Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 133, Hammond, Lake County, 11 November 1913 — Page 1

LAK ME EVENING EDITION hi FAIR AND CONTINUED COOL, TODAY; WEDNESDAY FAIR. VOL. VHI., NO. 133. HAMMOND, INDIAN A. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPY. .(Back Numoers Cent Copy.) THREE KILLED AT LAND STEEL PLANT

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Three men met tragic deaths last night at about midnight, at the In land Steel company's plant at Indiana Hior when a twelve inch steam pipe burst, allowing the steam under about 125 pounds pressure to escape with a tremendous rushV completely enveloping them and killing thejn before the steam could be shut off. The dead: WILLIAM ZIELKE, 1034 4 Ewing avenue, South Chicago, pipe fitter. S. F. MANGLE, 3611 Deodar street, oiler. NICHOLA PARKOVICH, 3505 Deodar street, pipe fitter helper. The men were terribly scalded and It Is likely that death was almost instantaneous. A MYSTEHIOIS ACCIDENT. Tha cause of the accident is unknown (Continued on page eight.) NO APPEALS FOR HELP J. C. Becker, township trustee, is confident that the residents of North township are enjoying peace and prosperity. With the sudden advent of winter it was expected that urgent cases of poverty would present themselves. But none did. It is usual for charities to be especially busy at this time. Two Petty Court Cases. Harry Harris, claiming 'his home as Michigan City, Ind., was sent to the county jail at Crown Point for sixteen days yesterday afternoon after being found guilty In Judge Prest's court of skipping his boarding bill. The com plaint was made by Mrs. Bowman, who swore out a warrant for his arrest. Thomas Kreesman of Gibson was arrested on a charge of assault and battery and paid a fine of SI and costs. Helen Spudlk appeared as complain ing witness. Ndtice to Water Takers. The water will be shut off all the territory west of Sheffield avenue from the river to Douglas park Wedhesday, November 15, from 9 a. m. till 4 p. m. 10-2t C. N. JEWETT, Supt. y CHAIRMAN OF NEW INDUSTRIAL BOARD Prank P. Walsh. Frank P. Walsh of Kansas City is the chairman of the new government commission on industrial relations. The commission has just opened offices in Washington and will immediately proceed with the help of a considerable corps of assistants to investigate the causes that lie behind the present trouble between employers and employes. The aim of the administration is to find out these causes by this investigation and then remove them as far as possible.

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ww WTUtfUUViUU ed by Sunday Night Gale Is Unparalleled; Park Is Covered With Sand and Debris. Jacob Kasper, the Czar of Lake Front Park, is no longer caroling? his favorite ballad, "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold, for in a measure it has been fulfilled. The sands that cover desolate Lake Front Park have grown cold, very solidly so; they are frozen. Twenty-five hundred dollars will be neded to repair all the damage of the historic storm that descended Saturday evning and spent the week-end in this vicinity. Five thousand feet of timber thut cost J200 was washed oft the city pier. The park is covered with debris, buildings stand on stilts, and three-fourths of all benches are in pieees. Prevent A Water Famine. Engineer Kasper worked heroically yesterday in the fierce gale trying to protect mains carrying Hammond's supply of water. By dint of industry, on the part of himself and a gang of laborers, he was able to give the city uninterrupted service. The mains which' lay bare for two hundred feet were packed with rocks,, and,, .cemant sacks filled with sand at. places wer4 Joints threatened to give way. Shedd's pier was damaged to the ex tent of 200 while fish restaurants along the shore stand dry and high on stilts today. It would require a step ladder to get infto some places, and a sand plow to penetrate others. Waves are still coming In high and rapid today but It Ja nothing like . the wild coast scene yesterday. 4 Animals In Danger. "Pete" the tame wolf. Mis mate, the foxes and an owl had to be rescued from a water grave during the worst of the storm. With the waves sweeping into their cages they climbed to the highest ledge, howling at the roaring lake. The noise waa deafening. Kasper with an assistant braved the forty mile gale and risked tYieir lives to get the animals to safety. Today "Pete" and his friends are the most thankful beasts in the country. Scraping the park will not be possi ble this winter it Is feared. The sand is froze to the grass -and a scraper would tear up both if it got either. It is probable that the park will have to await until spring before the landscape can be rearranged. Triumph for Masonry. Elmer E. Rogers was one of the many Chicago Shriners in Hammond last night for the ceremonial in Orak Shrine. Mr. Rogers is press agent for the Medlnah temple in Chicago and is a lawyer by profession. "The"most important news-1 heard In Hammond," said Mr. Rogers, "is the acquittal of Beilis by the Russian Jury. The result is a triumph for Masonry and Masonic nations whose voices in protest were echoed to Russia, the only large nation in the world where Masonic principles are forbidden." Will Be Ready Soon. Remodeling and improvements on the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric company's offices on Hohman street are progressing rapidly, and providing the workmen are not held back for lack of material the work is expected to be completed in another month. The Gas and Electric company will occupy the entire three floors of the building and will have one of the finest homes of its kind in the state. The main office of the accounting department, which until recently has been located at Michigan City, was moved to Hammond last Saturday and will remain here permanently. This change was due to the fact that the business of the company can be handled better here on account of the central location in this region. The change necessitates the employment of in the neighborhood of nearly a dozen more clerks. Taken to, Michigan. Funeral services over Joseph Kaiser, the Hammond cigar maker who was found dead in bed at his boarding house at SO Pluinmer avenue last Saturday afternoon, will be held from Emmerling's chapel Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Interment will be made at Oak Hill cemetery. Two brothers arrived today from Port Huron, Mich., and Detroit. Breitung's La Venda Cigars are the highest class in all its sizes. Adv. tf

