Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 281, Hammond, Lake County, 17 May 1911 — Page 4
THE TIMES.
Wednesday, May 17,
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CAPTAIN KIDD KNOTTS' LATEST CRUISE.
You remember Mayor Knotts' annual message to the people of Gary,
The ink on it is hardly dry. GREAT MESSAGE, EH? If you have forgotten it w will take the liberty of quoting therefrom "It is my candid belief that too much caution cannot be exercised In the granting of such franchises and they should not be given until the rights of the city and the people have been carefully conserved. It must be remembered that while public utilities are necessary tx ;the development of the modern municipality, and that as a rule a monopoly in such concessions is better for the public than a diversity of conflicting interests. THERE IS NO REASON WHY THE PEOPLE SHOULD GIVE AWAY VALUABLE RIGHT IN THE STREET right which in time may become worth many millions of dollars, as in Chicago and other cities of the country. In this respect Gary ; should profit by the experience of these cities and avoid their ruinous blunders-"
It is a matter no-wf of history that the Geist franchise, sought by eastern capitalists, was to be taken up by the Gary Commercial club, but Mayor Knotts fired it through the council in a most reprehensible manner. It was worse
than piracy on the high seas-
THE CHANGES PROPOSED WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN CON
CEDED BY THE FRANCHISE-SEEKERS IF DEMANDED BY THE COUNCIL.
When the franchise was acted upon by the board of public works it
was understood by Messrs. Nyhoff and Melton that these charges were to
be made before the measure was ratified by the council.
The changes were for the best interests of the city of Gary, but Captain Kidd Knotts cared naught for that. He gave the birth-right of the city
away. In other words, as has always been his bold pronouncimentos
"THE PEOPLE OF GARY BE DAMMED."
Mayor Knotts knew at the time he affixed his name to the franchise yesterday that the Commercial club, of which he is a member, was investigating the franchise and would offer recommendations. He not only kne this, but in a petition from the Commercial club he and the members of the city Council were asked that action might be deferred on the passage of the franchise UNTIL PROPER INVESTIGATION HAD BEEN MADE. But Mayor Knotts turned a deaf ear to the people whom he was serving and who had placed him in office, and sweeping away all those who ' were in the way of greedy and selfish motives, he forced the passage of the franchise. If there are any "niggers in the wood pile"' in the Geist franchise, it is probably Mayor Knotts who put them there. THE HISTORY OF HIS CAREER IN LAKE COUNTY PROVES THAT HE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR THOMAS E. KNOTTS.
TIME for the spring poets to put
chunks of ice on their heads.
CAN'T we get these franchises Into
the moving pictures some way?
WITH all his faults, the democrats
evidently love Kern better than Mar
shall.
I TIMES' BUREAU.
WE suppose that you now realize at state caital.
the great need of persistently swat-l indianaolis. ind.. May 17. it may be
tnft fl I said that four things may be counted
I city yesterday of the Republican mem-
AND the number of auto smash-ups I bejs o fth last legislature,. They are
First, it was mad plaia that there
must be a reorganization ot the Re-
Leaders Find Conditions Be tter Than They Were Last
YearKepublicans Not at All Afraid of Marshall Constitution, Which Is Regarded as a Joke Over the State.
and accidents goes merrily on Just,
like Tennyson's brook.
.
publican party in this state along such lines as will be acceptable to all factions.
Second, a strong effort will be made
to put into the next Republican state
platform a plank in favor ot the reenactment of the county local option law.
Third, thn RAmiMlflnt a r nnt at All
cessary to boil the public drinking cup afrald of th6 MarshaU constitution tn
MIGHT be a. good thing if this dol
lar diplomacy business were hurried
to the supreme court.
ft
HOWEVER, it will probably be ne-
too, so what's the use?
NOW is the time for all good men
to get together and praise this neigh
borhood as a summer resort.
Aft
the next state campaign. It is regard
ed all over the state, as being- a joke
Fourth, party conditions were found
to be better than they were last ar.
These thing's came out in the general
discussion of arty affairs and condi
tions during the course cf the meeting.
