Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 191, Hammond, Lake County, 31 January 1907 — Page 1

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THE WEATHER. Snow and Yrnrmer tonight minimum temyeratur about 30 ; Friday ruin or now; colder Friday Bight. VOL. 1, NO. 191. NIGHT EDITION. HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1907. ONE CENT PER COEY, BAD BLOO HOUSE STA EPARTMEHT Sufficient Stock Subscribed to Erect Building Lot Nov Wanted. Bitterness Between Rival Traction Companies Is Evidenced by Spur.

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McCullough Bill Sent Joyously on Its Way by Lower Branch of Legislature.

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Plan, at First -'Met With Timidity, Now Enthusiastically Supported Body's Great Growth. ftm. ii,mmnmi Woman's club is planning to have a home of Its own in the near future if possible and if not then why a little later. This enterprising organization has taken such rapid strides of late that It has outgrown its present quarters, and has developed an ambition to own its own home. The movement has been quietly conducted for the past couple of months or more among the club members alone, having been suggested by Mrs. Hugh Meikle at one of the early board meetings of tho present club year. Since then it has been so enthusiastically supported that enough stock has been taken in to assure tho building, if a lot can be secured. A Fur ICarly Prediction. It is a little early to predict exactly what manner of a structure will be erected, but the understood plan is to have a clubhouse that will be eminently fitted to the needs of an organlzatlon with such aims as those the i Hammond Woman's club espouses. There will be reception and committee & LIES. HUGH MEIKLE. rooms, a refectory perhaps, and a rest room doubtless library and lavatories and everything that an up to date club of its character requires to make it cozy and at the same time practicable. When the idea was first introduced under Mrs. Meiklo's sponsorship to the members of the board in executive session, it was greeted with the squeamlshness that Is usually vouchsafed to movements involving great responsibility and a liberal expedlture of money. The women present all admitted that it would bo lovely to have a clubhouse of their own-, but they were a bit shy of undertaking a step of such importance. However, they soon warmed tip to the situation and at the next regular club meeting a resolution providing for the undertaking Mas proposed and carried. Since then a great deal of stock has been subscribed and while the exact amount of money raised could not be learned, , It is admitted that there is practically enough subscribed ar.d in sight to build the clubhouse, h aving the lot out of consideration. Won't n Practical Gallant Come Forth! Now here is an opportunity for the gallantry of Hammond's wealthy men. If one of them would kindly come forward with a lot, tho Hammond Wo- . man's club home would be assured and assured at once The club has 130 members and embraces the following departments: Literature, History, Art ar.d Music. The members of each of these, excepting those in the musical department, meet for study at frequent intervals. The music committee has but o" day each year which is "a special day devoted to music. Tho officers are: President Mrs. Emma Meikle. Vice president Mrs. Helen Hammond. Recording secretary Mrs. Nettie Blackmun. Corresponding secretary Mrs. Duey Oberlin. Treasurer Bertha Hutton. The club has been making such . rapid progress of late that the entrance , fees and yearly dues have been in creased, as it has been seen it would te impossible to take care of all who desire u become mewjbers,

