Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 102, Hammond, Lake County, 16 October 1909 — Page 4
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THE TIMES. Saturday. Ot. 16. 1909.
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needed him to help them put through the big deal. Hi3 opposition might
have resulted in the loss of the industry to the city so they bought his good will by letting him make $500 an acre on his share of the 40 odd acres of land the Becker-Tapper Realty company purchased. That is the extent of Becker's aid In securing industries for Hammond. He aided when there was something in it for him. In the meantime Gary has made wonderful strides. That city has become a convention center. It Las been advertised the length and breadth of the land. It has prospered. In Indiana Harbor the city has grown by leaps and bounds. Streets have been paved, business houses and residences have been built and the city is now creating a commercial club building as an evidence of Its progresslveness. And Hammond is compelled to stand by and watch the procession pass it just because it has had a city administration that would rather play politics than attend to business. It is a fact that Mayor Lawrence Becker did not even affiliate himself with the Hammond Business Men's association as a member until a few months ago when he saw election day approaching. If there is an organization in the city that deserves the support of every business man it is the Hammond Business Men's association and yet Becker did not thing it necessary to join it until he began to figure an reelection. It was merely a means to a political end with Becker.
Hammond has suffered from the lack of a progressive administration. While the city of Fort Wayne has taken up a comprehensive city beautiful plan and his enthusiastically working it out, Becker has not even succeeded in having Calumet avenue widened and extended.
Gory is forging ahead. East Chicago and Indiana Harbor will soon be as
large as Hammond and this city, the oldest of the three, will have to settle back and content itself with a recital of its past greatness unless Hammond
is given a live administration that will enable it to keep pace with its energetic neighbors.
Playing politics and making every act focus to a political end may make
Becker a good politician, but It is not making Hammond a great city. It Is
making it a second rate city in a first rate community.
BECKER AND THE RAILROADS. The people of Hammond should not be hostile to the railroads. They have not more or no less of a claim upon the people of Hammond than the other corporations In the city. The time has come, however, when the people should Insist that the railroads keep within certain limits. The railroads have made Hammond but many of the residents of this city are becoming convinced that they are fast unmaking the town through the numerous concessions that have been granted them by the Becker administration. At the present time Hammond may be described as a populous territory completely snrrotmded by railroads. Since the early days Hammond ha3 made one concession after another UNTIL TODAY IT FINDS ITS DEVELOPMENT CONFINED BT BANDS OF STEEL ON EVERY HAND. The first blow came to Hammond when the Erie yards were built so near the city. As the town grew the Erie yards cut the city in twain and resulted In the rapid development of Homewood and the retarded development of the territory along Calumet avenue. Some day the Erie yards will have to be moved farther south at an enormous cost to the city. Not until the Erie yards and the Erie coal
storage warehouse are moved out of the city will the property in that vicinity rise to Its proper value. The Becker administration can not be blamed for
the presence of the Erie yards and the Erie coal storage plant, it is true, but it has been so liberal in granting favors to other roads in Hammond that it Is plain THE INTERESTS OF THE RAILROADS AND NOT THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN THE CHIEF CONCERN OF BECKER AND HIS RING.
When the Chicago, Indiana & Southern railroad and the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad decided upon Gibson as the operating center of these two railroads, it meant considerable to Hammond. It is estimated at the present time that 500 men are employed by these railroads at Gibson. No one will question
that some concessions should have been granted to these railroads and that they should have been encouraged in their effort to aid the development of the region but the rights of the people in the east end of Hammond should
have been considered at the same time.
As a result of the location of the Gibson yards COLUMBIA AVENUE IS PRACTICALLY CUT IN TWO. Thero will be so much switching across this great north and south thoroughfare that it will be practically useless as a
street unless the railroads build a viaduct over it.
At the same time PLUMMER AVENUE, STATE STREET AND SIBLEY
STREET WERE PRACTICALLY CLOSED FOREVER and all of the traffic on these thoroughfares will be poured into Summer street, the only street that now leads in an easterly direction from the heart of the city. Kennedy
avenue svas closed and a detour of half h mile made necessary as a result.
Kennedy avenue is one of the most important roads in the country and the
Hammond city council could have compelled the building of a viaduct over
the yard3 if they had not been so anxious to please the railroads at the ex
pease of the people.
The Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville railroad was permitted to come
into Hammond and CUT THE SOUTH SIDE RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT IN
TWO. The only concession that wes made to the city was the offer of a $30,-
000 depot which the railroad has not yet built and apparently does not In
tend to build until it gets 'fvlv.
