Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 196, Hammond, Lake County, 7 February 1911 — Page 4

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Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1911. THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS INCLUDING TftB GARY EVENING TIMES EDITION. THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES FOCR O'CLOCK EDITION. THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES EVENING EDITION AND THE TIMES SPORTING EXTRA, ALL DAILY NEWSPAPERS. AND THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION, PUBLISHED BY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING AND PUBLISH INQ COMPANY. ' The Lake County Times "Entered as second class matter at the postofflce at Hammond. Indiana, under the Act of Congress, March 8, 1879." The Gary Evening Times, "Eg tprcd as second cjass matter at the postoffice at Hammond. Indiana, under the Act of Congress, March 8, 1S79." The Lake County Times (Saturday and weekly 'edition) "Application for entry as second class mail at the postofflce at Hammond. Ind., pending." The Saturday Lake County Times will be the weekly edition of the Lake County Times, the latter being publishes live times a week. WASHINGTON BELLE WHO SHUNS SOCIETY SINCE DEATH QF tfEPTHE AUT, AND SISTER RANDOM THINGS fi FLINGS State and Nation . The state must be made efficient for the work which concerns only the people of the state.' and the nation lor that which concerns all the people. There must remain no nutral 'ground to serve as a refuge for lawbreakers, and especially for lawbreakers of great wealth who can hire the vulpine legal cunning which will teach them how to avoid both Jurisdictions. It" is a mlsf ortuns'wntin tne natipnal legislature falls to do its duty in providing a nationil remedy, so that the only national activity is the purely negative activity of the Judiciary in forbidding the state to exercise power In the premises. I do. not ask for over-cejural-Izatlpn. but I do ask that we work in a spirit of broad ind far-reaching nationalism when we work for what concerns the people as a whole. W are all Americans. Our common Interests are as broad as the continent.""" The national government belongs to the "whole American peoplg, and, where the whole American psople'afe Interested, that "interesF can be guarded effectively only by the national government. Theodore Roosevelt. : . ' " GUESS old Lake county is blanketed all right. . 4s SURELY with the rest of it, we ought to have a vote-selling investi gation. THE socialists will at least be able to hold a unanimous party caucus in the next congress.

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POOR POSTAL Subscribers of THE TIMES, who get

over 1,500 of them, have complained a great deal during the past few months that they have not received their papers regularly. They are assured that

their papers are sent out every day

fault lines with the administration of the postofflce department at Wa'shingtcn and the disorganization of the railway mail service. It is in simply

wretched condition and this paper is not

evidence of the fact. The railway mail clerks are subjected to the greatest hardships and the service suffers in consequence. One clerk who makes a

complaint says:

"We have men running out of Fort Wayne who do not go to bed for six days, but sleep on piles of mail in storage car on Train 18, returning to Pittsburg. They cover 640 miles each day. As to the expense account, I am receiving 6 cents a day for the day on duty. The largest any one gets is about 17 cents a day. The largest will not buy a lunch. My expenses, by eating two meals per day, is about 75c per day. This I do, as I have a large

family and they must be fed." The agitation by the railway mail the troubles confronting the department. ishment of small postoffices, failure to dismissal of clerks whose services can evidences of a desire to economize, are with protests. LET THERE BE

The county commissioners in awarding the contract for the improve

ment of eleven miles of roads in North

tract hap-hazard without first investigating the merits of all materials to the fullest extent. The contract Is an important one, one that will cost the

taxpayers nearly $300,000. This is one

has ever been awarded and the taxpayers are entitled to the best.

If it is true that the county engineer in his specifications has specified

a material in such a way that will cause close examination, new specifics

tions should be demanded and the taxpayer has a right to see that it should

be demanded. 1

Of course on all contracts a standard must be specified and all other companies making "equally as good" a material have the right to compete, but in this case, owing to certain analyses of the standard material specified, other companies who have the reputation for making a higher grade road

binder, are barred from competing.

It is to be hoped that the county commissioners, the county attorney and the county engineer will make an investigation of all material and amend

the specifications wherein all companies can bid, thereby giving the tax payers the benefit of the best road for the smallest amount of money.

