Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 51, Hammond, Lake County, 16 August 1912 — Page 1
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EDITION
VOL. VIE., NO. 51.
HAMMOND, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1912.
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Work will soon be commenced on of the E. C. Grice and Walker company
the (2,000,000 plant and office buildings of the Champion Rivet company which recently purchased a ite at Forsyth avenue and 151st street. The tract to be occupied by them consists of twenty acres which they purchased from Gostlln, Meyn and Company of Hammond. A recent advertisement has revealed the magnitude of the Champion Rivet company's plant. While East Chicago appreciated the fact that the company was "some concern" it was not generally known that the company contemplated spending anything like so large a sum on its buildings. The entire contract is in the hands
of Cleveland, Ohio. The firm is now
advertising "in the American Contrac tor a publication devoted to the build ing trades, for sub-contractors to fig
ure on various parts of the work which the advertisement states will aggregate $2,000,000. The presence of the ad at this time indicates that work on the big plant will soon be begun and
this means an important thing to East Chicago as it will be the means of keeping many men at work throughout the winter months, and bringing
others to this city who would other
wise be earning and spending their
wages elsewhere.
HALF MILLION FOR
BUDGET LAKE CO.
IN 1912
It now costs about a half million dollars a year to run the county of Lake, which is a larger sum than any other county in the state, is spending outside of Marion county, in which the state capital is located. The people of this county can sit up and feel an added importance in view of the fact that so much money is required to run the county business. The budget for 1913, which has just been made up by Auditor Johnson la
The following is the budget that has
bxeen made up:
County clerk, $14,940; auditor, $15,100; treasurer, $7,705; recorder, $10,530;
sheriff, $14,549; surveyor, $4,875; super
lntendent of schools, $3,273.50; coroner, $3,665; county assessor, $1,200; health commissioner, $1,449.96; assessor north
township, $4,200, assessor Calumet township, $2,360; assessor Ross town
ship, $247.50; assessor St. John town ship, $217.15; Center township, $227.50
West Creek, $267.50; Cedar Creek, $250
Teadiness for the annual meeting of the " Eagle )Creek, $187.50; Hobart, $280
board of county commissioners-, actual- J Hanover, $192.50; county commission
ly calls for an expenditure of $443.SS4.
92, but this is always exceeded so that there is no doubt that the $500,000 mark will be passed this year.
ers, $308,712.46; circuit court, $13,000
superior court, room No. 1, $12,750; No,
2, $11,300; No. 3, $9,750; insanity in
qulrtea, $2,750. Total, $443,334.92.
TWO I
MEET DEATH AT MILLS
Two men were killed in the steel
corporation mills at Gary yesterday, making the forth eteel death since last
Saturday and the fifth one in tea days.
The dead:
JOHN CASSADY, 22 years old, craneman at Gary Steel works; fell to open
hearth floor; body at Hoover's morgue.
UNKNOWN NEGRO, body at Hoov
rs morgue; no report as to death
mad by the American Sheet and Tin
Plate company.
Demi Christ, 22 years old, was killed at the steel works last Saturday and a few days preceding Andy Toga was
killed. On Monday Hughie Gallagher,
21 years old, died at the steel work's hospital from injuries received at the bridge plant. Hs .mother came from Ambridge, Pa., to b present at her
ton s bedside.
