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THE --TIMES NEWSPAPERS By Taa Lake County Printing aaa Pa a. UaklnK Company. The Lake County Times. dafty except Eunday, "entered as second-class mat. ter June 28. 10"; The Lake County Times, dally except Saturday and Banday, entered Feb. t, 1IU; The Gary Evening Times, dally except Sunday, entered Oct. 5, ltoi; The Lake County Times. Saturday inn weeklv edftlaa. en Wed Jan. 10. 1911; The Times, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. It. 11J. at the postoffioa at Hammond. Indiana, HI under the ae: of March t. 117a, Entered at the Postottlce Hammond. Ind.. as second-class matter. IOHEIG.M ADVERTISING urilCBS, II Rector Building - - Chicago PUBLICATION OFFICES, fiatnrooad Building, Hammond Ind. TELEPHONES, Bsmraond (private exchange) Ill (Call tor department want ad.) Gary Offlce. TtV Ut East Chicago Offlce. ....... ..TeL S40-J Indiana Harbor ........TeL ESO-R Whiting .........Tel. SO-M Crown Point .TeL (S Hegewlseh Tit 13 Advertising; solicitors will be aaut. or rates riven on application. II you have any trouble catting The Times notify the nearest offlce and have it promptly remedied. LARGER PAID VP CIRCULATION THAN ANT OTHER TWO NEWS. PAPERS IX THIS CALCMBT REGION. ANONYMOUS communications will not be noticed, but others will be 1 printed at discretion, and shoud be addressed to The Editor. Time. Ham mond, Ind. MASONIC CALENDAR. Hammond Chapter, No. 117, meet second and forth Wednesday of each tnonth. Hammond Commandery, No. 41, Regular meeting first and third Monday of each month. GRADE CROSSING HORRORS. It 13 about time that an agitation was started to force the railroads to elevate their tracks in Hammond, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. This year in the Calumet region the railroads have exacted a toll of 28 dead and 14 maimed. In Gary, where a considerable amount of track elevation has been done, there have been five persons killed in grade crossing accidents in the past month or so. The railroads have made the region what it is BUT THEY HAVE XO RIGHT TO ASK SUCH A TER RIBLE TOLL OF LIFE from the community In return. In Justice to the railroads it should be known that they are complying with all of the Btate laws and city ordinances designed to safeguard the lives of the people of this community. - It costs the railroads hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to main tain their crossing In the Calumet alone. Citle3 are building up fast, new streets are " continually being opened across railroad tracks and the danger to life and limb increases. But in spite of this enormous out lay accidents have not been reduced to a minimum. THIS YEAR SHOWS AN INCREASE OVER LAST. Last year showed an increase over the year before. The experience of the cities of the region is that It has exhausted all . known precautionary measures ex cepting only track elevation. THIS HAS GOT TO COME. Railroad men appreciate the fact. Their sole con cern is to stave it oft. The cities of the Calumet region should profit by the experience of the other cities in the state which have compelled track elevation. It shows that it takes about ten years from the time the agitation is started until the. Improvement is' completed. So if a start is made now it will be 1922 before track elevation will be an accomplished fact in the cities of North township. The awful slaughter must stop and the campaign against it should begin now. CAN'T ALWAYS GET BY. It Is now 'quite out of fashion for politicians to imagine that they are beyond the law. Similarily, this includes despots, law-breaking trusts, illegal societies and other personages and Institutions that have regarded the laiv as a flexible proposition. We refer to the dissolution of the oil trust, the taking away of Mr. Diaz's job away from him down at Mexico City, the .significant spectacle at Viterbo last week when the Camorra received a death blow; and, a long and eventful list of recent happenings all of which go to show that the world has some new standards. The old days of "getting by with it" are not so sunny as they used to be. To do it now means taking a big

