Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 153, Hammond, Lake County, 11 April 1908 — Page 1

111 WEATEE2S, Fair tonight and Sunday except possibly ihowen extreme south t rising; temperature Sunday, EDIT-IO tVOL. n. NO. 153. HAMMOND, INDIAN A, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1908. ONE CENT PEE COPY:

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Hiss Edith Carter Heroine of Local High School Gets

; First Place in Oratory With the Agitator "Wen dell Phillips" Her Theme. IT !!G GETS THE MUSIC PLU1 Annual Contest In Oratory and Music Brings Big Delegation to Ham mon& from Every Town and City in Lake County and Rooters Are Well Organized. '. RESULT IX MUSIC. RESULT IX MUSIC. Whiting First place. Hammond Second place. East Chicago Third place. Hobart Fourth place. Crown. Point Fifth place; RESULT IN ORATORY. 1st. MUi Edith Carter, , Hammond nigh School. 2nd. Mlaa Beanie Banks, Hobart High School. 3rd. Mr. Walter Smith, Whiting High School. 4th -Miss Florence Plckard, ' East Chicago High School. 5th. Mlsa Hasel Smith, Crown Folat High SchooL 6th Miss Beasle Griffith, Lowell Hli'Ii School. . With -the' din f the most fiery rooting that has ever been heard in Hammond, still in their cars, hundreds of hisrh school students are today - re counting the stirring scenes at the seventh annual contest of the Lake , County High School Oratorical association at Towles opera house, which followed the announcement that Miss Edith Carter of Hammond , had won first prize in oratory, and that the Whiting chorus had won the musical contest. It Is doubtful if there ever was a ; contest In Lake county of a literary and musical character where the quality of the work was so exceptionally high and where the enthusiasm was so universal as it was last night. All day long the students from the various schools over the county arrived in town by the score. The prospects of the various contestants winning in one department or1 another were discussed pro and con until eight o'clock the pent up enthusiasm was almost more than the high spirited students could stand and It Is fortunate for them' that they had the opportunity to give vent to their feelings In wild and uncontrolled rooting. The scene In the opera house was one that beggars description. Every .'available seat had been taken and the few tickets that were to be had were Bold at a premium. From the main floor where the students from the various cities were divided into sections to the second balcony where the townspeople leaned oyer the railing and waved pennants 'In answer to choppy yells which came ud to them In a continuous roar, the opera house was an undulating sea of faces a storm tossed ocean of waving nennants and gesticulating students The places awarded to the orators was as follows: Miss Edith Carter of Hammond, first; Miss Bessie Banks of Uohart. second; Mr. Malter Smith of 'Whiting, third: Miss Flossie Pickard of tF.ast Chicago, fourth; Miss Hazel Smith f r-rnwn Point, fifth, and Miss Bessie Orifflth of Lowell, sixth. In the chorus. Whiting, directed by Miss Olive was first; Hammond, directed by Clark Learning, was second; East "Chicago was third, Hobart was fourth and Crown Point was fifth. Lowell did not contest The winning oration by Miss Carter was entitled. "Wendel Phillips.' It ui a stlrrinsr naration of the times preceeding the civil war when Wendel Phillips, the aristocrat, was so outraged by the assault upon William Lloyd Garrison that he determined to 'champion the cause of freedom for the 'slaves until the infamous traffic should be crushed. Miss Carter's manner was free and 'tasy, her enthusiasm for her subject was so sustained that it held the at tention of her hearer from the very ' beginning. Her enunciation was good. f her voice reached the farthest recesses iof the hall and the completeness With which she was absorbed in her subject and the manner in which she radiated her own interest in it doubtless had a great deal to do with her vjctory. Miss Bessie Banks of Hobart chose as her subject, "Societies Criminal." t Continued on page S.)

GREAT CHARITY IRE

Indiana Harbor and .East Chicago Committees Are Merged. The two committees that were form ed In Indiana Harbor and East Chicago to conduct the relief work that has been in progress there, have been merged into one so far as their gen eral head is concerend. While both will retain their individuality to a certain extent, they are both under the city's supervision and the Investigation of all cases will be in charge of the police In the mean time, S. I Eisler, chair man of the Indiana Harbor committee, has declared his intention of resigning, while Constable Muller and Justice Jones, both Whiting men. have with drawn from active service. It is said I mat mr. .easier, nowever. nas oeen taiKea out or nis intention oi resigning and is willing to reconsider his action.

