Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 266, Hammond, Lake County, 28 April 1913 — Page 1

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It never rains but it pours. First definite news by THE TIMES regarding the great Baldwin plant was given to the region early Saturday afternoon. Today the last vestige of doubt as to the location of the mammoth Johns-Manville company, just southwest of Hammond, was cleared away. ' The corporation has closed a contract with the R. Hanshman company to erect the first two buildings, each 100x450 feet and of a temporary nature. They must be complete within four weeks. As soon as they are completed 300 men will be put at work in getting things ready for the operation. The concern is swamped with orders and has decided to put up temporary buildings at a cost of $50,000. Later they will be converted into pennanent buildings.

HEWS WAS RECEIVED WITH GLEE Thb Times" announcement -of Saturday that the Baldwin locomotive works Is to build at Mtcs at Calumet Just beyond the western border of Gary started another real estate boom tn Gary and resulted in further Investments In Baldwin real estate by steel city men. Logansport capital is heavily interested in the new Logan Realty company, formed by Perry H. Stevens, the Gary contractor, for the purpose of selling lots and building; homes for employes of the locomotive plant. This (Continued on Page 8.) WANT COKE RATE LOWERED TIMES BUREAU. AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., April 28. The Citizens Gas company of this city has filed with the Indiana railroad commission a petition for a reduction ln the freight rate on coke from this city to South Bend, Laporte, Michigan City, Hammond, Gary and other points in tlw Calumet region from $1.10 to $1 a ton. The company is a large producer of coke at its plant here, which it ship's to these points for use in manufacturing establishments, and it Insists that the present freight rate places it at a disadvantage as a competitor with oth er coke producing concerns. Wfcat'a la m namrf Try W'lF.GOI,D chewing (obarro and yon'l know tfca anavrer MrHle-Scottea Tobacco Co. HIGH HONOR COMES TO JAP WAR HERO v I- ijf 4 i. -I-tk. : Admiral Togo. Admiral go has recently been placed in full cofffmand 'of the Japanese navy. He played an important part in the Russian-Jspanese war, and as seaman and diplomat is equally distinguished, lie ruuted the United State ia IS 11.

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Charles Donovan. Charles Donovan, the recent appointee for postmaster in East Chicago, is a. popular man ln the circles in which he is acquainted, and the city is well satisfied with his appointment. He has lived in this city for twenty-three years, is married and has a family of four children. Although an lron'moulder by trade, he Is not without experience which should fit him for his new duties having had experience ln office work at Grasselll. soon after he left school. At present he is assistant foreman of the foundry at the Green Engineering works. Mr. Donovan has not yet been notified as to when he is to take hold of his new office. WANTS WASTE BASKETS Alderman Has Plan to Help City Beautiful Idea. Councilman Harry Eastwood ap peared before the board of public works this morning to advocate the placing of suitable waste paper boxes along the Cubs of the streets. He also asked that the city provide a tennis court in Central park. While che board promised to act on the play ground matter it did not commit itself on the matter of waste boxes. The board has had this matter up from time to time, but it never went beyond the inquiry of prices, which were always deemed too hi$rh. Councilman Kastwood blteves that any money spent for waste box?1 would be well spent, provided the ordinance would then be enforced to stop persons from throwing old papers, banana peels, in fact anything they do not care to carry with them, on the sidewalks or in the gutters. Eastwood's idea is to have a strong metal box attached to a pole at the height within reach of a child, set at regular distances apart on the curb. The tops and bottoms of these boxes, he say.?, should be hlngfd for convenient use. . The fixing of a tennis court in Central park will meet with favor from the residents in that neighborhoo-i. The court is to be placed on the north side of the grounds. Heat, when and where you want Get a Gas Heating Stove No. Ind. Gfc. ft Elec. Co. Say. an. fill that pipe of anlae with Fores op Country Club. They are anioa made. Each package coatalaa prenalana tlckat. McUie-Scottea Tobacco C.

