Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 2, Hammond, Lake County, 8 February 1913 — Page 1
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1LAK COUNTY TIME WEATHER. FAIR TODAT AND SUNDAY: MODERATE TO BRISK WEST WINDS. 14 VOL. ni., NO. 2. FEBRUARY 8. 1913. EIGHT PAGES. SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION.
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WATER SUPPLY IS SHORT
Hammond Taxpayer Sug- - gests Remedy for Needle Ice Question When Dem ocratic O reran Makes a Joke of City's Complaint. WHAT THEY CAN DO. Editor, Times: The people of Hammond, regardless of politics, are with you on the water and needle ice question. If the administration organ wants to make a Joke of the matter, I might luggest that the city send the firemen that tried to put the fire out at Gauthier's residence Christmas eve, perhaps they can do better at thelake front stopping needle ice. A TAXPAYER. Joe Kasper, one of the engineers at the Hammond waterworks, says that he has 40 pounds of pressure at the pumping station which would mean approximately 25 pounds in Hammond. This report was received at 10 o'clock, and it is known that there was much less pressure early In the morning. In fact it was impossible to get water on the second floor at any place in the city early this morning. Kasper declares that the Magoun avenue fire, in East Chicago, -was more destructive than it should have been on account of the poor pressure. ; One of the firemen who attended this fire says that the water pressure was normal, but that the department never attempts to fight a fire in the roof of a two-story building without the help of the steamer. He says that only the roof of the building was destroyed anyway. Considerable damage was done by water. Sjed 4MM Mere. .Kasper declares . that the city spent 41.590 fprs'ddltloBSj screening which was expected to help in the fight against needle ice, " but he says that this has done but little good. He has become convinced that the emergency crib provides a solution of the problem, but he pays that the East Chicago Water company opens the valve in the fall and that the city gets it 5upply from off shore all winter lung. He admits, however, that it gets a Mipply. which Is more than can be said about Hammond. Kayper also admits that the Gary waterworks Is supplying the people of that city ideally, and that it is never bothered with needle ice. ITe therefore admits that there is a solution of the problem which the Hammond Daily News denies. Question of Veracity. In a number of other cases Kasper questions the veracity of the engineers who have claimed that they have high water pressure. He is of the opinion that in most Instances they have lied about it. But the people of Hammond are convinced that every city in the region, excepting Hammond, has provided a means to fight needle ice. There Is no question that the problem is a common one. There Is also no question that every city but Hammond have adopted satisfactory measures of relief. The attempt on the part of Hammond Daily News to make a serious affair riflkuloti.x did not take very well. It is like joking over a scarlet fever epidemic. FORMER CHICAGO POLICE CHTW TNS Aran x, a GzozgzX Shiest
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LAWYER SUMMONS BY THE WHOLESALE
v0 i a irrmmtfuoBMi C. B. Tinkham. Attorney C. B. Tinkham, of Hammond counsel for the Standard Oil Company, today had a stack of BOO printed summonses sent to the office of the 'Lake Superior court for distribution by the sheriff. Theses summonses are printed in book form and (contain the names of each of the 500 defendants in the action that has been brought for the vacation of the Whiting cemetery. It Is necessary for the city of Whiting to get service on the friends and relatives of all of those burled In the Whiting cemetery before it can be formally vacated. - The opposition to cemeteries In cities and the willingness of most of the holders of lots to have the bodies removed to another located has resulted in the action which will result in the acation of the cemeteries after the coming hearing. ' Attorney Tinkham has the addresses of every defendant in this action and the sheriff's office will not have tha difficulty that might be expected In delivering so many summonses. BRISK DEMAND FOR L WIS ST. LOTS J The remarkable mid-winter sale of lots on Lewis Street by 5otlin, Meyn A "Co., 1s the most re"markab.JatTjre of the real estate market of the- week. .There has t ot .been a day that has not resulted Inkhe sale of five or six lots In thin subdivision. " The big sale was the result of Uhe low price at which the lots werpiared and . also the judicious use of advertising in The Times. ' J ' Gostlin, Meyn & Co., also report the sale of