Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 34, Hammond, Lake County, 28 July 1908 — Page 8

B THE TIMES. Tuesdav, Julv 2S. 190S. SUIT Hi SIGHT FOB LAHDJWHEBSHIP Two Companies Want to Pay the Taxes on the Improvements. East Chicago Councilmen Have a Tame Time and a Big Crowd Attends Their Meetings. $20,000 ARE INVOLVED

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Pageant on Plains of Abraham; A Part of Quebec Ceremonies

East Chicago, Ind., July 28. (Special) ,

The council met last night with all ' members present except Mayor DeBraie, who is in Quebec, Canada, with the prince of Wales and Vice President Fairbanks. In the absence of the mayor, Alderman K. V. Walton was se- I lected to preside. The selection was a good one as Mr. Walton has the knack of expediting matters and rushed the business though in a hurry. I The council chamber was packed with citizens, who came expecting to ; see and hoar something sensational j apropas of the restraining order served

on the council during the day. hey, dents of Aldis avenue, meet the Inwere disappointed, however, as not a j janoi Steel officials next Friday and blow was struck or a loud word uttered ,,orne to som understanding. Mr. John

during the whole evening. In fact the whole proceedings were carried on in j as ladylike a manner as a pink tea at the minister's house. The question of approving the minutes of tke last meeting came In for some little discussion. It seems the "East Chicago Land company submitted plans and specifications j for the big sewer to ny '- K. Wallace at 4 o'clock the afternoon of the last meeting and he didn't have j time to examine and approve them In ; time for the council meeting m 111 , evening, when -they were to be , cepted. j City Attorney J . l. enneoj wameu t g City Clerk Walter Spencer to insert the i engineer's approval and then have the j councll approve me m.nuie.

cer refused to change ms record. DUtic,erk. finally agreed to put the approval In j - Efist chcaKOi Julv 25. In the shape of a marginal note. and. llndersiened nrooertv

the minutes were then approved in that Phape. The assessment calls for Improvements on Block and Washington avenues were accepted and remonBtrances ordered advertised for. About that time an argument started between a spectator on the outside who j was looking in the window, and one one the inside who obstructed his view. ! After a few courtesies had been ex- j changed the man on the outside invited , the man on the Inside to come on the : outside. The man on the inside agreed , to accommodate the man on the out- j side and actually did go from the in- ; side to the outside, but outside of that j fact did nothing but tell the man on the outside a few inside facts of his life. I After the foregoing incident was closed, it having interrupted the proceeding somewhat, the clerk opened and read the bids for the new fire and police station for The Harbor. Eric Lund of Hammond, was highest with a bid of $29,600, F. Stewart of East Chicago, next with one of $28,500 and A. H. W. Johnson lowest, his bid being $27,950. The bids were all rejected as being too high and the clerk ordered to return the bidders their checks. Alderman Lewis than moved that the building, committee meet with Mr. Hutton. the architect, and alternate specifications be prepared. This was carried. A motion to draw $G00 from the treasury for the purchase of three j horses for the lire department was also ( carried. The street and alley commit-I tee and the engineer were directed to Platform Will Be Adopte

Will be Named Tomorrow Morning at Orchestra Hall.

Wiiiiam R. Ifearst's Independence rirtv ivm otflciallv born last nisrht at, Orchestra hall iti Chicago. Mr. Hearst himself had full charge of the ceremonies which attended this function, and as temporary chairman of the party's first convention delivered its keynote speech. And the keynote was unmistakably "Hearst." Possibly the your.g man from New Y,,rk who struetied nainfuilv to make w;i nn!v the "servant of the plain people," and not the "originator and proprietor" of the newborn party. did not intend to keynote so demon - strativeiy for himself, but none of the II.OOO people who filled Orchestra hall as delegates or visitors carried away anything except a vivid impression of "Hearst nything but Hearst." In a way, Mr. Hearst is in a particularly advantageous position at least, in comparison with the men who dominated or tried to dominate the republican and democratic conventions. Mr. Hearst is both the "Brother Cbarley" and the "Theodore Roosevelt" of his party. And, more than that, he is its "J. C. Burrows." for lie did the keynoting, and. having dictated the party's platform and candidates, he will pay its bills. So there was and is little left for the delegates to do but cheer. And they did cheer for Hearst. True, before the man from New York arrived in the hall there had been some cheering for California and Illinois, and the ladies, and the party, and occassionally for Howard or Hissrcn or "Doc" Tayor, but from the moment Mr. Heat'st arrived on the scene this was over. Somebody mentioned Bryan's name, but it was greeted by hisses Instead of cheers. Today the convention will adopt its platform probably written by Mr. Hearst, or more probably by Arthur

