Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 122, Hammond, Lake County, 8 November 1907 — Page 1
Contrast SsMters 9310 Strsst Sales - - 1650 Total, YKfcrdg 11,-460 EDITION .VOL. II. NO. 122. FOUH EDITIONS DAILY. HAMMOND, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1907. ONE CENT PER COPY. EMPLOYES 10 BE PAID 10 WILL SUCCEED JUSTICE FLYNN? Several West Hammond Men Covet the PlumSpeculation Rife. ANOTHER INVESTIGATION. EXODUS Of PATCH SALOOH KEEPERS Many Failing to Make Good According to Hopes Will Depart. POSTMASTER GEN'L IH KITH SMALL CHECKS FAVOR OFHfEIISlOB Steel Co. to Issue Certificates That Will be Honored by Merchants. Meyer Pleads for Saving Banks and Parcel Post at Banquet.
INVITE GO-OPERATION OF Eli
Conformance With Plan of Clearing
House Banks and Will Safeguard Cash Eeserves Temporarily.
WANT A MAN OF THEIR OWN
This is No Complaint Against Hunter of Burnham, But He is Inconvenient.
in coniormmg witn a plan of the Clearing House bank of Chicago, the United States Steel company will pay their employes In checks of email denomination at South Chicago, BufSngton and Gary. The following letter has been issued by the persldent, E. J. Bufilngton, which is self explanatory: Chicago, November 8, 1907. To the Employes of the Indiana Steel Company and Gary Land Company: The sudden and unexpected withdrawal of currency from general circulation In the cities of New York, Chicago and elsewhere, has interferred generally with the usual payments, at this date, of pay checks covering pay rolls. Such interference especially effects the larger employes of labor, Including the Indiana Steel company and the Gary Land company, which notwithstanding they have large bank deposits, cannot obtain currency in
amounts sufficient to make payable in cash tho entire pay rolls now coming due. For this reason the companies have decided to meet the pay rolls, next due, by the issuance of checks for approximately twenty per cent of the wages of each employe payable in currency through the South Chicago Savings bank or at the ofilce of the Indiana Steel company at Gary, Ind., and the remainder of wages, now due, In checks of the companies in small denominations, payable through the Chicago clearing house. These checks of these companies against ample deposits and payable through the Chicago clearing house, undoubtedly will be regarded and received as cash by grocers, butchers and other merchants generally, in the payment for purchase or for accounts due, and they will be accepted also for deposit by any bank In the city. It is believed that little inconveni
ence will "result to any employe from this expedient, adopted not because of lack of funds, but solely because of the present inability of the banks to supply currency. The temporary emergency, it is trusted, will soon be relieved by the provisions already made to secure gold and other currency from abroad and from the government, and also, through additional issues of National bank notes pursuant to the National Banking Act. It is hoped and believed that the employes generally will recognize and appreciate the effort of the companies to meet the unexpected conditions arising from the present lack of currency. E. J. BUFFI NGTON, President.
There Is considerable speculation in West Hammond as to the probable successor of Justice John J. Flynn. Among those who are the most prominent contenders for the honor are Walter Pletras, Frank Green, Adam Stackels and Adam Stokowitch. It has not been decided Just when the election will take place, and while It Is possible the matter will be held over until the regular election in April, it is not probable. At the present time all cases sr taken to Burnham, and though this arrangement Is satisfactory for the present, it is inconvenient. Although there is no complaint against Justice Hunter the people across the line are anxious to see a new man in the Job who will more properly belong to them. It has been practically decided that a special election will be held not later than
thirty days from date, and the exact
date will be decided upon by the village board at their next regular meeting.
which will be held next Thursday. From all appearances at the present time it looks as If there would be something of a fight for the plum, as none of the candidates will give up without a struggle. No one has thought of entering the race for the village Judgeship heretofore, as the late Justice Flynn was always conceded the position.
m MlmmiM fail v:-p9 PIPS
WAIT FOR LICENSE TO EXPIRE PLAN FOR SMALL MERCHANT
From Fifteen to Twenty, It is Est! mated, Are Slated to Withdraw.
Ireland in Columbus Dispatch.
LE1S flGG IS FBEE CHECKS WILL PASS
IT TOMORROW
HER WII SAVES CASH
100 SOHJ SLEEPER William Barber's Pockets Rifled While he Slumbers On.
Gary-
Woman Warns Hus
band Whom Smooth Sharper Would Dupe.
