Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 251, Hammond, Lake County, 4 April 1913 — Page 1

LAKE COUNf EDITION VOL. VH., NO. 251. HAMMOND,. INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers 2 Cents Copy.)

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OPERATIONS Hammond's 1913 Building Season Will Surpass All Previous Records; Projects Already Foot Up to Half Million Dollars. RESUHEOFSTRUGTURES PLANNEDANDUNDERVVAY : There is a half million dollars worth of building operations under way in Hammond this very minute and the outlook for the coming year is so remarkable that it is not at all unlikely that building operations will exceed $1,500,000 before the first of next year. Most In Building Blocks. The most remarkable feature of all this activity is the fact that most of it is in the nature of business blocks and that mare frontage on Calumet avenue will be built up this year than any o-her section of the city. Nin business blocks are to be built 1 on Calumet avenue this year on a frontage of 345 feet aggregating 18 floors, costing a total of $125,000. State street comes forward with three building projects on a frontage of 125 feet, aggregating six floors, a total of $46,000, and one remodeling Job costing 320,000. Hohman street attracts attention with the improvement of 140 feet of frontage, aggregating four floors . costing JLAaXakat $93,000, and two re- i modeling jobi'?osttng $25,000. Building Classification.- -. , Building operations may be classified as follows: Business blocks, $311,000; miscellaneous, $59,500, and residential, $94,000. None of these figures take into consideration the $250,000 worth of building operations that were begun in 1912 and are being finished up in 1913. A number of small jobs have been omitted, no doubt, so that the grand total of the projects under way at this early season approximates $500,000. This is a matter rat will interest every business man in the city. It indicates the widespread prosperity in the land. It Indicates that Hammond is growing at a more rapid rate than most of its citizens believe. The following figures will be of intense Interest to contractor, builder, architect and ordinary citizen: SPRING BUIUDIXG OPERATIONS 1913 Business Blocks. Name. Location & Character. Shj-um Bros., add. to pit, 100x40. Baptists Cong., new church. P. S. Betz Co.. 2 sty. add pit.,. Young's E. R. R. P, 2 sty. add... Fred Carter, add to Ham. Brass. Cost. 6,000 30,000 15,000 5.000 3,500 Totals $59,500 SPRING HOLDING OPERATION'S 1913 Residences Name. Location Jfc Character. Cost. J. K. Stinson, brick and stone.. 12.000 (Continued on page four.) PRESIDENT'S AID IN CHARGE AT DAYTON m it Major Thomas L. Rhoadea. Major Thomas L. Rhoades. President Wilson's aid, has beeii appointed to take charge of the rehabilitation of the stricken city of Dayton, Ohio. "It will take until the middle of April to make even an impression upon the debris which chokes the city.' says Rhoades, "It will be J one 2 before the city is in a comfortably habitable state. It will be ten years r-efore the city fully recovers from

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Mayor H. H. Wheeler of . Crown Point, Buried Yesterday.

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to "i 1 5f j ? aY A m The Late H. H. Wheeler. (Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, Ind., April 4. The funeral of Mayor Harold H. Wheeler held at the late home on Main street yesterday afternoon was one of the largest attended ever seen in this section of the county and professional and laymen from all over the county were present to pay thejr last respects to the first mayor of Crown Point. Mem bers of the Lake County Bar Association, the Elks and Shrine lodges, the Masonic orders and the Foresters Joined In the long procession to the ceme tery, where the remains of one of Lake County's most popular professional men were laid to rest with the Masonic burial rites. The home was banked with many beautiful floral offerings showing the esteem In which Mr. Wheeler was held by his many friends. The active pall bearers were Frank Daily, Claude XV. Allman, Milton R. Hart, Herman H. Lehman, Edward A. Krost and , Maurice McKenzie. The honorary pall bearers composed tho city council and city officials. THE CATS? Fair Gary Librarian Christens Cats After Newspaper Reporters, and Little Pussies Simply Raise Sheol at Night. Miss Mildred Gottlieb of the Gary public library who some time ago nam ed her four kittens after Gary news paper Btars Is beglning to get com plaints from her neighbors that the cats, unlike other well behaved felines in the neighborhood, spend most of ths night In a noisy manner. Nocturnal celebrations of the new paper-named kittens has caused more than one west slder to aim his shoe, hair brush, or water glass out at the nightly conventions on the fences. According to the story told the four cats are a Jolly lot and they do not retire until the early a. m. "These cats were all rtpht until they were named after the newspaper men," said one angry neighbor, "but from that time they became a changed lot. I work hard during the day and I went to sleep sound at night. These cats have the whole neighborhood awake with their antics and even the dogs keep clear of them." Fl Market Master F. J. O Rourke hopes to open Hammonds public market about the latter part of May. By that time he figures farmers who will patronize the market will have raised enough garden truck to warrant their coming into the market - with it. In conversation with a number of the farmers in North township he has learned that many of them have already made plans to plant for the market. The date for the Highland farmers' mass meeting with the Hammond city officials on the market question is to b fixed tonight or some time tomorrow, s

