Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 44, Hammond, Lake County, 9 August 1910 — Page 8

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East Chicago Enlivened byAmazonian Visit From Gary, and Oklahoma Saloon man Calls the Police in a Hurry. (Special to The Tiss.) Kast Chicago, Aug. S. When I.Iarklfijr of Oklahoma burst into Mary Steve Kaan's saloon over in Calumet and began to dance the can-can and hurl rocks about the place, Steve mistook her for Carrie Nation and called up, the police. It proved to be however only Mary's gentle way -of proving that she was a lady and not open to insulting remarks by any fresh guys who fancied her a person of coarse nature. It all happened last evening'. ' Mary had been In Gary and when she landed In Calumet she was full to the neck with Gary whisky. A man on thf corner got gay with her and" she picked up an apron full of rocks, which she proceeded to hurl at this misguided The Marquette Mark Means the Record Mark Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. La Salle, III. Chicago Office: Marquette Bldg. . lO., jaifliroM itstrtbutorf m. Ahlhorn, Hmmmond Distributor tVutiln Lbr. f Cml Cm., tan Chitcca Dtitributon ly m. j4. Cain Supply C.. Gary Dittributart T. J. Cullman, Burnham Dittriimw

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person's head. He ran into Kaan's saT loon, with Mary full tilt In his wake, and when the proprietor recovered from his surprise he found himself the! victim of Mary's virtuous wrath, for woman like her aim which had her would-be seducer as a target," went wild and Steven was getting most of the rocks. "What he did not get. his mirrors, glasses and fixtures got and so it was that a hurry-up call was sent in for the police Sergeant Mike Gorman was the officer to whom fell the lot of making the arrest. He Jumped Into his buggy and arriving upon the scene he collared Mary and hauled her into the buggy. Here she attempted to jump out, so Mike Iarrupped his horse into a gallop. Mary's hair had become unbound and was floating straight out behind her, and although she hated Mike. she could't bear to see him lose his hat, so when it started to blow off, she accomodatingly held it on for him. . In this fashion the city hall was reached and those who saw the spectacle compared it to Tan O'Shanter's wild ride, with Mike as Tarn. However, as he landed hts prisoner, and saved hit hat, Mike is not minding. Mayor Schleker gave Mary until tomorrow to get out of town. If she fails to obey, she will 'be gathered in again, and then the vials of the Judicial wrath will, bed opened and poured upon the head of the offender. Mary says she likes Gary better than Oklahoma anyhow, so she says Mayor Schlleker is "stung." A. F. KNOTTS ASKS FOR FRANCHISE CContinnei from Pa 1.J ter, steam, air, gas, heat, light and all the elements thereof. It provides for the ownership of all plants, buildings, devices, accessories, etc. Further, it gives the grantee permission to string wirps, build tunnels, lay conduit pipes along, above and below the ground and with full rights on all sewer connections. To be short about it, the ordinance seeks to give Knotts a goodly right to sell us air and the necessaries of life, to pipe it to us on the earth below, on the 'ground and through the heavens above. Xo Rates Cited. Nothing is said about rates, as usual, in ordinances of this kind, and whether the consumer is to pay J5 a thousand cubic feet for gas and a penny a cup for water is stated not. After 'twenty-five years Mr. Knotts would have the city grant him a renewal for another quarter of a century, or buy his equipment on termA to be agreed to by appraisers appointed by the city and the grantee. . The franchise was referred to a committee to be headed by Alderman Szymanski and consisting of Messrs. Bowser and Feuer. Sir Walter's Knock. "Ruff on the cloak," remarked Sir ; Walter Raleigh, as he spread down ( bis velvet garment before Queen ElizaDetn. He couidn t resist giving her this little wrap. Llppincott's. WHY ARE READER? TOD NOT A TIMES

Gary State Bank Gets the $30,000 Bond Issue; Tenth Avenue Paving Job Is Let and Causes Some Comment. v

