Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 49, Hammond, Lake County, 15 August 1910 — Page 4
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Monday, August 15, 1910.
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RANDOM THINGS fi FLINGS
more weeks of the
silly
HOW BECKER SAVED $8,000?
Will Mayor Becker and the class for the study of the question of purChasing public parks please take their seats. In a little blackboard study THE TIMES will attempt to show that the mayor's claim that he has saved the city $8,000 on the purchase of the East Side park 13 about as ridiculous
as some of his other claims of economy in finance.
The city of Hammond is about to negotiate the purchase of a little less
than twelve acres of land on Columbia avenue for park purposes. This is the result of years of agitation on the part of the people of the east side who
have been materially aided in their campaign for a park by THE TIMES
The new park is being purchased at a cost of $2,000 an acre. ,The city
gets a strip along Columbia avenue from Michigan avenue north to the Calu
met river. This same property was sold to Joseph O. Morris by Gostlin
Meyn & Co. for $1,500. Excepting the cost of taxe3 and some special assess
ments, Morris has cleared $500 an acre on the deal.
But that is not all- Gostlin, Meyn & Co. bought this property six years ago for $500. They made a profit of $1,000 an acre when they sold it to
Morris.
The point is plain. Had the city administration bought this property when the agitation for an1 East Side park first started, the taxpayers would
have been saved all the way from $1,000 to $1,500 an acre, or from $12,000 to
$18,000 on the deal. Besides the east side would have .had the use of the park for five or six years and the development of this part of the city would have been enhanced just that much. THE TIMES favors the purchase of the East Side park at this late day and even at the top notch figure that is being paid for it, but the costly lesson that has been taught the public should be taken to heart. It is the slow, ponderous, cumbersome way the present city administration has of doing things that is costing the city thousands of dollars and is retarding its developmentHarrison park, which has double the acreage of the East Side park, cost the city $36,000, while the East Side park is costing $24,000. Harrison park made Homewood what it is, the finest residential district in the Calumet region. The benefits that will accrue to the people of the east side as a result o' the location of this park will have to be measured in the future. ' y So when Mayor Becker points to the fact that he has saved tho city $f,000 on the purchase price of the East Side park we must request him to retire to the foot of the class. It hurts us as much as it hurts him to be compelled t,o point out his shortcomings in municipal financiering, but our duty to the public is plain. Moral: Buy a park to day which should have been bought yesterday and you will insure prosperity for the real estate dealer.
WELL Pastor Sharp is glad it is all
over anyway.
THE Lake county baseball cham
pionship is Just as far off as ever.
SOMETIMES if you fall in love
with a girl too quickly, you fall out.
WHAT, la the meantime, has be
come of Walter Wellman's gas bag?
MR. Billheimer should have stayed
a little longer, or come again. He will
find other entertainment.
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GOVERNOR Harmon has not yet
tacked a "y" on his name and used
it in the Columbus street car strike.
SO Far we do not perceive that any
ear drums have been cracked on ac
count of the clamor for a wheel tax in
these parts. ,
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MISS Leneve is sure Doc Crippen is
innocent. Very well, turn him loose for if Miss Leneve says he is innocent,
he must be.
HAVE you any idea what really ailed Jack Johnson, who gave it out
that he was "indisposed", and couldn't
come to Hammond?
DEMOCRATIC press predicting biggest convention ever held in Lake county. Many a slip betwixt the cup
and the lip, however.
A "FEW more lessons like that in
East Chicago and street corners won'
be a very popular place with men who
have nothing to do.
IX other words, will the state repub
lican committee keep its hands oft and let Grandma Carr run the whole
blamed campaign?
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY August 15.
56 Josias Fendall wag imprisoned by
the Puritans.
1763 Napoleon Bonaparte born. Died
May 5. 1821.
1705 Edward Nott became governor ot
Virginia.
1780 Gen. Sumter captured the supply
train of Lord Cornwallis between Charleston and Camden.
1786 First symptoms of Shay's rebel
lion In Massachusetts. 814 Fort Erie, Canada, was attacked by the. British. 824 Lafayette arrived at Btaten Island on his visit to the United States. 835 Committee of fifteen appointed to consider the independence of Texas.
