Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 223, Hammond, Lake County, 10 March 1911 — Page 1

LAKE EEMMG: EDITION prrm III GENERALLY FAIR TODAY AND SATURDAY; COOLER TODAY. ONE- CENT PER COPY. (Back Number 1 Cents Copy.) VOL. V., NO. 223. HAMMOND, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1911.

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Indiana Harbor and Gary Feel Big: Powder Explosion the Worst, Felt at Crown Point

SLUMBERS DESTROYED Windows Shattered and Lodge Meetings Are Broken Up. A shock following in the wake of an explosion of thousands of tons of powder at Pleasant Prairie, Wis. near Kenosha, at 8:22 last night rocked Lake county from Lake Michigan to the Kankakee river, as though it had been struck by an earthquake. The uncanny motion of the earth, peculiar air pressures in the south part of the county, and distinct shocks followed by broken windows - In-the fcoTth :end of tha -county re malned a mystery to most people of the county until, this morning when I the newspapers told the story of the wiping out of the little village of Pleasant Prairie and Ranney near Kenosha, Wis. EFFECTS ARE VARYING. Of the Lake county cities, Indiana Harbor reported more results from the explosion than any other city. In Whiting the people were panic stricken. There was probably less knowledge of a disturbance in Hammoni than anywhere else in the Calumet region. In Hammond the .only perceptable disturbance was an unusual agitation of the atmosphere causing windows to rattle and standing ajar to open or cloen. Hammond policemen reported that the shocks were felt by residents In Robertsdale, a suburb of Hammond. Residents fled to the streets in fright. Buildings all through the suburb were shaken and window glass and crockery were broken. PANICS IX WHITING. Whiting. March 10. In Whiting the shocks were probably felt as distinctly as anywhere in Lake county. A big plate glass window in Joseph Bersteln's store on 119th street was broken and several others were cracked. In teh Kodicek Bros, butter store on 119th the ceiling of the building was cracked causing the plaster to fall. People rushed out of the Royal and (Continued on page seven.) .NEW YORKER WILL SUCCEED TAWNEY Representative John J. Fitzgerald, of New York, will be chairman of the appropriations committee In the new Congress, succeeding James A. Tawney, of Minnesota. This waa decided by the Democratic members of the ways and means committee, to which body was delegated the duty of selecting the committees of the House of Representatives by the Democratic caueus.

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EFFECT OF. THE EXPLOSION IN FIVE STATES. WHITING Plate glass wladons brokem. Theaters emptied la paalc. INDIANA HARBOR Wladowa broken. Reatdentn paale-strlckea. HAMMOND AtmMpkrric aa-ttatloa similar to stroma; wlad grout. GARY Two dlstlact shocks felt. Thought by snaay to be due to earthquake. CROWN POINT General exdtemeat. K. P. lodge meeting; adjourned. ROBERTSDALE Shocks felt and residents frightened. EAST CHICAGO Disturbance noticed. No damage. KENOSHA Every window In the city broken. RACINE Whole Hty jolted, serious property damage. LAKE FOREST Fashionable homes damnajed by Impact. CHICAGO City rocks under Impact. Panics In theaters and hotels. AURORA Buildings Jarred. Terror In the atrcets. ELGIN Woman drops dead. Great damage to property. BURLINGTON, Iowa Shock taken .: , for.jejwthajwaih OwEftajale seared.,. . CLEVELAND Shock recorded ' by elamograpbi : TAKE OP LICENSES AT THE HUB (Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind., March 10. The county commissioners started In this morning on a solution of the many problems that have arisen as a result of the passage of the new Proctor restrictive measure. Remonstrances were filed against A. Zimmerman of Miller and Wilton Johnson of Highlands. Auditor Johnston stated that he would not know until the proceedings had gone farther just what would be done in a great many cases involving the granting of licenses to foreigners. Questions of law will be taken up next Saturday and will be thrashed out by the attorneys on both sides. It is not believed that the county commis sioners will be able to finish all of the work that is before them by tomorrow night. In the event they fail to do this it is not known whether or not the session i of the board will be continued Into next week. There are a large number of lawyers in Crown Point looking aft. I er the interests of their clients. T i. 2 TO TRY TWO ER GASES Judge Lawrence Becker of court No. 2, lit the Lake superior court house, Hammond, will have charge of the criminal work during the next terms of court which will begin next Monday. There are two Gary murder cases which will be tried first. One is the trial of Henry Dorsey (colored), charged with the murder of John Brown of Gary but. a few weeks ago. The other is the case of Dick Naftanail, who is chagred with shooting Patru Manu of '0ary In the stomach and killing him. . After these Gary murder cases are disposed of what is known as the "Jail cases" will be disposed of next. It is not believed that the Gary payroll case in which John Caldwell remains to bo tried will be taken up until the latter part of the term and it may not be .reached then, 1,"

