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HAAfMOKD, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1908.
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Copyright: 1908: by THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
REFUSAL
CRUSHED
10ER THE
BRYAN HEEL
Roughshod Riding Over
o -
Guffey and Parker at
Denver Furnishes Thrills
For Vast Multitude in the
Great Convention Hall.
GOMPERS PUTS
INNS PLANK
Platform Is Near Its Final Touches
and Anti-Bryan Fight May Result
Because of Stained Glass Window
Episode and Turning Down of
Pennsylvania.
WHAT THEY DO TODAY.
Rf port of committee on per
manent organization.
Address of Congressman Hen
ry D. Clayton of Alabama an
permanent chairman.
Report of resolutions commit
tee (If ready).
Resolutions on death of Grover
Cleveland may be presented.
Miscellaneous bnslncss.
Adjournment until noon to
morrow. -
WHAT THEY DID YESTERDAY.
Alton B. Parker, rebuffed in
the convention in an attempt to
present bla revolutions of re
apect for the memory of Grover
Cleveland received the blow
which stripped him of every ves
tige of the glory which he held
in 10O4 as the titular head of the
democratic party.
William Jennings Bryan won
every essential point in the con
vention preliminaries, and indi
cations were that no name hut
his would be placed before the
convention for the presidential
nomination.
Temporary Chairman Bell made
the keynote speech before the
convention, laylag especial stress
on the necessity for a clear-cnt
antl-ln junction pinnk which will
limit the power of the courts.
Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleve
land and Daniel Campau of
Michigan, favorites of Bryan,
were turned down for re-election
as national committeemen
from their respective states.
Foes of Bryan issued a state
ment declaring they had 346
delegates and could prevent the
nomination of Bryan on the first
ballot.
BV WALTER WEM.MAX.)
Denver, July 7. Bryan's triumph is!
complete All opposition to him has j
disappeared. The east has surrendered,
to the west. It is probable that the
commoner ill be nominated by acclama
tion no other conditions being pre
sented to the convention. The platform
will, of course, be made just as Bryan
wants it. all efforts on the part of his
enemies to harass him there having
been abandoned.
It is- nuite likely the complete ticket
wfll bev Bryan and Gray; if not that,
prrnaps Bryan and Douglas.
The first day's session of the con
vention of the party of protest and
promise has been decidedly interesting
and impressive. It is marked by great
and genuine enthusiasm for the man
who has been the real leader of the
party for the last twelve years, and
who is now to have his third trial for
the White House with a party behind
him more nearly united, more ag
gressive, more confident, than It lias
been at any time since 1SP2.
(BY RAYMOND)
Denver. July T. It is a great pity to
say hc least, that the first session of inK xhe. manhoios t the proper grade
the- democratic national convention was i providing the cross walks with iron
marked by two unfortunate nnd even j arrons and the filling of the space be
fiisgraced incidents. j tween the sidewalks and the curbs.
One was the treatment according to The city engineer s estimate was
the Pennsylvania delegation, by which I $1.731,, per square yard. Only two con
they wera 11 prncticaliy disfra frhlsed ! tractors had the nerve to put in a hid
by the arbitrary ruling of the tempo- ; on so low an estimate, one being Hatch
rry chairman and the other was the j & son, who agreed to lay molding
marked lack of courtesy shown to j block for $1.70 per square yard and
Alton B. Parker, the last democratic
-earmlHlate for the presidency.
Neither Incident was one which will
reflect credit upon the Denver con -
ventlon. but the cold blooded throwing
down of the Pennsylvanians was a
thing which would not have been tol
erated In any rough house county con
vention and even Inexperienced poli
ticians are aghast at the action.
vTitlj-iut a trial, without even a
semblance of an examination into the
real situation, the entire- Pennsylvania
delegation was deprived of all partic
ipation in the preliminary work of the
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BOARD IS SADLY
PUZZLED TODAY
South Hohman Street Prop
erty Owners Don't Know
What They Do Want.
MAY HAVE TO RE-ADVERTISE
Estimate of Cost of Paving on Thor
oughfare Found To Be Over
Engineer's Estimate.
Do we want vitrified brlckf
Acs. No. Perhaps.
Do we want ashphaltf
No. Yes. Well maybe!
