Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 164, Hammond, Lake County, 29 December 1916 — Page 7
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GIT GARY
NDUS1HY TO BUILD
American Locomotive Co. Ready to Erect Its Mon- . ster Plant at Gary in the Vf?ry Near Future Big , Thing for Region. . That the American locomotive company will build this coming sarins n its site in Gary is now accepte.1 as a foregone conclusion. In New -.York financial circles it is pointed (jCr) that the new management of the company is ready to proceed with the plans. Two months ago President E. J. Buffington of the Illinois Steel company testifying in the Gary harbor opening- suit at Valparaiso said that the locomotive company and the American Car and Foundry company had their plans drawn and were ready lo build on their Gary sites'. Has Site lit Gary. The American Locomotive cur.ipany i.v.ns a 130-acre tract in the north-a.--t part of Gary, near the coke ovens .1 the Illinois tteel company. North (.f the site the National Tube company u ;:i build its plan this spring. A New York dispatch to the Chicago Tribune reads'. XKW YORK. Dec. 29. Well informed people who predicted the recent change of management of the American Locomotive company says that the company Is giving serious consideration to adding largely to plant facilities by constructing new shops at Gary. Ind. The company already owns several hundred acres there, and now for the. first time is in a financial position so good that expansion can be considered. Like many oth'r companies which have profited inordinately from the. war. Locomotive has piled up enormous cash resources. Before the war it t arried less than $5,000,000. Last June it had $10,300,000. Next June, present unfilled orders of $79,000,000 indicate, it will have $17,000,000, so that a plant of no small proportions could be built without borrowing. It is not thought likely that construction will be started until after the war. At present there are no locomotive building plants very far west' of the Ohio river, but there is no good reason why the Chicago district, whose position in the whole steel industry Hammond Furniture Hospital 32S North Hohman St. Phone 2462 for up-to-date Upholstering, Furniture Repairing. Matresses made to order. All work called for and delivered.
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MOTHER OF GREAT GERMAN LEADER TOOK PRIDE IN SON'S ACHIEVEMENTS
Field Marshall von Mackensen, commander of the Teuton forces in Dobrudja. who has just routed the Kusso-Roumanian forces and now threatens a drive on Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, is regarded today as one of Germany's foremost generate. Many of her military successes in the east are attributed to his sagacious campaigning. Mrs. von Mackensen died in her ninetieth year. She took great pride in her son's achievements. has been so enormously enhanced at Gary and Calumet in recent years, should not have such a plant. The desirability of having manufacturing facilities of great scope nearer the center of the country rather than along the eastern searboard has been made patent during the demonstration for Industrial preparedness. The same sources of information hint that, along with putting up a new plant, the company may dismantle two of the present plants, which are poorly situated. PRIMARY LAW PLANS TIMES lUREVl, AT STATK CAPITA IINDIANAPOLIS. IND., Pec. 19. As was forecast in these, dispatches, the Democratic state committee trailed along after the Re-publican state committee and issued a call for the reorganization pf their city committees and the election of city chairmen. By taking this action, the Democrats fully approved the position of the Republicans that the Democratic primary law is full of inaccuracies, uncertainties and non-understandable provisions. There is a rising belief that the legislature will do a lot of carpenter work on the primary law at this session and patch it up so as to make it workable or repeal it altogether.
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r rTHE characters which Charles Dickens Some of them are used today as dest rintive adjectives. Kagin the teacher of thievery in "Oliver Twist." furnishes an adjective to the English dictionaries. It will be remembered that at the time of the writing of "Oliver Twist," which first appeared in Bentley? Magazine in 1837 and 1S3S, George Cruikshank, the well known illustrator, made his immortal drawings of the characters which Dickens had so marvelously described. There are many who will recall the great controversy which
it OK' ty ALL U. S. HELD FOR ARMY BY DEFENSE LAW New Regulation Places All Abie-Bodied Men Between 18 and 45 Years of Age Subject to Draft Into the Service. "WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. Every able bodied male citizen of the United States between eighteen and forty-five years is subject, without further act of Congress, to be drafted into the army, it became known today. Under the national defense act the militia bureau of the AVar Department two months ago framed the regulation, which was made public only toaro at the time Pf Dickens' death, his drawings of the characters ror tne original story, "The Adventures or u.ivrr ' " ",l , " " ' complete tne novei in us iirest-m iim. This claim was indignantly denied by the admirers and supporters of the au thor. ho claims of Cruikshank Whether were true or not is of little concern to u todav, but the controversy itself is of interest in view of the fact that "Oliver Twist" has been adapted as a motion picture by the Jesse I Iasky Feature Play Company for the Paramount .Program, with Marie Doro in
day. It directs that where a national guard regiment Is called out of it a state for war service a reserve training battalion to fill vacancies at the front shall be organized. Power With 1'rvnldcMt. "If for any reason." the order nays, "there shall not be enough reservists or enough voluntary enlistments to organize or to keep the reserve battalions at prescribed strength, sufficient number of the unorganized militia shall be drafted by the President to maintain such battalion or lesser unit at the prescribed strength." The language follows closely that of the national defense act. in which the unorganized militia is defined us ineludh.,? every able-bodied male citizen within the prescribed age limit. The national guard regulations, which will be amplified in great detail later, also strike at the problem
