Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1889 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1889.

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CLOSE OF THE OLD COUNCIL

Extension of the Street-Kail road Franchise Takes an Unexpected Tnni. President Shaffer Sends a Request to Council to Ilaie the Ordinance Withdrawn He Will Rest on the Old Charter. Bui a Special Committee Thereon Is Allowed to Submit Its Adverse Report The Companj Granted the Privilege of Using Electricity Under Its Present FranchiseExcellent Financial Showing. Every member of the Common Council was in his seat last night when, at 7:45 o'clock. Mayor Denny called them to order for the last time. The roll had hardly been called when Councilman Hicklin moved a suspension of the roles in order to take up the question of extending the street-railroad franchise. Before tne report of the special committee thereon was presented Councilman Thalman read the following letter: Isaac Tualman, Esq., City: Dear Sir On Monday evening, Dec 2, yon were kind enough to Introduce to tbe Common Council an ordinance amending the Citizens street-railroad franchise, or contract, with the rltY, and granting to tho Bald company certain privileges and rights on condition that it would perform certain obligations named In the ordinance. The proposition has not been received with favor by the public pres?, and as I learn from you that your committee is also averse to reporting favorably" on the same, will you be kind enough to withdraw the proposition, and make no report upon the samet It is the earnest desire of the Citizens' company to give to the city the bent service it can possibly afford. It would gladly bear its portion of the street improvements and expend any requisite amount of money to provide for rapid transit for its citizens, but it cannot afford to do this under the terms of the present franchise. As far as this company is concerned, it is willing to continue operating its cars under its present system until Its franchise may expire. Thanking you for the courtesies extended me, I am, Very truly yours, J. C. niri er. In order to get the matter out of the hands of the present Council Councilman Cummings moved to give the epecial committee further time, but this method of disposing of it was not generally approved. Councilman Swain thought that Mr, Thaller could not, by a letter, strike the ordinance from the files. Councilman Thaiman held that the request should be granted as a matter of courtesy, for the company's proposition is strictly a business one. The present Council has rejected it, however, and this would leave it for the incoming body. Councilman Darnell moved that the report of the committee bo read, which, on motion of Councilman Cummings, was received and adopted. The report read as follows: Yonr special committee, with the eity attorney, to whom was referred general ordinance "o. CO, IS 89, amendatory cf and supplemental to the general street-railway ordinance, report that we have carefully considered said ordinance, and have listened to statements from tho streetrailway officials and from citizens, and we find that aid ordinance is Imperfect and incomplete, and by it public interests are not protected as they should be. First -It proposes to give the right for hirtyflve years to use animal, electric or cable power, or the Judon motor or any other power, except steam, that it desires to use on the streets of the city, and this covers aU of the streets or the city now laid out or that shall hereafter bo laid nut during said thirty-five years; but it provides that tbe company may use "any or all of such methods, and change from time to time from one to the other as rublic travel may Justify or require." This does not guarantee rapid transit, but permits the company to use any kind of power it may see lit, including animal. Second It provides that said company shall have In operation fifteen (15) miles of electric track, which means seven (7) miles of double track, within one year from the passage of the ordinance. Under the terms of the ordinance thU is all that need be laid for thirty-five years, and this track may bo laid to Crown Hill, Brightwood or Irvington. Third Under the provisions of said ordinance paid company can never be required to pay for any street Improvement. All that can be required of said Company is to lay eight (4) feet of cobble stone for each single track and sixteen 1G feet for each double track where tho balance of tho street is paved. Furthermore, said ordinance specifically provides that even this can never b required a second time on any one street. The result would be that on a 6treet that i builded with granite or asphalt there would be sixteen feet of cobble stone in the center of the street where there is a double track and eight feet where there is a single track. Fourth There Is no provision whatover In the ordinance for a transfer system. The present charter does not provide for it; It provides that after 11:30 p.m. the company may charge 25 rents for each passenger. In this we believe the ordinance is fatally defective. It is but a reasonable provision that a company that has a practical monopoly of all the streets of tho city and operates all the street-railway lines that are operated in the city should be required to give one transfer to each passenger. To business men who go to the center of the city this provision is not of very great importance; but to the very large class of laboring men who go from one exretue of the city to the other tho transfer system Is absolutely indispensable. Fifth The ordinance provides for an annual tax of $25 on each car that is operated by said company. We are decidedly opposed to this provision. In the first place, tho total revenue derived therefrom would be of no moment to the city; in the second place, the tendency would be to lessen the number of cars run; besides, if this amount Is now fair to the company, in twenty year from now It would lie very unfair to the city. Tho rapid growth of the city will constantly render a franchise more valuable, and therefore the only fair way to both the city and the company will be to exact a certain per cent, of the gross receipts, and not impose a tax upon cat's. Therefore your committee recommend that said ordinance