Do we want creosote blockt
finess so. Yes. No.
Do we want Westrumitef
Sure. No. Yes.
Do w e want macadam f
Yes. Well I guess not.
Do wc want nothlngf
Yep. Mt.
Do we want gold bricks f
Yes. -ot at all.
Do we want carpet f
Of course. No.
Do we want something for
nothing f
Yes. that's It.
And so the merry tune is hummed
-nto the ears of the hoard of puhlic
works by the property owners of
South Hohman street whose frontage
is to be paved.
T'nless the property owners of South
Hohmn street in an adjourned scon
ference with the board of puhlic works
agreed on the kind of pavement this
afternoon, at a session scheduled to be
held at 2:30 o'clock. Hohman street is
as far from a pavement as it was six
months ago.
At noon today it would not have been
surprising if the board would have to
re-advertise for new bids.
The hoard had taken the pavement
for South Hohman street under advise
ment until tliis forenoon and again in
vited the property owners up to reach
a final decision. The result was a
whole lot of talk with no action.
The board some time a?n advertised
for bids on a vitrified brick pavement
with asphalt tilled providing for an
eight-inch rolled stone foundation, the
re-building of all catch basins and rais-
metropolitan brick for Jl.Sn. Hutchin
son, of Michigan City, agreed to lay the
pavement for $1.90. and the curbing for
j 55 ce.nts a foot
rhile Hatch & Son,
would lay the curbing for 43 cents. The
bids were above the estimate, with the
exception of the molding brick, which,
however, was not advertised, does not
seem to be such a desirable brick.
Either the contractors will have to
come down or the property owners will
have to agree to their prict or a new
kind of pavement. Instead of doing
this, they are pulling in twoney differ
ent directions.
Other Business.
The board adopted the primary as
STREETS RIPPED UP
FOR NEW PAVING
State and Hohman Streets
Turned Over to Contrac
tors for Improvements.
NEW TRACKS ON" STATE ST.
Street Railway Company Thinks Its
Efforts Are Not Very Much
Appreciated.
After today both Hohman and State
streets will be torn up in preparation
! f or street and track improvements. The
work of laying the new track on South
I Hohman street has progressed as far as
! Carroll street, where it will have to
stop until the city officials designate
where the car line Is to run in the
widened street.
A connection will be made between
the two rails, the old and the new, and
then as soon as the city engineer es
tablishes the route of the new tracks,
they will be laid.
On State street the new track will be
laid at once and work was begun on the
improvement this morning.. This is in
preparation for the laying of the new
brick pavement between Hohman street
and Oakley avenue.
The brick are already on the grounds
for the State street paving and it Is
understood that Contractor Hatch in
tends to rush the work through. The
street car company will complete Is
part of the work on State street as soon
as possible and within a few weeks it
is expected that State street as far out
as Oakley avenue, will be as spick and I
span as any street in the city.
Says Arrnngement Is In justifiable.
There has been considerable criti
cism of the street car company because
It lias left in the old rails at the frogs
of the switches. Hut Manager Green
of the Street Railway Company ex
plained last night that this is just
a temporary arrangement and that as
soon as the new frogs arrive, they will
he substituted for the old ones.
Mr. Green also pointed out the fact
that the public generally does not seem
to appreciate the fact that the company
has gone out of its way to re-pave
Hohman street, north of the Michigan
Central tracks. In some cases he
company has re-paved the street for
six or eight feet from the tracks, where
there were depressions in it and it is
only required to pave eighteen incnes
from the rails.
Of course it might he pointed out that
a great deal of the necessity for pav
ing the street was due to the fact that
the street car company has frequently
torn up the pavement to make repairs
but nevertheless the people generally
will appreciate even a slight indica
tion of .the intention ot the company
to do the right thing.
sessment role for the Bauer street
Westrumite pavement and accepted the
contract of Russell for the three-inch
lead pipe in Michigan avenue and Mor
ton avenue.
Permission was granted the Swedish
Lutheran church of South Chicago to
hold a picnic in Douglas Park next
Saturda y.
GOES TO TEXAS
Dr. T. W. Oberlin, formerly Exalted
Ruler of Hammond Lodge B. P. O. E.
No. 485, and now representative to the
grand lodge, will leave next week for
Texas where at Dallas, the National
Convention of the order will be held.
