Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 199, Hammond, Lake County, 12 February 1912 — Page 1

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CIGARS

Men Running Tor Office Can be Arrested For Buying Cigars and Booze For Moochers

mtci BCTUBAU, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 12. Saloonkeepers in Indiana as a result of a law pasted by the last democratic legislature will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars this year during the political campaign and candidates will save as much. EVKRYTHI5G BARBED. Campaign cigars and booee are barred by the new corrupt practices act, according to an opinion just given by Attorney General Honau in answer to questions asked by Alvah J. Rucker, of this city, who is a candidate for a nomination. Rocker said he wanted to know just what was perratssable under the law and what was prohibited. The opinion cf the attorney general Is a sad bl9w te the grafter, panhandler and campaign "moocher," all of whom hare flourished In the paat at the expense of car did ales. !fO CANDY FOR KIDS. According- to the Interpretation by the attorney general of the corrupt (Continued on page .) Trying Criminal Cases. JadreStfif'-Cr' 3t3Iahsix ot -Grrrira Point Is trying criminal eases today.A Mutnber of" these cases have gone yr, however, and the trla.1 of civil court cases will be taken tip tomorrow. Inquest Over Girls in Double Tragedy Held by Coroner. .US' ' . tj S ' - t. beldom has so shocking a tragedy j occurred in the Calumet region as the double asphyxiation of the Misses So-j llgar and Mills at Robertsdale, told in; these columns Saturday. Dr. Frank Smith of Gary, who conducted the inquest, has not yet rendered his verdict in a formal manner, but speaking of the evidence that had been submitted to him, he said that the verdict can only be a statement that the girls came to their dea;h accidentally, their death having been due to asphyxiation caused by escaping illuminating gas. It Is learned that a pulmotor was hurried to Robertsdale to try and resuscitate "the gH3. but they were too far Cone.

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BOOZE STANDARD fi!RflANUFACTURERS TAKE

ATTORNEY GENERAL RULES That a candidate may not seend money :tor beer, other Intoxicant, eigan, or aay other " kind of mfreenmeiata, either for votera, for meetlnom Of comitteea or other gats rlags ef political mrkera, and he may not, la a saloon or otko nlaeea "net 'i as" to cismrs, drtaka or other th Intra deUatat to the campaign ktagn on ( the law provide that aar peraoa who solicits anything of value from a candidate or hla a area t la return for political tnItaoaee, whether the thing aoilcltett la or la a.ot a-ivea, la liable to pnatshmeat aader the law; the pnrchase of rickets to, entertalnmeatn, shares of .stock, contributions to worthy ranaea, or to bull dinar or other fuada, whea It might be constrned the pnrchaae or oon rrl b'ltl on waa made for the parpoee of affcetlae; vo4ca la prohibited a committee may aot asaenn a caadidnite for primary or election parpoaea. . Gary Awaits Return of Banker Hay, Whom Castle man Accuses. Everybody fa Gary la waltins; the ant move oa the latest political checkerboard. Prealdeat H. G. Hay, Jr., of' the Gary State bank waa accaacd la the Gary constetl Satarday ats;ht by Aldcrmaa Caatlemaa of ba-ytas; the vote of oae aldcrmaa to tear the passage of the hisrb 11eeaae ordinance last Marcoa. Hay la out of towa atteadinsr a faaeral Vat will be back tonlsrht or tomorrow. Some latcrcatiaa; dcrelopmcata are expected when he returns. As a member of the Gary Commercial dab the banker has been active la the movement to onat Cast! em a a because of sreaeral nnfltaeos. Alderman Castleman did two spectacular things at the special meeting of the Gary common council Saturday night. He accused Henry G. Hay, Jr., presiderrt of the Gary State bank of giving a bribe in the Interests of good government. Then he introduced and ?ecured second reading for an ordinance repealing the high liquor license ordinance despite the fact that the state statutes expressly prohibit such repeals. Accuses Broadway Banker. However, the legislature probably will have to stand by and be overruled, for Castleman promises to secure the low license rates once more for the saloon keepers. As he arose to introduce the repeal ordinance, everybody looked towards the champ-een of the pe-pull, as It was generally expected that he would throw a few splashes out of the ink barrel. Ha stated thst at the time or the passage of the high license ordinance last March that he knew that there was (Continued , on Page 2.) CONSIDER POLICE PENSION FUND The members of the police pension fund will hold a meeting this evening at the police station and besides the regular routine work, election of trustees will be held for the ensuing year. The pension fund has been growing considerable during the past few months and the members are looking forward to a prosperous year. With the exception of a few donations received from a few Hammond business men, the fund has been kept up by Us members. -

