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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1891.

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TALKING ABOUT TIN-PLATE

Captain Tarlton TclIsHore of the Ameri can riant to Bq Pnt in at Ehrood.

nnntiDgrpMoernMachinerj Growth of thd Xeif Town Consternation Camed lj the McKiclej Bill in Wales..

Cant Charles S. Tarlton. secretary of tho American Tin-plate Company, which is build in g an immense plant at Elwood, this State, camo homo yesterday to vote, and when approached by a Journal reporter regarding tin-plate -was very enthusiastic in speaking of tho brilliant future and present outlook of the nevr "enterprise. "Elwood," said Captain Tarlton. "will be known all over this country by next spring, not only because we have the largest plate-glass-works in operation in the world there, bat because by that time we will be masing bright and terno tin-plate from the moat complete nd modern tin-plate plant in tho country, ami that as good, if not better, than the tin made in Wales at the present time. The management, comprising Hon. A. L. Conger, W. B. Lesds, H. Stanford and L Morris, have pent all of the past week going from one endue and machine-woTks to another through Ohio and iVniisylvauia. where they will place contract for the most improved machinerv that can be made in this country, and with the experience of these gentlemen it will be safe to predict that the American tin-plate-works will have machinery that cannot be duplicated by any similar plant in the world. Mr. Isaac Morns, who will have charge of the rolling department, is a man who has spenthis whole llfo ia that one branch of tbo industry, and ia known' all over this conntry as one of . the most skilled iron and steel rollers. He has collected around him a ttatt of skilled workmen, who will be ready to go to work as soon us the plant is coinpletsl, which will be about the 1st of next March. Then our Mr. E. Stanford, who has already arrived upon the ground to superintend the erection of the buildings, is a practical tin-plate man, and knows everything atont tin. from the timo it comes from the blocks and pis-iron until it has been polished and packed. He will have charguof tho coating and dipping department. , . Uur plans." continued Captain Tarlton, "call for a plant of twenty mi lis. driven by a huge engine of seven hundred horsepower; but the management are contemplating putting in .an immense. blast-furnace and steel-mill in connection with the tin-mills as soon aa the present specifications have been carried out. making the total cost 1 at about $700,000 and employing tweuty-tive hundred men. 'When completed it will be the largest and most complete works of its kind in the world. "1 went to Elwood about three weeks ago. and 1 was surprised to see an entire new town, having sprung into existence since the discovery of natural gas; and the factory located there has given the town a boom that has far out-classed any of the other towns in the gas belt, and we will soon have a thriving manufacturing town of over ten thousand people. "Our stockholders are mostly men who have had large experience in the manufacturing trade and have the greatest confidence that there is a brilliant future for American tin-nhte in this country. Each mail brings mo many letters from tin-plate men hre in the United Mates making application for positions with lis, each man giving a hintory aa it were of his experience in the trade and any oue not acquainted with the circumstances of the new industry wonld be led to believe from reading their letters that the tin-plate trade was an old and well-established business of this country. ZJFECT OF THE U'KIXLE Y BILL. The McKmley bill." said Captain Tarlton, In renly to a question, "bad a bad effect upon the mills and workmen of Wales and Monmouthshire. In Morriitom,

