Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 163, Hammond, Lake County, 23 April 1908 — Page 1

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WEATHER. Showers and fhnnd?ra tonus tonight and Friday. EDITION ,VOL. II. NO. 163.HAMMOND, INDIANA,. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1908ONE CENT PEB COPY.

Dope Fiend Gets off SixtyThird Street Car and is Tracked by Times Re porter to Hammond Drug Store and Interviewed. WRECK TELLS STORY OF LIFE State Authorities Will Soon Take Action Against Vendors of Cocaine and "Fiend" Tells of Influx' of "Coke" Users to Get Drug in Hammond. SEXSATIOXAL DEVELOPMENTS ARE EXPECTED SOOX AS THE .RESULT OP THE SALE OF COCAINE BT A HAMMOND DRUGGIST .WHEN THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH COMPLETES ITS INVESTIGATION. "Yen, I will admit that I am a 'coke' fiend. I come "out to Hammond three times a week to buy , the staff. I have no difficulty in getting it here although , they arrest the druggists in Chicago who are caught selling dope. I belong to a 'coke' club on the south side. "He get together .every once in awhile and 'shake our heads X. "Coke" Fiend Who Bought Cocaine In Hammond and was Photographed by Time 3' Reporter. off.'. Whenever we have a party I come down to Hammond for refreshments. I got the morphine habit while I was sick and later took to the coke." The above is an extract from a remarkable interview a Times reporter had with a "coke" fiend whom he spotted, followed, photographed and finally induced to confess the whole miserable history of his life since he became addicted to the use of the drug. He got off a Sixty-third street car and in the nervous manner peculiar to the victims of the drug habit he immediately walked to the store of a Hammond druggist, where in a low tone he asked for some cocaine. The druggist refused his request and he left the store without the drug which had become so necessary to his existence. There was no mistaking the fact that he was one of the scores of Chicago dopsters who have discovered that while it is impossible to buy the drug in Chicago, the country druggists do not fear arrest or conviction and are disposed to make the big profit on a miserable traffic that wrecks and ruins men's lives. The reporter followed him on the other side of the street - to avoid arousing suspicion. lie learned from the first druggist that the man had actually asked for cocaine and had been refused the drug; consequently as he hurried to keep up with the stranger he was not surprised to note that he went into the first drug store he came to. In the same secretive manner he had employed in the first case, he walked all the way back to the rear of the store and engaged the druggsit In conversation. There was not a moment's hesitation. The small bottle full of the drug was prepared and in a few moments the "coke" fiend was again on the street, making haste for some place where he could satisfy that ravenous appetite for the stimulant. Spotted by a Reporter. . Within a short distance of the corner of Ilohman and state streets he (Continued on page 6.) i

HAMMOND BALL TE1 10BG1IZE0 Final Arrangements Completed Among Members ; Last Evening.

OPEIl FOR CHALLENGES NOW May Use Eoby Race Track, Just North of the White House, for Park. The Hammond baseball team Is reorganized., final arrangements having been completed among the members themselves at Millikan's last evening. Until the team gets home accommodations In the way of a park it will travel the first game to be played May 3, with either Lowell or Valparaiso. While Hammond fans are- somewhat disappointed in seeing their heroes leave town every Sunday, they are nevertheless gratified in knowing that Hammond has a team at least. The local team is open for challenges now, no schedule having been arranged yet for the summer. The local team and their friends have not given up all hope of securing, a park and before the season is well under way it may be possible that the team will have a place in Hammond where games may be played on Sundays. Roby Track For Park. The park-now in sight is the old Roby race track just north of the White House, but all depends upon a deal for the sale of the White House. Ed Snaudt, proprietor of the White House, is at present considering the sale of his place to a Chicago syndicate and since it is he that has offered to give the "boys" a park, it will all depend upon whether the deal will be closed or not. Even if the White House and the surrounding property changes hands, hope has been held out to the boys that the new syndicate would accommodate -would accommodate them with a park and a grand stand. ; . j The management of the team this year stays in the team, which will decide definitely upon a captain this week. A" practice gam will be held next Sunday afternoon at which , time the following men will be tried out: Clarence Eder catcher, Will Hurapfer and "Curley" Elkins pitchers, Dan Enrlght shortstop, Will Jones first base, C. White second base, B. McMahan third base, W. Halfman left field, t, Louis .Sherer center field, C. Rohde, right field. Next Sunday a pitcher from Fort Wayne, who wishes to affiliate himself , wth-the -local-team and a third baseman from Gibson will - be ""tried out. The team as it is at present is composed of all old players on the team excepting Humfer, Elkins and Eder. POLICE RUN ACROSS SHOCKING CASE TODAY. Foreigner Afflicted Wtih- Loathsome Disease Is Sent to Poorfarm. The Hammond police ran across a deplorable case at the Standard Steel Car works today when in the settle ment there -they found a foreigner ly ing in a house so weak that he could hardly walk. For three years the fellow has been afflicted with an incurable disease and one that is particularly loathsome. 'His wife has been support ing him, though he abused her until within a few months ago, when he became too weak to continue. He was taken to the county poorfarm at Crown Point today where he is expected to end his 'days soon. LOCAL BISCUIT STATION WILL NOT SHUT DOWN. Branch Distributing Station of National Company Is Not Affected By Hard Times. Owing to the fact that several of th branch distributing stations of the National Biscuit company have closed down recently, Julius Dunsing, the manager of the local branch was asked this morning regarding the prospects for a continuance of business here. Mr. Dunsing reports that business is ! as good as it ever was and there Is not even the remotest chance of the plant closing down. There is a manager, a bookkeeper and two drivers in the employ of the National Biscuit company in this city. SOCIALISTS WILL HOLD ANOTHER MEETING. Attorney Bixby Will Address the Gathering to be Held on North Side. Encouraged by the success of their first meeting, two weeks ago, the socialists of Hammond will hold another meeting in Fred Burke's place, 613 North Hohman street, next Saturday evening. The program as given out by John Minnich, who is one of. the organizers of the party in -Hammond is an address by Harling A. - Bixby, a young Hammond attorney, and two addresses, one in German and a second in English by John Minich himself. Attorney Bixby, according to Minnich's announcement will speak in English. - - . , Have yon erer tried an ad In Ths TUneaS Try one and ace the rearJta.

