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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

Fort Wayne Ind, March 31.-(Spe-
cial. 1.-The flood situation here is very
distressing. l had to wade out to the
Berghom brewery in hip boots and
have not been able to get out of the
cooling room Have not been able to
see Steve Fleming yet Wire me 81
care of the bottling works.
HENNERY COLDBOTTLE.
NO wonder the poor wabash river
Is on a tear Probably trying to
drown its SORROWS because the fool leg
isiatchoor made Indianny's state song,
''On the Banks OF the wabash
EVEN though old Noah only had a
dove as a messenger to bring him news
of the flood the little bird was more
efficacious than our silent phone and
telegraph wires were last week.
MANY people will now wonder why
they put Easter in such front place
IN the calendar
VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL is
said to be the real fan of the official
family. If President Wilson is wise
he'll keep his ball pass locked in the
White House safe"-Chicago Record :
Herald.
Now since when did Tommy Marshall
become baseball fam" Here in In
danny we never even know that he
understood what a box score Is.
THANK heven. This nu simplifid
spelling sistim won't be taken up in
our local publiek skools like ii is being
done in F'iladelfa
WATER FAMINE THREATENS
FORT wAYNE."-Fort Wayne News
headline.
Happily Fort Wayne is blessed with
more than one brewery.
VIEWS of Venice on exhibition a.
Chicago Art Institute. Won't go te
see them since better ones can be seer
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

makes my blood boil to hear wom-
en- say that the women who have
fallen to the streets were nearly
all hard working girls. It's not
true. They were lazy girls or
weak girls or foolish girls. Now.
l have worked in three big depart
ment stores in New York and I
have been in my present position
some five years, and in all that
time, although have worked
alongside of different girls almost
every season. 1 have never yet
known a girl who would supple
ment her wages by going with men
for money. / have never met what
you would call an immoral girl. OF
course 1 know that some girls do
wrong, but I have never come
across case in my own expert
ence. On the contrary. many and
many a time / have known really
attractive girls working in this
store who have had to borrow
money for their luncheon the day
before pay day. Now, these girls
were honest and good girls or they
would not have ben short that
money
ct is absurd to say that a girl
who is willing to do wrong will
come here and stand on her feet
all day and work the way we do.
The average department store girl
is good. respectable, honest and
moral woman. If one forgets her
self she loses her job. Women hold
other women to a much stricter
code of morals than men do. and
although of course many of the
girls have love affairs, that has
nothing to do with the question.
We don't pry into the things that
come into other women's lives, but
women very quickly detect the girl
who sells herself, and we all de-
spise her. 1 am not talking of the
question of salaries. l am talking
of the question of decency and
womanhood. I know that all wom-
en- are not perfect, but there is just
as large, IL not larger, proportion
of society women and professional
women who go wrong as there is of
working girls. That is what makes
it SO unfair and so despicable to
have seized upon the poor work
ing girl and muddled up the ques-
ton of her low salary with the
white slave question or the social
evil question In order to do it the
people who have started all this
discussion have taken the rare
exception and from 1T are trying
to prove a general rule. But they
will not be able to bring forward
one single case of a girl wht
worked In a store or at anythins
else and was forced Into evi
courses. The people who hav.
imagined all this so-called corrup
ton among working girls are evi
minded muckrakers
THE people. especially the won
en- who are doing this kind of talk
ing, are really hurting the caus
| of the working girl
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

America and for several seasons past
he has been one of the great stars OF
the Metropolitan Opera Company in
New York. Amato is said to be equally
at home in IS operate roles.
Congratulations to:
Prince Henry William, third son of
King George and Queen Mary 10 years
old today
John Hays Hammond, famous mining
engineer and capitalist, 5S years old to-
day.
Claude A. Swanson, United States
senator from Virginia. 81 years old to-
day.
William Waldorf Astor, 65 years old
today.
George p. Graham, former minister of
railways and canals in the Dominion
cabinet, "a years old today.
James NJ. Cox, governor OF Ohio. 43
years old today.
william E. Humphrey. representative
| in Congress of the First district Of
! Washington, 81 years old today.
| Earl of Tankerville, 81 years old to-
| day.
| Charles d. walcott, noted scientist
and former director of the United
States Geological Survey, So years old
to-day ,sf--
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

