Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 160, Hammond, Lake County, 24 December 1908 — Page 4
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UNJUST TREATMENT OF
The employers' liability is one of the most expensive things connected with the operation of a great manufacturing concern. It is just and right that a company should, pay damages to its employes if through ita
negligence they are injured and are livelihood. . But there are abuses of this most are abuses of every good thing. Surface cipalitiea are often bled by those who a prejudiced jury that they have been are cut to notfflbg. This was true in companies in New York city.
In Hammond there are people who will chuckle with glee whenever the street car company is stuck for a $5,000 judgment, regardless of the merits of the case and little realizing that in order to pay that $5,000 it
will be necessary to take in 100,000 nickels and carry that many passengers,
Even though street cars are popularly supposed to be owned by men with dollar marks on their clothes they have got to pay dividends and
when the company gets a 'set back in
that the new cars wo have been wanting so long will be delayed just that
much longer and we, the public, are chuckling over our own loss.
In Gary the United States Steel company has built a model plant, it is not only constructed so that the process of steel will be the most simple and the cheapest but the United States Steel company has tried to install
life saving and Injury preventing devices that will reduce the amount it is
compelled to pay out every year for personal Injuries.
It has discovered that it is just as called "life and limb" as it is to make motors. Consequently every device nocents is being used. Gary may be reason. But even the United States Steel its efforts along this line. Realizing that may be installed there will be some steel nor man are infallible, it now cent industrial hospital that has ever further evidence of the fact that steel they beat for even "hunkies" in their After going this length to provide
" then establishing a complete and sanitary hospital for those who are in
jured, in spite of all precautions, it Btories purely imaginary and greatly accidents and new plants. It hurts have been doing so much to end the accidents are legitimate news but the
blamed for imaginary horrors which it is striving so hard to prevent ANENT THE GOMPERS DECISION.
That the sentencing of Gompers and his allied union labor officials to jail for contempt of court in violating Buck's injunction is received with
gravity by the press is quite plain to be seen, for among all the Chicago papers this morning not one treats of the affair editorially. There can be no question of the tenor of Justice Wright's decision, nor of the importance of the issues involved as well as their complexity. The rights of man, the rights of labor, of employers, of the courts are brought face to face. The issues were discussed during the latet campaign and Mr. Gompers and his visit to Lake county have not been forgotten by many people. The decision
presages a never-to-be-forgotten conflict is early yet. The sentenced men have
may not have to go to jail. We shall see what we shall see. MR. JOHNSON AND HIS NERVE.
The consummate nerve possessed by some people who are wont to employ it in a reprehensible way would make them millionaires in no time if they
chose to use it in the right way. A this. Officers of the B. & O. railroad
a car in the yards there and upon an investigation found that Peter Johnson, an East Chicago man, had obtained some wood, taken it inside a freight
car, built a fire therein and was calmly smoking his pipe and toasting his
chilled shins. Mr. Johnson had, only jail at Crown Point and was taken
tide where he will be kept warm without endangering any property belong
ing to the B. & O. railroad company. A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL !
In accordance with its usual custom the TIMES will not print its usual
editions on Christmas Day and will
the day as they see fit. To all of its readers over Lake county the TIMES extends the compliments of the season and wishes them all a very Merry
cnristmas with all the joy that the
THERE IS BUT ONE thing lacking and that is a plentiful supply of the beautiful. No one wants to see a green Christmas but the members of the, medical fratetrnity and it would be much more charitable to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they don't want sickness at this season
of the year.
ii is xsu u&fc, crying peace when the war is not yet over. This disposes was about to change the name of his Lincoln society organ. THIS DATE IX HISTORY. Dec. 24. 1737 Silas Deane, a special ambassador sent to France In 1776 to seek aid for the American cause, born In Groton, Conn. Died !n England. 23, 1789. 1800 Attempt to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte. 1809 "Kit" Carson, noted scout and pioneer, ' born in Madison county,
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INDIANA STEEL COMPANY.
