Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 179, Hammond, Lake County, 18 January 1909 — Page 1
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WEATHER. Fiilr today, with 'fresh southeast to south winds; Increasing; cloudiness. J 1 CfcJEJj EDITION VOL. III., NO. 179. HAMMOND, INDIANA, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1909. DNC CENT EEB COPY.
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Important Meeting of City Officials in Regard to Water Pollution Takes Place This Afternoon
CLAIM LACK OFDWLEDGE Though Mayor and Board of Health Warned Them, Glucose Co. Officers Plead Innocence. , A meeting of the city officials of Hammond and a few Interested citlsens took place this afternoon In the city hall relative to the water pollution by the sewage of the American Mahte and Products company. The meeting was called for Ii30 and all were present but the officials of; the glucose company, who made the city offtcinls watt until they got good and ready to ar rive. President Kelly and Secretary Gray arrived after 3 o'clock. Mayor Meeker Speaks. Mayor Becker Informed the two officials why they had been summoned before the city officials and it was painful to witness their simulated astonishment Uiat they knew nothing of the fact that their sewage is accused ofbeing responsible for the water con, taminatifn, - The officials very adroitly asked the city officials whejjer they were sure that iv. was the glucose sewage alone that polluttd the water. Dr. Weis Spriugs Surprise. Dr. W. I Weis, secretary of the board of health, added to the glucose officials' pained surprise by informing them, that he himself seven months ago in the presence of the president of the trust which owns the glucose works, had told their superintendent gauger that the sewage was polluting Hammond's water supply. Mayor Becker also called attention to the fact that two months ago he had warned the company. The officials denied that they knew thHr glucose sewage was polluting the water. Mayor Becker then pulled out a copy of The Timf editorial &nd said, "Now, this is what we get for it." The officials cf the glucose company said that It would take a great deal of expense to change their sewage disposal system, but were informed by Mayor Becker that it would have to be done. The meeting adjourned with a p.romise on the part of the glucose officials to let the city know what they were going to do in a week. NOTHER
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Proposed Legislative Apportionment Would Enable This County to Gain in Its Representation at State Capital.
TIMES' BUREAU AT THE STATE CAPITAL. ' Indlauapolln, Ind., Jan. IS. There will be no session of the legislature until this afternoon, at 2 o'clock. It is understood that there will be no business except the introduction of new bills in both houses. The bill to legalize Sunday baseball Js to be introduced today. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. IS. In case the present legislature makes a legislative reapportionment of the state Lake county will get an additional representative. But from the fact that the senate is republican and the house democratic there seems little likelihood that a enew apportionment will be made. The constitution provides that a reapportionment shall be made every six years, but if for any reason it is impossible to make one It may go over until the next session of the legislature. Maps have just been distributed
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P(o)P u uu Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. IS. H. E. Barnard, state food and drug: commissioner, said Saturday that the residents of Hammond were consuming dally great quantities of nitrogen In the water taken from Lake Michigan' for domestic purposes and that the conditions, prevailing in the place are very bad. The state board is powerless to act in the matter, and the only recourse, according to Mr. Barnard, Is for the Hammond 'Water Supply company, the Hammond board of health, Hammond as a city, or for an Individual to institute civil action against the American Maine Products company, accused of defiling the lake water. . . ' "ORY" LAWYER IH CITY Wm. Matthews Adds Ner vousness to the Saloonkeepers' Troubles. William Matthews of Plymouth, the attorney who represents the Anti-Saloon League In this territory, was In Hammond this mornjng looking for At torney Otto Bruce, the local representa tive of the Anti-Saloon League. When asked if the Anti-Saloon League was about to get busy In thi locality Mr. Mathews said that he knew of ' no contemplated activity. He was asked if he expected Judge Virgil S, Reiter to render his decision in the Calumet township saloon cases soon and he said that he had no leda when that decision would be rendered. The saloon Interests, however, always get nervous when Mr. Matthews comes to the city, and they will not have their peace of mind restored until he is out of the city again. Mr. Matthews was the attorney who represented "Rev. George Deuel and the remonstrators in the local option fight at Crown Point when the liquor business in Calumet township Was dealt a body blow. WILL LOCATE HERE H. G. Strumpher has decided to locate in Hammond, and consequently the Redbone hounds which he owns will be available to the sheriff and the police in the event a crime is committed which would make their services valuable. The hounds have been given several tryouts recently. Mr. Strumph er has not yet decide! what he will do but he thinks he will have no dif ficulty in finding a position. REPRESENTATIVE among the members of the legislature showing the voting population of the counties of the state In order that they may be given their proper representation in the senate and the house. The tables accompanying the maps show that there are a total of 728,162 white and 17,065 colored voters in the state. The average population of each congressional district is 57,325, the average for each senatorial district is 14,905 and the average for each representative district Is half of this, or 7,452. Under the constitution the legislature is required to as nearly as Is practical follow the rule of giving the various counties representation in proportion to their population1. Lake county, with Gary and other growing cities up there, now has a votng population of nearly 20,000. There are 19,484 whites and 63 negroes, and has a joint senator with Porter county, which has a voting population of 5,258. The population of Lake county would entitle It to two representatives instead of one, also to a senator of its own and to one joint senator. Marion county would gain one senator and one representative anl Vigo county would gain one representative.
