Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 44, Hammond, Lake County, 2 December 1911 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

December 2, 1911.

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS Br tk Lake Comity Pristine aad Fab. Ilahlas Cemaaay.

Gary Evening Times; Lake County Times (Country); Lake County Times (Evening); Times Sporting Extra, and Lake County Times (Weekly).

Entered- at the Postofflce. Hammond, Ind.. as second-class matter.

Main Office Hammond, Ind.. ..Tel. Ill Private Exchange. Call Pep. "Wanted. Gary Office Tel. 137 East Chicago Office Tel. 863 Indiana Harbor Tel. S50R Whiting ."...Tel. SOU Crown Point Tel, SS

declared unquixocally that the arrest

or the McNamara brothers was a gigantic conspiracy against union labor. ! Gompers pictured Detective Burns as a monster of terrible mien and claimed that he was the instrument of destruction that was being used by capital in its war upon labor. Now he admits that he was wrong and says that his credulity was imposed upon. The socialistic press of the country is in the same boat. But the great American press was not fooled. It withheld criticism pending the outcome of the trial. The developments have justified this position.

URCKB PAID VP CIRCULATION THAN ANY OTHER TWO NEWS. PAPERS IN THE CALUMET REGION.

New Torlc Representatives Payne & Toung. S0-S4 West 33d St.. and 29-3 West 32nd St. New York. N. T. Chicago Representatives Payne A Toung, 77-748 Marquette Buildings Chicago. 111.

ANONTMOU3 communications will not be noticed, but others will be printed at discretion, and should ba addressed to The Editor. Times. Ham' mond, Ind.

WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE! Woodman, spare that tree. Touch not & single bough! In youth It sheltered me. And I'll protect It now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed It near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy ax shall harm It not That old familiar tree. Whole glory ana renown Are spread o'er land and sea And wouldst thou hew it down? Woodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut hot its earthbound tie; Oh. spare that aged oak, Now towering to the skies! When but an Idle boy, ,1 sought its grateful shade; In all their gushing Joy Here, too, my sisters played. My mother kissed me here; My father pressed my hand Forgive this foolish tear, But lot that old oak stand.My heartstrings round thee cling, Close as thy bark, old friend! Here shall the wild bird sing. And stilt thy branches bend. Old tree! the storm still brave! And. woodman, leave the spot; While I've a l,and to save, Thy ax shall .harm it not. George Pope Morris.

THE M'NAMARA MURDERERS. . Two murderers, James B. and John J. McNamara, have pleaded guilty of dynamiting The Times building in Los Angeles, an act which resulted in the

death of twenty-one men.

This makes it certain that the claims

of Dt-tective William J. Burns that the McXamara brothers were back of a

gigantic conspiracy or murder were well founded; just as most of the claims of this great detective are usually borne out by the facts. The fact that these brothers were high officials of the International Bridge and Strucural Iron Workers does not mean that the membership of this organization abets in murder. It does mean that the members of this organization are responsible, In a degree, for electing criminals to positions of power in the organization. It is safe to say that ninety-nine per cent of the membership of the organization deeply deplores the fact that Its officers. In the mistaken idea that they were furthering the cause of the

union, were guilty of the most inexcusable and fiendish murders and of

the most wanton destruction of property that the conflict between capital and labor has ever known. If the cause of union labor is to be redeemed In the eyes of the law-abiding citizens of the United States steps must be taken to prevent unscrupulous men' with criminal tendencies from getting the upper hand. This movement must come from within the unions themselves. The spirit of lawlessness that manifested Itself in the Electrical Workers' union in the Calumet region, when that organization was under the

leadership of the Carmody-Finneran-

O'Connor crowd, is the nearest approach to the condition that existed in the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers' association that the, Calumet region has ever known. Had the careers of these men continued. Instead of being nipped in the bud, it is possible that some terrible things might have happened in this locality. It is said that union labor is judged by its mistakes. That may be true, but It Is unjust. THE TIMES prefers to believe that the situation, which resulted from the leadership of the McNamaras, is an isolated exception and that hundreds of thousands of union men in the country deplore the disgrace that has been brought upon the good name of union labor.

