The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-02-21
MANY ARE
OUT Of WORK
IN THE CITY

According to Chief of Police Joseph
ID. Martin, in command of the Gary de-
partment. there will be a lot more hold
ups and robberies if the building strike
continues much longer.
There are a great many men out of
work in Gary declared the police head.
The number is not so much of our own
as those transients that come in from
elsewhere thinking that they can find
places here"
The Night Line Once More.
Look at that line of men standing
there by the desk sergeant's window.
continued the chief as he pointed to
the latest batch of homeless and hum
CRY men who came into the warm po
lice station out of the storm to be shell
| tered from the elements.
| Before the night is over there will
be forty or fifty dodgers sleeping in the
basement of the police station. A night
| like this when there is a storm always
| brings more.
1t took the desk sergeant full half
| hour to enroll the applicants for lodg-
| ing on the records. Many of the men
| appeared to be respectable. while 9TH
ers showed the weight of drink
What brings you here?" one of the
| penniless was asked.
We'll. if / didn't drink so much |
| wouldn't be here, but there are lot
| OF those fellows who don't drink and
| some drink just to drown their sor-
| rows"
The Hungry Are Many.
| MANY of these men who come here.
| declared Chief Martin. have not had a
meal for a day. The real hungry ones
| we feed by taking up collection
i among the officers but the others we
send away without food"
i Unlike the Chicago police stations
/ dodgers are given no supper or break
i fast There a man is given hot bowl
/ of coffee and some bread and butter in
the morning, but the Indiana laws
make no provision for feeding the
transient hungry and neither the city
nor the township trustee can afford re-
lief, although the city council might
pass special appropriation.
Hungry Men Are Dangerous.
"A good many of those men standing
in that line have had no supper. the
Il chief added. They won't get any sup
l per either and we Will have to send
them away in the morning without any
thing to eat. I tell you. its no wonder
that we are having so many holdup'
and house breakings lately When
man is hungry he is desperate and ht
will do things tnat ne WouiuHt 40 otia'
erwise / look for lot OF more trou
Bile if the strike goes on. and that We
are going to have 1t is shown by those
two robberies in Toileston last night
the robberies and holdups in Gary. Mi!
| Ter. East Chicago, Hobart and Ham
nlond.
Gary Hides the Truth.
Gary may not like to admit. and an.
I one who makes a statement that Their
e are men actually starving in the cit.
! will probably be assai1ed as liar an,
as a defamer of the city and the usua
e Gary wrath for those who want to tel
I the truth will be invoked upon tn
j truth teller but those who get dow
to brass lacks and look a. the condi
tions first hand will see the truth o
VI Chief Martins statements.
1t only needs half hours time spen
c in the police station around o'clock II
the evening and a talk with the hun
CRY men and listening to their appeal
] for something to eat. which they d
not get will convince the most skepti
q cal.