Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 121, Hammond, Lake County, 7 November 1907 — Page 1

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Louis Francis Brown, Burton Holmes Manager, Weds His Stenographer After a Series of Heart Breaking Delays en Route EVENT CAUSES CHAGRIN TO NOTED LECTURER latter, Who Was to Have Served as Best Man at Happy Event, Has to Kcturn Without Acting in This Capacity Gets Back Too Late to Don Evening Clothes. Another of those interesting' wedwhich have made Lake county famous, was pulled off In Crown Point yesterday. Incidentally it was responsible for a great deal of chagrin and mortification to Burton Holmes, lecturer and traveler, who thereby was obliged to appear before ,a fashionable audienco in Chicago, garbed in a plain business suit which had been rendered for from a thing of beauty by reason of much crushing and the dust and soil of a long trip by automobile from Chicago to the county seat of Lake county. The contracting parties to the hasty wedding which occasioned Burton Holmes' mortification, were Louis Francis Brown, the lecturer's manager, and Mis Edith T. Gould, stenographer at the Great Northern hotel, Chicago. Miss Gould Is a dark-eyed beauty of about 23. A sensational feaure of the event was the fact that Mr. Brown had been granted a divorce in Chicago Just a few minutes before he started out on the eventful trip which ended in his union with Miss Gould before Justice Harry Nicholson at 6:30 last evening. - Another" feature, which was at least unusual, was the absence of the best nun, who left Crown Point just ten minutes before the wedding was pulled off. The best man, or rather the man who did his best to be best man and had to give it up in order to catch a train back to Chicago, was Burton Holmes. Ionic, Snd Tale. It is a long and thrilling story. The party started out at 10 o'clock, In plenty of time for the couple to to have been marlred and been well off on their honeymoon, long before they reached Crown Point. They traversed the south side boulevard system in record breaking time but when they struck South Chicago the delays and accidents began. Cupid put more than the usual number of obstacles in the

Cr-j-path of the speeding automobile, for , its flight was stopped time and again after the humps and the hollows of the roads that lead from South Chicago toward Crown Point loomed in sight. The first delay of half an hour was laughed off. The second did not matter much, although it was longer than the flrst. The third and fourh and fifth happening in rapid sequence, however, began to render the party a bit

nervous. But even then Burton Holmes, smiling and suave as becomes a best man. did not think of his dress suit When 4 o'clock had rolled around and Crown Point was still far to the southeast, the lectiflfer began to worry. He was booked to speak at 8 o'clock In Orchestra hall. Making allowances for delays in proportion to those the party had suffered previously, it would be about 8:30 when the Indiana Gretna Green was reached. At that rate Mr. Holmes figured that it would be next day before he got back to Chicago. But fate was kind, the balance of the distance was traversed without further hindrance, but it was past five when the machine pulled up before the courthouse. Train Time Paramount Ixwuc. The first thing that the party did was to inquire about trains back to the city. When it was learned that there was one due at 6:21 Mr. Holmes began to breathe easier, but he thought of his clothes, far, far away in the Auditorium Annex. He called up his mother on long distance and asked her to send the good harness over to the I

Orchestra hall stage by messenger. He could jump into the garments there. Considerable time had been exhausted and It was time for Mr. Holmes to start for his train. The license had j not yet been procured, much loss the ' ceremony performed, and it was up to th0 to-have-been-best man to make a quick decision between love and duty. Love of his manager prompted him to

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He harkened unto the latter and caught his train. Trouble Xot Vet Over. Then commenced another series of delays. The train backed and halted, seemingly Without the slightest provocation. When it at last pulled into Chicago, it was almost time for the lecture to begin. The lecturer hastily summoned a cab and told the driver to dash furiously to Orchestra hall. The hall was already filled when the belated traveler arrived. He took one (Continued on naae 4. column 7.)

POET HEREJOMORROW Famous Bard of Alamo to Lecture Friday Evening Before University Club.

