Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 108, Hammond, Lake County, 23 October 1907 — Page 1

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Centrist Siirrs 9800 SirtsiS&i 1550 Total, Yesisnisj li;3SO ITION you II. XO. 108. FOUR EDITIONS DAILY. HAMllOKD, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1907. ONE CENT PER COPY, GARY PHONE FRANCHISE ffi HO INTERURBAN'S PLANS LARGE OFFIC NOW FOR THE BLUE RIBBON! PARI IN BUTE WAR FOR INDIANA HARBOR 1LDIIG FO Auditor Corrects Report That Insurance Dep't. Would Investigate. Street Car Service Will be S AWARDED EAST CHIC Clear Through to -7 Kensington.

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Chicago Company the Successful Competitor for the Telephone Privileges in Steel City Term of Fifty Years is Granted.

TOLL CONNECTIONS TO BE IN WITHIN THIRTY DAYS Independent Forces Are Completely Eouted by Coup of the Bell People Who Now Control the Situation in Calumet Keg-ion Eates from $1.50 to $4.00 Per Month. (Special to Lake County Times.) Gary. Ind., Oct. 23. By the unanimous vote of the board of trustees of Gary the Chicago Telephone company was awarded a franchise to endure for fifty years In that city, and will at once begin the construction of a temporary exchange. A toll station will be established within thirty days and the company Will bo furnishing1 the people of Gary with private telephone service within ninety days. The isolation of Gary, which has been so complete during the first year and a half of Its history on account of the Inadequacy of the means of telephonic communication with the outside world, will soon be a thing of the past and the Installation of the first Instruments will see the passing of the old courier system of transmitting messages and the beginning of a new era in the business life of the new city. Independents Itouted. Incidentally, the Chicago Telephone company lias "fought the "Independents" to a standstill, and with its fifty year Gary franchise, is so firmly intrenched in the Calumet region that it need not fear the invasion of the enemy in the future. The board meeting yesterday was characterized by a full attendance on the part of the board, attorneys and telephone men. The earlier part of the routine work was finished in record time, there being no reports. At a call for ordinances and resolutions tho Chicago Telephone company presented Its amended ordinance to Mr. Abbott. After the reading. President. Knotts asked the board what should be done with it. Trustee M. A. Caldwell moved Its adoption. The motion came seemingly half expectedly but objection after ohpectton together with numerous questions came from the several members. They were all met by the telephone company's representatives in a sauve, logical manner that disarmed all criticism and intimated only the largest desire on the rart of the company to subserve itself to the people's needs and wishes. Trustee Soars did most of the objeeting in an argumentative manner that drew out information he desired before finally seconding the motion. lie seemed thoroughly satisfied at length as did the other two members that the Chicago Telephone company was the best bidder and the motion to adopt the franchise ordinance num ber 46 carried unanimously. One more of the important problems are solved and service is promised within thirty days. The franchise is for fifty years. It requires the usual public precautions that the trustees have insisted upon in other franchises. The grant is not exclusive. The board retains the Tight to make other grants of the telephone franchise If it sees fit. The rates up t 3,000 phones are: single party, business, $4 per month; residence, $3 per month. Two party, business. $3 per month: residence. $2 per month. Four party, business $2 per month; residence, Sl.r.rt per month, making a rate that conforms in general to its rates in other cities of that size or using that number of phones. Above that number the company makes a reasonable rate if it sees fit after a full conference with the board. This leaves the question of rate largelv open with the common law resort to the courts to determine whether or not the company is reasonable. This last point seemed a mooted one to the board but their investigations during the last two months have resulted in their finding that arbitration clauses !n franchises have generally resulted in the decision of some court being taken before the arbitration was completed. The town has the right to use the poles for its police and fire alarm wires and the company furnishes phones to all of the town officials and to all of the schools free of charge in addition to which a reduction of twenty-five per cent Is made in the c.st of other phone service needed by the town. The company gives free service to its subscribers between here and Toleston making a total area of about thirty square miles over which it gives free service, probably the largest anywhere. It was apparent from the start that the Gary trustee? favored the company to which the franchise was (Continued ou page 6, column 5.)

Bluffton Situation of Paramount Interest Outcome is Important Eates Take Big Drop.

