Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 235, Hammond, Lake County, 25 March 1912 — Page 8
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THE TIMES. Monday, March 25,-1912. The Roosevelt candidates are Albert J. Beverldge. Edwin M. Lee, Fred Landls, of Logansport, and Orln r. Brown, of Terre Haute. KINSMEN BELIEVE "FlGHTINC ALLENS" Ff.FEINC POSSE AT VIRGINIA. HAVf. SEPARATED AND WILL FRY TO GET OUT OF THE COUNTRY filAGNIFICENT flEW Hungarian aermonr I am well pleased with the progress made thus far and have every confidence that everything will continue to go well with us," The plans for the church and other buildings have not yet been drawn, but a rousrh sketch of the church provides for a building 60x110 feet In dimenssions." GHURCHFORGATHOUCS $50,000 to Be Spent in East BALDWIN COMPANY GETS A BIG ORDER Chicago for New Hungarian Church. (Continued from Pag t
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Republican State Convention at Indianapolis the Warmest Ever; Contests Thick as Flies in Summer Time-
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TIMES Bl IUUl , AT STATK CAPITA I.. Indianapolis, Jnd., March credentials committee of the
can state convention, which will be uppointed by the district meeting teniKht' will have the hardest kind o ;i job in disposing of the numerous contest"! which have btn filed against the statin of both Taft ttv.J Roosevelt del- . 'K'tes to the convention, end on the r suit of the work of that committee will iepenrt the complexion of the state convention. So many contents have been filed that it will probably keep the conlest committee in continuous, session session from the time it starts to grind ter.ight until the convention is ready to open tomorrow:
On the face of the returns which!
have .-been received by the Taft managers from all over the state, however, the Taft people will have a majority of more than two hundred delegates in the convention. The convention will consist of 1,439 delegates. "When 1.414 delegates hail been' heard from Taft had 81 nrjj Roosevelt 59S, according- to the figures of the Taft people. The standing: of the delegates by districts, according to these figures, was as follows: IMstrtrt. Taft. Rooipvrlt. First 54 37 ! Second ........ 81.... ....25 Third 60 42 Fourth 60 29-42.. 44 13 42
Fifth 65....... Sixth . 4S 1-S. . Seventh 128 Klghth 63. Ninth 63...... . Tenth 79 Eleventh 62 1-3. . Twelfth 13 1-2..
Gary police are now looking up a
story that Albert Molein whom they hold on a charge of check forgery upon
complaint of the East Clary police mar- i shol has been peddling fake Y. M. C. A. memberships in Gary. Complaint was made that Molein had forged and passed checks in Chesterton. East Chicago iind Kast Gary and the police who were on the look out for him picked him up r.t the Y. M. C. A. where he Is said to
i have been reading a bible.
Today the police. s. they say,.,learned that the alleged forger's visit to the association building' was for - the purpose of letting people know that ho was connected with the institution. How many fake memberships he peddled is not known. When it was heard that this was the alieged swindler's game several business men rushed to police headquarter to see if the prisoner was not the notorious John- MacFarland, crook and bible class leader, reporter, civil engl-
! neer. rulinarv exnert. nulnlt orator.
motorgraph president, model young man and check forger, who disappeared
after he stole two thousand, dollars
from local church pillars.
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Arrow on map Indicate wher Aliens hid In mountain. Carroll county Jail at Hlllavlll on right. Below, Indian acout who led poss into mountains on trail at outlaw. . B'rienda and klnames of ttao "fighting Aliens." who are being bunted tLrough the Blue Ridge mountains of Western Vlrgta'.a by several armed men, anxious to take tbera dead or alive for their murder of five persona In the HllUvlile courthouse last week, now Qrifezs to believe the fugitives have separated. Deputy Sheriff R. U Jones of Mt. Airy. N. C. nephew ol Floyd Allen, says th men probably have scattered to find shelter with moonshiner tn remote recesaea of the mountain. "They will never surrender," he declared, "t look for them to try to bide away until this thing baa partially blown cvor, and then get out of tb country. u Alaska, perhaps."
orders. The Chicago, Rock Island and Paclfla railroad has ordered 700 gondola cats from the Standard Steel Car Co. These cars will undoubtedly be built at th Hammond plant of the company. The Hammond plant will also get th order from the Wabash railroad for 200 all steel hopper cars. The eastern plants of the Standard Steel Car fir will probably get the order for 60' forty ton gondola cars and 500 hopper cars from the Western Maryland Railroad. -
' A 50,000 church, parochial school, parochial residence and home for the
sisters In charge of the school. Is the project on which Father Paul Bognar of the Hungarian Catholic church in j East CUrcago, destroyed . recently by! fire. Is at work. ' j Father Bognar on Saturday was in- i terviewed by The Times and stated that everything is looking toward a speedy commencement of work on the; contemplated Improvements, and that .