be not passed. We recommend that when an ordinance is passed it shall contain, substantially, tho following provisions: ' First That the company shall pay for or Improve tho street for a width of nine (9) feet for a single track and eighteen (18) feet for a double truck with the same kind of improvement as is laid on the balance of the street, and to make this Improvement as often as the balance of the street is improved. A provision might be added allowing the company to use bowlders between the rails of each separate track where animal power is used, but not between the separate tracks nor ou the outside of the same. Heeond Provide for a transfer system. Third Exact a certain ior cent, of the gross receipts, and not provide for a tax upon cars. Fourth If the charter term is extended then provide that these requirements shall go into effect at once. Hecently, however, Judgo Taylor, of tho Superior Court, has decided that there is no law in this etate providing for the formation of either cable or electric street railroad companies to build or operato either cablo or electric roads upon the stree ts of tho cities in this ftate. The cae iuvolving this question will shortly be iu the Supreme Court, and wl probably bo speedily decided, and until this question is decided by the Supreme Court we think that no electric or cable franchise should be granted. The original ordinance was then placed upon its second reading in order to lay it open to amendment. Maj'or Denny ottered an amendment which, in effect, would give the company the right to use animal or electric power for tho balance of its unexpired charter. Several other changes followed, amongwhich wasoce by Councilman Swain, providing that all poles be placed in the center of the streets. Councilman Casper ottered an amendment that the city should be indemnified for all damages resulting from the operation of the road, and Councilman Hickliu likewise wanted a provision inserted that would compel a commencement of work within ninety days after passage of the ordinance, and a construction of at least five miles of electric road during lbW. All of the amendments were passed. Tho original ordinance was thi n taken up. Councilman Pearson, Thalman. Stucknieyer and others opposing a hasty disposition of it because of its incomplete construction. It was passed by tliH following vote: Yeas Couucilmen Coy, Darnell, Dunn. Elliott, Finch, Casper, Hicklin, Johnston, Markev, McClelland. O'Connor. Siuito. Swain, Truster, Wilson 15. Navs Councilmen Burns, Cummings. Davis, (iaul. Kelly. Long, Parkinsou, Pearson. Stuckmeyer, Thalman 10. A Flnaucial Showing. The report of the finance committee was presented by its chairman, Isaac Thalman, as fellows: The Imudrd debt of the city is $1.10.1.&OO, and Belt railroad bonds, loaned Belt Kallroad Company. $3WM)lMi, and on the licit railroad bonds the city hold $"0,X0 of the company's bonds as collateral arriirlty. These bonN ure do pes i ted in ft draper of Fletcher's nfety vault, to which the county trraKUier holds the key. On the InhwIs Inaiu d to the Halt JioiUoad Ceuyajjy the compa

ny pays the. interest semi-annually. The annual Interest on te city's bonded debt, of $1,405,500 will be for the coming t wo years !)7.56H.50. Your committee the pas year refunded $155,000 of the old bonds that natured at 4 per cent, per annum, making a saVng in interest of 3,1 OO per annum. The balance of the bonis will fall due in from two to seven years; they cannot bo funded to the advantage of the city beforo they mature, as tbe holders will not surrender a v 3-10 interest-bearing bond for a 4 per cent, until they are due unless a premium is paid to equal tho differences. The following is a- statement of the bonded debt of the city as it will stand Jan. 1, 181)0. Including Belt railroad bonds:

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2 c o V! p s p EE EEE2 EE C" r iiixxximxXw c .3 i . c: ;.i - 4. .Tj ? P P PwJPCTCTri ! M M fcrf M M t-rf M ........ . . Mi w M :0 spuo?i JO J ooccix5osooh spgofT jo 'QjZ C C5 1 -J -1 -1 -1 -I -4 00 7 cj? P pej? ? r "1 H t4 P c ,P PS O o 8 si h r T. iOOCCi OCOC The following is a statement of the increase of revenue for the coming year over that of the three preceding years. Forthe coming year we will have on the tax duplicate of 18S9, $33,20-1,-f60, which, at a 00-cent levy, yields $478,481.94. The miscellaneous receipts, includingsaloon tax, will increase this by $140,000. The poll tax for 20,782 polls will be $5,000, and there will be due from K. K. Hhiel. for real estate, $3,334; making a total of $027,175.94. In this we do not figure for the delinquent taxes due. as the delinquency for 1390 will be about an offset.' The following shows the increase of revenue over three years past: In 1887, from all sources 4 f 531,620 In 1S88, from all sources. 544170 In 1889, from all sources 571, fi 14 In 1890, from all sources 627,175 Of temporary loans we will pay off $75,000 Dec. 31. leaving outstanding warrants due April 10. lfcOO, for $25,000, and three warrants of $100 each, issued in 1886 that have never been presented and which bear no Interest after maturity, making in all a total of $25,300. The city has paid the following extraordinary expenditures within the past few years in bonded debt, I'attison loss and permanent improvements: Tomllnson Hall, over and above TomUnsonfund $rS5,000 Market-house 31,000 Hospital 15,000 Bonded debt 9,000 Fattison loss 45,000 Gartleld Tark 10,000 Total $205,000 This large sum In addition to the regular running expenses of the city has been paid on a 90cent levy, without running the city in debt. ex-, cept the $25,000 temporary loan, which can be paid when due in April. This can be paid along with the running expenses from January to that dato. That fact convinces your committee that with tho increased assessment in values, as shown by the tax duplicate for 18S9 and due Jan. l, 1890, the 90-cent levy is ample to meet all necessary requirements of the eity, and that no effort should be made to legislate for a higher rate of taxation. The Barrett street-improvement bill will also bo a great help to enable the city to improve the streets in a liberal and substantial manner. We believe it to be a good law. if it is sound and its purposes can be legally carried out. We recommend that the