Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 8, Hammond, Lake County, 23 March 1912 — Page 4
THE TIMES.
March 23, 1912.
THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS By The Lake County Printing and Pa talis hi ns Cnpnny.
Editor Times: I take thla mean to
adv!so the Republicans of Lake county
that I am a candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to the wishes of the Republican county nominating conven
tion, ard respectfully solicit their sap-
port If they find that my work for the party in the past Is worthy of eoncld.
ration. HENRY WlilTAKER.
The Lake County Times, dally except Sunday, "entered as second-class matter June 28, 190"; The Lake County Times, dally except Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. 8. 1911; The Gary Evening: Times, daily except Sunday, entered Oct. 5, 1J09: The Lake County Times. Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. 30, 1111; The Times, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. 15. 1112, at the postofflee at Hammond. Indiana, all under the act of March 1. 1171.
Editor Times: Please announce to
my friends over Lake county mat i am a candidate for the republican
nomination for Sheriff, and that I ask
their support at the Republican coun
ty convention, whose date Is to be an
nounced later.
FRED FRIED LET.
Entered at the Postofflee, Hammond. Ind.. as second-class matter.
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COMMISIOXF.R. IXI DISTRICT. Editor Times: You are authorised to
announce that I wilt be a candidate for
ha Republican renomination to the of
fice of County Commissioner from the
Second district, subject to the wishes of the Republican primaries on March
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, FOR AUDITOR.
Editor times: I desire to announce
that I am a candidate for the Republl
can nomination for County Auditor,
subject to tbe decision of the Republl
can primaries. The support and as slstance of the Republican voters o
Lake country are respectfully solicited
(Signed) JOHN A. BSENNAN, Gar. Ind.
fc.dttor times: tou are hereby au
tnorized to announce that I am a can
dldate for the Republican nomination
for Auditor of Lake county, and I as
the support of the Republican voters of Lake county at the primaries to be
l.eld March 39. ALEXANDER JAMIESON.
ers. Amateur theatricals, visits to museums, recreation of an educa-
-"MADE" LAND FRUITS. An nut rmrit.itlvft V flnnnnnrpnirn;
l0 . ... ...k. . tional character are everywhere to b has-been made that within the next . ..... ...
month one of the furnaces at the new
FOR REPRESENTATIVE. Editor Times: You. will please an
nounce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for. Representative for Lake County, subject to the Republican primaries March 28.
Tt. R. QUILLAN.
Editor Times: Please announce that will be a candidate for the republi
can nomination for Representative
from I.ake county subject to the de
cision of the Republican primaries.
. O. S. WIDHOLM. Gary, Ind.
FOR JUDGE, LAKE SUPERIOR COURT
I am a candidate for the office of
Judge of the Lake Superior Court,
Room 3. subject to the decision of the Republican primaries. March 29. 1911.
GEORGE II. MANLOVE, Gary, Ind.
plant of the Iroquois Iron Company, located at the mouth of the Caluiuet river will start operations.
This plant, it should be remember
ed, was secured for South Chicago
through the passage of the "made" land bills. The Iroquois Iron Company had previously purchased the present site and the engineers figured
that the company would be allowed to reclaim some of the submerged lands.
Then came that solar plexus blow
that resulted In the building of the city of Gary and driving the steel
Improvements across the state line.
The Iroquois Iron Company, which
had its plans drawn for a new plant
on the site purchased at the mouth of
the river, stopped right there ancTfor several years nothing was done. Next came the passage of the land bills and the Iroquois Iron Company lost
no time in starting work upon the
plant it had promised to build. Now
it is completed and the tests preliminary to the starting of operations
are being made..
