Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 259, Hammond, Lake County, 22 April 1912 — Page 4
THE TIMES.
Monday, April 22, 1912.
TUSE HUMES
NEWSPAPERS
8jr Tk Lak Conaty Prtmisc Pal Uaklns Compear.
COWARDICE. ! The world can forgive many forma
of coward-ice.
The heart and mind overwhelmed.
is a situation that nearly everybody understands.
But the world i3 slow to forget and
The Lake County Times. dally except unwilling to forgive deliberate
Sunday, "entered as second-class mat- cowardica. ter June 19. 1 W; The Lake County Jn waf th recruJt whJ flee8 Times, dally except Saturday and Sun. . , , , .
ay. enteted Feb. 3. 1U; The Gary uur,ur-Blrlc,ten lUB ""
Evening Times, dally except Sunday, I a musket or at the first sight of blooK entered Oct. I, 10; The Lake County I is forgiven, comforted, and strength-
Times. Saturday and Jly edition, ened. The morai coward who betrays
taitrea Jan. iv, 111; im iimei, aauyi. mm duniiiT. nir. j is. in. tlnls country
the postofflo at Hammond. Indiana. I anathema and forgiven.
an unaer tne aet or uarck a. HTSt Tf la wUr trrhrv unifH with
Entered at the Posteffic Hammond, the yellow streak of cowardice that
And the . city will, be improved in
appearance and in. the advantages it
has to offer to newcomers to a re
markable extent. The enterprise of
the men who have built up these opporunities is to be commended. They are a commercial aa well as a social acquisition to the city. .
It is .true that the burden of build
ing homes for all of these organizations is a heavy one for a city the
size of Hammond but each organiza
tion draws on a different circle of
remains
forever
Ind.. aa second-class matter.
rORBIGl ADVERTISING . OFFICES.
11 Rector Building- - - Chicago
PTJBLICATIOFC OFFICES,
.Hammond Building, Hammond, Ind.
TELEPHONES,
Hammond (private exebarge) Ill
(Call for department wanted.)
Gary Office East Chicago Office , Indiana Harbor
WhitingCrown Point.
men sink lowest. Benedict Arnold is a synonym for the American ideal of
everything that is vile.
Instinctively in reading the story
of the Titanic's awful disaster, men
pity with over-flowing hearts those
poor fellows who fought with other men for a place on the raft that
would hold no more than those al
ready on it. People understand the unnerved condition of the cowardly
man who sat groaning and sobbing
in the end of a life boat while two women rowed it; but the name of J.
Bruce Ismay has been branded with
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escane.
rit.a arlvan on annllcatlon. i . v
woo oeirayeu ais passengers bush
If you have any trouble getting Th be united in history with the name
Times notify tho nearest office and of judaa who betrayed his Master
have It promptly remedied. . ,,, TOv avok
LARGER PAID VP CIRCULATION bls Country.
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THAN AICY OTHER TWO NEWS-1 , I no worm understands ana xor-
papers IN THE calumet region, gives the emotional coward; but the
deliberate coward, the insolent cow
AfiONTMUUS commun.cx.ons w.i. ar(J the reSp0nsible man who w0uld not be noticed, but others will be . .. . printed at discretion, and shouM b. no face his responsibility, the speed addressed to The Editor, Times. Ham- maniac who compelled women and
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children to pay the price and saved
himself, deserves the ignominy that
has already fastened itself to his
name.
MASONIC CALENDAR. Hammond Chapter. No. 117. meets second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Hammond Commandery, No. 41. Reg
ular meeting first and third Monday of J months, will want to
each month.
SPEED THE DAY.
About ten years from now going
to school will be such a pleasant task that the boy, even In the swimming
stick to his
II E a h e BY RUBE
VESSELS will go through the Pana
ma canal in fourteen months. Better get a move on with that East Chicago
people and so practically the entire J ship canal.
city is financing them. And Ham- SOME day we will have a little Titan-
mond is getting to be a wealthy city lc d'saster of our own if the Lake Mlch- ..... . ... .1 ieran excursinn Ktoam..,. Ireen on hlrlnr
so that what was impossiDia ten i ..... .... ..
years ago becomes prohable today! -.. .., , . ... I EW YORK la floating a 65,000,000
ana an aciuamy imorrow. bond lssuo and . . eso Malnst
a pot of chile con carne that Battle Axe
Castleman now wishes that he had be
AS SOLDIERS SHOULD. come w Tor Merman.
