Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 47, Hammond, Lake County, 12 August 1910 — Page 9

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Friday, August 12, 1910. the Turns. . til r aw A JV mill SMITH MILLER CO. East Chicago Bank Capital $50,000.00 4.

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Indiana Harbor Realty Coo Have just opened, up a subdivision north of I4Jst and west of Kennedy Ave.-right near the American Steel Foundry.

Clarence C. Smith, Geri. Agent EMERY BUILDING Phone 343 East Chicago, Ind.

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Estimates furnished for Excavating and Building Material. Private Ambulance and Undertaking Day and Night. Phone 35.

EAST CHICAGO,

INDIANA

Perry A. Wilson

PLASTER CONTRACTOR

Plain and Ornamental Work. Jobbing quickly attended to. Phone 1243

579 Michigan Ave.

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There Is an urgent demand for Houses, Small Cottages and Flats to accomodate the famalies of the numerous employees now compelled to live out of the city. Moderate priced houses sell or rent readily and flats are much sought after. We offer for moderate improvement, well located lots with all improvements in, at very low prices, and with the attention and investigation of investors and builders to the unequalled opportunity presented here. BUSINESS LOTS RESIDENCE LOTS ACRES FOR SUBDIVISION East Chicago Company EAST CHICAGO INDIANA HARBOR MAIN OFFICEINDIANA HARBOR

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Houses built by Smith Miller Co. of E. Chicago and sold on easy payments

EDITORIAL

At the rate at which building Is pro

gressing In East Chicago It will soon be necessary for owners of unsubdlvided property to put their holdings upon

the map, by platting and recording their plats. Real estate owners who have been hanging onto acreage are

now figuring on converting this acreage into city lots, and the time for such action seems ripe. Never before

In the history of East Chicago has J there been so much building In actual

construction and In prospect as the present year has brought forward. The trend seems largely northward, so far as residence property Is concerned.

There are still some choice pickings northward from where the present main "residence district ends. At the present rate it will not be long before provisions will haev to be made In the way of more school room for the children of the rapidly populating north side.

There is now only the Harrison

school and this will soon be outgrown.

But it is not alone in the residence

districts that East Chicago Is building up. A host of substantial buslenss

structures have been erected within the year and are under process of erection, some of them really palatial business blocks. And there is need for them all and more too. Conservative business men have no hesitancy In investing their money in building enterprises, and this something to go by.

; ; : 1 iHiBBMBaaBaHHMiHBnaniBHaa HUBBARD STEEL CO PEtlTl BUILDING THEIR Oil HOIS

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(Special to Tub Times.) , East Chicago, Aug. 11. The Hubbard Steel foundry Co. has given to East Chicago a number of enterprizlng citizens, who have already demonstrated their confidence in the city by building homes for themselves here. Three of the later are under construction by the Smith-Miller company which is doing so much building In and about East Chicago this year. . Adam J. Hermansdorfer, designing engineer at the new plant, has the distinction of putting up the first real bungalow ever erected In East Chicago. The quaint structure which occupies two . lots in Magoun

avenue between One Hundred and Forty-first and One Hundred and Forty

second street,- has been much remark

ed, owing to its unique appearance, and it is now very near completion. Being one story in height, and very low "as to roof, the building has the appearance of " 'being " corisfderabTy

smaller tan It is. but It Is quite roomy

on investigation, containing six large

rooms. The bungalow Idea is carried out in the architecture throughout, the design beng that of Mr. Hermansdorfer

hmself who drew both the plans and specifications, and as merely engaged the Smlth-MIller people to put up the building for him. There are three large bedrooms In addition to the living room, dining room and kitchen, the living room being provided with an Immense fire place six feet wde. The house Is of frame and Is built upon a concrete foundation, four feet of the

latter, which she above ground, being of block concrete. There , Is a porch ten feet deep and the house Itself is 28 by 42 feet In dimensions. It. will be equipped, with every modern convenience and will cost about $3,000. The house will.be completed In two weeks. . Mrs. Hermansdorfer- is now away but on her return the , family will take lmediate possession of their new abode. . ; - I C. Coon, who Is a pattern maker at the Hubbard, lsanother of the.employes of that Institution who- thinks enough of the city to put up a permanent home here. He is to begin Im

mediately the construction of. a seven roo dwelling, two -stories high; of frame on - a concrete foundation,- In Magoun ave. between One Hundred and Fortythird and One Hundred and Fortyfourth streets. The house is to have four good rooms-below and three above, the bath room being also upstairs. The house will be heated with steam and will have all modern conveniences. The Smith-Miller company are , In charge of the erection of this building, and it wll cost $3,800. Phillip Vadopia, engineer at the Hub

bard Steel foundry, Is, the third of .the men employed at this plant, to erect a home for himself under the supervision of the Smlth-Mifler company. His Is to be a six room frame building with bath room and other modern requisites and will be put up in McCook avenue between Vernon and Chicago avenues. It will be an attractive house and is to cost $2,500.

everywhere business Is good.

