Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 24, Hammond, Lake County, 17 July 1911 — Page 1

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Capitalists from Gary, Hammond and Indianapolis Behind New Venture Conference' Held With Capital Financial Houss. GARY WOULD BE GOOD FIELD FOR INSTITUTION Merger of. One or Two Gary Banks With Proposed Venture Is Not An Improbability Object Is to Get More Capital Interested In Gary Realty and Mortgages. rians are being formulated to organize in Gary a trust company with a capital of $100,000 or more which will have as its clilef function the enlistment of eastern capital for building development in the steel city. Absorption of one or more of the steel city banks is also contemplated. To Tap Money Channels. Gary. Hammond and Indianapolis capitalists are behind the new venture. Connections will be had whereby the big eastern insurance companies, which have heretofore held aloof from Gary, will be induced to buy Us realty bonds and mortgages. Lake County Men tbe Backers. An Indianapolis financial house is promoting the. new banking institution. -This house makes a business of placing eastern insurance . company money in IndJafia investments, and fol- '' lowing request from a. number of ' v (Continued on PagiTliT) ' -' PROPOSITION WILL PROBABLY CARRY That West Hammond Is to Become City Is Generally Accepted. Tomorrow the village of West Hammond will try for the third time to throw off the inadequate vilage government and become a city. The ballots have been prepared and will be ready for the balloting tomorrow. Miss Virginia Brooks expects to be on the Job and will urge that the city proposition carry. The people of West Hammond are very much Interested in the election and It is prophesied that the village will at last become a full edged city. Following the special election another election will have to be bold for the election of councilmen and the 'other city officers. The opinion seems to be general that in the case of a big village like West Hammond that the city form of government will be more efficient. OLYMPIC CAPTAIN A CAREFUL SAILOR Cape Edward Jamea Smith, maater of the new liner Olympic, bigtest afloat, has 1-d a seafaring life for more than forty years.. He has spent thirty-eev-en years In the employ of the White Star Line, and haa vnever had an accident. ..

WOW ASSAILANT NABBED ATWOLF LAKE Ernest Irving Fatally Wounds Woman in Chicago Saloon. J

VICTIM WAS RESORT SINGER Police Make Capture After Which Irving Admits His Guilty Act. Fleeing to the wilds surrounding Wolf Lake near the Hammond lino. Ernest Irving of Chicago was arresterl yesterday near the Hammond line after he had shot and fatally wounded Miss Anna Howard a singor in a Chicago dive yesterday morning. Irving, who is 32 years old, when arrested yesterday afternoon was with John McDonald, a bartender employed in a west side saloon. Admits Sbootln. Irving admitted he shot the woman and said he had been drinking and was intoxicated. His companion was also held by the police, but probably wiil be released this morning. Mrs. Howard Interfered In a quarrel between Dorothy Vincent, also a siu&-i at the "concert hall, and Ernest Irving a waiter In the place. Irving fired at the Vincent woman, but the bullet went wild and struck Mrs. Howard Just below the heart. She was taken to the County hospital, where It is said her condition is critical. Irving escaped, but was alter arrested. Walter Uriuondrd Money. . The concert hall, which Is one of th most notorious In the city, is run on connection with a saloon conducted by Mlchael Fewer. The women had sung their last songs for the night and wer seated tn a room back of the saloon when Irving entered." The waiter demanded money of Mis Vincent, with whom he had been living. When she gave him some he threw it on the floor. As she stopped to pick it up he shoved" her from her chair. It was then. that Mrs. Howard interfered. She . stepped between the couple. A moment later Irving: drew a revolver and.' aiming at the Wlncent woman, fired. As Mrs. Howard fell the floor Irving fled. - . . They are off at last, and the remaining barbers in Frank Roth's shop feel that they can look a fish in the face again without blushing. Ia the fishing party are Frank Roth, "Jimmy" Clabby, Jack Filan. George Graham and Art Stewart. "Billy" Sommers expects to leave later this week to join them. Headquarters for the fishermen Is at a cottage near Bob's Bridge on the Kankakee river, five miles from Knots. They left thig morning on the Erie, and expect to be gone about a month. Each was equipped with a kaki uniform, and it required an automobile to transport all their luggage to the depot. An estimate of what they expect to do in camp can be gathered from the fact that they took about sixty-five pounds of bacon, and other victuals In proportion, it required all the power and strength of Stewart to carry the bait. "Jimmy" Clabby In order to escape carrying any of the luggage took charge of "Bess," Roth's bulldog, who is also In the party. The barbers In Roth's shop heaved a sigh of relief this morning when the j last of the khaki uniforms disappeared They say that for two montsh the place has almost smell ed of fish, so much talk has there Oaeen about the expedition. They say the campers talked about the sport so much that th;y were self hypnotized and believed they had caught every last member of the finny tribe from Krouts down to Granger's camp and now the stay at homes are dreading the return of the fishermen, knowing that they will have to listen to all the fish stories that are to come. The campers themselves will keep open house and any of their friends will be welcome for night's lodging, a stack of wheats, some "ham an", etc., if they happen to call. GARY PATROL IN COLLISION The little tidal wave of reform that is sweeping over Gary's underworld came near claiming the. lives of a few of the reformers and the subjects to be reformed. Early this morning following a raid on two South Jefferson street disorderly houses a Gary & Interurban car collided with the police auto patrol. Although none .was in jured the officers and eleven women Inside the patrol were badly shaken up, and it was due to the merest luck that no one .was killed or injured. The col lision occurred In front of the Knotts building in Seventh avenue and Broadway.