city attorney be directed to make a test case before the courts as soon as possible, and before any expensive street-improvement contracts are let under it, as if it should not be sustained by the courts it might financially cripple the city. The city yet owns, of the Tomlinson estate, property on Illinois street valued at $10,000, and some on Ohio street valued at $7,000. The Ueneral Calendar. All sealed proposals were left unopened in the city clerk's hands, to be given to his successor. Mayor Denny reported fines and fees amounting to $454.15 as having b een collected in his court during November. .The city civil en gin er reported that he had made specifications for a foot-bridge through the Union fetation, and submitted them to the civil engineerr of the Union Kallway Company. CouncilmanThalman offered a resolution authorizing a temporary loan of 825,000, dated Jau. 1, 1890. and running 100 days, which was adopted. lie also oilered an ordinance appropriating $62,394.25 to pay the interest on all bonds maturing Jan. 1, 1890, which was placed upon its second and third reading and passed. Councilman Trusler. chairman of the fire committee, reported that during 1S88 the appropriations for the department amounted to S82.SJ4.05. while for 1889 they were only $78,592.98. Considerable surprise was created when he reported that in 18S8. while Chief Webster was in control, the total loss from fires was $749,399.89, while in 18S9, under Chief Daugherty, tho loss only reached $152,298.03, making a decrease of $597,101.86 during a Republican administration. Councilman Trusler, chairman of the light committee, reported that during 1887 the. appropriation for lighting was $7i,285.91; in 1888. $3,300.15; in 19, $48,674.77. The reduction for 18S9, on 1S87, was $25,011.17, which shows that the city is to-day paying less for its lights, with increased numbers, than in any past year. Councilman Cnmmings introduced a resolution providing, among other things, that hereafter any street-car comEany using electric motors on its lines shall o compelled to adopt all improved systems as soon as they are proved practicable, and that the regular fare shall be reduced to 25 cents for six trips, coupon tickets to be used. The matter was referred to the city attornej-. An ordinance providing for paving, with asphalt, Alabama street, from Washington street to Tort Wayne avenue, was read the first time. The Indianapolis Light Infantry has been occupying Tomlin6ou Hall as an armory, and, it is claimed, still owes $150 on a gas bill. Councilman Pearson moved that the janitor of the hall be instructed to refuse further admission to the company until this bill is paid, bnt, on motion of Councilman Swam, the matter was referred to the city attorney, with power to act. Councilman O'Connor oflTered a motion expressing, on the part of the Council, sincere commendation of Ma3'or Denny's services during tho past two years, which was unanimously adopted, by a rising vote. Similar expressions of thanks to City Attorney Taylor. City Clerk liowlus and the representatives of the press were adopted. Deputy Citv Attorney Smith's bill for $100. for collecting the additional liquor licenses since the decision of the lower courts, was approved. When Councilman Trnsler's name was called in the roll for miscellaneous business h very brielly thanked the members for the courteous treatment he had received at their hands, and expressed his wishes for the success of the incoming body. Annmber of ordinances were read a second and third times and passed, amongwhich was one providing for paving Pennsylvania street with asphalt from Seventh street to Tenth, and Washington street from Alabama to Noble. An ordinance to provide for paving Willow street with brick was stricken from the tiles. The mayor's Tartlng Speech. Mayor Denny, before declaring the Council adjourned, took the floor and spoke as follows: Our oilicial work together has now ended. I desire to say a few words before declaring tho Council adjourned. At the expiration of my pieseut term I will have served the city In an othcial capacity for eitrht years four as city attorney and four as Mayor. Only three of you gentlemen noxv ferving as counciiinen were uicmbcift eluht year ago, and not one of the i ndent Hoard of Aldermen was theu a member of that body. Ily reason of these frequent changes in the lutiubcxbhip of the city legisla

ture I have been associated with a large number of my fellow-citizens of Indiauapolis in the conduct of the city's affairs. I am glad to be able to say, at the end of my otHcial service, that I bear no ill will towards any one with whom I have thus served. Sometimes we have not been ablo to asTee on public questions, and in the heat of debate angry words have occasionally been spoken; but so far as I have bad any part in these controversies tliey are all swallowed up and forgotten in the many pleasant memories that cluster around our past associations toaetber. My interest in the city's welfare will not ceao when my term of office ends. Its success will continue to le my hope and pride. I have lived in Indianapolis 6ince a boy, and cxiect to make it my home daring the remainder of my life. It will be my greatest pleasure to see our successors build up and bring it to the front rank among tho large, rich ana attractive cities of the country. To this end it will, at all times, bo my pleasure to do everything I can to aid thoe who take our places. I ara sure I fully appreciate the honors conferred upon me by tho people of this city, and will never forget the gratitude . I owe them: but. with a full sense of the dignity of the oftice of Mayor, which I nave tilled to tho best of my ability for two terms. I will t e glad, when, in a few days, lean surrender Its labors and l'-sponsibtl-ities to the w orthy gentleman who has been cho?en to assume them. I thank you all, individually and collectively, for tho respect, forbearance and uniform kindness you have always shown me, both in and out of this chamber. Ami now, in severing our ofiicial relations, bv declaring the Common Council of 1888-89 finally adjourned. I wish you and all the other officials with whom I bavo been associated in tho years past, abundant success and happiness. This speech was loudly applauded, after which tne Council adjourned.

