Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 194, Hammond, Lake County, 4 February 1909 — Page 1

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Gambling "Joints" in City are Easy to Find and Running Wide Open Every Night

LOCATED OM BROADWAY Proprietor of One Establishment Says He Will Start "Speakeasy." Who said there was no gambling in Gary? Who had any trouble to find a place where the fickle goddess fortune could be wooed? After a personal investigation last night by Times reporters, it was found that three gambling dens, filled with money-separating paraphanalia of every description, have thrown open their doors to the public. How many other places In the city where quiet little games of poker ran be enjoyed without having to present any credentials, cannot be enumerated. Gambling in Gary is running in full blast, and on a scale that almost puts Gary in the running with French Lick. There were but three places discovered In which the "game of chance" was found to be in the form of an es tablished business. Here the roullette wheels, the dice games and the cards, were arranged Invitingly along the walls and in the corners, to Induce the easy"-.ones to fall. The town Is full of habltua'l victims. There is no attempt made by the owners and proprietors of the places to conceal the fact that they are violators of the law. They have swung their doors open to the public, and rich and poor, the wise ones, and the fool are permitted to mingle with the crowds, play, or watch the games just as they choose. The attitude of the proprietors exDress most serene confidence and safety. The gambling "joints" are designated 'Club Rooms" and the three discovered are all located on Broadway, the prin cipal street of the- city. One Is In the rear of the building formerly occupied by the saloon of James Rogers, and now used for a barber shop and pool (Continued on Page Five.) TIGKETS SELLING FOB CONCERT Big Attendance for Barney Young Affair Expected This Evening. Tickets for the Barney Young con cert in Towle opera house this even in ghave had an exceptionally good sale. Is the report from the box office, The indications are that Hammond' popular bandmaster and his players will enjoy a good house. They have worked hard for this evening and they are deserving of success, say those who are connected with the entertainment. and the patrons this evening will not be disappointed. The program is a follows: PART. I. March: "Greater Hammond" Barni Young. Band. ' Overture: "Masaniello" Auber. Reading: Selected Professor W. W Carnes. Cello Solo: "Preludls and Ave Mari Professor Emll Detrich, Mr. Clark Learning, Accompanist. Sextette, from Lucia (by request). Band. PART II. Selection from The Soul Kiss Maurice Levi. Band. Ladies' Chorus: "The Flag of Our Nation," with band accompaniment. Words by Harry S. Chester. Music by Barnie Toung. Reading: Selected Professor W. W. Carnes. Cello Solo, Romanze In E. -Minor Professor Emll Detrich, Mr.Clark Learning, accompanist. - Humoresque on the Merry Widow Waltz H. Belstedt, Jr. Band. Synopsis No. 1. Introduction and waltz. 2. A little German Band. 3. An amateur trombone player. 4. A street piano. 5. A la Rag Banjo, Quartette of Cornets and Traps. 6. Finale a Brain Storm. America Ladies Chorus and Sand.

