Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1889 — Page 12

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A Gapca Check that Caused a Lively Interest in the Hospital Inquiry. Cashier Kopp Sajs He Knows Nothing About It and th Transaction His a Sensational FhTor Eoth Uecites Damaging Facta. Thero was a decidedsensation, yesterday, nt the morning session of the committee investigating the management of the Hospital for the Insane. Cashier Kopp, of the Meridian National Bank, xrina upon the witness-stand, and was given for examination tho checks made ont by Gapen on that bank. Three of these checks were numbered 12D, and were each dated March 8, 1883, all indorsed by Gapen and made out on the Meridian National Bank. One of these remarkable pieces of paper read, "Pay to the order of W. G. Waason 2,500? another. "Pay to tho order of W. G. Wasson the third, "Pay to the order of W. C.Wasaon $3,000." The witness pronounced the checks for $2,500 and 3,400, aggregating $5,000, all right, and that was the amount tho bank bad paid W. G. Wasson on those identical checks. Thcso boro cancellation by the bank and also the clearing-houso stamp. As to tho large check for $5,900, ho aaid ho mull never ociore seen it. ana mac xne Jietidian National Bank had r.CTcr paid it. lie did not think it had ever gone through a bank at all, as it bore no stamp except Jbcing cnt in a rude imitation of the cancelling stamp, and had never gono through (tho clearing-house. I The committee held a brief whispered tion of Treasurer G a pen's accounts. By comparison and search it was 6hownthat on Oct.1, 1S87, Gapen drew out State money amounting to $40,000. Mr. Kopp was asked low mnch of this had been deposited in the Meridian National Bank. It will be remembered that this is tho month in which Gapen took service in Sullivan's poultry-house. Mr. Kopp stated that in that month Gapen had deposited with tho bank on tho 20th, $10,502.25; on the !3tb, $3,512.14, and on the 81st, $00,431.30. The following mouth, November, 1SS7, the deposits were but $3,500, though tho usual draft on the State Treasurer had been made "by Gapen. Witness tcstitied that he did not know that Gapen was lending money to Sullivan. t Tho next witness was II. S. Fox, who is in the employ of Milton Ponder, meatdealer. Ho testified to instances of claims "being allowed and remaining unpaid. Witness said ho was informed that C J. Gardner is awaiting payment for meat furnished in December. The book-keeper at the hospital says the check is made out, but he will not give it up. t Witness said beef has been cheaper dnnng tho past two years than ever before since he can remember. A sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. Howard. Brown. Fields and Conn, visited the hospital yesterday forenoon. The recult of their investigations will probably soon appear. In one of the kitchens, under control of the wife of Superintendent Galbraith, tho cooking is done for fourteen persons. The store-keeper's account shows 10 pounds of coffee issued to that kitchen every day since Jnno 1. On nearly every day 0 pounds of tea were issued to the same kHchen. To the entire male department, about 700 persons, only 45 pounds of colFce are issued daily. At the afternoon session of the committee, Mr. Conn, as chairman, announced that a rule had been made excluding all witnesses from the room except when giving testimony, and all outsiders except reporters for tho daily papers. The lirst witness was Charles C. Roth, now a salesman for tho wholesalo grocery house of JSchnull fc Co., but formerly, and for threo and a half years, assistant steward at the Ho3Dital for the Insane. He was asked why ho was discharged, and replied that tho board had wanted to discharge him nn RftveT.ol nrfisinn. hnt that. Dr. PlAthnr would not doit. Witness and Hall, the steward or store-keeper, had many differences, usually regarding the quality of (roods that were furnished tho institution, Mr. Hall favoring receiving inferior goods and witness opposing, in which he received tho approval of Dr. Fletcher, but failed to have the approval of the trustees. Tho opening questions were asked by Mr. Hays. 44 What were the goods you objected to as infciorl" "All kinds; chiefly butter and produce, bnt sometimes dry goods and groceries. There was a good deal of bad butter, some of it inapgoty. Mr. Hall ordered it received, I think." "Who furnished tho butter!" 'Some of it came from Krauss, of Columbia City, and somo from Sullivan." - "Wan there any controversy between you and Hall about receiving that butter?'' "Yes, sir. I told him 1 would not take it. He said it was satisfactory to the superintendent. Dr. Browning was in tho office at the time, and looked at it Wo put it in tho etorc-room, and issued it to tho wards. Next morning when it went on tho tables, and tho attendants reporting to Dr. PJetcher, he raised a fuss about it." "Do yon know, of your own knowleugo, any ci renin stances of thechangoof superintendents!" "I know what Sullivan told mo that Dr. Fletcher, l n hiui, had to get out; that he was all the time kicking about goods, and they had to havo a man thero who would not do so." "What was the quality of the eggs!" "Wo usually cos what I call secondscracked, dirty and small eggs that were not pood for shipment. Tho requisition called for ti rat-class." "Woro tho Tiriccs such as were paid for first-class gooiul" "Yes, sir. They were bought on bid, and isuallv of tho lowest bidder." "Did the estimates call for seconds or first class J"7 "Everything was to bo first class." "Was tho fact of the ecrgs being seconds an exception to the rulel "That was the rule." "Do yon know of any complaints of the eggs being rottenP Ob, yes: there would be complaints sometimes," "The requisition called for fresh egg3P . "iea, srr." "D;d you ever have any conversation with tho trusters about tho quality of tho goods that were tvir.jr f uniiscu them!" Yw, sir. I talked with Harrison and Gayen both. I told them that I was not pomg to take goods in unless they were up to contract. They didn't say much. They never investigated, anything; nothing except some apples and potatoes Dr. Harrison had bought of somebody. Dr. Fletcher fxiit a telegram to Harrison about them. Harrison was angry about it and talked to Dr. Fletcher, but we kept the apples and potatoes just the same. They were small and not good. They were used." "Did you ever hear any controversy or conversation between Hall and Dr. Fletcher in regard to the quality of goods delivered at the hospital!" "Many a time. Fletcher would grumble and growl, and tell Hall to send them back. Hall is a man who doesn't say much. Ho would say. 'All right, Doctor,' and do as ho pleased, llall was working, as I undertood, under the direction of the board. I don't want to say anything unkind of Hall, but that's the way I always understood it. There was always choice or best creamery butter demanded by tho requisitions, and If anybody else except Sullivan got tho contract it had to be that way. If he got lt.it didn't make much difference. That's about tho whole story. There was a great deal of bad butter used there. In dry goods there would occasionally be inferior or bheif-worn goods, table-cloths and toweling not as white as demanded by the contracts. Sometimes they were rejected and boinctimes not" "Who furnished the goods not up to contract that wero accepted!" "D. 1. Erwin Co. Mr. Gapen's son-in-law was employed there." "Did you know of any purposo to dismiss Dr. Fletchcrr . , "I told Superintendent Fletcher about it, and bv his request put it in writing. I also told Mr. Gapen. Sullivan told mo before Dr. Fletcher left that Galbraith would bo superintendent. Ho said Fletcher had to g"Did you hear Harrison or Burriil talk about iil , . . . T "2U. Burriil was not a friend of mine. I

