Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 164, Hammond, Lake County, 30 December 1907 — Page 8

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I DEATH GRAPPLE Nebraskan and Friends Wage Secret War on Minnesota Rival. OWN STATE FOR GOVERNOR Would Make Nebraskan's Nomination on First Ballot Impossible, and cause a Landslide. Minneapolis, Minn., Doc. 30. Without a single outward sign of war between Governor Johnson of Minnesota and William J. Bryan, there is really being waged right now in Minnesota a contest which may decide the outcome of the democratic national co! ventlon at Denver next July. Really, Johnson and Bryan are engaged in "a death grapple in Minnesota, and the fight is occurring altogether under cover. If Bryan wins, Johnson's name will never be seriously mentioned in the rare for the democratic nomination. If Johnson wins, lie has made a- most gigantic stride toward tihe White House or, at least toward the leadership of the democratic host at the next election. Practically nothing of this fight has go far appeared in public, but within the next few weeks Minnesota and tho entire country will ring with tho sounds of the conflict. Even now Bryan is endeavoring to "smoke" Johnson out, say the friends of the latter, but he has not yet succeeded. So far Johnson has tho best of the fight. Without appearing to act by authority of the governor, Johnson's friends are doing everything possible to have the democrats in Minnesota send a delegation to the democratic national convention which will be inttructed for Johnson. Johnson In Pavorite Son. The plea is the old one of the "favorite son," ami upon that argument Johnson is making rapid headway even among the Bryan men. The latter, or at least that large proportion of the Hryan men who are not on the "inside" and who do not know the scheme, can see no danger to Mr. Bryan in having Minnesota cast its vote for Governor Johnson, who in fact, is very popular with his constituents. "Bryan Will have enough vote:; to nominate Lim anyway, and it's a pretty compliment to Johnson to be mentioned as a candidate," is one of the apologies offered. Johnson's plan is to first secure t'.i Minnesota delegation. 1 hen he insures i v. securing North Dakota a. id probably one or two other neighboring States, lie knows well enough that Now York. New .ler.uy, Pennsylvania. Maine, New Hampshire. Rhode Island, and probably Massachusottts will never send Bryan delegations to Denver if there Ia a possible ehamv? for any other candidate, so he expects to have friendly delegations from these and several other states as well. While these are not enough to nominate Johnson, tho democratic rule of a twothird vote necessary for a nomination Is counted upon by him to prevent the nomination of Bryan on the tlrst few lallots. find lie expects other states to then fall into the Johnson column, having fulfilled their instructions and voted for Bryan "a long as there is a chance for his nomination." Tills is whore Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and some southern states like Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee might decide the battle in favor of Johnson. It is known to Johnson's close friends that the present democratic organizations in the states named are secretly opposed to Bryan. But they will send alleged Bryan delegations to the national convention so as to prevent a primary fight, in v.iiioh case it is very likely that uncompromising Bryan delegations would lie elected. When the national convention meets and the balloting begins. Johnson's friends would not bo surprised to see the delegation from IKiiuis cast its fifty-four votes for the nomination, as word received here f.rm autlnntie sources in Illinois says that National Committeeman Roger C. j S?;;M!van is sure to control the state J convention which elects the delegation j t the national cor. centioa, and that PuUivan will never let his delegation vote for Bryan once if it is in his hands. Bryan scouts, it is said, have been chdugiiisr Nebrnskan with com plaints of the secret activities of his fo-s in tli states named. At first these stoiies were pooh-hoohed, but within the past few days some moves Lave been made to indicate that the Kcbraskan's friends have become alarmed, and that they have started the underground tight against Johnson in his own state with the hope of preventing his indorsement by Minnesota and tho consequent rout of the Johnson men. 10 NEW YEAR FOR Hi Chicago. Dec. 30. Tho glad new year held out r.o gladness to two despondent 'men in Chicago yesterday. Determined to die with 1907. M. B. Humphrey, formerly a salesman from New York, turned on the gas in a hotel room and was lifeless when found. Another man, whose identity is unknown, leaped from the Twelfth street bridge, was so determined to drown that he pushed a way a rope thrown to him. and was swept away down the stream. Unwillingness to start the new year without money or work was the reason that prompted Humphrey to wind up Ids earthly affairs with 1907. He registered on Saturday morning at the Clarendon hotel. 132 North Clark street. He was seemingly . about 4 3 years old. He was found dead yesterday afternoon by Jessie Clark, a chambermaid, who went into the room to clean it. Two gas Jets in the room were wj. open end the room was filled with gas.

