Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 296, Hammond, Lake County, 3 June 1908 — Page 8

Wednesday, June 3; 1903.

THE TIMES. DRIVERS FOR SOUTH GHiGAGOFiRM ROBBED HAROLD 1 WHEELER "-HAS NARROW ESCAPE GAR! 101 BOARD -HOLDS MEETING WANT RAILROADS TO GET VERY ROSY Dress Tkat Almost Upset .Winston Cnurcnill; Directoire Gown forn as a Riding Habit

Highwaymen Jump at Victims From Eoadside Empty Pistols. VICTIMS MAKE GAME FIGHT

Ex-County Clerk and Party of Friends in Automobile Collision in Chicago. Remonstrants in Broadway Street Widening Are -Overruled. Gary Property Owners Take Steps to Have the Obstructions.

Teamster, Faces Eis Antagonist With a Knife Is Clubbed Into Insensibility. ...

Amid a hailstorm of bullets, two highwaymen held up two men In a wagon In State street, sonth of Sixtyfourth, yesterday, beat one into insensibility,, robbed him and left him to die by the roadside, then robbed the other and compelled him to drive away from his injured companion. The victims of the holdup are James Mastarakar and William Gurlash, 4910 Wentworth avenue. They were on the way to South Chicago with a load of mercnindise for Nicholas Kaloneran, 5030 "Wentworth avenue. Kaloneran owns several stores throughout the city, one of which is in South Chicago and is located on Buffalo avenue, between Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth streets. When the transfer wagon reached Sixty-fourth and State streets, two highwaymen sprung into the middle of .he road. One grasped the horses by the bits, while the other leveled a revolver at the occupants of the vehicle and ordered them to throw up their hands. Brats One Into Insensibility. Gurlash dropped beneath the seat and the robber fired. The bullet cut a hole through the hat of Mostarakar. Gurlash got a knofe and jumped to the ground. He slashed at his antagonist, who fired repeatedly, but In the strubble his aim was poor and he soon emptied his revolver without results. Clubbing his weapon, the robber beat Gurlash on the head until the injured man fell to the ground unconscious. While he lay insensible Gurlash's pockets were looted of J4 and a gold watch. Abandoning his victim, the first robber joined his companion In an effort to rob Mastarakar. , The latter, however, lashed his horses and the animals reared and knocked down the man holding them by the .bits. The team plunged forward, and was being driven rapidly away when the robber with the pistol opened fire on Masaarakar. Forced to Leave Injured Man. The fleeing man then stopped and was robbod of $10 and a watch. Afterward he was forced to continue on his way to South Chicago. Regaining consciousness, later Gurlash staggered and crawled along the deserted streets until he reached the store of his employer at Fifty-seventh street and Wentworth avenue. The police were notified and a general alarm sent ont to spread a dragnet for the robbers. Gurlash's injuries were dressed by a doctor, and he was then taken home. HI OFFICERS ELECTED South Shore Outing Company Will Hustle for Lake Business. At a recent meeting of the South Shore Outing and Transportation company the following officers and directors were elected: President Phil Sommers. secretary ana general manager A. B. Schultz. Treasurer Chas. Ringer. Directors Lewis Philips, Jr., R. B. Melville, M. II. Wilson and WTalter Krimball. The first trip will be made out of South Chicago on June 20 and the officers as well as their families will be on board for the initial trip, Just what other details will be done to make the trip a memorable one has not been decided by the company offi cials but the first trip will be one that will long remain in the company's history. At the election of officers F. L. Btown, 85 Dearborn street was chosen to act as the company's down town representative and to make arrangements for handling their down town business. The plan Is to have the lake steamer leave the Chicago docks at 9:30 in the monlng and steam for South Chicago At the Ninety-second sffeet docks all the Chicago passengers who desire to take the twelve mile trip up the rivr to Riverdale park can board the river steamer. South Chicago people desiring to go to Michigan City can board the lake steamer and make the trip Returning late in the afternoon, the steamer will stop at South Chicago and the local people can disembark, while the Chicago people who have returned fro Riverdale park by this time can transfer back on the boat bound for down town. This leaves both boats open for special trips in the evening, We propose to .have a' vaudeville show on the river boat evenings and should be able to play to a "full house" every night, by changing the program once or twice each week. The officials intend to cater strictly to the pasenger business as the differ ence in profits between the handlin of passengers and freight amounts to from 50 to 70 per cent. In favor cf the passenger traffic. The South Shore Outing and Trans nnrtntlon comnanv is a local concern from every point of view, as the ofH rers are from different parts of the Eigth ward. The company is now un der incorporation proceedings under the Rtnfen laws of Illinois for $10,000 and neatly half this amount has already beeir- subscribed for by men Interested In the new business venture.

