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THE LAKE COUNT 17 TIMES
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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
AN EVENING - NEWSPAPER PUB
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mond, Ind. Telephone 111.
June 18, 1906
ARE there no politically sound,
healthy men in Democratic ranks,
that the "canned candidate" must be
dug up, regenerated through the
boric acid formaldehyde hot iron
treatment and served as pure food
on a Presidential platter?
PAYMASTERS give us to under
stand that if putridity permeates
packing houses, they find their
counterpart in the National currency.
One dollar bills are declared so old,
worn and filthy that frequently those
obliged to stand over them for sev
eral hrjurs are made positively ill by
the stench while .several have been
known to contract blood poisoning
by handling them. It is an evil
which they assert could be easily
reisidiad. as the President has di
rect control.
THE Pope Is said to be languish
ing In the Vatican and fretting at
his Incarceration. As this is the era
of progress, why does he not break
the barriers like a man; throw open
the doors of the Vatican and walk
froth in the freedom of Rome? Not
only would applause fing from King
and peasant, but from the entire
world.
OUR Navy yard contains $500,000
worth of canned meats and there Is
$750,000 worth on our warships.
Bear Admiral Harris declares the
itueata were inspected from hoof to
cam, and there have been no com
plaints regarding it In the Navy. So,
the papers which announced that,
"The Navy may dump meat over
hoard," had no more authority for
the statement than their own imag
ination. Officials would not dare
dump it without explicit orders from
Rooevelt.
TUB utter absence of discrimina
tion is the glaring fault of the beef
exposure. The loss to cattle raisers
nd., farmers Is beyond estimate, and
- cufey arsTt a ferment or discontent,
while the banking interests are fear
ul of great damage, Some of the
packers are usln entire pages of the
leading newspapers to express their
animosity to 'the President in open
letters, declaring if the vile meth
ods are employed In some establish
ments it is only fair that their names
should be published so that all may
not suffer; that the good and bad
may not be indiscriminately juggled
togeer into a nauseating hodge
podge! ' They seem to think that
the harm done them through some
men'f corrupt management, is sim
ilar to uunishing the Pones for the
crimes or tne uaesars.
THERE is much food for thought
In the statement of Dr. Davis, of
Richmond, president of the state
board of health, before the State
municipal league at Marion Wednes
day The State of Indiana is doing
all it can to preserve the lives of in
mates of prions, asylums, etc.,' who
are of the non-producing class, and
is doing all it can to kill the produc
ing class those who earn their
bread by the sweat of their brow."
He pointed out the fact that the san
itary conditions in the prisons and
other institutions are so neraly ideal
that they may be advertised as health
resorts, while factory employes, the
women in stores and children in
schools are subjects to the depressing
influence of bad sanitation. He de
clared that the lack of sanitation in
for the large proportion of the de-
feeeraey of the race.
Gray Matter.
THE metoric rise of a man whom
we all knew as A. F. Knotts, attor
ney and ex-mayor of Hammond, to
a position high in the councils of the
most gigantic trust of our day dem
onstrates the fact that ideas have a
real commercial value.
Ccrporaions are ready and willing
to pay fabulous suras for plain ordi
nary "gray matter" if they can get
the right kind.
- The other day Mr. Knotts was
3d what in his opinion contribut
most to his success. His reply
rather surprising.
don't suppose I do o cents
of work a day," said he, "I am
ir my ideas."
further questioning brought
fact that Mr. Knotts' sole
to observe, evolve ideas and
m for execution.
teel corporation pays him
a year lor tnis and one
asks "Does he earn it?"
One illustration will suffice to an
swer this question. A great quan
tity of water is used to cool the roll
ers in the mills which becomes pol
luted with chemicals and sewage
from other sources. It was the orig
inal intention to drain this water
into the lake through sewers which
were to be built " for the occasion.
But sooner or later on the complaint
of the cities which receive their
water supply from Lake Michigan, j
the government would have com
pelled the Gary plant to tear up and
reconstruct the whole drainage sys
tem of the nort h fide involving
enormoue expense.
Mr. Knotts saw the danger and
suggested that although the mills
were located on the lake shore it
would be best to incline the sewers
from the lake and run them into the
river which some day will be drained
into the drainage canal.
This idea alone probably saved the
steel company Mr. Knotts' salary for
a year.
This is a day when brains are for
sale. But according to the employ
ers there is quite a stringency in the
market.
Between Trains
Said the Stork, "Amid riches and pelf,
I'm afraid I am laid on the shelf;
And with race suicide
Where the wealthy abide,
I am making a goose of myself."
