Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 40, Hammond, Lake County, 1 November 1913 — Page 1

LAK TIME HI FAIR TODAY AND SUNDAY, WITH RISING TEMPERATURE. vol. nr., no. 40. NOVEMBER 1, 1913. EIGHT PAGES. SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION-

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TAKE TIHFQ HOME THE I lUt O WITH YOU

POLITICIANS AT SEA . OVER VOTE RESULTS

Dave Boone Alone Can Say "I Should Worry." Times Readers Enabled to Fol ow Arguments.

With but forty-eight hours remaining for the campaign in Hammond everybody is willing to concede that the palm of victory lies between the republicans and democrats, especially for the offices at large. The only man who can await Tuesday with utter complacency and the utmost confidence of victory is Attorney Dave Boone, candidate for councilman on an independent ticket for councilman of the newly created eleventh ward, where he has no opposition. At this time it seems almost like a forgone conclusion that the common

council will be made up of republicans and democrats, and politicians in both of these parties say there is a liklihood that the progressives may elect some of their councilmanic candidates. An interest prompted by curiosity centers In the work of Sam Abalman. This interest however manifests Itself primarily In the business district, where Sam had done considerably mixing. Those who are amused by his pyrotechnics are wondering how many votes he will get and who will vote for him. Four year ago he worked for the democratic candidate for mayor, and while the republicans say that he has been placed in the Held to take republican votes from Crumpacker, the answer is

! RALSTON WARNS

LAKE COUNTY AUTHORITIES TIMKS Bl'RKAC. AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 1. Moved by complaints from various Lake county citizens, who anticipate bloodshed and election frauds on next Tuesday, Gov. Ralston today sent letters to Sheriff Whitaker and the chief of police at East Chicago directing them to prevent disorder at the elections next

Tuesday. lie- says many T 1 i t

made that If Sam does not want to IaIKC COlintV people COII1come out of the .lection empty handed nn:1lp l f i ; fUof rlnn of votes, he will have to work for him l)ialll0a IO ,nllU . tilat plallS

self instead of working for Smailey. WCTC atOOt TOI tile pi'OStltll

The votes he made fouryear ago he.f: nf fllp hnllrit mid flint.

will have to save for himself. Tomor-i , . ,

many voters are atraid to

cast their ballots because of

the police forces awaiting to

assist in intimidations.

row will not be a day of rest in any of the political camps. Reports are current on the street of considerable money held by different Individuals in the hope of getting it down on some candidate, but if any bets of any size have been made, the principals have kept it quiet. A confidential talk with any partisan, who knows whereof he speaks, will eldict the outcome of the election next Is such that no man can absolutely predic he oucome of he election next Tuesday. , The campaign in Hammond has been noticeable for the new order of things that has been " inaugurated with Thk Times as a factor. AH parties found its columns open to a discussion of the issues pro and con. The arguments that the different parties present are read with the same avidity by Times

readers as the livest kind of news. For The Times itself this matter has been a circulation builder, as the articles afe read with eagerness in the thousands of Hammond homes where the paper Is taken.

A PART OF SMALLEY'S RECORD AS MAYOR Firsts He compelled his board of public works to employ n aoa.reildrat civil engineer at an exponas to the

taxpayer, of Hammond of about 95,000 to draw plana and specifications for a newer system that If completed will cost the taxpayer more thaa 91,000,OOO. r.'s,, Seowai- - H compelled bin Hoard vt public, work to establish a sewer my tea ts the eJty' of Hammond at the expense of more than a million dollars over the protest of two-thirds of the, taxpayers and real estate owners of the city of Hammond. Third i He refused the taxpayers of the city of Hammond opposed to the construction of the million dollar sewer the ae of the city hall to discuss the feasibility of the construction of said sewer. Fourth He procured his New York Central lawyer and the city attorney for the rity of Hammond to dlafraa-

ehlse autre than 700 poor laboring men that stalled the remonstrance against the million dollar sewer by renderfna; aa oplalon that they were not real estate owners for the reason that they had purchased their real estate from contract and were paying It monthly out of wagea earned, many of them earning leas than 92 per day. Fifth t He made n suspicious trip to Atlantic City. J., and other eastern cities la company with Geist, the notorious ana magnate. This should be explained by Mayor Smailey. Xlxthi He has managing; his campaign John Fitagerald, who for years fed more than one thousand cattle In the heart of the city of Uaramond and permitted the tin king, unhealthful

aad death contaminated sewerage from his cattle barns to flow Into the Calumet river, endangering the lives of

thousands of poor families of poor laboring men la the city of Hammond,

Does thin mean that Fitagerald Is to

go Into cattle feeding business on the banka of the Calumet river again in the heart of the cltyf Adv.

