Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 5, Hammond, Lake County, 23 June 1911 — Page 1

EVEMNCr EDITION T LAK COUNTY WEATHER. FAIR AND CONTINUED WARM FRIDAY; SATURDAY UNSETTLE D. H ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Number S Cent Coyy.1 VOL. VI., NO. 5. HAMMOND, INDIANA, PRID AY, JUNE 23, 1911. :jijna(s; .".,7"rt -: : i i-x": OKI.

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Well Known East Chicago High School Girl Nearly Loses Life as Result of Eating Ice Cream Either I in Hammond or Gary.

East Chicago, Ind.. June 23. ills Edith Davis one of the graduates this year at the high school, suffered an attack of ptomaine poisoning last evening:, which all but cost here here life. The young woman is better this morning, and pronounced put of danger, but Is still quite HI and very weak. Her Illness Is attributed to ice cream which he ate cither in Hammond or In Gary. Miss Davis with a party of young people went to Hammond yesterday morning and after taking luncheon there and eating ice-cream the party (Continue! on Paari 7.) DEATH USA LAKE CO. PIONEER Mrs. Fanny Abrams Passes Away at Home After Stroke. (Special to Thh Times.) . Crown Point. Ind., June 23. The death of Mrs. Fanny Abrams, wife of the 'late John Abrams occurred yesterday afternoon, she never regaining consciousness from the affects of the paralytic stroke which she was the victim on Wednesday afternoon, while at work In her garden. The death of Mrs. Abrams removes an old settler of ak county, she being a resident here nearly continuously for over sixty years. Her husband, John Abrams died several years ago leaving her in comfortable circumstances and since his death in Michigan she has resided continuously In Crown Point. Mrs. Abrams has two sisters surviving her. Mrs. Spade and Mrs. Lydla Ganery of Juniata, Nebraska. She lived over the alloted "three score and ten" being over seventy-five years of age at the time of her death. She was prominently identified with the Believers church of this place and the funeral services will be conducted by that demonstration. The interment will be beside the body of her husband In the Crown Point cemetery. HAMMOND BOYCOTTED (Special to Tub Times.) East Chicago, June .23. East Chicago will be considerably set up over the fact that the Auto Journal advises those taking the "down-state" trip to go through East Chicago Instead of Hammond as formerly. This will cut off a detour of several miles and provide a better road than the old one through Hammond. The new route has been made possible by the paving of Forsyth avenue. East Chicago will lose some traffic by the paving of the Canal road, which will provide a direct route from Indiana Harbor to Whiting, but this will be more than compensated ' for by the additional .automobile traffic that will be brought to It since it is "on the map" as a point along the "downstate" road. MISS BAYARD TO BE JUNE BRIDE, TOO Miss Ante Miss Anna Frances Bayard, of Washington, granddaughter of the late Thomas F. Bayard, is to wed Norman Underwood June 26.

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East Chicago, June 23. Slnoe holding court al fresco has come Into vogue in Eat Chicago, it is likely to adopted to a considerable extent throughout the Calumet region, in fact, wherever justices of the peace have the opportunity, in the form of a nearoy vacant lot gives, to go forth under the open sky and adjudicate the differences between those who "make business" for the township judiciary. , A tcene like that represented in the accompanying cut, in which Judge Cheney is presiding and Charles Pitzele Is posing as "prisoner." may become a common incident In Calumet region activities.