age on the careless bookkeeping Of a
clerk. In the meantime the shortage
seems to have increased and the ex-
PLANTATION is that the bulk OF the
shortage represents stayed" fines,
which the kind-hearted Judge per-
mitted offenders to pay at their con-
venience, but which they evidently
didn't pay; and some $4,000 in fines
collected from the Gary blind pig"
men. The explanation in Gary
paper further states that the mayor
judge delayed turning the money
lover to the proper custodian pending
la mandatory suit.
1t is presumed that the mayor will
effect a satisfactory settlement, thus
ending the case. In the meantime
Mr.. Knots should make a firm reso-
luton never to assume judicial
honors. A court is no place for DO
litical favors and making men under
obligations to one by filming them and
then staying" the fines does not
bring the allegiance and obligations
expected. In this case those that Mr.
Knots charges with failure to pay
I"stayed" fines thank his judicial work
by forgetting to pay up.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31
THE FLOOD AFTERMATH.

Readers of newspapers who are
thinkers will note that the foods
have subsidized, losses established, by
merely looking at the makeup of
their favorite newspaper. Interest in
the great flood is almost passing. The
world is ready for new sensation
and though constantly kept surfeited
with sensation is ready for more.
Newspapers are once again printing
general news in their columns. Last
week for days the interest in the flood
disaster was so general that the
newspaper reader wanted nothing but
flood news. All else was subordinated
to that demand Happenings which
at other times would have command
ed good positions were put in obscure
corners on inside pages and it had to
be big news to get in the papers at
all Social and sporting news was
almost ignored. The people had no
appetite for it. 1t is the same way
when any big disaster comes along
in the kaleidoscope race of the earth
around its axle. People will rejoice
that the flood is all over with as far
as being a newspaper sensation
They are glad that those 5000 deaths
by drowning have dwindled to few
hundred.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31
FLOODS MAY BE PREVENTED.

A food might be defined as being
date maximum flow of water to IA
channel of minimum size. The
'inundation of the country, the de-
struction of property. and loss of
life follows.
The remedy: Dig a channel of
maximum size to accommodate the ex-
cess flow. In many instances the
cost would not be as great as the de-
|struction wrought in single flood.
Take the case of the Little Calu-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31
"THIs Is MY 18TH BIRTHDAY"
PasfuaIe Amato.

Pasquale Amato. who occupies the
premier position among the Italian
baritones of the day, was born in
Naples. March 81, 1873. After spending
two years in the study of music he
made his debut at the age of 20 in the
role of Germont, the father, in La
Traviata." His success was immediate
and signal. He remained in Naples two
years and then toured southern italy.
He sang three seasons in Rome and
three seasons in Florence and complet-
ed his career in italy at the Teatro
della Scala in Milan. He then came to
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31
ON BEING MAYOR AND JUDGE.

Charges that Mayor Knots of
Gary is short $5,0S4.41 in his ac-
counts while serving as mayor and
governor by the state board of ac-
counts. Not quite two years ago Elk
City Clerk Harry Moose had the
mayor arrested on the charge of en-
bezzlement, alleging a shortage of
some $4,000 in his judicial accounts.
This case never camep to trial. The
mayor at the time blamed the short
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

by looking at the flood pictures in THE
TIMES.
COLONEL GIVES WARNING
NOTE. Headline.
No use. Teddy. You can't break into
ton and Terre Haute are in the lime
light.
DID you ever see a girl with a
Republican.
Yes. There's ours. She borrowed our
Insersoll two weeks ago
NOW If congress would only pass a
law prohibiting river floods many folks
would believe that the democratic
party can accomplish something when
it wants to.
BET YOU THIS HEN CAME FROM
DYER.
(From a flood dispatch)
Captain Noble of Culver Academy.
passing a porch at Peoria Junction
Thursday, saw a hen on the porch
| Beside her was a newly laid egg.
| The captain took the egg to the
safety islands to add to the food sup
| ply. Passing the same porch toda y
| he saw the hen again and found there
another eggs.
REDUCE HIGH COST OF LIVING
BY EATING ONIONS. Headline.
Just as likely as not the Spearmini
chewing gum people are spreading this
story.
| THOSE dulcet notes you hear being
| warbled in the vicinity of the Gary city
, hall come from the silver throat o.
| that sweet songster of the Grand Cal
| umet valley. the Hon. Homer Carr. wht
| is assiduously singing, i've Got Mine
| Boys"
Spring was ushered in last Fri
| day."-Hobart Gazette.
Evidently 1t didn't get front seat
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31