deprived of their ability to earn a beneficient provision just as there traction companies in great muni are injured, or are able to persuade injured, until the surplus and profits the case of the consolidated traction the way of a $5,000 judgment it means necessary to save that by-product producer gas run its own electric that will minimize the slaughter of in proud of its new steel plant for this company wants some recognition o: no matter how many safety devices men killed and injured, for neither plans the erection of the most magnifi been built by a corporation. This is magnates do have hearts and that employ. safe employment for their men and is disappointing to have newspaper exaggerated, circulated about terrible the pardonable pride of the men who loss of life and limb. Stories of actual Indiana Steel company should not be between capital and labor. But it the benefit of another appeal. They case at Whiting yesterday illustrates company found smoke issuing from just been released from the county back there to pass the glad Christmas afford its employes a chance to observe Yuletide is supposed to bring. there is no peace. Col. Bryan says of the rumor that the Peerless Loser paper to the Kimona and make it Ky. Died at Fort Lyon, Colo., May H3. 1868. i&ii me ".New Orleans," the first steamboat built in western waters started from Pittsburg for New Or1814 Treaty of peace between the United Stas and Great Britain signed at Ghent. 1854 Two United States ships seized at Havana for conveying arms and
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alksf By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, by Edwin A. Nye. ONE WOMAN'S EXTRAVAGANCE. Mrs. Howard Gould spent $224,000 for "pin money" in one year. This fact was revealed in the divorce suit brought by her husband. She spent this tremendous sum for dresses. knickknacks, entertaining, etc. Moreover Mrs. Gould, while making no denial of the fact that she had expended the vast sum on her personal wants, contended through her counsel that Mr. Gould had tried to starve her out of Gould castle. Two hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars! Note a few figures: The starvation allowance made by Mr. Gould would fed 100,000 starving poor for several whole days. . If this sum of $224,000 were in silver dollars it would require 140 husky men to carry it if each man carried 100 pounds. That many silver dollars would weigh seven tons, a fair load for 6lx horses to pull. , Accordipg to the census, the average expense of an American family is about $400 a year. Put $224,000 at interest at 6 per cent, and you could per manently pension thirteen such fami lies. The census reports put the average price of a farm In this country at $4,000. Mrs. Gould's yearly allowance would buy fifty-six such farms. Put it in the shape of dresses. The average woman would consider $30 the maximum price for a dress. Mrs. Gould's annual expenditure would purchase dresses for 7,460 women. "Well," you say, "the money belong ed to Mrs. Gould. Did she not have the right to scatter it according to her personal fancy?" Legally, yes. Morally, no. Every dollar of that money, in the last analysis, represents somebody's toil and sweat, somebody's short dinners and pinching economies. It Is part of the capita of society, the ag gregated savings of millions. Now, for instanceHas this woman the right morally to spend $224,000 on her petty caprices while 15,000 school children in Chicago go supperless to bed? The spectacle of such wanton extravagance in the face of so much want and woe breeds not only envy but ha tred of the very rich. seditious proclamations. 1864 Wilmington, N. C, bombarded by the. union neet. 1873 Johns Hopkins, founded of Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore, died. Born May 19, 1795. 1893 Unsuccessful train robbery on the Southern Pacific, near Burbank, Cal. THIS IS MY S2ND BIRTMDAY. Manuel Estrada Cabrera. Manuel Estrada Cabrera, president of the republic of Guatemala, was born Dec. 24, 1856, and acceded to the rulership In 1898. His election followed the assassination of President Bar rios. Cabrera was the first president of the republic taken from civil life since 1839, those intervening having been military chiefs. Cabrera was a thorough Spaniard and an advanced liberal. Though he has held office considerably longer than the average term enjoyed by his predecessors, his rule has been beset with many troubles. In 1890 an undue issue of paper mon ey caused much dissatisfaction among the people and the result was that several unsuccessful attempts were made on the life of President Cabrera. To the Internal troubles of the country were added serious disputes with the neighboring republics of Salvador and Honduras, which a year or more ago assumed such a threatening aspect that the United States was obliged to interfere to bring about peace. Dec. 25. 1635 Samuel de Champlain, explorer, died in Quebec. Born in France in 1567. 1774 British tea ship forbidden to land at Philadelphia. 1776 Americans defeated the British at Trenton, N. J. 1779 The city of Nashville, Tenn founded. 1836 Rear Admiral Francis M. Bunce, U. S. N., born in Hartford, Conn. Died there, Oct. 19, 1901. 1868 President Johnson issued unlver sal armesty proclamation. 1890 China Navigation company's lin er Shanghai burned near Ching Kiang, with loss of 300 lives. 1898 Great Britain Inaugurated impe rial penny postage. THIS IS MY 52ND BIRTMDAY. George I of Greece. George I, king of Greece, was born Dec. 25, 1845, the second son of the late king of Denmark, Christian IX. When the Greeks finally succeeded in thrownig off the Turkish domination and looked about for -a ruler they called Prince George of Denmark to accept the newly -created throne of Greece. He was chosen king in March, 1863, and was crowned in November of the same year. . In 1867 King George married the Grand Duchess Olga, daughter of the Russian Grand Duke Constantlne. The rule of King George has been a successful one and no sovereign in Europe enjoys a greater degree of' popularity with his subjects. King George has six children. The eldest son and heir to the throne Is the Duke of Sparta, who has just passed his 40th year. King George is a keen man of business and is reputed to be very wealthy, though his civil list Is far below that of many other rulers In Europe. - .
