Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 1, Hammond, Lake County, 18 June 1906 — Page 1
HAMMOND, INDIANA JUNE 18, 1906. ONE CENT PER COPY.
HERCULEAN
They all
E DREAM CITY BLUE LAWS TWO WIVES; WANDERER
THE LONELY DUNES IN EFFECT ONE HUSBAND FROM COREA
FIVE
MILLIONS
WORKS
MAGIC
DESERT, LIFELESS WASTE, BEING
NSFORMED BY THE MIDAS TOUCH
OF THE STEEL CORPORATION
TASK
WELL UNDER WAY
Future Home of
Gre
a Vast Industrial Community and the
atest Iron Converter in the World Seen in Embryo
Sellers of Soft Goods Plead Guilty and Pay Fines
JOHN DOE IN A BAD WAY
Mysterious Person Shows Up . . Various Forms and Makes Himself Scarce in Other.
in
on both sides of a leveled sand which
and filled hollows
"M-o-r-n-i-n-g papers!" yelled a le brown faced, barefooted boy as ake Shore train stopped at the
lage of tents
roughfare of
cut through ridge
as it was being built into the wilderof scrub oaks beyond. The tents, the newly graded street, and the horses in the distance struggling with their loads of yellow sand confirmed the belief that we had arrived at Gary. But it refor the sunburned, bare footed paper boy to show us the real spirit that is moving things so strenin Indiana's newest city. Much has been written of the projects, plans, preparations and'
about to be graded." You walk down to Fifth avenue and after looking deep into the unyou decide that there is no danger of autmombiles exceeding the speed limit on that street. You wander down to Prospect street and find that its course is along the top of a 20 foot sand ridge. Ask the next citizen you meet if they are going to run an elevated railway down Prospect street and he replies to your sarcasm by informing you that all of the ridges, those 20 feet high as well as those 5 feet high will be scooped into the holand that the city, will soon be perfectly level.
The retail dealers in soft drinks and harmless commodities did not close their stores Sunday. In spite of repeated warnings the milkman saw that babies got their milk, the Italians fed fruit to Ham5,000 visitors, the drug stores dispensed drugs to all comers and the liverymen rented rigs to the happy young swains who wanted to take their best girls for a drive into the country. The only man to heed the warnwas the undertaker who had the mourners walk to the cemetery in
stead of furnishing them with car- "John Doe, John Doe, They're looking for him high and low." For a couple of dozen of affidavits have already been filed against the mysterious fellow and there were many witnesses who were watching him all day. All this morning papers were bemade out in John Gavit's office and this afternoon the arrests are being made.
e hardest hit will be the Ital-
their probable action.
talked fight. Plead Guilty and Pay Fines
Judge Jordan's court was a busy place this afternoon. Every few minutes some one would come in, plead guilty and pay their fine or else have the case continued until another day. It is estimated that there will be at least twenty-five cases brought bethe caurt.
When asked if the work would continue next Sunday Mr. Gavit, atfor the Liquor Dealer's association said that they would not only be fined for a second offense but the fine would be much greaer. Those who were fined up to the time the paper went to press were: Nicholas C. Creedy, who owns the fruit store nrar Taussig's jewelry store. Failed to give bond, goes to jail. Fine $13.50. William Mendroll, whose fruit store is in Hubbard & Griswold's goes to jail. Fine $13.50. John Sperio. Pleads guilty and is fined $12.15. Paul Scatena owns a fruit store on Hohman street next to Bicknell's. Pleads not guilty and case is conuntil next Saturday at 9 a. m. Geo. Bereolos next to Will Mees music store. Pleads guilty and is fined $12.15. Geo. Brahos pleads not guilty and case is continued until 9 a. m. June
20th. Angelus Mihas has had his case continued until June 20th on the plea of not guilty. Noble Morelli of South Hohman street pleaded not guilty and has his case continued until Saturday, June 23d. Dominick Sbuogia pleads not guilty and will have Attorney Mcdefend him June 21st at 9 a. m.
Notice to Maccabees.
all fruit venders and fines this source will come from all parts of the business district.
