Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 245, Hammond, Lake County, 20 March 1913 — Page 1

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WEATHER. COLDER TODAY, WITH RAIN TURNING TO SNOW.

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TAKE HOLD OF Fifty North Township Farmers Meet at Saxony School House With Hammond's City Market Master Last Night. (BY M. I. LtDWIG.) Convinced that a public wholesale j and retail city market in Hammond j an be made to benefit the producer ; and the consumer, the city of " Ham-j tnond through Its representatives last j Bight Joined hands with the farmers of North Township to make the market a success this summer. Between forty and fifty farmers gathered at the Saxony school house to discuss the municipal project. They (wre deeply Interested and enthusias- . tic about the prospects. City sealer and market master Frank O'Rourke spoke for the city of Hammond.' August Jarnecke presided as chairman and his efforts were largely responsible for the good attendance. Market Master O'Rourke expects to hold similar meetings at Munster, Highlands and possibly at Lansing. ,Ctty a Promoter. Mr. O'Rourke came to the farmers with a message which he said was the voice of the merchants and consumers. He made this proposition to the producers, saying Mayor Smalley had assured him that he would back him up: The city of Hammond will provide a market place for the farmers free of .charge; It will step in as a promoter to Insure the farmers of enough customers to take everything: off their hands; if necessary It will provide a municipal cold storage house. The city, he said., would attempt to regulate prices, but It would not stand by to permit a combine of farmers to control artificial ' prices. After having stated the city's proposition Mr. O'Rourke Invited questions from his (Cont!nud on Past - ORAK WILL HAVE : . SFEClAt TRAUI ' ".' - " -f ' 1 .-' ' " ' ' Hammond Shriner&to go on Second Section of the Hoosier Limited. A special train, consisting of a baggage car, a parlor car and a dining and buffet car, will be set on the siding of the Monon railroad in Hammond next Thursday afternoon. This Is the train which will convey the 76 of 100 members of Orak Shrine to the ceremonial at Indianapolis. The' train will leave Hammond on Friday at noon. It will be run as a second section to the Hoosier limited. The members of Orak Shrine are expected to assemble at the temple at 11:30 a. m. to be ready for a parade to the train. The parade will be lead by the band and patrol. The trip is being made primarily to take the band and patrol to Indianapolis for an exhibition drill. It is expected to attract a great deal of attention at Indianapolis. SEVENTEENTH RULER TO DIE BY VIOLENCE King George of Greece. King George of Greece is the seventeenth ruler to die by the hand of an assassin since Paul,' emperor of Russia was killed in 180L Three of these. Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley. were presidents of the United States. The last ruler before King Georpe to die by violence was Carles, King of Portugal, who was aaaaainted February J

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PUBLIC MARKET

Gary Expects to Spend Fully $150,000 for Its Public Market; Junketers Back From Eastern Trip With New Ideas. , (BV J. ALFRED JOXES.) Qary's public market Is no longer a thing of "lfs" and "buts." It is now a live-wire proposition. Nothing stands in its way and the city proposes to have a market that will be the model for the middle west. Today the special market committee sent east by the Gary Commercial club to get Ideas from other city markets returned $ind Capt. II. S. Norton, presl dent of the club and one of the com mittee, announced that the market idea had assumed a much larger form than originally anticipated. Instead of be ing a $100,000 market Gar will get a $150,000 one and every possible room for expansion will be allowed. Kortoa Is Enthusiastic. So enthusiastic is Capt. Norton over what he saw In the east that he will at once recommend to the Gary Land company of the steel corporation, of which he is the local head, that eight lots asked by the market company op poslte the city hall be granted to them and that the rest of the block in Massa chusetts street to Eighth avenue be re served for market extensions. Capt. Norton also believes that provision should be made for the building of an arcade with a Broadway frontage that will extend back to Massachusetts street. This view is also "shared by Perry H. Stevens and C. H. Maloney, members , of the market corporation. who made the trip east. Private Market Bent. "The privately owned market is far superior to the municipally operated one," stated Mr. Norton. "There is no politics In the private market. "My one regret Is that I wasn't on the ground In Gary when the steel cor(Continued on pact S.) ENTIRE FRONT OF HILOCK REMODELED Fifteen Thousand - to Be Spent by the Kleihege Estate. Contractor M. A. Dickover has been awarded the contract for the remodel ing of the Kleihege block in Hammond. The contract involves an expenditure of $15,000 and will be a great improve ment to Hohman street. It involves the adaption of the base ment to mercantile purposes and will result in changing the entire front of the building. In fact it will make th building look like new. The -plans for the remodeling have been made by Architect J. T. Hutton and call for a thoroughly modern store front. The new basement will be occu pied by the Lion store furniture de partment. Dickover has also been awarded th contract for the construction of an ad ditlon to the Straube piona works. Thi involves new buildings that will cost $4,500, as outlined in Thb Times sev eral weeks ago. CITIZENS GERMAN NATIONAL GIVES SEEDS Novel Coincidence Occurs in Business History of Ham mond Banks. Although the First National ban received the first publicity regardin its public spirited movement to popu larize flower planting by giving awa free flower seeds to the Hammon school children, it develops that , th Citizens German National had con ceived the same idea as an original one and will carry it out as originally planned. The city of Hammond of course will be the beneficiary by the double supply of complimentary seeds. A day or so after the First National Bank's announcment was made, the Citizens bank received the large supply of a variety of seeds they had or-, dered already done up in neat envelopes which carried the message that the seeds were complimentary to the receiver. The supply was ordered last' fall with instructions for delivery this spring. The little packages will go out after Easter. It is an interesting coincidence that the city's two leading banks should hit upon the same happy idea of advertising their institutions in a way to benefit the entire city. In the largest measure, for it is generally conceded that for. the size of the investment, both the banks and the city will get bigger returns than for anything else. ,r-, . ... AttE VOl' A TIMES HEADEffr

