Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 262, Hammond, Lake County, 17 April 1913 — Page 1

LAKE WKATHKK. FAIR TODAY AND FRIDAY: WARMER TODAY. EYEMMG EDITION ONE CENT PER COPT. (Back Number 1 Cents Copy.) VOL. VII., NO. 262. HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1913.

THE

COUNTY

TAKES THE

E THE JURY Damage Suit Brought in U. S. Federal Court in Ham mond Collapses When the Mother Admits Careless ness in Calling Child. Judge A. B. Anderson took from the Jury the case of Harry Slavenskl vs. Irving Jackson of South Bend who was being sued for $10,000 damages on account of the death of the plaintiff's live year old child. The reason for the court's action was the collapse of the plaintiffs case when contributory negligence was a 3 mltted by Mrs. Slavenskl when she testified that she had called the child to cross the street in the middle of the block without taking any care to safeguard its transit through the traffic. A nurse, who was counted as the best witness for the plaintiff testified that she sat on the porch of a house across the street and saw the automobile strike the child as it darted from in back of a wagon. She admitted that the automobile was not going at a high rate of speed. It seems also that Just as the child was about to be struck by the automobile a neighbor gave a piercing cream which caused the driver, of the car to look around instead of confining his attention to the driving of the car. Thus it was the negligence of the mother in calling the five year old child to cross the street alone, the woman's scream of warning which did not warn and the distracted attention of the chauffeur which caused the death of the child. There being no - case the court instructed the Jury to return a verdit for the defendant. The plaintiff was represented by LeGrand T. Meyer and a Chicago lawyer and the defendant by Peter Crumpacker of Hammond and Roming and liller orLaPp,j;e..u. . . Clean Up!. Clean Up! I . . Street Commissioner John F. Kuhlman, who is in the midst of an' alley cleaning campaign, says that he has had splendid co-operation from many people. The work, however, is only half completed and his wagons will have to go through all the alleys again because some householders are Just awaking to the fact that the spring cleaning Is on. They are beginning to throw rubbish In the alleys now that they have been cleaned up. In addl tion to eight city , vehicles the street commissioner has five private teams In employ in helping in the carting of the rubbish. The private teams will b laid off next week and the balance of the work will be finished with the city wagons. Shoot on Sunday. In order that it may get an early start and tq?ke advantage of the good weather, the Hammond Gun club will open up its season at Sharpshooters' park next Sunday afternoon. Last year the club had a very successful season and this year prospects are brighter than ever, as they expect to increase, their membership. The first shoot will commence at 1:30 o'clock and all the members are earnestly requested to be present. STICKS TO HIS OLD ... BLACK SLOUCH HAT WW Charlss Forrest Carry. Charles Forrest Carry, the new representative from the Third district of California, went to the state eapitoi in Sacramento in 1S86, professing: Republicanism and wearinjr a lonjr black frock coat and a huge black sombrero. He still sticks onswervinrly to all three attributes. He is Known in his state as a sort of perpetual candidate for frovernor.He was elected to the new confrress by the largest majority of any cenSOTMsmaa fxmm. his -data.

CAS

1

: ' :?'..

BILLY SUNDAY SICK. Evangelist Suffers Nervous Breakdown. South Bend. Ind., April 17. As a result of nervous breakdown following his strenuous campaign In WllkesBarre, Pa., the Rev. Billy Sunday, the baseball evangelist. Is confined to his home at Winona Lake, and will not be able to open his campaign In South Bend on schedule time. The date for the opening of the series of meetings has been changed to April 27, and the executive committee is of the opinion the opening may be delayed even longer. Mr. Sunday is not in a serious condition, although members of his family are inclined to view his 'illness with concern. It is understood the evangelist was anxious to begin his work' in South Bend next Sunday, as he had arranged, but his attendants refused to listen to any such plan.

