The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-06-12
SEE SELF INTEREST IN
WESTERN ATTITUDE
Dispatch Takes Chicago Tribune to
Task for Alleged Premature Exul-
tation Over Garys Prowess- For
mer Claims to Have Had the Orig
inal Simon Pure Interview.

Apropose of Henry c. Tricks recent
speech wherein he was credited in the
press dispatches as saying that Pitts
burg's death knell had been sounded
and that Gary would become the steel
capital of the continent, the Dispatch,
a Pittsburg newspaper says that Mr.
Tricks statements were misrepresented
in the western press
The Dispatch takes the Chicago Tri-
bune to task and administers to that
paper rebuke.
After Mr.. Frick made his famous
speech the Tribune printed an editor
lar most jubilant in tone conceding
everything to Gary. 1t is that that the
Pittsburghers resent.
For some time the people in the city
by the Monongahela have been cast
ing covert glances on Gary The lat
ter's rapid progress have raised fears
and to say the least Pittsburg views
the rising star OF the Indiana steel city
with much alarm. The Dispatch in it's
own words says that 'Pittsburg must
always be the principal point of manu-
facture for the Eastern and export
! trade" It is significant that it does
not say that the city will be the center
| OF he seel Industry.
The East's Answer TO the West.
The Pfttsburger's jealousy of Gary
i continues, and he has reason for it.
This much is betrayed by the Dispatch
in an editorial on Mr.. Tricks speech
which reads:
Some desperate Misrepresentation
has been founded on the interview of
Mr.. Prick, touching improvements to
be made in this city. The worst, how
ever, as far as we have seen them is
found in the Chicago Tribune 1t is SO
wide of the truth that It preserves nc
resemblance to ii. The Tribune says
Mr. Henry c. Frick says that the
death kneH of Pittsburg was sounded
when Gary came into being. The new
city Is in his opinion to be the stee
center of the country. He looks for
ward sadly to the day when vast stee
interests will be something unknown t.
!. Pittsburg. He even goes so far as t
say that the city is doomed as an in
dustrial center unless the moneyeC
Y men get together and save it.
LAS the interview of Mr.. Prick wa
:. given to the Dispatch we know wha
he did say. 1t was not at all of tn
= tenor of the Tribune's editorial. More
over, Mr.. Fricl1 gave out a subsequen
e interview in which he said he ha,
every confidence in the continued su
n premacy of Pittsburg. and as an earn
est of that confidence he announced hi
J. plan to erect a large office building II
the East End district. He said tn
n building of the mill at Gary did no
mean that Pittsburg had less advant
ages for it must always be the prin
e cipal point of manufacture for tn
), Eastern and export trade.
In his original interview Mr.. Fricl
said Pittsburg should make improve
ments now under discussion; that /
should keep up with the procession
He referred to Gary, but he did no
say that Gary or any other place ha
:, any advantage over Pittsburg He di
: say Pittsburg should put itself in posi-
ton to get new business. He was talk
= ing to the Pitts5urg public, and tn
~ Pittsburg public understood him: tina
q he mean this city should make a
4 aggressive campaign to increase ii
q supremacy as an industrial center An
& Pittsburg is going to do that yer
-
death knells, but Pittsburg. never. Oh.
cago may fear the superior location
Toledo, but Pittsburg is secure in il
3 position. and is going ahead to conque
new worlds
Mr. Frick did not say the death kne
of Pittsburg was sounded. lie doe
not look forward to the day when tt
, vast steel interests will be somethin
unknown in Pittsburg. He did not sa
" the city needed to be saved. Just Il
3 opposite. He said the city should 6
s after new business. And to prove h
& faith both in its present supreme
and in its ability to get the new bus
ness. he made contracts increasing h
4 already large investments in the futu
Of Pittsburg. Chicago will reap
benefit from the circulation of TIL
gratuitous falsehood."
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3 ers' strike ended recently the m,