Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 77, Hammond, Lake County, 17 September 1908 — Page 1

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MANY FINE TALIK GIVEN School Has Come to Stay and Twenty-two Hundred Students Are Enrolled. fnder the most flattering; and promlulus condition the Lincoln-Jefferson Law school, of Hammond, made Ita for-, mal debut last nlghtt. Fathered by the Illinois Vnviersity of Law, Its advent nu enthusiastically received by a representative gathering of men and women of the professional and business world and given to the extended arms of Hammond and the i :trrundna; territory to be proud of It. s a beginning the new law school I. ..-. enrolled twenty-five students who v i'.l take the night courses and more hive promised to enroll later in the Mar. Already there are nearly 2,000 students taking the extension law ourse by mail, this patronage having been built up since last April. Opening Exercises Last Sight. The opening exercises last night were devoid of pomp and formalities. Instead a number of shot talks were given by the men connected with the school. Dr. W. Mayes Martin, president of the school, presided during the evening. Having given a short opening talk he called upon Hon. William E. Kenough, dean of the faculty. Dean Keough, after a short outline of the work in the law school, made an address to the assenVbly eulogizing the profession and study of law, emphasizing It as a broadener for any man, even if he will not follow it as a profession. He dwelt on the advantage and necessity of business man of today to be able to express himself and himself ambodied the ideal speaker, who is able to touch his thoughts in the . best words. Bis Men From I.lttle Schools. Previous to his talk, Dr. Martin ha 1 tlewelt on the best school of today, which is not so large that the student may lose the effects of his teacher's personality. "Let us sooner have small schools that will turn out big men than bis schol that turn out small men." Dean Keough was followed in an address by Attorney Hugh Leech, secretary of the school. He presented his talk in the way of a paper. He congratulated Hammond and the surrounding country for having a real live law school, one that will stand as long as itself will stand. He assured his hearers of the school's future progress and that it will always be ahead of the times. Mr. Leech, who has earned for himself the title of Ph. M. and LL. B., Is a graduate of the Illinois Collelge of Law and is a graduate of the "Wabash college. Through his earnestness and sincerity he has made a host of friends in Hammond. Hammond Lawyer on Faculty. Fred L Barnett, who is now a Hammond lawyer, but who is a graduate of the Illinois College of Law, where he earned the title of LI B. for himself, gave a short address. He will be connected with the school as professor. Knowing the Illinois College of Law faculty he assured the Hammond people of a high grade school, which promises to be highly successful. L. L. Bomberger. who in a few short years has worked his way to the top in the profession in Hammond., also made a short address. Mr. Bomberger said that the profession was not crowded with good lawyers and pointed instances of his own experiences, showing that good lawyers are very much in demand. He predicted that in ten years from now a change that can not be realized now, would come over this region and that all the concerns coming in here would need the services of good attorneys. Published Is Present. Mr. Cree, the publisher of the text

books to be used in the school, was Knickerbocker's law practice was present, and made a short address. He merged into the firm of Knickerbocker emphazied the fact the Lincoln-Jeffer- -& Smith, Attorney Willis Smith being son Law school in conducting a law the other partner. Among Mr. Knickextension course through correspond- j erbocker's law cases of a semi-civic ent, for which 2,000 students have been nature were the prosecution of a numenrolled. He predicted a brilliant fu- ber of gambling cliques, ture for the school that held its open-1 His death was caused by a compiling last night. 'cation of diseases. The funeral will be The first session of the regular held tomorrow at 3 o'clock from the course will be held this evening, be-'home of C. A. Paltzer, 20 Drexel square, ginning at 6:15. Dr. A. H. Putney will Interment will be In Oakwood cemebe in charge this evening. .tery. Three nights a week will be given J over to classes which begin at 6:15 and I POPULAR WTTH THF 'fARMER.

last until 10 o'clock. The class nights are set ror Monday. Wednesday and Thursday evening.