AUSTRIAN HEIR CRITICALLY ILL Archduke Ferdinand Victim of Tuberculosis. Vienna, April 17. It is reported from Trieste that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne, is seriously ill. having agsnn been attacked by tuberculosis, from which he suffered twenty years ao. The archduke, who "jpnt the last three winters in Switzerland and the spring on the Adriatic cosst, is now stopping at Miramar. near Trieste. His condition is said to be critical. 750 MASONS AT BANQUET Eighty-Seven Candidates Receive Degrees. Fort Wayne, Ind., April 17. Eightyseven candidates today received the Scottish Rite degree from the fifteenth to twenty-second, inclusive, at the' second day's session of the annual spring Masonic convocation here. About a hundred candidates will receive the final degrees up to and including the thirty-second tomorrow. Last night 750 Masons participated in the annual convocation banquet held in the Scottish Rite cathedral, at which J. B. Harper presided and at which addresses were made by William Geake and a number of other prominent Masons from all parts of the state. , There Is a notable number of visitors present at this convoeatlou and it Is believed that the number will be augmented tomorrow when the higher degrees are administered. " . ' " HUNGER STRIKE IN SENATE CAFE Democrats Object to Paying Dime for Cut of Pie. Washington. April 17. Small cuts of pie at 10 cents; tiny mounds of rice pudding at 15 cents; 25 cents a bowl for soup, and a Jump to 50 cents for a portion of cold meat has started a hunger strike in the senate restaurant. Democratic senators who for long years have been compelled to pay prices that looked reasonable to republican members of the millionaires' club In charge of the restaurant have begun, an inquiry to see Just how fat the profits of the management are and cut prices down to a more popular figure. A NEW SUBDIVISION. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, IncL, April 17. A brand new up-to-date suDdivision or nigh class residential lots will be put on the market by Ben F. Hayes of this place, 'who; In a' deal' closed yesterday, became the owner of the. 17-acre tract of Istnd on East Joliet street formerly an athletic park and owned by the Pettibone estate. Mr. Hayes will put the property on the market and subdivide it right away. SHOCKING FATALITY OCCURUT LOWELL Ernest Burdett Falls From Second Story Window and Strikes Skull. (Special to The Times.) Lowell, Ind., April 17. Ernest Burdette, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kerns, living on East Commercial avenue, fel from a second story window , at 5 o'clock Tuesday evening and alighting on his head ou the cement walk and crushed his skull. He lived until 12:30 o'clock yesterday morning when he died, never regaining consciousness. The mother was In another room and knew nothing of the fatal accident' to her little son un til a neighbor who witnessed it ran over and told her. It was a severe shock to the parents of . the little fellow. Funeral services were held at the home today at 2 o'clock." Interment In the Lowell cemetery. ' Is your house cold when yon reach home? Get a- Gas Heating Stove. No ind. Gas & Slec. Co.

STORE WILL " G0 0UT0F

The White store, "which enjoyed the reputation of being Hammond's Btore de luxe, is going out of business. Ar rangements have been made for a closing out of business. Arrangements have been made for a closing out sale to begin next Tuesday and to last un til May 10th, By that time the man agement hopes to have disposed of a stock which, it says is worth $50,006. The sale probably will be one of the bargain sensations of the spring sea son, as all the stock Is new and of the same value for which the store had a reputation. Cost prices will prevail and in some instances the management says it will reduce the price below the cost to insure quick results. While the store is primarily a ladies' shopping center, it also carries a line' of men's underwear, hose and shoes. What future disposition will be made of the store building, has not yto been determined. The White store people still have a two and a half year lease on it. The location Is one of the most desirable ones in Hammond, and it has been suggested that it . would lend it self for a G and 10-cent store or a large. grocery and meat market. Hammond Manuf acturersTat , Their. Meeting Last Night Take First Steps to Make Big Sum Available for Building of Homes. Subscriptions that neared the $100,000 mark were made by Hammond manufacturers at a meeting- in the Hammond Chamber of Commerce rooms last evening, and the first steps were taken to make available5 $1,000,000 for building purposes for the workingmen of Hammond. It is understood that when the full $100,000 is raised it will be used as a sort of a guarantee, together with the credit of the manufacturing concerns, for a loan of $1,000,000 which will assure every responsible worklngman In Hammond of a home of his own. This fund is to be used to construct 1,000 homes to cost, for lot and building, not to exceed $1,009 each. This Is regarded as the greatest philanthropic enterprise that has ever engaged the attention xf the business men of Ham mond. Makes Labor Market. At the same time It assures them of a large and dependable labor market and will eliminate the floater, the fly(Continued on page six.) FRANCHISE' IS PASSEoi mm Gary & I. Gets Another Leg to Use in Getting En trance Into Chicago. , . (Special to Thb Time.) Whiting, Ind., April 17. The passage of the Gary & Interurban franchise by the Whiting city council last night, gives that corporation another leg on which to get into Chicago, its ultimate terminal. Tre Green Line company's franchise asking for a renewal and an extension to the Indiana Harbor limits was advancel to the second reading. According to the Gary & Interurban franchise, it must -have Its line complete in Whiting twelve months after the completion of the bridge over the canal. The life of the franchise Is for a term of 34 years, instead of 44 years asked or by the company. A 6-cent fare is provided In North township and a 10-cent fare to Gary. The line enters Whiting on Standard avenue 'and continues east to Front street, then north on Front street to 119th street, west -on 119th street to the corner of Schrage avenue and 119th street. SHE nu'l object to YOtTlt amoklag 1. HER parlor IF YOU ISE FOREX SMOKING TOBACCO McHle-Scottea Tobacco Co.

