The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-19

police at the steel plant; J. Thorpe, |
chief chemist; Frank Moore of the Chi |
cago office of the steel company, A. NJ. /
oRberts, chief clerk; l. W. McNamee, |
general auditor; William Bigelow, SUI |
perintendent of transportation; James |
Considine. superintendent of yards r. |
w. Douglas, superintendent of the bill |
let mill; Robert Gross, superintendent
of ore do0xs; DR.. Ira Miltimore, chief
surgeon OF the hospital staff, and j. F.
Wilson, freight agent.
The dinner of the office force of the
big steel company is annual affair
There were feast and song at the en-
terta inment, but both ended abruptly
when policeman" entered the room
| and arrested the POSTMASTER, j. Kirk
The arrest, feature of the evenings
publication, was fake arrest.
| When the young women who appear
| ed in the dance entered the room an
.employe of the hotel was stationed at
| the door with instructions to allow no
| one to enter.
Dancers Rehearse In Hallway.
| A dressing room was reserved for
the dancers near the breakfast room.
| where the entertainment was held. The
young women rehearsed for several
minutes in the hallway before they
| entered the room and according to an
employee of the Stratford, they were
not modestly attired.
Percy Tyrell, manager of the STRAIT
ford hotel, declared yesterday that
there had been no disorderly dance at
the banquet
II was in and out OF the room all the
evening" he said, land 1 saw nothing
out of the way If I had l would have
, ordered all hands OUT
Chief of Police Steward said that he
would cause an investigation to be
made and that If he obtained enough
evidence to show the law had been vio-
lated he would take the matter up with
Corporation Counsel Brundage.
Arthur Burrage Farwell, president of
the Law and Order league. was inform
ed of what was reported to have taken
place at the banquet.
; These exhibitions must be stopped "
he said. Il shall make it my business
to look into this the first thing Monday
d morning. Every decent man should be
. opposed to such an exhibition. It is q
form of evil that must be abolished.
"StOry Canard,'' Mayer Is Told
The Stratford hotel property is own
ed by Attorney Levy Mayer. In an
= swer to the question whether or not he
c knew that the dance had been held il
the hotel he dictated the following re.
ply:
Il am merely the owner of the prop
Z erty. 1t is under a lease to the STRAIT
:" ford Hotel company. / am neither al
= officer or a director of the hotel com
: pany, and have nothing to do what
ever with the operation management
of the hotel company. 1t pays it's rem
as does any other tenant. AS mer
- matter of curiosity, however, I mad
inquiries over the telephone of tn
manag cement. I therefore know tina
the story is a canard and without an.
foundation whatever. So the manage
ment informs and ! consider it
information entirely truthful
: Cyrus Howell, president of the Hi
- nois Improvement and Ballast compa
:, ny of Chicago. said he attended tn
a. banquet, and that two young wome
:. entertained the diners. He declare
that everything at the entertainment
was within the bounds of propriety.
w. P. Gleason, the general superin
tendent of the Indiana Steel compan,
in whose honor the banquet was givel
professed to believe he was being mad
the victim of joke when asked abou
the dance.
Cant fool me, Collins he said
answer to a question. m onto you
little joke so you'd better try it o
some one else. Goodby."
Later in the evening Mr.. Gleason we
again called up over the long distanc
telephone. This time he knew that r
joke was being perpetrated upon hir
Say, you don't want to get that
the papers" he said TT was nothin
but a simple little affair. We had SON