Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 296, Hammond, Lake County, 3 June 1908 — Page 4

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THE TIMES. Wednesday, June 3, 1908.

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BALKING AGAINST WHEN THE CITY OF GARY was

of 100 feet from the mill site for a distance of two miles south to the Pennsyl

vania tracks. It was thought, at that provided to meet the needs of the growth But Gary exceeded the expectations long until lots were being rapidly sold

This made it apparent that Broadway, south of the Pennsylvania tracks, is later to be considered a very important part of this, Gary's ideal street. So

after considerable talk on the subject it was finally decided to widen the street all of. the way to the Hobart road and many of the property owners, with a large endownment of public spirit,, donated enough of their land to make the

widening possible.

Now, however, there are a few property owners with a warped and shriveled idea of things ho are remonstrating against this improvement. They are the people who are found in every community who place the immediate

personal need3 over the welfare of the

The town board of Gary in a meeting yesterday took up the case of the remonstrators and turned them down, cold. It was a stroke in favor of adhering to the original plan to make Gary the ideal city. It received the universal

commendation of the disinterested people

The remonstrators now threaten, through their attorneys, to take the matter to the upper courts. If they do, and in this manner delay the Improvement of the street, they should be sat on by the people of Gary so effect

ually that they would soon realize that Gary really does not want that kind ! AN AWAKENED

A FEW DAYS AGO Thb Times printed a dispassionate description of, the condition of the road bed of the Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago line on South Hohman street. The paper did not indulge in a tirade against the com

pany. It simply told the people, and incidentally the street car company, that

the condition of the track on this part and a reproach to the company. Within twelve hours, a joint In the by Ths Times photographer, was being

tion of the rail was taken out and a new section put in its place. Within a week after the publication of the story, in fact this very morning, steel rails have been strewn along the curb on Hohman street and the indications are

that the track of which there was so

The Times does not take this opportunity to crow over what it has done to bring about this change. It does believe, however, that it has done a public service in calling to the attention of the people of thi3 city a condition which was intolerable, and in presenting the facts to the officials of the 6treet car ; company in such an unmistakable manner that they were themselves convinced of the necessity for improvement. Perhaps the most significant fact about the Incident is that It la the best possible proof that the conscience of another great - corporation has been awakened. At last even the Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Street railway has shown evidences that it is amenable to the public and has some regard for its wishes. A further proof of this fact is the decision of the company to pave Its portion of One Hundred and Nineteenth street in Whiting. This means much for the people of Hammond. It means that the old feud which has existed ever since, during the Knotts administration, a fifty year no right for the city franchise was granted, may at last come to an end and that the people of this city will ' co-operate with its traction- line to provide a model city street car service. y

"THIS DATE IN HISTORY." June 3. 1S05 Nelson's fleet reached Barbadoes in pursuit of the French. 1S08 Jefferson Davis born. Died Dec. 8 1S99. 1S61 Stephen A. Douglas died. Born April 23, 1-818. 1863 Great peace demonstration ield in Cooper institute. New York City, 1899 Major Dreyfuss granted a new trial. 1865 Prince of Wales, heir-apparent ., to the British throne, born. 1901 Count von Waldersee departed from Peking on his return to Germany. 1902 U. S. senate passed the Philippine government bill. THIS IS MY 43RD BIRTHDAY. Prince of "Wales. The Prince of Wales, England's future king, was born at Marlborough House on June 3, 1865. His brother, the duke of Clarence, was seventeen months older, and the royal children passed their boyhood days together. They entered the navy as cadets in 1877, spending two years on the Bhitannla. Prince George was made sub-j lieutenant in 1SS4 and he joined H. M. S. Canada on the North Atlantic station. In the following year he became a full lieutenant. In 1889 he was preeented with his first command, and in 1890 he commissioned the first class gunboat Thrush and spent a year therein on the North American station, visiting Canada and the West Indies. Upon his return to England In 1891

