Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 235, Hammond, Lake County, 25 March 1912 — Page 1

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139 Locomotives Ordered of Baldwin People Which Will Give Impetus t(J Their Plans

Wktt will probably give a great Impetus to the plans of the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the building of a western plant on the land which is has purchased at Calumet in East Chicago Is the announcement in the Railway Aye Gasette, this week, of the fact that 'the company has received orders for 1JJ locomotives. Cleans The Platter. In fact the Baldwin company cleaned vp the platter for the two weeks period Just ended and very few of the other locomotlve( buildings companies ret any orders. The 119 locomotives mentioned above are to be built for the following railroads. The . ' Chicago Great Western. 5 SHOCKING TRAGEDY GARY One of Worst Accidents That Ever Occurred in the ' Z ,4'M"V'V " ; rinnr Tn. X1 TalrAs

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Place There ; on : BaturdaV yju. . v "Nlffrlf'." ' "" i j ' . . Trapped in a stream of molten -metal that spread with such rapidity that escape was Impossible, one man lost his life and several others are said to have been injured when without warning twenty-five ton of hot iron poured from an overturned ladle at the Gary works of the steel company. The accident occurred late Saturday night. Ipman Edmondson, 1732 Adams street, whose age. is said to be 30 years. Is the name of the dead man. Names of others Injured cannot be ! learned, as the steel company officials give out no information regarding ic-i rldents and the Injured are. removed to' its own hospital. ! rsniee CauX Amens; Injarrd. W. H. Geesman, general superintendent of blast furnaces. 73 Jackson 1 street, was among those injured. He managed to get away from the stream of molten metal, but splashes of it hit him about the ankles and arms, painfully burning him, but not enough to . prevent him from being at work today. Kdmondson's body was burned to a crisp, and it is said that only part of It was recovered. He was a large and (Continued on page t. ) CLASSIFIED .D F.KTISIAG Jlnd"findable" t hi nit a aad mak.ee all lest artirlCN 'flndaule.' GEN. MILES DENIES CATHOLICS' CHARGE GEN N.V MILES r Ueut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles. U. S. A., retired, is lu-lng kept busy denying tnat the "Guardians of Liberty." an organization In which he is associated together with . former Congressman Thomas Watson of Georgia. CongTess.nan Haines of Nev Vork, and others, has any religious features. Cardinal Gibbons has said the order i "an attempt to revive the bigotry ot the A, P. A., which vtaa presumed to have died of inanition." General Miles says it la purely a patriotic order.

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mikados. ' The Norfolk and Western, 6 Pacific type. " - . The Texas Pacific, 10 consolidation and 10 passenger. The Southern Pacific, 15 mogul, 10 Pacific type, 8 switchers. The Santa Fe, 5 Pacific type. 20 switching locomotives, 20 Santa Fe locomotives and 10 consolidation locomotives. . Spnrt la Car Itulliilng. In addition to the fact that the Baldwin Locomotive Worka-ds Iti receipt of orders that will probably result In plans to go ahead with the Calumet plant In all haste the Standard Steel Car Co. at Hammond has received some nice

(Continued on Pace S.) TO HAVE A The commercial importance of the great east side of Hammond has been . termination ot number of responsible business men In Hammond to start a trust company and on tls .wwiiy . ot eiat street an4 calumet avenue i nnder conslderation. The new iank will be known as ! the "East Side Trust & Savings bank. The personnel of the new bank, the exclusive story c the Incorporation of , which appeared in Trb Times Saturday, Is as follows; ; William Herkner, presi dent; K. . Ulrlch. vice president, and Floyd Irish, secretary-treasurer. The directors, besides the officers, are John C. Becker and Arnold Keldenlch. j The new bank Is to be incorporated j for 25,000. and will be exceedingly ' conservative In its policy. If is the purpose of the officers and directors to build up the foundations of a big Institution slowly and strongly. They recognize the fact that the center of population of Hammond is far removed from its present business district and that the future will see the creation of a new business district on Calumet avenue that will be of great siie and importance. The new bank will have the advan tage of being located in this rapidly developing district and will build up with It. The opening of Calumet avenue from Lake Michigan to the country districts south of the Little Ca'umet river is sure to make it an important street, and It is believed by the promoters that they are initiating a pro ject which will result in the building of a large numtwr of business houses on the street during the coming year. m BADLY Roy Warren, 7 years old residing! at 308 Sibley street, Hammond, is in a critical condition at St. Margaret's hospital a a' result of a bullet wound in f his groin, having been shot by Officer John Okraj of the West Hammond polie department. i The shooting occurred about 10:30 last night on riummer avenue on the IHinois side of t'.ie state line, not far from the red light district, and accordivf: to' the officer, lie firw his gun in !.?' '-defense, because Warren and his three companions resisted him when he tried to place one of-their number under arrest on the charge of disorderly conduct. . - . Warren, is the second victim from - Okraj's gun. he having shot a Sout h ' Chicago man in the heel three -years ; aso at a picnic on the south side in I West Hammond. ' ) The other three who were placed under arrest are: Joseph Love, a dray- ; (Continued on Page 8.) Leaves Hospital. Paul .Epps, who submitted to an operation for appendicitis at St. Margaret's hospital two weeks ago today, was strong enough to leave for his home in Peoria today. He was accompanied as t far as Englewood by. William-Sohloer,

