Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 151, Hammond, Lake County, 14 December 1908 — Page 1
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WEATHER. Fair today, followed by 1acreaslair cloudiness rising temperature. 1 1LLV EDITION JDNE CENT PER COEYyOJa. Ill, NO. 151. HAMMOND, INDIANA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1908.
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Perpetual Restraining Order Wanted By Postal, Western Union And Railroad Companies
SUIT FILED AT VALPO.
FILES SUIT FOR
DIVORCE TODAY
Splendid Project for Furth
ering City's Culture and
Education Is Proposed by
Dr. W. F. Howat and Rev Charles A. Smith-
JOE MUM W
ATTENDS CHURCH i
Large Drink of Rye Which
Nearly Cost His Life Reforms Him.
SAYS HE WON T TAKE ANOTHER
510 n 0UESI1
ARE SAV1HG THEIR
uoemrci
Is at Gibson to Get a Job as Switchman and Will Be Good
Henceforth.
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Traction Company's HighjEast Chicago Man Tells a
Voltage Responsible for "Proceedings.
Tale of Woe in Hammond Court.
INTEREST 111 PLAN IS TAKEN
Three Injunction cases of a peculiar nature, wherein If a decision la rendered by the court In favor of the plaintiff, the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Internrban which operates its lines in Gary, Hammond, Michigan City and South Bend, (vrlll be compelled to cease operation or devise some other
means of propelling its interurban cars, were filed In the Porter circuit court at Valparaiso today by Attorney John B. Peterson of Crown Paint, who Is representing the three corporations In the case, SERIOLS CHARGES MADE. The three corporations that are hinging suits are the Western Union Telegraph company, the Postal Telegraph and Cable company, and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad company. In each case the plaintiff seeks an injunction against the defendant, the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Interurban Railway company. The complaints charge that the interuban company uses a high tension direct system of electrical current in the operation of its cars, which is of such a powerful nature that by a process of Induction It attracts the electrical cur
rent of the low tension wires of the Telegraph companies to the Interurban trolley, thereby rendering the telegraph lines useless at times. - It is a known fact that the lines of the Chicago Lake' Shore & South Bend interurban parallel the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, who also operate a telegraph line In connection with the operation of their train service at various points, beginning at Gary and contlnuing to South Bend, at distances varying from two to fifteen miles. The same is true with reference to the Western Union Telegraph company and the Postal Telegraph and Cable com
pany, whose wire systems are located
on the right of way of th$ Lake Shore railroad. rSE 6,600 VOLTAGE.
The Chicago, Lake Shore & South
Bend interurban is constructed to be
DESERTING WIFE IS SUED
Names Co-Respondent In Bill for
Separation and Tale of Faithlessness Is Unfolded.
Subjects Covered By Lectures of Pa
pers By Hammond Professional and Business Men and Manufacturers
Will Cover a Wide Range and
Project Meets Wtih Reception.
With many tearful goodbys and an
interchange of promises to be loyal and true, Steve Csabl left Obecse, Hungary, Dec. 22. 1905. for East Chicago, Ind.,
United States of America, for the pur
pose of bettering his condition and preparing a home for his wife whom he
left in the little town in Hungary. It
is a great story that was unfolded in
the Hammond superior court today.
Culture and the uplift movement in
Hammond received a big impetus this
afternoon at the regular meeting of the trustee of the public library when
it was recommended that a library
course consisting of lectures by Ham
mond people be Inaugurated.
The movement emanates from the
fertile brains of Dr. W. F. Howatt
and the Rev. C. A. Smith, two of the
library board members, who are al
ways trying to do something of a like
nature for Hammond.
Almost a score of prominent business
and professional men have given as-
Upon his arrival In this county Steve
Csabl set about to save enough money Isurances that they would dedicate an to support his wife in Hungary and! evening a week to the cause which will
finally bring her to the United States I be for the benefit of the public and
to live with him. I free. Those who have heard of the
He was a thrifty felJow and sent Mrs. plan and discussed it have set It down
t-saDi remittances every once in a wniie. as one of the grandest movements Finally he wrote to hr aifd. asked, her 1 ever undertaken in Hammond in the
to come to this country and live in the Interest of education and entertain-
little home that he would make for
her here.
He noticed that suddenly her letters
became cold and lacked the affection
ate and endearing terms that the first
letters contained. That made him all the more. anxious to have his wife with
him. He suspected that all was not well and again wrote to her to come
CoiBned on psga 6jf
UNA6LETQGETW0RK
AT GARY: SUICIDES
John O'Keefe Name of Man
Taken From Lake at Pine Station.