CHTEF Twia txilice force evidently Tn mMtlae behind closed
.. . ,. . . . doors, and no one was allowed to enter didn't care a rap about those orders tho fh- BepubUeaB, who to put a crimp in gambling, did they? had served in the last Legislature. All
ftft.-- others were kept out. The meeting
ANOTHER family poisoned by eat-1 hd called by Senator Will R.
ing canned peas
canned pure food inspectors now.
ft-ft
Ought to be a fewl "r" T . c- lwr
tlye Jeaae Eschbach, of Warsaw, who was the minority floor leader In the
House. When the meeting opened the
first thing done was to choose Senator Wood chairman of tfc meeting, and Representative "W. A. Brelnlng, of
elphi, was made secretary. It was de
cided ta call the roll of the members
TTIOITSERS maka no difference tofPraent Bd when each, man's name
was cauea ne was to arise ana leu ot
the conditions in hts own county and in
the surrounding counties.
inasmuch as the meeting was behind
closed doors it is impossible to tell
EASTERN writer says that all beau
tiful women look alike. Yes, but they have different Bized feet haven't
they? - .'
the high school rhetorician as little
William Arnold of Hammond can
testify. .
YOU" might incidentally buy your Ut What dlv,liual t I In known that thr was a wid d i -
little ryoofle a baseball mask for he ver8tty of opinion to the party's
is going to need it badly one ol tnese condition la many places, it is known.
hot days. I to- that in a great majority of the
, i counties conamons were reportea as
IT would be far better were Finner- that factlOBallsra had practically died
an-Caxmody-O Connor et ai to loid up out, and that there was now a feeling their tents like the Arabs and silently among the Republicans that thy ate.nl awa-r ought to and can get together next
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land strife.' Howeve. In,- a few - ln-
JUDGE rules thai; it is no crime for I stances, there was a tinge ot sarcastic
women to have pretty eyes. Probably sting in the speeches, and la onu case, some chump thought they were con- least. member used some strong . . word in denouncing some of the facceatea weapons. nnrl.i iullfi.r ri mmhr wa
I angry because some of these leaders
MAN taken ill in Bermuda insisted 1 had made speeches -during the last
upon being brought home to die in campaign without mentioning the fact
mat a unitea states senator was to d
New York. Well, there is no account
ing for tastes. ' -
he
WHAT has become of the snob su
perintendent of the United States Na
val acadamy, or hasn't he been pushed
into the Severn? -
elected by the Legislature. This,
said, was something to remember.
But this outburst was passed over
without any trouble In the camp, and
It was soon forgotten. Most of the speeches were tree from any of that
kind of feeling.
One member, who was said to be
Representative James R. Guild, of
ROOSEVELT in soeakine of the Mc- Medaryville. representing Starke,
,. . f il Pulaski and St Joseph counties made Namara case, says it is no time for i hot epftech ,n whJcph h. ne wa.
prejudice. It is Impossible evidently ln favor of having the next state plat, to make Mr. Gompers think so. I form making a straight out declaration
I in favor of the old fashioned kind of
INDIANA woman has developed
Republican doctrine in favor of pro-
Uotlnn Vt'aaM i was tired nf the
blood-poisoning as a result of the bite party dritlng away from the principles of a mouse. Another argument in fa-1 which it had maintained from the time
vor of the trousered harem skirt. of Lincoln. This was taken as a slap
at the Insurgent wing or tne party.
though the speaker did not mention
further with his
' 1 ""v-vyv, i 1 any names or go
ioned political argument, cneap snoes statement,
and clothes make a cheap man?" This raised the question, it was said
Tmo-fct ma it acratr. tn erhoiiiiln "PC." as to who are the Insurgents now in
THIS YOUR GIRL? "Young girls with trim tailored suits and natty hats with snooded hair and fresh round faces; girls who ought to be homo with mother and father, are to be seen upon the streets without escort, or in groups of two or three at hours long past curfew time, on any night in the week. There is, however, something in the round faces that grips a little at the heart, and there is too often a swagger to the light-footed walk that seems out of harmony with sweet girlhood. There is a quick retort, a flippant jest from their lips; a bold glance or a brazen stare from the eyes that should be veiled in maiden modesty. Poor little girls, not to know how much more precious than all things born they are, when they properly estimate their own worth, and prize themselves at it? But they come to be unprized by themselves, "neglected by their proper protectors, and taken at their own estimate by the world. It isn't their fault. Most of them have mothers and fathers who can tell them of the pitfalls that lie in the path of vanity and disobedience.
