Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 17, Hammond, Lake County, 8 July 1909 — Page 8

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THE TIMES. Thursday Julr 8. 1900.

OUIPI GROUND

Michigan City Admits Railroading Its Undesirables to the Steel City; Gets Them Back as Prisoners at Present.

BULK OF PEST GOMES

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Magic City Objects to Uncalled Tax Placed on Its Shoulders to Protect Itself Against the Tramp, Hobo, Yeggmen, and Shoestring Peddler Lays Purden on Police.

It has been known for several months past that Gary has been the dumping ground for a large number of Chicago crooks and bums, which in turn have had to be driven out of the Steel City, either farther down the

line or back to the "Windy City, but the most awful Jolt the local police department has received is the news that Michigan City crooks are being placed on the South Shore line and shipped directly to the Steel City. An Item from a Michigan City paper, which was brought to their attention, reads as follows: Tramp Pedler Sent to Gary. "J. P. Daly and Mike Shamming, a couple of tramp shoe string peddlers and ornamental glass blowers, were picked up this afternoon by Officer Weaver. They had seen the bottom of too many whiskey glasses to be allowed to roam at large. This afternoon they were placed on board a .South Shore car and sent to Gary." Finally Retain to Michigan City. To think that Michigan City would go to the trouble of transporting her undesirables to add to Gary's already full quota of bad men is almost incomprehensible. Chicago has long been able to do that satisfactorily by placing them on a street car with just enough money to carry them over the state line with a warning never to return again. These have kept the local police busy, the jails filled, and the added expense to the county has been bourne without a murmer. The idea of making the Steel City the stamping ground for bad ones for northern Indiana and Illinois, however, places too heavy a tax on the patient energy of the local police force and the safety of Gary's peaceful citizens. The local police believe if Michigan City and other cities would stop sending these men to Gary, that Garywould have far less men to send to Michigan City to the penitentiary. When Gary returns the undesireables to Michigan City they are generally handcuffed, attended by an officer, and sentenced to a term in prison instead of dumping them off at that place where they roam at large in the city and menace the safety of the community.

Controlling the Mind. Absent-mindedness may become 3 bad habit. Do not let the attention wander. I-earn to observe things about you and hold your mind steadily on work in hand.

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YOUNG GARY DEMOCRATS ORGANIZED

LA PORTE HEARS OF LOCOMOTIVE WORKS Secretary of Rumley Co. Returns With Assurances From the East.

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1 Factory Reached by So. Hohman Street Car

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Date Your Name Wife's Name City Street and Number Amount Wanted, $ Kind of Security You Have Occupation Leans Made in Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Whiting. Ail communications strictly confidential Call on or address INDIANA LOAN CO. OVER POSTOFFICE. OPEN I VEXING S PHONE 322. CORNER FIFTH and BROADWAY, 216 GARY BLDG., GARY, IND.

First Ward Club Takes the Lead Among the Organization Preparation of a Lively Fall Campaign Separate Headquarters.

SCHEDULE li SOCIAL PROGRAM FOB SEASON

First Semi-Monthly Dance Will Be Given at Assembly Hall Next Saturday Night Plan Michigan CityChicago Trip as One of the Events Disclaim Factional Interest.

A system of young men's democratic clubs have been organized In Gary by several of the politicians In preparation for the coming campaign this fall. One club, which plans to establish permanent quarters, has been organized i neach word, officers have been elected and regular meetings will be held from this time forward until after the election. The organization of the democratic clubs is, in reality, the first move in the campaign. These organizations

propose to keep tilings interesting politically until the end of the hot battle in the fall. In the meantime dances and other events of a social nature

have been provided by the First Ward club, which Is ainit'd to promote friendship and sociability among the members. Several Even Scheduled. The first dance will be given Saturday night in the Assembly hall. This dance is called the first semi-monthly dance of the First Ward Democratic club. Xot only will these dances be given every two weeks, but other events of a social nature are being planned. A trip to Michigan City and return, via boat to Chicago, is also one of the events row being looked forward to by President E. W. Creebe, the president of the organization. It is planned to secure special rates to Michigan City on the interurban line, spend part of the day in that city at Washington park and then go to Chicago by boat. The excursionists will then return to Gary on the South Shore line from Chicago. So far the other clubs In the city have not shown as much activity as that in the first ward, but they have perfected their organization to the extent of that in the first ward. In any event, which either of the three clubs are giving, the other democrats of the city are heartily invited to attend. When asked whether the organizations were Crolius or Knotts in sentiment, one of the promoters said they were simply democratic clubs and that no pledges had been made. Those responsible for th"" organization, however, are known to be Crolius men.

