Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 121, Hammond, Lake County, 8 November 1911 — Page 8

THE TIMES.

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WHITING CITY

DADS MEET

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city on and of The the

Recent Murders and Deaths of Negroes in Gary. . .A jrrJohn llrona, (12 yearn old, throat rut by Harry Uorwy, February , 2 at Rroni'K home, South Delaware afreet, between Seventeenth and Klghteenth avenue. Dorwy convicted ot murder and lit v en a life nenteaee. May Marshall, 2H year old, murdered by her lover, George Davis, who out her tbroat, June 4, at Sixteenth avenue and Monroe atreet. Davln will be hanged at Michigan City on February 2. I.ulu Smith, SO yearn old, found dead with a, bullet wound la ber bead yenterday afternoon. Her alleged hunband, Henry Smith, wan arrented In the nnuie bouse, which In In Sixteenth avenue between Mannachunettn and Connecticut ntreetn.

:tne meeting was In the finding yesterday afternoon of Monny night.

(Special to "The Times. Whiting. Ind., Nov. S. The council met in regular session

iXlonday night with Mayor Parks ( all alderncn with the exception sDurtoii and Raran in attendance, 'adopting of "ordinances took up

, main part of th evening. 1 An ordinance was adopted providing for tlie issuance of improvement bonds for the payment of the cost of the paving nf ia Porto avenue, another ordinance was also adopted providing for the Isuanoe of improvement bonds for the payment of cost of Installing sewer in the alley north of 119th street. An ordinance was adopted authorizing and directing the city treasurer L. I. Grittnh. to refund to Charles A. Johnson. Auditor of Iike county,' the sum of $4.1-t3.') for the purpose of paying off certain school fund bonds. Another ordinance was adopted authorizing city treasurer. fx D. Griffith to negt!ate for a temporary loan of $sno to cover a deficit in school bonus of said c'.ty. j The fire xommitte were instructed jto select furniture for and clean up jthe firemen's bunk room. Street Commissk.ner John Ruczkowskl was allowed n. two weeks vacation, to begin November 15. I Saloon licenses were granted to Gust Sahhifki and Walenty Hapak. J After old bills were ordered paid and new bills were read and refpn-oH

adjourned to

meet

the dead body of a negro woman in a house in Sixteenth avenue, near Massachusetts street, and the arrest of Henry Smith, a negro known under various names, who was in an adjoining room, the Gary police believe that they now hold the perpetrator of the third murder recently committed in Gary's colored quarter. Arrented by Captain Newman. Discovery of the woman's dead body

followed Smith's telephoning the

lice that a woman had shot herself. Captain Gustave Newman, who arrived at the house, found the body lying on the floor. Clumsily placed in her hand was a 38-caliber revolver and a hole in the face near the nose indicated the course of the wound. Smith, who is said to be the husband of the victim, wast in the next room hanging some pictures on the wall. He was immediately placed under arrest and was taken to police headquarters. Working; on Cane Today. Today Captain Newman and Detective Eisner will make a thorough search of the premises where the woman was slain. They say that they believe that they will secure enough evidence to establish Smith as the slayer of the woman. , At midnight the "body was taken to Hoover's morgue, 633 Washington street, where the 'Inquest will be held. Smith declares that the woman shot herself. The death yesterday succeeds two

recent murders in Gary's colored quar

ter.

MARRIAGE LICENSES. . Crown Point, Ind., Nov. 8. The following marriage licenses have been issued here: Frank Mackewiez. Chicago; Mary Iutkus,. Chicago. Patrick J. Callahan. Chicago; Minnie Croll, Chicago. Sam Pyser. Gary Proska Zwolsa, Gary.

Andrew II. TelTle, Chicasro: Lcllth

Chicago.' Daniel P. Quigley,

Chicago; Margaret Geary, Chicago. Ignacy Maclejeska," Gary; Martha Bartkowskij Gary.

