Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 18, Hammond, Lake County, 9 July 1912 — Page 1

m JMTY EVENING. EDITION TIME WBATBER. WARM AND UNSETTLED TODAY AND WEDNESDAY. '4 ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Number I Cent Copy.) VOL. VII., NO. 18. HAMMOND, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1912.

THE LAK

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WATER

WAITED!

WATER

City Taxpayers Put to the

Greatest Inconvenience Because Water Pressure Is Insufficient; Pump Peo- . pie Blamed.

DYER TAKES STEPS to punish motion Business Men Will Boycott Railroad in Favor of the Michigan Central.

MRS. WOODROW WILSON AT SUMMER HOME. WITH FAMILY ABOUT HER. DECLARES THAT SHE? THE HAPPIEST WOMAN IN AMERICA

Something is wrong at the Hammond -waterworks. The new 15.000.000 gallon pump which cost the city of Hammond $25,000 is not yet in service. It has been Installed for weeks and has even been tried out. but it is not yet supplying the people of the city with the water pressure they need. It Is still impossible to force water to the second floors of the buildings about town, except at certain intervals during the day, and Hammond, during this hot weather, is as bad off as it was before the pump was bought. People are put to the greatest inconvenience.

The reason the pump is not operated Is

that it has not yet been painted. The pump was installed by the Snow pump people who first fell down on their estimate of the length of time that it would take to install the pump and now lt it stand idle for the reason that it is noiv painted. In the meantime the city is denied the service that certain Hammond manufacturers were imploring the city to provide last year. The erection of the pumping station and the installation of the pump have taken a full year. At the time the contract for the pump was let a great many of the citizens of Hammond thought that electric pumps ought to be installed. They pointed out that it would not be necessary' to build an addition to the pumping stat'on and that the installation would not require more than three or four months. - But uertain influences were brought to bear, and the steam pump was installed, with the result that the city is rtnKwaitfng: for 'pressure.' And when the new pump Is installed there are a great many people who do. not believe that the mains will stand the pressure. The few times that the big pump has

been tried out the pressure has been ro great that leak "in the mains were developed in half a dozen places.

(Special to The Times.),, Dyer, Ind., July 9. Business men and patrons here of the Monon are in

censed at the railroad, because the company at the first of the month

eliminated Dyer as a stopping place for the early passenger train, which

heretofore stopped every Wednesday

morning at Dyer at 6:10.

The early Wednesday morning stop

was a big acomodation particularly to

the business men, as it afforded them a good opportunity to get to Chicago early for a day's buslnes, but now that this accomodation is taken away, the business men intend to retaliate by having their merchandise shipped over the Michigan Central and by going to

Chicago over the Michigan Central cut off and the Erie via Griffith. The Dyer people have not forgotten the deal they recently received at the hands of the Monon, on the occasion of the St. Joseph's chuch corner stone laying in Hammond, when the company refused to run a special train aa far as Cedar Lake for the accomodation of about three hundred people. Owing to this the visitors had to return home when the celebration was at its height. The Dyer business men are more de

termined than ever to get an Interurban railway through town, and the officials of the town board are given to understand, that the Monon is not to receive any favors from the town trustees.

PLANS FOR BUILDING COMPLETED

Patients Are Recovering. Mrs. Theodore Klots and Miss Mary Gloeser, both of whom submitted to operations at St. Margaret's hospital ten days ago. are reported to be getting along nicely. Miss Gloeser, whose foot was amputated, is able to sit up In a wheel chair and hopes to be able to walk a train with the aid of an artificial limb. .

4UTHOR WEDS THE YAM A' YAM A CIRL

Architect Mac Turner has just completed plans and specifications for the t-wo-etory - business. 'block amt-M'flee

building that is to be erected at the corner -ot State street and Calumet avenue by William H. Gostlin, Jr. The building is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $9,000 and will be a credit to the corner which it occupies. The main floor will be divided into two stores, one fronting on Calumet avenue and the other on State street.' The building will in sympathetic design with the Kast Side Trust & Savings brink that is now being erected

lust south of the corner and also with

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Frorr left to right: Miss Eleanor Randolph Wltion, Mis Jessie Wood row WHion, Mis Margaret Wood row Wilson (with sweater), Mrs. WoodroW Wilson, and Governor Wilson. In their cummer home at Sea Girt. N. J., Mrs. Woodrow "Wilson declares that she la the happiest woman in America. Not because ah is having a holiday, for that is something a governor's wife never bas; not because her husband has Just been nominated for the highest office within the gift of the people, but because she has her whole family with her. The girls have come home, and Mr. Wilson too is there. It would be hard to find a more charming family than the Wilsons. This Includes the daughters. One of them. Eleanor, is a student in the Pennsyvanla Academy of Fine Arts . at Philadelphia. The second daughter, Jessie, is assisting Mrs. R. K. P. Bradford rln settlement work at the "Lighthouse," a social center for mill-workers at Kensington, Pa. The youngest daughter. Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Is cultivating her voice in New York City. . r ffi ' -

THIS IS THE SAME OLD STORY RETOLD Train I Flipper Comes to Jrief ? Again. onSibley. v Street.

