Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 157, Hammond, Lake County, 21 December 1908 — Page 1
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Manufacture of Steel in
Gary Is Begun This Morn
ing, Which Marks New Industrial Era for Calu
met Region.
GEN. SUPT. GLEASOH
MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT
Gary People Rejoice and Entire Cal
umet Region Anticipates Becom
ing Great Industrial Region In the
Whole World, Barring None Hence
forth.
Without the blare of trumpets or the on ad of cymbals, the first atep In the creating of a new steel and Iron center
at Gary, which promises to make the
Calnmet region the greatest Industrial
center la the world, was taken today when blast furnace No. 12 was blown and the actual .manufacture of steel
was begun at Gary. After nearly three years of prppara
tlon, la which one of the moat stupendous undertakings of the age is nearing
one of the first stages, of completion
the crucial moment has arrived.
The driving of the first stake which
marked the location of Broadway and Flft havenue and consequently located the city of Gary, was the physical be
ginning of the project.
ANOTHER " MOMENTOUS OCCASION
XHe Hrnrn! ot the first boatload o
ore was a momentous occasion, which was celebrated In a fitting manner, but
the blowing In of blast furnace No. 12
Is of greater significance that that.
It is the actual opening of the mills
It Is equal to the president's touching
the button which starts the machinery at a great industrial exposition, except
that it means more. It is keeping
faith with 15,000 people who have com
to a wilderness and builded a city sole ly on the representation of a great cor
poratlo nthat it Intended to spend
hundred million dollars In the develop
meat of a new steel producing center which will excell all others. ANNOUNCEMENT QUIETLY MADE. The announcement was made quietly from the office of General Superintendent W. P. Gleason, the great genius under whose direction the whole project has grown from an idea to an actuality, and so little fuss was made over It that one would think that the realisation of a dream of such magnitude was an every day thing with this industrial field marshal. But In Gary the people are rejoicing. They know that anticipation has at last become realization, and that each and every one of them will be in some measure prospered by this fact. Gary is gay today.
BE PUT UNDER H1IR
Central Block Once the Hub of Hammond and Connected With Its Palm
iest History in the Old Days, Is To Be Sold at Auction Tomorrow Afternoon at 2 0'Clock.
The Central block, the first brick
building In Hammond and about the
only landmark In the heart of the city
which connects the present metropolitan Industrial center with the little
struggling village of a quarter of a
century ago, is to be sold at auction tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The Central block was built In the
early days and at that time contained the general store, which was under the
control of the Towle boys, M. M., Amos,
Porter and Everett.
In this store was a grocery, a. meat
market, a general merchandise store and above all the postoffice. One of the Towle's wts the postmaster, another was the mayor and, In fact, the whole city was managed by the Towles.
Was Towle's Headquarters. In those days M. M. Towle was re
puted to be worth a million and the
Impetus which Hammond received In
those days as a result of his energy
and Initiative made it and not Gibson,
the principal Industrial city of Lake county.
The Central block was Mr. Towle's headquarters and it was from there that he directed the various enterprises with which he was connected. In those days the G. H. Hammond Co., generally known as the "slaughter house," was the only industry of Im
portance, and as all of the me employed there passed around the Central block corner, the proeprty was at that time considered the most , valuable in the city. Since then the G. H. Hamomnd Co. has ceased to operate here, and new channels of traffic have developed. Although the block is valuable because of its central location it is no longer the hub of Hammond that It used to be. It is understood that the appraisers have put a price of $17,500 on it and it is safe to say that it could not have been bought for that twenty years ago. The building will be sold to the highest bidder at the offices of the Hammond Savings and Trust company tomorrow and it is expected that there will be some spirited bidding.
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ROTEST
Club Women Report That Sales Are Rather Discouraging and It Will
Reflect on Hammond If Little Things Have To Be Returned Without Being Used.
Mail Carriers and Postal Clerks of Hammond Hold
Indignation Meeting and
Object to Council's New
Plan of Renumbering-
MUSICAL ART SOCIETY
GE1S ANJTTRACT10N Talented Young Virtuoso . . . Will Appear in This City on Jan- 6.
MAY BE ANOTHER KUBEL1K
Otto Meyer to Include Hammond on
His Great American Tour Now On.
BOYS BRING CHARGE AGAINST SALOQNMA
Sol Grossman Arrested This
Morning for Selling Liquor to Minors.
CASE AGAINST H!H CONTINUED
DEATH OF UBS. WO
Former Hobart Lady Dies
at the Home of Her Daughter.