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LOOK FOR EARLY STRIKE SETTLEMENT Fitzhugh Luther Shops Are Picketed By Men Who Dissuade Workers. THIRTY MEN OUT IN SYMPATHY Iowa Central Has a Number Engines Tied Up at the Local Plant. of The striking machinists, boilermak. ers and blacksmiths at the Fitzhugh Luther Locomotive works are looking forward to an early settlement of the strike that has been on since Sept. 10. The thir men at the Fitzhugh-Luther plant are out on a sympathetic strike with the shop employes, who walked out on account of a 10 per cent cut that was made on the Iowa Central some time ijgo. The Fitzhugh-Luther company has a number of the railroad's engines in Its repair shop, there being in all sixty-eight out of the railroad's engines tied up. Despite the strike, work is continued at the shop. The strikers have pick eted the place and have already in duced eight men who came there as strikebreakers to go out with them. The Iowa Central railroad would have taken Its engines from the shop, but this cannot be done as they are taken apart and awaiting repairs. Since the company needs these en. gines and others that are in the repair shops, it seems likely that the strike will soon be settled. In another column of the paper will be found a statement from the strik ing employes. DEATH - OF " LAWYER Ml KNOWN HERE 1 Judge Knickerbocker Passes Away at His Home in Englewood. OWNED PROPERTY IN LAKE GO. Was Actively Identified With Calu met Region Realty for Years. John J. Knickerbocker, who is well known in Hammond, East Chicago and all over this region because of the large realty holdings he has here, died yesterday at Hotel Warner, Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-ninth street, where he made his home for a number of years. Mr. Knickerbocker was one of the men most actively identified with the reconstruction of Chicago after the great fire and was well known for his civic activities daring many succeeding years. He is 62 years old and unmarried. Practiced Law There. Mr. Knickerbocker was born in McMenry county and came to Chicago in the late '60s with his brother, the late Judge Joshua C. Knickerbocker. The brothers formed a law partnership, which terminated only when, Joshua Knickerbocker became judge of the Probate court of Cook county. His brother was elected to the city council, serving in 1872-73, and worked actively in the making of the "new" Chicago. After his term in the council Mr. THE BUSINESS MAS, THE PROFE8. BIO A I, MAX AXD THE MAKUFACT VBER THE TIMES.

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Old Man Now Cheerless, Expects to Once Again Fill His Life With Eomance. ' Crown Point, Ind., Sept. 17. (Special. Another Chicago couple who wed here are examples of an old man's darling and Christopher Thomas of Evanston. According to Thomas, both bride and groom were content with life and each other until it was discovered that they were illegally united because of the law forbidding divorcees to marry within one year after a decree has been grant ed. Thomas was divorced from his first Wife in October, 1907 and married Mrs. Mary Brooks at Crown Point the fol lowing-January. Thomas is 66 years old and his bride is 30. "But we love each other just as much as ever,' 'said the old man as he sat in a window in his cheerless home at 426 La Salle avenue, in Chicago. "We are sweethearts still and my wife says that just as soon ts the years is up, which will be only next month, we will be married and have our honeymoon all over again." The old man rocked in silence while a contemplative smile stole over his fac and a sparkle gleamed from his dim old eyes. "We both loved at first sight," he re sumed, "My first wife had not yet secured all the papers for her decree; but that was settled soon, and we de cided to marry at once. We knew about the law, and so we wrote to a newspaper bureau to learn whether it would be legal if we married at Crown Point. They answered the next day that it would. Three Times She Wavered. "My wife felt some qualms ' about such a procedure. Three times we went down to Crown Point, but each time my wife backed out, fearing that It would not be right. At last I told her it must be then or never. She took me at my word, and we were married by a Baptist minister, for she was a member of the Baptist, church. '' ' "Old as I am, I think I was never so happy as I was with my little wife. That lasted; five months, and then one day a paper came to the house stating that a similar marriage to ours had been declared illegal. Immediately a great black cloud setmed to hover over us. I laughed at Jier fears; I tried to comfort her; but she seemed restless and would not give up until she had made" an investigation. Then she found that we had made a mistake. "She left me at once; but she promised that we rvould marry again this fall, as she loved, me more than anybody or anything else In theworld. "Every day I go to see her when she comes fro mwork in an office down town. She is a stenographer. At dusk we stroll together along the lake front. In the evening we sit on the shore and hand in hand, watch the moon creep up over the waves.' STATE ST. ALMOSJfCOHPLETED ; Merchants Are Rejoicing That the Work is Over and They Can Do Business. The work of repairing Hohman street at the four corners has been going forward with great rapidity. The street car company is paving the street on both sides of its track and is doing a good job, just as it has done wherever repairs to the street have been made. The company has gone to the extent of buying brick for the purpose of paving the space between the tracks and the c"orners of State and Hohman streets will be very much improved in appearance as a result. The paving of State street --will be completed by the end of the week and the street will soon be opened for traffic after being closed for a long period of time. The merchants on State street have lost considerable business as a result of the paving of the street, and they will be glad when it will be ready for use again. The new street is the first one which has been paved with brick and filled with asphalt and the advantages of the asphalt filler will have a good test on State street. Contractor Hatch believes it is an enduring piece of work. DEATH OF EDWARD BEUTTNER. Edward, the two-weeks-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Buettner, 85 Calumet avenue, died early this morning. The infant was buried this afternoon at Oak Hill cemetery. WELL BE BURIED TOMORROW. Charles Komjatz, son of Andrew Komjatz, died this morning at his home, 820 Marion street. The boy was- one year and a half old. The funeral takes . place tomorrow afternoon at Oak Hill cemetery.

