Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 107, Hammond, Lake County, 22 October 1907 — Page 8

fHE LAKE COUNTY TIMES Tuesday. October 22, . 1907.

Plant Site Scene of Gigantic Operations Beside Which Those of Residence and Business Section Pale Into Insignificance.

The bull.llnfr of the city of Gary Is child's play compared with the building of the enormous mills over on the north side of the Calumet river. This is the impression that every one t?ets who is fortunate enough to have the privilege of visiting the mill site. The discovery of this fact is a surprise to every one and has the effect of impressing the sightseer with the wonderful magnitude of the project as a whole. So much has been written of the model city of Gary and so little of the enormous mills that are the sole reason for the existence of that city, that to the popular mind the building of Gary Is the most important part

standing of the progress of the ore to the finished product. And there must be this progress in an industry of such magnitude. The making of steel must be done with the greatest economy If the product Is to compete with that which other con

cerns are offering in the markets of

the world. Not one unnecessary step must be taken by the employes which

can be avoided, and not one pound of steel must be movi'd one unnecessary foot or the profits will be reduced to

just that extent.

The ore Is to be received from the

enormous vessels that will enter ine

steel company's harbor. The unload

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REYNOLDS, IHD.V SCENE QFODDTRAIN ROBBERY

Bandits Lav for Pay Car

and Trap Passengers Be

tween Burning Bridges.

"The leak was In Chicago," say Small, "and I am not the only one who believes that it will be easy to locate the guilty party."

THEIR PLAN IS FRUSTRATED

RIVAL SULTANS FIGHT Legitimate Ruler Decisively Beaten and His Leader Captured.

Fail to Secure Money, But Terrorize

Passengers Routed By Train Crew Who Threaten Them.

The Indiana Steel Company's Office Building at Gary.

carried to the yawning maw of the hungry blast furnaces, where, with the aid of coke and lime it will be converted into iron. From the blast furnaces the iron will be taken to the open hearth mills, four in number, which will each contain several open hearth furnaces. Here the iron will be converted into sdeel and cast into lngrots, which in turn will be rolled into plates, rails or slabs, as the requirements demand.

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To the right of the picture is a blast furnace and Its four stoves

when actually the re-

There are to be sixteen of these at Gary.

of the project,

verse is true. However, it la only necessary for the observer to make a fleeting trip from town site to mill site and back again to be convinced that the heretofore empty statement that at Gary the United States Steel corporation is to build the greatest steel mills in the world, promises the most generous fulfillment. Order Impressive. As one crosses the temporary brldpre over the Calumet river and enters the domain of the Indiana Ste.l corporation, on the extension of Broadway, he passes the maKnlficent office bulldiifps and notices that the street is lined with factory buildings. He is impressed at first with the orderly arransement of the buildings and especially with the fact that they are most substantially built. The wonders that he is to see lie farther on, however, where in the distance tons of steel rise heavenward and form a ragged sky line. "While the first Impression is that of an orderly arrangement, the final ones are those of complete chaos and one wonders how the brain of man could have devised so complex a process for the production of steel products. You look at the rails which have al

ready been laid between the various

buildings and it seems incredible that for the production of one of them, all that tangle of steel, all of those ponderous foundations, the ships that bring in the ore, the beds that are built for its reception, the furnaces that refine it. and the mills that roll It, are necessary. Some Heady for Hoofs. As progress into the heart of what will soon be one of the busiest spots in the world is made, building after building comes into view. Some of them are so nearly completed that the roof is being placed over them. Others are incompleted webs of steel, and still others are marked only by the hardening foundations of concrete. And what a part concrete plays in the building of this great industry! The Moors of the machine shops are of concrete; thousands of yards of it go Into the foundations, the ore beds are niiida of it. and It Is so universally used that it is easy to prophesy the concrete ago when this useful material will be ns necessary to human progress as bread. But chaos becomes order when the reason for the location of this furnace or that building is evplained and the man acquainted with the great stee! industry Is given even a hasy under-

ing apparatus will deposit it on the

docks. Enormous traveling crazies

will pick up tons of it at a time and

distribute it over what is known as the ore beds.

