Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 9, Hammond, Lake County, 28 June 1910 — Page 8

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GIBSON

REFUSES TO TALK

Wnen Interviewed by a local representative or The) Times this morning concerning his transfer to some eastern plant of the United States Steel Cor

poration, General Superintendent W. P.

Gleason refused to either confirm or

deny h report. When asked if the

report was untrue Mr. Gleason refused to talk any further on the subject and hung up his receiver. In the offices of President Bufflngton

and Vice President Thorpe in Chicago

no ne wlnformatlon could be secured. Both Mr. Bufflngton and Mr. Thorpe were out at the time and those in

charge knew nothing of Mr. Gleason's

transfer.

Thb Tiues has positive Information

that the transfer will - be made. Mr. Gleason is given the chance of accepting the superlntendency of the tonstruction on either of two eastern plants. Orders were received yesterday at the steel plant that Mr. Glea

son's leaving the local mills would have

no material effect on the present opera

tions. The work will be rushed Just

the same- until Mr. Gleason's successor arrives In Gary.

The story in last night's Times con

cerning Mr. Gleason's transfer considerable comment although there has been distinct rumors that he was to be tarnsfered In the near future it was not expected until he first of next year. It is now said that Mr. Gleason will vacate his chair September 1st.

Thb Times has Information that Mr.

Gleason's successor will be an eastern

man, although at this time we are unable to state his name. lie visited Gary about three weeks ago with a party of

the steel company officials. He is not a construction official but Is thoroughly familiar with the operation of the steel Industry.

GARY MURDERER GOtlFESSmfl KANSAS John Dimitir, Slayer of Simon Nestroff Evades Police For a Year.

Tiib.?fav. June 28, 1910.

Chief of Police Joseph Martin, and Captain Gus Newman of the Gary police left this morning for Kansas City where they go to bring back John Dlmitrl. who is held for the murder of Simon Nestroff the Gary baker In his shop on the south side on the night of May 12th. Chief Martin yesterday afternoon received information from the Kansas City authorities saying that Dlmitrl who is now locked safely behind the bars, had made a complete confession of the murder of Nestroff at Gary. Dlmitrl was arrested on a petty charge last Saturday in Kansas city but the suspicions of the police were aroused when his description tallied exactly with that of the picture on the cards sent broadcast over the country by the Gary police. -Implicates Another. He was given a severe grilling by the Kansas City police and finally made a complete confession, telling how he struck Nestroff with an ax while he was asleep on two chairs in his bake shop. Dlmitrl also accused Sam Toney as his accomplice to the murder and said immediately after committing the deed they took $450 from their victim's clothes and made their escape. So far Sam Toney has not been located but from information given the police by Dlmitrl the police expect to lay their hands on him in several days. Chief Martin and Captain Newman expect to return to Gary about Thursday.

PLANS 1ST

BE SUBMITTED BY OWNERS

Hereafter Gary real estate owners owning acreage and wishing to subdivide it and desiring the counil's approval must submit a plat with their request. Failure to do this was the result of the delay in the request of Robert W. A. Duncan and Roscoe 1. Taft who want to re-subdivide some blocks in the East Hyde Park subdivision. In order to get their work accomplished they will have to engage an engineer to prepare the plans first and then submit it to the city council. Wlldermuth and Carnduff attorneys for property owners having land bordering Broadway south of Forty-second avenue want the city council to accept their plat. As this particular spot is the only section along Broadway that has not been widened to one hundred feet a committee of the city council will attend to the widening proposition at once and then accept the plat as offered bj- the atorneys.

Butterine Agents In City. Gary housewives are being approached by representatives cf a buterlne firm who declare they are selling the best "butter'' for twenty-five cents a pound. They also give a box of "medicine" as they call it with the butter. A Gary housewlfe who bought the package and got the "Medicine" found it to be nothing else than coloring matter. She could have purchased the uncolored butterine for 15 cents any where.

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HARBOR CHURCH

PATRIOTIC SERVICE

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Male Quartette To Be One of

Features On the Pro gram.

(Special to Thb Times. ) Indiana Harbor, June 28. There will be a special patriotic service at the Methodist church Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. There will be special music consisting of numbers by the choir, a male quartet, and a class of girls from the Sunday school. Mr. C P .Holway will deliver the address of the evening. The subject of this address is "Citizenship, the Test of a Nation". The church will be " appropriately decorated. The following program, subject to change, will be given: Voluntarv. Song "Our Country's Voice is Pleading", Hymnal 933 Prayer Mr. William Collins Anthem Choir Scripture Reading. .Mr. William Dobbie Announcements and Offertory. Song "My Own United States,". . . Lillian Collins" class of girls

Address "Citizenship, The Test of a Nation" Mr. C. P. Holway,

Male Quartet. Song Our Country Benediction : Pastor The public is most cordially invited to this service.

