Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1897 — Page 5

ON THE HOME STRETCH ♦ REPUBLICANS ARE MAKING A WINNING FINISH IN THE RACE. - ♦ All Indication* Point to Another Victory Like that of JKDfi—BcßinniiiK to Know TuKßarl. The Republicans enter the last week of the campaign at a winning gait. There have been some picturesque features of the general skirmish during the past week that have diverted the people somewhat, but have not distracted their attention from the main issues. The showing of the polltakers, the reports of the precinct committees, the attendance upon the meetings and the tenor of conversation one may hear at any point all surely point to the election of Harding by a majority no less decisive than that which gave the first indication of all the recent Republican victories in 1X93. The Republicans have worked steadily at their organization until now they have a compact, loyal and thorough organization, covering every point in the city. The work of the precinct committees has been subdivided down and systematized in such shape that if any Republican voter fails to vote on election day it wm not be because an honest effort has not been made to get him to the polls. During the past week the Taggart outfit was driven to the stump by the great success of the Republican meetings. Knowing full well that they coulu not begin to duplicate the success of these meetings in point of numbers, they did not undertake open air gatherings, but appointed their meetings for suburban halls, holding anywhere from one hundred to three hundred people. These halls were filled, but people were not turned away. The largest meeting they had during the week was at Phoenix Garden, w here one of the Taggart organs put the attendance at 600 and another at 700. And this notwithstanding the attractions of free beer and fireworks. The contrast between these gatherings and the Republican meetings is remarkable. It is seldom that the Republicans have had less than one thousand people, where Mr. Harding spoke many of them running from 1,500 to 2,000, and the one of Monday evening ran to 4,000. All the Taggart meetings have had a beer annex, except that in the First ward, and there the city employes carried most of the crowd to neighboring saloons as soon as the meeting was over. The others have been held in halls over saloons, or attached to beer gardens, with free beer on tap. Such campaigning would kill a Republican candidate’s chances in a single day, but Mr. Taggart and those on the ticket with him carry it on with impunity. At all these meetings Mayor Taggart has delivered the same speech, varied a bit occasionally to fit the locality. The speech is composed mainly of a misstatement of the charges against his administration and a general denial. Mr. Harding has gone steadily forward, fighting his battle for the people, for cheaper and better service from the quasi-public corporations, and the way people have flocked to his meetings and f cheered his words gives every reason to believe that his campaign is meeting their hearty approval. The boasted popularity of the Taggart smile is waning as the people begin to understand that that smile costs them hard cash and a good deal of it. It is a rather sleepy Republican these days who cannot tell you about anywhere from five to twenty of his Democratic neighbors and friends who have expressed their intention of voting for Harding.

EMEIUCH AND BALLWEG. Roth Are Actively Slippering Ilarding,' for Mayor. Efforts have been made by the Democratic organ to create the impression that Frederick W. BaUweg and John H. Emerich, well-known business men of the Fifteenth ward, intend to vote for Mayor Taggart. Mr. Emerich was nominated for councilman at large at the Republican convention. Mr. Ballweg was nominated for the Council from the Fifteenth ward. For business reasons both declined the nominations. The organ seized on this fact as indicating that they are not in harmony with the Republican party. This is not true. Neither man has ever expressed any such intention. “I was not a candidate for the nomination,” said Mr. Emerich, “and did not know that my name was being considered until I was informed of my nomination. 1 said at once that I could not accept, as my business requires my attention. I do not believe in a men accepting honors of that character unless he is in a position to make a canvass and work for his party. A number of my friends urged me to accept and I consented not to act hastily, but after looking at the question carefully 1 found that 1 was not in a position to take the nomination. I wrote Mr. Gerard that I could not run on account of business reasons.” “It has been suggested that you intend to vote for Taggart?” suggested the reporter. “I was out of the city and never authorized such a statement. I paid no attention to it, as men who know me would not believe such a report. I am not going to vote for Mr. Taggart.” Mr. Ballweg said that before the Republican primary in his ward friends went to him and asked him to become a candidate. For business reasons and because he could not spare the time in politics Mr. Ballweg said tbat he declined to be a candidate. He says that he informed those who talked to him on the question that he wouid have to decline the nomination if it were tendered to him. His name was presented and he was nominated without his own consent. Republicans recognized that Mr. Ballweg would mdke a very strong candidate, and it was believed that he could defeat” Commodore” Higgins without much question, and for this reason they insisted on nominating him. After he declined Mr. Walters, another strong Republican, was chosen in his place. Mr. Ballweg says that he never authorized the statement that he would vote for Taggart. Not Recent Discoveries. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: “Doubtless our readers yesterday noticed in our local columns the remarks of a citizen who does not get excited during a campaign. As he well said: ‘Why is it that all these alleged mistakes (monstrous blunders) are not discovered until the heat of a campaign? If there was gross mismanagement during the last twenty-three months, someone ought to have raised his voice against them, * * * As every act of the administration was chronicled day by day. Such criticism is unanswer--I'■ MU' There are times when the variation of a pulse beat tells the practiced physician whether the scale will go down and mean death or up and mean life. But suppose the medicine he prescribes is not the medicine which your child is taking, but something the druggist thought would do just as well! Who is going to regulate the balance then? A druggist who will offer you something else when you ask for Scott’s Emulsion will do the same thing with his prescriptions. Get what you ask for!

