Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 199, Hammond, Lake County, 12 February 1912 — Page 8
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. . .. a . Jrom Lejt to KtghtOov. n , A. ' ." Mammoth Gary Steel Works Now at Full Blast for First Time. Xumktr livflvt Maat furnace, tae last of GaiT battery of -Ig;ht blaat furnarrn, n Itlrh vttm completed two Tear (. lind Its firra Jifchtrd for the first time today. Firm are now bnraina; In fnraaeei in the third ualt of open hearth than arfvlngr Giry thirty active ones hearth furuaren. Iaaid of onemonth t h.- other twelv eopenheartha will be completed kItIbk fciary fortytwo active open-heart ha. " SItlHon-toa rail mill to resume operations on February 2fl bat If orders Justify It the mil may resume next Monday. - Sooth Chleaxo rail mill number one resumes operations today, rolling billets. Gary rail mill la alloted 75100 tona of bla; Xw Torlt Central order and General 9nperlntenrient Gleason lookse for bigger orders. Another newly completed sheet mill at the Gary plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate mill operated for first time today; 1,00 men now employed. i Gary steel worka now employing ttOO men nnd will soon be near the 7,000 mark. With the "blowing in" of blast furnace No. 12 today at the Gary HEN a
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4 . . . Otasscock of est Virginia; Gov. K. 6. . Alirich of Nebraska; Gov. W. R. works of the Illinois Steel Company the entire battery of eight blast furnaces is in commission. Furnace numbef 12 was completed two years ago but business never demanded that it be placed in operation. OPENED FOR FIRST TIME. At the Oarv plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company another sheet mill, newly completed, was operated for the first time today. Fires are now burning in two more open hearth furnaces of the newly completed unit number one thus making thirty active opn-hearth furnaces. TVithin a month's time there will be 1 total of forty-two open-hearth furnace. ORDER TO START RAIL MI1,I. Cm top of thig comes orflers to start th monster rail mill, which has beeridle oft and on since early last fall. A T5,900-ton order is assured from the New York Central linesand although Monday, February 26, has been set as the date to begin operations, the time may be changed to next Monday. All other rolling mills, electric stations, machine shnns. foundries at ftJary works are now in operation and the following table shows what will be active in the Gary mills before the month ends. LIST OF MII.I.S OPERATING. Klght blast furnaces. Forty-two open hearth furnaces. The rail mill. Electric station.
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Billet mill. Universal plate mill. 560 coke ovens. - Axle mill. . Twelve .inch mill. , Fourteen-inch mill. Kighteen-inch niiir."' . Machine shops, foundries, etc. At the Gary plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company another sheet mill was in operation today. This makes the second mill to be placed in operation during the past few days, one! having been operated for the first tim j aunng tne latter part or last week. The parting of the new sheet mill makes ten In operation. x General Manager John A. Gross, at the head of the Gary mills, expects to have twelve more mills in operation Inside of two months. All of these mills, said Mr. Gross, are practically , completed. . The Gary, aheet and tin" plate mills, of which there eventually will be ninety-six. are now producing plate, light sheets, and galvanized product. Sheet is being used for stove pipes, etc. Every new mill operated at the tin plate plant means jnore business for the Gary steel works from which It procures its metal. JUDGE IN , STINGING REBUKE (Continued from page one.) for the reason that he would not allow Price to practice in his court. Go After Witnesses. This followed a similar Incident which indicates that the cotirts of Lake county are going to stand for better discipline in the future. Last week in the case of F. Kleinschmidt vs. J. J. Nathan a witness, John Gadsdale failed to appear after he had been summoned into court. Judge Reiter issued a bench warrant and the witness was summoned into court. - He was fined $10 and costs and sentenced to the county jail for five days. Through the intervention of Attorney C. R. Slusser Clarence Bretsch and the sentence was finally commuted., Thi.s was intended as a lesson to witnesses that they must not dnlay court proceedHome? you something,
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ings by their failure to appear. Jeon A. Berezniak was not admitted to membership in the Lake County Barr Association as was reported. He has been admitted to the bar in Lake County for the reason that any attorney with the qualifications that are demanded of a saloon keper may be admitted to the practice of law under the Indiana constitution. This Is said to presage a more strict regulation of the attorneys who practice in Lake County courts and it is expected tha'drastice measures for the elimination of undesirables will be adopted. BASEBALL LEAGUE IN FORMATION (Continued day to see what arrangements can be made for his team to Join the organization and" is most enthusiastic over ihe prospect. -In Laporte J. Fitz Simmons, manager and owner of the local base ball team, was equally enthusiastic over the prospects of Joining the Northern Indiana association when seen by Messrs. Sternberg and Zimmerman. He also will attend the meeting on Saturday. Chas. Thum, druggist at Valpo and manager of the Valparaiso team, and Mr. Gardner, a banker of that city, one of the owners of the team, were the parties seen by the local men when they visited Valparaiso. One or both of these men will attend the meeting Saturday to make arrangenfents to Join the leayue. 'n Gary the American Bridge works team are desirous of Joining and will have1, representative present Saturday." This team has a ball park, but no grand stand, but have promised. If admitted, to see to it that a grand stand is erected. Some of the men visited expressed a desire to have a few changes made In the rules which wU govern the league, and it is probable that at least some of these proposed changes will be adopted. . The men behind base ball in all of the towns named are. like the Lake county base abll leaders, substantial citizens and-represent the best element in their communities. They are the kind who will see to it that things are
