The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-04
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Of new DEPOT
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1nuiana HarDor, August 4.-The city
administration and the committee of
the Comercial club of Indiana Harbor
and East Chicago appointed to confer
with the officials of the Pennsylvania
railroad company in referenceto the
Chicago or the remodeling of the old
one. have come into conflict
Yesterday evening a report signed
by j. D. Kennedy, chairman of the COM
mittee, Charles Z. Fowler, c. L. Kirk
and George w. Lewis was read before
the club the gist of which was a severe
scoring of the city administration, it
being represented that the latter had
refused to cooperate with the com
mittee In its efforts to get Their desired
Improvement.
The report came up during the trans
action of the regular business at the
club meeting last night President
Lundquist announced that the report
was in the hands of the secretary but
suggested that inasmuch as none of the
membersof the committee were present,
its reading be deferred. Mayor Sch
Ticker was present however, and he,
having an inkling OF what the report
contained, demanded that it be read
and his request was carried out
SAAO iCooAAAe N1dS Ut SCnlleKor
had few words to say on behalf Of
the administration. He explained that
the club committee had entirely ignor-
ed the city in its dealings with the
railroad officials, that he himself had
been in communication with the rafl-
road company previous to the appoint
ment of the committee by the club, re-
sarding the same matter, but that the
committee had gone ahead on its own
responsibility accepted a proposition
from the company. and made promises
on behalf of the city, which it had no
authority to make. Mayor SchIieker
declared that not once was he consulted
regarding the steps that were being
taken by the committee, and he knew
absolutely nothing about their deliber-
atoms, until he received notification
that they had finished their business
with the railroad company, made their
promises, and called upon the city TO
fufill those promises This being the
case he had told the committee to go
ahead and finish what they had be-
gun.
The report OF the committee to the
Commercial Club showed that they had
secured a promise from the railroad
company to repaint the present depot
and add woman's waiting room, in
consideration for which the city was
to improve Johnson street, the short
thoroughfare between the city hall and
the depot.
Mayor Schlieker read a letter he had
received from W. H Scriven, general
agent and superintendent of the line,
stationed at Chicago in which Mr.
Scriven states that he would recon-
mend to his company that the pres
ent passenger station building be re-
moved to the northeast corner of the
railroad property and be remodeled for
freight house, new and ornate brick
depot be substituted for passenger
service toconf1rm and harmonic with
the improvements the city has made in
that vicinity.
Mayor Schlieker also reported that
the city had received price from the
gas company for the installation of
arch lights on the main business
thoroughfares in East Chicago and IN
diana Harhor. The price was so high
as 10 make the arches prohibitive.
Since then however he has been given
to understand that this would be so
reduced as to make it within reach OF
the taxpayers.
Mayor Schlieker presented his report
on what took place at the Northern In
diana Good Roads convention, the de-
tails of which have been heretofore
published in these newspapers.
AS a result of the inter city postal
conferences, the secretary was in
structed to communicate with all the
manufacturers in this city, asking them
to individually send letters to the de-
partment at Washington, setting forth
the facts, and representing the incon-
venience to which they are subjected
by reason of the system that now OBJ
tains in inter city postal service.