HAMMOND FAMILY
IN KAMI ESCAPE
John Kamradt and Relatives
Trapped on Pennsylvania
Crossing Near Valpo.
GATEKEEPER WAS NEGLIGENT
Twentieth Century Limited, Going
70 Miles an Hour, Catches Gas
Man In a Predicament.
While returning to Hammond from
!
nlparalso, w here he had been visit lug
friends, John Kamradt, of Hammond,!,
collector for the S.
Gas Co., his
family and relative, had a narrow e-
cape from death at the Pennsylvania'
cross south of Valparaiso, and had 't
not been for the presence of mind of
Mr. Kamradt the Twentieth Century:
limited would probably have crushed ;
into the surrey In which the party was
seated, nnd it Is difficult to Imagine
what would have been the consequences.
The narrow escape was due to the
negligence of the gateman at the;ra.
Pennsylvania crossing. which leads
from College hill to the country south,
and the fact that the crossing is lo-
cated at the foot of a deep cut In the
road made the situation all the mnre
serious and the negligence of the gate-
man all thr more inexrusa'Me: - - -"-jra
There Is a steep declivity leading
down from College hill and Kamradt
was driving a team of spirited horses .
hitched to a surry as he approached
the crossing. AVhen he was within 125
fett nf the trucks the towermnn hpirnn
ringing the warning bell.
John Thought It Was O. K. regulating the city almost to the mln-
The gates were not lowered and!"1' 1"""' Once the list Is completed
Kamradt thought that the towerman i " b' "f ,ho
expected him to cross in front of the ' C,H" ,n tho "ta' w,fh rdl-
AncrU- i, nances broad enough for years to come.
horses, but by the time he reached the
crossing the towerman lowered the
gates on t lie backs of the team.
The horses immediately became
frightened and as the road is very nar
row at this point it was impossible to
turn the team around in a hurry.
Kamradt shouted to the ladles in the j
surry to get out as quickly as possible ;
and they lost no time in obeying his I
command.
The Twentieth Century limited was
thundering down upon him not more
than a block away and with difficulty
gates when the train went
rn 1 n
past.
It was a narrow escape and the wit-
nesses congratulated the party on their
narrow escape, the train was going at,
a speed of seventy miles an hour and
it was a marvel to the entire party
that tney escapeu nn ineir lives. Lu;tlonef.rs and getting as far as the
When an explanation xvas demanded," fpr thp bjn pr)Sters aml blcvrle
of the gateman he simply said. "I rang I rjder(t '
m bp" " i Other Business First.
In the party was .ur. and Mrs. John
Kamradt. Mrs. rrank Kamradt. aby!utner bus,)ness was first disposed of.
Evelyn Kamradt and Mrs. Kamradt's ; .roo, had n strone- deletratirm
sister from Kouts
YOUNG MEN'S DEMOCRATIC
CLUB MEETS TOMORROW EVE.
The young men's democratic club
holds Its regular meeting tomorrow
evening in the democratic clnbrooma.
The leaders In the cluh are anxious
thnt all the members turn out for the
meeting as It is more than likely that
business of importance? will come up
for discnsslon.
CITY FATHERS HOLD
A BUSY MEETING
Many Ordinances Passed at
Mid-summer Council
Gathering.
LIMIT MOTOR CYCLISTS SPEED
City's Umemployed Is a Problem That
Confronts Mayor Becker and
His Confrerees.
GIST OF THE COt NCII. MEETING.
, Ordinance passed licensing
auctioneers and regulating auc
tions. Ordinance passed licensing
amusements and regulating the
same.
Ordinance passed licensing bill
posters and regulating same.
Ordlnnnee passed regulating
the riding of bicycles and motor
cycles In Hnmmnnd.
Ordinance passed for the nam
ing of extension of Summer
Ordinance passed appropriat
ing fl-00 from general fund
for street repair fund.
Besolntlon adopted approving
f- sale of city froprrtv-, oi Front
street to American Steel Foun
dry company.
Hammond Is well under way now for
Igetting a complete set of ordinances
Mayor Becker Is In back of revision
and Is earnestly pus Mug It nnd gave
the city dad's an Idea of his Intention
last night at the regular meeting.
