Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 249, Hammond, Lake County, 10 April 1912 — Page 1

CFNTY TSM FAIR TODAY; THURSDAY FAIR AND WARMER. EDITION VOL. VI., NO. 249. HAMMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1912. ONE CENT PER COPY, (Back Numbers 1 Ceats Copy.)

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CASES ARE TO GO ON

WHAT MAY HAPPEN NEXT SATURDAY. IVhen Judge Van Fleet sit at Valparaiso at tea o'clock nest Satrdtjr mornliK tne following mar happen In connection with the linry bribery caaeai 1. Tne court may order a ease et for trial (Alderman Bowser Is Hrat on the docket but the state may elect to try Mayor Knott, John Xykoff or City Engineer Wll. tlatoa.) 2. It the court holds that three terms have elapsed the cases may be dismissed unless the state cau how aomo good reason for the ab-ence-of Ita witnesses. In such an event the caaes may go OTcr Into a fourth term but no longer. 3. The atate may move to quash the affidavits. Speculation as to what will be the outcome of Judge Van Fleet's sitting at Valparaiso next Saturday morninK at ten o'clock has produced a great tnany conjectures as to what will hap THE BOA Members Board of EducaUtiQaltoMJtaiportant Meeting I-st Night and Authorize Expansion of the School Work. The Hammond board of education at its meeting last night approved the new list of. teachers for 1S12-1913 and authorised an expansion of work along some very practical lines. Allowance has been made for a supervisor of music In the grades by Miss Marselle Murray, while Clark Learning will act as supervisor of the music of the high school only. There will be two teachers for the branch of physical education. Miss Elizabeth Talcott to have charge of the first three grades and Allen P. Owens of the other grades. The position of primary supervisor was created, and will be held by Miss Alta Adkins, now principal of the Irving school. In her new position she will have charge of the art and construction work In the first four grades to work out the idea of co-relation and the simplification of the work. Manual training and art and sewing will be given to the pupils of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, whereas heretofore only the seventh and eighth grades had "this advantage. ;ood Teachers Assured. Domestic science wilt be taught in nearly all the buildings with the exception of the Central school, where the room is lacking. The Irving school is (Continued on page five.) NOTED AUTHOR TO . TALK WITH LIVING Or. t. a., t uqi. In the death of Dr. 1. K r'unk, the noted author, clergyman, pubiuaer, a man of unusual accomplishments, wilt be mourned by bis thousands of friends. Jf nis theory of the her"- ter holds, however, it is possible that in his death the world will be benefited as in no other way. Dr. Funk was a firm believer in the ability of the a living to communicate with the dead. With this in mind he rranged a private code with a friend by which he would talk to him after death Both the name of the man who in to rereive the communication and the code axe entirety secret.

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pen to the rest of the Gary bribcy cases. Some of the speculations are: Will the atate. seeing' that Its two main witnesses, Harry Moose and Meyer Himmelblau have gone over to the camp of the enemy, throw up the sponge and move to quash the affidavits? Or will the state keep on Us fighting clothes and represent to the court th;it the absence of the witnesses will permit them to take advantage of section 2192 of Burns revised statutes and get another term continuance despite the lapsing over three terms? Or will Judge Van Fleet force the cases to trial? Or will the court continue them at the state's request until the next term? ' May Ask i.lbnon's Heleaae. Local lawyers say that the South Bend and Elkhart Jurist is a man of positive convictions and that on Saturday he will force things to a head. The cases will either cease or they will go on. There will be no "monkey business" such as has been carried on in the courts of Lake and Porter counties. Should all of the Gary defendant now awaiting trial escape it is proba(Continued on page S.) PUTS BULLET TO BRAIN "If I ever did anything wrong to you or your father, I want to ask your forgiveness, for I am going away and wtU 182 Calumet avenue, Hammond, to ; hla niece last sight and with these words fresh on his mind, he went to the rear of the building into the alley where he committed suicide by 'shooting himself through the mouth with a 32 caliber revolver at 8:15 p. m.. killing himself instantly. Masko had been drinking heavily for the past three weeks and out of work for some months. This is thought Is one cause for his committing suicide. A number of people acquainted with him, remarked about his nervous condition during the past few days and especially last night. After asking forgiveness from his niece, Masko met a friend Joe Kontechne and the two men walked towards the Ft. "Wayne depot. As if ha had forgotten something Masko, told Konetchne that he would be back in a minute and went into the alley be tween the Ft Wayne depot and Calu met avenue where he fired the fatal shot. , Ernest Ternouski, heard the shot and goind into the alley he found tho dead body of Masko. He at once notified the police and with the police pa trol the remains were removed to Km meiiing's morgue where funeral ar-i rangements and inquest will be made today. Masko Is a man about 40 years old and Is survived by a wife and two children who live In the old country. BETZ COMPANY ELECTS HEW OFFICERS Peter W. Meyn Now. Vice President of Manufacturing Company. The new officers of the F. S. Betz Co. have been selected following the Increase of the capital stock of the company. The president is F. S. Betz, the vice president. Peter W. Meyn; the secretary-treasurer, A. H. Rohrer. A. M. Turner, one of the incorporators is to be a director. At the next meeting of stockholders five additional directors will be selected. This will i make nine directors in all. The company is in an exceedingly flourishing condition and contemplates extension and Improvements that will make it on of the largest and best equipped plants in the region. Asks for Bids. The board of public works at its session this morning adopted confirmatory resolutions for the Hickory street sewer and asked for bids. Similar action was taken In the matter of the Charlotte avenue pavement. A resolution providing . for a pave-! ment In Cameron street was adopted, and petitions were received providing for pavements in Pine ana Cedar street from 150th street to Gostlin street. A petition was also received for a sewer and sidewalk In Elm street. La Vendor Cigars are pronounced exceptionally good by all smokers. '

