The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-06-19
HIDE SLOT
MACHINES; |
HUSH DICE
Inmates Posing As Chamber
maids Ply Broom and
Duster

only 10 LHe Initiated WdS the GAl
underworld open Saturday night
The craps" table at the Lindes
Hotel. Washington and Seventh std
was dark and the few patrons adt
mitted to the big gambling housl
were entertained at poker and blacl5
Jack. The lookout" kept a Wig
giant and belliserent eye at the peeyt
hole Of the door to the Budapest, ths
second largest gambling place i
the city and II was reported thss
the games over Umpleby's pool rooIS
were a little less open
The 130 slot machines In the cits
had been taken from their conspicr
Gus places on bars and cigar counS
ers and were concealed. face to tn
wall, il was said
INMATES NOW CHAMBERnTATDEe
The inmates of 1.-The A1etropolt
TAM Pauline's place. The EdeN
weiss" operated by Jake Sault4
The Panama" and other notoriouK
houses were officially known Saturs
day night as "charnbermaids. Mod
estly arrayed in house dresses AMI
armed with brooms and dust cloths
the "chambermaids worked indus
triously until late in the night. ThJ
silk hose and French heeled slipperl
below and the scarlet rouge and elaI
borate coifures above the ginghar|
performance of sweeping and dustinI
at midnight. were the weak spots Il
the ''alibi." 1t was not to be ed
pected. however, that Pauline. JakI
and the other impressarios of thI
underworld would be as exactini
Even the wine flowed less freelyj
Customers who were not known hal
their choice of near-beer. white por|
sweet soda. cigars and cnewing gum
If you can Imagine Big Bill' Subj
tovich serving pink tea then IT Il
easy to realize the discomforturI
prevalent south of the tracks"
1T will blow over in a few days,i
was the common information "Sooj
as the grand jury gets through WI
will open up"
Beneath this surface confidence
there was a good deal of soreness
however. Mayor R o. johnson and
other officials were being severelj
censored by the resort keepers, gamI
blers and their lieutenants. ThingI
should never have gone as far al
they did. they said. 1t would havI
been better to have closed dow}
when The Times started the crusade
told by someone in a position oa
power to never mind The Times and
keep right on"
The dive keepers. especially, arj
mad. it was reliably reported Thl
keepers were told to .go TO the city
court" last Monday. That would pre|
vent the grand jury from indictind
them. They went Although nd
raids were made and no evidence obi
tanned against them their cases weSj
continued two weeks, giving th1
grand jury ample time to make an
investigation. Now. II appears. they
are strictly up against it. And they
are sore. They say that they havd
been terribly abused.
Nobody seemed to know Saturday \
night. or at least nobody cared I'd
tell. why the slot machines werd
not seized by the authorities and
taken as evidence. Instead they ard
merely out of sight and can be put
back into operation Whenever the
storm has blown over"
Each day lessons the confidence
of the dive keepers. the slot mach-
Inc owners and the liquor law vio-
lators that things are going TO be
right again" 1t is said that they
are beginning 10 wonder whether
they were given the straight dope
when they were told that The Time.
was merely after something" and
that things would be patched up. \
To quote one attache OF a gamb-
ling house correctly; IF that damn
ed paper wants something why the
hell don't they give It what 1t wants
and cut this stuff out before the
game is ruined for everybody"
There you have the serious aspec,
of the situation, from the viewpoint
of the underworld. 1t begins 10
look as though the game" was ruin
ed for everybody for a long time To
come.
1t was the drtest Saturday nigh,
in many moons in Lake county. Re-
ports from Cedar Lake. the Lake
front cafes. East Hammond and Ind
lana Harbor We're to the effect that
it was like pulling teeth to get a
drink. Some people were glad. 9TH
ers inclined to be mad. But as one
liberal" fellow said, THE Times
is right. The law should be en-
forced and anyway all you get now
adays is moonshine and filthy wine
that isn't f1t for a hog to drink"