The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-12
WRITING THE TRAIL
OF THE TROLLEY
Marion Heath Freeman
Formerly of The Times
on Chicago Paper.
IS The AUTHOR OF MARINE
In article Of This Week She Tells
About Trip to Hammond, Weav-
ing Facts and Fancies.
is The AUTHOR OF MARINE

newspaper work on the Chicago Daily
Freeman intimately while she did some
very interesting stories in a copy
Irighted column headed THE Trail of
the Trolley" Those who knew Mrs.
Fireman intimately while she did some
ognize her hand in THE Trail of the
trolley" Mrs. Freeman has a style that
is distinctly her own which gives her
ian individuality. 1t is not necessarily
feminine. On the contrary it would be
surprising to many of THE TIMES
readers to know that some of the
strongest and most virile articles that
have appeared In these columns were
written by Mrs. Freeman.
Author of Marnie.
Many of THE TIMES readers still re-
member her serial fiction story which
appeared in THE TIMES under the of
Marine"
She has written considerably for the
magazines and Ter feature work on the
News is not new to her. She makes
la daily trip over one of the street car
lines running into Chicago. and in a
VERY limited space, nevertheless does
Justice to the trip.
In the beginning of this week she
had an article about the trip to Ham
mond which is subjoined The reader
Twill readily see that she has combined
the ability of reporter and artist in
weaving cold facts and fancy pictures
into her story. That she has warm
lspot for Hamond can be seen from her
PARTICLES. 1t is as follows:
The trip from Chicago to Hammond
has many features to recommend it. In
the first place it is inexpensive. In
the second place it is one of those
Journeys which may be taken for
considerable distance over different
route, going and coming, without It's
lcosting any extra money of added in
convenience.
The name of Hammond to the av-
erage Chicagoan, who knew it when it
first began to Occupy the public eye, but
who has failed to keep abreast of its
progress, suggests slaughtering houses
and cattle pens and a bad odor The
cattle pens are still there, or near
there. for Calumet park, a short dis
lance away, is great point for the
transfer of cattle on their way to the
Chicago stockyards. But the packing
since ben removed and other industries
have sprung up in their stead.
| Some of City's Industries.
| Hamond has a distillery which bears
the name of the city of it's location.
and it has its Standard steel car plant,
a $4,000 900 concern, branch of the east
ern company whose name it bears; 1t
has its Simplex Railway Appliance
industries of interest to inspect. On
the way thither are to be sen the tall
chimneys of the South Chicago steel
mills, for South Chicago is traversed in
order to reach Hammond from Chicago
There are also some interesting cd
dities to see along the way including
the replica of Mount Vernon, the home
of Washington which was a worlds
fair exhibit and Is now a dwelling
At Robey loom the buildings of the
| Western Glucose works which. set as
they are in the midst of the barren
prairie, possess their own picturesque
ness Hammond is literally honey
combed with railroad tracks, almost
all of the eastern trunk lines passing
through its borders
But the trip and its destination are
1 H.
There is a softer side. There is the
beauty of nature which has its own
peculiar charm in the fat wilderness
between points where the hand of man
has set the seal of his dominion. The
land is low and swampy, and the soil
reproductive of grains and many of
those products which require cultiva-
ton. But of evenings the trilling of
the frogs, punctuated by the dull boom
ing of the bullfrog variety, adds a
peaceful sweetness that soothes the
ear, and the fringe of reeds and cattails
about the shores of Wolf lake and Lake
Calumet, between whose shallow wa
ters the cars ply for some distance.
soften the scene and give 1T a mel
lancholy beauty. And down the sleepy
river, or up the river-the Calumet
has no source nor outlet, or, rather, its
source and outlet are the same-the
view is one of continuous beauty. with
launches plying UP and down its slug
gish waters; for Hammond has a thriy-
ing boat club.
Wonderful Flowers to See.
But if the soil is poor from the
standpoint of the agriculturist, it is
rich in those qualities which nourish
wild things. The country surrounding
Hammond is famed to botanists Scores
of varieties of wild flowers flourish
there in their peculiar seasons and
local students of the flora of the victn- |
ity claim great distinction for a To-
cality which is a part of it. They say
that at a certain point in the Calumet
river grow and thrive the famed locust
lilies of the Nile. They will tell the
inquiring stranger that these flowers
blom in only three places in the world. |
the River Nile in Egypt, the Calumet
river near Hammond and in another
spot of limited dimensions in some
Wisconsin stream
The return trip may be made via
East Chicago and Whiting, IL desired.
the South Chicago Street Car company
providing transfers between their two
rnai, di,.iSior,s