Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 5, Hammond, Lake County, 22 June 1907 — Page 1

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VOL. II .NO. 5. COUNCIL HAS Does Raft of Business Besides Making the Court House Appropriation HATER fi01PRESEflI Council Favors Bridge Improvement North Township Trustee's Absence Prevents Action. (Special to Luke County Times.) Crown Point, June 22. The county council yesterday, as announced in The Timeh, paved the way for the remodeling of the court house here, by appropriating ID0.000 with which to carry out the plans designed by Architect Beers. The appropriation was carried after a long and bitter fight lasting several hours, in which opposing factions in the council locked horns and refused to recede from their position, blocking the way to several urgent improvements in the county. Under the present law an appropriation cannot be passed on the same day it is received by the board, but must lie over to the following day for action. At the meeting Thursday the various appropriations were asked and during the intervening time an understanding was reached whereby the measures could be passed with little trouble. The vote on the court house appropriation was passed by the following vote: Yea Charles G. Wicker, Henry Seebauscn. Otto Ilildebrandt, Frank Seharbach and Lewis Tattee. No Albert Foster. "William G. Vater, th councilman from north township, was absent and liis vote was not recorded. Other Appropriations. The following other appropriations were also passed: Kepairs on Brown road in Cedar Creek township For widening of Jletzler road at Cedar Lako 300 430 For sheriff", salary, dieting prisoners, etc 6,000 For repairs at poor farm 200 For bridge at Jiobart 4,500 Fof typewriter in recorder's office 100 For "liana at court house, jail, , .-uitty-lau:i and superior court ... house '" " l" The appropriation of $5,000 as an additional sum to build the Columbia avenue bridge at Hammond was laid over to the regular meeting in September. It had been understood by some of the council that the Hammond, "Whiting & Fast Chicago Street ltail.vay company would immediately occupy the Columbia avenue bridge with their lines as soon as the structure was completed, and while it was the unanimous opinion of the board that the appropriation van badly needed and .should be passed, it was thought Lest to hold the matter up for a time, in the hope that j-rmngements could be made whereby the street ear company would pay either for the use of the bridge or contribute something towards its m air: -ta'.nence. The members of the council appeared much In favor of the improvement and would have passed it yesterday, it is said, had there been anyone from Hammond with the authority to assure them that the city council would make an effort to protect the county's interests in the granting of franchises. It will be but a short time when new bridges will have to be built over the Calumet river at Ilohman Street and Calumet avenue, and while the board is ready to pass appropriations for these whenever public, necessity demands it, they els.) feel that the street car people should not be granted free and unrestricted use of the structures. El III CUE BY HEAT The Hospital Authorities at South Chicago Steel Co. Kept on Jump. South Chicago. June 2 2. Twenty-five men employed in the various departments of the Illinois Steel company were overcome by the heat yesterday and were taken to the company's hospital at Eighty-eighth street and Mackinaw avenue, where they are being cared for by the steel company's physicians. In speaking to one of the men employed in the mills this morning, he said the heat through all of the departments there was something terrible and it was a wonder to him that more men were not overcome than were. He said some of the men would be working along with the sweat running down their faces, when all of a sudden they would recoil and fall backwards. It is said that yesterday when one of the men was overcome that lie fell backwards and only for the prompt presen.ee of mind of one of the men who caught him. he would have fallen into a pot of molten metal. The heat today has been something awful through the different factories. ar.d several men were seen to leave lheir work and go home, not being able t j stand the heat.

