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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01
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CHAPTER XII.
The Den of the Wolf.

The street had changed it's appear
ance in the two or three hours since
l had made my way from the Ex-
change through the pallid, panic
stricken mob. There were still thou.
sands of people between the corner of
Montgomery Street and Leidesdorff,
and the little alley itself was packed
full of shouting, struggling traders.
But there was an air of confidence, al
most of buoyancy, in place OF the
gloom and terror that had lowered
over the street at noon. Plainly the
panic was over, and men were in
spired by belief that stocks were
going up"
made few dispositions according
ly. Taking Doddridge Knapp's hint
I engaged another broker as a relief
to Eppner, a short fat man, with the
baldest head l ever saw, a black beard
and hook-nose, whose remarkable
activity and scattering charges had
attracted my attention in the morning
session.
Wallbridge was his name, found,
and he proved to be as intelligent as
l could wish-a merry little man, with
joke for all things, and a flow Of
words that was almost overwhelming.
Omega? Yes" chuckled the stout
little broker, after he had assured him
self of my financial standing. But
you ought to have bought this morn
ing, if that's what you want. 1t was
hell popping and the roof giving way
all at once" The little man had an
abundant stock Of profanity which he
used unconsciously and with such
original variations that one almost for
got the blasphemy of it while listen
ing to him. You ought to have been
there" he continued, land watched
the boys she'll 'em OUT"
Yes, 1 heard you had lively times"
Boiling" he said with coruscating
additions in the way of speech and
gesture. 'If ii hadn't been for Deck
er and some fellow we havn't had a
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(Continued.)
Sell everything you bought-never
mind the price. Other orders OF.
DIX"
| gasped with Amusement. Had
Doddridge Knapp gone mad? To sell
twelve thousand FIVE hundred shares
OF Omega was sure to smash the mar
ket, and the half-million dollars that
had been put into them would prob
ably shrink by two hundred thousand
or more if the order was carried out.
read the note again.
Then a suspicion large enough to
overshadow the universe grew up in
my mind. l recalled that Doddridge
Knapp had given me a cipher with
which he would communicate with me,
and l believed, moreover, that he had
no idea where l might be at the pres
ent moment.
IT'S all right, sonny" said. "Trot
along"
Where's yer letter." asked the boy,
Loyalty anxious to earn his quarter
1T won't have to go now" I said
coolly. I believed that the boy meant
no harm to me, but l was not taking
any risks. Tho boy sauntered down
the hall
We'll, 1 must look like a sucker il
they think can be taken in by trick
like that" was my mental comment.
charged the scheme up to my snake
eyed friend and had a poorer opinion
Of his intelligence than l had hitherto
entertained. Yet l was astonished
that he should, even with the most
hearty wish to bring about my down
fall, contrive plan that would infict
a heavy loss on his employer and pos
sibly ruin him altogether. There was
more beneath than l could fathom. My
brain refused to work in the maze OF
| contradictions and mysteries, plots
and counterplots, in which I was in
| volved.
/ took my way at last toward the
market, and, hailing a boy to whom
| intrusted my letter to Detective Coo
gan, walked briskly to Pine street.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01
Especial to Lake County Times.)

