Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 43, Hammond, Lake County, 8 August 1911 — Page 8

THE TIMES.

WHITING, CONTRACT RIPS 'ERA UP

Whiting Divided as to the Merits of 121st Street Sewer Contract Controversy; One Councilman Leaves Meeting.

(Special to Thb Times.) Whiting, August 8. Whiting today Is a divided camp as the 'result of the city council's action last night on the One Hundred and Twenty-first street sewer contract which should have been let last night. Councilman Peter Buczkowskl fearing that the contract would not be given to Henry Davidson "who was the lowest bidder, ' left the council chamber thus breaking up the quorum and ytylng the hands of the Other councilmen" for the evening- at least. A special meeting "will be held tomorrow evening at. which .time the contract Is to be disposed of. The 121st street -sewer is to be built of fifteen-Inch vitrified sewer pipe from Indiana boulevard 'to Atchison avenue. The following bids were received:' Henry Davidson of Whiting, 11.649. W. p. Brunt of Hammond, $1,900. Nedjl & Greenwald Whiting $1,900. Levene Bros1. Hammond $2,150. A -bare quorum of the ciuncll, was present, Councilmen- Donegan and

Baran being absent Councilman Thomas Rugan lead the session In favor of giving "the contract' to W.'F. Brunt, and Councilman Paskwltx also appeared to be in favor of the Hammond contractor. Councilman Burton did not commit himself, but Buszkowski went on record against taking the contract away from Davidson as long as he was the lowest bidder. The principal argument against Davidson was an allegation that the work could not be done In first class order at his figure. He was also criticised for the Indiana oulevard paving, a contract let to him by the county. Mr. Davidson said today: "I don' see why the councilmen would want to give the contract to a higher idder when I can give bonds to do satisfactory work. I have been crittrised on the Indiana boulevard. Well, I have een given cabbie stone to work with and I did as well as could be expected. The proposed sewer runs through Davidson's Fred street addition In which I am interested, and that alone should be guarantee that we would want to do first class work."

RAILROAD TAKES IMPORTANT STEP (Continued from Page 1.)

NBW IS THE TIME To l borrow a little money If you : are In need. We . win loan yoa for any purpose whatever, any amount from $5.00 up, and. all that we require as security is household goods, piano, team, or horse and buggy, etc. Loans made In Gary, Hammond, Hobart, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor. Whiting, Crown Point, Chesterton and Valparaiso. V'"' Kama .......,. Address Indiana Loan Company Corner Fifth and Broadway, GARY, IND, Phone 322 Over Postoffice.

ovens, bridge plant, cement mills and sheet and tin plate mills. XEAHLV TWO MILES LONG. The site whidh the company will have is Just southeast of the Illinois Steel company. Altogether the east and west length of the yards will be one and threequarter miles. SEEKS STEEI. TRAFFIC SHARE. For some time it has been known that the Baltimore & Ohio was aiming to locate in the vicinity of Gary where it could get its share of the steel corporation traffic. It does most of the hauling of the thousands of tons of coal from West Virginia for the use of the steel mills, and as time goes on this business increases. , PROPERTY ALREADY PIRCHASED. A railroad official is authority for the statement that the company has already acquired the 233 acres mentioned and that the steel corporation gave it In exchange for the South Chicago property. It is said that the survey is for the yards and shops location. The Chicago business will be handled at the- Gary-Miller shops. Activity on the part of the railways, especially the Baltimore & Ohio's latest move, is in harmony with the action of the American Car & Foundry company securing 21 acres for its Gary site, the story of which was told yesterday in The Times.

CANAL STREET PAVING STARTED (Special to The Timer) Indiana Harbor, Ind., Aug. 8. Work on . the improvement of Canal street from Forsyth to Michigan 'avenuee Is well under way. The grading is about completed and already the laying of the slag Is in . progress. Downey & Portz have the contract for the work, which will probably occupy a couple of months in Us completion. This road represents a considerable link in the road which will make a short cut from Whiting to the Harbor and from Whiting to Gary when the latter is built.