Provides for Sewer
FAREWELL
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LUNCHES
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Deal Between Hammond and Highlands Involving 1400 Acres Brings $400,000
The largest parcel of land that has tha the land would be re-oid for to
been sold since the United btates
Mill Rote pltontm. V . MIra Rose Pitonoff, the stnrdy Boston girl swimmer. Is training to Dover bay preparatory to her attempt to swim the English channel. Auaruat It. . ' . r-
10W HAS
Vale, free lunch, a long, lingering
famishing farewell to you. Every dog
naa nis day and you have had yours, although you may have appeared in the innocent uise of the "red hot." The HammondvSaloonkeepers' association is going to- do more to you than all the hoboes, panhandlers, umbrella menders and baseball fans ever could do- they are going to put you out of business. Therefore all ye pretzels and crackers, ye cheeses, cream, limburger and roqueforts, ye sausages of the common, or garden, variety and liverwurst, ye onions, radishes and pickles, sauerkraut and potato salad, ye smoked herring and rye bread, ye clam chowder-and oysters, all of you a long farewell. Tw a Popular Institution. The Hammond Saloonkeepers' association has not yet taken any rorpial action with reference to abolishing the most popular institution that Hamm r oka- V, A f V...f n .uA i
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SCANDAL
Wholesale Arrests Made in
Little Town on Charge of Contributing to Delinquency of a .Rich Man's Daughter There.
five men have been arrested and even more" are to be arrested in LanBlrig." Vpak ,Glen end Bernice .on - the charge of ' contributing to the-delin
quency of Hattle Sorma, the daughter of the richest man in Bernice and heir to 130,000, If she had conducted herself properly. The whole community in the vicinity of Lansing Is in a furore as a result of the confessions which the girl has
made. She is under the age of consent and those under arrest will doubtless be bound over to the grand Jury. It is said that many of those arrested are from respectable families. The charges that the young girl makes are unbelievable. "When she was taken into custody she was living in the home of Max Wagner, ostensibly employed as a domestic. Wagner's wife ran away some time
THANKS THE TIMES.
Hammond, Ind., Aug. 16, 1912. P. A. Parry, Editor, The Time, Hammond, Ind., DEAR SIR - We nlh to hovr oar hearty appreciation nnd thank you for the n-eneroun apace yon allowed fn your column in aiding urn to promote our annual Klk' day. Your "good word" to the public wda a moat valuable contribution of nupport to ua and figured most prominently fa bringing about the most auceensful and a-reatent celebration ever given by Hammond B. P. O. IX, So, 485. Again extending to you our thanks, we are Youra truly, JOSEPH AISTCES, Chairman, Advertising Committee.
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Steel company took up its options on several sections in Calumet township was purchased today by C. E. Wales
of the Industrial Center Land company, a recently organized Indiana corporation.
The deal involves tne purchase or
1,400 acres of land for the aggregate
sum of $400,000 of which one half was paid in cash.
J. S. Blackmun of the J. S. Blackmun
Company, the local representative of
the company and the agent through whom the negotiations were carried
on stated today that the purchasers of
the land have authorized him to say
BLOW FELL Oil RESORTS
ACROSS LI
Seven West Hammond saloonkeepers had their licences revoked at noon today by or ier of Mayor K. M. Wosczyn-
Chicago Crooks Identified
in Indiana Harbor Affair as Men Who Have Done
Time for Same Offense in
Illinois' Cities. ;
the following men: Con Talty. Henry Foss, Edward Donnley, Marie Burke,
aeo and left him with four small chil- I on mooP!. James jvionnanan ana Mike
dren. The girl was helping to take , Jacscalc-
care of them. She has confessed to having Improper relations with Wagner. Lrirn Good Home. .
Why she should go away from
-Captain Evans, chief ; of the identi
flcation bureau of Chicago, was a visi
tor' to Indiana. Harbor and' East Chicago yesterday to look over the three forgers now under arrest In the East Chicago - jail. One of the men, who gave his name as Charles Hwanson, he identified as Jeff Shearen, a noted crook, who has done time more than once in the penitentiary for lnfring-
ment of the laws of the land.
, Shearen, who is nearly 70 years of age and only a couple of years ago finished a sentence at Joliet for doing
the same kind of a Job at South Chi
cago, as khe was interrupted in while
trying to put over in Indiana Harbor.
In the former case, however, he man
aged to get away with $15,000. which
ski. Chief of Police John Kulczykjne alted" before being convicted and was ordered to close up. the places of sentenced to four years in prison.
