Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 308, Hammond, Lake County, 17 June 1913 — Page 1

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WEATHKB. COOLER TODAT. PROBABLY SHOWERS; WEDNESDAY FAIR. EDITION VOL. VII., NO. 308. TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1913. HAMMOND, INDIANA. ONE CENT PEK COPY. Back Numbers S Cent Copy.)

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CITY SHY Oil WATER AGAIN

The Old, Old Story Winter and Summer Alike; Hammond People Suffer for Necessary Water Supply Entirely Inadequate. Little pencil-point drops of dripped from faucets in the water second floor flats and apartments of Hammond this morning. Thirsty and unwashed citizens fumed and raved to no avail. The telephone at the Lake Front Park pumping station carried a hundred protests to the ears of J. H. Kasper, the engineer. It meant that the annual hullabaloo of "no water here" was Started, that the 12,000.000 galion-a-day output of Lake Michigan was being wasted in factories and on lawns, and that the city must suffer through the torrid summer because of its own wastefulness. Kasper Before Hoard. Kasper did his duty. He appeared before the board of public works at the city hall this morning and asked that the laws governing the sprinkling of lawns be enforced. This will be done. Residents who use the garden hose out of the hours of 5-6-7 a. m.' and 5-6-7-8 p. m. will be rrosecuted. But even If rigidly enforced it will not give total relier. Factories Are Wasteful. Many believe that the industries in Hammond are the most prodigous wasters of water. Hydrants are allowed to run full force, day and night, to no purpose other than that employes may stoop over and drink without taking the trouble to turn them off. This la true in the plants at least. Just how great an effect this has been cannot be determined. But the fact remains that the 12.000.000 gallons of water do not supply to town, though in theory that amount is easily sufficient. ' - ' -' -'- - Here are' the remedies advanced: J. H. Kasper "The only solution I know of is for the city to build ,a booster," which will consist of a pumping station and a reservoir somewhere in Hammond proper and will cost about $100,000." Pete Lyons, city engineer "I recommend a reservoir on the south side as the only remedy." A real estate man "If the water rates could be advanced to equal those of East Chicago and Gary so that a surplus might be thrown into a slush fund of a million dollars the city could build a gravity tunnel from the lake and a pumping station and provide the best of water facilities." With a state law that prevents municipals corporations from going in debt over 2 per cent of the assessed valuation, but allows private corporations to have a bonded indebtedness of B0 per cent, what can Hammond do? Slush ice in winter, no pressure in summer and nothing done about it! IS WOMAN WOMAN'S PEER? NO, INDEED! Mrs. Bertha Williams. A San Francisco court has just decided ' the interesting question: Who may be a woman's pejrT The state constitution says that a man shall be tried by a jury of his peers. The word man has been construed to include woman. Now, a San Francisco woman on trial for extortion, Mrs. Bertha Williams, has asked for a jury of women on the novel frroond that women are her peers. After taking six days to think li over, the jedpe sitting in the cqse has concluded that women are not women's peers, at least so far as the trial of

BODIES OF VICTIMS FOUND Long Search Brings Drowned Men to Light. (Special to The Times.) Cedar Lake, Ind., June 17. After nearly thirty-six hours of continued search and dragging the waters of Cedar Lake the bodies of the three victims of Saturday's unfortunate drowning were recovered yesterday. They were taken to Linton & Merrill's morgue at Crown Point to await final arrangements and disposition.

CHILD MAY LOSE LIFE. Plays With Gasoline With Disastrous Results. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point. Ind., June 17. A serious accident happened to the seven-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Heiner yesterday which may cost the little chap his life. The lad secured a quantity of gasoline and In less time than it takes to tell it, had repeated the old story of children, gasoline and lighted matches. The flames and fumes from the gasoline ignited the lad's clothing and burned him badly from head to foot, and last evening the attending physicians reported him In dangerous condition with the chances against him. DOCTORS BLAME MODERN COSTUMES Says Fraternity Must Take Hand in Social Evil. Laporte, Ind., June 17. That the time has come for the medical fraternity to take a hand in abating the social evil was asserted here yesterday in an address by Dr. H. M. Evans of Valparaiso at a meeting of physicians, when he declared that the woman's dress of the present day is responsible in large way for the conditions which exist. The dress of men, he said, is plain and creates no sensuousness, but the dress of women seems to be made more for that purpose every day. GIRL NO LONGER SITOOGEORGOPULOS Becomes Constandinidou i After Much Trouble. Beads of perspiration trickled down the face of Louis E. Legner, marriage license clerk in Chicago, yesterday afternoon, as a smiling young Gary couple approached the window. ""Harlloossitoogeorgopulosandeugeneconstandinidou," said the young man as he mopped his brow. "Yes, I know It's hot," responded Mr. Legner. "Now tell me what you want." Again the young man burst forth with the same, but he was soon halted by the puzzled clerk. "Start that all over again and give it to me in chunks," ordered Legner. "Wait. I write it," said the young man. This is what he jotted down: "Hariloos Sitoogeorgopulos and Eugene Constandinidou of Gary want to get married." ONE DEAD IN AUTO CRASH AT LIGONIER Accident Costs Life of New York Millionaire. Elkhart. Ind., June 17. Arthur T. Lewis, aged 40, millionaire member of the contracting firm of W. T. Lewis & Co., of New York, was killed last night when his automobile rolled down a 25foot embankment near Ligonier. Van Austin, his chauffeur, was uninjured. Mr. Lewis head was crushed and he died in the Lake Shore railway station in Ligonier while waiting for a train to carry him to Elkhart. Mr. Lewis and his driver were en route frojn Chicago, having passed through Hammond earlier in the afternoon, where the former had completed a business deal, to his home In New York. Mrs. H. E. Granger president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Hammond, said today: "We have soli

