Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 35, Hammond, Lake County, 29 July 1908 — Page 8

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Wednesdav, Julv 29. 1903.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED

GUN THAT FIRES 50,000 SHOTS IN A MINUTE

Engineer in Train Collision!

at Gary Shows Presence of Mind.

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III SMPROVEMEHTS FOR UEIEEflTH

PASSENGERS ARE SHAKEN UP

Cars on Pere Marquette Road Were in Danger of Boiling Down a Thirty Foot Embankment.

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Gary Town Board Rescinds Action, Property Owners Objected.

Use a New Clew

in Search for Girl

COPS SPOT FOXY GANG OF THIEVES.

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What appeared for a moment to be a certain wreck occurred on the Lake Shore tracks at 3:4S yesterday when the Westbound Pere Marquette No. 55 crashed into the observation oar of Division Superintendent F. A. Wilson of the Lake Shore road. With the brakes applied the fast passenger struck the light engine and car going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, tearing off the pilot of the engine, and considerable shaking up of the passengers.

Engineer's I'rfKenre or Mind. It seemed as if the presence of mind alone of the egnineer of the observation car in putting on a full head of steam when he saw that the crash was inevitable, saved a serious wreck. His engine was also headed westward as it stood on the track aad by putting on steam he had the car well in motion before it was struck, thereby greatly neutralizing the shock. If the impact had been more severe it might have caused a derailment, and the passenger train would have rolled down the thirty-foot embankment onto the street at Broadway. Cause Milch Excitement. The accident caused no end of excitement and as soon as the regular train on the Lake Shore pulled in from Chicago with its hundreds of passengers aboard the train, they gathered around to see where a serious wreck had been narrowly averted. The Pere Marquette was delayed for thirty minutes, during which time the pilot was displaced from the engine and rolled down the embankment. The cause of the crash seems to be that the observation car was stopped too near the block signal, so that when the fast Pere Marquette train, which does not stop at Gary, saw the block, they did not have sufficient time to bring the train to a standstill before they hit the car. At the time that the two came in contact the brakes were being strained on the passenger to bring it to a standstill, but the distance was too short. When the brakes were suddenly applied the passengers were partly thrown from their seats but none of them were seriously shocked, as far as could be learned. It was said that the windows of the passenger train were also broken, but this report was denied by the officials of the road. o Damage to Car. There was no damage to the observation car, the part that was hit being of steel. The only bad results of an

accident that might have meant the loss of several lives as well as a great deal of property, resulted only in a

property loss of about $50, the delay

of the train for thirty minutes and

several bad scares.

The observation car Is the one used

by the divison superintendent, Wilson, in his regular inspection trips on

this section cf the line. His visit to

this city had no special import.

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HUCKSTERS LICENSE PETITION

Grocers Object to Portable Fruit Dealers Who Undersell Them May Produce Ordinance.

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DEATH !fl HEAT HE

Child Passes Away in Mother's Arms Before the Doctor Comes.

WILLIAM PATTEN AND HIS INVENTION. A six foot gun of the type shown in the model would weigh 500 pounds and

could be carried in an automobile. It would do more deadly execution in a few

minutes than the union and confederate armies did at Gettysburg. Patten's gun uses no powder, the steel bullets being fired by the turning of a crank. The bullets are drawn in by a vacuum, carried with tremendous force around the cylinder, and then expelled with such force that a half ounce hall has a 600 foot pull. The bullet kills at 2,000 feet. Patten is a young Knglishman resident

In New York. He got the idea from seeing a flywheel burst.

SOUTH PARK AVE.

ASHOOLEVARD Calumet Real Estate Owners Make Suggestions For Improvements.

DAILY CUTTING SCRAPE AT GARY Leon Welmez Stabbed by an Assailant Who Succeeds in Getting Away.

PALMER PARK AS TERMINUS KNIFE THROUGH HOLE IN WALL

Property Owners Doing Proposed Soute Must Be United, However, In Their Effort.

Peculiar Circumstance Attends Attack Which Is Discovered By the Police.

The resolutions passed .at the last board meeting in regard to the improvement of Nineteenth street will be rescinded through the action of the

f i town board yesterday afternoon. The

tiction of the town board called for a temporary improvement of the street up to Madison street, but the property owners who petitioned for the improve

ment stated that if they could not get l

through to Broadway, thereby giving

them an outlet to the main thorough- I

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iarc, nie uiu not Liiic lu iiav c inc

improvement made. Fltisernld Id Bony.

