Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 240, Hammond, Lake County, 12 March 1913 — Page 1

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OFFICE HOLDERS TO KEEP PLACES

TIMES' Prediction True That Wilson Won't Turn Out Republicans Till Terms End.

(Special to Trb Times.) Washington, March 12. Democratic office seekers were again jarred today when they learned that President Wilson had no intention of removing Republicans before the expiration of the terms for which-they were appointed. i This rule will apply to all admlnis-j tratlve positions whoBe incumbents have nothing to do with the shaping of politics. Jt affects postmasters,! nearly every one, in the Government service outside of Washington. Wails Rent The Air. When this news became generally new.,. II 1 11 V avjilVii O r rr , rt , and Democratic memners of Congress) AFRAID OF -, The passage of - the JGry , bill te create a sanitary district' in northern Indiana is a. matter of great importance to the Calumet region In Illinois as well as in Indiana. It makes but little difference -to the cities of North township whether Gary or Hammond fathered the bill. The point was to get the bill passed so that Indiana can aid the drainage project and do Its share to keep the water of Lake Michigan pure. The trustees of the Chicago drainage district are elated to know that they can now get around .the objections of the war department by having the Indiana drainage district make application for Its quota of six or .seven thousand gallons of water a second. Gary Hevrla. The history of the project is interesting. The Illinois drainage trustees first put the matter of the organization of a sanitary district up to the cities of Hammond. Whiting, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. Gary was invited to participate in the project. , . Gary did not think that any measures affecting Gary ought to originate any place but Gary and so the l- sanitary ' measure was condemned by two of the newspapers and Gary citizen's 'generally, i Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago did not care to go father with the project in the face of the condemnation (Continued on Page .) THEY WERE BUSY. That the Lake County representatives were busy while at tiie legislature is shown by the following record of bills submitted for passage: "The Senate this year, received 5SS bills, and the House 773, a total of 1,3?9 for the General Asembly. Two years ago the Senate received 43 bills and the House 6S6, a total of. 1,111 bills. "Senator Stotsenburg carried off first honors in the Senate, with forty-four bills to his credit. Senator Gavlt was second with thirty bills, and Senator VanNuys was third, with twenty-seven. Senators Engle and Hunt Offered but one bill each. "In the House Representative VanHorns, one of the four Republicans, introduced thirty-one bills and made Democratic floor leader Spencer take second place with his twenty-five measures." Treat for Electricians. Members of the - electrical course class in the Hammond night school anticipate a treat for tomorrow night, when their instructor, A. 1. Shanklin, electrical enginer in the Simplex plant will escort them through the Commonwealth Electric plant in Chicago. It is expected that about thirty in the class wil go. The privilege to Inspect the plant is a concession whlcn the company made realizing what tne Hammond night schools are attempting to do for the people. - Have comfort in the bathroom with a Gas Heating Stove. No. Ind. Gas & Elec. Co

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wails of rage rent the air. Coming on th heels of the announcement that President Wilson would not receive an

office seeker at the White House except on invitation and that the spokesmen of office seekers must do business with the heads of the various departments, it was brought home to the faithful that the pickings under the new dispensation were to be mighty lean. . Democrats Are Disappointed. Accordingly the Democrats In Washington are a gloomy, lot. It is the general ' expectation that hundreds who came here happy with hope wil soon return home vowing vengeance on the Wilson administration. Of course the 1,400 Republican candidates named for appointment by President Taft in the closing days of his administration will not derive any benefit from the rule. In nearly all of these cases, embracing appointments In (Con tlti ued on Page .) BECKER'S AN IMPO&TANT TRIAL TOMORROW In view of the refusal of the governor to receive the Gary. bill legalising the licenses of 169 Gary saloonkeepers,the case which comes up before Judge Lawrence Becker in the Lake superior court tomorrow is of the gravest of Importance. It is expected that there will be a large attendance in - the court room and that the best legal talent there is obtainable in the state will be employed on both sides of the case. Gloom settled down upon the 168 saloonmen of Gary when it became known that Governor Ralston had ignored the Gavlt legalizing bill, which was an. eleventh-hour measure to save the saloonmen from a mistake, not of tieir own making, but of the creation of Mayor Knotts and some of the aldermen. . ' AU Eyes en Becker. All eyes are now upon Judge L. A. Becker of the Hammond superior court, who will hand down a decision at a hearing expected to start tomorrow, which will mean life or death to the saloons. Should Judge Becker flind that the law Is against the saloon(Continueil on page six.) SOUTH BEND IS A MONTE CARLO $10,000 Changes Hands in a , Poker Game. It is said that more than S10.000 changed hands in a poker game played in a well known South Bend hotel last week. It is alleged that the game was in progress for almost three days and that men from that city, St. Joseph and Chicago were interested. According to the report, one local business man is now balancing his cash account Just J1.200 less than he did' a week aim. It i,nm that fh. PkiA. I -.---- ll.oKU 1 men carried away most of the spoils oi Dattie and that the South Bend players were the losers. A number of people witnessed the game from windows near the hotel and state that it was at; interesting session, resembling those Of the old days when poker was the open and customary amusement. It seems that South Bend has become the Monte Carlo of this section of the country, serving as a rendezvous for the followers of the fickle goddess of chance who cannot play their favorite game in the other cities where the police and other officials of the law keep strict surveillance over them. The game, which is said to have taken place last week, started on Tuesday evening and lasted until Friday. TIMES WANT ADS ARB FOB SERVICE TO YOVt

