Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 293, Hammond, Lake County, 1 June 1911 — Page 4
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THE TIIXES.
THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS INCLUDING THIS GARY EVEMSG TIMES EDITION. THE UKK OOCXTT TIMES FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION, THSJ UKG COLJfTT TIMES K VESTING EDITION AND THE) TIMES SPORTINQ EXTRA, AJ.lt DAILY NEWSPAPERS. AND TUB LAKE COUNTY TIMES SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION, PUBLISHED BY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COM PANT. The Lake County Times Evening- Edition (dally except Saturday and (Sunday) "Entered as second class matter February I, 1911. at the postofflce at Hammond. Indiana, under the act of Congress. March S, 1179." The Gary Evening; Times Entered as second class matter October I. 1901, at the postofflce at Hammond. Indiana, under, the act of Congress. March 8. 1879." The Lake County Times (Saturday and weekly edition) "Entered aa second class matter January SO, 1911. at the postofflce at Hammond, Indiana, under the act of Congress, March I. 1879."
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HAD any smokes since the tobacco
trust got it In the neck?
GETTING your four-legged roosters j
ready for the county fair?
x IT is Just as we thought. Old Man
Dias expects to win the pennant
again.
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HAVE you read anything about
Kenesaw Landis since the Standard
Oil decision?
(oldest member of the Supreme Cou
jsj&jn. is wieyuumuB aiuuuu. inline united states, was born In Boyle
there is a snake on tne new Lincoln county, Kentucky, June i, 1833. After
npnnlPS. A rnnnfirhcad. see? graduating from Center College in 1850
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m.. " liLvr ul i ransyi vania. univer- " , M ' slty and began the practice of his proPRESIDENT Taft Tisited a wild fesslon at Frankfort. In 1859 he was
west show in Washington recently and elected county judge and In the samt
it wasn't a session of congress either.
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HAMMOND'S Y. M. C. A.
The' Ball brothers of Muncie have given $100,000 for a Y. M. C. A. for
that city, Elbert II. Gary has given $100,000 for a Y. M. C. A. at Gary, the
Studebakers have built a Y. M. C. A. et South Bend at a cost of $125,000:
and other cities in the state, such as Richmond, are building magnificent
buildings of this character.
Hammond, with Its 20,000 people, its extensive manufacturers and its $S,000,000 valuation of property, is not only without a suitable building of this character, but it apparently has no prospect of getting one. Hammond has no multi-millionaires. There are in the neighborhood of thirty of its
citizens who are worth $250,000 and over, but no one of them has a grea
accumulation of weath.
Furthermore, Hammond's well-to-do citizens are In the accumulating
stage. Their wealth has not increased to the extent that puts them in the philanthropists' class. Hammond has no Olivers, no Garys, no Hackleys to build hotels, Y. M. C. A's, public libraries and manual training high schools. Wealth is Jn the process of accumulation here. In another generation the first accumulation' of wealth will be in the process of distribution either through philanthrophy or profligacy. That is the course of the cycle. It will be another generation before the wealthy men of the city will begin to "loosen up" and provide the city with some much needed improvements. But after all, it is better for a city to have a number of wealthy men than to have one man which so stamps it with his individuality and wealth that the city must carry him as a trade mark for a century or two
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
Thursday, June 1, 1911.
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by Daughter of Senator O Gorman, Assisted by President Taft
1867 Viscount Manrk snnnlntert
nor-Oeneral of Canada. 1868 Jraea Bushanan. fifteenth nresi.
aeni 01 tne u. a. died at Wheaton, Pa. Born In Cove Gap, Pa., April 2, 1791.
187,8 Hon. Joseph Howe, lleiitonan.
governor of Nova Scotia, died In Halifax. j
1879 Prince Louis Napoleon killed dur
ing me iSulu war in south Africa..
1908 James K, Jones, ex-Senator from
ArKansas, died jn Washington, D. C. Born In Mississippi, Sept 29 1839. ,
1910 The. 'British Antarctic expedition
started from London. "THIS IS MY T8TH BIRTHDAY" Justice Marian.
Associate Justice John M. Harlan, the ' JbT
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WELL after these great combines
are planted following the funerals, we
wonder what new plant will spring up
then.
