The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-06-14
GARY SCENE
Of REALISM
GALORE TO-DAY
Battle of Bedouins and
Sheiks, With Garyland
Sand as Panorama of War
Wee Stretch of Imagina-
ton Needed to Believe.

Passengers on the interurban and
railway cars passing the sand dunes
eats of Gary today will think they have
ben transplanted to the Sahara desert,
for here fearful battle is being ragged
in the regian that resembles the scorch-
ing African desert.
The passengers may rub their eyes
and old ladies may grow apprehensive
for they will see a score of horsemen
CARRIED as Arabian Bedouins, camels
and white-robed sheiks and caravans,
and IL they wait long enough they will
see a band of blood thirsty Bedouns
hiding behind the pyramids spring out
and pounce upon camel train and rob
them of their prescious stones and lay
captive to the men and beautiful
daughters of the east. The battle is
going to be something fierce"
Gary Has the sand.
Gary is furnishing the sand and the
scenic background for the great bat
tie OF the desert and the SeIig Poly
scope Company of Chicago will take
motion pictures of the CORY, bloody,
sanguine affair which will be repro
duced in thousands of FIVE and ten cent
theateres in this country and Europe
Last evening a shutdown the cara
van and the moving picture outfit ar
rived in town and put up their horses
and ships of the desert at Gormerly's
livery stable at Broadway and Wabash
tracks.
Foreigners Delighted.
They appeared an broadway just as
the workmen from the steel mills were
returning from their labors When
the Assyrian, Persian and Arabian eie-
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eral hundred. saw the camels, whom
took TO be their Mohemmedan
brethren in religion from the plains of
Arabia, they were thoroughly tubilant.
Following the custom of their native
country the followers of Islam turned
toward the east and made a deep
salaam crying out the strangs words
that sounded like this. Allah, Allah,
pasha Allah shieka ell fez ell afendi,"
whichsds said to be the salute to the
camel and means, Allah be praised,
the ship of the desert is here"
The Mohemmadans crowded about
the camels and were full of joy when
the reminders OF their native country
were presented 20 them.
This morning at an early hour the
caravan moved to their scene of action
near Dune Park. The battle is ex-
pected TO take place al 1 o'clock and
will be attended by a large number OF
Gary people including Mayor Knots
and a number of the city officials. The
actors who will take part in the thrill
ing drama came out to Dune Park on
the Lake Shore train from Chicago
this morning and number about TO-
The Selig Polyscope company of Chi
cago is one of the largest moving pic
ture concerns in the country. At Grant
Park and Western avenue they have
studios comprising acres of ground
prepared for every Imaginable kind OF
exterior work from a railway smansh-
up to wild animal hunt, and the ami
mails to hunt with.
The Selig company at Chicago has
the lasest collection of wild animals OF
any picture plant in the world The
plant was built in 1907 At the pres.
ent writing new factories are goins
up that will double the size and ca
pacity OF the original plant.
At Los Angeles the plant there COW
ere $40 acres, with that noble noun
tain range, the lofty sierras, as a back
ground. In this Enclosure there are
alligators. ostrichs. as well as speci-
mems of every known wild animal In.
digeneous to Western America.
In all these plants there are enoug 81
trained horses to equip a fair sized
body of cavalry, together with cow
boys. real ones (not the show kind
led by prize winner at lasso throw
ing. In scenes representing wild lif.
of the American prairies no other pic
ture firm attempts to compete with tn,
Selig company.
But with all the lofty mountains anS
miniature lakes the Selig company dit
not have a Sahara desert and they hat
to come to Gary for the sand and tn,
realistis scenic production.