Indianapolis, Oct. 23. (Special.) Correcting a report that had become current that the insurance department of his office 'would Investigate the rate war which it now on among fire insurance men at Bluffton, John C R 111heimer, auditor of state, said today that he had no intention of taking any action. The case has not been officially reported to him, he explained, and moreover there is no state law, he thinks, that would permit him to attempt to regulate rates merely because competitive companies are cutting rates to force their local agents Into line. Eastern papers had printed stories that the auditor was about to enter he Bluffton war. The situation at Bluffton where union insurance companies are attempting to put In force new rates Is paramount Just now in Insurance circles. Similar attempts are to be made if the Bluffton case comes out satisfactorily. Already the companies have served notice on the agents at Munclo and. the agents there have put up a solid front In opposition. Trouble began at Bluffton last week when the companies announced that new rates based on the so-called Dean schedule should go Into force. Local agents rebelled as the rates for the most part were increased. The agents declared that non-union companies would get all the business if the change went into effect. At this junct ure, specltl agents of the union com panics entered the field and commenced to get business on a wholesale scale. The war between the regular and special agents resulted in a general slicing of rates. Instances are shown where merchants who had been paying $15 to $30 a year were offered insurance for $5, . . The outcome of the Bluffton situation is Important as it will have an effect on the outcome in other cities where the Dean schedule is now being enforced or is to be. Fort' Wayne and South Bend are included in the list where the schedule will be promulgated provided the union companies are successful in putting down the rebellion of their agents at Bluffton. Anderson and Richmond are also bound to feel the effect of the war sooner or later. POPULATION OF 9,094 Valparaiso, Oct. 23. (Special.) The city directory which was compiled during the last few months, was completed and distributed today. It shows that the city baa a population of 9,094. WANTS GEADE ESTABLISHED. James Bereolos, owner of the Maine restaurant, has petitioned the board of public works to establish the building grade at Columbia avenue and Morton avenue in the neighborhood of the Standard Steel plant where he intends to erect a hotel. The board also passed on and allowed the regular monthly bills. WKATHKlt Fair tonight andprobnblr Thursday; cooler tonight rlmlug temperature Thursday. 1 J

Attitude of President Roosevelt Towards Corporations Alleged to be Cause of Depreciation of Stock and Bond Values.

New York, Oct. 23. Wall street, the commercial center of the United States, is today in the throes of a panic that has shaken the foundations of the financial world, and market values of well known securities have depreciated to the lowest point in years. Xew York bankers and brokers openlv charge the cause of the panic to j antagonistic utterances of the president and claim that their effect on the industry and prosperity of the country are appalling. The Trust Company of America with deposits of $30,000,000 and $1 2.000,000 of money on hand, claim they are solvent, but nevertheless crowds were in line all day withdrawing vast quantities of cash. The Knickerbocker Trust company with deposits of $63,000,000, after paying out $8,000,000 in cash closed their doors temporarily to replete their cash box. New York. Oct. 23, I p. m. Comptroller Ridgley wires from Washington: "Am advised that the situation Is

GASH AT A DISCOUNT Insurance Co's. Ready Money Fails to Make Hit in Indiana. (Special to bake County Times.) Indianapolis, Oct 23 Strangely enough it was necessary for the American National Fire Insurance company, of Rock Island, 111, to get rid of some of its ready cash before it could get permission to enter the Indiana .field. The second request of the company to be admitted to this state has justfeeen, received by Cyrus Neal, clerk in the insurance department of the auditor's office. Similar request was turned down four months ago because the company did not have $200,000 worth of interest-bearing bonds, as required by law, although it had $250,000 in cash. After learning the provisions of the Indiana law, the company went about to convert some of its cash into bonds. It now has approximately $800,000 worth of Chicago municipal bonds. The company is reported to be thoroughly sound and it is thought that it will be allowed to do business in this state BOAT CLUB CLEAES EIVEE. Hammond' Motor Croft Organization Accomplishes Interesting Itcsults Dynamites l'illng Sandbar Goes xt. Hammond's newly organized motor boat club has already accomplished one tiling during its short existence, viz.: The partial clearing of the Calumet river of obstructions. The club yesterday caused the old piling which stood in the river near Columbia avenue to be dynamited and cleared away. The club proposes to attack the sandbar near the chemical works next in order to get better passage there. A meeting for election of officers will be held tomorrow night in Nicholas Kahl's club rooms and with the club regularly organized and perfected for next year the members intend to make a showing that will be worth while. well in hand and that from now on it will be better. The trouble is confined entirely to New York and there is no indication of trouble anywhere else in the country." New York. Oct. 23, 1:30 p. m. Secretary Cortelyou says: "I have nothing to add to the statement given out last night. I will be here throughout the day and as long as the situation seems to need my presence." Pittsburg, Oct. 23. R. Chall, president of the Pittsburg exchange, made the following formal statement: "The j Security Investment company finds itself Involved. This will necessitate a temporary suspension or receivership of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company, the Westinghouse Machine company, and the Ernest Lamp company. "The manufacturing companies are in absolutely solvent conditions. The condition of the Security Investment company will in no way affect the Union Switch and Signal company, and the Westinghouse Air Brake company."

