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Indianapolis Correspondent Sees Our Dirty Back Yard as we See it.

CAH'T EXAGGERATE IT Imagination Balks This Time Facts Are Bad Enough Hammond Spared for Once. Billy Blodgett of the Indianapolis News was in the city the other day and after a visit to West Hammond he became inspired and penned a word pictrue what he saw there. Usually the lake breezes which blow over this section of the state have the effect of stimulating Billy's Imagination, but when he got over in West Hammond he found such a condiatlon of affairs that even lie was contented with a recital of the plain facts. The following in part is what he told the people of Abo Martin's town about Hammond's next door neighbor: "There is not a place in Indiana where the people and the authorities would stand a single day for what is regarded as all right here. The Indiana authorities have closed the big poolroom near Hammond, and the Chicago gamblers will go there, no more. And this place reflects on Hammond, Ind., because you step across the street and you are in West Hammond, 111. It is - only a few feet from the thrift and business of Hammond, Ind., to the wickedness and mistiness of West Hammond, 111. The dividing line is marked by a saloon you leave a saloon on the Indiana side and a saloon greets you on the Illinois side. And the Illinois authorities do not raise a hand to curb the licentiousness and sin. and the open and notorious violations of all laws going on in Hammond, 111. "This village is inhabited by foreigners, the majority of whom, however, have become American citizens for voting purposes. The principal street In tho place is long and wide and Is a - continuation of - one ,of the well-paved thoroughfares of Hammond, Ind. There are a few business houses in this street not many, but it is lined from one end to tho other with saloons, and eight of these saloons have disreputable houses . attached to them. Seven of them are are a few business houses in this street, In the village. Another is in a back street, and is a saloon and resort combined. Two more have no saloons attached. Scum of Other l'rts. "The Indiana authorities. In a meassure, regulate the towns of Whiting, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and other villages which are located in this territory, and the disreputable element flocks to West Hammond, 111. "And It was openly charged that the vllage authorities were levying toll on tho disreputable houses, the law-defying saloons and the gambling-houses. These places are dives of tho worst sort. There are no places in Indiana like them. The front part of the building is generally a saloon, kept by some foreigner, and men are the managers of the places the back part of the building being houses of ill-repute. The unfortunate inmates are recruited from the foreign class in Chicago and other large cities by a band of scoundrels in Chicago, who make procuring a business. These places have highsounding names suc'n as "The Mecca," "The Vestibule," "The Silver Dollar," "The Nonpareil." "Tho Last Stop." etc. These places, it Is asserted, paid from 1C to 1 25 a week each for protection, and it is declared, too. that a portion of this money was taken from the unfortunate women. "I learned that a former ad mlnlaf rn. tion looked after these dives with paternal interest. The notorious character of the places, their immunity from Interference by the village authorities, caused tho dangerous and disreputable element for miles around here to flock Into West Hammond. So two special officers were appointed to see that the laws were enforced well, hardly. The business of these special officers was to look after the visitors who would start a rough house in any of the dives. In other words, they were resort policemen, nothing else. Crime was Ttnmoant. "Men were beaten and robbed in these resorts .and no arrests followed. If a murder occurred, of course, the authorties had to act, but a mere robbery, hold-up, sand-bagging scrap, or a murderous tight, was not worth looking , after. Consequently tho village filled up with murderers and thugs. Hold-up men abounded, and burglars would hide here in the daytime and go elsewhere to work at night they did not wish to rob each other here. West Hammond became a danger spot avoided by people after night. "There are citizens of West Hammond who don't approve of the way things were carried on here, and so a citizens' ticket, made up of good men, was nominated. The citizens' ticket was opposed to graft, protection of law breakers; in fact, opposed to about everything that had been done under the Peter Mak administration. The people behind the citizens' ticket desired to stop the notorious Sunday carousals and drunken fights they desired something done to stop the turning of Sunday Into a day of hideous revelry and drunken debauchery In the streets and within the dives of West Hammond. So the election was held. The Pollacks, th Hunyaks, every kind of a foreijraet

More Details Regarding New Terminal Station Leak Out.