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Former Crown Point Man Meets Untimely End Near Calumet Park. Following a wide search extending over the Calumet region, which was being made for Jacob Wagonblast. 492 Sibley street, Hammond, his badly mangled remains were, found at Calumet park eary yesterday morning where it is belied that he met his untimely death, sometime Saturday night. The body which was hardly recognized was found on the I. H. Belt right of way, 100 feet west of the Pennsylvania crossing at Calumet park. Mayor Patten of Hegewisch who was notified at once got in communication with the Hammond police and the remains were identified as that of Wagonblast. Tho body was then removed to Curtis's morgue at Hegewisch where an inquest will be held this afternoon. How Wagonblast came to bo at Calu met park or how he met his untimely death is not known. The condition of the body shows that he was struck by a fas train and that he was rolled a (Continued on Pag S.) POLICE FIND filAll'S HGL E But John Bergstrom Was Too Drunk to Know Anything About It. Too intoxicated to realize that his right arm was almost amputated below the elbow, John Bergstrom, 354 Cameron street, Hammond, was found staggering down Plummer avenue by Officer Wallak late last evening. He was placed under arrest, and not until the police station was reached did the officers discover the man's unfortunate accident. Bergstrom did not seem to realize until Informed by the police that he would be a cripple for life. He was rushed to St. Margaret's hospital in the police patrol, where the amputation was completed by Dr. T. W. Oberlin. To Bergstrom his accident! is more like a dream. The peculiar case Is Just as much a mystery to him, as it is to the police, as he is at a loss to know how, when or where the accident occurred. From the condition of the painful wound it is apparent that his arm may have been run over by a train, but an investigation made by the police failed to throw any light on the mystery. Officer Wallak found Bergstrom staggering down Plummer avenue while on his way to the station with another drunk. Unable to take care of both prisoners. Officer Wallak summoned an-other officer and the police patrol was called. Arriving at the central station, the officer noticed he was covered with blood, and upon investigating it was found that Bergstrom's right arm below the elbow was hanging "by a few shreds. He was then removed to St. Margaret's hospital, where the unfortunate man is getting along as well as can be expected. Bergstrom is a victim of his own indiscretion and has been brought to the station in an intoxicated condition on several occasions. It is thought that his lost will be the means of reforming him from his habit of periodic dissipations. GOOD CHANCE FOR A JOB Civil Service Examination at Valparaiso. , Do you want to be a U. S. deputy marshal or a revenue collector? Well, here's your opportunity matter whether you are democrat, moose, republican or socialist. Examinations for positions in field service of the United States, which include deputy collectors of internal revenue and deputy United States marshals, will be held in tha near future the time to be announced by the dtstrict secretary, at Cincinnati at the following places in Indiana: Bloomington, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Lawrenceburg. Richmond, South Bend, Valparaiso. This announcement is made by direction of the civil service commission, the above offices being under the classified service, according to advices received by The Times from Congressman J. B. Peterson.

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SCORES OF BODIES RECOVERED FROM WRECKED PENNSY MINE; SCENES OF MISERY AS RESCUERS TAKE DEAD BODIES FROM RUINS

One hundred and fifteen dead and missing was the toll exacted by the terrific explosion ln the Cincinnati mine of the Mononeahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Comoany at Courtney, near Pittsburg, Pa., last Wednesday evening. Scores of bodies have been recovered and other cores may never be taken from the ruins. . v ; Hopes of relatives and friends of the missing men that their loved ones are living have at last been dissipated, and scenes of misery are witnessed near the mine as bodies of the dead are identified. t ja$ (I ji

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POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITS GROWING, The deposits in the postal savings j bank in Hammond have reached $22.- j 000. The first year showed $12,000 de-I posits so that there has been an in- j crease of $10,600 in the past, seven', months.-. That .thgrate of growth is being maintained the second year and has even exceeded the first year's rate indicates the growing popularity of the new institution. Play at Hub. Saylor Long of Hammond took part of his all star aggregation to Crown Point yesterday afternoon, whare with a number of the Hub team, they trim- J med the Krlt Giants by a score of 12 ' to 1. Henning, who did the slab work. J loomed up stronger than ever and ( promises to hand out some teasers this! season. According to reports he did not even warm up and part of the time had the Giants eating out of his hand. Next Sunday the Hammond aggregation will open the season with tho American Giants at Chicago, and will endeavor to bring back a victory like they did last season. A large crowd of fans are expected to take In the game at the old White Sox park, and arrangements are now being made to run special cars over the South Shore. A weeit from Sunday they will travel to Michigan City. SUBSCRIBE FOR THB TIMES. WHITE HOUSE LIFE TOO MUCH FOR HER Mrs. Annie Vinson Howe. Mrs. Annie Wilson Howe of Philadelphia, a sister of President Wilson, is taking the "rest cure" in Paris after spending some time at the White House. "In an interview with a correspnodent of a New York ipaper, Mrs. Howe recently declared that the heavy strain of social life in Washington had seriously impaired the health of her daughter. iMrs. Perin Cothran, and that the president's real reason for calh'njr loff the ixaofparal ball was to atop

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arv'i 2 itx THE TIMES GAVE THE NEWS FIRST Just as over a year ago THE TIMES was the FIRST paper in the region to tell of. the purchase ot a site for th Baldwin Locomotive Work at Calumet, so was tt FIRST on Saturday the first paper to tell of the beginning of work this week at the Baldwin site. At 1:30 o'clock when the first Jdition was hurried to various parts of the region by auto and street car the waiting news boys shouted the glad news into eager ears. At two o'clock real estate in the region had started to boom again. Other daily papers in the region came out several hours after with the news and one of them didn't come out at all with it, neglecting to get an early edition of THE TIMES contrary to custom. MUCH INTEREST IS TAKEN IN HA110ND Many Hammond People Own Property Adjacent to Baldwin Works. There is probably as much interest being taken ln Hammond in "the announcement that the Baldwin Locomotive works would build as there is nl any plape outside of East Chicago, for the reason that Hammond investors have large holdings of real estate that

would be benefited by the building of site has given all north side property the plant. new values, many times more than the Take on Forsyth avenue, south of assessments on the deep sewer amount Chicago avenue, and three-fourths of ' to, and those who want the sewer Irathe frontage north of One Hundred and provement feel that the opposing propFiftieth street is owned by Hammond erty owners are greatly Jeopardizing men. ! I the building of the plant for some time Hammond men own several hundred to come, feet of frontage on Chicago avenue be- i tween Baring and Todd avenue. Some ( WHO WORE THE

