Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 17, Hammond, Lake County, 8 July 1909 — Page 4
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TAFT'S TEST OF TARIFF BILL. Unless we act in accordance with our promises, or if we only keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope, we shall be made accountable to the American people and suffer such consequences as failure to keep faith has always been visited with. It would be better to have no revision at all, unless we are going honestly and fairly to revise the tariff on the basis promised by our party President-elect Taf t of Cincinnati. ' '
CITIES SHOULD GET TOGETHER. There was -a great deal of interest in the Calumet region in the plans of the Chicago Association of Commerce for a comprehensive scheme of
civic Improvement. The interest lies in the fact that the Chicago plans con
template tne beautifying of the entire lake front from Wlnnetka, in the
norm to the Indiana state line at Roby. In view of the fact that it will be only a few years until there will be
million people in the northern part of Lake County and that the cities of
Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Gary are already so closely connected that it does not require much of a stretch of imagination to
see tnem amalgamated into one great municipality, it is a matter of ereat im.
portance that these cities adopt some uniform and comprehensive plan for
mmre aeveiopment. Thfi PXnpripnco nf thn rtir nf r, ii.v. i j-i ...
t. v,un.aSu, niLu Has ueiayea tne adoption of a definite plan until it will cost millions of dollars more than it would have cost if action had been taken when the city was in' the first stages of its larger development, should be a lesson to the growing cities of the Cal
umet region in Indiana. At the present time the people of northern Lake County are building
municipal crazy quilt. A new subdivision is opened, a street is constructed a thoroughfare is vacated without the slightest concern as to whether these
plans narmomze with those of the neighboring city.
Parks are built where the land is the cheapest and without regard to their accessibility to the people of the city in which thev are hum nd
without a thought of their availability to that great amalgamated city of
iue tuiure.
uuiiuicia ui me tiues oi ine region nave no more of an idea of architectural balance, of systematic boulevard development of the value of civic centers than the dog eating Irrogote of the Philippines has of
lODster a la neuDurg.
mis lamentaDie iacK or interest in an exceedingly important matter is due primarily to the fact that there has never been a municipal ideal in
tiie way oi civic aeveiopment placed before the people of the region. The chief value nf fha mnnrt rf a ... .
. ""-asu Assuciauon or commerce lines in the fact that through the circulation of this report, which cost the business men of that city $40,000, and the publicity that has been given it
m tne newspapers a new civic ideal has been held up to the public.
it is oeneved that the "I Will" spirit of Chicago will insure the early realization of its dreams but even if the plans are only partly executed now
tne way win oe paved for their full development later on
This is precisely the situation that confronts the people of northern Lake
county, iney nave tneir vast manufacturing enterprises but while the re
,o uwtlulJ1uS luuuMuaiiy n is maKing DUt SlOW progress toward (ho
creation of civic ideals which will transform its cities from backyards of
v-iecinun 10 attractive places tor homeseekers.
As to the manner of accomplishing the ends sought it is suggested that
iue commercial organizations of the cities of Hammond, Whiting East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Gary, urge the organization of a commission consisting of representatives from each of the cities of the region and that this commission be empowered to employ architects and others to outline a plan of civic improvement that will harmonize with that which will be undertaken by the city of Chicago. It may be that these tentative suggestions will be found to be impractical that they would require too much money for their immediate development but the civic ideal will have been created in the public mind and the development of community pride will alone make any effort along this line well worth while.
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Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.
THE GINGLES CASE. Chicago is agog over the Gingles sensation. A comely Irish girl who has been m the limelight for some time in connection with various events is on trial for stealing a bit of lace and in accordance with the mysterious workings of Chicago courts, almost every crime in the calendar and a number that are not in the calendar are brought into the case. The name of Tom Taggart of Indiana has been dragged into the suit and testimony brought out that Sodom and Gomorrah in their wickedest days, never heard of The courtroom is packed with men and women who gloat over every bit of salacious testimony, despite the fact that the newspapers announced that it was absolutely unprintable and worse than the "Decameron" or "Madam Bovary " And amid it all sits an eighteen year old, blue-eyed daughter of Erin dressed in white with the appearance of an innocent maid the principal figure in the case. To what is the world coming, anyway?
