Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 264, Hammond, Lake County, 27 April 1909 — Page 1

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Gary and Interurban Grant Will Re ceive Attention From the City Fathers This Evening

MAYOR WILL HOT BE THERE His Constituents Make Life a Burden These Days for Alderman Pascaly. The Gary & Interurban franchise will be formally Introduced In the Hammond city council this evening, a special session having been called by Mayor Becker for that purpose. Mayor Becker will not be there in person, but notices for the special meeting were sent out by him just the same. If the franchise meets with any favor at all at the hands of the council it will not go through without some changes having been made on it. Councilman John Pascaly, for instance, will ask that the company sprinkle the streets on which It runs immediately upon being requested to do so, Instead of allowing It ten days' time after receiving notice. Mr. Pascaly feels that ten days is a long time for residents along a dusty street to suffer in the summer time, and consequently ask that the wording be so changed as to read that the company must sprinkle immediately. rascal y Target for Hot Shot. Mr. Pascaly, by the way, has been the . target for. some hot - UAL..bv some of his constituents in the Third ward, which he represents in the council. Trouble has been boiling for him ever since the East Sibley street property holders and All Saints and the Baptist church congregations began their agitation against granting the franchise on Sibley street. In one instance, one man with a particularly violent brain storm came to the city father's tailorshop to heap abuse upon his head for not getting out to work with might and main against the franchise on Sibley street. Hot words flew back and forth, until the city father asked his "constit" to go with him somewhere where witnesses might hear the argument. It is needless to say that it ended there. The session tonight promises to be one of the biggest of this year. SEfID A BIG DELEGATION Members of Hammond lodge No. 485, B. P. O. E., will go to Gary tomorrow evening to attend the institution of Gary lodge No. 1152. B. P. O. E. The event will be a big one In Lake county Elk circles, and those who attend are assured of a royal good time. Hammond Intends to send at least seventyfive members to participate in the ceremonies. All those desiring to go will meet at the lodge room tomorrow evening at 6:30, from where they will go to the north side to take a South Shore line oar. TUGKER V00PS State Pure Food Inspector Be No Cessation Impi

jure Food Products.

Pure Food Inspector Frank Tucker was In the city today with a new dictum from the Indiana board of health that will be of interest to the merchants who deal in food products. Hereafter, it will not be possible for the merchant to display berries, vegetables, fruits and tubers in stands outside of the store without having them covered with a protecting glass. This precaution is taken for the reason that the food which is displayed in this manner is likely to be covered with dangerous germs from the street, which would infect those who eat such food without cooking It, and in this manner endanger their health. This precaution will be taken in the case of fish and meat, which is displayed in the markets. Instead of leaving fish in tubs outside of the stores, where flies covered with filth, can have

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White and Jackson Counties Oust Saloons Yesterday in Option Elections, and Both Contests Are Extrerrly Bitter. Indianapolis, Ind., April 27. White and Jackson counties, the latter including the city of Seymour, voted under the county local option law yesterday and both are in the dry column today. The wets carried Seymour by 303 ma jority, but this was overcome by the country vote and the county is dry by about 370 majority. White county, which contains no important city, proved an easy field for local opttonists and the official count will show a majority close to 1,000. The contests In both counties were characterized by bitterness, but the elections passed off without trouble at the polls, the chief feature being the york of women who served hot lunches to workers. Twenty-seven saloons go out of business as a result of yesterday's vote in the two counties. Yesterday's score makes forty-four counties that have voted dry out of a total of forty-seven local option elections held under the county law. Six Election This AVefk. Six other counties in Indiana will hold local option elections this week. The greatest interest in the contest is in Delaware, which votes today. Tippecanoe county votes Friday, Muncie, the seat of Delaware county, has eighty saloons, and Lafayette, the seat of Tippecanoe county, has 101 saloons. The campaign at both these places is bitter and the contest will be close to the finish. The fact that Purdue university is situated at Lafayette makes the interest in the fight there more general throughout the state owing to the large number of students. The "drys" there say they will carry the county by a good majority. The "wets'" are not far behind in the matter of activity and hopefulness. Seiners Are Fined. The crusade which is being carried on against seiners resulted in the arrest and conviction yesterday of Tony Tvonyok. Tony was fined $3S.05, which included the fine and costs. Joe Gro ner and Moses Ermolick were also ar rested but were released. Is Determined There Shall in War Waged on access to it, the grocers and meat men will be compelled to put their supply In colses cases. Markets Appearance Changes. This is true of meat3 of ail kinds. It will no longer be possible to hang long sausages in front of meat markets as a display without calling down the wrath of the state board of health. In fact, the custom displaying meats, fruits' and vegetables in the open air will no longer be tolerated, as a result of the new ruling of the state board of health, and as a result the markets of Indiana will probably take on a new appearance. A well known Hammond grocer and an equally well-known Hammond meat dealer were arrested and fined $21.30 each last .week for selling foodstuffs which had preservatives in them other than salt, spices, vinegar and sugar.

