Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 28, Hammond, Lake County, 12 August 1911 — Page 1

1" WEATHER. tNSETTLKD, BUT GENERALLY FAIR SATURDAY. rm WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT THE km mi .VOL. I., NO. 28. AUGUST 12, 1911. EIGHT PAGES. SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION.

TIMES

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KICK BABY DOWNSTAIRS AT SOCIABLE

SAYS WHITE SlAVERYIS

Sensation at Indiana Har

bor Peters Out, However,

When It Is Ascertained That Ill-Treated Youngster Was a Rag Baby.

(Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, Aug. 12. A forlorn looking baby, which had been separated from Its fond parent In the crush

that attended the "hobo" sociable given under , the auspices of the United Presbyterian church In the rooms over Sam Benante's barber shop, was found yesterday morning- by Jake Teltleman and returned by Johnny Bevans after a lorsg search to its mother, Margaret Crooks. The baby had accompanied Its mother to the sociable and in some manner became separated from her. Some unseeing individual had evidently kicked the infant downstairs where It lay in a heap unnoticed by the throng of people who visited the affair, v A large number of "hobos' present aB- " (Continued on page 87) -

Auto Case Is Settled. After the case of Glennon vs. Frederick L. Heintz had been up before Judge- Ames this morning for the fourth time a decision was reached and the court gave a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of J'56.78. Prior to the lawsuit Heintz placed a bill of $102.98 In the hands of an attorney for collection against Glennon and, unable to collect that amount, the case was taken Into court. Each Item was looked over carefully and the case was derided in favor of the plaintiff. Judge Ames allowed him $66.78 after taking Into consideration an ofTset claimed by Glennon. Hefcts claimed the $102.98 was- for material and labor furnished Glennon after h had sold Glennon hiscar. "DIPIjOMATS chance POSTS IN SHAKEUP

As a result of her prominence in re form work in West Hammond Miss Vir ginla Brooks has received a" rommuni

cation from some unknown person in

which it is stated that a man by the name of "Butch" together" with a saloon

keeper and resort owner by the nam

of Monahan In West Hammond picked up a girl In Indiana Harbor and entic

ed her Into a life of white slavery.

It is understood that an automobile trip is the latest means of capturing girls and inducing them to enter a life

of shame. In this particular Instance

the girl is alleged to have been taken from Indiana Harbor to a resort, said to be run by Monahan at 100 West Plum-

mer avenue.

The truth of the affair would never have become known had It not been for the fact that the girl persuaded a young

man who frequented .the place to com

municate with her parents In Chicago

GJrl la Rescued.

The girl's father came to Hammond

at once and demanded the possession

of his daughter. She was taken out o

the resort and returned to her home in

the vicinity of 2100 Oakley avenue, Chi cago. , The girl's father first went to Iiidi

ana Harbor where he secured the aid of a police officer and the two went to

the West Hammond resort together,

Miss Brooks informant stated that he

would write other particulars to her o

the operations of the West Hammond

white slavers. It is not known how

many other cases may be brought

light as a result of an investigation. The seriousness of this charge ma

be appreciated by the fact that con

gress recently passed a law which

makes It a penitentiary offense for any one to take a girl from one state to another for immoral purposes.

DES MOINES PROSPERS UNDER COMMISION FORM OF GOVERNMENT: YOU COULDN'T DRIVE ITS PEOPLE BACK TO OLD INIQUITOUS SYSTEM

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SCREW

NY TO BE

OPERATIVE OCTOBER FIRST

Department of Gary Bolt and Screw Company Employing 500 Women and Girls Will Start in Fall; Paper -Box Factory to Employ 150 Females.

CtuatS.rScfwfwr;

These five men make up the commission that rules the city of Des Moines, Iowa. Three years tgo Des Moines .s'.ck. of political strife, ward heelers and graft, adopted the comisBion form of government. Today you could not drive the people of the city back to the old system. Partisan politics are not allowed to enter into the, election of the commissioners, and they are held strictly accountable for the departments under their Immediate supervision.

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FRIEDRICH BEATS ALL ELK RECORDS Hustler Sells One Hundred

Auto Raffle Coupons in a Jiffy.

Pes Moines, la., Aug. 11. Three years 1

ago Des Moines, sickened of a city ad

ministration that didn't administer, of

its bosses and its ward heelers and its graft, threw them all out. and adopted the commission, form of government. Pes Moines has never regretted the change.