tne cnurcn ana priest s nouse j In all thi8 ma.rkea i900 cars which
will be begun as soon as the weatnerjhave been placed wtth th, estern an I will permit. Although there Is no cer- i we,trn piant8 cf the Standard Steel tainty as to when the new school and'Car Co Jn addition the order for 3
sisters' home will be begun, there is every reason to believe that, this will not be later than Jul' or August. The property owned at present by the church includes six lots at the northwest corner of Alexander, avenue and 148th street, and the two lots on which stand the priest's house in Melville avenue about a block away. It is proposed to purchase If possible the six. lots at the corner of McCdok and. 148th street right back of the old church property'. If this is done the lots facing McCook will be utillxed as a site for the' school and sisters' house, while the old church
motor .cars from the New York; New Haven and Hartford railroad has ben confirmed. These will probably be built at Hammond. Payroll Jnnpi. The payroll at the Standard Steel Car plant In Hammond last Saturday was over $25,000. The .pay roll for the two week period . previous was $11,000 so that there has been a $7,000 Increase in the two weeka period just passed.7 The freight car department 'i 'now in operation and for- the fl-st ttm In nearly two years ' both tbi pasnger and the freight departments are busy.
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There are six contested seats in thei First district, contested by the'Roosevelt people; the Roosevelt people have filed thirteen contests in Monroe county; on delegate Is neutral in Morgan county; one is unlnstructed In Decatur cconty; one is in doubt In Marion county; there is a Taft contest in Madison cettnty. where Roosevelt received 20 and Taft 4 delegates; one is unpledged In Montgomery county: and one delegate Is contested in Elkhart county. The Roosevelt people will contest 97 of the Taft delegate in Marion county. The figures are disputed by the Roosevelt people. They Insist that they have carried the Third. Fouth. Sixth. Eighth. Xlnth, Eleventh, Twelfth and
Thirteenth for the state convention, and are insisting that they will be abli to organize the atate convention and to control the credentials committee. If
they do they will unseat the Marion county delegation, which they say was elected by fraud. They have taken core of affidavits from man who say th primari were crooked. They do this and unseat the other Taft delegatea whose seats are contested it will give them control of the convention. This, however, is regarded as altogether unlikely, as some of the districts named by them appear to be too faigone for them to get them back.
Unbiased figures prepared on returns received from independent sources make it appear that Roosevelt has car
ried the Sixth. Eighth. Eleventh
Twelfth and Thirteenth districts, wit'i a possible chance in the Ninth, but that
is all there is in sight for the Roosevelt people on the face of these returns That would be only six districts, o:
one short of enough to organize the conventfon and appoint the credcntialj
committee. All of the above figures relate entire
ly to the state convention and have nothing to do with the district conventions, which will elect district dele
gates to the national convention. Pis
trict. conventions have already been
held in the First and Seventh districts,
and both cf these districts elected Taft delegates. The Twelfth district did not
elect district convention delegates lasr
Saturday. The Twelfth district convention will not be held until April 23 and the delegates will be elected about the middle of April. All districts, however, except the First, Seventh and Twelfth elected dls- . trict delegates Saturday, as well as state convention delegates. The Taft people concede that Roosevelt has carried the Eleventh district and that he will get the two district
delegates from that , district. They I say, too, that the chances favor .Roose- j velt in the Twelfth. But they Insist that this is all he will get from Indiana. On the face of their return as set out in the table above, the Eleventh is the only district that went for Roosevelt beyond question. They say that -in the Sixth, Eighth and. Thirteen districts mero Taft delegates were elected to the district conventions than to the state convention, and that this will give Taft those districts at the district conventions. The Roosevelt people declare they will control the Sixth. Eighth. Ninth. Eleventh and Twelfth district
conventions sure. - But even this would only give them ten delegates out of the thirty. There is every indication that there will be two state conventions tomorrow, No matter which side controls ' the convention, the other side will ho'd a convention of its own. The Taft candidates for delegates t : large are Charles W. Fairbanks. Harry S. New, James E. Watson, of Rushville, and Joseph D. Oliver, of South Bend.
Members of the city council, the board of public works, traction offcials and newspaper men have been invited to attend a meeting of the South Side (Ridge Road) Improvement association
at the Gary city hall tomorrow night. The meeting is called to straighten out some of the traction tangles that have been bothering the Ridge roaders.
