Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 26, Hammond, Lake County, 18 July 1912 — Page 8

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APPEAL IS PERFECTED Attorneys for City Treasure? E. C Simpson of Gary have perfected the appeal to the supreme court In the case of the State of Indiana wherein Slgmund Eisler, saloonkeeper is the . relator, vs. the city treasurer. In a ruling- handed down by Judge Kopelke of number three superior court Simpson was mandated to charge $200 Instead of $500 for the city liquor license fee. Five hundred dollars was the old fee but the council reduced it and the treasurer acting on the advice of his attorneys refused to accept the $200 fee. Saloonmen headed by Kisler then brought court proceedings and gained their point in the superior court. ' Hodges and Rldgley attorneys for the treasurer contend in their torlef that Judge Kopelke erred in overruling the appellents demurrer to re. com 'plaint. In a nutsheUtheir appeal I based on the grounds that the council had no power to repeal the ($500) high license ordinance for the reason that the power was delegated by the legis lature to city councils not to increase fees but to determine what the law , should be (whether the license should be $200. $300 or $500 etc.) and then to apply it. Gary's council having de termined what the law should be $500 license) within the thirty day's time allowed and it having gone into effect the council could not later change the Proctor law (by repealing the $500 license) as it would then usurp the powers of theleglslature. HERES' NATURE VABfl GOOD ENOUGH TO READ Gary Man Produces Some ; Big Scales as Evidence of Veracity. A wonderful fish story has come of Bailey Harbor where Detective Sam Mucklan, head of the Bertlllon bureau of the Gary police department, is spending hU vacation. It appears that a big fish came up the river near where Muckian's mother lives and that after a hard struggle it was captured and killed. Dimensions of the big finny tride specimen are lacking but from what can be gleaned It la stated that the scales on the fish were so large that the Bailey Harbor natives are using them as isinglass in their stoves while others found some scales big enough to make window panes out of them. ' WRECK ON MCKLE PLATE&G. TRUNK Every Railroad's Doing It Nowadays, and Who's Next, Is Query? Lorain. O., July 18. Seven members of the crew of a Nickel Plate excursion train, all from Cleveland, were injured, one perhaps fatally. In an accident west of here, yesterday afternoon. They were aboard the engine and baggage car, which had come to the Lorain turntable to be turned after conveying several loads of excursionists from Cleveland , to Lorain. On the way back to Vermillion to pick up the passenger cars, the engine and barsaere car Jumped the track on a trestle at - Klshmans and plunged twenty-fire feet Into acreek. Two at Laportr. Laporte. Ind., July 18. Two men were - seriously, if not fatally, hurt, and a number of others slightly injured early this morning when a fast freight on the Grand Trunk Western road crashed into a wrecking train near- StlllwelL The Injured, all belonging to the wrecking crew, were placing a derailed locomotive . on the track. The two seriously injured were taken to the Battle Creek (Mich.) hospital before their names could be learned. Responsibility for the accident has not been placed. RECONCILED TO RACER AGAIN SEEKS DIVORCE For the second time within three months Arthur W. Greiner yesterduy was made defendant in a bill for divorce. Greiner, who is a stockholder and former automobile racing driver, has failed to keep his promises to be a dutiful and faithful husband, according to Mrs. Gladys Madolin Sykes Greiner. The plaintiff withdrew her first suit last Wednesday. It was filed May 10 and efforts to keep it secret drew a rebuke from Judg Krentano. Mrs. Greiner aleges that her husband has accompanied women to hotels since their reconciliation. She also repeats the charges made in the first bill. The Greiners were married Dec. 31, 1910, at Crown Point, Ind. Grelner's first wife was Mrs. Margaret Boyer Lehmann, wife of Ernest E. Lehmann. Cannon Resigns. Thomas Cannon for the past three years managing editor of the Gary Evening Post today resigned his position to become the managing editor of a new Chicago daily newspaper which is to be started this month to champion the cause of labor unions. I