LARGE GROD REARS

DR. J. 1 TORM Typhoid Fever Lecture Attracts a Goodly Audience at Towle's. MANY OEATHSTbEVENTABLE If Proper Caution Trcise&.Nor Heed cf Malignant Epidemics Filth Responsible, Dr. J, N .McCormick, secretary of the state board of health of Kentucky, addressed a good sized audience last night at Towle's opera house His subject might be called "The Physician Ills Relation of the Community at Large," with the subsidiary head of "Our Preventable diseases." The lecture lasted nearly two hours and covered a wide field. Speaking of the preventable diseases. Dr. McCormick said in part: "One-third of the people sick in this state last year, and every year, and one-third of those you took to your cemeteries, were sick and died of diseases which your medical profession could and would have prevented if they could have had the intelligent co-operation of your people. You had In that year 4,456 deaths from consumption, which means that you have about 20,000 cases of this disease in your state constantly. The common impression is that this is an inherited malady, but this is an error No matter what your mother and father died of you can no more have consumption except by getting into your body the germs from the previous case than you can raise corn or wheat on one of your rich farms without seed. If all the expec torated matter and the other infectious discharges from every case of this disease now in your state, could be collected and destroyed until they recover or die, there need never be another case within your borders unless It be an imported one. "You had 1.S23 deaths from the disease of children caused by using dirty, adulterated or spoiled milk out of 18,000 cases. We often speak of the slaughter of the innocent by Herod, but he was a novice In the business as compared with our modern cities. You shudder with horror over the loss of life on the Larchmont and in the New York Central wrecked the other day, and properly so, but more babies die needlessly every week In your state during the hot season than there were people killed in both of the disasters, and it goes on almost without comment. And It would be cheaper for you to inspect the dairies, or sterilize the milk, and save these babies than it would to bury them. "You had 44S deaths from diptheria and scarlet fever out of 19.000 cases, and distinctly preventable. You had S4S deaths from typhoid fever during that year. This means, according to the best estimate, that you have about 20.000 cases of this disease. No one can have it except by getting into their mouth and stomach some of the discharges from bowels or kidneys of some one who has It. This is not a nice thing to think about. But nice people ought to think about It and stop doing it. In cities it often conies from the use of Infected water, as in the epidemic now at Ser&nton, less frequently in the milk, sometimes on the hands, cooking utensils or food. In small towns and country districts typhoid fever is usually carried by the ordinary house fly, as it was at Chicamauga and other military camps during the war with Spain. In short, during this one year, you had 10.713 deaths from preventable diseases."

Kessler in St. Louis Republio.