I860 Rev. James Rogers consecrated
first R. C bishop of Catham. Ont.
1861 Gen. Robert Anderson took com
mand of the Department of the
Cumberland.
1870 Kansas Pacific Railroad opened
to Denver.
1882 A statue of Daniel O'Connell
was unveiled In Dublin. THISC1S M Y44TH BIRTHDAY Mme. Emma Calve,
Mme. Emma Calve, the world-famous
singer, was born in France, August 15
1866, but spent the greater part of her
childhood amongst the wild and pic
turesque scenes of northern Spain. She
made her Informal debut at Florence In
1890 In "Cavallerla Rustlcana." Im
mediately engaged in 1892 at the Opera
Comlque In Paris, she renewed her
successes and In a measure revolution
ized the artistic world by her dramatic
conception of the parts she played.
Later she repeated her triumphs at
Convent Garden in London. Heard and
admired by Director Maurice Grau of the Metropolitan Opera House in New
York she was engaged for a season
there and made her American! debut in
1894. Since that time she has been heard in opera or concert In mny of the leading cities of the United States
and Canada.
earttolieart Talks. By EDWIN aL NYE.
; . SOME GARY LANDMARKS. As we glide through the abysses of space it is well to pau6e from our
strenuous endeavors and look back on -the past- In this case we intend to
review the short lap over which Gary has traveled and see if we cannot
find some of our fellow passengers who seem to have gone astray. ,
First of all the pilgrim bands that are missing is the Old Settlers' as
sociation. 'Tis but a year since these pioneer Garyites used to gather in the south end where they indulged in reminiscences, white fish and copious draughts of Berhoff. Either the year 1910 is too swift for such proclivities, or business has knocked romance sky high out of the early wood choppers, and no more are the late comers edified about the tales of the early days of 1906 and 1907Perhaps Jt was the heartless query of the Lafayette Courier which asked the peritent question of how there could be any old settlers in a sprig of a town that was but four years old. If this caused the pioneers to disband
they should unite once more because Lafayette is merely jealous and there a man has to have a long beard, must have carried George Ade when he was young on hi3 shoulders, and be at least half century in the city before he can be admitted into the exclusiveness of the old settlers. In passing it may be well to push the interrogation further and ask what has become of the proposed fountain that was to be built and have inscribed thereon the names of all those who came in the days of the tents and shacks. Then of more later date and of a more reserved character, to be sure, was the memorable Gary club (incorporated) which was made up of west end citizens who were to constitute the local hoi polloi. What has become of this effete band that was formed by an aspiring Ward McAllister? Then there Is the famous Gary Real Estate board, which meets no more. If our memory does not fail us the board seemed to go the demnition bowwows shortly after Alderman M. N. Castleman returned from a prolonged visit at the courts of Europe. A luncheon was held one day and the now alderman and in his equal, voluble tones moved that all members of the board who were six months behind in their dues be suspended. Thereupon the president ordered the secretary to read the list, and, from the story told, it seems that the now distinguished member of the city council headed the list of delinquents with one year's dues in arrears. From that moment his activities in the board ceased. Whether so many others were also in arrears has never been learned, but from thenceforth the board has been tossed upon the high seas of adversity.
BefoVe pausing in this retrospective of the misty past it is also proper to turn the telescope on the Civic league. Its excursions into partisan politics put the league in the list of has beens. Even the Gary Boosters' club is now a mere imaginary landmark of times, that were and the tree planter's and
lawn mover's brigade seemed to have been derailed in the same vicinity
No doubt the historian in another generation will view with much concern these ancient institut.'pns and it is eminently fitting that those of this day
dwell upon them occasionally.
WE trust it can be' arranged to keep
Mr. Roosevelt in the south part of the state while Mr. Bryan, is in the north
part and vice versa.
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CALIFORNIA man has just killed
end dried 125 bushels of grashoppers
to feed to his chickens next .winter. Talk about the high cost of living.
, " WE understand that one man in these parts fs going away to settle in the west before long. He had better settle here first before he goes west. - GARY man went to Lowell to spend bis vacation and to hear hm tell about the time he had you would think hehad drained the cup of life to its lees. . ' OLD Doc Crippen is entertaining
A LIE REVAMPED.