(Special to The Times.)
Indiana Harbor, Dec. 14. The body
uf John O'Keefe in the Krebs & Burns'
morgue, which was taken from the lake
at Pine Station last .Friday, was iden
titled this morning as John D'Keefe of
Chicago, the first clue to his Identity having come through a story which appeared exclusively in The Times on Friday and Saturday. The man was
identified by his brother-in-law, Wil
liam Moran, who is inclined to believe
that O'Keefe, who was in search of work at Gary, became despondent and
committed suicide.
O'Keefe lived at 3555 Fifth avenue.
Chicago, and leaves a wife and a 6
year-old daughter. He had been out
of work for manw week3 And on the
morning of Dec. 11th left Gary to find work. He failed to return' and his
brother-in-law started to make an in
quiry.
He went to the Chicago police head quarters, who telephoned to South Chi
cago. The police there remembered having read the story of the drowned
man In Thb Times, and directed the brother-in-law to go to Indiana Harbor. When O'Keefe was taken from the lake he had only 4 cents on his person. It is thought that hardships and lack of work drove him to selfdestruction. He left no word to his family and there was no writing In his clothing by which he could have been Identified. The Inquest has already been held and gave the cause of death by drowning-. The body was shipped to fchlcago today, where It will be buried by the relatives.
ment. With the least encouragement
from the public it promises to become a permanent feature In Hammond - from the beginning of the year to the end
and growing as the city grows.
Will Delightfully Originally. There promises to be a diversion of lectures and papers that will cover the field An tTinrrmerh1e thnf nn ma Hoi- f
0i.ttPnllt7- what bent of mind the public will be
a'tU Btiaic ilia 1'JI luiics Wltu lilill.
Loved Him No Longer.
When the answer to his letter ar
rived, the little woman he had trusted in Hungary wrote that 6he did not care
for her husband any more and that she
loved another.
This tragic story of faithfulness on
one hand, and faithlessness on the
other, came out in divorce proceedings
which were filed in the Lake superior
court this morning.
Steve Csabl is a resident of East Chi
cago. He discovered some time ago
that the wife he has been supporting
and to whom he has sent hundreds of
dollars has been living with another
man In Obecse, Hungary.
that it will be Interesting. Many of the speakers are specialists in their line, but there is above all that assurance that they will be delightfully original. Should the library course be started the backers of it will make every effort to make it permanent and In order that It may retain its flavor occasional musical entertainments will be interspersed. Should the plan materialize the first lectures will be held In "the auditorium of the public library, and as it grows too smal, larger quarters wil be secured. Among those who have aready sig-
Joe AVallace has reformed. No more
fire water for him. He has eome to the realisation that a drink of whiskey means suicide to him and every time he looks at three fingers of rye it makes him sudder to think of the experience
he went through last Friday.
It will be remembered that Joe
Wallace became intoxicated and it af
fected him In such a manner as to make him do the most unheard of
thintrs. Whiskey made an acrobatic
comedian out of him and he realizes that slip of a foot would have meant a
funeral for him.
What Wallace Did.
It was Wallace, who, while drunk.
jumped on a swiftly moving freight
train on the Michigan Central railroad,
was thrown off a block farther on, tak
en to the hospital in an ambulance badly Injured, as it was supposed, and finally made a thrilling escape from the
hospital on a stolen bicycle.
Wallace, In telling of the Incident, says that he Is slightly bruised, but that is all. He says he does not re
member Jumping on the freight train.
he does not remember being thrown
off, he does not remember being taken
to the hospital and he is totally ignor
ant of the fact that he took a bicycle,
which did not belong to him, in his ef fort to escape.
This remarkable lapse of memory was brought on by a drunk and is a pecu
liar psychological phenomena if it is not a Dure case of "bugs." Joe Wallace has not been seen around his old
haunts at Carter & Wells' livery of
late. v Went to Church Yesterday.
.It Is understood from friends that he
spent most of- yesterday J going to church. Last Saturday he went out to Gibson and made an effort to get a job as switchman. He says that If he can
, land in a good job he will never take
another drink.
It should not be understood that
Wallace has been a confirmed drunk
ard for the drink which sent him oft on
a rampage was the first he has taken
in months.
He -was crushed by the news of her nifled their Intention of appearing on
disloyalty and now has begun an action
in the local courts by which he hopes
the bonds of matrimony may be severed. A man by the name of Kouya Matyas is named as the cor-respondent
in the suit for divorce. i
LOTS AFTERTHE JOBS Trustee-elect J. C. Becker
Will Resign From the Councilmanship.