meet with the county commissioners at

Crown Point for the purpose of formulating some plan for the raising of the Forsythe avenue bridge, and thus give Mr. Kahl of Hammond, a chance to navigate the Calumet river with more ease to himself and less trouble to the East Chicago city officials. Attorney McAleer presented a petition on behalf of the Inland Steel cornpany requesting the council to grant them the privilege of filling in the lake front on Aldis avenue by means of teams and wagons. It was finally agreed that the streets and alleys commjttP with a committee from the regi Stephens of Indiana Harbor, was there an1 spoke for the Aldis avenue residents. The finance committee made their report, having approved all bills but the Westrumite account. Alderman Lewis made a motion that all bills be approved ,but when Alderlnan O Kirr pointed out to htm the Westrumite bill had not been signed hp moved t0 reconsider and then moved tnat the "Westrumite bill be refused baoR tf) thp flnanre committe for inves tiation. Mr. Lewis remarked that some nnei mentioning no rarae8. had said ttiat the Westrumite could be bought for cpn and hp would llke a mtle fRnt Qn thp sub1eet Tnls was passpd. The following petition from a numbpl. of citiZens was then read by the holders, tax-payers and citizens of the City of East Chicago, Ind., do hereby request the city council to properly furnish the new city hall building with union-made and up-to-date furniture, regardless of resolution adopted by the East Chicago Improvement association at a meeting held in the city hall Thursday evening, July 23, 190S. The following letter speaks for itself: Milwaukee, July 25, 190S. Mr. Charles Pitzel, East Chicago, Ind., Dear Sir: Your favor of the 23th Just came to hand and in reply to same we beg to state that the question of union labor was never mentioned, and if this question would have come up we would have been prepared to furnish a union label on all of our articles. This idea must have occurred to Mr. Lewis after the contract was awarded, because he never mentioned this matter in private conversation, nor during our argument before the council. Mr. Lewis' argument was that our table was not first-class workmanship, and we believe it is up to him to prove this. As stated before, our samples are open for inspec tion and Mr. Lewis ougnt to iace the issue squarely. Very respectfully yours. THE WALLARGER M F'G CO. d Today and President Brisbane, whose fine Italian hand was markedly discernible in Mr. Hearst's keynote last night. Then the party will proceed to pick its candidate for president. Here Mr. Hearst insists h- will keep his hands t off, and Howard J,. Hissen of Massa hnsetts and M. I.. Howard of AlaLama have the inside track for Dresident and vice president, respectively. This, however, is based entirely on the i supposition that Mr. Hearst's valiant keynotmg last night did not lrrevocavly commit the delegates to his own i boom" which has been assuming alarmmg proportions. Mr. Hearst's name was mentioned in all quarters yesterday, and his closest followers gave it impetus on the ground that it would be a handy thing to have around if Wills J. Abbot should sueceed in starting a genuine Bryan stampede in the convention. n.e i,ian inssrs lasi mgnt seemed u. pui a humuus on uie .enrasKan s i boom, ana trie unmistakable language of Proprietor Hearst killed the democratic candidate's hopes if he really had any. GARY POLICE BROOK NO INTERFERENCE FROM BOYS, The Gary police are not disposed to have any young fellow around town come to them and dictate to them how they should arrest a drunk and when to arrest one. J. I. Slick, a 20-year-old fellow, tried to. do this with Officer Peter Jurich and came out second best in the deal. Officer Jurich was taking a drunk to prison when Slick tried to foist his opinion upon him about making arrests. Promptly the officer arrested him, too, and charged him with provocation. Slick will have his trial today.