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FOUE EDITIONS DAILY. FAIR EXPERT WELL PLEASED W. I. Buchanan, Compliments Jamestown Exposition. GROUND SJBEAUTIFUL Virginians Are Determined to Make a Success of Big Show Even if it Takes All Summer. Korfolk, Va. The current number of Harper's Weekly says: The Jamestown exposition has been having a hard time with some New York papers of late. So as to settle the matter once and for all, and to get its certificate of character, it sent for "W. I. Buchanan, late of the Buffalo Pan-American exposition, and the right-hand man of David It. Francis at the St. Louis fair. Mr. Buchanan says that the character and scope of the exposition are vastlygreater and more extensive than he had anticipated; that there are indeed certain features of the exposition that are, in every sense, distinctly better than those of any exposition since Chicago, notably, the exhibits of the United States government; secondly, the States exhibit building, both of Itself and the exhibits it contains, he thinks, surpass and state exhibits heretofore attempted. Even if nothing more were done to the buildings and their contents than has been done when Mr. Buchanan was there, there would still be a show worth looking at, for he said, "there Is vastly more to be seen and enjoyed in architectural beauty, in landscape and water effects than any one has reason to expect." Meanwhile a great deal has been done. Between throe and four thousand men have been set to work completing the buildings, the roadways, walks and grounds. James M. Barr, the former successful president of the Seaboard Air Line railroad, has been made the head of the exposition, and a director of advertising has been appointed. Virginians are not excitable people; they never get nervous, and they do not hustle,. and. they . all, .go at. enterprises' slowly; but when they begin, they stick to it. This is the Virginia characteristic; that they never give up an enterprise, a cause, a friend or an enimity. If they take hold, they keep hold. The setbacks the exposition has received have taken effect to get up Virginia's fighting blood. The fair will be a greater success for the dull opening. As tilings stand now, it promises to be complete by the middle of June, and then If the incessant rain will stop a bit and the sun will shine, it will be difficult to imagine a more beautiful stretch of land than that lying along Sewell's Point, with the broad Hampton Roads waters stretching before it. the cool pines on either side, and the beautiful coppices of bay and laurel bushes, the beds of pansies, tulips, narcissus, rhododendrous and roses everywhere. Apart from all other exhibits the natural beauties are enough to attract visitors. It is impossible to give too much praise to Warren Manning, the Massachusetts man who laid out the lovely grounds and cleverly used all the wealth of indigenous plants and wild flowers that dei orate the earth about this locality. Even the wild Adamask lily carpets the charming thickets back of the Arts and Crafts village, and the mocking birds and cat birds sing and robbins and wrens twitter freely along the slashes. The offering the exposition makes to lovers of nature has, perhaps, been less dwelt upon than any other of its aspects, btu it is one important enough not to be overlooked. And to real lovers of nature the winding paths and natural lanes amongst the pines and live-oaks will always be more lovely than the most careful and beautiful of formal gardens. Although, there is a great deal to tempt the sightseer to the exposition and perhaps to an intelligent traveller the greatest sight will be that of the land and its people, for in few places in the United States has a type so long maintained without a mixture of alien strain, and Virginians are almost as definitely a neorde and a type as Frenchman or (rcrmans. i. huuuuicui.i o. birds sing and robins and wrens twitcosmopolitanism must invade them before many more generations pass; perhaps this very exposition will do its part toward obliterating the old; but while there remains a vestige of the OKI Virgina. as it once was, it is well worth a journey to see it. SAY ASSESSMENTS ARE TOO BIG. llailroads In Indiana File Appeal From Tax Hoard's Actiou. Indianapolis. June 21. The Pennsylvania. Big Four, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Grand Trunk, Grand Rapids and Indiana and a number of other big railroads in the state filed aypeals today from the assessment recent- i ly made by the state board of tax con- 1 missioners. The board boosted railroad assessments about $S, 000. 000., The ap peals staie uiai inese assessments a much higher proportionally than on other kinds of property in the state. Miss Mabel Wells of New York City, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Mrs. A. W. Sprague for the past week, has gone to Kouts to visit for several weeks.

THE BETTER HALF WIELDS FLAT IRQ Little Hubby Finds Wife Awaiting Him When He Arrives Home With Jag "South Chicago, ; June '"22. Domestic troubles reached a climax last night when Peter Soboth came home from his work in an intoxicated condition, his fond wife met him at the door and after reprimanding him. He by accident happened to laugh at her which caused her to go in a fit of rage in which she picked up a flat iron which she hurled at him with all the force she had at her command the iron striking him on the right side of his head indicting an ugly gash three inches long. Neighbors who reside near the Soboth family who live at 8717 Commercial avenue called up the police who sent an ambulance down bringing Soboth to the station where he was lodged over night. This morning he was released and re turned to his home. Whether or not he will take out a warrant for his wife's arrest is not known. The physician in attendance said last night if Soboth should get in another mixup the vound might break open which would cause h is death from loss oi DIOOU. Mrs. Soboth is a large woman while her husband is only a small fellow. At the station she said "I'll show him not to come home drunk every nignt and also handed out a few other kind remarks about him. 1 GIRL N M IHE STRAND Only Eighteen Years of Age, Police Take Girl From Dive Sent Home. South Chicago, June 22. Another white slave case came to the notice of the police last night when they located a young girl named Jennie Gills, who it is alleged, iias Deen held an inmate of Anderson's place on Harbor avenue against her will. The young girl who does not look to be over IS years old, was taken to the police station last night where she remained over the evening and today in company with the officers, went back to her home in South Bend. The girl was one of the most at tractive girls that was seen through the tenderloin district. It is said there are other girls who are being held through the resorts and the police will probably get busy in vestigating affairs that are said to ex ist along the levee. NEW FACTORY INSPECTOR. (Special to Lake County Time.) Indianapolis. Ind., June 22. Govere nor Hanly today announced the ap pointment of William E. Blakely of Shelbyville to succeed D. H. McAbee as state factory inspector for ten years. Blakely takes office July 1 and his appointment means an entire change in the office force. This will call for the resignation of J. H. Roberts, the deputy at South Bend.

