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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08

the list price of beams and angles was
quoted at $1.15 per 100 pounds COM
pairing with recent price of $500
Contracts already have been made on
this new basis
For October incoming business of the
steel corporation averaged between 3d.
600 and $4,000 tons per day. or at the
rate of $1,000 tons yearly October or
ders were thus slightly In excess of
those for September. Independent COM
panies. notably the Republic il is re-
ported. did not fare so well as the cor
poration, and taking the industry as a
whole, probably there was not so good
business in October as In the preced-
Ing month. Unified tonnage OF the
corporation itself. as a result of the Oc-
tober Improvement, is expected to show
pickup as of Oct 81, when made pub
lie on the 10th of this month
Including all steel companies. IT Is
estimated that mill operations show a
falling off of about 10 per cent from
the opening of October. and with the
present indications of bookings further
contractions would not be out of the
question. Output of the blast furnaces
continues at the rate of between "a
100000 and 25.0O0.0O0 tons of pig iron
per year which is about $500, 600 tons
below the record year
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08
The Steel Corporation Confronted
With Many Threatening Problems

Not since is organization has the
United States Steel Corporation been
confronted with SO many problems
threatening its progress and develop
ment among them the following
Suits of the Government to dissolve
the corporation.
Activities of the Stanley Committee
Movement on the part of independent
steel and iron manufacturers in the
Pittsburgh district to force a reduc-
ton in freight rates on iron ore, coal
coke.
Breaking up of the harmony of in
terests' plan for maintaining reason
able prices for. stee. products
Reduction in steel prices to a level
that forces lower earnings In fact
several of the steel comapnies. on a
basis OF present prices. are not earn
ing current dividends.
Movement TO segregate the railroads
of the corporation and force iron ore
freight rates TO much lower level
New construction work over the last
FIVE years that has brought to capa city
of the steel mills and blast furnaces of
the country to point far inexcess of
consumptive requirements.
Threatened reduction in steel duties.
II the steel corporation Is able to
survive the above during the next II
months by earning sufficient money to
cover current dividend requirements.
Its future will be more solidly assured
than 1t has been al any time since
April ]. 1901. the date when it began
business.
The impairment Of earnings as a
result OF lower steel prices is more
serious than some people realize. As
an example. Steel prices are about SIS
q ton lower than they were in 1907.
In that year the corporation sold APP
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08

prices. This means widely nuctua ting
markets If this corporation is de-
clared monopoly insofar as it's Gre
holdings are concerned, there will be
som edoubt as to the continuation of
the corporations lease of the Great
Northern ore lands. The Steel Cor
poration, with its larger margin of
profit per ton of steel sold would be-
able to compete with foreign countries
for the worlds steel trade but the
prospects of the independent com
mote.
Commissioner of Corporations Her.
bert Knox Smith is expected to issue
the second installation of his report
on steel the latter part of this year
and there are many manufacture who
hold that 1t will be drastic In charac-
ter. but this is merely guess work
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08

TWO other rail contracts of 10000 to
$1,000 tons each are pending The
New York Central lines still are in the
market for new cars
Yet there appears to be a better tone
TO the market as a whole as more con-
sumers come to the conclu sion that
prices are not likely to go lower
further decline, say the makers. is
most out of the question for the simple
reason that now they are about on
parity with costs. having reached thus
position where they cannot fall much
if any.
As result of this state of affairs
already many manufacturers in the east
have dropped out of the market for
certain commodities and will remain
out until the level of prices has re-
turned to a more remuneratfve basis
1T is for the same reason, it is stated
that the railroads have shown a bet
ter disposition toward the structural
steel and equipment markets. seeing in
the present time TO secure bridge ma
terial and cars on basis unusually
economical.
Though in some aspects a slightly
nrner tone has been seen in the price
situation manufacturers feel consider
able anxiety Structural materials felt
a further easing off this week when
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08
RAILROAD MARKET IS
SHOWING IMPROVEMENT

