The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-02-02
ACTION DEMANDED.

ne clIiexuS OIL valparaiso raised
$4,000 as a subsidy to the Valparaiso
and Northern railroad to induce it to
enter that city; they are now engaged
in the work of raising $4,000 or
100000 more to encourage the build
ing of the Chicago, Indianapolis and
Meridian interurban line.
The people of Hammond and East
Chicago are not asked to vote the
local street car systems subsidies to
enable them to build the extensions
which are so badly NEEDED by the
whole community; they are simply
requested to grant the franchises and
foreign capital will pour in to make
the necessary improvements.
Instead of taking advantage of this
great opportunity, the opportunity
to induce a big corporation to pour
additional money into the local trac-
ton rat hole, where hundreds of
thousands of dollars have already dis
appeared with little prospect of re-
turns, unreasoning people are putting
obstacles in the way of development
that is absolutely necessary il the
region is to get the full benefit of it's
industrial development.
Universal transfers are high sound
ing words. Undoubtedly it would be
& great thing for the travelling public
No one will gainsay the fact that it
would be great thing for the work
ingman.
Ask the average citizen, Would
you like to see the traction lines OF
the region brought to an agreement
by which there would be a universal
Exchange of transfers." and he will
answer in the affirmative every time
But ask him, Are you in favor of
Istanding by the demand for universal
transfers even though it means the
loss to the city of an extension of the
Green Line to the Baldwin plant and
La permanent deadlock between the
street railway company and the city
administration? and he will give an
ientirely different answer
~ tAO POOP3C VI I1e+tAfHOAu W d IA
the Baldwin and Indiana Harbor ex.
tension or do they want to spend the
next two years looking for the POI
of gold at the end of the rainbow?
When the unreasonable demand:
that were made by certain council
men and property owners on Indiana
t avenue resulted in the loss to tn,
business section of the city of tn,
main line of the South Shore inter
urban the city of Hammond suffered
an irreparable loss. That is what on
Exhibition of bull-headedness ha
done for Hammond
= Now the people of this city ar
: starting in on a second performance
> They are going to make slow oil
Hammond the laughing stock of tn
Z surrounding cities.
. No demand for universal transfer
was made when the franchise of tn
IChicago, Indianapolis & Meridian rail
road, a visionary project in compari
son with the proposed extension c
o the Green line, was passed by tn
e board of works and the city council
Is it habit with the people of Ham
mond to grasp at soapbubbles an
Overlook real prizes.
THE TIMES has never been wron
in a traction fight in its whole hi!
o tory. It fought the Castleamn frar
\ chise in Whiting which proved t
be joke, it exposed Purtelle and HI
n visionary Northwestern Indian
Traction Co. and boosted the Gar
& Interurban extension to Gar
which has proven of inestimabl
!. value to the city 1t is time for tn
lpeople to sit UP and take notice,