The business men expressed themin very uncertain terms as to
A. F. KNOTTS The Man who is Building Gary
pros wha mai is i mo
Gary, ually
story of
n
is re neig
rhood
Ones first those he receive ern mining
I
Magnitude
live in
oards with ca thing "
itude Astoundin
The magnitude of the undertaking is almost beyond belief and yet you remember that ton million dollar apand prepare for the next sensation. You retrace your steps (and by so doing get less sand in your shoes) to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
The Mode1 Maccabees will meet
on the first and third Thursday night
of each month in Union hall, 96
Plummer avenue. 6,18,3t. Record Keep
Helpmeet No. 1 Digs Up
Hatchet.
SECOND WIFE GETS BLAME Happy Home Disturbed by Dire
Threats from the Woman ScornOne wants .him; .the Other Wants to get even
an
to
st get anyin a soft spot on two stumps.
in
enthus the stakes
hat
Gary is ld cheap.
meet
on
of white
the grocery store of F. K. Warne of Hammond. The scantling on the ground nearare to support the floor of a bakand Valien & Groat of this city have already started a restaurant. Pioneer Cigar Store. A cigar store and a harness shop complete the list of business houses in Gary with the exception of a big eating house of loose boards over the Lake Front where the workmen are charged $4 per week for board. Anxious to see what is being done over across the river, you go still farther north until you leave the high bank of the river and cross it on a bridge which soon comes to an abrupt end twenty feet from the ground. Beyond, for a quarter of a mile, lies a low, boggy marsh overwith wild rice and you natu rally ask if the trestle is to be built clear across the marsh and your apof the magnitude of the enterprise grows when you are inthat the marsh for a width of a mile and all the way across is to bo filled to a height of eighteen feet. As you look over the surrounding country from the elevation of the bridge and following the winding of the river through the rice swamp your attention is called to a gang of
men with teams working on a hil which by projecting out into the swamp has forced the river to make a big turn at this point. But men are doing what nature failed to do and the big hill is to be cut off from the mainland and a channel is to be dredged to effect the straightening of the river
Walking is Bad.
As you turn from these sights an
where it will paralell the make your way on railroad ties
Ohio and Indiana Har-
en the change is
appreciate how easy it will be for the
ooming Westis a e of the men live in poor
railroad track which is to be straight-
and covered
ened and moved to the north side of
the river
Baltimore
bor tracks an
made the three railroads mentioned will build a splendid union depot. If you are from Hammond you sigh deeply at the mention of a union depot, immediately change the suband turn your attention to the unpainted shacks that you see
I just through the woods to the north.
came over to Gary to"-works like The a penny in a phonograph machine is abou
nd
is
Bro
unuall
"Now is not
first building you approach
it four wood sheds in size and
unlike them in construction.
e that big stump. Fifth nus right in there and where y e that ridge, Prospect street
left, you being built of twelve inch unpainted
aveune
ou is
board
as big as the whole front end and there under an improvised roof is
steel trust to spend its $75,000,000 in improvements. Over on the other bank of the river there is a scene of intense activity. Gangs of men are at work in dozof different places leveling the sand ridges, digging hole for open hearth furnaces, excavating for sewers, and digging the trenches for the foundations of the big mills which are soon to rise in the vicinA narrow gauge railroad track which winds in and out through the
sand hills pointed to the solution of
the problem of filling in the big slough. A railroad track is to be built out into the slough on the ties which were already in place. Steam Instead of Mules. Dozens of little dump cars pulled by dummy engines are to be filled by enormous sand dredges with a shovel capacity of two and a half cubic yards and then by trainloads they are to be dumped into the swamp as fast as they can be loaded and hauled by the minature engines. A double purpose will be served. The slough will be filled and become valuable land and the bothersome sand dunes will have been leveled. From the Baltimore & Ohio tracks on the lake shore, three side tracks are being run over towards the lake at a distance of about 200 yards from each other and it is along these side tracks that there is the greatest activity. There are car loads of supplies and train loads of building materials. On every side teams pulling wheeled scoops are leveling, leveling, leveling. Although the blast and open hearth furnaces are to be built on the lake front yet the sewers which
are to carry away the chemically powater from these furnaces are
to be drained into the river instead of contaminating the lake water.
Work on the harbor has not yet
been begun and will probably be de
layed until the dredges have finished
the work of leveling and filling. One noticeable advantage of Gary
as the location of a city is the fact that unlike South Chicago or in fact
any of the larger cities of the
Calumet region it is to have an aver
age level of eighteen feet above the lake in this way insuring a good fall
or sewers. Vast Territory in Its Grasp.
Perhaps the most impressive thing
about a visit to Gary is the enormous extent of territory which is being
worked.