Although encompassed with deep legislative problems and more improvement projects than inany other city in the real of Hoosierdom the Gary common council paused last evening ; long enough to pass a resolution de- ; creeing that there should be no coun- : cil meeting on August 29 and Septem-' ber 5. Therefore the city of Gary will go unplloted through the slippery wat- i ers of legislation from the August 22 j to September 12. Award Bond Inane. j The bidders submitted figures for the $30,000 bond issue which the council awarded to the Gary State bank it having the highest bid, $30,000. The oher two bidders were Joseph Elliot and son, $30,030Sand the Fletcher Xational bank of Indianapolis, $30,050. In case of the Gary bank the institution bid for the bonds at par plus the cost of printing the bond certificates which amounts to $80. '. These bonds are divided into denomi. nations of $1,000 each, bearing interest at six per cent and have a duration of twelve months. They are being issued to take up some of citys outstanding warrants. The premium to be given by the winner of the award will be added to the price of the bond will be rather slight. The city will receive $1,002.67 for each $1,000 bond." The Tenth Avenue Mlxnp. " After weeks and weeks of Jangling, i rejection and re-advertising but in each case with P. T. O'Brien as the lowest bidder Tenth avenue property owners were hit over the head with an ax last evening and the bid for improving the street was awarded to F. P. MacVeagh who .is said to represent a well known contractor who is on the Gary pay roll. This will cost the tax payers $180 extra and the Metropolitan block will be used on the Job. To Itelltriit the City. Now the fight will be on in earnest among the gentlemen who want to be created aldermen by the council. Last evening Mayor Knotts designated Feuer, Castlem3n and Bowser as a committee to report on the redisricting. Under the law the council can create about fifty new wards if it has the mind to with an admirably equal number of council representatives. IecInmtory Ftenolutiona. Declaratory resolutions were passed as follows: To improve Jackson street from Fifteenth to Nineteenth avenues with the exception of the crossing of the right of way of he Pennsylvania racks. To improve Fourteenth avenue from Broadway west to Madison street. Act on Improvement Petitions. A. L. Anchors and sixteen others want sidewalks laid on Eighth avenue from Broadway west to Tyler street. City Attorney Curtis and City Engineer Melton were instructed to draw up the necessary resolutions, plans and specifications to accomplish this. Property owners on First street, in Tolleston, seek, to have the thoroughfare improved from Ninth to Twentyfifth avenue. Their prayer was granted and the attorney and engineer will M.

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SUMMARY QF GARY COUNCIL LEGISLATION. 1. Awarded ,000 nix percent, twelve-month, bonds to Gary State bank for $30,000. 2. Pnucd ordinance providing for line of $100 a day Id caae the noiilh end railroads do not Install street ates within reasonable time. 3. Fixed the llcenseyjor a pawnbroker at $239 annually with a bond of $l,0O0. 4. Alderman Szymanskt Introduced ordinance ,. to awnrd gas, water, electric lifrbt, etc., franchise to A. V. Knotts, who wonld form a rival company to fiprht the steel corporation's concern, the Gary. Heat, I.icht and Water company. 5. Three aldermen were constituted a committee to look Into the legality of the vacation of Clark road at the request of the steel torforatlon. Alderman Cnstleman introduced the reHoIntlon that the Invert igatlon be ma dr. !. Preliminary steps taken to open Twenty-fltb avenue westward. 7. Alderman M. ". Castleman causes tax payers to lose money by Introducing? and earning resolution that the Tenth avenue paving Job be awarded to P. P. McVeaarh the high bidder, Instead of I. T. O'Brien the low bidder. f. Alderman M. X. Castleman Introduced a resolution which was acted on without official formality providing that the mayor appoint a committee to. redlstrict the city. The committee was named. . Fearfnl lest city be "legally" involved Alderman Castleman leads fight on the. request of Young and .Vossler that park llehts be extended on Klfrbth avenue to the ttrpheum theater. lO. Several improvement petitions were received and declaratory resolutions passed. low the usual routine preliminary to passing the declaratory resolution. , Other Routine Hnsiness. The primary assessment was adopted on that section of alley number one, west, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. It has cost $1,404.55 to improve it while the assessment roll adopted on that part between Tenth ave. and th Gary and Western track elevation will total 5453.60. Two years ago the town board vacated the north part of Clark road where the Kirk yards cross it in order that the steel corporation could continue its miles of tracks uninterrupted. A property holder is fighting the vacation. He is Richard Much and the case is now pending before the state supreme court. Upon motion of Alderman Castleman, who wants to find out by what right the steel company has to use the road a committee consisting of Bowser, Szymanski and himself were appointed to look into the matter. Bids on local sewer number eleven were rejected and the petition of Young and Vossler who offered to pay the cost that the park lights be extended a little more than a hundred feet from Broadway west on Eighth avenue to the Oiiheum theater was losts in a loud crash. The plat of the Tolleston Real Estate company's first addition and the Condit-McGinnity's seventh addition to Gary were accept-