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Company With $2,500,000 Will Build at Heights, Few Capital Chicago Miles Southeast of Hammond. Organization of a new 3,5OO,O0O steel romiMT. to be locatea whiimhi Hammond, was completed yesterday, The plant will be locate dat Chicago Heights and ground Trill be broken for the buildings within six weeks. The new company is backed by some of the most prominent railroad men and financiers in this city and the east. Its organization is the greatest evidence yet given of the increasing tendency to make the vicinity of Chicago rather than Pittsburg the steel center, of the country. "; . - One thousand skilled workmen, whose pay will range from $6 a day upward, will be brought to Chicago from other steel centers to operate the plant. The new company is to be known as the Inter Ocean company. Leaders Men ot Affairs. The board of directors includes, be sides W. L, Jacoby, president, and W. V. D. Wright, treasurer of the company: E. C. Converse, president Bankers' Trust company, New York. W. T. Graham, president American Can Company, New York. Frederick H. Easton, president Amer ican Car and Foundry company, New York. Julian Kennedy, engineer, Pittsburg. John S. Runnella, vice president Pollman company, Chicago. Arthur Meeker, Armour Co., Chi cago. Mason B. Starring, president Northwestern Elevated railway, . Chicago, Among these men are the leaders who have made successful the American Tin plate company, the American Can com pany, and who are now active In the affairs of the United States Steel cor poration. The plant is being designed by Mr. Kennedy. One of its products will be steel tires for the Wheels of locomo tives and passenger cars. There are three plants in the United States manufacturing steel rims. They are all located In the east. The new plant will start with an equipment on a par with any of .the others, and is ex pected to outstrip them. NVITATIQNS FOB DEBATE Law School Programs Through the Mails Today. Go Invitations for the joint debate be tween the teams of the Lincoln-Jeffer son College of Law, Hammond, and the Illinois College of Law were received through the mails thl smorning. They aroused general comment for their beauty and the artistic taste displayed by the printer, and are a credit to the school. Several hundred invitations have been sent out, and the committee now fears that It will have to contend with a crowded house. The school, however, could not overlook the occasion of inviting as many of the representative people of the city-as possible, and the make-up of the programs Indicates that no expense will be spared to make the evening a memorable one. The admission is free, and the program has been so arranged as to provide entertainment for everybody. New Store Opened. Ortt and Towle have subleased part of their ladies shoe store in the Hammond building to Mrs. Richie and Mies Daisy Mahar of Merrill, Wis., who will open millinery parlors there. This feature In the Ortt store ought to increase the popularity of the place more than ever.

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Grading Contracts Are Let to Hessville Man and Long Deferred . Plans of New York Central Lines- May Soon Come to Climax. KENSINGTON YARDS ABE BADLY CONGESTED Plans Expected To Be Made Public In a Short Time, Which Will . Give Entire New Alignment and Show That Four Tracking: of Road to Calumet Park May Be Objective. The fact that surveyors have been at work on the land owned by the Michigan Central railroad along its right-of-way east of Gibson and that the contract for the grading of the land haa been let to E. Allen of Hessville has given rise to the report that the Michigan Central railroad will at once begin the building of the yards which have been so long In contempla tion, east of Gibson. It is well known In railroad cir cles that the Michigan Central railroad has long planned the construction of large yards east of Gibson. From Gib on and for two miles east of that place the Michigan Central railroad owns a narrow strip of land. Railroad men say that the yards at Kensington are now so congested that there will have to be additional facili ties provided for the road at once. M. C. Lease Expires. It is also a fact that the lease whioh the Michigan Central railroad has with the Illinois Central by which it has used the Illinois Central, Chicago, terminal will expire In two or three years and that the Michigan Central trains will run over another route into Chicago. As the Michigan Central road Is a Vanderbilt line it will probably run over the Lake Shore road Into the LaSalle street station. It was for this reason that the de pot In Hammond was located east of Hohman street. It was for this rea son that the land was bought east o Gibson, where the Michigan Central yards are to be located, when this road will finally be compelled to abandon the yards at Kensington. Consequent ly there is considerable significance in the activity of surveyors and grading contractors in the vicinity of Gibson. Make rlans Public Soon. It Is expected that plans will be made public in a short time which will give the public an idea of the en tire new alignment. The four tracking of the Michigan Central to Calumet Park may have something to do with the new plans and it is possible that some connection will be made with th Nickel Plate road, also a Vanderbilt road. It is understood that not only th yards but the shops of the Michigan Central are to be moved to Gibson and that a division headquarters will be established there similar to that which the Chicago, Indiana & South em has already located there. Division Superintendent J. H. Snyde of Chicago was got on the wire in a effort to confirm the rumors, but h was out of his office at the time an the chief clerk stated that he had noth ing but a general idea that the rail road contemplated some such plans at Gibson. Meets at Gary. The Lake County Medical society was in session at the Gary hotel in Gary this afternoon. Quite a numbe of Hammond physicians went there thi afternoon. The meeting is a joint on between the Lake ccinty organizatio and the Gary society. Drs. J. E. Met i-h.1l ana r. w . cmnn oi tne uarv as sociation were on tho program to read papers on various medical subjects. REVIVALMEETING. Two classes of the Methodist Sunday school will serve as a special choir this evening. The classes of boys and girls, taught by Mr. Claude Laster and Mrs. T. J. Rosenberg, ;will occupy the choir loft. Miss Coronne Ryoer will sing by special request "So We Work Togther, My Lord and I." Miss Ryoer and Miss Shearer will also sing a duet. The sermon tonight will be upon "Making a Covenant With God." Last night the message was, "Humbling One's Self and Becoming Obedient to God." The meeiing was very helpful. Grass of Great Strength. A steel-like grass which grows on the volcanic slopes of Oran, Algeria, is so elastic and strong that It can be used instead of springs in the manufacture of furniture.

