Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 28, Hammond, Lake County, 20 July 1906 — Page 1
THE
AKE
COUNTY
TIMES
ONE CENT PER COPY. VOL. 1, NO. 28. HAMMOND, INDIANA FIUDAY, JULY 20, 1906. A LITTLE ENTANGLEMENT. NG HOURS
CLERKS
RED
BLOW TO OUR GRETNA GREEN
PEACE REIGNS AT CEDAR LAKE
LAST MOMENT FLASHES
OF LO
Start Agitation for Early Closing--Want Four Nights Off.
HOLD SPECIAL MEETING
Small Retailers are Satisfied but
Larger Firms are Not in SymWith Employes.
Jerry Ellis Though Ham
mond Nice Place For Quiet Wedding.
$200 FOR A $2 WEDDING Secretive Officials and Fictitious Name Foibles Foiled by the Lake County Times.
The retail clerks of this city have
started an agitation for early closing
hours. It is their intention to in
duce their employers to close all places of business four nights in the week at six o'clock. A special
meeting was held last night in
Long's hall by the clerks to discuss
the question. It was largely at
tended by the clerks of this city and
lasted over two hours.
Several hundred clerks are interin the new move as are also the employers. It is understood that
the smaller business men are in sym
pathy with the clerks while the larger houses will likely show oppo
sition. Another meeting will be
held by the clerks next Thursday in which the question will be further discussed after which it will be laid before the employers. The clerks are willing to remain behind the counter two nights in the week and have thus far specified no particular night preferring to let
their employers choose. If the latconcede to the clerks it is probthey will select Wednesday and Saturday. The question of early closing had been considered for a long time by the clerks but not until the hot weather made the hours seem so long did the agitation reach a cliNo serious hitch is looked for by the parties on either side as both feel satisfied that some kind of a
compromise can be made. Robert G. Hogan of Chicago, the business agent of the international trades and labor union was at the meeting last night and addressed the clerks. August Latch, president of the local trades and labor council was also present and made an adThe public it seems could be easily induced to co-operate with the clerks in the matter of early closing, as every store makes deliveries by wagon in answer to telephone orders and two nights a week would give ample time to those who want to do shopping after 6 o'clock. As for the larger firms they must underthat they cannot lose trade if every merchant closes his doors at 6 o'clock four nights in the week.
MIDNIGHT ACCIDENT IN ALLEY CAUSES INJURY.
Charles Wicker and Leslie Ryan Drive Into Garbage Box--Collar Bone Broken and Back Wrenched.
Last night about 12 a. m. Charles
Wicker, in company with a friend
Leslie Ryan of Chicago, were leavCarter's livery barn with Wick
er's horse and buggy and being comto go through the alley on
account of the condition of State street, ran into a garbage box, which evidently had been pulled into the
alley and left there.
Both men were violently thrown
out of the buggy, Mr. Ryan unforbeing thrown against a telepole in such a manner that his
collar bone was fractured and his
back severely wrenched. The other man was more fortunate in finding
a place to fall and was not injured
at all.
Dr. Kelly was called and the three men were taken to the Wicker farm.
This morning a doctor was called
from Chicago to consult with Dr Kelly in regard to the case. Mr
Ryan was suffering very much from
his injuries when the last report
came from his bedside.
Jerome A. Ellis, the Chicago autoexpert and clubman, tried yesto pull off a quiet wedding for himself and Miss Ida M. Platz right here in Hammond and in ac
cordance with an. elaborate "frame-
up," upon which the automobilist
and the ex-manicurist have been at work for several weeks. The consuof the plan was to be held up only until Ellis' first wife, who
was Miss Alice Ripley, daughter of
President E. P. Ripley of the Santa
Fe system, and a leader of fashionsociety at Riverside, should be given her divorce in Chicago, which
occured last Friday, after sensational
stories of Ellis' actions with Miss
Platz had been heard. The only rea
son why Mr. Ellis and his new wife
did not succeed in keeping their marsecret is because they had fig
ured without the Lake County Times When the couple saw that Mrs
Ripley-Ellis would soon be given her decree they began to lay their plans
for a wedding that would not be pub
lished in the papers. They consultlawyers about the marriage laws
of the different states adjacent to and easily reached by automobile from Chicago; they called into conthe most expert engineers, civial and otherwise; they consulted the maps of the various states; they also consulted politicians and lobby
ists and finally a trance-medium. But It Came Out. As a result of their search they decided several things. One of these
was that they must leave Illinois, where the statutes forbid that a diperson shall marry inside of a year from the date of divorce. They didn't like the looks of things over
in St. Joe, Mich., and Milwaukee was finally scratched of the list of eligible places for the transaction.