Mrs: Mary E. Wild, one of the old
residents of Lake county, died last Sat
urday evening at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Jacob Becker, 511 Michi
gan avenue. In Hammond. Mrs. Wild, who was 86 years old,
had bee nailing since last May and had
her death occurred during the past
month it would have been unexpected. The funeral has been arranged for tomorrow morning. Services will be held at 10 o'clock at the German Evangelical church, on Sibley street, and at 11:25 the body will be taken over the Nickel Plate to Hobart for burial. During her forty years of life in Lakt county, Mrs. Wild has divided her time between her former home, near Hobart, and Hammond.
Without any ado the Musical Art
society of Hammond baa made an engagement with Otto J. Meyer, one of the greatest violinists in America, to appear at Towle's Opera House Wednesday evening, Jan. 6, under Its auspices. Otto Meyer irrived in New York last November for his American tour of 1903 and 1909 and it is exceedingly fortunate that through close friends of the great virtuoso the Hammond Musical Art society was enabled to ar
range a Hammond appearance of Otto
J. Meyer.
May Equal Kubelik. The press notices, which this great
violinist, who is still a young man, has secured in the Bohemian, German and French papers, makes it apparent
that Otto J. Meyer is to be another Jan Kubelik and may even surpass this great musician. It is expected that musicians in towns for miles around, who have heard of Mr. Meyer, will journey to Hammond on the evening of the concert to take advantage of this rare opportunity to hear one of the world's greatest musicians. Already several concert parties are
being arranged and it is expected that
the concert will be one of the great
est society events of the season. Ev- i eryone who lays any claim to being a j virtu will want to be present at the concert, anl although a performance of this kind does not appeal to those who have become sated with the kind of entertainment that is offered in the average musical comedy, yet it is expected that there are enough people who appreciate a really high grade musical performance to fill Towle's Opera House on Jan. 6. The members of the musical art are already disposing of the tickets at very moderate prices and the opportunity will be offered to have them reserved later on. American Violinist Surprises Prague. Since the sure success of Jan Kubelik, Prague has become the mecca for violin students from all parts of the world.
and quite especially from America. Of the hundreds who go to the Bohemian masters; very few are ever heard of, however. . An exception in this respect is Otto Meyer. As will be seen from the criticisms quoted below this young artist created quite a stir in the Bohemian capital. Young Meyer has been broad enough not to confine himself to any one school, and in this respect, too, he forms a notable exception to
most of the English and American stu-
Lads Have a Carouse Last Saturday
Evening in Harrison Park and Get Very Drunk. Solomon Grossman, a Hammond sa
loonkceper, whose place of business Is at 59 State street, was arrested on a
warrant served by Frank Shine on the
charge of selling liquor to minors. He
was arraigned in the Hammond city
court this morning and his case was
continued until Dec. 28.
.ine cnarge against urossman was
very serious and should he be found
guilty the penalty will be commensur
ate with the crime. Sunday evening
Officer Herman found John Gerke,
20-year-old Hammond boy, intoxicated
in Harrison Park. Police Had to Carry Him.
The young man was so drunk that it
was necessary for the officer to carry
him to the police station in lieu of a patrol wagon. When Gerke was revived he confessed that he and several other boys had gone to Solomon Grossman's
saloon, where they purchased a quan tity of whiskey.
They had no difficulty in securing the liquor from Grossman. John Gerke says
he bought two half pints and he testified at the preliminary hearing that Ben. Wagner bought two larger bottles of the stuff, which might have been been pints or even quarters. Many Boys In Party. In the party of boys were: John
Gerke, his brother, Willie Gerke, Ben. Wagner, Tony Jones, Erwin Miller and a boy they call Mike, the Jew. These boys went to Harrison Park Sunday evening and started to drink the whiskey they had purchased. It was not long before the Gerke boy was dead drunk and the rest just managed to get away. It was one of those cases were young boys thought it was smart to go out and get drunk, and Solomon Grossman is alleged to have helped them accomplish their purpose. Complaint against Grossman 'was made by the father of the Gerke boy and the case will be vigorously prosecuted. -
ANOTHER MEETING TO
BE HELD TONIGHT
Postoffice Employes Will Gather To
night for the Purpose of Appoint
ing Committes Who Will Wait on
NMayor and Common Council at Fu' ture Meeting.
