Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 233, Hammond, Lake County, 1 April 1910 — Page 1
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iVOL. IV , NO. 233.
HAMMOND, INDIANA,
FRIDAY, APRIL' 1, 1910.
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Indiana Harbor Republicans Will Do the Big Meeting Up Brown Next Saturday Week y
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All Records Will Be Smash
ed by Enterprising Harborites on That Day.
Popular Writer Taken by Death
"BUTCH" IS IN
OF FMHLT
Hammond friends of Henry Nauman,
who knew him better as "Butch," the shortstop of the old Hubbards, will be
rather surprised to learn that Tie is not only a man of affairs, but also a man of family. Mr. Nauman as married
recently to one of the best known young ladles in Sheffield. Ia., where he is the foreman of the Federal Cement
and Tile company. Congratulations to Mr. Nauman may be somewhat late
from his Hammond friends, but they will nevertheless be sincere and
whole-hearted.
(Special to The Times.) . , Indiana Harbor, April 1. Prepare
tions are already under way for the county republican convention which is to take place here April 9. Indiana Harbor is desirous of making a record for itself, this being the first event of the kind that has ever taken place here ,and no pains will be spared to carry out . the big undertaking with an elaborateness of detail that will make the county sit up and take notice. Indiana Harbor has a bunch of live business men who propose to do their share In making the occasion one to be remembered. The convention will of course bring many strangers to the Harbor .and in order to make the city as attractive as possible, merchants and other business men intend teoFt their stores and, offices in a fashion appropriate to the occasion These men realize that there is nothing that speaks more or the enterprise
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School Authorities Will Aid
in Movement That Is Ex
pected to Result in Much Good for Beautifying the
City in Future.
JUDI: RULES 13 II f DfilK
Damage Cuit in Superior
Court liaises an Interest
ing Question; Is a Man
Drunk 7hen He Splits a
Half Dc-sn Bottles?
APRIL 1ST.
SA1E OLD JOKE DAY
Today is the day when the unfettered small boy may play all the pranks he likes and get away with it. Today is April fool's day and the unsophisticated may expect anything in the, way of a joke. ' All of the old gags are being worked. The brick under the hat, the pocketbook at the end of a string, the coin glued to the counter and all of the pranks that are employed by the small boy are brought into use today. It is not known whether -or not the town of Munster plans a grim April fools are being talked of and the spirit of the day is upon us all.
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.New Vork, April 1. Myra- Kelly "Mrs. Allan MeN'aughton) of New York, affectionately known to many thousands of ' readers as a writer of
and public spirit of a community, than ,torles of ghetto children, died yesterattractive decorations and judging from t dav- in Torauav. England, where she
was with her Husband. In 1905 .Miss Kelly was married to
report, they intend to demonstrate that they are not lacking these qualities. COJIMITTKES ARE Bt'SV. As to the. hall, everything will be done here to make the scene as at(Continued ou page Ave.)
Allan llcXaughton., Her husband met with financial reverses. Her own
I health failed, and she was unable to
do much more literary work. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, about thirty years ago.
iOHQQL EXHIBITS PLEASE THE PAWS
Former Ruling for County Convention Regarding Delegate Strength of Can-
Wallace School in Standard District Shows Progress . of Foreign Children.
'"Please, do say something nice in
your paper this evening about the ex
hibit in the school."
buch requests came to The Times
office today oter the telephone from the
various school centers in Hammond,
each of the enthusiastic patrons urging
AiAn eir r Aviv1tt nf A 1 mat tney naa me very pest exnmmon UlUateo 10 Apply at U0n-;in the city, in as much as The Times
vention April 9.
At
is rot the Judge in the matter it would
1 not be right to give any school any
more credit man another, it may be
presumed however that all the other
a meeting cf the advisory board school centers will be generous enough
of the Lake county republican central ito permit special mention to the'Walcommittee, held In Chairman Schaaf's Iace school in the southeast part of th office In Hammond this afternoon, thejtcwn where the children from the committee will approve the name's on ! Standard Steel Car district gather.