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Town Board Holds Meeting and Taxpayers Hold a "Kickfest" Because of Suggestions to Give County Seat Paved Streets. 6RANT ST. HAH GETS VERY BUSY Meeting Threatens to Break Up In a Itiot, But Finally Ends In a Semi-Love Feast When Everybody Finds That Everybody Else Will Have to Pay. (Special to The Time?.) Crown Point, Ind., April 27. The town board met last evening to hear the remonstrances on the recent ordi nance ordering Grant and Clark streets paved, and it goes without saying that they did not meet in vain for there were enough kicks landed to make a Kansas jackass appear like a wooden horse in comparison. The Grant street remnstrators lined up doubly strong and slmpiy refused to scratch any backs until theirs were scratched ;flrst in other words they were simply delighted with their little dirt road and wouldn't have it touched until the rest of the Crown Point citizens could see the evil of their ways, or roads rather, and do a little fussing up at the same time. Meirtlne W'u Exciting;. Things got rather exciting at times. Once in a while certain citizens would forget that they were raised perfect gentlemen and went out of the corpor ate limits to find words and phrases to slide down the necks of their oppo nents. It was a "kickfest" from floor to ceiling, and for talk, a woman's sewing bee with a choice lot of scandal would appear like a mourner's bench at a first class funeral in comparison. Finally, out of the chaos of remonstrances, muck-raking and mud-slinging the board evolved a scheme to pave the entire town, and at the close of the wind-Jamming session the matters stood as follows: All the block streets to be repaved, with additions to East and Court streets to Goldsborough; Grant street to be paved from Clark to Goldsborough ; Nichols street from Clark to Joliet, and a certain amount of time given the property owners that have petitions in for township gravel roads to "make good" or else get In line to pave by special assessment like the rest of the poor mortals. The meeting ended in a semi-love-feast, everybody being willing to pay if everybody else has to and no favors shown, and In all probability before next fall Crown Point's famous "chuck hole" pavement will be a thing of the past. "Gone but not forgotten." CELEBRATE THE Whiting and East Chicago Rejoice Over Hammond's Downfall. (Special to Thu Times.) East Chicago, April 2".. Local high school students and faculty to the number of seventy were the guests of the Whiting high school yesterday in a Joint celebration of their oratorical and musical contests at Hammond last Friday evening. The Whiting school proved themselvest o be good entertainers, and will leave a long and pleasing memory of the day with their guests from East Chicago. Upon the arrival of the East Chicago delegation at Whiting, they were received and escorted to the Lake Front park where a light luncheon was served them. From there they went to the ball field where the ball teams of the two schools crossed bats in a spirited game, which resulted in a victory for the home team by a score of 9 to 6. This over, the hosts again took their guests in charge and again escorted them to the Lake Front park where a pleasant supper was served them. Whiting was ringing all afternoon with high school yells and enthusiasm and the day did much to bring the schools into closer relation. Superintendent Canine of the East Chicago schools. in behalf of his charges' wishes, expressed his sincerest thanks to the neighboring school for their royal reception.