was not for him when he was elected. After he was elected and buying hogs about tho country, I insisted the nogs should bo paid for wht they were worth. He didn't like that Ho wanted the hotrs paid for at the weights ho hail bought them, and not at what they weighed when delivered at the hospital. I don't know that the transaction of buying the hogs was done in his name, but he ordered and mado the purchase for the institution. They were paid for at the wei ght he bought them at. I think 1 told Dr. Fletcher about that and he said, 'Well he is running for Judge down there.' I don't know who received the money for the hogs, but the business on the books of the institution was in thename, I think, of McCormick; he is in Jackson county. The hog business was generally understood about the store-room. There was one car of hogs weighed and the discrepancy between the weights given and our weights was very great. Hall insisted upon them being paid for at the weights at wnlch they were shipped." The witness told that his salary had been reduced to get rid of him, but in December, 1SC, just before the convening of the Legislature and tho threatened investigation, it was restored. After the Legislature had adjourned his place was abolished, and that threw him out of the institution. Witness 6aid that Fletcher was an honest man, and that he. witness, tried to till his position in an honest kind of a way, and to do justico to the State and to those who furnished supplies. In atiswe- to an interrogatory he said that he was a Democrat, "What special friends of Gapen furnished goods!" inquired Mr. Henry. "bullivan, Erwin, Kreitlein and Schrader." "Who were special friends of Harrison!" "Sullivan was always a good friend of Harrison. I think Krauss, of Columbia City, was. Krauss was sent by State Senatorial! Brown with a letter of introdnction to tho institution. Brown was in tho Senate and voted for Harrison and Gapen. I don't know any special friend of Burriil. We did not havo any maggots after the investigation and no butter was thrown away after the investigation, while I was there. When Jordan furnished tho produce it came up to the requisition, but nobody hardly ever, except Sullivan, furnished it." The witness was interrogated at some length about Dr. Thomas, and testiticd that he was a victim to the drinking habit, as many out at the hospital knew. An incident of the campaign was given not, however, taken as testimony in which Messrs. Bynum, Beck and Creelman visited the asylum at night to hold a little caucus with Dr. Thomas, and were much surprised at tho entrance upon tho scene of alight lady whose home was in the city, the lady being a very iutimate friend of one of tho visiting statesmen, tho contratemps quite overwhelming both tho visitors and tho visited. He also told that on tho occasiou of a sudden call by Mr. W. D. Foulko and Mr. Oliver T. Morton some bad .butter was concealed in great haste. Mr. Koth went on to say that after the Legislature of 1887 had adjourned, the investigation over, it was not long until every witness who had testified disparagingly as to Mr. Sullivan's butter and allairsat the hospital, was discharged. Witness knew of but one 6nch person being now in tho employ of Harrison, Gapen and llurrilL at the hospital. He testified that before the investigation Dr. Thomas had asked him how he would testify and had tried to prevent him from saying anything. Before tho investigation Dr. Harrison had come to him and asked him when he testified about the maggoty butter to "say skippers; it doesn't sound as bad as maggots." "Do you kjiow, while there, of any political assessments upon employes!" "They had to pay. I think it was, 10 per cent, on three months of a man's salary." "Did tho female employes payt" "1 think so. I paid my assessment. I think thero was an assessment for Dr. Harrison to carry. Boon county. Harrison told mo Sullivan gave 00 to help carry Boone county. It cost mo $5, ana about $33 for the other election." "Who rawlo out tho list!" "I believe Tom Forrest or Mr. Hall. I think Dr. Thpnias engineered tho thing. After tho election was over Harrison said to mo aua to Dr. Fletcher that he had $2.!30 left which ho would keep until the nex election. They didn't tell a man if he didn't pay ho would havo to 'git,' but it was generally understood he was safer to pav." The committee then adjourned until 9 o'clock on Monday morning. Talk of a Case Against Gapen. There was considerable gosip, yesterday afternoon, as to what coarse would be pursued in regard to Fhllip JI. Gapen, the talk growing out of tho testimony of Cashier Kopp, of tho Meridian National Bank, concerning Gapen'n $5,OOO check. Tho matter had been laid before Attorney-general Michcncr, yesterday morning, by members of the investigating committee, and ho had given the statement that it could not be In any cnse his duty to take action in the matter, at leant not until ft should havo parsed through, the lower courts, anil appeared In the Supremo Court. lie said If there was an offense it phould go to Inseeutor Mitchell. Major Mitchell was seen lart nixht. He said the Marlon county grand Jury would meet on Monday, and if Mr. Gapen had done anything erlmlnal tho grand Jury could Investigate, and lie, the prosecutor would be found ready to do his dut y.

