Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 25, Hammond, Lake County, 26 July 1919 — Page 1

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Place "Blame for Failure of Negotiations on Street Car Companies. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE i CHICAGO, July 26. Strike of employes of the Chicago surface find elevated railway lines, which -would virtually paralyze the electric transportation system of Chicago seemed appreciably nearer this afternoon when representatives of the unions walked out of a conference convened to arrive at a basis for settlement of existing disputes. rVSTEIB PAttLET USELESS. The men declared further parley with 'he street car companies and the state pubiic utilities commission v as useless ii'd that the situation would he put up ( the membership of the unions. Blame for the failure of negotiations as placed upon representatives of the companies by the union men. They !i-e!ired the companies, by making public letters to the unions, had effectively served an ultimatum denying the eighthour day and offering maximum wages of sixty cents an hour instead of cightyrvc cetits'the men demand. WXXiXi TET IT AOAI2T. Th state public utilities commission later issued a statement, saying an effort would be made to bring about a if sumption of conferences. If the men persist In their present attitude it is likely that a strike will bec me effective within the next twentyJour hours. TWO MORE BOX CAR LOOTERS .sothr rich haul was made by railroad detectives when two more box ear looters were rounded up after puzzling authorities for several wk. Secreted inside a high platform ueJ a ba?e for a stove in a lonely hack the officers found hundreds of dollars worth of canned goods and other material which had been stolen from cars ieorge Britton. 1S Fayette street. Humniond. and Mark Harshbarger. whose home is at Claypool, Ind.. who had been living in the shack near Os-y-C'i-n yards of the Nickle Plate railroad, were the men arrested. v Both held positions ef trust with the railroad which they had robbed. Britton was a yard clerk and Harshbarger was a car inspector. Detectives had been watching for the robbers for several weeks when Chief Special Agent Zielke and Captain Rauers of trie I. H. B. force managed to trap Harshbarger on his way to the shack w-ith a basketful of stolen ar- ' les. H'.s pal Britton was later trapred by the I. H. U. men, assisted by Special Agents Quini and Buh. of the Michigan Central force. The men were charged with grand larceny and were taken to Crown Pt. today to be tried before Juge Smith in the criminal court. Among the articles stolen were a large tarpaulin used to protect a government shipment, quantities of canned goods, coffee end even popcorn. Harshbarger cleverly covered his tracks for a long time and frequently leported cars which had been opened and brought in boxes from which part of the contents had been removed. It was lster found that he was the fellow who had opened the cars and had robbed the boxes. YOUR CO-OPERATION IS DESIRED TVater users have been requested through the Iake County Times, also by hand bills, to sprinkle the following hours, providing you have hose permit: North of Webb St.. due east and west from 3 p. m. to 7p. m. and 5 a. m. to t a. m. South of Webb St.. due east and west, from 7 p. m. to 11 p. m. and 5 a. m. to I r- m. Vsers, flat and metered, are hereby notified that unless they adhere to the above notice, that the Mayor will enforce the Sprinkling Ordinance, prohibiting all sprinkling in the city, so that the manufacturing, business and dwelling houses will get sufficient supply of water. Vsers violating above notice will be prosecuted. 7-:6-2t O. G. BLOCKIE. Supt. A e you reading Ths rimes?

