Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 278, Hammond, Lake County, 14 May 1912 — Page 1

THE UN IT T EVENING' EDITION GENERALLY FAIR Tl'ESPAY AND I WEDNESDAY; WARMER.j VOL. VI., NO. 278. TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1912. ONE CENT PER COPY, (Back Numben t Ccats Copy.) THREE HURT li CHRISTIAN CHURCH DELEGATES HAMMOND'S CHURCH OF CHRIST, WHERE 1,000 PREACHERS ARE HOLDING ANNUAL CONVENTION. BY THE HUNDREDS

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Brother of Hammond Lady In Critical Condition at South Chicago Hospital Today

By the breaking a rear axle on a big touring car enroute from Cedar Lake to Chicago last night near what is known as the White Houss turn on Sheffield avenue in Hammond three men were badly hurt. One of them Homer Ingersoll, 54 29 Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago, of the Illinois Brick Co., a brother of Mrs. Percy A. Parry of Hammond is in a critical condition at the South Chicago hospital. HAVE MIHIl,OlN ESCAPE. The accident was a bad one and the three occupants of the car miraculously escaped instant death. As far as can be learned the big touring car which Is owned by Loiili D. Binyon of the Illinois Brick' company and a son of the famous Cedar Lake hotel keepers wast on its way with Messrs. Homer Ingersoll and Jesse Mathews to Chicago, Mr. Binyon's chauffeur was driving. The car was going along at a lively clip an estimated speed of 50 milts an hour and turning off Sheffield avenue into Indiana boulevard. In turning out of Hammond's project for the build -

ing Of .a manual -.training . high let- tle C6ntract' f6r" the construction School Which has been in. the COurtS of tn building, to Caldwell & Drake. t ., , . i ... . . i It-was- Caldwell -& Drake who built for the past two years, will be set;;tne Tke up;r,or court house and tied within the next month. i turned out a jo1 that was so Inferior The attornevs in the case received thslt u was afterwards necessary to . v, v i u . spend nearly $100,000 remodeling the notice that the oral hearing in the DUi1(jing

inaiana supreme court would De held next Thursday. Attorney WM1-' Ham J. Whinery, representing Caldwell & Drake, the contractors, stated today that the court's deci-j sion should be known w ithin ten or i fifteen days after the hearing. j This means that the people of Hammond will know within a few weeks whether Contractors Caldwell & Drake are to go head with the construction of the $230,000 manual training school or whether the contract will have to be re-let and the proceecTings started again. HOARD HAS CHANGED. Subsequent to the letting of this.contract to Caldwell & Drake the entire personnel of the school board has been changed. The new board l in favor of a manual training school, but it will proceed according to the wishes of the people and within the restrictions of the law. The fight against the manual training school project started when the old school board, consisting of J. C. I bach, Dr. W. F. Howat and Henry Bicknell let a contract for the arehiMr. Henrv O. Clayton Mrs. Henry D. Clayton, wife of Congressman Clayton, of Alabama, i the moving spirit in the party of prominent Democratic women who are arranging for the Dolly Madison Breakfast to be held In Washington on- the morning of May 20. She Is chairman of the committee on ar ransements.