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DEARLY For a saloonkeeper to sell any quantityt of liquor beyond that specified in his retail liquor license, is aff.inttch' of a violation as running a "blind pig" If he has not a wholesale license, and a number of Lake county saloonkeepers paid dearly for this Information before United States Commissioner Charles Surprise In the Federal build Ing today. The saloonkeepers arrested and who appeared before Commissioner Surprise are: Michael Stakes, 3519 Deodar street, Indiana Harbor. John Mravinac, 3505 Deodar street,! Indiana Harbor. Steve Szerpetowskl, S4S0 Guthrie street. Indiana Harbor. Thomas A. Ywanow, 2101-137th street, Indiana Harbor. Nick Fadllvic, 1327 Massachusetts street, Gary. Anton Chorak, 2103 Jefferson street. Gary. John Biskup, Gary. Frank Ciesiekski, 12S3 Jefferson street, Gary. Fadllvic is arrested for not having a retail liquor license. It was said today that warrants for about thirty-five more liquor men would probably be issued within the next few days unless the saloonkeepers, who have already been warned by A. A. Phillips, the deputy revenue collector, pay up Immediately. Among the . district officials who were present today were Clarence W. Nichols, assistant United States district attorney; D. C. Rankin, deputy United States marshal; T. E. Martin, deputy United States marshal; A. A. Phillips, deputy revenue collector; Dan Chapin, revenue agent. 7 Weense Cot $."0 a Year. Some of the' saloonkeepers who appeared before the United States commissioner today have had repeated warning, and it was said today that only the most flagrant violators were brought in today. A wholesale liquor license costs $50 a year, and this amount the offending saloonmen must pay and an additional fifty per cent of the amount of the license money due. The government does not want any prosecutions in these license matters, it being mainly after the money rather than a punishment for the violators. Most of the saloonkeepers have been in the habit of selling barrels of beer for picnics, weddings, etc., and this practice Is ald to be' quite common throughout the county. MARRIAGE LICENSES. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., June 23. Marriage licenses have been Issued here to the following: Edward Markey, Hobart; Alvlna Koeppen, Hobart. Edwin E. Parry, Chicago; Sadie Vaughn, Chicago. Walter Miller. Chicago; Pearl Jansen. Chicago. Frank Woodford McCoskey, Chicago; Alvlna Jeanette McCosky, Chicago. Richard A. Winkler. Chicago; Ethel Buckley,' Chicago. Rudolph G. Wehrli, Chicago: Elenora Rail, Chicago. Joseph J. Scherer, Hammond; Minnie Rlpp, Hammond. Oscar A. Miller, Chicago; Olive May Waters, Chicago. Christopher C. Cole, Valparaiso; Amanda J. Wolff. Whiting. Everybody gpes to the SaengerbundFldelia picnic at Kindel's grove, Sunday, June 25. 23-2

it,1 -vrr opprczia, JIME,SJfLOK)U33El& HAMMOND PEOPLE GO TO JilANAPOLIS Weather $Ian Serves Up Torrid Spell for Expatriated Hoosiers. It was a hapry crowd of Lake county people who left Hammond today at 2 o'clock for Indianapolis. The special train from Chicago was comfortably filled - with exiled Hoosiers who are "coming on home." 'i-Tha Come , On Home .society ot IndianapOlftf Is welcoming the Indiana society of Chicago, and it is safe to say that a happier throng never left the Windy City unless it was the same party that went to Brook, Ind., a year ago and spent a memorable day at Geo. Ade's farm. The Lake county people who made the trip are W. B. Conkey, Henry Conkey, Charles Demlng, Miss Marion Deming. Miss Irene Mott, A. M. Turner, his wife and daughter Margaret; Mr. and Mrs. August Johnson of East Chi cago, Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Schlieker, Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Sharrer, F. D. McElroy, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Johnson, Judge and Mrs. Virgil S. Reiter, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo C. Bally of East Chicago, F. Richard Schaaf, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fitzgerald. Otto noerzer, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Johnston. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Paxton and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Crumpacker. Tonight there will be open house at the German House, tomorrow the party will visit Editor Delavan Smith's farm and hundreds of other forms of amusement will be provided for the guests. A whole floor of the Claypool hotel will be reserved for the members of the society. CRUSADE HAS NOT STARTED AT HUB Authorities Slow About Ordering Curs Shot at County Seat. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point. Ind., June 23. Although up to the present time Crown Point has not had any "mad" dog scare this season there are enough homeless and worthless curs at large on the city streets to make the chances of an epidemic of rabies quite possible as in th past. The Times has been requested to make mention of the fact In an effort to Induce the authorities to take the necessary precautions to avert any possible harm arising from the attacks of dogs and will freely lend its aid In reducing the danger to a minimum. Recent deaths in Lake county cities from the awful malady has awakened their authorities to urgent action in ridding the city of homeless and worth less dogs an dCrown Point should fol low In their wake while yet free from their dangerous attacks. LINEMAN IS HURT. (Special to The Times.) Lowell. Ind.. June 23. While Roy Boehe, lineman for the electric light plant, was descending from a po!e his spur struck a limb of a tree that extended out against the pole and he began to slide down and came down at a rapid rate. When near the ground his arms came In contact with a tin sign tacked to the pole and the ragged edges badly lacerated his arms. He lost quite a bit of blood before a doctor dressed the Injured member. He will be disabled for work for a few days.

