Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 13, Hammond, Lake County, 26 April 1913 — Page 4

April 26, 1913. THE- TIMES NEWSPAPERS By The Lake Count T Prlatlaar and I"bllafclaa: (nmpanf. BIRDSEYE VIEW OF NEW YOMC HEARD BY RUBE Assisted by HENNERY COLDBOTTLE

THE TIMES,

The Lake County Times, daily except Sunday, "entered as second-class matter June 28. 1906"; The Lake. County Times, daily except Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. 3. 1911; The Gary Evening Times, daily except Sunday, entered Oct. 5, 1S09; re-entry of publication at Gary, Ind., April 18, 1913; The Lake County Times, Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. 30, 1911; The Times, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. 15, 3912, at the postofflce at Hammond, Indiana, all under the act of March 3, 187$.

Entered at the Postofflces, Hammond nd Gary, Ind., as second-class matter. FohRKIQX ABVKRTISIJrO II Ractor BvlldlBaOFFICES, Chicago F17BLICATXOX OFFICES, Haomnoad Building, Hammond. In. TEUCPtlOlVKS, Hammond (privat xcha.ne) ...... Ill (Gall for dewirtmnt wan tad.) Gary Of flea TeL 117 East Chicago Otflc TeL 140-J Indian Harbor TeL 4-li; H Whltlng . Tel. no-U Crown Poiat Tel. S HecewlacDi TeL it Advrtlsln eoltcttera w!ll be a ant, cr rataa aien on application. If you hare any troubla rtttar The Tfanes aotify the nearest office and fcave H promptly remedied. LARGER PAID IP CTRCCLATIOX THAN ANY OTHER TWO MEWS. PATERS IX THE CALUMET REGION. ANONYMOUS commanlcatlona will aot be noticed, but others will be printed at dlacretlon. and should be addressed to The Editor. Times, Hammond. ladL Stated meeting Garfield lodge No. 669, P. & A. M., Friday, April 25, 8:00 p. m. F. C. degree. Visitors welcomed R. S. GALER. Sec E. M. SHANKLINY W. M. Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M. Special meeting ' Wednesday, April 30. Work in Mark degree. Hammond Council No. 90 R. and S. M. Stated Assembly first Tuesday each month. Class of candidates Tuesday, June 3rd. J. W. Morthlarid. Rec, R. 3. Galer. T. I. M. Hammond Commandery No. 41 K. T. Regular stated conclave Monday, May 6 work In Red Cross. COLONEL Roosevelt has eaten a two-cent lunch. Which leads to the conclusion that the Armageddon commissary department is depleted. PROBABLY April 16 has been tot down in the private record of Willis Moore as the coldest day since the leather bureau was established. LOTS OF LAND LEFT. Every once in a while we bump into some one who has a kick about conditions in dertain one of the cities of the Jalumet region. It may be Gary, it may be East Chicago, it may be Hammond or any of the rest of them. He may not like the way the city officials do or a dozen other things. He always has a sore toe about something or, other and is always holding it up for exhibition. Now this is entirely unnecessary. The world is big. Get out if you don't like it. This world isn't as small as some persons think. If the election didn't result to your satisfaction and you feel like indulging a wanderlust there's room. Avoid the beaten paths and you won't rub elbows with any one you don't want to meet or any condi tion you don't want to deal with. On a rough estimate it is declared hat seven millions of square miles, or one-eighth pf the total land surface of the world, is waiting to be discovered Some two hundred thousand of this lie in the Arctic regions of the north, and nearly three million square miles In the Antarctic. In Arabia is a tract of land unexplor ed nearly five times as large as Great Britain. Nearly a quarter of Australia Is still unexplored, mainly in the west, vhore the population averages only one personto every twenty square miles. New Guinea has baffled countless expeditions, though many are trying to light their way inland from the coast, and in Peru strange, wild eyed men occasionally descend from the mountains nd bring wonderful fragments of rich minerals with them. But they refuse lo act as guides to those who would accompany them back. There's plenty of spare room. SINCE Virginia Brooks Washburne li spending her time writing for the newspapers and magazines. We opine that Mr. Virginia Brooks Washburne is eating his meals out somewhere.

. IK. SCALES is suggested for secretary of the state board of health. He ought to add weight to the board.

