Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 55, Hammond, Lake County, 22 August 1910 — Page 8

8 THE TIMES. Monday, August 22, 1910.

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E. CHICAGO

Smell of Burning Rubber in

Block-Pollock Fire Causes Sensitive Persons As Far Away as Hammond to Hold Their Noses.

(Special Thb Times) East Chicago. Ind., Aug. 22. Fire Which consumed a large shed belonging to the Block-Pollak company, a scrap Iron concern doing business in Cast Chicago, between Railroad avenue and the canal, .and which damaged a large quantity Of rubber "hose, made a bad

stench In and about East Chicago last night. The fire broke out early in the evening, and smouldered in the rubber hose until 1 o'clock this morning, causlng a mean smudge that kept people from sleeping in the vicinity and caused the inhabitants too far away to realize what was in progress to fancy that a whole nest of pole cats, had been stirred up. "Whiffs of the bad odor were wafted as far away as Hammond. The nremen when they arrived after numerous delays, in which they were obliged to dig their apparatus out of the sand in order to reach the scene of the blaie, turned their atetntlon to a pile' of belting which was In danger of catching fire and which, had It done so, would have materially in

creased the loss. They managed to

save this and the rest of the property, but were too late to save the buildinj and th hose. The site of the concern is rather in

accessible, being some distance from any improved road, and the heavy fire apparatus cut through the sand time

and again. Then, too, he absence of plugs in the vicinity made the process of extinguishing the flame3 exceedingly tedio". At the' Block-Pollak establishment this morning the extent of the damage had not yet been estimated, but it will most likely exceed $1,000. The local people knew nothing of the insurance companies which carried the risk.

the, lake front .on . Saturday; .-he ljscovered a. pile of clothing eonsiting..Of

trousers, shirt, coat nd shoes. Mr.

O'Hara called the attention of the po

lice to the articles and searching the pockets they found as an only clew, a lodge book . from the Greek Catholic

lodge, of hitlng, bearing the name of, Wesley Dudoka. , Hegewisch. Dudoka was located in Hegewisch, and told the police he had given his book together with his dues to John Zeknan, of 519 Short street, "Whiting to pay about three weeks ago. The officers then went to Short street and found Zsknan to be missing. His wife went to the police station, where she identified her hubasnd's clothing. They ' woman the tags from new clothing weA found on the beach showing that the man had evidently put on new clothes and left the old ones on the beach. Zskman was minus one toe on

his right foot, and always found it necessary to stuff the toe of his shoe. "Where Is the Staffing; t Another, indication that he has gone

away was that the stuffing was gone from his ' old shoe, evidently having been taken to stuff the new shoe. The boarders at Zskman home now assert that the boarding boss had acted as banker for them, and had in his possession at the time of his disappearance $375 of their money. ' Joe Tapajna the grocer on Schrage avenue, says that Zskman faied to straighten up his $160 grocery bill on pay day. It has now been said that Zskman

was seen in Steve sanors saloon on Friday night, with a large bundle.

which was apparently the clothes he wore to go away. The police are in hopes of finding the merchant today,

where Zskman purchased the clothing,!

and thereby prove conclusively that he is not in the lake. Zskman leaves besides his wife, three small children who are much grieved over their father's disappearance. Investigation also showed that Zskman had also failed to pay Dudoka's lodge dues, which Dudoka had given him, although it ignot known Just what the amount was.

Over a Dozen Lives Lost . and $ 1 ,000,000 in Property Gone

HOW BI PRODUGT COKE ' IS IDE II GARY ,

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tfifWfWi .JP&VL .Ml 1;YA. 'NS2SIJ-; 5? . ! record nd the plant at the new town If-TIO M V4 LP&& ' " " i 1 I of Gary which will be of the same type r v 'mmr'PA t VlS A I Perform greater things because it I 'VST Jt: lfeY ? L - LY is nt on a m,ch larger scale. The K 6-&iW&H?- VU " &f&PKL i"1" 1 : Joliet plant consists of 280 ovens, but I ', mm ?)&te&?T 7$&&MtMr .&r$ i$ at number with arrangements for

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Walter L. Graul of Joliet, 111., where he is assisting in the manufacture of by-product coke, points out some of the gains and losses in coke manufacture that are Interesting and instructive.