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(Special to The Times.) East Chicago, Ind., Aug. 12. While the entire Calumet region Is humming like a vast hive. East Chicago and Indiana Harbor are contributing their share to the big noise. Their fires blaze from numberless tall smoke stacks, their anvils ring with a multitude of hammers, and their thousands of workmen go cheerfully to and from their work well paid, well satisfied for the most part thrifty and content with their lot. A score of big Industries have located In East Chicago and Indiana Harbor within the past year. Numberless small establishments have been set up, new mercantile enterprises have been started In many- branches of trade, and

Seldom before in the history of the Twin Cities have the real estate transfers equalled those of the past few months never has there been so much building going on, and never has there been more extensive public improvements under way. There is no thoroughfare that can be traversed for any length without the eye being caught by some new building that Is being constructed. Business blocks and dwellings, flats and cottages everywhere the sound of the saw and of the hammer Is to be heard. Such aVquantity of buildings are being put up that it is difficult to prosecute the work with the desired degree of speed, owing to the tremendous demand for workmen. Some of buildings have been stopped for lack of building materials, it being next to impossible to ship In the lumber and brick and stone as fast as it-is needed. And with it all new buildings are under

contemplation, and with the rapidly ,

growing population of the Twin Cities, many more could . be. advantageously built than are under consideration. But the city itself is not behind private enterprise in the matter of its improvement. Countless public improve

ments are under way and almost ev-!

ery sheeting of the ciy council witnesses the presentation of petitions for more paving, sidewalks or sewers, or the confirming of ordinances previously passed for such.

RESIDENCE

SECTION IS SOOli

WISCONSIN Farm Land in 40, 80 and 120-acre tracts for sale- I have thoroughly investigated this land and pronounce it (quality considered) the best purchase within a radius of 300 miles of Chicago, the greatest market iu the world. . "Cultivated land in the same township sells from $ 60 to $80 per acre" YOU can buy some of this land at $7.50 per acre. Write at once for free booklet giving all facts and figures, posting yourself first, then do what others have done go and see the land and buy. . FREE FARE TO PURCHASERSFIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. MONEY TO LOAN. LESTER E. LADD

PHONE 1283.

Exclusive Agent. ROOM 9, EMERY BLDG., EAST CHICAGO, IND.

(Special to The Times.) East Chicago, Ind., Aug. 12. North Magoun avenue, and in fact all the streets on the north s'.de, are fast becoming the most popular residence section of East Chicago. , Houses are being erected so fast In that part of town that one must take a trip through that district every week or so in order to keep pace with the improvements going on in that locality. Vacant propert yon Magoun avenue. Baring, Northcote on the west and Olcott and Tod on the east side, counting Forsyth as the dividing line, is rapidly being built up, . Among some of the houses already finished and in course of construction are the following: The Mrs. Emma Fiske dwelling has already been completed at a cost of $4,000 and the fam

ily has moved in within the last few days. This house is located on the east

I side of Magoun avenue, between 143rd

and 144th streets. It is of frame construction, two stories highwith a concrete basement. It contains eight rooms and bath, being divided into a large reception hall, a parlor, dining room and kitchen on the first floor, and four bedrooms on the second. The trimming is in oak and the appointments are modern In every particular. Professor T. E. Williams has built a home in the same block Just two-doors from the Fiske residence. The two dwellings are almost identical in appearance and arrangements, the cost being approximately the same.

" NOTHING IS OF GREATER IMPORTANCE TO YOU THAN TO KEEP POSTED ON PASSING EVENTS IN TOUR LOCALITY BY READING THIS T7ME3 EACH EVENING.

Comparative Statement of Deposits Showing Increase Since January 1, 1909 January 1, 1909. .$176,594.65 January 1, 1910 224,252,94 March 30, 1910 .233,491.60 July 1, 1910 77,118.93

OFFICERS. HENRY SCHRAGE, President. FRANK HAMMOND. Vice Pres. F. RICHARD SCHAAF, Vice Pres. JAS. O. PARKS, Cashier. DIRECTORS. HENRY SCHRAGE F. R. SCHAAF. A. G. SCHLIEKER FRANK HAMMOND 4. C L. KIRK

JAS. O. PARKS

CHARLES T. JOHNS

Let Us Build You A Home ToSuitYou

We have choice locations in the city which are at tractive propositions with small cash payments, balance to suit purchaser.

REAL ESTATE AND LOANS, INSURANCE & RENTING Emery BIdg., Suite 6, Phone 812 E. Chicago

J. H. FREEMAN FIFE When you have completed your new home let PIPE Furnish the Decorations Complete Stock of Paints and Wall Paper FURNITURE and UNDERTAKING Day Rhone 3 Night Phone -4-4 Oast Chicago, Ind.

DIRECTORS

C. C. Smith VV. R. Diamond T. F. Donovan a. V. Bader J. O. Allen J. H. Youche Wl J. Funkey, Jr.

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Capital &Surplus $65,000.00

OFFICERS

W. J. Bader, Pres't. J. Q. Allen. Vice-Pres't. W. J. Funkey, Jr. Cashier

JL E. JACKSON, Plumber Gas Fitting and Heating Electrical Contractor Please notice I am handling the famous Climax Hot Air Furnace also Burnham Steam and Hot Water Boilers and Shirley Radiators. All work fully guaranteed and prices very reasonable. Forsythe and Exchange Avenue East Chicago, Indiana