PROJECT IS LARGE ONE LaSalle Street Station Would Be Abandoned and Loop Would Extend to Polk Street. According to reports from authoritative sources, there is a new important feature to the new passenger station project of the Chicago & Western Indiana road at Polk street. It is nothing less than an effort to realize the plan for Frederic A. Delano, president of the Wabash road, for a great new union passenger station extending from State street west to the river. The present plan differs from that of Mr. Delano only in that he proposed to locate the station either on Twelfth or Taylor streets. The proposed new station is also to extend on the east only. to the present east line of Plymouth place, but in all practical essentials it carries out Mr. Delano's general plan. The plans also contemplate the extension of the Union loop to Polk street, and the widening of the latter from sixty-six feet, its present width, to 166 feet, making it the broadest business thoroughfare in the city. Many Hoads In Plan. As far as known present plans contemplate the entrance Into the proposed station of the roads now entering tho Bock Island and Lake Shoro station at- Van Buren and LaSalle street, those entering the Grand Central station at Harrison street and Fifth avenue, in adidtion to the roads now entering the present Polk street station. It is also intimated that the Pensylvania road may decide to enter the station, and this is thought to explain the persistent rumor that this road was planning for a new passenger terminal in .this district. It is stated that anything approaching a tangible agreement or understanding among the interested roads has not yet been reached, but it is also stated positively that the Bock Island and Lake Shore roads, which heretofore have been a pronounced stumbling block to the project, now have it under serious consideration, and It is thought there is a good chance of their pronouncing in its favor. Mew Location a Feature. The general belief has been that they would be slow to abandon their present location by reason of the advantage it possesses because of its nearness to the busines center and the fact of its being on the line of the Union loop. It is known, however, that they, with the other roads entering there, the Nickel Plate and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, have been badly cramped for room, and by dropping back to Polk street they could devote the present station building entirely to office purposes and would also have much valuable land at their disposal tor additional omce use or sale. Crowd- I ed conditions would be at an end, and the extension of the loop to Polk street would furnish their patrons with practically as good transportation facilities for reaching them as are now had. Property Well In Hand. As stated before, the plans for the new Western Indiana station reach the east to the present eastern line of Plymouth place. The road now owns all the Plymouth place frontage on the east side of the street. Its plan is to have this used for street purposes and occupy the present Plymouth place with Its station. It has bought four lots comprising 100 feet frontage on the west side of State street opposite Peck court, and it will use this for access to the station at that point. It plans to occupy Custom House place, and the property on the east side of Clark street now occupied as a freight warehouse by the Wabash road will from a part of the site of the new station. The plans are said to contemplate viaducts twenty feet high over Clark street and Fifth avenue, and to use the space under the streets in some oases for railway tracks and in others for teams to reach the freight houses. PATRICK REILLEY IMPROVES. Ex-Mayor Hellley who was operated on last Saturday for cancer is getting along very nicely at St. Margaret'shospital according to reports this afternoon. Attorney W. J. McAleer has been requested to deliver the commencement oration before the Valparaiso normal school law class June 14, at S o'clock. the man of every nation, walked up to the polls and defeated the citizens' ticket. "If the Illinois authorities would put forth half the effort that the Indiana authorities do. West Hammond would cease to be a stigma and a disgrace. No Western mining camp couli be worse. There Is nothing in Indiana like it." Start an cndleaa chain, It vrill reach to JauMtovB.

TO SETTLE FATE OFJJWTOH DAY President's Answer to G. A. R.'s Protest Against Visit is Expected Today. Indianapolis, April 19. Special. Probably today will decide whether the elaborate exercises that have been arranged for the unveiling of the Lawton monument here in Indianapolis, on Memorial daJr. wBl go through as planned, or whether, by the refusal of the president to attend and make the principal speech, the whole program will be spoiled, as is feared. The president has not yet refused to attend the celebration, but there is a grave possibility that he will do so. Today it is expected that Z. T. Landers, one of the old soldiers who has led the opposition to the president's appearance here on that day, will get from the president or his secretary a written reply to the protest that Landers sent the president, asking that he not interfere with the regular Memorial da- exercises by speaking at the Lawton unveiling. This contention has been waging for some weeks. The Lawton committee arranged for the unveiling on Memorial day without consulting with the old soldiers and they resented the arrangements, on the ground that the fact of the president's speech here would tend to spoil many of the regular Memorial day celebration all over the state, as well as in Indianapolis. While, after some debate the conservative members of the organization prevented that body from sending a formal protest to the president, yet there was no way to prevent one of the comrades, acting in his individual capacity, from sending what protests he wanted to. So Landers wrote around to the different posts In the state, asking what resolutions they had adopted against the Lawton program and the president's speech, and on last Monday, he telegraphed to the president, asking if the president wanted to be advised as to the situation. On Tuesday he received a telegram from William Loeb, jr., the president's secretary, asking that the information be sent. And Landers sent it that night. Today the letter giving the president's conclusion, in the light of all the circumstances .is expected to be received here. Dispatches from Washington are to the effect that the letter is written. The contents of the letter are not known. On the whole, however, inasmuch as the president has gone so far with this engagement, there Is an impression he will keep it. despite the G. A. R. trouble, and will come here on the day set, unveil the monument, and deliver the speech on which he has been working for some time. It is understood that in this speech, u will take up the railroad rate situ tion. though in a general way, it will probably be a Memorial day address. This part of the speech will proab center around Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's war governor. TONS OF MEAT ON THE STREET. Nine thousandeight hundred pounds of meat were dumped out on the main street of Whiting this morning when one of the wagons of the Nels Morris company was overturned at the corner where the cars turn to go to East Chicago. The driver was not injured for he was able to jump when he saw that the wagon was about to turn over. Traffic on the Hammond. Whiting and East Chicago street railroad was delayed for several hours while the wagon was being removed. The accident was caused by the street car tracks which broke one of the wheels of the wagon when the driver tried to turn out.