The vacation of Councilman John C.
Becker's office as councilman from the
Fifth ward, when he takes the office of township trustee . of North township, promises to precipitate another hot fight among applicants who want to fill in for his unexpired term. Mr. Becker could hold both offices under the law, but is said to have signified his intention of laying down the councilman's toga In order to devote all
of his time to the trustee s office. He
is the chairman of the finance commit
tee and Is also a member of the water committee to very important places in
the councllmanic committees.
The appointment for a successor is a
matter for the council, and naturally
the applicants are making themselves acquainted and pressing-their claims
with the various councilmen.
LOCAL MEN HAVE
NICE CUT GLASS EXHIBIT,
Groman & Hastings, who have a fine exhibit of cut glass on display at Bomberber and Shaw's millinery parlors, 186 South Hohman street, are having great success In the sale of their ware.
Their goods is the same that Is one sale by the leading Chicago Jewelers, and they have a fine assortment of suit.
able Christmas presents.
VP IT'S ADVERTISED , IT'S WORTH
LOOKING VP.
the lecture platform are: Superin
tendent C. M. McDanlel; Carl E. Bauer, secretary of the Simplex; Wm. Thum,
superintendent of the United States
Metal Refineries at- Grasselli; Dr. E. M. Shanklin and W. F. Howatt, A. M.
Turner, William O'Rourke, of the South
Shore Gas company; Professors A. L.
Spohn, Allee and McElroy and W. A.
Hill of the high school; P. A." Parry,
editor of The Times; Miss Elchgrn,
Judge V. S. Relter, Attorney J. F.
Reilley and many more, including most
of the professional men.
W CHANGE HIS
Comes to Hammond and Re
fuses to Take Job at Local Plant.
A man who registered in the Erie
hotel as H. Carter, Lima, O., came to
Hammond yesterday and said that he had been induced to come to this city
and accept a position at the FitzhughLuther Locomotive works and ' after coming discovered that men were on
a strike there.
He refused to work and Sheriff F. S,
Carter and others charitably inclined
gave him enough money to last him
until he could secure employment. Car
ter was enabled to pay his bill at the Erie hotel and is prepared to support
his family until he gets another Job
He brought with him a wife and
three little children.
TO LAY CORNERSTONE
FOR NEW THEATER,
New York, Dec. 14. Arrangements
have been concluded for interesting
ceremonies tomorrow to attend the lay
ing of the corner stone for the much
discussed New theater. A feature o the program will be addresses by Gov
ernor Hughes, Mayor McCIellan and
others, and music by the forces of the
Metropolitan opera.
LAND ANOTHER PRIZE
Officials of Frank S- Betz
Co. Happy Over Closing of Big Deal.
DOUBTFUL
Standard Steel Car District
Was Very Good
Saturday Night-
on
PAY DAY GETS ONE MAN DRUNK
ndiana Democratic Lead- As
ers Are Up in the Air on
Proposition to Unseat E
W. Wickey if Matter Goes
to Legislature.
a General Rule an Occasion of
That Kind Would Have Resulted in Rioting.
The people of the Standard Steel Car
district are saving their money now
adays instead of spending it as they
did before the recent financial disturb
ance struck the city. The spirit of thrift
is upon them and they are all laying
up their money for a rainy day,
Last Saturday was pay day at the
Standard Steel Car plant, among the
mill employed and there was In the neighborhood of $25,000 distributed
among the men.
What It Meant Formerly.
OrrttTin rn-ir fiiifh on nrrflnlrtn would
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Will ITODaOiy JLaSt xen nays ana have meant a regular orgy at the east
tt i -t-i -Li TTT-ii t- side settlement and a Jail full of a Hard Fight Will Be Precipitated dru e nerg have
Rpfnr pthft Case Goes to the Con- changed. The foreigners are paying
old bins ana are not wasting tneir
money.
They are not certain how long their
work will last and they are going to
get Into just as good financial shape
as possible to be ready for another
panic.
LAKE CO.
ILL GET A HARBOR
E. W. Wickey, on Return
From Washington, Brings Good News With Him From Washington for the People of This Region.
EVIDENCE TAKING
ISEGUfl TODAY
Contestant Simons Says That the Case
test Commissioners.
NATIONAL CONGRESS
APPROVES OF IT
Congressman Burton, Who Spoke at
Indiana Harbor Is Favorable to
a i , Project and Will Co-Operate With
Congressman Crumpacker to Land the Plum.
(Special to The Times.)