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Says Civility and Straight Business On Part of South Bend Officials Would Help, That the feeling between the. Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago street car company and tho Chicago Lake Shore and South Bend street railway company was not the best was shown a few days ago when the former comf-' .... j v .-v v 1. 1 1 1 v.. .i i riiiai i cji ui i.a i c o yards in Costlin street about forty feet and thus obstructs the proposed right of way of the South Bend company where it is proposed that it shall enter Hammond. The extension of the spur is ostensibly built to accommodate cars for the Cameron lines but the real reason seems to be the possibility of blocking the crossing of the new line. When the Hammond councilmen were in the Chicago offices of the Hammond, Whiting and Kast Chicago street car company last week, Superintendent Foles explained the position of his company in regard to the new road. The question was raised about the former accepting transfers of the latter. Poles Views on Transfers. Mr. Foles said that it was the business of the new company to seek the courtesy but that despite the big hue and cry that the new road put up at Hammond last summer about the stubbornness of Cameron and his men, they ha never been approached by the men of the new company, and that : with a little civility and straightforI ward business talk there was a x'ossii bility of coming to some understandlng about the transfers. In Mr. Fojes' opinion however, it ! was understood that the Chicago, Lake v Shore & South Bend company could : not expert to make an even trade on ; transfers as the Cameron line covers by far a greater territory in Hammond that the new company's line will. Although the franchise has been granted the new road to cross Ham- ! mond streets no right of way has yet i been bought and indications point toward condemnation proceedings when the property of the Hammond, Whit- , ing ami Kast Chicago eompanj- is reached. j DR. EDWARD CHURCH DIES AT LA PORTE. Veteran .Mason and Father of Anna Church, oted ."Musician, Passes A -way After Long lllaess. j (Special to Lake County Times). I LaPorte, Ind., Jan. 31. Dr. Edward! Church, one of the best known mem- j bers of the Masonic fraternity In In-! diana, and auditor of LaPorte county for eight years, died last night, aged 72 years. He was the father of Miss ! Anna Church, well known in Chicago musical circles. He had been in failing health for a number of years. FIRST SPIKE IN AIR LINE. Ceremony at Opening Chicago w York Road to Occur Saturday Iu Presence of (ine-itv LaPorte, Ind., Jan. 31. The announcement was made today that the first spike in the construction of the Chicago New York road will be driven Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, the event to be attended with much ceremony. A banquet will be served at the Tee Garden at 1 o'clock which will be attended by the officers -of the company. Mayor Harrow and a number of Invited guests. There will usual aftermath oratory. th SPECIAL JUDGE BUSY. Special Judge Jos. Conroy, who is acting for City Judge W. W. MeMahon during the hitter's visit at Indianapolis, rendered judgment for $200 against the A. Bishop company of Chicago. The suit was brought for Mrs. Margaret Grant by her son Leslie J. Grant, the grounds being- personal Injury. Mrs. Grant sued for $500, but judgment was satisfactory to both parties. RATE BILL GOES THROUGH. (Special to Lake County Times). Indianapolis. Ind., .Ian. 31 v special from the state eapltol this afternoon announces that the Bland 2 cent rato bill passed In the state senate this morning. There is no - doubt of the governor' giving; the hill his signature when it reaches him. S. V. Ogden, superintendent of the Grasselli Chemical works was in Hammond today on his way to Crown Point, where he goes on business matters requiring his attention. If you have anything to advertise, ue the classified column of THE LAKE I COVXTX TUICS Uaea 10 ce

Ill lMCD DIM iUimjlil UILL m ii SE Vote of 75 to 14 Indicates Sentiment Favors Compensation Feature. The Faulkner bill compelling the United States Steel corporation and others who fill in "the lake tOpay the state one-fifth of the appraised valuation of contiguous shore land, passed the house yesterday by a vote of 75 to 14. This action developes the fact that there is considerable opposition to the Bowser bill In the house and there may be a deadlock over it before a settlement is reached. Mr. Faulkner did not support the bill, but Mr. Honan, the minority leader did. Mr. Honan declared that the steel trust dumped Its slag in the lake because it would have to pay for any other dumping ground and that after two miles or more had been dumped in, the company would move Its plant to the new grounds and sell its former site for lots. Mr. Dwyer of Lake county said that the Bowser senate bill would permit the company to take possesion of the land, so created without going through the red tape that would be caused if the Faulkner measure carries. He also declared that if the United States Steel corporation did not dump its slag and make the land none would be made and the state would receive no compensation anyway. The passing of tho Faulkner bill by the house is likely to complicate matters considerably as the Bowser measure has already carried in the senate and a good deal of time may be spent in conference before a bill will be decided upon that will pass both houses and be acceptable to all parties concerned. The Bowser bill provides for the reclaiming of submerged land from the lake, at the will of the owners of riparian rights, and without any rerenumeration to the state. CITY BUYS FIRE STATION SITE ON CALUMET AVENUE. Location la Convenient For Whole ortli Side and Will Make South Side Accessible Too Cost Was $700. The deal by which the City of Hammond comes into possession of two lots near the corner of Hoffman street and Calumet avenue to be used as a site for a fire station was closed yesterday. The Lake County Times printed the facts regarding the proposed deal several weeks ago and is now able to make the announcement of the consumation of the deal. The consideration was $700, and two fifty foot lots with a frontage on Calumet avenue were purchased from Charles Buhring. The site Is said to be a good one for the reason that the firemen will be in a location that will enable them to make a run to almost any part of the north side on Calumet. Hoffman and Gostlin streets and if there should be the necessity, could reinforce the department in the business portion of the city by crossing the Calumet avenue bridge and approaching the business district from any one of the streets leading down town. The principal use of this station, however, will be to protect the factory district.

