The Lake County times., 1907-01-10
INLET
To HAMMOND
Calumet Electric Wishes to
Extend It's Line to the
Business Section.
MORE DIRECT ROUTE
Promises to Shorten Street Rail-
way Time Between Sixty-Third
Street and Here.

| Nlthlh rev weeks represents tfx,aa
OF the Calumet Electric Street ratlxvax,
VIII appear before the Hammond citS,
eouhcll with a request FOR a franchisa
'nloush the heart of the city to en-
aoie u TO extend its present line from,
point Just west of Roby through
oenour' south Deering. Burnham.
s,,,,, ss"lseh TO Hammond. which
VIII DO the terminus OF the line.
This extension has long been soc-
templated but it is only ~aaa.,.,s, Se'A~
since the location or the Stanaars g.,
Gar company, in fact-that / nj CO...
the receiver for the road. In confar'
ehce with the stockholders. aactds,z
tHat IL entrance was tobe secured int
hammond and the terminal of the roas,
extended to the leading city of the
Saiunet region, something wouIa
nave 70 be done at once.
oMins 70 the tangle OF tracks north
west or Hammond and the necplia.
way In which the city has been Mat
yea, there are only two or three nos
sipIe entrances to the business norton
OF the city from the northwest
me hammond, Whiting and East
chicago street railways francbIses
make entrance from the north innos-
sipie and the franchise it has on tba
loop gives 1T the exclusive right ~
run on State and Sibley streets.
rms leaves Plummer and Rimbacb
avenues as the only other means ~ g.
ress tp the business district of the civ
and' hence the desire of the Calumet
electric officials TO secure a franchise
on one OF these streets before some
other company shuts them out
In South Chicago the Calumet elae-
a
quickest and most satisfactory service
to 63rd street and the elevated rai1roas
It's northern terminus is card street
and South Park avenue. adiotning
White City. The cars are large do,.
bie-truck affairs that are always clean
what is even more important tho
route over this line is more direct and
IS through a sparsely settled district
.hat makes greater speed possible. 1t
is matter of general information in
south Chicago that the Calumet cleo
trlc VIII save from fifteen to twenty
minutes in the trip to the city.
The route from South Chicago to
Hammond is also several miles nearer
than that taken by the South Chicago
City railway, as 1t runs directly TO-
wards Hammond from South Chicago.
passing through Colehour. South Deer
Ing and the territory between Lake
Calumet and Wolf Lake to Hegewisch.
from which place the route will be di-
rectly south over the Burnham road to
West Hammond.
FROM West Hammond the route
through the city of Hammond will he
determined later when the representa-
tives of the road have had chance
TO confer with the city officials. How
ever this much is known, that wheth-
er one route or another is selected IL
VIII be through the center OF the city
TO the Standard Steel Car company ana
later may be extended TO Gary.
The officials of the Calumet Electric
company viii approach the Hammond
city council with considerable assur-
ance that they will not be turned down.
They will have to offer an up to date.
thoroughly equipped line that will run
over a route so much more direct that
there VIII be a saving of from thfrtv
to forty five minutes in the trip to
6srd street
The Calumet electric is said to have
a record for doing things that viii
go long way in influencing the mem
bers Of the board Of public works and
city council in their favor as against
the South Chicago City Railway COM
pany, which has nothing but failure to
fulfill promises.
When the plans of the Calumet elee-
trio are carried out, 1t is believed that
the company which is now handling
the traffic between Hammond and 63rd
street VIII not be able to compete for
the through traffic
They will Of course be In the field
as competitors for the traffic between
the cities Of Hammond, whiting, East
Chicago and the along the route
business, but when it comes to the
through haul the local street railway
will be negligible quantity. The
South Chicago city railways route to
63rd street could never be changed
to enable them to run into Chicago in
as short a time as the Calumet elec-
trio viii be able to run when the ex-
tension is completed.
The new street car company is mr.
chasing a right OF way nearly all Of
the way from South Chicago and evi-
IDENTIFY expects in this way to be able
to run an express service from Ham
mond to South Chicago. no matter how
thickly the intervening territory be-
comes populated.
This will be equal to new Industry
to Hammond for it will enable the
hundreds of men who are employed in
the Hegewisch mills and who will soon
be employed in the big car works thar
are 10 be built in Burnham, TO live
in Hammond and go back and forth
to their work for i've cent fare.