Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 81, Hammond, Lake County, 22 September 1922 — Page 1

LAKE CO. ' CELEBRA TES REUNIONS A T COUNTY FAIR

TiiE WEATHER. Vmir ad wimrr to Mi f, at and 9aturt,?l fri tmnkitcit and THE LAKE COUNTY TI VOL. XVI. NO. 81. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2:, 1922 ANNEXAT

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"Lffi FRONT NEGLECTED".ROBERTSDALE Pollution of Water Nothing Short of Criminal

Itoboritdalo residents who are A vocatlng dis-anceixation, point to tho LaXe Front par' as an example of Hi-nmond's neglect. After Investing- a largo amount of money In a modern bathhouse, Hammond entirely abandoned Its program for the improvement of tho park and bathing beach. The grass Is gone and the park has become a sand waste. The pollution of the water continues to such an extent that bathing this summer was unpleasant and dangerous. The Lake Front park has become a disgrace. Meantime Whiting has improved Its lake front rark until it hax become one of the most delightful bathing beaches on the lake. BOONE'S PLAN rOBOOTTEN AVhen the late David Boone was a momber of the Hammond city council, under the Smalley administration be started a movement for the improvement of the Lake Front part. The first unit of Improvement was the bathhouse which was built under a fire of criticism. Boone's Fcheme was as follows: 1. Erection of a modern bathhouse. ?. Legislation to stop the pollution of the lake. ". Klcvation of the Pennsylvania. Tev Tork Central and Baltimore & Ohio tracks across the lake front. 4. Extension of the park into the lake to the end of the piers on "made land." 5. Construction of a concrete road from Five Points on Calumet avenu to the lake, to include a large concrete parking space for autifmoblles and a lake wall. A VISION, NOT VISIONAKY Boone's plan was a vision, but it was not visionary. The pollution of the lake cannot go on and on forever. It gets worse each year. The reople cannot be expected to drink dirty, tasteless water filled with city sewage and Industrial refuse from the Standard Oil and American Maize Products plants even if It Is treated with chlorine. Some time the pollution of the lake will havu to stop. Why not now? As for, the elevation of the railroads at 'the lake front the same reasoning applies. Some day the railroads will be forced to elevate through Hammond, Whiting and Indiana Harbor. They are already elevated to the East Side, just west of the state line. The grade crossings at Calumet avenue and Lake avenue are the most dangerous In the region. It Is fear of these crossings where express trains go thundering by at sixty and seventy miles an hour, that keeps people from the lake front. It Is a death trap. Hammond's share of the cost of elevation will be twenty-five per cent of the cost of construction at the two street crossings. Filling in the lake to the end of the piers Is In keeping with the policy of other cities on the lake. Chicago has built Grant Park into the lake as well as Jackson rark and stretches along the north shore. The Inland Steel has built scores of acre of "made land." The slag can be had for the hauling. The Whiting. Park is "made land." It is only by elevation of the railroads, extending the park into the lake and stopping the pollution of the lake that Hammond can hava a Lake Front park that will te a credit to the city. Robertsdale people say that it is shameful the way Hammond - has neglected Its lake front. The working1 people of moderate means are the ones who suffer. The well-to-do people can drive to Cedar Lake, Miller Beach or a Chicago beach for relief from the heat In summer. Robertsdale people say that Hammond is the least progressive of the cities of the region as regards the lake front. HAMMOND GIRL ON VAUDEVILLE BILL FOR SUNDAY ' As an added attraction to the regular "bill of vaudeTllle, the Parthenon theatre on, Sunday will present Mlsi Armelde, Buasert, a Hammond girl. In rapid sketching with crayons. Miss Bussert is a graduate of "VTest Hammond high school who has developed Ibofh artlstlo and literary talent She will draw character sketches of prominent men and recite original verse. Miss Dussert 1 entering1 Rockford College this fall. NOTICE The B. B. & C. Company, retailers of Atnu.L with yard at Augusta and Moncr. tracks, has changed the name c t company to the B. & B. ial Cxxctvtyny . ihe "fS-.Teats of Charles Creasbaura in iho 3. B. it C. Company v(ve been p-tba.1 by J. D. 3eck--,-ith and C W. Bwn-.an. who now form the crcJeta peraon-iel cf VKe B.' A H. Oeal rowpti. J D. iSCCKWTTH. C. W. BOWMAN.

