Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 19, Hammond, Lake County, 10 July 1913 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

Thursday, Julv 10, 1913.

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Entered at the Postofflcea, Hammond and Gary. Ind., as second-class matter. rOREIOS ADVERTISING 1 Recrtor Bulldlnr orncEs. ahtoaro PUBLICATION CWTICK3, Hammortd Build ing, Hammond, Ind. TEHJCraONBS, Kamroond (private xoha.ng) Ill (Call for department wanted.) Gary OfTlce.. Tel. 137 rat Chicago OtXlc Tel. 640-J Indiana Harbor TeL S49-M; 150 Whiting Tel. 10-M Crown Point Tel. 61 Hegewirca Tel. IS Advertising- solicitors will sent, or rate flvoa on application. If you bare any trouble -etMn TTbe Times notify the nearest offlea and have it promptly remedied. LARGER PAID UP CTItCTJXwlTIOW THAW ANT OTHEK TWO NEWS" PAPERS IN THUEB CALCMET REGION, AJfO NT M OV3 communications will not be noticed, but others will te printed at discretion, and should be addressed to The Editor, Tlmea, Ham' snend. Ind. 411 Stated meeting Garfield Lodge. Mo. 6(59, F. and A. M.. Friday, August 1, 8 p m. No work. Visitors welcome. R. S. Qaler. Bee., E. M. Bhanklln. W. M. Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M. Regular stated meeting. July 9. Visit ing- companions welcome. Hammond Commandery, No. 41, K. T. Regular stated business meeting Mon day, August 4. Visiting Sir. Knights welcome. NOTICE. AH political notices of whatever aa ran a from whatever party are strictly cash. Notices of meetings, an aouncement of candidacies, etc., may be Inserted in these columns. Whiting. FOR MAYOR, Editor TIMES i I announce herewith that I am caadldate for the democratic aeaainatlon for mayor of the city of Wnitlag, subject to the decision of the party primaries. JT. J. DON EG AN Hammond. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMES After having; consulted myself, wish you would pleas announce i name for a caadldate for mayor of the city of Hammond, ladiaaa, subject to the declaioa of the democratic pri mary election to be held August 2nd, -WILLIAM W. M'MAHON. Dated at Hammond, IbiL, July 3, 1013. MAYOR. Hammond, lad, July 5, 1913. Editor TIMESi Please announce my name as a candidate for the office of mayor of the city of Hammond, Indiana, subject to the decision of the democratic primary to be held Aug. 2, 1913. JOHN D. SMALLEY. CLERIC Editor TIMES i Please announce that I will be a candidate for the nomination of city clerk on the democratic ticket, subject to the primary convention held August 2. I rspectfully solicit the support of my friend and take this mesas of apprising those whom I may not see that I am out for the nomination. NICHOLAS LAIER. CITY JUDGE. Editor TIMESi You are herewith authorised to announce that I will be a candidate for the office of city judge of the city of Hammond, Indiana, ou the democratic ticket, subject to the will of the voters of this city, and 1 herewith ask the support of my friends at the democratic primary election to be held on August 2, 1913. JAMES O. KOONTZ. July 2, 1913. CITY JUDUE. Editor TIMESi I hereby announce my candidacy for city judge ef Hammond on the democratic ticket, subject to the choice Of Bald party at its primary to be held on August 2, 1013. FRED BARNETT. Editor TIMES i You are hereby authorized to announce that I will be a caadldate for the office of City Judge of the City of Hammond, ladiaaa, on the Democratic ticket. I hereby ank the support of the voters at the Democratic Primary Election to be held August 2, 1913. THEODORE C. KLOTZ.