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Other Newspaper in Calumet Eegion PUBLIC FOR INSPECTION AT ALL IMPROVEMENT. laid out Broadway was given a width time, that a sufficient length had been of the city for years to come. of even its promoters, and it was not outside of the three and four mile limit general public. of Gary. they were personae non gratae in Gary of citizens. CONSCIENCE. of the line was a disgrace to the city track, which had been photographed repaired by a gang of men. A por much complaint will be replaced. he was promoted to commander. The death of Queen Victoria in 1901 placed Prince George one stop nearer the throne. Shortly after the ascension of his father, King Edward VII., the prince, then known as the duke of Cornwall and York, made a tour of tho world in company with his wife, who was Princess May of Teck. Thoy were married in 1S93 and have six children, five sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Prince Edward of Wales, is now in his fifteenth year and is being trained for a naval career after the example of his father. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS Meantime it is safe to say that Mr. Hearst is getting the revised returns by wireless. Hurray! Congress has sine died. If the weather man should take a vacation until after the Fourth and let the suu shine, there would be few farmers who would object. If Lincoln had told half the stories that he is credited with, he couldn

eart to -Heart ' Talks. - By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye. AN UNUSUAL MAN. ! This is about a man who tried to do right and -was true to his convictions, 'incidentally he made and lost millions. A few days ago Ferdinand Schumacher of Canton, O., passed away. He was the pioneer in the breakfast food industry in the United States. Fifty-two years ago Mr. Schumacher came to Akron from Germany. He began to prepare oats for the table by shelling, cutting and cooking them. Inside of twenty years he had four big mills working night and day to supply the demand for his cereals. Other companies imitated Schumacher, and the industry grew until it was absorbed by the trust. Mr. Schumacher did not understand the ins and outs of "high finance" and in 18DG, after making an assignment, he left the American Cereal company. Though at one time a millionaire, he died with nothing. His friends say he was manipulated out of his money. Anyway, the man himself, and not his millions, 13 the important consideration-Schumacher was one of the original Prohibitionists of the country, and, what is more, he practiced what he believed. An instance: . When his immense cereal mills at Akron burned in 1SSG, large quantities of grain in his elevators became wet and sprouted. The breweries wanted to purchase the damaged grain, for distilling purposes. Mr. Schumacher refused to sell the grain, preferring to lose rather than have the stuff made Into intoxicants. Quixotic? Fossibly. But it proves the stamp of the man. What he believed he believed with nil his might, and he stood ready to suffer for the cause he had espoused. Another instance: Mr. Schumacher was the promoter of a town company at Marseilles, 111., in which he invested nearly $1,000,000. lie attempted to make the place a model town and a total abstinence community. The venture failed. Nevertheless the man did his best. He showed his good intentions. He carried his philanthropic desire to the verge. Here is the point in this man's career: ne made no pretenses, ne put his manhood above his money. And he stood four square to all the winds that blow. You may not agree with his beliefs. You may ca!l him a crank. But you must respect him as you must respect every man who mnkes good in a righteous cause. Men like Ferdinand Schumacher are scarcer than we could wish. have had much time to do much of anything else but telt stories. The beauties of nature beat pulpit oratory as an attraction these days. We are quietly informed, though ws promised to say nothing about It that several little Johnnies and Willies are saving up their pennies to knock the spots out of the safe and sane Fourth of July proposition. Oh, no, dear cynic, sometimes the Implicit faith that a gentle woman puts In the man she loves Is fully justified. Governor Hughes says to the suffragettes that women will ultimately have their way. Perhaps the gov. thinks he Is the discoverer. of a new fact, but he isn't. Society is an institution in which nobody Is taught to try to be somebody. Wouldn't it be possible for Ham mond to have Just one more good oldfashioned Fourth of July celebration before the present generation forgets what one looks like? IT. The Earth is float In jj like a little ball Upon thin air and on its back a man; Since that strange chaos from which all began So hath it bobbed sea, mountain, man, et alj Yet not one bath ever had a fall, 'Through land and water, envious of place. nave shifted often, leaving little trace. In such proportions do both stretch and sprawl. And all around, about, above, below; Are other bubbles dancing on the air; Some million billions, rolling here and there, And on their shells more men, for all we know. Yet In this scheme stupendous, our great wit Salth once for all Man and his Earth are IT. Im W. SHELDON. Connecticut man dropped dead upon

General WKo Was Unfortunate in War.

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London, June 3. General Sir Uedvers Henry Buller, commander of the

British forces In the openinsr stages of been ill since April, a chill which he

ous complications. General Buller had won the Victoria cross and other honors by gallant military service In India, Egypt, and other parts of the

world before the sturdy Boers brought

It was in that "graveyard of military fame" that General Buller was forced to bring into world wide vogue the phrase "I regret to report." General Buller entered the army in 185S, and in 1891 he had risen to the rank of lieutenant general. He served In China In 1860, in the Ashantl war in 1874, In the Kaffir war and the Zulu war In 1878-'79; he was in South Africa in 1881 and in Egypt in 1882, andwas present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir; he also

fought In the Soudan war in 1884, and 1887. The action which finally led to the siege of Ladysmith in the autumn in that town for several months with was raised only after several desperate

lieving British army under General Buller had lost heavily.