The National Protective Association m
of Mall Carriers of Hammond and the
National Protection of Postal Clerks
of Hammond will hold a joint meeting;
this evening for the purpose of protest
ing against the plan for numbering the city, which ' has been adopted by
the mayor and city council of Ham mond.
The postal clerks and mail carriers
say when the announcement was made several months ago that the renumbering of the city had been decided upon
they did not realize that It meant an
entirely new system had been adopt
ed. They thought it was simply a plan
to provide" new metal numbers for the old ones and supply numerals where
there had been none before. , ,; Are More Concerned.
As the postoffice employes are more concerned about the adoption of a new
system of numbering than any other group of men in the city the letter carriers and postal clerks think the
mayor and council should have called
them Into consultation.
Instead of securing suggestions from the very men who know more about
streets and numbering than any other
set of men In the city, the city of
ficials went on and framed up a re
numbering ordinance.
It was not until the work of re
numbering had actually begun that It dawned up the postoffice employes that
a radically new system had been decid
ed upon. Form a New Basis.
They then discovered that the city
dads had decided on Calumet avenue
and Gostlin streets as the basis for the renumbering. Everything east of Caulmet would be known as East State, East Sibley, etc. Everything west of Calumet would be known as West State,
West Plummer, etc. In a like manner Hohman street south of Gostlin street, would be known as South Hohman street and north of Gostlin strete would be known as North Hohman street. This would be true in the case of all of the other north and south thoroughfares in the city. The result of this plan of numbering would be to make the corners of Gostlin street and Calumet avenue the Hammond, Broadway and Fifth avenue Inter-section. The theory of this plan of numbering is that the corners of Gostlin street and Calumet avenue are the geograph-
'Good evening, have you used a Red
Cross stamp yet?"
"No." "You are not In it then. You
have lost an opportunity costing you only 1 cent by which to send a holiday
greeting. You have furthermore forgotten in the rush of your Christmas shopping which after all Is prompted by your generosity to remember those
who appreciate your generosity most.
the consumptives throughout the Unit
ed States, for the proceeds of the sales of Red Cross stamps are used for a
fund with which to fight the 'white
plague.' "
The stamps may be bought in prac
tically every business -house in the Hammond business district and the reports from some of these places are
encouraging, while others say the sales are slow. -
Last week Hammond received a con
signment of 10,000 stamps, they having been placed on the local market under the auspices of the Hammond Womans' club. Hammond Only Has 10,000. Now since the stamps are aimed to be sold during the holiday season it Is argued that if would surely not reflect to the credit of Hammond If a single unused stamp would have to be returned to headquarters. The typo
graphical union In Indianapolis alone
subscribed for 10,000 stamps and will see to It that they go out through the mails.
It Is said that If every business man
in Hammond would provide himself with only $1 worth of the stamps that thev would be sold in less than no
time. They serve a double purpose
that of sending a message of good
cheer and aiding a worthy cause.
The stamps themselves are pretty little stickers, which may be pasted on anything which Is sent through the
mail. It must be understood, however.
that they do not serve as postage.
THREATENING BLAZE
ON SATURDAY NIGHT
Fire Breaks Out on North
Side $400 Worth of Damage.
GAPT. GREB'S COMPANY BUSY
Building located at Corner of Towle
and Costlin Streets, Owned By " , Charles Keilman. ,
NOTED LAl'IYER COMING
HERE TO PRACTICE
Attorney J.G. Ibach Will
Take Gifted Lawyer Into Partnership.
LMIGOLH V. CRAVENS THE Ml
One of the Strongest Teams In the
Profession in Lake County Will the New Firm Be.
A threatening blaze last Saturday night and a small shed fire last night relieved the monotony at the Hammond fire stations. About 11 o'clock last Saturday night an alarm was turned in for Nos. 1 and
3, they being summoned to the old Huehn building at the corner of Towle
and Gostlin streets. The building i
now owned by Charley Keilman, and
the first floor is occupied as a saloon by Charles Kuhn. The upper floor is occupied by a family. The Are broke out in the second story and is thought to have started from an over-heated stove. The occupants of the second floor were not at home at the time and are consequently unable to tell how it originated. Considerable damage had been done before it was
noticed, and owing to this, the loss reached a figure in the neighborhood of $400. Captain Greb and his men from department No. 3 had the fire well under control by the time department No. 1 arrived. The latter company was delayed a long time at the Wabash tracks where a long train was passing when the department tried to make the crossing. Both departments used the chemical and had the fire under control as soon as they got started. Departments Nos 1 and 4 were called
out to the coal storage plant In the
Erie yards last night, the alarm having been turned in from there when a small
shed caught afire. The fire was at no time threatening and outside of the
destruction of the shed no damage was
done. .
ran LAWS Oil
Hon. John B. Peterson of
Crown Point Interviewed Regarding Weighty Problem of Court Corfestioa in Lake County. '
IMPRESSED WITH
KLIVER'SJUGGESTIOII
Believes That lake Couity Should
Pay No Attention to Porter and LaPorte Says 'that Conditions In This County Have Been Abnormal and Believes That Litigation Will Soon Decrease.