Crown Point, Ind., Dee. 1-fc The Sim
ona-WIckey election contest was began
at Crown Point today when the contestant began introducing testimony
whlchls to be presented to the Indl ana house of representatives this win' ter in an effort to unseat Represents
tive Edward Wickey ot East Chicago.
The most startling development of
the contest is the statement by Mr.
Simons and John Gavlt, his attorney,
that the contest would probably last
for the next ten days and possibly long
er.
Judging from that Mr. Simons has a
great mass of evidence that he expects
to have presented to the members of
the legislatnre this winter. In fact
there is no question that the democrats expect to precipitate a hard fight to
have the entire vote of Lake county
thrown out in an effort, not only to
save Edward Simons, bnt also in an
effort to save the state ticket.
First Witness Introduced.
The first witness, which were intro
duced, were County Clerk Ernest Shortridge and United States Commissioner Charles Surprise. Shortridge was asked
to testify as to the correctness of the
election returns, and Mr. Surprise was
asked to testify regarding the man
ner of issuing naturalization papers to
foreigners.
. .As soon as the sitting of this com
mission are completed the evidence, which is being taken by Special Court Reporter Patton, will be compiled and presented to the state legislature.
(Special to Thb Times.) East Chicago, Ind., Dec 14. "I feel
certain," said Representative-elect E
One arrest for drunkenness was the w. Wickey to a Times representative
net result of a pay day celebration.
The people are Just as happy, but they
do not show their joy by going to a
toot
HOWMUCHDOESITTAKE?
Hammond Man Says He Had
Six Glasses; Did it Intoxicate Him?
(Special to Thb Times.) Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 14. The democrats are wondering just where
(Continued on page 7.)
Officials of the Frank S. Beta com
pany, in tnis city, are congratuiatin
themselves on the negotiations with the
Central Drug company of . Chicago
which were closed today. The local
company has purchased the entire stock of instruments owned by the Chicago concern. The product of the Central Drug company is recognized by the medical profession as that of the high
est quality made and of the kind dealt
with almost exclusively by specialists.
The big stock purchased by the F. S. Betz company will be shipped to Ham
mond immediately and put on the mar
ket. This makes the twelfth big stock that has been purchased by the Betz company since it came to Hammond and in absorbing these concerns the local plant Is easily made the largest' of its
kind in the world.
IHVITED 10 BANQUET
Hammond Democrats Anti
cipate a Great Deal of Pleasure There.
BAPTISTS Jli GAME
Meteors Are Shown the Way
To Go Home on Saturday Night.
The Jackson club of Lafayette will
hold Us thirteenth annual banquet at
the Hotel Lahr, Thursday evening, Jan,
7, 1909, at 8 o'clock. John W. Kern
will be the principal speaker. State Chairman Jacksont L Ert Slack, B. F. Shively, John E. Lamb, G. V. Menzies,
Edward G. Hoffman and Claude Bow
ers will each make a fifteen-minute
talk.
Those who have received invitations
in Hammond are Messrs. John Z. Rohde
Mayor Becker, P. J. Lyons, Jacob
Schloer, J. D. Smalley and Otto Duelke,
last evening, "that we will get an appropriation from the general assembly at this session, and that work on the improvement of the governmental har
bor will be commenced during the com
ing year." The . news will be hailed
with gladness by citizen of Lake county generally, who have watched with interest the work of East Chicagoana
in furthering this enormous project.
Mr. Wickey has Just returned from
Washington, where he attended the ses
sions of the National Rivers and Har
bor's congress, in company with Mayor
De Briae and Councilmen Lewis and
Walton of East Chicago, and Messrs.
Smith and Long of the Whiting council.
Sleets With Their Commendation. "While the national congress did not take ud the local proposition this ses-
Because he ; was ungentiemamy i Son." continued ilr. Wickey, "I had
enough to strike a woman, not his J the pleasure of talking with several
wife, Sylvester Wyrowlnskl was ar- members of congressional committees rested Sunday vand taken to the police and from their attitude towards the station on the charge of drunkenness, proposition, I believe that It meets with
He was put through the mill in the their commendation-"
city court in a hurry this morning and I The project is being given consldera
fined SI and costs, amounting to $11, tion by the congressional committee in
and in lieu of the payment thereof was I charge of such matters, of which Concompelled to go to Crown Point for a I gressman Burton of Ohio is in charge.
couple of weeksj I Mr. Burton, who spoke at Indiana Har
When asked If he was intoxicated bor last campaign has promised to give
Wyrowlnskl said that he had had only Congressman trumpacKer a nearing in
five or six glasses of beer. He did not he veiT near future, at which time the
irnnnr nrViAfViof r nt VtA hod KAm m.ita I local represeniau v e win uuuuuesa
intoxicated by that amount of booze.
