Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1898 — Page 3

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AMUSEMENTS. Grand—“A Stranger in New York.” There was a regulation Hoyt audience at the Gr nd last night to pass judgment on “A Stranger in New York.” The orchestra was forced under the stage by the demand lor seats, at\d most of the standing room in the rear of the house was pre-empted. Tho latest work of the popular writer of farce comedies was given just such a welcome as had been anticipated. It seemed to be relished greatly, and its sparkle, its clever songs and that never-falling action which characterizes ail of Hoyt’s farces kept the audience so well entertained that its final curtain eame all too soon. The story of the comedy is built on the finding of a letter of introduction and its presentation to the man to whom it is addressed, thus causing the innoqent finder to be immediately mistaken for an expected guest from Chicago. He is whirled away to scenes of gayety at the French ball. He is forced to accept the situation while the rear guest has to take a back seat and see his name and reputation used by this lively individual, who has usurped his place and privileges. The three acts of mistaken identity are filled with joy for the “stranger” and disappointment for the man hi is impersonating, who eventually finds some consolation in the fact that his jealous wife, who has followed him from Chicago, shadows the wrong man at the French ball in consequence. The company shows the master hand of Hoyt both in its personnel and in the way it presents his bright sayings and doings to the audience. Clever Joseph Coyne, whose dude in “The Good Mr. Best” will ever be remembered as the best thing of the sort ever seen here, has a congenial role in the "stranger.” He is the central figure of the piece. Around him all the fun revolves, and there is a world of it. He never lets anything lag. and for two hours and a half the liveliness continues, with brief breathing spells between acts. Coyne sings several new songs, the catchiest one being “Father Won’t You Speak to Sister Mary?” His “dancing school” song is another that took immensely with the audience last night. Charlotte Crane, as Hattie "the best fellow of them all,” is one of the most attractive of the handsome feminine contingent of the play. She wore some charming costumes, and aside from her misguided attempts to sing, was quite as high in favor with the audience as with the characters of the play. Her one little dance contribution In the last act In conjunction with Sam Marlon was a graceful specialty. Wm. H. Currie. Henry Halle m, W. H. Hatter, Harry Rogers. Steve Maley. the McCoy Sisters and Amy Mjaller all participated in the vaudeville portion of the programme and it comprised so much rarely good entertainment that it is impossible to go over It all. The dance trio by Maley and the McCoys in the first act was one of the cleverest bits of the evening, while Lizzie McCoy's new' “coon” song in the. third act is a gem. It was introduced in Louisville only a few nights ago and is therefore quite new. Harry RogersN does a solitary eccentric dance in the second act that took the house by storm last night. Camille Cleveland as May Ketehum, the female detective, looked stunning among the group of exceedingly pretty girls. Miss Cleveland has Just joined the company and promises to develop quickly into one of the favorites. She has the rare charm of "personality” and can sing w'hen she has a chance. The finals to the first and second act are typical Hoyt curtains, original in treatment and shrewdly designed to prevent the audience from guessing how they will end. They close the act quickly with a roar of merriment. The costumes and stage settings are strlung and effective, the color effects being unusually attractive. "A Stranger in New York” will be repeated at the Grand to-night and to-morrow matinee and night. Engli*li’*—The Lilt put inn*. The Liliputians are the same merry laugh provokers they always were, and they opened at English's last night with an entirely new outfit of songs, dances, jokes and incidents that make their new play a iively affair from beginning to end. From year to year the Liliputians have been enlarging the scope of their entertainment until it has now become a big

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-extravaganza. “The Fair in Midgettown” is only a skeletonized story contained in a libretto, with music numbers as frequent as in a comic opera. Every now and then the stage is darkened, and when the lights come again the stage has been converted into some fairy-like scene, with a beautiful ballet in progress, and in which the Liliputians soon take part themselves, wearing gay little costumes and going through the dances with the grace of trained performers. The Liliputians have increased their number until now there is nearly a dozen of the phenomenons able to dance, sing and frolic either in English or German. The newest star secured since their last appearance here is nineteen-year-old Helene Linder. Miss Linder is just as high as Franz Ebert’s shoulder, and she Is as much like the gifted Ebert as if she were his sister. She appears only twice in the play. She dances with a tambonreen after Eber at the close of the Spanish ballet, and captures the house with her little Spanish danctng steps. In the third-act ballet she appears as General Grant after Ebert himself