Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 297, Hammond, Lake County, 6 June 1912 — Page 8

THE TIMES. Thursday, June 6, 1912.

GIVE US HOMES!" Gffl

TAKES IIP REGION'S

Commercial Club Asks For 2500 Houses. Vital Question is Discussed. Some Solutions Offered.

WHY BUILDING COSTS ARE HIGH IN GARY 1. Tkr city building ordinance, heat light and water company rule. re llmlta rolrm and other tblnas might be changed no mm to reduce building eoata In eheap home. permitting a redaction of 93 a month on the rent. 2. Plumbing; conta are htctM master p lumber abut oat competition by charging a S20O Ilcenae. 3. Street aa.ea.menta are abnormally high. 4. Some of the hunk charge T per cent Intereat ptna S per cent eommla.lon making n total of 12 per rent the first year and In nddltton to thla they have other fee.. Thna n man borrowing $500 would recelre but S-410 aa Intereat, commlaaloua, abatract and coanael feea would be ubatracted. 5. In the firat anbdiTlalona property valoea building restrictions, etc. neceaaltate high rentala aach rtm 3!i and $40 for alx rooms. Hrcauae of thla high reatala exlat. Were there more transportation facllitlea people rould It-re In the outlying dlMtrlcta. la addition to the high coat of rentala the high freight on truck garden product, which are .hipped from thla county Into Chicago and then bark to Gary.

How to feet enough homes to housa the families of 2,500 men employed in the mills of Gary but who are compelled to live in surrounding towns and as far west as West Chicago and as far east as Michigan City was the problem discussed by the business and steel Interests of the city at the meeting of the Gary Commercial Club last night presided over by President H. S. Norton. Various plans and suggestion were offered at the meeting which lasted until nearly midnight but no tangible ways were reached. The club will have a committee of Ave to look into the question. Incidentally some very salient reasons why the cost of building is high in Gary and how it may be reduced were given. tea Met Speak. W. P. Gleason, general superintendent of the Indiana steel works, stated that of nearly 8,000 men employed by him 1.0PO could not find homes in Gary and that 250 lived with their families it Indiana Harbor, John A. Gross, manager of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company, said that but 74 dwellings were supplied by his company for the 1,850 men on the payroll of the local mills but that more houses are to be built. John Kirk, superintendent nf

Some Suggestions For Getting Gary 2,500 Houses. Hammond, Whiting. Eaat Chicago, Calumet and Indiana Harbor may find aome good Ideas in the nttseatlona offered at the Gary Commercial Club laat night aa how to procure 2.500 more home, needed for the city. These auggeationa wem offered aa followat 1. Attract outaide capital. Hont Advertising In newapapera and magaalnea. Send commltteea to the wealthy rural centera. Enilat the upport of home building corporations. Change building ordlnancea o na to pare building coata tw bone. 2. Organise building and loan aaaoclatlona. 3. Small towns In the Central

tatea have million, of dollar. In banks not drawing Interest try to tap theae funda. 4. Bualneaa men anbsriibe 91,000 n week tto be repaid) and for every MOO aecured .tart to build a 91. SOI) home borrowing the balance from home building corporation, who aell on the easy payment plan. 5. I'ae the combined credit of the bualneaa men of the city In guaranteeing 1. 000,000 worth of mortgage loans. 6. Knliat the aupport of the I'nltrd Statea Steel corporation In getting the co-operation of home building corporation.. 7. Use a Commerclnl Club fund offering free lota to honaebulldera.

in that part of town. "5m far the steel corporation has erected nearly a thousand houses In connection with Its

mill building.

2. BOO Homea Are Needed. Samuel J. Watson, president of the

Northern State bank, stated that 2.600

men employed in the mills and their families are compelled to live outside

the city because of the lack of houses. He said that If more homes were provided for them the population would go up immensely and the merchants would reap extraordinary benefits.

Oven Shot 71 ot Panneen. When Gary contractors fought for

and obtained "open shop" It was

thought that the high cost of building would disappear. But H hasn't. And because of the high cost of building there is the high cost of living and be

cause of the former there Is no great

deairn, to build houses In Gary and be

cause of the latter those who work In

the city ltve elsewhere if they can Among some of the good solution!

offered last night were the suggestions

of H. H. Highlands, plumbing contrac.

tor, who figures that If the building

cost is reduced by putting Gary on

par with other cities there might be a disposition to build cheap houses re

turning a gross interest of 12 per cent

Some of the suggestions offered by Mr.

Highlands: How To Reduce Coat.

Mr. Highlands pointed out the need

of 1,000 small houses of four to six rooms such as South Bend, Terra

Haute. Fort Wayne have retning for $15 and upwards. Such houses could be located north of Fifth avenue, near

to the mills

Mr. Highlands would reduce the cost

of an $1800 house to J1500 by ellmln

ing a lot of little Incidentals such as excessive building permit fees, charges

of the heat light and water company,

building three houses in two 30-feet lots, using the same main sewer pipe for three cottages, having but a small basement and that under the kitchen

and locating there a frost proof water closet. Such a house would bring In a

gross "eturn of 12 per cent.

