The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-24
new HARb0R AND
BRAND NEW CITY
Beginning of Steel Production
at Gary, Ind.,. Marked
by Festivities.
FIRST CARGO OF IRON ORE
SPEECH BY JOHN w. KERN, DEM
oCRATiC NOMINEE.

Gary, Ind, July 23.-When the
steamer f. H. Gary, with the first car
go of iron ore. with which the great
steel mills of the United States Steel
corporation here will soon begin opera
tons. entered today into the new har-
Dor here. a great American flag was
run up on a high Flagstaff at the harbor
entrance and broke out to the breeze.
The ceremony marked the formal open
ing of the new -harbor. Instantly the
gunbOat Wolverine. the only war vessel
on the Great Lakes, responded with a
salute of twenty-One guns. The naval
training ship Dorothea and the revenue
cutter Tuscarora followed with salutes
as the Gary passed to her docks, carry
ing 1900 tons of ore
The Gary had been boarded by repre-
sentatives of manufacturing. CONNER
cial and banking interests of the west.
Spoke From Steamers Bridge.
As soon as the harbor had been
reached the formal exercises began. the
speakers talking from the steamer 5
bridge
Kern of Indianapolis, Democratic can
didate for the vice presidency. Other
speakers were James r. Mann and E
ID. Crumpacker. members of congress
from the Calumet mining region: w
Livingstone of Detroit. president of the
Lake Carriers association, and repre-
sentatives of the town of Gary and of
the steel company Following the
speeches there was an exhibition of
rapid work by the vessel unloaders in
handling the cargo of the Gary. An in
spection of the mills followed
Parade Through City.
Then there was a parade headed by
the marines and naval reserves through
the city of Gary, with a reception at
the Gary hotel. Here Mr. Kern and
others made brief addresses from the
balcony of the hotel
All Lake county seemed to have come
10 the festivities, marking the begin
ming Of the era of the production of the
mills on which the United States Steel
company has spent $50, 900. and with
as much more to be spent before the
mills are i'm full opera ton.
Before the close OF navigation next
December 1t is expected that more than
100000 tons of iron ore will be un-
loaded from the vessels here
Mr.. kern's Speech.
Mr.. Kern spoke for half an hour. He
spoke OF the recent rapid development
OF this part of the state and recalled
that millions of people going to the west
mad passed through these northern In
diana stretches of sand dunes and
swamps, passing on to more promising
places. But now, he said, the west Is
becoming filled and people have been
turning to the tasks of draining and
developing what already has become
one OF the richest parts of the state
and the work of making
1t also one of the greatest Industrial
sections of Indiana is we'll begun.
Il am glad" he continued. ito find
that in the plans for the new steel civ
the great corporation building il is TAX
ing into consideration the welfare of
the workmen upon whom ultimate sue
cess must rest. Selhshness gives us too
many tenement houses constructed
without regard to the sanitary we'll
being OF the occupants, the community
and the state, and IL reduces many men
to state of perpetual tenantry."