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TUBERCULAR BILL Visit of Representative to Hammond Results in His Getting Bill. WHAT IT PROVIDES FOB Committee Will Meet Next Wednes day With Attorney Conroy to Take Action. AVhen Representative E. W. Wickey was In Hammond yesterday Attorney Joseph Conroy took that opportunity to present to him, for introduction in the house, a bill providing for the indemnification of formers who lose cattle us a result of tuberculosis. The bill, which Mr. Conroy has prepared, provides that" the maximum amount which can be claimed for indemnity for the loss of a cow is $70. The measure of relief which he advocates Is the amending of the act which created the office of state veterinarian to provide ofr this indemnity when cattle are ordered killed. What It Provides. - To provide against the shipping into the state of diseased cattle in order to be reimbursed for the loss of his herd must show that the cattle have been in the state at least six months and that they were not bought from a diseased herd. A graduated scale of Indemnities which provide for only a partial payment when part of the dead animal Is available for use is provided for. The presenting of this bill to Mr. Wickey will not do away with the proposed meeting of the committee, which is to be held in the office of Attorneys McMahon and' Conroy next Wednesday. This committee will go over a copy of the bill and will make any alterations which may be deemed advisable. Whatever changes are made will be made known to Representative Wickey before the bill is Introduced. FIDELIA HOLDS MEETING Building Committee of Singing Society Meets With Clerk Duelke. The building committee of the Ham mond Saengerbund Fidelia held an Informal meeting yesterday afternoon in the office of the city clerk. Otto Duelke. Now business as transacted, however, the meeting being called merely to talk over the building proposition for the new club-house. At Its next regular monthly meeting on the first Monday In February the names of about fifty applicants will presented for admission. BUSINESS CHANGE R. A. Borg Buys Out the National Shoe Store. The National Shoe store at No. 269 East State street has changed , hands. Mr. R. A. Borg, the new proprietor. will open the place for business In a few days. The announcement of the opening day will be made In TriE Times on Tuesday. . Mr. Borg proposes to conduct the business on modern and up to date lines. lie knows the shoe business from A to Z and his many friends and acquaintances in Hammond, where he has lived the greater part of his life wish him success. FUNERAL TOMORROW Sister of Hammond LadyInterred in Mornin. Rev. Andrew BejenkowskI of Footdale, Pa., near Pittsburg, will read the requiem mass for his aunt, Mrs. Joseph Szyraanski, who died at her home in South Chicago last Friday evening. The funeral services will be held at the Immaculate Conception church In South Chicago tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be In Holy Cross cemetery In West Hammond. Brothers-in-law f the deceased w-ill act as pall-bearers, this having been the dying wish of Mrs. Szymanski. Mrs. Szymanski was a si6ter to Mrs. Paul B. Lipinskl and Joseph Hojnacki of this city. Her nephew, the Rev. BejenkowskI, is a young priest who was ordained only last summer. Prior to his ordination he had visited his relatives in South Chicago and Hammond. PRESENTS PETITION (Special to The TimesO Washington, II. C Jan. IS. In the United States supreme court today, counsel for the Harriman interests presented a petition for a rehearing in the Chicago & Alton rebate ease where the court had been evenly divided. HE PUT ON THE SHOW. James 'J. Shea, who gives him place of residence at Buffalo, N. Y., came to Hammond to "put on a show." He was picked up by his Hammond police and will be compelled to pay the usual Jl and costs.