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Park Supt. Pete Fox Put on Grill by Homewood People; Action Is Brought Before the Board of Public Works. ,

Homewood people are up in arms over the despoiling of Harrison park by Peter Fox, who draws his salary the year round for taking care of Harrison park in the summer time Fox has built a shed, on the most prominent knoll and prettiest part of the park and Intends to turn the la goon into a, duck pond. This he is preparing to fence in with spiles and wire netting, besides making several other revolutionary disturbances in the park. Residents of Hohman street facing the park yesterday took the matter up with the board of public works and that body is to meet tonight to take some action on the matter. It is pre dicted that there will be trouble unless Fox removes the duck shed to some less conspicuous part of the park. When approached by Homewood people among them , being one of the city's heaviest taxpayers. Adam R. Ebert, president of the city heaviest taxpayers, Adam " R. Ebert, , president of the board of public works. said that Fox put up thf shed In; its present location without thejr permission. He said that j the understanding was that the shed fcwa.to-b.-ut .farther back. . -j " Some1' time ago a number of Homej wood people, approached at the solicit BUILDING OPERATIONS FOR 1011. Previously announced 9476,000 Mrs, Bertha Cervln, business blork 25.000 J. T. Hntton, flats 30,000 Total 9331,000 The building boom" in Hammond is growing apace. The latest announcementis- that Mrs. Bertha Cervln, who owns 50 feet of valuable frontage on State street between E. C. Mlnas' store and Henry Huber's furniture store will build a store and office building to cos in the neighborhod of $25,000. The plans and specifications are now being drawn by Architect Mac Turner and call for a building 112 feet deep and 50 feet frontage. The building will j be leased by Harry Minas, the proprie tor of the well known state street five and ten cent store. ' The first floor will be occupied by Harry f Minas, if the present plans carry and the second floor will be converted into offices. The building will bo a credit to the street and will help to make State street one of the principal business streets of the city. The fact that the building would be constructed became known when Mrs. Cervin advertised the lart tha she would sell the two wooden buildings that row occupy this space. One of the buildings has been occupied by the jewelry store of Julius Taussig. J. T. Hutton Is drawing plans for a twelve flat building of the most modern design which Is to be built on property he owns on Elizabeth street. This building will cost not less than $30,000 and will be one of the most attractive apartments in Hammond. It will fill the long felt want of a great many people who are unable to secure modern flats in Hammond. Ordered to Slow Up. A dispatch was received yesterday afternoon ordering the engineers on the Erie railroad to slow down in the Hammond city limits to six rn.il es an hour. Several other of the railroads have adopted this system in the last few weeks. The cause for this Is due to the action of the city .authorities, who propose to make the railroads be good.

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Talented Russian Countess Delights Small Audience at Towles

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Hammond Is long .'on ' vulgar lesque, but extremely short", on burhigh art. '," . A mere handful of people dotted hither and thither the seats in Towle Opera House last night to see Countess Thamara de Swirsky, the young Russian noblewoman, famed as the most wonderful exponent of classic and interpretive dancing before the public Had a frowsy and nldorous herd of burlesquers been advertised the place of amusement would have been packed to the sounding board. Sever a Better. Never have the people of Hammond been privileged to see a more artistic and finished entertainment than they were invited to see last night; never were they privileged to hear eo talented and soulful a corps of musicians as accompanied the young dancer and played the interludes In the program. The program was classic and exquisite, and the small audience, outside of a stray lowbrow domiciled in the gallery, who had evidently Thursday for the coming night, was carried away with the seductive music and the enchanting art of the danseuse, not to speak less mildly of the strains of the orchestra. Program Cat Short. It must have chilled the spirit of the young artiste and her splendid musicians to have gased into that parquet of empty seats. Yet in their treatment of the program it was bravely" met, though some of the numbers were shortened. The one regret was the elimination of the Rachmaninoff piano prelude in the classic Tanagra by Mile, de Swirsky. Probably she did not think it worth while to have the Instrument staged. At least the audience forgot NEGRO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL William H. .Lewis, a negro lawyer of Boston, has . been appointed by President Taft as assistant Attorney General. V Southern members of Congress may fight confirmation. '

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A m ' Splendid Orchestra Give High its anticipation of the Russian composition, as. it witnessed the dancer's fascinating interpretation of the great French composer Dellbe's "Pizzicato." Seme Exquisite Numbers. Among the most exquisite numbers on the program and in which it would have been a delight to have seen De Swirsky were she greeted by a larger and more responsive audience were the Russian national dance, the Chopinade series, one number in the Peer Gynt suite, the "Bat" in the Fiedermaus' score in Tanagra and the Dacchanal. To those who have seen the Allan, St. Denis and Duncan school of interpretive sensuousness lapsing at times Into Oriental grossness, the art of the sylphlc and ethereal De Swirsky Is as different as is the chaste and silver moon from the sun. Her art Is capricloue and evanescent, where they are vampiricai. sne is wood nymph or naiad; she Ariel to their Isis. Mile de Swirsky is premiere in her classicism. She belongs with her filmlly draped