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street railway company the rear axle was given a sharp wrench and broko. ;OES OVER TURK K. The bis: car spun over like a top three times according to witnesses into the ditch along the road side and with its occupants was crumpled up like a paper box. It was completely wrecked. Eye witnesses of the shocking accident found all quiet beneath the car when they reached the spot and thought the occupants were dead. The car was raised" and the three men each unconscious were dragged from beneath. TAKE. TO HOSPITAL,. An automobile was summoned by Andy Stergious from South Chicago was summoned and the trio were taken to the South Chicago hospital where it was found that Mr. Ingersoll was hurt the worst. His right leg and foot were smashed and . h-s Injuria were internal. Mathews was injure.! internally but outside of body bruise he was not so critically hurt. The chauffeur Is not dangerously hurt. It was impossible to tell the outcome of the condition of Mr. Ingersoll at the hospital. tect's work without competitive- bidConsequently when the school let the contract for the school house to the same firm, after Eric Lund, the lowest bidder, had withdrawn his bid, public indignation was aroused. 1 HOARD ENJ01ED. A committee of citizens enjoined the board from proceedings , with their plans to build the new building. The case was tried before Special Judge Frank Patiee, who .decided against the school board. , The case was appealed to the supreme court of the state, and It is this decision that is so eagerly awaited. If the supreme coiirt decides that the school board .had no legal right to proceed with the building of the school the contract wlht Caldwell & Drake will be null and void. If It decides that the school board ras within its legal rights In the matter, then Caldwell & Drake will proceed with the construction of ' the school building. The case is exceedingly important from many viewpoints. Caldwell & Drake secured an option on the property which is now occupied by the i (Continued on pag five.) WHO FIRED THE GUN? The. report of a gun heard in the vicinity of Indiana avenue and Hohman street about 11 o'clock last night is being Investigated by the police this mornng and they are endeavoring to find out who Area the bullet which landed through the front window n the home of Mrs. . Miller, , 150 . Indiana avenue. Three men were standing on the corner of Hohman and Indiana avenue at the time, report of but they cla;rr.sd it a torpedo on the was the railroad tracks near by School Board Meets. The Hammond ' board of education will meet-tonight to receive bids on the addition to the Irving school building. This Important addition will he doubly needed when the great .influx of workIngmen to the nortT side begins. It is fortunate" that the boaiVi has Sot the proposition Lh.s far along. Aside from this there' are a number of'other Improvement matters up for consideration. ; ' ' Mike Gets $5 and. Charles Randolph and Mike. Holeiter, two young Hammond men who were arrested on . Morton - avenue Sunday! night on a charge of fighting, were i tried before Judge Barnett in the city I court yesterday afternoon. When the, evidence was brought out it developed that Holeiter, who was talking to a girl, started the fight. He was found guilty, receiving a fine of $5 and costs, amounting to $13, and Randolph was discharged. are: you rkading the tiuesi

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Board Takes Steps to Vacate 141st Street ; Huge - Turning Basin to Be Made in Lake George in the Near Future. In anticipation of the location of the Schlesinger steel plant on the north side, in Hammond, and In accordance with one of the stipulations for the building of the plant, the Hammond j board of public, works yesterdays! promptly took Fteps to vacate One Hundred and Forty-first street from Calumet ave. east to the cit limits. As a public highway the street would divide the land purchased by the Schlesinger people, and consequently it was vacated. j 'Incidentally Attorney L. L. Dent, representing the East Chicago Co.,' from whom the land was purchased, intimated that the East Chicago Co. Itself is no longer opposed to the opening and widening of Calumet avenue, but that It will continue its remonstrance before the board in behalf of the Schlesinger people until such time as the city and the new company shall come to an understanding about the benefits and damages growing out of .the improvement. The members of the board are optimistic about the outcome, however, on the theory that the openingof Calumet avenue will be desired by the new owners of the land, because it will afford them and their thousands of employes ingress . and egress, to the plant, for, with Calumet avenue opened. the building of a street car line past the plant will be only a matter of time. Turning llanln In I, nke. That the details of the location of the industry are already being worked out appeared from Mr. Dent's statement, that the East Chicago company In accordance with its agreement with the purchasing syndicate has planned to provide a huge turning basin in Lake George, where the proposed west canal branch enters the lake. The turning basin wlll.be situated north of the canal, and the ground excavated will be used to fill in that portion of the lake south of the waterway. Alto Kether the East Chicago Co. is to spend I $200,000 for, the waterway project. CALUMET LODGE I. O. O. F. TO ENTERTAIN At the clubrooms of th.e Calumet lodge. No. 601 I. O. O. F., on State street tomorrow night, there will be a nedro and whist party, and from ar- ! ranirements that are being made the I ,.mmitu, 1 .vn-tln- n artra rnwrl During the months of March and April this social event was postponed on two'successive evenings on accdunt of the weather. For the benefit of those who purchased tickets and did not get to use them It is announced that the tickets will be honored at the door tomorrow night. South Siders Meet. The South Side improvement association will hold a meeting on Wednesday evening for the disi-ussion of a number of matters of interest to the members. On account of the fact that a great many improvements to the streets are being made there Is a constant opportunity for the discussion of matters of interest.

