The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-12
JEM|SON VISITS
 INDUSTRIAL TOWNS Corey Will Be Made Ideal
 American City GETS MANY SUGGESTIONS Sees Gary, Ind, vandegrift, Pa, and Other Model Industrial Cities
 and Will Utilize Their Good
 Points at Corey.

Robert Jenison, Jr., president of the Corey Land company. returned yesterday from a two weeks trip to the great steel and Iron centers of this country. He visited Gary, near Chicago, the ex- tensive new home of the Steel corpora tion on the great lakes; vandergrift, Pa, the model city of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company, and Roebling. N. J., the up-to-date city of the great firm of rope and cable manufacturers. Leslie Welton, the architect, and R. E. Meade, the engineer, who went to se- cure suggestions for laying out and irn- proving Corey, the model city which will be built contiguous to the property near Ensley on which will be located the American Steel and Wire company and possibly other subsidiary companies of the Steel corporation.
 A more optimistic party never returned to Birmingham after a trip. In speaking of conditions as they found them, MT. Jemison said:
 This trip was of priceless value to my self and MT. welton and Mir Meade. We never conceived before we left Birming- ham what an immense proposition we had in developing Corey, nor what burden of responsibility rested on the shoulders of the people who will have charge of this great work.
 we went to Gary. which three years ago was nothing but sand doons, and which is today model city of nearly 4O,- 900 people, the growth of a night all most, still far in advance in many ways of the famous cities of this country. In Gary there are restrictions governing the buildings. both business and residence. Broadway, the main street of Gary Is a revelation. Practically every business lot sold by the Gary Land company, which corresponds exactly to the Corey Land company, has been improved or is being improved. Nothing under a two- story business building of brick or stone can be erected. The Gary company has withdrawn all business property from the market indefinitely, and people have al- ready realized as much as 1000 per cent on their investments in Gary.
 ''Vandersrift is dozen years old. It was improved along the most modern ideas of the time and 1t is another reyela- tfon. It is 8 city of 10000, peopled with contented workmen of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company, 70 miles from Pittsburg. It was farm F years ago.
 we have obtained ideas from each of these places and we expect to reap the benefit of the experience of the others. culling from their list of modern ideas the best and enbodying them in Corey. leaving out the ideas that have proved unavailing.
 Corey is much better in every way than either of those cities, for the lay of the land Is such that 1t can be irn- proved to better advantage, both from an economic and hygienic standpoint We do not expect to leave a stone unturned to make this town of ours the most model in the world, and what we build today will be the nucleus for a great city of the future.
 'T return more optimistic than I have ever been before regarding the future of Birmingham, and I have always been optimistic, far more so than the average man of Birmingham. Where was mod crate before. am boiling over with en- thusiasm now. I met many prominent men in all the industrial centers of the country, and when say that Birming- ham is the talk of the industrial world today I am not exaggerating 1t one bit Everywhere went I heard talk of Bir- mingham and its future greatness. Why, began to believe that the man on the outside realizes more than we do right here in Birmingham the great possibilities of this district
 "Everywhere found the people optimis- tic. Plants were at work, rushed with orders, and many of them running at night in order to turn out the demands for their products. People are busy everywhere and the next few weeks or months will see this entire country on the greatet uplift in It's history. ''In the meantime we are going to work at Corey at once and push the work as fast as we can complete our plans and put them into execution. The foremost landscape architects of this country, sev- eral men whose lives have been devoted to model town building, and some of the best engineers have been consulted and will be employed to aid in making Corey the greatest industrial town in this coun- try, one that will attract worldwide mo- tice."