Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 47, Hammond, Lake County, 12 August 1912 — Page 1

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WEATHKH, FAIR AND WARMER TODAY; TUESDAY UNSETTLED. VOL. vn., NO. 47. HAMMOND. INDIANA, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1912. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Number 1 Centa Copy.) LIGHTING SYSTEM THESE DEMOCRATIC TEAMMATES LOOK LIKE THEY WERE CUT OUT TO BE PALS REPORT STARTED THAT AETNA STRIKE IS OFF VAN HORNE IS NAMED AT THE u CONVENTION ivir v i ill Hf Slits viT4 i.vr

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Possibility That Progressive Councilmen in Hammond . Will Put Ornamental System Through When It Finally Comes Up.

While the majority of the Hammond councilmen at the last meeting voted to delay the ordinance relatives to the Installation ot the ornamental street lighting system In the business disi trlct, by referring It to the committee on streets and alleys, those of the city fathers who favored Immediate action are in hopes that when the. question is put to another test, enough votes will have been brought over from the side which delayed the action, to insure the ultimate passage of the ordinance.

The committee on streets and alleys i3 composed of Councilmen Kane, Morlarity and Hower; Of these Kane and Lauer are opposed to assessing the entire city for the cost of the "juice." The councilmen voting to refer the question to the street and alley committee were Moriarity, Eggers, Kahl, Stodola, Cotton, Hower, Sturn, .Kane. Lauer and Eastwood. Those who opposed this action were Whltaker, Pascaly, Schutz, Markmueller and Hubbard. At least eight favorable votea are required, to secure the passage ot the ordinance, although wlththis number a vote would have to be taken at two consecutive meetings. THREE MAY SWITCH. ' After the ordinance was introduced. It was moved that it be referred to the committee on streets and alleys, and some of the councilmen, - it is said, ' while voting for delay, did so not with the Idea of killing, the ordinance, but merely for the talJe of the courtesy that the council usually shows Itg committees. Of these Hower and Cotton, it is said, wijl vote for the ordiance, when

tfie committee jn a kes & report. Councilman Eastwood's suggestion at the time the ordinance was introduced that it be so amended that the city be permitted to use the new conduits for its police and fire alarm wires, Is cont Continued on Pag S.)

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Willard B. Van Home. Whiting, Ind., Aug. 12. The Joint representative republican convention from Lake and Newton counties was held In Whiting on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 and was attended by a representative gathering. Attorney

Willard Van Home of Indiana Harbor was re-nominated by acclamation. The meeting was called to order by County Chairman Chanes Johnson of Crown Point. Walter Schrage Jr., of Whiting, was selected as secretary. Walter Drake of Newton county was selected as the permanent chairman. This completes the nomination of all or tho republican candidates and the republican ticket is row ready for the inspection of the voters. Van Home's election ia conceded.

Nat Fields' Show at Orpheum Is So Punk That Manager Hankenson Rings

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Nat Fields; a brother of the wellknown corpedian. Lew Fields, came to grief withis theatrical enterprise In Hammond, when L, F. Allardt, of the Orpheum circuit, canceled his contract with Fields and attached his scenery to insure the payment of a debt of $495 which Fields is alleged to have contracted at the time the contract with the Allardts was signed. The Allardts' contract with Fields was signed July 30, 1912. it provided that fields should play all of his shows, "The Geeser," "The Girl Behind the Counter "Barbara Fidgety" and "It Happened in Nordland." Fields owned the scenery and was to receive $150 a week for the use of the scenery and his services as the leading man. "He was to get $100 a week In CRsh and the $50 a week was (Continued on Page 8.)

MRS. II. C. WOLTER DEAD AT HOfrlE Mrs. Henry C. Wolter, 69 Sibley street, a well-known and respected citizen of Hammond, died at the family residence yesterday awernoon at 4:16 o'clock following a lingering Illness lasting nearly a year' The funeral will be held from the family residence Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The remains will be taken to the St. Paul's Lutheran church, where services will occur at 2 .o'clock. Interment will be made In the family .lot at Oak Hill cemetery. . Mrs. Walter was first taken 111 with rheumatism about a year ago. Although she was able to be up and around about three months ago she was again taken suddenly ill and since that time has been confined to her bed, suffering also with asthma. Yesterday she suffered a relapse and passed away at 4:15 o'clock. " Mr. Wolter is well known In Hammond and Is a brother of City Treasurer William Wolter. He is employed at the A. S. Pate Lumber company in Chicago. Mrs. Wolter was 35 'years old and is survived by two sons and a daughter.