WE are not malicious about It. but
Three Americans on the TitaAic
we hope that if it rains next Sunday
had military titles. One, Major Butt, I that -the pennant hones of the Crown
was in active service. Two, Colonel Pointers won't be dampened so early In
Astor and Colonel Gracie, were not tne easn
in the army. But all had been IT ,s 'mst time for Joe Conroy to
cnlrilera I a"K n wn ne u Bay lor aim
I annual juurxa or. juty speecn ; tio-
iu iuc uuui ul ii ia,i ui iuc.il bart.
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"" f""0 uuum, i ALTHOUGH we slammed poor old
Two, Major Butt and Colonel Astor, j Colonel Astor a good deal not so very
died together, after doing all that I IonST ago, you'll have to admit that he
. . a
men could do to help get the boats. nas maae ooa
loaded chieflv with women and chll- aear old Saturday Evening Post
Principals in One of the Main Incidents of the Titanic Tragedy
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dren, safely away from the wrecked
is out with new political dope. Ever
Since two years aeo whan the Ladles'
Titanic. Colonel Gracie lived, but Horn Joumii-ti si9t.F nHnt n rtiM.
in nowise dishonored or brought into on senatorial possibilities In Indiana Question as a man and an office. He and d'dn't know enough to mention did not leave the ship in a boat. He W"'k? Kern we bave lost faith in
flirt Tint trv tn o-af rtl a no frr ritmaslf
J I THERJE was n rnrUot i n th pAMhAtMA
which might be needed for some poor home the other nlght Frau Coldbottlft
woman. He waited until just as the had been to a bridge whist party all
great vessel was going down and I afternoon and she tried to make Hen
jumped into the sea. That he wai
picked up and saved was good for
tune, not any flinching on his part.
The American soldiers kept the
nery eat pancakes for supper. THE chances are that Owner Ismay holds to the theory , that a live dog is better than a dead eagle.
TIMES' editorial writer said that he
faith of the army. They lived up to j would rather be Major Butt dead than Its best traditions and Ideals In the! Owner Ismay alive any d"ay. But this
supreme test. Two of them died as I wouldn't get you anything . w.
NO doubt that injunction that Tom Knotta had served on him Friday will
be tacked away with his other trophies.
Chances are that when the deputy sheriff approached with the writ Tom said:
"Now, I wonder what I have done
WESTERN writer says' the great now?" He Is so used to being arrested,
heroes and the third was in no sense less honorable in his extraordinary escape from death.
problem of housecleaning is what toyou know-
do with poor old pa. Huh! If poor old pa is tied to the kitchen stove all day hit him with an axe and put him
out of his misery. If he can move
around and there's a good show In
FOR AUDITOR.
studies with the same eagerness as
he now sometimes to displays to ge
away from them.
Instead of dry books and dry talks town he'll get along all right
the motion picture will supply in its
place features that will command
Immense Interest. For Instance, tha SURGEONS who thought a Cleve-
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ONE man in every twelve holdss of-
fflce In Indiana and perhaps the others would like to." Philadelphia Press.
Yes, you old Quaker, and half that
noise coming from Indiana is the other
eleven trying to break into office.
AND now a suffragette is sore be
cause the "men first' rule wasn't en
forced on the ship.
STEEL PRICES GO UP," read head
ThiS malt A TV. nt h Pllnni.t
geugrapny oi Europe iaugni oy iua land man had aDDendlcitis found a steel belt fi ii- tr
sailor ... "pu" ' daily use of Alms supplemented by an set of false teeth in his stomach. So wheat goes up to a dollar ten ima mm m m nn ma 1 1. fnr It., nfflcft alt I I
to the I a.v.uuiy(mj in $ nuuiu ire ku wneB you go to toe nospitai ior nni puur Arcnu buii snouia unexpect-
times the value of mere book oDeration ask the doc to scout around I ealy De 8vea " would come back to
pedagogy. Facts that London has for a little bridge work before you
Auditor of Lake Countv iub.
.wsrtll sf 2a--;.tlc nominating eon vention. ED. SIMON.
FOR RECORDER.
so many millions, Is the biggest city begin to sniff th anaesthetic.
in the world, has some thing to dol
Editor Times: Tou are authorised to I with tne l names ana is the capital
announce to your reaaers tnai i am aior tngaind win give way to animated THE farmers in the fertile dls-
candldate for the nomination of County vlews running alI the way from the trlcts of Lake County, have caught
Democratic nominating convention, tol1" lu oiuinan.y iuo me real estate iever ana are tacking
bo held at a date to be decided upon.neignt oi tne highest or tne Alps will on $10 an acre just as easy to the
JACOB FRIEDMAN. be .best impressed by a reel showing ton nrice. What's more thev are tat.
those high spots as seen from the! ting it too,
rear of a mountain railway car. That
Editor Times:
FOR SHERIFF.