William I. Kick Kicks Kimsslf Into Jail He Kicked Young Kicks

I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 DALLAS. Tex. July 2b. Will I. Kick did kick. So did Mary Kick. Martha Kick and all the little Kivks. So did the cop on the beat. In fact, there was so much kicking until AVill I. found himself kieking behind the bars of the county bastile. He i.s stiil kicking and so are the. others. It all started when Will I. Kick kicked about the Kick supper one evening. He raised suck a kick that Mary Kick kicked him out of the Kick home and told him to stay out. Thi.s was too much for Kiel:. He went to a neighboring store and got some cider with a kick in it. When the apple Jjice had kicked him, Will I. returned to the Kick homo and began to kick. There was a kick for Mary Kick. Martha Kick and all the little Kicks real kicks. There was a mighty howl from the house as Will I. Kick was kicking about. The coppers came and kicked Will Kick. Mary. Will I. Kick's wife, wanted to kick, so did Martha, his daughter, but the cops said kick Kick no more, for every kick Kick is kicked some one will suffer. Then they took Kick away while he continued kicking. Will I. now kicks because he is charged with disturbing the peace and assault and battery. "Let Will I. Kick kick." said the jailer. -Will I. Kick? I ll say he will." E. TTHEI Green- Engineering Co. Expects to Give Men Answer Today. Some time today the Green HrrineerIng Co. of East Chicago will repiy to the ultimatum rendered by a delegation of the strikers who have been out for two weeks. The demands were as follows. That eight hours shall constitute a day's work, time and one half for overtime, douh'e time for Sundays and all legal holidays. The moliers rate for an eight hour day shall be six dollars and forty cnts. Time and a half for overtime and double lime on Sundays and Holidays. All outside regular working hours ten per cent on the dollar. The electricians rate shall be eightyseven and a half cents per hour, time and a half for overtime, and double time for Sundays and holidays. Tool and die machinists S cents an hfur. time and a half for overtime etc. For machinists this comprises hand and automatic screw machine. lathe, milling, shaper. benchhand floor work, eighty cents per hour, time and a half for overtime etc. Fifty-three cents per hour for specialists, this comprises drill and punch press operators and 48 cents for helpers, time and a half for over time. etc. Appentices not less than thirty-five cents an hour. etc. , Sheet metal workers, eighty cents an hour and helpers fty. time and a half for overtime, etc. Laborers, fifty cents per hour etc. Tattern makers $1.00 an hour etc. Crane men seventy cents per hour. Carpenters $1.00 rer hour. An answer is to be given sometime Saturday. CHICAGO GAS REDUCED IN PRICE 'INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 CHICAGO. July 26. In these days when almost everything Is going up. it is cheering to note that one thing has come down. By order of the state public utilities commission, gas rates In Chicago have been i educed three cents per O00 cubic feet. The commission rejected a petition of the gas company to increase its rates six cents per 1000 cubic fct. DANGEROUS LIVE WIRE REPAIRED A dangerous live wire was reported down at the corner of Seventh avenue and Connecticut street and until repaired by the Gary Heat, Light and Water Company endangered the lives of peestrians. The sputtering wire could be seen a block away. MAY RAIN NEXT WEEK. I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI WASHINGTON, July 26. The weather bureau today issued the following foreeast for next week: For region of the Great Lakes, during the week beginning July 2S. the weather will be partly cloudy with occasional showers and thunderstorms the first half of the week. Warm weather thj first half of the week, normal temperature thereafter. WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) NEW YORK. July 26. Bank statement: Average loans decreased $104,5S8.000; demand deposits decreased $6",S62.O00, time deposits increased $11,SS5.000; reserves decreased $27,524,280; Actual: Loans decreased $37,054,000; demand deposits decreased $106.3."4,000; time deposits increased $14.02S,000; reserve increased $3,042,200.

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DID YOU HEAR THAT FRED MOTT is able to be out again with his head a";l bound around with a piece of bandage after his accident.

