Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 42, Hammond, Lake County, 7 August 1911 — Page 8

THE TIMES.

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most of th 'counties which voted flr

had saloons at least a portion of the:

year of 1909. In 1910, however, all sa

loons had disappeared from there;

I counties and conditions were Ideal tc-,

cording to the doctrine of the county optlontsts. In 1908 these same counties had open licenses saloons.'

"The percent of " Intoxication In

thirty-nine of the so called dry counties was greater In dry 1910 than in

wet 1908 In thirty of the cuum.es

there was a decrease and one county the percent remained the same The average decrease in the counties which did show decreases was' 11 percent and

the average Increase In the counties showing Increases was 13 'percent

"Fourteen of those counties which

showed a decrease in the percent of arrests for drunkenness contained

Number of Commitments to T0lZJJT a?0;

they decided In favor of the licensed

saloon either by voting them back or

ness and Kindred Misde- rL'an"r! J?h,e , vota

uimri lilt? iitrv uuiiMii mw

In contrast with these conditions in

dry counties, we find that the percent of arrests for Intoxication to the total

number of arrests In the wet counties.

outside of Marion county, whose re

port to the stao statistician has not been completed, was 3S percent in 1910. or 1 percent less than the percent of arrests for Intoxication In the dry

counties "Whereas, the percent of ar-

INCREASE

County Jail for Drunken-

meanors Increases Since

Passage of Proctor Law.

TIMES B1REAV, AT STATU CAPITA!.. Indianapolis, Ind., August 5. When two statisticians get to handling the

same figures they are almost certain I rests for intoxication in Marlon county

to reach different conclusions, because for 190s was 17 and in 1909 it was 24

each tackles the proposition from a lit is reasonable to suppose that th

different angle and works out the I omission of this county would uot in

problem from his own point of view. I crease the percent of arrests in wet

Th.re never was a better Illustration I counties in 1910"

ot this fact than Is seen In statements

issued by E. S. Shumaker. state superintendent of the Anti-Salon League and J. C Keller, secretary of the Asso

ciation of Indiana Brewers, In figuring out the arrests and commitments made

In the various counties of the state

under the county option law and un

der the Proctor law. They tried to

chow the degree to which the saloon

was responsible for the number of arrests made. Shumaker, of course figured out that the saloons were re

sponsible for a larger percentage

HARBOR ALDERMAN

WITNESSED CLUBBING

Monday; August 7, 1911.

HARBO

R TIED

YESTERDAY

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four-hour local, followed the flyer about half an hour after It left the city. The engine o this train was taken off and coupled to No. 28 after the accident and a new engine was sent from Chcago to pull No. 8. STORY OF THE ENGINEER. "W had just started at good speed on that part of .the' tracks whleh-are st surface grade, after- coming down tli elevation In Indiana Harbor, when the

. tender jumped the rails," said Summers,

the engineer. "As noon as I felt.the tug I thiiew on the brakes. This stopped the'-cars so -quickly that the coupling between ' the tender and the baggage car-broke."

The train consisted of a baggage car, a dining car. four'Pullmans and an observation car. iThe baggage car was damaged, but the dining' car, which

Indiana Harbor, Atig. .7. East Chi- also left the rails, was placed back on

cago is now in undisputed possession of the track and was taken on its Journey.

first place in the Northern Indiana

Baseball association. The proud posi

tion was woh by the defeat of the Har-'

bor team and by Crown Point's loss a

Whiting. The score was.9to2. The Harbor put up an unusually poor brand of baseball eharacterize-tl by . bonehjpad plays for which there seemed little ex-' cuse. East Chicago was not. playing

Z.LJ"- Ok" V1: Friends of Institution That

usual kicks on the decisions, of the umpire, but to the credit of the Harbor be it said that the boys lost like men, their defeat being uncharacterlzed by the demonstrations that usual-. , ly accompany loss by teams In this region. There was one protest made on the part of Kelly, which resulted in a fine when he called the .umpire a liar, according to that official, but this was done so.qulet1y that none of the audience heard It. Anderson of , East Chicago was ruled out of. the game for attempting to lick O'Brien.