FORMER GARY MAN NOW p" "ACCUSED

DULIN GETS

G VERDICT

(Special r. The Times.)

Crown Point, Nov. 1. What is considered a big verdict for the injury of a 'foot. $S750, was awarded to Daniel Dulin, of Gary, this morning against the Morgan Construction company by a Jury in Judge Kopelke's superior court. Earlier this week this Jury gave Roman Poliga $7,500 in a damage suit

against the Erie railroad for the loss of

a hand, the plaintiffs in both cases hav

ing been represented by the law firm of

McAleer Brothers of Hammond. In the Dulin case the Jury was out all night. The two. verdicts are said to be the largest ever given In the state to one lawer for the nature of such injuries as were Involved In these cases. Dulin was a craneman employed in construction ' work In the Gary Steel Company's yards. He sustained the loss of a toe and a crushed foot aad

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Violence Breaks Out in Indianapolis

Early in the After All the Men Employed by Railways Walk Out

BACK FIRING AUTO BREAKS BOY'S ARM

Harry Hagerman. formerly of Gary, denominated as a Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford artist, has been arrested in Et. Louis, Mo., according to a Chicago Examiner dispatch from Davenport, which reads as follows: Says 1earned In Gsry. Rivaling Get-Rich-Quick Wall

ingford, Harry Hagerman is being brought from St. Louis to Davenport, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. Hagerman contracted to build fifty houses here and his liabilities are $76,000. He asked a lumber yard . owner how much he would take for the yard. He was told $50,000. Hagerman paid $1,000 down and mortgaged the remainder. It has been foreclosed. Contractors are at work on the fifty houses. "They would not give me time," Hagerman said. "I made the scheme work in Gary, Ind., and made money." While in Gary Hagerman was building superintendent for Harry B. Bark

er & Co., Reynolds building. Hager

man, Barker claims, left town with

Barker being out to the tune of $8,000. I

It is also said that a local hotel and the Northern State bank suffered by his operations In Gary.

William Knoezer, son of Leonard Knoezer, 50 Clinton street, was painfuly injured this morning when he broke his arm cranking an automobile owned by Oscar Plageman. The accident was due to the engine back firing when Knoezer was attempting to crank

the machine.

Tcp, Mary II. Baytelrae (left) and Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis. Bottom. Mrs.lViiJginia Brooks Washburne and Stanley W. Finch. Many noted! reformers will speak at the annual convention of tha world's purity congress, which Will meet in Minneapolis November 7-12. Whit slavery, sax education, segregation and all the other element which enter intol the world-wide discussion of social. and moral reforms will be among the subjects considered. Among the speakers will be Stanley W. Finh of Baltimore; Mary H. Bartehne, who presides over the court for delinquent (drls in Chicago; Mrs. Virginia Brooks Washburne,. vice eru3der of Chicago, and Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis of New York. nr

LITTLE DAMAGE. Very little damage was done in Hammond over Hallowe'en according to the police blotter this morning, only two reports having been made. Vandals broke a large plate glass window in

the residence of Mrs. Miller, 15 Webb street, and also broke a number of small winows In the warehouse on Fayette street near Oakley. The police have learned the names of the boys who tore the rear porch from Dr. Sherrer's residence at the corner of Doty and Hohman street Thursday night.

TO MY DEMOCRATIC

FRIENDS

(Advertisement.) . .

Some of my lenlocratic friends know that I was for DvHowat .nd against: John rSmaJfe marie,' I would have been, opunly for he was my friend and I knew he was the right man for mayor because of his eminent qualifications. After the' primaries, I would have bee nopenly for Smailey had he and his friends not made me the butt of their angeis. They denied me the courtesies and privi

leges extended to every other man in the saloon business in Hammond and practically forced me to get out of business through threats as to the course they would pursue in case of my failure to knuckle under. As a gentleman I resented their conduct., I could not conscientiously be true to

To the Property Owners

and Taxpayers of Ham

mond.

Perhaps It will be thought hardly

the fair or wise thing to do to air

oas larfcpcrnenal, gclet ance In the -heat of apolltlcal campaign, but as this is

the only means I and just now by which to impress upon your minds

the gross and almost criminal ineffi

ciency of at least one branch ol the present city administration, and as the citizens of Hammond know how

I have been made to suffer by that

inefficiency they will, I feel sure-

kindly overlook my apparent breach

of good manners.