This process of elimination caused
them naturally to turn to Indiana as the scene for the doing of the deed.
After careful scrutiny of the north
west portion of the state, their eyes lighted on the county seat of Lake
county. They consulted the Ameri
can newspaper directory and found
that no daily newspaper is published in Crown Point. This same source
of information told them that the
newspapers of Hammond are "dead
ones." The book having been pub
lished before the Lake County Times
was born. The politicians and lob
byists gave them the information the officials of the county could be ap
peased.
Thought He Was Unknown.
With this kind of an outlay to
deal with, Jerry and the late finger
nail polisher figured the dope that
they could slip over to Crown Point,
get the license, come to Hammond,
and get married, glide out of the city in their touring car and none
be the wiser. It was a pretty plan and it nearly broke our hearts to spoil it. Incidentally in inferentialdisparaging of Hammond having a newspaper that gets the news and gets it quickly and accurately, and publishes it when it gets it, Jerome A. Ellis discounted the fact that he was so well known and tried to put one over on us. It was without doubt the gentleman's intention to spring the story at a dinner at the club some time hence, of how he outthe newspapers and the peoand got married over among the Hoosiers. Too bad, Jerry, the bubis punctured. The game looked easy to them and yesterday was the day chosen to play it. Early in the morning they left Chicago in one of Jerry Ellis'
Property Holders Scared by
Rumor that Lake Is to Be Drained.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
IDEAL SUMMER RESORT
Lake Has Gorwn to be One of the
Most Popular Places in Northern Indiana.
Washington 0 1 0 0
Chicago 0 0 0 0
Batterier--Patten, Heydon; Pat
terson, Hart, Sullivan.
Philadelphia 2 0 0 1 2 0 St. Louis.0 0 0 0 2 0
Batteries--Bender, Schreck, Glade,
O'Connor.
TWENTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY CAMP AT CROWN POINT.
Have Hard Journey Over Rough Roads and Many Arrive Footsore and are Compelled to Ride.
SPEECH OF THE TOWN PUMP.
The 27th Infantry had one of the hardest days march yesterday since its start from Fort Sheridan, and when they pitched camp yesterday afternoon or the Doescher farm 3 miles west of Crown Point many were completely fagged out and ready for the doctor's care. The road from Gibson south was a rough stony macadam covered with loose pebbles of various sizes, causing the marchers to slip and stumble, and preserve anything else but the long swinging steps that makes marching easy. To this the heat added addidiscomfort and made the day anything but a pleasure jaunt. The
surgeons were kept busy last night with blistered and chafed feet. One private in company A, suffered so
greatly that it was decided to order his return to Fort Sheridan and the possibility is he will be discharged from the service for permanent disHe has developed what is known in army parlance as a "flat foot," which means that he walks flat footed, thus rendering him unfit for marching. None of those over
come by the heat were seriously
affected and they were able to be
up and about camp last night.
On to Orchard Grove. Camp was broken this morning at 5:30 and the march to Orchard
Grove was taken up. The column
reached Crown Point at 7:30 and stopped about 15 minutes to permit a short rest. They will go to the vicinity of Orchard Grove, where they will make camp early today. It is possible a slight change in the itinerary will be made and the Satcamp be made at Thayer inof Kuirman, and the men alto spend Sunday in camp at the Kankakee river instead of in the sand of Jasper county's village. The regiment has until July 31st to reach Indianapolis and it is felt that a full day's rest will enable
the men and horses to travel faster
and better the last stages of the
journey. Companys A and B who are carry
ing the new style Merriam packs are much dissatisfied with it and a plea was made to the ffiocers last night
to be allowed to discard it. This will not be done, however, as a member of the General Staff U. S. A. is accompanying the regiment for the purpose of watching the use of the pack and the privates have to bear their burden to the end of their journey.
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WILL BETTER HIS CHANCES?
The Crown Point Star says: This office will lose one of its force at the end of the week in the person of Clarence Lamberg, known better as "Jingles," who goes to the Conkey plant in Hammond, which is a promotion. He has been with the Star establishment ten years and leaves us feeling only to better his chances in a financial way. It is presumed that he will eventumove there, bag and baggage, if the work proves satisfactory.