Political Announcements

FOR TRKASIREIU Editor TIMES I Yon are herewith authorised to an. aouare that I will be a candidate for the office of city treasurer of the City of Hammoad. Indiana, oa the democratic ticket, subject to the will of the

voters of this city, and I herewith ask he support of my friends at the demo cratic primary electloa. Signed. OTTO H. DIEIKE. CITY TREASURER. Editor TIMES: You are authorised to announce that am a candidate for city treasurer. subject to the will of the democratic voters an expressed at the primaries to be held August 2nd, 1913. jr. D. BRl'SEIa FOR CLERK. Editor TIMESi You are herewith authorised to an nounce that I ft HI be a candidate for the of flee of city clerk of the city of Hammond. Indiana, on the democratic ticket, subject to the will of the voters of this city, and I herewith ask the aupport of my friends at the democratic primary election. Signed. WILLIAM KOI.B. COINCILMAS-AT-LARGE. Editor TIMESi Please announce the undersigned as candidate for oouncilman-at-Iarge In the city of Hammond, Indiana, subject to the voters at the democratic pri maries August 2nd, 1913. WILLIAM B. MUR. COUNCILMAN, SECOND WARD. Editor TIMESi Y'ou are authorised to announce to the voters of Hammond ray candidacy for the nomination to succeed myself aa councilman of the second ward, sub ject to the democratic nominating pri mariea on August 2nd. OSCAR PLAGEMAN. ALDERMAN. FOURTH WARD. Editor TIMESi iou are authorised to announce to the voters of Hammond my candidacy for the nomination for alderman of the fourth ward, subject to the democratic nominating primaries on August 2nd PHILLIP II. SM1DT. Gary. FOR JUDGE. E.lltor TIMESt Please announce to the people of Gary that I am a candidate for the nomination of city Judge, subject to the decision of the clttscns party con vention. H. P. SHARAVSKY. CITY JUDGE. Editor TIMESi I desire to announce that I shall be a candidate for judge of the city court of Gary, subject to the republican and progressive primaries. JOHN W. WAKE. FOR CITY JUDGE. Editor TIMESi Please announce to the citliens that I will be a candidate for Judge of the city court of the city of Gary, and solicit their support at a primary election to be held by the republican and pro gressive parties. ALBERT C. HIBEH. Gary, Ind- June 6, 1913. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMESi Y'ou may aanounce that I am a can dldate for mayor of Gary, subject to the decision of the republican and pro gressive primaries. A. R. HOOVER. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMESi You may announce that I am a candi date for the nomination for mayor of Gary, subject to the decision of the republican and progressive primaries. R. O. JOHNSON, FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMES: You maf -announce in your , columns that I am a candidate for the Bosnian tlon for mayor of Gary subject to the decision of the republican and yro gresalve primaries, and I ask the sup port of my friends In this way. CHARLES K. GREEN WALD. FOR MAYOR. Editor, TIMES: Please aanounce 'fast I am a candidate for the aomlaatlen for mayor of Gary, subject to the decision of the republican and progressiva primaries la July. W.P. PATTERSON, FOR TREASURER. Editor TIMESi Please aanounce to the people of Gary that I will be a candidate for th nomination of city treasurer, subject to the decision of the republican-pro gresalve primaries. W. D. HUNTER. Editor TIMESi Please aaaoaace to the people of Gary that I will be a candidate for the nomination of city treasurer, subject to the decision of tbe nominating eonveatlou of the citizens ticket July IX WILLIAM FEDER. FOR CLERK. Editor TIMESi Yon are authorised to announce tiat I will be a caadldate for city clerk, subject to the decision of the Gary republican and progressive primaries. II. C. FRANCIS. . FOR COUNCIL. Editor TIMESi . Please announce to the people of Gary that I will be a candidate for the nomination of alderman-at-large, subject to the decision of the citizens ticket convention. A. II. HALE. FOR COUNCIL. Editor TIMESi Please anaouace to the people of Gary that I am a caadldate for the nomination for alderman of the first ward, subject to the republican nnd citizens' primaries or conventions. THEODORE V. FREEBURY.

Editor TIMES I Please announce to the people of Gary that 1 will be a caadldate for the nomination of alderman from the third ward, subject to the declaioa of the i-l tl sens party convention. ABO.V KOLLl'S.

