Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 147, Hammond, Lake County, 28 November 1913 — Page 1

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VOL. VIII., NO. 147. HAMMOND, INDIANA, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPY, (Back Numbers 1 Cents Copy.) HERE ARE UNCLE SAM'S FIGHTING SHIPS IN THE HARBOR OF VERA CRUZ.

Well Known Hammond Man Accepts Position in Genoa Tom Swanton, prominent in political, church, lodge and business circles, and formerly superintendent of the all almond Glue works, and now member of the Hammond board of public works, will soon to to Genoa, Italy, with his family for an Indefinite stay. If certain plana - of the American Glue Company for a subsldary, plant in the European peninsula materialize. The Hammond Glue works is also a subsidiary plant of the American Glue Company, by Mr. Swanton is no longer connected with it in an official capacity. The parent company is said to be considering him as the best man to send to Europe to superintend the erection and operation' of Its proposedplant in Italy, and has offered him $500 per month salary. He has decided to accept. Mr. Swanton was unprepared to say anything for publication when interviewed by Ths Trass, and seemed rather surprised that the news had already gained currency. He declined to discuss any phase of .the report, an attitude which appears quite , natural, when it is remembered that any anBovaeuncnt coming from him will tart tie wire pullen for hln political Job on the board, and possibly neceaeltate an, explanation from him to his " superior foriW premature statement, regarding' their " foreign plana.,, it is said that jthe ity administration has already derided upon ' Mr. Swanton's successor. . ' " Those who claim to be in a position to know, say that Mr. Swanton's assignment to Italy will keep him there for sereral years, and it is therefore expected that Mrs. Swanton and the two boys, "William and John, who are students respectively In Purdue uni versity and in the Hammond high school, and the two daughters. Misses Sadie and Emma, will o with the father on his mission and make their .home temporarily In Italy. Raymond Mette, a senior in the Hammond high school and chum of John Swanton, is also said to be figuring on the trip with' the expectation of realning abroad for W year or two. Gets New Manager. J. J. Sullivan, ex-manager of the De Lure theater, left the employe of the Gambiner Brothers to work for the McMillan Feature Film company. The owner of the local theater announces that he has secured the services of man with years of experience in the line. lire 1 tuner's La Venda Cigars are the highest class In all its sisesAdT. tt WOMAN A SPECIAL EXAMINER FOR U. S. - iV V - Alias Mary E. BelL . Miss Mary E. Btll of Portland, Ore., ia the only woman rpeclal examiner in th service of the government. FederalJudge Robert 8. Bean of Portland appointed her last September, shortly after the filing- of the rovemnsof s tnti-trust suit against the American Telephone A Telegraph 'Company. Her work is to take a 'shorthand record of the testimony presented in that turiC

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Here are the five modern fighting vessels of Uncle Sam now anchored in the harbor ofVera Cruz, ready to take decisive action in the event of real trouble with Mexico. It is from these vessels that the American blue jackets and marine will land at the Mexican seaport to protect American and 'foreign interests in the event thatthese Interests should become endangered. i- ; ' . .

GARY ill TAKES LIFE E Workmen Going to Tasks This Morning Find Corpse of Man Dangling From Tree in Swamp Between Gary and Aetna Mills. ASCRIBE III HEALTH AS THE REASON Workmen , going through the lonely swamp- between Gajry and Aetna this morning were startled to see - the corpse of a man dangllns from the limb of a trees forty feet fcbove ground. . . t . ,'i..;lffWMlr SutMtcd mt Ftrwt. At first thought It was believed that a lynchihg or a murder had occurred in th ."wild . lands,", aa , the regton ' is called, and a hurry-up call was-sent in to the Gary, police and to Coroner Frank W. Smith. , Alter an hour's tramping through the swajnp below the Michigan Central tracks Coroner Smith, Captain Newman and Patrolmen Bucklin and Prultt arrived at the scene of the hanging. It was necessary to send one of the patrolmen to the Gary Bolt and Screw works to procure rope and ladders. The police then climbed the tree and let the body down to the ground. (Continued on page twelve.) CLUB WILL APPEAR BEFORE THE COUNCIL Members Civic Committee Promise to Make Next Session Lively One. Members of the civic committee of the Hammond Woman's club are to ap pear before the city council at its next regular meeting to tell the results of their findings in a city-wide tour of inspection. Their visit promises to make the session an interesting and eventful one. When the council convenes Tuesday evening it will feel the feminine influence in civic affairs for the first time. The Woman's club, an organization more firmly founded than party clubs, has entered into a city beautiful campaign. Following weeks of activity members of the committee state that' they have made tests of milk and found the samples not up to the standard set by law. . A Great Show Town. The vaudeville houses and picture shows of Hammond entertained over 16,200 natives-and visitors on Thanks giving Day, the record for the city. A reporter late last evening canvassed the houses, accepting only box office records. "Hammond is "the greatest show town in America of its size," said Manager Gumbiner of the,Det,uxe when his ticket seller; reported that 3,600 . had paid admission during the afternoon and evening , of continuous shows.. "I never saw anything like It," said Manager Rommel of the Orpheum while the nine o'clock performance of "The lieartbreakers" showed a packed house after three other performances. Red Van Sickle of the Bijou played to standing room all day long and couldn't pack any more In the little pliyhouse. New Permit. John G. Meyers will build a dwellin S30 Henry etreet to cost J1.600. A permit was granted this forenoon. Breitungs La Venda Cigars at coasiderea supreme by the best Judges. Adv. tt

