Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 181, Hammond, Lake County, 22 January 1912 — Page 1

7 11 LAKE EVEMMG EDITION M 'A ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers 1 Cents Coy.) , VOL. VI., NO. 181. HAMMOND, INDIANA, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1912. EAST CHICAGO GETS Iowan Wko Is Out for tke Prcsid ency,

. the wraths: r. MOSTLY CJjOUDT TODAY AND -TUESDAY; VARIABLE WINDS.

COUNTY

TIMES

IE If HOTEL

Seventy Five Thousand Dollars Set as Figure for Handsome Structure on Prominent Cor.

East Chicago is to have a magnificent $T, 000 hotel. Albert . Given and Dave Cohen of the Bee Hive store have formed a syndicate which will build thin splendid nw building. Architect J. J. Verplank of Gary has been awarded the contract to draw the plans. The new hotel will be. located at the corner of Chicago avenue, and "Vegg aveoue in East Chicago.' BVIUDI'G WILL ItE MODERN. It will have stores on the main floor and there will be a capacity of seventylive rooms. The new hotel will be mod

ern and complrte in every respect and will be a credit to East Chicago. The hotel Is to be located on lot IS, block 4. The lot has a frontage of 60 feet and 7 Inches. It is four blocks east of Forsyth avenue on Chicago avenue. Mr. Given said this morning: "This is the first of several building operations that are planned for Bast Chicago next spring. It is expected that there will be a great influx of transients into East Chicago next spring as a result of the locating of the Baldwin plant, and we believe that under these

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SCHOOL STATE ST.

Th second semester opened today in the public schools,- the semi-annual .ex

aminations having been completed last

Friday. , ; . ' ' About forty pupils were graduated from the eighth grade and advanced to the freshmen class in the high school. Under the present arrangement of ! trasferring pupils from the grades to !

comes possible to, reduce the high UrgaillZatlOll 01 WlCleaWaKe school course for some to three and a .. . - , - '

uivic uoay to xajse up

Problems for Live Thor

oughfare : , Promotion of Idsas . for Si root's E'eneSt.

HUSTLERS HUSHING

half years. This will necessitate two graduation exercises, and the first of the mid-winter graduations is to be Jheld npxt year.. .....

Attending .Meeting. - - ... F'C-.HopmaH.i of Hammond has gone to Fort. Wayne.. 1whte He: i attending

& meeting of the state association of

afV

cleaners and dyers. He left this morn

ing and expects to be gone several days.

WHY ARE HEADER? !

YOU NOT A TIMES

HIS GRIN AIDS GOV. .WILSON'S CAMPAIGN

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, A new improvement association is to be formed in Hammond. It Is 'to be known as the East State Street Improvement association. It Includes all of the property owners on the. street

: and all of the business men who rent property on the streot. j The purpose of the new organization j is to promote the welfare of East State

street) as a business thoroughfare. It is hoped that the influence of the new association wilWresult in making East State street the principal business thoroughfare of the city. The question of widening the street between Oakley avenue and Calumet avenue, of paving it In 'the near future, of having the street car company double

track it

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IIRIIRECK

Manager of IL, W. & E. C. Lines Appears Before the Board of Public Works -With- Vietv of Building Line to Indiana Harbor.

II. C. Green, manager of the Hammond Whiting and Kast Chicago Street Railway company this morning appeared before the Hammond board of publicworks to ask for a franchise to extend the company's lines in Hammond with a view of building to tha Baldwin Locomotive works, and into Indiana Harbor. In Hammond the company's aim is to reach the east gate of the Standard Steel car company, thence to go east on the section line, to Forsythe avenue, north on Forsythe avenue and under

the subway to One Hundred and Fiftyfirst "street In East Chicago, east on One Hundred and Fifty-first street lo the Grasselli - plant, thence north on

Kennedy avenue to 149th street, east on

149th to the Baldwin Locomotive plant, thence north on Parish or Alder avenue to the center of Indiana Harbor.

