Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 26, Hammond, Lake County, 19 July 1911 — Page 4
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THE TIMES. Wednesday, July 19, 1911.
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caution is tsh.cn to avole uilareproocntstlona. THE TIMES ls pabllahed in the best Interest of the people, nd Its ntter aaeea always intended to promote the central welfare of the public nt larse. DISGRACEFUL ROAD CONSTRUCTION.
Columbia avenue, south of Hammond, is a disgrace to the county. Thi3
road was built in 1907, four years ago, and today It is practically impassable.
And it is impassable in spite of the fact that Township Trustee Becker put
several car loads of stone into repairs on it. '
And now after four years the county is compelled to rebuild the road at enormous expense. The road is to be built of the same material of 4
which the old road was constructed and in another four years wealthy, profligate, foolish Lake county will have another big road contract to let "while
the stone and slag trusts fatten on the profits from the business.
And yet In the face of these facts the county commissioners claim that
there is absolutely no way of avoiding this shameful waste of public money;
no way to avoid the periodical holdup by the stone and Blag trusts.
The county attorney has solemnly advised the county commissioners
that under the state law no paving materials that are. used In city streets
can be used on country highways. And the county commissioners solemnly
took this advice and acted upon It. . -
The county attorney said that the bonds on asphalt macadam roads built
In the country districts could not be sold, and yet Hammond bankers offered
to take the Issue. The county attorney said that it would be impossible to
legally construct an asphalt macadam road in the country districts, but
such roads have been constructed and paid for in other parts of the state
How much longer will the county of Lake have to put up with four
year roads? It ls about time that extravagance in the building of country
roads and the faulty construction of them be made the Issue of a campaign
It Is about time that the county shake off the grip of the material men
and go about building roads, not with the idea of buying as much material
as possible from the slag and stone trusts, but with the idea of building
an automobile-proof country road.
ATLANTIC CITY COUPLE WANT UP-TO-DA TE WEDDINCj HAVE KNOT TIED IN MONOPLANE
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When Miss Mildred B. Keyler and Theod re M. R. Van Keler, of Atlantic City made up their minds to get married, they wanted the wedding to be an up-to-date one. So the ceremony was performed while they sat ta a monoplane on Million Dollar pier. The picture shows the minister in the act of handing the ring to the bridegroom.
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
VOICE OF RE O P LE
SLANG-SLINGING PROFITABLE. It pays to rant around in the pulpit and to thunder sermons in slan
In fact, Colonel J. Rufus Walllngford never had easier pickings than these
pulpit slang-sllngers. ...
According to a dispatch bearing an Erie date, "ISilly" Sunday is $70,-
607.00 to the good aa the result of his year's evangelistic work, covering a period of about 10 months. The season's returns are rated as follows: New Castle, Pa., 6,682 converts, $13,000; Waterloo, la., 4,000 converts, $3,000; Portsmouth, O., 5,100 converts $10,100; Lima, O., 5,659 converts, $11,313; Toledo, O., 7.6S5 converts, $15,539.10; Erie, Pa., 5,312 converts, $11,C55.67; totals, 34,439 converts '$70,507.77. The "Rev." Sunday gets the money and you bet ho won't preach unless he can get the money. Imagine one of the apostles traveling around with $70,507 in his pocket made in a few months! Is "Billy" Sunday preaching for the Lord or for "Billy" Sunday? THE SPIRIT OF SPORTSMANSHIP. That the sporting fans in Lake count's cities show a spirit of pusillanimity towards the visiting teams and that good, clean sport means nothing to them, is the burden of a letter to this paper written by an Indiana Harbor fan. It ls to be regretted that this arraignment is true in many cases. There is not the spirit of true sportsmanship shown In Beveral places hereabouts that could be named and If persisted In, the resulting blow will bring sad results. Those who look at sporting matters in a larger light must not be discouraged, how- . ever, at the attitude taken. In all beginnings chaos is presented. It takes a measure of time to bring order out of chaos. This is the first season of the baseball league in this county and a number of evils, come major and some minor, have confronted the league officials. Time will solve them peaceably
and with satisfaction to all. Let us In our allegiance to our own team riot forget that the other fellow may have a kindred allegiance for his team.