'Today you could not drive the people of Pes Moines back to the old style of municipal rule with a battery of gatling guns. Pes Moines has acompllshed much since it put its business into the hands of five men, elected at large from the city without permittjng partisan politics to entfer into the consideration of the fitness of the candidate for office. Under the Pes Moines plan there are five departments. There Is a department of account and finances, of which

one man is In complete charge. There Is the department of public safety, the

department, of streets and public im

provements .and the department of parks and public grounds, each in

charge of one councilman. Over all of these the mayor acts as general superintendent. The commission form of government should be Judged more than anything else by its results. Under the Pes

Moines plan these results have been numerous. , In a nutshell, here are somjc of -the improvements Peg Moines has mado since its adoption of the; Pes Moines plan, April J,' 18082 - v - Fra-iicnlljr completed nn 9350,000

ciiy nan. '- .- .. .. - . .

Constructed 9170,000 ("ollneatn or

convention hall by public nnbncrlptlon

made pomiible . br An lncrcnwcU civic pride.

( onMinrlrd a nm f 120,000 concrete

bridge RcroHn the Den Moines River and laid plans for nnotber.

Started a nevr million-dollar viaduct

Charles Friedrlch claims to have the record for selling the most tickets In the shortest time for the raffle on the Flanders twenty coupe automobile which is to be raffled at the Klks picnic next Wednesday afternoon at Kindel's grove, "Charley" found yesterday afternoon

that of his allotment of one hundred

tickets which he was to sell, he had not yet sold any, so he started out promptly at three o'clock and thirtyone minutes later he had disposed of

his one hundred coupons. He says that

he did not sell to Klks nor to any one

man only. If any one has a better rec

ord for selling tickets he wants to hear

from him, and a ticket selling challenge

may result.

The tickets which cost onl yten cents

a piece are going fast. Notices have been sent out that returns on the sales

must be made on the night before the

picnic as the machine will positively

be reffled at the picnic the next day,

Work On Auto Parade. The committee on the. auto parade

Is working hard to Ftir up Ttilerest in

this feature of the day. Two valuable

lap robes will be glvt n as prizes to the

owner of the best decorated car in the

parade. The procession will form at

the court house at one o'clock and go

north on Hohman street to

avenue. Here the parade

over the rallrOada In the city after the council under the old plan had tried

for twenty yean to get inch an Improvement lannched.

Secured fund by public auhacriptloa

for a S2SO.OOO Y. M. C. A., also made possible by increased civic pride. It would not have been poslble live years ago.

Abolished absolutely the "red light district. Put Its public funds at Interest and realised enough from the latter to practically pay th salaries of the mayor and four commissioners.

Installed a street-lighting; system by

mean of electroliers.

Secured the cleanest streets of any

city tn the MWlc West.

Reduced tbc city tax levy from 37.

mills to 37.1, and at the same time left

83:Wr46 In the city treasury at the close of 1010, as against 9193,060 la the city treasury at the clone of 1O07, the

lost year under the old system.

Wiped out crime in the city and showed 7303 arrests durina; 10 10, as against 8,126 tn'lOOT, the last year under the old system. Constructed 91,603,000 worth of pavlun in three years, twice the amount laid la the last three years under the

former government. Reduced the rates on arc lights for city use from 905 to R a year, added 1,000 new lights aad put oil lights on an all-night schedule.

"'la it anwonder that Pes Moines la well satisfied with its tfy-ea years under

the commission iplan,r-i . . . -

Th five men J"whot,5Te up- the B4

Moines Commission, ,5"!ty Council a.-

it is termf-a, are ropre;". native or van

ous businesses and professions, r They

aro represented as follow?

Mayor, James R. Hhna, formerly

professor In economics at Highland

Park College.

Councilman John MacVicar, Pepart-

ment .of Streets and Public Improve

ments. Secretary of American League of

Municipalities and Commissioner-General for the International Municipal

Congress at Chicago next fall. Councilman Zell G. Roe, Pepartment of Public'Safety, attorney. Councilman J. Wesley Ash, Pepartment of Parks, coal miner. Councilman Charles W. Schramm Pepartment of Accounts and Finances, grocer; later. City Assessor.