WILL EMPLOY 10,000 MEN Plans Are Now Completed for Big Concern Which Will Locate Near Gary. - Dr. E. R. Rumley of LaPorte, secretary and treasurer of the Rumley company of that city has just returned from the cast where he has been In conference with a number of financiers who inform him that the American Locomotive works, employing about ten thousand men, are soon to be built at Gary. A LaPorte paper says of Dr. Rumley's statement: "That the American Locomotive works plan to erect soon near the lake in the vicinity of Chesterton a plant that will employ 10,000 to 15,0000 men. Is the statement made by Dr. E. R. Rumley of LaPorte, secretary-treasurer of the Rumley company. "The statement Is based on a conversation with officials of the locomotive works, in the east, from which he has Just returned. The erection of this plant Is understood to be the outgrowth of the movement to open a deep waterway to the Mississippi. It spells the immediate development of that tract of land between Chicago and this city, which, according to propjiecy, will become the manufacturing center of the world. "There have been many rumors durthe last year concerning the contemplated movements of the American Locomotive works. The story has been told time and again that it would found a plant somewhere between this city and Gary, but the stories have been received with some incredulity. Dr. Rumley's statement will be accepted as authority."

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Sop 20 PERCENT

SCARLET FEVER DUE

10 KIEO MILK Farmer With Sickness in

Family Persisted in Supplying Gary Dealer.

8 PATIENTS QUARANTINED

Health Officials Learn That Sickness

Exists at Miller and McCool Forbid Shipment.

Several cases of scarlet fever have been known to develop in Gary during

the past two weeks from Infected milk, shipped to the city from Miller Sta

tion.

Several local physicians have had cases, which were brought to the notice of City Health Officer Templln. Or. Templin began an Investigation and

found that the persnns who were in fected were getting their milk sup

p'.y from a dealer at Miller Station. He continued the investigation and found that the dealer had two children who were suffering from the disease. The family had been quai antined and the infected members were living in the

front part of the house, while the dairy

was located in the rear.

It also became known that a farmer from which, the dealer secured his milk supply lived at McCool, he also having

two children sick with scarlet fever.

A rigid quarantine was placed on the families of the formers and dealer and

they were ordered to stop shipping

milk until permitted by the health officer. There are at the present time a half dozen cases of scarlet fever in

Gary and two cases are known to have

been caused by the Infected milk

There were also five cases at Miller

Station.

Hammond Contractors Take Exceptions to Reflections Cast Upon Them by Resolution Passed at East Chicago Council Meeting. ATTORNEY WESTFALL Ifl PERTINENT QUESTION Says His Clients Have Instructed Him to Institute Foreclosure Proceedings Against the City of East Chicago Unless Tod Avenue Sewer Coupons Come Up. Soon.

A. Dearbyne of Lake County

Realty Company Forsees Another Slump of Fifteen Per Cent for the Near Future. "The rent of houses and flats In

Gary," said A. Dearbyne of the Lake County Realty company yesterday, "is

now on an average of 20 per cent lower than they were six months and a year

ago, and I believe that they will be

lowered at least 15 per cent more before the prices are normal.

"This is the best thing that could

have happened in Gary, as the high rents, high priced houses and flats have driven a multitude of workine men out of the city to live in surrounding communities. I believe that

fully 2,000 working men are living

outside the city limits of Gary at the

present time and that all of them could be Induced to Gary if the rents were more reasonable. "The average rent of houses and fiats In the past ran from 130 to $40 per month, but now this figure Is being reduced so that there are a large number of dwelling places to rent at $20. It means much to the merchant and the real estate men to get the laborers who are now living outside of the city, to reside in Gary. This will keep this money in circulation in the Steel City and will amount to hundreds of dollars a week' "I tnink that every merchant In town and every real estate dealer looks with pleasure upon the construction of the cheaper priced houses which is lowering the average rent of dwelling places in this city. Some of these have not been built, others now being constructed and many more are contemplated."

MAN WITH A PISTOL NEAR TAFT

Story of Supposed Peril to President.

New York, July 8. Detective Sergeant James P. "Ward of New Haven, Conn., is authority for the statement that a woman saw a man with a pistol under his coat near President Taft. while the executive was assisting the town of Norwich to celebrate Its 250th anniversary. Ward had been assigned to assist the Norwich police and was close to the president during the parade. A woman in the crowd gave a shriek, he states, and when he reached her side, she told him she had seen a small man with a glistening revolveunder his coat and that Ms man was close to the president.' With Secret Service Operative Wheeler and several of the Norwich policemen, Ward says he searched the crowd for the armed man, but he had disappeared. According to Ward President Taft was not in the leats disturbed by the Incident. ... .