TKE SITUATION IN WEST HAMMOND. It was quite a struggle yesterday to keep up enough interest in the West
Hammond election to get out voters enough to carry the day for municipal government and It certainly was a strong indication of the low ebb in Interest across the line as far as good government is concerned. West Hammond has been so long a stamping ground for political freebooters and pirates that its citizens cannot be blamed for their almost absolute indif. ference. Yet there is a remedy and the situation as it now finds Itself is not without hope. The men of affairs there must see to it that they are not hampered with crooked councllmen. Shut the barn door before the horse gets Into the oat-bin, not after.
ANOTHER SHADOW. Now comes another shadow over the Gary industrial situation. This time It ls a mlxup between the plumbers and their rraployers. Gary is Just recovering from the disastrous building Etrike that extended from the fall into the late spring. More than a million dollars was lost by it and the city won't get fully over the setback for a few years to . come. If there is any way to settle the latest trouble It should be done at once.
Gary cannot afford another prolonged conflict between unions and contractors. There are others to be considered and both sides ought to realize
that they themselves will be the heaviest losers.
THE county fair Is on its way.
IN other words, young Gavit wants
young Henderson to go and get a reputation.
- "WHO wants Dr. Wiley fired?"
Bcreams the Rochester Sentinel. Not guilty!
F. B. NO the track jack left on the
B. & O. near Whiting was not a stray
donkey.
MOST men would make a short cut for the tall uncut if they saw justice headed their way. - THE cotton crop is to break all records this year. Now, all together, Long live King Cotton!
THE small pieces of ice left on the
walks these days last a little longer
than they did last week. - '
WHEN these raids on Gary resorts
are pulled off it is a shame that any
thing has happen to Intervene. ......
THE trouble In a lot of places around here just now is that too many
people are demand the wish bone. $
THE story that Otto Borman was taken along as ballast for the E. II.
Gary has no foundation whatever. ; $
"WHAT Is the use of a balloon
race?" asks a contemporary. For that
matter what is the use of any race? 4
MR. Stokes, of New York, is 60
years old and should have known bet ter. However, there's no fool like, etc
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CHICAGO clergyman preached in a
shirt waist end white trousers
Clowning in the pulpit never helped It. - ABE Ruet, the California crook, has
written a farce in prison. It has noth ing to do with the Knotts case, how
ever. A -
EVIDENTLY the intention in Ham
mond at present to break the people into the habit of drinking as little wa
ter as is possible. "
THEY are making a cheese In Wisconsin to weigh 12,000 pounds. That
in itself will be a regular little Globe Station stink factory. YOU have to give women credit for this fact anyway. Few tf them admit to their neighbors that hubby has any fault worth talking about. "AFTER I was married only four months," said the man waiting for a
car, "the balcony 6cene from Romeo and Juliet gave me a pain.
IT is to be hoped that at least once
before the Northern Indiana league
season closes all the teams playing will refuse to kick about the umpiring.
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LONGFELLOW could have done a
very clever thing If he had written
about a golf ball being driven through the air, he knew not where ; Instead of an arrow.
r . ACTRESS says it is sad to be beautiful because every man thinks somebody else ls in love with her. ' Well, If she was ugly everybody would run away from her, so what boots It? , ; WE have always said it was dangerous to be a policeman. In Philadelphia a woman threw her arms around a poll Gem an s' lieck and nearly strangled him, saying "Oh, here is mv lost sheep,
and get busy. But you know some
fans will knock anyway.
WILBUR WRIGHT.
The Day in HISTORY
The Evening Chit-Chat By RUTH CAAtTROIV
THIS DATE IX HISTORY. Jnly 10.
1SS3 Battle of Halldon Hill, which re-
rulted in the, placing of Edward Ualaol on the throne of Scotland.
15SS--Spanlsh Armada arrived ij the
KngliBh Channel.
1779 Major Henry Le surprised and
cefented the British garrison at Paulua Hook (now Jersey City).
