Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 81, Hammond, Lake County, 22 September 1911 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

Friclav, Sept, 22. 1911.

U. S. STEEL TRUST

J Into the Indiana Steel company's slip

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railways and others, the Pittsburgh Steamship company and other transportation lines. The third is to own the steel corporation's ore lands in Minnesota, its coal and limestone fields in several states. How It Would Affect Gary. If the reorganization plan mentioned Ir carried out the chances are that the Gary stael works, coke ovens, bridge plant and tinplate mills would cqme under the head of the first company. The ore boats and the "J"' railway and its big yards in Gary would be in the transportation company, while the Gary Land company would probably come under the third group. Hope to Fid Way Out, A man who holds a high post in one of the great industrial combinations

discussed at the recent conferences held at Mr. Wickersham's house, said: ''It Is premature to say yet that any of these corporations which comprise Vnited States steel are going to abandon their present organizations. What they seek now is something better than their own lawyers' opinion that they are doing a legitimate business. In thin way, some have gone to the attorney general to ascertain, if possible, what Is proper to do under the circumstances; that is to say, what action, if any, is necessary for them to take to make them stand right in the eyes of the government." Besides $508,802,000 outstanding common and 1360.251,000 preferred, the steel corporation has $596,351,000 bonds in the hands of the public. Bonds as stock were exchanged for the properties' originally acquired, and for the plants since taken over, and $150,000,000 bonds were later exchanged for the company's own stock. Owm Hundred of Plant. The properties now owned by the steel corporation include. In part, 12" blast furnaces, 256 open hearth furnaces, thirty-five Bessemer steel converters, sixty-six rail, bar and billet mills, thirty-two structural shape and plate mills, seventy-three merchant mills, 235 tin plate mills, 184 sheet mills, four cement mills, thirty coal plants, sixty-seven warehouses, 256,000 acres of coking coal and other coal land;. 612 coke ovens, seventy-nine lake steamers, and 948 miles of rsilroad. Many of the steel companies taken over by the steel corporation in 1901, Buch as the Illinois Steel company, the American Steel and Wire company, the National Tube company, the American Sheet and Tin riate company, and tru

American Bridge company, were combinations themselves, subject to the Sherman anti-trust law. The United States Steel corporation, with $1,100,000 capital. controls less than 50 per cent of the steel business of the country, according to Its own claims. Control Bl Trade. It, however, controls practically T5 per cent of the steel ore remaining in the United States, and it is said that both the Stanley committee and the attorney general regard this as the greatest menace to the steel industry of the country. . The company owns practically all the mines of the Lake Superior ore region. It owns most of the developed mines In the southern ore region and It has . a long contract with the Great Northern Ore company, which gives it a practical monnopoly of all the iron ore

In the northwest. Its principal subsidiary companies for the manufacture of steel are the Carnegie Steel company, the Illinois Steel company, the National Tube company, the American Sheet and Wire company, the American Sheet and Tin Plate company, the Sharon Tin Plate company, the Indiana Steel company, the Loraine Steel company, the Union Steel company, the Clariton Steel company, the American Bridge company, the Shelby Tube company, and the Tennessee Coal and Iron company. Own Many Hallrnads. These control 103 plants for the manufacture of steel and 127 blast furnaces. The United States Steel corporation owns in the United States a railroad mileage of 918 miles, with 710 miles of branches and spurs and ninety miles of sidings. Its principal railroads are the uluth and Iron Range, the Duluth,

Mesaba and Northern, the Klgin, Joliet and Kastern, the Chicago, Lake Shore and Eastern, the Bessemer and Lake Krie, the Birmingham Southern and Union railroad. In addition to these it owns about twenty-five small roads.s each with a mileage of less than twenty-five miles. Its railroads have 1,108 locomotives and 47,025 freight ears. Its marine Aouipment consists of eight-one steamers, fifty-eight steel barges, seventy wooden barges, one ocean-going steamer and two tugboats. It owns the city of Gary, which it has constructe dat a cost of nearly $3,-000,080.

where in the drainage canal or between

Chicago and Gary. ''If you row a light boat up behind a moving scow the suction from the rear of the scow will pull the boat for a mile or two," said Fred O. Miller, the Gary foreman of the dredge and dock company "Small logs and pieces of board trail in the ruck of virtually every scow brought into the harbor. The body also might have become lodged between the two scows which were pulled in Tuesday morning by the tug Green."

REYNOLDS TAKES LIFE

ULLET

BY B

(Special to The Times.)