ASSESSORS ARE 4 The Indiana legislature has made salary bills together and disposingof

There is one bill providing for the proper and adequate payment of township assessors which is worthy of recognition. In North and Calumet townships thisJs particularly true. There are not in all the hundreds of townships in Indiana two more important than these. The work of the

township assessors is vital to the taxpayers thereof. It is Impossible for Assessors Escher of Hammond, and MacFadden of Gary, to hire oqmpetent

men for two dollars a day to take care gets but two dollars a day for such work paid and cannot do justice to the tasks

ture should by all means give these two townships relief in this respect. At present an assessor getting a few beggarly hundred a year, wojks just as

hard and seryes his constituents Just as

as many thousands a3 he does hundreds.

THE NEW GARY After all the action of the Gary of six to assist in the investigation of greater , desire for economy and this

long time there has been a disposition around the city hall to be extravagant and an examination of the payrolls will show that money has been spent

lavishly on many favorites.

One of the best deterrents of financial recklessness is to be found in the

monthly reports which the department By this method publicity is given to money was strewn about right and left,

mittee will do much toward curbing useless expenditures. The naming of the probing committee is a step in the right direction. We will now watch It with Interest to see what l accpmplishea

New York Offlc PAYXE Jt YOUNG, S4 West TklrtT-TWrd St. SS.00 '.S1.ZO ONE CENT

AT ALL SERVICE. their papers by mail, and there are from the Hammond postofflce and the afraid to say so, because it has every clerks, however, is only one cause of Curtailment o'f star service, abol establish rural routes demanded, the be dispensed with and many other filling the mail of representatives NO GRAFT. township, should not award the con of the biggest road contracts that UNDERPAID. one bad mistake in lumping all the them in "one fell swoop." of the work properly. Any man who as he is called upon today, is under he is called upon to do. The legisla well as a county offlce-holder getting INVESTIGATORS. aldermen in naming a special committee all city departments, may result in a will mean much to taxpayers. For a beads must submit to the council all expenditures. Under the old regime but the reports and the probing com

AND in the meantime, how wjuld

you like to be a member of the Ham mond board of education? THE Indianapolis Sun is shaking Lands with itself that the ice is broken. Did you get wet? MOUNT Aetna is again erupting red-hot lava. Mount Grandma Carr is emitting red-hot cobble stones. IS there any little old league around here that Elkhart can join? Poor Elkhart is the only sport thitherabouts? THERE are democrats and demo crats, for instance, there is Alderman Castleman and there is W. C. Crolius. ONE man we meet now and anon, actually thought Ballinger was running foe some office at the last elec tion. e SOMETHING just had to happen after Governor Marshall signed that temperance bill and then came the frozen wet. e A SHOT-GUN in the barn is as bad as a pistol in the bureau drawer, as another Lake county man has found out to his sorrow. IT is enough to give the democrats brain fever trying to figure out how they can deprive the Tenth district of a reupblican congressman. - MAN who was reported dead, has turned up and says be is not dead, but ha3 been living simply at Val paraiso. , ? - STRANGE that no enterprising picture has seemed a picture! of Nat Goodwin holding that baby doll on his knee. LISBON continues to be torn by troubles and dissensions, but a lot of us don't want to get out of Gary like Manuel did. BOSTON suffragette advises her sisters to take care of their good looks ,so they can attract men. Yes, girls, do your level best touched for $2,500 last week. Let us all stand up and sing the second verse of "Oh Paradise!" HONESTLY now can you take the right interest in baseball this time of the year, even though you are backed up against an old-fashioned drum stove? ' - HEARD of a little girl who called at a drug store the other day, for five cents' worth of "glory divine." Mother had sent her after chloride of lime. ' REMEMBER when you are thrash ing it out on the street corner that there are two sides to every question and that he is just as sure he is right s you are. ? MYSTERY of a blooming rosebush In New Jersey was attributed to a setting hen. Well, if the hens are raising roses instead of eggs, this ex plains some things. MASTER of a boat reports seeing an immense school of snakes just east of Long Island. Funny what ex cessive use of as good a thing as a little Scotch will do to a master ' : QUESTION Will lingerie be any cheaper now that the garment work ers' strike is settled? Piffle! Will bricks be any cheaper when the elec trians relapse into desuetude? em NOTE in a Chicago paper that a pretty ankle played a prominent part in a suit for medical services in that town. They generally do -in Chicacago, not knocking the ethics at all. ""' RENSSELAER has a marshal called Mustard. Needless to say he is a hot one, says the Valpaariso Messenger. Laporte Herald. Yes, dear, but the Messenger didn't say it first. MISSOURI papers are worrying about what the legislature is going to do. What's the use? They couldn't do any more than the Indiana legis lature.

