Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 20, Hammond, Lake County, 12 July 1911 — Page 1
nrnnr E GOTO 1 JD1 ITIOIM .VOL. '.VI., NO. 20. HAMMOND, INDIANA, AVEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1911. ONE CENT PER COPY. xck. numbers 2 Cents Copy.) GARY'S SPLENDID NEW COMMERCIAL FEDERAL OFFICER PinSBURG CLUB BUILDING OPENED LAST NIGHT. ISSUES WARNING
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HOTCHKISS OUT FROM GARcloses liDlflifl HARBOR BELT us doors
Western Trunk Lines Acquire Big Share Indiana Harbor Belt Stock. Belt and C. I. & S. to be Operated Severally. C. W. Hotchkiss Gives Management to
George Hannauer
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That two powerful trunk lines, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and
the Chicago & Northwestern railways ; have acquired 40 per cent of the stock
of the Indiana Harbor Belt railway
and that a reorganization of the In diana Harbor Belt and Chicago, In
diana & Southern railways is to go
into effect August first is the signifi
cant news that came to Hammond
from Chicago this morning. The important news concernln
the four railroads develops the fact
that it involves changes in the opera tlve departments of the Indiana Har bor Belt railway and the Chicago, In
diana & Southern, the management of
the two roads being split up in order to permit Chas. W. Hotchkiss to devote hl3 time to the Chicago, Indiana & Souther)!. -
XOW C ,S BAItWA Y 1IKAD. Mr. Hotchkiss, by reason of his multiplied and growing interests, has Voluntarily relinquished his double management, severing his connection with
the Indiana Harbor Belt, but retaining.
C. E. Schaff, vice president of all the New York Central lines west of Buffalo, will be In charge nominally of the management of the Belt line In place of Mr. Hotchkiss, while George Hannauer, who has been general superintendent of the C. I. &S. railway and the Indiana Harbor Belt railway, will be the active head henceforth of the Belt railway and his successor on the Chicago, Indiana & Southern as superintendent will be Henry Ziesel, with headquarters at Kankakee.
, OTHER CHANGES PLAXXED.
The new alignment will undoubtedly mean a number of other minor changes In the operation of the two local railroads through the invasion of the
western trunk lines, whose object, It
Is believed, make it more of an in
dependent road and key up Its activity
ana einciency so ably Inaugurated by Mr. Hotchkiss. It is understood that the transfer of the 40 per cent of the stock In the Indiana Harbor Belt, taken over by the western railorad.x. incidentally leaving the 60 per cent balance with the New Tork Central lines comes about through the efforts of Mr. Hotchkiss, who for over a year has been working on the transfer. It is declared that at least a part of the money and in the purchase of the interest of the Belt will be used in a new undertaking that will mean much to this region. The latter loses nothing by the transfer of the stock, but will gain thereby m
case the proposed new undertaking is put through. The transfer of the stock has already been put through, and the
proposed changes will go into effect on the first of the coming month.
MEAXii MUCH
TO KKOIOtf. -
The joint ownership of Indiana -ir-
tTr Belt stock by tnt tThlcago. ASTJorlh-
western and Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul railroads gives them both a snlen-
jdld belt railway In the calumet region
under especially active management
I That" Mr. Hotchkiss Is not to elvo ,.n
' . &11 his IntorABta 1m 1 . -
however, his position as general man-j ,s especially pleasing to the dominant ager of the Chicago, Indiana & South- j Industrial and railroad leaders therein.
nis interests have become so large and varied that he did not have time to devote to the growing railroad busienss. and in turning over the management of the Belt to George Hannauer he has made more prominent than ever one of the most aggressive railroad personalities the Calumet region has ever known. The rapid progress in improvement made by these two belt railroads and their increasing kinship with the country's dominant rolling stock is nothing short of amazing. They are bringing big railroad men to this region to acquire domicile here, which will mean a great deal to It on the whole and to Hammond in particular
Jtiammona garage closed itm
aoors last evening, and it is under-
oiuoa mat it will not open again. The
competition of the Heiptas garage with
"S supeiror enulnmctnt la rt ,.,.
oeen the cause of the shut down.
The place was formerly owned by
-nes warner and Tom Lavene and was managed by J. C Simmons, but when
varner and Lavene sold out to Charles
Meae. Wmmons left for Chicago,
wnere ne is a sales manager.
curing tne past few months the
place has had a hand-to-mouth exist
ence. Practically all of the stock has been sold so that the whole plant has
oeen stripped.
in raci, aoout an there Is In the
place now In the way of assets la
desk, the rest of the office furniture
ana a few oil cans. For weeks those
who have been close to the situation
nave expected the place to close, and last night the owners determined on
this.