Not only was the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville road permitted to cross the Hammond streets for nothing but it was permitted to build a round
house and a freight yard in the south side residential district. These un- j sightly buildings will forever destroy the appearance of Calumet avenue as J a residential street. But to heap insult upon injury the railroad was permitted to put its yards so close to Calumet avenue that the SWITCH ENGINES CAN NOT RUN A LINE OF CARS INTO THE YARDS WITHOUT SWITCHING CONTINUALLY ACROSS CALUMET AVENUE. A school ifouse is located in the vlcinty and by This act of the Becker administration the Calumet avenue crossing of the C. C. & L., the Erie and the Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago street railway Is made one of the most dangerous in the city. The Chicago, Lake Shore &. South Bend inieruiban was permitted to cross inumerable streets in Hammond and was givtn every favor that It was in the power of the city to give. In return Hammond was to have a new interurban depot that would be a credit to the north side. Gary with a population of 10,000 people got it3 depot and Hammond with a population of 30,000 people WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE SOUTH SHORE PEOPLE GET GOOD AND READY TO BUILD. These are but a few of the examples of the extreme friendship of the administration to the railroads and of the total failure of Becker to consider the needs and demands of the people. The TIMES reiterates the railroads are a good thing for the city and should be' encouraged bin for pity sakea let's not turn the whole city over to them, just so LAWRENCE BECKER CAN BUILD UP A POLITICAL MACHINE.
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
CHEER-UP the chestnuts are coming and also the worms. WILL Mr. Crane never get through talking? He's not running for office.
4 A republican council is necessary to the good work done by a republican mayor. 41 DOESN'T seem to be any chance for a lull in Lake County until after November 2nd. WE have a friend who lives in a fiat so small that he has to use a folding tooth brush.
Wife From Whom Author Barrie Was Given Divorce
TOM KNOTTS NOMINATES HIMSELF. Tom Knotts got the nomination all right But it took neither clever
ness, popularity, nor ability to accomplish the feat in the manner Tom Knotts
accomplished It. He simply took a bunch of his own henchmen over to the convention hall, held his rump convention and nominated himself. It's "dead
easy." There was no one to oppose him, so of course he had everything his own way. If there is any glory in that, Mr. Knotts is welcome to it.
Certain It is that there will be nothing more substantial than glory in
it for Mr. Knotts. If he ever had a chance at reelection, u went glimmer
ing long ago. His first big setback came when the democratic party with which he has claimed to be affiliated, turned him down, repudiated him absolutely, and refused to rive him the faintest semblance of toleration, to say nothing of support. Since then, Knotts has been getting set-backs every
day. But he has nobody to blame but himself. He has been his own worst enemy. It may pass for a little while, this emulation of an absolute monarchy in an American municipality, but it don't go down long. Knotts reign of terror Is about to end. The people have had enough of him and of his Ilk. He is a "dead one" in the strictest sense of the term, politically. He
will pasa down into the mire of oblivion, along with the rest of the malefactors who have tried to feather their nests at the people's expense. This is all right for once, but when it comes to a question of renewing the lining, Knotts will find that his credit is gone.
IN the meantime don't forget to take a few tons of anthracite to the loved ones at home. THE buck-wheat pancake and maple syrup days are hurrying hither as fast as they can. WE trust tSat Mr. Costello will be permitted to stay out of the campaign for it is going to be exceeding nasty if 'J
SOME men In this vicinity are so
handy at puttering around and mak
lng anything that they can't make a
living.
AND to add to the general hilarity
of the occasion. Mr. Facing-Both
Ways has begun to get busy on the
streets.
IF the crowd that nominated Tom
Knotts on an independent ticket on
Thursday night, can elect him but,
oh no, it is too funny!
NOTHING SHORT OF CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS. There are many species of criminal carelessness, and not the least ob
noxious form of crime of this character is the placing of medicine containing dangerous ingredients, In the way of small children, where they may
find it and eat it in the belief that it is candy.
The lesson should certainly be borne in upon the minds of the people of Whiting, if nowhere else. Within two days two children of this city have
been made the victims of the pernicious habit of carelessness with danger
ous medicines. One of them is dead as the result, and the other narrowly escaped death", and both suffered untold agony. In neither case was It the mother who wa3 apparently directly responsible. One of the children found the poisonous drags on the dresser of a boarder in the house. The other ate
tablets found lying in an alley. Neither of the children was of an age to use the slightest discretion In what they ate. Anything that looked like candy, whether pills containing strychnine and belladonna, or bi-chloride of
mercury tablets, was candy to their infantile minds.