Mr.. Eisler was not, however, in Indiana resentatlve In oratory, Miss Carrie BujHarbor, to confirm or deny this rumor, sard, a member of the high school lay

Two commissary department have and the other at the Harbor. That at East Chicago is at the .rear of M. J. O'Connell's, while that at the Harbor is in the basement of a house at Washington ana ujock streets. ne ponce umcer in charge of the investigation at East Chicago is uracer jonn mompsoa while Jim Galloway has charge of the commissary here. Officer John Ford will take care of the commissary in In diana Harbor and Officer A. C. Petrie will look after the work from the out side. The provisions that - are being dispensed from these two- places Include flour, beans, potatoes, bread, salt, smoked meats and coffee. Out of seventeen cases of poverty reported at Indiana Harbor, twelve were found to be worthy. The rest were turned down. Frank Karkovlch, 3558 Block avenue, was one of those to whom aid was refused. Fifteen or twenty plump fowls were found strutting about tne DacKyara wnen me u., call. Maria Wana was another whose case was not regarded a9 sumcienny serious to warrant public charity. She was asked her address which proved to be at 137th and Cedar street, and when she went to withdraw from the bosom of her dress a scrap of paper on which tif street names were written. She accldently exposed a roll of greenbacks. Another rejected case was tnat oi a hiu . I who wanted cash to pay taxes on his nf-onertv. and another that of a man who was keeping about fifteen boarders. Three hundred and seventy dollars was raised yesterday In East Chicago. Fou.ases of destitution were, reported , and acted upon favorably. There has been criticism passed on the committee In East Chicago, because all of Its members were republicans. This If Is explained has no significance but is merely a co-incidence. GALL GETS THE PLU John T. Call Will he the Next Postmaster of Gary. The agony is all over now! John W. Call of Gary last night re ceived notice of his appointment by Congressman Crumpacker, to the of fice of postmaster. The only other candidate for the place was James Bowlby. The office now pays a salary of f 1,800 and there Is 9800 allowed for perquisltes. The office was also recently raised to the third class and It Is ex nectel that it will be made second class July 1st and that general de livery will be installed. John Call was formerly street in spector in Gary. He came from El wood, Ind., where he has served as mayor and city Judge. OH, HAT A TROUBLE! John A. Gavit Forced to Knock His Own Game Wow! John A. Hammond. John A. Gavlt Is city attorney for Gavit Is also the owner of blooded horses and a lover of them and thereby hangs a tale a rather sad tale for the city attorney. , With the opening of the weather, it nas uccu a ivminvii oigiu iu sec Hie lawyer exercising his horses during the early morning hours, and much of this work was done on the speedway in Harrison park. Now comes Councilman Kaine, the watch dog of the city reasury, highlord protector of the public weal, and at present chairman of the commissary department, who introduced into the council an ordinance regulating the speed limit in the parks. The motion for the ordinance was promptly seconded In the council and the city attorney, the same John A- Gavlt, owner of good horses and a lover of high speed .ordered to draw up the ordinance. That accounts for the fact that John A. Gavit chews more of hi3 cigar lately than he smokes.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRL ; DIES 1RNING Miss Carrie Buzzard of Hammond High School ( Dead of Typhoid.

