Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 34, Hammond, Lake County, 28 July 1913 — Page 8

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Mondav, Julv 28, 1913. "JOY . NIGHT" DROWNINGS KEEP REGION IN STIR LIFE NEARLY SPENT," SAYS CARDINAL GIBBONS, "BUT MY SOUL'S STILL YOUNG' VContlaaed from Pan LI

James, Cardinal Gibbon. Cardinal Gibbons ia seventy-nine years old July 23. "I do not thin 1 will live much longer; my life la nearly spent, " be says.

FLOATER IS The body washed ashore near the! Portland Cement Company's plant, Indiana Harbor, was discovered Saturday by a man passing along the beach, has been identified. He has proved" to be Captain Bernard Larson of the tug William A. Field, who with three j other men lost his life when the tug was run down by the ore boat, Ira D. Goulder November 10 or last year. ! Captain Larson's " body Is the third to be recovered from that disaster, and there Is stll lone body, that of a deck-hand, unrecOvered. Yesterday Charles P. Miller, manager of the Dunham Towing and Wrecking . Company which owned the U lfated tug boat, which has since ben raised, Captain Bowen, now , ln charge of the tug, O. A. Pearsoa, steward, and Albert Denays, the pilot and only survivor of the accident, visited Indiana Harbor and identified the remains. While the fact- was unrecognizable, there were certain details, such as the teeth, which ln Capt. Larson had been prominent and of unusually good quality, the high-cheek bones which has been a prominent feature with him, and portions of his clothing, which convinced the men who came from Chicago to view the body, that it was the captain ..of the sunken tug. Captain Larson's family reside in Cleveland and they hav been notified of the discovery of the body.- . Of the bodies recovered previously, one was found the day following the tragedy, by divers, and the second was found oft Gary some time after, where It had been washed ashore by the waves. The one found by divers was taken off the sunken tug where it was trapped. The tug was raised some time after the accident and towed to the shipyards .at South Chicago where it was repaired and put back Into commission. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon at the undertaking establishment of Burns and McGuan, on the remains of the late captain. UTILE GIRLS ARE MOLESTED BV MAS Attarlf Arnii?pi Trip TYp nf AbbdU& "iOUbeb Xlie Xie OI j Tolleston People Yesterday. While on their way to mass at Holy Angels parish in Gary yesterday morning two little Tolleston Rirls, sisters, were accosted by a stranger, who seized one of them. The other ran away sceraming and managed to attract the attention of a man who came to the rescue just as the older sister was about to be choked by the brute. He managed to make his escape in the woods. Blanche and Mary Benbit, 1952 Martha street are the names of tho little girls who were accosted while walking alosg the Wabash tracks in the wods between Tolleston and Gary. Blanche is 13 and Mary is 11 years old. The police made a good starch of the woods but got no trace of the assailant. On three other occasios children living in Tolleston attending the Catholic church and school have been molested by men ln the woods along the Wabash tracks. THE HOME NEWSPAPER OF LAKH COUNTY IS THE COMPLIMENT BESTOWED BT ITS READERS ON THI

