Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 103, Hammond, Lake County, 18 October 1911 — Page 1

WEATHER. CLOUDY AND COOLER TODAY; WEDNESDAY PROBABLY FAIR. LAK n TNTMr rearm TIME yoL. V., NO-103. HAMMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1911. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers 2 Cents Copy.) HAMMOND SISTER OF WOMAN IN V FUN& CASE IS interviewed.

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According to a number of well known attorneys In Hammond, East Chicago and Gary It is necessary for a saloon keeper to perjure himself In order to gtt . his naturalization papers In the federal court now In session at Hammond. Loud complaints have been heard from every quarter. A saloonkeeper who goes before the court and swears that he never kept his saloon open on Sunday is given his second papers while the man who admit that he did as all of the other saloon keepers have done and kept his side door opened on Sunday is promptly denied. But . there is another side to this question. Chief Naturalization Exeminer Morton A. Sturges of Chicago, who Is making a record of all of these cases said today: "We will examine the case of every saloon keeper who has sworn that he did not keep his saloon open on Sunday and' If we are able to prove that he has perjured himself he will be compelled to answer to the charge. They are likely to suffer worse than tha

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DEA NOW f CtSIDERE City Authorities ; Take Up . Disposition of , Empty. Xot in Stearbf City Hall; Will ing to' Give City Market Plan a Trial in Hammond. The idea of a city market for Ham mond was presented for the first. time in the city council last night, when Mayor John D. Smalley referred to it Incidentally, in connection with the fu turez disposition of the vacant proper between the rear of the city hall 'and the city barn. AIth6ugh the reference was but incidental, the matter of faci way in which it was made by the city's chief executive, indicates that he has given thought and study to the subject and that he is willing that the city market should be given a trial in Ham mond. Councilman John Pascaly brought up the subject with a suggestion that the city reove the eye-sore and catch all In the rear of the city hall. This vacant piece of property fronts on Truman avenue and lies opposite Central Park. For years it has been used as a storage yard for water and sewer pipes, broken down wagons and machinery belonging to the city, and not being inclosed with (Continued on page five.) MARIE CORELU TO i COME TO AMERIICA ""if1 V 1 "5 r Marie Corelli. whose latest book, "The Life Everlasting," has caused a etorm in theological circles by reason of its arraignment of Christianity as it is practiced today, is coming to America. Sbe feels that America offers a promising field for the novelist who is seeking new characters and new scenes for material for a great book.

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men who have been denied their citizenship papers." To InvfMIgate. Following the disposition of the 146 second papers the naturalization examiner will start an investigation of all of the cases in which saloon keepers

have decalred that they have not kept open on Sunday. Later these men will be summoned to court and will be asked why they have perjured "themselves. A number of the attorneys for., saloonkeepers have re themselves and consequently their pa- I pers wer( denied. j it is said that there Is one instance where a saloonkeeper is actually under indictment, and yet has sworn to the court that he has never been arrested. The examination of the applicants Is done as rapidly as possible, and only when a man swears that he is a saloonkeeper does the ' questioning become searching. It is expected that the work of examining the applicants for second papers will be completed by noon today. All the cases at issue having gone over for the term and the Jury having been discharged, th court will adjourn todayFFER WITH Photoplay Houses Are Will,ingto,P:iyeJlaisai2i Wages But Decline to Sign Contracts When Operators Refuse to Sign Bonds. As a result of a difference between the owners of moving picture shows and the' operators of the moving picture machines In Hammond and other cities in Lake county. Including Gary and Indiana Harbor, the operatorshave all quit and their places have been taken by new men. The owners of the theatres agreed to an increase in the scale of from 12 to $16.50 for the men who work nights only and from $17 to 21 a week for the men who work aiternodns and nights, but they would not sign a contract with the men. They give as a reason for not signing the contract the fact that the operators will not agree to sign a hond for $1,000 as a guarantee, that they will be responsible for the loss or destruction of films. The theatre owners say they will accede to the demands of the operators so far as wages are concerned, but that they demand In return a degree of proetction from loss on account of the carelessness of the men. Rellly Talk. Manager Rellly of the Princess made statement In which he said, "The operators of machines do not want to give us anything in return for the concessions we have made. I .have had men quit me on five minuted notice, and. simply 'leave a note saying that they would not-be back. I have lost two rolls' of films as a result of the carelessness of operators, and these have cost me $250 each. ' "What I want Is some guarantee that a man will be on hand to work when the theatre opens and some guarantee that I will not have to suffer the loss if a man. leaves a film on the train on his" way' out from Chicago." It is said that William Craick of trie Bijou theatre ' and Fred Lash of the "Idle Hour"- have signed the agreements with the men. Patrick Reilly of the Princess, Dr. J. T. Clark of the Colonial, Peter Brahos of the Gem theatre are all holding out against the operators. They say they are backed up by the theatre owners In other Lake county cities. The piano players were granted an Increase of from $15.50 to $17.50, and it Is understood that they, are not. Involved In the trouble. Dr. Clark said today that what the theatre owners want Is some assurance that they will get competent, . reliable men, and( that they have no such assurace now. The only way to avoid having the union foist Inferior men vipon them, they say. Is to insist on the operators furnishing a bond to oer any losses they may cause the theatre owners through their own negligence. It is said that the theatre owners have employed other-operators to take the places of the men who have quit, and that the shows will go on as if nothing had happened. ' - Manager Rellly cf the Princess said today that hehad talked with a number of union men and that they were all agreed that the demands of the operators were unreasonable. ARES YOU HEADIAG THE TIMES f