The Joliet plant has 'made a great

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LOVE'S LEMONADE , 10 E. CHICAGO

SUPPOSED SUICIDE PRDKSMSGOBDER Whiting Sherlock Holinses Unravel What at First Looks Like Mystery.

(Special n Thb Times.) Whiting. Aug. 22. The Whiting police have been most busy solving a mystery which at first looked like a case of suicide by drowning. According to later developments it looks as though the Whiting citizen supposed to have met this sad fate has decamped with a bunch of other people's money. When W. W. O'ara, a teamster for the Standard Oil Co. was driving along

So Loath Is Jim Sullivan to

Tear Himself Away That He Is Arrested.

SPENDS NIGHT IN JAIL CELL

Led to City Limits This Morning and

Told to ''Beat It" Out of Town.

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iirl h i;e A ietv of Wallare.

some lemons to make lemonade with. I'm very fond of lemonade."

"All right," said McKenna, "you come

with me and we will go down to the police station. Perhaps Sergeant Leo

McCormick may have a barrel of it down there."

Officer McKenna led Sullivan to the

city limits this morning and told him

to "skiddoo."

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rants will be secured for some of the East Garyites today, and an effort will be made to have their punishment be made a jail sentence. ooley on the Job. During the progress of the picnic Colonel John Cooley, who owns the grove, took advantage of the crowd and sold several lots to local and visiting people. The property sold lies in Cooley's first addition to Gary.

ED SIMON WILL BE THE CANDIDATE (Continued from Tage One."1'

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Attorney P. A. Parks of Indiana Harbor one of the star democrats of North township is prominently mentioned for the democratic nomination for prose-

SPEAK

Another meeting was held Saturday afternoon of the union men who are interested in the Gary Labor Day cele-

cutor of the thirty-first judicial district t bration. The committees assembled in

(Special to Tns Times.) East Chicago, Aug. 22. Yesterday morning while Officer P. J. ' McKenna was walking his beat in Chicago avenue he? found Jim Sullivan and a pal both itjnerant umbrella menders with a fairly comfortable load aboard and carrying a tin can which seemed to have been the means used in acquiring the jag. The officer told them that there were no broken umbrellas in East Chicago and that the city limits were not far off or in other words to "beat it." The pair started all right but evidently Sullivan couldn't bear to tear himself away from East Chicago, for the same officer saw him in the afternoon. "T thought I told you to get out of town," said the policeman. "You did," replied Sullivan, "but I Just thought I'd come back and get i i i .

comprising Lake and Porter counties. Following the conference an informal gathering of democrats from all or the county was held and when the decision was made that a Judicial ticket should be put in the field this fall Mr. Park's name was most prominently mentioned. It is said that the Indiana Harbor legal light will accept. - -r.xraed impetus is being given by the Hobart township democrats to William Kostbadt's shrievalty boom. Kostbadt formerly -rerved on the Hammond police force and has been actively identified with Lake county politics for more than a score of years. He is a wealthy East Gary farm owner and if he succeeds in capturing the nomination it is said that he will make a good race.

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the office of Building Commissioner William Kliver in the city hall where

final plans were laid out. It was reported that the union plum

bers of -Hammond and the East Chicago sheet metal workers will come to Gary to participate in the march on Broadway. Carriages are to be provided for the city officials. In the afternoon there is to be a picnic with the usual line of athletic games and the usual Labor day pronounciations by sterling oratorsr Invitatior.3 have been issued to Governor Thomas R. Marshall and Congressman Edgar Crumpacker to address the unionist at the picnic in the afternoon.

jectionable to him, but that it was absolutely necessary to have Simon's sup

port in this campaign and that Becker

had better forget his differences . and agree-to the placing of Simon's name

before the convention. .

, Mayor Becker Is Willing. Becker finally agreed to this plan,

and then the question came up as to

what should be done with Swaim. ' It

was at this Juncture that one of the parties to the "conference stated that Swaim was a negligible quantity in county politics aha that so far as' he was concerned he could take a jump in the lake, or words to that effect. ' ' It was then decided to let Swaim spout until he got tired. This action was taken on. the assumption that, he could not afford to buck both factions

of the party, and that if it became necessary it would not be very difficult to choke him off. So the program to nominate Simon in spite of the opposition of Swaim and to make the editor of the local democratic organ like it, no matter what his attitude is now.