has come on as Napoelon. The acting of these little folks at times simply dazzles the eyes of grownup people. There is a fairy-like charm to their work. Since they have learned to speak English there is certainly greater satisfaction for Americans in witnessing their performances. The odd little comedy business, the mature pantomime, the strongly intellectual coloring they give to the interpretation of their lines, the archness and wisdom displayed in their expression can now' be better understood than when they spoke in German. This new play is full of Ingeniously-devised Incidents for making the little actors amusing, and there is no time throughout “The Fair in Midgettown” when something is not going cn to give the audience lively entertainment, The Liliputians will lie at English’s the first half of tho week, with a matinee on Wednesday. Park— Ufo. \V. Monroe. George W. Monroe always gives a very funny performance. This season he has, if anything, improved it, with the result that yesterday he kept the Park’s audiences in almost continuous laughter from beginning to end. The theater was crowded at both performances, Monroe’s well-known ability as a comedian being known to all theatergoers. As Owen Moore, who disguises himself as a red-haired, broad-faced, beaming Irish woman to help a friend out of a difficulty, Mr. Monroe is irresistibly funny. The rapidity with which he shifts from one costume to the other keeeps the audience guessing pretty much all the time. His efforts in the mediumistlc line are as funny as anything often seen on the stage. The performance fairly runs over with mirth and music and the company is quite capable in every respect. Edward Eagleton, Thomas Goodwin, Frank Mayne, Lillie Maynard, Dorothy Drew', Emily Melville, Annie Lloyd, Edwina, the dancer, and others combine to give the Btar all the necessary support, the feminine portion being unusually attractive and well dressed. The third act is filled with specialties which, following, as they do, the uproarious fun of the first two acts, give the audience a chance to rest a little before the final curtain. Take it all in all, the performance is one which cannot fail to amuse everybody. Monroe's make-up as "Lulu” is in itself a source of much merriment and he is in a class by himself when it comes to the Impersonation of female Irish roles. His laugh is contagious and he has not a scene that is not productive of plenty of merriment. The comedy is called "A Happy Little Home, ” and is in three acts. The plot is not especially prominent, nor does it have to be. the comedy element being quite sufficient without much of a story to back it up. The engagement continues to-day and to-morrow only. On Thursday John L. Sullivan and his comedy and specialty company will onen for the rest of the week. John L. does a big gymnasium turn and the company he has this season numbers some thirty people. The exchampion will receive his customary warm reception.

Goodwin in “Nathan IIhIf." CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—Mr. Nat. C. Goodwin presented at Hooley's Theater to-night for the first time on any stago Clyde Fitch’s latest work, “Nathan Hale.” Great care had been taken with reference to scenic environments and costumes and tho production was a success beyond all doubt. The house was filled to its greatest capacity, even the aisles and stairways being occupied. Mr. Goodwin demonstrated that he is greater in serious work than in comedy roles. The story, as depicted by Mr. Fitch, follows closely the life of the revolutionary hero, appealing to both patriotism and sentiment. Miss Maxine Elliott shared the honors of the evening with Mr. Goodwin. The enthusiasm of the audience as the play progressed was such that it was freely declared the new piece was Goodwin's greatest success. Goodwin and Miss Elliott were called before the curtain many times. Between the acts (Myde Pitch, the author, made a brief address. After the play the audience continued applauding, declining to leave till Goodwin came before the curtain and said a few words. The general opinion expressed was that "Nathan Hale” takes rank as an American classic with about such a place on the stage as that occupied in fiction by Edward Everett Hale’s famous “Man Without a Country.” For a first night the presentation was a beautifully finished one throughout. Empire—-Irwin Brothers. Irwin Brothers’ Burlesquers, that opened at the Empire yesterday afternoon to a full house, give only an afterpiece and no beforepiece, consequently the olio is rather long. The Devaros’ horizontal bar act curtains a number of novelties in that line Taken all through, the Quigley Brothers' act, "MeCloskey at the Tollgate,” is about the newst thing that has struck the vaudeville stage and is genuinely amusing. The Harvey sisters are a pair of good-looking young'women who sing vivaciously a number of "gingery” songs that get very near the limit of that sort of work, as set in Indianapolis. Others of the olio are George Sidney and Minerva Lee. comedy sketch; Thomas Baker. athletic singer; Jessie Woods and Stella Irving, vocal duetists, and Dick Leggett, eccentric character and wooden shoe dancer, including his act of “the growing generation.” • The afterpiece uses the good old idea of a theatrical rehearsal to Introduce a series of specialties. The company does good chorus work and the costumes are new and handsome. The show will remain all week, to be followed by Rice & Barton’s Extravaganza. Minstrel Moran Wed*. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 31.—Frank P. Moran, the veteran minstrel, to-day visited the office of Marriage License Clerk Bird and obtained a license to marry Jessie Miller, an actress. Moran is over seventy years old and Miss M'ller is said to be about twenty. Moran would not discuss his proposed marriage. The couple will be married to-morrow'. Miss Miller is one of the Miller sisters. English burlesque actresses. who are playing at a local vaudeville theater. She met Moran at the commencement of the present theatrical season. They were in the same company, and she says it was a case of love at first sight. When Moran left the company, at the beginning of December, they Had decided to get married. Moran lias been a minstrel for over fifty qtars. and has played in every city in this country. Alice Nielson Divorced. KANSAS CITY. Mo., Jan. 31.—Alice Nielson, the prima donna of the Bostonians, was legally separated from her husband, Benjamin Nentwig. by Judge Henry, of the Circuit Court, to-day. The divorce was given to Nentwig on the cross-bill which he filed against his wife’s petition for divorce. He made no charges except desertion, and gave for the reason for desertion that she wanted to go on the stage. No disposition was made of the seven-year-old boy, who is with the actress's mother in California. Miss Nielson is now in the South with the Bostonians. Miss Nielson, who is a Kansas City woman, filed her suit for divorce here last August, charging her husband, who is the leader in one of the local theater orchestras, with cruelty and abuse. , Suicide of Ac<re** Kate Lenoir. NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—A woman übout thirty years of age, supposed to be Kate Lt-noir. an actress, committed suicide at the Sturtevant House, this city, to-day, by inhaling gas through a tube. A letter was found in her room inclosed in a franked envelope, such as is used by congressmen. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—A1l that could be learned in Washington of Miss Kate Lenoir, the New York Hotel suicide, was that her father is a laborer in the engineering department of the War Department, and now employed at Hanging Rock Shoal, Ala. Two of the girl’s sisters. Miss Annie Lenoir <rd Mrs. William W. Golway, live in Washington and started for New Yurk to-night to take charge of the body. A DiMiitKuiMlied Audience. WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.—T0-night President Dole, of Hawaii, and his party occupied boxes at the Lufuyette-square Theater to witness the performance of John Drew’ —<l his company in "A Marriage of Con-

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venience.” The entire audience was an unusually brillfanjt one, including also ex-Pres-ident and Mrs. Harrison. . Kntcliffe Case Postponed. NEW YORK. Jan. 31.—E. J. Ratcliffe was again arraigned before Recorder Goff in General Sessions to-day to plead the charge of perjury. His counsel was not ready to go on with the case and Recorder Goff granted a postponement. Note* of Ihe Stage. As was announced in this column, the "five famous Barrison Sisters” did not appear at the Empire yesterday. They could not appear with “Irwin Brothers' Burlesquers” because they are not in this country. "Edw'ina,” w ith George Monroe’s company at the Park, is one of the cleverest dancers that has been seen here. Her work is different from that of most of those doing specialties in this line. In her graceful movements she exemplifies all that a lover of Delsarte would desire. Her costumes are most artistic, and her dance is followed with a double encore each performance. After the second act at the Grand last night there were vociferous calls for Playwright Hoyt. Stage Manager John Mitchell responded and informed the audience that Mr. Hoyt had been called home from Chicago yesterday and w r as unable, therefore, to visit Indianapolis. Mitchell became somewhat mixed in reference to Chicago and New York, and the audience had almost as much fun out of his speech as it would have hud from one of Hoyt’s little talks. Anew Sousa march, the annual tribute of melody and harmony from the gifted pen of John Philip Sousa, is the announcement that adds attractiveness to his concert at Tomlinson Hall to-morrow night. Like all the other of that brilliant series of marches that have brought fame and fortune to Sousa, the new quickstep has a little history and was inspired by a particular circumstance that vividly impressed the composer. Last fall Sousa made an extended European trip, on which especial honors were paid him as Americ?. s representative musician. In Berlin, by invitation, he conducted the brass orchestra of the celebrated Philharmonic organization. Throughout Italy, in Naples, Florence, Rome, Milan, he was fairly surfeited with attentions. And as he was hurriedly called home by business affairs. the American musician caught fleeting glimpses of life under the French and British flags. Sailing up New York bay in Ihe clear cold of a November morning, Sousa’s eyes were gladdened by a sight of Old Glory floating serenely over the fortifications at the Narrows, with its glowing promise of peace and protection. It aroused ail the patriotism of the composer’s impressionable nature, and inspired him to write "The Stars and Stripes Forever,” and his famous band will play it here as only Sousa’s Band can play a Sousa march.

PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. The regular meeting of the Local Council will be held this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Mayer wdll go to New York Saturday for a short visit. Miss Laura Huey will give a dance at the new Woodruff Place clubhouse Feb. 10. Mr. David Buntin entertained a number of friends witli a theater party last evening. ! Mrs. Henry D. Pierce will give a luncheon to-morrow for Miss Katherine Gordon Breed. The regular ‘Ladies’ night” of the American Whist Club has been postponed to Feb. 0. Mrs. O’Kane and daughter, of Chicago, will come to-morrow to visit Mrs. Russel Seeds. Miss Taylor, of Milwaukee, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. M. Candee, on West Thirteenth street. T. M. Brown, of Detroit. Mich., is visiting his daughter. Mrs. J. S. Partridge. No. 1111 East Nineteenth street. Miss Weller, of Louisville, who lias been visiting Mrs. S. B. Holmes for several weeks, will return home to-day. Miss Lutes will entertain at cards tomorrow afternoon for her guest. Miss Waterhouse, of Providence. R. I. Mrs. A. M. Sweeny will receive informally this afternoon for her sister. Miss Kuebler and Miss Sweeny. There are no Invitations. Miss Hinkle, of Sullivan, returned home yesterday after visiting Miss Josephine Smith and receiving many social attentions. Miss Bates, of Chicago, who is visiting Mrs. Byron Hutchinson, will leave this week for Thotnasville, Oa.. to spend four months. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sayles and son will be with Mr. and Mrs, Charles F. Sayles until they leave for Germany, Feb. 2f>. They will be absent several years. Mrs. Claude Matthews and Miss MeMeehen. of Clinton, who are guests of Mrs. C. M. Walker, were entertained at dinner yesterday by Miss Sarah F. Kceiey. Mrs. R. S. McKee has returned from her trip to Europe. Mr. Boone McKee remained abroad and Mr. Frank McKee, who also accompanied her, remained in New York. Mrs. James M. Winters has issued invitations for a company Thursday afternoon for Mrs. Claude Matthews, of Clinton. and Mrs. Eugene Baum, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Florence Coffin and Miss Annie Reaume will go to Terre Haute to-day to attend a large party to be given this evening. Miss Coffin will go to Decatur and Charleston, 111., later. Mrs. Charles S. Murphy will give a tea to-merrow afternoon to the members of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the College-avenue Baptist Church and their friends at her home. No. 2119 Central avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Julius .Adler have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter Belle and Mr. Henry J. Harris, of Louisville, to take place Tuesday evening. Feb. 15, at 6 o’clock, at the Denison. At the Century Club this evening Mr. L. T. Lewis will read a paper on ‘‘The Triads of the Ancient Druids.” It will be an open meeting, and the members are privileged to invite their gentlemen friends who are not members of the club. The Woman’s Whist Club held its first meeting in Its new club rooms at the Denison last evening. The club is composed of one hundred members and each member was privileged to invite one gentleman. The twenty or more tables were scattered through the several rooms. The wall decorations were pictures of different whist clubs, rules of whist and pertinent subjects. The club christened its new r gift the duplicate whist boards, presented by Mr. Cassius Payne, of Milwaukee, and there were spirited games throughout the evening. The members of the Young Women’s Christian Association gave a reception last evening to introduce the new physical director, Miss Clara Anderson. The guests were given a cordial greeting in the parlor, which was tastefully decorated for the event. The arrangements for the reception were made by Dr. Rebecca Rogers and Miss Mary Shuman. A refreshment table was set and was decorated with pink. Miss Mary Meek. Miss Snyder and Miss Flora Austin presided. The souvenirs for the guests were tiny dumb bells tied with pink ribbons. Miss Anderson will form her classes at once, and hours are arranged to suit every one. Mr. and Mrs. Edson T. Wood gave a progressive game party last evening at their home, at the Btacherne. having Miss Lura Bryner, of Peoria, 111., who is visiting Mrs. J. P. Dunn as their guest of honor. There were five tables for games and the latter were whist, eucher hearts, old maid and Cinque. A prize was given for each game. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Dunn, Mr. and Mrs, Frank 11. Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Candee and Miss Taylor, of Milwaukee, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Kelsey, Miss Baldwin, Miss Eleanor Dilks, Miss Shover, Mr. Horace Hord. Mr, Laz Noble, Mr. Duane Bowles and Messrs. S. A. and Charles Morrison. Irvington. Miss Mary Hawkins has returned from a short visit with her parents, in Noblesville. Miss Grace Blount returned yesterday from Noblesville, where she has been visiting Mrs. Erasmus Connor. Miss Madge Layman entertained informally yesterday afternoon from 3 to 5 in honor of Miss Myrtle Parks, of Martinsville. The favors were bunches of violets passed by Miss Kittle Layman. Miss Jeannette Louis and Miss Parks played selections on the piano. The Irvington Women’s Club met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. E. F. Tibbott. The programme consisted of papers by Mrs. Jessie H. Moore upon Henry Clay, Mrs. Harriet Kauty upon Daniel Webster. Mrs. Minnie Kingsbury upon John C. Calhoun. The conversation upon “Conspicuous Figures in Congress" was led by Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke. The next meeting of the club will bo visitors’ day. and will be held at the home of Mrs. Roland Kauty, on Downey avenue. Chnlrnian Martin anti Headquarter*. Parks Martin, state Democratic chairman, is in the city for the purpose of establishing campaign headquarters. He has not yet announced his executive committee. Samuel Ralston, candidate for the nomination for secretary of state on the Democratic ticket, is also at the Grand.

UTILIZING THE CONVICT * GEOLOGIST HLATCHLEY FURTHER ELABORATES HIS SCHEME. * Comparatively Small Coat of I’avingBrlck Plant —Need of Good Road* In State. —* The plan recently proposed by Willis S. Blatchley, state geologist, for the utilization of\convict labor in improving the roads of the State has attracted much attention. A brief outline of Mr. Blatchley's idea is all that has been published and many inquiries have been made of him for more detailed information concerning the cost of a paving brick plant, the relative cost and endurance of roads constructed of brick and other matters. In an interview yesterday Mr. Blatchley went into detail about his plan. In a discussion of the question, he said, the following conditions were met at the outset: “First—The presence in western Indiana of vast undeveloped deposits of shale which, by practical tests, have been proven suitable in every respect for the making of the best grades of paving brick and seWer pipe. In many localities there exists immediately beneath these shale deposits coal sufficient in quantity to burn the brick and Pipe. "Second—The absence in many counties—especially in the northern part of the State —of stone, gravel or other material suitable for road improvement. "Third—The ever-increasing demand for better roads, due to- an. increase in population, in civilization, in the competition of farm products for the best markets, and to an improvement in methods of travel and of transportation. "Fourth—The acknowledged superiority in length of life and cost of maintenance of roads made of paving brick over those of either stone or gravel, making the ultimate cost of the brick road much less than one of either of the other materials, though the nominal first cost may be greater, "Fifth—The presence in the Northern Prison of 850 or more able-bodied convicts, supported by the taxpayers of the State, because the product of the convict labor under the contract system comes in competition w’ith the product of paid labor outside of the prison. "Sixth—The urgent demand for some plan that will furnish these convicts labor, the product of which will aid in their maintenance, and at the same time furnish a minimum amount of competition with the products of free labor." WHERE THE SHALES ARE FOUND. Taking up each of the£e conditions Mr. Blatchley treated them more fully. He said, respecting the first condition; “That shale suitable for making paving brick and sewer pipe, the latter a necessity in the construction of good roads, exists in all the coal-bearing counties of the State, as shown in my report for 1895. It also occurs in Jackson, Brown and Morgan counties, but not in the vicinity of the prison at Michigan City. The largespand best deposits which overlie,the coal necessary for the burning of the prepared product are In Clay, Vigo, Sullivan, Purke, Vermillion and Fountain counties. “That these shales are suitable for making the products mentioned is proven not only by the analyses and tests given in the report, cited and in the one now in press, hut also by the fact that from them five large factories are now' making paving brick and three?, sewer pipe; one of the former, located at