AFFAIRS OF TJIE RAILWAYS.. Trying to Shut Out the Wabash. Chicago, Dec. 16. The Wabash Railway Company began suit In the Circuit Court this afternoon against the Chicago & Western Indiana or Uelt Line Company. Tho Wabash people say in a very voluminous bill that the defendants have given them notico that in the future they must refrain from ' using tho tracks between Hammond, Ind., and Auburn Junction, belonging to the Belt line. This, the bill says, will cut olF the route of the Wabash line to Detroit and greatly injuro that company's business. The complainants allege that a conspiracy has been formed between the Western Indiana and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Grand Trunk . and other companies which use tho Belt line's track against the Wabash. The bill asks for an injunction restraining the defendants from taking any 6teps toward preventing tbo complainants from using the tracks. Tho main contention of the Western Indiana people is on h, clause in the contract which prohibits any of the lessees from using tho tracks to give other roads an ingress to Chicago. Tho Western Indiana claims that when the contract was made, in 1879, it only contemplated an entrance into Chicago from St. Louis, and, in seeking a connection for its Detroit division, it is practically violating the clause in tho contract which prohibits entrance to a new and competing line. ' , Personal. Local and General Notes. It is stated that the Wagner Palace-car Company is to establish a plant at Duluth of about the same capacity as that at Detroit, Mich. M. E. Ingalls. president of the Big Four, and J. N, McCullough, first vice-president of the Pennsylvania Company, are to be in the city to-morrow. The gross'earnings of 152 roads for Nothe corresponding month last year of $1,-, 04,W0, or la per cent. James Brown, who was roadmaster of the New Y ork Central for thirty years, died last week, aged eighty-three years. Mr. tyrown was retired in lbS3 on full pay. Passenger men who have examined the new form of round-trip ticket invented by L. D. Ileusner, of the Michigan Central road, pronounce it the best yet designed. v John B. Carson, vice-president of the Louisville. Now Albany &. Chicago road, is in New York, and to a reporter of the New York Press gave a rosy view of the situation West. N. K. Potter, late train-distatcher on tho Fort Wayne, Louisville & Cincinnati road, has accepted a similar position on tho Northern Pacific, with headquarters at Missoula, Mont. A meeting of the Chicago and Ohio liver Association has been called in this city fur to-morrow. Competitors of Louisville, Now Alb an & Chicago allege that the latter is again manipulating rates. V. W. Worthington, late general manager of the Fort Wayne. Cincinnati & Louisville road, has sued the company for $37,000 hack salary due him for service on the Whitewater Valley road. The Big Four people yesterday commenced using four and a half miles more of double track west from Cincinnati, which now gives them sixteen miles of doublo track out of Cincinnati. The Pennsylvania Company is adding coal and coke cars to its freight equipment now at the rate of fifty a day, and is handling 0,000 tons of coke daily in addition to its other immense trail! c. The Gosport branch of the Indianapolis & Vincennes road was completed yesterday, with the exception of the bridge over White river, work on which has been delayed somewhat by an accident. Box-cars are so scarce on some of the Western roads that tho companies are taking ordinary flat-cars and inclosing them for the transportation of grain. They aro covered with a heavy tarpaulin. T. A. Phillips, who was last week apJointed assistant general manager of the "lorida Central & Peninsular , roarL was for some years superintendent on the New York, Pennsylvania fc Ohio road. It is said that there has never beforo been ft reorganization scheme of a great railroad property which met with tho success that is attending the plan for tho reorgauization of the Atchisou, Topeka fc Santa Fe. Two of the big freight engines whicb the Big Four is receiving will, this week, be put in service between Indianapolis and Galion. It is expected that these engines will haul forty-five loaded cars between Brightwood and Union. The Baltimore &. Ohio has established a great distributing station at Herlin, seventy miles west of Camden. Five hundred acres of ground have been purchased. This f ground is to be covered with tracks and a arge transfer-house erected thereon. Traffic over the branches of the Big Four system, such as the Aurora, tho Columbus and the Kushville branches, is showing, better earnings this year than in any former year. On the Aurora branch fifty to sixty loaded cars are handled daily. The Lake Shore road is not the'only road in the West which has a handsome sum of money loaned or in its treasury. The Chicago. Burlington V. Quincy 011 the first of this month had 4.000,000 in its treasury, besides the proceeds of its $o,000,000 bond sale. Said a traffic manager last night: "1 take but little stock in this cry that the Monun is cutting rates. It is their fine trains which aro drawing, ami tho other roads have got to furnish equally as good trains if they expect to hold the L., N. A. & C. down." The ttcket scalpers seemingly have a spite against the Pennsylvania lines, and have been gathering up mileage tickets of these lines, paying face value for them and turning them over to competitors as evidence that tho Pennsylvania is dealing with scalpers. The statement telegraphed from San Francisco to the efiect