Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 12, Hammond, Lake County, 20 April 1912 — Page 1

COUNTY WHAT IS HQLE WITHOUT THE TIMES? I FAIR TODAY AND I PROBABLY SUNDAY; I HIGHER TEMPERATURE. I VOL. II., NO. 12. APRIL 20, 1912 EIGHT PAGES. SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION.

DEMOCRATS TO 1EET AT GARY MAY

tlllLLETIS.) At three o'clock this afternoon the precinct committeemen In session decided to hold the Lake county democratic nominating convention at Gry on Saturday May 25th, the delegate strength to be one delegate to every fifty votes cast for Elltngham in 1910, thus making it a convention of 125 delegates. It was further agreed that the delegates to the nominating convention shall be empowered to select the delegates to the congressional, judicial and joint representative conventions, this plan having been adopted to obviate extra conventions. The registration law was discussed and arrangements made for the first registration. County Chairman John A. Gavit presided. The convention was harmonious and well attended. Scores of democratic precinct committeemen from all over the county GETS LEASE ON GROUNDS Baseball fans of Hammond received glad tidings from Chicago this morning when Walter Sohl Informed them that a lease had been secured on the H. A. A. grounds, and the season will be opened tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, when Fast Chicago and Hammond will play a practice game. A firc of men are at work on the grounds this afternoon and they will be in g:ood shape' for the opening game . totnrrcw..',Valter; Pohlts frTmy -conr plirr.etifefT jHr hfaiiara work'Tff securing the lease, as he has had a. difficult time In coming to terms with the G. II. Hammond Co., who refused signing the lease because the former H. A. A. club was indebted to them for a large amount of rent. In the past week Fowler has been signing up players for the coming season and tomorrow a new line-up will be seen on the Hammond team. Berkman and Geltz, two well-known slab artists of the city league, will be seen on the mound tomorrow, and the fans are looking for (hem to make a good showing. New players will also be tried out at the infield, while there will be six men who will try and win their berts in the outfield. Plans are being made to erect a new grandstand, as last year's crowds demonstrated that the old stands were inadequate. Hammond l.lnr-l p. Wagoner and McDonaugh catchers. Berkman and Geitz pitchers.. Fowler first base. Cerley second base. Saten shortstop: Hansen third base. Gisk, Rhode, Moll, Eder, Enrlght and Johnson outfielders. TRANSFER OE 13 ACRES TAKES PLACE Transfer of 13 and 182-1.000 acres of land in section 16 at Indiana Harbor to the South Chicago ana . Southern railway has been made by the East Chirago company. The consideration stated is $13,182, which makes the price $1,000 an acre. This land is south of the Pennsylvania right of way and west of the harbor ship canal. It Is located about half way between the Inland Steel works and the Whiting oil refineries. Wife Deserter Arrested. On a warrant for abandonment and a fugitive from justice. Robert F. Walls of Youngstown. O., was arrested at the Lash hotel last night by Officers Bunde and EInsele. Walls was charged with having left his wife and family at Voungstown and came here, where he was employed as a switchman. Ho was taken back to Youngstown this morning by James Watkins, who has been looking for Walls for several weeks. Shoot in Chicago. Members of the Hammond Gun club will go to Chicago tomorrow to participate in the tournament of the Chicago Gun Club league, which will be held on the grounds of the Chicago Gun club. WHY ARE fOU NOT A READER? TIMES