suppose that with the development of t
Gary the swail lands of the Little
Calumet river become so valuable
that the city gradually encroaches
over the lowlands.
To keep out the flood waters levees
are built. Instead of spreading over
broad acres, as it now does, the chan
mel is restricted. Over in Illinois the
river runs through solid rock at Blue
Island.
The hydraulic force of the rivers
current at this point has not been
sufficient, during all of these years,
to wear away the rock and to gouge
tout a channel sufficient to take care
of the flood waters in the spring.
Grasping for the immediate dollar
will have induced the people of the
Little Calumet valley to restrict the
spread of flood water but no relief
lis secured at Blue Island where the
channel should be widened so as to
facilitate the rapid discharge of the
water.
| The result will be that some time
the levees at South Gary will break
and the entire southern portion of the
lefty will be inundated. The loss of
property and even lives is sure to fol-
low.
Thus in almost every instance mar
lrowed river channels, cramped river
beds, artificial reservoirs weakly con-
Istructed and not built for emery
lencies, restricted flow due to bridge
distinctions, water power projects,
tlevees for the reclamation of farm
Hands placed too close together and
natural distractions are responsible
for our floods.
1t should be pointed out that expert
Iengineers have declared that rather
than attempt to penetrate the rock
lat Blue Island it would be better to
Idig an artificial channel to Lake
Michigan at a point east of Gary in
Lake and Porter counties.
Thus the food waters of the Little
ICalumet river may be tapped and
ldrawn off nearer their source. The
project is known as the Burns ditch
1t would positively prevent fiaods ii
1.-THE future. 1t would create hundreds
of fertile truck farms
But after the property owners o
1.-The section to be benefited arc per
lsuaded that it would be good thing
latter they have accepted their assess
ments of benefits, the Lake Shor'
railroad, semi-public institution
Istepped in and precipitated a cour
light to prevent the contamination o
the plan and delayed it for years.
Now we begin to understand VIII
foods occur. To save the building o
81 la few railroad bridges the Lake Shor
. railroad holds up a swamp reelama
. ton project that would add thous
4 ands of dollars to the assessed valua
g ton of the county and would ind
rectly enrich the railroads.
1t is an opportune time for tn
/ commercial organizations of til
w region to. memorabilia the Lake Shor
O railroad that its opposition to tn
Burns ditch project is one of til
things that it is contributing to til
horror of floods all over the countr
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31
The Day in
HLSTOR Y
"THIs DATE IN HISTORY.

1S16-Rev. Francis Asbury, first bishop
of the n. E. Church in America,
died in Spottsylvania, Va. Born In
England, Aug. 20, 1745.
Is42--Henry Clay resigned his seat in
the United States senate.
1s5O-John c. Calhoun. stat esmah. died
in Washington, d. c. Born in Alb
beville, S. c., March Is, 1882.
185-Charlotte Bronte author of Jane
Eyre" died. Born April 21-. 1916.
1S66-Spanish feet bombarded Valpa-
raise, Chile.
1912-Robert l. Taylor United Etates
senator from Tennessee, died in
Washington. D. c. Born in Carter
County. Tenn, July 81, 1850.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31
THE WORKING GIRLS SIDE.

