Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 127, Hammond, Lake County, 14 November 1908 — Page 1
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ARE ALKT COMPLETED Actual Manufacture Of Steel Will Begin By First Of January In Mammoth Industry
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DEPUTIES
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About People
Some Chats With Folks On Things of Interest
Frisco'sGelebratcd Graft Prosecutor SKot By One Of The Men He Exposed
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THE MEW YEAR WILL SEE THE WORK BEGIN ------ , ' Times Representative Is Taken Through Mills and the Wonderful Operations Are Described byDepartment Heads.
Prosecuting Attorney-Elect Charles E. Greenwald Announces List of Appoint
ments Which Have Long
Caused Anxiety.
NEW DEPUTY PROSECUTORS
(Appointed by Prosecuting Attorney Charles E. Greenwald.)
Tie Indiana Steel company will begin tbe actual manufacture of steel at Gary on the first of January. At that time two of the gigantic furnaces Vwill be blown in, the gas developed in the furnace will be utilized In the ""producing- of power for the great electric motors In the power house, and as the wheels begin to turn, It will signalize the beginning of the completion of one of the greatest industries ever constructed by man. This information, which Is authoritative, coming from one of the highest officials of the steel corporation, will undoubtedly be heralded throughout the country by those interested directly and indirectly in the progress of the mills. There ore few people who have kept In close touch with the progress of the construction of the industry who were aware of the stage of completion which it is reaching. GREAT MILLS WILL OPEY GRADUALLY. The opening of the works will be gradual, -however, but one department at a time beginning operations as they are completed. The first, of course, wilt be the furnaces, which not only convert the ore, but produce the gas which is used for the operation of the power house. One of the furnaces stands ready at the present time for the lighting the fires,; and has already been dried out ready for use. The other is complete and ready to be dried out. ''".''" The number of men required to operate the two furnaces is estimated at about four hundred, and that number will be put to work Jan. 1. From
that time forward the number of men, will be gradually increased until the
full force has been secured. It is expected that the announcement of the smarting of the furnaces will immediately enliven all branches of business in the city, and cause the investment of thousands of dollars in the city which has been held back until the construction of the mills has reached
a tangible stage. ' . ! . MAXV DEPARTMENTS ARE NOW READY.
Aside from the furnaces, which will be lighted in a little over six weeks
for "flic, manufacture of iron, there have, already been certain departments
of the plant opened " for their private use. Among these are the . machine shop and the foundry which has now been In Tuil operation for about three weeks. ' These are the most essential at the present time, as they are used to assist in the construction of the remainder of the plant. The other de
partments which are .open and ready for use are the blacksmith shop, store
house, carpenter shop, and boiler shop.
That section of the plant, which has to do with the manufacture of
iron and stel itself, has been rushed to completion through its various stages
until it is now ready to feed the material into machines which will in turn
convert it into the finished product. Steel rails will be the first article to ! produced, as that building and its machinery are rapidly nearing com
pletion. DESCRIPTION OF WORK ACCOMPLISHED.
A representative of The. Times yesterday was given the opportunity to see the plant in its various stages of completion in every department. To begin with at the docks there is piled up 750,000 tons of ore which will be
more than enough to last until the opening of navigation in the spring.
This is all that will be brought in this season.
The ore is to be hoisted up into the furnaces together with Yhe other Ingredients and converted into iron. Ultimately there will be sixteen of these
aurnaces, dui mere are oniy eignt or mem in course of construction at th
sent time. The furnaces are built in units of four. The first and fourth
have not yet been started, but the second is well under wav. and the third in
the one which is practically complete. Two of the furnaces of the third
group are the ones which will be lighted the first of the year and the two
others in that group will follow soon after
ine gas mowing nouse wnicn sends the gas into the power house for the use of the gas engines, is now complete and several of the engines were
tried out yesterday. Instead of using gas, however, compressed air was
lurveu imo me iurnaces ana was pumpea out Dy the blowers. The test of
the engines . proved satisfactory MAXV TIRBIXES ALREADY IX RllXXIXC ORDER.
Many of the great turbines In the power house which will be used for
furnishing power in Uie mills are in running order. These are gigantic ma
crises tapaoie or producing enormous horse power. These were all installed by the Westinghouse company, and it has been said that the contract was so
great that it was the cause of heir going into the hands of the rerelvArsMn
Gary W. F. Hodges. East Chicago J. B. Bartholomew. Indiana Harbor J. S. Patterson. Crown Point M. J. Smith. Valparaiso C. W. Bnrkhart. Lowell J. W. Belshaw.