Professor W. A. Denny and Mr. F. A. Walker of Anderson, have been de tailed by Or. Barton W. Everman of tho United tates fish commission to ex plore the White river from this city to Vincennes and make a scientific report on the munsels found In the stream. The men will start on their Journey July 1, and will travel in a canoe. Fire started in the Interior of the Bank hotel at Scottsburg, at 7:30 o'clock last night, and In two and a half hours a half block was in ashes. The hotel, a large two-story residence. the postoffice building, a barber shop and a fine new barn were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $20,000. James McWeeny, a former patrolman of the Chicago police force and at one time a member of the Chicago A. A. football team, now chief of the police of South Bend, is slated to become president of the International Associa tion of Police Chiefs, which is in ses sion at Detroit, Mich., this week. Clarence Asbey, aged 61 years, the originator of the plan of representing famous statuary with living models and the most noted poser in that field of art, died in South Bend yesterday, after an illness covering a period of two years. Asbey for nearly twenty years traveled all over the world with F. T. Barnum's circus. The committee In charge of the ar rangements for the Sons of Veterans' state encampment report that every thing is in readiness for the visitors who will come to Lafayette today. Many delegates are expected. Among them will be women representing the auxiliary. Senator Beveridge is the target of a vigorous attack in today's issue of tho American Economist, official organ of protection. The Economist ridicules the Indiana senator and charges that his knowledge of the tariff is very limited. The senator's friends aro not disturbed over the attack. receipt of tho news that he had inherited $50,000. Some men choose an awfully queer time for shuffling off. OUTSIDE OF SURE THING TOUTS, NO MORTAL WISDOM IN THE WORLD CAN GIVE US A CINCH ON WILVT WILL ME OR WHAT WON'T HE. WANT BUSINESS KEPT AT HOME. Portland, Ore., June 3. The foremost employing printers of the Pacific coast met in conference In this city today to discuss ways and means for the protection of the home trade. The printers purpose to undertake a systematic campaign to convince the Pacific coast business men that their printing can be done as cheaply by the Pacific coast printers as by the big eastern concerns. The leading printing houses of Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, Tacoma, Walla Walla and Oakland will take part in the movement. Wasted Much Ammunition. Recently four ton and a half of bullets were dug out of a hill behind a rifle range at Yarmouth, Eng., the accumulation of two years' shooting by the local volunteers. They sold for $122.50 a ton. .

the Boer war, died yesterday. He had

suffered being followed by more seri about his downfall in South Africa. was under secretary for Ireland in Buller's undoing was connected with of 1899. General White was shut up a body of 12,000 troops, and the siege battles had. been fought and the re Today opens commence week at Win on-a Lake and also marks the opening of the new all-year Winona Normal school. For the last two days stu dents and teachers have been gathering at The Inn, which will be used as a dormitory for the normal students. Irwin Jackson, the 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jackson, who re side two and one-half miles soithwest of Shelbyville, picked up his father's gun while at play In the home, and, pulling the trigger, shot his 3-year-old brother Floyd. The little son died soon after the shooting. The elder boy said he aimed at the stove pipe. Armed with a shotgun, Mrs. Wilbur Shepard of Wabash, forced John Har rison to stand for almost an hour until the police could bo notified and arrive at the place where she had him cap tive in the eastern part of the city Mrs. Glow Temple, a neighbor, had dls covered the man ransacking her home As a result of the remonstrance pre sented to the county commissioners by residents of Jefferson township, Wayne county, against the liquor business the three saloons that ' have been operated at Hagerstown will go out of business this month and the township will be dry. In a decision handed down In the caso of Samuel M. Smith of Noblesville against the commissioners to enjoin the latter from issuing bonds for the con struction of gravel roads Judge Ira W, Christian held the new gravel road law to be constitutional. Mrs. Elizabeth Beck, wife of Professor James Beck, for many years superintendent of the Selersburg schools, today was placed on trial at Jeffersonville, on the charge of shoot lng with intent to kill her son-in-law Daniel Scheller. Mrs. Beck went to skating rink, owned by Scheller, In Sellersburg and, in the presence of large crowd, fired three shots at him two of the shots taking effect. He finally recovered. Romance In Cement. There is much of the romantic in the development of the "cement belt' from a farm land, none too rich at that, to a teeming valley filled with laborers, skilled and unskilled. Farm ers who for years barely succeeded in making enough from their farms to meet the mortgage Interest suddenlyfound themselves rich beyond the most extraordinary flights of their Imagination. Barren, rocky soil, upon which the wild carrot, the goldenrod and the Canada thistle were the most prolific crops, and where vthe tiller of the soil more frequently than not damned the rocks which were to prove his fortune, suddenly became worth hundreds ot dollars an acre. Popular Mechanics. Woman Who Kept Her Vow. Mrs. Hey wood, who has died at Little Leigh, near Northwitch, at the age of 85, never rode in a railway train When the Northwestern line between Crewe and the north was opened she, teith others, awaited the passing of the first train through Acton Bridge, Her first impressions were such that she vowed she would never travel by train, and she kept her word. London Standard.

