Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 215, Hammond, Lake County, 1 March 1909 — Page 5

Monday, March 1, 1909.

THE TIMES. S BORED Last Link m New Transcontinental Line IK GARY

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It is a little early to begin making garden in Gary, but it soon vrill be time to start digging up for an Easter bonnet. The annual mlerimaee by boat to town provisions has commenced by the farmer of the Calumet river dis-j trict. From this time on the average Gary I contractor, carpenters and masons will, eat his lunch between the knocks of his hammer. The rush is on. Cheer up', you may be Included in the annual congressional distribution of garden seeds. Judge Gary thinks the price of steel is low enough, but strange to say that is a part of Judge Gary's Job. If there was some way of averaging the waUr on the Calumet river all the year round the happiness of the residents might be increased tenfold. In the meantime it is hoped that some arrangements will be made so that the baseball fans of Gary won't have to go over the state line for their Sunday baseball. Come on out cigarettes. The smoking Is fine, but rather expensive. It might be said that Gary is a "white city" as far as the condition in which the streets are kept. There is one satisfying feature about the inaugural procession. If the people of Gary can't be there to attenl it, we will soon have a chance to see it at the moving picture shows. It is to be hoped that the first robin will get in his deadly work and kill off the first sand flea. Fancy straws are being shown in several Gary shop windows. Straw mattings, not hats, we mean. HEW GARY PHOIIE MGR. C. H- John, Successor to Frank Sinclair, Takes New Position. Manager Frank Sinclair of the Chi cago Telephone company will leave today for LaGrange, 111., where he will taka his new position on the contracting department in that territory. C. H. John, his successor in Gary, has been in trie city for the past few days getting acquainted with the city, and will be ready to start today. . ' Mr. John has been in the employ of the Chicago 'Eelephone company for several years and has had practical experience in all classes of work. As manager at Eatavia, 111., he demonstrated ability to handle a large exchange and when the opening occurred at Gary Mr. John was selected for the place. He is a young man of exceptional ability and familiarity with the telephone business and Gary business men will find him worthy of their confidence. GORSUGH & WiKELUND ARCHITECTS Room 2, First National Bank Building Telephone 155 GARY. INDIANA G Connors & Connors Singers, Dancers E M and Comedians Samoan Girls Novelty Actors and Character Singers T Illustrated Songs and U Moving a-J Pictures Changed Daily T R Matinee Saturday and Sunday, 2:00 P. M. 722 Broadway

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; Trolley League "Embraces Hammond and Gary.

