Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 149, Hammond, Lake County, 11 December 1909 — Page 1
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Marvelous Development Along Rail road Linesthat Calumet Region has ever Known is Coming
Concentration of Freight Classification Near Hammond Is Now Assured. There is the promise of most marvelous development along railroad lines at Gibson, within the next year or two, that the Calumet region has ever known. It is a settled fact that the New York Cenral lines, which include the Michigan Central, the Lake Shore, the Nickel Plate and' the Chicago, Indiana & Southern j
ralroads n this locality, have de-1 creed that Gibson shall heeome thei center for the handling of all of the i (Spai t x T E r i j. ,i ri , j. I -rovvn Point, lnd., Dec. 11. One adfreight of the Chicago district. ! Some time ago The Times, in an ivl'ntursomo traetl0n Promoter has exclusive storv, told of the plan to i been rudely Hened from his fond concentrate the classification ofdriam of se!in franchise from freight at Gibson. This will take:t!,e Lake county onimiasioners while this business away from Kensington ', t!loy were not loklns and then disposon the Michigan Central, from En-i ins of u to some one who.misht pos. glewood on the Lake Shore and from; sib!y build the nne- ' Stonv Island on the Nickel Flate. It! That awakening was experienced by ... , . . . ,, I a Chicago broker by the name of Purwill mean the employing of 400 well , tell who presente,i an abomination ot paid men in this locality. a franchise to the county commissionTO BIII.D XKAV YARDS. ! ers and asked that it be passed.
The fact lias just become known that the Gibson yards are already inade- ( Continued on ptge five.) Rev. George K. Hicks of South Bend, tn-.l., leader of the Anti-Saloon league in the northern part of the state, will make his public appearance in Hammond tomorrow. In order that as many people as possible may hear him arrangements have been made to have htm speak at the Presbyterian church in the morning- and at the Methodist church in the evening. The information in connection with the Rev. Hicks' coming is given out i that he is not coming particularly to open or renew the war in Lake courUy. ; jus auuress. winie ueaiing wnn. the work of the Anti-Saloon League, is expected to lie along general lines. Mr. Hicks will speak at the Presbyterian church in the forenoon at 10:45 a. m., and at the Methodist church at 7:30 in the evening. Last Tuesdav at 9 o'clock Hobo Godfrey submitted to a verv serious operation for the removal "of his eye at t lmsnit,! th an. nouncement was made today that the operation was a success. Some time ago Mr. Godfrey discov ered that a cataract was forming over one eye. He had an operation per formed for its removal, but his eye i 5H'-as left in a diseased condition, and a few weeks ago the doctors informed him that it would be necessary to have the eye removed to save the sight of the other optic. Dr. E. M. Shanklin, assisted by Dr. T. W. Oberlin, performed the operation last Tuesday, ami today Mr. Godfrey is reported to be making a splendid recovery. He will be able to leave the hospital in u few days.
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Hence County Commissioners Wait Around in Disgust at Crown Point ,and and Franchise Is Not Given to Chicago Men. After the commissioners had pared the franchise down until it looked like a respectable document, they informed Mr. Purtell that they would award it to him only providing he was able to show them that he had the proper financial backing. Falls to Make Good. Purtell said that he could furnish the references and that he would return to Crown Point if they -would hold an adjourned meeting with the proofs of his ability to construct the line. The adjourned meeting was held and the suave Mr. Purtell did iot show up with his references. The result was that the commissioners after waiting around Crown Point all day went home in disgust and the county was 'saved j from another interurban promoter, j Over in Whiting the same result j might have followed the demand of the council that Castleman furnish proof of his ability to finance and build a line to Indiana Harbor, but the councilmen there with perfect accord thought that tills was unnecessary, and they gave : Mr. Castleman all he. wanted and all he asked for. ! The contract for the county printing j was let to F.urford & Co. at Indianapo-I I lis. WIBIEB SEEKS 10 IK GOME 10 S Additional Snow Falls Hammond Last Night. m
The fact that winter weather has : stitution, and now in the hour of the come to stay seems to be indicated by 1 family's srif. the kind sisters would the additional fall of snow last night, j add their appreciation of a departed The snow last night was not the light, ' benefactor. It was pointed out at the tine snow that ft-1 1 during the recent ! Hospital today that while the larder zero weather, but was the heavy moist- I there was filled by wholesale purehas-ure-laden kind. 1 ers- Htle of which trade went to Mr. Today the skies are still grey and ' Kunzman, he did not permit a week to heavy, indicating that there are other J Pass H since the foundation' of the snow storms on tap before the weather i 1'ospital in 1SS0. that he did riot send
- -- """ - - - "-"' ! "Porl that never been I better. The prospect of a long winter j will make the harvest for them a rich j one. . ! l NOTICE. Members of the Hammond Saenger-bund-Fidlia are Jreq, jested to meet to-
morrow afternoon at 12:30 at the place , 0lii Fellow's hall, amy thence to Oak of Ii. Kammerer, corner Hohman and ; Hiil cemetery. Services will be conState streets,-- to escort the remains ,i,,0l(,,, at the late home at 1 o'clock hv
of our former member, the late Fred Kunzman. The meeting is called at the request of many who desire to honor a charter member of the organization. F. S. MILLER. President.