(Special to Lake County Times.) Gary, Ind., Nov. S. A woman's Quick business instinct and her ability to Judge a man's character by his face, saved E. Neiman, who conducts a store In the Broadway hotel building, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth avenues, $5 yesterday. The woman was the wife of the proprietor of the store and was standing nearby when a smooth short change artist tried to work his game and would have succeeded but for the warnlns of the woman. The man who was well dressed and rather young, called at the store and made a ten cent purchase, lie gave the proprietor a $10 bill and the latter returned a nve dollar bill, two two dollar bills and ninety cents In change. The man then said that he would like to get the tlve changed and when this was being done appeared to change his mind, and after getting the live dollars in change did not hand over the big bill, but took the whole ten dollars and asked for a ten dollar bill. So quickly did he work, talking all the while-, that the proprietor was confused and started to do as he was asked. It was here that the woman's
quick wit saved the day. She saw j through the transaction and quickly j called the attention of her husband j to the trick. Neiman then jumped : over the counter and grabbed the man,' but when the latter passed over the '
extra five and apologized he let him go. Other storekeepers have been notified of the man's presence in town and will be on the lookout.
(Special to Lnkr County Times.) Gary, Ind,, Nov. 8. Housebreakers have not slighted this community, and last night "William Barber got a surprise that for a few moments almost stunned him. Barber lives at the corner of Adams street and Euclid avenue and when he went to bed last evening he hung his trousers carefully over a chair in his chamber. Early
this morning he awoke and anxious to find out what time it was, arose and
groped about. looking for the trousers
where his watch had been left nestling
in the pocket. He found the chair in
the usual place but the trousers were
missing. Barber then lit a match and was surprised to see his clothing strewn about the room, thrown on the floor and into the corner. He made a hasty examination and found that his watch and $14 in money had been taken while he slept. He waited unt'l morning when he told his troubles to the police. Although a sound sleeper ho cannot understand how the man gained entrance to the room and ran
sacked the place without his knowledge.
Judge Gavit Grants Peti tion for Writ of Habeas
Corpus.
After a hearing that lasted three days. Special Judge J. A. Gavit granted the petition of Lewis Quigg for habeas corpus, thus releasing the Hammond man from the obligation to stand trial In the Cook county court on the charge of conspiracy against the Illinois Land & Loan company for possession of the eighty acre track near West Hammond, about which the-re has been so much litigation, uThe petition for writ of habeas corpus was strongly argued on both sides, but Judge Gavit granted it, nevertheless, after finding that the indictment against Qulgg for conspiracy was unfounded.
HE CIDU'T ill
South Eend Man Misplaces Confidence Minus One Suit Case.
LUSITA1JIA MAKES HEW RECORD.
(Special to Lake County Tlmen.) New York, Nov. S. The official record of the Lusitania is 4 days. IS hours and 40 minutes. The average speed "was 24.25 knots; total mileage. 2,781. Highest day's run on Wednesday last. 618 miles, making another record.
WKATIIEK-Fair tonight and SatI urdayj slightly cooler tonight.
(Special to Lake County Times. Gary, Nov. S. On a visit from South Bend, Lias Petsulis, proprietor of the Philadelphia candy store, thought that he would not be encumbered with his dress suit case as he looked about the
depot of the Wabash railroad yesterday, and as a result of this idea, will return without it. The owner failed to figure on the prosperous appearance of the article in question and the thieving propensities of the floating population of the town, who need such an article as they travel much. lie had scarcely had his back turned before a fly u' walked up. and ricking up the dress suit case walked right away with it. Mr. Fetsulias explained that it contained a camera, a number of pictures of relatives, which he prized very highly, and a few changes of clothes. More work for the poiico.
RE Gill STIFF PIS
Two Hammond boys were heavily fined yesterday afternoon in Judge
Hunter's court at Burnham for disor
derly conduct. One was Gene Davis, well known in this city, although but a young man of but 25 years of age. He was caught in a street brawl with several other young men and was the only one whom they were able to arrest. After he was lodged in jail he was unable to get any bail and was confined for more than forty-eight hours. His fine was $10 and costs, which amounts to about $17. For the same offense George T. Kaletz was arrested by Officers Johnson and Okroy, and the judge "handed It" to him good and plenty. His fine was made in the sum of $25 and costs, amounting to $32. Davis was able to pay his fine but Kaletz was not. That West Hammond will be a poor place for a rowdy while Judge Hunter Is trying the cases was amply demonstrated yesterday.