FOR COUNCIL. Editor TIMESt Please announce to the people of Gary that I will bo a candidate for the nomination for nlderman-at-Iarare, subject to the convention of the dtlseaa party. BOLICE SZYMANSKI... East Chicago. REPUBLICAN CALL. A ote sa meeting of all republican and all others desiring to affiliate with the republican party of the city of East Chicago, will be held the Indiana Harbor auditorium on Tuesday evrnlng, July ISth at 8 o'clock p. m. for the purpose of ele-ct-ng precinct committeemen and to ranaact such of the budnes aa may come before the convention sold com mitteemen to have charge of and conduct the affairs of the republican party In the coming city election. W. B. VAN HORNE. - City Chairman. FOR CLERK. Editor TIMESi Please anaouace that I will be a can didate before the East Chicago repub lican primaries for the nomination of city clerk on that ticket, at a date to be decided later. JOSEPH J. FREEMAN. CITY JUDGE. Editor TIMESi Please aanounce that I will be a can didate before the East Chicago repub lican primaries for the nomination of city judge on that ticket, at a date to be decided later. GEORGE E. REILAND. FOR COUNCIL. Editor TIMESi You will please announce that I am a caadldate for the office of rannrHI. aa at larare for the city of Eat Chi cago, subject to the republican primaries. WILLIAM WEISS. SPEED THE PARTING GUEST. Not a single visiting member of the Indiana State Municipal League, which closed its annual metting at Gary to-day, is there, who is not pleased with the city and the splendid hospitality 6howered on the dele gates with her proverbial warm hearted welcome to the stranger within her gates. Gary has only added new jewels to her crown of hospitality. The present convention has been one of the best advertisements for Gary ever given her. " Outside of the storm on Tuesday the weather has been nearly perfect and there has been warm rivalry to see who shall give most freely in welcoming the guests of honor. It is safe to say that none of the visitors go away disappointed, but they will always have the kindliest recollec tions of the Magic Steel City when such yellow sheets as the Chicago Tribune are printing malicious stories of dives and lawlessness, as appeared therein last Tuesday. WELL! HOW ABOUT ITT The entrance of women Into politics may work changes In phaseology. Hereafter the "dark horse" candidate may have to be referred to as the "brunette nag." Kansas City Journal. Yes, there's that little blonde filly. How would you like to be run ning for office, thinking all was se rene, only to have a flossy little blonde filly step into the race at the last moment and sweep everything before her? A NEWSPAPER'S SPACE. Now is the season of our discon tent. So on this particular point are other Beasons. We have company in the other newspapers published in this glorious land. A newspaper's great staple Is its advertising space. Without it, and the receipts bring, there would be no newspapers. Yet thl3 important fact never seems to reduce the long line of well-meaning people who stream into every sanctum every day asking that this staple be parceled out to them free. Of course they don't ask for the space of the advertising columns. What they want is the news columns. And they want it to print the ad vance announcements of divers strawberry festivals, music recitals, steamboat excursions, rummage sales, amateur theatrical perform ance, organization suppers, dances and numerous other things that will be given for money, the receipts to be devoted to some worthy cause. The point lies in the money. The newspaper publication is no value to them save as It attracts money barring, of course,, such satisfaction as it may afford the publishers to contribute to a movement of which they approve. We have no doubt that many people are asked to give and do give freely to these many causes. The newspaper is usualy expected to contribute automatically. Moreover, the newspaper is only a human Institution. It can give to everything and still pay its bills and it cannot select

a list of favored beneficiaries without dortg injustice to others which maybe equally deserving. This is a feat