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That the letter and the spirit of the law are as different as are day. and night is shown in the outcome of a re cent divorce case tried before Judgje Kopelke. The court refused to grant a divorce to Charles L. Brown of .Hammond, who pleaded that he married , a woman twice his age under duress" at a time when he was but 16 years of age. Brown's marriage to a young woman of his own age became void by the court's ruling. The result is that today Brown is in Louisville or some other southern city. His first wife, to whom he is, bound by law, is in South Chicago, and wife No. 2, a young Hammond girl, is at home regretting her riarrlage with a man whom she thought, and who believed himself, legally divorced from his first wife at the time he married the younger woman. All Indications are that wife No. 1 and her youthful husband never will make up, and those who are in a position to know say that the young man will in due course of time find a law and a judge more lenient than he encountered in the superior court recentTELEPHONE In addition to. its Hammond exchange building, and the installation of magneto switchboards and metallic circuits at Highlands and St. John are among the improvements which the Chicago Telephone Company has planned for this winter. Ground has already been broken for the exchange addition on Rimbach avenue in Hammond. The building will cost in the neighborhood of 115,000 and will stand Immediately west of the present building. It will have a frontage of twenty-five feet and depth of fifty feet. It will be two stories In height and is Intended to accommodate the office force and to provide additional room for the mechanical department. By 1915 it Is intended to extend both the old and new building back to the alley. The contract , for the construction work on the addition has been let to a. St. Louis contractor after bids had been asked of local builders. The work on the building is to proceed without interruption as much as possible so that the interior finish can be begun by the first of February. As soon as the new switchboard at ighland Is installed, through which the patrons in that part of the township are to get improved service, a fivecent toll rate will go into effect between Highland and Hammond. There will be no toll south between the communities south of the river on the Ridgre road. At St. John In the neighborhood of $8,000 are to be spent in the way of magneto switchboard and - the installation of metallic circuit. The numbering system will also be changed In order to establish more uniformity in numbers. ACCIDENT TO AUTOIST. A seven-passenger automobile occupied by two went beside the bridge which extends over the ditch on Shefveld avenue between Lake George and Wolf Lake on Wednesday night. The bridge there is only a temporary affair, but according to the st-eet car company officials today warning lights were burning on the approach to the bridge. The auto got off the wagon btidge and one side of the machine fell through the opening between the two sets of tracks. One of the occupants is teported to have been quite badly shaken up. The auto was pulled out by the street car company's derrick and taken - to Kinder s place. Its running gear was quite badly damaged. Neither at Kindel's nor at the street car barns was the name of the owner, of the car known. He returned to Chicago yesterday morning, having "been on his way to Hammond when the accident happened. CBSCR1BIC COB 'MB TWB&

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THIS MAN SAID HEWAS COLD Attired in his nightgown, two suits of ' underwear, three pairs of sox, a shirt, a sweater and a vest, a suit of clothes and a raincoat and overcoat, a Hammond man applied to Chief Okraj o' West Hammond-; for a place to get warm. He was wrapped in a heavy quilt. He gave his name as Deaten and his address as 441 Indiana avenue. He complained that when he arose in the morning of Thanksgiving he could hardly stand for the cold. He seemed sober but ill, and the police held him till he got better- , In the meantime they made inquiries of other departments to see if their guest had come rightfully by his wardrobe. Hammond Library Notes. Since the story hour class began Saturday morning at the library has become distinctively-the children's period. A pleasant atmosphere of anticipation pervades ". the Horns and the hum and hustle of getting books in time for the story- adds xest 'to the hour. Despite the rain last Saturday morning 51 children were In attendance. The story hour as usual tomorrow morning from 10 to H o'clock. Several new books suggested by Prof. Henderson on Industrial education and business1 management have been added to the shelves for a benefit to the night students. J UBRARIAN. (ILLS HI Shocking Railroad Accident at Whiting Brings Thanks giving Grief to Large Family; John Pataky Hit by B. & O. Train. (Special to Thb Timks.) Whiting. Ind., Nov. 2g. John Pataky age 52 years was killed by the B. and O. flyer reaching Whiting at 8:10 o'clock. Mr. Pataky had been to the Whiting park and was on his way home when the accident occurred. He attempted to cross the B. and O. tracks west of the depot, and in some unaccountable way went directly into the path of train No. 15 which was west bound. The fog is thought to have been the cause of Patakq not seeing the approaching train. The victim of the accident was struck on the head crushing this severely and his left arm was broken. He was thrown a distance of several feet and was dead when picked up. The train stopped and backed up when thy found they had struck some one. The body was taken to Hellwig's morgue in the ambulance, where It was readily identified. Pataky was a married man living on East 119th street and in addition to his widow leaves a large' family of children He was employed at thfl Standard Oil Company and was known as a man of temperate habits. His funeral was held yesterday morning. Interment being , at Greenwood cemetery In Hammond. Twenty - seven Days to Christmas Nov. 28 ! Stocks Are Complete In All the Stores. : Begin Your Christmas Shopping.

