Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 273, Hammond, Lake County, 8 May 1912 — Page 1

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LA!( CO. AT MILLB Chicago Syndicate Secures Fifteen Year Leases for Lake Frontage for Building of Immense Amusement Park. 10 THOUSAND DOLLAR WHARF TO BE BUILT Gary's chances of securing a lake front park at Miller beach are now considered a possibility of the past. Instead there will be established on the northeast coast of Lake county, at Miller, a large amusement park, which it is believed, will become the "Coney Island" of the west. A Chicago syndicate, which has been looking for a site for an amusement park has, after several weeks of secret negotiations, signed up fifteen year leases for lake frontage at the mouth of the Grand Calumet river. Full Details Are Given Out Full details of the plan of the syndicate were made public for the first time last night to a Times staff man In Chicago by Captain Miles Berry, former president of the Berry Transportation line, and now the. owner ot several lake boats, and William C. Crollus, manager of the National Building Material company and property agerlt for several of the sand companies operating at Miller. Within a few days the syndicate will be incorporated with $250,000 capital and along; with it will be organized, as a. separate company, the steamship CContlnued on Pas 8.) MAY CONSIDER TEMPLE FORJMB HOUSE Hammond Chamber of Commerce Members Looking Over Proposition. Members of the Hammond Chamber of Comorte, who have looked Into the advisability of having a home or clubhouse for S lie- organization, have had have had their attention called to the old Masonic temple, on State street, now owned by Dr. J. T. Clark. It is understood that Dr. Clark at the present time asks $25,000 for the property, but that he has been advised to hold It for an increase In view of big industrial developments In Hammond. The building is three Btories in heighth and has fifty-foot frontage. As compared to other State street' property, the Masonic temple proposition is considered reasonable. The Hammond estate last year paid $950 per foot for the Heintz property at the corner of State and Hohraan street, while Dr. Clark is holding, his property at 1500 per foot. GOOD PROGRESS MADE. The East Chicago board of public works had an all-day session this morning over the franchise question. The Green line came in with a new and modified franchise which is practically the same as the Gavit line, and things look good now for speedy settlement of the vexed question. Mayor Schlieker Is working hard to whip things In shane and the city officials hope to have the matter satisfactorily adjusted soon. Postal Pleads Guilty. The case of the state of Indiana vs. George A. Postal was tried . before Judge Prest this morning on a charge of assault and battery. He entered a plea of guilty and received a fine of $1 and costs, amounting to $14, which he paid. Postal is in charge of the Central pool room, which has given the police considerable trouble since its opening. B. James appeared complaining witness and charged that Postal struck him in the face, causing a severe inJury to his eye.

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Minneapolis, Minn., May 8. Democracy prevailed yesterday in the Methodist general conference when an attempt to create a final court of appeals was submitted In the report of the commission on Judicial procedure. Prominent jurists who are delegated lo the. conference, as Dean Henry "Wade Rogers of the Yale Law school and Supreme Court Justice. Anderson of Washington, together with Dr. R. J. Cooke of New York and Dr. S. W. Van Cleve of Illinois, pleaded earnestly for the adoption of the report. Dr. James M. Buckley led the opposition, and was sustained by the. Rev. Kdgar Blake, of New Hampshire, Dr. R. A. Chase of Colorado, the Rev. Charles H. Richardson of Baltimore and others. Sharp Tilt Enlivens Debate. The debate occupied the entire raorn(ContlQucd on page 8.) Injuries which Walter G. Lamb, 818 Calumet avenue, received In a fall at the Standard Steel Car works yesterday morning from a crane, proved fatal at St. Margaret's hospital yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, he dying from the result of a fractured skull. The accident occurred early yesterday morning while Lamb was working on ; tap 'of a . crane at the Standard Steel Car works." '""In some ' manner Lamb slipped from ' the jrrane and pitched headlong to the ground where he was picked up unconscious. He was 'removed' to-St. Margaret's hospital, where a number of physicians worked for hours to save his life, but the fracture was so severe that he died yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Lamb was 30 years old and has resided In Hammond a number of years, where he has been employed at the Standard Steel Car works. There he was well known and his wide circle of friends will mourn the news of his death. He Is survived by a wife and three children. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon either from the family resi dence or the Baptist church. The Rev. Floyd H. Adams will officiate and in terment will occur at Oak Hill ceme teryIn Prest's Court. On a warrant sworn out by Peter I Kosmovich In Judge Prest's court, Joe Lash was arrested by Constable Phelps on a charge of assault and battery. He ! was found guilty yesterday and re ceived a fine of SI and costs, amount ing to $15.20. NOTED SUFFRAGIST READY TO RETIRE - y . ev. , Anna M. Saw. Rev. Anna -Shaw, the noted suffragist leader, has built a quiet littl home near Moylan. Pa., which she calls Arnwick lodge. Here she now holds forth as hostess when she is not lecturing. Miss Shaw is sixty years old, and although she hopes to spend many more years in public life, when she does grow tired, of It she will know just where she can happily spend the declining years. "Men and women In public life," she said recently, "find it hard to withdraw when age makes it wise for them to do so. I have built my new interest while the old still J calls me, and there I shall be happy when I can no longer be active."

