Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 195, Hammond, Lake County, 7 February 1912 — Page 1

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teBTTljED TODAY AND THURSDAY; SOMEWHAT COLDER THURSDAY. EDITION VOL. VI., NO. 195. HAMMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1912. -- ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers I CeaU Caf .

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$100 FOR HONESTY Elliott Conrov, Usher at tSe

Hammond Theater, Finds Valuable Diamond, Which He Restores to Owner and Declines Reward. Supposing that somebody offered you 1100 as a gift In recognition for servlees done them; suppose they gave I gladly and tried to press It on you would you flatly refuse It Well that is what Elliott Conroy a student In the Hammond High School and an usher in the Hammond theatre id last nirht.' VTants ?Co Publicity. An he isn't seeking any publicity either, nor does he know that the story of the refusal is known. Last night "Mrs. W. A. Buchanan of South Hohman street with a party of ladles attended th Hammond theatre. In her purse he carried a $300 diamond ring which during the performance fell out of the receptacle on the floor. She did not discover her loss until she returned home and never expected to see It again. Reports Iom at Theatre. She reported the loss at the theatre box office although she was by no means sure that she had lost it In the theatre. She' described where she sat to Elliott Conroy and search was Instituted for the gem by the usher. He found It shortly where it had rolled under the seat in front and calling up Mrs. Buchanan informed her that he had her ring. !S' Reward For Hoaeaty. Mrs. Buchanan, overjoyed at recov ering ner property orrered the young man a hundred dollars as a reward for 'his "honesty and trouble, but "Conroy politely declined the tribute aad sai:i .tsestentioursls-: "1 couldn't .take- it Mrs. Buchanan for ,xny- mother has. always - faught-me'to be honest and, I can't, take money . for belng. honest." . K there is any mother in Hammond more rigliteously .proud of her boy thU evening than Mrs. Conroy we would . tike to know her name. DYER PLAIIS IIICE IMVEMS Sidewalk Construction to Be General During the Coming Summer. Oyer, Ind., Feb. 7. Dyer Intends to make a town wide improvement- this summer in the way of sidewalks and steps for this was taken last night at a meeting of the town board. An ordinance was parsed which becomes effective in sixty days and which pro vldes for sidewalks on both side of the street, on Madifon Hart and Jolie'. streets, the principal thoroughfares in the towns. The sidewalks are to be built of .cinders or material equally fiiw- . The Northwestern Telephone company in order to protect its future in-( teiesi in jjyer mi nignx asKea lor a franchl.e for street rights. The board while looking with favor upon the "company's request "has sent the franVh'se hack to the company with Instruction to embody certain provisions v.hlch are to benefit, the town general--! FINANCE FICHT ON CHILD DEFORMITIES r Miss Theora Carter, founder and president of the Society of Good Cheer in Chicago, has deposited $5,000 with Dr. Albert Persons, a specialist of that city, with which t begin tho work of correcting mouth deformities of poor chldren.

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Mayor Knotts and the aldermen who are with him received an unexpected surprise last night and had it "put over" them by five members of the Gary common council who . are against the Knotts forces. The" coup d' etat executed by the latter was their action In holding a council meeting and taking from the table the impeachment rules ordinance and advancing It to Hs second reading.' All that is needed now is to pass it over the mayor's possible veto and then accomplish the impeachment of Aldermen Gibson and, Castleroan. ' - 'i Aiartofi 'ihjf ('hnirnaaj- ' , The same flve aldermen. 'HesRFeuer, Rowley, Bowser and S1nila.sk next. !n- , tend to introdac ru lea . fraverjllnff trial and. impeachtnent -of th.p .mayor (Continued- en page l. LOUD ARE COMPLAINTS AGAINST RAILROADS City Says It Has Reached End of Patience Against Blockaders. While Hammond's city council transacted no busines.s of Importanca t its regular meeting lat night, the sesi?ii.n gave the city fathers .an -opportunity i a voice their sentiment in refrard to one of The biggest abuses In the city the blocking of railroad crossings, uirxy ana unsanitary street ' cars, made so by spitting in them, also came in for their Share of attention, the sub Ject having been brought up by coun enman Marion Hower. A motion made by him ami seconded by John Kane was adopted and provides that the city attorney instruct the street car compa nies to post notices and extracts from tne jaw conspicuously In their street cars In order that the public may be warnea. Air. Hower urged very. strong ly that exemplary arrests and prosecu tions be made after the notices have been up for some time. Order Poliee to Arreat The expressions of some of the cpuncilmen on the matter of blocking railroad crossings indicated that the city is about at the end of its 'patience siring." ' A resolution was adopted instructing the chief of poliee to order his . men to make arrests of offending train crews promptly and to bring ! them into - court, ". . : . H. C. Gret,L manager of the Green lines, recently complained to the board : of public works, about , Ills street car? ; bt-ing blocked at every .crossing. , On j the strength' of this the ooard instructed the city sAtorney, John A. Gavlt. to ' notify the companies of thecrmpl!int, and Mr. J3avit reported ' back . to the ourfcil last night' that the Monon had :rromlsef- to instruct lis" crews to.be i careful; that ' the Michigan Central j wanted proof of violations, . and that the other lines hai not yet answered, f Mr. (iavif informed the belligerent councilmeu that he had looked: up the j law, and that the state law allows railI roads to 'hold a crossing for fifteen i minuter, and that consequently city ordinances limiting the time were Lneffec- . tive becouse the stfte law takes pre- ! cedenc over the city ordinances. ! Councilman Kane was particularly : indignant. He said that last Sunday a t numbsr of old ladi s, returning from : church were compelld to wait a long ttme at a crossing in the bitter cold. ! 1-eeause an Erie train was holding the ; crossing. ' The coal contr-srr. between Daly Bros, and the city for Springfield mlnerun nal at $2.15 cents, to be delivered to the Hammond pumping station from January until May, was ratified by the ;ouncll. . -- , .. ARK TOC READISti THE TIMES t