President Fred Dresch of the Indiana Trolley league, is now engaged in drafting the articles and bylaws of the association, which will be accepted at the next meeting of the association, to be held March 14 at Laporte. The Lake county members of the new Trolley league are Hammond and Gary and both expect to send representatives to this meeting. After this meeting is held the locations for the ball fields will be sought by the team owners and the players will be drafted. NEW BUILDING Chicago Architect Completes Plans for Building. Plans have been completed by Architect A. G. Lund of Chicago for a new $5,000 apartment building, to be erected on Maryland street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. The owner of the new building is J. A. Greenberg of Chicago. The fiat will be two apartments, two stories in height, pressed brick, stone trimmings and all modern conveniences. J oins the Stage. The South Bend Tribune has a story to the effect that Mrs. Thornton Snell. the divorced wife of Thornton T. Snell of the First National bank of Gary, will shortly appear in the "Whitney Opera House, in Chicago, in one of the Richard Carle productions. Mrs. Snell lg living in Elkhart, and the report reached Gary yesterday that she will shortly become a member of the Carle company. The play in which he will appear will open in the near future. Rehearsal Tonight. Another rehearsal for the Congregational church cantata will be held this evening at the church. A large crowd of young people of the city are taking an active interest in the preparation for this musicale, and it looks as if it would prove to be a great success. It Is believed that there will be thirty-five or forty voices in the choir when it is staged. Gets New Patent. Mr. J. Kellogg of Gary has been successful in securing a patent at Washington for a new revolver-loading device. The invention of Mr. Kellogg is said to be a practical one, and he has already received several flattering offers on the patent. K. of C.'s to MeetThe Knights of Columbus will their regular meeting tonight in hold the Feuer building, at which time the new members who were recently taken into the order will be given a reception. The local order is now in a flourishing condition and is one of the strongest in Gary. Attend Mask Ball. A large number of people from Gary went to Tolleston last Saturday night to attend the big masquerade ball that was given at Kunert's hall. The new hall, which was opened the first of the year, was packed and a large sum was realized, all of which will go toward purchasing new paraphernalia for the volunteer fire department. Men's League Meeting. The members of the Men's League of the Congregational church will hold a meeting tonight at the church building, at the corner of Sixth avenue and Adams street. The topic of "Postal Savings Banks" will be brought up for discussion. The discussion will be led by Mr. A. C. Kellar of the Gary State bank. The meeting will be a very instructive one, and the citizens of Gary i are especially Invited. Woodmen Meet. The Modern "Woodmen met last Saturday night in the I. O. O. F. hall, and made preparations to give another smoker and entertainment at their next meeting. Three new applications were received and voted upon. The growth of the local camp is very gratifying to the officers. Gary Man Hurt. "Word reached Gary this morning that a man by the name of Ely Thomas, 27 years old, had been hurt by falling off a street car in Michigan City. He gave his address as Gary and said that his father, Joshua Thomas, was still. residing in Gary. The information is to the effect that the young man haa lapsed into unconsciousness and it is feared ho will not recover from the ef fecta of his injuries. Three "R'b" for the Worker. The three "R's" of the worker should be Regularity, Rest and Recreation. Spasmodic habits, never letting up, and not knowing how and when to play have killed more business women than all their hard work. A Prayer. God, if thy will be so, enrich the time to come with smooth-Saced peace ; with smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days. Shakespeare. Worth All Literature. A love letter from the right person Is worth all the literature In the world when it coms,to heart interest.

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CONTRACT

County Commissioners, in Session at Crown Point, Will Make Award on the grading of the Old Chicago Road. VIEWERS REPORT ON BROADWAY EXTENSION Are Said To Be in Favor of Continuing Gary's Main Street From the Ridge to Merrillville Kemonstrators, However, Said to Have Been Busy. A large delegation of Gary and. Hammond contractors and parties interested In the Broadway extension, went to Crown Point this morning to attend the meeting of the county commissioners, where the contract will bo awarded for the building of the road over the Calumet river. Prominent among the delegation was T. V. Englehardt of Gary, who is vital ly interested in the opening of the ! south roadway, owing to his large property holdings. "The improvement of the road and extension of Broadway from the Ridge road to Merrillville, will do more for that section of the country than any thing else," said Mr. Englehardt this morning, "and I am exceedingly anxious to see the contract let and the work commenced. The land south of the Calumet river promises in time to become the residential section of Gary and the. improvement of Broadway will greatly increase the property values." Bids Opened Today. The contract which will be awarded today at the county seat calls for grading and macadamizing of Broadway from the Pennsylvania railroad tracks to the Ridge road, more familiarly known as old Chicago road. The road will be 100 feet wide the entire distance. The improvement will mean an enormous expenditure to tne count, approximating over $150,000. It is said that a bond estimating $200,000 will be required. At the meeting of the commissioners today the viewers appointed at the January session of the board, to view the extention of Broadway from the Ridge road to Merrillville, wi!l make their report and reviewers will be appointed. The three viewers who went over the route, some time ago are: Matt Boney of Hammond, Wm. Parry and Bruce Meeker of Crown Point. It is understood that a remonstrance will be filed against the proposed extention by property owners on the line. The reason for this is said to be on account of the change in the lino of the proposed Gary-Crown Point interurban from the west route to a newly selected line at the east which will connect with Broadway at Merrillville. The loss of the proposed electric Una to the farmers on the est route, who also own property on the other route, will mean much to them and is said to be the cause for the remonstrance. Men More Sensitive Than Women. For keen perception, for quick, vivid apprehension of the great world of mind and matter around him, how Incomparably superior is the man to the woman. And yet who would have a woman different from what she actually is? Black and White. Home Influences. A man can get awful morbid over the political depravity of the country if he doesn't like the coffee his wife gives him.