OF COURSE IT WAS A TIMES "AD." Word was received from Judge J. G. Ibach at Wawasee Lake this morning that through the medium of a Times ad his grip containing valuable papers was found on the Indianapolis road by a Crown Point man who rsahr'Tpgas Times and . had notified Mr. Ibath-thaV"he- could get his grip by calling at his address.

Abraham Adland of North Judson, Ind., suffered a painful injury about 8:30 oclock last night when he attempted to board a westbound Nickel Plate train, resulting in his being thrown head foremost into one of the railroad gates on Sibley street. After leaving the Nickel Plate depot No. 3 passenger train had gained a

the proposed Knoerzer building, which I fair rate of speed when It reached

is to be built on lots C and D, in this . Sibley street and Adland. who was

standing On the crossing, attempted

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block.

Further activities on this street are promised as a result of the completion by Architects Bump & Berry of plans for a two-story store and office building to be erected at the corner of Calumet avenue and May street. . Demand for IsOeatloaa. William H. Gostlin. speaking of the demand for business locations on Calumet avenue, near State and Sibley sts., said, "We have already rented the Calumet avenue-May street store and have a cozen applications for the store

rooms in the building at the corner of State street and Calumet avenue. "W have not yet leased this store. We prefer to go ahead and complete the building and then rent it. The building will have a seven-foot basement with the footings deep enough so that it can be made nine feet when the deep sewer is put in." All of these improvements are at-

to board it. As he made ' a grab at the railing the sudden shock flung hlmt o one side, his head striking the gate, which had been lowered. For a short time he was in a semi-conscious condition and was removed to Dr. A. Youngs office, and it was found necessary to take a number of stitches to close up a large gash on his forehead. Adland was on his way to Chicago and after he was given medical attention he took a street car into the city.

Heat Prostration. Clara Schroeder, residing on Douglas avenue, Hammond, was overcome with the heat this afternoon at 2 o'clock. She and her sister had been berry picking in the vicinity of Hessville. The girl complained of Illness.

The party ten went to the Gary & In-

tracting attention to Calumet avenue ' terurban tracks for the purpose of as the future business street of the ! taking the car to Hammond. Just as

THEY SMILED DID THESE

Two Indiana Harbor foreigners came to grief last night because they were unfortunate enough to possess a distorted sense of humor. Their names are Dave Klepas and Vasllla Melu and they live In Pennsylvania avenue. These two gentlemen thought it would be perfectly side-splitting to watch the tires of automobiles blow up, and listen to the popping sound they make while in the act of so doing. So as fast as they consumed the nice cool beer from a case they had Durchas-'d

and put upon the Ice, they threw the bottles into the street. The bottles too made quite a hilarious sound, so Dave and Vasllla thought, and they roared with laughter as they broke. The laughter changed to sour looks however, when a mean policeman de

void of humor came along and arrested the pair. They were fined $1 and costs by Judge Riley in the city court.

HARBOR MAN MEETS

FATE AT SOUTH BEND

Frank Marcianek of Indi

. ana. Harbor" Killed by. Police.

FOR HOTEL

Negotiations are pending by which

Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Mee will take a

ease on the Groman-Muenich. building

and convert It Into a hotel. If the

plans carry the new hotel will be a

credit to the city.

It is proposed that the present own

ers of the building will partition off

the various floors Into 75 rooms, 25 of which will have access to private baths,

The main floor will be-converted Into hotel lobby and buffet. The dining

room will also be on the main floor.

The hotel will be furnished by the ten

ants with the equipment of the Carleton hotel and what new equipment it is necessary to purchase.

When an effort was made to lease the Carleton hotel to other persons in. order to get an Increase In rent from, the tenants, Mr. and Mrs. Mee, began looking about for a new hotel property.. The Groman-Muenich building would be ideal for the purpose. It Is the ony4 thoroughly fire-proof building in the city. It would have the lightest, airiest, rooms in town. It . is proposed to install a passenger and a freight elevator. The building has an ideal location for a hotel. It 1st near the business district, near the depots and yet removed from the noise and smoke of the railroads. With the Mees. who are the best" known hotel people In the state, at the head of the venture Its popularity would be insured from the first.

