Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 136, Hammond, Lake County, 25 November 1908 — Page 1
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E LAE OTKATHSnt. Partly cloudy and slightly cooler today, probably becoming unsettled. M EDITION .ONE CENT PER COPY. VOL. in., NO. 136. HAMMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1908.
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Baseball Fans From Gary, Ham mond, Whiting And East Chicai go Meet Last Night
THANK VOTE GIVEJHiilS Hew Organization Is Called Indiana State League, and J. T. Powers Is Elected Pres.
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boys Disappearance
Mrs. John Dunlevy Tells A
Queer Story Of Her Boy's Absence
(Special to The Times.) The Indiana State league la now a fact. This nai determined when representatives from . Hammond, Gary, Whiting, Indiana Harbor, East Chicago met at Whiting last evening and perfected the temporary organisation of the league. It was decided to call the new baseball league the Indiana State league and only Indiana teams will be admitted to membership. There were two applications from Chicago teams, but they were refused for the reason that the organisation Is strictly an Indiana league. POWERS MADE PRESIDENT.
Mr. John T. Powers, who organized j
the Wisconsin State league and was its president for two years, acted as temporary chairman and called the meeting to order. Charles R. Klose was made temporary secretary. C. M. Foland was unanimously elected vice president. The circuit committee is composed of Albert Borman of Clary, W. J. Sheet of Indiana Harbor, and Frank M. Long of Whiting,
.and Hernmn.iV Jate of Whiting , was j,
elected temporary treasurer. It was the sense of the representatives present that the league should be composed of teams from Whiting, Ham-
THINKS HE WAS SPIRITED AWAY
Intimates That Boarder Knows More About Mystery Than He Cares to Reveal.
THANKSGIVING AND THE BOY By Edward L. Sabin
Nose first; now eyes; but -when your luckless mouth ? What a table incense-breathing, smoking with sacrifice, the turkey, all a golden brown, reposing at one end. Beautiful turkey, pointing straight at you a drumstick. Uncle and aunt and cousin and big brother and mother and father and you-7-down you sit, with scuffling of chairs and expectant good humor. Double in quantity is the blessing. That being over, father carves. You watch anxiously; father is the great provider. Grandmother is served; a morsel of the breast for her, and "tastes' of the various et cetera. Aunt Jane next; grandfather next; the turkey dwindles. Ladies first; but will your turn never come? Will there be enough? Is there anybody in the whole world, or in the town, at the least, as empty as you? Like a hungry spaniel you sit down and gaze and almost you drool. Oh, dear! "Serve the boy next," says Uncle Lou, generously. "I can wait; he can't." (Bless Uncle Lou!) "I know what he wants a drumstick." How did he kn,ow? Sometime you will ask him. Will father, now or will ne not? He Is quite an autocrat and punctilious as to etiquette, Is father. But see, there goes a drumstick upon the plate and a chunk of white and a big spoonful of stuffing (maybe this is yours, after all!) and a mountain of mashed potato, and a fat sweet potato, and a clump of squash, and a deluge of gravy is it yours? Is ? Father passes it. "Johnny's," he announces, gravely. "Gracious on me!" comments grandmother, in her sweet eld tones. "I am afraid that Johnny will surely burst" Yet, it isn't so very much. You will want more, of course. And even as it is, it is incomplete. Cranberry, celery, biscuits, pickled peaches you will have much of these; and later three kinds of pie, plum pudding, nuts and raisins, candy. However, square away. Time is precious. Eh, what? "Where are you going to put all that, Johnny?" inquires somebody. You flush embarrasedly. What a question! You know.
BAILING KELSON IELLS STORYOTTHE IEIG Hegewisch Visited By Chicago Aldermen, And Light Weight Champion Discusses Franchise
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BATTLE OF THE FOOTBALL GIANTS
First Regiment Eleven Is To
Locals At Harrison
Park Tomorrow.
