The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-07-06
GREAT DAY
FOR HARBOR.


the men painfully gathered themselves
up.
Mr.. Saunders injuries are slight.
The kaiser's nose wore raw spot of
large dimensions which was neatly
powdered over for the remainder Of
the day, but the kaiser continued on in
the busy tenor of his way in spite of
the damage.
Parade ut 10 O'clock.
The parade formed at 10 o'clock on
Block, Washington and Waiting streets
and moved north to One Hundred and
Thirty street, east to Cedar,
north to Washington, to Pennsylvania.
west to Michigan, thence to Regent
street where the marchers disbanded.
1t was led by Acting Chief of Police
Charles Bowen, s. l. Eisler. w W Mo-
berly and Harry Lemon on horseback
Following it there was the speaking
Mayor De Briae welcoming the visitors
in the name of the citizens Of East
Chicago and Indiana HarbOr J. A
Patterson, Abe Ottenheimer and E. W
Wickey were the other speakers, the
addresses being patriotic in their ma
ture and all very much to the point
The speeches were made IN the open
air. the place of gathering being OF
the old baseball grounds, where a
platform had been erected, and a band
discoursed patriotic music and popular
airs of the day.
Leads Crowd Merry Chase.
The afternoons program, In order
that no locality of the business dis
trict might be overlooked, led the
crowd a merry chase, but this only
added to the fun. One event would b.
in one section of the business distric
and another in another, so that M
entire locality was neglected. w. L
| Cherry started all the contests and Eu
gene T. Higgins and L. Houtschilt anC
/ Richard Ehrhart were the judges. w
! W. Moberly and Charles Bowen wer,
the marshals of the day.
The baseball game, an account o
which is to be found elsewhere il
! these pages. was one of the features
| of the day and furnished amusemen
for about 1000 spectators
The crowd was most enthusiastic an,
at no time was there any unseemly dis
! order anywhere.
An incident that was apparently in
nocent on the part of the perpetrato
but which caused some Indignation OIL
the part of the spectators and finall
resulted in police intervention, was tn
hosting of the Servian colors abov
the stars and stripes by L. w Saric
who occupies the fat over the stor
Of the American Fruit company on tn
| corner of Michigan and Guthrie street:
Mr.. Saric is president of the Indian
| IIarbor Servian club and steamshi
agent of John r. Farovid. The atten
ton of Officer John Thompson wa
called to the solecism and the Officer
after a time, went to Mr. Saric an
order that the colors be lowered. Whe
Mr.. Saric realized that his act was re
garded as an affront to American citi
zenship he complied with Office
Thompson's suggestion and brought tn
Servian banner down TO the prope
level
South Bay Hotel Gay.
The South Bay hotel was gay a
day many visitors from out of tow
taking dinner there and in the even
ing there was dancing in the parlor, a
orchestra OIL SIN pieces furnishing IN
music.
The oBosters' club had dance {
KIein's hall, the dance being in prog
ress both yesterday afternoon an
evening There was another all da
dance at the auditorium.
The main feature of the evening We
the pyrotechnic display under the au.
pieces of the Boosters club. The fire
works were witnessed by people Il
miles around.
Contests and Winners.
The contests of the day and II
winners thereof were as follows:
The woman's race-Ethel Bell. frs
Edith Berglund, second; Sadie Baski
= third.
Fat mans race-T. J. McCarty, frs
Jim Kroupa, second.
Creased pole climbing contest
l Gilmore.
! Creased pig-Prize split betwee
of whom seized the pig at the san
Boys race-Paul Reed. first; ]. o.
perman, second; George Constanc
third.
w. r. Hughes, with W J. Wooden
PAGER second.
Wheelbarrow race-w. c. Borw
first; W. Pleise. second; N. Nylot
third.
b. Three legged race-Brown and Fo
: ter. first; Johnson and Nylott, secon
Sunks and Snoler, third.
100 yard dash-T. Mccarthy frs
t W. c. Brown, second; w. Pleis. thir
, Girls race-Miss Ericsson. first; Mi