HOT WEATHER YARN

BREAKS ALL RECORDS

Several million lightning bugs drlr-,

en northward by the furious storms

that have been raging In the Kankakee marshes have invaded the Aetna-

Miller district and are causing no end of excitement among the natives. Powder Makers Are Scared. Last night a big swarm of the firebugs swooped down upon the nitroglycerine tanks at the Aetna powder mills. A lot of the new employes thought that there was a fire and that the nitro receptacles were about to be

set off and blow the whole town to

kingdom come. Superintendent Wal

ter Edwards happened along and he, quelled the fears of the panlo-stricken

employes. Miller Needs Ho Lights. Down at Miller the fire bugs are so thick that, town trustees Olander. North and Frederickson have Judicl- ; ously ordered all of the street lights to be extinguished. Aetna powder mill strikers camping on the Grand Calumet banks are using the fireflies to at- . tract fish and Judge William Westergren, the noted frog-hunting Jurist of Indiana, is spending the nights in the r marshes taking in pecks of bull frogs.

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McCoy. When Mrs. Ki chard Harding Davis secured a d'vorce from her husband In Chicago a few weeks ago she gave as ooe of her grievances that her husband bad bf en a ilttls

too friendly with the actress. Bessie McCoy. There may have been some grounds for her complaint, for Davis and tha actress went wed on July 8. Miss McCoy has not been married before. She wore ths first sheath skirt ever seen in New York streets and won fame as the Tarn kXasoa girl -

the girl went to mount the steps of the car she was stricken. A motorcyclist rode ahead and notified Dr. H. G. Mere, who met the car with his automobile and took the girl to the hospital.

east Klrlo Rn.rnA V WsmA .v.

- - " wv.. rr i . v iiao an option for a year on the property at the corner of Calumet avenue and Sibley street expects to close a deal

for the sa'e of lot in this block within a week.

The Negele building, between May street and the Nickel Plate tracks, is

auuui cumpiBiea ana will De ready ror -pi- J cnnoccuoancv within a .eic. otf I Cocaine ITiends bcarce.

says, however, that he does not think ! Apparently cocaine fiends have glv-

he will move into the new building i en Hammond a wide berth, as from all until the 1st of August or possibly Sep- j reports at the police station there Is tember. j not a grain of it heinfc sold in this The garage that is being built by ! flty to the knowledge of Chief AustCharles Luthman at the corner of Cal- I gn. who has been keeping a close umet avenue and the Nickel Plate j watch on the sale of cocaine. Some tracks is nearlng completion. It is l months ago there was a considerable

amount of cocaine disposed of in Hammond and a number of Chicago cocaine fiends came here to purchase it, but since Chief Austgen has placed a ban on the drug coke fiends have made themselves scarce.

A man believed to be Frank

Marcianek of Indiana Harbor was kill

ed by a police officer in . South Ben

last night. Marcianek, if it were he.

was caught in the act of climbing through a transom. He tried to get away 'from the police ofTicer who arrested him and he was shot on refusal to obey the command to halt. At the morgue to which his body was conveyed, a man who used to know Marcianek, identified the remains as those of the ex-Indiana Harbor man, who was what the police call a "bad actor" and had been concerned in some thefts in this city last fall. Theouth Bend police department telephoned the local department this morning for information about Marcianek, and his record was looked up. Chief McCormack is waiting to learn

whether the South Bend authorities j will bear the expense of some .onej

who knew Marcianek well to go to

South Bend to identify the remains.

Inspector Here. . O. S. Jackson of Indianapolis, deputy state's attorney general, was in Hammond this morning to make an inspection of the books in the city Judge's office, the justice of the peace offices and the clerk of the Lake superior court. In every place he gave the officials a clean bill of health. As an Investigator Mr. Jackson looks particularly to the accounting that is made to the state. Mr. Jackson, is a son of the late Stokes Jackson, who up to his death several weeks ago, was a prominent Indiana democrat.

To Attend Meeting. Among the Hammond lawyers who will attend the meeting of the Indiana State Bar association at South Bend this week are William J. Whinery, L. L. Bomberger and Erie Grant Sproat. Sout hBend is being crowded with lawyers from all parts of the state, and it Is said that hotel accomodations are at a premium.

! DRIVER CHARGED

WITH CRUELTY Anton Heimbach, a driver for the Adams Express company of Hammond, was made defendant : In Judge Ames' : court on the complaint o G. C. White, who charged him with cruelty to animals. The trial was bad this forenoon and the defendant found not guilty, there having-been evidence to show that the horse which Heimbach is alleged to have abused is naturally unruly, and that it has a runaway-record. The complaining witness charged that the driver yesterday afternoon In front of the Hammond building Jerked the horse cruelly and in a manner altogether uncalled for.

