Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 150, Hammond, Lake County, 12 December 1908 — Page 1
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HOTED ACTRESS WILL PLAY
IH HAfID LAST OF YEAR
Bertha Kalich, Tragedienne, Will Appear in "Cora" at the Towle Opera" House on Dec. 31, and Big Attendance Is Looked For From Calumet Region Other Theatrical News.
teachers AT THEIR INSTITUTE
atrlcal season Manager Nye of Towle's
. RATIfltr A -T T?nwser SaVS It Opera ouse has secured a first-class at-
Is Impossible to Get a h'
COlirt XOr Gary at tlie I In the new comedy "Cora." In this city.
miss K.auch is probably tne most noted
star that has appeared In Towle's Op
era House since It was dedicated and
i Otis Skinner appeared here.
There is no doubt that the people of
Hammond ' and the cities of the Calu
met region will Indicate to Mr. Nye
their approval of week night shows by
their attendance.
There are a large number of people
; who would be patrons of the theater
if they could see good attractions on any other night, hut Sunday and this will be their opportunity to come out and make week night shows more nu-
Tudge Huber Looks For All Sorts of Jmerous by their liberal patronage.
TvimVIo it floTO Gen-nr-aA fVmrt aa Mlss Kallch will come to Hammond
uu.u.w u j v v ' I A urine thn Vinlirl avm and this should in
All Cities Would Want One, But sure a good attendance.
It is not very often that the people
of Hammond and the Calumet region
have the opportunity to see an at
traction like "The Top o' th World"
with the original cast in a local the
ater.
It will ,be remembered that "The
Top o th World" Is the comic opera
which enjoyed a run In the Studebak-
er theater, Chicago, all last summer,
For the first time during the local the- andalready there have been several
Present Time Because It
. Is Impractical. KUVER SAYSBUSIUESS
SHOULD BEDOUEAT HUB
Declares That Gary Is In Need of
a Superior Court.
SENATOR A. J. BOWSER i "I think
that the attempt to set a court for Gary at the present time Is not only Imprac
tical bat It Is Impossible. To draft
measure for tbe locating of a superior court In Gary and have it passed throuKh the legislature rvill take at
least two years, even if the leglala
tare Is in favor of It. The plan I would be iu favor of would be to join
the large cities of northern Lake conn
ty and make it one first class municipal
ity with a new name. In two years, which is about the length of time that this could be done in, there would be one hundred thousand people within its
limits."
while other shows were not doing any
thing.
Manager Nye is fortunate in secur
ing such an attraction and the opera
merits the support of the people of this
theater parties arranged for the evening.
As the demand for seats will be very
great the patrons of the theater had
best make their reservations early. For
those who live out of the city and ex
pect to come to Hammond Sunday even
ing to see "The Top o' th' World" Mr.
Nye will take reservations by telephone and will hold the seats a reasonable
length of time. ,
Pedagogues of North and
Calumet Townships Gath
er at Hammond Today For Their Regular Monthly
Session.
POLICE ASTOUNDED AT
BAROII lUIOAUSEH TALE
Joe Wallace, Thrown From Freight Flyer and Carried to St Margaret's Hospital Unconscious, Escapes From Institution and Steals Bicycle Is Released Later.
' tmtn.r n movlnjr train, be-1 report of the fact that the stolen wheel
... f,rtk had been returned, he asked the man ing thrown off a block farther who hTOUght lt Dack what was his picked up in what was supposed to be name The officers in the station were a dying condition, carried to the hospi- j astonished when tliey heard him say,
When more than a score of companies took the road in September and October to present Molnar's "The Devil" lt was very evident that the demand
for the play would be short-lived. A Chicago manager who fancies that he
keeps in close touch with the public's pulse predicted at that time that "The Devil" would have served its monev-maklner numose hv Xmas and
from the difficulties the managers are Emphasizes the Necessity of Making
now encountering in getting time for
SUPT. HEIGHWAY GIVES
All INTERESTING TALK
tal in an ambulance, Joe Wallace, who was so Intoxicated that he thoroughly enjoyed the experience, left St. Mar
garet's hospital when the nurses were
not looking, stole a bicycle and rode away from St. Margaret's at break-neck speed.