ROOSEVELT now says we are
threatened by pagamism. Well, we
must fight it just as we did the sim
plified spelling process.
year he was the Whig candidate for Congress. Two years later he removed
to Louisvillo, where he raised the Tenth
Kentucky Infantry Regiment, with
which he served in Gen. Thomas's dt-
vsion. Upon the death of his father in
1865 Mr. Harlan resigned his commission In the army and soon after was elected attorney-general of Kentucky by the Union party." ' He filled the office
until 1867, when he returned to his law practice In Louisville. He was the Republican candidate for governor In 1871 and again In 1875. In 1876 he declined
th offer of a diplomatic position from
GENERAL Wood says disarmament President Hayes. The following year
of nations is a dream. It certainly is, he was commissioned an associate jus
tice of the Supreme Court of the United States and la now Hearing his thirty-
fifth year on the bench.
general, and it doesn't need as bright
a man as you are to see it g
SECRETARY Knox says he is will
ing to arbitrate with Germany. Do not even tbe ' kaiser's mustachios make.
Philander pause just a little?
A WOMAN may properly be called a freak nowadays who doesn't send a souvenir postal card home when she
goes away on a two days' trip.
EVERY time that Miss Brooks
catches her second wind it bodes ill
for the people in West Hammond who favorite expression.
Of course you known that almost
everybody has some favorite word or
expression which he works overtime with no respect for union rules.
Very well. Now did you ever try
the Interesting experiment in character study of "getting" people by that
are trying to put things across.
Moau.N S strawDerry special was
wrecked in Hammond yesterday. Now
is the time for the refreshment stands
to advertise crushed fruit sundaes.
will X-
PEOPLE have begun to look up
quiet and inexpensive places at which
spend their summer vacations, i
They are overlooking the cemeteries
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THE AUTO RACING GAME. There is a great deal of slush being written about the auto races at Indianapolis and some editorialists and special writers became just a wee bit hysterical when they tackled it. Had the Indianapolis speedway management refused to permit the amateur Greiner to enter the race, no deaths would have occurred, it is true a number were injured, but where is the sport that is not attended with at least a modicum of danger? The racing cars were the acme of mechanical perfection. Driving a heavy touring car at forty to fifty miles an hour over country roads is far more dangerous to other cars than driving a racing car at eighty miles among trained drivers. All the rot about the "death-dealing grind," the "slippery saucer of death,"
etc., is amusing when it is taken into consideration that during the latter
part of the race, when the drivers were going often at a speed of eighty miles an hour and were supposed to be exhausted, no accidents occurred.
We fail to see anything to go into a cold sweat about in the auto racing
game. As H.E.K. in the Chicago Tribune, whose great stories of the sport were remarkable for their perspicacity, remarks; "For the rubber trust
and for women who like to cultivate their hysterics it's a great game."
THE first accident at the new coun
try club occurred on Decoration Day
was not a marker to what occurred at
Indianapolis, but then the sport was
only baseball.
STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION. If the Gary common council has been putting through some odd legisla
tion of late, it certainly did some good work last night when It purchased In
behalf of the city, park board, four and three-quarter acres of land for a
small park on the Bouth side.
The new breathing spot will adjoin the new south side school and the
once Barren territory will be converted into a fertile field. No other part of the city Is so congested as is the south side and the people of that district
hjirs been entitled to an improvement of this nature.
There are other congested districts in the city that need small parks.
This paper has always advocated that Gary cannot have too many of these parks and playgrounds. In later years these little breathing spots will be
appreciated for their true value and worth. It is our opinion that the pur
chase of a number of these parks within the reach of the people Is far better than a large expenditure of money for the proposed park at Miller, out of reach of the working man and his family. The Idea at the present day is to
bring people to the parks and the purchase of land for the "one on the south
Elde is a move in the right direction.
THE ANVIL CHORUS.
Lovers of good, clean baseball have expressed the wish that the Gary
Works team was in the Northern Indiana Baseball league.
The Gary Tribune, always there with the anvil chorus against the
cities of Hammond, East Chicago, et al, says: "We feel assured that the strong semi-pro teams of Chicago will draw better than clubs from Whiting, Hammond, Crown Point, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor."
As a matter of fact, Hammond for years played semi-pro ball with the
best teams in Chicago, but the interest displayed in the league games now and the semi-pro games then is as different as day and night The gate
money then wasn't enough to buy liniment for the nine. Now It is different.
AND OF COURSE it always makes you doubt your neighbor's honesty.
doesn't It, whenever you hear that he is getting richer than you are?
Do you see what I mean? No? Then perhaps an example
explain better than any further
planation.
I know a. man who constantly uses
the expression, "to a certain extent."
Does he think reciprocity will accom
plish a certain thing?" you ask him.
Yes, to a certain extent," etc., etc. Now it seems to me that the constant
use of that expression is an index to the
man's habit of careful thought, his
practice of weighing- and balancing
considerations, of 4fking. thoroughly
at ail sides of any question.
I Itnow another man who In his writ
ing constantly uses the expression
'good poople" and again the word
splendid."