PROVIDE NEW SITE F0REimE YARDS? Keported Company of Realty Men is Now Organized For Purpose,

TRAFFIC MGR. SHER1U TALKS Declares That While Matter Had Been Considered, He Had Heard Nothing Lately The report became current yesterday that a company of Hammond reaj estate men had been organized for the purpose ot providing a new site for the Erie yards out south of the city 'and which proposed to subdivide the present .site of the yards and place on sale several blocks of the most centrally located lets in the city. . In an effort to wnflrm the rumor, which emanated from a reliable source, Captain J. C. Sherwin, trafflce manager of the Erie railroad, was interviewed over the telephone. - Mr. Sherwin gave a very interesting interview in' which he said that the matter of vacating the present site of the yards had been considered on several occasions and that three years ago the matter was given very careful consideration by the officials of the company. He said he had not heard anything recently but he thought he would be acquainted with the facts if there was anything of the kind under consideration. . . Looks Improbable To Him. Mr. Sherwin pointed out that the Erie railroad company has spent "so much money on its new coal storage plant that he did not believe there would be enough profit in the sale of the lots of the proposed subdivision to make the rebuilding of the plant possible. He estimated that the Hammond coal storage plant has cost in the neighborhood of $100,000 and that the company could not rebuild the plant for any less than that amount. In addition it would be required to relay all of the track in . the present yards and also to ; move . the . roundhouse and shops. Another thing that will hav to be -consldnp'd -wni be the' extra C6st of switching from, the .pposed yards outside of the city limits to the places where the goods are consigned. Mr Sherwin suggested that this might make enough of a difference to decide the officials in favor of the retention of the present yards under any and all circumstances. ... MINISTER WILL TALK ON THEPHILIP1NES Rev. J. Eugene Snook Arranges Stereopticon Affair For Church. The stereopticon lecture 'which Is to be given at the Presbyterian church under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid society Tuesday evening, April 28, by Rev. J. Eugene Snook, pastor of the church, is expected to be one of the most important talks that have given in this citl recently.Mr. Snook was a resident of the Philippines for six years and he advertises a personally conducted trip to the Philipines and return, a distance of 22,000 miles, all for 25 cents. This includes a . free accident policy for the entire trip providing against typhoons, earthquakes - and Asiatic cholera while on the islands. The trip will be an interesting one and will doubtless attract a great many travelers. Mr. Snook's lecture is "The Pearls of the Orient." A large number of colored lantern slides, will .illustrate the scenic beauty of the islands, and, as the prospectus goes on to 'say, "the charming rivers and lakes and Niagara water falls and. chasms. Lofty mountains, Royal Gorge, 600 feet deep and winding several miles through, perpendicular walls of rock dressed in tropical verdure, draped with begonias and calla lillies and made reverbernt with the mingling of the rnurmers of many rapids and chattering monkeys." Mr. Snook will. tell -of the active volcano on the island with a crater three miles in diameter and 600 feet deep, he will describe old Manila, he will give views of the war. and last of all will describe the cocoanut groves where the simple life is lead with avengance and where there are Igorrotes, the Moro, the Tagalog, the Visoyan and the Bicol. He will tell of their industries and their, sports and pastimes. Mr. Snook's long experience in the islands makes him well qualified to speak on the subject and his lecture will doubtless prove interesting. HOHMAN STREET. IS TORN UP AGAIN. Plumbers are. tearing South Hohman street up again until its resemblance to a thoroughfare is extremely disti net. New watermains are being put In and connection from the street mains to the house mains are keeping a big gang of men at work.