The law which punishes criminal carelessness in other lines, should not
hold exempt persons of so little thought of what their acts may entail, as
to carelessly expose medicines where there are little children in the house
or to throw dangerous drugs put up in tempting form. Into the alley or out
of doors anywhere, where they may fall into tbe hands of the very yung.
STILL THE INTERURBANS COME.
Lake County, for so many years a prey, so to speak, to one electric road,
the old Red Line, seems now to be the mecca of all interurban companies
The past year has witnessed the completion and operation of one interurban within its borders, the partial construction of another, the beginning of a third and the granting of franchises providing for several more. Now still
another, that of the Indiana Union Traction company of Chicago, proposes to invade this territory taking in Monticello, Griffith, Cedar Lake and St. John and connecting with the Logansport line at its southern extremity, while its
northern terminus will make connections with the South Shore line in Ham
mond. And Thursday night the Hammond Business Men's association met
to consider ways and means of inducing yet others to come In.
Now it is a case of it never rains but it pours. The street railway com
panies are waking up to a realization that they have been neglecting a sood field. Well, anyhow, the more the merrier. The territory can support them
all, and every year will add to the necessity of a series of good systems con
necting the various cities, one with another.
BUSY WITH HIS POLITICAL MACHINE. It is a sad confession to make that during the six years of the administration of Mayor Lawrence Becker the city of Hammond has stool practically still industrially while East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Gary have
forged ahead as great industrial centers and have all taken a commanding i
position in the industrial world. When the Standard Steel Car company was located, entirely through the efforts of Gostlin, Meyn & Co., Becker was not even in on the deal until it was practically closed. Then he and his friends were given an opportunity to buy some choice acreage near the plant to make sure that the city administration would cooperate with Gostlin, Meyn & Co., in matters of great importance that followed the locating of the plant. Lawrence Becker and his friends bought what is now known as the Becker-Tapper Realty Co.'s holdings. The property is located east of Calumet avenue and south of the alley between Carroll and Bauer street. It will be noticed that the streets in this subdivision are all named after Becker's friends. There is Bauer street named after the man who is now trying to vote the Simplex for Becker, there is Becker street, named after the mayor himself, there is Drackert street named after Becker's appointee as police commissioner, there is Eaton street named after Becker's father-in-law who now has a soft snap in the city employ, there is Lyons street named after that
great civil engineer and finally there Is Tapper street, named after the pres
ent democratic police commissioner. This is certainly a democratic neigh
borhood.
MERELY SUPERVISES IN GARY.
Hammond was considerably relieved when the fact became known
that instead of going to Gary to take charge of the German Methodist Episcopal church in that city, he is to remain in Hammond. By the same
token Gary was disappointed. It all came about through a misunderstanding, Rev. Dessmeier being assigned to supervise the work in Gary a3 well as in his own parish, while a student in the Garret Biblical institute will fill the Gary pulpit, for the time being anyhow. Rev. Dessmeier has endeared himself to his fellow townsmen in many ways and there are few who will deny that he is one of the most sincere and earnest workers in the field today. Hammond in general, and Rev. Dessmeier in particular, are to be feliciated upon the retention of this wel beloved clergyman.
EAST CHICAGO REPUBLICANS SHOULD WAKE UP. East Chicago republicans have awakened to a realization of the neces
sity for hard work. They opened their campaign last night with a rousing
meeting at the newly opened republican headquarters underneath the commercial club. It is time they started out. With only a little over two weeks remaining in which to present their cause to the voters of East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, and with a new candidate for the mayoralty cropping up every day or two, the necessity of hard work without cessation is apparent. In spite of the numerous candidates, the ticket should win, if the party does not go to sleep. If it does, its cause is lost and its supporters might as well realize this first as last.
HOWEVER, we have one thing to
be thankful for. There are no short
skirted suffragette parades taking
part in the local campaign.
IF Mr. Crolius record were black as
night, it would look like a sunbeam
by the side of the record belonging to
the joss of the underworld
PATCHES on street paving is -any
thing but a sign of a progressive ad
ministration especially wnen a man
has been in office six years.
MR. HEARST should come to Gary
and get a few tips on how to run for mayor of New York. We believe they
would go well in New York.
AMONG the troubles of the political
candidate, must not be forgotten the
man who always bobs up when he's
busy with a lot of silly advice.
WILL some one please tell us how
the goose bone is?
OH, WELL!" A Gary man said last night, "What else could you expect from a man like Tom Knotts." Good deal of truth in that. IN the meatime there is no question but what Mr. Roosevelt Is to be en
vied away off there in Africa's sunny
clime far from the maddening im broglios. 4
THE people and the taxpayers of a community have certainly a right to question and consider the motives of a political candidate. If they haven't
who has?