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Gov. Marshall, After Being Rudely Treated in Chicago Hotel, Leads Off For Harbor Development in This Region .Before EngineersMARSHALL AT CONFERENCE It was announced from the offices of Governor Marshall yesterday that Governor and Mrs. Marshall will leave Indianapolis today for Chf cago, where the governor will attend the hearing . on the lake harbor project, in which the cities of Gary, East Chicago, Whiting and Hammond are deeply interested. Officials of the northern Indiana cities met the governor recently and urged that be attend the hearing, at which the subject of building breakwaters and other harbor facilities about the southern end of Lake Michigan will be taken up. Letters urging the governor to' attend have been received several times since the visit of the city officials. (Special to The Times. 1 - Chicago. March 25. Gov. Marshall will not forget his experience In this city while attending the waterway meeting for a long time. In company with Mrs. Marshall he was refused i room at the Great Northern Hotel, be cause his baggage was at the depot and the hotel has a rule to admit no couple without baggage. When Gov; Marshall explained "the etrouwstance Jtheltiotel eler.k-vm prpluucijf syiuoruc qui me governor wus righteously indignant and left for the Annex.- - The Indiana and Chicago delegations (Continued on page .) GOES CLEAR THROUGH TO SHEFFIELD AVE. April 29th Is Fixed as Hear ing Date For Remonstrances. There seems to be considerable mia understanding among some of the prop erty owners who are affected by the opening and widening of Calumet ave nue, one erroneous impression being that Calumet avrtiiie 1 to be widened only from Carroll street to the Grand Calumet river. As a matter of fact a resoltuion was passed two years ago providing fo the widening of Calumet avenue, north from Carroll street, and for the opening of It as far as Sheffield avenue. The benefited district extends from the north to south end of the city in a territory bounded on the east by a line, which would be Howard avenue extended, and on the west by a line which would be Sohl street extended. The date for hearing the remonstrances on the benefits and damages has been fixed by the board of public works for April 29th. BAILIFF SLIPS AND IS HURT James Trost, bailiff of the Hammond city court, received a severe inlurv to h ankle Saturday afternoon when he slipped on an icy sidewalk on the t north side and as a result sprained some of the cords in his ankle. Although he was able to be around this morning, he is unable to use his left foot. Mr. Trost has. the undertaking of serving 1.000 notices on property own -e, on Calumet avenue, and with his fdrce of deputies, he will be able to complete his large task by tomorrow night. LOVE FEAST APRIL 13. At a meeting of the Jefferson "club yesterday afternoon it was decided to hold a democratic love feast some timei in-April. The date was tentatively set for April 13. A committee was appointed to procure newspapers and periodicals for the clubrooms. Death of Infant. Josephine Hoffman, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hoffman. 650 Sohl street, died at the family residence yesterday noon following a short illness. The funeral was held, from All Saints' church this morning at 9 o'clock and interment occurred at St Joseph's cemetery. . . . .

Men Back of Commercial Club

Hammond Is to hare a real live

resentlve of every, interest in the city a commercial club that will recognize no faction and yet which will be representative of all.

