Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 198, Hammond, Lake County, 22 January 1913 — Page 1

7 GENERALLY FAIR TOD AT AND THURSDAY; COLDER TONIGHT. s EDITION VOL. VH., NO. 198. HAMMOND,'. INDIANA,- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPY, (Back Numbers 9 Cents Copy.) :

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PROIIOTIOff East Chicago Politician and , Superintendent of Twin Cities Water Plant to Take Charge of Indianapolis Works. ' C. L- Kirk, superintendent of the East Chicago and Indiana Harbor water company and Republican city chairman for East Chicago. Is about to leave for Indianapolis to take the position of superintendent of the Indianapolis Water company. Nominally. Mr. Kirk became, superintendent of the Indianapolis concern last evening at 5 o'clock, but he Is remaining in East Chicago " for a few clays, until his successor, who is most likely to be W. W. Barry of Denisort, Texas, arrives to, assume the responsibilities of which Mr, Kirk has been relieved. New Incumbent Come Tomorrow. Mr. Barry has been offered the position of superintendent of the local (Continued on Pace a.) COUNTRY BOY TRIES TO "PUTJT OVER" Comes to Grief, However, When He Tries to Cash Worthless Check. : By attempting; to cash a worthless check for $52 in several . business Tr ,4 4nto.fftca. address la R, R- No. 8, Valparaiso, Ind., came to grief la Hammond last night when he was arretted by Of fleer Fandrel at State and Hohman streets. This morning the youthful forger is being held at the Central station. Provided sufficient evidence is secured charges of forgery will be filed in the superior court. During the past two weeks young Cuson has been In the employment of Bull & Cavanaugh at 192 State street, Hammond, where he has been delivering honey. Monday morning Cuson (Continued on page I.) TOUGH ON JOHN B. Washington. Jan. 22. Charles Lieb of the first district and J. B. Peterson of the tenth, the new members-elect from Indiana, probably will have to be content with offlces in the senate annex, an Isolated building half, a mile from the house of representatives. There are not enough offices In the latter structure to go around since the membership of the house has Increased. J HELPING JOHN D. GIVE MONEY AWAY Jerora D. Greene. Jerome D. Greene of New York, a trustee in many of Mr. Rockefeller' enterprises, has taken an active part In the campaign for the passage of the bill in congress to incorporate the Rockefeller Foundation with an endowment of $100;000,000. "Mr. Rockefeller," declares Mr. Greene, "desires a federal Incorporation for this foundation partly as a matter of sentiment, for he made hla money by doing business on a national scale, and he wants his biggest gift to the people to take on a national character. He also believes that control by the people of tlie whole country la safer and better than control in the interests ef any one section."

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Left to rich 1 1 William J. Bockatahler. M. XV. Sandertnaa, A. D. Light aad XV. A. Bloaer. Four Evansville, Jnd.; pulpits have to '-a vacated when this quartet gets mio action on teunua;-, for each member is a minister. But those who have heard the music say 1: is as good as four r rmom rolled into one. The quartet was organized a year ago and has become exceedingly popular in the H.;osisr city. Four denominations are represent!. Rev. Bockstahler. first bass, Is a German Methodist: Rev. Moser. second bass, is a Lutheran; Rev. Light, first tenor, a Presbyterian, whilo Rev. Sunderman. second tenor, "Is a minister of the Evangelical association.

WHITE SLAVER IS INDICTED IN CHICAGO Gary Man in Infamous Traffic Charged With Mann Act Violation. Existence of a. "booking" agency through which young girls were supplied to disorderly resorts In Gary, West Hammond, and cities near Chicago was revealed yesterday when the federal grand Jury in Chicago returned indictments against several men charging them with violation of the Mann (iiry Man In !Ve. Ob ef . the liejred ""hitft; siavers hli by thegrand jury is Benny Sabtttn of the Gary "red light?" district whose arrest by secret service operatives was printed in Tm Timbs several days ago. More arrests and indictments of Gary "white slavers" is said to be pending and news of the indictment of Sabitino, a well known character In South Jefferson street, reached Gary via the "underground cable" and caused much excitement in the steel city's underworld. Just where the lightning will strike next is the main source of worry in Gary at the present time. During the past several days there has been an exodus of "white slave" agents from the city;' but it is said that the government is keepinjr track of the whereabouts of all y disreputables. Other men iv Ved yesterday included Charles lWtveno and Charles Sausone. IIIIIUTE 20 1 MASOB DEGREES Grand Inspector John J. Glendenning Directs the Work. John J. Glendonning of Indianapolis, grand Inspector for the Masonic coun cils In the state, paid a visit to the' Hammond council last night, and under his- direction two degrees were conferred upon twenty candidates. - The grand inspector had many words of praise for the Hammond council, which put on its first work last night. With the new members received last night the membership approaches the 100 marl:, there being a total of 93 members in the council now. There was a good turn out tast night, and all were greatly interested in the new work and; in the address by the state inspector. The degrees exemplified last night are known as the Royal Master SuperExcellerit and is said io be very elaborate, so much so that the Hammond council will call on the grand council team to exemplify it for the first time in Hammond. F. H. MOTT BACK. F. H. Mott, son of ex-Mayor Mott, who has been In the south for several months, returned home from Oklahoma last night. He has been going" over the oil fields in that territory with, a view of making investments and says that the country is one of great promise. While in Muskogee Mr. Mott saw W. C. Mee, formerly of Hammond, and says the latter Is prosperous and doing well In the insurance business. . City Press Reporter. Harold Cross, son of E. B. Cross, 1124 Monroe street, a local newspaper man, is now employed as a reporter for the City Press association and is doing work, on assignments in towns along the north shore in Chicago.

