Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 203, Hammond, Lake County, 16 February 1912 — Page 1

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THOUSANDS SIGH STREET CAR PETITIONS

That the demand for five-minute street car service In Hammond is insistent is shown by the general signing of the petitions all over the business and factory districts of the city. The petitions in the Lion store alone bear 560 names, and they iave been open to the public only six hours. The .banks and other business houses all have the petitions. In the Lion store the proprietors had one man doing nothing but looking after the matter of securing signatures. He was a $25 a week man at that. In the plant of the W. B. Conkey Co. every man and woman !n the place signed the petitions. At the plant of the F. S. Beta Co. every employe from the oldest to the youngest put their names on the petitions. - At the K. C. Minas department store the petitions were bcrng generally signed. Other stores in the business district were securing large numbers of signatures.

The State Street Business Men u association held a meeting last evening at which the question of the proposed new service was taken up. There were some difference oi opinions as to the advantages to the street of the plan to have transfers Issued to the city line cars from the East Chicago -cars. B. C. Minas said that' he would fight the transfer proposition to a finish. The association appointed a committee to take the matter up and make a study of it. At the plant of the Simplex Railway Appliance Co. Mr. Thomas said that

several hundred signatures had been j

secured to the petitions. He said (that I many of the employes had taken the

petitions home and were getting their neighbors to sign them. George Locklln expects to have the signature of every man in his plant to the petition before tomorrow night. It is estimated that there have been in the neighborhood of 5.000 signatures affixed to the petitions already.

CREW HAD NARROW ESCAPE

jriyer on Monon Due in Hammond at 3:29 Crashes

Into Switch Engine; Engineer Tries to Prevent Collision, But Fails.

ACTIIY AT THE OTHER END OF LINE

Indianapolis. Ind., Feb. 16. Application of a franchise to operate in Indianapolis Is expected to be made soon to the Board of Public Works by officials cf the Indianapolis, Chicago, Meridian Railway Company, according to announcement made yesterday at the local headquarters of the company An official of -the company visited the "Works Board office and procured forma of the bonds given by the various traction companies running into Indianapolis.. . . . . - . - j- . . .... The. road prohably will rnter Indiar.apoliH throughi.the northwest part of thf otiy, but an all of the details are

not closed, the exact : route will be withheld for a few days. The preliminary survey between Indianapolis and Chicago has been completed and work is now in progress on the construction survey. ; Officials said yesterday that actual construction on the road will begin within the next few weeks if weather conditions permit. William Love has been awarded th contract for building the road, which haa the financial ; backing principally of Montreal capitalists. "Werk On North Knd Klm. 'uAs; planned : now, construction work

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Train No. 31. south bound on the

Monon, due in Hammond, at 3:29 a. m.

yesterday morning crashed into a switch engine at Indianapolis while running twenty minutes behind time. Frak Polen the engineer and George Kniterton, the fireman on the switch engine both had narrow escapes. Their engine was demolished. The passenger was du at the union station at 7:45 o'clock. It carried probably half a hundred passengers, the majority of whom were Indlanapoll people homeward bound from Chicago.

CANINE ROMANCE ENDS IN MARRIAGE OF EX-CHORUS CIRL TO MULTI-MILLION 'AirJZ

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FRANCHISE CONTRACT IS SIGNED

Question of Park Rights Will Make Big Difference to Ball Team.

New Sensation x Crops Out in GaryBribery Trials. Merer Ilinantelblnu. official dictagraph trnoi,rrnpkrr (or the state linn apparently disappeared. irasn been minting tor two week. Attorney for 'defense eharges state Tilth getting blin out of way. It Is asked has If liumrl blna keen kidnaped, bribed or Intimated f Rumors of plot that lUramelblaa made affidavit that notes mere false and that arrests or V. F. Hodges, T. B. Dean Rod several Gary eltlaens will follow m a new card to be sprung by the defease. Eltappearance of If Inimelblan recall disappearance of important witnesses against city ball rrowd In previous criminal eases?.

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The present battery of eight blast furnaces at the Gary works of the United States Steel corporation is to be increased by two more and possibly four. Construction work on two will start just as soon as the weather improves. This is the news that has been re

ceived at the general offices of

Illinois Steel company in Gary.

Short on Iron and Steel. With every mill, blast furnace

available coke oven and open hearth.

furnace operating at full capacity.

Gary -works, as big as it is, finds Itself unable to produce enough iron to meet

the demands of the twenty-eight open hearth furnaces now in operation.

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which are to be supplemented by fourteen more newly completed ones.'Fires are burning in two of the fourteen new ones and others will be placed In operation just as soon as "firing" preparations are complete. Rail Mill Creates Steel - Demand. Yet, so insistent is the demand for open hearth steel from this billot, axle, . two, 12, 10. 14 and 18-inch milla and the sheet mills of the American Sheet and Tin Plate mills that ihe forty-two open hearths will not be able to supply the demand .for steel ingots. On top of this the, million-ton rail mill is to be placed in operation on Feb.

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RIM. BIG SMUG PLANT

It is now believed that Meyer Hlmmelblau, the young stenographer who was at the other end of the wire recording the damaging testimony as the defendants in the Gary bribery cases were talking to T. P. Dean in the Gary hotel, has disappeared. From Information given out by the state it is

elarnedfthat Himmelblau has not been heard of for two weeks. The young stenographer appeared as an Important states's witness in the Wllliston and Gibson cases and mucn that he told went towards convicting Gibson. State Kept Disappearance Secret. First intimation that Himmelblau is missing ame from th camp of the

Forced ' by popular "sentiment, jwhich demanded immediate street railway facilities Ati Insure Hammond's progress, ttter feoi'd of pubtlc? works this morning signed the contract granting the .Kennedy avenue extension to Frank Gavft, president of the Gary '& Intorurban. The contract was signed by Adam R, Ebert, president of the board, and John L. Rohde. Thomas Swanton, the third member of the board was absent, owing to a severe attacTf rheumatism, which confines him to his bed. He is known, however, to be thoroughly in accordance with the other members. The franchise 13 now ready for action

by he city council, and is expected to come up next Tuesday when the council will hold its regular rneetlng. 7" No Opposition Expect M. As far as is known now, there win not be any materiaW-Tpposltlon to the franchise, as each of the councllmen realize that the first and foremost con

sideration is Hammond's. opportunity to get as much benefit from the industrial growth of the region as its sister cities. The board of public works, assisted by members of the Carpenters' union, tried every argument to secure the clause in the franchise providing for .something better than six rides for a quarter, but 'when Mr. Gavit informed the board that he would have to withdraw If this clause were inserted, tha board accepted the inevitable.

A final change was made by tho oard in the franchise this morning providing that the road must be In op

eration within six months from the j

number of bids for the grounds and j time Mr, Gavit receives a franchise in andstand privileges in the G. H. ! East Chicago. All the other provisions

of universal transfer, six rides for a Quarter, the sprinkling and paving

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V i n u Jir.l i l Lite " 1 ' 1 1 1 , . u in. j . t urban franchise are to be read into the new one. The city also secured a val-

court on the question of ownership of j uablo point, when it made Mr. Gavit

the grandstand and fence in and aroun. accept the franchise with a clause in it

tbe bail parK. Tne u. if. Hammond Co., j providing mai an gmer hubs .wum.-

A canlnn romance has culminated In the marriage of Miss Mary, WlnthroD and Thomas Monroe Turner, had of the $20,000,000 cotton duclc

duck trust and twice divorced by former wive. They are. now tat -Tur-. aer'a magnificent New York home, where 'the new Mra. Turae-" baa tranaonned the base m ant Into a kennel "It. la there she keeps the thirty ' or forty canine ' aristocrats with which; She takes roeJala and ribbon j when the ebowa are on. It waa their common lnterert In blooded . doga. -J' ir K6 'explained, that at.twicted then er each oQir : He Is fltty-feruv h;c'

There is great activity on the part of the International Smelting and Refining company who are making all possible haste in preparing for the construction of their plant on the site they purchased within the last fortnight in East Chicago. George P. Hulst, formerly general superintendent for the company at Omaha has been transferred to Calumet and. appointed general supenlntendent of the local plant. He is now on the ground superintending the preparation of plans which is directly in charge of Mr. Ruetsche of Pertn Amboy, N J.. constructing engineer for the company.. Mr. Ruetsche will be In charge of construction of the new building. He has eight daughtsmen under him and work la being pushed with all. possible speed. . Temporary headquarters have been

established on the second floor of ths ! office building of the Goldschmldt De

fining company which ii across the street from the site to be occupied by the International Smelting and Refining company's plant. " " The present arrangements are for three long buildings which will oe-' cupy the entire east half of the property and extending in a straight line from 149th to 151st street The build-, ings will be fire proof, and construct-, ed of. brick, steel and cement. It will' probably take until the frost la eut of the ground to eompletedthe plans aft-, er which work, will be begun on the' construction. The Indiana Harbor elt line haa fifty men at work laying track from the main line just south of the Gold-, schmidt Detlnnlng' plant along the property of the International Smelting and Renlng company, . so as to be In readiness for the transportation of bulldln materal 'when this Is required. . . . ... '

Officers and directors of the Northern Indiana Baseball League wifl meet next

Wednesday evening- in the office of

, President W. J. ilcAleer, In Hammond,

with a view of re-organizing for the

coming season.. In addition to the original members of the league, itrlg expected that Michigan City and Valparaiso will each have a representative at the meoting, as it Is expected that each of these cities will have membership In the league. An at

tempt is now being made to have eight teams in the Northern Indiana League. President McAleer said this morning that he is satisfied that Hammond will be represented in the league with a team, despite the fact that the Hammond Athletic association is disbanded. . John C. Becker, who has been appointed received for the H. A. A., has

grandstand privileges

Hammond field, but is holding back on the awarding of the rights until some questions relating to the receivership have been adjudicated. Some ruling Is expected next Monday in the superior

HAMMOITD LOAN COMPANY, ROBBED . A sneak thief -who took advantage of the temporary absence of C. W. Handy, manager of the , Hammond Loan com'-j pany, this noon got away .with flye bun- .

dred dollars r from the cash drawer -in ' the office." All available clews were immediately followed,, . without result, ' however, and the thief Is still at large.. Mr. Handy did. not .expect-to be gone' very long, and how believes that he left' the door to' the office unlocked. The till itself was locked, and it appears that the -thief must have ; had' a key as the bolt in the lock was not pushed out, ' and yet. there was no indication to i

show that force was used.

USED. THINGS- THAT TOTJ DONTt WANT CAN BE "SOLD,. IF YOU ADVERTISB IN THF1 TIMIS

co. treasurer Announces candidacy

SOME FENCE, : ' THIS.

Four, Miles Around and Costing $10,000. A fence to cost in the neighborhood of $10,000 will be the first step toward active work on the Baldwin Locomotive works improvements In Indiana Harbor. 'East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Hammond .-contractors ' have , been asked to bid on the work, the fence to be of -boards, eight feet high and over four miles long. The entire property purchased by the Baldwin people will be enclosed within this improvement and work on it-wlll.be begun as soon as the -weather. will permit.

FOREIGII BORII TO OCIM POLITICS Independent Voting .j Machine Planned by Leaders of Foreigners.

ORGHNIZATOH IS POWERFUL

A movement was set on foot today to organize the thousand of foroign voters In Lake county into a formid-

shall have more to say in the selection

of candidates from now on and that

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Consequently Hohman St. Viewers Will Have to Meet Again- '

which owns thn grounds, holds that the improvements that re on the ground belong to it, while the receiver for- the H. A. A. takes the josltlon that they should be classified as assets for the H. 11. A.

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STANDARD HAS ORDERS

It is reported that the Standard Steel Car Co. has enough orders in its passenger car department to keep the plant

going full force for a year. The men i 1

this department are will paid and the! Mr. Warnimont is also well known Standard is evidently making good with j here, having resided in Hammond for

l,s npw site ipasiienger car:. It is said (the 'past fourteen years, where" he is

Death of Mrs. Warnimont. . Following a' lingering illness of nearly eight years, Mrs. Peter M. Warnimont, one of Hammond's most respected and 'w-ell-known citizens, died yesterday afternoon at 6:30 at the family residence, 113 Jackson street, from apoplexy. ' " The funeral will be held from the St. Joseph's church Monday morning at 8 o'clock. The Rev. Father Barrett 'will

officiate and the requiem high mass will be sung. The remains will then be taken to Sr.' 'Joseph's cemetery, where interment will occur. Although her death was not unexpected her wide circle of friends were shocked to hear of her sudden death last nlgit. She has been a sufferer from apoplexy for the past eight years which caused her death yesterday. During her lingering Illness she always kept up a bright appearance, which gained! her the wide circle of x friends whom she survives.

may desire to use the Kennedy avenue

bridge shall have the same right that he has provided, they payan equitable Interest on Gavlt's original investment in tracks and paving and bridge repairs. .." The citizens transportation committee, which waa appointed -at a mass meeting several weeks ago,' feels that the board drove a good bargain for the city generally with Frank Gavit.

Death of J. Nies.

mat tne company has in the neighborhood of 260 carj on its order books. This means that M.000,000 will be spent in Hammond in the construction of teel passenger cars alone, Several of them are said to be dining cars.

employed at. the W. B. Conkey plant as engineer. Mrs. Warnimont is 53 years old and Is survived by five children, who are: Michael, Anthony, James T. and Marie of , Hammond, and John

of Chicago.

Jacob Xles, 158 Plummer- avenue, a pioneer and respected jcitiaen of Hammond, died yesterday afternoon about

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a month at the family residence. The funeral arrangements have not

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" . '. i i v. vj j ' i , v. (j aiiu t ... u v. an iiv mi vt.u later. v , Mr, Xies has not been in the. best of health for some months and a short time ago was taken ill with a paralytic stroke which caused his death yesterday. He Is well known in Hammond, where he - leaves a large circle of frfends who will mourn the news of his dfith. He was past. 72 years old and was employed as 'a blacksmith by trade. On accoun-t-e-t his feeble . health he has been unable to work for some time. He is survived by a wife and fourteen children, some of them being unable to be present at the time of his death. . TUB TIMES ALWAT8 HAS FOUGHT TOR " HE INTERESTS OP THE COMMON PEOPLE FOR THH MAN WHO .WORKS FOB A, LIVTNO.

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BECKER MAKES GAin HTBALLOTiriG All Candidates Swell Their Percentages in Third I - Days' Voting.

Albert J . Swanson. County Treasurer A, J.. Swansonoday announces that he will be a candidate for renomination on the republican ticket at the convention next year. Though he hasn't been In office but a month, by the-peculiar wording of the statutes, "Cully," ''as he is popularly known, is compelled to stand' for renomination and re-election again. That Mr. Swanson will be , renominated to succeed himself is a foregone conclusion. . . . ... . .. ;j ,.

' More voles were cast. for Lawrence

Becker, of Hammond in the guberna

torial primary inaugurated by Thi

Timss than for any other person, on

the third day of the primary and Judge Uecker. is no.w. running Mayor -Knotty of( Gary a close, second. There, were

no sensational gains made but each cf

thecandidates 'climbed, the ladder a little. . One feature ' of the ' balloting was : the introduction of ,T. Frank

Hanley'a name several prohibitionists and, one democrat .who is . a . county optionist vcoting for the ex-governor. The ballot will be run in The Time to morrow for the. last time and an avalanche of votes is expected. The totals of the third day of balloting are: - REPUBLICAN." Chaa. W. Fairbanks 15 Harry New . . . . ....... 9 Chas.. A. . Carlisle 5 W. P. Durbin 11

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One of the most substantial steps along the line of the city beautiful In Hammond is the plan that the property owners have of. extending Hohman street through to the Ridge road. All of the necessary right of way haa

j been dedicated and it Is now necessary ? Anl.. .a A .1. 4 ..I 1 J . V.

able independent votieg machine. It ! 6'-"" - u..u w.r is intended that the foreign 'voters ' pavem?nt J?n.d bulld. a concrcte br,ag9

iurr i ne atiumei ri er. .Yesterday one of the viewers, includ-

there shall h. mnrn t nntlcn.hnri. v-y oeow. jnn By . uio nam ui

holders. There Is even talk of captur-

lnflr the Garv ma.vnrfi.lt v fit t h a

city election and such a thing is not a J road" ," Throuh

Holmes from near

mere probability as the foreign vote is in. the majority in the steel city.

Foreigner Grow Restless.

Ross and Louis to '"go over the

mistake only one of

the viewers was present. ' .

It is expected that the viewers will go over the road in the near future and

For more than a year some of thj ! make thir recommendation- the

foreign leaders have been quietly at work" and" they have carried out their (Continued on Page 7.) T j

CLUE TO MURDERER HARDjTO TRACE Authorities Establish Fact Beyond Doubt That Man Was Murdered.

kind of a pavement to, be built and also the width to which the, road is: to be paved. Viewers on an East Chicago and a Highland road were also In Hammond yesterday. - ;

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(Special to Tub Times.) Crown Point, Ind.. Feb. 16. The identity of the murderVr or murderers of Tom lelaney, whose body was found

WINER INSTITUTES GREAT BARGAIN SALE State Street Merchant Opens His First Anniversary Sale Today.

J. P. Goodrich . . . ; . D. Crumpacker James E. Watson . . ....... Fred Simms . . .' ."V J. P. Hanley . . DEM0CEAT. Samuel Ralston

Henry Barnhart" ......

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John B..Boehne . . Lawrence Becker . L. Ert Slack X. J. Keegan ...... Thomas E. Knotts.

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M. ; Winer.-the State street dealer In ladies' and men's clothing, yesterday,

in one of Binyon'a barns at Cedar Lake opened iiis first .anniversary, sale whir-ii

wees ago aionaay, remains a tocM4r-riiu'

mystery to the authorities. - Were anything knowi of Uelaney's antewndants the work might he made easier, especially if the motive for the killing was for revenge. The formal inquest will be held next Monday, and it is not expected to develop anything beyond the fact that the man was murdered.

j There are no marks on the body to I indicate a fierce hand-to-hand- strajt--

C " f& " r i ip, , i r. .1,11. .3 I . i ' . V ' , i head, however, show that he was the victim of violence. . . . , . Apparently Delaney was a member of th floating class who drift from one place' to another during tha different seasons of the year. It appears that he was a lodger at the, county jail, having sought shelter there for a night. From Crown Point he was directed to Cedar Lake, where he expected to find work cutting ice, but Instead he found work With some farmer near 'there. Shortly after his body was discovered in' Bl'hyon's barni '

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Is Iil rftiitfmic fur ten days. Tile sale

Is "known as the price Flashing sale, and judging from the articles' rffered, Mr. Winer's patrons will have an opportunity to pick up ""nit- real bargains. The reduced prices have been extended into every department, both in the men's and ladies' furnishings, aa will be seen by his ad on another page. localizing that he is on a street with w ide awake . i-ehants, Mr. Winer liofwto keer up the stna-fs reputation for bargains by his February snl. Mr. Winer h:is plans t) np n a clothing tore in Crown Point next month. He. expecjs t.to , be located in the Wilson block, on the soulh side of the court house.

switchmAh BADLY HUET .1 Clarence Barlow, a switchman, whose home i In Kast' Chicago, employed on the Terminal, suffered the loss of both, legs this morning near Chicago Heights when he fell off a car under the .wheels. He is in a hospital at Chicago Heights and maynot recover. ; . ,