It is said that one woman can drive
a man to drink, but ten can't make
him sign a pledge!
"You seem very much attached to
your little toy spaniel."
"I am indeed, dear. It will just
break my heart when the breed goes
out of fashion and I'll have to get rid
of him."
First He "When I go to a bur
lesque show I feel like the prodigal
son.
Second lie "How's that."
First He Like the Prod and his
fondness for the fatted calf.
Where there's
a bill there's not
always a pay.
After an investigation a trustee
becomes a trusty.
Homewood houses a young lady
who has a reputation among her
friends as an inveterate practical
joker. Now for the practical joker
there always comes a aay of reckon
ing. One morning one of her gentlemen
friends called the Homewood girl
over the phone at a time he knew she
would be in. A conversation some
thing like this ensued:
"Is this Mr. Blank's residence?"
"Yes. This, is Miss Blank speak
ing."
"I am the telephone inspector and
wish to inspect your instrument.
Please step to the right and say
hello.
The girl complied and the bogus
inspector said it was very good.
"Now please step to the left and
say hello."
This maneuver was also success
ful.
"Now step back three steps and
call again" said the tormentor. The
gile graciously complied. ;
"Now walk around the block three
times and see how a practical joke
feels." Bang went the receiver, and
now Mi Blank is looking for the per
petrator. Her day of reckoning had
come.
The story of the smart horse is
going the rounds of the papers in
Indiana. Vincennes claims to have
a horse which chew3 tobacco. West
ville has one that wears pantaloons
and a coat. Valparaiso has one that
drinks beer. Well Hammond has
one that chews tobacco, drinks beer,
looks into looking glasses, notices the
peekaboo waist and picks its teeth
after a meal. This same horse never
allowed a democrat to ride it and
showed the greatest respect to
"Billv" Gostlin.
The telephone bell rang in the
office of Cotton the house mover.
The proprietor responded in per
son. "Hello! Who's this?" asked the
voice at the other end.
"This is Mr. Cotton. Who's that?"
"This is Gary," answered the dis
tant voice.
"Is the whole town calling me
up?" asked Cotton.
"No, returned the positive end of
the wire; "Just Knotts Tom
Knotts."
"Oh, how do you do?" cried the
house mover. "What can I do for
you
"I want you to send over a lot of
jack screws, rollers, timbers and a
windlass," answered Knotts.
"What do you want to move?"
asked Cotton.
' "About 40 tents" said Knotts,
hanging up the receiver.
MODERN MACHINERY
PERFECTING PRESS THAT WORKS LIKE LIGHT
NING TYPESETTING MACHINES THAT
ALMOST TALK FOR THEMSELVES
THE BEST PLANT If
Ten Thousand Complete Eight Page Papers Printed in
One hour. .Sumptuous Quarters and Ample
Facilities
In launching the Lake County
Times, the Lake County Printing and
Publishing Company would call at
tention to the equipment of its es
tablishment. Part of this is its new
press. The new machine is a Goss
Printing press, built by the Chicago
firm of that name. Being a new
perfecting press it is able to print
from four to eight pages at the rate
of 10,000 copies per hour. This ma
chine has been in running order dur
ing the past week and the paper has
been regularly printed on it.
On this page is printed a represen
tation of the machine as it stands in
the Times office. The machine, how
ever, must be seen in operation to
fully appreciate its fine mechanism
and the almost human intelligence
with which it does Its work.
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MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE
Few if any papers published in
cities the size of Hammond have such
a complete and expensive machine,
but the Times recognizes the fact
that it will be a pioneer among pa
pers of it3 class in adopting the
latest and most progressive machine.
Many readers of this paper have
already witnessed the working of
the press and the mode of stereotyp
ing the forms of type for the press.
Process is Interesting.
First a matrix is secured from the
type which is dfyed out in a
double steam table carrying a pres
sure of 60 pounds of steam. The
matrix is then put in a circular cast
ing box, with a water back, for the
purpose of cooling quickly the plate,
and other late improvements, and
molten metal is turned into the box.
The cast is taken from the box and
first passed through what is called
a tail cutting machine by which the
surplus metal is cut off by a rapidly
revolving circular saw. It is then
put through a planing machine by
which the inside of the circle is
made to conform exactly with the
cylinder of the press, and with some
GOSS
1 1 . .-..-vUv". V--:.-i-v-:jte-. wt-'-:
FROM EDO TO Ei
NORTHERN INDIANA
hand chiseling the plate is ready
for the press.
