The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-14
Visitors Not Allowed on
North Side Where Plant
is Building.
ACCIDENTS FEARED D
Report Is Made, However, of the
Progress of the Work On
Steel Plant.

A great many visitors have been
disappointed on going to Gary to see
the sights to be refused the privilege
of going to the north side of the city
where the work of building the Gary
plant is going on.
Realizing that the work in the steel
town has progressed considerably since
the last accounts of the progress that
had been made appeared in the morn
ing papers, the Gary correspondent Of
The LAKE COUNTY TINES made an in
Vestigation of the work and the fol-
lowing is an account of his observa-
ton:
The person who allows a few days
to elapse between the times that he
sees the progress on the north side
finds revelation when he does go
back. Where there was recently
wilderness, now hundreds or rather
thousands of men are busy at work on
the foundations of steel superstruc-
lures. No one is allowed to cross the
river and go on the north side unless
it is known that he has business there
or is passed in by some one in author
ity. The reason for this is that many
of those who would go there go merely
in the way of the men at work, prob
ably be hurt, cause some one else to
get hurt and cause endless bother at
all times. Then the contractors who
are at work over there on the different
lines of work expect that their tools,
machines, materials, etc, will be left
unmolested when they leave them. If
people are allowed to wander at ran
dom over the gruonds there would be
constant petty thleving and it is easier
to prevent all this by placing a few
watchmen at the places of ingress and
egress than it would be to have guards
at every place where work is going
| foreward.
The superstructure of steel frame
work of the first four hundred feet Of
the machine shop is completed The
last few pieces being swung up and
riveted into place today. The work of
putting up the walls will begin shortly
The concrete part of the first four
| blast furnaces foundation has been I'm
! ished and the steel that will fo-r a
part of these furnaces is being assem-
bled. The long trench east of the
| foundations has been sunk to the re-
! quired depth and the concrete is being
| put into the bottom
| The first part of the concrete work
on the open hearth furnaces is done
and the twenty-foo anchor bolts tc
which will be fastened the large steel
| foundation pieces for each hearth are
! being set in the new concrete Small
| V-shaped cars are run back and fortl
| from the large mixer at the south enc
| of the open hearth row to where they
are dumped along the line of the work
A large crane in the center of the work
has been rugged up as a clam-shell anC
| is doing the necessary excavating
where the concrete bed goes deeper thar
ordinarily. Several large pumps are
kept constantly at work in order t.
| give the necessary dryness to the con.
crete bed when it is first made.
The first long line of the concrete
! sewer has been completed for som,
/ time. Most of the brick man-hole.
with their iron covers are in place
| The north end of the sewer is being
used to carry off the water that is be
ing pumped out of the power house ex
cavation. A gigantic pump lifts al
eight-inch stream some twenty feet anC
runs it off through this sewer.
The Great Lakes company is push
ing its piling farther and farther ou
into the lake preparatory to excavat
ing for the harbor. The area to tn,
south of this, through which the har
Dor Will run, has all been cleared O
trees and underbrush. Most of tn,
tent colonies that were dotted her,
and there through the woods are nov
clusters of temporary wooden build
ings standing out here and there nea
the various centers of work
great many interesting things nat
urally happen in this veritable bee
hive every day. but a daily account o
it would be simply a reiteration of tn
same thing with a slight change eacl
day. To the outsider who cannot Sc
the progres it is more easily compre
hended by noting the beginning o
completion of the various parts of tn
work in hand.