Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 38, Hammond, Lake County, 1 August 1912 — Page 1

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rm 1. V I : FAIR AND CONTINUED COOt. TODAY AND FRIDAY. IL JLLLO EDITION VOL. VH., NO. 38. ,N HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1912. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers 3 Centa Copy.)

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HOTEL IS ASSURED Mees Lease the GromanMuenich Building on Hohman Street and Will Give Up Carleton; Plans For Interior Under Way. Hammond is to have a new hotel at last. The deal -was closed last night by wMcn Mrs. to. A. xo.ee u ibwjvi ma Groman-Muenlch building1 for a period of Ave years, with an option on three more, and Workingmen will commence at once to convert it into a modern ho tel. The new hotel will have 70 roooms. of which 30 will be equipped with bath. All of the roooms will be equipped with wash basins and running; water. The hotel is so located that it will become the headquarters for the auto mobtllsts who pass through the city to and from Chicago. With the opening of Hohman street through to Munster, & thing which will be accomplished in the near future, it is destined to become the greatest automobile thoroughfare in the region. Dead Kim ally Cloaod. The deal by which the hotel waa leased waa closed yesterday afternoon after It had been pending for week or two. Mr. and Mrs. Mee will notify tn owners of the Carleton of their deter mination to change their location to day. In fact, the deal by which the new hotel Is to be finished and furnished became possible when the owners of the Carleton hotel, who live in Kensington, attempted to raise the rent. Architects Bvmy A Berry are at work on the plans for the hotel. These are (Continued en page five.) ELECTRICITY FOR DYER (Special to Tct Tncm.) Dyer, Ind., Aug. 1. Dyer ia to have electric lights and power, provided the Northern Indiana Gas 4b Electric com pany and the Dyer board of trustees) can get together. The company has broached the subject of a franchise to the board, but before any action is taken a - mass .meeting is to be held under the aus pices of the Dyer Commercial club, at which the project will be discussed. The meeting is scheduled for Friday night of this week and everybody is Invited to attend. Dyer is progressive and wants the Improved light, fuel and power sys tern, and the only thing that stands In the way is an acceptable franchise. The Northern Indiana Gas & Eleotric company is recognised as a pro gressive corporation and spreading regular network of lines from thfj northern end of the county. Jrrograsaive Out for Gorernorflliip. Robert Baton, master of the Illinois State Grange, is one of the Progressives whose candidacy for governor will be urged on the state convention next Saturday. He is a resident of Jackson, Will- count. He recently de clined to accept the Prohibition, gub rnatorlal nomination

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DELEGATES Tomorrow evening the republicans of Lake county will meet in convention In the various cities, towns and townships of the county and select delegates to the state convention at Indianapolis and to the Joint repre sentative convention, which Is to be held in Whiting. According to the call, the Hammond republicans will meet in Chopin hall, the Gary republicans In Blnsenhof hall, the East Chicago republicans at Cohen's hall, and the Whiting republicans' at Frankowskl's hall. The conventions will all be held at 8 o'clock In the afternoon. It is not expected that there will be anything but routine action taken by the con ventions. There does not seem to be much of a fight on for the nomination of state officials this year, and for that reason the selection of delegates will be done in a perfunctory manner. TANDEM CYCLISTS Another "lucky" motorcycle accident occurred On Columbia avenue about 8:30 o'clock last night when Edwin Smith and Miss Lottie Appoly of Sibley street. Hammond, collided with a wagon, the collision throwing the riders Into the ditch and causing some severe bruises. With Miss Appoly on the rear seat. Smith was riding south on Columbia avenue at a rate of about twenty miles an hour. The wagon was owned by Albert Csiky, who was using more than his share of the road. Smith made an attempt to get by. but instead collided with the vehicle. -t Sot..sM were pitch ad newto-the ditch. Miss Appoly was picked up In an unconscious condition, bleeding at the mouth. Aid -was summoned and she wag removed to her home, on Sibley street, where she is reported getting along nicely this morning. The wagon was badly damaged and the motorcycle was almost a total wreck. With the exception of a few bruises and scratches Smith escaped unhurt. KN OTTS CAUSES SLUMP III THE HEW PARTY -4bsWMbbVb Crown Point Progressives Don't Take Kindly to His Leadership. (Special to Tub Times.) CrownPolnt, Ind., Aug. 1. The Progressive party In tbla neck of the woods seems to have lost considerable caste alnce the convention on Monday when the decision was made to put a full ticket In the field for the coming campaign. Lots of the Progressives who believe In the Roosevelt ideas were perfectly willing to stand for it and work for the party's success, but the domtnatlon of Knotts and his ilk at the recent convention has disgusted and dis gruntled the majority of the adherent of the new party and they will look elsewhere to vent their feelings against what seemed a failure of the new party to make good along rational lines. Instead of gaining, the defec tion from the progressive ranks is growing and the situation looks anything but encouraging to those who entered the game with an idea of a whirlwind campaign and 'finish. ROAD OIL DESIRABLE

