Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 255, Hammond, Lake County, 17 April 1911 — Page 1

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Two men lost their lives on the Lake Shore railway in Lake county , during the past 24 hours. The body of an unknown man killed by a Lake Shore train, was discovered on the right of way of the Lake Shore railroad early this morning about 100 feet west of Broadway in Gary by Fred Schroeder a watchman employed by the company. The head and left leg of the man were nearly severed from the body and the track was covered with blood and bits of flesh where the body had been dragged for a dstance of ten yards. It Is thought that the late theatre train, east bound local No. 248 struck the man as he was discovered shortly after the passenger left the Gary station. HAH IS ARRESTED FOB STEALING A BICYCLE

Zoxlmlr Zuk was. arrested early this morning at ' Calumet and Highland street by Officer Herman on the charges of petit larceny. , Officer Herman was snaking his beat when he noticed Zuk fall from a bicycle several times, thinking he wtia. drunk Herman asked him where he was going and' he replieo. that he was going to Gibson to work. On question Zuk Officer Herman found out that he could not ride a bicycle and he admitted he had taken the wheel from ft porch on Waltham street. Said that he had noticed the bicycle last night on the porch and had slept last night in a box: car and : came . back and took the wheel this monjlng;. ' f t .. - , , ,; ; A. tjh -rte . from Hege.-

w ' i)u tt he was looking for work, he is thought to be implicated In a. number pf petit charges and is thought to be the party that has been stealing the chickens in the south end f Hammond. Ite will be held at the itation today and his trial will come up eforc Judge Barnett tomorrow mornJ!C. TWO ARE GiyEN FOREIGN POSTS Curtis GUlLt.Jr: ' President Taft will send to the Senate the nomination of former Governor Curtis Guild, Jr.. of Massachusetts, as ambassador to Russia, and W. W. Rockhill as ambassador to Turkey. Mr. Rockhill is at present ambassador to Russia. Mr. Rockhill will succeed Oscar S. Strauss, who was secretary of the Department of Commerce and Latnr 'tinder former President Roosevelt. Mr. Strauss resigned the ambassadorship to Turkey several months . - .......

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The police were notified and remains were taken to Jones' morgue where Deputy Coroner E. It. pordon of Hobart will hold an inquest today. The police have no means of Identification other than 'a white linen handkerchief on which' was Inscribed the letters Gruitta." The description of the dead man Is as follows: About 38 years old. 5 feet 8 Inches high, 185 pounds, sandy complexion, brown hair, brown eyes, sandy mustache, wore a- brown hat, blue serge suit and black buttoned shoes. The second man was J. S. Richards who was killed Saturday night. There were no. letters or papers found on the clothes of the man. In a pocket book were bills and silver to the amount of 155.23. Dr. T. J. Toner of Gary was one of the passengers of the theatre train and was standing- near the entrance of the coach talking to the conductor when the train passed over the man's body. When the train came to a stop they walked back to the rear end of the train and found the mangled remains. FRENCH LICK TO 60 OOTJKBUSIIIESS Indianapolis News Tonight Publishes Story Regarding Gaming at Resort. TIMES' HIREU, AT STATE CAPITA! Indianapolis, Ind.. April 17. The News tonight publishes a story to the eXTect that all gambling at French Lick is to be stopped voluntarily by the proprietors of the place. The law cannot be enforced because of public sentiment but the managers of the giftes'TmVeTiiHiae miicli" money and are willing to quit. The story says that Thomas Taggart has influenced the ac tion. Mr. Taggart has no connection with the games but his name is at tached to the Krench Uck places and the story says that Taggart's family are tired of the name being used there. It is said that if games cease no more will be allowed to open. fiMnicn l.uLLU Lake Shore Railroad Man Found in Shocking Condition at Standard Yards Saturday Night; Discovered by Train Crew. (Special to The Times.) Whitinsr, Ind.. April 17. A freight train on tho Lake Shore railroad was switching in the elevator yards, near Indiana TTarhnr. nn Watt, .-i i i. . shortly after 12 o'clock, when the crew i suddeiitly failed to receive any more signals from the brakeman. Knowing that all was not well, an investigation was made and much to their Jiorror. they found that J. H. Richmond. a brakeman from Waldo, Ohio had been run over. Richmond was brought to Whiting about one o'clock and taken to the office of Drs. Lauer and Hosklns. Here it was found that his left arm had been severed and both limbs were so badly mangled that amputation of both was necessary. The left limb wa amputated, but seeing it was beyon-1 their power to save the injured man's life, the right limb was not amputated, and at 4 o'clock he passed away. The body was removed to Hell wig's morgue, and relatives at Waldo were notified by wire. Richmond was well liked by all the members of the crew, and his accidental death was deeply regretted by all of them. Reuben From Nowhere. Reuben Ritnoer. who gave his address as Nowhere, was arrested this noon on Sibley street by Officers Bunde and Kinsele for drunkenness. He is 41 years ol dand did not have a cent on his person. Where he got his drunk no one knows. His case will come up before Jnrt- o--it In-the oiorniiic. , . , . ... ,