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MAN OBEYS THE MAYOR Mayor1 1imi proclamation tor the suspension of bnslness at noon today to penult everybody to nttfnd the County Fair vi na aot entirely Isnored. t"rftnk Roth, proprietor of Hnmmond's Jldest barber shop, turned the key lu the door of bin place shortly after twelve o'clock. "I think the mayor of the city la entitled to rpeet, aald Mr. Kotb. "He has Isxurd u proclamation oxkinp; business hoaaea to lose and Instead they atay open. I'd rather lose a few dollars than iffcnd the mayor." LEI rUR NEW PLANT Damascus Steel Co. to Build at Once; N. Y. Car Wheel Co. Starts Oper ation. Everybody in waiting for the big news that the Jones & Laughlin Co. will begin construction of their big steel plant on the north side, and meantime smaller industrial progress is to be overlooked. . Tho eggs are not in one basket by any means. Whether th Jones & Laughlin Co. builds or not and it is practically certain that it will the city continues to grow rapidly. Charles Caprr, president of the Damascus Steel Castings Co., was In Hammond this week looking over the site which the ccnipany bought of Gostlin, Meyn & Hastings. Whi'.e Mr. Capper was here he let contracts for the erection of two building's to the Truscon Steel Construction Co., of Yuungstown. O. The largest of thj buildings will be 100 by 148 feet. C. F. Pcrter, chief engineer of the Nickel Plate railroa 1, came here from Fort Wayne and after a conference with Mr. Capper agreed to have a switch track ints the plant within sixty days. The site of the plant is on Summer street opposite the Metals Refining Co. X. Y. CAR. WHEEL OPERATING The New York Car AVheel Co. today cast the first i-on wheels in its now plan' at Standard and Columbia aves., which represents ' an investment of $300,000. During the construction of the plant Hs size was increased fifty per cent over the plans and specifications and It Is now planned to add another twentyfive per cent immediately. Credit for the location of the New Tork Car Wheel plant in this city Is given to r. H. Joyce, president of the Illinois Manufacturing Co. SOUP COMPANY ACTIVE Representatives of the Campbell Soup Co. are in Hammond making an inspection of the territory within a radius of fifty miles to determine whether or not there is sufficient acreage to develop a tomato crop which would warrant Investment of two million dollars In the old Reid-Murdoch plant which th.'y have purchased. The soup company must have 100,000 bushels of tomatoes a day during the canning season. XEW HOTEL AT DYER Another item of interest comes from Dyer, Ind., where the Ideal stretch of .-oncrete pavement Is being built on the Lincoln highway. One of the executives of the United States Rubber Co.. I- reported to have stated during an Inspection of the highway this week, that the company would build ft modern hotel at Dyer as an advetrlsement. Hundreds of thousards of tourists will be attracted to tho Ideal stretch of highway, he declared. SELECTED Here's how the names of the o.x police matrons" came to be posted In the Hammond police station. The explanation comes from Mrs. J. E. Graves of the W. C. T. U. "Those ladles aren't police matrons," explains Mrs. Graves. "They ore only women who have been selected by the W. C. T. U. to lend the police a hand whenever it is needed. "You see our Evangelistic Department has a Committee on Jails and Prisons. These six women are members of that committee. . Sometimes it is necessary for the police to hold girls or women to appear in trials as witnesses. Probably they cannot furnish bor.d for their appearance Instead of letting them go to jail until the trial comes up we volunteer to find them homes where they can stay until needed. We look after them and see that they keep their promise and appear in courT. "We have co-operated with tTle police in this manner in the past and are willing to continue to do so. We have often kept girls In our ISmes eo that they would not have to remain in Jail. Several girl dope fiends have been turned over to us and wa hve taken care of them untfT .they wore able to go back to work.'' Sr Hammond has no police matron and probably will not have one for a long time yer.