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J! 0 1 ' 'v .M. 1 i tt truer oo& run. as , they should be and .the men most Interested in the Northern- Indiana Base 'Ball 'association feel "that for this reason the league will receive a substantial boost by, their affiliation. The prospects .for the league, in view of the proposed increase in Hs circuit, and because of Lake county's new .prospects , industrially, which will attract r thousands Of new citizens to this region, seem excellent. It weathered ' last -year- In splendid fashion, coming, out with banners flying, a time wherr most of the leagues perish, if they are going to perish, and having come out of its first year all right, it looks like smooth sailing-In the future. CANDIDATES CUT OUT . CIGARS AND BOOZE CContlnued from Page 1.) practices law, not only the campaign slgar .and beer party of. the past are illegal, but'-' watermelons, ice cream, chewing gum and candy har no legitimate place, in a campaign carried on under the provisions of that law. Likewise the' practice of church organizations, women's clubs, social clubs formed for campaign holdup purposes with the andidateg as the victims, are to be things of the past' if the candidates observeVthe provisions of the law. JiO CARRlAfiK n ELECTION DAY. Much.of thematerlal in the letter to Mr. Rucker Is quoted from the text of the act, and was set out in a special pamphlet prepared by the attorney general fo distribution by the Governor. But the questions are answered in detail. ' Many of the questions had to do with expenditures by candidates for--ve-hicles fbr voters, the tmployment of workers in wards and precincts, etc. In effect, the attorney general held that vehicle can only be supplied for the tlck or Infirm voter and that the candidate many employ men to do for him In the' wards and precincts that he would himself be permitted to do in perbn. ' But the candidate cannot delegate to the ward or prtclnct worker any power not expressly allowed himself by the provisions of the act. It was held that where a. slate Is formed of candidates in a primary, the slate is a political or ganization within -the meanni ot th
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the Roosevelt Committee; Gov. Chester be held Tuesday morning at o'clock at the home of her parents at 10HS avenue M thence to the Northwestern depot where the remains will be sent to Waukegan, 111. and placed in a vault. The funeral of Miss Marie Sellger will be held at 1 o'clock at the residence of her parents, 10234 avenue L, East Side and at the German Evangelical church 103rd street and avenue H at 1:10. The Interment will take place at the Concordia cemetery, east of Oak Hill cemetery at Hammond. The pall-bearers forboth young ladies will be Messrs. John Blaul, Peter Bley, Oscar Gallef. Axel Benson, Hollls Hunter and Ralph Jewett GARY MAN WEDS EAST CHICAGO GIRL Miss Agnes Welch of East Chicago anl Harry Parson of Gary, who are well known people In Kast Chicago left for Chicago today where a quiet wedding ceremony will be performed. Miss Welch came from Muncle, yesterday evening and accompanied by her mother Mrs. Daisy Welch. They then went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. A- W. L&Kus who lives in the Friedman building for the night Mr. Parson has been with the Gary steel, mills for some time, in which hs ; is a paymaster. Both Miss Welch and Mr. Parson are well known in East Chifgo and Muncie, where for the past 1 . . ! three or four years Miss Welch ha for one of ( the naDera in Muncle. As soon as the knot is tied the couple will start to house keeping either In Fast Chicago or Gary. Mrs. Welch will remain In East Chicago and be the I guests oi vir. anu inrs. Jinuq lor a lew ! weeks and then will return to her home in Muncle. ' BLACKLIST III STEEL Witness Swears Trust Keeps Names of Union Men It Bara From Mills. Washington, Feb. 12. That the United States Steel corporation maintains a-"black-list" was charged Saturday in testimony given before the Staniey commlttee ot the House of, Representatives, which Is investigating the trust's affairs. This list vwas said to be In possesson of II. A. Eagle, city editor ot the Pittsburgh Leader. The committee ordered issued a sub- . fi,t poena commanding him to produce the Feara to ame Infortnaat. j. H. Seldes, a Pittsburgh newspaper man, was the witness to touch on tlio "blacklist." He testified that the Steel corporation maintained a blacklist of several Housand men discharged because of their connection with labor unions. Ha hesitated to give the source of his information, saying his informant might be "slugged" ir his name wera divulged. - ' "The man who told me, said the Steel corporation would give thousands of dollars for ' the list," said Seldes, who finally declared the list was in possession of Mr. Eagle. "Yes, I've got a blacklist the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company kept." said Mr. Eagle, when asked about the statement of Seldes. "The list contains, I should say, more than 1.000 names; many of the men on it never knew they were blacklisted." Asked If he was ready to produce thi list, Mr. Eagle said, "What else can 1 do?" Company Admits DlaerlmlnaAoaa. The blacklisting issue came out In an Inquiry into the American ' Tin -Plate Company's employment of -foreign laborers to take the places of American strikers in Pittsburgh in 1909. W. O. Irvln. vice president of the company, which is a subsidiary of the 'United States Steel Corporation, admitted the company had advertised for Syrians, Poles and Roumanians. Unions were not recognized after the strike, he said ,-' "Did you discriminate against union men?" asked Representative Beall of Texas. "We naturally were reluctant to giva employment to those who were vlclouj toward the men who entered our ml'ln on the open-shop basis," said Irvln, THB HOME NEWSPAPER OF LAKE COUNT T IS THE COMPLIMENT RBSTOWED . BY ITS READERS ON T.H TIMES.