the ballot and determine the personnel i Their exhibit is not only on a par with of the canvassing board for the night those in the other schools, but the of the primaries. It has been pointed work ,s bv children whose parents are out that the county call does not pro- j foreigners. vide that each candidate shall receive J Possibly fifteen hundred people saw proportionate strength of the delegate ' the various exhibits in the Hammond vote of each precinct In , proportion to ' schools yesterday afternoon and eventhe total number of votes received by ing, and many more hundreds saw the him therein. This has always been the work this afternoon. The people have custom and wlU.be the rule to apply' judged themselves about the merit of In the convention next Saturday week the work that Is being done in the
As a result of The Times' suggestion that Arbor day could be profitably observed in the public 'schools by "setting aside a whole day when the care and planting of trees could be taken up, plans are now on foot to make April 29 the greatest Arbor day that Hammond has ever known. , It is proposed to enlist the services ef as -tm&ny authorities on. forestry as possible and have them give talks to the children in the grades and in the high school on the planting of trees. It is possible that some authority on forestry from the University of Chicago will be induced to come to
Hammond and make a number of talks
to the school children. It has been suggested that a public meeting may be held In the evening at which the subject will be thoroughly discussed
from an expert forester and also the
citizens point of view.
It is probable that the morning ses
sion in the schools will be devoted to j an expositionof the advantages of treel
planting, and in the afternoon the :
school children in all grades will par
ticipate in the actual planting of trees in order to learn how it should be done. McDaniel Favors Plan. Superintendent McDaniel is very enthusiastic over the matter. He Is of the opinion that if the day's activities resulted in the planting of only 600 trees the city beautiful would receive a decided boost and the appearance of Hammond would be greatly changed in ten years. Superintendent McDaniel has a plan, not thoroughly developed as yet, that will encourage the planting of flowers about hundreds of Hammond homes. The necesisity for the dissemination of information about trees and of creating an appreciation of the value of trees as an asset to the city Is shown by the experience of W. B. Conkey. Mr. Conkey has had cause to make complaint against vandals who either
purposely or thoughtlessly cut trees
with jackknlves. This has resulted in
the serious inury to several beautiful trees in Conkey's park. If a wide
spread sentiment regarding the neces
sity of trees had been ' created this
inury would never have been done.
How can one man tell when another
is drunk?
That is the question that was raised)
In the suit of Jane Van Willlgan! against Emil Sahreiber. The latter is charged with having sold her Husband, John Van Willlgan, enough Intoxicating liquors to make him drunk. After leaving the Schreiber place Van Willlgan is alleged to have fallen into a ditch and broken his leg. The accident happened on Feb. 10, and as the weather was cold and stormy Van WI1Hgan died six days later from exposure. As a result Mrs. Van Willlgan has brought suit for $5,000 damages, and after the trial of the case this morning the judge rendered his instructions to the jury. Judge Reiter's Instructions are Interesting as tending to show what are the symptoms of an intoxicated man. The following is an illustration of the re
markable clarity of the judge's mind on
" ouv'jci.i. luai jm8ni easny arouse a
great deal of cussion:
"When I Maii Drnnkf
unaer me 1 .', a man is intoxicated when it is apparent that a person is under the influence of liquor, or
when his manner is unusual or abnorm
al and his inebriated condition Is reflected in his walk or conversation:
when his ordinary Judgment and common sense are; disturbed, or his usual
wwi power is temporarily suspended.
from the e fVi',cr and are mani
fest, then the person is intoxicated. It It is ndt necessary that the person
biiuuiu no Bo-cauea aeaa arunn, or hopelessly intoxicated. It is enough
that his senses -are obviously destroy
ed or distracted by the use of intoxi
eating liquors, within the meaning of the statute authorizing a recovery of damages against the saloonkeeper who
sells liquor to an intoxicated person. Drnnkf Not Dead Drank.
Intoxication is the act of inebriety or
the state of being inebriated. A state
produced by drinking too much alcoholic liquor. The term Is treated by lexicographers as synonymous with drunkenness, and Is expressive of that
state or condition which inevitably fol
lows from taking Into the body, by
swallowing or drinking, excessive quan
tities of intoxicating liquors
A person may be said to be Intoxi
cated when he, by the use of alcoholic
drinks, whether the same be splritous
vinous or malt liquors, has deprived
at Indiana Harbor. There has been a revision of the delegate list to the tate convention at Indianapolis in some of the townships, owing to the fact that some of those elected are hot able to attend. The revised list is as follows: Center township Delegates. Fred Furmjn, J. "Frank Meeker and A. A. Bibjer; alternates, H. H. Wheeler. H. E. Jones, Thomas Grant and H. B. Nicholson, all of prown Point. Ross township Delegates, William H. Wood, Deep River; alternate, Calvin Shearer, Ainsworth. St. John township Delegate, Charles A. Johnson, Schererville. West Creek township Delegate, Charles T. Bailey, Lowell; alternate, Henry Hathaway, Lowell. Cedar Creek township Delegates, S. C. Dwyer and Henry Worley, Lowell. 'Eagle Creek and Winfield townships Delegate, Methew J. Brown, Hebron. Hanover tow'nshjp Delegate, George X? who. Cedar Laka.