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DREDGE RESUMES. Indiana Harbor, Nov. 8. The dredge Michigan has resumed work on the canal after a suspension which lasted since last Thursday. The lay oft was caused by a broken shaft which made it necessary to take out the machinery for repairs. The dredge was accordingly towed over to the Inland mill, necessitating the raising of the Penn-

I sylvania bridge in the process, and

arrived at the plant. A traveling crane divested the unwieldy craft of its machinery, repaired it and yesterday replaced it. NEW LOWELlTpASTOR. South Bend, Ind., Nov. S. Rev. R. O. Wickham, pastor of the Indiana Avenue "Christian church, has resigned to acceDt a call to the First Christian

Captain Newman made the arrest ' church at Lowell. Ind. Rev. Mr. WIrk.

in the Brown murder. Yesterday he ham will take immediate charge of his was assisted by good work on the parti new church, and will move his family of Officer Mishkowicz. Today - Chief to - Lowell within a week. His sucMartin directed that Inquiries be' made cessor in the South Bend church has in the neighborhood of the Smith home.' not yet been named. In his new charge to learn whether the couple had been he will succeed Rev. J. B. Dunklebergquarreling. er wno will go to Gas City, Ind.

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The decidedly active tone of the ' ly interested in the production of steel, equipment market and a gradual de- ani Hammond. Hegewisch, Burnham cline in the manufacture of steel are an(1 Pullman may be said to constitute the principal characteristics of the tn center of the production of railway iron and steel trade of the past week. ..equipment of this region. t,i i ,.r . i Expectations bffhe steel manufac-

' t iu liic aiumet region for the reason! that Indiana Harbor. South Chicago and Gary are deep-

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K FITH a telephone in her home, the housewife

may select her supplies and economize on

household expenses

Provision dealers call their patrons daily to quote prices and quality of stock. They encourage the telephone order for it is convenient for the customer. The telephone in the home reduces the cost of living and in a thousand other ways proves , its worth.

every pen iciepnone is a Long Pittance station.

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turers that buying- by the railroads would be inevitable for the reason that it. could not be defe;fyea Indefinitely has been fulfilled in atleast,one respect, as is Indicated by the improved character of the equipment market. A result is being felt, by the steel mills in fairly well sustained demand for structural.-, -plates aruT ars. which is now one of the most favorable aspects of the situation. : . A normal demand for cars from the railroads, it fs ostf'mat'eU. would be about 300,000 a yearr: whereas the railroads have taken In the last three years about that quantity. .This, it is figured, would leave the carriers at least two years behind on reqiiiremenis, . or 600.000 cars, so that' resumption of demand has been considered a tjiecessity for 'some., time. ' October. car. contracts called for more thana 8.000 cars, which

I will require about .tO'.OOO tons of, steel.

-AiiiuiiK me cvmraeLs: ror tars placed in the last fewtfaja .are 2. 000 . for the Grand Trunk and ,'00 , for1, the New York Central to" be bfiilt by "the American Car. and Foundry company, and ,- OOOfor the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, placed with the Pressed Steel Car oom-

I pany. I-rom rh Standard Steel Car j company tRe Chesapeake and Ohio lias ! ordered 2.000. cars and inquiries which ! are expected to ".be. 'dosed soon include i. 000 for the Baltimore"' and Ohio. 5.000

more.ior tne Pennsylvania, and 5.000 additional for the Xew York Central. The Southern Railway lias closed a contract with the . Pressed Steel for D00 all-steel sondolaa. - ' ' - ;' Manufacturers of railroad equipment express the oplniort that orders should come In for: the . rof- of the' year at least in as good ajvolnme as since the middle of Se"pf ember." but" should this be the case , the total amount taken in 1911 will.be far below normal requirements., not exceeding probably ' 73, ooo cars and . a.OflO locomotives. This unusual quietness in railroad demand Is brought out more clearly by comparison with the year before, when 140. OSi cars and 3,787 locomotives were ordered, and 1909. whm 193.83 cars were ordered and 3.350 locmotlves, while normal requirements, as stated above, would average about 300,000 cars. As a whole output of the mills is declining slowly. Thougll rail inquiries in the market at -present are heavy, few are finding theirs way yet to completion of negotiations. Most, of the inquiries are for 1912 . delivery. Contracts placed .haver been insignificant in size and few in number. Among the few nSy orders are 3.500 tons for a lumber company . In Alabama, to be rolled at the Knsley mill, and 3.200 tons for tfte Cleveland Short line, but two contracts of 30,000 tons each are on the point , of being closed for 1912 delivery. It is understood that the Maryland Steel company 'and the Tennessee Coal and Iron company will divide the Norfolk aJtd Western order for 30,000 tons. The Burlington Is rtrAcd to have ordered 20.000 .ton?. of steel rails, and

