Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 102, Hammond, Lake County, 16 October 1907 — Page 1

Cir&t SsteiiMr 9753 SMSshj 1495 Total, Yesttri:? li;2-48 EDITION VOL. II. NO. 102.FOUR EDITIONS DAILY. HAMMOND, INDIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1907. ONE CENT PER COPY. GARY STILL A RACE PLAN IMPROVEIH STRUGTI NEXT SATURDAY TO G08S400,000 Rl( TO BE ABANDONED Enthusiastic Motor - Boat Owners Meet and Plan Quick Action. r -. " " Michigan Central Railroad 4jM 4',i5t-!t'j V to Spend That Amount in Hammond.

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Town Board Still Unable to Decide on Franchise and Wail Goes up From Citizens for Service as Quickly as Possible.

TRUSTEES OBJECT TO CHICAGO TELEPHONE CO. Will Not Grant Any Concern Exclusive Eight for Tewnty-Five Years Delay Causes Business Loss to Merchants and Contractors Other Routine Business Transacted. (Special to I,nke County Times.) Gary, Ind., Oct. 16. The town board Of Gary met at its first regular Tuesday evening meeting yesterday and again failed to bring relief to the telephoneless city of Gary. Amendments were offered by the various companies which are seeking franchises and others were demanded. After the matter was discussed for some time it was decided to hold a special secret meeting to discuss the matter in all of its details. C. V. Ridgley, of the law firm "of Hodges & Ridgley, who is representing the Automatic .Telephone company presented an amended franchise that la said to be a great improvement over the one which was first offered. The rumor that the Chicago Telephone company would bring pressure to bear on the board of trustees to get immediate action was unfounded. So far as the telephone companies are concerned they do not care when the franchise is granted so long as it is granted to the right company. People Demand Service. .... It is the peopte of Gary," howeyer, who would force the board to act, "If such a thing were possible. The city of Gary has now Brown to such a size that telephonic communication is positively necessary. If one of the officers of a construction company on the mill site desires to call up one of his foremen who happens to be in South Gary, it is now necessary to get on a horse and ride three or four miles to find him. Every business man in the city is losing valuable time, and as the city grows the loss is becoming greater every day. An effort on the part of a representative of the Chicago Tribune to elicit from the board members an intimation as to what they expect to do in the matter, was fruitless and he was informed that the board members themselves did not know what they were going to do. Outcome n Mystery. It is positively Impossible to determine what is going to be done about the matter, and no one lias the slightest idea when telephones will be installed in Gary. President Knotts said yesterday that the Chicago Telephone company had sent in a franchise that might have been accepted if it had not been for the fact that it contained a provision that no other telephone company should have the right to string wires in Gary during the twenty-five years of the life of its franchise. It was intimated by Mr. Knotts that this obBtacle would positively have to be re moved or the franchise would be let to the Automatic company or one of the several other independent com panles which are in the field for a franchise. The plan of the board to meet at 2 p. m. on Tue;lay instead of 3 p. m. on Saturdays proved to be a very wise change. Other Routine Work. The matter of providing for the improvement of several of Gary's streets was taken up ad the progress of the Improvement of those which have been ordered was reported. The final resolution confirming the vacation of parts of the streets where the Gary & Western railroad runsthrough from Madison street to Broadway was adopted. This closes Washington, Adams and Jefferson streets and the adjacent alleys for the width of the right of way. When the final resolution confirming the vacation of the gravel road in the western portion of the city, north of Toleston, came up, R. 1 Miller filed a remonstrance through his a-ttorney, Mr. Tattee, of the law firm of Pattee & Fancher. Mr. Miller objects to the vacation of the street on the ground that the road is a means of access to a piece of ground which he has decided to plat in the near future. The matter was taken under advisemer. by the board and it is expected that come compromise will be made between Mr. Miller and the United States Steel company, which is asking for the vacation of the strip. Columbus. Ind., Oct. 16. Local dealers in grain have at last begun paying ?l a bushel for wheat, and all dealers in the county are now paying that price. Grain men predict that the price will go to at least J1.20.