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Every mile of paved road in Lake J Michigan City Is taking conslderabli county may be oiled by order of the jpr,3e In the fact that it is in a posi countv commissioners and throuarh an'011 to show Hammond and East Chi

appropriation by the county council ' If the agitation that has been started over the county succeeds. So successful has the sprinkling of streets with oil been in preserving ; pavements in the city of Hammond, the town of Munster, the city' of Crown Point and other places in the county that It may become a general custom both In the cities and the country districts. The county commissioners are coming to the conclusion that the traffic of automobiles on the county roads is bo severe a strain on ' the ordinary pavement that something will have to be done to preserve it. With every mile of Lake county roads oiled the reputation of this county for fine roads would be more than upheld. This is said to be the only solution of the problem until the state gives the county the right to build more subetanUal roads in the first place.

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Improved Service Between Gary and Crown Point Established Today; Air Line Possibly Open by Sunday. Through car service between Gary steel mills and the Crown Point square began at 6 o'clock this morning when the first lnterurban fijer left the North Broadway terminal of the Gary & Southern Traction company and made its way southward. At the same time a car left the county seat for the steel mills. Hourly Service Established. Hourly service between the two towns will obtain from nowm Instead of a car every two hours as first announced. Until yesterday It was decided to operate on a two hourbasia, and following a conference It was decided that the traffic warranted a car leaving both cities every hour. Cars will leave the Lottavllle car barns at. 5:S0 o'clock every morning. One will go to Gary and the other to Crown Point, both making the first through trip, leaving at 6 o'clock. The last car will leave Gary at 11 p. m. and the last car will leave Crown Point at p. m. Judge Ora L. Wildermuth of Gary, vice president of the Gary & Southern Traction company, stated today that for the time Teing a 26-cent fare will pre(Continued on Page 7.) TER The funeral of Walter Webster. 697 Oakley avenue, one of the four victims who drowned at Kankakee. 111.. Sunday, was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Short services were held at the family, residence and the remains were then taken to the Baptist church, where services were held a 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. Floyd Adams officiated and the music was rendered by the Baptist church choir. The Hammond lodge. Knights, of Pythias, of which Mr. Webster was a membar, marched to Oak Hill cemetery, where the K. of P. ritual was carried out. The body was recovered Tuesday afternoon after a charge of dynamite had been exploded In the river. His was the last body to be recovered. At the citizens' mass meeting in the Hammond city hall this evening the committee recently appointed by Mayor Smalley to find ways and means for the installation of the ornamental street lighting system in Hammond will make a report relative its visit and Inquiries In the matter in Michigan City. The question Is one which affects every taxpayer in the city, and Mayor Smalley several days ago called a mass meeting at which the probleirtj lis to be discussed at some -length. cago how to go about It to secure the desired system. East Chicasro is also figuring on Installing the lights and Its officials, too, have Inquired of (""Michigan City as to how it went about it. ! In ATirhlff-nn CitX" thp ftvstem -nroa InStalled exactly as any other public improvement, starting first with a petition as required for a pavement or sidewalk. The cost of installation is assessed against the abutting property, while the city maintains the lights Just as it does the arc system." The question In Hammond Is whether the city or the property owners in the benefited district are to pay for the maintainance of the lights. THE MAN WHO WANTS A JOB around here reads this paper first for he knows that It, has CO.000 readers a day. He stands a chance of getting a Job. A want ad here may get you Just the man you was,

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RECOGNIZE THIS LITTLE MOTHER? YOU SAW HER IN THE PARK ONLY YESTERDAY