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IT CHILDREN: EARNS SL60 PER DAY Truant Officer Muzzal, In Discharge of His Duty, Meets Pathetic Case. "Yes, it is hard for, me at times to keep the letter and the spirit of the law a part" was a et? cement that Thos. Muzzall, truant officer for Lake county made this morning in Hammond while on h'.s way to East Chicago. Mr. Muzzall went to East Chicago this morning to confer with that city's board of education in regard to the condition of affairs in the Saybo family. There are eight children in the family and all are compelled to stay away from school on account of a lack of wearing apparel. It was called to the truant officer's attention that the children were missing from school and Mr. Muzzall made Inquiry. "Few people," said the truant officer, "get an opportunity to see the inside conditions of so many homes as I do. It doesn't seem fair that the private affairs of any family, as for instance, this Saybo family, be given to the public. Nobody knows what suffering there Is at times by father and mother in order to give their children an education. But sometimes the current goes against them and they are compelled to tell their story to the truant officer and accept public charity for their children in order to enable them to go to school. Aside from the poverty that the family is suffering the story of the Saybo's is unusually pitiful as both father and mother are trying hard to work for their children. But the father Is only able to earn $1.50 a day and from this small sum he must pay $11 rent per month, and clothe and feed eight children, his wife and himself. The oldest child is a girl 13 years old, and she and her younger sisters are said to have only one calico dress each and that is all. Mr. Muzzall will procure an order from the East Chicago school board to visit stores where he can procure the necessary clothing for the children and thus enable them to attend school. USES NEW PURCHASE ON HIMSELF. John Moore Buys Revolver, Loads 11 With Deliberation and Then Kill Ilimsel f. (Special to Luke County Times). LaPorte, Ind., Jan. 31. John Moore of North Judson, entered a hardware store last night and after purchasing a revolver loaded it with calm deliberation and in the presence of the proprietor who did not divine his purpose, fatally shot himself. The deed is attributed to temporary derangement. BUYS GARY PROPERTY AND CAN'T HOLD IT. Chlcneo Saloonkeeper Runs Afoul of Ragtime Real Estate Business Can ot Sell Land. Gary, Ind., Jan. 31. The lot at the southwest corner of Broadway and Tenth avenue, owned by Otto and Albert Borman of Toleston has become clouded as to title and the Borman brothers are taking steps to oust the new claimant. The claimant is a saloonkeeper from Chicago who made what he supposed to be a bona fide purchase through Castleman & Jones, of the lot. They now are unable to deliver on account of never having had tfce absolute right to sell the jsrojearty

EMPLOYES OF CAR 1RK3JKI ILK Company Refuses to Run Busses Any Longer Trains Not Running.

