Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 149, Hammond, Lake County, 11 December 1908 — Page 1

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WEATHER. Rata or isoir, followed by clearing and colder today? brick northwest wloda. .VOL. HI, NO. 149. HAMMOND, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1908.ONE CENT PER COPY.

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Xetter of Protest Is Sent to the Gary Times, Objecting t to School Board's Proposed Plan- to Segregate ; the Blacks and Whites. OFFICIALS THINK THEIR PLAN BEST Writer, j However, Says Separation Creates Animosity, and Is One of the Causes Which Lead to Lynching and Rioting Colored Republican Club Interested. The negroes of Gary have entered a formal Drotest as:ainst the board of education for their Intended segrega tlon of the colored and white students In the public schools. The matter Is ;ow being considered by the Colored Republican club, which reorganized after election for social and beneficial pur poses. , At their meeting Tuesday night a committee from the Colored Republican "club will be appointed to confer with i the board of education on the estab lishment of the school for colored boys. . They regard the action as one that will be . detrimental -to their ; race for the ' reason that ; the friendly relationship' ; which they, bear in school, and are in clined to carry to a certain extent through life, Is not attained when they are taught separately. , V The- idea of, Mr. Wirt, superintendent of the board of education, in establishing a separate school, -was to give the : boys better . instruction by having a ; colored teacher and a course which will be more suited to their needs. At first they planned to start the school on a . small scale and then gradually increase , it until they had a building of their own. The whole idea of the project was to benefit the condition of the colored children. , One of the officers of the Colored Republican club has written a . communication to The Times, in which his position in the matter is set forth. He says that he thinks the club will be unanimous In protesting against the! segregation of colored children. He I also says he thinks the colored chil-1 dren ought to be benefited by the good1 moral effect of white children's con-' duct. The writer of the letter to The Times even goes so far as.tosay that the segregation of the colored pupils means future race hatred and will In time precipitate race riots and lynching. The following is the letter: The Letter. "To the Editor of the Gary Evening Times Dear Sir: I notice, through the columns of your paper, that the board of education has concluded to educate the white and colored children separately. ' . "I was sent to a public school where there was a colored principal and all colored teachers. , , "After that 1 attended a mixed school of the same grades, and I noticed the school paraphernalia was such that a child could learn easier, quicker and more accurately. "Besides, in the minds of all good people. It drives out prejudice and it helps to elevate the black boy when he becomes a man. "Now, for instance, suppose you wanted a clerk and I applied for the position ?uid because I am a black boy you would say, 'I think you inefficient, and suppose there should be a clerk ; In your - employ that attended school j with me. "If he was a gentleman and a scholar and was not prejudiced,' he would speak up like a man and say I am fit-tao up like a man and say, 'If I am fit he Is fit because we attended school together and graduated .from the same class." "If a sheep and a wolf are raised together they will be friendly when grown. If they are kept apart the wolf will devour the sheep. 'So a .white child and a black child, if they are reared and attend school together will be friendly. Such steps as you are taking causes lynching and barbarous treatment such as the colored people are undergoing in various parts of the south. "We could hardly , expect any more from Tillman, Vardeman and other representatives of the south.' Remem- ' ber, at the polls we have no separate ' ballots. : "I am respectfully yours, "READER, GARY EVENTING TIMES." Attorney jonn ai. sunson has re- . turned from Indianapolis where he has been the past few days on business. C. A. Theis, claim agent for the C, I. & S. R. R., was in Hammond to day on business. Sheet music, two for S cents at the 5c and 10c store It,.

