Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 260, Hammond, Lake County, 22 April 1909 — Page 8

Thursday, April 22, 1900.

TEAMS UNHITCH

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OIH BY JOB SEEKERS

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Two Hundred and Twenty -Five Drivers on Strike in the Steel City; Want a Daily Wage of $2.2& Work Tied Up.

SYMPATHETIC WALK OUT 15 THREATENED

MAY BECOME SERIOIS

Team Owners Ead Offered to Pay $2.35 in Compromise, and It Being Tlefused, They Now Rescind the Oiler Strike-Breakers Are Forced to Turn Back with Vehicles .

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Two toa in tern, lrivlng for the Gnrj- Lumber company, were topped at liie corner of Sixth n venue and I! roadway and compelled to go back. Nearly nev-venty-flve trnmMern, who r.re out on a Htrike, bad Kathered at the corner and In no uncertain term asked the tiary Lumber company teamster to tarn buck. They replied with the reiiiet. On the Month xidc the teaniNterti were more demonstrative, and wherever u driver appeared striking teamster hurled the word "scab"' at him. Carpenter, working; at a building on Jefferson street, refused to work with any material delivered by teamsters this morning, and the strike promises to assume threatening; proportions.

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Gary Is Over-Advertised and Laborers and Mechanics Flock to Town by the Hundreds in Search of Employment.

Calls Her a Liar and Swiftly She Poketh Him Where His Facian Contour Protrudes Farthest Into the Open Air.

Over 200 teamsters, belonging to the Gary local union, went out on a strike this morning after their demands for a raise in the scale had been refused by the Team Owners' association. The report last night, stating that a compromise had been affected between the owners and the drivers, did not materialize. The information was secured through a local teamster, who said that the men were all at work and that the owners had acceded to their demands A conference was held last evening among the members of the Teamsters' union and they decided to go out this mornine. There is now threatened --a tie.-up in building operations, and one

that promises to be bitterly fought on both sides. The contention of the owners is that 'they are unable to pay their drivers any more than $2.25 per day, owing to the high price of feed, etc., in Gary. An offer of $2.35 per day was made to the drivers a few days ago. but this was flatly refused, they demanding $2.50. Since that time the offer has been withdrawn by the owners. Agreement Expired Last AVeek. It is said this morning that a number of the drivers refused to go out with the rest of strikers, but were compelled to do so by the owners. The agreement between the Team Owners' association and the drivers expired last Friday. The latter claim that when the agreement was made a year ago the owners promised to raise the scale at the end of that time. Thomas J. Gormerly, probably one of the biggest team owners in Gary, was interviewed by a Times' reporter this morning. "We are done," said Mr. Gormerly, 'we made the drivers an offer last week of $2.35 per day, but this was refused. We cannot afford to pay the drivers ary more under the present conditions. There is very little in it for the owners, as it is, and if we were to accede to their demands we might as well go out of business. If the drivers want to come back to work they must now come to us. and at the old scale. If they do not come back, and

that son. we can get plenty of men to fill their places." Sympathetic Strike ot Imminent. Just how serious a nature the strike will terminate cannot be determined at the present time. It is not thought that other unions in Gary will go In sympathy with the drivers. At the best building operations in Gary promise to be tied up for sevrral days, at least. The union is composed of about 200 drivers. Besides doing all kinds of teaming, they supply all the contractors in town with material, and it Is just a matter of how much material the latter have on hand before they will be compelled to cease operations. The teamsters' union committee is composed of Business Agent J. Golden, A. Foster and John Flynn.

(Special to The Times.) Kast Chicago, Ind., April 22. Judge William A. Reiland yesterday levied the smallest fine it is possible to assess. The object of the fine, which amounted to 1 cent, was Pauline Kruczek, a pretty young foreigner, who runs a boarding house at One Hundred and Fifty-first street. Tauline is 20 years of age and petite of figure, but those things did not deter her from "handing one" to Peter Mazemiak, one of her boarders, and knocking him down, when he told her in plain terms that she was a 'liar." Peter Is nearly six feet tall and of husky built. Some trifling argument had come up between the two, which led to Peter's arraignment of his landlady. Pauline did not go In search of a broom, nor did she resort to rolling pin, poker or

flat-iron, which the generally regarded

as a woman's legitimate means of offense and defense. She merely landed on Peter with one of her chubby fists, and Peter went down in his tracks. When he picked himself up he headed straight for Judge Reiland's court, where he swore out a warrant, charging assault and battery, against his fair assailant. The latter, however, was prepared for what was to follow, and when the summons to appear before Judge Rellaiul reached her she was already provided with the necessary means to meet any reasonable fine that the court might see fit tp Impose. Judge Reiland took a slant at the defendant and her accuser. "T"Id you knock that man down?" said his honor, after he had listened to Peter's story. "Yes, your honor, and I'm glad I did," and the little woman's eyes flashed. "He called me a liar and I would allow no man, big, little or medium sized to hand me that epithet."