HOBO BUREAU -OPENED Ross Smith, Ex-Printer, Endeavors to Aid Unemployed.

Chicago, Dec. SO. Have you any windows you want washed, or dishes, or posters distributed, or snow shoveled?. If you have, the free employment agency of the Amalgamated Order of the Unemployed, whieti has its headquarters at the Vestibule, Van Buren street, would like to know about it. Tho free employment agency was established In an informal way yesterday by an ex-prir.ter named Ross Smith, Just before lie left in the afternoon for a restaurant where ho was to get 71 cents for washing dishes from 6 o'clock until midnight. With 75,000 unemployed men walking the city streets, Smith thought the freo employment bureau that would make a specialty of hobos would bo a great success. Alderman Kenna, when asked concerning the bureau later, said he was in favor of it. "There are a lot of odd Jobs around the city," said he, "and If people would know where to go they would give work to men who would be glad to do it." Cheap Lodging Ilounrn Full. Smith, ith his overcoat buttoned up to his chin and a several days' growth of whiskers on his face, stood at the foot of the stairs in the Vestibule and peered outside at the misty street, darker than elsewhere under the elevated tracks. Lodging house denizens, with their shoulders humped and their heads bent, passed in the rain. "There are thousands of people here this winter,'" he said, "who walk the streets after 1 o'clock, when the saloons are closed. They don't know where to go. The police stations can't hold them all, even if the police would let them in. They drop down toward morning in some entry or they sleep on the sawdust floor of some saloon if they are lucky. They were lying in rows on the floor at Foley's, 41 West Madison street. Smith said he personally always had been fortunate enough to get the price of a 25 cent bed at the Vestibule, without cadging. "I'm on my way now to a restaurant where I'll get a job washing dishes for the night for 71 cents," he said. "That's quite a windfall for me. Sometimes I distribute handbills or scrub floors. The other day I got CO cents for washing the front windows of a restaurant, and during the snow storm I earned 17',2 cents an hour shoveling snow from the street car tracks. A snowfall means a lot of work for the unemployed." Tells of Fire Unreal!. Smith passed up the stairway. The office room of the Vestibule, a roomy, well ventilated place, and kept clean, was crowded with men who srt on chairs and smoked or stood about. "Most of these men," the guide continued, "have nothing to do. They simply live from one day to another. I have been talking up a free employment bureau and the house is willing to help me. The idea is for any one with an odd Job to let the Vestibule know. We'll furnish men fast enough. I am lucky if I get two days' work a week. A good many don't secure any work at all. the old ones and the ones who don't know where to go. It takes a lot of hustling to land a 50 cent job." SEIZE U. SJAR PLUS Newspaper Writer's Charts are Confiscated by Agent -Net Arrested. Washington. D. C, Dec. 30. Tho war department has recovered, through the secret service department, plans of railroad terminals offered for sale in New York by one Herbert Ross. The plans are described by war officials as being not important from a standpoint of secrecy, but valuable data for the department in case it becomes necessary to move large bodies of troops. They show the facilities of the larger railroad systems for such a purpose. A copy of these plans was sent to each railroad official in New York who had aided in the preparation of them. They were sent for revision or approval. The plans disappeared from one official's desk. Se!.cd by V. S. Agent. Herbert Ross offered them to a New York newspaper. The editor declined to accept them. Ross left the office with the remark: "Well, I suppose you know that the Japanese consul here would pay $10,000 for these plans. But. I am not such a traitor as to offer them to him." A secret service and demanded the no trouble about it, man went to Ross plans. There was Ross delivering the plans to the officer. Ross said he did not ofTer the plans to the Japanese. They are not the kind of plans that must be bought, as any foreign government can reproduce them by a little industry. Has Checkered Record. Herbert Ross at one time worked on a newspaper in Manila. He left the islands under pressure in the summer of 1905. He had been discharged from the newspaper and afterward had a police court record. One of the charges against him was that of picking pockets in a barroom. On his return to the States he offered much in the way of attack on the government to newspapers, but little of it was printed, after investigation. It is understood here that he has been for some time in New York, and is known as a "tirster" on Park row. A merchant cannot always prevent the churlishness of a clerk no he doe his beat to atone ffcr It by offering you price concession.

