Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 29, Hammond, Lake County, 22 July 1908 — Page 8

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THE TIMES. Wednesday, Julv 22, 1903. ATTEHPED ROBBERY Monument Erected at Port Arthur by Japan in Memory of Russians Who Fell There AT GROWN POINT Hold-up Men Stop Rig and Fire Revolver at a Nervy Driver. cmzEK FARMER BOY SHOWS HIS GRIT

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Hammond Peculiarly a City of Dins Many of Which Ought to Be Cut Out and Crusade is Started by Weary Man.

STREET GARS ARE WORSTQFFEK DER 3 Peddlers and Peanut Vendors Are Also Guilty of Peace Infractions, But There Are Many Others Who Should Be Put on the Blacklist. "Listen to the stars," and "Speak oftly," is some of the advice that our dear old grandmothers used to give us In the days gone by when he lived in quiet villages or on the farm and were near to the great, silent out of doors. But had these same old grandmothers been living today, they, too, would be yelling at the top of their voices and would not wonder at the small foghorns which have been given the youth of today in plate of a larynx. Hammond noises are an abomination. We who are so proud of the indiistrial activity of the city and the region in . i inclined to sav. "Yes. we priiriai " " . - have a noisy city, but we have a BUSY city," with the loud pedal on the busy. In other words, we can put up with that rattle and roar which emanates from the factories or the hiss of the exhaust mixed with persistent ringing of a locomotive bell, so long as I get my $1.50 a day and you get your $150 a month. Bow Down to Commercialism. Our nerves are but another of the sacrifices we are making daily to the carven image, Commercialism. Each day we bow down to it and, unwittingly, year by year, give the lives of our friends to it, to say nothing fof the occasional lopping off of one of the three score and ten years which is allotted to all of us. Owing to the fact that there is not a residence in Hammond which is less than four or five blocks from a railroad, where the short 'eh-ch-ch" of the passenger locomotive or the hoarse, labored, "hooh-hooh-hooh" of the passing freight engine is hourly heard, the people of this city are peculiarly the victims of noises. The farther out of town you go the less numerous are the noises, but in the center of the city there is a megaphonic concentration of sound that is enough to drive a normal person crazy. Talk about mad dogs'. There is more hydrophobia in the engine that pulls in the Krie milk train than there is in the eighty dogs the police have killed. At least, the Erie engine has driven more people, to the point of madness. olse Every Five Minute. No particular instance need be named. There is an instance every minute, .lust stand at the railroad crossing on State street for five minutes. The I.iki' Shore suburban conies rushing around the eurve with bell ringing and engine puffing. The Krie pulls up and blows off steam. The Monon come sto a stop and stews, splitters, screams, hisses and groans until the engine, r finally lets her out and she puffs her way across 1lic bridge and the state line. Clang, clang and toot, toot and you have just steped out of the way of a street car only to get into the way of n;i automobile driven by a happy-go-lucky youth who has learned how to squeeze the toot bag. The car stopped, but heavens. Hold your hands to your ears. As the motorman turns on the power the devil's own coffee mill starts to grinding. A circular saw ripping through one of the monarehs of the forest is but a whisper compared to it. (an Hear Them 31 Hf Away. It is said tlie people of Homewood rely on the street tars for an intermittent alarm clock. The first alarm goes by about 5:30. The man who is going fishing gets tip and dresses, the rest turn over and attempt to sleep with the approaching certainty of another rude awakening in a few minutes when the second car goes by. "Noisy pavements." said Fred Mott. In talking of the South Hohnian street Improvement, "Goodness gracious, what is the use of having noiseless pavements when the street cars go by and make more noise than a company of cavalrymen.' On a still night a man living in Homewood can hear the car start at the Standard Steel Car plant, a mile away. He can then get up. prepare his toilet, put on his collar and tie, secure his hat and by the time the distant buzzing become the intolerable roar he Is ready to "board the car at tlie street corners. But there are other noises. Thoddlers do their share to add to the discomfort of living In a city. There is hardly an hour in the morning that their shrill cry cannot be heard. lVanat Rnantrrn the I.lmlt. One of the most exasperating of the poises one comes in contact with in