Veedersburg, having produced, in ISS7, ten million pavers, which were sold for $lO per thousand at the plant. "The fact that coal lies under the shale and that just beneath the coal there is. in many places, a fine grade of fire clay, also used in the making of paving brick and sewer pipe, is also a point of great advantage. reducing the cost of manufacture of the clay products to the lowest possible sum. "The cost of a paving-brick plant, completed for work, which has a capacity of forty thousand cutpm per day, is about •$40,00,0. One with double the capacity costs about $60,000. The greater amount of this expense is for buildings and kilns which could, by convict labor, be constructed of brick made on the spot, so that the cost to the State would he less than half this sum. After the plant is once in operation, with fuel and raw material both at hand, the only outlay is for labor. Where the daily output is eighty thousand brick, and the fuel is mined in eortflectlon with the shale, the number of hands' necessary is about 125. These, at $1.50 each per day. would make the cost of the brick about $2.35 per thousand. With enn\Tct labor, the actual cost of the brick would be only the sum paid out for the maintenance of the prisoners. At 50 cents per capita, this would amount to about 80 cents per thousand.” Enlarging on the second condition Mr. Blatchley said: "The majority of the counties north of the center of the State are so deeply covered, with drift that no outcrop of rack suitable for road material is found within their bounds. Many of them, it is true, possess banks ol' drift gravel, hut in most, .instances this is distant from, tie points where it is desired for i-se. In Lake. Porter, Starke and Jasper counties, all mad material has (o be shipped in by rail, in 1897 a number of miles of road in Lake and Porter counties were constructed at a cost of about $4,000 a mile from an inferior grade of gravel shipped in from Joliet. 111. All the counties lying south of the National road are, for the most part, devoid of gravel, and their roads, where improved, are of broken stone.”

NEED OF GOOD HOADS. The geologist then tyok up the third condition. He said: "The question of good roads is at present one of the most vital with which the farming community of Indiana has to deal. Many of the better counties of the State long ago, realized the importance of this question and where road material was conveniently located constructed gravel or macadam roads radiating in all directions from their county towns. In other counties, possessing a plentiful supply of road material, the importance of the question has not yet been fully realized, and for five months of the year the farmers are practically isolated from market, or if they manage to reach Jt once a.week, can only haul thereto a fraction of a load. Such counties are readily recognized as far below the average in wealth, prosperity and the public spirit of their citizens. “Professor Latta, of Purdue University, has for some time been making a careful study of the good roads question in the State, and has received reports from hundreds of farmers, some of whom live or good roads once bad. and others on roads still bad. From these reports he has computed statistics showing that the difference between good and bad roads amounts to 78 cents an acre annually on the farms. Applying this amount to the entire State —38,350 square miles, or 23.264,000 acres—we have the sum of $18,145,980. Os this amount fully twothirds is lost every year in the State, in the loss of time, and in the loss of opportunity in securing the best market for the produce of the farm. "Moreover, our vehicles for rapid country travel are more numerous and of an entirely different style from what they were twenty years ago. Almost every farmer now owns his own buggy and carriage. The bicycle by countless thousands has come to stay, an<i the horseless carriage and motocycle will ere long make their appearance upon the scene. The owners of all these lighter forms of vehiqles are demanding, and will continue to'demand better roads, and the legislator will soon learn that the question is one of the most important which he has to face.” Regarding the fourth condition Mr. Blatchley said: “That brick roads will last much longer and require a much less outlay for repairs than either those of gravel or stone there can be no denial. The average gravel road in the State, where properly built, costs more than $2,509 a mile and is in constant need of repair. In the Clay Worker for December Thomas S. McClanahan. an experienced engineer of Monmouth, 111., has given in detail the methods of