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The Chicage Title and Trust company, it Is stated,, will probably guarantee all titles to land in that part of Gary south of the Wabash tracks that has been affected by the claims of the Braford brothers who assert title to all lots that Louis J. Bryan and his Chicago, Tolleston Land and Invest ment company now owns or has ever sold. Pear that several thousand lots, the value of which ranges from $4,000,000 to $3,000,000 had their titles clouded by the Bradford's court proceedings are now dispelled by the title and trust company action which will undoubted ly be made today. That the big twenty million dollar Chicago corporation views the Brad ford's suit as of no great Importance signifies that it regards It as of such little consequence that it will steD in and stick by the titles for those who came to obtain guarantee policies. AT DIG WESTERN MILLS Steel Plants Filled to Capacity and Are Turning Away Business. Western steel mills, which last week were reported as being virtually filled to capacity for thn remaining months of the year on most commodities, this week were obliged to pass up an increased amount of new business, for the reason that they were unable to take care of It. Just where most of this is going to when It is found that the western mills are unable to turn it out is not known by western makers, but It Is thought that it must be going to eastern mills, which are not yet in so congested a condition as their western competitors. Records to Be Broken. This applies to well-nigh every kind of commodity the steel mills turn out. plates, bars, structurals, rails, etc. The railroads are very active In specifications, but this week has seen no new Inquiries of consequence. In fact, it is the belief that there will not be any rail purchasing of great consequence for the next sixty days. Instead of new business falling off since the recent advance in prices, July to date has actually shown an Increase over the corresponding period of June. There is every prospect that the second half of the year will break the record - for tonnage production. Many of the mills now are working' to their maximum capacity, but it is not now a question of capacity so much as it is of steel supply. Some of the mills could be speeded up somewhat were they able to secure an adequate supply of raw material. The mills today are limited by the blast furnace production of Iron. Beat la History. Steel business at present is In better condition with regard to orders placed than at any time in its history, and in coming orders have shown little or no falling off in the last few weeks. Independents and the steel corporation alike report orders being taken at close to production, although prices on leading steel products and specialties have been advanced from $1 to $3 per ton in the last two weeks. For six months of 1912 the American Sheet and Tin Plate company took considerably more tonnage than for the best previous record in its history. The American Steel and Wire company made a. record In orders and shipments also, as did the National Tube. There is little interest in the con tracts reported this week by the western fabricating mills. Only a few contracts have been closed, and all of these are of moderate size. The Japanese government railway has taken 8.000 tons of bridge mate rial from the United States Steel cor-. poration. Another feature of the situation n the steel industry which interests the Lake county mills is the fact that the Steel corporation alone needs 5,000 men and that this need is so urgent that It Is not only advertising for them, but is sending canvassers out to look for them. Other steel mills and other In dustries are in the same plight. For instance, in the automobile and furniture industry, centering: in the neigh- I borhood of Detroit, the shortage of workmen is keenly felt. Cleveland , reports that the demand for labor Is so acute that not an available workman can be allowed to leave that city. Help wanted columns in many cities are swelled far above the average space and this demand is for salesmen, clerks, bookkeepers, chauffeurs and men for domestic service. Nor is this insistent demand limited to those who posses some special training or mechanical skill." The West at the moment is sending forth a stenorlan cry for 60.000 men to help with the harvests. In every section new work is in progress and a cal for day labor is heard. The rehabilitation of the New York traction lines will soon create an increased demand. All of this bears evidence of satis-j factory business. To be sure, profits are still small in many lines of trade and industry. Nevertheless with labor fully employed all over the country, and at good Wages, which are naturally the sequence of a demand incess of the supply of labor, the retail Btore, the traction line, and even places of recreation must soon feel the impulse of increased activity. A bran bath, especially in the summer time. Is delightful, softening and cleansing the skin. To prepare the bath stir the bran Into a tubful of warm water, or sew up a bag of thin mateTffll. lilr nhAacanlAfh M I 1 ...I V. . i m , v...v-viii, mi vtiiu tut uran and use the bag for the washcloth.