EIGHTEEN Ii 1 FAMILY

Oil THE WAY Holland Community South east of Hammond to Be Enhanced by One -Half of the Village of Zuidzand in Holland. To the, prosperous Holland settlemnt near Lansing three miles south west of Hammond half of the popula tion of a city in Queen Wilhelmina's settlement is coming. A. von der Hoef, Mrs. von der Hoef and eighteen little Von der lloefs ar rived in New York yesterday on the steamer Potsdam on their way to Lansing where Father von der Hoef has nvested his savings in a farm. The Von der Hoefs come from Zuid zand, the smallest village in Holland. and since they and their blood relatives left the population of Zuidzand consists of the Voute family, numbering twen ty-seven. Mynherr Voute is burgomaster, chief of police and leader of the Zuidzand brass band, and as soon as he hears how his friend Von der Hoef makes out here he will start with the rest of the village for this country. STREET CAR LINE PLANS BUSY SEASON Green Line Will Spend Lot of Money in Region This . esr Spring. ; Th Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Electric railway has commenced one of the most active. spring seasons In its history. 'Among the things ie is doing are the following: 1. Constructing its part of the extension of Its line from the corner of Forsythe avenue and One Hundred and Fifty-first street to Indiana Harbor, thus paving the way for through service from Hammond to Indiana Harbor. 2. Preparing to completely re-habilitate the Sheffield avenue line in preparation for the improvement of that street. 3. Installing new frogs with manganese steel points at all places where needed. 4. Double-tracking the HammondKast Chicago line. 5. Preparing to build the Hammond-Dolton-Riverdale and Harvey extension. Large quantities of materials are being shipped In and a large number of men are employed. It is expected that the Indiana Harbor branch will be completed within the time specified In the franchise. It is reported that South Hohman street will not be double tracked, as should be done, on account of the refusal of a former city administration to grant the company the right to make the change. GOSTLIN TO BUILD BUSINESS STRUCTURE Calumet Ave. Is Experiencing Not a Little Building Activity. William II. Gostlin, Jr., announces that he will at once commence the construction of a two-story business building at the corner of State street and Calumet avenue. The building will be of the most modern construction and will cost in the neighborhood of $S,500. It will be of brick construction and the same type of .architecture as the East Side Savings & Trust Co. The plans have already been drawn by Architect Mac Turner of Hammond and work on the new building will commence right away. There is a big demand for the new stores on this street. Calumet avenue Is experiencing quite a stir as a result of the building activity that Is announced and Gostlin wants to do his share towards helping the thing along. The people on Calumet avenue are now reaping their reward for their progressiveness in widening the street and seeing to it that it was opened through to the lake. When the actual opening takes place the real boom is expected to come. From that time on all through automobile traffic will be on Calumet avenue and not Hohman street. - '

BISHOP DIVORCE CASE STIRS GOTHAM; LEADING SOCIETY WOMEN MIXED UP IN IT

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Mrs. James C. Bishop. Charging: that her wealthy banker husband has been on too inti"mate terms with Mrs. Temple Gwathmey, wife of a millionaire New York turfman, Mrs. James C. Bishop of New York has started diTorce proceedings against him. Some time ago she was granted $20,000 alimony. Now she wants an absolute divorce, a big yearly allowance for herself and the custody of her five children. Both the women in the case are very prominent in New York society. - - -