When the paper consists of eight i
pages there are eight plates '
which are clasped to the cylinders j
of the press, which when in oper- I
ation, revolve against corresponding t
cylinders which are covered with ;
rubber and felt blankets. The cylin
ders containing plates also come in
contact at another point with ink
ing rolls which deposit ink upon their
surface. The paper from a continous
roll, several miles in length, is fed
through there receiving cylinders
and into the folder which folds the
papers and delivers them in the form
they are served to customers.
When more than four pages are
printed additional pages are placed
upon the press which corresponds
in all respects with what has just
been described and a roll of paper is
brought into use and the products
are brought together before entering
the folderand folded into the com
plete paper. Every part of the paper
is built in a way to delight the me
chanic. The press has demonstrated
that it is a complets success.
Wanted the Best and Got It.
The Goss Printing Press Company
within the past tew years has taken
front rank in the construction of per
fecting presses. The largest press
in the world was installed in the of
fice of the New York Herald by this
company in May last, a description
of it appearing in the Sunday Herald
of May 18. It has a capacity of
150,000 eight page papers an hour,
being practically 12 machines in one.
The Goss presses are rapidly working
their way into the leading newspaper
offices of the country and it has been
necessary to greotly enlarge the
works of the company to meet the de
mands upon them.
After a thorough trial the Lake
County Printing and Publishing Com
pany is capaable of meeting all re-
EIGHT-PAGE NEWSPAPER
quiremems and'standing up" una.
the severest strain to which m-inti
machines can be subjected. - This i
costly ptece of machinery has been
installed behind a plate glass window
on the ground floor of the Hammond
building and can be seen in operation
daily. It is in charge of competent
mechaics who will be glad to explain
its mechanism to all woh seek to be
enlightened upon the wonderful
progress of this department of news
paper making.
Marvelous Linotypes.
The Times plant is equally as well
supplied with other machinery which
corresponds in every way with the
big newspaper press. Two Mergen
t hater linotypes set the type for the
daily edition. They are the most
the market today, and enable each
operator to do the work of therr type
setters. Every line of type is cast
anew, giving a new clean face of type
i every day. This Is one of the most
wonderful machines built, and is well
worth the walking down Fayette
street where their operation can
! l,e s??n from thestreets since they are
'standing in front of the big windows
iu the full light. It would be well
worth the while to follow a piece of
news from the hands of the writer to
the printed pdper.
The editoria rooms are separate
from the mechanical rooms of the
plant, and rive typewriters make it
possible to write every piece of
"copy" on a machine . It then goes
to the linotype machines and the
type goes through the new proof
press, and then to the proof reader
then to the make-up man, and finally
to the steortyping department.
From T ble to Stereotype.
Here a great vat of boiling lead is
in readiness. A page of type is put
into a steam table and under heavy
pressure a perfect proof of the whole
page is taken in specially prepared
paper. This impression is then fitted
in a die and the molten lead poure
over it. in less time than it takes to
tell it. a full page plate is cast
curved to fit the cylinder of the ro
tary press. It is clamped in place
still so hot from the furnace that
the stereotypers must handle it with
leather to protect their hands; the
word is given and the press begins to
toss out the papers all folded for
distribution. The whole complicated
process has consumed a little over a
half hour from the time the last copy
comes from the editorial room until
the big press is counting off the pa
pers.
We have made the assertion that
the Times is the best equipped news
paper plant in Northern Indiana. .It
also has one of the best equipped job
departments in the territory. With
a complete new outfit of the latest ;
styles in job and advertising typeset
ting an expert printer in charge of
the department we can turn out as
handsome work as any shop- of its
kind. Anything from posters and
calling cards to the finest class of
wedding stationery or an eighty page
book we are able to turn out in the
shortest possible time consistent with
good results.
Job Work Plant the Best.
The feature of our job depart
ment of which we are most proud,
is the Optimus job press. This press
will print a sheet 25 inches wide and
3S inches long or a postage stamp an
inch square and yet runs so easily
that a silver dollar will balance Itself
on the frame of the press when it is
in full motion. This press is espec
ially designed for half tone and two
color work and enables us to put out
a class of work we have never been
able to handle before.
Embossing, steel plate script card
printing, as well as the finest class
of color work we are putting out,
and it is a class of work of which we
are not ashamed.
Now that we have Installed lino
type machines we are ready to turn
out piece work for other shops and
we are already assured of plenty of
this class of work. For the longer
runs in our job department of 50,000
and 100,000 runs we have put in a
flat stereotyping outfit, which will
make a cast of any piece of job work
from a card to a full page bill. By
this we mean to save the wear on
our new type faces, and thus always
give our patrons work which has not
been blurred by old worn out type.