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Jack Johnson Paying . a Delegate's Expenses i , M In lira polls, Minn., May R Jack Jnhnnon, heavyweight champion, paid the expenses of Mr. Kosa Simpson, colored delegate to the Methodist conference from Galveston, Tex. She declared she bad prayed four years for the money to come. "It's a lone way," said Mrs. Simpson, "from the vraxbtub in Texas to Minneapolis, but Jack stave me the money, and all he asked In return was my prayers and one sons;, 'I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say Come I nto Me and Rent,' and I Just know that boy means It."

WASJAIS3E ONE Little Business Done at the Meeting of City Fathers Last Night. Little business was transacted at the regular meeting of the Hammond city council last night. ' The committee on locating a city storage yard, having had no report to make, was continued. Some of the councilmen asked for in formation about the progress of the lawsuit between the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company, now pending in the; United States supreme court, and instructed the city attorney to procure some Information for them along this line. -At the request of Councilman Johni Moriany, tne poara or puouc wonts. the city engineer and the city attor ney are to make ah investigation whether the Baltimore & Ohio and the Wabash railroads have a franchise to occupy that. part of Hudson street where the Wabash depot and the team track are now lecated. City Treasurer William Wolter appeared before the council to ask for an appropriation with which to hire extra help In his office, saying that the present force is inadequate to handle the business which accumulated during the rush of the taxpaying season. The finance committee of the council was appointed to investigate the needs of his office. All the councilmen were present with the exception of Whitaker, Schutz and Markmueller. DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER "Don't forget to register!" Is the slogan for every voter tomorrow. In ev ery precinct a1 registration place will be open from 5 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock in the evening. Foreign born voters are cautioned to bring their "citizenship papers with them. No declaration of politics is required and all the voter is asked to do is to give a few facts about himself in order to save himself the right to vote next fall. The registration tomorrow is known as the May registration and will be followed by a September' and October registration day in order to give the belated voter an opportunity to save his vote. Only one registration is required, however. TROOPS TO MEXICO LINE. Washington, May 8. Preparations for the dispatching of troops from two army posts and from the Philippine Islands to the Mexican border were admitted today at the War Department office. Official? showed annoyance that the facts had become public. Fort Leavenworth and Fort D. A. Russell are the posts from which regiments were to be rushed to the border. There are about 3,000 men at Fort Leavenworth and 1,000 at the Wyoming post. ST. PAUL REPUBLICAN. St. Paul, Minn., May 8. Early today unofficial figures from 129 precincts out of 133 shows H. P. Keller, Republican, 3S0 ahead of Otto Bremer, Democrat, for Mayor. The four missing precincts gave Keller 112 majority two years ago. It will require the offic.il count to decide the winner.,

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nap Up Lots, Boom Starts

Hammond is due for a big boom now! The announcement of the location of the big Schilesinger steel plant resulted in the greatest real estate activity that the city of Hammond has ever known. Almost like magic real estate men from all parts of the region came Hocking into Hammond. The deal was closed only yesterday, and yet by this morning it had been noised about and It seemed that everybody in the region knew about it. Last night between 6 and 11 o'clock twentyfour lots had been sold by Gostlln, Meyn & Co. Many Take Advantage. A number of weU-known Hammond people are "in right" on the deal through their having had an advance knowledge of the coming of the plant. William Ahlborn purchased 83 fiftyfoot lots from the Pochman estate at a figure that assures him a splendid profit on the deal. Gostlln, Meyn & Co. have been picking up parcels of lots for several weeks. They have bought them all at a low figure and the deal will net them hundreds of thousands of dollars. It Is estimated that this company has over 1,200 lots in the territory that will be benefited by this plant. J. S. Blackmuni & Co. have secured a number of valuable holdings and this company, which has made a specialty of north side property, will reap a big reward. Fr Mott "In" Again. Then there is the firm of Stafford & Trankle which still has a large holding on the north side. Fred R. Mott, who seems to have property whereTest Case Begun by Brewers to Determine Whether Gary City Officials Are Right in Stand in Refusing to Issue Licenses. Attorneys Reilly & Hardy of Ham mond, representing the Cook County Brewer's association, today filed a su't ,to mandate the. city clerk, mayor an! comptroller of Gary to issue a saloon 'license to John Bennett,, a Gary saloou keeper. i This Is to be a test case and will determine whether or not the Gary city officials are right In their stand In refusing to Issue a license to saloon I keepers who tender $200 instead of $500. Shortly after the passage of the Proctor liquor law the city council of Gary fixed the license fee at $500. Some (Continued on page 8.) KICKING ON TAXES. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., May 8. A great deal of talk is heard this year anent the big raise in taxes and the unequallty of some of the assessments, while some of the taxes have increased nearly one-half there are others claiming that their taxes were lower this year than last. With this fact as the chief source of contention there are some lively arguments over the matter. The present taxes on small lots and parcels of land are so high as to make their keeping almost prohibitive, and a remedy to keep the soaring of taxes down would be the wisest move the officials could make. MEETING OF BAR ASSOCIATION A meeting of the Lake County Bar association is called for next Tuesday to be held in the superior courthouse at Hammond at 10 o-clock. Alt members of the association are requested to be present. The La Vendor Cigar ta a home product. None better.

