Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1926 — Page 14

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SOUTH BEND OPENS HOTEL FOR HOBOES Board of Public Safety Orders Knights of Road, However, Must Bathe.

Bu Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 19. South Bend’s newest hotselry, Hotel De Gink, will open for business Monday. No longer need the wayfarer who wanders into South Bend solace himself with a flop on a bare, dirty, ver-min-infested flooi. A kind and considerate board of public safety has made different arrangements. So this winter, when chill winds whistle around the corners of buildings, South Bend’s nightly quota of knights of the road will lay back on resilient bed springs in a clean, warm room and feel sorry for "those poor bums who have to bunk in the jungles with nothing better than a camp fire.” And it won’t be long before the UEAD COLDS Melt in spoon; inhale vaponi ■ ■ apply freely up nostrils. VICKS W Vapoßub v‘*r 17 Million Jars Utmd Yearly

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word goes out that South Bend is "worth floppin’ in.” Bums Must Bathe But there are strings on the board of safety’s apparent kindness to the city’s over-night wayfarers. They must take a bath before they will be permitted to partake of this hospitality. Hotel De Gink, located over the city automobile repair shop, is clean, and the police department intends to keep it that way. Not only that, but before the nightly quota of bums may gain access to the big dormitory each must show a ticket as evidence that he has had the required bath and that he has been down to Bay Bird’s Res cue Mission for the good of his soul. Therefore the renovation and the new policy of the management of Hotel De Gink may introduce some influence for good in the lives of the wanderers who partake of its shelter. At least they will be clean, and that's something. Under the old state ( of affairs the municipal shelter house was a place that even police. reporters hesitated

to enter oq inspection trips or for anything else. But now—ah! All that is changed. Not Even Dusty The big room literally glistens with its whitewashed walls and ceilings. The floor is spotlessly clean. Not even the most meticulous housewife would be able to find cause for complaint. Honest, folks, the window sills aren’t even dusty. And Leo Berner, head or the municipal service department, under whose supervision the change has bfeen brought about, says that the place is going to be kept in that condition. It will, because the bums won’t be permitted to leave in the morning after their night’s flop until the big room is thoruoghly cleaned to the satisfaction of a police officer, who will Inspect the place when the lodgers are turned out at 6 a. m. The gray painted steel cots with extremely resilient springs, are ranged around the room in orderly fashion. Each cot will accommodate two men. In addition, several hammocks are swung. There is no bedding, but unless you’ve slept on a bare floor you can’t imagine the comfort that can be gained from nice spring coils of wire that sag agreeably. Therefore, the bums will think they’ve landed in a regular place. Over at the west end of the room, separated from the rest of the flop quarters by heavy wire netting, is a huge stove. The knights fire this themselves. Eight Hours Sleep In a corner is a lavatory that glistens -white for the first time in years.

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About the only thing the place lacks is hot running water. Between twenty and sixty bums take advantage of the municipal shelter house each night during the winter. The number is governed principally by the weather. At least that was the average last winter, but the figures may be changed somewhat this year because of the bathing and religious service restrictions that the city has imposed. Anyway, Hotel De Gink is a palace now, and it’s going to be kept that way. The 4|>lace won’t be opened for 'business until Monday night, but then tljfe bums vfill have full*sway. They cannot enter the place before 9 p. m. and they must leave It by 6 a. m. Everything’s free, so it’s the old story of first come first served. Now it’s up to the bums to make the place a success. Tunes Played on Steamboat Whistle Bii Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 19 Some folk just have a natural bent for music, riverman say, and Gene Lunn, pilot on the Steamer Evansville, is one of theqj. It’s Gene pulling the whistle cord that sends shrill of “My Old Kentucky Home,” and other old-time melodiep reverberating over the city every Sunday night. Gene has a wildcat whistle on the Evansville. The high soprano and low bass notes are produced by pull ing the whistle cord easy or hard as the melody dem inds. The boat makes a trip up GreeK. River every week. When folk away back in their cabin homes hear the wildcat-like cries echoing over their hills Gene says they rise up In bed and listen with more real enjoyment than any highbrow gets out of an opera. “Those folk up there know what real music is,” Gene explains. JUDGE FINES UTILITY Company Pleads Guilty to Polluting Stream. Bu United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 18.— The Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company was fined sloo' and costs by Judge Cyrus Pattee in Circuit Court here on recommendation of the State Conservation Company. The company entered a plea of gi.ilty to polluting the St. Joseph River, causing an offensive odor and conditions that brought about the death of fish in the stream. Installation of a filtration process has eliminated the condition and indictments pending against the company were dropped.

WHISKY FOR COLDS? NO Muncie W. C. T. V. Wires Protest to Dry Chief Andrews. Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. Nov. 19.—The Muncie and Delaware County W. C. T. U. has telegraphed a protest to Lincoln J. Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury against a proposal to open the breweries of the United States to manufacture 3,000,000 gallons of whisky each year for medicinal purposes. “We do not need whisky for medicine,” said Mrs. Frank Bowers. “Our physicians use other medicines.” SPECIAL'TRAIN FOR I. U. Engine, Painted in Crimson and Cream to Make Purdue Trip. Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 19. A Pacific type locomotive, painted in cream and crimson, Indiana University .colors, will be used to pull the special train, which will take students to the Indiana-Purdue game at Lafayette Saturday. The coaches will also be decorated. Power Companies Are Consolidated Bu Times Special MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 19.—W. B. Foshay Qompany of this city has purchased for Peoples Light and Power Corporation, which it controls and manages, the gas properties of the Monroe Light and Fuel Company in Monroe. Wis., and the New Richmond Power Company, New Richmond, Wis. Both properties will be consolidated with the present subsidiary, the Peoples Wisconsin Hydro Electric Corporation, and will add several towns to fifty now being served. Properties of the Peoples Light and Power Corporation now have a valuation of over eighteen million dollars and yearly gross earnings are In execess of $2,500,000.

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