Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 247, Hammond, Lake County, 31 March 1913 — Page 4
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The Wabash on a Rampage; Bridge Out at Logansport.
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HEX5fRRr IS GETTING THE SBWS. Fort Wayne, Ind., March 31. (Special.) The flood situation here Is very distressing. I had to wade out to the Berghoff brewery In hkp boots and have not been able to Ret out of the cooling room. Have not been able to see Steve Fleming- yet. Wire me $7 care of the bottling works. HENNERY COLDBOTTLE. NO wonder the poor Wabash river
is on a tear. Probably trying: to drown its sorrows because the fool legislatchoor made Indlanny's state song, "On the Banks of the Wabash." EVEN though old Noah only had a dove as a messenger to bring him news of the flood the little bird was more efficacious than our silent phone and telegraph wires were last week.
MANY people will now wonder why
they put Easter In such a front place
in the calendar.
VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL is
said to be the real "fan" of the official
family. If President Wilson is wise
he'll keep his ball pass locked in the White House safe." Chicago Record-Herald.
Now since when did Tommy Marshall
become a baseball "fan?"' Here In In-
dianny we never even know that he understood what a box score Is.
THANK heven! This nil simplifid
spelling sistim won't be taken up In
our local publiok skools like it is being done In Filadelfla.
"WATER FAMINE THREATENS FORT WAYNE." Fort Wayne News
headline.
Happily Fort Wayne is blessed with
more than one brewery.
VIEWS of Venice on exhibition at Chicago Art Institute. Won't go to see them since better ones can be seen
by looking at the flood pictures In The Time?. "COLONEL GIVES WARNING NOTE." Headline. No ua? Teddy. You can't break Into the front page as long as Peru, Dayton and Terre Haute are In the limelight. " DID you ever see a girl with a watch that kept time?" Rensselaer Republican.
Tes. There's ours. She borrowed our
Inrersoll two weeks ago. NOW If congress would only pass a law prohibiting river floods many folks would believe that the democratic party can accomplish something when it wants to. niOT YOU THIS HEX CAME FROM D Y Hit. (From a flood dispatch.) Captain Noble of Culver Academy, passing a porch at Peoria Junction Thursday, saw a hen on the porch. Beside her was a newly laid egg. The captain took the egg to the safety islands to add to the food supply. Passing the same porch today he saw the hen again and found there another eggs. "REDUCE HIGH COST OF LIVING BY EATING ONIONS." Headline. Just as likely as not the Spearmint chewing gum people are spreading this story. THOSE dulcet notes you hear being warbled in the vicinity of the Gary city hall come from the silver throat of that sweet songster of the Grand Calumet valley, the Hon. Homer Carr, who Is assiduously singing, "I've Got Mine, Boys." "SPRING was ushered in last Friday." Hobart Gazette.
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Stated meeting Garfield ..lodge No.
IS9, F. & A. M, Friday. March 28. 1:30
p. m. E. A. degree. Visitors welcom
ed R. 8. GALER, Bee. 2. M. SHANK.
LIN. W. M. . - - '
Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M. Special meeting Wednesday, April 2, 7:30 p. m. Royal Arch degree.
Hammond Council No. 10 B. a A. M. will hold a ceremonial on Tuesday evening, April 1st. Stated assembly first Tuesday each month. J. W. Morthland. Rc, R. 8. GaJer. T. L M.
age on the careless bookkeeping of a
clerk. In the meantime the shortage seems to have Increased and the exr
planation is that the bulk of the
shortage represents "stayed" fines.
which the kind-hearted Judge permitted offenders to pay at their convenience, but which they evidently didn't pay; and some $2,800 in fines collected from the Gary "blind pig" men. The explanation in a Gary
paper further states that the mayor-
judge delayed turning the money
over to the proper custodian pending
a mandatory suit.
It is presumed that the mayor will
effect a satisfactory settlement, thus ending the case. In the meantime
Mr. Knotts should make a firm resolution never to assume Judicial
honors. A court is no place for do
litical favors and making men under
obligations to one by fining them and
then "staying" the fines does not
third Monday of each month.
Hammond Cornmandery, No. 4L X.
T.'" Bag-alar stated meetlnr first and brine th alWlnnr-n nnrl nhUo-atir.no
expected. In this casa those that Mr. Knotts charges with failure to pay
"stayed" fines thank his judicial work
by forgetting to pay up.
Political Announcements
met river, for illustration. We will
Evidently it didn't get a front seat, suppose that with the development of
Gary the swail lands of the Little Calumet river become so valuable
that the city gradually encroaches
over the lowlands.