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THE LOT OF THOUSANDS. When hope lira dead nlthln the taenrt. By secret sorrow Iodk concealed. We ahrtnk lot look or words Impart What may not be revealed. Tla hard to smile when one would weep To apeak when one would nllent het To wake when one would wlah to sleep. And wake te agony. i Vet aueh the let for tkonmndn east Who wander In this world of rare. And bend Beneath (he bitter blast. To aave them from dr.p.l r. Vet nature Trait her guesta to greet W'here disappointment ean not come. And time lead with unerring feet The weary wanderer home. Anne Hunter 1742-1S21.) chance. Yet with all of "these impressive lessons they do not seem to, be comprehended in some local quarters although they will be some day and quite forcibly. SPEAKING OF THE PORK BARREL. Representative Barnhart, of the Thirteenth Indiana district, that stanch economy exponent, foe of pork barrel legislation, word-of-mouth opponent of mileage excesses and scoffing enemy of extravagance and wasie in government, nas landed a public building for his home town of Rochester. Whereat Mr. Earnhart's own paper, the Rochester eSntinel, accepting thia bit of home-consump tion "pork" as pjroof of Mr. Barnhart's greatness and consistencv. says: "Hurrah for the new public building prospect, and hurrah for Rochester In general," which latter "hurrah" includes Barnhart. Indianapolis Star. THE GENERAL OPINION. Still Mr. Lorirfer's valedictory contained enough of unpleasant truth to make certain distinguished patriots twist and squirm. For undoubtedly many of those who have barked loudest on his trail have more wool in their teeth and sheep's blood in their bellies than he has. Indeed, while his expulsion may be said to have effected a good purpose, it is highly regrettable that the prosecution was conceived In crookedness and pushed by as ruthless and corrupt a band of political buccaneers as ever disgraced American politics. Compared to the management of the Chicago Tribune and the coterie surrounding it. Lorimer stands untarnished and of fair renown. Fort Wayne News COME TO LAKE COUNTY. Why is It that a girl who is only four feet tall Is all hips and bust, while a girl who Is five feet, eleven inches in height Is straight up and down? Muncle Star. Is that the way they are in Muncie? Come up to this county and we'll point out some that have the right dimensions. THE MAN AT THE THROTTLE. The forty dead and many injured had not been taken away, after the railroad collision near Corning, N. Y., July 4, when the officials who had hurried to the spot arrived at the conclusion that the blame for the disaster rested upon the engineer of the express train. Now the coroner's inquest has brought out the fact that he was seen In an intoxicated condition within four hours of the time his train started. This information Is startling. For a locomotive engineer to Indulge in alcoholic excesses is something almost unheard of. As a body, the men who hold the throttle on the. railroads shun strong drink. Their sense -of the great' responsibility resting upon them, the strict code of ethics which their organization lays upon them, and the' rigid reaulremcnts nf tha railroad companies make necessary abstemiousness in regard to intoxicating liquor. But, as in all classes of men, no matter how high their standards, there will always be some who fail to meet the obligations of their position. These men, when they are railroad employes, are soon detected in their' shortcoming and discharged, but sometimes not before damage has been done. This raises the question whether or not the railroads, strict as they are with their engineers, give them the protection and oversight which is really necessary. There have been instances where engineers have droo ped dead or been overcome by sudden illness while on duty in the cab. With the style of locomotive which separates the fireman from the engineer, this is a serious matter. And the fireman, even when he Is with the engineer constantly, hesitates to take into his own hands the authority -f the man over him, in case the latter

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It has been suggested that at In tervals along every railroad, an in spector shall visit the cab of every locomotive to see that all is well with the man in charge of it. This may seem distasteful to men of as high a grade as the locomotive engineers. But good business men welcoma every check that can be applied to their work. They pereeive that it is a safeguard for themselves and why not the locomotive engineers? THE state board of health is go ing to inspect the summer resort hotels. We hereby recommend that it send a man up to some of the fish dinner snacks on vthe Lake Michigan beach. A LITTLE Rock man died because, by mistake, he ' drank carbolic acid instead of Arkansas whisky. But probably he didn't know the differ ence until he reached the shining shore. A LO RIMER verdict, that of the British Board of Trade. It finds that speed was responsible for the sinking of the Titanic but that nobody was responsible for the speed. THE royalists who are invading Portugal and the Italian troops that are conquering Tripoli seem to be running a close race for the bottom of the percentage column. YOU can call the democratic ticket the Tom-Tom-Tom ticket this year "Marshall, Wilson and Taggart." Sure Wilson's first name Is Thomas, didn't you know that? WILL Kaiser Wilhelm please sit up and take notice? It Is reported that the lady suffragist3 of Berlin are about to enter upon a window-smashing campaign. IT pays to know what you are signing your' name to; even the flna print on a lease or a mortgage ought to be read though it does take a little time. COUNT that day lost on which "Hod" Stilwell of Anderson has not been interviewed on the third party but never on his "wet" connections. IF you think that all is lovely In the democratic ranks, you should se 'em tighten up the waist belts and put a keen edge on the "raxiers." AN authority claims that the country needs more goats. True enough; the Baltimore convention greatly lessened the visible supply. IT was a fearful chastisement for Laporte. Beaten 12 to 0 by the tailenders in the league. Shades of Mrs. Gunness and the murder farm! GETTING so the cry In the Lake county cities where they have good ball team is not "Back to the Mines" but "Back to the nines." JASPER girl sued a youth for S2, uou on account of seven kisses. Come on old man and pay up, they're worth it aren't they. O 17 A "rn- r . ocv 1 1 ppent i3,ooo in ex terminating rats. Now the cats out mere will begin to meow about the high cost of living. "IF you wish to be young at ninety." says Dr. Cecile Guel "don't wear corsets." All right Cecy we tell all the fellows. LATEST scheme for a divorced woman is to convert her wedding ring into a swatsika pin according to local jewelers. DROWNINGS. auto accidents and motorcycle events do not make the coroner's offices any Jess busy than last summer. "EVEN Marse Henry falls into line." To most of the bystanders it looked more like a stagger. AFTER all this third party business bids fair to be as harmless as a four-toed horse. YOU can't live and duck, all of this political trouble and excitement. ANYHOW the coal bin Is getting a much-needed rest. WHAT is Inside of a golf ball on Sunday anyway? ,. . . '

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HEARD BT RUBE OH, you Bull Moose! THE good ship A. F. Knotts is headed up Bull Moose bay for Port Congress, but from advices wirelessed in we fear that the rocks along the way will make, the voyage a sad but interesting one. WILL, some one, please, remind the' Chicago Trlb. that a few other papers had something to do with the ungluing of Brother Lorimer? HOOKING up Mrs. Lake County ia some Job, as she has grown to be quite a stout personage, but the traction promoters seem to have no difficulty In getting the far parts together. SEE that the governor of South Carolina has been tangled up with a dictagraph. Sympathy and flowers from Gary. WHAT'S this? Battleaxe Castleman president of a traction line. The papull are deserted: EXPRESS rates are to he reduced. This ought to cut down the hi kost of drinking in such arid states as Kansas. WEST HAMMOND now claims to have taken a bath and says that It is an Utopia. A sort of model city like Gary, eh? Some one, please, cable Governor Marshall. INDIANAPOLIS preacher who got sore at his flock and who quit to take a Job as prison chaplain used this as his parting text: "I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there ye may be also." PIfAROAH days of Hammond: Hammond people were, surprised Friday to see the streets overrun with frogs. Real frogs, too, as Charles Strauch, Jr., and Curtis Bauer caught quite a bagful and took them to Chicago and sold them. Black Oak corre spondence, to Thb Times. MAYBE after all it's a good thintr that the dictagraph wasn't Invented be fore the Gary blind pig days. EVERY time a big railroad has a wreck nowdays the division superintendent loses no time in issuing a statement blaming the engineer. Thi3 ought to be a great eonsolation to the relatives of the deceased. OCR special correspondent. Hennerv Coldbottle. who covered the annual pic nic of the Gary bartenders