OPEN COAL BIDS AT SGHOOLjBOARD MEET
William Ahlborn and H. F.
Meikle Are the Low ... Bidders on Contract.
TAFT SLEEPS IN OLD FOUR-POSTER AT BEVERLY; RAG RUGS ON BEDROOM FLOOR
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The bids on the year's supply of coal
for the Hammond schools were onened
last evenihg. and "jyilllarn Ahlborn was the loV man on twenty-one of the dif-
H. F. Meikla was the next lowest bidder and equaled Ahlborn's price on three of the kinds of coal specified. Bfeker Bros, were next lowest, J. J. Diebos & Sons next, Foss & Eastwood next and George- P. Stout was the
highest.
The price quoted by Ahlborn was as
rollows: Springfield. 1111., 6-inch lump,
i.o--; aomertic, 12.42; mine run. $2.27.
Lincoln. 111., six-inch lump, $2.52; do
mesne, 12.42, and mine run, $2.27. Car-
tervllle, 111., six-inch lump, $2.70; do mestic. $2.70, and mine run, $2.55. Sul
livan County, Ind.. six-inch lump, $2.67;
uomesuc, $2.52, and mine run, $2.32
ureen county, Ind., six-inch lump.
:.; domestic,, $2.52. and mine run. $2.32. Shirley Hill Coal comDanv. four.
Inch lump, $2.62; domestic. $2.52. and mine run, $2.32. Black Hawk No. 4 mine, Ind.. four-inch lump. $2.77; domestic, $2.70, and mine run, $2.32. Harrlsburg, 111.1, six-inch lump, $2.80; domestic, $2.70. and mine run. $2.55. The prices are given for the purpose of enabling the citizens of the neigh
boring cities to compare the cost of coal with that which Hammond has to pay. The board took the matter under advisement for a week, and in that time It will have an opportunity to go over the bids and determine Just: which Is the best, everything considered. It Is thought, however, that the Ahlborn bid will be accepted without a doubt. The Beckman Supply Co., City Fuel Co., Dally Bros., Kast Hammond Coal Co., Trie Fuel Co., Kraus Bros, and ; Williams & Peters did not bid.
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ICE TRUST IS WITH
THE GOUGE THESE DAYS
HAMMOXO Pl'RR H I- rnwDiw ' '
fo, (tmu. .v; :r j'uoilKeepers ad business
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than 4,000 pounds was "5e Br
cwt.j now 30c.
To milk dealerau old Drier nn
20e. '
Private eonaoiuera, price anehamm-ma.
40r.
At the platform, fifty ponnd. i5o.
pnni, i:.o, wiui 20r. jl ,
-K.MCKERMOClt'BJi ICE CO.
Poor thoamand poaadi or over, wu
per en-f.) now 2Sc. ' '
than 4,000 pounds, nan 22e d
now soe.
To milk dealer at the rard. 4
rrlvate eonaomera, 40c, price on changed.
At the platform, flfjy pounda, 15c,
'w pounaa, 2.-,c, waa 15c. Hammond today is in the cold, merciless grip of the ice trust. The unfortunate consumer who dared to buy his product from a source other than the trust before the hot weather gave apparent rson for . raise in price may as wellltry to get his supply from the Infernal Region as expect to get it from the trust. And the excuse for this is that the trust says it fears that its supply stored away in immense ice housts in northern Indiana and Wis.
consin and Michigan may not last nn-
111 tne next crop is harvested. Therefore, the price has gone up with the thermometer, and those who refused to be held In Its icebound clutches here
tofore are being taught a lesson for the future, to-wit: deal with the trust
always and you shall have ice, in the days of a famine.
Situation 1m Sertoli. The situation in Hammond is serimi
Hundreds of people without cellars or basements and relying solely on their ice box to preserve their eatables are
compelled to do without the Ice. Sa-
are uncertain about their supply.
xjammona fure Ice
Charles Surprise, United States Com
missioner, ealls attention to- the fact
that the application for Becond papers
must bo received before July 18, if the
applications are acted upon this com
ing term of court.
Already 125 applications have been
received. This is the largest number of
persons who have ever applied for sec
ond papers in, any one term of court.
In addition to those who have already made application there are a large number of people who have signified
tneir intention of doing so. It Is these
people that ought to know that no
applications will be received after tho
eighteenth of this month.
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POLICE
Indiana Harbor Cop Fires
at Fleeing Fugitive in Street and Excitement in Large Quantities Follows the Scene.
