Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 142, Hammond, Lake County, 3 December 1908 — Page 1

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Saloon League Activity After New Year

LEADER

GIVES AM INTERVIEW s Salodn Situation in Lake County Closely Watched By Temperance Men. "We warned those fellows to be rood, bat thy thought we were joking. Now they will have to take their medicine. We have already punished Chrta d Lassen of Cedar Lake by closins bia place up, and we are goIns after others, including Kaiser." (Special to Thb Times.) Cvowa Point, InL, Dec. S. Otto J. Brace, the Crown Point attorney, who Is recognised as one of the leaders in the anti-saloon movement In L.k county, was asked, in vlewt tuc that county local option elections are to be pulled off simultaneously in several Indiana counties, when the fight would be started in this county. Mr. Bruce protested that he was not any more interested In the abolition of the saloon than many other of the Anti-Saloon league workers. He admitted "tftat county local option fights were to be" begun In Whitley, Huntington, Marshall, Randolph and Jay counties before the first of January. "The anti-saloon men in Lake county will not start their fight here until after the workers down In the state have had a chance to try out public sentiment," said Mr. Bruce, "but as soon as we find out what the people are going to do in the counties that we have a Continued on pave S. OiiCLE SAN RUCKS ' SANTA GLAUS NO Secretary of Agriculture Takes Up Question of Straw-Stuffed Toys. . Hardly a Yule tide approaches, but what Santa Claus does not find himself up against some proposition. One seaeon it la the scarcity of reindeer, in another he finds himself up against the labor union for buying non-union made toys.' his year It is your big Uncle Sam who steps in and lays the stumbling in the road for the saint with the jovial face and the flowing white beard. Uncle Sam will not permit Santa to distribute toys this year which are packed in hay or straw and coming from either Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York. Not only has the reindeer driver object to this, but the New York board of trade has taken the matter up with Secretary Wilson, Uncle Sam's representative in the department of agriculture. All the big manufacturers in New York and other eastern cities and the agents of European toy makers from whom Santa Claus buys his holiday supplies are also up in arms against tHe decision.. Many large consignments of holiday Ines were returned from freight depots where they were sent for shipment, and their return was the first thing that the consignors knew of the quarantine against hay and straw. As It Is getting rather late ln the season, and Santa Claus will start on his rounds in Just about three weeks, the delay occasioned by Secretary Wilson's order may be responsible for much' vacant space in many a tsocking on Christmas night and many a disappointed little boy and girl, or even a disappointed big girl or boy. The trouble comes from the fact that the department of agriculture has discovered that there Is a contagious disease among the cattle of Maryland and Pennsylvania and elsewhere. FOR THE HARE BIT FRIEXDS. . Thirty seven rabbits will served tomorrow night to the friends and patrons of "Frenchy" Poland at his place, 226 Sibley street. The feast is free and pleyt of the goods have been proTided . for the evening. It.

Scene Of AntiHohman Street Tackled Again This Morning By n.M TirUn. A I Gang Of Men WhO Are Tearing Up Newly Laid Pavement. fr PEOPLE EXPECTED NOTHING ELSE HomewOOQ XTOperty Owners uaze in I . i ASXOmsnmeni; XniS morning Wnen Tnov Witnes Wnrlc fim'no- on xney wiwtc vyuijs, wuig vu "When Will Street Be Done?" Ta ow Cry. Just when the people of Homewood were heaving a sigh of relief and were saying to themselves, perhaps, a little prematurely. "At last It Is finished," a gang of worklngmtn this morning came along and stiurted to tear up strips of the South Hohman street paving brick on each aide of the car tracks. It is the culmination of a lot of trouble over the paving of the street which began with the very inception of the project. It has been discovered that so much sand and dust has set tied between the bricks, which were laid along the street car tracks, that the asphalt filler will not go down in the tracks Will Be Disastrous to Paving, As a result it has become necessary to tear up all of the brick on the outer edge of the car track and after cleanIng them off relay them before they can be bound together with the asphalt filler. Paving contractors fear that this will be disastrous to the asphalt paving. When the paving was laid tha brick were snugly in place and the rolling Of the pavement bound the whole thing together ln a very neat manner. Now that It has become necessary to tear up all of the brick it is thought that the best that can be done is to make a patch job of it. The composition asphalt pavement itself is proving very satisfactory. It is so near like a pure asphalt pavement that the average person cannot tell the difference. The trouble began with the laying out of the street. Hohman street was to be widened and straightened according to the popular Impression of what the city officials were going to do with the street. More Crooked Than Ever. Instead of that it was widened in places and made more crooked than It ever was before. While the property owners south of Harrison park were compelled to put their sidewalks back to within three feet of the lot line, the Influential property owners north of the park were able to induce the mayor and city engineer to give them a strip of twelve feet wide which really really belonged in the street. It will be noticed that the walk in front of the property of Lawrence Cox and George Lawrence is way out of line with the walk in front of the park. On the other side of the street the condition is even worse. A property owner on South Hohman street made the statement the other day that If a man had a rose bush on the edge of his lot and a "pull" with the mayor he could have the sidewalk built over on the street to avoid moving the bush. "There has been the rankest discrimination shown," he said, "and while some of the owners of Hohman street frontage were compelled to sacrifice a great deal to make the widening of the street possible others were permitted to keep their walks in the street." Stand on the west side of Hohman street at Carroll street and look south and It will be seen what a monumental botch of a job the widening of this street " has been. The -walks are as , crooked as a country cow path-