An effort will be made to have the
Gary and Interurban railway officials and the Gary and Southern Traction company officials get together and give
the south end of the city a respectable schedule. So far two ares, a total of ten cents, prevails to the steel mills and the G. and 'S. cars do not begin to operate until seven o'clock and they quit running before supper time. No transfers are exchanged. A nickel fare, universal transfers, and an adequate schedule is demanded of the two companies.
'to grant its use to another. A Taft will divide from 18,000 to 20,000 tons
liia.i caaie Daek with the information between the Pennsylvania and Bethlethat it was the. council chamber that hem steel companies. The hong Island had been refused and that the meeting has taken bids for grade crossing work, could take place in the city hall corri- which will require at least 2.500 tons dor without let or hindrance from any- The Tennessee Coal -and Iron Company body, and so it fell out that it did take has taken an order for 12,000 tons for a plactj in the corridor of the same pub- ' southern railroad.
lie building. It continued to take
plaos until some one turned out the lights while a Roosevelt man was harranguing the crowd which loitered after the real business of the evening had been transacted. At the city hall Chairman Kirk again called the meeting to order and im-
site will be occupied with the newMore men are being taken on -evry
church and parochial residence. If the j
six lots are not available an effort will j
be mad to purchase some lots on the southeast" corner' of Alexander and 148th street, diagonally opposite from the burned church. In case this land is purchased the school and sisters' hous will be mli on it. Bishop Allerdine has given Father Bognar hi assurance that work on the church will not be delayed after favorable weather makes work possible. The old church was insured for $8,000 and out of this the old Indebtedness
will be canceled, the new improvements
being put in on an entirely independ' ent basis. With the cash now in hand,
week and it is expected that by sum
mer time the payroll will be back to its
highest point. -
HARBOR IS WANTED FOR INDIANA (Continued from Par 1.1 '
FANS TAKE UP IMPORTANT TOPICS (Continued from page one.)
iron. This machine, which Is valued at i
several thousand dollars, is a complete !there wU- be something over $1,000 left
wrec- land this sum will be augmented sevllnman Done Protrude from Metal. I erai thousand dollar by the expected Today workmen were busy removing i j ,of tne Dret,ent parish residence, an
the debris. A section of the tracks was !elght room house standing on two lotsCounty men wanted to do. Mr. Whinery cut up. The rails were encrusted with t 4742 Meivnie avenue. Father Bog-lwa. fiiow.cJ hv M.vnr p.rk r Whit.
iron and, according to employes, Por-jnar expectB SOon to go east in th in- Ung who declared that Indiana didn't tions of Edmondson's bones and cloth- ) tereet8 of tne new church, visiting Nwropoie to let her dog be kicked around
ins proiruue rom vanouo York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and all any longer by Chicago and the gover-
are hiving it out today at the Federal building over the location of harbors and- waterway and Gov. Marshall who headed the Indiana delegation spok la favor of the Indiana Calumet region.
Th governor met the Indiana Harbor Whiting & Hammond men at th hotel and W. J. Whinery of Hammond who was the spokesman ' explained to
Gov. Marshall concisely what th Lak
LAKE COUNTY FOR TAFT (Continued from Page 1.)
Township Chairman H. C. Francis,
with C. M. Renollett as secretary.
Clyde Hunter was made permanent
chairman and George O'Donnell, permanent secretary. ' Following the elec
tion of delegates speeches were made
by Dr. Smith, R. R. . Quillen, W. F. Hodges. Major MacFadden and G. W,
WIdholm.
State convention delegates H. H.
Highlands, Roy Ressler, W. O. Salss-
line, Fred Seabright, P. O. Lamb, Dr. F.
W. Smith, R. O. Johnson and W. F.
Hodges; alternate?, Rudolph Marasz,
George Weeks, Joseph Stelner, Louis Dubetz,- Ross Moore, E. C. Simpson, John Gllmore and Charles Gregory.
District convention delegates P. L. Fltrgerald, Major John MacFadden, S. L. Eisler, Otto Dalrymple, Homer J. Carr. H. V. Call, J. E. Metcalf and Harry Hall; alternates, James Carpenter, W. L. Copley, John M. Fox, Walter Good,
George Clinton, Clyde Hunter, James E. Dorian and John Keseric. AT EAST CHICAGO. The republicans who reported at WIeland's hall In East Chicago on Saturday night, in response to a call for a mans convention to elect delegates to the state and congressional conventions, came within one of not holding any meeting at all. What was their amazement on arriving at WIeland's
to find the hall they had fancied reserved for their following, pre-empted by another bunch, who were discussing within a far different brand of politics than what they had gathered to up
hold. The socialists were in possession of the field, and all through an error in engaging the hall. The republicans had, it appears, reserved the hall for the afternoon by mistake, and the management, not realizing the mistake, had let the premises out for the evening to
the socialists. But all's well that ends well the re-
vail. the umpires to come from outside
mediately the nomination of delegates : the territory tributary to the cities emof the Taft contingent to the congres- ; braced within the circuit, preferably sional convention were made. : Then ' Chicago.