C01DENT Ifj GHETTO DISTRICT

Street Car Crashes Into Touring Car and Machine Is Badly Damaged. ' (Special to Time. Crown Pclnt, Ind., June 3. "While re turning home from Aurora, 111., vrltu a party of friends from this place, Harold II. Wheeler, ex-elerli of the Lake Circuit and Superior courts,- narrowly escaped injury yesterday afternoon in Chicago nnil some of the occupant of the bis Wheeler touring ear were on the verge of prostration be fore the Incident closed. Serious Acideut Averted. But for Mr. Wheeler's presence of mind, an accident that might have been attended with fatal results was narrowly averted. In ordf-r to take a short cut and to escape the congested district in Chicago, Mr. Wheeler was piloting his car through the Ghetto district there and while making one of the turns out of the narrow streets, and going at a good rate of speed, he came upon un approaching street car going at a fast clip. Keeps Ills Wits. Mr. Wheeler quickly reversed the power in his machine, coming to a full stop. The motor-man did the same thing with his car, but the heavy street car slid on the tracks and managed to graze the automobile and jar the passengers. Beyond injury to one of the lamps and a bad shaking up of the party, no damage was done, but they are congratulating themselves on their narrow escape. The machine was found to be uninjured and Mr. Wheeler made light of the accident. The journey was continued to this place through Hammond. CUPID WORK-IN STORE Miss Quanstrom and Paul Lott Slip Away to Get Married. The cat jumped out of the bag yesterday when It was learned in C. R. Cave's department store that it was no longer Miss Rose Quanstrom but Mrs. Lott. When once started the news traveled from one department to another until within a short time everyone in the store knew that one of the most popular clerks was married and Mrs. Lott. was kept busy receivng the congratulations of her friends. Behind the marriage lies a little story. On May 8 Lott asked for a temporary vacation saying that he. was sick and simultaneously with his re quest came the request of Miss Quarstrom for a few days vacation on the grounds that eha , was competed to stay home to work in the housj both requests were granted and tho young couple left South Chicago for Garret, Ind., where they were united in mar riage by Rev. H. J. Klaus of the Garret Methodist church. The newly married couple left 'Gar ret immediately after tha cerenvmy and returned to Chicago where Mrs. Lott resumed her work at Cave's store and -Lott at the Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern yards, where he is erplced as an cnginer. Only yesterday did Miss Quanstrom admit she was married and not then until she was toll that the license had appeared In a down, town paper and then sh asked how they ever found It out when she. was married in Indiana. This was a giveaway and then she told her story. Mr. and Mrs. Lott are now making their h3me at" the home of Mr. Quanstrom, 10418 Avenue H but they expect to move to Humboldt Park in the next few weeks where they will make their future home. m SOCIETY STARTED South Chicago Ladies Organize Sunday School Club. The Encores Is the name of the new society of the American Baptist church, Nintieth street and Houston avenuj. and is -composed of ten young ladies. all of whom are pupils of Miss Mary Haak, teacher Jn the Sunday school. Their first social event was held at the Besemer Park assembly hall. Recitations, vocal and instrumental music were among the features of the evening's entertainment. The collors of the Encores are yellow and white the hall being profusely decorated for the occasion. A light luncheon was served at the conclusion of the program. Following the members who compose the organization: Misses Olga J. Hirschfeld, Mary E. Haak, Ada A. Larson, Elsie' H Oberg," Florence B. Krause, Lillian Larson, Lena Casper, Martha Leudke, Ada Swanson, Edythe M. Haak. Another social function is being planned for the near future and as new members are being added from time to time a more elaborate program is et-.pected.