FOXY JUDGE FITZGERALD. Judge Fitzgerald of Gary is to be congratulated on the possession of a ready wit, and an ability to meet the situation imperturbalv. Incidentally the value of a telephone as an aid to spotting gentlemen who like to prey on other people is demonstrated. The story is still fresh in the minds of the public. The worthy squire was doing business with an alleged sharper who claimed to be from Youngstown, Ohio, and had given the judge a check drawn on a bank there for $100. The check-giver wanted $40 change and the judge as if to satisfy himself as to its genuineness took off the receiver from the telephone in such a way as not to establish a connection and called for the bank at Youngstown. Great was the consternation and alarm- hysterical the plea for the return of the check on the part of the alleged sharper. The judge had established his case. The check was fraudulent and the man with whom he had been doing business, was convicted by his guilty bearing. Tally one for Judge Fitzgerald; tally several for him If Gary ever needs a good detective, we believe that Chief Martin can make a great hit by hiring Judge Fitzgerald. The great Lecocq hai nothing on the judge IT IS OFTEN a good thing to be patient. Indeed the advice to be patient is quite common. However, we know some people who are too patient. In fact they are so patient about a proposition that they go to sleep over it
Copyright. 1509, by American Press Association. FARMING FOR. PROFIT. The problem of how to get rich by farming has been successfully worked out by Francis Sestier of Des Moines, la. The young man has made $13,000 worth of improvements on a thirty-two acre farm in the last seven years and paid for it from the products of the soil. Sestier's father, a stonecutter, went to Des Moines in 1S75 to work on the construction of the state capitol building. He purchased the thirty-two acres within sight of the golden dome of the 6tatehouse he had helped to construct. The elder Sestier worked along to
maKe a living and pay for his acres
Seven years ago he died, and the young
man took charge.
Today Francis Sestier has what is claimed to be the best improved truck
farm west of the Mississippi.
Among the permanent improvements
made since 1801 are an $8,000 resl
dence with a modern cold storage plant In the basement and a steam pumping plant that draws water from the
Des Moines river, half a mile away, and lifts it 145 feet into an immense reservoir. He has also built eight
greennouses.
The water may be used for irriga
tion lr needed.
The statement that Mr. Sestier has
made his farm yield a gross income of
$300 to $400 per acre reads like the
advertisement of a land agent in ex
ploiting the regions that are alleged
to flow with milk and honey, but It is
true.
It goes without saying that he Is an
unusual manager. One of his favorite crops is toma
toes. He introduced the method of
raising tomatoes on poles. He plants about 3,000 vines to the acre and gets a yield of 750 bushels of fine fruit that
commands the highest market price.
In one year Mr. Sestier has made as
much as $2,500 on lettuce alone.
This young man has never attended
an agricultural college or taken s course in farming, but he reads ngri cultural papers closely.
Of course he has had the advantage
or. a near roarfcet for his produce and
during all the seven years he has paid
out otuy DO cents per acre for fertili
zers L e., $1G in seven years. The soil is almost as rich now as when it was
virgin. It pays to farm if you know how.
The Kentucky farm on which Lin
coln was born Is known as "the farm
that raised a man." That is distinction enough. It never raised much in the way of crops.
Thursdav, Julv 8, 1900.
UP AND DOWN IN INDIANA
SHUCKS
From the Diary of Si. Lence
AN OMISSION. Ilev hoard the poets rave about The- little buzzin' bee, The sweetness o" Ita honey, an' it's industry, But In all their random ravin' I've yet ter hear them sing O" enny o' them cravin" Ter go against it's sting; And lookin' through their poems And all the songs they sung, There's ne'er a word nor rapture On the joy o" gettin' "stung."
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THIS BATE IV HISTORY. July 8.
1C63 Charles II. granted a charter for
Rhode Island and Providence plantation.
1721 Eiihu Yale natron of Vnl. al
lege. died in England. Born in 164S.
175S Abercrombie, at the head of 13,-
000 men, attacked Fort Tieondcr-oga.
1790 Fitz-Greeno Ilalleck. f.imona n.-.f
born !n Guilford, Ct. Died there! Nov. 19, 1S67.
1S13 Outposts of tho American en
campment at Fort George attacked by British and Indians.
1S32 Great fire in MnntrMi hn
1,200 houses were burned.
1S79 The "Jeannette' 'expedition sailed
from Sn
l$ic Sir Charles Tunner rewicrn.-,! tin-.
premiership of Canada.
190S Fire in Boston dest roved flnr-k-
and warehouse property valued at $1,500,000. THIS IS MY -15TH UIKTHDAY. Frank H. llrandccec. Frank B. Brandegee, United States
senator from Connecticut, was born in New London, July S, 1SG4. His father
Augustus Brandegec, was for many years a member of congress and a well known republican leader. The son graduated from Yale in 1NX3, and four
years later he was admitted to the bar.
He was a member of the general assembly of Connecticut for more than ten years and in 1S99 he was speaker
of the lower house. He likewise served
for a number of years as corporation
counsel oi me city or .New London. In
1902 he was elected to congress from
the third district of Connecticut and represented that district ' until 1903
when he was elected to the Unirod
States senate as the successor of the late O. II. Piatt. Last spring Senator
Brandegee was re-elected for the full term of six years.
