The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-24
CITY WITHIN
A CITY IS
BEING MADE

Building a city within city is just
what the $50 trail blazers are doing
this summer up in the northwest sec
ton of Gary's new second subdivision
What were the woods, the sand dunes
the marshes, the scrub oaks and blasted
pines of few months ago are now the
site of blocks of graded streets
On the opposite side of the Grand
Calumet river what will be one of
Gary's greatest industries is being
built day by day. The good people Of
Clark who never heard any noise save
the rumblings of Pennsylvania
freight train or the noisy waves of
Lake Michigan on a windy day are now
getting accustomed to the gatling gun
sounds of a hundred pneumatic drill
hammers. the screech of narrow gauge
locomotives darting here and there
with little cars of sand, the shrill
blasts of cranes and the chug, chug of
the mammoth clam diggers.
Am<~ican Bridge Progress.
The workers on the north side of the
river are building the Gary plant of
the American Bridge company. There
are several hundred men there now and
in few years the word hundreds will
be changed to read thousands Since
early winter the rough broken sand
dune country between the river and
the Lake Shore tracks has been trans
formed into an elevated and perfectly
level plane.
There now stands on this plane the
steel skeleton work of several mill
buildings which grow higher each day.
In other parts concrete foundations
have been laid and others are being
laid and already the first course of
masonry tops the foundations of the
| general offices which lie on the river
bank,just west of the foot of Ambridge
street
| South of the river an old trail. in
the woods has given place to Ambridge
street which is now graded and leveled
from the river south to Fifth avenue
more than a half-mile distant. In the
alley west of Ambridge street Contrac-
| tor Ryrnes and $50 men with cranes,
steam shovels and concrete mixers, are
building the northwest sewer system at
| a cost of a million dollars.
n. w. Sewer System.
| A 90-inch concrete sewer with house
| connections is now laid from the river
! to Third avenue and cross section is
/ being laid that street. Excavation
/ is now under way to extend the sewer
to the alley north OF Fifth avenue ex-
| tended and from there it will pro-
| coed east ward for more than a
mile connecting with the Fifth eve
nue. sewer system at the western bord-
er of the first subdivision. From Fill
more street, the most westerly high
way in the first subdivision and bord-
ering the west end woods west to the
II Pennsylvania tracks Fifth avenue has
been graded. When the west graded
part is completed Fifth avenue will
thoroughfare more than three miles
in length.
An Imposing Street.
Looking east on Fifth avenue from
it's intersection with Ambridge street
this eighty foot thoroughfare gives a
very imposing perspective of three
miles. The nearer part is now OF
course fanked both sides by the
trees but as Fillmore street is reached
the buildings are seen and after Broad
way the line of vision narrows down
to a pin point
Ambridge street will cross the Grand
Calumet by very elaborate bridge Il
/ will be the highway leading to the
/ main gate of the American Bridge com.
pany This street is parallel and tive
| and one-half miles west of Broadway
Present plans call for the immediate
Improvement of five north and south
I streets with Ambrfdge as the centel
/ one. These impoved streets will liz
| north OF Fifth avenue and extend to TIL.
| river. other than these no other NORTH
and south streets will be built jus
now. Fifth avenue will be the onl,
| east and west street to be improved
this year
When the first section of the new
/ second subdivision is completed it
| typographical appearance will resem
BILE the arm of a man stretched straigh
! out from his elbow with his fist up
| turned. The body will be the frs
| subdivision. the arm Fifth avenue an,