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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-19

At the headquarters Of the Indian
League. 260-2Gs Washington street. tonight,
the third monthly invitation whist party
will be held. Games will start at s;1o.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

1N THE soafhermmos, shore of Lake. ~ Michigan, amid the sand dunes that N melt doscn to the svaters edge, sVon. derfal, model, nesV city is rising. + promises m time-aad not lime long drascm out, ct that-to become second Pittsbmg.
 Throughoat he sVorld the name and fame of tbe great Steel Trust of America has spread lts operations have been enormous, m the aggregate, but tkew eenters have been scattered.
 Nosv tie trnst proposes to. make home
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

man would build single house. As an individual would lay the foundation building that would as his home this mighty bilon-doar corporation Is laying the foundation of city that Is to become its home No other city built in manner like this The la borers began the work in wilderness where marsh fowls were playing will continue at their work until they see the waste and scrub oak trans formed into a city of 150.OOO inhabitants.
 This is the population it will have when the work now in progress Is completed when the Steel Trusts first s10o 900 900 building appropriation has been exhausted
 Then more money will be appropriated for further building hundred thousands Of population VIII be added
 But Gary vii: be greater still for the miles of manu- factories being erected the United States Steel cor poraton are not the only industries the city will have by any means It there will be 100 others within its broadening bounds before two more years VIII expired; territory and towns already III e1- be incorporated into the one great clV that is to become for corporations that nave struggled against hostile conditions elsewhere By the united powers of many great combines there will be established in Indiana what Is hoped will become one or the greatest industrial cities in the world
 This is the prediction of those who have received an nkng of the carefully guarded plans the United States Corporation, the mother industry which by discovery and invention has bazed the way for the establishment of this twentetheentury industrial me- tropos . ,,,,,I Al, H. the plant there are being performed en&ginser@ng zine ing feats of such magnitude as 2 stasger the ay ming PHe put slEonsdcar fhalE sdem asss ssee 'TiTat Trast 10 ''
 Two thousand and five hundred feet from the shore of the lake and at the same time will tower T6Is with the construcon ten-foot under land and water to carry the water supply rom rom the course of river that will be straight and even as street and rnn ss & ana Sr wes reat m trunk-ie railroads they will not interfere with the
 site of tine amt en6 eP be a incidental the work being performed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

For itself; it plans to gather its chief branches under its soings as hen does is chickens, and to have, hereafter, q central source of al its EUonderfd and carried enterprises.
 Gary-sach is the name of the nes0 model city on the lake-is to be typical of the age. Vt is not only to be q center 'of margelons in- Hastrial enterprises, bnt model city for sOork- ingmen. l. is to be the epitome of the sco- nomical soisdom and experience of the age.
 4 river and three railroads have been Brushed aside summarily to make room for thenesv city, the permanent home of the Steel Trnst. Under the hands of q host of gUork- men great structures and Hundreds of homes gre arising like magic.
 While this ne4O and zVonderfnl commp- nity is springing into being, George M. Pnl- mans dream of model city for sOorkmen, at Pullman, IH., is vanishing. fl that place the homes of s0orkmen rVere osVned by the Pullman Compdny, and the plan never suc- ceeded. At Gary the roorkmen sViH ovon the homes m qOhich they Eve, and t sViH be an entirely different experiment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
VAST POSSIBILITIES

