Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 281, Hammond, Lake County, 28 May 1910 — Page 8

THE TIMES. Saturday, Mav 28, 1910. GARY TO entaltuation, occurred In another part of the state not long: ago. It happened that the governor and the mayor were out politically. Both claimed the GARY LEAGUE HAS WARf.lGAr.lEi5 AHEAD Decoration day they hope to be armed with atwirler that will make a real joke-of the home team to about the extent that they made a comedy out of the Gary game. Smith, ' the big Tolleston man who recently struck out fourteen men while twirling for the Independents,- will do the pitching in the Sunday game, and although he is practically an unknown quality, he looks good enough to beat the Dowaglac team Sunday. Monday one of the other pitchers will be used against Berlen Springs. Every team In the league Is putting up first-class ball in every sense of the word. ' ny fan can go, to any of the parks and see as good a game by any of the clubs as he would want to see anywhere. The jonly teajris that were very weak wereJt.Igonter,,nd Dowaglac and Manager EJKon of the former and Gavenberg of the latter have each added seven or eight men .to their payroll and are now . playing exceptionally strong games. .A few of the old fans" will accompany the men on the trip and remain with them until Monday afternoon's game. The Tolleston team is booked up with the Seftons for tomorrow and with East Chicago "on Decoration day, and both games promise to be good. HARBGR MONASTER IS CRITICALLY ILL Dr. Hughes was called In to attend htm and pronounced his malady pneumonia. Since then on several occasions his life has been despaired of, but he would rally when fears were the greatest and has shown remarkable vitality in fighting off the disease. A trained nurse from Chicago, MTss Roan, has been at the patient' bedside for several days, and while this morning he was reported as some better his condition Is still critical. rlht to appoint tha city judge and both did. , However, the mayor f had the drop' on the gtnrrnor for he re OBSERVE fused to Blgn the bond of the gubernatorial appointee; la Oary. Knotts will hardly dare to Tomorrow and Monday the Gary league team will struggle to raise their percentage from the lowly figure of .333 to one reasonably near the 1.000 mark, which they can accomplish by winning both of these ... games. The game Sunday will be with .the strong Dowaglac aggregation and the following day the locals will met their former enigma, Berrien Springs, but on (Special to Thb Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind., May 28. O. B. Lloyd, yardmaster for the Indiana Harbor Belt line, and trustee of the Church of Christ, at Michigan avenue. Is confined to his bed by pneumonia. He was taken sick last Monday night. make too much of an opposition to the governor, as he can use pressure to bring him to time. As the situation now stands Knotts will undoubtedly bow before the governor's appointee. Who the appointee will be Is not known. THEKCS A CIIANCE THAT TOO OUGHT NOT TO POSTPONE THAT "SHOPPING" AJTY LONGER. HEAD THE TIMES' ADS AND SEE IK THI U NOT BOb THE TIMES IS TRYING. HARD TO returning from the yards with a high fever. He went to bed alt once and in less than two hours became delirious. ! MERIT THE StCCESS IT IIAS i ACHIEVED. ikE YOU TAKI3TO THB TIMES f

THE 01

Gary will observe its first Decora

tion day in Its history tomorrow. On

Monday, although there will be no spe

cial observance of the day, the banks.

stores and business houses will close for the day, with the exception of the markets, which will close at 10 o'clock. Announcement was made yesterday by the retail clerks' association that all

stores showing union cards would close

on Monday.

Tomorrow, all the Gary churches will hold memorial services. A special in

vitation has been extended to the pub

lic to the Jewish synagogue where a special sermon for the civil war and Spanish-American war veterans will be

delivered by Rabbi Tobias Schoenfar-

ben of Chicago. Mayor T. E. Knotts and Attorney Henry C. Price will also

make addresses and the children of the synagogue will take a prominent part

In the exercises. Fifteen Veterans In City.

It is thought there are about fifteen

civil war veterans in Gary and about as many soldiers who fought in the Spanish-American war. All veterans are requested to meet at 9:45 at the city hall, from where they will march

to the church at 10 o'clock. John W.

Call has been appointed master of cere

monies.

On Sunday afternoon special services

will be held In the Assembly hall at 2

o'clock. The hall will be decorated for

the occasion and a large crowd is ex

pected to attend the exercises. The

program will consist of music and ad

dresses and Is as follows:

Aesemby, by Bugle Ward

Prayer.... Rev. F. E. Walton Address of Welcome Mayor Knotts

Song "Hear Us, Oh Father" Mrs. H.

E. Corbett; Miss Kirk, accompanist.

The Calling of the Bugle

Comrade John L. Taylor

Bong Mrs. R. R. Hemingway

Miss Kirk, accompanist.

Random Shots Comrade A. C. Mayo Song Royden Benford

Mrs. E. E. Evans, accompanist. Schools and Memorial Day

Supt W. A. Wirt

Song M. E. Snyder, Mrs. M. A. Cald

well, Miss Hammons and Mrs. Glas-

coe; Miss Kirk, accompanist.