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HAMMOND, HAMMOND AGAU1 GRETNA GREEK FAILURE Composer and Pretty Act ress Who Wedded Here Now Separate. mm , jmmm Joseph E. Howard and Mabel Barrison Again Tired of the Matrimonial Bonds. It Irat bo long ago that Joseph How ard and bis petite little wife No. 3, Ma bel Harrison, sane and danced at Towle's Opera House in the "Rose of the Ranch." It wasn't so long before, that, they came out to Hammond as soon a Howard was divorced from Ida Emerson, and were married by Judge W. W. MeMahon. Sow the See nee Shifts Again. Joseph E. Howard, actor, song writer and stage manager, after many stirring episodes In divorce courts, is once more attracting attention. Investigation of a report from New York brought to light several startling facts, principal among which is that Mabel Barrison, his present wife, has signed a two years' contract with the Shuberts; that she has left vaudeville onuoerM mm one nas leit vauaev and Joseph Howard, and that her h usband Is now playing a sketch with An na. Laughlin known as "My Sister's r tj., Big Beau Separated Several Weeks, The theatrical separation of Howard and Mabel Barrison took place several weeks ago. and is said to have followed a v AVrtH Iri o famlln snana 1i a Tt KaI I & ""'v' I quit me yauaevme turn wnicn sne naa uwu uuiag wim uci nuouiiiiu, auu ah- i na. iaugnim was engagea tajte ner Pe. Immediately following the alleged trouoie Miss Barrison signed the two- I years' contract with the Shuberts for I tne leading role in "The Blue Mouse. I i me lime or owaro. s marriage to Miss Barrison, about two years ago, it was arced that neither would ever Bign a contract ln which the other was not included. At the time of the Howard-Barrison romance the song writer was known I an quite a "man about town," and It was stated that the youne actress was marrying him in order to "reform" him. The "reform" is said to have lasted for several months. Then Joe is declared to have remained out late one night, and when he returned Mabel reprimanded him in quite a pugilistic manner. Surging ward's Song. oCupled with the rumors of marital unhappiness it is said that Ida Emer son, the actress and former wife of oward, has Just Introduced the song writer's latest production, called "I'm Going to Love You." Howard and Miss Emerson were di vorced and remarried twice. The last wa granira in uciooer, lauo. anQ wumn a iew aays iiowara elopea WItn Barrison, who had also Just Becurea aivorce, ana tne couple were married at Hammond. GARTER GETS NEW BARN FOpUlar Official Will Again Go Into Business on State Street. Sheriff F. S. Carter will soon become the proprietor of a new livery. He has purchased the barns and equip ment of Mr. D. B. Hostettler, 71 to 73 State street, and has already begun the repairing of the old stables. Mr. Carter Is preparing to go back to his old love, the livery business, in earnest and he expects soon to be doing a good business, as he has a great many friends in this city and he is relying on their patronage. The new stables are to be repaired and cleaned out. Birch Wells and F. S. Carter will abandon their livery barn at the corner of Hamlin street and Truman avenue, and think the new location on State street will be much better. The building, which Mr. Carter will occupy, Is the property of Mr. Peter Davis and will be leased from him by Messrs. Carter and Wells. The new barns will be open and ready for business as soon as the necessary repairs can be completed. TRUSTEES ARE ELECTED At a congregational meeting of the First Presbyterian church held in the church parlors the evening of Dec. 1 five trustees were elected. A Christmas tree is being arranged for the children, and a committee of seven, with Mr. F. J. Ellick as chairman, was appointed to co-operate with the Sunday school in the Christmas celebration. The newly elected trustees are as follows: Joseph Thompson. George Rawlings. Otto Klooz. J. C Kerr. , William Stout.