STEEL PICKSUP FAST

July Best Month for Local

Mills; Gain Well Over 50 Per Cent.

ir WAYS AND MEANS

FOR HOSPITAL

Deserves Help Are Asked to Attend.

(Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind., Aug. 7. Alder

man "Jimmy' Burns witnessed an inci-

ofldent in Gary last Sunday which annoy

arrests than Keller vai able to figure ed him. He says that while standing

ut. Shumaker says In his statement: I in Broadway near the "Wabash tracks

"I was very much Interested In a on that day, a policeman whose nurn-

recent newspaper article relative to ber was 19 arrested a man. He beat

the commitments for intoxication In the man most cruelly with his duo. acth various counties of the state for I cording to the Alderman, and tfhon

the years 1808 and 1910 respectively, turned him loose,

In spite of the fact that drunks are! "Jimmy" Burns, his blood boiling at

mora easily discovered when they do I the sight of the brutality, asked the

exist In drv territory, and further In officer why he had administered such

spite of the fact that the liquor Inter- treatment to a man whom he after

ests in wet territory do their utmost ward released. The officer explained

to nundate the dry counties of the that the man had been begging.

state, the showing Is a distinct triumph I -"The mere act ot begging.' said

for the dry cause. I Alderman Burns, "was scarcely sufn-

"In 1908 the' twenty-two counties I cient for an officer to beat him over the

which wer wet at that time and which head vlth a club. In my opinion, had

malndr wet under' the county option I he done any thing to merit such treat

law, committed 5830 persons for in toxlcatlon. In 1910 these same coun

ties committed 7607, an Increase of

1777. or of 80.5 percent.

"The seventy counties of the state

rhlch were dry last year (and of

ment at the hand of the officer, hla offense should have been sufficient to

have warranted his arrest. I so In

formed the omcer ana turned o -

gentleman standing near me and whom I did not know. I told him I was an

ward that he was Postmaster Call

Gary.

of

which fifty-six were wet in lfcOsj com- alderman in Indiana Harbor and th.tA mitted In 1908 for Intoxication 7766. had I witnessed such an exihbition of Tn 1910 these same counties (all being- needless brutality on the part of an

' during, the, tear) committed 5,324 officer of East Chicago or Indiana Har ' for Intoxication. This was a decrease I bor. I would get his star If in was with

" of 2.412. or of 31.6 percent. I in my power, if it was my last official

The Increase in some of the wet act. The man replied that such exhibi

' counties was very marked. For tions were frequent in Gary

examnle. Blackford county In 1908. 'I did not know at the time who the

rnmmlttAd seventv-four for intoxlca-1 gentleman was, but I learned after

tlon and in 1910, 446. Cass county In

creased her committments for Intoxl cation from 240 In 1908 to 453 III l

" Knox county. In 1908 se-nt 601 to her ' bastile for Intoxication, but in 1910 she s'ent 793. It has been claimed that

frequently officials would drive drunk

eh people across the river nto Illinois without commltlng them whe nthetr

Jail was full.

Such counties as Allen, Marlon, Lake. Laporte, Posey, St. Joseph, Tippecanoe, Vanderburg and. Wayne also

had large increases In the number of

commitments for Intoxication in -their

couty jails.

"On the other hand there has been a

marked diminution commitments for

intoxication In many of the dry coun

ties. Clinton decreased its commivments for lntoxlcatalon from 302 In 1908 to 65 in 1910; Delaware from S72

to 301; Elkhart from 139 to 37; Foun

Tonight the friends of Mercy hospital

will meet at the Gary Commercial club, where pursuant to the call of Acting President H. F. MacCraoken of-ihe club

