Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 268, Hammond, Lake County, 2 May 1912 — Page 1

CO' WEATHER. HI WARM AND UNSETTLED TODAY AND TOMORROW. 'J EDITION VOL. VI., NO. 268. HAMMOND, INDIANA; THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1912. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers S Cti Cob 7.) NO CHICAGO PAPERS TONIGHT Owing to a strike In the press rooms of all the Chicago evening papers none of them were issued this afternoon. Differences existing over the renewal of contracts between the publishers and union men are at the bottom of the trouble. PICKED UP DEMOCRATIC WOMEN OF WASHINGTON TO GIVE BREAKFAST ON MAY, 20. IN HONOR OF THE MEMORY OF DOLLY, MADISON

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Gay Chicago Woman Who Traveled With Affinities in Relays; Crown Point Doctor Finishes Indianapolis-Chicago Trip. AUTO TRIP ENDED AT THREE A. '13. The Chauffeur Says: "At Crown Point we picked up a doctor whom Mrs. Roach knew and he rode with us to Chicago where we arrived on May 27. I heard Mrs. Roach tell the doctor when we got off the Twelfth street station of the South Side elevated that she was afraid to go alone to the New Southern hotel so early in the morning. He wentwith her." s Crown Point, Ind., May 2. Who is the Crown Point doctor and what is Mr. Elmore's other name? These are the questions that have set society's tongue wagging here. Mrs. Mary E, Roach the Chicago beauty who according to her maid has fourteen affinities, numbers two Crown Point men among them. ..,.SOflETY IS SHOCKED. Detailed 'descriptions of the automobile trip of Mrs. Mary E. Roach from Louisville, Ky., to Chicago, during which, it is alleged, she traveled with numerous, "affinities" whom she picked up "in relays" was told yesterday In Judge McDonald's court by her former chauffeur, Harry Jackson. Compared with Jackson's story, the testimony of the maid on the day previous, concerning Mrs. Roach's alleged fourteen affinities, dwindled into insignificance. (Continued on page S.) DR. EBRIGHT HAS A NARROW ESCAPE Partner in Stall With Horse Suffering From Hydrophobia. Dr. Ebright, the Hammond veterinary surgeon, escaped serious injury in Gary yesterday afternoon when he got into a stal where a horse, which he later found to be suffering from hydro phobia, was confined. The doctor was called to Eleventh avenue and A'Oams street to attend a sick horse. He approached it, and the animal becoming enraged,- tried to bite him. Failing in this it bit itself. Dr. Ebrght notified the police and Captain Newman sent Officer McKlfresh iown to shoot the. animal. It is believed that the horse was bitten by a dog a month ago. NOT SEN. LORIMERS FRIEND. SAYS TAFT William Lorlmer. President Taft -lotly denies the charge m&ue by Col. Roosevelt that he. Taft, is frienJly to Senator Lorlmer. cf Illinois. The "blond boss" worked ftor Taft in the Illinois preferential primary campaign, and carried his district for the President. 'ie enate will determine during Its present session whether or not It will unseat Mr. Lorlmer.