We gladly give space to the views
of an intelligent working girl--a de-
partment store girl if you wilton
the question of the alleged kinship of
vice and wages. The working girls
side of the question has not hitherto
been given. She has better right
to be heard than anyone else for none
is SO vitality interested as she. Miss
Mary Kelley of the Siegel-Cooper
store in Chicago says:
cit is a cruel shame that the So
cial reformers who are making SO
much noise about their investiga-
lions of vice conditions should
have fastened upon the poor work
ing girl and linked her name with
the street walker just because her
earnings are small Why should a
girl be indecent just because she
only gets six or eight dollars a
week? Salaries have nothing to do
with morality. and /. as a woman
who has worked for years in de-
partment stores. want to say that
we resent as a libel upon our WON
! anhood the mean and undertaking
! charges that are being made.
I'VE girls can afford to stand
| what has been said about as much
better than some of the reformers
| can afford to have said the things
| that are credited to- them. Only
last Saturday a woman said in pub
lie print that she considered 1t an
open question of morals whether
| girls should starve themselves re-
specially on an insufficient wage
or should go on the streets because
they were selling their bodies
i putting them to work in either
case. Her womanhood must be of
the Futurist or Cubist kind:
THE people who go wrong In
this world as far as morals are
concerned, and it is just as true OF
men as 1t is of women, are not the
Woodworking people who have
something to Keep them busy every
minute of the day. but those who
Z have a. lot of time on their hands
and nothing on their minds. 1t is
the lazy girl that goes wrong. You
Il know the old saying that Satan
4 finds evil for idle hands to do. 1t
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

There are 722.335 coal miners in the
United States
The trades and labor council of Nell
son. B. c., is planning the erection of a
luabor temple to cost $4,000.
Reports from cities in all parts of
the country indicate that there will be
a great deal of building done this year.
The United Mine Workers organiza-
ton of Iowa is planning the creation
of legal department. to prosecute per-
sonal injury cases of members
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

fNote to subscribers: All monies
sent THE TINES have been turned over
to w. C. Belman treasurer of the Lake
County Red Cross branch to be for
warded except the contribution by the
Gary TIMES which has been made pay
able to H. S. Norton of Gary. head of
the Gary relief fund.-Editor)
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31
Political Announcements
Editor, TIMES

Editor, TIMES
1 desire to announce to the commits
sieners and auditor of Lake county
and to the people of Lake county that
/ am a candidate for the vacancy ex-
listing on the board of commissioners.
for 10 years and believe L know its
needs. PANTE HAROLOvICH,
whiting, Ind.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

GIRL stenographers protest against
being portrayed in moving pictures
as always chewing gum and wearing
rats. Point is well taken girls Hon
estly how many stenographers are
there who chew gum?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

INSTEAD of garden seeds, why
don't the congressman send out
packages of new nickels? They would
be more acceptable and need not cost
any more.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

BEING an advocate of worldwide
peace, why doesn't Mr.. Carnegie try
to do something for England and the
militant suffragists?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31
REPLACING THE BRIDGES.

One of the results of the recon-
struction period of the flood will be
vast orders for structural steel work
to replace many new bridges washed
away. Benefiting thereby this is all
the more reason why we of the steel
belt should contribute literally to the
food districts.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

AFTER a contestant has been kill
ed in the ring, Pittsburg got busy
and devised new rules for boxing.
Usually the way.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

JUDGE rules that a young woman
has right to $4,000 year to live
on. If this thing keeps up there's no
lodging the high cost of husbands.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

Stated meeting Garfield lodge No.
$50, r. &c A NJ, Friday. March IS. 1880
.. m. E. A. degree Visitors welcom-
ed r. g. CALLER, Sec. Z. NJ SHANK
LIN, W. NJ.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

Hammond Council No. 90 r. & A NJ.
will hold a ceremonial on Tuesday
evening, April LIST. Stated assembly
first Tuesday each month. ]. w. NORTH
land. Rec. r. s.. Caller T. I. NJ
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

PERHAPS it is proposed to tax all
Massachusetts spinsters IS year
because the blame for not marrying
them can not be laid justly on the
men,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31
The Times Flood
Subscription List.