j WEr.H STREEET residents have a great time keeping tr;wk of their sprinkitng hours especially Larry Cox. "IF IT takes a half hour to come after n:e with a car," said Frank Betz. "how j long would it take me to walk home from the "Four Corners"? I EF.IC SPROAT is sporting a new car and is going to sport a new house soon: all saved up by cutting out rhum. H. U. SCHNEIDER and his side-kick.: Freddie Donovan, will leave for a! month's vacation next week and their j place of business will be renovated. , ! CHARLEY NAG EL. manager of the . Hamrmfnd ball team, believes in keeping ; ! his ear to the ground. He tries to please, j janjway-. j SUPT. H. E. LAMFRELL. of the Amer- ! lean Glue Works, went to work this morning at one o'clock. He has a small ttrlke on his hands. SOMETHING is going to happen. Fred Crumpacker hasn't forgotten whore he parked his car lor almost a week. A lilti bunch of Roy Scouts are laying; for Monday morning at nine o'clock with a vengeance. Cedar Lake or bust: j C. M. Mc DAN I EL. former school superintendent, is going back and forth to Chicago, learning the ropes preparatory to pacldlmg his own canoe in business next month. DR. F. YV. OBERLIN, who has been iloing some neavyweigni wrestling wiuij rheumatism for five months, is able toj isit his ollice again in the afternoon) and experts soon to be able to resume where he It ft off. I MANAGER V. D. WEBB, of the LynUora, has the must beautiful lawn in town in front of the handsome hostelry on Columbia ave. aud it is a sight for tore cj cs,. - THE Tostal Telegraph Co. is laying conduits in the alley enst of Hohman from State to Fayette, preparatory; to moving its offices in the Hammond building. IF TOU see Adolph Hirsch these days you'll notice the smile that won't rome oh". "Joe" is back and the feeling is just the same as if the stork had brought him another. U. S. COMMISSIONER C. L. SURPRISE says he has bigger corn in his back yard than his father, a noted corn grower, has on his farm, but Jake Schloer laughs when you ask who takes care of it. O. A. KRIN'BILL. says that Charles v'ormany. formerly of this city, who is now a state insurance adjuster in Wisconsin, is regarded in Milwaukee us elimbing fast to the top of the insurance ladder. C. H FREDERICK declares that many have a bone to pick with the board of review, which he says announced it would take up complaints by letter and then dismissed them all by making a ten per cent reduction. DR. H. E. SHARKER, who haa been working for a year on the new Masonic temple proposition, has achieved one of li is many ambitions and says that Hammond'ean well be proud of the proposed new structure. Harrison Mclaughlin, the w. k. linotpe operator, has busted out in the society column and the first thing you know Mac will be sporting a "soup and fish" and pulling off a charity ball. M. P. LUDWIG'S latest escapade in the insurance game is to keep a couple out on the porch until after midnight, fighting mosquitoes until they weakened, when Mat offered to go in the house and talk it oxer. They signed up. ALDERMAN LOV'IS HECKLEMAN ireaxly to go anywhere in the country tearing down Liberty Halls, and we can give "Louie" a .recommendation for being a fast worker. J. F. BLUM, the State st. haberdasher, is crippled up with rheumatism, but bears it philosophically. "When I see some of these, poor peopl" crippled up. I always try to figure out that I'm not so bad off as I might be." FRANK WALLER, manager or the local Standard Oil plant, is making a regular park out of its surroundings, after paving the street with cinders at the company's expense. J. H. McCLAY, the contraotor, has built a new home on State Line St., near the Country Club, that is handsoma enough to be the cynosure of all eyes whatever that is. COL. L. T. MEYER, who spends all the spare minutes he can on Scouting, says the Scout Camp nt the lake is a hummer and a picture of about fifty Scouts in the' water w ith George Hnnauer. general manager of the I. H. Belt, in with them shows George is just as much a boy as any of them. BOB JENNINGS, the w. k. Ice cream merchant, whose new place of business is about ready for the public, says "never asain" when he thinks of the threemonths' work getting ready. CHIEF JOE NITZ. bf the West Hammond police, is about as disconsolate as any of the ex-saloon men. He says they have taken a!! of the excitement out of his life.

