Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 48, Hammond, Lake County, 13 August 1913 — Page 1

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(EI The curb produce business hit the i high water mark in volume of a single day's business this morning at Plummer avenue and Morton Court, the market place of Hammond. Between 4 and 5 o'clock, business hours on the produce exchange, twenty farmers disposed of twenty-four loads of Lake County fruits, vegetables, grains and poultry. Four A. Mv An Barly Start. A Times reporter arrived as the market opened. Hammond's breakfast luncheon and dinner was arriving in Indian fashion, one wagon at a time. Around the Michigan Central freight house and the Hotel Carleton peddler's vans were parked like touring cars at the Cobe race. It was the hour of yawns, stretching and turning over in bed when the sun is like the red spot in-a hot stove. Though night owls were home and early risers sound asleep Jolly farmers and bright-eyed hucksters found the hour not unusual. Apples. Onions, Polatoea, Chicken. At four-thirty the sale began as it AUTOMOBILE SKIDS INTO T Six occupants of a Gary automobile, miraculously escaped with their lives at Hammond late last night, when the driver Esta Booker, 36 -East 5th Avenue, Gary, lost control of the heavy machine, the auto skidding and hurling the party of joyriders into a four foot ditch at Columbia avenue and 16th street. The list of the victims is: , '"sr. .Kila-vo, . 1120 Columbia, avenue, Hammond. Suffered, slight bruises and scratches. 1 ' ' " . "'" '. " " Steve Chrlt,.J.l 20 Columbia avenue Hammond. Injured about head . and arms. . Also severly bruised. '. Chaa. Bgotlea, 1120 Columbia avenue, Hammond. Bruised about body. Paul Deoeti-te, 1122 Columbia avenue, Hammond. Injured about head and shoulders, wrenched back and bruised. Esta Booker,' 36 East 6th avenue, Gary, driver. Escaped Injury. to known victim. Suffered slight injuries. The accident occurred between the hours of 11 and 12 o'colck last night. It is said that Booker came over to Hammond to take the Hammond men out for a ride and was driving down Columbia avenue at a high rate of speed when the auto started to skid. He was unable to control the un manageable machine and it swerved into the ditch, down a four foot em bankment and piled the auto and vic tims in a heap. Extricating themselves from the mass of humanity and damaged machine. It was learned that none had been severly Injured ami were able to go back to their respective homes. Few facts regarding the , accident could be learned. WEDDING RENEWS OLD FRIENDSHIP Mrs. George W. BatJey. The recent marriaee in Honolulu of Georpe W. Bailey, son of a wealthy Boston manufacturer, to Miss Alice Cooper, one of the belles of Hawaiian society and the daughter of. Judge -EL Cooper, renewed a friendship between the fathers of th: bride and groom that had lain dormant for twenty-five years. Judge Cooper and II. B: Bailey went to school together as kids and were inseparable. Judge Cooper went to Honolulu, where lie became a prominent figure in the public life of the island. Bailey remained in the east and became a wealthy shoe manufacturer. Some months ago Bailey's son met Cooper's daughter, who was on a visit to America. A pretty romance, ending in the wedr tknz tMaL anmnv.rteaiiitadr