It was a moving picture comedy In
"Joe Wallace." . "Joe Wallace," repeated Charley See. "Where do wou work?"
"Iv'e been hanging around Carter's
livery barn," was the reply.
"Did you just fall off a train V was
the next question. Acknowledged the Com.
Wallace finally admitted that he had
'and so the mystery of the man who
real life. But there is another chapter osr-nnert from the hosDital and the other
that is Just as laughable. Foster Mar- man who ran away with a bicycle were
ray left his bicycle, a $40 machine, In both cleared up at the same time
front of the hospital. When he came i Wallace has been drinking until he
out of a neighboring house and looked was on the verge of a mental break
for the wheel all he could see was a down. He saw a Michigan Central man rounding the corner of Clinton and f reitrht train going by at a terrifflc
the play his prediction seems in a fair
way of being fulfilled.
Good Headers Out of the Pupils
speed and decided to ride it
How he flipped the train is still
mystery to those who later found out
Morris Beif eld. vice president of
White City, Chicago, and well-known
In amusement circles, is constructing two large moving picture theaters In the Windy City, one on Forty-seventh
street, near Forrestville avenue, seat
ing 650, to cost $25,000, with an ad
mission of 10 cents, and the other on Forty-third street, between Forrestville and Langley avenues, seating 450, to cost $15,000, with an admission of 5
cents.
These will make a total of six moving picture theaters owned by Mr. Belfleld, as he has two at White City and two
Hohman streets at a rapid pace.
Much Ado About Nothing. He at once concluded that the man
had stolen his wheel and in great ex- how drunk he was. But he did not stay
T Tfrt-rlr Ta rtii14nl in a "Prn. ullcI"e"t lelePnne 10 me ponce station, on long. The tram went a diock or so
a3 - Just at that time Desk Sergeant Charles and he was iolted off and fell to the
PTam Which Takes Un the Fore-JSee was busy making a report of the side of the track
man who had fallen from a Michigan He was picked up and taken to the
noon and Alternoon. Central train, but nevertheless he took posi tal in an ambulance In an uncon-
the report and Captain Bunde went out sclous state How he got out of the hos-
Reading in the schools of Lake coun- to take up the trial of the bicycle thief, pital is a mystery to the attendants
ty was discussed in a talk made by I It was not long before a man came there, but he escaped nevertheless and
Superintendent F. F. Heighway this into the police station with a bicycle. 1 rode away on the wheel.
The Incident provided one of the most
complicated problems with which the police have had to deal, and yet it was redlculous simplicity when lt was
GARY STEED
KILLS RIDER
YESTERDAY
Frank Hartrick While Rid
ing Fiery Horse from Gary to South Chicago Is ' Thrown Under H., W. & E, C. Car at East Chicago.
EMPLOYED BY FORMER
.10110 LIVERYMAN
HO
it
Accident Witnessed By Crowd . of
Shocked East Chicago People and Remains Are So Mangled That Jhey Are Taken to Morgue In a Gunny Sack By Car Crew.
city. "The Top.o' th World" will be
at Towle's Opera House tomorrow nlgtjt at Sixty-third and Halstead streets.
morning at the regular monthly insti- He said that he had just borrowed it tute of the public school teachers from I for a little while and was now ready to
North and Calumet townships, includ- turn it back to its owner.
ing the towns, in these townships and! Just at that time the report came to
Griffith. Superintendent Heighway em- me station that Joe Wallace, the man solved. Wallace claims that he lives
phasized upon the teachers the neces- who was supposed to be dying at the at 447 West Seventeenth street, New
slty of making good readers out of I hospital, had escaped and was no where (York City. He was released from the
their pupils, as this would lay the I to be found custody of the police and told to befoundation for all of their other stud- When Charley See started to make a have himself hereafter.
REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT WM, H.