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Chicago Criminal Court Scejie of Finneran Trial in Which Evelyn Florin, De scribes How West Ham mond Man Attacked Her. All yesterday afternoon in the Chi cago criminal court before Judge Martin M. Gridley little Evelyn Florin remained on the witness stand and re lated to the court the story of her ruin at the hands of Jarnes Finneran, presi dent of local No. 671 of the electrical worker's union. Her story in all of Its terrible details can not be related in print but it is said that seldom, even In that court room. has there been such a sordid tale re lated. The girl made a splendid witness and it Is said that she impressed the Jury with the absolute truthfulness of her tory. She told how her ruin had been deliberately planned by Finneran, how one buggy ride In company with an other girl had finally, lesd to the lonely ride in West Hammond where she is alleged' to have been assaulted. She told of meeting Finneran in Hammoni Story Xot Ilumorona. The defense, which Included Attorney S. K. Markman, tried to make light of the girl's story but its humorous view of the matter was not taken by the spectators and presumably not by the (Continued on Page 7.) WILL Kl f GATHERING The meeting of the Joint committees which were selected at a meeting of the Hammond Business Men's associa tion and the East Chicago and Indiana Harbor Commercial Clubs, to secure data regarding the shipping In the Indiana Harbor canal and the Calumet river and to secure the deeds to the necessary land for the widening of the canal and river will not meet until after the meeting of the State Federation of Commercial 'Clubs at Fort Wayne. Secretary B. F. Johnston of the Hammond Business Men's association and the secretary of ttie Indiana Harbor Commercial club, together with a number of the members of both organizations, went to Fort Wayne today to attend the meeting of the federation. Captain H. S. Norton of Gary, the president of the organization, will be the toastmaster at the banquet which is to be held at the Commercial club of Fort Wayne tonight. 1ERS0N PRODUCT OF XATERALIZATIOX MILL. Applicants admitted to citizenship. . 87 Applicants dismissed or denied cltlships 50 Of those denied saloonkeepers, com prised .'..'.30 Applications continued ". 9 The naturalization mill in the fed eral court ceased its work at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and after the papers had been gone over and checked up It was discovered that out of about flftyS five saloonkeepers who sought cltizeni ship papers that thirty were denied this privilege on account of a lack of moral character, the fact that they kept open on Sunday or on. account of the incompetency of their witnesses. Some were denied because they, failed to appear in court to prosecute their petitions. . STATE UP AGAINST IT. TIMES BCREAU AT THE STATE CAPITALIndianapolis, Ind.. Oct. IS. Chief Inspector Hooton of the state inspection bureau has sent a factory Inspector to Gary to investigate the death of John Stockman in the steel mill. , This Is the first time the state inspection bureau has been up against the steel corporation,

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proceeding Is nothing more than.a step to discredit ene $t the. principal witagainst the ,"tte4 Stafcsa senator, whose rightL t. hisenalortal -jse&t-. ls '. npTf-.-xni&rtn vVtl'UoT?.'','':r" "--:; .U'T" '" r v. ,"'T"TS?. '".The Hennings are-now In Mobile, Ala. and tholr, going south Instead of going to California was a surprise to the Hammond relatives. Richard Doolln Is quoted as saying that neither he nor his wife knew from where the Hennings received money for their extensive trip. "There Is something funny it." Doolin is quoted, "There never was any trouble between Henning and Josephine." The Doolins live at 721 Sohl street.