HIT BY AUTO IS RECOVERING

WHITLOCK PLANS LITERARY LIFE

Stephen Demeff of Gary Believed Now to Be Out of Danger.

Stephen Demeff, 907 Jefferson street, Gary, who is at the Mercy hospital In Gary as a result of serious Jnjuries he received on Friday evening when he was struck by a big tou-ring car, driven by George Locklin. Jr. of Hammond is reported this morning to be getting along nicely. He is not considered to be In any danger of h!s life, although he has several fractured ribs and injured spine. The young driver or the car who is out on $2,000 bond furnished by his father will have his hearing before Judge Wildermuth in the Gary cUy court on Wednesday of this week. The charge against him is criminal carelessness. .

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RAIN BALKS GOLF THE ENTHUSIASTS Cup Handicap Is Postponed Until Next Saturday Afternoon.

The production of large quantities

of fuel from the peat bogs of the Kan

kakee river flats may become an im

portant Industry In Iake county. If the plans of R. S. Lawrence, 933 North Meridian street, Indianapolis, are carried out. Lawrence is president of the Farmer's Peat Fuel company, which owns the patents on a machine that manufactures balls of fuel peat. These balls are said to be as good fuel for ordinary purposes as coal and they can be made for less money than coal can be produced at the mines. i Not only that, but Hammond may become the center for the manufacture of peat fuel ball!. What has attracted

attention to Lake county Is the fact that government reports show that there are 310,000 acres of peat lands along the Kankakee flats. The Idea is that if a concern could manufacture these machines In Hammond and the induce the hundreds of farmers in the peat land section to spend their spare time manufacturing fuel that a big Industry might be built up. It is proposed to put 10,000 of these machines at work, each of which will manufacture four to five .tons of round peat balls a day which will have a fuel value of 11,000 heat units per pound.

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. - Woodrow Alison and Tom Msrshatl. First photograph showing both Oovernor Wilson and Governor Marshall, the candidates of the democratic party for' president and, for vice president, taken during the notification ceremonies at Sea Girt.' The two leaders of the .party grew quite chum my." and ' didn't have to force a smile when they saw the camera pointed a, t them. Z j

Reports from the Aetna powder mills t Aetna are to the effect that the

strike existing there for some time has

been called off by the union and all

union employes may now go back to

work. It is said that the company has placed several of the strikers to work at their old jobs but that some of the

headers will have to seek work else

where.

The Aetna strike started in June

when Barney Carter, the Hammond

labor leader and democratic candidate

for the legislature, appeared at Miller

and started to unionise the mills. A local of the high explosive workers union was organized and when this was done the company , was asked to grant certain demands. Negotiations

between the company and the union were of 'nbeffect and a strike resulted. Half of the 250 men employed at the plant walked out. Durlpg- the tenure of the strike most ofthe bachelor powder makers camped at Miller beach. The company, within a days resumed operations, by employing Chicago strikebreakers to fill the vacancies. As a matter ot protection; arc lights were strung about the town and the 176 buildings making up the powder mills and an armed guard ot 30 deputy marshals guarded the plant day and night: No violence occurred, however.. ' Is is said that such of the strikers who return will go to work under the old conditions.

LEE ISSUES INSOLENT ULTIW1ATUIVI

AN INSOLENT

LETTER.

HURT ON GOLF LINKS

John E.V ". WrGarry formerly president of the Hammond. Business Men's Association- was painfully hurt while playing golf Jaat evening on the Hammonl Country Club links and,, medical assistance had to be summoned to restore him to conscipusness. ' Mr. McGarry was crossing the field to go home when a sharp drive by Mr. Klemperer struck him, inflicting such acute pain that Mr. McOarry sank in a faint to the ground. He was restored only - to succumb a few minutes later to an extreme attack of vertigo. Mr. McGarry is able to be out today however.

