Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 289, Hammond, Lake County, 27 May 1912 — Page 8

THE TIMES. Mondav. May 27, 1912.

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When William Wright of the East Chicago company came along on his way to business this morning, he found a policeman camping on the step leading to the entrance of the office. The policeman informed Mr. Wright that he wouldn't have much trouble opening! up, as a team of horses belonging to J Wolper Bros, had kindly come along' and done the work. j Mr. Wright allowed his astonished gaze to dwell for. a moment upon the spot where was wont at that hour of the ' morning to glisten a well kept pITite glass door, securely locked against all would-be Intruders. Instead of the door there was an empty space. On the floor just inside was the wreck of , whst had once been a door, but which 1 was now splintered wood and bits of i broken glass. It was explained to Mr. Wright, that there had been a runaway and that this was the result. There pre the facts in i the case alt'noush 'he East Chicago representative has concocted a crafty story to the effect thnt the door was torn from its hinges by a crush of customers seeking to buy lots. An incident of the runaway was the injury of J. Wolper who was driving the horses when they became unmanageable. Mr. Wolper Jumped and broke one of his arms, and was picked up half unconst ions and taken to the home of Dr. Frederick Sauer where the fractured bone was set. The teem which did the damage was one only recently purchased by Wolper lros. They had been recommended as sound, gentle and city-broke. They seemed to have borne out this reputation, as the Twentieth Century limited and the Pennsylvania Flyer had no terrors for them. It took a Hungarian band which was emersing from the Csssa lloumania at 3:50 this morning as Mr. Wolper came by on his way to his first customer, to throw a real scare into the team and as they Jump ed in their fight, their driver lost the reins and was unable to recover them. He Jumped ad fell bleeding In the street, while the team plunged on. It was at 13Cth street and Guthrie that Wolper Jumped. The team ran on from here up Washington street to Pennsylvania avenue and thence north to the office of the Kast Chicago company where they headed straight for the door. t The pole of the wagon tore a hole in "the. screen door ad burst the other door from its hinges, and the Hammond

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horses were badly bruised in trying to crowd through the door. They were caught by the bridle by bystanders who calmed them and prevented them from doing any further damage to themselves or neighboring property. The wagon was unharmed. Gary Carnival Gambling Celebration Ends on Sabbath Gajnblrra at Gary bribery benefit rarnlvnl reap thousands of dollars Saturday nijeht. Drunken eelebratora attack bnaliru places and hurt brU-ka Ibrouxh plate ft'"" wtndowa of Gary State bank, South Shore depot and AIrhuler'a department atore. Front door of (iary State bank amashed In. Red lla-hf district of tiary wttB'mm the most palmy nijtht In Its history. Carnival continue yesterday and night the wild revelry dlnturbed divine nervlcra In urnrb) churches. Much to the amazement of the people of Gary th! bribery defendants" benefit, carnival, which was supposed to have been ended Saturday night, continued yesterday afternoon and evening. As a result the loud shouts of revelry from the "patch" celebration more than once Interrupted divine services in the church of the west part of the rt sub-division. CurahH-T Hell Fierce Many. Saturday was the biggest night for the gambling department of the benefit affair, and ' many roulette and other gambling devices were I"n operation, and at one place from six to eight touts were needed to take care of the money that was separated from th- steei workers. It is paid that the city officials who are beneficiaries of the profits of the big gambling hell will have a melon of several thousand dollars to split. No attempt was made by the safety board to stop the Monte Carlo, and today more than one steel worker's family is penniless because of the wholesale robberies by gambling that was tolerated. So great was business in the red light district of Jefferson street that men stod in line outside the saloon and dives waiting for their turn to get Inside. Old timers declare that Saturday night was the most wide open In

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the city. Everything from gambling. pickpocketing, saloons and levee reso'rts were operating full blast, adding more notoriety to the city, re-calling the days when it was compared with Reno, 'Frisco and Cripple Creek. . Gary State Bank la Attacked. Scores of drunks thronged Broadway Saturday night, and some of them became boisterous and attacked business places. Bricks were hurled through Alschuler's department store, the South Shore depot and the Gary State bank, of which H. G. Hay, Jr., is president, and one of the anti-administration men, was the object of a vicious attack. The big plate glass window of the bank's front dooor was shattered to pieces when a brick was hurled through it. When business men heard of the outrages perpetrated many of them took steps to guard their property last night. Scores of "dips." touts, barflies, sluggers, yeggmen and highwaymen were attracted to Gary by the notorious carnival of vice and gambling. KNOTTS USED THE OLD STEAM ROLLER (Continued from Page one) vey Curtis a sthe resolution committee Becker and Curtis retired to one end of the hall and as the convention end neared the Hammond Judge presented the resolutions which were adopted. Besides the usual endorsements and rlgamarole one clause demanded that the legislature give people the right to have a referendum vote on municipal franchises. Whether this was meant as a direct slap at Mayor Knotts' franchise-giving activities was not stated. Republican Makes Motion. Mayor Knotts' name for convention chairman was placed before the house by John Porman of Ross township, city health inspector of Gary. It was seconded by Rev.-Col. A. C. Mayo, who Is prominent enough In the republican party in Gary to still sport the honor of having bee none of the vice presidents at a meeting when former Senator Beverldge came to the city to ad dress the republican organization. Those who had seen Rev.-Col. Mayo as a prominent figure at recent republican ward and precinct conventions were amazed to see him demand a secret bal lot for Knotts and to make other motions, including the one to have John Hamilton as permanent secretary. At first it was merely thought that the minister-colonel-real estate man came as a republican spectator, but he was as soon as active as when he Is preaching religion as a white friend to the negroes on Sunday and selling them river lots on Monday. Knotts' Strensrth la Inaeenre. Whatever impressions may have been gained that Knotts is being to be a mouutain of strength In Lak.e county politics this fall because of the automatic work displayed by his thirty-six delegates are soon dispelled by analyses of the situation. In the first place the thirty-six delegates, unlike in other political divisions of the county, are not named by the democratic voters. Knotts prepares Whiting