$100,000 1 ARK IS REACHED

AMERICAN1 GIRLS HAVE THRILLING TIMES IN MEXICO ; SHELLS SCREAM, THEY LAUGH

i Sv; V ?h i Vv , : it -

tZl Leslie Strickland (left) JJos Angeles. Aprp lj. When the history of the recent Mtytican revolu-1 tion is written up l"will he found that two pretty Texas sirls Miss Patricia Bates and Miss. 'lslle :" Strickland have got th.lr names into the story by reason of thur-herelc service as Red Cross nurses, when &e trouble In Mexico City was at Its frorst The Misses Bates and Strickland had all sorts of thrilling experiences, giving aid to the woutjded under Ore on Feb. 7 'Bloody; Suiday' It . Is now called In Mexico-rjinnlng the gauntlet of a rain of sho and shrapnel in a taxlcab, Jtvlns; .In4 a house that was struck and badly Shattered by' a Shell, and keeping;,-: jr tslstwork jnercy' all the timers. , " ' . - The relatives of Miss Strickland In "Los Angeles saw her name In the list SHOWS SOME VITALITY Bullet-Ridden Outlaw Said to Be Gaining Steadily Each Day. Hugh Burns the central figure in the

BURHS

Schneider shooting on Monday night of the Carnegte Hero and Tension Comwho is in St. Margaret's hospital In mlssion hag been received bv Mrs. Hammond suffering from a number of Loul3 Bul.khaiter, 457 Indiana avenue! bHHet wounds is showing .remarkable ,n commemoration of her husband's

vnanvj. .. J" !m.eu m crisis and is therefore in great danger of either pneumonia or blood poisoning. Ir. the meantime nowever ne seemingly has a fair chance to recover. His wife whom he tried to kill, and Frank Parson a Schneider resident who vas hit by one of Burns' bullets are both getting along alright as their wounds were not fatal. SCIENTIST FORESEES WHITE PLAGUE'S END f: MlF3 V Mi Professor Metchnikoff. Lecturing recently in Paris, Professor Metchnikoff. the famous scientist, declared that tuberculosis was decreasing, and had been doing so steadily for the last forty years. This, satisfactory state of affairs, the professor said, was particularly noticeable in London, Boston. Copenhagen and Hamburg. Tuberculosis will probably disappear, the professor declared, in the same way as leprosy, which has long ceased to be rontaxioaa.