The famous Bard of Alamo, James B. Elmore, who is to be the guest of honor of the University club tomorrow is expected to arrive in this city on the Monon at 5:02 p. m. He will be met by several of the members who will entertain him until the time for the lecture In the evening. The lecture promises to be one of the best" things that has been heard in. Hammond for a long while and those who have received invitations are expected to take advantage of their opportunity. It is hard to describe the Bard and the entertainment that he offers as he must be seen to be appreciated. There will be a great many who will attend the Elmore lecture and who will denounce the Ripley township poet as a faker and an imposter. Others will declare that this is simply an evidence that they have not yet learned to appreciate one of the rarest poets of the age. Mayor Becker has promised to introduce the bard and it may be re lied upon that the members of the University club will do their share towards entertaining him. The luncheon that is to be given in honor of Elmore at the Lash hotel will be par excellent and the entertainment committee is working on a program of toasts by the members. Monday evening an enthusiastic meeting was held In the club rooms in the Hammond building and it was learned there that practically all of the forty members of the club will he in attendance at both the lecture and the banquet. 0 Pair of Shoes Discloses the Identity of Freight Car Thief. Gary, Nov. 7. Special Thieves broke into a Lake Shore freight car here yesterday afternoon and stole forty pairs of shoes. As a result, one man. Pat McLaughlin a laborer has been arres.te.ij3n. the .charge of , petit laraeny. McLaughlen was seen coming from the car carrying a pair of shoes and was arrested on suspicion and when later examined in the police station was found to have an additional pair stowed away in his hip pocket. The robbery wus one of the boldest that has oc curred in Gary for many days, the thieves having entered the car In broad day light during the noon hour. The car was being unloaded of its cargo and was left open while the teams hauled away the goods. McLaughlin will be brought up for trial on the charge of petit larceny before Justice F. J. Fitzgerald. SMALL FINE ANSWERS PURPOSE l'u n I hIi meat Inflicted On Wife leserter JMifllclent to Give Grounds for Divorce. (Special to I-nke County Times.) Gary, Nov. 7. Frank Fisher, who was arrested yesterday on the charge of bigamy, after his wife in a three years' hunt had traced him from Cotts vllle. Pa., to Toleston, was fined $2 and costs by Justice of the Peace A. C Huber this morning, the charge agains him having been changed from bigamy to that of living unlawfully with an other woman. People of Gary who have been in terested in the case are surprised at the light sentence Fisher received His wife, however, is satisfied with the charges brought against her husband and also with the sentence that he received, as it will put her in a position to ask for divorce from him. Fisher paid the fine. WILL SOON HAVE NEW DEPOT. Kubertsdalo. Ind., Nov. 7. Special. Employes at the Glucose plant are hailing with Joy the near approach of the completion of the new Pennsylvania depot at Iloby. Heretofore it ha3 been necessary for the workmen to wait outside for their trains which oft-tims would be delayed for one cause or an other, entailing a long- tedious wait. This w-a3 particularly annoying in bad weather and now that there is a prospect of being relieved of this objectionable feature, everybody Is happy. FILE THEIB PETITION TO VACATE BOULEVARD Crown Point. Nov. 7. Special. Attorneys Ibach and Van Home have I filed a petition in tnc Lake circuit court for the East Chicago company asking for the vacation of part of Indiana boulevard from its intersection with Forsyth avenue, on the north and south center line of seceion 17, township 37 north of range 9 west of the second prinicpal meridian to a point where it intersects Kennedy avenue on the north and south center line of section 2S, township 37 north of range 3 west, and all within East Chicago. AVH T1IF.K Incrensdns: elondiae anl warmer tonight; Friday partly cloudy and cooler.

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Secretary Tsft: "We eervo Claim is Made That it is Un lawful to Issue Marriage Licenses in Any Other Place Than the County Seat. HAMMOND JUSTICES WILL FIGHT THE DECISION In Lieu of This, Are the Thousands of Couples Who Have Been Married in This City in Past Years Legally Hitched or Not Other Issues To Be Forced by Local Men Interested. The battle for the marriage license mill is now on. Three judges of Hammond are arraying their ability against that of a number of legal lights of the county seat together with clerk of the court Shortridge. The latter's unprejudiced opinion in the matter was formed today by the written statement of Attorney L. I Bomberger who has devoted his time to the investigation of the legal question involved. In substance, the ruling is adverse, to the interests of the Hammond Judges and business men who are directly involved ir the matter. In short, until such a thing should happen that Hammond would be made the county seat, the marriage mill will never be running in this city again. The basis for the entire opinion as given by Attorney Bomberger is section 514, Act 1905. Page 704. which provides: "Any clerk of the circuit court who shall, without the consent of the Board of Commissioners of the county keep his office and the books and papers belonging thereto in any building other than that provided by such board for the purpose, shall on conviction be fined not exceeding flOO." In lieu of this opinion, the question has been raised about town. "Are all of the licenses that have been issued in Hammond illegal, and consequently the marriages? If for any reason, this is the case, it will mean that the couples who were so unfortunate as to come to Hammond as a Gretna Green, are illegally married, which fact would ' a PPl" approximately to between six and seven thousand unions. Although the interesting question has ben discussed by many it is the popular opinion of those who are in a position to know, that, as long as the parties are married j in good faith, their marriage will be 1 ;al. In view of this fact there seems to be no cause for worry. ! Immediately after the decision had ! become known to the Justices of the ; Peace in Hammond a council of war j i was held and it was decided that they 'would not lay down their arms until t the last point was brought up and ! settled in court. Their first action will ibe to tr-y and kill the business for the jpt-eple of Crown Point o-n a tech- ! nieality. in the same manner that it ;as taken away from Hammond. The ;li:cretive business was lost to this city for the reason that Crown Point at- : torneys chose to force upon this city the provisions of the statute as quoted i above, the construction of which Is j still in doubt, however. In the minds of those who see the return of the mill. j For the same cause and principle, I Hammond will raise the question of whether the county has a right to issue licenses to those who are not residents of this state, and if possible force them to discontinue the practice. This would practically wipe out the profit of the business. As a last resort if they are unsuccesful in this, they will resort to