THE CREAM OF THE Morning News

Chancellor Day of Syracuse university is bitterly attacked by Dean Kent of the University of Chicago in the current issue of Science. Municipal Pasteur Institute, where victims of dog bites can be cared for at the city's expense, is proposed in a new ordinance in Chicago. Citizens' association takes a hand in the controversy between the city council and the drainage board over the distribution of canal power in Chicago. Chicago Association of Commerce will hold third good fellowship rally at the Auditorium hotel tonight. Mayor Busse is said to be in favor of barring women from the board of education. Captain John McDonough, once acting fire chief, resigns on eve of hearing of charges. Big balloon "Chicago" sails 800 miles in twelve hours and lands near Clear Lake, S. D. Theodore P. Shonts warmly defends the memory of his late son-in-law, the Duke de Chaulnes. Three men remarkably lucky at games of chance during the MauretaniVs trip are arrested on arrival In New York, but no one appears to press gambling charges. Court In New York assesses $110.r 000 additional duty on under-valued ecklace brought in by a Jeweler for Mrs. William B. Leeds. Late returns from Iowa primaries In dicate that overnor Cummins has de feated Senator Allison In the contest for the United States senatorshlp. urover cnamDeriam, democrat, car les Oregeon for United States senator by 1,000 majority, but the republican legislature may refuse to elect him. Wheat market shows firmness; trade uneasy on too much wet weather In harvest sections; oats croppromise fine, old grain slow sale; cattle steady, hogs and sheep lower. In the Wall street stock market rail shares again advance, while unimportant declines develop in the industrials American Car company reduces its dividend on Its common stock to 2 per cent yearly. Chicago National League team de cisively defeated by Pittsburg at the West Side park by a score of 12 to 6 IN POLITICS The recent democratic state con ventlon at Spokane, Wash., declared in favor of a constitutional provision for state-wide prohibition. The forty-fifth general assembly of Illinois, which has Just adjourned, was in session for one year and five months. Representative Champ Clark of Mis souri believes that Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York would be a good choice for the vice presidential nomination on the democratic ticket. The latest person to have his name mentioned in connection with the republican vice presidential nomination is E. E. Clark, member of the interstate commerce commission and for fourteen years the head of the Order of Railway Conductors. A strong effort is to be made to have the Montana democratic state convention instruct for Governor Johnson of Minnesota for the presidential nomination. The state convention is to be held next week at Bozeman. If Governor John A. Johnson fails to land the presidential nomination at Denver his friends will use every endeavor to have him accept a renomination for the governorship. The Minnesota convention will not be held until late next fall. WEEK'S WEATHER FORECAST Conditions Over the Country as Judged by Washington Bureau. Washington, June 1. The Weather Bureau makes the following general forecast for tbe Meek, based on daily telegraphic reports received from selected atations throughout the Northern hemisphere! In the middle north Atlantic states and Ohio valley the opening days of the week will be fair, with pleasant temperature, and there nre no present indications of a prolonged condition of unseasonably hlgb temperature in those districts. The week will open cool in the Mate of Mtsnourl, upper Mississippi and Red River of the North valleys. The average temperature for the week in those states, will, however, be higher than for the preceding; week. A rata area that will cover the middle and northern Rocky mountains and Western plains states Monday will advance over the central valleys and the lake region Tuesday and Wednesday. o COMMENCEMENT AT WASHBURN, Topeka, Kan., June S. The fortythird annual commencement exercises of Washburn college were held in the college chapel this morning. Fiftyone students received their degrees from President Plass. The address to the graduates was delivered by Dr. Charles Herbert Small of Cleveland. O.J