able, * * • (then) the orators and the organ saw nothing to condemn.”—Editorial in News. What conveniently short memories these apparently blind and deaf defenders of the mayor have. Where have these worthies been that they have seen and heard so little? A comparison of the recollections of this “citizen” with the recollections of the citizen who writes this may be of interest. While Mr. Taggart was auditor severe criticisms were made through the press and by a citizens’ committee at the time because of the largely increased and unjust appraisement of real estate; also the reckless increase of the county indebtedness, which occurred during his term. There was no election pending then. During Mr. Taggart'fc term as mayor the columns of the Journal and also of the News have frequently testified to the violations of the charter, not only know ingly, as in the case of the civil-service clause, but ignorantly violated in some of its other provisions of plain duty. The noiienforcement of the liquor law as against saloon keepers who purchase their be r from the Lieber-Frerizel syndicate, and the way in which those who uid not so purchase their beer have been harassed by spies and police interference, frequently resulting in their arrest and prosecution (atleast it has been so charged by other brewing and saioon interests) have been the town talk lor the past year and finally culminated in a public meeting of indignation held by tho corporations and persons so unjustly treated, and was recorded in the city press at the time. During the past year numerous public charges of frauds in*cement walks, the dipping of paving blocks in so-called creosote, the letting of contracts without competition to political favorites have been frequently publicly made, anterior to even political conventions. The News itself, with “damned iteration,” severely condemned the then new plans of the station house, which was an architectural abortion, unsuited for the purpose, and would have been a standing advertisement of the administration’s stupid folly as exemplified by its suppression of all competitive plans and the effort to reward a political favorite. Companion scandals to this are the outgivings from time to time as to the doings in tiie building inspector’s bureau. The charge of manipulation of the garbage contract and the Gamewell fire alarm signal scandal occurred before a convention was held, being discussed and denounced in the city press, yet “Citizen” and the Now's would have us believe they were asleep at the time. There was a persistent attempt, w’hich at one tiipe was apparently consummated, to place seven additional Pennsylvania Railroad tracks across Delaware street, in which matter the Board of Public Works gave the citizens’ committee less than two hours notice to prepare for and st ( ate their case before the board. It subsequently developed that the contracts to lay these tracks was at the time of that meeting in the office of the Pennsylvania road at Philadelphia for confirmation, thus trifling and “making monkeys” of the citizens’ committee. Finally the only influence that headed off this contemplated outrage to the citizens’ right to an unobstructed street between the two main sections of the city was a free outpouring of protesting Southside residents at Mozart Hall, wherein the matter was denounced by many of Taggart's political friends and citizens generally. Out of this attempted wrong and mainly through Democratic sources, in revenge, came the first exposure of the crowning scandal of the many that afflict this maladministration—the plan then just hatched to include the almost worthless bog land of the mayor’s in the park scheme. By turning to the files of the Journal Jan. 27, 1897, a time no election was pending, the following reference to this land is found: “Some of the small tracts Park Engineer Power refers to as being on the South Side have evidently been thrown to that muchneglected section as a sort of ‘sop’ to gain support for the entire scheme. He also refers to a tract lying south of the Belt road, between the Bluff road and White river.’ This embraces some of that beautiful low r bog usually denominated as ‘No Man’s Land,’ which half the year is infested with mosquitoes and so mirey that it will not support the w r eight of a cow. Rumor has it the latter piece belongs to a prominent city official and is linked as park land with better pieces adjacent.” Here is printed evidence that as early as last January Mr. Power stated that the Park Board had included the Taggart bog in the scheme and which fact the mayor is now' attempting to suppress. It is a pretty scandal as it stands. Yet with all these published and notorious charges In existence prior to any political convention this worthy "citizen” whose name the News states “we are not at liberty to use,” ignores them all and the News terms his statement “unanswerable.” Is the umbilical cord connecting this paper’s blind defense of Taggart in contradiction of all its heretofore outgivings of a reform and law upholding nature—political, social or financial? (Gold or silver.) If half the blundering and scandal had been laid at the door of a Republican mayor asking re-election as has been the the case of the present city executive, a very large section of tiie Republican party would demand a withdrawal from the ticket. CITIZEN. Indianapolis, Oct. 2.

EFFECTS OF THE DROUGHT. Severest Known for Yearn—Farmers Hauling Water for Miles. The drought that has been prevalent in the central part of Indiana for several weeks remains unbroken and in the country districts there is considerable concern over the lack of rain. Much of the vegetation is dried and shriveled because of the scant nourishment, and garden truck will fall far short of the usual yield. The pastures are burnt and dried, grazing is scarce, and as a consequence the farmer’s milch cow comes home with half a supply. There is much complaint over the scarcity of water for live stock, as many streams that ordinarily flow bank-full this time of the year are dry, or the flow of water is limited and much of it is stagnant, and unfit for use. It is said that in some of the adjoining counties the w’heat fields are as gray and barren as when the sod was first broken. Although the grain has lain in the ground for the last three weeks, it has not yet begun to sprout. All over the territory affected by the drought the farmers are waiting and hoping for a soaking rain that will saturate the fields and start the wheat growing. The corn crop, it is claimed, is already badly damaged and beyond help. Although there will be a fair vield of corn, farmers say the harvest will be nothing like what might have been expected with the usual amount of rain. These hot days in the country the roads are almost impassible because of the heavy dust. The rural thoroughfares are no longer inviting. In the roads the dust is several Inches deep and the parched vegetation along the roadside is covered with it. In the city the drought is keenly felt, but not nearly so much as in the country. However, a good rain will be welcomed in both town and country. STOLE A HACK. Party of Maudlin “Rounder*'’ Get Away with a. Currlage—One Canght. George Burnham, a hack driver, yesterday morning had his hack stolen by a gang of rounders and after & hard “sprint” succeeded in retaking his vehicle and capturing one of the thieves. He stopped his hack in front of a North Noble-street resort at about 3 o’clock and walked into tho yard to wait until the men he was hauling should come out. He stood in the shadow and saw four men come along. 'Two of them jumped into the carriage and two on to the seut. They whipped up and drove rapidly north on Noble street with Burnham after them as fast as he could go. He followed them north to North street, west to New’ Jrvrsey street and south to Market street. There the men jumped and ran. Burnham was in time to capture one of them, whom he turned over to Patrolmen White and Panse. The fellow gave his name as Harry Wilson at the police station. He refused to telll who his companions were. He is charged with grand larceny. A JOCKEY*IN JAIL. Stole a. Trotter. Traded It for a Team, and Sold the Pair. Charles Ferguson, a rider of race horses from Chicago, Is locked up at the county jail charged with being a fugitive from justice. It is claimed that he stole a horse at Plymouth and made various trades and finally landed in this city with the proceeds of his crirnt s. He was arrested yesterday afternoon at William Henry’s livery stable and brought to the police station by one of his victims. The story is that Ferguson stole Ixiura H., a trotting horse belonging to H. H. Hier, of Plymouth; that he traded the horse to Minor Rutherford at i onverse for a team of horses and drove to Plainfield, where he sold the team. Mr. Rutherford was obliged to surrender the trotting horse to its owner and he set out In mirsnit of the thief. He followed him to Plainfield and then to this city and located him at Henry’s stable, where he arrested him.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1897.

