Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 336, Hammond, Lake County, 25 March 1909 — Page 1

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VOL. m., XO- 336. Calumet Traction Company, New Syndicate to Connect Cities of Calumet Region-, Makes Public Proposed Route in One City. II iDON ASK FOR FRAHGHISE FROH CITY Itoute Mapped Out for New Line Will Answer Purpose of People of Indiana Earbor and East Chicago Better Than Any Other Line Direct Connections Many Ways. (Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind., March 25. The Calumet Traction company, the Mn- interurban enterprise connecting the cities ot East Chicago. Indiana Harbor, Hammond, Gary and Crown Point, lias readied an agreement as to the streets its wishes to occupy with its proposed lines, through Indiana Harbor and East Chicago. It will ask for a. franchise over the following route most likely at the next council meeting. The start as planned will be from the Iake Shore depot in Indiana Harbor along Regent street to Watling; on Watling to Block; on Block to Michigan avenue; on Michigan avenue to Pennsylvania avenue; on Pennsylvaia avenue to "Was hington street; on Wash ington to Cedar street; on Cedar to One Hundred and Thirty-seventh; on One Hundred and Thirty-seventh back to Michigan'; on Michigan avenue to Kennedy, on Kennedy to One Hundred and Fifty-first: on One Hundred and Fifty-first to Todd avenue; on Todd avenue to One Hundred and Fortyeighth and thence on One Hundred and Forty-eighth to White Oak avenue, the dividing street between Hammond and Kast Chicago. Otiier Plan Xot Yet Public. The company is not yet prepared to make public their plans as to what streets they propose to occupy in other cities which will be traversed by their lines. The route as mapped out by the Calumet Traction company is one that wil lanswer the purpose of the people of Indiana Harbor and East Chicago as well if not better than any line that could be proposed. It gives a direct connection between the Lake Shore depot in Indiana Harbor, this Inland mills, and the business portion of the Harbor, through the foreign district of the city as well as the best residence districts and at the same time wil ltako care of the travel to and rrom the various plants along the canal. It gives Oklahoma transportation as well as all that part of East Chicago, lying south of Chicago avenue. The proposed line will also give direct communication without changing cars between the Lake Shore depot in Indiflna Harbor, and Hammond by way of Iast Chicago. The running time will not exceed thirty-five minutes from terminus to terminus. Tiie route laid out will also give Grasselli, Gibson. Osborne and Hessville eas yaccess to Indiana Harbor and East Chicago, as it will all the towns along the line to Crown Point, which will be the southern terminus of the main line. Provided a reasonable franchise can be had from the city of East Chicago, and there seems to be no reason why the council should not be very glad to grant such a franchise, the citizens of East Chicago and Indiana Harbor can look forward to unexcelled transportation facilities in the very near future. The men who are behind the new organisation are ready to begin the practical work immediately on the granting of the franchise. ! WINTER GOMES AGAIN Snow, Sleet and Rain Accompany Chilly Breezes and Bad Weather. Did winter return to Lake county yesterday, probahlv just to see how Miss Spring was getting along and how she was conducting herself. If the truth must be told he was not gladly welcomed. The weather man is authority for the statement that the visit of old winter, this time at least, will be short and that he probably' will blow himself out of the vicinity byFriday. Winter brought with him a left over assortment of snow, sleet, rain and some chilling breezes. He will be on the scene' again today and -will cause the temperatuTe to drop somewhat lower than it did yesterday. In the meantime Mies Spring is arranging her new wardrobe.

