Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 34, Hammond, Lake County, 28 July 1911 — Page 1

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Gary, East Cliicago and Whiting Show Startling Loss of Life Among Chil dren Under Two; DirtyMilk Said to Be Cause. DEATH RATE AMONG BABIES G-rr Eaat CUciko Whiting . . . . ......... 44.8V ..... &WlSfj? 14X4 TIMES BlREtV, I AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., July 28. Bad food and Improper feeding killed 2.049 babies in Indiana last year. Statistics Uust compiled by the state board of health show that the number of children under 2 years of age who died of diarrhoel diseases during 1910 was 2.049. There Is no way of finding out Just what part dirty milk played in this work of destruction. But as milk constitutes a large proportion of children's diet before they reach the age of two years the careless dairymen cannot ecape a share of the responsibility. Last year for the first time the state i board of health collected statistics of this class of deaths by cities. They chow startling high death rates In the cities with large foreign populations, .proving the effect of Ignorance of health laws in the destruction of infants. Gary beads the grim death list: with a. death rate of 404.8 for children under ; two yara of age who died of -liarrhoel v .Continued on PsgeJ.) CHIXinRl lad:?', DIES AT HOSPITAL Mrs. Mary Chapman ot Schneider died at St. Margaret's hospital In -Hammond yesterday at 2 o'clock after a short illness from typhoid fever. The funeral will be held from the All Saints church tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. The high mass requiem will be sung and the Rev. Father Barrett will officiate. The remains will then be placed on the 10:14 a. m. Nickel Plate train and upon arrival in Chicago the remains will be taken to Mt. ' Carmel cemetery for burial. Mrs. Chapman was 24 years old and was brought to St. Margaret's hospital from Schneider about two weeks ago. She was well known here and is sur vived by a husband and child of Schneider and two brothers living in Chicago. Daughter of Cunard a Bride in London Ft 4. i Kra 15. V. KAECOUIST London, July 28. Robert Vernon Harcourt, a grandson of John Lothrop Motley, the American historian an-J diplomat, was married at Beaconsfieid Wednesday to Marjorle, the daughter of W. S. Cunard. -

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t v " .vc ,..v : .c-. -i.s t- ,,a Tf, v J. J. Reynolds. A Gary engineer, James J. Reynolds, owner of the Reynolds building, 522-2 Broadway, chief western engineer of the United States Steel corporation, has been appointed a member of the Chi cago subway board. Mr. Reynolds will be operating engineer and will receive a salary of $12,000. He was named for the position by Mayor Carther H. Harrison. Of the appointments the morn ing Tribune says: "City Enginer John Erlcson, E. C. Shankland, designing engineer, and James J. Reynolds, operating engineer, compose the commission that is to de sign a subway system for Chicago. Their names were made public late yesterday afternoon by Mayor Harri son, who declared himself much pleas(Continued on Page 6.) REFUSE TO FIXiDATE ' : Fl ELtGTlOii West Hammond Obstructionists Succeed in Delaying Matters. By its action in referring the matter of fixing the date for the first city election in West Hammond to the committee the old village board began it3 policy to delay the election of city officials. 1 In spite of the fact that by an overwhelming majority the people of West Hammond voted to make the village a city the village board has adopted obstructionist measures that are likely to delay the city plan indefinitely. The matter came up at the meeting of the board last night but no action was taken. There was not the slight est reason for referring the question of selecting a date to a committee - but this was done. Now the West Hammond Taxpayers Protective League proposes to call a meeting and' take the necessary legal steps to- prevent any rurther delay. Nothing could better indicate the selfish and pernicious influences ' that are at work in West Hammond and that have long prevented' the growth of the .village into a strong health city. The question of receiving bids on electric lighting did not com up last night but wil come up on August 5 when the bids from the various lighting companies will be received and opened. - Other matters of a routine nature came up , for consideration and were disposed of. PIPE PLACED 20 FEET jie LEVEL Great Lakes Dredge Company Starts Works on Important Water Main. Work on laying the thirty-six Inch water main under the Calumet river at Columbia avenue was begun by the Great Lakes Dredge company yevter- ( day with a view of having the pipe in piace tor tne water main extension. The board of public works has let the contract to the Greak Lakes Dredge company because a large equipment is needed for work of this kind. An idea of the undertking may be had from the fact that the pipe is to be placed twenty-six feet under the river level, in order to cause r interference with the government dradges when ' they shall widen and deepen the river.