Among others who spoke were T. W

Englehart, W. W. Wright. Perry Ster

ens, Harry Hall, who got after the fees and commissions charged by the

banks, M. M. Winter, a property owne

and banker, who pointed out the need

of more street cars and who got afte

the high cost of street paving, A. T Schaeffer, Meyer Nusbaum, H. H

Alschuler, H. O. Johnson, a radiant ex

ponent of optimism. Also Homer

Carr, who had no suggestion to offer.

but who said that each year !n Gary

had been a disappointment to him. Col

V'.C. H. Maloney, who told of how money

In small towns could be tapped and

John A. Brennan, who gave some very

good pointers about advertising Gary

In the newspapers and magazines,

the "J" railway said that of the 1 (too something tnat au live towns are ao

men employed on the Garv division 400ilng-

including several foremen were Among those present was Rev. Fath

tered in box cars. The steel trust rail-1,"" Thomas F- J""8, rector of Holy road has Issued a reauest that all f.AnKels Parish, the only clergyman.

its trainmen live In Gary after July 1 I who ls a rnembfr of the c,u0 and who but as the company owns but 96 houses ,i8 Us "-officio chaplain. Names of it does not know where It will put the men PrPosed for membership are as

WASHING

CLUB HEARS

TRIP REPORT

The Commercial Club of Indiana

Harbor and East Chicago held a meet

ing last night, about forty being pres

ent. A report was received from A. G.

Lundquist and Charles E. Fowler con

cerning their recent trip to Washing

ton and Philadelphia. The meeting was

the first since the street car franchises

were granted, and the transportation

committee reported concerning this matter. H. C. Rutledge as secretary of

the State Federation of Commercial

Clubs, and also in his capacity of sec

retary of the Commercial club of Indl

ana Harbor and East Chicago, which Is

going to entertain the Federation next fall, is making a roster of the clubs and their officers, and for that purpose

sent out four days ago, 350 notices to

the secretaries of the clubs throughout the state, asking them to send him a list of their officers. Up to yesterday

he had received epltes from 150 organ!

tlons, which seems to indicate con

siderable Interest in commercial clubs

throughout the state, and to promise a

big meeting at Indiana Harbor next

fall

Four new members were admitted to

the club, they being Messrs. Noblock.

Tant, Jack and Bowers.

or not past experience would Indicate ' aftr the third term candidate had yell- of the credentials committee and the

wnetner or not the proposed line will ed "robbery" all the way from the Ne- Roosevelt supporters five members, and Pay- braaka nrnlrUa tf rw CnA n the the Taft nnnl thna valnH control of

"They do not take the remarkable presidential primary elections failed to the convention.

growth of the region into consldera- attack the regularity and legality in Having gained this control, it ls

non. They do not recogntxe potential j the Indianapolis or seventh district prl- charged by Stilwell In his brief : development. They say they can't deal maries and convention. i "That said credentals committee re in possibilities. Their .tockh n 1 H Of, ! ..... . .... fiiAsi Viaot- flntr vMn so n u

Davidson and Jeffrey contests or the seats of delegates from

won't stand for it. I

"And so they wait until the develop

ment is an accomplished fact and then

they come Into the field looking for franchises after we have taken our pick.

"We have the same faith in the trac

tion future that the average citizen has in the prospective development of this region. We have not consulted dry sta

tistics to find out whether or not a line will pay. We know what the future development In a given territory is to be and we are willing to take a chance."

credential, for

and also failed to Include In his brief Marion county. Although 108 conteit-

th formal nntic of content .mi then Ing delegates were present, either In

irregularities put his contest beyond Person or by attorney, and offered to the pale for consideration, though Stil- prove the right of said contesting delewell announced on Saturday that he Bates to be seated In said convention would push the demand that the com- and to show that the voting had been mlttee waise these "technicalities" and dono ,n a fraudulent manner by the consider that dispute. Taft adherents; that repeaters by the . i truck load had been hauled from pollThe nelegnte-nt-tr.. ,Bg. pace t poUlnr p,ace anJ The greatest interest In the Indiana fraudulently and Illegally for the Taft contests will center in the contest over ' delegates." the delegatee-at-large. Merrill Moors i has not filed his reply brief, but those T"TCJ A (1 T5 Tr,T7,TyrT7,'rJrP familiar with the history of the state JJJ-0-JXilaJTxi.W J. convention will find In Horace Stilwell's ' ON DRUGGIST brief on the Roosevelt contentions a ; n iookB aa lf there will be no convlcstatement of what happened in the tion of the, eight Gary druggists arstate convention to be very interesting. rested for selling liquor without a preStilwell lays the foundation for con-1 scription. H. C. Peterson, the first to test on the vote of the state convention be tried, got a disagreement last night rrnrlAntlata (Ammltta of arfalch the In th n 1 1 v rnnrt Thft 1nw tdViII,

also elected Taft delegates to Chicago Taft mm haJ a majority unseat! ng the made up mostly of business men. wu

"regularly elected" Roosevelt members out three houra. of the credentials committee from the ( Tomorrow it ls expected that the drug

contested third and sixth districts and store cases will be resumed. Member!