Sefton of GaryWill Be Democratic '. v Prosecutor Candidate The action of the Lake county democratic! convention Saturday in permitting Attorney C. O. Sefton of Gary to name his own candidates to the Lake-Porter Joint judicial convention means that he will be the democratic candidate for prosecutor of the Thirty-first Judicial districtThe Lake county delegation, whih Mr. Safton will control, will be In the majority. Mf. Sefton is a member of the GarJ law firm of Houren, Sefton & HenjplTett. He was educated at Indianapolis and Valparaiso law schools and has always been an active (party worker. For several years he was president of the Gary democratic party and until the effecting of permanent party committees he was the titular head of the party In Gary. tr. Sefton has a reputation for honesty. He possesses considerable abtlty as a conciliator.

the list and with his convention of city employes, ' police and saloonkeepers, carried It through. As a result of these tactics the majority of the democrats never attend the precinct conventions any more as they have no voice In the affairs. The hundreds of young men in Gary who are democrats shunt their party caucuses entirely. So, by dictatorial means Knotts selects only dele gates that will do his bidding. Gary delegates are the only one in the county who -never -split their vote like as

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done by other city and township dele-! gates, because theiy are absolutely under the orders of one boss. Knotts thus manages to enter a convention with a powerful voting machine behind him. The Knotta Maehlne Ineffective. The solidity of this delegate strength would tend to indicate that the strength ts In proportion throughout the party in the city, whereas it Is just the opposite. Outwardly possessed of a solidified following among the democrats, Knotts Is Just the reverse when the true facts are known. This was manifested two years ago when the democratic county and state officers lost everything In Gary. Knotts with his city employes control a solid delegate unit, but when it cornea to voting the bluff of

hlg machine is exposed as it was In the me election. One democratic onlooker at the convention said yesterday that were the Gary delegates the representatlvs of the party in Gary that it would have cast more split votes than any other delegation in the county. While the Knotts machine Is effective In delegate work, the rank and file of the party being shut out, renders It a non-producer of results when election time comes around. WHITING I-AN WALKS IN FRONT OF AUTO fContlnuad from Pare L - machine, it being too late for the driver to stop. The machine ran right over him. Arthur Gladden, who happened to be a witness, ran to the boy's rescue, expecting to find him dead. He was bleeding profusely, and Mr. Gladden picked him up. Mr. Vette stopped as soon as possible, and reversed his maWITH A CABINET GAS RANGE OVEN tURNtR COCKM0 Electric East Chicago

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the machine and hurried to the offlce of Dr. pewey. The machine had passed over the boy's foot, injuring it quite badly, and his arm too was Injured. When the machine passed over him some part of the machinery struck him in the head. Inflicting: a bad gash over the left eye into which It was necessary to Insert eight stitches. The boy was ' later removed to his home, where he was resting quite easily yesterday. No blame is placed on Vette by witnesses, all of whom say It was utterly Impossible for him to prevent the accident, as both machines were headed in the same direction, and he walked directly In the path of the Vette machine too late for him to stop. AUTO CLAIMS FEARFUL TOLL IN STATE SUNDAY (Continued from Page one) He waa prevented from carrying out his intentions by a physician, who tore a revolver from his hands after he had snapped the trigger twice. BAD OXE AT AXDEHSOX, Anderson, Ind., May 27. Morgan Harris of Dana, Ind., was dangerously hurt last night when the automobile In which he was riling turnel over two miles eaat of this city. Harris was rid ing with Stanton Nichol and James Simpson in a car driven and owned by the latter. According to witnesses to the accident the machine was going at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control and headed the car into a ditch It turned over twice, throwing

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Simpson and Nichol were not seriously injured,, but it It feared by physicians that Harris may be injured in ternally. Several ribs were broken. The men were en route to the InterState factory at Muncie, where some alterations were to have been made on the car. The car was almost totally demolished in the accident. MACHINES GALORE VISIT REGION More autos passed through Kast Chicago and Calumet yesterday than has ever traversed the highways of this section in one day, since autos were first built. There were hundreds of them whis king down Forsyth and Chicago and Kennedy avenues In a steady proces sion all day, causing those thorough fares to more resemble Michigan avenue or grand boulevard in the big metropolis than anything the Twin Cities has "jen accustomed to. The machines for the most part were from Indiana and Illinois, many of them being from Chicago on the way to the country and vice versa, the route above described being now the preferred one between Chicago and the east and the southern part of Lake county. Instead of via Hammond. Open New SubdivisionOn June 1 the Gary Land Company wll place on the market lots in thel? second subdivision which embodies the territory around Fillmore and Polk streets. Polk street will be the bungalok avenue of Gary and the minimum prices for bungalows wll be fixed by the Land Company at $2,000 and $1,500. GARY, INDIANA OOKT BURNU COOKMO SURfACC Indiana Harbor