(Special to The Timer.) East Chicago, Ind., July 8. What has become of the special assessment fund raised for the building of the Tod avenue sewer? This question arose before the adjourned meeting of the city council last night when Attorney J. E. Westfall of Whiting, in behalf of certain bondholders, announced that his clients had waited long for the taking up of their coupons, and had waited in vain. lie further announced that he had been instructed to say that If the money was not forthcoming very shortly, foreclosure proceedings would be instituted. Xo One Seemed to Know. No one present seemed to know exactly what had become of the money collected in from the special assessment levied to pay for the improvement, and there was some talk of paying the bonds out of the general fund. It Is believed that through some error the Tod avenue sewer fund has been diverted Into another channel. The matter was finally referred to the finance committee, who are to Inquire of the

treasurer what, if anything, he knows

of the whereabouts of the missing fund. Fl-oodfoot Gets Job. The contracts for the main sewer In

One Hundred and Forty-eighth street

from McCook avenue to Alder street, together with that for the laterals connecting with the big drain, were let to F. G. Proudfoot of Chicago. The fig

ure on the former was $51,175, while the laterals go for $35,243.30. The Federal Improvement company was the

lowest bidder on the laterals, offering

a big of $32,219, but was not repre

sented at the council, and it was deem

ed advisable In any event to let the two contracts jointly to the same contract

or. When the attorney drew up a reso

lutlon awarding the job to Proudfoot as the "lowest and best" bidder, Lavene brothers of Hammond, who also

had a bid on the laterals, and whose fig

ure on this work was next lower to

that of the Federal people, took excep

tlons to the wording of the resolution.

I.nvene Urnther Kxeept.

Mr. Lavene called attention to the

fact that his bid on the laterals was the lowest of any firm represented at the session, and stated that while he did not mind the loss of the contract, he did take exceptions to the reflection cast upon the name of his company by the Inference in the resolution that Mr. Proudfoot, whose figure on the laterals was several hundred dollars higher than was that of his company, was a "better" bidder than was the Lavene Brothers company. He said that as a matter of right the contract should go to him. Mr. Lavene was becoming a trifle excited over the situation, when Alderman Schock lntetosed: Aldermnr ".chock Intervene. "You have bid on work before in East Chicago, Mr. Lavene?" "Yee." "You were awarded the contract on the Block avenue sewer?" "Yes." "You threw up that contract, did you not got a better job somewhere else and dropped the work here?" "Yes." "Well, that'll be about all for you." Mr. Lavene wished to say that there had been a technicality discovered which made it undesirable that he should continue the contract. Mr. Schock With Comeback. Mr. Schock retorted that the discovery was not made, however, until Mr. Lavene had repudiated the contract.

Alderman Lewis Interposed that all of

this would get Lavene Brothers noth ing before the East Chicago city coun ell, and the matter was uropped.

l lie t. aiumet-isenneny iand com

pany requested the council to order water mains in certain portions of Kennedy avenue, and the matter was referred to the water and light committee.

SOLDIERS GO THROUGH (Special to The Times.) East Chicago. Ind., July 8. Soldiers from Fort Sheridan, III., three privates and one sergeant, passed through East Chicago this morning with a drove of horses, which they had purchased for the cavalry regiments.

Teams Meet Today. The professional business men's baseball team of Gary will go to Michigan City this afternoon, where they will cross bats with the professional men's team of that place. The last game between the two teams was canceled, and they are both anxious to decide which

SENSITIVE

SI N ESS

CHANGES

A Frog jumps readily enough when put in warm water, yet a frog can be boiled without a movement if the water is heated slowly enough. In a psychological experiment at Yale University the water was heated at the rate of ,0036 of a degree a second, Fahrenheit. The frog never moved, and at the end of two and one-half hours, was found dead. He had evidently been boiled to death without knowing it, Th:re are hundreds of business frogs.

They Are Not Sensitive of Business Changes

The evolution from the old method to the new, bright, advertising way has not startled them they die a slow business death. The merchant who doesn't advertise today is being boiled to death, and the bright attractive printing that we are doing for his competitors is the water that is doing for him what the frog got at Yale.

MORALDon't be a frog; use a little printing ink.

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