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SHE'LL BE HELP TO LABOR SECRETARY Miss Agnes H. Wilson. Miss Agnes H. Wilson. " daughter of the new secretary of labor, will be a great help to her father in his new work. This young woman has been Secretary Wilson s chief lieutenant and adviser ever since he entered congress four years ago. She quit school when she was sixteen to become his private secretary when he- wv elected secretary of the Mine Worker's union. She has worked tirelessly for the cause of labor ever since. " SiEARD 'THELr.. iTREETS BARNEY CARTER, Hammond's famous street ear conductor-representative who got more advertising in the Indianapolis newspapers than any two men down at the general assembly, is back from the big show with a bran new ' white hat that has the late la mented lids of ex-Senator W. H. Gostlln's and T- E. Bell's backed oft the boards. It has been a long time since Hammond has seen anything to compare wjth Mr. Carter's new-Easter .millinery, sand when Conductor Smith, one pjt jBarney's; fellow; employe,, caught hi uji three fares for on and put a lady Off at Clinton street who wanted to go to the Standard Steel car district. . THE ORPHECM cabaret' show the first part of this week brought iato the limelight a clever comedian wom nobody seemed to know, but who ought to have been starred on the bill on account of his clever work. He took the part of an intoxicated individual with more real funny original stuff in its than all of the rest o the cast put together. He was, never at a loss fo something funny and his burlesquing was of a high order. His work, of course, didn't class him as a Faversham or an Otis Skinner but he was the one bright luminous worker who ha shown up at the little tabloid theatre in a long timo. His name didn't appear on the cast of characters, but after one peek at him you never cared to look at the program again. - ONE PROMINENT Homewood man is spending a good deal of his spare time these nights trying to figure out how he can get even with a well-known Homewood lady who played the crudest Joke on him that has been laughed at for some time In these parts. The lady", whom we will call Mrs. A, met the Homewood man, whom we will call B, recently and said to him, "1 suppose you are going to the "D's" tonight. It is going to be a surprise party and a bunch of us are going and you must be sure to go." - Well, B said he would go. He went home, decked himself out in his dress suit, much as he cordially detests one, and sallied forth to Mr. and Mrs. D's. When he got there he was ushered into the house. The Ds thought It queer, but B thought he was early and sat around and sat around. Nobody came and the Ds thought, he had gone crazy." Finally he tumbled that a Joke had been played on him, and he excused . himself, in the meantime Homewood is laughing all over." THET CAN look for something real nifty in the amusement line down at Indianapolis when Orak Shrine's patrol goes down there this month, and if the patrol hand doesn't make the capital city folk stand up on their hind legs and roar why we miss our guess. Orak's patrol is being put through some stunts that will make the late esteemed Phineas T. Barnura rattled around In his coffin like a pea in a pod. As a matter of fact when any bunch from Take county invades India'napolis they do It up brown and there will be heads sticking out of all the windows around the circle when Orak' hits the capital. The patrol is drilling regularly and is to be clad In new verdure and upholstery for the big doings. GUARDIANS TO MEET. (Special to The Times.) East Chicago, Ind.. March 12. The March meeting of the board of children's guardians of Lake county will be held In the offices of the board of education, city hall. East Chicago, on Monday afternoon, March 17, at 2 o'clock. Try a La Vendor cigar. Adv. It's good.