These beds are made of concrete, the walls of which rise twenty-live feet high. In reality they are enor

mous bins three hundred feet wide and extend for a mile along the edge of the harbor on the ,west side of the mill

site. The amount of concrete that

will go into the construction of the

walls and floors of these beds is almost beyond belief. Then Come Hie,' Blnut Furoores. Along side of this mile of concrete

Arranged "With Greatest ZVIeety.

It will be noticed that the ore beds

are behind the harbor, that the blast

furnace's are behind the ore beds, that the open hearth furnaces are behind the blast furnaces, and that the roll

ing mills, the plate mills and the slab

mills are behind the open hearth fur naces.

At the back door of the whole plant

are the yards of the Chicago & Eastern

Illinois railroad, which belongs to the United States Steel corporation and

which will be relied upon to deliver the manufactured product to the numerous railroads of the Calumet region and thence to the markets of the

utilized in producer gas engines to make the power and that it in turn

produces the electricity that grinds tht

sla that makes the cement that goes

into the foundations of the house th

United States Steel company's Jacks

are building. All Waste Now Used. And so even the slag that was for

merly dumped into the lake and the tr.ises which tilled the air are being

used to help build Gary. Capital

enormous quantities of it, the piles of

it that the yellow journals would have the people believe are a menace to the f ! 1 t 1 1 T A f 1 t th emmtrv. alone has made

the utilization of waste possible and thi production of steel so much

cheaper that the captains of industry are enabled to pay their employes lib

eral wages and then sell the finished product in foreign markets cheaper than It can be produced there where

labor is chean and conditions for its

production are just as favorable.

Gary, the city, is but an Incident

to the building of the steel muis. ine

ten thousand employes and the people

who feed and clothe them will have to

have nlaees in which to live, near the

mills.

The far-seeinsr financiers who are

back of the project realize how im

portant Is the human element in the

Droduction of steel. They know that

men who live well work well and so they determined to build a model city.

Gary has risen out of the sand dunes

because the energy of Its future

100,000 people are needed in the pro

duction of rails and slabs just as much as is the lime and coke that goes into

the furnaces.

And when one has seen the wonder

ful activity on the mill site and has viewed the marvelous transformation

that has taken place there, his confi

dence in the future of Gary, the city,

and in the future of the Calumet re

gion as a whole, Is unlimited.

Reynolds, Ind, Oct. 22. The boldest

and most picturesque attempt at a rail

way hold-up in Indiana was reported

yesterday from Reynolds, Inc., near

which place five bandits were routed in an effort to rob a Panhandle pay train carrying between $20,000 and $30,000.

To accomplish their design the rob

bers burned two railroad bridges within two miles, planning to trap . the treasure train between two streams.

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r'"""1' iorces ot the rival su tans, Abd-el-Aziz and Mulat Hand, who are brothers, took place on tvt

near Rabat, between Shawta and Me'quiner. According to reliable reports received here from Mazagan. a de tachment of troops fighting wltli ri.i

Hand, the sultan of the south, and consisting of eight regiments. ' commanded by Mulal Rachid, known as the first division, defeated the fnrf..

of Abd-el-Aziz, the sultan of the north, and captured Cald Bushta Bagdanl". commander in chief of all the imperial forces in the field, who had with him eight pieces of modern . field artillery. The favorable effect of this victory to the cause of Mulai Hafid is incalculable. During the night of Oct. 17

some or .Mulai Hand's men made

pas- i third raid on the ! Mazagan. and

MUCH CONCERN FELT.

Ordinary Methods for Treating: Catarrh

Prove Unsuccessful.

Recent statistics phowing an Increase in catarrh have shaken the confidence

of medical men in the usual prescrip

tions to safeguard human health from

the ravages of this disease.

When stomach dosing proved inef

fective, it was natural to look for some other treatment, and it is believed that in Hvomel an absolute cure for all ca

tarrhal troubles has at last been found.

They bungled, and imprisoned a

sender train instead, and when

pay train drew up later and was

stopped at the first bridge they had

lost their strategic position and were repulsed by armed resistance.

When they found that they had

halted a passenger train their nerve failed. Instead of dynamiting the train and shooting those who might

oppose them, the hold-up men took to

the woods. Xot a passenger aboard the trapped train was molested.

Itoad Officials Staggered. Officials of the railroad were stag

gered by the boldness of the scheme.

Only when confirmation of the first

report reached them yesterday would they believe that two bridges across rivers had been burned with a train between them.