FRIDAY FATAL DAY FOR TWO UHKHOIVHS

Monon Train Crushes Life Out of" Man at Hegewisch. HAY HAVE BEEN SUICIDE Hors Shies at Street Car at East Chicago and Victim Is Thrown Under the Wheels. Friday proved to be a fatal day for two unknown men who were instantly killed today, one In -Hegewisch by a Monon train northbound, due In Ham mond at 11:11 in the forenoon, and the second by a street car in East Chicago. By some who saw the accident in Hegewlsch, near One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, it was argued that the man committed suicide, but this will remain to. be proven at the coroner's inquest. The man seems to be about 40 years of age and a working man. He had nothing on his person to identify him. His hair and mustache were of sandy complexion and he wore a dark striped suit and. a heavy top shirt. Accident at Kant Chicago. He carried a Waterbury watch and had $4.60 in money on his person. He is about five feet and sinx inches in heighth and is of medium weight. He was found by Officer John. Spanier, who ordered him taken to Korthaus' morgue, where the Inquest will be held. . The man killed at East Chicago was riding horseback when his horse shied at a street car at One Hundred and Forty-third street. He was thrown directly in front of the car, which could not be stopped in time to permit the man to get away. He was crushed so badly that his features were unrecognizable. The fatality was purely accidental, and it is hoped that by this evening his identity will" have been esltablished. The accident happened after 1 o'clock today. SIS TO PROSECUTE REIO-fiRDOGR GO. The. Reid,- Murdock company , of his city 'is one of .five, firms which are alleged to have 'violated the "pure food laws and isra defendant in two of seven suits which hav been begun by District Attorney' Sims and Assistant District .Attorney, Legg , yesterday in the United States district court in Chicago. Reid, Murdock & Co. are alleged to have made two shipments of Monarch Extra Cream olive oil, which was misbranded and not of the quality represented. The Thompson & Taylor company Is charged with shipping Standard lemon flavor which contained no lemon juice, as represented. The shipments are said to have been made to the Riley-Wilson Grocery company and the Kansas City Wholesale Grocery company, both' of Kansas City. The Tolman concern is alleged to have made a shipment of misbranded Topmost cane and maple sirup to Dutton & Sorenson, grocer, Algona, la., and the Gowan company is charged with having sent a package of misbranded pneumonia cure to the "Washington wholesale drug exchange of Washington, D C. The Eyelin company is alleged to have placed an illegal and false brand on a shipment of its product to E.. G. Hanson, 1760 U street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. The pure food act of June 30, 1906, under which ' the cases are brought, provides a $200 fine for first offenses and $300 fines or imprisonment for six months for subsequent offenses. The firms named are: Reid, Murdock & Co., two cases; the Eyelin company, one case; John A.' Tolman & Co., one case; the Gowan Medicine company, one case, and the Thompson & Taylor Spice company, two cases. BECKER AT THE HEAD Indianapolis, Ind., Dep. 11. Mayor Lawrence Becker of Hammond has railed a meeting of all the majors of the -Indiana pities, to meet in Indian apolis on Dep. 15, to begin a concerted movement for a revision of the pities and towns law to the effect that mayors in office may snppeed themselves. Nearly all the mayors of the various cities are expected to attend this convention. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OPENS FIRE STATION BIDS. The board of public works held a regular meeting this morning, at which time the four bids for the Robertsdale fire department were opened. Parker & Spafford were "the lowest bidders, their bid Including a hot vater heating system, being $6,630, and including steam heat for $7,099. 1 The primary assessment role for the Ada street completed sewer was accepted, as was also the inspector's report for the West Ogden street brick pavement. This pavement, : although short, is one of the best streets that the city of Hammond received at the hands of the contractor. W. F- Brunt, who was the contractor, has been the recipient of many complimentary remarks for the good work that he has done;".'; .',..'."..;