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Gary Police Get Names of Hammond Girls of Tender Years Who Frequent "Hotels" in That Place; Three W Hammond Girls in Raid A sad scene was witnessed yesterday afternoon when three West Hammond mothers, were confronted with their sixteen and seventeen year oiu oantj ters, who hads pent the previous night in the Gary police station following their arrests in a raid at the Hotel "Waldo at 1200 Washington street in Gary. One of the mothers wife of a prominent West Hammond official was so prostrated at the spectacle after learn ing the condition of her daughter, that she fainted and had to receive the at tentionof a phyisiclan so overcome with grief was she. The young man 29 years old, who is said to be responsi ble for the girl's condition, cornea of respectable parents in Hammond and he was only released this morning.from (Continued on Page 8.) CELEBRATE Tomorrow Is Gary's Fifth Birthday. JOB. A prll IS, 1006, ex-Mayor A. F. kiolli of Hammond, the then proptrty nut-nt for the lulled States Steel eorportion, nnperintended the unloading of a ear of cinders In the north part of t.'alnmet township. This vras the beginning of the Gary of today. Gary then: Sand dnnes, arreto oaks, stunted pine andawampa. 1911. Gary today: A City of 20,00. Largest ateel works la world. Thirty-two- miles of paved street, and lighted for Ave miles, moat In. Broadway, 10O feet wide, paved posing thoroughfare in state. Attractive homes. Million dollar water works. Carnegie library. Klgbt state antl national banks and a clearing bonne. $250,000 Y. M. C. A. Building. Three daily newspapers. Coke ovens. Finest school building In west. largest railway yards In world. ' Three traction systems. Cement mills. Commercial clnb building. A score of churches. Finest hotel In northwestern Indiana and a dosen other hotels. A quarter million dollar union depot. Ilrldge and structural steel plant. Largest police force la northern Indians. Two hospitals." Twenty-two tin plate mills. Largest city In state territorially. Fine harbor and docks. Scores .of apartment houses. Two theaters. Wine miles of lake coast. Tomorrow Gary will celebrate its fifth birthday. On April 18, 1906, exMayor A. F. Knotts and his brother, Police Commissioner Thomas E. Knotts, came overfrom Hammond and, superintended tlft unloading of a car of cinders in the north part of Calumet township. ' This was the first work done In Gary and marked the beginning of the city. At the Beginning. They had as a background for their stage when the curtain rang up a very dreary landscape, which, with, how(Continued on Page 8.) READY FOR TRIAL In the case of the state of Indiana on the relation of Nettie Scofield vs. Elmer Scofield, the state got service on the defendant this afternoon and the matter will come up as soon as Attorneys McMahon & Conroy, representing the relator, ,can get the ear of the oourt. ' The complaint charges that Elmer Scofield Is holding the body of the infant Scofield in the face of the agreement between the parents that. ' the mother shall have the. custodv of the child. ADVKRTtSB JtX XU.TE TIMES,

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WEST WOOD TO HAVE fli; ELECTION - West Hammond wl b&Td, a .city iecthe action the' preserV Soufd jna.V plaice' at a special nieetingj 'eh Jn cU-"5 for '1 tori' There was some question last week: as to whether an election will be held t tomorrow, but at a meeting of the can didates on Friday evening It was de-1 cided to proceed with the election of city officers as though West Ham-: mond s rights had never besn questioned.. I The probabilities are that the village ticket, headed by Mike Berwangcr for village president, will have a ticket in the field, as Clerk Mankowski has refused to sign any ballots for such a ticket, and the members of the independent ticket have failed thus far to ask for a court mandate compeling the clerk to sign the ballots. VILLAGE ELECTS SCHOOL BOARD OFFICERS West Hammond iast Saturday evening held an election of officers for the school board, the voting time having extended from 7 o'clock in the evenhig until 9 o'clock that same night. Ninetysix votes were cast for the president of the board of education. The result of the election was as follows: President - of the board John J. BreHm.- ' Members of th board Charles Toerger and Ernest Fruehling. There were two name less on the tickets, in the field, on both of which Brehm's name appeared as candidate for president. Fruehling's name was on both tickets, too. The only opposition was between Yoerger and Herman Rohloff, the former having won out. The other members of the board are Gus Brussell, Fred Siegrist ' and Mr. Knott. EXPEMPARPIST FROM BRUSSELS V -X- M :. y v.- .mi :::: i vy v a Miss Suzanne Yerby has been rece:. Jng much attention in this country on account of her musical ability. Sho recently came here from Brussels fot a concert tour. She ia an expert harpist