that all tourists cars to the Pacific coast are to bo takeu otf. is denied officially. Ninety per cent, of the travel between Chicago,. j?t. Louis ami Kansas City to tbe Pacific coast is carried on these cars. Nobody seems as yet to bavo gathered in the Chicago V, Eastern Illinois. The fact that the road has ceased publishing its net earnings, coupled with the misinformation as regards the sale of the road to the Big Four, has given the Chicago &, Eastern Illinois a set-back. The Toledo, .St. Louis &, Kansas City road is not proving so much of a competitor of the Wabash as had been supposed it would. Tho Wabash goes on in the even tenor of its wa-, and ia carrying more passenger and freight business than at any time, in its history. Yesterday the Pennsylvania Company commenced receiving beve nty-fivo cars of grain a day to be forwarded Last from the Vandalia. w hich yesterday morning had l.lK'O car-loads of grain to turn over to them standing at St. Louis and on side-tracks between St. Louis and Indianapolis. The KvaiiMvillo V. Kichmond road has been constructed in such haste that th work has not been as well done as it bhould be, and in running trains over the portion

already opened a good deal of trouble is experienced by tho caving in of embankments, temporarily blockading the track. In the month of November v&5 car-loads of wheat were delivered at Duluth. In the throe months ending Nov. oO tho roads brought into Duluth 10,900.000 bushels of giain. The work of converting the Bio Grande Sc. Wefteru into a standard cauge road will 60on be completed, and this load will becoino an important link of a new transcontinental lino which the Missouri Pacitic and the Chicago & Bock Isl: nd can use to advantage in their transcontinental traffic. A transfer company has been organized in Chicago, with a capital of &i,00O.O0O. The company proposes to transfer freights in less a than car-load lots from one railway station to another. Tho presidents of several of the roads centering in Chicago have expressed themselves as in favor of such an enterprise. The engineers of maintenance of way of the Northwestern roads are about to organize an association to be known as the Northwestern Track and Bridge Association The members will meet once a month, as do the engineers on the Pennsylvania lines, to discuss matters of interest as regards their business. -The executive committee of the Indiana Car-service Association will meet to-morrow to decide on whom to recommend for general manager. The local candidates are: D. T. Bacon. J. B. McNecley. T. J. Helm and ex-Marshal Manning. An impression prevails that some outside man will bo selected. It is stated that the opponents of the Interstate Kailway Association have come to the conclusion that it is a useful organization, and will ceaso lighting it. Since it was organized rates have been better maintained in the territory it covers than ever before, and the earnings of the roads proportionately better. . A special train, carrying tho Vanderbilt party, on Friday last made the run from Ft. Wayne to Toledo, over the Air-line division of the Lake Shore, in two hours and thirty-eight minutes; distance, ISO miles. Extensive repairs have been made to this division the last year, and the Vanderbilt party were desirous of testing its safety tor last running. The shipments of flour, grain and provisions from Chicago to tho seaboard by the lines in the CentralTraffic Association, last week, aggregated CG.824 tons, against 47,704 for the week previous, an increase of 19,120 tons, and against 77,125 for the corresponding week last year, a decrease of 10,301 tons. The Vanderbilt lines carried 44.5 percent, of the business, the Pennsylvania lines 22.3, the Chicago fc Grand Trunk 16.3, and the Baltimore & Ohio 16.9. Tho meeting called for to-day of the general passenger agents of roads in the Central Traffic Association, at tho Bates House, promises to be important in its results. A number of passenger men arrived yesterday, and in the after part of the day held a short conference to agree on certain suggestions as regards rate matters to bring before the meeting to-day. It is expected that Chairman Blanchard will be present.

Opening of the New Hank. Tho Capital National Bank, at No. 23 South Meridian street, opened for business at 0 o'clock yesterday morning. There was no brass band, but the officers and emEloyesof the bank were as promptly on and as a time lock, and during the day several directors and stockholders called in and looked around. There were other Visitors who came in to wish the new bank success. The number of this now bank is 4,158, this being the number of.national banks organized from the beginning of the system. The following gentlemen were behind tho counter attending to business: President, M. B. Wilson: cashier, D. Ewing: teller. John A. Butler, recently of the Indiana National Bauk; book-keeper, Alfred H. Johnson; and messenger, Herbert 3L. Feibleman. Mr. Wilson, who has heretofore lived at Sullivan, and Mr. Ewing. at Evansville. will hereafter reside in this city. The new bank is a member of the Indianapolis Clearing Association. Red Cross Cough Drops-all druggists. SOCIETY NOTICE. MASONIC KEYSTONE CHAPTER. NO. 6. R. A. M. stated meeting In Masonic Temple, this (Tuesday) evenlDff, at 7:M o'clock. Election of otQ. cers and other Important biialncs. AU members eartiestly requeued to attend. W. 8. BICII, M. E. n. P. Jacob W. Smith. Secretary. niKi). DALLF.R-Carrle-Einatz, wife of Albert Daller, died Sunday niornlnsr, at 4-30. Funeral from realdence, 45 liloomlDgton street, vreat of the riv-r, "Wednesday, Dec. IS, at 1 p. m. Services at resU deuce. Friends Invited. ' ron sale. FOR HALE A GOOD VIRGINIA FARM. FOR full particulars address Dr. Thomas E. Shands, Reams Postoffice, Dinwiddio Co., Va, 1C)R HALE COPYRIGHT MONEY IN IT : for a lira man -who knows bow. Call on C. E. REYNOLDS. 