THEY ASK PROTECTION RESIDENTS OF SOUTH WEST STREET ARE COMPLAINING BITTERLY. Life Made a Barden to Them Under the Unbridled License of the Tag-. Kart Police Ad’iiinistrnrion. Since South West street was paved with brick from Kentucky avenue to Morris street, in 1893, it has steadily improved in external appearance and to-day some of the most comfortable and homelike houses on the South Side are located on that thoroughfare. The street has alw'ays been know n as a street of homes, as,, a great majority of the residents own their own property. They are earefu’ saving men and have taken pride in adding to the attractiveness of their surroundings for the sake of the families that w’ere being reared. In the old days, w'hen West street was but little better than a muddy country lane, it had the reputation of being a pretty “tough” part of town and strangers did not care to be down that way at night alone and unprotected, but conditions began to change after the roadway was improved, and, with the excellent police regulations that obtained under the last administration the notorious gangs were broken and disbanded or banished to other sections. To-day, under the license of the Taggart rule, the conditions are w'orse than they were in the first period of the street's history. Rowdies and undesirable characters from other parts of the southwest infest the street, engage in brawls and drinking bouts on the streets and in the alleys, corrupt young boys that are growing up, and have held unchecked sway for more than a year. Residents of South West street complain bitterly that the police do not protect them from the men who prey upon them. Many parents are afraid to allow their children out for fear they will be contaminated by the evil atmosphere, and big, lusty boys that ought to be out are kept housed by discreet parents. The murmurs are “sub rosa.” Men are afraid to give information that w’ould land some of the gangs in jail. They dread personal violence. Things are so bad that it is said a wellknown clergyman preached a sermon on the condition of the street the other Sunday, denouncing the notorious and open drunkenness, dice throwing and general disgraceful actions. West-stveet peopic feel all this very keenly. They declare that the “boo gangs” that hold f jrth do not belong on the street, but gather in that community from all other parts of the southwest, including tough characters from Shantytown and the shacks and houseboats along the river. They declare that if Mayor Taggart or his Board of Public Safety were to decree that this condition of things must be wiped out and a sufficient number of police officers were kept stationed in the district for a few days there w'ould be at once a marked change. No such relief is expected, not even in the halcyon days “after the election” to which the mayor refers so often and so fondly. WHEN THE TROUBLE BEGAN.

The very next day after Taggart was elected a man who had lived on West street all his life, and who owns property, says the trouble began. There was a saloon that was run by a “tenderfoot”—a man strange to South West street and its ways. He incurred the enmity of one of the leaders of the “boo gang” before the election, and there were threats that he would be paid off after “Tom Taggart gets in.” He was. A man armed with a spade marched up to his saloon, beat in all the window glass in the front of his place, deliberately opened a side gate, staggered into the yard and assaulted the remaining windows. The man was fighting drunk and nothing was ever done with him. From that day on, it is said, things have grown steadily worse. There are a multitude of saloons on South West street—it is on the car line and is much traveled by people going to and from West Indianapolis. Men who claim that they are liberal—that is, who like to get a glass of beer when they want it, say they do not want a “tight” town; but, they say, liberality has grown into unbridled license and there are demands that the saloons be somewhat restricted. Things have been almost unbearable during the last two or three weeks. Last week the Democrats had a meeting in this neighborhood. Four bicycle couriers were set t out all over the southwest section to arum up men to drink free beer. It was on tap at every saloon but one on South West street. The riotous revelry continued until 2 o’clock in the morning. Boys fifteen or sixteen years came home staggering, and, with blinking eyes and thick tongues, told how they had been “havin’ some Tag’rt beer. Rah f’r Tag!” “Tag” is the very dignified name applied to the mayor. Righteous indignation was expressed the next day by many parents, and it is probable that that meeting will cost the mayor a good many votes instead of making them for him. , , Beer is sold to boys and girls by the saloons. Yesterday a Journal reporter saw many men and children carrying “growlers’’ of foaming beer without any pretense of secrecy. The usual bluff of closing the front part of the saloons prevailed, but wide-open back gates leading to wide-open back doors that exposed men standing at the side-door bars indicated to men who were strange to the neighborhood where to look for the favorite syndicate beverage. Distress signs, secret passwords, peculiar knocks at concealed doors, grips and signals of all kinds have been done away witn. They are unnecessary. So are tfie outlooks that used to stand guard in front of saloons to give warning to the violators when olticers appeared. The greatest outcry is against the sale of liquor to minors. A man said yesterday that the saloon men were perhaps not to be blamed if they did not observe the la “Most of the saloons belong to the syndicate,” said he, “and the men are selling on commissions. The more they sell the more solid they are with the syndicate. We know that the Board of Safety is derelict in its duty in tolerating such a condition of affairs but we also know thaA-the board is simply carrying out