Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 287, Hammond, Lake County, 6 June 1910 — Page 5

Monday, June 6, 1910.

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HIlI'S BALL PARK 10 BE DEDICATED SOU!

Next Sunday will be a red-letter day In the history of baseball In Hammond as on that date the formal dedication of the Hammond Athletic Association's baseball park, the grandest and most magnificent park in the region, will take place. Hammond's new ball park will be seen in all its grandeur next Sunday, and probably the biggest crowd that ever witnessed a game in Hammond will be present at the formal opening of the new park. A grand stand will be erected this week and the entire grounds will be put into the best of shape. A new drainage system Is to be installed this week so that it rains on the same day that a game is played, it will not be necessary to postpone any of the contests. The pavilion will be built in a circular manner directly behind home plate. Five hundred people can be comfortably seated in the new grand stand and

including the bleachers the park will have a seating capacity of nearly 1,000. The patrons will no longer be forced to sit out on the bleachers in the hot sun to witness a game, but can take grand stand seats which will put them in an excellent position to view the entire field. The location of the Hammond ball park is the best that could possibly be secured in this city for a baseball park. It Is centrally located near all railroad stations, near all hotels with nearly every, street' car line but a block away. Never before in the history of baseball in this city have so many people been interested in the national game as there are this season, which is due to the fact that this is the first year that Hammond has ever had a firstclass baseball team. As a whole the formal opening of the new park will be an Important athletic event.

made. The body will leave this afternoon. . Shea was a union bricklayer and the local union was very prombpt in taking care of his remains and notifying his relatives. Michael Shea the father of the dead man, lives in "Weston and now lies seriously ill at his home. He is much prostrated over his son's untimely end.

HAMMOND NEWS

Woodmen's Memorial. The WoodmenV memorial day yesterday was a big success. Several hundred Woodman formed in line for the parade to Oak Hill cemetery. Eureka lodge, the Hammond camp, was assisted by members of the out-of-town Woodmen.

of John Bower, a prosperous Madison county farmer, are suing to recover money alleged to have been stolen from the bed-room of their father, by one of the heirs. The case has been tried twice before and appealed to the supreme court. The evidence shows that the old man had accunVolated money for years to the

amount of $100,000 and had hidden it, I almost entirely, in the room in which he and his wife slept. At the death i ef the father, his son-in-law and daugh- .'

ter are alleged to have taken the money, which had been hidden away in different ways and places, and declared that the old man had die penniless. Two hunred witnesses have been examined

in each of the former trials, and as many will be on hand again.

The case Is the most important that

has ever been tried in Madison county and It will take from three to four

weeks before the case will go to the

jury.

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Two Sharpshooters. P. M. Warnimount and Frank "VTilliams were high men respectively in the medal and one-hundred bird contest yesterday at the regular shoot of the Hammond Gun club. Warnimount shot forty-two out of fifty birds for the medal, while Frank Williams shot ninety-four out of 100 birds.

Board Meets Today. The board of public works at its meeting this morning opened the bids for the Huehn avenue walks and the Ames avenue sewer. The first action on the Erie street macadam pavement was rescinded and the petition of the property owners for another pavement eecepted.

Conclave of Commandery. There will be a conclave of the Hammond Commandery, No. 41, Knights Templar, tonight. There will be drill work and orders will be conferred on noviates who are presented.

A special effort is being made to have the work of the year the most successful in the history of the local commindery, and it is expected that every

sir knight will be present.

Miss Reiser of Crown Point spent the past week-end in Hammond, the

guest or her sister, Miss Mayme Reiser cf Clinton street. I

MONON HAS A

BAD WRECK

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CHARLES VAN SICKLE.

SPOeTGETS

The Rev. F. E. Walton of

; who came in contadt with such men or ' women would fee.l that they were en- . tirely to be depended upon. He said that when he met a man or woman he ! wanted to bow the knee to them. This , quality and that of superior education j and brain power were the two things ! which should entitle a man to the re- ! spect pf his fellow men. He described j as contemptible the lives of those who j were occupied simply in spending

money. He contended that no man could afford to associate with evil companions; that no man is strong enough to escape contamination if he should, and that not more than one man in a thousand is strong enough to break away from an evil habit once formed. "Lot." he said, "was an example of this trait of humanity. Born with every advantage he became a degenerate by his

connection with the evil inhibitants of

Gary PointS Out tO HiS. Sodom and died a degenerate.

Hearers Wherein Lies the True Man and Womanr hood.