PRESS
Cfif-inMcpr-
President Admits Error in One
Assertion About the Beef
Inspection Bill
MAIN CONTENTION REASSERTED
Court Provision Mast Come Out, He
Says, or the Bill Will He a
- Failure
Declines to Discuss the Charge oi
Iiupunging the Committee- and
Take Another Slap at
Judge Hum h prey.
Washington, June IS. Another
chapter has been written iu the von-
troversy between the president and
Chairman Wadsworth. chairman of the
house agricultural committee, iu the re. .
ply of the president to the letter Wads- j
worth wrote him on the beef inspection
bill. The reply is as caustic as th
president's first letter to Wadsworth
and is as follows:
Acknowledge One Error.
"My Dear Mr. Wadsworth In the
first place. 1 wish proumtly to ae-
knowledge the one portion of your let
ter in which you are, in the main, j
rtgut. I was in error in the statement,
which I accepts! from Senator I?ev-
eridge. that there was no provision for
making the plants accessible at all
hours to the inspectors. The provision
was put in in another place; but it is
not as good as the original provision.
The court prevision is the one to which
I most object: although by no means
the only one to which I object: it is j
one of many. As regards this. I wish
to repeat that if deliberately designed !
to prevent the remedying of the evils
complained of. this is the exact pro
vision which t)w friends of the pack
ers and the packers themselves would
have provided.
Court Provision Not Needed,
"It is absurd to assert that any such
provision is needed. Why have you
not put such a provision In the post
ofiice law ns it affects fraud orders: in
the law as it affect fraudulent entries:
of homesteads, etc.? Congress cannot
take away the constitutional rights of
the packers, or of any one else, to the
protection of the courts. But such a
provision as that under consideration,
does not represent a desire to seeuro
the constitutional rights of any man.
It represents doubtless. In some eases,
an honest though wholly mistaken con
viction; in other cases It represents a
deliberate purpose to interfere with ef
fective adminstratlon by trying to pro
vide that the courts shall in reality
do. administrative work which thev
would be the first to assert their in
ability to perform, f
Objects to Reference to a Judge.
"If the bill as you reported it from
the committee were enaced into law,
you would have the functions of the
secretary of agriculture narjowly limit
ed so as to be purely ministerial. Whn
be declared a given slaughter house
insanitary.or a given product unwhole
some, acting on the judgment of the
government experts, yon would put on
the judge, who had noknowledge what
ever of the conditions, the burden of
stating whether or not the secretary
was right.
SliAP AT JUDGE HUMPHREY
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Court Provision Would Nullify the
Benefits of the Bill.
"In Chicago, for instance, you would
make any judge whom the pack
ers chose to designate, and not the ex
perts of the department of agriculture,
the man te decide on any question of
any kind which the packers thought it
worth while to dispute. (You may
possibly remember the recent judicial
decision in Chicago, in which the pack
ers were concerned.) I wish to reieat
that this provision is. in my judgment,
one which, M enacted into law, will
nullify the major part of the good
which can 1 expected from the enact
ment of this law.
"You assert that the packers insist
upon having a rigid inspection law
passed. If they sincerely desire a rigid
inspection law they will insist upon
this provision being taken out. Leav
ing It in Ls Incompatible with securing
a properly eftkieat law,
"To so mueli of your letter as speaks
of my having made inuendos about a
committee of the house, or of your
knowledge of the English language, j
etc.. it is not necessary to make any
answer.
"You state that if I or my adviser
will point out specifically wherein the
bill fails to accomplish my purpose, it
will be promptly remedied.' I am hap
py to tell you that I have today seen
a member of your committee, Mr. Ad
ams, seeing him by request of the
speaker. I went over with him to
gether with Mr. McCabe and Mr. Reyn
olds, the various points in which the
bill as you have reported It fails to
accomplish our purpose and made the
specific recommendations necessary in
each case to remedy the failure, and in
each case Mr. Adams stated that he
personally would accept the alterations
we proposed.
"He agrees with me that the court
review proposition should be excluded.
He agrees as to the dozen other
changes which wethiuk should be made.
If theseehanges,which Mr.Adams says
he thinks should be adopted, areadopted,
your amendment will become as good,
as the Beveridge amendment in Mr.
McCabe's opinloa, somewhat ttte?