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HAMMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY,

SECRETARY IN HIS NEW ROLE. ROSE FESTIVAL DRAWS HAllOilTES John Farson's Indiana Cel ebration Well Attended by Local Lights. The. -rose "t estiva fc the Indiana so-: ciety of Chicago, wh'ieh is to be held on the lawn at the home of John Farson in Oak Park, and which will be a notable society event because of the presence ,6f many Indiana celebrities, will be attended by twenty-five or thirty Hammond people. A carload of Indiana roses is on its way from Newcastle, Ind., and will reach Oak Park before the committee on decorations has completed its work. The perfumed fountain of which there has been so much said in the papers will be ready. The only official announcement of the day was in regard to attire. Women are invited to wear anything suitable for an outdoor or garden fete. The men are asked to wear summer outing suits, anything from serges to flannels. Program Looks AUurliifi. The official program containing the revised cast and list of musical numbers of "A Midsummer Night's Dream on the Wabash," the Nesbit-Moody operetta written for the occasion, was j received from the printer. Among the celebrities who will be present will be, Oeorge Ade Will J. Davis, George B. McCutcheon and James Whitcomb Riley. The TTnmmond nnrtv will le.ive for Chicago this ,ft, o,i ti,0 a i n iiv'v'i ran. ,iv no. i v will take a special train from the Wells street station annex at 8 p. m., arriv ing at Oak Park at S:20 p. m. Among those who will attend the festival from this city are: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deming, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Ibach, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Sharrer, A. M. Turner, Mrs. Mary Holm, Mr. and Mrs. Richard McIIle, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Betz, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gostlin, Mr. and Mrs. i Peter Crumpacker, Mr. and Mrs. II. B. Klingensmith, and Messrs. Fred Crum packer, Owen Crumpacker, Charles Wil son. Harvey Gostlin. Charles Crumpacker and Roscoe E. Woods. GAR IMS THE HMLMH CRASH Passengers Thrown Into a Panic in South Chicago No One Injured. South Chicago, June 22. A car on the Red line running from Sixty-third! street to South Deerlng, jumped the tracks at Eighty-sixth street and Su- j perior avenue today, throwing a num- j ber of passengers into a panic. The j car was bowling along at a rapid rate i when a slight obstacle on the line j threw the forward trucks f rora the rails and the rest of the car followed j suit, bouncing along the pavement. No I one was injured but all the passen- j gers received a severe shaking up. Many of the women screamed when, they received the shock and were only prevented from leaping from the car by a number of the male passengers, who remained cool. The accident caused a tie-up of the line for fully an hour.

