Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 195, Hammond, Lake County, 5 February 1907 — Page 1

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VOL. 1, XO. 195. NIGHT BABCOCK BILL PUSS Joint Committee Reviews It For Amendments and Will Report Back. LIKE FiRSf MEASURE Proposed Act Returned to Original Status Senate Votes for High License. (Special to Lake County Times.) Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 5. The Babcock insurance till was to be reported to both branches of the general assembly today. The committee joint met all morning and went over the bill, section by section, line by line and made the changes that the committee had decided upon. Late In the afternoon, after both of the houses had adjourned Senator Farber, chairman of the senate committee and Representative Elliot, chairman of the house committee, got together with a stenographer and prepared the amendments to the bill in typewritten form. These amendments were to be reported back to both of the branches today. This result comes from many Joint sessions of the two committees. There have been four open meotings, at which everybody who has anything to say concerning the bill were permitted to epeak. Three were large open meetings, held In the house, and the fourth, held last week took place In the insurance committee room. In addition to this there havu bqen many executive esslons of the. two committees. Modification In Phraseology. The bill as the amendments that vere'to be presented today will make It, will be substantially the same as the original bill. In many places the phraselogy Is softened the same as the original bill. In many places the jihraseology is softened down this constitutes the basis for the most of the changes, For example, throughout the bill the word 'control'' is taken. out In the original bill, tiie commissioner was given the right to "reguater supervise and control" the insurance ' companies. Strenuous objections was made to the use of tho word "control" and this word the committee has cut out throughout the bill. The second change of Importance is the granting of the right to appeal from the decision of any lower court to the supremo court of the state and the supreme court of the United States. The bill as drawn provided that an appeal from tho commissioner of insurance would only lie with the Marlon county superior or circuit court nothing beyond. This was objected to strongly and tho strong objection caused the modification. Left unchanged, however, In the bill as presented, is the power In the governor's hands to appoint the commissioner. This was objected to as strongly as any other single feature of the bill, but it seems that the committee, after examining the methods of other Btates in this matter, decided that the commissioner should be appointed and not elected. This was left unchanged, therefore. In both branches, then, this report will be submitted. The bills, with Babcook's name on It In the house and Farber's in tho senate, will take the ordinary course be printed with amendments, called up on second reading, bo advanced to engrossment, and be called up on third reading for passage. There seems to be little question but that the bill will pass in some form and probably in substantially the form that it is to be reported back. High License Mill Vnclianged. The senate passed the high license bill unchanged providing for a distribution of $600 to the school fund of each county and $4 00 to the cities. The bill went through by a good majority 29 to IS. There were three absentees Bingham, Pelzer and Siotsenberg. It is not known how any of three would have voted. The debate on this bill occupied practically all of tho afternoon session of the sennte. For three solid hours, the senators spoke for and against the measure to crowded galleries. The promised debate on this measure brought many to the state house, friends of the senators, friends and foes of temperenco legislation into the senate and they remained there all afternoon throughout the debate. When the result of the vote was announced the spectators broke into strong applause and the pounding of the senate gavel by Lieutenant Governor Miller was not loud enough to drown the applause. There is much doubt about the house; an effort will be made tomorrow to poll the house definitely on the measure. The house killed the bill abolishing the board of pardons again yesterday by a vote of 47 to 41. This has been known as the governor's measure, and the vote Indicates that it is still in a defiant mood, though the vote against It was not so large as it was before. OILMAN FOUND GUILTY. Kentland, Ind.. Feb. 4. Fred G. Gilman, former president of the Home bank of Goodland. which suspended business June 11, 1904, was found guilty Saturday of embezzling the funds of the bank. Sentence will be pronounced today

