Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 16, Hammond, Lake County, 6 July 1910 — Page 4

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FOR THE CITY BEAUTIFUL. Some little time ago the Gary Land company made an offer of a certain amount of free water to the residents of the city of Gary. At the time that this very generous offer was made a number of the wiseheads and pessimists shook their heads and hinted that tliere was some ulterior motive behind this apparent generoity and murmured of some possible graft. While very few really sensible people doubted at the time but that the company was really Interested In this splendid method of aiding In the beautification of the city, it is yet gratifying to find that the matter has been put

to the test and that it has been proven that the action of the company has

RENO today is merely Reno. AA SWAT the housefly! Save the baby. A OF course, you all claim to be, but no man is really overworked. AA ' IT also looks at this distance as If it is a long time between rains. AA ' ' DON'T look at the poor thermometerIt may get sore and lose its head. AA SENATOR Shively's silence continues to be more noticeable than ever. AA ACCORDING to the assessor's returns, there are more autos than dogs

jin some Lake county towns.

AA IN the meantime, we note with a sense of relief that Jim Corbett has been pulled off the job. AA . ELKHART is certainly a progressive city. Just now it is bragging about a new hitching barn. AA THE Laporte republicans should have postponed their rumpus and pulled it off on the FourthAA WELL, perhaps Billy Lorimer is Illinois' favorite son- You can't tell about Illinois, you know. AA

THE day will come when the cities

"THIS PATE IX HISTORY" July 6. 1637 Indian women and children were sold In Boston as slaves 1821 Edmund W. Pettus. for many years a U. S. senator from Alabama, born. Died July 27. 1907. 1832 Gen- John B. Gordon, V. S. sena

tor and governor of Georgia, born

in Upson Ciunty, Georgia. Died

Miami, Fla., Jan. 9, 1904. 1834 Stevens T. Mason became ac

governor of Michigan on the dea

of Governor Porter.

183a John Marshall, Chief Justice the U. S. Supreme Court, died

Philadelphia. Born la Virgi

feept. 24. 1755.

ia unuea btates recognized the in-

depedence of the Sadwich Islands. 1S61 Union forces driven back at the battle of Carthage, Mo. 186S Princess Victoria, sister of King George V., born. 1S93 Guy de Maupassant, famous French novelist, died. Born Aug. 5, 1850.

1909 Charaplain tercentenary celebrat

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been in accordance with its promises.

of the Calumet region will have to

jbe provided with swimming holes

A THE hardest thing that Col. Roosevelt has just now is to keep from getting messed up in an aati-climax. A

IF Mr. Roosevelt is going to hear

We are in possession of the rates paid this month by a large number of citizens and householders, but one instance will be sufficient It is that of the experience of ne gentleman whose water bill amounts to over seven dollars of which he himself will have to pay hardly two dollars. During the month of June he ha3 watered his lawn assiduously. The lawn gives evidence of the fact and is one of Ihe best kept in the city. He is so gratified by the result and the generous action of the holdina: land onmnanv that v

feels that he can afford to sprinkle the lawn of a vacant house next to him i frm botn sides he's Soing to have anyin the interest of the common good and the city beautiful. j thing but a safe and sane summer. It is time for the doubter to quit doubting. But some people will never learn that it is useless to kick against the pricks. This paper, however, is i IF there was a safer and a saner more than eager, to pay tribute to the company as the most active and potent 'Fourth in Lake county, will the pldest agent In Gary of the city beautiful Idea. j settler kindly advise us Immediately? . , . AA J HAMMOND'S MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL -ESTEEMED contemporary asks. While the prospect for a manual training high school in Hammond is still ,wl!T iS 5 Hanly?" Why? in the distance, in view of the fact that it will be at least two years before S ls! Let tne dea(1 the new 200,000 building will be ready, the people may congratulate them- ' selves on the fact that a building of this kind is really assured. TW . THE TIMES has been advocating the cause of manual training for so , fh l7 !" g0lnS to Cut nls long that it is useless to go over the arguments in favor of such a course at l . . bUy him an autom-

