The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-31

ship OF Councilman motifs N. Castle
man. Six out OK the nine counc~men
run saloons and one owns drug store.
Mayor Expeis 100 Women.
Both factions ran a reform flag to |
che masthead and began looking for |
the badness in Gary.
| Both factions let out the same war
cry: 1.-The other side Is getting rake
/ OF from graft and crime"
/ O. H. Schmidt and Charles Caty were
members of the police force. The
council combine canned them. insirnst
ling this and that the while. Last night
Joseph Dunsing was removed from the
ONCE OF controller.
1 Suddenly the council combine discov-
cred that seventeen disorderly houses
operated in Gary and that more than
100 women had come down from Chi
cago under the cover Of night with bag
and baggage.
4 Mayor Knott and his cohorts got at
, the thing first. Thursday he issued
. this order to the inmates OF the dis
| orderly places:
/. You get out OF Gary on the Lake
: Shore at 1888 this afternoon. There
can be only one excuse for your re-
naming longer--the train may be late"
The train was late an hour and dur
ing that hour the council combine wept
and walled and CRASHED its teeth that
the mayor had carried the first rampant
in the reform crusade.
Votes q brand New Police Force.
Then the council combine awoke with
q start. How could they hope TO re-
form crime with the mayor at the head
OF the police force? Ana wasn't the
mayor stingy? He refused to loan a
solitary policeman or even TO rent a
Il tin badge with Gerry Police" on 1t TO
the Castieman crowd.
So castieman took his two-thirds OF
the council to Michigan CITY, where
they could think IL all over far from
the din OF Garyrs thoroughfares,
They came back, called a council
meeting, and voted through the most
radical ordinances any American MUM
Z cipality ever saw.
Eleven thousand dollars was appro
priated for new police department IT
Gary. The men the mayor fred from
the old force are to be the heads 81
the new.
The old force has what is called ar
Identification bureau" The why OF tn,
IL identification bureau never has beer
X satisfactorily explained, but castlema,
,e feared the mayor night do something o
De- other with the old identification burea'
Is that he might have to tight with simi
III lar weapons. so he put a rider in tn
ordinance that calls for a new identi
AZ fcation bureau along with the new 20
10 lice force.
The new policemen are to go out o.
ht the streets some time during the mex
month seeking what crime they may.
bsI when Copper Meets Copper.
n The old police force already has an
,s nouncea that by csaeky. II they nm
el anybody running around loose imper
sonating the old line, regulation polio
he force OF Gary they'll run 'em in an
AZ lock EN- up and then let the law tax
a it's course.
he The new police force, not being
n new police force yet. has not threaten
r. ed to lock up the old police force, y,
M Gary be ridden OF crime and graft tn
IN new officers will attend to it,
III Looming in the off1ng IL Sheri
Thomas Grant with his force OF deput
n. sherins and the right to swear in a
IN he pleases. II civil war breaks out
ns Gary he may take a hand.
IA Half the citizenship of Gary doesn
nd care what happens, there's a HIT
fun in It. Some citizens say two poll.
cd forces policing each other and tn
ia identi fication bureaus Identifying eae
lie other offer unlimited pcssibites I,
III amusing activity.
Another half of Gary processes to
seriously worried at the impendir
;tv civii war. reputable citizen said We
he terday:
9TH "All sorts Of men have come fro
rcd every direction to make up Gary.
,rv have no. yet learned who Is boss: '
do not even know how to be bosse
Tho This will have to be decided one w,
the or another soon. All the papers OF L
ms country are proclaiming in fiarii
to headlines the opera bouffe situate
the now enjoyed by Gary. An interestil
ter result is that the capital necessary I
IN building loans does not come to TOW
rin One of these days the city will wa
ars up to the necessity OF sobriety in co
the nection with the operation of the mur
on cipal government"
tod Both the executive and the 1egisl
ntv tive faction in Gary's city governme
cen during the day got hold OF a new !
form idea, that OF closing the saloo
Iin- on Sunday. There are 200 saloons
na the city.f