Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 44, Hammond, Lake County, 9 August 1909 — Page 4

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THE MAN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NEEDS. The republicans of Gary on the eve of what will be a heated political campaign, will do well to be carefully considering the kind of man they want to run for mayor of the city. The republican party must go before the people for their suffrage with the strongest candidate it possibly can find. The ambitions of petty politicans should not be considered at all. The man who is nominated for mayor of Gary on the republican ticket must above all things be clean and broadminded. He will have to make many sacrifices. It is no rose-strewn path to the mayor's chair of any city. He will have to be unselfish and a man who has the welfare of the municipality at heart. The republican candidate for mayor must have nothing in common with the present city administration. This is absolutely indisputable. It will be useless to ask for support and votes for any man who has any sympathies with the policy of the Knotts administration. If such a man i3 nominated on the republican ticket, he will go down to overwhelming defeat. The republican candidate should be a business man who knows what Gary needs, who can give the city a business administration. There must be nothing narrow about his views. His administrative and executive ability must be that of a man whose perspective is confined by his own ambitions. He must be a man whom the decent people of Gary will fight for, tooth and toe nail. He must be the choice of his party, and if these qualifications are his and on the ticket with him are men of the same calibre as himself, he will be elected.

GOMPERS "GETTING IN" BAD. How are the mighty falling! "We all remember Mr. Gompers very well. Mr. Gompers took a prominent part in the late campaign. He was very busy in Lake County for some time. These be rather htfTrowing days for that great and good man, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, says the Fort Yv ctyne News. Together with his wife and daughter he journeyed to Europe to attend the international convention of unionists, and because he put up at a first-class hotel, as the authorized representative of American workingmen minht Lave been expected to do, he was viciously assailed by some of the delegates to the international conference and by a number of shrieking yellow labor papers of France and Germany. He was bitterly denounced as an aristocrat, who wore fine clothes and fared sumptuously in the hotels of plutocrats, and was noisily informed that the "starving workmen of Europe who lived on black bread and wine dregs" had nothing in common with him. He could not explain his position satisfactorily to the beery anarchists and longhaired socialists who packed the conference and vociferated all the time with all the power cf their leather lungs, and it is said that his position wa-3 made exceedingly unpleasant. And now comes the blow from home. The Mine Workers' Journal, the official organ of the greatest of the American unions, denounces him as a cheap grafter and a piker because he proposed to syndicate his weekly letters from Europe among the organs of union labor at a dollar each per week. The Mine Workers' Journal insists that since the American Federation is paying all the expenses of the Gompers family on its European trip, Mr. Gunners rhould be willing to provide his letters to the labor papers free of charr; And so it goes. The idol is tottering upon its pedestal and may eventually come crashing clown upon the flag-stones below. Possibly it might have been weli for Mr. Gompers to have deferred his European trip until out of office.

HIGHWAY THROUGH LAKE COUNTY. A plan to establish two great national highways through Indiana is embodied in a bill which has just been introduced in Congress by Representative Harry Maynard of Virginia. It is now evident that the goods roads movement will be brought to the front in Congress next winter and Mr. Maynard's bill is a step in that direction. It authorizies a preliminary federal survey to determine the approximate cost of a series of national highways and carries an appropriation of $1,999,999, with a provision for a commission to conduct the survey. The road will of course go through Lake County and if it hits Chicago as planned, it will have to go through Hammond. Lake County has roads now which are really a part of the great highway system running east and west.

THE PATCH MUST CLEAN UP. The TIMES has evidence that the lid is not on in Gary as far as some of the unspeakable colored resorts in "the Patch" are concerned. There are a number of notorious negro dives that are still running. Threats of burning down churches, killing reformers, slugging reporters, are as useless as they possibly can be. THESE RESORTS MUST GO. The real estate in and near the Patch, will never do anything else but depreciate in value while these dives are permitted to harfcor dissolute women. Decent people will dodge that part of Gary as they would a plague spot. The shameless Dave Johnson and John Jennings resorts are harboring colored women of disreputable character. THEY WILL HAVE TO LEAVE GARY. It is no use beating about the bush and thinking that , the storm will blow over. Vice will have to leave the city. That's ail there is to it. THE TIMES WILL NEVER CEASE ITS WARFARE AGAINST VICIOUS RESORTS.