The land bills were pieces of legislation South Chicago worked for that
did not go astray. The comnanies
have kept their word and we can be prepared for more expansion, both by the Illinois Steel Company and the Iroquois Iron Company. Here was one instance where the public cooperated with the corporations and the results have been to their mutual advantage. South Chicago Calumet.
found. If Madam Curie discovers
radium, forthwith a lecturer is engaged and holds forth in popular language before the various factory
clubs and organizations on the new
discovery. If a Richard Strauss com
poses a 'Salome' the musical critic of the local newspaper Is asked to point out the beauties of the new superWagnerian music. If a Mona Lisa is stolen, there is bound to be a lecture on Leonardo. If a war breaks out in Tripoli, the moving picture transports the men and women of Leverkusen, or whatever it may be, to Africa and shows them Turks and Italians preparing for conflict. "Schools, too, there are schools to educate the sons and daughters of employes, schools where children of working learn wood carving, weaving and handicrafts, schools where
nousekeepmg and needlework are
taught, maintained partly by work-
ingmen, without compulsion, and
partly by the employers."
SOFT COAL MINERS AND OJ-.uAfOxCIi'E UP HOFb. Ot AVERTING STRIKE IN BIJ UMlNOUS FIELDS AFFECTNC HALF A MILLION MEN.
PETER PARTLY RIGHT.
Finley Peter Dunne, the witty
author of the Mr. Dooley sketches should confine himself to his Irish dialect writings. Let him keep
pounding away on his typewriter about Mr. Dooley, Mr. IIinnes3j Father Kelley and Saint Patrick. But as to writing political essays never!
Writing about the presidency in
the March number of the Metropoli
tan Finley says:
"The colonel has gratefully sought the seclusion of the more dignified profession of journalism and may be found almost any day at the Outlook office. It Is almost certain that he will not enter Into the campaign even to assist his oM friend, the former secretary of Despite the fact Finley lunched with the colonel when he occupied the white house it seems that their intimacy did not extend to the point
of letting he former on the Inside of
late events.
Yet there are two truths in the Metropolitan article. Finley refers to journalism as more dignified than third-term seeking and he clearly
states that the colonel will not enter
the campaign "even to assist his old
friend, the secretary of war." But
he did enter it to do something else.
FOR RECORDER. Editor Times: You are authorized to announce that I am a candidate on the Republican ticket for Recorder of Lake county, subject to the will of the Republican primaries, and I ask tbe support of tbe voters. EDWARD C. GLOVER.
Editor Times: Please annuuace to the voters of Lake county that I will be a candidate for Recorder of Lake county on the Republican- ticket, subject to the decision of the Republican primaries. April 5 a. H. W. JOHNSON.
Editor Times: You are authorised to announce that I am a candidate on the Republican ticket for Recorder of Lake county, subject to the will of the Republican primaries, and I ask the support of the voters. W. A. JORDAN.
COMMISSIONER, FIRST DISTRICT.
Editor Times; Please state that I will be a candidate for renomination
to the office of County Commissioner
from the first district, subject to the
Republican nominating convention. RICHARD SCHAAF. SR.
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR.
i-.ciitor mimes: Fleas announce to
voters or uiko county that I am a candidate for renomination to the office of County Surveyor, subject to the will
of the Republican primaries. RAY SEELY.
Ward I am kind
7 UK Columbus City Post says:
I will ride a motorcycle this sum
mer and can therefore teach more
pupils in music than formerly. Term
begins April 1. Write me early atl
Butler, Ind., Ethel Houser." Oh you
Ethel.
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Miners end oners tore la conference. f1 President J. C. Kolsea ef t eperatere. f the Ohio Mine Workers. (3) Job P. Wfclle.
(2) President John Monrtv
JUDGE Becker blames It on the
juries and the prosecutors. Be care
ful about being in contempt as you
The situation at Cleveland, where the committees of soft coal miners and operators of the central states are trying to settle upon a new wage scale, appears hopeless. John P. White, president ot the mine workers and who has been one of the most optimistic men In the conference, declares there Is little chance of avert lag a great strike that will affect half a million men.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER."
traitor iimes: Please announce ln the columns of your paper that I will b; a candidate for renomination to the County Treas-urershlp. subject to the tlect'ion of the Republican nominating convention, AiartJi 30. ALBERT J. SWANSOX.
roit ruHosER. IMi'.or Times: pleas announce that I will be a candidate for renomination for the office of County Coroner, subject to the will of the Republican nominating convention, March 29. DR FRANK SMITH.