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is Formed in Gary Last Night; Enthusiastic Gathering is Addressed By Prominent Speakers. . CR1PACHER SPEARS T Monster Crowd Expected To Tnrn Out To Hear Tenth Congressional district's Congressman Binzenhof Hall Has Been Secured For the Occasion. Last night a splendid republican meeting was held in Gary South End hall at Sixteenth and Broadway, which was soley for the benefit of the Polish people of Gary. It is estimated that there were a hundred and twenty-five of them present to hear the best speakers in Gary talk on the subjects of national and local Issue. The hall was so crowded some time before the speaking began that it was almost impossible to get any more into the place. Good Speakers Address Meeting. The speakers who addressed the meeting last night were: C. W. Maloney, Clarence Bretsch, W. F. Welscheimer. A. B. Scerozynski, Captain Norton and John McFadden. All of them made good talks and were loudly applauded by the the crowd. The speech which attracted particular attention, however, was that of Mr. Scerozynski, who talked to the Polish people in their own tongue and it was evident that he had a great effect on them. They applauded him boisterously. When he had concluded he then made a short address in English to those who could understand the American language. Mr. Scerozynski,. is a well known real estate man in this city and his influence among the Polish people is expected to prove a big factor in the coming campaign. He, together with M. M. Duchlch and John Prashak, are working might and main to line up the foreign vote for the republican club and they have been eminently successful. The Polish people last night organized a Polish Republican club which will have meetings in this hall until the campaign closes. Nearly every class of foreigners now have a republican club and the splendid organization of the foreign forces will mean much towards republican success. , Crumpacker Tomorrow Xlght. Tomorrow night Edgar Dean Crumpacker, congressman from this district, will speak at the Binzenhof hall, and the largest crowd ever gathered together in the Steel City, for an event of this kind, is expected to hear him speak. The town has been placarded with posters announcing the speech. A band will furnish the excitement until the meeting opens and after that time a quartette will furnish the music All the republican politicians from down country are expected here tomorrow night. EXPECTS ICR TROUBLE Chief Fred Rinibach Prophesies That Calumet Re gion Will Get It. Chief Fred Rimbach is looking for trouble. He prophesies that the people of Hammond and the other cities of the Calumet region will witness more holdups, safe breakings, assaults and murders than it has ever known before. Things have been going on very smoothly at the headquarters for the past few months, but Chief Rimbach thinks that if the "cop" has had an easy time this summer he will certain have to earn this summer's pay this winter. Chief Rimbach says that the department will not only have to contend with the crime that originates as a result of the Invasion of foreigners who will come into the region when work begins in the winter, but there is always an influx of criminals into the great centers of population Just before the' winter begins, and there will be a number of them come to this region. Chief Rimbach is Just giving the people of Hammond a. hunch, and If his prophesy comes true It will be a case of "we told you so" at the police station. -,