of dependent families of soldiers. Mngle Reerutts Preferred. Recruiting officers of the national guard are directed to discourage the enlistment of married men or those! with others dependent upon them. Such persons are lo .be accepted only for reasons in the public interest, men 1 who wish to become officers Being the only class specially excepted. It is provided in the regulations that no officer of the guard hereafter I shall be recognized as sjch under the defense act unless he shall have subscribed to an oath binding him to obey orders of the President and Governor of his state. After three years' active service, or when the organizations are disbanded, national guard officers may pass into the national guard reserve. 000,000 TO BE CAPITAL OF STEEL COMPANY The Inland Steel Concern Will Reorganize and Will Give 2lA Shares in the New Company for One Outstanding. The Inland Steel Company proposes to give what amounts to a stock dividend of 150 per cent to its stockholders. This means the distribution of stock of a par value of $15,000,000. and explains the steady advance of the stock from 200 to 400, with the Jump of the, rast few days from 400 to 452. A new corporation will be formed under the laws of Delaware. It will be capitalized at $30,000,000. For each share ot the old $10,000,000 stock will be given two and one-half shares of new stock. There will remain $.- 000,000 of stock that will be held in the -treasury for the present. Official notice of the plan was issued last night and stockholders were notified that an adjourned annual meeting will be held January 80. to ratify the plan. The Kirst Trust & Savings Bank is designated as deposi the title role, -and that the Cruikshank in building the backgrounds for the ac tion of the play. Going still further in their determination to preserve as far as possible the spirit of the original, the producers have actually reproduced on the screen exact replicas of some of the situations Which were depicted In the original illustrations, and every player in the cast in making up for his or her role has approached as nearly as possible the exact lines of the drawings. Though "Oliver Twist" will live eternally as a story and has been a success as a play Marie Doro herself
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tory for the old stock. Some new financial arrangement was inevitable, since the earnings and surplus have outgrown the old trncture. Earnings are now running in excess of $1,000,000 a month, or more than 120 per cent a year, on the old atock. The fiscal year Just closing will show' nearly 100 per cent earned on the old stock. FUEL LACK IS CLOSING U.S. STEEL. FURNACES Temporary Trouble Indicates Reduction of Decernber Earnings. Scarcity of fuel due to -lack of transportation facilities has closed blast furnaces and forced deliveries Mb
Haffes Pen Pictures Live Again
atarred In the title role in the great re-
dam Theater, Jn New York, during the Lasky Company before filming one foot Dickens Centenary in 1912 neverthe- of this Paramount Picture . made a less the reality of the author's descrip- painstaking study of authoritative data tions of the character depended upon on London at the time of which Dicktrie reader's imaginative powers, the ens wrote and of both the Cruikshank Cruikshank drawings limned enly the drawings and of the earliest available Vilirh llfht of th storv. and the stAce editions of the story itself. In addition
productions ceased with the fall of the curtain. With the motion picture verSj0n 0f the story the characters are brought to life and experience a new immortality, for once enacted before the camera thy are unchangeable. Sincerely appreciating the responsibility which devolved upon them In
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of steel to fall further and further behind, indicating a reduction in out-, put and earnings for December as compared with November. j The United .States Steel Corporation, because of coke shortage, is reported to have closed nineteen blast furnaces for the time being. -The big steel companies are loaded down with orders for future deliveries. Yesterday the Baldwin Locomotive Company wai reported in the market for 30,000 tons of steel to be used in the manufacture of munitions for, it Is understood, the French government. It was reported yesterday also that the French government had placed an order for 15,000 tons of shell forgings and that Italy is negotiating for 40.000 more tons. Still another report was that contracts for 20,000 tons, of shell forgings had just been let hy agents of France to smal manufacturers in the Central West and that the allies are making inquiries for steel in 3,000 to 5.000 ton lots i for immediate deliveries. Because of the transportation troubles, the Iron Age. out yesterday, said: "Production, shipments and earnings making a permanent motion picture to starring Miss Doro, who had already created a sensation in the stage ver sion of the play, the producers engaged two of the best known character actors in the country 'or the important roles f Fagin and Bill Sikee In the persons of Tully Marshall and Hobart Bosworth, respectively.
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for December will fall considerably'' short of November." A 5 per cent, advance has been announced by bolt and nut makers ami one of $2 a ton by a leading prydu.tr o'f bars, plates and shapes. The oarn'ng! of the United States Steel Corporation for the last -quarter of the present year were estimated, yesterday by some at from $100, 000. i 000 to $110,000,000. WILL HEAR EVIDENCE Charles R. Hughes, one of the threemembers of the workmen's compensation board will be in Hammond nest week to hear the evidence in seven cases. His court will be in session uiC January 3rd, 4th, and 5th. KDXDALVIDDK -- Side walks In. Kendallville have ben kept clean as a. result of a luling of the council thatthe walks with snow on in the morn- ' ing will be cleaned by the city and,, charged to the property owner. OAKY City council voted an iss';'. of $60,000 bonds to be spent in the; completion of a city park system. :
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