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BIG MORTGAGE PUTON RECORD Million and Half Mortgage Filed With Recorder. (Special to Thh Times.) Crown Point, Ind., April 4. The Consumers' company, successor to the City Fuel company and the Knickerbocker Ice company, has placed on record a $1,500,000 mortgage on its Lake county properties. It is in favor of the Central Trust company of Chicago. Lakes and ice storage houses, yards and 'other properties at Cedar Lake, Hammond. East Chicago and the Wolf Lake territory are given as security.

REGION HAS A TASTEJ)F SUMMER Warm Winds Brings Mercury to 70 Mark. The Calumet region had Its first taste of real summer weather yester day, when the mercury reached the 70 degree mark. The third successive day of warm winds from the South brought the heat to the uncomfortable stage. "We have had three days of warm winds and this weather is to be ex pected," said Professor Henry J. Cox head of the Chicago weather bureau. "It will not last long, however. It will be somewhat colder tomorrow." The official forecast for Chicago and vicinity, issued last night, is for colder weather and showers today. Saturday Is likely to be fair. Rain is promised for Indiana generally, followed by clearing and colder weather. WHITE SLAVE STORY IS HOAX Report That Girls Were De coyed Is Denied. A report that twenty Danish Immigrant girls destined to Chicago had been lured from a train at Newcastle, Pa., by "white slavers" found no basis of fact yesterday. Immigrant officials said no girls had been reported missing and officials of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, over which the women were supposed to have traveled, said they had no Idea of how the story got started. An Associated Press dispatch from I Newcastle last night said no immigrant girls had left any train at that place. MANUAL SCHOOL UNDECIDED Board Has Not Made Up Its Mind About the Plans. There has been nothing definite done regarding the construction of a manual training school building In Hammond. There is some question in the minds of the members of the board as to whether they will use the plans that have been drawn by Architect J. T. Hutton or whether an entirely new set of plans will be made. It Is understood -that the plans which have been drawn would be ac ceptable, but that the specifications would have to be revised to meet the Ideas of the members of the board. The matter will be decided at one of the future meetings of the board. Before the work can be commenced the building will have t be financed, but every effort will be made to get the thing started this year. MISS SNIP WEDS AT CROWN POINT Rensselaer, Ind., April 4. Miss Lena Snip, daughter of Trustee Tunis Snip, of Keener township, and Louie Plut sema were married at Crown Point. They had expected to come here to be married last Friday but were unable to do so on account of the fact that there were no trains for several days. STRIKE WILL UPSET PAINTING INDUSTRY Chicago's painting industry is likely to be demoralized by the strike of union painters and decorators, according to sentiment expressed at a meetlne of nearly 200 nalntine- contractors I at lit South Clark street. It was said that the union painters on strike were signing the union agreement and taking contracts in all parts of the' city. Each member of the Decorators and Painters' club in order to keep him in the fight against th& strikers is required to give a bond of $1,000. NURSERY HOLDING RECEPTION The Indiana Harbor day nursery is j holding an informal reception and I ehower this afternoon. The curtains are up and some of the furniture installed, to say nothing of two cunning babies and their matron, and the place is as cozy as can be. . Mrs. Charles F. Egbert, as president of the day nursery auxiliary. j Mrs. A. G. Lundquist, the chairman Of the board of directors, and Mrs. Fred Stephens are receiving informally and Mrs. C. C. Robinson and Miss May Galvin are pouring. A large fern is the only attempt at ornamentation, the women who are working in the interests of the nursery feeling that the organization could ill afford to spare money out of the fund raised for its support for unnecessary "trimmings." A large number of gifts were taken for the shower feature of the event. Heat, when and where you want . Get a Gas Heating Stove. No. Ind. Ok. & Elec. Co.

Virginia Brooks Weds ' Young Reformer Quits West Hammond For Good And City Refuses To Mourn

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Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Washburne.

