The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23

the neighborhood OF 500 and in sixty
days, when the I1e houses consisting
or ia apartments are completed the
ngure will be increased TO l.2o0 souls.
In the face OF this certainty Of a
large increment to the population OF
the east side. the Hammond school
board should do something towards
providing school facilities for these
prospective citizens To say nothing
Of the terribly congested conditions IN
East Hammond where school Is being
kept in temporary locations.
Hammond would not believe that the
Standard had a s10o.ooo.000 war order
until the new buildings were erected.
Some one told a prominent east slider
that permit had been taken out for
a s250.o00 hotel on Columbia avenue
and he said, Don't try to make me
laugh
Then when the hotel was sarted
SHINE foolish misguided" enthusiasts
went out after part OF the $50. o00.-
600 housing appropriation and were
told they were wasting time.
They got an appropriation and the
work OF construction started. Now
there is village OF houses that are
about to be occupied. raising prob
lens OF street lighting. mail service.
water service and transportation.
In spite OF the fact that the ord
nance plant 10 completed Hammond
seems still to be skeptical about the
Standard. An official says the plant
~ up stump to set places to live
for men in the freight department
alone He says:
II have filled up all OF the boarding
and rooming houses / know Of The
hotel is fined until two are sleeping
in most OF the rooms and I have sim
ply got TO find a place to live for hun
dreds OF more men.
we have large number of cars on
the side tracks piling UP demurrage
charges because we are unable TO get
the men because we can't house them.
And there YOU are. As the ord
nance department reduces the freight
car department will increase. This
y vouched for by one OF the principal
officials OF the company. The pay
roll, the barometer Of prosperity. will
neser be less than it is today"
And yet, can You convince tho pes
simist? Before the war II was the
tariff. or the money market; during
the war 1t was the draft. the high
prices and the uncertainty and now
that the war is over there is some
thing else.
And so East Hammond. or Lyndora.
has given up hope that Hammond will
ever believe in IL. In fact 1t has got
to the point where 1t does not care.
K is going right ahead believing
in itself. building UP. progreeaing and
gaining in population until one OF
these days i is going to givE the poll
ticians OF down town Hammond an
awful Jolt.
East Hammond is just as much on
tho war path now as the Eleventh
Ward was a few years ago. 1t de-
mands recognition
It is going TO have a bank. is going
to have a $4,000 continuity center.
It il going to have a fine new movie
theatre IL present plans mature.
IL needs a drug store. q general
store. hospital. an improved park:
1t needs something TO take the place
Of the saloons that were the center Of
community life before the state went
dry.
It needs schools, rooming houses
boarding houses, street improvements.
churches. hundreds of moderate priced
homes. and o little consideration and
attention on the part OF down town
Hammond.
II ignores East Hammond by pro-
viding but one decently paved street,
connecting up the two parts OF the
city. by allowing the Nickel Plate rail-
road 10 cake hundreds OF men and
thousands Of dollars Of pay checks to
Chicago instead OF trying TO solve the
housing problem at home.
Now the Standard development Is
about to make the principal transfer
corner OF the city at Calumet avenue
and Sta testreet. IL is about to build
up all OF the territory east OF Calumet
avenue. assuring the final Importance
OF Calumet avenue itself. as great
business thoroughfare.
Don't forget East Hammond