This was definitely decided at a of the University cfub yesterday when dettermined to employ J. P. Barricklow perts, to take charge of a membership It is expected that, a membership

on in the next week. Hammond wlll'soon be in the throes of one of the

greatest civic campaigns that it has There will be such co-operation interests of the city as has never been

Locomotive works located in East Chicago, with the problem of building

homes facing the people of Hammond, lems of city building still unsolved resolution and determination. ' The following axe the men who

ment and who have pledged themselves to see it through: John H. Beckman, of Gostlln, ileya. & Co., Carl Bauer of the Simplex Railway Appliance Co., David T. Emery, of the Lake Coanty Savings & Trust Co., J. S. Black-

mun, of the J. S. BJackmun Co., Harry M. Johnson, of the Citizens' German National Bank, V. J. Hastings, real estate dealer; A. M. Turner, president of the First National Bank; J. J. Ruff, hardware; William J. Whinery, chairman of the Joint committee of commercial clubs "on rivers and har

bors; Waiter Hammond, of the Hammond Savjypgs & Trust Co., W. J. McAleer, attorney; Dr. H. C. Groman, Anton H. Tapper, Judge Virgil S. Reiter, O. A. Krinbill, president of. the American Trust & Savings Bank; Rev. C. J. Sharp, Attorney Peter Crumpacker; Manager W. D. Ray. of the

Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co.; John E. Fitzgerald, president of the Hammond Distilling Co.; W. G. Paxton, of the Paxton Lumber Co., P. A. Parry, editor Times Newspapers, Roscoe E. Woods of the Lake County Times and S. E. Swaim, of the Hammond Daily News.

Around this nucleus the nW commercial club is to be organized and

the personnel of the sponsors is a guarantee of the success of the project.

It will thus be seen that this movement is bigger than' individuals, it

is bigger han private business Institutions, it is as big as the municipal or

ganisation which represents the city everybody to get into, no one who is to stay out of it. FAHS TAKE UP IMPORTANT TOPICS Constitution of Northern In diana Baseball Association to Be Revised. The constitution and. by-laws of the Northern Indiana Baseball asaoclation avrvid .-roltte jH?pototei to,'

this duty, -fepii Yesterday! at v.ivk4iaL oBLariea m Hatnnrond mt

meeting; of th directors and offlcr of at the TTnlversity club yesterday, afterth league, held In the office-ot W. J. ! noon and employed Messrs. J. P. Bar-

McAleer. In Hammond. One of the moat important change made waa In salary limit which here tofore had been placed at $50 but which has now been increased to $75, with an " explicit understanding that it be ad hered to, and that , no one boost th-! limit, aa was done on all aides last seoaon. There was more or less discussion about thia, Thomae O'.Connell, representing Indiana Harbor moving that' the limit be raised to S100. J. A. TJm- f pleby of Gary amended the motion to read $75 and as some would have prefered a limit as low as $60, the com

promise offered by Umpleby was ac- i take memberships are bound to their cepted. contracts. Under the new by-laws each club. is ' 'ndcr this arrangement the club will to send in Its ground rules' to the jec j b organised on a business basis from retary. where uch rules embody any-tn vel-y "tart. It will have a paid secthing not included in the rules which j retary and will have an income sufficigenerally govern baseball games. These ent to pay for the rent of its quarters, will obtain throughout the season un-t Bu Instead of 150 members those less the secretary receives s written ' who re backing the enterprise believe request to change them a week befove'that they can secure a membership of

the first game. Another important change is that governing the playing off of postponed games. These must be played on the occasion of the 'first subsequent meet ing between the teams affected by the.' oostoonement and any club refuelmr to play will forfeit the game to the4r opponent. The single umpire system will pre(Continued on page 8.) AMERICAN GIRL IN . PRISON IN LONDON Miss Alice Wright. In the American art colony In Paris former colleagues of Miss Alice Wright. Albany. N. 1'.. girl sentenced to two manths' hard labor In London for her part in l.te recent suffragette window smashing, are subscribing rroney to obtain - a ' revlslod of her