GOOMT

INDIANA, THURSDAY, E 5 is HID Report Is Circulated that Sheriff' Carter, Deputy Trost and Captain Peter Austgen Will Head New Police Squad. STORY HOWEVER IS PURELYSPEGULATIVE Oil Inspectorship Desired By Sheriff Carter May Not Be Vacated for Two Years Unless Governor-Elect Marshall Removes Republican Ap pointee for Cause. or chief of police Fred S. Carter. For assistant chief James Trost. Chief of detectives Peter Austgen. Tn artira nf tha ei..isi n s r'Zm I", iT rea Carter denies that he will accept the office of chief of police In Hammond. it is rumored that he will take the of lice and that his right-hand man. Jim I my Trost, is to be the assistant under hlm and wm naVe cn f hft m ioroe. me story is purely speculative but there is more to it than appears on the surface, it must be remembered, however fhat the local police department will be a very different organization than that which has protected the city dur ing the administration of Mavor Law rence Becker. many improvements Planned. While Lawrence Becker was so op posed to the metropolitan police de partment that he could not see his wa clear to buy the city department a pa troi wagon ana kept the force down tne minimum, it is understood that the opposite Is to be the policy when 1 homas R. Marshall becomes governor When Mr. Marshall gets into office it is prophesied that he will at once apoint a new police board. This board will, of course, be composed of two d,emocrats and one republican, and I it is at all like the board of public works It will be practically composed or three democrats. It will then be up to the local demo crats to dictate the selection of the chief of police and practically the en tire force on the police department. Oil Inspector? Not For Two Years. Regarding the probability of the se lection of Sheriff F. S. Carter, it has always been understood that he could have the appointment if he wanted It It was first sunreested thnf h take the oil insnectorshin instAarl There is no doubt that the office of deputy oil inspector would be accept ame to Mr. Carter, as he would receive a salary of $1,500 a year and the office would permit of his engaging In prl vate business as well. But it is understood that Mr. Qrazell who now has the offloe, may not be asked to retire for two years, for the reason that he cannot be removed from office except for cause. This would mane a long wait for Mr. Carter, and ii is proDaDie that he would rather take the office of chief of police, now The office of chief of police will also be more attractive when Mayor Becker " , " , "'6?' auo" a'on "nea w me bisb 01 me city warrants, There will be a chief of police, an as sistant chief of police, a chief of de tectlves, two or three captains and ten or twelve more patrolmen than are now employed on the force. The next census will provide for this. To be the head of such an organization, with a patrol wagon, possibly a hospital corps and a new police station, would be an honor not to be thrust away by even a defeated candidate for sheriff. Of course, the mayor would agree to an increase in salary that would be commensurate with the responsibili ties of the new chief, and instead of getting a meagre $1,200. which Is now the salary of Chief of Police Rimbach. Mr. Carter would probably get $2,500 a year. With the extra men and the improved equipment the new police department would be able to make a great showing in comparion to the present department, and the demo cratic administration would get the credit. WON'T GO TO GELH'RT UNTIL NEXT SPRING Judge Jordan says that he will probably not go to Delhart, Tex., until next spring. He says that he has not changed his mind, but he does not want to leave this city until he sells his holdings here. He has his hotel business and several pieces of property in the city, which he must sell before he can pull up stakes.. He expects to take the mon ey he realizes from the sale of his Hammond holdings and put.it into a Texas farm. '

DECEMBER 3,1908.