Whiting, Ind, Nov. 1.-Whiting has
shared the general prosperity of the
Calumet region. Per capita it is one
of the wealthiest cities in this great
Industrial center. There is not a va
cant residence in the city, but on its
principal business thorughfare, One
Hundred and Nineteenth street, out of
sixty-one business blocks there are
eighteen unoccupied.
These facts are not pointed out in an
unfriendly way. 1t is a serious prob
lem. the existence Of which the people
of Whiting are we'll aware, and de-
mands the most careful thought for
its solution.
Whiting has always been known as
good town. The people there have
good homes and they live comfortably.
In fact the standard of living in Whit
ing is probably better on an average
than it is in any of the surrounding
cities.
The Standard Oil company pays its
employees good salaries and they seem
satisfied with what they get and yet
the fact remains that while the popu-
lation of the city has doubled in the
last seven years the number of bust
ness houses have actually increased
and there are no more retailers OF
merchandise than there were when the
city was half the size.
whiting Residents Puzzled.
1t is a peculiar situation TO say the
least and the residents of Whiting are
just as puzzled as is the outsider
| About the first explanation that is Of
fered is the fact that the suburban and
street car service to South Chicago
Hammond and East Chicago is so good
that the people so there to do THEN
buying.
1t is said that the low prices that
are offered by the department stores il
South Chicago and Hammond an(
which are seen in the newspaper ad-
lvertisements, are too alluring, and thai
for a FIVE or ten cent fare the Whit
ling housewife can jump on a subur-
ban train or a street car and not only
have a greater variety to select from
! but she can get it enough cheaper tC
warrant her in making the trip.
The result is that every piece o.
furniture that goes into a Whiting
home is bought outside OF the city, fol
there is not a place in the oil towr
where even a chair or a table may b,
purchased unless it is bought second
handed
The people viii buy their luxurie:
and many of their necessities OUTSIDE
OF the city and there has been no way
discovered of preventing it Some o
the citizens have said that they though
a good department store in Whiting
would solve the problem, as it woul'
enable at least one store to compet'
with those in the outside cities an(
would attract trade to the smalle
stores
Real estate activity has been grea
during the past year. according TO tn
Davidson brothers, who are the princi
pal brokers' as It ever was and Their
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WHITING, THE GROWING OIL
CITY, HAS ITS PROBLEM
Business stagnates Amid Prosperity While Town Enjoys
Splendid Growth, No More Stores Than When
City Was Half Present Size.

