Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 223, Hammond, Lake County, 20 February 1913 — Page 1

TY TIME EDITION VOL. VII., NO. 223. HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPY, (Back Numbers 1 Centa Copy.)

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Possibility of Kidnaping Cities Is Ended; Carter Introduces Bill Exempting $1,000 Homesteads From Liability. Bills of vital Importance to varlou3 Lake County communities and interests were Introduced in the General Assembly yeterday. A bill to add to the 1600 mortgagee exemption permitted in Indiana an exemption to a homestead of $1,000 was introduced in the House yesterday by Representative Carter, the street-car-conductor-legislator from Hammond. The ' author has lengthy statistics to place before the committee on labor, to which the bill was referred, and before the House when the bill comes up for further action, to show why it I should pass. I

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shall be entitled to exemption from liens against a home valued at not more than $1,000 arising from all debts j other than taxes or public assessments. Similar provision is now on the statute books of all states except Indiana, f Deleware, Maryland. Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, Mr. Carter will show, and In many states the exemption permitted runs to much higher figures.' Mr. Carter's bill also provides that In event of divorces the partyk obtaining the decree shall hold the homestead and that i in event of the death of parents th title shall remain without lien against! It from debts until the .youngest child ; ehall have become 21 years old Forrlan Exchange Bill Urged Charles EL Fowler and Wolf Marcovich of Indiana Harbor appeared before the House committee on judiciary B last evening to urge a favorable report n tho VanHorne bill licensing the business of selling foreign exchange crotnlnent among Indianapolis lorelgn-! and connected with the W est Side Trust Company, is preparing to place, before the. committee on banks of the (Continued on Pag I BRICKLAYERS WANT 70c The price of building In IjiKe County will take another Jump this summer on account of the new scale of wages demanded by the bricklayers. Letters recently sent out to the contractors in the county from the Bricklayers Union are to the. effect that, beginning May 1 of the coming year, the wage scale per hour will be 70 cents, Instead of the 65 cents per hour asked last season. The new scale if adopted, which It probably will be, will make considerable difference on the price or building and together wth a sharp aovance In the price of all material will make building decidedly higher.

FORMER WIFE OF GROVER CLEVELAND AND HUBBY AT PALM BEACH ON HONEYMOON

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Mr. tad Mrs. Thoaaaa J. Preatea. Probably the most notable of the society people gathered at Palm Beach, Fla.. for the winter .season are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr.. who are spending; their honeymoon at the southern resort. Mrs. Preston as the former Mrs. Cleveland, during; the presidency of her late husband won -. host of friends through the crm and grace of her nils ,IM the miresa of the3Vh4i iiouae

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Celestials Are Taken Out of ' a Freight Car at Gibson After Traveling AH. the Way from Cincinnati; Now in Hammond Station. After braving all the trials and hardships of stowaways on boats and train two young- Chinamen, who had been smuggled into this country, across the Canadian border, were taken into custody by the Hammond police at the Gibson yards this morning. The tip was received from an unknown source last night over longdistance 'phone. The party, thought to have been a federal officer, notified the Hammond police that two Chinamen were being smuggled into this territory in a box car filled with a consignment of merchandise.. Working on the tip Captain ilanlon searched the found that the car had not arrived In I'"" . , """ """"J" - l"1 r. "u through him the Hammond central ; police department was notified that the car came in about 9 o'clock this morning. A mistake was made in the car number, the right figure being 93,700. A hurry call was made to the Gibson yards in the police patrol, where Desk Sergeant Oscar Eorchert and a squad of police met B. W. Dolan, chief special agent at Gibson, who aided In lne worK- Ane aumoriues round car No. 9S,00 and they began the search which terminated in the capture of the Mongolians. Cimc from the East. Huddled in one corner of the car with their heads bent together Sergeant Borchert found the two stow aways. Not a move or sound did they make and not until Sergeant Borchert tapped them on their shoulders did " - "lu'"u6u ecarcu-was ivia m memincMion, dui not rung was iom.- The two'; stowaways were found warmly dressed in the best of American clothing, but understood little that was said to them. They were taken to the central station and will be held until Chief Austgen communicates with the emigration department at Detroit. The car was billed from the GilbertBennet Manufacturing Co. of Georgetown, Conn., and has been on the road since some time Sunday. The car waa filled with a consignment of wire goods and its destination was Wireton, a small station near Blue Island, 111. The station at Wireton is said to be a secluded district and it is expected that upon the car's arrival there the seal would have been broken and the Chinamen taken from the car. Although the stowaways have been in the car since last Sunday with no water and very little to eat, with the exception of some Chinese food, neither appeared to be any worse off from the hardships that they underwent. They made no attempt to break away and were seemingly glad to get out of the car. WHT ARE READER? YOU NOT A TIMES