The Boys of '98 Capt. H. S. Norton

Song........ Miss Edith Applegate

Miss Kirk, accompanist.

Address of the Day. . .; . .Daniel Boone "America". .Led by Mrs. H. E. Corbett

Taps . .... Ward

ANOTHER

CANDIDATE

A new-candidate .has appeared in the

field for the office of Judge of the city court against Attorney Ora L. Wildermuth, who, it Is said, has already the support of the majority of the members of the bar in Gary, . The latest candidate for the office is Earnest M. White, senior partner of the law firm of Seabright & White, with offices In the Knotts building. Since the story of Mr. Wildermuth's candidacy appeared In Thb Times several days ago a number of friends have urged Mr. White to become a candidate for the appointment and have pledged their support. Mr. WHe is a democrat of the true Jefferson ian type and lent valuable assistance to Mayor Knotts in the late municipal election. In speaking of his (candidacy to a Times reporter today Mr. White expressed himself as follows: "While I am not working ' for the appointment, yet I am not working against Mr. Wlldermuth and will give him my support' If he is a candidate for the appointment. Mr. Wlldermuth

is deserving of the office and I would not think of running against him. On the other hand if Mr. Wlldermuth Is not a candidate I will try my best to secure the appointment." The petition which was circulated early in the week- asking Mayor Knotts to appoint a member of the Gary bar as police court Judge has a large number of signers, but the attorney who started the circulation of the petition is not ready to present it o he mayor as ye. It Is understood that Col. A. C. Mayo, who acted as special Judge a number of times In the absence of Mayor Knotts experssed himself to a close friends today and said he would not try for the appointment. A new angle has arisen in the situation which may result in a fight as who shall have the honor of naming 4ary's first city judge. As the situation now stands. Govern

or Marshall may by the terms of the

constitution and acts of 1909. name the

first city judge of Gary this summer.

Mayor Knotts, on the other hand, may also claim the powers by the unrepealed acts of 1905. Hence, an Interesting contest may be expected as Mayor Knotts has been one of Marshall's most bitter assailants. It-is pretty well defined that the governor will appoint no Knott adherent to the nosltion. And, it is said that KnotWwill try to block any move the governor may- make. t A Similar Precedent. A similar precedent like the pres-

TRUT

Day has dawned!

EverytH

Ing is booming

The day has been set for a new age,

THE way of the world is to throw up its greasy nightcap for the fellow who wins, but never to help him win to down him if possiblerather like the genii in the Arabian tale, the world will make a slave of you unless you make the world your slave. But mark! when the world makes you its slave it destroys you: when you make it your slave you make your fortune! Now make the world your slave by making it produce oil, California oil, for you. .Isn't this the wisest plan ever suggested?

We call your attention to a fact of signal Importance to yourself. There are two positions in life for you. " You must follow your own dictation and be independent, or you must, follow the path laid before you by some member of the old school and follow the old rut, and mayhap still drive a delivery wagon. r Knowing as we do, that you are to be independent is our reason for addressing you. Listen and we will tell you how to gain that independence. First, make your money work for you. Second, save from the money that you earn from the money that works for you, and make that work too. Third, save from the savings from the money that you earn from the money of that money that works for you and make that work also. Everyone knows that very little can be done from the interest that one receives from the savings banks. Therefore a better means of investment. Something that is safe yet earning large dividends. And it is of this that we are about to talk. i Surely you wouldn't care for a better investment than California oil. Investors in the East derive the paltry sum of three and one-half cents on their hard-earned dollar for its use for one year, while, the stockholders in the same bank paying 3 per cent to the depositors receive no less thn 140 per cent on their dollar invested in the stock of the bank, during the same year. These figures are taken from the actual report of the directors of one of the wealthiest banks in New York city, and any one who wishes to know the truth of it can easily enough determine it on the commercial sheets when the dividends are declared. And the dividends so declared are largely derived from ' money invested in California; more often than not In the oil industry of the so-called "Golden State." Being interested almost solely in oil, from which vast fortunes are realized yearly, we would like to make a statement of the reasons why we believe that oil affords today greater chances for gigantic, legitimate returns on investments than any other industry. In the first place, oil is the great fuel of the Pacific Coast. Two and one-half barrels of oil are the equal of one ton of coal in thermal units. In other words, the same amount of heat can be obtained from 24 barrels of oil as can be obtained from one ton of coal. But the difference in price is very great. Coal, producing the same amount of heat per ton as 2 barrels of oil, costs anwhere from $6 to $8 per ton wholesale. Two and one-half barrels of oil, figured at the market delivery price of $1 per barrel, '