G0I1I0US FOR COUNTY

Dr. Robert Ansley at the meeting of the Comercial club of Indiana Harbor and East Chicago last night fathered a plan for the erection of a contagious hospital somewhere In Lake county. He asked for the appointment of a committee to be composed of one doctor and ono lawyer from the Commercial club, and requested that the secretary be Instructed to write to other organizations throughout the county, whose functions are similar to those of the Indiana Harbor organization, asking their co-operation by appointing similar committees to meet with the Indiana Harbor committee for, conference on. this subject. Dr. Ansely"s idea is that the hospital be erected either by the county, or by a number of cities uniting- to raise the necessary money. He submitted that no one town of Lake county is able to (Continued on Pag 8.) Qmp a TOT XT CTnt)V O X XVi.XN LjtXj OiUftl TC! TTXrC A T?TTTT,T"l IO UlNXi.itiniL.U Following the arrest of three East Hammond residents yesterday after- ; noon in Judge Prest's court, the origin , of a mysterious fire which occurred at East Hammond three years ago was ' unearthed, and today Joe Kozar. Mike' Hllorsamkl and Kataryna IJak are be- i ing held on charges of arson. Stanley ; Shiloko will appear as complaining, witness and tells the following story: Some three yrars ago Shiloko was I engaged in working on an invention in a frame building In the rear of 59 cornpay. house. This was his- private workshop ad there Shiloko could be seen working night and day. In some manner which he did not explain Shiloko and Htloramkl quarreled and on the evening of April 2, 1910. the little workshop and the invention were destroyed by fire. A few days ago Kozar and Hllormakl engaged in a quarrel. Determined to betray his friend. Kozar told of how they had set the house on fire in a spirit of revenge. Kataryna Bak. It is said, confessed that she furnished the gasoline The date of trial has not been set, but promises to develop into some sensational facts. Are at Palm Beach. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fitzgerald and their daughter, Laura, are at Palm Beach, Fla., having left for the winter resort last Sunday evening. . They planned to be gone about three weeks. Have comfort in the bathroom with a Gas Hating Stove. No. Ind. Gas & ZUec. Co.

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MURDERESS . '. - 'l (Special to Tss Timks.) ' ningham, Mass., March 20. - Mrs Eaton, widow, of the late Rear Ad miral Eaton, was arrested . today iharged with murdering husband. LOSES FINE CITIZEN Charles A. Taylor, 33 Warren street Hammond, who has been employed the past eight years in the railroad office at Gibson, has tendered his resigna tion to take effect the 1st of April. Several weeks ago Mr. Taylor was offered a responsible position in the Canadian FacTflc railroad office at Winnipeg, Canada, at a splendid salary and accepted. Last Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and daughter left for Winnipeg, where they inspected their future prospects and found everything satisfactory there, barring the weather, the thermometer registering 10 below zero last Sunday. Mr- Tavlor in 1,ave Hammond for j his new location the 1st of April, and ' w111 be accompanied by his sons, Hugh and HarrV( who have taken up a,clalm t of 160 acres apiece near Edmonton, Canada. Mrs. Taylor and daughter will remain In Hammond until July and : will then joint Mr. Taylor in the north. , The loss of Mr. Taylor will be deeply felt among the employes of the Gibson : office, as he was highly respected for ; the courteous treatment he accorded : his help. It is not definitely decided i whether he will dispose of his various properties in Hammond or retain them. SHORT CHANGE ARTIST MAKES GET AWAY Today the police are making a citywide search for a stranger who attempted to short change Herman J. HoUz at his grocery store at 76 State Line street yesterday afternoon. Acj cording to the story told by Mr. Holtz j this morning the stranger, after in- ' quiring if the proprietor was In anJ asking a number of other questions. loft an ATilur fr 1 C A w.-ti, (rrn , . , . .7 . . . . ttnes nu asiieu mat n ue sent it) n Sibley street. Telling the clerk he did not have enough change he said he would pay for the order when It was delivered at the house. He then left the store with the delivery boy and tried to get him to change a $10 bill in a saloon. This the stranger failed to do, and becoming alarmed that he was suspected, he made his get away. Upon delivery the goods at -47 Sibley street it was learned that the stranger did not live there.

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CANADA EH DRAINAGE FIGHT t .......