In fact the purchasers of the land de
clare that it was bought only with Its
shipping facilities in view and not for any particular purpose. The property is accessible from the Chicago, Indiana & Southern railroad, the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern belt line, the Erie railroad and the Grand Trunk. V. SURVEYORS ON JOB. When asked if the plan was to locate a townsite on the property Blackmun said that he thought something along : this line would be done in the vicinity of Highlands but that no immediate steps would be taken. He said that so far as he could learn the land was purchased merely aa a speculation. -The men behind the deal specialize In industrial sites but ha (Continued on Page S.)
LIE CO. FAIR A ; H0I1ER IS YEAR
Free Attractions Provided vided by Management Are Expected to Bring Thousands of 'Visitors to Lake County's Annual Show.
All roads lead to Crown Point next week for the fifty-fourth annual Lake county fair, which opens on Tuesday, August 20, ""and continues for four days and three nights. With the promise that the fair this year will be bigger and better than ever In its, history, that the special day and night features, which are free.
will be "of extraordinary merit, a bigger attendance, is . looked for than in any previous years. '
that there will be aomethvner ' doing"
every minute from the .time the visitor arrive nnll He r departs The
principal attraction, ui courn, wiii oa the fancy live stock "and farm-products which will be on exhibition, bu.t there Is another factor In connection with the event which In itself draws hundreds of people, principally from the cities In the northern part of the county. It is the , wholesome and charming atmosphere that the farmers, the people of the soil, bring with them to the fair, and make it a homecoming for thernatlve sons and daugh(Contlnued on Page 8.)
The order came following the re
moval from Eoss's place of John Messmaker, a West Hammond citizen, who was probably killed by an injection of morphine after he had been in the corn-
good home, leave her adopted father. . pany of a dissolute character for three
Joe Sorma, who had always been good aay8-
inis will clean np every place in
to her and who had made her the heir
to his fortune of 130,000, is a mystery wst Hammond that has ever been or to all who have heard of the case. which was until recently classed as one rr l l . i . rtf t A r-Knrrtrn t tk. nl.i.
The Hammond board or puolic works meeting of the bonfacea veRterdav th ... ... . . t. . , " , , . . . .. 'ucouus " uu""l-ea yesieraay me i fk.rir.j with pr m na Msxmilt were? It nuts the burden of nehtlncr the
morning adopted the resolutions pro
viding for a sewer in section D of Wilsox street. The primary assessment roll for the Park Place pavement was adopted. Ott Duelke, Sr., was appointed inspector for the Cameron street pavement. Two telegraph poles maintained by the Monon, on its .right-of-way and the Conkey aveme and Detroit street crossings, were ordered moved a few feet from their present location, in order that there may be no obstruction In the highway.
sentiment was overwhelmingly in fa
vor of Increasing the high cost of living by ruling free lunch off the boards.
It will only be
matter of a short
Max Wagner, Peter Lapehipe and Ed- , case in the hands of the saloonkeepers i ward Redmend. Those who are charg- whose licenses have been revoked. It j ed with attempted assault are Frank meets with the approval of the decent
Jager and Anton Matuszewski.
i citizens of the city.
T . "-. "P-j The arrests were made by Constable Mayor Wosczynskl said today in an ed, and once, the saloonkeepers go on ; MIke Berwan?r?1. on the complaint of authorized statement to the public: -fr rLewuJ.rH0r?h Z,TfV " UoPh th girl's father. Ber-, "We have found that no mlddle-of-the-sltlon, being backed up by the Mchol- . wanReP was accompanied by Joe Blssa road policy Is possible in West HamBon liquor law. ; Qf Wegt Harnmond. AU or those ar , mond oneIUhnlL:ocTaUonsn officials 'y ! " '1'00 , ' Th the gambto The Times, '.'when we will have to ! nfflMra ,,,,, thrArtl,ers vU1 et no,d of 'OUr c,ty overncome to it, and we might as well take ! tJh "?f tJ ZnZrle llToll mach,nerr and running it the initiative and act before we ... towns of Lansng, Bernice and Oak thmselves, before you know what has tne initiative ana act Before we are j Glen tnlB aftern00n for the purpose of happened
" I T. . I arresting six or seven otner men wno The abolition of the free lunch is ' are 8a,d to haw been ,nvoUd Dy the not an innovation in Indiana saloons, j confpsslon of the K,rl.
nut ecu na""u"u oaioonu, Th whr. hnv. been nrreftteri n r
"Shearen is a smooth article." declared Captain Evans. "I do not know anything of the other two prisoners.