I BILL (ILLED IN EE TIME SBIREAU, AT STATE CAPITAI. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 22. The measure introduced by Senator Gavit, prlvidlng for many changes in the system of civil procedure was killed, yesterday afternoon, by the senate "committee on organization of courts, of which. Senator Tarllng is chairman. SerMtor-Gavit appeared befora the. committee and asked thaV consideration of h3 bill, to increase '' the ;-number f of judges of the appellate court from six ta ten be postponed for a time. This 13 known as the Kopelke bill and was endorsed by the Lake County Ear Association. ' BILL WILL ABROGATE JUDGE'HUTKORITY Hammond Council to Father Measure to Take Away Street Closing Right. If the Hammond -city council can prevail upon the present legislature, the right of circuit court judges to close streets and alleys without the consent of the city authorities, will be abrogated, and as a first sep a resolution was adopted at the regular meeting last night instructing the city attorney to prepare a legislative bill to this effect. The action of the city council last night is the result of the recent lawsuit at Crown Point, before Judge W. C. McMahan, .in which the city and a number of property owners opposed the closing of certain streets in the property of the Illinois Car and Manufacturing company on the north side, the company having been the petitioner. . Instructed to FlKht t'loln. In this case Judge McMahan has not jet passed judgment, but at the close of the trial he indicated that he would find in favor of the petitioners, judgment having been held in abeyance in the meantime in the hope that the remonstrators and petitioners would get together on an agreement, as the city has about a thousand dollars' worth of water pipe in the streets. The closing of the streets and alleys would give the company additional acreage amounting to approximately five acres for which there would be no remuneration either to the city or the ' other remonstrators. On this scope the city attorney was further instructed to proceed at once ask for a new trial, and In case this is refused to appeal the case, he to represent both the city and the interested property owners. Under the present law a petitioner for the closing of public highways in a city can proceed along two courses. He may either negotiate with the city and appeal to the circuit court, or he may take his petition into the circuit court directly. ACCOUNTANTS EXPECTED William A. Hammond of Fort Wayne and Charles 13. Daly of Winchester, state accountants, are expected in Lake county cities to check up the books in the clerks' offices. Their work will probably last several weeks.

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GARY'S BAR ASKS HALF COURT TERM Association Will Try to Put Bill Through the Legislature. " Gary's Bar association last night vot ed to ask the legislature that half of the sessions of superior court room number 3 of Hammond be held in Gary. Passage of such a bill would eliminate Crown Point from its superior court sessions and would, have Judge" Kopelke sit" S weeks -of. every term,' er twenty weeks in the year, at Gary. Hub I No Loser;' . "'-'" - The bill is- bein'drwn"p otr. the theory mat TarpAaIs -M in : get fujlr time : circuit court and J that , Crown Point will hava all ot the time of it circuit court 'judge Instead of Valpa raiso getting half of his time. Thus, Instead of Crown Point having half of a circuit court session and half of a superior court session It will have a continuous circuit court wltbGary get ting half of a superior court. T Meet Next Tuesday. , The Gary lawyers met at the Conn mercial club with their president H. F. MacCracken in the chair. Messrs. W. F. Hodges, John O. Bowers and Oliver Starr of the court bill committee pre sented their report which embodied the court room number 3 idea. Another meeting of the bar associa tion will be held on January 28 when the movement will be furthered. A bill giving Gary half the time of Judge Kopelke will be drawn up and sent down to the legislature for passage. EFFECTIVE METHOD TO COLLECT BILL Councilman Joseph Stodola and his brother, Andrew, who conduct a market and grocery in the Standard Steel car district, are evidently very effective bill collectors, according to a complaint filed against them today in the superior court by " Attorneys Moran and Dyer for Martin toe we. According to the complaint for damages, the brothers took a sum of money by force ' from the plaintiff. It seems that there was a diffesence of. opinion between ' the business men and their customer as to the amount or a meat bill, which the latter owed, and a heated argument ensued, followed by a physical encounter, in which Loewe sustained a severely injured hand. According to the complaint the brothers did pretty good team work, one holding the customer while the other went 'through his pockets for the money. i-ioewe is suing for o00 .damages. . FIND SWINDLER BEHIND THE BARS Check Forger Sent to Jail in Canada. According to a letter received this morning by, Deputy ' Prosecutor Ross from the municipal constabulary in Hamilton, Ont.. William John Montgomery, who had "worked" J; T. Hutton, the architect, for $23 with a forged check, was recently apprehended in Hamilton and sentenced to prison for other check forgeries to which he had pleaded guilty. As a fellow ""Canuck" Montgomery went under the name of J. J. Kelso and Ingratiated himself into the good will of the Hammond architect, who, ready to accommodate a countryman, endorsed Kelso's check at the First National bank. The local authorities traced the swindler and located him behind the bars. If you are a judge of quality try La Vendor cigar. Adv. .