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Increased" Number of Answers But None Have Right One. The Wednesday contest on the "missing vrord" page proved to be even harder than any of its predecessors and no .person was able to gness all the missing words correctly. aiore answers were received yesterday than on any preceding day, Several guessed all hut one word correctly. The following is the list of missing words In yesterday's contests 5 and 10 Cent Store, "Sixe." Bick Laundry, "Waists." 1st National Bank, "Actual . A. G. Schllcker, "Assumed." Henry Schneider Inserted the question mark among the missing ads and no one guessed his n:ime. This makes a prize of 94 which will be awarded tomorrow to the lucky guesser. Three dollars will be given tv the person who guesses the correct list In today's page and one dollar will be given to the person who guesses the name of the business man who inserted the question mark. Remember that everybody In the family can send us a guess. SPLENDID CONCERT GIVEN AT KILE'S Chicago Artistes Entertain Monster Crowd at Charity Function. SOCIETY WELL REPRESENTED Committee Will Clear Up In Neighborhood of $400 for Sweet Charity's Sake. . The members of the com. raittee for the Charity Concert wish to thank all persons ' who so ably supported them by their assistance, donations and pntronage. On account of all tickets not being turned In, it is imImpossible, at this time, to report the exact sum realized, but it is believed that it will be approximately $400. A detailed report will be made through these columns later. LOUISE M. KINGWILL, Secretary. For sweet charity's sake, a delightful musical and dramatic entertainment was held at Towle's opera house last night and -as a result, the hearts of those in charge were made glad by the flow of silver pieces into the box office. Over a thousand music-loving people of Hammond crowded the opera house and by their presence and applause expressed their appreciation of the work of the charity committee headed by Mesdames Lawrence Becker, C. G. Kingwill, 'J. E. Fitzgerald and John Kane. The artists who appeared on the progfiram were Mesdames Edith Lillian Clark, Charles J. O'Connor, Anna Ray and Bessie Gilion Drake, from the Conservatory of Music and Kindred Arts of Chicago. There were fifteen numbers on the program which was drawn out longer than had been intended because of repeated encores to which the artists had to submit. Perhaps the favorite on the program was ittle Miss Ruth Ray, the child violinist. Her handling of the instrument in De Beriofs "Scene de Ballet and Dvorak's "Humoresque" was exquisite. She poured so much feeling and expression into her numbers that the audience was enraptured. Mrs. Edith Lillian Clark, the pianist, with Chopin "Valse Op. 42" and Liszts "Reminiscenses de Lucia de Lammermoor" proved herself a master in technique and execution. In the Liszt "Etude" the ending was marred by the exit of people from the audience and the sympathy of the ending was destroyed by the regrettable noise. Another artist "who charmed the audience with her work was the mezzo-soprano, Mrs. O'Connor. She sang Bemberg's "Hindoo Song" with splendid coloring and her tone-work in the Willeby "Fairy Love Song was very acceptable. Her voice is of a particularly pleasing quality. The reader, Bessie Guion Drake, gave four numbers, all of them very enjoyable. One of them was the lamented Irving's after-dinner favorite, "The Uncle" a heavy unmber for a feminine voice, but she sustained well the . dramatic power in it. The large audience enjoyed the program immensely and feel well repaid for their attendance. The committee in charge of the work was as follows:,Mesdames Fred Mott, Joe Weis, Hastings, Lash, TV. H. Gostlin, J. G. Ibach, Griffin, A. F. TV. Fedder. Leo Wolf, J. E. Fitzgerald, C. E. Bauer, Lawrence Becker, J. Apoll, Fred Lash, Jr.. C. Kingwill, Mettler, TV. F. Howat TV. H. Binder. BARNEY JOHNSTON, JR., BURIED. The remains of the five-year-old son of Officer Barney Johnsori of TVest Hammond, were sent to Mt. Olivet cemetery this morning after funeral services had been held at 8 o'clock In All Saints church,, .