VETERAN ACTRESS IS SERIOUSLY ILL.

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-v,: tKs W, J v. - i Mrs. Annie Yea mans, one of the oldest actresses on the American stage today, is 111 at her hotel In New Britain. Conn. Mrs. Yeamans Is ser-?ntT-fiv years old. Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. OPPORTUNITY. This Is a plain story about opportunity and onions and A man. The man is Louis Maulenhaus. a Hollander, who came to Chicago a few years ago. Maulenhaus does not accept the ancient adage about opportunity having a forelock which you inust grasp once for all. and probably he never read Ingalls' poem which says opportunity knocks but once and comes back no more. , He lives on the west side with his wife and young son in a little cottage with a back yard a little larger than a horse blanket. ......... He is fond of pickled onions. ; Two venra nwo thnt li mfirhf- hnn ,u j . . . , . . . , In thtt Skirt innnt,v Ka t1 n n totl Kid Ku t1

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lul iu uu uuiuu )aau. The crop was good and of fine ljaTor, and when the neighbors had sampled it they insisted upon buying all he would sell them. Which set Maulenhaus thinking. Last year he rented for a small sum a couple of vacant blocks not far from his cottage and planted the entire plot with the little white pickle onions. And during the summer Mr. Maulenhaus and his wife and son put in as ranch odd time as they could spare in tending the onions. About the 1st of September the onions were harvested, and the Maulenhaus family realized from those choice pickle onions the sum of 9 1,000. Which was a fine object lessou In "Intensive farming," about which so much is being said. Also a fine object lesson in grasping opportunity. While some of the Maulenhaus neighbors were spending their money in the corner saloon nnd deploring the fact that "a man has no chance in this country" the Maulenhaus family was hoeing onions. ' There was other unoccupied ground In the neighborhood, but it grew up to j weeds for the weed gang to cut down. Here was opportunity. And onion seed is cheap. Opportunity and onions, ' and the only lack was The man! j Louis Manlenhnna nfrelv observes I 1 (vm n , k backache. "THE DAY AXD HISTORY February T. 1780 Convention of delegates from the . northern states met in Philadelphia to discuss measures relating to the currency. f 1807 The. French army under Napoleon defeated, the Russians In the sanguinary battle at Eylau. 1812 Charles Dickens, the great English novelist, born. Died June 9, 1870. 1820 First provisional legislature of Arkansas met. 1834 I. A. F. Bourrlene, private sec-

retary and biographer of Napoleon, dl'ed. Born July 9, 1769. 1844 London and Dover railway opened. 1853 Robert Lucas, first territorial governor of Iowa, died lp Iowa City. Born in Virginia, April 1, 1781. 1855 The Palmerston ministry entered office in Kngland. 1867 Constitution of Hungary restored.

