The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-15
BUILDING AN INDUSTRIAL CITY

In the building of an Industrial city
the United States Steel corporation is
applying the lesson of Pullman and
Essen. The Pullman idea did not con-
template the purchase of building sites
by the workman who might look for
habitation within it's walls and fences.
AS an industrial city Pullman has been
a failure. The suites and cottages
that were built to rent in Pullman are
now for sale The property upon
which, according to the original
scheme, the founders of the city exact
ed a certain 1.-THE can now be acquired
by purchase. In other words. Pullman
has become a community and ceased
to be a corral. The theory upon which
Pullman was founded was sound. 1t
contemplated the Willingness of ordin-
airy skilled and unskilled humanity to
accept the beneficent assurance of
earning $40 and saving So. The eco
nomical proposition was worked out
to a nicely. No man wao came with
in the pale of the Pullman idea had
to do aonything but live, breathe, have
his being and rear his family, He was
permitted only to spend as much as
earned. The company saw that he
paid his rent and his grocery bill-for
the company owned the grocery stores
and the houses-and all that he had left
was his. The more he saved the bet
ter he was liked.
Things were progressing as favor
ably as the affairs of mice and men are
permitted to progress. wlen the courts
took a hand. It was pointed out that
the Pullman company, under its char
ter, had no right to own and operate
For years the lawyers lawed it and
when the legal proceedings had run
the gamut of all things courtly and the
supreme branch Of the state bench had
passed upon tho rights and wrongs in
the premises, Pullman was offered for
sale That Is to sag its houses and
lots were offered for sale to any and
all corners. But there were no ccm-
ers. The theories in operation in the
model town had not been the means
of making any OF the tenants who oc-
cupied tho homes in Pullman and
worked for the corporation. million
aires, and although the courts man
date ordering the sale of the property
went into effect something like nine
years ago, it Is not OF record that any
of tho houses have been sold until re-
Gently.
The word has gone forth that the
Pullman folk are becoming so pros
porous of late that they don't know
what to do with their money and are
beginning to invest it in homes in Pull
man. The Pullman company has set
it's price and has eventually gotten Ii
from such as have bought.
Gary has profited by Pullman's
bIauders if b1underS fhev were Il
seeks not to supervise the gotngs and
comings of it's employees. It seeks no
to own their homes unless the EN-.
ployes choose that 1t shall. Til,
United States Steel company offers lot
and houses for sale and it offers then
for rent The employee may take hi
choice He may buy his groceries o
a subsidiary company or he may run
his own grocery. But at the end o
the month there is small doubt tina
the money the Carlyle earns in work
ing for Gary viii land Just where /
started out from. The United State
Steel corporation will pay it TO tn
men and 1T will return like the brea
that Is cast upon the waters 1t is onl
a question of the length OF the tethel
In Pullman under the original regime
the tether was exceedingly short an
the man to whom it was attache
realized that he was tethered- Wit
the Garvite the case is different. TIL
tefher is long and the tethered ma
- not so accustomed to liberty in it
broad sense as are the native sons Q
toll with which Pullman reckoned. Fo
even ten years ago the native America
workiHg man was not yet extinct