Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 265, Hammond, Lake County, 21 April 1913 — Page 1

E GOTO WEATHER, Fair today, probably followed by showers at night or Tuesday. EDITION ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Number 1 Cents Copy.) VOL. VII., NO. 265. HAMMOND, INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1913.

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(Special to This Times.) Whiting, Ind.. April 21. The Petrolene company, one of Whiting's most uecessful manufacturing concerns, whose factory, offices and warehouses are on Schrage avenue, has again reached the point where the plant 1s to be greatly Increased In size. In fact It Is to be more than doubled. It has Just been discerned that 300 more feet of- ground has been purchased on Schrage avenue and the C. T. T. tracks, adjoining the present plnnt On this land another largo factory Is to be erected, the building to be of brick, two stories high and 180 feet long. The new factory Is being erected for the purpose of the manufacture of oil cloth. The company started out In the manufacture of roofing paint. Later the manufacture of an imitation parqjette floor covering was taken up with great success, and now the company will also devote their energies to the manufacture of oil cloths. The product will be made complete at the Whiting plant, from the wearing of the burlap to the oil cloth ready to be laid on the floor. An enormous amount of machinery has been ordered for the work, one machine alone costing $18,000. This (Continued on Page 7.) NEW BANK The International Trust and Savings bank has been organized In Gary with a capital stock of $50,000 and a aur plus of $10,000. Organizers Include E. M. Albright of Beardatown. 111., G. J. Bader of Whit lng. C. t. Davidson of the Smith, .Bader, -Davidson .company and other local business 'men. Business will be started in 80. days In the Servian build lng, Eighth avenue and Broadway. - This will give Gary eight banks. counting the new one to be started at Sevententh and Broadway. Mr. Al bright will be president and C. D, Davidson, vice president and cashier COME OUT AND AIR . YOUR VIEWS. In order to provide further discussion of the Hammond deep sewer project, two meetings are called, one for tonight adn . one for tomorrow night. The meeting tonight is for north side property owners who are opposed to the project. Their meeting will be held att he Pine Street Presbyterian church. The board of public works has called a meeting of all Interested property for tomorrow night in the city hall. The board will endeavor to answer all ques tions relative to cost, the approximate time neopssary. the manner of pro reduro in spreiding the assessments tc. Both meetings are called for 7:30 o'clock. WOMAN ELECTED HEAD OF D. A. R. j: ;, - Mrs. William Cumming Story was elected president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the national convention in, "Washington.

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G. and I. " Gets Gary-Hobart ' Franchise. The Gary board of public works this morning granted a franchise to the Gary and Interurban railroad avenue In Forty-fifth avenue from Broadway rast to the city limits. It Is understood that the Hobart town board will give a franchise In that city. It is the Intention of the company to build Its Gary-Hobart extension at once. The Gary franchise calls for construction within one year. It is possible that the G. and I. may use one mile of the eastern end of the Gary, Ho-, Dart and Southern Traction line. '

PLANS FOR PLANT ARE UNDER WAY

Beports from the John-ManviUe company offices in Chicago are that plans for the big asbestos plant to the southwest of Hammond are well under way. Over a thousand feet of track is now laid into the land re cently purchased and the first contract will be awarded in a few days. The news will be grateful to the Hammond and East Chicago people who have protected their options on real estate tracts in the vicinity of the mammoth plant SHALL E. CHICAGO HAVE COMfilANDARY? Question of Interest to Masonic Fraterity To Be Decided Tonight. A question of importance to all members of the Masonic fraternity in the vaiumet region is to be decided this evening at the meeting of the Ham mond Commandary. The question be fore the house will be whether the Hammond Commandary will give its consent to the East Chicago contingent to withdraw so that the latter can es- ' tablisH its Commandary at home. The question arises out of tha. fact that East Chicago Masons now boaI of a temple of their own and that consequently they want to use It for all their own and that consequently they want doings. About a year ago the Gary wing of the Hammond Commandary established its own order in the Steel City. Should the .request of the Twin City Knight Templars be granted. It would mean that the Hammond Commandary would lose about forty members. The question, while an important one, will be decided in the light of What is best for the order. The order of Malta is to be conferred upon fifteen candidates this evening. INFORMATION IS WANTED. Information is wanted of the per son or persons who drove a truck between Ruth and Carroll streets, through the alley west of Hohman streets, early last Saturday morning. A suitable reward for this information will be paid by The Times. Board Does Business. At the meeting of the board of public works this morning bids were asked for the State street ornamental electric light poles which are to be erected between Hohman street and Oakley avenue without further delay. The contract for the Kenwood and Zachau additions walks and curbs was awarded to the Ahlborn Construction company, L. H. DeBow having been appointed inspector for the work. E. B. Cross was appointed inspector for the Harrison street pavement. Michigan Man Recovering. F. W. Herman of Buchanan, Mich., who was found in an unconscious condition in front of Vermett's plumbing shop, on Hohman street, Friday evening, is reported getting along nicely at St. Margaret's hospital today. Herman was taken suddenly ill with a stroke of paralysis and was removed to St. Margaret's hospital in the police patrol. He had secured , employment at the Standard Steel Car works and was about to mail a postal to his wife to that effect when he was taken ill. THEY ARE ALL UNION MADE. Scrap CnloB Seotat, Coumtry Clnb Ions cat. for chew or iBokr, Fsrtx pVatt cat, and Sweet Lnu fine cat. Manufactured from the choicest leaf tobacco. McIUe-Scottea Tobacco Co.

