Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 169, Hammond, Lake County, 2 May 1908 — Page 3

4 ! winnow , Saturday May ' 1908. HE TUXES. Two. Scenes in '.'The Candy Kid" which Starts a Four Days' Engagament at the Calumet Theater, South Chicago, Tomorrow and Appears one Night, (Next Friday) at Towle's Opera House.

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Both Republicans and Democrats Will Turn Loose a Flood of Oratory in City, Town and Country.

Indianians may expect a campaign of stance. If anybody should ask whether

brilliant oratory this year. The prize speakers and blue-ribbon spell-binders or the national arena will make the welkin ring out In Hoosierdom. The Indications are that more oratorical red fire will be burned than during any other state campaign since 1896, when every citizen felt the call to discuss the money question and when every crossroads grocery store and butcher shod had its forum. Oratory to burn will be the watchword in Indiana. In the first place, there Is no more attractive or proficient campaign ors.tor within the confines of America than James Ell Watson, the republican nominee for governor. Speaker Cannon, who knows all the campaign orators and can tag them according to their worth, says he never has known Jim's equal as a speaker. For this reason he had "Jim" go with him on his swings around the circle In recent years. On the other hand, Tom Marshall, Watson's opponent, is no slouch of an orator. He can talk about as convincingly as Jim, and when it Is considered desirable to play handball with adjectives he is there with the goods. Neither party, however, will have to depend upon home talent. Many orators of national reputation who are associated with "Jim" in congress are Just aching to go out there and tell the Hoosiers why the Republicans ought to win this year, and why they should recognize "Jim's" fine points and commission him to guide the helm of state. Jim can make a s-ight draft on the very best there is in the Republican party in the way of oratorical talent and the draft will be honored. It Is surprising how many- senators and representatives big men, at that have come to Jim since he returned to Washington and said something like this: ; "Jim, you may need a little help on the stump. Call on me for as many speeches as you like." There Is Uncle Joe Cannon, for In-

Uricle Joe Is willing to say a few words for Jim in Indiana, this year, Col. L. White Busebey, the speaker's secretary, would parry the Interrogatory with his simple question: "Would a duck swim?" The Indiana folks will hear from Uncle Joe In more than one speech. Possibly Uncle Joe will speak at a big meeting at Tomllnson hall, Indianapolis, and possibly he will talk some through the districts, and there are a good many other possibilities, but Uncle Joe must be considered strictly "In it" when it comes to speculating as to the Indiana oratorical talent this year. Knowing that "Jim" will be reinforced with a battery of big oratorical guns, regular thirteen-inch size, the friends of Tom Marshall are beginning to figure on a battery of democratic guns to make a democratic noise. It is safe to assume that Lincoln Dixon, Indiana member of the Democratic congressional committee, and chairman of the campaign committee of that organization, has his eye peeled for orator

ical talent. Tom Marshall will not be without spellbinders who can paint the glories of Jeffersonlanism and Bryanism. A suggestion that a Joint debate between Mr. Watson and Mr. Marshall would continue to the interest, if not

the gayety, of the state campaign is

being thrown out as a "feeler." When

ever Mr. Watson is interrogated on the

subject he says with considerable em

phasis that he has nothing to say. It

is believed, however, that If Mr. Mar

shall wants a talking match Jim is not

the man to take a dare.

It is anticipated that the real fireworks of the Indiana campaign will

begin in August, which is earlier than usual. Meanwhile Mr. Watson Is a mighty busy man. He keps two ste

nographers on the Jump and managers to take care of his duties as to help in

the meantime.

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Indianapolis, Ind. A bulletin has been published calling the attention of trainmen and other employes of the Wabash railroad to the fact that the company will not tolerate the drinking of whisky or any other Intoxicants by men in the company's service. " " The

j order is signed by the division superintendents and with the result in the

showing made in the March bulletin of merits and demerits assessed against employes which show that 50 per cent, of the black marks were

AT TOWLE'S NEXT THURSDAY.

Among the important scenes introduced in the new musical melodrama, "The Candy Kid," are the following:

Campus grounds at Yale college in New

Haven, Conn.; a prominent hotel In

New Tork City. Seventh avenue and

Cathedral park way entrance to Central park, New York; the great dock, East River, New York City; an . immense crane in operation; home of the American consulate in Colombia, South America. The music is all special and was written by "W. R. "Williams, who has won prominence for his nicely written airs, possessing many a happy swing. Those which are making a hit in "The Candy Kid'" are called: "Hark to the Scream of the Eagle," "Take Off Your Hat to the U. S. Marines," "The Past, the Present and Future," "I Woud Like to Feather a Nest for You," "They Call Me the Candy Kid," "I am the Captain of a Baseball Nine," "College Boys and Girls," and several others which give Ray Raymond and the Bon Bon Girls ample opportunity to be musically agreeable and a relief to the more serious parts of the play. "The Candy Kid" will be here at the Towle opera house on Thursday night, May 7.