AN OPTIMISTIC LOOK AHEAD By E. H. GAEY. (Chairman, of the Ignited States Steel -Corporation.) '

Judge Taft, by reason of his education, natural disposition and his ripened experience as a lawyer, jurist and administrator, will undoubtedly be a wise, discreet and successful president. He will, at the very outset of his administration, have the confidence of his fellow citizens generally and of the people of other countries. No antagonism mars the relation between- him and his countrymen or between him and the various branches of the government. He inspires the feeling that his effort wfll be to promote the best interests of everybody concerned. It follows naturally that confidence lri the business future of the country will. rapidly become more firmly established. During the last six months there has been a gTaduaJ .increase ln business. At the present time commercial conditions are as good as we have any reason.

to expect The financial depression of is not entirely realed: but I belies it

onward and upward movement of our business affairs. wtth heaJChy activity. In a comparaComplete industrial recovery will probably not be long delayed, after the, -ttwely short time there is a most noinauguration of the new president. Our baslo business, conaitlona. are souricl; ticeatfle gain in weight, strength, good money Is plentiful, and the opportunities -for'suceess in the United States are. color and feeling of buoyancy, greater than ever before. we urge you to try Mucu-Tone, beTariff agitation Is causing some hesitancy and distrust. In-various quarters; gimring a treatment today. At any

but In my opinion congress will not make any revision In the. tariff which, will place this country at a disadvantage with other countries, or Injure our lndnstries, interfere with our prosperity or compel a reduction of wages. I predict that the Taft administration -will be marked by the gre&iestijpos sible success and that at the same time the country-will enjoy-the fulIestTneasure of prosperity

Whiting Woman Is Horribly :

Disfigured (?) in Picture As Result of Family Feud . Begun on Account of Chickens. JUDGE JONES ASSESSES FINE iDCOURT COSTS Foreign Families In Oil City Who Are Neighbors, Air Their Feeling in Court Photograph of a Family Group Is Used as Exhibit "A" Shows Evidence of Trespass. (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., March 1. The cutting out of a woman's eyes on a picture caused an excitement here bordering on a riot last Saturday evening, and not until It was thoroughly explained that the woman in the picture, and not the real woman in flesh and blood, had been disfigured did the feeling subside. The underlying cause of the trouble In which two women, a boarder and a picture fLg-ured, in the foreign quarter, are a half dozen innocent chickens. As a result Mrs, Annie Konska, living at East One Hundred and Nineteenth street, was arrested and fined $13.80 by Judge Jones on the charge of malicious trespass. Mrs. Andrew Haluska, a neighbor, was one of the principal witnesses. Trouble of Long Standing;. The trouble between the two women has been of long standing. They both reside on East One Hundred and Nineteenth street and are next door neighbors. The. Haluska family has in their possession several chickens which are continually going into the yards of the immediate vicinity of their home. About two months ago one of the chickens got into Mrs. Konska's yard and as a result she killed it. This is where the trouble begins, for it was then that Mrs. Haluska had her arrested and for the offense was fined $15 by Judge Jones. Since that time the two families have been at dagger points. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Haluska keep a saloon and-Mr. and' Mrs. Konska keep boarders. The boarders of the Konska family became warm friends of the Haluskas by frequenting their saloon. Enter the Family Picture. The Haluskas had a large family picture in a frame, the value of which was about $10. One of Mrs. Konska's boarders was made a present of this picture. Taking it home he hung it up in his room, feeling very proud of his gift. When Mrs. Konska went into the room to do the regular work, and seeing the picture of her enemy there was more than she could stand. Go ing into the kitchen she took her butcher knife, and, after breaking the glass, cut out Mrs. Haluska's eyes. Spends Mgkt in Jail. The rage of the boarder was great when he saw what his landlady had done, ana siamming tne door alter a heated conversation with her, he went to the Haluska' saloon. When the news became known the entire place was in a state of excitement. Vowing revenge, they once more had a warrant sworn out for the woman, this time on a charge of malicious trespass. When the warrant was served by Constable Kuffner the woman be gan to cry ana ne iouna he was up against a stiff proposition. She was tried before Judge Jones on Saturday night, who fined her $13.80. It was necessary to keep her in jail all night, as she said she could not raise me money ior mey were in very poor circumstances. In the morning she managed to raise the money, however, and was released. Thoughtful Nature. Nature doesn t permit babies to talk under a year so they can't learn all the queer kind of language -women use to them. the autumn of 1S07 lnfUcted-. wound- that will soon be forgotten In the sreneral