By uniting the interests of all the vast industries even located in Calumet district there Is no doubt world coud be established where labor conditions would he ideal and where there would never be any inter- ference of politicians It would soon have
 While rainbow of hope is spanning the new city of Gary another "moder city-Pullman. In-is fading George M Pullman founder of the great seepng-car industry that his name. dreamed of model city for workmen in the community that he established ments, be went about 1t in the wrong way;
 At Pullman all the property was owned by the car- building company. MT. Pulman's plans contemplated town Where his workmen could find comfortable homes and where conditions life would be deal but he did not the eventual ownership of the homes by the men The people complaned Of the rules and iatons established. there discontent from the
 After the great strike judicial proceedings own nroperty in Illinois other than that necessary for the its manufacturing interests In other town as well as a great manufacturing plant Long dra litigation has recently resulted in decision against the company: -. A. --..-..- ., other dwellings the tenants Working men are buying homes In parts of tha city. Concessions granted them by the real estate firms and corporations ot all Not long ago the Pullman company circular letters its tenants informing them that they would they might wish to buy in the pretty little suburb A started sell the cottages and this Fave been sold and negotiations under way for the sale of The in charge are confident that many citizens will take advantage of the oner and be- of the homes constructed wentyodd years As Tn short time 1t is bele that corporation owner- 4hin of Pullman will be A The dream of George M Pullman, conte ting q model town for working under the cOn or those Who enaployeu the men will vanished Is to avoid such result wormen of the great plant purchase and hold thsi dwelling proper0
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

Nearly $20O0 is being spent by the steel corporauon construction of harbor, which prooapy "h oe the finest on Great Lakes This expense will be Ill addition work now being performed py the government in dredging the Calumet river when completed the hafbor mile long, 25o rect woe and deep with concrete docks and will DO supe'or to tEe Chicago na-bor steel frames completed partially completed buildings all covering of ground. the building of This will be the largest steer plant world. and the pans as drawn. contemplate .hs doubling of it's size within the next five years fro- vision made for the quadrupng Of them or the Ven fold enlargement of them when business denanda
 The plant will employ 5000 men when the work now fin progress completed Five million tons Of ore Will be handled every year There will be eighteen blast furnaces sghty-four hearth furnaces and six roll ing mis The will produce sOoOoO tons of steel every The departments devoted to the manufacture of the rails will cost s2,5oo.oOo
 yearly production of $7o,oo0,0o0 of new wealth Is the end to attained the operations now in progress and will be realized by the smallest possible in yestment notwithstanding the fact Of the enormous outlay in the first cost.
 The streets of Gary laid out at right angles Broadway north and south and Firth avenue the principal residence street. east and west Only houses located to the west of Broad way only residences to the east Gary ike other cities has it's pebean quarters The company dictates which they shal be by the prices has placed the los those on Fifth avenue ana W- Exceency of the buildings that to serve as the homes for the workingmen H the nrst thing that ni- presses visitors the ncipent city Nownere ese home life herecommodious residences or pTlek ana concrete Steam halt, electric lights. gas and tee- than as iuxures. The sewage system and sanitary conditions generally are unsurpassed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
FED BY MANY CAR LINES

Street that traverse all the principal thor oughfares will reach out into Indiana and Illinois making it possible for the nhabitapts to take trolley rides to Chicago and Indianapolis Splendldly paved streets parks schools and public paygrounos VIII aao to the cys atractiXeness All the streets and alleys feet wide; streets. with width of sixty feet and alleys of thirty feet will fortify the city against inc dangers of future congestion of traffic.
 Work in the business district is new confined to what is known the first subdivision, which will have twenty-seven miles of paved s0eets. Here about NO roof The cost of the residences and stores range in price from $l5Oo to yl3, -
 Deeds by which the corporation conveys the property to the workme specify that all the residences In this suhdivsion must stories high and not less than sixty deep and they must be built or Dilck stone or concrete roofs slae metal other hreproof ma terial The company to pave all the streets anu huld sidewalks principal thoroughfares and to construct where they will be accessible to eacn lot - , ,oo. +o or,n +bair owr homea through purchase low rates and easy terms, IS
 means of binding them permanently to the works and thereby increasing dividend efficiency This VIII cause inc children parents owning the homes to earn the trades steel 1t will be that generauons or steel workers will grow in Gary, the children n- herng skill of their fathers and improving II oy practice A -.. .1o. .o,,a ha ound in neIghborng will result In colonizing the ndents foremen and office employees near the works thing that is greatly to be desired Ihe com oanv realizes comfort and accessibility Tn the workmens homes reflected In increased factory efficiency. .. .D. ....-.-.. but the company endeavors to encourage the employees 10 own their homes to great an extent as pos. sble Buildings not owned by the occupants are owned
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

