Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 274, Hammond, Lake County, 9 May 1911 — Page 8
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THE TIMES. Tuesdav, Mav 9, 1911.
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BANKRUPTCY
Gary's City Engineer, Who Gary Alderman Would
Resigned His Office Because of Meagre Salary, Is Given Substantial Raise by Board of Works.
At a. meeting of Gary Board of Public "Works yesterday A. P. Melton who several weeks apo handed In his resignation to the board. was appointed a con
sulting engineer for the city at a salary j
of 110. per day.
Plunge City Deep in DebtHole by Spending Half Million Dollars for 260 Acre Sand Dune.
If Alderman M. X. Castleman, in his capacity as president of the Gary park board, has his way the city of Gary will bo placed on tho verge of bankruptcy. T-1 . . . I v I A 1 i.ln t
! lie iu irsi jiiEiauo jjicm i'L ".ft ioia viuii contemplated by Castleman overtops all
"When Mr. Melton resigned he gave j of nls prtvi0us pernicious activities .Ha as his main reason that, the salary ofnowr contemplates the establishment of 11.500 per year was not sufficient to, ,ake front park at Miller which will warrant him keeping his Job. The Hn the nd cost uDwards of $500,000 and
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board took action on Mr. Helton's
resignation until yesterday for the reason that they could find no one in Gary efflclnt enough for the office and they felt loth to dispense with his services, as Mr. Melton has been in Gary practically since the city started and is familiar with every public improvement that has taken place.
Mr. Melton was absent from the city
plunge the city hopelessly in debt so much that the coming generation will groan under the heavy taxes that wiil result. It "Would Rob Ttax Payer. Several days ago the announcement was made that the park board was considering the purchase, of a 262-acre sand dune tract at Miller at a price of
vesterdav when the board made the!1400 n acre- Tn lanJ lone would
appointment so Mr. Melton did not tako any action until this morning when he discussed the matter with Mayor Knotts and J. J. Xyhoff the other members of the board and formerly accepted the appointment. Mr. Melton's position as a member of the Board of Public Works is changed- by the new appointment, as he will no longer be on the board.
cost $366,800 while another $150,000 would be neded to place the centuries old dunes in proper shape. Had he. not been restrained by the other members of the board Castleman, it is said, would have entered intcV negotiation!; at once to purchase the tract at this high price. He contemplated the Issuance of a $500,000 bond issue the interest alone, on which would amount to $25,000 annually. However, It was
The board alar discussed the nlan
for the new sewer system for Tolleston ! po,nted out that und" th ttut''s "e
i prK ooara couia issue oui Jisu.uuo in
bonds this year as Gary's assessed valu-
end ordered the work to go ahead with all possible haste. Bids will be advertised now that there has been no remonstrance against the big drain. A raeeting will be held this afternoon to determine the appointment of
ation permUi of no greater amount. SometbioK Funny Here. Protests from the other park trustees resulted in the agents of the land re-
a city engineer, and there are three ducing the price to $1250 an acre mak
candidates after the plum Frank Hodson, W. J. Fulton and C. A. "Williston. The latter by reason of his present position as chief draughtsman is most likely to land the job.
GHtliK OlD'il UNDERSTfiHD "MELIG1S"
Constable J. S. Smith had his hands full yesterday afternoon when he tried to oust Sam Lee,, a Chinaman,' from a shack at Ninth avenue an if Washington street on a writ of restitution issued from Judge Ellwood'a court for the non-payment of rent. When Constable Smith entered the building, where the Mongolian conducts his laundry, he first looked around for eits and other , possible means of escape in case of trouble. He then proceeded to lay his case before the Chink and for half an hour he argrued with him trying to make him understand that unless he paid $60 to Contractor J. I Pyle, which was due for four months' rent, he would have to get out, and if he did not get ex -cpedingly busy he would be assisted out. - Evidently the celestial understood enough of the constable's talk, for he answered back in the Chinese-American swear words and commenced to rack up h'ls belongings and shortly afterward, (-he vacated.