FOR SHERIFF. Editor, Timks:' Please announce that I will be a candidate for sheriff of Lake county, subject to the decision of the republican county convention. WM. KUXERT. To lies ton, Ind,
YES HAMMOND'S CREDIT'S GOOD.
It is to the credit of the present
and past city administrations in
Hammond that 'they have brought
the credit of the city to a point where
it might be classed as "A A 1."
But a city in Indiana, unlike the
individual, can not borrow any more
money with its good credit than other cities can on their poor credit. It is
simply able to get better terms.
What the cltlea of northern Lake
county should urge of the next leg
islature is the passage of a law which
will make it possible for growing
municipalities like Gary, East Chicago and Hammond to borrow beyond
two percent of the valuation of its assessables.
Cities like these should be able to
borrow even to the extent of four per cent of their assessed valuation. But such loans should only be made possible by a referendum vote. This
is the practice in Illinois and it is a
very good one. It prevents one ad
ministration from encumbering the taxpayers without thetr consent. Yes Hammond's credit is good and yet it is unable to borrow the money to make purchases of park properties while land is still cheap. The city must plead poverty as an excuse for an inadequate water system. Its officers say, "We know we ought to have a four mile crib ad a tunnel to the distributing center of the city of Hammond but we simply can not raise the money."
Judge Becker was right when he
said in a recent sneech that the
young growing communities in the northern end of the stato are simply bound hand and foot by laws which were designed for terms like Vlncennes, Lafayette whose growth ha been slow, if perreptable at. all. Hammond's credit is good but outside of $1,400 premium on a 125,000 loan it does not have any advantage over any other city In the state so far as the quantity of the loan is concerned. What the whole Calumet regiomis going to demand of the next legislature is a law which will make it possible to borrow an amount equal to at least four percent of the assessed valuation of all taxable
HEAVEN OR HELL. A man once said to Henry Beecher: "I have a neighbor greatly alarmed about. He is
ana generous, treats his employes
well, never quarrels with his neigh
Dors, gives money liberally to the
poor, and was never known to do a dis
honest act: but he does not believe in
some important doctrines of the
church, ind I want you to tell me
whether he will go to hell or not."
"My dear sir," replied Beecher, "I
arh not in a position to say whether he
will go to heaven or hell, but where-
ever this gentleman goes, he has my
best wishes."
The man who does his duty has
nothing to fear; and the yellow en
velope with the quit notice has no horrors for the worker who is onto his job and loyal.
When a man begins to worry about
next January's contract before the middle of the summer, he belongs to the past. Charon has him by the coat collar and Chronos has already pushed him into the ash barrel. He is in the wrong place, and he knows it.
Kismet is against him, and the super-
viser of the poor has his number.
mis is not saying tnat the wise man should not keep his eye on the future. He shouid and he will; and for that reason he will not fear it. We
fear the things we cannot understand; wherefore, the worker who is deliver
ing the goods knows that Clotho and Atropos are bis friends and Nemesis
has, forgotten his address.
Labor is fortune, and the man who knows how to couple his brain to his
han can look into the future with con fldence.
nominated. Without charge, and If the space permitted, we could give slxtysix
ponder over what the judge says even why he win not.
if you know what he says is true. 1 FOR the love of Mike, when will the
newspaper men quit writing about
gentle Miss Sprlner shivering in her
BRUSH boy in a N'Orleans barber petticoats, or words to that effects
Khrr ar-oirlontallv Vilt a nolrnn thai A CAlhKLK advertises In
r .-, - a .
the
'steemed Fort Wayne News that he
serves "Lenten luncheons and tiink
lost a leg and the brush boy is sore teas." Great town that Fort Wayne.
because he forgot the tip.
IT is proved that It la the enamel
ing in the bathtub that makes the
bathtub tru6t rich.
II. M". Thought It was the hole.
AN Indiana man killed his erring
sister because she would not reform
which shows how terrible
really can become.
NOW days one-half the world is
wishing that it was back on the farm
and the other half wishes that It was
ofC again.
A BRIGHT city sealer down In Ev-
ansvllle has learned that the bottom of a peck measure should be in the bottom. This comes from living In a small literary belt.
