The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-21
JUDGE HEMBROFF
TALKS OF SITUATION
News of Canal Digging Arouses Great
Enthusiasm in Lake County Port
Cities of East Chicago and Ham
mond Have as Great an Interest
In Canal as Indiana Harbor.

Judge T. NJ. c. Hembroff Of Indiana
Harbor. one of the biggest and broad
est men in that growing enterprising
city, was in Hammond today and stat
ed that THE TINES article imparting
the information that the digging
of the canal between Indiana
Harbor and Hammond would be com
pleted by Sept. 80, had aroused un-
bounded enthusiasm among the citizens
of the Lake county port.
Judge Hembroff said that the matter
of having a celebration at the time
the bascule bridges over the harbor are
completed and opened had been dis
cussed, but, IN view of the fact that the
completion of the digging of the canal
and the completion of the bridges, about
the same time, he thought it would be
much better to enlarge the scope of
the celebration to include all of the
cities along the canal.
He thought $4,000 or $4,000 could
be easily raised to pay the cost of a
big military and marine parade. and
that speakers of national and inter
national reputation could be secured
for the occasion.
Abolish Corporation Lines.
In speaking of the affair. Judge Hem
broff said: The people of Indiana Har-
Dor have become accustomed to think
ing OF the harbor as their harbor and
have forgotten that the cities of East
Chicago and Hammond have almost as
great an interest in this great project
The time has come when the people
of Indiana Harbor will have to recog
nize the fact that such great projects
as this. of securing deep waterway
development, have more than local
significance. It is a matter of region
wide Importance
while Indiana Harbor has independ-
emily brought the digging of the har-
Dor and the canal to that stage of com
1 pletion where the bascule bridges have
been built over the stream, the chan
/ mel has been dug two miles inland
1 to the turning basin and provisions
/ have been made for the digging to the
! Calumet river. yet the great work OF
1 securing government appropriations by
1 which the channel is to be widened to
/ 200 feet and the piers and lighthouses
/ are to be built to protect the harbor
! entrance will still have to be done.
and the assistance of the cities of
1 Whiting and Hammond are needed to
bring about this result"
Judge Hembroff went on to say that
nothing had made the necessity for
amalgamation so apparent as the pros
pect of river and harbor development
I! by which the cities Of Indiana Harbor
East Chicago and Hammond would be
/ connected by a great nautical highway
that would eventually bind the cities
so closely together that they would
I actually be united, whether they were
legally amalgamated or not.
He stated that while a few weeks
ago the necessity for almagamatior
was apparent to make possible the
solution of the question of drainage
ait is now to secure the completion
of the great project OF deep water
way development that has lately be-
come of inter-city concern.
That the information regarding this
immediate prospects Of completing tn,
Indiana Harbor canal to the Calume'
river. at Hammond, was valuable tc
many of the readers of THE TINES j.
shown by the fact that as soon as F
s Betz read the article he telephone,
to Gostlin. Meyn & Co. the agent
for certain river frontage he owns, AM
requested that they raise the price sev
eral hundreds dollars an acre.