The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-23
TIMELY KICK FROM BILL FUzz

Dear Editor Unto you-you of
unparalleled patience and immeas-
urable sympathy. O. Editor Man
would unfold my woes and hand you
a wad of the most unspeakable mel
ancholy known TO the human race.
1t is tradition that no poor man,
since the glorious days of generous
Benjamin Franklin, ever appealed in
vain to the just editor man. when
said appeal was worthy. 1t is be-
cause ! know the true calibre Of We
main quill pusher that I come to
you in this hour and seek your solace.
The tale I am about to unfold is
one that is on the lips of thousands
in Hammond-and yet unspoken. It
is a curdling narrative of a populace
shamefully outrageous
ly ignored.
It is the plaintive squeal of the
down-trodden common people. Until
this squeal is heard from that popular
megaphone, the Lake County Times.
it is doomed to turn to silent an
guish and have its cradle for it's
cemetery.
But if YOU take up the cry, roll
up your pants legs and waddle to the
front as the champion of our just
cause there will be something doing.
You will have behind you sir. the
good will and hearty support of
thousands of Hammond's best peo-
pie
The plaintive squeal:
Help US, for Heavens sake, help
US, induce the street car company
to give US our nickels worth!
There is not another city in the
world of twenty thousand popula-
ton which has such bum street car
service Hammond is sorely afflict-
ed. The street car company is a
dern sight worse than the the mos
quities-a dern sight.
Hammond-noted all over Hoosier-
dom as the busiest proposition foI
its size in the SUBSTANTIALLY dis
graced by such a street car. service
Hammond-where they cant
build houses fast enough to satisfy
those who want to breath it's atmos
phere and proudly call it home
forced to submit to the humiliatine
reputation of a town with rotter
street car service!
Hammond town with twenty
six of Americas best steam roads en-
tering it-great, big busy Hammond
with a three-car street railway "sys
tenn"
"System!"
A peach of a system!
III bet seven dollars l can get
dozen dagoes with wheel-barrow
and beat it a mile.
Have you ever noticed the patien
sufferers who ride on Holman street
The patient hundreds who work a
Conkeys?
The streets are torn up and the
transfer" on foot, three and fou
blocks when the kid conduc
tors liver is out of order.
If | understand the matter arigh
the contractor who is putting i
the sewer on Holman street is pei
mitted to have only two blocks ur
navigable at a time. Well, ther
are almost always four blocks whic
are not fit for travel The stree
car company, or some other con
pany, could just as well carry il
passengers two blocks farther if
were so inclined.
And then the waits-H Heavens.
Mr.. Editor, the condition is deploI
able A little talk with any cit
zen of the town who is not relate
to the 'magnates'' will reveal niue
to you. if YOU are not already fami
, lar with the present state of affair
, There's a chance to make hit wit
, the people. 1t is golden oppo
l tunity for making hay, for, veril
brother. the sun is shining
Get busy and let us see whetht
the stuff you're made of is the rel
thing or just punk. BILL FIZZ.
, Hammond. Ind. Aug. 81.