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Bastar & McGarry Land Youth Who Got Watch Under False Pretense OFFICER StftEGDES AFTER Hi Danville (HI.) Authorities Make Ar rest of Walter I. Wall, Wanted In Hammond. Bastar & McGarry, Hammond jew elers, are the losers as a result of the douWe-cross which was given them by Walter L. Wall, a young Hammond man, who is now In tle custody of Of ficer Frank Shine and is on his way from Danville to Hammond to answer to the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Wall went to the local jeweler and purchased a watch on the representation that he was going to raffle it oft to help some sick union man. He stated that he had been authorized by the union to make the purchase. Tried to Sell Chances on It. When he got the watch he went around to his friends in Hammond and tried to sell them chances on it. It is said that he sold a lot of chances on the watch and when he thought he had worked the game for all it was worth he skipped out of town and left both the men who had bought chances on the raffle and the Jeweler in the urc. Bastar & McGarry notified the Ham mond police and a warrant was sworn out for the arrest of Walter L. Wall. He was found to have gone to Danville, 111., and the local police telegraphed to the Danville police to arres him there. They received word this morning that he had been arrested and Bailiff Frank Shine was sent down to bring back the prisoner. He is expected back in Ham mond today. MEMBERS ARE EfiLISTEB Directors of New Athletic Club Hold Important Meeting. BOYS ARE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC Skating Rink Furniture Purchased for Furnishing of Ladies' Waiting Room. At a meeting of the directors of the Hammond Athletic club, held in the new club-rooms in the G. H. Hammond company office building, seventeen applications for membership were received and a' large number of others are in sight. It is believed that there will be no difficulty in securing the niney-nine applications which will be admitted under the $2 Instead of the $5 initiation fee, and the enthusiasm manifested was one of encouraging features of the meeting. It was decided last evening to go over the whole building and renovate it so that it will be in shape for the use of the club as soon as possible, A heavy wire netting will be put over the windows so that the boys can play handball, indoor baseball and basket ball. It was also decided to buy the furniture which Manager Herron of the skating rink purchased for the furnish ing of the ladies' waiting room. This will be added to the furniture which the club already has and will go a long way toward furnishing the new quarters. The directors of the club also ten dered their club-rooms to the Men's club whenever they care to use them. They offered the rooms free to the other new organization. "TEXAS." "Texas" will be the attraction at the Towle opera hous"e Monday, Feb. Sth. It Is a cleverly written story of life on the southwestern plains. The author has written well and Intelligently of the people of the Lone Star state, and has made of the play a panorama of life In Texas, the same as "Way Down East" and "The Old Homestead" is of the New England States, and through its homely beauty will probably live along with those plays for many years to come. Today the stage wants realism, and to be successful, it must be authentic. "Texas" is success because it is authentic every setting, every costume, is absolutely correct. The old sweeps, the fences and props were brought from Buckhead Ranch, Valverde county. where the scene of the play is laid. The costumes, the chaps, high-heeled boots and spurs, all come from there, and many of them have been in actual service on that ranch. The management has surrounded the production with everything that will give to it the proper western atmosphere, and a competent cast of people, well-known in the dramatic world, will continued ito Interpret the lines.