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Indianapolis Newspaper's Staff Man Follows Up The Times Crusade. SHOWS STARTLING CONDITIONS Shocking Tales Are Now Circulated From One End of Country to Another of Tenderloin. Gary is wide open. The dives and the disreputable saloon are stii the habitat of the denizens of the underworld. Casner, Bough, Baxter, Johnson and the rest of the bunch are reigning supreme. Gary has a reputation as a wideopen town. It was so great that the Indianapolis News sent its staff man, E. I.,. Lewis, to see what lie could see. This is how he tells it in a dispatch: Gary, Ind., July 27. The brewery sa loon, the brewery dive and the brew ery gambling dens have got hold of the two-year-old Gary, and their own ers a syndicate of brewing companies are fighting like grim death to pre vent the steel trust's "model city" from cutting them off by an application of the Indiana state laws. The courts have been appealed to by the brewers; they have called forth the local, county and f.'ite forces of opposition to "sumptuary legislation," and have marshaled in their right those that play politics over the bar and those that believe in a wide open town that insist the saloon is the prime necessity for civic prosperity and civic well-being. Oprrnlrd as "Bllml TIrcm." In the meantime, some of the brew ery companies are trying to show the saloons are essential and desirable elements to any well regulated municipality, by continuing, it is charged, to operate on the "blind tiger" basis. the groggeries, dives and gambling re sorts that have been closed legally by the successful filing of a remonstrance against the traffic in Calumet townsiiip. When the I'nited States Steel corporation planned Gary, those plans provided for the erection of the greatest steel mill in the world and the building of a 'model city" around It. Prominent In the "model city" was the declaration that the unregulated saloon would have no place in Gary and that the dive would not be permitted. Gary AVan Dlvr-Klflalen. Only two years have elapsed since the first man settled on the site of Gary, anil the new city is really not a year old, still in May Gary had 10.1 places that came under the general classification of saloons. Most of them wer owned by four or five big brewing companies. Notwithstanding the fact that these brewing companies participated in the Milwaukee national convention of brewers, which made the declaration that the "low-down saloon" must go, they operate a very large percentage or me lowest-down saloon dives and deadfalls around Chicago, an1 swarming in on bary they es tabllaheU here the very worst types Hardly one of the 103 places listed in May that catered to the 12,000 to 15,000 people of Gary, has. It is said been free of the charge of having vloMated practically every Indiana law regulating saloons. Many of them have been run on the dive basis, with I women brought from the old Fourth avenue and the Twenty-second street districts of Chicago as prominent features; many have added music to their allurements, others have made gambllnjr a feature; all have, it is said, vlo- j lated the Indiana laws regarding closing and screens. Many H un by Forelgnprn. Many of these places have been run by men with almost unpronounceable foreign names, who practically have no acquaintance with the Knglish language, to say nothing of acquaintance with or regard for local and national laws, hey are, as are the saloon and dive keepers of similar stamp all around the outskirts of Chicago, merely the saloon and dive keepers for the brewing companies that own the places. All these saloons and dives are In a strip of land called "The Patch." In order to work out this plan of establishing a sort of Gothenberg system of its own, and to conduct experiments in reducing the inefficiency of men that all manufacturing companies have to battle with practically every morning and especially on Monday

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mornings, the Steel corporation, which owned the land of the original plat of Gary, incorporated in all its deeds a provision against establishing on that land a saloon or a dive of any kind. Where "The Paten" In Located. The Steel corporation, however, great as it is, fell down lamentably, for though it bought 6,000 acres of land for Gary, it did not get one small strip of land lying to the south, which ran up to the steel company's plat. This now readies to within a short distance of the center of the business district. The strip was plattetband put on the market free of anti-saloon and anti-dive provisions in deeds of transfer and the lots went like hot cakes and at startling figures. Three twen-ty-fiv foot lots facing on Broadway, I brought $18,000. and others with twenty-live feet frontage on that and other streets. It Is said, brought $4,000 and $5,000. Before Gary really awoke, the rankest patch of saloons and dives that could fasten itself on any community sprang up in that section, and in May j this year they numbered 103. Gary has a population of 12.000 to 15,000, and the 103 resorts provided one for every thirteen to fifteen inhabitants. Kemnnstrunee Signed by 175. This rank growth of dives was flourishing when the Rev. G. W. Deuel of the Methodist church, assisted by I.iouls Bryan, a local real estate man. executed a coup that astonished the liquor element. The Indiana laws re quire that a remonstrance shall be signed by a majority of the voters who participated in the last election prior to the circulation of the remonstrance. At the time of the last election Gary was a camp and only 200 votes were cast. Deuel and his forces quietly went around with a remonstrance and obtained the signatures of about 175 of the citizens of Gary, which now lias a population of about 15,000 people, and one morning "The Patch" awoke to find that a remonstrance against liquor traffic in the township, covering a period of two years, had been filed. The brewing companies got busy immediately. They apeaied to the county courts and have been drawing into tlie fight all the wide-open-town and political forces. The hearing in tlie Ijake county courts will come up probably in .September. In the meantime licenses have been expiring. As the licenses have expired some of the places have been closed, but It Is chargd that others have been operating on the "blind tiger" basis. A murder or two has not helped the situation of thej.rewery forces. Bitter right Probable. This coup of tlie anti-saloon forces and the appeal of tlie brewery com panies to Its usual sources of support threatens to bring on in Iake county one of tlie bitterest fights in Indiana. It is doubtful, with the character of the population that is floating in around the "model city," whether it will be possible at the expiration of ths present remonstrance in two years, to get tin majority necessary to keep the saloons closed. At the present time, however, Deuel and his forces seem to have tlie upper hand, as far as the remonstrance is concerned, and they confident, though they took advantage of a technicality of the law, that local conditions made remarkble, i the remonstrance will stand. As to i the effectiveness of the remonstrance. if the local officers do not act the remonstrants will probably appeal to the state powers and also for relief from the slot machine gambling, which runs without check in Gary. Try a Want Ad In the Tlnie,

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NEW CLUB IS LAUNCHED. fCont3ed from page 1.) of the party as one of the greatest achievements for the country's good. making the greatest advancement in a I moral and material line of any party in existence. Called Brynn a Radical.

