The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-18
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
 SAN FRANCISCO AND CARY

SAN FRANCISCO AND CARY. l
 This Is tale of two cities. Gary. Indiana, and San Francisco. Cal, the first born on Aprdi IS. 1sos.s eight years ago to-day, and the last reborn on the same day.
 Many cities have suffered great connagrations, and have recovered. but few have so ehectIvely and rap idly erased the sears of disaster as that municipality by the Golden Gate that eight years ago to-day was a mass of roaring flames, and which to- day. bigger and better-bui1t than ev- CT. is inviting the worldSto be it's guest next year at the greatest exposition in history.
 The prairie Provinces Of fWestern Canada have witnessed magic cities rise almost over night. and okIaho
 ma City may boast of the marvellous rapidity of it's growth. but the Hoo sier municfpality of Gary is perhaps the most renarKable example or modern city building.
 On the same day that the whole world was mourning the destruction Iof San Francisco, a dozen workmen armed with shovels began digging in the soil of the wilderness on the ex- treme southernncst point Of Lake Michigan That was the birthda of Gary. a city built to order by the steel trust Tho site had been chosen be- Icause Of it's facilities for water tram lsportation and it's proximity to Chi Iscago, and because the land could be had for a song. When the steel trust had chosen a spot for the erection of its great mills. it's engineers proceed l ed to lay out a city. They made their plans to accommodate a population
 of 300 ,ooo, with water and sewer sys- tems sufficient to the needs of mu-
 nicipa1ity of that size, and with ann pie provisions for future extensions.
 Broadway and Fifth avenue. the principal streets. were graded and I paved with cement before any per- lnanent buildings were erected. In July, 1906, the town of Gary was in
 Incorporated, although the population
 was then composed principally Of
 worknen employed in building the
 town and the mill. and living in a
 city of tents Then came the era of i permanent building, with the steel
 company taking the lead by erecting 500 cottages. Many other great in
 dustrial corporations followed the steel trust to Gary, and, at it's pres
 ent rate of growth, the Hoosier city
 win become within quarter of a
 century one of the greatest of the
 worlds industrial centers.
 Nothing is so calculated to render
 loyal citizen, of Gary peevish as to
 have his town referred to as ..an in-
 dustrial suburb of Chicago..'s al-
 though he is willing to admit that
 Chicago may some day be suburb I of Gary. It is said that Chicago
 came near to being located near the
 present site of Gary. According to the story, youthful engineer was sent by the United States govern
 ment to select good harbor on Laks Michigan. His nrst choice. was wol1
 Lake. just east of Gary. and there the western metropolis would have been. built. except that French-Ca- nadian trapper who lived in a hut al the mouth of the Chicago river had 3 lovely daughter The young survey
 or was smitten with the maiden's
 charms, and. in order to be near her he removed his camp to the Chicago river, and changed his recommenda
 ton to the government. Whethel 2 the amorous youth was suecessful il
 his suit tradition does not tell.
 To the great majority of San Fran s eiscans the eighteenth of April. ami
 Iversary of the great fire of 1906, ha n become a day of jubiiation well a of mourning. That period of travaI