Baptists to 'Build Fine New Community Houses

The Baptist denomination will dedicate two large community houses, one located in East Uanunond and the other in Indiana Harbor. The buildings and furnishings will cost approximately $70j!'''0. Provision is made in the buildings for all kinds of welfare activities: Reading rooms for boys ami girls, men and women, class rooms, day nurseries, kindergartens, dispensaries, models of their kind, nswrnbly rooms, rooking class rooms, laundries fitted with electric washing machines, bath rooms, shower baths for men and women, boys and girls, dining rooms, each with a seating capacity of 2j0, besides two large root gardens. . Young ladies, specialists in their chosen fields of work, will live In the buildings and dfvote all their energies to the development of American ideals and character building. Mss Moore head of the East Hammond hous-e. and Miss SHOCKING ' AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Three Brothers Hit in Car by Interurban; Two of Them Are Dead. r .K7CRNATI0NAL NEWS SERVICE! LEBANON. Ind.. July 26 Everett CaldweJl. 8: Burnet Caldwell, 1. and Adrian Caldwell, 12. sons of Mr. and Mrs. "Wm. Caldw ell, -f near M chnnicsburg. in Boone county, were k:,:i'i. and another son. Donald. 8. is in a hospital here today probably fatally hurt, as a result of a crash in whU-h their nutomobile was struck by a Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern traction car. The boys were returning home after a tr p to town for supplies. AUrtouM th approach was clear, the machine was driven directly in front f the interurban which was speeding at 45 miles an hour, and was demolished. The bodies of the dead were badly mangled. The injured ! boy has a crushed si ull. VAGABOND MUSKETEERS' LONG WALK Tramp Over Lincoln Highway and Pass Through , Dyer This Week. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! DYER. Ind . July 2t. No more Interesting trans-continental tourists have ever passed along the Lincoln Highway than two San Franeiscoar.s who went through here on Thursday and are known as tho "Vagabond Musketeers." They ere covering the country on foot from Frisco to New York. The two travelers are Ernest Walsh, poet-aviator, and Albert Powers, writer, both of the Bohemia Club. San Francisco. The remarkable part of their journey is that the two young men have made the 2,000 miles and expect to reach NewYork, without using a single penny for subsistence. Both of the travelers are little more than youths, and arrived at LaPorte's Y. M. C. A. tanned and dust covered from head to foot. KNOWN AX.1m OTXE THE TJ. S. The "Vagabonds, " ss sonic, newspapers all o-, r thu country call these eccentric youiin' men, do not carry any baggage, and their only clothes are the garments they wear, a one-pieee outfit resembling the uniform worn by aviators. "We are not making the- trip from the athletic point of view.- fid Mr. Walsh. "Whatever we may gain from this expe rience physically will be only a by-product. We loiter and rest whenever we please, taking in th wonderful nature of this wonderful eo jntry. The impressions received from mountains west and the prairies and woods of central United States have revealed to me for the firt lime how great and awe-inspiring is thi3 Coninued on page n.)

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Beekley, kindergarten teacher, are now on the field. Miss Troeck and Miws Fletcher sre now er.gage'd in work at Indiana Harbor. R. C Spear will supervise the work among the men and boys of the Harbor house and Rev.' ('. M. Brodie will have charge of the men and boy's work at East Hammond for the present. Other trained workers will be here in September, including two trained nurses, one for each building. "We have not asked the clMscns of th-; Calumet district to help us erect these buildings and furnish th-m." says Rev. Brodie. "The Baptists themselves have met all the expenses. Many good people have expresed their appreviation of the possibilities of the, work of the community houses and have offered, of their own free will, to help us financially. need a hundred dollars to begin a libra rv lor boys. It may be there is a TAX BOARD HEAD IS Fred SiEJs Will have Hands Full at Crown Point Next Week. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 CROWN POINT. Ind. July 26 That there will be a monster jam of people to greet Fred A. Sims, chaiaman of the State Tax Board, here next Wednesday goes without saying. Mr. Sims has anounced by telegram to County Auditor George Foland that he will be present to meet all persons and corporations Interested in appeals pending before the state bctard. North township, embracing tha city of Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago. Indiana Harbor, will be present in swarms of taxpayers, both corporate and indiv idual. Few of them are satisfied with the 10 per cent reduction on real estate. The Lake county board of review had appealed equalizations of many industries also to the state board and representatives of these industries have been notified that they can rrcsent their cases to Chairman Sims next Wednesday. The board will make no final decisions next week but final hearings will be had at Indianapolis on the 14th of August. IS FALSELY Con.eiius S hoon. of Munster. w ho was arrtsted last Sunday on a charge of passing a worthless check at the Silver jewelry store in Hammond, has been released and completely exonerated of all complicity in the affair. Later a similar check was turned in by J. W. Millikan. who had cashed it at his sporting goods store. It was also made out to "it. Schoon" and was for $23 like the Siiver check, but was signed by W. C. Pheii instead of H. P. Downey. Sehcon had bten arrest-d . by Officer Kinsclo because of the similarity of iiiimes and since the description given by the victims fitted him aimost exactly. However. when Silver and Millikan visited the station they immedaitely said Cornelius was not th- boy and he way ti-I i-jei. lb. Iki.s always had a good reputation in his neighborhood and those if sponsible for his arrest keenly regret the humiliation which he was forced to s u ft e r. VISITORS FROM OHIO. Mr. and" Mrs. Fr:r.k Hall of Akron, Ohio, are guests for a week of Mr. and Mr. A. Flora. 25." Polk St.. Gary. Mrs. Flora and Mrs.. HaU are fister.