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BUSY PLACE does on every other morning of the week but the seventh. ' Baskets, crates and barrels were inspected, lifted and transported with lively comment and now and then an argument. Prices were established oraly and adhered to as strictly as though they ware written in white on a blackboard. Wagons and vans departed, cash changed hands, credit books were reckoned up and business boomed. Not a commission man was to be seen nor was there visible the slightest semblence of an organized system. As farmers departed more came until at six the count reached twenty-four. Late but welcome. Van der Molens, one horse-shay have into eight, and the driver, most loyal of farmers to the market, smiled a .ready greeting. "Kinder tardy,- ain't you pardner said a fried to Van. "Yep." Van replied, "I thought that the wimen would feel like cannin tomatoes on a day like this promises to be so I picked some." Mollie. Van's pleasant faced hoss al (Continued on page five.) New York. Auk. Ill Justice Gerard, newly appointed Ambassador to Ger many, serving; here from Europe will proceed directly to Waaalngrton to confer with President. Will tell him he ha been convert to "Dollar Diplomacy." Hoboken, SI. J Aug. 13. Porter Charlton returning to Italy to stand trial , for murder hla young; wife in Lake Cone In June, ISIO. Father accompanies son who la in beat of spirits, declaring he will be back home, free, for Christinas dinner. Washington, w. Auk. 18. National Council of Women voters, with representatives from all Statea where women have ballot. In session here to plan waya and means of bringing Influence locally to bear for suffrage in states regarded as "dark territory. Oakland. Cnl, Aug. 13. Red Watson, champion of local lightweights and Frankle Burns, champion of 133 pound brigade meet for ten rounds nt Oakland Wheelman Club tonight. Understood Barns receives 81,000 for hla bit. . Slew York, Aug. 13. Fight to d termlne ownership of stocks and bonds of Pan-American Securities Company, aggregating 82,340,000, now In possession of ex-Judge Walter C. Korea, receiver of company began In Federal District Court. Enrique Arrage Yidal la plaintiff. Boston, Aug. 13, Driving knock' kneed nag named "Asquith, Misses Elsie McKensie, Elisabeth Freeman and other sufl's, en route to Chicago from Boston In a baker's wagon tor the glory of the "cause stopped here to help Boston autTraglsta celebrate 05th anniversary of Lucy Stonea birth Ban Francisco, Cal Aug. 13. The Anti-Japanese League of San Fran rlseo la Investigating the charge that sercatin Aaiastlc laundries. If found true, the men will be expelled by their unions. Portland, Me, Aug. 1 3. The Maine Laundry men's Aaoclatlon haa adopted a measure imposing a fine on any member making use of the word "mangle" because of the Impression It la liable to make on the uninitiated. QUIET IN BUILDING. An unusual quiet period has been evident in the building activity in Hammond during the past week, not one dwelling permit of importance being granted at the city hall. The largest permit of the week la for a $3,500 building to be constructed by William Ahlborn at 101 Manila avenue. A large number of permits were granted for repair work. Search for Chicagoans. On a complaint made by Henry Hopf of Chicago yesterday, the Hammond police were requested to aid in the search of his brother, Richard L. Hopf, 2236 Iceland avenue, who is slightly demented and wandered away from his home. It developed that ha went to Gary yesterday morning and left there on a Gary and Interurban car for Hammond. So far no trace of him has been found here. Evans Better. John Evans, 347 Logan street, Ham mond was the victim of a vicious dog yesterday afternoon which unwarningly attacked him as he was passing 307 Logan street. The dog fit him In the leg and after some difficulty was able to scare the vicious - animal away. Evans asked the police to find Its owner and make some effort to dispose of the animal. The wound was not serious. La Vendor cigars are pronounced ex. eUon ally good. by. mU okra. A4t,

BOOKS TO GET PARCEL POST RITE

Farmers of Lake county may soon be in a position to receive by parcel post at a low rate books and magazines from the public libraries of Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, and Crown Point. All that the farmer, his wife, or his daughter will have to do is to drop a card to the nearest librarian and say "please send me 'The Judgement House,' 'The Wild Olive,' 'The Woman Thou Gavest Me,' 'Text Book on Fancy Poultry, the Hearst and Cosmopolitan magizlnes," and they'll arrive the next morning, brought to the dor by the rural mail carrier. How this is to be worked out is explained by the following dispatch from Washington: "The time appears near when a re markable defect in the parcel post system will be remedied. "For 'reasons best known to the framers of the puarcel post bill, books and other printed matter were barred from the low parcel post rate. This has proved one of the most remunera tive kinds of business , in which the express companies are engaged and Postmaster General Burleson has for some time been figuring on a way to annex this business. "Aside from the profit, there Is wide field for usefulness in extending the parcel post rates to books, as it would enable libraries to reach out over a grfeat territory. Today the subject of bring books under the parcel post system was taken up by Representative Lewis of Maryland, who Introduced a resolueraj to Investigate the subject. Miss M. V. Scott, head of the firm of that name which proposes to build a $200,000 hospital on Calumet avenue, was arrested yesterday on a mistake, for grand larceny, by a constable After Judge Frank D. Prest had unraveled a most complex proposition this morning she was released for lack of evidence. It was thought to be the intention of her accusers that she be taken before the grand Jury. Helped Herself First. In the trial before the Justice Miss Scott was shown to have taken valuable tools belonging to carpenters. She admitted that much and through her attorney explained Just why she had taken the other fellow's property. It developed like this: Miss Scott has employed various earpnter contractors on a number of Jobs about town and has done so with out placing them under bond. They left a great deal of work uncompleted she charges and upon balancing up it was found that they had overdrawn and bjen overpaid $211.70 ( the firm's figures.) Then Filed Attachments. Mrs. Scott hired a dray and collected tools from the Thompson, Schroeder and Russki Jobs. The contracted on these Jobs were Baker & Wendt. These tools were locked in the Scott offices. Mrs. Scott latter filed attachments against them while the carpenter's were preparing to get them back. With a search warrant they were discovered and Ms. Scott arrested late yesterday. Mayor Smalley Back. WThere's the mayor? everyone asked everyone else at the city hall yesterday. It looked as if the chief executive had been kidnapped for none seemed tc. know of his whereabouts. He returned, however, late in the day, from a week-end visit with his parents in Upper Sandusky, O., his old home town. While there he renewed acquaintances with a number of his school chums. Many of them now occupy promlntnt places in municipal and state politics and other are good business and rofessional men. Of course some failed to rise as was expected of them. Where Does It Go? Library books are lost now and then through the negligence of pa trons. Terrible Teddy, who eats lit erature, and other youngsters oould probably tell where a good many of these go if they felt so disposed. This was discussed at a meeting of the library board last evening and pro vision made for the replacing of some lost volumes. Mrs. Sawyer, librarian, has received a cargo of books which she is catalog ing and placing on the shelves. Among theae are a great many for the Worn an's club. There is plenty of summer fiction, too. AJEUS TOU A TIMES RF.ADTgat