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bankers, merchants, doctors and lawyers, and know that we have the good will of the most influential people of Hammond. Mrs. S. V. Scott and Dr. Johnson are outsiders who tried to get in on our proposition. We refused their offer because we were led to believe that they had no means at their command. We felt the demand for our hospital to be so urgent that we will rent a temporary home and being at i once, meanwhile building th $60,000 hospital as planned. Mrs. Almena Parker-McDonald, head of the Francis Willard hospital of Chicago, spoke at the mass meeting in the South Hohman street Presbyterian church last evening, explaining the methods of her hospital. It is said that the promoters of the hospital were In the audience, but refused to take part In the discussion. Rev. Curdey of the Monroe street chapel spoke In behalf of the South Side Improvement association, having been authorized to offer the W. C. T. U. a site in Conkeyvllle. This is being favorably cdhsidered by some Of the women. ARB yOV X TIMES READER!

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Odd Fellow Lodge Trustee Rips a Few Out of the City Administration Because It Tore Up Walk in Front of Building on State Street. Odd Fellows of the Hammond lodge are Incensed at the city administration and the board of public works lu particular for what a trustee of the fraternity called a "brass knuckle holdup." He reterred to the action of the city in ripping up the entire sidewalk in front of, the I. O. O. F. block, on East State street without going through the formality of condemnation proceedings. The trustee. Tens Anderson, claims that the officials of his order were not notified that the walk was to be replaced. Yens Makes a Discovery, Anderson came downtown this morning and found Pete Davis bossing a gang of William Ahlborn's men. They were laying siege to the walk in front of theOdd Fellow's building with a vengeance and finding it hard work to more than knlck it. Ahlborn has the contract for the three-foot sidewalks extension on State street. "Jtmminiewilivers." said Davis to Yens. "This is the toughtest walk I ever tried to dig up." Anderson did not reply for a moment, but stood still to let the sight soak in on his startled senses. Then he exploded. "If its such a blamed good walk why don't you leave It alone?" he I "Orders of the board," replied Davis. Lyons Hears the Story. iuuruugmy arousea Anderson sent ior a lawyer a reporter and the city engineer. The latter came last, and when he arrived he found the Odd Fellow trustee In po mood for small talk." Yens Anderson saluted, "What right has the board-of -public works to tear up this walk without notifying us? It's cracked I'll admit, but we intended putting in a new one next spring when we put up our flve-story block. There's nothing dangerous about it." "Why, you fellows signed the petition for the three-foot extension of sidewalks along here," replied Lyons. "And there was a clause in it that gave the board a right to condemn sidewalks not 'A IV". "Never saw it," said Yens, "but that doesn't matter. This lodge can put in its own sidewalks. Not so very long ago you said yourself that this sidewalk would do. But rather than accommodate us with a few months'time you start your high-handed methods. There's 500 members in this lodge and 800 Odd Fellows In Hammond and we want to know why this is being done without taking us into your confidence. A meeting of Odd Fellows has been called for tonight and the matter will be fully discussed. To The Times Pete Lyons mado the following statement: "I am representing the board in the matter and will see that the orders are carried out. I refused to argue the question with Mr Anderson, but will say that the walk is rotten. There is not a square foot of surface that is not cracked." 10 BUILD Mac Turner, the architect, has plans prepared for a $75,000 Odd Fellow building that is to extend up five J stories on Kast State street In Hammond on the site of the present home building. It will be completed during 1914. It is to rival the Hammond liuilding in heighth and structure though it will be but fifty foot wide and two less than a hundred feet long. Authority for this announcement can be found at the First National Bank, the architect's office and the headquarters of the I. O. O. F. The building committee consists of Jake Wicker, E. G. Sproat, , John Long, Mac Turner, Yenz Anderson, Frank Traverse and C. H. Luthman. Steel and Brfrlt. The Odd Fellow building is to be a steel, concrete and brick structure of such design as to have the appearance of unusual heighth though not out of proportion. At least one elevator will be provided in a marble lobby. The first three floors will be leased to business firms for salesrooms and offices. The fifth will be reserved by the lodge as Its home, one of the most modern and spacious in the city. It will be one of many new fraternal buildings the K. of F.'s, K. of C.'s, Eagles and the Elks having either recently purchased new homes or started building booms.

