The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-07-28
GARYS DIVES ARE
STILL WIDE OPEN
Indianapolis Newspapers
Staff Man Follows UP
The Times Crusade.
SHOWS STARTLING CONDITIONS
Shocking Tales Are Now Circulated
From One End of Country to
Another of Tenderloin.
SHOWS STARTLING CONDITIONS
is wide open.

The dives and the disreputable saloon
still the habitat of the denizens of
the underworld. Casner, Bough, Bax-
ter, Johnson and the rest of the bunch
are reigning supreme
Gary has a reputation as a wide
open town 1t was so great that the
Indianapolis News sent its staff man.
E, L. Lewis to see what he could see.
This is how he tells it in a dispatch:
Gary, Ind, July 27.-The brewery sa-
loon, the brewery dive and the brew
cry gambling dens have got hold OF
the two -year-old Gary, and their own
ers-a syndicate of brewing companies
are fighting like grim death to pre-
vent the steel trusts model city" from
cutting them off by an application OF
the Indiana state laws.
The courts have been appealed to
by the brewers; they have called forth
the local. county and s\ate forces of
| opposition to "sumptuary legislation"
and have marshaled in their fight
those that play politics over the bar
and those that believe in a wide open
town-that insist the saloon is the
prime necessity for civic prosperity
and civic welI-being
Operated as Blind Tigers"
| In the meantime, some of the brew
| cry companies are trying to show the
| saloons are essential and desirable ele-
ments to any we'll regulated munich
| pality, by continuing, 1t is charged
| to operate on the blind tiger basis,
! the grOggeries. dives and gambling re-
sorts that have been closed legally by
the successful fling of a remonstrance
against the traffic in Calumet township.
When the United States Steel corpor-
alton planned Gary those plans pro-
vided for the erection of the greatest
steel mill in the world and the build
ing of a model city" around it. Prom
inent in the model city" was the dec
laration that the unregulated saloon
would have no place in Gary and that
the dive would not be permitted.
Gary Was Dive-Ridden.
Only two years have elapsed since
the first man settled on the site of
Gary and the new city is really not a
year old, still in May Gary had 1O3
places that came under the general
classified ton of saloons Most of them
! were owned by four or five big brew
ing companies. Notwithsta nding the
fact that these brewing companies par
ttcipated In the Milwaukee national
convention of brewers. which made the
declaration that the low down saloon
must go. they operate a very large
| percentage of the lowest down saloon
dives and deadfalls around Chicago
and in swarming in on Gary they es-
tablished here the very worst types.
Hardly one Of the 1913 places-listet
in May-that catered to the $4,000 tc
Is 600 people Of Gary has. 1t is said
been free of the charge of having VIC
lated practically every Indiana law
regulating saloons Many of then
have been run on the dive basis will
women brought from the old Fourtl
; avenue and the Twenty second stree
districts of Chicago as prominent fea
lures; many have added music to thei1
allurements, others have made gamb
ling a feature; all have. it is said, VIC
lated the Indiana laws regarding clos
ing and screens.
Many Run by Foreigners.
Many of these places have been run
by men with almost unpronounceab l,
foreign names, who practically hav
no acquaintance with the English Ian
: SudSe, " say HolulHs OI dCQudlH uC'
with or regard for local and nationa
} laws. hey are, as the saloon ant
I dive keepers of similar stamp al
' around the outskirts Of Chicago. mere
I ly the saloon and dive keepers for tn
] brewing companies that own tn
r places All these saloons and dives ar
I in a strip of land called The Patch.
In order to work out this plan O
I ,t.l4- -
[ tenn of its own, and to conduct expert
r ments in reducing the inef1cency 0
n men that all manufacturing compani
have to battle with practically ever
| morning and especially on Monda