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Acts to Define 31st and 32nd Judicial Circuits ' Which Are to Be Presented This Week to the Legislature of State. BAR ASSOCIATION One Bill "Gives Lake County Circuit Court of Its Own and the Other Gives LaPorte and Porter Coun ties a Separate Circuit of Their Own One Follows the Other. (Special to The. Times) Crown Point,- Ind., Jan.. IS Ttwh bllln have br-en drawn up by the Crown Point Bar annotation dealing with the eatabliiihmeot of conrtn in Lake county an well a in I.aporte and Porter. The flrxt bill which will be presented to the legislature is as follows: AN ACT TO DEFINE THE THIRTYFIRST AND SIXTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUTS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA, AND PROVIDING THE TIMES FOR HOLDING THE COURTS THEREIN AND THE LENGTHS OF THE TERMS THEREOF. Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the state of Indiana, That the' county of Lake shall be and constitute the thirty-first Judicial dis trict, and that the county of Porter shall be and Constitute the sixty-seo-ond judicial circuit. " '. Section 2. In each of said counties the terms of court shall be held on the first Mondays In January, March, May, September and November of each year, and shall continue for eight weeks If the business of said courts shall require it. Section 3. Upon the taking effect of this act, the governor shall appoint and commission a judge and prosecuting at torney for said sixty-second judicial circuit, who shall hold their offices un til the next general election there after, and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified. Section 4. All writs, subpoenas, venires, rules, orders of court, recogniz ances, publications, processes, and no tices, heretofore made or issued, or which may hereafter be made or Is sued, having reference to or return (Continued on page 7.) SGHLOER MAKES REPORT TO BOARD Board of Public Works Apprised of Illegal Act of Railroad Company. ( DOUGLAS PARK LAGOON DRY Action of Eailroad Companies Which Times Called Attention Considered By Board. to At the meeting of the board of public works this morning Jacob Scholer, member of the board, called the attention of his brother members to the fact that the Fort Wayne Railroad company is consistently attempting to close up the water channel connecting Wolf lake with Lake Michigan. This is the outrage which The Times has long been fighting The board will visit the scene of the railroad company's depredation this week and then take some action to have the channel cleared out again. Mr. Schloer told the other board members that he had occasion yesterday to visit Douglas Park. He said that he found the water reservation in the park dry and that with the railroad company's policy carried to its finality, Douglas Park would, not even have a duck pond, much less a lagoon. The attempts of the corporations to close up this channel have been brought to the atetntion of the city officials and the public repeatedly, and in such an event the offending companies would desist temporarily. Last summer the opening was still large enough for a boat to pass under the bridge, but, according to Mr. Schloer's statement before the board of public works this i morning, this is now impossible.
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. Mrs. Shively and her two sons and daughter sat especially for this plctiye on their return trip from the scene of Mr. Shlvely's triumph at Indianapolis, where he was chosen by the democratic majority in the legislature to succeed James A. Hemenway in the United States senate. More than a thousand letters and telegrams congratulating Mr. Shively on his victory in th senatorial contest have been received by him. One of the first to send word was "Wm. J. Bryan. He said: "You will stand among the big men of the United States senate." Others who sent word are Capt. J. M. Guffy of Pennsylvania and Roger C. Sullivan of Chicago.
SHOW IS QUITE P0ORLYPATR0HIZED "Man From Home" Draws Poor House Last Night at Tovries. HALL IH THE STELLAR ROLE Best Attractions on Stage Come to Hammond To Be Sadly Disappointed. "The Man From Home," with Henry Hall in the stellar role, in which Will T. Hodge has made such a reputation, came to Hammond last evening and failed to attract theater-Koers, who seems to be orjInK for more Bon ton Girlies or another seance of Boston Belles. Of course, the crowd which did attend was pleased with the show and those w ljo have seen the inimitable Will T. Hodge say that Mr. Hall comes aa near to Hodge's art as could be expected. A great many people stayed away for fear that that Hall would be a failure, but. in this presumption they were wrong and they missed one of he best shows that has come to Hammond recently. ' . Ashamed to Settle with Them. Manager Nye says that he was "as'hamed to settle with the manager of the show.' Hammond is the tenter of a population , of .; 50,000 pr-ople and is getting attractions that are equal to those which are shown in cities like Indianapolis, South Bend and. "Grand Rapids and yet the public fails to support them. But Manager Nye is not going to give up yet. He expects to have the Isle of Spice, with a first rate company and a' number of other good attrac tions. He thinks it Is a question of educating the people. He is also planning to have more shows on week, nights and on nights in the latter part of the week so that those who.are averse to going to shows on Sunday may have the opportunity of patronizing them. As soon as the people of Hammond, Whiting. Fast Chicago and Indiana Harbor become convinced that they can get as good attractions in Hammond as they can in Chicago they will give the local theaters their patronage. And if they don't it is Uncle Tom's Cabin and Jenny, the Beautiful Sewing Ma chine Girl" for us. STANDARD GETS ORDER The Standard Steel Car company which has been running on a conservative basis during the pnst few months, has received an order from the Lake Shore railroad for l.OOO self-clearing hopper cars. Another order was received from Pittshnrg from lie Lake Krle road for r00 cars nnder similar contracts. This ortler Is not a large one and yet It is expected to keep the plant in operation until other orders are received in the early spring. The Lake Shore road is orderins 2,000 cars in all and part of the order went to the American Car and Foundry company.