ure which seldom appeals to the people who would not think of asking for free steamboats, free musicians, free theaters, free strawberries or any other commodity necessary to these admirable ventures, but who expect to be given the newspaper's stock in trade as a matter or course. We offer this foregoing as a matter of explanation of attitude as much as a hint for those good people who are coming in here from now until the end of time to raise their eyebrows when the sad truths are Bet before them. Hartford Times. WHEN AND WHY, Judge Becker of Hammond said at Gary yesterday that he was not satisfled with the Public Utility Commlsion appointed by Governor Ralston. Did anyone ever know of Becker's being satisfied with anything unless It was done by Lawrence Becker? Why did not Ralston delegate Becker to appoint his Public Utility Commission for him? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS. In an Ohio town where the "good" people get most of their amusement by fighting the "bad, there was a mayor whom the "good" people suspected was "bad.' So this was how they put him to the test. They hired an alluring woman and got her to make friends with his honor. A skilful! woman, out to ensnare a man, especially if she be pretty and dimply and apt in the affectations of a beauty In distress, generally, so history tells, makes some headway. It was so in this case. Tbe woman tempted and the man bit like the great, gawky gudgeon that a man is. Nothing wilfully wrong .understand. No deliberate plotting or perfidy on his part. Just a foolish yielding to a lure as old as creation. And when the trap was ready to be sprung, lo, there came detectives, policemen and a photographer; the "good" people chortled with glee and a flock of them hied to the governor to see if they could get the "bad" mayor removed. Wonderful reforming, isn't It? asks the South Bend News. BELIEF OP BEN ABDALLAH. In these days when so many good persons are arguing about their par ticular Ideas of religion with eeal sufficient almost to rekindle the fires of Smithfleld the lesson of the interment here in the foreign lot of Cy press Hill Cemetery, New York, of Ben Abdallah, a flf teen-year-old Arab, gives food for thought. Ben Abdallah was an acrobat who came from Algiers a year ago with the Sie Hassan Ben All troupe, and after surviving all the vicissitudes of a life in the arena and on the 6tage as ground and lofty tumbler and top mounter, and thriving there, ment an untimely end while bathing in a pond in Williasport, Pa. The lad was borne to his tempo rary resting place for hi3 bones will later be taken back to his own land by his compatriots, singing. Their song on an occasion of this kind, It Is learned, are significant of both regret and rejoicing, not regret for the dead, but for themselves and the rest of the world's mortals who are left to bear with the world's vicissitudes of life. . The rejoicing is for him who is at rest with Allah. In casting about for other views than our own it occurs it might be well to bear in mind the belief of the friends of Ben Abdallah. WARNING TO TOURISTS. Notice by a current cable from Cairo, Egypt, that a mummy dealer was jailed because he sold an American tourist a bundle of calf bones, saying they were the remains of a Prince of the III Dynasty. Excuse these smiles. Despoiling the Egyptian used to be an old game, but not now. He has learned. The worm has turned. The old Sheik beyond the gate at Luxor has sold to confiding tourists enough scarabs from the tomba of the Ptoleys, Rameses and Thothmas to duplicate the pyramids at least twice, and we blush for the backsheesh bamboozled out of us in other ways by the sons of the sandy Sou'dan. Just why, in view of the high and rising cost of meat, a bundle of calf bones wouldn't in a little while be valuable as a mummy of the III Dy nasty, of course, concerns the purchaser alone. Outside of the individual incident recalling to the mind of the crimin ologist that the development of the thriving mummy and scarab business in Egypt was coincident with the disappearance of the rich gold brick industry here, it occurs that the whole matter backs up the old patriotic slogan, "see America rirst, or as the country store advertisement read: "Why Go Elsewhere To Get Robbed? Come ia Here."