GLOOM OVER SCHOOL TODAY Attendance at School After Having , Relapse Is Responsible for Her Demise. While her classmates In the Ham mond high school were riotously happy , . , . . lst ovcr heHory of their rep dn at the , , hos,ta. To the exert Sriet of her Wenfl9 and the exquisite sorrow of her loved ones Miss Buzzard, who was 17 years of age, aled thIs mornlng at 10 o'clock. Th f her death was tvohoid fever whlch attacked her shortly-after th. hoiMn.vs Aftr vni wk nf nineag shG recovered but after one day of attendance at the school again a few weeks ago she suffered a relapse which proved fatal. She was practically unconscious for two weeks but during all the time that she was confined to bed her mind wa on her studies. In its wanderings It went back to school in attempt to re gain the lost time and her delirium was pitiful , Miss Buzzard came to Hammond last spring from Wakarusa, Ind., in "order to attend hitch school here. She made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Carl E Nelson, the latter being her. sister, liv8 Carroll street. father diort several vears aeo feut hgr mother married again and is now Mrs. Caroline Stauffer, who lives at the Indiana City The remains will be sent to Wakarusa tomorrow noon for burial to take place Monday aftemoon. Friends who wish to ,view the remains may do so to morrow from 9 until 11 o'clock in th U1 VUVVIU The death of Miss Buzzard has cast a gloom over the high school. She was ooDular with the students and her teachers. - --..-V. Prof.- W. A. Hill, principal of the school, said this morning: M!-BusTd-wa.a..madel student. bright and industrious. We all yiOBght J very much of her and -her .untimely death is deeply mourned by us." ; ' HANLY RETURNS TODAY Will Call Special Election to Fill Brick ! Vacancy. , (Special to The Times.) Indianapolis, April 11. Politicians are anxiously awaiting the return to this city today of Governor Hanly, who has been in Pennsylvania making local option speeches. They think the governor will take a hand In the Thirteenth district congressional situation imi mediately upon his return. It is up to the governor to call a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death o( A. L Brick, of South Bend. Until the governor maKes Known nis inten sions the politicians, who Just now are thinglng of nothing else but the question of Congressman Brick's successor, will remain up in the air. At the headquarters of the republican state committee, it is thought that Governor Hanly will lose not time in des ignating a date for a special election to fill the unexpired term which con tinues until March 4. The law, it is explained, contemplates an immediate election to fill a vacancy. It is further explained that the seven county chairmen of the district may fill the place on the ticket, but that the short term can be filled only by a man eleced at a special election canea Dy tne norCATSUP BOTTLE MISTAKES ' ITSELF FOR BOMB A vicious bottle of catsup exploded this morning in the home of Ben Roop, 138 East Fir street at Indiana Harbor an(J but for the ciosed door would have ... . . . tho hit one of the Roop juniors In the I heck. In addition to blowing the bottle the flying pieces broke two windows Fortunately no one - was injured bodily although the walls were given a tint of red tomato color. EXTRA MEN NOT NEEDED. It Is denied this morning that the J American Steel Foundries people con template taking on any extra men next week. The report was circulated yesterday that the company intended to employ from fifty to one hundred hands and the superintendent was called up today to ascertain whether this was so. The official replied that there was I no truth whatever the report.

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and baseball fans can be assured what Watch for THE TIMES' sporting HOT REVIVAL BEGINS TOMORROW Evangelist Shannon Gets Here This Afternoon From Michigan. EXPECT VERY EXCITING TIMES First Baptist Church Congregation Are Promised Great Revival Meetings. Red-hot revival services will begin at the First Baptist church in Ham mond tomorrow. Given added guest by the sensational sermons that have been inaugurated at the church by Rev. Sharp, this week, the services that Evangelist Shannon will begin promise to be about the most gingery that have ever been "given in Hammond. The people who have been attending MR. AD MRS. SHANXOX, the services this week anticipate that the sinners will be hauled over the cords in a great way, and expects to hear lots of startling truths. Rev. Sharp got word from Rev. Shannon this morning that he will be here on the 5:28 Lake Shore train this afternoon. He has been in Michigan conducting a temperance campaign fosome time which is said to have been uniformly successful, but which exhausted him physically for some days, but has recuperated. Evangelist Shannon is accompanied by his wife who assists him at each service. The couple work together like clock-work and their evangelistic work is of the good old-fashioned kind that gets results. CHECKER TOURNAMENT Hammond Cracks Will Challenge Rensselaer Champion. Rensselaer vs. Hammond in a checker club tournament. That is the program for the nevy near future. It is probably the first one of its kind to be held in Hammond and considerable Interest is being taken in it. The moving spirits of the Hammond organization are located In the various offices in the First National bank building where Col. LeGrand T. Meyer, Attorney M. M. Bruce and E. D. Brandenburg hold forth. Councilman John M. Turner is considered to be the dean of Hammond checker players and much will depend upon his form during the contest. A session will be held this evening among the local players in order to add to their form and it is possible that other sessions will be held next week. Rensselaer claims to have the champion of the state in the person of Bloom who is of Kentland. Aside from Bloom there are other good players In the team, but with all that Hammond expects to make a few moves that show "class." Take THE TI3IES for Its political news until after the election. Not for its republican news, not for Its demoAcratlc news, but for both sides.