ways and means will be devised to raise

the $20,000 necessary to keep the hos rltal In Gary. (

It is expected that the meeting will

There was a big crowd present with be well attended as the friends of th

pieni ot rooters on ootu sides. There hospital embraces every class, race and

was not much difference In the num- ,.reed n the city. W. H. F. Parry, th

uer oi nus maae on Dom sines, Dut br,,.u m. i,t week started the ball

,ast Chicago s hitting was opportune r,.-,lnK by offering to subscribe $100 if

suu ncipeu us score, wnue Indiana Harbor's hits were without result. Er

rors were equal, both sides being

credited with four. ' The row between Pederson and O'Brien was quite unexpected. O'Brien was on first base by virtue of a passel ball and Coonrad threw to first to catch O'Brien. The throw was low and O'Brien in running back he and Ped

erson collided. O'Brien started to sec

ond after Pederson had missed the ball, with Pederson in hot pursuit, not of the ball but of O'Brien. Seeing that O'Brien was gaining on him Pederson pulled off his glove and threw it at O'Brien. The spectators thought it was all a joke, and O'Brien ran on past second toward third. Remembering, however, that he was ntltlefi only to

With the exception of purchasing by

he railroads, the improvement in the

teel industry continues to be reflected

n practically every branch. July prov

ed to be the best month of the year for

the local mills, its proportion of new

usiness being as 248 to 153, compared

with June, so that the improvement for

he month was well over 50 per cent

bove the thirty days preceding. Yet

he railroads furnished, as a whole, not

great part of this betterment, and

he fact that the pick-up was effected

otwlthstanding is looked upon as more

Indicative of the better tonnage coming

rom other quarters.

The railroads, which should be the

most Important consumers, are buying

n a hand-to-mouth manner only where

hey see actual necessity and have noi

been so generous as was the case dur-

ng a part of June. Their speciflcatiuns, ndicative of the nature of their con

racts, are running at a good volume

Flowing the pressing ned for much of

the" material ordered, and in fact are

exceeding the rate of new business

which the railroads are affording.

Were the railroads In the market for heir usual proportion of the entire tou-

nage, about 30 per cent, ln.steau ot from

0 to 12 pe rcent. the steel business

would be close to normal, as there haj been a pronounced Improvement in plates, structurals and bars. Steel

makers, however, are not discourage! by any means, and feel confident that with good crops the railroads will be heavy purchasers of steel later In the year.

certain number of business men dil

likewise. .

In addition to whatever efforts the

public will make through various church, benevolent and fraternal societies he Gary Commercial club will also have an active! hand In the motley rasing. The following is the Commer

cial clu- committee on hospital funds President H. S. Norton, Vice Presi

dent H. F. MacCracken, Secretary A. D. Schaefter. John A. Brennan, A. S. Hess,

Mayor T E. Knotts, John A. Gross, gen

eral nranager American Sheet and Tin

Plate mills; William P. Gleason, general superintendent Illinois stee works; George M. Hunter, general man

ager American Bridge company plant

and Alderman W. S. r'euer;

one base on a passed ball he turned back to second, Pederson having come up in the meantime. The East Chicago man took a punch toward O'Brien, I

which the latter ducked, after which theyllnched. Realizing then that therewas no joke about it, tho pair were Immediately surrounded by the members of both teams, and the umpires and Captain Marner of the, police came running up and pulled the belligerents apart.

CHAPIN & CO. TO

BUILD WAREHOUSE

(Continued from Page 1.)

FAMOUS FLYER IS WRECKED . (Continued from Page 1.)

KNIFE ARTISTS ARE BUSY

Knife artists were busy yesterday.

One man and two o'ored women were

stabbed and attempts were made to

slash two police officers.

Lilian Johnson, a Gary colored

tain from 37 to 12; Grant from 605 to woman, who Is believed to have been

the baggage car following. Ttuf engineer and fireman. W. L. Hoy. Jumped as the nglne turned over. The fireman suffered severe Injuries, one of

his legs being fractured and three rib? broken. The engineer was unhurt. SIXTY OS THE TRAIX. The flyer, which is known as train No.-28. left Chicago at 2:45 o'clock in the afternoon, carrying about sixty

passengers. The accident came at 3:o0

'clock, when the train had gained full

momentum In going down the incline from the elevated track In Indiana Harbor. There Is no switch at that point and the roadbed was said to be in perfect conditiorr, so that the company officials could not account for the

mishap.

