The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-07-15
Gary City Fathers Decide
to Make Street Car Com
pany Pave Between Street
Car Tracks For It's Entire
Length This Year.
STREET CAR MEN
MUST WAKE UP
Board Will Also Order Company to
Put Tenders on It's Cars to Pre-
vent Recurrence of Accidents,
Which Have Been Quite Numerous
Lately.

The Gary town board decided today
at their regular meeting to order the
pavement of Broadway, between the
street car tracks, throughout its en-
tire length. 1t is thought that the city
has waited long enough for the street
car company finish up the work on
the Broadway line and 1t Will take
steps through the city engineer to COM
pei the Gary and Interurban to finish
the job.
For the past few weeks the street
car company has been putting in the
crossing at the street intersection and
in the last few days, however, they
have abandoned the work altogether.
The board might have ben satisfied for
the immediate present had the company
installed all of the crossings but when
they pulled the men off of this work
before it was completed. it was more
than the city fathers could bear. and
resulted in the order to complete the
entire paving of the street
Broadwny Looks Bad.
broadway stin looks in primitive
state with the uncompleted right of
way of the street company in the
middle OF the street. For some time
the teams have been unable to cross
except at the street interections SO
that it has proved a nuisance to traffic
beside the unsightliness The business
men have ben looking forward for some
time to the great thoroughfare one
hundred feet wide, but have never
fully been able to realize their dream
because of the sand, ties and bare rails
stretched through the middle of the
street.
And this will not be the end of the
for the company will likely be ordered
at the next session of the board to pro-
vide their cars with tenders, with
which they have never been supplied
since the cars were in operation. The
board was not certain that the state
law compelled the use of tenders so
that the matter was referred to the
city attorney for action. In the few
weeks that the street cars have been
in operation there have been many
marrow escapes from accidents and one
man has been struck. There have been
many dogs run over on being struck
showing that man would have posi-
lively no chance.
The confirmatory resolution for the
pavement of Nineteenth avenue came
up for passage this afternoon, and the
action was strenuously opposed by At
torney william Fitzgerald, who is a
large property holder on the street
Fitzgerald. who is the president OF
the real estate board, gave as his rea-
son that the property owners would
be assessed for various improvements
more than the market value Of the
property so that they did not consider
the improvement just. The matter was
laid over for a week after the board
had practically decided to grade the
street and fix 1t up so that it will be
passable for teams.
The town board has also decided tc
purchase fire equipment for the city but
was not able to do so yesterday aft
ernoon for the reason that the rep
resentatives OF the various fire com
panies were not present to bid for the
sale. Trustees Sears and Caldwell
have decided to install two chemica
wagons. one to be placed across tn,
Pennsylvania tracks and the other nea1
the Michigan Central so that they viii
cover both ends of the south side
which Is most in danger. Sheds will
be constructed for the chemicals ant
the latter will be run on wheels. Thes,
will be used for fire protection for th
present.