Most of them have homes that should be their shelter after the sun goes down, and most of them would listen to advice properly given and in time. The mother and father who think their duty done in sending their young daughter to school, dressed as well as the neighbor's girl, will have a lot
to answer for, some day." Bishop McFaul.
WHAT causes some speculation on I Washington over the Canadian reci-
our part is why a child never wants I procity proporisitlon it was hard to
to play with a leaky garden hose unless tell who were msurging.
it is dressed up in its best clothes. I, . in favor
of th re-enactment of the county local IF ever a presidential candidate, otlon law. Several of the speakers
who is not a presidential candidate, said that they favored a county option
the arty. One man said that since the Republicans are ln such a tangle at
was pestered, It is Governor Marshall.
And he thought it was going to be
unanimous.
MAYOR Darrow talked good roads
at South Bend recently. Something
ought to.be done to one or two of
plank in the state platform, two or three going so far as even to declare
ln favor of contitutional Btate wide
prohibition and a plan5e of that kind
said that the Republicans would have
carried Indiana last year if they had stood pat for the county option law ia
their paltform. One speaker mention
d Tlppeeano county as evidence of
what it meant to stand by the county
option law. ne said that after the
state convention failed to Indorse the
county option law the Republicans of
Tippecanoe county found that they
would be defeated on that issue, so they made a platform of their own in which they Inserted a county option
plank.
"If we had not done that three R-
puDiican l-iepresentatlves would not
have been sent here," he said.
He said that this was the only thing
that saved the Republicans of Tippe-
canoe county from defeat last fall.
This speaker was ln favor of a county option plank in the state platform next
year.
Another speaker from the Eleventh
district made the statement that he would hav been defeated If he had not gt-ne out and made a county option
campaign on his own hook. Judging
from the tone of the speeches, the Re
publican members of the legislature
ill make an effort to have the party
declare for the re-enactment of the
law.
Little attention was paid ln the
speeches to the proposed new state
constitution. All of the members ap
peared to have the idea that the Supreme Court will declare unconstitu
tional th law enacted by the last Legislature to submit the proposed consti
tution to a vote of the people. Some of the members expressed the hope that the Supreme Court would sustain the law so that the Marshall constitu-
t!o could go on the ballot next year.
because they said it would be easy to
defeat the Democrats on that issue.
una or the things talked about on
the outside of the meeting was the
probable effect of the new voters regis
tration law enacted by the last legis
lature. Whether this subject was men
tloned ln the meeting has not been
learned. Representative Van Home, of
Lake county, waa one who said that the registration of voters under that law would be a very big job, but he said It would be as difficult for one
party aa for the other, so that it would not make much difference either way.
Representative- E. M. M"asmuth.. f Huntington county, said he regarded
the new corrupt practices act aa the most importance piece of legislation
enacted at the last session.
"Under that law little money will be spent by candidates fr office," he said.
"If that law had been force during the
last campaign two candidates for Con
gress in the Kleventh district would
have saved thousands of dollars."
It was said by several of the mem
bers who attend-ed the meeting that no
attempt was made to outline any policy
for the next campaign. The meeting
was not called for that, purpose, they said, and no one understood anything
of the kind. It was merely a discus
sion ef party conditions in the various
counties. Neither was anything said'
about candidates for state nominations. It was paid. This subject was
carefully avoided. Some of the friends
of W. T. Durbin were about the hotel
lobby and they talked with a number
of the members, ut the talk was not
carried into the meeting. It waa un
derstood that Durbin would be a can
didate for the nomination.
Senator Will R. Wood, of Lafayette,
said yesterday that he had not made up
his mind whether he would b a candidate for Governor. He said it was too
early to decide the question.