The ordinances are copied from those
of other cities like Indlnnnpolls South j
Bend, Chicago. Milwaukee, In fnct, from
any city which has a suitable ordinance
nnd is supplemented for Hammond use.
To give the city a new set of ordinances
!? one of Mayor Becker's ambitions for
this term of office and he wants to
make them so complete and exhaustive
th.it a succeeding administration
whether democratic or republican
would find it hard to add to or to
chance them
Having already disposed of his build-
. i ... i ,,-trintr nhimWnEr fire
j ' . orf,inanrPS thf. mayor
w .xiMicr tntr.
, roun.u , thp alpr,al)etical order.
. ,nn, wlth the amusements and
R.forp taking up these ordinances!
Pllllllliri . v - . ..i.- - - - - n --- n -
at the meeting to plead if necessary
't hit the so-called Long road, east of
Columbia avenue which is an exten-.ray street,
sinn of State. Sibley and Summer! The papers
street. The naming of this street has
j been hanging fire for almost a yeaj
: the council always being divided on
the naming of some of them preferring
to call it State, Some Sibley and some
Slimmer street. Xow, however, since
the county commissioners want to have
(Continued on page 2.)
COST HER
DEARLY
Chicago Young Woman is
Hurled From Big Touring
Car Because She Refused
to Come to Hammond
Early This Morning.
HAMMOND POLICE
ARE NOTIFIED
Wild Bide on Eoulevards Results in I
Fatal Injuries to Woman Whose
Case Mystifies Police in Chicago
and Nearby Cities Found in Pocl
of Blood.
Because she refused to come out to
Hammond after a wild auto ride with
her companions in a big touring car,
Mrs. Mary Hughes, 2!) years old. 325)
Chicago avenue, was hurled from sin
automobile speeding at the rnte of forty
miles an hour by a man companion at
Forty-fourth street and Michigan ave
nue at 1 o'clock today, as the climax of
a tour through the north and south side
boulevards in Chicago, in which the
reckless chauffeur was fired at by t he j
policemen and narrowly escaped runn- I
asserts that her companion attacked
her while the automobile was flying
south and threw he to the street af
ter she had fought for ten minutes with
him. In the swaying csr. , .
Found In Pool of Blood.
i
The woman was found unconscious in
a pool of blood at the curbing, to which
she had dragged herself and had then
fainted. She was attended bv a police-
..... . , , . , . . . - ... .
ambulance physician, who found that
she had been injured internally, he
sides suffering a dislocation of the right
collar bone, a sprained ankle, scalp
wounds and cuts.
Mrs. Hughes and a friend
she told
the Chicago police, were hailed at Mon
roe and State streets last night by two
men seated in an automobile.
Takes Trip to North Side.
The men asked Mrs. Hughes and her
ii.Lii'i ,,.e ..,-.. 1,1
puny went norm to Aimers roaunouse
Devon and Evanston avenues, where j
they passed several hours drinking
an deating. The party left the road-
house at 11:30 p. m. and started for aj
wild drive down Sheridan road. i
Then they returned to Chicago and
went south on Mfrhlgan avenue. Mrs.
Hughes claims that she was attacked i
by a man on the rear seat who struck
her repeatedly after they had quarreled!
because she would not accompany him
to Hammond.
Woman Hnrled From Car.
Suddenly the man picked up the
woraan -and, Ofen,ing the door 'of the
inclosed car, hurled her to the street.
She screadem but the machine sped on.
The other occupants are believed to
have been unaware of her absence from
the machine until later on.
Mrs. Hughes told the police her story,
I nnt' messages were sent to every
outh
side station to intercept the occupants
of the car. Police of Hammond were
also notified. No trace of them was
found, however. The victim was taken
to her home in an ambulance after her
wounds were dressed. Her condition is
serious.
BRINGS PATERNITY SUIT
Seventeen - Year - Old Girl
Tells Her Story to Judge
and an Arrest Follows.
Swearing to affidavit and information
on ner sick tied war. a newborn infant
at her side. Miss Anna Theil. a seven-
i teen-year-old girl charged Anthony Ap-
i pledorn. a nineteen -vea r-old bov. with
Ibeing the father of her baby
Appledorn was arested yesterday
aft-
"noon and bound over to answer to
the charges in Judge W. W. McMahan's
jetty court on July 15.
