Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 282, Hammond, Lake County, 18 May 1911 — Page 4
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Thursday, Mar 18, 1911.
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MERELY EVOLUTION.
There can be no human progress without the constant encountering of
stumbling blocks there is no rose without its thorns.
Joy is ever shadowed by sadness, since without darkness there can be no
light and no death without living.
The marvelous evolution of the cities of the Calumet region is an Arabian
Night's story. Some of these cities have fallen temporarily. Public con science is awakened, however. The clouds are lifting.
THE DAY IS AT HAND
Mayor Thomas E. Knotts can defy the courts, the law itself, the news
papers and everything but He cannot defy public sentiment.
Today the mayor of Gary stands on the brink of a precipce. How in
secure his footing is nobody knows but Thomas E. Knotts.
Public opinion cannot be brazenly defied. It has tumbled kings from their thrones. Its force is seen today in a hundred parts of the world where
men are fighting against the powers of wrong.
Today Mayor Knotts is pursued by a fatal concatenation of events, of
deeds, of things that are malodorous. The curtain is about to be pulled aside on Gary's mayor, We shall see what we shall see-
THE PICTURE SHOW.
Indianapolis is to regulate the moving picture shows and it has been pointed out there is nothing unreasonable in that. There are too many
or tne blood and thunder pictures, -but not therein lies the danger. The
Indianapolis News says: What makes them harmful is the ease with which one gets into them, and their continuous .performances. Yet they ought to be cheap, and they are confessedly democratic. And that is why it is necessary to exercise some control over the children in this matter. Children should not be permitted to attend them unless accompanied by parents or guardians to protect them against improper associations which, by the way, may be found in any place of public entertainment But these shows are largely children's shows, because they are so cheap. As such they should be kept cean throughout. Parents Bhould see to it that their children take no harm from them.
RANDOM. THINGS AND FLINGS
WELL East Chicago's troubles never
end?
A - ABSOLUTELY last call for June
brides, girls.
SUPPOSE you have your tickets for
the coronation, t N
WOULDN'T you like to be a street
sprinkler this weather?
SUPPOSE, of course, this makes
you feel awfully restive about your va
cation.
THE festive weather man doesn't
care. He Just grins and bears mostly.
grins. " '
IS THIS SUGGESTION WORTH WHILE? Another Memorial Day has come around, the national tribute will be paid to the soldiers who have given their lives for their country. The survivors of the war of the rebellion are noticeably fewer. Those who do survive are beginning to feel the effects of old age. What a graceful compliment it would be to the old soldiers, then, if the owners of automobiles in the cities and towns of Lake county would offer their cars for the purpose of conveying the old soldiers of the city to the cemetery where the Memorial Day exercises will be held. It is true that there are a number of automobiles that have come to be considered public Institutions and that their owners are called upon so frequently to donate the use of them for worthy caunes that there is a near Approach to riding a free horse to death, and yet of all the requests that are made for the use of automobiles, this is the most reasonable. A parade of automobiles bearing the remnant of the old army would be an inspiring sight and would make the hearts of the old heroes glad on the day of the year that is theirs.
THEATERS AND BUSINESS.
Hammond has one first-class theater thoroughly equipped for the pro
duction of the biggest shows. A first-class vaudeville ouse is in the process of construction. In addition to these it has six five-cent and ten-cent theaters-
It is hard to overestimate the value of these places of amusement to the city. They attract the population of the entire community, and if he merchants do
not reap the benefit it is their own fault.
When a city gets the reputation of being the amusement center of the
particular locality in which it is located, it has taken a big step towards com
mercial supremacy. The hotels profit by the business that is created as a result of the presence of show troupes in town, every theater requires its quota of stage hands, the restaurants, candy stores and soft drink emporiums
do a better business and the business of the .whole city is. stimulated.
Given two cities of equal population and a number of surrounding villages and the people of those villages will do their trading, not necessarily in the
city which has the best stores, but they irresistably gravitate towards a city ; which has the most places of amusement. Realizing this, the merchants ought to encourage te various theatrical enterprises In the city by their patronage. It is money in their pockets.
A-
ANYWAY Lake county hasn't had
any kidnaped girls, if it has plenty of
gypsies.
REV. C. J. Sharp of Hammond is
looking for new churches to raise
money for.