I had a long talk with a man from Hessville the othday and the few stray rehe made to me about politics set me to thinking. If you have a little spare time I'll give you the benefit of my meditation. "Politics, the way it is used today shows that at one time the game was played in the back woods. Where else would we get all the terms that are still in use? As, for example, timber, planks, platform,
stump, machine, tall timber,
and even the term land slide. This goes to show that at one time it was a back woods
game or that it is still conwith the woods in some way. I understand that each party grows a separate woods so that each defeated candidate can hike to the tall
timber. "The machine that is used now and the platforms that produces, interest me most of all. Little improvement has been made on the machines during the last hundred years. They are all good, only some are better than others. "The machines as they are used now, are endowed with superhuman ingenuity and have, almost in every inbeen able to do more work than any single human being. It chooses its own timber, seasons it properly, throws some of it on the scrap pile or digs up some of it from under the saw"Beveridge is a case of timber being seasoned. Fairis a case of timber beover seasoned. Over-
seasoned timber however, is still good for ornamental purposes. Bryan is a case of timber being dug up from the sawdust. While digging up Bryan, the machine pulled up a few slabs of Parker, but no more. Taggart is a case of timber that should have been buried long ago. He's rotten and when he is really covered up they shouldn't forget to pour lime water on him. During every campaign every platform is made as strong as possible. It is made
up of planks. This work is all done by the machine auto
matically. One year the Demoran in a silver plank, but the Republicans went them one better and shoved in a gold plank and when the thing was over the Demofound out that their silplank wasn't good enough for a lead pipe. "Yes, come around oftener. Fred Heintz' skatiing rink is closed now and there'll be less noise to disturb the disof history-making questions."
FRED HEINTZ BRANCHES OUT;
A rumor has lately gone through real estate circles in the southern part of Lake county that Cedar Lake is to be drained into the Kankakee river. Property holders around the lake heard the news with consternation, for to drain the lake would mean a.
WANTS TO RUN CHICAGO RINK.. depreciation of property immediate
ly surrounding it.
Has Made a Proposition to the Man- The people of Cedar Lake literally
agers of Vanity Fair--Sans Souci make their living from the beauty Wants the Hammond Man to of the lake. Property, in the last six
Start Rink. years there, has risen considerably
on account of the lake having become
Ideas are evolved in the fertile a summer resort, in fact, one of the
brain of Fred Heintz with a rapidty most desirable in northern Indiana
that is astonishing and of such mag- The oblong sheet of water lies in
nitude that the petty dickering of a basin three miles long and
other young men of his age is paled wide. Modern hotels have sprung into insignificance. up all around the shores, the best
The scheme to start an amusement places being Sigler's hotel, Binyon's
resort over near the lake front on the Point and the Monon Park hotel.
grounds of the Forsythe place, now Monon park has lately gained un
known as the White House is to be wanted notoriety by a class of hooda beginner and should this prove lums that came out on excursions
the success that he anticipates, he from Chicago, but the Monon railroad
will enlarge his field for activity and officials have promised to keep a
begin operations on a larger scale stricter watch on the grounds on ex
in Chicago. cursion days
At present Heintz proposes to The beautiful lake is girdled on
concentrate all his energies in mak- the east side with a splendid macad ing his White House project a suc- am road which furnishes an excell
cess and to accomplish the desired ent driveway. A sand road winds
result he has spent a large sum to around the entire lake, and in th
secure Professor O. M. Kimble better course of time, it too, will be macad-
known as "Curie the Dare Devil" to amized and thus add further attractmake the "slide for life" from the iveness to the water. 150 foot water tower on the For- The woods surrounding the body sythe place. This free attraction of water are in their beauty now. It
which will be given for the first time is a primeval wild wood which has Sunday night, is expected to attract never been disturbed by a human large crowds from Hammond, Whit- hand. ing, East Chicago and South Chicago. Ten years ago Cedar Lake was a But when this scheme proves suc- lost place somewhere along the MoFred expects to go to the pro- non. Today it is known to every moters of the two million dollar tourist. The regular coming of the amusement resort which is to be summer resorters adds just enough built on the west side called Vanity city atmosphere to take away the imand secure the roller skate and pression that Chicago is hundreds of dancing concession. miles away. Fred says that he already has a The hotels with their modern conoffer from the managers of veniences have solved the question Sans Souci to permit the building of of making Cedar Lake an ideal outing
a skating rink for a division of the place and it will be welcome news profits but he does not take kindly to every lover of the beautiful to to their proposition. learn that the rumor is unfounded.
He also has in mind the renting
of the coloseum or the armory in ASLEEP ON TKACK;
Chicago which he says could be sefor a comparatively small sum but this is only a scheme in embro. The rink in the Hammond buildwas permanently closed after the skating was over last night.