Hammond is the whistle on the peanut roasters. It Is as sharp as the point of a stilleto. It is not a loud noise, but it goes clear through the average person and after searching out the spinal cord, it plays tag up and down It. The peddlers at 6 o'clock in the morning, the milkmen and the newsboys on the street add their share of the nerve-racking din. "Pa-pie eeah" can be heard in the evening, and In fact, at most hours of the day, and the boys all vie with each other to see who can make the biggest noise. Then there are the factory whistles, the rattle and click of iron and steel in the mills, the rumble of heavy wagons, the blowing of whistles, the shouts of the men on the streets all add to the daily pandemonium. There is little wonder that doctors complain that some of their patients are unable to recover on account of the deadly noise which surround:-, them, (ilii-.lness in the Silent Woods. It is not surprising that the tired business men goes to the northern lakes and for a few brief weeks be

comes a primitive man again, lives in the great silent woods, views the rising and setting of sun and seems to wonder how it be accomplished without noise. He He the can At ni his ear rht the only sounds which reach j are the cries of tli whoppoor- i will and other birds, which only seem to empasize the stillness. And should a Hammond. 'Whiting and East Chicago car go grinding through stillness of that forest fastness the chances are that his lake camp would be converted into an insar.e asylum with nothing but violent wards in it. FOREMAN DISCHARGED BY THE BOARD. Testimony Brought Out Thnt Foreman nn Abusive to Men on the Job. The board of county commissioners took action In the case of Foreman Thompson, who has ben employed by the. Turtles' people on the construction of tlie court-house at Crown Point and they demanded his resignation after they had satisfied themselves that the charges against him were true. Tlie inspector, who is employed by the county, and the men who have been working on the job, all testified that Thompson was abusive to the men and the inspector and asked for his removal. Action was taken at the meeting of the commissioners last Saturday and Mr. Thompson was compelled to resign at once. The ousted foreman came from Chicago. ARRIVES Hi HARBOR The steamer E. H. Gary, one of the most magnificent ships in the United States Steel company's fleet, arrived in the South Chicago harbor this morning where she will remain untill she makes her eventful trip, laden with ore, into th new harbor at Gary. The boat is one of the longest on tlie lakes and has a capacity of 12,000 tons of ore. It is to be reached by the guests of the Commercial club, who are to make the "trip, by means of the Eighty-sixth street entrance to the Illinois Steel company's plant at South Chicago. Tlie committee on arrangements have announced that the reception and speech making which is to take place on the steps of the Gary hotel after the guests of the Commercial club have arrived in the Gary harbor and have visited the steel mills and finallymarched to the business district of the city will be open to the public and the people of the entire county are Invited to visit Garj see the city and hear Mr. Kern.

DEMOCRATS HAVE flaiflTlirn H H HH Hi HI! Ill J. w. JjxvJN oiAiiiD HOPESWINNING. HM I Hl-H hftHl 11 ii IS FOR HAMMOND.