two other rail contracts of 20 000 to

J3.000 tons each are pending. The New York Central lines still are in the market for new cars. Yet yiere appears to be a better tone to the market as a whole, as more consumers come to the conclusion that prices are not likely to go lower. A further decline, say t he , , nialcers, is most out of the question for the simnle

reason that now they are about on a

parity with costs, having reached thus a position where they cannot fall much, if any. , , r As a result of this state of affairs already many manufacturers in the east have dropped out of the market for certain commodities and will remain out until the level of prices has returned to a more remunerative basis. It is for the same reason, it is stated, that the railroads have shown a better disposition toward the structural steel and equipment markets, seeing in the present a time to secure bridge material end cars on a basis unusually economical. - , . Though in some aspects a slightly firmer tone has been seen in the price situation manufacturers feel rnnsirter.

able anxiety. Structural materials felt

a further easing off this week, when

the list price of beams and angles was quoted at J1.15 per-100 pounds, comparing with a recent price of $1.20. Contracts already have been made on this new basis. For October incoming business of the steel corporation- averaged between 35,000 and 36.000 tons per day. or at the rate of 19,500 tons yearly. , . October orders were thus slightly in excess of those for September. Independent companies, notably the Republic, it is reported, did not fare so well as the corporation, and taking the Industry as a whole, .probably there was not so good a business in October as in the preceding month. Unfilled tonnage of the corporation itself, as a result of the October improvement, is expected to show a pick-up as of Oct. 31, when made public on the 10th of this month. Including all steel companies, it Is estimated that mill operations show a falling off of about 10 per cent from the opening of October, and with the present Indications of bookings further contractions would not be out of the question. Output of the blast furnaces continues at the rate of between 24.000,000 and 23.000.000 tons of pig iron

j per year, which is about 2,300,000 tons

below thp, record year.

prices. This means widely fluctuating markets. If this corporation is declared a monoply insofar as its ore holdings are concerned, there will be som edoubt as to the continuation of the corporation's lease of the Great Northern' ore lands. The Steel Corporation, with its larger margin : of profit per ton of steel sold, would be able to compete with foreign countries for the worlds steel trade, but the prospects of the Independent commote. Commissioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith is expected to Issue the second Installation of his report on steel the latter part of this year, and there are many manufacturers who hold that it will be drastic in character, but this Is merely guess work.

The Steel Corporation Confronted With Many Threatening Problems

Not since Ir organization has the United States Steel Corporation been confronted .with so many problems threatening its progress and development, among them the following. Suits of the Government to dissolve the corporation. Activities of the Stanley Committee. Movement on the part of indopen&nt steel and iron manufacturers in the Pittsburgh district to force a reduction in freight rates on iron ore, coal coke Breaking Up of the .barmony of interests" plan for maintaining reasonable prices for stee, products. Reduction in steel prices to a levjl that forces lower earnings. In fact several of the steel comapnies, on a basis of present prices, are not earning current dividends. Movement to segregate the railroads of the corporation and force iron ore freight rates to a much lower level. New construction work over the last five years that has brought to capacity of the Fteel mills and blast furnaces of the country to a point far inexcess of consumptive requirements. Threatened reduction in steel duties. If the Steel Corporation is able to survive the above during the next 12 months by earning sufficient money to cover current dividend requirements, its future will be more solidly assured than it has been at any time since April 1. 1901, the date when it began business.. The impairment of earnings as a result of lower steel prices js more serious than some people realize. As an" example, 'sieel prices are about a ton lower -than they were in '1907. In that vear the corporation sold ap- . .-I i nil i I li in I