The problem in Hammond for the company aries as how best to get to

the east gate of the Standard. The

board this morning told Mr Green that the company's orig'nal franchise . in which is asked for a franchise on Columbia " avenue 'front State street to

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STMDARD STEEL m Penn. Lines Order 1,4.00 Freight Cars f or.West-of -Pittsburg Service.

The officials- of the Standard Steel

at once, of encouraging the!1-1" Company have received more good

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erection of business' blocks will all be taken up. This makes the fourth improvement association that has been organized in Hammond. The o' hers are the North Side Improvement association. The East Side Improvement association, the the South Side Improvement association and the East State 'Street Improvement association. In addition there is the West Hammond Improvement association. H. U St. Clair of the Orpheum the-

I atr'e has been active in the organiza

tion of the association. He said today.

i "All of the business men and property i owners between the Nickel Plate tracks

and ' Oakley avenue iiave been signed up for membership and It now appears that we are going to have a strong, permanent organization." The promoters of the association Vave had posters made which read, "Boost East State Street," and these are to be exhibited in alj parts of the business

district. ? "

SUNDAY BUYING IS BRISK

HARRY

1TH

news in the way - of car orders. ' The principal order that is announced this week is for 1,400 freight cars for the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg. These cars will probably be built at the Hammond plant of the company for the reason that they are Intended for .use

on the western lines. -

The Standard Steel Gar Co. also re

ceived a small order for lfrfr flat cars for

the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg rail

road. These will probably be built in

the east. ' ' . The Bessemer. & Lake Erie Railroad has Issued specifications for 2,000 gondola cars. The Norfolk & Western Railroad has ordered 15 Mallet locomotives from the American Locomotive works. ' ' ' f

WCODROw W0USQN Gov. Uouiiio Wilson, of New Jersey, it be win the Democratic iiornIratlon for tho presidency, will owe hi success, partially, at least, to hU smile. He has one of the moat contagious smiles possessed by any rood .errt dry politician. The picture imy b.taut to operation.

DIES IN WEST

Harry A. Smith, who recently sold.

out his Interest in the Smith & Smith

poolroom, on State street, to Frank Smith that he rolfiTht go to California to regain his health, died in Los Angeles' on Saturday morning, his death having been due to consumption. The body is expected to arrive at his former home, Butler, Pa., next Thursday. Mr. Smith was 23 years old and unmarried. He cam. to Hammond with the Standard, and was associated with Frank Smith in the poolroom for nearly two years. Although- of the same name, ye two business partners were not related.

LAD PitOIIOlHiCED CRAZYBY DOCTORS

Charles Merrill, His Mauser

and Sabre Occupy thex Court's Attention.

Stergios Guilty. . Tho case of Andrew Stergojs. 10S Indiana boulevard, was tried before Judge Barnett Saturday. He was found guilty and fined $50 and costs. An appeal was. asked for and the bond was set at $200.

WHT ARE

READER?

TCTJ NOT

TIMES

Charles Merrill, the 19-year-old Ham

bond boy, who was .arrested Friday evening at 'the Erie station, on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, was

tried before 'Judge Prest Saturday aft ernoon on Insanity charges. Merrill is known to have acted queer ly for some time," but his parents re

fused to do anything1 with him and the

police had to file Insanity charges

against him. .

Merrill was examined by Drs. Weis

ana wucnanan and nis condition was

pronounced unsafe. He was taken to

Crown Point Saturday night, where he

will be held until his admittance Logansport.,

Merrill was arrested Friday evening

by the police at the Erie station. He

was carrying a Mauser army rifle and under his coat he had concealed a large sabre. It was then feared that he would injure" somebody. Only a short time ago he terrorized a number of Hammond women at the Settlement House, when. Tie .went inside and drew a large knife out of his pocket , and said. "I gues I'll' get-them-this time," and other half-witted phrases.

.His parents, objected - to - him being

sen to Logansport.- - I

GOSLIN lYIiCO. TAKE

PR0PERTY0FF MARKET Horth Side Prices Will ' Be

Headjusted After Location of Baldwin Plant.