BANK GUARANTY LAW IN TEXAS. The new guaranty of bank deposits law passed by the- recent special session of the Texas legislature r.-ent into operation today. The law is similar to the Oklahoma law in all its most important provisions. It provides for and defines two alternative methods or plans for the protection of the depositors of State banking corporations which are referred to as the "guaranty fund plan" and the "bond security plan" respectively. The State banks by vote of their stockholders may decide which plan to adopt. In the event that a bank fails to adopt either plan the State Commissioner of Insurance and Banking is to institute suit to forfeit its charter.

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A BIG PIGPEN. Stanley Ketchel is a "pug" who bruises and is bruised inside the ropes for hire and for the delectation of sports. But he knows a thing or two aside from prizefighting. Speaking of his plans for retirement from the ring, he says: "The open country for me, with lots of fresh air. 1 soon tire of the bright lights of Broadway. They've made a bum out of many a good fighter, and I'm going to give them a wide berth." Another athlete. "Farmer" Burns, one time champion wrestler, is a real farmer. He owns and manages several good Iowa farms. Both as wrestler and farmer he makes hay while the sun shines. Frank Goth, champion wrestler, also owns an Iowa farm. Speaking on the occasion of his recent marriage, Gotch said he intended to put every dollar he could save into land. These athletes have seen men like John Jj. Sullivan and others lose their money and health in the miasma of city muck, and they have profited by the observation. When a fighter Is in training he must be abstemious, but the trouble comes with success. The Great White Way makes a bum of him. You people who live in the open couutry, who breathe the air of the good, wide spaces, can scarcely know unless you have seen It the squalor and filth of the places where the masses herd in the cities. A big city is a big pigpen! That is right. A comparative few live in great luxury, but the great masses are hemmed into the tenements like pigs. Many a farmer's pigsty is a place of comfort by the side of some of the city places where thousands of human beings are confined. There they live and breed and rot and die Under filthy conditions hogs will contract cholera. Under filthy conditions humans are infected with even sort of disease. Why do they stay? They are fascinated by the bright lights and in love with the rush and roar of the streets. So much does the feverish, overwrought life of the city appeal to them that they refuse the offered chance to go to the small farms which they may buy on small' payments and live the quiet, simple life where there Is comfort and plenty.' And so the lights of Broadway have, made a bum of many a good fighter in life. j SHUCKS From the Diary of Si. Lence Tim Masher's got three "steddys." Works ter Tite's pharmacy an' gets his pay o' Saturday night in sodys, bonbons and p'fumery. The only thing sum men hev got ter be proud uv is because ther wives er good washerwiminin. THIS DATB IV HISTORV. August 1. 1842 First commencement exercises of Harvard college. 157 Thomas Tolford, inventor of one of the best known methods of road building-, born in Scotland. Died in iondon, Sept. 2, 1834. 1S13 Battle of Slonlngton, Conn. 1827 John Elliott, I'nlted States senator from (ieorgia 1S19-1S23, died. Horn Oct. 24, 1773. 1 830 Louis riiilippe proclaimed king of France. 102 Rattle of Cedar Mountain ended in victory for the confederates. 1892 James W. Denver, ex-governor of Kansas, after whom the city of Denver was named, died in Washington, D. ('. 1S94 Twelve livs lost In the wreck of a Hock rsi.-md train near Lincoln, N'eti. '.)03 Pope Pius X. crowned. 'I'll I S IS MV 0T1I Hilt I II!) V V. hnrle njjcl. Charles Xae, sec rctary of oom-iii'-n-M and labor, was born in ("(dorado county, Texas. Augmt 9, 1819. His early education was secured in the public schools of St. L.uis. He took a two years' course In the St, Louis law school and then went to the T'nlversity of Peilin. where he took a special course in law and political economy. Returning to St. Louis in 1873, In; was admitted to the bar and soon took an active part in municipal affairs. In 1891 he was elected to the Missouri legislature. lie served as president of the St. Louis city council from 1893 to 1SH7, and during the last presidential campaign he was in charge of the western headquarters of the republican national campaign committee. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS Oyster P.ay is not pestered tliis summer by a lot of city folk who are trying to get a pipe at a president tossing hay. Dailies are a great source of anxiety to some pnrents. AVhen they are crying they think them sick and when they are quiet they think they are unconscious. Former Vice President Fairbanks is having a nice time in Asia, but he 1;

