The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-28

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dence. The home" stands on the rear
of lot the front of which is occupied
by two tenants. Slavfsh and Swedish
people live In these tenements The
people In tho picture are Siavish.
East Chicago No. is another view |
of this yard, which is both front and |
back yard. according to the point of
view. A bundle of wood shows In the |
back. These gathered up by the |
women. tied around the middle with |
rag string. sometimes the whole put |
down into gunnysack. sometimes not, |
strapped onto the women's backs and |
carried In from the prairie. 1t is no
unusual sight to see two, three or four
women in row coming across the
prairie. their backs bent under these
| loads of wood. following along the lit
tie footpaths-a real European peas
ant picture.
4 Just at the right of the picture
{ shows the pig pen. East Chicago No.
6 shows another view of this same
house and it's yard. The woman and
| children the same Slavish people
| as in the preceding pictures The Ger
| man family described have been called
| to the attention of the public in various
| ways Through the police, the town
| ship trustee. the Associated Charities
| and most recently through the board
| of children's guardians to the juvenile
! court.
Indiana Harbor No. l and No 2 are
! two views of the same home-the front
and the back. The back faces the
| Pennsylvania railroad tracks, and the
front opens into the back yard of
saloon with its boxes and beer bot
ties. The rent paid here is Sc for two
fka
home was from the police. The two
little boysHthere are two boys and
three little girls In this family-had
been found sleeping out in the prairie.
, The father was in the habit of sending
them out to the mill to pick up scraps
from the mems buckets and to get food
from the garbage cans This refuse
they said was to feed to to chickens
and cows Investigation found 1t on
the table for the family. The boys and
the little girls were beaten II they did
not bring what the father though they
, should: hence when they did not get
| much they were afraid to go home.
, The father was able to make 171s cents
at labor while his wife could make 20
} cents washing. Hence they had rea-
soned that the father should be the
homekeeper and the mother the bread
winner This condition was changed
at once-the position reversed to nor
NAL and the children watched Very
, soon after this I was called to the po-
| lice station to take charge OF the two
! boys They were found to be living
in a sort of bandits cave" and COM
; hitting one petty theft after another
The home conditions were so discour-
3 aging and the outlook so dark that 1t
was thought best to send the boys
: away for institutional training How
; big part did this home" play IN the
story?
l Indiana Harbor No 8. 4 and show
E different views of one house shelter
ing several families and a good many
: boarders Most of the people here are
o Roumanfans and Hungarians. living a
e sort of community life; ducks. geese.
a children, mothers and fathers herded In
together. In two basement rooms
4 where the filth was indescribabie lived
d a Roumanian father and mother and
: two beautiful black-eyed children The
e mother and father would not. or could
n not. get along together. he saying she
I was not satisfied with one husband
I she saying he had another girl. They
were brought into court and put or
Z probation. In a short time a call came
: that the man had been In a night with
pleading to "scuse" her husband-hs
e was an old offender-was of no avail
= and he Is now serving six months
while the two children are being cared
u for by the county. The mother Is a.
n work and Is able to care for the oldes
, boy This boy is a picture with nj
n black eyes and black curls-especiail,
when seen as / saw him once with
- red hat set on the back of his head
IL Indiana Harbor No. 6 is the rear o
typical tenement. The front room
= downstairs is taken up with saloon
The rest of the building is taken Vi
:, | with tenements of about three room
AZ each-a style familiar TO every socia
:. worker. Stairways are inserted In tn
= middle of the building to furnish en-
~ trance to the tenements IN the center
:, In this particular tenement the saloon
keeper is blind man. He has fou
children the oldest a girl II years ole
the youngest a baby The mother
dead The oldest girl is little mothe
:. | and in addition to this had tended ba
&c for her father since she was 10 year
:, oId--as one of the little girls explaine
"a to me with pride-when she was s
=, little she had to reach up to the ba
10 She explained that she had to waite
- the cash for him. The door betwee
- the saloon and the living rooms of tn
,e+ family. which were on the same noe
ev and just back of the saloon, was a
-, ways open that Annie could waite
on both the home and the saloon. TT
Nv father explained that he would go OF
ay OF the saioon business ai'oseenei' "
,c- he had his children to care for ar
there was no other way he could NAL
no a living for them. OF course, Annie
To- no longer tending bar. But lest tn
a. condition seem too frightful to IL
A conventional, 1t must be remembers
ed that the foreign saloon Is a family a
he fair This is not to excuse. but to e,
an plain the situation. Annie is a futu
ay. American mother Her father is
,ut Hungarian and her mother was &c
Use man-but we must not lose sight