Many Hammond and Lake County People Leave for Chicago, Where .They Will Be Guests at Notable Gathering of Hoosiers. Today thirty or more members and guests of the Indiana Society of Chicago will journey to the city from Hammond, where they will attend the fifth annual banquet in the gold room of the Congress hotel. Covers will be" laid for 300. There has not been a social event in months tha.t has atracted so much attention as the banquet tonight. Some of the guests will go to Chicago this afternoon and dress for the evening at the hotel, and others will dress at home and go directly to the hotel from the train. The list of notables who will speak has made the program one of the most attractive that has ever been given by this society. With James Whitcomb Riley, James E. Watson and George Ade, to say nothing of George Barr McCutcheon, W. IX Nesblt, Charles Major and scores of lesser lights, the affair promises to be a brilliant one. Many Present from Here. Among those who will be present from Hammond are A. M. Turner, W. G. Paxton, Dr. T. W. Oberlin, John F. Sawyer and C. C. Deming, who are members, and Judge John H. Gillett I who is one of the guests of honor. Others who will attend are Leo Wolf. C. Kaufman, William Thum, F. S. Betz, Peter Meyn, Lawrence Becker, W. J. McAleerv W. B. Coakey, P. A. Parry, Otto Knwrzer, Hsseoe E. Woods, John K. Fitzgerald, W. D. Webb, A. J. Turner, S. E. Swaim, Dr. H. E. Sharrer, F.-" Richard Sehaaf, E. F. Johnston. Peter Crumpacker, L L. Bomberger, W. F. Bridge, C. M. McDaniel and Judge Virgil S. Keiter. From East Chicago the guests are C. L. Kirk. George W. Lewis and Walter J. Riley. Judge William W. McMahan of Crown Point is also invited. The banquet will be served at 6 o'clock, and it is expected that the program will not be finished until late this evening. RUM! EULOGIZED 11Y HOIS TO-DAY Generosity Not the Least Virtue of Deceased Hammond Man. HOSPITAL MOURNS FRIEND Funeral Has Been Arranged For Tomorrow Afternoon; Interment at Oak Hill. Now that Fred Kunzman, is among the dead, his name is eulogized in hundreds of homes, and not the last place I where his untimely death is mourned is St. Margaret's hospital. His integritv. and "glad hand" were his most apparent virtues, but others are coming to the surface now, not teh least of vhich was his unbounded generosity. It. is for this especially that St. Margaret's hospital has cause to regret his death for he was a friend of the ina certain share of supplies for the charity patients. This is only one of hundreds of instances where he has been a friend in deed. Funeral Tomorrow. Hundreds of people have gone to Neldow's morgue since Thursday night to view the remains of their friend and the funeral tomorrow promises to be a large one. Three organizations will march in the funeral cortege which will the Rev. "Weil, after which the body will be taken toOdd Fellows' hall for the lodge rites t here. The pallbearers will be William Kuhn, P. I'eVorak. Robert Werley. Fred Dietrich. William Eisner Carl Brueekner, and
Lake County Men of Affairs
CAPTAIN H.S.NORTON. OF GARY. Captain H. S. Norton, who has recently been sojourning in the warm Tennessee climate, Is one of the most highly respected business men in the Calumet region. As president of the Commercial club ever since Its organization, he has been its moving spirit. Th? Commercial club is noted for the comprehensiveness of its entertainments and business plans are now preparing for the erection of a new $28,000 building. Captain Norton was last year elected as the president of the Federated Commercial Clubs of Indiana. As property agent of the Gary Land company, Captain Norton represents the Urlited States Steel Corporation's interests in the city f Gary. He has also been prominently identified with church, club and social circles of the city.