LA NIGHT

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Kred Nlblo, has with her on tour this year her eight-year-old son, Master Fred. Naturally, being- "on the road," Fred cai't go to school, so

nis mother has round it necessary to combine the occupations of actress and teacher. She hears his lessons dally, and Papal Nlblo subjects the

lad to a severe cross-examination FAVOR SPRINKLING STREETS WITH OIL Details of Proposition Is Explained for Benefit of roperty Owners. WhajJkind of oil for street sprinkling purposes do Hammond property ow. Ut ;on roacadamixed stxeets""deire, the tro'st elTigr practically' equal? The us ual black-stinking carpet ruining, but dust laying crude oil, or an oil which is guaranteed to be colorless, odorless and dust-laying. On May 1 the board of public works will hear remonstrances to a sprinkling resolution, which provides for sprinkling with water, oils or liquid asphalt, lthough the water sprinkling is included in the resolution. It is not thought that It wlU be resorted to, for two years of this kind of work has convinced the average property owner that water sprinkling is not only a failure from a dust laying standpoint, but is rulnious to the street as well. Tho j ordinary black crude on, which was used on portions of streets in Hammond, was considered far more effective for dust laying. ' IJttle Difference In Cost. This year the board of public works has had brought to its attention another oil for dust laying, and if this oil does what its sellers say it will do and offer to prove by results in other cities, the problem should be easy of solution In Hammond. The cost per gallon of this so-called white oil In contra-dis-tlnction to the black crude oil is about j double, but the sprinkling capacity of a gaiion or wnite on is twice as large as that of the black oil, and so on the whole there is practically no difference In the total cost of the white or black oil process. At the most only two applications a season are necessary to begin with, and some cities after the first season are able to get along with one applica tion. The actual cost for Hammond cannot be determined until the bids are received. For the present only a comparative figure can be given. i Hammond property owners whose streets were -sprinkled with water last year paid on an average of 3.16 cents a square yard for water sprinkling. Crude 11 costs approximately 3 cents a gallon, and covers , approximately three square yards per gallon. The I Y. t . n t 1 . ttiA ntViA.. 1. r,. .. ...... t " i. u. I?, xiammuna, aiiu covers irom five to seven square yards per gallon. Allowing one-tenth of 1 pr cent for spreading the oil, the cost for two applications would be still be less than water sprinkling. Cireen AVII1 Experiment. The liquid asphalt sprinkling methoo is also very good, but more expensive than either oil or water. It is, however, by far more durable than oil. Admitting that the lasting qualities of either the black or white oils are equally good, it remains for the property owners to say whether he wants the back or the white, the black with the odor and color and gumminess, or the white oil. which is said to be so practical that in Chicago last year children were permitted to romp on the sand in the playgrounds a day after the oil had been applied. H. C. Green, superlntednent of the Green lines, anxious to give the white oil a trial has promised to use it on the dead ends of the company's lines on West Sibley and Kast State streets. Every woman In Hammond and locality will be privileged to join the new Club that will be organized here next week. See that your application goes In early. Kaufmann & Wolf. Furniture Department.