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HAS BUSY Sixty-Five Girls Handle Nearly 100 Millions of Beans a Day in .City, and Hammcnd Has Boston Backed Into the Bay. You may not believe It, but Hammond has an institution in which 98,765,432.1 beans are handled daily, and any person who is incredulous regarding these figures , can get permission from the Interstate Storage & Forwarding company of Hammond to make a personal count any day he wants to satisfy himself tliat the above figures are correct. He will, however, have to J do the work that sixty-four girls are doing now. J City Xw a en Ceater. As a bean center for the common or garden variety the red kidney, navy, brown Swedish and llmas, Hammond has practically got Boston backed into Massachusetts Bay. Trainloads of beans ace hauled in and out of Hammond, and every last one of them (the beans) is sorted for the market where they are sold as fancies, choice, canning and culls. The Interstate Storage and Forwarding company, which occupies building No". 19 of the old Hammond plant, which is better known to the . old-timers as the "sausage factory," handles on the average of two car loads of beans a day. It conducts what is known as a grading station, the bean business being only a branch of -its business. In its storage department it handles carloads of sugar flour, rosin, coffee and other staples. Shipped to City. ""Most, of ' the beans which come to Hammond are shipped ' in from ' Michigan, where they are thrashed and pas through a fanning- mU. After toeing mtutit-emri-tn!r'' ansfiinpea to- ail rparts-of the Country. io thecantilng factories Mr the east and south and to the big commission houses in the west fand ndrth. Sixty-four girl sitting at as many machines do the sorting, as a belt conveyor carries them from a hopper toward the girls. Even the culls are valuable, as they make a very good sheep and hog feed. The girls working at these machine become experts, as they develop a quick eye and deft fingers. They are paid by the pound and some of the fast workers are able to make from $10 to 12 a week. Eight dollars a week. however, is an average wage. Alto gether there are fh the neighborhood of eighty employes In the. plant and ar rangements have been made to open a grading station in Blue Island, which will be conducted temporarily. The grading station has been In operation since last November. WANT DIRECT PHONE SERVICE ' A number of Gary business men headed by Alderman Timothy W. Englehart will endeavor to have the Chicago Telephone company give Gary direct phone service with Crown Point. Gary messages are now relayed via Hammond. Objections to the present system is that a tariff of IS cents is charged, when, it is believed that 6 or 10 cents is reasonable, and the fact that the calls go via 'Hammond sometimes makes hearing over the lines almost inaudible. Complaint also exists as to the times it takes to raise the Crown Point exchange. Board Holds Meeting. Bids for the sprinkling of streets in Hammond will be received by the board of public works on April 2nd, the confirmatory resolution having been passed today, Bids were also asked for on a cement curb sidewalks and pavement on Harrison street. Plans and specifications for the Penn avenue sewer were adopted. Upon the showing of the, Hammond & Suburban- Realty company that its Kenwood subdivision Is need of clty water to ' accomodate prospective buyers, the board agreed to order the laying of a certain amount of pipe. Board Holds Meeting. ' The Hammond board of education met last night and attended to routine matters of business. There was nothing of importance up for consideration and the meeting soon adjourned. , Adjournment was taken, however, to meet at the call of Attorney W. J. McAleer who expects to' have some information from bond attorneys regarding the validity of a proposed bond issue. May Not Be Represented. it is not probable that Hammond will be represented at the . state convention of gas men which ' is to be held at Indianapolis. This is due to the fact that the meeting of superintendents o fthe United Gas A Improvement Company Is to' be held Jn Philadelphia this month and any or the local superintendents who could spare the time would rather attend this meeting-

12, 1913.