construction and comparative cost of a mile of macadam road and a mile of brick road near that city, where both kinds have been recently built. “Os the macadam road, he says: ‘First, large flat stones are laid on their fiat sides to a width of eight feet, this covered with screenings to fill the interstices completely; then this covered with crushed stone to a depth of eight inches and extending six inches over each side of fiat stone, now making a roadway of nine feet wide; then grade up to sides with earth rolled with a seven-ton roller: then it is ready for travel. The cost of this is 85 cents per lineal foot. This is making no allowance for subgrading. Total cost of making one mile of tnls road is $4,488. Then to keep it in good repair it must be repaired at least twice each year at an expense of 10 cents per lineal foot, or $52.8 annually. Supposing this road to be kept in use for the term of twenty years, it would give us a total of $17,180. Do not, my friends, hold up your hands In holy horror at this terrible cost, for we are spending nearly that much on dirt roads In plowing and hauling to one place this spring and probably the same dirt next spring back to where it was the year previous; and then the hundreds of thousands we are spending In wooden culverts and bridges and then have nothing but mud when it Is wet.’ ADVANTAGE OF BRICK ROADS. “Os the brick roads, he recommends that it be as carefully surveyed us a railroad,

with plans, profiles and specifications; that then, At possible, all grades should be reduced so as not to exceed a foot and a half to the hundred feet, and all boggy places and fills should be thoroughly tiled; that an excavation on the grade nine feet wide and five inches deep he made and curbed with one-inch by twelve-inch pine bdards, the nine-foot space between the curbs to be then covered with clean, dry sand to a depth of six inches and thoroughly tamped. On this, as a foundation, set on edge, at right angles to the curb, a single course of the best paving brick, three by four by nine inches In size. Then excavate a space two feet wide outside of curbs, tapering from curb down to a depth of six inches, leaving the shoulders against curbs, and fill this space with crushed stone to a depth of six inches, which will be two inches above top of curb. Then cover both brick and stone with sand, clean, sharp and dry, and sweep until the interstices are all thoroughly filled; then roll until the whole road is solidified. Penally cover with one-half inch of sand. ’*The entire width of the road should now be graed so that it would be easy to get on and off of hard road, and in good weather, when the ground is settled the side roads will be used and thus save the wear and tear of the good road. From what I see and know of the endurance of such brick as above named, you have a road good for forty years, without any need of repair, except the crushed stone part, which is used particularly for a curb; fit for traffic, pleasure and beauty to the country through which it passes, and also as far as dollars and cents are concerned the cheapest that can be built. "The cost of a mile of brick road thus constructed is given by Mr. McClanahan a* sll,<kl3. Os this sum the cost of the brick is computed at $12.50 a thousand, or a total of $9,504; making the cost of all the other features, i. e., engineering expense, grading, curbing, laying brick, etc., $2,149 a mlie. "If convict labor were used in the manufacture of the brick, they could, without doubt, be furnished at the plant, to the counties constructing the roads, at $1 a thousand, which would require an outlay of but S7OO a mile. The crushed stone could also be prepared by convcit labor at a greatly reduced cost, and could be used for foundation instead of sand. Stone curbing prepared by convicts might, also be substituted for the pine boards. With these changes the road need cost but little if any over $2,500 a mile, the most of which would be for grading and the laying of the brick. For. understand, the plan proposed does not consider that the convicts be employed except in the preparation of the material, the latter to be furnished at cost to the counties. All grading, teaming, bricklaying, etc., should he done by free labor, as it is at present. The day of the chain gang at work on the roadside, subjected to the gaze and jeers of the passer-by, is, rightfully, a thing of the past." Os tliis fifth condition, Mr. Blatchley said that hut little more need be said. "The prisoners, we all know,” said lie, "are there and without work. A man witiiout work is not without thought. His brain is ever active, and surrounded as