Held July 24. The next meeting of the South Side Improvement association will be held July 24. A meeting was held last Wednesday at which matters concerning the improvements which are being made on the south side were taken up.

HOLD PICNIC AT CEDAR LAKE Cedar Lake on the Monon railroad in this county probably will be selected as the location for the big picnic and outing to be' given for the

9,000 employes of the South Chicago works of the Illinois Steel company and their families on Monday, August 19. This is the same day that the1 In

land Steel company employes of Indi-

VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO SPEAK IN EAST CHICAGO.

Railroad Man Insane. On a warrant charging htm with In

sanity Peter Anderson of Indiana Har-I ana Harbor and their families are to

bor was arrested by Constable rhelps ' have their annual outing at Michigan

last night, where he was taken to the Hammond police Btation and held over

expected to do a great business when Calumet avenue 's finally opened through to Lake Mic ligan.

Farmer's Horse Runaway. A runaway horse belonging to a farmer caused considerable . excitement in the business district shortly after noon today, when it tore down

Hohman street. In front of the Model I

Clothing store it plunged into a showcase and demolished the glass in it. Fortunately nobody was injured, and the damage to the show case was the only one reported.

this season. Last year the police used

Arrested on Warrant. John Kowick, 401 Cedar street, was arrested on a warrant by Constable Phelps yesterday afternoon on a

I charge of assault and battery upon impossible to hold their shoots there.

The lake front park Is a suitable place, but it is -not very convenient for the officers.

City. ; From 7.000 to 10.000 are expected to

night. His trial came up before Judge attend the south works outing at CePrest this morning, where he was pro- j dar Lake and a dozen trains of twelve nounced insane by Drs. Buchanan and to fifteen coaches will be required to Gllson. j haul the excursionists. Tickets will Anderson has been employed at the be fifty cents each. A number of em-

C, I. & S. yards at Indiana Harbor and ployes of Gary works of the steel

ior some lime nas Deen acting queer- company, formerly attached to south ly. Yesterday, armed with a large . works, expect to attend the Cedar knife and hatchet, he threatened to ! Lake affair. kill the yardmaster, and with some ' difficulty he was put under arrest. He j Attending the Meetings.

1 I I 1 r I lit n f I U11nt.rinl.ii1iint eT

(the Hammond schools; F.D. McElroy, j principal, and A. L. Murray have been ; attending the meetings of the Nation-

TTnahle to find a ...itohi. r.i t ' al Educational association at Chicago.

hnM ihoir nnrtlr-. th. u, Mr. McDanlel attended the meetings"

will be forced to Journey to the lake . ,n ,he ?&rly Part of the week and Mr' front tomorrow afternoon, where they ! McElroy will attend the latter part of

will hold their first and regular shoot tne week.

tory to his being sent to Logansport. Shoot at Lake Front.

The sessions are . not interesting

the premises of the. G. H. Hammond manv of the teachers and most of

company, but since the buildings are being torn down they have found it

Police Enjoy Lull. Very few matters of Importance occurred at the police Ktatlon last night, not an arrest being made and the officers finding everything exceptionally quiet. A few lodgers applied for a night's rest, but they found they could get little of that, as they complained of the heat in the hobo room.

John Suto, who will appear as the complaining witness. The case will come up for trial before Judge Prest this afternoon or tomorrow morning.

On Auto Tour. Lochiel Simpson left yesterday for an automobile tour that will take at least ten days. He Is going to Louisville, Mammoth Cave, and thence northward to Pittsburg. He is accompanied by his wife and a cousin from Chicago. . Last year Simpson made a trip to nfitflhtf""

C. R. Dyer to Prosecute.

During the absence of Prosecuting

them are out of the city anyway. The

meeting. however, is attracting a great deal of attention on the part of educators from all parts of the Calumet district.

Oh, You Circus Day! The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus booked to appear in Hammond

Is on

Attorney Ralph Ross, who Is spending Monday. July 22. Hammond is on the

a week in t"e soutnern pari oi ine state, Attorney Charles Dyer has been appointed special prosecutor and ls taking care of the cases in the justice and city courts.

AJUQ XOXI KEAXtIKO IBM TIMBSfl

circuit of the big shows and the one booked for this month is one of the very best on the road today. The advertising Var carrying the posters and lithographs was in town yesterday andin a few hours the whole town was billed.

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Hon. Emil Seidel.

It is with a great deal of pride and anticipation that the Lake county socialists announce the opening of their speaking campaign In Lake county with an Immense open air mass meeting at 8 o'clock next Saturday night, Forsyth a.nd Chicago avenues, in East Chicago, when Hon. Emil Seidel of Milwaukee, candidate for vice president on ' the socialist ticket, will address the multitude. This will be the first of the big political guns n'rd In Lake county this campaign, - "