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FATAL Al TO CRASH AT CROSSING. Speeding at a rate of sixty miles an hour, the New York Central train Xo. 14, crashed Into an automobile at -the Logan street crossing In Mlshawaka Friday evening, Instantly killing Russell Earl, 17 years old. son of Mayor B. F. Earl of Nlles, Mich., and seriously injuring Moses Harris, 17 years old, son of Isaac Harris, a wealthy merchant, also of Nlles. The automobile in which the boys were riding was demolished. JCRY TO PROBE 1CRUKR CHARGE. The grand jury has been notified by Judge Leffler of the Delaware circuit court to report for duty next Monday to Investigate the murder of Daniel Linder, the Muncle & Portland traction conductor, killed last Friday by Dr. Nelson I?. Ross, of Muncle. The session will not be a long one, it is thought, because Ross is expected to acknowledge the facts of the tragedy. RETIRES AFTER THIRTY YEARS. The Rev. J. Wofel of Cleveland was Friday chosen president of the Indiana-Ohio-Kentucky district of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran church at Laporte to succeed the Rev. Niemann of Cleveland for thirty years district president. By a rising vote appreciation was tendered the Rev. Mr. Niemann for his long term of honorable service. EXAMINATION' FOR OFFICERS. - Notices and explanations of the examinations for the positions of county, city and town health officials, which will be held at Indianapolis for the first time Sept. 30, will be issued from the office of the state board of health this week. The various questions to be asked and their scope will be in the hands of prospective officials in time to prepare for the examination. WOMAN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. Mrs. A. G. Brumflel, wife of the county superintendent of public schools, was accidentally shot with a rifle last Friday at Marlon and the wound Inflicted may prove fatal. She lies in a serious condition in the Marion hospital, and the outcome can not be determined for a number of hours. Efforts to locate the bullet failed and the probing has been postponed until later. DEATH PARTS AGED COIPLE. By the death of Mrs. Mary Fifer Sproat of Oaktown. Benjamin Sproat, 97 years old. is left a widower, and the oldest couple in Knox county becomes separated. Mrs. Plfer was born at Winchester, Va., April 15, 1S13, and was married to Benjamin Sproat In 1837. There are six of the children living, and this is the first death in the family, excepting that of a son, Walter Sproat, who was drowned. The familytree on both sides shows them to be exceptionally long lived. "DOXOLOGY" STRAINS RELATIONS. Because Tipton people last Friday mistook for a dirge the strains from the. "Doxologry," to which usually are not shooting any digdigs or swinging .i.,ah, around by their tails and breaking their necks with a crack. You can nlny tell n man who Is a connolseur In cigar. He Is llie chap who nlwaj-n give;, away poor ones an he keeps the good ones for liiniHClf. The Office. The Office said: "Methinks I'll try the celebrated plan, endorsed by ,..,k0 I'll eo and seek all the pillO'.-!04'0 . -- man." ' And so with quite a knowing air it came down from its perch, and took a lantern in its hand, and started on the search. The patriots were numer(Us the men who bleed and die to have the country's honor and to get their share of pie; and when they p-arned the purpose that the Office had in view, they quickly donned their hunting togs and gave the View Halloo! They chased that Office up and down, through galley, swamp and creek, they trailed it down with bloodhounds and they slugged it with a brick; they pursued it through the alleys, and they smote it with a cleaver and they gave it chloroform. And a Sage who saw the hunting, from the window of his lair, murmured sadly; "I'm too bald or I would surely tear my hair: Here's a plan we seers have boosted since philosophy began, knocked to everlasting Hinders! Office dare not se.-k the man!" WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1909, by George Matthew Adams. ) Some men nner brace up until Ihcy have an object In life, Much ns, for Instance, Ihe paying ( nllmony. A cowboy courier is headed for New York outbound from San Antonio. He will streak through Hammond this month, and warnings should be sent to him to look out for autos. Now that the tariff question 1" nettled for awhile, we enn turn out attention to the Katydid, whose welcome voices reminding us Hint the cool season is i!rnviug near, are once more heard. And in the meantime Ix.-on Ling is I still safely stowed away. I Coyotes are said to be destroying birds on the plains. Frobahly jealous. Ever hear a coyote sing about 11 p. m. The Dog Refused to Speak. One of "Dan" Beard's pet stories oon-j cerr.s a ventriloquist who dropped into a wayside in where the artist wasj staying. The ventriloquist had only a j dime, but nevertheless he prepared to , order to a meal. 'f V." hat'll you have?" asked the land-

