Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 22, Hammond, Lake County, 28 June 1913 — Page 1

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WEATHER. CONTINUED WARM AND FAIR TODAY AND SUNDAY.

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CONKEY S CORKER Hammond- Manufacturer Gets Letter from Con gressman Relative to His Interview in The Times Last Week. W jo. Lonnev. ne.ii nf a ..... Ilr"1 publishing house who save Thb ximbs an interview last Monday in wnicn Be expresses confidence In safe and sane government, has received tho following letter from Congressman Peterson at Washington: "My Dear Friend Conkey: .jmve noticed the item in the HAMMOND Times, headed "Publish r coca oanjiy in rrospects.' puportmg xo oe an Interview with you unon the subject of present business and nnancial conditions. I desire to ex press to you my appreciation of your very considerate and patriotic views or the situation. If all large manu facturera like yourself would Join In promoting the public good by wholesome expressions of confidence as you have done there would be no danger nor even an uneasiness over present conditions. "Our country was never in a better nor more prosperous situation than at ine present and the only thing mat can disturb public affairs Is the pessimistic pratings of some who are never satisfied. "After reading your interview I felt that I could not refrain from ex tending to you -my thanks for your apt and well chosen expressions. "Most sincerely yours, "J. B. PETERSON." Mr. Conkey has a new slogan which he believes should be adopted by bus! business men, bankers and manufac turers, and it Is "Be a booster and not a croaker. He Is confident that conditions will continue to Improve If everything talks "bpttmlsnr Instead of lugubriously fore boding panlo, and hopes that a nation wide movement will start to boost things Instead of croaking. ODD FELLOWS rtnwi n i mTTT 'i CONGRATULATED Odd Fellows representing the East Chicago and Indiana Harbor lodges made a special visit to the Hammond headquarters of the Calumet lodge on Thursday evening at a regular meet ing or the order. They came. It is said, to congratulate Messrs. Lutchman. Travers and Anderson, the board of trustee- on their stand In the now famous sidewalk case. Tt. v ...... I that the grand lodge will uphold the local lodge iln standing for its rights In the matter and that It Is not a violation of the charter. FIRST FEMALE AUTO BANDIT CHICAGO AN Mrs. Irene Brunner. Chicago's first female aoto bandit has made her appearance. The woman had the automobile, the revolver and the nerve which are common to auto bandits of the other ex. But evidently her career will be shorter. Mrs. Irene Brunner is charged by Windy City authorities with being the female auto bandit. She was placed under arrest a few days ago on a charge of holding up an aoto mid. is now cot on t&QOO bail.

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.w . ne l Lake FlaR,d- wlere they have taken a cottage for the summer jWsti Z V, n OI the hot mnths. Justice and at the Connetlcut and left for New York, where they will visit their daughter. 5 s H lZ u i m ' McKonna. Thursday, closed their apartment to Boston to visit Mrs. Davenport Brown. annth i ?V"-.VtU ?uffield nd Mrs. John Legett Pult. From thf.r th.v m