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Praised For Constructiveness And Damned For Do Nothijigness By GEORGE R. HOLMES STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. With members of both houses straining Impatiently to get away from Wash, ington and back to political fencemending at heme, tha second session of the sixty-seventh congress drew to a close today. Ity nightfall, unless unexpected parliamentary obstacles arise, congress will ue on itj way homo to inaugurate a hectic six weeks' campaign for re-election on November 7. There w?re genuine sighs of relief today on the part of Republicans and Democrats alike over the Closing of the tumultous session which began on December 5 last. The approaching recess, for it will amount to that in which Harding lntey.ds calling in extra session the middle of November, will be the first real rest the sixty-seventh congress has had since President Harding came into power on March 4, 1921. Within a month after his inauguration he called a special sesslpn. Except for a ten-day recess at the close of last November, congress has been steadily m session ever since. Praised by its Republicans as one of the most constructive congresses In rectnt history, an1 just as much damned by the Democrats as a "do nothing congress," the sixtytseventh leaves Washington In a stat of ner. vous apprehension over the fate that awaits the entire membership of the house and one-third of the senate on November 7. The Republicans are going home to praise the record of this congress and assure their constituents that a great era of prosperity ' lies Just ahead as a result of the new tariff bill. They will also stress heavily the "business administration" inaugurated by the Republican administration. The Democrats are going home to tell their constituents that the new tariff bill Is to raise the cost of living in the United States some $300,000,000 a year. And they have organized a flying squadron of speakers to tear down the business arguments of the Republicans. One fact the Democrats will stress is that the Republicans closed this session of congress with a deficit of $650,000,000 staring them in the face reported by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon as one of the chief causes of the bonus veto. The tariff of TS22 w-Ul form one of the chief, if not the chief, campaign issues for the next six weeks, It was conceded today by leaders on both sides. The ten outstanding features of the second session of the sixtyseventh congress record: 1 Inauguration of the budget system. 2 Agricultural credits acts, extending financial relief to farmers. 3 Ratification of the treaties growing out of the Washington conference. 4 Renewal of the three per cent Immigration law. 5 Passage of tire Capper-Tincher anti-grain gambling bill. 6 The tariff act of 1922, imposing the highest protective rates since the Payne-Aldrlch bill. 7 Rejection of the soldiers' bonus after a veto by President Harding. 8 Legislation aimed at stabilizing the coal Industry. 9 Creation of an American debt funding commission to collect the $11, 000,000, 000 foreign indebtedness. 10 The seating of Senator Truman H. Newberry of Michigan. OUTLAW UNIONS CHICAGO, Seipt. 22. Claims were made today -by the United Association of Railway Employes, John Oruneau's "outlaw" organization that most of the company unions being organized by the railroads to deal with the United States railroad labor board are controlled by them. The so-called outlaw organization is founded on the "one 'big union" idea, and according to the claims made "by the Association today, t'iiey have increased their ranks since the strike from 90.000 to 150,000 men and now have the dominant number of men In the railroad shops. This dominant number gives them the right to demand recognition by the United States Railroad Labor Board. NOTICE I am still handling coal . of all kinds, located at Chicago ave. and Calumet, phone 193. and prepared to fill orders on short notice. -20-2t . C. L. CREASBAUM. "THE Gary police department has arrested over 400 liquor law violators since I took office." is Mayor Johnson's response to State Prohibition Director, Bert Morgan's statement that Gary officials have made no attempt to enforce the liquor law.