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CONSIDERING PHONE RIGHTS FOB BURNHAM Chicago Telephone Comparty Seeks Franchise , Suburb. ADJOURNED MEETING SAT. Provisions in Pranchise Will Gone Over Again By the Board Members. Be (Special to Thb Times.) Burnham, 111., March 25 The village board will hold an adjourned meeting next Saturday afternoon in order to give further consideration ti the Chicago Telephone company franchise, for which the corporation is asking. The matter was brought up at the board meeting last night, but no decided action was taken, as there are a number of clauses in the proposed franchise about which the board wishes to have a thorough understanding with the telephone company. Burnham has a number of telephones now, but there Is no general service, and the people of the town are generally in favor of the installation of the system provided a reasonable franchise will be granted. There having been only one bid received for the pumping station, which is to be erected on Howard avenue, they will go over this bid as a committee of the whole and decide on the manner of investment. The bid was submitted by a Chicago Heights firm. IfiTERURBAilS TO BE SLOGAN Membership of Hammond Business Men's Club Meets. "Interurbans for Hammond," that is the slogan of the Hammond Business Men's association. It has been decided to make a campaign for interurbans in this city that will attract the eyes of promoters in all parts of the United States o he grea posslbiliies of development along these lines. The fact will be pointed to that Hammond is the center of a population of 50,000 to 60,000 people. That the region is sure to grow until In a few years it will have a population of a quarter of a million. That Hammond is the natural roadway to Chicago and that by passing through Hammond on the way to Chicago, the various lines will be benefited bv the enormous traffic which now exists between Hammond and the metropolis of the west. Interurbans! Interurbans! Interurbans. Dozens of them, if they will come, will be welcomed into the city. Their entrance into Hammond will be maae easy and no franchises will be awarded which will give any one line J a monopoly of the streets of this city. The Hammond Business Men's association will be back of this movement and every property owner in Hammond should join the organization so that the attracting of more interurbans can be done unitedly. Mamt Get Ren dr. This will involve the widening of streets, the opening of thoroughfares, where stub end streets now exist, trie careful guarding of the streets from monopolistic companies who desire franchises and an enlightened public sentiment which will not think that every Interurban company is backed by a set of corrupt franchise grabbers. If necessary, interurban officials must be received with open arms, they must be wined and dined, they must hear honied words of affection, they must be given franchises upon which it is possible to sell their bonds and in return it is expected that they will bring In hundreds of people from the country districts who will trade in Hammond merchants and who will make j Hammond the business center of the I region. That Is the plan that has been out lined by the membership of the Hammond Business Men's association, and it is with that klrd of a plan in contemplation that the work of securing members will be undertaken. lilAVOR BECKER BETTER Friends Show Solicitude, j But Cold Is the Only Trouble. Mayor Becker, although somewhat improved today, was not able to be at his office, being still afflicted with a bad cold. He hoped yesterday that his Illness would not prevent him from tending to his business today, but the desired improvement did not 'come as fast as he wished it might. Neither he nor his friends see anything s-rlou however, in his present ailment, which is due to a bad cold.

HAMMOND, II OUTS I Lulu Pio Accuses Her Hus band of Giving Her Only Six-Tenths of a Cent Per Day for Spending Money for One Month. BRINGS MANY SERIOUS CHARGES Alleged Sensational " Acts of Husband Bring Him Into Superior Court Brutality, Non-Support and Other Shameful Accusations Brought By Wife. It may have been "Lulu, my dear," and "Lonnie, my love" away back In 1906 when they were married, but Lulu and Lonnie are now at sword's points, and she even goes to the extent of accusing him of visiting places of ill-repute in West Hammond in the complaint for a divorce, which she has filed in the Lake superior court. The parties to the controversy are Lulu Pio and Lonnie Plo of Hammond. In the complaint she is the plaintiff and alleges that they were married Feb. 7, 1906. She says he abandoned her Dec. 3, 1907. Probably the most peculiar allegation made in the complaint is that from December. 