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CLUB MEN 10 MEET TONIGHT

The members of the University club of Hammond will have the most Important meeting in the history of the organization at the clubrooms this evening. Circulars have been sent to the members explaining the object for which it is held, and it is expected that there will be a large attendance. Cigars and cigarettes will be served to those who attend, and the officers or the emu suggest that every mem ber should attend even though it be for only a few minutes. The question of securing new and complete quarters will be taken up and plans for the new clubrooms will be offered for the inspection of the members. The interest that is taken in the new project indicates that It will be successful and it is expected that the University club will be housed in the finest clubrooms in the city in the course of six months. REHOUSE The fact became known today that the Chicago Telephone company will next year begin the construction of a warehouse on certain property which it purchased on the north side, which is to be used for all of the supplies that are to be used in the Calumet region. Hammond will accordingly be the headquarters for I.iake' county so far as the Chicago Telephone compuny is concerned. This is also true of the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric company, which has plants in all of the cities of the region except Gary, and yet which will make Hammond the distributing center of the whole region. The-. .fact that Hammond has the best transportation facilities of any of the cities in the country is probably the reason for the selection of this city as the point fro mwhich the distribution of supplies will be made. CROSSING Washington, D. C. April 27. That a city can compel a railroad company to bridge Its street crossings when the street has been established subsequent to the laying of the railroad tracks. Just as it can when the tracks follow the laying out of the street, was in effect held by the supreme court of the United States today in deciding favorably to the city the case of the St. Paul.M inneapolis & Manitoba Railroad company and the Great Northern Railway company vs. the city of Minneapolis. The roads resisted an order from the Minneapolis city council requiring them to erect a bridge over University avenue in that city, on the ground that the street was laid out after the company had acquired its right of way and laid its track, which, they contended, imposed upon the city the responsibility of making the crossing safe. LEAVES FOR EW BEDFORD. Ed McFadden expects to leave Hammond within a few days for New Bedford to join relatives and make his home in the future. FOR YOUR HEALTH'S SAKE WHAT QUARANTINE MEANS. Don't get it into your head that strict quarantine regulations are all right when enforced against your neighbor and all wrong and needless when there Is a case of contagious sickness in your own family. It is as much the business of the health officers to compel you to obey the law and thus protect your neighbor's children as it Is for them to enforce the law against your neighbor for the protection of your children. This is the only way to look at matters of this kind. When the department says that your child, lit with diphtheria, must not mingle with other children, even though it is able to be up and running about, you should see to ft that these instructions are carried out to the letter. And the tame should be true respecting any and all the Instructions given by the health officers for the protection of the public health.

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OBJECTIS 10 1 SHACK

IDE Homewood and South Hohman Street Property Own ers Point Out Negligence of Owner of Ramshackle Structure. BROKEN GORIER PROPERTY AN EYESORE Wooden Shacks Are a Menace to Surrounding Property and Their Removal Is To Be Taken Up By Members of Hammond Business Men's Association at Meeting. A great many Complaints are being made by the residents of the south side, in Hammond, because of the shiftlessness and negligence of the owner of the shack remaining on the property at tha corner of Hohman and Carroll streets. While the rest of Homewood has gone forward with leaps and bounds, the owner of this property has done nothing to improve it. The little frame house on the lot is no longer fit for tenancy, and with all of the windows knocked out it stands as an eye-sore to the people of the neighborhood. In fact, it depreciates the value of the surrounding property to such an extent that the residents of Carroll street are considering the matter of circulating a petition to have the place declared a nuisance and removed as such,. . .. ....... .. The house is frequented by boys, who smoke and make it a sort of a rendezvous. Were it not for the fact that its owner is one of the wealthiest farmers in the county, the negligence would not be so palpable. The matter is to be taken up by the Hammond Business Men's association at one of the meetings in the enar future. Other Shack Bitd. There has also been considerable complaint of the shacks which are lo cated near the broken corner on Hohman street, and are said to be owned by another wealthy man. He is also in a position to Improve the property if he so desires, and the fact that he lets it lie from year to year without improvements or without clearing away the old wooden shacks, which are a menace to the surrounding property, has subjected him to considerable criticism. There are several other cases which are as glaring as the two which have been cited above, and one of the tasks which is to be taken up by the Hammond Business Men's association in the near future will be that of urging upon the property owners the impotance of either removing such shacks or of improving the property. The business men of Hammond are looking forward to a great deal of improvement in the appearance of the city in the next year with all of the improvements that are planned. JUDGE HOLDS OEGISIO Matters in Lake Superior Court Are Rushed to Trial. The trial of the case of Gallagher vs. Silverman, which has been going on in the Lake superior court for a day or more, was completed this morning, but the decision of the judge was withheld. In the case of Hayes vs. the Chicago, Tolleston Land and Investment company, the court found for the plaintiff. In the case of Geary vs. Tallman, the court found for the plaintiiT. The case of the Independent Brewing association vs. Last was decided by the court in favor of the plaintiff. A divorce was granted in the case of Rice vs. Rice. Rice is the Janitor of the Hammond building, and alleged unfaithfulness on the part of his wife. The case of Ducomb vs. Ducomb, in which Frank Ducomb of Hammond alleges abandonment on the part of his wife, was heard this afternoon. Mrs. Ducomb was defaulted by the court, and the evidence was all offered by Mr. Ducomb. The plaintiff defaulted In the case of PrascTk vs. Aromon, and the court announced that the settings for the eighth Monday would be taken up tomorrow. VISITS RELATIVES HERE. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ames and little son of Crawfordsvllie, Ind., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Ames and family of Webb street for several days.

