Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 221, Hammond, Lake County, 18 February 1913 — Page 1

COUNTY rrn EDITION vol; VII., NO. 221. HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPY, (Back Number 1 Cants Copy.) POPULAR GEORGIA GIRL, BITTEN BY DOG WITH RABIES, TAKES PASTEUR TREATMENT

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"We have not purchased a site for our proposed plant in Gary or in any other place. We have a-number of sites under consideration. If the Gary papers report that we have located in that city they are either misinformed or they misrepresent the facts. 1 "We are in the market for a site of between 300 and 400 acres of ground. We will employ 8,000 to 9,000 men. This site has not yet been selected, let alone purchased, and I am giving you the situation right up to the present moment. "J. C. Y0UNGL0VE, General Manager of "H. W. Johns-Manville Company, 22 North Michigan Ave."

For weeks Thk Times has been aware f the fact that the H. W. Johns-Man-vllle Company has ben looking for a site In the Calumet region for Us monster asbestos plant. It now states authoritively that Gary has not been selected aa a site for the plant and It ventures the opinion, from what Information It has at hand, that the property of the Gwiner estate will not be selected and that the plant will not be located in Gary. Sites in Hammond, East Chicago, Gary and Chicago have been submitted to the company and are under consideration. No Pennsylvania railroad officials are interested in the company and none are likely to be, according to the statement of one of the officials today. "The railroads are all customers for

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What Will Become of the Poor "Washee" Man If Indiana Harbor Lawyer Has His Way at Indianapolis; t Wants to License All Laundries; Ought to Regulate

'ifumijeFbf Pins Stta Representative Van Home of Indiana Harbor must have been punctured by a yin in his shirt. ' He is going to regulate the laundries, i He is also going after the slanteyed Mongolian who wears his shirt outside of his pants, and hence is never punctured by pins. Never again may a Mongolian "washee man," after a day of hard work over wash tubs and hot Irons, double up the legs of his ironing board, lay the board across the backs of two chairs, and, after putting blankets and covers on it, turn in for a night's rest That Is, he may no longer do that if a bill Introduced in' the house yesterday by Representative Van Home of Indiana Harbor to provide for the licensing and regulation of all public laundries becomes a law. 'The bill as Introduced leaves blank the amount of PROGRESSIVES MEET. (Special to Thb Times.) Ixwell, Ind., Feb. 18. The progressives of Eagle Creek took possescslon of the home of Thomas and Maggie Turner last Friday night. The weather was fine and a moonlight night brought out 100 to enjoy a visit and a feast of many good things to eat. Select reading, vocal and Instrumental music and visiting made it interesting for all. All progressives of Eagle Creek township and vicinity are requested to meet at Center school . house Friday evening. Feb. 28, at 7:30 o'clock, for "important business, By order of the chairman. aOES TO MEXICO TO PROTECT AMERICANS Rear Admiral Usher. Six American dreadnaughts with ap proximately 6.000 "Jackies" and officers were sent to Mexican ports last week to protect American interests. Among the officers in charge was Rear Admiral Usher, commanding tho third division, on board the battleship Virginia, which reached Tamplco on the Gulf, Saturday. February 15 -

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our products and so you can see hovr ridiculous the statement is that we have the officials of any particular railroad company interested In our business," " said one of the officers of the company today. Another of the men connected" with the company cald; "We are so much larger than any of our competitors that we do not believe that any of them are negotiating for the purchase of so large a piece of ground. The stories in the Gary papers are probably founded on the rumor o our plans to build a huge piani in me uaiumei region. The Times expects to be able to make an announcement of the location the plant In a few days. When this an nouncement is made it will be au thoritative. THE CHINKS the license fee, but it provides for drastic regulation of laundries under licenses to be obtained before the boards of county commissioners. " The measure provides that any person or firm operating a public laundry must obtain a license by applying and causing to be published his application at least twenty days before the session of any board of county commissioners, and also makes provision for a remonstrance-to be filed with the commissioners against the granting of such a license. : Several pages are filled with further provisions for the operation of a laundry after It once is" licensed, chief among these being a prohibition on the employment of any persons afflicted with communicable diseases and. on eating or sleeping in any washrooms or other workrooms of such a laundry. E HAS REPORT W. S. Shields of Chicago who was retained by the city of Hammond as a consulting engineer has made a formal report and estimates to the board of public works on the proposed deep sewer system, sewage treatment works, an da pumping station. The report is a twelve page typewritten document In which an expert gives his advice to the city. As consulting engineer he was aslgned to roak a study of the problem of providing a deep sewer system in particular for that portion north of the. river, and in a general way for the territory south of it and to furnish tne Hammond city englner with a design of it. For City Power Plant. While the report Is interesting because It promised relief from a bad condition In Hammond, the plans be come doubly interesting, because they necessarily provide a pumping station, which will serve the purposo of not only a sewage pumping station, but a garbage incinerator and a 'municipal power plant of 500 k. w. capacity, as well. The assignment was given Mr. Shelds nearly a year ago, and In his report he says he visited aom of the most modern sewage disposal plants and gave consideration to all types now in operation in this country together with the local condition, before making his designs and? recommendations. His plans provide for a power station, a sewage treatment plant and two large Intercepting sewers, one on each side of the. river. . ' ' X THOUGHTS 1 A good chew has vrr made a wise maa happy. Moral i Chew UWIOW SCOUT SCRAP and moke FOREX (XXXX). Save the tickets. BIcHIe S. Tob. Co Adv-