The sporting spirit is in the blood; 1t is at its high water mark
 Men and women bet anything that is suggested They bet on the price of wheat six months or year hence they bet speed of ocean greyhound on the estimated rise and fall of stoeks on prize fght a baseball game; the prospective ascendency of new revolutionary party in South America
 Alleged "Utre tappers" a land-ofice business. have done 1t until recently Some years ago an im- porter named Freeman of city in New Iersey was heeced. it Faid out of $5o"o by three wire tappers.'
 According the story. men called on the importer at his office New York. and gave him some advice regarding plungIng operations.
 we Il show you" of the men remarked, as 1t was charged way make a million dollars without stroke of I have friend who Is manager of branch office of a telegraph company, and he the results before they sent out to the pool rooms This will enable to bet and win fortunes"
 Eiated, the victim was easily induced to visit It filled with telephone instruments and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
IN THE PATH OF SUPPLIES

pv psans of the steel corporation's own railroad. Chicago. Lake Shore and Eastern Gary will be cons nected with the great "outer bet system of Chicago.
 which crcumvents every railroad that reaches the vest ern metropolis Besides this advantage there are nve easterh trunk lines passing directly through Gary.
 Hence directly in the path of fuel and supply shipments every ana m tne very heart steel market of the nation It Is alike &C., cessble to the markets of the East and the growing West the future development of which will require many million tons Of the construction of railroads, bridees and commercial buiidings Besides Gary Is at the supply the United States Steel Corporations system of subsidiary mills twenty in number. which manufacture everything that be made from iron and iron ras bridges sheet steel tins plate wire and wire products These twenty plants continuous chain reaching through ohio Indana
 Already allied industries beginning to flock to the ind tfa sapyarqs ahS ron maaa thu plate wire products and S a allied Sa ln @ nsfs which the
 e with s
 E gs c sna is wifi s.o O b. ba TSss Bras to ;sr1sss shops machine shops s @ s kFas na 0 ss t Shs t S SPg@Sa y Snsss y
 ysf sT Ssr1n @ ass tSa soI ssef ss'ds @ the mills of the United States Steel Corporation VIII be the packing houses stockyards. located in Chicago. , - district bodily Gary The packing houses tired of the outcries against them Chicago Besides the pack oppose growing sentiment against permit- ting the foul smelling sockyards and rendering plants O remain in the city limits
 The packers now own a vast track of land directly adjoining Gary which they purchased fifteen years ago for their plants whenever they should be driven Chicago It Is safe prediction that will have to from Chicago within ten years with this industry added to Gary. it viii commercial rival of the largest cities of the West.
 Quite evident 1t is that United States Steel Cor poraton is bit ambitious regarding Garys future fs the realization of pet scheme that greatest of ali corporations has long had in contemplaton-a scheme to establish government where capital could pursue its aims unhampered by labor troubles and political disturbances The plans comprehend the incorporation of all the Calumet township and most of Lake county Indiana. in limits of Gary. Ultimately It VIII include Hammond, TollestoI Indiana Harbori Burnham % d and oil Company and the largest oil refinery
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

telephoners and twenty busy at the wires
 "James R. Keene wants $10OOO on that good thing" one operator called The of other financial mag mates of New York were shouted. among them the Vanderblts GQulds, Astors and Gates.
 Impressed by these names. the victim 1t is said put up $5O.O0O to bet-of course, he lost.
 Such things daily fin the larger cities Recently of course gambling operations havo had to be conducted under cover less because ot~ an increasing public against them and a more rigorous en- forcement of the laws But there is gambling, never theless and many claim that 1t Is now nearer its high-water mark than ever.
 There is gambling by women too. They would not aptov an afternoon game of bridge much many who have studied declare 1t not for the addi' tional and exciting game of chance. @
 Passengers ships crossing the ocean beguile the hours by betting upon all kinds of risks, from the daily run the ship to the possibility of seeing shark or a shipwreck before night
 It $ the age of gambling; the highwatsr mark or rIsk-taking to have been reached
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

