Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 69, Hammond, Lake County, 8 September 1910 — Page 8

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LARGE ENROLLHT AT EAST CHICAGO SCHOOLS

(Ppoclal to Tub Time) East Chicago, Sept. 8. The schools of 'East Chicago and Indiana Harbor have never before been so well equipped to begin the fall term aa at present. And to profit by the Improved facilities fne largest number of pupils ever enrolled at the opening of the term, registered on Tuesday. Alto

gether there were 1,776 aocounted for, on the first day and before the second month Is begun. Superintendent E. N. Canine declares that this number will be increased, at a conservative estimate, to 2,000 scholars. Yesterday saw a large share of the prophesied Increase arrive, and today there was another substantial addition to the number enrolled, and there be belated stragglers from out of town in tha cases of children who havo .spent their summer away, and the children of new families making their home in this city from now on for the next few weeks. Are Prepared For I nor rase. Ample provision has been made by the board of education and the superintendent of schools to take care of the increased enrollment. Not only has added room been provided to seat the extra children, .but the teacbl-.ig corps has been enlarged so that it now numbers seventy-one. The corps of teachers provides another manual training teacher. The crowded McKinley school has been amply relieved by the addition just completed at a cost of nearly $20,00, which contains six rooms, and the mechanical drawing equipment has

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But a few months will Intervene between the time when Miller, Gary's east end and Independent suburb will be drained of the marshos and bogs that have hindered its progress ever since Its settlement a half century ago. The $12,000 Miller drainage ditch Is the vehicle which will serve to carry the town on the road to prosperity and the advent of Gary is furnishing the motive power. This ditch is rapidly nearlng a finish and only the delay in some concrete pipes prevents its sooner completion. Town Has Area. Miller embraces a strip of land on the lake front and In the north eastern part of the county, four miles long and two miles wide. Along the center of its southern border and In a few clusters along the lake front are Its settled portions. The other seven square miles Is as primitive as it was when the Indians roamed about. The topography at Miller is very interesting. In its confines are the highest and lowest lands In the county. Back of the beach line lie hundreds of acres of sand dunes of sky scraper height and back of these dunes are marshes that are eternally covered with water. As for the sand dunes, the ice and sand trust will see that they are eventually removed and sold at high prices. Just now the ditch problem is being worked out so as to eliminate the water and when this is done hundreds if acres of submerged . land will be

COMMERCIAL CLUB HOLDS AN INTERESTING SESSION

(Special to Tut Times.) Indiana Harbor, ina., Sept. 8. The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Commercial club of Indiana Harbor and East Chicago took place in the clu rooms last night. The report of the special committee appointed to act with the city administration in trying to compel the Pennsylvania Railroad company to improve their depot and its surroundings in East Chicago was again brought up. The "slight misunderstanding" which seemed to have existed between the committee and the powers that be in the city was explained and the dove is once more back on the job and working overtime, and the committee will continue in force until something definite is secured from the railroad company. Secretary H. C. Rutledge read a communication from Joseph Stewart, second assistant postmaster general, in which that gentleman threw more cold water on the inter-city mail delivery scheme, but President A. G. Lundqulst refused to be down-hearted and still believes the postal department can be induced to put the proposed Improved system in operation, especially inasmuch as word has been received by the Hammond Business Men's association that the matter has not been droned. Mayor A. G. Schlieker announced that he has a proposition from the electric light company for tne illumination of Borne of the streets in Indiana Harbor and East Chicago which he thinks is reasonable and believes it should be accepted. He also stated that he had taken up the matter of the dust from the cement plant at Buffington with the secretary of the state board of health and that gentleman reported to him that the matter should be placed in the hands of the prosecuting attorney who had ( the 'power to enjoin the company on the grounds of the plant being a public nuisance. He stated further that be had already; conferred with the