Train No. for New York, a twenty-

446; Jefferson from 11 to 52; Johnson

from 63 to 34; Lawrence from 347 to 220; Madison from 400 to 269; Putnam

under the Influence of drugs stabbed two of her women friends. She was

taken in tow by Capt. Newman and

to the station she attempted to carve

up the rubicund captain and the other

officer.-

Joseph Grisich was taken in by the

police after he .had stabbed John

Sodowskl following a brawl in the

south part of the city.

from 333 to 65; Sullivan from 193 to officer Mlskovich and while on her way

104; Wabash from 203 to 83; and many

other counties correspondingly.

"And all of this in spite of the fact that In a great majority of cases the

police authorities were more vigilant In arresting drunks under " the dry

regime than when they had the licene

ed saloon and when drunks were found

stored away In rear rooms of saloons

and wero otherwise concealed.

"Of the commitments for intoxlca

tlon last year 7, 607. were In the wet counties, while 5,354 wer In the dry i counties. According to the last census the seventy dry countiespf the state ' contained 1,578,006 population, while the wet counties contained 1,122,870

population. ' Thus we see that 41.574

percent of the population of the state (the number In wet territory) had 58.6

percent of the commitments for drunks.

' while 58.426 percent living In dry ter

ritory, commited only 41.4 percent of

the drunks last year."

Mr. Kelley tackles the proposition from an entirely different angle and

apparently, reaches conclusions that .are as satisfactory to the wets as the conclusions of Mr. Shumaker are to

the drys. Mr. Keley says:

MANY SEE THE

MOTORCYCLE RACES

(Special to Thh Times.)

Hobart, Ind., Aug. 7. Several hun

dred people from Chicago, Gary and Hobart gathered at the ball park west of town yesterday afternoon to witness

the motorcycle races given by the Ho

bart motorcycle club and also to root

for the ball game which was played be

tween the Hobart Athletics and the

Gary Electricians. Following Is the re

suit of the motorcycle races:

1st race Time trial vor l mile, track

record, flying start. Won by Louns burg, 1st; P. Carlson, 2nd and McClar-

en, 3rd. Time 1 minute, 35 seconds.

2nd race 5 mile race, push off start

Murray 1st; Lounsbury 2nd, and Mc

Claren 3rd. Time 9 minutes 2 3-5 sec-

From the report at the office of the I onds, (time was slow owing to a mis

state statistician, we have compared

the percent of arrests In 1908 and 1910,

In the seventy counties which voted

against the licensed saloon under the county option law. We find that 36 , percent of all arrests' made In 1908 In the seventy counties were for public

understanding In signal for last lap.)

3rd race Time trial for 1 mile track

record, flying star. Murray 1st; E

Carlson 2nd, Time 1 minute, 36 sec

onds. '

4th race Finals for 1 mllev track

record. Lounsbury 1st; Murray 2nd.

intoxication and that the arrests for I Time 1 minute 32 4-5 seconds (silver

ithe same offense In 1910 rOrieq ... , I medal was awarded for this race.)

cent of the total number or arrests, I - 6th race 10 mile race, push oft start.

thus showing an Increase of 3 percent I Lounsbury 1st; E. Carlson 2nd; Mc

of the total number of arrests for In

toxication in dry 1910 over wet. 1908.

This is - really the first accurate com

parison that can be made with a view to showing the effect of local prohibi

tion as brought about by the Haflly

law.

"A comparison of the years 1908 and 1909 were not nearly so significant as I

Claren 3rd; Murray :4th. Time 16

minutes, 32 second (winner was award

ed $5.)

The ball game was very exciting It was a 10 inning game and resulted In

a victory for Gary by a score of 10 to 9:

Several good plays were made. There

was 3 home runs, 2 being made by G.

Tree of Hobart and one by Gary, be

the comparison of the two years Just I side a triple and a double play made

mentioned because of the fact that 'by Sauter of Hobart.