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IMTERr ONAL NEWS SERVICE . v.N....N Sept. Z'Z. iiNtaphn Kemal I'auba, romiiuidcr In chief of the Turks, was reported today to be attempting to raise bis trK to a quarter of a million. Inducements are being made to tbe Turks of military age In the liberated region of Anatolia to join tbe colors. Kemal is concentrating large aa&ntitlt-a of Kruiip and Skoda rnns which had been furnished to Turkey during the World wnr by Germany and Austrln. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 I.O.DO., Sept. 22. Muatapha Kemal Panlui'a threat to "act within 4S hours" ii alms the Turkish nationalist demands are met, was interpreted by the Evening 'ti as a virtual ultimatum. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 22. Unless there Is an Immediate peace conference at which Constantinople and Eastern Thrace are granted to Turkey the Turkish army will open an attack In an effort to force its way into Europe, Mustapha Kemal Pasha, head of the Angora government .has informed General Pelle. the French high' commissioner. It was learned today. Kemal was quoted as saying: "I am unable to restrain my troops. I csn hold them back only a few days longer unless there is an immediate peaco conference at Mudanla which will concede Constantinople and Eastern Thrace io Turkey. We are willing to enter Constantinople with only a limited number of troops so long as the allies- are occupying the fty." Mudanla is in Asiatic Turkey on the southern shore of the Turkish straits. General Pelle had made representations to Kemal warning him against going to war against the BiMtlsh. Despite Kemal's war-like declaration, General Pelle Is understood to be hopeful that a conflict wil be averted. British airmen report that the Turks are concentrating troops. WHAT MAIRICE SATS By MAJOR GENERAL SIR FREDERICK 13. MAURICE Director of Military Operations at the British War Office During the World War. (International News Service Special Correspondent) CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept 22. Any withdrawal of the British from the neutral rone under threat of an advance by the Kemalists (Turks) would be followed by grave danger to the lives and property of Christians. We must continue to hold Chanak and the Ismld peninsula until a satisfactory peace has been signed. To rely upon tbe British fleet to protect Constantinople with the Kemalists in Scutari would be futile. Kemal is counting upon dissensions between the British and the French. He is talking openly of "driving thj British Into the sea." France, Italy and Britain will have to count upon disaster worse than Smyrna if we fail to recognize our duty towards the Christians of Constantinople. FORD EMPLOYES BACKAT WORK Thousands Besume where Thoy Had Left Off Five Days Ago. IlnTESNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE IS. DETROIT, Mich., .Sept. 23. Th-iu-sandi of men went baek to their work at tho Highland Park, Rlvar Rouge and Dearborn plants of the Ford Motor Company today In response to Edsel Ford's notification from Ohio that the shut-down fo"ced by coal shortage was at an end. Factory officials predicted that all plants would reach their regular production rate tonight. Ford's ordr s"nt more than 70.000 men back to work In Detroit and its suburbs, besides returning to their occupation several thousand workers in the plants supplying Ford parts. It was stated today that the Ford Company had secured the proper varieties of coal at acceptable prices and In quantities sufficient to insure steady production M'GOWAH PUTS ON CELEBRATION INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW TORK. Sept. 22. Mrs. Malcolm McGowan. who is suing for a separation, told the court today that her husbani "turned on the Victrola. eang and danced around the room" when he learned that his mother-in-law was dead. Furthermore, said Mrs. McGowan, she found letters to her husband signed "Babe," "Mary," "Kate," "Trix" and "Kit." The couple were married in Cleveland, O.. and formerly lived In Philadelphia. Mrs. McGowan said her husband beat her some times.