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SOCIETY The Fidelia and Hammond Saengerbund Consolidate; Articles of Agreement Drawn Up, Signed and Accepted. rIEMBERSHIP- IS .NOW. OIER THREE HUNDRED New Organization Will Elect Officers Dec. 16 Enthusiasm is High and a Permanent Home Is Now Looked Forward to Big Event Is Coin ing Scon. Harmony was the keynote that, was sounded last night when committees from the Fidelia Singing society and the Hammond Saengerbund adopted articles of agreement by which these two leading German singing societies in Hammond will be consolidated. This is one of the most Important moves that has been made in years In Hammond by singing societies and ev ery German today who at breast is stirred with the. "saengerlust," is dis cussing the consolidation and mutual congratulations are being exchanged on all sides between the members of the two organizations who, by agree? ment of last night, are now one. Articles of Agreement. Each of the societies held a separate meeting last evening and after due consideration the committee of each organization met for the adoption of the articles of agreement. - - ; The provisions in the articles of consolidationre in ubstaiicsAa.ioUowsj l.: That the name of the consolidated organization shall be the Hammond Saengerbund-Fidelia ' - " 2. That the Hammond Saengerbund abandon and surrender its charter. 3. That the Hammond Saengerbund transfer all its property and paraphernalia to the consolidated organization. 4. That a new set of officers be cho sen for the consolidated singing society on Dec. 16 1908. 5. .That all members of the two sep arate organizations shall be members in good standing in the consolidated or ganization. Have 300 Membership.. The articles of agreement were signed by Messrs. Henry Roennen, John Follmar and C. Markmlller for the Hammond Saengerbund, and Messrs. Max Noak, Otto H. Duelke and Rich ard Zimmerman for the Fidelia., The Hammond Saengerbund-Fidelia, owing to the consolidation, attains a membership of over 300, thus making it one of the strongest in northern Indiana. It will have an active choir of sixty voices, which will rank equal with some of the well-known organizations in Chicago. As an indication of the spirit that reigns in the new organization, it may be mentioned that the plans for a new clubhouse have, been received with a new enthusiasm, and as a primary step a big concert, with several good prizes, will be given early in January. . Will Have Own Clubhouse. A year from next April the Fidelia would have celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, but this will be an event now to be observed by the new organi zation. The plans to consolidate the two societies have been of years' standing. For almost seven years men in both societies have worked hard to bring the societies" together, but the clan nish spirits could not be merged until last night. Not too much credit tor the happy consolidation can be bestowed upon F. C. Miller, president of the Fidelia, and George Lewke", president of the Hammond . Saengerbund. However, other members have been working just as fa'Ithfully. BAPTIST ATHLETIC LEAGUE VS. METEORS OF CHICAGO Good Basketball Ball Game Is Sched nled To Be Played In Hammond Tomorrow Itlght. The Baptist Athletic League of this city has a game scheduled with the Meteor Athletic League of Chicago for tomorrow evening, to be played at the Baptist Athletic League gymnasium on State street. The Meteors are all graduates from Chicago high school, and with a splen did record, that the local . boys have basketball fans have a right to expect one of the very best games of the sea son. FUNERAL OF MRS. THOMPSON' WILL BE HELD TOMORROW, The funeral of Mrs. Tren , Thompson has been set for tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock and will be held from the home of her father, Mr. Sullivan, on Sohl street. The Rev. Switzer will of flclate,- and interment will be at Oak Hill cemetery. .

