Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — BODY BLOW TO CROWN POINT [ARTICLE]

BODY BLOW TO CROWN POINT

The creation of a court in Gary will be a body blow to the business of the Gary & Southern traction line, as it is estimated that at least seventy-five per cent of the traffic on the lihe is in relation to court business now transacted in the two courts of Crown Point. If the new court is established, and all indications say that it will, the busines's between the two cities will cease to a great degree and the traffic will necessarily stop. Nothing will be left in a transient way for the interurban, excepting the marriage couples—and this industry is threatened also by eugenic measures in the legislature and one of them may become a law. Some have already prophesied that it will only be necessary to run a few trains each day, and others '■ of a more pessimistic makeup think that eventually the road will have to be abandoned entirely for want of business. The loss of the court to Gary will damage Crown Point considerably more than is realized at present—especially if she is not given a criminal court- —and sometimes the chances for this seems to be quite remote, regardless of the fact that at present the measure is going uninterrupted through the legislative hopper.—Crown Point Star.