A TALKATIVE GROCEB. Customers Must Depend Upon the Honesty ci Dealers as to the Purity of Many Articles. f Retail grocers say they experience more tronblo in purchasing puro cider vinegar or genuine maplo molasses and sugar than any other articles which they handle. 'An employo of a Tinegar factory from which, when times aro good, from 100 to 125 barrels of vinegar come during a week, stated that two brands of vinegar are manufactured. One is from malt vinegar, 75 to 60 per cent. grade, which is reduced to SO per cent, grade, by mixing with water. Sulphuric and other acids are used in sufficient quantities to give it a sharp tang something similar to that of genuino vinegar. This is sold to grocers at 7 to 9 cents per gallon, the manufacturer governing himself much by tho crop of apples, he, by so doing, intimates that his vingar has cider in it. Another grade is made from whito wine, reduced CO per cent with water, and in this dark-brown sugar is put to give it a cider-vinegar color, but tho more conscientious manufacturers put in a gallon or two of cider, so that they can consistently with their own ideas of honesty, call it by that name. This sells at from 12 to 15 cents per jrallon, being a little better article than tho first-named brand. The manufacturers, however, will not sell the malt product as pure cider vinegar, and tho retail grocer knows that it is not yet there aro somo grocers who keep but one kind and 6ell it to ono party at SO cents a gallon, to another as pure cider vinegar at 40 certs a gallon. A grocer said that what tried him most was that some of his best customers would come in and want to buy pure cider vinegar for pickling purposes, and ho was often afraid to recommend his best article even when purchased from farmers, lest tho farmer might havonscd some of the tricks of the trade. He said the extent to which this manufactured stuli' is used is really alarming. At two or three points in this btate and also in Ohio it is produced in largo quantities. One firm in Cincinnati boasted of having shipped sixteen hundred barrels into Indiana in the last two years. But this business has become so dangerons, it is claimed, to the welfare of the peoplo, that tho Legislature of Ohio has taken the matter up and will, doubtless, pass laws to stop the spread of the adulterated article under the name of cider vinegar. Regarding maple sugar, tho grocer said bnt little pure sugar is sold. Even the fanners purchaso dark brown sugar, which fcells at 5 cents a pound, and mix it half and-hnlf with the pure maple. They use it in tho same proportions in the manufacture of syrups. "When a customer," continued the talkative grocer, now asks mo for pure cider vinegar 1 give him the best I have, and tell him that I purchased it for good vinegar, and in the same way I recommend my maple sugar. So far as butter is concerned, farmers cannot palm oil on mo a poor or impure article; my taste and eyesight aro too good for that. Still, I believe many grocers are ignorantly selling oleoma rgerine, butterine, or some other adulterated articlo as pure butter. I do not wish to convey the idea that the retail grocers are dishonest in the matter. Tho fact is but few of them will take the pains to exnmino what is sold to them, preferring to rely on the recommendation of tho driver of tho manufacturer's wagon or tho traveling (talesman as to the genuineness of the article." Xew parlor tfoodi at Win. L. Elder's.