ST. JOHN VOTES FOR INCORPORATION (Special to The Times.) St. John, Ind.. Oct. 18. Officially St. John, one of the oldest communities. Is now a town, ail overwhelming ma jority having voted in favor of the in-j terdayati(m h epecial ele-ct,on 5 ' Of a total of sixty-seven votes cast fifty-five were in favor of the Incorporation. Four square miles are in cluded In the Incorporated territory. The returns will be made to the coun- , ty- commissioners at their next regular session and a date will then be set for the election of officers who are to constitute the village board. Senator Jenkins Here. Senator Frank N. Gavit of Whiting was In Hammond this ..afternoon in company with Senator Jenkins of Kokomo, who is to build a new glass factory at Whiting, employing , 200 men. Senator Jenkins was in Hammond to arrange about power for his plant. RAH! SCOTTY:S BACK WITH 'NOT HER ROLL Valter Scott C Walter Scott, known better as Death Valley Scotty," has arrived In Los Angeles with another bankroll He Intimated that he was going to "burn up the town." Scott has made several sensational money spending dashes through the East. Nobody knows just where the mine is where he says he gets his wealth

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central figures in the Chicago sensatlonl witness against Senator Lorimer has' Doolin.' wife of a railroad man, $25,000 for alienation of hlr wlfe'p affec 'CASH REGISTER IS AGAIN ROBBED j For Fourth Time UniversityClub Is Held Up By Thief. The cash register of the University club was robbed for the fourth time this noon shortly" before dinner time. The "circumsta nces were similar o those of other robberies, and the members of the house committee are certain that -the" same person is guilty of all four of the robberies. . f Billy Zinn, the caretaker of the club ! rooms, discovered the loss and at once 'notified the members of the house com mittee. 'The committee has not yet provided the safe In which the funds of the club will be kept and the loss of about 4 Is the result. The first robbery resulted . .in the loss of about $11, the second In the loss of $15, the third in the loss of the credit sheets and the fourth In the loss of $4. An investigation of the matter will be made as .usual; but with small chances, of catch fttg the robber. The .management of the club is exceedingly exasperated over the turn that affairs have taken. , The Hammond Athletic association football team will line up against the strong Pullman A. C team Sunday afternoon at the H. A. A. grounds. The West Pullman team comes here with a .good reputation and have a fast bunch of players who claim the championship of that territory near Chicago. The game will start promptly at 2 o'clock, and as a curtain raiser the Hammond Tigers will play the South Chicago Mohawks. The lineup will be about the same as last Sunday, excepting a few positions which were weak on the team. A fast practice work is held dally and the H. A. A. and the Hammond Tigers are expecting to wipe up the platter. . .

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Tonight John Caldwell, convicted of

conspiring to pad the payrolls of the Indiana Steel Co. at Gary, and sentenc ed to from 2 to 14 years in the reforma tory at Jeffersonvllle, will pocket his commitment papers, pay his own faro from Hammond to the prison that will be his home for the next two years at least and tomorrow morning will present himself to the warden for admis SOX IN THE LEAI5. Chicaco, Oct- 18. The score at the end of the third inning in the Sox-Cub game this afternoon was 4 to 1 in favor of the Sox.

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Big Real Estate Dealer SayS ( ot nearly three years. All did a land . . . .'office business, with seven or eight

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Wonderful Advantages of Regioti. i. ; 4ieorga.E. JUckords. tho owner t a arge. amount of, valuable acreage .in th south part af-Hammond, was In the city today for the purpose of looking after his Interests. . "The people of Hammond do not appreciate what wonderful advantages this region has. Its river and its lakes

should form the most remarkable -net- igrant Gap in the ocean-to-ocean race work of waterways that the world has.for the j50j000 prize offered by Wllever known," said Mr. Rtckords. I,. , , , , T . . "I have just returned from a sum- llam -Randolph Hearst, today started mer In Europe, and I marveled at the j on the first lap of a flight With Kanwaterway development that I saw there, sas City, Mo!, as his objective point.