Prosecuting Attorney-Elect Charles
E. Greenwald today announces the list
of bis appointments of deputies in the
various cities of Lnke and Porter coun
ties over which he has jurisdiction.
Tbe appointments caused surprise and
dismay among many of the old line politicians. There was a very apparent
breaking away from the old machine,
which is arousing considerable comment
ver the two counties.
People Are tinned.
As viewed by the people in general,
however, the distribution of the pat
ronage of. this office is very satisfac
tory. All of Mr. Greenwald s assistants
are clean men who have the confidence
o the communities in which they live.
Not that many of the, other appli
cants were not desirable citizens, for all of the aspirants for the deputyships were good men, but party alignments
have been ignored and it is apparent
that the prosecutor's office is to be in
entirely new hands.
Young Men Get Plums. .
Another surprising thing is the num
ber of young men which have been ap
pointed over some of the older heads.
The very beginning of the recent cam
paign was marked by the invasion of
the young man into politics. This was
especially true of the republican party,
and it is safe to say that never in the
history of local politics has the young
man been given such important work
to do.
Apparently, Mr. Greenwald is in sym
pathy with this movement, for W. F.
Hodges of Gary, who was given the deputy ship there, is a young man; Joe Bartholomey of East Chicago, who was
appointed over several older applicants
Is a young man, and M. J. Smith of
Crown Point and more recently of
Hammond1 ,is a young man.
Greenwald Young In Spirit.
J. S. Patterson of Indiana Harbor is
an older man, as are C. W. Burkhart of Valparaiso, and J. W. Belshaw of Lowell. Charles Greenwald himself,
who will look after the business in
Whiting and Hammond, is young in
spirit and not so very old in years.
With the assistants with whom he
has surrounded himself, all young, am
bitions men with reputations to make and keep, it is expected that the office will be conducted along progressive
lines.
GEORGE M. POLAND, manager of
the Lake County Ice company, is pre- j dieting a heavy ice crop this year. The .
cold snap of the last few days gives
I promise of still colder weather before
the end of the season.
CHARLES E. FOWLER of Indiana
Harbor is one of the busiest men in
the- county. Real estate and canls are
enough to keep any man busy, he says, J
and he Is certainly wrapped up in the
completion of his pet project.
WALTER J. RILEY of the Harbor
has been selected to ttend the Catho- ' lie conference in Chicago next week. His energies in the deliberations o(
the Knights of Columbus are responsible for the conferring of the honor.
EDWARD W. WICKEY. Lake coun
ty's next representative. Is rapidly re
covering from the effects of his cam
paign. Pontics certainly strenuous
work for so little compensation.
PETE FINNERTY of East Chicago
confesses to no little surprise at his sudden advent into football "stardom."
He came to Indiana to do mill 'work.
he declares, and little expected his
football prestige to become so well
known. ... ,
ATTORNEY W. F. HODGES of Gary
has been the recipient of many letters
of congratulations over his appointment of the deputy prosecutorshlp In Gary, and his many friends are well pleased over the choice made by Pros
ecutor-Elect Greenwald.
flESIE
which they recently emerged
The open hearth building No. 4, in which the iron is converted into steel
ana in wnien there wm be fourteen open hearths, stands ready to begin its
worn, mere are lour or tnese buildings. The first of these has its concret fr ill n ft '1 1 fi.i sn ni Til a at . 1 j . T. ... ... , , , ..
