The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-03-15
Objects to Railroads Chang
ing Name of Hegewisch
90 Burnham.
SEES THE ACTING MAYOR
Claims He Has Made Famous the
Town Where Corner Lots Are
Under Water

Battling" Nelson. the gentleman
with the caulinower ear and champions
ship aspirations who fought dusky
Joe Cans out in the sagebrush state.
called on Mayor Dunno yesterday TO
protest against the changing of the
name of the town of his adoption.
Some one has suggested that Hege-
wisch a swampy suburb of Chicago.
should be changed to Burnham, and as
result. the prizeighter who made
the town famous took his marred
features into the mayors office yes
terday and after he had been intro
duced TO Comptroller Lawrence Me-
Gam, acting mayor. proceeded TO
make known his wants
/ Besides the "Caulinower" or tin"
| ear Battling Nelson hove into the
mayors office with an English accent
and sturdy determination to keep
the name Hegewisch on the postoffice
map. As it now stands it runs about
two miles out into Lake Calumet
when 1t is printed in full faced type.
Alderman Derpa of the smoke-be-
grimed eighth ward did the honors OF
the occasion.
meets <hGtEA& M8yOEs
Acting Mayor McGann. this is Ratl-
ing Nelson. the man who can whip
'em all" said the alderman.
Charmed" said the courtly city
comptroller
After the introduction had been gone
through with the Batter" proceeded
to state his business succinctly.
Il made this old swamp famous"
said the once champion lightweight.
TT * a good town and 4 like tt. over
in England and across the channel, as
they state on that island, Hegewisch
looks like an ink splotch on an atlas
it is a great town. Some people think
that It is a part of Chicago. The
city council might pass ordinances
that are in effect in Hegewisch, but
that does not make it a part of the
city. 1 went over to England and
spent lots Of good money teaching
those people about that little old
swamp. Now the railway stations out
there in that town of mine are be-
ginning to post up the name Burn
+ ham, in front Of the depots with the
cheerful figures stating how far it is
to Chicago if you have to walk"
No Politics I'm Protest.
What do you want me to do2
said the acting mayor.
! DO the best you can said the
Batter" This ain't politics
In reply to this the acting mayor
said that he would do his best to pre-
serve the name OF Hegewisch even IL
, he had to put it into a bottle of alco-
hol. This promise seemed to satisfy
, the world famous prizefghter, and af-
: ter he had been introduced to Guy
Cramer, Abe Meribaum, Jim" the po-
, liceman and a number of men who
: are wearing reversed Dunno badges,
left the city hall satisfied.
when l gets to Chicago from my
q European tour the other day. tells
. the ticket lad behind the cage that
4 I'm going out to my home" started
p Nelson He knows me and hands
over the pasteboard without me speak
: ing the name of the station. / gets
T on the choo-choo and the conductor
q and the brake and the others all
: know me, for amt my picture in the
v windows of Hegewisch oftener than
il those of the election candidates
e When we gets speeding out of the
: smoky belt and / begins to see the
corner lots under water and the cows
swimming in the middle of the streets
It's so homelike and peaceful that
gets drowsy.
After a while the conductor sticks
his nut in the door and yells Burn
ham" but I never opens my windows
Then he comes to my stall and shakes
,s my shoulder and says: This is your
i dulce, Mr. Nelson. I hikes off, with
: everybody in the car rubbering and
r thinking I was in trance Wien the
q con made the count through the door