Kindly announce my 1 China is a more up-to-date proposl
name aS a candidate ror tne oince or tion than books give it credit will
oner.ixi oi iaxe uoumy, suojeci to tne
decision of the Democratic nominating
convention. MARTIN a GILL.
said about him.
KING GEORGE has had to stop going
out swimming because rude photographers insisted on snapshoting him
ho, his royal nibs will now have to stand under the shower like the rest
of us.
MiCROTHERllOSTATS are to be
used In detecting icebergs, but we'll not need any If the T. R. boom travels this
way.
HAVE you given your half dollar to
the Titanic fund?
AND If they neeH any referees at
also be gleaned from the film curtain, the Baltimore convention, you bet
Physiography, reels showing your sweet life that Judge Green of
storms, trips through glacial regions. West Hammond will be able to offi-
Grecian historical studies will be date besides being -a delegate.
made more interesting by reels that
inai aeain is me great leveier is show the present aspect of these
proved every day some where in the famed spots. Biology can best be THE police down at Indianapolis
world. When the Titanic went down Itnne-fct kv tho use nf th film andlare barred from accenting saloon
THE GEEAT LEVELER.
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x The devotion of Mrs. Isador Strauss to her husband was one of the incidents of the Titanic wreck that at
tracted the attention of many of the passengers even iy the excitement of getting away themselves. Mrs. Strauss would not leave her husband. As the last lifeboats left the aged philanthropist .was seen with his arms around his wife's neck standing near the rail as the ship sank, with the band playing "Nearer. My God, to The."
it was nroven again.
Among the passengers
botanists will use them to show plant favors, but how about helping them-
OWNS HISTORIC WEAPON. The death of Mrs. Mary Gibson, of
Charlestown, mother of George H. D. Gibson a well-known lawyer and
on that development. These and all other selves to bananas and oranges from former member of the Indiana hou
the peddlers? of representatives, brought to light
the fact that the latter owns the re-
volver with which General Jefferson C. Tt m sakn m. mm. Jt 1.111.a .
JUDGE E. H. Gary who was r"" ' "u """el , ?f n I at the Gait houno in Tinlinrni W th.
brought up on a farm and worked for early days of the civil war. The re-
more than 12 hours a day there says I volver was the property of Thomas
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r,ori.(..H oo vT j, , , t k . o t m ..u a i u ue aoesn i ininK a i a nour day is Daa " " w a. persona.
tJ' uviuiouj inuji iuc pss vi uioiui. io cnucuvcu u j mv3 1 . - Ifrientl of fisncra 1 rinvla ,
argosy of sorrow were Mr. and Mrs. studies will be illustrated by the mo-
Iadji Narsani and Mr. and Mrs. John tion pictures in the school to come.
Jacob Astor.
Nadii Narsani. Armenian neasant.
m ' 1 mfn Af a f rvv Tffi
died with the Titanic, and John ouuiA-U rxs,uunx.oo,
jacoo Astor. muiti-minionalre. mat Hammond nas reached an
press dispatches tell us. strength and cohesiveness of its soMaria Narsani, his widow, is about Icial organizations, to say nothing of
to become a mother; an heir is ex- their number. Bj: the term social or
pected to the dead millionaire. ganizations is meant all
No greater in death was John Ja- tions in which social intercouse ia
cob Astor than Nadji Narsani, who lone of the prime objects to be at
kissed his wife, placed her in the tained.
small boat and said: The Hammond Masonic order owns
"Maria, perhaps we never meet its own temple, ta-e" Hammond Coun
again, but, Maria, some day you tell try club has leased broad acres and Is our child how I died." constructing a $25,000 club house,
And John Jacob Astor: "I'll meet yesterday tbe Elk's lodge of. Hamyou in New York, dear," but his mond announced that active steps heart told him differently as the would be taken to build a $50,000
band was playing "Nearer My God club house that will meet the needs To Thee." of the club for years to come, the Perhaps the master of millions Hammond Saengerbund-FIdelia has
for employes.
friend of General Davis, and who loan
ed him the weapon. The elder Gibson
fought in the Mexican war as captain
Of. Pflmnanv T Thf.il InAimnm irl.m
"Dm T v . vi..- I - -
nvuu ju iuuu Kicai u.uo utcau I ter mr,A Mr. m ..,. B.v.. a
orgamza- roll," and "In Ocean's Caverns" are Goodwin, was a captain during the
solemn enough to make us all think. Tippecanoe war
PAST."30" WISHES A MAN
Ignoring Mayor Lew Shank and his
THE anxious politicians are put- matrimonial office, an Indianapolis
ting their best feet forward before wom.an has wrlttei l"r to George
iv. iuign. inttvur or L,aiavpie. asKinir
the camera these days.
