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W. H. GOSTLIN. When the Almighty snapped the golden cord that linked William H. Gostlin. to this earth He took one of Nature's noblemen. Billy Gostlin'3 dominant personality remains with us a memory to be enshrined as long aa one stone in Hammond shall remain on another. He was not only an asset to Hammond, but to the Calumet region as well. He may be truly said to have been one of its founders. With heart and soul he was wrapped up In it. He was an integral part of it. The range of his activities was remarkable. He never was half-hearted in anything. Whatever he undertook he did well. For Instance, he took up golf at 60 a game to tax the mettle of a youth. He mastered it and became almost a scratch man. He was a poor lad who, through sheer pluck and energy, fought his way until he can be said to have become one of Hammond's first citizens in a city nesting many of them. He was a banker, a promoter, a senator, a postmaster, a realty operator, a manual laborer. In him was the courage of a lion, the tenacity f a bull dog and the heart of an ox. He was one of the founders of the Hammond Board of Trade, its first business men's association, the Country club, the F"irst Presbyterian church. He was not a dabbler either, but he made good everywhere. The great house of Gostlin, Meyn and company, which he helped to organize, is a monument to his worth and integrity. He counted his friends by the legion. He will be sadly (missed. With his widow and son a community mourns. May his soul rest in peace and his memory be ever fragrant.

THE PERSONAL SIDE OF TIE LITE Ml. I GOSTLIN Anecdotes Told of Hammond Pioneer Who Never Was Too Busy to Attend to the Little Things, Busy as He Was.

EAST CHICAGO'S PROSPERITY. That East Chicago as a municipality is undergoing one of the most prosperous seasons it ever experienced is evidenced, not only in the increased payrolls of the factories and the consequent buying power of the public not only in the residence, flat and construction work that is under way despite every handicap but also in the published statements of the banks that are operating in the west end, in Calumet and in Indiana Harbor. For Instance, a compilation of the deposits and resources, made on November 17th, shows total deposits aggregating $4,297,424.66, aa against the previous call, September 12th, of $3,633,793.55, an increase of $661,631.11, or 18 and two-tenths per cent in sixty-five days. In the same period, resources increased $680,603.61. The percentage increase of individual banks ranged from 23 and four-tenths per cent for the highest to S and three-tenth3 per cent for the lowest. The increase came almost wholly from savings accounts, indicating that the industrial workers have been not only earning, but that they have been saving, laying aside a surplus to make some provision for the period of readjustment following the close of the war in Europe. This is magnificent. East Chicago is setting a great example to her sister cities. Her prosperity is deserved and East Chicago is using it sanely.

BACK TO THE CURFEW DAYS. The new British war regulations calling for a practical curfew at eight and the dimming of all lights at that hour practically brings London back to the times of two or three hundred years ago. Naturally the Zeppelin fear and the attendant darkness after nightfall wakes traveling unsafe in the streets. Just so was it in Will Shakespeare's time or even a hundred years later. Now it is not because of lawlessness a3 Jt vas then, but because of vehicular traffic. Then he who ventured out in English streets after dusk usually went guided by torches and protected by an armed band of retainers, for it was when darkness came that the criminal classes operated. But even today the use of torches is denied, for they would be an infallible guide to a Zeppelin that might be hovering in the skies overhead. Indeed, the great war does not bring people back to olden times solely the ways of barbarity, but it revives recollections of how our ancestors n compelled to live.

FREAK ELECTION BETS.

Maybe tbe Toledo Blade is right. It says that it's a good sign that they have freak election bets in this country. The Blade believes that if they had them in countries where civil war almost ensues around election time there would be fewer cases of brother arrayed against brother and probably no resort to firearms. "It is a fortunate sign when freak bets are common. It proves that men can swallow their disappointments. It is proof positive that good nature is stronger than ill temper, that in men's opinions the issues of an election are not so important it is worth while to turn oneself into a Mexican.", , The Blade adds that the more we have of freak election bets the further we are removed from the consequences of over-seriousness. Undoubtedly his Is true. Nothing relieves tenseness better than a bit of humor.

WHY NOT HELP HIM WITH A BATTLESHIP? Why not, may we ask, should there be any hesitancy about the case of Count Tarnosky, the new U. S. ambassador from Austria, to whom England refuses safe conduct? Let Jo-Sea-Fus Daniels send over a battle ship to escort him over yes let him send over a whole fleet of battle ships. What are battle ships for, any way? Austria and her bed-fellow, Germany, continue to sink American ships and take American lives promiscuously a3 they have been doing for two years and we sit sucking our thumbs, watching it all with complacency. What have we a fleet for, if not to bring central ally ambassadors over here?