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EDITION". DULD EXTEND ITSJGRUSADE Citizens' Association Would Declare Hammond Part Of Its Field. POOL SHiP ONE OF OURS' Police Say: "Take Care of Your Own and Shake Not Your Gory Locks at Us.'' The Citizens' association of Chicago, through its secretary, Shelby M. Singleton, seems inclined to carry its war on Chicago vice in its various forms into Indiana. A communication was addressed today to Governor llanly, requesting him to co-operate with the law and order people of Chicago to curb the Chicago overflow of vice into Lake county, which assumably is the territory referred to. It was intimated in the presentment of the grand jury of Cook county, supported by Secretary Singleton, that divers and sundry lawbreakers of Cook county were being sheltered in this section. It has been said in defence that the pool ship, City of Traverse, is immune; that it simply loads its passengers in Illinois and does business with them in a pool-selling way in the waters of Indiana. On this assumption the owners of the City of Traverse have plied their business for two years. Secretary Singleton considers that citizens of Chicago have been led into the paths of wrongdoing through the connivance of Indiana authorities. Therefore it is tho pu'-pose of the association to call the attention of Governor llanly to the alleged fact. No Dump Here, Mr. Healy. The presentment of the grand jury was calculated to lead the law-abiding citizens of Hammond and surrounding towns on this side of the boundary line to believe that Lake county was still being used as a dumping ground fo.- the lawless element of Chicago. This idea has been resented. Chief Rlmbach and his police force, who occupy the outpo&t of -the Indiana p-ro-tectorate declare that they know nothing about the existence in this city or adjacent cities in Indiana, of organized gambling. In this they were borne out by citizens who have taken it upon themselves to make an investigation. The attack on the pool ship, City of Traverse, seems to be of the usual spasmodic nature and not entirely divorced from politics. It is hard to determine whether the City of Traverse, when it loaves Its South Chicago dock, steers into Indiana waters or not. In fact it is the general Impression that the captain of the ship does not pay much attention to the chart as long as he keeps moving. Chief Collins two years ago declared that he would put the City of Traverse out of business. In tlie attempt to do so, Mayor Dunne and the chief himself, declared that all the legal resources at hand were exhausted and that they were compelled to allow th pool ship to sail on Its course unmolested. The absence of molestation naturally inspired the owners of the City of Traverse to take greater liberties and gradually reduce the Inconvenience of its patrons, or its victims, as the law and order people have it. "None of Our Business f It is a matter of fact that the City of Traverse has been a matter of very little concern to tk people of Lake county during all the time it has been receiving the wireless messages from the wireless station at South Chicago bearing information as to the beginnings and finishes of the horse races at New Orleans and other points Xow, however that the grand jury and tho Citizens" association have started one of Its spasmodic crusades against the pool ship, the pool ship people themselves are saying that they do not operate in Illinois waters. The citi zens' association regards the City of Traverse and the business it is engag ed, as an Illinois nuisance and wants to invoke the aid of Governor Hanly of Inrffana to abate It. The City of Traverse, in whatever business it is engaged is an Illinois institution. Those who sail In it belong in Illinois. It is intimated that it has been hugging the shore at South Chicago ever since Mayor Dunne and Chief Collins were forced to the conclusion that they could not reach the dealers and the players who assemble upon Its decks. PEACE MEETING IN NEW YORK. I'laus Made for Congress to Be Held In Carnegie Hall In April. New York, Feb. 4. A meeting In the Interest of International peace was held last night at the New York Presbyterian church. It was held under the auspices of the Peace society of the city of New York as a preliminary to the American peace and arbitration congress which is to be held here in April. A general outline tr the plans lor this congress was announced last night. It will be held In Carnegie hall and will be opened on Sunday night. April 14, with a service of praise. The congress will last three days. The most Important features of the congress will be the "international meeting," which will be attendod by representatives of all the leading civilized countries. Addresses will be made by James Byree, Baron Estournelles de Constant and William T. Stead.

HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1907.

