Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 130, Hammond, Lake County, 18 November 1908 — Page 8
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1908.'
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Mrs Sophie Harrison Eastman, Ex-Mayor's Sister, Weds Southerner After Bothersome Preliminaries
Gary, Hobart, Valparaiso Interuban Project Given Setback at Board Meeting Yesterday Afternoon Promoter Surprised.
J. G. EARLE OF HOBART HAD FIHGER l!l PIE While He Is Boosting the Air Line
He is at the Same Time Opposing
the Burns' Ditch Therefore the
Town Board Takes the Present
Move.
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Sli THE CLUB OVER RUDS
Attorney Tells Gary City Fathers How to go About T It to Get Results from a Corporation Gates Must Be Brought Forth.
cause them to lose a great amount of time In passing through the town. Rather than do this, it is my opinion that the companies would put In the gates, rather than have to comply with the speed ordinance through Gary." It was first thought that the Michigan Central would be the only company asked to place gates at their crossings on account of the danger at these points being greater than the crossings at the other railroads. This Is due to the fact that the elevation of the Gary & Western railroad obstructs
the view to those passing south under the viaduct. President Knotts thought as long as the matter would be brought to the notice of the Michigan Central
that letters should also be sent to the
Wabash and Pennsylvania railroads at
the same time. .
Companies to Be Notified.
Clerk C. Oliver Holmes was instructed
by the board to write to the abovenamed companies, asking them to place
gates at the crossings. It is thought
that an answer will be received by the
next meeting of the board, and if the companies refuse they will know what course to take in the matter. A few
arests on the part of the town officials will, it is thought, bring the railroads
to their proper senses.
RAILROAD DETECTIVES
BEATEN BYBURGLARS
Evidence on Their Faces Is
Conclusive of Fight in Which they Were.
CLUB EXISTS 111
SPEED JT.DQXCE
Companies Unwilling to Give Crossing Protection to Citizens Willing
ly Will Be Asked to Comply With Speed limit, Which Is Six Miles an
Hour.
As far aa tbe new electric We t Garrt Hobart Valparaiso Traction
company, to concerned. It may have to wait a lona; time before It aecnres
a franchise to enter tbe town of Gary. This much was decided at a meeting
of the town board yesterday, when
their petition for a franchise was flatly
turned down by the board and the mat
ter was laid on the table indefinitely. The action of the board in refusing to
grant the company their franchise cre
ated a surprise for some time, but when it became known that their real object was in turning down the com
pany, the few that were acquainted with the facts of the case commended
the board for their action. . Promoter Expresses Surprise.
Francis T. Keator of Aurora, 111.
who is the promoter of the new Gary,
Hobart and Valparaiso Traction com
pany, was as much surprised as any of those present. Mr. Keator appeared
at the meeting of the board several weeks ago and was told at that time that if the company would show some
disposition to incorporate and prove
to the hoard thai ills company mean
business, that they would look upon
the matter of granting the franchise
'in a more favorable light. Acordingly, Mr. Keator set out an
had the necessary papers filed with Hi
secretary of state. The articles of in
corporation were filed last week a Indianapolis, naming James T. Hop
kins, and A. J. Hopkins Jr., two son
of United States Senator Hopkins;
Y. Keator, Haskell Davl3 and W. H
Watkins as the directors of the new
company, and placlBg their capital stock at $100,000. . It is said that Mr. Keator also went to the town trustees of Valparaiso and Hobart and secured an agreement wherein they would grant the company a franchise at their next regular meeting. He conferred with the officers of the Gary & Interurban company and all difficulties between the two companies were amicably settled. All that now remained to be done was to get the Gary franchise and work would be started at once on the new road. Advised to Degln Work. "If the company Is all right, as I have no doubt It is," said President Knotts, "let the company start their work and build their line as far as the Gary corporation line, then we will be willing to grant the franchise." Keator Gives His Reasons.
Mr. Keator said that the men who were at the back of the new road
would not be willing to furnish the
necessary funds to construct the road and that they could not secure a bond! or sell stock unless they could get an entry into Gary. : Another objection to the road was raised by the board, in that they could not construct their road over the . Calumet marsh, owing to the high water every spring. "This is the only reason," said Mr. Knotts, "that the Gary & Interurban is held up on completing their line as far as the Hobart road." A warm discussion followed in which Mr. Keator tried to explain his theory on building the road over the lowlands, but the board refused to look upon the matter, and a short time after the meeting adjourned. The Real Reason. The real reason for the board refusing to grant the company their franchise was learned by a Times reporter last night. It is known that John G. Earle of Hobart Is interested and is the main
figure in the background, who is try
ing to promote the road. If it is constructed it will run through his prop
erties and increase them in value to the extent of probably a half million
dollars.
It is also known that John G. Earle
is strongly opposed to the Burns ditch,
and has been against it from the start.