ACCUSES A BANKER NOW

ICITV WIDE CIPII Oi FOR RfiORE STREET CARS

nt nnnrn ll -A'.'ll DECISIVE STEP YESTERDAY

Standard Steel Car Co. Gets Order of Fifty Passenger! Coaches From Pennsyl-! vania Co.; Local Plant Has Orders to Get Ready. The Pennsylvania railroad has ordered fifty passenger coaches from the ' Standard Steel Car company. As the Hammond plant is the only one which manufactures steel passenger cars. It Is ! expected that this splendid order will I come to Hammond. ' The capacity of the Hammond plant -is only one steel 'passenger car a day when the department . is running full ' force, so that it can be seen that this , Is a bis order. : r It is also a fact that while a steel ' freight car will cost from $800 to 11.000 j each, that a passenger coach will cost ' from 120.000 to 126.000. J ;This makes It -apparent that this order alone j Involves in the neighborhood of Si.oioO.OOO. It will mean a iara;e distribution! of wages, as more of the cost of a nassenger car goes into wages than-in the case of a, freight car. .- ""'. .' ,.'TS) Get. Bnay. .'.;jr'-V--' The local management of the Stand' ' ard Steel Car company has received an order to "hurry up" in its preparationji for the. opening of the Hammottd plant. A sample freight car Is now about completed and will be ready for Inspec- -tion. This will be the beginning of great activity at the Hammond plant. It Is expected that the company will ' begin taking on men In about two or . three weeks. The Standard Pteel Car company has done so little for Hammond since it located here, ss a result of prolonged shut downs, that the opening. of the plant will be an equivalent to the locat- , lr,g of a big Industry here. i It will be better than that on ac-! en-imt Af t i fnM (fiat t-K. I i and ready for the employment of a force of men that Is expected to reach at least 5.000, when the plant is running at full blast. IS BEI1D THE PLAN? That a Roosevelt organization Is b tying; started in Lake County with a view to capturing the Tenth district delegates for the former president is the word received in Hammond from Washington but an investigation by Thi Ttmks fails to show who is behind such a movement It one there is. Another dispatch from Washington says that telegrams flew from Washington today to all points of the compass and the Taft campaign for ,renominatlon was declared to be on In earnest. These messages, which were substantially identical in verbiage, went Into every (Continued on Fair ?.) WHITING GROCER IS DISCHARGED (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind.. Feb. 12. Judge R Atchison has given his decision in the case of John Furtyo, a grocer of East I19th street, which he has had under advisement for about two weeks. Furtyo was arrested by sanitary officer J. W. Ault on the charge of having in his possession a barrel of vinegar which was not up to grade. It was proven hy Ralph Townsend of South Chicago, the dealer from whom Furyto purchased the vinegar, that when the test was made the vinegar was frozen and that as soon as it was thawed out it again went baek to its normal state, which, was strictly up to grade. On the strength' of the evidence Furtyo was discharged. ARE YOU RJSAOISw THE TIMES!

Little Margery Johnson, the four-year-old daughter of Contractor A.H. W. Johnson of East Chicago, who was run over by a freight train last Thursday and escaped unhurt, awoke to find herself famous yesterday, and her thrilling experience breakfast table talk all over the country. The family has been overwhelmed with congratulations since the story was printed in these columns. . '

InOTICE TO READERS. Don't forget to send In your ballot in THE TIMES primary for governor which appears on another page. No matter what your political affiliation you are entitled to one rote. The primary will end Saturday, February 17. Address your baliotts to the . ' POLITICAL EDITOR, TIMES, Hammond, Ind. If PROF" TYSOW 18 ' G. H. Boas who is said to live on Ogden street in Hammond last Saturday obtained a warrant from Municipal Judge Scully in Chicago for the arrest of "Professor. T. H. Tyaon, a fortune teller, who formerly had offices on State street in West Hammond, and whom Boas charges with aving swindled, him out of '$1,350 by means of a confidence game. Koas alleges he went to Tyson to get advice on "martial difficulties. At Tyson's instigation Boas placed $1,350 In the fortunt teller's hands for ssfe keeping. Shortly after Tyson disappeared. Tyson Is now said to have an office on Michigan avenue. near Twelfth street. Meeting of Shrine. There will be a meeting of Orak Shrine at the temple tonight at which the question of setting the date for the next ceremonial will be taken up. The trip to Los Angeles will also be explained by the agent for the railroad, and it is expected that a number of people from Hammond Will attend. .