UNCLE SAM MUST ADVERTISE FOR A MAN. Carrier Who Taken Mail at St. John From Postotflce to Depot Dlsantls11 ed With Pay, Resigns. (Special to Lake County Times.) St. John, April 18. That Uncle Sam still has positions that go begging for the man is proved by a recent notice

that he has posted here asking for a. i mall earner to carry the mail from the postofflce to the depot and back twice a day. For this work he offers $120 a year. Nobody wants the plum. It's all kernel and skin and no meat. John Miller, jr., has held the Job for a long time but had decided that the walking back and forth is -worth at least $12 a month and Uncle Sam being too tight, he resigned. The working hours are from 8:30 in the morning until 10:15 in the forenoon and from 4 in the aftV;voon. until 5, pro"vlded the trains are not late. ARRESTED AFTER TWO YEARS. Walter Craig was arrested in West Hammond last night by Officer Kulczyk on a charge of larceny sworn out by Mrs. Anna Burke who alleges that nearly two years ago Craig robbed her cash register of $75. After she had taken out a warrant for his arrest Craig made his escape and only yesterday showed up in the village where he was immediately arrested. Craig will have a hearing this afternoon before Judge Flynn as the village hall. THIS MAY BE THE REASON. Telegrams Between Bovernor and Sheriff Explain Hanly's Cause for Ignoring Carter In Dearborn Park Matter. With the utmost confidence in Sheriff Fred S. Carter's zeal and conscienciousness in the discharge of the duties of his office as provided by law and as he saw them with a keen eye, the people who elected him were surprised and in a measure chargrined when Governor Frank J. Hanly went over the head of the local executive and commissioned the chief of police to officiate at the closing of the Dearborn park pool room. If the alleged text of Mr. Carter's response to Governor Hanly's request for information as to the operations of the ship. City of Thaverse os correct, the apparent slight may be explained. The telegram follows: F. S. Carter, Sheriff Lake County. Ind. I would like to have you inform me if the gambling ship. City of Traverse, is sailing in Indiana waters. Yours respectfully, J. FRANK HANLY, Governor. J. Frank Hanly, Governor, Indianapolis. Send me a pair of hip boots and I'll wade out and see. Yours respectfully, F. S. CARTER, Sheriff of Lake County. NEW DEPOT AT LA PORTE. Lake Shore Will Begin Work On It at Onee. LaPorte is to have a new Lake Shore depot a modern structure one in keeping with a city which does things. The decision was reached yesterday. It followed the visit to LaPorte yesterday afternoon of the party of Lake Shore officials entrusted with the making of a decision. That they acted with consummate wisdom in deciding to give LaPorte a modern station house goes without saying. Emphasis is given the decision to build by the statement of John Magnuson, of Elkhart, who was detailed here to superintend the erection of the freight depot, that his orders are to remain here until the new passenger house is completed. It is the opinion of Mr. Magnuson, expressed this morning that actual building operations will be put under way within six weeks. In the meantime there will be deliveries of materials. gnbecrib to Tke I.alts Coaviy Ttza.

Jamieson in Pittsburg Dispatch.