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DECIDE 01 DETAILS FORJEW WING St. Margaret's Nurses and Doctors Discuss Details For Addition. WILL FACE CLINTON STREET Will Be the Finest in the State and Will Have Double Its Present Capacity. At a meeting last night of the Franciscan Sisters and the staff physicians of St. Margaret's hospital, several details of the big addition to the hospi tal, which was mentioned some time ago in The Times. were decided, upon'." The plans are now -being Urawn" Up by Brother Leonard, the architect for this society, and will be submitted in a few weeks at which time the contract will be let. The new structure will more than double the capacity of the present hospital and make It one of the most complete, largest and most modern in the state. The principal question under discussion last night was the way the new building would face. The property from the present building to the state line and clear through to Douglas street is owned by the Sisters, and it was undecided whether or not to have the main entrance face on Clinton street as it does at the present time or have the main entrance on Douglas. The former was decided on. It is understood that as soon as another new building is required, which it Is expected will be the case in the near future, it will be constructed on Douglas street and then the main entrance of the entire hospital will be made i to face on Douglas instead of Clinton. The architect will so arranee his rdans that this will be made possible. The addition which will be erected in the spring, therefore, will adjoin the present one on the west side. The new building will be capacious and handsome. The dimensions will be 50 by 140 feet and the height will be the same as the present building. The building of this new addition was necessitated by the crowded condition in the old building. For many months many patients have been turned away for lack of room. The fact that the present institution is caring for the injured and many of the sick from Gary, Ilegewisch and other manufacturing towns for miles around Hammond accounts for the necessity of a big and well-equipped building For several years the old building ! was amply large enough, but since the building up of Gary, the advent of the Standard Steel Car company and the construction of the Gibson yards, it has been found far too small. The car works and the foreigners of East Hammond almost ultilize a hospital themselves. Both the Sisters and physicians of the town are Ingrossea witn tne iuea

of the erection of the new structure. hf,r pee her fauus. Judge McMahon Both are now handicapped with the!rut tho pjr; on probation for a month, narrowness of the present building's but scarcely half that time had passed capacity and will be relieved as well as .before she broke out again, proud to work in the institution after Yesterday she secured a skeleton key It. enhrppmpnt. ! nnr! wpnfr to tho hnusp of .Tohn SSnlcnlr

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rrrg HAVE CONFIDENCE were awa'- Phe sto!e a silver watc. aj iookcu iurnrii A flfif B"i rTTT rTTC .a11 sum of money and a child's veil. WS AuUijirJ. UxlXiUiVb. (She also took other articles of little I r,lrmrrrvn fmi niflllT j value fr personal adornment. The af-I L f U M U U M W K-j-J S UHj Confident that the Banks :alr as, dlsverf? on the return of ;L,UiU-LU u iL-ii uiuui i rr. , . j. ! tho family and evidence pointed to the nilim n O ft Tfl 1IM and Trust companies ot. theiix-year-oid gin who had been seen! hCVFR n ft II IRS N onntvr nt l.imo 51 ml nf this ! nar the house. She was confronted by j JAILU U. U U. 111(11.4

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cept, m pavmeui ior merfhmidise. cashier's cheeks. local pay-roll checks, and checks signed by responsible parties on banks in this vicinity. EDWARD C. MINAS CO. Hammond. Ind.

