The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-05
NEW JERSEY HELPING
TO MAKE MODEL CITY IN
INDIANA.
Place Is Gary, Where Lincoln and JET.
ferson Hunted Game-Newark Boy
a Big Fish Out There.

IAiGnlBd1, Witch Iut bllAtiA-CtAoA RttS
Corporation is building here, was little
more than a hole in the ground. All that
history told about this site was that for
many years 1t had been a favorite hunt
ing and fishing ground for Indians. Dur
ing the times that Immediately followed
the Black Hawk war, Captain Abraham
Lincoln, of the militia, and Captain JEFF
ferson Davis. Of the Regular Army. hunted
and hshed with "old Tippecanoe" HarIi-
son. hereabouts for a month. In that
campaign and in the hunting and fishing
frolic that ollowed 1t, Lincoln and Davis
became good friends, and their intimacy
was renewed a few years afterward When
both were in Congress.
During the Civil War when some hot
headed me- preached to Davis a project
to kidnap Lincoln some night as he walked
about the grounds of the SOLDIERS iaoine
az washington. President Davis sat down
hard on the matter, saying; Let the
project be neve more heard OF. Presl-
dent Lincoln is a very brave and vigorous
man, I served with him in the Black
Hawk war. and learned to prize his
dauntless courage and resolution. Ii at
tackled by a kidnapping party ne woula
resist. and his life might be lost' Inc
Confederacy is engaged In a war not IN
crimes"
Twelve thousand mechanics are here
building a model city, and the vast works
of the United Stel Corporation VIII orlng
nbout the residence of $4,000 persons mere
within four years. Never before in tine ms
tory of the world was a city which IKE
this has the superficial area OF NeWarK
begun to go forward under a continuous
policy in which the aid of every art anu
science is enlisted to make the place not
- If.a nf fnHncfTN hnt a DGan-
tiful city. with wide streets filled with
trees on both sides of the roadways, with
parks and fountains and a noble boulevard
stretching along Lake Michigan; amuse-
ment halls, fine schools, churches and aii
else that a large city should have for the
convenience, comfort and pleasure OF the
nhabitants. The town has a rough APP
pearance today, but is getting on fast,
considering that a year ago our pioneer
engineers had to blaze their way through
dense woods and tangled thickets, we
have finished the main offices of the cor
portation, two banks, a fine hotel, six
blocks of retail shops, and the fIRneWork
of four of the vast iron and steelsworks Is
completed.
But most of the engineers and the heads
of departments are sleeping in portable
wooden cottages. and the mess nan FOR
the higher grades of officers is only a
kItdI SHtu. Dul III a Low oogo ~
nave a clubhouse so fine that Solomon in
all his glory-and he was a great engineer
would find things to his liking II he
could come to the gllmpses of the moon.
We are spending Ss5, 100000 here for steel
and iron plants, and for the building of
streets, ewers, paving of twenty-six miles
of streets, and for the waterworks. We
pride ourselves on our w~aterworks, made
from the plans of a New Jersey engineer
~,I,o l. Ja-oanaa1 frnu, a hrothar Of Con
eral George Washington. The water is
taken from Lake Michigan through a pipe
line that runs one and a half miles out In
the vast body of waite The great pumps
for keeping up the house and factory pres
sure and for the high pressure fire service
are New Jersey make.
A number OF large outstanding contracts
for supplies and machinery are placed with
New Jersey firms and corporations. AS in
all great Industrial undertakings, there
are many scientific engineers from New
Jersey engaged on these vast undertake
ings to make this city a gigantic factor
in the worlds output of iron and steel.
As a matter of course most of these men
have had training in practical work under
such army engineers as McClellen, easy,
Haupt, Pope, Wilson, Ludlow, Bogart and
Mansfield. Some are graduates of Stew
ems, Princeton, Rutgers, Seton Hall, Har-
ward, Yale and Cornell.
Some of the junior engineers from New
Jersey are sons of distinguished families
names are linked with the develop
ment Of the State through generations.
Some of the juniors are homesick and
seem to be sustained only by love letters
from their sw%eethearts and tender mis-
from Mothers and sisters, which are
in most cases accompanied by express
packets of homemade cake and pies. But
the youngest person here from New Jer-
sey, Charley, 16 years old, is not home
sick, and is having the time of his life.
Charley was lately taken out of school
in Newark in order to rest his eyes, and
he is here on a vacation under the care of
an uncle, who is one of the principal con-
tractors. Charley is the pet of the en-
gineers, and his uncle has placed him on
the payroll Mt $50 a month"; as Grand
Commander OF the Mule Commissiariat2
all of which is duly set forth In an IL
Illuminated commission painted by Artist
Willie Lauer, of Hoboken, one Of the land
scape gardeners, who are embellishing the
city with trees. shrubs and lawns.
Charley just came in Respondent in high
steepled Mexican sombrero banded with
gold braid, and in an embroidered red
shirt and sky blue trousers, tucked into
boots reaching his thighs, to tell me that
when the official photographs are taken
tomorrow to show what is going on to the
board Of directors in New York, he wants
to be taken mounted on a horse and with
his shotgun resting on the saddle, right in
front Of the great battery of blast fur
naces. l told Charley that the photograph
of the furnaces with great stacks pointing
skyward and their Immense bulk would
portray him more like a little doll than
a well grown boy. 1 suggested that he be
photographed In full fig and feather, and
astride his horse, in front of the Gary
Bank, Just about completed, as that would
show Messrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, Judge
Gary, Henry H.. Rogers and the Rock
Teller brothers that the bank is well
guarded. Charley thought this would suit
him, so the picture will be so made. with
the understanding. as expressed by
Charley, You just give orders that no
Chicago mugs are to be allowed to stand
in front Of me, nor on the steps. It's up
to you as a Newarker, to see that l am
the whole thing in front of that bank pic
ture." Accordingly, all Chicago faces will
be kept out Of that picture.
Charley has no use for the young en-
gineers from Chicago working here since
they took him to luncheon In a cheap bake
house in the Windy City and treated him
only to some crullersS and coffee. 1T was
something herce,' said Charley. They
called tho place Coldslaw's; it's a joint as
long as from Broad to Halsey streets, with
hundreds Of Fluffy Ruf1eS behind bic