THE greatest agon a man can suf
fer, as we view It, is to have recently purchased a new" auto and then have to
tragedy) keep it locked up until these mediaeval
days pass along.
This Week's News Forecast
Wshington, D. C, March 23. The real contest for control of the Republican national convention at Chicago next June is about to begin in earnest. Thus far very few delegates have been selected from territory where the Republican party is a legitimate factor In elections. But during the jComing week there will be primaries or conventions in widely separated sections of the country where there la a real Republican party and where the election of delegates counts for something substantial. Chief Interest will center In the primaries in New York State for the selection of district delegates to the national convention and also delegates to the State convention which in turn will name the delegates-at-large to the Chicago gathering. In Indiana the Republicans will hold their State convention to name delegates-at-large. A number ot the district conventions in the same State also will be held during the wek. In Colorado the State convention will be held for the selection of delegates-at-large. The results in these three States should aid the politicians materially In drawing a line on the relative strength of the Taft and Roosevelt candidacies. Other conventions of the week, of lesser importance, will include the State convention of Mississippi and the territorial convention in Alaska. K A seat in the 'United States senate and the governorship are Involved in the results of the Democratic primary election to be held in Arkansas Wed-
AN exchange points out rather
gleefully that winter is frozen to the
lap of spring. Perhaps that's what's
the matter.
nesday. Senator Jeff Davis is a candidate for re-election and is ottnosed by
IT is almost time for the South Bend, former Congressman Stephen Brundldee. The gubernatorial contest Is be-
newspapers to take their regular pot-jtween Governor Donaghey, who is a candidate for a third term, and Con-
i. xiuitj mm. 11 is uunc eressman Joseph t. Kobinson.
Prominent manufacturers and business men of Philadelphia are ' making arrangements for a mass-meeting In that city Saturday night, with President Taft aa the principal speaker. The President will be In Philadelphia on that day to attend the dinner of the Ohio Society. At a hearing to be held before Secretary of War Stimson in Washington
on Wednesday a distinguished delegation from Canada will be heard in op-
shot at
while the lid isn't tilted or else some
one may get sprayed by the escaping
steam.
OLD Abe Martin, of the Indianapolis
News longs for the fellow that used to dress up only on Sundays instead
THE Burlington Gazette speaks Oflof every day in the week. Abe, the position to the application of the Chicago Drainage Commission to increase
the "glutton of the limelight." It
mentions no names but we give you
one guess.
latter variety doesn't work in the mills around here.
AT last Mishaw-aka has something it
can boast of. It now has a real candidate tor lieutenant governor. Let's
see what is the name of the present l. g ?
"HOW Wes; Grow Deaf," is a title of
an article in a current weekly. Listening to presidential boomers is one reason. .
SEE that Standard Oil stockholders
LOTS Of people seem to think there I received their 2.900 per cent dividend
is a brick under that hat in the ring,jchecks "terda.v and as John d.'s was
the way they are kicking at it. Xr.'Z:7
until John present it with that sanitary drinking fountain.
BETTER keep on the heavy ones.
You do not stand so much chance of
having an obituary written about
you.
me now 01 tne jmcago arainage canal, canaaian objections are baseii on the fact that the works will lower the levels of the Great Lakes, and also, that the withdrawal of the water will lower the temperature of Lake Michigan In such a way as to affect cultivation along its shores. A conference between representatives of the Canadian and West Indian Governments, looking toward freer commercial Intercourse between Canada and the islands, will begin In Ottawa Wednesday. The conference will be watched with keen interest by the manufacturers of the United States, as a reciprocity agreement between Canada and the West Indies might naturally be expected to interfere seriously with American exports to the islands. The Provincial elections In British Columbia will take place Thursday. Railway extensions and a policy of exclusion of Orientals are the chief planks of the platform on which Pren-ler McBrlde expects to be returned to power. The Liberals are advocating free homesteads to bona fide settlers
government operation of coal mines, Government-owned grain elevators and
telephones, abolition of the poll tax, the creation of a Provincial labor de
partment, and the complete removal of the liquor traffic from Government
control.
THINGS are not always what! they seem." No especially what they
seem to the other fellow.