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TIMES BLItK.Vl, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 7. Edwin M. e, lornier Republican state chairman, .was-one'of tft;e applicants for the appointment as member of the state tax board... to succeed Fred,, A. ' Sims, who took . Jfis! place as stata chairman ls.st We.,Gov'erhori'!Srarshalc" did not ap4 point Lee, "however, but selected Kben W61cott, of Marlon for the place. The fact .that Lee was, an applicant for the place was not known prior to the announcement" by the Governor of the appointment of Wolcott. The posi tion pays a salary of $3,000 a year, and the appointment of Wolcott is until next fall, when his term will expire. Kims was appointed member of the board to'ucceed Fred Gemmer, who was private secretary to Governor Itanly during his administration. Hanly appointed Gemmer to t"he board just before his term as Governor expired. But a year ago Gemmer resigned to engage Jn business in this city, and Governor Marshall appointed Sims to fill out the unexpired term. Now that Sims also has resigned. Wolcott will serve the remainder of the time. ' Wolcott probably will be reappointed by. the Governor when the term expires." Wolcott has been talked about some in connection with the Republican nomination for Governor, and also for treasurer of state-,., but he never made any announcement of his candidacy for (Continued on Page 8.) GIRL DISLIKED SCII00LRIS AWAY .......... - .' Cedar Lake Lass Changes Her ' Mind, However, and Returns Home. Because she did! not want,to jg to school any more IB year old Bessie Ashton of Cedar Lake ran away from her home there yesterday morning and wiS found in Hammond-yesterday aft ernoon by the police at the Monon depot where she was meditating whether she would go back home or-not. . " Sheriff Grant of Crown Point notified ths police and sent in the. description of the runaway girl, from, which she wfis identified at the Monon depot yesterday afternoon. Her only reason for running away was the fact" that her parents made her go to school and that she did not like to go. The girl came to Hammond on the 9 o'clock Monon milk train' and when located at ths depot, she had bought a ticket for Cedar Iake. She said it was best for her to go back home again and go to school as she had changed her mlrid about study. in). She was placed on the 3:57 Monon train yesterday afternoon in charge of Mrs. Allen who said that she would see that the girl got oft at Cedar Lake and it is thought that this will be her first and last experience as a runaway school girl. ' Switchman Breaks Leg., O. C. Weldy, 797 Beall avenue.- Hammond, a. switchman employed at Gibson, sustained a broken leg last Sunday night when he fell, accidentally while st work. He was removed to St. Margaret's hospital. AFK YOU RE.IDI?"1 THE T'MESf

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Chicago Boy 'Scouts; turned "But 5,I$b tsa jfeittrali y--"ind wok praise as the. finest In'-A-merlca" from'tUut. G.nv Sir 'Robert -Baden-Powell founder-of thermovfeTrtentlt.-THe' eviewSgavo Ihe'ltdys Jthetrjfirstlo6k- at tho rha-ii responsible 'for- their organ Iiation: . Abrut Hisren'tytlJoy Scoutsfro'm Hammond weh't to Chicago! yesterday to be present' at 'the review ; of their 'forces - by their leader. Sir Robert- Baden-Powell. ' The Hammond ! boys are" very much' Interested In ?tRe movement. Some of - them :were :dr'essed in uniforms and all carried lunches. ; , ? -