WANT GARY IN THE LEAGUE

President Oliver Holmes Succeeded On School Board By A. P. Melton. The Gary town board held a short srappy session yesterday afternoon and much business of importance was transacted. The hearing of ' the remonstrance against the assessment of benefits and damages in the widening of Broadway was important and after a short argument the remonstrators were overruled. This was done by the board without much discussion as tney are anxious to have the work of the pavement of the street progress without any unnecessary delay. Will Appeal to Court. The remonstrators were represented by Attorneys Hodges and Ridgley, Manlove and. Carver. 'They will appeal their case t the courts if their present plans are carried out. The board and a great many citizens claim th.it this, is unjust, as many of the abutting nr&Dertv holders were liberal enough to donate the necessary land, so that the improvement could be made this year. Now that the few who took it upon tnemseives to remonsiraio.i liable to prevent the much needed Improvement from being done this year. Another important matter disposed of by the board was the appointment of City Engineer A.. P. Melton, as a member of the school board to succeed President Olivers Holmes, whose term will shortly expire. Mr. Melton is regarded as a fit man for the place and no selection could have given more satisfaction to the' public. Oliver Holmes is the first of the three original members of the board to have his term expire and his work has given general satisfaction. . . Gnry Asks to Join. A communication from the Municipal League of Indiana which is to shortly hold its next annual session in Laporte was read in which they ask the city of Gary to join them. The board moved that the application to join the league be filled out and sent at once to the secretary. Dr. T. B. Templln asked the board to make some arrangements for the disposition of the garb of the city before the hot weather . makes the, conditions over the "City unsanitary. ',' TRIES TO STEAL DUMMY Frank Patrick Comes Trouble in Gary Last Evening. to A .laughable incident occurred Jn Gary yesterday when Frank Patrick, one of the Peck's bad boys of Gary, aw a dummy In the Gary theater which is known as Happy Hooligan. He decided that he would like to have the dummy and proceeded to steal it. Some one saw him take it and telephoned to the police station where the information was given that there had been a kidnapping on Broadway in broad daylight. The police came running to the scene and seeing the boy running with the dummy started out to arrest the- culprit. They found that the boy had nothing but the Happy Hooligan dummy but they arrested him nevertheless and he was taken to the station. It is expected that the police will begin to appreciate the Joke soon and the boy will be allowed to go his way with the injunction that he let Happy Hooligan, alone In the future. WILL WALKIO HAMHOHD A novel Weston walking stunt will take place Saturday evening when six South Chicago young men will walk to Hammond and back to South Chicago on a wager. The young men who will make the walk are Homer Matthews, Harry Carlson and John Crotty. these three young men will make the walk against Her man Peterson. George Brogan ' and Frank Crlspman. The party will leave Nlnty-second street and Commercial avenue at six o'clock and will walk to ihe Lake County Times building on Hohman and Fayette street. Hammond. Immediately after their arrival there they will leave on the walk back to South Chicago. Upon their arrival in South Chicago the six young men,. will take a car for Hammond where they will partake of a supper on the losing team at the Majestic hotel. " FATHER OF GEORGE BAED0N IS DEAU IN CHICAGO. Gary Lawyer Loe; Hla Father Because of Attack of Pneumonia. Daniel C. Bardon, the father of Geo. C. Bardon, deputy prosecuting attorney in Gary, died at hls home In 336 Forty-first street, Chicago! The cause of his death was pneumonia, and he was sick only three days. He was well known as one of the pioneer business men in Chicago where he had been in the grocery business for the past forty-six years. . The deceased leaves a wife and ten children and the funeral was held yesterday from the home. Attorney Bardon returned from Chicago . yesterday where he attended the funeral.