Wf LL BANQUET NOV. 21 Commercial Club Has Set Date for its Big Blow Out. Gary, Oct. 23. Special The. arrange ments for the banquet to be given by committee has every reason to believe pletlon and the date of the occasion has been fixed as November 21. The banquet will take place at the new the Commerciol club are nearing com pleted about thar" time and "will " be ready for occupancy. Among the guests who have been invited and whom the committee has every reason to believ will be present are Gov. Frank Hanly, Judge Gary, Congressman Crumpacker and Mann, James Whitcomb Riley, E. J. Bufflngton, Attorney II. T. McCracken Tom Knotts, George W. Ross and other notables. Tickets for the banquet will be sold at $5. Capt. H. S. Norton will be toastmaster and will Introduce the speakers. The musical entertainment will consist of selections by the orchestra and a number of entertainers, including a quartet furnished by Will J. Davis. NEWTOWNNEARLOVJELL Rich Farmers Establish Village in Lake County's Garden Spot. (Special to Lake County Times.) Lowell, Ind., Oct. 23. A new town by the name of Belshaw is being built on the Indiana Harbor railroad, three miles southeast of Lowell. An elevator with a capacity of 15,000 bushels of grain, a large hay barn, coal shed and stock pen are now under course of construction and it Is said a large general store will be built In the near future. The new buildings will be completed and ready for business within the next month. George B. Bailey, Charley Bailey and Henry Hathaway, all prosperous farmers of West Creek township, and F. C. Brown, former elevator proprietor at State Line, are the founders of the new town. Lowell citizens fear that a town located as this one is, almost under the shadow of Lowell, and in the richest garden spot of Lake county, will hurt their town by dividing the hay and grain industry that has been Lowell's main stand-by for many years. CELEBRATE 100th ANNIVERSARY All Salnta and St. Joseph' $ehoola Close In Honor of Sinter's of Providence. This being the one hundredth anniversary of the advent in this country of the order of Sisters of Providence, of whom a number teach in All Saints and St. Joseph's school, both schools were dismissed today to commemorate the occasion. The principal celebration, however, is at St. Marys of the Woods near Terre Haute. Father Barrett of All Saints church and several other Hammond people went to St. Marys of the Woods to attend the celebration. LAND COMPANY INCORPORATES. The South Broadway Land company composed of Messrs. Timothy W. Englehardt and Henry C. Schwab of Chicago and Messrs. Patrick Riley and John A. Gavit of Hammond as directors, has filed Incorporation papers with the secretary of the state. The capital stock Is $20,000, the company having been organised to buy and sell south Gary real estate.

TO MAKE ALL LOCAL STOPS

Main Line Cars Will Be of the Ex press Variety Fifteen Minute Service Feature. Special to Lake County Tliues.) Indiana Harbor, Ind.. Oct. 23. It will be a matter of interest to the neonle of Hammond and East Chicago to know that it is the plan of the officials of the Chicago, Iike Shore & South Bend railroad to run the cars on the Indiana Harbor branch all the way through to Kensington and thence to Chicago, In fact, the Indiana Harbor cars are to be locals and will make all of the little station stops between the Har bor and Chicago, while the main line cars will bo the through cars and will stop only at the towns along the route in the same manner that the trains do on a steam railroad. The service between East Chicago and Indiana Harbor is decidedly poor at the present time and as the leave only once In forty minutes and are then often delayed by a lack of power, they are extremely unreliable. l.ntlre Line to Operate March. 1. However, the officials of the com-

pany. say they hope to have the en- the Firt xatlonal lltink are diBCUMlnff tire line in operation by the first of the feasibility of forming a stock cornMarch and then a fifteen-minute ser- pany to build a $60,000 building on one

vice will be installed ana tne peopie of Hammond will be enabled to get on a car and ride right through to East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, or vice versa. This will afford better service, to all of the cities of the Calumet region for by that time the road Will also be completed to Gary and the three largest cities of this territory will be accessible to each other. What is known as the Hammond feeder will ultimately be built, although the matter of securing a fran chise will not be taken up until after tne main une aim u, ..-Vi branch is in operation. The company is putting in pole at I Last Chicago ana me worn, ui Rtrnotion is Koins: on rapidly on all points of the line. IRE RIOTSJT GIBSON Police Summoned to Scene Are Delayed by Lack of Facilities. The wild and wooly Gibsonites emnlnvert In the vards of the Indiana Harbor railroad had another night of rioting ajid disturbance, the police of Hammond having to make two trips to the scene. A telephone message informed Capt. Austgen that squads of