In the meantime, Samuel Gompers

has again proved himself unworthy of his leadership of the great American

Federation of Labor. Instead of tak

Ing the position that union labor, as

well as the country at large, demands

THE BOYVILLE NEWS. Among the exchanges that comes to our desk is the interesting weekly Boyville News of the Gary public

schools. It is a four-page newspaper

of five columns and a little less in

lengtn mat tne average newspaper.

The News is written, edited and print

ed by the students of the high and

grammar schools of the city, the typo

graphical work being done under the

direction of a skilled printer.

Local news, social and athletic par

agraphs, what outside schools are do

ing and some very crisp correspondence letters are some of its features.

The News also has a real city editor.

a business manager, and what most

newspapers can't afford to have a

treasurer.

The most noticeable points that

catch our eye is the correspondence

from the various schools. For instance,

this Is what the reporter from the

Fourteenth Avenue Grammar school,

ia the heart of the foreign quarter, writes on, it being printed exactly as

clipped from the News:

We are studying about tulips In Miss Austin's room. George Butcher was tranferred from Emerson to the 14th school last week. We have great fun playing squat-tag. We are through with the story of "The Nurnberg Stove" and are having the story of! "Han's Ander

son's Fairy Tales." Paul Pivak has entered the 5B class. He comes from Chicago. Theodore and Mack Kowalewskl, also Ted Dolzinski have been promoted from 3-A class to the 5-B, class. They are learning to speak English well. Here is what came from the Twelfth Avenue school, the segregated school for colored children: William ' Collins has been absent for a day. We have been utting camels. Ruby Martin cut the best one. Fraukle Dowdy of South Connecticut returned to school last Monday after suffering two weeks with tonsilitls. The girls of the "Busy Bee Club" are going to give a -Thanksgiving concert. W had a sensational debate at our school Friday morning. The topic was "Resolved that the trusts should be abolished." The affirmative won by points 8 to 10. Mr.

Simpson officiated as Judge. We have a new girl in the fourth grade at our school. Her name is Ocasso Chambers.

And this is a paragraph in the "copy''

sent in by little Frank Valo, reporter for the Twenty-Fourth Avenue Grammar Grade school:

THE Sanitary Outlook

We had a circus at 24th Ave. school. Henry Green was popcorn man. Joe Doiinsky was an elephant, Edward Zenk was a monkey and the girls jumped through hoops. We think that the most interesting item of all is that "Theodore and Mack Kowaleski, also Ted Dolzinski have been promoted" and that "they are learning to epeak Englislf well."

In a story In the Chicago Tribune

dealing with the problems of the sanitary district so much of It is' pertinent

to conditions in the Calumet district

that the article is herewith reprinted

n its entirety;

In 1891 the Chicago death rate from

typhoid fever was 175 per 100,000. The rate has steadily fallen, until it reach

ed the low level of Chicago history

11 (estimated), In 1911. Reversing the flow fn the Chicago river keeps from the lake the sewage that flowed into that stream. There were many sewers which flowed directly Into the lake. One by one these have been turned into the drainage canal until, at the present time, no sewer enters Lake Michigan , between Kvanston and the mouth of the Calumet river. Disposal of sewage by diluting it and flowing it a long distance was the most affective and economical method of sewage disposal '.available for Chicago. For years it has proved satisfactory for us, nor can it be said that it. has harmed our neighbors. Tho Illinois river is cleaner, contains, more oxygen in its water, and supports more fisty life than it did before the drainage canal was built. It is easy, though, to see the limitations of the canal. It is unwise not to plan to meet those limitations before the emergency is on us. That the limitations are developing so easrly is due to three factors: 1. The government has placed a narrow limit on the amount of water which It allows diverted through the canal, and at the same time has established a high standard of purity of water in the stream. 2. The manufacturing district in South Chicago and in the nearby Illinois and Indiana towns has developed with a rapidity which was not expected. 3. Trade wastes have been allowed to pollute the canal and the Chicago and Calumet rivers without any proper control. In some quarters an idea prevails that the disposal of the Chicago sewage by dillutlon is another illustration of American wastefulness. This, pinion is based upon the idea that sewage farms would be profitable. Perhaps sewage farming is profitable In Berlin and Paris, though even this is oues-