Cupid has conquered West Ham mond's "Joan of Arc" and a newspaper man has a life assignment. s.,-' Virginia Brooks, suffragist and mili tant reformer, and Charles 8. Washburne, manager fv th , photography bureau of Chicago paper, "were iwarrled yesterday as stated in last night's Times. The news caused little -stir across the line. West Hammond seemed rather glad of It. City Clerk I. Mankowskl said, "So she's married eh? Well I'm glad of it. We can get along nicely without her. Formr City Clerk Martin Finneran said, "I feel sorry for the man she married." Other even more sarcastic comment was heard. Miss Brooks announced two months ago that she would not marry the best. the worst, or any other sort of man. She was wedded, she said, to her work. Washburne, then a reporter, assign ed himself to prove the fallacy of that assertion. The marriage ceremony was a simple one, performed by Rev. A. Eugene Bartlett of the Universalis! Church of the Redeemer, at the home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Wash burne, 848 West Barry avenue. The marriage was all arranged with newspaper speed. At 10 o'clock the night before neither bride nor groom-to-be contemplated an immediate wedding. At 10:30 o'clock a telegram came from Mrs. Flora Brooks, ill at the home of friends near Cleveland, Ohio, saying she could not return soon to her daughter in Chicago. Less than twelve hours later Mr. Washburne and Miss Brooks, married, started for the Ohio city. Only a few friends were present. Mr. and Mrs. Washburne, their daughter. MAY SOON GO TO THE CAPITAL TO LIVE Mrs. Dudley Field Malone. Mrs. Dudley Field Malone, the eldest daughter of Senator and Mrs. O'Gorman of New York and wife of Dudley Field Malone, is one of the new president's closest friends. The Malones live in New York, but will go to "Washington to live if Mr. Malone accepts' one of. the numerous jobs that have, bee noffered him.

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L. Parker, a newspaper friend, waited out front" with his automobile. The. girl who had driven the divekeepers out of West Hammond disown ed her nickname, Joan br'Are? rThat j was, immediately after the service, and she emphasized one little fact, that she is Mrs. Washburne and she will not permit him ever to "be known as "the husband of Virginia Brooks." "I am going to be known as Mrs. Charles S. Washburne." she said. "I didn't choose a reformer's life because I loved It. - I am glad to say I will escape growing old as an unmarried reformer. "We. have decided to give up West Hammond for good. The fight Is over (Continued on page 12.) BRITAIN IS IN TERRojnjF wore Suffragettes Say They Will Take Human Life in Revenge of Leader. (BUIXETIX.) London, England, April 4. Tiro girl" suspected of being militant suffragettes boat to commit an outrage were arj rented before dawn tfcia morning. They ! carried bags containing paraffin, paper 'saturated with oil, candles and matchca. In each of the baft was a paper bearMrs. PiBkhnrat." The girls when brought up at the police court grave their namra as Phyllis Brady and Mllltcent Dean. They explained to the policeman who arrested them that they were returning; from their Easter holi days. I London, April 4. All England is In terror at the threats of vengeance made by the militant -suffragettes following the sentence, of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst to serve thre years in penal servitude. . A militant leader said today: "We will no longer respect human life. "What we will do now will more than stagger humanity." . Annie Kenny said: "Let us do a deed of violence within forty-eight hours in revenge upon the man-made government." Other suffragette leaders declared the torch would be applied to occupied residences and public buildings. Following this threat warnings were sent out by Scotland Yard to owners and tenants of property and the police were ordered to take unusual precautions. Outbreaks of violence already have been reported. In Plymouth telephone and telegraph wires were cut. Thirteen paintings in Manchster gallery were mutilated. One of these, "The Prayer," by Watts, is regarded as one of England's most precious art treasures. Enthusiastic meetings are planned for today In many leading cities. The police have been warned to be on their guard for renewed outbreaks of violence. OfFICIALI (7XIOW SCOUT SCRAP with the anion label stands for superiority. All dealers handllnK It. Save you tickets