P A 1 ; A G K A I ' 11 1 2 R S are having a lot of fun because this is the centenary of the plug hat. Wellt one good thing about the plug hat is that it is pretty careful about who wears it. INDIANAPOLIS NEWS asks Indiana democrats if they are going to follow Wocdrow or desert him. Suffering martyrs! So many of the faithful are so hungry from their long wait at the pie-counter that thoy can barely stand, much less do any following. WOULDN'T MIND IT AT ALL In case the militant suffragettes are exiled to some solitary island the Springfield Repubsuggests that they be banished to the Isle of Man. Great idea! None of the male voters there would have the least objection to the militants being up in arms. "SHALL business go itito politics?" asks a contemporary. Might as well. Politics got into business long ago. "MARRIED HOUR; ASKS FOR MONEY." Headline. Now all you mon readers quit laughing. For once it wasn't the woman who did the asking. GRANDSON of Longfellow out In Boston has quit his job as a street car conductor to become a journalist His experience ought to enable him to conduct a clumn like this. BHR-RU-R! HOW COLD IT IS! (From The Record-Herald.) Mrs. Disraeli once said to an astonished circle in an English country house! "Dizzy has the most wonderful moral and political courage, but he has no physical courage. I always have to pull the string of his shower bath." CONGRESSMAN GLASS is author of new currency reform bill. The common pe-pull ought to be able to see through It. THE Democratic party will not be satisfied with the Underwood tariff bill nntil it is amended to put about 130,000 government jobs on the free list. WITHIN the last seven months there have been 433 cases of suicide in New York. There must have been a scarcity of tourists from the provinces. ; . 1 , , ; MUZZLING THE PRESS. Senator Works, of California, doesn't like the way the newspapers of the country are run and has introduced a bill a bill to make it unlawful for District of Columbia newspapers to pub lish details of crimes,, accidents and tragedies. It is not known whether the Senator is pushing this bill at the behest of his constituents or any one else besides imself, but he is attached to a lost cause. His oDjects (l) to cleanse journalism and (2) to spare the feel ings of relatives of noted criminals are commendable as far as they go, but they don't go far. Would not the barring of exposures of crime encourage it? ' If it were forbidden to publish ac counts of "accidents" would not the automobile joy rider go practically unchecked? If the bill became a law would the Senator stop there? He might not like a sermon, a political utterance, the market reports, the weather. Woul he propose to better all these by forbid ding mention of them? The bill is a tragedy. Let's start by prohibiting further reference to it. THE queen of the May will, as usual, wear dad's old straw hat on her head, a mop in her hand and a smudge of soot on her face. ANYWAY, these English suffra gists have one advantage when they are sent to prison. They are enabled to 'reduce." DEMAND FOR TRANSPORTATION. The mass meeting at the rooms of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon demonstrated the fact that the business men of Ham mond, the property owners and the town officials of Munster and High lands, want transportation facilities with Hammond. The Gary & Southern is knocking at the door of these ridge towns, whose population agregates :?,000, and as Gary has already welcomed interurban de velopment that city will get the commercial benefit that Hammond will lose unless the Green line is granted a franchise. Gary now has interurban connections with Crown Point to the southward, Hobart to the southeastward and Laporte and other towns to the w-estward largely as a result of their liberal atti-

FACT that city chemist has declared that the water supply of Gary is pure won't make the least bit of difference to some of its natives.

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES DECIDE TO QUIT MISSOURI." Chicago Tribune headline. Which goes to show that you can carry the "show me" policy too far. ALSO: While In California Mr. Pryan, no doubt, will take advantage of the opportunity to buy a few casks of grape juice where the beverage Is cheap. Suffragette Never yet Remained true And loyal blue To the cause. Here we pause " For a time To get the rhyme And meditate And cogitate On the reason For their treason It's an easy guess You'll confess Without acrimony The cause is matrimony! Minnie Fish. WOULD be simply awful if we got into war with Japan. Where would we get the rice to shower on the brides? HE WILl.BRIXCi TEARS TO SOME WOMAN'S EYES. (Twelve-mile correspondence to the Peru Republican.) Uncle Dan Is back in old Bunker ton again after spending the winter in Chili and Denver. He looks as fat and sleek as a peeled onion. IF there are any proofreaders or make-up men In heaven we don't want to go there. IN passing we have to make note of the Wolf-Trainer wedding at Huntington. He will be pretty tame after a few months. CAN'T tell us that the American people aren't plungers. At least 18,768,992 folks will take their regular S. N. bath tonight. tude towards interurban development, Hammond has not a single interurban line connecting this city with the coun try districts to the southward. It has not a single means of transportation between the rich truck farming districts on the ridge and the logical market for produce to the northward. If the city of Hammond fails to grant a franchise to the Green line so that this project may be financed outside of the restrictions of the public utility bill itwill be years before the road will be built. The board of works and the common council is not asked to grant a blanket franchise to the Green line. It is not asked to turn down one interurban proposition for the purpose of taklag up another. It is simply asked to grant a reasonable franchise to the existing traction system for the use of the extension of Hohman street, J a thoroughfare, which it already occupies. This leaves Calumet avenue, Columbia avenue and Kennedy avenue, all north and south thoroughfares, open for any other interurban lines that ma plan to come into Hammond. In the city of Gary 35 miles of streets have been turned over to the Gary & Interurban line for develop ment to evade the provisions of the public utilities act, in Whiting the Gary & Interurban line has been granted rights and the Green lines franchise will be passed in a day or so. Everywhere except In Hammond cities have encouraged the development of interurban lines by making grants that will permit of the evasion of the restrictions of the new public utilities act. Thus they have indirect ly subsidized pioneering development. Hammond alone lags behind. Strong prejudices against the local system, many of which are well founded, must be overcome. What the people of this community want is a line and the city officials ought to make some concessions to get one built while the chance still remains. , THAT old chestnut about persons with slender purses lolling around in taxicabs while millionaires use the strtet cars Is still going around. If millionaires used the street cars there would be better time made, more civil conductors, fewer loafers strutting in either smoking or carrying butts without rebuke and no strap hangers. EVEN IN HIGH PLACES. The cables are telling of the graft accusations that throw a shadow upon officials and dignitaries occupying high places in England and Germany. In London parliament is investigatig the charge that members of the cabinet profited in the stock sales of Marconi Wireless, through their knowledge that the government would make a favorable contract with the company. It is a more serious charge that is

