The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-13
GARY TO GET
RELIEF FROM SAND
Months of Misery and Suf-
fering Will Soon be a
Thing of the Past.
WORK ON STREETS PROGRESS
By Winter Streets of Steel City Will
Be in Good Shape for All
Important Business.

The many months of misery and
hardship, suffered by both teams and
pedestrians in the deep puIverized sand
on the streets in Gary will soon be
anaeliorated because of the fine sub
stantiaI pave1nents that will form a
network about the principle part Of the
city.-The pavements being laid are of
the best quality on the main streets
brick is being used. while on the thor
oughfares of lesser Importance, ma
cadam laid in the most improved style
has been found sufficient for the pres
emf at least.
For several months past the only
streets that were paved were Fifth
avenue and Broadway, and anyone
getting of these streets would find
travel extremely difficult and annoy
ing, Now, however, the improvements
of the various streets have been or
dered by the board and before winter
it is thought that a sufficient number
of streets will be paved to cover all
streets of business Importance.
Broadway the Main Street.
Although Broadway will be the main
artery of traffic, the pavement will be
scarcely less perfect than that which
is now being laid on Madison street,
which is destined TO be the main street
in the western half of the city. Here
the brick is being laid upon the sand,
instead of Stag, as it was thought
necessary and the idea which was
originated by Mayor Knots is an as
sured success. The bricks are con-
creted over the surface and with the
sand confined as it is between the curb
ing, it will be Impossible for 1t to give
way and sag the street. The work on
this street is so near completion up to
the first division, that it is thought
that it can be opened to the public
week from Monday. The street is six
ty feet wide with a sidewalk of five
feet in width on each side.
Among the other streets on the
west side which are now being paved
are Jefferson street. which will be
paved with brick through to Twenty
fifth street.
Adams and jefferson Streets Started.
The other streets west of Broadway
will stop for the present at least, at
the Pennsylvania tracks owing to the
fact that the Pennsylvania will at this
point establish their yards and it would
be difficult to run the street through.
Adams street also on the west side will
be paved with brick for which the
grading has already been started. JEFF
ferson street has been graded ready
for the laying of the brick On Wash
ington street which is one block west
of Broadway, the Stag has already
been put in and is about to be COW
cred with a stone dressing preparatory
to the rolling This street will be of
macadam.
The connecting east and west streets
for the present are, Fifth, Seventh,
Eleventh, Fifteenth, Nineteenth and
twenty fifth avenues. OF these Fifth
venue has been completed for some
time, Seventh avenue is nearing COM
pletion, Eleventh avenue is now tenn
porarily paved, Fifteenth avenue is
partly graded. Nineteenth avenue has
the grading completed, and on Twenty
fithe avenue the work will start al
once
One of Mayor Knots Hobbies.
On the east side of Broadway little
will be done at the present time with
the exception of the pavement of Mass
achusetts street which is now graded
and will have the work pushed for
ward One of the pet hobbies of May
or Knots now, however. is to have
Fifth avenue extended and paved
through to Miller so that the two
cities can be more closely associated
There is now constructed a township
road in Hobart township to the limit:
ard if Fifth avenue were to be ex
tended but a short distance. the two
roads could be Joined. At the pres
ent time there is no direct paved road
into Miller, though the city is bu
two and a half miles away.
IN the matter of roads, one of thu
biggest boons to this region that ha:
been announced for some time is th'
decision of the county council to ap
propriate $4,000 to extend Eleventh
avenue so that the road viii run from
the city limits of Gary to the cit
limits of Hammond and connect the
two cities.