. study in a manufacturing city like Hammond. Its need is anna t av i. " m a nurry Derore they 6

citizen who observes the great benefit of such courses In the cities of Waiting and GaryHowever, while Hammond is making progress slowly in educational matters, just as it is In other lines of activity, there is no question that progress is actually being made. Superintendent C. M. McDanlel has secured the services of a professor who is well qualified to outline a course of study and lay the foundation for the course that will eventually be adopted when Hammond has the facilities for giving a complete and np-to-date course in manual training. But with the limited equipment that is provided at the present time and the remote prospects of occupying a building that will be adapted to the manual training work, it is not likely that Hammond will be able to boast of a course in this line of study for some time. Hammond has not the large funds available that Gary and Whiting have, with their high per capita valuation, and so it must move slowly.. Even when moving slowly it ia likely to deprive hundreds of school children of courses of study that Hammond's neighboring cities already have. However, give Superintendent McDanlel and the school board the credit for going as fast as they can in this matter. No one realizes the need for a modern manual training school more than Superintendent McDanlel. He ha3 set his heart on this Important project iLd his plans are the culmination of years of thoughtful study as to how the city can be supplied with this most necessary educational adjunct The scope of the features to be emhodiri in

these plans is amazing and Hammond's superintendent of schools has done I

wonaers in bringing them to that point where the architect can go ahead with his work.

"THIS IS MY 51ST BIRTHDAY" Belvldere Brook.

Belvidere Brooks, the general manager of the Western Lnion Telegraph Company, was born in Wheelock. Texas,

July 6, 1859. At 12 years of age he

siartea nis career as a messenger boy

in Navasota, Texas. When he wasn't

running messages he was studying the telegraph code, and before he was 15 he was able to send and receive over

the wires. At 20 he was an expert

telegraph operator. After working for two years for the Houston and Texas Central Railroad be obtained employment with the Western Union. In 1880 he became manager of the company's

office in Navasota, where he began eight years previously as a messenger. From Navasto he was transferred to

Dallas and later was superintendent of

the offices in Waco,' El Paso and Galveston. After leaving Texas he was given charge of the Western Union offices in Denver, from which point he was transferred to the general headquarters in New York, where he became the general manager of the company about a year ago.

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Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.

in price.

A A COTTON dealers plan a hot war on the tariff makers. Perhaps they think the pure silk or some other mixture Is cooler.

NO use for California prof, to go to Asia Minor to dig for relics of the

Hittites. Most of them are leavin Reno now. AA

IF the democrats are going to sweep

tne state, we should like to see the broom. Will they use Kern's bribery

charges? AA-

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A WHEEL TAX FOR GARY. It does not take a practiced eye to notice that some cf Gary's street pavements are deteriorating rather early. This leads to two conclusions. Either the workmanship was poor and skimped, or the resultant heavy traffic of building a city has been greater than originally calculated. Or, perhaps it has been a mixture of both that has caused the outcroppings of the early manifestations of decadence. It would appear from this that the contractors, in some Instances, have not been over honest. On the other hand, property owners can correctly conclude that team owners have been none too careful, but whatever the basic reasons, the fiddler is to be paid. The team owners and contractors are the principal users of the streets and those who most wear them out. That they should contribute towards the maintainance of the public thoroughfares is not an unjust maxim. Chicago and other cities have Imposed a wheel tax on all vehicles graded according to their size- The proceeds of this levy are used to keep the streets in repair. Since means must be found to keep the Gary highways in use for traffic the suggestion that the council pass a wheel tax ordinance is not out of place. Those who most use the streets, causing the wear and tear, should be responsible for their repair. If they do not pay the cost the property owner will and if such an obligation Is forced upon 'the home owner it is entirely unfair. Those who use the streets should keep them passable, and the wheel tax offers the best solution of the problem. A THE MARCH OF THE INDUSTRIES. East Chicago and Indiana Harbor are to be congratulated on the addition of another new industry. This is the Chicago Flexible Shaft company's new plant, work on which has already been commenced. While the concern is not of the colossal proportions of the steel mills, it will rrMent

stantial branch of a big industry and. as THE TIMES has frequently stated the smaller industries are just as welcome to the Calumet region as the larger ones. It frequently happens that in proportion to the number of men they employ there is a larger percentage of skilled labor, hence a larger payroll prpportionately, the men who share in this being not so much inclined to send all their wages to tke old country, but circulating their money in their own town.