South Wales, things are in anything but a thriving condition. The Dnfiryn tiu-plate-works, which are the largest in the world, and employ, when running, from 2.000 to 2,500 men, have been closed since the 1st of last Jnne, aud the smelters at the Upper Forest works, another large plant, are still out on account of reduction of wages. At the other plate-works the men are only working half the time, and things begin to look rather blue for most of the tin-plate-workers this winter. Wbenyoa come to consider that the importation of tin-plate Into this country exceeds one million boxes, and this market virtually eut oil", things begin to look rather tough for tin-workera in Wales. "The Tlnplate-workes, Union agreed to stand by the masters and tight the American efforts to establish the tin-plate industry to the bitter end, on condition that their present wages should not be disturbed. Great excitement has been aroused among the workmen by a proposal from the masters that the steel-plate men should go back to work at a reduction of wages from 10 to 80 per cent. As steel-plate is a largo part of the tin-plate industry, the tinners will stand by the threatened men. The crisis may be delayed for a few days, but the crash is bound to come. The men wonld rather see America take the entire tnaunfacture away than to submit. For the moment the masters do not dare to touch the tinners, but we all know that the reduction of the steel-workers is a prolude to a reduction of tho tinners. The Welch Industrial Times of Sept 13, a paper published in the interest of the tin-plate manufacture, says: 4,Tbe situation of our tin-plate industry is in a most perilous condition, for the time being, the jrreat American market closed, new mills starting in Germany and Italy; and most of our mills hare been shut down for seren or eight weeks and thousands of workmen trurtring up and down our once smoking valleys. The new mills startles In the States are almost an experiment, but we thought when they proposed to make steel they never could without the assistance of our steel-workers: but the American workman is Quick to learn, and with the assistance of a great many tin-workers already there, and probably more that will follow, they will be making plate, like they made onr glass, in time to supply the demand when the Importers get unloaded of the lark- amount of plate they bought before the McKinley Jaw took effect. "There are now several men in our gas belt looking over the territory with a view to locating plants from Wales, knowing full well that this market, the best in the world, will be furnished by American tinplate. Now, all 1 have got to say. yon just keep your eye on that Pittsburg of Indiana, Elwood." PRODUCTS OF MAIZE.

Largely Increasing Demand for Meal. Hominy and Grits for Export. The purchase, by Mr. Lowe Carey, of ground near tho work-house, for a site for a hominy-mill, led a Journal reporter to inquire of him concerning the export trade of corn goods. "Meals, hominy and grits," said he, "have been on tho increase in the export trade for spme time. The new mar kets opened by reciprocity, and by the increasing popularity of our corn goods, has served to keep the prices in a satisfactory condition. Every article prepared for export is degerminated and thoroughly kilndried, so that it will keep. The future of the business seems very bright at present." "Is there any difficulty In packing goods suitably for the foreign market!" was asked. "Yea. We must pack our goods as those foreigners want it. or they won't take it when it is shipped to tbem. The usual form for transportation is in 100-pound bass. A somewhat exasperating thing about this foreign trade is that we must pack goods as tbe buyers want tbem, and when we buy of them they pack as they please, and we can't help ourselves. Same way in making out bills. If we should send a bill in dollars and cents they would not pay it. We must compute it in their own coin, and they remit in their own coin. This is matter that reciprocity won't touch. England seems to think we are younger, and have got to pay respect to heron account of her age." Mr. Carey will not begin to build his new null until spring. It will be 63x100 feet in aize, and four stories high. Its capacity will be 8,000 bushels per day.

NOTES PICKED UP IN TOWN

Short Stories and Incidents That Came in the KewsGatherer's Way.

Flairs Reduced to Ribbons on the Capitol Dome The Tasting of Black Hosiery Towels Used in Barber-Shops.

A gentleman remarked to Captain Griffin, custodian of the State-house, on the day the Cleveland baby was born that he should run up the ilag in honor of the great event. "Great Scott! it's all I can do to get a flag to run up on Fourth of July or other national holidays, to say nothing about raising one for a day-old baby," answered tbe Captain. "You have no idea how soon a Hag blows to ribbons up there on top of that dome. Not long ago I bought a large Hag made out of the heaviest bunting, and myself and another man went up to hoist it. There was au unusually heavy gale blowing, and before tbe eheet had reached tho top of the pole it was in a dozen pieces. It takes two men to raise a Hag, and on a particularly windy day it will be all three strong men can do to accomplish it. There Is nothing bnt a little narrow platform to stand upon, and I tell you it's a risk v job -when the heavy rope is blowing with the wind, and swinging a fellow around like a rocking ship. The cheapest tiaa that can be bought, that will show at all from the top of the dome, costs 40, and out of only a &,000 supply fund, 1 can't throw much money away on flags. I'd like to have a Hag Haunting from the ton of the pole all the time, for it is a highly proper thing that the American colors should always bn seen on a State's capitol. 1 1 takes a ting at least 28x42 to be seen at all from the ground.. Put up a little 10x18 sheet and it would look like a napkin. "No. sir. nobody would rather have a flag on ton of this building all the time more than I. but it would cost at least $3,000 a year to do it. and then the chances are it would look like a bunch of ribbons more than a Hag." "I see that gaily-colored stockings are coming in fashion again this fall," said a North Meridian-street young lady the other day, "and I'm rather glad of it I'm awfully tired wearing nothing but black, black, black all the time. In the lirst place, black stockings are a delusion and a snare, just as are flannel dresses. When a drygoods clerk tells you he is selling you a good pair of fast-black hose, don't you believe him. They either will not wear or they are not fast colors. When they are dyed so strong that they will not crock the dye is bound to eat out the thread in a few days' time, and if the dye is not strong it will come off before you take the stockings off at night. Thero never was a good pair of fast-black stockings made, any more than a good pair of patent-leather shoes. Take a pair of steel gray or seal-brown hose and they are just as neat as black, and will wear three times as long and never crock. All the girls are glad to see the styles change, but of course, as long as black was the correct thing we had to wear them, for we do have to cro?s streets on mnddy days, you know. Then, too, nothing looks bo hideously inappropriate as a girl wearing black stockinus with a white dress at a party, or with a litibt summer gown. oineof tho girls ventured to wear white canvas hhoei and white stocklnes this summer, for they were the latest fad, but. they didn't take somehow. I'm going down town to-morrow morning and buy me some grey, brown aud lavender hose, and the horrid black things go to the rag-bag." There is nothing about which a gentle" man is so particular in a barber shop as to see that tho towel, with which his face is dried, is clean. If it isn't he knows it in a minute, even if he be dozing when the rubbing process begins. No first-class shop

