The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-07-18
INTERURBAN BETWEEN
GARY AND TOLESTON
Frank Gavit's Compay Elk
poets to Be in Neighboring
City By Aug. 10
RUN ON 20 MINUTE SCHEDULE
Air Line People Looking for Con-
nection With LaPorte By End
of Fall-Work in Progress.

Communication Will be established
with ToIestOn by August 1, if the pres
ent plans of the Gary and Inferurban
matcrialize. This branch, which is
looked upon almost important
the main line on Broadway, Is nOw
under construction and the work is
being pushed rapidly. 1t is probable
that twenty minute service will be
established mt the outset and that two
cars will be put in operation on this
division. One of these cars will operate
from ToIestOn TO the Lake Shore depot
on broadway, and it is likely that the
other will cOnfne its run to Eleventh
avenue alone.
Traffic Manager Phillips stated yes
terday that the additional cars which
had been ordered would arrive on the
fifteenth of next month and that If
nothing unforeseen happened they would
have little difficulty in having the line
constructed by that time. In the I'M
reliable freight service and the delay
in securing material they may encount-
er a handicap that will prove serious
in finishing up the Eleventh avenue
| extension.
Crews Being Trained
The crews for the new cars are now
being trained, however, by the men on
4 The main line and will be ready to
/ take up their runs when the time
comes. Cars on the Tolestonbranch
will be the same as those on Broadway.
Right from the start the company in
tends to maintain a least twenty min
ute service to the town on the western
81 TIn 0F 4I,s
will mean that the employees of the
mills living in that city will have an
access to the mills that those working
in the mills will be enabled to live in
the quietude of a suburb, mad VOL
tend to materially help both places.
In regard to the pavement of the
street car company's right of way on
Broadway which has been ordered done
| by the city at their last meeting, Mr.
| Phillips stated that he knew nothing
Of the plans Of the construction COM
pany which is building the road. He
thought. however, that they would be
able to put in the paving as soon as The
town board asked them to-
Feasibility of Tenders.
In the matter OF the putting on TIL,
Tenders on the cars, however. Mr.. Phil
lips says that there is no state Law
which would force them to carry fend
ers on the cars, but this this law, i
such was enacted, would be up to tn,
municipality. He cited several larg,
cities in the country where no fend
ers were being used with great sue
cess and If the company had seen thu
necessity Of putting them on the!
would have been used here.
1t is probable that the double tract
system on Broadway will be put int
operation within the newt two weeks
The passover track at the Lake Shor
has already been installed and a gani
of men is busy working on that at tn
Wabash tracks. This will greatly ia
cilitate the service, as it will elimin
! ate the necessity OF having switche
for the cars to pass by on. For som
time. however, but one track will b
used across the Wabash and the Michi
gan Central tracks because of the fac
a that they have not been able to ge
hold of the material to cross the track:
Good Travelling Facilities.
With both the Toleston branch 0
the Gary & Interurban and the sout
: Bend interurban in operation by tn
\
: adequate service will be greatly i'm
proved upon. The service which ha
$ been rendered by the steam roads ha
been anything but satisfactory in tn
past and the travelling public will WEI
n come the advent of the interurban
4 In regard to the local line, it has bee
: a much great success financially tina
d the promoters ever dreamed Of, wit
e the city in its present primitive stat
The large traffic has designated tn
v progressiveness of the citizens. and ha
e greatly encouraged the officials TIL
: air line people assure the citizens {
: Gary that they will have an outlet I
: the east through to Laporte this fl
if the work can be continued for tn
g next three months as it has during til
d summer.