Play
COUCH ALLEE TO PLAY CENTER
It won't be a very happy Thanksgiving for the Dunlevy family in East Hammond. John Dunlevy, aged 12 year, who Uvea with his parents, Mr. and Mm. John Dunlevy, at Morton and Howard
avenue, is csuMok his parents a great deal of anxiety these days by reasou of
his disappearance from home. The last seen of him was two weeks ago the coming Friday, when he left the house in the afternoon after returning from the Wallace school when he went out to play "Shinny" with his companions in front of the Dunlevy residence. His mother had warned him to put on his sweater on account
of the cold weather and the lad, acquiesced. He "did not return that night
and has not been seen since. Police Were Notified. His mother reported the disappearance to the police and says she has not been able to get any solution of
the mystery. There are several facts in connection with the case that make the boy's disappearance rather mysterious. There are two boarders at the Dunlevy home, which Is over the saloon they keep.. They are Fred Bell and
Kobert bhaw. The Dunlevy s missed a quantity of whiskey they had stored away and the night before the boy dis
appeared. Connects Bell With CaseBell left the boarding house and Mrs. Dunlevy reports that she thinks his going away has something to do with her boy's absence and the loss of the whiskey. She belie'es that Bell spirited the lad away because he knew that the whiskey had been stolen. Mrs. Dunlevy declares that Shaw told her that the boy wasn't ten miles away from Hammond and he could put his hands on him at any time.
ISSUES SETTLED FRIDAY
NO ISSUE OF "THE TIMES" TOMOPTinw
Famous Calumet Remonstrance, in Which Gary Saloons' Fate Is to Be De
cided, Will Come up in
Superior Court.
Hammond Will Have Twenty-Two lien To Pit Against the Soldier Boys.
A battle of slants ou the gridiron is In store for the Hnmmond football fans at Hnrison park tomorrow. The
big Chicago First Regiments are scheduled to play the Hammond Athletics, and both teams are being strengthened by high clans timber and several dark horses, the game promises to be the best one that was ever scheduled in Hammond. Coach AUee. of the Hammond high school will play center against Edson Taylor, the big Regiment center and former star on the Aralparaiso team. Taylor was formerly of Hammond and has many friends here who want to see him in action. Soldiers Refuse to Give Lineup. The soldiers refuse to give out their lineup, arijj the local boys figure that they are going to plug up with a lot of strong fellows. Hammond, however, is not afraid of any plugging up and today the team gave out the lineup, containing names of those whom they expect to star to
morrow. Among them are Walter!
MAN JJOBEHY TRAIN
Anton Wizowatey of West
Hammond Hit By Lake Shore Train.
Sohl, Walter Halfman. Shillis, AUee!
and Fat Beacon, who was picked by Eckersall for the All-Western team when he was at Notre Dame. The local boys must raise a purse of $50 for the visitors, and remembering that last Sunday only $13 was raised in a large crowd of spectators, there will have to be more generous sports at the game tomorow than there were last Saturday. The Athletics have provided themselves with a double lineup, which is as follows: The Hammond Lineup. Left end Heiser, Edwards. Left tackle Beacon. Keel. Left guard Reel, Kuhlman. Center Alice, Smith. Right guard Flowers, Enrlght. Right tackle Dougherty, Flowers. Right end Smith, Johnson. Quarter back McMahon, Geib. Right half Halfman. Smith. Left half Sohl, Ports. Full back Shillo, Stevens
Anton Wizowatey, 534 One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street. West Hammond,
was struck by a Lake Shore suburban
train at the Hohrnan street crossing of
the Lake Shore and Michigan Central
railroad tracks and was seriously In
jured at 6:51 a. m. He was taken to St. Margarets hospital In Stewart's
ambulance where it is believed he will
recover.
The extent of his injuries is a broken
arm, a fractured skull and a number of bruises, none of which ar enecessarily fatal. Anton is a rag picker and lives In West Hammond, from where he
sallies forth every day and picks up what he can find in the alleys and
streets.
According to the story of William
Cox who is employed by the Golden Express company, the old man, who is 56 years old, made an effort to cross in front of the Nickel Plate train, which was west-bound. He apparently miscalculated the speed of the train or miscalculated his ability to get across the tracks, for the train struck him and threw him to one side of the track. The old man was knocked unconscious and it was thought at first that he- was dead, but he was taken to the hospital and there an examination showed that his injuries were not ne
cessarily fatal.