...u..v.,.iiii .inPicic "u is iu) iue Mruciurai iron worn, xne excava
tlons for the second are nearing completion and the concrete work will be
il-u in Miun iiuic. xne miliums ior ine tnira is completed, but Is not
yet reaay ior operation. I he open hearth system of making steel Is the latest
ana most modern method and is used in but one other plant in the country. - II AVE 4.0O0 TONS PER DIEM CAPACITY. -After the steel leaves the open hearth it is. sent to the soaklne nits i
which the steel is properly tempered for rolling into rails ibr whatever produc
that may be desired. The rail mill and the billet 'mill are constructed as wings off from the soaking pit? and the three building, if consructed end to end would make a structure over a mile in length. As stated above the rail mill, which
lias a capacity of 4,000 tons per day, is the nearest completed. Nearly all of the machinery has been installed and the power house for this mill has motors which generate 22.000 horse power. Three of the five motors are complete, and lire the largest to be constructed. The recent heavy demand for rails by the jailroads has- made the early completion of this department Imperitave. The billet mill which is constructed as the north wing, is rapidly assuming Hhape. The concrete work is practically completed and the structural iron work has been started. A large force of men has ben put to- work on this department and the building will be well under way by the time the rail mill Is In operation." The foundation for the plate mill in which 60-lnch plates are manufactured, has the concrete foundation complete and the structural iron has been ordered. Grouped around the plate mill will be the merchant mills in which various articles of finished steel will be produced. These building have bpen started and are being pushed rapidly.. - FOIR THOISAND ALREADY EMPLOYED. The building for the pig iron castings Is completed and the 'machine is practically all installed. This is expected to be ready by the time that the furnaces are lighted. Various other small buildings, such as the strippers, the gas purifiers, etc., are ready for use. The number of men employed in the mill Is now close to four thousand, J'Ut twenty-seven hundred of them being on the pay roll of the steel com-glj-jgny. The remainder are employed by Individual contractors. As the work luiears completion the number of men on he steel company's pay-roll Increases and that of the contractors decreases. This Is . due not only to he fact that many of the buildings have been turned over the steel company, but alsp because the fact that they are now in a position to handle the construction work themselves. Some of the largest conractors In the plant are the Illinois Improvement and Ballast company, and the Landquist & Illsley company. In the past few weeks they have let but few contractors for the contruc- . tion of buildings and will let but a few In the future. Most of the work done by contractors has been that of grading, concrete work and brick construction. To determine the amount of construction work being carried by the company can best be done by considering the fact that there Is from five to twenty carKloa of machinery alone shipped into the mills every day. . ,.
LOCALS GET 1ST HALF
Hammond's chances for The Times
cup looked exceedingly good this afternoon when, after the first half on the Harrison park gridiron, the score stood
11 to 0 in favor of Hammond.
The visitors, representing the Crown
Point high school, put up a death grappling fight against the local school, but
to no avail.
The Hammond rooters were wild with
excitement at the end .of the first half,
and the local players, who went Into the game somewhat disheartened owing to their crippled members, have taken new hope and went Into the second half in high spirits.
ERIE POLICE SAY 1 GARS ARE ROBBED
The special officer of the Erie railroad yards reports that a car which had been standing in the yards but twelve hours had been broken Into and a large quantity of clothing stolen. Among the things taken were twenty-four corduroy suits, eleven raincoats and a number of other articles of clothing. The police were notified of the theft and were asked to keep on the lookout for the thieves. The practice of breaking into sealed cars In the railroad yards Is so frequent that t strenuous effort will be made to break up the gang which is believed to be responsible for the work.
TELEPHQTTES YOTTB HEW! TO TBI TEktCS.- '.
DAVE EMERY of the Lake County
Savings and Trust company is pardonably proud of his brother, Jim, who is at present employed as an artist on the Chicago Daily News. His work
is attracting a great deal of attention, and his talent is sure to land him be
fore many years in the first ranks of newspaper workers in his line. Some
of his series of comics on the last page of the paper are very clever.
E. C. SIMPSON, cashier of the First
National bank of Gary has been spend
ing his leisure moments In between his duties to superintend the repair
ing of the boiler, which has been
out of commission for the past few days, and which has caused the steam
to be turned off the entire building
and the shivering tenants to wear their
overcoats and mittens. Mr. Simpson
will see that the boiler is repaired in
schedule time.
CHARLES' GREENWALD is very
very busy.
"How are they coming, ..Charley-"
asked the knight of the soft lead pencil of Whltlng"s famous lawyer who
had Just been elected prosecuting attorney. v
It"s worse now than before elec
tion," quoth the choice of the voters as he dug his fist into the ribs of his
privileged inquirer, where from the questioner, took it that the deputy office seeker is busy these days and nights."
ERIC LUND, the Hammond contractor, has at last given up all hope
that is friend, James E. Watson, can
be counted in as governor of Indiana this trip. Mr. Lund was the last man in Lake county to admit that Jim was beaten and for many days after the
election Eric hoped against hope that
there would be some mistake found
in the official canvass that would land
Watson a winner In the gubernatorial chair. He "was subjected to considerable Joshing because of his loyalty, but every one who knows Eric knows that makes no difference with him.
MAYOR THOMAS E. KNOTT S has! the happy faculty of doing the "right thing at the right time" as was the case when the matter of compelling the Michigan Central railroad to place gates at their crossings at Broadway and Madison street in Gary, was brough up at the last meeting of the town board. Mr. Knotts is for-seeing in any matter that will be of any ' interest to the welfare of Gary. DON. F. VAN LIEU is reported to be one of Gary's best intertainer in the way of a story teller, and the genial insurance agent never fails to draw a crowd about hint when he starts to spring one of his "new uns." He has more good stories tucked up in his coat sleeve than the washerwoman over the back yard fence could tell to her neighbor in a whole morning's session.
REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT WIL
LIAM KLIVER Is one of the happiest
boys who wears the suit of blue in all of Lake county today. Even if election is two weeks past Mr. Kliver still has that broad smile on his face over his recent victory in politics, and if he carries out the campaign pledges he Intends to start when the legislature is in session, there will be never a more happy a moment than when he
Is serving the people of Lake and New-V
t.n counties. BEN. V. CARR of the new law firm, which has located In Hammond, was republican chairman in White county during the campaign. The county that Congressman Crumpacker lost by three votes. Mr. Carr felt the defeat of Jim Watson very keenly and deplored that more than anything else. "It simply took the heart out of me, though the national ticket was elected, to see Jim beaten," said Mr. Carr, who is very enthusiastic over the prospects of a wonderful country in the Calumet region here lit fore very long. OTTO J. BRUCE was up from Crown Point t-he other day and was asked if the pernicious activity of the drya in Lake county would be exerted In an effort to make the county dry. Mr. Bruca smiled a knowing smile
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HEARING
ON GAIL
National Rivers and Harbors Committee Will Take Up Indiana Harbor Project Early in December Importance Realized.
CHARLES
FOWLER
E.
IS HARD AT WORK
Is Ably Assisted By Prominent Men
in the Calumet Eegiad Who Are Boosting the Neighboring City for the Benefit of the Entire Territory.
Francis J. Heney, who prosecuted the famous graft cases In San Francisco, was shot In." San. Francisco yesterday by Morris Haas, a saloonkeeper and exconvict, whose .criminal career was .mUde public ,by Heney during the presentation of graft testimony. Haas claim Heney's", exposiire' of 'his recora';rilned him. - ' : ". - - ' "' i . . r. '.' :. ': '' '
NEW GOMPANY STARTS
Stanton and Young Will Sell Butterine By Wholesale.
A new firm has been organized in, Hammond, known as the A. S. Stanton company, consisting of two of Hammond's well-known business 'men, A. S. Stanton and Hal I. Young. The company will engage, lri the sale and distribution of wholesale butterine and will make a specialty of ten pound tubs to consumers. An office and storage plant has been started at 314 Truman avenue, and It is at this point
where the firm expects to do its business. A wholesale license has been
taken out' and with Mr. Stanton's wide
acquaintance with the butterine busi
ness and his long experience therein, added, to. Mr. Young's ability, there is little question of their succes.
THIRTEEN LOCKED UP Weary . Willies' Bunched in City Jail Last Night In ; Unlucky Number
ar.d refused o commit himself.. He was asked if there were not a great many lepub'icans as well as a large number of democrats who were disgruntled ever the outcome of the election. "That is were we are strong," said Mr. Bruce. '"The republicans will sign
a petition because they are sore over
the defeat of Watson, and the demo
rrats wil sign a petition because the brewers hslped elect the governor and the legislature and turned down the rest of the ticket, state and national." "Just wait awhile," was all that this Crown 'Point leader of the drys would say. MAYOR EDWARD DEBRIAE of
Yesterday was Friday, the thirteenth, and the police at Hammond celebrated
Weary Willies. This, of course, necessitated the making out bf,. thirteen lodger's sheets and the number thir
teen appeared so frequently that .the police are wondering what terrible things will happen to the department.
Some of the officers say that in thir
teen weeks or thirteen ; months ' J their
official necks will . be" placed on the democratic guillotine and there will'be
thirteen vacancies to fill ' with " demo
cratic henchmen. s, "' '", That is about the worst that could happen, but the local officers are resigned to their' fate. They are awaiting ,the inevitable and after. all they are convinced that It would, come, even if there had been no Friday, the thirteenth.
(Special to The Times.) Indiana" Harbor, Ind., Nov. 14. "Th river and harbors committee will give the citizens of Indiana Harbor a final hearing on the canal ' project during the early part of- December," said Charles E. Fowler, of this city, to a Times representative yesterday afternoon. The significance of this declaration is easily understood "by everyone interested In. the mammoths project of building a government harbor and canal-at Indiana Harbor. The subject has been one of constant discussion for the past six years, and Indications are that the efforts of the leading citizens of'the locality, among whom Mr.
Fowler Is no small factor, are about
to be crowned with success.