All manners of hold-ups had been

recorded in the history of American railroading, including the burning of

bridges ahead of a train and the wreck-

of the train to be robbed. But there capital

was no precedent for a train being held

up between the bridge ahead and the firing of the bridge behind before a train could back out of danger.

The bandits knew that a pay train

with a large sum of cash aboard was to go over the lines from Logansport, and thence to Chicago, starting on Saturday morning and making the trip during the day.

In time to catch the pay train a

bridge over a deep ravine and river '

was burned east of Reynolds and just east of Monticello. But Instead of the pay train a local passenger train was

switched in on the pay train schedule and was halted by a signal from the

bandits ahead

The threo men who had flagged the

train to loot it recognized their mistake when they brought the train to a halt and found that it was made up of passenger coaches and a baggage car. But in the meantime the two other bandits of the gang had fired

the bridge behind of the train and it was entirely out of touch with stations

or ttlegrapnjc service.

the custom house at seized 100.000 cart

ridges, and on the following night they made a fourth raid on the same place and captured 200.000 more cartridges. Imperial Troops Heaeh TnnRlrr. The first division of the imperial troops, consisting of S00 men destined for Mogador, arrived at Tangier today. Communication with Mogador is Interrupted. The officials at Mazagan have received Information to the effect that Mulal Hafid Ptarted on Oct. 19 for Gharab, the district between Tangier, Rabat, and Fez. Hafid has issued a notice to the effect that he guarantees protection of all the foreigners at Morocco City, inviting certain foreigners who have gone to Mazagan to return

to Morocco City and resume business there and ordering his sentatives to furnish them with thing necessary in order to them to make the return trio

of the south.

Hafid is showing a strong hand in

controlling certain Moorish sects which are demanding the proclamation of a holy war, to which he is unalterably opposed. Mould Kill MnrLran by Inches. Some of Raisuli's followers have deserted him and come to Tangier. The native report of the occurrence gives as a reason for the desertions that Ralsuli, in retaliation for the French

t interference In the steps taken to sejcure the release of Caid Sir Harry Mac (Lean, intends to "kill MacLean by , inches."

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WALLIH6SARE FREED No Conditions Attached to Their Helease From Prisx on in St. Petersburg. :

St. Petersburg, Oct. 1. William Kr.rllfh Walling of Indianapolis, Ms wife, and his wife's sister. Rose Struneky, who were arrested and taken to Jail last night because of their nssoclatioa with members of tho Finish pro-sre,-lve rarty. were released this evening. The police found nothing among tha

rarers or the trio to warrant detaining them. No conditions are attached to tho release, but Mr. and Mrs. Walling and Miss Strunsky Intend to leave St. Petersburg on Wednesday. They say they have practically finished their work la

Russia. All their papers and manuscripts have been restored to them. The officials this vvenlns expressed regret at tho arrest, which they say

was ordered upon the report of an overz-alous spy who had been shadowing the Finnish revolutionists wltU

whom the Americans had been dated.

ne two women prisoners wer

fined for the twenty-four hours

prison overcrowded with young

men revolutionists. Thev were

ducted to a small cell Soft f.t

they said this evening they had suffered nj especially discomfort during their arrest. They told amusing tales of the laxity of Russian prison discipline. As soon ns it was rumored in th institution that two American women had been brought In they began to receive visits from the other prisoners. They held a regular reception la their cell and related the latest history of the outside world to the cur lous and eager women who crowded to see them. Mr. Walling was assigned to a aepl arate cell In the detention prison. Nominally he was not permitted to communicate with anybody, but ho found no difficulty in getting a letter out to the American embassy, making use of the "underground" postal service maintained by the prisoners who were aided in this practice by Beverai subventloned officers. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Walling was questioned after the arrest, but Mls Strunsky was subjected to a searching

inquisition In the matter of her relations with prominent Finnish agitators. She proved, however, that her acquaintance with these people wai merely casual. The efforts undertaken by the American embassy had much to do with hastening the release of the prisoners. The prosecuting authorities In St. Petersburg have so many cases on their

hands nowadays that as a rule suspects are confined from two weeks to three months before they are examined.

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ILL KEYMENTO UNITE I Striking Commercial Men

Would Consolidate With Railway Operators.