at East Gary last Sunday, is still suffering from the rheumatism T t maw v, A - .... ...w IV4DIUIC that llennnery will have to go to Milwaukee to have his ailment treated. NO doubt the newspaper writers who had to eover the national prohibition party convention last week must feel themselves to be a much Improved set of men. MR. LORIMER shouldn't take it so much to ieart The 'down and out of offlce class has a long and exclusive list. For Instance, there is Mr. Rosenfelts, Mr. Gift PinchTord, Mr; Battleaxe Castleman and man 'others. IT may be that some of those stories about the cruelty to the Amazon rubber gatherers are stretchad a little. THAT Hammond -moving picture show that is reeling the ,Holy City" aught to be more explicit about it. Is West Hammond referred to? WATER carnival is showing In Gary. This ought to satisfy the "steemed Indianapolis News that all Gary carnivals aren't as it Imagines beery ones. IN eur town last night when the shivery lake winds came the most of us went in for the heavies and dragged out flannel blankets from their hiding places. For the lack, of a better name the breezes ought to' have been called, "The Breath of Autumn." NO doubt some of the thirsty folks down in the Lowell drylands are quite eager to see that Interurban line extended down their way. With Crown Point lager but ten minutes away life Times Pattern Department DAILY FASHION HINT. 5&4t Ladles' Two Piece Skirt. Ths two piece skirt is nerhans the faverlte model of the present season, And la the design illustrated the closing is placed t one of the side seams,. Darts fit &e km at the top. In the back there is a narrow panel, which is separate from the skirt and which may be used or omitted as preferred. These skirts are handsome in messaline. velvet, satin, sibeline broadcloth or fine serge. The pattern. 5.641: Is cut in sizes 22 to 30 inches waist measure. Medium site reqnires 3 yards of 44 inch material. I he above pattern can be obtained by sending 10 cents to the office of tiii paper..

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,''i':'i: -- .-' V . v .t the left, CoU R. N. Getty; upper picture shews blanket Initiation"; lower picture chows deadly machine Qun In operation. The longest mareh ever mad by a large force of United States regulars in tlma of peace has Just been completed by a regiment of 2,000 men from Korts Snelllng, Sheridan, Crook and Brady. The regiment was in comma-d of Col. R- N. Getty. The march started on June 10 from Dubuque, la., and ended at Camp Uruce E. McCoy, Sparta. Wis. The boys managed to have a fine time along the way. In one oi the accompanying photographs they ere seen giving one of their number the "blanket initiation." In the lower photograph the machine gun -the deadliest of small arms la seen in operation. will be a little more cheerful down, on the veldt. ONE good thing about the cold wave is that it takes some of peacockism out of the ice trust. The Day in HISTORY "THIS DATE IX HISTOR" July 18. 1723 Sir Joshua Reynolds, famous English painter, born. Died Feb. 23. 1792. 1778 Thomas Worthington, one of the first U. S. senator from Ohio and governor of that Btate 1815-1S, born in Virginia. Died in Chillicothe, O.. June 20, 1827. 17S6 The United States and Morocco concluded a treaty of peace. 1S21 Mary Baker G. Eddy, discoverer and founder of Christian Science, born in Bow, N. H. Died in Newton, Mass., Dec. 3, 1910. 1S43 S C. F. Hahnemann, founder of homepathy, died. Born April 10, 1755. 1S49 First territorial legislature of Oregon met at Oregon Cltv. 1S67 The Hon. John S. Macdonald be came premier of Ontario. 1868 William Allen, a nntui piorcrtrman ar.d author, died In Northampton, Mass. Born in rittsfield. Mass., Jan. 2, 1784. 1877 Great strike on the Ralilmnra and Ohio railroad begun at Martinsburg, W. Va. "THIS IS MY 45TH BIRTHDAY" C. Ledyard Blair. C. Ledyard , Bla-ir. one of the foremost of American capitalists, was born in Belvidere. N. J., July 16. 