The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-04-04
POOR LITTLE
OLD CHICAGO!
Gary is a Mean Old Thing
and Wants to Steal Wee
Windy's Prestige.
1T SHANT; SO THERE!
Real Estate Board Will Take It's Doll
Rags and Go to Washington
to See About it.

Poor Chicagol Poor Chicago! It's
commercial prestige is threatened by
Gary and the Calumet region. It's real
estate men, with trembling knees and
shaking voices, are seeing visions of
city in Indiana and on the south shore
of Lake Michigan that is to equal or
even surpass Chicago as the metropolis
of the west.
This is the belief of the members of
the Chicago Real Estate board, an
aggregation of men who are supposed
to be a factor in the back bone Of the
city. as expressed by Edward A. Hal
sey of the board.
To prevent the payment of $500
600 by the people of Chicago for the
purpose of making Gary, Ind, the
steel trust city, the greatest port on
the proposed deep water way from the
great lakes to the gulf the Chicago
Real Estate board has begun a fight
against the Calumet-Sag channel
which Is to be constructed by the
sanitary district. While not question
ing the motives of the board of trus-
tees, the members of the Real Estate
board were emphatic at their meeting
yesterday in declaring that 1t is
shameful that Chicago should be tax
! ed for the purpose of giving up her
commercial supremacy on the great
lakes. They point out that Gary, Ind,
is the one to which Chicago is to sell
her commercial pre-eminence and that
Chicago is to both sell herself and fur
nish the money for the purchase.
E. A. HaIsey Speaks.
Z Il
committee on the sanitary district said
yesterday AFTERNOON:
n TT issa disgrace that the people of
/ Chicago should be called on to give
away. their commercial supremacy and
pay s1S,oOOoeO for the sake of Gary,
Ind, becoming the great city on the
water way from the great lakes to the
gulf. The people of Chicago have paid
/ 81 per cent of the cost of the canal
| from its very inception and now they
are asked to pay $4,000, 900 for the
privilege of selling Chicago's CONNER
cial power to Gary. We have gone on
record as against the proposition and
we will fight for our stand. 1t is an
absurd proposition that Chicago should
sit by and see this thing happen. The
drainage board is bound under the law
to widen the Chicago river and after
some attempts they gave up the pro-
ject in favor of the CaIumet-Sa chan
mel.
Approves Drainage Extension.
1T is all right for them to provide
for the extension of the drainage ia
cilities of the enlarged district, but il
is another matter to make the work
of such character that it takes away
the commercial prestige of Chicago.
I'VE will enlist if nesessary all OF
the commercial interests of Chicago
to prevent this program. The real eff
fciency of the drainage canal fails o
accomplishment till this main channe
through the south branch of the Chi
cago river is completed. According t
the provisions of the law and the plan
upon which the work has up to th
present time been prosecuted it woult
seem that the entire energy of TIL
drainage board would be exerted T.
complete it. The work has been dis
continued for the present on the under
standing that the work is to be don
by the United States government, bu
the rivers and harbors bill just pass
ed makes no provision for this in TIL
appropriation"