GEORGE K IS ACCIDEIITALLY SHOT Ten Year Old Son of Mr. and Mrs: W. A. McHie Victim of Dangerous Bullet. MISSILE ENTERS HIS LIVER lad Is Playing With Old Pistol When Weapon Is Discharged In Accidental Manner. The many friends of William A. Mc Hie, formerly of the Hammond Elevator company of this city, and brother of Richard H. McHie, 518 South Hohman street, were distressed to hear last night of a painful accident which be fell his son, George, yesterday morning at his horne in Chicago. While playlnjf with an old 44-callber revolver, which he had obtained unknown to his parents and which was supposed to be empty, the lad, who Is 10 years old, accidentally, pulled the trigger and discharged the weapon. The. bullet entered the side of his body and went into his liver. Mr. McHie was not at home at the time of the accident, being at Kankakee, 111., on business. He was summoned by long-distance telephone and hastened to Chicago. The boy was taken to Lake View hospital and his wound examined by surgeons They found the injury quite serious and the lad was put on the operating ta ble. The dangerous missile was finally traced and extracted. The operation was successful and the latest reports from the institution today say that George is resting easier and his chanc es of recovery are very favorable, though the solicitude of hl3 friends and relatives will not be over until more reassuring news Is received. Mr. and Mrs. McHie and family live at 155 For ty-second place. $12,000 FOR HIS LEGS Monon Engineer Settles With Railroad Company Today. John Good, the Monon engineer, formerly of Hammond who suffered the oss of both legs early this year in a railroad accident ln Chicago, has secured a settlement from the Monon railroad. The consideration was $12,000, and was made out of court. Attorney L. L. Bomberger represented Mr. Good in the transaction, but Is noncommittal as to the settlement. . Mr. Good and his family now live ln Mulberry, Ind., but he still has many friends and acquaintance in Hammond. One of his brothers is a frequent visitor in this city, he being a regular Monon brakeman. GRANGER GETS OFFICE Business Agent of Carpenters' Union Leases Old Realty Office. H. E. Granger, the business agent of the carpenter's union, has secured a lease on the old Hammond-Gary Realty company's office and will use it for an office. The office is centrally located and Mr. Granger will move his desk into it and it a loafing place for the carpenters. The office will also be an employment office and .any of the local business men or contractors wno are in need of carpenters will leave word at this office and will be supplied. Mr. Granger is doing good work as the business agent of his union and his new office will give him the faclli ties for Increasing the effectiveness of his office. MR. MALOfiE IfJ TROUBLE Thomas Malone came to town from New York to establish a shoe repair ing business. He went into a local sa loon and hung up his overcoat. When he went out he took with him his own overcoat and another belonging to Max Husslein. He was arrested a few minutes later on the charge of stealing the coat. A pair of specs was also missed a few minutes later In another saloon and the theft of them was charged to the old man. This morning he was given a pre limlnary hearing. Mr. Husslein, the man who owned the coat, did not care to testify against him, as he believed the man took the coat, not meaning to steal It, but because he was Intoxicated. On the refusal of the owner of the coat to prosecute Chief of Police Rimbach signed the affidavit and the trial of the old man will be held tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. All he has in the world is a set of cobbler's tools, and consequently, he will have to go to Jail and stay out his sentence. He has not enough funds to hire a lawyer and so the county will pay for a perfunctory defense.

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Many Third Class Postmasters In Lake County Will Now Have A Lifelong Job By Executive Order