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DR. TRON COMMITTED SUICIDE, WILL BE DEFENSE OF PRETTY EMMA KRILL, PROFESSIONAL NURSE CHARGED WITH HIS MURDER

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Jealousy will Jbe put np by the state in its charge against Miss Emma Krill, pretty' professional nurse, that she killed with poison at Utica, N- Dr. Stanley E. Tron, the young Harvard, medical college graduate. Miss Krill denies all the charges against her, insisting that Tron took his own life, because of despondency resulting from his failure to succeed in his profession. Miss KrilTs friends declare that she loved the physician too deeply to have bean guilty of tha crime. Evidence that Hammond is destined to be the point of distribution for the entire Calumet region is seen by boosters in the operation of a wholesale house by the Inlander and Stelnler Paper House on the north side where the grocers of the district are supplied by motor trucks which go out each morning from the factory. The old Chioago Lounge Company has been remodled to fit the needs of the new industry and has Just opened up. Other Hoaaea Reprraented. Both the American and Liggett Meyers Tobacco Companies have a similar system of distribution through jobbers with headquarters in HamMond. The Calumet region consumes more tobacco tha nany other district in the state, not excepting Indianapolis. "Someday," a financier predicted this morning, "a hundred and one branch houses will be operating in Hammond, distributing every thing from hairpins to automobiles. The town is the logical place and business is bound to come here. Many a city In the arest or southewest has as its principal asset a few blocks of branch houses and no industries. Hammond will have both. It has already miles of industries." WINS MANY TENNIS PRIZES AT NEWPORT m-?W -Za?nr,y?!i-. - $ ft- w Countess San Esteban de Can o go. Countess San Esteban de Canojro, wife of the second' secretary of tie Spanish legation in Washington, is carrying off many tennis prizes at Newport. She is holding her own with the most finished athletes cf the Newport set and Ktu Ley. a&txp tho,Jiaunes.

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j . That the belt-line from Mich., throua-h Buchanan. St. Joseph. Mich., Laporte, Valparaiso and Crown Point, 'and Jollet, Aurora and Elgin, III., to Milwaukee will be built is now practically conceded, according to reports from Laporte last night. The offfbers of the Elgin Terminal Railroad company, which intends to build the line, have been In Laporte in conference with the members of the Chamber of Commerce of Buchanan, Mich. t The first step that Is being taken by the company toward the building of APPEARS BEFORE THE GRAND JURY Chief of Police Okraj of West Hammond is to appear tomorrow before the grand Jury in Chicago at the trial j of James Gillen who was detected one j night last week in the act of. stealing l $50 worth of copper . wire which he i ad "stripped from armatures in the old municipal light plant in West Hammond. j He is now in the county Jail and ("with a long string of minor offenses ' that Chief Okraj says the Hammond police have against him there is little chance of his even convincing a jury that he is of good character. He. was . caught in the act j Money Tied I"p. ' The old light plant, which was abandoned when the city found that It could be manufactured there. There is a great deal of valuable machinery and appiances going to waste in the plant for injunction proceedings keep the auctioneer away. est Hammond is greatly the loser for the machinery should by rights be sold. Much has been stolen For the first time in history the Cook County grand jury it sitting in August. A rush of business held it up. Board in Session. A lengthy discussion of improvements now under way kept the board of public works in session till late this noon. Matters of importance were acted upon and are enumerated as follows In the minutes of the meeting: A hearing on the Ames avenue pavement resulted in the adoption of a resolution for the paving of that thoroughfare. The clerk was authorized to advertise for bids. The contract and bond of N"ack brothers for the Pine street, section D, walks accepted. Plat for vacation of Ridge road accepted and placed on file. Primary assessment roll for Madison street pavement filed. A Gas Range combines convenience and economy. No. lad. Gas & Eleo. Co.

