The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-03
BR|LL|ANT SOCIETY Event
attended BY HUNDREDS
Guests Are Astonished at Beautiful
New Club House and Affair is
Epochal in City's History

with its pretty golf links baptized /,
in a miniature cloudburst and fllum- |
ined by lightning that rent the sky in !
twain, Hammonds new Country clubs |
dedicatory program was halted long |,
enough yesterday afternoon to enable |
hundreds of frightened fashionables
to scurry from putting greens and
tennis courts In order to seek shelter
in the new $4,000 clubhouse.
The savage storm ruined the after
moons festivities. interrupting the
main event of the day-the 1S-hole
dedication handicap-and the first pair
on the verge of holing out at the
ninth hole had to desist while the golf
committee Rev. c. A. Smith. Lawrence
Cox and F. H Mott after a consulta-
tion decided to call the match off un-
til date to be announced later,
though the sweepstakes flight in the
morning was completed.
Storm Couldn't Stop It.
| The soulless storm. however, was
but a small part Of the days program
From the time President A. NJ. Turn
er flung the stars and stripes to the
breezes until listers orchestra play
| ed the last strains of Home. Sweet
| Home" the officers and committees
worked like Trojans to entertain by
far the largest crowd of delighted So
ciety folk that ever met anywhere In
this part OF the state.
Mayor t E. Knots, who motored
over from Gary IN the morning. was
for once In his life ready to gracious
ly admit Hammond's claims to the nm
4 est country club in the west for city
OF Its size.
Guests From Many Cities.
Guests came from whiting. East
Gary, Cast Chicago, Crown Point.
Michigan City, Valparaiso, Indiana
Harbor, Chicago and from score or
other points. They began to arrive
at 10 o'clock in the morning and until
the specious clubhouse was full and
poured them. out In the green sward.
They inspected the beautifully equip
ned and furnished clubhouse in droves
and no reporter could express in his
maddest riot OF Imagination the wide
range of comment on the clubhouse
: Reception Delightful Affair.
The reception last night was most
delightful affair. From Holman street
to the clubs porte cochere a solid
= block of motors brought guests to the
: affair. The exterior of the clubhouse
every angle from cellar to gable
i strung with electric lights, silhouetted
{ the outlines of the structure esains'
e the sky and formed striking night
feature. The Calumet region, every
city in it. contributed to the attend
ance. Nearly a thousand invitations
had been sent out and the response
was gratifying to the club directors
The storm kept many away, but The
Il clubhouse from basement to roof was
crowded with participants of the hos
nitality lavished by Hammond to hel
| guests
The club had been beautifully deco
l rated for the occasion and marvel
ously artistic effect obtained. Afte
= the reception dancing followed unit
- midnight and during the intermis
: sions refreshments served consisted
it of ices. sherbets. punch and cake.
It Thousands Inspect The Building.
During the day 1t is estimated tha
= fully a thousand people were show
!. through the club house on trips of in
spection by the various members on tn
!, reception committees. In no instanc
y did they fail to express their surpris
"a at the arrangement and equipment o
the club house and the beauty OF IN
- grounds which have been in the pas
"a few months transformed from bog an
10 | swamp into magnificently undulatin
: green's The club house began to n
10 Iup in the morning and constar
~ stream OF visitors from thence on unit
10 O'Clock at night poured into the clul
"a Hundreds witnessed the start of tn
ct free-for-all sweepstakes at 10 oclocl
20 Much interest was taken In the play {
n Alderman Badenoch of Chicago, wh
honored the club with his presence an
oman MavOT Bul
E. Of the u S. s. Co.'s engineering az
ed pa artment at Gary, and his wife ais
90 made the round. The tennis enthusiast
he drew a crowd of lovers of the spo
TO the courts, and though the
re BESPOKE rain at 2.S0. the greens an
ch club house swarmed with galaxy
It's society folk listers orchestra. whie
w furnished the music for the day. bega
he a program at 2:30 in the living rooi
M. and the quality of the music and Il
nd nrogram itself was the cause of mar
u congratulations to Mr. Elster
The Beautiful Decorations.
.tz The interior of the structure and Il
spacious verandas had been most bea'
n tifulIy decorated for the occasion by
ne committee, consisting of w. II. Crav
Iat ford r. S. Groman and J. F. Sawye
IN. The flowers used were gladiolas, ros