AMERICA'S MULTI-MILLIONAIRES flGHT INCOME TAX MEASURE NOW BEFORE CONGRESS; MAY DEFEAT BILL AT PRESENT SESSION

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Top, left to right: John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and George Gould. Bottom, Thomas F. Ryan (left) and William Rockefeller. These multi-millionaires wou.M like to see the income tax section of the tariff bill defeated at the preaent aeaaion of con&reaa. FARMER BADLY HURT II! A RUNAWAY John Eberle of Crown Point, and Relative Hurled Out of Carriage. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind.. April 21. John Eberle, a well known farmer residing In the 1 vicinity x)f ' Crown ' Point was quite seriously Injured on Saturday afternoon in a runaway accident and for some time his life was despaired of. He had driven to the Erie station and accompanied by his father in law from Chicago was about to return when the team he was driving became frightened and unmanageably, starting at a mad pace down Foote street. Mr. Eberle was thrown out and became entangled in the wheels of the wagon tney passing over his head. He was picked up unconscious and it was some time before he revived. Medical at tention was called and it was found he was injured internally, although at thls writing it is not thought fatally. His father-in-law was also thrown out of the rig but suffered no serious in Jury. LAD SHOT IN FACE WITH AIR Compansion Inflicts Bad Wound On Leo Owcgarad Saturday. i.eo Owczarak, residing on Gostlin street, Hammond, was painfully in Jured Saturday afternoon when he was shot in the face with an air gun. The bullet was found imbedded in his lip and it was necessary to call for physician to care for the injured boy. Andy Strazo, 16 years old, ill Gostlin street, was arrested and charged wih assault and battery. After shooting and hitting two other people. Strazo was warned by Owczarak not to shoot any more or he would call the police. No sooner had Owczarak warned Strazo than he raised the gun at his shoulder and pulled the trigger. The bulle struck Owczarak in the lip, causing painful wound. Strazo was brought before Judge Barnett this morning, and finding tha he was only 16 years old, ordered th lad to be taken before Juvenile Judge McMahan. Mary Is Fined. Mary Joseph. 65 Plummer avenue, who was arrested by Officer Trost last week on a charge of assault and battery, was fined $11 before Judge Barnett in the city court Saturday. Wm. Wentzel, an aged man, residing near the defendant's home, appeared as complaining witness. He testified that she struck him following a quarrel. Eidam Is Busy. A. F. 'Eidam, who recently opened an up-to-date garage at Calumet avenue and the Nickel Plate tracks, received a carload of five-passenger Ford automobiles this morning which he will place on the market. By the lsTpart of May he expects a car of Ford runabouts. Mr. Eidam has the Ford agency in this vicinity and expects to dispose of a large number this spring. He aiso handles all the repair parts for the Ford machine at his garage.

CLEAN UP A special meeting of the Hammond board of education was held on Satur day to clean up detail and routine work, so that board will be unhampered at its regular meeting tomorrow night. Bids have been advertised for on school supplies, coal, metal ceiling and calciming and these are to be opened to morrow ,night,.-ajl"i3i. ifcisposingiofJ the bids will , take upthe greater ort of the evening's session, the detail work was gotten out of the way in advance. STORM TO FOLLOW IN WAKE OF COLD Washington, April 21. Unseasonable cold weather with frosts in the eastern states and moderately warm weather throughout the gulf states. the great central valleys and the Rockey Mountain region and the plains states is the outlook for the opening of the week. Fair weather will prevail the next few days in the eastern and southern states, while there will be unsettled weather with local rains the first part of the week in the upper Mississippi Valley, the region of the great lakes and the northwestern states. A change to warmer weather will overspread the eastern states, the lake region and the Ohio Valley Tuesday and Wednesday. A storm will appear in the west Tuesday or Wednesday, move eastward and cross the great central valleys Thursday or Friday and the eastern states near the end of the week. TITANIC LIGHTHOUSE BEACON IN NEW YORK r hi -y- t 7 t' like pictare shows the new Titanic lirht house towur jut iaoUllsi la liew York dtr.