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once a week. MAY GE2 PRINCIPAL. Jit " The board fducation last night authorized Superintendent C. M. McDanlel to pfoeure a suitable principal for the. proposed night school which is to be established in Hammond next, fall. The man who is to take charge of the work in Hammond is to.be a man of wide experience In the work in order . that a school may be established which will benefit , hundred" of boys and girls whose opportunities were curtailed when " they were forced to: leave school in(or!er to earn money. FLYER KILLS A TRACKWALKER Accident to Pennsylvania Railroad Employe East of Hobart. Special to Th TiMxa) Hobart, Ind.. April 10. Joseph Destlno, night track walker for this division of the Pennsylvania, was struck and killed Just west of Wheeler by a westbound flyer. How the . accident happened is not known. The remains of the unfortunate man were found to be terribly mutilated. Destino was 23 years of age, unmar ried and his home was at Wheeler. The Porter county coroner will hold the inquest today, when the evidence of the trainmen will be taken. Open Bids Today. The West Hammond board of local Improvements this afternoon opened bids for the contracts to lay sewer and water mains for the country club addition to West Hammond. At 3 o'clock It was expected that the contracts would be let today in order that work may commence at once. East Siders to Meet. There will be a meeting of the East Side Improvement association next Friday night, at which several Important matters will be taken up. BURMAN. PLANS FOR VERY BUSY SEASON. 'Wild Bob" Burmsn. The most popular auto driver judging by advance bookings. Is the far-famed 'Tild Bob" Burman. Barring accident he Is to take part In over 80 races. Including practically every race of importance tor 1914. Three firm are after him to flriva their cars in tt: 500-mile Interna tional sweepstakes race at Indianapolis OA Memorial da.

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LAYS WIRES FOR OFFICE ONCE IRE

Mayor Thomas E. Knotts of Gary Proposes to Show the County That He Is Very .Much Alive in the Political Game. Mayor Knotts of Gary has started to . lay his wires for another term as chief executive of the steel city. j In case the man who has been at the;w head of the city's government for two terms runs Into no more dictograph snarls he expects to be re-elected by a large majority. Not only is Knotts taking an active interest in city organization, but he is keeping his eyes on county affairs, and his city hall crowd says that when the proper time comes another effort will be made to clean up on the Hammond democracy. The announcement of the candidacies of several Hammond men for office has produced a large roar at the Gary city hall, and if the Gary leaders have their say Hammond will get very little oft of the county platter. Xyfaolr Seeks Office Again. Former Commissioner of Public Works John J. Nyhoff Is said to be a candidate for the office of city clerk in (Continued on page . EllAflS SUES FOR DAMAGE!! As a result of the accident in which David E. Evans was severely Injured in a fall from a scaffold in the Schutz theatre building, and the man who was working with him was killed Attorneys McMahon & Conroy have started a suit for $25,000 damages against C. D. Dourkard of- the company bearing his name, painters and decorators, and against A. Lehman and Peter and Mary Schutz. The accident happened on Dec. 21, 1911. It is alleged that the defendants were negligent in that they permitted the scaffolding to be built In a negligent manner. Tt is charged that the cause of the accident was the breaking of a running board upon which the men were working. The board is said to have been knotty and defective. The cause of the accident has been generally supposed to be the tetering of this board when the painters walked on it, resulting in the end of it slipping from its support. The complaint says that" the fall of 50 feet resulted in breaking the plaintiff's left thigh, a cempound fracture of the left hip. the breaking of three ribs, the breaking of the right arm below the elbow, the spraining of the right ankle joint and internal injuries. RIFLE CLUB'S FIRST MEETING The Hammond Rifle club will hold their first meeting of the season at 652 South Hohman street Saturday afternoon for the purpose of re-organizing and arranging a schedule of their shoots. In view of the fact that a new club house h: been built at Sharpshooterspark, it Is expected that the membership will be greatly increased this year and the members are looking forward to a prosperous season. It is requested that all members will be present at this meeting. TRANSFER CO. INCORPORATES TIMES BVREAI , AT STATE CAPITA!.. Indianapolis, Ind., April 10. The Hammond-Gary Transfer company of Hammond was incorporated here today with a capital stock of $20,000. The Incorporators are S. G. Carley, C. C. Smith and J. S. Iewis. Bulldog Attacks Man. . Charging that a large dog owned byAlbert Kilborn attacked him-- on April 6, ruining his clothes and' injuring his person. Henry Fisher, employed as a collector from Chicago, filed a damage suit in Judge Prest's court yesterday for $100. The complaint reads that, as the plaintiff was entering the defendant's premises on Aprrl 6 a large bulldog, which was unchained and running at large, attacked him, damaging a suit of clothes and injuring his person. The trial wltl come up Thursday morning at 9 o'clock.

