Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1913 — CITY OFFICIALS VISITING GARY [ARTICLE]

CITY OFFICIALS VISITING GARY

Councilman, Marshal and Fire Officials Attend Municipal League * Meeting in Magic City. Councilmen Dean, Kresler, Hopkins and Catt, Marshal Shesler and Deputy Fire Chief Rhoades went to Gary this Wednesday morning to attend the meeting of the Indiana Municipal Leogue, with which Renhselaer was recently affiliated. It is probable that Fire Chief Montgomery, who went to Chicago yesterday, will also join them at Gary. A dispatch from Gary says: The twenty-third annual session of the State Municipal League convened in the Gary. Commercial Club rooms Tuesday afternoon. About 100 city officials were present, including the mayotas, members of boards of public works, city clerks and city engineers from a number of the' larger cities of the state. Mayor Knotts welcomed the visitors to the city and Annis Burk, private secretary to Mayor Shank of Indianapolis, responded for Mayor Shank, who was unable to attend on account of illness. The principal the league was held Tuesday with an address by Dr. J*. N.’ Hurty, of the state board of health, who talked on “The Sanitation of the City.” Discussions were made by W. D. Duncan, secretary of the board of health of Columbus, and W. T. Swank, secretary of the board of health of Crawfordsville. Talks also were made by H. S. Norton, president of the Gary Commercial tllub; W. P. Gleason, superintendent of the Indiana Steel Mills, and Judge B. S. Reiter of the Lake Superior Court. Wednesday was a gala day for the visitors, who were taken over the city by members of the board of public works and in the afternoon visited the Indiana Steel Mills on trains especially provided. It was expected that more than 300 visitors would be in the city by Wednesday noon.