a lot and a half on Detroit street to M. C. Wilsie. The property was in the Highland addition. The same firm also reports the sale of a lot and a half on Detroit street in the Highland addition to Melvin Monette. Fifty feet on Hyslop street were also sold.BURCHAK GETS A JURY TRIAL Twelve jurors, composed of Hammond business men, were impanelled in the case of John Eurchak this morn ing, which came up for trial before City Judge Barnett. On account of the large number of witnesses, the courtroom at the city hall was found In adequate and the case was taken to the 'superior court building. Burehak was arrested about a week ago on a charge of assault and bat j tery. He furnished a $100 bond for i his appareance this morning. The I complaint reads that the defendant ' struck another man over the head with a brick trowel inflicting a serious wound. Considerable interest is being taken In the case by the opposing attorneys "and will not be finished until 3ate this afternoon. 1 'MADAM SHERRY" HERE SUNDAY. "Madam Sherry" Is to be the attraction at the Hammond Theatre tomorrow night. This show is the best Madam Sherry company on the road. The company has just finished a week's engagement in Milwaukee. The prices will be 50 and 75 cents and $1.00. with the expectation that the house can be filled at this figure while j if the show were to' be"put on at higher prices there would not be so many ; th;ie. i Madam Sherry is a tuneful, musical; comedy that will never grow old. The j Hankenson reccommends it. On tne following Sunday "Little Boy Blue," direct from the Chicago Opero House Will be sen here. Mrs. Schneider 111. Mrs. Schneider! 44S Plummer avenue, was suddenly taken ill while at work and was taken to her home where it was found that she was suffering from gastritis. Her many frlemis wil be glad to hear that she Is recovering from her present illness .and . expects to resume her duties shortly in the Hammond building, where she has ben employed for the past six years. FANCY! Father walked the baby, stepped apoa a tack, hot Ma ealmed him dowa with a eheTr et UNION SCOUT SCRAP. BIcHle 8. Tob. Co Adv.
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Four Hundred Trains Per Day Pass Through the City of Hammond What Shall Be Done to Afford the People Some Relief? ON THE IIOMAX ST. CROSSING. Mall y average of panwirf train .SO Dally average for all Strains 40O While Hammond is agitating for track elevation, knowing full well that under some circumstances, this 1m provement might be delayed for possibly ten years many and practical suggestions are being offered to remedy present conditions temporarily at least. Some of these suggestions propose a remedy in legislation, while others in addition say that making the railroads come to time under the present law would give considerable relief. . The subject will be up against next Monday evening at a meeting of the board of directors' of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce. The directors will want all available information to supply Representative tsarney Carter to support his track elevation bilL Remedies Are Proposed. The number of trains passing over the Hohman street crossing In a day is sufficient argument for track eleva tion, and it does not Include the scores of other trains that pass through Ham mond in other sections of the city. But while Hammond is waiting, for track elevation the folio wine- trnnoI rary remedies are proposed: j . 1. That the present laws be enforced to the , letter. According to them a freight tram has no right whatever to hold a crossing, while a passenger train has the right to hold It fifteen minutes.' , " 2.. That the city of Hammond detail ' pec tar policeman? w nose 'sole du ty "it shall be to arrest train crews -whose trains are blocking crossings. 3. That a law be enacted providing crossing watchmen to pass an examin ation as to physical ability which em phasizes their eyesight; that these watchmen appear in uniform and be given police power to arrest pedestrians who ignore the watchman's signal. Iaterlocker for Mimon. 4. That the Monon provide an interlocker for its Calumet river bridge, the lack of which now , necessitates stops of all trains approaching It; that the Erie provide an lnterlocker for the spur track into the G. H. Hammond yard which crosses the Monon south of the bridge and which necessitates another stop for Monon trains, or that the Erie instead of crossing directly over the Monon tracks be forced to enter the Monon tracks by means of a side track and from the Monon tracks ohto its j G. H. Hammond yard spur by means of ' another side track. 