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Hammond Banks Begin to Issue Paper Saturday Instead of Cash.
IN STANDARD STEEL PAYROLL
Bankers Delighted With Conditions and Attribute, Normal State to . - People's Good Sense
OFF TO THE P00KH0USE.
Mrs. Mary Johnson Leaves For Crown Point Is ,ot Low Spirited, Hoping to Return.
WHITING THEATER SOLO
Orpheum Changes Hands
Becoming the Property of William Kaiser.
Mrs. Harry Johnson was taken to
Acting in accordance with the resolution adopted last Sunday afternoon
at the citizens' meeting, and the plan inaugurated in Chicago, Omaha, Lansing, Joliet and other cities, Hammond
business men tomorrow will begin to accept cashiers' checks issued by the First National bank, the Citizens German National bank and Lake County Savings and Trust company, of this
city. The amount issued in cashiers
checks will, however, be only for the amount of the payroll of the Standard Steel Car company of this city and the checks to be passed and accepted
as currency during the stringency. The Standard Steel Car company's draft is now deposited in the Chicago banks in favor of the First National bank of Hammond. In Chicago the situation la expected to be relieved by the beginning of next week and an easing up there will have the same effect in Hammond. There is, however, no worry in tho Calumet region on that score, as conditions here are piactically normal. The stringency is a street topic merely for it is not felt in business transactions. "It is the confidence of the people that is solving the problem," said A. Murray Turner, president of the First National bank, this morning. "The Chicago banks are trying to keep the money within their reach and by the same token are we accumulating the
necessary casn ior nammonu. as' said before, it is all due to the c -dence of the people. In Hammond they, have continued to make deposits right
(Special to Lake County Times.) Whiting, Nov. 8. The Orpheum the
atre, which was opened up on One Hundred and Nineteenth street in October by Hyde and Eskew, has changed hands, the present owner now
being William Kaiser, proprietor of the
Whiting bakery. Mr. Hyde Is sole own
er of nine of the same class of the
atres. It had been the intention of the
jan'anagers to enlarge the place so that the best claes of trevrHTig--shows that play in Chicago could come out for a
day.
Mr. Hyde in addition to his other work, is engaged by New York parties to sing Illustrated songs, and as he has found his work tooo heavy he was compelled to give up his Whiting play
house.
STAinRD TO PHY CASH
Oil People Send $60,000 witl
Which to Meet Their Pay Roll.
(Special to l.nke County Times.)
Gary, Ind.. Nov. 8. After the rush
of saloonkeepers to this town when
the news of its prosperity and growth
was noised abroad, all expecting that
they would be rich men in a very short
time, many of the same men who were
in the vanguard are now quietly pack
ing up their grips and preparing to evacuate when their license is up. It
is said that from fifteen to twenty
liquor dealers now located in the Paten
will close their doors in a very short
time and move away to places where
competition Is not so fierce.
The evacuation does not mean that
there is any cessation of the growth
of the town or that the temperance
cause has taken a firm hold on the people, but simply that there are more
saloons than can exist or hope to exist
for a long time, is the way one of the leading business men put it. At the
start they flocked into the Patch dls
trlct and located almost side by side
and from the first it was a survival
of the fittest. The business. while
rather brisk, did not come up to ex
pectations and during the past few
months a number of desertions have occurred and while other men frankly
went out of business, some of the sa
loonkeepers folded their tents and
quietly stole away. But although a
large number will leave, others are so fixed that they will be unable to get away and will stick it out in hopes of better times. The more conserva
tive business men are glad that the saloons in the Patch will be thinned out.
and welcome the evacuation.
Head of U. S. Mail Department Ex
plains How Both Projects Would Promote Prosperity.
EL M 0 R E I S SAFELY- 0 FF
Several Dispatches Assure
Hammond Bard of Alamo is On His Way.
Crawfordsville, Ind. Nov. 8. Spec
ial. James 11. Elmore left this city at
1:25 p. m., in good spirits. Many of his admirers were at the depot to see him off and to wish him good luck. This is the farthest from the old farm Jim has ever been and he 13 very much excited over his trip.
(Special to Lnke County Time.)
Whiting. Nov. S. The Standard Oil
company sent out $60,000 in gold from
Chicago, which is the anount of the
Whiting pay roll for two weeks, to ch the employes checks. Thirty thousand dollars was deposited with each of the banks, and each man was able to get the full amount of his check, in spite of the anxiety which many felt regarding the situation.