10 Circle street. 1?OR 8 ALE STORE ROOM AND STOCK OF V poods at Swanington, Ind., at crossing of tbe lllg Four and C. fc I. C. R. 11. Room JOxr0 feet, with 12-foot addition, $W0. Stock Invoiced and a liberal dlsconnt made. This is the only store in town. A residence lot titixrjtt will be given to purchaser of the store. Further information given on application. W. F. SWAN & into. 2X)R HALE ON SATURDAY, DEC. 21, 18SD, AT . 11 a. m., in the basement of tlte Grand Operahouse, tills city, I will sell at auction, to the hlfhfst bidder, the following personal property, viz.: All the scenery, costumes, and other property of the play known as th "Chaos Flats." now in my possession as lieceiver. under order of Court. Terms cash. liOBKRT J. MCKAY, Receiver. CrX nnn stock general merchan. ifwivUU disc; want cash and real estate, free from Incumbrance. Mich. JOHN T. JUDD. St. Joseph. FOIt RENT. TWO ROOMS. WITH POWER. ON MERIDIAN and South 8trcets.AppyaUjryce'a Bakery. rpiIE FRANKLIN BUILDING AND LOAN JL Association Is now issuing shares in the 14th series: First payment Tuesday, Jan. 7. ltJO; shares $JMi; dues 25c pr week: interest and premium deducted each six months. You can take shares and Ky dues any time during the ray and Tuesday, Friy and Saturday evenings at 72 East Market st. aturday evenings M. 1. jtUTLER, re. A. RHODES, Sec. rpiIEUE WILL RE A MEETING OF THE L stockholders of the Indianapolis Dnilding and Loan Association Saturday evening, Dec. 28, at 7:30 o'clock, at 72 East Market St.. to consider amend mfnu to by-laws. M. D. BUTLER, Pres. W. A. KHQI'E. Sec. FOIl HALE OI t Tit A I K. I?OR SALE OR TKADE-OROCEKY-FIRST-1 clafs location; about if 1.000 Invoice. HAM MONS. IS Virginia ave. FOU EXCHANGE. 1?OR TRADE-GOOD FARM IN NORTHERN . Nebraska to trano for stock of dry goods and notions or boots or shoes. Fur particulars address Lock Box "I." Irtaua. Kan. AUCTION SALE. GREAT AUCTION ANI) CLOSING-OUT SALE will commence Wednesday, Dec. Ifl, at 10 o'clock; 2 and 7, evening. The largest line of household goods; everything new and first class. Finest goods, latest style; first class in every respect. Tho goods aro the stock of Appleby's housofurnlshiug store, and 100 North Illinois street, and must positively be sold to the highest bidder w ithout reserve. Term- cash. One very flue library leather-cover illuminated eet, retail at $'200. Oue line leather library chair, retail at $10. . One flue silk plush inurhleizcd parlor et, six nieces, retail at $100. Fine Mohair plush, silk triimned set, retails at $.K.15; fine bed lounges, " tine brocatlcd-filk rockers, 3 fine extension tabic?, retail nt &0 to $40 each; 20 other extension tables, folding chairs, 5o mattresses, lot of bed springs, 75 heatinand cooking stoves; ltiue (Jarnett heatiug stove, cost $40 wholesale; 2 lino mantel mirrors, 1 lanre pier mirror; 2,000 yards be-t prades all-wool, and velvet, and three-ply, and other carpets; oil-cloth, matting-, Smyrna rug, roatrurs. aLeeprucsvelvetrusrs.drnjrcets, line bedroom ct, 3 pieces; 1 marble-top walnut, retail price, !f20O; lo bedroom sets, chevnl la8, round flass and oihers; dresfer, wash-stands, 50 odd bt dstead.-. 4. Hue sideboards, 25 hat racks-, 4 revolving front desks, 2 book-ca.ses combined, 20 library book-cases, 20 desks, li fine wanirobea and looking-j:lasM:s, 50 rattan and reed rockers. 50 plush and silk eat and back rockers, 400 children's chairs, all kinds; 1,G0 cane-scat ro kers and chairs, all kinds; 25 marble-top tables, 30O polished top anticiuo oak and others. 300 stands, nil kind-'; 20 hamrinjr lamps, 1O0 stand lamps, piano lamps; 25 French china, 12 pieces; chamK-r sets; 25 American chamber Kcts, china tea sets. 50 pieces; T00 very tine decorated cups and saucers, frnit plates and mush and milk sets, fancy class dishes, bNqtie npttres, albums, water nets, 2(M) pairs lace curtains, 20 fancy table covers, 20 stand covers. 50 sets lace bed covers, portb res, 300 very fine picture., 200 easels, all kinds doll carriages, dolls, rofkimr-Lorse, shoofly liorst-s, velocities, vases, clocks, 500 fancy dado window shades, 7 feet loutr, spring rollers. In fitct. thousands of things too numerous to mention. L.tiM' line quadruple plate silver-plated goods; 2oo pieces, very line. Good room and scat fur ladies.

A Proclamation I Dr. I. Gay Levii, Fnlton, Ark., nays: A Tearuffol bad billons fever ;Tutt; Pills were so highly rer commended that I used them. Never did medicine have a happier effect. Alter practiceof a quarter of a century, IT pro claim them tho best ANTI-BIXIQITS medicine ever used, I always pre serine them.