The first step in the efforts that are being made -by -the property owners on Washington street in Gary to compel the rallroad3 to remove the obstructions which now divide the northern fom the southern part of the street, was successful. Attorney Franklin Fetterer, who represented the property owners, secured an order from the Superior court at Hammond In which the Gary and Western, the Michigan Central and the Pennsylvania railroads are asked to remove the obstructions on Washing

ton street or snow cause why they should not do so. "Want Obstructions Itemoved. The Gary and Western has already elevated across the street and In fact has left but one street, Broadway, fromm from obstruction The property owners on the south side saw at once that the value of their property would be impaired and resorted to the courts for relief. The court demands that on or before June n me raiiroaas snail remove their obstruction. This, in the case of the Michigan Central and the Penn sylvania railroads, consists of fences and the slight elevation of the road bed. . The prosecution of the case was un dertake-n by the members of the asso t x M TTf. 1- 3 a. " ciation ul wasmngion street property owners who raised $1,000 to defray the cost of bringing suit and car rying it to tne mgnest courts, if necessary. Don't Want One-Street Town. It is believed that if the Washington street property owners succeed In their efforts they will be followed by those on many of the other parallel streets in the vicinity which are cut off from the south side in the same manner. . 'l lie property owners argue that If Broadway is the only north and south street in the city which is left open, Gary will become a one-street town. GONFiRMATIONSERVlCES Swedish Lutherans Witness Ceremonial on Avenue L. Twenty-three children were confirm ed Sunday evening: at the Swedish Lutheran church at 10135 Avenue L, by the Rev. Andre Andres of the parish. After the confirmation . services were concluded the. guests sat down to Lord's Supper which was served in the church parlors. Those confirmed were: Arthur Carlson. Alma Patterson,' Harold Swanson, Sarah Magunsen, Charles Greswold. Minnfe Ornswa.-Oscor-Lindgren, Laura Johnson, Earl Johnson, Mabel Swanson, Xnoi ohnsbn, Alvera Carlson, John Lassop, i'Hini-1 ..Erlckson,. Charles I Moline. Pearl ohnsonj Alence Starck, Jenie Larsan, Roy Carlson, Helen Johnson, Ellen Johnson, Minnie Peterson, Nora Peterson. BUBNSIDE M IS KILLED BY CUBS While crossing the Illinois Central tracks at Burnside yesterday afternoon, 1 T 1 1 1 . r f . viitiiico oiuumu-i(5, s years old, was struck by a south bound passenger train and almost killed. He was picked up by Frank Demark. who happened to pass along that way about hair an hour afterwards. Bloom berg was at once taken to the St. ibices nospitai were his life Is dispared of. GARY MINSTRELS READY Business Men Expected to Have a Great Time Tomorrow A'ight at Their Show. The Gary Minstrel club will give an amateur show at the Blnzenhof hal tomorrow nignt, wnicn is expected to be largely attended considering the fact that there has been a large ad vance sale of tickets. A great many prominent business men In Gary will be In the cast ond It is understood that their stunts and Jokes are very good. The spot-light has been put in, the stage in the hall has been enlarged for the occasion and some footlights have been put in xnis is wary s nrsi venture in ama teur theatricals and tho people of the new city are anxious to see just what a show of histronic ability the people of the town will make. C. H. FREDERICH IMPROVES HIS CROWN POINT PROPERTY William Pepperdlne of Hammond Lands One of the Construction Contracts. Crown Point, Ind, Pune 3. (Special.) The Improvements of the Friederlch building on the corner of Main and Joliet streets were commenced In earnest yesterday morning and last evening that place looked as if a cyclone had struck It. -The entire front on the first story has been torn out and the inside of the building will be remodeled entirely. William Pepperdine of Hammond has the contract for the concrete work and yesterday commenced the building of concrete walks , around the pjace.