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"Tho rear admiral's compliments him?" "The Bvornor'8 compliments to CONTRACTS LET Chief Engineer of South Bend Interurban Will Rush Work. STEEL Mi PURCHASED Cars Will Be Running From Kensington to Gary In June and to South Bend In October. Chief Engineer J. W. S. Riegle of the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend interurban, was in the city today with a corps of surveyors and engineers and stated that the work on the road would be rushed to completion next summer and that the entire road from South Bend to Chicago would be In operation by October. With the exception of a few miles, the road has already been built between South Bend and New Carlisle. From New Carlisle for a distance of nine miles towards the west the contract for the grading has been let to the firm of Williams & MacRitchie, which has 300,000 cubic yards of dirt to move and has two steam shovels at work. J. T. O'Brien of Cincinnati, O., has the remaining ten miles to Michigan City. Ilanrahan & Llndqust of Chicago, have the contract for tho grading of twelve miles of the road west of Michigan City and proposals are being received for the twelve miles from Dune Park to Gary. Moon & Hale of Last Chicago, will build the five miles from Gary to the Calumet river and the contract for the rest of the grading will be let later on. Terminal at Kensington. According to Mr. Riegle the terminal of the line will be at Kensington, and the road has purchased a little over five acres of land there which is to be the site of the power house, shops and other buildings needed at the terminal of the road. All of the steel necessary for the construction of the road has been ordered and the contracts have been placed. The Cambria Steel company has already delivered 1,100 tons of rails, the Carnegie Steel company has agreed to deliver 6.900 tons of steel at once and the Illinois Steel company has agreed to deliver 1,400 tons as soon as it Is needed. Mr. Riegle says that the work is to be rushed to completion as soon as possible and the work on the section between here and Gary will be completed by the middle of June at the latest. Double Track From Gary. The line from Gary to Hammond and Kensington is to be double tracked, but jit is understood tliat from. Gary past

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YOUNG Ml ARE ; LURED S! ROME Whiting Scene of Systematic Canvass for Girls to Enter Dives. Whiting people are becoming incensed over the fact that many Innocent and unsophisticated young women are being lured to West Hammond, where they are induced to become Inmates in the low resorts of that place. The work is being done in a systematic manner. Two persons, probably paid agents, are engaged in this business. One is a stylishly dressed woman of thirty, while her companion, gray and experienced looking, Is likely to pose as a traveling salesman, a hotel keeper or as a newspaper man. Within a few weeks three young women have disappeared from home, two of whom have been seen habited in immodest costumes at a notorious West Hammond place. The third has been seen frequently on the streets of both Hammond and Whiting, in company with men and women of ill repute. Both her father and the police are working on the case at present. The victim is sometimes promised work, but more frequently is cajoled into accompanying the mysterious man and woman who have been doing a rushing business along this line for many weeks. One of the victims who was Inticed to West Hammond last fall and who has since returned made startling confessions, and this is what started the Investigation. ADVISORY BOARD MEETS. F. Richard Schaaf, trustee of North township, was in session in the superior court house today with his advisory board, Messrs. Z. Chick, L. H. Mattern and Phillip McLaughlin. In the council were also A. E. Jarnecke, school director, and William Frederick, road supervisor. Business possibilities for the ensuing year aws discussed. At this session it was also decided to extend Columbia avenue macadam beyond the southern city limits for about 600 feet In order to make connections with the macadam on the Ridge road. there will be a single track for the time being. The route from East Chicago to Hammond has not been determined exactly on account of the trouble with the East Chicago company. It Is said that the real contention between the Interurban company and the land company is not the matter of cost, but the question of width of a right of way. The interurban company wants a sixty-six foot right of way while the East Chicago company wants them to be satisfied ten foot right of way. However, condemnation proceedings have been started, the appraisers have been appointed and the right of way will be secured at once, after which the work of construction will be rushed to completion.

