﻿Preface 



This thesis has been prepared under th^ direction of Professor 

 Ulysses G. Weatherly to meet the requirements for the degree 

 Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Economics and Sociol- 

 ogy in Indiana University. 



Because of the short period of time covered, and because of 

 the comparatively small number of cases included, the materia J s 

 in this study have been intensively rather than extensively 

 treated. For this reason also much of the information in this 

 study must stand simply as materials and not as a basis of any 

 sweeping generalities. 



Since this study was prepared in 1916 many changes have 

 taken place in Gary; in its industries, in its physical appearance, 

 in its population, in living conditions, and in general social life. 

 The most important of these changes perhaps are those brought 

 about by the war and by national prohibition. The single fact 

 of the passing of the saloon has very materially affected the social 

 conditions in the city. No attempt has been made to bring the 

 materials in this study up to date because of the danger of lessen- 

 ing the value of the study as an historical sketch of Gary in the 

 early years of its existence. Th? study is offered as a picture of 

 conditions which were true at the time of its preparation in 1916. 



As originally prepared, the study contained 121 tables in 

 Chapters III and IV. Because of the expense of publication, it 

 has been necessary to omit most of these tables from the printed 

 study, including only a few of the most important of them in 

 the Appendix. These original tables with fuller explanation have 

 been arranged and deposited in the Indiana University Library, 

 Bloomington, Ind., where they are available to those students 

 wishing more detailed material concerning the facts given h^re, 

 under the title, "Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime — Certain 

 Associations of Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime in Gary, 

 Ind., with Special Reference to the Immigrant Population — 

 Tables for Chapters III and IV". 



The author is especially indebted to Willis C. McMahan, 

 judge of the Lake County Juvenile Court, Crown Point, Ind.; 

 Mary A. Kirby, special officer of the Lake County Board of 

 Children's Guardians, Gary, Ind.; Rhoda M. Welding, secretary 

 of the Associated Charities, Gary, Ind.; J. C. Tracy, postmaster, 

 Gary, Ind.; Pontius Heintz, chief of police, Gary, Ind.; Thomas 

 W. Brolley, chief of Bureau of Statistics of Indiana, Indianapolis, 

 Ind.; Wilbur A. Cogshall, professor of astronomy, Indiana 

 University, Bloomington, Ind. 