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City clerk Moose recommended a show, theater and circus ordinance. ' SCHOOL TRUSTEES MUST BE SHOWN Cont:nued from Pajfe On.l school trustees of the city of Gary must give us an indemnifying bond for every penny that we turn over to them, In case the law should be tested in the supreme court and it is found unconstitutional and we should turn over the money , to the Gary board, who would then have no right to have It we would be . responsible for the amount and the school laws are very strict." "ARE FROM MISSOURI." The other members of tbe board Herman t'ecker, the secretary, and Treasurer August Koepke are Inclined to be of the same opinion. President Rutz stated that they are not holding the reins because they like to do so. He stated hat the board would be glad to be relieved of its duties but it would have to be shown first how It can consistently do so. The Tolleston school board are like the gentlemen from Missouri. TWO SCHOOL, BOARDS. In the meantime the city of Gary will have two separate school administra tions within its limits. President Cutler, the Gary board, and Supt. Wirt wlll handle affairs in one part while the Tolleston board and Supt. Avery will run their own business. From sjl indications the Gary board will not go into court about it. If the Tollestonites do not want the benefit of Gary's excellent schol system they can keep out so. think the Gary board Supt. Avery of the Tolleston schools has ten teachers under him, and, -in the event that they should come under! Gary's rule. Prof. Avery will become the principal of the Tolleston schools and the teachers there will be retained in their usual positions. CAI-LEU A FOOI, I, AW. No doubt considerable comment will call by the Question raised on the right ! of thft fitv nf flsrv tn annA-v- Trillo rin In many ways the annexation law is one of the fool measures passed by the Indiana legislature. ? The law in que tion provides that any city may annex any adjoining city or town simply by a council resolution. To retain its independence the annexed city must present a remonstrance signed by two-thirds of its voters and even then its up to the circuit Judge to say whether the reasons cited in the remonstrance are valid. OXK 11,1.1 ST11ATIOX. An illustration of the fool, law was given last winter when East Chicago annexed Hammond. Then Gary annexed East Chicago and as Hammond was technically a part of East Chicago. Gary took that in and as her boundaries then adjoined Whiting, she swallowed that city and then- still greedy, she annexed Miller, who escaped her clutches then pome territory below the river and finally absorbed Tolleston. As Gary would constantly be having new cities adjoining her by the expansion she could have gone east, annexed Chesterton, Valparaiso, Lafayette, Indianapolis, and infinitum the whole state of Indiana would have become the city of Gary. In the first place this law was not contemplated for any of these purposes but merely to permit Indianapolis annex a suburb. Mayor Becker of Hammond was one of its principal advejpcates and he never realized its dangerousness until Gary and East Chicago annexed his city and then released it from captivity nearly causing him to lose his throne. SOMETHING MAY HAPPEN. Should the annexation law be rushed to the supreme court for a decision on its validity and it Is determined that it

is unconstitutionalx he greatest civic mixup In the state of Indiana will be witnessed in Gary. Outside of the school board Gary is now running Tolleston and all of the Tolleston funds have been turned over to the Gary treasurer and a Philadelphia lawyer will only, be able to entangle the legal intricacies regarding the assessments. It is declared that in the event it Is declared that Gary has no right over Tolleston theh late trustees ot. that town will be held responsible for every penny that they have turned over to the Gary treasury and as all of it will be spent by the tme a decision Is reached Gary's treasurer Mr. Simpson will have some great problems before him and if Toleston resumes her independence she will have to stay awake at night figuring out her correct status.