Hammond public schools. It was to be expected that good work might be expected in an exhibit, but no one was prepared for the excellent work that has been on display. The exhibition will undoubtedly do much to make the people of Hammond realize the value of their, schools and the system that is being used.
April First Holiday. April 1st will be something of a holl
day for the painters in Hammond for
the reason that the new scale will go
into enect. ine painters win get a
raise of six and a half cents an hour. They are raised from 50 to 56Vi cents an hour, or from to $4.50 a day.
So far as can be learned this is the
only increase in wages that takes ef
feet this spring. However, thr cost of building has now increased to such an extent that building is almost prohibi
tive. .' This accounts for the fact tha
no further increases are announced. '
KE1ELL
S KH WISER NOW
H6 Dill FOR TAPPER BLK
TAB I WOKS
President Taft Writes Congressman Crumpacker a Letter: Compliments Tenth District Republicans
Tenants to Occupy Quarters
in Handsome New Building Will Take Their New Homes in the Block Next Week.
PRES. TAFT'S LETTER My Dear Mr. Crumpacker I have your vtry kind note of yesterday, in which you inclose the resolutions adopted by the Tenth Indiana District Republican convention on the subject of protection and the Payne tariff law. I congratulate you on your nomination and I sincerely hope that you will be elected. I am very glad that your convention adopted the resolution on the Payne tariff bill and that it took action in all other respects as you desire. Sincerrfy yours, "WILLIAM H. TAFT."
At last the dates have been set' for moving day in the Tapper building. The latter part of next week all of the tenants in the offices of the old building will move into the offices iji the
Andrew Car he gie x Now in Chicago
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When these, o-"slmilar symptoms resulfT The old stairway will be used while
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RESCUE II BAD FIRE
East Chicago Is Visited by a Disastrous Blaze and Mother Saves Her Three Children at Peril of Her Own Life. .
the new one is bein.p? constructed and
a hole will be cut through ' the "bricic
wall dividing the two parts of ' the . building so that access may be had to the new part. The work of tearing out the old building - will then begin. With the office tenants located in the new part it is expected that the work on the building will move faster than it has at any stage of the construction. The Citizens' German National bank will move from the temporary quarters in Kolb's drug store to its magnificent new quarters in the corner of the building April 15. Slakes Changes Possible. This will enable Kolb to move his fixtures over to the north side of the store and will make it possible to erect a temporary partition in front of the south wall of the building so that the old wall separating the new and old buildings can be removed and the stair
way constructed. However, with the moving of the tenants in the offices and the occupation of the new bank room by the Citizens'
German National bank matters will be
greatly simplified and "the "work will move faster.
The new University club quarters are nearing completion, excepting the ball
room, which will not be completed until the old building is remodeled. The club assembly- room, the reception room, the ladles' retiring room, the library, and the billiard and pool room will be ready for occupancy by the 15th of April, but the ball room and the banquet room will not be ready for a couple of months. It Is expected that the "house-warming" of the new University club quarters will take place along about the 1st of June. The members expect to make this a great event, and they expect to be compensated for their long wait for the rooms by pulling off an event that will long be remembered.
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Washington, April 1. Representative Edgar D. Crumpacker made public today a letter which he has received from President Taft complimenting the Tenth District Republicans on the work of their recent district convention. The President in the letter makes special mention of the action taken with references to the tariff law and expresses , his gratification over the resolution adopted by the convention on that subject. DOES XOT WISH TO IXFLtEXCE. , It . ia ' understood the president In
tended at one time to set forth his
views on the tariff more at length la
his letter to Judge Crumpacker. That
he did not do so, but contented himself with a brief Indorsement of the'
action of the Tenth district on the sub
ject, is construed to mean that he wished to" avoid doing anything that might be interpreted as an attempt to influence the republican, state -eonven-tlonwhictL-wJUfce .heW..aA..ndianaro!Ia next Tuesday. M! 'j The letter to the Indiana representative, it is explained, is really a communication from the president to the Tenth district and is Intended to have no bearing on the state convention. ' If tiiftre is one decision upon which the president is especially firm and to
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William Kennel of Gary was fined
$25 for contempt of court by Judge Virgil S. Reiter of the Lake superior court In Hammond. Judgment against Kennel and Morris N. Castleman had ben secured in a 'mechanic's lien case and later the defendants were enjoined from moving the building from the lot. .After the notice that the injunction had Issued had been served Kennel continued to move the building. The fact was brought to the attention of the court and Kennel was arrested and brought before the court. Judge Reiter explained that it was necessary at all times for the orders of the court to be followed out and that the defiance of the orders of the court is a serious offense. The fact was developed that Kennel did not fully appreciate the serious nature of the writ of inunction and consequently a minimum. fine "was assessed.
