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When Completed Will Be. World's
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HAS TEN THOUSAND PrOPLE
And Will Have One Hundred Thou
sand Soon. Two Years Ago the
Site of Gary, Indiana, Was Only
a Waste of Drifting Sand.
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—From a
waste of drifting sand Gary, Ind.,
has grown in two years into a city
of 10,000 inhabitants. It is well on
the way to become the greatest steel
gity in the world, with the possible
exception of Pittsburg, and if the
ultimate plans for an expenditure of
$150,000,000 are carried out in full
it will easily take the premier rank
in the marketing of iron and steel
products. Where bandits hid Dbe
hind scrubby bushes or in caves in
1906, Broadway, a thoroughfare a
hundred feet wide, paved with as
phalt and having 17-foot concrete
walks on either side, stretches three
miles south from Lake Michigan. |
Furnishing the industrial and com-,
mercial basis for the new city is the
immense plant of the United States
Steel Corporation, in which nearly
$30,000,000 already is invested.l
Even now this project is on such al
vast scale that its very bigness dazes
one who sees it for the first time.
And when it is realized that only one
fifth of the sum eventually to be
spent on the plant has now been
used the imagination must be
brought into play to conceive what
Gary will be industrially a decade
from now.
Employes to Own Their Homes,
Comprised in the first subdivision
of Gary—the part originally pur
chased by the steel corporation as
the nucleus for the founding of the
city—is 8,000 acres, or 1214 square
miles of territory, with a frontage on
Lake Michigan of nearly eight miles.
On this land the steel corporation
has built 700 or 800 houses, for the
use of employes of the concern only.
These houses are not elaborate af
fairs, but they are roomy, comforta
ble and healthful.
It is not the purpose of the cor
poration to own these homes per
manently or to retain the building
lots still unoccupied. It designs to
have its employes own them, .and it
would like to restriet them to em
ployes entirely if that were possible.
Busiress lots in ‘Broadway, the
main mercantile street, have been
withdrawn from the market because
the commercial building has out
grown that in the residential district,
and the town is, therefore, top
heavy. The steel corporation does
not wish to make the mistake of too
much paternalism, as was the case
at Pullman. It is in Gary to make
steel products.
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and satisfactory. It speaks kind
1y in praise of the quality of our
drugs and chemicals, as well as
of the skiil which these prescrip
tions are compounded.
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prescriptions come to us; if you
wish the best and purest of drugs
come to us.
PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE
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AND BUGGIES.
We have just received a large shipment
ot high-grade Runabouts and Buggies,
and extend to you a cordial invitation to
visit our Repository in the building for
merly occupied by the First State Bank.
A line of well-satisfied customers will
warrant the statement that our styles
and prices will please you.
We also have a complete line of Harness
B. B. PERRY & CO.
Dawson, - Georgia.
There are only fonur places in the
8,000 acres where liquor may be
bought and sold. Outside interests
acquired title to and built up a ter
ritory contiguous to the subdivision
under control of the steel concern.
Although this subdivision is in the
town of Gary the steel corporation
could not restrict the establishment
on it of saloons, and nearly a hun
dred unsightly drinking places
sprang up. Knowing the laws of In
diana better than most of the citi
zens of Cary. the ministers of the
town went to work secretly and ob
tained enough names to a petition
to wipe out all these groggeries, and
that part of Gary will be dry for at
least two years.
{ Gary, aside from its buildings, is
I not the desolate waste it used to be.
| A million dollars’ worth of rich Illi
nois dirt was hauled to the town and
spread over the sand, so that green
lawns may be grown about the little
.’homes.
| Although Broadway is the show
Istreet of the town Fifth avenue,
| which runs at right angles to it, is
an ambitious paved street. West of
Broadway the more costly resi
dences will be built, deeds to this
property requiring homes that shall
'not fall below a specified standard.
l Flourishing Institutions.
There are two weekly and two
daily papers published in or for Gary.
The town has two firmly established
‘banks——the Gary State Bank, with a
paid in capital of 300,000 and de
posits of $§150,000. There is a flour
ishing commercial club, whose mem
bership includes most of the sub
stantial business and professional
men. ‘l'he Gary Hotel is a handsome‘
structure of brick, built by the steel
corporation. ‘
Five thousand men have been em
ployed steadily in the building of the
steel Mant, and the monthly pay roll
is $250,000. Ore is arriving daily,
and it is expected that the steel fleet
will have deposited nearly a million
tons before the close of lake naviga
tion. The plant is in four great
units, each of which receives the raw
material and takes it through the
various processes until it becomes
the finished steel product. it 1d
hoped that one of these units may
be in operation before the first of
the year.
Among the wonders of the new
town are its terminals and switching
district for the steam railroads,
which expect to get shares of the im
mense tonnage destined to originate
there. The Baltimore & Ohio and
the Lake Shore roads actually moved
their lines from a route over which
they had right for years and hrought
them into close touch with the steel
plant. The elevation of the tracks
cost a vast sum. Other lines tap
ping Gary are the Michigan Contial,
Pennsylvania, Wabash, Nickel Plate.