~ interested in the production of steel.
and Hammond. Hegewisch. Burnham
and Pullman may be said to constitute
the center of the production of railway
equipment of this region.
Expectations or the steel manufac-
tarers that buying by the railroads
wosld be inevitable for the reason that
IL could not be deferred Indefinitely has
been fulfilled in atzIeast one respect.
as is indicated by the improved char
acter OF the equipment market A re-
suit is being felt by the steel mills in
fairly well sustained demand for struc-
-turals. plates and bars. which is now
one of the most favorable aspects of
the situation
normal demand for cars from the
railroads, It IS estimated. would be
about 100000 a year, whereas the rail-
roads have taken in the last three years
about that quantity. This.sit is figured
would leave the carriers at least two
years behind on requirements, or $780,
ooo cars, 50 that a. resumption of de-
mand has been considered a fnecessity
for some time. October car contracts
called for more than 5000 cars, which
will require about 10000 tons of steel
Among the contracts for cars placed
IN the last few days ARE 1000 for the
Grand Trunk and 5000 for the New
York Central to be built by the Ameri-
can Car and Foundry company and ).
oVo~for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
placed with the Pressed Steel Car com
pany From the Standard Steel Car
compa ny the Chesapeake and Ohio has
ordered 1000. ears and Inquiries which
are expected to be closed soon include
1000 for the Baltimore and Ohio 5000
more for the Pennsylvania, and 5000
additional for the .yew York Central
The Southern Railway has closed a
contract with the Pressed steel for
500 all-steel rondoIas.
Manufacturers of railroad equipment
express the opinion that orders should
come in for the rest OF the wear at
least In as good volume as since the
middle of September, but should this
be the case the total amount taken in
1911 Will be far below normal require
ments. not exceeding probably $4,000
cars and 2.0e0 locomotives This nm
usual quietness in railroad demand is
brought out more clearly by compari-
son with the year before. when 145.oS5
cars and 3,IS7 locomotives were order
ed. and 1909. when 19s.ss3 cars were
ordered and $3.50 locomotives, while nor
nal requirements. as stated above
would average about SOC 900 cars
As a whole output of the mills is de-
Ginning slowly. Though rail Inquiries
in the market at present are heavy
few are finding theirkway yet to COM
pletion Of negotiations Most of the
inquiries are for 1912 delivery. Con
tracts placed have been insignificant in
size and few in number
Among the few new orders are 1880
tons for lumber company in Ala
bama, TO be rolled at the Ensley mill
and 300 tons for the Cleveland Short
line but two contracts of 10000 tons
each are on the point of being closed
Tor 1912 delivery. 1t is understood that
the MARYLAND Steel company and the
tennessee Coal and Iron company will
divide the Norfolk and Western order
for $4,000 tons
The burlington is reported to have
ordered 10000 tons of steel rails and
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08
WHITING CITY
DADS MEET
Especial to THE TIMES.

Whiting. Ind. Nov. S.-The city
council met in regular session on
Monday night with Mayor Parks and
all aldermen with the exception OF
Burton and Earan in attendance The
adopting OF ordinances took up the
main part of the evening
An ordinance was adopted providin~
for the issuance of Improvement bonds
for the payment of the cost of the paw
ing of LaPorte avenue. another ordi-
nance was also adopted providing for
the issuance of Improvement bonds for
the payment OF cost of installing sewer
in the alley north OF 18th street.
An ordinance was adopted authoriz-
ing and directing the city treasurer
d u. Griffith. 70 refund to Charles a.
johnson. Auditor OF Lake county. the
sum of s4.I43.96 for the purpose Of
paying off certain school fund bonds
Another ordinance was adopted
authorizing city treasurer, d. D.
Griffith to negotiate for a temporary
loan OF $500 to cover deficit in school
bonds Of said city
to select furniture for and clean up
the firemen's bunk room. Street Com
missioner John Buczkowski was al
lowed two weeks vacation, to begin
November IS
Saloon licenses were granted to Gust
Sahinski and Walenty Hapak.
After old bills were ordered paid
and new bills We're read and referred
the meeting was adjourned to meet
Monay night
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08
DREDGE RESUMES.