1907, to January, 1908, he gave her only $1 spending money. She claims the -10 of a cent a day is hardly enough pin money and she offers this as proof of the fact that he was not prodigal in his expenditures tor her. She says she was finally compelled to live with her parents in Hammond, because he refused to support her and that he refused to allow her enough money with which to return to her friends at Indianapolis. Abandoned In Distress. Furthermore, she says he is a worthless, lazy, fellow, and at the time of the birth of her child refused to come and see her or to bear any of the expenses attending the bringing up of their child into the world. She says at one time he blackened her eyes and she was compelled to see a physician on account of her Injuries. She claims that he not only visited West Hammond on trips of a questionable character, but has been compelled to go there in search of him when he was missing from home and she suspected that he was there. Mrs. Pio claims that Mr. Pio did not deny that he associated with women of bad character, and lie frequently told her of his escapades, Just to make her angry, she asks for an absolute divorce and the custody of her child. ANOTHER CO. GOES DRY Ohio Joins the Ranks of Temperance, Making 58 Out of 92. Indianapolis. Ind., March county yesterday voted "dry' jority of thirty-two. This 25. Ohio by a mamakes a total of fifty-eight dry counties in the state. Ohio is a small county and only four saloons are effected. The contest was heated, however. The temperance forces opened the day by an early morning prayer meeting. Women dispensed coffee and sandwiches at the polling places. Today Elkhart and Orange counties will vote. The result in the former county is admitted to be doubtful. Eoth Elkhart and Goshen, cities of over 10,000 population, are in the county and are being claimed by the liquor forces. TEST WOMAN'S MIND TODAY Inquiry into the sanity of Miss Nina A. Pattee, who wrote 1.000 letters to hundreds of persons of prominenece in the past three months, will be made today at the detention hospitay in Chicago. Miss Pattee formerly taught school in Hammond, and her story was given In these columns last Monday. Four of the members of the Wabash College Glee club, which appear in Hammond March 31 at the Methodist church under the auspices of the local high school, are known as "The Big Four." They alone can make things Interesting. jt

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DEVELOPMENTS OF DAY IN KIDNAPING CASE, 1 Suicide of Mrs. Mary Diemer oi xoieao, u., m Cleveland af ter her arrest for some unex plained connection with the case. lM & 2 Positive identification by Willie Whitla of James Boyle and xne woman arrested with him as his kidnapers. f & 3 Confession of the mysterious "Mrs. Boyle" that she is Willie Whitla's "Mrs. Jones." & 4 Proceedings against Boyle and alleged wife before the grand jury in Cleveland. $g 5 Rumors that some skeletons in the family closets of connections of the Whitlas may be disclosed as a result of the kidnaping. M M 5i? 6 The dragging into the case of the name of Harry Foraker's wife and the evident unwillingness of Foraker to face the woman who has confessed her part in the crime. & 7 Disinclination of the Cleveland police and prosecuting officers to allow the return of the prisoners to Pennsylvania for fear that the case against them would not be pushed to the limit. DRINK CAUSES TBOOBLE Father Charged With Trespass Is Found Not Guilty by Judge. Martin Sunenstine lived with his wife eig-hteen years and has been divorced fro mher for seventeen years, according to the testimony he gave in Judge William McMahon's city court this afternoon when he was on trial for trespassing In the residence of his daugh ter, Mrs. Evans, of this city. Acro-rcT'rrg-'T'-" Wo tetrmony of Mrs. Sunenstine, her husband and Mrs. Evans, their daughter, the husband and father is a good, kind man until jne begins drinking and then he makes life unbearable for all of them. In Akron, Ohio, where the Sunenstines formerly lived, his conduct became so reprehensible that his wife was compelled to break up her home and leave for Hammond, where she could have the protection of her daughter's family. Sunenstine followed them and again began drinking. As soon as he began to Imbibe too freely he caused trouble, and the result was his arrest on the charge of trespassing. The judge did not find him guilty of trespass for the reason that he had not been ord-ered off the premises, but he did warn him that if he went back he would be arrested and convicted of the charge. DEATH OFJL HAZZARD Hammond Pioneer Passes Away at His Home in Chicago. Alex Hazzard, a pioneer of Hammond, died yesterday morning at 10 o'clock at his home in Chicago, 651S Peoria street. He had been ill for some time and his death follows shortly after that of his wife and a daughter, Mrs. John Wedel. Hazzard lived in Hammond for nearly twenty-five years, having been employed for a greater part of the time on the killing floor of the G. H. Hammond company. He was still with that company after he moved to Chicago. He is survived jby two daughters, the Misses Bertha and Charlotte Haziard, and by one son, William Hazzard. The funeral has been arranged for tomorrow and interment will be at Oak Hill cemetery, in Hammond, at 2 o'clock. FASL5 TO JBD -HEALTH Aubrey Lewis Dies at the Home of His Brother Yesterday. Having come to Hammond in search) -i ins last cooing neaith, due to consnmptlon. Aubrey A. Lewis died yesterday afternoon at the home of his brother, Omer T. Lewis, 321 Walter street. Aubrey A. Lewis was a musician and came from his home in Cloma. Ind., in company with his wife, hoping- that the change of location would benefit him. They had been married only a little -more than a year. Services will be held this evening at 7 o'clock at the Walter street home. The body will be shipped to CWicago tomorrow morning and from there over the C. I. & S. to West Melcher, Ind., and from thence to Colom.-i. Lewis was 31 years old.