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Special Prosecuting . Attorney., W. F. Hodgus said today that he knows noth ing of the reports that Judge Van Fleet.: will be In O-own Point on Frtdav to rlar '

up a schedule for trying more of the '"ding, Chicago. Mr. Jones persondefendants in the Gary bribery case.. . j "r: 1" acquainted with nearly 'every . Yesterday Prosecutor Hodges waa onl faot of territory in the region covered the war path because-, of - Raymond,! by h,s mP- which Is not only timely Bums' statements that, the W. J. Burnsitut-uthntic-aeencv tranned. the Garv briberv Ge'A . Th ma '.have many desirable feat-

fendants. 1 Prosecutor Hodges 'claini that despite Raymond Burns' statement that "we used" the dictagraph at Gary,

Columbus, Los Angeles that it might-,n I- .K,ance wnere a given suo-ui-have heen used in, other rases in Garv J vision is located, or what fhe name Of

'It is true that the" state-employed W. J. Burns in the Gary graft cases,"' said Mr, Hodges, "but Burns didn't come into 'the case until 'after the arrests and -we- employed him at the' instance, of Governor Marshall." ; On the other hand, attorneys for tha defense deny that"" If an Is a Burns detective, claiming that they know, but will- not reveal, who Dean' is a?nd who is back of him. "" Irtisny event, the defense plans to use . Raymond - Burns' testimony that, "we ustd" the dictagraph ai Gary in order to show that Dean Is a Burns detective and that bis statement in previous trials that he IS not a Burns man is-falee. -. . . r ; . BOARD ADJOURNS FOR THE TERM (Special to The Time) Crown Point, Ind., Feb, 7. The. county commissioners adjourned today after completing What little, work was left for them to do. The matter of examining the abstracts of title to the forty-six acres of land which-the coun ty Is to purchase from aCrown Point syndicate for fair, ground purposes was referred to Attorneys Barr and Wheel, er. County Attorney Meeker did not examine the abstract for the reason that he is interested In the deal. At the next meeting of the board of commis - sioners the property will be purchased for 9,600 The viewers were . appointed on the Sheffield avenue . road Improvement. So other matters of Tmportance came t;r f jr consideration.

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MAP WINS PRAISE IH LAKE CO.

' Lake county real estate men, who are -constantly on th lookout for'netr andvup-to-date maps, are very much pleased with a new one of the Calumet region 'which has Just been completed by W. D. 'Jones, "a surveyor and civil engineer, a former Crown Point - boy, who now has officers in the Hartford ures to recommend it. It has among other .things a cross reference index of every sub-djvlsion in the region, showthe sub-division Is in a given district. The map has for its boundaries Lake Michigan on the north. Porter .county on Yhet easV a, line south of the town of Dyer on the south and the IllinoisIndiana state line on the west. ' ! If as Many troaa- Features. To'the'dealer in real estate a map of this kind is invaluable, as it shows at. a glance relative distances et one point in' the region from another; Special attention was given to thoroughfares and waterways, the - proposed Burns' ditch being ' shown, too. City, township and town boundary lines are clepr'y shown, also annexations pendin'g. .1. . The map is an interesting study to the prospective, purchaser of real estate, whether in lots or acreage, showing plainly the trAnd of population " in the region,-and thf prospects owing to developments in other parts.. Mr. Jones is selling the map for $15, and to' the man. getting but one good ida for a investments it is well worth s.he price. Peter J. Lyona, city civil engineer of Hammond, has been eommisnoned , by . Mr. , Jqnes to accept orders l'or it in Hammond. I Still in Quarantine. ' John Donaldson who' is quarantined it .27.,Sibley... street with small pox, is reported to be Improving nicely. He is able to be up an" around in the house. j but the board of health will keep him in quarantine for somn time longer until all danger of moved. infection has been reThe La Vendor Cigar Is a home prod act None better.

. The people of Hammond do not appreciate the fact that they pay nearly $3,000 week for amusement in-their own city, that they pay this in the form of over 28,000 admissions, that in the neighborhood of 45 persons are employed regularly and receive nearly $800 a week in salaries. Hammond has got the theatre habit. Instead of going to Chicago and spending their money for amusement-they are growing accustomed to rely on the local amusement houses. Tfceatrea Are Prospering.) The result Is that Ha . places of amusement are prospering, and that large numbers of out-of-town - people are coming in and spending their money in Hammond stores while they are in search of amusement. The hotels are prospering for, the reason ' that the shows bring scores of people into the city each week lor

the purpose of entertaining its people. ! It is estimated that in the nelgh- ! borhood of $125,000 is Invested In property and the equipment that ia used for theatre purposes. The lesaeea of the seven theatres in Hammond pay (Continued on page five.) East Chicago is to have a Masonic temple. At the last meeting of the , Hast Chicago lodge of masons, a com1 mittee was appointed to make arrangements for building" the temple, "the ; structure to be erected on the South ' tide of Chicago avenue between Baring and Magoun. avenues. ' . ' . "v The committee ippofnted for tbis purpose consists of W. E. Rote," W. H. ' Jeppeson. W. C. Bailey. George W. lwls, Jorhn'fmeer;Heeeew'Wnjlains;-" SWJjfien Winters. II. Jenkins, W. C. Babcock, Joseph Har,tley.ahdW,orshlpful Mastet jeoray?, v ;" tr v --.'. V -v' - latest mm BOMB SUSPECTS WATCHED. ; Indianapolis,' Ind., Feb. 7. Instructions were sent to government agents in at least twenty cities today, to keep watch over the men who have been charged In thirty-two indictr Namaras and Ortle E. McManlgal in the dynamite conspiracy. The men indicted, who are said to number between thirty and forty, are scattered in cities as ' far distant as Boston, New York,. New . Orleans,. Chicago. Salt Lake City ,San Francisco and Seattle, and it is the plan of the government to cause their arrest on one day ' - f TRAIN IS LOOTED. ; Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 7. Seven masked mernheld up Rock Island passenger -train No. 43, near Hurlburt, Ark., early this mornig and dynamited the safe in the express car, but it is believed secured only a small loot. Only meager reports have been received from the scene of the holdup, which is several miles from the nearest point of communication with Memphis. ' It is stated at the offices of the railroad, however, that their information is that the men were frightened away before they could get their plunder. None of the passengers was molested, it is said. HOWAT GUEST J0F HONOR Dr. W. F. Howat of Hammond, president of the Indiana Medical society, was the guest of honor at the regular meeting of the Porter County Medical society, which held Its regular meeting at Valparaiso last Monday evening. Dr. Howat read a valuable paper on "Obstetrics." Dr. J. J. Loring followed with a paper on "The Mind as a Factor in the Treatment of Disease." In the afternoon Dr. Howat visited the medical department of the Valparaiso university and delivered an able address to the students. POSTAL BANK FOR TOLLESTON (Special to Ths Times.) Washington, D. C, Feb. 8. The postoffice department announced today that Tolleston, Ind., is to have a postal savings- bank in the near future, and federal representatives will be sent this week to make the necessary arrangements.This is the seventh bank lor Lake county. . .

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IS HAMMOND A SHOW TOWNT Weekly Attendance. 7.700 , ... ,...1,000 (picture Weekly ' I Receipts. . $1,155 - 750 Theatre. Orpheum . Hammond Hammond shows . .S.000 Princess 4,200 Bijou ....6,000 Colonial 8,000 Gem . ... ......... .2.000 Idle Hour 2,000 Total 0 .28,900 M,05 EMPLOYES AJTD WAGES . ' DISTRIBUTED. Number Amount ' t r - Employed. Wages. Managers 7 . $171 Musicians ...t5 $00 Kinetograph operators. T 140 Ticket - sellers . .."...,7 50 Stage- hands and billposters 10 ISO Total .4 $Slt

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A year ago th masons who have bees making their headquarters In rented " :, premises over the Bast Chicago bank. , j A year ago the-y purchased fifty, feet in block 29, lots 6 and 6 but at that time the prospects of building were vague and indefinite. - v. v v . The committee "will estimate and look up plans, and dig out all tSe necessary information for discussion at tie Rext -meeting of the loaye t wreh tirp f th questlWn-wni be Tillly "otsousseAi; It l expected to go ahead with the building In the. spring and complete th structure during the tommir.'. . . . .; .' . . .si... t,

TA1IER FATALLYr -HURT ATOAR PLANT Frank Taner, who is employed in the Hegewisch car works, sustained fatal Injuries yesterday afternoon while at work. His skull waa fractured by a fall, and after being given first medical aid he was rushed, to St.. Margaret's hospital. His condition ia very critical. TIM IN WASHINGTON. (Special to The Times.) Washington. X. C. Feb. 7. Timothy W.tEngleha'rt. one of Garya big boost-, era, is here on business for a few days and is stopping at the New Willard. It is Mr. Engleharfg first visit east of Pittsburg and' 'he Is putting- in some spare time-; booming the Calumet district. FIANK FRIENDSHIP , WINS HER SUCCESS PHOTO. CkNI?C4$T Mrs. Halph Cameron, wife of '.he United States defe ,-ate in Congreai, from Ariatona, hps won a commanding position In Wsshinrton iclety by her charming manners and tha ; frank friendship she offers her mmqualntancca,