Elaborately Built and Furnished Building is Thrown Open.

CREDIT TO INDIANA HARBOR

Description To Be

of Bank Shows Beanty In Every Eespect.

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deposit customers. Adjoining this is a safety deposit vault, the interior of

which is finished after the general

style of the building. A large mirror

occupies the inner end of the vault.

giving the effect of a much deeper

room. Four, hundred and. thirty-two

safety .deposit . boxes of different sizes are contained in this vault. The boxes

are made of steel with latest combination lock and keys and contain a tin

Inner drawer for contents to be deposited. This vault is lighted bv elec

tricity and is absolutely Are, burglar and mob proof. The massive outer door weighing five tons, is construct

ed of four and one-half Inch layer of Chrome and Bessemer steel, which is equipped with a pressure steel lever

and triple time lock. This lock is

se at night, making the vault absolutely safe from beinsr entered until

the time for which the lock was set has elapsed, the lock operating from

the Inside. A second inside door con

structed from 2-inch Chrome and Bessemer steel of thirty-two pieces equipped with bolts which are locked by a combination lock, is also provided.

The Indiana Harbor State Bank

" moved Thursday from its old quart

ers to its substantial new building at Guthrie and Michigan avenue. The transfer was accomplished with but

- little interruption to business and yes

terday the bank was doing business as though there had been no upheaval such as "moving day" to disturb the

: even tenor of its way.

A great many people who had no real business with the bank "looked in" this morning to see how the bank was fixed and all expressed their admiration for the arrangements and the , fixtures, which are handsome and dig-

nlfled in appearance.

A description of the interior of the

; counting room and especially of the

saftey deposit vaults of which the

- bank has made a particular feature, is interesting. In connection with the latter, no means devised for the safety of the treasure stored within, has been

overlooked. The bank has stopped at nothing to make these valuts absolutely

safe in every particular. j

The exterior of the building, though

plain, is of substantial appearance and of brick and stone. Entering the ves-

tiibule two marble steps lead to- the doors of birch, mahogany finish and

plate glass. The left door leads to the

banking department where there is

raised platform enclosed for the bank

ing officials, namely, president, vice

president and cashier. Next to this i

the paying-teller's booth with lattice partitions and brass grilled window

with Belgian marble receiving slab

Next to this is the booth of the receiv

ing teller and the booth of the savings'

teller, the bookkeeper's window direct

ly fronting the lobby across the west

end of the room. The floor is til

throughout, mosaic finish, with border of interlocking key, Grecian effect

Just off the officers' room is the con

suiting room and back of that, th cash vault.

The booths and the waJls have a deep wainscoting of English vein Italian marble. The entrance to the right from the vestibule as one enters leads

to the foreign exchange department

where there is a low railed room fo the officers of this department and th

tellers window and booth for the transaction of all foreign exchange and

steamship business. Between the of

flee room and the teller's booth is an

aisle leading to the safety deposit

4 room, the floor of which is tile, mosaic

pattern. This room is equipped with fcooths for the convenience of cafety

being 40x48 feet, above which with stairway leading to Guthrie street are two beautifully furnished- flats of four room eoch and bath each. It is evident to all appearances .that no expense has been spared by the Indiana Harbor State Bank in providing for Itself a permanent home and the addition it has furnished to the architectural beauty of Indiana Harbor will no doubt be greatly appreciated and an expression of such appreciation will undaubtedly find; its way into the vaults and incidentaly add to the profits of this enterprising and reliable financial institution.

U.S. METALS GO. CLOSESJIf J TODAY Operations Will Not be Resumed Until the First of August.

