The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-07-07

The raid against Dave JOhnson's dive
Saturday night was the beginning of
the end of the InwIessness in the city.
The raid followed the disclosures made
by the TIMES. For various reasons
heretofore such places Johnson's
have been allowed to run unchecked in
the city, breeding crime and harbOrinG
the scum of the universe. The majority
respectable manner and the proprietOrs
nre in no sense I'm sympathy with the
manner in which the remainder have
been allowed to operate.
Martin Issues Statement
Chief Martin yesterday afternoon is
sued the following statement in regard
to his policy with these bawdy houses
in the future: Gary has seen the end
of the lawless saloon. and the riff raft
scum of humanity which is continually
floating into the city The raid which
was planned and executed by the police
Saturday night is but the first Of a
series that, will be pulled off in case
to operate as they have in the past
I intend to clear the city Of every per
son who is not working or here for the
purpose of seeking employment. To
this class of people and to the disorderly
saloon can be attributed much of the
crime with which we have had to deal
with in the past"
Force Has Been Increased
Recently the police force has been in
creased from ten to twelve and all of
the members are now at work. For
some they were compelled to patrol the
CITY with a crippled force, for some
time Their being not over eight men
capable of caring for a population Of
eight thousand people scattered over
many miles of territory. Under such
conditions they found it next to i'm
possible to clean up the dives and
houses of crime. Their insufficiency in
numbers made it impossible to take
men off their beat to follow up any
srecifc crime without imperiling the
remainder of the community.
VIII BE Dispersed.
Ever since the construction OF Gary
began the city has been filled with
fdlers who loaf and lounge around the
CITY. living in camps and dugouts. living
off from their fellow men or working
long enough to get money with which
70 debauch themselves and carous about
the town. Time and again these men
have been driven from the city by a
concentrated effort by the police in
droves of two or three hundred but in
the future however they will never
be Allowed to congregate. If Chief
Martin keeps his word Gary will no
longer be the harbor of cutthroats, and
huns that has made life a source OF
misery for all persons with a semblanCe
Of decency. Hereafter all person.
found loafing about the streets that
don't look right to the police will be
picked up on suspicion and either sen
TO Jail or driven out of town
Supplied With New Rules.
Rawdy houses have been supplied
with a new code of rules as to how
their places shall be run and they viii
be forced to live up to them. Many OF
them will be put out of business alto
gether If the present plans of the
authorities mature. In regard to TIL,
saloons that have no county licens,
Chief Martin stated that thought tina
most of the. would close up on thei
own volition but he refused to stat
positively that he would%close them III
If they did not. He said that develop
ments would tell. whether not /
would be necessary to take this action