ready the plant has six miles of frontage and three times that is held in for the de- mands of future expansion.
 Six thousand acres of land was purchased by the company befors spade turned and before out sder knew anything of the disposition that to be made of it. The big corporation about the building the city in a most methodical manner.
 Work is being done, not for day, but for century There is be future tearing of streets no Topping off Of edges hewing away of corners no doing or work the purpose of tearing down and doing all again, Is the other modern cities.
 There is to be unsightly architecture no raggea skynes caused by unsystematc building, no inarstc winding and twisting at random they do in cities Every residence every street. alley, other construction being built in strict adherence to the prearranged plans.
 The picture has been drawn on paper & ana & It IS a a oars of lines are being drawn in steel and stone ana times being transcribed on the sands of lndiana
 The method and manner of the building of Gary ana the enorry of the task viewed by the layman. dis tnguish of the remarkabe undertakings of age the completed city will be wonder Of the commercial world. x
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
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by the company. constructing large number or cottages generally inferior the residences being put up by owners which will be rented to the workmen and their families
 There is to be system of small parks located at throughout city. afford recreation spots the their families The largest of them squares The parks to be beautihed by flower gardens lawns and shade trees Dancing platforms band stands will be erected along the river city hall and other public buildings VIII soon Do erected, big union depot s to be constructed
 Nature designed the city for great manufacturing center. where the interocean is welded to lana trafc 1t in midst of a network of railroads. country. where the roads from the east and many from north punched together in their pushing the southern shore of Lake Micni- gan nearly parallel each other and those from the west reaching to Chicago.
 When one views this natural junction of lake and railway traffic he cannot help wondering why Chicago was located here instead of at the comparatively Instantaneous ste twenty-sx miles further north
 Gary where the lake Juts furthest souths and be reached by railroads from any secuon without necessity their having to round any part of the lake, of the lake into the shore also forms almost natural harbor which will admit or ten miles of docking space.
 made to into the Chicago sanitary and ship canal and the becomes part of the deep waterway system that reach from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, Gary will be at the junction Of the Great Lakes and river traffic It will not only be In communication by waterway with all the Great Lake ports the Lawrence river and the Atlantic ocean to the north with the Mississippi river ana the Gulf of Mexico and south; while every railroad the country can be reached through it's uneoualed railway terminal facilities. connecting direct every of the network Of railroads center ing in Chicago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

- ROM top bottom the learned professor Of the A University of Chicago who undertook study or \ the subject of gambling followed his subject with
 the fidelity of a foxhound
 The difference. he declared between the modern gambler whether stock market of cards dice. the follower the bettor on prize fights or other athletic endeavor and the prehistoric man. who was gatning with Nature for primitive existence is of degree only.
 In their breasts the same sentiments. desires. sons strivings to obtain something for nothing exist and existed
 Education. civilization and all the thousand and refining and humanizing influences have in vain The fire may shoulder but 1t springs into flame at the slightest provocation
 As to the assertion that have become cultured. he says, with degree of skepcsm, that still stop streets to witness fight between urchns; that they will birds in the air in content and hang around bulletin boards to learn the result of a prize fight a baseball game.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
N