He denounced Bryan is a radical of and it would seem tney were mixing the old school and laughed at the folly ; it right. of the democrats in hailing him as a j The colored boys is also "some fight"new man," claiming that Bryan was, j er." He gets in a good lick every once and is, the same William Jennings ! in a whole, but it is not Joe Gans. Joe Bryan of old, with the one single and 1 is not as tall as the picture shows. Or

over-powering ambition, to become the j

president of the United States at any j as much difference between the height and all costs, and for the democra ts j of Gans and Nelson. The Battler is to accept him, after repeatedly reject- i taller than his negro opponent, allng the "peerless one," was only show- j though the contrary is the general imIng their sore straits in their need for ! presslon.

a leader. Summing up a remarkable speech he advised everyone satisfied with, and wishing to see a continuance of the Roosevelt policies, to stand for William H. Taft, and in standing for him show their appreciation of the great work carried on by the greatest man of the age, our present president. Mr. Kllver Favorably Keeelved. William Kliver of Gary followed with a short but enthusiastic speech. Although Mr. Kliver was little known to Crown Pointers, he certainly clearly showed that lie was of sufficient caliber for the office lie is running for. and made the statement that he would make no pledges to any one, but would work for the best interests of his constituents regardless of all the democratic platforms in existence. Kliver made a very favorable impression by the sincerity of his speech and brought down the house by announcing that, reports to the contrary, Gary would roll up an overwhelming republican majority at the polls this fall. Kliver was followed In a short address by Judge V. S. Reiter of Hammond, who spoke of the value of organizatlon and the necessity of an active man to man campaign, and the judge predicted great things for the republican party this fall. Short speeches were also made by Tom Grant, candidate for sheriff; Dr. Shanklin of Hammond, candidate for coroner, and the county chairman, F. Richard Scliaaf of Whiting, who tendered the aid of tlie state central committee and the county central committee in assisting the newly launched club to carry on a successful campaign. ANOTHER EAST CHICAGO MASS MEETING TONIGHT. D. J. Held. AVho Called Meeting I .ant Tlinraday Nisrht, Want a Large Attendance For Thin Kvenlng. D. J. Reed, chairman of the massmeeting held in the city hall last Thursday night, has called another massmeeting of citizens and taxpayers for tonight. This time the meeting will b in Weinland's hall and will be called to order at 8 o'clock. Mr. Reed is desirous of having a large attendance present as there are matters of the utmost importance to be discussed and acted upon. One of the purposes of the meeting will be to form a permanent organization looking to the good of East Chicago. There will undoubtedly be a large gathering and an interesting time. Bead The Times and set the ne?ra.

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, Fftji2czix FAKED PICTURES ARE SHOWN HERE. (Continued from page 1). fectly that everybody but the old fight fans who have actually seen him in action would never know the difference. The moving picture machine does its work witli lightning rapidity. But you could put two old maids up before it rather to be more explicit there is not ell. the fight goes tnrougn three or four furious, rounds and then comes the seventeenth round in which the knockout blow is supposed to be delivered. By this time tlie audience in the five cent theate rgets up on the tiptoe of excitement. The Know-It-All fiet Busy, They think they are seeing the real thinir. Tliev have noticed that Gans is getting weaker, that he hangs on more than he did at the start, they sec he Battler in almost a frantic effor o follow up his advantage and deliver the one telling blow. Over in tlie seat across the aisle some young pug with puglisitio ambitions, may be holding on to the seat and telling the boy next to him that this uppercut or that jnl were the ones which win Nelson's fights for him. Nelson is seen fellowing his man around tlie ring like a wild bull. One would think from tlie picture sthat Nelson could go fifteen rounds at that terrific pace and come up just as strong as though he was .mst starting out Then, too, the pictures, while they have a striking resemblance to the real fighters, if examined closely, will be seen to be only substitutes. It fools the average man. but one who has seen both of the fighters knows that they are not pictured in that ring. In the seventeen round of tlie picture tight, Gans is seen to be "all in." It is just a matter of watching for the knockout. Nelson knocks his man to his knees. Tlie crowd cheers. The referee begins to count ten. Gans jumps to his feet and the tight is con tinued for a while longer. Then Faker Take Count. Again the Dane knocks the negro down, but again the black fellow hides his time and jumps to his feet before the fatal ten Is counted. For the third time tlie negro is knocked down and this time he takes the count. The crowd jumps to its feet and carried the Dane out of the riner. Gans followers closely unfilled. The crowd surges through the ropes and then it is seen that the ring Is surrounded by hundreds Instead of thousands, and for all the spectators knows the fight from which the pictures were taken was j pulled off in behind some barn in Chlhcld caeo. The seats which are left empty are not sufficient in number to pay Nelson $300, -let alonrt the $30,000 which lie is supposed to have made. Tlie joke is on the Hammond light fans, or rather some of them. They do not know any more about the real Gars-Nelson fight than if they had never seen the pictures. ' Fight Fnnn Are bulled. Tf there was ever a crowd taken in the Hammond crowds have been the easy ones. They have stood about the

