Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 86, Hammond, Lake County, 28 September 1911 — Page 1

MM TIME SEDITION VOL. A7!., NO. 86HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1911. ONE CENT PER COPY, (Back Numbers 2 Cents Copy .)

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Officials and stockholders in the city's two oldest building loans and savings - associations have every reason to be proud of the high praise that W. H. O'Brien, auditor of state, has expressed in unsolicited letters to A. F. W. Fedder and Mayor John D. Smalley, secretaries, respectively, of the Hammond Building Loan and Savings association an the Home Building Loan and Savings association. The letters were written to tell the secretaries of the state auditor's findings in connection with the recent examinations of the books of the institutions. The letters are almost identical : in tone and wording. ".We are pleased to report to you that the report shows your association is in a prosperous condition and that your accounts are correct." say the letters and add, "Your methods are progressive, honest. economical and successful." . Indiana I.sws Best. The recent examinations were the first under the new building and loan : law, and. as the auditor points out. the Indiana loan law is generally conceded to be the best building and loan law In the United States. . Sir. O'Brien uses the words "splendid" and "excellent" 'in speaking - of the managements, and makes the unqualified statement that the institutions are as safe and sound as the FEAR IT IS THEIR MISSING DAUGHTER Girl Found in, Gary Slip May, be MartinsTjille Girl. Martinsville, Ind., Sept. 28. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Flshel. of this city, fear the .body" of- the young woman found' In IjCtopjbJboli ja,?st,ej IsftisT that of their fiaugluer Minnie, from whom -they have not - heard directly for nearly .five months. Then she was at Terr Haute. A letter of Inquiry to the Hoover morgue at Gary brought a description that tallied very closely with that of their daughter in neisrht, weight, two gold front teeth, slsse of shoe worn and other characteristics. Mr. Fishel is unieelded as to what steps to take. "WOMAN'MA YOR'S war TAKEN TO GOVERNOR Governor Stubbs ha3 been appealcd to by the Commercial Club of Hunnewell.Kan.. to stop the row between Mrs. Klla Wilson, woman mayor of the town, and the councilmen there. It Is -planned to Institute oustr proceedings against both, the mayor and councilmen.

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most conservatively managed financial institutions in the state. ' The auditor of state points out the fact that -the associations pay three times as much interest as the postal savings bank, and says there is no need 'for room for a postal savings bank In competition Nwith a good and solvent association in Indiana. In other words, the state official is-putting the local institutions on a par with the United States government's bank for solidity, and gives the private institutions the advantage of an earning power three times greater than the government Investment. Mentions Other Features. Mr. O'Brien sees other good features In the building loan and savings associations. In his letters he says: "I am more and more convinced that building and loan associations properly and honestly conducted are the greatest of all known home building financial Institutions In the country, and they will accomplish more for the happiness and prosperity of ' the great masses of the people than any other financial institution and will enable them to acquire homes by small savjngs from week to week and month to month. "'Such associations are the greatest known factors for the making of contented and law-abiding citizens and taxpayers."

ST. CLAIR MANAGER OF NEW THEATRE Lessees Place Theatrical Manager in Charge of NewOrpheum. FOR HIGH GRADE VAUDEVILLE n. ii- sr. TJTair, the-former . manager oi ne orpneum theatre, has been appointed manager of the new Schutz vaudeville theatre, which will open for business along- in November. This will .be. good news to the th-atre-going public of Hammond who have seen what St. Clair was able tV do in the way of booking high . class vaudeville during the early part of last summer. The Schutz theatre has been leased by A Hard Bros. & Bray, who are mem? bers of the Western Vaudeville association and are on what is. known as the rpphcefu m circuit, which covers a numcities in the mlddlewest. The lessees have their headquarters in Chicago, and make it a point to employ high grade vaudeville acts for a five, six or seven weeks' tour of their circuit. Sometimes it will happen that a number of high grade acts cannot be placed in any of the theatres on the circuit and Hammond is so near to Chicago that they will be sent down here to do their turns in addition to the regular bills of attractions. To Book Fine Artn. In fact, the close proximity to Chicago will make it possible for the people here to see some of the best vaudeville acts cut of Chicago. It is expected that it will come to be quite the thing among the people of Hammond to go to the vaudeville show at least twice a week. 'The people of Hammond have not yet been brought to a full realization of how beautiful the new , theatre is l going to be. ' It is said that it will be the most attractive playhouse in northern Indiana. '.. , It will have a modern ventilating system so that a current of fresh air will be forced into the auditorium at all times during the performance. The seats will be wie and comfortable, the mural decorations will be beautiful and the theatre will have a snug, comfortable appearance that will be sure to become a popular place of amusement. Everything will combine to make the new theatre a success, and Manager St. Clair looks forward to a very successful season. . i BY ERIE TRAIN C. H. Brackensich of Fort aAVyne, who was arrested at the Erie depot Tuseday night for drunkenness and released yesterday morning by Judge Barnett on his word that he would leave '' the city, was again arrested last night onthe same charge. He was placed under arrest by Officer Fandrei at State street and the Monon tracks, and came near being struck by" the Monon train, due here at 12:17. He was locked up at the police station last night and was placed on a street car this morning for, Chicago. He was told' if he was ever; found in Hammond in" a drunken condition in the future it would mean the county Jail for him. H?s occupation is a cigar maker, and he tried to get some money from the Clear Makers' union. ,