tloned. There Mhe per capita use of water is around fifty gallons per day. Here the sewage is diluted with 200 gallons of water. Sewage farms will not pay anywhere in the United States except, it may be, ' in districts where

sewage has a water as well as a fertilizer value. Chicago must modify its present sewage disposal plan by providing for a gradually growing: 1. Treatment of the drinking water. 2. Partial purification of the sewage or a part of It through A. Settling basins; B. Filters; C. Oxygenation. These are the opinions of the engineers of the sanitary district, Messrs. Wlsner and Ellicott They are based on experimental work done under Mr. Wisner by Mr. Pearce and others at the experimental sewage plant, located at Thirty-ninth street and the lake front. The first recommendation made by engineers was that the water taken In

through the Sixty-eighth street intake be treated with bleaching powder to kill the typhoid and other bacteria

which get into the lake from the Calu

met river and the city sewers emptying into the lake from Gary to South

Chicago. This water is used by all of

the people who live or work south of

Thirty-ninth street or thereabouts. This Is a temporary measure and

should be Inaugurated during the com

ing year.

When water is polluted by organic

matter, purification proceeds through

Confessed Dynamiters, Their Work, and a Memorial to Victims

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foul, offensive, putef active process into I J I I the more pleasant fermentation n-ith I IvCJl inTi rV I

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Chronology of Times Explosion Case.

the action of several agencies. Oxygen causes the organic matter to break down into simpler and harmless chemical substances. Sedimentation removes some of the matter. Some of the sedimented matter slowly breaks up into simpler chemical compounds. Bacteria and low forms of vegetable and animal life destroy the more harmful eleents of organic matter in water. Fish, and in lesser measure, birds make way with some of it. Sunlight breaks up some of the harmful chemicals. Through the. action of these agencies stored water, which contained typhoid bacill at the time of storing, after an Interval of seven days to seven weeks, is free of them. The one of these agencies which is most responsible for converting ihe foul, offensive, putefactive process into the more pleasant fermentation with

hydrolysis. Is oxygen. Lake Michigan

water contains about ten parts of oxygen per 1,000,000. This is about twice as much as polluted water needs to

keep from becoming, offensive, and

about five times as much as it needs to

support fish life. The percentage of oxygen is high enough so that the wa

ter is inoffensive from Lawrence

nue to about Center street.

Th oxylfeen at f lorin avenue has

dropped to 1.2.' FYom North avenue to

Lake street there is no oxygen. In

this stretch the tannery and gas works

waste covers the bottom of the river

and licks up all of the oxygen not othwise consumed.

As the stream flows south, nuisance

conamons develop at Bubbly, creek

HER PLACE AT HOME. Woman's place is at home. A truth indeed, but few truths are absolute and final. With a living, growing, changing civilization, social and economic truth can not be static.

If it is, It either perishes altogether or becomes a lie. As some writer has

said, a truth should be used as a tent

to pass a night in and not as a perma

nent abiding place, for if so used it be comes a prison.

Woman's essential sphere is that of

the home maker, declares a contemporary, but that is no reason why her

mentality or her activity should be

crushed between the four walls of the

home she makes.

Such a condition Is now repugnant

not only to our , sense of proportion,

but also to our fresher sense of justice

So far from being harmed by the

woman's club movement, the home and the conditions of home life have been

Infinitely bettered by the movement's

thousand and one civic, philanthropic,

educational, hygienic and humanitar

ian activities.