1S92 Seventy-five Jives lpsj Jn the burning of the Hotel Royal )n New York Citj: ' 190J Queen CTilhelmina of Holland we.dded to Prince Henry of ileck-lenburg-Schwerin. THIS IS MY BOTH BIRTHDAY. Daniel F. Lefeao. Daniel F. Lafean. representative in congress from the twentieth district of Pepnsylyanla," was born In York. Pa., Feb. 7, IS.61, and received his education in the public schools of his native place. As & young man be engaged ip Jhe, inaiiufactjjre, of candy an4 through his. busipes? ability rose from a poor boy tp uxiHiQpatre. H is still known to. his Intimates as, the "candy king." although bis' Interests' have now extended to many otlver manufacturing, commercial and financial enterprises. Mr. Lafean was tendered a unanimous republican nomination and elected to the fiifty-eighth congress. He has beep re-elected to each succeeding congress., notwithstanding the fact that the dis trict he represents is normally democratic. He is a director of Gettysburg college and of Gettysburg seminary, and two years ago he was mentioned for the republican nomination for governor of PennsylvaniaRecent Legal Decisions DEATH OF SERVANT CAUSED Bf ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING. An unusual ground of liability on the part of ? master for death of a servant Is disclosed In the statement of facts in Jackson vs. C, R., I. & P. Railway company, ITS Federal Reporter, 32. Plaintinvs Intestate was employed as a section hand by the defendant company. The foreman under whom he worked frequently carried a gun with htm on the hand car for the purpose of hunting. The weapon was not used in the prosecution of any work whatever on the part of defendant, but solely for the convenience and pleasure of the foreman himself. One evening as the section crew was putting away the hand car the gun which had been let: on it was accidentally discharges and instantly killed plaintiffs Intestate. Action was thereupon instituted against the defendant company on the ground that it was liable for the acts of Uie foreman. Judgment went for de fendant. and was sustained by the clr cuii oi appeals on ine grounu ma me accident was one for which defendant WS in no way responsible, and that. ; as It had been the custom of the fore- . man to frequently carry the gun, de t i j j o , TWO AND TWO-FIFTHS INCHES OF GROUND IS MATERIAL The case of In re Clement, 124 New York Supplement, 1039, is a proceding to revoke a liquor license issued to Barbara Haas, because of a false statement made in obtaining It. There Is a law providing that, before the issuance of such certificate, the applicant must secure the consent in writing of at least two thirds of the owners of the total mini ber of buildings occupied as dwellings the nearest entrances to which are within 200 feet, measured In straight lines to the nearest entrance of the premises on which traffic In liquors is to be carried on. There were 11 build Ings within the distance of 200 feet from the place where the liquor traffic was conducted, one of which lacked only two and two-fifth inches of beinx 200 feet away, and was not included In the applicant's statement. The su preme court of New York holds that the omission was material, and that the license should be revoked. The judge said: "In reaching the conclusion. am not unmindful of the maxim. The law cares not for small things," but a failure on the part of the court to 'grant this petition and revoke the II 'cense would make the administration j of the excise law ridiculous, as well as the violation of the same easy and eafe. It would encourage a still 'greater disrespect for the excise law , If that is possible, and such disrespect '.would be aided and sanctioned by the court. in order to procure this revocation. It must be done upon legal grounds, and apparently none seemed open to the commissioner other than the question of distance. While, oh Ts face, "this application, by reason of the fact that but two and two-fifths inches is the foundation upon which this proceeding Is presented to the court, might be deemed frivolous and officious under all the facts and clr cumstance? there seems to bo no reason why the court should strain after sus talnlng ,this license, but every reason appears wny tne same should be re voked." ' ' THERM M" ALTVAYSl A "BEST M.ACE TO BUY. TIMES ADS TBI. I, "lOt WHERE. " "

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Miss Julia Appleton Meye.r, eldest daughter of the Secretary of thj Navy, and a great fayqrjte Jn the administration circle, has retired from society " because of a prs.onal sorrow caused by the recent' death of hex foreign loTer." The romance' dates back to the days when her father wat ambassador to gome. While there, she fell In love with a rich and clever nobleman; who returned her affections. Just at the time marriage might haye been "made " possible, th nobleman developed tuberculosis, and died last falir-MTss Meyer has put on black, and does not appear at dinner parties In her parents' home. The younger Miss Meyer, however, has assumed all the honors of belleshlp, with the keenest pleasure. :