I consider his almost wearying- re
iteration of these words simply a re
sult of his marvelous optimism. They
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The Evening Chit-Chat By RUTH CAMERON
SOME one has been stealing brass I are an unconscious expression of the
door knobs from the city hall in Chi
cago. That's nothing. Cities here
abouts have had much more than that
stolen from them.
A
MAN named Bigg was assessed 365
days in jail for stealing three hens and
rooster at East Chicago the other
day. They were not Bigg hens or a I
Bigg rooster at that.
THE news from Washington, is that
Uncle Joe Cannon recently celebrating
his birthday danced a jig and declared
that he never Selt better in all his,
blankety life.
UNCLE Sam proposes to put mail j
boxes on the street cars- in some of
the cities. This will make It a little
easier to remember the letter your
wife gave you to mail.
ut course tne councilmanic com
bine may slip one over in Hammond
and then again, the people who are
paying the school taxes may have
something to say about it.
WOMAN sued her husband for di
vorce for cruelty and produced snap
shot in court Bhowing her black and blue eye. Pretty soon households will
have to be equipped with cameras.
HERE we read of a baseball fan
who got so excited during a ball game
that he died from a cerebral hemor
rhage. Baseball, in other words, is
getting to be a life and death affair.
A WHITING man shot himself
while his wife was doing the family
washing. A much better way to have helped the poor woman would have been to have turned the wringer for
her.
A WESTERN Union Telegraph company will now advance hard-pressed employes their wages to save them from loan sharks. The W. U. is doing so many queer things lately that it recalls the maxim about the good dying young. ; - THAT $357,000 which Gary proposes to spend for new schools should be a good investment. The coming generation should have a lot of knowledge that most of the people in Gary seem to lack now. Still handing it to us, eh?
attitude which I happen to know he has towards the world, as a kindly and beautiful place, stocked with people who. If you understand them right
ly, are all astonishingly kind and good,
even those who temporarily seem to have lost sight of that fact themselves. Everyone knows the girl who continually uses the word "Inartistic," and everyone ought be able to know her at once as to be able to know her at once as the young person of exclualveness who Is extremely proud of her aesthetic sensibilities, and who Is constantly shuddering at khe surprising .exhibitions of lack of taste on the part of the rest of the world. Then there is the girl to whom everything is so "interesting," for whom the final criterion of desirability Is "he is so interesting." and the final word of condemnation, "but I can't see anything interesting about him." She, of course. Is afflicted with congestion of the intellect. She thinks that character and physical outfit are mere appendages to brains. She may get over It in time, and then again she may not. Listen for the cessation of the word "Interesting" and when you find its use waning, congratulate her. You will have reason to. And there Is but why multiply examples? If you are Interested In character study you can hunt up some for yourself. You wilt find them much more amusing than mine. And If you are not, why you are doubtless more than ready to have me cease anyhow. RUTH CAMERON.
Worry Stupt.
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FREEZE CREAM WITH HAILSTONES.
The P. P. Lochner family, south of Auburn, were eating Ice cream yesterday which was frozen by hailstones that fell Sunday night and were preserved. The storm did $500 damage to Mr. Lochner's crops, and he considers the Ice cream expensive. SHOCKED BY 8,300 VOLTS. With a current of 2,300 volts coursing through his body. Clarence V. Loop, of Logansport, city ltneman, was saved from death yesterday by his companion, John Moke, who knocked Loop's hand from the wire which he could not release. Both were working on a pole. Loop attempted to cut the wire and by mistake his pliers cut Into a high tension wire. The hieh voltaze rend-
lered him unconscious, but the pliers
stuck to the wire and Loop could not free his hands. His companion, at the risk of his own life, beat Loop's hand from tho pliers. A life belt saved the unconscious man from falling. Physicians revived Loop after hour's work. AUTO PARTY IN FATAL FALL Mrs. John Harrell, age forty, of Har rodsburg, died yesterday morning of injuries-received Tuesday evening when an automobile went over a seventy-five-foot embankment near Harrodsburg. Miss Lillle Deckard suffered a broken arm, Mr. Harrell, Fred Deckard and Miss Lor a Johnson escaped with painful bruises and cuts. Mr. Harrell attempted to reduce his speed to let a wagon pass, but reversed his machine and shot over the bank. The auto turned over five times and crashed into a large tr Mrs. Harrell suffered from concussion of the brain and internal injuries. She never regained consciousness. SHOOTS FROM BICYCLE.