Btat or Oroo. crrr o Toledo. I Lucas County. j ssFrank J. Chinet makes oath that he Is sontnr
partner of the Bnn of F. J. Chinet A Co., doing biuinem In the City of Toledo. County and Btate rorewlrt. and that safd firm wilt pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every eig? of Catarrh that cannot be curea oy the use of Hall s Catarrh Cure. FRAVK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this th day ot December, A. !.. 1 886. , A. W. GLEAPOX. j shal Notary Pibuc. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is takpn Internally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ot the system. &ead for testimonials, free. F.J. CHENEY fc CO.. Toledo. O. Sold by alt rrueists. 7 5e. Take Hull's Family Pills for constipation.
ins the total amount to $327,500.
Castleman's plan is now to hand $1S0,000, to be raised by a bond issue, to the owners of the land and then take an option on the- rest. Thus no improvements could be made for three or our years and all of Gary's park fund would be spent at once. Castleman's chief plea for the Immediate purchase of the land at such a terrible cost to the taxpayers Is that.
now is the only chance for the "pee-put" to get the lake front land. Certain members of the council have held conslutations with the alderman, who is now the object of ouster proceedings on the part of the Gary Commercial Club, and it is said that there will be enough votes in the city council to rush the purchase through. In fact it is said that unless unforseen obstacles did not prevent It the park grab would have been consumnated last week but some alert tax payers got busy and prevented the city from going bankrupt. While it is the ambition of every Gary citizen to have a lake front park it is freely admitted that the placing of the park work in Castleman's hands Is about as dangerous a proceeding that could have been done. It is the general opinion that the securing of a laky
front park at sky high prices would be the height of folly. ' So rnrk For Bent of City. It is also pointed out that the spend
ing of tho entire park fund for years
to come on a park at Miller would
leave no money for parks for the rest of
the city.
A better plan has ben suggested and
that is that there be a small park of
Ipfty or sixty acres on Miller beach, one
at Clark, another Jn the south end of the city, a third frrToIleston and the largest one in East Gary on the Ridg
road district where land can be secured
at a comparitively low price. To Prevent Any Looting;.
As it is contralizing of . all of the park facilities at Miller will give the majority of Gary citizens but little aid.
Neighborhood parks are now the thing
in big cities declare- advocates of this
plan.
In the meantime several tax payers
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HUBBY FOR SHORT TRIP
Indiana Wed
Flight Hated Soon.
Harbor Girl Who
Aviator Makes Air
at Wichita, and
to Come Down So
many times they circled the field. Ward stayed up about three minutes, then settled to the ground very gracefully. ' "When Ward cut off the engine, stopping the deafening noise of the exhaust, Mrs. Ward could be heard saying something. "She was scolding her husband for not making the flight longer and not going higher."
60 LABORERS DUCKED.
Fell With Bridge Into Long
Lake, Near Valpo. Valparaiso, Ind., May 9. Sixty-five Italians employed by the Valparaiso & Northern interurban road in the construction of a two hundred foot wooden bridge over the' west end of Long Lake, a summer resort three miles north of this city, had narrow escapes when the ririrfff-o anrtripnlv settled, rollansed and
tumbled into the lake, carrying the
men down with it. Those nearest the
shore scrambled to the land and rescued the others. Several were badly bruised. The bridge was wrecked! It was built over an old sink hole, Into which thousands of loads of rock and sand had been dumped before foundation piles were driven, and was supposed to be safe.
Completes New Gary Map. IJ. L. Madden of the H. H. Harries t Co., 581 Broadway has Just completed a new map of Gary showing the new development at the various Industries in Gary, the new subdivisions and a number of other important charges over his former map. The map shows the new limits of Gary taking In a.l the newly acquired territory and Is the most com,pleto and uptodate map of the city on the market. .
IS THE MAN WHO OUGHT TO BUT JOUR PROPERTY HARD TO FIND?