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Washington. Resolutions calling upon congress to enact legislation in which organized labor is Interested were adopted at a mass meeting at the Columbia theater. The resolutions declare that those in congress who vte against the measures demanded 1)7 labor will be placed on the "blacklist" and every effort be made to prevent their success In the political field. Senator Dick of Ohio, one of the speakers, indorsed the proposition to

blacklist members of congress arid po-

given because of the use of intoxi- mical aspirants who are unfriendly to cants. There has been a rule on. the iaDon other speakers were RepreWabash that employes shall abstain sentatlves Lloyd, Missouri; Hughes, from intoxicating liquors and it is the New Jersey; Savage, Illinois; Wilson opinion that men under them needed and ici10iat Pennsylvania, and Green, a reminder. Massachusetts, all of whom announced Chicago. Organized labor of the their approval of President Gompers' nation raised its voice In protest attitude. against what it terms the inimical at- Philadelphia The old Philadelphia titude of the United States supreme Typographical society (of which the court and, in resolutions threatening present is the direct successor) was political retaliation, demanded of con- organized November 6, 1802. . Docugress that various pending bills be ments in the possession of the society enacted Into law. The meeting of pro- give reason to believe that the parent test in Chicago was part of a program society was preceded by a similar or-

outlined by the American Federation of Labor, following- the decision of the supreme court which held that labor unions were amenable to the provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law.

ganization , called the . Asylum company. It is an interesting fact that this old society was the first formed by printers In -America and. was the forerunner of all our labor unions. It

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At the entrance a day gate of light

steel grill makes the place secure from

entrance by curious busy bodies. A bell is also attached to this gate which sounds an alarm whenever it is opened or closed. The vault Is lined complete

ly by one-inch thickness of steel in three layers'of half-inch thickness. The

casn vauii is equippea wnn the same style of door as that of the saftey de

posit vault, having the same kind of time lock two-inch inner door and day gate. The interior of the cash vault

is equipped with a complete- set of

document and filing cases, steel book racks, etc. The inner end of this vault is equipped with a Moser triple time

lock and screw door, the safe being

of solid Chrome steel weighing 8,000

pounds. The screw door has inter

locked grooves making it absolutely

fire and burglar proof. Above the safe is a two and one-half Inch Chrome

steel coin chest and above this is a two inch steel security chest. On either side and below are steel lockers

for the storage of valuable papers.

This vault is equipped with mosiac tile

floor, lighted by electricity, and the general interior finished in light green

enamel.

In the rear of the banking room is

a large director's room, 15x23 feet fin

ished with beams, inlaid with Grecian tile border. A beautifully manteled fire place adorns the side wall, adding its quota of cheerfulness to the surroundings. The director's tables and chairs, like the balance of the Interior, are of heavy birch, mahogany finish. In the basement is another vault derectly under the vault above. This is intended for a storage vault - where books and stationary can be kept in large quantities and are absolutely safe from fire and other damage. The banking room in all is 48x60 feet. The ceiling being decorated with three coats

of buff paint, the side walls being light green. The entire room is lighted with combination , gas and electric fixtures and larg electric ceiling dome lights in the center of the beams. The bank

ing room is separated from the foreign exchange and safe deposit depart

ment by a partition of marble, mahog

any and glass design, with a heavy brass gate between. The entire front and sides of the building are made of French plate glass. The upstairs -is

replete with, nine large airy office

rooms, with lavatory finished in mar

ble. In the rear of the building below the entrance facing on Guthrie street Is the room occupied by the postoffice

FARMERS CAUSE SHUT DOWN

THE TIMES' Story of Shut-Down Proves To Be Correct In Every. Particular.

The plant of the United States Metals Refining company at Grasselli, closes down today and operations will not be resumed until after the first of August. About 250 men will be thrown temporarily out of employment during the greater part of the summer. The fact that" the plant Is to close was reported in The Times several days ago and was subsequently denied by a

local paper, but events have proven the truth of the story.

The United States Metals Refining

company Is one of the most progressive and most substantial of the industries of the Calumet region, and

tthe fact that it is to close indicates

that this summer is to witness the most quiet time industrially that the region

has yet known.

The promise that the plant will open

the first of August Is reassuring, how

ever, and may also be said to indicate & general improvement In conditions after the nominations are made.

The peculiar circumstances under

which the local riant secures its raw product is said to have had a great deal to do with the closing of the plant.

As reported In The Times a few days

ago, the farmers in the vicinity of the Nevada smelter of the United States Metals Refining company secured an

Injunction restraining the officials of the plant from operating.

They claimed that the fumes from

the smelter ruined the vegetation on

their farms for miles around and on

these representations they secured an

injunction.

It is expected however, that the matter Tvill be adjusted in the next few weeks and It will then be possible for the Hammond plant to resume operations.

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ABOUT ADVERTISING No. 10.

