palatial offices in Chicago, must

be obeyed.

The farmers about this section with

the dairy men have been receiving

overtures from a Gary concern to furn ish that town with their milk at ;

higher price than is paid by the trust

and there may be some desertions from

the ranks later on. However, the hold at present is strong and the Hammond people can look writh little hope for a change in the price of milk.

BONNIE HIES TIE HEROINE

Schools Are Closed Today

as Tribute to Her Success.

STUDENTS ARE PROUD

Hold Exercises This Morning Joy

of Victory Takes Away Sting of Athletic Defeat.

CARPENTERS STRIKE AT STANDARD STEEL

Sixty Workmen Employed on Cottages Outside the Grounds Walk Out.

carSteel noon

A strike involving about sixty penters employed at the Standard Car company was ordered at

Saturday because of the discharge of two union leaders and other differences of minor importance. The steward of this job had objected for some time to the laborers tearing down scaffolding, claiming that this work should bo done by carpenters. He objected so strenuously to this violation of the union rules that his employers thought it necessary to discharge him, and the trouble seems to be the culmination of a series of petty strifes between the contractors building the Standard Steel cottages and the carpenters. If their differences are not settled soon the union carpenters threaten a walk out of the entire works including those employed on the buildings inside the

yards. They claim the 150 men who would be thus forced out of employment would not long be idle as the building season has opened up, which fact would make it doubly hard for

the contractors to secure men to fill their places. Business Agent Horan of the local union is endeavoring to straighten the matter out this morning and a peaceable settlement is antici

pated.

FIRST ANNUAL "MAI FEST."

The German singing society, Fidelia, celebrated its first annual "Mai-

fest' 'in a most delightful manner Sunday night at Concordia hall, SOO West State street. A large per cent of the membership and their families were present and the affair was a decided social success, as well as being successful from a financial standpoint. In the contest for honor of being the queen of May Miss Minnie Bach was victorious over Miss Minnie Hermann.

Bonnie Haines is the heroine of

hundreds of happy school children in

Hammond today. After winning- the preliminary oratorical contest and then winning first honors from all over the county. Miss Haines went to South Bend last Saturday and won first honors in the Northern Indiana oratorical

contest.

The students are equally proud of the fact that Francis Hamacher made such

a good showing and many of them thought she should have had first in

stead of third place in the declamation

As for the track team, they have won laurels in the past and might

have done better this time if some of

the men had not been disqualified

The victory or Miss Haines takes away the bitterness of defeat in athletics and the Hammond high school students are

happy.

Today there was no school after 10

o'clock and the students are all re

joictng as thev wander around in the

warm sunshine of one of the firs spring davs in celebration of the sue

cess of their heroine. Celebration This Morning.

The high school held a big cele

bration this morning in honor of Miss

Haines victory. Three of Hammond's prominent citizens were called upon to help make the event worthy of the victory attained by Hammond's contest

ant. The enthusiasm of the students and the wit of the speakers tended to make the event one which will not soon be forgotten. After the new patriotic song, "Indiana" had been sung by all the pupils and a few yells indulged in, Supedintendent McDaniels introduced the first speaker. Mayor Becker. The mayor dwelt upon the fact that the victory which Hammond attained be

ing in oratory rather than athletics, spoke well for the preeminence of local school in mental attainments. He also said that it pointed to the fact that Lake county has one of the best educational systems in the country. Mr. Becker commented on the fact that a large precentage of the students in the high school were girls and thought it nearly equalled what he termed the sacred ratio of "sixteen to one."

Miss Bonnie Haines, the victorious orator, declared that in her opinion and that of a great many others, Francis Hamacher, Hammond's contestant in declamation, should have received first honors. Dr. Shanklin was then introduced and he was followed by A. Murry Turner. Mr. Turner called attention to the fact that the came energy and determination which won the oratorical

contest is attracting notice, from all over the country, to Hammond as a progressive city. After singing the National hymn and enthusiastically cheering Bonnie

Haines, Francis Hamacher and the track team, the students were dismissed for the morning to continue the celebration in the streets or at their homes after a promise by Mayor Becker to be lenient with them in their noise making about the city.

One-half the time allotted for the creation of Gary, Ind., has elapsed.

Within a year fires will be lighted for

the first time, while 12.000 men will take their places before the huge furnances of the Indiana Steel company's plant and the "Pittsburg of the West"

will awake.

Meanwhile 5,000 workmen, to be

doubled during the next few weeks, are busy with shovel, hammer, and

trowel making such a town as the

world never saw before. Tents and paper shacks are giving way to build

ings scientifically constructed of brick and concrete, gangs of men are busy

aying pavements or digging trenches

for water, sewer, and gas mains, while

arload after carload of clay and black

loam stands on the switch-track wait

ing the time when it wil be needed to

cover the smiting sand on wnicn tne

city is being built.

Within two years we will have a pop

ulation here of fully 100,000," said II. S. Norton, who has charge of the land agency and town building department.