. HOT? YES! I SIGHT WHICH . WOULD YOU BATKEK DO TOMORROW Flro a ravenous coal-eatine mnrul for 150 miles in ths blazing sun? work with molten stuff in the hlaat furnaces of Gary where the air scorches tne lungsT , Stand on red-hot bricks at the four comers, dressed In a blanket-like salt of blue and direct traffic? Work under the tround at th ston. aara steel plant at Hammond, taedin th fiimu r .v.. . ... out TLtl V, 7" V T.V " - r Ride around In fllthv tr Packed with perspiring evil-tempered p op"" lw yourseir. in search of all1 pleasure a picnic ground. the ball game bleachers, or the nlckle how? You can have vour choice. Rubbing It la. Continued warm and fair tomor row, predicts the weather bureau. Th bitter sarcasm of "warm" nH Is enough to warrant the wiping out of thu nrfinhtti wKrh -f . 1 . fan. s.d lemonades in towers that were erected for the spectfTc purpose nt Mtt . v. purposn . .,..u Vl u, 1S, rMM mi fi-ht have comfort. What's the matter with the simnle superlative word, "hot?" To fully describe the weather that people of the Calumet region the experiencing it should bo qualified by a well known noun of four letters. Sleep In Parks. . A suffering populace arose this morning from beds In parks, on lawns, In hammocks aad on floors, from a fretful and unrefreshlng sleep. Work was almost an impossibility today and tomorrow will be the quietest Sundav of the summer for a suffering populace Is going right back to beds In parks and lawns and will loll tomorrow to read the lightest fiction published which is eero In weights. The parks In the Calumet region were replicas of parks everywhere In tho midst of the torrid wave. In the early evening they were Jammed and at midnight well filled. Scores of families slept in the parks. Rules for Comfort. Tomorrow will be another enervating, death-dealing, mad-dog day .To live with any degree of comfort one must observe any number of don't that enclude total abstenlance from meats and liquors. Here are a few DOES: i Wear as few articles of clothlnsr i possiDie. you can size up the moral standard of your neighborhood and go accordingly. All pieces of haber dash ery should.be left severely alone. Read Scott's diary of his adventures In the neighborhood of the South Pole ana Marrle Corilli's story about the i-ana of the Setting Sun. BUT unles you have access to the Knickerbocker Ice House It Is not advisable to read "Treasure Island, "With Stanley in Africa," or "Three Weeks," as all of these books contain warm passages. There is but one thing more to bear in mind and that is that ,the transgressors are punished in the ifterworld and it is therefore not necessary for you to murder the "Hot enough for you" villain and place yourself In danger of prostration from the heat. Here Is the way a lino-type machine operates in the heat: "nxbenenns nslbkofvshlffpjgmmpussvfsvrbb abeheci bfdlindrd." Tour fuel bill will be less If you cook with Gas. No. Ind. Gas & Eleo. Co. FOHEI (XXXX) la THB tobacco to smoke during the snmmer months. It la cool and mild. Try It. McHle-Scot-ten Too. Co Adv.

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JUSTICES QUIT GRIND, LEAVING MANY IMPORTANT CASES UNDECIDED

J""c" "T. M.Knr. " ' " "i"ccl GATES TRAP 2 CYCLISTS - . (Special to The Times.) , Hegewisch. 111., July 28. Two Hammond boys on a tandom motorcycle were trapped on the South Shore crossing at the state line today and escaped death ty a fraction of a second. The young men were Edward Zfts, 118 Wabash avenue, and Connie Dudkienwics, 130 Johnson street. The machine was crossing the Fort Wayne tracks that adjoin the Interurban righ of way and are safeguarded by the same gates. The eastern escape was shut off when the gates were lowered directly in front of the machine. a ca.,-wa hearing down upon the twai motorcycietsts who had but a moment io decide, the gateman yelled at.them. uui me gates remained down. iiiey iook a cnance and went straight ahead. Luckily neither was Injured, as Bonnie, on the rear seat, was able to yank the gate up and they dodged unaer. lne speeding car barelv oraniil the back tire Just enough to throw the macnine into the ditch. No one w even injured. Didfi't Like Their Work. Maurice Hankinson, manager of the Orpheum, did not sympathize so readily as the general public with the chorus girls of the "Over Night in Boston" show who attached the fixtures of the play and began suit against the manager, Edward Jolly all for $2.40 apiece. Although Hankinson is a neutral party he is interested for the sake of his theater's reputation. H tat last PVonlno- Vi i - i. .1 . . . . r me bhuw iris, now gone, had agreed when the show was to close down .south two weeks ago to work for six-sevenths of their regular salaries xo nn additional dates. When the, show ended in Hammond they balked. Jolly, who had" engaged them for twelve weeks and kept them on the road twenty-nine, refused to give in, and they attached his show. There is an unexplained thing about the procedure. To attach a man's property one must put up a cash band according to law. Mr. Hankinson claims. But the chorus girls didn't and by staying over night and being compelled to pay court costs and attorney fees they lost out after all. They accepted the manager's terms after all the powwow. "The show girl in tabloid gets all the way from $20 to $30 a week and expenses, according to her ability" said Mr. Hankinson. "If she can dance and sing and is good looking she will receive $30. That is more than they are paid in the average mi.. 1 nicai comedy, because they work three times a day and can demand more." AT WILD WEST SHOW. The Granger family left yesterday afternoon . for Kankakee. 111., where Pawnee Bill's wild west show Is playiHB- nuuen granger, one of the u.umtia, is manager or the show. H. tu. granger headed the delegation. He said "every Granger and his two sisters are going; that makes twelve mm incir wives manes sixteen, and ineir Kids makes fifty-four. They aon t an live In Hammond, however." Heat Prostrates Boy. Edwin Drackert. son of Police Commissioner George Drackert, living at the state line on Rimbach avenue, Is severely ill as a result of the heat. He was reviving from a complete prostration that took place the other day when the worst of the heat wave came yesterday. Today he is very ill and the physicians hope for a change in the weather, though none Is nmmu. ed. He at times suffers frnm While on the links smoke Country vmn IQPKCCO

