The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-03-06
SALOON
License
HISTORY
Indiala's Ex-dramshOp Keep
erS Raised SIuSh Fund,
1t is Charged.

The ghost OF the $4,000 alder
manic slush fund" is stalking
around in West Hammond on the
eve of the primaries and threaten
ing to take little trip to the office
Of States Atty. MacClay Hoyne.
It will accompany the spectre of
the Bacchanalian revels of police
men. including the chiefs mara
thon joy-ride. and the spook OF the
collection of hundreds of dollars
from resort keepers for the alleg-
ed purpose of obtaining protection
from the police department and
the city council.
MATTER OF GOSSIP.
The slush fund has been a matter OF
gossip in West Hammond since InGi-
ana went dry. West State street the
linear oasis which. from the Sahara
OF Indiana is the longest alcoholic Ap-
plan way for a city OF the size in the
United States. has talked about Il. The
fund. according to rumor. was show
cred on the council largely by Indi-
ana ex-saloonkeepers seeking licenses
In wet Illinois.
TN ESTY-TwO NEW SALOONS.
The facts are these. Before Indiana
thirty-four sGloons in West Hammond
with an annual license fee Of $500 An
ordinance limiting the number OF sa-
looms to one Tor every 500 population
prevented the granting of more IL
ccnses.
on april %. 1918. forty-eisht appIi-
cations for saloon licenses were sub
r'itted to the city council and at the
same meeting tho council revoked the
ordinance limiting the number of sa-
looms At the next meeting. May ;.
Mayor Paul Kamradt vetoed the repeal
ordinance and submitted statement
that he believed Il would be a bad
thing for the city to remove the limit
on the number of saloons. The coun-
ell re-passed the ordinance. removing
the limit. over the mayors head. by
vote OF seven 20 one. Alderman
walsh was the only member to vote
Nay"
-FOUR SALOONS CLOSED.
The council at the previous meeting
refused to issue new licenses to Henry
Peters. Andrew Esser, James Mona
han and the firm of Jack Eesseriat and
Edward Berwanger. on the grounds
mat their saloons had not been prop
crly conducted The yearly license fec
was raised to S7O0. Thirty old saloon
Keepers were granted licenses and
twenty-five licenses were isued to new
applicants. making total Of fifty
tvvo saloons. the present status. The
council then passed a new limitation
ordinance providing that there should
ne no more than one saloon for every
one hundred and fifty people. which
i now in force and keeps the number
OF licenses at 81.
VIEW PERSONNEL OF COUNCIL.
The personnel Of the West Ham
moad city council is as follows.
william Walsh. tinsmith and ex-sa-
}oonkeeper. 10s State street; Fred Ber
xanger. butterine salesman. 572 In
graham avenue, a B. Krzynowski,
secretary West Hammond Building &
Loan. 204 154th place; August Gloza,
binder. So. 155th street; Frank Lesz-
czvnsld, saloonkeeper. 301, 155th st;
Otto Planer, saloonkeeper. 406 Garfield
avenue: John Murray. 5i9 West state
St. saloonkeeper and John Sumeracki,
in the taxicab business with the may
or, 20S. 154th place.
THE TRIAL ToMoRROw.
The trial OF Mrs. Harriet Rosen-
baum on the charge OF conducting
disorderly house in her eight room
story and a half frame residence at
221 W PIummer ave, will be held at
two o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the
Justice court Of Chas Yoerger. In ad-
Gition to his official duties Justice
Toerger conducts a grocery store on
West State street.
Mrs. Rosenbaum declares she will
be specific She told reporter last
night that she was in business from
1908 to 1919 and during that time paid
an average of $3.50 a month for pro-
lection. The present chief, Jos. Nitz
received s35 month, Mrs. Rosenbaum
stated.
Sometimes he came to my house to
collect and other times I took the
money TO him." she declared. "One
time I gave him his money at Kowal-
skis grove. Before Nitz was chief
John Okra3 wore star and 7 paid
Clsraj ten dollars a week. When OlSraj
lost the JOB Of chief two years ago and
became a patrolman I continued to
pay him ten dollars a week The pa
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