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BIG MEN TO SPEAK AT HYGIENE CONGRESS IN BUFFALO; CHILDREN'S HEALTH IS GOAL.

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Buffalo, N. Y., June 17. School children will have their Inning at Buffalo the last week In August, when there will be held in this city the fourth International congress on school hygiene. All the leading nations, every state In the Union, every college and university of note In this country, and various other leading educational, scientific, medical and hygienic Institutions and organizations will be represented. It is the first congress of its knd ever held in this country. Wood row Wilson, gg president of the United States, has aqo.eptod the honorary office' of " patron ef the congress. The president of the congress Is Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard university. The vice presidents are Dr. William H. Welch, the noted pathologist of Johns Hopkins university, formerly president of the American Medical association, and Dr Henry P. Walcott. president of the re Teamsters Aroused. An attorney has been retained by the teamsters' union of Hammond for the purpose of bringing the railroads to time in the matter of speeding their trains through the city. An ordinance of long-standing sets the limit at six miles an hour and the union is highly indignant that this law cannot be enforced even In cases of extreme obedience. The death of John Prohl, the teaming contractor, has stirred up the teamsters and they intend to see the matter through to a finish. Tom Harle, business agent of the union, has charge of the movement. And He's Some Rooter. Seeing a baseball game by sound is something that the average fan cannot understand, but there is In Hammond, as enthusiastic a rooter as exists who for a number of years has attended games and never witnessed a play. The man referred to is "Blind" George, whose blindness cannot dim the charm of the national game for him. WOULD LIKE TO ADD $100,000 TO FORTUNE Andrew M. Lawrence. Andrew M. Lawrence, publisher of the Chicago Examiner, is suing A. A. McCormick of the Cook county board for libel in statements in the Chicago vote fraud incrairr. Ha

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cent international congress on hygiene and demography and chairman of the Masachusetts state board of health. It is the aim of the organizing com mittee to bring together at Buffalo a record number of men and women interested In Improving the health and efficiency of school children. A pro gram of papers and discussions Is being arranged, covering the entire field of school hygiene. There will be scientific exhibits representing the best that Is being done in school hygiene, and also commercial exhibits of educational value. Among the prominent men who will take, part In the conference are. Dr. Luther Gullck, well-known author and lecturer of New York city; O. Barrett Rich, Jr., scout commissioner of the city of Buffalo and chairman of the city reception committee, and Dr. Thomas A Storey, professor of hygiene in the college of the city of New York and secretary, general of the congress. A site has been purchased for a General hospital at Hammond, on Calumet avenue, between Eaton and Lyons streetsf with a frontage of 284 feet by 178 feet depth, on which will be constructed within the next 90 days a hospital building containing at least 200 rooms, a flve-story building. The hospital will be a non-sectarian Institution for the public in general. Any indildual or company may have the privilege of endowing a room or number of rooms as they may see fit at not less than $1,000 per room. Mr. E. Ullrich, president of the East Side Trust & Savings bank, closed the deal for the . property. M. V. Scott of the M. V. Scott Co., with offices over the East Side Trust & Savings Bank hiiflrline-. This hlds fair to he one of I the finest buildinars to be constructed in Hammond this season. JIM WILL GET A WARM WELCOME Proud that they have a champion in their midst, fight fans and admirers of Jimmy Clabby will welcome him home this evening with open arms when a rousing reception will be given him at the Hotel Mee. Jimmy is due to arrive in Hammond from Milwaukee on the 9:45 Monon train this evening, and at the station will be met with a swarm of fans and a brass band.- -He will be escorted to the Hotel Mee where an elaborate banquet will be served. Those present will not request him to don his fighting togs, but they will request him to go on the stump and tell how It feels to ! be a real welterweight champion, j Other speeches will be given and as ' a token of friendship the fans will j present Clabby with a beautiful Elks' charm. Jimmy Knows nothing or tne reception that has been planned for him and will be a surprised veteran when he steps off the train at Hammond tonight. Tour fuel bill will be less If you cook with Gas. No. Ind. Gas & Elec. Co. PLAT COLFt Von will enjoy tk game more tf yon take a supply of COUNTRY CtUB Ions rut tobaceeke llaks witk yon. Try It. McHlecectem Tobacco Co,