WELL ERITT0N RETURN TO KEY?
Genial Former Manager of Local Western Union Office Docs " Xot Know Himself.
the county poor farm this morning at along but the banks, Instead of sead-
8 o'clock. She was in good spirits and hopes to be back in Hammond by next spring. Her case has not gone unnoticed since the notoriety that it has received, and several kind-hearted women of Hammond, among them Mrs. Cooley, Mrs. Edith Crawford and Mrs. Elizabeth Green, are Interesting themselves in her behalf. They hope to raise a small fund to be payed out weekly at the rate of $2, in order to give the ex-pioneer a home with Mrs. Green.
ing the coin to Chicago, are keeping It in the vaults of the Hammond banks, paying the people interest on it and having it ready to offer in payment of all necessary checks."
MAKES FORMAL TRANSFER.
WILL COMPETE FOR ORATORICAL HONORS
As Treasurer of Hnraiuond Pure Ice Company He Complies With I.cuj CoTprninc Corporations.
Valparaiso, Nov. S. Neil Funk of this city, will represent Porter county in the oratorical contest at Chicago this evening. The contest will be given by Chicago Uniyersity for the hign schools of the United, States. The prize will be a scholarship In tho University.
Charles H. Mayer, treasurer of the Hammond Fuie Ice company, yesterday made a formal transfer to the company of the plant and stock involving $100,000. Until recently the company had been operating as a private concern but ow
ing to the company's recent incorporation it was necessary to transfer the company's holdings to the corporation. The plant alone, including the site at Russell street and the Monon tracks is valued at $33,000 land Is doing a flourishing business, so much so that the stock holders are planning improvements on a large scale. The officers of the company are: Dr. W. H. Howat, president; Fred Slegrist, secretary and 'Charles H. Mayer, treasurer. The board of directors include George Drackert and Julius Eaton.
GARTER
INQUIRY BEGUN
with the- announcement that the commercial telegraphers have abandoned the strike, patrons of the Western Union Telegraph company are
hoping for the return of former manager Herbert Britton. Mr. Britton is at present employed in the city water department and as yet has not asked for reinstatement. Mr. Britton says he has been told that strikers are asked by the company to go back for less money than they received before they struck. Mr. Britton says that if he should decide to go back it will not be under conditions that would pay him less than he has been receiving.
LaFayette, Ind., Nov. 8. Special. An Inquiry on the part of the agent of the Monon railroad at this place reveals the fact that James U. Plmore is still on the train on his way to Hammond where he Is to deliver his lecture on "Pure Literature" before the University club of Hammond.
Monon, Ind., Nov. S. Special James B. Elmore passed through this city this afternoon. For several minutes while enroute from Lafayette, Mr. Elmore became frantic, fearing that he had lost his lecture. After a desperate .search the precious paper was found in his hip picket and he proceeded on his way happy.
After hours of anxiety the members of the University club of this city are
at last assured that James B. Klmore did not miss his train ' and that he will be in this city at 5:02. according to the originag arrangement. The expected word from Elmore was not received last night and those who have had the responsibility of bringing the Ala,mo poet all the way from
Vila rnntcnmprv countv farm to Ham
mond were afraid that he had made some sort of a miscalculation and that he would not arrive in Hammond in time to appear for the lecture. Numerous telegrams sent out to stations along the Monon route, however, reveal the fact that Elmore is safely on the way and nothing short of a "Monon wreck" can prevent his arrival.