Taggart's policy. We understand full well that' Taggart is controlled by Lieber. \V hat he says goes. When he don’t know' how’ to figure out things he write* to his father In Germany for instructions. Between them they figure out how to run the town.” One day not long ago a lather who noticed that his fourteen-year-old boy was falling into bad ways began a quiet investigation West of West street there is a narrow alley. Running w'est from this alley between Ray and Grant streets is another alley-a “blind” alley. In the blind alley the father found his son with twenty-seven other boys from twelve to sixteen years of age smoking cigarettes, chewing tobacco, telling stories of a vile nature amid profanity and coarse songs. The boys had a “growler ” Two or three contributed a nickel each and one of the oldest lads went to a near-by saloon where the growler was filled with beer. There was a fight when he returned to determine who should “hit” the "can” first. In a little while the nail was empty and other nickels were dug un from pockets and the “growler sent back to the saloon. Yesterday afternoon a reporter passed through the alley and saw part of this juvenile “800 gang stretched in the sun waiting for a young pal who had walked to a saloon in plain sight of a score of people for a “growler’ of beer. He carried the tin pail at his side as unconcerned as if he had been carrying dinner to his hard-working father. INFANTILE “800 GANGS.” Your infantile “800 gang” is a study in criminology that is interesting, if deplorable. A tough youngster with a precocious knowledge of profanity and wickedness gets a crowd of youngsters around him. More than likely they come from goad homes, have been carefully trained and are a little timid and shrink from the leader’s wickedness. If beer is suggested to them they refuse it with a blush. After a time jeers and taunts affect them into taking the first wrong step, and in a little while they are anxious to emulate the leader. As they grow older other evils beside drinking in an alley are taken up; perhaps they begin petty thieving. From that to highway robbery and burglary is but a step, and then some awful crime is committed like the murder of Patrolman Ware by a member of the East-end “800 gang” last spring. “Mayor Taggart has boys,” said a South West-street resident yesterday, “and would

die rather than have them exposed to such influences as surround ours. He Is rich and can keep servants to see that, thev do not go astray. I have to work—my wife has to work. While she is at her household work she cannot w’atch our boys and see that they are not in mischief. It is an outrage that wo are given no relief.” There are “Boo" gangs in every stage of development in this community. At the corner of West and McCarty streets yesterday afternoon a lot of young men, most of them eighteen or nineteen to twenty-five years, were shooting “craps” on the street. There were perhaps fifty either throwing the dice or standing about as spectators. It is a common occurrence for crap games to continue from morning to night in the first alley w’est of West street, just off Kentucky avenue. A guard stands at the mouth of the alley. At the West-street corner is another guard, and yet another stands at the next corner south. Down the alley at the next cross street is still another guard. If one of Mayor Taggart’s “cops” comes in sight a warning whistle is given and the crap shooters scatter like rats from a sinking ship. Last week two officers w'ere riding on a street car. When it stopped at Kentucky avenue they saw a gang on the corner engaged in this fascinating form of gambling and sprang upon them. Hastily grabbing the coin that w’as scattered over the pavement, the players ran away. The officers gave chase. Os course, they caught none of the players. The Board of Park Commissioners took great credit to itself for converting Greenlawn Cemetery into a park. Fences that w’ere old and rotten -were torn away, the grounds were graded and sodded and provided with benches. This old graveyard, lying just west of West street and north of Kentucky avenue, has become as Infamous a resort as the lake front in Chicago. Men and women of degraded morals throng it day and night. Time and again residents living on the south side of Kentucky avenue have seen kegs of beer carried into the graveyard, tapped and drank in broad daylight. PETTY CRIME RUNS RIOT. Last week the gang that infests tiie Ken-tucky-avenue point stopped a colored man and his wife who were driving into tow’n from the country. They began pelting them with stones. The old man was compelled to dismount from the wagon in self-defense. The man who told the Journal reporter about this occurrence asked if the colored man would not have been justified in shooting. Last winter a man was seen by two or three people to walk up to a grocery store, take dow r n two rabbits that were hanging to a hook, put them under his coat and walk away just as unconcerned as if he had'paid “two-bits” for them. Such things are of common occurrence. “Why don’t you drive the gang away?” a merchant wa’S asked. “I dare not. If I were to say anything they would rock my windows, perhaps stone me.” Such conditions as this existed down in Ripley county before the Versailles lynching. House-breaking, highway robbery, tilltapping and petty thieving are of almost nightly occurrence. A man kept tab for two months this summer. There were sixty cases in that time—almost one for every night. Off-handed he recounted a few of the cases. Many of the housewives keep poultry on South West street. There was one woman who had a half-dozen of her finest fowls taken at one time before 8 o’clock at night. The same night another woman’s roost was visited, the chicken thieves tearing off boards of the hen-house in order to get at her fowls. The entire flock, thirty in number, w r as carried off. A freight car was broken open on the Vandalia tracks, near by, and