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Cure All Eilioxxs Diseases. ID 11 SMII The Volnble llarber Explains How He Wan Cured of Rheumatism. Mr. Coston was seen at the Union Station barber shop, where he is employed, and said: Last January I as taVen with the rheumatism, and suffered along with it until I found I had to do something for it, so I went from one doctor to another nitil I was about tired out. I listened to the advice of almost everyone that could give me a remedy, and they were a multitude. I think everyone that I talked to had something to recommend. I bought and accumulated a lot of stuff and took medicine until I began to think I was a walking drugstore, but none of them seemed to do me any good. When I did get one that I thought was doing me good I would stick to t.at until I became convinced that it was only a benefit for a short time. Then I would quit It and try some other remedy, and o on, until I think I have used all the rheumatic cures on record, and I now have a wash-tub full of old bottles at home, let alone what have been thrown away. No one nor anything I took seemed to do me any good but for a short time only. William Go S to NT" 214 West McCarty Street. "Along about the first of June I had played out my 6tring, and one morning I found that it was for me to just stay in bed. And what troubled me was how long I had to stay there. Every time I attempted to move myself I thought I would die. In fact, no one knows how I suffered but those who have gone -through the same mill. I don't know that I hate any living thing bad enough to wish it the same luck I had. I tell you that I suffered almost everything. Well, I lay there for ten weeks m an almost helpless condition, and was about to give up the ghost. But I got up. However, I could do no work, and could only get up town once in a long time. One day I tead Gun Wa's advertisement and talked to my friends about it, but as I had taken almost everything I was a little iu doubt about trying It. But the more I read about the wonderful cures the less I was in doubt, so I went to see him. I knew that it cost nothing, ami if he could do me any good why it would cost no more to try it than I had paid out in trying other experiments. I found a number of people on the same errand I was, so I waited my turn. He received me kindly, and when my case had been stated he said he could cure me if I would follow his directions. Well, the fact of it was I got the remedies and began taking them, following his directions as closely as I could. You can see for yourself what benefits 1 have derived from them. I have the utmost faith in them, and firmly believe that they will cure anyone who will take them as I have. , "I don't mind telling anyone shout it, for I do not wish anyone to suffer as I have, and if I could find anyone who I thought I could benefit by going in person and telling him about these Chinese Herb and Vegetable Remedies of Gun Wa's I.should d? so." Those who kindly tend Oim Wa their testimonials of cure trill confer a faror by inclosing thcxr j)icturc, as without it their testimonials arc useless ' for ad tertisiny p u rposcs. Gun Wa is a Chinese physician, who can not, under the American laws, practice midiclne, so he sells prepared Chinese Venerable lteraediea for various diseases, lie has been in Indianapolis several months, during which time he has effected ho many remarkable cures that his name will soon be a household word In Indiana. His suit of parlors are in the second story of 25 West Washington street. Kvcry patient will gee Gun Wa privately. No charge for consultation, examination or advice. A friendly chat with Gun Wa costs nothing. If you cannot call on him, send for his circular on cancer, tapeworm, rheumatism, piles, femalo weakness, catarrh, or his book on nervous diseases. Cures guaranteed. Office houra 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 5 and 7 lo 9 p. m. Sunday 01 to 12 a. in., and 1 to 4 p. m. In writing al wars inclose 4 centa in stamps. Call on or address? GUN W.A., 2? West Washington -St. INDIAXAFOLIS, IND. Gun Wa has several parlors. You will see him privately. WANTED MALE HELP. ffl SALARY. $40 EXPENSES IX ADVANCE. vT)vi allowed each month, steady employment at home or traveling. o soliciting. Imtifs delivering and making collections. No ix.stal cards. Address, with stmap, liAFEK & CO.. iqua, Ohio. WANTED -AGE NTS. LADIES! Write for terms. $3 sample corset free to ageuls. JLewis Schiele fe Co.. 3'JO Broadway. X. Y VOEXTS should write for illustrated circular, terms and two weeks' trial of Missouri Washer. Washes dirtiest clothes clean by hot stenm without rubbing. Easily sold; profitable. J. W OKTII. St. Louis. Mo WANTED FIVE HUNDRED LADY AGENTS v r for a toilet article used by most of ladies: sure and ready seller; sf23 to ( ;er week nt hotne. Outfit sent to any point on receipt of $1. 'JJ lUc.Nabb street, Indianapolis. W ANT E I S T ATTON WANTED SITUATION AS TRAVELING l salesman fcr a flrst-c!as wholesale dry poods or wholesale notion house. Willing to take reasonable pay. Address M., General Delivery, Terre lla ;e, Ind. WANTED SALE S MEN. TTTAXTEP Reliable local and traveling salesmen IT Positions permanent. Special Inducements now. faat-selUnir specialties. Don't delay. HaUry from start. UKOWN mtOS Nurserymen. Chicago. IU. ANTED Salesmen at 975 per rnonih salary and expenses, to sell a line of silver plated warn 'watcbes.etc.by sample only; horse and teau furnishfd free. Write at once for full particulars and sample rase of goods free, standard silverware Co., Boun, Mass. itEAv.iaj. rrr, C"r 11EWAUD FOU THE RETURN TO OFFICE C' of ISLAND COAL CO. of pocket book lost iu the Hartford lilock yesterday. 'nmrwl LOST-MONDAY. IN HARTFORD BLOCK, black pocket-book. Finder leave at ouice ISLAND COAL CO. and get reward. " FINANCIAL. " MONEY QU ICK-rTBY BRYAN. NO. 1 NORTH Merldiau street. LOANS -MONEY ON MORTGAGES. O. JP. 8AYLE8, 15 Eat Market street. FI N AXCIAL M ON E Y ox M O HTt t AO E, FARMS andoity property. OE. OiFFIN AlU MONEY TX )LO A No" fEB CENT. HORACK MCKAY. JitooniJ 1 . Talbott A NeWa Block. SIX PER CENT. ON CITY PROPERTY IN IN. liana. ISAAC 1L KlEliSTED, 13 MarUudale Block. T O LOAN Private funds on farm and city prop erty. I.arn loans on Dusine V1!" v CcnL 8TANTOX A HCOTT, 114 4 r orth Delaware st. VfNEY TOTLOAN ON FARMS AT THE LOW. .AL.est market rau, rrlvileire for payment b lore due We aluo buy tnumciiul bonds. UK )S. C DAY A CO.. 72 East Market strtUlndtanapolU. VATIONAL JIUILDINO, LOAN AND SAVl 1 lnrs Association, share. J10U each: monthly dues, 75 cents. No bidding tor loaii. No back due. HereiveH tuciutwrs and loans money throughout this State. Wm. D. Wiles. President; X. H. Hvram. Trc. urtr, C. fcchuxuuun, Secretary. OUlco, 3'- East Market streeL