KUVER i "I am heartily In fnvor of a court at Gary- and I believe that the dcobIc of Gary are entitled to lt. I
FRANK HAD 3 "
WARM FIGHTS
going-1 aftr it can be
that their attitude towards tbe " other
cities in the county is wrong. I do not
think thai- the legislature will give two
separate 'courts ! 'to "the people of Lake county. My opinion of the matter is that all of the courts should, be located at Crown Point, the county seat, which Is the logical place t transact court
business."
:rBT.Bd So Judge Mcllahan Decided
That He Had Enough and Let Him Go.
WHISKEY CAUSED DOWNFALL
ATTORNEY, CLYDE HTSTERi A
superior court for l.ary would be a
wonderful beip to this city, but to be Wife Gives Him a Thrashing and
Then He Sobers Up and Gives
(Continued on page 8.)
DELEGATIONS SENT Fourth Annual Banquet Is
Attended by a Number of Local Men.
Her Good Measure.
Frank Hulock, living at No. 10, com
pany house, in the Standard district, got into three kinds of fights yesterday. He first got into a booze fight and then went home where his wife was so provoked that she Jumped onto htm
and gave him a good thrashing. .She was able to do that for the rea
son that the booze was helping her
out and he could not hope to win
Hammond furnished quite a delega- against odds. After being driven Out
tion to . the fourth annual meeting of of the house Frank went away and
GIB
ies. In'connection he discussed the ad
vantages that teachers may derive from visiting other schools in their county
or In other states. '
Forty ' teachers gathered for their regular session and the day was passed
with a big program.
Frank A. Malmstone, superintendent
of the Toleston schools, presided. : The Day's Program.
Claim Is Based on Fact That wSSms m$L Hammond Banker Meets
ABLEMAH SUES
GUNTHER ESTATE
IU1.C.1
DIRECTORS III SESSION
Plaintiff Wants Commission For Services.
PUTS MATTER IN LAWYER'S HAND
Owing to Sudden Death of Mr. M. Gunther Ableman Was Not Commission.
the Indiana society of Chicago, which
took the form of a banquet in the gold j ballroom of the Auditorium Annex. ! Among those were W. B. Conkey, F. S. Beta, L. L, Bomberger, J. F. Sawyer, E. F. Johnston, , Dr. T. W. Oberlin, Dr. H. E. Sharrer, Judge Virgil S. Reiter, W. G. Paxton and Julian Youche The . local business men who were present expressed themselves as being delighted with the evening's' entertainment and all reported having a good time. - ' Of the good things eatable there were plenty, of the good things convivial there was nearly as much, but of good things expressible there was most, some of the most choice coming from George Ade, on the eve of a trip abroad; from George-Barr McCutcheon and Meredit Nicholson,, authors; from
Addison C. Harris. ' former ambassador
to Austria, and from the Rev. J. Everist Cathell, just "from Indiana." Of things observable, the chief was
a handsome de luxe menu and program, with drawings by Christy from the literary works of Indiana authors
and novelists, the plates for which were broken when the edition of 350 was run off. President Joseph H. Defress opened the program of speaking and the feast of wit, and humor, and Oratory, and story telling with. the introduction of George Barr McCutcheon as,, toastmaster. .
sobered up. ; '. . . The more sober he got the more he began to feel the bruises which had been inflicted by his wife, the more convinced he' was that lt was an outrage for an able-bodied man to take such a beating from the weaker sex. His ire finally rose until he went home in a rage and after locating his wife he gave her a terrible thrashing.
The police were finally called and brought Frank Hulock to the station. There he explained that he had three fights, one in which whiskey got the best of him, one in which his wife got the best of the whiskey and him and one in which he got the best of his wife. ' When Hulock was arraigned before Judge McMahon he made the usual defense, that whiskey was responsible for his downfall. The judge seemed to think that something had got the best of the man "and decided that he had had junishment enough. He was released with the injunction that he had better not fight with eith
er the whiskey or his wife again on the penalty of serving sixty days in the county jail.
The heirs to the Mike Gunther estate, which is located near Hessville, will be surprised to hear that Sam Ableman, the defeated republican candidate for the office of township trustee, has a claim against it for $4,000. Mr. Ableman's claim is based on the
fact that he holds Gunther's notes for
the $4,000, which is said to be a com
mission which is due him on a real
estate deal which was mad3 Just before
Mr. Gunther's death.