IN GERMANY'S GARYS. "We Americans have been ac
customed to regard Gary as a unique example of a town built to order I around a great steel plant," writes j Waldemar Kaempffert, managing editor of the Scientific American. "A counterpart of that performance, but far more artistic, may be found at Leverkusen .opposite the city of Co
logne. To Leverkusen the great coal tar dye works of Elberfeld have transferred their activities; but at Leverkusen, it. so happened, there were no accommodations for workingmen. The creation of these accommodations was carried out In a way that would hardly be expected of a manufacturer. Houses were designed and built that bear comparison with the best suburban villas of this country. What is more, amusement places, were established, for at Leverkusen there was no theater, no lecture hall, no place for recreation. "So, too, the great chemical factories that cluster round Frankfort (the Oriesheim-Elektron works, the
Leopold Cassella plant, and the HoechBt plant)' all have their workingmen's colonies, built at enormous
expense. One colony alone consisting of 550 dwellings for three thousand workingmen was established by the Badische company at a cost of $700,000. The weekly rental of lh smallest type of dwelling Is the mers pittance of one mark and eighty pfennigs, equivalent to nearly 43 cents in American money. Manufacturers encourage the formation of workingmen's clubs and
societies and contribute liberally to their support. There is, of course, the inevitable German singing society and the inevitable German band, supplemented sometimes by a string orchestra, all maintained partly by tbe
WHAT ail3 the Scotch of Gary
lately? Have they forgotten how to
make haggis?
The Day in HISTORY
THE spring openings only make!1660"
the naughty weather all the more
undesirable.
'HAT on earth is there that worse than the daffydil craze?
is
II EAR D BY' RUBE
AMONG those who will NOT go to the Baltimore convention as delegates are Samuel Parker of South Bend and Thomas Ephraim Knotts of Gary. "ANYHOW, Baltimore is adevilova town." T. E. K. IT is a shame the way the poor voters arc being called out nights to attend precinct, township, county, state
ana otner Kind ot caucuses. And on top of this they have to stand for the table of delegates standing This Times prints every day. IN firing up the furnace give it a few vicious kicks now and then as a
reminder that you soon can Ignore It altogether. COME to Uiink of it among other things that are beginning to be pretty much in demand at this hour is the family bath tub (or wash tub). GREAT Juniper! Chicago does blame streptococci for causing- sore throat. A man is liable to get a bum thorax merely from trying to pronounce stretptococci. HOBAUT ladies have formed an Embroidery club and it is called "Ugo Igo." Maybe we will.
AN eastern name hss found six iea-
workingmen, partly by their employ-1 EOns why Roosevelt snould nvt l re
THIS DATE IX HISTORY. March 23. -Sir William Berkeley elected gov
ernor of Virginia.
1699 John Bartrom, who founded In Philadelphia the first botanic garden in America, Born. Died Sept. 22. 1T7T. 1752 First issue of the Halifax Gaxette, first newspaper printed in Canada.
1S23 Abdication or Iturbiae, emperor
of Mexico.
1S38 Sir George Arthur appointed lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. 1S62 Battle of Winchester, between the federals under Gen. Shields and the confederates under Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson. 18ST Paul Tulane, founder of Tulane university', d'ed in Princeton, N. J. Born there May 10, 1801. 1903 Royal Geographical society celebrated the tercentenary of Queen i Elizabeth's death. THIS IS MY ROTH BIRTHDAY. ' Sir Donald IK Mann. Sir Donald D. Mann, the famous Canadian , railroad builder, was born In Acton, Ont., March 23, 1853. Early In life he abandoned farming for lumbering and a few years later he went to Winnipeg as a contractor for the Canadian Paolfle Railroad company, lie remained in this employment for five years. At the end of that period, the firm of Mackenzie, Mann & Co. was
formed to engajr'' in railroad construction. After constructing various roads for ether parties, the firm nurchasfd the fisarter of the Itike Manitoba Railway and Canal company in 1S95, from Which has grown the Canadian Northern Railway system and upwards of 5.000 miles of lines in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba. Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia. Of this system Sir Donald D. Man nis the first vice president. Congratulations to: Sydney Grundy, noted Kngllsh dramatist. 6 years old today. Cardinal Iionrne, archbishop of Westminister, 11 j tars old taUay.
