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the buildings, bad sanitary conditions, the practice of keeping- 

 many boarders, etc. Not all the housing conditions on the South 

 Side are as dark as these — some are as good as those on the North 

 Side, but this is the prevailing condition. 



In Subdivision No. 1, as has been explained, provisions were 

 made that intoxicating liquors might be sold in only two places. 

 There was one large saloon on Broadway near the entrance to 

 the Steel mills, and a bar in the Gary Hotel on Broadway and 

 Sixth street. South of this district in the section not owned by 

 the Land Company, that is, in "The Patch", there were no 

 restrictions as to the number of saloons. In 1911 it was esti- 

 mated that there was one saloon to every 88 people, and in 1913, 

 one to about 151 people. In 1910 there were 246 saloons; in 

 1911 the Indiana law raised the Gary license fee to $725 a year, 

 and ladded the provision that no new saloons might be licensed 

 till the proportion of saloons fell to one to every 500 population. 

 The number of licenses issued in this year, 1911, fell to 194, 

 and in 1912 and 1913 the number was the same. In 1913 the 

 amount of money received in license fees amounted to $87,691.60. 



The growth of the institutions of Gary has kept pace with 

 that of the town and reflects the character of the population as 

 no other phase of the city life can. They will be referred to 

 here only briefly, however, as they have been so adequately 

 described elsewhere. The school system which was established 

 at the very beginning of the city on its present basis has been a 

 subject of study by outsiders for some years now. The public 

 library, the parks, and playgrounds are a part of the recreational 

 and educational program; the churches of many denominations, 

 Catholic, Protestant, and Hebrew; the social settlements and 

 Y.M.C.A., are a part of the religious and educational program. 

 The Steel Company has its own hospital, and in addition to this 

 there are two others: one denominational hospital and the city 

 hospital. In the matter of public utilities the city manages the 

 police, fire, and health departments; water, light, and gas are 

 furnished by a subsidiary of the Steel Corporation, the Gary 

 Heat, Light, and Water Company, whose franchise may be 

 acquired by the city at a later date; and the franchise for the 

 street railway is held by an independent company. 



3. The Population of Gaby 



There have been two stages in the growth of the population 

 of Gary: the construction period and the operating period. The 



