Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 62, Hammond, Lake County, 29 August 1913 — Page 1

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LAKE COUNTY TIM WBATHSB. FAIR OND COOLKR FRIDAY; SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FAIR. , EDITION vol. vm., NO. 62. HAHMOND, INDIAKA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1913. (ONE CKNT -TEK OtXn Jluk Hnaera S Grata Coprjf LEADING DRIVERS ENTERED IN TROPHY RACE AT ELGIN TODAY; BIG RACE STARTED AT ELEVEN AND DISTANCE IS 301 MILES.

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State Accounting Department Answers Whiting Prosecutor's Letter Relative to His Fees in Prosecutions. Mineral Springs Race Track, Ind., Aug. 28. Upon an interpretation by the Indiana courts of the Sellers racing law rests the last chance of reviving the racing game near Chicago. Ylth state troops in possession of the Mineral Springs course the backers of the track tody a made no attempt to start horses, but consulted with attorneys, who will enter suit for J50.000 damages against Gov. ' Ralston for sending the troops to Porter. "We have a similar suit against former Gov. Marshall for his action of last year," A. F. Knotts of the Jockey club said. "We want the courts to tell us whether the governor has the right to send troops here and stop something that we have a right to do under th? Sellers law. . r3i.l for Troops. "Thrre whs tii need for troops. We offered no resistanre. What little bet(Continued on Page 4.) The expected suit, growing out of .4Ae-datli-f-. the late John H. JProhl ' who was killed in his automobile on the Clinton street ; Monon ralrjoad crossing In Hammond on June 9th, was filed in the superior court by Attorney I T. Meyer for Mrs. Prohl the widow and administratrix of the estate. Although the anjount for a death claim is fixed by statute at ten thousand dollars the amount of damages asked in this case is fifty thousand dollars. The firm of Crumpacker and Crumpacker will represent the company. In the complaint it is alleged among other things that the company obstructed the view of the crossing by having box cars near the street on sidings, that the company employed an incompetent tower man, that its gates were antiquated .nd inefficient, that it took a minute to lower the gates that they were slammed on the victim's head and that as a result he lost control of his automobile and that the train was running at a rate of fifty miles an hour where as the ordinance provides a speed limit of six miles an hour. It is alleged that the auto was being driven at the rate of ten or twelve rniles an hour. , . George Harbin has brought suit against the Chicago BrHge and Iron Works lor orto thousand dollars for injuries to his left-hand whteh he says he sustained while in the company's employ in building a stand pipe at 31hFon. He is represented fy Attorneys Sranger and Lotz. Your fuel bill will be less if you cook with Gas. No. Ind. Gas 4k Elec. Co. WILL WED A SON OF WEALTHY CHICAGOAN M 1 1 X Miss Edith Goodkind. The engagement of Leasing Rosenwald, son of ulius Rosen wald, the wealthy Chicago merchant-philanthropist, to Mis. Edith, Goodkind, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin L. Goodkind of St. Paul, is announced. Miss Goodkind is a member of a family well known in the northwest. The wedding will take place early this fall,

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(Special to The Times.) Highlands. Ind.. Aug. 29. Jacob Miller a Griffith insurance man and merchant accompanied by Bernard and Miss Agnes Boesen hia nephew and niece respectively of Chicago were caught in an automobile accident on the Erie at' 6:20 o'clock last night and had a miraculously narrow escape from death. In the spill, Bernard Boesen was cut about the head to such an extent that medical attention was required. His wounds were dressed by Dr. A. J. Miller of Hammond. . Apparently the accident was a clear case of carelessness on the part of the train crew. e Mr. Miller and his party, had come up from Griffith in an automobile and drove Into Highlands from the south LETTER TO JHIS PARE MYSTERY An unsigned letter telling of illness! that came suddenly upon Eddie Muenlch of Hammond rendering him route reached Thh Times this morning from LAporte wnere tne young man is saia , to be under the care of physicians. Of this the mother, Mrs. Edward Muenich, . 647 Ann street, had nrst knowledge s given her by a Times reporter and realizing that her son is at all times liable to an affliction of long standing hse is jdolng everything to ascertain the truth. The mother left for Laporte at eleven o'clock. The letter is below: Aug. 28, 191S. Editor Times: To help notify the parents of Eddie Muenich of Hammond, Ind., i I will ask you to put this in print, j Eddie was taken ill suddenly and j is now unable to talk. The last he j said was: "Please notify my par- ! t-nts." He was asked his address i several times but did not answer. He simply looked up and smiled. Bystanders said that Eddie acted as if he had been poisoned. He has several friends here and we wish his parents to know that he will have the best of care and that we will see him home at the earliest date possible. His illness was found to be due to a severe attack of cramps. And oblige. The puzzling thing about the letter is its lack: of signature. For bom 1 years Eddie has been a victim of pain ful cramps brought on by an injury. He went to LaPorte to sing in a pic ture show. His wife and baby are In Covington, Ind. Eddie was with a party of three Hammond fellows, Clem Bowman, LeRoy Moore and Jim Pollard. Bitten by Cat. Mrs. Johanna Schneider, well-known ' in the office district of Hammond, is i ill at the home of her son, Ernest ' Schneider, 283 Sheffield avenue. A pet cat called "Tabby" is the cause. Tabby felt playful last Sunday when Mrs. Schneider tickled her stomach and bit its mistres son the arm. The woman now suffers from blood poison and ls very low. Meeting Postponed. Dr. Lena B. Watson announced today that the meeting of the Lake County Humane society was scheduled for Monday evening will be held instead a week from that date. It is to be an open meeting at which the public is invited to attend. -The annual election of officers occurs in October. Two New Suits. Mrs. William A. Kinney of Gary represented by Attorney D. 4E. Boone and Mrs. John Dlesert of Hammond through her attorneys, McMahon and Conroy, have filed suit for divorce. Cruel treatment and Intoxication on the part of, their spouses is alleged by both as grounds for the separation. .