TIIE AGENTS WELL PLEASED

Real Estate Dealings Show the Influence of What Makes Markets Lively. A Busy Season Promised, with Indications of Improvements in Building Completed and Projected in All Parts of the City. Indianapolis has hover known o moro prosperous outlook for her real estate and building interests than she is at present enjoying. Although it is yet comparatively early in the season of the year to predict any definite rise or fall in the line of improvement, the indications that aro beginning to appear on every hand arc unmistakable. ' Ono neul not depend upon tho theories of ambitious rental agents to see what has been dono so far toward tho upbuilding of the city's welfare, or what is to be done in the near future, for a little personal investigation will reveal to the casual observer the gradual advance that is being made. About this time of tho year tho property-holders begin to speculate as to cheapest and best means of making additions to their homes, speculators prepare for tho busiest season to them of all the year, and outside parties seize the opportunity to creep in and share the citizens' prosperity. Indianapolis is growing now as 6he never has grown, increasing not in an undesirablo element of population, but principally in workmgmeu and their families, who find in the outskirts of the city cheap and convenient places for location. Right in tho center of the city, along the principal business streets, there is but little indication of any marked changes, cither in tho erection of new buildings, or the improvement of tho old; but as ono leaves that center, and travels in either direction toward the city limits, and even beyond them, the marks of growth rapidly increase. EspeciaUy are they noticeable in the north, east, and 60uth-east, where tho number of lots recently purchased and tho houses being erected thereon aro at least surprising. College and Park avenues, and Broadway aro being lined with residences thrt reach well onto Fall creek, while out toward Bright wood small temement-houses havo been and are going up in largo numbers. There is a great demand for building lots eastward, beyond AVoodrult" Place, and perhaps here is to bo seen tho most rapid, and at the same time the most steady signs of growth. The added facilities of the streetcar lines reaching this neighborhood maizes It.amnat defiir;illn lne.alitv for residence and many are taking advantage of its quiet t anupieasani burrounuings. miuuna;i easy matter to pick out certain localities where new buildings are going up. and other improvements are being carried out yet it is equally diflicult to enumerate all tho indications of those improvements. Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly trno that, taken as a whole, tho improvement of the city thus far has never been exceeded in any corresponding length of time. Tho circumstances under which Indianapolis has been placed during tho past winter havo been at onco peculiarly suitable for tho encouragement of her real estate interests, and they have no doubt contributed largely to increase tho usual amount of spring building. No one thing has aided her manufacturing industries, as well as contributed to the comfort of her residents, as natural gas, and to it must bo ascribed the main cause for the hopeful outlook this spring. Its ue has raised tho price of rent, but to those desirous of becoming propertyowners it has proved a useful and economical, as well as convenient incentive, feinco its introduction as a fuel there has been a great demand from tho smaller towns within a radius of from thirty to lifty miles for residences, somo to be rented and some to bo bought. Nor are these demands contined to those houses that aro themselves deprived of natural cas, bnt all along the gas-'udt, from Noblesvillo down to Richmond, people seem to be siezed with tho idea that if natural gas and a largo city ran together, there is tho place to settle, jvl'.ulacturers from a distance havo been At tracted here, in search for new planfs 1 claiming that tho citv, with its unexcelled railroad facilities and its added :idvantai?e in point of cheap fuel, offers inducements found nowhero else. Many enthusiastic citizens are inclined to believe the presidential campaign and the election of General Harrison have added much to the city's crowth, but while it has doubtless been a great advertisement for tho place, as well as for Indiana, it can be readily seen that to have one of her citizens elected to the presidency does not necessarily raisethe price of real estate. During the canvass the hotels, restaurants and retail houses did a thriving business, but property can hardly bo tuid to havo been affected. Real estate men prophesy no boom for Indianapolis, but a steady growth in prices, they say, has already begun. In the spring of 1883, property took a slight jump in value at the very beginning, but soon fell back to its original place, whero it remained during the entire season. 