S v ""v 1

and Miss Patricia Bates. of Americans dead in the first dls patches sent from Mexico City, but were overjoyed a few days later to re ceive a wireless message from her tell ing them she was safe. The young women have just arrived in this city, They expect to return to Mexico soon. Miss Bates has not heard troni her father, who is the' owner of a large ranch in the republic, for two months, and is anxious to learn of his safety. She is one-fourth Castilian herself. "Don't forget that my great-grandmother was the queen of Spain," she said. suss Bates nursed one war corre spondent. Leslie Sutherland of the New York Sun back to health. He had been shot in tb leg. United States Minister Wilson assisted them to get to the coast in safety. CARNEGIE MEDAL GOES TO W10ND Mrs. Louis Burkhalter Gets Bronze in Commemoration of Husband.s Deed. A beautiful bronze medal the award heroic death which occurred last summ(?r when he and Walter Webster tHed to 8ave MrB. Paui Mastellar and Miss Veda Hemstock from drowning In the. Kankakee river. All four drowned. While the popular verdict has at all times given just as much credit to Walter Webster for an heroic death the commission has not yet seen fit to comfort his widowed mother either with a hero medal or a pension. Mrs. Burkhalter as well as her two little children are on the commission's pen- ! sion list and the friends of the family ;are glad to heir that the commission has seen fit to, further honor her husband. The medal is three inches in diameter an dis Inscribed on both sides. A quotation from XV 13 "Greater Love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for, his friends." appears on one side. This is the standing quotation ' for all Carnegie, hero medals. It was also the text used-by the Rev. F. H. Adams on the occasion of the funeral sermon In Hammond. 'The United States seal and the Illinois state seal are on the same side. An embossed picture of Carnegie, and an , Inscription of award appear on the reverse side. Death of Babe. ! Earl I Kerley, the 15-months-old I son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Kerley, 1147 1 Harrison street, Hammond, died yes- ' terday morning at 10 o'clock following ! a short illness. Death was due to j pneumonia. This evening the remains I will be placed on the 9:45 Monon train j for Lenoir City, Tenn., where funeral I services and Interment will be made tomorrow. Boys Were Shooting. Residents residing on West State street near state line were startled by a number of shots about midnight yesterday. It also called the attention of Officer Kunt, who investigated the shooting and found that it was the prank of a number of boys who did the. shooting and made their getaway. No arrests were made. PLAY GOLF? . Tea trill eajoy the rime snore If yen take a supply of COl'STRY CLUB long cut tobacco ea the llaks with yea. Try lt McHleSeottea Tobacco Ca,

;

!

HAK101 SCHOOL

BOARD

Will Sell Central School Property as Soon as Possible to Prepare for II. T. H. S. Building

The first definite step that has

Tiding Hammond with a manual training school was the action of the

board of education Tuesday evening tal school property. The property is to be advertised

is disposed of the work on the new manual training school building will

be commenced. The matter of accepting the itutnra plans or ox having

new plans made is a detail that will

REMOVAL OF SCHOOL HAS BEBJi ABASDOSED. - Positively nothing stands in the way of the building of the new

school now. Even the suit that has cover the amount alleged to be due ered dismissed. The school board has all of. the way through and the long from the determination of the citizens and above board is to be followed by in placing Hammond on a plane, with

ALL SUITS ARE ORDERED DISMISSED HOW. The school board has practically abandoned the idea of moving the

Central school building to the Fayette street site. This 1b declared to be impractical and the board Is unanimous- that the heart of the city Is