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NEW PLATE HILLS,

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Additions Will Call For 1,000 Additional Men With Total of 4,000

The Inland steel company will add a plate mill and four open hearth furnaces to its plant at Indiana Harbor, within the next few months. The contracts have not been let thus far) but it is expected that the Work ... - , , . , cuittjuevcu uaure wic iicw vear. These additions together with the new blast furnace just completed. will make places for nearly 1,000 additional men. WHERE THEY ARE NEEDED. The plate mill requiring in the neighborhood of 200 more men, the new open hearth furnaces 200 more the blast furnace 200 more and the mill at large the balance, in order to take cars of the extra output made possible by these improvements, and which require handling in other departments in the DEATH AT LAST CLAIMS G. E. CLARK Story of Faithful Collis Dog Is Recalled byTiiis Demise. George E. -Clark, formerly of West Hammond, the cripple who was thrown out of employment as a result of the killing of his collie which herded cattle for him, died in Montreal, Canada, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. S. Cooper. Clark was troubled with a tubercular disease of the leg and was unable to get about. He had a faithful collie, which, with almost human Intelligence, herded his cattle for him and enabled him to earn a living. The dog was shot by a West Hammond man who was afterwards compelled to pay a considerable sum of money in damages as a result of a suit In Judge Frank Green's court. mv ieVf.d nvor the loss of his dog that his sickness became aggra-j vated and he was compelled to go to the hospital. Later he recovered sufficient- i ly to make the trip to his daughter's , home in Canada. I The news of his dath was received from his sister in a letter to The Times today. He was well known in Wes Hammond. GLEAN BILL OF HEALTH FOR OFFICERS The state board of accountants, which spent several weeks in Lake county, going over the accounts of the county clerk's offices, both at Hammond and at Crown Point, completed its work this week, and gave Ernest L. Shortridge, the county clerk, and his deputies a clean bill of health. Inspectors A. E. Johnson and Haefling were on the job, and in accordance with the rules of the board came into the clerk's office unannounced, and began to dig into the records with the result that it put Its O. K. on the books. WHO IS THIS MAN? A dispatch from Hammond to the South Bend Tribune says: "Richard Reider. a track cleaner employed on the street car lines here, will stick to his Job despite the fact that he has just fallen heir to 22 acres of Missouri farming land and several thousand dollars in money. Reider received a letter yesterday from relatives which stated that he had been made wealthy t- the death of an uncle. Reider said he would continue to work at his present job." No one in Hammond seems to know Reider and his name is not In the directory. ARE YOU REAUISG THE TIMES f

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mill before they are ready for th market. " This will bring the number of man employed at the big plant up to nearly 4,000. The mill has now eight open hearth furnaces, and the new ones contain plated will Increase this number to an even dosen. They are fifty tons capacity eaeh, making a total capacity of 600 tons dally. - LEES' "VERY SVCCESgmriM The plate mill will be what Is technic cally known as a "I high" mill, having three rolls, S3 inches in diameter. It' will roll plates up to a width of SO inches. It will be erected next to the continuous mill. The new open heartH furnaces will be an extension of the present ones. These improvements will go a lone ways toward making ' the . Inland mill the largest independent mill in the country. It has grown remarkably under the superlntendency of John W. Lees, who is regarded as one of the most competent practical steel men r the United States. TWO HUNTERS ARE VERY HEAR DEATH J: Grinth I:a Tlirccni Into Yesterday (Special to Tm Times.) Griffith, Ind., April 10 Two" hunters had a narrow escape from death by drowning in the IJttle Calumet river not far from here yesterday afternoon, when their boat was overturned and both men pitched into the river. The men were George Spits and George Govert. They were in a small boat and the current swift filled it with waves. The boat sank to the bottom of the river in a spot about eight feet deep. Benumbed by the cold and unable to swim, things looked desperate for the men un til by dint of hard work they were able . "o1 th boat bottom up down to bunch of willows, from whence other hunters rescued them. ENGLISH MINISTER IS CREA TED KNIGHT Sir Edward Grey In Court Costume. uy conferring the c: Vr of Knight ot the Go-ter on Sir Edward Grey the king of England placed the tamp of -ipprov.i .. his minister of foreign affairs. The kins singled out Sir Qrey from among his friends an advisers -eca-ne of the high esteem In which he la held. The photograph shows the newly made Knight just leaving his caxrlase after the ceremonies.

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