Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 25, Hammond, Lake County, 17 July 1912 — Page 6

THE TIMES.

Wednesday, July 17, 1912.

Crown Point Mews

Happenings of a Day In Lake Connty's Lively Capital

SHUCKS

From the Diary of Si. Lence

Hek Spenee sex It's all right t be from MlMoury s' long ez peepul don't get tired o' showin' y' things y' ought t' know. Th' only way wlmmln er alike Is thet they're different. Yesterday's horse market proved to bs a good one for July, and considering the busy season with the farmers a good number of horses were brought In and disposed of during teh day. Prices for good animals ranged high. Probably thirty were shipped to Chicago as a result of the day's transactions. A meeting of the offlclals of the Gary & Southern and Gary & Interurban lines Is reported to have been held In Gary Monday and an agreement en

tered Into whereby the lines co-operate on a plan to run the cars north of the bridge to the steel mills. The nature of the agreements has not been made publis as yet. but It ts said to te eminently satisfactory to both lines' offlclals, and as soon as the plan can be carried out a boon to the traveling public as no change of cars will have to be made at the bridge. An unprecedented demand for houses has been manifest in Crown Point for the past month or so, the supply running far short of the requirements. Since the establishing of street car service many people from Gary have tried to secure homes here, but have been compelled to abandon the idea on account of the scarcity. Crown Point capitalists should wake up to the fact that the city can and will grow providing homes can be built and rented and that money spent In this way offers many advantages over a shorter but unsafe sprint to wealth. At least ten

i or fifteen homes could be rented In

Crown Point at the present time. The business men and courthouse teams are practicing dally for their

annual ball game to be played soon. A series of games may be arranged between the two clubs which will add materially to the finances of the regular team of the Northern Indiana league. Attorney Frank B. Pattee transacted business In Chicago yesterday. Many from here attended the funeral of Mr. Jack Morrow at Hebron yesterday afternoon. Work has been commenced on the Handley and Steeb basements. the concrete work being nearly complete. Mrs. Arabella "Wheeler was a Chicago visitor yesterday. Herbert Stolti of Chicago Is visiting for a few days with his mother on Grant street. Mr. and Mrs. William Rockwell of

i Chicago are visiting with Crown Point

friends and relatives for a few days. An epidemic of whooping cough has struck Crown Point, attacking both young and middle aged. The cases are only of a light form, no fatalities being recorded.

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WevYork$2982ioston$2892

Liberal stop-over privileges and option of boat trip between Detroit and Buffalo, and on Hudson River between Albany and New York. Tickets on sale daily to Sept. 30th; return limit 30 days via

NewYork&Mral Lines Michigan Central "The Niagara Falls Route" Proportionately low fares to all Eaitern Summer Resorts, including Thousand Islands. Saratoga, Lake George, the Adirondack!, Canadian Resorts,

w nite Mountains, roiaaa springs, ana me enure Atlantic uoast.

CIRCLE TOURS

Sixty-day circuit tours imty be arranged to New York and Boston.

including lane ana river routes, ana more ezienaea circuit tours.

partly oy ocean, including meais ana uervus on ocean steamers.

at reaucea summer larei. Ak tor copy of rar "Gold to New York City." It eratelns nluMt

ud lnteraatuig mxormllon bdoui xam Metropolis, Croo os request Ay

tor particular eonsult t Michigan Central Ticket Agents

GRIFFITH. The ice cream social and raffle given by the I. O. O. F. last evening drew a large crowd and a neat sum realized. The lucky. No. 155. in the raffle was held by a gentleman of Hobart, drawing a beautiful set of cut glass. J. Kllbourne of Ross was a Griffith business visitor yesterday. Mrs. P. C. Taggert and Mrs. C. Leldler and family were out of town visitors yesterday. Miss Clara Seberger and niece, Gertrude Seberger, were Hammond visitors yesterday. Several families of the Standard Oil station here went to the Lake Monday for a day's outing. Mrs. A. Chrlstensen of Blllott visited at the horns of Mrs. H. C. Dutton Monday.

REALTY MEN LIKE SHEEP IN INVESTINGfConttnurt from Par t.

until $500 a month is now derived from the building and it Is conservatively estimated to be worth $60,000. Roscoe E. Woods bought 30 feet of frontage from Jacob Kasper on the north side of State street for $5,500. With som difficulty he sold to W. ft. Paxton for $6,100. Paxton sold to the late J. M. Bradford for $6,600 and Bradford refused $7,500. The property is now worth $9,000' and all of these transactions have taken place inside of three, years. Then came the awakening on State street. People began to see that property there had a future. The market was flooded with' inquiries. E. C. Mlnas. P. S. Bete, William Thum and a few others got in at the top notch price but even they-thlnk that there Is no question that prices will go still higher. . ' It took the exampie of several Independent real . estate, dealers to Induce the others to get in find buy. Had the

purchases been ma.de- just two years

before those who bought would have made from 50 to 100 per cent on their money. The same Is true of residential property. Take the case of the Homewood addition. J. G. Ibach, representing the Webb estate, ottered Homewood lots for $650 for fifty feet. ' Everybody In town knew that those lots were for sale at that price. No one wanted them. About that time a syndicate was organized which took over a block and a half of lots owned by V. 3. Beta. The syndicate pushed the sale of the property and sold out the entire subdivision In the course of three years. About six months after the South Homewood addition was purchased. Gostlln, Meyn & Company closed a deal for the purchase from the Webb estate of all of the unsold lots In the Homewood addition. Exercising the usual good Judgment and with a commendable spirit of progresslveness this company at once put In all of the street Improvements. The result was that lots in the subdivision began to sell. The price was raised from $650 to $900 for 60 feet, then to $1,100 and now lots In Homewood, In the best locations, have sold as high as $1,400 for 60 feet. The majority of the sheep In the flock did not become stamoeded until they saw what the bell-wether was dotop notch price for the property, ing. Then they all got In and paid the Calumet avenue offers today the