S RIVAL OF IRS. EDDY

Bishop Fallows Announces Belief in Religion as a Cure. Chicago, Dec. 30. Bishop Samuel of the Reformed Episcopal church has announced himself a believer in the religious or mental cure of disease. He does not call it Christian science. With him it is Christian psychology. He stated yesterday that his church, the St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal, will inaugurate this work in the near future with the advice and assistance of some physicians of the city. Many Dl.-ease to He Treated. The bishop's claim is that Christian psychology will cure anything that is curable by Christian Science methods, which are he believes simply cures by faith on the part of the patients that they will be healed. This faith cure is practiced to a certain extent by all physicians and Dr. Fallows believes it should exist In its highest form among earnest Christians. Here are just a few of the diseases that the bishop asserts may be cured by Christian psychology: Functional nervous disorders. Hypochrondia. Sleepleness. Nervous dyspepsia. Melancholia. Mental depression. Hysteria. Neurasthenia. Drug habits. Want of self-confidence. Irritability, worry, anger, fear. Weakness of will. Eibil:) Ills Plan. In his evening sermon at his church, Adams street and Winchester avenue, the bishop told of his plans and explained his views in regard to mental healing of disease. "Christian psychology," he said, "uses every curative agency irf the world of nature as an aid to the powerful influence of suggestion and auto-suges-tion for mental and physical health. I unites the physician and the clergyman in the great work of healing. It aims to give the physician trained men and women to assist him in his ministry ot the sick and suffering. Link All the Churches. "Its hope is to link all the churches irrespective of creed in this beneficent effort, which it the imperative demand of the age. It is to prove to their members that there is no necessity for leaving their respective communions and seeking in antagonistic organizations the boon of health and happiness. "It is along these lines that the Boston Emmanuel church movement has been carried on for more than a year by the Rev. Dr. Worcester and the Rev. Dr. McComb. The ablest neurologists of Boston and New Eng'antl are heartily co-operating with !iem. The results have been most encouraging. IRE OUT FOR A SPIN Employer and His Stenographer Caught in Automobile Wreck. Chicago, Dec. SO. Crashing into an automobile last evening, a crowded street ertr at Dearborn avenue and Division street demolished the lighter vehicle, pinning two of its occupants, one of them a woman, under it. The chauffeur escaped death by jumping, but was seriously hurt. Two men who rode on the front platform of the street car also were victims of the accident. The Injured. O'Connor, Rose, 33 years old, 242 Belden avenue; bookkeeper for Sharp and Smith; severe scalp wounds; badly cut about face and head; was in automobile with. Mr. Sharp. Do Bolt. G. H., chauffeur, S39 West Sixty-first street; cut about face and head; internal injuries. Muller. O., 1725 North Clark street; cut about face and head and bruises on body; was on street car. Sharp. William N., president of Sharp & Smith, dealers In surgeons' supplies, 92 Wabash avenue; resident of Oak Park; cut about face, head, and body; skull probably fractured. Thoreilus, Dr. Oscar, 9S Delaware place; cut about face and head; was on street car. Eye witnesses of the accident, which occurred at S o'clock, when the street was filled with pedestrians, said they were unable to fix the blame. The automobile, which, was a hired vehicle, was proceeding north in Dearborn avenue when an easttound State street car struck it in the rear. Xarniiv Escape from Death. The auto collapsed as if it had been made of paper mache. turned completely around, and shot with lightning speed over to the northeast corner of Dearborn avenue and Division street. There is a deep excavation at that corner for a building that never was started and the occupants of the car had a narrow escape from being thrown into it head over heels. Mr. Sharp and Miss O'Connor were riding together in the rear seat. The chauffeur, when he saw the collision was inevitable, jumped, at the same time trying to save the woman by grasping her arm and pulling her along. lie wasn't quick enough for the acrobatic stunt. Miss O'Connor and Mr. Sharp were pinned under the mo tor car, held prisoners by a rear wheel which was knocked off. Dr. Thorelius and Mr. Muller were riding on the front of the street car when the collision occurred. They tried to jump and were caught between the two vehicles. There was a wild scramble on the part of the passengers in the street car when the Impact came. Several of them were thrown into a heap on the floor and there were screams from the women, but no one was seriously hurt. Fl'RMSHED HOOJ1S T1SED TODAY. ARE AD VCR-