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Crown Point; Ind., May 14. The last pessimistic croak of those who thought that the Gary Southern traction line would-pot b brQlj: -fco Crown Point was licenced yesterday, when veritable army of workmen was brought here to work on the several branches of the road construction In this city. , Grading gangs, bridge gangs, pole gangs and rail gangs are now busy at work in the corporate limits, while outside the city work. Is progressing on 'the road constmction in no uncertain manner. Up to the Erie railroad the work will be done with machinery from the construction car, while In the city I j'luppr tiic wui ft win n-e uone oy nanu. j The construction company has been considerably hampered by the bad weather, but with two weeks of favorable weather , will be able to make a big showing toward running cars Into Crown Point. J ohn Schneider BuriedThe funeral of John Schneider. 513 Logan street, was held from the family residence at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon. The Rev. Miller of Blue Island officiated and interment was made at the Oak Glenn cemetery in the family lot. RICHESON'S FIANCEE IN BOWERY MISSION Miss Violet Ednundi. New York. May 14. When Clarence V. T. Richeson. the slayer of pretty Avis Linnell. was condemned to death it was reported that his fiancee, Violet Edmonds, intended to take up settlement work In some of the more congested districts of .New York City. Miss Edmonds did not deny this report, nor did anyone else In her behalf. Now a veil of mystery has ben thrown around the identity of "Misa Edwards." one of the workers in the God's Providence House, in Brooine street, by the officials In ctiarge of the mission. According to stories published in Boston, the "Miss Edwards" who has been working among the children in the Bowery Mission Is none other than Miss Edmonds. . All efforts to obtain any information regarding "Miss Edmonds" at the mission have ben met by the reply. 'f lease ; don't annoy us any further."!

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Governor Marshall and Other Notables to Be Guests; Sanitary District ; to. 3e Boosted; Another Membership Campaign Due. The . directors of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce met at the Lake superior court house last evening and transacted considerable business of imJ portance. Among the things they did was to decide on another campaign for members. This will be started in a few weeks. It will extend over a period of several days and In this time tt is hoped that the membership will be increased to 600. After the campaign is over It Is proposed to hold a big banquet in the most convenient place in Hammond. An effort will be made to -secure the attendance of Governor Thomas R. Marshall, C. W. Hotchklss and a number of other notables. The primary purpose of the banquet is to be to take up the matter of securing the -aid of the legislature in an effort to create a sanitary district In northern Indiana, which will Include all of the territory in the northern part of Lake and Porter counties. Require Special Ac." This district will have to fee created by a special act of the legislature., and would be similar to the sanitary district of Chicago. It will result in the (Continued on Page 5.) West Hammondites Busy. West Hammond, which lhas . a new city administration, is beginning to feel the stimulus of the activity in the Calumet regon. The South Side Taxpayers' Protective association last night passed the following resolutions:. First To repeal the wheel tax ordinance. Second To annex the land south and west of the present city limits. Third To issue $20;ioo worth of bonds for a new city haul. ' Petitions have already been circulated and have been signed by voters askjng for an election on the annexation and the bond issue. Conkey in Harness Again. W. B. Conkey returned from French Lick this morning after a very enjoyable week there. He came back to find that nothing has been done in the way of improved street car service and thinks the mafter ought to be taken up at once. He expects to get into communication with A. L Drum in the next doy or two and find out. what is going on. Lorna Funeral Held. The funeral of Mrs. Anna Lorna of Bernice, 111., was held from the familyresidence this afternoon at 1 o'clock. The Rev. Weil conducted the funeral services and interment was held at Oak Hill cemetery. John Taken Up. John Buhn was arrested by Officers Law and Horlbeck at Hoffman and Hohman streets last night, where he was found in an intoxicated condition. He was taken to the station and held over night and discharged this moning by Chief Austgen.

