The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-10-06
BOARD COMES TO
DEFINITE DECISION
Petition For Paving and Improving
Broadway From Hobart Avenue
To Hobart Road Is Filed and
Will Be Authorized at Subse-
quent Session.
Especial to The Times.)

Crown Point, Ind, Oct. G.-At the
first first October meeting of county
commissioners held In Crown Point
yesterday afternoon 1T was definitely
bright over the Little Calumet river on
South Broadway, between Hobart ave-
nue., on the southern outskirts of Gary,
and the Hobart road, south of the river.
As a result of the action of the COM
niissioners the whole city of Gary is
rejoicing.
Oscar Krinbill, Mat Brown and Sam
Love, the county commissioners who
made the bridge a fact. were congrat-
ulated on all sides by the large delega-
tion of Gary business men who were
present at the meeting to urge the ac-
ceptance of the bridge.
IN addition to the building of the
bridge a petition for the paving and
improving OF Broadway from Hobart
avenue to the Hobart road was re-
ceived and will have to go through
the usual legal processes before the i'm
provement is authorized.
To Improve Rond.
The petition calls for the construc-
! tion of an S0-foot road which will be
high enough to prevent its being sub
merged by the spring freeshets. 1t will
require a large amount of filing. but
there is not a road in the county where
the necessity for its improvement is sc
great. The people who represented
Gary at the commissioners meeting
| yesterday pointed to the fact that the
/ United States Steel company is adding
millions of dollars to the taxable prop
erty of the county that the building oi
| the city of Gary alone is making Lake
! county one of the richest in the state
The property owners along Broadway
| from the Pennsylvania tracks to Ho
bart avenue, inspired by the Gary spiri
which will not permit things to be don'
half way, widened their street to 10'
| feet to conform with the rest of th'
paved portion Of Broadway.
In view of these things it was showi
conclusively to the commissioners tina
it would be a shame to turn dowl
Garys request for bridge that woul'
amply meet the needs of the city 70
years to come and would built alont
the same broad lines which are beinI
followed in the city itself.
An Efficient Board.
1t is fortunate for Gary that TIL
county commissioners are the far-see
ing, broad-minded men that they are
Susceptible to reason and willing Z
recognize the fact that Gary deserve
everything it asks for in the way o
county improvements.
1t will take two months to let tn
contract for the new bridge and fiv
months to let the contract for the i'm
provement of the road. 1t is fortunat
that the decision to build the bridg
was made at this time for the lega
twenty four feet wide with a sixtee
foot driveway and four foot walks o
either side. At first it was decide
that it would be advisable to build
four span, 264-foot bridge. but the pro
posed digging of the Burns ditch wi
carry off a large amount of the surplu
water will not make such a larg
bridge necessary
Among those who attended the meet
ing of the county commissioners. were
T. w. Englehart, Thomas Knots, Al
torney Manlove and T. w We'll. Th
/ county commissioners adjourned afte
taking action in the bridge matter