TEMPLAR'S PARADR IS AN AMAZING SPECTACLE (Continued from Pace Oh.) sion, which comprised a number of distinguished visitors from England and the Dominion of Canada and many of the most prominent grand officers of the order,-attracted particular interest. Kit washeaded by Sir Edgar S. Dudley, t past grand commander of Nebraska, marshal of division and Sir Wallace H Whigam, chief of staff. Deputy Grand Master Sir Henry A. Weeks, who com manded the aids, had a special escort consisting of Trinity commandery No. 44, of Cincinnati, O. Then came, under the command of Grand Captain Gen cral Frank Pierce, officers and members of the grand encampment and visitors from other Jurisdictions. The first carriage contained Sir Wlliam B. Melish, right eminent deputy grand master of the Grand Encamp ment, Knights Templar in the United States of America. The second car riage contained the V. E. grand gen eralissimo, Sir Arthur MacArthur, and the grand master of the great priory of England and Wales, the Rt. Hon the Earl of Euston, who acted as per sonal representative of the Duke of Connaught. The third carriage con tained the most eminent and supreme grand master of the great priory of Canada, Sir Luther B. Archbald. The following carriages contained otr distinguished visitors from England and Canada and other distinguished officers of the grand encampment. They were followed by visitors from othe grand Jurisdictions and representa tives of prioris subordinate to the reat priory of Canada, and command cries directly subordinate to the grand encampment Delaware, Nevada, Hawaii and New. Mexico. The line was formed at Thirty-firs street and from there the column marched north on Michigan avenue, between a colonnade of tall white columns, decorated with American flags and the coats of arms of the various command. eries. When the head of the column reached the first arch, erected opposite the Blackstone Hotel, on the Lake Front, the trumpeters stationed upon the battlements of ; the castle-like structure, blared forth a knightly wel come. After the City Arch had been passed, the column passed In front of the enormous reviewing stand, four blocks long and seating full fifty th6usand persons, a majority of them women. At Washington street theparade turned west toward State street and entered the magnificent Court of Honor, extending to Jackson Boulevard, where the column again turned west, to La Salle street, thence north to the new county building where the ranks were broken and thme parade disbanded. The decorations all along the line of march were rih and beautiful and the gorgeous scenes Of the knightly pageant will live long In the memory of the many thousands who had the opportunity to witness this, the most magnificent spectacle seen In the West for many years. Consume Too Much Food? As a people we are 25 per cent, sick Uhrough eating 25 per cent. more food than our digestive apparatus can. care for. Elbert Hubbard.

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(Continued from Page One.) proximately 120 pounds. His hair and eyes are brown. A picture of a sailor and a star were tatooed on the ' right and left arms respectively. It is probable that the man, having had a pay day, fitted himself out witti new -clothes and that he was on his way to work somewhere. The man wore a new brown suit of cotton underwear which had never been washed. He had a brown hat and gray suit which is practically new. He wore two dress shirts, a cream colored one and the other a blue working shirt. His tie is a blue Bilk with large white dots in, it. In his clothes were a pair or new gloves wnich had not yet been worn and two new clean handkerchiefs, one a blue and the other white. ANOTHER MAN INJURED BY CARS While John Purcell and a friend were walking down the Pennsylvania tracks in Indiana Harbor, yesterds.y evening. Purcell was struck by an engine and his left leg was severed, below the knee. He also lost a number of. fing ers on his right hand. He was taken to St. Margaret's hos pital in Hammond, where he is receiv ing medical attention. Purcell stated that he and his friend were from Pitts burg and were on their way to Hegewisch to secure work. From their appearances, however. and from the fact that their hands did not show that they had recently done any work It is believed they were tramps. DEGREED Railroads operating through th south end of Gary, who kill a citizen now and then who happen to get trapped on their unprotected crossings, will have to get busy at once or pay fine of $100 for not doing so. ' An ordinance lntroduce'd by Alderman Bowser of the first ward last evening, which was rassed, decrees that there shall be gates at the following crossings: The Pennsylvania at Eleventh avenue. The Michigan Central at Madison, The Wabash at Broadway. The Wabash at Madison. The ordinance further stipulates tha fine mentioned unless the railroads get busy within a reasonable length of time. Gary's most treacherous crossings are the Broadway and Madison paths across the' W abash and Michigan Central, an dmany people hava lost their lives at these points owing to the greed of the roads. NOT DEAD; ONLY DRUNK (Special to Thh Times.) East Chicago, Ind., Aug. 9. John Huig, 148th and Northcote avenue, was found yesterday lying near the canal in the vicinity of the Interstate mill, apparently in a dying condition. The police were notified and took him away to the police station and the report spread that Huig had attempted suicide. It developed, however, that the man was merely intoxicated and a bottle of whisky found near him substantiated this theory. Mle was taken home and was out again today. Huig . was married about six weeks ago.' oney Pbone 322 216 Gary B13&, Gary, Ind.

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