William Fitzgerald, of the Gary In

vestment company, seems to be taking

an especial interest in the defeat of

the imnrfivpmpnt 11 1 i on nnd was !

there to present his arguments why the

paving of the street should not be done, i The board had already decided not to improve that portion of the street from Madison to Broadway. This would only give them access to Broadway vvia Madison street and Eleventh avenue, which they did not consider satisfactory. If they were not able to get clear through, therefore, they decided

that they did not want the improvement at all, and this plan of action was

taken by the board. Attorney Ora

Wildermuth represented a large part

of the property owners adjoining this

street. When the board decides in a few years to put in the necessary improvement it will be permanent instead

of temporary.

I.lrenne For Hunters. A petition was also presented before

the board of considerable import to the retail dealers of the city. It was to the effect that all hunters who sell produce in the city should be licensed

at $100 per annum. They claimed that

the numerous peddlers who sold produce in the city at the present time greatly curtailed their profit and that it was unfair to the merchants. The

matter was referred to the city attorney.

In the future Deputy Treasurer

Flora Mashino will not have to do her

own figuring, as the kind city fathers

have decided to .purchase an adding machine for her special benefit. The

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BRIDGES TO CLOSE FOR DEFINITE TIME

become convinced that they were the

worst set of thieves that the cities of Whiting and Hegewisch have known for a long time. Anotber Man Involved.

The two men have been associated

i together in their nefarious business for

f about two months and have been steal

ing right and left during that time. The two men are said to have involved a

third for whom the Whiting police are

now searching. Houbeda told of an attempt on the part of Gebel to steal a registered letter which was coming from the old coun

try to a man in Hegewisch. The man ! South Chicago Aldermen Promise to

who was expecting the letter called at postofBce and caught Gebel signing for it and prevented the theft. Houbeda also had a revolver which he confessed to having stolen. The polocie have as yet been unable to find the purse which Houbeda claims he claims he threw away when he was about to be captured by an Hammond police officer.

Hammond Wheel Reeoveretl. Through the confessions which the Whiting police have secured from Houbeda four bicycles have been re-

City Ordinance Regulating Hours But It Is Not Enforced. STREET TRAFFIC IS DELAYED

Introduce Amendment 10 Present Law to Secure Change.

Few people in South Chicago are aware that there are bridge closing hours, relating to the Calumet river, established by city ordinances. This does not refer to low bridges, under which tugs cannot pass. Such bridges must be swung open at all hours upon signal.

i But other bridces must remain closer!

covered. One was a wheel belonging for thp convenlence of the traffic ovep

Holding her six-mon tbs-old daughter in her arms to 'await the physician's administration of medicine, Susan Dodi. 10319 Muskegon avenue on the East Side, had the pitiful experience of peeii.g her daughter pass away in her arms. The little child was overcome by heat r.nd the mother Feeing its precarious condition, toow the Infant in her arms and carried it to the ofTh-e of Dr. F.X. r.enson, 215 Xinety-rirst street, to apply for the physician's aid. The child was, however, too far gone to be saved and she was taken to a morgue whore '.he inquest was held this afternoon.

WHY SO WEAK?

Kidney Troubles .May He Sapping Tout Life Away Hammond People Learned This Fact.

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The south end of the city should be connected with the park and boulevard system, according to a discussion among Calumet real estate owners, who held their regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon. Palmer Park as the southern terminus, for the time being, naturally suggests itself. By a process of elimination South Park avenue is developed as the most feasible route. This street skirts the shops of the Illinois Central at Burnside, the shops lying just

east of the roadway. South Park Avenue Available. At the White City South Park avenue passes on the other side. Any other thoroughfare that might be suggested would butt into either one or

the other of these obstructions, thus leaving South Park avenue practically the only available route, certainly the most direct. Public improvements of this character are long in developing, even after they have been successfully launched, said one of the real estate men. The city council and the South Park board must both be consulted and most important of all is the propemty owners. Rules For Acceptance. Before a street will be accepted by the park commissioners as a boulevard it must be improved by a special assessment or contract. Then, if acceptable, it is turned over to the park board and is thereafter maintained as a boulevard. What the real estate men urged was more activity upon the part

of the park board during the next three years towards attaining the wants of the people. The many advantages of a boulevard system hardly needs discussion. It would bring people of means to South Chicago and the entire Calumet district and would increase the value of property. The meeting was a enthusiastic one and enthusiasm was at a high pitch throughout.

The dailv cutting scrape which Is

pulled off as a reminder to the people

of Gary that conditions are fast be

coming intolerable in the new Steel

City, occurred in a shack on Massachusetts street between Seventeenth

and Eighteenth avenues at 1:45 a. m.

In the fight Leon Welmer was stabbed

twice by a man who is supposed to be Joe Milewski. but who has not yet been captured. The reason that Milewski is suspected is that he is reported to have

declared that Leon Welmez would not

live very much longer. Peculiar Mode of Attack.