5. That the Erie employ stationary switchmen at the Sibley street cross ing for twenty-four hours instead of! only from noon to midnight, as it does now, and, furthermore, that the Erie ' continue its recent good work in hook- ! ing engines to both ends of a long' train. The lack of the stationary switchman is . cause for most of the Erie trouble now. There are many more things that tend to block crossings which would not be bad if there were only one railroad in a town or only a few trains a day, but with 400 trains every twentyfqrir hours, every detail which makes for expediency should bet aken advant tage of. It has been said that if the people of Hammond once understood conditions, and knew just what they could demand that there would be a material alteration in conditions. A Chamber of Commerce committee, it is said, would find surprisingly much information. NEWS SHOCKED HER FRIENDS Much regret was caused In Gary when it was learned that Miss Hazel Krlmbill of Crown Point had died just after her sister, Miss Margaret had been burled. ' Their deaths came as a sudden shock , to their many friends In the 6teel city I f th were popular with , the Vunger social set and frequently diiriiueu euciitt hilshs hi uai j . . Miss Margaret was to have attended the performance of the "Society Vaudeville" at the Grand theatre on Monday night but her illness, which at that time wasn't considered serious, prevented her from being present. News of her sister's illness was phoned up to Gary on Monday night by Miss Hazel, n the elder girl, who died yesterday after she had been suddenly taken ill. , Many Gary young people attended the funeral of Miss Margaret by goln? to the cemetery yesterday. VOI R MONEY BACK Ot year stood judgment and you'll Had youriwlf buying UNION SCOUT SCRAP. 214 os. 5c. Mr Hie S. Tob. Co. Adv..?." .... ... ......
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the state Superintendent of instruction. The city now has two commissioned high chial schools in the state are so designated and some public High school cities have
HHOilTE EDITS UNIQUE 1AGHZHE 'The Aquarium," the only magazine of its kind in the United States, is now published in Hammond and is edited by W. A. Poyser of that city. The editor of the magazine died and Poyser having been a . liberal con tributor to the magazine and a man ; of scientific' attainments' 'was' forced -.'"The first ffiSuet. orfSe'maairl'hTiau-j uu me prc&4 auu - 4B' oinsT ntctiica 1.0day. There are In thVneighborhood of 500 subscribers' 'to ' the' magazine. Poyser has the reputation of heving the largest collection of ferns in the United States. His collection embraces J several hundred varieties. A number of Calumet r.egion people who areJnterested in aquaria are getting in touch with Mr. Poyser. The present issue of the magazine is rather limited in scope on account of the change in editors, but is very interesting. SCORE TAKE BUSINESS COURSE. availing business A score of students are themselves of . the two year course that has been Introduced in the Hammond school, some of them having begun with the opening of the school year, while others entered at the beginning of the second half of the year. Of the number ef students, three boys enrollecV fulfilled the practical entrance requirements, which means that although they did not complete the eighth year, they are given credit for the practical knowledge they gained out of school. This course promises eventually to become very popular. REPORTS ON BAR MEASURE. "Attorney John (iavit of Hammond has returned from Indianapolis where he made some Investigation of the Ftatus of measures to increase the requirements for admission to the bar. He was unable to get the information he wanted and so reported to Attorney L. V. Cravens of the committee Attorney Matthews of Gary, the other member of the committee. Is expected to meet with the committee early in the coming wwk and take up plans for the framing of the necessary bill. : y Grand Jury Witnesses. Among those who went to Indianapolis testify : before the federal grand jury were Postmasters John Call of Gary and Richard Schaaf of Hammond. Charles Surprise of Hammond Is also said to have testified. WILDCAT A POST MAN'S NEMESIS Ulmers, S. C, Feb. 8.- A novel adventure Incident to parcel post service. Involving two babies and a wooden leg, 1 1 . v. ..,, i , ; 1 . here today by Edgar F. Phillips, a 1 rural mail carrier connected with the j local office. j While covering his route, with two Infants and -a wooden leg among his "parcels," Phillips was attacked by a wildcat. For a moment, says the carrier, his live mail was In danger of being carried away. Selecting the wooden leg as the most available weapon, Phillips wielded It so well that he put the wildcat to rout. All three parcels were delivered none the worse for the encounter. You will say that a La Vendor cigar cannot be beat. If you try one. Adv.