Senator Beveridge and the republican state organization have been served
notice to keep hands off in Lake county, that under exisiting conditions the organization in the county can take care of itself a little better than it can
be taken care of. Gary Post.
We have usually found the Post inclined to have some regard for the
truth. THE TIMES has 6hown that the above story is a lie sent out by the democratic bunk bureau in the Pythian building. The Hammond News started the lie in these parts. Senator Beveridge denied that he had been served
with any such notice and so did the republican organization. Congressman Crumpacker denied that any such notice had been sent. Other republicans
give the same testimony. Why deliberately lie.' gentlemen?
himself in jail with a Bible. Old Crippen ought to find a few "shalt nots" therein that fit his own case particu
larly. "...'! . WRITER recommends that bride can always captivate husband's friends. Well, mercy's sake, can't the husband do a little captivating on wine's friends? PERHAPS the esteemed Post would
like tp borrow a cut of Congressman
Crumpacker. We have them in all
styles and sizes and should be glad to accommodate.
' THE stupid canard that Congress
man Crumpacker has ordered Senator
Beveridge to stay out of the Tenth district is still going the rounds of
the democratic press.
THE democratic papers don't know
ust what they are going to do about
foreign voters, this year. We'll tell you what they will da They'll vote
just as many of them as they possibly
can.
AFTER laboring with a church for
fifteen years, a pastor has just re
signed because the trustees asked him to get out as he had riot ' make suf
ficient progress. It's too bad that a pastor can't ask a board of trustees
to resign sometimes. -
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MINNESOTA editor while passing a
bank disturbed three burglars and
was compelled to stand with his hands
above his head for thirty minutes
while the blowing of the safe was ac
complished. Served him right- What
business has an editor near a bank?
. A MOST dramatic incident Is reported as having occurred recently in
Atlanta- A policeman found two young
fellows breaking into a store, and arrested them. They proved to be his own sons, and on his testimony the boys have been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Somehow, In spite of the sordidness of the sons' crime, the episode reminds the reader of that which made Lucius Junis Brutus one of the world's heroes-
THIS IS THE GOLDEN AGE.
My neighbor says the world Is grow
Ing worse.
My neighbor Is a pessimist and Is
much like the old woman who always felt bad when she felt good, for fear
she might feel bad! "Why," he says
"Look at the rottenness In politics
and at the outlawry of predatory wealth, and the abuses and Injustices of our time. "Do you know," he continues, "there is big graft In business? Why a salesman can't sell a purchasing agent $50 worth of goods withoot the latter asking, 'What is there In it for me7" There Is some truth in' what my
neighbor says. " , And pity 'tis, 'tis true. But it Is not the whole truth. On the contrary, corruption is the exception of which honesty is the rule. Rascals are really scarce. And all men are not money mad. ! . You know some of. us are like the old prophet's servant who thought all decent people were dead except the prophet and himself. We need to have our eyes opened to see the mighty host of those who have not bowed the knee to Baal. Who are they?
The teachers, who. for a meagre
dole sacrifice their vitality to educate
the race.
The preachers, thousands of whom live on a pittance that they may help
men up spiritually.
The workers 1n the laboratories who watch while others sleep and make discoveries that lessen pain, or save
a child, or prolong a life. Artisans and artists, humanitarians and philanthropists who, in every place, care more for men than money. Why, time and space would fail me to tell of the hospitals and homes for the friendless and free libraries and associated charities and free clinics and playgrounds for tenement children, and the countless, gracious agencies of this humane age. Never before in all history was so much being done for our race. And. best of all The mass of our people are sound In head and heart- They are no less honest or brave or true or helpful than their fathers, but in some respects more so. And so I say to my neighbor "Cheer up. This is the best age tho world has seen and getting better.
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N-D-I-A-N-A
komo, and Mrs. Birdie Perkins, of W. H. Perkins well k nnn-r, r
komo church circles, are under a
at Tiffin, O., charged with living together since June 19 as husband and
wire.
TWO DIVORCES AT TWENTY. Mrs. Margaret Reitz-Wilson-Kinkle.
of Evansville, 20 years old, an heiress
and prominent young- woman of society.
aa granted a divorce from her second husband, Charles Kinkle, by Judge
HawKins or the Circuit Court today. The case has been under advisement since June 23.