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STEEL CO. TO TRY A

PUN

Problem uf Using Coke Oven Gas in Blast Furnaces Being Solved by U. S. Steel Co. Engineers; 360 Million Cubic Feet Every Day.

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A brand new experiment is to tried out at the Gary steel mills.

will be the problem of -using coke oven gas as fuel in blast furnaces. Blast furnaco stacks now use a special gas made expressly for the purpose buf economy is seen if coke gas is used. Ciary Watched Abroad. The report that the Gary mills are to try out tha experiment Is being watched with interest by other st?el companies and by editors of technical publications and German steel interests

have instructed their Chicago engineering representatives to pay special attention to the methods which will ba

used. In a way, the Gary coke ovens were designed by German engineers

one million dollars having been paia

for the use of their patent rights. The Blunt Furnace Gas.

Very few people have an idea of the

enormous amount of gas generated in

the Gary steel works. The manufacture of one ton of iron produces 150,

000 cubic feet of gas. In a day a blast

furnace has an iron productions of 4(H

tons or sixty million cubic feet. Six of the eight Gary stacks are in commission which means that the enormous sum of 30 million cubic feet is ienerated by tho blast furnaces eery

twenty-four hours. Much Coke r -la.

In the coke ovens oven generates 125,000 cubic feet in twenty-four hours

and the 280 ovens in operation now

give forth 35 million cubic feet every

twenty-four hours. At the present time so much gas is produced that the surplus amounting to several million feet is dissipated by burning from the

top of a high stand pipe. However, by the extension of cok

gas pipes throughout the plant the

waste amount is being diminished

Coke gas la now being used In the hot

beds -of tte.jaxl and three- merchant

mills, the axle mill's auge toilers, part of the rail mill and is being installed

under the blat furnace boilers. 'One

half of the coke oven gas is also being

unsed to heat the coke ovens. I'ned For Many Purposes.

In the open hearth furaces a special

gas has to be produced and no coke gas will be used in the tin plate mills as the Gary works will soon use all its

own surplus and the tin plate mills

will be operated by their own proouctc

gas. Various parts of tne Gary steel

plant cannot use coke gas a fuel be cause of Its richness.

Blast furnace gas is used as a fuel

to operate the big seven million dollar

electrical station of 35.000 h. p. capaci

t7 that is used to produce power for all

Gary mills and the power and lighting

purposes of the entire city of Gary, f

Could Heat Whole County.

More than 400 million cubic feet of

gas are generated by the blast furnaces and coke ovens alone in the Gary mills and this is an amount more

than many large cities use in twenty

four hours.

Coke gas of,whlch the steel corpora

tlon has plenty is not rich enough for

illuminating purposes but were It pos

sible to build a separate system of

piping every house in Lake county could be heated at a very minimum cost. When the steel corporation completes 280 coke ovens now under way

its coke gas output will be doubled.

Tuesday, 'August 8, 1911.

were enjoying themselves hugely.

Between the scowling. dark-eyed

manager, who might easily be taken for a counterpart of any of the world's greatest villains, and the dark-faced press agent. Miss Lucia Brooks-Deauve-reaux sat meditatively. The picture was one suggesting abduction, kidnap

ing or other villainy. -

The attention of the orchestra, who

were beginning to weary of the newly

wed sport, was rivetedoJU the ebautiful dark-eyed girl.

Professor Dilly, angered and re

vengeful, watched the efforts of his tor

mentors to attract the attention of the young lady.

Just out of Hammond while the train

was rushing onward at comet speed a

note fluttered down at the feet of a

disturbing youth. It read:

"I am in trouble and must get away

from my companions. Will you help me?"

A whispered conference was held.

Excited by this sudden appearance of the romantic the youths suggested ev

ery possible method from murder to

wrecking the train.