m..mm .111 - 9 CM.IZ.ABA c o 6 DID JURY DUTY IIIFLOEIIGE THE GUY? t TTT -p "RniTlt'! "Rirl : a T "Pa -'".' ;w noo jLtctwrou. , Hammond friends of W. F. Brunt, who is in -the street and sewer contracting business are wondering whether the fact that he was a member of the which indlctel Mayor Schlieker and other East Chicago officials, was responsible for the action of the East Chicago board of public work when it rejected all bids on a sewer contract, ineluding, that of Brunt, whose ; the lowest. bid was The sewer which is to be built is to be laid in One Hundred and Thirtyninth street, east of Alder avenue. The contract involves about $10,000. and the bids are said to have been rejected because they were all too high. Ehe East Chicago board of public works is composed of Mayor Schlieker, ex-Mayor Edward DeBriae and C. K. Wallace, the city engineer. Contractor Brunt has a suit pending in the courts which he he brought against East Chicago, and in which asks $1,600 damages, because he says that the city interfered with his work when he was building a sewer several years ago. ; . HICK STADISH GETS LAKE FRONT GGNTBAGT Board of Public- Works Wade Through Important Business Today. The board of public works this morning opened bids for the privileges in connection with the lake front refreshmint stand and the bathhouse. The refreshments-stand contract was awarded to Nick Stanish for $306, while the bathhouse bids were taken under advisement until next Wednesday. The refreshment stand bids were as follows: Nick Stadlsh $306 Bereolos Bros.. 225 H. W. Roberts .186 The bathhouse bids were as follows: John Flaherty .... ..$125 Max Berthod 100 H. W. Roberts ...... 77 .Miss Mary Seliger 45 The board ajjw ordered plans and specifications from the city engineer for a sidewalk on Reese avenue from Indianapolis avenue to One Hundred and Nineteenth street and for a pavement on Torrence avenue, from Hoffman street to Chicago avenue. Action on the Henry street sidewalk was taken under advisement until April 24th. According to an pgjeement between the board and the Nickel plate railroad company, action on the open of the alley east of Hohman street between Sate and Plummer avenue was rescinded in consideration for which the Nickel Plate railroad will open and paved an alley on the east side of its right . of way from State street to Plummer avenue. The opening of the first valley would have been against public policy because of the many tracks that it would cross. i

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STILL VITAL People on North Side Thoroughly Aroused Over Proposed Vacation of Johnson Street; Protest Meetings Scheduled. The movement to prevent the vacating of Johnston street, on the north side, has assumed proportions that are likely to make it more formidable than the proomters of that project dreamed. The people of the north side are now thoroughly aroused. They propose to get busy, and it is said that inside of a week a petition signed by practically three-fourths of the residents of the north side will be ready for submission to the court. Some of the developments that have taken place over Sunday are as fol lows: 1. A meeting of the property owners along Johnston street has been called for this evening and will take place fn City Attorney John Gavifs office, in ih First Xational Bank building. The meeting is for the purpose of prepar ing a remonstrance against the closing of the street. May Call Another Meeting. 2. A number of individual property owners have decided to employ an at torney to look after their interests in opposing the closing of the street. This attorney will work with the city attor nev in the matter. 3. Cornelius Burns of the North Side Citizen s association expressed a will ingness to call another meeting of the association for the purpose of reversing its action of last Friday night providing enough of the members favor such a move. 4. A score of property owners have signified their willingness to circulate vvgat the , proposed .-- .-"I. - J A. Aubry staterivuy" learned that a number of property own ers have taken steps to employ an at torney to look after their interests in ih. mutter ot the attempt to close Johnson street. , Oscar Borchert,. who owns eight lots on the north side, said today that there is a decided sentiment against the clos ing of Johnson street in spite of the ac tion of the North Side Citizens' asso elation. Work on Snnday. " John Freymen. at the head of a number of workers, spent all day yesterday in doing a Paul Revere stunt among the nroDertv owners. .He saw scores of them and almost without exception they expressed themselves as being op posed to the closing of the street. Dozens of the citirens Of the north side have congratulated Ths Times upon the fight it has made to give the people of the north side a square deal in this matter of the closing of the street. The fact is commented upon that The Times is the only paper which is representing the people of the north side in this matter. If there is any one who doubts that the people of the north side art interested in the matter of having Johnson street left open a trip to that section of the "city will convince him that it Is a vital issue with th north side. EASIER WAS DAY OF DEV0TI0I1 III CITY Churches Are Crowded With Worshippers at Services Yesterday. Easter in Hammond yesterday was a day of devotion of display, of holiday and prayer. Every, church was crowded to Its capacity for every service. Goln to and from the churches afforded the first occasions for the display of the new Easter bonnet. Records of the weather bureau show the day was not as pleasant as Easter, March 27, 1910. Then a temperature of 81 degrees was recorded. It was the highest temperature ever recorded on a . March day in the history of the weather bureau. There was a high southwest wind, however, last yean with a mean velocity of eighteen miles an hour. . The weather during the . day, was what is termed "elear to cloudy," according to the weather experts. There was a mean temperature of 46 degrees and a maximum of 54. But while heavy overcoats were considered essential by many as a matter of comfort, others made sacrifices to the wind, which was In the west for a part of the day, and later shifted to the northeast, bV wearing latest offerings of tailors In topcoats and lightweight overcoats?. ; .i THE IVTERESTIX; TIMES' Al) ALWAYS DENOTES THE IStTERESTI tiij STORE, '