Indiana Harbor. Nov S.-The dredge
Michigan has resumed work on the ca
nal after a suspension which lasted
since last Thursday. The lay off was
caused by broken shaft which made
IL necessary TO take out the machinery
for repairs. The dredge was accord
ingly towed over to the Inland mill
necessitating the raising of the Penn
sylvania bridge in the process, and
arrived at the plant. A travelling crane
Invested the unwieldy craft OF its ma
chinery. repaired it and yesterday re-
placed it.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08
NEGROES
IN GARY
BAD ACTORS
Recent Murders
and Deaths of
Negroes in Gary


John Brown. e. years old, throat
cut by Harry Dorsey, February %
at Browns home, south Delaware
street, between seventeenth and
Eighteenth avenues. Dorsey con-
xicted of murder aud given life
sentence.
May Marshall, IS years old, muir
dered by her lover, George Davis,
who cut her throat. June 4, mt Six
teeuth avenue and Monroe street.
Davis will be hanged Mt Michigan
CITY on February 2.
Lulu smith, 30 years old. found
dend with bullet wound in her
head yesterday afternoon. Her AL
legged husband, Henry Smith, was
arrested In the same house, which
Is I'm sixteenth avenue between
Massachusetts and Connecticut
streets
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08

proximately 10. 500. 900 tons of finish
ed steel and earnings were approxi-
mately $161 900, 600. Had the corpora
ton been compelled to accept present
prices in the year 1907 its earnings
would. theoretically, have been less
than $4,000, 900. In other words bas-
Cd on present prices. the net earnings
of the corporation have been Impaired
between $4,000. 900 and sS5,000,0O0 q
year as result of the drastic reduc-
ton in steel prices since 1907.
1T Is not to be presumed that steel
prices are going to be maintained at
their present low level for a prolonged
period. so that the impairment stated
Is more of a theoretical than a prac-
teal calculation. However. with the
steel capacity of the country so far In
excess of consumption. political at
tacks. proposed tariff changes etc.
there are few manufacturers who hold
to the belief that there is going to be
any pronounced advance in quotations
over the next few months.
SO far as new construction is con-
cerned, it will be the policy of the
Steel Corporation as well as the in
dependents to confine expenditures al
most entirely to renewals.
There rre many manufacturers who
believe that so far as the dissolution
of the Steel Corporation is concerned
1t will be confined largely to dfvorcfng
railroads from manufacturing If this
is done, and freight rates on ore re-
duced. earnings would be impaired
but to what extent would not be
known until an idea could be obtained
as to the nature of the dissolution
The. steel market is now an open
one, with each company scram bling
for business on basis of its own
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08

tContinued from Page IL
Of new day for whiting Henceforth
she viii take her stand with other
cities of the region.
Not TO stand paramount as the great
est of oil cities. but. to be recognized
as one Of the great cities in the Calu-
met region is the object of the club.
Senator Frank Gavit presided at the
enthusiastic meeting and was an active
participant in many of the discussions
The organization is supporting good
deal of business, as the following re-
suits show:
What They Have Done.
!. Members are locating a glass fac
tory at Whiting
2. The obtaining of new light
franchise was thought advisable by the
club. 1t was their opinion that a thirty
per cent decrease from present rates
should be made
3 A committee was appointed to
present a five-cent telephone toll plan
TO the commercial clubs of Hammond,
Whiting, East Chicago and Gary. Pres
ent rates for inter-city calls were pro-
nounced exorbitant.
4. A plan of converting the old
Whiting graveyard into a residence
district by the removal of all bodies
that are buried there, was approved,
and the future of the issue given the
attention of a committee.
Want White Way.
5. The establishing of a Great White
Way on 18th street also had an official
birth Is progressive movement
g.. A representative, Mayor Parks,
was sent to the Indiana Federation of
Commercial clubs convention in Fort
Wayne last week.
Z. All old, dilapidated buildings are
TO be condemned by the club and ac-
ton taken before the proper authori-
ties.
THE TIMES was highly complimented
In speeches by Senator Frank Gavit
and G. ]. Bader. president of the Whit
ing, Indiana Harbor and Tolleston
state banks. and the First National
bank of East Chicago. Mr.. Bader said
in closing: Il know THE TIMES to be
for the best interests of all Lake coun-
ty cities and that If we do our part
and help the paper it will most GER
tainly do its part for u.s."
- Red-hot speeches were made by May
or Bca u1nont Parks, A. ]. Lauer and
others
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08
NEW LOWELL PASTOR,