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Reported on Street That Grasselli Concern Will Erect Second Plant. WILL COST -51, Original Plant Merely a Feeler to Ascertain What the Future Would Warrant. It is reported In the business district of Hammond that the Delamar Copper Refining company at Grasselli, or, as the firm Is now known, the United States Metals Refining company, would in the near future erect a second plant in the neighborhood of the present one and that Its cost would be near the million dollar mark. Located at Grasselli now within the corporation limits of East Chicago through the recenfe annexation, the progress of the United States Refining company Is of general interest to the Calumet region because of the plant's great possibilities. William Thum, the general superintendent of the Grasselli plant, in speaking of the reported extension of the plant said that aside from being a paying Investment the present plant is a sort of a teeler for a. still larger r.ne that is to come in the course of time, provided that the labor conditions, transportation facilities, the markets and the taxation are such as to warrant putting up the real plant. That this was the Intention from the first is evidenced by the fact that the company bought sixty acres of ground about a year ago when it first located at Grasselli. Spread Over the Continent. The original plant of the United States Metals Refining company is in Chrome, N. J., while its smeltery Is near Salt Lake City, Utah. Part of the ore for this smeltery comes from the com pany's own mines. The Salt Lake concern is known as the United States Mining company. In speaking of the business opening that the United States Refining company saw in a location in the Calumet region, Mr. Thum said that his company, like hundreds of other eastern concerns, realized the growing market of the middle we3t and that the seaboard idea is not any more the only attraction. The seaboard location, as for instance, the one at Chrose. N. J., solves the transportation question and makes the European market more accessible. Up to the present time the conditions at the United States Refining company's plant at Grasselli have been very satisfactory. One hundred and fifty men are employed in the plant proper and only a little more time is wanted to watah lafcor conditions In Itfie Calumet region.

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Passes Measure Knocking Out Metropolitan Police Law by Increased Majority Over the First Vote.

Indianapolis. Ind.. Ib. 5. The house panned the McCullouKh bill aboltshln X metropolitan board by n tote of 70 to 13 this morning. A larger vote than when the bill passed to engrossment The house also pnisrd the bill reorganizing the tax board nnd adding our member. It also passed the Hanna bill authorizing the state to destroy the KMinbllng paraphernalia at French Lick, eighteen democrats toting uguinst it. J. J. Itufl', president of the police board, tvhen told thnt the McCullough bi!I had been pussed, su'is Practically It makes no difference Mlth me, and at present I am not prepared to say whether or not it will be n ifood thing for the city, but time will noon show whether It will or will not.

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Failure of Executive to Fill Commission s Weapon For Enemies. BOARDSARE SLACK Vacancies Existing Have Not Been Filled, Consequently Legislators Laugh. (Special to Lake County Times.) Indianapolis, Feb. 6. It seems that tho governor's negligence or delay, at least In appointing members of the metropolitan police boards in dlfffer en cities of the state has been partly responsible for the hostility that has b?err phown to the metropolitan 'police system whenever the opportunity has been given. Every time the house has had the chance to help along the bill doing away with the police system, it has done so with great glee. In many of the cities controlled by metropolitan police boards, there are vacancies now. In Richmond, for ex ample, only one member Is serving his regular term. A second member is serving merely because his success has not been appointed. The third and democratic member resigned months ago. While this state of affairs is extreme, there are many of the cities that have only two members, the third vacancy having existed for months as for Instance Hammond. This has undaubtedly had a great deal to do with the present dissatisfaction with the system. Ever since the law was passed, there have been attempts to repeal the law, but never attempts that seemed to have the force that the present movement has. Those attempts have been based more on the general proposition that cities should rule themselves rather than be ruled from the capital city. The general principle of home rule has been the main cause of the opposition. Now the attitude of the governor in refusing or neglecting to appoint commissioners has aggravated the case. This gives the opponents of the present system the opportunity for further argument based on specific acts of omission. And the campaign is being effectively waged in the house. Bowser Aglnst lllgli License. Senator Bowser of Lake and Porter counties was one of the strong opponents of the $1,000 license bill before the senate, yesterday, when that bill came up for their consideration as the special order. He was one of the early speakers against it, and his point was referred to more during the course of the debate than that of any previous speaker. The main point that Bowser made was that a high license system was playing right Into the hands of the brewery trust, the worst of the trusts of the state. In his address he pointed out that the majority of the saloon3 of the state even now was owned by the brewery interests. At the same time, he aald. there were still some private saloon men, who owned their own places. They are not well to do, he said, but they had enough capital to pay the moderate license now required. With high license in effect, however, the speakers said that this would be changed, and many of the small independent ealoon keepers would necessarily have to allow the breweries to put up the money for their licenses. "The small saloon keeper will not be able to pay the $1,000 license," the speaker said. "He will have to turn to the rich breweries for his support. And In this way the retail business will be put In the hands of the breweries even more completely than they are now." SICK'S LITTLE BILL. Representative Sicks, of Boone county, has in mind a bill for the legislature at Indianapolis to compel saloon keepers to remove all screens from their places of business, but he has not decided whether he will Introduce It litis sessioa or .not.