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gathered in Hammond today in the Jefferson club rooms to confer with County Chairman John A. Gavlt about the impending campaign. The most important matter to come before the assembly was the fixing of the date for the nominating convention. Mr. Gavit was of the opinion this morning that the committeemen would arrive at some conclusion on this question today. Another matter of much Importance to Gary was the re-appolntment of the delegate strength. According to xha. apportionment fixed by the state cen tral committee for the state conven tion, the delegate strength was fixd according to the democratic vote in 130S, and while this was representative of the practically all the democratic vote in Lake county it is not in ac. cordance with the strength that Gary has today owing to its rapid growth To rectify this ' particularly because only local issues are involved in the nominating , convention, the precinct committeemen will fix the delegate strength according to the democratic vote of 1910. New Lake County South Bend Traction Connection's. Indlanapolln, Ind., April 20. Tlirmigli Intrrnrlmn nervlee between South Bend and Hammond via (iry vrlll be started about Jane 1 and will be operated jointly by the Chicago, South Bend A Northern Indiana railway and the Xw York-Chicago Air Line. Both companies will furnish cars for the service. The frarka of the Northern Indiana railway will he .nsed between South Bend and Lb port e, and the Air Line beyond that point. The Northern Indiana line operates through ears from St. Joseph, Mich., through South Bend to Pern, through a similar agreement with the Winona Internrhan railway. GOUtlTY AUDITOR -t RECIEVESJUPPLIES Preliminary Plans for Registration - of Voters Are Made. County Auditor Charles Johnson has been over the entire county swearing in the registration inspectors. He was in Hammond on Tuesday, In Indiana Harbor and East Chicago on Wednesday, In Gary on Thursday and In Whiting yesterday. He will go to Lowell tonight for the purpose, of taking care of the Creek townships. The first registration in Indiana will be on May 9, and after that there will bo registrations tn September and October. A great deal of interest is being taken in the coming registration. A few days ago Auditor Johnson re(Continued on Page 6.) Chance for Taxpayers. Beginning next Monday the city treasurer's office will be open during the lunch hour and until 8 o'clock in the evening to accommodate the taxpayers for the spring rush of the taxjaylng season. William Kolb, deputy city treasurer, In making this announcement this morning said that the taxpayers could save themselves much time and delay if they would take the precaution of bringing their old tax receipts with them. The two hundred dollar appropriation asked for by the city treasurer's office from the city council, and which resulted in a tie vote at . th councit meeting last Tuesday with six councilmen voting for it . and six against, leaving Mayor Smalley to cast the dej ciding vote in Its favor, will in all probability not become effective, as un der the law three-fourths of the council must vote In favor of an appropriation ordinance. Mayor's Landmark Gone. Mayor John D. Smalley appeared at the city hall this morning minus hi3 mustache, and for a few minutes, he was plied with questions from his official family faster than he could answer them. When? How? and why was the substance of the questions. "This morning by means: of a barber's razor, which finished the work that an abbreviated burning cigar had begun," was his answer to his questioners. For ten years the decoration was a landmark in Hammond. Will Have New Pastor. Beginning a week from tomorrow the First .German Evangelical church of Robertsdale is to have a new pastor, to take the place of the Rev. Schrader. The Rev. W. E. Wilhelm of Batavia, 111., has received a call to the Robertsdale church, and Will preach his farewell sermon to his Batavia congregation, and the Robertsdalti people are assured of progressive scholarly minister. ......

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IS HELD IN ABEYANCE If Northern Indiana" Gas People Get Baldwin Contract Power Plant at East Chicago Will Be Made at Least a Third Larger. If the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company is able to secure the contract from the Baldwin Locomotive works for supplying the electric power it will build a power plant at the junction of the Indiana Harbor canal and the Calumet river that will be at east a third larger than was at first contemplated. Until this matter is settled the question of buiding the new power plant wll be held in abeyance. The plant was to have been built with a capacity of 7,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. The Baldwin plant will use approxi(Continued on Pas 6.) JUDGE AHDERSOH IS AT THEJLD GAME Says He Can't Stand Hammond Hotels and Adjourns Court Early. Judge A. B. Anderson of the United States court made the statement to Charles Surprise, deputy United States clerk, that as soon as Hammond gets a decent hotel he will, hold longer ses-; sions of court - and, furthermore,". H wTUcogtl ri ue 'Ma daily -sessions tin til 6 o'clock. ' As matters now stand he adjourns court at 5 o'clock, so that he can get into Chicago on the 4:07 Michigan Central. The court is convinced that the business that is Hied here warrants the business that is filed here warrants the holding of longer sessions of court, but he positively refuses to stay in Hammond" all night. For the first time in the history of the Hammond federal court its sessions are to be continued over the second, and possibly the third week. The case of George Iawrence vs. the Pennsylvania railroad was concluded yesterday afternoon and at 6 o'clock the J'iry returned a sealed verdict, which is to be read in court Monday morning. The case of Iewar vs. the FitfihughLuther Co. will go to trial the first thing on Monday morning. This is expected to last several days. Then there is still another case which will be tried before the court adjourns. This means that Hammond will have J one United States court and three su-) perior courts In session next week. .It is expected that the city will be invaded by a host of attorneys from all parts of the country. The fact that Hammond's hotels are Inferior to those of many cities of larger size is shown by the statement of a Chicago oatent attornev whn at. I tended the federal court and stayed at a local hotel. He said that the room was not bad. but that the breakfast he ate was anything but relished and that he agreed with Judge Anderson that Hammond Is all right except that it does not afford a place for. the entertainment of transient visitors. Maid Is Arrested. Bertha Borowski, 13 years old, and residing at 430 One Hundred and Fiftyfifth place. West Hammond, was arrested by Officer Carlson last night at 31 Mason street on a charge of petit larceny. Mr. Harrison who resides at 31 Mason street, testified that the girl had been working there after school' every evening and that for some time numerous articles have been missed. The suspicion did not fall upon her until yesterday when she was arrested. On account of her age it was thought best not to prosecute her and she was turned over to the settlement house. A New Baby Girl. An eight-pound baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McCarthy, "48 Wolter Street, this morning and the mother and daughter are reported getting along nicely. Mr. McCarthy is well known in Hammond, being employed at the Northern Indiana Gas company. Store Is Sold. Wiegand's delicatessen store, located for fourteen years at 645 Hohman street, has been transferred to 6,44 State Line street, where the business will be conducted in the future in August Welgand's own building. In addition to the bakery goods a line of groceries will also be put on the shelves, and the proprietor hopes that his Hohman street patrons will look him up at his new location. Frank Sidentopf has purchased the Hohman street byftioess. !