SCORED WEAK-KXEED MEV. "W". X. Harding, one of the republican candidates for the mayoralty nomination, Tuesday night had something to say regarding the republicans of Indianapolis winning the next election. ItAI.V SPOILS TIIE CROPS. Farmers of Hendricks county are idle because of tho heavy rainfalls recently. The farmers were right In the midst of the wheat and hay harvest. A great deal of timothy and clover Is down. Much of the wheat Is In the shock, and It Is all soaked. TO PROVIDE GOOD WATER. The city council at Logansport last night pledged itself to appropriate any reasonable amount of money to secure for the city a good supply of drinking water, and passed a resolution asking the board of works immediately to investigate the subject of securing the water supply from driven wells to tho drilled along the river bed. STRIKE LEADER QUITS TOIVX. That the absence of Ben Commons.
general execute board member of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Emnloves of
America, who has been in Evansville to direct the strike of the Southern Indiana Traction company's carmen, but who left the city quietly yesterday morning, will not affect the strike situation in the least, was the statement of President Henry Reese of the striking carmen's local union yesterday. FISH HOOK CAUSES DROWN I VG. Because a fish hook became entangled In the girl's hair while casting a line, Miss Dora Keehn and Herbert Stansbury, two young people of Ligonler, were drowned in Lake AVawasee yesterday morning. The waves of the lake were running high and the efforts of the young man to disengage the fish hook overturned the little canoe in which they were riding. ROY SHOOTS HIMSELF. James White, 14 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. George White. near Wheeling, accidentally shot and almost Instantly killed himself late yesterday. The boy was out hunting and had climbed on a stump. He slipped and fell, discharging the gun. The charge tore away almost the whole of one side of his body.
INJURED HOY' DIES. Harley Hickey. of Harmony, 12 years old, who was injured Saturday when a launtity of blasting powder exploded in his pocket, died yesterday. His two companions who were hurt at the same time will recover. The Hickey boy's clothing was burned entirely from his body and his flesh and skin were scorched to a crisp. LAWYERS TO MEET. A lively interest among lawyers centers in the meeting of the State Bar association, which began with a morning session in Indianapolis yesterday at the Country club. It is the thirteenth annual meeting of the association and will come to a close some time during the day with a banquet
spread at the Country club at 6 o'clock.
The association includes in its membership some of the best known attorneys In the state. HAVE BOUGHT C, C. A L. It Is announced that II. B. Holland & Co., New York bankers, have acquired control of the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville Railway, they to be the dominant factor in the reorganiza-
a receiver. PLAN TO BEAUTIFY CITY". Charles Mulford Robinson, the civic beautification expert. Is In Fort Wayne seeking further information to aid him in the preparation of his plans for improving Fort Wayne. Yesterday he had a conference with Charles Carroll Brown, an Indianapolis civil engineer, in regard to features of the work. CHARGE ATTEMPTED MURDER. Charges against unknown persons for attempted double murder were preferred by John Segner of Wabash, a patent medicine vender, and John Baker of Anderson, a traveling show singer, at Chesterfield, a few miles east of here yesterday. SUICIDES IDENTIFIED. Through the recovery of the coat of the man, the identity of the couple that went over the dam in the St. Joseph river at Soirth Bend, presumably as the result of a suicide pact, was established yesterday. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Lindeman of Chicago, bridegroom and bride of thirtysix hours.
Wife of Maryland Ex-Governor's Son Who is Suing Husband for Divorce
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
Not many fireworks were shot off be
cause the tariff was being revised downward.
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II- JS MIGHTY HARD FOR ANY
MAN TO SAY THAT HE REALLY HAS
TIIE BEST OF AN ARGUMENT AND
nil SURE OF IT ALL AROUND.
Forget not to make things just as
unpleasant as you can for the housefly.
Daysey Maynie's Social Plan. Daysey Mayme Appleton will enter
tain out of town company for the next two weeks, and has issued the follow
ing cards and sent them to her friends:
I will have two girl guests from out
of town for the next two weeks. What are you willing to do for them? I gave a (blank filled out by dinner, dance, party, tea, luncheon, etc.) when you had company." "Unless they come up to the scratch," said Daysey Mayme,
as she licked the stamps, "I shall have
to announce to my guests that I am In mourning, and can't do anything for
them beyond taking them for walks and to prayer meeting." Atchison Globe.
The best way to cure a woman's
trouble 1 to see that whe arets
a new and becoming hat and
?es It quick.
We heard a man talking about ro
mance and love today, and you could
smell onions on his breath a block
way. In onion there is strength but
no romance.
Many a sray little nlipper can cnuwe a lot of angulnh both on the foot and In the hand, If applied illreetly.
Any remarks about the heavy ones
are certainly invidious
Chicago Trib says Calumet river can
never reverse itself. If the Trib. ed. had lived in the Calumet he would know that it can do anything. It can
even stand on its head, and turn over In its bed.
