The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-21
PIONEER TRIP
OF LINE MADE


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winter day for all the passengers |
could see was water on either side and |
trees sticking out of the water where |
the swollen river had submerged the |
land. Once in a while the snow storm |
cleared a pocket and the dune country
could be seen in the distance and some
one in the party said that the sand hills |
back of Aetna reminded him of the |
palisades along the Hudson.
ALL KINDS OF SCENERY ENROUTE.
There were all kinds of scenery along
the route. When the car left Gary at |
Eleventh avenue and Broadway busy
business center. it wasn'ts long before
it was travelling through a regular
jungle. The steel trust owns a couple
of miles of heavily wooded swamp
land at the gateway to the Porter
county route and lot of negroes ard
foreigners are living in shacks in the
Processes of the woods AS the los went
whistling through this primitive sec
ton of Gary the shack people gathered
at the windows and peered out at the
electric invader.
EAST GARY IGNORES THE VISITOR
Bye and bye the woods and marshes
were passed and the car began to climb
into the higher ground north of Liver
pool and New Chicago. In half hours
time East Gary, which used to be
known as Lake station, was reached
but no one there turned out to welcome
the advent of the trolley which brings
lit out of the train a day class town
and gives 1t direct interurban connec
tions with all of the towns and cities
in the Lake county steel belt. So. the
order was given to proceed ahead as
far as the motorman could go. Ten
minutes later the car reached the end
of the construction work and this was
in a corn field in State Senator Frank
n. Gavit's farm. The car stopped right
on the Porter county boundary and
| just over the line men and steam
| shovels We're busy in the storm hook
| Ing up the links that will connect Lake
county with LaPorte. 1t took forty
minutes to make the trip and thirty
nine to come back but when the wealth
err gets better, the roadbed more set
cars will make the six miles in fifteen
Tor twenty minutes The return trip
was made without an mishap. One
member of the party, who has travelled
over the new Florida keys railway.
says that the run across the marsh was
tjust like railroad travel down that way.
WILL DEVELOP TRUCK GARDENS.
| It is expected that the new line will
be great factor in the development of
suburbs east OF Gary and when 1t
pierces further into Porter county the
farmers there will have great oppor-
ltunities to get their produce into Gary,
Hammond and East Chicago. The Con-
Meeting railway with it's connecting
line, the Gary and Interurban, is part
of the Chicago. South Bend and Goshen
| In -
lime" This line is now in opera ton
from Goodrum to Laporte and compile
ton of an eight mile link there will
igive direct trolley service from Ham
mond to LaPorte via Gary. Running
north and south through Goodrum ana
now in operation, is the Valparaiso
and Northern railway which connects
IChesterton and Valparaiso.
lLAPORTE TO HAMMOND BY MAY L.
Every effort is being pushed to have
1.-THE LaPorte-H Hammond cars in opera
ton by May l. The interurban COM
ipany is booming a summer resort at
Flint lake. north of Valparaiso, and ii
wants to have the line completed for
this season. It is said that arrange
lments will be made with the Murdoch
Isystem whereby passengers will be
hauled over its line from LaPorte to
, Indiana traction lines When this is
) done the Chicago Lake Shore and
iSouth Bend interurban. sometimes
known the. South Shore line. will
have direct competing and almost
parallel line from Chicago to South
: Bend.
The Gary Connecting railway is the
second interurban to operate into Gar,
; this year. Several weeks ago the Gar,
and Southern, which will eventual,
reach Crown Point, started to operat.
l to Turkey Creek. Building is the Gary
|. Hobart and Valparaiso line and befor,
long construction will be started OF
!; the Gary-valparaiso division of the In
:. dianapoIis. Chicago and Meridian rail
way.
THOSE WHO MADE THE TRIP.
Among those on board the 1O3s
maiden trip We're: Frederick H. Wood
Twice president of the Connecting rail
lway. president of the Co-operatiy
CONSTRUCTION company and the Gar,
: Home Builders company Louis Wood
lward. treasurer of the air line com