CIPLETES 816 DEAL E W- C. Mee Gets Twenty-Five Feet Frontage on Hohman) Street and Pays Four Hundred Dollars Per Foot Frontage There. BUSINESSES AFFECTED BY DEAL Young Business Man Secures Five Year Lease of Arkin Jewelry Store Sublets First National Bank Property, Be-Leases Present Location to Brahos Bros, in Addition, Will C. Mee baa engineered and com pleted a real estate deal wberefty Be cornea Into possession of the Ben Hayea property, which baa a twenty-lire foot frontage on Weat State street and ex tend back 16T feet, adjoining the Hohman property. The purchase price wu 910,000, or $400 a front foot. Thla la the highest figure ever paid ln Ham mond for twenty-live foot property and la a decidedly new standard for Hohman street property. Local real estate dealers believe the investment is a good one and that while this is a top notch price for twentyrfive feet at present. It is within reason as compared with prices asked for other property in the business district, especially on Hohman street While the investment is all right as its stands, it will be materially enhanced by the combination that Will Mee has planned. Has Leased Arkin Store. In addition to purchasing the prop erty outright he has also secured a flve-year lease on the Arkln Jewelry store, located in the Hohman building. This store has a twenty-five foot frontare and will be fitted up for a haberdashery and.clgar and book store. In this way the proprietors of the National haberdashery, now situated ln the First National bank building, and Mee's cigar and book store, located In the Heinz building, will be concentrated in one building. The further plans of Mr. Mee include a new building to occupy tne sue ne has purchased. This building will be modern ln every detail and will cost in the neighborhood of $20,000. It will be arranged for bowling alley purposes ln connection with a billiard and poll halL This building will stand independent of the building already on the property and now occupied by Carl Schumacher as a saloon. The Biiloon extends back eighty feet, this leaving eighty-seven feet -for the new building. Will Have Three Entrances. The plans Include an entrance to this building directly from' the Hoh-j man street store. It may, however, be ' reached also by an alley either between Ruff's and Brennan's places or from a State street passage-way. The alleys will be paved and properly lighted. ; Work on thtfnew building will begin : at once. It is Mr. Mee's intention to occupy the Arkln store by Feb. 1, his agreement being with Arkln that the latter vacate after the holidays. The front of the store will be re modeled, on the line of the Model Clothing store. The lease that Willj Mee and Roscoe Hemstock hold on the rooms ln the First National Bank building will be sublet and the pool room there abandoned. Brahos brothers have already acquired the unex pired lease to the Mee store in the Heinz building and will enlarge the Palace of Sweets. Charles Arkin will remove his stock to his West State street store which he built recently. Friends Will Move Along. Friends of "Billy" Mee are congratulating him upon the deal. In the absence of a suitable place where the young men of Hammond could get to gether for a social hour, his place has been the only shelter for them and the boya are always with "Billy."

EDITION

DNE CENT PER COPY. TOLLESTOi! INJBER Many Postmasters Affected By Change Wili Get Christmas present The announcement that President Theodore Roosevelt baa, by executive order, placed all of the third class postoffiees in Indiana under civil service and that the present incumbents will hold office for life is of great Interest to the people of Lake county for the reason that there are twenty-six postmasters In the county who will be affected by the order. The third class postoffiees in Lake county which will be affected by tha president's new 'order are as follows! Gibson, St. John, Dyer, Griffith. Aetna, I Tolleston. Cedar Lake, Miller, Ainsworth. Armour. Clark. Creston, Deep River, Grasselli, Hessville, Highlands, Lake Station, Leroy, Merrillville, New Chicago, Palmer,. Robj, Ross, Schererville, Schneider and Shelby. Will Have Life Job. The postmasters of each of these cities will have life positions now and need not fear that through the change In the national . administration they will be- deprived ,f their office. . They canbe removed, of course, for Incompetence but i that is the only reason for making a change. Although a fourth, class office does rot pay a very large salary it is considered a plum In many towns. The sslary is based on the cancelations and If. .a postmaster Bells $300 worth of postage stamps that Is the amount of. Colaned an page 5.1 TRAPPED 111 CELLS CRY FiDEAR LIFE Four Prisoners in Hobart Calaboose Threatened with Suffocation. THOUGHT THEIR END AT HAND ; Deputy Sheriff Tames Gill Forces tha Doors Open and Liberates Quarry. (Special to Thb Tucks.) Hobart, Ind., Dec. 3. Four hobos who were arrested here yesterday aft- ' ernoon for having broken into a sealed ! box car, shortly after their arrest set j up a commotloa ,n tne jail whlch was j commensurate with their anticipations i or being burned alive in their cells. Their walls and cries aroused the whole neighborhood and as the people answering the distressing calls neared the Jail, the shrieks of the terrified prisoners increased. Reaching the Jail the rescuers found the cells filled with a dense smoke emanating from the stove which had been lighted yesterday afternoon for the first time this season. The prisoners had nothing with which they could have quenched the fire and were practically helpless, nor could any of the people who hurried to the Jail to rescue them do anything for them because of the fact that the doors were locked. Deputy Sheriff James Gill was summoned and forced the door open to re lieve the prisoners. The four fellows were arrested yesterday afternoon by Marshal Rose, who incarcerated them and, not knowing that the flue was stuffed, built a fire for them in the Jail. It was after he had left them that the prisoners noticed their danger. LAKE SUPERIOR COURT. Xfw Cases. 524 4. United Breweries company vs. William Riley. Breach of contract. 6245. William H. Rehm et al. vs. Frank Pudlo et a!. Foreclosure of .trust deed. 5246. Wm. W. McMahon vs. Michael Ormond. Civil.