Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 285, Hammond, Lake County, 20 May 1913 — Page 1

LAKE EVENING EDITION WKATHKH. SHOWERS TODAY AND WEDNESDAY; WARMER WEDNESDAY. TIME VOL. m, NO. 285. HAMMOND, INDIANA. j TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPY, (Back Number 1 Cents Copy.) LAKE CO. CAMERA. MAN SNAPS MRS. ANDY CARNEGIE DEAN SAYS HE STRIKING STREET. CAR MEN GET SYMPATHY FROM UNIONS. "s4"' v.

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(Special to The Times.) Crown Point,. Ind., Way 20. Frank V. Heighway, county superintendent ot schools, has sent his report of the school enumeration of Luke county for 1918 to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Greathouse. and some very interesting figures are presented In It, The population of Lake county Increased last year about ten thousand, the bulk of It being in North township, 1.449, and Calumet township, 1,024. Lake county's population on the ratio of 4 may no wbe said to be about 110,000. Cltlea. Knumerntlon. Gala. Hammond 6.S25 685 Gary 6.114 1,040 East Chicago 5,468 478 Whiting 1.940 256 Crown Point 675 22 Total 21.02S 2,481 Towns Enumeration. Gala. Lowell 326 13 Munster ' 208 28 Miller 177 1 Highland 175 15 Griffith 162 5 East Gary 101 17 Total 1,149 79 EnunteraTownships tfon. Gain. Loss. Calumet 198 .. 16 Cedar Creek.... 359 Center 269 . . 15 Eagle Creek 266 4 Hanover .... 362 .. 6 Hobart 705 11 . North 297 29 Ross 420 ... 25 St. John 687 1 .. West Creek 477 8 Winfield 213 5 Total 4.153 ... 4 Total for County. Males .13,785 - Females , 12,393 Colored (males) 79 Colored (females) 71 .26.328 . 2,556 Increase over 1812. . . . Net loss. CONDUCTOR BADLY HURT Goes Between Cars and Crushed by Bumpers. Is Harry Lister, a Monon freight conductor, whose home is in Lafayette, Is in a dying condition in a hospital at Hammond, as the result of an accident he met with near Shelby yesterday. He was In charge of Train 71. A drawbar pulled out and Lister went between the cars to chain them together and was caught. His chest was badly crushed and he was rushed to the hospital at Hammond. His wife is at his bedside WOMAN'S NERVE NOT FITTED FOR FLYING l ON i j-V 1 ., .,"iiJWS.K,"1 5 416 Mrs. Maurice Hewlitt. Mrs. Maurice Hewlitt, the wife of a noted British novelist, thinks aviation is hot a science in which women ever can excel. She speaks with authority, for she is a woman, she has an aeroplane pilot's license and he manufactures machines. "They have not the right kind of nerve." she explains, "the nrve that unites full knowledge of every cs.nger with judgment in handling icuitiea Aitia cool 4iiur-, -