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ACCEPT BRIBES Top, left to rtrhti Rath Duff, David Hill and V. S. Q. Rhedea. Bottom, left to rlg-htt H. F. Aabnrr and A. B. Saalth. . Six members' of the West Virginia legislature are under irrilctment and several others are said to be badly frightened as a renult of a grand jury probe into the charges of bribery In connection wl:h the senatorial election. In that state. The men Indicted are: State Senator A. B. Smith and Delegates David Hill. H. F. Aebury. TJ. 8. Q. Rhodes. Rath Dtiff and George S. Van Meter. The lndlcte4 men protest their; Innocence and have given bond itach for $2,500. The speclrl grand Jury which returned the Indictments la not yet through with Its work, and every member of both hotuws of the legislature will be requlrtdto testify before 1C HAMMOND-GARY FARE RATE ISJJHGHANGED South Shore Line, However, Inaugurates Some Increases. The Information which waa .given JftK-; Times y J. AT A-ubrey of Che north side regarding the increase In the fares of the .South. Shore lin company was erroneous in some particulars. - The officers of the company deny. for Instance, that there is to be an In crease of 10 cents in the fare between Hammond and Gary. The fare will remain 10 cents and could not be changed on account of the franchise stipulations. The fare from Hammond to Hegewisch will be S cents and from Hegewisch to Pullman will be an additional 5 cents, but the fare for a continuous passage will be 15 cents. Thus if a man makes a through trip from Hammond to Kensington or Pullman it costs hjm 5 cents more than It would if he got a stop over in Hegewlsch. The fare to Chicago is 40 cents one way. Two trip tickets will be sold, however, for 50 cents and a ten-ride ticket will be sold for $2.50, or at the rate of 25 cents a trip. The fare from Hammond to Michigan City is 70 centa instead of 60 cents and the round trip rate Is $1.40 instead of $1.10. Mileage-tickets will be sold for $8.75 instead of $7.50. These tickets are good for the holder and party. While there is a substantial increase in the fares scheduled by the South Shore lines, it is not as bad as Mr. Aubrey thought it was when he complained to The Times. DEADBEATS BANKRUPT GARTB USINESS Number of Failures This Early Is Surprising; Only 16 in 1912. Dead-beats in Gary have made two of its business men bankrupts. In addition two other cases were reported since the first of the year. So that foiir business men have been compelled to retire in the past two months on account of their Inability to make collections in Gary. . - Sor Instance, there is Nick Trukula of Gary. He is a baker and failed for $1,397. But he had on his books, at the time he decided that lie could not meet his creditors. $1,415 in uncollectable accounts. , ' The cast of Pamuel Lapidas of Gary, butcher a.nd baker is similar. Lapidas has debts amounting; to $1,969 and books accounts ot $1,970. which are uncollectable. His case is in the hands of Harris & Ressler of Gary. ' Arthur B. Carrigan, a painter, living; in Hammond, scheduled liabilities of $2,550. and assets of $800, which is exempt. McAleer Bros, represented the petitioner. In the first two months of this year there have been nine failures and all last year there were only 16 the year before only 18 and the year before that only 18. The number of failures is surprising:,, also in view of the fact that times are better by far than they were a year or two years ago. ...

