The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-03-18
BIG WORKS
OF STEEL PLANT
Located at Gary Visited
Wednesday by One Thou
sand Citizens-What
They Saw.

'AA' NHNusttllh hfolN ilNAAEilN ana NlN-
itors got one Of the best Views Of the
steel works as whole that anyone
has ever obtained yesterday on the
Commercial clubs specialtrip through
the coke oven plant. the Indiana steel
plant ana the Tin Plate and Bridge
works. The trip lasted from 1890
O'Clock until a quarter of i've. over
three hours.
The four works were seen as q
whole and they filled many a Gary
mans mind with amazement Many of
those on the trip had been In one or
more mills but few had ever had the
opportunity to see the whole plant out
lined before As the train wended
its way past vast buildings with
dimensions in hundreds of feet. past
all kinds of structural work rising
skyward. past coke ovens completed
and just started. past a wilderness Of
machinery parts awaiting the touch
of the ereetor, past great soaring
blast furnaces. past the glow Of the
hundreds Of open hearths, past the
power houses and the ore docks, and
the stripping houses and the great
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completed structures of the tin plate
works that grow TO giant size with
closer approach and finally by way
of the elevated on through the al
most finished bridge buildings. the
excursionists gradually awoke TO a
fuller realization OF what steel means
10 Gary.
No one who took that trip could
possibly have even faint doubt as
10 the future immensity OF the steel
interests that will be concentrated in
Gary nor OF the future greatness Of
Gary the city
The. excurslonists began gathering
az the Broadway entrance Of the In
diana steel company works more than
a half hour before the train was
tiers Of an hour the constant stream Of
men poured down Broadway until
there must have been a thousand
gathered at the entrance. AS ripid-
ly as possible they filed into the
grounds and boarded the train Of a
dozen flat cars. There was little de-
lay in starting, the party being head
ed for the coke oven plant which lies
to the east of the steel mills proper
The size of this plant was a sur
prise toabout everyone who hadn't
been there before Because of the
thousands OF men the other plants EN-
ploy or are { oemploy when COM
pleted the thousand men that VIII
be used in the coke ovens haven't
attracted so very much attention. But
IA 10 IL. t.s In,
If il were being built in any other
city anything like Gary's size 1t would
be the cynosure of all eyes. The riv-
iting Of each bolt would be duly
chronirled and the wonderful results
10 follow gravely discussed Mt the
dinner table. But in Gary the coke
oven have grown up almost without
notice. As the real size of the plant
burst into view there were eXclama-
tions of astonishment on all sides.
Several units of the coke ovens
were inoperation yesterday and
number of others were In the course
Of construction. In each unite there
are seventy ovens. After being car
rled through the coke ovens the ex.
cursionists were whirled along the
tueA HlhN u NiAt Uldel iuIIditH near
the ore docks Three OF the eight
blast furnaces We're running and
preparations are being made to blow
in another.
Then the train scooted away be-
tween the power house and the blast
furnaces and out onto the lake front
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Back It came between open hearths
Nos. 2 and 3 and past the mill en-
trance TO the Tin Plate works.
Here the eXcurslonists were tax
IN through two OF the long build
ings, one OF them being the power
house and shearing mill. These build
ings were all found 10 be almost COM
pleted but much finishing work re-
mains 10 be done and little or no ma
chinery has been set in place. 1t Is
estimated that none Of these mills
will be in operation until July.
From the Tin Plate works the train
puffed away 10 the Bridge works via
the elevated TO the west. The Bridge
works buildings were found colnplet-
ed but much OF the machiners has
not been set in place. However,
work lis going forward rapidly and
these works VIII probably begin turn
ing out structural iron and steel In
the course Of a month at the latest
From the bridge works the eX-