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Evidently there is a wide discrepan cy between the assessed valuation of Calumet avenue propertyand the value i that some of the property owners place i on it now that Calumet avenue is to be opened and widened by taking from seven to ten-foot frontage from each lot. There Is also this significant fact, and it will undoubtedly have considerable bearing in a court hearing that same of the Calumet avenue property owners are willing to accept the board of public . works' ruling to the effect that the benefits shall equal the damages where no buildings and Improvements are touched, whereas other property owners in remonstrances are asking for excessive damages under almost similar circumstances. Belt Claim Not Serious. It may be stated at this point that the claim which the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad made through Its attorney in a remonstrance, in which it asked for $10,050, is out of all consideration, this sum having been set in accordance with a more or less senseless policy in legal procedure where damages are asked, to fix the sum about 1,000 per cent higher than the actual amount which is expected. In the case of the Indiana Harbor Belt the company is put to the expense of moving a little shanty, and if the estimated damages had been limited to $50, and the $10,000 (Continued on Pas 3.) On Saturday of this week will bo "clean-up" day in the city of Hammond. The school children will be asked to take the lead, and every resident with an ounce of pride is expected to do what he can to help and to encourage. All the school children In the public and parochial schools will be asked by their teachers tomorrow to lend a hand. The city is to help, too, for all rubbish that is put In the alleys before May 6 will be carted away by the street cleaning department, John F. Kuhlman. street commissioner, , having made arrangements to hire a number of extra teams for this work. After May 6 the garbage ordinance will be rigorously enforced, as announctd In a notice to the public by Dr. W. D. Weis, secretary of the board of health, and Mr. Kuhlman. Under the garbage ordinance it is prohibited to throw any rubbish Into the alleys; ashes and garbage alone are permitted there and they must be placed in separate and proper receptacles. ' "It Is nothing unusual for us to find old mattresses, tree limbs, parts of old stoves, store boxes, old rugs and such rubbish in the garbage boxes," said Mr. I Kuhlman. "We will give the public an opportunity to get rid of all this stuff, provided It is placed in the alleys before May 6, where our teams will gather it up. After that rubbish will no longer be tolerated in the alleys." FORTUNES IN STANDARD OIL New York, May 2. A list of the pres ent stockholders In the Standard Oil company of New Jersey has been pub lished here by a Wall street house, which obtained its data. It asserts, from the stock books. The list credits John D. Rockefeller with 244,500 shares, worth $220,000,000 at the latest quotations. This sum, of course, does not Include his holdings in the various subsidiaries which in the Indiana company alone are worth nearly $25,000,000. DEATH OF MRS. BORg. Hobart. Ind.. May 2. Mrs. Anna Bork, who has been seriously ill at her home at Gary for the past two months with heart trouble, was brought here to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Rose, on Tuesday evening and died yesterday morning at 1:45 o'clockfl. She was 66 years old and besides a husband leaves four daughters, Mesdames A. Wise, V. Rose, P. Palmer and F. Bhrylmeyer. besides seventeen grandchildren and one great-grandchild, to mourn her loss. The funeral services will be held on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rose and the Interment will be at the Crown

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In th center, Dolly Madlsonj upper left, Mrm. Q rover Cleveland; lower left. Mr. Judson Harmon; upper right. Mrs. WooJrov Wilson; lewer right., Mr. Norman E. Mack. An Interesting spring social event i the breakfast to be given by the Democratic women on May 20. In honor of Dolly Madison, the wife of President James Madison, and patron adnt of the women of the pary- Among the well-known women whose presence will grace this function will be M Grover Cleveland, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Mrs. Judson Harmon and Mrs. Norman EL Mack.

PROHBl FAB i LOSES All EVE William Knopf Meets With a Serious Accident at Crown Point. (Special to The Times,) Crown Point. Ind., May 2. Will Knopf a prominent Center township farmer, living east of Crown Point, near the county farm,' was the ictim of a serious accident yesterday, and became the loser of an eye through the operation. While making some repairs on a gasoline engine, a piece of steel which he was cutting with a cold chisel flew into his eye. rendering the optic useless. The accident is the second one that Mr. Knopf has suffered Inside of a year, caused by the gasd- f line egnine, no nearly losing an arm last summer by being caught In the machinery. MQflOMD LOSES J. CALLAHAN Chicago, Indiana & Southern Railway Man to Go With Illinois Tunnel Co. J. W. Callahan, the assistant superintendent of the Chicago, Indiana & Southern railroad, has resigned his position, the resignation to take effect May 15, to take another with the Illinois Tunnel Co. Mr. Callahan will have an Important position with the new company and will go over with C. W. Hotchkiss, who also resigned from the C, I. & S. Mr. Callahan will reside in Hammond until he sells the residence which he recently built In Homewood. Speaking of the matter today Mr. Callahan' said: "l sincerely regret that I will have to leave Hammond. I can say conscientiously that the two years I have spent, in Hammond are the best two years of my life. There are no finer people In the country than those who reside in Hammond, and I am sorry to have to leave them." Mr. Callahan is improving himself considerably in his new position and is expected to become a valuable member of Hotchkiss' cabinet. The resignation of Mr. Hotchkiss and Mr. Callahan will make possible a number of promotions, but it is not expected that they will be announced for some time. Women Are Released. The case of .the state of Indiana vs. Olive and Velma Geldy of South Milford, charged with petit larceny, came up for trial in Judge Ames' court yesterday and, not having sufficient evidence for conviction, Prosecuting Attorney Ross nolle prossed the cases. Martin Corbett swore out warrants for the women's artest last week and complained that they had taken two trunks and a valise containing a number of valuable articles. In court yesterday there was no evidence brought out that the Trorsca stole the trunks.