As you all know, last Christms

Eve my house on Webb street was

city of Hammond which is wholly selfish and seeking their personal aggrandizement and enrichment. Peter Crumpacker is a man of ability and believes in fair play. I am for him and ask my friends to support him as he is the one man to elect. I am still a good, democrat but an anti-Smalley democrat, because of persecution and degrading treatment of a law-abiding citizen who dared oppose them. Do you favor such brow-beating methods?

E. L. ALLNUT.

Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 1. Employes

of the? street railway and traction com

panies of Indianapolis went on strike

at 11 o'clock last night. Twenty minutes later practically every car had been returned to the barns and desert

ed by the strikers. The crowds became

unruly and two cars were stoned by

strikers and two persons were prob

ably fatally injured early today. A

mob attacked the Louisiana street car

barns near the business district and

after cutting the trolly wires smashed the air tanks. In the business district

the police repeatedly charged the crowds in an effort to clear the streets, but failed to accomplish their purpose.

Regular service was started at 2 a.

m. strike breakers manned tne cars and on each one road two policemea and a special officer employed by th company. The company announced

that all preparations had been made to

resume regular service.

Fear of Riot when Cars Start. Crowds in the business district had

notd diminished and it was feared aa

atempt to resume rgeular service would result in rioting.

A negro was killed when struck by

a patrol wagon nnven mrougn i

crowded streets today.

paylag Off the Strikers. The local union of street railway em

ployes is affiliated with the Amalgamated Association of Street and Elec

tric Railway Emplayes of America. The men were ordered by officials of the organization to return all cars to the nearest barns before leaving them. These orders were generally carried out

although several cars were surroundedin the downtown district and the-crews were unable to comply with their Instructions. A large crowd" gathered at Illinois and Washington streets, tha center of the oualnes district, and wa addressed by strike ' leaders. ' "Officials of the street car companies are paying the strikers as fast as they reach the barns and have asked strike breakers to take the cars out. Strike leaders say the walkout will affect about 700 men employed on the city lines and on the traction lines of the state which center in Indianapolis. The decision of the motormen and conductors to strike is the climax of two months effort on their aprt to persuade the companies to consider their demands for higher wages, shorter hours, recognition of the union and future ar-, bitratlon of all differences. The offi

cials of the companies have refused to acknowledge that their men belong: te a union or had grievances. .' Arbitration Offers Rejected. Gov. Ralston offered to act ss an ar bitrator In the trouble, but his services were refused by the traction companies. The department of labor at Washington three days ago sent Ethelbert Stewart here to act as an arbitrator, but his services were declined by the companies and he failed to bring about an agreement. - ' ! " - Last August motormen and conductors of the traction companies operating out of Indianapolis went on a strike, but it failed. Since then it is said the men have been thoroughly organized. ' - . '

UNFORTUNATE GIRL INJURED BY LIBEL

HALLOWEEN PROVIDES FUN

THE REPUBLICAN PLEDGE.

(Advert Isemeat.)

Next Tuesday the voters of Hammond elect the men who will have charge of the city for the next four years. The present administration has accomplished nothing for the city as a whole since Judye Becker ceased to be mayor. They are making their race for re-election upon the things done "y Judge Becker. Smailey is a good bookkeeper, but' don't we. want some

thing more than a bookkeeper for mayor? One oi his handicaps is his cabinet of advisers, a class of men in the appointive offices who are wholly incompetent and always''" actuated by selfish motives. The republican ticket will win over this gang if the patriotic citizens of Hammond will cast aside party prejudice and vote for Crumpacker and ths republican nominees. Every democratic, progressive and independent voter should STOP, LOOK and LISTEN, ponder carefully on the needs of our y city, study carefully the personnel of

the different tickets and then he can consistently vote for the upright men of ability who are on the republican ticket. Smailey means well, but larks the foreslgbt, judermmt, energy and force neremnry to bring about results.' The republicans pledge themselves to rut out petty graft In the various depsrtnents to economise In the expenditures of the different departments; to consider the needs of each section of the elty by consuming with different organisations whose energies and la-

Yesterday evening Hollowe'en the city tried its best to forget politics and to a certain extent it succeeded. The celebration was safe and sane. Property rights were universally respected and no one has anything to regret today unless it be the youngster employed by a downtown store who worked all morning washing off windows thqt he had helped to soap the night before. The Moose, the Odd Fellows and E.

gas and young's orchestra had public balls

which were largely atetnded.

