Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 96, Hammond, Lake County, 9 October 1907 — Page 1
THE
1 llvJi JhdO
SMSiIes -1410 'EDITION tV0L. II NO. 96. FOUR EDITIONS DAILY. HAMMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1907. ONE CENT PER COPY, FED HOME SE BASEMENT SHE LOVES HIM STILL. NEGROES FIGHT WITH RAZORS 111 BED Desperate Battle Between Room-mates Results in One Being Badly Hurt. L BLUED FOR Plan to Accommodate Riverside Overflow in Lafayette Cellar Dissented. STEEL Gil! LOCAL ILL!
OPPO
LOW VALUES
SCHQQ
ROOM
BUILDERS
.Gary Already Confronted by Problem of Where to
House Its PopulationCompany Only to Care for Its Own. RESIDENCE PROPERTY AS YET T This Will Offer the Next Stamping Ground for Eeal Estate MenCommercial Club looked to Solve the Problem in Its Usual Masterful Manner. (Special to Lake County Times.) Gary, Ind., Oct. 9. "Gary needs home builders." That in a. nutshell is the cry that is going up from the new steel city. And there is no one wno appreciates the fact more than Captain Norton, who is in charge of the properties of the Gary Land company. A great many people have been under the impression that the United States Steel company never expected to build the whole city of Gary. This Is a mistake. Nearly all of the business blocks have been built by private capital but in the residence almost all of the houses have been built by the land company. , These houses are model dwellings in every particular and may be either rented or purchased by the officials and employes of the Indiana. Steel company. But what about the outsiders? What aboui the grocers, the meat men, the lawyers, doctors, the thousands of people wl'- TsWrry on the commerce of a great mrtiicipallty. - The UjiTd States" S corporation Will not take the responsibility 'of furnishing these people with homes. It will sell them lots in the various additions to Gary, but it will not build houses. The population of Gary is increasing by leaps and bounds. It was 5,000 six months ago, it is 10,000 now. In a few months when the mills open other thousands will come into the city to be employed there and these will be in addition to the men that will still be employed in the building of the city and in the completing of the plant. Where are they all to find homes? Is the greatest problem that remains to bo solved. To the investors who have so far come into the city it has been business property that has ap pealed to them moat. Business property had a greater speculative value and that ia why con eervmive t-siuienis um not 100K so attractive. However, the period of speculation will soon be over. Already values have been so nearly determined in the heart of the new city that the purchaser ia compelled to pay all that a piece of land is worth. This will tend to direct the atetntion of the investor to residence property and it is expected that before the boginning of next year the house prob lem will solve Itself. In the outer portions of the city however, there Is still property the value of which has not been as defin itely determined a3 it has in town and this may prove the next grazing ground for the real estate men. It is this uncertainty about the mat ter of inducing Garyites to build homes that worries the officials of the isteel corporation and they are having all they can do to tftrn the attention of possible purchasers from the bus! ness district to the residence portions of the city. The solution of the problem will be undertaken in the same masterful way that all of the other problems in Gary have been solved. Gary has a Com merciai ciuo mat carefully watches such things and with a full knowlede-e of all of the other cities of the Calumet region they know Hammond, Indiana Harbor, East Chicago, Whiting and South Chicago will bo strong bidders f,-.r Gary's surplus population unless Gary itself takes care of it. Today'. DETROIT. Jones, If. Schaefer, 2b. Crawford, cf. Cobb. rf. Rossman, lb. Coirghlin, 3b. Payne, c O'Leary, ss. Mullin, p.
i
Umpires Sheridan and O'Day.
1-23
Detroit 0O10EDIEll3ElOaP Chicaso ED E3E3O01E9EZ1QQQ Batteries MuUla and Payne; Pfeister and Kilns.
PARENTS ARE UP IN ARMS Trustee Joseph Ibach Declares Newly Appointed Apartments Are Perfectly Sanitary. There is trouble brewing for the Hammond school board. It promises to com from the Riverside school, where there is a congestion and. a consequent overflow of children. To remedy this, the school board has arranged quarters in the basement of the Lafayette school to accommodate the overflow. The mothers of the children that will have to be transferred are fearing that the basement in the Lafayette school is unsanitary on account of dampness. The mothers in question declare they will leave no stone unturned to bring about a change the school board's arrangement.