"Make Good"

(By HERBERT KAUFMAN.) Make good. Cut out "if," "could," and "should.M And staa in to saw wood. You can still have the best Things in life, like the rest Of the men who've achieved Just because they've believed In themselves. You're deceived If you think fortune comes With a rattle of drums And a fanfare of state To hand yours on plate. That isn't the way That she visits today. You must get out and rustle And bustle and hustle; You need all your muscle. For you've got to tussle, Plunge into the fight. Hit to left and to right. And keep crashing and smashing. Don't let up with your striking. Till things meet your liking. For God s sake, stop bawling Instead, do some mauling. It makes the world bitter To look at a quitter; Fate scowls when she sees A grown-up on his knees. A man with his health Is a mine Jammed with wealth Full of unexplored lodes. Why, the freckled-back toads Have the sense to keep Jumping And here you are trumping! Come now, strike your gait It isn't too late, There's no such a fate! There's no such thing as fate! Drop that fool-talk of "luck," Get a grip on your pluck. And buck. Begin To grin And win. BRIEF NOTES OF DAY'S NEWS. Winnipeg, Man.. June 3. Representatives of the 250,000 communicants of the Presbyterian church In Canada assembled in Knox church In this city today for the opening of the annual session of the general assembly. New York, June 3. Judge L. R. WUfley. Judge of the court of extra territorial Jurisdiction at Shanghai, sailed on the Mauretania today for England, en route to his post. Columbia, Mo., June 3. Three hundred young men and women, comprising the largest class in the history of the institution, received their diploma today at the annual commencement exercises of the University of Missouri. Copenhagen, June 3. King Frederick VIII. was 63 years old today and in celebration of the event flags were displayed everywhere and the day was observed as a general holiday throughout Denmark. Philadelphia, Pa., June 3. A wedding of interest in naval circles here today was that of Miss Gladys Laurence Turnbull, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. TurnbuIJ, an,d Lieutenant Nelson Palmer Vulte, United States marine corps. Baton Rouge, La., June 3. Bryan sentiment Is dominant among he' delegates to the democratic state convention, which meets In the state capitol this evening. The convention will select sixteen delegates to the Denver convention. New York, June 3. St. Bartholomew's church was the scene of a fashionable wedding today, the bride being Miss Gretchen Hoyt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reese Hoyt, and the bridegroom Henry Ladd Corbett, son of Mrs. Henry Corbett of Portland, Ore. Atlanta, Ga., June 3. In almost every city and town throughout Georgia the final rallies are being held today In anticipation of the state primary tomorrow for the selection of delegates to the democratic national convention and the nomination of state officers and a candidate for United States senator. Twin Falls, Idaho, Juno 3. The democratic state convention is in session here for the selection of delegates to the Denver convention. The chief contest is as to whether the delegation shall be headed by ex-Senator DuBoIs, the fight hinging on the old issue of Mormon control. William J. Bryan will receive the indorsement of the convention. Knoxville, Tenn.. June 3. Arrangements are about complete for the entertainment of the national convention of the Order of Owls, which meets here week after next. Though less than five years old the fraternity has a large membership and the coming convention will be attended by delegates from every part of the United States. Lansing, Mich., June 3. The Michigan Pioneer and Historical society began its thirty-fourth annual meeting here today with a good attendance of Its membership. An attractive program of papers and addresses has been arranged for the meeting, which will remain In session over tomorrow. Charlotte, S. C, June 3. The North Carolina Retail Merchants' association met in annual convention in Charlotte today . and will remain in session until Saturday. Members are in attendance from Ashevllle, Wilmington. WinstonSalem and other cities. The presiding officer at the convention is N. L. Cranford of Winston-Salem. New Orleans, La.. June 3. A wedding of note here today was that of Mrs. Frances McKee Cordell, daughter of Mrs. James Martin McKee of this city and widow of Victor Cordell of Baltimore, and O. Colby Dodge, U. S. N. The bridal pair will proceed to San Francleco, where the bridegroom will rejoin his ship, which Is with th fleet on the Pacific coast. Famed as Cat Photographer. A Boston woman photographer miikes a feature of her cat photographs and has an exhibition in her studio of the parrpered cats ot Back Bay that Is attracting much attention. There are probably more ot these pampered cats in Boston than in any other city in the country.