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GREETS TH Talented Schauspieler and Schauspielerinnen Delight Large and Fashionable Audience at Towle Opera House Last Night. Ein voiles Haus begrueste die Deutschen Schauspieler von Milwaukee gestern abend in Towle's Opera Haus, wo G. Kadelburg's "Erbonkel" zur auffuehrung kam. Herr Meltzer ais "Otto Bernicke" war vorzuegllch, and war der Ausdruck in seiner sprache sehr zo bewundern. Herr Bolten als "Alfred Kallbach" verdient das meiste Lob unter den Schauspielern, denn er gab den erwartenden Erben so natuerlich das er reichen Beifall erntete. Herr Kleemann als "Neffe Bernicke" machte einen eleganten Elndruck und risz das Publikum mit "lmmer an der Wand lang" zu reichen Beifall hin. Herr Dresswitz als "der Architekt" war ausgezelchnet und stellte den schneidgen Deutschen ex-Studenten gut dar. Herr Karl als "Beckerle" fuehrte seine schwlerige Rolle vorzuegllch durch. Von den Damen verdiente Fraulein Forster das meiste Lob. Sie machte thren guten Ruf von Milwaukee her alle Ehre; elne lieblichere Souprette koennte man sich kaum denken, audi kam ihre Stimme im "Gimpel Lied" zu guter Geltung. Fraulein Lange als "Franzlska" erwarb sich viele Freunde, durch Ihr stattliche3 Auftreten, als die younge Frau Kallbach. Fraulein Wilson als "Nichte Bernicke" und Verehrer des "Radsports" erzeugte eine wahre Lachepedemie unter dem Publikum, und half viel dazu die Vorsteilung zu dem richtigen Erfolg zu bringen. Auch sei Herr Schaff als "Anton" nicht zu vergessen; sein richtiger Berliner Mutterwltz kam titt zum durc'.ibrue'f. Erfolg lit IJen Saengern Zu Verdnnke-n. Die Vorsteilung im ganzen wurde gut gegeben und die Deutsche Sprache hatte in den Milwaukee'r Schauspielern wuerdige Vertreter, da man jedes Wort deutlich verstehen konnte. Die Deutschen hatten es sich denn auch nicht nehmen lassen das Opera Haus bis auf den letzten Platz zu f uellen, und bewiesen ihren Dank fuer einen solchen theatralischen Genusz durch reichen Beifall. Den Mitgleiedern des Saengerbund-Fi-della aber 1st es am meistenzu verdanken dem Deutschthum Hammond's ein solchen gemuethlichen Abend verschafft zu haben und all beglueckwuenschcn Herrn F. C. Miller, den Praesidenten des Vereins, zu dem groszen Erfolg. Der Saengerbund-Fidelia sprlcht alien selnen herzlichen Dank fuer die Unter stutetzung und grosze Bethelllgung aus und hofft in nechster Zeit Hammond noch bessere Sachen bieten zu koennen. Herr Miller hat ein Anerbleten des Metropolitan Opera Orchesters von New York, mit meheren der bedeutensten Soloisten nach Hammond zu kommen, und die Zeit Hegt nahe wo Madame Gadskl und Rappolt durch Ihren fast gottlichen Gesang das musikllebende Publikum Hammond's bezaubern werden. . WHITNEY LUCKY HAH Well Known Railroad Man Captures the MayoraltyPrize in Lottery. C. W. Whitney of Burnham, who was a candidate on the Independent party ticket for president of the village, has been elected by a lottery vote. This method having been resorted to in order to decide the tie vote between him and A. C. Hunter, who was a candidat on the United People party's ticket. Both polled 31 votes apiece. Last Saturday the election board convened, and taking eight ballots, six being blanks and the seventh and eighth having the names of the respective contestants. In taking out the ballots the name of Mr. Whitney was the first to be taken out, and consequently he was declared elected. This was the first step in a formal election contest, and if Mr. Hunter now desires he may have recourse to the law in order to prove his contentions. The election by lot is in accordance with the Illinois statute, and opens the way for further contesting. The defeated opponent, in order to prove his contention, must prove Irregularity in voting or in counting the ballots. Meet at Ibach's. Seventy Odd Fellows. representing both Moltke and Calumet oldges of Hammond, went to Gary last evening to participate i-n the anniversary celebration of the order whloh celebrated its ninetieth birthday. Five candidates received the Initiatory degree, the work being followed by an elaborate banquet. The local contingent reports a most excellent tiint