They intend to appoint a spokesman whose duty it will be to visit every member of the school board if necessary and the members of the health board as well, to prevent the putting nto practice of the objectionable plan. Says Rooms Are Sanitary. Speaking of the Lafayette basement as a school room, jos. iDacn, a member of the school board, said today: "We have been approached by vari ous persons within the Riverside school district on this matter and while we feel sorry that we can not house the children of Hammond under Ideal cir cumstances, we are doing the best we can with limited space and funds. "The Lafayette basement is, accord ing to the board of health and in our opinion, as healthy as any other part of the building. While in the upper stories the bricks are plastered we have left an air chamber in the base ment walla and to remedy the defects of the basement floor we have laid one frame floor on the cement and created air chambers by laying a second floor above the first and laying the cement on the second floor." 10 BUILD ALL WINTER Liuch the Intention at Gary Especially if Weather Remains Open. (Special to Lake County Times.) Gary, Ind., Oct. 9. A prominent con tractor in this city said today that he was of the opinion that building op erations would continue throughout the city during the whole winter. This will be true especially if there is an open winter like that of last year. As many concrete foundations will be put in as is possible before the frost makes this work dangerous, and then the brick walls will be built as the weather permits. This will not only facilitate the building of business blocks that are so badly needed to accommodate the various business houses that want lo cations, but it will give employment to the bricklayers and in this manner keep them together in Gary until the spring building activities are renewed. With the 140 business blocks that are to be built in the spring and the many tuner worKs or construction that are contemplated, Gary will need brick layers in great numbers, and any plan will serve to keep them employed dur lng the winter is regarded as a good thing for the city. As far as the grading and other work is concerned that will continue as long as the men are able to work All of this is important to the labo tiemi-ui. ui me city ior 11 assures tnem of worK as long as the weather will permit. FOUR YOUNG HORSE THIEVES Rockvllle, Ind., Oct. 9. Four bov I I 1 f . . . . . . , rangiuK " in. m 3 IO n years, are ! under arrest in this city on the chartre of horse-stealing. I W E A T H K 11 Pair tonight I Thurday cooler tonight. and n n Lineup. CHICAGO. Slagle, cf Sheckard, If. Chance, lb. Steinfeldt, Sb. Kilns, c. Evers, 2b Sehulte, rf. Tinker, ss. Fflester, p. 45ft 7R (l 10 11 R H
r in
SATURDAY
'S GAME THE CRUCIAL TEST Hammond and Michigan City Football Contest Oct. 12, Will Tell. ON THIS RESTS CHAMPIONSHIP Tabulated List of Facts About Rival Teams Shows What to Expect of Each. The football game that la to be played between the teams representing the Hammond and the Michigan City high schools, next Saturday, is the crucial one of the season and the outcome of it will largely determine the winner of the championship of northern Indiana. In fact the Hammond players look upon this game as the most important one on their schedule, and will put in their very best men and play their hardest to win. When the high school boys went to Michigan City and managed to tie the speedy team from that city, the average person, unacquainted with the dope, was surprised. The people of Hammond wondered how the Hammond boys managed to do it and they kept on wondering until the same team went to Valparaiso and not only defated the high school boys there, but defeated them badly. Chance to Win Championship. Then it became apparent that the Hammond team was above the average, and that there was a chance to Win the championship of the northern part of the state. The game next Saturday will either show the ability or the lack of it, of the Hammond players to consistently play their way to the top of the ladder and that is why the game next Saturday is almost the sole topic of conversation among the football players here. For the purpose of comparison and at the request of one of the Hammond high school players, the Lake County Times telephoned to Paul Kreuger, the captain of the Michigan City football team and secured a tabulated list of facts about the Michigan City team. This is printed herewith together with the same facts about the Hammond team and a comparison of the two teams may be easily made. Hammond lineup: Name. Position. Weight Elliot, le 137 Ebert (Cap.). It 204 Parsons, lg... 139 Exp. 3 2 3 2 1 3 4 4 3 1 2 1 1 4 Yr. OS 09 '0 Hamer. c 152 Rlosser. rg 156 Belanyi, t 175 Quigg. e 149 Summers, q b 133 Hunter, r h b L5S Tedder, f b 155 Kennedy, 1 h b 156 Minard, c 141 Murray, r t 166 Graves, r g 127 Meyn. e and h b 129 Huffman, 2 b 115 Zoll. g 149 'OS j 11 OS OS '09 '09 OS 10 10 09 ! 10 '09 Michigan City lineup: Weight . . .12S Age. 17 Artfcuir Krause, r e. Leo Daggy. r t Herbert Lautman, r g Ralph Parks, c Edgar Coonrad. 1 g Amen Lindemann, 1 t Ernest Dunn. 1 e Walter Krueger, q b P Krueger (Cap.), 1 h b. . . Lee Gutsgell. f b Norman Manny, r h b Substitutes Warlcentine, C. Dunn, Frederick Hough.