SHE WOULD NOT LEAVE i AND WENT --K-f-'5 Milwaukee, Wis., April 20. Thrilling as were 'many of the terribly pathetic tales which came from the lost Titanic, none was more pitiful or tragic than that related yesterday by long distance telephone from Sew York to Mrs. Adam Gross of Milwaukee by her niece of the death of Mrs. H. J. Allison of Ontario by the side, of the husband she refused to leave. With Mrs. Allison and her husband died their little daughter, Lorraine, but as the last boat pushed off from the Titanic, Mrs. Allison forced her sister, Miss Sadie Daniels, to take her 7 months' son, Wilbur, and . escape. Miss Daniels, although stunned by the terrible sights she had witnessed, was able to tell connectedly, even graphically, the atory of the devotion of Mrs Allison to her husband. - Here is the story as she told It tJ Mrs. Gross: "Sister died rather than leave her husband, when the officers refused to let both Into the lifeboa She said life was not worth living alone and she went down even smiling, with her arm around Herbert. NEWARK filEII BEAT DP MIGHT CLERK Said They Were on Their Way to Gary to Find Work. Following an attack upon the night clerk, George Jinny, at the Majestic hotel in Hammond this morning, two brothers, John and Joe Walsh, of Newark. N. J.. were arrested in an intoxicated condition by Officer Kunz on Hohman street on a charge of assault and battery. What their motive was the night clerk could not understand, but he thought that the two men made an attempt to hold him up. After the assault took place and they had beaten the night clerk nearly unconscious, John Walsh made tiis escape . by deliberately jumping through a plate glass door on Hohman street, while his brother left by a rear door. They then met on Hohman street, where Officer Kunz placed them under arrest. They were found guilty before Judge Barnett this morning and fined $25 and costs, amounting to S35 each. "I was sitting in a chair sleeping when these two fellows came into the lobby," said Jinny this morning, "and when I tried to quiet them, so that they would not wake the people up, they cursed and pounced upon me. One of them must have struck me with a club. .because the blows cut my arm and Tiearly rendered me ' unconscious. Mr. Gelnon, hearing the noise, came down stairs and they threw him on the floor. They tiien made, their; escape." The two men testified that the came out from Chicago and wer on their way to Gary, where they expected to find work as lathers. Unable to pay their fines, they will be taken to Crown Point in default. ,

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HUSBAND DOWN WITH TITANIC. JE2i2'JL "When the boat struck few realized there was any dange Herbert and I Bessie laughed and went back to dress, i When we stood together at the rail, aa the boats were being sent away, I was standing with Wilbur, and Lorraine was with Herbert and Bessie Then came the order, 'Women only,' and an officer tried to put Bessie In the boats.- " 'Not without my husband,' she cried. 'You must,' cried the officer, but Bessie threw her arms around Herbert's neck and. refused to leave him. Then after the officer stopped trying to force her into the boat she ran to me. pushed me into the boat, and threw little Wilbur after me. "The boat waa full, and she grasped. Lorraine with one arm, and her husband with the other, and stood waving her hand, and, it seemed to me. smiling, as she saw us rowing away. The last I saw, just as the boat started to plunge to the bottom, was Bessie turning to ner nusoana ror -a iar.w . Kill, aa iiic wavtri naniiru iu iiirir I knees. Lorraine was holding to her mother's skirts."" STREET CAR TRACK LAYING AT HUB Citizens at Last Sit Up and Notice. Begin Take to (Special to The Times.) Crown Wint, Ind., April 20. Ths county seat is really to be Invaded by a street car company. All doubts arcset at rest. The first bona fide operations of the Gary & Southern Traction Co. started yesterday. A trip to Main street will silence the scoffers. Piles of ties line the street from Goldsborough to North. The unload ing commencing yesterday. A gangj will be kept steady at work here from now on until the track Is laid, and It begin to look as if the last doubts of1 the pessimists ought to be settled as to the probability of the company putting the road in operation. Voting for Board. Men and women, who are of voting age. went to the polls this afternoon In Sobieski district, on the south side. West Hamniond. to elect a new school board, while the voters in the West Hammond district on the north side vote frqm 7 to 9 o'clock this evening to elect their board. The elections are being held in the school houses of the respective districts. In the south side district. Miss Virginia Brooks was a candidate .'for president of the board and the names of K. M. Woszczy n.ski and John Rybarczak; were submitted as directors, in the north side district John J. Brehm and Gus Grussel and' Ernest Rhuel were up for re-election. Brehm being candidate for president and the other two for directors.