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RECEIVER Total Creditors Debt Lis' Foot Up at Least $15,000 The Twin City Sentinel, published as a dally for more than a year at East Chicago, and which suspended publication Monday is now In the hands of a receiver. William Wright has charge of the plant with instructions to conserve the assets and dispose of them under orders of the court. Application for a receiver was made by the Chicago Paper Co., which has a bill for $882 against tho newspaper. In the petition it was shown that other creditors would ibring the total debts to at least $15,000. It was stated that the plant Is heavily mortgaged and that the officers of he corporation had recently overdrawn the company's bank account and that a number of outstanding checks could not, be taken up. The proprietors were said to be preparing to sell the subscription list so that creditors could realize nothing on that asset. Attorney Marcus Hershcovltz flle-d the complaint for the paper company .in the Hammond superior court. Judge Crites took up the matter Immediately. The defendants appeared and consented to the receivership. Mr. Wright furnished $10,000 bond and was placed In charge of the property. It has not been decided what disposition will be made. PUT UP FINE Contracts for five 'business blocks to be built this fall under the supervision of Mac Turner, architect, have been let this week. The largest building is. a threestory brick block at the southwest corner of Clinton and Hohman streets to cost $50,000. D. Spragia is the owner and Rufus Danner, the contractor. The building will have a frontage of fifty feet on 'Hohman street and a depth of 107 feet on Clinton street. There will be three store rooms, four office suites and four li-ving apartments in the structure. It will ibe thoroughly modern and of attractive design. Homer J. Postlewaite, printer and proprietor of a stationery store, will erect a $25,000 brick shop and apartment building at Ann street and Muenidh court, opposite ths Mas-onic Tetnpla. Sam iLlgay will tyolld a two story brick ibusiness block on East State street near Calumet avenue to cost $15,000. William Sehm-user has let the contract to Charles Rhodes for a two "tory office and flat building in Whiting to cost $17,000. Henry Barker has let the contract to H. B. Olney for a business "block on Fir street, Indiana Harbor, td cost $18,000. PULLMAN CAR RATES NOT TO BE REDUCE flNTERNATlONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON. Sept. 22 Pullman car rates will not be reduced If the interstate commerce commission adopts the tentative report submitted to it today by Chief Examiner (Robert E. Qnlik, holding that present rates are reasonable. Complaint that the rates wero too high was made to the commission by the order of United Commercial Travelers of America and kindred organizations. Quirk's report declared a reduction in rates unaccompanied by a corresponding reduction in operating costs would create a deficit. T FAIL IN PLOT INTERNATIONAL NEWS SEFTVICSI ST. LOUIS, Sept. 22. Mistake by bomb throwers In selecting the wrong object narrowly avoided what might have been a disastrous explosion on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad last night, it was disclosed by Investigators early today. The bomb exploded In an empty box car, demolishing it. Five cars ahead of the one destroyed were two cars loaded with explosives, and It is believed that the bomb was intended for this section of the train. Railroad strike E'n-.pathizers are blamed.

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Muatapha Kemal Pasha in the grounds of his home. Without his uniform and the usual military setting, Mustapha 3emal Pasha, leader of the Turkish Nationalists, is a peaceful looking! Igent. This photo of him rives no intimation that he is the man who jnow threatens to plunge all Europe and most of Asia into a war by tarrying out his avowed intention of winning back for Turkey all terrn tory lost in the recent .world war.

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IS STILL IN Phillip Ukman, Gary attorney, paid government dry officer of the Bert Morgan forces and bribe taker, who was nabbed in the bud after he had accepted and pocketed $300 in cash from a south side hotel owner, to tear up what Ukman claimed was an affidavit for the arrest of his partner for violation of the state liquor law, was still In custody this morTtTng, sirty hours following arrest. Up to noon today no one had appeared to furnish bond for his release. He is held on two charges, one for forgery and the other b'rlbery, for which Judge William Dunn of the Gary police court, placed bond of $2,000 in each case. So far Ukman has been unable to raise his bond. Ukman was billed to have a preliminary hearing in the city court this morning. Due to several other cases, the case had not been ' called up to 11:30 o'clock. The court room was packed, a great many of them Serbian people, the same nationality as Ukman, who are eager to see him receive Just punishment. It was upon one Serbian that Ukman had plied his trade. It was of Judge Dunn that Ukman is alleged to have remarked that he "would get Dunn's Job." "They will Impeach Judge Dunn," Ukman is alleged to have remarked to several intimate friends and .1 have been promised the appointment." Judge Dunn was arrested by federal offfters with Attorney B. A. Lucas on charges of conspiracy. Those who are acquainted with the inside of the facts state that it was Ukman who brought about Judge Dunn's and Attorney Lucas' arrest. Ukman was sore, he remarked because he did not get enough business in the city court. In order to be impartial in the preliminary proceedings, Judge Dunn stated that he would ask that a special judge be appointed to hear the case. STEVE'S STILL NOT BIG BUT Steve Wargo. who lives at East Gary, didn't have the "largest still ever found in Lake county" when federal agents called at Ills house yesterday, but from reports which caused the raid it was one of the busiest. Agents Rhed. Manlove and Browning arrested Steve yesterday afternooa after they had found a flftygallon still. 400 gallons of mash and 20 galons of moonshine in his stillhouse. The. distilling i equlrrnent: way o-

