Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 299, Hammond, Lake County, 6 June 1913 — Page 1

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VOL. VII., NO. 299. ICIL RIDGE (Special to Thk Times.) Crown Point, June 6. The county council yesterday made an allowance of eighty thousand dollars for the bridge over the canal on Dickey Place In Indiana Harbor. The councilman were convinced that allowing: this money for the improvement would give the north part of the county a new principal east and west highway, which would shorten the distance from Gary to Chicago considerably. The council also allow dan extra- five thousand dollars for the South Hohman street bridge over the Little Calumet river. The contractors can now figure on forty-live thousand for this Job. The county commissioners and the ME Remarkable Building Plans Are Being Made For Reviving the Street " Aa artery f Hammond that has long keen classed as a vein Is being set right la Its relation to business circulation with the rehabilitating of State street, west of Hohman. There are eight substantial blocks to go up from the Four Corners to the state line. Without doubt they are to be erected in the next few months and then will come a re-shifting of business back Into old channels when state line street is opened for travel. A New Tandevffle Haas. Those projects, though for the most part public, have not obtained due notice and as a result Hammond is not aware of the West State street boom and that it is equally as worthy of attention as the centering of business on Calumet avenue, near East State street. The biggest of these is to be a variety theatre costing $76,000. Here is how they line up on paper: Lawrence Cox's brick block, costing f 1C.000. George Long's theatre block, 50x1(0 $75,000. Rose Spinner's store and office building. Morton eourt Schrogle building of story brick. William Eisner's block at Morton court Leisenfelt Bros.' two-story brick. Remodeling of old Clark building by stock company. Erection of depot by Green line at Morton court. The last two projects are not certainties, but the mere fact that they are contemplated shows that West State street is looked upon as a good business avenue again after years of existence as aeide street. If an interurban connects Hammond with the new asbestos plant real estate prices wlft soar there. A w Four Comers. West Hammond demands a business center nearer than the Four Corners, and it looks as If conditions are bound to make a second four corners at Morton and another at State line street. When the ornamental lights are put in Hammond will have a stretch on State street to give the town a thoroughly metropolitan appearance. SHE wont object to YOUR amoklng tn HER parlor IK YOU USB FOREX SMOKING TOBACCO McHle-Scotten Tobacco Co. HERE'S COMMITTEE Here's the senate tariff lobby

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erful and insidious lobby" at the national capital. The committee is headed by Senator Overman of North Carolina. Left to right: Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Senator Lee S. Overman of North Carolina, Senator. Knute Kelson of Minnesota and Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa,

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IKES ALLOWANCE county council together with the contractors for the new alms house visited the institution ytsterday but dtferred the acceptance until everything has betn completed. There are still quite a number of odd and. end Jobs to be done on the place. , The contract for the Copeland road in the south end of the county was awarded to Courtrlght for $17,400, while the Dreesen road contract went to Nedjle & Greenwald for $3,790. The State Line street pavement on the Hammond side was awarded to the Ahlborn Construction' Co. for J22.SS5, the other bidders having been Courtright for $23,260. and Laveiie Bros, for $22,900. Ahlborn beat the latter by five dollars. GARY 1 JAR TODAY Tried for Robbery in Lake Superior. Court; Is Found Not Guilty and Then Jury Finds It Has Turned in the Wrong Verdict. J coo juayman or Gary, who was tried on the charge of robbery in the superior court before- Judge Reiter, experienced the Joys of a "not gruilty" and the sting of a "guilty" verdict all within a minute yesterday evening. By mistake the Jury flrtt.eigned the "not guilty" blank, but when JudgS Reitev asked each and every member whether this was his verdict they all denied it. and they were again locked up to prepare a guilty verdict. This was brought in soon afterward. Attor ney- Sefton of Gary immediately made a motion for a new trial for Layman, which will be argued next Monday, Prosecuting Attorney J. A.- Patterson and hia deputy, Ralph Ross, appeared for the state. Frank Wells, a lineman of Gary, was the complaining witness against Layman. Conviction of the robbery charge carries with it a penitentiary sentence of from two to fourteen years. The holdup took place In Fitzgerald's saloon in Gary in April and as a result his license was taken away. Wells was robbed of $200 and testified that Layman stuck a gun in his face and commanded his accomplice, Mary Gamble, with an oath to reach into Wells' pocket and "get it." The woman was one of the principal witnesses for the state, the charge of robbery against her having been dropped when she agreed to testify for the state. She was represented by H. E. Granger, who advised her not to testify unless the state would drop the charge against her. The jury was out less than two hours. . CHARLES BARRY IN BOAT RACE Former Hammond Man Trip to Bermuda. on Charles Barry, auditor of the G. H. Hammond company and father of C E. Barry Jr., Hammond's golf champion, leaves Philadelphia tomorrow for Bermuda in the annual motor boat race from the Quaker City to Bermuda. A committee of yachtsmen has already arrived at Bermuda to receivS the boats as they arrive at that end of the route. Among the entries are the Dream, owned by Commodore Charles Lagen, . Philadelphia, winner of last year's race. The race is. for all boats not over sixty feet water line, nor under thirty-nine feet water line in length, which can be equipped with any form of internal combustion engie. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TIMES. THAT'S TRYING. TO LOC committee, snapped as they Interviewed