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"i" wnnm a lew days all the .ti... BU&LE JURIS Geneva. Jane ; 2S. TMi city sent committee to congratulate King Peter of Scrvla on bin sixty-ninth birthday tomorrow, believing he t11I abdicate and establish residence here. Pittsburgh, - fa-, June 2 Si. Young ivenny, boxer, end Mlu Carolyn l lender, actreaa, ended ChrlMmaa party romance la wedding here today. Portland. .rte June 28. -Twelve thousand delegates here attending the World's Chrtstltn Association confer ence nave agreed to make uniform nght on dlvo -,3rlln, . June H Pollca anthoritlcn takinsr apecf at guard German Grand Prix- tvmsrrow. -sratnat nffM. gette disturbances which marred Eng. aa race, with fatal results. Paris, June 23. Jeff Smith, Bayonne, wonder, meets GtarKc Csrpcstler, French heavyweight. In twenty, round boot tonight. Chicago, June 28. Sheppard, Klvtat, Jones. Ronhag, McGrath, all high lights la athletic world, here to defend titles in international athletic championships at Grant park. Indianapolis, Ind., June 28 (Times Bureau.) The M. & S. Real Estate no. of Gary was Incorporated here for 930,lMreetors, Samuel aad Miller and Joshua Stelner. Thri WILL SPEAK AT PEORIA ur. j. a. bratiam has been invited to deliver the principal address of the evening next Monday evening at the annual meeting and banquet of the Canadian-American club at Peoria. The celebration will take place In the rooms of the Creve-Coeur club. Dr. Graham, who is a Canadian-American himself, has accepted the invitation. La Vendor cigars are pronounced exceptionally good by all smokers Adv. WILL BE ENVOY AT KAISER'S COURT Jh. m es W. Gexa r cZ . James W. Gerard, assocate Justice of the "New York state supreme court since 1908, has been chosen by Presi dent Wilson for the post of ambassa dor to Germany. Justice nerarrt t i