165 18 159 IS 161 17 i 157 16,' 173 19 156 18 135 19 160 17 152 18 154 18
Heilsmidt,
LUKE COUNTY BTH II SOBBEROF VOTERS Remarkable Growth of Region Indicated by Sexennial Enumeration.
19,547 QIJALIFIED TO VOTE Marion Leads With 72,986 Enfranchised Citizens Vigo, Has 6,640 More Than Lake. (Special to Lake County Times.) Indianapolis, ind., Sept. 9. The remarkable growth of Lake county is ap parent when a careful inspection of the report of John F. Reed, who has just completed the compiling of the sextennial enumeration of voters is ex amined. There are only five counties In the state that have a larger number of voters than Lake county. Those are Marion, in which Indianapolis is located, which is credited with 72,986; Vigo county in which Terre Haute is located, with 25,187; Allen county in which Fort Wayne is located, with 23,916 voters; St. Joseph county in which South Bend is located, with 21,141; Vanderburg county in which Evansville is located, with 21,057; Lake county is next, with 19,547. Marion county of course is away head of Lake county, but ouside of this the next in size is Vigo county which only leads Lake county by 6,640 voters. The census just completed will be used by the legislature of 1909 in reapportioning the senators and represenatives of the state. The unit of representatives will be 7,452 and the unit of senators will be 14,905. ilAY DELAY AIR LINE Michigan Central Railroad Makes Significant Move Watchman Puzzles. (Special to Lake County Time.) Gar', Ind., Oct. 9. The people of this city are interested in a mysterious move on the part of the Michigan Central railroad company. About a month ago one of the little houses that are provided for watchmen at the crossings was placed "along the track at the Broadway crossing of the railroad. A watchman was put in the shanty but it soon became apparent that he was not there for the purpose of watching the crossing for when the trians as the other watchmen are comnever on the crossing to warn pedestrains as the other watchmen are compelled to do. The one probable explanation of the 1 mystery is that the railroad probably v 1 is expecting the Gary and Interurban Electric railway company to attempt to cross their tracks at no distant e and consequently have employed a watchman to warn them of any such It is thought that the Michigan Central railroad will fight bitterly any attempt to put in a grade street railway crossing at Broadway and the building of the Gary line may be delayed by the railroad just as has been the case in dozens of other cities.
Morris in Spokesman-Review.
