The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-07-20
SAND DUNE
BEEHIVE OF
ACTIVITY
What Short Time Ago Was
Waste Three Miles From
Broadway to Become City
in Itself Where Bridge Co.
Plant Is to Be Located.

What a year ago was waste of sand
dunes. swamps. pines and scrub oaks
is being transformed into a duplicate
of the first subdivision of Gary. Three
miles from Broadway, yet in the heart
of a wilderness. a thousand men are
engage in building streets, sewers,
sidewalks. and homes. This is the
United States Steel corporations sec
ond subdivision which will be a replica
of the best part of Gary and from pres
ent indications the twenty-sevep
streets that compose it will be far bet
ter than those In the first subdivision.
A Beehive of Activity.
The location OF this activity is along
the sluggish banks of the Grand Calu-
met and within pistol shot of the old
town of Clark. 1t was the advent of
the American Bridge companys plant
that prompts the creation of the dupli-
cate city in order that there may be
homes for thousands.
A Real Drama of Industry.
Construction is in all stages. On the
borders are gangs of men cutting down
trees and under brushes. Huge steam
shovels delve into the sand dunes and
deliver their loads into little cars NOV
ed here and there by screeching NINA
ture locomotives which dodge around
at tremendous rate of speed. Other
derricks and shovels are either filling
in sloughs or digging into the ground
for the bed of nine foot sewer.
Active young fellows from Purdue.
Armour. Massachusetts Tech, Illinois
and Yale are to be seen trailing their
surveying instruments over the ground.
While one squad Of Italians are attack
L
| away sun-burned Hungarians and
Croatins are busy laying the pavement
/ of a new street. Innumerable concrete
mixers are scattered about and as the
cement workers pour the mass into the
ground iron workers nearby run steel
columns into the air. Its a hard ques-
| tion to decide whether the gattling gun
clicks of the pneumatic drill or the
'ye-ho" of the labor foremen makes
l the most noise.
Armed Guard Lends Color.
/ Approaching the center of activity
where the house building is going on
the stranger doesn't get far beyond the
linterurban tracks. If the American
Bridge company's private policeman Is
suspicious of you you are referred to
the post sergeant, who in turn directs
you to the captain. This official, with
the usual directness that is character
listic of the steel corporations police
officers, sizes you TIP and If he Is con-
WINGED that you are not a business
tagent for a union a slugger. you
get a chance to look around. If you
should decide to go against orders
there is always a patrol squad nearby
with regulation clubs and revoivers
strapped to their belts.
q no G1th.
sidiary company of the steel corpora
ton is fully justified. The steel trus
owns all the land and when the TWEEN
ty-seven streets are fully improve;
they will be turned over to the city o
Gary. Were not a guard kept tramps
s1uggers, and house wreckers woult
make life unpleasant. All work Is con
lducted under the open shop rule an,
union and non-union men work side b
side.
Are Building 2SS Homes.
There are now in the course of con
struction 1eS houses containing 2s
dwellings,. The homes range in cos
from $4,000 to $4,000 and they ar
being built by a group OF Gary con
tractors. All types of homes are bein,
erected and when they are finished II
the late fall Gary's population will =.
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Pennsylvania and Ohio to work in tn
big bridge plant on the other side o
the river. When the present force O
house builders finish their work the,
will be followed by squads of gardner
and tree planters who will beautify tn
district.
Begin to Spend Millions.
The houses that are being built will
rcost nearly ST50.00O while street an
sewer improvements will twic
that sum. All OF the homes will b
rented at a reasonable rent and EN-
ployes may purchase them at a state
price rental applying as payments. A
any time all payments less rental an
six per cent interest will be returne
| to the employee wishing to sell hi
home.
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