FOR RIO JANEIRO

I Enthusiastic Farewells Battleships Leave Port of Spain. as Pori f Spain, Trinidad, Dec. 29. The American battleship fleet weighed anchor at 4 o'clock this afternoon and steamed for Rio Janeiro. Accompanying the fleet were the supply ships Culgoa and Glacier. Long before the hour set a myriad of small craft, chiefly launches and steam yachts, moved up and down along the lines of anchored warship, the merry parties aboard shouting farewells to the departing visitors. Thousands of residents climbed the surrounding hills to view the great white ships as they moved outward on their journey of 3,000 miles and more, while boatloads of excursionists went to the small islands in the gulf and others to the floating dock to catch the last glimpse of the ships that were so royally welcomed to this port almftst a week ago. Twelve Days to Itrazllian Port. The fleet presented a magnificent appearance as it steamed out in four columns with the supply ships trailing, a distance of 400 yards, separating one division from another. With the Connecticut in the lead the battleships headed for the Bocas and steamed majestically through the Grand Boca and thence along the northern coast of Trinidad. An average of from ten to eleven knots an hour will carry the fleet to the end of the second lap of the 14,000 miles journey in about twelve days, and it was announced by Admiral Evans before his departure that he expected to reach Rio Janeiro on Friday evening, Jan. 10. During the week of their visit here the American officers and men received every courtesy at the hands of the residents. Sir Henry Moore Jackson, the governor of Trinidad. Colonel Swain, and other high officials gave dinners and garden parties in honor of the commander of the fleet and his officers, and there were scores of excursions and entertainments for the men. all of whom enjoyed more than the ordinary amount of shore liberty. Praise Eeinplnry Uehavior. The newspapers here and the residents are unsparing in their praise of the exemplary behavior of the men and the papers compliment Admiral Evans in the warmest terms expressing to him and his men tho best wishes of the people of Trinidad and the hope that they will soon return. Yesterday an unusual number of steamers with many excursionists aboard, put out to the fleet, and in spite of the racing and many other attractions ashore thousands availed themselves of the opportunity of seeing the largest fleet of battleship ever anchored in these waters. The American consul, William W. Handler, paid his farewell visit to the flagship yesterday afternoon, believing that the start for Rio Janeiro would be made at an early hour. He was accorded the usual honors and a salute was fired on his departure. ADMITS OMEilESS C. F. Goodrich oays Naval Charges, as Stated in Magazine, Are True. Chicago, Dec. 30. The charges that there are glaring weaknesses in the discipline and equipment of the United States navy, as recently made in a magazine article, were admitted to be true yesterday by Rear Admiral C. F. Goodrich, commander of the New York navy yard, who 13 considered one of the brainiest men in the naval service. Not only are the charges true, according to the guarded admissions of the veteran admiral, but many of the high officials in the navy, himself among them, have notified the department at Washington officially of the exisitir.g weaknesses. Admiral Goodrich stopped off In Chicago during the day on his way to San Diego, Cal., where he will direct the unveiling of a monument, erected by sailors of the Pacific squadron in memory of the sixty-six men killed in the explosion aboard the small cruiser Bennington in 1903. At that time Admiral Goodrich was in command of the Pacific squadron. He is president of the Memorial Fund association that has collected the money to build the massive monument in the naval and military cemetery at Point Loir. a. Admiral Watches His Words. When seen at the Chicago club the admiral was dressed in a civilian suit, with black, double breasted, sack coat. He wore none of the Insignia of his office. He i3 a pleasant spoken man with keen eyes and-a decisive mouth, overshadowed by a stubby gray mustache. His hair also is gray. It was apparent that he held himself in check with some exertion. One of the charges in the magazine article, which was by Henry Reuterdahl. editor of Fighting Ships, and an acknowledged authority on naval matters, was that "criticism is stifled." Admiral Goodrich's first statement corrobated that much. When a few more questions concerning the much talked about criticisms were aimed at him the admiral sidestepped. "Well, you know my lips are locked against discussions refiectir on the navy," he said. "That is an order of the department. Yes, I believe the order is much more exacting n the navy than In the army." However, the admiral diJn't consider it a violation of duty to express a general opinion on what other persons had charged against the navy. "I have heard a lot about the charges made in the article," he continued. "I will say this much, that Reuterdahl knew what he was talking about. There is little in the article that isn't true. I have a copy of the mazaglne in my grip upstairs, and have read it carefully.