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(C) Underwood & Underwood. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. Here is the very latest picture of Mrs. Andrew Carnesne, wife of the Laird of Skibo. It was taken a few days ago in New York city on the occasion of the dedication of the Carl Schurz monument ii Morningside park. SMALLPOX BREAKS OUTJflCE MORE Girl in Family Attended the Hammond Business College. The smallpox scare has cropped out in & new place In the Twin Cities, and this time Hammond Is" also . Involved Three new cases were discovered yesterday at the home of Henry Callahan, engineer for the Cudahy plant, at 4216 Carey street. The cases are those of his three children aCtherine, aged 12; James, aged, 9, and Eliza beth, aged 7. Catherine is said to have attended the Chicago business college in Hammond and has been attending school since she came down with the smallpox a week ago, although not continuously. The rest of the children, there are five, including a relative who lives with the Callahans, go to St. Mary's parochial school in East Chicago, although only one of them has been attending school since Catherine was taken sick. The result of this new outbreak is that the most stringent rules are to be enforced regarding the vaccination of school children. No child will be allowed to attend school unless vaccinated, either at the parochial or public schools. The authorities are not authorized to enforce the vaccination directly, but they do have the say ao whether or not children are allowed to attend school, and they hope by forbidding the children to attend to bring their vaccination about. No charge will be made for vaccinating school children. The physician who attended the Callahan children diagnosed the cases as smallpox and called in Dr. Herskovitz, who corroborated the diagnosis. The latter said that at a recent meet ing of the boards of health of the varl'ous cities of Indiana It was declaTed that smallpox which has once appeared In a town-can scarcely be controlled until all the inhabitants have been vac cinated or have had the disease. Will Have to Wait. - As much as Fire Chief Dilschneider would like to have a new auto fire wagon and a modern areial ladder ap paratus and as much as the city of Hammond are in need of them, the city will be compelled to wait until 913 before the board of public works will be able to make an appropriation. The board was unable to see their way clear when the appropriation was made and it came back marked no funds. Lad Passes Away. Martin Miller, the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Christ Miller, residing near Oak Glenn. 111., died at the family residence yesterday evening at 10 o'clock, following a lingering illness. Funeral services will be held at the residence Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The remains will then be taken to the Thornton church, where services will occur at 1:30 o'clock: Interment will be maje at Oak Glen' cemetery. Death of Infant. Norma M. Davis, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion L. Davis, 875 Erie street, Hammond, died at the family residence early this morning. The child had been ill only a short time. Funeral services have been arranged for Wednesday afternoon, when the Rev. C. J. Sharp of the Christian church will officiate at the residence at 2 o'clock. Interment will be made at Oak Hill cemetery. A CLEAN PAFEIi, FIT FOR fOUR CHILDREN TO READ 13 THE

HASjflORE DOPE Bribery Scandal Accuser Now in Chicago Keeps Posted on Gary.

Detective T. B. Dean, who Is known for his work in the Dean bribery scandals at Gary, was in Chicago on Sunday. Mr. Dean Is now one of the division chiefs in the government secret service. He has traveled all over the United States during the past month but he is fully alive as to the doing in Gary. Koovra Gary Doings. He appeared to be well informed on the contracts that Bill Cain received In Detroit, of the visit of the U. S. Steel corporation official who went there to pave the way for him, of the doings of Mayor Knotts, Tom Costello, formerly a Gary newspaper man, Gary school board contracts and the official who is in on them, of Cy Howell and his contracts and of the inner workings of the United States Steel corporation Including recent traction doings. Promises A Sensation. Dean left Chicago, for the west. He also spoke of Harry Moose, who is now in Michigan City prison. Dean also visited at the Ohio state prison at Columbus, where he is said to have gotten from a convict information regarding the existence of a "diamond" fence In Gary and the purchase of stolen diamonds by some well known Gary business men and politicians. t "There will be some hot stuff let loose soon," was his parting comment. CITY FATHERS TO HOLD MEETING Closing of Johnson Street May Be Brought Up at Gathering. City fathers are expected to decide the fate of a vehicle ordinance, a few appropriation bills and an act prposed by Kranle O'Rourke,. city sealer-at:a meeting of the council tonight. . It is possible that a matter now In committee may cause citizens of the north side to wait upon the countllmen tonight. In the closing of Johnson street many have found cause for strenuous objection. The saving virtue of the closing ordinance is the clause that it can be ordered down by the council at any time they see fit. Its object, according to the company, is to stop women and cildren from crossing 'ight railroad tracks. North sldt i .-: ay that as these tracks have been put in by the companies over a public highway they are taking an easy way of acquiring valuable property and preventing the city from opening Johnson street and interfering with the building of switches. HAMMOND LADY i ERIE WRECK Mrs. Anna Holcomb Is Injured When Trainmen Are Killed. News reached Hammond last night that Mrs. Annie Holcomb,- 307 Sitley street, was cne of the victims of the Erie wreck war Preble, Ind., yesterday morning, when eastbound fasienger train No. 8 went into the ditch, killing the engineer and fireman. Mrs. Holcomb was riding in the day coach and was awakened when the engine and baggage car left the rails. She was thrown across the back of a seat and injured both of her arms and back. Her injuries consisted of painful bruises. Mrs. Holcomb was on her way to Springfield, and is employed as housekeeper for John Younger, 307 Sibley street. She is . well- known In Hammond and her many friends who knew she was on the wrecked train were worried concerning her safety.. The engineer, J. R. Dickinson, and his fireman, Willard Hosier, both of Huntington, met death. ( I'robably Disobeyed Order. Although slow orders were out to cover a cross-over from the old main track to a three-mile stretch of new track. No. 8 hit the crossover at forty miles an hour, and the engine and tender and express, mail and baggage cars crashed into the ditch. Engineer Dickinson was caught under the engine and buried in the mud. Fireman Hosier Jumped, but was caught by a pair of detached truck wheels. A relief train was dispatched from Huntington with doctors and undertakers. The bodies of the dead were returned to Huntington. Ehe Erie is double tracking its old main line. The cross-over and new track at Preble were completed Saturday and No. 8 was the first train through from the west. Engineer Dickinson had signed slow orders covering that point. Is your house cold when you reach home? Get a Gas Heating Stoves No, Ind. Gas & Elec Co,