B Meeting Held Last Night at Kahl's Boat-House Latter Offers Cup. Though rather late in the season Hammond comes forward now with a motor boat club, which at present is still in the state of formation, but has already scheduled a motor boat race, which is to take place next Sunday. At a meeting held yesterday evening in the clubrooms of Captain Nicholas Kahl, the sport was given a decided boost. E. E. Fricke, assistant cashier of the Commercial bank, presided and in a lively discussion rules and regulations for the race next Sunday were drawn up, as well as the feasibility of organizing the club permanently, considered. The meeting was attended by the following men: G. Drackert, A. Frank, E. E. Fricke, W. Gordon, G. W. Hunter, G. Merrill. C. Ogren, William Roy, Ed Rohde and C. A. Shaffrath. Up to the present time the membership is not limited to these people, and anybody wishing to join the club will be welcome and can gain preliminary Information from Mr. Fricke, the temporary chairman. The proposition for a boat race next Sunday was made by Captain Kahl, and was enthusiastically taken up. Captain Kahl has himself offered a handsome silver cup, which is to be presented to the winner. Second and third prizes, as well as other awards will also be distributed. The run will begin at the Calumet avenue bridge sharply at 1 o'clock and Will go as far as Clark Station and return. The race is open, to all local motor boat owners and entries will be received until 9 o'clock Sunday morning by Captain Kahl. The race next Sunday will be a handicap affair with a liberal thsie allowance to the slower boats. The next meeting will be held Thursday evening, Oct. 20, at 8. o'clock In Captain Kahl's club rooms. RllflO CHOSEN FOR ISOOjOMTIOfj W. R. C, Thirteenth District, Decide to Meet Here Next Year. MET IN VALPO YESTERDAY Miss Elizabeth Scott, Well Known Club Woman of This City, Chosen District President. (Specinl to l.nke County Times.) Valparaiso, Oct. 16. At the seventeenth annual convention of the thirteenth district. Woman's Relief corps, which opened here yesterday, Hammond was chosen as the city for the next meeting which will take place in October, 190S. The praise of Hammond as a convention city was loudly sung by the visiting delegates, and there was not a dissenting vote when the motion was read. Miss Elizabeth Scott, of the Hammond corps was elected president of the district for her work in behalf of the organization, and is a member and officer of various organizations in her native city. The address of welcome at the opening of yesterday s session was made by Mrs. J. Louderbach of this city, and was responded to by Mrs. Mabel I. Anderson of South Bend, senior vice president. Over 200 delegates were present, representing twenty-two camps. The election of officers was "field and the following were elected; District president, Elizabeth Scott, Hammond; senior vice president, Mary F. Stiles, Valparaiso; junior vice president, Rozella Bellings, Michigan City; treasurer, Ida K. Snyder, South Bend. The convention will close today. UPOHTE HAH A SUICIDE (Special to Lake County Time.) LaPorte, Ind., Oct. 16. With the awful fear in his heart that his health was being slowly undermined, and that he was the victim of a strange malady, Andrew Wing of this city, walked from his house out Into the street this morning and put two bullets into his heart. After firing the two shots, he walked a few steps and fell to the ground, dying before his relatives reached his side. The man was well known in LaPorte and leaves a family. WHATHER Gnrally fair tonlsht it ml Thursday; moderate temperatnre. !

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SHARPSHOOTERS PAR SOLDTOBBEWIBG CO. Big Deal Which Has Been Hanging Fire, Consummated Yesterday. LAND CONTAINS 20 ACRES Buildings Will Ee Pwemodeled and Park Used as a Summer Resort. The Sharpshooter's park deal between the proprietors, Muenich and Sehreiber and the Columbus Brewing company of Chicago of which mention was made in The; Lake County Times several weeks and which has been hanging lire since then, was consummated yesterday afternoon, wTith W. E. Hutsehenreuter as the representative of the Columbus Brewery. In the point of money involved, the deal is one of the largest that has taken place In the neighborhood of ""Hammond for some time. About 'twenty acres are involved and while none of the people interested in the deal are giving out any figures, it is thought that $20,000 has been paid as the price of Sharpshooter's park. In a statement to The Lake County Times, the management of the Columbus Brewing company said that in buy ing the place it is contemplated making it a first class summer resort. The buildings now on the place will be re modeled, some of them enlarged End additional ones put up. The brewery will also erect a beer depot on the place. While nothing definite has been arranged the management hopes that in time the street car line will be ex tended to Sharpshooter's park. Mr. Hutschenreuter will be in charge of the place. William Fredericks, who is now in charge, will vacate as soon as his new place at the corner of Columbia ave nue and the Ridge road is completed. The foundation work for this road house has already been completed and will, when finished, be two stories high and 24x62 feet In dimensions. LAUBE GASENOW Oil Jurors Selected and Witnesses Testify on Stand This Afternoon The state case against Bertha Laube the Ilobart midwife, who is charged with having performed an operation of abortion upon Mrs. Elizabeth Brock of Lake Station, was begun in earnest this afternoon. Mrs. L. Moore, of Lake Station, a sister of Mrs. Brock, was the first to be put in the witness chair as a witness for the state. The attorneys of both sides are putting up a strong fight and are using much time in raising objections to questions. Thirty-four men in all of the special venire were examined, the examination taking from yesterday morning until this afternoon. The following jurors were selected: M. B. Gates, C. G. Leon, J. A. Homan, W. S. Osier, D. Schoon, David Dilley, Emery Hathaway, Dan Lynch, Fred Wyman. NO IJUORlTeESEil Owing to a lack of quorum the regular weekly council meeting did not take rlace last evening. Mayor Becker and Councilmen Kane, Eastwood and Schrocter were the only members of the body who were present. The finance committee was cue to report on the matter of making the annual allowances according to the city taxes. Any method of telling people the advantages of your store Is advertising:. The method that tells the most people most effectively at the lowest nrlce is the best advertising.