has been a great deal of property sold.
There Is, however. no land the
outskirts Of Whiting to subdivide.
When subdivisions" are talked about
TO the average Whiting man he will
take the talker to the corner and point
out house down at the south end of
one of the streets and inform you that
Hammond lies beyond.
So the town has grown up more SOL
idly than any other city in the region
There are very few vacant lots in
Whiting. This suggests the subject of
annexation to Hammond.
The people might favor it if they
saw in annexation a cure for the lack
of business activity that is apparent
everywhere. If Whiting became a
part of Hammond there would be no
more of an opportunity for us to To-
cate industries than there was before"
they say, for your real estate men
would want to locate every piece of
property where it would do Hammond
inside property the most good"
Low Taxes-Argument
Against Annexation.
Then there is the argument that to
the Whiting man is unanswerable. Our
/
| foolish for us to become a part of
Hammond. But Whiting has not spent
thousands of dollars for the improving
Of the streets as has Hammond, and
when the Hammondite suggests that
it would be wise for Whiting to pave
every street in the city, boost up her
rate Of taxation and then become a
part of Hammond in her new garb, the
oil city man is impressed.
Mr.. Davidson, one Of the most pro-
gressive men of the town, its post
master and leading real estate man,
said yesterday: There is no use de-
nying the fact that there is something
wrong with the business of the city
The empty storerooms and the fact
that they are not only located in the
old portion of the town across the
tracks. but are to be found in the heart
Of the business district, is proof enough
that there Is something wrong.
we must have Industries" said he,
and we must make Whiting SATIRE
liant in a business way. 1t is positive
~ shameful that a city which has the
| schools and other public buildings that
Whiting has and the fine homes that
are to be found here. should not more
Loyalty support the local mercantile
establishments"
AS TO the outcome. No one seems &c
know what it will be. No one seems
10 take the initiative and act. In the
meantime more stores are vacating. anc
Writings problem is becoming a big
ger one.
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place to live and a good place to work.
South Chicago on the other hand, is
lucky to have had such men at the
helm Of the business enterprises. The
big mill, although condemned for the
dust and the dirt, has employed thou
sands Of people steadily, and they can
always count on their wages. Ship
building, coal companies and hundred
and one enterprises along the lake
shore and throughout the surround
ing countries. have contributed toward
the rise of the city. by an integrity
and a business hustle that kept their
employees constantly at work and con-
stantly drawing the weekly or fort
nightly envelope. almost bursting with
greenbacks.
The retail merchants faced the situa-
tion with a bold face, although at the
first their hearts must have sunk at
the conditions they were compelled to
look upon. With a population made
up Of a large percent of foreigners
they must have been far sighted indeed,
I to see the prosperity ahead. But they
went about their work with their coats
off and they now enjoy the fruits of
| their labor. while they do not lay back
and enjoy 1t yet. they plug on and on
i for better things, not only for them
! selves but for each and every resident
of the town and every man and woman
customer. They have banded together
for better living conditions, better
wages. and better public utilities and
they have succeeded beyond what they
dreamed
Among the big companies which
have made the success of the South
Chicago district possible, are the S.
Lederer company, which is now cele-
brating its twelfth anniversary. In
1895 the company had but small store
while now brick block is needed
They are celebrating with the people
this glad event and the people are get
ting the benefit a the bargain coun-
ters. The Speigel company saw the
benefits to be derived in South Chicago
and their store on Commercial avenue
is reaping the harvest of good man
agement and a desire to cater to the
people with gain to one and all The
General Furniture company, the New
York store. Keistermeyers, Benders, and
many other business enterprises have
contributed to the general success and
are themselves feeling the prosperity
that they have justly been part of
Watch the crowds on the streets dur
ing the evening, and particularly on g
Saturday or pay night, and it will be
seen that the residents Of South Chi
cago never think of the big stores In
the heart of the city of Chicago, but
literally patronize their local enter
prises.
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within the Calumet region. and when
speaking OF the Calumet region It
means a great deal more than the
word implies. The Calumet region is
not only famous locally as a strong
young thing in the business and manu-
featuring world. but takes its place
with famed localities, such as the On
,tario valley and the western mining
fields and lumber woods, as the truly
wonderful handiwork Of modern civilf-
zation.
The growth of South Chicago has
been steady from the start, without
the intermittent flashes and the dull
periods. and the day by day, step by
step upbuilding Of mercantile resources
has never ceased since the time when
the suburb Of the big city emerged
from its sleeping conditions. It is true
that 1t had more to cope with than
many Of its brother and sister com
munities and it has yet to overthrow
an unearned reputation as far as a
residential section is concerned. but the
activity Of its merchants has done much
to place the business reputation of the
place on firm standing.
From q swamp where weeds and ran
corous growth was about the only
thing to be seen. where the water from
Lake Michigan and the Calumet river
stood in pools covered with green slime,
the city has grown. One by one the
streets have been laid out and each
year saw the last of the swamps and
marshes. and almost each day saw
the new residence or cottage rising
from the foundation And each year
growth Of d pioneer institution Small
merchants who started with a frame
one-story structure, have been com
PEELED to add addition after addition,
until they found it necessary to pull
down the original store and build a
more commodious and up-to- date brick
or stone building And the end is not
yet They still ind it necessary to
increase their stock and their business
blocks each year.
With over 100000 people living with
in a radius OF the business center of
the city, is it any wonder that they
have felt the growth of the city of
which they are the major part? Sit
uated as they are in a section where
there is little chance for the residents
in the vicinity to go elsewhere to do
their trading, where the same people
are of the laboring class. who are earn
ing good wages and raising large fam
lilies to spend it on, is it any wonder
that these merchants have established
successful businesses? But they have
not slept and waited for the trade to
come to them. Not only have they
sought it. but by public interest and a
desire to make South Chicago a fiji
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lspeclal 10 IaIse County Tinaes.l

ness. q social and q residential stand
point. the steady growth of South Chi
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01
FIRE FIEND FOLLOWS HIM.

Washington, Ind, Nov. 4.-for the
sixth time in q less number or years
Richard Holton has been burned out
The last fire destroyed his home at
loss of $500.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01
WHAT SOUTH CHICAGO HAS
OVERCOME AND CONQUERED
Business Social and Industrial Growth the Marvel of the
Decade Marked by Ups and Downs-Pro-
gress Steady and Rapid.

cago and the surrounding territory.
which may be Justly included within
It's broad domain. has been just as
wonderful as any other city or town
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Come to the Grand Opening OF Pax
ton q Baker Co. Ia 255 State street
SATURDAY.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-01-18
COLOR LINE IN THE NAVY.
No Advancement for the Negro and
He is Not Really Wanted.