START WORK TOMORROW
work efficiently for the good of Lake county's pet proposition. When in Indiana Harbor in September, Congressman Burton was shown the present har
bor and told what would be needed In : its improvement At that time so
Continued on page 5.
New C, C. & L. Roundhouse
Will Give Employment to Number of Men.
LEASES MASOHIG TEMPLE
PINK EYE AFFLICTS LOCAL SCHOOL CHILDREN
The work on the new Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville round-house, which is to be built here, will begin tomorrow morning. Dickey & Callahan of St. Louis are the contractors. The work will involve an expenditure of $25,000 to $40,000, and will give employment to a large number of men. Despite the fact that the city of Hammond made a contract with the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad, which provided that a depot should be built In Hammond at once In return for the right to cross certain streets, nothing has been done by the city to enforce the contract.
The people on the south side point to the fact that the railroad Is going
ahead with the construction of build
ings that will spoil the appearance of
the neighborhood and yet is too poor to build the $20,000 depot that was promised for this city.
The Baptist Athletic League in a
quick and snappy game last Saturday night defeated the South Chicago
Meteors at their club rooms. The crowd
was not very large, but enthusiastic,
and the visitors were nicely entertained
after the game. The line-up and sum
mary follows: Meteors (24). " Baptists (33).
Stein C Hudson Van Ruth R. F Wall Ramsey L. F DeYoung
Erickson R.G........ Campbell Gerberm L. G Buttner Substitutes Anderson, Stein. South Chicago Meteors. Field Goals Hudson (9), Wall (3), DeYoung (2), Campbell, (1), VanRuth (2), Ramsey (2), Stein (3), Anderson (2) , Erickson (1). Foul Goals Hudson (3) , Stein (4). Score end bf first half 16 to 16. Referee Morgenau, Hammond. ' Umpire- Treduya, South Chicago.
Pink eye, a disease to which both humans and animals are subject, has made its appearance in some of the schools of Hammond, and the parents are warned to keep their children at home if they detect any symptoms as the disease is contagious, and other children are likely to be afflicted with it. Pink eye as a rule is not very serious, but for the time being will cause considerable discomfort. It results in an inflamed eyeball which turns to a pink color and spreads from there to the eye lids. Several cases have already come under the care of local physicians and attention of the matter has been called to the school board.
THE XUMBEB OF COPIES OF THE
TIMES SOLD ON THE STREETS OF IIAMMOXD ALONE EXCEEDS THE
ENTIRE CIRCULATION OF ANY OTH ER PAPER IN THE CITY.
ARRESTED FOB LARCENY
Indiana Harbor Man Got Pretty Gay in Hammond Saloon Today.
Hammond Athletic Club
Will Consider a New Proposition. The Hammond Athletic club will hol4 an Important meeting this evening In Its temporary quarters over the First National Bank building for the consideration of the matter of leasing a portion of the third floor of the old Masonic temple on State street for club rooms. The rooms, which have been offered to the members of the club, are very desirable and in view of the fact that there is nothing certain about the tenure of the lease to the quarters In the First National Bank building, on account of the interference with the Chicago Business college, it Is expected
that the club will take up the new proposition. Tomorrow is the last day for the payment of the initiation fees of charter members. If the fees are not paid by the 15 of December it will be necessary for the-delinquents to pay $5 instead of $3, which is the fee to be charged charter members. The meeting tonight will be an important one and should be attended by all of the members of the club.
John Curie and Ben Evans of Indiana Harbor were arrested this morning on the charge of petit larceny. They had been having a pretty lively time in Charles Kummer's saloon on the north side, Hammond, when the proprietor told them to get out. As they left the place one of the men picked up a basket containing some cards and ran away with It. On the complaint of the saloonkeeper the men were arrested and will be prosecuted as
soon as Mr. Kummer appears against
them. The young men are between 25 and 30 years old and are now lodged In the city jail at the police station.
CARPENTERS UNION (iIEN ELECTS THEIR OFFICERS
At an election in the Carpenters union of Hammond, J. C. Holan was elected president, Jacob Mills was elected vice president, John Jones was elected recording secretary, John O'Connerwas eleeted financial secretary and H. E. Granger was again elected business agent. The Carpenters' union is now In better shape than it has been in a long time, and It is expected that with the increased building that is promised for the spring there will not be an idle carpenter In the city.