Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 99, Hammond, Lake County, 13 October 1908 — Page 8

THE TIMES.

Tuosdav, October 13, 1908.

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Danger Is Growing on South Chicago As Calumet Region Continues to Grow and Empty Sewage Into Lake Michigan.

EXPERTS DISAGREE A DEGREE OF IMPURITY

Colonel Bixby Believes That the Drainage Canal Has About Reached the Limit of its Usefulness Unless Purification of Sewage Is Adopted. . South Chicago's water supply is

gradually becoming more polluted with the dumplnjr of sewage of this vast district into the Calumet river. The city health department and sanitary district and federal engineers have seen the flgns and have been working together for the past six months to find a remedy. The experts disagree as to the degree of impurity of the water, but it is a known fact that it is showing signs of increasing pollution and is becoming worse than at the tme the sewage was turned into the drainage canal. It is a small wonder that the conditions arp no worse than they are. Intake rar Calumet' River Outlet. The intake pipes which supply the South Chicago and ; outlying districts with its drinking water are within a half mile of where the Calumet river unloads its sewage-laden waters. Health Commissioner Evans does not agree that the conditions are so serious, but said that the analysis of the drinking water has been watched with much anxiety during the past year, and frequent tests have been made by the federal officers all along the lake shore, from Michigan City, Ind., to Kvanston, with the result that more colon baccili have been Sound than heretsf-e. .

He predicted a serious etaoinYPP

He predicted serious conditions within a few years unless some method of taking care of the sewage of the Calumet district is found. Canal Sear Kb Limit. Colonel W. II. Eixby of the United States corps of engineers also wrote a letter to the district committee, in which he urges partial purification of all sewage emptied into the river or the canal. He is of the opinion that the sanitary" canal has about reached the limit of its usefulness, unless purification of sewage is adopted. Dr. John Iederer, chemist of the sanitary district, added his word of warning.

The committee of the district deferred action, but members predicted that a broad gauge plan in which the city, the

sanitary district and the federal government will co-operate will be adopted.

Dr. Biehn Jn his letter says: ''Soon after the opening of the drainage canal

the water was reported over 96 per cent safe. Bacteriological, findings

within twelve months after the opening

of the drainage canal showed an av

erage of about 250 bacteria per cubic

centimeter (about fifteen drops), and no

pathogenic organisms. Before the opening of the drainage canal the water averaged usually over 2,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter, with occasional colon bacilli. Since 1904 the water has gradually showed evidence of increasing pollution. "While this pollution has not been enough to render the water unsafe and, therefore, " the water was reported safe we find that the bacterial count has gradually increased from a few hundred until it is at the present date very near 2,000

per cubic centimeter, i ne actual ngres as to the number of bacteria and their kind show that the water is becoming progressively worse, but it is still safe for domestic use. Therefore, the percentage safe is no criterion as to the effect of this pollution, because, although this pollution is occurring, it is not sufficient as yet to render the water unsafe, but in my opinion it will before very long render the water un

safe." '; . Says Something; Must Be Ione. In the remainder of his communication Dr. Blehn asserts that "something must be done immediately to divert the sewage of the Evanston and Calumet districts or the good results obtained by diverting, the sewage of. the main portion of the canal etaolRDLUUaol portion of Chicago through the drainage canal will be nullified and we will again have a polluted supply," "The water has not been up to standard for some time, although it has been

safe," said Dr. Evans. "During the year we have found more colon bacilli

than heretofore, and we have watched

the tests with anxiety, but I 'would be

greatly surprised to find that the wa

ter is almost as bad as before the canal

was dug. Before the canal was built the typhoid death rate was 175 per 100,000 of population. Last year it was 17, and making an estimate on the last

ten months this year it will be down

to about 15, which is the lowest it has

ever been in Chicago.

FR1K P.KEILIK1

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Pioneer St. John Merchant Laid to Rest in Catholic Cemetery.

OBIUTARYOFWELLKNOHN

Mr.

Keilman Leaves an Estate Valued at From $100,000 to $150,000.

Pretty and Artistic. An Atchison man thought and thought what colors would be pretty and artistic to use in painting his house, and then used bright yellow and bright green. Atchison Globe.