No sooner is tne Indiana, drainage district created than the Canadian and American power interests oppose the diversion of water from the lake for the. 'purposes of diluting its sewage. Interesting developments and a prolonged court fight are forecasted in the following dispatch from Washington. Washington, D. C, March 19. The Dominion of Canada and the lake navigation interests of that coun try and the United ates are preparing to present determined opposition to the diversion of additional water from Lak Michigan through the - drainage canal. The warfare of these Interests on the Chicago drainage system is to be pushed farther than ever before, according to reports in circulation here. Even the latest plan of the Chicago authori ties, embodied in the creation, of a drainage district in Indiana, Is to be attacked as a violation' of the treaty between the I'nited States and Canada.

STRIKE

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19 Lines in Region Likely to Follor Conference With the Gen. Managers

. A strike ultimatum was expected to be presented to the general managers' association by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen today and a walkout on nineteen railroads entering the Calumet region is expected to follow closely upon the issuance of the ultimatum, unless an agreement Is reached to arbitrate the differences. A joint meeting of the two committees representing each side of the controversy with regard to the demands presented by switchmen and swltchtenders convened at the Great Northern hotel yesterday afternoon, but further than the an CLUB IS GIVEN ASJIfflULAHT Otto Gersbach Is Made President of Hammond University Club. A score of the loyal members of the University club attended the meeting last evening and after resorting to artificial respiration, a heart stimulant and a few restoratives concluded that it would be foolish to allow such a splendid organization to pass out of existence. They accordingly voted to continue the life of the organization and ofofftcers were elected for the ensuing year. The officers and directors are: President Otto Gersbach. Vice president August Schneider. Secretary Ralph Tennant. Treasurer David T. Emery. C. W. Wilson was elected a director for a year. The club voted to make up a deficit of $14 which resulted from the activities of the ladies' auxiliary. The ladies organization will continue and will have charge of the social programs It has been decided to have a stag luncheon once every three months, and It is hoped that these can be made regular old-time affairs. The members present thought that there was every reason for going ahead and none for quitting. The club will now take steps to Instill some life into the old, organization and it is expected that the matter of dues will be straightened out and the club put on a firm foundation. Children Barred After 9. The curfew ordinance which was put into effect, the first part, of this month has so proven a success,' according to Chief Austgen this morning. Very few children under the age of 16 years old can be1 seen on the streets after 9 o'clock, they having come to realize that their! plae Is at home after that hour. . Not an arrest or complaint has been made at the . Hammond central station.

This Indiana district would be drained by the Grand" Calumet' Into the Little Calumet and thence ' through the 'new Sag channel Into the sanitary canal. The water from that source would be sufficient to dilute the Chicago sewage in the main channel without diverting more than the authorised 4,157 second feet from the lake. It now is necessary to divert' 7,000 second feet In violation of the government permit. Oppose Chicago View.' The Canadians and the lake carriers, however, do not acquiesce In this -lew. They contend that the water from the proposed Indiana district now flows into Lake Michigan and rightfully belongs to the St. Lawrence, not the Mississippi, watershed. To divert this water Into the sanitary canal, they say, would result in lowering the level of the lakes quite as much as actual flowage out of Lake Michigan. , Any effort to put this plan Into effect will be opposed by these Interests, according to statements made by their representatives. The opposition is expected to take the form of a protest to the international Joint commission against any greater diversion than 4, 157 second-feet from Lake Michigan.

ii;- - 1 V . nouncement of the result of the strike vote and a promise of a letter later little was done. . Reject Overtime Demand. The letter reached Vice President W. F. 'Whitney of the brotherhood last night It was signed by T. J. Foley, chairman of the managers' committee. It read in part: "If you will withdraw the Item Involving payment of time and one-half for overtime work and holidays, we will then continue negotiations as to remaining rules with a view of effect Ing a settlement by mutual concessions. (Con.'nued on Page 8.) Boys Are Warned. During the past week the police have received a number of complaints regarding young boys maliciously destroying property In various parts of the city and although the boys have been warned, little heed has been paid. This morning the police are investigating and unless the practice is stopped in the future a wholesale number of arrests will be made. The last report came .In from the north side where considerable damage has been done. PRINCESS DISCARDS CHANCE FOR THRONE Princess Ibrahim Hassan Princess Ibrahim Hassan, wife at a cousin of the khedive of Egypt, a California girl by birth, has returned to this country, glad to escape from her Oriental husband. He met her in England, where she was on the stage. He wooed her ardently and persistently, finally won her, and carried her to Egypt where he treated her as a prisoner, after the Eastern fashion. Then he took her to Paris and she made all haste to escape, despite the fact that the prince is close in line of succession to the Egyptian throne, and that she might some -day take thfr. BlacB Llfificatra

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