Five Hundred Men Will Be Employed on Construction Work for Houses for Employes of Preliminary Work on Bridge Works. Operations will be started immediately for the construction of several big boarding houses on the site of the American Bridge Works in Gary, which it i expected will house five hundred men to be employed in the grading and excavating of the site for Gary's new industry. The contract for the work has ben let to the Hardigan Construction company of Indiana Harbor, which has ben ergaged in the grading work for the past three weeks. The construction of the boarding houses is in accordance with the usual plan of the company to provide quarters for the men near the scene of the work, two miles east of Gary proper. They will be fed and clothed there throughout, the winter. . At present there are only about two hundred men employed by the grading company and most of these are transported to and from the works on the interurban trains. When the houses are completed, however, most of the men will remain on the site. Most of the supplies will probably bo pur chased in Gary. Following this concession which -has been granted to the Hardigan company, it is announced that as soon as the American Bridge men started the actual construction work that the company plans to build other "company" houses on the property to accomodate even more men, and that they will be built on the same plan. Both, the comp.my and the. contractor will operate their own commissary departments. The Hardigan company wil lbe loi ated west of the mills and those cf the company on the east of the mill site. CHRISTMAS MAIL RULES "Not to Be Opened" Is Message if Written. Washington. I. C. Dec. 10. It has been decided by the classification committee of .the postoffice department that the words, "Xot to be opened until Christmas day," or similar inscription, may be written only on sm-h. parcels as bear postage at flrsf-class rates but packages that are mailed at third class or fourth class rates may bear the same inscription, provided that it js printed or stamped on them. When it is written on the parcel with pen or penei the words are neld to be a personal personal communication from the sender to the addressee, thus making the matter' subject to first-class rates j
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D. L. Parkhouse of Gary Charges Officers of No. 571 Electrical Workers With Conspiracy and Misappropriation of Funds. Itl appears that the local union, Xo. 571, Brotherhood of Electricaf Workers, is involved in more trouble. The other day a suit was tiled, by Phillip MeCabe of Gary n which e alleged that the officers of the local union had boycotted him and were trying to drive him out of Gary. Today two other suits were filed by Attorneys ODonnell and Norton of Gary, in which it is alleged that there has been a conspiracy on the part of the officers of the .union to misappropriate the funds of the union, and asking for an investigation by the Lake superior court of the accouuts of the officers. These suits seems fo be the result of investigations that have been carried on by Attorneys O'Donnell and Norton of Gary, and judging by the allegations in the complaints there is a very warm time ahead for the union and its officials. (iot $1 a Dny. David L. Parkhouse of Gary is the plaintif! in one of the cases filed today. Parkhouse is from Gary and alleges that he has been a member of local union No. 571. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, since the 23d of July, 1909. Ht says that he was initiated on that date and. paid an initiation fee of $50. He says that he was entitled to a card and a copy of the constitution and bylaws after he was initialed, but that he did not receive eithf-r. He says that soon after Tiis initiation he was informed that he would have to pay 1 a day for a permit to work. Not having a copy of the constitution and l.yln .va lie says he paid Martin H. Carmndy, James J. Finneran and Robert O'Connor J93 in cash before he found out that he was not required to pay the $1 tax. Try to .Ouxt Hint. He says that finally he was told that he was behind in his dues $i and he was suspended for the nonpayment of dues. He further alhges that the defendants, whom th" complaint names tContlr.uea on page tlve. Stamp Sale Encouraging, Mrs. J. M. Turnei, who has charge of i the sale of the Red .'rTss stamps in I Hammond, reports a very satisfactory i progress in j encouraging to r that a number of Institutions have bo tight up wholesale j lots ot the j lots of the same w use them for their ' daily mail. The indications now are that Hammond will make a fin how ;og with its generosity.