WILL CONFER ON GAS- FRANCHISE

Mayor, Board of Works and - Stockhoders of New Light Company to Meet. WILL PRESENT ORJEGTIONS Claim There Is Nothing to Be Gained and Much Inconvenience To Be Suffered. A conference between Mayor Becker, the board of public works on one side and the. stockholders of the Citizen's Gas & Electric company, which is seeking a franchise was scheduled to be held this afternoon for the purpose of going over the franchise. While Mayor Becker is known to be opposed to the franchise and the board of public works is simply ignoring the matter the stockholders are piqued and will force the question to an issue. Mayor Becker and the board are raising objections to the franchise to be granted on . the grounds that the new company ia not offering any material reduction in the price of light or gas, that laying of the new pipes and conduits would necessitate the reopening oi' the paved streets and that the company reserves the right of going where it desires without giving the outlying districts any service. The stockholders in the company who will talk on the subject deny these allegations and say they are ready to go over each clause with the administration to prove that they are reasonable In their demands. While the franchise has been in the hands of the board for weeks the company has patiently waited.- Now, however, that the weather is excellent for construction purposes and labor can be had cheaply the company is anxious to begin operations. By delaying the granting of the franchise another embarrassing situation would arise in a few weeks if the mayor carries out his promise of changing the board of public works, which is said to take place May 1st. Jacob Schloer who is slated as a board member and also a stock holder Iff the corporation, would be placed ia a. position where he would .have to grant himself and associate a franchise, a procedure that would be indeed embarrassing and possibly legally contested. BYE TO THE LIIILEJROII J08 Hammond Police Receives Opinion That Fortifies Position They Took. A bas the little brown jug. The Hammond, police who have always took the stand that they have a right to refuse the sale of liquor in jugs for peddlers are fortified in their position by a constitution placed on the Beardsley law. This was done by Atorney General Jsmes Bingham, who yesterday held that wholesale liquor dealers have no right to sell liquor in less quantities than five gallons. The ruling means the stoppage of wagon delivery to houses, and revolutionize present practices. The question will go to the Supreme court. The Beardsley law is the "blind tiger" act" of the legislature or 1907. ELOPING COUPLE COME TO HAMMOND. Dot in Their Disappointment Make a Quick Hike to Crown Point. An eloping couple, who were unfamiliar with the changes time has wrought since Hammond was the old official Gretna Green for Chicago and other near-by Illinois towns, strayed into Judge McMahon's court this noon and asked his honor to direct them to the marriage license office. Judge McMahon'bade them on their way to Crown Point and after an exclamation of disappointment, the couple hied them over to the Erie, to wait the 3:40 train which woul.-. bear them to the city where two sou. with but a single thought are made "glad. The young people were good looking and well dressed. When they learned that they would be unable to secure a license In Hammond, they refused to give up their names. OLD ESMOND RESIDENT, FORMER POLICEMAN, DIES. John Urbahns Passes Away After a Long: Illness Leaves Wife and Family. . John Urbahns, one of the old residents of Hammond and a former police man, . died early this morning at his home, 257 Truman avenue, after a long Illness. The deceased leaves a wife and several grown children. . He came originally from Porter county and while the funeral arrangements have not yet been made it is probable that, the remains will be taken to Valparaiso for burial. .

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IS THE HAMMOND DOG A TAX DODGER?

Most of Him Certainly Fails to Pay His Just Assessment. How do Hammond dogs escape the license tag? Is tax dodging Instinctive with them, or have they learned It from their masters? Hammond has at least 1,000 canines, including every breed from the blooded Scotch coolie owned by Harvey Gostlln, down to the little alley rat in back of the Maine restaurant, and yet there are only 112 of these which carried tags last year. This year, only fifty-four licenses have been Issued, and indications being that no more licenses will be Issuer this year than last year. Most of the people seemingly are under the impression that by paying the tax levied by the assessor, that a dog is entitled to life, liberty and all pursuits of happiness. The dog tax merely gives permission to house the cur or whatever it might be, but does in no way allow the iog to run on the streets or Into the neighbor's yard to dig up his lawn there. It is the city dog license which allows the animal to run at large, provided he is harmless, and even then he must be muzzled during the socalled dog days. There is a growing desire. In tbecity to restrict those animals which are now running about, without permission. The objections come mainly from parents wljpse children are frightened by the animals. ' In the business district they have becoine a., nuisance., They' are. always In the way of vehicles, and It is nothing unusual to -see 'a pack of them running up-and down the streets and sidewalks and getting Into the way of pedestrians.-'' - -----' Hammond probably has not more than - its allotted "share -of -dogs when compared with other -cities, but - it is not. receiving its allotted share of dog licenses. In Michigan- City, for instance, a smaller city than Hammond, dog licenses netted the' city $800 last year. Hammond's New