The employes of the Standard Steel Car company are still suffering from the lack of transportation' facilities to and from their work. The number of employes is increasing every day and the busses that were formerly used to transfer the engineers and surveyors back and forth, are aldeady inadequate. As a result there was considerable dissatisfaction among those who had to walk the two and one-half miles to work and it was finally decided to abandon the buss service altogether. It was errlnousiy reported that some of the engineers on the work of construction had quit for this reason but according to the officials of the company this is not true and the men who have left the employ of the company did so for personal reasons. They have convinced the men of tho futility of the company's attempting at transport all of the men to the plant in busses and have promised them tnat in a iew uays there will be a suburban service on the Nickel Plate hetween Hammond and Standard, the new station on this railroad. There will be trains enough to accommodate all of the men and later on it is expected that some arrangements will be made with one of the street car companies for a ten minute service to and from the plant. RIPPE FINDS RAISED BILL; MERCHANT IMPOSED UPON. A Two is Transferred Into a Ten Rut the Job Is a Poor One and liank Employes Readily Discover Fraud. Owing to the alertness of William Rippe, the head bookkeeper in the First National bank in this city, a $10 bill which had been raised from a $2 bill was detected and one of the Hammond business men will be out just $10. The figure two which is usually placed in the four corners of the $2 bill that was raised were carefully erased and in their places a "1" and an "0" were picked out with a pin. Over another two which was placed at one end of the bill was a red X in imitation of the $10 bill that was imitated. The job was far from being clever and the fact alone that there was a picture of George Washington on this bill while it never appears on a $10 bill was enough to show that it was not genuine. The "bill was probably accepted through the carelessness of one of the employes of the man who will be the loser and it would be difficult to learn the identity of the artist who did the work.HAD PERM0NITI0N OF DEATH. J. W. Cummings, one of the oldest engineers on the Lake Shore road and well known on this division, died last Tuesday evening at Elkhart. It is said by those who have known him tiiat he has had a premonition of his sudden death since about a year ago. Captain Cummings was stricken with apoplexy while in the Lake Shore roundhouse and died within a few minutes. He was a member of the famous "Irish regiment" of the civil war and w-a3 a railroad, man of nearly fort? -ear3.

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Representatives Dwyer and Among the Champions (Special to Luke Countr Times). Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 31. From the attitude of the house on the bill abolishing tho Metropolitan police boards yesterday, it looks as if the house was determined for home rule in local police matters. This bill. Introduced by Representative McCullough of Anderson, provides, in brief, that the power to appoint the police commissioners shall rest in the hands of the mayor, and not in the hands of the governor. The bill came up on a majority committee report against it, and a minority report favoring the indefinite postponement of the bill went down to ignominious defeat by the vote of 59 to 34. Among those who voted in favor of the bill (and against the present system) were Representative Ratllff of Wayne county; and Representatives Dwyer and simon of Lake county. These three registered their protests against the police control by the governor instead of by local authorities. Stultz of Huntington county did not vote on the moasu re. The general sentiment seems to be that the house will pass this bill. Also, that the senate will kill it. The fact that the house passed it to engrossment yesterday morning was the subject of much comment in the senate in the afternoon, and from the expressions heard there, it seemed that the senate did not look with favor on the proposal to abolish the present system. Withdraw Opposition. Good authority stands for the state ment, today, that the Indiana insurance companies at least some of the larger companies have given up the fight against the passage of the Babcock bill cheating a new insurance department, and will confine their efforts of the future towards the modification of that bill. That this would be the position of the larger Indiana companies from now on was admitted by representatives of three of the companies today. If this Is true, it is perhaps not unwise to venture the prediction that the Babcock bill will pass, after some changes have been made. Two or three changes of comparatively minor importance have been agreed upon by the members of the joint committee, and others were considered at an executive session of the joint committees last night. So far as can be ascertained, now, however, one point that the companies have been contending against will not obtain. Representatives of the different Indiana companies that have spoken against the bill have specialized on one point particularly as the appointment of an insurance commissioner by the governor. The plan now, so far as can be learned, is for the committee to adhere to the provisions of the original bill in this particular, and leave the appointment of this commissioner in the governor's hands. Another public hearing will probably be arranged for, tills to be the last of the public hearings. St. Joe County Seat War. With the arguments of Henry Walr, South Bend, in behalf of Senator E.