several cases of shoes stolen. They were peddled on the streets at 25 to 50 cents a pair. Two men were arrested, tried and sent to the workhouse for a year, but it is claimed that they were dupes and understudies, and that tiie principals who planned and executed the robbery are still at large. A man’s house was burglarized. A day or two after one of the thives boldly appeared on the street wearing a suit of clothes that had been stolen from this house. Herman Gates’s house was robbed while his wife was at the grocery. He lost all his clothing a gold watch and S6O in money. Mr. Haley, a street-ear man, was another victim. Saloon No. 1 was entered and the till tapped three times in rapid succession. Another mail’s house W’as burglarized of everything that was not nailed down. The thieves carried off a clock, a valuable hunting gun. jewelry and clothing. While in his house the roofieis took a H’esn box of b.acKing from his dresser, and, failing to find a shoe brush, used a white necktie to polish their shoes. They were exasperatingly fastidious thieves. The police succeeded in turning up some old clothing stolen out of this house. There is a woman who owns a saloon. Her place was visited and liquors and cigars taken, a3 well as all the money in the till. The next day the gang was seen distributing whisky in tin cans in Greenlawn Cemetery. Recently Mike Finn’s saloon was entered and the till tapped of $65 to S7O. The Celtic Hall saloon was also robbed. In August, after pension day, an old soldier was held up and robbed of his money at the pow'er house near Kentucky avenue. A few days ago Miss Mamie Foster left her bicycle at the curb for a few moments. It was scarcely dusk, and she thought it safe to leave it w’hile she ate supper. When she looked for her wheel it was gone. The sixty robberies spoken of have all occurred this summer and fall, all of them west of Capitol avenue and most of them south of Kentucky avenue. In many cases the thieves have been know’n, but they were not apprehended. A dude is the pet aversion of all the “800 gangs.” Every man w’ho wears good clothes Is listed in this category. Two young men of distinguished appearance and fine clothes were out walking with two young ladies a week ago. Unhappily, they w’ent down West street. All at once the gang caught sight of them, and with a yell like that of Comanche braves about to execute a scalp dance, the youngsters began shying rocks at the frightened couples. For an instant they were too frightened to advance or retreat, but when the rocks began raining against* a bill board beside them the men and maidens fled ingloriously. They will never venture in that part of town again. Incidents of this character enough to fill a book might be written. It is because of such things that there is a disposition to denounce Taggart in the gang-ridden neighborhood and the public meeting last week that ended io the orgies described has brought things to something of a crisis in the minds of a good many Democrats. They are particularly indignant that bicycle couriers were sent around to the byways to bid toughs into the syndicate drinking fest.

ORPHANS’ HOME ANNIVERSARY Celebrated at the Fimt Prenbyterlan Church—Tallc by Gov. Mount. The celebration of the forty-seventh anniversary of the establishment of the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum took place last night at the First Presbyterian Church. There was a large audience present and the exercises were very interesting. Many of the youthful inmates of the home were present and a number of them, attired in the uniform garb provided by the institution, sat on the rostrum. Governor Mount delivered an opening address, in which he! spoke of the work of the institution and the gladness and sunshine it had brought into many lives. He said the home had accomplished a work that would live on, and, indeed, its work has but just begun. It will continue to aid the suffering and unfortunate. Governor Mount introduced Rev. Dr. Haines, who reviewed the works of the home and spoke of the women who have for years devoted their energies to its up-building. Mrs. John Bradshaw was mentioned as having been a member of the board of managers for thirty years. Mrs. Frederick Jbaggs until recently was treasurer of the board, a position she held for thirty-three years. Mrs. John Dove, Mrs. Henry Coburn and Mrs. Robert McOuat have been identified with the interests of the home for many years. An average of one hundred children are given shelter in the home the year around. The reports read to the audience last nignt referred to the condition of the home from May, 189(1, to May, 1837, which ended the fiscal year. During the year there were no deaths in the home proper. In the department devoted to the foundlings there were nineteen deaths. At the close of the fiscal year the institution had received $13,000 from different sources and had paid out about $17,000. Since last May the home has received the bequest from the Thomas Bassett estate. The bequest is a trust fund, the income on which can be used by the home. It is estimated that since the institution was started homes have been found for 2,500 children. It is the purpose now of the board of managers to erect a building for foundlings, and it is expected this may be accomplished in the next year. Included in the programme last night w’ere recitations by Charlie Bracken, Ruth Crosdale, Zola Hutsell, Bessie Pottenger, Edith Hutsell and Harry Adams. The Journal has for sale, very cheap, a quantit> of shafting; an Atlas engine, 30-horse power, anil in stood condition; a lot of office furniture and fixtures; a power exhaust fan. and numerous odds and ends connected with the printing of a newspaper, all of which will be Jelivereu alter Oct. tf>th. when we expect to move Into our new building, n the southwest quarter of Monument place. Address or call on JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMTANV. Indianapolis. Ind.

