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

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THE TIMES. Tuesday. Nov. 11, 1913.

Gary police today are investigating a Are of mysterious origin in the A. V. Knotts building. Seventh avi-nue anl Broadway, which was discovered at 11:25 o'clock last night. It Is believed that some one attempted to fire the structure.

Patrons of Webber's luneTT-rooni,

which Is In the Seventh avenue side of the building, noticed smoke coming up

from the basement. A fire alarm was

fent in and the firemen made the run

in li minutes. The flames were located in a coal pile immediately under

near the lunch room.

The Knotts building is a three-story structure occupying a plot of ground 50x125 feet. Adjoining It Is another three-story structure which is said to be owned by Mayor T. E. Knotts, A. P. Knotts and Hoy Davis.

Chief of Volunteers; His Chicago Aid.

THE FIGHT ENDED TODAY (Continued from page one.) to the Erdman act of a controversy that threatened at one time to tie up by strike the transportation facilities of all states east of the Mississippi River and norh of the Ohio. The award of the arbitration commission, filed late this afternoon In the federal District Court, is binding and final. The two representatives of the employes on the board filed a minority report In addition, and the two representatives of the forty-one railroads a dissenting opinion. MEX WIN OS ONE POINT. In reaching its award the board ruled mainly against the employes on four of five points submitted as reasons for granting the Increase and found for them on the fifth the increased cost of living. Since 1909 when last an Increase was granted. the arbitrators found the cost of living has Increased 7 per cent. Certain minor contentions embraced also were conceded to the employes. Without attempting to standardize the rates of pay between railroad employes of the East and the West, the board asserts Its belief that standardization is desirable but not possible at present. As to this the award expresses the opinion that Congress should make an Inquiry as to whether there is any longer a substantial reason for the maintenance of a wage

differential between the two sections

and. If there is, what the differential j should be. Analysis of the vote on each article submitted by the trainmen reveals an almost unbroken coalition between the two representatives of the employes and the two dependent members of the board, with the railroad representatives opposing them. IUTES OP PAY FIXER. The articles are dealt with separately and fix the pay for various classifications of labor. They provide chiefly that the monthly pay of employes in the passenger branch of the service shall be: "Conductors, $135; baggagemen, $82.60; flagmen and rear brakemen, $7S; brakemen, $76.50. Overtime, per hour: Conductors, 45 cents; assistant conductors and ticket collectors, 35.7 cents, baggagemen, 27.5 cents; flagmen and rear brakemen, 26 cents; brakemen, 25.5 cents." For the freight service the chief awards are:

"Through runs :conductors, 4 cents a

mile; flagmen, 2.67 cents a mile; brake

men, 2.67 cents a mile; any run lesa

than 100 miles to be paid for as if it

were 100 miles. In way freight, pick

up or drop, mine and roustabout serv

ice, same minimum, conductors are

awarded $4.50 a day of 100 miles of

less, ten hours or less; flagmen $3.10

and brakemen $3; overtime to be paid for as time and one-half." Of vital Importance to the employes is the finding that present schedules of pay are not to be changed or disturbed In any way where they exceed the amounts named. Employes are not to be curtailed either In mileage or hours of labor to offset the Increases granted.

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UNIQUE EXHIBIT ON WAY

FOR STATE CONFERENCE MEET

pendent children are'shown on the j malicious trespass charge, la the name

chart. In the early days orphans were "bound out" as appentlces. In 1875 th county commissioners were authorized to subsidize private orphanages, and In 1881 the counties which wished to do so were given authority to build orphan asylum of their own. In 1889 came the board of children's guardians .law, for the protection of children

fctate supervision by the Board of State Gary Chairman in Charge o f Committee of Arrange- ZLZXZTT. .. . , , ..stitutlons or societies caring for dements for Gary's Latest Convention Gets Word pendent children. v I The history of the penal and correcFrom "Rnard of State Ch aritifis Secretary That. Tnt.pr. tionai institutions is equally lnterest-

" lng. First we had pillories a

of the prisoner.