Chicago. Nov. 8. Two vast exten slons in the work of the postofftce department postal savings banks and parcel posts will become a fact within a year if congress acts upon the recommendations of Postmaster General George von L. Meyer. The postmaster general. In an address before the Industrial club last evening In the Congress hotel banquet hall, advocated the addition of these extensions to the government's postal service, and promised he would ask congress to pass the necessary laws to permit the government to embark In these businesses. He outlined in detail tho work anj the limitations of the proposed extensions to the service, declaring they would work injury to no body, would not compete with the established savings bankB, and would open up a new field to many small business men in agricultural districts. Competition to Be Avoided. To prevent competition with the established savings banks the postmas
ter general expects to have Incorporated In the law under which the government will go Into the banking
business a clause under which but 2 per cent Interest will bs paid upon savings and a limitation will be placed
upon the amount of deposits that will be accepted under one name perhaps $500. The stock objection to the parcel post on tho part of the retail merchant and small dealer that "the merchants in the big cities would take advantage of the . new servieo and steal their trade was oven-come by the postmaster general by a simple . device. Mf. Meyer said he would recommend ths.t a'spectiX-iate be. Tr ade on ;all jarv.l originating and delivered on one rural route. This he purested, should ha 5 cents for tho first pound and 2 cents for each additional pound up to eleven pounds. This would give the neighborhood center the county seat, for exumple a proper advantage over the llstant city. Pernonnl Plea to Memberm. After he had outlined the plan for each of the extensions Mr. Meyer mada a strong personal plea to the members of the club for their support anJ assistance In securing the necessary leg
islation, without which the postal department cannot undertake these improvements. "I want you gentlemen to take thesa matters which I have discussed into consideration, and I believe that you cannot but approve of the plan," he said. "Never before has there been, a better opportunity for installing there two new branches of the service. "First, the rural deliveries have been extended to points where there are few banks and little or no express service. Residents in the.-e districts can depend only upon the government for assistance. "If you , gentlt m n favor the plan make your ideas known. If you look with favor upon the idea your congressman will favor It. If your congressman favors the idea tho matter of securing necessary legislation wlU be but a simple matter. The parcel post and postal savings bank will soon be a fact." Then Mr. Meyer called attention to
the fact that of the legal tender money in the country $1,500,000,000 could not be aoeounted"for in any of the regular channels of business. From this he deduced that much of this money was being held in the peculiar places of "safety" found by timid investors and women under matresses and in stockings.
Lake County Sheriff Goes Before U. S. Grand Jury at Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, Nov. S. Special. The federal grand jury this morning began the investigation into the case of Sheriff Fred S. Carter of Lake county, charged with opening the mail of a prisoner at the Crown Point jail, without the latter's consent. The report on the Indictment will not be made until some time next week according to the district attorney. Carter does not deny that he opened the mail of the prisoner who brought the complaint, but asserts that such an act by a public offleer does not constitute a criminal ofTense. United States Com
missioner Charles Surprise. Postofflce Inspector Rankin, and Postmaster Farley of Crown Point, were at Indianapolis this morning.
ASSESSMENT E0LL PILED.
The board of public works held a short business meeting this morning and ordered that the assessment roll for the Fayette street sidewalk and the Logan street brick pavement be placed on file.
TWO DIVORCE CASES FILED.
MBS EINSELE TO HAKE HEARING Ifl RIVERDALE
A 1VAXT AD WILL HELP YOU SELL TOUR FURNITURE TO TRIVATE DIVERS
Drink is about to separate two married couples who have been married only a year. Their cases were filed in the superior court. one being brought by the wife and the second by the husband. The cases filed are: Luchia Belle Hock against .Karl Hock, divorce. Benjamin Kanewske against
against Frank Jarocz. appeal.
HUNTER STUM3LED; DEAD. Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 7 Clifford Neece, aged 18, sir miles from this city, was killed today while hunting. He stumbled on a log, the charge of the gun entering his chest.
The trial of Mrs. Nicholas Einsele, who was arrested for assault and battery by he rsister, Mrs. Charles Yaeger.
following a trial of Mrs. Yaeger and
i her husband on a like charge preferred by Mrs. Einsele, did not come i to a hearing Wednesday in the West
Hammond court. Mrs. Emsele wljl be arraigned Monday in the Rlverdale court, the hearing to take place at 2 o'clock. Wednesday's case was dismissed by action of the plaintiffs who claimed to fear her cause would not be fairly heard in "West Hammond. On leaving the court room, however. Mrs. EInsele was again arrested and it Is in reply to this second warrant that she will appear In Riverdale, Monday.
HANGED BY WILD GRAPE VINES. Hazelton. Ind.. Nov. 8. James McNeece, living three miles east of here, in Washington township, lost a fln driving horse in a peculiar manner. While grazing in a wooded pasture the animal's neck had become entangled In a bunch of lare v.iid grape vines which overhung a 5te p hollow. Ths horse evidently tril to get loose from the vints and in the struggle roiled nvr the steep brink of the ravine.
The animal was found suspended the air.
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See what m fevr line of type will dm toward tratgbtenlBS out tb matter.
WE HAVE CONFIDENCE WE ACCEPT CHECKS. Confident that the Banks and Trust companies of the country at large, and of this community, especially, are absolutely sound, we will accept, in 'payment for merchandise, cashier's checks, local pay-roll checks, and checks signed by responsible
parties on banks m this vicinity. EDWARD C. MESAS'-CO. Hammond, Ind. .