WET ROADS PERIL : SKIDDING AUTOS

TIMES BUREAU, AT STATE CAPITA! Indianapolis, Ipd., Aug. 12. The Bull Moose ultimatum has gone out In Indiana and from now on men are going to be compelled to say whether they are Republicans or whether they have flopped over Into the Bull Moose party. Edwin M. Lee, chairman of the Bull

Moose state committee, has sent out a communication to all county chairmen informing them, that they are-to call county conventions at once for the nomination of Bull Moose county

tickets. It is evident from this that It

is Lee's plan either to wreck the Republican party totally or to do the

best he can In that direction.

But It Is believed here -that Lee's In

structions will not be-carried out in

some of the counties. It is well known that In many counties in Indiana the

noroe - v- - - "-J yM. ltttr.om ft '"the ItU.t, prowls .ympathr-with the third party plan fori t... ,2

jMerrillville Scene of a Bad

, Automobile Accident , , Yesterday.

Rain caused the postponement of the

second flight in the Country Club golf i

cup tournament for August last Saturday afternoon and Handicappr Dickson announced that the same handicap as posted would be imposed next Saturday. The course was dotted with golfers all day yesterday despite the threatening , weather. Enthusiasm in the game has reached a high pitch and some great players fcmong the young men are being developed. It is highly probable that Hammond will send some contenders for the state

cnampionsnip next year, several Hammond players will enter the Jackson Park matches this week in - Chicago. Instructor Dickson Is-- occupied with many lessons these days and promises to turn out some good players in both sexes.

Brand Whltlock. i In announcing that he will not accept a nomination for governor of Ohio by the third party. Brand Whitlock, mayor of Toledo, ways he will not again run for any office and that he expects to devote his life to lit erature after his present official term expires. Whitlock, a former newspaper reporter, has wrlttv a number

GARY MAN ARRESTED. Whiting, Ind., Aug. 12. Stanley Sllva, who was wanted in Gary onthe charge of deserting his wife, was arrested last night by Officer Niziolkiewlcx at Libert's, hall. The Gary police were Informed of Sllva's arrest and he Is being held awaiting the arrival of a Gary officer who will take him back to the steel city , to answer the charge

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MICH. PROGRESSIVES COOLING TOWARD COL.

Detroit, Mich., Aug. 12. Chairman Greesbeck of the Republican state

committee yesterday said he had re

ceived reports showing that out In the state Progressive Republicans are

everywhere growing cold . toward Theodore Roosevelt, and in many Instances organizing voluntarily to fight his Bull Moose party. "If half the reports we get are true," he said, "the people who have been for Roosevelt are slowly changing their minds as they have time to think over the situation. The Republican party was good enough for him in 1SS2, when he went to the New York Assembly; it was good enough for htm In 1SS4, when tens of thousands of Republicans left the party because they felt that Blaine was representing corrupt influence. "In the years he was active in New York he did not hesitate to ally himself with the Piatt machine, but the minute some one resisted Roosevelt's domination and balked his fierce desire to be 'it' he started in to retaliate. In other words, of sporting blood, the true sporting blood, he had none."

SECRETARY

NOTIFIES MEMBERS Secretary J. T. Brusel of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce has sent out notices to the members of that organization Informing them that the organization, which was put on its feet last spring, has taken over the) leases and equipment of the Unlverslf ty club. The members are Invited to visit the rooms often and take advantage of the splendid facilities that are offered. It is bf-Heved that with the purchase of these rooms the Hammond Chamber of Commerce has begun a new era of activity.

. , ' r (Special to Thb Times.) Merrill vllle. Ind., Aug. 12. Six au

tomoblles .came to grief by skidding

In ,the . road between here and Gary yesterday because of the wet roads

and, the propensity of machines to kid.. In none of the accidents save one was there any serious damage

done. At the Grand Trunk crossing,

which goes over an Inclined grade,

John Stolts,' a farmer, collided with

Elmer McDonald, a contractor, and

both machines came to' grief. Sfaolts suffered a' badly Injured arm; His machine was: damaged by ha-lpg . the front, axle and windshield broken, but McDonald .was unhurt. It Is reported that- a Gary doctor had a smashup on South Broadway.

(Special to Thb Tikes.) Crowa Point, Ind, Aug. 13. Ed Lee chairman of the ' bull mooae partly ta ladlana has wrtttea a letter to f'ouaty Chairman Johnson denaaadlaa; that he call n county convention In Lake at once for the nomination of a' ball moose county ticket. NeTer has a more Imprudent demand been made in thla atate and third party ' republicans who were firm for the republican ticket that haa been nominated have withdrawn their nnpport from Rooeeelt and will vote the republican straight from A to Iaaard now. .