I filrl Signs the Warrant.
The sad story was brought to light'
sometime ago and the girl herself
signed her name to the warrant before
j
j Judge McMahan. who was called to
I the home of the girl's parents on Mur-
given to
'Shine to serve, but he was unable to
lor-ate Appledorn who is a clerk until
last evening The parents of both the
principals In the unfortunate affair are
hardworking people and keenly feel
the disgrace It is reported that a set
tlement will be effected before the case
is brought to trial next week as young
Appledorn is anxious to compromise.
FEEDERS
FOR
Crown Point Lawyer Ap-
pears Before Gary Board
to Arrange For Connec
tion of His Road With C,
L. S. and S. B. Line.
hi
TO COUNTY SEAT
Activity
In Interurban System at
Gary Show That Calumet Will Be
Interurban Net Work at One End
of Which the County Seat Will
Be Located.
Attorney Frank Tnttce of Crow
Point, representing the Gary A Scuth-
I ern Interurban Bnilrond company, np
j iirnrrd in (inrj yesterday for the pur
pose of making arrangements by which
his road, which runs from Crown Point
to Gary, would cross the city ami con
nect with the Chicago. Lake Shore &
South Bend Intenirhnn line, with which
It is to have an opcrrttlug agrccent.
ENTIRE DISTRICT INTERESTED.
The fact that the Chicago. Lake Shore
rt South Bond line lias made a traffic
agreeemnt with the proposed Gary &.
Southern Interurban line will be of
interest to the people ot the entire
Calumet district for the reason thut it
will mean that the cities of Hammond,
East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and
Gary will have a new route to tha
j county seat of Lake county.
TO IIAVK MANY FEEDERS.
It further develops that the Chicago.
Lake Shore &. South Eend lnteruran
line Is developing a system of feeders
whieff is rapidly tnmeshlng the entire
Calumet region and promises to be a
big factor in its development,
i .... .
The Gary & Southern Interurban
Hallway company is backed by R. W.
Seaman of the Illinois. Iowa & Minne-
jsota railroad, which is to be built
through from Jolict, 111.. to Crown
' Point and Garv.
LINE TO BE BIII.T SOON.
The fact that a traffic agreement has
been made with the Chicago, Lake.
Shore & South Bend line is taken as
an indication that some means has
been found to finance the project and
that the line will he built soon.
AVhether the Gary & Southern lino
will be operated independently of the
Chicago, Lake Shore & South Henri line
or whether it will be a part of this
famous system is not known.
HIGIIT OF MAY SKCVKKD.
The promoters of the Gary & South
ern line have secured options on all
of their right of way Crown Point to
the Little Calumet river just south of
Gary, with the exception of a few iso
lated pieces of ground. The business
men of Crown Point have also raised
$5,000 with which to purchase the
property which could not be secured in
any other manner and there is every
reason to believe now that the" project
will go through.
FINDS FRANCHISE PROVISION.
Attorney Pattee discovered while he
was in Gary that there is 'a provision
in the franchise of the Gary & Inter
urban line by which it is compelled to
give any interurban line which de
sires to go through the city the right
to vise its tracks upon payment of two
I cents per passenger.
He thinks that the Gary & Southern
interurban will avail itself of this op.
portunity to go through Gary on
Broadway and that the connection with
the Chicago, Iake Shore & South Bend
can be made in this manner.
HURAT TEMPLE HAPPY
And So Are the Hammond
Hasons as Result of Big
Doings a Week Ago.
Back from Indianapolis where last
night they met with the Shriners of
Murat Temple, H. F. Melkle and Dr.
H. E. Sharrer returned to Hammond
this morninw bringing with them
nearly $1,500 as a result of the bi?
Shrine doings in Hammond a week ago.
This money will be given to Garfield
Lodge K. A. M. to apply to its tem
ple dbt. being one half of the net re-
HAMMOND'S LINE
celpts o! th day. Murat Temple gets
offW!a Ilk- amount. The officers of Murat
congratulated the Hammond bays and
say that it is the most successful stunt
ever pulled off in the history of tha
Indiana Shriners.
If yon can truthfully say that TFIH
TIMES Is a good newspaper, please mmf
to to a friend and get him to aubaertW
cure oat what will happen.