Hammond Host at 73rd Annual Christian Church Convention; Churchmen Expect Sessions Replete With Interest; Rumors of Inner Storm Brewing; Talented Hammond Girl Spoke in Big Entertainment Wheel For Visitors of Both Sexes-

TODAY'S PROGRAM. FORESOON, MAY 14. 8:00 Meeting of the board of directors. 9:15 Devotlpnal, J. Francis Ashley, Remington. 9:30 Business. (a) Appointment of committees (b) Report of board of directors. (c) Treasurer's report. (d) Auditor's report. Discussion of reports. 11:00 Devotional Bible Study "God's Pressure Folks," C. W. McCord. Angola. 11:30 President's Address, Harry G. Hill, Indianapolis. A FTKR XOO Sf. Christian Woman'i Board of Missions, Mrs. Frank Wells, Indianapoll, president. 2:00 Song and praise. 2:15 Devotional Bible Study "The Inflow and the Outflow of a SpiritFilled Life." D. W. Scott, Evansville. 2:45 Address, .Mrs. A. M. Harrison. 3:18 Address, Miss Hazel A. Lewis, Indianapolis, elementary superintendent Indiana Sunday School association. EVENING. 7:80 Song and praise. 7:45 Address, Prof. T. C. Paul, principal Missionary Training School. 8:15 Address, Dr. H. C. Hurd. Mls- - slonary Training School. List of Visitor and . Ministers at Convention

. A . , and how long till the meeting starts. 73 S W alter -A. C. De Bond. Roanoke, ghe wm tell you aUo lf you iu-Mre .-ind. - -c?- :-: -s : . ::-rv-Vt. r) toft tnr-; UM1 WftftBgg tlEeVUettfea i" 316 Truman Mrs. C. D. Creal, Terrs(not a Judge but a State street butcher

Haute; Jennie Morgan, Hebrbn. 417 Truman Gertrude ..welsh, ..'.North Terre Haute; Jeanette Wells, Indianapolis. 409 Summer Mrs. Hallie K. , Jones, Corydon; Mrs. O. H. Grelst, Carlisle; Mrs. W. A. Moffett. Irvington; Miss Maude Martin, Jamestown; Miss Ashton Neat, New Albany. S33 Ada Mrs. Thomas Paddark, Greenwood; Mrs. A. J. Clark, Indianapolis. 519 Summer Mrs. A. E. Elston, Angola 436 State Mrs. Minnie Atkinson, Mrs. Ida McConnell. Miss N. Crosson, Oxford. 471 State J. S. Smith, Oxford. 730 Calumet M. J. Smith, Peru. 191 Logan Edward Branham and wife,.'

Mrs. Wilcox. Agnes Wilcox, North ents. Liberty. . .Devotion marks the attempts of the 129 Summer C. E. Murray, Indiana-. brethren. The only criterion recon.polis. i mended is the scriptural and the is425 Sibley Hazel Maddux, Cora Hite, sues are advanced In prayer. Markle. I At the opening service last evening 228 North Hohman C. G. Baker, Plym- addresses of welcome were made by outh. A. ' M. Turner and the Itev. W. . F. 435 Logan Jessie Harvey, Monroevllle. Switzer to the three hundred dele164 Plummer L. E. Brown. Lebanon. igates and six hundred local members. 802 Alice W. G. Winn, Rensselaer. .1 The opening wedge of the campaign