I care not a whit for the language
kof the amendment. What I tun con
cerned with is to have- at accomplish
the object 1 have; in view, namely, a
thorough and rigid, and not a sham,
inspection. In my judgnunt the amend
neat as reported by you fails to ae
T.niplis!i this object; whereas the Rev
erid.'e amendment, and the housa
amendment with the changes which
Mr. Adams has state! he will gladly
accept, xytp. ub!tantiaHy accomplish
the purpose I have in view. I will
gladly accept either, or accept any al
teration of either cr of both which will
aivomplish this end. Yours truly.
"THKOlHHtK It OOS F. V E LT.
ADAMS OF WISCONSIN BUSY
lle Tells His Colleague the Presi
dent's View-Reveridje Talks.
Washinetou. June ISi. Members of
the houe committee on agriculture, in
cluding Adams of Wisoousin, assisted,
by several otlicials of the dopartnieut
of asrrienlture, deveti! Kime time to a
discussion of various features of tha
amendments proposed by tne honsa
committee to whUh the president ha
lMnte-d out his objections. Adams
who was at the White House Friday,
and was made acquainted with thfl
president's views, expluitml thean in
detail to hi colleagues ou the com
mittee. A su.fiTRfsttxl amendment which Ad
nms says emanated from the depart
ment of agriculture ortMals. and which
it Is said fs favorably considered br
the president, has bn brought for
ward to eliminate the o'-jevtiena set out
by the president to the court review
proiscd. This new pnqnsition Is de-
signed to give the secretary of agri
culture the final control of the situa
tion ko far as the question of the fit
ness of the slaughtered auimals for
human food is concerned, by the in
sertion of the following clause in th
paragraph of the amendment relating
to the inspection and condemnation at
ttu? post-mortem examination of sm b.
animals:
'Which, in the judgment of the seo
retary of agriculture, are unsound, tin
healthful, unwholesome and unfit for
human fond." This clause is suggest
ed to take the place of the werd
"found to lie unsound, nnhealthful."
etc. The proposed amendment is ex
pected to meet with opposition from
the packing Interests, who object to
delegating such final authority to th
department officials. ;
Senator Beveridge Fnys that In hl
opinion "the Wadsworth substitute
does make the omission referred to.
TOmission as to night Inspection, It
provides, to use its exact language:
'An examination and inspection of all
meat food products; " and for
the purposes of such examination and
inspections said insjvectors shall hava
access at all times to every part of sahl
establishment.' The Wadsworth mib
stitute does not permit inspectors in
the packing house for any other pur
pose." He says that the lack of specify
ing "night" in the- bill Is not com
pensated for by the words "at all
times."
FREDDIE MUTH NOT FOUND
Philadelphia Boy. Who Was Kid
naped. Still Missing Police Say
They Know the Kidnapers.
Philadelphia, June IS. Freddis
Muth, the 7-year-old boy t who wa
lured from school and kidnaped last
week has not yet been found, and
nothing has developed in the case to
lead to the wheroaliouts of the child
or his captor. The police still main
tain they knaw who abducted the box
and that they are on hi trail.
Special services were- held yesterday
at the Sunday school attended by Fred
die and reference was made to it by
the pastor at the church services. Hun
dreds of curious persons visited the
scene of the kidnaping, which has cre
ated the greatest of interest. The con,
tinned strain on the parents, who mo
mentarily expect their child to b
brought home by the police, in mot
severe. Mrs. Muth is under a physi
cian's care.
Jliss Rogers Wm Godmother.
Chicago. June 18. ThA steamer Hen
ry H. Rogers was launched at South
( men go. Miss Marian Rogers, niece of
the Standard Oil vice president, break
ing the bottle of wine on the bow of
the craft The Rogers is KX feet long,
and is the largest on the lakes.
Thrown from a Bnrro Killed.
. Colorado Springs. Colo., June 18.
John T. Baldwin, the IS year-old son of
C. A. Baldwin, a millionaire of this
city and San Francisco, was killed ia
North Cheyenne canon near this city,
lie was thrown from a burro and bis
koll fractured.
BUMPING THE BUMPS
Clayton Root, Veru Parry, and
Sherriff Douherty came over from
Crown Toint this morning in G. J.
Clarks "Stoddard Dayton.
They report the roads very rough
in places and at the tight mile gait
they were running the vibrations
they received were cxhllibrating to
say the least.
Efforts will be made by the con-
persuade the county commissioners
to make many needed repairs bet
ween here and Hessville.
...
Farmer "How do you like the
country?"
Summer Boarder "First rate. All
it lacks is asphalt paving, electric
lights, saloons, theatres, howling
alleys and a subway to be an Ideal
place to live in."