HAD to rub our eyes when we read

that the college boys in a South Caro

lina town aad bought out all the to

bacco in town and buried it in a bon

fire. Carrie Nation's spirit seems to

be marching on.

CHICAGO man goes three thousand

miles once a week to see his sweet

heart. When they' are married be

probably will sigh like a lot of other

suckers and say, "Ah, those were hap-

that exact justice be done, Gompers Ipy laysl"

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This Week's News Forecast

Washington, D. C-, Dec. 2. The first regular session of the Sixty-third congress will assemble at, noon Monday. The President's message will be read In both houses Tuesday and tlu-n the lawmakers will be ready to take

There it Is not so much th cwair q,Iud the appropriation measures and the bills dealing with the tariff, the

it is the great volume of harmful trade! trusts and other big issues, the consideration of which promises to make waste filling up the stream, decreasing ; tne session one of extraordinary importance.

its depth and using up the oxygen. In When the Supreme Court or the United States reconvenes Monaay, ioisummer time the oxygen disappears lowing its recess of two weeks, counsel for the Chicago packers who are from the water at Willow Springs, and! under indictment for alleged violation of the criminal provisions of the none is found until after the water has i-Sherman anti-trust law will present a motion for a stay. In the form of a boiled over the dam at Lockport. The - supersedeas, In an effort to further delay the trial of the packers, which is oxygen content increases in winter as!8"111011 o begin Wednesday in the United States District Court in Chi-

compared with summer. - cago.

The streams which empty into the! Tll Vnited States Steel Corporation's first step in the legal battle with Illinois river are badly polluted. in'the Government for its existence will "te taken Monday. On that day the sevthem the oxygen content is low. The ral defendants, through counsel, will enter their appearances in the United findings indicate that, had it not been Sta.t?s circuit Court at Trenton, N. J., in which the Government's suit to disfor the large amount of oxygen and solve the steel trust has been brought. clean water taken from the lake and) The final hearings on the suits brought by the Government to dissolve poured into the Illinois river, fish, even the so-called sugar and steamship trusts are to be held Monday in the United carp, would have disappeared from the States Circuit Court at New York. As a result of those hearings the case main river for many, miles below Mar-j will go direct to the Suprem Court of the United States. seilles. Carp, lake perch, minnows apd Tne United States Senate committee which has been Investigating shiners can live in water which is Ofcly ; charges of corruption in the election of Senator Lorlmer of Illinois will reabont half as good as the standard set sume its hearings Tuesday in Washington. by the government ' for the drainage! Of Interest to the politicians, will be the mayoralty election In Los Angele3 canal. (Tuesday. The contest is between George Alexander, good government inIf the people who live along the cumbent, and Job Harriman, the Labor Union Socialist candidate, who led Kankakee. Fox and , Desplaines rivers all his competitors at the recent primary. Interest in the contest Is Increased would take heed of the lessons given by the fact that women will exercise the right of suffrage for the first time by changes In their fish life, they and their vote is likely to be the deciding factor. would correct certain practices which ! The Western governors who are making a "get-together" tour of Eastern are now killing off a great revenue cities are due to reach Washington Thursday. On the evening of that day producer and which j. eventually will, they are to be entertained at dinner by the President. make necessary certain expensive pub- The successor of Hoke Smith as governor of Georgia will be named at a lie works by their community. The Democratic State-wide primary on Thursday. The candidates contesting for presence or absence of fish constitutes the nomination are ex-Governor Joseph M. Brown, Judge Richard B. Russell a rough means of judging the offens- of the court of appeals, and Col. J. Pope Brown, former State treasurer, lveness of water. Trout disappear' The Prohibition national committee will meet in Chicago Wednesday to from streams when tfiey are still nice select the time and place for holding the party's convention to nominate a in appearance, though their waters are candidate for president. Among the cities that desire to entertain the counot safe for drinking purposes. Bass vention are Milwaukee, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland, disappear when the streams are get-. Ore. '

King George and Queen Mary are . duo to make their state entry into Delhi on Thursday. Their arrival will be followed by five days of public reception and ceremonies, concluding with the great Imperial Dirbar on December 12. , Notable conventions of the weeK will include the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington, the Southern Immigration Conference In Baltimore, the National Irrigation Congress in Chicago, and the annual convention of the American Public Heal'h Association at Havana, Cuba.

