GARY

a city of Indiana, in Lake co. It is on the Indiana, Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago, Indiana and Southern, the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern, and other railroads. Gary is at the head of Lake Michigan and is midway between the great iron ore beds of the North and the coal regions of the South. This led to its selection as the site for the main plant of the United States Steel Corporation in April, 1906. From the time of its founding the city has developed rapidly and is now the greatest steel producing city in the world. It contains the plant of the American Bridge Works, | Indiana Steel Company, tin plate works, \locomotive works, coke by-product works, etc. It has an excellent school system and experiments in education 'earried on here have given the name to | the Gary system of school work. There are many public buildings, a city hall, public library, hospital, and several parks. Pop. 1920, 56,378.