The manner in which the stabbing occurred was very peculiar. Joe Milew

ski was in one part of the building and

Leon Welmez was sleeping in another

The assailant of Welmez reached his hand through a hole in the partition while Welmez was sleeping and stabbed

him twice" in the head behind the ear,

As soon as Welmez felt the blade of the knife he awakened and called to his wife. She was aroused and went for a policeman and a doctor. When

the doctor arrived he found that the

wounds were not very serious and there

is no doubt of Welmez's recovery.

The doctor said that the nature of

the wound was sich that if the knife had been directed' an inch one way or the other it would have penetrated the brain and would have caused instant

death.

ilie experience or having a man reach his hand through a hole in the wall and stab another in the head with a knife while he was sleeping is a very

unusual one, and is but another indica

tio nthat there is murder in the heart

of a great many of the Gary foreigners

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ALURD'S NEW SLOGAN

Flying the banner, "Gary Is a steel town, but not for steal," E. G. Ballard

led the Gary delegation to the Inde

pendenco League convention yester

dav where the new party was born. It

is understood on good authority that Attorney Ballard is running for congress from this district on the Independence League ticket, and with Stanton, his partner, running for joint representative on the democratic ticket, it is said that the law firm is trying to catch them coming and going.

Terre Haute, Ind., July 27. There is still no definite trace of Miss Edith Babbitt, the young woman from Beloit, Wis., who has been missing from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago since a month ago. A report now being investigated comes from W. J. Wright, gent for the Big Four at Vermillion, 111., who writes tht a woman answering her description was seen there asking the route to Jacksonville, 111. She asked to be shown Clinton, on the map and when told she could go to Jacksonville by way of Danville she said that she did not want to go to Danville. This is regarded as significant because Miss Babbitt's brother and Police Matron Shannon of Chicago had gone to Danville from Terre Haute in search of her. Che was told how she could reach' Jacksonville by way of St. Louis and Is supposed to have taken that route.

to Mr. Patterson of 10S State street in

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f reaericK yman ana was stoien irom the corner of Hoffman and Cedar streets. The third was stolen from Preva- Bros, and the fourth was an old wheel which was taken from some one who never reported it at the police station and was stolen from the corner of Towle and Gostlin streets.

them between the hours of 6 and 7 a. m.

TEMPORARY FREIGHT HOUSE READY FOR BUSINESS

large number of assessments which will shortly be paid made it imperative that the machine be installed. The board also decided to purchase American-La France fire extinguishers for temporary use. The agent was Instructed to appear before the board at their meeting next Tuesday and he would be instructed to make the shipment after the contracts are drawn up. ; ' . -" ' - -

The temporary freight hou'fee which has been erected by the Lake Shore railroad on Virginia street in Gary was opened to the public today and hereafter all of the freight will be handled there. The freight house was built to take care of the large amount of business which this railroad is doing in the new steel city. The freight so far is mostly incoming, but it is expected that In

the future when the various industries begin operations the great volume of the freight will be outbound. C. R. Sluffer, the Lake Shore freight agent, prophesied today that in his opinion the railroad would build a fine brick freight building In the near future.

Life's Opportunities. Eliot: There are new eras in one's ife that are equivalent to youth are lomething better than youth.

A Poor Way to Inspire Confidence. No man has ever by complaining of qIb ill luck induced others to have ionfldence in him.

The rule relating to the Chicago river bridges fixes the hours of closed bridges from 6:30 to S:30 a. m. and from 5 to 7 p. m. on the main branch and the south branch to Twelfth street, inclusive and,

on tiie north branch to Kenzie street. On the south branch from Twelfth street to Halstead, and on the north branch from Kenzie to Halsted, the closed hours are from 6 to 7 a. m. and from 5:30 to 6:30 to 6:30 p. m. In an interview the officials from tha street car company and with the heads of the various manufacturing industries, it develops that the morning hours during which the bridges should, be closed, should begin at 5:30 instead of 6, as the heaviest travel starts before that time. Further inquiries show that the ordinance so far as it affects the Calumet river bridges is more honored in the breach than in the observ-. ance, the ordinance being practically a dead letter In this district. For the convenience of the traveling public this ordinance should be en

forced. Men are late to work on account of its non-enforcement, thesq men being late to work, and as a result are docked and lose money through) no fault of their own. This ordinance should be enforced even If it is net cessary to Invoke police power to do so. The matter has been called to the attention of the local aldermen, who hava promised to take It up at the next council meeting. Th.sy will Introduce am amendment to have the closing hours changed from 5:30 to 7. The street car company asserts that the disobedience of the closing houra delays their cars every morning, which In a measure Is responsible for thq poor service.

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KILLEO BY TRAIN AT PINE STATION

A report reached South Chicago this morning of the death of a South Chicago man named Bonner, who was accidently killed at Pine Station this

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