1808 Gen. John Paterson. a dis
tinguished soldier of the American Revolution, died. Born In 1744. 1810 The king of Prussia, by decree, forbade American vessels entering hla ports. 1814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the
revolver, born in Hartford, Conn. Died there Jan. 10, 1862. 1S21 Coronation of King George rv. of England. 1837 The Baltimore and Wilmington , Railroad was opened. 1854 Execution of Iturbide, tha deposed emperor of Mexico, who had returned from England In an enendeavor to recover his rulership. 1864 Gen. Sherman's army advanced upon Atlanta. THIS IS MY 4STH BIRTHDAY. Jullcn IV. Mack. Judg? Julian W. Mack, associate justice of the new Court of Commerce of the United States, was born In San Francisco, July 19, 186, and received his education In the public schools of Cincinnati, Harvard University and the universities of Berlin and Leipzig. In 1890 he was admitted to the bar and three years later he was appointed
civil Bervice commissioner for the city of Chicago. From 1895 to 1902 he was professor of law In Northewestern
university and in the latter year he accepted a similar position at the University of Chicago. In 1905 he was elected to the circuit Court In Chicago.
As head of the Juvenile Court In Chicago he established a wide reputation. At the time of his appointment to the Court of Commerce he occupied the
the Appellate
Illinois district.
ANOTHER FAN HEARD FROM.
East Chicago, Ind., July 18. Editor
Times:
Why?
A great many baseball fans in Lake
county and closely associated with the
Northern Indiana Baseball association
would like very much to :know Just what is causing all the fraction in said association. Does the trouble lay with the umpires, with the management of
the association and different clubs, with the players, or with the fans?
ncam a icm.in Hi ""'""6 ' iAco nt
which I think was right to the spot. r.nrt tn rfha ,r.t T,
une man saia, 1 minit we nave oo
many umpires In the grand stand. The other said, "If the Lord Himself would come down and try to umpire
the knockers would not even then be
satisfied." So what do you think about i
it? But between you and I I think ifj all the officials were from Crown Point!
then the association would run along
smoothly. The management Just re
leased one very good umpire who I
judge had played baseball al! of his
life, and I dare say knows more about
the rules and baseball playing than two-thirds of the entire association. NEt comes the management.
The association has a great setback
here. Look them over and see how many are really practical baseball men.
Don't misunderstand me and think they are not good men at their own busi
ness, because they are, (but) as far as baseball management is concerned they certainly are not there. The president wants the umpires to enforce the baseball rules to the letter, but when an
A HEART-TO-HEART TALK WITH HIMSELF BY A GRIEVANCE LOVER, (Certain eharapters seen to need grievances as they do some indispensable article of food In order to maintain the attitude of discontent with which they torture their family and friends pora Melogarl In Making of Joys and Sorrows.) "'I am very happy this afternoon. I have a grievance. It is a splendid grievance and It is against the whole family. I am deeply hurt, I shall sulk for hours and everybody will come to me and try to placate me. I shall have a beautiful time as soon as the family get home.
"Yes. they are all away. That ls my grievance I said I might possibly get
home today and yet they went off auto
riding with the Beml&es. Of course I haven't been gone but three days, and
of course they don't get auto rides
often, but still I think they night have
been at home to greet me. "It Just shows how little they care about me. It shows of how little account I am In my own home doubt If they'd care If I didn't come at all. "There, I've worked myself up splendidly and here they are. I'll have to open the front door, but I won't say a word until they speak to me. "Well, I think I did pretty well. T didn't speak a word of reproach, but, 6y the way I asked them how they enjoyed themselves, and the short way I answered them when they asked me what kind of a time I'd had, showed them how I felt "They all know I'm hurt and they're trying to be as nice as pie to me. They Just wanted to know what I'd like best for supper and I said It didn't make
any difference, in a tone that showed I
felt how unimportant I was. "I don't know whether I can shot my displeasure by staying here ant Just answering In monosyllables. Thlnl on the whole 1 11 get the most out of il If I stay here. "What an absurd idea. Someone tried to make me believe that I didn't say 14 get home before tomorrow. D they think I'll give up my grievance that easily? J guess not, "Won't I come In the library aal sing with them? No. Of course I won't. I couldn't do more than that 11 I were feeling real pleasant. "Mrs. Beml has asked them to go autoing next Sunday, and they think it would be fun if I took some one's place. I love autoing, but I told them I wouldn't think of that. I'll S"t 1J right, but I'll keep them begging me before I say yes. "Oh, thunder, here's some company
coming In the front gate. That means I'll have to be decent. You can't parade grievances, in front of company, you know. They don't understand. They simply think you are disagreeable. I -guess I'll carry out my other plan and go up to my room and close the door. "Well, now, I call that a good partlng shot. They called to me not to gQ up stairs, the Randalls were coming, and I said very coldly, T don't ecm to be Included in the invitations that are extended to this family. don't Imagine their guests will miss me yery much. ' "Mother looked as if she was going to cry. "I got Its full value out of that grievance all right. I don't know when I've had so good a one." RUTH CAMERON.
