The Lake County times., 1921-07-06
COUNCIL
HAS HOT
SESSION
1t Was mot Only Hot But 1t
Was An Extremely
Noisy One.

The heat and the Hammond city
council had a noisy session last night.
Nine aldermen were present so nordin-
ances could be passed further than Sec
ond reading but the conversation was
just as voluminous as f the whole six
teen were there They made up for
tho deficiency in numbers by talking
oftener and louder.
The fun started when two represen-
tatives of the Erie railroad did the
unusual thing of coming to the meet
ing TO talk over with the aldermen the
repairs needed on street crossings
cation of the city attorney by letter,
telephone or personal calls on the as-
torney The Erie took the man to-man
course It's safe bet they will never
risk ii again. They were lucky TO get
out alive.
One of the men ventused the opinion
that the Erles crossings were in pretty
good shape and Immediately the storm
broke. There was not friendly voice
on the floor There were lots of cuss
words and poundings of the desks and
the visitors were made The targets OF
all the rage and abuse which for
months has been due ali of the lines
having tracks in Hammond.
The Erie men promised TO do their
best 70 make everything satisfactory
and the chair appointed the street and
alley committc- an6 street commission
er as a committee to meet with the
engineers to point out the bad spots.
At the SAME time the council voted to
stand back~of the city attorney IN his
efforts TO hoss into court ali corpor
ations who who failed TO comply with
the recent demand
resolution and ordinance were
passed authorizing the Board Of Works
to make necessary additions to the
water works and to issue per cent
serial bonds against the city for $500
900 TO cover the costs of the work.
This is in line with the recommenda-
tons made by Engineer Ericsson. y
special meeting will be held this eve
ming to complete passage of the ordin-
ance in order that the city attorney
may go before the Public Service Com
mission on Friday. TO get the official
O. X. on the bond issue.
Hessville will comprise the Twelfth
and Thirteenth wards of Hammond.
An ordinance to that effect was intro
duced last night The territory east
OF Forsythe ave will be the Twelfth
ward and west of Forsyth Will be the
Thirteenth Before it can be finally
adopted the ordinance must be adver-.
tised three weeks giving the folks az
footed a chance to come in and have
their say the evening II comes up for
passage 1t must then go through by
man is against thu ordinance. He says
the city has too many aldermen now.
Brown notified the council that
he had 70 xed his veto to the ordinance
passed several weeks ago making 1t
necessary for sidewalks to be construc-
ted on the lot line instead of the curb
line He explained that as it read II
would interfere with the repair of AK
isting curb line walks and in making
extensions on streets having the walks
on the curb As there were not enough
TO pa& dc ordinance over the veto
the matter was laid over until the
next meeting
On petition of the majority OF the
residents on Zachau avenue the name
Of the street has been changed TO
wildwood Road When the matter was
brought up at the last meeting it
brought boots of derislon but senti-
ment has changed remarkably in the
two weeks.
Heckleman had a budget of com
plants and succeeded in putting
through motions requiring the con-
tractors to fix UP the State street
pavement "oefore cne icicles form
again" and TO have the sewer pumps
started during heavy rains instead of
waiting until cellars have been flood
ed.