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good hearted man a lover of boys, who would be glad to give us the necessary amount to start a boys' library. It is possible there is a Sunday School class of young ladles who would give us an equal sum to begin a girls' library. We are greatly in need of four pianos. Maybe you have a secrmd-hand piano which you would gladly donate to the work, or if you have a rirsl-class second-hand piano you would sell for a small sum, communicate, with me at the Mc-e Hotel. Pictures for the kindergarten rooms, boys' and girls' rooms, and the day nurseries, are needed. "If you are interested In any way In helping in the furnishing of these buildings, leave a message at the Mee'Hotel, Hammond, and we will be glad to see you relative to any phase of the work. We want you to feel that these buildings are yjurs, to be used for the development

of life and the making of good citizens." WHAT'S THIS? BEVO HANGOVER? iRobsrt L. Conray and John a on a of 2347 40th St., Chicago, and Carl Ridesback. 622 17. Leaninpton sr., Chicago, were arrested last sight oa Q-ostlin street in Hammond by Officer C. Fandrel. Kldenback was booted for driving an automobile whlls Intoxicated and. the other two who were in the machine with him are charged with being drank. FISHER IS LONESOME, THIS IS WHY E. Chicago Soldier Wants to Hear From Canadian and British Soldiers. E. M. Fisher, of East Chicago, who was wounded fourteen times during the war. when he fought with the Canadian expiditionary forces after being turned down in his efforts to get iuto the Lnitcd States army, is lonesome. Mr. Fisher wants to hear Irom all Canadian and British soldiers in Hammond. Gary and East Chicago to organize a Lake county branch of the American Volunteeis, Canadian Expiditionary Forces. Fisher, who lives at 145th St.. East Chicago, has been home from overseas for the last few dteks. He was the second young man to volunteer in Company L during a patriotic meeting where a call was madd for volunteers. The next week he was put through the regular army examination and was turned down on account of his eye sight. He then next tried several recruiting stations, but to no avail. There was nothing left to do so he boarded a train for Canada and enlisted with the Canadians. He was sent to France and fought in the battles of Passchendalle in Belgium, where the heaviest casualties inflicted during the whole war were suffered.. He was in the third battle of Arras, Cambria. Amiens, Valenncienes and Mons. Fisher was wounded fourteen times and went over the. top several times and would like to hear from any man that was with the Canadians or British living in Whiting, Hammond, East Chhago. Indiana Harbor or Gary. "BOB" OPENS UP A FINE PLACE 5DS3'v ' R. G. Jennings, who for a number of years conducted a popular ice cream parliT and confectionary on Sibley st. which was told to Dickson Bros, several month? ago, is once more tack in the business. He has Just finished fitting eut the room formerly o,-c upied by the Harnmord Trust & .Savings Bank. ,".97 Hohman street, w.th a fine soda fountain, tables and show cases. His equ'pmt nt is one of the ben' in Hammond. can easily accommo date fifty patrons at one time. Mr. Jersr.iiig.- Una pat t of his stock of tine candies and cig.its on hand and is getting his soda fountain a'l primed thi afternoon for the b,g rush at his open:.;S to;i,iht.