THE DAY- IN CONGRESS
SEXATE. Sutherland bill amending laws relative to the Judiciary passed. Hcyburn denounced the newspapers for their reports of his speeches on South-e-rn memorial legislation. SaLI
the statement that he Is continually
waving the "bloody shirt" was silly
Said he had been flooded with letters of denunciation on account of things
he had never said. Taylor replied to Heyburn, eaylng that a man who tried to keep open the wounds of a sectional strife could not be a good citizen. Said
the South wanted peace. The debate
jwas on Senator Williams bill to appro
umpire fines a player for some dirty lo
nrU .hat f hail t h i"oui age ap.i constancy oi ine conieaer
pleasure of witnessing, does the player or owners of the club pay said fine? Not much.. So why not play without an umpire? Might Just as well. The umpire sends his report of said fines to the president and that ends it; nothing more said. Another thing, my dear fans, do yo ureallze, or even stop to think, how much money Is being paid for imported ball players The association allows each club $50 to pay their players and no more. Do they enforce this rule? No. I should say not. Well, why not? Each player receives his salary in cash. No chance this way to find out how much he ls
getting per game. Now keep your eye on his after the game and watch some outsider hand the player five or ten dollars. Rather soft. What do you think? So after all our baseball neighbor, Crown Point, has a kick coming. Now comes the players. Well, we can't expect a "baseball player to be an angel and refuse to take the money, can we? No. No. No. The greatest fault with the very rare imported ball player, such as we have in the Northern Indiana Baseball association, over threefourths of them are not e-en familiar with the fans that ae expected to support the cjubs, and again, how many
of them know the baseball rules. They certainly are rusty on the rules. Here are some examples: McCann, left fielder for Whiting, got very rough one Sunday and was going to heat the life out of one ofthe field umpires because the umpire requested him to leave the coacher's box, said box being already occupied. Buck Klose, also of Whiting and Big Fowler, first baseman for Hammond, threatened to stop the game and play it under protest because the field umpires were standing in a perfectly natural position. Mr. Stall-
man of Indiana Harbor and O'Brien and Hickman, also of the Harbor, think that every time a base runner slides for a base that he should be called safe. Here certainly is a good one. You know Velner, playing manager and center fielder of the Gary club. Well, this man if any certainly should know
ate navy on the Misslssipp River" to be erected at Vlcksburg. No action was
taken on the bill.
House and Sonae conferees took up the campaign publicity bill and the di
rect elections amendment. WHITE HOISE. President presented the reply of Dr.
Wiley to the Cabinet and returned it to Secretary Wilson, who will report
on it within a day or two.
President Taft announced he will go
to Beverly Saturday for the week end
The President announced that he
would soon Fend all the information
concerning the Controller Bay matter
to the Senate.
Up and Down in INDIANA
PREFERS 40 YEARS IX POOR HOISE Sallie Thompson died at the county
infirmary at Lafayette yesterday after
spending forty years In that institution,
She was the oldest inmate ever con On
ed in that institution. Her parents came here fifty nine years ao when she was a baby. They died a few years later and she had n,o place to go, so was taken to the poor bouse. Sh grew to like the place and refused several
opportunities to leave the home.
tlOO,000 GHAISf ELEVATOR BURNS,
The large grain elevator at Plymouth
owned by the Pennsylvania railroad
was burned yesterday. The loss Is estimated at (100,000. A spark from
a passing engine Is supposed to have started the fire. Strenuous efforts were
made to save the elevator, but it burn
ed like tinder. FRIGHT CAUSES DEATH.