To keep out the flood waters levees
are built. Instead of spreading over
broad acres, as it now does, the chan
nel is restricted. Over in Illinois the
river runs through solid rock at Blue
Islam. t-
The hydraulic force of the river's current at this point has not been sufficient, during all of these years,
to wear away the rock and to gouge
out a channel sufficient to take care
of the flood waters in the spring.
Grasping for the immediate dollar
will have induced the people of the
Little Calumet valley to restrict the spread of flood water but no relief
is secured at Blue Island where the
channel should be widened so as to
facilitate the rapid discharge of the
water. .
The result will be that some time
Editor, TIMES " J I desire ta annouaee to the roraxnln
aiaaere and auditor, of Lake county
aad to tba people of Lake county that
I am a candidate for the vacancy ex
latin a: on the board of commissioners. I have beea In business In tala county
for 19 yearn and believe I know Its
needs.. , PAXTE 11AROLOVICH, Whiting, Ind,
PRETTY sooa. spring will be here
with all the little springlets, viz.t
SaUot? "trjif s, lowfeuts.i'peekarlno
beer
.--Redding
Searchlight
walstl, ditto upderre and bock be af I tie tlgiijof tejgoat.-Reddin
JUDGE rules that a young woman
has a right to $ 2 0,0 00 a year to live on. If this thing keeps up there's no
dodging the high cost of husbands.
WOMAN AT THE POLLS.
We notice that in Portland, Ore., women are registering with the men
for tha coming spring election.
It'B a little new at first, this regis-
THE WORKING GIRLS SIDE.
We gladly give space to the views
of an intelligent working girl a de
partment store girl if you will on
terlng, but the women are going at it the Question of the alleged kinship of manfully, so to speak, and that they vlce and .wages. The working girls
appreciate the importance of the slde r tbe Question has not hitherto
function and their own dienitv mnv been given. She has a better right
be gathered from the occupations fill
ed in on the blanks.
Mrs. Luella Berkley, we are in
formed, gave hers as "Mary Jane's mother." Mrs. Dorothy Coffin is
"director of domestic affairs." Mrs,
Kathryn Helen Scott wrote "My hus
band's boss." Rose Lelser filled in
the space with the signle work "Married." Evangeline D. Freeland wrote
"Husband's manager."
Whither are we drifting, or are we
just standing still while everything
else moves by us?
THE federal offices don't seem to be going round very rapidly, but those
who are chasing them seem to be
getting dizsy.
CHEESE is fodnd now to cause ap
pendicitis. Well some of us would
rather have the appendicitis.
ON BEING MAYOR AND JUDGE.
Charges that Mayor Knotts of
Gary is short $5,084.41 in his ac
counts while serving as mayor and
city judge have been filed with the
governor by the state board of ac
i counts. Not quite two years ago Ex
City Clerk Harry Moose had the
mayor arrested on the charge of em
bezzlement, alleging a shortage of
some $2,800 in his judicial accounts
This case never came to trial. The
mayor at the time blamed the short
to be heard than anyone else for none
is so vitally interested as she. Miss
Mary Kelley of the Siegel-Cooper
store In Chicago says:
"It Is a cruel shame that the social reformers who are making so much noise about their Investigations of vice conditions should have fastened upon the poor working girl and linked her name with the street-walker Just because her earnings are small. Why should a girl .be indecent just because she only gets six or eight dollars a week? Salaries have nothing to do with morality, and I. as a woman who has worked for years In department stores, want to say that we resent as a libel upon our womanhood the mean and .muckraking charges that are being made. "We girls can afford to stand what has been said about as much better than some of the reformers can afford to havu said the things that are credited to them. Only last Saturday a woman said in public print that she considered It an open question of morals whether girls should starve themselves respectably on an Insufficient wage or should go on the streets because they were selling their bodies putting them to work in either case. Her womanhood must be of the Futurist or Cubist kind: "The people who go wrong In this world as far as morals are concerned, and It la just as true of men as it is of women, are not the hard-working people who have something to keep them busy every minute of the day, but those who have a lot of time on their hands and nothing on their minds. It Is the lazy girl that goes wrong. You know the old saying that Satan finds evil for idle hands -fro do. It
makes my blood boil to hear wom
en say that the women who have fallen to the streets were nearly all hard working girls. It's not true. They were laiy girls or weak girls or foolish girls. Now, I have worked in three big department stores In New York and I have been in my present position some five years, and In all , that time, although I have worked alongside of different girls almost every season, I have never yet known a girl who would supplement her wages by going with men for money. I have never met what you would call an immoral girl. Of course I know that some girls do wrong, but I have never come across a case in my own experience. On the contrary, many and many a time I have known really attractive girls working in this Btore who have had to borrow money for their luncheon the day before pay day. Now, these girls were honest and good c'rls or they would not have ben short that money. ' "It is absurd to say that & girl who is willing to do wrong will come here and stand on .her feet all day and work the way we do. The average department store girl is a good, respectable, honest and moral woman. If one forgets herself she loses her job. Women hold other women to a much stricter code of morals than men do, and although of course many of the girls have love affairs, that has nothing to do with the question.