East Chicago, Ind., Sept. 22. Word has reached here of the suicide In

Pittsburgh of J. W. Reynolds, general

Western agent of the Harbison-Walker

Refractories company which has a plant in Calumet. Mr. Reynolds hal hosts of friends and acquaintances in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor who will be greatly shocked at the intelligence, for although his main office was in Chicago, Mr. Reynolds spent considerable of his time at the local plant. Business worries and overwork are assigned as the reasons for the suicide. The tragedy was discovered Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Mr. Reynolds had gone east on business and on Tuesday night registered at the Fort Pitts Htel in Pittsburgh. He left a call with the clerk for 9 the next morning and when he failed to respon i the door was forced and his dead bod;" was discovered upon the bed. A bullet woun In the head explained all. The wound was inflicted by means of a magazine gun which Mr. Reynolds had wrapped in a towel to deaden the sound of the shot. The suicide was unmarried and his relatives live in St. Iouis. They were notified and the remains have been shipped to that city where funeral services will be held today. The deceased was well liked by hi.; friends, and was recognized as a man of unusual business ability.

Our

BELIEVES GOVERNOR MARSHALL WILL WIN Shively Confident Convention Will Turn to Indiana Candidate.

Washington, Sept. 22. Senator jind Mrs. Shively are in Washington. They came on early to put their children in tka.. ; 1 1 .1 i . i

biiiuui, j no w in ujjeii lira; nuubQ invy ij have leased on Rhode Island avenue for 2; the winter. The senator told local '

Marshall would be nominated for president. He pointed out in detail why he thought Indiana's governor would win. The senator believes that the other candidates will wage such vigorous war on each other that all factions will have to come to Governor Marshall, who is ideally located geographically and neither too conservative nor too radical to orTend, says the' senator. Senator Shively also predicts a democratic victory.

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State street stores trrr that the suit was of the 1910 style. One merchant faid that he had sold about fifty suit.? similar to, if not identical with, the suit worn by the dead woman. The , suit, it was said, was cheaply made and cost about $15 or $20. Cat and Style Indicate 1010 rurehaxe. One dealer, who said he had handled just such suits, asserted that hundreds of the same modol and size had been sold throughout the country by a New York clothing hous.

"The cut of the skirt and the styla of the coat proves that the suit was

made a year ago, he said. "The skirt if on the hobble style, although tho cut is not extreme. That fact Indicates that the suit was sold In 1910. If it had been left over, the style of the skirt would have been changed to the tight or the tube." The tan shoes worn by the woman are not from a Chicago manufacturer. They are of a S-D size, and Chicago manufacturers said they camo from an eastern factory. Tbink Towed Srows Brought Body. Workmen of the Great Lakes Dredge and !ock company are more positive than ever that the two scows towel

ODD FELLOWS

BAR LIQUOR Hotel Keepers Holding Li

cense Cannot Join Order. . Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 22. Hotel keepers licensed to sell intoxicating liquors will hereafter be barred from admission to the Odd Fellows' order. This was the decision of the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows today, which adopted an amendment to the

constitution to this effect by a vote of

189 to 15. Hopes of the women belonging to the Rebekahs. the auxiliary to the Odd Fellows ,of obtaining consent for the creation of a Rebekah national assembly were disappointed when the grand lodge declared against the proposition, 138 to 69.

HEAR ARGUMENTS ON SATURDAY Elkhart. Ind., Sept. 22. Out of half a dozen northern Indiana jurists named as the possible judge In the-trial of the Gary graft ctses. which involve Mayor Knotts, half ;a dozen councilman and a former city official. Judge Vernon W. Van Fleet, of the Elkhart superior court, has been selected as the special judge, and will go to Crown Point tomorrow morning to qualify. Judge Van Fleet was further notified over the long-distance telephone this morning that an application for a change of venue from the county would be heard by Judge McMahan Saturday morning, which may result in the case coming to Elkhart for trial.

BALLPLAYERS SEE BOY KILLED Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 22. "Stuffy" Mclnnls ' and Paddy Livingston, first baseman and catcher of the u-nrM1.

champion Athletics, witnessed an accl-!

dent which was fatal to a 5-year-old boy just as they were about to enter Shibe park for the game yesterday afternoon. The victim darted in front of an automobile and was fatally injured. Mclnnis and Livingston were the first to reach the scene and picked up the child. Their names were taken by the police as witnesses. Livingston had shouted a warning to the little felloyv and had tried to reach him, but it was too late.

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