costs $2.50 a saving of from $3.50 to $5.50 on every ton of coal displaced by oil. Under the circumstances it would be impossible that any other fuel could be obtained which could displace oil.,, and, such being the case, we have a guaranteed consumption from every railroad on the coast as long as the oil fields hold out. From the government reports we may not expect exhaus Uon uatil some future generation. Here Is the firmest of foundation upon which an industry could be laid; an absolutely assured consumption. ' The wheels of Industry .must turn, and at the lowest possible cost, with the cheapest utilization of labor.. This point, economy is the utilization of labor, leads us to the next consideration, namely: money saved commercial companies in wages, which would be necessary with the use of any other fuel. Experiments have demonstrated the fact that it costs four times as much to load a car with coal as" it does to fill a tank car with oil. Probably 75 tons would be a very high average car load of coal: fifty tons would be nearer the "general average. It requires two tons of coal to do the same work as one ton of oil. At this rate it has been figured out that it would take six car loads of coal to do the work of one car load of oil! So much for space. The advantages of the uses of oil have been so greatly appreciated that within the last very few years, in Los Angeles county alone, over 5,000 factories have adopted it. As coal consumers they could not possibly have existed. In Northern California the use of oil is 'becoming more and more general. Flats, apartment houses, homes, business blocks, hotels, factories, mills and power houses use oil for fuel. Its cleanliness, its economy in the matter of space, its actual dollar-saving capacity, combine to make it the ideal fuel A general demand is being felt in all of the fields for enough oil to supply the foreign as well as the home markets. Russia is a large consumer of oils. Japan is reported to be about to remove the duty imposed over a year ago on our oil and by that means to revive a very fair-sized foreign market. In China, our oil, in a refined state, is very largely used, indeed. An official of Jthe Standard Oil company rer cently informed the writer that the highgrade light oils of Sumatra were cutting into our Mongolian trade very considerably on account of , their market for it; but the American oil consumed by China is an enormous quantity. Our own provinces consume a great deal of the product, and with oiling stations for the navy, we may expect an unprecedented activity among producers to supply our dis

tant oiling stations, as they can barely keep up with the demand now. ' For four thousand miles and more up and down the Pacific Coast line California oil is transported and burned. From Nome to Valparaiso and from as far east as the Rockies, west to ultimate Siberia, perennially clad in snow and ice, as well as from the southern runs of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroad Companies to the palmy . isles of the Orient, more California oil is carried for consumption. To be financially interested in the oil business is to have an added prestige given you by business men the world over, and is just cause for' pride in one's common sense. In the matter of intelligence used by those interested in the oil business, it was recently said by a writer in the Petroleum World (London) that the greatest aggregation of brains ever got together was behind the oil industry. The constructive genius of the officials of the great Standard Oil company was held up and lauded, and the business methods of a great British enterprise suffered severely by comparison. The richness of the indutsry in California : Is rarely appreciated by the outsider who carelessly reads an article like the present one. There are several reasons for this, among them being the magnitude of the industry, the millions upon millions of dollars invested and the general inability to grasp what has not been seen with the eyes. 'He has not "viewed the oil fields; he has not seen the remarkable forests of derricks at steady old Kern River, nor driven down the country road in "Wonderful Coalinga;" knows little or nothing of marvelous Midway, with Its gushers, and has probably evinced little interest in the other fields of the state, although people are so clamorous for news of the oil world today that the most phenomenal boom In oil in' the history of California is in progress now. A sight of the million dollar refineries, of the miles and miles of pipe lines which discharge oil drawn from the fields at tidewater, and a knowledge of the engineering feats performed for this transportation; a few views of the great storage tanks and pumps would probably revise a few notions

of the' uninformed on the oil situation In California. It is most probable, however that a glance at the dividend sheets which appear with , solar regularity every month, showing that nearly a million dollars is paid out, while some companies do not make public their dividends to swell the amount, would doubtless quicken the appreciation of the uninterested man and would tend to show him what the oil" business of California means to those financially Interested. v It means, if interested, In a good company whose stock is handled by reliable financial agents, a steady income; oftentimes a thousand per cent on the original investment. This amount of money has been realized by no small number of men in this state, and outside of this state, men Interested in California's oil fields have done as well. The trouble Is, generally, that it Is ajmost too good to be believed, and skeptical persons lose the chance of a lifetime merely because they will not take the trouble to investigate. "Merely another California tale," is the way they put It. And they are right it IS another California tale, with millions of dollars to prove its truth. In closing we wish to say that we believe the time will come very soon when oil shares will be at a premium and that the boom row started will sweep the whole country. While not in the predicting business, it is easy enough for us to speak what is an undoubted fact. The California National Crude Oil company owns several thousand acres of oil lands in the wonderful Coalinga District, which they will develop and are selling stock at 50 cents per share to carry on the developing work. This company is organized on a sound basis, with 80 per cent of the stock in the treasry. You have seen the stock advance from 40 cents to 50 cents, why wait until it advances again, buy this stock now and save money. Don't wait until tomorrow. DO IT NOW. You can easily see the reason why you should invest in an oil company. Now the question arises: Which Company? Well, the company that should interest you is the California National, Crude Oil company.

California National Crude Oil Co. I. W. HELLMAN BLDG., Los Angeles, Cal. Gentlemen: Enclosed find

SUBSCRIPTION BLANK

for which please issue me : of the Treasury Stock of the above Corporation. Name

-Dollars -Shares

Address-

California National Crude 'Oil Company

I. W. HELUMAN BUILDING, Los Angeles, Cal.