(Continued politics, and is a fine speaker in addition to beglng a good mixer and a splendid campaigner, and he has the money, too. He has been rather active for years, and while the assertion is made that he never was an enthusiastic Bryan man, his friends say the work of tire Denver convention suits him exactly"-the platform is - to his liking and the nominees are everything he could wish. Mr. Darroch was the candidate two years ago, and Congressman Crumpacker defeated him by 4,623 votes. Dar Counties. roch. Benton 1.509 Jasper 1.053 Lake 3.640 Laporte 4.677 Newton 1.046 Porter 1.152 Crumpacker. Barr, Prohi. 122 l.o'J2 1.371 4.4S9 4.61S 1.361 2,251 5,000 1.777 2.336 democrats t o 105 12S 54 47 20S 7.? 144 Tippecanoe ...4.106 Warren 845 White 2.046 The Tenth district feeling better than they and they announce that are i have for years, ! it is their intentlon to put up the best fight they have ever made. While admitting that Congressman Crumpacker is a strong man and is a favorite In the district, they assert that there has been a big change in conditions in the last two years. Point to Tlppeennoe County. They are pointing out the fact that Tippecanoe county, the big republican county of the district. Is all split up. politically speaking. The city of I.aFayette has a democratic administration that has made good, and there is a strong esntiment that it should be kept democratic. The treatment given State Senator Will Wood when he desired to be a delegate to the Chicago convention will not be forgotten by a large number of democrats and republicans, and the democrats are hoping that some of the dissatisfied ones will vote the democratic ticket this fall. Tippecanoe county used to have a republican plurality of about 1.700. In 1906, Fred Sims, one of them ost popular men on the state ticket, carried It by 1,195, and Mr. Crumpacker carried It by 894. The democrats hope to arry the county on the congressional and county tickets even if they lose it on the national and state. Benton county had a republican plurality of 312, while Mr. Crunipacker got it by 83. In Jasper county Crumpacker ran more than 100 behind the state ticket. Lake county gave the state ticket a republican plurality of 991, but Mr. Crumpacker got a plurality of 1,049. It nan it Clone Shnve. I-aPorte county is a democratic county, generally, and has given as high as 1.200 to the democratic ticket Two years ago the democratic carried it by a bare plurality of 50, Mr. Crumpacker being defeated by 59. The democrats of IiPorte declare that this year they will carry the county by at least 1,000. The republicans on the state ticket had only 126 in Porter county, while Mr. Crumpacker carried his home county by 1.099. Warren county gave the state ticket a plurality of PS9. and Mr. Crum packer ran only about 65 votes behind j the ticket. In this (White) county, the republican plurality was 310. and Mr. Crumpacker's plurality was 192. There is considerable temperance sentiment in every county in the Tenth district, except, perhaps. In Lake, and In working up this sentiment the democrats have taken the lead. Consequently the democrats feel that they will get a large per cent, of the temperance vote, especially on congressman and members of the legislature. There will be sixty-eight delegates in- the convention tomorrow, apportioned among the counties as follows: Benton. 7; Jasper. 7; Lake. 14: LaPorte, 22; Newton, 5; Porter. 7: Tlnnecnnoe. 21: Warren SWhite, 10. Necessary to a choice, 35.

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Harry Tupper Wanted in Many Towns is Arrested in Columbus Where He Has Worked For Contractor Caldwell.

Harry E. Tupper, who was arrested in Columbus, Ind., for presenting a check at the Farmers' and Merchants" bank at Elizabethtown and was afterwards released by tlie deputy sheriff for the reason that he did not succeed in getting the money and there was no law to cover the case, has been found to be "wanted in a great many places in the middle west, Including Gary, where he is supposed to have secured $200 in money fraudulently. Tupper is now charged with forgery and embezzlement anil lie is wanted in more towns that most any other criminal that has been operating in this section of the country for some time. Tupper was well known in Gary and the people he fleeced there are not surprised that he came within an ace of being arrested in Columbus. Came From Kiclimond. Tupper camp to Columbus from Richmond, where he said he had been employed by Caldwell & Mobley, contractors and builders. He also said that he had been employed by. Caldwell & Drake, of Columbus, the company which built the Hammond courthouse, while they were erecting a big building In Louisville, Ky., and he had FIGHT OVER A "CAN" Gary Negro Doesn't Get Enough For a Dime and He Draws Knife. Another Gary white man was the victim of a black man's knife last night and the people of Gary and greatly concerned over the Increasing number of these outrages. Max Bernstein, a saloonkeeper whose place of business is at the corner of Fourteenth street and Broadway, was ! tending bar when a colored man who is known over Gary as the "Kid" came lr. and asked for ten cents' worth of beer. The saloonkeeper drew the beer and the negro asked him if that was all he was to get for ten cents. Bernstein informed him thnt he had ten cents' worth of beer and could not get any more for his money. This made the negro angrj- and he drew a knife from his sleeve and slashed at the bartender. He succeeded lr wounding Bernstein but the saloonkeeper's injuries are not serious. It is said that there is something more back of the trouble between the two men than merely the quarrel over the beer. The other negros In Gary helped the "Kid" to escape and the police have not yet found trace of him. Some sagacious business men put in one advertisement in a paper and j expect it to bring them results as i well expect to eat one meal and then keep from being hungry for a week. bometimes it will more often it J won't

