The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-23
GARBAGE
SHAMEFULLY
NEGLECTED
Alderman Finds Big Box
Unemptied for Ten Days
and Calls Work of Street
Cleaning Department Hor-
rible Example.

A city father who desires to remain
Councilman X for few days that he
may watch developments from the out
side of the ring has revealed another
outrage against the commonwealth
which he claims is perpetrated by the
board of public works through it's
agent, John A Kuhlman, the Ham
mond street commissioner. He gives
information to The TIMES as a last re-
sort, having failed to gain anything by
talking to Mr.. Kuhlman.
1t Stinks to High Heaven.
For a horrible example of neglect
and criminal carelessness Councilman
k cites experience of store keep
ers and families in a four-story build
ing on State street. A large sanitary
garbage box was installed there. 1t is
full and should be emptied at least
twice a week IL not oftener 1t has not
ben emptied in ten days and the
stencil reaches to State street from
the alley and into the inner rooms of
the highest fiat in the building. Mag
gots swarm out of the box. A reporter
who went with the alderman to see
1t was sickened at a distance of six or
eight feet at 9 o'clock at night with
breeze to flavor 1t.
Actors Are sufferers.
The box is few feet from the stage
door of Hammond's most popular the
atre where men and women PERFORM
ers spend great deal of their time in
close rooms. With the sun-breeding
filth and foulness in and around that
box 1t is little wonder that the show
people. and especially the stage hands,
are not made i'll. They are between the
1ox-{1 "a 90
whether to close the windows and suf-
focate or leave them open and endure
the odor.
Thirty Feet In Two Hours.
Councilman X" timed the work of the
garbage man the last time he came
around. He says that this workman be-
gan at the rear OF a saloon next to
the Nickel Plate tracks at 1 o'clock.
The garbage was in a heap on the
ground and not in box as required by
law. It took but minute for the
garbage man to scoop in into his wag-
on. but 1t was 3:15 before he arrived at
the big box (exhibit "A"). The great
er part of the two hours and quarter
was spent in the saloon, according to
Councilman X"
Kuhiman a Little Sassy.
.'Kuhlman was notified by telephone"
said the alderman, "and he talked back
to me in a way / won't repeat I called
John L. Rohde and told him. 1 con-
slider 1t Kuhlman's business to see that
the work is done. Kuhlman said. I am
busy in Indiana Harbor and East Chi
cago most of the time 1 don't know
what he is doing over there to earn
his salary as street commissioner in
His Opinion of the Board.
1--WE can get up in the council meet
ing and talk our heads off. but it
doesn't do any good. The board goes
ahead and does what it wants to. I
think it a shame to have alleys in the
condition of this one. right in the
heart of town, near the depots, the
atres and stores I don't want you to
my name yet, but think it
would be a good thing for you to tell
about this one box and let the peo-
pie know what they are getting for
their money.
81 know that the only ones around
here that get service from the alley
cleaners are those who tip the garbage
man. Next door to me the garbage man
will go down into the basement and
clean up. but believe me he gets paid
for it,
Though the alderman did not say it
the fact remains that the particular
garbage box he speaks of is not the
only one in Hammond neglected. All
over the city alleys are abominable.
unsanitary and unsightly