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Rensselaer High School Eleven, Deputized by the Sheriff, Tackles Maniac; Latter Is Beaten Insensible Before Landing in Jail HIGH SCHOOL BOYS POT UP STIFF FIGHT Rensselaer, Ind., Nov. 28. The high school football team was brought into practical Use yesterday afternoon When deputized by Sheriff Hoover to run flown and capture Edward Fawley, va maniac who had escaped from the sheriff and his , deputy. . Pawley after i.itur,.puc -up. suhdeaperate fight that it was necessary to beat him until almost insensible before he could be subdued. ' " Fawley Dangerous Man. Fawley has been a "bad man" at Fair Oaks for the last three years. He came there from Knox and assaulted and severely injured a number of persons before he was arrested... A year and a halt ago he almost killed an elderly man named ' Stowers and for this was sentenced to a year in the County Jail. Before . his sentence had been completed his wife called on him at the Jail (Continued on page twelve.) GARY WOMAN BEGINS SUIT Mrs. Alexandra Boski of Gary has filed suit for divorce against her husband. Thorn Boski, charging him 'with cruel treatment. She is represented by Attorney D. Kconomoff. The couple was married three years ago. She asks Judgment for 11,000. Judge Becker today heard the divorce case of Anna Stariha of, Indiana Harbor against her husband, Peter Stariha. Judge Reiter heard the divorce case of Charles H. Ireland of Gary, who charges his wife with abandonment. r; Society to Meet. The Holy Name Society of All Saints church is Scheduled to meet this evening In the church hall. Among other things arrangements are to be for tho celebration of the ecclesiastical jubilee, " which Is being celebrated in all Catholic churches this year. The society will go to communion in a body next Sunday .morning. Will Be Pine Offices. The home office of the Northern Indiana Gas company is receiving careful attention by carpenters and decorators at present. The, display windows are bottomed by concrete and the front of the block is new and attractive. The repairs have been extensive and are not over yet. A Banquet. Three hundred members of the Chicago Business college alumni are to banquet this evening in College hall on the third floor of the First National bank building. Mrs. L. Mae Virden, head of the school, , will appear in readings and recitations. AS a preliminary to the banquet . B. H. Horn, a student, took a deposition in the case of James Mauck vs. x the New York-Chicago Railway company In the superior court. This was the first trlal of the "machine in a Lake county court. The shorthand typewriter got every word uttered as testimony and caught the conversation of the two attorneys. Copies of this are on exhibit at the school. Make that cold room bearable wltk a Gas Heating Stove. No. Ind. Gas Sa Elee. Co. Adv. Ntt ; DBokt MelTle Canadian flab Misfare. For pipe nr !- re te. Iet that leaf and skill cam prodnce Adv.

TIMES' BtliEAU, AT STATE CAPITAL, ' ' Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. -28. Miss , Blanche Foster, special writer for a local paper, is' in critical condition in " a hospital here. . Miss Foster . covered the recent meeting of the State Charities Conference in Gary this month and was one of a number poisoned by food she ate there. Her prospects for recovery are slim. Mexico City, Mex., Nov. 28. A military train with 300 soldiers aboard was dynamited yesterday at El Sar lado, sixty miles south of Saltillo. .The rebels are said to have shot and killed all the soldiers who escaped the explosion. The wreckage was set on fire. Aj Messrs. Kaufman & Wolf have closed a deal with, Giles Warner whereby they become' the owner of the lot at the corner of Sibley street and Calumet avenue. The purchase price is said to have been $4,000. This prac-