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MOTION HOUR III SUPERIOR COURT Hoffman vs. the Hammond Boiler Works Is to Be Tried. This morning was motion hour In the Lake superior court. There were thirty or forty lawyers present in court looking after the interests of their clients. This aftenoon Judge Virgil S. Reiter took up a miscellaneous lot ot cases and disposed of them. One was the divorce' case of Height vs. Halght. Next Wednesday th trial of civil jury cases will be taken up d will be continued indefinitely. The first case to be tried Wednesday is the case of Hoffman vs. the Hammond Boiler works. GAME TO BE REVIVED Th fighting game is to be revived over in West Hammond and the slow process of getting the confidence of J the fight fans and securing their patronge will begin. It is estimated that it will take some time to convince the sports in West Hammond that some one will not step In at the lost moment and spoil all of the plans for a fight. However, a -fight between. Mahoney and O'XeiUis scheduled for the 27th of this month and the. West Hammond sports say that it is sure, to be pulled off. , Morris Champaigne has been ask ed to referee the bout and may accept the offer. - - . GO!!. MARSHALL
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State Executive Says Indiana Is Not in Financial Condition at Present Time to Support and Keep Up $150,000 House.
TIMES BUREAU, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 18. Governor Marshall has announced that he is opposed to the expenditure of $150,000 of the state's money for the erection of a house for the governor to live in in this city. A bill for an appropriation of that sum was introduced In the senate by Senator Cox. Governor Hanly, in his last message, recommended an appropriation of $75,000 for that purpose. "In the first place," said Governor Marshall, "the state of Indiana is not in a financial condition to spend that amount of money for a house for the governor. In the next place $150,000 would erect a house that the average man who would be elected governor could not afford to maintain on his salary. This would mean that the state w-ould be obliged to maintain It for him, pay the servants and keep up the running expenses. I do not feel that the state should be asked to do this for a governor. In case a millionaire should be elected governor some day he might be able to maintain such a house, but the average man could not. "My personal idea of the matter is
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GKHIS DEDICATED Impressive Ceremonial At Which Rt. Rev. Bishop Alerding OflQciates, Takes Place at Beautiful New Edifice Yesterday. I! IET IS 'FINELY EULOGIZED New Structure Cost $30,000 and Adds to the Beauty of Hammond In Many Ways Solemn Services Are Witnessed By Hundreds of Devout Worshippers. . v Impressive ceremonies, a solemn high mass, a sermon unsurpassed for thought and delivery, and a dinner, at which 700 feasted, rounded out the day which marked the dedication of the new All Saints' church and school, and conmemorated the thirteenth annual .anniversary of the coiurresation. A thousand people crowded the new structure to its eaparity for the forenoon services, and comment upon the beauty and spaciousness of the nevr building was beautiful. Bishop Alerding Officiates. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Joseph Alerding of the Fort Wayne diocese officiated and was assisted by the Rev. H. M. Plaster of 'Hammond, the Rev. . T. J. Mungovan of Indiana Harbor, the Rev. F. J. Delaney of St. Patrick's church of Fort Wayne and Fathers Smith, -and Simon of Collegevllle. Thirty attar boys preceded the clergy, and during the high mass took their place at the foot of the santuarlum. The dedicatory services lasted for half an hour, after which the solemn high mass was begun. Before the Credo, the Rev. Delaney delivered the sermon for the day. He had an attentive and appreciative audience, among which were many nonCatholics. He choose for his theme, "Wisdom Hath Built Herself a Home," and this coupled with the fact that the building just dedicated was built main, ly for educational purposes furnished the subject matter In his explanation of the Catholic church's aim to provide parochial schools. Government Individual and Religion. Hhe credited religion with being the foundation for good government and personal liberty such as are assured every one under the constitution of the United States. He gloried in a government aa provided for in that document, and hoped that its spirit may never die out. He deplored the fact, however, that religion had been eliminated from the schools and pointing to the existing conditions of today, by which the dearest possession that the Continued on pas' 2 IS that If the state decides at all to build a house for the governor $15,000 to $20,000 would be enough to spend on it. That sum of money would put up a house plenty good enough for any governor and one that he could maintain on his salary. If the people should elect a millionaire as governor of the state and he did not wish to live in such a house that would be his business. He could take a larger and finer house if he was willing to pay for it himself. "The people of the state are paying all the taxes they should be required to pay. Taxes should be decreased instead of increased. My own personal views with reference to an appropriation for a house for the governor are right in line with the policy of economy that I have recommended la my message. STATE HAS RIGHT i Special to THE TIMES.) Washington, D. C, Jan. IH. The supreme court today decided that the Waters-Pierce Oil company lost Its case before the court. The state has a prior right on the federal government.
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