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Mlas Rerfaa Rambo. Miss Regina Harabo. of Marrietta, Oa. a member of the Georgia winter colony at Rockledge. Fla.. la in Atlanta for Pasteur treatment aa a result of a mad. dog scare at the East coast resort. Miss Ram bo was bitten by a terrier which Jacksonville experts, after examination, declared was infected with rabies. Her condition is not regarded as alarming... Miss Rambo is one of the most prominent young - women in Georgia. She is the consistent friend and toast of the Confederate Veterans and Cons of Veterans. She was sponsor for the Army of Tennessee department of the Veterans at the last reunion at Macon. She personally gathered relics on the Georgia battle fields and hawked them on the streets of her native town to help defray the expenses of entertaining the veter- ? ! whn thostatedlvlalonmet at Marietta last year.

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A number of East State street prop erty, owners are urging that the East State Street Improvement association be brought to life. They seem to think that it accomplished much good while it was In existence and that It should be revived. The president of the association is John Pascaly, the vice president E. S. Emerlne, and the secretary Mac Turner. No meetings have been held and the Interest In the organization seems to have died out. James B. Ortt, one of the former members, was interviewed about the organisation and made the following statement: "With the formation of the Ham mond Chamber of Commerce the inter- : est in the East State Street Improve- X ment association waned. A great many; good projects were started by the old' organization and it seems a shame that it should have gone out of existence. "It appears to me that it would be a . good thing for the Hammond Chamber ; of Commerce to encourage the forma- 1 tion of these neighborhood associations ' by giving them the privileges of the clubrooms for meeting purposes. j "Then let each of the neighborhood! organizations, which are in a better position to understand the particular needs of the locality in which they are located, send a delegate to the.' Hammond Chamber of Commerce who will be properly accredited by being made . a member of the board of directors. "Thus all of the members of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce who have interests on State street could occasionally meet to take up the par - tlcular needs of that street, and where co-operation with the main body of the Chamber of Commerce is needed Its needs could be presented to the board of directors by the delegate director from that association. "It would have tho effect of boosting the membership of the Hammond Chamber of Comme rce by making It represent the entire cityf locally as well as generally, and yet the little local needs of each neighborhood could be looked after." Under the direction of H. L. St. Clair, the former manager of the Orpheum theater, a great deal of interest In State street was promoted. Now that this street Is more important than ever many of the merchants and property owners believe that they ought to press the advantage. WHY ARE READER? TOU NOT A TIME 3

Railroad Officials Declare That They Are Building Tracks for Their Own Use and Not Because of the Schlessinger Plant.

- The people of Hammond need not become unduly excited over the building of a sidetrack in the vicinity of the plant site of the Gogebic Iron Company (the Schlessinger company). Tt does not necessarily mean that the construction of the plant is to begin at once. In fact the railroad officials who are building the track say that it is for their own uses and that while it may eventually be used to serve the plant of the Gogebic Iron Company that this does not account for the construction of the track now. Along in the spring it is expected that the company . will commence the buildlnir of the wharf that Is to form the northern limits of the plant site. It does not behoove the people of this community to become greatly ex- ' cited over this however for It does not t mean that 7,000 men will bo employed ! there in a month, six months or even a year or two, . 4ln flw.nnnA VinoK T, .. ,t, it simply means that the company wftIch has acqulred thl8 ,and la Kettini? I to Tftclalm the northem portion of ,t from the bottom of Lake George ; and the slte of tne pJant ln BRape !so that the work of construction on the buUdIK8 can be carried on when the . word to po ahead is Klven. ! n ,8 unfair to polnt out that even ; ths construction of the docks means ; that tne work of building the plant has begun. The Baldwin Locomotive Works j bullt a fence around its site in East f Chicago last year but that It as far jt has gone. The readers of Thb Times may rely on this, paper to keep them posted on the actual beginning of the work of constructing the plant of the Goeblc Iron Company. The railroad tracks that are now being constructed ln that locality are for the exclusive use of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad and will be used temporarily for the purpose of storing materials. And when the time comes for the construction of the plant to go ahead the railroad will be In shape to handle the enormous amount of tonnage that will bo consigned to the plant site.