H1UD STORES ill METROPOLITAN

Hammond put on more metropolitan airs today when all of its leading merchants entered Into a mutual agreement to close their places of business at 6 o'clock on Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays, and- to keep open until 9 o'clock on Friday and 10 o'clock Saturday nights. The effect of the action will be that employers as well as employe, in all concerns, excepting in three, where the two-night policy has been In effect for some time already. will be given an additional night or two off from business; (1) that there will be uniformity among all the business houses for open nights; (2) that the economy resulting from such a policy will redound directly and indirectly both to the business men and their patrons. Movement Has Grown. The growth of the 6 o'clock closing movement has been a gradual one. It was not so long ago when all the business houses kept their places open every night in the week, some of the merchants even staying behind their ONLY TWO OFFICES III STATE BEAT HAMr.lQND Postal Receipts in City for Past Fiscal Year Nearly $200,000. Postmaster F. Richard Schaaf of Hammond gets a boost In salary of $100 as a result of the tremendous increase in the busines of the Hammond postoffice. Despite the fact that Rpbertsdale, in the northern part of Hammond, Is now served by the Whltln postofflce (Uncle Same does not recognise city boundries) the revenues of the Hammond office for the year ending March 31, 191S were $179,920.87. It Is the figures for the year ending in ' March that the salaries are based upon. : There .are. jttow only three post masters fn the state of Indian who re ceive more than Postmaster Schaaf who gets $3,500. These are the postmaster at Evansville, who gets $3,600 a year and the postmaster . at Fort Wayne, who gets $3,700 a year and the postmaster at In dianapolis. The revenues for the month of March 1913 were $16,391.64. The revenues for the same month last year were $10, 537.92. The revenues for the nine months of the present fiscal year are $147,156.37. For the twelve months of the last fiscal year they were only $134,716.59. FRIENDLESS STRANGER STUMBLESm HOSPITAL And Dies There Within an Hour After From Complication of Diseases. Feeling the cold hand of death clutching at his throat, friendless and penniless, a stranger In Hammond whose name is believed to be Mike Eurlck, stumbled into St. Margaret's hospital and died an hour later. His death, according to the findings of Drs. XV. F. -Howat and Hoffman, who made a post-mortem examination, was caus ed by a complication of diseases. He suffered from dropsy and heart trou ble. He is a man about 60 years old On his person were found several memoranda from the Chicago, XV 11 mington, Virmillion Coal company made out at Streator, 111., and bearing the name of Mike Eruick. To all ap pearances he was a laboring man and not addicted to drink. The body Is being held at Emmerling's morgue pending an order for final disposition from deputy coroner E. M. Shanklln, who conducted the inquest. Unless his Identity can be established, the unfortunate man will be buried in the potter's field. ELEANOR WILSON SEES PRIZE FIGHT ON BATTLE SHIP "Washington, April 6. Miss Eleanor Wilson, daughter of the president, returned from H,apton Roads, Va., where she was a spectator of the Atlantic fleet battle practice. She had a front seat a brisk three-round boxing match on the deck of the big dreadnought Wyoming. Tom Hirschfleld and Walter Jones, the prize boxers of the Wyoming, were tho principals. Miss Wilson said she enjoyed' the bout very much. GETTING THERE! It Is only a matter of time when IXION SCOl'T chewing tobacco will lead all others. One trial will convince you. Its salea today Indicate Ita merls. Adv. ARE YOU A TIMES READER

ALI MERCHANTS AGREE. In accordance with a mutual agreement entered into today all Hammond merchants, beginning tonight, will keep their places of business open after 6 o'clock on Friday and Saturdays only. For the sake of uniformity the E. C. Minas Co., pioneers in the twonight closing movement; the Minas 5 and 10-cent store and the Woolworth 5 and 10-cent store, who adopted the same policy later, will discontinue, their Monday night business hours, and instead keep open on Friday nights, and continue their Saturday night openings as In the past.

counters on Sundays. The first step was to close the stores on Wednesdays and Thursdays, but there was dissatisfaction and discontent, and rightly so, (Continued on Page 10.) Disregarding the entreaties of a heart-broken mother who pleaded with him In a letter to return to his Pueblo, Colo., home, "William J. ' O'Connor,- 20 years old, listened to his equally reckless companion, Harry; Mackert; they robbed a Hammond - hpuse last Tuesday, and this morning after some work by- the- Hammond -police depart ment, pleaded guilty and are . now, on their way to serve a prison sentence at . Jeff ersonvllle. , . . They were arraigned 1 before Judge Becker this morning ontthe charge of petit larceny and after, pleading guilt yeach one was sentenced from one talght years to the peaJtentlaryjLast,; Tuesday afternoon they 'entered tho borne of ; Louis Verkruylen,' ; 658 ScratS Hohman street, and took eight dollars and a sweater. They, had roomed there for two weeks, but gave up their rooms on last Monday. They were picked up In Gary yesterday afternoon by plain clothes men Einsele and Bunde of the Hammond police depart ment. Chief Austgen having received a tip about "their location In Gary. They had worked In the Simplex plant last week and quit there last Monday of thel rown accord. 25 ARE DISSATISFIED. The last payroll at the Standard Steel Car company was In the neighborhood of $85,000. and the: management has been looking forward to the time when the bi-monthly payroll would be $100,000. However, there is some disaffection among the pieceworkers. About 25 .of them are out on a strike at the present time. Their places are being taken by others, however, and it is expected -that the - force of men at the plant will number 2,500 shortly. WILSON WANTS HIM FOR LABOR POSITION NAfcJuV Charles P. Nelll. The name of Charles P. Neill will be presented to Congress ;n the ex tra session by President Wilson for re-appointment to . the position of Unfted States Commissioner of Labor. This is in spite of the opposition of Senators Overman and Tillman, who prevented Neill's reappointment when the president sent his name to the upper house early in the month. Neill is one of the highest authorities in the world on labor problems and frequently is called in to act on arbitration boards handling labor troubles. He did remarkably efficient work as Commissioner of Labor under the Taft administration.

N10THERS WARNING UNHEEDED

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