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Wonderful Showing Made by Indiana's Youngest City in Seven Years of Growth

TIMES BUREAU. AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., June 17. Figures have been compiled at the stats house showing the percapita wealth of 118 of the leading cities of Indiana, They show tha-t Gary Is the richest city per capita In the state, with Whiting second and Hobart third. The rank, population, total taxable and percapita wealth of a number of northern Indiana cities follow:

Rank. Cltv. Population. 1. Gary 17,802 2 Whiting 6,847 3. Hobart 1,753 4. Indianapolis 240.098 12. Ligonier 2.173 18. Lagrange 1.772 31. Fort Wayne 65,814 38. Laporte 10.866 41. Goshen 8.684 43. Columbia City S.495 45. South Bend 56.507 61. Warsaw 4,474 66. Hammond 21,779 60. Plymouth 8,856 71. Auburn 8.971 76. Mishawaka 18.618 82. Elkhart 19,691 87. Crown Point 2,545 90. East Chicago 19.666 98. Valparaiso 7.057 107. Michigan City 18! YOUTH IS Fourth Summer Fatality to Occur in Region Within 24 Hours Takes Place at Whiting Bathing Beach Yesterday Afternoon. (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., June 17. Seeking re lief from yesterday's torrid wave in the tempting waters of Lake Michigan at the Whiting Lake Front park yes terday afternoon, Peter J. Jones, 24 years old, plunged into the icy water for his first swim of the season. Swimming out where the water was beyond his depth, Jones was seized, and helpless, was drowned before the eyes of his brother, D. M. Jones, who made futile efforts to rescue him. This swells the toll of victims to four within the past 48 hours. Both Could Swim. The two brothers, well known and respected employes of the Standard Oil company at Whiting, decided , to have a half day's outing yesterday afternoon, and with their bathing suits went to the Whiting park to have a swim. Both good swimmers, they plunged into the cold water and had (Continued on Page 8.) DIG WELL AT BALDWIN A force of men Is now engaged in disrering a deep artesian well on the Baldwin Locomotive works property at Indiana Harbor, the work having been in progress for about a week. Yeeterdny they had drilled to a depth of 115 feet when they struck a vein of gravel, making it necessary to discontinue op-Jei-ationj until the arrival of certain implements necessary to penetrate this strata. the well Is being put In by the Nc-edham Water Works company of Lake street, Chicago and will be used to supply the Baldwin plant with water and Incidentally to furnish water for the concrete foundations and other building purposes while the building la in operation. The construction Is similar to most artesan wells. It will have a seven inch blind pipe to the rock and from the point where water Is struck the pipe will be of the strainer variety, such as Is always used In the lower sections of these well drills. There will b: a pump house erected over the mouth of the well In which will be Installed an electric motor and there will also be a capacious tank for a reserve supply to be used in case of fire, and for other purposes where a great quantity of water Is required than the pumps will be able to provide.

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Total taxables. Per capita. 31,418. 40 1.164.53 928.50 908.01 630.78 607.06 636.1B 684-33 507.47 606.88 600.65 40.16 480.80 478.61 449.8T 432.40 . 423-15 409.88 398.0T 874.1 820.61 zo,oes,33U 7,887,255 L18,905 218,027,220 1,370,690 1,675,690 35,220,470 5,697.413 4,866,220 1,769,845 28,290.670 2.193.085 10.460,615 1.822,410 1,784,390 6,412,780 8.832.265 1,041,865 7.828,870 2,646,570 p.zj.4u WILL GET SURPRISE Hammond Country Club Committees Labor Hard to Make Outing of Indiana Society of Chicago an Enjoyable One. The general arrangement committee of the Hammond Country Club to provide entertainment for the 700 members ladies of the Indiana Society who will invade Lake County next Saturday met last night and In good measure perfected the final program for tho day. A stupendous amount of work is being done by the members of the Hammond Country Club to make the affair the most novel and unique ever held in this part of the state and the program committee has exhausted Its wit to show the visitors that Hammond has ' some live ones, who are not deficient in originality. , Have Thetn Fire Honrs. The Hammond folk will take charge tContlnued on Pag - CHARLTON'S CHANCES - AREN'T WORTH MUCH i 3 ..4 .... .U:3J!:.. I c Porter Charlton. Now that Porter Charlton has at last been given up to the 1 Italian authorities, it is said that his case will be disposed of in short order. Charlton long ago confessed to the murder of his wife in Italy. In that country pleas of "insanity." "unwritten law," etc., do not work so successfully as they-do in JuttXK,

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