IF HE IS JOaT TRY AN AD IN THB
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Little Journeys with the Gas Man
No. 3. How to Light a Gas Range. Do not light until ready to use. . . Some persons have trouble with roaring, or pounding, due to "flashing back" when they first use a Gas Range. This can be avoided by permitting the gas to escape for an instant before the match is applied to the burner. If it roars or pounds, turn ofMhe gas and relight it pr6perly. Best results are obtained from a feathery flame, bluish in color. A yellow flame will blacken pots and pans and will consume more gas than a blue flame. i Where a pilot light is used for oven burners which, by the way, is the general practice the pilot light should be turned off as soon as the oven burners are lighted. Always keep the door open when lighting oven burners. " ' , x i- - i The great mistake made in using top burners is in having the flame too strong. Those who have been accustomed to using a red hot coal fire do not, at first, realize the great strength of Gas Range heat "Boiling and stewing on a Gas Range" will be taken up tomorrow. Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Cor
Indiana Harbor, May 9. The Thomas Mauger family have received from their daughter, Mrs. James Ward, formerly Miss Maude Mauger, details of her first flight in an airship with her husband. The flight occurred in Wichita last Friday and the announcement that a woman was to try her luck in the air had the effect of creating a stampede on the' grounds where the aviation meet was in progress. Make a Statement. Mrs. Ward makes the following simple statement regarding her first flight in her note to her family. "I made my first flight -yesterday and I certainly
'wasn't one bit nervous and was willing
to go up again. I am going up again today. It certainly Is great." The young bride enclosed a clipping
from a Wichita paper wiich gives a thrilling account of the Incident, as follows: "As a parting salute to the crowd Announcer Walsh stated that Mrs. Jlmmie Ward -would take her first ride in an airship. This caused a stampede toward Ward's machine. Men, women and boys almost' fought to get a close view of the start. The crowd formed in a V shape, with the machine at the acute angle. The police were power
less to push the crowd back.. ' Calls Her Plneky. "But the crowd did not have long to i wait, for as soon as the photographers had taken a half dozen 'shots' at Mr.
and Mrs. Ward the plucky little woman and her youthful hero rode away for a carefully engineered flight. "As the machine left the ground the crowd broke forth In cheers, more for
the young wife than the husband. Every one appeared to be holding his breath. I "Ward did not attain an attitude of over 150 feet at any time. This pleased the crowd, as everyone hoped that should anything happen it would be while the aeronauts were close to the ground, so Mrs. Ward would not have so far to fall. Stayed l' Three Minute. - "So intent upon watching the woman was everyone that few could tell how
THEY WANT: THE EARTHS ;
From every point of the compass the Mail Order Octopus is reaching its myriad hands to grasp and grab and gobble the retail business of your own town. Nothing that is grabbable and gobbleable escapes the Mail Order clutch unless the people stand together against the Octopus. The Mail Order people want tho earth, and unless you refuse to trade with them and systematically patronize your home merchants and manufacturers they will get your part of the earth and yen will have to get off it. i A word to the wise ia a whole language.
aro watching the movements of the
park board and certain aldermen and court action may be resorted to prevent
the looting of the park fund, the depletion of the city treasury and the placing of the City of Gary on the verge of bankruptcy.
OPEN SHOP A WINNER IN GARY
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have suffered much but the former have won out and from now on it is thought there will be no further labor troubles in Gary. ' Today-union bricklayers and carpenters went to work for Gallagher an.l Williams and Contractor George Young and other union mer are now employed on the , 'various buildings throughout the city. While there Is no wage scale first class bricklayers are receiving G3 cents per hour and carpenters are being paid $4.50 per day. These prices will -be maintained all throughout the summer. There is a willingness on the part of the contractors to pay the highest wages as the best workman who is paid his worth is the cheapest In the end. ' With the return of the carpenters and bricklayers to work it is expected other craft swill-follow and there is a general cleaning up in the building situation today. 'Although Gary contractors have had a hard struggle," said a prominent contractor today. "I look for a general revival of building In Gary within the next thirty days. Of course there is an unsettled condition at the present time but as soon as It becomes known that the strike is over and the open shop policy is dominant scores of buildings which have hen held back will go ahead with a rush."
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RESTORE UNION TO STANDING (Continued from Page 1.)
Hammond,
Whiting,
East Chicago,
Indiana Harbwa
the absolute dictators of its. policy In
the past and their dictation has always been in the interests of their own pockets. . "I happen to know about that bridge Job of which H. F. Thompson complained. There were four men on that job. Bob O'Connor, O'llara, Fay Granger and Fred Jarvis. O'Hara was a hodcarrier a year or two ago and they made an electrician out of him. Granger and Jarvis were the only men on the job who tried to earn their money. "The electrical work in Hammond has been going to one contractor, Burns. The officers of the union would not give any other contractor the men. If they did permit a man to work for another contractor it was always an incmpetent. "The time has come for this decent electricians to break away from tho old organisation. I helieve that we will be supported in our ftand by the other unions of the city and by the business men in general.' , .,-'
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