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same oportunlty for wise investment today that State street offered three or four years ago. Yet all but the wise ones are skeptical. They wear smoked eye-glasses. The same arguments are being advanced as In the case of State street. William H. Gostlln. the East Side Trust & Savings Bank, Otto Knoerzer, Otto Negele, Charles Leutman, Arnold Keldenech, Roscoe E. Woods, Henry P. Downey, Peter W. Meyn and a half a dozen others are pioneers in the movement to acquire Calumet aenue property In the vicinity of State, Sibley and Carroll streets. In two or three years the State street boom will be re-enacted on Calumet aenue. But the crowd would rather pay Wg prices then. The same Is true of residential property. There are scores of lots along Calumet avenue, Bouth of Carroll street, and In the Kenwood addition of the Hammond and Suburban Realty Company that are now being offered for sale at exceedingly low prices. But the average homeseeker will wait until the scramble starts and then they will buy. That Is the history of the real estate market. Why more people do not seek real estate investments In the Calumet region, when it is a demonstrated fact that most of the wealthy men of the region have their money out of real estate. Is a mystery to those who are familiar with the market. Take the East Chicago situation. For years values were depressed. A sale In real estate was a rareity. Nobody seemed to want to own East Chicago real estate. One could day In January a group of Hammond men Invaded .East Chicago and started to buy everything In sight. They picked up about half a million dollars worth of property. The result was that Hammond men profited more out of the East Chicago boom than anybody In East Chicago excepting a very few. And the men who have made money In real estate are not all professionals. The list includes a great many amateurs. The principal qualification Is to get in. It Is impossible to make money out of real estate unless you buy.

LEAGUE

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EXCITING

(BY SPIKE.) The interest now being taken In the Northern Indiana league la at the highest pitch and with Hammond In the lead by a margin of two games and Gary and Indiana Harbor endeavoring to bring the leaders down to an equal standing, some great baseball can be expected in the next few' weeks. Hammond so far has put the Jinx on

the majority of the teams In the clr-

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cult and providing she can hold her present championship style of baseball, the bugs In this vicinity are looking for their Idols to land the flag at the close of the season. Gary which has also been setting a fast clip to gain the lead over Hammond, has not given up hopes of seeing the top of the ladder again and from all reports, they are so eager to win the pennant, that they will buy all the players In the National and American league if necessary. Daily the steel city warriors can be seen In hard practice work and are making every possible efTort to show the N. I. league fans some speM. Although Crown Point has been bumped pretty hard during the pant month and a half and have been clutching the bottom of the ladder In an effort to gain their last season's stride, they have far from given up hopes to being among the top notchers. L,jnt week they sprung a new lineup on Laporte and with a well organize! learn, they are expecting to make a grand stand finish. Next Sunday Crown 1 oint will stack up against the Hammond warriors and an Interesting content should result. . Whiting and East Chicago also report that they are not among the down and out club and with some hard work and signing up some new ma terial, they are going to give somebody a run for their money. Large crowds are expected at next Sunday's games. There were some rumors that the league financially was not In- a flourishing condition, but all the cities in the league have been drawing good sixed crowds and the treasury Is In better condition now than ever.

CITY'S NEW PUMP ISUSEDNOW fContlnued from Page one)

SLIPS FROM RAFT DROWXS. While playing on a raft In a ston

Quarry at Kokomo Lawrence Curry, 19 years old, was drowned yesterday. The lad slipped Into the water and sank! before his companions could rescue '

him. The body was recovered six hours later.

LaVendor Cigars are pronounced ex

ceptionally good by all smokers-

stream of water which is usa constantly In the laboratory work had to be reduced. One of the features of the new pump Is a flywheeel weighing seventeen tons. By means of this Immense wheel which Is fourteen feet In diameter, the pressure Is equalised, and the Jarring of the pipes which was noticeable with each stroke disappears. The old pumps have no flywheels. At times the old pumps, it is said, moved the . water mains an eighth of an inch, a dangerous thing, which causes the breaks In the water main connections. The equalized pressure experts say will permit of a higher pressure without inJurp to' the mains. Some Matna Too Small. It Is doubtful, however, If the new pump, or even a larger one, will bring relief to water consumers taking water off a four-Inch main which is several blocks long. Previous administrations were shortsighted in this regard, and today there exists a condition by which a four-inch main has too many house and hose connections for Its capacity. Such a condition exists in Ogden street, the four-Inch main there extending clear into West Hammond. Withing the last week the Hammond drinking water was flavored with a strong fish taste. This was not noticeable all over town simultaneously, and today It has practically disappeared again. The offlclals at the pumping station are at a loss to account for it, unless It Is caused by the north winds blowing in from the lake. , The Hammond intake is guarded with a screen sixty feet long and forty-two Inches in diameter, the meshes in it being no larger than one-fourth of an Inch, or just large enough to admit a lead, pencil. Therefore, It Is argued that It would be Impossible for any dead fish of any size to get Into the

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THIS SAVING IN YOUR FUEL BILL WILL

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