"I should like to be Governor,- he said, "and after a little whilv if I find conditions just right I may announce
myself as a candidate. I have receiv
ed some very pleasant encouragement
from Republicans ln various parts of
the state. Indiana is a Republican
state and we are in good shape. We would have won last year only for our internal differences. But the Hemenway faction, the Beverldge faction an-1 all the others have found that they
cannot win by fighting each other, and
I am of the opinion that all Republi
cans are ready to come together and form an organization that can carry
s 4 ill iBMm mm yt.. My e J Jfr- .
If " ' i I
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HELNPV U 5TIM30N.
Washipton says business affairs
caused Secretary Dickinson, to re
sign. A report from San Antonia says his action was caused by friction with the State Department over war maneuvers. Dickinson was the only Democrat ta the Cabinet.
stlmsoa U a progressive Republi-
in the platform. Some of the speakers the state."
mere talk.
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY" May 17.
those Laporte county roads more than 167S Marquette and joiiet started to
explore the Mississippi vaney.
i7sa ift.r fl vY, t Iti rr thn French for
i two years. Great Britain made an
THE malntenance-of-way men evi-j open declaration of war.
dently wanted to get back to work so i 1814 Norway declared its independVioir fiilr1 cava nn ennns'h mnnev tn I ence of Sweden.
lsz jonn jay, staiesniaii
have a- pleasant time with Fourth of July. '
on the
nd diplo-
.mat, died in Bedford, N. Y. Born ""in New Tork city, Dec. 12, 1745. 1846 Matamoras evacuated by the Mexicans.
THE congressman who talks against
reciprocity, is probably one of
Diovating politicians mat sometimes h 864 The South Carolina Union Con-
1T WAS a very warm day in Gary yesterday and it did not make the business men feel any cooler to see Captain Kidd Knotts sitting on the poop deck brandishing his trusty cutlass and twiddling his thumb to his nose for the benefit of the Commercial club. - " - - .
breaks into congress, the good Lord
only knows how. -
PLANTER In Tennesee was call
ed to the door and shot. Very kind of the shooter, probably didn't want
to put any bullet holes in the furni
ture. A-
BOSTON woman s club wants a
vention met at Beaufort.
1902 Coronation of King Alphonso
XIII of Spain.
1910 The body of King Edward VII
was removed from Buckingham Palace to Westminister Hall. "THIS IS MY T5TH BITHDAY" Sir IVorraan Lockyer. Sir Norman Lock ye r, who Is regarded
as the leading astronomer tn ureat Britain, was born In Rubby, May IT,
license to sell liquors and cigarettes. 1863, and recelv dhis education in priWell, they wijl probably get it as the vaa schools. He began life in the War
dear ladies get most everything they Sclen'e and Art deDartment. For many
want. . I years he has held the imDortant costs
of professor of astronomy ln the Royal Colle-ge of Science and director of the
South Kensington Observatory. Ho
has traveled all over the world for the
purpose of observing astronomical
phenomena, visiting America first in 1878 as the chief of the English ecllse expedition. In addition to his scientific labors Sir Norman is an expert on goll and has written one of the standard books on the ancient and royal game.
UP AND DOWN IN I-N-D-I-A-N-A
IROQIOIS Sl'RVIVOR BETlHJfJ
Mourned seven years ago as one of the victims of the Troquof9 fire horror, Mrs, Glarinda Smith, Chicago, has ar
rived at Logansport in the best of health and spirits. She came to assert her right to a share- In the estate left
by her mothers, Mrs. Charity Horn.
Following the death of Mrs. Horn the
other heoirs made every effort to es
tablish beyond doubt that Mrs. Smith
had been one of the Iroquois victims, since It has been the general belief among them that she perished in that fire. Upon her arrival here the other
heirs instantly took her before the exe- i
cutor and she received l5. her sharo!
in, the estate left by her. mother. . Mrs, J Smith was one ot a large holiday party.;
that left here holiday week. 1903, to
attend the production of "Blue Beard";
at the Iroquola on Dee. 31.