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ever the lightning strikes, has a lot of valuable property that will increase in value when the new plant, builds. Mrs. Steenberg, Mrs. Mary Huehn and scores of others have large holdings on the north side. It is expected that Hammond will have the biggest boom in real estate this summer that It has ever had in Its history. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of foreign capital will pour into the city and building operations will be nothing short of marvelous. Probably the most important feature of-the deal by which Hammond secures this big plant will be the fact that the Indiana Harbor canal will be dug through from the forks in Indiana Harbor to Lake George and this will pave the way for the locating of a large number of other industries In the vicinity of Hammond. Furthermore, it will be an additional argument in favor of an appropriation from congress for the improvement of the harbor and canal. Much Activity Promised. Hammond has not had rhuch industrial activity since the Standard Steel Car Co. located Us plant at Hammond, but now It will be just as prominent In the region as any of the other cities. The Times' famous list of industries will have to be revised and the prospective population of the city will be Increased by 25,0,00. One of the purchasers of property In Hammond was Vice President Van Vlisslgen of the Continental Trust Co. of Chicago. He purchased several acres of the Pochman farm on the north sides. BE STAGED (Bl'LLETIX.) The Injunction proceedings by which Joseph Simpson of Kant Chicago aeeka to restrain Chief of Police I.eo McCormlck of that ctty fron Interfering with the plans to hold a boxing contest on May 9, will not come up la the Lake superior court until tomorrow. The case was originally tiled In Judge Kopelhie's court, but It was transferred to Judge Becker's court. Although an injunction has not yet been secured to prevent the East Chicago police from Interfering with the boxing matches at East Chicago, Man ager Joe Simpson of the Colisejm rink la going right ahead with trie arrangements to stage a ten-round contest between Frank Ryan and Jess Willard. Thursday evening. May The bouts tomorrow night, like all the others put. on at the Coiiseura rink, will be high class, clean bo-xing exhlI bitions and similar in every particular to the contests put on in many Y. M. i C. A. gymnasiums all over the country. So far the exhibitions put on at East Chicago have had absolutely none of the elements of prize fights, as almost pillow gloves have been used and the management has lived up to the police laws of East Chicago and state of Indiana. From all appearances it looks like the promoters are giving the police an opportunity to show their hands and if the contest Is stopped It is probable the . management will commence suits for damages. Including the windup between Ryan and Willard there WTI1 oe several other good exhibitions, and the management Is looking for a large house vith such men as these on the card. YOUR DOGGIE HAS 6 DAYS TO LIVE Six more days of grace is given the dog owners of Hammond to secure their dog licenses, so they are warned to get busy as the time runs out May 15. This morning at the city hall the records show that only 305 licenses have been taken out. which is far below the number which were taken out last year at this time. In 1911 there were a total of over 800 licenses and from all appearances now there will be wholesale prosecutions in Judge Harnett's court by the latter part of thi3 month. Building Permits. Lots 46 and 47, block 8, Homewood addition. 30x30x18, :6 Highland street; Harry Smith, owner; R. C. Fowler, contractor: $3,500. Lot 21, blk 5. Birkhoff s addition. 22 40x9, 419 Hoffman street: Louis Ripp, owner; Kennard & Larabee. contractors; $1,000. '

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450 Acres Purchased on North Side For Industry. Big Boom For Region