THE ADVERTISEMENTS

INTHIS PAPER SAY THATDRUGS. Summers Pharmacy saysi It Is nothing to crow about, but " Te, see their ad on page 5 and look for the rooster. SHOES. Ortt & Towle, 179 Hohman street, have an ad on page 2 and you, who are In need of footwear from the baby to grandma will get a lot wiser by reading the same. Today they hav a special talk for you, Madam. JEWELRY. Bastar A MeGarry have twg ads scattered through this paper. As there is no nothing comparable with Jewelry as Christmas gifts it will be well to read the ads on pages 2 and 12. WHAT TO BAT. Fred Kunsman, 88 State street, offers a list of special bargains for Saturday on page 5. Among the things we see fresh chickens at 15c per pound. And, say, you, Germans, look what the Braunschweiger Leberwurst and Blutwurst sells for. The Hammond Heat Market, 99 State street, offers as a leader in their ad on page 2 ten pounds of fresh leaf lard at $1.05 and Armour's Star cured iiams at 11 o per pound. Numerous other Items In the "meat line will be found Jos. L. Humpher & Co., 280 State street, have a special list of Saturday bargains on page 5 and by perusing the list the economical housewife will find she could hardly do better anywhere else. Just think, Mayer's No. 1 hams at llc per pound. The B..C. Minus Co. grocery department in their ad on page 4 advertise as a leader breakfast bacon at 12c per pound, other bargains, Just as good, will be found In their ad. The Lion Store grocery department on page 2 have their usual big display ad of groceries, candies, liquors and cigars, and bargains to suit everyone will be found in the different departments. But remem ber, you must have the coupons to get these bargains. "'.'' WHAT TO 3VEAR. The. Lion Store has all of page 3 occupied .with an ad of gent's fur nishings,, shoes and other miscel.Ianmaln ea.- It . will . .be : well , foe you to study their ad as bargains of exceptional merit are contained In the. ad. '.. ;, . .'.".. The C. Minas Co., with a full page ad on 8 ought to attract the attention of the bargain loving pub lie, especially those who want to make preparations to receive Santa Claus within their midst. Bargains of the very best kind are brought out In the ad. , Fl'RXITERE The I Jos Store furniture department says it has presents for grandpa down to the baby In their ad on page 9. Incidentally some more free offers are being made which it would be well to study. HOHMAN IN LIME-LIGHT Village UlerK 01 iSlUe ISland One of Targets in Crusade. Hammond people are Interested in a situation that has developed in Blue Island this week and which; involves the village officials, including the village clerk, Fred Hohman, who was formerly connected with the Towle Lumber company of Hammond. The trouble started last Tuesday when a citizens' committee began scattering pamphlets broadcast in which the city administration is charged with graft. The pamphlet comprises the work of several months' investigation of the ad ministration by the citizens, headed by W. N. Rudd and I. S. Bratton. The accusing evidence, which embraces charges against the mayor, George C. Gobet, and a number of aldermen, will be turned over to State's Attorney Way. man. . The accusations of the committee cluster mainly around the administration's methods of buying coal for the city's municipal lighting plant, and Alderman Engelland, chairman of the police and fire committee. "Yess, 1 ' know these fellows," said Mayor Gobet. "They are a bunch of live wires all right, but prompted by political Jealousy. The charges are false as far as I know, and I am willing to let any one scrutinize my record as mayor." "I am not afraid of the charges," said Alderman Engelland. "I have receipts to show my dealings were straightforward." . FIND A DROWNED MAfi (Special to Thb Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind., Dec. 11. An unknown man was taken from' the little lake near the Buffington plant today. Up to noen, today he had not yet been identified.-j bof the body was removed to the morgue of Kr'ebs & Burns, where the inquest will be held. ... ;

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RATE TO Hammond's Chances For a Reduction Most Promising, Owing to Its New Additions for Fire Protection; Mr. Kelly Explains. HAMMOND BUSINESS . If III SESSION Meeting Is Well Attended and Much Good Is Derived From Business TalksOther Important Matters Are Laid Over for the Future Good Attendance Last Night. Hammond has partly fulfilled the re quirements of the insurance inspector and may expect to have its rating im proved as a result of the showing which was made mt the meeting of the Ham mond Business . Men's association be fore W. P. Kelly, the state Insurance inspector, who addressed . the meeting last evening Before Mr . Kelly was introduced the fact was made plain, that, the damage to property by fire in Hammond has been very small, that there is ample equipment , with which to fight fire that the city has an up-to-date fire alarm system and Mr. Kelly was asked to explain if there was any reason why Hammond should not be. placed in . the preferred class where the rates would be lower. '. Mr. Kelly went on to explain that while Hammond should have pumps at its pumpihg station with a capacity f 15,000, 9,000 .gallons K has In ingcapacity of ha'f t fact, but a pumping capacity that num ber of gallons There are several other minor rea sons why the city could not be given a top notch rating, but Mr. Kelly said that there was no question that the rat ing of the city could be improved, The manner in which the various cities of the state are rated are as fol lows: Those having the poorest fire protection are rated at O. and those having the best fire protection and In which the risk is the lowest are rated at 6 Hammond, at present. Is rated at 3 and Mr. Kelly says while he thinks Hammond can probably be given Vt point higher rating,, making its rating 4, there will have to be some further improvements In the city's fire fighting equipment before the ci$y could be given a perfect rating. The meeting was well attended by the business men of the city. The n A A nn a TIT &1 1 tr tiTOC Vb1U Irtotvitr tlve, and there was not a man present who did not get a great deal of good out of the meeting. The other matters which were to have been taken up were postponed until another meeting on account of the fact that the discussion of the insurance question took up nearly the whole evening. It was 11 o'clock before the meetinS broke up, and the session was vot ed one of the best that have yet been held by the association. A committee will be appointed to make a report of the conditions in this city to the insurance inspector and it is expected that the inspector will send an engineer to this city who will make an investigation of the cities Are flghtng equipment and then report back to the inspector If this report is satisfactory there will be an improvement in the classification of the city and an improvement in the rating. ESGHER AND BECKER N THE SAME STALL It seems, a shame to , put the Hon and the lamb under the same shelter, but that is Just what is being done. Bert Escher, the republicon township assessor, and John Becker, the democratic township trustee, will have quarters in the same room in the Lake superior courthouse. Formerly -F. Richard Schaaf was given the exclusive right to the room which he occupied, but now the county commissioners have declared that John Becker must share it with Bert Escher, and so a republican and a democrat will have desk room in the same room. TownBhip Trustee F. Richard Schaaf began getting ready today to move out. He is packing up his things and he will turn over his office to Mr. Becker the first of the year. The first of the year will also be the beginning of the new administration of Bert Escher, but as he will succeed himself it Is not likely that here will be much of a change in the. office, except that It Is to' be" moved into the courthouse. ' -r-r