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Mm -y' -y-y Judge Van Fleet, T. W. Englehart, the Ridge road capitalist, banke-r and real estate owner, this morning announced that A. Murray Turner, president of the First National bank of Hammond and himself were negotiating - for.the purchase of 1,500 acres "of swamp J and in the Little Cain met;i.valleyjQn either side of Broadway, This land, the Ithige. road magnate says, will be reserved for a city park site..; Mr. Englehart also brought the , information that the Burns ditch which is to be built to drain 20,000 acres in the Little Calumet valley is a sure thing. "One crop of cor.i," said he "will pay for the expense of building the ditch ST. LOUIS BU i:i local mm H. S. McCloud Elected Trea surer of Mcllroy Belting & Hose Company. H. S. McCloud of St. Louis has pur chased an interest in the Mcllroy Belt ing & Hose Co. of Hammond and has been elected treasurer of the company. Mr. McCloud is a clear-cut business man. He comes from St. Louis and will make a splendid addition to the community. Frank B. Mcllroy stated today that the caiptal stock of the company would be increased from $25,000 to $50,000, and that this would provide additional funds with which to carry on the increasing business of the company. 1 , He said that a deal would be Consummated within a week by which ' . , ... - ... t texted in the Hammond company. He! says that the plant is busy now and that the future has much in store. AVIATOR IS ON HIS WAY HERE (Special to The Times.) Salamanca. X. Y., Sept. 28. C. Rodgers left here at 9:35 a. m. passed Miller's Station, the first . i P. and sta tion east of Cambridge, at 11:04 a. m., having traveled 83 miles in one hour and 23 minutes. He is still flying. Meadeville. Pa., Sept. 2$. C. P. Rodgers crossed the line into Pennsylvania and arrived here at ll:-5 a. m. after ahving covered 103 miles in one hour and 50 minutes. He took dinner here and left at 1:36. AWAITINGDEVELOPMENTS It Is believed that Gary is to be involved in another investigation as a result of the meeting of the grand Jury in Hammond. Not even "the slightest hint has been dropped as to what is being investigated, but the fact that a prominent Gary building contractor was one of the witnesses before the grand Jury leads to the belief that some of the building scandals in Gary may be investigated. Attorney D. E. Boone is known to have been employed to aid the state in the. grand Jury investigation, and it Is understood that there are likely to be some interesting developments. - .

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of South Bend. HORSEPLAY FIEND SOUGHT BY SHERIFF Chicago Man Pulls. Off an Unprincipled Stunt Yesterday. (Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Sept. ,28. If Sheriff Grant can get his hands on the unprincipled smart Aleck who drove a horse from a local livery stable yes terday and hitched the same . near the E.,J:. A. E.; tracks between Gary and Crown Point, there will be a stiff dose of the law for him. ; .The fellow, whose nam-Ud Jvot jy'ii wrnHj, XHi wJb o&e description Is . known came to. Cfo' Point yesterday for a marriage license and after obtaining same went to the Hayden livery barn stating that he wanted a rig for about kirty minutes to take himself and bride to minister's house to be married. Hayden supplied the fellow with horse and buggy, but when the rig was not re turned several hours afteiwara he be came suspicious and notified the sherllt. Grant Immediately got busy and traced the rig through Merrillvllle to the sand knobs north of there and finally found the horse led near the aforementioned tracks, the coup(e evidently abondonlng the rig and taking a train for Chicagi, Several couples secured licenses to marry here yesterday and the officers are a littlo at seat who to go after bv they will be weeded out and If thel address is correctly given there wtl be someone punished for this dipicabl piece of horseplay. ERIE GETTING BUSY (Special to Thk Times.) Crown Point. Ind., Sept. 28. The Erie railroad is displaying unusual ac tivity around Its Crown Point right of way, and. seven or eight carloads of foreigners have been side-tracked ijere for construction work TB.e ofOaers 'the usual are, of course, displaying the usual reticence about volunteering lnforma - tion as to the road s plans, but it Is i evident that vork of importance is to! be done and emphasizes the fact that the company Is sertou3ly considering : the yard proposition at this place. Several carloads of material" have been! tracked here and the right of way pre , u.ft f . 1 r A c V Z7 CT AT A T 1 r A T AT LEAGUER ON BASES -y.;.s BOB BESCHER, Bob Bescher, of the Cincinnati team, is the Ty Cobb of the National League along the base paths, only his achievements are more to be wondered at because he gets on much less frequently than the redoubtable Ty. Although Bescher is batting only .276, he has stolen forty-seven bases and leads the league in this department. He is marvet-usly-fast for a big man., , .