HOOSIERS TO HAVE

EARLY HEARING (Continued from Page one)

thirteenth district conventions, which

and were followed by rump conven

tlons. which elected Roosevelt delegates. Filed by Itooaevelt reople. The four contests filed by the Roose

velt people against Taft delegates and conventions."

seating In their places the Taft dele-! of the Gary Saloonkeepers' association

gates from "each of said district's rump , are taking an active Interest In the

men. John A. Collins, general superintendent of the Gary Bolt and Screw works, which plant begins operations before July 1 with 1,000 hands stated that he will bring 150 foremen and skilled operatives with their families but so far only six houses have been provided. l.&OO Lack Hnan Here. Of the 1,500 men ewwloyed at the bridge plant ample housing facilities have been provided but of the 1,500 employed at the Universal Portland Cement works which ls In the west part of the city not one employe lives

non-resident. South

in Gary because of the lack of houses Steel company.

follows:

M. E. Wright.

Bend. Dr. J. J. Propper. P. L. Stuart, non-resident, eal estate, Rossville, 111. Dr. John A. Little, non-resident, Logansport. John A. Collins, general superintendent, Gary Bolt and Screw company. William H. Warren, superintendent rail mill, Gary stel works. J. H. Jones, master mechanic, coke oens of Indiana Steel company. William H. Geesman, general super

intendent of blast furnaces. Illinois

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PLANS Fl

OUTER PARK

PROGRESSING

Plans for an outer park belt and boulevard system, taking in Gary, Miller. East Gary, Ridge road. Black Oak and Clark road, as outlined exclusively The Times several weeks ago, followingthe getting up of a petition headed by T. W. Englehart, are being worked on by the park committee of the Gary Commercial club.

Announcement of the progress of the

committee's work was given out at the Gary Commercial club meeting last night by C. D. Davidson, city park com

missioner, who is local manager of the Smtth-Bader-Davidson company, and also a member of the club's park committee. The committee ls outlining a scheme for a possible park at Miller and a boulevard system about Gary with ample connections with various small parks to be located In various parts of the town.

docketed by the national committee are: Albert J. BeveridKe, Frederick K. Landis, Edwin M. Lee and Charles II. Campbell contesting the credentials of Charles Warren Fairbanks, James E. Watson, James T. Oliver and H. S. New , as delegates-at-largo from the state. j Charles Finley Smith and W. F. J Adams contesting the credentials of i

Charles F. Hellman and James A. Hem-

enway as delegates from the first con

gressional district. Roscoe C. Morris and Losson N. Mace contesting the credentials of George W. Applegate and Charles M. Crim as delegates from the third congressional district. Fred W. Keller and P. R. Judkins contesting the credentials of Clement Studebaker Jr. and Maurice Fox as delegates from the thirteenth congressional district. One Content Thrown Out. The national committee has thrown out the contest brought by John Overmyer of North Vernon in behalf of Thomas E. Davidson, and George I Jeffery against Oscar 11. Montgomery and Web Wood All, the Taft delegates, and the Roosevelt people themselves.

1 prosecution.

The effect of this, it is argued, was to 1 give the Taft supporters lght members

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GREEN LINE PEOPLE PROMISE TO BREAK GROUND (Continued from column 6, page 1.)

over the canal at One Hundred and Fifty-first street. He thought that cara ought to be running over the new extensions with a few months.

The people of East Chicago and Ham

mond are more interested in the Green line than they are in the Gavlt line, for the reason that it does more to develop

their territory than the Gavit line.

They are very much pleased with the

announcement of the Green line that

the work of construction will commence

so soon. In fact, this is really as important as the knowledge that the

Baldwin company will now begin con

struction work.

After the men have been employed at

the Baldwin plant it will be Just as Important to find a place to house them

nd the building of the new street car

line will make the whole region available to them for residential purposes.

Plana Held tp. Regarding the proposed West Ham

mond extensions by which the cities of

Hammond and West Hammond were to

be connected with Harvey, Blue Island

and Chicago Heights, Manager Green

said that the railroads were still in

terfering with the plans of his com pany.

He said that the Illinois laws were so hostile to interurban lines and that the state of Illinois Is 25 years behind the state of Indiana in interurban develop

ment.

He said that the company is anxious and willing to build the western extension for the reason that It would then have an Interurban belt throughout the steel district of Chicago. It would also be a feeder for the Chicago & Southern,

which was recently purchased.

GARY & INTERURBAN

PLANS TO BUILD

(Continued from column 7. page 1.)

the way to build a road Is to build It so

that it will get the business at any cost.

Mr. Gavit was complimented on the fact that he had built up an important Interurban system from practically

nothing in the past five years, and he

was asked to what be attributed his

success. "From knowing the local situation.'

said Gavit promptly. "We know what

the people want and we try to cater to their needs. We are wVUing to take

chanceffsMaal!btB- crporatlon would

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