THE THIE3.
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS A Merry Christmas., And one good thing about it is, that you won't have ta read the early Christmas shopping warning for an other twelve months. If you take the part of Santa Claus, be sure and wear the asbestos chinchillas. May never fatkem The mind ( a woman But It la possible To give a close Guess yoa see her looklagr Into Window at some Hats. If I'nuadeiphia couple just wed will part six months to test their affection. Well, six months is a 'long Urn. Like to see the betting on the event. It Is said bnt true that tke aerage man's train of thought never set tire to anything;. The funny thing about Carnegie is that he thinks nobody but he under stands figures, for he eays: "Figures befuddle people." LOTS OP PEOPLE IMAGINE they ARE GENIUSES UNTIL THEY BE GIN SENDING THINGS TO THE PA PERS. THEN THE SCALES .PALI. FROM THEIR EYES. ' However, it will be hard for the new Gary to have the beautiful press agents that our own Gary has. And don't forget the poor families and the homeless dogs and cats If you have too much for your own. Men call women dainty erea tares, hot we notice that they . let them wae the dishes Just the same. The cabinet makers seem to have no trouble whatever in turning out good pieces of furniture, and It may be hard for Mr. Taft to pick. Of coarse, It Is much more Blessed to give than to receive, But it's far less -Expensive The Other way around. Read the "Christmas Carol" to the children and don't forget to take its message to your own heart. Nothing la gained by being glum. Many a mas has laughed had ha-had his way into sucetss. Don't blame The Times If you didn't get a present to suit the folks, "We certainly showed you where to get them. However, you don't have with Mr. Wlckey's Idea of if you don't want to. to fall in "Indiana' SPEECH MAY BE SILVER AND i SLIEXCE GOLDEN, BUT A WOMAN'S WORD RIGHTLY TIMED IS A THING BEYOND PRICE. Some one wants to know the mean lng of "Pawky Chiel," used In Thu Times in the Carnegie story. It Is Scotch for "wize gazaboo." Tombstone Talk. Nobody dies in Tombstone, unless they brought it "with'm," or fall Into a euo-root vertical snart, or buy an automobile, or "sass" their mother-in law, or try to thaw out powder,' or mis take cyanide of potassium for sugar, or start off a county seat removal racket. Some die of old age, some old partners of Daniel Boone, but none have ever been known to die from phy sical irreguarities contracted In Tarab stone, aside from the above-mentioned causes, and occasionally an abnormal tightness about the throat, superin luced by a coll or manila rope, or from a cold caught through a hole made by a .45. Tombstone( Ariz.) Epi taph. THE CREAM OF THE Morning News Conviction and sentencing of jail terms of Samuel Gompers, John Mitch ell and Frank Morrison for violating court injunction is described by Walte Wellman, who says the decision raises In crulcal form the question of "boy cott by suasion." - Missouri supreme court ousts Stand ard Oil company of Indiana, Republi Oil company of Ohio and Waters-Pierce company from the commonwealth an orders each to pay a fine of $50,000. Thomas F. Ryan resigns as fi, Uirecto in thirty-one corporations at his physi cians' advice. jeuers introduced at the trial o Thornton J. Hains show his hatred of Annis, his brother's victim. President Knight of the OaK Park line raises objections to the contract ordinance which Traction Expert Raymer, of Chicago, says he will take up with the mayor. In another effort to save politicians ,from trial Attorney Darrow declares
Yuletide Musings