$40,000
GIVEN TO
FURNISH IT
men The
company, with a
capacity of sixty tons pertwenty-four hours. Is producing only twenty-four tons owing to a defective 'system, and is buying ice from other sources to keep as many of Its customers supplied as. possible. . i, '.. "i .The Knickerbocker Ice "comVanV. con-
n, supply -lea. iiMWtl'
-j tvrporauon, or an the cor
porations together, says It fears
mm merer ore is reducing It supply as much as possible to its reo-t.
a., lusiumers, and on the strene-th f
mis assumption It says it is unable t
supply any of the customers which the
nammond Pure Ice company is com
penea to drop.
vjiio naennel, who. has less than sev
en thousand tons in etorasre. is will
ing to be reasonable, but has only two
teams ror delivery. He is charging
inaie consumers thirty-five cents
hundred and does not Intend to change
mai price. Ice which he has been sell
ing at the rate of 17 i cents a hundred
win De increased to twenty cents
nunureu. inis, Air. Haehnel believes
Is enough and allows for the shrink
age inese hot days.
(Special to Thb Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind., July 12. There
was considerable excitement yesterday
in maiana Harbor when Harry Reeves of F-ittsburgf broke away from Officer
Joe Barney, who attempted to arrest him and led the officer and one or two citizens a chase that began at Block
avenue and the alloy south of Michigan avenue and wound up at 137th and
Cedar streets. A couple of shots fired
by Officer Barney at the fleeing fugitive, added a dramatic touch to the
chase. Reeves was finally arested and placed behind tho bars.
The excitement ocurred at 2 d. rn.
Reeves Is accused of going through- the rooms of a number of fellow boarders
at the Block avenue hotel, conducted by Nick Went, and rifling them of
whatever struck his fancy and was easy
to carry away. He came to the hotel -a,
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Financial Growth of
GarysY. M. C. A.
In June 10O9 Judge Elbert Gary save f 200,000 to build a permanent
kont.
Land valued at $50,000 donated as
a site for the home. Announcement made at the Com-
merctal c4ub banquet laat night that the subsidiary companies of the steel corporation would provide $40,000 to
furnish the home. Total sifts to datei $200,000.
Prices (i lp. The increased prices for the Knlok
erDoclcer Ice went Into effect last Sat
urday. There was a storm of protest
irwm ine Dusiness men, and they turned to the Ifammond Pure Ice company
1W reuei. only to be turned down on the ground that the plant was running at only half capacity. This morning
w.o vumpany nad to notify Its plat
,j. iraue mat tney cannot be supplied for an indefinite time, as the regular
lU3lura"s must be supplied first. Only a relief from the hot spell will relieve the situation at the Hammond Pure Ice company. A directors' meeting was
-i-neomea for yesterday, but there was
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BEFORE - ENGINE L. Ryan Lost Both Feet in Accident at Monon Yesterday.
HE'S RENOMINA TION GOSPEL PREACHER
In attempting to board the yard engine at Monon early yesterday morning, D. L. Ryan, employed as a switch
man in the Monon yards at that place.' missed the step and fell in front of ' the engine. The wheels passed over' both limbs below the knee and mashed ! them so badly that amputation was! necessary. The right foot was taken) off at the ankle and the left leg was I
ampuiaiea oelow the knee. The shock j
was so severe that Ryan's recovery 1 doubtful.
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at Bevrfv m ,?ag"ct turni8lung8 In the summer capital tiursX' ad hi- herldbDtKTaf.t Bbed 18 a mf-rtable. old-faahioned It IS rues chamber la carpeted with matting and a couple
NEW CUD All LAKE CO. TIMES BUR EAC,
AT STATE CAPITAL
luuianspoiis, ind., July 12. The Ce-
dar Point Hotel company has been Incorporated to build hotels and cottages at Cedar Point, Cedar Lake, Lake county. It Is incorporated with a capital stock of 1100,000. The incorporators are Edward Thistlethwalte. Harry H. Griffin and Clarence II. Griffin of Sheridan.
SHEEHAN WON'T
HUG ANY MORE HAMMOND GIRLS
B. & O. Operator Comes to
Town to Buy an Oil Stove.
John Sheehen who was arrested by
Oftcer Borchert on Fayettest. yester,-
day afternoon for drunkenness' and
iuruwi!ig cis arrnsi around a . young lady is front of the Hamreond Building
waa tried., betore. Judge Barnett.thla
i morning. ." .