There were but two Incidents of dam-

mysen ana oe capaoie oi oeing a goou . . . . (t,,.t,

reliable friend to every man and assist in forcing an administration upon the U-hameful sloth "and carelessness and

by gross neglect of duty on the part

of the fire department

And now the man who is the real executive head of this awful, impossible corps of alleged fire fire-fighters and who never so much as disciplined a single one of the recreant crew, is asking your votes to sustain him for four years more in office. Give it to him? Certainly, and in

sist that his council be made up of those splendd fire fighters who made so thrilling a record out on 'Webb

street last Christmas Eve.

For my part I will vote for Peter

Crumpacker, the man who I know !

will not stand for inexcusable bungling, and I will advise every voter to do the same. Adv.

C. GAUTHIER, 34 Webb street.

PROGRESSUE

OIIIIII.sI.ll I

CONFIDENT

BLOCKADE ON LINE.

bors arc directed toward the betterment of the city at target to compel

ae street csr company, the

electric nnd other public service cor

porations to comply with their fran

rh.'ses, to maintain the water works on 3frf. reported to the police, a paying basla nnd remedy the needle

lec and pressure trouble; to keep the city clean nnd maintain sanitary snd healthful conditions throughout the

ciyi to re-establish competitive bid- ! Car 610 of the Green line caused a

ding for all pnblic Improvements nnd tlockade in Hammond this morning, the public printing; to sec thst all con- ' Through route cars to and from Inditrmrtn in which the taxpayers arc In- a na Harbor lined up on either side, le'ested arc properly drawn aad en- ! Something was radically wrong with force the literal compliance with same;' CIO. It looked worse, if possible, than to eliminate favoritism In the letting i any of the other rolling stock. While of contracts and above all we will en-' motors rattled away without result a deavor to decrease the tax rate for I crowd of over a hundred prospective lOISt which ran easily be done with our ' pa'rons awaited transportation. They

Breitung'a La Venda Cigars are considered supreme by the best Judges. Adv. tf

COLLEGE MAN TO RULE PORTO RICO

ever Increasing assessed valuation of real and personal property. In carrying out this program, the most vltsl part Is In the selection of the heads of vsrious departments. As soon as we take office, we will remove Frank

speculated as t whether or not the company will ever grow ashamed of itself and provide new cars.

The last republican meeting before election will be held at Colonial ball In

O'Rourkc. Peter jr. Lyons, Doctor Wets, the old Masonic temple building Moa-

Wllllnm Kuhlman and John Rohde aad

the rest of the gang. And we pledge oarsclves to appoint conscientious men particularly quallfled to discharge the duties of the respective offices, in the place of the men so removed. We have made no promses to any one and will not make any before election and In onr selections after the election the fitness of the appointee will be the only thing considered. PETER CRUMPAC KER A!SD THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.

day night, November 3, at S o'clock. Judge Olllett and Judge Relter will be the speakers of the evening. This la your last opportunity to listen to the Ismies of the city campaign discussed

Being a girl with few friends and a meager stock of English "Joe" Kostolis of "West Hammond cannot write to the "Voice of the People" in Thk Times in defense of her reputation. Therefore she has asked a reporter to do it for her. She is fair, frail and 17. Her eyes are bright and contain the soft glow of the pure in heart. She Is called "Joe" by her workmates at a south side industry because her Christian name is not easy to pronounce. Overcome 'While Waiting for Car. Since infancy Joe has been subject to a physical defect that brings on convulsive and fainting fits. While on her way to work Thursday morning she was taken with an attack and as a re-

i .vaninv mtiir nlaved Ut) i

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"Eighteen hundred votes will elect the next mayor of the city of Hammond," said C. G. Kingwell, chairman of the city central committee of the progressive party, in making his prediction for the election next Tuesday. "We are figuring on getting at least seventy-five' per cent of the 1800 remonstrators against the deep sewer system which alone would give us 1200 votes for our ticket. Adding to this the fact that there is a general dis-

HOHIAH: ST. LIGHTS ,T0 BLAZE TONIGHT

'""DKl'XKES GllU, FOUND OX ST. EARLY TODAY. Child hopelossly drunk falls to the ground while waiting for car on South Side." Then followed a vague account which painted the girl In most shameful color. It showed, her friends said, that no attempt had been made to gain the truth and dodged libel by mentioning no name. The girl was ".Toe" and the libel falls on her head. Those, who work with the girl read tire story to her and although she understood but a part of it caused her to cry.