In 1907 when the panic broke out; Messrs. Gostlin. Turner and Betz were traveling abroad. Alarmed by the reports coming from the United State. Gostlin and Turnr hurried back. The boat trip across the Atlantic was becoming monotonous and time began to hang heavy on the hands of the two Hmimond men, so they resumed the game which they had played for years "kidding each other on the quiet." About three days out . from New York, Gostlin whispered It about that there was a diamond smuggler aboard ship. The more mysteriously he hinted It, the more readily he was believed. When his little seed of suspicion had taken root he gave it a name, and he named It Turner. Then he settlel back to see it grow. He told of it later at a reception that was given in honor of him and Turner by the Elks of which lodge both were members. "When we landed, about a dozen of the ship passengers, 'tipped Turner off to the customs officials." said Gostlin. relating some travel experiences after the cigars were lit, "and lfs the God's truth;' in their search for smuggled diamonds, they stripped him to the pelt." , ' " t One little Hammond laddie heard of Mr. Gostlins death with genuine sorrow, "Aw he was such a nice man," h. said. When the youngster was four years of age. his mother took him to

Florida to escape the rigor of the damp blasts of Lake Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Gostlin happened to be in th& same city.! Unknown to his mother the kiddie collected the papers sent by his father and would take them out In the street and sell them a la newsboy fashion. Mr. Gostlin met him one day on the street and heard the childish treble. "Wanna buy a paper?" "Sure," said Mr. OoFtlin. "I always want to

encourage the boys, what you got?" The kiddie had an "armful of old papers some of them two weeks old. Mr. Gostlin bought one and as long as he was there, bought an old paper each day from the happy kid. who didn't know one paper from another, but disposed of them on the street in front of his home with all the audacity of childhood.

Tears ago when Mr. Gostlin came to the conclusion that keeping chickens was no longer conducive to his wife's healt hand comfort, he figured the easiest and quickest way out 'of the bother would be to have a West Hammond friend come along some day and conveniently 'rob the Gostlin hennery. Mrs. Goftlin had about become reconciled to the loss of her pets, and her thoughtful husband had forgotten all about it. One day however as he was about j get into his buggy to go into West Hammond on some real estate business. Mrs. Gostlin as she not infrequently did. got into the rig and went along for the ride. She was not looking for stolen chickens exactly, but she knew her chickens when she saw them, and she told her husband so very emphatically when she recognized her flock in a certain back yard. "Chickens will come home to roost," said Mr. Gostlin later in telling how he squared himself all around. Mr. Gostlin loved golf. He entered into It heart and soul and, though he never toucned a club until he was 60 years old. he achieved a really wonderful reputation and often shot the 18hole course at the Hammond Country club under 90. He was the life and soul of a foursome. Last Saturday afternoon when It was bitter cold. He and Billy Thomas and Oscar Krlnblll played a round, and after the game Mr. Gostlin begged the writer to "roast" Mr. Thomas for a freak putt 'tie made that lost Mr. Gostlin the hole.

The Hammond golf course thus loses one of Its most picturesque figures. He studied the game closely and was always seeking to Improve his game. When his closest friend, A. M. Turner, played golf It was a delight to get Into a foursome with them as It wis Mr. Goetlln rare Joy. to "kid" Mr. Turner

off nls game if he could, and the golf repartee between the two was a good as any vaudeville show that ever happened. It was a great sorrow. Indeed, to Mr. Gostlin when his poor health of two years ago forced him to give up the game temporarily, and his "WELJ HOW'S TOUR GAME TODAY?" will be sorely missed on the local links. In 1902 Mr. Gostlin wag one of t'ne factors In giving a banquet to celebrate "Hammond" day and the acquisition of thirteen factories. Distinguished guests were present from all over the region, Chicago and Indianapolis. Senator Gostlin spoke on the past and future of Hammond. That was fourteen years ago. He depicted a wonderful story of growth and progress from the time when twenty years before that evening he 'nad come to Hammond a wilderness of pines. "Hammond will have 250,000 people before many years. Lt will hum with Industry and will be the Pittsburgh of the west," he said as he closed his speech amid tumultous applause on th.at evening. Mr. Gostlin was Iris'ot and he was proud of It. He boasted of it and believed the Irish the greatest nationality on earth. He could tell more Irish stories and tell them better than four out of every five Irls-hmen. Indeed, he was a born tory-teller, and he could always illustrate his remarks with some pat allusion to now an Irishman would have done this or that. He was as good a "shiUelah-swlnger" as cer went to a Donnybrook fair. When he was In the state senate in 1895 Mr. Gostlin was the delight of the caricaturists and cartoonists. He was the cynosure of all eyes on toe senate floor because he was the best dressed man on It. He used to wear striking hats, and the Indianapolis