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Cincinnati unionists parading during street car strike. A feature of the street car strike in Cincinnati has been the sympathy extended by thousands of unionists of the city to the striking employes of the traction company. The picture shows a section of a parade in Cincinnati which was participated in by many unionist sympthizers of the strikers.

THERE'S WORK FOR YOU HERE, VERGIE Lawrenceburg,' Ind., May 20. Miss Vergie C Poppin, an athletic 7-year-old- girl, employed at the sheriff's residence, arrested Canada J. Brooks, aged 49, a husky Junk buyer, and haled him to the county jail, several blocks distant, and locked him up there. There Miss Poppin charged Brooks with being intoxicated and with having brought public humiliation to her, because he had made comments on her new spring hat, that were heard by other girl companions with whom she was walking in . High street. The? .comments, she said,. catJsedfheirIstto,Vigsle, to her mortification. ' When Brooks staggered and nearly fell against an aged woman. Miss Poppin seized Brooks by the collar and marched him oft to jail with the remark: "I'm going to lock you up, as It's a pretty howdy-do when women can't travel in this city without having a drunken loafer like you insult them." Brooks attempted to break away when they neared the jail, but a crowd soon gathered and several men helped the young worm n retain her held on the prisoner and accompanied her to the prison. In police court Brooks was bound over to the circuit court br Judge John W. Probst, on the charge of being an habitual drunkard, and In default of $500 bond he was sent back to Jail. SPEAKERS SHOW fl U C HRESEN T TrlE N T Elements of Various Parties Declare They Will Unite Against Democrats. Political animosities were nourished on the fertile ground of discontent at the Cline street church last evening, and before the meeting was long under way a socialist or two, a bull moose and elements of every other party were on their feet denouncing the other's opinion. A speaker advanced the opinion that should the deep sewer go through as proposed it would have the effect of welding all factions of all other parties together to overwhelm the democrats at the next election. He stated that many are dissatsified with the failure to straighten South Hohman street, the Calumet avenue widening and the closing of Johnson street. Other opinions volunteered at the meeting so fast that it was impossible to accurately record all of them were: That the deep sewer will be unneces sary after the dredging of the Calumet river, which will eventually come providing a current swift enough to carry the sewage into the lake; that the estimate that connections will cost but $11.75 is ridiculous as "a man wouldn't crawl out of a hole for that price;" and that the change in a city official who laid a sewer on top of the ground two years ago Is too sudden to be sincere; that the expense of installing pumps and maintaining them would be an extravagance not to be tolerated unless the deep sewer can be laid for less than J600.000.' and that the property owner away from the deep sewer who has a three feet sewer In the street will not be benefited. Many of these . were contradicted, some supported and other not even considered. Taken by and large the meeting was one of the most radical in civil gatherings in many a political camnaisn.

