The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-14
FOREIGNERS AT
CLOSE RANGE
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We don't know where to go, outside of
this settlement we are liable to be run
In for hobos We have not learned the
art of beating our way like the Amer
lean tramp. The people are prejudiced
against US. and what> chance, is there
for us?"
why did you send your money
home instead of laying 1t aside for a
rainy day."
No Chance to Send Money Home.
Send money home" he answered,
Much chance we have to send money
home. Go with me and l will show
you a man whose wife in the old coun-
try has sold her home in order to
send her husband money here so he
can live If we had sent all our money
home on what do you think we have
been living since last October, when
the bad times started? There are
few of us who have money even now.
What are they doing with it? They
are dividing it with us who have no
money. You see that man with that
little package in his hand" Git con-
tanned two spare ribs) "he will d.
vide with some one for his evening
meal"
That is what we have been doing
for weeks and months. we have been
| living one from the other. We all di-
vide what we have and try to get
tlong as best we can"
| The reporter went to other groups
| of men and they told him the same
thing over again. All over there
seems to be a brotherly division of the
| few goods that they have.
| Are Pressed For Rent.
Adding to the hardship at present is
the order now sent out by the managers
of the company houses who insist that
their tenants pay the prescribed SIS a
month rent for four rooms. In one of
the groups yesterday the foreigners
told the story how Alex Brehan was
put on the street from company house
No SO last Saturday for not paying his
rent. The collector made the rounds
yesterday urging the people to have
their rents ready by the 25th of this
month or they would be thrown out
The cry goes up in Hammond that
some of these foreigners keep board
ers and yet apply to the commisary for
help.
This is what Paralavich in company
house No. is doing. He is feeding
MS twenty DOdrdeFS every DAY With
out getting cent of money from them
Although foreigners and ignorant they
are honest and there is not one of the
dealers or boarding house bosses that
des not feel that in better times all
honest debts will be repaid. But there
is a limit even to the boarding house
bosses where they can't continue to
give more food, much as they would
like to.
| DIR. Reiss Talks.
DR.. Herman Reiss who is located in
the settlement with his son Oscar. is
probably better acquainted with the
conditions there than any other man
in Hammond.
Just because there is one Of scala
wag among ten foreigners, that is no
treason why the other nine should
starve," said DR.. Reiss. Il heartily en-
idorse the plan advanced by several
Hammond business and professional
men regarding the gardening for the
foreigners. Right here I want to say
a word of commentator in regard tc
Chief Rimbach and his force and Trus-
never met better man than Chiet
Rimbach. He understands people anf
he is eminently fair He is a prince
We are surely much indebted to Mr.
Schaaf for his work for u.s. 1 have
been in Chicago for many years anc