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community: each shack with its number, 56, 57, etc. Each 

 shack has its accompaniment of sheds, dog houses, chicken coops, 

 and stack of hay or swamp grass gathered from the prairie. Cows, 

 horses, dogs, geese, pigs, chickens, and beautiful children i ) 

 droll looking ciothes tumble over each other in the sand. In the 

 eveniag the women come in along the paths from the prairies, 

 wearing their shawls and kerchiefs over their heads and their 

 short, full skirts, and bending under bundles of sticks tied on 

 their backs. As they gather in groups laughing and chatting a 

 few minutes before separating for their various shacks, the red 

 of the setting sua behind them throws this picture of peasant 

 life into a bold relief that quite blots out another picture only 

 two squares away, a picture of the hustle and bustle of an Amer- 

 ican business day drawing to a close. 



A street car loaded with workmen from one of the most per- 

 fectly appointed and equipped modern steel plants in the country 

 turns off Broadway and clangs past, disturbing the line of march 

 of a flock of geese which two little Italian girls, Santina and 

 Carmella, are driving home to their father's shack — geese whose 

 feathers are to go into great fluffy mattresses between which the 

 children will sleep snug and warm against the winter winds 

 filtering in thru the cracks and crevices of their poor little shack. 



A visitor in Gary is immediately struck with the fact that 

 there are few old people. In the streets, in the offices, in the 

 shops, in the mills, in the homes, people are young. Youth 

 pervades the atmosphere. Perhaps it is this youth, both of 

 people and of city, which accounts for the air of hope, of enthu- 

 siasm, of confidence in the future, which everywhere obtains. 

 Everybody is a self-appointed ''booster". Occasionally a 

 "knocker" is heard, but he is usually a very recent arrival, and 

 only a few months' residence is necessary to convert him into 

 an ardent enthusiast. 



From the streets the visitor carries away with him the impres- 

 sion of color, of music, and of movemeat; from the offices and 

 shops, of energy, of efficiency, and of stability. 



The accompanying diagram shows Gary located at the head 

 , of Lake Michigan in Indiana 26 miles southeast of Chicago's 

 downtown, one of a series of cities on the industrial edge of 

 Chicago. In 1906 when the United States Steel Corporation 

 felt the need of greater facilities for the manufacture of steel the 

 geographical location of a site for additional steel plants became 

 a vital question. The center of steel construction was moving 