Sam Ableman's claim has been placed in the hands of Attorney Edward Schottler of this city for collection, and an effort wiir be made to make a settle
ment without recourse to the courts, If
that is possible.
It appears that John Gavlt of this city bought some land from Mr. Gunther
through Sam Ableman, who was acting
as the agent, and Sam's commission
was to have been $4,000.
It is this sum of money that Sam was not able to collect on account of the
sudden death of Mr. Gunther and for which his attorney is now entering a
claim. "
ROUT TAKENJO PRISON
Will Only Have to Spend
Three Years and Four Months in U. S. Jail.
NEW ADVERTISING.
. .
The attention of 10.000 TIMES' aubscribers in called today to the advertisement of Dr. J. D. Ebright, who ban the beat equipped hospital for sick animals in Indiana, to Miss Mitchell's homecooking lunchroom, to the Christmas gifts of the-. Golden State Wine company, to the Hammond Dairy Feed company, the Lewis' skating' rink attraction and the Bradford Pool and Bowling parlors. . ' -
SHERRIFF F. S. CARTER ' RENTS MILLER RESIDENCE
Sheriff F. S. Carter will move back to Hammond as soon as his term of office expires He has rented the house at
384 South Hohman street," which was
formerly occupied by Mr. C C. Miller. The residence which Mr. Carter has rented is the property of Mr. H. P. Snepp of Indianapolis. The house is a large one and is suited to the needs of the sheriff. However, Mr. Carter would have, lived nearer, town if a house had been evailable. - Mr. Carter laughed when he spoke of living in the "Ruffle Shirt neighborhood," but he says he Is sure to be surrounded by good neighbors and he .thinks he will like his sew home very much.
Schaaf, teacher in music In' both North and Calumet township, lead. The pro
gram for the day was as follows: Papers from the book. "The School and It's Life."
Chapter 11, by Perry Hathaway of
Glenn Park.
Chapter 12, by Miss Elizabeth Bromm
of Saxony.
Chapter 13 and 14, by Miss Bessie
Matson of Toleston. Papers from the book "The Theory
of the English Governor."
Chapter 10, by Miss Anna Emery of
Hessville.
Chapter 12, by Miss Bennett of Grif
fith.
Declamations Misses Rose Watts of
Ross Station and Schultz of Muns-
Biography and Work of Plutarch
F. A. Malmstone of Toleston.
Biography of Aurelius Miss Matilda
Diedel of Toleston.
Biography of Quintlllan Miss New-
comb of Saxony.
With Them and Is Much Pleased With Aspect.
BECKER CALLS IT ALLTOHPOT
Says He Is NotTnterested in
Getting Bill Passed So He Can Be Re-elect ed.
GOOD PATRONAGE IS GIVEN
Future Outlook of Railroad Young
Men's Christian Ass'n Is Considered Very Bright.
Other Executives Intimate That
They Have Friends Who Want Them Returned to Office.
The directors of the Gibson Y. M. C.
A. met in the association building at Gibson last evening and received the
report of Secretary J W. Miller, who is
in. charge of the association there.
The directors of the association are
W. C. Belman, H. A. Moone. R. M. Bur-
well, A. J. Chapman and J, W. Miller.
: According to the report that there were
six . gospel meetings during the past month. There was a. social session on
election night at which there was an
attendance, of 125.
At this meeting there was a stereop
tican lecture by Rev, J. E. Snook of the
First Presbyterian Church in Hammond.
The management has gone through the
annual house cleaning and the associa
tion building has been put in first class
condition.
The patronage, which the lunch room
and the association are receiving, is im
proving with the Improved Industrial
conditions. The futuie outlook is said
to be very bright.
