Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 255, Hammond, Lake County, 17 April 1912 — Page 39

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THE TIMES.

COL. TIM ENGLEHART OF GARY.

RIDGE ROAD REAL ESTATE BOOSTER.

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built and will soon be In operation that will place Hobart In "intimate tojich with the great pulsating industrial cities to the north and west of it. Slse Impvrtnat. And Hobart's future may be better appreciated when the fact Is known

lines it isbelieved that the old staid town of Hobart will take a new activity that will be the marvel of the old settlers who have always known the place as a pountry town. Hobart expects to become one of the

j wealthiest towns in Lake county. The

that Its corporate limits include nearly harvests from the fields surrounding the

half of the territory within Hobart town wlil be sent to Hobart for ship

township. In fact it occupies all of Ho

bart township that is not now occupied by the towns of Miller, Aetna, East Gary and Xew Chicago. So that whatever development conies to Hobart township as a result of its proximity to the great industrial section of Lake county and the rich farm

ing districts which surround it will be reflected in the growing prosperity of that town. Hobart now has two. trunk' lines, of railroad, the Nickle Plate and the Penn-

ment to Gary, Hammond and Kast Chicago and In return there will be hundreds of thousands of dollars sent to the banks of the towns in payment for its produce. . Induntrlea There. Its streets will be lined with the homes of hundreds of the better class of workingmen who will earn their weekly wage in the mills of Gary and will take it to Hobart to spend. Hobart already has a number of

sylvanta railroads and one belt line, the manufacturing industries, the princiElgin, Joliet & Eastern railroad which ' PaI one be!nS the large brick manugives it splendid slipping facilities. facturing plant in the city. Hobart's It has one interurban line which is ola' Products are an Important addifant approaching completion, the Garyjtl0n 10 tne diversified output of the & Hobart Electric railway and another Sreat Calumet region. In fact, Holine, the O'licago, Indianapolis & Me- bart brlck ,s helping to build the ciridian railroad is projected through that ties of the manufacturing districts of

BROADWAY BRIDGE OVER CALUMET IN GARY.

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the northern part of the county.

Short Ride to Gary-. Other small Industries are expected Should both of these interurban lines to locate there as the town grows, but

be completed within the next year or two, it Is believed that hundreds of the better class of employes of Gary will take advantage of the opportunity to live in this attractive town where living conditions are ideal and where the cost of living is so much lower that the suburbanite could pay his carefare

out of the decreased cost of living'and

then have a surplus besides. And with the coming of interurban

HOBART HAS UtJIQUE POSITION

Hobart, the largest town in area In the state of Indiana, occupies a unique position in its geographical location. It la close enough to the industrial sec

tion of northern Lake county to become a high class residential suburb for the great cities which now line the shores of Iake Michigan and the banks of the Grand Calumet river and yet it is the center of a rich agricultural district wihch fs to feed the hundreds of thousands of people who will work in the mills and factories of what is to be the greatest industrial district in the world. None of the other cities of the region have this distinction. They are either manufacturing or agricultural in their character. ' This gives Hobart a

stability that no other town in Lake

county has. Hobart's future development will come when transportation facilities between it and the cities of Gary, East Chicago and Hammond are more fully developed. At present a line has been

Hobart's principal growth will come from the invasion of hundreds of homeseekers. It is an ideal residential city. It has good schools and churches. It has an efficient town government, the topography of the ground is such that its residential districts will be beautiful and there is everything to lure the tirfed workingman from the busy, smoky manufacturing cities to the north.

are the owners of the Broadway addition, McKay's addition, Prldmore and Ullrich's addition, the Gary Investment company and . the estate of the late Captain G. V. Bacon, which is managed

by his son, George V. Bacon, Jr., of Gary. Will Aid Sooth Broadway. Because of the suit lots in the south

part of section JO, down around the Polish church have not been commanding the price they should have. The suit also prevented the steel trust from developing a halt mile frontage In Broadway, south of the "Wabash tracks. Officials of the Gary Land company state that as yet no plans had been

road for developing that part of sec tion 10, owned by the United State: Steel, but that there is a possibility that Virginia street may be opened ur through the woods. It is possible that the most of seetior 10 will be used for small sites for smai: factories.

GARY'S PREMIER STREET, BROADWAY.

SECTION 10 DECISION

AFFECTS GARY REALTY

The action of the Indiana supreme court had uphold the title of John Guzenhauser to 640 acres in section 10 In the heart of Gary, caused a great Hurry in real estate circles and sent soaring prices of lots east of Broadway, south of the Wabash tracks and north of the Pennsylvania tracks. This' case, which has been pending since 1906, has been known as the' fa

mous section 10 suit. In 1906 John Gunzenhauser transferred a large tract in section 10 to the Steel Trust and thereuon the Sinclalrs, who owned the land in 1887, commenced suit to regain it With the defendant's title held valid the steel trust is now In a position to throw the land on the market. Other owners of land in the vicinity

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Beautiful Residence Sites and First Class Factory Openings at Reasonable Prices, located within three miles of Gary, Indiana. RAILROADS : Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago; New York, Chicago &t.Louis, and E., J. & E.; which give direct connection with all roads entering Chicago and two Interurban Lines. WRITE US TODAY INFORMATION CHEERFULLY GIVEN.

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WAYS AND MEANS -COMMITTEE: L. II. PIERCE, Chairman 11. C. LACKEY H. C. LINKIIART E. C. SCIOIEIDT.

FRANK H. DAVIS - -F. S. BOWLBY - - - -N. P. BANKS - - - -P. E. PARKS -

- - President - Vice President - - Treasurer - - Secretary

ORDIANCE COMMITTEE: L. E. BARNES ANDREW IELIN 'ALVIN WILD

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Became a permanent organization March 4, 1912Has a membership of seventy-two members.