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CITIZEN'S Veiled charges of graft popped out in caustic criticism of the city administration, its officers and its official organ, at another of the quasi-secret meetings being held by the anti-deep sewer associations almost nightly In various parts of town. A demonstration at the Pine Street Presbyterian church last 'evening was attended by 65,. who "came and went through three hours of . debate. Nearly everyone voiced some resentment of the administration, spoke for or against the deep sewer, offered excuses and inferred excesses in the matter of initial cost. 401 on Oae List. Exhibiting 401 signatures on one petition of remonstrance and stating that others contained nearly as many, Alfred Simons called the meeting to order with 29 present. In subsequent speeches made by C. E. Brewbaker, E. W. Dinwiddle, Jake- Hann and others it was proposed that a committee, composed of all members of the association and all friends of anti-deep sewer, visit the city hall' 'Thursday and present remonstrances to the mayor and board of public works. A committee of seven was appointed to attend to this. Alderman in session will also receive a visit from the anti's If their plans develop. It leaked out at the meeting last night that ways and means in which the city can put In its own universal deep sewer at a cost of $300,000, leaving $50,000 for extras, have been investigated by the association. It was apparent that the members last evening considered the difference between $300,000 and the city's estimate . of $675,000 to be significant. It was stated that "we want to see that the money goes into the deep sewer and not into somebody's pockets." SELLS PART OF EFFECTS j Trustee Charles Surorise today sold ' some of the personal property In the Calumet Institute at public auction. H.J. Tostlewaite bought -in the typewrit- . ers and some small desks at $675, his figure having been a trifle above the appraised value. The bids for various book plates were rejected, as Trustee Surprise hopes to get a still better fig- ' ure, or some other form of settlement for the creditors. Ready to Shcot. Finishing touches were put on the Hammond police department's newshooting gallery north of the river on Hohman street this afternoon to be in readiness for the first shoot of the season tomorrow. Captains- Hanlon . and Rimbach, who are laying claim to1 be the crack shot3 of the squad, will be given an. opportunity . of demon- , strating their eagle eye and if they don't come out on top of the list, as they say they will, it is evident that they will have to hit for the back woods. ' ..... f Who Is He? Chief Austgen received a telegram from the Jackson, Mich., police this morning asking Information of Charles B. Raniff of that city, stating that he had been injured in this vicinity yesterday. All the railroads .were notified, but so far no trace of Raniff can be found in Hammond. It may be possible that the man mave have been injure dat the railroad yards at Indiana Harbor or Garv: " OTHERS ARE WISE. Union Scout Scrap, Country Ctuk lAnm Cut. Fores Plus Cut and Sweet Loran Pine Cut Tobacco. kt tickets good for premiums. See the Hart. Union Made. McMIc-Scotten Tobacco Co.