each of those convicts is, by others of his kind, that activity will be used in plotting new crme, or planning new rebellion against the keepers. The years of their incarceration are, on account of this enforced idleness, ten-fold longer, for no time hangs as heavy as that where the hands and the brain are unemployed. Our prisons should be reformatories, not preparatories for insane asylums, but this they surely are and will be as long as the convicts are left in idleness.” Os the last condition, Mr. Blatchley said: “The plan proposed will, we think, furnish many of the convicts with labor that will pay for their keep and at the same time not be inimical to the interests of free labor outside the prison. Country roads have not nor will not, to any extent, be constructed of paving brick unless free labor can be employed in the making of the brick. The first cost is prohibitory, even if the ultimate cost is less. "With a plant erected which will give employment to 375 men, 240,000 brick cun be made daily. A year's output will be sufficient to pave almost 100 miles of roadway. Two hundred additional convicts could be employed in breaking stone and preparing curbing. The only extra expense to which the State would be put would be the purchase of the shale land and the machinery. All buildings—even the inclosing walls—about the plant could be constructed by convicts of biick made on the spot, for the shale will make ordinary and pressed front brick of the finest quality. “Five years ago California was in the same situation as Indiana is to-day. Her convicts were idle in deference to the wishes of her labor organizations. Her legislators passed a law' authorizing the employment of the convicts in the breaking of stone for road material. To-day that State is supplying the prepared stone to the counties at 28 cents a cubic yard, on board the cars, which is less than one-third the ordinary market price; yet sufficient to pay for the maintenace of the convicts. The railroads of the State are carrying the material at the bare cost of hauling, for they realize that the Improved country roads will bring to them in the future a great increase, in farm products for shipment. "Many objections to the plan proposed w’iil doubtless arise, for the questions to be solved are important ones, and for that reason no jilan can or will be presented but what will have its weak points. It seems, however, that given an ever growing demand for better roads: an abundance of nature's products which can lie made into the best of road material, and SSO convicts able and eager to work, that we have a combination, which, under me proper management, would give us the Improved roads, furnish employment for our conivct labor, and yet give no offense to that army of honest workingmen w r hose interests and welfare arc ever to be upheld.".

Murbitrger Iw Developing. The wrestling’ match Thursday night between Sam Murbarger, of this city, and Frank Gehle, of Piqua. 0., is causing a good deal of talk about town. Murbarger is looked upon as a phenomenon, and is coming out wonderfully. He is only twen-ty-three years old. and his friends declare he is developing, and will continue to develop after the manner of "Kiri” McCoy. He has been wrestling but a short time, but has defeated ail comers since he went into the business as a professional. His first go of any consequence was with William Sapp, at Broad Ripple. He threw his opponent the first bout and was injured in the second. Last November he defeated Frank George, of Illinois, in a match at Greeneastle and threw Herb Hale in this city Jan. 3. He weighed 146 pounds when he went on the mat a month ago with Hale. He will weigh over 150 pounds Thursday night. in Frank Gehle Murbarger is really going out of his class, as the Ohio man will weigh not less than 158 pounds, which is the minimum heavy-weight condition. Gehle is German by birth and twenty-eight years old. He has been wrestling for ten years, and has many victories to his credit. He has furnished the Journal with his record, and says he hopes to add Murbarger to liis list. He began by defeating Hugh Leonard and Matsada Serachigo, the Jap. He then joined a variety company and threw over fifty men in various parts of the country. Among some of his latest victories are those he won over Harvey Parker, Jack Snyder, Michael J. Dwyer. Herb Hale, Bert Sheller. Charles Ward. Charles Richards, John Simcoe, Elmer Woodniansee, Peter Schumacher and Martin Muldoon. He has been beaten by William Muldoon. Dan McLeod, Schumacher. “Jack” Davis, of this city, is looking after Gehle’s interests in this match. He Hasn’t a $55 Appearance. