Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 214, Hammond, Lake County, 29 February 1912 — Page 1

WSATBDIi 7 H COUNTY 1 FAIR AND COLDER . TODAY; FHIDAT FAIR. RISING TEMPERATURE. EDITION VOL. VI:, NO. 214. HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1912. ONE CENT PER CORY. (Back Humeri 1 Cents Cey.

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One of the principal facta that will be brought home to the north side residents, who arc property owners there, at the mass meeting in the Moose hall tomorrow evening, will be that nojiresident property owners are willing to pay KQ per cent of the assessment on ' the proposed deep sewer system, which, it Is estimate;!, will cost in the neighborhood of $250,W. It is said, that ail, that such big property owners on the north side, like the East Chicago company, Gostlyn. Meyn A- Co., John Vim and others, want la the assurance that the proposed deep sewer 'system which is to be discussed tomorrow, will be built in the best possibly manner, and they will be ready to pay more than half of the assessments. This the property owners who reside on the north Side, the small property owners who have studied the situation, say is the biggest inducement for this progressive step. The opposition, which could have been strongest, has thus been eliminated, and all that w-ill be necessary is that the individual property owners aive to take advan. "tags of the situation. Iwnrla- Station Necessary. The plans for the deep sewer system. FIGHT Iff POOLROOM ARRESTS FOLLOW Central Poolroom on Hohman Street Is Scne of a Melee Yesterday. Following a free-for-all fight in the Central --poolroom, on Mohman street, near .Plummet- avenue, yesterday afternoon, Eu. Fourgeros and Pete ScoofasS were, arrested by Constable Phelps l on a warrant sworn oue by trust ileho, crarptng theYn with assault and bat- . c . . .. :. .-: -..: The tnlrie first arose over a pool game, in -"Which Mehos and Fourgeros were playlirst. The argument lead into fight, in which Fotirgeros was get'ting the. worst of it. Scoofacas, who Is a. cousin of Fourgeros. jumped into tfie fight after seeing how the Sght ' was roming out. The two men then Jumped on Mehas at one time and they beat the defendant up unmercifully, disfiguring his face and badly bruising him, an uninterested party then took a hand ' tn th. matter and parted the three - men. Following ihis, the warrants were "sworn out and the arrest made. , , The two men were tried before Judge Trest yesterday afternoon and found - guilty. - Roth men were fined and an tppeal was granted to the superior court. They then swore out two warrants against the complaining witness charging him with provocation. Mehos is said to have left town, as he Is afraid the two men will do him harm, and they sai:l, "The next time they met hfm they would clean him up." Seoofacas has been in trouble before, having. been arrested only last week on the 'same vharge. L ITEST SOXG KITS a FOB 25o. Or-we -will mall three of your own e'eotipn on receipt of 27c Brown Music Co., 9119 Commercial ave., Chicago. WILSON ASSISTANT IS NOW UNDER FIRE W. M. UAVH. i - Chairman Moss of the congressional committee, which has been investigating the exploitation of the Florida Everglades by land dealers and gents of the government, declares) the aisco.ery or a batch of letters written by J. O. Wright, chief engineer of the Everglades company, has implicated Assistant Secretary of Agriculture W. M. Hays. Trie original lnestlgatlon Is to give way for the time being, he says, to an Inquiry into the charges of Hays' complicity ta the sale of the lands,

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as far as they have progressed, provide first of all for a sewage pumping station to be erected at Calumet avenue and the Grand Calumet river. The next step is to lay a deep sewer in the form of the letter T. the east and west mains lying In Chicago avenue, and LOne Hundred and Forty-ninth street. and the north and south branch to be laid in Calumet avenue north of the river for a block or two. As the north side grows, the branches will "be extended, north and south, and east and west, or the property owners along certain streets can begin immediately to lower their local sewers. Mill Be DIM riot Sewer. The deep sewers will be considered district sewers, and the assessments will be spread on the whole of the benefited are:, thus each property own er will be benefited, and every property owner should be present tomorrow night to hear to Just what extent he will be affected. The pvoject is a big one, and is generally conceded, to be one of the biggest factors in making the north side desirable property both for residence and Investment purposes. Many of the big . property owners have promised to be present, and some of the city officials will be present, too. Between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 -Is to be spent at Indiana Harbor, by. the Inland Steel company for th construction fTftw Klst tttf nil's, 7ew""plate mill and other improvements. ', '- ' - This is a big it-m and Indicates that the Inland Steel company, one of Fast Chicago's b'jst industries. Is still enlarging. Tiie Inland Steel company is regarded as 'one of the most active of the independents. The money with which these Improvements are to be made is a part of a $10,000,000 authorization of new atock. of which only $1,500,000 or $2,000,000 will be Issued at once. This will be good news to the people .of Indiana Harbor,' who for years have watched the development of the Inland Steel Co. It means the employment of more men and the general development) of the region. JOHN HESSLER IS Hi PRETTY BAD SHAPE Village President of West Hammond Taken to the Alexian Hospital. John liessler, president of the West Hammond village board, was taken ta. the Ajlexian Bros.' hospital, Chicago. last Tuesday, and the indications are that tlie complication of diseases with which he - suffering will keep him there for some time. Mr. Hessler is reported to be suffering with diabetes, and is said to be quite ill. In addition to this, blood poisoning is feared as a result' of two frozen toes, which he contracted in January during the extremely cold weather. It may have, to be necessary to amputate one or both. His lower leg is Inflamed from the foot to the knee, and altogether Mr. Hessler is in a pretty bad shape.The hofpital confinement is doubly irksome to the village president, because he had hoped to be in the thick of the present mpaign. HOT CAMPAIGN jIS PROMISED TIMES Bl'HEAl', AT STATE C APITAL. Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 29". Arrangements are being made by Taft rej publicans to open headquarters in this city today or tomorrow from which to direct. the campaign for delegates from this state to the republican national convention who will be for President Taft for renomlnation. It is not yet known who will be in charge of the headquarters, but it Is said that when the campaign gets to going it will be a hot one. The. Roosevelt headquarters is in active operation and the Taft people say they will make it look like thirty cents when they get In action. ARE VOr READING THE TIMES?

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WEALTHY FAB DIES AT HOBART

Howard Gordon, Ten Days After Death of His Wife, Passes Away; Is Son of Late Dr. P. Gordon and Cousin of ex-Coroner. (Special to The Times.) ' Hobart, Ind., Feb. 29. Howard E. Gordon, 35 years old, one of the wealthiest farmers of Lake county, died this morning on his farm near Hobart, ten days after the death of his wife, who , on the fourteenth of this month had given birth to her second child. The parents are survived by two children, Allen, who is four years old and Dudley who waa born two weeks ago. Yesterday Mr. Gordon submitted to an operation on his head, the operation having been performed by a Chicago specialist. He passed away at two o'clock this morning. Mr. Gordon had been in ill health for soma time, and after the death of his wife, he took to hi bed from which he did not rise again. The funeral arrangements will be announced this evening, and it is expected that a postmortem examination will be held before burial is made. Mr. Gordon was the only son of Dr. P. P. Gordon, one of the first', physicians in Lake County. He is a cousin of D. K. R. Gordon former county coroner, and Mrs. Grace Conroy of Hammond. At the time of hla father" death. Howard Gordon came in possession of a fortune valued at seventy-five thousand dollars, but under the terms of the will be was merely to have the use of it., in order that It might be conserved for the grand children. Reverses and bad investments however greatly reduced the; fortune, of which enougk.Is left however to insure the future .of hw w.nd.hitdtr-r ....'.XV?- is??vf ..The double tragedy In .the home of the popular family- is greatly deplored many friends al over the county. EDWARD FINALLY GOT HISJFEET CLEAN But His Wife Started Some r New Divorce ProceedingsIf the allegations In the complaint that Ruth Berwanger has filed in the Lake superior court against Edward Berwanger are true Edward is a regular cut up when he allows his anger to get the best of him. Some of the charges Mrs. Berwanger makes are that he: 1. Would take her clothes away from her, throw them on the floor and wipe his feet on them. ' 2. Would open her trunks and, after removing her clothes from them, would throw them on the floor and wipe liis feet on rtiem. 3. Would take the bedclothes from the bed. and. after throwing them on ! the floor, would wipe his feet on them. ' It is obvious that if Berwanger did I all of these things, as alleged in the j complaint, that he must finally have 1 got his feet clean. In addition to these J charges Mrs. Berwanger alleges mat I he struck her with his clenched fists 1 and talked about her in the presence of her friends and neighbors. Mrs. Berwanger is only 19 years old. They were married Aug. 18, 1999. and were separated Jan. 1. 1912. ' They have two children, of whom' she asks the custody. She says that he has not propertly supported her, and that he charged her with being unfaithful to him. She says that he earns only $75 a month, but that he Is heir to a large estate. Accordingly, she asks $3,000 alimony, $200 a year for the support of her children and $35 a month for herself dur ing the pendency of the action. Meets Tonight. There will be an important meeting of the Kast State Street Improvement association at Ortt & Towle's store tonight at 7:30. The meeting has been called for the purpose -of taking up a number of improvpmwt matters. Among them Is the question of opening an. alley Into Piummer avenue between the Federal building and the property adjoining It on the east. At present the alley between State street and Piummer avenue is blind. The question of widening the sidewalks will also be taken up and it is hoped that something definite can be done along this line. Other alley opening projects will come up for consideration. ' The question of putting in a modern street lighting system will also be tak en up and discussed. TBTB TIMES IS THTIMi HARD TO MERIT THE . srCCESS IT HAS ACHIEVED.

LADY DECIES GETS CONGRATULATIONS ON EXPECTED EARLY ADVENT OF HEIR

An Interesting event is expected to happen In the London household of Lord and Lady Decies In about three weeks. Lady Decies, who before her marriage was Vivien Gould, of New York, the recipient of many congratulations from her newly made English friends, and from the United States on the expected advent of an heir. Lady Declea has become very popular in London society through bet youthful grace, beauty and vivacity. . y--

VJIIIIIIifi IM'JW . UlEKI Inland Steel Employe Gets $1,500 More Than He Did at First Trial. A judgment for $8,000 In favor of the plaintiff in the case of Kissling vs. the Inland Steel company was returned by the jury at Valparaiso, which tried the case. The case was originally tried before Judge Harry B. Tuthill of the LakePorter superior court five years ago It - was reversed In the supreme court and remanded for trial. The case went to trial and the jury went out Tuesday. On Wednesday morning the verdict was returned. An interesting thing about the case is the fact that Kissling lost only three ling ers on his right hand. However, he was a . machinist and this deprived him of the means of earning a living. The first time the case was tried the jury returned a judgment for $6,500. . The new verdict represents an increase of $1,500. . Attorneys Gavit and Hall of Whiting represent the plaintiff and Attorneys Bomberger, Sawyer & Cuitis the defendant. HOME WITH BRITISH OFFICER HUSBAND , xV.'.V,y h ;V rum jcslams kMrs. Hugh Roland French, daughter of former Postmaster General Robert J. "Wynnes. Is visiting her parents with her husband, Captain French of the British army. They will spend several weeks at Palm Beach. Fla.. and will then sail for London in time to participate in the English society season.

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HtlF P BLOCK West State street Is to have a fine new business blocX if the present plans of the Bick estate are carried out. The Bicka own 50 feet on West State street, upon which there are a couple of old wooden shacks. " These have been a fire menace to the entire street, and It is understood that the" Bick estate has decided to tear them down and erect a fine modern business block. The building will cost in the neigh-borhood-' of $20,000, and will be two Stories " high. This will be a decided Improvement to the street and will help j to eliminate the last of the remaining wooden buildings. FiriD SLAin r.iAii BY COATJIJ PILOT Lake Shore Flyer Kills a Swede Near Chesterton V Yesterday. Whiting, Ind., Feb. 29 An overcoat found on the pilot of the engine of passenger train No. 23 on the Lake! Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, when the train reached Chicago, led to the discovery of the body of Emll Krickson, who had been struck by the engine and killed. When he reached Chicago and found the coat the engineer of train No. 23. learned-for the first time that anyone had been struck during the trip. Letters were found in the overcoat pocket J addressed to Emil Erlckson, the track i walker, employed by the railroad at Chesterton, and a search was made. The body was found two and a half miles west of the station, where it had been dragged before it was shaken out of the overcoat. Krickson was 50 years old and leaves a wife and five children. Club Meets Sunday. The Jefferson club, the new democratic organization In Hammond, holds a meeting again on Sunday, at which time it expects to hear from the committees who have the arranging of the headquarters in charge. The plans are to make permanent Improvements in the First National Bank hall, which rfas been secured for headquarters and to fit them up so as to make them attractive at all times. One or t wo"portable partitions may be erected to provide committee rooms. The hall is considered large enough J,o hold a regular democratic county convention in it. WHT ARE READER?- - YOU NOT A TIMES

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A The South Side Improvement association has one of the best meetings last night that It has held in some time. The meeting was held at the Wallace school and Important matters affecting the south side were taken up and discussed. , Three new street lights will be put in on the south side in the near future. An idea of the tremendous new development that is to take place In the way of street improvements on the south side may be had from a perusal of the following list of streets that are to be built next spring. Plan Fla Improvements. MONROE . STREET Is to be built through from Conkey avenue to Lauretta street. Incorrectly called the Ridge road. VAN BUREN STREET Improvement will be resumed as soon as the weather permits. HARRISON STREET will be Improved from Conkey avenue to Allen street and thence to Waltham street. DETROIT STREET, east of the Monon railroad tracks, will be improved throughout Its entire length. LEWIS STREET will be improved The union men's smoker given last night in Roth's hall In Hammond under the auspices of the Lake County Trades and Labor Council, for the purIpose of bringing the various craftsmen together for a good fellowship meeting was a big success, the effects . of which will undoubtedly be felt In 1 the industrial work In the Calumet I region this year. . Harmony and good fellowship were the keynotes of the meeting, the spirit of which waa caught even by a number of contractors who were present, and who had been on the outs with ene-or the. other MildUtCi-craf t;.'!4SAt-yetc4'B' the various speeches that were made, emphasis' was laid on the fact that the Interests of one "craft were; the interests of all, and that every union man should take a . personal .' interest in bringing about harmony between capital and labor." ' ' '' - . ' Hear Good Adiaa."-"H,; ,! "f There' were 1 representatives :rom Gary, Whi-ting, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, and among the speakers lillt GETS BAD NEWS M. E. Revivalist Unable to Come, But Splendid Substitute Is Secured.A great disappointment has come to the First Methodist church in a letter from Rev. Robert McHardy of Toronto, Canada, the evangelist who was to have begun a series of meetings, here next Sunday morning. The letter is dated Feb. 25, and states that Rev. Mc. Hardy has suffered a nervous breakdown and has been ordered to cancel all engagements. . The writer expresses his profound regret, but says there Is nothing for him to do but obey his physician. . The hopes' of the church were high In expectation of the good f that would be accomplished under the ! plan of the meeting and the dlsap- ! nnlntm.nt is slnrrA Tha" na.tni TX - ............ .... ........ . - - - ... F. Switaer,1 at once began readjusting . plans and announces that he has made j arrangements with Rev. G. W. McDonald, one of the -igorous young evange- j lists of Chicago, who will take up the j ! work on Sunday evening. Rev. MeI Donald has done evangelistic work In I Indiana with great success. He was chosen by Wie Rock. River conference to establish th'e Methodist church In ! Zion City. 111. In that place, where the failure of Powle left such confusion and violent oppositions. Rev. McDonald has succeeded by his wire management and evangelistic ability, in building up a Methodist cMirch. His engagement with that church permits his to spend eight weeks In the year in other evangelistic work. Part of that time will be given to Hammond. The church here is exceedingly fortunate in being able to get the services of so efficient a man under these strenuous circumstances. . The public Is therefore Invited to all the services as planned and publiely advertised, except under tTie new leadership. Them Is a deep Interest in the city concerning these meetings and the prospect- is for a season of great spiritual awakening. Many Afflicted. The amount of sickness In Hammond at this- time appears to be somewhat above normal, most of the patients suffering from some acute trouble superinduced by colds. Of the acute diseases pulmonary and digestive troubles seem, to be in!tfie lead. WHY ARE READER? fOU NOT A , TIMES

HON ra or REGION MEET I HADND

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E In the same manner. PARK PLACE, in Homewood, Is to be improved next spring. The sixteen-foot alley along: the Monon railroad tracks - between Highland and Waltham streets is to be asphalt macadamed. - People Progreeatve. -.. The credit for many of these improvements should be given to the firm of Gostlln. 'Meyn & Co! who have done a great- deal to make the south side desirable as a residential district. They are especially deserving of credit , for the work they have done to improve the territory between the Monon and Erie railroads. " It will be seen that stupendous street Improvements are contemplated on the south side, and it is believed that the influence of the South Side Improvement association will be exerted to have other streets paved and opened for use. The membership of the South Sids Improvement association Is growing rapidly, and interest Jn the organization is greater than ever. , The meeting last evening was .well attended and was an enthusiastic one. . were F. L. Merriam, the progressive editor of the Labor -Advocate, Barney Carter, president of the' Lake County Trades and Labor Council, Thomas Harle, business agent of the Teamsters Union, J. J. Sullivan president of Iron Workers' Association of East Chicago. Walter Walsh, T. W. Glnn, H. , TTi. Granger, Pete Smith, and Mr. 'Burns;' o Brockton. Mass., who In canvassing the country to urge union men to buy only unlonmade shoes. .' " The ' newsboys' union was represented lb full force, and while none of Its members discussed pnr of the weighty uotr or -unionism,. -hSfgf-tlng of the good lunch tint r strvWJ , Cm behalf of the old soldiers in the Hammond O. A. R.-Pot, H." R; -Granger presented a petition for which he asked signatures, the petition " being a reccjomendation .to ; cohgresst to. pass the Sherwood. TDoliar ""VDay " pension blur In preference to the Smoot pension bill." The-petition received ! large number of signatures.- . " -r. . .f-.' NEW STORED ? AT WHITING (Special to Thbj Tntta.) Whiting. Ind., Feb. 29. The White City Grocery, Butter and Egg store is the, name of a new business Institution opened up here at S40-119th street. and ''some bargains are on top for to morrow. Their advertisement appears on another page of this issue and the proprietor solicits a share of the public patronage. COWARDICE CHARGE STARTS SOMETHING jAMlr" may With Representative Richmond Pearson llobson. of Alalmmn. demanding h House Inquiry into thj charge of cowardice made HfJnfct him on the Poor of the' House by Representative Hay, of Vlrginln. there is promise of- the development of an Interesting- controversy.' Hay'a Ire was aroused by Honson's action in inserting in the Congressional Record remarks reflecting upon, him, and, 11 which he did not utter upon the floor

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