Elgin, Joliet & Northern and Gary
& Western.
When the steamer E. H. Gary,
one of the biggest of the eleven ships
composing the steel corporation’s
lake fleet, steamed into the new har
bor the other day with 10,000 tons
of ore from the Lake Superior region
-—the first load so delivered—it rode
down through an artificial slip 25
feet deep and 250 wide to the point
of delivery on a concrete dock. After
the cargo had been taken off the
steamer was turned about and pro
ceeded out into the lake again, prow
first. This turning basin alone cost
$450,000.
No authoritative estimate, how
aver, has been given as to the num
her of men who will be emploved
when the plant is completed, but
hat it will be large may be conclud
ed from a statement recently mado
by W, H Gary, head of the: steel
corporation, that within two or three
vears Gary will have a population of
100.000. ‘
’ A FATAL ACCIDENT.
\\'nung‘ Boy at Springvale Shot Him
self With Gun.
; As the result of a gunshot wound
Osborne Dunn Lowe, a fifteen-year
old boy of Springvale, met his death
on Saturday. He had been hunting
on Friday, and in attempting to
draw his gun by the muzzle from
the back of the buggy the weapon
was discharged, the load entering
his stomach. He lived about twenty
four hours. He was the adopted son
YOB Rev. and Mya ] 'T. Towe of
ISprillgvalv. whose friends grieve with
lthmn.~—-(‘uthbex‘t Leader.
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LEGISLATIVE BUNCOMBE.
r The passage by the house of rep
resentatives of a confederate service
'pension bill, adding approximately
$1,000,00v to the expenditures of
the state, is palpably about the
cheapest and most consciously futile
play to the galleries in which the
lawmakers of the state have indulged
for many a long day.
It is an affront to the intelligence
of Georgians who are informed with
regard to the actual facts of the case,
and a reflection on the men and wo
men who, on paper, are to be the
chief beneficiaries of its enactment.
The innovation under discussion is
obviously iramed in insincerity and
inconsistency, and the people ought
to know the details of the political
buncombe sought to be foisted on
their credulity.
We risk little fear of contradiction
when we say that not one of the leg
islators who voted for this enormous
increase to the pension system of
A POLITICAL STORM MAKER
An Incident in the Exciting Colquitt-
Norwood Days Recalled.
This writer heard Tom Watson de
liver what was probatly his first pub
lic political speech.
It was in the Georgia democratic
convention of 1880, when Colquitt
failed to secure the two-thirds vote
necessary to secure the nomination
for governor, and was followed by
the famous Colquitt-Norwood con
test. Watson was young and
“fiighty’’ then, as he is older and
“flighty”’ now.
Opposing the nomination of Col
quitt, and contending against an ad
journment without a nomination, he
spoke of the democracy as being in
a precarious condition, and quoted
a verse from Old Ironsides:
Then nail to the mast her holy flag;
Set every threadbare sail
And give her to the God of storms,
The lightning and the gale.
Ever since then he has been fur
nishing the storm for the democratic
party.—Perry Home Journal.
IS THE HOBO DISAPPEARING?
The Western Railroaas Having Much
Less Trouble Than Formerly.
From the west comes the news
that many railroads are cutting down
their detective and police forces
which are employed to keep tramps
off their property. Railway managers
in the far west declare that the
tramp evil is disappearing; that
“Weary Willies” have given up the
tie routes and gone to work.
Which, if true, is comforting in
formation. Since the civil war the
country every year has been bur
dened by an army of men too lazy
to work. 'They have pillaged farm
houses, freight depots and unpro
tected stores. The winter's snows
send them south, the blooms of April
bring them north.
In a statement made by an officer
of the Pennsylvania railroad some
time ago that company is alleged to
‘have lost every year since the in
vasion east of Coxey’s army $5,000,-
000 because of tramps. They have
wrecked trains, carelessly set fire to
warehouses, with occasional raids on
some ticket office safe.
LETTER TO TONEY LAVELY,
Dawson, Ga. ;
Dear Sir: Tell the owner: “I
paint Devoe, nothing else, unless you
want me to paint something else;
I'll paint whatever you like; it's
your house, not mine; your job, not
mine: It's mine, ildoit my way;
v'e yours. if 1 dao it your way.
“It will cost you less, Devoe; less
gallons to buy and brush-on; less
money for paint, less money for
wages; a gallon put-on is about $6;
Devoe will cost less by a tenth to a
half, according to what you compare
it with; and wears better, how much
better depends on what you compare
it with—it may be a year, it may
be ten.
“It is my business to know how to
paint as well as to paint: and I do.
You can see my jobs by the dozen.”