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Col. L. T. Meyer Returns From Indianapolis and Brings Encouragement in Shape of Prediction That Hammond Will Win Out. Bl u HIMSELF SIC Hammond Attorney Has a little Wordy Tilt With the Genial T. W. Englehart, Whom He Says Is Working Hard at Capital to Get Gary a Superior Court. LeGrand T. Meyer got back from Indianapolis this morning - and brine many words of Rood cheer for the Hammond attorneys. According to Attorney Meyer, when the Hammond attorneys not to the state capital they found that th enterprising Gary boosters bad everything sewed up. Gary was the biggest place on the northern Indiana map and Hammond was only a fine stop on one or two railroads. It was not long before the senators and representatives, notwithstanding the activity of the representatives from this district In Gary's behalf, saw that things had been misrepresented and now, he says, there is no doubt that the Hammond bill will pass both houses. Colonel Meyer says that Representa tive Wicker has been placed in the position of making copious explana tions, of his attitude, to-the people of North township and that this is taken t omean that he realizes he cannot ig nore Hammond altogether. Bowser Sick Worrying. Is Is said that Senator Bowser has made himself sick worrying orer this court fight. The Hammond men think he was rather hasty" In lining up with the Gary ' men before he had heard from his Hammond, Whiting, East Chi cago and Crown Point constituents and this is what put him in such an awful pickle. It is stated that Senator Bowser is still loyal to Gary, however, and that he will do all he can to get Gary a court and a courthouse. He still takes the attitude that he will not let the Hammond bill go any farther in the senate until the Gary bill has passed the house. The Hammond attorneys have been trying to explain to him that his duty to Gary and his duty to Hammond are done when both the Gary and. Ham mond bills pass the senate, but, so far, he has take nthe view that his representation of Gary also includes the house. Do Good Work. Mr. Meyer states that the Hammond men are doing excellent work in Indianapolis. He especially mentioned Frank Gavit of Whiting, Billy, Edward Simon and William Hastings. Mr. Meyer gives Will Hastings a great deal of credit. He is very popular among all of the senators and representatives and never loses an opportunity to say a good word for the Hammond bill. Mr. Meyer says that Senator Bowser warned Hastings not to take too much interest in the Hammond measure, but the warning did not do miuch good and Hastings is still a very able representative for Hammond. It was expected that the Hammond bill would go to its final reading in the senate yesterday, but when Mr. Bowser was taken sick he took .the court bil lwith him and they were both ' confined to the sick room. The Hammond attorneys have been trying to find out which was the sickest Mr. Bowser or the bill. Euglehurt Enthusiastic. T. W. Englehart of Gary Is one of the busiest of Gary's boosters. Mr. Englehart is in the real estate business and Is one of the Gary business men who think that a courthouse would help lots. Attorney Meyer cornered the genial Gary booster and started a conversation along these lines: "You have a couple of five-cent theaters In Hammond, have you not, Mr. Englehart?" "What has that go to do with the court question," said the Gary real estate man. who knows that the court fight is on every one's mind. "AVell, I was Just thinking that if the people of Hammond knew how industrious you were in bucking Hammond's plans for a courthouse, they might not patronize you as liberally as they have In the past." "I will close up the blooming theaters then." said - Englehart, hotly, and the Hammond man replied: "You might not have to close them up to keep the people out." was Meyer's rejoinder. That is on a par with the report that came to Hammond to the effect that the Gary atorneys had gone to Ed Simon and told him that La Vendors wouldn't look very good to Garyites unless he kept his hands off the court fight. Mr. Simon's answer may be imagined.

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Tracks Chicago Desperado For Many Miles and Hammond Police Make Arrest This Morning