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Trains May Be Running on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Road by June 1. Beverly, "Wash., March 1. By the completion of the bridge over the Columbia river at Beverly .the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Taul railway has finished the connecting link between Seattle and the main portion of its Pacific extension, which will be operated under the name of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound railway. Only

about eighty miles of track remain to

that the entire 1,500 miles of the extension will probably be in operation by

The bridge is a mile long, including The steel structure of seventeen spans

1,100,000 pounds. Over 4,500 cubic yards of concrete were used in the piles and abutments. The photograph shows the channel span, the erecting derrick and the huge traveler, which was thrown to the ground and wrecked aftef it had completed its work on February 15. One hundred men, Including 75 skilled brldgemen, were employed in its construction for about three months. The extension runs from Evarts, S. IX, to Tacoma and Seattle, Wash.

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STEEL CORPORA!

Boersianer Says That for Once E. H. Gary Nodded, and Tells of Storm Center in Great Steel War

in Which Region (BY BOERSIANER.) "The storm center of the r.teel war," as Chicago is ineptly designated, is in terpreting that Titanic struggle in a manner not at all flattering to the United Stotes Steel corporotion. Some of the largest consumers in the west, including severl railway officials, began buying securities on Friday morning. They bought liberally of railway shares, and of industrial certificates other than United States Steel. They snubbed steel pitilessly. It was a theoretical and a practical snub which openly questioned the sincerity of the steel company's proclamation of a week ago last Thursday. The doubt certainly is Justified, for when an im portant buyer of steel and Iron finds three independent plants charging precisely the same price as the chief corporation, he naturally assumes warfare has a Machiavellan purpose wholly foreign to the iron trade per se. The assumption is strengthened by an observation in an authoritative quarter. When the Iron Age observed "there are some indications of a friend ly spirit among some of the leading interests, so that the term of 'price war' should not be indiscriminately used," the skeptical critic may be par doned for smiling somewhat complac ently at the critic who takes every thing for granted. i Chicago, from the Inception of the disturbance, had its misgivings. It seemed neither rational nor logical that a power which had held in leash perfectly the iron trade in the crucial period of 1903 and the not less testing time of 1908 should lose self-control and the control of others on the eve of what several United States steel directors declared only a month ago the HTERES1G FACTS Kaufmann & Wolf Offer to Core Catarrh The Medicine Costs Nothing If They Fail. When. a. medicine effects a cure in 98 per cent of cases, and when we offer that medicine on our own personal guarantee that it will cost the user nothing if it does not cure Catarrh, it is only reasonable that people should believe us, or at least put our claim to a practical test when we take all the risk. These are facts which we want the people of Hammond to substantiate. "We want them to try Rexall Mucu-Tone, a medicine prepared from a prescription of a physician whose specialty was Catarrh, and who has a record of thirty years of cures to his credit. We sell more bottles and receive more good reports about Rexall MucuTone than we do of all other catarrh remedies sold In our store, and if more people only knew what a thoroughly dependable remedy Rexall Mucu-Tone Is, it would be the only catarrh medi cine we would have any demand for. Rexall Mucu-Tone is quickly absorbed and carried by the blood until It thoroughly disinfects and cleanses the entire raucous membranous tract, destroys and removes the parasites wbich Injure and destroy the membranous tis sues, soothes and heals the irritation and soreness, stops the mucous discharge, and buiids up strcog, healthy tissue, reKeves the blood and system -of diseased matter, stimulates the muI co-cells. atds digestion and improves -nutrition until the whole bodv vibrates time you -are cot satisfied, simply come and tell us, and we will quickly return your money without question cr qulbble. "We have ReraU Mucu-Tone la two. sizes, 50a and JJUflO. Kaufman-& 'iTVff.-lHasirttraa, -Jnd.