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Hammond's new railroad bridge is nearly completed. Announcement has been made that the Illinois Central double track line from Kensington to this city will be completed by July 1. Steam cars will be run, over one track of this line and the electric cars of the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend will run over the other. The road extends from Kensington yards south and then east across the Calumet flats and over the river to Hegewisch, thenca to Ford street in Hammond. In order to secure the roadbed, mountains of sand have been hauled and spread over the big Calumet bog in a strip of 100 feet wide, over a mile long, and from sixteen to thirty feet deep. On this kind of an approach the trains will cross the Calumet river on an immense steel swing bridge now under course of construction. The new line will connect Indiana Harbor, Gary, Michigan City, South Bend, Elkhart, Goshen and Warsaw, and will connect the big Indiana- & Ohio electric railway system, that now reaches Toledo and Cleceland on th north and Zanesville on the south.

DEATH OF WELL KNOWN PIONEER MHfcSTER. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Beck, well known In Hammond, one of the pioneer ministers of the northwest Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, died yesterday morning at his residence in South Bend. He was born in Wayne county, Indiana, seventy-five years ago. He had been in charge of churches in many towns and cities of the state during more than half a century, had been presiding elder and formerly was a trustee of De Pauw university. His widow i and several children survive. WILL HAVE A PRIVATE SANATARIUM. Crown Point, Ind., April 23. (Special.) The Crown Point sanitarium which has had a rather tempestous journey on the financial sea in the last few years, has at last, so rumor says, found a harbor. Mrs. Workman, a trained nurse, having negotiated the sale of the plaee for a consideration of $3,600. The ma'.ter will have to go through the courts. Mrs. Workman, it is said, will conduct the institution more as a private sanitarium instead of the more public use it has been put to in the past. BELLW00D MAN GATHERED IN. George Crawford of Bell wood, 111., coatless and hatless but by no means packageless was gathered in by the police this afternoon on charge of drunkenness. He was remanded for a hearing. -

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Hammond Doctor is Haled Before State Board of Medicine on Charge of Practicing Medicine Without License. APPEARS BEFORE ; BOARD WITH ATTY. Dr. Oscar Reiss May Go to Oklahoma to Practice Medicine There, Biit Reiss Pere Decides to Remain at . the Standard Steel Car Settlement. . On the complaint of one of tbe Ham mond physicians, Dr. Herman ItoU of this city, was called before the State Board ; of Medical Registration at Indianapolis and asked to explain why he had been practicing - medicines for the past eight months on a license issued prior to the law of 180T. . , : Dr. .Herman Reiss together with his son, .Oscar,, have been practicing medicine in the. Standard settlement, east of town and a day or two ago the elder Mr. .Reiss received a notice from tha state, medical board, requesting him to - - - i . . . . ; Continued on pace 2. NEW MARIAGE LICENSES. Crown Point, Ind.. April 3. (Spe-' cial.) The following new marriag licenses were granted yesterday in the. clerk's office here: Thomas W. Denby, Margaret G. Callahan, Chicago; Fred Becklenberg. Maria Love, Chicago; Louis Wehrmeister, Annie Knowles, Chicago; Charles M. Hill, Margaret McCarthy, Chicago; William Meyer, Luta Ferriter, Chicago; Simon Boykopsky, Alabeta Sopaci, Indiana Harbor; Thomas J. Prather, Kata H. Miller, Chicago; Charles Rosentiel. Sadie M. Connors, Chicago; Andrew Jefchak, Roby, Anna Kmac, Chicago; John A. Larson, Maria Dean, Chicago; Albert A. Stern, Phoebe Cornwell, Chicago.; . . BUYS HIS SOCKS BY THE BUSHEL AT $3 PER. E. S. Seely Gets Ilargaln in Hosiery .? That Looks Like Opnlance in Stocking; Line. Is a bushel basket full of new socks, including the basket, a bargain at a cost of $3.00? If it is, E. G. Seely of this city has found one. This morning he had occasion to visit the Standard Steel Car district and while there visited a fire sale where socks were sold by the bushel. What thoughts surged through Seely's mind when he saw the bargain is hard to tell. Suffice it to say Mr. Seely has sox enough to keep his tootsies warm through the next hard winter. If yon can truthfully say that THE TIMES is a cood newspaper, please say tn to a. Srtemd and set liim to M&serih -

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