The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-07-22
BUILDING PROGRESS IN GARY
| CONTINUES TO BE REMARKABLE
Operations Show New Life for Mid Summer CITY Lets
Contracts for Many Improvements; Many Con-
tracts for Buildings Are Also Awarded

| the plans for the s25 900 structure to be
erected at Fifth avenue and Adams
street for NJ J. Nealand OF New York
City. The building will have fifty feet
of frontage on Fifth avenue will be
three stories In height and will contain
store rooms and apartments.
/ To Remodel Ridge Road.
/ That eighteen mile remodeling o..
Ridge road from Hobart to Hammond
or otherwise across the county, which
is planned by the county commission
ers will have the cordial assistance of
the city of Gary.
The city council has given the county
commissioners Jurisdiction over the
thoroughfare from Hobart township
line to Harrison street a distance of a
mile and one-half This will mean that
the county officials will supervise the
making of the famous road
| New Police-Fire station.
September fifth the Gary common
council will receive bids on its issue OF
$4,000 police and fire station bonds.
These bonds will mature in ten years.
will be in denominations of 81 900 each,
will bear interest at four per cent and
| r7ill have to sell at above par.
Proceeds of the bond sale will be us
ed to make the following improve
ments:
Erection of new police and fire sta
/ ton for south part of the city.
Remodeling of the old Tolleston town
hall into a fire station.
/ Purchase of addition fire house and
police and fire equipment
possible site for the south end
police and fire station is at nineteenth
and Adams street There is a fire com
pany on the south side the present
| time.
/ Now Spending Millions.
There is unusual activity in the west
end of Gary. What a year ago was a
waste of sand dunes, swamps. pines and
scrub oaks is being transformed into a
duplicate of. the first subdivision of
Gary Three miles from Broadway. yet
in the heart of a wilderness. a thous-
and men are engaged in building
streets. sewers. sidewalks. and homes.
This is the United States Steel cor
poration's second subdivision which
will be a replica of the best part of
Gary and from present indications the
| twenty-seven streets that compose it
/ will be far better than those in the
first subdivision.
There now are in the course of con-
lstruction 16s houses containing 2SS
dwellings. The homes range In cost
from $4,000 to $4,000 and they are
being built by group OF Gary con-
tractors. All types of homes are being
erected and when they are finished in
the late fall Gary's population will be
increased by 1850.
The houses that are being built will
cost nearly $4,000 while street ana
sewer improvements will run twice
that sum- All of the homes will be
rented at a reasonable rent and en-
ployes may purchased them at stated
price rental applying as payments. At
any time all payments less rental and
six per cent interest will be returned
to the employe wishing to sell his
home.
Big Financial Deal Under Way.
Quite stir was caused In county f.
nancial circles early in the week when
| IT was announced that plans are being
formulated to organize in Gary truss
company with q capital of 100000 or
more which will have as it's chief func-
ton the enlistment OF eastern capital
for building development in the steel
4 city banks is also contemplated.
Gary. Hammond and Indianapolis
capitalists are behind the new venture
Connections will be bad whereby the
big eastern insurance companies which
have heretofore held .aloof from Gary.
will be induced to buy it's realty bonds
and mortgages.
Public improvements Continue.
There is no let up in public improve
ments. Monday the work on the Nine
teenth avenue job will be started The
! following sidewalks contracts have
works:
Pierce street. to Mcvey & Metz.
Thirty seventh avenue Georgia
street to Delaware street, to the same
!, contractors.
Ridge Road Picking Up.
! Renewed activity is reported in the
Ridge road district. Besides the news
that the famous thoroughfare is to be
repaved there comes the story that
street car service is near at hand I'M
provement is noted In real estate sales
During the week T. w. Englehart of
the South Broadway land company
] sold 27 lots on Connecticut street two
on South Broadway and choice Wash
ington street location
Paving of the right of way, resump-
i tion of construction within week and
transportation facilities within a short
time on the South Broadway division of
the Gary and Southern railway the in
terurban that is to link Gary and
crown Point. are promised by Halleck
w Seaman. promoter of tho line.
Most of the Broadway division track
/ has been laid but there seems to be
some hitch in the electrical department
OF the road. Whether 1t is the inability
! or Seaman to make contract for
power is not known. The company has
been also hampered for lack of funds