be laid, and this work will be so facilitated by the completion of the bridge

the trestle approaches, which will is 2,900 feet long, the channel span SAYS U. S. Is Interested. greatest general prosperity imaginable. Were the suddenly reversed attitude of the corporation genuine, the in evitable inference would be that the corporation has lost its pontifical position in the industry, and that in the last analysis would mean an intrinsic weakening of the company's securities. Even as It is, Chicago at least looked askance at steel common. That issue was given the go-by on what was called bargain days. People who had been confronted with direct evidence of Jockeying on the part of the com pany preferred to purchase other stocks. Playing the market to influence legislation they thought might be condoned in an American Tobacco company, or an American Sugar company, but it would not do for an international investment, which the steel corporation has striven to be. Financially, the concern became more or less of a suspect. All the early prejudices against it were revived. One firm resuscitated Professor Mead's searching examination of its fiscal status, made at the time of the floatation, which had concluded wih the declaration that the common stock would be 6ome day a liability. Less profound icao

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INSTALLS NEW DEPARTMENT, MARCH 1, 1909 Thus adding to their Business Courses that of DRAWING AIVD DRAFT1NO Embracing drawing in pencil, brush, pen and Ink and colors, in all branches; also mechanical drafting Carpenters, Bricklayers, Boilermakers, Structural Iron Workers, Etc. INSTRUCTION In Mathematics Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry. Pupils may-enter this as ail other departments of the school at any time. Instruction Individual and Personal A splendid opportunity is now afforded the young men- of Hammond and vicinity for securing an uptodate Drafting, Commercial or Stenographic education at most reasonable rates. SESSIONS Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings from 7 to 9 p. m. Class room will be open at 6:30 p. m. and pupils may come from their work at once to the school. TERMS: viz. 3 Months $15.00 j PftT..nra.d 12 Months 50.00 fFor Drawing. All drawing boards and T squares furnished free. Other-supplies plies may be obtained from the school management. The new department will be in charge of Mr. H. H.; Berg, now-connected with the Mechanical Engineering department of the Standard Steel Car works of the city, recently an Instructor In the Carnegie Polytechnic Institute of Pittsburg, Pa. Do you want a Commercial, Stenographic, English or Drafting Education? Go to the Chicago Business College of Hammond, Ind. Call at the office or communicate with F. M. ELLIOTT, Hammond, Ind. Telephone No. 1884.

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be replaced with earth embankments. being 266 feet long and weighing analylsts concluded that no advance in the dividend could be hoped for within two years; therefore as a 2 per cent payer the shares were too high and must go lower immediately money became dearer and less profuse. Direct Flrht Better Policy. It was general opinion that for once the penetrating and diplomatic E. H. Gary had nodded. A direct and open fight on that part of the tariff which affcest most vitally the products of the steel corporation had been better policy. Carnegfe could have been refuted from his own records. There is testimony in newspapers, magazines and legislature libraries averring- the imperative necessity of what he now vows is a harmful superfluity. And the Andrew Carnegie who was head of the Carnegie Steel corpany had said not more than a decade ago that perpetual protection is the very life of the steel Industry in the United States. We ask you to buy the Straube Piano not because it is made in Hammond but because you can't do as well elsewhere. The Straube Piano Co, Tiki Kohman Strt Car to tht Factory Busm and Electric Co. 147 Sootlt Hohmati-Street