WHAT U. S.

MORE F I R EPROTE G T ION South End in Gary Gets Two Additional Plugs Mere Light Provided.

By the placing of two more fire plugs in the south end of Gary that section is now better equipped to fight The flames. Two new plugs one at Adams street an dthe Pennsylvania tracks and the other at Fiftec-nth and Washington street were placed in commission yesterday by the Gary Heat, Light and Water company. Better lighting facilities are being given the south end. Last night new arc lights blazed forth on the following corners: Twelfth and Washington, Thirteenth and Washington, Sixteenth and Washington, Eighteenth and Washington. Fifteenth and Washington, Seventh and Washington, Twelfth and Madison, Fourteenth and Madison, Sixteenth and Madison, Eighteenth and Madison and Sixteenth and Monroe.

STEEL GO. EARNINGS?

The United States Sfeel Corporations may show earnings of $130,000,000 or more in the current year in the event of no further shrinkage in shipments and the maintenance of the present margin of profit on steel sold. The corporation is operating at about 80 per cent of capacity and orders already on the books will keep the plants fairly woll employed during the Summer. It is traditional that steel orders generally show a falling off in the first half of the year and a ninorease in the last half. The orders of the United States

Steel Corporation continue to run about 23 percent below the present capacity of the mills, which have been greatly enlarged. The Lackawanna Steel Company is operating its plants full and recently has been making some new high records in shipments. Earnings are also running at the highest level in the history of the Organization. Republic Iron & Steel is operating a satisfactory percentage of its capacity and large earning for the current year are anticipated. The Republic is In a

sound position financially and physically, and has been greatly strengthened by a material reduction in ' operating costs. The Pennsylvania, Cambria, Bethlehem and Jones & LaUg-hlin steel companies report fair, condition from the standpoint of percentage operations, but as is the case with the United States Steel Corporation, orders have shown a falling off.

More B. & O. News. Following The Times exclusive story Saturday that the Baltimore and Ohio railroad would spend several millions on new shops, a new route, etc., in Lake county, comes the following dispatch from Baltimore which has an Important local bearing: "The construction of more than one hundred miles of new signals during the past year by the signal department of the Baltimore and Ohio, is the occasion of comment by President Daniel Willard in his annual reDort Th com

pletion of twenty-five miles between McCoombs. Ind., and South Chicago, and the twenty-five miles between Cincinnati and Loveland, on the Southwestern division, protect the mine line from New York to Chicago and St. Louis. The new signals installed have been automatic electric devices, put in by F. P. Patenail signal engineer of the B. and O.. A trial will be made during1 the present seaason of telephone dispatching, as reports from other line experimenting with this method are favorable.

NEWS IS

CONFIRMED

TODAY

Confirming the announcement in The Times some time ago the Chicago InterOcean prints a story concerning the building of the cement plant No. 6 at the Universal mills at Buffington. It says: The United S-ates Steel corporation has authorized its subsidiary, the Universal Portland Cement company, to complete at once the construction of cement plant No. 6 at Bufflngton, Ind., to its full capacity of 4.000,000 barrels of Universal Portland cement per annum. In January, 1910, appropriation was authorized for the construction of the first half of this plant to have a capacity of 2.000,000 barrels and a decision has now been made to extend the plant to its full ultimate capacity at this time a total cost of $4,500,000. When the plant Is in full operation in May, 1911, It will be the largest single unit manufacturing Portland cement in the world, and with cement plants Nos. 3 and 3 of the Universal Portland Cement company, which have been In operation for some years at Buffington, will give a total capacity at that point of 80,000.000 barrels per annum. With the completion of this plant the Universal Portland Cement company will have including its present plant at Pittsburg, an annual output of 12,000,000 barrels of Universal Portland cement, all manufactured from blast furnace slag and limestone.

FIRST COHNIOfl GIN AH. CHICAGO Father Stackowrak Officiates At a Solemn Ceremonial.