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lANGO parties and anytning that there Is no opera; adjourning ranjrements for private lessons empty hours. Quick to recognize

all the prevailing fashionable dances. From first curtain to last aU varieties of lust what it was intended to be a dancing mnsical comedy.

made in Berlin. A socialist deputy accuses the Krupps and other gun and armor makers of fostering the war fever in Fermany, of bribing German army officers to procure military secrets that would enable them to an ticipate the competition of rivals, of bribing French newspapers to foster an anti-German spirit, and of doing other things either tending to create war or else to cause a vast expenditure of money in preparation for war. In view of the good reputation that the Krupp concern bears the charges are hard to believe and it is to be hoped that the contrary will be shown. POINTED out quite succinctly by a man who evidently has both that knowledge Is power but it takes money to run an automobile. DE WOLF Hopper has just secured another divoroe. Hopper is evidently about as strong at the bat as was his friend Casey. POOR NICKEL, POOR HUBBY. Laport woman who found a bunch of the nfw nickels with the Indian head on em whle searching through her husband's pockets mistook the coins for tobacco tags, toward which she has an aversion, and heaved every last one of them out in the alley. Too bad that young A. Andrew Piatt Isn't assistant secretary of the treas ury any more. If, he were we haven't the slightest doubt that he would send a new nickel or two down to the Bank of the State of Indiana so it could be put on ( exhibition. Whenever Uncle Sam gets out any new gold-pieces he wants to send a few samples in advance to LaPorte so that the women, folk can get acquainted with the changing currency. Don't know what would happen if some housewife mistook a new $20 gold piece for a tobacco tag or a beer check. TOM Marshall is surely putting the offict of vice-president on the map. Michigan City Dispatch. Yes, and himself off the map. YOU can help but notice that that man Underwood Is having his own way about a lot of other matters besidts free wool. THE PUBLIC MARKET. The desire for public markets, oc casioned by the belief that they may be a factor in reducing the high cost of living, has caused several Indiana cities to take steps to establish a municipal market. -Hammond already has one, Gary will build a 1 50,000 market. Marion has a new market and Lafayette is taking steps to procure one. A committee appointed by Mayor Durgan of Lafayette makes the following report on the market question, which is reprinted from the Lafayette Journal: "The people of Lafayette pay more for poultry and butter than do the people of a majority of places visited. "Local produce shippers underquote the local market In order to protect the hucksters and small dealers buying of them; local grocers overquote the market in the hope of getting the pro ducers to come to Lafayette. "There Is not enough produce in this territory to supply the demands of both produce shippers and local retail 'stores.

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leads to them, late dinners and the one's dinner party to the nearest theatre