Sidelights on Gary's 3ig Municipal Meeting Which Are Timely

Praises The Times. Among the live wires at the convention is Mayor George B. Durgan of Lafayette, who came to Gary with several of his city officials. "You are from The Timbs?" asked the Lafayette executive. "That's the live paper I have heard so much about. "You bet It is," put in Comptroller James Schooler. Other live wires in the Lafayette delegation include the president of the league. City Attorney Arthur D. Cunningham, who sports a beard and mustache, making him look like a Kentucky colonel; City Clerk Krabbe and Health Officer Ben Leffraan. Like The Mills. Mayor Austin Brumbaugh and the Elwood delegation found their chief interest was in ascertaining whether the Gary mills of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company are bigger than the Elwood mills of the company. Alderman Weismantel and Street Commissioner M. II. Murphy saw the mills with the mayor but they wouldn't express an opinion. Mayor Shank's Secretary. One of the interesting figures at the convention is Annls Burk, secretary to Mary Shank of Indianapolis, who is representing the capitol city at the convention. .Mr, Burk used to be a newspaper man, having been Identified with the old Sentinel staff and later was on the state desk of the News. Ex-Consul General. Ex-Circuit Judge W. B. Hess, city attorney of Plymouth, is one of the delegates who is much impressed with Gary. During the Harrison adminis tration Judge Hess was consul-general to Constantinople. Former National President. Ex-Mayor William C. Crolius, former mayor of Joliet, and until recently a resident of Gary came down from Chicago in the interest of the National Municipal league of which he is a life trustee by virtue of having been national president. Mr. Crolius urged State President Cunningham to have the Indiana cities Join the national organization. See Mills Twice. Aldermen Frank A. McCauley and E. V. Ade of Huntington who went through the steel mills yesterday were so impressed with what they saw that they secured passes and went through, the mills this morning. Judge L. A. Becker. Up until bedtime last night the delegates were talking of the frank and forceful address of Judge L- A. Becker, ex-mayor of Hammond, who plainly told the convention yesterday that he didn't like the complete personnel of the commission. For a while some thought that Chairman Tom Duncan of the commission was "up a stump" because of Judge Becker s remarks. Kid Hizzoner. A lot of the democratic stattsmen Joshed Mayor Knotts and other Gary city officials on the recent democratic primaries when the burgomaster rolled up such a tremendous majority. The boys from Lafayette wanted to know if adding machines operated by electric motors had been used to count the votts. Mayor Loehr Arrested. "Don't you know me Mayor?" wailed a prisoner In the Gary city Jail yesterday afternoon as Mayor Tom Knotts passed through the cell corridor on which the man looked through grated doors. For a moment the executive studied the questioner's face for a moment. The one behind the bars, Mayor Loehr of Noblesville. looked penitent, guilty.! sheenlsh. foolish and mad, all In one look. "I never saw you before," said Mayor Knotts as he turned on hia heel, dismissing the interview. What Loehr said can be surmised. But what he did to get free is harder to guess. Some say he bit the irons in twain in his anger and others that he was rescued by friends. The mayor says that he himself ordered him out. The charge? It Is given as a misdemeanor. Loehr turned in the alarm which brought out the fire department for the approval of delegates. He did it by commission and blue' was taken by surprise when a cost crabbed him and Insisted that he at nnce TO Tne Clt yuan. lie viam , booked with ceremony ana locKea up with proper sarcasm. Loehr realized the Joke and played his part well. Few From Lake County.

Aside rrom me large uarj ulC6- -r n -r QrtriV tion, which includes every live wire In ' JjarrOW All OOULI1. the Commercial Club and the city hall, Mayor Lem Darrow of Laporte telethe representation from Lake county graphed to Mayor Knotts from Cannel cities is shockingly poor. Hammond , City. Ky., saying that he regretted his ., Judce Lawrence Becker and I enforced absence from the convention.

.ii.rmn Hower. East Chicago is represented by Ex-Mayor E. DeBriae and C. K. Wallace. Others have attended the convention from Whiting and Indiana Harbor. The East Chicago men arrived too late to go through the mills. Messrs. Keilman. Seharbach and Kiligrew came from Hobart. Biggest Delegation. Richmond with seventeen city officials at the league wins Individual honors. Lafayette was a close contestant with fourteen as late as noon today when H. K. Kessener and Joe Vandergraft, arrived. But Richmond won when five came in a bunch. Many Leave Town. Many of the delegates left town after the smoker and vaudeville show last evening, some to their homes and others to Chicago. Some will return tomorrow but not all by any means. The large attendance at the league Is due more to the curiosity of city officials to see Gary and a desire to visit

Chicago than anything else, some say. As Gary is in the northern end of the state some special inducement was necessary to bring so many out.