New York 0 0 0 0 2 0
Cleveland 0 0 0 0 1 2
Batteries--Newton, Griffith, Mc-
Guire, Kleinow; Hess, Kittredge.
R--H
Boston 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0--3--11
Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3--4--7
Batteries--Glaze, Armbruster;
Seiver, Schmidt.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Chicago 0 1 0 0 0 New York 3 0 0 0 0
Batteris--Taylor, Kling; Mathew-
son, Bowerman.
R.H.
Pittsburg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1--1 8
Phila 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1--3 10 Batteries--McFarland; McIlveen,
Phelps; Lush, Sparks, Dooin. Cincinnati vs. Boston, postponed; rain.
St. Louis 0 0 0 Brooklyn 0 2 0 Batteries--Thompson, Grady; Eason, Ritter.
BAPTIST YOUNG MEN OPEN NEW GYMNASIUM.
GETS LEG CRUSHED.
Elmer Wolfe, Section Hand at Kouts
on the Erie, Is sent Out to Fla
a train and goes to sleep beside
the track.
JOLT DELIVERED TO ACTOR EASTWOOD. Impressario Brooks Has Him Ar-
Elmer Wolfe, a section hand of
Kouts on the Erie, had a narrow
escape from death yesterday after
noon. Nevertheless he is at St Margaret's hospital and will prob
rested on a Charge of Petty aby have his leg amputated because
Larceny. of his own carelessness.
Wolfe was sent south on the track
Clyde Eastwood was arrested last to flag No. 21 while his fellow work-
night by Chief of Police Bimbach men were putting in a new rail in on a warrant sworn out by Manager the track. The train was late and
Brooks of the local vaudeville show, Wolfe lay down beside the track to the charge being petty larceny. rest, stretching himself along the tie
Brooks claims that while Eastwood ends. No. 21 aproached without
was in his employ he was paid a sum awakening him. The drive wheel of
of money in advance and instead of the engine caught his leg and crush keeping good faith with him, quit ed it. Seeing the accident the engin
witnout notice and without refund- eer brought the train to a standstill
ing the money. In addition to this and the train crew carried the inclaims that Eastwood stole jured man to the express car. He some clothes and other things which was taken to Hammond where he
he found around the theatre. East- was carried to the hospital
wood has been in the city from time
to time and Brooks expected him to Three Hammond boys will follow
come around and square up but his the precepts of Izaak Walton for a employe did not seem to care for the week or more while camping on the vaudeville manager's company and bank of the Calumet river at Millers so they will not be able to get to- Station. The members of the party gether until they meet in front of are Doll Neuman, Harry Schafer and the judge's desk in the police station Joe Roye. Any "gags" on the submorning at 9 o'clock, ject of fishing will be gladly heard John F. Sawyer is the attorney for by all of the members of the party
the defendant. until the hour of departure.
Meritorious Musical and Athletic Entertainment Attends New Home of Baptist Athletic League.
A crowd of over two hundred per
sons gathered at the new gymnasium of the Baptist Athletic league on
East State street last night to see he first athletic exhibiion to be given
by the young men's organization in
their newly acquired home. Besides an athletic exhibition by the young men, there was a musical entertainof much merit rendered by the
young men and their lady friends.
The program opened with a piano
duet by Misses Emma Champaign and Mae Hansen. This was followed by
a reading by Miss Veda Hemstock and a vocal solo by Mr. Roy Diet
rich. Then a young ladies' trio, composed of Misses Grace Gero, EmChampaign and Frances Hamachrendered a vocal selection, which
was applauded until the young la
dies responded with an encore. trio with mandolins and gui-
tar followed this, the players being
Miss Emma Champaign, Charles Binder and Harry Harris.
A reading by Mr. Fletcher Hudson
and several selections by the league's
quartette, composed of Messrs. Kent Young, Walter Webster, Fletcher Hudson and Charles Binder, comthe musical portion of the evening's program. After this came the athletic exhibition by the young men of the league, all clad in nea ly fitting and trim looking gymnasium suits. The purpose of the entertain ment was to raise money for the reon the cost of building and a nice little sum was realized.
WANTS HOUSE AND $11. Attorney Abe Ottenheimer, on beof his client, Mrs. Catherine Haag, started a suit before Judge McMahan yesterday for the possesof the house occupied by Jos
eph Barein in East Chicago. The plaintiff also asks that she be given damages to the extent of $11.
APPELLATE COURT MINUTES.
5936. Republic Iron and Steel company vs. Frank L. Ross. Madison S. C. Appellant's reply brief.
THE WEATHER.
Fair and warm tonight and SaturSubscribe for the Lake County Times.