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ONE CENT PER COPY. TO THIRTEE GASMPM Public Aroused by Failure of Concern to Carry Out Contract. PASCALY rCHUMPEEH" Brings Matter Before Council and Ac cuses South Shore People of Bad Faith. There is a movement on foot looking toward a complete and thorough Investigation of the South Shore Gas company with reference to the service It is giving the city in the lighting of the public streets. Business men have been approached regarding the matter, and while there seems to be considerable apathy and td!ff erence"on -ttfe rrt & f -th'wnayu r and council, as a body, the people have ' at least one champion In the- penum of. Alderman John Pascaly, who brought ; the matter up at the last regular session of the council. Alderman Pascaly'a assertion that the light is Insufficient and not in accordance with the gas company's franchise and the city's ordinance, is concurred in by Mayor Becker and most of the aldermen but the ques- ' tlon was left in status quo because of the argument of the mayor that the investigation was not warranted on account of the expense to which th city would be obliged to go, and which, In his estimation, would amount to not much less than $1,000. Would Doubt Keport. The mayor explained that the investigation would have to be made by either an expert of some other lighting corporation, who could scarcely be expected to give a fair report, or that the services of some individual quali fied to look Into the situation, would have to be procured. In that event it would be Hammond's fate to accept the testimony of this one man at an expense of nearly a thousand dollars. In fact, the mayor inferred he would doubt the reliability of the report. He further argued that the company would see to it that it gave the maximum service while the test was being made and thus Justify itself. While the gas consumers of Hammond are ready to admit the soundness of the argument, still they say that it does not need the testimony of an expert to prove that Hammond is being robbed; that it is paying a high price for two thousand candle power service and only receiving half of that. A talk with a number of business men around town this morning shows that they are disgusted. They say that it Is not enough that the lighting is poor, the gas Is dirty and foul, or as Councilman Pascaly said at the meeting last Tuesday, "The gas is rotten." Jacob Schloer of State street sail this morning: "There is no use to wait for an expert Investigation. Some time ago I offered sufficient testimony to a member of the city council when I had the statement of one of the engineers, which was to the effect that they are never given orders at the plant to open the machinery in such a manner as to furnish the full two thousand candle power." NEW PROCESS EXPECTED TO REVOLUTIONIZE PHOTOGRAPHY Rensselaer Man Claim to Have Discovered Combination of Chemicals Which Will Make Light an Unimportant Factor In the Printing; of Pictures. (Special to Lake County Times.) Rensselaer, Feb. 5. Harry Parker, the Rensselaer photographer, claims ti have discovered a process whereby photographs can be printed without the aid of light. At least light is so unimportant a factor, that it i3 claimed as satisfactory results can be obtained on a dark day as on a bright one. If the process will accomplish all Mr. Parker believes it will, it will revolutionize the art of photography. Mr. Parker has spent much time perfecting his process. The discovery will do much for the business as one of the latter's chief drawbacks is the depend.r,rty rf t Vi a nhntnirrflnhfr on th "S ; ence & j tj . weatliex.