From New York Sun.
To the Editor of The Sun-Sir: 1t
is quite evident that Black the writ
er of letter about the color line in
the navy which was printed in The
Sun on January 10, has not gone into
the matter deeply.
Only within the last few months a
cabin steward whose time has expired
told me that after twelve years expert
ence he had come to the conclusion
that the. navy was no place for black
man. He told me of a number of Incl
dents of black sailors suffering indig-
mites from white sailors and how sail
ors on the battleship Indiana, while
she was lying in the Brooklyn navy
yard, petitioned for separate drinking
cups.
While the officers do not encourage
these practices, many of them find a
way not to know about them. From
others have learned there is no ad-
vancement for black sailors. You
never find them on gun crews; you
never find black apprentice boys. Al
most all negroes are firemen or coal
passers or personal servants of the
commissioned officers. If "Black" will
investigate he will find that black
sailors are leaving the service. When,
ever a photo is taken of battleship's
crew and officers rarely do you see a
black face in the group.
H. A. WILLIAMSON.
Brooklyn, January IL.
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nary avocation to the highest pro
fession. from common day laborer to
the most skilled mechanic. Their
earnings range anywhere from $500
to $4,000 per month. They own valu-
able property anywhere from $1,000
worth of household goods to $50,000
worth of real and personal property.
Indeed, there is not civil district of
Davidson County, nor a ward in the
city of Nashville where Negroes do
not own both personal property and
real estate. In fact, it would be hard
to find business block in the city Of
Nashville where some Negro does not
hold claim in some way upon some
of the real estate in that block, either
by mortgage, deed, trust securities.
or in fee simple.
venture the assertion, without fear
of successful contradiction, that there
is not savings bank, nor trust COM
pany, nor national bank in the city OF
Nashville in which there Is not a Ne
gro depositor; and further venture
the assertion, that there is not one in
which some Negro does not hold some
stock. Yet, for all this, they receive
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The Financial Condition Of the Ne
groes of Nashville.

For three years I have endeavored
to make study of the Negroes financial
transactions in the city of Nashville.
think, as / have already said, that
there are in the city of Nashville and
its suburbs between forty and fifty
thousand Negroes, and more than so
per cent Of these are bread-winners,
-earners, and money-distributors
If these 25,000 Negroes or money-dis-
tributors handle on an average only
$1,000 per month, it would amount to
the enormous sum of $250,000 per
month, or $9000,0OO annually. What
would be the result, and what finan-
cial and business ruling would the
Negro banking institutions of Nash
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-01-18
President R. H. Boyd, D. D.,
Il. D., Makes Third An
nuaI Address.
4 LAEcE NUMBER OF STOCK
HOLDERS PRESENT TO LISTEN
AND GET INSPIRATION ENDoRs-
ING HIM BY RE-ELEcTiNG HIM
FOR THE FOURTH coNsEcU-
TIVE TERM.