An Absent Candidate. Washington, a little down-state town, has not a man at the convention though it has a good chance of getting next year's convention, as it has a partial promise made by the league last year. For years Washington has been bidding for the convention, doing every thing possible to secure it for a year. Had the city sent a man here they might have succeeded this time. Looks Good to Annis. Annls Burke, secretary to Mayor Shank, is of the belief that Indianapolis will pull off a few speedway events for the Municipal League if it will go there in 1914. He all but promises that; and as additional bait states that Dr. Hurty, health commissioner, will throw open his laboratory where the delegates may study sanitation and other problems of health. Henry Is Surprised. "Gosh but this town Is far from being the modern Babel we read about." said Henry Dallman. an alderman from Batesville. "I had a sort of Idea that you had gatling guns at each corner and I expected to see a few daylight hold-ups." Await the Outcome. G. W. Shaffer, alderman from Princeton, states that a delegation of six from his town are here with a vital matter at stake. They await the opinion of the convention on the Public Utilities Act and the decision may have a decided effect upon the city they represent. Tom Duncan, chairman of the Public Utilities commission, is from Princeton. The city Is a railroad center and is In the gas and oil belt. It Is to let valuable franchises or have municipal ownership, all according to how the delegation Is impressed and how they impress the people when they get back. A Lone Delegate. Muncie has but one representative. J. R. Hummel, a councilman. The lone delegate Is observing, however. "This meeting is more of a sightseeing affair than anything else," he said. "We all came up to see Gary and meet old friends. There is little of Importance before the league and absolutely no politics at all. It is the most interest ing meeting I ever attended. I will regret when It is over for Gary is de lightful and the members of her Com mercial Club is the best of hosts." Beats Illinois All Hollow. Charles S. Barnaby, mayor of Colum bus, said that th Gary convention Is Just four and a half times larger than the state league meeting in Illinois, Forty were in attendance at that con gress which Jast closed. "At least flvs hundred should have been there If the size of Chicago has anything to do with It," he said. "Towns like Rich mono ana juaiayene in inaiana. sena from ten to nrteen every year, equaling the Chicago delegation at the Illinois sessions, Here From Anywhere. Every city In the state has lost some good citizen at some time or other who came to Gary. Elwood has eight former cltisens holding city Jobs In Gary, Richmond has supplied Gary with all kinds of police and Lafayetts has furnished businessmen while from , Hammond came his honor, Mayor . Thomas E. Knotts. who, by the way, is j having the time of hla life. On the j street Gary people meet delegates and i recognize them as old townspeople. A ) jor Tom, he knows everybody. j Star Speaker. Dr. J. N. Hurty, state health commissioner of Indiana, is "velvet" for the interviewers. The noted doctor's store of errudltlon Is so extensive an all comprehensive that he needs but a hint to produce a newsy story on any or all subjects from politics to eugenics. The address by Dr. Hurty was a feature of the convention. A All Are Farmers. What are their hobbles? That's easy, one and all, iXJ'or, councilmen, engineers have but one. Some may say that they have none but they too, like every other" Hoosler, dream of a hundred acres, "a litle ways from town. Motor cars go with this ambition. A iwra, cuui-naeuiH nwo and thou. Every one of the fifteen mayors, who are attending the convention, have the back to the soil bug and will tell you so. Darrow's double, Jesse E. Way E. Way of Columbus, has had a hard time con vincing Darrow's friends that he Isn't the Laporte bugomelster. Editors Convinced. Col. A. D. Schaeffer, secretary of the Commercial Club, told mayors and other city officials of Indiana cities that If Gary continued, to be the convention city It has been in the past that public sentiment agains the steel companies would be changed. "Two hundred editors went through the mills as you did today." he said. "They started prejudiced in mind and returned with, different opinions." A New View Point. "I now believe that the Indiana Eteel company Is the greatest labor-saving

Institution In the world," said E. E. ! county attorney of Lincoln county in King of Richmond. "I was with the j 1897 for the term of four years ami retwo hundred delegates who saw th j elected In 1900; was delceate f-om the mills from a special train and I did not j eighth district to the Democratic natsee anyone working very hard, not lonal convention at Kansas In 1!100; la ar as hard as a farm hand does. The ' serving his third term in congress.

steel is handled by machinery and th men manipulate levers. 1 was astounded."