ir is never too cold tor a warm
hearted Crown Point fan to see thenPe J'u will pardon my boldness
pennant flapping again this year.
him to find her a husband. The letter arrived Saturday and bears the date
of April 14. It says
"To the Mayor As It is leap year I
in
writing you, asking your assistance in finding for me a companion. He
must be a good, sober, manly man aged from forty to fifty. I am a per
fect lady in every respect, neat, refined
and Intelligent, and would make the right man an Ideal companion. I am
past thirty years of age. Thanking you for any kindness you may show
board, ?197.05: paid the state committee for convention purposes, J50.
ADMITS BCIXG THIEF CHIEF. Herbert Eschenfeller, 25 years old.
has made a confession to Mayor Zim
merman that he is the leader of a youthful gang which has been robbing houses, railroad cars, chicken houses and barns In Richmond. Eschenfeller implicates a woman with whom he has
been living, saying she urged him to crime. She has been arrested on a
charge of receiving stolen goods, and
is in Jail In default of a $2,600 bond.
ISCLE OF VICE PRESIDENT. Albert E. Shearman, who for a num
ber of years has ben deputy post
master, is dead at his home at Lafayette. Although there was a slight
difference in the spelling of the names,
Mr. Shearman was an uncle of James S. Sherman, Vice President of the
United . States. He often visited his
distinguished nephew at the ' latter'
home in Utica, N. Y. Mr.. Shearman was born in Vernon, Onedia County,
New York, sixty-eight years ago, and
was a veteran of the civil war. LOCATES MISSING SON.
Had a train not run over and cut off the legs - of Solla Klnnaman the
mystery of his whereabouts would
probably have remained unexplained, Klnnaman, who is a son of R. E. Kln
naman, of Fortville, disappeared from
Purdue university in November, 1909
His money remained untouched in a
bank at Lafayette, and all of his clothing was found In his trunk. For three years the family has endeavored
to learn what became of the young man, but they had practically given up
hope, when a friend In Chicago hap
peried to see in a newspaper that a Solla Klnnaman had fallen beneath a train In California, and both legs had been cut off. The father communicat
ed with the police In the California
city, and learned that the -Injured boy
was his son, and that he would recover, No reason is known for the disappear
ance of the boy. '
ONCE WEALTHY DIES PAtPER.
George Rockhey, age eighty-two,
who fifty years ago, owned two hundred acres of land in Monroe township.
and more recently forty acres east of
Jeftersonville, which he sold to Ed
ward Howard, died Saturday morning
at the county poor farm, where he wss
sent three weeks ago, following his arrest for stealing chickens to get
something to eat. He lived for years
on an old shanty boat on the banks
east of Jeffersonvllle. He is said to
be the last of his family.
the 'Methodist Episcopal Church, was born In Morgantown, V. Va., April 22,
1860. He was graduated from the
Ohio Wealeyan University In 1884, and
from Drew Theological Semimiry In
8S7. Immediately upon the comple-'
tion of his theological studies and his
ordination to the ministry Dr. Ander
son began a successful pastorate In
New York City and vicinity, which
terminated in 1904 In his election as corresponding secretary of the Methodist Church Board of Education. This position be held until bis elec
tion to the bishopric three years ago. For a number of years he served also
as a member of the board of managers of the missionary soelety of the churci. Bishop Anderson has written
extensively for the religious press. He esldes in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Congratulations to: Haddon Chambers, novelist and play
wright, S3 years old today.
Ada Rehan, famous actress, now re
tired, 52 years old today.
MAY SMYTHE,
"General Delivery, Indianapolis, Ind." RALSTON SPENT S2.0.14I.22.
Samuel M. Ralston, of Lebanon,
Democratic nominee tnv Hnvtmnr
SECRETARY KnoXV is back With Lpent 2.056.22 In his campaign, ac-
his valet and some other mementoes! cording to his report filed with the
secretary of state, under the provisions
WHAT provision has there been
and the peasant Nadji stood together a large building fund that will soon made for pop-bottles In the Northern
at the rati as the sea carried off their be available for use to construct ajindlana League?