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TIMBER WOLVES NEAR MILLER Areordtaar to Jadftre William WeilcrarreB of Miller, miperiateadeat of the aand pits, everal timber wolves have saade their apaearaaee this winter la the aaad daae wtlderaeaa hetwera Miller - and Iune Park. Lack ( now la the . duaea aad marshes have canard the wolves to hare a hard time of It avettlaa;. arame tad they have area approachtag perilously eleae to the sand . pit earn pa - la, the Forter eoaaty aaad .dam.-, km.., -" J . Some of the aaad pit workers who sleep la the woods Just over the Porter raaatr Mae eoaaplala that the hewllaa- of the wolvca keep them awake at ala-ht. ' Noae of the workers veatare far from their castas without I rile la their hands. The timber wolvca never become savage oat 11 they become aoarrr. The last wolf killed la Gary waa Iain la Sonth. Broadway early In 1908 by Mayor Kaotta. SHRINERS READY TO TAKE UP RAY W. D. Ray, the manager of. the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co.; Dr. A. G. Schlleker, mayor of East Chicago, and Dr. H. E. Sharrer of Hammond went to Chicago this afternoon where they took stht train for Minneapolis and St. Paul to attend a meeting of Shriners from ail ove.r the country. ' They extect to be gone. until the; close of,, the week. The Hamiltonian, the official orsran of the Hamilton club of Chicago, reports that 160 Shriners were discovered in the membership of that organization and after" they had ' been corralled W. l. Ray, the chief rabban of Orak- Shrin, who is a mem- ! ber of the Hamilton c'ub, invitedjhem i all down to Hammond. ' ! The only complaint the Shriners had j of the invitation was the apparent' neglect in Mr. Jlay-to mention a date.-; It is understood. that this is to be satis factorlly arranged .later. EAST SIDE AS3F. MEETS SATURDAY The East Side' Improvement Association holds a meeting next Saturday night, the object of the meeting being to get an expression of opinion regarding the-width of. side walks and the kinds of buildings to , be encouraged. There will also be other matters up. U. S. MARSHALS VISIT GARY Deputy United States Marshals Rankin and Taylor were in Gary yesterday. They called at the office of Chief of Police Martin who was appearing before the grand Jury in Hammond at the time. - Whether or not any arrests. were made is not known. An Electric Egg Cooker and Chafing Dish Is the thing for your room. No. Ind., Gas & Elec Co. A CLEAN PAPER, FIT FOR TOUR CHILDREN TO READ IS THE TIMES. - .

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IT AVE. TO GET FIVE BIDGS, With the announcement that five property owners on -Calujneavenue are goin--to .build two-story busiaesa blocks this spring, . over US. test of frontage, the importance of that- street as a business . thoroughfare is coming to be appreciated. The following are the building proj ects that are announced: Henry P. Downey two-story store and flat building, of brick, 50x125, on. 50 feet of frontage $25,000 Arnold Keldenieh, two-story store and flat building of brick, 50xl00( on. 50 feet of frontage. 20,000 Kolb & Bruckner, three-story' , store ' and flat building, of brick, 50x140,; on 50 feet of frontage ... ... 36,000 George Austgen, two-story store and fiat building of brick, 25x100 15,000 John Ahlborn, two-story store ' and flat building of brick, 25x100 15,000 Leo "Wolf, one story store buildf ' ing at the corner of Sibley and Calumet ave., 65x100 25,000 This means that $135,000 Is to be spent this year on Calumet avenue for the construction of business blocks all but one of which will be two stories high. It means that Calumet avenue is going to rival State street and Hohman street as the business center of Hammond. In addition to this there are a number of building projects' planned for Calumet avenue north of State street. C Make Calumet avenue the principal business street of Hammond is the cry that is going . up now and an effort will be made to prevent the erection of a single one story' building. Two stories and higher is what the people onthe street 'want. Calumet avenue is not going to wait until the Gogebic Iron company comes. It is going ahead with the work of building up a great business thoroughfare and will be ready for the greater prosperity that will come when this plant is built. The knockers' against the plan for widening Calumet avenue and opening it through to Lake Michigan admit that they were" wrong. They now see that the Improvement is worth all it cost and more too. Thjy want a deep sewer on the south side as well as the north and they want it right.. away so that the street can be re-paved. ' the walks re-built and the street can take on a metropolitan air. THAW RUINS ICE CROP. A halt was called on the ice harvest at Wolf Lake yesterday morning, . the ice being too soft and of such an inferior grade on account of the thaw during the past two days.that it was thought useless to store it. No more ice will be put up this year, according to the Knickerbocker Ice company. On account of the shortage in labor., the Knickerbocker people put up less ice this year than ever before and it is doubtful if the harvest will be sufficient to carry1 them through the season. The ice harvest lasted only two weeks and It is estimated that approximately 150,000 tons of Ice was stored, the ice houses being filled to only half their capacity. Besides the Ice that waa stored an average of about 25 cars were shipped a day,' ? "