The board of trustees of Gary are vitally interested in the south end of Gary and know that the Burns ditch will mean more for Gary, in increasing the land values and the drainage of thousands of acres of lowlands that are now worthless, than any other proposition, and they do not feel very kindly toward the opposition of Mr. Earle
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Ashevtlle, N. C, Nov. 18. Mrs. Sophonlsba Harrison Eastman, daughter of the elder Carter H. Harrison of Chicago,
was married at four o'clock yesterday afternoon to Baker Everett Edwards of Norfolk, Va. The ceremony was performed in the back room of a lawyer's office in Asheville by MaJ. F. N. Waddell, a magistrate, and was entirely un
expected.
Half an hour before they were made man and wife Mrs. Eastman and Edwards had no idea that they would be mar
ried for several days, as they had postponed action until something could be learned or the movements or Mrs. Ltui Newlands Edwards, the divorced wife of the Virginian. he first Mrs. Edwards was in the offing all day and rumors of dark plots came out of the east, but after Edards learned of the lawyers that there was no legal ground upon which
the woman could reopen the divorce and all she wanted was a share of his father s estate he gave the word to go ahead and Justice Waddell was called in.
Earlier in the day the Rev. Gilbert E. Rowe of the Central Methodist Episcopal church, who had been asked to per
form the ceremony, and who had agreed to do so, wrote Mrs. Eastman a letter, saying he could not officiate at the wedding He gave as a reason that some of the elders of the church had criticised him and he could, not act as a
judge in a case of this complicated character.
FOR
TRIAL EMBEZZLEMENT
Indiana Harbor Saloon Will Bring Charges Against Policeman.
MUCH INTERESTED IN CASE
GARYITES MAY SEE
JUNGLE
ANIMALS
Paradise Company Will Show Wilds of the Tropics Today.
GILA MONSTER WITH SNAKES
Public Sentiment. Is With the City
Officials Trouble Started Several Months Ago.
Birds From Every Part of the World
on Exhibition and Monkey Section Is Almost Complete.
(Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind., Nov. 18. The case against Steve Sherpotoski, the Guthrie street saloonkeeper now being tried in the superior court at Hammond, is one of particular interest to the police forces of East Chicago and the Harbor. Immediately following its trial will come the prosecution of two of the city's police officers, Weinfenbach and Gorman, in suits praying for the assessing of damages to the extent of $10,000 in either case. The story told by the local police officials i3 interesting. Sherpotoski is charged with having embezzled some $200 of the funds belonging to a local Slavonian society. It is for this of
fense that he himself is on trial, and
had it not been for an altercation with an Indiana Harbor blacksmith, the shortage in his accounts might never
have "been made public.
One evening about two months ago
the police department received a telephone call to "go at once to the Sherpotoski saloon," as a big fight was in
progress. By the time the two officers
arrived on the scene the fight was over, the field of battle cleared and everyone in the saloon smiling as though nothing extraordinary had hap
pened.
Sherpotoski denied that anyone had
telephoned for the police, although his wife caknowledged that she had asked
for the police protection. This . en
raged the saloonkeeper and he ordered
th two policemen from his building.
In the struggle that followed Sher
potoski. cut the flesh on one of his arms by shoving it through a plateglass window, while Mrs. Sherpotoski
maintained that she had been struck
by the officers.
The case has aroused intense interest here and in East Chicago, where
the two officers are well known. Their
efficiency of the police force is un
doubted and the action of Mr. and Mrs. Sherpotoski censured by everyone connected in the case in anyway
whatever. . It is understood that the
saloonkeeper has . atetmpted the filing j of suit against the city officials on!
other occasions, but has been advised j
by his counsel that such action would be useless. He is now represented by a firm of Hammond lawyers.
under that machine - while - passers-by
were trying to rescue him from his
prison. Fortunately he was not in
jured, but it was rather trying on him Just the same to be under there with
the knowledge that his building in
Gery was going up in smoke. He was finally released and upon getting to Gary found that somebody had been
burning wet coal in the furnace and consequently caused an unusual lot of
smoke.
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IF IT'S ADVERTISED IT'S WORTH
LOOKING UP.
At the meeting of the Gary town
board yesterday afternoon, the trustees
took measures to compel the Michigan
Central, the Wabash, and thj Pennsyl
vanla railroads to place safety gates
at the crossings of Broadway and
Madison street. Each member of the
board expressed himself ana saia that the placing of gates was an absolute
neceaslty in order to guard against the
loss of property and life
Town Attorney L. L. Bomberger was present at the meeting and said the town of Gary could not compel the
three railroads In quetlon to place
safety gates at these points by tho pas
sage of an ordinance. Must Swing a Club.
"The only means by which the rail
road companies would see fit to place gates at these crossings would be to
enforce the speed ordinance throu
Gary," said Attorney Bomberger. "This
ordinance, which is already in force.
requires that the railroad companies shall not operate their trains through the town at a greater rate of speed
than six. miles per hour.