The famous Calumet township r
monstrance case, which arose out of
the circulating of a remonstrance In
Gary and vicinity, and is leading to the
gradual exclusion of the saloons from
Gary and the other towns In the vlcln
lty, will come up la the Lake superior
court next Friday.
The case will come up for the set
tlement of the issues. This involves a question which has never been decided by the state supreme court of Indiana,
and Judge Reiter's decision may be come famous for that reasion.
How Com Can Be Tried.
In the consideration of the preliminary matters regarding the trial of the case, one of the first questions which will arise wi'.l be the manner in which the case will be tried. In Lake county, the attorneys for the saloonkeepers want the case tried by jury, for the reason that they know the people, as a rule, are in sympathy with them. On the other hand, the attorneys' for the remonstrators want the case tried by the court, believing that It will be father removed from any
In accordance with its usual custom, The Times will observe Thanksgiving day tomorrow by giving Its various employes a holiday; hence there will be no edition of the paper published on Thursday by reason of the fact that the day Is a national holiday.
SETS A PRECEDENT
LETTING GONTRAGT
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Hammond Store, Offering Better Material, Underbid By Mail Order House.
SPECIFICATION LIVED UP TO
Board of Public Lets Contract for Fire Station Supplies to F. S. Betz Company.
The Kation's Glad Holiday
Will Be Fittingly Celebrated In Hammond And Turkey Day Will Be One Of Kejoicing In City.
GREAT THINGS ARE IN STORE FOR HEGEWISGH
Transportation Committee in Suburb Prodded by tlie Battler, Who Wants Street Cars for His Constituents.
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WILL 1IH0R HONEY Employes Of Standard Steel Car Company Not To Be Paid Before Saturday
TAKE THE TIMES AXD GET MORE HAMMOND XKWS PRINTD THAN IN AXD HAMMOND PAPER, MORE EAST CHICAGO NEWS THAN PRINTED IN AN V EAST CHICAGO PAPER AND MORE GARY NEWS THAN PRINTED IN ANY GARY PAPER. THE ONLY' PAPER THAT PRINTS THE COUNTY NEWS.
In the Standard Steel Car district in spite of the fact that there have been reports circulated that he employes here expected to have a pay day last Saturday, they will be compelled to go without their turkey unless they can buy one on credit. Pay day at the Standard district will not come for several days yet. In fact the $25,000 which will be put into circulation soon will not be paid out until next Saturday. It is expected that Thanksgiving day at the Standard will be very quiet and
while the residents of that neighborhod will not have the long green itself to be thankful for, they will have jobs and the assurance that after months of idleness they are now to have work all winter.
"The board of public works thh. morning set a precedent, which will be watched with interest, especially by local merchants. In awarding the contract for the fire station in the way of bed supplies the contract was let to the Frank S. Betz company, a mail order house. The Betz company underbid the E. C. Minas' department store, also a locl concern, whose samples, however, were better than those required in the specifications. This was admitted by the board this morning, where upon the Betz people promised to equal the quality promised by the Minas' store. In the fact of the facts that the specifications were submitted the bidders and that the Betz people were the lowest bidders, according to these specifications, the contract was awarded the lowest bidder, much
as one or the other board member
would have preferred to give preference
to a local store instead of a mail order
house.
E. C. Minas sent the following letter
to the board this morning: Gentlemen After reconsidering
our bid for fire station supplies we : have decided that it is best for all concerned that we withdraw our bid. In submitting our various various articles we selected them as s In our judgment the ones best suited for the purpose intended, ret gardless of the small difference in price. Thanking you for the consideration you have given us, we are, E. C. MINAS CO. The Betz people underbid the Minas' store $1.72 per bed. twelve of which will have to be furnished.
The union Thanksgiving service will be held by the Hammond churches at the First Methodist church Thursday morning- at 10i30 o'clock. Rev. C. J. Sharp of the Disciples church vi ill preach the sermon. The people are cordially invited to fulfill the president's proclamation and join In giving; thanks on this occasion.
The spirit of Thanksgiving Day is upon us. In every city and town in the county preparations are being made for turkey day. For the first time this year the realization has been forced upon the peopje of this community that the holidays are at hand.
The public schools were dismissed this afternoon and will not convene again until next Monday. Many of (Continued on page 7.)