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Harry At VoV young aviator who. flew from Ma borne-to Washington, has mapped out the route for nrs Intended flight from "New York to Chicago. He expects to make the trip in eight days of eusy flights. STREET CAR I POLICE PATROL IN COLLISION Chief Austgen and Captain Hanlon of Hammond Police in Narrow Escape. While making a call in the police pa trol yesterday morning. Chief Austgen driving and Captain Hanlon In the seat at his left, were hit by a street car and the auto patrol and street car of the Hammond, Whiting and East Chi cago line were damaged considerably. Captain Hanlon receiving a few slight scratches. The accident happened yesterday morning at 10 o'clock at the corner of Calumet and Truman. They turned south on Calumet avenue off Truman where they met a street car turning the corner coming at a rate of fifteen miles an hour. Chief Austgen tried to avert the accident, but it was impossible for him to turn out for the car as be was up next to the curb and was unable to turn out any further. 'if they rang a bell or blew a whistle, we did not hear it and it was Impossible for us to get away when they were coming that fast as we were only driving six miles an hour," said Chief Austgen this morning. The patrol was smashed up, tearing part of the top, twisting the front frame and springs. The front vestibule of the street car was nearly torn off and s'-er-ied to be damaged more than the patrol. Captain Hanlon sitting In front on the side of the accident escaped with a few bruises and scratches and feels that he is lucky that It was no worse. The street car company Is said to be -fill I v ru fault as they had no right turning a corner 15 miles an hour. The patrol will be taken into Chicago this afternoon for repairs and the estimated damage is not known. Leave on Vavation. Fred Mott and. F. Richard Schaaf left today for a trip to Duluth on the ore steamer E. It. Gary. The two Hammond men expert to have the time of their .lives'. A number of Gary men also wont in t'to party. ' Although both Mott and Schaaf are men of big affairs their friends have accused them of working their way to Duluth on the ore steamer. It is expected that they will be gone two weeks. The Gary is1 f tted up with a number of palatial state rooms and one of these has ben placed t the disposal of the Hammond men. U is thought that this will be an Ideal ay to spend a vacation. '

BASEBALL WAGER

(Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, July 17. An exhibi tion of rowdyism scarcely to be looked for in classic Crown Point, characteriz ed yesterday's ball game between the Harbor and the Hub teams." After the conclusion of the game which was feat ured by some of the most questionable decisions that ay one bearing tne u. umpire ever-ruled. The demonstration which accompani ed Manager Sternberg's withdrawal from the grounds, was made because Manager Sternberg expressed some rather uncomplimentary sentiments regarding the umpiring that had been done by Long-. Manager Kiser, to whom these sentiments were made known, coincided with Mr. Sternberg, and Scorer Wheaton for Crown Point was as disgusted with the decisions as were Managers Sternberg and Kelser. However, the Crown Point fans seemed well pelased with the rulings, although (Continued on Page 6.) SPEEDER Owing to his accident in the police atrol yesterday morning Captain Han Ion was unable to go out after speeders on Indiana boulevard yesterday after-, noon. Although laid up yesterday the Captain put In a good day Saturday and arrested S speed fiends from Chi cago and one from Terre Haute. -.With a record if 1? arrests of auto mobile; speeders in . ' Hie past three weeks Captain Hanlon will still remain on duty and Intends to still make more arrests until the autoists discontinue to burn up the roads on Ondiana boule vard. "Although they are getting wise to me and have cut down their speeding considerable the majority of them still continue to drive In the neighborhood of 30 miles on hour as is shown by the arrests of 2 more Saturday," said Captain Hanlon this morning. Three of the speeders appeared before Judge Barnett this morning and pleaded guilty to the charges. They were:' S. F. Jacobs, Chicago, for driving 30 miles an hour; fined $5 and costs, amounting to $15. Dennis Brahan, Terre Haute, Ind 33 miles an hour; $5 and costs amounting to $15. Dr. A. H. Hepburn. 1123 West 63rd street, Chicago, 30 miles an hour; $5 and costs, amounting to $fa. H. A. Brossert, 4830 Madison avenue, Chicago, 35 miles an hour; furnished. a $25 bond and trial set for July 21. Elmer Springer, 4533 Prairie avenue. Chicago, 32 miles an hour; trial set for July 19 and furnished a $25 bond. Samuel Inlander, 1459 Garfield boulevard, Chicago, 30 miles per hour; trial July 21st, also" placed under a $25 appearance bond. PASSENGER TRAIN JH'RECKED Runs Into Switch Engine and One Is Killed on the Erie. Rochester, N. T., July 15. Westbound passenger train No. 5. bn the Erie, running from New Tork to Buffalo, ran at full speed into a switch engine one-half mile east of the high bridge at Portage early today, derailing the train and totally wrecking th express car. Engineer Oliver of the passenger was killed and his fireman Injured. Six or seven passengers were injured, none of them seriously. Train No. 5 was late and was running fast. The switch engine was supposed to be on a siding, but was ten feet on the main track. It Is alleged. Neither the engineer nor fireman of the switch engine was aboard. Meets at Hammond. x The State Court of the Catholic Order of Foresters has a meeting scheduled for tomorrow afternoon In Hammond. All of the state officials, a number of whom live in Hammond, are expected to be present at the session. Most of the visitors will remain over In Hammond to attend the High Court session in Vhicago on the following day.. Among the matters of business to some before the State Court tomorrow is. the appointment of a state organizer.