men .were lighting ana raising i'Hcent on the investment and it has been

at tne place ana uiui a """u "A policemen were needed at once. oi having any ponce paxroi wagon, u w eMut? uiuc n I , .- fr-tAfs-VU O TU M II1 I 41 f'tll in litobtained at a uvery ' """' the police finally arrived at me cene the men had dispersed. ine omcers were unahie to oo anyiuinK uuL turn and later in tne eenlng were. again canea to me uj, mo intendent of the yard and this time thpv a rested a man on suspicion ot being the instigator of the trouble there being little evidence against him however. DEPOT BDSIJE MOVED Shift Lake Shore Station to Allow Elevation Work to Proceed. Gary. Oct. 23. (hpeciai.) To make it possible for the mechanics who are to put in the construction work for the elevated tracks, the Lake Shore depot and tracks will be moved from the present position and extended about sixty feet towards the center of the town. To do this, the base and i ties must be reset and the rails relaid for some distance. But the ob Ject of the work, the spread in the construction will be worth the labor Since the passing of the ordinance relative to the spt-ed of trains through the town, the railroads have ehown their willingness to do everything they can to aid in the upbuilding of the city, and although it means much to them, the trains now run slowly. AGAIN NO QUORUM For a second time within two weeks the city council failed to convene in regular session last night. The only members present last evening were Jacob Sehroeter. Richard Schaaf and John Kane. The Inter-State Automatic Telephone representatives were present to get a hearing. E. S. Emerlne. assistant cashier of the Citizen's German bank left this noon for Indianapolis to attend the Indiana Bankers' convention.

Business Men of City Head

ed by G. J. Bader, Plan Modern Structure Which Will be a Credit to tho Town. COST TO BEACH 570,000 INCLUDING PBICE OF LOT Initial Purpose to House First Na tional Bank, Which Was Deprived of Its Permanent Home by Todd Opera House Fire Many Seek Office and Store Booms. East Chicago. Ind.. Oct. 23 Special II n dearth of ftfArn mnrnm In thl ,,,. l!Mt,nvi t. t.,." ' hoU8e b,ock so t find the " 0f office room, imn.Hv. ... tho business men of Eiut Ohlon, headed by O. J. Bader. the nresbb-nt f of the prominent corners of the city, Mr. Itador has gone to the extent of having an architect draw plans for such a building and has shown them to several of tho business men whom he thinks would be interested. Mr. llailer is Int.Tt..,! fr thn m..n that since the fire he has been unabln to find a suitable location for his bank, ne ims naa several offers from men who said they would build a bank building but none of the projects so far have met with his approval. Many Would Change Location. In mMKI.in HI.. TI .1 1. Ueveral other busine ss men who would change their location if they could find ultable qtJartern artl th(n are a doj,n or more professional men who would Immediately grasp an opportunity to secure quarters in a modern, up-to-date office. This suggested the idea to Mr. Bader or building a business block that would be a credit to the cltv and also tho plan of securing the cooperation of those who might be interested in securing business locations as well as those who are looking for an invest ment. The banker says the building would cost in the neighborhood of $60,000 and the lot about $10,000 making the total amount of the investment $70,000. He says the bank will subscribe $30,000 ni mis amount ana ne minus tne otner $40,000 can be raised among the public spirited citizens of Last Chicago. Would Pay 10 I'er Cent on Investment. u . h estimated that the bnil.l- , could be relied unon to mv 10 nr suc-e-ested that If a dentist or a doctor car(1 to put j1000 to $2,000 in the projoct he wouM not oniy have a con i . . . . . acrvatlve investment that would an predate in value as the city but wh,ch wou,d t, cp , ,, ffi The building according to the sketches h,ch flre (m dspuv at the FJn,t Na tlonal bank show a structure twr Btorle3 ln hoIght and large enough to cover four lots. On the main floor there would be the bank and six other etoro rooms. Ou tho second floor there would be office rooms and a lodge room that coubl be rented out to one of the fraternal orders in the city. In the basement there is planned, a barber shop, a billiard and pool room, bowling alleys and several etore rooms. Several locations have been talked of, among them the corner where the Todd Opera house block stood. The ruins of this old building are looked upon as a disgrace to the city and everybody in town is anxious to see some new building on this site. There Uppears, however, to be very little likelyhood that the owner and a prospective purchaser can agree on the price and it may be necessary to locate the buildhng elsewhere. G0E5IS IKE MERRY 250 Friends of South Chicago Couple Witness Tying of the Knot. (Special to Lake County Times.) South Chicago, Oct. 23. Templln's hall was the scene of considerable merry-making last night when the wedding of John Soboiewski and Mis Helen Pyterek was celebrated there by 250 friends. The wedding ceremony took place ln th Poiis'a Catholio church and was performed by Father Frank Cojealewlch at 9 o'clock. After the church services a banquet was served in the hall across the street, after which danciiig was indulged in until a late hour. The groom 13 established in a Faloot. business at SS01 Houston avenue.