The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-05-16
WILLING TO
TALK ABOUT
WEATHER
Two New Contracts
are Awarded
This Week

Impressing representative for
THE TIMES with the fact that they
are not press agents for the Baldwin
Locomotive Works, two engineers for
the company A. S. Woodle and S. P.
Wray of Philadelphia sat among a
mass Of blue prints and drawings last
night at the Hotel Nee in Hammond
and stated that they were absolutely
street car broke and case-hardened
against the lure of publicity.
Would Talk About Weather.
Messrs. Woodle resident engineer
|of the Baldwin Locomotive Works
and Wray his assistant were more
than willing to talk about the
weather, the high price of living and
the prospects of the Calumet region
in general but extremely reluctant to
Works.
They are here to do the preliminary
engineering and survey work for the
Baldwin company's monster plant TO
be built on its year old acquisition a
$40 acre tract at Calumet. around which
a fence has already been built and upon
which the A. F. Hartigan company has
already started grading.
Two New Contracts Awarded.
The Chicago. Indiana and Southern
has been given the contract for the lay
| ing of three miles of standard guage
railroad this week.
The contract for the concrete founda-
tion work under shop building 600
feet by 1.150 feet has been let TO
Strauss & Company the Chicago con-
tractors and work on the masonry will
begin about the first of July.
We're here simply to engineer the
work of which you already know" said
one of the engineers. Local dealers
| need not waste time on US for we
haven't the power to buy anything. Our
purchasing agent does that. We are
here as resident engineers and are glad
to be of service to your paper In talk.
ling about anything else but the Bald
wink plant
| Up To Their Ears In Work.
Messrs. Noodle and Wray occupy q
suite of rooms on the fourth floor of the
Hotel Nee and the Illuminated portion
j of Holman street lies below them.
Shows were letting out and the cafes
and confectionaries filing up. Even at
that hour the engineers of the Baldwin
plant had work before them a desk
and table variously cluttered with
lpapers. blue prints. plans, specifications
and like equipment.
And for the present they had q hope
less task before them. They were try
ling to convince reporter that tho
fact ftheir presence in Hammond was
of news value and that what they
had said was even less important 1--WE
lcan't be so presumptuous as to talk for
our COMPARE" said one.
Acknowledged They Were Here.
Finally he relented and said: ''WeIl
lgo ahead and say we're here, but don't
make any direct quotations for I'm not
a press agent for the Baldwin people,
| Chester. Pa. is a city about as near to
the Eddystone plant of the Baldwin
works as Hammond is to Calumet
Seven thousand men are employed at
the Eddystone plant and most of them
Hive in Chester. The engineers seemed
Ito believe that Homewood will be the
ihome of many Baldwin men like them
lselves. They find the region all 1t is
advertised to be and more, think the
East Chicaso plant wiz be greater
THAN is anticipated. stat nat the Bald
Twin people have never smut down since
lthey started hundred years ago and
THAT they are comfortable at the hotel
No Dealers Need Apply.
But most of all they want to impress
1.-THE fact that they haven't the power to
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