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- Says Landlord of Shady Ho tel Admitted - Her and a Jtezrbti Comft ansion-asteBs of Escapades and Carriage In Niles, Mich. What Hammond hotel took a burly neero and a fifteen year old white girl. registering them as man and wife and giving them a room over night? i West Hammond has time and again poimea a. iiusci vi cua-mo monil hotels and declared that many of them were more disorderly than the resorts which have been closed up over the line. ' While the Hammond hotels are lax no one suposed that a Hammond hotel keeper would permit an epileptic white girl and a black negro to become the guests of the nous. The fact that such Is the case was brought out undr oath in Chicago when Emma Helen Hansen, a 15 year old epileptic white girl, yesterday told Municipal Judge Courtney a dramatic story of escapades with George Thompson, a negro and of her subsequent marriage to the negro in Niles, Mich. The judge held the negro to the grand jury under $5,000 bail on a serioua eharce. , Testimony of the girl and the negro showed he had transported the girl from Illinois to Hammond, in violation of the Mann act. - The marriage of the white girl and the negro was recently cited in congress in support of a bill against Intermarriage. ' Girl Tells Her Story. "I have known . Thompson three years," Miss Hansen" testified. "I first knew him when he came. to my mother's stort 'at 3856 Wentworth" avenue. In the last eight or nine months he came to the store evry day and usd to come to my room In our home. He frequently brought me fruit and candy. He also gave me a silver purse. "He came to my home on Jan. 8. and asked me to call him up the next afternoon. I called htm up and he asked me to come to his home at 3S20 La, Salle street. I went and we were in his bedroom quite a while. "A week later he took me to his cousin's, near Sixty-third street and Throop avenue, and we stayed all night there. His cousin la a negro, dui nis cousin's wife is white. I stayed with him that night and the next night we went to Hammond. He got a room at a hotel there and we stayed in the same room. He, left me there all the next day while he went to his work In Chicago. "The next night, which was Jan. 11, he told me he was going to take me to Niles, Mich., where we would be married. He said we couldn't be married In Illinois because I wasn't old enough, but he could tell In Michigan that I was 18 years old and we would not have trouble In getting married. Then They Get Married. "He paid my fare to Niles. got a room in a hotel and we were married the next day. Thompcon went to St. Joseph, Mich, to get the license. The Justice of the peace wouldn't marry us so we got a minister named Agars. Then we came back to Chicago and the Juvenile officer took me away from him." Judge Courtney held ths marriage in
hools. Only three paroaccredited comml8sion. Michigan was void because the girl is under 16 years old. Thompson on the stand denied any criminal acts with the girl In Illinois but admitted! the acts In Michigan. HI INTER CITY CONTEST Hammond and Valparaiso Congregations Put Up Prize Banner. The Hammond Christian church has accepted a challenge from the Valpa raiso; br4sUa4irshsy';aV tox-9wxA. SunmJL -aay 1 school. attendance extending' ovr j a period of lght wee&ay the ."conteBtto begin tomorrow.." A big banner- will be awarded to the church showing the most credits at the end of the period. The Christian Sunday schools of Ham monds and Valparaiso are ranked among the largest in the state. Merit points will be given on the following basis: One point for every person in the Bible school. Five points - for each new person enrolled. One point for each five-cent offering. One point for each personally owned Bible. Half a point for each visitor. Demerits: Half a point for each pupil who is tardy. Five points for each teacher or officer who is tardy. Each Sunday's reports will be .exchanged by telephone, so that each Sunday school will know at the end of the session where It stands in the contest. While Valparaiso has the advantage of drawing on the large student body in the university, Hammond -has a big field, and a very energetic working organization. . Both congregations ought j to make the contest interesting. THEY READ THE ADS. Humpfer Bros. store was besieged with patrons last night calling for sugar through an unfortunate typographical error In a Times' ad, which transposed the prices of a banana and a sugar special. The items read: BANANA SPECIAL Fancy large Ba- . nanas. the 20c kind, 2 dozen for.. 47c 10 POUNDS SUGAR with grocery order of $2.00 or more.. .25c When . the prices should have been transposed. The grocers lived.' up to the "ad," however, and Thk Times will have to foot' the bill. . It shows how people read Times' ads, however. Joint Choir Rehearsal. The next meeting of the choirs of the various churches who ar to nar- '. tlcipate In the oratorio "The Pageant of Light and Darkness" will be held on Tuesday evening at the First Methodist church. The oratorio will be given at the Auditorium In Chicago in May as past of "The World" exposition in Chicago. ( Has Clabby's Gloves. Frank Both is displaying a pair of boxing gloves on the walls of his barber shop on Hon man stret, which were were used by Jimmy" Clabby, the popular HammoAd boxer, -in his recent fight with Howard Baker at Denver, Col, Jan. 24. The gloves are attracting considerable attention. MEET ORINSTITUTE. Teachers of North and Calumet townships and the towns of Griffith, Highlands and Munster held their regular monthly institute in Hammond today. O. C. Stiefel, principal of the Ross school, presided as chairman, and a little talk was given the teachers by Miss Whitney, the assistant county superintendent.
