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From the map on page 12 will be seen the sites of other plants: 

 2, the American Car and Foundry Company, independent ; 3, the 

 Coke By-Products Company; 4, the American Locomotive Com- 

 pany, independent; the repair shops of the Chicago, Lake Shore, 

 and Eastern Railway; 5, the American Bridge Company, sub- 

 sidiary; 6, the Universal Portland Cement Company, subsi- 

 diary; 7, the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company; 8, the 

 Gary Screw and Bolt Company; and 9, the switch yards and 

 repair shops of the Elgin, Joliet, and Eastern, the Steel Com- 

 pany's railways. These plants furnish employment for a large 

 part of the population of Gary, and give it its industrial character. 



While the Indiana Steel Company was building the plant, 

 the Gary Land Company platted two square miles just south of 

 this strip as the original town of Gary, n?med for Judge E. H. 

 Gary, the chairman of the executive committee of the United 

 States Steel Corporation. The company decided to carry on the 

 actual building operations of the town itself for three reasons: 

 first, in order that the town might be built rapidly enough so 

 that when the plant opened there would be houses for its work- 

 men; second, few workmen would have enough ready money on 

 hand to build their own homes; and third, if the building were 

 left to others there would inevitably be land speculation and 

 abnormally high prices. The shaded portion A on the map on 

 page 12 shows ^Subdivision No. 1", the original area plotted by 

 the Gary Land Company. 



It is said that Gary was a city complete from the start— 

 that it shaped itself according to a completely formed idea. 

 For a long time after 1906 there was no outward sign of a city. 

 The ridges of sand were leveled and the town laid out providing 

 for streets, sites for parks, public buildings, and schools. Then 

 began the building of the city below the ground — the laying of 

 sewers, water pipes, gas mains, electric light conduits in what 

 were to be alleys, and the erection of a water intake. Thus at 

 enormous preliminary expense was placed all the underground 

 work of a capacity to serve a city of 300,000 people, so that in 

 later years streets and alleys will not have to be torn up as the 

 'town grows, and so that the original sale price of each lot will 

 have covered the price of all the improvements. When the under- 

 ground work was done the streets were laid and the building- 

 above ground begun. 



The street plan of Gary is the old-fashioned rectangle. The 

 two principal streets originally laid out were Broadway, running 