It appears that two years ago when a prisoner was locked up In the seldom used Miller bastlle that he had the nerve to lift the roof from the Jail and walk away with It. Although the roof and the jail have been securely anchored to the ground Chief Nelson will take no chances. The Jail adjoins

lacking proper parental care; in 1897, j the present town hall and is a small

affair of concrete construction, having been built in 1908.

eating Exhibit Is Being Shipped to Gary.

and stocks

One of the first exhibits to arrive for the State conference, which convenes in Gary next Saturday, is that of the Hoard of State Charities. A, P. Melton of Gary, chairman of the committee, has received word from Amos V.

Eutlej-. secretary of the board, that the

exhibit is made up largely of charts.

diagrams and photographs illustrating

the. board's work.

One of these shows the development

of public charities and correction, from

the days when the poor were farmed out to t)i lowest bidder, and the lawbreaker took his punishment In the pillory, the stocks or at the whipping post. A period of 120 years is covered

by this single chart. One division of the chart pertains to the public charities. It Indicates the devlnpment from the territorial days,

upwards of $1,000 a year. The highest paid Job is that of city engineer, which brings with it a sal

ary of $2,600. A desirable berth is

that of city chemist, which pays $1,500

There are also some poundmasters to

be named. Positions of chemist and poundmaster were not named in last night's list.

when the Justices of the peace helped pi""sl ,n!tltut!on until 186 the needy in their own homes and the r,8on at Michigan City w

homeless poor were turned over by th mese two authorities to whoever offered to care came re8Peptlve,y the

for. them for the least money. The county poor asylum of 1821 was the first public benevolent Institution. The

first state institution was the State School for the Deaf, at IndianaDolls.

1S44. The School for the min.i wan

established three years later. From ,n lnlanaP"s'

time to time the state recognized the need of other institutions, for the in-! DEATH OF

sane in IMS. the soldiers and sailors,

their widows and orphans in 1SR7, feble-n?inled children in 1879, feebleminded women in 1901, the epileptics in 1SU7, the tubercular In 1910.

: and whipping pests. Then In 1792 bejgan our present county Jail system. The ! first state prison was built at Jeffer-

sonvllle In 1822, and was the enly state

1860. when the

as establish

ed. In 1897 these two institutions be-

Indlana Re

formatory and the Indiana State Prison. In 1868 the boys were separitd from

the- older offenders and moved to the school at Plainfleld. and in 1873 the vomen and girl left the prison at Jeffersonvllle for their own institution

WHY ARB READER!

TOD NOT A TIMER

NONAGENARIAN

Booth

Ctea). Telling-tow

Gen. Ballington Booth, chief of the Volunteers of America, who is coming to Gary soon spoke yesterday at the weekly luncheon of the Hamilton club in Chicago on methods of handling "down and outs." He made no mention in his speech of his brother,- Gen. Bramhall Booth, head of the Salvation army, who is to arrive here on Wednesday. The two, it is said, have not met for seventeen years. Gen. Booth in his speech divided humanity Into thre classes the wealthy, the landowners, and the wage earners; the unfortunates, always near the line of abject poverty, and the "down and outs." The Volunteers confine their work to the last two classes, he said. Gen. Fielding was with Gen. Booth.

NEW GARY TO BE BUILT IN DEATH VALLEY (Continued from page one.)

matter of fire protection. There is no water In the valley and to build with wood would In time mean destruction by fire. To Build Factories. Besides the houses tl)ere will be a group of factories. Connecting the colony with the rest of the world will be a railroad that will run from the dread valley down to Searles, a station on the Southern Pacific, a distance of nearly forty miles. The homes, factories and the railroad, which are within a few weeks of being finished, will cost about $3,000,000. . The colony will be the largest Industrial Sfttleroent that has ever been planned in this country; maybe it is the largest that has ever been thought of in any country. At any rate there is no settlement that will have the set

ting that it will have. Nowhere east of

the Sahara Desert will one find such colorings as in the "great salt wells"

off In a corner of Death . Valley. The

site of this colony was once a great sea,

It covered a great area of southern

, California. Centuries and centuries

ago it dried up, leaving a crust under

mined with brine. The crust extended up the Slate MJuntains on th'j east and Argus Mountains on the west 600 feet