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TIMES IICKEAU, ' AT STATE CAPITAU ' Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 20 Lieut.-Gov. O'Neil today stopped the Rev. J. R. Henry, who was - offering prayer in the senate. The minister prayed for the dissolution of the partnership between the state and criminals. O'Neil told him he was there to offer a prayer and not to make a speech, and added that the minister had insulted the senate with such remarks. The same minister prayed in the house and said members of . the legislature had accepted bribe money, when the state took saloonkeepers' money for license to run saloons. Both prayers caused sensations. - 1 r

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Tax Payers Have to Provide 100 Per Cent. Profit. Trust Prosecution Advocated.

A atoae combiae baa bees formed of all of the dealers la atoae boslaea vrlthJn Bblaplaa- diataace of Lake county aad tbe price of erasbed stone (or road parpoaea la to be lacreaaed from 60, 70, 78 aad 82 ceata a yard, wale has been quoted la the past to $1.10 a yard. The combine expects to make a. profIt of $100,000 a year from the county of Lake, in addition to what It has made In the past. County Engineer Ray Seeley estimates that Lake county buys between 250,000 and 300,000 yards of stone a year. ,The increase from 70 cents to $1.10 a yard would be a horizontal boost ot 40 cents a yard. The combine also includes the slag trust, which will In crease ! tbe cost -of Its product: to tbo county and city from $1 a yard to $1.10 Slag has been" a monopoly for years, and this accounts for the fact that the price of it has been o high. Slag ought to be bought for from 60 to 60 cents yard, but the county has long paid a tribute to the men who have had this business corralled. ' The matter was called to the atten MRS. ECKMAN VICTIM OF PURSESNATCHER Mrs. Frank Eckman. 571 Jessie street, Hammond, waa the victim of an unknown purse snatcher last evening", who pucceeded in securing her pocketbook and making his gt-ravray. The nervy operation occurred in front of the residence at 254 Indiana avenue. According to the police blotter this morning, Mrs. Eckman was walking along the street when Fhe was

GRANDDAUGHTER OF PRINCE BISMARK PLANS EARLY VISIT TO THIS COUNTRY

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Coaateaa Haamab Blnmirk. Countess Hannah BiBmark ia the charming granddaughter of tha lata great chancellor of Germany, Prince Biamark. who 'cemented the German provinces Into tbe empire. She ia now on her first visit to England and It la bsUevftd 3riillaUJAsiUitei State J

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For instance la the case of the ex tension of Calumet avenue the county will have to buy 21.000 yards of stone. Tbe additional profit on this Job alona will be $8,400. The townships will have to pay & bla increase in the cost of stone for the roads that they build. Tbe indigna tion of The Times by Timothy Singlehart of Gary, who had tha big deal tipped off to him by a. contractor. Englehart announces that he will ba one of a number of taxpayers to have the matter called to the attention of the department of Justice In the hope that some of the members of the com- -bine can be put in Jall.wherethe officers of , the cash-' register trust liavo gone. .. .-'?'. :; v . . Waat More Taarn loO Per Ceat. . it Is xpected (bat the matter. will of the county, and that a concerted effort wii I be made to have the combine put out'of' -.business...: $ ,v &pv M The members of the combine .have -admitted 'that they can quarry" the stone for B0 cents a yard and they are ' not satisfied with a profit of 20 to 30 (Continued on Pago 7.) confronted by! a stranger. After grabbing the purse he tripped her. Jumping the fence, he ran towards the Michigan-Central tracks and was soon lost in the-darkness. r As soon as the case was reported to the police a close searchAwas made of the surrounding territory. No trace was found of the purse snatcher. but the pocketbook containing 25 cents was found in the yard at 253 Indiana avenue. . The purse only contained 4(1 cents when it was taken. SrBSCRtBE FOR THE TIMES.