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Harris, Bretsch and Ressler of Gary Break All Records in Lake Superior Court This Morning by Filing 75 New Lawsuits. Attorneys Harris, Bretsch and Ressler of Gary this morning swamped the clerk's office of the Lake Superior court at Hammond by filing in the neighborhood of 75 cases. The well known Gary attorneys broke all previous records in the number of cases filed in a single day. THe cases were brought to the clerk's office late yesterday and since that time every employe in the office has beeti busy filing the cases. The envelopes are stacked high on the desks and it is estimated that it must have taken a large corps of stenographers several days to get out the complaints and the copies. The following are some of the cases that were filed and will give some thing of an idea of the character of the cases. It will be noted that they afe not all of the same class but consist of actions of all kinds. Owing to the fact that it will take (Continued on page 8.) The meting of the-Hammond Manufacturers association last night did not result in any action being taken on the question of the proposed in crease from $6 to $9 for a minimum car load of 30,000 pounds of freight. The matter was taken under advise ment. General Freight Agent Fred Zlmmer man of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad was present at the meeting and was permitted to explain the railroad's side of the question. Mr. Zimmerman was able to con vince the larger shippers and those who have freight for shipment to points north and west of Chicago that It would be to their advantage to eliminate the extra switching charge which is made for the transfer of freight from one road to another but he failed to show W. B. Conkey and some of the other Hammond shippers, who merely ship into Chicago, that the new rate would be to their advantage Furthermore the meeting resulted in the discovery of the fact that there will also be an increase of from 7 hi to 10V4 cents per hundred for less than carload lots. Wild I Hit Merchant. 'This is an increase that will reach down into the pocket of every me'r cahnt in the city of Hammond and the entire Calumet region. It will cost the small shipper a large sum of money and will mean much to the railroads centering in Chicago. As in the case of the increase on 30,000 pound minimum car load shipment the increase on less than car load lots was authorized by the interstate commerce commission. So serious is the matter and so greatly will it affect the merchants in Hammond that Secretary E. F. Johnson of the Hammond Business Men's association has decided to call a meet(Contlnued on Page 5.) D Dr. A. J. Graham left this afternoon with a large party of Chicagoans in a special train to participate in a big "homecoming" which has been arrang ed by the citizens of Kingston, Canada. Hammond has a number of citizens who hail from Kingston or near there, and whose hearts tre In the beautiful old Canadian city this week. Among these are Council man John Kane and Drs. T. E. and S. A. Bell. The Chicago party will be gone about a week.

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Mrs. Emily Carter Divine, of Birmingham, Ala., before her marriage known, with her sister, as "those beautiful Carter girls," is Boon to marry a wealthy steel and iron operator of Birmingham. She is widow.

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Indiana Harbor, Ind., July 28. Word has been received by the East Chicago Company, regarding the transaction which called vice president C. A. West-j berg and Judge Walter J. Riley to New I York last week, and which Involves the j sale of fifteen acres of ground by the East Chicago company to a detinning concern. The lettr states that the concern has decided upon the Southern one of; the locations under contemplation.' This Is located at 151st street and the j canal, the other site considered being at a point where the West branch of the canal intersects with Forsyth ave nue. There now remains but a few track age details to arrange after which it (Continued on Page 6.) ASKS SENATE HALL FOR HOBO MEETING J. Eads How. the "millionaire hobo," is going to ask President Taft to let representatives of the army of the unemployed hold their convention at Washington September 1 to 4, in the Senate chamber. The convention is planned In How's effort to solve the problem of employment for these men. Congressman Berger, Speaker Clark and Henry George, Jr.. will be asked to peak.

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v v .-:t . f- T if.'.-' - SUGGESTS STOCK GO. --FOR A CITY MARKET Former Mayor Enthusiastic Over Plan, Will Confer With City Officials. Fred Mott says that he is decidedly in favor of the building of a city market in Hammond. "I am going to see the mayor and talk the matter over with him," said Mott, "and I hope that a movement for such an institution can be started in this city." "I saw the editorial in The Times on the subject and I think the suggestion is an excellent-one. There is nothing that would make more of a hit with the people. - "I do not believe that jit would hurt the business of the average grocer for the reason that the farmer who came to town and disposed' of his vegetables at the city market would spend the money he made in the grocery stores buying "other' provisions." Mr. Mott thinks that a location ought to be selected right away so that a building ' could be constructed and ready for the season next year. He suggests that a stock company be organized for 'the purpose of putting' up' the necessary buildings. EDUCATOR'S SON IS NEARLY DROWNED Sunday School Picnic at Cedar Lake Almost Furnishes Tragedy. (Special to Thb Times.) ... Crown Folnt. Ind.. July 18. The pleasure and happiness attedant upon the Methodist church - Sunday school picnic was near turned to tragedy yes terday through the ..-r drowning of Vernon Curtis, son of Prof, and Mrs. W. R. Curtis of this place. The lad, about 10 years of age, in a picnic frolic with several other, companions, either slipped or fell from the pier at the Cedar Point hotel landing and before his companions- realised that the lad was not playing a joke on them, he was sinking for the third time. The water is -about-seven- fet -deep where young Curtis fell and he would undoubtedly have drowned, but for the prompt assistance of a stranger, who seeing the lad's perilous position, jumped fully dressed into the lake ai.ii effected his rescue. -. The oron..., methods of resuscitation were applied and in a short time the lad was none the worse for his narrow escape. Beyond the gloom cast over the picnic at the time of the accident to Curtis, the crowd attending the picnic had a most enjoyable and time and even that gloom was quickly dispeled llr the Joy ever Curtis' lucky escape.