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Oct 22. Definite action the amalgamation of the Telegraphers' union and of Railroad Telegraphers

The factory buildings located along the extension of Broadway.

ore bins the blast furnaces are being constructed. These furnaces are tall cylindrical affairs and are each accompanied by four hot blast stoves. Already there have been four of these blast furnaces constructed. They occupy a stretch along the harbor a quarter of a mile long and when it is known that in all there are to be sixteen to be constructed, something of an idea of the magnitude of the work that is being done on the mill site may be appreciated. The ore will be picked tip from the -re beds by conveyors and will be

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world. Most great steel plants have come into existence as a result of gradual growth. A small plant has been built and as the business increased additions were made to it to accommodate the increasing demand. This made the Idea! arrangement that is found at Gary, impossible.

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plant is a made to! but $1.00 and is sold by Summer':

is believed that steel

with so much greater

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facility that the cost of production j give satisfaction

win oe materially decreased. Hentlnds of Ilou.ne that Jack Built. And this simply illustrates the splendid economy that it is possible.

where enormous capital and unlimited ; resources make everything and anyj tb.ing possible. i Ask the contractor where he gets his j cement, and he will tell you that it is

j manutactureu at tue liuinngton ce

Iment plant, owned by the United OVERDRAWS

States Steel corporation. ! Go to Buffington and ask 'the superintendent where he gets his material i to make his cement, and he will tell j you that one of the principal ingredli ents is the slag which he gets from Ithe mills of the Illinois Steel plant. Ask him where he gets the power to operate his plant, and he will tell you that he gets it from the same source. Go to the chief electrician of the Illinois Steel company's plant and ask him where he gets the power he sends electrically over the wires to Buffingi ton. He will tell you that the gases i which come from the furnaces are

pharmacy under an absolute guarantee to refund the money if it does not

It is the only cure

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under a guarantee to cost nothing unless it cures, but Summers' pharmacy has so much faith in its power to cure all catarrhal troubles that they are willing to take the risk, so if Hyomei does not help you. there will not be a penny's expense. Get an outfit at once on this liberal plan.

ACCOUNT $40,000?

Head of Indiana Mining Concern Arrested In Connection with Affairs of a Defunct Rank. Jasper, Ind., Oct. 21. As a result of the examination into the affairs of the defunct People's State bank at Huntingburg. Ind., Samuel Wulfman. head of the Hartwell coal mines in Pike county, Ind., was arrested and later released on bond. It is claimed Wulfman overdrew his account with the defunct bank to the amount of J40.000. Wulfman is a trustee for the Southern Indiana Insane hospital, Evansville.

was taken at the mass meeting of the striking operators yesterday. By unanimous vote and the cheers the eighteen delegates chosen to represent the Chicago union at the special convention, which will begin in Milwaukee tomorrow, were instructed to present a resolution calling for the immediate amalgamation of the railroad and commercial telegraphers. That the officials of both organizations have had negotiations along this line, and that the amalgamation would not be unacceptable to the railroad telegraphers, was intimated by officials of the commercial aperators. "Want Railroad Men to Strike. If the amalgamation is effected it Is understood that the railroad teleg

raphers throughout the country will be called upon to go on strike. That this move would not be unacceptable to the railroad operators was suggested last night by an official of the commercial operators' union. "The railroad men have a number of long standing grievances with several railroad systems," he said. "They have been fighting the Santa Fe, Louisville and Nashville, and Katy systems for a long time. A strike resultinr-

in a railroad tieup would result In !

immediate settlement of both strikes. Small Itlnmes a Traitor.

S J. Small, deposed president of the commercial telegraphers, made public a letter addressed to the officers and members of the organization explaining his action in asking the local unions to consider calling off the strike and advising against the Milwaukee convention. The letter reads in part:

i tie telegram i sent to 3a out of the 133 local union was the result of a conference had with General Secretary-Treasurer Russell and Acting Chairman of the General Executive lioard Konenkamp, in which we decided that if, after the stockholders of the Western Union Telegraph com-

j pany met on Wednesday, Oct. 9, Col. dowry was not deposed and a settlement of the strike in sight, we should j submit the proposition to declare the ! strike off." i

The letter adds that the dispatch! became public prematurely through the! telegraph companies securing a trans-1 lation of the cipher telegraniT"-

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