(Special to The Times.) St. John, Oct. 13. Frank P. Keilman, who died last Saturday afternoon, was buried this morning after funeral services had been held In the

Catholic church here. It was one of the most largely attended funerals that has ever been held fpom the church. Mr. Keilman died last Saturday after an illness of seven months. Until he was taken down with the sickness which finally caused his death, he was continually Identified with his large

business and it was with misgivings that he refrained from his business ac

tivities during the recuperation periods.

Was Oldest Merchant In County. Mr. Keilman had the distinction of

being the longest established merchant of Lake county. He began business in

St. John nearly fifty-nine years ago, and a continued record of success has

been 'his lot to the present time, when as the dean of Lake county business men, he enjoyed along with his ma

terial prosperity the esteem and thorough confidence of all his old friends and associates. He and the family of

which he is a member, have been identified with Lake county and St. John township since pioneer times, for a period of sixty years, and their enterprise and .personal influence have always bene reckoned as Important factors In the various affairs of the county. A Native of Germany. Mr. Keilman was born in HesseDarmstadt, Germany, Nov. 25, 1831. His father was Henry Keilman, a native of

the same place. He left the fatherland and brought his family to America in 1840, his first location being In Portage county, O., hut in 1844 he moved to Lake county, Indiana, and settled on a farm in St. John township. The father's life occupation was farming, and he lived to the advanced age of 85 years. - .His wife was Mary Elizabeth Ofenloch, who was born in the same province of Germany as he, and died in Portage county, O., when 38 years old. "Was One of Seven Children. They were parents of seven children, and all reached maturity. Mr. F. P. Keilman, the fourth son and the fifth child of the family, was 9 years old

had already began his education Jn his native land. He remained with the family in Portage county for two years, and then, at the age of 11. went to Chicago with his older brother, Henry. He attended the school in that city for some time, anfl then Joined his father on the, latter's removal to Lake county. Two years late, however, he returned to Chicago and clerked in a store for four years. He then came to St. John township "and became a clerk in his brother Henry's store at St. John. Forma Partnership "With Brother.

The brothers soon formed a partnership, and the firm of Henry and F. P. Keilman continued to do business in St. John until 1865. having the' premier mercantile establishment of the village. In 1865, after fifteen years' connection, Mr. Keilman bought the interest of his brother, and then took the late George F. Gerlach, another well-known merchant of St. John, into partnership.

continuing until 18S5. Since that time Mr. Keilman has carried on his business alone and no other man in the county has a record for such long connection with mercantile enterprises. He has a large store and a fine general stock and owns Lake county real estate and also has property in other places. He has always been affiliated with the democratic party, and from 1856 to 1885 was postmaster of St. John. Mn Children Survive Hint. Tn 1857 Mr. Keilman married Miss

Margaret Schaefer, who was born in Germany and came to America in chll-

liood with her parents. There are nine

living children of this marriage:

Susan, who is the wife of Joseph H.

Gerlach, of Chicago; Frank B., of Chicago; John, of Crown Point; ."William

F., of St. John; Elizabeth, wife of Edward Schmal, of Chicago; Miss Margaret; George; Lena, wife of Frank Thiel, of St. John, and Peter of Chica

go. All these children were born in the same house and in St. John township and they are now all capable and worthy men and women.

"SQUATTERS" WILL

HAV

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Gary . Land Company Issues an Edict for Shack

Owners.

RAYMOND SAYS

IS III DOUBT

LAST VESTIGES OF OLD TOWN

Falkenau Construction Camp Is the First Building in Gary To Be Torn Down.

Finds That Chances Are Favorable to Taft and on Governorship.

LftYS THE BLANE ON HANLY

Says That Kern's Personality Gives a Peculiar Tinge to the Situation.

mU IS WINNER

The feople of Gary are becoming greatly interested In roller skating. There was a race last evening at the corner of Massachussets street and Fifth avenue in' what is known as the Gary Casino, which was witnessed by a large number of people. The raceswas for the amateur championship of Gary. Those who entered and contested for honors were: Ralph Heffner. John Smith, Carl Stultz, W. H.

McNally, Robert McCormick, Thomas Dragan and Don Benight. In the first heat Carl Stultz was the winner, and Thomas Dragan was second. - The time, was 2:15 for the mile. There were twenty-two laps to the mile. In the second heat Robert McCormick was the winner over W. H. McNally, and the time In this mile was 2:15. There was an exhibition race between Lee Gardner and A. S. Guies, In which the time was 1:55. The management announces that there will be a race for the amateur championship of

when he landed on American soil, and Indiana next Friday at 9:3K

The Gary Land rompany has Just In

aued an edict which require all "squatter" cmA the owners of shacks to move off Iron the aropertie oi tao first subdivision before the seventeenth of this month. The first ediet of the kind resulted In the cleaning; out of the numerous sharks which were built In the early days "along the banks of the Calumet river. Since this proclamation went out the primitive houses which once lined what was known as Euclid avenue and Prospect avenue and made the town look like a mining camp have been removed.