New evidence that Charles Kinkle is in Jail at Henderson, Ky., for the theft of a suit of clothes wa staken into consideration. The girl wife testified that more than $1,000 worth of her clothes has been pawned by her husband. LOEI,Y MAX SriCIDKS. Edward Wedell, 44 years old, the sole occupant of his home, in Fort Wayne since his wife left him several weeks ago, sat down on his front steps yesterday morning, fired one bullet inton his right temple and killed himself. Three years ago Wedell charged his wife with infidelity and shot her through the arm. EVANSVILLE WAXTS LEGISLATION. Officials of the city of Evansville announce dtoday that they will go before
the next Legislature and lobby for the
passing of modified liquor license laws.
paving laws and laws regulating the
charges of public service corporations.
3ome objections wil be brought against
the present automobile law also. Mrs,
H. E. Bacon, author of the tenement house bill, will bring her measure be
fore the Assembly again. TRIES TO SAVE HORSE.
State Senator F. C. Tilden, of Greencastle, was badly burned on the back, arms and about the face while trying to lead his horse from a burning barn
yesterday morning. . The fire was not
discovered until it had gained consid
erable headway.
FOOL THE RAILROAD.
County Treasurer O. P. Crim, who is
also president of the Indiana Ice and
Dairy Company, of Anderson, outwitted
the officers of the Big Four Railway
company when at 3 o clock Friday
morning, with a force of men, he tun
neled beneath the Michigan division of the road and laid a steam line from the plant to the new City High School
Building. BRYAV TO RE ACTIVE.
That W. J. Bryan, who lectured on "The Price of a Soul" at the Rush
County Chautauqua at Rushville Fri
day afternoon, will take an active part In the campaign was his statement Friday. He refused to say definitely
whether he would speak in Indiana
during the campaign. He declared tha
he was not now talking on county option nor making any mention of liquor law legislation. ELECT CAMP OFFICERS.
At the meeting of the stockholders of the Battle Ground Camp Meeting Association ner Lafayette held Friday the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: W. P. McKinsie of Indianapolis, president emeritus; Dr. George W. Swltzer of Lafayette, president; the Rev. Aaron AVood of Lafay
ette, vice president; W. E. McKenzie of Crawfordsville, secretary, and George F. Keiper of Lafayette, treasurer. BIG BARN RVRNS.
The barn on Sallie Hanna s farm near
Brookville burned yesterday morning
with all the farming Implements, twenty tons of hay, two mules and buggies and carriages. The origin of the fire
is unknown. The damage was 2,300 with $650 insurance. The timbers of the building were of black walnut, and were more than a century old.
FLOl'R MILL DESTROYED. The Anchor Flouring Mill of Rochest
er, belonging to Messrs. Viers & Wicks,
was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Several thousand dollar's worth of grain had been stored in the build
ing and the damage will reach llo.OOO.
The owners carried $G,000 insurance.
William C. Harrison, the court reporter for the Lake superior court In
Hammond, is very much Interested In
the hearing that Is being held Jn Okla
homa as a desult of the charges of
bribery that have been brought by Senator Gore. Mr. Harrison is acquainted
with every person who has testified re
garding graft in the McMurray contracts with the Indians. This fact makes the investigation of great interest to him. A year or two ago Harrison spent two years In Oklahoma, where he made the acquaintance of most of the public men there. He says that at the time he was there reports were In circulation of enormous graft that McMurray was getting from the Indians. He said he is reported to have secured $750,000 attorney's fees In one deal and was about to make $3,000,000 in the one which he has just tried to put over.
Uncle Walt The Poet Philosopher
i . J 1 : - - STRENUOUS SPORTS. I'd hate to be a wrestler and strain my blooming works In swift herolo combats with Poles and frightful Turks; I've watched the wrestlers strugglo for purses and for points, I've seen their straining musclest I've heard their cracking joints; desire to be a wrestler within my bosom sours; I'd ratherbe a peeler, and sleep for thirty hours- I'd hate to be a fighter, and train for weeks and weeks, to have' my nose kerflummixed and spread upon my cheeks. I've seen the pug in action, I've seen him in repose, I've seen him running naked, I've seen him wearing clothes, and far from his profession I'll surely try to keep; I'd rather be a peeler, and sleep, and sleep, and sleep. I'd hata to be a walker, though Weston makes it pay; I hate to reel and totter upon an endless way; to tumble into ditches, and sidestep auto cars, to live on prunes and water, and cut out all cigars". Oh, let the other fellows across the country walk! I'd rather be a peeler, and sleep around a block. WALT MASON. Copyright, 1910, by George Matthew Adams.