News artist would draw Eilly In a new front every day. Billy Blodgett for years would never mention Lake county unless he mentioned Billy Gostlin. and no one will deplore Mr. Gostlin'a death more than his friend Blodgett. Billy Gostlin was a fighter. The blood of the ancient Celts flowed In 'nis veins and he loved nothing better than a good scrap. He took in some of the big mills in Chicago when boxing was in its prime, and Bob Fitzslmmons was a favorite of his. When Bob came to Hammond Billy was one of the first to lamp the spotted Australian, and w'aen he planted his fist in Fltisimmons' the

world's champion at that time knew he had hold of a man's hand. Mr. Gostlin, whenever tnere was a big mill at any point In the country, was always the first to get the news. For a man who was as much in the public eye as was Mr. Gostlin, he never sought publicity. The writer covered a "beat"' in Hammond for fifteen years and found Mr. Gostlin reluctant to talk about himself. He 'nad a nose for news, however, and while asking to have no credit himself, was always ready to confide a good bit of news that concerned some other man's good deed. Other reporters have had the same experience witn Mr. Gostlin. The late Tom Sigler called him "the reporters' friend." and all the reporters respected his wishes regarding his aversion to publicity. The Indianapolis reporters, however, discovered his aversion and used to delight In writing him up on account of It.

WHAT SIM GOSTL

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(Br Homo G. Wood".) There have been two critical periods in the history of Hammord, and in each of them a single dominating personality has risen up to eave it from threatened disaster. And that personality Uvea today. It points the way to bigger and better tilings though the body from which it emanated lies relaxed and etUl In death. The marvelous energy that helped to evolve this city of homes from a dismal sand waste is spent. Billy Gostlin Is dead. The midsummer heat of the Hammond of twenty-three years ago was stifling. The pitch ooaed from the knota in t'ne board sidewalks, the sun was reflected In a daizllng glare from vacant sand lots. Two or three brick and a half doren frame buildings on

West State street and Plummer avenue constituted the business district. It was surrounded by a few hundred frame cottages and half a dozen homes of the more pretentious type. Its one Industry, the slaughter house, intruded itself on the town by the odor of the cattle pens and tae other sounds of Industry, so close waa tha plant to the town. The Pullman strike was on. Hammond had been selected as an object of attack by the strikers because it was even then an important railroad center and out of the Jurisdiction of the legal authorities of Cook county and Illinois. The town was full of strangers. Tiie saloons were packed with Idlers. Already the city and county authorities had been intimidated. Hammond was the stronghold of the strikers. It was

also invaded by a vicious element of lawless Individuals who took advantage of the situation, but who had no real connection with toe strike. Sentiment In Hammond waa divided. One element openly sided with the strikers and announced their Intention of establishing their cause by force. The other element saw in the unbridled action of the Invaders a menace to the town and to all property rights. The situation became so grave that at a meeting held at tha residence of Charles Grlffln a decision waa reached to arm and drill a picked company of citizens for the protection of life and property. , t , Street mobs were congregating daily soma of them out of curiosity and othera to plan the wrecking of trains, the burning of Pullman cars and assaults on those who had taken t'ne

place of the strikers. Open defiance to all authority made it apparent that open revolution was but another step.

Law-abiding citizen were insulted on

the street and threats were made to burn the residential districts. The feeling between tha strikers and the element of citizen w'no resented the invasion of the town by outsiders bad grown to such proportions that it became apparent that a pitched' battle could not be long deferred. Both side were arming for the fight. The feeling of Insecurity and helplessness was general. No one seemed to be big enough to cope with the situation. An appeal was made to the stata and government authorities for protection. . Into this situation Billy Gostlin projected himself. He etrode into a howling mob of striker in front of the Central block, told them they had no right to destroy the peace and order of the community: that t'ney were all cowards, and ended up by offering to whip any man in the crowd.. He then went alone from saloon to saloon and repeated his challenge. Nowhere was he attacked. No one know to thl day what saved 'him unless it was his utter fearlessness and that dominating personality that commanded the respect of even those whom he denounced. Billy Gostlla saved the day. No doubt but that show of force s at crltlal time revealed a remnant of authority that Inspired fear in the heart of the lawless element. The next day the regular arrived. No one who lived through the terrors of those days knows the feeling of relief that t'ne coming ot the soldiers inspired. The city was placed under martial law. An attempt to defy the soldiers resulted in the killing of three men and the wounding of others. That ended the Pullman strike, but It was Billy Gostlin who saved the town until

the soldiers arrived. The second crisis came to Hammond wnen the G. K. Hammond company was absorbed by the National Packing company, and abandoned the Hammond plant.- Practically every person In Hammond in those day earned his living either directly or indirectly in the "slaughter house." Homes had been built, business enterprises had grown up and the town had risen around the packing Industry.