ni onaur nni n UR EH UnHVL UULU 10 ITCH SHOW Absence of Roof to Arena Causes Society to Shiver in Open Air. AFFAIR lSr A GREAT SUCCESS Brilliant Gowns and Fine Horseflesh at South Shore Country Club Show. Today's Program. p. m. Class No. 37 Delivery pair 8 (local). 8:20 p. m. Class No. 4S Harness horses, four-in-hand. 8:40 p. m. Class No. 31 Combination saddle horse, three gaits, harness and saddle. 9 p. m. Class No. 11 Harness horses, tandems. 9:20 p. m. Special exhibit Famous hackney horses from Truman's Pioneer Stud farm, Bushnell, 111. 9:35 p. m. Class No. 5S Gaited saddle horses, five gaits. 9:45 p. m. Class No. 8 Bit and Bridle club in potato race. 9:50 p. m. Class No. 54 Jumpers (local). 10:10 p. m. Class No. 38 Hunters and Jumpers (open. (Special to Lake County Times.) Windsor, Park, Oct. 8. Under a myr iad of red and white incandescent lights, interwoven above the open air tan bark ring, the first horse show held on the grounds of the South Shore Country club opened last night. Despite the coolness of the night there was a considerable turnout of society folk. Gayety was given to the scene by the light-hued dresses of the women, many of whom wore broad cloth or serge suits either or white or bright colors. Furs v ere in evidence to a certain extent, a great deal of ermine being worn. The boxes fringing the ring on three sides ran like a bright girdle almost around the arena, although many of the boxholders Joined the throng on the promenade, finding it somewhat chilly to remain sitting throughout the program. It was estimated that about 1,800 persons saw the awarding of rib bons in the various classes. Promenade Ia Popular. Back of the tier of boxes were the reserved seats, a goodly portion of these being occupied. The promenade however, offered the chief scene of ac tivity of the night, outside the tan bark, the twenty-foot walk, being : shifting mass of color from the open mg notes or Boots ana aaaies to the sounding of the horn for the last hunter class. The brilliant Incandescents, criss crossed above the tan bark, offered i picturesque setting for both the horses and the audience. Here and there the stars winked through the maze of color, although directly above the seats and boxes was spread a canvas covering. The ring, said by officials to be 250 feet long by 80 feet wide, scarcely afforded the horses full chance to display their best action. Nevertheless the entries showed to fair advantage. The show was formally opened by a red coatea trumpeter, wno advanced into the center of the tan bark at (Continued on pace 2. column 4.)
LEAST INJURED ONE ESCAPES Police Looking for George Denson, Said to Have First
Drawn Weapon, Gary. Ind.. Oct. 9. Special Two negroes, witn razors ior v.yuua, fought a desperate battle in bed In one of the rooms over a saloon In the "Patch" last night and one of the two n-na .vrilv lniured before they were finally separated. A more terrible thing could hardly be Imagined than a fighe in tne uarsness and in bed between two half drunken blacks who quarreled until the use of mrnr fimo.i to be the only solution of the problem. George Dent, alias George Denson, went to bed with George uws m a room over Chaplin Johnson's saloon. They had been quarreling during the evening and as they retired, the quar rel was continued. It seems that both men had taken the precaution to take their razors along and after the argument had led to blows, Denson suddenly drew his razor and cut Laws's wrist so deeply that several of the big veins were severed. Denson was also cut on the arm during the fracas and then some one rushed into the room and separated the fighters. Laws was compelled to go at once to a doctor to prevent his bleeding to death. He was attended by Dr. A. C. Stephenson. Before the doctor could stop the flow of blood the floor of his office contained a pool of it and Law was greatly weakened by the loss of blood. The Gary police are investigating the matter and will make an effort to catch Denson who is said to have gone to Toleston and taken a train to Chicago. LABORER 15 KILLED Chunk of Slag Strikes Man; Death From Loss of Blood Follows. (Special to Lake County Times.) South Chicago, Oct. 9. Frank Jankowskl, a laborer 26 years of age, liv ing at 855S Superior avenue, was killed yesterday afternoon at the Illinois Steel mills when a piece of slag fell on him crushing his leg and injuring him to such an extent that he could not recover. He was working in a trench at the time and the crusher that breaks slag broke and fell. It hit the big pile of slag and knocked the pieces in every direction. One large chunk flew in the direction of Jankowskl. He was taken to the South Chicago hospi tal immediately after the accident. which happened at 8:50, and he died from loss of blood at 11 o'clock. FINED FOR BUYING JUNK OF LITTLE BOY. "John Doe" Anseased f 1 and the Costs for Purchasing Lamp and Lead Pipe Which Had Deen Stolen from Whit lng House. (Special to Lake County Timri.) Whiting, Oct. 9. A Junk dealer giving his name as John Doe and believed to be Alfred Simon sof 8837 Com mercial avenue, bouth Chicago, was fined $1 and costs, amounting to $11 for buying Junk of a small Whiting boy this morning. The stranger paye the fine and de parted. The Junk that the boy sold consisted of a lamp and a lead pipe which he had procured In the Mlron Jones home in East One Hundred and Nineteenth street. He confessed to entering the house during the absence of the family and taking the lead pipe from the sink. NDIANA HARBOR GROWS Many New Brick Blocks Started; Five on Michigan Avenue Alone. (Special to Lake County Times.) Indiana Harbor, Oct. 9. (Special.) The business section of this city is experiencing a big boom and many handsome structures are in course of construction while others are planned. With the growth of the population many business men have stated that they find their present quarters entirely inadequate and therefore must seek new stores. There are five substantial brick business houses started on Michigan avenue within a stone's throw of each other the Indiana Harbor State Bank building, the new Citizen's bank, Drs. Robinson & Stephens drug store and offlce building, Martin's new store and Mrs. Salllnger'a new building next to the Fort Wayne tracks.
