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TAE Marine Review By an inspection of the table it will be seen that the net cost efi the American citizen averages 13 cents per year. If stich a plan was adopted by Congress it would cause the following beneficial results: (1) A force of 10,000 naval volunteers valuable in case of war. USES OF THIS REVENUE. Forms part of the subsidy moneys. Produces more than enough to pay all the construction and navigation. bounties. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. 'BAB LS TE COUNTRY. TAX; Welt = ts. ac ce se Oe per: fOn for "steam: 276 per tOn for. sail. Hamburg, Bremen .....about: 8c per ton an ar- : rival. WerenGe i a ee 20c per ton per arrival. Me Gr ok oe ee ces 27c a ton on each arrival Soni ero ee 48%c per ton weight unloaded. INOrWaAy 60.6. Gis see oe 3oc per ton of cargo: ONUIGHEIA © oc ie ee 16c on first and second, 12c on third and fourth, and 8c thereafter. » Sees 3c per net ton from near : port not.to. exceed = 15c per ton per year, and 6c per ton from dist., not to exceed 30c per net ton per year. United States General funds. (2) A new fleet of from 200,000 to 300,000 tons of steel mail steam- ships and a naval reserve needed by the country, as shown by the report of Admiral Dewey. (3) A net addition to our cargo and fishery tonnage of 5,300,000 tons, increasing fourfold the actual ocean shipping of the United States, and enabling us to carry not 10 per cent but 30 per cent or 40 per cent of our own exports and imports. (4) The creation of 10 regular new or strengthened steamship lines, creating new outlets for American products. : The burden of this will be borne in a large part by the foreign ships which have disintegrated and now monopolize the AMERICAN MER- CHANT MARINE. blowing engines for the second four furnaces, "The electric power plant, which is to furnish power for driving all of the mills in the plant; also for pumping water and for lighting the city of Gary, includes a power house 969 feet long by 107 feet wide, one-half of which is now erected, together with the foun- dations for nine gas engines and two steam turbines. The foundations for the remainder of the building and ma- _chinery are well under way. There will -- be installed in this plant in all seven- teen 3,000-horsepower gas-driven gen- erators and two 2,500-horsepower steam turbine-driven generators. It is be- lieved this is the largest installation in one unit of gas engines that has ever been made. "In the steel producing department, one open-hearth unit, consisting of four- teen 60-ton furnaces, with hot metal mixer and other auxiliaries, is nearing completion, and the foundations for the second similar unit are completed and erection of the steel work has been started. "On the rail mill the foundations, and the building are nearing completion, and the erection of the machinery is well advanced. "On the billet mill a part of. the excavation and foundation work has been completed. Seventy-five per cent of the machinery for this mill has been contracted for and is now being constructed. "For the plate mills and merchant mills the plans have been completed. "The shop equipment, including ma- chine shop, boiler shop, foundry, black- smith shop, carpenter and pattern shop, pattern storage shop, roll shop and gen- eral store building, is practically com- pleted and in operation. "The office building has been com- pleted. THE CITY OF GARY. "Approximately 800 acres of the property acquired, lying immediately south of the mill site and separated from it by the Grand Calumet river, has been platted into about 4,000 lots and incorporated as the first subdivision of the city of Gary. This subdivision will contain more than 25 miles of paved. and macadamized streets. To date 25,250 lineal feet of streets have been paved, and 37,000 lineal feet of sidewalks laid. "A sewer system consisting of a dis- charge main of 96 inches in diameter, with lateral branches 60 inches, 54 inches and 36 inches respectively in diameter, has been installed, having a total length of 97,000 lineal feet. Ninety-one thou- sand lineal feet, of water . P»PF have been laid in the frst subdivision and temporary pumps installed, which are now furnishing the water supply from driven wells. There is under construc- 27 tion a petmanent water works pumping Station which contemplates the construc- tion of a water tunnel 72 inches in diameter, 15,000 feet long, extending into the lake 7,000 feet from the pres- ent shore line, _ "A gas plant, with a capacity of 300,- 000 cubic feet of water gas per day, is completed and in operation. Seventy- one thousand lineal feet of - gas pipe have been laid in the first subdivision. An electric lighting plant, furnishing both incandescent and arc lights, has been installed and is in operation, cur- rent being furnished temporarily from' lines connecting with the Illinois Steel- 'Co.'s electric generating plant at South Chicago. "Approximately 500 dwelling houses have been erected. Many of these houses are now occupied. In addition to the dwelling houses, the following public buildings have been erected and are now occupied: One hotel building, containing 40 rooms; one restaurant; two lodging houses; school house con- taining nine rooms. "All of the above development and construction work in the city of Gary has been carried on by the Gary Land -Co., a subsidiary company of this cor- poration. "Residence and business lots have been offered for sale, with the re- | quirement that buildings of an ap- proved character be erected thereon within 18 months after purchase. Un- der this plan approximately 240 lots have been sold, largely in business. dis- tricts. On the principal business street in the first subdivision there have been constructed by purchasers of lots about 40 business blocks, the estimated cost of which is $600,000 or more. Most of these buildings have been completed and are now occupied by stores of various kinds, two banks and offices. TERMINAL RAILROAD WORK. "The main lines of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. and the Indiana Har- bor Railroad Co. ran directly through the manufacturing mill site. In order to remove these lines of railroad from the mill site and to permit the con- struction of a sufficiently large and properly located railroad yard for use in connection with the steel plant, an agreement was entered into by the various railway companies concerned whereby the main lines of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad Co. and the Indiana Harbor Railroad Co. were changed so as to run south of the mill site. This changing of the main lines of the companies named also involved a change in the main line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. and the construction of a new line *