been moved from the Harrison building to one of the new basement rooms at

the McKinley which has been especial ly lighted for the persuits to which the room la to be devoted. The board members and superintendent express themselves as pleased with the manner in which Contractor McClajr has carried forward the work on the addition in order to hare it ready for ocoupancy at the opening of the term. . A note worthy fact In connection with the building of the addition Is that the board was able to erect It without issuing bonds. More Room la "Wallace District. The Wallace school which was crowded last year is relieved this term by the renting of a room Nvlthin the district to take care of the overflow. The school board some time ago ordered new laboratory equipment for the high school and while this has been delayed it is given out that it has now been shipped and will soon be Installed on the third floor of the high school, making a very adequate science equip ment. , - New eiuipment for the commercial work will bring this department up to a high standard. The twelve new desks are a specially devised combination commercial and drawing table and ad mirably serve the need of both de partments. The only seriously crowded building 13 the Lincoln and there is plenty of room for the children here at the Washington which will be taken advantage of as soon as the boundory lines can be readjusted. GE SYSTEM reclaimed, subdivided and put on the market. Vanta Tract Reclaimed. Melton and Cutler, engineers, Knotts building, Gary, designed the drainage system for the town. Through the settled part 36-inch concrete pipes will carry the water to the .drain continuation which will be an open ditch through the small dunes back of the town. From there the course will proceed to t"he Little Calumet river where the water will empty - eventually to find its way into Lake Michigan at Dune park. . . Chief of. the vast tracts of land to be reclaimed by this process will be tha 700-acre strip known as Long Lake. The town board does-, not con template the immediate drainage of the land in the far east or the far west portions of the city but the drainage system can be extended later to take car of it Some Other Prosreaa. . Before long Miner is going to be a very attractive place to live in. Its lake front Is the only decent beach avail able to the county and some day that beach is going to be Gary"s Lake Shore drive. Miller Is also to have electric lights shortly and work will be started soon to erect a $5,000 transformer building and town hall. The current will be supplied by the South Shore lnjerurban line which passes through the town. The current will then be re tailed by the town to the local con sumers. prosecuting attorney, but that the lat ter had not as yet taken any steps in the matter. George W. Lewis thinks something should be done to have the South Shore Interurban improve its service and that the mayor should get after th street car company, which Mayor Schlieker said he would do. E. S. Drummona ana Louis Abey were elected to membership. The club then adjourned for two weeks. The mem bers of the special committee in the Pennsylvania railroad matter will meet with Mayor Schlieker in his office next Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. TRIO OF BOLD ROBBERS CAUGHT (Continued from Pace One.1 receiving and sending the reports the burglary, the suspicion of office Trlnen of the Hammond force who travels the Robertsdale force were aroused by seeing drygoods in a wet goods wagon. He immediately tele phoned for Instructions as to whether an arrest was to be made for such a party, and on the strength of the East Chicago account was ordered to pro ceed. SlTMMOXS HBI.P. Trlnen summoned Horlbeck of the day force at Robertsdale, but when the trio of burglars saw the police officers they took to their heels running in three different directions. Lucky for the two Robertsdale officers, Stelow and Wallack, two night officers being released from duty. Joined the Robertsdale force instead of going fishing at the Lake Front Park as they had Intended. " The three fellows were arrested In short order and in the meanttme. Sergeant Michael Gorman and Leo Mccormick arrived on the scene and with bloc kand table and a street 'car they pulled the wagon out of the ditch. The goods were loaded into the Hammond, auto patrol wagon ..which, iad

r4 SAS One of the largest Industrial contracts since the advent of the Indiana Steel company ban been awarded by the American Sheet & Tin Plate company to the Porter-Miller Engineering; company, Hartsle building;, Pittsburg;. The contract In for sixty farnacea of all type and olaea to be built In the new Gary plant. The contract la an Important D, and Include nil the farnacea to be used In the process of the maaafactnre of t the. tin plate products. , Work Is , to be started at once, and It Is expected the furnaces will be completed and ready for operation la about fonr months, i The Forter-MJller Co. have already commenced work on the contract and will come to Gary In the very near future and start work on the Installation and erection of the furnaces. been brought to the scene by Chief Austgen and Capt. George Hanlon. The goods were first taken to the Ham mond station but were later turned over to the EaBt Chicago authorities. One of the three who was arrested is said to have been around East Chi cago for some time. In fact Mr. Pitzele on various occasions had given him a piece of change. Upon being searched. the three had no more than a dollar In cash among them. SLAG CAUSES UNUSUALLY L T A terrlfflc report about 1:55 o'clock this morning awakened every body in Gary. The blast was one of the loud est that has ever shaken the city and it caused much alarm. For a while it was thought that the Aetna dynamite and nitroglycerine mills east of the city had hit the skies while the night police force were on the trail of a black hand outrage or a gambling bomb. Anxious wives whos husbands are employed in the steel plant feared that liquid steel had struck water and killed many. It was not until early this morning that It was learned that the noise was caused by a slag explosion in the steel plant. The molten slag was being dumped along the river bank and when someof the fiery stream came in con tact with the river the usual results (followed. GRIFFITH. A. J. Jamison, acting trustee, transacted business in Crown Point yesterday. G. B. Chew went to the city yesterday. Mrs. Lige Cannon, who has been on the sick list for a week, is reported better. A. L Russell was a Gary business man yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Heintz and family, who have been visiting the past week with S. A. Llghtfoot, have returned to their hofcie in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Worstell and daughters spent Sunday at the residence of S. A. Lightfoo.

