The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-06-05

| OF Gary gong to stand for 1T?
South of the tracks" Gary is
once more a wide open town where
women of immoral practice. gam
blers, booleggers and blind pig"
proprietors openly pursue their il
legitimate trades under the un-
seeing eyes of the police.
South Broadway and the streets
to the west running parallel to 1t
are spotted with resorts that rival
the old days of The Patch" Open
doors lead 70 the rolling bones"
Lady Luck" and the Jack pot"
In the wettest and widest days
Of the Knots regime the gamblers
and prostitutes were never more
unfettered than they are in Gary
today. In addition to these two
evils there is food of moonshine
and manufactured "whiskey."
BOTH BEER AND HIGHBALLs
At the Broadway Inn, the Panama
and other all-night cafes. highbalis,
wine and beer may be purchased.
Sometimes the places are out of one
or two of the varieties, but they
always have at least one. The other
night the Broadway Inn served
both beer and highballs, while the
Panama had a great supply of red
wine that contained a high per-
centage of alcohol.
The Budapest on South Broad
way is the largest gambling house
in Gary. Ostensably a restaurant.
a door at the rear opens on a pri-
the gambling hall.
Play starts at the Budapest At
3 o'clock in the afternoon on Sat-
urdays and Sundays and at I
o'clock in the evening on other
days of the week. At Z o'clock Sat
urday night the big craps" table
was surrounded by players. with
others standing back waiting for
chance to crowd in.
HANDY WITH THE DICE
Nothing less than a nifty cent 4
piece can be played on the field"
of the craps table at the ''Buda-
pest" Play ranges from nifty cents
to a $50 limit. The house men"
are the typical gambling hall types.
green eye shade partially conceal
ing an immobile countenance. They
drone the usual doggerel to encour-
age the players to play the Held"
the come" and to double" on the
dice.
There is a heavy poker game In
connection with the craps" game
at the Budapest"
The Panama" on Washington st.
Is the most notorious ''joint" on the
South Side" because the inmates
are girls apparently sixteen and
seventeen years of age. One of
these girls has year-old baby and
is often called away from the bar
where she drinks with men to an
swer the cries of the infant. The
proprietor of the Panama" boasts
of police protection.
The girls in the Panama" have
evidently been prompted to lie
about their age. They tell the men
who patronize the resort that they
are over twenty years of age. but
their appearance bellies their words.
Two OF the girls admitted that they
had had only few months expert
ence in immoral practice.
"BROADwAY NM
The broadway Inn" is charac-
teristic of she underworld cabaret.
1t is a lawlcss place where liquor Is
served and where girls are paid to
do shameful dances.
They drink with the men. enter
tanning them with lewd stories and
soliciting dates" There are about
a dozen women in the place. They
are vulgar and loud and when they
become drunk amuse their patrons
by swearing at eacn other Every
now and then there will be a fight
between jealous entertainers" at
early hours OF the morning and the
walters are trained to be on the
alert TO pull drunken women apart
hair.
Sometimes jealous men with
whom these women are living and
supporting, attempt 10 start trouble
In the Broadway Inn" In all
events, the place is considered a
live one" by the FOUNDERS of the
Steel City.
LIQUOR PLENTIFUL
There is 10 longer any complaint
in Gary about not being able to
get a drink. Instead there is good
deal of growing at the prices
charged for beer. wine. whiskey and
moonshine. II is evident that there
is a tremendous protected traffic in
liquor by the biggest bootleg COM
bine ever formed in Lake county,
and one which must have its roots
in politics.
Mixed in with the so-called good
liquor is the rot-gut that sends men
TO the asylum at Logansport or to
the hospital or the grave yard.
When the supply of whiskey or
"watered grain alcohol runs out.
the bootleg parlors fall back on the
green" moonshine with its deadly
fusel oil. They boast. however. that
the moonshiners are becoming more
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