SCION OF MADEROS TO AVENGE BROTHER Bvarlsto "E. Madero. " . Evaristo Madero, brother of tha murdered president of Mexico, Francisco ' I. Madero, airi of Gustavo Madero, also murdered by the present Mexican government. Is a student in Cornell University. With the surviving members of that family ha hopes some day to avenge the death of hi brothers. The reamainlng brothers are lfAonso. Emilio, Gabriel. Julio, Raoul. and Carlos, all young men educated in this country. Julio is rumored to have been shot at Torreon. Mexico, but th report ha not been substantiated. CLUB'S BOARD HOLDS INTERESTING MEETING Affairs of Hammond Country Club Shown to Be in Excellent Condition. The board of directors of the Ham mond Country club met last night and held one of the most Interesting sessions of the year. With the approach of the out of doors season the Interest in the club grows apace. : "A financial report was read and the affairs .of. the organization were shown to be In excellent condition.,, A. proposal to incFipase the "non-resident e"rhb?rhlp waa taki tip and fiscttssea.' - , It is expected that this class of membership will be greatly increased in the near future. : ' , An order was given to the manager of the club to screen in the porches. This will make them a pleasant place to spend hot summer evenings. The members who are delinquent In their dues are to be posted within a week if they do not pay up. They will then be ousted In accordance with the rules of the club. The questioa of entertaining the Indiana Society was discussed informally, and it was decided that while the Hammond Country club would offer its equipment for the entertainment of the" guests of the society that the Invitation to come to Hammond ought to emanate from the membership of the society residing in Hammond. FRICK ORDERED ABSTRACT OF TITLE Truth of Times Story Is Substantiated at Crown ." Point Today. (Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, ; Ind.,' March 12. As tending to support the Pittstiurg dispatch to Thb Times regarding the rumor that the independent steel interests contemplate the building of a large steel mill on the canal and lake at Indiana Harbor the Allman-Gary Co.. abstractors, report that Henry C. Frick ordered an abstract of title to his property brought down to date about three weeks ago. ' This would indicate that some sort of a transfer of title, was anticipated. The interest in Thb Times exclusive story served to boom property values at Indiana Harbor arid Whiting as the I proposed plant would benefit both of those places. STRANGERS WADE INTO EACH OTHER Terre Haute Man and Kansas Farmer. Mix. Two strangers-caused quite a commotion in the Hammond business district yesterday afternoon- vfrhen they engaged in a lively fistic combat in front of the Lion store on Hohman street. The cause of their grievance was not learned and not satisfied with their first encounter they wanted to go into the alley and settle their dispute. The crowd attracted the attention of Officer Galvin, who placed them under arrest on a charge of fighting. At the central police station they gave their names as Charles Keane, Terre Haute, Ind., and, Lee Farmer, Pratt, Kan. They were arraigned before Judge Barnett, this morning and Joth promising that they would get out of the city, they were released.

. GANG IS OUSTED

West Hammond's Primaries Result In Entire Victory For Reform. Victors Thank THE TIKES.

WHAT THEY SAY MAYOR K. M. WOSCZY3TSKI. It is a great victory. We won against the strongest opposition the gang and the divekeepers could muster. It proves conclusively to me that the people want a clean city. - They want an honest administration of affairs. We don't want credit for what has been done. We don't claim that we have reformed, it has revolted against the dive, the administration of Justice in the interest of crooks and the impoverishing of the city by graft. ' And having reformed West Hammond it looks to us to keep the city clean and decent. I want to take this opportunity to say that while we were overwhelmingly the choice of the people that the greatest opposition we encountered was that of Rev. B.-' Nowakowskl, the' Polish priest, from whom we would naturally expect support in our campaign of reform.

West Hammond purified from viceparcnt that there is' not. a ghost of a

and corruption for ft year win never go back to it and a city xn the making, refused at 'the primaries' yester day to stand for aaytJ53 f""-j apal cleajibness. .The forces of "reform in JWest Ham tnond are triumphant. " The . figures compiled this , morning iShow.-that Mayor K. M. Wosczynskl's administration has received the unmistakable stamp of approval from the voters. The old, corrupt ring of grafters, the partners in the system of vice that has-disgraced West Hammond have been whipped into submission. " Their Hopes Were Vain. ... The dive keepers had hoped for a change of administration. Many of them hung onto. their Drooertv or their leases with the expectation that there would be a change of administration and that the red light district would be opened up again. Now all is lost. In the light of the figures on the votes for the various official it is now apSHOOTS HUSBAND" " . AND HER RIVAL Memphis, Tenn., March 12. Finding lng her husband alone, in an. uptown flat with a woman who gave her name as Mrs. L. A. Howell, Mrs. August Schrelber opened fire upon them with a- pistol. Schrelber, who is president of a lumber company here, was so badly wounded that he died soon thereafter. Th woman was wounded in the right arm. . - ; Schrelber, who was reputed to be wealthy, came to Memphis several years ago from Mount Vernon, Ind. He was about 85 years old. Mr. Schrelber gave her age as 35 yeears. Mrs. Howell is said formerly to hav lived at Vincennes, Ind. SHIP WITH 36 MENGOES DOWN Hamburg. March 11. The British sailing vessel Glenaloon, bound from Argentina to Hamburg, foundered In the North Sea off . Heligoland , today. The fate of the crew of thirty-six men ia unknown. , , T SPRING COATS TO BE . TIGHTERTHAN EVER Styles of 20 Years Ago Revived by Tailors. The styles of twenty years ago the tight coat, tight trousers and tight vests will be revived for the modish young man fo 1913, according to the Chicago Soclei y of Merchant Tailors, at their sprinc dinner, at Hotel La Salle last nlgl t. The dinner was for fthe purpose of exhibiting to local custom tailors th styles adrpted at the recent national conventior of tailors at Cleveland. The pr availing suitings will be black and' whijte, either checked or striped and made from cheviots. Cane and gloves and tendencies to foppishness will be tabooed this year. If yon smoke a La Vendor one yoa will always call for them. Adv.