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iU ''i :v Commisisoners Let Contracts For Improvements Which Will Open New Territory - Several Contractors Successful. (Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, ind., Sept. 8. - - Word Crown county has been received here from Point to the effect that the commissioners yesterday let the con tracts for a lot of street improving which is to be done under county au spices in Indiana Harbor and East I Chicago. The contracts were divided between the firms of Downey & Portz, Kedjl & Grecnwald of Whiting and the William Ahlborn Construction company of Hammond. The improvements will open up a lot of territory heretofore inaccessible, In cluding a large tract in Calumet in the vicinity of the Curtahy plant. At present it is considerable of an undertaking to try to get to this plant by wagon. The streets that are to be improved by the county include Chicago avenue from Euclid to Alder street, Alder street from Chicago to Gary, Avenue H, Gary avenue from Alder to Cline, Canalport avenue from Kennedy avenue to Forsythe, thereby cutting a street through from mrana Harbor to Calumet, which will eventually connect with the proposed Whiting road, making it possible-to reach Calumet without going via East Chicago, Chicago avenue from the canal to Railroad avenue, and past the Republic mill. It Is proposed to get to work on these improvements as soon as possible adding many miles thereby to the already extensive mileage of paved streets In East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. The paving will be all In macadam. MARCUS M. TOWLE DIES IN ASYLUM X Con tinned rrom Pa packed in ice were sent on to the cities of the east. About this time a man by the name of Davis learned of the plant which had been established at Hammond and informed Towle that he had invented an Improved refrigerator car. 1 Instead of putting the ice on the meat as Towle had been doing Davis' invention provided for a car within a car which made possible a great saving in ice and the more convenient handling of the beef. Davis made an agreement by which his car was to be used by the G. H. Hammond Co. for 10 percent of the net profits of the company. - ESCUSH STXD1CATE TAKES HAND. Later an English syndicate became interested In the shipping of beef in refrigerator cars and Towle sold out his one fifth interest to this syndicate for $335,000. This was the beginning of the great beef exporting business of the country.. Refrigeration made it possible. - When Towle- got his $335,000 out of the Q. H. Hammond Co. he at once In terested hlmaaUt in a number of promo-

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tlon schemes. From this time on he was alternately successful and unsuc-1 cessful until his fortune was finally estimated to be over $1,000,000. He organized the Hammond Corn "Syrup works which later burned down. He built the Lakeside Nail Mills for the manufacture of steel wire nails at a cost of $350,000 and after the business had proven to be a failure he sold the plan to Cable arfd O'Donnell for $50,000. This was his first great loss. The plant afterwards burned to the ground. Next he associated himself with Postmaster William H. Gostlln, who came to Hammond at about that time, in the building of the Hammond Distilling Co. The Hammond Milling Co. and a bonded ware house were built on the present site of the Simplex plant. These plants all burned down. MAN OF 3IANY SCHEMES. Towle then went into the manufac ture of buggies and organized the! Hammond Buggy Co. This plant finally burned and Towle suffered a loss of $150,000. There were Innumerable other smaller enterprises in which Towle was Interested. He built the Central block, which still stands, and conducted a general merchandise business in it. The postoffice was also located in this building when Towle was postmaster. He built the present Towle block In which Towle's opera house is located. He laid out Hammond's first cemetery, Oak Hill, and the Towle estate now owns this property. He built three skating rinks and fire destroyed all three of them. In the early days there was considerable shipping on the Calumet river and Towle built a nextenslve system of docks and dredged the river. He was determined to make Hammond a great city at any cost, ' BU1IT MAW RAILROADS. At various times he was interested in railroad building enterprises. He and James N. Toung went out to Kansas and promoted and built a railroad connecting two trunk lines and Towle made $400,000 out of this project when the road was finally sold out to one of the connecting lines. The fact is not generally known that Towle financed and built the Calumet Terminal railroad which was later sold out to the Wisconsin Central. He also built what was then called the Western Indiana railroad from the state line to the Corning Steel plant in Hammond. The story of the building of East Chicago is a matte rof inside history of which little is known. Jacob Forsythe owned several thousand acres of land where the city of East Chicago is now located. FOl'XDS EAST CHICAGO. , General Torrence had a scheme for the building of a city on Forsythe's land. M. M. Towle had the money with which to carry out the scheme. So

