The Lake County times., 1907-02-04
GARY NEWS

GARY NEWS
Perry Ulrich and Walter S. Ross at
tended the meeting of the board OF
trustees in the interest of their new
subdivision.
Walter Sasadinski, who is building
the large hotel in Washington street
south of the Michigan Central. spent
yesterday with friends in South chi
cago.
On the 26th of this month the MIch-
igan Central railroad begins the saie
Of ten-ride commutation TICKET
tween Gary and Hammond for SI'zo- 10
will make the service much more a
tractive. the present rate Of 80 cents
a ride being exhorbitant.
The Bormann brothers expect 70 pe-
80 bniIding operations at an early
date on their corner lot at Ienth ave
80 and Broadway. They are having
:. e1Ied In now and have already had
nfans prepared for the building. They
insist that the other claimant must
look to Castleman & Jones and not to
them for satisfaction.
Suit Will be begun in the superior
court at Hammond by Walter S. Ross
to quiet title to the property recently
acquired from L. A. Bryan by the
Bacon UIrich people The suit names
some two thousand defendants and in
wolves some fifteen hundred lots. 1t is
probably the largest one of its kind
that has ever been filed In Lake county.
The orange peeler which Nash &
Dowdle are moving from the North
Side to the east part of the town site
for work on the main sewer was pulled
across the Lake Shore tracks in about
fifteen minutes Saturday morning. 1t
was moved down Broadway to oppo-
site the postoffice when Bloome & Com
pany's men objected to its going fur
ther down Broadway on account Of
the danger to the street and sidewalk
Matters promised to be interesting for
awhile but the police department
ordered the machine moved off the
street and it is now travelling across
the woods to Massachusetts street
where there is no paving.
The board of trustees held It's reg
ular meeting Saturday afternoon with
a large number of interests represent
ed. After the routine preliminaries
the board listened to Mayor Darrow
and Mr.. Nolan of LaPorte as they set
forth reasons why the board should
grant the Chicago, Goshen & South
Bend Electric railway a ffty-year
franchise through Gary. This proposed
line, commonly referred to as the Hot
Air Line, is a part of the promised
New York Chicago Air Line system
After careful consideration the matter
was referred to the engineering de-
partment with directions to the fran
chise hunters to furnish the depart
ment a complete map of the proposed
line so that the board might act more
intelligently in the matter. The board
then turned its attention to the Bacon
Ulrich people who came to secure the
approval of the plat of their Broad
way addition to Gary. The board had
given tentative approval at the form
er meeting but would not sign the
plat. giving as their reason that they
wished to have the streets and alleys
graded by the owners before accept
ing the plat. Mr.. Ulrich had sent in
an opinion by Bruce & Bruce of Ham
mond. This opinion set forth that the
owners could not be compelled to do
any grading of streets and alleys and
intimated that If the board should try
to insist upon this it could be man
dated to approve the plat. The policy
of requiring platters OF property to
grade up streets and alleys TO the
grades established by the city, is
new departure on the part of municipal
authorities, and those who would make
capital out of our growth and devel-
opment do not take kindly to the prop
osition. The entire matter was refer
red to the attorney after listening to
an argument by M. NJ. Bruce on the
subject. The audience gathered the
impression that any attempt TO man
date the trustees would more than like
ly prove boomerang of no small di-
mension. The board then directed
that the Pennsylvania company open
its crossing at Broadway or it would
be done for them.