A porter entered and announced sup

per, the young lady arose and walked toward the diner, the boys followed.

suddenly the train, which had Blackened

its speedy was brougit to nearly a

stop. Opening the vestibule and run ning down the steps carrying the as

tonished young lady the students did

tho unexpected without any considera

tion.

The train Increased its speed and

passed around a wooded turn. With

convulsive, strength Lucia freed her

self and ran from the sextette.

Explanations were useless and not

forthcoming. Running with the speed

of a Grecian, of which she is a counterpart as concerns physical beauty. Miss Andrews boarded an lnterurban car. Yesterday she visited the management

of Lakewoods offering her services, which were eagerly accepted.

Ana , now Lakewoods park will offer

to their patrons one of America's most popular soubrettes and singers by means of circumstances most unique.

The press agent and manager are

yet to be heard from, while the sex

tette were exiled into oblivion as they

deserve. All of which is as it should be

for Miss Katherlne Andrews. The "girl de luxe-' is after all the only character worth while in this

story. '

TRAIN LOAD OF MATERIAL

FOR AIR LINE

Nineteen Cars Bring Construction Material to East Gary to Rush Air Line to Gary From the East; Big Operations Begin There.

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The much desired ordinance of the Gary police and fire departments giving them a raise in pay was introduced into the common council last night and advanced to its second reading. Hero it will remain, some of the aldermen say, until the safety board recommends that the raise be made. It is quite noticeable that the safety board made no recommendations last . night and whether It opposes the plan or Is afraid to do anything remains to be Been. ... The Pay Scale A Proposed. Raises contemplated by the ordinance are as follows: Patrolmen, first class, $85 to $95. Patrolmen, second class, $75 to $S5. Desk and patrol sergeants, $100 to $110.- s Chauffeurs, $90 to $100. Bailiffs. $100 to $110. Assistant fire chief, $100 to $110. Fire chauffeurs, $90 to $100. Fire captains, $90 to $100. Fire lieutenants, $85 to $95. Pipemen and truckmen. $80 to $90. Pay of Other Officer. There will be no increase in the commanding officers of the police depart

ment and the chief of the fire department .their pay having been boosted not long ago. ' The pay of the fire chief is $150, the police chief $150, the chief of the police bureu of Identification $125 and the two police captains $125.

Further unmistakable evidence that the Co-Operative Construction Company is preparing to rush the Air Line into Gary from the east In new visible, an entire train of construction equipment having arrived at East Gary over tha Michigan Central. There were nineteen cars altogether, conveying a large 75 tbn Vulcan Steam shovel, standard gauge locomotive, a dozen large automatic dump cars, leading track, rails and ties, watertank, water pipe, tools etc. It will take several days to unlead tho outfit, put In a water system and get the shovel in operation. As the

monster shovel takes up two and on half cubic yards at a bite and can laaa an entire train In twelve minutes, it will not take long to make a big hole In Bos's sand hill, which has been bought for filling purposes. Water .for the steam shovel and locomotive will be ob

tained by pumping from Deep river into a tank to be placed on top of the sand hil, from which water will be fed into

the boilers by gravis-. A building in which to house the la

borers has been erected in the wo-ji

about a mile east of Fast Gary.

DIG

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GROWN NO LESS

Gary Council Instructs City

Attorney to Dismiss Supreme Court Action.

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Kathertne Andrews boarded a train

in Chicago. In her costly satchelcontalnlng money, candy, chamois, rings, combs, pins, ribbons, picture, letters, bracelets, clippings and powder, she

had secured between a caramel and a bracket a ticket to Pittsburg. Ac

companying her were a despised ana

brow-beaten manager and a versatile.

scarlet-minded press agent.

On this same train of destiny were

six students of Valparaiso who had a

purpose higher than the mere desire

for locomotion. Each varsity man bad

an Instrument of possible divine music but probably inhuman" discords. Throughout the parlo ar were pla

cards suggestive of matrimony. Some

concerned a bride and groom, others a

baby grand, while one spoke of being here "till Niagara Falls."