fha Ttnnsovelt men nlareri their ticket' While the question Was not
In nomination. When the house was thoroughly thrashed out, in all prob-
divided to vote on the two tickets it ability there will be league games on
was found that the Taft contingent had Saturdays. LaPorte and Crown Point
won by an overwhelming majority. clam lBey cannot maKe teaturoay Dan ThU was tr in the ticket for dele- Y ,n thelr towns, but they signified
gates to the state convention. !their willingness to play .elsewhere if
It was after the adjournment of the1&aluraay eames are aaopiea.
mass convention that some of the I -i ne scneau.e commniee was increaRoosevelt men got a chance to har- to revlse the mason's schedule off-r-rangue. Several of them got up on theed by William Zimmerman, recently apsteps and started to talk. The crowd . Ported a committee of one to arrange
kept up SUCh a racket that the gist Of lne r. Zimmerman nau prethe speakers' remarks were lost, and Pard a schedule, but this did not inwhen the noise got too bad some one ' dude Saturday games, so John Fttzslmmerclfully switched off the electric , mon of LaPrte and J. A. Umpleby of lights, while one of the speakers wa,,G aJded to the committee tin the midst of an impassioned de-!flst Mr' Zimmerman in revising his fense of Mr. Roosevelt. ! ' 0 , tw.. .r.Y.r.Ar th! . Those present at Sundays meeting
Lewis rink to see the real fight.
hardens-' mass. I.iti. r which Hungarian churches are
Rumors that more than one man was jiocatd. He is practicaly assured of incinerated in the molten metal were Leveral thousand dollars on this trip denied today, as Edmondson was th ,He has already been to Cleveland wher only one who could not be accounted j na raised $650 among the Hungarian tor. Catholics of that city.
" Father Bognar is well pleased ove the headway that has already been made toward : a .new church, "Of course," said 'he, there is little that
can be said for a certainty as yet, cx-
Forgers Are Busy. An epidemic of check ' forgers have sweeped down upon Gary during the month of March, but good work upon the part of the police department has resulted In the capture of most of them Saturday night Doran Stanko was arrested on the charge of trying to pass a $16 check in a saloon at Eleventh avenue and Broadway. L. D. Packard was arrested for passing a worthless check drawn upon Thomas Houren, a Washington street baker, who pronounced the paper fraudulent.
Ward of Wise Man.
"The true university of these day ( a collection of books." Carlyla.
nor promised to assist all he could in presenting Indiana's claims. Col Roselle presided at the meeting of the histate waterway delegations. As Gov. Marshall wanted to leave h was given permission to speak first W. J. Whinry presented Gov- Marshall In good shape and the executive said that as a lawyer and a politician he didn't propose . t-j tell a board of engineers their business but he asked for a square deal for In
cepting that the Bishop has given me auna and aaid the people demanded iU his assurance that the church and He said that the question was one that
priests house will be begun with the opening up of good woorking weather There seems no reason to doubt that our finances will have reached a status that will enable us to proceed with the work of building the school and sisters house in about July or August, but there is nothing definite about that as yet. We expect to finish the church by the 1st of September, and in that case will dedicate on Labor day. Bishop Allerding will then, of course( give us speak In Hungarian, or we will get
some out of town priest to give tne a sermon in English, and either I will
concerned both states and that Chicago had no more right to claim precedence over Indiana by reason of its size than any other part of the country. . The governor made a 'good talk. H was followed by R.s R. MoCormlck end Larry McGann who spoke for Chicago. The hearing will last all day."
Nw York Property Untaxed. . . There la a tax-free property In New fork eity amounting to more than a billion and a quarter of dollars.
STEti; TONE IS FIRMER
Recent improvement in the iron and
j wre President W. J. McAleer, John Fltislmmons of LaPorte, Thomas O'Connell of Indiana Harbor, Abe Otj tenheimer of East Chicago, William I Zimmerman of Whiting, J. A. Umpleby 1 t ra-r n .1 nst.0-A Vol... st t"-rr.-
L ... I. 1 J ...... - V. V. ... ........ 1 v. V . 1 U . It Point. The first business before th gathering was the hearing of four representatives of as many sporting goods
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steel mausiry is renectea concretely ; hou8cs inoiudins the firms of Moore this week in the general move on the i and Evant A, G. Spauldlng and Co. part of steel companies to establish j Aldrlch and Chancellor and the Crawhigher prices for their products. In the j ford Barrett Co. The agents were Chicago market the largest interest neard separately and it was decided to has made an advance of $2 a ton on adopt the Goldsmith ball handled by plates structurals and bars compared th)f Crawfora Barrett Co.