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PR0BLEW1S (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind.. Nov. 11. Mayor-elect Walter Schrage is quietly preparing himself for the office which he is to assume next January. He is giving thought to the various needs cf the city and in another month hopes to have worked out a program for the next four years. Mr. Schrage has not had a real vacation for eight years and his friends are urging him to "lay oft" for a few days to rest up, and it is probable that he may go to one or the other watering place for a short stay. "If I were to say offhand what is the most necessary public improve ment for Whiting," satd Mr. Schrage, "I would name our water supply. A problem is to be worked out with regard to the sewage that is being dumped into the lake and the drinking water that is being taken out'of this same body of water not so very far away. A filtration system for the drinking water would seem to be to be the quickest solution." Mr. Schrage is not yet ready to make any announcements with reference to appointments. THREE HURT AS CAR AND WAGON COLLIDE Interurban Strikes Farm Outfit at Street Crossing. Princeton, Ind., Nov. 11. Three men were injured, one probably fatally. 1 when an interurban car collided with I i a wagon at a street crossing in Haubstadt, this county, yesterday. Th) injured are: JOBS WILM. farmer, skull fractured and severe cuts on hands, face and body; will probably, die. (JKOHGK GKEIBLG, farmer, arm broken, face badly cut and probably internally Injured. GEORGE BEXTOX, motorman. chest crushed. The men on the wagon did not see the approach of the car until within a few feet of them. Their team cleared the track, the car striking the front end of the wagon. The motorman attempted to stop the car, but could not do so in time to prevent the accident. Wllm was thrown into the air and in falling was forced through the front of the car, striking Motorman Benton in the chest. Greuble was picked up under the wreckage of the wagon. Breitung's La Venda Cigars are considered supreme by the beat Judges. Adv. x

Jack Dorland Dead. ' .-..-M. Dorland, mora familiarly known a- Jack in Northern Indiana prlnthops died t ' intern eTttl-l; Sep fc2. p f j,m-i testlnal obtruetiip.- The belated newsreached Hammond today where Jack was well known,number among hi3 ' friends Alat Boney and other old; soldiers. He was a veteran of the civil ;

war and well-liked, by those who knew htm. He had relativea at North Manchester, Ind. He was one of the last of the old-time printers. Tobacco Man Here. George McHle of the McHie-Scotten Tobacco company of Detroit was in Hammond today on business. " He is known from the Atlantic to the Pacific as one of the. livest wires in the business and was formerly connected in a high official way with the American Tobacco company. , - Move in New Store. Brusel Brothers, who have for years conducted a store on the north side, have moved into their newtore building on Hoffman street, near Oak street. They were formerly located on Hohman street. They now occupy their own building and will continue their delivery as they have done in the past. Is your house cold when you reach home? Get a Gas Heating Stove. No. nd Gas & Elec. Co. Adv. 25tf AMERICAN RIOTER INJURED IN LONDON Miss Zeilie Emerson - of Jackson, Mich..- who has been prominent in the doings of the militant women in London, is suffering from concussion of the brain, the injury having been received in the rioting In Bow street on November 5 last.

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BROUGHT DISASTER TO BEACH DURING STORM