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RAILWAY Hallway accidents ln Gary yesterday elalmd one life and probably will re sult in the loss of another. xne Doay or an unldentled young man was found on the Gary and Western railway high line, one block east of Broadway, yesterday morning. Max Heller, 14 years old, of New York, had his feet crushed ano will have to have them amputated as a re sult of being pushed off of a Wabash train. ' Description of Dead Han. The body of the rail victim at the Gary Undertaking company's morgue Is described as follows: About 28 years, 6 feet 9 Inches, 166 pounds, dark complexion, dark hair and eyes, black stiff hat, knit underwear, blue shirt, blue serge suit, laced tan shoes, smooth shaven, evidently an American. The only papers found ln tne pockets were some cash register checks from John Bennett's saloon. Hell at Mrey Hospital.' Heller, who was Injured about noon yesterday, was taken to the Mercy hospital. Shock and loss of blood prevented the surgeons from amputating his feet at once. If able to stand the operation Heller's feet will be amputated today. However, It la feared that Heller may die. DOOLEY GIVES GARY NICE "AD" Writing about Mr. Dooleys visit to la summer resort, Flnley Peter Dunne I ln the Chicago Sunday Tribune tells i how his famous character met a man from Gary who really wante to home. The Garyite in the Dooley i story evidently had a bank roll which might suggest that Tim Englehart, who Is now traveling, may have tried Fell Mr. Tooley a Gary let Mr. Dunm- writes in pa.-t as ho teils of the lady in the swell New York hotel: "She's come here with forthy thrunks full iv upholstery, an' whin she's oncovered thim all she'll make th' rest Iv thim women feel that they got their krappers fr'm th' foundlings' home," he says. 'But,' he says, resoomln' his plaintiff tone an' lookin" wistfully at his congress gaiters, 'Jus' th' same I'd give annything to be back home on me own porch, with me coat off, watchin' th' merry throng go by." 'An' where do ye live whin ye ain't here? says I. 'In Gary, Indyanny,' he says. 'Well' thinks I 'Gary is a handsome an' prosp'rous city an' it turned out more tteel rails last year than ayether Rome or Venice. But If a man fr'm Gary pines to go home what's keepin a citizen iv th' methropolus lv th' west here? An I wlnt Into th' hotel, tore me valise fr'm th rosin on th' ure, subjicted mesllf to a search at th' hands lv th' cashier, an left th" scene iv spllndor frlver. USED THINGS THAT YOTJ DON'T WANT CAN BE SOLD IF YOlT ADVERTISE LN THE TIMES.

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, . ; 1 Gary's first annual Chautauqua will ' come to a close tonight with a Joy Night" celebration conducted by Ralph Bingham, the noted entertalnor. It Is now assured that Gary will have a Chautauqua next year. The .star attraction yesterday afternoon was Ex-Governor Joseph J. Folk of Missouri, who spoke in ihe after-, noon on the fight to sarre him-etas from thn grafters. In the evening Dr. Thompson preached a sermon using the present drama as his topic. On Saturday Kryl and his famlus band held sway. The ' Garv chautauqua has been a success In every way and the Gary Associated Charities will benefit Immensely from the proceeds. No other chautauqua had such a varied program as the Gary affair. It included such political notables as Secretary of -State Wtlltiua Jennings Bryan, Ex-Congressman J. Adam Bede, Ex-Mayor Emtl Setdel of Milwaukee and the former governor of Missouri, j . j DERAILED TO AVOID COLLISION rCaatlnoed from Pare !. the fireman of the special, A. J. Heller, ' and a severe Jar to more than one ! hundred passengers in the coaches of ; the train. I According to the storf told after the ' accident. Smith had set the semaphore signal to halt the Pennsylvania train. The through train on the Wabash tracks Just had whistled to be given the right of way at the crossing, sev eral hundreds yards from the tower. Engineer Wilson of the Pennsylvania train failed to see the f block signal. His train was an hour and a half late. During the night- he had been driving, he said, close to eighty miles an hour. As the Pennsylvania train sped past the semaphore's warning the towerman aw the Wabash train pull slowly onto the Intersections of the tracks. There was only a second or two ln which to act. Smith seized the fleeting opportunity. Hl Pimn of Mind. - He sprang to his switch line and Jerked into place the switch derailing the Pennsylvania train. The heavy en- ! glne rushed upon the broken line. Pasengers sitting In the coaches of the ' Wabash train saw the onrushlng en- i gine leave the tracks less than 100 hundred from them. They saw a form hurtle from the cab and bound down t the embankment of the track. Their ; lives had been saved by the derail witch and by Towerman Smith. Engineer Wilson had saved himself from Injury by leaping from his cab. Fireman Heller was severely cut and bruised, but was able to leave the scene and without "medical assistance. For real (rood value a trie roar dealer for "Talon Scout Scrap. Tbe bee chew la the worlds McHte-Scottea Tab. Co. MR. BUSINESS

