The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-05-08

on a race around the world in an eff
fot to lower the worlds record for that
trip. The Chicago Tribune sent a man
from Chicago to New York to illus
trate the wonderful progress that has
been made in electrolizing railroad
lines. THE TIMES sent a reporter from
East Chicago to the Standard Steel Car
plant on the lines of the Hammond,
Whiting, and East Chicago Electric
Railway company in the hope of es-
tabIishing the fact that the trip may
be made without the loss of life or
limb and with only the inconvenience
of siege Of seasickness and a few
bruises from being jumbled about in
the car.
The start from East Chicago was full
| of excitement. The victim who had been
selected for the trip said his last good
byes to his friends in front of Veaco's
drug store. 1t was a pathetic parting
and the same feelings surged through
the breasts of that little group of
friends as If the passenger had boarded
| a big ocean liner and it was slowly
pulling away from its dock, perhaps
| for the last time, while the band played
Say Au Revoir'' and the black crowd
on the pier waved goodbye until in
dividuals were no longer distinguish
able and detail after detail eluded the
cropping eyesight.
! In fact the start of THE TIMES tourist
was an event in comparison to which
| the Walter Wellman polar balloon trip
| would be merely an incident. With a
jerk which resulted in the temporary
| separation of several of the vertebrae in
the neck the car started forward.
! 1t had not gone two city blocks be-
fore the bold TINES tourist became sea-
sick. He asked the conductor If that
was a personally conducted tour, and
the conductor said, mo. his was what
was known among railroad men as a
| tortour.
| Just then the car turned the corner
at One Hundred and Fiftieth street and
| it was all THE TIMES man could do to
keep from being swept from the after
decks 1t was raining hard and the
passengers all asked for life-pre-
server.
| The conductor told them that the
best he could do was to advise them
to take out accident policies. The car
| ran aground at the corner of Calumet
avenue and State streets, owing to the
fact that the pilot had forgot the 1ati-
tude and longitude.
/ The damage consisted in the break
Ing of two telegraph poles. the smash
ing of a grocery store on the beach
and the gentle jolting Of a few of the
passengers. In the captains log the
following entry was made Ran
ashore in the rain, foated back on the
rails during high tide at a. M No
one hurt. Speed at the time of the
accident, two Knots. which, translated
from Gary into English, means that we
were going some.'
| A councilman boarded the car from
the wrong side. He did not know that
! 1t was going stern forward to avoid
turning around. He called the captain
down for running that way and said he
was going to demand the passenger of
anordinance compelling the cars to
carry red lights on one side and green
ones on the other, so that people could
tell the starboard from the port side of
Make but salads, pastry and canning
fruit as we'll
The cooking is done on gas stoves
and when all get their white caps and
/ aprons on, they present a most at
tractive sight and none would have the
idea that they were amateurs. The
main event in school circles this year
was the dinner which was served by
the Junior and senior girls TO the super
/ intendents of Lake and Porter coun-
/ ties. The superintendent Of the Val
paraiso schools was so taken up with
the idea of teaching this art that he
sent a teacher here a few weeks ago
| to see Miss Hagenbuck with a view
to getting pointers for starting a class
| there next year.