Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 32, Hammond, Lake County, 28 July 1921 — Page 14

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FIRST CAME AFTER WAR OF '61 Hammond Is Oldest Of Five Cities In Calumet Three carloads of lumber dumped from Michigan Central freight cars at the point where Hohman street, no crosses the tracks in Hammond, narked the beginning- of Hammond a an Industrial center and formed the nuceieue of what has since become one of the world's great workshops, tho Calumet region. That was in September. 18S. The lumber was intended for small houses to shelter the workmen who were being brought to Hammond to erect and operate the beef packing plant which had been conceived bf G. H. Hammond and Marcus M. Towle. In the years which have followed North and Calumet townships have daveloped from a series of sand ridges and marshes with a scattered population of a few hundred souls to great manu facturing cities with an aggregate population of close to 150.000. Long after other communities of Indiana had become established and had reached their zenith or gave clear indication of what fate had in store fur them, the northern part of Lake county remained -practically a barren r?act. apparently of no use to man. plowed Br LnSIle. Its history dates back to the first explorers who visited the middle west. The intrepid LaSalle is believed to have passed through the region in 180. The Kronen then had a fur traJlng post on Deep River at what afterward became the site of Liverpool. For ages before this Lake county had been traversed by the Indians who found it in the path of the Great Short cut rrom the Indian regions of the north and northeast to the plains of the Mississippi valley. The first known inhabitants were the Pottawatomie Indians who held the rich trapping grounds along the Calumet and Kankakee rivers until their wholesale departure to other hunting grounds in 1836. They were replaced by the white trapper and it was during their time (183J-1S40) that the influx of home builders, the sturdy pioneers who laid tho foundations of the county's substantial growth, Began. They settled for the most part in the farming lands to tho south. Early visitors found -the northern part of the county covered with foraats of pine timber. Accounts of giant pines seen in these woods are to be found among early historical sketches. The ridges, however, were denuded by The

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Chicago years before settlement of the district was seriously considered. The M-irch of I'rottirtn. One of the most remarkable instances of the rapid incroa"c in land vaiue is shown in the development of North and Calumet townships. Along about i860 Ceorge W. Clark, of Chicago, purchased "several thousand" acrts in the northwestern part of the county for $1.25 per acre. Twenty years later 8,000 acres ot this tract was released for a round million dollar. of Jlli per acre. Twenty years after that the Standard Steel Car company, bought seventy-five acres of that same land for 11.000 per acre and only a few years ago the Sinclair Oil A Refining company paid $1,500 an "acre for part of the land now occupied by Its Eat Chicago refinery.- This refers only to Industrial sites. The valuations in busltues aeetions of the cities have climbef to figures for lots alone which Ake acreage prices puny. In 1850, only seventy years ago, there was no established village in North or CaJu.Tnet township. In that year the Michigan Central railroad came. At the- west limit of its tracks a construction camp mas set up Ju;t beyond the present west limits of the City of Hammond. It was called West Tolnt and later changed to Gibson. A postofflea was opened in 1SSJ. The Famona Ifoaman Tarerm. Ert W. Hohman. from whom HammondTs main street is named, erected b)ts Vsome on the nrth tIde of the Grand Calumet river on the highway which, now bears his name, in 1SS1. This bouse later became a tavern at which muny of the country's most conspicuotu figures stopped enrnute to Chicago and in making political tours. No gnowth indicating a city of importancewas yet evident. The first gllmmor- came when O. H. Hammond, the Detroit capitalist, visited the tavern and was Impressed by the posslbliiiics of the land as a site for a beef packing house because of the rail FAMOUS FANS

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and water, facilities and the proximity to Chicago. As a result of that, visit the Hammond packing house became a reality and the name of the little station In 1873 was State Line Slaughter House. Growth was so "low that in 1S50 the. town which was then known ns Hammond, had a population of only .VtSS. Compare this with 3;.00O. the population of the city thirty years later. Whiting next put in its appearance when it was selected as the site of the Standard Oil company's big Indiana refinery. As late as 1SSS Kast Chleaho was ft ill a marsh. The trunk line railroads were laid but there was no development until the Inland Steel company came in 1901 and development of the inland waterways was started. In 189ft the population was only 1.25" and the beginnings of the Republic Steel mill was the only industry, 'in 1900 it has moved to 3.411 and in the twenty years which followed it increased to S5.9C8. Tolleston. inhabited by a few people who worked at nearby towns,, was the narest approach to a city on the present site of Gary in 1906. The growth of the Magic City is a matter of common knowledge throughout Indiana and the United States. The entire population of Calumet township, within which Gary is now located, was only l&.OO m onis. its p p:iiatum fourteen years later, was 53.790. CANCER NOT CONTAGIOUS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) WORCESTER, Mass. Cancer Is nelth er herlditary. infectious nor communicable, according to Dr. Frederick Bryant, of thij city. He declared there is no need for isolation of cancer patient.. He attributed the disease to some form of chronic stimulative irritation, which could be prevented.

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TO TELL OF AT MEETING A series or meetings dealing with the work of the Centenary in foreign countries will be held in August in the South Rend district of the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. The announcement is made by the Uev. Jesse Rogue, of Indianapolis, area secretary. 4 .Dr. Harvey R. DcRra of Gary. Ind secretary of the Calumet Missionary Society, will give an illustrated lecture at each of the following places: Wheeler, August 10; MerriUvllle. August 11; LaCrosse, the morning service, August 14; Hanna, the evening service August 14; Wheatrt-'ld. August 14; DeMotte, August 17; Ches terton, August 21. -The Rev Mr. Rogue will be heard in an address on the subejet, 'The Ccntinary in Europe" at the Methodist church at Argos, Sunday evening, August 7. and at Hebron, Sunday evening. September 4. The names of the speakers, meeting places and dates of other lectures to be delivered In the district follow: the Rev. O. L. Chivington. Westville, Ind.. at Door Village, August 3 and at Westville, August 31; the Rev. W. II. Warriner, Michigan City. Ind., the First M. K. church. Michigan City. August 12; the Rev. K. M. Kuonen, Culver. Ind., August 10. at Culver; the Rev. W. B. Collter. North Libertj Ind.. August 14. at North Liberty; the Rev. A. W. Smith. Hamlet. Ind.. August 17, at Hamlet; the Rev. G. A. Trodif, North Judson, Ind at North Judson. August 21, By Hopp 50THfvr lb XTOLDVNM

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AT THE PARTHENON "Reputation." the newest Universal Jewel super-feature, starring Prlscilla Dean and cor.iing to the Parthenon Theatre tomorrow for 3 days, is heralded as a dramatic thunderbolt of tremendous powir. After her two recent successes. "The Virgin of Stamboul." and "Outside the Law." Universal realized It would require a photoplay of extraordinary strength to complete the dramatic trinity. From all accounts. "Reputation" not only proves Its right to follow the ftrsit two. but many reviewers have declared it to be by far the most powerful dra.ma pro - jt-ciea on me screen in many months. The most Interest ing feature bf "Reputation" Is the fact that it permits I'riscilla Dean to play a dual role-a mother and daughter both possessing marked hlstronlc genius, but differing In every other characteristic. The

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