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JANSIGK GI8L GONFESSES T Twelve -Year-Old Roberts dale Shoplifter Increases her List of Crimes by Add ing More Serious One to Her Career. BREAKS IflTO NEIGHBORS DURING FAMILY'S ABSENCE Culprit Expected To Be Brought Before Judge McMahon Tomorrow and Sent to Reform School Child Has Confessed and Produced the Things She Stole. Although on probation for stealing a bank containing $1.20 from the Franklin school, little 12-year-old Anna Jansick of Robertsdale, who has made an appaling record in the criminal world hereabouts, could not control her thieving propensities and yesterday entered the house of a neighbor, Jchn Spisak, with a skeleton key and robbed the premises. The child is a study for a criminologist, and although a bright appearing girl, seems to be unable to check her thieving ways. The apparent cunning wlth which she works, stamps her as a dangerous little degenerate, and unless the authorities put her in some institution-where It would be possible for an expert to watch her ease and make a thorough study on the subject, it is thought that nothing can be done to check her career as she approaches womanhood. She will be in all probability be sent to some institution until sho is of age. but iicnnic Interested In (ho enco An. nt tMnk that it wouId have the right re sult. The girl has been arrested for shoplifting in South Chicago, and for stealing at the Franklin school. She is known to have filched other small articles during her short career. In the shoplifting case, she showed a cunning way above her years, in secreting the i articles and escaping the notice of the poiice. Parent" Cannot Understand Case. The parents of the girl are hard working and can not understand how the girl should have come by her failing. After the recent school trouble thev broueht the child before .Toiler jMcIahon and at that Umft stated that ithfv n-onM tnko thf e-irl frnm th i I Dub'Hc school and place her in a r..a- ; rochial school, in the hope of making .... .. - --. - - , 'at Robertsdale and while the family ihr narents and confessed and produced ' ! the stolen articles. She will probably MUST ran) NEW SITE. Frederick L. Helntz, the real estate dealer whose office ia located on the corner of Indiana avenue and Hohraan street, the site for the new theatre may suspend business for the time being at least. He is now looking around for a site for the office which will have to be moved.

SIMPLEX jO. APPEALS

Do Not Intend Judgment Growing Out of Fire Will End Case. The heavy Judgment against the Simplex. Hallway Appliance Co. in favor of the Western Uawhlde Belting company, has been appealed from by attorneys for the defense. The ease will be taken to the supreme court if the appeals lies. The Judgment of f4S.900. is one of the largest ever awarded in the Porter county circuit court. The trial was the outgrowth of the Simplex fire in Aug. -, 1901, when practically the entire plant was destroyed, including that of the Western Rawhide Belting company, a concern adjoining the Simplex plant and being under the same roof with it. Members of the Cantorvleh family and Judge Schoop were stockholders of the belting company and rented part of the their building to the Simplex people. The evidence showed that the Simplex people did not exercise proper caution with their furnace and this was said to have been responsible for the disasterous fire. The case was flrst filed In the Crown Point circuit court in 1903 and was later dismissed owing to the fact that the necessary witnesses could not be found. Later the case was tiled again. It was dragged through the court after which a change ot venue was taken to Valparaiso. 10 SHOW THEIR STRIDE University Club Cross Coun try Walkers Will Tramp to Dyer Sunday. As an adjunct to the University club there has been organized a cross country walking club, composed of members of the former organization who claim great prowess as pedestrians and who "want to be shown." It is proposed to try out the mem bers of the club in a Jaunt to Dyer, Ind., next Sunday. The distance is nine miles and the boys expect to negotiate it in a few hours and then satisfy an abnormal appetite at the hotels .where a chicken dinner, .will be served. The route will be purposely arranged to avoid all road houses as the tend ency to end the trip in favor of i comfortable chair might prove too alluring. The start will be made at 8 o'clock in the morning and the return will be whenever it is possible. It should be explained that the walkers will take the train back and that the contest will be one of endurance instead of speed. An economy test may be made later on. FIRST PHONE TO GARY Chicago Telephone Co. Installs First Wire to Steel City in Record Time. (Special to Take County Time.) Gary, Ind., Nov. 7. Gary is now in telephonic communication with the entire world. The first phone wag put in operation late yesterday afternoon and Is located in an unfinished office room on the second floor of the building just north of the Gary hotel. The record breaking time in which the flrst phone has been Installed in Gary is a credit to the company which was awarded the franchise and indi cates that it is doing all in its power to gets its Gary exchange in operation as soon as possible. The work of extending the poles to Toleston has been going on for several days and is progressing nicely. In the meantime the work on the switchboards will be rushed and it will not be long before the entire business district will be supplied with phones. HOLD A MEETING. This afternon at 4 o'clock the Lake County Medical association will hold i a meeting in the J.lk s club rooms. where lr. Scull win leaver trie address of the day on the subject of "Infant Feeding." It is thought that the subject for a general course of instruction will be brought up and . i ... . . ; 7 , , I i . . i i c- r, fi.r. i . r. n r. "iiner uu' iuvu ur" nv v referred to a committee which will be . 1 . I Robertdale, Ind., Nov. 7. Special. A passenger train on the B. and O., which goes through this place at 3:45 i each afternoon, had a narrow escape from being wrecked yesterday. When the train was almost In front of the waterworks, the engineer discovered a broken rail a short distance ahead. He quickly applied the brakes and brought the train to a sudden stop just in time to avert a serious wreck. The train was delayed about an hour and a half before the ral! could be replaced.