0 far this year, no such sudden movement has manifested itself, but property has advanced in value to a point far beyond that attained a year ago, and it is this slow but steady development that betokens the result predicted by rental agents. Tho real estate transfers from day to day aro greater in number and value than has been known during any one corresponding period in the city's history. From Feb. 23 to 2S, 1888, they amounted to $91,5S1.10t while during the san'C period of time this year there was a total of 125,522.48, showing an incrca&oof Sll,Ml.'J0. Rents, too, havo advanced a trillo, but no further rise is expected, as they are now permanently iixed by tho establishment of natural-gas, which is no longer an experiment, but a reality. "The great need of this city." said a realestate dealer recently, "is advertisement. You may go all through the East and tho West and you will lind other cities thoroughly advertised, and half the timothey haven't as mnch to boast of as has Indianapolis. Somehow the people here do not soem to tako tho interest they should in tho upbuilding of tho town. I picked up a New York paper tho other day, and in it I read several articles setting forth tho advantages of Denver, CoL, and Kansas City, Mo., and I thought as I read it how little peoplo outside of Indiana ever heard of its capital. Wo need a live real-estate exchange; but it must be conducted by men who are not afraid to work and who can get tho financial backing of our citizens. Unless that support can be obtained the attempt will fail every time. I don't believe wo can exaggerate those two demands a good local exchange and extensive advertising abroad." There is ono element that enters into tho question which, to a c rtain extent, hampers the manufacturing classes, who aro building in the city. The majority of them aro tied up by having their money in building and loan associations, which enables them to purchase a lot perhaps, and to build a comfortable resinence. Bnt that is as far as they can go. In a year, or 60, however, they will be able to enlarge their investments, and their natural tendency will be to build more extensively. This has been evident to a certain extent this year, and from it moro promising results are anticipated during the next year or two. The past week was marked by soveral largo transfers, varying in valuo from $7,000 to $16,000, tho total amouutingtoSl25,023.03, Go See Thenu Norb Lanfigraf, merchant tailor, Y. M. C. A. Building, has received his new spring goods, and they are now open for Inspection. FKEsn and lovely spring styles of neck wear Just received at Paul Krauss's. Remember Mr. Krauss will remove his gents f urnishuig stock, shirt factory and laundry to 41 and 40 East Washington street about the 15th lust., which will undergo alterations and improvements. Fine Cakea ami Salad. Mies Bryan's flno cakes, rlum puddin g and salads can be had at oU times at Power's Wa.hlngton Market, 80 N. Penn. st. Miss Bryan's cookery is excellent as all know who have tried 1L Feb advertisement of Indiana Saving and Investment Comrany on page 11. It -wUl Interest you. - Silk, hats, all grades, at Beaton's hat store, 25 Jforta Pennsylvania, street.

THE IEW YORE STORE (ESTABLISHED 1853.)

G-E3STTS' Furnishing Department Our entire stock of ih innimT M UiMUi SHIRTS To Be Closed Out We have advices from our shirt manufacturers that on and after April 1 they will adopt new numbers and brands on all our Shirts, and suggest to us that it would bo well to begin on April 1 with an entire new line. Wo shall, therefore, use our utmost endeavors to sell every Shirt now in stock. Tho quality of our Shirts aro so well known to bo tho best in every particular, it is needless to make any mention of it at this time. SEE THE PRICES. Unlaimdered Shirts Our $1 quality, now 85c. Our87c quality, now 72c. Our 75c quality, now 65c. Our 50c quality, now 45c. PRICES ALWAYS IN

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ROBERT MARTINDALE & GO 62 East Market Street.