Iv'.'.1.".'."' with Forsythe's land. Torrence's scheme and Towle's money the city of East Chicago was born. Towle himself attended to the incorporation of the town. General Torrence is generally given the credit for the founding of East Chicago but it was Towle's money and his ability as a promoter which resulted in the carrying out of t the scheme. I Towle married Miss Irene Dow of Detroit and they had six children as tj,e fruit of their marriage. Three girls. Cora, Birdie and Ida, are all dead, and j the three boys, Morton, George and Fred, survive. Mrs. Towle died about four years ago and since that time M. M. Towle's health failed rapidly. Last fall he showed signs of losing his mind, and it was later decided to take him to Longcllffe where he could receive the necessary care and atten tlon that such a patient requires. In recent months he lost his mind and did not recognize the members of his own family. Gostlln Pay Tribute, William H. Gostlln, who was closely associated with him in a business way for years, said today: "The death of Towle is a personal loss to me. He was not only the founder but the builder of Hammond. Without Towle Hammond would never have been the clty lt is. He was the friend of hundreds Of people In Hammond who never went to him In need and found his purse closed. The conditions under which he died make his demise all the sadder. It is to be regretted .that a man who did so much for Hammond could not have retained his faculties and lived to see the consummation of his dreams. REPUBLICANS HOLD DIG TONIGHl (Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind., Sept. 8. Indi ana Harbor, and East Chicago republicans are beginning to get busy with the fall campaign. A meeting of the leaders and others Interested in the success of the G. O. P. ticket has been called for tonight by Mayor A. G. Schlieker, who is also chairman of the ity central committee. The get-to gether will take place in the lodge rooms of the Auditorium building, and it is expected that most of the live wires In city politics both from Indiana Harbor and East Chicago will be pres ent to participate in the deliberations. While the meeting is not called for definite action it is expected that it will pave the way for some tall hustling which the republicans propose to do this fall. Tonight the politicians will content themselves with discussing the situation.

IS PLACED : Of! TRIAL

Former Employment Agent of Steel Ilill Faces Charges of Violations of State Law Before Judge Dunn in Gary Police Court. William Halles, formerly employment agent at the Indiana steel mills, Is on trial today In the local police court before Special Judge William Mathew Dunn today, charged with violating , the state employment act.. Attorney Clarence Bretsch, who is representing Halles, demanded a Jury and Court Bailiff Oscar Schmidt at 11 o'clock was asked to have the Jury in the Jury box. Great interest Is being manifested In the case and the courtroom was packed this morning with an eager crowd who watched the proceedings. Halles was arrested about six weeks ago on a warrant charging him with compellingCharles Smith to pay $25 for securing a position in the steel mills.' Attorney McAleer Assists. When the case was called for trial thl smorning Attorney Bretsch fof Halles filed a plea of abatement befor Judge Knotts. Attorney Bretsch claim ed it was up to the department of sta ttstics through the attornf.;.- general ta institute proceedings against Hallea, but Judge Knotts overruled the attorney's plea. It was first thought that Prosecuting Attorney Charles Greenwald would be present to assist Deputy Prosecutor Hines in the prosecution ot the case, but Attorney William Me Aleer of ' Hammond appeared In court in his place. Bretsch Objects to White as Judge. ' Attorney Bretsch following the over ruling of the plea of abatement by Judge Knotts, asked for a change ot venue and asked the court to appoint any other attorney to sit a3 special judge to sit in the case with the exception of Judge White, who sat In the padded payroll cases of Bloomhoff and' Caldwell. Judge Knotts thereupon appointed Attorney Dunn to act as special judge. Attorney Bretsch then made a motion before Judge Dunn to quash the affidavit in the case on the ground that the state employment law was unconstitutional, in that the act did not provide a penalty... Judge Dunn overruled the, motion and said that while the act itself did not provide a penalty, other sections of the act did provide a penalty. Sensational Developments Expected. At the trial this afternoon some sen sational developments are expected to be sprung, wherein it Is said that charges will be brought to light wheren prominent men in the employe of the steel company have tried to spirit away the prosecuting witnesses in tha case, Charles Smith, and to have him drop the prosecution of the case. WILLIAM ELDERS DIES IN HOSPITAL William Elders, 48 years old, whose home is in Griffith, passed away at 2:30 a. m. today in the Jiercy hospital. Elders was brought to the hospital over a week ago suffering from a fever malady and during his entire stay there he never recoverd consciousness. The deceased Is married and has a grown daughter. He was formerly employed by the W. L. Cole Drug company, Broadway near Seventh avenue but he left their employment last spring. While in Gary he handled-a line of photographic supplies. After this he went to his home town Griffith, where he is said to have en gaged in the photographic business. The remains have been taken to Jones' morgue on Washington street and from there they will probably be shipped to Griffith. Those Bills You Owe Are causing you a lot of worry, are they not? We want to explain how we can help you get rid ot tnem. Pay them off with our money then you will have only one small payment to make each week or month. Any honest person owning household goods, piano, horses, wagons, fixtures, cattle, implements, etc., can get a loan from ua, on the easiest payment-plan known. $ .96 per week pays a $40.00 loan, in 50 weeks. Other amounts in the same proportion WE ALLOW DISCOUNT IF PAID BEFORE DUE. , Call at our private office for more particulars, or if you cannot call, just write or phone us and we will send our agent to see you, without bother or loss of time to you. PRIVATE RELIABLE Indiana Loan Co. OVER P. O. Phone 322 216 GARY BLDC Gary, Ind