The third annual meeting of the
stockholders of the One-Cent Saw
ings Bank was called to order prompt
" at 1880 Monday evening, January
IA, in the directors room of the One
Cent Savings Bank. Rev. R. H.
Boyd, ID. D., LII. d., the President,
called the meeting to order. Rev. w.
ID. Chappelle, d. D., offered prayer.
The president then declared that the
third annual meeting was opened for
business. Upon roll call it was found
that a majority of all the paid-up
stock was represented. This being
by far the largest attended stock
holders meeting since the organiza-
ton Of the bank. Not more than one.
tenth of the paid in stockholders was
absent The third consecutive term
of the officers of the bank expired at
this meeting. The president read his
annual address and recommends
tions. The address was adopted, and
upon raotion the recommendations
were referred to the Board Of Direc-
tors for consideration.
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ers of these institutions could be in
structed to handle the finances of these
institutions in way to gain the con-
fldence of the laymen, and make a
good financial showing to the business
public, the question would be solved.
The individual depositor is sure to fol-
low the depositor of the churches,
lodges, and other benevolent institu-
tions.
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of the Athenians, "They are too re-
ligious," for religion is superstition,
although superstition is not always
religion. If the Negro had less super
stition and more commercial conf
dence in each other; If the money
handled by the Negroes of Nashville
was handled by the Negro financiers
through well-organized and safely
guarded Negro financial institutions,
his treatment, and his condition, to-
gether with the tone of the daily news
papers would indeed be different. II
every merchant in Nashville who sold
Negro $100 worth of merchandise.
or a niece of real estate, received as
payment check on some Negro DanK-
inc institution and If the reports and
annual sworn statement made to the
state comptroller Of these Negro bank
inc institutions of Tennessee, the COM
nercial agencies and business public
would see the Negro in very diner
ent light to what they see him to-day
The Churches, Lodges and Insurance.
Institutions.
The Negro by Wjust legislation anc
nolitical discrimination is robbed oi
every vestige Of self-government, ex
cent in such religious and benevolen'
institution as they may organize
among themselves. The Negro church
es. Negro lodges, and other beneyolen
suronce institutions ought, and, II
fact. to some extent, are training tn'
Negroes in self-government, and III
ting him for the duties of life. | De
lieve. therefore, that our only mop
, to draw the Negroes up along COZ
rect commercial and financial lines l
to convince and convert the leader
: frsr and followers of these 1nstltr
t tions into the confidence OF each otne
{ and of the race.
Our preachers are the greatest an
most intelligent, and most patrloIi
.. race leaders that we have. Our churche
!, own more property, control more SUI
, stantial financial institutions, an
!. have the best financial standing
! any of the race organizations anon
: us Our preachers are indeed gref
leaders. They battle against gret
odds. and against great opposinol
Any fool feels at liberty to critics
a Negro preacher and say what
y would do if he (the criticiser) we're
> Negro preacher. But If you VIII e
;. anime closely the character an
0 standing of that wind jammer," WI
. criticises the Negro preacher, you WI
q find that he is a complete failure
~ every undertaking, if he ever unde
n n took anything.
Il Next to our churches come II
1t lodges and other benevolent instit
tions. All our churches and lodg
j have money and financial transaa
y y tions. But if you should examine e
y y pages of the ledger of the One Ce
y Savings bank, the only banking ms
- tuition owned and operated by \
y y groes in the city of Nashville, y
- - would. indeed, be surprised at the
~ ., sence Of the names Of the church
20 20 and lodges and benevolent institutio
- y of the State of Tennessee, and IN
~ ~ have to-day more than half-m1lli
~ dollars, If not a million on deposit
the different banking institutions
I this state, owned and operated
i'd white people. If in some way the le
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no commercial credit nor business re-
cognition in the financial and business
world. If these assertions be true,
and | do not believe that there is
stockholder in this room tonight VINO
doubts the correctness of these asser-
tions; I say, if they be true, is 1t not
high time, is the time not fully ripe,
has the day not dawned, and is the
emergency not upon us that we should
rise up, like men, like a people OF
intelligence, and prove to the world
by our industrial, commercial, and fru-
gal dealings that we are worthy re-
cipients of the recent pretended cltl-
zenship that has been conferred upon
us by the American people? We can
lot prove this by words, nor brag-
gadocio arguments, nor false and mis-
leading newspaper and magazine ar
ticles. nor gorgeous dressing, nor
display Of eloquent and classical IAN
guage, but by what we are and what
we do, we convince the civilized and
intelligent world that we are worthy
recipients of an intelligent American
citizenship.
There was day when men were
recognized because of their birth,
their dress and their language. But
in this dawn of the Twentieth Cen.
tury. the civilized and intelligent
world recognizes men, first, for what
they are: second, for what they DO
and. third, for what they have. Ii
was said, and possibly well said by
an intelligent writer, "The hand that
rocks the cradle rules the world
This may be true, but the twentieth
century will prove that he who steers
the wheels of commerce will direc'
and control the civilized world,