W. T. WILEY & CO ISTos. 48 & 50 ISTortli Illinois Street. BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT THIS WEEK.

New Spring Dress Goods on sale Monday. Hoc our novelties in Sido Bauds.

r'run'Kitintirm Rmfinff. PlJllflS. StTlTJCS ana mlXWrCS.

fcnrini? Weicht Dress Cloth. SG inches i ide, only 2Jc a yard.

s.ft nnr Snrint? Snitincra in Plaids and Stripes, at at Wo a yard.

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Complete lino of French and Scotch Zephyr Ginghams on sale. See them. See our novelties in Fiao French Sateens. Checked Nainsook, cood quality, only 5c a yard, worth 10c. Don't Tfai Tto get. cmr prices on TABLE LINEN. TOWELS and NAPKINS. We will save you money. t , Sco onr Fancy Towels at 20c, wotrh SOc Special bargains in Bed Quilts at C9c and OSc, worth $1 and $1.50. Positiue bar

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Muslins and Sheetings at low prices Monday. Bargains in Muslin Uuderwcar thin week. Corset Covers, Chemise, Gowns and Skirts at reduced prices. See them. W) dozeu Ladies' Whito Aprons at 10c. worth 20c. r.nnA Wli lni f CnTKPt nt 75c. worth 1.23.

25 dozen Corsets, Good quality, only SOc, cheap at 75c. Seo our Kid Gloves nt 4'.c and C9c a pair, worth 75c and 81.

T.rwiiW v.mnv Hni nt inc. iic. i9c ana 'c a pair, wortn UOUD10.

our T.:uli ltibbed J'-Tscy Vests at 15c and 10c, worth 25c

New Embroideries. New Dress Tninmings, rew Torchon and

Lalo Monday. . t , See onr'fiw Patterns, in Black Laco Sro our elegant line of Spring V raps Money saved by trading with

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Our 51.15 quality, now 95c. Our 1 quality, now 85c Our 90c quality, now 75c. On all Shirts we will allow 25 cents extra on each half dozen lots. We shall in this sale include all our LINEN COLLARS, Of which wo carry two qualities. See prices: Our 12c Collars, now 10c. Our 20c Collars, now 15c. LINEN CUFFS, Our 35c Cuffs, now 25c. Our 25c Cuffs, now 19c. SUSPENDERS. All Suspenders at greatly reduced prices, CARDIGAN JACKETS. All Cardigan Jackets 50c each less than tho marked prices. TIES. TIES. We have nearly four hundred dozen of Ties, in light and dark colors. Wo shall close them all out at very low prices. You will find them in lots on the counter at astonishing . reductions in price. Sale will continue from day to day until the whole stock is disposed of. PLAIN FIGURES. TV PARK Per Month, worth 40c. worth SOc. worth 10c. See them. Worth 10C. and S3c. Medici Laces, on Flouncmps. and Jackets.

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FURNITURE, CARPETS, STOVES. Children's Carriages, Fancy Rockers nnd Center Tables, Hall Hacks, lkok Cases, Velvet and Tapestry BrusselsIngrains, Laco Curtains, Stoves and Kanges, Queensware and Hanging Lamps. PAYMENTS OB CASH. JOHN ciymsrE 79 W. WASHINGTON ST. Opposite Park Theater. Count Tolstoi's Brilliant Novel, ANNA KARENINA Price, 0 centn. CATHCART, CLELAND & CO. 26 East Washington St

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To - Morrow, March 4th, Will be a Day Long to be Remembered by the People of Indianapolis and Indiana. A new President will bo sworn in, and a now order of business will bo inaujra..rated at ; 6 & 8 WEST WASHINGTON STREET And continued from day to day. The peoplo have been fed on Sensational Low-Cuft1 Prices so long that they demand substantial facts, and that wo intend giving thenr In Silks, Plushes and Velvets. In Black Goods. In Dress Goods, Novelties and Combination Suits. In Embroideries and Corsets. In Hosiery and Gloves. In Iaces, Ribbons and Notions. : In Underwear and Unlandcred Shirts. In Table Linens, Towels and Napkins, wo are showing the largest, cheapest' and best lines in tho city. j Our Spring Wraps and Jackets for Ladies embraces all tho latest designs andV newest shades produced, and we are showing them at prices never before oficmV by any house. A full lino of Ladies' Muslin Underwear and Children's Robes and Caps at ourr usual popular prices. Special 200 Gold-tipped Umbrellas, 81.23 and $2.2,); 875 pair Laco Curtains, from 83c to $33 per pair, all new and latest patterns. . EcTLadies, wo ask you to call and see our goods and prices, and be convinced oil tho truth of our statements. GTDress-Making Parlors now open.