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JOHN HAD AN AWFOL BICEPS But Little John Had Him Soon Hanging Onto the Ropes. John Hudacko, who recently came to Indiana Harbor from Jollet, had been lording It in the Illinois town Just long enough to cause his confidence in himself to nearly crack his scalp. He measures six feet two in his stockings and weighs 200 pounds, all brawn and bone. John Reeves measures exactly five feet five. He weighs 150 pounds. Is of stocky build, but brawn also. The is there with the men are employed by the Inland Steel company. Both live in Cedar near 136th street. Last night the two men were in conversation In the locality In which they reside. The subject drifted to strength and fighting ability. Hudacko " proceeded to display a txeep that closely resembled a football. He swelled his chest out to its fullest proportions and reared his mighty stature to Its grandest pinnacle. He said: ' "I can lick anything I tackle, big, little or middle-sized. I am as husky as I am big." The little man had not been saying much, but his ire had been gradually rising. "I defy you to lick me," he challenged, squaring away. When Sergeant Barker appeared up - on the scene Hudacko was hanging on the ropes, while his diminutive adversary was flitting airily about, . landing a Jab here, a punch there and every one of them scoring. Barker threw a sponge into the ring In token of Hudacko s surrender, Judge. Relland has been appointed ref - eree and will give his decision today. JUNE STEEL BUSINESS HEAVY Although one of the influential trade journals last week stated that new business booked during July had shown a big falling off, the general opinion of the trade Is that there ha not been any slump in Incoming steel orders and Inquiries and that July business will be very largre. The conflict in opinion may be due to the fact that probably a. large, number of contracts have been placed the details of which have not been made public. For Instance it "is reported that the Harrlman lines have placed their contract for 3,000 freight cars, that the Denver and Rio Grande has orderpd 1,600 cars ' and the Duluth, South Shore and At-' lantic 1,000. A Philadelphia' report says that' steel manufacturers think the lull In the trade reported In this trade Journal exaggerated. They say that the falling off Is not as extensive as generally tnougnt ana that current business is quite np to expectations. The Litchfield and Madison Railway has ordered 100 cars of the pondola type from the American Car and Foun dry Company. The Seaboard Air Line has ordered twenty-four cars coaches f rom the Presed Steel Company and six dining coaches from the Pullman Company The Central New England has Inquired for 1,000 box and fifty flat cars. The St. Paul has ordered an additional 100 locomotives, making- orders for over 300 placed during the last two months. The Western Maryland has , given orders for 2,100 tons of rails to the Carnegie Steel Company and 2,700 tons to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The Canadian Pacific will spend between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000 for double tracking, wfaile in all of west-

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f m4j ern Canada over $100,000,000 will be spent before the close of the year for new construction or for double tracking. As the Canadian steel companies are as badly sold ' up as American manufacturers, many of these rail orders that will develop may come to this country. Reports from Europe indicate that In England and Germany the demand for steel and iron continues unabated. Prices in England for iron, however, have fallen a little due to realizing. Stocks of iron on hand In the north Jf England and Scotland have dwindle! Titii iuuiici situ txrv lapiui iiflanns the vanishing point. Prices for pig Iron Continue firm, although there is practically no demand and little in sight for merchant furnace production. Idle furnaces of the merchant class at present have a capacity of 1,500,000 tons a year. The great consumption of the manufactur ers and "the likelihood that they will have to come into the market again for some of their requirements has been one of the factors lending strength to prices. Another is an exnected renewal of buying by small consumers as soon as the large amount of iron taken during the winter and spring is used. TITANIC SURVIVOR INJURED (Continued from Page onel plant, was bowled down by a 750 pound axel which rolled him as neatly as did :the Taft steam roller the most rapidly dispatched Roosevelt delegate. The ; young man was taken to St. Margaret's I hospital badly bruised and believed to i be suffering from internal injuries. Reports from there today signify that he s doing well and will live. . Last April he was a passenger on the Titanic and went down with the ship, He came to the surface In time to seize a floating plank and later, to get aboard the bottom of an upturned life boat wlth a numDer of other survivors who were taken aboard the life boat In which Mrs. John Jacob Astor was one of the passengers, and at her solicitation, finally to be picked up by the rescue ship, the Carpathla. Person's sister, Mrs. Strohm of Indiana Harbor and the tatter's little daughter were lost in the wreck. It was Person's first trip to this i country. His sister had been visiting her old home in Stockholm and the young man wa a acompanying her home, to make his home in the new country. He is now of the opinion that it requires much fortitude to live in this country, but that if one can survive the shocks It is all right. THE DAY IN CONGRESS The Senate. Convened at 11 a. in. Considered sundry civil appropriation bill and forced consideration of the wool tariff bill. Foreign relations committee authorized favorable report on resolution to lnestigate the fomenting or encourag-

andling' of Mexican revolutions, or In Cuba. Car Adopted resolution to ina uir into

the purchase of Monticello, Jefferson's old home. Conferees agreed to bill requiring monthly census bureau reports on the amount of spot cotton on hand. Resumed consideration of Panama canal bill. Lodge and CGorman urged right of American coastwise shipping to free passage. O'Gorman asserted railroad Influence Is behind BriMsh protest. ' ' , Postofflce committee, finishing postoffice aproprlatlon bill, agreed to a parcels post provision and to bar sending any second class mail by freight.

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the friends of the defendant from her church and from her Eastern Star lodge, gathered around her and spent most of yesterday in court In the Picture above Mrs. Morrow is the black clad figure In the" center of the fore-grounds.