While the United States Is far ahead of i; Europe in a great many things, we must admit that Europeans surpass us in the development of their rivers and canals. "The city of Hammond has the most wpnderful opportunities for development as a transportation center of any community I have ever visited. The day will come when Wolf Lake, Lake George, the Indiana Harbor canal and the Calumet river will form the most remarkable system of'canals and docks In the United States." "The people of Hammond must first appreciate the possibilities of developlng this property ar.d then they must pet .about to make the most of their opportunities," continued Mr. Rlckords. "The time is not far distant when all of the territory between South Chicago and Michigan City will be one enormous hive ot industry, and that will mean that all of the territory south to the Ridge road will be residential property." One of Mr. Rickord"s pet ideas Is that all freight from the east will at some time In the near future be shipped to Hammond, where it will break bulk and will then be shipped in parcels to the consignee. ,' Mr. Rlckords was formerly a director of the Chicago Title & Trust company, and although he-has now retired from active business, he takes a lively interest in business affairs and Is counted one of the leading citizens of Chicago. SHERIFF GRANT IS EXPECTED BACK Will Arrive With Seattle Prisoner Today or TomorrowCharles Brooke, arrested in Seattle in connection with the payroll frauds, is expected back to Lake county in a day or two. Brooke was assistant chief timekeeper at the steel plant. He was not taken In the Hirst arrast and when the steel officials wanted him he had disappeared, v After a year's search, ending this week, he was located in Seattle. Brooke is In the custody of Sheriff Tom Grant of Crown Point, who went with the Indiana requisition papers to Seattle for th return of the. prisoner. Dave Pitzle is serving time in connection with the steel payroll frauds, and Caldwell has been sentenced. The La Vendor Cigar Is a home nrnt. ucC None better.

sion to the reformatory.' Following his arrival at the prison he will ask the warden to telegraph to Judge Lawrence Becker the fact of his arrival and the Judge will then release the bondsmen. ; ' Neither the sheriff nor any of hla deputies will accompany Caldwell to Jeffersonvllle. Caldwell will save him(Continued on page 8.)

LATEST MEWS GAME IS POSTPONED. New York, Oct. 18. The world's series game between New York and Philadelphia was postponed today on account of rain. - The next game will be played in (Philadelphia tomorrow. BIG BATTLE BEGUN. . Hankow, China, Oct. 18. Fighting began at dawn today between the revolutionary army and the imperial troops. The forces engaged includa about 10,000 rebels and 2,000 loyal soldiers. Chinese warships in the Yangtse river simultaneously began a bombardment of the Wuchang forti fixations. K0K0M0 WET AGAIN. Kokomo, Ind.," -Oct. 18. Four saloons open here today after a drought The police made but four, . arrests. The saloonkeepers have formed an organization . an agreed to abolish the "schooner" and free lunch. A FJOWEEBTSTAET FCaKAKSAS. Los Angeles, Cal.y Oct . 18. Robert O. Fowler, the aviator vtho was unsuccessful In his. attempt to "hurdle" the Sierras after making a spectacular flight from San Francisco to EtnFowler 4lans to follow the.. Southern Pacific to El Paso. From El Pasd to Kansas City he will follow the Rock Island. ACCUSED OF THEFT SUES. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 18.-That fear of the newspapers caused the police to arrest William Basil Hayden, a student in Notre Dame university, on a false Charge of burglary, Is alleged in a suit for $23,000 damages, filed here today against Joseph S. Chappell, assistant chief of police; William Cassidy, chief of detectives, and James A. Study, a saloonkeeper. The suit followed the acqultaal of Hayden. PRINCESS DEFIES THE WISHES OF QUEEN Princess Alexander of Teck, wife of Queen Mary's youngest brother, does not allow her actions to be dictated by Her Majesty, much aa the queen would like to, and does dictate to other members of the royal family. The princess is more royal by birth than the queen. Her mother, the Duchess of Albany, was a sister of the dowager qutea mother of Holland

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