Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 292, Hammond, Lake County, 31 May 1911 — Page 8

-8 THE TIMES. "Wednesday, May 31, 1911.

CONTRACT!

WORTH HALF MILLION LET

Gary Improvements Under Way and in Prospect Bring Sum Up to Treble That Amount; New Sewers and Schools.

Contracts were awarded in Gary within the past two days for public Improvements aggregating the expenditure of nearly a half a miHion dollars. What with other public improvements now under way in the city proper it is estimated that considerably over a nUllon dollars will be expended within the next few month .., C ontrnot Awarded Monday. Froebel school contract $207.50.) Tolleston sewer 165. ouo Adams street improvement,..., 35.000 Parental School. Purchase of farm near Miller.

162 acre $ 9.700 Improvements planned 50,000 Sw South Side Fire Station I'lanned. Purchase of site, building and equipment '. . . , $50,000 Street Improvement. First street $ 113.000 Fifteenth avenue 52.000 Eighteenth avenue . . . 11.000 Fourteenth avenue 12,000 Connecticut street 34.000 Adams street . 10,000 Clark road -6.500 Seventeenth avenue 14,000 Twenty-second avenue IS. 000 Sixteenth avenue i4,'li Twelfth avenue 12,000 Thirty-seventh -avenue 2.000 Thirteenth avenu. 19.000 South Broadway 70.000 Tyler street 5.000 Eleventh avenue - 37,000 Fifth avenue' 130,000 Roosevelt street 60.000 Arnbridge street 45,000 Virginia treet 12,000 Peleware street 12,000 Miscellaneous work 40.000

Scenes at Indianapolis Speedway Durmg Big jMotor Race and Leading Drivers.

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gines. But when a contest was staged bigger and more dangerous than any he had ever particlpatd In the attraction was too strong, and he carae back to the manufacturer for whom he had worked and asked for a car, .

DESPONDENT MAN TRIES TO SUICIDE

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shot himself.

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I The man will probably die, as the

bullet passed through his left lung.

above the heart, broke a rib and

taken out of his back.- -The opera

tion was performed in the office of Dr. V. K. Putnam, to which be. was removed immediately after the tragedy. Later he was taken to St.' Margaret's hospital. Ferenchik had been despondent for a couple of weeks, because he had been out of work. He had formerly had employment at the Standard Oil works. Two w-eeks ago he purchased the revolver with which he shot himself. He had been threatening to "end It all" from time to time ever since, and it Is said that Mrs. Ferenchik had been warned to have him taken In charge by

the authorities, but would not take the necessary steps to bring this about.

Ferenchik had been up for a while this morning, but had gone back to bad. It was at 8 o'clock when, the shooting occurred. As soon as his wife realized what had occurred she ran out for help. She found Chief of Police Lawler and told him of what had occurred and he at once took charge of the case. Last Thursday Ferenchik was found wandering near the lake, and on this occasion it is said was trying to muster up his courage to kill himself ... .

Improvements under way. .. $1,365,200 V pftnffapf wnn nwarAri ttt thA moAl.

ing of the Board of Public Works on p,anned and 'now un,der w'ay l w"'

Mondav to Michael Bvrne of South Chi-

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Hiram Lloyd Const. Co., St. Louis 217,936 William Grace Co., Chicaaro. 253.725 Jas. J. Barnes, Logansport 226,900 Larson & Uanlelson, Laporte... 228,710 W. H. Roney, Gary 224,485 Warner Const. Co.. Chicago 240.66 Gallagher & Williams Gary 224,990 Geo. W. Yoiin, Gary. 267,761 AfTKratate In Gtsnntlp. - With the gigantic sum of $1,365,200 to be expended for public improvements

seen what is being lore for the build-

These improvements, do

RECORD FOR PRICE IMPROVED REALTY Tribune Building Changes Hands at RemarkablyHigh Figure of $45,000.

$165,000. The big drain will be'of concrete construction. On Monday afternoon the school board awarded the contract to ,1 English Brothers of Champaign, 111. for the FroebI school on the south side for $107,500. Conaidrr Parental School Site. The board also took up the purchase of 160 acres of land near Porter, for a parental school and farm costing $9,700. With the improvements which are now being planned in improving the farm building domitories etc., the school board will expend an additional $50,000 for the enlargement of the parental school project. The bids on the Froebel school contract are as follows: English Brothers, Champaign,

111

Snot include the sewers No. 3 and the

Ridge road sewer system which will in all probability cost over a quarter of;a million dollars. The purchase of a site for a park adjoining the' Froebel school which will be taken up will cost nearly $10,000. It is safe to say that no other city in the state has so many Improvements under way as Gary.

