The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-04-08
Will Fight it Out on Adopt
ed Line if it Takes all
Summer.
HANLY THE LAST RESORT
If All Else Fails Against Power Of
Saloon Element Recourse VIII
Be Had to Governor.

The east end "drys" are up in arms.
They are in for a finish fight to keep
the saloons out of the district lying
between Calumet and Columbia ave
nues and State street and the Nickel
Plate railroad.
If the council will not establish the
dry district by passing the required
ordinance, they will demonstrate
against any more saloons in the third
ward This, according to the Indiana
statutes, requires a majority of the
voters in the ward.
AS an indication of the fact that they
mean business the "drys" say that if
the Saloonkeepers association defeats
them in their remonstrances they will
form a citizens committee and enforce
the Nicholson law to the letter.
They say that if they cannot secure
convictions in Hammond they will go
where they can and as a last resort
say they will appeal to the governor
II they cannot accomplish their purpose
any other way.
This Explains All.
The following communication is self
explanatory:
TO the Public:
Several articles have recently appear
ed in the daily papers Of this city rela-
tive to the so-called East end dry dis
trict" Some Of these articles made
reference to the fact that certain prop
erty had been Disseminated against
and that fairness had not been shown
in the method of bounding the proposed
district
These articles as we'll as the results
of the present attempt to create sdry
district" will no doubt make the matter
a subject of general interest to the
people of Hammond, therefore I con-
slider that it is only fair that the pub
lie should be informed of what has been
done and what the "drys' intend to
do to protect their homes from the in
vasion of saloons
Origin of Petition.
In May, 1905, petition to our city
council was circulated and signed by
sixty-nine residents asking that a dis
trict in which Intoxicating liquors
could not be sold, be established by ordi-
nance.
The district was bounded on the
north by the center line of what was
then Plummer avenue between Calu-
met and Columbia avenues on the east
by the center line of Columbia avenue
on the south by the Nickel Plate right
Of way to a point in line with the al
ley south of May street, on the west
by Calumet avenue. The line on the
west was drawn around so that the
district did not include the southeast
corner of Summer street and Calumet
avenue and the northeast corner of
State and Calumet avenue, both of
which corners were then occupied by
saloons. The district as described did
not then and has not until the past
month, contained any saloons.
The above mentioned petition was
presented to the city council and was
referred to the license committee The
license committee to date has failed to
make a report back to the council on
the subject, although every possible
effort has been made by the residents
of the district to get action of some
kind.
Postponed Indefinitely.
On the 18th of March number of
the residents of the proposed district
attended the council meeting and in
quired when they could expect action
on their petition and were instructed to
meet the license committee at the city
hall March 25 at o. m. This the citi-
zens did, only to find that the meeting
had been postponed indefinitely on ac-
count of the sickness of one of the
members.
The next evening a delegation of
citizens waited on the council and were
informed by one of the committee that
it would be necessary to secure the
i signatures of two thirds Of the prop
erty owners of the district TO gain the
approval OF the committee. When this
proposition was accepted the commit
teeman stated that ii would be neces-
sary to meet the license committee to
have the terms ratified This was also
agreed to by the citizens and a meet
ing was promised by the committee
within the week The time and place
was TO be set by the license committee.
No meeting has taken place on account
of the non-action of the license com
mittee.
Considerable noise is being made in
opposition TO the dry district" and
/ each obJector has been found to be
either interested or connected with the
saloon business, brewery business. a
prospective saloonkeeper or one who
has invested in a corner lot which he
hopes to dispose of for the location of
| a saloon.
Two Aldermen show Prejudice.
Two of the council committee have
shown by their actions that they are
opposed to the dry district" Four
days after the petition was referred
| TO the committee, asked one of them
when we could expect a report. His
answer was. Never! The thing Is
dead"