Earl Zelgler, age twenty-two, who lives northeast of Columbus, mounts a
bicycle, takes a rifle in his hands and
while riding at a high rate of speed.
lets go the handle bars, aims at a sparrow and kills the bird while the speed
ing bicycle Is steered by the motion of
his body. He rarely misses a bird when
he shoots from tha saddle and he has
been giving exhibitions recently to surprised neighbors. FIREFLIES COVER LOAVLAXDS.
Fireflies are so thick in the lowlands
around Oakland that the fields resembl
ed a great sheet ot sparkling tinsel af
ter nightfall. The flashes of the little
bugs give the tinsel a wavelike motion
that is pretty. The "lightning bugs'
are said to be more numerous than has
ever been known here. People here make nightly excursions outside of the city to witness the curious sight.
PARACHVTE LEAPER Hl'RT. Frank Crawford, twenty-eight years old, of Anderson, an aeronaut, who, for two seasons, has been making balloon ascensions and parachute leaps at Qoldthwaite park, adjoining Anderson, suffered serious injury Sunday evening, when scraped from the trapeze of his balloon, by a tree. Just as he was beginning an ascension from the park. He fell about sixty fe.t, alighting on his hands and knees and the left side of his face. In making- an ascension at Qoldthwaite park, Sunday afternoon, the balloon overturned son after Crawford had cut loose the parachute, and - the gas bag, traveling faster downward than the opened jarachute, shot past the latter, missing Crawford by a few feet. Before he started yesterday he expressed fear of an accident.
failure at his home In East Sycamor street, yesterday evening. Meeker had an exhausting struggle in arresting Edward Mullen In the afternoon, and at the police station became suddenly 111 and was advised to go home. He walked to his home, eight blocks away, ar.d soon after entering his home became faint A physician found him beyond medical aid. He Is survived by a widow and one son.
FARMER KILLED IX WOODS. Meredith Davis, age sixty, a farmei living southwest of Fortville, wai struck by lightning at 9 o'clock yesterday morning and died a few minutes later. He was alone in the woods at the time and was soon found by hl family. He Is survived by his widow and six children. ' ;
LIVED IS uG HOUSE SIXTY YEARS.
Mrs. Sarah Johnson, of JeJIersonville,
age eighty-two, died last night at th
home she had occupied sixty years with her husband, Benjamin A. Johnson, who died January 13, 1910. Three daughters
and one son survive.
FIGHTS WITH PRISONER DIES. Edward Maker, age forty one, the
oldest patrolman in point of service on the Kokomo police foyce, died of heart
HERE'S A NEW COAT FOR GIRLS
eart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. WYE.
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Though the leng coat of black atln seems anything; but girlish, these sorn'jer wraps are being worn by even young misses la their early teens. Tbe satin float pictured has a peculiar cape-ccllar which extends to the hip at the back, and la the front. In the term of broad revere, tails almost to the knee. This exaggerated collar gives a touch ot chic to the black satin coat and saves It from being too dignified tor a youthful wearer.
EASTER. OBSERVANCE. I am an optimist However, I strike a minor note occasionally. Now that
Easter Sunday Is far enough away let me sound that note. ) For several weeks preceding that
Sunday I noted tne odveruslnK or tne milliners and tailors and ready made dealers. If you remember they ran like this: "Easter millinery." "Garments for Easter Sunday." , , "Get into the Easter procession." And so forth. Without desiring to be Irreverent It seemed to me there was a kind of "resurrection and what will you wear for an Easter bonnet" mixture of suggestion in the newspaper announcements. You woe The Fourth of July h.is been turned Into a sort of cross between a Pain's pyrotechnic display and a beer picnic. The observance of Memorial day consists largely in sporting and speeding events. We have almost ruined Christmas by the Rroholiday rush and our extravagance In giving. I said to my selfAre we spoiling this most significant of all the Christian festivals by making It an annual clothes exhibition? My wife did not think so. Horerer. by judicious questioning as we came home from the services I learned from her that one of her friends, n regular church communicant had stayed away that day because she was afraid she might look a little shabby in tbe midst of the new plumage. On the other hand
I could not help but note tbe fact that there were people In the church that Easter morning who seldom had been seen there. Perhaps they came to worship. And I thought of all the tired milliners and tailors and sewing women and clerks who bad been rushed almost day and night to furnish forth the trappings of the Easter celebrants. Were they at church? Easter! Day of all meaningful days in tbe
long 2,000 years since the angel rolled away tbe stone from tbe mouth of the eepnlcher and brought life and Immortality to llpbt through the gospel of the resurrection! I must have thought aloud, for my wife said: "Well, the new things were perfectly lovely. And there certainly is notbinjr wrong- in wanting to wear and see the beautiful things. Is there?" "Ko," I said- "No, but"
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