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WHAT A good many of these auto fellows, miscalled "drivers" by a long suffering public, need more than anything else is common sense Any chump can wipe a car and keep the metal polished, but it takes brains to carefully run one. And this is a fact which far too many auto owners fail to recognize Some "chauffeurs" can't tell left from right to save their necks and more don't know a speedometer when they seo on. South Bend Tribuna

A GOOD way henceforth to cut out

the firecracker evil would be to substitute for them the cracking, spitting

motorcycles. AA

irx nsning you know," said the old

philosopher, "patience is a good thing, but it helps when you have the worms

once in a while." AA

THE water power bill was vetoed by

congress. Members of congress evi

dently do not think there is much

power in water.

are sun offering rewards

down in Laporte for Mrs. Guaness. There's a town that hates to let go of a good thing. AA THEY are still talking about THE TIMES fight extra. Did you see the other extras? If you did vou win

know why we are proud of ours. AA ' UP to the hour of shoving the fourth page on the steam table, Homer has not claimed credit for reversing the flow of the Calumet through the Sag. AA ONE man in New York shot another and got out of it by apologizing, saying he was shooting at a woman. Where are the suffragettes anyway? AA AN exchange says that much of the talk about high prices will now subside because spring having at last arrived, people will be willing to pay more to live.

AA SPEAKING of cheese, there Is said to be not far from this locality, a piece in a certain restaurant that is so strong that it will walk across th table in answer tc Its name. AA MAN who is evidently trying to stir up trouble, says he has a hen that laid an egg like the tail of the comet. Well, if it isn't any easier to be seen, don't see how he could tell what the hea laid. a J

TWO FUNERALS. Did you read the long description of the funeral of Edward VII.? The obsequies were perhaps the most imposing of modern times, and the cortege that left Westminster and followed the king's remains to rest in St. George's chapel at Windsor was the most gorgeous ever seen. As I read I thought of how we buried the king of our village forty years ago. It was in the era before machine made goods had iSund their way to us to any great extent. The village tailor made the men's clothes, the shoemaker the boots, the wagon maker the

'wagons, the cabinetmaker the furni

ture, and so on. Our king was a wagon maker. He came to us from Kentucky, was

strikingly kingly in mien. tall, handsome and liou-like In strength. Once he put to flight the army of the aliens, literally thrpwing an entire gang of peace disturbers out of the church. No man of the neighborhood dared face him in his righteous Indignation. Yet he had a woman's heart. By right of royal dignity and prerogative he became the peacemaker of the community. England was no more deeply stricken by the death of her king than we by ours. The funeral? it was to the village church that we first took his remains.

the church where every Sunday he marshaled his big family that filled a pew. I remember the poignant sorrow o that people. The minister could scarce say his sermon because his throat would tighten, and he would look at us every one in tears through the telescope of his own tears. The grave had been dug by neighbors, the pile of clay indicating its location. To the sobbing of sincere mouruers, above which could be heard the broken voice of the minister "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust" the body of the man who was every inch a king was lowered to its resting place by ropes. Nor did we desert the grave at this juncture, as is the custom of today. We remained while the neighbors took turn about filling the grave and gently patting the mound into shapeliness. And thus .we buried our king forty yeans ago.

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THE GLOOMY PAST. A man went moaning through the town: "The past I cannot live It down I My old dead sins rise up to vex and swat me in the solar plexl :T" past's a ghost, with silent tread, that stands and gibbers by my bed!" I smote him with a willow bough, and sat a whila upon his brow, and said: "The Gloomy Past's all In, with all it had of human sin; in all this universe so vast there's nothing deader than the past. Today is with us, living, strong, a tlmo of hope and faith and song. Today is vital; yesterday is in its coffin, stark and gray. Today a man may look ahead and see a hundred paths to tread; bright paths that lead to greater heights, to useful days and restful nights, to high achievement, honored age, to honest work and goodly wage. But If h faces to the past, and looks for ghosts that gibber fast, and talk about their fleshless bones, then some one, weary of his groans, will slug him with a stick of beech, and sit upon his head and preach, as I do now; so go your way, and get your clutches on Todayl WALT MASON. Copyright, 1910, by George Matthew Adams. '

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UP AND DOWN IN I-N-D-I-A-N-A

SWEENEY TO Bl ILD LINE. It is now apparent that road building

was the cause of the Rev. Z. T.