HOW ALEXANDER UNTIED THE KNOT. (By HERBERT KAUFMAN.) Alexander the Great, was being shown the Gordian Knot. "Jt can't be untied," they told him; "every man who tried to do it fell down." But Alexander was not discouraged because the rest had flunked. He simply realized that he would have to go. at it in a different way. And instead of wasting time with his fingers he drew his sword and alasbed it apart. Every day a great business general is shown some knot which has proven too much ' for his competitors, and he succeeds because he finds a way to cut it. The fumbler has no show so long as there is a brother merchant who doesn't waste time trying to accomplish the impossible who takes lessons from the failures about him and avoids the methods which were their downfall. The knottiest problems in trade are: 1. -The problem of location. ' 2. The problem of getting the crowds. , 3. - The problem of keeping the crowds. 4. The problem of minimizing fixed expenses. H. Xlic problem of creating n valuable good will. None of these knots is going to be untied by fumbling fingers. They are too complicated. They're all involved together twisted and entangled over and about each other- so intertwined that they can't be solved singly like the Gordian knot, they must be cut through at one stroke. And you can't cut the knot with any sword except the newspaper because: I. A store that Is constantly before the prople makes Its own neighborhood. 2. Crowds can be brought from anywhere by daily advertising. 3. Customers can always be held by Inducements. 4. Fixed expenses can only be reduced by Increasing the volume of sales. . . . 5. Good will can only be created through publicity. Advertising is breeding new giants every years and making them more powerful every hour. Publicity is the sustaining food of a powerful store and the only strengthening nourishment for a weak one. The retailer who delays his entry into advertising must pay the penalty of his procrastination by facing moregiant competitors as every month of opportunity slips by. j Personal ability as a close purchaser and as a clever seller doesn't count for a hang so long as other men are equally well posted and wear the sword of publicity to boot. They are able to tie your business into constantly closer knots, while you can not retaliate because there is no knot which their advertising can not cut for them. Yesterday you lost a customer today they took one tomorrow they'll get another. You can not cope with their competition because you haven't the weapon with which to oppose it You can't unite your Gordian knot because it can't be untied you've got to cut it. You must become an advertiser or you must pay the penalty of incompetence. You not only require the newspaper to fight for a more hopeful tomorrow, but to keep today's situation from becoming hopeless.

(Copyright, 1908, by Tribune Company, Chicago.)

Similar meetings were held in all the was, and still is, a beneficial as well as large cities throughout the country, fraternal order, and even to-day ita . Samuel Gompers was the principal financial standing is unimpaired, speaker at the New York meeting. j New York. Army officials at Fort Albany, N. Y. Practically one out Totten, N. Y., have received instrucof every three union men in this state tlon- from Secretary of War Taft that was idle at the close of 1907, according hereafter carpenters employed at to a bulletin of the state labor depart- work about the post shall be paid four ment. In New York city the percent- dollars instead of three dollars each, age was 34.2, as compared with 32.7 for a day's work, four dollars being for the rest of the state. On this recognized by him as the "prevailing question the bulletin says: "The worst rate of wages" here. The action was conditions at the close of the year ap- taken in response to a complaint from

pear in the building, clothing, metal the carpenters and Joiners' organiza and tobacco trades, with percentages tion in Corona that less than the preof idleness of 42.1, 43.6, 30.9 and 55.0 vailing rate was being paid for work respectively. One exception to pre- at the fort. vailing conditions appears in the print- j Toledo, O. The trouble which was lng trades, with a percentage . of idle- threatened in marine circles over the ness (11.1) which compares not un- adoption of an open-shop policy by the favorably with previous years." - I Lake Carriers' association is not likely Birmingham, Eng. Greatly disap- to materialize. While the openingof pointed with the recent award, which navigation is likely to be later than failed to give them the advance in last season, the seamen say they will wages for which they asked, the Na- not object to the open-shop rule of the tional Society of Amalgamated Brass- vessel owners . so long as the latter workers and Metal Mechanics,, at a pay the union scale and do not dismeetlng instructed its general secre- criminate against union men., tary to give notice to terminate the . South Bethlehem. Pa. The Bethleexlsting arbitration arrangement" be- hem Steel works, running full time in

lween iaat society, me employers" as- nearIy M departments, paid out $180,sociatlon and the board of trade. 'It nnn cami-mnnthw w9a tr tb

was stated that there were In Bif mingham 6,000 or 7,000 brassworkers, exclusive of women. Cumberland, Md. The street railway strike inaugurated upon the refusal of the company to reinstate two of the men discharged on account of gambling in the company's car barn office, was settled. The company agreed to reinstate the men upon condition that there would not be a repetition of the abuses complained of, and that there would hereafter be a strict enforcement of the rules of the company against drinking, gambling, etc. Chicago. Representatives of the employes of 42 western railroads and a committee of general managers who have been trying to settle their differences over the 16-hour railroad law have succeeded in coming to a final agreement. The principal contention of the railroads that they had

to pay two days wages in some cases to obey the law was settled satisfactorily, both sides making conces

sions. Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin Federation of Labor has decided to take no part in the fight which is being waged between the Prohibition and anti-Prohibition forces. This decision

LY ESCAPES DEATH

AT LAKE SHORE YARDS

ployed by the Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad, narrowly escaped death yesterday at the local yards. . Oleckovltch was in the act of getting ready to make a coupling between two cars when suddenly the car came rushing in behind him. Oleckovich dropped to the ground, catching hold

of the brakebeam, which probably saved

him from an awful death between the cars. As it was he was dragged several feet before he could pull himself up and jump out from between the two cars. The accident was due to the engineer thinking he heard the signal given to back up. As no one was injured probably no one will be fired.