We don't pry Into the things that come Into other women's lives,' btit women very quickly detect the girl who sells herself, and we all -despise her. I am not talking of the question of salaries. I am talking of the question of decency and womanhood. , I know that all women are not perfect, but there Is just as large, if not a larger, proportion of society women and professional women who go wrong as there is of working girls. That is what makes it so unfair and so despicable to have seized upon the poor working girl and muddled up the question of her low salary with the white slave question or the social evil question. In order to do it the people who' have started all this discussion have taken the rare exception and from It are trying to prove a general rule. But they will not be able to bring forward one single case of a girl who worked in a store or at anything else and was 'forced' Into evil courses. The people who have imagined all this so-called corruption among working girls are evil minded muckrakers. "The people, especially the women who are doing this kind of talking, are really hurting the cause of the working girl."
Albert Given, East Chicago. . .$50.00 The Lake County Times 25.00 The Gary Evening Times 25.00
P. Richard Schaaf Jr 25.00
Hammond Federation ot Music
ians 10.00
Triumph Council Daughters of :
Liberty No. 11 5.00
Granger & Moser, Hammond.. 5.00 Charles Herr-Griffith 5.00
the levees at South Gary will break
and the entire southern portion of the
city will be inundated. The loss of
property and even HveB is sure to fol
low.
Thus in almost every instance nar
rowed river channels, cramped river
beds, artificial reservoirs weakly con
structed and not built for emerg
encies, restricted flow due to bridge
- - . . '
I obstructions, water power projects
levees for the reclamation of farm
lands placed too close together and
I natural obstructions are responsible
for our floods. -
It should be pointed out that expert
engineers have declared that rather
than attempt to penetrate the rock
at Blue Island it would be better to dig an artificial channel to Lake
Michigan at a point east of Gary i Lake and Porter counties.
Thus the flood waters of the Little
Calumet river may be tapped an
drawn off nearer their source. The
project Is known as the Burns' ditch
It would Dositively prevent flaods in
the future. It would create hundred
i
of fertile truck farms.
But after the property owners of
I the section to be benefitted arc persuaded that it would be a good thing,
after they have accepted their assess
ments of benefits, the Lake Shore
The Times' Flood Subscription List.
5.00 5.00
Dr. L. B. Watson, Hammond.
P. E. Rinehart, Hammond...
G. W. Taylor, Creston 5.00 IL S. Pelton, Creston 1.00
A G. Ross, Creston A. G. Taylor, Creston H. D Fuller, Creston......
The Day in HISTORY
.. 3.00 .. 3.00 .. 1.00
Relief fund, cash 1.00
(Note to subscribers: All . monies
sent Thb Times have been turned over
to W. C. Belman treasurer of the Lake County Red Cross branch to be forwarded except the contribution by the Gary Times which has been made payable to H. S. Norton of Gary, head of
the Gary relief fund. Editor.)
INSTEAD of garden seeds, why
don't the congressmen send out
packages Of new nickels? They would be more acceptable and need not cost
any more. !
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY" March 31. 1816 Rev. Francis Asbury, first bishop
of the N. E. Church in America, died In Spottsylvanla, Va. Born in
England, Aug. 20, 1745.
1142 Henry Clay reeigped Ms-jseat In
the United States senate. :
1850-r--John C." CalaoUiv Statesman; died
In Washington, D. C. Born in Ab
beville, S. C, March-IS, 1782.
185 Charlotte Bronte, author of "Jane
I Eyre," died. Born April 21-. 1816 1866 Spanish fleet bombarded Valpa
raiso, Chile.
1912 Robert L. Taylor, United Etates
senator from Tennessee, died In Washington, D. C. Born In Carter
County, Tenn., July 31, 1850. "THIS IS MY 35TH BIRTHDAY" . Paanale Asmata.
Pasquale Amato. who occupies the
premier position among the Italian baritones of the day, was born in Naples, March 31, 1878. After spending
two years In the study of music he made his debut at the age of 20 in the
role of Germont, the father, in "La Traviata." His success was immediate and signal. He remained In Naples two years and then toured southern Italy. He sang three seasons in Rome and three seasons in Florence and completed his career in Italy at the Teatro della Scala m Milan. He then" came to
America and for several seasons past he has been one of the great stars of
the Metropolitan Opera Company in
New York.; Amato is said to be equally
at home in 65 operatic roles.