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Major Archibald Butt's Farewell Words. "Good-by, Miss Young," said Major Butt, bravely and smilingly, "luck is with you. Will you kindly remember me to all the folks back home?,, Then he stepped back, raising his hat.

New York, April 20. The living cared for the dead beyond recall, survivors of the Titanic disaster were able for the first time today to see in calmer retrospect Monday's tragedy of the north Atlantic and from their more normal utterances there is slowly unfolding the full story of J how the great White Star Liner, her band playing to the last, sank off the , Grand Banks with more than 1,500 j P"01" aboard. - J From tfc .Canutes" ol JRothes! now I " Quartered luxuriously in a New "York .hotel, to the six Chinese coolies whs 'escaped byv hidfe. under the life-! boat seats, all of the 705 "have 'been provided with food and clothing and some, immigrants and millionaires, are on their way home -to England, the continent or distant parts of the United States. SCORES IX HOSPITALS. Many, however and of these the hospitals shelter 140 still remain In New York, where the Cunard liner Carpathia brought them last night. Even after all has been told of the disaster, the death list remains approximate. Last night's total estimate was 1,596; today the White Star Line issued a statement placing the toll at 1,635. WILL NEVER BE KSOWS. Exactly how many died will never be known. It has been established j n(i.llt. Xnw.v.r that th Titnntc ! , traveling twenty-one knots an hour when It struck the iceoerg. Not withstanding this, however, none of the survivors, from steerage to saloon, has as yet condemned Captain Smith, who went down with his ship. WHAT ISMAY SAII. The Titanlc's rate of speed, which was approximately twenty-six , and one-half miles, was brought out today from the lips of J. Bruce Ismay, presi dent of the International Mercantile Marine and managing director of the White Stir line, who appeared as a witness before the United States Sen CContlnued on Page 6. ROBERTSDALE MAN DEAD (Special to The Times.) KODensaaie, April v. vnsries mm- ( er of Roberts avenue died at his home Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock after a lingering illness of cancer of the stomach. The funeral will be held Sunday at 1 o'clock from the home. Rev. Bopp of the German Lutheran church will officiate. Mr, Miller was 55 years old and has been a resident of , Robertsdale for a number of years. He Is survived1 by his wife and an adopted son. Accident to Mrs. Gostlin. Mrs. W. H. Gostlin had the misfortune of breaking her left arm above the wrist yesterday morning when she fell In her home, corner Hohman and Waltham streets. A rug on which she was walking slipped on a waxed floor and Mrs. Gostlin, In order to catch her balance, threw back her hands with the result that the bones were snapped. Prompt medical attention, which was given her, insured a proper setting. The accident happened yesterday momlrr. Judge Green a Delegate. Judge Frank Green was selected as a delegate to the democratic national convention at Baltimore.. Judge Green will represent the Sullivan wing of th? party at the convention. The judge returned from Peoria this morning, where he has been in attendance at the convention which selected the delegates. He wos immediately oc cupied with the disposing of a number of petty justice court cases. s

He Took Place In Washington, April 20. A rraphlo story of the heroism of Major Archibald W. Butt on the Titanic was told today In an interview given to the Washington Star's staff correspondent Captain of Ship Which Saved 705. A 74 Pmtnrr in New York by Miss Marie Young, a former resident of this city. Miss Young is believed to have, been the last woman to leave the Titanic and the last f the survivors to have talked with the president's military aid. (Continued on Pag .) SHERIFF IS IN HOSPITAL (Special to The Timbs.) Crown Point, Ind., April 20. Sheriff Thomas Grant, after a week of Intense suffering with an abscexs in his head. Is expected to bo taken to a Chicago hospital today to submit to an operation. The Lake county sheriff is re ported to be in a critical condition and his hosts of friends in Iake county are alarmed. It is hoped that the operation will prove successful and the sheriff obtain the necessary relief from his suffering. WILL PREACH ON "TITANIC." Sunday evening at the Christian church a memorial service will be held for those who perished on the Titanic. The sermon subject will be: "Lessons to Be Gleaned from the Disaster of the Titanic." With the revival closed, the church is now beginning to make preparations to entertain the state convention on May 13 to 15. The Snodgrass revival team secured good results, and while It is working in other fields the evangelistic energy in the local church is to be continued throughout the year. The Snodgrass revival added 104 members, to the church. Within the past twenty months 501 additions have been made, while the grand total of new members during the Rev. Sharp's ministry is 1,301.

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