Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 42, Hammond, Lake County, 6 August 1908 — Page 1

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EVEHEJG EDITION Generally fair with semerbat lower temperature todays Friday probably fair. yoL.ni. NO. 42.iIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1908. ONE CENT PER COPY., CONFERENCE IS TO BE HELD TODAY REDUCTION If LA HIS t STAY AT HOME VACATION. TAX ASSESSMENTS

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Judge Tuthill, Formerly of Lake Superior Court of Hammond, Makes Amusing Decision in Michigan City Juvenile Court. GIRL 1ST SLEEP UNDERTHE COVERS Develops Taste for Finery and lather Has Her Arrested and Hailed Into Court Because She Wanted to Spend Her Earned Money on a Nightie. 10, IT SSfFniulfET Guy Pole Proposition Will Be Considered by Property Owners Tonight. The guy pole proposition which was tnrned down by the council last Tuesday night. Is not a dead Issue by any means as yet. The East State street property owners, who were to be presented with the double crossing lemon, will meet in a mass meeting this evening in Allen & "Wolfe's barber shop at 8 o'clock to dinruns ways and mean by which the State street ran be benefitted in a bet ter manner than by giving it double crossings. It was the State street property owners that started the movement for a beautiful city in the way of getting rid of some of the unsightly poles, being satisfied to take only a half loaf from the street car company if they could nol get all of It. Vital Question For State Street. The property owners are especially desirous that some of the councilmen who voted against the joint pole proposition reconsider the matter and thus get into the State street band wagon. The question tonight will be: Do we want, double street car crossings on State street over the railroad tracks . and across and over between the two street car tracks brought so near the curb as to make teaming more dangerous, or do we want only one track and instead of the second one, get the business district rid of fortythree unnecessary guy poles and have iron poles placed by the street car company where joint poles are not feasoble? CHUMS GET TOGETHER. Thurman S. Robinson of this place, and Harold Gillett of Hammond, two young attorneys, spent Thursday In Chicago. Mr. Robinson was a guest at the home of Judge Gillett Thursday night, and took dinner at the Gillett homestead Friday. The two young men were chums at the Indiana Law school Lowell Souvenir.

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Decide to Stand Share of Expense. BOARD'S ANSWER NOT READY Street Car Company Would Alsc Have To Help Repair Sheffield Avenue. The conference between the board of public -works and the county commis sioners who yesterday inspected Indi ana boulevard and Sheffield avenue with a view of repairing it resulted in a proposition made on the part of the county commissioners to repave Indi ana boulevard from the state line to the Whiting line and stand half of the expense in the repairing of Indiana boulevard, the other half to go out of the general fund of the city of Hammond. Board Is Considering. The board has not yet given a deflnltd answer to this proposition, since I woul mean that the entire city would) have to help pay for the repaying of Sheffield avenue and that this may bj descrimination against the taxpayer in general since they have to pay fol their own pavement. The Indiana boulevard re-pavemenl could be undertaken only after a petil tion had been started. Hammond has been turning in aboul $3,000 annually in the county's strets fund and during the past five year! has received little in return. Whtl the county commissioners were asktj to spend some of this money in Hanm mono tney saia. mai ineir iuuus neic insufficient. In the event of Sheffield avenue being re-paved the street ca rcompany would have to pace 16 feet of street. Ten feet on-each side 'would then fall to the 1 property owners or to the city whatever the agreement may be. SHARPER FLEECES , - ,:. . HOTEL PROPRIETOR. R. A. Fleming of Philadelphia Is Wanted For Beating Board Bill. A sharper registering at the Hotel Majestic as R. H. Fleming of Philadelphia imposed on Landlord Glennon to i the extent of several day s board re cently and disappeared yesterday with out settling his bill. Fleming told the management that he was employed by The Times to sell atlases and hotel keepers are warned to be on the look out for him. He is not, nor has he ever been employed by The Times. Persons who come on contact with him will confer a favor on this paper by notify any of its officers so that he f may be punished. MARGARET'S. Consumption Clnims Indiana Harbor Railroad .Man This Morning J. J. Connors, a switchman on the Indiana Harbor railroad, died this morning at St. Margaret's hospital a victim of consumption. The deceased was 40 years ol dand leaves a brother and one sitser. While the funeral arrangements have not yet been made he will in all probability be buried under auspices of the local switchmen's union. THEY fflTJIS HIDE Republicans of Porter County Are After Gus Who is "Well Known in Lake. Valparaiso. Ind., Aug. 6. The republicans are after the scalp of Gus Grleger and they are after it with a venge ance. Porter county will have two candidates for the nomination for Joint representative. Their names will be made public within a few days. Grieger will have to invade Porter ccunty to be nominated. Porter county will have 11 delegates In the convention, which was called to meet in this city Thursday, August 20. Laporte will have 6 delegates. This will mean the retirement of Gus Grieger to private life. There will be no lamentations. The republicans of Porter county will elect their delegates to the convention at a primary to be held August 19. Gus is well known to the republican politicians in this county and there is a wave of sympathy for him in his troubles. DEES AFTER SHOUT ILLNESS. Charles, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nun, 119 "West State street, died last night after a short illness. The funeral has been arranged for tomorrow afternoon at Oak Hill cemetery.