APPEAL FROM THE DECISION
F.mil Woldt, Ernest Busse and Frank Matthias of Tolleston have appealed from the decision of the county com missioners in recently annexing a large amount of territory south and east of Tolleston. On the 4th of October this territory was annexed and the appellants remon strated against the action of the com missioners. The territory, which was annexed, roughly described, includes all of the north line of the" south One-half of section 17, all of the land east of the east line of section 17 end within these east and west limits all of the land north of the Little Calumet river. The territory described above was annexed to Tolleston on the petition of V. C. Gallagher, Edward Bencke and C. A. Bormann, the town trustees of Tolleston.; Wife of Hammond Councilman Dies at Her Homo
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wandering boy, Mrs. Magdalena Kap- j ed to report them to The Times. Hamtur, wife of Councilman John Kaptur, ! mond seems to be on the way to the 745 Hickory street, died this morning ' solution of the problem of providing
at her home after five years of suffering from "asthma ''and cancer of the stomach. It was the only regret of-the ' dying mother that she could not lay i her hand with a blessing on the head ! of her son Stanley, her first born, now j 2-' years old, who suddenly disappeared j four years ago from the Polish seminary at Detroit, Mich., where he had been preparing himself for the Catholic priesthood. Vaited la Vein for Relurn. In vain she had listened for each approaching footstep that came to the house in the night time for the last four years, thinking that it might be her son returning home after sending the cruel message to his parents four years ago that he had abandoned his studies and that they would never see him again. Once she heard that he held a clerical position in the navy department and that he was stationed at a point in New Jersey. Lived Here Kigliten yearn. Mr. and Mrs. John Kaptur were married twenty-three years ago, they having been natives of Posen, Germany. They emigrated to this country inlSSS, and have resided in Hammond for th past eighteen years. Mrs. Kaptur was the mother of five children, Stanley, Joseph, Lottie, Clara and Martha, the latter having died three years ago, when she was S years old. Mrs. Kaptur was a member of the Ladies' auxiliary of the Polish Alliance, and a parishioner of St. Casimer's Polish Catholic church. The funeral has been arranged for next Monday morning. Requiem high mass will be said at St. Casimer's church at 9 o'clock, and interment will be at Holy Cross cemetery. HAY BRING CASE OP FOBJEfjEfillG The Late Fred Kunzman Testified in Wagner Law Suit. In view of the faet that Fred Kunzman is generally believed to have been the vietim of a mental aberration at the time he committed suicide, it is interesting to note that last Friday a welt ago he was a witness in the case of Watrner vs. Iielaney, and testified as to the mental condition of Mr. Wagrer. I The court records sr.ow that Kunzl was a witness the court attaches say that he testified that Wae-ner was not of sound mind. Whether or nof this will have anything to do with the case or will be taken as the grounds for a rehearing, is not kr.rwn.
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Judge Virgil S. Reiter Believes Scheme of F. S. Betz for Home Building Is Good,X)ne, and Will Pool With Others. Judge Virgil S. Reiter approves of the plan of F. S. Betz to provide homes for the workingmen in HamnwN. He stated to E. F. Johnston, secretary of the Hammond Business Men's association, that he has twelve lots on the north side, in Hammond, which he would be very glad to have pooled with others on a scheme of that kind. It develops that F. S. Betz got the idea of building a small two-room house on the rear of the lot, while the property is being paid for, by seeing a similar plan carried out in Messina, Italy, where he visited after the earthquake. The Betz idea seems to have gained favor with a large number of Hammond business men who have read of the plan in The Times. Mr. Betz first suggested his plan to Peter W. Meyn. of Gostlin. Meyn & Co., and Mr. ateyn has had plans drawn of the cottage which it is proposed to build on each, lot. Could Pool Interests. It has been suggested that if a number of Hammond real state owners who have blocks of lots on the north side would turn them over to a com- ! mittee for sale under these conditions ue liu I ' ast u ill liu-. Any other owners of cheap north side lots who will agree to pool them with others in a plan to supply homes for the Hammond worKinman are request--homes for the people. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gostlin arrived over the Mnnon railroad from the south this morning. They' are both in the j best of health, and Mr. Gostlin. es pactally, says that lie is as tit as a fiddle. The cold from whicli he bad been suffering previous to his leaving for Hot Springs, Va., left him immediately after he left that plac- for Aiken, S. C. From Aiken Mr. and Mrs. Gostlin left for the south and visited several other cities. They finally returned this morning and surprised th-' members of their household here. Mr. Gostlin says that one has to go away from Hammond f' r a while to appreciate its wonderful advantages. There are lots of more b. amiful cities, in his opinion, but there are none that are more progressive. LUTHERANS WILL A11EHDJSELEBRATI0H Local Parishioners Are to Take Part in Chicago Celebration. Hammond tjerman l.-ilhrsns are very are very much interested in a jubilee celebration in lion.ir of the u-v. H. Wunder. a f'hicagu minister, who celebrates the ;f'th anniversary of his ordination to the ministeiy tomorrow. Fifty-eighth of his y-ars were devoted to t..e interests of a sing.- congregation, and by his earnest efforts l.e -has sue. -ceded in making- St. L,uthf-ran church, Chicago, one most popnlii. Rev. Vnr.der of the North Sid eran church and lie v. T-ieodore Pa ill's of the RuthCiaus of St. Paul's German Lutheran church will le g'lests. the h ,n ir of making the congratulatory address for the gen- -eral district falling on Rev. Clans of this city. Dr. Pi-per of St. Louis, Mo., president of the Missouri synod, will make the principal address. The celebration will begin at 7:30 o'clock in the evening. Rev. Wunder resiJt-s at. 1ZIZ LaSalie avenue.
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