Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1913 — Page 1

No. 204.

Che Princess theatre TRIO. GEORGE, Prop.

Ellis Theatre One Only Thursday, August 28 YEAR IN NEW YORK M | m I 2^ CHARLES KLEIN AUTHOR OF ■ THE lion - wX9ltMill 'AND THE MOUSE' MAGGIE PEPPER’etc. ■ ' ' ' ' ■ ' / Prices: ~ First Three Rows From Stage SI.OO Balance of First Floor .75 Balcony ,50 Phone 98 General Admission .35

Phone 273 for wood, coal and feed. J. ( N. Leatherman made a business trip to Chicago today. We sell the Oliver line of plows.' HAMILTON & KELLNER.. — George Volk made a business trip tp Shelby today. Buy Thrashing Coal at Harring ton Bros, elevator; Phone 7. ' ______________________ -A Mrs. George Buck returned to Goodland today after a visit of two wpeks here. Milwaukee and Osborne corn binders sold by Hamilton'& Kellner. ~ • E. D. Rhoades Leonard Rhoades made a business trip :to Chicago yesterday. Mrs. Mel Abbott went to Montiepllo 'today to visit relatives for several days. v Mrs. C. H. Tryon left today for Sacketts Harbor, N. v Y., to be absent about a month. Miss Alice Daniels accompanied Miss Pearl Hayes to Marion yesterday for a visit of about two weeks. Miss Carrie Parrabee returned to Salem, Ind.,'today, after a visit with Lonzo Eilar and family, near Remington. , iMrs. R. R. Smith and son, of Chicago, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Van Grant and Mr. Smith will join them here the last of the week. , - j. Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Thomson, wiho have been living at Wolcott, are now moving to Lafayette, where he will again work in a restaurant. t . Mrs. Mary Peyton returned to her home at Piqua, Ohio, today, after a visit of several days here'with her sister, Mrs. J. T. Murray, and her niece, Mrs. H. W. Wood, Jr.

Miss Anna Hoagland and Miss Alice Juby, of Blue Island, are the guests of A. (langloff and family and will remain until after the Chautauqua in Rensselaer. Mrs. Gilbert Allen and baby, Mrs. Harry Wiltshire and daughter, Ruth, went to Teftt today to visit until Sunday with Mr. Albin’s people. t- . Theodore George made a business trip to Chicago today, presumably to investigate the picture film business with a view to getting the very best is for The Princess. Today Is thedlrst day of the gala week affair at Monon and the Athletics are playing ball there. Quite a crowd went to Mondn on various trains and a large number are planning to go tomorrow. r Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Eder, of Hammond, were at St. Joseph’s College on a visit this week, returning to their home this morning. Twenty ago Mr. Eder was a student and he enjoys coming back to mater to witness the improvements. Many of at the college now were his classmates twenty years «r». .. -r —i t

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM. “The Lion’s Bride,” Vitagraph drama. Jealous of its trainer’s husband, a lion kills the women when ! she enters its cage for the last time. Unusually thrilling and dramatic. “The Jealousy of Miguel and Isabella,” Selig; drama. . ■ ; "Too Much Parcels Post,” comedy. I Only 4 days until chair is given ' away. $2.50 in gold given away Satur- ; day night.

The Rev. Percy Silver, an Episcopalian, formerly chaplain at Port Leavenworth, Kans., has been appointed by President Wilson chaplain of the West Point Military academy. The Foreign Missionary Sotfiefcy will meet with Mrs. Jay W. Williams Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. This will-be the last meeting before the conference, and a full attendance is desired. Mias Iva Harms returned to Goodland today after a visit here with Miss Maud Scott. Mr. J. A. Allen, of Chicago, who has been visiting at the Scott home, accompanied Miss Harms to Goodland for a short visit. J. W. Mustard, who has been staying at the bedside of his aged father, George Mustard, went to Goodland today to spend the day. His father is gradually getting weaker and the end seems not far away. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, of Gary, were here this week and purchased of Ed Oliver 20 acres of truck land, between Newland and Gifford and Mrs. Johnson and son’s expect to move to it in the spring and Mr. Johnson later, although he plans to hold his job at Gary for a time yet.