Sheehen . pleaded
drunk and said -"I don't remember of
throwing m yarns around the voung
lady, If I did I must have been pretty -
arunk. He was fined IS 5 and" rntL
amounting to 15, which he will pay.
bheehan claims he is an operator at
Beatrice, Ind., for the B. & O.. and
United States Steel corporation located I that he came to Hammond to buy an
at Gary would furnish this sum was the 011 stove- John got the oil, but not the
announcement made by Charles M.
Alayne, of Lincoln, Neb., the newly-
elected general secretary of the local
association. This sum euDnlements th
JIOO.OOO building fund and the $50,000
Forty thousand dollars more has been rolled Into the treasury of. the Gary Young Mens Christian association. This
amount will be used to furnish the
quarter of a million dollar home rapid'
ly nearing completion making it cost
ing a total of $290,000. Subsidiaries Make the Gift.
That the subsidiary companies of the
stove.
GAMBLING STOPPED
Indianapolis. Ind.
site previously donated by Judge Elbert Bureau). Governor Marshall
II. Gary after whom the city is named
Announced at Dinner,
General Secretary Mayne gave forth
the announcement at the Commercial
club dinner last night and it was re
ceived with much enthusiasm. With a $300,000 Y. M. C. A. plant in ODeration
(Times notified
the managers of the grand circuit at the state fair grounds today that root
selling and gambling must stop and pools were closed at once. Gambling on the state fair grounds was the first in several years.
(Continued on Page 7.)
Charles D. Hilles, secretary to President Taft, has found a new field of activity, also a new title. It Is that of "political missionary He baa been Journeying here and there over the country, enlisting converts In. the Taft renomlnation movement. Postmaster General Hitchcock, rational Republican chairman, is much put out because Hilles has edged In on a Job ho considered all his own.
During four of the five years of tha
city's existence the history of its Commercial club and Gary's have been
practically the same. Each has pro
gressed along the same upward lines. Last night marked a new milestone in the civic organizations advance when with a banquet and reception for members only it formally opened its new $30,000 home in Broadway near Sixth avenue. . Building; Is BleKHed. There were 125 representative , men of Gary' and the Calumet region present at the decidation of the club house that would do credit to any city of 100,000 population. It was significant that the
nrsi act of the opening was an invocation to the Almighty, made by the
only clerical member of the club. Rev. Father Thomas F. Jansen, president, of the public library board. Father Jansen blessed the building. The ceremony was a very pretty one. the members of the club following the revered gentleman through the different rooms of the three-story structure. Following a reception and inspection (Continued on Page 6.) I
TICKET PRETTY SURE
TO CARRY IN VILLAGE
West Hammond Exner.ts
Election to Carry Without Any Trouble.
On next Tuesday the people of West
Hammond will make their third at-
cmpt tp change the form of the gov
ernment of the village to that of a city.
The first attempt failed at the polls.
he second "failed because the village
was not chartered and the outcome of
the third attempt Is awaited with in
terest. if
While the sentiment seems to be in
favor of the city form of government, on account of the increased efficiency.
t Is understood that there is .now some
opposition to the plan in the north
end on account of the fact that the divekeepers there fear that it will be harder to manage the officials of the city than It is to manage the members of the board and the present village officials. - , .. . The south side has the balance -of power, however, and it is thought that with what support can be secured on the north side that the city ticket will carry. Miss Virginia Brooks is now committed to the city form of government, and she is expected to use all of her influence to get out the vote and carry the election in favor of the city. The element that is opposed to Miss Brooks Is likely to oppose the city election for that reason. Between now an the 18th it is expected that there
will be considerable activity in West Hammond. Miss Brooks has gained a lot of pestlge on account of the great reduction in the assessments which she has
errectea. The people are convinced when they find that Miss Brooks can get results the way she has and It Is safe to say that If woman suffrage prevailed in West Hammond that Miss Broooks would be the first mayor of the new city.
Cravens Special Judge.
special judge Lincoln V. Cravens is
j sitting as special judge in the case of O'Donnell vs. Bloom, which has been on
trial before him on several occasions
during the past month.
The arguments are being heard to-
daj The case was for the purpose of construing a mortgage. '
Ton will say that a La Vendor cUsj?
cannot be beat. If you try one.
QUEEN IS ANCRY
. AT THIS DUCHESS
The Duchess of Westminster is la wrong with Queen Maty of England, The duchess gave a party and sent ; out Invitations designating full court cress as the correct legalia for the occasion. British court .etiquette ! delerates only to royalty the right to demand full court dress at social functions, wherefore Queen Mary cot angry.