THIS DATE IX HISTORY. Jremarks. Ben Wallace, track walker, March 34. ! was pelted with rocks on two or threa 1603 Queen EUaabeth of England died, occasions while at work, his assailants Born Sept. 7, 1533. remaining hidden. Herbert Lewis, a 1607 Michael Adrianzoon de Puyter. school teacher, found bundles of famous Dutch admiral, born. Died switches on his doorstep on two sucApril 29, 1676. . eesslve mornings with a "warning" on 1776 John Harrison, who made the the second ocaslon requiring him .
. chronometer, died in London. Born leave.
in 1693. 17S3 Spain recognized the independence of the United States.
CORONER Coroner 'A. O.
W1L.I, REPORT. . Shauck of Rushville
lS34Wlll!am Morris, English poet and nas continued me investigational tne artist, born. Died Oct. 8. 1886. mystery of Mrs. Harris's death and I860 Treaty ceding Savoy and Nice to promises a verdict In a few days. Due France signed mny rumors that have arisen re18S2 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, warding the suspicion oT various perthe poet, died In Cambridge. Mass. the coroner la besieged with reBom in Portland. Me.. Feb. 27. 1807. ue,t certain witnesses 1911-The Mexican cabinet resigned. ,adu" ?own cUw" 1" J of the details of the caae. Dr. Shauck THIS IS MY 71Sf BIRTHDAY. !has "on to the hom f mar,y wltKdw.rd I-WMRiorr. ! e"dKeV?rin t0 nv"sf iru r-i a t in Ki I tr l rni 1 ' u
Edward U Wetmore. distinguished Ca- J" ' Y . . .
nation nrlot y-o V fn In TV r&A rint rn
f ltA.rfa 17 a rrlfl ana 1A A hofora
S. B-. March 24, 1841. and received his ' " " ' " m ' ., ... . . . house was set on fire. Her cha education at the University of New , . . . , . . . , body was found In the ruins of
ed.
Brunswick. He goon attained proml
nence at the bar and was elected mayor of Krederlcton and later became a member of the New Brunswick legislature. I Ills career on the bench dates from
He has already stated It Is his be-
tho
arret!
her
home near Rushville a wek ago last Tuesday. CARBON HOTEL. BIR3. A defective flue caused a 'fire, result-
187, In which year he was appointed Ing In the total destruction or the lepulsne judge of the supreme court of Haven hotel at Carbon, Thursday the northwest territories. Since 1J07 momingl The structure was of frsme. Judge Wetntore has been chief Justice two stories high. The losa was 83,000 nf sn.katritoa'tn. In the same year partly covered by Insurance. The
that he was named as chief justice ne was also selected as chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan. Congratulations to: Miss Margaret Carnegie, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, 15 years old today. Fanny Crosby, the famous blind hymn writer, 92 years old today. Laurent O. David, member of the senate of Canada, 72 years old today.
The Day in HISTORY
CHIRCH SMEARED WITH MID. There has been a recent outbreak of rowdyism at Charlestown, the old county seat, and efforts to find the perpetrators of several minor outrages are being made. The door of St. Michael's Catholic church was smeary! with mud iid covered with. insulting and profaue
building was owned by Mrs. A. M. De-
Haven, who also conducted the hotel. BLAMH THE GROCKB TRIST, Muncie grocers, who for severGl weeks have been compelled to keep their places ot business closed on Sunday, under police order, announce that If the rule continues to be enforced they will bring about a' reign of the "blue laws" throughout the city and will force confectionery establishments, news stands, tobacco stores and other places to keep closed that luy; will force drugsdBts to refrain from selling anything except drugs and will prevent th street cars from operating. The grocer in outlying districts say that the action of the police In closing their places was taken at the instigation of the "grocers' trust," which they assert, is composed of a number of uptown stores that remain closed on Sun days. It is asserted that Muncie trust, fixes the uptown prices of food products n dthat a committee of grocers meet each Monday morning for that purpose. The police say they have no intention of rescinding their order.