To be on the safe side this yonngpftllant carries his mistletoe with him. Then he can hold It over the bead of the girl be wants, as he has evidently done in this case. To do this trick successfully there, should be a supply of mistletoe ofl hand. SHOP EARLY before the stores are all out There will be a whole lot of people wanting mistletoe, and .ton may find THE SUPPLY EXHAUST

ED OR THE PRICES BOOSTED if

you wait The came la true of U Christmas goods. TO SHOP EARLY IS THE ONLY SAFE RULE These little folks are evidently Tery happy, thank you. Shop early and make every one happy, including yourself.

ting in bad shape. According to the census of 1910, the population in the sanitary district of Chicago is only 60 per cent of the to

tal population of the Illinois river wa

ter shed. It is, therefore, improper to charge ail pollution of the Illinois to

the sanitary district..

It is estimated that in 1922 there will

be 3,000,000 people inVChicago, and in

1930 there will be S.500,000. As the

population increases,' the provision for caring for its sewage must Increase.

Kither we must be allowed to flow more water or we must partially purify the sewage. For Instance, If we could only half purify the sewage, the present flow of water would take care of the sewage from 4.500,000 people. If we could get rid of the organic sludge on the bottom of the stream and make the manufacturers purify their trade waste

and then one-third purify the sewage from human sources, the canal would make the sewage of 4,500,000 people inoffensive and the Desplaines and Illinois rivers capable of supporting fish life. , Nowhere is desnity of 'population great. We doubt If there is an acre on which a thousand persons live. There are forty acre tracts with 400 to the acre. There Is much vacant acreage within the city limits. This will not always be. The sanitary district should purchase the locations necessary for settling ba. sins to one-third purify and filters to 1 three-quarters purify. For instance,

right now the Sag improvement Is beginning. It would not be proper planning to do other than to provide a collecting sewer to gather all the sewage on the west side of the Calumet river, from its mouth to the Little Calumet, near Blue Island, and there partially purify it before emptying Into the Sag channel. Elsewhere throughout the Chicago sanitary district system settling basins or filters should be located. Whether

a settling oasin or a mienng piani should be installed at a given place should be determined by the density of population in the surrounding district. At times other factors should be taken into consideration. It seems quite certain that outer harbors are to be built within a few years; The arguments in favor of these projects and against them hve been matters of public agitation for so long that the community is well informed, and its judgment is not hasty or ill considered. In planning for outer harbors we should recognize the necessity of filtering the drinking water as be

ing a part of the program

1910. Oct. 1. Los Angeles Times newspaper plant destroyed by explosion and fire. Nineteen men killed. Bombs found at home of General Harrison Gray Otis, proprietor of the Times, and Felix Zeehandelaar, Secretary Merchants and Manufacturers Association. Oct. 9 Experts appointed by Mayor Alexander to investigate cause of disaster reported that hlgfih explosive, such as nitroglycerin, had been used. Oct. 13 Job Harriman, attorney representing labor union interests, questioned wltneses before cotoner's jury, eliciting statement, that In their opinion explosion was caused by gas. Oct. 25. Specal grand jury impaneled by Judge Bordwell began sifting alleged evidence that three men known as J. B. Brlce, Milton A. Schmidt and David Caplan had blown up the Timed with "eighty per cent gelatin" , purchased September 26 from Giant powder works at San Francisco. Five nundred pounds of dynamite, later identified as part of that purchas'jd by trio, was found cached in house at South San Francisco October 16. Dec. 25 Llewellyn Iren works partially wrecke by explosion. 1311. Jan. 8 Grand Jury returned secret . Indictments aga!rst Brice, Schmidt and

Caplan, March 14 Coroner's jury filed verdict declaring victims met death in wreck and fire caused by dynamite explosion. April 12 James B. McNamara and

Ortie E. McManlgal arrested in Detroit

and taken to place of hiding in Chicago.

