The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
CARY IS WONDERFUL
 NEW STEEL CITY Creation of United States Steel
 Corporation POPULATION IS 15,OOO Where Wolves Howled Over DesoIate Wastes Only Two Years Ago. What Can Be Done With
 $75,ooo,ooo.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The men who two years ago started out to build the city of Gary, Ind, have made good" The city has been built. It was comparatively easy task to build Gary. The company that called the city into being said to its engineer;
 Here is $750OO,O0O Build us a oity.''
 And so the engineer went out and built the oity. He had $75.0OO,Ooo at his dis posal, and with S5,OOo,oOo one can do much, even in these times.
 Of course, there are details. There was a river to move for one thing. Then there were three railway systems in the way-trunk lines, carrying the commerce of the Atlantic to join the commerce Of the Pacific. The railway systems had to be moved also. There were mountains of sand dunes incumbering the ground. and more mountains of sand dunes at the bottom of the lake. The sand dunes had to be gotten out of the way to make room for the city and harbor. Then, with the ground leveled and the lake front dredged, there were miles and miles of streets and alleys to be graded and paved, miles and miles of water pipe, gas
 
 and electric light wire oonduits to be laid in the ground; water system had to be provided, gas works erected. electric light and power houses installed, huge steel plants erected, hundreds of dwelling houses erected, stores provided, schools, churches, hotels, theatres, hospitals, banks built, street railway systems con- structed, parks and playgrounds laid out. But these things were matters of detail. The main point is that the city has been built, and is practically ready for oocu- pancy.
 That sounds rather strange when you come to think of it. Usually city is oc- cupied while it is being built With Gary 1t is different. When the city is complet- ed the men who are building it will, for the most part, move away and the real occupants of the city move in.
 Bleak and Untrodden.
 Today Gary has population of 1500o souls. Two years ago the wolves howled over the desolate waste now. covered by the city itself. When, two years ago last May, Thomas E. Knotts, the presi- dent of Gary, started from Hammond flor the site of the future city he was like a Forty miner, who half century ago started out into the bleak and un- trodden wilds of the great West He went in covered wagon of the prairie schooner type, and headed into the jack oak covered sand dunes and swamps around the mouth of the Grand Calumet He went into a region so desolate that in all the hundred years history of the State of Indiana it had never had permanent settler. So wild was the re- zion that MT. Knotts found 1t advisable to blaze his course on the trees, and he had to use his compass to guide himself to a location between the Grand and Little Calumet Rivers and Lake Michi- gan.
 On May 4, 1906, Mr. Knotts pitched his tent on the present site of Gary, and his sleep that first night was disturbed by the bowling of the wolves. He was In the midst of a swamp, and yet not so deep in the wilderness that he could not. hear the boom of the surf of Lake Mich igan.
 Since that a<-solate night the magic working power of millions of dollars has been at work. Day and night the place has teemed with thousands of workmen, guided by a master hand. Out of the chaos of wilderness has come the or der of civilization. One wave of the wand in the hand of the genii of millions and the wilderness disappeared. Another wave of the wand, and the city appeared.
 In Area 800 Acres.
 It is worth while to recount what has been accomplished in these two years. In the first place. it may be stated that the work of Gary has proceeded along two lines. The United States Steel cor poration, which called Gary into being, has been constructing mammoth steel plants and blast furnaces With this work it has been constructing a city to house the people who will in the near future operate the steel plant. It will be more interesting to trace the develop ment of the latter feature first.
 Approximately 800 acres of the land ac-