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their m x. .. .. v- tv.h uave leu me city. NO SEX HYGIENE FOR WESHM101 Board of Education to Ignore Decision of Cook Co. School Heads. ' Sex hygiene is not to be taught In the public schools of West Hammond. The board of education in a closing meeting of the year entirely ignored the dictates of Chicago schools and the district board, and while putting through matters of importance left the delicate subject severely a lone. Thy realise that sex hygiene would be immensely unpopular right at present in their city which has heard so many unlovely subjects discussed in public In the past "few years. . Manuel Tralntaic. . Manual Jjrainltr .will. k-a-.i .v. ! curriculum r w ITrTTTT negotiating for a teacher now. Threo new teachers were hired at the next meeting and the contract let for a new heatine- nn.t. i civ. . ii ii lo cost tz.yoo. waiter R. , laterson, president, and Fred Siegrlst, secretary, were present as well as a!l of the six members. LINEMAN HAS LUCKY ESCAPE G. Gehrke, a lineman, 24 Sibley I ! street Hammond, aped 21, who works for the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company, received 11,000 volts into his head, and lives to tell the tale. The accident happenod while Gehrke with a gang of fellow workmen was stringing power wires on some poles in front of the Linde Air Products company's plant at East Chicago. The man was up on the crossbars of a pole almost directly In front of the Linde plant, when his head suddenly came in contact with the wire conveying the 11,000 volts of electricity. Instantly he was seen to fall back, but his foot was so fastened In a brace to the cross-bar that it held him suspended. Fellow workmen ran to his assistance with a rope and, fastening this to his free leg, the other one was disengaged and he was let down to the ground. He will be at work next week. COURTS TO WIND UP FOR THE SUMMER Work in the Lake county courts Is drawing to a close and next week will practically see the windup for - the summer. Judge Reiter has a number of calendar settings for next Monday, ' at wnicn time Denutv Prn.oAt. Ralph Ross may also present a num ber of criminal cases for prosecution Judge -Becker was hcarine- rilvnrr. i cases today and will devote his time to special matters next week. The Hammond annexation cases are set specially for next Monday before Judge W. C. McMahan at Crown Point. The annual meeting of the Lake County Bar association is called for next Friday and Saturday. ; Women Are Invited. In talking with the residents of Hammond about the effort which Is being made to keep our streets and alleys cleaner, the Settlement House association finds many who are .greatly distressed over the quantity of paper which is constantly blowing about the streets and collecting in the yards. This must be felt by many others who have not been seen and who are anxious to see conditions improved. It is hoped that every one will come out to the meeting to be -held next Monday night at 8 o'clock in the Chamber of Commerce and talk over these matters. . The women as well as the men are urged to be present for the civic housecleanlng is as much a part of woman's work as the domestic. The officials are willing to do their part and the public must show that they are interested enough to be will ing to help. subscribe: for thb time.

SATURDAY DIES AFTER

Double Riding on Motorcycle in Absence of Husband Brings Death -to Gary Woman

A motorcycle ride that Mrs. J. B. Rittenberry, wife of a traveling sales man. 645 Adams streets, Gary, took with : a roomer. Husro Smith 51 iroam nlH last night resulted in her death. The motorcycle was struck by a 1 speeding auto In Ridge road near High- I lands, which never stopped after the accident. As the Juggernaut brushed against the motorcycle it fractured the woman's leg. As Smith slowed down his machine she dropped to the road and in so doing her skull was fractured. Death followed at eleven o'clock, an hour and a half after the accident, at the Gary General hospital. Police Have Two Suspects. The Gary police hold William Jackson and Otto Buckley, both Gary young men, as suspects in the case. They were arrested at Ridge road and Broadway last last night. The banged up condition of their car lead the police to hold the pair. Jackson, who formerly was chauffeur for Ingwald Moe, was arrested several days ago when ne returned to Gary from Buffalo driving a car. There were several complaints of his utterly worthless checks against him and the youth was released when settlement was made. Go To Hammond. According to Hugh Smith, a roomer at the Rittenberry home, he and Mrs. Rittenbury went out motorcycle riding early In the evening. They cruised down Boardway and thence west in Ridge road, going nearly as far a.r Hammond. Returning on their homeward course shortly after nine o'clock they noticed the lights of a speeding auto coming westward when 2 1-2 miles .west of Broadway. "I steered the motorcycle as near to the gutter as possible," said Smith at police headquarters where he Is now held. "But the speeding auto seemed to sway as It came near us and then .we brushed pass each other with a loud ..? cn .QW "SrKllHyerrg-, -gave scream of pain. As, I slowed down my machine she dropped to the" ground, I "sKoutod to the autoists, they slowed down Just j I "" B,,",

