The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-04-19
RESIDENTS ARE HONORfD
IN NAMING OF STREETS
IRREGULARITIES OF HANcocKs
STREET NOMENCLATURE.
Spanish War Heroes Honored in
Names in Quincy Addition.


When the ordinance applying new
names TO some of the streets OF the
city Of Hancock goes into effect. IT
VIII add couple 10 the list of thor
oughfarcs distinguished by the namcs
OF we'll known former residents of the
city, who were prominent in budding
up the town, who have served it IN Of
fetal capacities or who were among
it's leading merchants. II will be the
second time in about seven years that
there has been shaking up and rear
ranging OF names ii having been ua-
dertaken some years age onaccount II
the duplication in different additions
to the city of such names as First.
Second, Third. etc. At that time the
names Of Cooper Avenue, Harris ave-
nue. and Mason avenue, Ryan street
Finn street. Olds street and Holland
street were applied TO various thor
cughfares in the older portions of the
town. thereby perpetuating the names
Of former village presidents. minine
men ana others who were prominently
identified with the citys earlier days.
Scott street. further west, was named
Tor the man who served longest as
president and mayor.
Dunstan street which is to DC the
new names for West street. honors
Former Lieutenant r. h. Dunstan,
father of, Alderman r. r. Dunstan Of
Ward one; White street is named for
"a former Quincy mine official; Wright
street for the late G. T. Wright Emery
street, for The late q. w. Emery. post
master, councilman aud member of the
board of public works during the first
two or three years of the citys incor-
poratiOn, and the names of Anthony.
Roberts, Vivian and Jasberg streets re-
call men of prominence in the business
community some of them still alive
and active. especially the latter. who
is the first and only one OF his nation
ality to be thus honored
quincy street and Franklin street
are named after the mines OF those
names. and Mesnard in memory 81 the
famous Missionary.
The Quincy addition was plated and
made part of the city shortly after the
close OF the Spanish American War
and the street names Of that section
form monuments i'm memory of the
heroes of that conflict, such as Roose
welt, Sigsbec, Shafter, Otis and McKm-
ley and i'm west Hancock, Dewey
street The latter goes out of exist
once with the new change to be made,
Acing merged in Roberts street. of
which It is continuation.
In the third and fourth wards. less
imaginative and sentimental names
have been applied the names of states
being given in the Condor addition
and of trees mainly in the Anthony
additions There are Ohio. Michigan.
and Minnesota streets. and Fir, Elm.
oak, Evergreen, Cypress, Maple, Pine,
Willow and Cedar.
The streets not included in the above
Classincations were named at random
apparently from some popularity OF
conformation or topography, such rs
Hill, Elevation, Ravinc East, West,
Center. Water, Lake. Park Prospect,
lngot and a few were given names OF
women among the latter being Emma
and Ethel avenues In west Hancock.
DalIotah, Corey Tezcuco and Monte
yuma are a few other random names.
The streets in the Useth addition
that were not combinations of older
streets are given names characteristic
of Calumet and vicinity, Calumet, IIcc-
Ia, and Wolverine. in honor OF Calu-
met parties being among it's prumot-
ois, and the new name of Jasberg, To
ho given To the Lake Shore drive, IS
that Of the man by whom the big real
estate deal by which the addition was
brought into existence was negotiated.