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Clerks Declare That New Ruling Is Unfair to Them and Made Virgous Objections. There are few people who in their time have not seen a mail sack flying from train while the latter was going at the rate of 50 miles an hour. "While the sack is only leather or canvass and as in the rural district contains only a little mail everybody realizes that the momentum of the empty sack alone would be enough to break the bones in any man's body if it should happen to strike him. Not infrequently have people been hurt by flying sacks and Uncle Sam has had to pay for damage suits. Xow, however, he has made a ruling that will hold the mail clerk responsible for any accident that may occur through a flying sack. They have been notified and are accordingly greatly alarmed. Will Be Fined. The notice is coupled with the account of a damage case recently tried by a jury in Ohio and in which the mail clerk compromised by paying damages amounting to $500. The department declares that not only are the railroads going to hold the mail clerks responsible, but that the department will, in addition, assess a fine for violation of the rules for handling pouches when thrown off of moving trains. The mail clerks declare that the effort to hold them responsible is unfair because the government has been criminally slow in providing a safe means of delivery of mail from moving trains. It is claimed that there are a number of devices on the market which make it perfectly safe to throw a mall pouch off a train going at al most, any rate of speed. A number of these devices have been tested by the government and one or two of them have been found to be efficient. Despite this fact, the government delays it providing such facilities, choosing rather to stand the risk of loss of mails and damage to persons and property. The official order of the railway mail clerks, therefore, petition the department to take speedy action toward providing a safe mail catch. WORK TENHOURS A DAY Business Has Picked Up at Straube Piano Works Lately. Business has picked up to such an extent In the Straube Piano factory this week that the mill men work ten hours a day now. A ten hour day is the regular schedule in the Straube works but owing poor times the time there was cut to eight hours. Last Monday, however, the mill began to run ten hours with prospects that the other departments will soon be running ten hours too. LADIES OF GRAND ARMY OF THE Republic, General Circle No. 5. Mrs. James Curtis, chairman of committee. Tonight Ice cream social at '"'uitral

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Q Everything that happens has Its Influence on the welfare of society. People cannot live and act intelligently unless they are Informed as to the current events. Those who get the information first are the best equipped. Readers of THE TIMES get it first. reader of THE TIMES. Propery Owners Get Together and Organize in Hammond Last Night For the Purpose of Improving That Part of the City. WILL DEMAND REPRESENTATION Association Will Dabble in Politics and Ask City Authorities to Give North Side a Member on the Board of Public Works, Who Is in Symathy With Them. Several of the north side property owners got together last night and decided to form what will be known as me ."North Mne improvement ommix-Ih-tion. The activities of this organlza tlon are to be many and varied and it is hoped and expected by the promoters that this move will lead to the development of the north side as one of the best resldenttnl districts in the city. The purpose of the organization will be the advancement of the north side and to that end the association will use its influence to have sewers built, streets paved and trees planted, and the whole north side beautified. Plan Many Good Things. One of the first things the new association will attempt to do will be to have Hohman street, Towle street, Cameron street, Johnson street. Henry street, Torrence avenue and Calumet avenue opened all the way through to Sheffield avenue, which runs diagonally in a northeasterly direction to Robertsdale. One of the pet projects of the association will be to have Calumet avenue opened all of the way to the point where Sheffield avenue turns and takes (Continued on page 7.)