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don's most fashionable equestrian promenade, and. created a sensation. Among

at the time was Mr. Winston Churchill. KNEW SOMETHING OF ARGUMENT Daughter Mustered Logic to Answer Father's Objections. Isaac Li. Rice, the chess enthusiast, whose daughter is a devotee of the motorcycle, tells a story about the way in which he was . induced to buy the first machine for the young woman. Mrs. Rice and Miss Rice were in Europe at the time and arrangements had been made to ship a" machine abroad, when a man was thrown from a motorcycle in New York and killed. The accident impressed Mr. Rice so that, instead of sending the desired cycle, he .forwarded . a letter saying that he had decided not to buy one, as he thought the sport' was too dangerous. By the next mail came tack a letter carrying inside a newspaper clipping with the heading, "Man Dies in Theater." With it was the message: "Now. father, do you intend to keep me from going to the theater because a man once died there?" Mr.Rice decided that argument was useless against such an antagonist. This Is the Sugar Age. Our national sugar-bowl now holds approximately 0,000,000,000 pounds and the "contents thereof cost us not far from $300,000,000 a year. The size of the bowl and our individual extraction from it increase steadily. We eat more candy, more jellies and more preserves, and where the cook books of earlier days prescribed "one cup" molasses" the books of to-day call for sugar. LIfe'3 Most Important Factor. I have come to see that cleverness, success, attainment, " count for little; that goodness, or character, is the important factor in life. G. J. Romanes. Some McGlellan

- These circles show some of the McClellan ballots in the New York' mayorality election of 1905 were marked. They were counted for McClellan In violation of the New York law which declares that a ballot marked In any way that will identify that ballot shall be la 'alld. Ballots so marked are being thrown out In the Hearst recount now la progress. The term for widen McCXailan.was declared elected expires Jan. 1. 1910. - .

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USED PRESS TO ATTRACT THEM. New York Preacher's Novel Scheme to Draw Congregation. . A preacher in a college town In New York state recently decided that the best way to increase the attendance at his church was to dvertise. So he took up a part of the paper in hi3 town with a small display got up not unlike a theater advertisement. "How long since you have been to. church?" was the first line in black interrogation. "Better go to-morrow," was the next line. "Try the First ,". continued the advertisement,mentioning the name of a denomination that is not essential in the context. . , Then followed the subjects for the morning and evening sermons. ' The pastor had designated for the evening sermon, "Boyville," and he invited . for the purpose of hearing what he had to say, "All boys, all who once' were boys, all who dislike boys and all who like them." ' Development. "Wiggs, Wiggs?" said the census taker, turning the leaves of his notebook hurriedly. "Quincy A. . Wiggs blacksmith census before last bicycle repairer last census that's the man, ain't it?" "Yes, that's pa," said -young Miss Wiggs. - "Well, how shall I put him down this time? Same as before?" "Oh, no," said Miss Wi.?gs haughtily. "Pa is an automobile mechanician now." His Reservation. - "Live and let" live," Is a good motto, but many a . man who adopts U wants to reserve the right to live better than the other fellow.

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" SLIM PASSENGER A SKEPTIC. Story of Wonderful Surgical Operation Received with Doubt. It happened on a Pullman car. be tween New York and Chicago. Dinner having been finished, the gentlemen assembled in the smoking-room to enjoy "their cigars. "During the time I was in the war," said the quiet man, "I saw a wonderful thing-in the lino of surgical operations. A friend of mine was shot through the right breast,- the bullet passing; clear through him. The presence of mind of his companion undoubtedly saved his life. He wrapped his handkerchfef around the ramrod of his gun, and, pushing it through the path made by the bullet, cleared the wound of all piosonous lead. I know it is : hard to believe, but,- gentlemen, the man still lives to tell the tale." "Which man?" inquired the slim passenger on the other seat, qvietly. "The wounded one, ot course," exclaimed the old soldier, scornfully. "Oh, I beg your pardon;, I thought it might be the other." Characteristics cf Cities. Every great city has ' its characteristics. Americans' most lasting impression of London are the 'buses and the fog;. Everyone who returns from Paris talks of the "life of the boulevards." Brussels has its lace, Rome its ruins and Moscow its beggars. Her Half. "Now that we are married, he said, "we are one, and I must Insist that this be the last time tha you appear in a low-necked gown." "We may be one," she responded with asperity, "but you are only half of us, and I shall dress my half its I please." Young's Magazine. 132