The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-12
WANTED MORE
POLICE THERE
North Siders Want to See
Kinks Taken Out of
Holman Street Soon.

Since the organization of the North
Side Improvement association, with H.
c. Miles, 54s Towle street. president.
the officers and members are beginning
to discover what an important thing
is such an organization to the com
munity. A meeting will be held
Wednesday to continue the work of
organization.
The neglect to which the north side
has been subjected is becoming more
generally realized. Some of the mem
bers are of the opinion that they have
discovered another project which will
work against the interests of the people
Of this district if the influence of the
association is not used to prevent it
1t is proposed to open Holman street
clear through to Sheffield avenue. They
believe that is a good thing and should
be done al once Then it is under
stood that the Hammond, Whiting &
East Chicago Street Railway company
will seek a franchise on the new street.
Car Route To Be Changed.
This, they are convinced, Will be a
good thing for the reason that it
will eliminate the bad curves that are
made when the car rounds the corners
in getting from Holman street to Cost
lin street and from Gostlin street to
Sheffield avenue.
The route straight north on Holman
street would eliminate tw ocurves and
would reduce the running time to
Chicago by several minutes But the
people of the north side want the street
railway company to make the change
right away. They give three reasons
for this.
The first is to prevent the tearing
up Of Holman street, after 1t is paved
north OF Gostlin street: secondly, to
compel the street railway company to
pave sixteen feet Of that additional
part Of Holman street, which it pro-
poses to occupy, and last of all to
make it possible to put in the Sheffield
avenue sewer without working under
the tracks of the street railway com
papy.
In other words If the street railway
company is to vacate Sheffield avenue
from Gostlin street, north to the point
where Holman street intersects with II.
and travel the straight route north on
Holman street. the people Of the north
side would like TO have them make the
change now. pay for their part of the
expense of paving Holman street, north
of Gostlin street. and get their tracks
off from Sheffield avenue so that the
sewer can be put in at once without
having the interference of the street
car tracks
Police Protection Poor.
The matter of police protection is
another thing that is arousing the ire
of the people of the north side. Dur
ing Mayor Motifs administration. ac-
cording to President Miles of the I'M
provement association, there were two
police officers allotted to the north
side
For the past six years there has
been only one officer assigned to this
district This is true in spite of the
fact that there are two officers al
lotted to the Standard district and the
north side has three times the popula-
ton of East Hammond
The meeting. which will be held
Wednesday, viii be devoted to the con-
sideration of these subjects and to the
remaining work Of organization. AL
ready there are several hundreds men,
bers of the association who have sign
ed the charter roll and more are com
ing in every day