"Five years will see Gary with 200,000 people, and second only In size to Indianapolis of all the cities in Indiana.

The maximum working force aimed at

by the steel company is 15,000, but

while this is to be the largest it is by

no means the only industry assured to

Gary. A large bridge building concern

is to put in a plant here, and many

other employing steel workmen or

using iron and steel for raw material

have been quietly securing sites for

factories and mills." It was a titanic task. Indeed, that

the officers of the so-called steel trust mapped out for their subordinates. The town site of Gary, comprising some 1,700 acres, was purchased quietly. It fronts on the lower end of Lake Michigan, and is divided by the Grand Calumet river. . The town proper is located on what was once an unkempt waste of sand dunes surmounted by a scrubby growth of pine and oak. Much of this has been cleared away and leveled off so far as possible. The entire tract has been platted. A few of the larger buildings, such as city hall, schoolhouses, and two hotels are erected. Individuals have built and are building a number of store buildings and business block along this street. There are already in course of construction 1,000 residences, for the mot part owned by the company, each costing from J2.000 to $15,000. These will be ready for occupancy before next winter. Then the crude period with its tent bunkhouses wil be a thing of the past and the frontier aspect will bo gone.

Chicago. May 13. Excitement ran high in the wheat pit this morning. Brokers, clerks, traders and speculators were waiting anxiously for the gong to sound announcing the opening of the session. Img before the opening hour every available space in tho capacious galleries was filled to overflowing. It was thought necessary to refuse admittance

jto any more visitors. This, however, was

abandoned when the directors found that they would be able to accomo

date them all.

The first prices at the opening of the

session had a wide range or nuciuauon.

The July option which closed iiturday

evening at 91 opened from 94 to 95.

At one side of the pit brokers were

bidding frantically for wheat at Sa while on the other side, traders were offering it at 94.

People who were predicting $1 wheat saw their prophecies realized quicker than they had any idea would bo tha case. September wheat this morning sold over one dollar a bushel; while the December touched I1.03H. . -Public Opinion Kepnilble. The action of the wheat market and the remarkable advance of almost ten cents a bushel in two days records another victory for the law of supply and demand. The public who are the owners of large amounts of speculative options have Insisted that the crop dam

age was serious ana accoruingiy nom- . ing could shake their faith in their position. They have, held on with a vengeance and on every decline accumulated more wheat. - - Early in the 'season all of the crop damage emenated from the southwest. It was asserted almost, ineessantly that section would not raise a half crop. Crop experts have contended that it would be two thirds of a full crop. But these panic experts .are beginning to reduce their estimates to conform with those made early by the trade.

To add fuel to the fire, several states

in the northwest have joined the calamity howlers, owing to the unseasonable weather which has absolutely retarded

seeding operations.

Foreign houses with memberships on

the local exchange joined the bun army

and had orders to buy large amounts oC

wheat both speculatively and for cash

delivery.

Should the present crisis continue

much longer, predictions as to wneai

values will be worthless. Corn, oats and provisions all showed

a sy mpa ineiic. auvam:c, uuin

the coarse trrains. while pork was

strongest of the provision list.

C0REY-GILMAN WEDDING. AWAITED WITH INTEREST.

the

Guent Have Already Arrived ICInbo

rate Dinner to Precede Event and livery Detail Planned on StimptlouM

Scale Will Leave tor Europe After

Ceremony. (Special to Lake County Times.)

New York, May 13. The wedding of William Ellis Corey and Miss Mabelle Gilman, will take place tomorrow morning in New York and already the twenty-five guests, including the immediate relatives of the happy couplle are arriving. The ceremony will be preceded by an elaborate dinner party to be given in the grand ball room which will be

fitted up for the occasion. Covers will be laid for 25 and the decorations will be mostly floral, with huge bouquets of American P.eauty roses banked about the table. Following the dinner, the ceremony will take place in Miss Gilman's suite and will be witnessed by the relatives and dose friends only. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and groom will board the Kaiser Wilhelm II. where the rooms of Captain Cupper have been engaged. This arrangement will leave Mr. and Mrs.

Corey to themselves a great aeai ana they will have four stewards to attend their every want. They will leave the -ship at Cherbourge and make a tour of France. Miss Gilman's trousseau is said to be very elaborate and worth a small fortune. She will not disclose what her wedding dress is to be preferring that it should be her secret until after the wedding.

To the Advertising Public

Final results of the ball game In THE LAKE COCXTY TIMES' Sporting Extra.

A very pleasant meeting will be held in the Masonic Temple tomorrow evening at which all members are requested to be present. There will be initiation of several candidates followed by a social hour.

circulation of the lake; county times Contract Circulation 9,297 Street Sales . . . 980 Total 10,277 CIRCULATION OR THE HAMMOND DAILY NEWS Contract Circulation 664 Street Sales 0 Total 664 The advertising rates of the Lake County Times are but one to one and one half times larger than The News The circulation of The Lake County Times is over ten times as large as The News.