AND our idea of a good place to go
is a-harmony dinner with the rising
Inflection. -
. AT any rate we don't think Mr.
Gompers would want to go through all
that trouble again.
THEY never made anybody any
smoother at putting things across than
Captain Kidd Knotts.
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AT any rate Alderman Bowser will
never be killed by the heat that comes
from fighting franchises.
FUNNY some sucker hasn't invent
ed a combined fountain pen and drink
ing cup with a straw attached.
IT might be well to send word to
Lake Michigan that Lake county ex
pects her to do her duty this summer
NOW that the fight game has start
ed up in earnest, we may look forward
to the klondike come-ons and the crap
boards, y
EXCHANGE is worrying for fear
the late frost has hurt the plum Indus
try. Does ye editor want a postmas-
tershin?
SUNNY Jim Sherman's presidential boom looks about as good to us as the
one owned and registered by Govern
or Marshall. A
RUSSIA is 6aid to favor women's rights. Well, it is high time that somebody's rights were respected in
that country.
WELL, here's hoping the democratic
editors at Laporte have a good time
The Lord knows editors get only too
few of them.
CHICAGO'S new chief of police
chief says vice must remain within the bounds of decency. Pretty hard on
decency, isn't it?
IN re the Gary & Interurban-Gary
& Southern deal reported, it is not possible that where there is some
smoke there may be some fire.
INDIANAPOLIS has clamped the
boxing Hd on for Decoration Day and
you'll note that it was Mayor Shank and not Governor Marshall who did it.
MANUFACTURERS say the harem
skirt must go. We suggest that the
manuracturers wait a mt ana see whether the ladies want it to go or
not. (
THEY are now calling mosquitoe
th3 breakfast food of the birds. Wish
the birds would enjoy them more than
most people enjoy their breakfast
food.
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THE secretary of state has foutjd
twenty-six errors in the new laws and just wait till some artful Judge gets
hold of them. Talk about shooting
'em of holes, eh?
LOWELL did very well, thank you for the first good hot weather yarn. A rabies-maddened steer, running amuck, goes well with stuff drunk out of tall glasses, only we thought Cedar Creek had gone dry. "WHEN I die I hope the people will make a playground over my body. I would rather have the children romping over my grave than a hundred monuments-" , To have such a wish is better than success. To be remembered for such a wish is to outlast memorials of brass or stone. Omar, the Tentmaker, wish
ed that he be laid where the summer wind might scatter the petals of roses over him, "by some not infrequented gardenslde." Johnson-'s desire is not unlike this, but nobler. Chicago Tribune.
"THIS HATE IN HISTORY" . May 18.
1642 Maisonneuave founded Montreal.
166 A law passed to pasture but 70
cowson Boston Common.
783 St, John, N. B., founded by U. E.
Loyalists.
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed
Kmporer of the-French.
812 Peter H. Bell, third iovrrn,
Texas, born in Culpeper, Ya. Died in, fcorth Carolina, April 20, 1S98.
S23 Ferdinand VII. havlne refused
the crown of Mexico, Iturbide proclaimed himself emperor.
$36 Congress authorised the. Wilkes
expedition.
855 John C. Spencer, who held the
'treasury and war portfolios In resident Tyler's cabinet, died. Born Jan. 8, 1788.
18S2 Eddystone lighthouse opened by
the Duke of Edlnburg. 910 Thousands viewed the body of Edward VII.. lying- in state In "Westminster Hall. 'THIS IS MY 84TH BIRTHDAY" John G. Bowman. John G. Bowman, the new president
of the Iowa State University, was born In Davenport, la., May 18, 1877.
After graduating from the local high
school he entered the Iowa State Uni
versity, but lack of funds necessitated his quitting the university at the end
of the first year. He went to work
raising hogs and with the profits of
his venture he returned to the unlver
ity ana was graduated m his own
original class In 1899. After leaving the university he did newspaper work
for a time In Davenport and later in
Chicago, using his spare time to study and receiving the degree of M. A. from
his university in 1904. . In the same
year he went to New York and took a
post-graduate course at Columbia Uni
verslty, and was appointed an lnstruc
tor In English there. In 1906 he be
came secretary of the Carnegie
Foundation and continued to fill that
position until his appointment as head
of the Iowa State University. Mr,
Bowman is said to be the youngest
college president In the United States.
Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A.NYE.
FROM DITCHER. TO GOVERNOR. The other day I read a sketch of the
life of J. Frank Hanly, ex-governor of Indiana.
The story left out the most Interest
ing part of Hanly life, the part that gives the key to his character his
early struggles.
He is not the sort of man to parade
his humble beginnings for political
purposes, but he began nevertheless very low flown
In a tUe ditch. Almost any -old farmer in or about
Homer, III., could tell yon Hanly was
a poor young fellow who dug tile
ditches for a livelihood. But
While he made the tile ditches through the black soil of the corn belt, he also studied law of evenings. And he attended every debating society in that region, taking part Sometimes he would be overheard practicing his speeches In the ditch at least so tradition says punctuating the lofty periods with the deft motions of his long tile spade. And then Hanly got a chance to make a Fourth of July speech that took the whole countryside off Its feet. ' Shortly afterward he moved across the state line' into Indlana'and located In Williamsport In the practice of law. He made political speeches and' won a reputation In western Indiana as an orator. Later he located In the city of Lafayette, where he has a lucrative business. As governor Hanly made a national reputation. He stirred the state of Indiana as never before by his graft prosecutions. He forced the resignation of some of the state officers and recovered thousands of dollars to the state treasury. Hanly hates whisky as he does poison, classing them together, in fact. He forced a reluctant legislature to pass a local option law under which a large part of the state Is dry. As he is under fifty and In great request on the lecture platform, Hanly is likely to be heard from further. Moreover
He has not lost touch with the com
mon people whom bevkoows so well.
coming np from among them to bis present place. The politician who knows and sympathizes with the wants
of the people Is a power.
And the career of one who climbs np out of a ditch to be governor should afford much cheer to the poor and
aspiring young men.
MRS. THEODORE SHONTS ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO ESTABLISH SCHOOL IN KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS WHICH MAY COST $500,000
NEW YORK, May 00. (Special) Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts, wife of the New York traction magnate, has Just returned from Kentucky, where, she made a tour through the poorer mountain sections, where conditions
warranted her In announcing that she would erect a college, probably near Middlesboro, to cost 9300,000 to $500.000, at which girls of the poorer mountain families will be educated. Mrs. Shonts is being assisted In her plans by CoL Jack Chinn, of Har-
rodsburg, Kentucky, a famous turft man, who knows every nook and cranny of the mountain country. The plan for building the school will be launched here at once, rnd Mrs. Shonti will see that the fund passes $300,000.
UP AND DOWN IN I-N-D-I-A-N-A
KNIFE FITS MAN FOR ARMY.
In order that he might qualify for enlistment in the United States navy. Earl D.'Rydr, twenty-one years old, of Fort Wayne, has undergone a. severe surgical operation to correct' a deformity in his feet. Ryder was turned down by the recruiting officer a month ago on account of the deformity. "You will see me again," he saio. is he left the office. True to his declaration, Ryder reapeared yesterday with his feet corrected to meet the requirements of the service, and was accepted. ROCK M13DER TRIAI, OPENS. A special venire of twenty-five names was drawn yesterday afternoon for a Jury in the case of Heno and Pongeo, charged with the murder of Philip Rock, of Bedford, on trial in the circuit court. ' There are about two hundred witnesses, a large number of
whom are Italians, who are unable to siak the English language.
The trial is expected to last all week
and there is much interest in the pro
ceedings owing to the prominence of those involved among the Italians It the quarry district where the tragedy occurred. CLOTHES MAY REVEAL DROWNING.
Residents of Hamilton are wrought
up because of the finding of articles of woman's wearing apparel along the bank of White River opposite the vill
age, which leads to the belief that
some woman may have ended her existence by drowning. Sunday afternoon
farmers living on the opposite bank
of the river heard several young people along the river, and whether some
young woman might hae thoughtlessly left he hat and coat by the river
bank, after having picnicked along the
river, is yet undecided. It is consider
ed likely that in case an owner is not
found for the coat and hat that the
river may be dragged.