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Do you recognize this little mother? She Is seen quite often' In the city parks with her charges, and the accompanying picture waa snapped only yesterday. Se how happy she I ooks. Her two children don't seem to give her the least bit of worry; and she doesn't seem to be giving them any werry, either . for notice their broad smiles. . There hapans -m half dozen children in this family, and the mother is not strong. So Marjorle, one of the older girls, who la seen wheeling tb Cab. has taken the two youager children under her protecting wing. She says it's great ' fun to'bting up children, especially when they are as good as Hera axe, Watch for her the next time you take a walk In th park. - -

SHOVEL CAUSES ) MUCH TROUBLE! (Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Aug. 1 Two Italians on the Gary & Southern lnterurban got Into an altercation yesterday mornlg over the posesslon of a shovel and before matters could be adjusted the weilder of . the shovel ' had fled and up to the time no traces can be found. The Quarrel occurred over the possession of a spade and before matters could be adjusted the fellow that was most Insistent over the matter had fled leaving the entire matter to lawyers here. MARRIAGE LICENSES. (Special to Thb Times.) . Crown Point, Ind., August 1. The following marriage licenses have been issued here: Alfred C. Johnson, Gary: May B. Case, Gary. Adolph Link, Indiana v Harbor; Blanche Lewis, Indiana Harbor. Paul I Long, Chicago; Har.el Wood, Chicago. Charles Jucker, Tolleston; Eliza Nemode, Chicago. Mat j Jonas, Indiana Harbor; Helen Malmar, i Indiana Harbor. Paul Mlchna, Whiting; Susanna Kutes. Whiting. Willey Tonner, E. . Cherry, Chicago; Millie Chicago. WHT ARBS READER? YOU NOT A TIMES SPEAKS WELL OF BLEASE; LOCKED UP Because he declared Oovernor Cole Eieaoe. of South Carolina, the most honorable man ha the world, Eugene Gordon Toung, a Carolina, man, has been held for an Investigation of htj aanltz to .Atlanta. A

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tn family Third Party Adopts Platform and Declares for County Option, Initiative, Referendum, Recall and Direct Elections. . . . TIMES BIHEAV. AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Aug. 1. A. J. Beverldge, former senator from Indiana, was today nominated for governor of Indiana on the bull moose ticket. His nomination was made by acclamation and with loud cheers. The convention adopted the bull moose' as the party emblem. The national progressive party convened' in Tomlinson hall here' today and adooted a platform of 27 planks. It declared for the initiative.fi referendum and recall. The recall Is not to Include the recall of judges. The convention therefore repudiates the position taken by Koosevelt in this matter. The convention declares for the direct election of senators, direct primaries to nominate all candidates for elective offices, woman suffrage, good roads legislation, county local option as tem--i j i r- ei r .a1Ia until liviini iiiovHnn ran hvi 3 lew ........ M be settled by Initiative and referendum ana tor a constitutional convention. Ex-Senator Albert J. Beverldge was nominated for the office of; governor by acclamation. L. H. Mace of ScottsbuTg was nominated for secretary of state and Harvey C Cushman of Washington for auditor of state by acclamation. Albert J. Beverldge, Edwin M. Lee, Frederick Landis, Rudolph Leeds, Perry Bear and Horance Stllwell were all elected as delegates-at-large. to the Chicago convention with one-third vote each. The alternates are Harold Hobbs, Muncie; Carl Payne, Fourth district; W. D. Colvln. Second district; W. F. Adams, First district; E. F. Warful, Richmond, and Edgar Galdwln, Fairmount. The convention Is expected to nomin(Contlnued on page five.).

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Victim Battles For Life Until Passers By Drive Brute From Her. Is Taken to Hospital

A battle between a wild dog and a Gary woman took place in the woods east of Broadway yesterday afternoon and had it not been for the assistance of two men the woman, who was fearfully mangled about the face and body, would have been torn to pieces (1 by the ferocious animal. Battle In the Woods. F.' G. Smith, an employe of the Gary company, accompanied by Frank Kriskle, a special policeman employed by the company, were visiting the various shacks in the Broadway woods. At shack 53, which is a half mile in the woods, some vicious dogs were housed. Nearby resided Mrs. Katherlne Malenko, 21 years old, the victim of the wild dog. . The two land company men had Just passed shack 63 when they heard screams and a succession of pistol