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carried, making THE TIMES a medi they will get the very latest and best extra. RA110ND MEN GET V GOOD IDEAS Junketing Officials and Business Men . go to Holland, Mich. MB. HATCH GHAPERQNES PARTY Find Brick Pavement With Asphalt Filler To Be Most Satisfactory ' For Traffic. From the reports that have been received by the delegation of Hammond men who went to Holland. Mich., yesterday for the purpose of Investigating a brick pavement treated with an asphalt filler, it Is a splendid pavement. The Junket was taken at the expense of the American Asphalt & Rubber company makers of the pioneer asphalt Her for brick pavements and those who took the trip were royally entertained, s The committee was accompanied by Ray; Hatch of the firm of W. W. Hatch & Son, who has secured the bulk of the brick paving contracts in this region. Those who made. the trip were:. J. F. Krost of ;the Ijoard. of public-works, P. J. Lyons, city engineer; Alderman John Kane, Carl E, Bauer,, Louis Roth and Jchn Schwab. The partv,was accompanied bv XV. R fThrasher of thAine'rlcan Asohalt com pany at Holland, the party was met by Mayor Van .Putten, Aldermen Stephen and Van Oort, City Engineer Naber-. hauls and' City Attorney McBride ; of Holland. The Holland officials took the party over their pavements and declared their satisfaction with the brick treated with the asphalt filler. The . pavement has been laid for three years and was put down by .W. "W. Hatch & Son of this city. To illustrate the fact that the asphalt filler deadens the sound the city sprinkler wagon was taken out and run over the street and then on a pavement that had not been treated and it was found that the street with the asphalt filled brick made much less noise than the other. It also protects the edges of the brick and it was noticed that they were not chipped and broken off as in the case of the Hohman street pavement in Hammond which is not treated in this manner The members committee all com mented on the fact that if Hohman street is to be paved this year the work will have to be begun at once. The time required to advertise the improvement and for bids will make.it impossible to complete the work unless it is begun at once. SAD DEATH AT MILLER X SHsssssssssnnsssssss Hammond Coroner Learns Sad Story While Holding Inquest. How a noble dog who had been the guardian and pet of two-year-old Leonard Linstrom of Millers, pointed out the watery grame where his little playmate lay drowned while the family, including the aged great-grandfather, II. Hasselgreen, was frantic with excitement on account of the child's sudden absence, was the pathetic story that Coroner E. M. Shanklyin heard yesterday when he was called to Miller's to hold the inquest. It was only a few minutes after the old man, beside whom the youngster was playing, missed him, that he turned toward the moat behind the house and saw the "dog looking at the ditch, which is less than two feet wide. Aroused by the animal's curious actions and already having missed the child, he grabbed a stick and poked about In the water and to his horror touched the child in - stagnant water. The mother, almost helpless with fright, rushed for one of the forks In the barn and took her own child from its slimy bed. S. A. Smith, a friend of the family, who happened to be passing, and seeing the excitement, rushed from his wagon and seeing the result of the accident, summoned Dr. Mackey of Hobart. The doctor's arrival, however, was too late to save the child.

POLITICIANS FLATTER LAKE COUNTY MAN

Two Factions Praise Dick Schaaf to . Get Him Into Fold. BITTER FIGHT IS RECALLED James E. and A. Jeremiah Both Hand The Cream to the Hammond Man. ' All of the time that Richard Schaaf can get from his work of looking after the poor in Hammond Is spend reading letters from down the state politicians, commending him for his activities at the state convention. A-bit of humor is injected Into tho situation on account of the efforts of the .two political factions In the state to line up the genial county chairman for their side. There has. always been a bitter fight on between what is known as the Fairbanks machine and the Beverldge forces. This fight has never extended as far north as the northern tier of counties but these letters indicate that an effort will be made by both fac tions to secure the support of the north end of the state. Beverldge wrote Mr. Schaaf a long letter in which he said he wanted to congratulate him for the manly and forceful stand he had taken in oppo sition to the machine during the or ganlzation of the district preceding the convention'. Beverldge is aware of the fact that the effort of. Henry Marshall and Will "Wood to . railroad a machine ticket through was frustrated and that Rich ard Schaaf defeated John Moorman for the place on the credentials committee. He is a clever enough policltlan to take this as an Indication that the counties of Lake, Porter and LaPorte are opposed to the state machine and hopes to encourage them In their opposition to it. ; On the other hand Watson, who represents the state machine, knows that he can do a great deal for Lake county If the county will stand squarely for him in the future. Accordingly he has written to Schaaf commending him for his attitude during the state convention The letter was filled with

praise for Schaaf and the stand he tookjty of other crimes committed In and during the convention. J about Hammond which have been laid Here two contending parties have'at the door of the confidence man and. -written. 4h;.!:ngLn.-Jit tjie.l-ake with whlch.hwliiJje Jjargwt : now,:

county central committee, both stating that vhey.; approve .of the - Stand r he took t when that stand ' could not possibly have favored both of them at the same time. . Dick simply smiles about the affair and says, "Well, we made them sit up and take notice." JOCKO BR1GGS IS AT - LUST LANDED BY POLICE Chicago, April 11. Joseph (Jocko) Briggs was arrested in the yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul railroad, near Western avenue and Kinzie street, late yesterday by Captain Stephen K. Healy and Detective Sergts McSwiggen and Fitzgerald after a chase between cars on the tracks. Briggs is! wanted by the authorities of Dolton 111., It is said on a charge of shooting a policeman there about nine months ago. Captain Healy said "Jocko" also Is wanted at Hammond, Ind. Here's dope fer the anti-drys. ! Here's thought for the thinkers. A glass of beer was the means yesterday of saving a life In East Chicago. The circumstances on which the following tale Is based took place in the saloon of 9. Pictrowski, One Hundred and Forty-ninth street and Magoun avenue, J., LowlndowskI, teamster, the escaped victim of a near tragedy and the hero of a comedy with tragic features. The main properties used in the drama, were a whip and rusty revolver of ancient vintage, picked up from the ash heap by a young son of the proprietor of the saloon and which had been reposing peacefully on a ledge behind the bar for several days. Lowindowskl entered the saloon during the morning, it is alleged with Just enough of the good things that are found in bottles and barrels under his belt, to make him feel happy. He had a whip in his hand with which he playfully tickled the back of Plchowskl's neck when he turned to get him his drink. Ulchowski retaliated with a threat that. he would shoot his customer if he continued his nonsense, at the same time displaying the innofensive looking revolver which he knew was "not loaded," as he had taken it apart but a day or two before, but had not even considered worth cleaning up, the parts . being rusted apparently beyond redemption. . The kidding continued back and forth and finally Joe threw back his x:ost and bared his breast. "Shoot then," he said with a great show of bravado, laugh-

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Much Wanted Hammond Man is Landed at Muskegon, Mich., and is Now Locked Up in ; East . Chicago Bastile. - V HAMMOND STORE MGT1ZED ...... i East Chicago Judge Signs Warrant - for Arrest -on Complaint of Hammond Business Men And Constable James Lowden Brings George Moa Back for Trial. Constable J. E. Lowden of Xerth township has just landed one of the longest and most iadefatlgably hunted criminals who has ever operated In I, eke county, and one for whom the police of Hammond hare been looking for something over a year. Mr. Lowden's catch Is no less a per-, sonage that George Moe said to be wanted in Hammond for many crimes. The arrest was made Wednesday in Muskegon on a warrant issued by Judge Relland of East Chicago, sworn out by Hammond business men and yesterday Constable Lowden brought his prisoner to East Chicago with him where he is now safely lodged In the city jail. The warrant on which the arrest was made .was an old one and was drawn up on complaint of theowners of Hammond department stores, who were fleeced out of $129 worth of dry goods ; by the clever trickster. There are pleriftiiat, he. has Deen captured The one with which the department store people charge Moe, ' is however , about the most serious of his offenses. Moe has been ' wanted - -in a dozen places In Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. He was arrested in Muskegon Monday, charged with stealing a watch from one John Olson of that city. Moe's capture by the Michigan sheriff's force marks the end of a fourteen months' hunt for him by Deputy Lowden since he left Hammond a year ago last winter. In the course of his search for Moe the deputy was in Muskegon about a year ago and since that time the local officers have been on the lookout for him Trace was secured of him In Grand Rapids and Deputy Sheriff Nelson went after him Monday. Lowden was at once notified and came to Muskegon Wednesday evening to get his man The charge of watch stealing which had served to keep Moe in custody will be dropped as there is not a very'strong case and he is so badly wanted in Indiana. ing all the time. The saloonkeeper took aim and was about to pull the trigger when a customer called for a beer. Nichowskl turned to draw the beverage and again his neck was tickled with the lash of his friend, the teamster's whip. Again he laughed and again picked up the revolver and threatened to shoot. Lowindowskl, who is a tall man, said: "Aw come off you couldn't hit the side of a barn. Here, hit this," turning around he backed up putting one foot upon the rail, and giving a hitch, he elevated the broadest part of his anatomy up Just above the bar and offered it as a target for his friend'a Imaginery bullet. The saloonkeep pulled the tigger and two forms toppled over in different directions, Lowindowskl from a bullet which had lodged In the flesh a little above the thigh and the saloonkeeper from the shock occasioned by the report of the gun, which certainly had looked harmless a moment before. Since the occurrence Pichowski is looking about with blood in his eye for the man who "Put dot Bullhead" in the rusty gun, while Lowindowskl is under the doctor's care and is eating his meals "off the mantel piece" as best he can. Lowindowskl, however, is not grumbI ling. He admits that his wound is somewhat inconvenient, but he thinks it is in a better location than had he received it in the breast, as he would surely have done, had the chance customer with a beer thrist not interrupted the proceedings at the psychological moment, by calling for his tub of suds. ' " '