I dares to be scrimpy about its towels. But

how many men have ever stopped to look at tbe towel that covers the head reatT Nobody does. The next time yon go into a shave shop notice this, and ten chances to one you will see that it i a filthy, greasy smeary, xnussy rag that looks as though it had been there a month. The barber puts it on in the morning when he opens up perhaps not that morning, but some morningand there it stays all the day long, bolstering a score of dirty, greasy, pomadey heads that don't know a shampoo from a hunk of cevelot wurst. All first-class shops, at least the 15-ccnt institntions, should change tbe head-rest towels with every customer, just as it changes face towels. A clean, freshly-shampooed head cringes to touch the filthy rag. bnt it'sdeuced uncomfortable keepiug one's neck braced up all through the shave. Willie lived in Ohio, and was very proud of hlsnati?e State. Frankie lived in Pennsylvania, and was equally jealous of anything that suggested a comparison to his beloved commonwealth. The two youngsters had been spatting for half an hour as to the comparative merits of the two States. "Ohio has more manufactories than old Pennsylvania." said Willie, "and it has furnished more Presidents, generals, orators and Other distinguished men than all of the Atlantio coast States combined. Why. even our penitentiary is larger than yours." "I don't care, retorted Frank, "Our'n has more in it than your'n. anyhow." It may take nine tailors to make a man, but it takes nino times nino men to make a tailor make the man's suit by Saturday night if some other fellow comes in and orders a 75 suit to bo done at the same time. - ElCUilOXD PEOPLE SCFFER.

The Agitation of the Xews Resulted There in a BiUaise in Gas Kates. The citizens of Richmond have been wrought up by the action of tho Natnralgas Company in raising its rate although before the charges for gas were much above the Indianapolis rate. Meeting a prominent and heavy stockholder, a Journal reporter was given a reason for the increase. Said he: "The natural-gas stock of our company is paying a better interest, three or four times over, than any bank in town, but strange as it may seem, we can't sell a dollar's worth of it. The reason lies in tbe suspicion that tbe gas is giving out. Now I think the Indianapolis News is responsible for the talk about the supply running low. Its articles on the subject had tho effect to make a great many apprehensive, and our directors came to the conclusion that if the gas is going to give out we had better get onr money out of it as fast as we can. if the people believe what the News says they can't blame us for raising the rates. And so we raised the rate towheroit i meant to equal the former cost of coal. A great many protested against the raise, but 1 don't thin tc they had a right to; do you. nowf They would not buy our stock at par, when it was paying IS and 20 per cent, and when some of us needod money and wanted to mcII. They said, 'oh, von are getting scared and would make no o tiers. Now, 1 am not alraid of it giving out, but I voted for the iucrease. 1 believe the gas is being manufactured all tbe time, may be not so fast as it is being used, bnt still Indiana will have gas for many a year jet. I saw Major Doxey'a new well near Anderson last week, and it is the biggest one I ever saw. Our company own- twenty-three wells, and the pressure to-dav is just as strong as it was three years ago. It is impossible to make the mains tight enough to hold the iresnre. and we loee. no donbt, a great eal of gas along the line. We have an eight-inch pipe forty-six raHes long, and feed live thousand lirea. but still we have all the gas we want. Next year, under the increase in tbe price, our dividends will be 25 per cent, higher."