South Bend, Ind. Nov. S-Rev. r. o.
Wickham. pastor of the Indiana Ave
nue. Christian church, has resigned to
accept a call to the First Christian
church at Lowell, Ind. Rev. Mr. Wick
ham will take Immediate charge of his
new church. and will move his family
to Lowell within a week. His sue
cessor in the South Bend church has
not yet been named. In his new charge
he will succeed Rev. J. B. Dunkleberg-
er. who will go to Gas City. Ind
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Crown Point Ind, Nov. s.-The fol-
lowing marriage licenses have been is
sued here
Frank MACKENZIE Chicago; Mary
Lutkus.. Chicago Patrick ]. Callahan
Chicago; Minnie Croll. Chicago. Sam
Pyser. Gary. Paroska Zwolsa, Gary
Andrew H. Teffie, Chicago; Lelitha
Foster. Chicago. Daniel P Quigiey
Chicago; Margaret Geary, Chicago. Ig-
macy Maciejeska. Gary; Martha Bart
kowskH GARY
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08

The decidedly active tone of the
equipment market and a gradual de-
cline in the manufacture OF steel are
the principal characteristics of the
iron and steel trade of the past week
This IS of interest to the Calumet re-
gion for the reason that Indiana Har-
Dor. South Chicago and Gary are deep
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-11-08

In the finding yesterday afternoon OF
the dead body of negro woman in a
house in sixteenth avenue. near Massa
chusetts street and the arrest Of Hen
~ Smith a negro known under various
names who was in an adjoining room,
the Gary police believe that they now
hold the perpetrator of the third muir
der recently committed in Gary's col
ored quarter.
Arrested by Captain Newman.
Discovery of the woman.s dead body
followed Smiths telephoning the po-
lice that a woman had shot herself.
Captain Gustave Newman, who arrived
at the house. found the body lying on
the floor Clumsily placed in her hand
was a 3S-caliber revolver and a hole
in the face near the nose indicated the
course of the wound. Smith. who is
said to be the husband of the victim,
wass in the next room hanging some
pictures on the wall. He was immedi-
ately placed under arrest and was taxi
en- TO police headquarters
working on Case Today.
Today Captain Newman and Detect
i've Elsner will make a thorough search
Of the promises where the woman was
slain. They say that they believe that
they viii secure enough evidence to es-
tablish Smith as the slayer OF the wo-
man. At midnight the body was taken
TO Hoover's morgue. $50 Washington
street. where the inquest will be held
Smith declares that the woman shot
herself.
The death yesterday succeeds two
recent murders in Gary's colored quar-
ter. Captain Newman made the arrest
in the Brown murder. Yesterday he
was assisted by good work on the part
of officer Mishkowicz. Today Chief
Martin directed that inquiries be made
in the neighborhood of the Smith home
10 learn whether the couple had been
quarreling.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-07
THE SALUTE TO THE FLAG,

The one serious limitation of the
public school is its lack of fiexibility.
The machine is so large, the pupils so
numerous and the teachers so schooled
to routine that the unexpected does
not always meet the swift, ready, tact.
full exception it demands.
If it did the little girl of IA of Eng,
fish parentage who declined to share
in the salute to the flag in a common
school at Perth Anboy would not have
become a subject for national and in.
ternational discussion, The whole
thing ought never to have happened if
her parents had had a little more
sense and the teacher principal and
superintendent little more wisdom,
Somebody in school authority has
always failed to know how" when a
case like this ends by sending the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-07
TREAT FOR TRAVELLERS IN STORE