which seems to indicate the level of

this prehistoric sea. The floor on

which the colony will be built has an

area of 200 square miles of dazzling white. II the valley were in a cold

zone it might be taken for snow. Inl some places this crust is twelve feet thick, in other places only a few Inchest. In Hell's Vestibule. The heat of the sun and the moisture thrown off by the damp surface form a mist that is bewildering to the traveller. Many have lost direction as a consequence and, weakened by the heat

of the sun and the scarcity of water, have collapsed and died. The bleached

bones of men who failed may be found

on the great white surface. Horses crossing the crust have broken through and been unable to recover. Often the

beast had to be shot out of mercy be

cause of its great suffering from the

brine, which eats through to the bone. Nothing grows there and nothing lives there but lizards, vultures, horned

toads and the like. Only at night will they be encountered.

To Make It Garden Spot. Breezes that float across the country

never get into the valleys. For that reason there is always a stupefying heat there. The atmposphere through Death Valley and the "Borax flats,"

where the colony is to be built, is said

to be so hot that the moisture In one's body dries out .making the blood thick.

The only water to be had Is in the

brine. Such Is the place where several nun

dre dmen, women and children will make their homes. There they will stay with miles and miles between

them and the rest of the world. Through Death Valley and the "Dry

Salt Wells" country there are few

towns. American enterprise is going to change all this. The colony that !s

to be built In the valley will be made Just as pleasant as many of the fertile

valleys of the State. The climate Is to be robbed of Its terrors. Even gardens

are to be provided in this barren land The American Trona Company, an ad

junct of the American Goldflelds Company, has learned that there Is much potash, a product we get 'row from Germany, In the valley, and they are

going to get It out. Labor is required and as the labor market Is far from the scene of operations the company has decided to build model houses for their

workmen on the property. Knowing

the severity of ' the climate and mel

ancholy surroundings they are to spend much money In making conditions as ideal as money and science can make

them.

Realizing the restlessness that Is

bound to follownig living in such

country the Trona Company Is to have

a theatre for the colony. Films will be

shipped down from Los Angeles once a

week probably to be shown the desert

dwellers. Besides the movies the com

pany, plans to provide several phonographs for the amusement of the

colony dwellers. They will be loaned

to families for certain periods. In this way the company expects to kep in

humor its working force.

was a new one, and there was no apparent reason for the break.

When the connection broke the sound

was like the booming of a cannon, ac-

ompanied by a fierce rush of steam

the sound of which" drowned all other

noises in the vicinity. The place

around where the accident occurred

was filled with a blinding vapor which did not clear for some time.

THREE SCALDED TO

DEATH AT HARBOR

Continued from page one.)

1 C. 1 1 FINE STUNT

STEAL PIGS, THEN SLAUGHTER THEM Peter Standulas, one of the Gary natives who still keep a hogpen in his back yard, last night complained to the police of the theft of three fat porko-. one red and two white ones. Tete told the night captain that therobbers not only made away with the pigs, but slaughtered and dressed them In his back yard during his absence.

It Is Interesting to note the growth in the r rovislon for these different clasues Beginning with a single hospital for the insane in 1S4S, the state now has five splendid big institutions, with a combined capacity of more than 5,000. The Soldiers' Home at Knightstown became, in 1871, a home for the orphans only, and in 1896 the state built the present soldiers" home at Lafayette. The feeble-minded children, first cared for the Soldiers' Orphans Home at Knightstown, were moved to

their present school at Fort Wayne, in 1S90, and to this latter institution there was added in 1901 a separate department for feeble-minded women. A splendid beginning toward state care for epileptics has been made In Village for F.pileptics at New Castle. which was opened in 1908 and now has 208 patients. The "baby" Institution of the state Is the hospital at Rockville, for the treatment of incipient pulmonary tuberculosis. It was opened April 1, 11lt, and now has 113 patient. . Interesting facts in regard to de-

(Speclal to The Times.) Whiting. Ind., Nov. 11. Mrs. Bridget Hartnett. aged mother of Mrs. McGowan, 1299 Sheridan avenue, Robertsdale, died at the family residencee yesterday afternoon following a llng-

erlng illness. She has been an invalid

for nearly two years and death is attributed to old age. Mrs. Hartnett was 93 years old and is well known and respected in Robertsdale, where she has been a resident for a number of years. Mass will be held at the Sacred Heart church at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning and services will occur at 9 o'clock. The remains will be shipped to Chicago, where interment will be made In the Calvary cemetery.