“Bull” Young, a white hope, and former Sparring partner of the late Lute McCarty, died Saturday in Los Angeles of a broken back received Friday night in a fight with Jess Willard, another white hope. Young was knocked out in the eleventh round after the crowd had hissed the men for stalling. Emperor William of Germany has forsworn the fatherland’s beer and choicest wines. His favorite drink is lemonade and a dash of orange juice. Wines, however, are served to his guests. Associates say (he emperor believes alcohol lessens the working capacity of man. Immoderate drinking, he holds, is retarding the development of nations. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Freeman and children left this morning for St. Joseph, Mo., after a visit with her brother, Garfield Burgett, northwest of Rensselaer, and his sister, Mrs. W. B. Leonard, of Gillam township. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman formerly lived at Francesvllle, but have recently been living at Milwaukee, Wis. At present they are not located. t . Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannal, Mrs. E. A. Alter, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Warner and Mrs. E. G. Spencer took a fine auto trip into Wisconsin, starting Saturday, They went* to Racine and, Milwaukee and saw some beautiful scenery. On the way home Mrs. Alter and Mrs. Spencer stopped off In Chicago to do spme shopping and arrived home Tuesday night. Mrs. Spencer Is a daughter of W. W. Watson and lives at Jackson, Miss., to whioh city she will return the first of next week. v Order your Calling Cards at The Republican offlea.

Entered January 1. I**7, aa second eldas mall matter, at the poet-oOee at Rensselaer. Indiana, under tbe act of March t. lit*.

RENSSELAER. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1913.

WEREMAN QUARTET AND MISS JANE WRATE.

FOUR cultured, refined, educated young women, with voices exactly attuned to their respective parts, with a thorough musical education added to nature’s generous endowments along with rare charm of a strong Individual personality and magnetism—sntih Is the Wereman Quartet Artistic and wouderfully pleasing in their individual work, their strong forte is their ensemble numbers. By means of a well balanced program and frequent changes of costume they add an unusual amount of variety to their entertainment Miss Jane Elsie Wrate Is the reader with this exceptional organization. Her appearance, excellent voice and charming personality, together with her wide experience, peculiarly fit her for her work as a story teller and interpreter of human emotions. The Wereman Quartet with Miss Wrate. is sure to be popular with Chautauqua audiences at our assembly afternoon and evening of the opening day only.

Scene from “Third Degree”

Ellis Theatre, Thursday, August 28th

REPUBLICAN REPORTER VISITS RACE TRACK

V 1 ' ' V . /! . - Saw Gambling In Volume and Watched Porter County __ Mingle With the Sports.

CREDIT SYSTEM IS USED. Sport Gives Initials to Bookie, Who Has Two Aids, One Who Takes Your Money and a Third Who Records Your Wager—A Fourth Man Settles With Those Who Win —Solicitors Worked Openly in the Amphitheatre and One Woman Lost s3o—Carnival of Chicago Sports. yThe Republican reporter visited the track of the 'Mineral Springs Jockey Club, near Porter, Indiana, Tuesday, just to see whether horse racing can be conducted without gambling and to ascertain if possible why Governor Ralston and the Indianapolis newspapers had so completely ignored the present race meet, after bluffing considerably during the July meeting and following the action of. Governor Marshall last fall in sending the state militia to break up the races. Just as reported on the sporting pages of Chicago papers the races were conducted as running races have been for ages, the betting feature being the main attraction and the horse race a secondary feature with a big majority of those in attendance. The reporter went to Hammond on the 10:12 train Tuesday morning, took the South Shore electric to Gary and caught the first race train out of Chicago for the track There were about 300 people on the train and their faces were buried in the programs for the day or in copies of Racing Form, a sporting sheet published for “doping” out the horses. The reporter found a seat with a dapper young colored man. who readily entered into conversation, and stated that he sometimes was able to get "next” to some information and would be pleased to tip anyone off if he had anything “good.” He later told right where he could be found during the progress of the races. About fifty per cent of those who went out on the first train wore complimentary badges, being officials of the track, owners of horses, bookmakers and tipsters. All others paid $1 admission. The two later trains brought large crowds, mostly sports who had come to do a little betting. On a large blackboard -under the amphitheatre the program had been written, scratched horses had been marked off and the names of £he jockeys also written just above the name of the horse. The sports were busy copying 1 ' the jockey’s names on the program. For a half hour there was no sign of any betting and then little clusters could be seen at several places beneath the amphitheatre An observing person could watch on the outskirts for a little bit and see just what was going on. Men would take rolls of bills from their pockets, extract one or two of the size they were going to wager, put the balance back Into their hands and approach ope of the plustcrs of men. In a second they would emerge from the cluster with a satisfied look on their faces. Being there for the purpose of investigating the writer pushe4 his way into the very center of one of the clusters and found that the central figure was a bookmaker with a