IVEY WILL QUIT CHARGE AT HARBOR (Continued from Page 1.)

only from Friday evening until Sundayevening in his new home town. WIU Bee In Study Sept. 1. The course he will pursue in the uni-

public his Intention to his congrega- factory, men who earn their living by tion. was the fact that until yesterday manual labor. Bruce-Brown and Wishe had not definitely decided upon ac- hart are- New York millionaires, enceptlng the proffered charge, but now trants as professionals in the race

while he is pursuing his course of studv

$207,500at the university, he himself spending

versity is the theological ' seminary of that he has he ' 1 willing - to make that institution He will not enter on known his plans. . His releace has althis until Sept. 1, but will' assume hia ready been secured from District Supduties In thes Berwick church July 1. icrintendent A. T. BrigcsRev. Ivey regrets leaving Indiana ( popnlar and Sueeenafol. Harbor at this time, as he would have. Rev. Ivey has been very popular and liked to have remained until the new very successful In his present field. He church was completed." He has how- came to Indiana Harbor in Sept. of 1908, ever long been desirous of taking up succeeding Rev. Israel Hatton. At that the course of study which he con-tern-.time the church was a brick basement, plates entering upon in the Boston In- and tne congregation consisted of 123 stitution. and the opportunity was'member with a Sunday school memoffered when he received the call to the bership of 140. The church membership Berwick church. It was necessary for has increased under his administration, him to accept the call at once, or not to 225 and that of the Sunday school get the pastorate, as the church. Is proper to 190, while this department of without a minister. j the church has a feature known as the Rev. Ivey's reason for not making cradle roll department, consisting of . ,42 members. , .

sheerly through "love of the game." Harroun is one of the few entrants

J land has a boy of seven .years. His son

was not allowed to see his father play tag with death. Mrs. Harroun was in the grand stand, though, watching the game of tag, and In that silent influence is seen the real resolution for the winner's announcement: "This is my last race." For, even without the supreme tribute of yesterday's record, Harroun's gameness is unquestionable, as is his decision to quit racing. When, he won the title of speedway champion a year ago he retired from the game, saying he "would never have anything to do with it again, and went into the busi

ness of manufacturing aeroplane en- OFTKX

The Tribune building at 624-630 Broadway owned by the Tribune Company was sold Monday- to Dr. Halfoid A. Watson of Chicago and B. C. Hagerman of Lexington, Kentucky for $45,000. The price paid by the purchasers was the highest ,paid for improved property on Broadway in the history of the city and. Axes a value of $500 per front foot on Broadway property between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

IS THE MAN" WHO OU3IIT TO BUT JOUR PROPKRTr HARD TO FIND? IF HE IS JUaT. TRY AN AD IN THB riMES. THEY DO THE BUSINESS. NOT ALWAYS OF COURSE. BUT

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Thousands of People Took Advantage of the Marvelous Bargains made possible by the purchase of

THE (Go

Stock of Dependable Merchandise

The

Balance

Goes

This Week.

The Second Gut has been made on all the remaining Stock. Friday is the Last. BE SURE AND COME. S. LEDERER CO. I South Chicago's Big Store

j The salary of the pastor who preceded Rev. Ivey was $780. but it was desirable that the church have a married man in the pulpit, and with this Idea in. view the trustees offered $1,000 a year to Rev. Ivey. The latter received this sum the first year of his pastorate, . the amount being at the expiration of . that time Increased to $1,200. 1 . Begin New Church. ( Rev. Ivey went to work very soon after he arrived to build a new church. The result has been that the old basement was all worn out, and the handsome edifice now under construction on its site, was promulgated and is being carried swiftly to full execution. J All of the financial plans . for . the church's construction have treen arranged,, and the contracts let, , so alt that remains for Rev., Ivey's successor is to carry, out these plans, t Rev. Ivey is a man of whom much is expected in the theoolgical world. He has fulfilled his part In Indiana Harbor with distinction, earning popularity not only with the people of his ; own ' faith, . but with those of all deI nominations Protestants, Catholics afd .Jews. Indiana Harbor will greatly regret his loss . ,

bJ - The Gary Land.

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CONTROLS EVERY UNIMPROVED LOT IN THE HEART OF THE OF THE CITY OF GARY. This Company will pave every street in the First Subdivision. Sewers and water mains are now in every alley in the First Subdivision. The prices of lots in the First Subdivision include the cost of paved streets.

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Come

MY LAST RACE"

SAYS HARROUN

Indianapolis, Ind.. May 31. "This is my last race. It is too dangerous," said Ray Harroun, as he- sat exhausted in his Wasp, victor In the 500 mile free for all. "It was fun. I enjoyed every second of it. Would Just as soon start on another 500 miles right now as eat supper," laughed Ralph Mulford. five minutes after he had torn second place from the field of forty. . - "It was a Joy ride; the. best I ever had, though I hope to have some better' ones ones in which I take first," said David Bruce-Brown, captor of the third place. Spencer Wishart, fourth in, sat in a stupor after the race, although he had driven like a fiend for the last fifty miles of it. A As the above extracts indicate, Interviews with the victorious drivers were perplexing. Two were as fresh as the daisy, full of "pep" and enthusiasm. Two were worn to shreds and depressed. Another contrast of interest In connection with the "big four" concerns their financial statu?.. .. Harroun and ilnUord are products :of the automobile

the properties of the Gary Land Company, situated directly south of the Steel Plant and other subsidiary companies of the Corporation, will be the home of the merchant, banker, clerk and workmen. Compare the price of our Improved Lots with those south of the Company's properties. A clear title to every lot.

Is this not Reason Eno

ugh?

Why you should purchase property for residential purposes in the First Subdivision? Beautifully situated, high and dry, accessible to plants of the Steel Company, to schools and churches and the business center of the city. A few unsold lots in the First Subdivision ranging in price from $350 to $950.

The Gary Land' Co

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