lUDGLllJK.CKZXm- " ATTY1 There Is an unusual scene of activity in the .Aetna-Gary woods east of the Indiana Harbor Belt railway "high line," and more than 200 men are working In the swamp-forest clearing trees, filling up bogs, leveling dunes, laying railway tracks, grading and pouring concrete into the earth, i. A w Indnatry Hand. This work means that-the plant of the Gary Bolt and Screw company, one f the- smalleruinduUlog which is to employ 1.000 hands, Is well under'.way and by the late fall or early wlnte the factory will turn out Its first output. Heretofore a ' lonely wilderness, in fact the most unfrequented portion In Lake county, the place has given away to a noisy bustle. Tents, horses, construction camps, locomotives and other items give the locality a busy look. What Is now a partially cleared Kill Unmuzzled Dogs. The Hammond Times has begun a crusade against unmuzzled dogs. The mo3t rigid enforcement of the law and order of the health officers Is demanded. Road supervisors should see to it that all unmuzzled dogs are killed. The owners have had sufficient warning and there is no telling where the hydrophobia will develop, owing to the fact that several dogs have run from one end of Jasper county to . the other spreading disease . wherever they went. Let every person help to stamp it out by reporting the unmuzzled dogs. Rensselaer Republican. SCHIFFS MILLION - FOR A UNIVERSITY, ScHlFP Jacob H. Shiff has offered $1,000,000 for the establishment of a university at Frankfort-on-the-Maln, the condition being that no restriction be placed on the number of Jewish students. The offer is directed against anti-Semitism, which still prevails in all German universities.

,-r V Si J W i ATTY. woods will be no many months hence the center of a new Industrial district. Factory buildings, yards and other things will entirely change the wild character of the district. I Et of Droadwayl The new factory site is on the north sine or tne abash railway, east of the "high line" and south of the Lata shore tracks. Aetna bounds it, on the east and eventually the American t cxwnojivs pianrjBOUaba Sits northern boundary. - -vun tne completion of the new Inausiry more than o,000 people will be added to Gary's population by it. Steel from the Gary mills will be used. The concern is an independent one, but it finds a large market for Its products with the steel trust. In Pittsburg the company's bolt and screw works ope rate day an dnight. A. B. Dickson, the general agent of the Erie railroad, was in Hammond today, where he appeared before the members of the board of public works in regard to the elimination of the death trap at the corners of Conkey avenue and Calumet avenue. The board got Dickson to agree to recommend to the company that it pay one-half of the cost of paving the thirty-foot street that it is proposed to build across the corner of the Wallace school property. This assures the building of at least one street that will divert two-thirds of the traffic from the crossings. Dickson was fair enough to admit that the company would probably be benefited to such an extent in diverting the traffic that it would be wraranted in paying its share of the cost of the street. It is unfortunate that the plans' did not call for a wider street to meet the future ntods of the city, but in view of the fact that the school city owns the property it will be possible to w;lden the street when the demands of the traffi warrant it. Township Trustee Becker said that one of the Jarnecke boys promised to take the matter up with his father again, and that he would let him know what his final decision is regarding the donating of the strip. If Jarnecke refuses to donate, the necessary strip then a petition will be filed and the necessary legal steps will be taken to have the street opened any way. . . GARY CASE VENUED The case of Samuel Miller and Joseph Frost vs. Arthur W. Hollmeyer Is being heard before Judge Ames this afternoon. The case was venued from Judge A. C. Huber of Gary to Judge Ames court this morning. The complaining witnesses are suing the defendant for possession and damages for the' sum of $1,000. The case is expected to be a long drawn out one and will take practically all afternoon before a settlement is had. All cars go to the SaengerbundFidelia picnic, Kindel's grove, Sunday, June 25th. 23-2

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Disastrous Conflagration Again Visits Old Hammond Packing House Site Early this Morning. Hottest Fire City Ever Had in its History. Blaze Lasts Ten Hours.