The Joyous ' time la drawing algfa, the time at turkey, pud. dlng, pie; nor do we dream of after Ills, of squills, and pills, and Christmas bills. A A girl begins to haag up the mistletoe at about the age when she stops hanging up her stocking A pessimist la a fellow who wouldn't hang" op his stocking for fear old Santa Clans might swipe it. A Christmas cigars are not always puffed up with pride. A . Tfaere'a many a slip twist tha Mlsa and the mistletoe. Don't make It too strong. Many a man has been knocked out by one good, stiff punch. A Ask a truthful woman what she enjoys most about Christmas, and she will tell you the bargain sales ' afterward. A To sing o, rime of Christmas time (that line is but the first of it), here's hoping you may not feel blue because you get the worst of It. A A When a child writes a letter of thanks to Santa Claus, it should be cherished like a rare plant. That kid isn't long for this world. A No .Christmas present Is so useless that you cant pass tt on to some one else next year. A ' Remember that it Is better to give than to receive the thlags you dont want. A A Take off the tags. Many ' a friendship has been severed .by the price mark on a Christmas present, ' A A I have often wondered wherein consisted the wisdom of Solomon when he had a thousand wives. I am now convinced that It must have been In living In the days before Christmas was celebrated. A A It's all right to pity the poor at this peace-oa-earth season, but it Is also well to remember that sympathy doesat fill an empty stomach. Indictments in connection with primary fraud are faulty. Express offices and postal stations unable to handle all Christmas packages in time to reach destination in Chicago. Costly books which caused charge of swindling by Mrs. James A. Patten, of Chicago, are shown at trial. Use of formaldehyde as a preserva tive condemned by Dr. Wiley, government chemist, is a report made public at Washington. Strong pressure brought on the ways and means committee of the house to impose a duty on sugar. Public prosecutor in Paris flays Count de Castellane and Prince de Sagan and recommends that the chil dren be left with their mother with certain Instructions from the court. Venezuela suspends the shipping order that caused the trouble with Hol land and the Dutch government orders Its warships to cease operations along the Venezuelan coast. Prices again are very strong In Wall street, industrial leading in the large business both In stocks and bonds. Knickerbocker Ice company arranges to extend its collateral notes and will probably resume dividends. New fast freight service on Illinois Central and Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis brings markets of southwest nearer to Chicago. Louis O. Kohtz declines to stand for re-election as president of the Chicago Board of Underwriters, and caucus decides on C. N. Bishop for place. IN POLITICS The republican members of the Illinois delegation in the house have unanimously indorsed Joseph G. Cannon for re-election as speaker. The recent admission of Senator Gore of Oklahoma to practice In the supreme court of the United States is believed to be the first instance of the admission of a sightless man to that bar. Charles A. Korbly of Indianapolis, who, defeated for congress the wellknown Jesse Overstreet in the Seventh district of Indiana, is 27 years old, and will be' one of the youngest members of the Sixty-first congress. United States Senator McLaurin of Mississippi, whose term will expire March 4, 191S, will be opposed for reelection by ex-Governor Vardaman. The nomination, which is equivalent to an election, will be made in the primary election of 1911. Friends of Governor R. B. Glenn of North Carolina believe that he may become a candidate for the nomination for congress in the Eifth district two years hence. The democratic nominee was defeated there this year by John M. Morehead, a republican. Congressman Charles Land is, who was defeated for re-election In the Ninth Indiana district, has been selected by Senator Beveridga for collector of revenue in the Terre Haute district, which, next to Peoria, Is the largest m the country.