ANGRY GIRL ATTEMPTS DEATH. Prevented by her father from attend
ing a dance, the police say, Louise
Zoschke, 29 years old, B61 Bevllle ave
nue, Indianapolis, last night drank part of the contents of a bottle of
carbolic acid at the home of her cousin,
Roy Gamble, tit North Keystone avenue, shortly after S o'clock and waa taken to the City Hospital, where physicians said ber chances for recov
ery were doubtful. According to Blcyclemen Sehlangea. and Glenn, the girl left home after a quarrel with her
father, Julius Zoschke. The difference la said to have arisen over her desire to attend a dance. Her father followed and caught her on an Inbound East Michigan street car, the officers say. He forced he- to leave the car. It is said, and le dher home.
LOST FHTlE IX STORMS. John Bailey, age sixty, who died at
Evansville last wek in destitution.
owned several large Ohio river barges. In a storm on the river several years ago
he lost all of his property. For the last several years he had lived with his wife In a shanty boat at Sunset park, and made his living renting skiffs and selling minnows to fishermen. While living m the shanty boat he saved the lives of several people who fell Into the rler at Sunset park. About a year ago Bailey's houseboat was destroyed
In a stQrtn, and he was unable to get together enough money to build him another boat, and had been dependent on charity.
SPENT LIFE WITH NATVRK. Mrs. John Pickeroll, age eighty-six,
who was never off the farm on whleli
she lived near Rushville, is dead at her
home, tn Richland township, of paralysis. She never saw a train of ears nor any modern invention. She
preferred to live her lite close to na.
ture, and she never rode in a buggy nor
visited her neighbors. Sho is survived
by a husband and two son. Harey,
who lies at her home, and James, of
New Salem, Rush county.
PAWNS TROVSERS TO REAL OWNER
Erdle J. Williams, of Indianaolis,
colored, has a sense of humor, accord
ing to detectives' charges. It is charg
ed that Williams stole, a pair of trous
ers and then pawned them to the man
he stole them from. A part of the evidence in the case was submitted in police court Saturday. Detective Jake Kurt, the "csar" of Indiana avenue.
arrested Williams when Charles
Medias, a pawnbroker and second-hand dealer at 610 Indiana avenue, showed him a pair of trousers that he said had wore, and asserted that Fred Elliott had been stolen from him a short time boJust pawned them to him for $1. Kurtz found Elliott in his shoe shining rooms adjoining the pawnshop. Elliot took Kurts to Williams, when the detective Insisted on knowing who had asked him to pawn the trousers in Media's place. Medias identified Williams aa the man who had been in the store lust before he missed the trousers, which matched a coat ,-and vest in the tock. i YAWN MAY CAUSE DEATH. When Miss Helen Monjar, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs, George Monjar' of Rushville, yawned yesterday, something in the back of her neck' broke and she ia now at a local sanitarium in a serious condition. Physicians say she is suffering from spasms in the muscles of her neck and that her whole plnal column may be afflicted. She
suffers Intense pain and is compelled
o rest on her face all the time. WOMAN' IS 05 AND SPRY. Mrs. Margaret Barrett of Plainfleld. who is the mother of Statu Geologist
Edward Barrett, and who has lived In Hendricks county thirty-seven years and Is now nearly 95 years old,, has a
history that Is out of the ordinary.
Mrs. Barrett was born in County Mayo,
Ireland, in 1816. She waa married to Michael Barrett and they left that
eountry March 18, 1853, for America on
the old sailing ship. Queea of England, and landed at Naw Orleans June 17. 1853. They were the parents of
seven children, two of whom were born
In Ireland. Four are living. , Mrs. Barrett Is ln excellent health and U active. HAD TROUBLE WITH SKIRTS. Jamea Squires of Marion, liveryman. Is searching for a person who hired a horse and buggy from him, after giving the name, "Mrs. Mary Miller," and an address that proved fictitious. The person was dressed as a woman, but Squires suspects he waa the victim Of a man in disguise and recalls that the person had difficulty tn getting into the buggy and appeared unfamiliar with skirts. His rig has been missing since Saturday.
MONEY GETS MONEY FOR AN EASY JOB
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H.DE.S
Former Senator Hernando DeSoto Money, of Mississippi, has been appointed on the monetary commission at $7,500 a year. Mr. Money says he will live on hia Mississippi farm,
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