Pavement on Madison Avenue Causes Dispute Between L. A. Bryan and The Gary Land Company.

The dispute over the strip of land varying from twenty-three to thirty feet in width on the west side of Madison street and a half mile jn length, valued at $20,000, has at length been settled by the board, temporarily at least, by allowing the Gary Iand com-

2 J pany to pay tlie taxes on the improvei . ment of Madison street, the improved portion of which this property ad

joins. City Treasurer U A. Bryan says in regard to the action of the board yesterday, where he had represented the Chleago-Toleston L-and & Investuieni company: "1 offered to pay the taxes on the Midson street improvement, but was not allowed to. There is no question but what we are the sola owners of the property." DlMpnted in lfW). The manner in which the ownership of this property came to be disputed was that in 1890 when the property was first laid out and subdivided and platted, the streets, lots, etc., ran to within a short distance of the quarter section line. The question is.terhe section line. The question is, therefore, did the C. T. L. & I. company intend to make Madison street at this place seventy feet in width so that it would reach the quarter section line, or did they just Intend to make it fifty feet, the same as they had ajl of the other streets. The land companymaintains that they had the street at this point designated fifty fee in width on their official plat, and that it has always been shown to be that width on all succeeding maps. That this strip of property would be worthless unless it belonged to the adjoining property, for it would then cut off the access to the street of the property owned by the Gary Land company, which would render it practically worthless. Brynn Han Different View. Mr. Bryan said to the contrary, how. ever, that tne intentions of the company which he represents was to make this street the width of the other streets in the subdivision, and that there was nothing to show to the contrary. Entail Bitter Fight. If the Gary Land company property on Madison street is to be cut off from the street by this strip of land, it 13 estimated by competent real estate men that it would depreciate its valua to the extent of $20,000. Although the Gary Land company feels that by paying the taxes on this property the strip will now be made a part of Madison street, and that their propertywould therefore adjoin the seventyfoot boulevard. Bryan says that he still owns the strip, and the case is likely to be bitterly fought to the finish. street stalking of the fight as though they had actually seen it. They describe this and that blow and thero a're more "I told you so's" going the rounds about that fight than there was at the ringside when it was actually pulled off. Sh. Sh. Shi Keep it quiet. Unci? Henry Bii knell is a good Presbyterian, but he had convictions about that GansNelson fight. He was certain that thfl Dane could put that negro out of business if he ever got the chance. He had said that all along. "Don't talk to me," I'ncle Henry has said a dozen times. "That man Nelson, is the better fighter than Gans ever thought heing, and I know it." And then lie would start out with a "Why take that thirteenth round in his first fight with the negro etc., etc., et c." So when the pictures of the last Cans-. Nelson fight came along there was a, certain Hammond druggist who made a firm and steadfast resolution. linen II In Mas Right Fotlmntc. Not with any idea of violating his church vows or of getting "in bad" with the rest of the congregation. I'ncle Henry waited for an opportunity when the women folks were not looking are! stole over to the five cent theater. There lie sat in that crowded littbi room with the sweat rolling oiT from his brow and taking a regnlur Turkish bath. But the discomforts of the theiter were not of much moment to him. He saw the Da v." put it over the Coon, and he knew that his estimate of the Hegewiseh fighter was tlie correct one. He came out and spent every spare minutes for the rest of the evening telling the boys how it happened. He put more energy into tlie ilescrijition of that fight than Nelson did when lie fought it and then some one stopped up and quietly told him that the pictures were faked. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of thi3 paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hail's Catarh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting lirectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sytem, thereby destroying the foundation of the dlseaso. ad giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doWjr its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One. Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti pation.