CRIMES AMONG YOUTH WORK OF THE NATIONAL, HOME AND EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION. * It* Convention to Be Held In Indianapolis in December—Gathering: Statistics on the Subject. An address concerning the coming convention of the Boys’ and Girls’ Home and Employment Association has been sent out to the governors, mayors, school boards, benevolent associations and clergy of the country. It reads as follows: The eighth national convention of the Boys' uiiU <jirls' National Home and Employment Association will convene in the city of Indianapolis on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 14 arid 15, 1837. The association was organized some years ago for the purpose of ascertaining the nature and extent of crime among and its origin, and second, if possible to furnish a remedy for its suppression. Alter the holding of the several national conventions we are prepared to state where crime originates and also to give the remedy for its suppression. It was first ascertained that we had in public scnools, according to the census of 1830, 12,iOu.Sasj pupils and 3i2,w3 teachers, showing that for nine months of the year from 8 a. in. until 4 p. m. daily our youth were under the care of competent teachers, and it was positively known where they were during these hours, and there was no apprehension on the part of the parents respecting tne safety of their children from the opening until the closing of the schools for the day. There is no accounting, however, for mar\y thousand of them from the closing of the school in the afternoon until the opening the next morning except it was known that, multitudes of them were on the streets of cities, towns and villages at all hours of the night, exposed to the vile and contaminating inliuence of vicious men and women and criminal classes generally. It is universally acknowledged by those who are competent to judge that all crimes with few exceptions are hatched out alter nightfall, and under the influences of late hours on the streets, and that multitudes are graduated for the station house, jail, workhouse and prison, while a large portion of them run off and grow into the army of tramps, truants, house breakers, incendiaries, robbers, murderers and train ditchers, frequent ly outraging innocent youth and assault trie wife of the farmer or housekeeper if their demands are not complied with. Many set at defiance all law and are hung by infuriated citizens. CRIME IN CITIES AND TOWNS. As late as ten yars ago it was ascertained that in thirteen of our largest cities, employing 14,000 policemen, this force arrested that year 500,000 men, women and children at an expense of $25,000,000. During the same year in the country outside of the cities there were not 2,500 arrests. Again, we have in round numbers 20,000 boys and girls in reform schools in the United States; 08 per cent, of these were taken from our cities, towns and villages. It is reckoned that twothirds of our population reside in the country and one-third inhabit the cities and towns. With this showing it was plain we were taking our criminals from one-third of the inhabitants. It is in evidence that 10,000 men and housekeepers in the United States advertise daily for a coachman, apprentice or servant, and they qualify it by saying “Swede,” “Dane,” “Norwegian” or “German” preferred. It is known that at least four out of five boys and girls in the United States are American. Now, why this discrimination against the American boys and girls in procuring situations at manual labor or as apprentices? There is but one reason for it. The nationalities referred to keep their children off the streets and at their own homes after nightfall. They are taught habits of obedience and thrift and system of home work, and are regarded by housekeepers and as entirely reliable, whereas multitudes of the American youths who are on the streets at late hours of the night are wholly unreliable and untrustworthy. Numerous reports received from the chiefs of police in many cities of the country and read at the several conventions of this association showed an army of youthful pickpockets, thieves and well-organized bands of boy robbers, and some mere youths were arrested for the highest crimes known to the calendar. This association some years ago formulated a series of five laws and ordinances for suppressing crimes among the youths of the country; these have been placed before the various legislatures of the country and some municipal governments, with a request that the same be enacted or adopted at the earliest moment. Perhaps the most noticeable of these ordiances or laws is that know T n as the “curfew ordinance,” which in its present form was adopted a year ago last January by the City' Council at Lincoln, Neb. Within a brief time the cities of Omaha, St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo.; Topeka. Leavenworth, Denver and Pueblo, Col.; Quincy, 111.; Des Moines, la., and some three hundred cities in various States have followed the example of the city of Lincoln in the adoption of the ordinance, and we now' have at hand certificates from mayors and officials of some of these cities who certify that there was last year, under curfew, a decrease of 50 and 75 per cent, in commitment of boys and girls to station houses and reform schools. Its enforcement also guarantees an equal per cent, in exemption to law-abiding citizens from the criminal steps referred to. LAWS AND ORDINANCES. The following is a synopsis of law's for the suppression of crimes among youths, and commended to the legislators that assembled Jan. 1, 1895, for consideration and enactment by their respective bodies: First—Compelling officials of cities, towns and villages to detain and return to their homes all truant and tramping boys and girls. The Curfew—An ordinance compelling all children and youths under fifteen years of age. unless accompanied by parents or absent w'lth leave (apprentices and those employed excepted) to be at their homes at the hour of 9 o’clock at night. To imprison all youths apart from criminals. To open a free public intelligence office in the respective counties, cities, towms and villages of each of the States, enabling youths to secure homes or employment themselves through their parents. To protect children in the homes of vicious and immoral parents. From the early history of this country, certainly since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, wc can truthfully say that crimes among youths and adults have been daily on the increase. Until the adoption of the curfew ordinance one of the mayors mentioned the return to theihomes in one year of 190 tramping boys. If this course were universal, thousands of youths would be saved from lives of crime. The police force of every city in the country are daily in receipt of letters from parents describing some erring boy or girl who has left for parts unknown. Some of the officials referred