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T,E. KNOTTS CONFERS

WITH NEXT GOVERNOR President of Gary Town Board Feels Out the Leaders. HE ASKS. "HOW ABOUT GART Riparian Rights Bill, Superior Court and County Local Option Are Under Consideration. President T. E. Knotts of the Gary town board, recognized as the leader of the Gary democracy, went to Indi anapolis yesterday for a conference with Governor-Elect Thomas Mar shall. Mr. Knotts returned this morning and while he would not say what was bis mission, except that he talked over matters which would be likely to come up in the next session of the legisla ture, it is generally understood that the riparian rights bill, the proposed superior court bill and the matter of county local option were the subjects under discussion The people of Gary are very much concerned about any attempt that might be made to repeal the riparian rights bill and the democrats of Gary realize that if a democratic legislature and a democratic governor were respon sible ' for the repeal of that measure, democracy in Gary would receive blow which it would never recover. It is understood that some of the influential -.business, men of Gary who represent both political parties are very solicitious regarding the fate of the riparian rights bill and It. has been said that perhaps they suggested to Mr. JCnotts the advislbility of finding out what the governor would do re garding proposed legislation affecting Gary. Mr. Knotts talked with some of the leading -democrats over the' state with the idea of feeling them out and de termining what would be their attitude toward Gary In the matter of a sepa rate superior court. It is a little too early to get any thing of an idea as to what the legislature will do, but It Is possible at this time to get.anjdea as to what those ho Influence legislation think ; andJ that will' point out the probable action of the legislature. In the matter of county local option Gary democracy is only casually interested, but It Is Interested nevertheless and the people over there who have suffered as a result of township local option want to know what the democrats are going to do for them. It is expected that Mr. Knotts will make public the results of"his conference as soon as he confers with the other Gary leaders. UBS. HUNT RETURNS TO A SADDENED HOME Witnesses in Case Are Back; Times Story a Shock to the Community. I. Mrs. Daniel B. Hunt returned to Hammond last night after she had been forced to the crushing realization that her husband had been sentenced to the United States prison at Leavenworth, Kan., as told In The Times last evening. Postmaster W. H Gostlln, United States Commissioner Chas. Surprise and Messrs. Devlin, Murphy and others, in cluding Attorney John M. Stinson, who appeared in the case, returned to Hammond today. The information, which appeared exclusively in The Timeb last evening was a shock to the community, al though it expected that Mr. Hunt would be convicted. The dramatic features of the story made it one of the most notable that has ever appeared in a Hammond paper. There is positively nothing more to be said about the case today. The story was covered completely yesterday. The sympathy of the whole city is with Mrs. Hunt, who is innocent and yet must suffer along with her husband. HAMMOND WOODMEN WILL SEND A DELEGATION. Each Encampment In the District W ill Have a Class at Sooth Bend Xext Monday. A class from the Eureka encampment, Modern Woodmen, . will go to South Bend next Monday ., to" attend a course of instruction which will be presented there in the afternoon and evening. The Hammond class, which will have . possibly . ten . members, will go to South Bend on the interurban. Delegates will be present from theentire district and several hundred visitors are accordingly expected in the city Some of the principal Woodmen officials of the state will also be present to make the addresses. The visitors will be enlightened," on many points pertaining to. the constitution and. bylaws of -the order," many of .these points being covered in the, lectures While the others w'ill 'be' presented in answer td questions that may be asked.