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BURNS GETTING READY m DEFENSE Desperado Insists That His Wife Tried to Kill Him, Too. Seeing his chances for recovery im prove, Hugh Burns, who terrorized the town of Schneider, a week ago today, following "m "futile" attenSpTto assassin ate his wife, is beginning to look for ward to the legal defense that he will have to make. For several days now Burns has maintained that his wife tried to kill him on Monday night. He says that she, hoo, had a revolver and that she fired two bullets at him, both of which took effect in his chest. One of the bullets has been ex tracted. He said that his wife used steel-capped bullets in her gun, and the bullet which was found proved to be such. This so far is the only circumstantial evidence on which his charge is baaed, but Schneider people say that his wife had no gun, and that he got the bullet from one of the half dozen of guns that were aimed at him by the Schneider citizens when they cornered him in the station, FINED FOR SPEEDING. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., April 21. Irving Betz. of Hammond, was arrested here for violating the speed ordinance last Hnturdav niirht on Main street. He was fined $1 and costs by Judge H. B. Nicholson. Mr. Betz was accompanied by his wife and at the dangerous Panhandle crossing narrowly escaped being hit by a Pennsylvania flyer. GIRLS PROVE GOOD FARMERS. Rochester, Ind., April 21. Two former Rochester girls, Carrie Blosser and Edna Stanffer, have fully demonstrated that they are capable of running a farm and the making good on a sixty-acre piece of land near here. Though accustomed to light work, aa they formerly conducted a studio in this city, they have undertaken to break twenty acres of ground for corn and are fully determined to make the farm a. paying proposition. They raise chickens, hogs and take care of three milch cows. Their feat has caused much comment among their friends here as they were formerly quite prominent in local society. CHAMBER COMMERCE MEETING. Plans are under way for an unusually interesting meeting of all the members of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce, on Monday evening, April 2Sth. This is the date for the annual general meeting at which officers are to be elected. The board directors was elected some time ago by ballot. The constitution does not state what manner of election the offiecs of president, first and second vice president and treasurer shall be filled. The secretary is appointed by the board of directors. Committees are at work on plans to give the members a program worth while on the annual meeting night. Among other things they will hear a resume of the chamber's activity, and this is said to be surprising. Is your bouse cold wnen yon reach home T Get a Gas Heating Stove. No. lod. Oaa & Xlec Co.