RAILROAD MAN HFT. J. Fournier, of Chicago Lawn, was badly injured in the Pennsylvania yards at East Chicago this afternoon while coupling cars. He was caught, between the bumpers and crushed. A Wabash train brought him to Hammond and Stewart's ambulance was used to take him to St. Margaret's hospital. Iis
Vcondition Is critical.
ATTORNEY CRUMPACKER IS MUCH IMPROVED. The word comes from the Augustana hospital in Chicago that Attorney Peter Crumpacker is in a very much improved condition. It Is understood that an
other incision will be necessary before
the operation on Mr. Crumpacker's face will be allowed to heal, but that operation is not expected to be serious. Mr. Crumpacker is said to have lost fifty pounds of flesh during his recent illness and that gives something of an Idea of the ordeal he has been through. There seems now to be no question of his recovery and It is thought to be but a matter of few days when he will be released from the hospital.
ANTONIO SOME WONDER Mixed Her Own Booze And Didn't Make A Good Housekeeper Think of a woman drunk at the age of 56 on a drink of her own concoction
made out of alcohol and water. A man, whose name the police did not secure, lost his wife through death and went to South Chicago to get a
housekeeper. He made an effort to get j an elderly woman in the belief that an older woman would give the children better care. j He secured the services of Antonia Bocian of Houston avenue. South Chicago. The woman was 56 years old and was a regular grand mother so the Hammond man thought he had just the kind of a woman to look after his children. Shortly after he hired Mrs. Bocian he came home and found the children crying and neglected and the old lady was drunk. On several other occasions he found Ms housekeeper Intoxicated and he finally notified the saloonkeepers to refuse her any drinks. Yesterday when Officer French was
traveling a north side beat he saw an old woman standing on the corner in an intoxicated condition and guzzling some kind of a drink from a pop bottle. He discovered that the woman had bought a quantity of alcohol and had mixed it with water in the absence of a little rye whiskey. The officer took the elderly woman to the police station and it was there that her history became known.
(BT BATTLING NELSOTT.) (Lightweight Champion of the World.) Hegewlsch, I1L, Nov. 2S. The transportation committee of The Kensington A Eastern Inter-urban Electric Railway Hue, consisting of the f olio wis g councilmen, Aldermen Moynlhan, Young, Foreman, Tell, ZAnuner, Egmn, Bihl and McNeil, came out here yesterday In a finely equipped "special" tendered by the Illinois Central Railroad company (or the comfort of (he committee. A committee of the largest tax-payers of this thriving city met the aldermen and at once demanded to know the reason why the franchise was not granted to the electric company, bat there wasn't any of them that would discuss the subject at all. In fact, they would say anyhlag- Vat granting the franchise. The people of Hegewlsch cannot get In and out of town whenever they ant without waiting for hours to catch a train.. We are getting tired of It. WOULD GIVE ANY SATISFACTION. I, myself, tried to talk to the aldermen, bat wasn't able to get a wod out of any of them but Moynlhan, and that was only after being no Insist est that he did talk to me, I think more to get rid of me than to give the desired information wanted. Nevertheless, he told me that the reason the franchise wasnt grnned was because the street car company would no allow the people of Hegewlsch to go under their road in One Hundred and Thirtyfourth street and lay the sewers after they go the right-of-way. They would refuse to allow the tracks to be molested or to obstruct the traffic in any way whaever after the cars were In operation. He also told me that there as some of the Kensington people who wanted the street car company to electrify the Illinois Central road from Kensington Into the city, and that was about all the objection there was to be found for not signing It. . Now the people of Hegewlsch are. wondering why they should be made the victims of the Kensington people's attack on the Illinois Central for anything that they want done for their benefit. The Kensington people have the means to get to town by several good street car lines and can well afford to hold up the company to get what they want, where the Hegewlsch people can't for the want of means of rapid transportation.