of the best corners there are owned by Hammond men. About the only Gary men who Is in on East Chicago property is Timothy Englehart. So the location of the Baldwin Locomotive works and the announcement that the plant will be built ,at once means a great deal to Hammond. It also means reflected activity in the city a result or tne development ot me region as a whole. Not only has the Johns-Manvills Co. located to the south eastward of Hammond, but the Gogebic Iron company has purchased a site in the city and the next news of industrial activity is expected to be the announcement that this plant will be built. GOOD-BYE,PRISONERS. Valparaiso Ind., April 28. Sheriff Whitaker of Lake county passed through here today enroute for Michigan City with two prisoners. He was accompanied by Marion Sullivan, who formerly lived here.

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Rescuers entering the wrecked Cincinnati mine near Pittsburg, Pa, where 115 lost lives. BARNACLES E0PARD1Z A visit rather significant in view of the anti-deep sewer agitation by north side property owners was made to the office of City Engineer Peter J. Lyons, in Hammond, this morning by Engineer Hunt of Milwaukee for the Gogebic Iron company (Schlesinger syndicate) and C. A. Westberg, vice president of the East Chicago company, which "sold the north side factory site. It will be remembered that the Gogebic company bought its 400-acre site with the understanding that the city of Hammond do two things; one, the vacating of One Hundred and For-ty-flfst street through the company's property which has already been done, and the second, that the city provide an adequate sewer system. Eaalncer XOB-Coramlttal. While the location of the monster steel plant. is assured, it is very appar. ent that delay In the construction of the north side deep sewer system will mean delay in the construction of the pianx. - Engineer Hunt when asked " this morning by a Times' reporter whether he could or would say when the company intends ton begin constructlo work, said that he was in no position to say. The East Chicago company, however, is proceeding with the dredging of the west branch of the canal. f Engineer Hunt's quest. - this morning was for the deep sewer data. He came purposely from Milwaukee to get the figures from City Engineer P. J. Lyons. The purchase of .the Gogebic plant FIRST STRAW LID Season Is Now Opened for Venturesome Creatures. It's arrived. Can't help It, but once a year kindly remarks of greeting must hail the appearance of the first straw hat. Last year It was a swarthy gentleman from the Standard district who appeared onjHohman street In one of the early spring snowstorms with a straw bonnet. This year i the identity of the first brave soul isj a mystery. . He scooted along Hohman street in Hammond as the theaters -were filling up, and he certainly was sotnei scooter. Perhaps that w.s why beople shivering under fieavy coats and cravenettes were laughing at hln and won dering at his teremity. But the near zerj weather Is expected to bring out other lids like it.

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One Man Hurt In Collision, Woman Overcome, Cities Send Help Fanned by a stiff lake breeze fron the. north, Gary firemen .fought a disastrous fire in the Calumet build ing at Eighth avenue and Broadway from seven o'clock until noon today. Outside assistance had to be secur ed from Hammond, East Chicago and other points to keep the blaze from spreading to adjacent buildings. It is estimated that the loss will reach the $50,000 mark. OXE FIHEMAV HCRT.. Four business establishments . wera ruined by tha fire and aihalf doien families were made homeless. - One fireman, Michael Rafferty, was injured, when a fire truck struck a pole. Rafferty sustained two broken ribs and cuts about the head. Rafferty is at the General hospital. Mrs. Mary Olson, 7 years old, an paralyzed, was rescued from the smoke and flames ln the second floor by hr son-in-law, Louis Wetengel, a onarmed man. . '.;;"; ; Wetengel had difficulty In getting assistance in effecting the rescue as at first one of the bystanders would brave the gauntlet of smoke and flames. Finally a man added Wetengel and Mrs. Olson was carried out of the building. She was taken to the Mercy hospital. Lard pans In the basement of Charles Martin's bakery, near an oven Are, are blamed for the blase. It is said that the department was not summoned for several minutes. HAMMOND RESPONDED. Fire Chief Feeley had every available Gary fireman and ten leads of hoso working at high pressure trying to keep the blaze confined to the Calumet building. When It was sen that mors firemen were"" needed to save the Servian building to the north and the Orpheum theatre to the rear ln Washington estreet. Mayor Knotts began to put in. calls for outside assistance. Hammond was the first to respond. Tenants of tha Calumet block and (Continued on paga .) AMBASSADOR TO OLD SOD, HIS AMBITION li i 5,; (I iv or; r;;K.i'f;v:s ;,. c.r:; , John J. McDevittJohn J. McDevitt. who won the title of "millionaire for a day" by an extravagant trip to New York, has written to President Wilson offering himself for a foreign post or any other job which may be lyinjr around loose. The ambassadorship to Ireland would suit him best because he is "closer in touch with the Irish than with any other race." He wished to know whether he 'would have the privilege of conducting a ball in the reception room of the White Honse in case he accepted one of the offers ha expected Him

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