FORESTERS PREPARE FOR CONVENTION

Executive Body of Indiana Catholic Order of Foresters Meets in Hammond to Prepare for State Convention Held in June. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Indiana Catholic Order of Foresters, representing 45 courts in Indiana, preparations were made here for the holding of the annual state convention of the order in Hammond next June, to last three days. ' The meeting was a very important one and gratifying was t!J attendance and interest shown in the coming convention by the committeemen, who waded through a " lot of preliminary business. ' . m George Kussmaul was chosen as the chairman of the executive board and Tony Eieker secretary. An executive committee to handle the convention was selected, as follows: George Kussmaul, Tony Bieker, Jhn Scherer, John Stevens, M. E. Lauerman, . Leonard Knoezer and J. Miller.'' Each of the men was appointed chairmen of subcommittees to be announced by them at a meeting which will be held early next month. . j Each of the 45 courts in the state will send a delegate, alternate and the chief ranger as an ex-officio. representative. Each visitor is invited to bring his wife or sweetheart, and it is exjiected thaf there will,, be nearly 300 In attendance when- th a first roll 13 called..-?-"---' -. ',-:.-. .., . , Plans t make th cois-ftt$off a, -ftia. bie one" KaYebe"en "set in motion. On the evening of the first day a Dutch lunch, on the second day a Ash dinner and on the third evening before-final adjournment a big banauet and dance. The meetings of the convention will v. Yia i. ih. Commerce building and the banquet at Masonic temple, side trips to the various local manufactories, the Gary steel mills and other pointsJof interest in the way of entertainment for the visitors. GETTING MARRIED UNDER DIFFICULTIES Bride Willing, So Was Doc, But License Office Is Closed. Dr. I P. Collins, who has offices in the Aubry building, on the north side, stole a march on his friends last Sunday when he was married in Chicago to Miss Mabel D. Cook of North Judson, Ind. which is also Dr. Collin's former home. They were married by the Rev. JV-hweidler of th LaSalle avenue Baptist church, and are now in their home at 179 Sheffield avenue. Dr. Collins has been located In Hammond about a year and during this time has made many friends and stands high with his professional brethern. Th effort to procure his marriage licence last Saturday afternoon was not without some difficulties for the would-be benedict, and since then the physician has had to explain a number of times to his friends that he did get a. marriage license and not a huntv:: ri::rt: z':: : a i A & n iiu v" w -"-'- tiuuviu, but that was due to the fact that he arrived at the office of the license clerk shortly after the office had been closed for the day. He had to hunt for an assistant and finally found a deputy clerk in South Chicago, who accommodated him after considerable persuasion. EJECT ORGANIZER FROM STEEL MILLS Efforts to organise a union among workers in the Illinois Steel company mills -at South Chicago came to an end, temporarily at least, when Joseph Trlmm of Cleveland, Ohio, claiming to be an organizer for the Steel Workers of the World, a labor, organization, was forcibly ejected from the plant yesterday. For nearly two weeks organirers

have been working among employes of cept private residences, in which gas the steel mills attempting to form un- ia used, to be equipped with gas cocks. Ions and call a strike, the arguments by which the supply of gas may be used being higher wages and an eight shut off in case of fire without endanghour day. - . : . i ering the lives of firemen. Buildings Trimm, who had entered the plant a ! using a supply of gas not greater than few days before as a workman, was the average volume delivered through ejected when found addressing : the j a three-quarter inch pipe are exemptworkmen. . I cd

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GARY MEASURE AT CAPITAL IS DUBIOUS

Indiana's 4 Second Class Cities May Not Have New Little Sister This Year.

