The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03
Committees from Four Of
Strongest Civic organiza-
lions Will Work Closely
Together to Further the
Cause of the City.
NO COMPROMISE IS
THE BATTLE SLOGAN
Magic City Will Not Look for Help
From ANY Other Part Of the Coun-
try-Commercial Club For Better
Postal Service-Appoints a Com
mittee.

At the meeting of the Gary CONNER
cial club yesterday afternoon In the
Gary hotel, there were several topics
which precipitated much discussion and
a certain amount of action. A COM
mittee was appointed by Vice Presi-
dent w. H Fitzgerald. who sat in
President Norton's chair for the day,
for the purpose of taking the neces-
sary steps to secure free delivery.
This committee consists OF Harry Call,
H. H. Highlands and Thomas E.
Knots.
This committee will be expected to
forward to the government and also
to Congressman Crumpacker. a state
ment of the condition of affairs and
urge upon them the necessity of i'm
mediate action. This they will do at
once, although it is not expected that
they will receive hearing in the near
future. In regard to this matter Post
master Call stated that everything pos
sible had been done to bring to the no.
Estice of the government officials the
condition of the Gary office. and he did
not believe anything could be done to
push it forward more rapidly.
viii fright for Court.
| Another thing brought to the atten-
| ton of the club was the fight which
| is being waged by the people Of Gary
/ for a superior court in this city. The
i matter was brought up for discuss ion
by President Fitzgerald of the real es-
tate board, who informed the club that
the directors of that body had taken
| the matter into consideration and that
they had appointed a committee for the
purpose of acting jointly with a like
body from other organizations.
Upon motion therefore, committee
of the Commercial club was selected
which met with the Retail Merchants
association and urged them to select
another committee last night 1t is
/ expected that there will be commit
tees appointed from each of the foul
organizations in the CITY, If it has moi
already been done. These are the Com
mercial club, the Real estate Board, the
4 Merchants association. and the Con.
tractors association.
All of these committees will ther
meet as one committee to take up the
matter of securing a superior court
Mr. Fitzgerald of the Commercial clut
and the real estate board has been ap
pointed temporary chairman and ha.
called a meeting for Saturday night.
VIII Collect Data.
The duty of this committee will b,
| to collect data on the congested con
| dition of the courts of this county ant
| then to ascertain what amount of case
arise in Gary. Also to study into tn,
, question of expense to the attorney
who are now compelled to go to Ham
mond or Crown Point to try thei
cases.
, With this information in hand the.
will besiege the state legislature at it
next session and demand that Gary b.
: given a court. mo compromise wa
, the slogan which they were instructet
+ to carry with them to Indianapoli
when it came to lobbying for the court
The sentiment existing in the clu
: yesterday was that the remainder o
: the cities of northern Lake county wer
jealous of Gary and would do every
thing in their power to prevent Their
from getting a court. They, therefore
will act independently and attempt t
make better showing than the com
bination which is acting against then
They also stated that 1t was their be
lief that If the court was not lande
for Gary at the present time that
, would be a number of years before the
would get one, and that perhaps the
never would. 1t would be necessary
they said. to wait for another conges
ton of the court.