The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-11-16
CARS BRING
HUNDREDS To
HAMMOND
Train and Trolley Car From
All Directions Daily Un-
load Bargain Hunters and
Make City an Important
Trading Center.


Have you any idea how many trains.
and trolley cars. steam and interurban,
in addition to auto husses and automo-
bilcs bring people to Hammond on
shopping expeditions daily from all
radii Of the compass for Atty miles?
Literally hundreds Of them.
On the seventeen trunk lines that
criss-cross Hammond from north -
sout hand east to west are scores Of
trains daily that drop shoppers in the
city's loop district in the morning and
pick them UP bundle-laden at night.
The South Shore interurban sends 20
trains a day each way through the
city. The H, w. & L. c. Street Rail-
way company sends So traction cars
to and from 63rd st. and as many more
by way OF its East Chicago. Whiting
and Indiana Harbor branch and nearly
all of these cars add to the quota OF
those who come TO Hammond to 10
their trading.
NJ MIXERS WOULD ASTONISH
Hammond people would be. astound-
ed If they knew the great number Of
people who are brought to town each
day by train and trolley to buy the
necessary things OF life in the city's
stores big and little.
The city's fame as shopping center
Is by no means local. The day has
long gone by when its shops depend
entirely on local trade for upkeep. Its
reputation reaches farther than the
bus and auto towns in its environs
This fame extends 20 South Chicago
on the north, to Rensselaer, on the
south. to Valparaiso on the east. 1t is
extant in scores of railroad towns that
lie intervening and connect with Ham
mond and short rides Morning trains
bring in shoppers and evening trains
take them away while traction cars
carry them back and forth all day long.
WHENCE COME THEYf
They come from Rensselaer,, Rose
Lawn. Fair Oaks. Parr. Surrey. Wheat
field. Shelby and Water Valley from
Grasmere. Lowell, Creston Cedar Lake.
Dyer, st. Johns and Maynard from
kouts. Palmer. Crown Point. Elliott,
Griffith and Highland. from Hobart.
Lake Station. Winfield, Hurlburt. Lot
taville, Sedley. Merrillville. Wheeler
and Liverpool. from Deep River. Aims
worth; from Cook. Schneider, Conrad
and Lake Village. from Burnham.
Hegewisch, West Pullman, Irondale
and East Side and a number of other
places not on the railroads but in easy
access to them.
WHY THEY COME HERE.
This is no exaGgeration to say that
hundreds of shoppers come daily in
this way TO Hammond. The mer-
chants know IL to be a fact. They
know that people from these places d.
their seasonal buying In Hammond.
Railroad and traction officials know
that the fares from these places to
Hammond have been steadily increas-
ing for years until the city is a fac
tor in traffic business.
Why do they come to Hammond? IT
is not only because the city is easv n
access. it is because of the trading
facilities. the great display. the COM
Portable well lighted modern stores
and the courteous treatment they re-
ceive to say nothing of the main factor
the prices.
GIVE THOUGHT To THIS
These things are presented to awak-
en- the citizens to the fact that Ham
mond's business men are the life blood
N the city's arteries. They are build
ing for the future of the city They
deserve success in the struggle They
pay a big portion of the taxes.
They keep the schools and municipal
institutions going. The arc making a
live town out of what could become a
dead one. They deserve encourage
ment and hearty support. No pitfalls
should be dug for them. They are do
ing big things for Hammond The
humblest citizen to the best known
should appreciate that.