(Continued on page 7.)
J. FRANK. MEEKER.
When she and her husband rcti.od
from active life they moved to Ha.n- ; dents who make a pilgrimage to Prague
mond and they had been making their; to worship at the shrine of Sevcik.
aunng tne past thirteen
the
husband died
about five
home here
years. Her
years ago. The deceased leaves five children, they being Mrs. Jacob Becker, 511 Michigan avenue, Hammond; Mrs. August Schreiber, South Hammond; Alvln Wild of Hobart, and trustee of Hobart township; Ben Wild of Fidelia, Mo., and Ed Wild of Foley, Ala. Messrs. Ben and Ed Wild were in Hammond recently where they visited their mother and are not expected to be present at the funeral.
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ELECTION CONTEST DEFERRED, (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 21. The Slmons-Wickey election contest was postponed today on account of the necessity for the absence of Representative E. W. Wickey, who has gone to Indianapolis. Crown Point is to be given a rest from the publicity which it has been enjoying and the terrible suspense which it has resulted. It is understood that the contest will be taken up tomorrow and carried to its conclusion early thi week.
REPORTS iCOURAGING1 l Mayor Lawrence Becker Is' Doing Nicely at St. Mar.garet's Hospital.
The reports from Mayor Becker's bedside continue to be encouraging. He has spent two restful nights. He is at his ease in his waking hours, but owing to his long continued illness he is considerably weakened. All visitors have been denied admittance and none will be admitted until Christmas day, when it is hoped that he will be strong enough to receive a few for a short time. Mr. Becker will spend at least another two weeks in the hospital and will then be removed to his home on Rimbach avenue. The Becker home continues to be the center of many inquiries from anxious friends, who Insist on having a personal assurance that, the citv's
chief executive is "doing fine." ' '
W;f -
THEY SHELL A MOOSE
(Special to The Times.)
Indianapolis, Dec. 21. The prospects are that the conference of republican
representatives, which Is called for this place tomorrow nlgbt, will be very
lightly attended.
Incidentally, the republicans smell
a large piece of cheese in the shape of
Governor Hanly in the coll which was
Issued by Luman K. Babcock, the fi ecutlve's private secretary. The repub
llcans say that the meeting looks to the mlike a Hanly scheme to defend county option. Representatives Schroedcr and Hewig of Evansvtlle flatly refuse to attend.
The Lake County Bar association,
especially that part of it residing in
Hammond, Is to be enriched with an
other legal light, Hon. Lincoln V. Crav
ens of Madison, Ind., on the Ohio river,
having decided to come to Hammond to practice here with Attorney Joseph Ibach. It is expected that Attorney Cravens will begin the practice of his profession in Hammond as soon as pos
sible, after the close of the January term of court in Jefferson county.
The firm of Ibach and Cravens will
retain Attorney Ibach's offices on the
third floor of the Hammond building.
and it is conceded all around that they
will form one of the strongest teams in the county in the legal profession.
What the Madison Courier Saysi Hammond's gain Is, of course, Madi
son s - loss, and the Madison Courier deplores the loss in the following words:
In the removal of Hon. Lincoln V.
Cravens to Hammond, Ind., the Madi
son bar "loses one of its bales and
most highly esteemed members. They city of Madison also loses one of its most public-spirited, enterprising and
energetic citizens.
"Mr. Cravens has been prominently
identified with every recent movement
for the enlargement and prosperity of
Madison. H was one of the principal
workers for free delivery, for various
railroad enterprises, and the improve
ment of the Ohio river.
"As secretary of tho Commercial
club, he has been active and lnfluen
tial in that organization and the hard
est worker in it. As secretary of the Chautauqua association, he has been
the life and soul of that Institution, Is Past Grand Master.