STRIKE 1 MMDS WILL NOT

uhuie New York, Feb. 18. After a day of conferences between committees representing: the railroads and the firemen in an effort to find a solution to the wage controversy which is threateninga strike on all railroads east of Chicago, the railroad managers late last night threw down the gauntlet to their employes by announcing finally that they absolutely refused to submit the points at issue to arbitration under the terms of the Erdman act. To the surprise of those present the representatives of the firemen instead of giving notice that a strike would be called at once, as they have declared for the past several days, asked if the railroads were willing to give them time to put the matter before the officials of the firemen's organization. To this the railroads agreed and it was Continued on Pace 8.) SUES FOR DIVORCE. TIMES BFRGAV, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 18, Alleg ing that her parents at Hammond had forced her to marry . Dominie Wajtawiez against her will when she was only 15 years old. Laura Wajtawiez sued for a divorce here. She averts thta she lived . with her husband only a few months when they separated. Wajtawiez is an habitual drunkard the complaint says. I John Dobish, a laborer employed In the passenger department at the Stand ard Steel Ca r works, was seriously and probably fatally injured at Ham- J mond yesterday afternoon, when he j was impaled on a pointed piece ' of steel. . . . j The painful accident occurred shortly afternoon while Dobish was at his work. He was working on a scaffold some distance above the ground and in some manner slipped and fell to the ground below. His body fell upon a sharp pointed piece of steel, which pierced his body nearly six inches, causing severe Internal injuries. ... Stewart's ambulance was summoned and the. injured . man was rushed to St. Margaret's hospital. The outcome of his Injuries will not be known for several days, but this morning he is reported geteing along nicely. Peter Baszinski, employed at the Inland Steel plant, was seriously in- , jured In an accident yesterday after- , noon and brought to . St. Margaret's hospital in Burns' ambulance. The details of the accident could not be learn ed. E, IAN KILLED The remains of "Wawrryniee Apier nlk, 1220 150th street. East Chicago, who was fatally injured at the Gibson subway yesterday afternoon when he was struck by a Michigan Central freight train, are being held at Bruns morgue at Hammond, awaiting funeral arrangements. ; The accident happened yesterday afternoon about 1 o'clock. With his brother-in-law, Apiernik had been looking for employment and it was on their 1 return to East Chicago that Apiernik ' stepped, in front ot . an on-coming Michigan Central train at Gibson. His J body was rushed to St. Margaret's hos- : pital, but with a fractured skull and a broken leg, little hope were "given , out for his recovery. His death - oc- ! curred two hours later. Apiernik was 35 years old and is survived by a wife and children ln the old country. It Is probable that .the funeral arrangements will be ln charge of a Polish society, of which he was a member. . i Death News from Boston. Members of the Hammond family received word today that Fred Hammond, a brother of the late Thomas - Hammond and the late George H. Hammond, died at his home In Boston yesterday. Mrs. Thomas Hammond of this city, together with her son, Walter - Hammond, of the Hammond Savings and Trust company, will leave for Boston tonight where the will attend the funeral.