no place for a school building any way. So the advertisement which will ap pear In the papers In a week or so will state that the board will reclve bids for the sale of the central school property and that three proposals will be received. These are as follows: FOrm. PLANS FOR SAXiEJ. 1. The board will sell the property. Hi feet on Fayette street by 225 feet Ort Hohman street, together with the building. The appraised value being $175,000. 2. The board will sell the property, 193 feet on Fayette street by 225 feet on Hohman street, without the building. The appraised value being 1155,000. S. The board will sell the property. M.fet w;jryettetreet jand. JW. pv Hohman street, without the: nuiiamg. The appraised value being $144,000. 4. The board will sell the building for $20,000. The appraisal was made by Peter TV. Meyn. J. S. Blackmun and S. Emerlne yesterday afternoon. Theproperty will be advertised to be sold' for the appraised value or more. Thus Thb Times report that the pro Ject would no longer he tied up by litigation has proven correct and . be fore fall the work on the new building that is so badly needed will probably go forward. BIG BVILDIXGS FOLLOW. The sale of the high school property will mean the immediate -utilization of the entire 225 feet of frontage for business purposes for the reason that no purchaser would dare to tie up no much money without planning !m provements that would pay the carry it IS KILLED Another shocking accident swelled the list of fatalities at the Standard Steel Car works when George Schuster. employed as a night watchman, was in stantly killed by a crane load of steel which fell upon htm. ErTorts to revive the victim were without avail and the remains were removed to Stewart's morgue, where an inquest will be held today. The accident occurred about 8 o'clock as Schuster was making his rounds aboti the plant. He was walking be neath a crane -and It ls said that he failed to hear the warning given by the craneman above him. The crane man released the lever which dropped the heavy load of steel below. Schuster was standing directly beneath the crane and the heavy load struck him full on the neck, causinr Instant death. The blame has not been fixed. Schuster was 45 years old and was wn Unown amone the employes o the car plant,, where he has been em ploved as a watchman for ' nearly i year. He owns a small farm on the Ridge road, southj of Hammond, where he is survived bp a widow and five Funeral arrangements are beine made for Friday afternoon and inturmrnt. will be made at Oak Hill cemetery. Boy Is Found. Word was Received from Mrs. Lucas. 839 East 63rd street. Chicago, who called at the Hammond police station last week In an effort to locate her son, who mysteriously disappeared from home, to the effect that her son had been found by a police officer in Chicago and was back home again. ; In her letter she highly complimented the Hammond department and said: "I want to thank you for your kindness, as I was treated so kindly when I was at four station. I think your chief there is a good, kind man, so dlfferent from some of the men in the stations here." ABB YOU A TIMES RBatDBRt

"Aicn

TAKING

DECISIVE SIEPS been taken in the direction of proin authorizing the sale of the cen . for sale atTmce and as soon as it be taken up later on. been started by J. T. Hutton to re him for the old plans has been ord decided on a progressive program months of inactivity that resulted to see that everything was open months of activity that will result the other cities of the region. lng charges. This means that this project alona will stimulate building ' operations to the etzent of $150,000 In business blocks to say nothing of the $260,000 that the msnual tralnlnar school will cost. Not In- years has Hammond faced such a building boom as will be caused by this movement. It will be noticed that the board Is receiving bids for the. whole property and not for any fraction of it. This precludes , the purchase of the property by any single Hammond person. A Hammond syndicate might buy tha-property but It would have to raise $800,000 to do It; $144,000 for the property to the 140 foot depth and the rest, for the -building. Xuaf'tW6atory'building were to. be erected ' over a frontage so great It would ' look like the RImbach, building . and ; would be anything but a credit to the street. Not leas than a three story building should be erected on the property. MUST FORM SYNDICATE. It Is possible that some Hammond real estate firm may bid on the property as a speculation figuring that it could sell out the frontage in 25 and 50 foot parcels for a handsome profit. In fact it is generally conceded that much more would be realized from the property were It to be sold out In smaller parcels so that the smaller investor could take a chance on it. Those who could bid on a property that would involve $300,000 are few. But the property Is to sold at once and a fund, for the building of the new manual training school will be realized. This will be added to that which has been raised by special levy so that together with a bond issue enough money will be raised for the project and the purchase of a school house and play ground site on the north side. The hand of the board has been forc ed by the pressure of public sentiment which demands that something be done at once to Increase the school facilities of the city. Crowding in certain schools is intolerable and many complaints have been made to the board on that account. PRIZE YOUTHS SOON TO TOUR THE WORLD Wallace G. Crismore. Wallace G. Crismore, Chicago boy, eighteen years old, is one of the fifty boys who are to leave Boston May 7 on a nine months' tour of the world. All have been ad ind zed worthy of this extreme recognition by the national youth achievement committer as baring done something In their various walks of life that is really worth while. The committee aims at the dignifying of labor.

' . . ; s - -, I ' 1 1 'Mm I