PETITION FOR INJUNCTION

Rush to Goshen to Lay Matter Before Judge Baker In District Court. Asking that former employes now out on strike and others affiliated with them be enjoined frtf picketing the plant, interfering with other workmen on their way to work and congregating in the vicinity of the plant, Fred W. Miller, chief clerk to the works manager of the Standard Steel Car Co., of Hammond, filed a petition in the U. S. district court for an injunction. riI,E IN DISTRICT COTTBT. The bill was filed ths forenoon by Attorneys Fred Crumpacker and E. H. Friedrich with Deputy Clerk Charles Surrrise of the It. S. District court, names the following defendants: "A. Potraza. C. E. Atchison, Mike Corner. O. F. McCay. Walter Solczynski. Jamei Barry. Vf. J. Spolnlk, Otto Henker. Joe Kodmon. Peter Norwak, John Keller, Joe Black, K. Lipinski, O. Nowakowsk. John Llssock. John Monday. Pete Skrobod, Joe Xalbowicz, Louis Nowolitz. Pohn orga. John Senacofskl, John Kowal. Anton Sloiyk, Laric Wojcik. Thomas Markie, Paul Lukowskl, E. D. Boyer. Konstanty Toblonski, Vv'ladislaw Ogurck, Adam Bizczlnskl. K. Chalson. J. Tryka. 'William Gordon. Frank Ceimba, Joe Miller. Joe Laseh otherwise known as 'Hegewisch Joe. John Continued on page two.) PROTEST AGAINST Hammond Business Man 4 Up in Arms Over Puttering at Calumet Bridge. Disgusted with the manner in which the contractors are frittering away the.r time on the Lake George bridge on Calumet blvd., Otto Knoerzer, president of the Champion Potato Machinery Co , of Hammond, is one of the many recently to express their sentiments :n emphatic terms. "I am satisfied." said Mr. KnoerzT this morning, "that any contractor who knew his business at all could have put in that bridge in three weeks, and here Muzzall &. Sons have been on the Joh ninety days and I cu.n't see that they can really be said to have started. They have no equipment on the ground and have two or three men puttering around for a few hours a day, accomplishing nothing. It is simply a waste of time. At the rate they are going now they w ill not have the Job finished before fall, and I doubt if they have it done then for it just leoks to me like they don't know their business. "Fortunately there has been no accidents at the bridge yet, but it is just a miracle and a bad accident Is bound to come sooner or later if all of th--thousands of machines which travel over the street have to put up with that litt! temporary bridge. The danger signs are not clear and one !oes not know what he Is up against until he is right at the bridge. I think it is time a mighty howl was raised by the people to get some action on this matter. WANT ALLIES OUT OF RUSSIA INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ! LONDON. July 26. The evacuation f Russia by allied troops was advocated today by the Daily Express editorially. "We have no business in Russia wher the people must work out their own salvation." said the Daily Express. "All of our men must be brought home at one under the eyes of the fleet. Pray heaven this is still possible." MARY MAC LANE ONCE AGAIN I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) CHICAGO. July 26. Having or.lv eighty-rive cents in her possession and that amount being inacceptable to th. police as a bond. Mary MeLane. author ef -J. Mary McLarto." and heroine of the f lm. "Men Who Have Made Love to Mo. " Itouishs in jail here today. She was nrrest'd on a warrant sworn out by Mnr Aila M. Ripley, a in.dist. who ehriig-.-the ae rtess-authores w ith larceny :is baillee throuch failing to r'turn gown nnd furs loaned her for her r.ppearar- - in a movie production. Don't throw your paper awa? without reading the want ad page.

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