Dr. Arthur Yager. Dr. Arthur Yasrer, president emer-

by two of Hammond's most fair-mind-1 of Georgetown college in Ken-

ed and capable cltl.ens. Let every-vo- " "10 "ew governor general ter Irrespective of party affiliation bear ,1 TvJf6?"18

them before finally making up their J"" , 10 "J."

" jco uiu uu uas oeen prominent in educational work all his life and has been connected with Georgetown college sincu 1879. .

LOST BROTHER RETURNS HOME Mathlas Franzen, who left Hobart in 1869 and was mourned as dead and so declared by the court several year3 ago is the livliest corpe that ever struck the town.' Nothing was heard f, om Mr. Franzen from 1S72 Until a few weks ago when he addressed a letter here to the postmaster inquiring after his relatives. Several letters were exchanged and last week Thursday evenine he set foot upon Hobart

soil, the land of. his early manhood, j The town and the people are strange ' to him and none of the old landmarks iare recognizable. Still, he felt qulto at

mond with the two old parties, I am

confident that the ranks of the anti-df-ep sewer remonstrators will be swelled large enough to carry the day." The progressive chairman said he vas confident Ithat tlio entire progressive ticket would be elected. He conceded the second place to the demo

crats.

All those who head for Hohman street this evening after dinner, will do well to wear dmoked glasses. The sudden illumination of that thoroughfare at 7:30 is to be blinding.

From State to Russel streets lloh- home among his brothers and sisters man street will blaze like the midway ' and will probably spent the remainder at a world's fair. Everything is set j of his clays in Hobart. Hobart Gazfor the button. Barnie Young's band ette. will play and Judge V. S. Reiter. pres- ! . ident of the Hammond Chamber of! SU6S for DiVOrCC. Commerce, will orate from the balcony j Mr8 "Walter J. Haag of Hammond at the Hotel Majestic. j hag brought suit for divorce in the suThe jurist will stand upon a canopy ior court, he rattorney, . V.: Crav-

NOTICE TO VOTERS. Our friend. Teter Crumpacker, republican candidate for mayor, either by himself or through his press agents, who are preparing and writing scurrilous attacks upon the present city administration, has undertaken io show that "Peter W. Meyn has constantly kept employed against the protest of union labor for the past six years or more two non-union carpenters .it wages far below the scale, who did all the repairing on his large num-, ber of houses." This Is a contemptible effort on the part of Mr. Crumpacker not only to malign Mr. Myn but also two of the substantial citizens of the town who have lately passed to the great beyond and are unable themselves to refute this damnable lie. Mr. Crumpacker or any other voter who desires may call upon Mr. Newton, business agent of the carpenters' union, or Mr. Rrehm, secretary of the carpenters' union, and find out that the two men referred to during all the time they worked for Peter W. Meyn were members in good standing of the carpenters' union and at the time of their untimely death when they were killed by a Monon train at the Clinton street crossing, both carried union cards, and that during their entire employment by Mr. Meyn received the

union scale. It Is a contemptible net.

that business men say must come down ens charginK her husband with cruel BOt lolie eontemptlble but cownrdly.

in order to make possible a contlnu- t . 9tmpnt and abandonment. She asks

ous view of the new lights from either ; the custody of their 14-year-old child end of the street. The Hammond thea- ! nn(j $500 alimony. They wore married

minds bow to vote. Adv.

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Breitung's La Venda Cigars are the highest class in all its slses. Adv. tf

tre sign is pointed out as being objectionable for the same reason. Hohman street merchants are anticipating a great night's business. Mean while everyone is curious to see the 11luminous lamps in operation. The principal election candidates have also been Invited to make short nonpolitical addresses.

In February, 1897.

If you smoke a La Vendor once you will always call for them. Adv.

ARB VOL A TIMKS READEKI

DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS TONIGHT At John Camp's store, at $18 Fayette street. At Geo. Tbon'n ball, corner I.ogsn and Calumet avenue. Speakers: Lots, Conroy, Smailey and candidates. Voters are lavltcd to hear these mem discuss the Isaacs of the campaign.

on the part of republican candidate Crumpacker to circulate lies about dead men whose lips are closed and whe cannot be bere to defend themselves. It is, however, one. of the evidences of the fact that during this campaign Crumpacker has no regard for the truth and no regard whatever for the rights of his fellow men. That he Is seeking an election not upon his merits, not with a view to assisting in the progress of the city, but for the purpose of building up a political machine which will take care of Bill Newman, Ben Bell. Henry Lundt, Ed Wicks, John Huber, Julius Taussig and a few others Adv. . .1 . .... .