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Standard Steel Car Workers Employed on Piece Work Not to Be Cut, But no Step Has Been Taken Yet on Day Men. FEW CARS ARE BEING BUILT fJQW Local Concerns Are Waiting for Ac tion on the Part of Their Competitors Before Taking Steps Simplex Officials Do Not 'Look for Wage Reductions. The reports over the country that there is to be a general reduction in the wages of the men have raised the question as to whether any of the Hammond plants are to be affected by the wage reduction. Superintendent Douglas of the Standard Steel Car company's plant in Hammond was interviewed this morning, and asked if there would be any re duction of wages among his men. Mr. Douglas said that many of the men in the employ of the Standard Steel Car company are on piece work and that they would not be affected. As to the necessity for making reductions in the wages of the men who are being paid by the day, Mr. Douglas said he did not know what would be done. l)epnda on Competition. He stated It would depend largely upon what their competitors are do ing. He sal.1 there are so few cars being- btrilt now that all of the car builders are making their bids as low as possible. Some of these bids are based on a reduction in the wages of men. Mr. Douglas says all of the car manufacturers must pay the same price for steel and if one is able to underbid another to any great extent it Is on account of his ability to get labor cheaper. As long as the Standard Steel Car company can get orders and keep running at Hammond and make a little money on the orders that are taken, it will continue to do so, but when its competitors start to cutting the wages of their men the Standard will have to do likewise, in order to meet the competition. When Mr. Thomas of the Simplex Railway Appliance company was asked If there was any reduction in wages in prospect he said he had not heard of any. RECORDS Chicago Police Hunting for New Clews in Mystery. relieving ttiat the hunter, whose rotting skull bones were found in the Kankakee marsh in Lake county several days ago, might be a Chicago man, the local police began a search of the records and of all missing men for the last six months yesterday. The place where the body was found Is a mecca for Chicago hunters. The Lake county authorities have no further clues to the identity of the missing man and will probably never be told further. DENY KILLING OF IN South Chicago Police Department Today Disclaims Murder Story. The reported murder of a cook by a man named Burns, who keeps a re sort on W olf lake, was vigorously denied today by the South Chicago police department. They assert that as far as their knowledge is concerned there was no killing there, and the desk sergeant declared that there was no report on the blotter of any reported arrests. Superintendent Thompson of the Wolf Lake Ice house, says that Burns, while under the influence of liquor, had some trouble with a hanger-on at the place. As Burns lives on the Illinois side, no report was made at the local police station.

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SUES FOR DAMAGES 111 SUPERIOR COURT Mike Polok Wants Two Thousand Dollars From Inland Steel Co. VICTIM OF PECULIAR ACCIDENT Cinder Snapper Suffers Mutilated Face As a Result of Breakof Hook. Mike Polok, through his attorney P. A. Parks, has brought suit in the Lake superior court to recover damages from the Inland Steel company for injuries he is said to have received while at work for that company as a "cinder snapper." Mike Porbk claims that on Dec. 20. 1908, while at work in the plant of the Indiana Steel company he was requested by Steve Dobrowski, the first helper, to assist in taking some scrap from the "runner." The "runner" is a trough through which the metal runs to the ladle. They were unable to pry the "scrap," which is hardened metal, from the "runner" and attempted to loosen it by means of the traveling crane. The chain from the traveling crane was lowered and the hook was made fast to the scrap and then the engines were started in the hope that the "scrancould be pulled out. The hook at the end of the chain broke, and the iron block flew up and struck Mike Polok in the face. The blow was so strong that many of the bones in his face were broken and lie was knocked unconscious, accordine to the complaint. The nlai ney asks $1,990 damages, $200 for doctors' bill and all other proper relief. The case is one of many that occur and reoccur in the big steel plants in the region every day, and which make the manufacture of steel a more hazardous occupation than that of being a soldier. ATTENDS GRAND - LODGE MEETING Grand Lodge of Perfection Meets for Work in Indianapolis. Dr. H. K. Sharrer is in attendance at the sessions of the grand lodge of the Masonic lodges at Indianapolis. Sixtyfixe master Masons received the degrees of Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection yesterday afternoon ad last night at the opening session of the fnrfv. fourth annual convocation of the Scottish Rite of Indiana. The initiates come from all parts of the state, and the degrees conferred were 4 to 14, inclusive. James W. Lilly was master of the lodge and Frank T. Saulter acted as master of ceremonies. The same class of candidates this morning received the fifteenth and sixteenth degrees from Saraiah Council. Princes of Jerusalem, under the direction of Charles 6. Barker, sovereign I prince, and John A. George, master of ceremonies. Indianapolis Chapter of Rose Croix conferred the ' seventeenth and eighteenth degrees this afternoon. Homer A. Sampsell was