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MOVING A HILL IX GARY. WHICH. ONE 013 THEJiT GOOSE? Oklahoma Aroused and Tak ing Sides Over Proprietorship of Fowl in Question TWO MEN CLAIM OWNERSHIP Lewis Sabo Claims His Neighbor, C. Ealog, Enticed the Prize From Barnyard. 1 (Spc Al to Lake County Times.) East Chicago, Oct. 16. That portion of the populace living on both sides of the Hammond-East Chicago line are to day sorely wrought up about a pertinent question, the ownership of a harmless gose. One man, Lewis Sabo, a foreigner living in Mellville avenue, was put under arrest on the charge of petit larceny, his neighbor C. Balog In Alexander avenue haying sworn out an affidavit' to that effect: The goose. In the meantime IsT"! the possession of Sabo, who treasures-'the- fowl like one of bis kin. The neighborhood is wrought over the thought that Belog is trying to gain possession of the bird when in fact it belongs to Sabo. Both parties, however, have plenty of followers. Sabo claims to have been the original ovner and that Balog, by such inducements as bread crumbs, herring heads and egg shells induced it to leave its affinity in the Sabo home and wander into the Balog yard. Balog charges Sabo with the misdemeanor, saying that Sabo fed it cheese rinds, apple cores, and sardine boxes. "Watch the feathers fly tomorew," is the watch word in Oklahoma today. EET SATURDAY 10 DRAW UP FRANCHISE City Atty. and President of New Telephone Co. Will Regulate Provisions. WILL POST A BIG FORFEIT Company Agrees to All Demands of Board of Public Works Will Probably Get Rights. From the present outlook it seems that there is nothing to stop the efforts of the Inter-State Automatic Telephone company, which Is trying to gain an entrance Into Hammond. Thus far the company's representatives have agreed to everything that the board of public works thought reasonable to ask for, and at this morning s session C. J. Huff, president of the company, agreed to meet with City Attorney L. T. Meyer next Saturday to draw up a franchise that shall include all the provisions of the board, as to rates in and out of Hammond, and the laying of cables overhead and underground. Mr. Huff also agreed to deposit a certified check of $5,000 or a liquidating bond of good faith to the extent of $10,000. Also that his company would forfeit all franchise rights in the event that the company would sell its franchise. Mr. Huff appeared before the Gary board yesterday afternoon and said that thus far he has been favorably received and anticipated no trouble in gaining a franchise in East Chicago, Whiting, Indiana Harbor and In fact throughout the whole Calumet region. Speaking of the franchise Mr. Rohde, chairman of the board, said: "We can give the petitioners nothing more in the way of privileges than the Chicago Telephone company has; we must be sure that they do not Intend to peddle the franchise and we must have assurance that the line will be built within a reasonable length of time and through the system Hammond people are Rxiire1 of out side connection!"

