The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-07-17
ALDERMAN MOyhIHAN
AFTER 10 CENT FARE
Will Attempt to Make I. G.
Come to Time Through
X. & G.
TEMPORARY PERMIT WANTED
Improvement Associations In Terri
tory Want Many Concessions
Before Granting Request.

/ South Chicago's chances for getting !
ten cent fare down town over the /
Illinois Central road looked brighter |
at the present time than they have at
any time since the matter has been so
vigorously agitated by the local inn
Iprovement and business mems assOcia
lions.
The Kensington and Eastern railroad
are asking the city council to grant
them a temporary permit to lay their
tracks through the south end of the
Eight and Thirty third wards and this
afternoon the transportation commit
tee of the city council, headed by AL
derman Patrick II. Moynihan, will meet
the officials of the Illinois Central road
to considerthe matter
/ The reason for asking a temporary
permit is because of the fact that the
members of the city council will leave
on their vacations within the next few
days and it will be impossible for them
to get together and grant the road the
desider privileges.
The attorneys for the Kensington
Eastern road have prepared an ordi-
nance which is very much to their
liking but which does not meet with
the approval of the residents and tax
payers of the south end OF the two
wards in which the road is asking for
a permit to lay their tracks
Motive for Permit
The motive assigned for asking
permit to lay their tracks Immediately
is for the benefit of the Chicago, Lake
Shore & South Bend railway company
who will use the X. & E. tracks to
Kensington and then on down town via
the Illinois Central The Chicago. Lake
Shore & South Bend railway company
are anxious to get their line into Chi
! cago as soon as possible and to do
this they must use the K. & Z. road Is
J owned by the Illinois Central and the
officials of one road act in the same
capacity with the other.
| According to theordinance that has
ben prepared by the railroads attor-
neys tine company gets everything and
the residents of the Eight and Thirty
third wards get nothing. This ordi-
nance was made public by Alderman
Bill of the Thirty third ward and AL
erman p H. Moynihan of the Eight
The citizens and the Improvement asso-
Citations Immediately got together and
= called an indignation meeting which
was held down town in the Arcade build
y ing. and was attended by large num-
!, wards. The meeting resulted in res
= olutions being drawn UP to the effect
" that the Kensington and Eastern should
: rot be give given a temporary or any
other permit to lay their tracks until
= the corporation decided to grant the
: taxpayers a few concessions, which are
:. as follows:
What Is Wanted.
l. Build adequate depot at Ken
, sington.
= 2. Dedicate Front street as a public
thoroughfare giving residents privilege
On the street.
3. Install gates and gatemen at One
" Hundred and Thirteenth street
:. 4. Improve the different Illinois Cen
= trail crossings. the same as other roads
= by paving them with brick instead o.
Stag or cinders.
y 5. Remove all the unsightly Goa
sheds in and about the company's prop
- erty
= s. The positive assurance that al
= interurban cars on the Chicago LAX,
- Shore & South Bend line will stop a
Kensington.
After 10 Cent Fare
Alderman Moynihan, who is at thu
D head of the transportation committee
will try and make the officials of TIL
nt Illinois Central meet the requests o
the South Chicago patrons for a tel
cent fare to and from down town.
Being al the head of the transporta
= ton committee the other members will
IS abide by Moynihans desires in the mat
r ter and unless the Illinois Contra
70 meets his demands the prospects looI
tn pretty poor for the company gettinI
ve the temporary permit for laying thei
IS tracks.
as The matter Of a 10 cent fare to an
70 from Chicago has been advocated tim
,e and again by The South Chicago Bust
in ness Mems association and the Chelten
tn ham Improvement association was tn
is last TO take up the 10 cent fare proT
csltion out nothing further than pre-
re senting their demands to the official
of of the company was done. Now Alder
II man Moynihan comes forward with hi
scheme, which. il is believed will con
pei the corporation to meet the tax
payers requests.