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THREATENED STRIKE f v - W. S. Carter. An important figure In eastern rail road affairs Just now Is William S. Car ter, president of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Engineers. Thirty-four thousand firemen on fifty-four eastern railroads bave threatened to strike unless given a wage Increase. President Carter represents them in negotiations with the railroads. According to the Firemen They Refuse to Arbitrate Because 1. Awards are based upon false evidence, prepared by the railroad companies, and considered by tho Arbitration Board . after hearings have been closed. - ' 2. Testlihony , and documentary evidence introduced, and considered by Arbitration Board, without vtt nesses .being claiied under oatlVi and no legal means for penalizing false testimony as "perjury. ' . Z. The Railroads' desire to secure proposed legislation preventing strikes. Increase In freight rates, etc, are not matters to be decided n an arbitration of a wage dispute, but are matters to be considered by Congress, or by the Interstate Commerce Commission. 4. Awards are not based upon testimony and (evidence submitted by the railroads p.nd employees in the. Railroads'! Plan of Arbitration at the regular hearings, but upon information secured by the individual members of tie Board, during the several months Intervening between the closing of ithe hearings and the publication of khe award. 6. Opportunity Is not given the employees' to controvert false evidence and testimony, considered by members of th Board after hearings are clse 1. 6. To accejpt any such plan of arbitration wjuld be a deliberate betrayal of the rights and Interests of locomotive! firemen by the representatives. WICKISER TO GO INTO BUSINESS E. M.- Wickizer, formerly, of Kokomo. who has been the manager ln the Liberal Credit company's store in Ham-; mond building during the past year, has tendered his regtsnation to go into effect On March 1st. It being his intention to go into business for. himself. Mr. Wicklser has formed a corporation including himself and Messrs. A. E. Anderson and Patrick Drew, capital stock $8,000, to operate a clothing store i on . State street, in" the "west room of the Lash building.'' Mr. Wlcklser is an experienced clothier for . both , ladles ; and gentlemen,' and will carry ready-to-wears for both. He has made friends here land' his success' thus far assures him more for the future. U.S. DEPUTY MARSHALS IN GARY It is expected that a couple of United States deputy marshals will arrive In Gary during the day to make lome'arrests ln connection with the recent Indictments returned by the federal grand Jury. The report Is ( that some sensations will follow ln connection with the arrests. Who are to be taken In tow has not been given out. At the Capital. County Engineer Ray Seeley is ln Indianapolis. So is Township ' Trustee John C. Becker. ' City and county officials find a great deal to Interest them ln Indlanaptolis these days. Sells Two lew Cars. J. W. McMulleto, who has the agency for the Chalmers and the Overland autos, today sold his eighth auto for this season. His latest customer was L. Elster, the Sibley street grocer, who invested ln a 1913 Overland. -

WHAT EFFECT IT WILL HAVE IN THIS REBIOG

A well Informed railroad man asked what effect the threatened fire " men's strike would have on tho Cala met region. He said that It would! affect every railroad In what la known ' . as the "eastern group." This include the Lake Shore, Penn sylvania, Erie Baltimore & Ohio, Wa bash. New York Central and Chesa peake & Ohio railroads. It will not affect the Monon, Chicago, Indiana A Southern, or any of the belt lines. The matter Is now banging on a plan for arbitration. In the neighbor hood of $8,000,000 a year In wages Is Involved. The demands of the men for Increases In wages would require that much of an additional annual outlay. It is understood that the men have been offered what would aggregate $8,000,- ' 000 additional. Now both sides are willing to arbi ! (Continued on Pace . 11. D JAY'S BROTHER ELECTEDU.C. HEAD Allen S. Bay Chosen to Sue ceed Ira Cobe as Motor Club Chief. Allen S. Ray, k brother of W. IX Ray, the manager of the Northern In . , l diana Gas & Electric Co.. has Just been elected to the of nee ot vpresiaen os the Chicago Automobile club. ' Thta la resrdes-tiar3oi the Chicago Automobile club li Cat ehe most important organizations la Chicago. The people of Lake county will remember Ira M. Cobe, who donated the trophy which Inspired tho Cobe races at Crown Point, and they will be interested to know that it Is Mr. Cobe whom Mr. Ray succeeds. The following is an item which appeared in the Chicago Tribune regarding the election: Allen - S. Ray, who has Just been elected president of the Chicago Automobile club, has been a leader in tha club's activities for eight years. Ho succeeds Ira M. Cobe. who has served as chief executive for the last seven, years. Mr. Ray's election was uncontested, as was that of every other officer elected "last Thursday. In 1905 Mr. Ray was chosen first vice president of the club. In 1908 he was made a director and served the full four year-term. During the lase year he has been chairman of two improtant committees, good roads and garage. He also has served on the committees of contests, house and runs and. tours. The other officers elected are: First vice president J. T. Brown. ' " Second vice president Fred A. Yard. Secretary C G. Slnsabaugh. Treasurer W. C H1U. Directors, three'years Ira M. Cob and T. J. Hyman. ARB YOU A TIHBS AKADERt AMBASSADOR'S WIFE HELPS COUNTRYMEN 7 7wj-ssr - I -a , N - ' - 4 Mrs, Ihsiy L. WU Daring tha trouble ln Mexico City, Mrs. Henry L. Wilson- wife of tha American ambasador to Mexico, hag . extended every aid to her fellow countryment ln the battle-scarred city by throwing- open to them the doors of the American embassy. The photo graph i the latest ' that baa beet

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