to have made a test of kindly restoring truant and tramping boys to their homes, as contemplated in one of the law's herein mentioned. Officials know that these youths are enticed away by old tramps or are victims of vile characters w'ho willfully plot their destruction. The association is free from any political or denominational features, and the laws and ordinances referred to cost comparatively nothing to enforce them. They not only lessen 50 and 75 per cent, commitments to station houses, jails, reform schools, but they lessen convicts in the penitentiary in the same proportion and protect the trades of honest mechanics. It is now ascertained that cities with the curfew' have no bands of boy robbers and no young hoodlums who raid empty houses and appropriate the brass and copper furniture and destroy windows. It is known that families with children are leaving cities arid towns and leave vacant houses where there is no curfew expressly to avoid the influences of the children of neighbors who are on the streets at all hours of the night. Superintendents of reform schools certify that the curfew ordinance, if honestly enforced, will prevent commitments to their schools. The day of holding these conventions is placed in December, as a number of the legislators assemble within tw'enty days thereafter, and the laws restricting crimes among youfhs will by resolution go before each legislature convening January, 1898. Governor Mount, of Indiana, has readily consented to assist the association in procuring statistics on crime among youths through addressing a letter to the executives of every State, mayors and school boards of various States and various benevolent orders; also the officials of trunk lines of railway will ho a*ked to send delegates to discuss the youthful criminal and tramp problem. Also the curfew and other laws as a means for reducing crimes and criminals. Herewith is a list of representative citizens of Indianapolis who unite in indorsing the call for the convention. The address is signed by James A. Mount, Albert Sahm, the Bowen-MerriU Company. E. F. Ritter, James H. Costello. Kingan A Cos. (limited), F. J. Scholz, W. D. Owen. John B. Conner, Parry Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis Gas Company, Indiana Trust Company, Pettis Dry Goods Company, O. H. Palmar, Merchants’ National Bank, William B. Bur-

ford, Henry Russe, John E. Pounds, Pleasant Bond. H. B. Smith. Louis H. Levey, Daniel Stewart & Cos., W. W. Mansfield, £>. H. Baldwin & Cos., Hugh Hanna, W. N. Ilarding, T. Taggart; Bliss, Swain & Cos., C. S. Denny, Haugh-Noelke iron works, A. C. Daly, Samuel Reid, the Indianapolis Journal. B. C. Atkins & Cos., D. M. Geeting. W. A. Ketcham, J: X. Hurty, C. C. Lasby, S.iks & Cos., Sun Publishing Company, Indianapolis Sentinel Company, John F. Wallick, W. J. Richards, David K. Goss, Frederic E. Dewhurst. John H. Holliday. William Schmidt. I). J. Ellison, Baker & Thornton, Union Trust Company. Murphy, Hibben <8: Cos., the Gordon-Kurtz Company, Charles F. Smith and Coffin, Fletcher & Cos. THE GOVERNOR S LETTER. In order to collect statistics on the subject the Governor has written to the Governors of the other States of the Union as follows: “I am requested by the executive board of the Boys’ and Girls' National Home and Employment Association to place in the hands of the executives of the several States of the Union, for the chiefs of police of their most important cities, the inclosed circular referring to crimes among the youth of the country, with request that you urge them to fill in replies to the questions and return the same to your office at their earliest moment. It wifi be seen they are for a class of information respecting crimes among the youth that deeply concern every lover, of our Republic. The information is far the approaching national convention of the association, which convenes in this city Dec. 14 and 15 next, and will be of great value in aiding the association in placing a series of laws before the Legislature of every State at its next session lor the suppression of crimes among vouth. They will be equally important in furnishing the city councils of various cities of the country with a class of information that will enable them to act intelligently in the adoption of an ordinance known as the curfew ordinance for a like purpose. “The value of the w r ork of this association in planning intelligently on crimes among youth has become so widely known, <?nd is so heartily indorsed by leading officials and representative citizens of every section of the country, that I feel it my duty to assist as fully as 1 can in bringing to the association the largest amount of success possible in their work. “Will you please forward one each of the circulars to ili<- mayor of your largest cities, with the request that they fill in the replies and return the same to me through your office? There are no paid officials connected with the national association in charge of this reform in behalf of youth. It seems only proper that state and city officials generally aid as fully as they can in planning wisely for the rescue of multitudes of our youth from vagrancy and crime. The same work has never been undertaken by any other society than this one.” In the circular referred to the following questions are asked: Number of minors arrested in your city or county for years 1895 and 1896? Offense charged against a majority of them? Number arrested more than once? Give the number of times of arrests in extreme cases. Are minors in your city or county imprisoned apart from bid criminals? State if there has been opened in your city or county a free intelligence or employment office for aiding parents in procuring homes or employment for their children, or for placing orphan children in homes. State if the curfew ordinance is in force in your city, or has it been considered by your City Council. State if there has W'ithin five years existed within your city organized bands of juvenile or boy robbers, giving number of boys concerned in said organization. Give the probable number of old tramps, minors or boys who pass and repass your city annually; also number of boys, and age, who have run away from your city, town or village. Give the number of resident boys wtio seek shelter annually in your station housees. State if you have in your city or county any committe or association for aiding in restoring truant or runaw'ay boys to their parents, or for boarding and lodging them temporarily, pending correspondence with parents or guardians. Have you a state law' for indenturing or apprenticing youth? Give number of special cases of arrests of boys, with age, for highest crime known to law, stating crime, in city or county. Give an estimate of crime and outrages by tramps or robbers in two years, and their nature—murder, robbery, arson, train-ditching or train holdups. State number of boys or minors arrested for carrying concealed weapons.

