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the Wabash railroad tracks to Fifteenth street and from Broadway 

 to Madison is the small district originally known as "The Patch", 

 shown on the map as shaded portion B. This district has stamped 

 its character in many ways on the life of the district, give a on 

 the map as the shaded portions C and B, known as Gary's "South 

 Side". Thus there are in Gary today 8 these two characteristic 

 districts: the North Side characterized by regulation, order in 

 planning and in building, good housing conditions, good streets, 

 sanitary conditions, and only two places where intoxicating 

 liquors are sold; 8 and the South Side where are most of the 

 saloons, 8 crowded conditions, houses of prostitution, unsanitary 

 conditions, and poor living conditions. In the North Side live, 

 in general, the better-to-do: skilled workmen, professional men, 

 business men — principally the higher social and economic classes 

 of native born Americans and the Old Immigration. In thg 

 South Side, in general, live the unskilled common laborers and 

 small tradesmen, principally of the New Immigration, and the 

 Colored, but with the lower social and economic classes of Amer- 

 icans and the Old Immigration. 



The map shows the original boundary of Gary in 1906 out- 

 lined in heavy solid line. There have been about 300 subdivisions 

 platted since that time. The district just south of the Little 

 Calumet river, shown on the map as shaded portion D, was 

 annexed in 1909, and Tolleston, the large district to the west, 

 shown on the map as shaded portion E, annexed in 1910. Such 

 has been the expansion of Gary till at the present time it measures 

 about 7 miles from east to west and about 5 from north to south, 

 including about 31 square miles. The present boundary of Gary 

 is shown on the map in heavy broken line. 9 



The political history of Gary is quite picturesque but cannot 

 be entered into here at any great length. With an army of 

 workmen and but a very small settled population, Gary was incor- 

 porated as a town on July 17, 1906. It became a city of the 

 fifth class under the laws of the state of Indiana in October, 1909, 

 a city of the fourth class in October, 1910, and a city of the 

 second class January 1, 1915. 



In the whole history of Gary, housing facilities have never 

 been sufficient to satisfy the needs, because of the fact that it 

 takes time to build houses. Even as late as 1911 it was estimated 

 that not over half of the people working in Gary could find 



8 This was in 1916 before national prohibition went into effect. See Preface. 

 91916. 