doubling and redoubling the number. The description of the ovens Is interesting, but the method of extracting the by-products, gas, tar and ammonia and their value are among the things considered by Mr. Graul, and in this connection he , pays: "The gas driven off from the coal is carried out of the oven by mans of a pipe running through the top of the oven and thence

to a large main that carires it to the condensing house. Here the gas is washed and cooled and all the tar and

ammonia are extracted from it. The ammonia is either concentrated and 3o!d as liquor or brought into union with sulphuric acid and ammoniumsulphate, a very valuable fertilizing salt, made. The gas, having been cooled and

washed, is ready for use. A part of the gas Is made use of In keeping up the heat of the ovens. This is done by leading the gas through mains to the walls between the ovens, where the gas enters vertical flues and burns, bringing the heat of the oven walls up to a very high temperature. The heated walls communicate their heat to the mass of coal between them" and so the coking takes place, there being at no time any flame in the oven itself and all the heat being furnished from the walls." It Is explained that the primary ob

ject is the making of good coke an4 the secondary to secure as good a yield of by-products as possible from that which Is going to waste throughout the greatest coke region in the world, western Pennsylvania not only going to waste but laying waste to land, trees and most forms of plant lifedevitalizing the earth, so to speak. You are interested in knowing what thla plant of 280 ovens will do and from its record for the month of May you ma learn of its capacity. For this month over one hundred and twenty-one thousand tons of coal were charged into the ovens; over one hundred thousand tons of coke produced, of which over ninety-three thousand tons were good furnace coke, the remainder small .merchant coke. The yield of tar was over five hundred thousand gallons and the yield of ammonia is described as "enormous." In

addition to the gas which was used as fuel at the plant, there was made and used as fuel elsewhere six hundred million feet of gas. If these 2S0 ovens will produce that much gas, etc., in one month, what would the 35,000 ovens In the Connellsville coke region produce? Those ovens are larger than the beehive ovens here, but if one of them la as large as two of those of this region, our waste may be described as "enormous" even so great that all the money that has been or will be received for coal and coke from Fayette county is an insignificant sum compared with the value of that which has been and will be wasted in and through our coking

process. Plants like those at Joliet and Gary are being built at Duluth, Sault Ste. Marie, South Bethlehem and In Alabama. It may be too late to conserve Fayette county's resources along this line, but ' where new fields are opened up, there will be an opportunity to save that which Is being wasted here.

THIS TIMES CAW CET TOT A CIRI.

10 OPEN BIOS FOR PHEBCUL GUDB Call Issued for Directors to

Meet to Let Contract for Gary Structure.

President H. S. Norton of the Gary Commercial club has Issued a call for the board of directors to meet on Thursday August 25. At this session

bids wil be opened for the-new club

house which the organization is to

erect on the east side of Broadway Just south of Sixth avenue. '

There has been no August meeting of the club because of the lack of a. quorum and none ' will be held this month. All business supposed to be transacted at the August meeting will be disposed of at the session to be held in the Gary hotel, Wednesday evening September 7.

The Philosopher of Folly. "When a really resourceful mart finds that he hasn't enough money to buy coal," says the Philosopher o Folly, "he pawns the stove."

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Nearly 300 people attended the outing given by the Gary Retail Clerks' association, held in Cooley's grove. Main street. East Gary, yesterday. The usual picnic program was indulged in and all report an enjoyable time. Iloii - Caune Trouble. However, the occasion was marred

by three fights. Residents of East Gary and from surrounding hamlets invaded the picnic grounds and started to create a disturbance on the dance floor. The East Gary rowdies were persistently insulting and some fierce brawls followed with the result that thero were several broken heads. The rowdies were finally ejected from the grounds, but not until Frank Hubinger of Title's market was severely injured. It is probable that war-

GAS ROUTE Foe mis WEARY ONE

R. Y. Hall, 20 years old, occupying rooms in the rear and over the Jaunito

cigar store on Broadway, attempted to take his life by the "gas route" last Saturday night and was only saved by the local police breaking open his door and dragging him out of the room. The fumes of the gas were noticed, by Harry Wilt proprietor of the cigar store below Halls room. He notified the police station and Officer J. E. Smith responded. .x The door was broken In and Hall was found lying on the bed, with the gas from a jet being turned on. Hall Is said to have had trouble with a young l.-dy friend of his several days ago. It is not known where his former home was before coming to Gary.

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