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BULUJETHMS Washington. D. C, Jane 6. John E. Lank of Terre Hint la believe to He the aeleetloa of the administration To the flee of mJnloter to Coba. Canton, Ohio, Jane fl Enraged, he said, because he came hone and foaad hla wife mlaalng, Robert- Roach last alsrht wnt to the home of his wife's parents and shot and killed his mother-la-law, sister-in-law and 16-moath-old baby, and fatally wonnded aaother ata-ter-in-law. Later when hla arrest was attempted, he shot a member of the Canton pollee force In the lea and bit another man In the hand. Calcutta. India, Jane 8. A society organised for the purpose of wagrlag war on British role In India has been discovered with widespread ramlScntlons. Acting on Information laid hefore him, which resulted In n search of j the house of his own son by the depu- ' tr masrtatrate of Mtdaapur, Bengal, the j j police yesterday arreated forty-foar Beaganls of good family on the charge of conspiring to carry out n wholesale mansacre. Mexico City. June l A report waa current here today that Gen,. Faecual Oroaco baa captured Venostlano Carrania, the rebel leader, but that he is besieged by a large force of rebela intent upon the recovery of their chief. Philadelphia, Pa., Jane 8. The police siy Miss Hasel Bess Langenour may contlnae her swimming act in a theater here, but she must positively clamp down the terpatchorean brakea on the low tide tango ahe performa la a union suit on the allppery alope of the swimming pool. London, Jane 6. Suffragettes today placed broken glaaa about the motorcycle track at Donglaa where the tourist trophy event was scheduled to be held. Had not the glaaa been discovered In time ft probably would have caused fatalities to the riders. ZAWADZKI HOLDS NIGHTMEETINGS Several rousing meetings were held in the south end of Gary last night by the Frank Zawadzki democrats to boost Mr. Zawadzki's candidacy for mayor on the democratc ticket. Friends of Mr. Zawadzki today claimed the solid Irish vote for him. ATE A TARIFF LOBBY. senators as to the presence of a "pow

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WOULD PAY WELL TO Fifty of City's Leading Citizens Organize Lake County's Second Golf Club; Links Will Be Located on Old Ball Park Site. (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., June 6. A golf club is the latest organization in Whiting, as a result of the consummation of the plans of Mrs. Gallus J. Bader, Mrs. William Warwick and Prof. William Mathle, who were the real originators of the club. It will be the second course in Lake county; the Hammond Country club having the other. The subject of a golf club met with ready response from a number of Whiting cltzens, and to perfect the organization a meeting was held in the public library astiembly room. The meeting was well attended and over fifty signed up for membership. A board of trustees was elected, they being Dr. A. J. Lauer. chairman; Mayor Beaumont Parks, and Charles Fitzgerold. Mrs. Frank B. Lewis was elected secretary and treasurer. The grounds, consisting of forty-two acres, are west of the Fisher planing (Continued on Page 1.) FROM THE GARY FIELD Because the Lake County Relief and Protective association might possibly conflict with the newly organized Gary Charities, incorporated. Chief Officer R. E. Ricketts today announced that the association would remove Its main office from Gary to Hammond and that the Gary field would be left to the local organization. It is possible that the main office of the county association will be located in the Hammond building at Hammond. "We are not aware of the scope of the Gary organization," said Mr. Ricketts today. "Therefore we will withdraw from Gary. This, however, does not mean that we'll keep out permanently, for if the local societies find the task too big the association will re-enter the steel city. And the association of which I am the head will always co-operate with the various Gary charity organizations." Tou -'t Instant warmth and comfort w'.th a Gas Heating Stove. No. Ind. Gas A Elec Co.

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FOR THRONE AND MAKE HER A QUEEN VJ. s, X r t CLARIFIES SITUATION The issue between Judge Lawrence Becker of, the Hammond superior court and county clerk Ernest Shortrldge on the score of issuing second papers in the superior courts was considerably clarified by a decision of the appellate court received in Hammond this morning'. ' Sometime ago Judge Becker intimated that he would insist on issuing second papers in his court. The argument in the clerk's office has always been that no blank application papers were on hand. To fill these out entails a lot of work, and it depends on the amount of business and an extra clerk would probably have to be hired. Heretofore all the fees went to the United States governments but the appellate court now holds differently, Are Kntltled to One-Half. According to its decision the county clerks of the court of Indiana are entitled to one-half of the fees they col lect for the naturalization of aliens, according to the decision of the appellate (Continued on Page 15.) TO SPEND SUMMER ON WYOMING RANCH Miss M arret? Aisshiret Miss Margery Aleshlre, the younger daughter of Brigadier General and Mrs. J. B. Aleshire, is to leave Washington soon with her mother and elder sister to spend the summer on a Wyoming ranch. Miss Aleshire is wellknown and popular in Washington, where she is a leader in the younger av t