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Governor Marshall's Special Prosecutor, Hon. Samuel Parker, Comes to Gary; Goes Over the Evidence With Hodges. Samuel Parker of Sortth Bend, presi dent of the state bar association, who was selected by Governor Marshall as pecial aid in the Gary graft cases made his first official visit to the steel city yesterday afternoon. . Mr. Parker came to hold a conference with Special Prosecutor W. F. Hodges. To Be Appointed Saturday. Following the meeting -which lasted four hours it was announced, that Mr. Parker would return to South Bend and on Saturday morning he would appear before Judge McMahon at Crown Point to receive his.v appointment as special prosecutor. The South Bend attorney, who is to go into the bottom of civic affairs in Gary denied himself to the ne-wspaper (Continued on Page 7.) The case of George Nestorovtch who was arrested for pretending t to be ithorlied y Mayor Thomas Bi Knotts to collect J 10 Jfjom a. house of . HI. fame fn Gary "for ihe prl-ik! J of TuttHlhg wa quashed in the Lake Strpelor' court by Judge Johannes Kopelke this morning. The affidavit is said to have been faulty. The case was one in which Emmet White, then city judge bound the defendant over to the Superior court. Nestoroylch. who was one of Sherifi Grant's deputies last year, has been arrested by the police on various pretexts. Last winter "Safety" White had nun arrested and an Italian woman, "Marioocha" swore In court that Nestorovlch tried to collect money from her. Upon the testimony of this woman alone Judge Wildermuth fined Nestorovlch. Frank Csargo, sentenced In court yesterday to 4 days in jail, used to be Knotts' assistant street commissioner. TAG DAY SET FOR OCT. 14 Tag day, an annual event In Hammond, will be observed this year on Saturday, Oct. 14th, and like in former vaa,. will Ka mnmrttari r t ho nVillan thropic committees of the Hammond i woman's pluh and the Jewish Ladies' Ajd society for the benefit of the poor and needy of the city, The day has been set earlier this year than in the past, in order to" avoid the uncertain and disagreeable weather November. It is expected that the yadies of tne organizations, assisted by the school children, especially the larger girls, will do the active work on tag day. Mesdames William Lash, representing the philanthropic committee of the Woman's club, and Mrs. I. I. Modjeska, representing the Jewish Ladies' Aid society, have been appointed chairmen of their respective organisations, and will work together. They will proceed to make all detail arrangements for a final meeting, which is to be held on Friday evening, Oct, 13th, at which time the committee members and the workers are to convene for final arrangements. , Past successes created' by enthusiastic co-operation and a generous public have made tag- day an annual event on Hammond's calendar, and it is only reasonable to presume that tag day this year will be another big success. EXPLANATION OF CITY'S ACTION Owing to the recent condemnation snit by .the city against John A, Hamllton for a strip of property at the intersection of Indiana avenue and Hick ory street, some of the property owners in that neighborhood are under the; impression that it was Intended . to convert the alley between Murray and Logan streets into a street. Such, however, was not the case. The city asked for -a strip of land 12S feet by thirty feet - on Hickory street, and another strip sixty-two by forty-four feet on Indiana to op'en the intersection. The court allowed Hamilton $260. WHT ARB READER? TOU NOT . A TIMES