That’s straight talk. The man who
can talk like that with a steady eye,
will have plenty or business; good
business, too; and men will stand-by
him. Yours truly
57 F W DEVOE & CO
P. S.—People’s Drug Store and
Dawson Drug Co. sell our paints.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers, safe,
easy, pleasant, sure, little liver pills.
Sold by Dawson Drug Co.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
DONT WINK AT YOUR GROCER
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Just look him straight in the ¢ye and tell him you want
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[t is conceded by all good judges to be the mills best. It stands at the top
notch of Flour perfection. It's popularity is based on merit alone, and it is ac.-
knowledged to be one flour that never fails in any kind of baking.
The following are the Dawson, Doverel and Herod merchants who wil]
supply you with TEA ROSE FLOUR. A trial is all that is necessary.
J. M. RAUCH, <~ E. T. WOODS & BRO., D. H. OZIER,
WALL BROTHERS, W. H. COBB, T. 0. WHITCHARD & CO.,
KELLEY & MARTIN, Herod, Ga. LEE & THORNTON, Doverel, Ga.,
Georgia is able to say how a dollar
lot’ it is to be paid.
The state has already reached the
constitutional limit of 5 mills, and
under even these conditions this
same legislature finds itself utterly
at a loss to raise revenue for the
urgent support of the institutions of
lthe state.
This measure, if a law, would per
haps double the tax rate of the state.
In full knowledge of these facts
lrho Liouse enacts a measure which
i will add another million dollars to
!tho obligations of Georgia—
{ And does not even suggest a way
{in which the obligation is to be met!
| Further than this, the house re
ljected an amendment to put this
‘qnosrion before the pcople, driven
to this act of plain evasion by its
jinnermost belief that the voters of
Georgia would not approve any such
break of legislative caprice.
The thing is so evidently an effort
to make a little cheap political
grandstand play at the expense of
consistency, and even possibility, as
to require no elucidation.—Atlanta
Constitution.
EATING GRASS AND LEAVES.
Fellow Was Doing the Nebuchadne
zar Act in a New York Park.
New York correspondence to the
Baltimore American says: Police
man Moore saw a man jumping in
and about the bushes in Central
Park, and at times getting down on
his knees and eating leaves and
grass. He arrested him, and in the
Yorkville court Magistrate Moss sent
the prisoner, who could not tell his
name or address, to the Bellevue
hospital psychopathic ward.
The man wore nothing but a coat
and a pair of trousers. Moore ap
proached the man as he was on his
knees eating grass. When he saw
Moore the man jumped up like a
Jackrabbit and darted to a clump of
shrubbery, where he started to eat
the leaves.
Moore succeeded in finally catch
ing him. His hair had not been cut
in months and his face and hands
were black with dirt and from ap
pearances he had not worn shoes
in two or three weeks.
FOUR BLIND MEN.
They Make Their Daily Report to
the Sunshiny Old Colonel.
The other day four blind men met
at the corner of Fifth avenue and
Thirty-fifth street, says a New York
newspaper. Three of them had
tapped their own way down the
crowded avenue. The fourth was
led by an old negro of “befor’ de
wah’’ type.
‘‘Greetings, John; you fared well
yesterday?” asked the fourth man.
“l did, thank you, colonel. My
sales were $3.55,” replied a man
of some 40 years, who clutched a
score of lead pencils in his hand.
“And you, my boy?” asked the
colonel, turning his sightless eyes in
the direction of a young man of
about 25.
“I sold but 45 cents worth of shoe
laces, but my income was $4 and
—"" the roar of the traffic drowned
the odd cents.
“Charity, always charity! Too
bad, sub,” answered the colonel.
‘“Where are you, Aleck? Come
closer, man. Not discouraged again?”’
. “Oh, no, colonel. thank you,” re
plied the third blind man. “But the
police want me to move again. I
did my best, but the police—"
“By Gad, suh, I will see about
that. Don't worry, Aleck. It's one
of God's own mornings, boys. I feel
the sunshine in every nerve. My
pencils, my shoe laces, boys. Thank
you. Come, Billy, we must hurry.
Tomorrow at Forty-second street,
boys. Good cheer to you.”
For a second the three blind men
tapped the sidewalk with their canes.
l'[‘.hey turned in three different direc
‘tions. A slight touch by the negro
' guide and wwe men were off for their
day’s efforts.
1 “Are they all right, Billy?” the
icolmwl asked the negro.
| *“‘All right, colonel. We have 12
| minutes left,” said the guide. Then
‘the colonel ard his g .ide turned and
walked toward Broadway.
I Half a dozen persons had wit
'nessed the sceme and heard the talk
‘of the four men. Said one of them:
‘ "It seems to be the colonel’s am
| bition to help by buying of their
‘wares every day those afflicted as he
‘himself is. I have witnessed the
,meeting a score of times. 1 always
stop and listen. The colonel, from
'what I can learn, has a small in
come.”
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