COREY SEES GARY; ISSJMIAN? SH! Hears Report That Superintendent Gleason is Not Getting Results. W. E. Corey, president of the United States Steel company, spent a day of activity and pleasure in Chicajro yesterday. With a party of other New Yorkers he arrived early in ths morning over the Lake Shore railroad, and after breakfast made a flying Inspection of the Illinois S?teel company mills in Chicago. The afternoon was spent in conference with the officials of. ibe steel company, and the visit vvaa terminated by an all night party said to be a poker game in clubroom 6 at tho York this morning. The business purpose in Mr. Corey's visit was to hear reports regarding the work at Gary, Ind., where the steel company has located its industrial city. Since reports that he is engaged to marry Mabelle Oilman the actress, on May 7 gained circulation Mr. Corey has refused to see reporters. E. J. Buffington, president of the Illinois Steel company, however, denied a rumor that John F. Stevens, who has been in charge of the government work on the Panama canal and has gone to New York, is to be placed at the head of the construction work of Gary. Charges that Superintendent Gleason has not been getting the best results with funds at his command have been made, and these were thrashed over at the conference. It is also said that the resignation of Vice President Thorpe was submitted to Mr. Corey. On the question of the franchise ordinances which the United States Steel company officials are trying to get from the Gary board of trustees, neither Attorney William Duff Haynie nor Mr. Bufflington would say a word. Mr. Corey would not discuss his relations with Mabelle Gilman. MICKELS TRAGEDY REVEALS VICTIM'S SORDID LIFE. Was Illark Sbeep of the Family and Given up as Hopeless by Father and Brother; Latter Identltfy Him at Emmerling's. George Mickels, the unfortunate Chicago man who met his death in the Erie yards last Wednesday evening was definitely identified this morning when his father and brother arrived at Emmerling's morgue where the remains are being prepared for burial. The deceased, a young .man only 22 years was the black sheep In the family and although his death is mourned by his family, still there is satisfaction for them to know where he is. To his mother he was only the wandering boy who would return someday and mend his ways while the father and brother had given him up as hopeless. He left Cihcago yefcterday morning although his folks knew nothing of it and nobody with the exception of the two men who were with him and fled after the accident knew where he was bound for. He was without a cent of money and dressed shabbily. The remains will be taken to Chicago tomorrow morning and buried in the family lot in Rose Hill cemetery. NEED ANOTHER INSPECTOR. The entire village board of West Hammond, headed y L. Marshinski, the sewer inspector, went over the work that has been done and found everything coming up to the specified requirements. At the next meeting of the board of local improvements another sewer inspector will be appointed, as the work by that time will be advanced bo far that it will require another man. Ask the family upstairs to subscribe. It's your firat steo toward Jaineatowa.

Jamestown Outdoes Chicago, Paris, Buffalo, and St. Louis in Many Ways

LOCATION UNSURPASSED Situated on the Shores and Waters of the Nation's Finest Harbors. No exposition has ever had so large, varied and able exploitation as the Jamestown exposition. The matter that has been sent out by the press and publicity bureau of this enterprise has not alone served the purpose of exploitation but has been made the subject of editorial notice in some of our best newspapers. If some of those who claimed exaggeration could visit the site of the Jamestown exposition at this time even its still incomplete condition they would readily agree that a degree of enthusiasm is permissible in the premises, and that so far from being exaggerated in the matter of exploitation, the half has not really been told. The claim has been made that this will be the greatest exposition yet held; not the greatest industrially, financially, commercially, or artistically, but simply as a whole the greatest exposition. Whether it be Paris, Chicago, St. Louis or Buffalo the visitor to Jamestown may have in mind, he will find here features of surpassing and altogether novel interest. He will find novelty, originality and a striking contrast to all his exposition experience. He knows that the inspiration of the enterprise is the most romantic and eventful chapter of the nation's history. He will find an environment the most historical of any section of the United States, one wherein the patriot may find Inspiration and the poet a theme. He will find a score of points ef natural interest,-sufficient of themselves to make the trip worth while. In the great international, naval and military displays he will be offered a splendid pageant never before equalled in this country. Exposition Ilrlefs. Exposition grounds reached by electric railway, steam railway and steamship. Government buildings on exposition grounds open at 9 o'clock in the morning and close at 6 o'clock in the evening. Location, north snores and waters of Hampton Roads, near Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and Old Point Comfort, Virginia. Exposition company headquarters, Norfolk, Va. Exposition area five hundred acres of land and ten thousand acres of Hampton Roads. . The Jamestown exposition has three miles of water front two and a half miles on Hampton Roads and half a mile on Boush creek. Two sides of the exposition grounds are enclosed by a high wire fence, covered with honeysuckle, crimson rambler rose and trumpet creeper vines. The exposition's great military drill plain contains thirty acres, surrounded by trees and pretty walks. ONLY THE STATE MAY LICENSE AUTOMOBILES. Omission of Clause In vr Law Prohibits Cities and Towns from Levying Tax on One of the Luxuries of the Age. (Special to Lake County Times.) Indianapolis, April 19. It appears that the different local ordinances in the several cities and towns of the state with reference to the licensing of motor vehicles are worth as much as the white paper they are printed on and no more. This is owing to the amendment to the 1905 motor vehicle law that was passed by the general assembly of 1907. In section 10 of the motor vehicle law of 1905, provision was made for the numbering, the registering of these vehicles, and the payment of a fee of one dollar. Then there was a clause to the effect that no other fee should be charged, except that any city or town could charge a fee from the owners of machines who lived in that city or town. Now the 1907 law amended this section. The object In amending it was in order to proscribe a different system and series of numbering, and it was thought that this was the only result accomplished by the law. But Investigation shows the matter up differently. That part of the section with reference to the change in the system of numbering was amended all right; but that clause which gives the local authorities the right to tax the motor vehicles In their home towns was omitted. With the result that so far as can be ascertained, no town or city has the right to lay any tax on any automobile in that city. The state alone, under the 1907 law, has the right to tax and regulate them. This Is the opinion of the city attorney of Indianapolis, who was anxious, for the sake of the city treasury, to find the opposite result the true one.