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Brinkerhoff in Cleveland Leader. ROBERTSDALE M ISWDR01ED John Barnes Jumps off High Piling at Lake Front Park Yesterday. VERY BRAVE ACT OF MILUUti Whiting Lad on Preceding Day Meets With Disaster Lake Michigan. ; Becanne John Barnes of Robertsdale is an expert swimmer be nearly lost bis life yesterday at the Lake Front park, near the pumping station. Golig to some of the high piling 1 front of the pumping station he pre pured to dive on and did so. Quite number of spectators watched him an became alarmed when he old not np pear on the surface of the water. Me and women ran to the spot in the rx eltement, all frightened and some cry ing for help. Jnek Evans to the Rescue. Jack Evans, an East Chicago millman, who happened to be at the park pithout losing a moment waded into the water and as it became deeper swam to where Barnes, had disappeared. He had no trouble in finding him as he lay on the bottom of the lake. He carried him to the surface of the water and keeping Barnes' face above water Evans made his way back to the shore. There is was found that Barnes had struck himself unconscious when he dove into the water, as it was only four feet deep. "With the help of Joseph Kasper, Jack Evans and Jacob Hartman, the young man was soon brought to. It was found that he was not seriously injured and was able to go home alone. On the preceeding day, the eight-yfar-old son of Mat Schaefer of Whiting, fell in the lake and only for the timely help of Joseph Hojnacki of Hammond, was saved. Hojnacki and a party of six other men were fishing on the pier toward the west when the boy tried to join them. He lost his footing on the pier and tumbled into the water. His smaller brother was with him and screamed for hepl thus attracting the attention of the fishermen. Hojnacki threw on of the ropes that Joe Kasper keeps on the pier for life saving purposes, to the boy when he came for the first time and pulled him to the shore. The lad was more scared than Injured but might have had a narrow escape but for the timely arrival of help. HAY SESD DELEGATES Hammond Democrats Invited to Send Representatives to the Meeting. The formation of a state league of democratic clubs of Indiana cities will be a principal topic for discussion at the regular meeting of the Hammond Democratic club this evening in the club rooms. The Hammond club has received an invitation from F. M. Wilson, secretary of the Jackson club of Lafayette to send one more delegate to a representative meeting which will be held under the auspices of the Jackson club at Lafayette, August 20. While no steps have been taken by the local club the movement seems to be very much endorsed by the members and will undoubtedly sanction it this evening by appointing delegation to the meeting.

Decrease of $127,220 in Tax

Lists Found by Glimpse at Auditor's Records. CAUSE MATTER OF CONJECTURE eople of Calumet Region Looking For a Satisfactory Solution of the Problem. Notwithstanding the fact that daring the past year the Standard Steel Car company built a plant In this city at a cost of $3,000,000, the Western Glncose company erected a plant at a cost of 93,000,000 and the city of Hammond enlarged its corporate limits to take In the thousands of dollars worth of Im provements at Gibson, to say nothing of the remarkable improvements at the Standard settlement and all over the city of Hammond, the total of taxable property in Hammond decreased from $7,613,740 to $7,486,520 or a decrease of of $127,220. Reduction Cannes Speculation. How in the world such a condition of affairs could be brought about is only a matter of conjecture. In North town ship there was a decrease In the amount of taxables from 11,909,360 to 11.752,180, br $157,180, but this Is accounted for by the fact that the territory In and around Gibson which was formerly in North township is now Included In the city limits of Hammond. In the case of East Chicago there was a decrease in the amount 01 tax able property in spite of the fact that the territory including the Grasselll Chemical works was taken In and that there have been such factories as the Harbison "Walker factories built and there has been more building going on in Indiana Harbor than in any city in the Calumet region. The reduction in East Chicago was from $4945, 610, to $4,924,005, or a reduction of $21,505. "Whiting Shows Increase. The city of Whiting is the only one which "shows an increase in its valua tion. The value of taxables last year was ,$6,918,145, and this year it is $6, 930,830, or an increase or srs.685 over the previous year. In Munster this year there is also slight Increase. The value of taxables last year was $658,700 and this year it is $668,490, or an increase of $9,790 These figures are supposed to be acurate for the reason that they are the ones which were submitted to F. Rich ard Schaaf, trustee of North township for the purpose of enabling him to make his levy for township purposes for the ensuing year. The strange thing about the report 13 the fact that in the active towns where there has been the most improvements and the greatest activity and where the amount of taxables has been increased by the acquisition of additional territory there has been a decrease in the amount of taxables while in the quiet towns such as Whiting and Munster which have been supposed to be standing still there has been an increase in the valuation. Would I.Ike It Explained. It is a problem that the people of the Calumet region would probably be very much pleased to see explained one way or another. It is possible that there has been a lowering of the standard of appraisments of values to know about any such reduction and the people seem to paying as much taxes as before. A matter of interest to the people of the county outside of North township is the fact that the valuation in Gary is fixed at $5,700,905, although the United States Steel company is reputed to have spent $30,000,000 on the mill site alone to say nothing of the city itself. ARCHITECT'S SON HURT Joseph Hutton Breaks Arm While Cranking Tour ing Car. Joseph Wallace Hutton, son of Architect J. T. Hutton, met with a peculiar hut painful accident this afternoon when he was cranking his father's automobile and it flew back and struck his right arm, breaking that member at the wrist. The boy was taken to Dr. Howat's office in the Tapper block, where the fractured arm was set and the splints were placed on it to hold the broken bones in place. The fracture occurred severad inches from the wrist and will consequently not be as serious as if the wrist had been broken. The young man was in great pain while the bones were being set, but he went through the operation bravely. The accident occurred in front of the Hammond building and fortunately Mr. Hutton happened along just as the arm was broken and took care of his son. Mrs. Hutton was notified and arrived at Dr. Howat's office Just after the bone had been set. VISIT RELATIVES HERE. Mrs. Albert Webb and children returned, to their home in Hammond Friday evening after a several days visit here with her husband's mother, Mrs. R. M. Webb, and other relatives. Lowell Tribune-