Alexander Oleckovich, a Servian em-

The longer you advertise a good artlele in the Times, the easier It im to ell It.

CROWN POINT IS DESESTED TODAY. Crown Point, Ind., May 2- Very few democrats remained In Crown Point today, all starting Gary ward by train, automobiles and rigs this morning. Although quite a little interest is shown in politics by the democratic ranks, there seems to be an undercurrent of dissatisfaction which is evinced from time to time. Perhaps the convention today at Gary will hand out a little "dope" to heal the smarts and wounds

handed to some of the "old timers" at

the Hammond meeting some time ago.

Only one day more and the 350 pi.

ano will be given away at Spiegel's

nousefurnlshlng Store, 9133-35 - Com

mercial avenue.

workmen. This exceeds by $30,0C0 the previous half month's pay, and approaches within a few thousand dollars of the average amount paid twice each month to it3 employes prior to the beginning of the industrial depression. Paris, France. The building industry throughout Paris and the department of the Seine came to an indefinite stop when nearly 250,000 workmen, including masons, stonecutters and carpenters, were forced to lay down their tools by the employers' organization, which has Just decreed one of the biggest lockouts in the history of Europe. Cardiff, Wales. Criticism of the miners' eight-hour measure is given freely at all meetings in Wales, and even among the workingmen there are few who give a favorable opinion. The utmost said In Its favor is that the young and able colliers may find some advantage, but not so those who have passed middle life or are getting on in years. Washington. In response to a letter of protest against the Beveridge child labor bill, President Roosevelt has addressed a letter to the Indiana

Manufacturers' association in which

is reacnea in response to a statement he places himself in favor of the that in some localities the wage work-! enactment by congress of a bill regu-

ers are being asked to Join the Wis

consin Liberty league and contribute to its support. The executive committee at its meeting indorsed the action of the Federated Trades council In adopting an anti-Prohibition resolution. Washington. That Italians, especially northern Italians, are much in demand on the farms of the southern states is the claim made by T. V. Powderly, chief of the division of information of the bureau of immigration. Pittsburg, Pa. The puddling furnaces of the Spang & Chalfant company's mills at Etna resumed operations on three eight-hour shifts. This will give employment to 200 men who have been idle two months. London, Eng. In 268 trade unions In England, with a membership of 639,000, there are 41,000 workmen out of employment, equal to 6.4 per cent. A year ago the percentage of unemployed was 3.9 per cent. Superior, Wis. The laying down of tools and the stopping of work by every one of the 5,000 members of labor unions affiliated with the structural trades alliance of this city Is threatened. The walk-out is expected as the result of the declaration of the builders' exchange for the open shop. Winnipeg, Manitoba. James Somerville, general organizer of the 'machinists' brotherhood, left Toronto to advise on the local labor situation In the Canadian Pacific railroad shops. Two thousand machinists believe they are to be dismissed, and taken back at reduced pay.

lating child labor In the District of Columbia and territories. Atlanta, Ga. The Georgia Industrial association, representing the cotton mills of the state, has decided to make a reduction of ten per cent, in wages of operatives. It was also decided that a curtailment of two days a week or more, where necessary, shall be put into effect. Trenton, N. J. Gov. Fort was recently interviewed by a. delegation of union labor leaders, who entered a protest against the employment of paroled convicts on construction work at the Rahway reformatory for less wages than the union scale demands.

East St. Louis, 111. More than 150 workmen fought at the works of the American Aluminum works, when Armenian, Greek and Turkish laborers became angry because the company in taking back Its employes gave preference to Americans and negroes. London, Eng. The secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Great Britain has been in the potteries district to try to Bmooth the way for conciliation and arbitration. The men, it appears, favor it; but the employes are averse to Include the wage question at the present time. Pittsburg, Pa. T. L. Lewis, successor of John Mitchell as president of the United Aline Workers of America, was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1865, and began his mining career at the age of seven years as a slate picker on the breakers at Newport.

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