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Knlel Koedycker and Walter Swets of Highlands came along and helped to care for the dying" woman, as did Charles Jackson, a negro saloonkeeper, and his wife,' who passed the scene of TWO DIE Two deaths from heat prostration were recorded in Indiana Harbor yesterday. The victims are John Schuberg. and Ben Kuta, both of Indiana Harbor. In East Chicago, a horse fell dead on i the tsreet in Tod avenue, the animal being the property of the Anheuser ' Busch Brewing company. ocnuDerg, who lived at 3829 Elm street was a section hand employed by the E. J. & E., and his death occurred at about four o'clock yesterday afternoon. He had complained from time -i.o time throughout the day, of the heat, but everybody was suffering similarly and no especial notice was taken of the fact that the man was ..verheatsd until he was seen to turn deatniy pale nd red by turns, and lapsed into un- J onsciousness. He died almost lmmedconsclousness- lle died almost lmmed lately. Burns and McGuan were notified and the body was taken to thMr unoer- ' taking rooms where an inquest will "p,j held today. The man was married and his widow was notified as soon as possible and came to the Burns and McGuan establishment to claim the body. Funeral arrangements will be made as soon aa the coroner has finished with the Inquest. Schberg was forty-five years of age. ' Kuta was a stripling of seventeen and worked at the Cement plant St Bufflngtcn. His home was at Beech street. Yesterday while at work he complained if illness and at ten o'clock he left for home. He never reached his destination and his frinOs believed that he had remained at work, until news of his death reached them this morning.' His body was found lying alongside the Pennsylvania tracks near CUne avenue by some men sn their way to the plant at which Kuta was employed. The boy was of Polish nationality. Amateur Night. Amateur night is a permanent Institution at the Bijou. Every Friday night the house is packed with relatives and friends of contestants -as well as the amateur night fiend. Manager Van Sickle Is offering vaudeville and motion pictures to his patrons now and promises that electric fans will keep' the auditorium supplied with

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PLEASURE RIDE

DOUBLE RIDING ON MOTORCYCLE RECALLS MISHAPS Crusades by newspapers and efforts to the police to stop the dangerous practice of double-riding on motor-cycles has been attended with few results. The death of Mrs. Rittenberry which followed n ride of this character may result in local legislation against the practice. Scores of young girla may be seen riding lata at nights on motorcycles with young men. i Last August Ethel Smith came near losing her life because she was double riding. Billy Roughlaid down hla life to save hers. Double riding on motorcycles has taken two lives In Gary during the past tea months and has resulted In Injuries to many others. Not long ago a young girl who accepted the invitation of a stranger to rids on bis motorcycle waa attacked by him when they reached tho Black Oak Woods. the! accident In their auto. Officers Pfaff and Gilmore (colored) of the Gary police; soon arrived on tho scene and the woman was taken In an apto to the Gary General hospital. Here her Injuries were found to be a broken lejr and, a fractured skull. She never regained consciousness and at 11 o'clock: she died. Young Smith received bruises about the leg. ; Take Suspects at 10:50 p. m. At 10:50 p. m. Pfaff and Gilmore arrested , Jackson and Buckley as. their car swept by Ridge road and Broadway. The pair were taken to tho police station and locked upjoa a charge of crim Inal carelessness pending the coroner' : inquest, , Young Smith said that Mrs. Ritten"usuno traveling salesman I for iror a picture concern and that he la .now on his way to Gary from Post City. Iowa. The dead woman is said to have a sixteen-year-old daughter living at Paris, 111. Her remains were taken t the Marshall and Dancluovich morgue. BOY IS DROWNED ' IN DEEP RIVER DROWNINGS THIS MONTH... 13 While bathing in Deep river at New Chicago yesterday (Thursday) S; m Wandei, aged 17 years, was taken with I cramps ana was arownea berore assistance could reach him. The accii dent occurred about 11 o'clock and it was nearly an hour before the body j was recovered. Deputy Coroner Brink was called and Undertaker Wild took charge of the body. The young man worked In a pencil factory In Chicago and was with his i parents at New C.iicago this . wet', i enjoying a vacation. He la spoken of as having been a very fine young man. Hobart Gazette. SEES LOW WAGE AID TO THE SOCIAL EVIL y, - , KM. if tj i6 .-:.(., 4 .J' Airs. Raymond Robins. Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chicago, president of the National Women'" Trade Union Leajrue of America, says that investigations have brought oat a close relationship between low waes and the social evil. "That there is commercialized vice we all know," says Mrs, 1 Robins, "and that it sends its respresentatives into the day's work of factory and store we also know. But it should be definitely understood that there are irls by the tens of thousands who have maintained the integrity of their womanhood in the face of great personal suffering and self-sacrifice, as well as in' the fasti of gray turtation,!

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