The Evening Chit-Chat By RUTH CAMERON
GIVES HIMSELF VP.
Andy Wagner, who shot his former
sweetheart. Rose Wagner, and Mat
thew B. Tenner, with whom she was driving, and then disappeared, returned to Osgood late last night and sur
rendered. He is now out on $5,000 bond. After the shooting he walked to Greensburg, took an lnterurban car to Indianapolis, and from there went to
his sister's In Cincinnati.DIARY GIVES BOV AWAY. .
A diary kept by Edwn Lappe, 16
years old. while attending the Kemper
Military Academy, led to his being
sentenced to the Reformatory at Boonevllle by Judge Porter Field in the Juvenile Court. The diary showed
Lappe had frequented low resorts, used Intoxicants and smoked cigarettes, and was an all-round bad boy. CHIRCH MAX ARRESTED. John W. Flick, a pottery man, formerly president of the board of trustees of the United Brethern Church of Ko-
XEW THINGS IX THE SHOPS. The newest shoes are arched for the shortening effect, and have a medium vamp. Suede gloves are more worn than a glace kid, probably because the fit is much better and the hands looks small, er in them.
Fringe, deep or shallow, is much in favor for sashes and may be of the same colors or in some sharply contrasting shade. Some of the colored silk stockings from over the sea are elaborately embroidered with wonderful flowers and conventional designs. The plaited frills are not only worn on shirt waists, but are rapidly making
way for themselves as a finish to the cuffs and revers of the tailored suit. Voile coats without linings, to wear over lingerie or other dainty costumes, are in favor, as are such dainty coats of other transparent fabrics.
"But I'm not going to marry his family; I'm going to marry him," I heard a girl protest the other day when her mother objected to the man she was going to marry, on the ground that his family was not a desirable one. -If I carry John we shall live where his work is a hundred miles from here. So what difference could his family make?" I've heard that argument, ."I'm not marrying his family, I'm marrying him," a good many times before, and it seems to me there is Just one answer to it. You are marrying his family in him. There are some people who believe heredity has the most powerful Influence on what we become, and as many others consider that environment
does. Remember that the influence of the family is made up both of heredity and environment. Now, please, don't think that I mean a girl should refuse to marry a man because some member of his family had gone wrong or because there was some family skeleton, or anything like that. That Isn't what I'm tiying to say at all. What I mean is that I believe that a girl ought to think family atmosphere was not congenial to her, because, although she might take him very far from it, she would still be marrying in him the product of that atmosphere. In every family that Is a family unit at all there is apt to be a certain fixed standard, a certain unchanging set of Ideals and desires and admirations. For instance, in one family the point of view Is a habit of considering money and show the measure of life.
At their dinner table the talk runs something line tnis: 'What do you think the Browns have bought a new car that must
cost at least $4,000.". "The Joneses are blossoming outlately. Mrs. Jones went by here today in the handsomest white suit with a whole lot of Irish lace on it." "Just think, Harry Smith says they stopped at , and that's the most
expensive hotel In Atlantic City."
"Mother, ihc new girl in scnooi nas a reai goia waicn.
for Christmas?" Isn't it very nearly inevitable that the son of this family will have the family point of view that the be-all and end-all of existence is to have money, or at least to appear to have it? And suppose he marries a girl who has been brought up in a family where the point of view is a love of books and education and simple things isn't it likely that their ideals and desires and admirations, products as they are of such widely different points of view, are going to clash? Perhaps they will amalgamate and produce a generation with a mors cosmopolitan tioint of view than either, you suggest. Perhaps. Bui t did not say you should not marry a man whatever his family was. I simply wanted to show you that no matter how far from them your lines might lie you were nevertheless marrying his family in him. If you are willing to do that, that's your affair. Only Just don't make tho mistake of thinking you aren't doing it.
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