Hears From Committer. Mr. Fowler received Information
several Ja-ya g to-tlie effect- that the
congressional committee would probably be In session shortly after Dec.
5th. ' To the end of securing the de
sired hearing. Congressman Crumpack
er has suggested the advislbllity of be
ing ready to appear at as early a date as possible, and Mr. Fowler has wast
ed no energies in preparing documen
tary evidence of the great benefits to
be derived from the canal project.
AVant to Extend Canal. The plans of the local sponsors for
the project now Include the extension.
of the canal to the Calumet river. This
will give shipping advantages to Hammond industries, and permit them to ship their manufactures via the lake
route. At the present time, should vessel sdeslre to reach Hammond over the Calumet waterway, It would be necessary to dredge and widen the river In places, build bridges, and finally use the government harbor at South Chicago. This would entail far greater expense than the building of the
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TEACHERS HOLD THEIR . MONTHLY INSTITUTE.
Kast Chicago was in Hammond the oth- 'two townships
Sessions Adjourn for Pedagogues to See the Footbnll Game, The teachers of North and Calumet townships held institute in Hammond today. There were about . thirty five in all who were in attendance. .They hail from Griffith, Toleston, Ilessville
and several of the other towns of the
of;
of
er flay and discussed me, maiier the amalgamation of , the cities
Hammond, East Chicago and Whiting. He said the time was not yet ripe for such an amalgamation.- "Est Chicago and Indiana Harbor," said he, "polled an increase of 1,200 votes at the last
election over and above the vote polled afternoon.
at tho election previous. "That gives something of an ideal of the remarkable growth of East
Chicago," aaid the mayor, '"and I prophecy that in five years East Chicago, which we take to mean East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, will be larger than Hammond in spite of all Hammond tan grow.'" CHIEF OF POLICE MARTIN says his officers make just as efficient firemen as they do policemen, and are always ready to turn out at any hour of the night when a call is sent in. Serving in the double capacity of an officer and fireman at the same time certainly makes the life of the Gary watchdogs a strnuous one.
( The meetings were held in the Cen-
tra school building and the discussion of matters of interest to pedagagues were taken up.) It" is expected that a large number of the teachers will see the football ' game ' between Hammond
and Crown Point at Harrison park this
IROPSIS GET A GAME Will Play Carmakers at Makers at Harrison Park Tomorrow.
The Hammond Iroquois football team will play the Hegewisch team at Harrison park tomorrow. Both teams are known to be first class and a good game is assured to all who care to witness it. The Hammond boys are known to be in the pink of condition and they will go after the car makers with a vim. The members of the Iroquois team has have practicing faithfully and has & large asortment of new plays which they will try on the Hegewisch boys. The line of both teams is as follows:
! Hegewisch Kadison. R. E.; Crook. R. E.; Fitznoski. R. G.; McDonald, C.;
Sroth. L. G.; Clampa, I. T.; Mills, L.
E. ; Messman, R. H. ; Coney, L. II.; Fenslinger, F B. ; Raper. Q. B. Hammond P. Smith, R. E. ; Dougherty. R. T.; Enright or Waite, R. G.; Smith or Bick, C. ; Bowan or Beacon, L. G.; Reed, L. T.;,Heisen or Edwards. L. E.; Halfman. R. II.; Portz, U H.; Stevens, F B,; Gist or McMahon, Q. B.
EDWARD WAS SO FULL. Edward 'Murphy was arrested by Of
ficer Kunz on the charge of being drunk. On account of tho fact that the county jail is so full of prisoners that It Is necessary to reserve the space for criminals of the more dangerous sort. Murphy was released on the promise that he would get out of town and not come back again.
HAMMOND C0MMANDERY WILL ATTEND FUNERAL.
IS IT WORTH WHILE PAYING TWICE AS MICH FOR OXI.Y A FOURTH OF WHAT YOC GET IX THE TIMES f SIMPLY COMPARE IT WITH TflE OTHERS. '
All Sir Knigbts Expected to Attend and Arrangements Are Made. Notice has been sent to the Sir Knights of the Hammond commandery No. 41, K. T., that the furneral of Sir Knight John M. Balletine will be held Sunday, Nov. 15, at 12 o'clock. All Sir Knights are expected to report promptly at the asylum at 12 o'clock Sunday to take the street car to Whiting in time to meet the Pennsylvania train due at 1:46 P. M. and. accompany the remains to Hobart where services will be held The train returns to Whiting at :38 p. m. The fare is 64 cents round trip. I .