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P. 0, FENH II DIVORCE PROCEED!

Former Hammond Man As serted to Figure as Principal in Divorce Case Which Has Caused Sensation in Chicago. IS SECRETARY OF W. B. COIEY CO. Bill Filed By Mrs. P. D. Fenn Alleges Cruelty as Basis of ActionPlaintiff Says Husband Once Dislocated Her Thumb and Accused Her of Being Unfaithful. Society circles in Hammond wer shocked this morning to hear of the filing of a divorce suit in a Chicago court against who is said to be a former Hammond man. The defendant is P. D. Fenn. P. D. Fenn was formerly secretary of the W. B. Conkey Co. of Hammond, and is well known by the older residents of the city. The Chicago directory shows that Prosper D. Fenn is the only Fenn in Chicago bearing those initials. He is president of the Metropolitan Press syndicate, at 21 Jefferson street, a member of the Chicago Athletic club, and lives at Kenilworth. Inquiry at his office brought forth a reply that ha is out of the city, but the two men are thought to be the same. Sayn Hunband Sprained Her Thumb. The bill, which was fled shortly after tO o'clock in the morn in gt sets forth that the marriage was performed April 26, 1S99, and that the couple separated March 13. 1909. One child, a girl, whose name is not given, was born of the marriage. Mrs. Fenn declares that her hus band has repeatedly ill-treated her, once his violence being sufficient to dislo cate her thumb, and that he has also accused her of being unfaithful to him. Eugene H. Garnett. attorney for Mrs. Fenn, declined to furnish any information concerning the case. He declared there was nothing mysterious about the case, nor anything that his client desired to suppress, but that she had asked him not to talk about It. The whole affair is in keeping witH other cases in which bills have been secreted, hearings hurriedly held when there were no spectators or reporters in court rooms and files secreted in orde that the cases might be kept out of print. WORKERS SERIOUS ARGUHEHT Joseph Skoruta in Hospital After Encountering a Monkey Wrench. As a result of a murderous assault, which took place in the plane of the Standard Steel Car company, in this city, Joseph Skoruta is in St. Margaret's hospital with a big lump on his hrsd. a result of its coming in contact with a monkey wrench. It appears that Joe Skoruta was working on top of a steel car riveting. Max Rudetzkc- was working on th: side of the car. When Joe would hammer on a rivet, it is said, lie would allow the hot steel scales to fail on Max Rudetzke's shoulders and arms. Rudetzke warned Skoruta not to repeat the performance, hut the man on top of the car is said to have ignored him. The result was that Rudetzke finally became angry. nd reaching up pulled Skoruta off from the car and gave him a good pummeling. X'nen Wrfnch a Weapon. Joe Skoruta finally got hold of a monkey wrench, and was about to attack his antagonist with it, when Rudetzke took the instrument away and struck Skoruta over the head with ft. After that it was necessary to call an ambulance, and Joe Skoruta was taken to the hospital, while Special OffiVer Lau, who is employed at the plant, placed Rudetzke under arrest. The trial will be held in the city court court tomorrow morning, when it is expected that Joe Skoruta will be ab';a to attend the trial. Men's Club to Banquet. The officers of the Hammond Men's club announce that the first annual banquet will be held a week from yesterday. Thf exact date is the 4th of May. and there will be things doina Iwhtu thla baaqutt la held.

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