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commercial club that will be fully rep-

lneetinsr which was held in the rooms a group of Hammond business men and F. "W.xBender, organisation ex campaign. of between 300 and 400 will be put ever known. J among the newspapers and business known before. With the Baldwin with traction problems andv prob Hammond is meeting the crisis with v ' are standing sponsor for the move in an official way, it is big enough for a factor in the community can afford CAMPAIGN FOR (HBERS II A preliminary organization which i to stand bajkvof" tli campaign for to"16" to nw,rf commexcial clufc ricklow and F. V. Bender to initiate a campaign for members. The personnel ot the preliminary organization Is Harry , M. Johnson, pesident; Roscoe E. Woods, secre-tary-treas-urer, and the follo-wingr committee, which is to draft the constitution and bylaws and incorporate the club: O. A. Krinbill, Walter ' Hammond, Edgar Johnston, A. M. Turner and Roscoe E. Woods. I'nder the terms of the agreement i with the expert organizers who have j been employed they must put on at least 150. membersbefore those who between 250 and 300. This will make it possible for the new club to take its position with such clubs as that which represents Gary, EaBt Chicago. Indiana Harbor and Whiting. A rnass meeting is to be held at the University Club next Wednesday evenln- at which the whole plan of cam j palgn will be explained to those who ' are interested. No subscriptions for ! membership writ be taken at this meet- ! i The campaign which will be inauj gurated will be one of the most unique I that the city of Hammond has ever ijenown. It will set the town afire with interest and enthusiasm, and after it Is all over the city will have a civic or- ! ganization of .which it Is all over the ; city will have a civic organzation of which it may well be proud. A commercial club is an organization. - not purely developing of the interests j of the business men and the merchant, but is one that tends toward the up-building of the development of j every vital Interest which directly and Indirectly) aids in the making of Hammond into a greater and better city. Itn Membership. Too often it Is an accepted impression that a commercial organization of this character does not want any hut business men on its enrollment roster. This is an entirely mistaken idea, for being an organization primarily for the general development of the community. It becomes too large a proposition to be handled by any particular class of men. w Community Development. Is a responsibility that should be shared by every cituten within or without the corporate limit? of the city. Every, citizen whose personal interests are identical with the interests of Hammond and will be benefited by the upbuilding of the city phould be willing to become identified with this movement to permanently establish a commercial organization which will dynamically bring into action the great potential force : for civic development which is now lying dormant- .- THERE ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES MORE TIMES CIRCULATED EVERT DAT THAN' ALL THE OTHER DAILY , PAPERS IN LAKE COUNTY PUT TOGETHER.

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HI North End of Dis trict for Taft and South Roosevelt

HOW PRES. TAFT CARRIED DISTRICT , RooaeCuty. Tait. velt tAke i( 4 Portor It 0 White 10 3 Tippecanoe ........... 7 20 Benton 1 7 Warren f ( Nwton , Jaapar 4 4 Totals TT 44

True to past performances, running close to form the only republican district in the atate of Indiana the Tenth special charge of Congressman E3. D. Cnimpaoker elected 77 Taft delegates and 44 Roosevelt delegates in the various .counties of the district. The figurea are not official some of the country precincts not having made their returns as yet. and the final figures may give Taft 80 delegates and may only give him 76, but the result as a whole cannot be changed. Tippecanoe county gave Mr. Roosevelt Z0 out of the 44 and the other south counties alao gave Roosevelt .majorities. The north end of the district Lake and Porter counties - gave Mr Taft more votes by far than all th3 counties put together gave Mr. Roosevelt. The return from Lake County were most anxiously awaited by both camps at Indianapolis and there was "the most intense interest shown in the news from this county. That Lake county saved, the day for Mr. Taft is established beyond, a question and if the result in the state hinges on one district's show ing as is now possible .President Taft may owe his nomination to Lake oouny, aa he owed the. fact of his carrying. the State in 1908. to Lake County , v Despite the' fact that the district Is for Taft," there promises . to; be plenty of excitement at the district. convention to be .held in Hammond on Thursday and some interesting developments may transpire before the , sun . goes down on Thursday. - FIND CLUE TO MURDER IfJ DYER Little Boy Picks Up Gun; Station Agent Sees Suspicious Stranger. (Special to Thb Timss.) '