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Dr. W. D. Weis Will Let the Blame : Fall On the Heads Where It Belongs. There is trouble in store for the violater of the newest city health ordinance which was adopted by the council at its regular meeting; Inst Tuesday night. An ordinance fnthereil by Dr. W. D. Weis. seeretary of the board of health prohibits the sale of frnit for human eonsumptlon which has been exposed on the sidewalks or in peddlers' wagons. The ordinance provides a fine of from $5 to $100 and was passed purposely to urge the laggards into the fold for the benefit of the city's health. Dr. Weis proposes to let the law take its course irrespective of whom it may strike. . Request Is Long Standing. Several months ago a personal canvass among the fruit dealers asking them to take their fruit from the sidewalk. Most of them complied cheer fully with the request and since then have admitted that it has worked no handicap in their sales. Others, however, have persisted in selling unclean and dusty fruit to the people who did not stop to think and it is to protect the law abiding dealer that the ordinance was passed.' Some time ago Dr. Weis pointed out a glaring example of how fruit is poisoned with germs. The sewer on Clinton street which carries all the sewage of the hospital which at the time housed typhoid patients was being cleaned in the Hammond style. The sewage was, scooped from the bottom of the sewer and piled on the streets for the city wagons to i'haul away. It was of course, impos sible to clean up every particle and the remainder was left to dry and turn into dust. - A gust of wind -naturally carried the germ laden dust through air and according to the Jaws of nature and gravity some of it was deposited" on the fruit standing on the sidewalks near Clinton street. The first person coming along and buying of this fruit gets not only the fruit but the dust and the germs in the bargain. The result is tlrat the consumer eats the germ into his system and wonders where he got his disease from. State Officials Here Tonight. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, Frank Tucker, state pure food inspector, and H. E. Barnard, state chemist, will be in Hammond this evening for a short visit. They will stop over on their Chicago trip where a big commission will go into session tomorrow. During their visit here they will" hold a conference with Dr. Weis regarding further steps to he taken in his crusade for better health. CITY DRENCHED F Farmers Get a Little Relief From Effects of Drouth Which Injured Crops. , , The city of Hammond and all of the surrounding territory was drenched with fog and dew last night. While it did not rain, the fog which descended on the city at about 10:30 was so heavy that it was in the nature of a mist, and this morning the sidewalks and the foliage were drenched with moisture. Even the choking dust of the country roads was moistened to a depth of half an inch or more and this is the first moisture which has touched them in weeks. Is Ruining the Roads. The farmers say that the drouth of the past few weeks is ruining the roads. The dust forms to a depth of several inches, the automobiles come along and suck it up or squirt it out to one side and the wind blows great quantities of it away. It has been estimated that the drouth this summer will cost the county thousand of dollars in repairs, and the suggestion has been made that it would be a saving of money if the roads could be treated with crude oil each summer to prevent their blowing away. DIFFICULTY OVER BRICK PAVEMENT. The board of public works today held up the street paving on Hohman street to await the street car company's j decision whether it would lay new brick between the tracks instead of relaying the old brick. It is entitled to lay the old brick but the board figures that new brick would malce a better job. The old brick had already been partially layed when Manager Green ordered them taken up. He has gone to Chicago to confer with his company about new brick. The expense would not be above $100.

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m bAltli FOR NEAR WRECK Manager H. C. Green of Street Car Company Exonerates His Crew. GATES LET DOWN ON GAR Conductor Signaled Motorman To Proceed; Says Official and Crossing Was Cleared by a Block. The South Chicago City Railway company yesterday investigated the near wreck at Seventieth street and the Illinois Central tracks, and after a thorough examination of the facts in the case, exonerated its crew. PubHe opinion yesterday lay the blame on Motorman H. Fobs of Hammond, but the street car company now blames the gateman, Michael Formosa. 7725 Greenwood avenue. Manager H. C. Green, after completing the investigation last night, said this morning: ' "Our conductor, Walter Bielefleld ran the crossing ana saw no danger In sight. He signaled the motorman to proceed, which the latter did. It was whiie he was -under the gates that they were lowered on the car and naturally were broken. 'The, car continued and it was only after the street car had gone a block northward that the Illinois Central train passed." GARY KNIGHTS CONFER DEGREES Delegation From Hammand, Michigan City and Englewood Assist. MEETING A GREAT SUCCESS Mayor Thomas Knotts Among Those Who Receive Degree President Walsh Pleased. Three hundred strangers yesterday visited Gary for the purpose of assist ing in the degree work given to thir teen new members of the Knights of Pythias. Large delegations from Mich igan City, Hammond and Englewood assisted In the work and enjoyed one of the most sociable times in the his tory of the local order. The class is the largest which has been taken into the local order at one time before. The Michigan City and Hammond delegations arrived on the - Chicago. Lake Shore & South Bend line in spec ial cars. The crowd from Englewood came to Gary on the Lake Shore railroad. When the latter arrived in the city the fog was so dense that they could scarcely see the sidewalk in front of them, and for a while some of them were almost lost, not knowing just where the hall was located. The degree work given to the thirteen applicants was done by the Ham mond and the Englewood lodges, who are supposed to have the best teams in this part of the state. The work was done without a hitch, and the whole meetingproved to be the greatest kind of a success. Among those who were taken into the lodge last night were President Thomas Knotts of Gary. During the middle of the evening a recess was taken by the members and the guests present in which they indulged In a fine luncheon and cigars. It is estimated that there were 500 Knights in the hall last night. After the events of the evening were over, the i3itors returned at 1 o'clock on the interurban line in their special cars for both Hammond and Michigan City. The president of the local order. Dr. Harry Wlash, stated that he was highly pleased with the work done by the visiting orders, in giving the degree.