Under the old form" of government

Pes Moines was divided Into eight

wards. : The council consisted of one

man from each ward and- ,a mayor. They were elected on partisan tlcket3

The city had a board of public works.

chosen by the council. The city auditor, treasurer, police Judge and mayor

were elected by the people. The chief

of police and city clerk as well as all

minor officials were chosen by the

council.- ' t .

When the Pes Moines plan wa

adopted ward lines were eradicated. Po

litical parties were shoved to the rear.

The city was put 011 a business basis.

Today the city council acts for the city as a board of directors act for any big

business Institutltlon. . The taxpayers can locate respousi

billty. If something goes amiss in any

department he-knows whom to call-to account. The plan provides for the

initiative an'i3f referendum an. fr -Aha right. to recall. Any matter of public

Importance may bo referred to the peo

pie direct. If the council falls j to lake satisfactory action. This is do by se

curing signers to petitions. A Ijajority of the voters, of Pes Moines may invoke

the recall, demand an election and ous

or Indorse a member of the council I the majority so decides. . Klectlons are held every two years.

WHO CUP I). R. RETURNS

By the latest shake-up in Undo Sam's diplomatic service, Charles H. Sherril, minister to the Argentine Republic, retires to go into business. -John RIdgely Carter, of Baltimore, mlniater to the Balkan states, is transferred to Sherril's post, and Charles Page Bryan, minister to Belsiun, is promoted to be ambassador to Japan.

. The Hammond camp of the Uniform Rank returned from the Indiana Brigade encampment at Lafayette yesterday evening, and the members report a most enjoyable outing. They say that never have they met

-I more hospitality than 'was shown them

at the Star City during the past week. They were quartered in tents in Columbian park, and had the honor of leading the parade twicer - Owing to the fact that the Hammond camp did not have the necessary quota it could not take part in any of the competitive drUls which were a feature of the week.

Chicago ! Hammond camp was entered in Class ill turn C but had to withdraw. Owing to the

"PERFECT WOMAN"

no HAmmoND

Mona Rees and Evelyn See, Her Idol, Billed for Orpheum.

SWITCH . KILLED 11 HAMMOND

It Is announced for the first tima to- 1 day that the Gary Bolt and Screw com- I pany expects to have one department of

Its plant now under construction in operatioa by October 1.

Paper Box Factory First. The first department to be placed in

operation will be the paper box factory j which manufactures the paper boxes i

n which the nuts, bolts and screws of

mailer sizes are packed. One hundred

and fifty girls and women will bo employed in this department.

Need 50O Girls. Altogether there will be 1,000 hands

employed and of this number BOQ. will

be, women JrnsjL. girls. Just now the company officials ire puzzled as to whether they wll have a sufficient number of hands to operate the plan as the laundries and stores in Gary, some of which employe from ten to fifty women

and girls always have a shortage of help.

May Seek Outside Help. It is said that the company may have

to call upon Hammond, Whiting and

East Chicago for aid if the quota of girls and women cannot be made up as BOO will probably be more than Gary can supply. There will be BOO male employes but they can be secured in Gary.

Facts About Gary's Newest Industry. The namet The Gary Bolt and Screw company. Ready for operation: One department on October 1. Main olBcest Pittsburg. 1 Parent company! Pittsburg Bolt and Screw company Independent). Gary plant 1 Southeast of first subdivision, north of the Wabash, east of the high line and south of the Lake Shore road. Progress of construction t Concrete foundation work in and structural steel erection started. Cost of Plant t 81,000,000. Number to be employed 1 1,000. Present construction forces 200. Output! Bolts, nuts and screws. Kumber of buildings! Office, two factory buildings and warehouse.

CHESTERTON

KtAUY H1K THE ROAD

LATEST NEWS

AUTO HITS ROCK ; 1 DEAD. 6 HURT Chicago, Aug. 12. Several persona are reported to have been killed when Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train

No. 238 ran into a washout between Tiskllwa and Wyannet, ill. Among those missing are passengers and the entire train crew. Report of the wreck has been received in Chicago, though nothing definite has as yet v been learned. ?