"If the town would enforce this or
dlnance," went on Mr. Bomberger, "it would compel the railroad companies to
slow down their through trains an
LODGE MAM'S ARREST
CAUSESASEflSATIOII
Thomas Mathews, Treasurer
of Whiting Owls, Is in Bad.
AFTER AN ORGANIZED GANG
Indiana Harbor Police Are Appealed
to By Victims Freight Cars Being Bobbed Continually.
(Special to The Times.)
Whiting, Ind., Nov. 18. Thomas
Matthews, treasurer of the order of
Owls, was arrested yesterday after
noon on the charge of having embezzled $78 of the lodge's money. His trial came up before Mayor Smith, who
granted Matthews ten days time in which to make good the missing money.
The lodge was Inclined to be lenient with Matthews,-as he is a-man of good
character, but who, owing to illness, was rather in hard luck. Suffering from lead poisoning, he said he temporarily appropriated the money to support his family. His brother-in-law, Patrick Harmon, went on his bond, which was fixed at $200. Earlier yesterday afternoon . Matthews was placed under $300 peace bond, which was also furnished- by Patrick -Harmon. Matthews became abusive' to' William Ilickey, editor of the Whiting Sun, when Mr. Hlckey, as secretary of the order of Owls, pressed Mathews for the payment of the money.
(Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind., Nov. 18. Two '
railroad detectives fared badly at the hands of tramps in the B. & O. yards
last evening. The two men, who re- -fused to give their names to the local officers, reported to Sergeant Quinlan , last evening that they had been struck over the head with coupling pins. Examination showed that one man had -undoubtedly been Btruck with some blunt instrument, a large bump having made its appearance on the fellow's head. His comrade had suffered a black eye and the application of poultices was necessary to keep down the swelling. According to tie story told by the two detectives, they saw their assailants attempting to break into one of the B. & O. "laborers cars." Ordering them to leave the company's property, the two detectives engaged in a hand
to hand struggle with their opponents, . who were aparently foreigners. In a few moments, however, the two railroad men were beaten and sought theaid of the local police department. Search among the box cars In the K' & O. yards at the Harbor failed to reveal the identity of the assailants.
and the two detectives declared that they would remain in the city until the entire gang of box car thieves had been run down. The railroad has been having considerable trouble with this class of burglars for the past several weeks, reports being constantly received of shortages in shipments to the Calumet region. Whether these depredations are committed in the Harbor or South Chicago yards is not known, but the railroad officials believe that Indiana Harbor is the home of an organized band of foreign box car thieves, who dispose of their spoils on the Chicago and Hammond markets.
Slow Rising Sometimes. "I done heard It recited," said Uncle Eben, "dat Truth crushed to earth win rise again. Dat may be so; but sometimes Truth don't git to his fet
in time to keep the referee Turn hand-
In out de decision agin "im."
Thin Lips and Nervousness. Thin lips may be a sign of cruelty, but they are usually only a sign of nerves. The woman who has been under a nervous strain will press her lips tightly together. In time this will become a habit and her lips will grow thin and pale.
SSSasEXEBBKBStS
What Is known as the Jungle Para
dise has located in Gary, and for the
next few weeks the Jabbering of mon
keys, the screech of owls and the crip-
ing of birds will become a familiar
noise. A large number of the inhabi
tants of the tropics have been transplanted bodily into the sands of the northern part of Lake county, and here they will be placed on exhibition by what is known as the Jungle Paradise company.
The company arrived In Gary yester
day and established headquarters at
444 Broadway. All of the arrangements for the giving of the exhibition are now complete and the doors of the menagerie will be thrown open to the public this afternoon. In the snake section of the show there is what Is
known as the Gila monster, which is suposed to be the only one In this country. . The snake is deadly poisonous and when a person is bitten by them it means instant death.
Aside from this there are many species of birds from every part' of the
world. The most complete department
of the menagerie are the monkeys, of which they have a dozen varieties. Among these is the hi-kl, a most dangerous and well-known baboon.
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Hopeless. "When a fellow gets between an ironhearted judge, a jury of strangers, and a prosecuting attorney, what chance has an honest man got? New York Globe.
Wonder. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed Dean Swift.
Josh Billings on Beauty. "Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who isn't handsome."
BORMAN PI1ED OERJUT0M0BILE
Toleston Real Estate Dealer
Is Relating Singular Experience.
Otto Borman, the jovial real estate dealer of Toleston, is telling " his friends these days how it feels to be
pinned under an automobile for half
an hour, while at the same time one
is entertaining the comforting knowl
edge that one's valuable property is
on fire in Gary. , , Mr. Eorman went through such an experience last Sunday night. He was notified by a telephone message that the big building in Gary in which the Borman-Watson Drug company is located was on fire and that he had better hurry to the scene. Nothing loathe he chartered an automobile in Tolleston and gave the chaffeur instructions to "let her go." At the corner of Main street and Borman avenue in Tolleston the machine upset throwing the driver In a ditch and pinning Mr. Borman undernea.th. For almost ha'.f an hour he sweated
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