April 15 Secret indictments filed by

grand jury against James B. Mi-

Namara, Ortie E. McManigal and John J. McNamara, charging them with de

struction of the Times.

April 22 John J. McNamara arrested in offices of International Association of Bridge and Structural iron

Workers in Indianapolis. Extradited

Immediately, and rushed across the continent to Los Angeles, being Joined on way by James McNamara and McManigal. Joseph Ford, Assistant District Attorney of Los Angeles who ontained extradition, arrested later mi charge of kidnaping. Detective William J. Burns and Detective James Hosick. of Los Angeles, subsequently Indicted on same charge. April 26 Prisoners arrived In Los Angeles. May 4 McManlgal taken before grand jury, where he made sworn statement accusing James B. McNamara of having blown up the Times, and declaring himself responsible for

Llewellyn Iron Works explosion. May 5 Grand Jury returned indictments accusing McNamaras, Schmidt, , Caplan, John Doe and Richard Roe of nineteen murders In connection with Times explosion and holding McManlgal responsible Jointly with John J. McNamara, for attempt to wrecic Llewellyn Iron Works. McNamaras arraigned. Bail asked. This denied May 9. May 23 Clarence S. Darrow arrive I from Chicago to become chief counsel for McNamaras. Time for entering pleased deferred to July 6. July 6 Instead of entering plea defense assailed jurisdition of Judge Bordwell, denying his right to try case, and moved to quash indictments. July 12 Bordwell overruled both motions. ' Defense filed exceptions. McNamaras pleaded not guilty. Trial st for October 11.

Oct. 11 Trial of J. B. McNamara

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more typhoid amongst their crews than

Thev r without anv provision for the alleged murder opened

sewage and waste storing or destruc- da's Pent In unsuccessful effort to tion. For these reasons thev nollnte 8"e Jurty.

the waters which they ply. In addi-j

the placing of harbors on the lake ,

tion

front, one way and another, will add to the shore pollution. The south end of Lake Michigan is already polluted almost to the border line mark from the standpoint of the use of Its waters, taken from points within four miles of shore, and when the water Is less

than fifty feet; deep.

Dec. j James B. McNamara confesses dynamiting of Times- butletng. John J. McNamara confesses to destroying Llewellyn Iron W'orks wlt'.i dynamite.

EATS EXPENSIVE SIPPER. Emil Foersch of Logansport la bewailing the cost of a recent supper. While he was skinning a rabbit a few

If much more pollution is added, pro-J days ago a 150 diamond ring slipped vision for filtration must be made, from his finger unnoticed. He threw Therefore, it is wire for those planning the skin in the stove and a moment l.;the construction of outside harbors to ter. discovered his loss. The fire was add plans for water filtration. In many ! pulled out but the diamond was not

instances the filtration beds and reser- found.

voirs in connection therewith can be placed on land made for harbor purposes. The Mann bill for the control of

Foersch says he has broken the record established by Judge George Ross for expensive meals. Last Christmas Judge Ross, who is a raiser of fine bred

dumping in Lake Michigan makes pro- chickens, instructed his lilrea man ta vision for the making pf land. go out into the poultry yard and kill a This study Is printed in the proceed- couple of chickens for dinner. The Iuks of the board of trustees of the man went out and kllleil a prize roost-

The ships plying the great lakes have sanitary district dated Oct.

1911.

er which he valued at il2i