River and harbor appropriation bill, carrying $33,000,000. agreed to in conference. Adjourned at 5:11 p. m. until 11 a. m. Thursday. The Hraw. Convened at noon. Passed bill to create a department of labor. Considered industrial relations commission ! bill. Secretary Wilson categorically deni ed before agricultural committee Representative Akin's charges that his son j was connected with an irrigation proJect because of the Secretary's influence. Passed bill to Investigate industrial conditions and suggest strike remedy. Adopted aconference report on Senator Smith's bill requiring two wireless operators on steamers. Nye of Minnesota speech deprecated fast living and other besetting sins. House "steel trust" inquiry committee majority will report important anti-trust law amendments. Democratic caucus elected Charles M. Rlddell of Indiana sergeant-at-arms of House. Adjourned at 6:25 p. m. utnil noon Thursday.

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have been real good. How have you been? Coming home tonight? That's finel It will seem good to see you again." The business man who is obliged to be away from home brings joy to the family circle by cheery words over the telephone. The local and long distance Bell Telephone service keeps him always in touch with home conditions.

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GARY POLICE LOOK FOR HAMMOND MAN . Pursuant to a request from the Hammond police department the Gary cops are on the trail of Rudolph Bansky, 21 years old, wfco Is believed to be in the steel city. According to the Hammond police Bansky Is a tailor and he Is wanted, on the charge of stealing $50 from his partner. AIR TRIP AT MILLER SUNDAY It is probable that H. M. Martin, the Gary aeroplane builder, will take a chance and fly hts new machine at the Miller beach next Sunday. Judge William Westergren. who knows a good deal about airships and who assisted Octave Chanute In his flying experiments at Miller beach way back In the early nineties, is manager of the flight arrangements. CLASSIFIED ADVKRTISlTfa placet your flTer before oaoat of the peopl Isj fills city tm whom It would km h lit

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Thursday, July 18, 1912.

Lakewoods par!( Officer George Allen is now stationed at the park to see that good order is always in order. He Is a favorite at the park with the management and with the visitors there. Manager Seltzer has been receiving the congratldations of any friends on the successful manner in which he has conducted the park this season. He has succeeded in bringing order out of chaos and has put the resort on a paying basis in the face of severe odds. Mrs. I. L. Milstone of Gary entertained her guest, Mrs. J. Fishman of Terre Haute. Ind.. at Lake Woods park Wednesday night. A little party was held in the rathskellar, where Manager Saltzer was the host. B. Barancik, proprietor of the big department store at the corner of Nintleth street and Buffalo avenue. South Chicago, was at the park Wednesday night to take In the Japanese dance and the other sights. He is treasurer of the Gary Park company and had to have a body guard to take home the cash. Plans are now under way to install a skating rink In the Casino at Lake Woods. It is planned to take the space now occupied by the theatre for the rink. This would mean that the Casino would be open the whole winter. Some other changes are In view which will cost in the neighborhood of $S,000. ( These proposed changes will make the park a popular resort the year through. Treasurer B. Barancik has recommended that these proposed changes bo made. There will be a meeting Friday evening at which time his report will j be presented, and he will report' favor ably on the projects planned. A little section of Japan appeared to have been set down In Lake Woods last night, or at least on the second floor of the Casino, where the ballroom was located. Manager Saltzer called his novelty dance "A Nlg-ht In Japan," and there were many indications that Japan had contributed to the occasion, The ballroom was a bower of beauty, with the electric lights hidden in Japanese lanterns, and with other .Taninrn. decorations on the walls. As each per son went In, he or she was given souvenir of the occasion. The men received porcelain match safes or ash trays and the women salts i and nennera n f JnrnnA.a m.b. T-v. souvenlrs wer5 Imported and very daln- , ty. Floor Manager Nennlg was In his element aid the dance was one of the mo8t enjoyable of the season. The weathr was perfect for dancing, the floor 18 ,n leR-nt shape and the muslc made by Paul Rockwell, Wade EverB0'l n4 Jack Johnstone, was perfect. Tne dance was very largely attended. There was a large party from Hobart and there were visitors from Chicago, from Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago, South Chicago and other towns la the vicinity. Next Wednesday Manager Seltzer has planned the biggest surprise of the summer. On that occasion he will offer "The Moonlight Robbery Dance," a sensational affair, which will be full of amusing occurrences and will no doubt cause much mirth as well as many thrills. The hall will be darkened, and the place will resemble a moon lighted hall. These novelty dances are becoming widely known and are bringing people from all parts of the country. They have made the park famous this year, and Manager Seltzer will offer several other dances along this line during the next few weeks. es, the children