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POINTS 1ST CONFERENCES. Engineers and surveyors decided the following points In Saturday's conference on the matter of the state line, its location and relations: ' , 1. Indiana section lines cannot overlap into Illinois find Illinois section lines ; cannot overlap into ' Indiana. The state line determines this. Measurements may overlap but not the lines. 2. Engineer Rossiter's plat showing that the state line Is seven feet within Hammond's east curb stands Undisputed! He based It upon' government surveys from the 151st mile post to the 164th. Will the officials of West. Hammond stand with sword .nd rapier defending a theory and Ignoring while the front streetof their: cityTftfr the" bark"treet of their neighbor " stands narraw and full of sand?" ' ' ' " ' j - " '." . AND ON THB OTHER HANDCannot the administration of Hammond see the necessity of a thoroughfare of even width and parallel curbs?. Is the agreement entered into by the engineers of both cities of which Mayor WoszczynskI says he was not rightly ' Informed, -so binding that the heels at Ogden street cannot be . removed? Just such queries are uppermost in the minds of Hammond and West Ham mond citizens today who see in the improvement of State Line street a benefit for .every . property owner of two cities. To condemn the property of those who' are said to be situated upon the line would mean years of litigation. Having notoriously, continuously, and uninterruptedly occupied this sevenfoot of alleged Illinois land they would very probably be allowed to remain. If West Hammond sees fit to take the matter into the United States courts, as it is said property owners have threatened to,. It will mean that State Line street will be improved only on one side or not at all. If the Board in Session. ' The board of public works this morning released lot 29 of block 4 Towle and Young's addition to Alexander and Harvey Post. The Kenwood avenue opening .and extension was laid over till December, 3 when It is ta finally act upon. resolution requesting the county commissioners to riff-raff Calumet avenue through to Lake George was pass ed. The petition- of George -Pele and others for cement sidewalks on . both sides of Merrill avenue was accepted. Mrs. McElroy Improving. Mrs. Frank I. McElroy, wife of the principal of . Hammond's high school, is resting, taking nourishment and improving A specialist attended, the case all day Wednesday. There is hove of a slow recovery. Mrs. McElroy was afflicted with partlysls on Monday. Back From Visit. Judge Adam i Stachowict of West Hammond returned' this morning from a visit at Des Plalnes. The police magistrate was called there on business. He is the only police "Judge In the Calumet . region . who can absent himself without supplying an assistant, and for that reason he claims that he works in the best town In the district. ' MRS kAte ray; ADDRESSES WOMEN Valparaiso Vidette.) tThe Womdn's Franchise League was addressed al the Altruria Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock by ,Mr. Kate Wood Ray of Gary, on; the subject, "The National Significance of the Campaign of Woknen In the Fffth Judicial District of jllllnois.' Mrs. Ray has been doing Active , suffrage work In Illinois, and this will be an Interesting meeting. Miss Helen Axe Brown will sing. Every one invited.

whole street belongs to West Hammond-It is her privilege to pave it. , TO CALL A MASS MEETING. F. M. Woszczynskl, mayor of West Hammond, stated this morning that State Line street will be stretched out until the cat tall kinks all vanish, and then paved. This is the ultimatum, coming as a climax to the conference of city officials In the Hammond city hall Wednesday afternoon. Will Hammond agree? Mayor Smalley states that the board of public works is going ahead with tie Improvement as now planned. ; - f i r Every property owner -on' the west side of the ieoussed j-street will receive a notice from Wosacsynski toHay announcing1 a big mass "meeting at the city hall for Monday evening. If anything arises to r rov-ent . this; congress -lit will - be hel.l brt ;Wedries(lay. The date is tentative. " ' "?,; . " 5"':; ' " ' DIFFERENCES; ARE .AIRED, . ; Soon after he was seated" In the. board chamber' Wednesday the. mayor of West Hammond made the astounding discovery that he along with his 'clerkl " I. Mankowskl,' represented the Interested property owners of West Hammond who were protecting. This was surprising in view of the fact that W. F. Bridge, the city engineer,, P. S.

Patterson, special assessment attorney, and others of West Hammond were present. C-f course, the mayor 'argues, they were.' only supposed to render professional opinions, but. he adds, "It was' "rather lonesome." r l,OOKI(i To'l'l'BI.IC GOOD. The officials of ' Hammond and the attorneys and engineers from Ulinofs 11 announced-that for the gocnl of Iho cities State Line street must he puved immediately. Mayor WoSEcznyskt agreed with thtm heartily. But1 it seemed' to him that they were dodging the issue. "The property owners, who" I represent, have protested no severely that I considered It my duty to investigate," he said. "I agreed to something that was rot explained to (Continued on patfe eleven.) NEW. ALA. SENATOR FRIEND OF WILSON 5 ''-'"V::ir-:-:-:-:-:' i-'' ! Frank P. Glass. There can be little doubt but thai Prank P. Glass, the recently appointed senator from Alabama to succeed Senator Johnston, will work in perfect harmony with President Wilson. Glass and Wilson have beeo devoted friends ever since they were schoolmates together at Princeton in the late seventies. Mr. Glass, who is the editor of the Birminpham News and president of the Montgomery Advertiser, was one of the original Wilson men in Alabama.