Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 147, Hammond, Lake County, 20 November 1912 — Page 1

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VOL. VII., NO. 147.

HAMMOXD, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1912.

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STAMPEDE FOR JOBS OAS ALREAD

Hungry for Sixteen Years, Office Seekers Are Clamoring for Recognition; Bitter Disappointment Awaits Them; President-Elect Wilson Not Expected to Return to Spoils System, and Will Take Refuge in Civil Service Instituted by Republicans.

(Special to The Time?.) Washington, Nov. 20. The Treat rush for jobs under the AVllson administration has bfffun. Democrats from

the four corners of the United States ! and evtn from abroad are already starting their run toward the pie counter, which has been closed tight against them for sixteen years. Will It nex Scenes. Before the stampede Is over the country will again have witnessed the scenes that made Cleveland's administration memorable, the office seekers, especially from the south, crowding the cheap boarding houses in the national capital, besieging the White House and congress, some of them flat broke and living from hand to mouth, and many of them In the end turning their faces toward home under the firm Impression that the whole word, and particularly President Wilson, Is heartless and unworthy of true democratic support. Grover Cleveland for weeks and months had to face this hungry office seeking- horde. It made his life mis-

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already acknowledging that at the very i best he has a most trying: experience j ahead of him. Afraid of Wilson. j The men who know Gov. Wilson best j do not expect any sweeping: return to ; the spoils system under his adminls- j tration. They say the sentiment of the j country if nothing else will prevent it. j They expect that Mr. Wilson will ap- j point democrats to the minor offices as ; fast as the republican terms expire, j

but they do not look for any sweeping removals. In the case of the more Important

offlees, the big plums, such as appoint- ; ments in the diplomatic service, the j republicans now in office will of course' follow their usual custom and forward !

their resi enati ins to the president on March 4 next.

The opinion in Washington Is that !

Mr. Wilson will be only too clad to take refuse behind the civil service and

in this way avoid as far as possible the

disagreeable features of the job of dispensing federal patronage. AVnnt I. O. Berth. Tt. . ..... . . . .- . . I. ,. . ik.

new president break through the clvu service or merit system will come in

In the Gary police court moraine there sat a bearded

apparently a foreigner, "Charley," xnid Judge AYUdertnuth to I'ruseciitor Greenwald, "I have had two or three fellow talk la Hungarian and PoHnd to that prisoner there and he can't understand them. ou know n lit of lanKunges. Go over and ee If j on can find out what language lie talk.' Do bra vetch," snid (.rrranalil In Servian. The man nhook hlw head. 'I'arle-vous Kraneal.se f continued the prosecutor, rattling oil the 1'rrncb. Another shake of the head. "Jin dohra." this time in Polish. Still no answer. "O-hio," thin time in Japanese. Another shake of the head. "UajKarf" and still no answer. "Kitm-sbuck tavn," bawled out the prosecutor In psire Teheran Persian, hut only n shake of the head. I can't t:ilk to thin fellow, Judce." said Greenwald. "He must be a Malay or a Siamese. Call 1. I. eon Gould over. He knows n few tongues." Gould addressed the man. "Shovnl - mnlaehlm." Nhrieked Gould in South Broadway Yiddish. "He doesn't go by the synagogue, that's one sure thine, judge, your honor," said Gould. Then the fellow brightened up. "Ileirorrn, what I th" matter with 3 on fellows? Me name In Pathrick O'Hannlcnn. What th' dWil doea this monkey business mean f Then everybody fainted.

DEBUTANTE, BREDE, WIDOW, MOTHER AND ALL LN COURSE OF ONE SHORT YEAR

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BEWARE OF SHORT CHANGE SWINDLERS

Merchants Should Also Be cn the Lookout for Bad Checks.

This is the time of the year when forgers and short change men operate. Merchants in this locality should ba on the lookout and if any stranger with a check puts in an appearance, make him prove that It is genuine before rashin.tr it. Here is the way the short change game was worked In Lafayette Monday:

Two strangers worked the change racket at the Kimmel and Herbert book store yesterday afternoon shortly before 4 o'clock and secured $9.65. One of the men made a purchase that amounted to 35 cents and handed the clerk a J10 bill. After she had given him the change, the man told her to never mind changing the bill and he handed her 35 cents. Just then an accomplice rushed in and wanted to buy a lead pencil. He was in a hurry and the clerk, handing back the $10 bill that had been given to her by the first man, turned to wait on the man who wanted the pencil. The pencil did riot suit, but it gave the man with tiie $0.65 a chance to slip out of the store and get away.