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J conventionality, ' GLUB MEN WILL KEEP OPEN HOUSE David T. Emery, the new president of the University club of Hammond, has anonunced an innovation in the form of a Saturday "open-house," which will be a weekly feature of the club. On Saturday nights, when everybody is relieved of the responsibilities of the week's work, the club rooms will i be 'thrown open. The piano was to be brought into the main club room from' the ball room and the boys will gather around for an old-fashioned "sins:." ' Impromptu billiard and pool tournaments will be arranged and the -card room will be open for those who care to play whist. It is expected that this feature will become one of the best of the club. Open House Saturday. The first open house will b- on next Saturday night when the boys will be notified of the program of entertainment. Dr. J. A. Graham will be called upon to sing some of his inimitable songs and Others will be called upon for stunts. It Is expected that this evening will become a very popular one, and that a large percentage of the membership wil come out on these occasions. This will be in addition to the program that will be arranged from time to time by the membership committee. The smoker feature will be made more prominent in the future than It has been In the past, and.there will be a number of mixed affairs in which the wives any lady friends of the members will participate. A KEW DIMES FOR CAR FARE OR postage: nr tottre answering ADS. A FEW DIMES , FOR TOUR OWN "WANT," ' IF YOU'RE ADVERTISING IN THE TTMES AX THR VSUAt. RESIIT m A JOB!

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HI HOSPIIL Frank Ileiste Falls Thorugh Elevator Shaft at St. Mar garet's Hospital This V Morning and Receives On ly Slight Injuries. To fall four stories and sustaining only a sprained ankle and a few bruises as a result is the new record that Frank Melsle established yesterday at St. Margaret's hospital for plain and fancy falls. Melsle, who is an employe of the hospital, was washing the walls on the fourth floor of the old building and stepped from his stepladder onto the top of a laundry chute which leads to the basements, and in doing so the lid of the chute, which is raised about four feet from the floor, gave way with the result that Melsle went to the floor of the basement. But for his. presence of mind and determination to carry away as few injuries as possible Meisle might have been injured very much more than he was. Pell Like a Wet Towel. In falling he raised one leg as high as possible with the intention of land ing only one of the limbs and thus only injure one instead of two. His theory and practice were both cor rect and proved fairly satisfactory Now that his experience is over Meisle .. - . , i sees me iunny side or it, put mere was a very noticeable lack of humor around the hospital and among the sis ters and attendants when Meisle first went through the chute like a howl ing dervish, leaving those who had heard him. but one guess; namely, that he had been killed. His frantic cries which lasted all .the .way. first . gave first went through, the chute like the-alarni ifi the hospital, , and every body who' could rushed to the . base ment to help pick , up what everyone thought wrfuia fee'the lifeless, form ' o Meisle. The surprise of the sisters was (Continued on page six.) J. E. rVGARRY IS BEELEC1E0 III ASS'I All the Old Officers Are Re Elected; Reed Strike Is Discussed. The annual election of officers in the Hammond Business Men's Association lats evening resulted in the selection of all of the old officers. The officers for the ensuing year are as follows: John El. McGarry, president. E. F. Johnston, secretary. Joseph Weis, treasurer. ; The directors were elected and are as follows: John M. Beckman and John E Fitzgerald. Previous to the election of officers the labor question was in Jected into the meeting. ' J. "Wesley Reed, told of the troubl he has been having with the lathers who refuse to work on account of the fact that' his residence was wired by Fred Newell. .Vote to Sustain Reed. After hearing Reed's explanation of the trouble lie has experienced those present at the meeting voted to sustain him in his opposition to the lathers. This was merely an expression of the fact that the sympathies of the organisation were with Reed. The action was taken as a result of the statement of James Nedjl, president of the National Bricklayer's Union that the unions of the building trades which he represented would work with non union men rather than put up with the electricians, lathers and other unions of a similar character. Elks Enjoy Initiation. At the regular Thursday night meeting of the Elks only one candidate appeared for initiation, the lot falling upon John L. Walker. . , The regular routine of business was taken up and nothing new being taken up before the order, initiation followed. "Jack" didn't know which form he wanted and said he guessed it didn't make a whole lot of difference, but Jack found out that he got all that was due him. Following the regular work a social session was held and refreshments were served. K. P.'s Meet. . The regular Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias meeting last night brought out one of the best attendances of the season. The Uniform Rank was conferred upon Jesse Fuller. Following the business . session and the degree work the members enjoyed a smoker and a social hour. WHY ARE READER ' TOTT NOT'A' TIMES