MILLER CHIEF IS AFRAID TO TRUST THE TOWN JAIL Chief of Police John Nelson yesterday brought a prisoner up to the Gary police station for safe keeping. Ed Christianson. who was arrested on a

BACK HURTS BEGIN ON SALTS

Flush Your Kidneys Occasionally If You Eat Meat . Regularly. - No man or woman who eats "mVat regularly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says a. well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which excites the kidneys, they become over-worked from tha strain, get sluggish and fall to filter

the waste and poisons from the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all rheuma

tism, headaches, liver trouble, nervousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and urinary disorders come from sluggish, kidneys. The moment you feel a dull ache jn the kidneys or your back hurts or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage or at-

lenueu uy a sensauon oi scalding, stop eating meat and get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; taka a tablespoonful in a glass of water be. fore breakfast and in a few days your kidneys will act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate the kidneys, also to neutralize the acids in urine so it no longer causes irritation, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is Inexpensive and cannot injure; makes a dolightful effervescent lithia-water drink which everyone should take now and then to keep thei kidneys clean and active anl the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney complications. Adv.

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to anyone. One of the connections to

the twelve inch steam line running into the low pressure turbine house developed a leak., Zlelke, accompanied by his two helpers. Mangle and who was an oiler, and Parkovich, went into the basement to make the needed repairs. Without any warning the tee broke and before the workmen could get the steam shut off, the men were dead. Not a moment was lost, in trying to aid the victims of the accident, but an accident of this kind is a circumstance of but a moment, and when the workrm-n succeeded in getting to the side of the victims, they were dead. The line on which the break occurred

Plans are now being perfected by

the national board of the Y. M. C. A.

to have association secretaries on board all big liners to look after the

immigrants and to give them cards of

introduction to the nearest Y. M. C. A.

to their destination. All immigrants

bound for northern Lake county will be given cards of Introduction to the Gary Y. M. C. A. and prominent foreigners connected with that institution will be expected to give their

countrymen a helping hand.

At New York the Y. M. C. A. was in

negotiation with the Cunard, Hamburg-American, North German Lloyd and American steamship lines last

week about putting secretaries upon ocean liners, there to conduct schools

for the immigrants. Already permis

sion to put secretaries on vessels of

the Royal Mail has been secured, and one special concession trip has been made by a secretary on board the

LusltanlaThere are 1,000,000 persons on all

ships coming this way each year, and 300,000 returning. The latter are re

garded as in some ways better worth working with and for than those com

ing this way, since many of them upon

reaching European homes become

leaders In their communities. Some

regard these immigrants as the best possible avenue to send evangelical

Christianity into all parts of Europe.

Hence the secretary plan on board the

returning liner.

The experiment on the Lusitanla Is

reported to have been exceedingly sue

cessful. One secretary, able to speak

half a dozen languages, found nobody aboard the ship with whom he could

not converse. The secretary was pro vided with moving pictures, a grapho

phone and plenty of records, picture books about America, maps of rail

roads, and a fund of information on

his own hook.

He found saloon passengers exceed

ingly interested In the experiment, and some took hold to help him in

struct immigrants. No end of personal I

help In letter writing, giving cards of introduction, explaining railway routes out of New York, was performed. The Y. M. C. A. maintains twentyfive secretaries at European ports to give help to Immigrants before sailing. Now it is proposed to add the ocean service, and prepare immigrants , for reception at Ellis Island.

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TIMES LIST OF GARY JOBS PERUSED BY THEFAITHFUL The Times' last last night of the 250 or more appointments that Mayor-elect R. O. Johnson can make Is being catefully studied by the ambitious members of the citizens' party today. Of the number from 120 to 140 will pay

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