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SHARP B001 IS GIVE! KEEN RECEPTION

Hammond Booster Flattens It Out, However, by Saying He Is Not a Candidate

Boom No. 1 of the Hammond H13 mayoralty race la Just exactly one day old now and for all Its extreme youth is a fair-sized cloud on the democratic horizon. If a record had been kept on the telephone calls at 520 Summer street last night and today some estimate of the width and breadth of C. J. Sharp's popularity as a candidate could be given. If the good words received over the phone by The Times were any Indication the story aroused some interest. It Was a Boar Timber. From the minute the evening edition of Thh Times hit the street yesterday 1045J, the home phone of Rev. Sharp, was called for more than any other number in the directory.. Operators soon became cognazant of the fact that tht Sharp's were absent from home. Sharp Has a Sear. At eleven-thirty Rev. Sharp, and wife returned from Chicago where they had goife ' to attend a church, affair. For one night Sharp neglected to look at The Times and retired to slumber without knowledge of the boom that had started over night. Long before the rising hour the telephone bell rang and Sharp heard something that drove the sand from - his

NORTH TOWNSHIP ONE OF . RICHEST IN INDIANA

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. C Valuation 1912. Hammond . .......... .. $10,460,515 East Chicago .. . '. 7,828,370 Whiting 7,887,225 North Township ' 976,970 Munster 699,665 Highlands 492,315

Total North township, including its cities and towns, has, according to approximate figures given out by Assesor Bert Escher taxable property valued at tSO.000,000. This figure places its among the rlghest townships in Indiana. The township alone is richer than seventyfive percent of the counties in the state. Calumet township its closest competitor in Lake County including Gary, has, according to figures given out by Assessor McFadden sometime ago, a total assessed valuation of $23.000,000. May Be Revised. The figures quoted above for North township are not final and are subject to changes, because of revisions up or down, that the board of reviews now in session at Crown Point may possibly make. ;, The state board tax commission composed of Col. C. C Maston chairman. Dan Link and Exsenator Wolcott met with the county board of review on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week but adjourned to return again on tho Tonight at 8 o'clock, at the Russell street Methodist church. South Bend high school and Hammond high school will clash in debate. The contest promises to be a fight to the finish on the question, "Resolved, That for the Cities of Indiana tee Commission Plan is Preferable to the Fort Wayne Flan." Hammond has the affirmative and South Bend the negative. Before th opening of the debate the Central school eighth grade chorus will sing. Judge V. S. Reiter will preside. The Hammond team is composed of Leslie Hellerman, Theodore Adams and Mildred Carter. Janie Dye Is alternate. The ticket sale has already been large. Tickets will be on Bale at the door. The Judges are Judge McMahan o Crown Point Superintendent Deamer of La port e and Principal Davis of the Goshen high school. VOtn MOKET Brrc Of yonr good JTanieat and yon will And you-lf sarins; tj NIOIV SCOUT SCRAP (kt acme of quality, serfeo. Ion aad nentneaa. Savo the tickets, they are clear gilt to fa Asvt

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ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numbers S Cent Copy.) eyes in a hurry. This is J " came the voice. , I couldn't get you last night but I want to tell you that every fellow in this neighborhood is with you." He 'Waa Startled. "What's that?" shouted Sharp fearing for the worst but having no idea what had hapened that would rouse friends to his assistance. . "Say, don't . you read The Times?" said the astonished citizen. Regretting that he hadn't Rev. Sharp, made great haste to do. so. He had Just finished conversing with 'the first well wisher when another called. It lasted all day. A reporter for Tri Times squeezed In betwen telephone calls. The minister told him' for his paper that 'he could not think of leaving his life's work, for he considers it the most important in the world. Well, Why Sotf On the street the universal question was, "He'd make a dandy mayor but could he be elected?" Some thought so and some thought not. If it accompllhses nothing else the Sharp boom served its purpose by awaking Hammond to the fact that a new mayor Is to be elected this fall and that It ia high timet hings were started. r?r T"rT i"T Increase 1913. f $450,000 225,000 165,000 -50,000 2,500 2,500 $28,355,030 $895,000 25 of this month. The board of reviews however will continue in session until it has completed its work. It is composed of the county assessor -(Continued on-Page 15.) WASHINGTON SOCIETY WOMEN ADOPT SLOGAN Mm. John Hays Hammond. Mrs. John Hays Hammond, wif of tht millionaire mining engineer and prominent society woman of Washington, is o- of the leaders of a movement in the national capital to bring about legislation making tt compulsory for everyone to oecure a health crtificats before getting marriags iiccna. It la toped ftg

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