But since the city has been built up with more substantial buildings the shacks not only make . the city look untidy but they endanger the jnore expensive buildings in case fire should

start in any one of them. One of the old . landmarks in Gary which will be removed Is the camp of the Falkenau . Construction company which was the first building to be erected on the site of the new steel city. Gary's Fort Pearborn. The building of the Falkenau Construction company was the Fort Dearborn ' of Gary and had almost equal significance for it was this camp that tiplfled the modern method of ' city building as compared with the methods of the early days. As a result of the decision of the Gary Land company to have all of the shacks in the city removed it will be necessary for scores of families to move to other parts of the; city of have. ''

Since the Falkenau Construction company's camps were built there has been

a marvelous transformation in the, city which has been built up around it. ShacKS have, been replaced by massive and bautiful piles of brick -and stone and Gary has already taken its place among . the important municipalities of Indlna. It is estimated that the value of the shacks which have been ordered removed from the Gary Land compny's first subdivision is in the neighborhood of $8,000. But in spite of the sentiment which surrounds these first buildings the people of Gary will be glad to see them go. They belong to distant past. Two years distant.

From a

(By Raymond.) Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 12

time dating back to the Chicago convention I have heard that Indiana was "queer" In regard to its national poli

tics. That characterization is as true

today as it was then.

Yet I am inclined to the belief Taft

will carry the state by something more than 15,000 majority, but that the state ticket and the majority in the legisla

ture are both still questions to be de

cided by the election itself. Indiana always has been considered a doubtful state. Even in 1896, when It came out

strongly for McKinley as against Bry

an, there was considerable misinformation as to ho'.v the state would go. Thinks It Is Changeable. Apparently it is a commonwealth which changes its opinion with considerable facility. That is to say, it is one of the states which are always

good ground for a campaign of education. The people of Indiana, are unusually intelligent and inevitably , log

ical. They study a political question as they do anything else from their high intellectual standard and they reach their conclusions accordingly. - Everybody knows that in 1896 if an election had been held on the first day of September, Bryan would . have received the electoral vote of Indiana. As It was, the discussion of the financial question was conducted up to a point where the triumph of the republicans was inevitable, and McKinley

t carried with a comfortable majority a

state which had see-sawed from republicanism to democracy with almost every national election. Ukclj- to Happen This Year. The same thing is likely to prove true now. Taft Is gaining, and the present indications are he will carry the state. The plurality I have mentioned is a-minimum one, and in view of the lively campaign which is being carried on in the state the figures are liable to be increased rather than diminished. From a purely national standpoint, involving the issues between the two parties, there never has ben any question as to the result in Indiana.

For the last dozen years Indiana has

been reliably republican on national issues. It was, as I have satd, badly iafected with the. free silver heresy in the earlier months of 1896. Then came the gold, democrats convention here in Indianapolis which I attended, and ,there was a splltup in the democracy. The German element In Evansville, the railroad men in Fort Wayne, and

the sound business men of Indianapolis were gradually brought to see that the triumph of 16-to-l would be a disastrous event. From being a strong free silver state, Indiana was gradual

ly transformed into one of the bul-. warks of the McKinley idea of pro

tection and the gold standard.

State Redeemed from Democracy. The state was completely redeemed

rom democracy. Charles Warren Fair

banks was elected senator, and from that day to this the doubtfulness of Ir.diana in national politics has been a tradition rather than a fact. This year John V. Kern, a most excellent gentleman, has been nominated by the democrats for the vice presidency. State pride will bring to him' a considerable vote. He has made . a dignified campaign and he has-been for years alienated with the Tom' Taggart stripe of Indiana democracy which was not of late friendly to Bryan. Mr. Kern Is a drawing card in Indiana, as he ought to be, and he is worth a good many thousand votes which Bryan could not possibly secure.

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SMAN EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER will address the

voters of Hammond on the issues of the campaign.

WILLIAM

. KLIVER, of Gary,. Candidate for Representative, will also speak.

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