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EMERGENCY HOSPiTAl flEEOEO III H110 Police Have No Chance to Watch Prisoners Who Are Injured. PAST CASES SHOW NECESSITY St. Margaret's Hospital No Place for Desperadoes Who Are Stabbed or Shot. In two cases which have come to the attention of the police during the past month, that of Martin Lane, who was picked up by an officer in a critical condition suffering from delerlum tremen and that of Amelia Blozowic who waa stabbed in the back near Gibson. Death is attributed to the lack of hos pital facilities in the police station. '.The needs of the Hammond police department . are becoming more and more numerous and among the greatest of tlese necessities Is -an emergency ho8pital. There are now numerous cases where the police are compelled to lock up prisoners who have been stabbed, shot or Injured in various other means and who can not be sent to St. Margaret's hospital 'be-cause of the danger of escape. It will be remembered that after a desperate fight near Gibson Edward McCluster, a negro who had threatened to kill both Sheriff Carter and Chief Martin of Gary was shot by another negro and brought to jail at Hammond. McCluster was a powerful fellow and in spite of his wound put up a hard fight with the officers who arrested him. He was badly wounded and yet in spite of the fact that exposure might have caused his death he was put on an iron cot in the Hammond jail and kept there for the reason that It would be impossible to send a desperado like him to St. Margarets' hospital. Martin Iane was picked up by the police in such a delerlous condition. Althought he was kept in the hospital for a short time he was finally turned out and placed In the hands of the police. As here was no police hospital the the only thing to be done with him was to send to Crown Point, where it was thought that Sheriff Carter might arrange for medical aid at the poor farm. The man was found dead in Ills cell a few hours later. The most recent case Is that of Amelia Blozowic. who was stabbed In a fight in a bunk house at Gibson. He was taken to the hospital for a week and then on account of the crowded condition was turned out. He wandered over to Gibson an there became exhausted and was sent to the Cook County hospital in Chicago. His condition rapidly grew worse there and he died a short time afterwards. His was a police case and had the police department had hospital facilities the man's life would have been saved. By the time that the council gets, ready to purchase a patrol wagon there will be as pressing a need for a police ambulance, an emergency hospital and with all a new police station. BRYAN' WILL LECTURE (Special to Lake County Times.) Varparalso, Oct. 16. It was announced here today that William Jennings Bryan will lecture on Octtober 30,"in the college auditorium. The lecture will be given for the benefit of the Christian hospital, and already the demand for tickets is large. Mr. Bryan has chosen as his subject. "The Average Man." A committee of the city officials will welcome the distinguished orator. SENIORS PUTTING ON AIR. Greencastle, Ind., Oct. 16. Wishing to distinguish themselves from the "general run of college men," the seniors in DePauw will soon bloom out In novel wearing apparel. The character of the "taboo" has not been decided upon as yet. but It will either come in the nature of hat bands, caps or sweater vesta.

DEPOT km DOUBLE TRACK

Work of Laying Tracks, Grading, Leveling and Paving, Going on at Present Time. It will be a matter of surprise to many of the people of Hammond that the Michigan Central railroad has begun improvements In this city that will cost the railroad nearly a half million dollars before they are completed and will transform the heart of the city. In cold figures the improvements are to cost $400,000. This amount Is to be spent for the laying of another set of double tracks through the city, for the grading, leveling, coding and gardening of a strip of right of way through the built up portion of the city. The road Is also building a depot and according to the terms of its agree ment with the city will not only pay a portion of the cost of paving Plummer avenue and Logan street but will put in cement walks along the company's right of way on Plummer avenue. The depot. In which the people of Hammond are more Interested than any of the other Improvements that the road Is making, is already In the course of construction. The cement foundations are being put In and the work on the walls of the building will begin next week. It is safe to say that the Michigan Central railroad is doing more to beau tify the city of Hammond and make it attractive to the man wJio goes through on the train than all of the other roads in city combined and all of this is in addition to the almost perfect service that Is offered on its passenger trains. The sheds that have lined Its right of way from Hohman street east are being removed and thus one of the gi eatest disfigurements that the city has known is soon to be a thing of the past. BIDS ARE TOO HIGH As the board of public works advertises and re-advei tises for server construction, the handwriting en the wall which spells "combine" upon the part of the contractors, becomes more plain with each instance. At the meeting this morning the board had to reject two contracts that were above a liberal estimate of the city engineer In the sewer construction for East Doty street. It is not by any mans the first time that the board had to reject bids for contracts because they were too high according to the city engl neer's estimate. The contractors, how ever, onen the palms of their hands and with eyes turned upward say sol emnly: "Not guilty, not guilty, we need the mon, for less it can't be done.". The board passed improvement resolutions for 18-inch sewers in Mer rill avenue sections A an4 B, also for a sewer in Field avenue. The Douglas street sidewalk was accepted by the board this morning.

