The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-20
.UPLlFT ONLY
A FOUR FLUSH
The Glad Whirl Still Whirls
in West Ham
mond.
BACK TO THE HAUNTS
Midnight Revelers Find Conditions
as Favorable as of Yore and
Revel ON.

The wave of reform which struck
West Hammond about a week ago and
which was thrown to the winds with
bombast that made it look like a
tidal wave, seems to have been merely
a light beach comber, that broke with
a few ripples and subsided, and once
more at the old stands, the dives are
still doing business and plying their
nefarious trade with renewed vigor.
The sensational trial, the scathing de-
nunciations the public fireworks called
a raid. and the wonderful stories given
out by the police as to future con-
duct, appears to have been regarded by
the owners and keepers as a huge joke
and the alleged police activity is be-
ing laughed at by them.
Saturday night along the great white
way" in West Hammond showed no
gns of any great "uplift.' The doors
of the saloon and the dives were wide
open and they We're as in the good old
days, welcoming the stranger and the
Hammond sport as of yore. They were
the self same bunch that We're supposed
by this time, according to the police,
to be doing q hot foot stunt as fast
as they could for other pastures. They
had evidently forgotten the awful les
son, supposed to have been handed out
to them by the police officials and the
city authorities, but they did not look
atigued or terror stricken from their
long run across the border line spurred
on, as they were. by a half dozen stall
wart bluecoats armed to the teeth and
shooting leaden bullets to speed the
parting guests.
The Same Old Bluff.
The guardians of the law knew each
and every one of them from their long
residence in West Hammond and the
| only way they could have got by the
dead line. drawn by the sleuths, was to
get in in the dead of night by means
of an airship. A small boy who saw
| the ship notified the police that they
| were back. although the arc lights
were burning brightly Saturday night
and the crowd came and went Shining
up their stars the guardians of the
purity brigade Of West Hammond
marched with a solid phaIanx Of three
men and made a, scial call on the YES
thule" where they found tea being
| served but nothing of an discriminating
circumstance on the street floor, but
when they tried the door of the up
| stairs apartments, low and behold the
door was locked. Nothing .daunted the
brave men stood outside the front door
of the place on the street. but failed tc
notice anything that would shock the
morals of Sunday school class. Thus
| the officials made manifest that The
dives should not run in West Hammond
Several men from Hammond alsC
raided the dives on Saturday night bu
for a different purpose. They wer,
strangers but good fellows" and the.
found the conditions somewhat differ
ent from what the officers stated the!
found. The doors OF the white light
places We're wide open. the side If no
the front, and although perhaps tn
fun was not all on the street floor. ther
was plenty Of it there. They sauntere,
around the town, called on ali III
places got a drink whenever they fel
thirsty and We're not compelled TO en-
JOY the drink without the pleasure o
a member Of the fair sex TO grace tn
flowing bowl. IN fact they found con
aitions the came as in former times de
spite the hue and cry OF great reform