See Two Ore Beats. A feature of the big treat in which delegates were taken through the length and breadth of the steel mills was the loading and unloading of two ore boats. Out For a Time. The South Bend delegation, Iden Roomig, city attorney, A. H. Pace. Frank Witucki, Joe Puedle. raul Hess and Ernest Truger, aldermen, left after the cabaret show, seme going home and others leaving for Chicago where they said that they were going to put up at the Kaiserhoft to get a good German breakfast in the grill room in the morning. Five other delegates and friends went into the city. Nona was compelled to leave Gary in search of a bed for the hotels could hold them all. Talks About Shank. In a recital of Mayor Shank's vir tues, Annis Burke told the potato market, and the innovations of the mayor's term. He stated that during the spring floods Shank worked for a week in the flooded districts of Indianapolis. Burke explains the wild press stories that got out at that time by the fact that Indianapolis was cut off and that they must have originat ed in newspaper offices elsewhere. An Information Bureau. Mayor Bolls of Plymouth has been re-elected by popular opinion the master statistician of the league. He is an authority on all things municipal and has facts and figures at his beck and cal. The mayor is also a great little calculator and when not exactly sure he can estimate so accurately that the average city official will not know the difference. Last evening he entertained a circle of admirers after the vaudeville show till one-thirty thi morning. Order The Times. Delegates leaving at noon today Just before the convention addition of Thh Times was out, left orders for the paper. The personal features of Thh Times stories apealed to delegates who knowing nearly all of the old leaguers like to read about them. A Progressive City. Logansport with its municipal lighting plant and water works is an example for other cities. C. M. Custer, city controller of that municipality has been kept busy telling leaguers about these ventures. He recommends city ownership to every town. A Write-Up. President Cunningham of the league recommends that a story of Gary and the steel mills be included in the 1913 anual. Smile Please! Blouee!i a hundred or more delegates were nnea up jn front of the Gary hotel this a. m after marching from the Commerclal Club building. A group picture was taken. Pleases Geo. Yopst. Geo. A. Yopst of Wabash, official stenographer, will comment on the excellence of last night's program in his yearly report. The entertainers follow. Ellen O'Brien, contralio, Gary. Paul J. Tomanoczy, singer, N. Y. cago. Harry Van Fossen, blackface, ChlKate Fowler, pianologue, Boston. Orpheus Four, quartete, (headliners.) Columbus Sore. Chas S. Barneby. mayor of Columbus and seven councilmen worked hard for the next convention. Edwin A. Cobb, city clerk of Columbus stated that as Washington was 'entitled to the 1914 session by reason of long endeavor r It Columbus would step aside. But Washington has signilied its intention of resigning membership, feeling sort that it has been Ignored that left it an open field. No. 200 Arrives. I Wm. B. Muir, a candidate for the i Hammond council, was the first to 1 ' , , mining. ; - ...... i -; , . uioir nit- jitsi on ino register at- eleven o'clock. Muir was delegate No. 200. jii.y io iv iiivronv. 1"14 Russians defeated Swedes at. battle of Aland. , 1803 French victorious over Austrians at Znaini. 1811 After earthquake at Pt. Michael's, and island formed among the Azores where water hal been 30 fathoms deep. 1818 The Netherlands obolish use of French as official language In judicial proceedings. IS64 President Lincoln assured by wealthy Northerners of personal suport for government in war, if necessary. 1904 Japanese capture Kai-Chow. 1912 Government troops in Portugal defeat Royalist revolutionists at Fafe. TODAY'S IJIHTHDW HONORS. Hon. Harvey Helm, deniocrat, of Sumford, was born at Danville, Bo vie county, Ky. forty-six years ago; attended school at the Stanford Male Academy, and graduated from the Central University of Kentucky, with the degree of A. B. ; began the practice of law In 1890; elected a member of the house of representatives in 1S93; served as such In the General Assembly of Kentucky, session of 1894; elected