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1 tended however to the three who swam i for their Uvea, and they were pulled In ; to shore more or less exhausted, but otherwise unharmed. All night Ions the searchers for the bodies remained on the scene and the morning: broke with a group of anxious watchers wearied from their ions; vigil still on shore. The little throng was augmented later by many others who visited (the beach anxious to learn the success . 0f the searchers. All morning the beach.was lined with spectators watching the work of the men In the boat. Arthur Lee, watchman for the Ireland stftrl company, and an expert swimmer and diver, dove many times from the boat in which the searchers were stationed, In the hope of bringing up the bodies. After darkness descended the police and their volunteer helpers worked by lantern light and they "were rewarded at 1:30 by recovering the body of the East Chicago lad. Up to about the time of the recovery of the body, the father of young Kadetskl, who conducts a tailoring shop over Schlleker's drug storfj where he and his two sons have been also making their home, had heard nothing of the tragrdy- Early ln the afternoon ne naMj pone out to drive with a friend named William Grobar. At about the some time his son. Alex, had started for Indiana Harbor to call for his cousin young Braman, with the intention of going bathing. The father did not get back to East Chicago until JL o'clock the machine ln which he was riding having a flat tire. The crossing police officer, recognizing Kadetskl, but being loath to tell him of the fate that had befallen his son, called Grobar over and communicated the sad news to him. The latter In turn informed Kadetskl. The street cars had stopped running and the fiat tire on Grobar's machine, prevented the frenzied father from going to the Harbor ln this, but fortunately a few moments later Judge Walter J. Riley came by in his automobile, dn his way from the city. He took Kadetskl into his car and carried him to the Harbor. By this time the body of his boy had been recovered and had been taken to Burns and McGuan's undertaking establishment. The Braman boy was the son of Rachael Braman who conducts a grocery, tea and coffee store at 2521 Cedar street. This tragedy has once more demonstrated the necessity of a life saving station In this vicinity, there have been numerous accidents oft this shore and otr Whiting and Hammond, which might have been averted, had there been men and equipment on hand to lend the necessary assistance, The owner f the disabled boat which proved so treacherous to the rowers. Is not known. GARY AEROPLANE COMES TO GRIEF Harry P. Martin, the young aviator from Gary and Miller, saw his homemade machinep'artlally wrecked when he tried to make a trial flight at the Gary Country4 Club yesterday afternoon. '" Martin got started but his machine MAN:

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hugged to close to the ground with the result that it struck earth and was badly battered up. MORON PRESIDENT FISHING III RIVER ELankakee River Abode of Fairfax Harrison and Friends. A special car is sidetracked on the Monon at Water Valley, Ind., entirely deserted except for the shining pres-: ence o-" a chef, a waltr and a porter. How long It will remain there de- j ponda upon the fishing In the Kanka-! kee river , on which streams the presl- ' dent and . subordinate officials of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville . railroad are steaming up and down, j catching pickerel, bass and croppies.) Saturday they landed from their luxurious launch and Informed the natlves and campers that they had cap- ' tured 72 good-slsed fish in a day's trip. . Whereupon the chef, the waiter and the porter prepared and served din-. ner. I "The time of our lives," Fairfax ' Harrison, the president, is reported as saying. "There isn't a better river for sport ln the country. I don't know : when we will leave. SIX GREEKS' ARE Till GARY Driver of Brewery Auto Truck Is Arrested On Charge of Injured. Drinking on the part of a driver of a big motor truck owned by the Schoenhoffen brewery branch Is blamed by the Gary police for an accident at Fourteenth avenue and Washington street about 9 o'clock last niRht. The truck bumped Into a crowd of Greeks, bowling six of them over and seriously Injuring two. One man was taken to the Mercy hospital. Leboe Michalko is the name of the driver held by the police on a charge of criminal driving. Michael FicguseBkl, his worse Injured victim, is at th hosptal. The other men were able to go to their homes unaasisted. CHARGED WITH ARSON. A fire alarm came ln to the East Chicago station yesterday afternoon at