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OF SEmiWG DIVORCES Couple Get Weary of Waiting so Long for a Divorce That They Decide to Make Their Lawyers Sore; Call' Fight Oft. ' " ' . On Friday William R. Reed and Stella Reed wanted a divorce tins worst way. William called at the office : of MoMahon & Conroy, his attorney, and wanted to know why it was his rase could not be brought to trial. He was Indignant and . declared that he did not believe that such delays were warranted. On the same day Stella Reed went to WlUiam H. Sickman and declared that Che must insist that the case be brought to trial at once. The genial divorce attorney Informed her that Judge Becker was out of the city. Both attorneys informed thetr clients, however, that thoy had best be patient that their case would certainly be . brought up today. ' In the meantime William met Stella. . Said William: "I think its an outrag that our divorce case has been delayed, so. Wa were ' to have the papers all signed up today and hare ws've got to wait until tomorrow." Said Stella: "It is a sham that we did not get that divorce this morning. I had hoped to be separated from you for all time by this hour and here we'vei got to wait until tomorrow." " And so they went off down the street talking the matter over. This morning Attorney Joseph Conroy answered the telephone. "This Is Reed. I guess you might as well drop that divorce case. Til pay the costs. My wife and I ar reconciled." "- , ' And simultaneously Attorney William ' H. Sickman received tha1 message: "Say you had netter drop -that divorce' cas . of ours. Make out your bill' and' send It " townito dear V J-stf kW-iAt' DISAPPEARS -The mysterious disappearance of another Hammond woman "was reported at the Central police station last night, resulting in the second baffling caso within the past two weeks. .Meeting her husband in the Hammond business district yesterday afternoon about 4:30 o'clock, Mrs. Barney Whitaker, SIS Murray street, left him for a moment to do an errand, but she did not return and has not been seen or heard of since. The only word that has been received from the missing woman came yesterday afternoon, when she called up over the telephone and requested good-byes to be said to the three children. No notes, letters or other forms of forgiveness were found., - Her description: Age 30 or 32; height. 5 feet, 6 or 7 inches; weight. 135 to 140 pounds, is as follows: Build, slim; complexion, fair; hair, light brown; blue eyes; wore a whit hat, brown skirt and waist, black shoes and a long black coat - - WILL RIDE IN AUTO ACROSS CONTINENT Darethr Uati iss Dorothy Batsman. Newport, R- I., hotel-keeper" daughter who was willed 1500,000 by the late Rosa K. Winans of Baltimore, because shs brought sunshine Into bis life while be was a tenant of the Baternaa placs. Is visiting the Panama canal with her father. Hies Bateman later in the year will maka an automobile trip to California, going from Newport to San Francisco , by asy stares,' accompanied by her parents. Miss Bateman Is pretty, sings well, and la weU educated. With riches added te her other charms, she has become extremely popular w4th. the Toutur men and bcWlcr
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