Former I. C. President and Son of

Former Secretary of War Killed in Collision.

EX-SEC. OF WAR, WHO LOST SON IN I. C. WRECK

EX-I. C. PRESIDENT KILLED IN WRECK

Real Estate Men From All

Parts of Region Flock to Calumet; Tolleston and Gary Lots Figure , in the Transactions.

The merry war in real estate con

tinues. " Yesterday there was no let-up to the excitement at Calumet, in spite of It's being Sunday. Churchmen - and

saloon-keepers shouldering each other In the crowd that besieged' the Calumet Kennedy company's office from 9 a. m.

until 10 In the evening, when they were

requested to leave in order to lock up

for the night. This morning saw a

repetition of the events of Saturday

and Sunday an the crush promises to

continue for. the balance of the week,

C. W. Hofr-hkiss was on hand yester-

Prebably the most important development in the real estate market in Hammond is the announcement that Is made by Gostlin.Meyn St Co. in another column of this paper, that it has taken all of its north side property off the market for the purpose of making a readjustment of prices. This is taken to mean that this company believes that the north side is due' to have the big boom that it has awaited for years. It is expected to result In a bullish tendency on the part of all of the property owners on the north side. The principal trouble with north

side realty has been the fact that there

are too many :people there who would sell out their holdings for less than it cost them, or for just what it cost

them.

This has resulted in the demoraliza

tion of the market. No one wants to buy in a. territory where, everybody is

attempting to sell for little or no profit.

"Considerable activity Is also appar

ent In the State street and Calumet

avenue business districts of the city. It

is generally conceded that the . East

Chicago boom is to be reflected in a

healthy growth of Hammond's great

east side and this has changed a color

less and Inactive market into an ac

tive one.

There have been, a. number of sales

in Homewood which is now developing into the finest residential district in the

region. Its character is so well estab

lished by the fine residences that have been built there and by the prospect

of the new country club that any gener

al real estate activity was sure to be

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BUSUJESS SITUATION

GREATLY Iff ROVED

Not a Bankruptcy . Case

Filed With Clerk Sur: -prise in Two Months.

Charles Surprise, clerk of the United

States court, states that there has not been a bankruptcy case filed in the

clerk's office in two months. This is

taken to mean that business conditions tn Northern Indiana ' have Improved

wonderfully.

For a while there were cases being: filed every week but the situation has

now greatly Improved. Over develop

ment in Gary together with . the tem

porary depression in the stcef business

a condition which does not now exist, is believed to have been responsible for at' lesrt' 50 percent of the failures of

the pfst six months. - .; - :

Gen. Luke Wright.

THE KNOWir. . DEAD.

JAMES T. K.HATt

eJ; president Illinois . Central Railroad. ' . - ' ' ' E. B,.-PIERCE, general Solicitor Rock Island Railroad. , F. O. MELCHER, vice president Rock Island' Railroad. E. E. WRIGHTS son of General Luke Wright, former Secretary of War. . - - 1 j

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RALPH Til. STREETER'S mEMORYHONORED Terre Haute Mourns Over the Death of Former Hammond Man.

flecatxa-rail., Jan."3 ' " T."

Harahan, forcier presideat of the Illinois deitral Railway'! killed early

tais morning m a wreck netir nere on the main line of thJlliioia Central, in which four, other lives .were lost fcni

a. score of persons were injtred.

E.' E. Wright, son of . General Luke Wright, ex-Secretary , of Tarr F O. Melcher, general manager, and E." B. Pierce, : general solicitor of tho Chicago ,&. Rock , Island Railway,- whu were riding in Mr. Harahan's coach, were also killed. ' - The wreck' 'beeutred' '-heii ; a' "60th

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LATEST MEWS

Ralph1 M. Streeter, son of the Rev. and Mrs. George Streeter, who died at

his home in Terre Haute after a short !