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City Treasurer of Gary Re fused Admittance to City's Exclusive Commercial Organization and Affair is Sensation of the Hour. GARY CLUB THANKS HAMMOND ill Official Says He Was Asked to Join Organization, But His Was the Only One of Twenty-Four Names That the Commercial Club Befused to Enroll. Lonla A. Bryan, city treasurer of Gary, and one of the wealthiest real estate men of the community, wellknown in Hammond and all over Lake county, was blackballed yesterday af ternoon by the Gary Commercial club when his name was presented for membership. Mr. Bryan made a statement to The Times yesterday afternoon in which he said that he had been tnrned down by the organisation after he bad been Invited by several of the members to join. The vote against him, tt is said, was seven, four more than Is required to ' prevent his becoming a member. Mr. Bryan says he was blackballed by the saloonkeepers and real estate men who have personal animosity towards Mm, doe to bis light against the saloons. , ONLY ONE TURNED DOWX. Mr. Bryan, out of the twenty-five applicants at the meeting this afternoon, was the only one turned down. The city treasurer feels the action of the club keenly, but expressed confidence that the majority of the club were with him. Mr. Bryan has made a number of enemies through his ag gressiveness in fighting the saloons of the city. It is likely, therefore, that lie will never have an opportunity of joining the club. The Commercial club added to its roll this afternoon the largest num(Continned on Page 8.) GET 0UTJ300D PAPER Boy City Daily News is a Publication Reflecting Credit on Editors. Several copies of the Boy City News have been received at the office of The Times from that remarkable city of youths at Winona I,ake. The paper is a live publication written and edited by boys and is a credit to American young manhood. The paper is remarkable in that it has to do with the lives of boys and reflects perfectly their ideas, pleasures and ambitions. In the issues which have just been received the paper is full of campaign material. It has "write ups" of the various candidates and is brimful of enthusiasm. The fine hand of Judge Brown, who Is back of the Bay City movement can be seen all the way through. The interest In the campaign which is Just past is reflected in the pages of the daily and and it is interesting to read the platforms of the various parties. In the near future there will be given a great circus at the Boy City at which the while city is expected to be in attendance. The boys are now capturing snakes, birds, ground moles and other animals to make up the menagerie and the boys themselves will do the circus stunts. JANITOR RESIGNS HIS POSITION AT TEMPLE. Henry McDonald I,enves For New Doties at Huntington, Ind. Henry McDonald, assistant janitor at the Masonic temple, has resigned and accepted a position with the Erie railroad, as bridge inspector, and left yesterday afternoon for Huntington to resume his duties. This leaves "Sunny Jim" in sole charge at the temple and the parting of the two cronies will be a sad blow to Mr. Smith. Why suffer with headache, constipation. Etomach, kidney and liver trobules when you can be relieved with, Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. No money unless benefited. 35 cents. Tea I or Tablets. Negele, the druggist.