proximately 10. 500. 000 tons of finished steel and earnings were approximately $161,000,000. Had the corporation been compelled to accept present prices in the year 1907 its earnings would, theoretically, have been less than $80,000,000. In other words, based on present prices, the net earnings of the corporation have been impaired between $S0,000,000 and $85,000,000 year as a result of the drastic reduction in steel prices since 1907. It is not to be presumed that steel prices are going to be maintained at their present low level for a prolonged period, so that the impairment stated

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at im. uiaiiuii. nuwrvrr, wiin ine Fteel capacity of the country so far In excess of consumption, political attacks, proposed tariff changes, etc. there are few manufacturers who hold to the belief that there is going to be any pronounced advance In quotations over the next few months. So far as new" construction is concerned, it will be the policy of the Steel Corporation as well as the independents to confine expenditures almost entirely to renewals. There re many manufacturers who believe that"so far as the dissolution of the Steel Corporation Is concerned it will be confined largely to divorcing railroads from manufacturing. If this is done, and freight rates on ore reduced, earnings would be Impaired, but to what extent would not be kAown until an idea could be obtained as to the nature of the dissolution. -,.The, steel .marHet is now .an. open One, -.with ; each company:' scrambling for business on a basis of its own

WHITING CLUB HOLDS MEETING t Continued from Pag l. of a new day for Whiting. Henceforth she will take her stand wfth other cities of the region. Not to stand paramount as the greatest of oil cities, but. to be recognized

as one or th great cities in the Calumet region is the object of the club. Penator B'rank Gavit presided at the enthusiastic meeting and was an active

j participant in many of the discussions.

The organization is supporting a good de.il of business, as nhe following resuits show: What Tney Hate Done. 1. Members are locating a glass fac-

! tory at Whiting. 2. The obtaining of a new light franchise was thought advisable by th ivclub. It was their opinion that a thirty ! per cent decrease from present rates should be made, j 3. A committee was appointed to present a five-cent telephone toll plan

'a the commercial clubs of Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago tind Gary. Present rates for inter-city calls were pronounced exorbitant. 4. A plan of converting the old

, Yvhiting graveyard Into a residence ; district by the removal of all bodies j that are buried there, was approved, 'and the future, of the issuer given thn attention of a committee. Want White Way. j 5. The establishing of a Great White , Way on 119th street also had an official birth as a progressive movement. 6. A representative. Mayor Parks. ( was sent to the Indiana Federation of j Commercial clubs' convention In Fort j Wayne last week. 7. All old, dilapidated buildings are

to be condemned by the club and action taken before the proper authorities. The Times was highly complimented In speeches by Senator Frank Gavit and G. J. Bader. president of the Whiting, Indiana Harbor and Tolleston Stat banks, and the First National bank of East Chicago. Mr. Bader said In closing: "I know The Times to be for the best Interests of all Lake county cities and that If we do our nart

and help the paper it will most cer

tainty do its part for us. .( Red-hot speeches were made by Mayoj,' Beaumont Parks, A. J. Lauer and others. X

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Qary Land Co.

CONTROLS EVERY UNIMPROVED LOT IN THE HEART OF THE OF THE CITY OF GARY. This Company will pave every street in the First Subdivision. Sewers and water mains are now in every alley in the First Subdivision. The prices of lots in the First Subdivision include the cost of paved streets.

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the properties of the Gary Land Company, situated directly south of the Steel Plant and other subsidiary companies of the Corporation, will be the home of the merchant, banker, clerk and workmen. Compare the price of our Improved Lots with those south of the Company's properties. A clear title to every lot.

Is this not Reason Enough?

Why you should purchase property for residential purposes in the First Subdivision? Beautifully situated, high and dry, accessible to plants of the Steel Company, to schools and churches and the business center of the city. A few unsold lots in the First Subdivision ranging in price from $450 up.

The Gary Land Co,

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