hopes and loves, but that chapter In $35,000 clubhouse, the Hammond
the Titanic traeedv a w RflM Sat-lK'nicnfa nf PvthJan nr wnrlHTic rn
urday . will never be written the plans for a building of its own: the ANYHOW parents may get some of me- 1 am- respec"u"
Rtorv of lust what hnmuni whn rniritir riK xiamTrynr.A the discipline they try to give to
the small bAts floated off and left club rooms that. make it the finest tneir cnnaren
millionaire and peasant, aavant and) social club In the region and the
deck hand to wait for death. Hammond Motor Boat Club has' its
When Maria Narsani stepped of? own club house
the steerage gangway of the Car- A number of other organizations triW
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patnia sne Decame at once tne ward either have ample quarters or are f charity. developing building projects. When
Tho. Jewels a king's ransom of all of these projects are finally con- " NOW we have the story
Madeline Force Astor went down summated Hammond will have the tne explanations?
with the ship, but Maria Narsani lost finest club bouses of any cfty in thetonues
everything she tiad in the world, the! region. Everybody from the man
linens she had made against the day who makes motorboating his hobby
of her marriage, the feather bedding to the man who dotes on golf and
-they were her marriage dot and tennis ; the woman who delights in
Naji had saved up $100 in addition afternoon teas to the woman enjoys to the price of the steamship tickets, (cards and dancing will have ample
tud this, too, was lost. 'opportunities to indulge'.
What of
Unloosen the tied
THERE id one-alnbow In the sky.
the prospect of abundant crops.
- tVHO was the Frankenstein of the steam roller business in 1908?
of the corrupt practices act. Of the
total, S78.06 was spent by William E
Longley, as Ralston's political agent.
who maintained headquarters In Indianapolis and who filed his itemized re
port several days ago. The remainder
was spent personally by Mr. Ralston
and, according to the report, was dis
tributed as follows:
Stamps, stamped envelopes and sta
tionery, $220.11; printing and adver-
tising, $402.01: preparation and mail ing of circular letters, $180.84: rail road and tnterurban fare. $3.70; tel
phone tolls, $38.68; hotel room and
The Day in HISTORY
small Independents will do the same. Plates and structurals are scheduled for advances' in the Pittsburg district, while Chicago manufacturers have already announced higher prices for the material of 3 cents per 100 pounds more, making the new price $1.38 per 100 pounds. . The National Tube ' company has booked the largest pipe order of the year to date for California ell companies calling for 138 miles of eight-Inch steeT line pipe and thirty miles of sixinch steel line pipe. The total cost of the order Is said to be upward ef $2,000,000. Delivery will commence next month and continue through the third quarr. - . The "Pere Marquette railroad will soon make inquiries for 14,000 tons of ninety-pound rails, the average weight used by-that line. The Republic Iron and Steel will put its new price schedules, the same as those of the Steel corporation, in oper-
Miles Poindexter, United States atlon at once, thus anticipating the
senator from Washington, 44 years old today.
Guy E. Tripp, chairman of the West-
inghouse Electric and Manufacturing
Company, 47 years old today.
Alphonse Bertillon, founder of tho
Bertlllon system for the identification
of criminals, 59 years oldnoday.
FURTHER STEEL
PRICE ADVANCES
Steel Products on Higher
Selling Basis. . Following the leadership of the
United States Steel corporation in put
ting steel bars at $1.20 per 100 pounds,
commencing April 20, almost all of the
larger company by a week.
The Lackawanna Steel company has secured the contract for the new Lackawanna, railroad cutoff calling for 2,000 tons of steel piling. Structural steel orders disclosed yesterday Include 2,800 tons for the Erie. The Brier Hill Steel company Is taking bids on 10,000 tons of structural steel for its new plant at Youngstown. The Lehigh Valley railroad has ordered 750 refrigerator cars from the Pullman company. The Great Northern order Is for 600 automobile cars placed with Haskell & Barker. The Grand Trunk will soon enter the market for thirty-six dining cars, while the St. Paul will buy fifty-five all steel passenger cars.
ARB VOV READING THE TIMESf
PERPETUAL TROPHY FOR SPEED BOATS.
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THIS TJ ATE IN HISTORf , April 22.
1662 Royal Society of England incor
porated. "
1707 Henry Fielding, early English
novelist, born. Died Oct. 8, 1754.
1724 Immanuel Kant, famou
metaphysician, born. r!ed In 1804.
1749 Pittsburgh incorporated as borough.
1806 Admiral Vllleneuve. Nelson"s
antagonist at Trafalgar, committed suicide while a prisoner in England. 1S07 Aaron Iurr's trial for treason began.
1863 William R. Blake, comedian, died In Boston. Halifax, N. S., in 1805. 18S9 Oklahoma opened to I
by proclamation of the President 1911 McNamara brothers arrested In Indianapolis for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building.
THIS IS MY 53IVD BIRTHDAY Bishop Aaderaoa. Kev. William F. Anderson, bishop of
famous Born In pttlement
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