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Union Traction Company's Antiquated Property GoerUp in Flames Traffic Delayed,

Chicago, Jan 31, One man was burned to death. 100 of the street cars which for twenty years have traveled listlessly over the North side thoroughfares were consumed quickly and the old "limits" barn of the Union Traction company in North Clark street destroyed in a fire which burned fiercely for two hours early today. The damage was $200,000. Traffic was delayed for two hours. Starting in an explosion which endangered the lives of fifty workmen and sent them fleeing for "'""l fire within twenty minutes had turned the interior of the greii ear barns into a veritable furnace. The explosion, heard for blocks around, caused great alarm among residents of the neighborhood. Thousands watched the flames as they destroyed the big building and its contents. James Mackus. 2S1 Fu'lerton avej une, a car cleaner, was the man who liost his life. He was overcome by- the

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Simon of Lake County Are of the New Measure. Volney Bingham, and of Merrill Moore, Indianapolis. In behalf of Thad M. Talcott, it is probable that the contest case that Is being waged for the St. Joseph county seat in the senate will bo closed, and up to the senate committee. Walr argued yesterday afternoon, after the adjournment of the senate, and Moores last night. Walr took the position that the contestor had not proved his case; and that as the burden of proof was on him. the senate committee would have to decide in favor of Bingham, Moores took exactly the opposite view, of course, holding that the case against . Bingham had been made. Mr. Moores relied largely on the list of voters In the fifth precinct of the third ward that were declared to be illegal to show his case. Snarl in Primary Talk. The senate ended In a snarl on th discussion of the Roemler primary election 1 111 yesterday afternoon, after about everyone bad said something con cerning the measure, including the dem ocrats and after the democrats had tried to substitute the Downey-democratic-caucus primary bill for the Roemler bill. The trouble came about through a serious disagreement among the republican members of the senate on the scope of a primary bill. The democrats caused little trouble, as the substitute offered by Senator Slack was quickly voted down. But the republicans were at sad variance. Senator llugg, a confrere of Senator Roemler started things by moving chat further consideration of the Roemler bill be Indefinitely postponed. In his speech supporting this motion, he declared that the bill was too .comprehensive and that. It was not satisfactory as a etarter, from "a prac tical standpoint. This bill provides for a primary system of party nomination for all township, town, city, county, judicial, legislative, congressional and state officers, and for the application of the primary system to the naming of popular vote of the candiates for the United States senate. Such a complete reorganization,-Senator llugg declared to be bad from a practical standpoint. Pushing Fitch Bill. Senator Kirkman moved to table Hugg's motion, and the vote on this motion tended to show the feeling of the senators. The motion to table was lost by a large vote of 14 to 25. From this the inference might be drawn that the senate will kill the Roemler bill and prabably enact another bill, not so comprehensive in Its details. After the Kirkman motion was lost, Senator Cavins moved to insert the Fitch bill the bill that provides for primaries affecting only township, city, town, county, julicial and legislative offices. Senator Carl Wood moved to lay that motion on the table; Senator Farber moved -to postpone further consideration until Monday, Feb. 3 at 3 o'clock, and then Senator Springer, coached by the president, moved to adjourn, and the president declared the senate adjourned, though the. noes made a bigger sound than ayes. The matter was left thus in the air. "ARKS" BURNED blast of heat and the fumes of gag following the explosion and was unable to follow his fellow workmen to safety. Among those injured were:' Frank Carpenter, motorman, fell while escaping from the barn; hea-i struck against stone wall, causing scalp wound. Robert Mooney, lieptenant. engine company number 22; injured about the head and face in explosion. William Shields, pipeman, engine company number 23, slight bruises about head and body. "HIGHER THAN LN 1868. Land owners along the Kankake. river state that the stream' is the highest that they have known it to be in many years. W. H. Adams, who is acquainted with the Kankakee marsh from English lake to Kankakee. III., says the high water mark of 1S68 has been raised a notch this year. It is said that people living in the low land have bea forced to taove ouT