TIMES BUREAU. AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 22. The four cities of the second class may not have a new sister, after all, according to present indications in the Legislature. The bill under which Gary hoped to become a second class city looks like it is going to have tough sledding. There was a hearing tort the bill in the House committee on cities and towns, yesterday afternoon, of which Representative Wolfe, of LaPorte. is the chairman, and members of the committee were not very well impressed with the proposition. What Bill Calls For. The bill provides that any city with a population of more than 16.000. as rhe agitation of . Cedar street prop- ' ertv owners through petitions to the board of public works and the. Hammond city council against light poles which were recently placed In the stiet instead of in the alleys, where they want them to be, brought a letter of explanation to the council last night from W. D. Ray, general manager of the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Light Co. In his letter Mr. Ray explained that tinder the existing circumstances the company had taken the only course open to it without going to the expenditure of considerable extra money, to place the poles in the alley. He said that the present amount of business did not warrant the taking: of the circuitous alley route, but that later an Increase of business might warrant making the change. Under the franchise that the company has it has the right to place its poles both in the streets or In the alleys. Two More Complalatn. Another communication was submitted through Councilman John Morlarty of the First ward, he having received it from William Hennebohle of 432 Cedar street, who complained about dirt which he said came from the smokestack of the Hammond Distilling company. The . matter was referred to the board of health. A third communication came from property owners residing in the neighborhood of Jesse street and the Michigan Central railroad. Their complaint is that the trains pass by at a speed dangerous to pedestrian, and their petition was for protection anr bringing th trains within the eight-mile an hour speed limit. The city attorney was instructed to call the attention of the company to this mat ter and insist on its living up to the ordl whl?h prov,degBtha:t tM watchman at this crossing. Plagnan Votes Like Veteraa. All the councilmen were present last night with the exception of Stodola, Schutr, Sturm and Eastwood. Oscar Plageman, the newly elected councilman of the Second ward, occupied the seat recently vacated by Henry Whitaker and voted like a veteran. . Two appropriation ordlances were passed, one for 600 for the city engineering department, $200 of which is to go to the consulting engineer on the plans for the proposed sewage disposal system, and the balance as architect fees for the building plans. STOP-COCK BILL. TIMES BUHEAV, AT STATE CAPITAI Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 22. Reprei sentative Van Home introduced a safety measure to require all buildings, ex-

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shown by the last United States cen sus, and having taxable property val ued at $29,000,000 or more, shall become a city of the secona-ciass. it provides also that the city officials la office at the time of the promotion, shall remain and serve out their terms and that they shall be eligible to reelection. . The Stumbling Block. This was the main stumhlinz- blocks

In cities of the second class,, under th present law, city officials are not eligible to re-election. They can serve only one term, and the members of the committee did not seem inclined to giveGary officials anything that officials of other second-rlnss MHen Hn tint have. Bill Is Held Up. , The committee decided to hold up the bill for a few days until- other cities could be heard from.- But from 'the temper of the committeemen it looks like the bill may not get through. There is a similar bill' in the 'senate. NO COME BACK FROM VIRGINIA BROOKS West Hammond V Reformc: Lindner's Charges, In a talk over the telephone thl morning. Miss Virginia Brooks declined to offer any 'comeback", to the charges of self interest ic. prererred I good friend of Mr. Lindner's and. I am .president of the Western Grain Pro- ! ducts company.. ; , - Mr. Lindner yesterday came out with the statement that Miss Brooks was a notoriety seeker, who would later put the advertising jshe had gained to good personal account, that she had accomplished little or nothing by her crusade. thatshe had given West Hammond a bad name that was undejserved, and had in effect harmed, rather than improved the town. - "I have nothing to say regarding Mr. Lindner's interview." said Miss Brooks, i speaking over the long distance wire from the residence Jof Mrs. John F. Bass, 743 Lincoln Parkway. "I am a good friend of Mr. Lindley's and I am a friend of his children, and I do not care to become Involved In any controversy in that quarter. I have the highest respect for him and a well founded friendship for him and his family. nTy. societyvgirlWILL PRAtlTICE LAW man Iaea Mltkollaad. Miss Inez Milholland, New York so-, clety girl and prominent suffragist,! will take the bar examination in New York state within a few days. She has studied law long and hard for many months, ami when the is admitted to practice expects to use her legal knowledge to help, women. Miss Mllholland will lead the suffrage parade in Washington on March S. She has been designated "the most beautiful cirl in th suffrage movement.'' J

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