HILE the Steel Trust will build the city of NE Gary-is building it. fin fact-it will defer almost WV entirely to the workmen inhabitants in the
 matter of lawmakng and municipal regua- Mons.
 The laws of the city will guarantee peace and pros perty to employers workmen They will not be dic- tated by the corporation will be made by the work men themselves
 The steel corporation that 1t will offer interference selection of the municipal officers It rely on wisdom and the judgment of it's work establish regulations that will be of mutual protection and advantage.
 Not only the land on which the steel plant being built which the stores and residences being located bought by the United States Steel Corporation. residence lots to the workmen moderse prices and tells them how and where their homes shall be built.
 The same restrictions made regarding the busi- blocks Only those to whom the company sees nt to sell buy property. The dictates the width of alley the specification of structure business residence the laying of every pipe in the city limits
 By these rsservatons in the the property. the building of the city in strict accordance to plans is assured The steel retains control of the water gas and electric supplies and will furnish them to the city at reasonable rates the price of will be cents a thousand.
 All the property adjoining the lake reserved for anufacturing industries while the interior locations Gtyen to residence streets parks and Storea A
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

women assail games of chance with as much de- termination and nonchalance do men.
 The instinct of gaming lurked in the prehs- toric man, according to Professor W. J. Thomas, of the University of Chicago. Development of that instinct has just now reached it's uppermost stage.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

Y S THIS the superlative age in gambling opera \ tions9 Has the high-water mark in the chase X of the god of chance been reachedf
 Time was when gentlemanly game of poker satisfied the longing for excitement of men whose social status ranged through several degrees Women gamesters, then, were unknown. Now,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
Hjb N@tQ Marks of tbe Gambling 7Ie. @ss'

It is said that leading New York hnancleF recently offered to bet $10,000 on the flip. of a of a nation. In fact, most modern enterprises are a g, mbe, according to the modern view and tho gambler wins or loses the wheel of fortune turns.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-10-04

Mr.. Cav, of West Indies, formally
student at Tuskegee Normal and In
dustrial Institute, passed through the
city Monda yen route to Oxford Col
lege
Rev Mr.. Washington, pastor Beulah
Baptist Church, Pulaski, preached at
st. James A. M. e. Church last Sun
day afternoon.
Watch for the first issue of st. Paul
Monthly, an eight-page magazine to be
published by Rev. c. H. Boone, pastor
of, st. Paul A. M. E. Church.
Mrs Jerry Brown, of Shelbyville,
sister of Mrs. Allen A. Carter and Mrs.
G. B. Lowe, is visiting in town. She
is now attending to the wants of Mrs.
Carter, who was severely injured in
the street car accident on Jefferson
street last week.
Miss jamie A. Hill, of GIG Overton
street, has been the guest of Miss LOWE
V. Blake at Whites Greek, where Miss
Blake is teaching. During her visit
Miss Hill was the recipient of con-
slant round of complimentary atten-
TONS
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Morris have re-
turned to the city after a visit to Lou
isville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.
Misses Ethel Merrill, Anna Mai An
thony and Drusilla Hill spent last
Wednesday night with Mr.. and Mrs.
d. S. Liner, of Cedar street.
Miss H. Louise Perkins spent Sun
day in Franklin, the guest of Rev. and
Mrs, j. d. Games.
Miss Georgia Watkins, of Kayne ave-
nue., entertained the members of the
H. T. G. M. Tuesday evening, October
l. Games of whist and music made a
very pleasant evening. A three-course
menu was served.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. S. Liner visited
Franklin last Sunday, and Brentwood
on Tuesday to see Mrs. Liners uncle,
Mr.. Pate Puryear, who is sick.
Miss Emma James, of the bookmak-
ing department of the Baptist Publish
ing House. has returned to her post
Of duty after a vacation of month or
six weeks. Miss James visited Chica-
go and other points of interest during
that period.
Don't fail to hear Dan Howard, the
famous coon songster. He will sing
'Why Adam Sinned," "All In, Down
and Out" Let 1t Alone" and many
others at the Horse Show and Carni-
val.
Miss Blanche Montague, of Fourth
avenue, South, is visiting Miss Sadie
Harding, Of Jackson street, for a few
days.
Mesdames Robt. Eason and Eugene
Clayton attended the colored fair at
Murfreesboro Friday and Saturday
They were the guests of Mrs. G. B.
Brady, the mother Of Mrs. Eason.