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us f ii M iVnurt Mmimrfwi- rrTn ."ttau MRS. BUD MARS. "I'm the Juckiest man In America," declares Bud Mars, the , aviator, at the hospital in Erie, Pa!, where he was taken after he fell 500 feet in his Baldwin aeroplane while" giving an exhibition flight. His wife saw te fail and was one of the first. to reach, the bruised . and nicooscious bird man. Mara Is expected, to be, out again In- a few" days. ? . DETECTIVES OBJECT T0JARSI1NY Nickel Plate Road's Action Causes It to Lose Bunch' of Good Detectives. According' to information received here this morning. M. I Bull, John Prang and Fred Hunter and all of the railroad detectives on the Nickel Plate railroad between here and Fort Wayne have quite the service for the reason that the railroad cut off their expense money". A. E. Snyder, the former chief of the service, was replaced by a new man and he thought he roiild cut down the expense money of the railroad detectives. The. result was that they all quit. Most of these men were old In the service and knew local conditions perfectly. It is understood that new men were sent In from Cleveland and that one of them mistook a'car inspector for a car robber and beat him to unconscious ness. It Is not known what will be the outcome of the trouble. The work of being a railroad detective requires an Intimate knowledge ofIocal conditions and i is not thought that the green men from Cleveland will make good. CONTRACTOR LUND BUSY Eric Lund,, who has the contract for the remodeling of the city hall, was on the Job this morning with a gang of Interior finishers.' The worjt is to be hurried to completion without further Interruption. ' The building from top to bottom, with the exception of the police department, looks as If a cyclorie had touched it, and the employes In the building are working under handicaps. HOD CARRIER BREAKS ARM Fred Wolf, a hod carrier employed on the FredJDiftrtch bakery . building which is under construction at the corner of Calumet avenue and Truman avenue, accidentally broke his arm on Saturday evening when he fell from the first story scaffolding. It was just about quitting time when the accident happened. Life Insurance Men Here. Representatives of the Equitable Life Association of New York were In Hammond today with the idea of investigating the desirability of this field for placing their loans. The members of the company called at the offices of Gostlin, Meyn & Co., where they were informed of conditions here. One of the men was from South Bend and the other from New York City.

Lives of Passengers Imperilled, Mail Cars Set Ablaze and Trains Escape is Remarkable -

