The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-23
RURAL SUBURBS
KICK ON DIN
footing of Rival Engines
Banishes Sleep During
Night.
ARE MOVING AWAY
Distracted Residents Say Trainmen
Keep Up Whistling Concert
Until Morning.

Far out from the turmoil of the
smoky. crowded city, though within
its corporate limits, out where the
spring chickens, care free, chase the
grasshoppers all day long in the wild
clover, where the cabbage patches
thrive amid the open wastes of pollen
ladened weeds, the city sleep problem
has stirred the semi-rural confines Of
Marlboro, formerly known as Evans
ton-on-the-Hill.
Just at present the Marlboro I'M
provement association has laid on the
table, such passive troubles as whether
or not the electric car company will
succeed IN getting line across the
Pennsylvania tracks in West Sixty
ninth street; just why said association
was ousted from the waiting room of
the railroad station where for years
it held its semi-monthly meetings; how
taxes can be lowered, and other ques-
lions of moment and is concerning it
self deeply in an endeavor to solve the
sleep problem"
Those who don't sleep can't work."
said Wilbur Folk. president Of the i'm
provement association yesterday. "ano
it has come to such a pass that sleep
for the residents of Marlboro is pretty
much out of the question"
Locomotive Makes Night HideOuS.
1t isn't the early morning honks of
the many wabbly legged geese or the
growing of roosters before daylight
that is disturbing the sleep of the
Marlboro people. The sleepers have
encountered a more formidable foe.
Big, screeching locomotives are MAX
ing the night hideous, it is said. And
more trouble in sight, for more loco
motives are coming. The improvement
association has ascertained that the
Pennsylvania railroad intends to ex-
tend its yards from West Fifty-fifth
street south to West Sixty-ninth
street which would make its tracks
through Marlboro 800 feet wider than
is the present area.
In reply to an appeal to compel the
railroad company to desist from con-
tinuous whistling serenades. Corpora
ton Counsel Brundage yesterday gave
encoura cement to the improvement as
sociation.
Il think I will have to suggest to
the mayor that the city have a new
department and appoint over it a
sleep commissioner; seems to me this
/ city Is BSAbllS aWAuAlg AAO4SSf ca
claimed Attorney Brundage with a
sigh.
There is a city ordinance against
undue amount of whistling by locomo-
| tives"
Engineers Rival Performers.
| In the letter to Mr.. Brundage Secre-
tary f A Lindquist Of the improve
ment association declared that there
was a sort OF vaudeville rivalry be-
tween the engineers on the Pennsyl-
vania, the Chicago Terminal and
Transfer railroad and the latter's ten
ants. the Baltimore and Ohio and the
Pere Marquette. which run through
Marlboro. The twelve tracks running
through the suburb, adjacent to one
another, are especially busy with
freight traffic during the night. The
real contest between the engineers IS
to be first IN signaling the semaphore
keeper at Seventy fifth street where the
| wabash railroad and the Belt line
cross They begin at about Sixty
seventh street to signal.
President Folk Of the improvement
association, who is president also 0.
the Irving Coal company, adjoining
the tracks at Sixty-ninth street, live.
lat 674o Winchester avenue. fou'
blocks from the railroad. Twice II
the last month, AIr. Folk says. tn