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cated 1 na small shanty back of the Wargo residence. Steve was not on duty when the rafd was made and he immediately sided right in with the officers. ,He appeared to oe ihgh,ly gratified that they had dons the trick, but he objected strenuously to belnsr arrested for owning the outfit. His story was that "anothe rfellow" got permission to live in the shanty. He said that he had suspected he was making moonshine there and had been thinking seriously of reporting him to the authorities. The agents had different Information so Steve was brought to Hammond and placed -under boml. He will be tried in the city court. C. B; Tinkham, chairman of Hammond Community Service, announces the appointment of the following persons as members of the temporary Executive Committee. A. M. Turner, F. R. Martin. Mrs. Grace Conroy, Frank CRourke, Blrs. Lucille Meyers, Jesse Wilson. Mrs. Emma Leary, II. Broertjes, I. I. Modjeskl, H. A. Lamprell, Steve Sobieski Jo W. Todd, Rev. Peter Langendorff. Mr. Tinkham is chairman of this committee. ' This Executive Committee will meet within a few days to discuss the recreational needs of the city, plan llesure time activities for the adults as well as the young people, but making special provision for the young men and women. Music, Dramatics. Social and Recreative games. Debating Clubs, Story-telling, are but a few of the activities that will be gpven consideration in planning an all the round program . Special committees on Drama. Playgrounds, Music, Sports and Ath letics, Community Centers and Special Day's Celebrations will be appointed, thefe committees will be selected from every section cf the city, and will consult with any person Interested in order that the organization will truly be representative, as Community Service Is of, by, and for the people. Community Servtice will assist the people in making their llesure time more valuable and expressive thm community recreation. It seeks to promote: Citizenship for both native and foreign-born made vkal through a rorr-non sharing in leisure time activities. :cigh'.orllnef s made possible through the coming together of the citizens to think, to plan and to act together for their mutual Interests. Community Spirit Growing in solidarity through the pooling of community resources and the recreation of neighborhood groups who fht-,v !n terms of the whole community. K.ppines! A mor abaundant Ufa because of new opportunities for e;C f-expression Tor the individual, and a broader social life for ths, arhole c:amun:t3jy" '' " '

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Twenty Cars Enter For Thrill- ' ing Auto Races Tomorma (BVLLETIX) SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Treasurer James Love at Boo slated that tbe sate receipts wm 00 greater yesterday than hUhest day last year. This fair officials to estimate that j4 terday'a attendance n i 25jg' which is a little larger than a,jL erowd ever drawn previously tp-iik fair in Lake county. CROW.V POINT. Ind.. Sept. 2t-t; The weather man is smiling a broad, fatherly smile for the bent of the Lake County Agrtcultw Association. He started it ytnti day and he broadenod it today, .f