,,, , : rnade a post mortem je with avidity the do- j terdai. 0? tne remain ,e offprise-fighters or wl)Me dea(1 bod wa

"It augurs ill for the future of this republic when a very large proportion of its men buy the evening papers and turn immediately to the sporting pages

In order to p ings of a co

the dubiously .vorded accounts of horse

races and disregard entirely accounts of , the strivings and noble actions of the i men who are spending their lives in ! the -industrial and moral uplift of their 1

country. "Do not imagine that I am attempting to belittle true sport. I am a lover of it and I believe that clean sports are necessary and vital to the people of this country, but the trouble is that sports are becoming brutalized and degraded to the use of a few capitalists. Ccmmerciallzed sport is not true sport." Taking Lot as his theme, the Rev. Fred E. Walton, pastor of the First Congregational church of Gary, last evening delivered a stirring and eloquent plea for an ideal manhood and womanhood. He said that the greatest trait in man or woman was that of

GQHONER DECIDES HIS DEATH IS NATURAL

Pr. Frank Smith, deputy coroner for Gary and vicinity and Dr. Miltimore made a post mortem examination ves-

s of George Shea,

y was found near the

South Shore tracks Friday. They examined the contusion about his head. Later they found that the man had been Buffering from an acute Intestinal disease. The coroner's verdict advances the theory that Shea fell off the car and

that the shock of the fall aggravated

I his malady and willed him. There is ' still a possibility that he fell off the

car, however.

j. jr. Ratnoorn, or weston, Mich., a

brother-in-law of George Shea, who was found dead near the South Shore tracks last Friday night, arrived In town yesterday and registered at the Gary hotel. Mr. Rathborn did not have much to say and was busy making arrange-

very foggy making almost impossible

to see more than a few rods ahead.

The particulars as far as can be ascertained are that freight train No. 72 made slow time climbing a grade, east of Cecil Johnson's place. It was de-

ciaea to cut the train in two and to

take part of it to the Lowell switch and

return for the remaining cars. It was

Gallager's duty to protect the read end

from the passenger No. 4 which is due

in Lowell at 6:48 In the morning

Some of the trainmen say that Gallagher went to sleep in the caboose.

instead of maintcininj? the guard. The body was brought to Lowell and was

prepared for shipment to his home in

Logansport. Gallager was an old rail

road man although he had been in the

employ of the Monon only six months

MANY FLOCK TO SCENE.

A thousand people have viewed the wreck since yesterday. The scene of

the wreck was the place of attraction

in th south part of the county, the people coming there in automobiles and carriages. The wreck is one of the worst that the Monon has had in many years and It will take several days to clear away the debris. The track was cleared enough yesterday morning so that traffic could be resumed. In the meantime the trains detoured over the Three I route. The body of the missing tramp is thought to be under the debris of one of the wrecked coaches. An idea of the impact of the collision may be gained when it is remembered that the passenger train was going at the rate of fifty five miles an hour and that the engine plowed through the caboose, and four cars loaded with brick and stone. The passenger train had five sleepers but they remained on the tracks uninjured.

HELPING THE CENSUS

ENUMERATORS NOW

Another meeting of the Gary citizen's

census enumeration ommittee will be held some time tomorrow. Chairman

Hugh Corbett said this morning that the hour will be set when Supervisor

Doran phones him from Michigan City today.

The work of assisting the enumerat

ors is going on merrily. As yet a man

has not been placed on every block. At tomorrow's meeting some of the volunteers will be shifted.

Detective Pete Juric who Is leading

the educational expedition among the foreigners in the south end is prepar

ing the way for the government

enumerators. Ha has told them to give all necessary Information to the

enumerators. As the foreigners thought that the name takers wore trying to enroll them for military serv

ices or get them to sing a temperance petition and thus put the saloons out of business many of them threatened the enumerators with violence if they tried to take the names. Juric's good work in this connection has explained all and now the doughty sons of the Austrian empire are ready to receive the census men with open arms.

and Indiana Harbor in the matter .of redisricting, and are prepared to make helpful suggestions to the county commissioners in regard to the territory they represent.'

I IV A, ISO AROUND O A R Y

Reynolds building? Pay up.

Summer Homes. Steel city resident are now begin nlng to acquire summer homes. Dr. Faulds was -the original summer home

, owner in Gary, for the past three

i years he has been summering it on the an Leasue beach at Miller and Intends to ro this at Ligonler

year. Yesterday Captain G,

The Armours will foot the bill to a big dinner at the Victoria hotel some time this week as the result of the game.

GARY TEAM WINS. The Gary team of the Indiana-Michi-

won a ard fought game Sunday. The feature of

I tne game was the superb showing of V. Bacon left m'th on the mound. He held the

Street Is Sinking. Workmen employed- by the Gary Land company are busy repairing Virginia street between Fifth and Sixth

avenues. In the center of the block , summer months

the street has been sinking for over a Many Gary people intend

year and now It is more than two feet below grade. The spot is on the marsh that extended from the west and when the street

to join his family at their summer eMraT hits and struck out 10. The home south of the city. support given him was a vast ImproveW. C. Crolius returned this morning mn and the recent shakeup of the from Delavan Lake, Wis., where he team has had beneficial results, has had a summer home for several ! Williams made a hair raising one

years. His family is there for the nnoel1 caicn in iert wnne balancing

y I on one ear. It was a "circus Solly" to-spend tunt for sure. The team has finally