with the "best turkey trotter In the show," pretty much sum np fashionable

all this. Charles Frobman has given "The people of Lafayette can buy staples as cheap as can the people of other cities who depend on retail grocery stores. "An extensive credit system and a costly delivery system contribute to (the cost of living. "No evidence of a combination among grocers to control prices and in restraint of trade was found. "No illegal combination between grocers and gardeners was found but the committee ' believes there is a natural trade combination due to unfavorable market conditions. "The people of Lafayette pay above the prevailing commission prices for fresh vegetables. "Local gardeners, who virtually con trol the fresh vegetables market, be lieve that the grocer who furnishes them a quick market for their products should be protected. "The grocers, speaking of a majori ty, believe that gardeners who deal with them should not undersell retail prices. "Owing to this natural trade com bination the farmer or the small pro ducer who cames to the city occasion ally finds it difficult to dispose of his products to advantage. "The committee recommends a reformation of the costly delivery system and the correction of its abuses. "The committee believes that the man who pays his grocery bills pays the bills of the man who does not. "Recommendation is made for a municipal market in order that con sumer find producer may be brought closer together and that a basis may be provided for stable market conditions." HAMMOND would be a fine sort of a place to live in, if some of thost old barnacles and millstones hanging around its neck were allowed to have their way. MIKE AND HIS THIRTY BEERS. Spring brings it humors as well as poetry and health tonics. Now, there is Mike Malone of New York who fell off a wagon "water," if you like, but also an express wagon and hurt him self so seriously that he is going to sue the city. Malone says he had only tnirty glasses of beer and does not think that any jury will take sides with the city against him on that account. Jury duty as a rule, Is not attractive to men whose minds do not run gladly to disputation and, ratiocina tion; but question whether thirty glasses of beer will cause intoxication beyond the power of driving a team has possibilities pleasing many. Spring has already tempered the mouths of men with a wholesome thirst. At no season is beer riper or mellower or more in harmony with both internal nature. Nor can there be a better time for testing one's ability to drive a team. It can be done now as "jocund" as in the time when Mr. Gray put the word in the vocabulary of poesy. Why, then, not give the jury the beer and the team and put the issue to a test beyond argument? What harm if perpetual disagreements compel appeals to higher courts and a continual series of new trials? r SOME people think that bragging about liking rank smelling cheese establishes their social standing beyond question or cavil. Try a La Vendor cigar. Adv. It's 2OO0.

consequent late arrival at musical comedies, especially on the nights when

that has something new to show In turkey

Julia Sanderson a musical play. "The Sunshine Girl." this season which contains

turkey trotting and tango da icing abound The Day in HISTORY APIIIL 26 IX HISTORY. 1794 The Vendeans under Charette, de feated by the French. 3S19 Odd Fellows' Society first organiz ed in the United States, at Baltimore. 1S65 Capture of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln. 189. Democratic majority in ; the United States 'Senate accused ot "selling out to the sugar trust.' ., 1900 Hull and part of Ottawa: Canadadestroyed by fire; 12,000 homeless; damage to property over $50,000. 1905 Tariff war In prospect between the United States and Germany. 1912 Bodies of John Jacob Astor and Isador Straus, Titanic victims, recovered at sea. Funeral of Fred D. Grant held In New York City. TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HOSORS, , Charles Sprague Smith, the noted teacher, lecturer and author, la fiftynine today. He is one of the foremost advocates of laws for the benefit of children in the United States; is trus tee of the New York Child Labor so ciety and of the New York Peace So ciety. Mr. Smith is among the guests expected to address the big sociological congress at Atlanta, Ga., today. - APRIL, 27 IX HISTORY. stroyed by earthquake. " 1838 Great fire at Charleston, S. C, almost destroying the city. 1S56 Ratification of treaty of peace between England. France, Turkey and Russia. 1S64 House appropriated $25,000,000 for equipping 100,000 additional troops. 1SS3 Tornado in Mississippi. 18S4 Spain began negotiations to sell Cuba to Mexico. 1903 United States Supreme Court Sustained Alabama law disfranchising negroes.

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New York Idea or whiling away the in rhe Bans nice UtfL- wuica la THE COMING WEEK. New Tork," April 26. The. following events are scheduled to take place during the coming weekMONDAY. King George reviews Brigade of guards In Hyde Parle, Ixmdon, which is planned as one of the most pictures que events of the year. Will of Rear Admiral Eaton, whose widow has been charged with ' his death, will be probed before Judge Chamberland at Rockford, Mass. Bids for the construction of 22 miles of canal In the Milk River Irrigation project In Montana will be opened in Washington. The canal is to be built under treaty with Canada. - New York Public Service Commission to take up consideration plans looking; toward the final abolition of horse cars In the metropolis. TUESDAY. Meeting of Florida Historical Society at Deland. Women's Civic Clubs all over the cvoi ttry to advocate "clean city day. WEDNESDAY. Mrs. Richard T. Crane, New York so ciety woman, weds Francis T. A. Junkin. of New York, In Paris. Princess Juliana, daughter of the Queen of Holland and her Consort, celebrates fourth birthday anniversary. Miss Jean Pughsley, New York society girl, wedj Fenrhyan Stanlaws, the portrait painter, in New York. Beef trust attorneys win auppear before Supreme Court of Missouri, at St. Louis, to deny that certain ' firms are combining to control prices. THURSDAY. .;, American Peace Congress opens at St. Louis, Mo. New tea season begins today and United States government will continue to bar all colored teas from the country. FRIDAY. Colonel Roosevelt will speak at big ralys In the Interest of votes for women at Carnegie Hall of New Tork City, to-night-SATURDAY. The National American Woman Suffrage Association holds monster parade In New York, the marchers being divided Into seven groups. . I 1 '4 Drecoli and Lacroix.

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