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ABOUT RESULTS CLERK IGXATIUS MAXKOW'SKL The . people of West Hammond have declared themselves. They have given the present administration a vote of confidence and now we feel amply repaid for all of our efforts to give Wet Hammond a clean decent city government. . I want to speak for the mayor, as well as myself, when I say that Thb Tikes has done more than any one factor to make success 'possible for us. Without Thb Timbs support our campaign would have been a losing ope. - - . I, too, want to add a word of protest to the political activity of Rev. B. NowakowskL . He has . been working with the gang all through this fight. His candidate was third, so that we at least bava the measure of his influence. . simply be a waste of money to put anotner ttcKet in tne seia. - ; Bans Revex Wavered. ' : , : With political Juiliiment tbtr of the. ticket and tie rest. of the re-'. rorm . candidate were pulled through By the 'vtery momentum of the movement. . - ' , . , Clerk Ignatius Ma nlcowski tan way ahead of. the ticket with five hundred votes, lacking two, Jacob Czaszewicz, who had no opposition on the people'a ticket but was opposed' by Fred -Pci-grist, the only candidate, on the citizen's ticket, reclved 473 votes and Mayor K. M. Woscsynski with, the hottest sort of opposition polled 411 votes. Judge Green Down In Defeat. ine xeaiure or me election was the defeat of Judge Frank Green who has been the rol!r mairfia. nr.., Hammond for years and "ha conducted ' tne office la the interests of the old gang. Green was' defeated by Adam Stachowlt who got S17 votes to Judga (Continued oa Pag . L 111 li WlliS C0TY PRIZE Miss Ruth Webster Declared Winner of W. 0 T. U. Oratorical. . Miss Ruth Webster of Hammond was declared the winner in the W. C. T. U. , oratorical, contetet held last night in' the First Methodist church of Hammond a part of the first annual county institute program. While there was a representative attendance from all over the county. for the day session the evening meeting brought out enough people to fill the church. The program was pf such a grade that It deserved a gooc" audience. - W. B. Conkey the Hammt ,t manufacturer who was on the program to make the presentation of the prize, a five dollar 4gold piece was out of the city and therefore his place was taken by Mrs. Kroft a state worker from Bloomlngton. ; Owing to another engagement, Mr. IarI Robertson who was entered iij the contest could not take part. The'v program for the evening was . as fol- . lows: Selection M.- E. Orchestra Piano Solo. ...... .Mrs. George Houser Invocation. ..... .Rev. Frank O. Fraley Violin and Piano Duett. , Mrs. Horton and Mrs. Houser Presentation of Class Mrs. Krost First Oration "Poor House Man",.. Mrs. F. O. Fraley Vocal Solo.. Miss Adele Merr Second Oration "The Polish Boy"...: Miss Ruth Webster Third Oration "The Three Bidders" Mrs. R. B. Powley Vocal Duett.. .......Mrs. Melvin Monnett and Miss Norma Robblns Fourth Oaation "The Best Brand".; '..Mrs. riser of Gary Fifth Oration "Higher Culture In Dixie" ...Miss Mary Lawson Piano Solo.. ...I. Miss Wellie McDanlel Presentation of Prize , .......v .....Mr. W. B. Conkey

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