1867. snd was graduated from Princeton University in 1890. After leaving college he became connected with the New York banking, house of which his father. DeWitt Clinton Blair, was the head. Upon the death of the elder Blair the son succeeded him as the head of the banking house and in the control of numerous large financial and industrial enterprises. Mr. Blatr is a director or the National Bank of Commerce of New York; the Lackawanna Steel Company, the St. Louis and Hannibal Railway, the Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad and of many other large corporations. Congratulations to: Rev. William- D. Mackenzie, president of the Hartford Theological Seminary since 1903, 63 years eld today. Captain Roald Amundsen, the noted Norwegian navigator and explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole 40 years old today. Theodore N. Vail, president of the American Telegraph and Telenhnn Company and the Western Union Telegrapn company and who Is known as "the father of the American tel system," 6T years old today. Up and Down in INDIANA MA IV AND HORSES DROWNED. Green Vandiver of Tell Cltv. Ind.. end his team of horses were drowned In Anderson Creek, near Kihru ,,.. terday. Vandiver and three friends attempted to cross the creek, which had been swollen by heavy rains. The others narrowly escaped drowning. PICKPOCKET OBTAINS $3,000. Henry Holton of Petersburg, in re turning from Linton, stopped at Washington for several hours and displayed a purse containing $1,990 in bank notes, ranging in denomination from fl to $20. Eleven $100 bills were also in the purse. In boarding an E. & I. passenger train some one picked hia pockets. Holton did not know of hf loss until he reached Petersburg and has offered $200 reward for the capture of the thieves. , APPLES GLITTfSG MARKET. The Bartholomew County apple crop near Columbus has begun moving, and

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4 wholesale buyers say the market will soon be glutted, so plentiful is the fruit in this and surrounding counties. The market in the county has opened dull at 40 cents per bushel. All' sorts of vegetables are abundant and groweps are having difficulty in finding a market for them at any price. GRABS LIVE WIRi:, Bl'KKEO. Thomas Byrne, a member of the Lafayette fire department, picked up a live wire carrying 2,200 volts, which was lying on the sidewalk in front of the Wabash avenue engine house and was knocked to the ground. When he dropped the wire fell on hia chest and his clothing caught fire. He was a mass of flames when George Rund came to his recue, releasing him from the deadly current The flesh on Byrne's hands and chest was literally cooked1 and his condition Is critical. The wire was a high tension feed wire belonging to the Merchants Elec trie Light Company and had been blown down during the storm earlier in the day. Byrne's escape from - in? stant death is considered miraculous. TWO Bl'HNED, 0E OVERCOME. Mrs. Morris Day, 45 years old, Hvinj two miles southwest of Hartford City, was seriously burned about the face. arms and breast: Morris Dav. hep h.i. band, was overcome by the heat and Miss India Day, a daughter, was slight, ly burned in a fire at the Dav hm which wrought $600 damage before it could be subdued. HOPE FOR LESS R.U.V. Farmers are now beginning to be za much discouraged because of the continued rains as they were three weeks ago at the lack of rain. While the numerous rains are doing much for the corn, it is feared if they continue much

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FUN ALONG THE WAY longer potatoes and other crops will rot in the ground. Already there is damage through wheat and oas sprouting 'in the shock and much of it will be lost on this account. This section has had plenty of rain and the farmers would like to see some warm sunshine dpys of the next two weeks at least and thus give them a chance to get Into the fields and the crops a chance to grow properly. FIRES RIFLE AT SISTER. KILLED. While handling a repeating rifle at his home yesterday afternoon Edward Smiley, 13 years old, son of William Smiley, of Bloomington, accidentally shot and killed his sister, Mrs. Charles Eads, 19 years old. ' Mrs. Eads, with her I-year-oli daughter Edith, was standing en ths back porch of her father's house when her brother playfully pointed the kuu tat her and fired. The bullet nUrronher right breast. She dropped the child, ran into 'the parlor and fell dead at her mother's feet. . Tha boy says .ha did not think the gun was loaded. , Plays and Players William Collier and his eon, William Collier, Jr., will have a scene especialy written for them in the Friars' Frolic. Garrlck Major will play the leading comedy role in "Tha Dove of Peace" the new comic opera composed by Wal ter Damrosch. A play which was recentlv sriven a trial performance in St. Louis by a stock company has the unusual title of "Life's Shot Window."

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