It Is possible that Daniel D Hunt
will not have to spend more than three
years and four months In the United States prison at Fort Lavenworth as a result of his conviction in Judge Anderson's court in Indianapolis when he was given a four-year sentence. It is possible for a prisoner to cut
seven days a month off from his sentence by good behaivior. This means elgty-fOur days a year, or approximately eight months he will be able to save out of his whole term. Mr. Hunt was greatly encouraged when he was told this by a representa
tive for The Times. He said that it was his purpose to so conduct himself in prison that he would not have to spend a day more than was necessary. Mr Huntsald that he wanted to thank his friends who had stood by him through his trouble and declared that when he was out of prison he would come back and live down his disgrace. Mr. Hunt seemed greatly cheered, the day after his trial, and his only solicitation was for his wife at Hammond. The United States marshal took the prisoner to Fort Lavenworth at 4 o'clock j-esterday afternoon.
NEW ,!. C. FREIGHT
OFFICE IS PROBABLE
Company Sets the Pace in Hammond For All Railroad Improvements. The Michigan Central Railway company is almost sure to build a brick freight office In this city in the spring. This fact became established when the proposal to make certain repairs on the
old freight house was rejected on the grounds that it would be torn down in the spring and there was no use to make any further expenditures on the old building. It is understood that the Michigan
Central railroad will begin the erection Mrs. Rosetta Adams has brought suit of the new freight house early in the Jn the Lake superlo'r court - In Ham. enrtne nnil when it Is pnmnlptpil it will
k a th- t ..trtw. h,HMi, niond by which she expects to secure a
of its kind in the city. '"" 'Charles Adams. i a -t. if tkt r . , . i
.iubi aa .wgau ,urai ims ei In tne compiaint she stated that they
tne pace ior me oiner rauroaas m were married Nov. 6, 1906, and were the beautifying of its right-of-way it seDarated in February. 1908. She savs
proposes to show them that a freight that her husband represented to her office does not necessarily need to be that he had not coUected all of his
an .ugly building. wages, but that he was receiving in
"uc" "c "6"i uiib ia wu- terest on them and that they repre
pleted the properties or the Michigan sented a saving that he was making.
central rauroaa in tiammona win De in Instead of that, Mrs. Adams says she
perfect condition. The plans for the discovered that her husband was spend
new building win De maae tnts win- jng all of the monev he made and thi
averaged $3 a day. Mrs. Adams say
HUSBAND'SNEW ANGLE
Merely Receives Interest on
His Wages, Says Suing Wife.
.aw nnil tt. fnnlrQt f n, y ltd araptlAn tkHU
be let in the near future.
"HEK" SAYS HAMMOND IS TRYING TO BE DECENT.
Says Hek in the Chicago Tribune this morning: "The Portable Athletic club which advertises prize fights to take place In HammonA, which . is In Indiana and tries to be a decent place, and then switches them to . West Hammond, which is in Cook county, 111., have pulled up with a fla wheel, nammond, Ind.. is Justly Indignant."
rIAYORS ARE GETTING BUSY
(Special to The Times.) East Chicago, InL, Dec. 12. Twenty minutes after Frank Hartrick rode Jaaatlly down Chicago avenue en horses back, lie vras brought to the Fife under
taking parlors in this city, a Ufeleaa mass, crashed and torn Into a hundred pieces by a Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Railway company street ear. The accident occurred at 12i45 o'clock
near the corner of One Hundred and Forty-first street and Forsyth avenue, and It vraa not until late last evenlnar that the man waa Identified as living
at Eighty-third street and Railroad avenue. His . Identification was com-, pleted y his employer, Frank Arnold, of South Chicago, : for whom the de
ceased was working at the time of his unfortunate death. ;
Wanted a Job. foy Day. , It appears thai Hartrick was a sort
of ne'er-do-well and had not been work
ing steadily for almost a year, prefer
ring to pick up odd Jobs around the
Arnold livery stable. Yesterday morn
ing he appeared as usual and was told that there was nothing for him to do.
He asked several times whether he
could be given work for the day, and was finally told to go to Gary, where Mr. Arnold had recently purchased a
splendid riding horse. The animal had not been taken to South Chicago and
The Times' telegram from Indian
apolis last evening, to the effect that
Mayor Lawrence Becker of Hammond
had called a meeting of the mayors of the Indiana cities, to meet at the Clay-
pool at Indianapolis next Tuesday, with
a view of discussing amendments to the
cities and towns law, has caused a stir
In local political circles.