Illness last wTek. was buried from his home on Friday afternoon. ' He was buried in the printers' lot, a plot of ground in Woodlawn cemetery set aside for the burial of the members of the Typographical union of Terre Haute, of which Ralph Streeter was the president. He waapresident of the organization for four years, and it was during this term that he was largely instrumental in procuring the burying place and monument for the printers. In respect to the father of the deceased, who is a retired Methodist minister, the eight Methodist ministers of Terre Haute participated in the funeral services on Saturday afternoon. It was the special request of the printers

(Special to The Times.) that their deceased president be buried

, Crown Point, Ind.. Jan. 22. The j jn Terre Haute.

farmers' institute- closed on Saturday

T..R..WHI HAVE "DEBUT" PART Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 22.-Theodore Roosevelt is about to issue a statement declaring that he yrill become

United States if the nomination is offered to him, according , to former Senator Flynn, who several day8 ago.

reflected

there.

in an increase in the sales

INSTITUTE ENDED.

had if lengthy interview withe the Colonel. ;

afternoon after, a two days' profitable and well attended sessions. Great interest being evinced in the excellent talks provided by the speakers for the occasion. Themes of every day interest and topics of vital importance to the farmers' Welfare were discussed, and while in the past the work of the institute dwelt on topics without local color or interest, the subjects provided this year could be applied to every farm and' home locally and were especially appreciated for this raason. Many Crown 'Point citizens also attended' the , gatherings and profited thereby.

Will Take VacationFather H. M. Plaster has decided to take a month's vacation. He has not yet decided where he will go, but it will ' probably be to some mineral springs where lie can get relief from an attack "of rheumatism. While Father Piaster is not a sick man 'atld "wap able to he out and around today, he has suffered considerably from! rhe-ipatic attacks and he thinks that W month ai some good balhs would do him V great deal of eod. '

Ralph Streeter was one of the most popular men in Terre Haute, and one of the newspapers there, in eulogizing htm, said his namrj was a household word because of the large amount of good that he has accmplished. Mrs. Streeter, owing to her poor health, wan unable to attend the funeral. Her only daughter, Mrs. Kthel Holway of Indiana Harbor, came to Hammond prepared to, go to the funeral, but. owing to her mother's condition, she-decided to remain with her until the Rev. Streeter should return. He returned on Saturday morning. Mrs.

Streeter is able to be up, but does not feel very strong. . .

TUG NEEDED AGAIN.

The Intake at the Hammond pumping station was free from needle ice today, but thvre was some trouble owing to it yesterday. A tug boat which started out from South Chicago yesterday battled four hours agarbst therice floes in the lake to get to the intake to clear away the needle ice. but owing to the heavy ice it got no farther than a mile within the intake, and had to turn back. . .......

BOOM HARRISON FOR PRESIDENT. Chicago, Jan. 22. Carter H. Harrison of Chicago for President of th United States. That was the announcement made by. friends of Chicago's Mayor at luncheon at the Iroquois Club. According to these friends. Mayor Harrison will receive the endorsement of the Iroquois Clhb on February 17. Governor Woodrow

Wilson of New Jersey is to be a guest o fthe Iroquois Club on February 12 at a banquet in his honor nt Hotel La Salle. Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio already has been banqtietel bv the club.

A MONSTER

REALTY CO.

timks nriiK r, AT STATE t'APITAI,'-.. Indianapolis, Ind.. Jan. 22. The Philadelphia Land and Improvement company of Kast Chlcasro. with a capital stock of one million dollars, was todav . Incorporated her T he incorporators are Walter J. ililey, V.'imam J. Riley. Lyman UIHy, J. K. Itepp'n, 1. J. Kunkhauser. The tremendous capital sto k is said td'be due to the location of the Baldwin I.ocomoti va works at Calumet. THE TIMES AI.TTATS HAS FOUGHT FOR 'HE INTERKSTS OF THK COMMON PEOPLE FOR THK MAS' Wild WORKS FOR LIVING.