SKINT Chicago Sleuths Stalk West ..Hammond to Latter 's Consternation.

MISSION JMYSTERIOUS Believed To Be Allies of State's Attorney Healy Is Suppression of Dives Next ? What was the mission of the fiva Chicago policeman who visited West Hammond last night, is the question that is bothering the dive keepers and saloon men. It is known to be a fact that there were five plain clothes men out taking In every saloon and dive in West Hammond last night, although they used every means to keep the matter quiet and not betray their real occupation, as moxt f them were posing as well-to-do sprts, but one of the men who had his coat unbuttoned was attacked by a sneezing lit outside one of the dives and his coat flew back, revealing a large star. He was then aeosted by a Times reporter, who asked him the object of his visit to the village, but he refused to say anything more than, "it is nobody's business by my own." The officer then walked away and was joined by another officer. It is known to be a fact that the plain clothes men were in every dive and saloon in the village, and it was aso noticed that when once outside, the men would mark down something in their memorandum books, probably the number of the saloon to be used for reference. The only plausible explanation is that the men were sent out to West Hammond by State's Attorney Healey to make a canvass of the dives and learn the. true state of affairs that are existing In the village. Village Attorney S. K. Markman has taken the matter before the states attorney, and the latter has assured Markman he would make a personal investigation, and If conditions like those reported to him were found to exist In the dives they would be put out of .business after May 1, as all of their licenses expired at that time. Only a few of the saloon and divo keepers were aware that the men were out last night and then not until after they had made the rounds. About 12 o'clock last night it was generally known over the red light district that Healey had men out, and from then on everything around the dives was quiet and orderly, but the word was not passed around quickly enough, as tho Chicago men had completed their work before their mission was discovered. They were around the village until early this morning, however. The West Hammond police admit that Chicago officers were out, but said they did not know what they were doing. MACHINERY COMES TODAY. Lake Construction Company 'Will Install a Consignment at Onee. The machinery for the Lake Construction company arrived in Hammond this morning from Lockport, 111., where the company formerly maintained a plant for the construction of cement building blocks. The machinery is being installed as fast as possible and the company expects to be in running order, by the middle of next week. As soon as enough cement blocks can be manufactured to fill current contracts, the company will start manufacturing more to be used in erecting their new plant on the north side, which will be much larger than the one formerly maintained at Lockport. CEMENT WALKS FOR H0HMAN STREET TO THE CEMETERY. Board of Public Works Decided to Authorize MnkliiK the Improvement Latter to Kjtend Past City's Harrison Park Frontage. At the meeting of the board of public works this morning it was decided to authorize the building of cement walks along the entire east side of Hohman street to the cematery. This will Include all of the city's Harrison park frontage and will result in the building of cement walks of uniform width and grade all the way out to the ridge road. The improvement was decided upon on account of the large number of people who are compelled to use the walk in going to and from the cemetary and also for the reason that the neighborhood i3 building up so rapidly that it will very soon be impossible to get along without it. The bids on the West Detroit Detroit street sewer were received and all rejected for the reason that thejr were at least $27 from the estimate. Another Important action was th authorizing of the paving of all of the alleys in the business district. This will not only make the city more sanitary, but will enable the alleys to carry some of the heavy traffic that the streets are now compelled to carry. Final results of the ball game la THE LAICE COUNTY TIMES Sporting Extra.