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the road is the dickering with the Pere Marquette Railroad officials for th purchase of the Buchanan branch of the Pere Marquette. The members of the Chamber of Commerce of Buchanan have been trying to arrange the sale o the branch. Officials at Laporte. The members of the committee from the Elgin Terminal Railroad conjpany who were at Laporte yesterday, were: Thomas L. Stitt, formerly assistant division attorney for the Big Four; CContlnued on Paga S.) LIVINGSTON BOUND OVER Tommy Livingston, the well known Hammond boy who was arrested by the Michigan City police early yesterday morning, after he had stolen some wearing apparel, from . Harry Tuttle, a local barber, plead guilty to the charge pt larceny before .Special Judge. McKinney in the city court this morning and was bound over to the superinor court under $1,000 bonds. Livingston who is well known to the Hammond police has been "in . a. nuaiber of escapades in. the past and has been under their constant watch. He admitted yesterday afternoon that je would never be able to reform as long as he stayed around Hammond and a certain class of worthless fellows. It is thought by severely reprimanding him this time, it will be the making of la new man of him. ORPHEUM TO BE OPEN 0N SUNDAY Manager and Mrs. Maurice Hankinson of the Orpheum theater are leaving today for Waukesha, Wis., where they will remain till Saturday and return for the opening of the variety house with a matinee Sunday. A good vaudeville bill has been provided for the start of the 1913-14 season.. One by one house employes of the Orpheum are returning to town. The orchestra is assembling after a month or so of ease and luxury, tempered here and here by a touch of adventure. Director Green promises good music for the year. Patrons were delighted with the work of the orchestra in the past. In fact, the band is the best part of an Orpheum show. Sues for Divorce. Roswell Bibb represented by Attorneys Granger & Lotz has applied for a divorce from his wife Oma Bibb. He charges her with living with one -George Williams of Gary. They were married in 1908 and seperated a year later

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Fruit Peddler Who Bought Rejected Express Co. Awning Is Charged With Theft; Charahan Proposes to Go After Company. Three months ago Moran Charahan Effendi, a subject of tha sultan, resided n Constantinople and was a big man there. He was worth 2,600,000 piastres, which is enough to keep a good-sized harem full of fascinating Circassian beauties; but he clung to ona wife. Th Fortuae. of War. Today Charahan Effendi is "broke."' He is a subject of tha sultan of Gary, as he calls him, and has to push a fruit cart up and down Broadway for his living. And all of this is because of the ravages of the Balkan war. which transalated the Constantinople millionaire from his proud position to that of a fruit pedler In Gary, which he is by grace of Tom Knotta Pasha, who gave him a permit to this affeot. Cnaraaana Trouble Bcgiai. When Charahan Effendi landed In Gary last week he went down to a South Jefferson street coffee house ran (Continued on Page S.) DAMAGE SUIT RESULTS Crowding, Jamming and herding; passengers on the South Shore line like cattle, about which frequent complaint Is made, has resulted in a damage suit against tha company which was filed In the superior court today. The plaintiff is Ernest Little of Hammond, who has brought tha suit for his wife through his attorneys, Granger & Lots. . .. . .'! The complaint says that Mrs. -Little was a Hammond-Gary passenger on tha afternoon of October 20 of last year; that tha ear In which sb vat riding took n such: a crowd, at Forsyth avenue In East Cnicago ' that many of the pansengers had to stand and that there was a continual crowding and jamming, as a reavlt of which she was Internally injured. The plaintiff asks $500 damages. Two other personal injury suits were filed today, one against the Standard Steel Car company by Attorney C. Strover for Joseph Csefko, who asks $5,000 damages, and the other by Attorney C. B. Tlnkham for V. Kreczek against the Interstate Iron & Steel company for $3,000. STEAL SHERIFF GREEN'S AUTO Bold thieves, believed to have come from Gary, last night invaded Valparaiso. And what do you think they did? They stole the automobile of the sheriff of Porter county. Sheriff Green of Torter county today asked Chief Martin of v the Gary police to hunt for the bold thieves. It the yever get back into Porter county they will be hamstrung and quartered. The machine, which was stolen last night, is an Overland car, No. 28,180, Ind. It has a black body. SAYS INTERVENTION IS PERILOUS MOVE l 1IB ' , v X " Francisco De La Barra. , That intervtntior by the United States in the. affairs - Mexico would be fraught with the gravest consequences, is the opinion of Francisco De La Barra, former provisional president of Mexico, and former Mexican ambassador at Washington, who is now in the United States on his way to France, to act as ambassador. "Should there be intervention by ar.y chance the universal feeling in Mexico would be such that it would be difficult to predict the outcome," sajs Dm Xa Baxra,

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