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- : " rv,- vvw . A WAT Plan ls Explained. The plan was explained after the meeting by one of the speakers. He stated that the city could secure some local men, buy Its own machinery, estimated at $15,000 and Bell the dirt for the filling in Lake George at $25,000. That the contractor who had the filling In Job may get the deep sewer con tract and have the $25,000 worth of dirt given him was feared. "By keeping a derrick at work dig glng and another one handling the ma terial and filling In we can do the work with three shifts of fifteen men," said one man who has advanced the plans. Of those present last evening no two seemed to be of the same mind and apparently agreed only on one thing and that the matter of opposition to the1, deep sewer proposal of the city council. Property owners from all over town were present, although the meeting had not been advertised except by announcement of officials. It was Intended that the meeting this evening In the Lafayette be kept a secret., Some of those present last night said after the meeting that they did not care to have the city officials come and tell them what they wanted and read a lengthy letter of technicalities to convince them that they are to get their money's worth In the big sewer and no rake-offs are included. It came out in one of the talks that the notice stating that all remonstrances to th deep sewer must be in by such a date was "printed In an obscure part of a paper with small circulation under a small heading." "Fortunately,", said the chairman, "it was seen in time for some- one to start a wave- of opposition and have the time extended." ' - '- WILL HAVE A CELEBRATION A celebration to take place at the opening of Hammond's city market, Thursday, May 29. if Frank O'Rourke, market master, can bring influence to bear upon other city officials. In case City Attorney Gavit returned from Valparaiso in time today O'Rourke and he expected to take a survey of the situation among the truck gardens to the south of town. Green goods will-be plentiful, .strawberries abundant and fresh, fowl cheap, according to the dope at present. In the meantime market prices in Hammond are the highest in many a week, having gone up in the last few days. Round steak is 22 cents, sirlofn' and short porterhouse 25 cents, and rump roast 22 cents. The Meeker Revival. .One of.Dwight I Moody's able coworkers will speak with pictures at the ndrth side tabernacle ' at Hoffman and Cedar streets tonight, 'rain or shine. The revival led' by Ttev." Meeke,r a pastbr from the Ghetto district, who has i reputation' for- mission work, wil be interrupted from time to time br stereopticon lectures and musical piograms. 1 The nor h side-is in the midst of a festive as well as religious season, for the Rev. ' Fuller of " the Pine Street Fresbyterian church ls conducting a novel and effective series of meeting in the tabernacle. Sparling's orchestra from the high school plays twice a week and on Saturday evening Messrs. Hammondtree and McKel of Chicago will sing. They are well ljnown singers, Hammondtree being a principal tenor in "The World in Chicago" pageant, and McKee a famous-evangelistic worker. ARE YOU A TIMES READER!

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Former Prosecut ing Atty . is Formal Candidate for Mayor of Gary Ex-Prosecnting- Attorney Charles B. . Greenwald late yesterday rang up TBI Times office and announced his candi dacy for the republican nomination for mayor of Gary. "I have decided to make the race," said Mr. Greenwald over thephone, "so you may announce that I am a candidate." For some time there has been talk that Mr. Greenwald would be ; In the race with A. R. Hoover, Judge A. C Huber and Dr. Frank W. Smith, all of whom are willing to make the republican race. - - Mr. Greenwald formerly resided In Whiting. He was twice elected to the Lake ond Porter county prosecutorshlp. Mr. Greenwald has a . stronger hold among the foreign : population than Mayor Knotts has. : ' " IS FIRST Ol'T OF THE POT. Greenwald'a announcement" is the first real sign of political activity on the republican eiii.,et,thi fence, but it is not thought he will be permitted to get by without a fight. It may be taken for granted that the ex-prosecutor has been over the situation long enough to know fully where He stands on the proposition, for he ls the greatest little fence-builder imaginable. Greenwald has always been considered one of the cogs in the Knotts machine until the past year or two, and it is known that up to the time of Mr. Greenwald's removal to Gary, he and Mayor Knotts were very friendly. The Greenwald announcement will have a tendency to bring other candidates out into the open, and the fur will no doubt begin to fly soon. Mr. Greenwald's familiarity with foreign tongues such as are heard oh, the south side will draw a lot of the foreign voters to his standard. ' Anyway when he says he is going after the nomination you know the fight ls on. B. Young in Canada. Barnie Young, the bandmaster, ls In Toronto attending the national convention of musicians as a delegate from th Hammond organisation. He writes of many interesting things he is seeing in Canadian cities. TO QUIT SLEUTHINQ; HAS JOB IN CHICAGO John EL WilHe. After fourteen years as chief oh te United States secret service, John E. Wllkie has announced his determination to resign soon. He will accept a commercial position in Chicago. Chief Wilkie is a native of Elgin. 111. Before he entered detective work he spent several years as reporter and editor in Chicago. He was connected with the Chicago Times and Chicago Tribune from 1877 until 1833.

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