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DENIALS OF NO AVAIL Last week wkea The lime carried the Mory that Governor Marahall had decided to take a hand la the Gary graft probe the Knotts organ denounced the dispatches aa fake emanating from hostile sources In thlit connty. Yesterday afternoon the Knotts rgaa announced that all stories regarding the entrance of Samuel arker of Sonth Bend as -special prosecutor by t lr Governor's selection were not true. At theinie the papera appeared In the streets Mr. Parker had secretly arrived in Gsy and mu already starting the preliminaries In he graft probe. LATEST NEWS BAD FIRE IN KANSAS. Wichita, Kansas, Sept. 28. Fire threatens to destroy the business section of this city. The aflmes were discovered about midnight in the Broom Corn Storage house of F. G. Smith and Co. and the building was soon destroyed. The flames spread to the Broom Corn store houses of R. W. Hall and A. Broyle and the dry goods house of Hauser and. Garrison, and is nowburniBsWiXb-ttS- faj JlyeuJlTeii have been lost and damages more than 500,600.AFFAIRS IN TRIPOLI. Paris, France, Sept. 28. A special dispatch from Tripoli today says that the government Is preserving order and that the city and outlying dlstrcits are quiet. The consular corps have confidence in the ability of the governor to protect the foreigners and keep down disorders. Neverthe less ,a panto prevails among a large part of thev European and Jewish residents. Several hundreds of these left by steamers yesterday for Malta. STRIKE MAY BEGIN FRIDAY. Chicago, Sept. 28. Thirty-five thousand railroad shopmen and clerks will go on 6trike tomorrow on the Harriman lines and the Illinois Central railroad unless another conference la granted representatives of the systems federations of the Harriman roads by Julius Kruttschnitt, vice-president of the lines, according to J. W. Kline, president of the In terna tonal Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, and Helpers. ( No further effort, he says, will be made by the i Systems Federation of the Illinos I Central to gain a conference With C. H. Markham, president of the road, but the unions will act in unison with the Harriman lines employes. ALL OFF, LTL ARTHA! London, Sept. 28. The fight arranged between Johnson and Wells has been abandoned In consequence of the courts. prohibition of the English WHITING MAN FINED. The many times continued case of the state of Indiana vs. . Fedorko of J wniting was xriea Deioe juage Ames yesterday and it took 'the entire day to finish the case. Judge Ames gave Judgment for the state, finding the defendant guilty, imposing a fine of $1 and costs. Fedork appealed the case and filed bond for appeal in the Lake circuit court at Crown Point. Attorneys Sawyer and ! Msrthland appeared for the state and ' Attorneys Westfall and Jones of Whitj ing for the defendant. The case brought out many - j points and was hotly contested. legal L. E. Granger appeared as the com plaining witness for the Northern In diana Gas and Electric company and charged Fedork with having cut a number of power wires belonging to that company while Fedorko was moving a house in Whiting. The Northern Indiana Gaa company complained that they have had considerable trouble with Fedorko in the past in regard to cutting wires. It developed in the testimony that Fedorko cut four wires, all of them feed wires.

(Special to Ths Times.) , . Crown Point, Ind., Sept. 28. Thai Gary officialdom is trembling on the edge of a volcano whose pending : eruption will f urnsh sensations yet unnamed is disclosed by the secret visits of men connected with tho highest official circles in the state has come to light. HAVE SERIOUS ASPECT. Since Gov. Marshall took a hand in. affairs In Lake County the Gary prosecutions have taken on an unquestionably serious aspect. Secret investigations now in force have aa ominous look. A detective bureau could not be mors silent, nor- display any more mysteryg

(Continued on Page 6.) DR. KOHR SCHOOLMATE OF LATE CI BILLHIGS Robertsdale Physician Dis closes Facts Anent Dead Han. The late Charles Dalrymple, - bexte known .In Hanjmond as Charles H. Billings. who ojaume to .Hammond to bury.an unpleasant-past ?n Be-'-n y.ndwm ttnwwd jrint. -t imralt. .mot ' get so far away from home ties as he thought he had. v' Pr. T. W. Koht of Kobortsdale, mem. ber of the school board;Awas a schoolmate of Mr. Dalrympla. He did not discover hlm, however, . urftil the In surance man passed away. Ua con ducted his business under the narneol Billings, but upon his death documents were found among his effects showing that his name was Dalrymple. Dr. Kohr says that he had practically lost track of his former schoolmate. They had not seen each other for forty years, and not very frequently after they had left school. He says that his Impression is that Dalrympla was., a " ", 7 uf praiine. ne nits uuauic iv. tucuuni ior the separation between the man. and his family in Boston. ? CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING d "flsdable" thing" ad makes all lst article "finds!. TURNS DOWN PRINCE FOR HER BOY'S SAKE. Mrs. William B. has decided to leave London ani return to America to live, so l;er eight-yi..'-old son can be brought up under c- ditions best tending to promote good American cit zenship. She also WJnts him to learn the management of the 125,000,0 estate left by hi father, the l-te "tin piate" king. Mrs. Leeds refuse offers of tnar riage from Prfnce Murat ard several ether suitors of high eociai ranlc -during her career abroad.

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