Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 255, Hammond, Lake County, 17 April 1912 — Page 35

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IN TRACTION ERURB1 LINES

Traction interests early" recognized the soundness of investing in Gary, and as a result the steel city today has four local and inierurhan lines and with more building it away. Now operating In Gary are the following:: Gary & Interurban railway (1) Broadway division, from the steel mills to Calumet bridge; (2) Fifth avenue division, from Amhridge avenue to Broadway, this line taps the bridge plant. Kirk railway yards and the. sheet and tin plate mills; 3V Tolloston division; (4) GaryiHammond division, connecting such intermediate points as Tolleston, West Gary. Gary Gardens. Ifessville. Gibson, and the Standard Htcrl district. Gary Connecting railway (t This line connects with the Gary & Interurban railway and operates to Kast Gary; ( 2 East Gary-Goodrum-Ijaporte

division now being built. Gary & Southern railway (1) This line connects with the Gary & Interurban railway at Calumet bridge and operates to Iottaville; CM LottavilloCrown Point extension now being built. Chicago. Jake Snore & South Bend railway (South Shore route) This line operates from Chicago to youth Bend. Building towards tGary is the Gary. Hohart and Valparaiso railway, which expects to operate on its Gary-Hobart division this summer. Surveys for the Indianapolis, Meridian & Chicago railway's Gary-Valparaiso division have been completed, the company lias all of its necessary franchises, but as yet has not started construction. A year ago the Gary board of public works granted and the common council ratified a fifty-yoar franchise given to" the Calumet X'nited Railways com

pany, of which Charles Geist, the Philadelphia gas magnate is the head. This company will operate on the principal streets of the city and it will tap every industrial plant in the city. The Gary & Interurban, which is" the best patronized line In Gary, has prospered since, it began operations in 190S. It's steel mill, tin plate mill and -bridge plant, traffic is heavy and a system of cheap fares for workmen has done

much to develop the outlying sections of ?4he city. " After 19l 3 this company's franchise prdvides that it must give eight rides for a quarter, or, in other words, a 3-cent fare, m Besides these lines Gary has the benefit of the Lake Shore and Pennsylvania suburban services, while the B. & O., the Wabash, Michigan Central, and Nickel Plate have good local service. .

GARY

NEEDS HOMES . 10W FOR SURE

A building boom of large proportions is insured for the first subdivision of Gary and several purchasers of lots from the Gary Land company made known their plans to build. Most of the property purchased is in the vicinity of Seventh and Eighth avenues and north of Fifth avenue near the sheet and tin plate mills. Eight apartment buildings ten twoflat buildings and three large resi-

Jos. Frost has purchased four corners north of Fifth avenue, west side;

and will erect four apartment buildings.

C. F. Burlingame will erect a two-

story frame building In Jefferson

street, north of Fifth avenue. Thos. Dunlevy will erect a sixteenroom restaurant on two lots at Fourth avenue and Adams street, cost $8,OO0.

BUILDINGS UflDER CfSTRUCTIOfi

Among the imposing buildings now

under course of cpnstructLon in Gary this spring are the following: Moe theatre and office building, live stories high, estimated cost $100,000; located in Broadway, north of Fifth avenue. This structure must be completed by January. It will house ,a theatre seating 1,200 people, and will be the finest of its kind in northern Indiana. Harries bujlding five stories high, in Broadway, between Fifth and Sixth avenue; estimated cost $52,000. Northern State Bank building, adjoining the Harries . building, two stories high; estimated cost $35,000. Carnegie Library building, in Fifth

avenue, opposite Gary Y. M. C. A.; estimated cost $65,000. Froebel school, Fifteenth avenue and Madison street; estimated cost $250,000. Buildings which will be erected this year, but for which ground has not been broken for, are the following: New Mercy hospital, in the west side; estimated cast $100,000. Tolleston district fire station; $20,000. South side fire station; $20,000.

TH EH BJ'S A CHAISCE THAT TOfl OUGHT NOT TO POSTPONE THAT "SHOPPING" ANY LONGER. READ THE TIMES' ADS AND SEE IF THIS IS NOT SO.

VIEWS OF GARY'S $250,000 LAKE SHORE RAILROAD STATION.

GARY'S NEW SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL.

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dences are to be erected on the property purchased and the aggregate cost of 'tViA Km i 1.1 iVvo-j r ho erected ia a Km-A . V,

' $200,000 mark. !

Names of recent purchasers and the i buildings they will erect are as follows: - Four apartment buildings and one residence to be erected by William R. Sharp of New Philadelphia. O. Mr. Sharp owns the Calumet building in Gary. He has purchased eight lots o'n the East Side. Four of them are corner lots and three of the corners are located at Eighth avenue and Pennsylvania, Deleware and Virginia streets, respectively. The residence will be' located on the-latter corner. One six-room residence to be built in

Connecticut street, south of Sixth avenue, by William R. Bost. Cost. $6,000. Two apartnvent buildings, on Eighth avenue, one on the Delaware street corner and one on the Pennsylvania street corner. To be erected by Marion and

Emmet White. Cost $10,000 each. One two-flat building, $6,000, to bo

I erected on Connecticut street near

Sixth avenue. E. M. Kailey. owner. Two two-flat buildings, Jackson street, south of Eighth avenue, $3,500 each. Jno. Kerr, owner. One two-flat to be erected on Tyler street, nearth Seventh avenue, cost $3,500. Alfred K. Ward, owner. One two-flat buildings In Monroe street, north of Fifth avenue, cost $3,-

500. W. H. Barnes, owner.

Cement Yards & Building, covering three lots at Pennsylvania street and Wabash tracks. $5,000. Frank &, Jno. Hartzer, owner.

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The man who bought the land on which Gary now stands in August 1894 and Built ''Island Park" Gary's First Residence.

Judge Bryan was Gary's First Citizen; first to sign the petition to incorporate the city; held its first election and was Gary's First Treasurer.

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JUDGE L. A. BRYAN

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"ISLAND PARK," HOME OF JUDGE BYRAN owned a mile wide to the Little Galumet River

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sale on Easy Terms

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H, L. SULTZBAUGH, Manager

MAYO & GLEUCK BROS,, Sales Department