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ADOPTS REPORT. (Special to The Times.) Washington, D. C," Aug. 16. The senate this afternoon adopted the conference report on the Tanama canal bill without change, by a vote of 48 to 18.
but the recent, activity of the state j bplng arraiKned before Judge Frank
pure IOou inspector, wno insistea on a n..,. nf XVeHt Hammond as fast as
more sanitary manner and naturally . they are broUKht ,n. Constable Mike a more expensive one, of serving the j BerwanRer and Mike Blssa hired a bus
and after making the arrests they roped the prisoners together with a clothesline and hauled them to West Hammond. Arrent Many. Today they went out to get a man who is reputed to carry a gun and to be a bad actor. They carried revolvers and a Winchester rifle. Thev are
' I , J . 1 H .,
er with the Chicago police, are hard "-"V"11"3" l" cvc' at work In an effort to find the woman , BOn for whom warrants have been iswho was in company with John Mess- sued" , '..,. TOnW, wh Hattle Sorma was arrested at the
nome oi max tvagner jcnieruaj aiicr-
lunch, hurried the Hammond saloon
keepers. The association, however, does not presume to interfere with the selling of sandwiches ' or eatables in the saloons.
Woman Still at Large.
The West Hammond police, togeth-
"I have given thera a chance to be good and to behave, but they do not do so. I have come to the conclusion that the onhy thing to dols to revoke their license, according, to the provisions of the law, and then let them fight it out."
REFUSED TO PASS IT. (Special to The Times.) Washington, D. C. Aug. 16. The senate today refused to pass the steel bill over President Taft's veto.
Mrs. James O Gorman. Mrs. James O'Gorman. wlfa of the senator from New York, la a frequent visitor to the capital. Thf bav taken no bom there rat.
dealing injection of morphine. It is believed that her arrest will alone solve the mystery of the motive for the killing. The police are determined to make a thorough search for the woman. - She is known to be a "hypo" fiend and disreputable, so that her apprehension should not be difficult. The Incident at Foss' place today resulted In the closing of all disorderly saloons by order of the mayor, .who. revoked their licenses.
THERE'S A CHANCE THAT TOD OUGHT NOT TO POSTPOSB THAT -SHOPPING ANT LONGER. READ THE TIMES' AOS AND 8B IV THIS IS NOT BO, ,
Funeral Tomorrow. The funeral of Miss Bertha Spiers, 785 Beall avenue, will be held from the family residence Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. The remains will
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everything about her career since she I Lutheran church, where services will
Injuries Proved Fatal. Inquiries which 'Charles Harmon, 238 Indiana avenue, received in an accident on the I. -II. belt at Gibson last Monday, proved fatal at St. Margaret's hospital Wednesday evening, when he passed away at 6 o'clock. The remains were taken to Stewart's chapel, where they were viewed by a large circle of friends yesterday noon. Accompanied, by a. large gathering of Odd Fellows, the remains were taken
to the Monon station, where they were
ploced on the 12:45 o'clock train for Frankfort, Ind., his former home. In charge of 'the Odd Fellows funeral services and interment will be made at
Frankfort: Harmon's Injuries were received Monday morning, -when he was struck by a heavy drawn bar while at work at Gibson. In an unconscious condition he was removed to St. Margaret's hospital, where although no bones were broken, ' he received some severe internal injuries, which resulted in his death. . Harmon was 38 years old and resided ,at 258 Indiana avenue for the past two years. He was well known among the many railroad men of this region who were shocked to hear the news of his death. A window survives.