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Another lucky-endine accident in which, a motorcycle and an automobile collided, occurred on Columbia ave. near Hoffman street yesterday morning. Although the automobile and its six occupants were thrown into the ditch they escaped uninjured as also did the motorcyclist who was able to go on his way. suffering only a few bruises. The automobile was driven by I. E. Roberts of Chicago and the motorcycle was ridden by C. N. Weir of Chicago. The motorcycle was southbound on Columbia avenue and the auto turned west on Hoffman street at the time the accident occured. It is said that Reberts and Weir both became con fused and in trying to avoid the collision, Roberts sent his machine into the ditch. The automobile party containing two men and three women escaped with a few bruises. The right front wheel of the auto was smashed while the motorcycle was but slightly damaged. The dwamaged machine was taken to a garage and its occupants returned to Chicago by train. FORMER TO TELL HER EXPERIENCE Virginia Brooks, the former West Hammond reformer, is writing a book and it is to run serially in a Chicago newspaper. The books deals with the young woman's personal experiences in the under world. .- In her preface today she says: v;..TAt.; tb-fi nme .time I Intend to speak the truth squarely and to place responsibility for evils that exist where I think it should be placed. I Intend to show why so many thousands of girls go wrong every year in the maelstrom " ana lo Polnl oul e destitute girl is so much worse off than the destitute boy, I have delved deep into the problems that are being investigated 'by legislative committees throughout this country. I have worked side by side for weeks with the tired and desperate six-dollars-a-week girl in the department store, the restaurant, the ten-cent store. I have followed some of these girls after they abandoned the life of grinding poverty for the short career that leads hellwards, and have observed them under the changed condlalons. I have witnessed the resort to "dope" when the shrlekings of conscience could no longer be borne. After that they did not suffer so much. I have danced in the halls that graduate young girls Into the pavement promenade by scores and hundreds. I have talked with the men that haunt these places and listened to their pro fessional patter about woman, the commodity they deal in. ALCOLISM CASES GARY MAN'S DEATH. William Whitten, !2 years old, is dead at Gary because he went on a protracted spree three weegs ago. He die dearly this morning at the Mercy hospital. Whitten was in a sanitarium at Plymouth for a while. He straightened up and came to Gary, getitng a Job at the coke ovens. Three- weeks ago he started to drink again. During that period he took hardly any food, and weak and partially paralysed he was taken to the Mercy hospital. However, the alcohol had eaten into the tissues of his stomach and hemorrhage resulted. Whitten came from a good family. His father, James Whitten, employed by Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, lived at 610 Claremont avenue in that city. Dr. Frank Smith, the' coroner, will conduct the inquest today. Gerome Quits Gem. Roy Gerome, who has been a fixture at the Gem fheatre aa illustrated song singer, has given up his position rith the Intention of leaving Hammond. He has been employed it the Gem theatre during the past tnree years and his popularity has added to the success of the playhouse. Although Mr. Jerome has no position in view, it is his intention to return to Chicago, where he may accept on! of several off'fers. Dies at Hospital. Mrs. Maria Narkocick of Hessville died at St. Margaret's hospital Saturday evening at 8 o'clock, following a short illness. The child to whom she had given birth, died yesterday morning. Funeral services were held from the family residence this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment was made at Greenwood cemetery. Besides a husband, ahe is survived by three children. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TIMES.

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Michigan Central Taxed ByJudge Anderson in Federal Court for Rate Con- . . cession to Chapin & Co., of Hammond. Indianapolis, Ind.,' April ' il. Tor granting unlawful concessions in rates to Chapin & Co., Hammond and, Milwaukee hsipper of grains and grain products, and for falsely billing shipments, the Michigan Central railway was today fined $6,000 by Judge Anderson in federal court. The railroad entered a plea of guilty to the two indictments against it, a $2,500 fine being the judgment in each case.' There were fifteen counts in tha indictments. Chapin & Co. also war indicted at the same time the charges were brought against the railway' by the federal grand jury In May, 191J. Tho Chapin case has not been tried yet. The shipper is charged with receiving unlawful concessions in rates. Lower Than Published Rates. . The Michigan ' Central gave to this company, which operates a large plant at Hammond, lower rates than in tho published tariffs furnished to the Interstate commerce commission, nd charged to other shippers. Greater privileges in regard to milling In transit were given Chapin & Co., and in order to make the rates appear to conform in the tariffs of the company, tho shipments of Chapin & Co. were falsely billed, the indictments setting forth. that the point set out in the bills as the point at which the shipments originated were not the true points of origin. - , 'J The rate concessions charged in tho indictments total several hundred, dollars on the shipments specified, tho total being far Ies than, the amount ot fineB Imposed by Judge Anderson. . . The alleged violation of.tfca law by' the ChapffllmmpanyI "merely '. teciinW? : cal and the charges ; are", to'.' involved that , it Is difficult to' impute . guilty knowledge on the part of the shippers even if the railroad company Itself erred. Bicycle Stolen. L, C. Hendershot, 171 Indiana avenue, reported to the police that his bicycle hda been stolen from in front of his store some time Saturday evening. The police detailed an officer to Investigate but . no trace of the thief could be found. , This is the second bicycle to disappear in the past two weeks. TIMES WANT ADS -TO YOVt ARB FOR SERVICENEW SOLON'S WIT WILL LIVEN SENATE V- W vv v.- .'.. 1 1 ' At II (C) Harris & Ewinr. Lawrence Y. Sherman. Lawrence Yates Sherman, the new Republican U. S. senator from Illinois, who succeeded "Uncle" Shelby Cullom. is a noted wit and is expected to liven the special session with one or more speeches. Sherman is rather spare. about medium height, with sharp peer ing features, face innocent of beard or mustache and a tuft of hair that rampages in disorder above. For six years Sherman was a member of the Illinois legislature, and In 1904 was chosen lieutenant governor of his state. He is a lawyer, a progressive in politics and la fifty-five years old.

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