TRACTION QUEST!HANGS FIRE

That Interminable traction franchise question is still hanging fire in East Chicago but there is another promise of a setlement today. A meeting of the joint committee on routing appointed by Mayor Schlieker was held last night, and no definite agreement was reached, although after the question had ben thrashed over for several hours, there seemed an inclination to settle on the routing originally proposed, with one or two slight changes. One of the proposed changes gives ths Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago equal right with the Gavit line over the later's branch from Kennedy ave nue west, as originally proposed and this . branch instead of continuing straight through Chicago avenue to (Continued on Page 8.) H'KIHLEY CLUBS TO BEORGAfilZED Representatives to Meet and Perfect Plans for Organization. Dr. T. Edwin Bell, who has been selected as the representative from Hammond to organize McKinley clubs all over the county, stated today that the representatives from the other cities of the county would meet in the near future and perfect a plan of organization. He said that no organizations have been perfected as yet. It is the intention, however, to organize McKinley clubs in every city in the country. These will co-operate with each other and will really be parts of the same organization. It is expected that this plan will make possible a more perfect organization than any that has yet been adopted. It is the purpose of the leaders "of the party to make these organizations permanent wherever it is found possible The extent of the movement may be appreciated from the fact that in Gary R. E. Rowley is to have charge of the movement. C. E. Fowler In Indiana Harbor, J. F. Foland in East Chicago, T. E. Bell In Hammond, Walter Schrage in Whiting, Howard Slocumb In Lowell, Ernest Shortridge in Crown Point, and Walter Edwards in Aetna. The details of the plan for organization will be announced in the near future, and it is expected that the McKinley clubs will be a great factor for republican success thi3 fall. USED THINGS THAT IOC DOm WANT CAN BE SOLD IF YOU ATVERTISR LV THK T11KS

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Haminond Sleuth Is Also Trailing Suspect in Dyer Bank Case. (Special to The Times.) Dyer, Ind., May 2. Detectives - and sleuths are still at work to find a clue to the identity of the burglars who attempted to rob the Dyer barrk last week. A Burns detective agency man went over the ground again last week, but" did not make his conclusions, if he had any, public. Emll Bunde, one of the plain clothes men of the Hammond police department, also went over the ground in an effort to connect the attempted burglary with some suspicious characters whom he Is trailing. GARY & SOUTHERN GETS ANOTHERJET-BACK Men Employed on Construction Work at Crown Point Quit Work. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., : May 2. It Is reported that the Gary & Southern interurban hit another sway yesterday in its long list of "hold backs," which it has encountered since starting construction work. The present one Is liable to be more serious and of a more retarding nature than at first thought. Twelve or fifteen men employed on the track construction on Main street quit work yesterday. The reason not being given out Dy the company. It is un , ,jerstood however that an amicable settlement wil be made of the difficulty and operations resumed at once. The company has already made material progress In the track work, here and Crown Point citizens look with a great deal of concern upon the new delay in the work. Waiting for Plant. Hammond architects . say that they have a great deal of work In prospect, but that much Of it is being held up pending the beginning of work by the Baldwin Locomotive company. They say that the minute the work of erecting the plant is begun that there will be more work than they can attend to. They are busy, however, with the work they now have on the boards. Elks' Initiation. The Elks will hold their regular meeting' at the Elks' clubrooms this evening, and following the regular routine lodge work there will be a number of candidates who will receive initiation work. A large number of candidates are being taken into the Hammond lodge and preparations are being made to call a special meeting in the near future for the purpose of taking In the new members. ... - - .