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THEODORE STEIN. Successor to Wnu C Anderaoo, ABSTRACTER OF TITLES. ' R t Hast Mrkt Street ELLIOTT & BUTLER, Hartford Block. 84 E: Market strsW ABSTRACTS OF TITLES. COVAL & LEMON, ' ABSTRACT OFFICE, 75 a East Market street, Rra 6. DR. E. li. LEWIS. Practice limited to disease of tis THROAT AND NOSE. 139 North Mertllaa street. DR. ADOLPH BLITZ. EYE, EAR, XOSE AND THROAT DISEASE oaoe OtU-ffcUoa-s Dlook, N.E, car. Wash, and Pons. Dr. J. J. GARVER, Oflco 12ti North Meridian street. RL3enc-69J North Penmylrania C OAce Hours 8 to 10 a. in 1:30 to 3 p. ax 7 to y n. m, OCLoa Telephone 4 SO. lioaldeuce Telephone 153. DR. J. A. SUTCLIFFE S U It O O N, OfloG5 East Mtrket street. Honrs 9 te 1) a xru. a to 3 p. ra.. Sun lays exocpt&L Telephone 04L DR. SARAH STOCKTON 227 North Delaware Street. DR. HAD LEY naa removed hi office to No. 101 North Meridian street. oHice hours to J a. in., to J p. el, 7:3 J to 8:30 p. m. Oitiee Telephone &u J. Dr. I,. II. DUNNING, OFFICE-19 Went Ohio at. Kfcsl DENCE 81 East Vermont st. OFFICE HOUttS-y to 10, 2 to 4. ty Dlseasea vt Women. RALPH ST. J. TERRY, M. D S U It O E O N . Hours 10 to 12 a m.. 3 to 5. and 7 to 8 p. ra.; Sundays. 3 to 5 p. in. 21 S'r OHIO IltLET. McGlLLIARD & DARK. Oldest and Largest Fire Insurance General Ajrenrr In InAlanaiHjils. Offioe ihurpe UloCJt. 3 and t5 E&at Market street. LUMBER. E. H. ELDRIDGE & CO., Shingles, Sash, Doors and Blinds, COIl. ALABAMA AND MARYLAND STS. Wrought Steel Warm Air Furnaces KKUSE & DEWENTEU, Manufacturers, No. 54 boutu Pennsylvania L Josepli Allerdicc, Accent, Dealer In HIDES, FELTS, ECUS. WOOL AND TALLOW. No. r.'i Kentucky av e. ltej reienting a C. btevens & Oo., BoUn, Mans. ADAMANT WALL PLASTER. The new. cheapest and be t Wall Floater known t the trade. Manuiacury at lJ W t Mary Ian lstroek INDIANA ADAMANT FLAsTKU CO. The Indianapolis Glue Company Manufacture all kinds of CABINET GLUES AND CUHLED HAIR. THIS 131SAUTIFUJ, CLEVELAND YARD FENCE. Over20.O00feet imtupln Indiana ;oU during ISSS. Cheap, everuuuug audoruauieuiai. OFFICE AXD FACTOnT, 22 BIDDLE STREET, Three squares south Mass. are. Depot FINE SHOW-CASES. WILLIAM WIEQEL. JlAJrcriCTOBT, No. G West Louisiana street. LEOLANDO, SCIENTIFIC Manufacturing Optician, 8pectacles and Ere-elaiises fitted on the most approved scientinc lueuuHl known. Microscope, opera and i leld-K lapses. Telescopes, limoiuelers, Thermometsr. Drawing Instrument mad? to order and repaired. GriiiUiiK"f leuse tor prefer lptiou ts my specialty. No. OJ East Market ml., upp. Fotoaioa COMSTOCK & COONSE, WOOD. CHAIN and WOODEN FOltCE FUMFd. Dealers ia Inn Flro Dnveu-well Faints and aU Dnveu. wellEJupphtM. ltf 7 and ltTJ S. Merllaa rtU J. C. HIRSCHMAN, Manufacturer of Mattroasea, Dealer and lienors or of ITeALhcra. My Honovator heats tao world. 04 north New J ersey street. SAFE-DEPOSIT VAULT Absolute safety against Fire anl Burglar. Fluent and only vault of the kind in the 8 Lata. Folloomaa day and nUht on guard. Daaljruod for the aarekeeo lug of Mouejr. Doud. Will, Deeds. Abstract, rtUTHTplate,Jereis,aud Valuable Trunks audFAOxaoi, etc S. A. Fletcher & Co. Sifo Dejaal JonN S.Tarkington, Manager. NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Academy of ShorthAudType-wrltinjt and Telegraphy, corner WathniKtou and Meridian HireeU. iSoud tor new auuual catalogue. Adlres 1m a. DUrillE, Principal. LUMBER, SHINGLES, ETC HENRY CODURN, der In all kinds of Balldloc Material. Saeh. Doors Blind and Frames. Veranda work: a specialty. PLAN IN O-MILL UfD YARD Kentucky arenus and Mlaalsaippl street. J. II. 11YAN & CO., Comrnisfdon Merchant, Wholesale Dealers la Oralu, Flour, Feed, Hay, etc, 02 and Oi East Maryland st. I Lee Hanshaw's Lyra Restaurant as West Washington street. Open at all hours. Oysters la even. Day Board, $3 per week. Meals, 'J3 cent. BRILL'S STEAM DYE-WORKS 36 A 38 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. Branch office 05 North Illinois streeL Best work n tho btate at low price. INDIANAPOLIS STOVE CO. Manufacturers of STOVES A N D 11 O L L O W . W A R E, b5aui b7 South Meridian street. GEO. J. MAYEU . Scab. Stoneiln, Stamps. Kto. 15 Smith Mendlaa street, Indianapolis, Iud. 8ea4 for catalogue. NEW' YORK STEAM DENTAL CO. From M. $5, tA. fn. fl to fan per et. All Kind of tine rttntal wurk at redooed kprir. ITlne gold nUln at ffl and upward. ttUrof amaJtram. .ro and Tbo. Teeth ejttrarted lor Sc, Te'Ui extrartexl without ialii. AU work warranted ss repn itui. ITiftwn yeors experience. A. 1. HEltltuN. Manager. Room 3 and -1 Orand Opora-huu. :0 ai,a Yt 9 PENSIONS New Laws, new Itullnjr. Every soldier or sol. diet's widow should aecd to the Old ltablibe1 Clalui Agency of 1. U.FlTZ(2KliALlanl vvl h lU-iage pamphlet on War Claims. Mal!el free. No. East Market rt. IMI. FITZ(ii:itAM. PATEH5 L'iLl D3B. C o p:.. v m. a4 Lnl Irocsttocd. KrrccxiB & ce.. laO ta :o 8. Tuuts lTJa UTSXAX ATdll. itu

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