.... -x:o.by V1 V .f on the Highlands Boulevard. An engine No. 1697 with one flat car pulled over the crossing and came to a stop, a brakeman standing near by. After the crossing had been cleared another automobile Just ahead of Mr. Miller went over the tracks and the latter followed. Just after he had started his car and had gotten on and had gotten on the track the I engine suddenly backed up and caught the auto squarely in the center. The occupants were thrown from the machine and the top was ripped off by the impact. The injured car was taken to Mr. Grlmmer's garage, where temporary repairs were made. Mr. Miller was able to drive home in it. He says the brakeman acknowledged that he did not give the engineer the signal to back. H LIGHTS FOR WEST STATE STREET Business Men1 Want - Street Lighted Up Right While They Are About It. Illuminious lamps, sewer and alley contracts, repair work and many im provements under construction came up ior action ai tne riaay morning ses- j slon of the board of public works. Fif- j teen resolutions were passed that went J to constitute the largest volume of business handled by the board this summer. Doable Number of IJghta. All action heretofore held in the matter of West State street lighting was rescinded and a new resolution passed. This was done at the request of business men who desire that the number of lights be increased from eighteen to thirty-four. This will assure West State street of a myriad of light that will make It possible for pedestrians to count the bricks in top of a three story building. Bids for the Dearborn street section "Ti" sewer were opened and the contract awarded to Tom Laveene. Othre Contracts. The big plum of three paving brick contracts went to William Ahlborn, the lowest bidder. The streets were Zachan, Moraine and Forest avenues. The Ahlborn people also received a contract for an alley " pavement between Fayette and State street, the first east of Hohman. This calls for concrete. The olloi- Is nn that nuasca behind three k... r,.v,. Tt, rrt i n ii rk , 1 1 1 r i,ut 1:11 11 ......... .j , the Tie Luxo theatre, the Woolworth store and the Hammond building Hohman Street Pavement. Plans and specifications for the paving of Hohman street between the river and Hoffman street were accepted and filed. The work is to be done thi year. The clerk was ordered to readvertise for bids for the repairing of fire stations and the date for receiving same set as September 12. Plans and specifications for the Drackert street sewer were accepted ntl(1 irA on fife. The Detition of G. phiiups and others for a sewer on : Gostnn street between Hohman street and Sheffield avenue was accepted and placed on file. A plat for the vacating of Allmen street was accepted. The engineer was ordered to prepart a primary assessment roll for the Grover street pavement. Back from Trip. "Keckie" Moll, a former Hammond baseball star, returned from Duluth. Minn., yesterday, where he made a hit playing league ball. Moll did stellar work with the stick and before he was taken ill was batting over the .300 mark. He finished with an average of .268, and expects to return again next season. COMBINATION. Ton (is mnoke and ehew "Country Club." SotWn better. Save the Coupons. See premium list. BtcHIe-Seet-tea Tob. Co.