"In the Masonic bodies and the Methodist church Mr. Cravens has been
faithful and distinguished, and he will
surely be missed there as elsewhere
"Mr. Craven's friends have the fullest faith that a more brilliant future awaits him in his larger field of use
fulness, but that they part from him
with the most sincere and profound re gret."
Mr. Cravens has two sons,. Frank and William, who are attending school
now, but who will make their home
in Hammond with their father when
their school closes. The famous law
yer win not come as a stranger to Hammond and Lake county, for those ho may not have met him in a pro
fessional way know him as a past
grand master of Indiana Masonry.
That a continuous court at Crown
Point and an extra superior court Judge at Hammond Is the only possible so-, lution of the extra superior court ques
tion, Is the opinion of Hob- John B. Peterson of Crown Point, who is one of the oldest and ablest practitioners in the state. Attorney Peterson has practiced law in Lake county twenty-eight years and is one of the oldest and most experienced members of the bar today and baos seen litigation of the coun ta has seen the litigation of the county grow from the time when the circuit Judge at Crown Point was able to dispose of all the cases with ease, until the present time, when other measures are needed to take . care of the enormous amount of litigation in the county. . Devoting all his time to corporation practice alone, Mr. Peterson probably visits more courtn in Lake, Porter, Laporte and St. Joseph counties than any attorney In the county, and knows full well th evalue ..- of centralizing the courts in Lake county.
(BY HON. J. B. PETERSON.) "I have been much impressed with
the suggestion made by Mr. Kliver, as reported in The Times some time since.
to the effect that the courts should be
centralized as much aa possible. It would be a mistake to have branches
of the higher courts scattered around over the country. I had an experience last week which will illustrate to soma
extent this point. A man was killed in one of the manufacturing plants la the north part of the county. His relatives made a claim for damages. The company agreed to pay a certain sum which was satisfactory to the decedents. Such settlements, under the law to be binding, must be made
through an administrator with the ap
proval of the court.
How It Was Done. "An administrator was appointed by
the circuit court and the whole matter adjusted and money paid over to the satisfaction of all concerned. A few
days ago I discovered that an administrator had been previously appointed in the same matter In the superior
PLATE GLASS BREAKERS PAY TOWN ANOTHER VISIT
Crown Point Lawyer Who Is Appearing in Simon-Wickey " Contest at Crown Point and Is Doing Good Work for Republicans. ' .
Plate glass window breakers have arrived in Hammond. A couple of them visited the Standard settlement last night and at 2:10 a. m. broke a window In the clothing store of Henry Zollamtz and tole a $3 pair of shoes. Officers iTrenck and Lamme heard the crash, but, although they took after the thieves, they were unable to catch them. To break a $50 window in order to get a $3 pair of shoes places these thieves in the category of meanest men.
Try a want ad In Thb Times.
NEW AMERICAN POSTAL .
RATE ANGERS GERMAY.
Not Available on English and French
Mall Steamers.
Berlin, Dec. 21. Less enthusiasm
over the 2-ent. German-American let
ter rate, effective on Jan. 1, is appar
ent now In the fatherland, owing to the
tardy realization that the new rate
Is only available for letters going dl
rect to America from German ports,
The people therefore must keep posted
on the sailings of the German liners,
necessitating delays, as the bulk o
the letters for the United States go by
English ' and French lines. The lm perial government will be asked to ex
tend the cheaper rate, regardless of the
route taken.
Coa tinned oa page X.
UNIQUE MUSICAL CORPS Hammond Male Chorus Will
Not Give Any Minstrel Shows.
It may not be a matter of cotnmonr knowledge that Hammond Is the possessor of an institution that Is unique. The Hammond male chorus has been In existence now for a little over three years and during that time It has given five concerts. Although a great deal of outside pressure has been brought to bear asking the chorus to truckle to the element that wants comedy, with its music, it has never lowered the standard of its concerts and resorted to the minstrel field. It has always given the best muslo In the best manner possible and its programs have always been made up of musically worthy and dignified numbers. Its object having been to educate the people to an appreciation of that kind of music. Now here is the interesting thing. Taking our neighboring cities of South Bend, Michigan City, Laporte, Lafayette and Fort Wayne, only the latter has any musical organization of a similar class. South Bend has had some such institutions in the past, but they could not weather the storms and have been allowed to die. That the Hammond Male Chorus has prospered so far speaks well for the musical appreciation of the Hammond people. Any music lovers who has a favorite piece of male chorus music he wants to hear, whether it has been sung by the chorus at any previous concert or not, should send In his request and the numbers receiving the most requests will be given.