WEDS IN HOSPITAL.
mat love will find & way, even In a
hospital, was demonstrated last evening when the Rev. Samuel Wagenhals,
pastor of Trinity English Lutheran
church, standing at the bedside of the
bride at St. Joseph's hospital, married
Miss Bernadette Herber and Howard
F. Metcalfe of Fort Wayne. The young
woman, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
John Herber, living south of Fort
Wayne, was struck by an automobile, suffering with a fracture of the left
ankle, and was removed to the hospl
tal. Miss Herber's parents did not
look with favor on her Jover. and Metcalfe obtained a marriage license and
took the clergyman to the bedside of
his sweet heart at the hospital. From
her cot liliss Herber clasped the hand of her lover as the marriage service
was read. An hour later the father
reached the hospital, but he was too
late to do more than bestow the par enlal blessing on the couple. PENDLETON MILL Bl'RXED,
The flour mill of the Pendleton Mill
ing company, at Pendleton, was de
stroyed by Are last night. The loss is
estimated at between $10,000 and $13,000, with Insurance at" about f 8,000
The fire originated in an engine room
where a gasoline engine operated the machinery. The mill was running yesterday and the men said that when they left last evening there was no flre
about the place. The Pendelton fire department, with a gasoline fire engine.
kept the tire under control for nearly an hour, but the flames finally spread
to the upper floor. The mill was own
ed by Thomas Day and several others.
.BLAMES FILM FOR IJESERTION.
Moving pictures in a 6-cent show last
Sunday, depleting an unhappy mar
riage, resulting in the husband deserting a young wife, are held responsible
by Mrs. Rosa Harvey, 17 years old, 2039
Tipton street, a brldo of six months
for her desertion by her husband, Rob
ert Harvey. 19 years old, of Bedford
Ind. Mrs. Harvey gave a dramatic re
cital of her story before Deputy Prose
.cuting Attorney McCarty, and filed an
affidavit for the arrest of her boy-hus
band. According to Mrs. Harvey, she attended a motion picture show in company with her husband and at the conclusion of the scene, it Is said, he
Informed her that he would step outside for a few minutes. Mrs. Harvey
charges that an Investigation revealed that he went home, packed his grips and left for parts unknown.
SAYS RIVER IS SEPTIC TANK NOW
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der the direction of the state board of health, but the rapid growth of the industries of the community prompted a second study. The rapid development and the consequent increase of sewage, the report sets out, will have a far more serieus effect on the pollution of Lake Michigan, the source of the Chicago city water supply, than Is now apparent, unless steps are taken to prevent it.
The Chcago sanitary district com
prises a total of 360 square miles, of
which one hundred square miles are In the Calumet district, forty being within the Chicago city limits. The primary object of the formation of the Chicago district was the protection of
the city water supply from contamina
tion by sewage. But the report sets out
that this can not be wholly achieved until provisions are made for handling the sewage of the entire Calumet dis
trict according to sanitary principles.
To Heren Two Rivera. The natural drainage of the Calumet
district is into the Little Calumet and
the Grand Calumet rivers, the latter of
which, in spite of its name, 1 the lesser stream. These discharge into the lake at the Calumet harbor entrance.
The district in Illinois drained by the ' two streams contains South Chicago,
Blue Island, Rlverdale, Pullman, Harvey, Dolton, West Hammond and othei smaller places, with a total popula
tion of 113,000. The distance from tha outlet to the Sixty-eighth street crib.
a source or cnicago water suppiy, is
4H miles. Plans are under way for reversing the flow of these streams so
as to carry their contents Into the Chicago drainage canal, which will make
necessary the taking of a sufficient quantity of water from Lake Michigan to accomplish the purpose.
"With the completion of this pro
posed scheme," the report reads. it would seem the question of sewage disposal had been practically settled
for the northern Indiana cities that
now empty sewage lnio me nvcr ymv
Little Calumet). But there are two important reasons why this is not ss.
and why the proper solution or ine
problem should be sought in the near future. First, in the autumn, the slow flow of the river allows the deposition of slit from the surtace washings, and solid particles of sewage, after which the freshets, which have been known to reach' a flood stage of thirteen thousand cubic feet a second, would readily pick up such deposits and carry them out into the lake. Second, in taking water from the Calumet river for dilution purposes, the sanitary district seeeks as pure water as is possible to be had. and if the Indiana cities do not prevent such polluatlon, as will be shown is now taking place, the sanitary district will compel action on the part of th Indiana cities by legal proceedings." Dead Arm of the Lake.