Congratulations to: Prince Henry William, third son of
King George and Queen Mary, 13 years old today.
John Hays Hammond, famous mining:
engineer and capitalist, 58 years old to
day.
Claude A. Swanson, United States
senator from Virginia, 61 years old to
day.
AVilliam Waldorf Astor, 65 years old today. George V. Graham, former minister of railways and canals in the Dominion cabinet, 54 years old today. James M. Cox, governor of Ohio, 43 years old today. William E. Humphrey, representative in Congress of the First district of Washington, 61 years old today. Earl of Tankerville, 61 years old today. Charles D. Walcott, noted scientist and former director of the United States Geological Survey. 63 years old
today. , - . . ... , .-" - - 7: -;--'-
There are 722,335 coal miners in the United States. The trades and labor council of Nelsonp B. C. is planning the erection of a luabor temple to cost $20,000. Reports from cities In all parts of the country Indicate that there will be a great deal of building done this year. The United Mine Workers' organisation of Iowa is planning the creation of a legal department to prosecute personal injury cases of members. "
BEING an advocate of world-wide
peace, why doesn't Mr. Carnegie try to do something for England and the militant suffragists?
AMERICANS TO EXPLORE LOST WORLD OF
THE AMAZON BASIN; EXPEDITION ON WAY
THE FLOOD AFTERMATH. Readers of newspapers who are thinkers will note that the floods have subsided, losses established, by merely looking at the make-up of their favorite newspaper. Interest In the great flood is almost passing. The world is ready for a new sensation and though constantly kept surfeited with sensation is ready for more.
Newspapers are once again printing general news in their columns. Last week for days the interest in the flood disaster was so general that the
newspaper reader wanted nothing but flood news. All else was subordinated
railroad, a semi-public institution, , to that demand. Happenings which
stepped in and precipitated a court fight to prevent the consummation of the plan and delayed it for years. Now we begin to understand why floods occur. To save the- building of a few railroad bridges the Lake Shore railroad holds up a swamp reclama
tion project that would , add thousands of dollars to the assessed valuation of the county and would Indirectly enrich the railroads. It is an opportune time for tha
AFTER a contestant has been kill- commercial organizations or me
ed in the ring. Pittsburg got busy region to memorialize the Lake Shore
GIRL stenographers protest against being portrayed in moving pictures as always chewing gum and wearing rats. Point is well taken girls. Honestly how many stenographers are
there who chew gum?
and devised new rules for boxinc.
Usually the way.
FLOODS MAY BE PREVENTED.
A flood might be defined as being the' result of an attempt to accomodate a maximum flow of water to a channel of minimum size. The inundation of the country, the destruction of property , and a loss of life follows. The remedy: Dig a channel of maximum size to accomodate the excess flow. In many, instances . the cost would not be as great as the destruction wrought in a single flood. Take the case of the Little Calu-
railroad that Its opposition to the Burns' ditch project ia one of the things that it is contributing to the horror ot floods all over the country.
at other times would have command
ed good positions were put in obscure
corners on inside pages and it had to be big news to get in the papers at all. Social and sporting news was
almost ignored. The people had no appetite for it. It is the same way
when any big disaster comes along In the kaleidescopic race of the earth around its axle. People will rejoice that the flood is all over with as far as being a newspaper sensation. They are glad that those 9.000 deaths by drowning have dwindled to a few hundred.
PROBABLY it will take Illinois a long time to become used to plain Joe Cannon.
A CHICAGO doctor says that brunettes make the best workers. -Meaning Indians of Mexicans?
THERE is nothing thus far to indicate that the English suffragists
i went on an Easter bonnet strike.
PERHAPS it is proposed to tax all Massachusetts spinsters $3 a year
because the blame for not marrying
them can not be laid justly on the men.
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REPLACING THE BRIDGES. One of the results of the reconstruction period of the flood will be vast orders for structural ?teel work to replace many new bridges washed away. Benefiting thereby this is all the more reason why we of the steel belt should contribute liberally to the flood districts. .
Top, left to right : Dr. Franklin B. Church. Anders Anderson, Dr. Willim C Farrabee. Dr. Gordon, Sandy McNabb and Captain J. IL Rowen, U. S. N. Bottom, steam yacht "Pennsylvania." What isj believed to be the most ambitions expdition to the Amazon River ever undertaken has left Philadelphia on the steam yacht Pennsylvania to be gone three years. Dr. William C. Farrabee is the leader and in general charge of the ethnology part of the expedition; Dr. Franklin B.I Church of New York, physician in charge, will be the biologist and make a special study of tropicil diseases, and Capt. J. H. Rowan, U. S. N., retired will command the yacht and act as geographer and hydroKr&cher. .