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BOTH LINES AFSEJNTACT Temperance Democrats Criticize the Activity of One Thomas Taggart.

Indianapolis, September 17. Pa.-a-mount in importsnee today was tha determination of the republican mansKers to ferret out any Insurgent movement that might be contemplated and to nip them In the bud before they made any headway. The party leaders were satisfied with the lineup for county local option if they conk! hold it. They feared, however, that some of the recalcitrants might, when they met others of their kind, engineer a deal. It ' was to frustrate moves of this kind that kept the leaders ever watchful. ARRIVE IX liAGE XV MB ERS. Legislators and party leaders are now here in large numbers. The hotels are full of tbem'. They commenced arriving" last nigh? and kept coming all day. The air Is surcharged with political excitement. Conferences are being held here, there and everywhere and the air is rife with rumors. Sensations, however, have been scarce and nothing ftf-'hasdeTeloslt4though ' everyone seems a-tiptoe with expectancy. VOTE OX PARTY LIXES. Belief is gaining ground that the vote on county option will be strictly along party lines. The democrats say their opposition will be without a ! break. The republicans insist, too. that all their members will stand up to be counted. Neither party, however. seemed sure: The republicans were worried lest some hotheaded one might kick over the traces. The brewery influence in the party did not bother tha leaders as much as the apprehension, lest some of the recalcitrants should organize an anti-Hanly movement. Several of the republican members of the house are not candidates for re election. Some passed up " renomination and others were defeated. Some of them sought higher offk-e and made losing races for places on the ticket. Out of this number some maj be disgruntled with the organization or antagonistic with the governor and may withhold support from the measure) even though they are regarded as temperance legislators. To this situation may be traced the republican apprehension. Opposition may spring up in a quarter whiclf has gone unquestioned. BOTH PARTIES (OXFER TONIGHT. Both parties will confer tonight but neither will caucus unless it be found that the program of the bosses can bs pushed through without opposition. Tha leaders will be very careful about stir- . ring up strife at the beginning. They will feel their way and offer advice no faster than it can he maseuiated and digested. Matters pertaining to organization will be discussed and perhaps something will be said about the appropriations and the Night Riders situation. Managers on both sides agree the Night Riders may be discussed witl all safety. LEADERS ARE A I.I. OX II A XI). As fast as the republican legislators! arrived today they were pushed along from one boss to another and then to a third all of whom poured words of political honey into their ears. Among" the principal harmonizers were: James P. Goodrich, Fred A. Sims. Joe Kealing and Carl Riddick. Speaker Branch andLleutenant Governor Miller were on hand but they took no hand in the maneuvers. Branch had an ear out, however, for any rumbles that might indicate an insurrection in the house. Much had been heard about an insurgent movement looking to his ousting from the speakers chair and he wished to catch the first distinct vibration. .But nothing in tthe nature of a Jar reached him. T. TAGGART IS ACTIVE. Over at the democratic headquarters Tom Taggart was pretty active and his presence and activity did not make much of a hit with temperance democrats who have been begged to withhold support from the option measure. It is one thini? to a temperance democrat to vote "no" for the sake of hi3 party and another to do it because Tom Taggart wishes him to. The temperance democrats clearly differentiate their opposition from that of the brewers, but they don't know whether Taggart feels as they do or not. WILL IXTRODlCE MEASVRE. It was learned that the republicanl leaders plan to Introduce the option measure tomorrow and to push it 'to. Continued on page 2.