FACTS ABOUT BIG DEAL Xante of company Schlestnger Steel Co. Owns several big plants throughout. Men to be employed number 5,OOO. Cost of plant 1 1,000,000. Number of acres purchased 450. Plant to manufacture steel prodnets of all sorts from the ore. Deal was closed at 6 o'clock yesterday. Put over by the East Chicago Co. and C. W. Hotchkiss. Negotiation have been pending for two months. Will make Hammond a city of 50,000 people In five years. Will mean the development of the canal to Lake George. Thousands of property owners will be benefited. Real estate values have already . t a creased .75 v . aecu-avncij, than iwrth. side and have Increased from 10 to 25 per rest south of the river. E. G. SPROAT ELECTED PRESIDENT The McKInley club of Hammond was organized In the rooms on State street recently vacated by the E. & F. clothing store last evening and an ehtusiastlc meeting was held. Erie Grant Sproat was elected president, Ralph W. Ross vice president, Charles Hicks secretary, and Fred Crumpacker treasurer. There was quite a crowd at the meeting and the club starts auspiciously. There were a number of speeches made In which the nright prospects of the party In Lake county were pointed out. The club is expected to become quite a factor in the republican or ganization of the city. It is one of a number of similar organizations which have been organized or are in the process of organization over the county. The next meeting will be held at the call of the president. CIRL ROSEN ADMIRED SNAPPED AT CAPITAL Miss Gladys Hinckley. Miss Gladys Hinckley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hinckley, of j Washington, is the girl who was made famous by the former Russian Ambassador B.aron Rosen when he pro'nounced her the most beautiful girl he (had ever seen in America. The above 'picture of Miss Hinckley was snapped 'while she was enjoying the horse show, held recently at Washington.

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Hammond today heard the best bit of news that has come to it in years. jThe great Schlessinger steel interests of Milwaukee, Wis. have bought a big tract of land on the north side on I which they will erect an eleven million dollar plant employing five , thousand men to start with, j In time the industry will run into 20 millions. The Schlessingers will i put up a splendid Bteel plant whicii Iwill be a tremendous thing for Ham mond. A contract has been entered into, between the East Chicago company and a coterie of Milwaukee cap italists headed by Ferdinand Schlessinger for the purchase by the latter company of something ever 450 acres. It- Is bounded as follows: White Oak avenue on the east. Calumet avenue on the west, the west branch of the canal, -J3tth treet oa "the noftb adif j'l3rdt street on the south. This represen'a a tract l mile by a half mile in dimensions. STREETS JUST ,BE OPEXED. The contract is conditional on , the municipality of Hammond and the county complying with certain requirements In the matter of the opening of certain streets and the closing of others and the building of bridges. And on the East Chicago Company dredging the west branch of the canal to government requirement etc. C. W. Hotchkiss negotiated the deal for the East Chicago company. The transfer is the biggest thing ever put through by the Eas Chicago company, which concern wil spend on improvements approximately what it receives for the land, a quarter of a million being laid out in the dredgirg of the canal alone. TWO CITIES JOINED. The location of this new industry means the joining of Hammond and East Chicago, physically, as with a big steel plant within the boundaries named, every foot of the ground south of One Hundred and Forty-third street, and west of White Oak avenue, now vacant will be built up with homes for the employes. Chicago avenue will b built solid with business blocks wsC from where they now end. and thousands will be added to the population of both Hammond and East Chicago. Thmonthly payroll mounting up Into hun dreds of thousands of dollars will ad I greatly to the prosperity of merchants throughout this region. INDUSTRY A STEEL PLANT. The new industry proposed will be a steel plant with blast furnaces and al of the other adjuncts, of a modern steel mill, turning out finished products, very much of the same order aa the Inland mill at Indiana Harbor. From the beginning It ia estimated that there will be 5,000 men employed, and the vastness of the tract nina times as large aa that originally pur chased by the Inland which employs 5,000 men, and five times the acreage now owned by that company, indicates a far greater number of employes when the plant Is built to the proportions the site would indicate It will eventually be. CITIES MIST DO TBC' ai. "e"-l tiw Vet . wuund ar money has er. pa-M ccn to Insure its execution, it ia up to three corporations whether the plant will ev" be built, the county of Lake, the cH" of Hammond and the East Chlc.jtcompany. The latter Is prepared ta. and will execute the conditions imposed upon it. 1. e. the dredging of the west branch of the canal to govern -ment ' requirements clear through to Lake George and the construction a turning basin, as the principal Item. The city of Hammond must condemn certain property for street purposes and vacate other streets, and provide adequate sewage facilities. COUNTY HAS OBLIGATION. The county's obligation is to build a bascule bridge at Forsyth avenue ovr the canal. Just what changes will have to be made in the laying out of Hammond streets, has not yet been figured out in detail, and the survey of the property has not yet been complet-

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