The John Erickson Republican league has been launched In Minnesota
for the purpose of federating the Swed
ma voters oi me state into one compact central organization to work for the success of the republican party. A
similar league of Swedish-Republicans
nas nourisnea in Illinois tor many
years.
Jonah K. Kalanianaole, otherwise
known as "Prince Cupid," the Hawai
Ian delegate in congress, is arranging
for an excursion of members of con
gress to Hawaii this summer. The party will include more than a score
of senators and representatives, and the expense of the jaunt will be paid out of an appropriation made by the Hawaiian legislature. Louis F. Payn, who was United States marshal for New York city thirty years ago and has since been very prominent in the polities of that state, has gone into the oil business in West Virginia. It is a boast of Mr. Fayn that he has attended every republican national convention since 1S64 and has not missed a republican state convention In New York in fifty years. A law passed by the last legislature in South Dakota requires that all laws submitted to a vote under the initiative and referendum provision of the state constitution shall be printed ten Inches wide on the ballot. As six proposed amendments to the constitution and six state laws are to be referred to a vote at the next election It is figured out that a ballot at least seven feet long will be required. Congressman Charles F. Scott of Kansas, who is mentioned as a possible successor to Secretary Wilon of the department of agriculture. Is forty-nine years old and graduate of the University of Kansas. He began editor of a country paper in 1SS2 and ten years later was elected a member of the Kansas senate. He is now serving his sixth term as a representative in congress.
LIFE ISXT SO DULL OR SO
DREARY, PROVIDED THERE IS MOTHER LOVE AT SOME POINT IN
THB ROADWAY.
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News
The Small Boy' Plaint. "I love my eagle, but, oh, you 4th of
July powder burn on my thumb:"
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMES You are authorized to
announee my name as a candidate for the republican nomination for mayor of Hammond before the republican nominating convention, whose date Is to be
decided npon at a later date.
ROBERT KIDNEY.
Couple who started their Honeymoon in a tug Will probably End up With a tuK-of-war.
Don't blat about the rain. Just remember that it is good for the Rockyfords. Some people think that happiness can be preserved like a basket of peaches.
Every time the democratic party in Hammond thinks it is going to have a skinch at the next municipal election, another strong republican candidate i-a;"u- bobs up.
Believed state board o pardons will consider release of John A, Cooke from penitentiary at its session Tuesday. Chicago harbor committee to gather much data on piers before It acts on harbor work or favors any franchises. Daniel K. Pearsons says the reason he is giving his wealth away while he lives is because he is his own executor. Council investigators assert that the Pennsylvania road is occuping six streets in Chicago without authority and has a brick building located on one. The hoard of review adds $1,000,000 to the assessment of the Pullman company but makes cuts in some other cases.
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Mrs. Frank Brown, jr., is the Baltimore, Md., young woman who brought suit for a divorce yesterday against the only son of ex-Governor Brown of Maryland. She was married in New York late in October of 1906. She is a daughter of William J. C. Michael, head of a Baltimore ship brokerage firm. She also has instituted a suit against ev-Governor Brown, alleging alienation of the affections of his son. She asks $100,000 damages.
diplomats. Stocks become a little more active in Wall street, a bullsh sentiment developing at night. Wet harvest materially affects sentiment in grain markets; values higher; provisions decline with hogs; cattle lower; sheep steady. Chicago banks shipped $4,400,000 more In June than they received. A revolt is on In Colombia, the origin of the trouble being dissatisfaction over the separation of Panama.
ARE YOU GOING OUT OF TOWN THIS SUMMER? If you are, be sure to have The Times follow you. In most cases The Times will be at the breakfast table the next morning, and always Rive all of the latest news from Lake county of the day before. The address may be changed as frequently as desired by giving the old as well as the new address. The price of The Times by mall daily la 6 cents per week.
INDIANA NEWS AT WASHINGTON. Indiana friends of Moses J. Raines of Bedford are trying to obtain for him executive clemency. He has been serving time at Fort Lavensworth. Kas., since 1905 for stealing $20 while a soldier on duty at Juneau, Alaska. Senator Eeveridge has recommended the appointment of Dr. L Z. Breaks of Terre Haute, as a member of the Vigo county pension board, to succeed Dr. J. H. Pinson, deceased. I. J. Yaughan ami Alvin J. Yoder, of LaGrange county, are trying to obtain supplies of fish from the government to stock several lakes in LaGrange county. The postoffice site at Shelburn has been changed to the corner of Griffith and Railroad streets. Patrons of the postoffice at Lexington, Scott county, have forwarded to the postoffice department a petition asking for the removal of Postmaster Campbell. The basis of the complaint is that he does not spend enough time In the office and that the business is neglected.
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threat to blow up the building.
President Taft makes three addresses! at the Lake Champlain tercentenary i and is toasted at a banquet. jc;arne Christian Endeavor meeting is open-j
ed in St. Paul, and President Clark
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