The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-03-29

The proposition to open up Washing
ton, Adams and Jefferson streets
through the Gary and Western en-
bankment, which the citizens of the
south end have been clamoring for,
was sacrificed last night on the altar
of Frank Gavits ambitions to secure
the franchise to operate street cars on
South Broadway.
The secret of the defeat of the street
opening project and the taking of the
Gavit franchise off the table and pass
ing it to its final reading may be com
pretended by the following vote:
On the question of opening streets
through the Gary & Western, the first
vote taken when the measure was in
troduced into the council was as fol-
lows:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Walsh, Sic
miasko and Szymanski. Negative
Feuer, Bowser and Rowley.
Last night the vote on this same
question was as follows:
Affrmative-Feuer, Szymanski and
Walsh. observation-disclosures Bowser,
Siemiasko and Rowley.
The vote which laid the Gavit fran
chise on the table few weeks ago
was as follows:
and Siemiasko.
observation-disclosures Walsh and Szy-
manski.
Last night the roll call which took
the franchise off the table and passed
1T to its final reading was:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Walsh Bow
ser. Siemiasko and Szymanski
Negative-Feuer and Rowley
Although the constituents of the
councilman of the south end are unani-
nous in favor of the opening of the
street through the Gary & Western,
two of their representatives in the
council voted directly against their
wishes that they might hand Frank
Gavft the South Broadway plum and
with Frank Gavit's terms. Castleman's
handiwork in this adroit move is so
obvious as to make his work appear
coarse. Castleman introduced the
measures to open up the streets through
the Gary & Western and then voted
them all down last night shortly before
the Gavit franchise was taken from the
table and voted on to its final pas
sage. And Castleman is a former Off
cial of the Gary & Interurban and Sc
cured the Gavit franchise in Whitingi
Councilman Siemiasko is another coun-
Gilman from the south end where the
people believe that the streets should
not be cut in two that voted 1t down,
1t is probable that the Gavit franchise
| will be passed at the next meeting
or within a few weeks at the most
At the council meeting last night
| the committees on the Fairgrounds
were dismissed on motion by
Councilman Bowser, the city hav-
ing decided that they could not
incur the enormous expense of
purchasing the necessary amount
of property at the present time
they could not incur the enormous ex-
pense of purchasing the necessary
amount of property at the present time
in view of the fact that the Gary Land
company had decided to utilize their
east side park for that purpose. The
Fairgrounds question will therefor be
dropped for the present.
On request of the Gary Bill Posting
company a committee, consisting of
Councilmen Feuer. Castleman and
| Walsh. were appointed to confer with
| the city attorney relative to the draft
| ing of an ordinance governing bill
| boards for the city. the old billboard
ordinance having been declared uncon-
| stftutionaL
The stringent saloon ordinance call
ing for $3.50 city license and provid-