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strumbling block In the movement In

at I nent Roosevelt ' men -ta the; state,' wlio

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LATEST NEWS

MOTOR BOAT SINK Chicago, Aug. 12. Reliance III. of March entry In the International championship power boat regatta sank off the Chicago Yacht Club, this afternoon. No one was drowned.

TIMES WANT ADS servipr Tct vor

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HE'S ON FOOD JOB Dr. WILEY VACATED

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE? Gary police last night received a report that a Mrs. Avery or verett attempted to committee suicide at her home in Adams street last nJght and that she used the gaB route in her attempt to end her life. Nothing furthr was obtairkii and an Investigation is being made by the police today. Rumor has It that the woman

was nearly dea4 whea found.

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HlifilOfiDS DEPUTY TREASURER KURT

Wm. Kolb Falls From Hog .House and Sustains Serious Injuries. '

BUMPER CROP AND LOW BEEF. Washington, Aug. 12. Secretary Wilson says beef will be cheiper next winter than It has been for a number of years. The high cost of beef

through last winter and at the present time was due to the small corn crop of last year. This year's corn crop will reach more than 2,280,000,000, or the third largest in the history of the country.

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NATIONAL OFFICERS PICKED BY EAGLES

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William Kolb. deputy city treasurer, who has been laid up at his home now for more than a week, olng to Injur

ies, ' Is reported to be getting along) Enrapt In thought and devoid of all very well, and hopes to be able to get j knowledge of the approaching danger out of tfra-bouse soon, i to her' Mrs. Edward Wagner yesterA' week ago last Saturday afternoon ! da'. morning sauntered along the edge he fell a distance of two stories In the ' of the Nickel Plate station platform old-hog. house of the G. H.Hammond ! and wa accidentally caught by the plant. He sustained a broken wrist, crossbeam over the engine pilot and this being the third tlnnv-that his left hurld to one sld'arm.l. broken In the same place, and! . A score of spectators were on the

Rianorm ana many oi mem were witnesses to the young woman's narrow escape from death. Fortunately she escaped with slight injuries and without losing consciousness. She was picked up by an auto party and taken to her home.

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of his leg in the hip socket, and other 1 minor Injuries. - He had gone to the hog house to pay off workmen who were wrecking the ' building for him. The second floor had j

falready been removed,; and he attempt- ;

ed to cross the third story floor, but ; TTr TTTCS IIPTT1 striking a rotten board ho fell through ! i'l U XXVTXXXO XXJ-OJ

clear to -the main floor, landing on a pile of debris. He was- immediately picked up by the workmen tlYere and rushed, to. his . home on Lummer avenue. .'..-. ""I never saw anything move so rap-

AT THEATER

"There will be no prize fights pulled oft" in the Hammond theater," said Maurice Hankwwon, new manager of the place. "We figure that when such

idly as that main floor seemed to come ! things are permitted In a house that

Dr. XI. K naa aucceeded Dr T' Wiley as chief pure food .yji- the U. & decartmeat ftt

up toward, me as I was going down,

the patient later told his friends Jokingly, "still I must have traveled quite slow, for I had time enough to wonter when the floor and I would meet." The choicest of all Scrap Chewing Tobacco is UNION SCOUT, manufactured from the pure leaf. Handled by all dealers. Try a package, save the

ticket, .... See . premium list,

afterwards solicits the patronage of the-best people that the house Is hurt. "The Hammond theater is to- bo used exclusively for shows of the - better type. None of the cheap ones Will be booked there. The policy of the new Allardt . management will be to " make the house the home of high - grade drama and yiuslcal comedy.'

ABB yOU fUULDIXGt 1KB TUtSJI

W. J. Brennen, J. 8. Parry, Conrad H. Mann. Judge W. J. lirennan of Pittsburg has been selected grand worthy presK dent of the Eagles at their national convention, and John S. Parry of Sari Francisco, grand worthy secretary. Conrad Mann of Kansas City, said 'to have done more than any other man to build up the order, will be one of the grand trustees. Some call 2ia.au th9poa'lp.I . the ordr