Chicago Real Estate Firm Negotiates - With Big Manufacturing Firm for Land Along the Indiana Harbor Canal in East Chicago.

J. H. Van Vlissingen & Co., one' of the leading real estate firms of Chicago, is negotiating wth a large manufacturing concern for the sale of a little less than 100 acres of ground bounded by One Hundred and Fifty-first street, Forsythe avenue, the Calumet river and the Indana Harbor canal in East Chicago. A DESIRABLE! LOCATIOX. The Elgin, Jollet & Eastern rail road runs through the property and it Is considered one of the most desirable factory locations in the Calumet region. Ten acres of the ' original 109.39 EN0U1CE South Siders of Gary Pour Grape and Cannister Into I Pilatory,Gary Southern Promoter; Ask Permission to Tear Up Tracks Laid. It was an Indignation meeting that the members of the South bide lm provement association held last night in the Ridge road school house. And the most indignant one in the lot was, of course. Col. Timothy W. t-nglenart, the president. TO TEAR I P TRACKS. Here Is a brief summary of vrkat tke Rldce roadrra of Gary tackled t Named a committee of ten to call oa the board of public works demanding: prrmiialoa to tear up tbe tracks of the Gary and Southern railway. Also Instructed the same committee to tell the board of ' public works to furnish electric street lights forthwith for the RlUge road territory. Everybody Is Indignant. The committee named is as follows: (Continued on Page 6.) KUNERT READY TO ANNOUNCE CANDIDACY Those in Receptive Mood .Will Have to Wait Till the Cows Come Home. It is more than probable that the curtain will rise today and disclose the fact that William Kunert, the old Tolleston war horse, will announce his candidacy for sheriff of. Lake county. subject to the decision of the republican party. Col. Kunert was a candidate for the nomination in 1908 and if things goes his way he figures that he will be standard-bearer of the party in 1912. Rumor had it that Theodore Binzen would make his formal debut In the shrievalty game, but no note has been sounded by the Binzenhof owner. "I am in a receptive mood," says Mr. Bimen. This means that with four or five candidates in the field the man in the receptive mood will get what the dog got when Mamma Hubbard went to the sideboard. CHANGES IN BASEBALL PLAYERS. It lr expected that Hammond Athletic-baseball-team for next Sunday will be made of Mitchell, FogeU Fowler. Hansen, Rohde, Staten, Clabby, Craig and an outfielder whose name is not yet known to the management. This unknown outfielder, Staten and Clabby are the newest timber in the team, most of the others having been with the team the greater part of the season, while some have been with the team since the --beginning of the season. There was some talk today that Hansen would play with Whiting next Sunday, but despite this he is beig relied on for next Sunday.

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acres was recently sold to the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. according to Mr. Saunders of the company. While Mr. Saunders refused to reveal the nature of the concern he admitted that negotiations were pending for the sale of the property uM that the deal would mean the locating of another large concern in thin locality. ONL.V ONE OF MAX T. This is but one of the numerous deals that have either been consummated or are in the process of consummation for the sale of acreage along the Indiana Harbor canal. It means eventually an industrial development that wil exceed that at Gary.. The concerns that have already been located along the canal but tuai not yet built their factories will employ thousands of men.

LATEST NEWS GETS FIRST LOT. Gary, Ind., July 28,- John A. Drennan today bought the first lot In the Gary Land Company's Becond subdivision located on Fifth avenue and Ambridge street. The new sub division was put on sale today. Mr. Brennan by the terms of the purchase erect a $35,000 brick or stone building on the lot, this year.- ' WOUNDS WOMAN, KTTX3 SELF.

Anderson, Ind., July 2 is. James Creevy, thirty-eight. - a lineman, formerly of. Piqua.i Ohioiapt" probably fatally wounded ;Mrs7 Joeie McKnUht, a widow, twenty-seven. -last night and then committed suicide. The Bhootiag occurred in the street. Mrs. McKnight was walking with two young women when Creevy singled her out. He demanded that she return a gold watch he had pre

sented her. She replied by asking that he give her back a fob. The shootng followed. WAR EXPECTED IN MOROCCO. London, July 28. The vessels of the home fleet, after unprecedented activity during the night In coaling and loading supplies, today were prepared for the expected sealed orders to sail. Anglo-German war risk? were quoted at 8 per cent for three months at Lloyds today. This means that the great insurance firm figures on one chance in twelve for war, Thursday the rate was 5 per cent. "DIDN'T ENOW IT WAS LOADED." Laporte, Ind., July . 28. Alva Jackman wa3 shot and probably fatally wounded by Herbert Epslch in play. Both are boys. Epsich didn't know "it was loaded." ANOTHER UNCLAD DANCER IS COMING Theater goers in New York are going to see , another sensational dancer, direct from - Europe. La Dorza. who -has been appearing In : Paris and London. Is coming to thin , side under the i-anagement of WU iiam Morris. '

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