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recommendations from each firm. Tupper did not tarry long in Columbus, but instead went to Elizabethtown, a village near here, and asked for a room at teh Smith hotel. He did not pay in advance, and when the week was up Mrs. Smith suggested that she would have to have the room or some room rent. Tupper said he would have a check cashed as soon as the Farmers' and Merchants' bank opened at Elizabeth town, the next morning. When morning came tlie young man presented himself at the window and shoved out the check. Cashier Edward S. Collier told the young man he would have to be identified. The check was for $25 and was made payable at the Third National bank. Louisville, Ky. While Tupper was away finding some one to Identify him (which took all day) the cashier was communicating with Louisville, and there he learned that Tupper had no money on deposit. Then Mr. Collier came here and prepared an affidavit against Tupper. The next day Tupper came, bringing with him a man who said he could identify tlie young man. The sheriff also came, and Tupper was brought to Columbus and placed in jail, charged with trying to obtain" money under false pretenses. I HOLD OP IS ft FAILURE Griffith Man Has a Narrow Escape Near the Erie Yards Last Night. Grimth, Ind.. July 22. (Special.) Dar. Walters was cither unduly alarmed or rise he- came within an ace of eing robbed and possibly badly beaten ast evening at about 10 o'clock while on his way home. As he was passing through the Erie yards In the dark. lie stumbled on a body lying in his path. He struck a match to Investigate and had no sooner done so than two men sprang toward him from the bushes near Pan is unusually spry and his by. nimbleness wr at its best on this oceasion. Before the would-be robbers gather him in, he hnd flitted away from them and in a remarkably short time he was back In town. There he secured the aid of one or two friends and together they scoured the yards anil vicinity, but were unable to get track of his assailants. Dan feels sure I it was a deep laid plan to relieve him j if his money and valuables; for some i questionable characters were seen ! about the yards before dark. ! Do you ever stop to think, Mr. Bus iness Man, that the newspaper which boosts your city, which seeks to improve the town you live in, which helps to fight battles; which is a reflex of the progress of the community is entitled to advertising patronage in return T

and committee of the Grry Commerlcal Club which deserves so much credit for the arrangement of the celebration.

tiary Commercial Club. H. S. Norton, President. W. H. Fitzgerald, Vice President. G. I). Bardon, Secretary. E. C. Simpson, Treasurer Directors. H. S. Norton. W. H. Fitzgerald. H. F. Mac Cracken. E. E. Geisel M. N. Goodnow. Entertainment Committee Homer J. Carr. Will J. Davis. Harry King. C. H. Maloney. Theodore Binben. C. Delia Chlesa. Committees. To meet Mr. Kern W. H. Fitzgerald H. F. MacCracken, T. T. Snell. , In charge of special train F S. Bowlby. C. E. Hall. Henry Alschuler. In charge of steamer H. J. Carr, Ad dison C. Thomas, M. N. Goodnow. Parade C. H. Maloney, Dr. T. B. Templin. J J. Kelley. lieception at Gary hotel J. A. Brennan, H. G. Hay, jr., G. H. Manlov. O nstreet decoration W F. Hodges. J McFaddcn, Clarence Bretscli. On lunch Hairy King, Treodore Binzen. John Bennett. On badges Dr. E. E. Geisel, L. P Goodwin, Ingwald Moe. Order of the Day, 10:00 a. m. Special train from Gary over Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern in coaches donated by Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, to South Chicago 11:15 Boarding steamer E. H. Garv ! at South Chicago. Leave harbor under I convoy of United States steamer Wol verine, Dorothea, Tuscarora and Puma for Gary. Buffet lunch. i:ji j. m. Arrival or Gary, liaising of American flag and salute from steamers at the Gary makes first entry into the harbor. On arrival at dock, with Captain H S. Norton presiding, brief addresses will be made by: Hon. John W. Kern, of Indiana. Congressman Jomes R. Mann, of Illi nois. Congressman E. D. Crumpacker of the Tenth District. Indiana. Mr. William Livingstone, of Detroit, President Lake Carrier's Association. Mr. H. Coulhy, President Pittsburg Steamship Company. Mr. W. P. Gleason, Superintendent Indiana Steel Company. 2:30 p. m. Inspection of mills under guidance of heads of departments of Indiana Steel company. S:30 p. m. Formation of parade in front of foundry in the following order: Gary Police Escort. Illinois Naval Reserve Band. Marines Irom United States Ship Wolverine. Illinois Naval Reserves from S. S Dorot hen. Heads of Departments, Indiana Steel Company. Speakers in carriages. Guests of the Club. Members of the Gary Commercial Club. Line 'f March, South on eas.t side of Broadway to Michigan Central. North on west side af Broadway to Gary hotel. 4:00 p. m. Reception at Gary hotel. Dyes for Wood. The new colored wood of a Norwegian firm is produced by forcing the sap from the green logs and injecting dyes. The treated wood has increased durability, will not warp, may be polished in the usual manner and most of the colors are claimed to be j as stable as that of mahogany. The material is especially suitable for furniture. Industrial Center of Country. Zurich is the center of industrial Switzerland.