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HEED MOT CRY FO Thomas Hogan Declines to Contribute Toward Parents' Support and Aged Mrs. Johnson Must go to Poor House. MAN SAID TO BE 111 GBOO CIRCUMSTANCES His Excuse Is That His Mother Once Had Money and it Was Her Own Fault That She Had Hot Provided For the Rainy Day Pioneer of Hammond. Because her only son, who is salvl to bf In good circumstances in Chicago, declined to undertake the support of his aged mother, one of th pioneers ot Hammond will be taken to Crown Point tomorrow to become an inmate of the county poor house. The unforter.ate woman is Mrs. Harry Johnson who formerly was well off, but whom ill health and advancing age have combined to render a rharga upon the county. The son who refused to contribute to his mother's support. Is Thomas Hogan. He holds a position with the Hill Casket company, Chicago, and his only child, a boy of IS. is self supporting, having a position as bookkeeper. Yesterday Mrs. Johnson who has been living with Mrs. Elizabeth Green, 71 State etreet, and who has been bedridden for a year, started for the poor farm at Crown Point. The' automobile in which she rode was owned by J. W. McMullen. On reaching, Conkey avenue, It collided with a telegraph pole and the inmates were till thrown out. Mrs. Johnson was brought back to the Green home ard In, -the .-meantime it was learned Chat the woman's ?on, by a former husband, was going to come out to see his mother. The unfortunate woman's heart grew high with hope, as she be lieved she foresaw in her son a means of deliverance from tho almshouse. But she was doomed to disappointment. Standing beside his mother's bedside this morning Tom Hogan thrust a dollar bill into his mother's hand. He had taken two bills from his pocket, but his wife, who was standing beidde him, it is said, nudged him in time and instead of giving his mother the two as he had at flrst intended h drew back. "Why should I do anything for you now?" he stld. "There was a time when you had lots of money but you did not foresee the rainy clay." The wretched woman In reply, pleaded with the man who stood beside her, to contribute J2 a week toward her support. She told 1dm if he would do this Mrs. Green would' allow her to remain with htr. "I can't afford it," was tho son's reply. To her plea that he might spare her a little room in 1.1s home the eon turned a deaf ear. A IjAKH County Timks reporter found Mrs. Johnson in the little room that had been provided for her in the Green home. She was confined to her bed as she had been during the past year. Speaking of the accident to the machine in which she rode when she. first started off for the poor house he said: "Yes, it was the flrt automobile rtde I have ever had and It might have been better for me had they picked me up for dead. They will come for me at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning to take me to the poor house." She continued, "I visited a poorhouse once when I was a girl sixteen years of p. ge. I went with a friend from Kentucky to see an eld lady. To me it looked more like a mad house than a poor farm and I only hope that they will treat me right at Crown Point. I am sure I don't want to make trouble for anybody. I have made mace lots of money in my day and if I were well I surely would not aslc anybody for anything. But it hurts to think that an only son would treat his mother the way I am being treated. When I had money he got as r'uch as lie wanted to spend. Once, I refiemler, I gave him f 100. I rever learned what h" did with it or how fast he spent it. Still, I can't blame Tommy for it all. for he is grtatly Influenced by h3 wife." Mrs. Johnson is one of the pioneers of Hammond, having first been married to a man by the name of Hogan and later to one Cooper. Her third husband, Harry John; on, desetted her. She formerly kept a large hoarding house, having for a long time been es tablished in the Central block and later at the Morton house. CAn TURNS TURTLE Indianapolis, Ir.d.. Nov. 7. Special. Twenty-five were injured at noon today by an inbound Muncic car Jumping the track at th curve Just nsrth of East Indianapolis. Two or three may die as a result of the accident. The car turned completely over, pinioning several passengers.