up AND DOWN IN I-N-P-I-A-N-A TO IXCRGASB CAR OLTPt'T. President E. S. Ob Tapihle of the De Tamble Motor Company of Anderson states that In all probability the sale of 1150,000 of the stock of his company to Cleveland parties will be consum mated gext Wednesday. If the deal is carried through It will mean that the company will increase its 1911 output by about 800 or 1.000 cars. FAVOR CHARTER GOVERNMENT. A bill 'embodying kri enabling clause giving cities the fight to vote for the adoption of "a "new charter and offering a "charter which includes all the better elements of "the various commission forms of government has been drafted by the Fort Wayne Commercial Club. The measure will be presented to committees from the various commercial clubs in the state at a meeting to be held at Indianapolis Thursday. BALK AT SIX DAYS SCHOOL. The pupils of the Ilope " school "arj protesting against ' six days' study per week and on' the sixth day the attendance Is light. School is being held on Saturdays to make up the ten' days lost while the school was closed by the shutting off of the heat from the building. -'. - ' - - AFTER DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION. Mayor Darrow of laporte will cooperate with Harry B. Darling, editor of The Argus Bulletin, for a two days' meeting of the Indiana Democratic Association in Lappte. A citizens committee will be named and as features of th$ meeting, a trip will be taken to Michigan City and to the steel plant at Gary.' SAVED BY Dl'CKGT BRIGADE. But for the efficient work of a bucket brigade Tunnelton would undoubtedly night, when fire was discovered in the have been wiped off the' map Friday building occupied by Oalvln Boyle's general store and an undertaking establishment conducted by Clark Link. The flrei, when discovered was 'under good headway. IXABLF. TO REACH VERDICT. After having been locked up In the Jury room since 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, the Jurors, who heard the evidence In the case of Otto Williamson, superintendent Of the Muncle police, charged with operating a gambling room, went to bed Sunday night at JO o'clock, still unable to reach a verdict. FOCND DEAD IN BED. Theodore Ice, 18 years old, of Allendale, 111., across the state line from Vincennes, was found dead In bed at the home of William H. Van Stone yesterday morning. Long hours working as a grocery clerk and night school study In preparation for starting' a business of his own brought on heart failure! 'a physician's warning of which ten days ago Ice failed to heed.' BUND PIG IN HOTEL. At the Gramer Hotel, Klwood's oldest and leading Jiostelry, the police discovered aiuafitlty of be?r and whisky, glasses, trays and other evidence indicating that liquor selling had been, going on in one of the rear rooms of the building, and the entire lot was confiscated, together with the" cash register, containing something less than $10. Leo Kramer, proprietor of the - hotel, gave bond for. his appearance in court WALKS OFF TRESTLE, i While under the Influence o liquor

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yesterday Moses Chandler of Bedford walked off the Indianapolis Southern trestle' at Fairview street "and "fell a distance of twenty-five feet. He was taken In an ambulance to the BloomIrigton Irlospltal where it was found that no bones were broken." SHOrS ARE CLOSED. The Evaosville & Terre Haute shops at Evansvllle employing 200 men, were closed down Saturday, poor business ! being asigned as the reason. No hope for reopening Is given. The men are leaving the city. .MAY REDRILL OIL FIELD. The redrllling of a large art of the Oakland City oil field will likely result from the finding of oil in a second sand on the Hoover farm this week The Ohio Oil Company owns the lease, recently purchased from the Prlmo Oil Company. The Prlmo Company drilled three wells on the farm, all of them along the eastern edge of the tract. TAKES LAPORTE CHARGE. The Rev. Franklin Johnson Jr., called to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church in Laporte Sunday ' morning tendered his resignation ' as pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church in Cleveland, O., to acept the Laporte call. The pulpit In that city has been vacant since the Rev. Clarke R. Parker went to the First Church in Terre Haute. IN POLITICS Elgin, 111., has adopted the commission form of government. The democratic state convention of Michigan will meet In Muskegon March L. Baltimore is laying plans for capturing the next democratic national convention. Since the national convention system was Introduced no Incumbent of the speakership has ever been nominated for the presidency. Benjamin W. Hooper, who has just taken office as governor of Tennessee, is the third republican executive of that state. Miles Polndexter, the new senator from Washington, will be one of the youngest members of the upper house, being only 43 years of age. The "baby" member ofthe United States senate at the next session will probably be Lue Lea of Tennessee, who celebrates his thirty-second birthday this month. Former Governor Henry B. Qulnby of New Hampshire has announced hi? Intention to contest the re-election of United States Senator Burnham at the end of the latter's present term in 1913. Representative Carter Glass of the sixth Virginia district, who is a candidate for the United States nenate, will speak at the convention of the Virginia anto-saloon league at Newport News fcext month. " ' " ' John D. Works, the new United tSates senator from California, will be one of the few civil war veterans In the ie r senate. He enlisted when only sixteen yers old from his native state of Indiana. C. W. Watson, one of the new United States senators from West Virginia, is 46 years of age. He Is a man of vaii wealth and is president of o.it of the big coal corporations in West Virginia. . THE INTERESTING TIMES' AD ALWAYS DENOTES THE IXTERESTINO TORE.