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i 1 if f V about 3 o'clock, from a two story frame building at 47SS Forsyth avenue, and as a result of the blaze, Mrs. Joe Erkln Is now under arrest charged with arson. The fire was extinguished with litle damage by means of a bucket brigade, the fire department having Just previously gone to attend to a fire at the B. St. O. C T. round house. Pohn Lusa claimed that he saw Mrs Erkin, who lives ln the upper flat with Mrs Paul Tyrer, ln the hall Just previous to the appearance of the blase, lighting a fire in the hall way of the building, with a box of matches and a bundle of papers. Oil soaked rags were found ln the hall to bear out the suspicion that there was foul play somewhere. It is claimed that Mrs. Erkin and Mrs. Tyrer had been bad friends over some trouble that had arisen, and the belief is that Mrs. Erkln sought this means of revenge. KILLS HIMSELF WITH BULLET East Chicago Man Is Evidently Tired of Life. The body of a man Identified a John Wclslo of Oklahoma, was found this morning ln the bushes near McCook and Vernon avenues. East Chicago. The man had been shot through the mouth, the case being evidently one of suicide. Mrs. Anton Balog who lives in Vernon avenue discovered the body and notified the police and the remains were removed to Huber's .morgue, where an inquest was in progress this morning. Dr. Raleigh Hale conducting the autopsy. A note scribbled signed with Wclslo's name stated that the writer's troubles were such that he wished to die. The suicide was 25 years of age. FILES FOUR DIVORCES. Attorney Clarence Bretsch , who cornered the divorce market ln Gary last week; filed four cases 'in the superior court this morning." In three out of the four cases, desertion is given as the cause for the complaint. The fourth alleges cruel treatment. The cases as filed area s fpllows: Vera Phillips against Leonard Phillips; married two years ago; charge desertion. Mae Thompson against Elwood Thompson, married ln 1900, separated two years ago; charge cruel treatment. Robert Wilson against Agnes Wilson, married in Scotland in 1909. She refuses to leave Scotland for Gary. Charles H. Ireland, against Hattie Ireland, marriedin 1893; charge desertion. FIRE IN TIPPLES. Fire was discovered yesterday afternoon in one of the coal "tipples' be longing to the B. & O. Chicago Terminal round house. East Chicago, and for a time there was quite a spectacular, blaze raging,, which brough a crowd of excited, spectators to the scene.

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E TO a III The "tipple" Is for the storage ol coal to be used In locomotives and stands thirty feet high. So the flamel could be seen from a considerable dlsi tance. The East Chicago fire depart ment responded to an alarm sent in b ) outsiders, the round house people bey lieving they could cope with the blase themselves. It proved to be a fire et some size however, and quite a quantity f coal was destroyed, but the ex tent of the loss could not be ascertains ed this morning. The charred framework of the coal tipple is still standing to tell the tale. The origin of th fire is unknown. WESTERN END OF CALUMET REGION BOOMS The Calumet Record gives the following summary of , operations at the South Chicago works of the Illinois Steel company. Mills in operation: Eleven blast furnaces. Twenty-five open hearth f urnaces. - Bessemer . converting works. Two rail mills. j Two plate mills. ' Two structural mills. Two blooming mills. Slabbing mill. Electric stations. Electric furnace Mechanical department. Mechanical department. Foundries. Gas engines. ' Pumping stations Ore bridges. Dry blast plant Sintering plant. North and South docks No. 2 cement plant (South works.) Cement plants Nos. t, 4 (Buff ington.y None The total number of employes working as at Wednesday, July 23, was 9.845. .. There are about 11.935 employes on the rolls at Pullman Car Works and about 11,090 working, while at Calumet shops there are about 1.015 on the rolls and 950 working. MAD DOG IS KILLED. A city employe named Fisher brought a mad dog to the Gary police station this morning, carrying the animal by the nape of the neck. The rabid dog was shot by Captain Newman. . Earlier In the day Fisher was bitten by a bull dog but this did not prevent him from going over to Seventh avenue and Adams street and capturing the dog even though he knew It to be mad. Frank Ault Arrested. Frank Ault, who conducts a barber shop in East Chicago, was arrested yesterday, charged with wife-beating, profane language and Intoxication. Assistant Fire Chief Switzer heard Ault cursing and started to reason with him. His Interference was resented and Ault struck him a blow ia the te. He was thsc a crested.