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JUDGE II STINGING REBUKE

The Rghtraganist certain lawyers haa extended from the from the Chicago courta'to those in Lake county. Following the arrest of Leon A. Bereznlak on the charge of practicing in Chicago without a license Judge Johannes Kopelke of the Lake Superior court in Hammond administered a stinging rbuke to Henry C. Price, a Gary lawyer. Price had some clients whom he represented in divorce proceedings. the case came up in Judge Kopelke's courf this morning. The judgre paid, "By the way I understand that Price has never been admitted to the bar in Lake County. I do ,not intend to stand for his practicing in my court." He forthwith Issued an order to notify Price's clients that they had better get another lawyer " ' (Continued "on Page S.) Case Continued. The case of the state of Indiana vs. James McLelland was continued in Judge Barnett's court this morning and will come up for trial Monday morning. Feb. 19, at 9 o'clock. Judge Barnett has the case under advisement and ' if McLelland has not violated his agreement the ease will be dismissed. Another Quiet Sunday. The police department experienced another quite Saturday night and Sunday, and with the exception of the ar-i-et of two drunks nothing important occurred. This being their first offense the drunks were released and ordered at of town.

Feasible Routing Is Chosen and Petitions Galore Now Being . Circulated

GREAT INTEREST

It is about time for Hammond, as George Ada put it last Saturday, "to come out of its pod"; twenty, and often forty minute street car service is as many years behind the times. Hammond had twenty minute ': service twenty years ago. Five minute city service. That is what the 'Manufacturers' Association of Hammond is going to demand of the Hammond. Whiting & East Chicago Railway ; company. At a meeting held in the rooms of the University club the campaign for improved service was in augurated yesterday afternoon. The following are some of the methods that have been adopted to bring the sftreet rail way company to a realisation of the great crihg'necessity,-

of the hour. A Route Has Been Selected.

1. A route, over which the five minute service should be feasible, has been selected. 2. W. F. Bridge has agreed to make a map of the city showing the territory that would be served by the five minute service. 3. This map, together with an argument in favor of the installa-

: tion of the proposed service, will

are to be distributed broadcast over the city. 4. Petitions will be prepared and placed in every store along the proposed route of the new city service and the public generally is asked to sign these petitions. It is proposed to get 10,000 signatures to the petitions. 5. A committee of manufacturers and business men will be selected to take the petitions to A. L. Drum, the operating manager of the road, with the urgent request that he act on the matter immediately. . ' Thus will a city-wide campaigirfor better street car service be In augurated. It is expected that greater interest will be taken in this project than any other that has been inaugurated since the famous campaign for factories that was started fourteen years ago. The territory over which it is proposed to extend the city is as follows: From the Standard Steel Car plant at Columbia avenue, westward on Morton and Conkey avenues to Hohman street, northward on Hohman street to , State ; street, eastward on . State

street to Calumet avenue, northward on , Calumet avenue to Hoffman street, ward on Hoffman atreet to Hohman street and southward on Hohmatfstreet to the Standard plant. The advantages of this route are enumerated by its promoters as follows: j Ha Many Advantages. 1. T,he tracks are al laid and It win not require the driving of a single spike to install the service. 2. The proposed route circles -the entire manufacturing district of Hammond and then connects it with the residential districts of the city. 3. The five-minute service would embrace the entire business dlsl-ict of : thc city and would promote business activity. r 4. It -wouiaL.irequlr only six cars to furnisirlthis servJcfv, and these could he of the smaller "type generally used for city service. ' ,5. There are now enough turnouts alang the proposed route of the new city service to permit of iy? installation without double tracking the entire line. Connects Depots. 6. Every Important factory in the city would be within easy walking dia.tance of the five-minute service. . i. Every depot in the city, including the South Shore suburban depot, the Pennsylvania loop suburban service, the Wabash depot, the Michigan Central depot, the Monon, Erie, Nickel Plate, C. &'0. and Lake Shore suburban depots would be instantly accessible to the people of the whole city. 8. Every church, every school of any consequence, every theatre and every important business house would be within easy walking distance of this service. r"K 9. It would promote the development of the.suburbs as ideal residential districts. 10. It would develop the whole city. New Transfer Points. Now having established the proposed (Continued on Pag 7.).

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be printed on 10,000 circulars which BEAUTIFUL SINCER DIVORCES HUSBAND 4 111 - -' a. A ! , It J 4i ' X J '.f7. i ' I CT MofTett "tiiflto Chiracs. MARGUERITA SYLVIA. Marguerita Sylvia, the singer, is single aaln. She has been granted a divorce from William David Mann whose only business, she told the Chicago judge who granted the decree, waa "being my busbaad. '