Mas Bodsgard Instantly Killed Under Wheels of Irondale Car at Ninety-Second Street and Commercial Avenue.

(Special to Lake County Times.) South Chicago, Oct. 16. The suicide theory Is advanced by several who saw the terrible accident at Ninety-ninth street and CommercW avenue when Mas Bodsgard, 9343 1 rchange avenue was run over and i. tantly killed by one of the Irondale cars of the South Chicago City Railway company, at 8:30 last night. Others, however, claim that his death was purely accidental and that the man, being confused in trying to cross the crowded street at this point, stepped directly In the path of the oncoming car. The crushing of the man under the front wheels was witnessed by hundreds who saw the peril of the man's position. Many turned In horror as they foresaw the Inevitable, and could not be induced to witness the' tragedy. The body of the foreigner was ground to pieces under the front wheels and the car was brought to a stop before the rear wheels reached him. In fact it was brought to a standstill so suddenly that the passengers were thrown from their seats when the air was applied with all the force possible. The car wai running at about half speed and the quickness with which it was brought to a standstill waa considered remarkable. The fact that the motorraan did not realize that the man was In danger until he was hit by the car, substantiates the belief that the man was a deliberate suicide. There la no doubt but what he might have been confused by

The American Shipbuilding

Yards Lay Off 150 Men This Week Making Total of 400 Laid, off Since last Julv. LAST BOAT BUILT TO BE LAUNCHED SATURDAY Repair Work Only To Be Done in South Chicago Change of Policy Will Affect Hundreds of Workmen and Will Be a Heavy Blow to Community at Large. (SpeHnl to Lake County Times.) South Chicago, Oct. 16. Construction work in the American Shipbuilding yards here, will be abandoned beginning next Haturday after the launching of the new freighter, Wm. A. Hawgood. After that time repair work only will be done by the company In the South Chicago yards. The change In policy will affect sev eral hundred South Chicago workmen. as there will be a decrease in the num ber of laborers needed at the yards. One hundred and fifty men have been layed v off this week and since the strike last July, a total of 4 00 men have been

layed off. The ship yards of South Chicago, have been one of the mainstays of the community and the radical change affects the community vitally as thousands of people look for it for their daily support. Repair work lias always been a large feature In tho operation of the. big plant, but ha always been secondary to th conetruetlon work. Pome of the largest ships -that ply the Great Lakes now have been constructed in these yards, and the company was considered as an important factor fn shlp'bulldtnj ctrclea all over the country. The William A. Hawgood, the last boat to be launched in South Chicago will make its maiden plunge nr Saturday at noon. The boat is own. by the W A. Hawgood company 4 Cleveland, O., and thf daughters of of the company's directors, has bee V selected to christen the boat. The launching of a boat has always been a festive occasion in South Chi- . cago, and the event next Saturday promises to be largely attended, both for I the usual sight seeing and on account of it being the last boat to be launched here. A large delegation of out of town people is expected to be present, among them the owners of the boat and their friends. A sister boat of the W. A. Hawgood was launched about two months ago and Is now in commission as an ore carrier. While the boat to be launched Saturday is a general freighter it will bo put to hauling ore from the' upper ports to the mills in South Chicago and Cleveland.

the heavy trafflc, but If he had not been crazed with fear he could have escaped injury. "So one in fact, paid any attention to the position that he was in, until he was seen to bolt directly onto the track of he oncoming car. He was sruck by the front of the car and hurled across the track. It was not thought that he was even badly bruised by the car hitting him, and with great agility he could have escaped the wheels. No reason has been advanced as yet for the possible motives as his family life was supposed to be perfectly happy. He had not had any trouble as yet in regard to labor, but seemed to be tha victim of melancholia in the most pronounced type. At times he is said to be as happy and contented as possible and again would feel so despondent that It was feared that he would do himself bodily harm. It is not known were he was goirg at the time of the accident, but it is thought that he was headed for town where he usually met some of his companions and spent the evening with them. The victim leaves a wife and several children to grieve over his loa. The body of Bodsgard was taken to P. Murphy's morgue at S35S Commercial avenue where the Inquest was held at 11 o'clock this morning. The number of the car was 302 and the conductor's name was Everett Cape. The raotornian operating the car was A. P. Brothers of 152 Ninety-second street