All of tite outstanding personalities of the early days the Towles, K. H." Bell,

J. M. Wanner and other came to Hammond with the meat Industry.

So the announcement that Hammond was going to lose Its one industry

meant that if something was not done

that Hammond would become a deserted city. In this emergency William H. Gostlin again came to the front. He called to his council suc'a men as A. M. Turner. Peter W. Meyn. William F. Bridge, Joseph G. Ibach, Thomas Hammond and others, and together they planned the Industrial rehabilitation of the city. A bonus of $78,000 was paid to the W. B. Conkey company, one of $50,000 to the Simplex Railway Appliance company and B-eid Murdoch company and other concerns, such as the F. S. Betz company, were located. Gostlin put in a number of the best years of his life In this desperate and remarkably successful effort to keep

Hammond on the map. It was hi en

thusiasm, his determination, his Iron will that accomplished almost unbelievably results. Later on when an attempt was made

to prevent the W. B. Conkey company from operating and a big bully stood In front of the plant Intimidating

t'nose who got off from the street car to work in the plant. Gostlin ordered the man away. He

refused to move, and, although he was

nearly twice the size of the indomitable Billy, the Hammond man with one sledge-hammer blow knocked him cold and later the strike was called off. As Lake county began to be a factor in state politic and the need of proper representation at t'ne tate capital became apparent. Gostlin was elected senator. He at once took up the matter of securing a superior court for Hammond. At that time the Idea of having two courts In one county was unheard of. But Gostlin' personality and hi persistence won. and Hammond waa mad the seat of the first Superior court in Indiana, a court of concurrent Jurisdiction with the Circuit court at Crown Point. ' Probably tne greatest service to the

community was Gostlin' influence in an effort to make Hammond something more than a factory town. It wa he who conceived and urged the carrying

out, during Fred Mott's administration as mayor, the purchase of Harri

son park. This resulted in the building

up of a high-class residential district

and has made Hammond t'ne real residential cfty of the region. James J. Hill said: "I have made a mark in the surface of the earth that no one can erase." That is the way Hammond fels about BiHy Gostlin. His mark on the community Is indelible. He Is one of the few men here w'no have made money-making and service to the community go hand In hand. He has given much and received much. Perhaps his strongest characteristic has been his unswerving loyalty to his friends. To count Gostlin as a friend was to 'have a permanent asset. If he had enemies they were . enemies well worth having. Seldom do we find In the character of one man such a personality, such an expression of Ideals, such bredth

of vision, such optimism, such a sense Of public duty, so little mat is petty and mean; so much that is good and noble. He was a city-builder. Placed in an

environment wbere opportunities were greater he might have been a James J. Hill or a Cecil Rhodes. He had the instincts of both of them. , Hammond today mourns the loss of its best friend. But tne city can never forget him. Today he is receiving from the tongues of thousands of his fellow citizens the words of praise, the final commendation, that comes to but few men. It la well deserved.

JDandom V Things and Flings

HOW are you this evening? Have you joined the egg boycott?

BRITISH winged two zeppelins and the Germans sank an American liner.

Did You Ever Notice that the high class stores do not try to attract their patrons by advertising prices. Quality comes first at this store. We do not advertise prices. Our

I patrons do not care to 0 have the prices of the

gifts they give published. They know that rcGarry prices are consistent with the very highest quality. Your friends look for

the name McGarry the gift box.

John E. McGARRY

Jeweler ' Optometrist.

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IT APPEARS that it cost the G. O. P. $2,445,421 rot to elect a president. WE STILL insist this is a great country. The more the pro'nibltion extends the more the treasury takes in at Washington from the tax on booze sales.

NEVER want to hear any more from the big papers about our town being unable to take a convention overflow. New York this week, unable to provide enough hotel accommodations, had to send people elsewhere to sleep.

MR. WIRT has s"nown us how to get twice as much out of a schoolhouse as any one else. Now can't eome one induce him to experiment with the coal bin?

THE business of producing movies naa been so managed that several of the leading companies now have to go to considerable pains and expense advertising their productions aren't "white slave" dramas. NEVER knew how widespread poverty was in Indiana until the government's income tax report came out showing that there are only nine citizens in this state wnose incomes range between $100,000 and $406,000.

THE Gary Times asks: "What has become of the old fashioned grocer who used to give a Thanksgiving turkey with every suit of clothes purchased?" He Vias been succeeded by the new fangled farmer who couM have bought that suit a few years ago with the money he now gets for thturkey. Muncie Press.

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Your whole family will be pleased on Christmas morning to find a Victrola in the home. The Victrola is a worthy addition to any home. Its music and entertainment are always welcome, and there's surely no better time to get a Victrola than right now.

u Come in today and see about your Victrola and we'll arrange to deliver it any time before Christmas. w The instrument shown above is the Victrola XVI, $200. Other styles $15, $25, $40, $50, $75, $100, $150, $250, $300, $350. Victors $10 to $100. Terms to suit yourj:onvcnicnce, if desired.

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PETEY DINK For,a Minute It Did Look Like Someone Else

By C A. Voishs

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