National Leaders Organized Labor Sentenced to Jail for Contempt of Court
f , ft, f v V V5 w MsaHsanMMBwaV Samuel Clamper UP AND DOWN IN INDIANA MARKET THEIR TOBACCO. Tobacco growers near Boonville are rapidly marketing their crops. The growers hold their grades first class. Independent buyers are waging a war with the association, and are paying a higher price for crops not in the pool than the pooled crops brought. LEVY ASSESSMENT. President A. L. Faulkner of Hartford City, of the National Window Glass Workers' association, has levied an assessment of $1 a week against all' skilled workers employed In either the machine or hand-operated plans , now operating until the strike is settled.' This is in addition to the 2 per cent collected from their gross earnings each month. HOW THEY WILL STAND. "What shall be the republican attitude toward the repeal, of the county local option law?", is the question that Is Interesting the republican members of the house of representatives coming to Indianapolis for their meeting at the state house thia afternoon to talk over the minority plan of action for the approaching session of the legislature. MERCHANTS OFFER PLATFORM. About forty members of the state county clerks' and auditors associations held a meeting at the Denlson hotel, Indianapolis, ' yesterday afternoon for the purpose of discussing the Indianapolis Merchants' association's suggestions with reference to the establishment of a uniform system of accounting throughout the state. MAY ESCAPE PROSECUTION. It was declared today In Princeton on good authority that If Henry E. Agar has money to make a fair settlement he need fear no prosecution at the hands of any of those who have lost through him with the possible exception of one or two surety and bonding companies. UNCLE SAM GRIPS STITT. Claude D. Stltt, former deputy postmaster of Wabash, who has been sought by government authorities since his disappearance from Wabash a few days prior to Thanksgiving, came to Indianapolis yesterday in company with hia brother, Paul Stitt, and gave himself over into the hands of United States Marshal Henry C Pettit DON'T LIKE TABLE TDOCTOR. The bottle blowers of Gas City, near Marion, will taboo the "tablet" doctor. They propose to patronize only the doctors who give medicine in liquid form. The "tablet" doctor, they say, uses pasteboard bo'xes instead of bottles, and thus the demand for bottles is decreased. The Bottle Blowers' union adopted a resolution pledging its members to refrain from the use of medicine in tablet form. DIES OF CONVULSIONS. The two-year-old daughter of Arthur Haines of Pittsburg. Pa., died inconvulsions at Goshen today after eating medicine which it took from the window sill at the home of Earl Hainey, where Mr. and Mrs. Haines are visit ing. Ignorant of the effects of the drug, the parents did not call a physician until the child was beyond help. MRS. MOORE MAKES FINAL BOW. Mary A. Stubbs Moorej retired state statistician, makes her final official bow to the public in the issuance of the twelfth biennial report of the Indiana bureau of statistics, proof sheets of which she received from the printer yesterday. She suggests the passage of a law prohibiting, under heavy pen-
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v - v 'ft J mzwtvm r rcM Mnom m.tczfohn xJlfiiahell f alty, the giving out of private statistical information collected by the bureau. CIGAR STARTS A FIRE. A cigar stump carelessly thrown behind the steam radiator between the storm doors at the store of . Charles Mayer & Co., 21 West Washington street, Indianapolis,-started a fire lst night which did small damage. A still alarm was turned In and firemen responded with a chemical engine. Voiceof the People CALLS IT AN OUTRAGE. Paraiso, Canal Zone, Dec. 12, 1908. Editor, Times. Hammond. Ind.: In reference to your editorial of Nov. 27 (which I have Just received), headed "A Critical Procedure," I would like to say, if you will grant me the space, that I wish some of the people who advocate government ownership' of railroads had to live in Panama for a while where they would have to depend on the Panama railroad, a United States government owned road, for accommodations. Of course, one does not expect to find a first-class railroad in this country, but, the Panama railroad is fortyseven miles long, and I will wager that It does more business than any railroad te ntlmes its size in the United States, and the charges of this road are outrageous. Five cents a mfle for first class fare and you are not allowed to check your baggage on a first class ticket; so, in order to carry your baggage with you, you must either have a government pass or pay express which Is two cents per pound and freight , in like proportion. ; Government employes are allowed one pass a month gratis, and as many hajf rates as they may wish, but, as all people cannot be government employes, think what It would be to the American people to have all of the roads in the United States owned by the government. The Tanama railroad Is, technically, a private corporation, but all of the stocks, with the exception of two shares are owned by the United States." and the road's officials are appointed, or rather elected, I should say, by the government, and therefore the road is, I think, a fair example of what government ownership would be in the good old U. S. A. Yours truly, RALPH A. SCHOFIELD. ' This is probably due in a measure to the fact that The Tiues reflects so perfectly the marvelous industrial activity of the whole Calumet region, in which is located the Magic Steel City, Gary. Among the new subscriptions received from distant places during the past forty-eight hours, was one. from Spokane, Wash., another came from Morro Barracks, Santiago, Cuba, a third came from Paraiso, Panama, Iri the canal zone, and still others came from Newport, Wash., and Glasgow, Scotland. These requests for the paper came volentarily. Those who subscribed wanted the newiest and bests paper itj the region and were advised to tak Thh Times.
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