Sheriff Carter Organizes a Posse and Starts After Highwaymen, But Is Unsuccessful.

Crown Point, Ind., July 22. (Special.) Last night about : o'clock while Johnny Seymour, son of Matt Seymour, was out driving with a couple of lady friends, he was accosted by a man who ordered him to stop an( grabbed the bridle of the horse in or der to make his demands more emphatic. Young Seymour struck at the man with his huggv whin and at the same time lashed the horse, which broke away from the grasp of th man and started on a run. Flre a Revolver. The fellow, whose intentions must have been robbery, whipped out a revolver and fired point blank at tho occupants of the buggy, but did not get the proper range owing to tins speed in which they were going, and the bullet went harmlessly by. The young man. very much frightened, took his lady friends home and drove to town and reported the affair to Sheriff Carter, who with a posse, started in pursuit of the holdup man, but it being very dark at that time they were unable to get any trace of the culprit, although they searched the surrounding country far into the night. Oeeurn Nenr the Krie Depot. The attempted holdup occurred nenr the Tom Muzzall barn near the Erii5 depot and the man was lying in the shadows, evidently waiting for somo rig to come along. The authorities think it was either the work of some of the hangers-on who usually visit town on horse sale day and that hii attempted to steal the entire rig, or that one of the numerous hobos who were noticed around the Erie station yesterday attempted to hold the young man up. No trace of the man could be found this morning, although the authorities have not given up their efforts to locate him. MISS SYLVIA CHARLES IS MARRIED TODAY. Hammond Girl Wedn Rant Chicago Man, at Quiet Ceremony. East Chicago, July 22. (Special) A crowd of young men traveled to Hammond this morning to serenade Hans Peterson, who was quietly married to Miss Sylvia Charles of Hammond, but who formerly lived in East Chicago. The groom is an East Chlcagoan and with the bride had arranged for a quiet wedding to be celebrated this morning at the home of the bride on Hickory street in Hammond. Only the parents of the bride were to be let in on the secret wedding. Fortunately or unfortunately Henry Peterson, a brother of the groom, caught wind of the affair and this morning had arranged tlie charivari. The wedding was performed at S:.!0 by the Rev. Frank Brown of East Chicago, and after a quiet wedding breakfast the bridal couple proceeded on its way to the Monon depot in Hammond where they intended to take the ii:?.f Monon for Chicago. On the way they were met by the crowd of young people who accompanied them to the depot and applied all tlie tortures that they eould think of, rice and old shoes figuring most porminently in the congraulations. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson wilf spend two weeks in Springfield. 111., on a honeymoon, after which they will return to East Chicago where they will make their home. C'narleroi (Pa.) labor unions will build a hospital for their members. July 20, at New York city. International Steel and Copper Plate Printers' union will meet in convention. There are 2",603 women included in the total of 3 4.112 workers in tobacco, snuff and cigar factories in the United Kingdom. The Women's Suffrage league of New York city, has asked the support of t helabor organizations in its agitation for political equity. Associated blacksmiths of the United Kingdom are planning an amalgamation of all existing unions of blacksmiths throughout the kingdom. Tlie coopers' local unions will vote on a proposition to do away with contentions and adopt the initiative ar.d referendum slystem in condu ting the affairs of the organization. Photo engravers are taking a referendum vote on a proposition to send sick members to established sanatoriums and to levy an assessment of $2 on r-ath member to meet expenses. The Jewish Labor World is to be t;i name of a paper published in Chicago in the Hebrew language, beginning today. It will be devoted to the interests of the Hebrew unionists of this country. German trade unions have already been compciied to cct in half ther doles to the unemployed. Similar conditions prevail in Austria, to which country more American emigrants have returned in a fortnight than departed. Boot and Shoe Workers' union international officers report that the union's moving picture show, advertising the union stamp and showing the process of shoemaking, is being received in thq sections of the country it is now touring.

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