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be any boxing exhibitions in East Chicago next Tuesday night is made by Chief of Police Leo McCormick of that city. "You can say for the chief, for I am authorized to speak for him and order a contradiction," declared Ser geant Welfenbach this morning, "that there will be no fights here on Tuesday night nor at any other time notwithstanding Mr. Simpson to the contrary." WHAT WILL SIMPSON DOf , It is up to Mr. Simpson. Just what action the popular manager , will take is not known as he could not be reach TAKE DP BETTER E A. 1m Drum, the operating manager of the Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Railway company, was interviewed In Chicago by a Times man this morning and stated that he would take up the question of better service with Manager Green in the next day or so and would do what he could to Improve conditions In Hammond. He said that after his long absence in Philadelphia, where he was . taken 111, work had piled up on his desk so that It would take him some time to dispose of it. He said that as soon as he could get around to It that he would take up the question of building the line to Harvey through west Hammond. He said that the franchise in . West Hammond has expired and that it will be necessary for his company to get another. rne line to Hegewlsch will be an after-consideration. Mr. Drum said that he would instruct Manager Gseen to take up the service question at once. ENUMERATORS FIND CITY HAS GROWN Six Thousand School Chil dren Are Now in the City of HammondHammond has a Echool enumeration of approximately 6,200, an increase of about 200 over last year's poll, according to the returns made by the school enumerators, in their two weeks canvass in the city of Hammond. This Includes every male and female from the age of 6 to 21, and, according to this census, Hammond is to receive its appropriation from the state school fund. The work (ft enumeration was done by the Rev. P. Well, Attorney Edward Schottler, Relnhart Elster and Isaac Stanford, the truant officer. Superintendent C. M. McDaniel Installed a card index enumeration this year, according to which he has a cross reference on every person enumerated. The system is an alphabetical index of every name, and is furthermore a house index, giving Its location and its occupants. The enumerators in going over the city found In the neighborhood of 150 empty houses, a condition which is said t to be unusual for this time of the year. The exact enumeration this year, as compared to last year's census. Is given in the tabulated figures below. The apparent loss in the Central school district Is not a loss to the city In reality, but it is due to the re-dlstrictlng of the school attendance. So while the Central school shows a loss of 152, the Riverside school shows a gain of 158. In the whole enumeration only one colored person of school age was found. This single exception Is employed as a domestic in one of the Hammond homes. The numeration is as follows: 1911. 1912. Gain. Loss. Central 753 601 797 563 655 755 1,209 828 740 152 Lincoln ...... 751 Franklin 554 Wallace 582 46 9 73 69 158 65 Irving Lafayette . . Riverside . , Washington Total ... . 686 .1,221 . 670 . 675 12 .5,892 6,148 Gain 258 Finishes Work There. Thomas Rlcketts has completed his contracting work in Detroit and has returned to Hammond. Ricketts expects to figure on all of the new work that comes up from now on. His friends will be glad to know that he is back in town for good.

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ed at his home or office today. It was Manager Simpson himself who made the announcement yesterday that he was going to put on a. card of fights next Tuesday night following the recent . pronounclamento made by Gov. Thos. R. Marshall where he told ministers of Terre Haute to go and see the fights themselves and If there was anything contrary to the law he would put a stop to It. MAY GET' IN COURTS. Just what the management of tha boxing game In East Chicago will do is not known but It Is quite probable that a test case will be tried In court and the matter settled once and for all In that way. Opinion In the Twin Cities Is very much divided and both sides want it thrashed out.

SPARROWS

EXCITE THE CITIZENS (Special to Thb Times. ) Dyer, Ind., May 2. Dyer yesterday nearly had a fire scare, and but for the fact that the whole thing turned out to be a fizzle, several heroes "would have been' developed ' for the occasion. It seems that a family of sparrows moved by the pioneering spirit built a nest in one of the unused' chimneys of the Anton Kelser home." ' " Yesterday morning when Mrs. Kelser attempted to use this chimney in connection with her summer kitchen stove, she fbund the basement of the building filling up with smoke, and thinking' a fire was threatened, she asked her neighbor. Dr. Chevigny, to sound the fie alarm over the Northwestern-telephone line.- Dr. Chevnirv cava tho r!itnmrT It rlnrb nnil soon half of the po'pulatlon swarmed on the Kelser homestead, only to find that a sparrow's nest had' been ' damaged. Due credit should,. however, be given to Henry' Schulte, the blacksmith, and Mike Fagen, the undertaker, for their prompt response," they having been among the first on the scene ready to fight the fire. August Stommel, cashier of the First National bank, wanted very much to be In on the excitement, but was afraid to leave 'the bank, fearing that the Are noise was merely a burglar's trick to get him out so that the bank could be robbed without any Interference. A FEW LODGERS; A LITTLEBASEBALL With the exception of the registration of a few night lodgers nothing of importance occurred at the police station last night, not an arrest being made, which has been something unusual during the past two weeks. The chief topic of conversation at the station this morning was baseball, and if you think there are no baneball fans at the city halj you should drop In for a minute and you will soon find out that you do not know anything about the national game. Miss Leslie Page. Miss Leslie rge, of Los Angeles has been spending the winter and spring In Washington as the guest of Mr. and ltz John Kays Hammond. -

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