While running at a high rate of speed a most peculiar accident happened . to west bound Baltimore & Ohio passenger train a mile west of Whiting this morning at eight o'clock. The accident resulted in setting fire to a TJ. S. mail car and it was necessary to haul the car to the Hammond pumping station where the flames were extinguished. The track crew had left a track jack between the rails and when the train came by this obstacle knocked off the blow valve on the locomotive. In some manner the mail car which followed the engine caught fire. The fire was discovered when the engineer stopped to learn the nature of the accident. TAKE PROMPT ACTIOS. It was seen that if some prompt action was not taken that the whole train GAVIT ASKS HENDERSON TO SHOWJIS RECORD Unaware That He Was Ex- '. pected to Run Henderson at County Fair. WILL ENTER COLLEGE III FALL Hammond's Star Long Distance Man Intervewed On Question of Supremacy. "If Cecil Henderson can show a better record than 4:42 for the mile, I would like to meet him sometime. This was the answer of Hammond's star high school sprinter, . Bernard Gavit '11, when informed through The Times this morning . that Henderson who Is a Hebron long distance runner, had according to The Valparaiso Messenger begun training for a contest with Gavit at the Lake County Fair in August. That a contest was scheduled or thought of and that Henderson was to be his opponen was news to the Hammond boy, who carried off the Lake County, the Northern Indiana and the state honors for long distance running this year. "I am working just now and unpre(Contlnued on Page 8.) SIMPLEX CO. EXPECTS NEW ORDERS SOON W. W. Thomas of the Simplex Company stated today that the Simplex Railway Appliance Co. is receiving a number number of small orders that make the outlook for the future seem more optimistic. He said that the bond market was pretty well satisfied by this time and that he thought the next raove on the j part of the investing public would be ; to purchase bonds. j This will mean "that the railroads j will have more money to spend and that they wil spend part of it in new equipment. Mr. Thomas believes that by next fall there will be considerable activity in local car building circles. SUMMER SCHOOL IS NOT CLOSED The summer school in the Central building, which has been in session for ! Ave weeks, closes next Friday evening, the regular six weeks' term having j been completed by that time. r. v. McElroy, principal of the high school and one of the instructors in the summer school, intends to leave for his home near Crawfordsville. Miss Matilda KIchhorn will make a short visit at her home in Barnesville, Ohio, as will also Miss Edna Turner, who will go to her home in Michigan. Mr. Wicks, who has charge of the English department, will -spend " a short vacation at his home in Crawfordsville, while Messrs. Eberly and Moulton inten dto remain in Hammond. THE TIMES. .60.000 READERS DAILY.

would soon be on Are. The engine and the mail car were promptly uncoupled, from the rest of the train and the engineer ran the blazing mail coach to ,a point opposite the Hammond pumping station where the employes there wers Informed of the fire. In a few minutes Joe Kasper had organized the firemen,; engineers and other employes into a volunteer fire department and with some hose that they found around .the place they managed to play a stream of water on the burning car. ACCIDEXT AW ODD OXE. The flames were extinguished and after about an hour's delay the train fully continued on Its way to Chicago. The accident was one of the queerest tha)t has happened in this vicinity in some time. The engine number was 1435 and the mallcar was number 171. It is said that the accident might easily- have been much more serious than It was and it is hinted that some section boss will probably lose his Job as a result of his negligence in leaving the track Jack on the track.

LATEST NEWS EIGHT KILLED IN WRECK. Mulheim, Baden, Germany, July 17. An express train on the road run ning from Basel, Switzerland,' tb Frankforton-the-Main, left the rails ia; entering the station here today" Eight passengers were killed, fonrtefenthersseverely and twenty alight injure! A first class, a second class and two third class cars were telescoped. KEEN IN MARSHALL "WAGON." Washington, July 17. Senator John W. Kern today gave a significant expression on presidential politics which shows that he is occpying a front seat on the Tom Marshall band wagon and rubbing elbows with the driver of that vehicle. His Interview will be construed throughout Indiana . as having designed to remove himself entirely from consideration as a presidential quantity, without admitting that there ever was a Kern presidential boom. UNUSUAL C00L WAVE PROMISED. Washington, July 17. Following the hot wave that recently caused death and suffering throughout the country, this week's weather promises to furnish surprises in the other direction, with the result that unusually low summer temperatures probably will prevail. The weather bureau Bees in an abnormally high barometric pressure over the interior of Canada and Alaska and the condtions that will usher In a cool wave. ' STRIPPED BY LIGHTNING. Grover, Col., July 17. Mrs. Henrietta Wilson, living ten miles northwest of Grover, was struck of lightning Saturday. Every stitch of her cloth ing and her shoes were torn from her body. The bolt melted the bowl of 'a spoon she was holding, leaving the handle in her grasp. Not a mark was made on her body. She was uncon scious for some time. ' TWO INDIANIANS DROWNED. South Bend, Ind., July 17. Two men were drowned and two more narrowly escaped a like fate at the Lake of the Woods, near here, yesterday, when a sail-boat in which they "were riding capsized. The dead are Oscar Steinick, 29 years old, hardware merchant of Bermen, Ind., and ''Charles Anderson. The other two men in the boat were saved by resorters. BAD STORM IN PORTER COUNTY. Valparaiso, Ind., July 17. Porter county was visited by a heavy electricalstorm that did considerable damage. The power house of the Valparaiso & Northern Railway company, owned by' Chicago capitalists was struck by lightning and destroyed. No cars are running and severs! thousand people at various resorts wera obliged to walk into the city. THB IXTERESTirO TIMES' AD At. WAYS DENOTES TH"5J IXTERUSTISb STORE.