Sweaey's anxiety to be relieved of the office of state game and fish commis

sioner, for he returned to Columbus

today, from Moberly, Mo., where he was Granted a right of way and fran

chises for a concrete motor road from Moberly to Huntsville. a distance of seven miles.

ELKS TO MEET AT SOUTH BEND. South Bend will put on her gala

dress in honor of the meeting of the State Reunion Association of the B. P.

Q. Elks, which will take place in that

city July 7, g and 9. There never has been such enthusiasm shown and such liberal donations made by the merchants of South Bend for any 6lmilar affair. The downtown buildings are already being covered with

the bright decorations.

FATHER OF 29 CHILDREN. James Emily, of Corydon 83 years old, and the father of twenty-nine children, ia dead at his home a few mles northeast of this city. Fifteen of his children are living. Mr. Emily was married three times and h.is last wife survives him. POLICE SUPPRESS NOISE. Owing to the vigilance of Superintendent Pritchard and the police department Anderson experienced the most quiet lndependece day in its history. At 6 o'clock this evening not an arrest had been made nor had there been an accident reported. KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

U. Umber, 65 years old New Albany, photographer, was instantly killed by lightning Monday afternoon at Blackiston Mill, where he was attending a Fourth of July picnic to take pictures. The bolt struck a tree under which he

had. taken refuge from the storm. BAR ASSOCIATION TO MEET. The Indiana Bar Association will meet at the Country Club tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock to discuss the question of employers' liability. Frederick T. Slimpson of Boston will deliver the annual address on the legal test of combinations of labor and capital. PROHIBITIONISTS FRUSTRATED. An attempt on the part of the platform makers of the Prohibition party in Marion County to insert a plank condemning the local option law was frustrated at the county convention held at the Pentecost camp grounds on Eagle Creek yesterday afternoon. Discussion of the proposed plank threatened to cause a "split" in the party in Marion County for a time. GIRL SHOOTS SWEETHEART. While celebrating Independence day

Miss Ruth Mitchell, a young Brown

County girl, yesterday at Columbus shot Frank Condon, her 13-year-old sweetheart, through the heart, klllims

him Instantly. The couple had gone to the home of Wesley Settles, neax here, to spend the day. The young woman is prostrated with grief over the tragedy. STEAL KEG OF BEER. The Kokomo police are looking for the men who attacked Joe K-ioth while he was going to his home on Vale avenue, carrying a keg of beer he had purchased at Logansport. Rioth was waylaid and the keg taken from him. The police have been unable thus far to learn the Identity of his assailants. MAIL CARRIERS ELECT. At Ft. Wayne late Monday evening the following officers were elected by the annual convention of Indiana Letter Carriers Association for the ensuing year: President, R. O. Pogue, Terre Haute; vice president, Claude Shipley, Newcastle; treasurer, Emil Reiman, Evansville; secretary, F. C. Goeglein. Ft. Wayne; chairman of the

executive board. August Schmadel. Indianapolis. The other members of thia board elected today were Leon Hayes, Muncle, and E. W. Clift of Newcastle. UNVEIL MONUMENT. Ten housand people were at Rensselaer Monday at the unveiling of the monument erected In honor of Gen. Robert Milroy and the members of his regiment, the Ninth Indiana, and the soldiers of Jasper County. The Milroy monument is erected on the site of the general's old home, which was purchased by the city several years ago for a public park. STORM STOPS TRAIN. A heavy rain and electrical storm passed over Washington yesterday afternoon, doing much damage to growing corn and unharvested wheat. A passenger train on the B. & O. S. W. was compelled to stop for twenty minutes Just west of here until the storm abated.

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