coupled the words 'Praise God, for Whom all Blessing Flow." played by a band leading a delegation of Peru boosters in front of the First National bank, there was a tendency immediately to declare off all diplomatic relations between the hitherto friend! v citles. Jl'DGE A! CONSTABLE SCRAP. Justice Samuel Doty and Constable Oscar Welty of Kokomo engaged in a fight in the justice's office Friday afternoon. Kadi asserts the other was the aggressor. The constable says that while at the telephone the justice belabored htm over the head with the official seal, and Dr. Hutto rushed in from an adjoining office and pulled the justice olT of him. Then the constable pulled hip revolver. The justice's story is that when he entered the office the constable started a quarrel over the use of the telephone and hit him witii the seal, and drew his gun upon him, and that he acted in self-defense throughout. SIIIER RELIEVED SI It IDE. Two notes left Frank II. NIchol of Auburn, assistant chashler of the Auburn City National bank, who is missing and who is said to be short at least $5,000 in his accounts, indicate the bank official intended to end his life after facing certain discovery of his defalcations. "I got In wrong. I am going to end it ail. Good-bye to everybody. Bury me besides my mother at Acton, O." DEMONS CONVENE. The Indiana Motorcycle club, at a meeting Friday night, decided to present three candidates for offices in the Federation of American Motorcyclists in the convention at Indianapolis Thursday. G. II. Hamilton was indorsed for secretary of the American Federation; Harry Graff, treasurer of the Indiana club, was indorsed for president of the western district, and Charles Wyartt for vice president of the F. A. M. If the Indiana motorcylists should be successful in the election it would bring the western headquarters of the federation to Indianapolis. Tiie election will be held in the Board of Trade building Thursday morning. POLITICIAN' ENDS LIFE. John Okey Avers of Indianapolis, a republican politician, and who, as inspector on the election board at the Seventh preclnct of the Twelfth ward, 909 Meikel street, in Thursday's primaries, was among the number enjoined by the circuit court from burning the ballots, commltteed suicide a few minutes before 6 o'clock Friday night by shooting himself twice in the stomach in the rear yard of his home, 902 South Missouri street. At first it was feared election troubles may have had something to do with his action, but a note, he left said he merely was disgusted with life."

lord. The man ordered, then turning to his dog said, 'that'll you have?" To the astonished hotel keeper the dog seemed to answer: "I'll take a ham sandwich." He was so impressed that he offered the ventriloquist $2.) for the dog. The owner refused to sell him for less than $n0, which the landlord finally agreed to. As the former owner was leaving the dog spoke up again: "Wretch," he said. "You sold me for ?50. I'll never speak another word!" He never did. The reformers are apparently in the saddle at Gary. Mayor Thomas E. Knotts who has been working on the free and easy plan with the la wviolators has at last had a change of heart. Joliot News. Yes, but you ought to see the nag buck! liven n college education can't deprive some men of their good sense. We are glad to sc them talking . J. Bryan for senator. It win help the gate receipts at the lectures. Weil, then, the Associated Press is hlatting in Gary because it got scooped is that right? THE CREAM OF THE Morning News Vt'ASHINGTON". No important reduction of tariff on foodstuffs provide. for in new bill; some Increases ar,. made. Party leaders consider 1 gi!ative program for next session of congress. President Taft j-pei.ds lazy Sun. lay, apparently not minding heat, though thermometer is 90 jn shade. Speaker Cannon says tariff law fulfills pledges. Seven members of waterway commission will sail tomorrow to study systems in Euroi e. DOMESTIC. Woman, unidentified, is slain after terrific struggle in lonely spot near Detroit. Testimony in Mrs. F. J. Could's divorce suit made public. Two men and one woman drow;i.-d when launch upsets near Toledo. Roy McCarde'l, in New York World, tells of John T. McCutcheon's African trip. Business reports show era of greatest prosperity is at hand. New York justices grapplings with ;".ostion of minimizing delays. Boston suffragettes plan great campagan to boom Jane Adams for president. LA HOR. Two conferences today may lead to understanding which. will prevent

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Mr. and Mrs. Ledyard Stevens of New York have announced the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Winthrop Stevens, to John deKoven Bowen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, 136 Astor street. Miss Stevens' fiance is a member of the. senior class at Yale, and the wedding will be conducted after his graduation next June.