IT is to be regretted that this man
Talbot should ever be allowed to get into a court room. He deserves tar and feathers and an improisonment
in a pig style.
THERE is no disputing the fact
that a campaign is on by glancing at
the pages of the various newspapers published in this part of the county,
Just at this particular time.
A South Missouri editor refused to
publish a death notice of a non-subscriber. "People who don't take the home paper," he said, "never were alive, and their passing away has no news value."
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PRAISE FOR F. R. SCIIAAF FROM THE BECKER ORGAN.
"Trustee Schaaf Is entitled to great credit for the tremendous amount of work he has done in Improving; the township school system In addition to hia other onerous duties as trustee." Hammond Daily News, Sept. 17. 1906.
PRAISE FOR F. It. SCHAAF FROM NORTH TOWNSHIP ADVISORY BOARD.
We wish to state to the people of Hammond that the administration of F. R. Schaaf as trustee of North township waa carefully, ably and honestly administered aa to the disposition of ALL monies In his charge. Not a single thing did he do for the township, not a penny did he spend but was with the fullest sanction of the advisory board and the people of North township. Fetitlons by the taxpayers were made for the Improvements of all roads and school houses before anything was done with them by the township officials. We endorse Schaaf's every act. CHARLES CHICK. P. II. M'LAUGHLIN. (Mr. L. IL Mattern, the third member of the board, Is on a three weeks' vacation, but he cheerfully substantiates the above, though his signature 13 not obtainable till he returns.
Republican Tickets
HAMMOND.
MAYOR F. II. Schaaf. CLERK Peter Ripley. TREASURER Paul B. LIplaakL CITY JUDGE E. G. Sproat. Aldertnan-at-Laree C. W. Hubbard. Aldennan-at-Large Heary Laadt. Alderman-at-Large W. B. Neirmaa. Aldcrman-at-Large Fred Laah Sr. Alderman-at-Large A. J. Sutherland. ALDERMEN. Firat Ward Charles F. Brubaker. Seeoad Ward Henry WbJtaker. Third Ward Edward C. Hanioa. Fourth Ward Heary F. Eggera. Fifth Ward William Kabl. Sixth Ward Daniel Kalraaa. Seventh Ward Fred 9. Cottoa. Eighth Ward Arthur Schuta. Mnth Ward M. Hower. Tenth Ward J. J. O'Malley.
WHITING. MAYOR Henry Sclirage. CLERK J. T. Cameron. TREASURER D. D. Griffith. Aldermaa-at-Large Geo. Fedorko. Alderman-at-Large W. A. Tiptoa. ALDERMEN. Firnt Ward Aadrerr Baron. Second Ward Pante Haralovitrh. Third Ward David Paskwleta. Fourth Ward Jamea W. Burtoa.
GARY.
MAYOR John A. Brenoan. CLERK Joneph II. Cothrey. TREASURER Ernemt C. Slrapaon.
Alderman-at-Large William McNeill Aldermaa-at-Largre Domlnick Sy-manakl.
TRUSTEE BECKER talks about his predecessor and the prices he paid for stone. Do the people of North Township know that Trustee Becker is paying 95c a yard for stone when he can get it for 75c a and 80c a yard. What is more he is haying all his stone shipped by the I. H. Belt and teaming it for three and four miles in long hauls instead of using the switch track privileges of other roads.
Let it be distinctly understood that no matter who is elected, the TIMES will continue to be the greatest paper in the region and that it is tied up with no political machine ringsters and dependant upon no political
FROM now on if you notice a sizzling sound in the air and a rise in temperature following upon a frosty night, don't be alarmed and get out your almanac. It is only the boiling of the political pot. WONDERFUL activity is now being shown in administration affairs by Mayor Becker. Of course the reaBon is easily seen, it is only two weeks until election day and all the grand stand playing possible must be done. KANSAS CITY man charged with
stealing his aunt, to his uncles evident annoyance, was sentenced to
fcur months imprisonment. Not a very heinous offense apparently.
Something between robbing a clothes
Thomas Music Studio EUGENE THOMAS, Pianist
Will open on Oct. 16th, a school of Artistic Piano Playing.
an acre.
pap or patronage for its very existence. The TIMES is not fighting for its
Well, the facts are that Becker was permitted to buy this land for $500 life. It is not desperate and the outcome of the political battles will not af- line and driving on the wrong side of icre. He was permitted to buy this land because Gostlin, Meyn & Co. feet the TIMES in the least. The people understand that the road.
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