Assurances that Chesterton and other Porter county centers will " co-operate with the people of -Miller-to secure'an elevenmlle gravel road through, th sand dunes from Miller to Chesterton were given last night at a Joint conference' of the Miller and Chesterton town boards held at the latter place. Porter County to Aid. The Miller .trustees, who are fathering the plan, met . with the Chesterton officials following the session of the town board. Porter County Commissioner Gust Anderson was also present at the meeting and he assured the trus-

SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED. . Bluefield, W. Va., Aug. 12. While rounding a Bharp - curve . on'; the- ,wV ' skirts of this cit.last ntgntTttWiS

mobile in which were seven passen- fr

gers struck a rockr ana turned over .several time?, all the occupants meetfito ing death or injury. ' -TVay

1911 RAILROAD RECORD IX LAKE COUNT IXJIRED IX REGIOX KILLED IX REGIOX ..-0

Evelyn Arthur See, the exponent of the absolute life, Mona Rees, "the perfect woman," and Mrs. Rees will appear at the Orpheum theater fn Hammond next Wednesday and Thursday evenings for the purpose of delivering a lecture on the "Absolute Life."

This is the biggest attraction that A race of a swltch engiue against has been secured at the Orpheam in a deatn wag jost yesterday morning whenlong time. It is expected that aun- Donald McGarry, 19 years old, a switchdreds Of people will go to see See and -man who was run over by a train at the members, of his cult out of pure Wolf Lake, In North Hammond, died curiosity., . hospital at South Chicago. See was convicted of abducting Mil- 1 Shortly after midnight Charles Mona, dred Bridges and is now out on bail 8014 Superior street, another switchpending a motion for a new trial. Mil- man, found McGarry badly mangled.

dred Bridges is in charge of a proba--( but still alive, lying across the tracks

east and go to East Chicago to For- heat the encampment .which was sched- j tlon otncer and ta sai(1 to be in Europe in the yard. He quickly summoned the

uled to last a week was curtailed one

Some of the members of the Ham

syine avenue, tnence nortn to one nun- i

dred and Forty-fifth street and west on ! dav

this street to Sheffield avenue, then mona camp returned Derore yesterday

north to Kfhders grove. but the rnajority of members re

In the care of her father. . j jured man was ' placed " aboard. All Not in years has a criminalcase at- trains on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks traded so much attention as the See between the Indiana town and South

The size of the car in the parade

is not material. The prizes will be

awarded to the best decorated car,'

large or small. j

The Lion Store has set aside a whole window section for decoration in honor of 'theElks' picnic, and it is expected that by next week other business houses will also decorate their plai-es.

turned yesterdayevening to the Monon.

HOLD MASS MEETING ; TOMORROW

PRESIDENT ASKS FOR SPEECH Washington, Aug. 12. President Taft

has shown hiH confidence In Repre- j sentatlve Crumpaeker by calling for aj

copy of the indianian-s speech against BUl3 have ,been printed for a mass the judicial recall feature of the Arl- meeting which is to be held at zona constitution The president wish- CoIumbla ha ,n West Hammond toes to consider the arguments used by , morrow aflernoon at three o'clock. Judge Crumpacker in i writing his mea- j T lnteresl Jn affairs ln the village sage vetoing the statehood bill. I Tlu v.,.

case. It revealed tne suotie teacnmgs of -a man who was able to hold half a dozen women In his power and keep them loyal to him during a most spectacular trial. 'y The lecture by See is to be given two nights in succession and it ie expected that the theater will be packed on both occasions. At the trial of the case men and women fought to get a chance to see the principals in this case, and it is expected that the same curiosity will- be manifested here. It Is understood that a cleveF. theatrical' promoter has secured' a contract for a series of See's lectures, and if

they attract as large crowds as it Is J

expected they will the contract ought to be a gold mine for the promoter.

POPE PIUS SINKING, IS SEPORT,

Rome, Aug. 12. Contradictory reports early"today had Pope Pius out of danger and had him near death from a relapse beginning at midnight. According to the story of the relapse

tecs that the county would do its share. shortly after midnight the Pope awoke To Survey at Once. . with a burning sensation in his affectTown engineers of Miller and Ches- I . . T . . ,,, ,K , . . ... . ; . , ed knee, i In a short time the joint terton are to be Instructed today to V - - make a survey of the proposed rout?. Swelled up, and the physicians were When this is finished the trustees of hurriedly summoned to his side. They the Lake county town will take the used every effort to relievo the aunecessary steps to Improve the Miller t ttent and after 6everal hours three-mile end and the petition for tue . . other eight miles win be forwarded to work, during which His Holiness sufthe Porter commissioners. fered intensely, the doctors were able

Messrs. Olander, North and Freder- . to relieve the severe pain

lcKson and Town Clerk Zelllbor of tha Miller board and II. A. Flyn, Dr. T. O. Wlltfong and Charles Pearson of the Chesterton board were the principals at the conference. It was expected that the town trustees of Porter would attend, but they were unable to be pres

ent.