Mayor Lawrence Becker
Diagnoses Hammond Ailment as Under TaxationHigher Taxes, Better Public Utilities is His Cry SAYS BOARD OF REVIEWS VALUATIONS ARE RED1GUL0US Chief of Police Eimbach Asks fe? Ten Additional Men and a Patrol Wagon or Automobile Several Ordiances Passed for Ratifying Contracts, Etc. What Is the matter with Hammond? In an informal talk to the city council at Its regular session last night. Mayor Becker in unstinted words gave his opinion. The remarks bore the tone of one who Jji being chafed between public opinion and the lack of fuuds wherewith to compel the people's demands. The talk was brought about by a proposition of Councilman Kane that the city buy additional land for Douglas park. "Hammond Js In need of many things," said Mayor Becker. "For example Ths Lakh Cocntt Times editorially cries for more stret lights. As far as that la concerned, we could have lights on every street corner In the remotest part of the city, but where will the money come from. We need a new city hall, parks, etc., but where will the taxes come from to get all these improvements for the city? Valuations Too Low. "Property valuations In Hammond are entirely too low. From reports that I get from all over th- state, of cities ia our class, last year. 'only two cities. Ellwood and Jeffersonville, have lower property valuations than here and In Ellwood they are moving the houses of the town. It Is ridiculous to think how our most valuable property is valued at by the board of review. Our main street corners are valued at 100 a foot, when in fact the owners would not take fl.OOO a foot for their holdings. Hammond property is valued a little over $7,000,000. It should be $15,000.000 and could be stretched to $20,000,000." J. D. Smalley, city controller, read the estimate submitted by each city department to him for conducting sev eral departments for the ensuing year. The report was referred to the finance committee with instructions to report at the next meeting. Among other things that the various department heads are asking for are: Ten additional policemen and a patrol wagon or automobile and a raise of $5 for the patrolmen, by Chief Rlmbach and the board of police commissioners. Wants Assistant. An' assistant city attorney, with a salary of $1,000 a year, asked for by LeGrand T. Meyer, city attorney. The report was referred without comment with the exception that Harry Eastwood suggested that more police are needed to which John Kane promptly answered that In his opinion th city was adequately protected. Councllcllman Schroeter's suggestion that th administration administer a pension fund for the fire department, brought about a remark from Mayor Becker, that for the present the department Is not a hospital an dthat first of all men must be employed who are able to serve twenty years before they are entitled to a pension. Saturday, Nov. 2, has been set by the council for a ypeclal election at which the voters of Hammond may vote on the board of education's $55,000 school bond proposition for the Wallace school. Messrs. J. Gavlt and W. J. Whlnnery were appointed as special election commissioners. In reading the ordinance providing for the special election. Mayor Becker discovered that it provided that the bonds would be floated by the school board of the city of Hammond. As this can be construed to read as a debt by the city administration the mayor sug gested a change to read "School city of Hammond." The ordinance was passed with the change. Contract an Eyesore. The coal contract that the board of public works awarded to G. B. Stout for coal for the pumping elation at $2.95 a ton for Fairmount coal is beginning to b an eyesore to the council. It was laid on the table for a second time, the aldermen wishing to make a personal innpection of the coal now used and also that to be contracted for. Three ordinances wera rassed, the first ratifying a contract for a supply of 3,000 feet of six-Inch water pipe by the Lynchburg Foundry company at the rate of $3 4.60 per ton, the second ratifying a purchase made by the water department, of a tapping machine from the A. B. Smith company for $550. The third ordinance orders the transferring of $1,500 from the general fund to the water fund. The council ordered the printing bill of the annual report amounting to $225 1 to be paid.
i l-
1 r