Fright caused the death of Mrs. Sant
ford Slxemore, age thirty-five, nea
Sugar Plain church, east of Darlington,
She and her husband were tenants o
E. J. Barker. Her husband had Just ar
the rules. He was going to have rived at the farm with a wagonload o umpire fired from the ' association be- I hogs from a carload received at Thorn
cause the umpire was going to bench town. Ind. In unhitching the team, one
him for casting a dirty remark at a
pitcher while the pitcher was performing on the slab. Mr. Velner, take notice the rules say the coacher shall direct his remarks to base runners only. Just look it up and see. It is beginning to look as if these Imported playera think they are out amongst a lot of rubes and no one "knows baseball but we Chicago boya." I really think, like a great many more people, that it would be a good plan to restrict the 'ball players to Lake county only. How In the world can we fans take any Interest In a bunch of would-be ball players? And you know half of them are not playing - under their right names. So you can see why the interest is not kept up. When we have a high . school meet or something that requires our home talent then you notice instantly how the people pick up
horse held by Mrs. Slzeinore ran away
knocking- her over. Apparently she
was not physically injured, but son af
ter she was assisted to the house she
passed away. She was known to be
affected with heart trouble.
TRIES TO GET $HOO, IS ARRESTED,
"Give me that $800 you got for your
farm," commanded Ray Kelsey, 1
years old, of Julia and Fannie Ogilvle spinsters, near Columbus yesterday,
while he pointed a revolver at thel
heads. While gazing unflinchingly in
to the muzzle of the revolver the two women convinced the youthful robber
that they had no money In their home
and he -went away, only to be arreste
a short time later and placed In Jail
at Columbus. GIRIS Bl'RAS ARE FATAI
Miss Goldie Morgan, 20 years old, la
Wife a Dramatic Critic from Whom Husband Obtained a Divorce
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London, July 19. In the divorce division of the high court a divorce was
granted to John Wightman, the dramatic critic, from hU wife, Elaine Innescourt, the actress. The co-respondent named was Oliver Maddox Hueffer,
the author of "The Little Gray Man" and other novels. Mr. lghtman was awarded $2,500 damages.
dead from burns received at the homo of her brother in Tampico, seven miles east of Brownstown. She had gone to
the brother's home from her residence in Brownstown to assist her sister-in-
law with some household work. While building a fire in the kitchen stove her clothing caWght'fire and the resultant
burns caused her death within a few hours.
TWO PEARLS WORTH S90O. While digging mussels near nl cis.p,
south of Bedford, Fleet Jackson, a mussel digger, found two of the finest pearls taken from White river In this vicinity near the B. & O. railroad bridge at Scoggans bend. The larger
weighs thirty-two grains, the other twenty grains. He was offered $900 for the pearls, which, were both taken irou the one shell. REWARD ASKED FOR TRAMP.
A movement has been started here to petition the Carnegie hero fund commission to reward Jack Miller, a tramp known as Jack, the Bum. for saving the life of William Boyer, of Columbus, age ten, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bver. The boy got into deep water while bathing, and Miller, who says .he Is a tramp, rescued him. After reviving the boy. Miller said he regretted having attracted public attention and only wished to be forgotten. '
BLOW IP AUTOMOBILE. An automobile truck belonging to Hawkins & Wambaugh. of Coalmont. two miles northwest of Jasonville was blown up yesterday with a charge of dynamite. Bloodhsunds from Seymour were palced on the trail of the dynamiters, but no trace of them has been found. The charge was placed ir this seat and the fuse was run out of the front part. The machine, which was valued at $1,000, was demolhlsed and ihe shed was damaged to the extent of $200. X bitter liquor fight Is on between the "wets" and th "drys" at a recent local option election, but several attempts have ben made recently to rua blind tigers, and the owners of the aut have been opposing lawlessness. FATALLY HURT IJJ FIGHT. Grover Gardner, of Scottsburg, age twenty-two, was seriously injured Sat
urday night in a fight near the Greenbriar church. His arms and neck were so badly slashed that thirty stitches were necessary to close the wounds, and he also suffered from five stab in the back. A lawn social was tn progress at the church, and after a quarrel a party of young men left the church and went Into a lane, where the fight took place. No arrests have been made, but the matter has been brought to the atten tion cf the grand Jury.