The map of the routes of the line
of steamers that is being organized
to ply through the Panama canal be-
TWEEN ports of the east and west
coasts of this country looks very at
tractiVe. 1t has always seemed likely
that Americans would travel more at
home and not so much in Europe if
they could start off in steamers.
When the canal opens that will be
possible. To be sure, it is possible
now, but not as it will be then, when
persons needing rest and improving
society will be able to go aboard a
great ship in New York and have
sea air and appropriate meals all the
way to Los Angeles, San Francisco or
Seattle, with very interesting sights
midway.
If you are tired, as a great many
people are when they start on vaca-
tions, there is a great charm in a big,
clean steamer, and there is much
more charm prospectively in one
that goes the whole distance than in
a broken journey with a mid-distance
shift of everything, including stewards.
Really, our part of the world is
growing more interesting, and people
who have time to play are going to
travel about in it great deal more in
the next generation than they ever
have as yet. The thing best worth
seeing of all sights at this moment is
the great work at Panama before the
water is let into it.
South America is coming more into
fashion; San Francisco is going to be
more Partisan. The West Indies are
more in our life today than they have
been since the Revolution. A great
deal Of jolt came to these parts in
the form of the Spanish war. 1t was
like pushing of a button that con-
meets with machinery, and the Pan.
anna cut, and these new steamer
routes on the map, and all these pros,
pective new, intimacies are results Of
Iit-Life.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-07
THE DAILY GRIND.

Wilbur d: Nesbit. i'm X. c. Star;
What profit hath he that worketh in
that wherein he laboreth.-Eccl ll:S
NV son when YOU speak of the work
you do, there's something to keep
No matter how little it pleases you,
don't call it 1.-The daily grind
Don't tell of the tasks that Won dis
like, nor grumble at sorry fate
There never was work set to our hands
that we had right to hate;
1t isn't the work; it isn't the hire nor
toiling from sun to sun
That counts in the eyes of them who
see-it's how is the labor done?'
AS soon as you say it's a daily grind,
That moment the imp of Incidence
shows you how you well may
That moment you lose all your good
intent; that moment you ought to
For the work that you do is a friend to
you while you are friend to IT.
And once you have called it a slavish
Your work is a snare that will catch
your feet and cause you to fall be-
hind.
My son, when you work you must finish
your task; you must finish that task
alone,
And work that is done with a friendly
hand will change to a stepping
stone,
viii carry you over the barring stream
or out of the clinging slough
And lift you to where you may put
your hand on the work that you
want to do.
1t will help you along to the heights
you seek, will bring you unto your
goal,
But when you declare it's i'the daily
grind" II will grind you both heart
and soul.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-07

ooh, my dear, what a beautiful com.
plexion! How much did it cost you?
What is it called. Thank you so much.
/ will have to try it. Really, you
look charming today"
Just a sample of the up-to,date con.
yersation when two fashionable wo-
men meet. The secret has finally been
let out of the bag. Madame no longer
hides her artificial face dressings, but
rather brags of them. Though the tint
of her cheeks looks like the real thing,
she doesn't hesitate to tell what brand
it is, and even carries beauty tools
around with her in fancy gold or silver
cases.
The mature matron, and even the
sprightly young miss, appreciates the
good work in her cheeks favor just as
much as if they were the real thing
For she prides herself on being a good
artist, on having taste enough to
choose the perfect colors and on know
ing when her cheeks have been rougej
just barely enough or when the coat
of paint on her lips has reached its
maximum brilliancy. She will be over
joyed at any flattery you may han(
out to her, and will give you a Grim
son smile if you say:
You are a good painter, Anabelle.
Quite a marked contrast to the girl
of other days, who would have chilled
you to the marrow and cut you from
their calling list.
But nowadays it is different.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-07
LATEST news OF
THE BIG CONTEST.

Attention has been called to a
slight error made in announcements
of the beginning of The Stars great
subscription contest. The original an
nouncement was to the effect that
nominations of candidates would be
received up to p. m. of the goth, and
that the full list would be published
in the paper of the 21st. Any subse-
quent reference to the date of the ac-
tual beginning of operations should
have read Saturday, October 81"
Let that be thoroughly understood
now and here: Nor nations will be re-
ceiv~d up to 5 o'clock of Friday, Oc-
tober 20. Every effort will be made
to equip late candidates the same
evening, so that Saturday morning,
October 81, all will be ready to make
the start together. This will be be-
fore the list of candidates is publish
ed for the honor roll will not appear
until 2:3O on the afternoon of Sat
urday.