Twelve girls have adopted a novel method to secure funds for home mission work in Chicago. They have constiuted themselves a board of managers to conduct a series of concerts and recitals, the proceeds of which will be devoted to religious work in the north part of the city. The first effort of the amateur promoters is scheduled for tonight in the auditorium of the Fullertoii Avenue Presbyterian church. Fuilerton avenue and Hamilton court, of which the liev. Ir. Hugh T. Kerr is pastor. The organization under which the girls work is known as the "Rud sof Promise" club, of which Mrs. H. I. Maclntire is the supervisor. Included in the membership are the Misses Georgia Bartels, Louise Bartels. Eva Richards, Hllma Wilson. Caroline Smith, Maybelle Strosnider. Harriet Hoffman, Lorraine Franz, Willa Dee Kresne, Camille Holt and Hazelle Davis.

i Mother of Three Puppies, Believing Herself Abused

by Child, Sinks Teeth in Calf of Leg of Erwin Lewis.

REMONSTRANCES FILED HG1ST BURNS DITCH

Eighty Interested Property Owners Appear in Porter Circuit CourtSKY PROJECT IS INADEQUATE Attorney Kelly Says Government Survey Will Eear Him Out in His Contentions Against Canal.

Because she had pleaded guilty

Judge Reiland was obliged to impose ; the benets derived

Valparaiso, Ind., April 22. Tuesday seemed to be a great day for the lawyers in Porter and Lake counties. It was the last day for filing remonstrances against the construction of the proposed Burnt' ditch, for the drainage of the Calumet region. It is said that more than eighty Interested property owners filed their objections to the construction of the ditch, most of them on the ground that their own assess

ments are too large in proportion to

(Special to The Times.) Kast Chicago, Ind., April 22. Another of Harry Gaugh's dogs has been guilty of biting a child, this time the seven-year-old son of Alderman and Mrs. Albert Lewis being the victim. A few days ago Mr. Gaugh had one of his valuable pointers, Bob, shot after the animal had bitten his two and a healf-year-old son, in the cheek. The dog that bit the little Lewis boy, was also a pointer, the mate of Bob, and had never been known to be treacherous. There seems some doubt as to whether the dog was to blame In the present rase, as Erwin admitted to his father that he had been throwing stones in the direction of the dog, but with the intention of hitting a bottle near by. Mr. Lewis, having been a boy once himself, is Inclined to think that the dog may have been the target of a few of the stones, and is not placing all of the blame on the animal. At any rate the latter evidently believed the missiles were meant for her, and being the mother of three young puppies, her temper may been been a little more Irascible than usual. The upshot of the affair was that Erwin was bitten in the saif of the leg. Dr. Roila Hale cauterized the wound and declared it as his belief that there was nothing to worry about. Mr. Lewis has not demanded the life of the dog a.s a penalty for its attack upon his child, preferring to keep the animal under surveillance for a time with a view of ascertaining whether it is in a healthy condition.

For the past few months the contractors and labor union officials of Gary have been besieged with a multitude of men seeking work in the steel city. This Is tne result, it is believed, of over-advertising the ctty and as a consequence every man out ot a job believes all that it is necessary to do is to come to Gary and he will be employed as long as he cares to remain. Because of this fact there are more

non-employed workmen In Gary today

than there Is in any city in the Calu

met region. With some of them their

condition is desperate, and wives and

mothers have been dependent upon local and county charity until money

could be secured to get them out of

town or until they could find some tiling to do in Gary.

New Appllcnntai Kvery' Day. In describing the peculiar situation in Gary yesterday a constractor said: "Every day I am asked for a job by.

at least, fifteen or twenty laborers and skilled mechanics. For the most part they are different men every day, evidently men who had just arrived in town. The cause of this condition is not because there is less work in Gary than formerly, but for the reason that it is slack in other cities, and hearing of tlie marvelous growth of Gary they believe that there is an opportunity here for everybody. Finding that there is nothing here for them to do many of them have grown desperate and every day they can be seen appealing for aid with tears In their eyes. There is only one remedy to suggest and that is not to advertise the city so extensively as it has been." The question of over-advertising Gary affects every line of business from laborer to the merchant and contractor, but if the outside world Is not to be kept in touch with the development of this marvelous city it is a question whether the cure would not be worse than the disease.

MIKE BINZEN OF GARY BOOSTEDJFOR MAYOR Said to Be Third Candidate on Republican Ticket for Fall Election.

BOB REED WILL RETURN TO EAST CHICAGO

a fine, which he did in the smallest pos

sible amount. 1 cent.

Certainly Not Overlooked. "In short, sir, we go in far too little for what Matthew Arnold calls sweetness and light." "I don't see that sugar and oil are the two biggest trusts we support." Life.

COMPLAIN OF MASHERS

Gary Telephone Operators Say They Are Annoyed by Human Pests.

Several rcrvorts have come to The

Times office in- Gary of rate by sev- j eral young women, who have been an- j noyed by "mashers." One of the men t responsible forthis class of work is aj professional man, who has been par- i

Attorneys most active in the securing of clients for remonstrance proved to be Fetterer and Hall of Gary and I).