CHASE FUGITIVE

LOCdOTIVE

Man Charged With Having Enticed Away Little

BRITISH HIOTS EAGE ANEW, Liverpool, Aug. 12. Further strrious outbreaks were feared today unless the demands of the strikers were granted. . In a resumption of the rioting several shops were looted. Troops were called upon to suppress the rioters and several persons were seriously injured before order was restored.

GIRL LEAVES HOME WEARING TROUSERS

Chicago were sidetracked to give the engine the right of way. . McGarry was still alive when South

Chicago, was reached. He was . still j breathing when the police ambulance j which met the engine sped toward the ' hospital. Just as the ambulance reach-

ed the hospital and the Internes wore about to, take the body from the vehicle McGarry breathed his last. -

Girl Caught.

A locomotive was pressed into service to pursue and capture John Wood. 51 years old, late Thursday afternoon, after, it is charged, he had enticed Elizabeth Salaba .10 years old, to the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks near One Hundred and Tenth street. The case covered a mile along the railroad tracks, wth Mrs. Alby Salaba, mother of th? girl. In the cab of the engine with the engineer and tireman.

Rube'. Gever. a nitrher for the St. I " ooa was captured and locked up at"

Louis . Nationals, was a Hammond visi-'the Hegewlsch station. The girl escaptor last night and spent the evening as ed injury and he was charged ith dis

League Pitcher in Town.

Felix Will Leave Us. 1 Felix Jacobs, the Cleveland, Ohio, man who was arrested yesterday morning by Jacob Fox on a charge of petit larceny was released this morning after promising he would leave town. Mr. Fox placed the man under arrest when he noticed Jacobs sneak up behind a peddler's wagon and take some fruit. Jacobs made an attempt to break away, but was caught before he got very far.

heat and the mass meeting next Sunday promises to be a scorcher. The good citizens who are tired of gang rule nad who w'ant to see a gerieral cleaning up are requested to be present at the meeting and help to take the necessary legal steps that will rid the village p of the bad part of the old administration and will substitute a good city government in its place.

If you are a judge of quality try a U Vendor Cigar,

SQUASH FROM PRINTER'S INK

Brockton, Mann., Aug. 12-William Finn, a Campbella printer and amateur farmer, ban a freak vegetable In hla garden which he names the "A la Printer's Squanh. The rind and the innlde are laky black. Mr. KInu has come to the conclusion that the old lak vrhich he throw on an ah heap In the back yard has soaked into the sjrouad and been absorbed by the squash vines.

the guest of E. Schillo.

1 orderly conduct.

-Rube" has pitched some good ball, 1 n Salaba girl was playing In front this year and has a number of loyal of her home at One Hundreiand Ninth followers In Hammond. He returned street and Superior avenue Thursday to Chicago this morning, where he had afternoon-when Wood, who was pedto report for duty at the Chicago and dling needles, is alleged to have coaxed

St. Louis game this afternoon.

Dead Sea LiGn Arrives. A sea lion shipped all the way from Santa Barbara. Cal.. to Kensington was found to be dead last night when it arrived ' in" Hammond to be transferred over the Wells Fargo to' Kensington. The animal was billed to F. Wallace of- the big AVallace shows and was destined to go to Peru, Indiana. Lack, of water is said to have been responsible. for the animal's death. In Hammond it was said loday that it had died at Kansas City, Mo.

her away by giving her pennies for

candy.

DROWNED IN , CALUMET RIVER ( Peter Rapich, 1073S Torrence avenue, a laborer, was drowned In the Calumet river Thursday night just outside of Hammond. This makes the eighteenth drowning in the Calumet region so far this season.

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The La Vendor Cigar is a home prod uct. None better.

Police throuEiioui Ohio have

been notified to watch, for a pretty, blond-haired "t-" wh ran away from home vith two other beys of about her own age. The "boy" is Maude Myers, sixteen yers old, of Canton, O. She discarded her skirt for boys" apparel. ,