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DRESS GOODS Spring Styles. Dress Goods la prcat variety from 5c up. Wool Cashmeres, in all Ahauco, at 10c. Printed Bicjreis very nice, only Be. Lrocadcd Dress Goods at 10c. 1 )o IJeUres at 10c. Double-fold Ueiges, very desirable, at 19e. Fine Cashmero and Henriettas, in all the new spring shades, at 25c. Hee bur line of French ITemiettas at 50c and 75c Black Goods at 25c. 35c, 50c, and 75c. Klejrant Black Henrietta, 40 inchea wide, at$l. Double-fold Mired Pultinjrs at 25o and 35c Double-fold Mixed Tricots at 25c uid 35c. PLUSHES. Just opened a lot of Silt Plushes, all t-hades, at 48c per ysird. bee our Trimming Bilks, Batins aad Velvets. SPRING JACKETS. Black Stockinet Jackets only $2. Plaid Jackets, with eatin-llncd hoods, at $2.50. Black Stockinet Jackets, lino tailor made, ot $3.50. DEDERT & 158 and 16 O E.

WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT. Full Line of Goods for the Spring Trade Now Ready; Tops, Marbles, Balls, Bats, Fishing-Tackle, Childre n's Carriages and Express Wagons, Velocipedes, Bicylcs and Trityclcs. t3"Scnd for Catalogue and Prices.

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NATURAL GAS S UPPLIES TnMnff, Cwlnjr. Mr. Contain, 11t Irons Drtlllnj Tools. Bra Ooods. Malleable Galvanized an! CaU Iron FltUnga. Complete lino of llousoFUUiigt for Natural Ga. GEORGE A.. RICHARDS. TELEPHONE 77 South Illinois St., Indianapolis, Iml,

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" TRTJBBLE IN DE CHURCH" Of course you've seen the picture. But there Will be no "trubble in de church" if the trustees buy the handsome WALLPAPERS now to be seen at Albert Gall's. These papers are Spring stock, new patterns, and many of the cheapest are very beautiful. When looking at my Wall-Papers, it will be no trouble to show my new CARPETS, just received. ALBERT GtAXjXj

SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS

February has only twenty-right day?, and here we arc acros tho threshold ol March! It pounds later in tho year to Kay "March" than "February," end it h later. You've heard tho Ktat nient that "Time nnd tide wait for no man." It's true. They wait for no woman, cither. Spring begins officially in twenty day from now. How about your spring beginning! Have you been among thoso who have, visited our Wall-Paper Department, inspected the vast array of its richness and wealth, and made your selections or explained your ideas for our artists to execute? If not, we wouM suggest that March is here, and that it U full time to bo making ready with thosu preparations. Come now, before tho hi?h tide of spring work rises all along. Whatever hour of leisure you can e euro with your work now is to your ad vantage. pASTMAN, r SCHLEICHER LEE CAIirETS, Draperies, Wall-Paitr. The Lanrest IIouso in the Stato JEESEYS. we &li"w the largest line of Jerseys of ansd houe in tho city; sizes from 312 to 4; In pricc&l Ir o' 47c up. Our ferring styles now open. WHITE GOODS, Etc. vjUo Goods in great variety froia 5o ieryartl; up. Embroideries from lc up. Lares from lc up. Flounclngs from 45c up. New Table Linens, New Towel?. Vw Covers; New Ftauiped Goods. S' w Lace Curtains, New Spread. ' vVrtaln Scrims nt .V. I ro'n 10c to 2.')C; choice at lOo. y vnnl bargains in Kiblmus at :c, 10c and 150, Lc and tientd' hprin Hosiery at real bar' s-c our Muslin Underwear. IVc handlo thA celebrated Boo-hivo brand; xiono better. OaJ prices the lowest. SUDBROCK "Washington St. Free Ambuljlxcc

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