master of the council and Arthur K. Baxter was master of ceremonies. The annual convocation dinner will follow the. work in the council and will begin at 6 p. m. Tomorrow, beginning at 10 a. m., Indiana Consistory, which controls the nineteenth to the thirty-second degree, will take up worn or initiation and will the convocation at 10 p. m. close j GIVE POLICE TROUBLE Four Drunks Are Picked-" Up by the Police Last Night. Four drunks were picked up by Officers Borchert and Trlnen and Special Officer Winkler last night and taken to the station, where ihey were all found guilty and were fined the usual $1 and costs, amounting to $11. Frank Vanderburg was the most unruly of the four men and caused the police considerable trouble. He tried to break some beer bottles on the cement sidewalks in West State street in Hammond, after he had been to the fight in West Hammond, and when the officer told him to stop he became abusive. The result was his arrest and ultimate conviction. Burt Davis. Joseph Miller and George Oasley were the other men who were arrested. Davis was from Peru, Miller from Seattle and Oasley from Marion. Superintendents Here. The county superintendent and the city superintendents from over the county are in Hammond today making an inspection of the local schools. One has been assigned to each school room iiuu iney wiu mane a study of methods in vogue here. the

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EDITION ONE CENT PER COPY, Auditor Billheimer Says He Has Not Promised a Job in His Office to Hammond Man, But May Do So Shortly. HAD ALREADY PROMISED HASTINGS Anti-Saloon League People and Prohiibtionists Have Begun to Scrap Over the Matter of Calling a Local Option Election In Marion County Town. TIMES' ni'BEAU AT STATE CAPITOL. Indianapolis. Ind., March 25. Auditor of state John C. Billheimer savs the !Etftlmant it - , , wioi. . j. castings, of Hammond, is promised a job in his office is not correct. He says that he has not made any promise to anyone and that Hastings is merely an applicant for a place in the office and that he has the same chance as any of the others of the applicants for Jobs. This is entirely different from the reports put out before Billheimer returned from Detroit, yesterday morning Up to that time it was said that Hastings had the promise of a Job. and Hastings ji.rrif.eii. came to tow n for me purpose of taking a job understood. so It was AVhnt He Safrt. Billheimer does not sav that Hastngs will not get the job he is lookng for. He merely says that no prom.Ises -have, been- msrto. 'PiOhebixM' a!t,0 refuses to tell anything about the ,eorganization of the force In his office. He says that Harvey C. Cheney, of Lafayette, who came into the office the other day and took William H. Quick's desk as settlement clerk is there to do some special work, but he does not tell how long Cheney will stav. And he does not tell what has become of Quick, or whether he will return or not. In fact, there is an air of secreacy about the whole business. Probr On Ciriddle. Some of the anti-saloon people are saying that the prohibitionists are trying to put them in a hole in the matter of calling a local option eleotion in Marion county, and incidentally 1 V. . 1 . . . ... ...r worn: oi me league in the en ure state, it has always been kno wn mat the anti-saloon prohibitionists have gether in the effort people and not pulled to wine out the "muui nunc, anil frequently this contrariness of opinion shows itseif. The anti-saloon people are trying to get rid of the liquor traffic by eliminating saloons. The prohibitionists are not satisfied with this plan. Thcv believe that ,he rnanufa f t tire ,md sale of 1 n - a,.,,, nquors should be prohibited ahoslutely. and that there should h no temporizing with the traffic. They say that any law that re.oKniZPS th liquor traffic in any manner is wrong and that is why they have alwavs opposed local option. They contend that it is wrong to allow people of a countv to have saloons even though they want them. What They Say. The prohibitionists say now, however, that since the local option law i.t on the statute books it should be made use of to drive out saloons, because when nearly all the saloons in the state have been wiped out it will then be easy to enact absolute prohibition. For that reason they are contending that now Is the time to hold an election in Marlon county. Thev sav thnr. should be no further dd.-iv r?nt n,. ay they fear that the Anti-Saloon League is not able to handle such a big affair. They fear that the league will fail, though they say that a thoroughly competent organization couTcl succeed. But the anti-saloon people are of the opinion that the prohibitionists are trying to force them into an election in Marion county when they know that the result would be extremely doubtful, and that the vote would probably carry the county. In that way the league would get a black eye. they say. and the prohibitionists would have a good laugh. But the anti-saloon people say they will not be caught In that trap, and that they will not try to bring on an election in Marion county until they feel sure they can win. This is not a new antagonism between the anti-saloon people an(1 th( prohibitionists. It has been on for years in fact, ever eince the league was organized. H. E- Grander Being Sued. The Chicago Rlverdale Lumber company has brought suit in the Lake superior court against H. E. Granger to recover $150. which it alleges i3 dua the company In settlement for an account of $3, accrued inUretst and attor. ci's fees.

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