Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 211, Hammond, Lake County, 6 February 1913 — Page 8

THE TIMES.

Thursday, Feb. 6. 1913.

Extortionate Demands of Landlords Cause Flux from City, and 26 Plats Are Vacant on the East Side as Result. Rent have taken a decided drop in Gary during the past few months because of the big Influx of new houses. The prices have simply dropped from an abnormally high position to a good rent notch.; and despite this the Steel j C,ty still commands the highest rents in tne region. Rents AVero 4hnorma. .For five and x-room apartments: ana ov nave oeen ror lour and five-room apartments. $32 to 40. ' and for three rooms. $28 and $32. Or- I dinary six-room flats (furnish your own heat) commanded $42 to $45, but many of these are vacant now because of the extortionate prices charged. Vacant houses mark landlords who refused to lower-their rents to a fair price. Had to Keep Roomers. As a result of the high rents hundreds have been obliged to live out of town, and a man getting $90 a month salary-and who paid one-half of it out for rent found It necessary to keep boarders and roomers. The high rents were due to the terrifflc demand and the inability of con tractors to erect enough new houses to ! keep up with the supply. The result was that landlords took advantage of the situation and shot prices up to the point where many were making as high as 22 per cent on their investment. . . TwnlT-lve Vaeaat Ttere. "In the Brandt apartments in the west end, where $40 to $50 is the prevailing tariff, there are six empty fiats and on the east side more than 25 vacant fiats can be counted. In , the Salinger building, which has 28 small apartments, ranging from 3 to 4 rooms, the rents run from $25 (for basement rooms) to $37.50 for 4 rooms in the first and second floors. JUDGE RAISES A FINE DISTINCTION CCtntlBood treat Pace L lawyers. .- Attorney D. E. Boone is leased because he- wai able to secure the release' of - John MUMgan. Boon Bays,; and his - statement - is supported try - others, that his client was really -not guilty of complicity in this case although- an effort was -made by Rogers to nave him 4nwlved in the crime. .... The trial- of the- case- has progressed to the point where the state has finished the introduction of testimony.. The defendant was - on - the witness .stand this morning and sought to refute the statements of Mllllgan, who has turned state's witness y Folowing the - objection, strenuously expressed, by Attorney Ross to the court's suggestion regarding the question of larceny or embezzlement; the court finally . left . the matter to the jury.

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5,000 Orates of Strawberries at Westville Wasted Last Summer. It is possible that the farmers of Porter and LaForte counties will find a ready market for their produce In the cities of Gary. Bast Chicago, and Hammond next summer. A plan whereby farmers and gardeners can get their goods into the markets of neighboring towns was outlined yesterday by Frank Rader of Gary. before the Farmer's instltute at Ch' Chesterton. Motor Truck DellTerlea. Mr. Rader proposes to form a cooperative company. One or two large motor trucks will be secured and daily deliveries will be made to the Industrial cities of the Calumet region. If the co-operative company is formed It la also possible that Chicago correspondents will be supplied with Forter-LaTorte products. j "For Instance, last year 5,000 crates : of strawberries down at Weatvlllo eWner went to waste or were 9oM at low prlce3- The farmer9 couldn-t Ret the proper shipping aceomadations from the Wabash railway, said Mr, ; Rader. Thft farmers attending the Chesterton institute took to the proposition favorably. One of the banes of existence in Gary has been the high prices charged for vegetables because the city has tributary farming land. Remedy this is seen in Mr. Rader's plan. no for HAMMOND CONTRACTOR MARRIED (Continued from Pm L y bride's home, Mr. Granger with the- license neatly folded Inside his vest pocket, they found that their friends t were ready for them. The guests were j all asembled, the house was decorated In array befitting a bridal celebration, there was a bride's cake covered with hearts, there were flowers, bridal attendants, and there, was a minister. Rev. Alexander Monroe was on th spot, to tie the knot. It was the bride's turn to gasp. She had taken only two persons in the whole wide world into her confidence, and Mr. Granger had not even gone that far. One of the confidents was Rev. Monroe, and the other. Miss Williams' sister. Mrs. Will Hale. The latter finally fessed up that she had with assistance issued the invitations, decorated, prepared the refreshments, and in fact engineered the entire wedding. There was nothing to it but for the bride and bridegroom to face the moslc and once into the spirit of the affair, they were glad it had been so arranged, although they had set their hearts on the "quiet kind." One thing they did manage to keep from their friends however, and that was where they were going on their wedding - trip. L. O. Granger, a nephew of- the bridegroom stood up with his uncle and Leona Buckley a niece of the bride was the latter's attendant. The house was decorated in pink and white roses and pink and white hearts, and the wedding, although gotten up within a few hours, was as pretty a little function of the kind that has taken place in East Chicago for some time. Those present were all relatives of the contracting parties. - THE HOME NEWSPAPER OT LAKH COUNTY IS THE COMPLIMENT BESTOWED BY ITS READERS ON THE TIMES.

