Show ViAS WAS A SOCIALIST SOCIALIST RESPONSIBLE Many South Chicago people think that the south works of the time Illinois Steel company com com- pany which extend for two miles along th the shore of Lake Lale Michigan might have been very much much larger and that the town and plant at Gary would never have I been been- built if South Chicago had been rightfully tre treated ted writes John A. A Fitch In the Survey The big plant would have been built here instead of at Gary a bluff old South Chicago citizen explained to me if It It hadn't been for a damn little cuss of a public works commissioner under a Democratic mayor we had named Dunne S This fellow was a Socialist So and he thought he was bigger than the time people people people peo peo- of Chicago C The Time commissioner in iii question was waR Joseph Medill Mcdill Patterson formerly one of the tho editors of the Chicago Tribune a successful playwright wright and amid author of several sev sev- several eral cral well known books He Jle became the tho villain of the plot by trying to enforce the lawIt lawIt lawIt law It seems that the South Chicago plant being surrounded on three sides by properly property property prop prop- erty erly not owned by the company could expand only In one ono direction Into direction Into time th lake So for many years slag wa was dumped into the lake for filling and new newland newland land hand slowly made There was no le legal at sanction for such appropriation of the lake bottom and when during Mayor Dunnes Dunne's administration the company wished t to start new construction Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner loner Patterson refused a permit This l stopped topped expansion for a time and the Gary plant was started soon after after- ward But one has only to lo look l at tho the Gary plant extending two or nr three miles miles- along the lake and In from the time shore for fora a mile to realize how Impossible it would have been to build so great an Industrial industrial in- in establishment on made land |