WRESTLE WITH PAVING PROBLEM

The proposed experiment of dressing fifty or a hundred feet of Hohman street brick pavement with asphalt macadam, as suggested by the directors of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce, was discussed in the council and before the board of public works this morning. The eo-unclr-referred the matter to the street and alley committee to get prices. Contractor William Ahlborn bfore the board of public works this morning said that he would suggest at least two and quarter or a half inches of macadam for effective work. He said he believed that asphalt macadam coulr be made to hold on brick, but said it was not the proper kind of a pavement for

a business ctreet. He said to put on such a dressing would cost about $1.15 a square yard. A problem arise on Hohman street which evidently had not been thought of; to-wit: that putting on a two-inch dressing would bury the street car rails just that much, or the bricks would have to be lowered. On a trackless street this problem Is not met with, but the experiment was discussed with reference to Hohman street. Mr. Ahlborn, who is an authority on paving:, said Incidentally that oresoted block is the only kind of pavement for Hammond, particularly in the business district, as it is durable, noiseless and dustless. The cest of ereosoted block is in the neighborhood of $;: a square yard.

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(Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Nov. 20. The prosecuting attorneys and the attorneys representing the state in the casa against Harry Moose came to an agreement as to the date for his arraignment. He was brought into the circuit court room at 3 o'clock this afternoon and pleaded guilty to perjury. He said that he did so of his own free will because his conscience troubled him. Judge McMahan sentenced him to the penitentiary for a period of from six months to five years.

Mrs. Lucie n Smith. In January a gay debutante at the national capital; la February tha happy bricJe of a young W est Virginian wboj futu. setmeu full of promise; In April a widow, madt so by the wreck of the Titanic which toolt her husband, but ppared her; in November a motner that is what the stars foretold for Miss Elotse Hughes, daughter of Congressman James A. Hughes, of West Virginia. Just one year ag:o. t-he and younjr Luclen Bmlth were married in February, and were on the Titanic returning from their honeymoon trip to Europe when fate took him. Mrs. Smith is now In a Cincinnati hospital awaiting U birth 0 an heir, an event which will occur this month.

Gathering of Y. M. C. A.j Generals and Clans Begins ! Tomorrow; the Advance

. Guard Is Already on the Ground for Business.

AFFIRM DECISION.

TWO NOTED Y. M. C. A. MEN WHO ARE COMING TO HAMMOND.

Fresent indications point to the largest attendance in recent years at the annual convention of the Voung Men's Christian Association. In Hammond. The Calumet region, as well as the unusually inrerestine: program of the convention, seem to have acted as a stronf? magnet in drawing association secretaries, committeemen, members of directorates and business men to th Hammond meetiriKS, which begin Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. A considerable interest has also been taken in the excursion which will be taken through the Gary steel mills by courtesy of Superintendent "SV. V. Gleason. Merchants and professional men who have never seen a great steel-making plant in operation are anxious to view this unusual sight and they are preparing In many instances to fro direct to Gary and join the delegates and business men from Hammond early Friday morning. Will Ilrnt Andrrson. Karly reports from the lartrer association cities of the state confirm the belief of secretaries in the local field that the attendance will exceed that of

the Anderson convention last year. Karl taken

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TPIKS IlinEAl, AT STATU 'AIITI-. lr.lf!;!-rtilM, Ind., Not. 20 The appellate court tbla afternoon affirmed if j..ilni(Dt of the Lnkr superior court kIvIdk the administrator of the mtatr of 1'ranti bearer of Hammond Judtrmrnt for 4.0M nicnlnut the National K ire proofing compnny because Shearer was cancht In machinery and K.II!mI. Court says company should have warned Shearer of dancer before putting; him nt the work.

THIS HAN JUST m BE GOOD After Court Was Kind to Him He Violates His Parole.

WEDS EM IN ;i RED BATHROBE

Shivering Crown Point Squire Helps Out an Eloping Couple.

London, Nov. 20. The Ealkan war crowning humiliation of the war for

today appears to be over. Turkey has the Sultan.

been informed of the peace terms of j while the dove ot peace apparently

the Ealkan states and was prepared is trying to nover over tne .cancan to aonoint a neace nlenirjotentiarv to states and Turkey, an ominous cloud

treat with the Balkan representative hangs over Seryia and Austria. Frora

over the terms. dispatches received nere toaay n is

Liberal concessions have been made ! evident that Austria is not willing to to the Turks by the allies, according seek peace at any price.

to dispatches received here today. The j Scrvia demands a seaport town on

principal stipulation permits Turkey ; the Adriatic, mis must De ior its to retain Constantinople and a strip own exclusive use and the way leadof coast territory in Europe. J ing to this port must be through terIt was further proposed that Bui-1 ritory owned by Servia. It is the ingaria forego the military entrance to : tention of Servia not to fortify the Constantinople, thereby avoiding the jeaport.

BRAND NEW

Lively Altercation Breaks Out in City Council Last Night Again Over Alderman Hower's Right to Sit in the Council.