MtstUtlppl Vallry Doctors. The Mississippi Valley Medical Association will hold its seventeenth annual ses

sion at St Lonia Oct 14, 15, 16, 1891. An excellent programme contains the names of many of the most eminent medical men in the United States. The social part will be well cared for by the citizens and profession of St. Louis. All the railroads give one and one-third fare for the round trip on the certificate plan. The committee on organiration of the Intercontinental Medical Contrress, the trustees of the Journal of the American Medical Association and members of the American Medical Association will also convene at the same time at the above meeting. The officers are: C. II. Hughes. M. D., president. 500 North Jefferson avenue, St Louis. E. 8. McKee, secretary, fi7 West Seventh Street, Cincinnanti. I. N. Love, M. D., chairman of the committee on arrangements. Grand avenue and Lindell boulevard, St Louis.

T. M. C. A. CONVENTION. Prominent Workers from ill Oyer the State to Be Here in November. The summons for the twenty-second annual convention of the Y. M. C. A., to be held in this city, has been issued. The convention will begin Nov. 5 and close Nov. 8. The local association and the Butler University association will have charge of the arrangements for tho entertainment of delegates. Tbe headquarters will be the Y. M. C A. building, but the evening meetings will lo held in the Meridian-street M. E. Church. Prominent workers in tbe association, including College Secretary J. II Mott, Secretary C. IJ. Willis, of Milwaukee; W. K. Jennings, of Pittsburg; L. J. Aldnch. of Union Christian College, and Prof. W. G. Moorohead. of Xcuia Theoloirieal (Seminary, will be present Excursion rates on the railroads, and rednced rates at the hotels, have been seenred. Joseph J. Mills, president of Earlham College, is president of the association. REVISED GEOGRAPHY.

A Facetious Texas Kdltor Makes Some Answers to Suits Ills Caprloe. Gslreston Tr limns. Of what is tbe surface of the earth composed T Of corner lots, mighty ooor roads, railroad tracks, base-ball grounds, cricket-held and skating rinks. Wnat portion of the globe is water! About three-fourths. Sometimes they add a little gin and nutmeg to it. What is a town! A town is a considerable collection of houses and inhabitants, with four or five men who "run the party" and lend money on 15 per cent interest What is a city t A city is an incorporated town, with a Mayor, who believes that tbe whole world shakes when he happens to fall fiat on a crosswalk! What is commerce? Borrowing $5 for a day or two, and dodging the lender for a year or two. Name the different races. Horse-race, boat-race, bicycle-race and racing around to liud a man to indorse your note. Into how many classes is maukind divided. Six beintr enlightened, civilized, halfcivilized, savage, too utter, not worth a cent and Indian agents. What nations are called enlightened? Those which have the most wars and the worst laws and produce tbe most criminals. How raanv motions has the earth? That's according, to how yon mix your drinks and which way yon go home. What is the earth's axis? The lines passiug between New York and San Francisco. What causes day and night? Hay is caused by the night getting tired out. Nieht is caused by everybody taking the street car and going home to supper. What is a map? A map is a drawing to show the jury where hmith stood when Jones gave him one under tbe eye. What is a mariner's compass? A jug holding four gallons.

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"THE PRINCE OF GOODFELLOWS." . Governor Campbell and Major McKinley are talking politics on the stump, jet tuey meet and dine together, and each acknowledges the other to be "tbe prince of goodfellows." bothacreo that the Ohio campaign shall be one "of measures and not of men; of principle and not of personality." This is as it should be, and the atmosphere about Indianapolis would be better had tho present city campaign been conducted on lit 9 principles. We advise no one to bet. but should you wager clothes on the result of the election, and desire garments that will give satisfaction, have them made by the E AM TAILOEIJSTG- OO. 14 EAST WASHINGTON STREET.

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