program of the next race and in carbon figures large enough to be seen at some distance the odds offered on each horse were written. Two aides to the bookmaker stood close by. As the bettet approached one of the afdes snatched his money from his hand and placed it in his own pocket. The better said In an undertone “Ten dollars on Eva Tanguay,” and the man with the program repeated it. named thg odds and asked for the initials of the better. A third man stood aside and deftly recorded this information on a tablet In his coat pocket, never glancing toward his pocket nor removing the tablet or pencil. The inexperienced better would say. “What do I get to show that r have my money down?” To which the bookmaker would reply. “Never mind, come around, here and if you win you’ll get your money all right” Frequently as some better became a little too brash in swnlging his money or too loud while making a bet, one of the bookmakers or the assistants would say in a deep undertone: “Get that money out of sight, there: do you want the sheriff to see it?” or “Don’t let the sheriff see that money” or “hold

on there, wait till that ‘bull’ goes by.” A “bull” is the nickname given policemen. The police on duty at the track were in plain clothes and were not known to many of the sports, although the hookies all knew them and evidently had them fixed. The sheriff of Porter county, a tall man with prematurely gray hair, and the marshal of the town of Porter walked about the betting arena, but accommodatingly looked away from the bookmakers. If a man bet' on the winning horse and wanted to collect his bet he would go to the bookmaker and ask “Who pays this bet?” He would be answered “A big tall fellow: watch for him at the door near the saloon; there he is now, that big fellow with the blue shirt on; he’s paying you.” The better would carelessly wend his way toward the man indicated and both would step out of the door, which was protected from the sight of the crowds and the better would give his initials and the bookmaker’s aide would look through his envelopes and find the one with the initials on it and hand it to the successful better, in the meantime the bookmakers were busy taking wagers on the next race. Only a half hour from one race to the next. Successful betters walked about the grounds and tore open their envelopes without paying attention to the sheriff, the marshal and the special police and the officers re- v ciprocated in kind. Once the marshal of Porter picked up an envelope, looked at the initials and the other marks on it, peeped inside as if to see If there was any money left and then tossed the envelope to the ground again. _ After watehing things beneath the grandstand for some time the reporter went to the ainphitheatre just as the first race was starting. ‘They’re off,” spontaneously came from voices throughout the grandstand, and people climbed to the chairs to get a better view of the speeding bobtails. Men and women were trying to pick out the horses on which they had bet, and as the animals entered the stretch many of the betters called out “Come on there, Dustpan,” “Oome on there, Wood Dove,” “You’re the stuff, Balronia,” or indulged in some exciting talk in a fancied notion that they would help the horse of their selection. In a short time it was noticed that two solicitors with programs <- marked with the odds were seen in the grandstand, taking bets in a somewhat bolder fashion than had been done below. Women were paronizing these books, making bets of $5, $lO and S2O. Any person could see what was going on but no .effort was made to stop It. Tbe betting continued from the first race to the last and the sheriff, the marshal and the plain clothes men mingled with the crowd. Prosecutor Walter Fabing, who was expected to tip off Governor Ralston if anything was wrong, is said to have' been absent Tuesday, but to have seated that he could find no evidences of gambling on other days. Tuesday Governor Ralston’s *ttenttoh was called to the fact that gambling was going on and he said he would look into the matter, and later it is reported that he had arranged to call out the South Bend and Elkhart companies of the national guard to stop the races provided he was really convinced that there was gambling. The writer listened to much of the talk in the amphitheatre. One lady remarked to another “I haven’t won a bet today, lost S3O already. Yesterday I broke even; I wish there wasn’t a race track or a handbook in a mHIVon miles, but I know as long as there are races that I'll [day them. It Is the most fascinating of sports, but It is a hard game to beat.” / The reporter asked the colored tipster whom he met going to the races, if there was pot a great deal of real suffering accoeioned from the losses sustained. The colored man replied, “Why, Mister, a man ought to know how much he can afford to lose, hadn’t he, and if he loses any more, whose fault is It? No one to blame but himself.” A big policeman in the Gary station talked freely. He said he hoped the races would continue, didn’t believe in stopping people at their sport; what if they did gamble, a little. It was their own money they were betting. Over in Ireland they let them run. all right, and they were a great thing. Peo-

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