Lake county and the surround!,3 rrDyunaing m Kind thousands, tasting the home business cares aside, are malf merry at the county fair. At a fa PIS hour today, fair officials estlmsVii that yesterday's record had broken. And yesterday was salf tt be one of the greatest days in ti history of the association. This is Hammond Day and Hammond is here trying to out-do the showing made by Gary yesterday. The long line of automobiles chaperoned by the Chicago Motor Club's trouble oars reached the fair grounds at 1:30 o'clock and the occupants proceeded to make their presence known In their noisest manner. The whols center section of the grandstand had been reserved for them. Today ends the horse racing program. Tomorrow automobiles v. ill take charge of the track. Thirty entries have already been made for the auto races. Harris, Wennlston, Whltaker and Clif Woodbury, daring drivers well known to followers of the sport, are among those entered. There will be ten, fifteen and twenty-flve mile races, with generous purses for the winners. This is the first year that a Saturday fair has been held and from Interest which Is being shown it looks like tomorrow will be the heaviest day of all. The track, after another treatment of sunshine will be in excellent shape for the racing cars. Seven evonts made yesterday's horse races the longest program seen here in years. Darkness was closing in as the last heat was run, but the crowd stuck to the end. By getting on the track early with the harrows and drags the surface was put in traveling condition, but It remained a trifle heavy all day. Today it is all that could be asked. Following are the results of yes. terday's races: 2iSO Paee First, Peter C; second, Bevo; third Sadie M; fourth, Thomas Direct. Time, 2:191,4; 2:11; 2:19V. 2 tl2 Pace First, Clarendon O; second, Robert Dillon; third. Red Blngel; fourth Robert McKerron. Time, 2:21Vi; 2 .19 W; 2:20; 2:19. 2ilT Trot First, Baoe Doll; second, Edna Gray ;thlrd, The Great Wiltons fourth, Fred S. Time, 2:23; 2.21; ?:19. Mile Running It ace First, Huxzas; second. Conan; third. Avis Doyle; fourth. Black Coffee. Time, 1:50. Holf-MIIe Running Race First, Volcanus; second, Jos Esh; third, Christopher D.; fourth, Hanibush. Time. 0:51H. Three-Quarter Mile Running Race First, Conan; second. Marcellai third. New Britton; fourth, Elsie. Time. 1:19. Special Half-Mile nunnins; Race First, Pretty Boy: second, Billy B. ; third. Cap. Time. 0:60. Small Shetland Pony Halt Mile First. Francis Mitch, of Cedar Lake; second. Roy I rohl of Hammond; third. Van Willlgan of Hammond; fourth, Cornelius Groves of Crown Point. Second Shetland Pony Half WU First. Roy Frohl of Hammond: second .Elwood Flfleld of Crown, Point; third. Swlsert of Ham mond. In addition to being Hammond Day. today is also Soldiers, Sailors and Home Coming Day. This always makes Friday a sort of grand reunion for everybody. Hand-shaking and back-slapping are the principal pastimes. Drawn by the excellent programs which are given each evening, thou,ands who are unable to get away during the day. attend the night fairs The titles of the north end of th county send large delegations to Crown Point each evening. 8Z0ST &TVTT Be In the grandstand early tomorrow in order to enjoy the automobile parade. All of the machines on exhibition in the big auto show will pass In review around the track. There's always a crowd around the cattle exhibit of M. J. SeJarger. of Srhererville. He's showing the world's champion cow. "Beecher Wyeth II" and four of her Jes"!ndants. Five generations count 'em. Mrs. Weyeth is of course state champion also. C. C. Bonham, George Do'bMns, Frank O'Rou, Hollis Hunter and Harry Brown who are handling the registrations for the free prizes at the Northern States Life tent have difficulty in persuading a lot of folks to sign up. "Not much," remarked a Schneider man today. I bit on' one of them free gags once and that's enough.'' Old Rube WUkins, looking for Llndv as usual, continues to please the crowd. He assumed directo-shlp. of the Boy Scout Drum and Corps for a coupl3 of numbers this afternoon. " Secretary Fred Ruf Is being given i credit for the present weather. Folks .:a (Continued on, page thirteen.) j