Kelly, H. H. Loring and T. 11.

Heard of this city.

Attorney Kelly sets forth in his re

monstrance that the assessments of his clients are too great and that in case the ditch is constructed it will prove inadequate for proper drainage, owing to the large amount of shifting sand at the southern end of Like Michigan, which, he says, will choke its mouth. He says that he can prove by government survey that the water-is not more than three feet deep for a distance of 1,800 feet from shore and says that lie is going to fight the proposed drainage scheme to the limit.

Jimmy Knew When to Start. My son Jimmy came home from

ticularly obnoxious to the telephone op- ' school yesterday crying: as if his heart erators employed hy the Chicago tele- i would break. 'For heaven's sake. Stop phone company. The name will be it, son!' I commanded 'Did you yell withheld temporarily, at least, until that wav all tho wav down the street ?

the matter becomes too serious.

' N-no, he sobbed. 'I started when I got

-Cleveland Leader.

Miss Martha Schuler. chief operator tQ tfa. front d(J0r

ii rc inrpiiune company, reports mat she has received a number of com- i plaints from her employes and that if Junk Evidently Built to Last. the practice does not stop they are Although 110 years old, the planning to adopt a way to stop it, that , Whangho, a Chinese junk, has since will have serious consequences for the ' April, 1906, twice crossed the Pacific offending persons. j ocean. The ship is but 121 feet long Other women of Gary have been ! and is the first vessel of this size to complaining of the fact that Gary has 1 accomplish the feat. Its three masts been infested with "ogglers." which . are made f Forrafl3an mahogany, have caused much annoyance. J

Former City Engineer Now Located in Central Brazil-

(Special to The Times.)

Kast Chicago. Ind., April 22. Assistant City Kngineer Owen Heed received a letter yesterday from his brother. Hob lieed, former city engineer of Kast Chicago, who for about a year has been, in Sout-i America. Mr. Heed resigned his position as city engineer to accept a more remunerative one on the Madeira-Momora railroad in Central rSrazil. He writes that the work on the new road is progressing finely but that the county itself is "fierce." The work lie is engaged in its pioneer work of the roughest description, the country through which the engineers are blazing ttieir way being wild in the extreme. At present the work has progressed to a point within r0f) miles of Man.voad and is on the Amazon river. Although the letter was written in a cheerful vein, Owen Reed declared that between the lines he could read that his brother was a bit homesick for Kast Chicago. He expects to be home some time in July, but will most likely return after he has rested up a bit and visited some of his old friends.

KNOTTS ONLY DEMOCRAT

Former Proprietor of Binzenhof Has a Large Following Among the Steel Workers.

Thieves Busy. Thieves entered a company boarding house on Madison street. Gary, this morning, belonging to George Peckovich. Kntrance was effected by means of a rear window. Several suits of clothes and smaller articles of wearing apparel were taken by the thieves.

More political "dope" is being dished up in Gary lately, the latest being that Mike Binzen. late proprietor of the Hinzenhof buffet, is to be a candidate for mayor on the republican ticket. This will make four candidates in the field to date, three being republicans and one democrat. The three republicans are: J. Glenn Harris, John Hrennan and Binzen, and the single democrat is President Knotts. Mr. Binzen, it is said, has informed his friends that he will make the race for the mayoralty, and believes that he can be elected. His main strength will be with the employes of the steel mills .many of whom he has become acquainted with while running the buffet. Mr. Binzen is also popular with the business men of the city. With three candidates in the field and several more in prospect there seems to be a good promise of a lively convention next fall. All of the candidates are unusually strong, and some of them are already laying their wires In preparation for the fall campaign.

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Mabel and Kadie Earn, two sisters, who were arrested in South Bend in company with their brothers on charges of having blackmailed people, are thought to be the same two girls who put up at the I'nity hotel in Gary some time ago. As they were on the streets much of the time after late hours thej- were threatened with arrest by the police officers. The girls were found in houses of ill repute after having enmeshed business men who had a standing in the community. The brothers would approach these men and demand money to keep their soapades secret. The brothers were fined $50 and $100, respectively. The girls were sent to the honx- of the Good Shepherd at Iiidlananub"

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A Frog jumps readily enough when put in warm water, yet a frog can be boiled without a movement if the water is heated slowly enough. In a psychological experiment at Yale University the water was heated at the rate of .0036 of a degree a second, Fahrenheit The frog never moved, and at the end of two and onehalf hours, was found dead. He had evidently been boiled to death without knowing it. There are hundreds of business frogs.

They Are Not Sensitive of Business Changes

The evolution from the old method to the new, bright, advertising way has not startled them they die a slow business death. j The merchant who doesn't advertise today is being boiled to death, and the bright attractive prin&ng that we are doing for his competitors is the water that is doing for him what the frog got at Yale.

MORALDon't be a frog; use a little printing1 ink,

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