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Oldest Practitioner in Lake County Points to Congested Courts and Declares Bar Wants Not the Desirable But Possible. EX-SEHATOR OPPOSES GARY SUPERIOR COURT Crown Point Attorney Declares That Relief Will Naturally Come to Circuit Court, the Constitutional Court of the County Wants More Judges at Hammond. ( BY JOHANNES KOPELKE) . (Dean of the Lake County Bar.) The necessity for relief to both th circuit and' superior courts is evident from the congested condition "of busU ness In said courts.: Our circuit courfc yesterday struck off from its trial list all the cases set for trial by the court for the days after Thursday of- this- week,- because there Is not time to try them, the I preceding cases on the docket occupying all the time of the court to Its. cloBe. . . The number, of cases thus" put over is about-one-hundred,1 and when they are brought to trial, they will take about three months to dispose of. -, The conditions in the superior court are" as bad or worse. " "What shall be done to relieve these conditions is not so much a question of the desirable, but. of; the possible; the relief has to come from the legislature and the limit of the desirable Is not always there attainable. - j ..The legislature .is .montly bent upon economy," and thig"feature win be ffeore strongly accentuated in the approaching session, as the house is democratic, and that party being restored to a limited measure of power, it will desire to so legislate as not to give occasion for any charge. of wastefulness in public expenditures, or unnecessary increase of officials. The circuit court being the one that "

Is established by the constiution, will be the one whose prospects of secur- -ing relief will naturally be better than

even those of the superior court, and for that reason, the proposition to make . the. circuit court separate and continuous in this county has the best show of success, if it is not Impeded by any local conflict of Interests. Should Watt Vntil 1011. t Again) the superior court having been in successful existence in this county now for over twelve years, and the fact that the north end of the county Is rapidly Increasing In population and In business development, being well known throughout the state, the legislature will doubtless be disposed to give it the additional Judicial fac,llU ties demanded, by adding another Judge to the superior court. The demand of our friends at Gary for the establishment of a branch of the superior court there is unjustified by their actual present needs, and will . also meet with serious opposition by most members of the legislature, for the reason that to comply with it will again create unprecedented conditions In the divisions of the courts. For these reasons that demand should not now be pressed, but matters should be left to develop in their natural way in this county, and If a pressing occasion for a court at Gary should exist 1 in two years from now, the situation might be presented to the legislature in 1911 for its consideration, and no doubt the reasonable" demands of that new city would ai that time receive proper consideration, and . meet ,wifh little or no opposition, while at this time they are In conflict with every other present interest. . NEW ORDER STARTS; THIRTY CHARTER MEMBERS. Protected- Home Circle of Indiana to Organize in Long's Hall This Eveninjy. The organization of the Protected Home Circle, under the jurisdiction of the Indiana Harbor order, will take place at Long's hall this evening. There are already thirty applicants for membership and it is expected that this number will be increased to thirty-five before the meeting is held. There Is already a Protected Home Circle" in Hammond, but it is under the Jurisdiction of Illinois. The new order is of a fraternal and beneficiary na ture. It is a mixed order and is composed -mostly of young people. The social feature Is considered one of the most important," and for this reason the order is popular with the young people. . The organizer of the new -order is "William Charles Yergin, who expects to locate in this city.

MORE jnEW IK OTfK WEEK T TKK riMES fHA IX ALL THE OTHER PAPE" ry THE CALUMET ItEGlOY COSMrSED. ' COMPARE THEM A2f"I ISJS IF IT ISN'T SO. I