The Grand Calumet Is really a bayou
of Lake Michigan, and its principal
use in addition to receiving sewage
from the Indiana cities, is to afford harborage for lake boats. It originally had two entrances from the lake, bui one was closed, practically, by the steel corporation, which filled it with slag. While the river was betng closed at Gary, the Indiana Harbor Land Company caused a canal to be constructed, which canal had the effect of shortening the stream from seventeen and one-half miles to nine and onehalf miles. But the character or tho river was not changed. It Is still a dead arm of the lake, with no flow except that caused by the water discharged by the steel company plant, some seven million gallons a day. and
the return flow from the lake, whep
the current of the river Is reersed.
The Little Calumet Joins the Grant Calumet near Lake Calumet. The two streams drain about 80 square miles, of which 455 are in Indiana, and n this state the two rivers receive the sewage from Gary, Indiana Harbor and East Chicago. DlKpoaal of Sewage. Some of the manufacturing plants In these cities are employing means of disposing of their wastes, but others empty the waste into the streams. One
of these, the Standard Oil company of Hammond, is mentioned in. the report as pouring a large quantity of oil waste into the stream, injuring its appearance and retarding the process of purification, as the oil keeps the air from coming In contact with the 6ewage contained In the stream. Another damaging waste is reported as coming from the Hammond gas works, where refuse tar and oil prod
ucts are discharged, causing the form ation of a disagreeablo sludge that ha a strong odor. The sewage from som forty thousand population, in addlttoi to the rapidly increasing Gary population, goes into the streams. Gary is planning a system for destroying deleterious matter in its sewage, but meanwhile the city wastes aire being poured into the Calumet outlet. Resemble m Septic Tank. From Gary to the entrance of the canal at East Chicago, the report sets out, the water of the Calumet is of comparatively good quality, but from that canal to the Junction of the Little Calume with the Grard Calumet the river closely resembles a Beptlc tank in appearance and action, where the decomposition of organic matter la
continuously taking place. From a bacteriological . standpoint the contents of the stream are grossly polluted to the mouth of the Souti Chicago harbor. Ttests made in the examination showed the stream to contain from one million to over four million bacteria a cubic ' centimeter, with colon bacilli, the deadly sewage agent, invariably present. No Safeguard for People. "In summing, up the results of the survey it appeats the Calumet river is, for a part of Its course, a septic -tank, in which the sewage entering it travels but a short distance from its point of entrance before undergoing putrefaction," runs the report. "But while considering this fact, the point must not be overlooked that while a large quantity of sewage Is purified to some extent in the course of its flow, the purification is not complete and should not be assumed In any way to safe
guard the people from a. polluted lake
water supply. This should be emphasized by the fact that the survey waa made in the summer months when the river was sluggish, and when there was no heavy rain to croate flood conditions, which tend to flush out this section of the river and so carry the sewage many miles into the lake. Again it must be understood that septic action is not a complete means of sewage purification but little more than the primary step in the production of a finished purified sewage effluent. Call for Quick. Art I on. "We And that the sewer outlets through Hammond discharge typical sewage wastes and that the refuse from the Hammond glue works Is the most offensive and the most highly mineralized offal that is to he found at any point In the river, and rhould receive imedlate attention, because it is not only the greatest source of contamination, but the stench coming from it is so vile as to he almost nauseating. These concentrated sewer effluents are clearly responsible for the gross contamination founa In "this section. "The mere fact that the Grand Calumet river passes through the principal business section of Hammond in the polluted conditions set out Is a weighty reason why the people of that city should take immediate Hteps for its purification."
CARROLL'S BOXING BILL KILLED BY LAW MAKERS
Springfield. 111., May 18.- The Carroll boxing bill, which had passed the senate, died in the house l6t night. Representative McXlcholls failed In an effort to have the rules suspended that the bill might be called upon second reading out of its turn and advanced to third reading. It Is hopelessly burled cn the calendar and will go by the board today, when the final slaughter resolution wipes all bills on second reading off the calendar preparatory to the final spurt on Friday, the last day of the session's activity.
IS THE MAN WHO OU3HT TO BUT YOUR PROPERTY HARD TO FIND IF HE IS JUST TRY AN AD IN THI9 TIMES. THE? DO THE BUSINESS. NOT ALWAYS OF COURSE. BUX OFTEN.
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