VACATIONS (HAVE MADE UP NEARING THEIR MINDS THEIR END . j By this time, it is thought the HamTwo weeks from next Tuesday . va- mond city councllmen have quite flrmcatlons for the school children will ' made up their minds as to how they have come to an end. and Willie will are going to vote on the question of again have to march to school to take paying for the electricity for the orup the work where he left off two namental lighting syst-m in the buslmonths ago. ness district. Practically all the schools In the The matter is in the hands of the county, both public and parochial, will committee and alleys and while, an resume work on the day after Labor unfavorable report is expected from day. on Sept. 3. the majority members of this commitThe Lake County Teachers' Institute tee, it la nevertheless figured that the will be held during the last week in majority In the city will favor the August at Crown Point, and on the adoption of the 'minority' report of the following week the Instructors, with committee. the brushing up they received, will be John Kane and John Morlarty repreready to take up their share of the ent the majority of the committee on
work in earnest afki with good prepa streets and alleys, and they It is figured
with vote against tne installation oi
left home. The four young children who were found in Wagner's place at the time of the arrest will be sent away to an institution which will take care of them. Judge Green has notified the proper authorities so that this will be attended to.
' ' NOTICE. All persons having forged checks on Inland passed recently, wlll( please bring them to me to be used as evidence. JOE MEADE, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. East Chicago, lad.
be held at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Claus will officiate and interment, will be made at Oak Hill cemetery.
A New Arrival. !
. A healthy 13 pound baby boy arrived at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. Fox, 303 West State street, last night, and this morning Mrs. Fox and the baby are reported getting along nicely. Mr. Fox is well known in Hammond, being employed as head bookkeeper at the Hammond Brewery, and 10 centers are none too good for .the friends today.
ABB TOTJ RBAIXVO THX TI
Becker Only One.
J. C. Becker was the only member of the Hammond Gun club to attend the Lowell shooting tournament yesterday, and he arrived so late that he could participate In Only one event. The attendance yesterday was not a,s large as was expected.
ration.
Another Child Bitten. While playing on the grounds of the Riverside srhool yesterday afternoon, Raymond Evans, the 12 year old son of Mrs. Charles Evans, 418 Truman avenue, was bitten on the arm and shoulder by a small dog owned by C. L. Parker, 375 Truman avenue.
The Evans boy was playing on a home-constructed merry-go-round, and
the dog is a small puppy. After irtaking several attempts to bite the boy.
dug his sharp teeth into the boy's arm and shoulder. Although the wounds were not deep, precautions were taken to have the wound cauterized. C. L Parker, owner of the animal, had the dog muzzled, but In some manner the dog was able. to. use Its teeth. In order to prevent any more accidents, Mr. Parker offered to have the dog killed. The son of Mrs. Hubert h, who was also bitten by a dog is reported getting along nicely and in no danger. This only goes to show that leather muzzles are no good and dog owners are requested to replace them with the regulation muzzle. The common
leather muzzle is nothing more than a few small stranps and a dog can easily pull them off. The dog squad is still on duty, but few amuzzled canines arc being found.
the system, while Marion Hower is said to represent' the minority of the committee. SHE'S AFTER T. R. VOTES IN SOUTH
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No Clue to Jackson. Although the police are searching for Edward Jackson, who is wanted in Hammond for stealing a horse, belonging to the Beckman Supply company, few . clews have been learned, and the thief is still at large. The horse was recovered by the Chicago police.
ABB TOTJ READING THE TIMES
Funeral of G. E. Tate. The funeral of George . Tate of Truman avenue will be held from the All Saints' church Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. The Rev. Father Barrett will officiate and interment will be made at St. Joseph's cemetery.
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Miss Jean Gordon, Miss Jean Gordon, of Sew Orleans, is one of the four women members of tba national committee of tha. new Bull Moose party. Sho's expected to play a big party in lining up iUly white votes of tha south tor Teddy