Albert Given, East Chicago. $50
The Lake County Times. $50. 25o0|
The Gary Evening Times. -. $500
f. Richard Schaaf Jr. $500
Hammond Federation of Music
ians ............. 1000
Triumph Council Daughters of
Liberty No. H.. ....... 500
Granger & Moser, Hammond. 500
Charles Herr-Griffith 500
DR.. l.. B. Watson, Hammond. 500
F. E. Rinehart, Hammond. 80. 500
G. w. Taylor. Creston. ...... 500
H. S. Pelton, Creston ...... LOO
A G. Ross, Creston. 1890. 800
A. G.. Taylor, Creston. ...... 800
H. D Fuller, Creston. ..... LOO
Relief fund, cash. .......... 100
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

THE federal offices don't seem to
be going round very rapidly. but those
who are chasing them seem to be
getting dizzy.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

CHEESE is found now to cause ap-
pendicitis. Well some of us would
rather have the appendicitis.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31
PRETTY soon spring will be here

with all the little springlets, VIII
Sailor straws, low cuts. peekarino
waists, ditto underwear and book beer
at the sign of the goat
Searchlight.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

Hammond Commandery. No. II. X.
7. Regular stated meeting nrst and
third Monday OF each month.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

THERE is nothing thus far to in
dictate that the English suffragists
went on an Easter bonnet strike.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

Hammond Chapter No. III r. A. NJ.
Special meeting Wednesday, April Q,
1880 p. m. Royal Arch degree.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

PROBABLY it will take Illinois a
long time to become used to plain
Joe Cannon.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

A CHICAGO doctor says that bru-
nettes make the best workers. Mean
ing Indians of Mexicans?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-31

Top right: B Church.
C. McNabb and H.
Rowen, u. S. N Bottom yacht Pennsylvania"
River undertaken has left the steam yacht Penn
the ethnology of the expsdtion Dr.
BIZ
oogist H.
u S. NJ retired will the yacht and geographer
and hydroRraphex.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-03
at night and routes Of heavy com

at night and routes Of heavy COM
mercial traffic, now unguarded.
1t is evident to any pedestrian who
goes around the city much that some
restrictive force of drastic nature must
be applied to the automobile drivers.
for they are unwilling or unable to hold
themselves in for the public's protec-
ton. From the man who drives a mail
truck to the man who drives a racing
car they seem to have the idea that
the eity's streets, even in congested
sections, are intended solely for speed
ways. 1t may be that in time THIS
city's population will become as adept
at scurrying over the crossings and
docking between the flying cars as are
the PaIisians. Meantime the speeding
and reckless driving are too great and
the accidents too frequent. The citys
ordinance is good enough. The courts
are showing willingness to make the
punishment tit the crime. What seems
to be chiefly necessary now is ade-
ouate equipment to catch the reckless
drivers every time they break the law,
and hale them into court, where they
will get a heavy sentence. Catching
systematic and habitual lawbreakers,
falling them and revoking their driv-
ers' licenses will prove a powerful
deterrent of 10y riding in thronged
thoroughfares.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-03
WINDSORViLLE.

Miss Fannie Douglass was In Augusta
Friday, on a combined pleasure anc
business trip,
Mrs. Ruth G. Brann and twin sons
Warren and Walter. of Albion, Were
guests, last week. of her sister, Mrs
Raymond NJ. York.
Frank Piper was visitor, Friday. in
Augusta.
NJ B. Moody was business visitor,
Thursday. in Palermo.
Charles Achorn has purchased the fine
pair of horses owned by w. L. Green.
Clifford Dolan has returned from a
weeks visit to relatives in Boston, Shir-
ley, and Hudson. Mass.
A. III, Sturgis made a business trip to
Palermo. one day last week.
C. I. York and family enjoyed an auto
trip TO Belfast, Sunday. to visit Mrs.
York's father, Henry s. Marden.
John Sproul of Augusta was Sunday
guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. w.
Sproul
George Glidden of Palermo was in town
ON business, one day last week
Alpheus Bragg shot deer. Saturday,
in woods owned by Gabriel Joselyn.
Miss Lizzie Colby of Augusta and Mrs.
"A. X. Brann of Albion were guests at
the Colby homestead for the traditional
Thanksgiving dinner
Adelbert Sproul shot a deer, Saturday.
In the woods of Samuel Lyon; there were
several of them that got safely away.
Ihere is to be an auction sale OF per-
sonal effects of the late Yeaton Dunton.
at his late home, Thursday, Dec. 4th.
Inc winter term of schools i'm tour,
commenced, Monday. Dec. 1st
Mf and Mrs, w. E. Green left town,
saturday morning, for their new home
IN massachusetts. They will be missed
by neighbors and friends.