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Russell in Washington Post. PUN EXERCISES FOR GRADUATION St. Patrick's School Diplomas to be Awarded Next Week To Give Play. South Chicago-,; June 22:--ThJ -'fifteenth annual graduation exercises of the St. Patricks Catholic school will be held Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at the Calumet theatre when 42 students will receive their diplomas form the respective grades. ' An elaborate program has been prepared and the students as well as the teachers are all working with a zeal towards making the affair a success. The fourteen graduates from the Eighth grade will present an operetta the "Merry Company" on Tuesday evening when on Thursday evening the high school graduates will present a play "Triumph of Justice" IS of the 2S graduates taking part in the play. This morning all of the graduates under their instructors went through tht ir parts and the youngsters certainly have their parts well learned. Following is a list of the Eighth giade graduates: Charles Ball, Tillle Dias, Marie Dickson, Mary Dowling, Catherine Dwyer, Stella Farley, Gertrude Finnegan. Geraid Garvev. William Henry, Helen ""B". afdl'" AUSl1" .r l. . T ... T- I t T f .. ! Harriet Aiccrea, joiiu iui-rinu, vjeoige Meyrick, Mary Murphy, Eleanor O C onnell, Loretta O'Halloran, Mary Reedy, John Pving. Mary Rogers. Elizabeth lWwan, l.awara van iteem. .unry ar lev, Catherine alcott, aiary Walsh and Margaret Winterfield. The graduates from the high school department of the institution are: George Dias, Lauretta Doyle, Earl Ellis, Alfred C. Hill, Catherine Linsky, Helen L. Loftus. Harriet P. Matthews, Nellie McNeff, Elizabeth McNulty, Catherine O'Hallborn. Mnry Roache, Timothy A. Rowan, Mary Shea and Mary IV. Smith. The classes that will receive their diplomas Tuesday and Wednesday nights are the largest that ever graduated at the St. Patrick's school and those affiliated with the institution are very enthusiastic, over the number that have received their preliminary education in the school. Within the last two years the average attendance of the school has picked up to a remarkable extent. O. Krinbill is having the interior of the telephone exchange re-arranged and redecorated. When finished the work will" add much to the attractiveness of the rooms as well as the comfort of the operators. OUR 10,000 CIRCULATION Is the fruit of a whole year of honest and persistent effort. Not a mushroom and bolstered up circulation, but a natural, healthy jfrowth acquired by "GIVING THE GENTLEMEN WHAT THEY WANTED"

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Dobins' Offer Followed by One From Minas Who Will Give $8,000. ALL IN THE BANDWAGON Meeting To Ee Called To Consider the Proposition and Success Seems Sure. The proposition to widen State street is gaining in popularity so fast that it appears nothing can st-p the improvement. Since George W. Dobins made the announcement that he would pay 13,000 towards defraying the expenses others have declared their Intention of helping along the proposed improve ment. The latest developments in the situ atlon are as follows: E. C. Minas announces that lie will give JS.000 towards the improvement W. H. Gostlin will give $2,750 for the 75 feet he owns. W. L. Rhode will give $500 and move his buildings back on the 25 feet he owns on West State street providing the street is widened to the state line. Offera Significant. The offers of E. C. Minas, who was re ported to be opposed to the plan, and of W. L. Rhode are significant. Minas is the most important property owner on the street and is also known as a con servative man so that his offer is all the more important. Rhode is presi dent of the board of public works and his influence in favor of the project is sure to be felt. A meeting of the property owners on State street will be held in the near future and the matter will be discus sed by them. So far there is no under standing as to which side the extra width will be taken fro mand this question will be one of the first to be con sidered. The spirit of progress that seems to possess the property owners is unpre cedented in Hammond. They are de termined that their street shall be the principal business street of the city and thy -are. : willing-. to .jiuaka.. a ...supremA sacrifice to accomplish their purpose. Opponltioii Dispelled. What little opposition there was has been dispelled by the enthusiasm of the supporters of the plan and all of the owners of realty on this street hav been convinced that what will cost rew nunureu uoiiars now win mean thousands in their pockets iu a few years. Mr. Minas said today, "It has been reported that I am opposed to th widening of State street. I will say right here that I am decidedly in favor of the plan and to back up my assertion, I will give $8,000 to defray the expenses of the improvement." "Father Side," Nnjn iiiia. "Of course I favor the plan to widen the street on the north side.T continued Mr. Minas, "because I think the cost to the property owners as a whole would be a great deal les3 and because I believe a resolution of the problem of deeper lots may be made a great deal easier on that side. However, I stand ready and willing to abide by the decision of all the property owners on the street and will not oppose the widening even If I have to move back my store." Many other of the property owners on the street have expressed themselves as favoring the plan and when the meeting of these men Is held it will be one of the most enthusiastic that has been held in a long time. An owner of property on State street is almost as loyal to his street as he is to his city and his determination to make this thoroughfare the great re tail center of the Calumet region is not likely to be easily thwarted. UNCONSCIOUS FOR THREE DAYS Victim of Supposed Assault Still in Comatose Condition at Hospital. South Chicago, June 22. Today is the third day that Paul Chanale has been unconscious at the South Chicago hos pital where he is being cared for. i It will be remembered that Thursday ! while crossing Green Bay avenue and ! Eighty-third street. Chanale was found j in an unconscious state and it was supj posed he had been overcome with the heat but now the hospital authorities 'are inclined to believe that he was the victim of an attempted murder as it is very seldom a person overcome by heat will remain unconscious for so long a time. The physician at the hospital this morning sail that he thought by evening Chanale would come around to a normal state ar.d if he did no serious results are anticipated. Your friend all read THE TIMES, just ask then to continue reading It and It will boost you for tbe Jamestown trip.