(Special to Thb Times.) - Indiana Harbor,-June 28. First communion was received by a class of eleven In Father Stachowiak's Polish Catholic church on Sunday in the presence of a large gathering of friends and relatives of the young communicants. Mass was said at 8 o'clock by Father Stachowiak and there was special music. The church was beautlfully decorated. and there was special Illumination an dat 2:30 In the afternoon, the new communicants were presented with their scapulars. The girls all wore white dresses, and veils fastened with a wreath of flowers, also dressed In dainty white frocks with bows of white ribbon in their hair and carrying large bouquets. Father Stachowiak was unassisted throughout the ceremonies. He nade a good talk for the benefit of the young girls and boys, telling them of the significance of the day and its observations, to them. The first communicants this year are: Wanda Konieczka, Honorata Obrebska, Maria Grochowalska, Maria Waslak, Isabella Kajanska, Ann Dolata; John Korythowskl, Frank Wollha, Stanislaus Mruczkowskl, Steven Pitkiewlcz, and Thomas Boguckl.

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REPORT HITS THE BETHLEHEM STEEL CO. IN LOW WAGES

THOUSAND CHILDREN

LINE 0' MARCH

Additional plans formulated by the committee in charge of Gary's sane Fourth celebration contemplate the presence of 1,000 school children In the line of march. The youngsters will carr" American flags. Chief Marshal John F. Vodermark' now expects 7,000 in the parade wherein fifty-two nationalities are to take part. With the school children in line it Is now expected that Gary will be able to show Its patriotism In every way possible. t ommltee Lets Contractu. The joint committee which is headed by Alderman W. S. Feuer this morning let the fireworks and bunting contract to Samuel Sax and Louis Goodman, respectively. The flags and bunting will have to be procured from New York as Chicago's supply is entirely exhausted. One of the features of the fire works will be a pyrotechnic display which will transfer the words "Gary" In red fire upon the clouds. While this spectacle Is taking place the crowds will be expected to sing "Garyland, My Garyland." Other Seatners. Two committees will be appointed tomorrow from the east and west sides of Broadway to take charge of the business men's decorations. A prize will be awarded to the store presenting the most attractive appearance. Details are being worked out for the features enumerated yesterday. Besides teh dancing on the Broadway sidewalks there will be band concerts aJ athletic sports.

New York, June 2S. -A committee of three members of the commission on church and social service, composed of Rev. Dr. Charles Stelzle. Dr. Josiah Strong and -Paul M. Kellogg, has completed an investigation at the Bethlehem Steel Works, and In a report has criticised conditions In which the men work there. The report, besides being signed by the members of the committee, als.o bears the signatures of Jacob RIls, Dr. Graham Taylor, John M. Glenn, Dr. William II. Morgan and Dr. John McDowell. The committee reports that, before they went on a strike, 5.725 men, of 51 per cent of all the employes, worked twelve hours a day; 220 men worked twelve hours a day with half a day on Saturday, 4,203 men had an eleven-and-a-half-hour day, and sometimes these received a half a day holiday on Saturday. It is reported that there was in existence in many departments a seven-day week for 28 per cent of all employes. The total number In January last working seven days a week both regularly and overtime were 4.041, or 43 per cent of all men in the works. In regard to wages the committee declares that 61 per cent of the 9,184 men employed earned less than 18 cents an hour, of $2.16 for a twelve-hour day, and about 38 per cent earned less than 14 cents an hour, or $1.68 a day.( The report says: "This Is a wage scale that leaves r.o option to the common laborer but the boarding-house method of living, with many men in each large room. When a man has a family with him they talce in lodgers, or even the woman goes to work. It is reported that immigrant parents sent their little children back to the old counry to be reared while he mother goes to work." The commission declares that In the

last year there were 927 injuries at the plant, of which 754 involved tha loss of more than one week's time. In sixty-five cases bodily members were lost and In twenty-one cases Injured workmen -tiled. It was denied by clergymen that pajp envelopes had been opened and monejr taken out for church expenses. Tha committee censures the clergy for publishing pamphlets condemning the men for striking and for failing to censura the company for enforcing the twelvehour day. The committee recommends laws requiring three shifts In all plants running twenty-four hours a day, and a law requiring at lea3t one full day's rest a week. It also suggests that In all government contracts there should be a provision for three shifts of eight-hours.

V New E. J. & E. Shops. - j It was officially anonunced yesterday in Jollet that $1,000,000 would be expended on the new car shops and yard extensions of the E. J. & E. Railroad at Joliet. M'ork will start Immediately on the new improvements.

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