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Edward A. Steiner. Edward A. Steiner's life presents many of the elements of the romantic. He left his home and Hebrew parents in Vienna to shift for himself when 32 years of age, entered the pymnaeium at I'ilsen, Bohemia, and in 1SS5 was graduated from Heidelberg university. Following his various occupations In this country he educated himself for the ministry at Oberlin seminary and was graduated In 1J91. Because of his literary accomplishments he was sent to Russia In 1903 by the Outlook to write a life of Tolstoy. Dr. Hteiner will address the boys of Hammond on Saturday evening at their dinner in the basement of the Methodist church.

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ANOTHER ST WI1RK

E. G. iioerhart.

At the business men's dinner of the state convention of the Indiana Youns Men's Christian association Friday evening at Masonic temple, the presiding officer will be K. U. Kberhardt vice president and general manairer of the -Mlshawaka "Woolen Manufacturing company of Mishawaka, Ind. Mr. Kberhardt is a member of the South Bend association dii ectorate, a number of the state executive comimttee, and also a member of the committeee of 97 of the Men and lieligion Forward Movement. In memory of his son, who was killed in Hammond, he pave to the South Bend association the beautiful Camp Kberhardt at Corey Bake, Mich., one of the best equipped camps for boys in the middle west.

In order to rush the work on the canal with all possible speed, the East Chicago company has enfratrod the services of anolhcr dredge which will be put to work the tlrst of next week, making three in all on the. Job. The third lredt. the Michigan, will be placed In the west branch of the canal between Forsyth and White Oak avenues and will start in to widen and deepen the channel at this point. The bir dredtre, the New York is now making a new cut in Bale Ueorse, havine readied a point between 250 and 3"" feet into the. lake, and the Indiana is following it up a mile or so behind, smoothing up the job as it pocs along rrogiess is beins made at the rate of about li'O feet a day. Calumet avenue should be reached, according to the estimate of C. A. Westberg by December 15 at the latest. Then the work will be rushed in the lake, making the turning basin.

Violating his parole in City Judge Barnett's court at Hammond by breaking open a gas meter at. the Millikan flats, on Plummer avenue, and robbing its contents of 1.-5 resulted in the rearrest of a former Indianapolis man, Fred Stoltz, yesterday evening by Captain anion. This morning Ktoltz was

to Crown Point, where he will

be compelled to serve 21 days on a vious charge of petit larceny

Prosecuting Attorney Halph Boss may file the case direct in the superior court, this being his second offense ot petit larceny. Btoltz is a married man and came to Hammond from Indianapolis, where he has been residing at the Millikan flats. On the evening of Nov. 6 Officer Bobert Baw captured Stoltz while he was making his getaway with about 150 pounds of lead which he had stolen from the

city water department. The following xhey are to

morning he was nrougi-t netore niy Judg" Barnett and fine.l $20 and one day in jail, which was later suspended

; on the plea of his wife, who said they j were in hard circumstances. ; Stoltz promised he would do better, ! but yesterday he again fell into the arms , of the law. After breaking the io, k off ! a gas meter. Ptoitz took $1.23 and '' patched the break with a piece of gum. j The Northern Indiana (las & Electric 'company, upon learning of the. roh- ; bcry, notified the polict- nnd Sfoitz was i placed under arrest. At first he denied ail of the charges, but after being given

a thorough questioning lie entered a full confession, chief Austgen is making arrangements to learn of hi.s past record at Indianapolis.

WILL KEEP SPIRIT ALIVE

Mr. Boyle Better. Mr. M. Boyle, who has been sick as a result of a pulmonary hemorrhage. Is very much better and has returned to work. Mr. Boyle is president of the South Side Improvement association. The next meeting of that body will be held on the regularly scheduled date.

Crown Point, Ir.d., Nov. 20. Being married at 2 o'clock in the morning, with the benediction of 'Squire Nicholson in a red bathrobe, is one of the most delicious experiences imaginable, in the opinion of Edward B. Kirkman and a vivacious young woman who used to be Mrs. Annie V. Givens. They did it yesterday morning. Edward B. Kirkman, when asked his occupation, gravely stated that it was "being the son of Marshall M. Kirkman, novelist and former vice president of the Northwestern Kailroad company. And Mrs. Annie W. tlivens-Kirkman, until the Sth day of last June, was the w ife of Bobert S. Givins, son of Robert C. Givens, the millionaire real estate dealer. "We were just dead in love." said the bride last night in Chicago at the temporary home in the Alexandria hotel. "So we had to get married. We could not get a license in Chicago. So we went to Crown Point and were married at Jixige Nicholson's house. "The 'squire was sleepy and shivery. I do hope lie didn't catch cold." Marshall M. Kirkman does not yet know of bis son's marriage, and the voung couple are a bit nervous about it.