Contract Ssljscrilurs 9297 Strest Sales. 984 Tela!, Yesterday 10,281

ONE CENT PER COPY. HUE ROSE FOR urn am nnno !Uti!J uuru Law Abiding City for Twen ty-four Hours Deserving of the Emblem. ALL, ALL 13 PEACE Not Even a Plain Drunk to Mar the Quiet of Several Gliding Hours. Pin the white rose on the dreas jackets of the metropolitan police force of this city, for in twenty-four hours, the municipality of Hammond has beta free from even the slightest disorder, and not even a' report has been sent in from the officers on duty to mar the beautiful quiet of the fln June day. Not a wheel stirred from 1:30 o'clock Friday until late this af ternoon and the only thing that was new at the police station was Secrets ry Charlie See, returned from hia vacation, and nn Ice water cooler, in stalled by Captain Bund this moraing. The unusual quiet astounded th whole force from Chief Rimbach down the line, as for the past few weeks there was business enough for all. and more too. While other cities, larger and smaller in population and territory were reveling in crime, drunkenness and accidents, nothing occurred to mar the serenity of Hammond. Last Right the streets were full of people as usual. business went on at the same old stands and Hammond did not present any different arpearance from any other week day night. Nary a Itlae But as it turned out, not a luckless individual took too much aboard although the weather was hot, and so the drunk record was squashed. The temper and equanimity of the populace was not disturbed although the starch disappeared from the immaculate shirt front during the heat of yesterday and today, and straw bats were at a premium. With the air full of delayed strike rumors and charged with stories of the rise of food proIduetsjyie woyhl naturally think, that at least Bill Jones of the nurth flUta, ' would mix with Torn Smith of the south side as they discussed the situations over their evening tub of suds and eo get thrown into the limelight, but no such thing happened. So the police are joyful and the good citizens of Hammond proud that they have such a clean municipality, where 25,000 people live in peace and harmony w-ith themselves, their wives and ramliles. anl tor that reason a, delegation of citizens are to pin ' a white rose, meaning purity, on the coats of the executive force of the city. Even Judge MeMahan felt the sway of quiet and continued what few continued cases came before him until some future day. THEATRE EMPLOYES EHTERTAIH PATRONS Closing of Season at Towle's to be Benefit for the Local Union. Hammond local No. 23 of the Theat rical Stage Employes union have been given the run of Towle's opera house for Sunday night, the closing of the season, and will give a benefit performance. Although it is hot weather tho union has rented a number of electric fans and will give a guarantee with each paid admission to keep the holder cool and well entertained, too. Booking Manager "Wingfield of the Grand opera house of Chicago has secured eight teams, from the Majestic, Olympic and other vaudeville houses of the city and has guaranteed the union here a strong program of high, class vaudeville. The features are: 1. The dainty little commedienne, Fanny Plumb. 2. The Esterbrooks, novelty instrumentalists. 3. Robish Childres3 & Co., in the newauto sketch. "The High Pressure Life." 4. The Great Eldredge, celebrated sand artist. 5. W. S. Gill and Edith Talbott. in the bright comedy sketch. "Her LittleGame." 6. Harry Holman, the man in red. 7. Dawson and Whltefield, high class singing and dancing sketch artists. S. Charles Saunders, the Man of the Hour a real entertainer. (Special to Iake County Time.) Indianapolis, Ind., June 22. Articles of incorporation were today filed with the secretary of state for the incorporation of the Garl real estate board. There was r.o capital. The directors named were Thomas E. Knotts, Max Klrschman and George T. Booker. 4 o WKATIICK FORECAST. . - Continued wnrm and crntrt eraily fair tonight and Sunday, except local tbuudrrntorm.

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