July and August on the beach at Mill- struik Its stride and from now on will

er. If you put up your own tent or De a

bll factor In the race for the

mosquito shelter there are no rent pennant, one marked Improvement is charges. Interurban and train service In the hitting department as a glance

was built it required considerable sand 1 give easy access to Gary, and the place at the scare will show. The " Sand

It fill it in.. Then a railroad track was

laid on the street but all the pressing of man could not effect the pressure that nature has made on the rest of thw sand country so the stret Is still sinking. The-same marsh ran through the site now occupied by the Gary hotel and McNally's restaurant. There Is a notable depressing of, Broadway at this point. This spot Is also famous by reason of the fact that less than four years ago Mayor Knotts used to catch pickerel where the hotel now stands.

ATTEND THE MEETING

(Special to Tbb Times.) East Chicago, Ind.. June 6. Mayor Schlieker. City Attorney Abe Otten-

helmer, Walter J. Riley and a number

of others from East Chicago and Indiana Harbor went to Crown Point to

day to attend the meeting of the board

of county commissioners in that city,

The proposition of redisricting the

voting precincts in both the cities of

Lake county and throughout the coun

ty at large is a matter of business that

is scheduled to come before the executive body at this session, and it is in the interests of this matter that Messrs. Schlieker, Ottenhelmer, Riley : et &1. are in Crown Point today. Those interested in the redisricting have had several consultations of late

Elks Incorporate. Incorporation papers were filed with the secretary of state in behalf of the Gary Elks. The official announcement of the incorporation reads: "The Gary lodge No. 1152, B. P. O. E.. Gary; no capital stock; benevolent; directors. H. H. Highlands, H. A. Vossler and G, H. Manlove."

Cash Is Needed. Inquiry at the local banks develops the fact that the local institutions can use all the cash they can get a hold of. There are more applications for loans than there is money to supply the demand. Although dally- consignments of gold are received from Chicago, Indianapolis and South Bend the city is avaricious and constanly wants more.

is an ideal one during the hot weather. Fleas" gathered more hits in Sundays . I game than in the previous three games.

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John D. Heer's "Wabash Sand Fleas" J it they expect to line up in true win defeated the Armour Pork and Beans column at all. Juniors yesterday morning in a fast ,

five-inning game at the West Side ball j THE? TIMES IS TRYING park, Tolleston, by a score of 4 to 3. , MERIT TTIE SUCCESS The game was called for 10 o'clock ACHIKVEO. In the morning and Mayor Knotts was

on hand to umpire the game, but after waiting an hour he got tired and left for home. The feature of the game was the brilliant work of J. D. Herr, local agent of the Wabash railroad and manager of the "Sand Fleas." Herr played an errorless game and In fact played every position on the team and' also when the decisions of the umpire did not please him he tried to officiate in that position also: He narrowly escaped death by being hit with several pctp bottles. Manager Miller of the Armours says the decisions of the umpire were In favor of the Wabash and now accuses Herr of "fixing the ump." Only five innings were played. The principal reason that the game was not finished was because several members of the Armours had overtrained

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"Dead Shot" Joe. It would not be dignified to call Gary's police head. Chief Joseph Martin, "Dead Shot" Joe, yet he is deserving the title should he care for It. Yesterday at the Sunday shoot of the Gary Gun club, held in Tolleston, the chief potted 49 out of 50 clay birds.

John Chinaman on Rampage Hip Kee, a local knight of the wash board, created a disturbance In the Reynolds building looking for a delinquent customer who owes a long laundry bill. Hip couldn't find the villian so he uttered Chinese imprecations in a slanderous manner. "Melican man he beat John Chinaman, but Chinaman catchy him velly quick and kllly him Chi Muckely di Hong Hong him dead meat dammy him." The janitor finally seized the son of the celestial king-

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(Special to Thb Times.) Indiana Harbor, June 6. With their plant at Calumet only half completed, the Linde Air Products company is already preparing to duplicate It, so extensive are the orders that have been received. )

This will mean an additional outlay of $40,000 which is the sum the present plant coast. Cecil Laghtfoot, general manager of the concern, arrived in Calumet on Saturday direct from London, England, where he has been for the past two months on business for his company. The headquarters of the latter are in London and while abroad, Mr. Lightfoot also visited the branch factory in Germany. He would have returned to this country sooner, but remained over to participate in the ceremonies attending the obsequies of King Edward. He expressed himself as more than delighted with the prospects of the local plant and declared that this branch of the company had already orders ahead which it would take at least fourteen months to execute.

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Judge A. C Carver left today for Anderson, Ind., where he will be engaged in the trial of the famous Zimmerman admr., vs. Beatson, et al case, wherein the legal heirs of the estate

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