The Evening Chit-Chat By RUTH CAMERON

Some people insist, said the pretty kindergarten lady to me, that a g-ood deal you hear of city children not knowing anything about the country Is exaggerated, "And is it?" I asked. The pretty kindergarten lady teaches in the slums of one of our great cities, and, as she has a very warm heart for her poor little babies, I knew what the answer would be, but I wanted to see her eyes snap. They did. "Do you think I exaggerate?" she insqulred indignantly. I immediately began to protest my firm belief in her truthfulness. "Because if you don't," she went on, rather ignoring my elaborate protestations, "I'll tell you some of the things that have happened in my school and maybe you can write about them. "Two weeks ago I took a little Hebrew girl that I was interested in on a trip out into the country. Before she came to America she lived in Russia on a farm, and they had a cow. In the two years she had been in this country she has never once once," emphasized the kindergarten lady with an extra snap of her eyes, "been out into the country. If I didn't believe she told me the truth about it I'd know by what happened. For when the train went by a pasture with a cow in it, what do you think she said? 'Mine cow from Russia. Mine cow from Russia.' The poor little thing hadn't seen a cow since she came to the FniteC States, and she thought hers was the only one in the world. "Another time, when we read a story about a butterfly. I didn't happen to have any picture, so I described one as well as I could I said it had a long, thin body and some great big wings. A little while before Thanksgiving I took the children down to the markets, as we do once a year. The little boy who had been specially interested In what I said about butterfiles pulled my dress 'Teacher,' he said, 'Oh, teacher. Is that a butterfly over there? I looked, and it was a picked turkey hanging up with its wings spread out a long, thin body and great big wings, you see." The little kindergarten lady's voice had a queer tremor in it, and I looked up in surprise. "I was going to take him out this summer to see some real butterflies, but he isn't here any more," she explained. Then brushing aside the tears very hastily, for the pretty kindergarten lady iH a bit afraid of having her warm heart laughed at "You'll write about it and say that there are lots of city children that don't know anything about the country, and that the stories about them aren't exaggerated a bit, and that if people would help to get them out into the country instead of being so unbelieving it would be beautiful.'' she begged. 'I certainly will." I promised So I have.

street car strike. POLITICAL. Senator Cummins outlines policy of "progressive" republicans. CHICAGO. Highest temperature of year drives thousands to porks and hoaches. Dissatisfied parishioners of St. Joseph's Catholic church interrupt celebration of high mass with songs. Former police chiefs acre" with Fire Marshal Horan that position is a thank!' ss one. old settb-rs of Ob: m o. jj,,;, picnic at which, beer is plentiful and free. Ella Cringles starts ba. k to Ireland; friends give iiei- tearful farewell. J Four persons, tired of life, victims; of s. If-destru.-tion. j Ihavy slugging at boxing bout at; For. st pat k. j Only or," owner of a driving horse, left aiuoi'ig directors of Oak Park show association. j Engagement of Miss Katherine Mas- ' St-y to W. M. Btent announced. FOREIGN. ' King of Swe.b n urges arbitration to, settle strike. NEW YORK. j District attorney's ofM -e investigat- ! ing riisapp-aranc of $11..,(mio in stock.-.' King of cobras bewails his fate after! operation by zoo officials. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR MAY OH. Rilltor TIMES Von are authorised lo Briiouncc rny name us n candidate for tlie republican nomination for mayor of : Hammond before the republican nom-

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lancee or Ch icagoan. A Eat Little Meat In Summer. Tbe amount of fool devoured is IMMENSELY BEYOND any needs or demands of the physical system. The heat of the body must always be sustained at nearly 100 degrees. In summer we have only to combat a few degrees of lower temperature, but in winter by food and clothing we must raise the body heat from zero ouldo of us to 100 degrees above zero Inside of us. !t plainly will not do ta eat in timme' as wo do in winter, as much or of the same kind of food, if we consider heat alone. But in summer we live, as a rule, more active lives and pasa off superfluous hent with great ease and rapidity, while the surface of the body is cooled by perspiration. It is probable that most people digest and assimilate and dispose of waste SO MUCH BETTER IX THE WARM SEASON that they eat more than In winter and ought to do so. The kind of foods used should, however, be very unlike. It is almost impossible in summer to eat too much of ripe fruits, while of meats very few should eat largo amounts In warm weather. Meat should not be cooked in summer es much as in winter. (