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HIGH An Interesting letter with reference to the cost of living and wage scales has ben submitted to the Chicago Railway company by the officials of Division 241 of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Kail- ' way Employes of America and Inasj much as it involves problems to a large extent identical for street car employes, nto in division 241, Thb Times gives the communication In full: Chicago, 111, July 21, 1912. Chicago Railways 'Co., Chicago, llt.: " Gentlemen: Your ' communication of July 25, 1912, replying to the requests that this division had submitted to you through their committee, asking your company for a new agreement, with an increase of wage and changed conditions In employment, received and contents -carefully considered by this, "a special meeting of our division. You state in your communication that owing to the results of Increased cost of operation the past three years, and because other cities, which you quote, are not paying as high a rate of wage as paid in Chicago, that you cannot grant our requests for a living wage and Improved working conditions, and In support of your argument you quote the wagesN of several cities, in which you clalm-they are lower for street car men than in Chicago. In reply to your communication we must again reiterate our former position and Insist upon our former demands. We are forced to do this because the present wage Is not sufflFlflflERAfl NOW TO SUE MISS BROOKS Militant Reformer to Be Made Defendant in Damage Suit. Martin Flnneran, former village clerk of West Hammond and tax col- ! lector, who was vindicated in the Cook county court last Monday, of charges of embezzling $2,700 tax money collected from the Michigan Central, said this morning that he expected to proceed without delay to bring suit against Miss Virginia Brooks and a Chicago reporter named Delaneyk who he says instigated the sui "I intend to sue them jointly In two separate cases, one for libel and one for malicious prosecution, for damages In the sum of $10,000. I may not be able to collect anything in the event I win but I would then have the satisfaction at least of showing them up." Judge Honore before whom the cae was on trial, took it from the jury after the state's evidence, was In and without hearing any of the defense' J testimony j the jury: and in doing so he said to Court's Instructions. "Gentlemen of the Jury, this case which is pending before you, that h3 just been heard here, was heard by me a day or two ago, and was continued until this morning for further evidence. The defendant was charged with embezlement of public funds in West Hammond, Illinois, and the evidence shows quite conclusively that he didn't embezzle any public funds; that he received a certain amount as treasurer, or as collector of the city of West Hammond, and paid out paid it all out in due course of law, and just n order to make the record straight, and to show the verdict of the Jury, I was requested to ask you gentlemen to sign a verdict of not guilty, and I would like to have you do so."

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shots. Smith and Krlskie ran back and found Mrs. Malenko fighting the dog. Nearby were men with clubs and one with a revolver who : tried to shoot the animal. Finally the brute released its hold on the woman and, running away, hid under a nearby shade Was Horribly Mangled. The woman was hurried away to a doctor's office. There it was found that the dog had severely lacerated her neck, arms, face and hips. Much blood was lost by, the victim and today she Is in a serious condition at her home , Police Captain Newman, who heard the shots and screams, ran into the woods and locating the dog. he killed It. The animal is said to have been a wild one that ran at', large in the Eleventh avenue woods, and others have been bittea by it. COST clent to maintain the standard of liv ing that is required or us. At (he outset of our negotiations with you our committee called your attention to the fact that the wage we now receive wes not sufficient to maintain the American standard of living for street car men as now prevails in Chicago, and in proof of our argument we are again submitting to you the following facts and figures concerning the cost of living: ' . Comparative cos-'of living, per 'irfor motormen and; cordiictora in "Chicago, " family of five: ; Coal. 6 tons at J8. ...... .$40.00 Wobd and kindling, year 6.00 I 46.00 Light and cooking, gas, ter month 2.09 . Clothing for man, 1 uniform suit 18.00 24.00 Extra pair uniform pants 6.00 (Continued on Page 7.) May Wield G avel for Progressives. John M. Parker, a prominent New Orleans Democrat, probably will be chisen to act as permanent chairman of the national Progressive convention, which oonveftes at Chicago on Monday of next week. Senator IMxon. campaign manager for Col. Roosevelt, said yesterday that the Loutslantan In all probability would be the choice. Mr. Parker was born n( Bethel church. Miss., In 1863. In 1883 he moved to New Orleans and entered Into the cotton business. He Is a planter and one of the most progressive men la the southern metropolis.

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