TO BE ABANDONED

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 10

TO BE ABANDONED

AMERICAN STEEL CITY )

' NEW YORK, May 31.V The model steel city of Gary, In? Diana, will be abandoned, and a nc^f, plant will be erected by the Uni^fll \ States Steel Corporation at Pittsburgh Gary was built on a boggy terrain, which has been slowly sinking, owing to the great weight of'the steel-making ; machinery. . > Gary, ajsity of Lake County, Indiana,., at the southern end of Lake Michigan, ' had an estimated population of 100,Cf6j) in 1928 and is a creation of ,the Unftad States Steel Coloration. In 1905 the corporation bought a barren tract of 8000 acres, sand dunes and swamiw meadows, crossed by the Grand Cammet and Little Calumet Bivers, and tfy 1928 had created a city with an assessed value- of 152,000,000 dollars, with, 191; , miles of'Jimproved streets,'ls inile^ of * boulevards, 135 miles of water1 main«,:' and 90 ■ miles of tramway , tracks, together with 515 acres of public playing fields and miles of beaches. The corporation's investment there is over 150,00.0,000 dollars and the industries, chiefly subsidiaries of the U.5.8.C., include the largest steel works, tin-plate works, rail mills', and cement works, in ' the United, States., The city was chartered in 1906, and' named after Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the corporation, who died in 1927.