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ZlGTiT 7HZ ZtfCZffSS ARE MADE teveral changes In the official per- ! sonnel of Lake county lumber companies have been made as the result of the change in ownership of the Glen Park Lumber company of Gary. Ooagh Heads Xfw Company. C. ". Gough, for the past jjft years secretary and manager of the Gary Lumber company, has severed his connection with that $100,000 corporation to become the head of the Glen Park Lumber company in South Gary. Mr. Gough, It is understood, has purchased the . controlling interest in the concern which was Identified with the Gary Lumber company, which in turn is allied with the Paxton Lumber syndicate of Hammond. The Glen Park company will be incorporated. Succeeding Mr. Gough in the Gary company management is A. M. Fisher, for the past several years manager of the Tolleston Lumber and Coay Co. AI Mich'aely, a relative by marriage to Charles Greenwald of Gary and Gallus Bader of Whiting, has been promoted to be manager of the Tolleston concern. Mr. Michaely's place at the Washington Park Lumber company of Indiana Harbor will be filled by R. Smith, son of ex-Mayor Smith of Whiting. He is at present recovering from a severe illness. Mr. Gough was formerly in the lumber management business at Indiana Harbor. Under his regime the Gary Lumber company built up a vast business. His career in Gary has been quite successful. NEEDLE ICE AGAIN THREATENS CITY (Continued from Page on) that which they purchase, water service, and endanger the community from sickness. Let this soak in: Hammond is the only city in the region that Is suffering from low pressure due to needle ice. Hammond is the only city that has made no attempt to solve the needle ice problem. At East Chicago. At East Chicago Superintendent Jenkins said: "We have learned how to fight needle Ice. We have built an emergency crib of piles. It is about 20 feet square. When needle ice gets into j the intake we just sens uut a boat and ' open the valve in the emergency crib, j Then we get water without difficulty. The emergency crib is nearer shore and the water may not be as pure, but we get water and the city is protected from fire. We take the position that poor water is better than no water at all. We have 35 to 55 pounds of pres sure, according to the distance from

fit "i. lO.-'. iS the pumping station. Situation At Gary. Superintendent William Luscombe of the Gary, Heat, Light and Water Co.said: "We have never been; bothered with needle ice. Our water comes from a three-mile tunnel. A mile and a half of it is under the lake and a mile and a half of it is under theground. Our pumping station is right in Gary. There are no screens at the tunnel intake, the screens are- at the substation. The tunnel is 33 feet below th surface of the lake It is six feet in diameter. We have from 56 to 60 pounds -f , nressure." Fred W. Sadler, the engineer at the JHyde Park pumping station, which supplied the town of Ilegewisch and is located just north of South Chicago, said: "Only two days this year have we been bothered with needle ice. But we have the facilities for fighting it. What They Do. i, "When needle ice begins to clog the ! screens we dynamite It from the crib. That shakes it down and then It rises to the. surface and we skim it off. Our troubles with needle ice are not worthy of serious consideration. We pump 36,000,000i000 gallons of water a year and are always able to maintain a uniform pressure of 50 pounds, sufficient to maintain a column of water at a hMghth of 120 feet. At HVgwi3ch, 14 miles . away, we maintain 22 pounds of pressure, which is ail that, community needs. Tl-.t: i.ili'rallin of v-:c poople ot Hammond because of their inability to get water on the second floors of their dwellings is at white heat today. C. M. McDaniel stated that last winter he had two furnace water coils' burned out tliat cost' $10 each to repair. Scores of people declare that if they were dealing with a private corporation they would refuse to pay theii- bills. In an interview wUh Charles M. Hellnan ine engineer in charge of the pumping station at Whiting, said that he was t. jw carry ini; l-'''fn 45 and 51 pf'undiot pressure raid that he had a little trouble with needle Ice yesterday, but that he was able to get the Intake open in a few hours. The Whiting pumping station is owned by the Standard Oil Co, and supplies the people of Whiting free chaxge.

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GAVIT WILL ALTER1ASURE Banks Will Be Excluded from Foreign Exchange Bill's Provisions. Indianapolis. Ind., Feb. 6. The senate committee on Judiciary B considered Senator Gavit's bill requiring all persons dealing "in foreign exchange to give a bond of $10,000 at a meeting in the senate chamber last night. The bill will be re-drafted by Senator Gavit to exclude banks and trust companies which deal in such exchanges from its provisions. Senator Gavit told the committee that the purpose Lof the measure was to cure an evil which exists particularly in Lake county, where saloonkeepers and others deal in foreign exchanges by which the saloonkeepers get possession of the funds of foreigners who give their earnings to them on ' the supposition that they will send It back to their European homes. In this way, Senator Gavit explained, the foreigners are often defrauded, for in some Instances those to whom the money is given never send it to its destination. JONES, HE GETS GARYIZED RAPIDLY Ex-County Recorder H. E. Jones, who came up to Gary after he quit office a few weeks ago, is now located In the Savage building,, where he holds down the managership for the " Lake County Title and Guaranty company's office. As soon as he can get a suitable home Mr. Jones will move his family up to Gary. Mr. Jones was some pumpkins in the bull moose line at Crown Point, but ,so far he hasn't mixed in the intricacies of Gary politics. ABB YOU A TIMES EEADERt

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Gary City Officials Testify in Hosford Park "Bad Money" Case. Three jGary police officials Chief Martin, Captain Newman and Captain Mulcahey, halve returned from Indianapolis where they were summoned to appear as witnesses before the federal grand iury. j The Gary off leers were called to testify in the case of Henry Racke of Hos ford park. South Gary, Who arrested by tho local men on1 counterfeiting charges. I Chief Martin was informed at the state capitol that Racke is desirous of pleading guilty. Rackje's jaged father, Andrew Rack, is now behind the bars for the sjame offense of which his son is accused. ' ASKS EMPLOYES TOBE POLITE 'Don't gfet gay," is the essence of an order issjued by the Pennsylvania rail road company to employes. "An employe onjduty," says tlje order, "Is forbidder to address a passenger or patron on the company as 'friend,' 'stranger, 'brother,1! 'sister,' 'neighbor,' or by any other term of such character. If the passenger's name or that of the patron Is not kiowni use 'sir' or 'madam.' " USED JTHINGS THAT YOU DON'T WANT CAN BE SOLD IF YOU ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES

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