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GETS ra VOL SHIPS Federal Legislation Report ed by Congress Judiciary Committee Will Do Away With City of Traverse and Like Ships. ' Washington. D. C, Feb. 4. The strong arm of the federal government may interpose to break up gambling on Lake Michigan. For many years the state of Indiana has been dl graced by Chicago sports who conduct various gambling games ou ships that ply between Chicago and Michigan City, Ind. One lake-going ship, the City of Traverse, has been noted especially as the refuge of Chicago gamblers who have prosecuted their games with wide-open policy. . ;--- Have-Been Immune. - Heretofore the gamblers have been practically Immune from arrest because of the lndefiniteness of the Jurisdiction of the states of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan over the waters of the lake. Legislation proposed by Repre tatlve Mann of Chicago and reported favorably by the house judiciary com mittee, gives any one of the three states the right to root out and arrest the gamblers wherever their vessel may be found upon- the lake. It In effect does away with hair-splitting distinctions of jurisdiction. The re port of the committee is as follows: "The committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred the resolution to enable the states of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan to determine the Jurisdiction of crimes committed on Lake Michigan, having considered the same, report thereon with a resolution that It do pass. Shows Boundary Conditions. "The northern boundary line of Indiana runs from the southern end of Lake Michigan tct " the boundary line between Illinois and Michigan and it meets in the lake. The boundary line between Illinois and Michigan is In the center of Lake Michigan, so that at one point in the lake near South Chicago and the Calumet harbor is the dividing line between Illinois and Indiana, and at another point In the lake the territorial limits of the states of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan meet at one point. Under these circumstances it is difficult, If nos impossible, to punish crime committed on the lake near or adjacent to these points, as It is Impossible in many cases to prove the venue." MEET II! EAST GHIGAOQ County School Superintendents Hold a Regular Meeting Today. County Superintendent F. F. Heighway and W. Curtis, superintendent of the Crown Point schools, together with Superintendent C. M. McDanlel of the Hammond schools met In Hammond this morning, preparatory to leaving for East Chicago, where the various superintendents of the county were in session today. The officials met in the offices of Superintendent Canine and there discussed the problems which are uppermost in the school life of Lake county today. It was an institute for school superintendents, and was one of a regular monthly session. Reading in the schools was scheduled as one of the principal topics for the round table discussions this evening. Superior Court Adjourns. The superior court has adjourned to Indianapolis. So many of the lawyers are there that it is practically impossible for Judge Virgil S. Relter to carry on the business cf the court.

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GOOD WORK BYOFFICER Sheriff Thomas Grant Does Clever Work After Midnight Last Night. (Special to THE TIMES.) Crews Point, IiUL, Feb. 4. Following pair of never-slip horse sftoes from. the old Hacker Halfway Hnm, between Crown Point aad Cedar Lake to Scherervllle, Sheriff Thomas Grant final ly learned that a horsethief named Wil liam Green was on his way to Hammond and telephoned the police there. The arrest of Green by Officer MHler followed and Tom Grant bas run down his first horsethief. William Green, who gave his name at the police station as Charles Brown, is a tough-looking character from Chicago. He gave his address as 42 South Curtis street, Chicago. FARMER OWMS HORSE. The horse and buggy belonged to Jerry Lewis, who lives in the vicinity of Cedar Lake, and the theft of the rig took place only after a wild evening's revelry in which Lewis and Green had been together much of the time. Lewis and Green started out from Cedar Lake together, according to the garbled story told by the half-intoxicated Green in the jail at Hammond this morning, and went to Lowell. From there they - drove to Crown Point and thenc to the Hacker ii&Wway House, where a dance was being held. It appears that in the meantime both men had been drinking heavily. YOUTHS CELEBRATING, When they arrived at the Hacker place, which is now being run by William Koch, they fouid the crowd having a hilarious time. There was a saloon on the highway in which there were a score or more of half-intoxicated youths. 0 To the rear of the saloon was a dance room, where there were a number of girls and women. At the dance room Jerry Lewis got into trouble with William Green, his new-found friend, and pulled a gun on him. For a time the terror-stricken danc(Continued on Page Five.) B0WLUI6 CONTEST SLATED FOR TONIGHT Hammond Athletic Club Team to Roll Varsity Club Boys. One of the most interesting bowling contests that has ever been scheduled in Hammond will be played at 8 o'clock this evening. The contesting teams will be the Hammond University club and the Hammond Athletic club. The team representing the Hammond Athletic club will be composed of Geib, Btck, Steinmitz, Bradford and Heiser or Debos. The team representing the Hammond University club will be composed of Woods, Gostlln, McAleer, Wilson and Greenwald. It is not believed that two teams could be matched which would be more nearly equai in their bowling strength. Both teams expect to win and there will be a good deal of rooting on both sides. This game has been projected for a long time and it was only this week that It was possible to get the two teams together. It, Is expected that there will be some good scores made and the contest will be well worth seeing. Jacob Schloer to Move. Jacob Schloer has purchased the residence owned by. Tom Rickets, in Homewood. and wiil move there in the spring. Mr. Rickets found the houne too large and he will find smaller quarters. New Fishes in the Sea. In a communication to the Royal Society of Queensland, Douglas Ogilby records the discovery of one new genus and Beven new species of fish. Among these are slender dog shark, Howe's needle fish, long-beaked garfish, the somber leather jacket and others.