Dressed in the "customary black" a man entered from the vestibule, his very presence denoting ' timidity and self-consciousness. Behind him came a blushing woman. With their entrance six lntsruments began the Mendelssohn wedding march in six distinct keys and times. But the melody was unmistakable. At the same time the placards were -forced upon the visions of . Prof. Dilly and wife t,f Valparaiso university, causing both to lose all muscular control and drop into the waiting seats. With this a shower of rice descended and the amateur band began a recital

of popular songs, varying from "Every

Little Movement" to "Has Anybody

Here Seen Dilly," revised for the occa

sion. Speeches were made In the In

termissions, including subjects from a

questionable past life to fatherhood.

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MEETS THIS EVENING Gary Civic Body May Publish Newspaper in Its Interest.

There will be a meeting of the Gary Chamber of Commerce tonight at eight o'clock In the Gary hotel. Among the big business transactions to be handled will be the desire of

some of the members, especially the realty group, to get a weekly or

monthly newspaper of magazine bulle

tin to be published In the Interest of

the chamber.

The question of purchasing the Real

Estate and Liiildinur Journal, a Whit

ing publication, and moving its offices

to Gary has been under consideration

for some time. If the members decide

to acquire it the publication will be moved to Gary and it is probable that

Thomas Cannon an old time newspaper

man will ge chosen as editor.

Doughty old Richard Much, the Prince of Clark road, is giving the United States Steel corporation its money's worth in Its efforts to oust him from the few acres, he holds. His tract is entirely surrounded by corporation property and until Much vacates the land the lake end of Clark road will have to be kept opened up which will mean that the steel corporation will

be seriously delayed in its work of

extending the big $35.O0Ocar capacity

railroad yards.

Council Aids llim. Last night by a vote of four to two

the Gary common council voted to instruct the city attorney to have1 the suit of the City-ef Gary vs. Much dismissed from the supreme court. Some years ago Much won the suit in the circuit court and then a tax payer in

the name of the city appealed it to the Upper court where it now stands. The effect of the dismissal will be that Much will retain his land for the time

being or until new ouster action la brought against him. Knotts) DtanRrrce Here. Last night Alderman Rowley and Feuer voted against the resolution while Aldermen Gison. Simiasko, Siymanski and Baukus voted for it. A. F. Knotts of Hammond, attorney for Much, was present at the council meeting. ' Mayor T. E. Knotts apposes Much. Originally It Is said that Much paid $6,000 for the acres and building and that the steel company will buy him out at $17,000. It Is said thatjie wants $40,000. His land is located along the each and is very popular as a fishing and bathing resort. Until he moves Clark . road will have to be opened through the vast maze of railway tracks. Much In a Fighter. Much's few acres are not In Gary and they constitute a principality entirelysurrounded by Gary hut not under Its Jurisdiction. Three years ago a pompous sergeant of the Gary police department marched a squad up to Much's dominions and proceeded to give him orders. The "prince" responded by throwing the sergeant out of the window and then ordered his squad to step out of the principality into the city of Gary. And they did.

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CAUGHT STEALING MILK; $5jAND COSTS , Speclal to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, Aug, $. Paul Hadleck was caught In the act of stealing a bottle of milk early Sunday morning from the residence of Dr. George Orf in First street near 135th street. He was spied lurking about the Orf premises by Officers Hughes and Rybeckl, who arrested him and found a bottle of milk In every pocket of 'their prisoner and one in each hand. Milk thieves have been abroad In Kast Chicago of late and Indiana Harbor folk wonder whether Paul belongs to the same gang that has been devastating the East Chicago householders of their lacteal fluid or is a thief on his own hook, having been Inspired by having hear d of the depredations of the thieves In their neighbor city. Paul was fined $5 and costs by Judge Riley.

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