, In one of the most desolate spots on earth, where the sun is so intense that it dries the blood in one's veins, -with I nothing but miles and miles of alka-j line deposits to feast the eyes on another Gary, not a steel town but the' industrial capital of ttfe borax trust, is to be built. Copy Gary Concrete Houses. The Gary to be located in Death Valley for the several hundred workmen and their families will have some of the Indiana model city's features. Poured concrete houses, such as the American Sheet and Tin Plate company built. for its employes in feary will be erected in Death Valley Not a bit of timber nor a stick of 'wood is to be used in their construction. This is a (Continued on page eight.) E CO'S. N Railroads and telegraph companies seem the worsj, put out by the storm. Though Hammond alone of all cities in the Calumet region received a barely perceptible fall of snow, little rain and no hail, it suffered the most in loss of life and delayed service. Got In At Midnight. No. 7, the Erie cannon ball limited came at midnight. It was due early In the morning and the male passengers aboard are said to have had long flowing beards and hounted looks. No. 7 is not very late today, only about four and a half hours. IHtal Crew Hire. Other roads are way behind, from two to six hours, today, and the telegraph companies have nt gotten their eastern lines straightened up. The Postal sent messages to New York by way of the south yesterday and the Western XTtiion had even more trouble. It is said that there wasn't a single New York wire up. A special crew of trouble men came to Hammond and tested the Postal cable this morning. The Postal company in Chicago has ben pestered 'by vandals who cut the eastern cable every now and then." ' Of late this has occurred less often.

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mVESTlGATlNG ELEGTiOH CHARGES East Chicagoans May Lay Certain Matters Before the Grand Jury. Evidence pertaining to alleged election frauds and corrupt practices is being collected in the Twin Cities with a view of laying it before the next grand jury. Workers in the citizens party are behind the movement, not in a spirit of revenge, for the party was victorious, but in the hope of setting up a new standard for the purity of the ballot, A meeting of the executive committee of the citizens' party was held recently at Indiana Harbor at which the situation was recanvassed. A committee is said to have been appointed to lay some matters before the grand Jury. It was decided that practically all acts growing out of the heat of the argument would be overlooked and that only such acts should be brought to the attention of the grand Jury which were willful and designed to Interfere with the rights of the voters and the election workers, especially where a public office was used to further such interference. The citizens' party has won so far as its candidates are concerneed. Consequently there is no venom or spirit of revenge that can be said to spring up from defeat. The attorneys having charge of the matter for the citizens' party will ask for the appointment of a special prosecutor to take charge of the investigations and to follow up whatever indictments may be returned. TABERNACLE COMPLETED (Special to The Times.) Crown Point. Ind., Nov. 11. The big tabernacle is completed. The men who aided in building the structure labored like seasoned workmen. Rev. O. A. Newlin, the evangelst, and Prof. W. A. Maltbe, the sweet singer and chorus leader .and Pof. . Roy Gourley, the pianist, have shown themselves skilled workmen and architects. Like Paul, the Macedonian evangelist, they are able to work with trained hands. The chorus held a rehearsal in the tabernacle last night. The meetings are on. The services are in full swing. Great succeess has attended the work of these men elsewhere. They come wif-h a purpose to work and to labor unceasingly with the churches and the people and to preach the gospel message and to sing the gospel truth. Those who heard Rev. Newlin's message "Lost Opportunities," felt the force of his " plain, . powerful logic. At the same service Prof. Maltbie sang the song so full of truth and pathos of the many good things never performed by the man who didn't have time. , .. . . " Smoke McHle Canadian Clan Mixtare. Vot pipe or cigarette, beat that leaf and skill caa produce-Adv,

Arbitrators Award Conductors and Trainmen Increase Averaging 7 Per Cent. Railroad men all over the Calumet region, especially where yards are lo--J railroad men obtained in the rail workers arbitration result. The long controversy between railroads of the East and their conductors and trainmen over the employes demands for more pay ended tonight. START OCT. FIRST, I, A ST. The employes are granted an increase In wages 'averaging 7 per cent and totaling $6,000,000 annually, from Oct. 1 last, effective for one year. Ono hundred thousand . men will share in the Increase. The Increase is about half. "what, the employes, wan-ted. The award IriarTts the ending by arbitration under the Kewlands amendment (Continued on page eigM. ) HITS WHITING HARD. (Special to The Times.) Whiting:. Ind., Nov. 11. Damage done to the Whiting beach and park was estimated -yesterday and the total will reach in the neighborhood of $400. According to residents the storm was the worst that has been ! seen on the lake for twenty years and wreckage of every description is ' strewn all along the beach. ! Had it not been for the new pier which was recently built the storm ! would have caused thousands of dol lars worth of damage. At is, was the waves reached the bath house and washed away a considerable amount of cement curbing which had been recently put in. Nearly all of the work will have to be done over. Workmen started cleaning up the wreckage and debris yesterday. Meet Tonight. The regular meeting of the directors of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce which was scheduled for last evening was postponed until tonight, and will be held at the usual hour in the clubrooms. Although on the calendar this is a directors' meeting the entire membership ia welcome to attend the session. SONORA GOVERNOR HELPS CARRANZA Governor Maytoreno. Governor Maytoreno of the etat of Sonora, Mexico, is one of the most powerful supporters of General Carranza in the latter's war against the Huerta jrovernment. Sonora is one of the most important of the Mexican states and i3 located in the north, just across the border line from rw

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