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laK6 COUnty JC eZtlie X iel& . . . , . , wiin ah jlis jrme raciories for Inventors; Nearly 100 Patents a Year Put Out in This Locality. Lake County is a hot bed of amateur inventors who in the performance of of their duties as mechanics, electrical works or farmers defise machines or Implements that will conserve human and engine energies. From a close persual of the United .States' Patent Gasette it will, be fo jnd that, almost everr issue 'contains ut least one patent right granted to some Lake County man. -''.",-; West ; of Fittsburirh, there Is no manufacturing district icirtlng ' Chicago where so many Inventions are produced ' for use In steel and cat mills. In the past year over sixty patent rights were granted to Hammond, Gary, Whiting, East Chicago, Gibson and Indiana Harbor men. " "This," a prominent manufacturer .TlttllnAfl "1 h.f.a1IQ nr. i a tia mechanlCB on earth and pay the 0e9t i wages this side of the grave. I believe tnat this ls the ideal district for work(Contlnued on Page 3.) PICNICKED AT PARK. Four well-known men and their families spent the day at Hammond's Lake Front park at Robertsdale yesterday and when they left for their respective homes' in Chicago last night they could not give too much praise for the beautiful little park and the hospitality shown them by the park employes. They were: Hugh Morris and family, alderman of the second ward. Chicaeo: A. F. ; Gorman and family, senator fourth j district of Illinois. Chicago: Attnrnev George E. Lynch, fire attorney's office, city hall. Chicago, and A. J. O'Malley and family, a prominent Chicago politician. The picnic party had Just .returned from an extended trip through Michigan and came out to the I.ake Front park yesterday morning to spend the day. Last night when they returned they had considerable praise for Hammond's pretty little park and the manner in which' ,4t; was kept up. They also voted many thanks to the employes who aided them in spending a very pleasant day. ELOPERS BAFFLED BY YOUNGER SISTER Mr. Andrew W. Johnson. fTatchfalneaa at a yotmgar sister prevented tha elopement at Miss Helen F. Johnson, society girl, and Andrew W. Johnson, son of Jackson Johnson, St. Louis millionaire sho mannfaetarer. So they had a regular horse wddins next week and are nappy anyhow.

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23 - Pi:hrczi WiSHXXT. WANT Lawyers are again clamoring for relief in the matter of additional courts for Lake county and a separate court for probate. and criminal work will be the next extension of the court facilities in Lake county if any is to be made. There ls nothing in the immediate future that promises an additional court and while some of the lawyers are clamoring for another one, the Judges themselves are not yet pressing the matter. Under the present system the four Judges each take a turn at the criminal work, while the probate work ls divided between Judge V. S. Relter of the superior court and Judge McMahan of the-circuit court. The bulk of the probate work however is in the superior BZJlLETErJS Sow, York, Aug.. ZB. Lord Hmldan, Lord Chancellor of England, arriving Lultania en rente to Montreal to attend American Bar Association convention, will -visit West Point ana meet President WUmn during Ave day stay on this aide of Atlantic. Elgin, III. Ana. 29. World's greatest speed mounters here for two day Elftta road races, Anderson, De Palma, "W lahart and Joe Dawaon will war for Elgin Notional Trophy and ?-,500 parse tomorrow.

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Ithaca. If.' Y, Ang. 2Student. (ram "The "rst intimation I had regarding untversltleo In foreign conntrle n.l h change in rate was when I tried to all part of I nlted Stnteo attending 11 a particular party in Chicago. I eighth International Confenerce of was informed by the operator that I Students at Cornell. Object of nooo- could call for the number only, which elation Is to Improve student conditions meant that I might or might not get between nations and work for World my party. The rate is five cents cheapPeace Movement. , er but if one has to wait until your ; particular party is summoned to the Topcka, Kan Aug. SO. Henderson telephone one has to pay for the time Martin, public utilities commissioner, elapsed, five cents for three minutes, with V. S. senatorial ambitions opens AI the company does ls to guarantee to 1914 campaign In Kansas by speakng get the number fr which the subat Neosho Falls, establishing early scriber is taxed fifteen cents. I lmreenrd. Move has brought ont other mediately made inquiry among other candidate nnd hot flaht anticipated. j subscribers and found a great deal of j dissatisfaction. San Frnnclsco, Cal, Ang. 29. Pnl j "The new rates is no advantage to Brown, of Hlbblng, Minn- accompanied j the sirbscriber. It is Just a scheme on by trainer nongherty nailed for An.i-1 the part of the company to Increase trnlln; has six light contracts. Inclnd- its revenue at the subscriber's expense.