Gary is not to be built a house and
a furnace at a time, the millions of dollars in the strong boxes of the United States Steel corporation have
made possible the immediate buildin of a city.
This gold is the Alladin's lamp that will cause a city to drop from the
skies.
An irate woman, armed with pho
tographs, letters, detectives' reports, etc., started for Montreal yesterday
morning to place before high offiof the Grand Trunk railroad proof of the deceit and immoral conof Robert A. Benson, traveling
freight agent for the National DisFast Freight line, a part of the Grand Trunk system. The woman is the former Mrs. Benson. Her aim is to "get the job" of her faithless spouse and break up the tranquil life in the cottage at 320 Plummer avenue in this city, where Benson and the seMrs. Benson, "the cause of the whole trouble," are living. Benson and his second wife came to Hammond on the 16th day of May took out marriage license and were married by the Rev. L. S. Smith of the Methodist Church. Married Five Years Ago. Five years ago he married Mrs.
Grace Benson, a slim, dark woman of
34 years, But Benson had a mania
for amateur photography, and his ex
travagance in this regard caused the
first cloud. He was getting only
$100 a month and his wife worked in a hair dressing establishment downtown. He was frequently away over Saturday and Sunday "taking
tures" as he explained. Mrs
Benson's fears were not aroused un-
one dainty foot placed upon a rock, and the other was the same woman perced upon the limb of an apple tree. On Husband's Trail "Who is this woman?" demanded Mrs. Benson of her husband that night. He answered coolly: "Those are some plates I am develfor a friend of mine in the office. He is paying me for it." Mrs. Benson apologized. Things went on as of old, the husstill absenting himself with his camera, until Oct. 24, 1905, when
a letter addressed to Mr. Benson at
356 South Sacremento avenue found
ts way to the south side flat where
he lived with his wife. Mrs. Benson
put on her hat and went right out
in Sacremento avenue, her old sus
picious revived.
She found the house empty. She
interviewed the neighbors.
"Mr. and Mrs. Rowell lived there
until a few days ago," she was told. "They moved to 1301 Jackson boul-
Did Mrs. Rowell have any room
ers?
"Why, yes there was a traveling
man named Benson who has roomed
there for two years," she was told.
Smelling salts were brought.
Mr. and Mrs. Benson patched
things up in a way which lasted. for
some time and a few weeks later
Mr. Rowell died.
Benson's Second Marriage
On Jan. 4 last Benson and his
wife parted and Mrs. Benson started
divorce proceedings. Mrs. Rowell
started a boarding house and Benson
roomed there. On May 16th Benson
married Mrs. Rowell at Hammond
and made their home at 320 Plum
mer Ave. Mrs. Benson tried to reher former husband and see
ing that she failed she said:"
"I don't know what I can do, but
I will break up that home and get
his job if it kills me and him, too
She has got to go to work. I wil
spend my last cent to bring this about. If there had been a good law
they could not have been married.
We would have met again and the
til one day she broke into his bed
room and found three pictures in
the process of development.
One was a picture of a pretty blond
woman sitting at a piano in a dreamy
attitude, another was of the same woman standing near a bridge with
Found Weeping Before Al
tar of Methodist Church
LONGING FOR HOME
Penniless Oriental, Walking from
Pacific to Atlantic Stops to Worship and Attracts at-
tention
influence of that woman would have been overcome." Mrs. Benson No. 2 of course speeks in no complimentary terms about Mrs Benson No. 1. Mrs. Benson No. 2 said this morning about her rival." She is a low woman, a blackmailer, a woman who confessed that for a whole year she never drew a sober breath. Mr. Benson was her third husband and they all left her. She
had sweet hearts by the half dozen
and her passed life is a disgrace."
Before the evening service in the
First Methodist church ,a ragged and travel worn oriental was found sit
ting in one of the pews sobbing convulslvely. He was approached by one of the members of the congregation and he told a story in broken En
glish. He managed to make himself understood that he was a refugee
from Corea, having been banished for political reasons. He made his way overland to Yokohoma and from there worked his passage to Hawaii.
Failing to find work there, owing to his inability to make himself unand hearing about the op
portunities afforded to all classes and nationalities in the United States, he begged his passage to San Francisco, landing there about the time ot the earthquake. How he reached Hammond he could hardly explain in an intelligible way but from his ragged and emancipated appearance he must have walked the better part of the journey. Rev. Mr. Smith became interested in the story and at once took him
which denomination he joined ave become interested in his case and will make an effort to find temporary emfor him in Hammond. He wants to reach New York before the end of the summer. The disabilities which made his residence in his native country impossible, have been cleared up and he hopes to find his way back to Corea where he has a wife and two children.