(Special to The Times.) East Chicago, April 1. A fire featured with thrilling rescues, broke out
last night in the two story flat building at 4832 Magoun avenue between 150th, and 149th, street. In the lower fiat Mrs. Lula Kunsney saved her three children at the risk of her own life, while In the upper flat Floyd Stevens who in the absence of his family was alone In the flat was saved only after the doors had been battered in with an ax. He escaped In his night clothes but not without burning the soles of his feet from the burning floor underneath him. ' Origin inkgnirn. The origin of the fire is unknown, and but for the valor of James McShane who resides in a building - opposite where the fire broke out the damage might have been considerably worse.
F. S. BETZ CLOSES
INCREASES STOCK TO
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
Hammond Building & Loan A?3n. in Most Prosperous Condition.
CComiPV.ed on pam nve.i
10 HUTE SCHEDULE Otl TODAY,
BIG DEAL
The F. S. Betz Co. of this city today closed a deal whereby It takes over the Nolde Dental company of St. Louis.
The deal Involved $20,000. " The Nolde Dental company of St. Louis was recognized as one of the largest In the west, but was small compared to the local company. As a result of the deal the entire market for dental supplies will be affected, as the Betz people will undoubtedly reduce the price on the Nolde goods. For some time F. S. Betz has consistently eliminated some of his smaller competitors, and as a restilt the market has benefitted because of he lower rate that the Betz- company could make.
With the beglnnlg of its twentythird year the Hammond Building, Loan and Savings association, after Us annual meeting last night, found itself to be a million-dollar corporation. The capital stock was increased from $500,000 to $1,000,000. Because of the large number of stockholders the meeting of last night was held in Huehn's hall, where more than 300 shareholders gathered to hear the annual report and elect new officers. The report showed the association to be in splendid shape. While there was an annual election, there was no change , in . the official personnel, some of the directors having held over, while the others were re-elected. The directors . re-elected last night were William Thompson, Jacob Fox and B. F. Rump. The hold-overs were: J. W. Reed, Fred Ewert, Joseph Weis, Conrad Eigeman, L. T. Meyer and A. W. Graves. The officers who were all reelected were: President W. C. Belman. Vice president John L. Rhode. Treasurer Peter W. Ieyn. Secretary A. F. W. Fedder.
Assistant secretary Charles Kasson.
Gary & Interurban Carries Passengers From Steel City to Hammond and Return Without Transfer at Broadway.
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PEARY IN LAKE CO.
North Pole Discoverer Goes Through District. Commander Robert E. Peary, hailed as discoverer of the north pole, passed through the Calumet region shortly be. fore 3 a. m. today on the Pennsylvania special, and was met at the union station in Chicago by a committee from the Geographic society of Chicago, headed by Prof. Henry J. Co of the weather bureau. The visitor was taken to the University club for breakfast.
Today the Gary and Interurban will inaugurate its new service on both the city 'and interurban branches. Gary can now boast of the most frequent Tftr service on Broadway, for any city of its size In the country. The cars will operate both ways on Broadway from Third avenue to Twenty-second street every ten minutes. The repair work on the generators which the company has been waiting for before the inaugeration of its new scheme has been completed and the power station will now be in a position to supply all of the current that is necessary. Go to Hammond Theater. Today it Is possible for the patrons of the line going to Hammond to get the cars at Eleventh avenue and go straight through to the heart of Hammond without a charge. These cars will be run every half hour. Persons wishing to go to that city however may
take the Broadway cars and transfer at that point. This arrangement will also
l5e but temporary however, for it is
plandned to have these cars run eventually to the mill gates. Another feature of the new scheme is to give the people of Gary who wish to attend the theatre at Hammond an opportunity to return immediately after the performance. The 11:00 car will be held until after the shows are over to bring the Gary patrons back to this city. , The offices of the company have been moved from Eighth avenue and Broadway today to the Gary building where they have secured quarters on the second floor. Purchasers of tickets will be able to get them there In the futur.