Init one with Honk Megnegan. Aus - tralian champion lightweight. Faterson. N. J- Aug. 29. Unless merchant tailors -rant employes demands, general walkout of tailors beBln next Monday, for netier wonting conoiiionn and higher wages. When the republican precinct committeemen of Hammond meet tomorrow evening again in the superior court, j they will haveto get busy, to elect a new city chairman and a vice chairman. On Tuesday . night of this week when they met, they proceeded to elect Ray Seeley and Attorney C. B. Tinkham. Neither one of the two gave his consent at the time to accept office, Attorney Tinkham having declined stoutly and Ray Seeley having wavered for a few days. Mr. Seeley told some of the leading republicans this morning that he would inform the committee tomorrow evening to the effect that he could not accept, and Attorney Tinkham proposes to do the same thing. Both plead lack of time and a disinclination to assume the responsibility for a successful campaign. SUBSCRIBE FOB THE TIMES.

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court and in addition to this Judge Reier has been caring for his share of the balance of the court work criminal as well as civil.. . "Probate matters are of such a nature" said Judge Relter this morning, "that they cannot very well be switched from one court to another. There are too many things that a court has to take cognizance of In the handling of will and estate matters and to switch such a matter with often covers a long period from one court to another would not serve te best interest of all concerned. When the time comes that additional court facilities are needed in Lake County my suggestion would be that the probate and the criminal matters be turned over to one court." , BECOilES EMPHATIC Renewed opposition against the Chi cago Telephone Company's new fifteen cent rate for number only, calls was formed in a number of petitions circulated by Attorney D. J. Moran this morning, the petitions asking for the restoration of the old twenty cent rate to Chicago with the privilege of calling for a particular party. j In starting the petitions Attorney ' Moran said to The Times: ; The company practically has its own j way jn Chicago. Three or four years ago when its franchise expired there it tried to increase its revenue from the outiayin- territory and now that it has , everythlng it wants, it Is trying to do the same thln under the guise of of fering its subscribers reduced rates. The petition In erect says that an optional rate,' twenty cents for party and fifteen cents for number only calls would be satisfactory. Its wording is as follows; "We the undersigned subscribers and users of,the Hammond service of the Chicago telepb jne company, hereby request the company to . reinstate the service between Hammond. Ind., and the city of Chicago, under . which Hammond patrons were permitted to call individuals , In the city of Chicago, and com- ' munrvate with them for a charge of twenty cents for a three minute conversation. "The undersigned have objected to the fifteen cent charge for a three minute conversation to a number call, 1ut do Insist that such service is not under the circumstances or business in Chicago, a true public serrice and will in practice be found to be very expensive to your Hammond patrons." Warrants for Boys. Warrants were sworn out in tire city court this morning for the arrest of a number of East Hammond boys who have been stealing chickens, eggs and garden truck, amounting In the neighborhood of $25. The complaint was made by John Bartush, 128 company house, East Hammond. For real good vnlnrs aik yoar dealer for I'nlon Sront Scrap. The best chew la the worlds McHle-Scotten Too. C.

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LID OFF? Gambling and Street Walking Flourish Unhindered in Business District and Vice Conditions Are Notorious on Streets. EVIDENCE TO BE FOUND ANY EVENING Hammond today more than at any time since a decade ago it furnished regular abodes for scarlet women is a wide open tovra. Quasi-public gamins at cards and the unlicensed commerce of profes sional prostitutes are the unmistak able' evidences of un fetter nd anil flourishing Vice to be found any evening in Hammond. Statements Are True. The police may deny these statements but they are true. Doctors know it and . unsophisticated . and retiring clergymen have full knowledge of the existence of vice. The business men and publlo knows that the "Four Corners" is the hub of an embryo underworld. There radiates from -it-in every direction poker rooms. Of wine rooms there are plenty. Women frequent them. Street Walkers Plentiful. " Open solicitation is practiced by street walkers In public places, f ram nickle shows to ice cream parlors. There are places of assignation in the down town dlstrot. , ,, , -tOne Hammond man attending to his ' own business was accosted this week in a drug store with, fHello dr!e.I haven't seen you in a long time," by-a woman whose painted face showed wthat she was. She gave him a card. Many To Be Seen. In day light and under gas light women from the hotels and rooming houses of West Hammond that are of ill repute, traipse up Hohman and down State street, to meet male friends and encourage their patronage. That the police of the Illinois city are making a concerted effort to root these undesirables out is evident. The presence of these undesirables in Hammond is proof of the fact. These- women of easy virtue have overrun the town. They obstrude their presence in the night crowds and Jos(Continued on page 9.) GRECIAN GODDESS SEEN AT NEWPORT LA V, i"v,-V t tiHI Ml - 7 ii Mrs. Frances Fleming; Noyes at Newport,

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