The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-20
HOW The WORK
WILL BE DONE
Street Car Company For Refusing
to Double Track Lines VIII Never
Be Permitted to Do So After Work
on Paving Street Has Been Com
pleted.

Influential taxpayers of Hammond
held an al fresco meeting in the middle
of the street in Homewood and the
property owners on South Holman
street have at last reached an under
standing regarding the paving and
widening of the street and with only
few dissenting votes have decided to
lay the street through the center OF
the eight-four strip which belongs to
the city, necessitating jog of seven
feet on the southwest corner of Hoh-
man and Carroll streets and a jog of
seventeen feet on the southeast corner
of the same thoroughfares.
The street is to be paved with vitri-
fed brick to a width of fifty feet. 1t
will have grass plots on the both sides
between the walk and the street and
will have a concrete curb and gutter.
The street will be laid on a bed of
crushed stone. insuring firm founda-
tion.
Company Loses Last Chance.
The street car company has refused
to do It's part towards the improving
of the street by double tracking its
line and SO. within the life of the pave
ment and as long as the South Holman
street property owners can resist it, the
company will not be permitted to put
in double track along this thorough
fare.
Holman street will be the finest resi-
dence street IN the Calumet region and
were it not for the heavy traffic 1t is
compelled to carry. 1t could be paved
with asphalt and converted into
boulevard
1t is expected that work of paving
the street will begin within the next
few weeks and as the contractors prob
ably be rushed through to completion
within ninety days.
Work VIII BE Hurried.
There is no longer any danger of a
remonstrance and the advertising of
bids the Improvement will be done
at once. The only matter which now
remains unsettled is the matter of in
ducing the telegraph and telephone
companies to move their poles into the
alleys. If this could be accomplished
it would add greatly to the appearance
of the street.
Regarding the matter of straighten-
ing the street There will be a fifty
foot pavement running straight through
the center OF an eighty-four foot wide
trip. Formerly the pavement ran d.
agonally from Carroll street in a south
easterly direction through this eighty
four foot strip and was why is was
deemed advisable to make the change
VIII Parallel the State Line
The changing of the direction of the
street that it will parallel the state
line instead of running at an angle
with it, will necessitate two jogs or
heels at Carroll street. The curb line
in front of Judge Gilletts residence on
the southwest corner of Holman and
Carroll street will project into the
street, a distance of seven feet, and the
curb line in front of Mr.. George Law
rence's property on the other side Of
the street, will be set back from the
present curb line, distance of sew
enteen feet
Holman street, from Douglas to Car
roll will be kept at its present width
and will be paved with brick with a
concrete curb, although there will be
no concrete gutter on this part of the
street.
The residents on South Holman street
are greatly relieved TO know that the
question has finally been settled salts
factorily, and by fall the new street
will make the neighborhood one of the
most attractive in the entire region.