Fire from an unknown, source,1 broke out in the four story brick building formerly occupied by the Q. H. Hammond Company for its fertilizer plant, and now occupied by the Hammond Storage company, causing a total loss of approximately $100,000. The plant In which cattle-food from distiller's dried feed, and cotton seed meal was mixed and stored was operated by the Chapin and company the biggest corporation of Its kind Jn the United States. It has other plants in Boston, Buffalo, Minneapolis and Milwaukee. LOSS BTTT PARTIAL, The loss is only a partial one, a two story building which Is packed from JOYRIDERS LEAVE CA ON TRACKS Joyriders abandoned a fine 1911. model Cadillac automobile early this morning on the right of way of the lichigan Central tracks 1 mile east of Hammond not far from Gibson.

The machine was first noticed by R. Schoenlaub, who, it is alleged, disapC. King of 193 Truman avenue who is i . . . , , an employe of the Michigan Central j Peared from Chicago when he heard railroad. The machine was left strad- that the police wanted him as a wit-1

dling the last rail of the east bound track and it was left in such a position, if a train came along the auto would have been smashed to smithereens. The machine must -have been abandoned sometime after 2:30 as there Is a train due there on the Michigan Central at 2:35 and not another until (Continued on Page 7.) DETECTIVE GETS ROBERTSDALIAN Officer A. F. Gaetge, of the B. & O. railroad, arrested John Biesen at Robertsdale last evening for malicious trespass, and the case will be heard before Judge Prest. The B. & O. has had a lot of trouble with trespassers, who have been injuring their property, and are trying to put a stop to it. The date of trial has not been set. APPOINTEDJRECEIVER. TIMES' B IRE A IT AT THE -TATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., June 23.Frank L. Evans of East Chicago has been appointed receiver for the mercantile estalishment of Pitzer & Nicholson of Whiting by Judge Anderson of the federal court following the filing of a petition asking that the firm be adjudged a bankrupt and alleging Insolvency. The petition was filed by Hugo Aron and R. P. Smith Sons Co. and Jacob ! Meyer & Co., all of Chicago. The peti tioners have claims against the firm amounting to $764.84. NO OPPOSITION IS EXPECTED Henry Daugherty, the town clerk of Highlands, says that public opinion regarding the advisability of opening the Ridge road to a width of eighty feet Is changing and that there will be no further opposition to the plan to widen the street. He says that the opposition of the farmers was based on the belief that the road was to be converted Into a boulevard and that heavy traffio was to be excluded from the street. The people along the Rldgo road are anxious to have street car service as soon as possible, and they do not want a street that would exclude thla kind of traffic. As soon as the matter is thoroughly understood it is not believed that there will be any opposition to the plan to widen the street. The owners of property along the Ridge road appreciate the Interest that is being taken in this thoroughfare and are being taught the value of good roads.

Approximate Losses. Contents of building 9125,000 Building 25,000 I.NSVRAXCE. Contents 9 60,000 Building 10,500

the basement to the ceiling having escaped. Steps will be taken at once to re-establish the Hammond plant, and in the mean time, the company will resume operations at its Milwaukee plant which ' had been partially dismantled with a view of moving It to Hammond. In point of loss the fire is one of the largest in the history of Hammond and while not as spectacular as the G. II. Hammond company fire and the Simplex (Continued on page 8.) LATEST NEWS RABIES FROM COP'S BULLET. Newark, N. J., t June 23. Mr3. Pasquale Pastine of this- city in a hospital bere suffering from rabies,, as the result of a slight bullet wound la thfr h The'bwUet, fired by- a -policeman at a mad dog. . ; passed ' through the dog's head before it grazed Mrs. Pastine's forehead, and apparently carried the germs cf the disease with it. ALLEGED SLUGGER ARRESTED. Lafayette, Ind., June 23. A. M. ness in connection with the killing of Vincent Altman, a labor slugger, was arrested yesterday on a farm near here. He waived extradition Is expected to arrive in Chicago today. PRAYING FOR RAIN. St. Louis, Mo., June 23. Archbishop Glennon has issued an official letter directing all priests in this ( archdiocese to pray for rain. This is I believed to be the first order of that kind ever Issued by a church dignitary In America. The drouth in Missouri is the worst since 1864. MRS. KNOX GOES TO HER SUMMER HOME Mrs. P. C. Knox, wife of the Secretary of State, has left the heated capital and gone to her summer home at Valley Forge, Pa. Her latest photograph is shown.

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