FRANCHISE ALL THAT It WANTED. 1-was talklng-to- taw-presldent-of the atreet car company yesterday and he told me that If they eould get the franchise they would have the ears running inside of a week's time at the most. Now, every person in town la in favor of having the cars running and are willing to do almost anything to get them started, and that the sooner they get to going through town the better, as street cars will be the best thing that ever happend for Hegewlsch and the surrounding towns since it sprang up out of prairie twentythree years ago. Johnny Patton, "the Boy Mayor" of Burnham, and 11 of Its twenty-three children signed for the franchise, as they knew very well that it was the greatest benefit to their little village as well as to Hegewlsch. I came to Hegewlsch twenty-three years ago and there was Just about thirty people living here then, and now we have a rather nice little city In slse, say about lS,0OO people. The Western Steel Car A Foundry company Is now employing close to a thousand people, and in course of a months time will employ about 3,SOO people. The Ryan Car company will employ about 700 men when they are going full blast and at the present time they have over 400 men at . work. CANT HOUSE ALL, THE PEOPLE. There isn't room to house all the people In town when the two shops are in full swing and there isnt any accommodations to get In and out of town until we get what the town of Hegewlsch has been trying to ge for so longstreet cars. I have It from good authority that as soon as the spring weather acts In and the ground Is soft enough to work we will have sewers. M. J. Dorothy, the street commissioner, told me that as soon as the sewers were laid, he would see that the final touches would be put on and make Hegewlsch one of the best, as ell as the neatest little city In the country, by having all of the streets paved and put in A No. 1 shape. Mr. Dorothy is a man of his word and until he shows me that he will go back on it, I am compelled to believe him. In fact, I am more then satisfied that he will do what he promised and possibly a lot more when he sees what Interest the town people are taking In the welfare of the town.
TAXPAYERS WANT STREET CARS. Today, after the transportation committee left, I ran across several of the tax-payers and asked there opinions of the street cars, and they were all In favor of Its coming through, in fact, were anxious to have It come. I will mention a few of the most prominent citizens n for instance, Lawrence Cox, Frank Crane, Ben Anderson, Daniel and Herman Jordon, E. L. Brannon, C. L. Anderson, W. It. Livings, Ike Silverman, Albert Kuss, Emel Nelson, Pete Neilsen, Billy O'Brien myself anil father and in fact everybody waata it bad.
SAYS THAT HE IS GROEL
Hammond's daily divorce case was filed by Leona F. Davis against her husband. Burl V. Davis. The complaint alleges that the aDvlses were married at Plymouth, Ind., April 30, 1908. Now comes the plaintiff six months later and says, through her attorneys, McMahon & Conroy, that she is unable to live with her husband on account of that fact that he was cruel to her. She says that he quarreled with her and madel ife unbearable for her. She alleges in substance that he is a telegraph operator by trade, but is a habitual drunkard in practice. She says he never bought her any clothes and that he never paid the board bill. She says she was frequently embarrassed to the point of mortification when he was presented with unpaid bills. The plaintiff wants a divorce and the restoration of her maiden name, which was Leona F. Cox.
BABY DANIELS DEAD.
Marie R. Daniels, the 14-months-old daughter of Nelson Daniels died yesterday morning at the home of Mrs. F. Keck, near Ross Station, where the child was on a visit with its mother. The father at the time of the death was at his home in AVatertown, N. D. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning. The remains will be temporarily placed in a vault in Oak, Hill cemetery.
F. S. BETZ WILL BUILD
Frank S. Bets, president of the F. S. Bets Manufacturing company, has made good. . .Two months before election he declared that In the event of Taft's election he would build a big addition to bin immense plant here. Tbis morning Mr. Bets contracted for the brick, which he will use In putting up a brick structure, 100x140 feet, adjacent to the main building on his plant on Hoffman street.. "Work will begin In the Huhstructure right away. The building will be used for offices, hospital supplies and storage rooms, and owing to the congested space in the factory at present will be finished as soon as posNibic. Never In the history of the plant has the buslnens been as rushed as it is at present, aad the orders that came in swamp the office force.
CLUB IS STALLED WITHOUT ITS DINNER.
Gary Commercial Club Delayed on In terurban at Hudson Lake. (Special to The Times.) South Bend, Ind., Nov. 25. A piping hot dinner waited and waited for two hours here today in the Oliver hotel for the members of the Gary Commercial club party. The members of the party were stalled at Hudson Lake by a breakdown on the ijterurban and fretted arid fumed there for two hours before they got away. The trip otherwise has been a great success.
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