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MAY NAME NEW COMMISSION. Milwaukee, Nov. 20. Because there was a "leak" in the report of the insanity commission named to pass on the sanity of John Schrank, who shot Colonel Roosevelt, Judge A. C. Backus threatens to discharge tha commission and name a new one. The "leak" is blamed by the judge to Disrtict Attorney Zabel. The court threatens to punish every one concerned heavily for contempt. The ommission, according to the statement given out, had decided unanimously that Schrank was insane, an.l upon this report the trial would have, ended automatically and Schrank sent to an asylum until cured.

Hammond s Ananias Club received a

new member last night at the city

council meeting although there is still j

some difference of opinion between Major Smalley and Councilman Hower on one side and Councilman John Kane on the other, as to which of the three was elected. John Kane started the rumpus, naturally. Just about the, time everbody in the council chamber gets ready to settle back in an amiable mpod, and everything runs along smoothly, John Kane "horns in" with some more or less pertinent remark. Bast night he precipitated an imbroglio on the question of Councilman Hower's right to hi.s seat in the council. The controversy is an obi one. and several weeks ago. Mayor Smalley ot the request of Mr.

WRECK ON S00 IN CANADA. Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Nov. 20. Collision of an eastbound Soo flyer and a freight train near Swift Current caused a report that eighteen persons had been killed and many injured on the Canadian Taoific Railway. An official report says eighteen Chinese and two of their guards were hurt, some of them seriously. The Celestials were being transported East in a special train. The injured were taken to a Swift Current Hospital.

HAPPY DAYS. When you can buy I'M ON SCOt'T M KA!" from ncy dealer and not have to so from store to store to get the bext Adv.

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The couple plan to live son avenue, in Chicago.

FORMER MERCHANT DIES AT THE HUB

BETTER HAVE WiFIE LEARNTQ CUT IT Barbers Decide to Raise Price of Hair Cut to 35 Cents Dec. 17.

Jos. Kramer, Well

Forester, Passes Away.

The bull inoosers quet at Gary on

plan to have a ban- i Nov. 5. County '

Chairman Havidson of Whiting has gone to Indianapolis to arrange for the

speakers for the occasion. The Hammond bull moosers deny the report that the plans for the banquet have been tailed off. One of them said today that a similar banquet would be held in Hammond at a later date. By means of these banquets it Is hoped that the bull moose sentiment can be kept alive in Bake county.

Sl'IlSCRIIIK. FOR THE TIMES.

(Special to The Times.) Crown Point. Ind, Nov. 20 The funeral of Joseph Kiam r, who died at his home on Bast Joliet street yesterday, will be hld at St. .Mary's Cathollo church on Thursday morning at 9:30, the Interment to be in the family lot In the Crown Boint cemetery. The cause of Mr. Kramer's death was tuberculosis, he being an invalid for over a year, lie leaves a wife, a large family of children and a host of friends to mourn his death. He was a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters and the Crown Point volunteer tire department. Mr. Kramer was at one time one of Crown Point's most prosperous merchants, but ill health forced him to relinquish his activities in that line some time ago. The deceased, who was 5S years old, has relatives and many friends In Hammond, some of whom intend to attend the funeral tomorrow morning. Mrs. Michael Kolb Sr. is a sister.

You will say cannot be beat,

that a La Vendor cigar if you try one. Adv.

This does not concern the bald heads unless it be that by reading it they can get a chuckle out of it. After Bee. 17 the price of a hair cut in Hammond will be ,i: cents, an increase of o cents over the present price, tin other accommodations in the barber shops prices remain unchanged.

I H is reported that shaves will soon go KHOWnl lo a 'leaner, however.

Bocal No. 322. composed of the journeymen barbers, of which there are ;,4 in Hammond! held a meeting on Mon

day night and the increase price of a I hair cut was derided upon. ! The increased price will benefit the trade only indirectly, as most of the ! Narbers work on a guarantee wage, which they can increase by keeping as their share a certain per cent above a certain amount they take in. The ; average guarantee in Hammond is I $13.50, while the journeyman's conmiis- ; sion as a rule is "half over twenty." in other words, the hoss barber pays j his man $13. SO a week, and divides ! equally with him the amount above 1 $20, which the journeyman takes in. So while the guarantee remains un

changed, the journeyman will have an opportunity to increase his commissions at the rate of "half above twenty." On Dec. 5th. the local union will gie a ball at the Moose hall, the celebration being planned in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Cnion of Journeymen Barbers. No doubt this will be a successful event, as each member of the local lias a circle of friends.

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Miss Marie Peary. One of the season's fair debutantes at the nati- nal capital is Miss Maria Peary, daughter of Admiral Robert K. Peary, the discoverer of the north, pole. She will be remembered by a ereat many petple as the "now baby." vhlch nm wnn civen her teeau. ui Qer birth inside the Arctic circle.