PROF. ERNESTINOFF OUT HIS RESIGNATION SURPRISES THE DIRECTORS OF THE MAENNERCHOK. Mr. Van Der Stucken Confers with the Festival Dlreetors Arrangements for Next Year. i / The rather abrupt withdrawal of Professor Alexander Ernestinoff from the directorship of the Maennerchor Chorus w r as the subject of considerable comment among the members of the Maennerchor Society yesterday. Professor Ernestinoff’s resignation was read yesterday morning at the meeting of the board of directors of the society. There was none more surprised than the directors themselves. Saturday evening the secretary of the board was handed a letter by Mrs. Ernestinoff from her husband. It proved to be the resignation of the director. Professor Ernestinoff, in his letter to the board, gave no explanation of his action other than that he desired to exert his energies in another direction, but he did not say whether he expected to remove from the city or not. While the members of the Maennerchor are disinclined to discuss the action of Professor Ernestinoff, it is not believed he expects to go away from Indianapolis. In view of the fact that the Deutsche Club, one of the leading German organizations of the city, is about to organize a singing society, it is believed that Professor Ernestinoff is to become the leader of the new organization. Members of the Maennerchor Society say they were completely surprised at the professor’s action. They had understood he was satisfied with his work and with tho chorus, and there is no doubt that the society was well pleased with its musical director. It is said that no later than last Friday Professor Ernestinoff remarked to a member of the society that he was perfectly satisfied with his work. He had led the chorus for two years. Last August he vas re-engaged for another year, although there was no written contract. It was generally understood, however, among the society members that Professor Ernestinoff was to continue at the head of the chorus. In his letter to the board Professor Ernestinoff declared his willingness to continue in charge of the society until a successor could be procured. The board, however, unanimously accepted his resignation to take place at once. The rehearsals will continue regularly on Tuesdays and Fridays under the temporary leadership of Professor Max Leckr.er. who, upon request of the music committee has consented to serve. The members of the board of directors confess they are unable to understand Professor Ernestinoff’s action and they are not very well pleased over it. NEXT YEAR’S FESTIVAL. Mr. Van Der Stuckcn Will Probably Lead— Arrangement* Discussed. Mr. Van der Stucken, director of the Indianapolis May music festival, who has been in Europe all summer, came here from Cincinnati yesterday to consult with the local directors about plans for next year’s festival. They were in conference at the Denison House nearly three hours, discussing the general features of the local situation. Mr. Van der Stucken and his orchestra have not yet been re-engaged for next season, but there is little doubt that they will be, after the excellent impression they made at last spring s festival. It was decided to have the festival the first week in May, and it Is probable that instead of giving three night and two afternoon concerts there will be four night entertainments and only one afternoon. This, it is believed, will be a great improvement over the jxrevlous arrangement, as it will not crowd five concerts into three days and wifi permit the presentation of more choral works than heretofore. In addition to the regular festival chorus there will be a children’s chorus, which will sing separately at the afternoon performance and also with the big chorus in at least one new work that is to be given. An important change was decided on in regard to the chorus work. Heretofore it has not started with rehearsals until the beginning of the new year, but in accordance with Mr. Van der Stucken’s earnest desire

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the rehearsals will begin this year on Monr day, Nov. 1, continuing once a week until April, after which there will be two a week. Mr. Van der Stucken will personally conduct at least two-thirds of the rehearsals, and Mr. Ernestinoff, who will doubtless be re-engnged as assistant director, will conduct the rest. One of the most pretentious choral work* to bo given was obtained by Mr. Van der Stucken while he was in Europe this summer, and will be done for the first time in this country in Indianapolis. It was the unanimous view of the musical directors and members of the board at yesterday's conference that the festival idea proper, the work* and the chorus should be kept prominent in next year’s entertainments, and that aTtista should be engaged who are best fitted for the* work to be done. The secretary was instructed to begin correspondence at once with the musical agencies regarding the artists, and only those of the highest reputation will be engaged. The work of getting up the guarantee fund for next year’s festival is now under way, and the members of the board are receiving better support than ever before in it. They expect to raise a guarantee fund of at least $15.00", and hope to make it $20,000. Mr. Van der Stucken will return to Indianapolis next Sunday for another conference with the board, when more definite plans will befmade. Mozart Hull Celebration. Yesterday was the tmrtieth anniversary of the erection of Mozart Hall, and the day was appropriately celebrated by the scorn or more of societies w’hich use the building for meeting purposes. The hall was built in 1567 by John Gposch, who is still Its owner, though Henry Victor has a long time lease on the place. Last night an entertainment was provided by the Liederkranz and other societies, consisting cf vocal and Instrumental music, and several addresses. Tho hall was handsomely decorated inside and the building on the outside, the work having been done by Messrs. Schmidt and Rosenburg, of tho Indianapolis Tent and Awning Company. Over the stage in the hall was the German Hag. with the American colors on either side of it, and around the room were the banners of the various societies represented. Will Rob the Police Next. Early yesterday morning the saloon es John King, at 23 North Alabama street, a half a block from the police station, wraa burglarized. The thief secured a lot of valuable old coins and other stuff. A man claimed that he saw the burglar and last night pointed him out to Patrolmen Wallace and Holtz and he was arrested. Ha had some of the old coins when arrested. Ho gave the name of Mel McPherson, of Shelbyville. Mrs. Winslow’* Soothing Syrup Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething with perfect success. It soothes the child! softens the gums, allays pain, cures wind colic, regulates the bowels, and is the best remedy for diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sura and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup* 25 cents a bottle. In all classes of society Glenn’s Sulphur Soap is the ruling purifier. Ladies use it to remove defects of tiie complexion, and persons troubled with eruptions or other irritations of the skin are promptly cured by it. Sold by all druggists. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, black or brow'n, 50c. . UM Most torturing and disfiguring of itching, burning scaly skin and scalp humors is instantly relieved by a warm bath with f’t'TicrßA Soap a single application of (Tticcra (ointment), the great skm cure, and a full dose of Cctjccka Resolvkxt* greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures. (!' ■ ji-ra Ie told throoehont the world. Pott** Dro asdCb**. Coiz* Sole Prop*.. Hueton. 9tX“ “ How to ( urt Balt Rheum,” free. FALLING HAIR S&fc*" 4

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