164 Plummer Francis Ashley. RemIngton. 818 Calumet Bertha Rhodes, Fairfield. East Chicago Mrs. O. C. Shoulty, Mrs. W. S. Long. Mrs. Ella Ellis. Bedford. 518 Sibley Mrs Olive L. Line, Maynetown: A. E. Dubber, Bedford. 278 Michigan John S. Zahn, Melnotte Miller, Linton. 913 Erie W. H. Newlin, John B. Newlin (4 years), Ladoga. Turner John M. Alexander. Crawfordsville. 435 Logan Mrs. Frank Scott. ' Crawfordsvtlle. 4 45 May Avery Morrow, Wabash. 364 Sibley L. C Horn and wife, Noblesvllle. 730 Calumet Percy Mendenhall, M. O. Seifert, East Chicago; B. A. Bennett, Converse. 409 Rummer Mrs. W H. Shank. Indianapolis. I 768 Bealle -J. M. Carrfield. Mrs. Carrol Van Wrinkle, Indianapolis. 345 Truman A. B. House. Kendallvllle; Bessie E. ' Eldredge. Mrs. Edgar ' C. CofTee, Marlon; Mrs. H. A. Carpenter, Marldn. I SS0 Erie Mrs. Tim Slattery, Mrs. O. S. Goldthalt, Mrs. E. C. Coffee, Mrs. Jessie Frank. Marion. 1218 Madison Charles M. Fillmore E. E. Moormain, F. E. Davison, Indiana polis. Wilcox George W. Henry, Indiana polis; C. W. Cauble, Martinsville; A. L Morthn. Monticello. B. H. Linville. Vevay, Ind., 228 North Hohman; i. P. Myers, Marlon, 444 State; Gary I Cook, Indianapolis, Majestic; Earle Elter, Whiting; Howard Williams. Whiting; Ira P. Harbaugh. Carthage. Ind., 471 State; John H. Clark and wife, Osceola 801 Sibley; F. W. Laugh. Indianapolis, 121S Madison; A. B. Purlnton, Whit ing; Charles W. Shull. St. Louis. Mo., Majestic; Mrs. C. E. Harrell. Logansport. Ind., 379 Michigan; Mrs. Ida W. Harrison, Lexington. Ky.; II. G. Hill, Indianapolis; Mrs. E. E.,Hood, Mrs. W. L. Thorp, Mrs. T. Campbell. Mrs. W. H. Shoup, Mrs. W. O. . Holmes, Mrs. E. A. Hopkins. Grant E. Hatch, Whiting; Clay Trusty, Indianapolis Cloyd Goodright, ShelbyviUe, Michigan avenue 213

The 73rd annual convention of the . Indiana Christian Missionary Association and the Christian Woman's Board of Mission one thousand strong began last night at the Christian church in Hammond.. It will last three days. It is going to be a great convention. Some clerical pyrotechnics are prophesied, when the delegates are all here. Welcome has already been extended to four hundred delegates to the seventy-third convention of the Disciples of Christ in Indiana. Six hundred more are expected at the Calumet avenue Christian Church today and tomorrow. The homes of Hammond are being

opened to them. MISS ALI.K SHINES. And amid throughout the heated sessions that tax the minds of laymen 'ad the patience of the clergy a smooth, and complicated system t of entertainment Is being conducted by a modest , young lady. Not a guest has gone i astray, not a desire over-looked. The ! complicated, well-oiled mechanlBm of a big hotel could not be more efficient. I Miss. Esther Allen aged 18 Is the feminine live wire who Is responsible, j Miss Kather is the registration clerk ! you write yeur name , you receive j a smile. No one can better place names, buckles, parsons, hairpins than , she. She also crosses your "T'sj' and dots your when you are careless. I Miss Esther is the information bureau. She tells you in what household you will- be welcome, the population r of .Hammond, how far It is to Chicago land that Rev. Sharp. paid for his auto mobile himself. And. then you are escorted out by a boy from the Sunshine class and whirled away to your hosts in a taxless taxi.. J Convcntionaltles are not being observed in this convention. Current modes in political platforms are being borrowed. Insurgents are being arrayed against conservatives. Questions 'of church government . are. being handled as ruthlessly as the Issues of national importance are treated. Efficacyis the cry that will be embodied in the keynote when it is (brought out by speakers tonight. The" casting aside of old methods and poli- , cles will be advocated. Liberality and 'unionism is the slogan of the insuigwas inserted by tne ttev. unariea Winders of Indianapolis. He spoke in brevity on "The Plea of Our Fathers and Our Plea." He Insisted that the "Old time religion" was good enough but its application and presentation should be modernized. , It was bis plea that the appeal be made more liberal and stronger. State workers were Introduced. The balance of the evening was devoted ta ch'rlstlan service and social en toyment. DICKINSON SPECIAL COUNSEL FOR U. S. r Jacob Dickinson Jacob . Dickinson of Tennessee, former secretary of War under President Taft, has been appointed special counsel for the United States in the suit to dissolve the (Jnltsd States Steel Corporation. Dickinson. In a. - verT able lnwvrr an1 wun (counsel for the Illinois Central Itail lioad for many years,

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