Dyer, Ind.. March 25. A clew to the;lwo uiuna, nui.wu8 ui importance oc-

recent Chicago Heights murder. B which a man by the name of Frank was the victim, was found in Dyer last Saturday bv Joseph Grau. a little boy. who found a revolver on the E.. J. & E. risrht of way in Dyer near th Monon depot. The revolver contained three bullets, and was turned over to Chief Croee of the Chicago Heights police department. - ' . The revolver clew would be quite disconnected from the crime were it not for the fact that on last ednesday night Matt Gettler, the Monon station agent, saw a suspicious looking stranger near the depot. Mr. Gettler at the time had no knowledge of the murder l and his suspicious had not been arous ed. The stranger, who was without a coat despite the cold weather, had evidently come Into Dyer from Chicago Heights on an E., J. & E. freight, and started to walk south on the Monon tracks, but turned back at the suggestion of Mr. Gettler. who warned him about the railroad bridge near the depot. , Repairs were being made on the bridge and Mr. Gettler feared the man might fall through. He then asked him where he wanted to go to and being informed that Chicago was his destination, directed him in the right direction. Mr. Gettler paid no further attention to him and does not know whether the stranger continued on his way or not. Where Is This Chap? Detectives, government officials and the Hammond police, who are looking for a slick money swindler who as been operating in these parts, have failed as yet to apprehend the clever foreigner, who it is thought has left for parts unknown. Detectives came here with the expectations of finding their man in these parts, but they failed to find any clews of him. The swindler is known to be one of the cleverest criminals in the country and at present the officials of different cities are waiting to lay their hands on! him. He has a proposition which looks good, but the victim finds he is about $90 short when he comes to cash up." The swindler takes a ten dollar bill and artistically makes a $1ii0 ra note out of it. ' He then works mostly in the foreign settlements -and . has cashed a i number of them.

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BIG III Lake Co. Republican Primaries Sat. 39-4 For Taft At the primaries held In Lake county last Saturday night Taft delegates to both the district and state republican .conventions were elected all over the county. Gary gave Roosevelt four votes and Taft four, according to a h,r- v monious agreement between the Taft an4 Roosevelt leaders. Out of the thirty-nine delegates that will go from the various cities and towns to the ,conventlocs at Hammond and Indianapolis, the Taft forces will have a representation of 35 and possibly 37. so that the victory of the republican organization is a splendid one. The various primaries brought out a surprisingly large number of republicans, and outside of the spirited rival- ; ry between the Taft and Roosevelt forces everything' was peaceful. In Hammond one of the biggest crowds tnat ever turned out came to Chopin hall to vote on the question of delegates. William Newman acted as chairman and Carl Ames as secretary. After a canvass of the hall had been made to ascertain who would go as delegates to Indianapolis, the two delegate tickets were put'through without a dissenting voice;. A feature of the Hammond primary was the attendance of a number , of county candidates. John Brennan of Gary made an ; eloquent republican speech, and Henry Whltaker, Fred Friedley, Aug. Johnson and Richard Schaaf were heard from. AT; O ART. Harmony prevailed Saturday night at the caucus of the Gary republicans, held in South Side Turner "hall, Fourteenth . avenue anfl Washington street, to select delegates,' to the atate and district convention. Delegates were not instructed, but of the eight to go to each convention four will ee ' for Taft and four for Roosevelt. The meeting wa called to order by CContlnued .on t.i AGAINST - :y!-'r , OBSCENE POSTALS Chief Austgen of the Hammond, police department is making a campaign in this city against the obscene postal cards which have been sold by the i Hammond dealers in thepast and Saurday he destroyed a number which were on sale. This morning he issued a warning to the effect that in the future the violation of this law would not be tolerated, and the Hammond dealers were again caught celling or displaying these kind of postal cards, they will be arretted and prosecuted. Those being arrested are liable to a fine of not less than $10. A Quiet Week-End. j ' "n lne exception or me arrest or - ninra w luuun otrr wiur. r aid Sunday nights. Ten lodgers i wre taken ll last night and were sent 1 out of town thls morning. So far March S na8 ke.n all records for night lodg- ; ers- ana . ssergeani Fenaner minus me number will, run over the 500-mark before the end of the month. The two drunks who were picked up were not 4 very prosperous looking pair, and they only had lc between them. CALf ANTI-TRUST LAW ANCIENT RELIC Former Senator Albert J. Bevertdgs of Indiana has come out In open attack on the Sherman actl-trust law. He calls Jt a "relic of the seventeenth century.' and declares that it has not corrected a- single evil of ' the STea( corporations.

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