The revision, would naturally include
an amendment by which it would be
permissible for a mayor to succeed himself a thing which he cannot now dp under the law. To the uninitiated this
caused all the more of a surprise when
it was learned that this movement should start with Mayor Becker but
the mayor himself, and those who know,
have an easy solution to this answer.
Mayor Becker is, first of all, the
chairman of the legislative committee
of the municipal league, and as such would naturally call a meeting on any
mattr pertaining to proposed legisla
tion. As to the mayor simply creating
an opening to succeed himself In 1910, Mayor Becker answers:
'Tommyrot! The amendments to the
bill are numerous and the provisions for the mayors to succeed themselves has not near the weight that others
have which we will propose. There Is the sale of Improvement bonds, for instance, for which a waiver may be signed, no matter how small the assessment and, furthermore, that lock of a provision in the present cities and
Continued on Page 8.)
LISTS ARE RETURNED
Immigration and Washing
ton Officials at Last Get Busy. (Special to The Times.) Indianapolis, Ind.. Dec. 12. Edward Simon, democrat, who is contesting Edward Wickey's election as representative from Lake county, was surprised yesterday afternoon when he received by mail from Washington a report of the lists of foreigners naturalized in that county before the election, which lists were taken from Peter Lyons, . of Hammond, by immigration officers in New York. Lyons went to New York as the representative of Simon and the
defeated democratic candidate for state offices to ascertain from the records in the immigration office the dates on which these foreigners arrived in this country, in order , to find out whether they were entitled to naturalization. The information will be used in the contest proceedings. The immigration officers made out a part of the information, but then they informed Lyons that they were Instructed to send the whole business to the department of commerce and labor at Washington. Simon, Lyons
and the other attorneys in the matter
towns law by which the burden of ex-(tried to regain possession of the papers
her husband has property valued at $4,000 and she demands 12,000, a divorce and the restoration of her maiden name, Rosetta Wagner.
ANNOUNCEMENT. Miss Edith Lillian Clark of Chicago, directors of piano department of Central Conservatory in the Auditorium, will be in Hammond on Saturday of each week an1 will accept a limited number of pupils. For, further', particulars address care of Central Conservatory, or phone Hammond 60. 3t.
pense is thrown on the city to collect for delinquent assessments. "The way the cities and towns law reads now, no single city official can succeed himself, neither a councilman nor a city clerk nor any of the elective officers, and it would seem that it would be a popular move with the people if they had their choice to return some of their friends to office." A dispatch from Indianapolis to The Times says: The meeting of mayors of Indiana cities which has been called by Mayftr Becker of Hammond for the lath day of this month in this city will probably be a love feast more than anything else.
The call states that the purpose is to
start a movement for the repeal of that part of the cities and towns law which prevents a mayor from being elected to succeed himself. Many of the mayors of the cities in the state are of the opinion that they should, not be bound up in this manner. Theyjferguef that'they are Just as competent to fill the office at the end of four years as they were at the start, and,, that - they should be allowed to hold the- office another term If they can be elected. They are satisfied to hold on If they have the chance.
but failed and had about given up hope when yesterday a package came by mail to Simon from Washington. It con
tained the partial lists containing 365 names. There was no letter with lt, but Simon thinks it came from the department of commerce and labor, and also that the rest of the lists will also be sent.
ADOPTS A M POLICY
(Special to The Times.) Indianapolis, Ind., Dee. 12. It waa
learned today by The Times' correspon
dent at tbe Important republican niftt-
lag held bere Thursday, that an eye-for-an-eye and-a-tooth-for-a-tooth policy will be adopted by the republican In the senate In retaliation of tbe democrats la the house. In other words, If the democrats la tbe honur unseat any republican membera, tbe republicans in the senate will on neat the democratic senators. This applies to the case of Edward Simon of Lake county, who ia contesting the election of E. W. Wickey, republican.