Wltn tne lowest levels reacnea recently. T meetina will take place Sat-
the basis getting positively on this ; urday at 6 p . m . in Sternberg's restaur-
levei, it is reporiea, witnm a aay or iwo ; ant lndlana Harbor, the meeting ad
Past- ' Mourninc later to the Commercial club
Better prices nave Deen securea . or j roon)g, several weeks in this district and mak
ers report that they are able to hold j them firm, although it is not expected that a further hardening will be noted at this time. Quotations on light steel rails have been advanced, prices for 8 to 20 lb. rails being increased $1.50 a ton and those for rails weighing from 25 to 40 pounds advancing $2 a ton. . Gary Ralls In Demand. New business from the railroads Is showing a distinct improvement and some tonnages of considerable size have
been closed or are pending. Owing to the general discussion now going on as to specifications of steel rails and" section designs, to the end ,of securing a steel rail more secure against breakages under adverse weather and operating conditions, considerable tonnage Is being held up. and were this aspect of uncertainty to be cleared up there probably would be released a large ag-
publtcans adjourned 'to the city ball, gregate of buying.
endorsed Taft and pledged their sup-1 Even with what has been placed al-
port for the renomination of Congress- ready, neverthedess, the improvement man Crumpacker. (has resulted in increased operation of The anticipated Rooseveltlan demon- jthe rail mills. Gary, now is running stratlon was introduced, but it was so fUu on open-hearth rails, but the'sou'h
weak that very little attention was paid to It, the Taft supporters sweep-
SHOCKING
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ing everything before them. The convention met at 8 o'clock in the doorway of WIeland's hall and Chairman C. L, Kirk mounted the steps, explained the situation and suggested an adjournment to' the city hall. A Roosevelt man, scenting a good opportunity to "put fiomething over" as the Roosevelt supporters were present In a body, and most of the Taft element having gotten word of the conflict in dates, had already gone over to the city hall without the formality of a visit to
works are not so busy. The mills, however, are running out all the rails they can get the steel to make. Other de
partments of the steel plants are running full and some of the makers would be willing to forego some of the tonnage which might be turned away by strict adherence to the hardening pric? levels, so comfortably do the larger mills find themselves fixed as a rule. Order For Local Mill. The Union Pacific-Southern system is negotiating for from 80,000 to 100.000
tons of rails and large and important western systems are negotiating for
rails. The Wabash has purchased 15,
WIeland's, suggested that the meeting
should proceed on the street. The oltyjt'00 tons from the Lackawanaa, in "ad hall, he said, hvl been refused to one .difion to the 20.000 tons awarded to the
powerful man, but the fragments that
are at Hoover's morgue, 633 Washing ton street, weigh but 35 pounds. Vemel t'r Jumped the Track. According to the story told, an en
gine crew was conveying twenty-five
tons of hot metal to the pig machines.
Just as the engine was hauling the metal from the blast furnaces it is said that the vessel containing the molten metal went off the track. This Is no an unusual occurrence and quick work must be done to get the car on the
track before the metal cools or else
hundreds of dollars is lost to the com
pany. .
It is said that the night officials on
duty, found ,the task no easy one, and
ijleneral Superintendent Geesman was
summoned from his home to the blast
furnaces to give his advice.' See Man . Roasted Alive. Workmen "were busy trying to get the vessel car "back on the rails when, without warning it upset, precipitating a fiery stream in all directions. Edmondson, who was employed as a hook-, er-on man in the crane department. was the nearest to the vessel, and before he could make his way to safety, the stream of molten metal engulfed him and he toppled over into It -to be roasted alive before' his horrified fellow workmen who could offer him no aid. I, mid Explowlon Then Fllow, In another minute the molten stream came in contact with snow and .ice, and then a sharp explosion followed. This splashed, the molten metal in all direc- : tlons. and a crane that was nearby re-
Can He Reach Your Home? yiHEN a man wants to tell you something, what does he do? He first turns to the telephone directory. If your name is there he calls your house, leaves word -with your wife, ; or arranges to meet you. The information he wants to give you may be of ihe greatest importance. It may put money in your pocket.
Why not have a telephone in your home and be prepared? Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station "CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY
political party, so it would not be right I Illinois Steel Company. New Haven ceived the full force of the flying lia
y re- I iauld I
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