JOHN RULF HEARD FROM
ries and whiskies
bay horses
Police Find Cigars.
Writes Implicating Letter
About Local Peddlers
Hammond people and especially
the creditors of John Rulf, who took
French leave of Hammond some two
months ago will be glad to learn that
he is still safe at Cincinnati.
From a letter that Rulf has writ
ten to one of his creditors it appears that he belonged to a gang which
the Hammond police have been unto catch red handed. In the final deal with the gang Rulf seemreceived a "dirty" deal and for that reason sent the following letter to one of his former creditors. "Dear Sir: You know that I John Rulf owe you about $18. When I made prepato leave Hammond I made arrangements with Jake Diamond and Sam Levi to this effect, that if I give into their keeping all my gro
ceries, whisky, wine, tobacco, cigars and everything else for the sum of $634, which amount represented only half of the real value of the goods, that they pay all my outstanddebts. Because they failed to do so I ask you and the other creditors to take legal steps to obtain the money. "Eight wagonloads of groceries whiskey and wine were taken from Mr. Beivogel's place at Crown Point by Levi, Diamond, a man named Weis, Rosen of West Hammond, a blond young man between 20 and 22 years old living in the neighborhood of Lake Diamond, and a Crown Point man who was only recently released from jail. Not satisfied that they
now had my gro
they also stole my two
from the barn. Mr. Beviogel is
quainted with the proprietor of the barn and can prove what I say. Levi and Diamond told me that they had a dealer at Indiana Harbor named Bresko to whom they had sold $4,000 worth of to a jew at HackBarrels may be found there even at this time. A liquor dealer named Kinberg of Crown Point bought whiskey of Diamond. A gray horse belonging to John Brehm of West Hammond was given to Levi and Diamond by
me, provided that they return the horse to Brehm or pay him fifty dollars. I do not know what they did in the matter. I wish to further state and prove that Diamond and Levi make their living by thievery and swindeling. I had a carriage which I sold to Diamond. He sold it to an Indiana Harbor baker named. Martin for only half of the sum that he paid me and at the same time he sold him a horse for $90. Later I learned that Martin horse and carriage were stolen and after this I met Levy and Diamond
at Crown Point with this same horse about their property and Diamond answered: "What ever is sold by Levi and myself is always returned by my men Messrs. Weis and Rosen."
"Diamond and Levi brag about
their standing in Hammond saying
that they belong to the best people
there, that they have two good law
yers hired and that the police are all right. I almost beleive it as I had
proofs of the leadstealing.
"I will send the receipts of Levi and Diamond to Mayor Becker. As for myself I am ready to square up my accounts and am also ready to appear as witness against Levi and
Diamond and in the near future
will send you my address through
my lawyer. I am unable to do so now as I am without any financial
means. "John Rulf.
The local police located part of the cigars this morning that were stolen from the Kussmaul cigar stor sometime ago in the Saloon of An-
on Kossiba at Hegewisch John Muel-
city is charged with th
His case will be
disposing of their tried in the Superior court this week
and he is in jail pending the trial.
McMAHON, HE
HELD THE WAT
Therefore the Scorchers Could No
Fool Him on that Third Speed
Story. A little fat man, a big fat man
and a tall black haired man owner of a Knox machine will probably be saying things about Hammond for
some time to come.
"We were just going through town
on third speed when an officer pulla six shooter on us and demanded
that we pull up and go down to the police station with him to talk over a little matter of interest to us
both," was the way they tell it, but
officer Ed. Murphy has a different version of the story.
All morning automobiles have
been speeding through town on the Chicago-New York run. Some of
them were going so fast that the pohad to get busy. Officer Ed. Murphy was sent down Hohman St., watch in hand to make Hohman St. watch in hand to make some observations. He spied a machine coming over and Indiana Ave. Twelve miles per hour was the way he figured it out. Blustering, blowing, and threats did not move Judge McMahon and so the owners of the Knox decide to flead guilty and pay the five d lars and costs ammounting to dollars in all. This is the second time the an ar rest has been made for exceeing the speed limit and quite a cro gathered in the court room to
"in at the the death."