Hammond Distilling Co. ahd Columbia

avenue. .. ,

Ten acres of "this land was sold to Chapln & Co. and 2hk acres aree-be

used to increase the switching' faeill

ties of the property. . Gostlln, Meyn & Co. also have secured an option on 10

acres of land south of One Hundre

and Fiftieth street and west of Colum

bia avenue. Two Others Seek Ideations.

They announce that they have two

other concerns which are-seeking loca

tions In this city. One Is a Milwaukee

concern which manufactures ma

chinery. The other is a Chicago con

cern. It Is understood that these wil

be located In Hammond within month. '

This activity In the north section o

the city promises t have Its effect o

realty values in that locality. It is re

sponsible for that spirit of optimism

that seems . to prevail In Hammond i

rpite of reports of poor business else

where.

THERE ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES MORE TIMES CIRCULATE!")

EVERY DAY THAN ALL THE OTHER

DAILY PAPERS IN LAK3 COUNTY

PUT TOGETHER.

REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS BLOODED HUNTER S TUMBLING IN LEAP OVER BARRIER

Musicians New "Soundproof " Building.

ERSKINS IN 1

AUTO ACCIDENT

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their Is very high shrubbery and it 1s

almost impossible to see what Is com- !

ing down the road. i

Just as Muller reached the boulevard.

the Sehlosser Bros. Co. wagon from South Chicagfo was coming down the thoroughfare Mulle-r dashed across In

front of the wagon to set on the right

of the road. Behind the wagon came Albt-rt l)e Wolf Erskine of the Harbor-

Building Co. of 22G LtSalle street. Chi- '

cago lihis big $5,50(1 touring car. In

wie maciune wiiu niiii was

also of the Harbor Building Cc

dtana Harbor.

Erskine coming up behind the wagon,)

attempted to get past, so he swung ut I Just in time to collide with Mullet's

Brush runabout. Erskine's machin-j .

was fairly wedged between the compromise between them, not to make

Schlosser wagon, and Mulier's machine, troublei one for the other, all concernwith the result that the axle was bent ed bt.ing glad that only their and way out ot shape and otherwise dam- ,not they were injured.

agea to sucn an exieni mat n was noi ,

untUU 7 o'clock before the machine was TTrtn a rnn

fixed so that thev could Droceed (6n their Y XIWXXJCWA.

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M, and Mrs. John Driedell of Tolleston visited over Sunday with Mrs. Dridell's parents, .Mr. and .Mrs.J5dL Odell. Ed. Spencer, manager of the Colonial theater here has . also , leased Strattori's ' opera house and will be manager of. the shows and entertainments held there this winter. Mr.

According to Constable Muller no one Spencer expects to give the theaterwas at fault and the men have made a goers a treat, by having good shows

Journey to Chicago and it was then'

only fixed temporarily. The wagon was

given a good bump,' but being " very

heavy it was not damaged. The worst

of all was the M.uller machine, which was completely put out of business. The wheels were taken right off and how " Muller escaped being injured is surely a miracle.

here this winter. Several from here attended the dance at Alnsworth on Eaturday evening.

MUNSTER. Miss Dell Flerse of Whiting and MiSs Myrtle Munster from here have gone to Milwauke for a few days. . Ellen DeToung . is visiting her aunt Mrs. II. S. Daugherty of Highlands. Miss Mary Herlltz, our former eighth grade teacher, will .visit at the home of H. F. Kaske for a few days., .Miss Herlltz is just returning from a six Weeks course at Winona college. Mrs. J. Krwswyki and Dicky Kikkert spent the day with Mrs. Kelslng.'1

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The- camera caught the celebrated hunter. Prince Henry, In midair during the Judging of hunters' classes at the Long Branch, L. I. horsevhow. The forelegs of the animal in their descent have struck and displaced the top bar tf the barrier, and the incidental jar

has- eaused "Prince Henry', hiad. quart

ers to swing sharply . over and has

thrown his rider on his neck. Afry

horse but a blodded hunter would have

come to thet ground with a sideways crash. But Prince Henry recovered hi

balance and landed neatly and safely.

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