GOLOHIAL'S USE SHOCKS

Iroquois Memorial Associa tion Denounces Use of Building as Theatre. Chicago, Dec. 30. Continued use of the site of tho Iroquois theater disaster for a playhouse was denounced as a public scandal by speakers at the anniversary meeting of the Iroquois Memorial association In Willard hall yesterday afternoon. It was announced that the permanent aim of the association will be the acquirement of the Colonial theater and its site for the purpose of dedicating the premises to some other use, preferably that of an emergency hospital. Another anouneemcnt was the forthcoming erection of a monument on the gravis in Montrose cemetery of the woman who was the sole unidentified victim of the catastrophe. The gathering, which wap attended by 350 persons, was the fourth annual observance of the day of the Iroquois tragedy, which occurred four years ago this afternoon. Without regard to caste or creed the mourners for those who perished In that inferno came together from the hundred walks of life to join in the service of commemoration. Silently weeping, they listened to the words of the speakers that recalled the horror of that day, but roundly they applauded the proposal that the association should not rest until a fitting memorial Is established. Says Chicago Is Forgetful. It was the retiring president, J. E. O. Pridmore, who first touched on the common feeling of the sacrilege due to the existence of the Colonial theater. "So far this association is the only memorial of the great tragedy," he said. "But this association will continue in existence until Chicago in sheer shame awakes to its responsibility. What that responsibility is need not be named. There is in the rudest of all civilization the instinct that the spot on which a great disaster occurred should be hallowed forever after. "In the city in which hundreds of souls perished in the great charity bazaar fire a memorial chapel now marks the spot. That is the way of Paris. In the city in which the Ring theater fire occurred the people would not tolerate the continuance of the use of the site as a theater. The building was demolished and on the spot was erected a commercial building, the income from which is distributed to the widows and orphans of the victims. That is the way of Vienna. "But in this city, responsible for the greatest theater disaster of the age, the cry is heard: Let us forget. it is a cry that is at once astounding and immoral. This is the way of Chicago. "At this moment within those walls there are crowds of merrymakers where four years ago 600 men, women, and children perished in an awful death. No memorial chapel do you find there, no sign of a memorial of any kind, no outward manifestation of atonement. That is the way of Chicago. Would Commemorate Martyrs. "Chicago must act if it is to hold up its head among the cities of the world. We boast of our material achievements, but that is not all. Chi cago must stop long enough in the mad rush of life to note the noble works of other cities. Then she will throw off her yoke of indifference and commemorate our martyrs. Then and only then may our association disband." Dr. George J. Tobias, who presided said the association had existed long enough to prove that its mission was not to prosecute or persecute, but to commemorate. Then he, too, voiced the common thought of the mourners. "For those," he said, "who can find enjoyment in that playhouse in Randolph street, knowing the history of those four walls, I have only this to say: They must settle with their own consciences. Whatever form our memorial eventually may take, this association should not consider its work accomplished until the property occupied by the Colonial theater has been taken over for some other purpose than its present one. A GAMPAIBNFOR WORK Striking Renters in New York City Will Make Demands on City. New York, Dec. 29. The interest of the socialist party in the agitation for cheaper rents on the east side was demonstrated today with the organization of "the anti high rent bureau of the socialist party." Every member of the bureau also is a member of the general committee of the socialist party in New York. A hard times conference was held tonight between the bureau and the United Hebrew Trades, an organization of about 120 Jewish trade unions, with a membership of some 75,000, most of whom are socialists, working in the clothing, fur and cap industries. The conference determined, in addition to helping the strikers, to get up an out of work demonstration and to ask he city to start some kind of a municipal construction project with a view of creating jobs for the unemployed. The party is also to organize a bureau to -find out the number of unemployed in New York City. A rough estimate puts the number at 75.000. On the east side conditions are aggrevated, the leaders declare, by trouble in the clothing industries. Some 3.000 tenants got together at 20s- East Broadway this afternoon and I passed resolutions pledging all the tenants living between Stanton and Catherine streets and east of the river to stand out against the landlord. The meeting also pledged support to the socialist party and declared that what its members wanted was not charity but workWHEX PERPLEXED, CONSIDER FIRST, THE WANT AD SOLUTION.

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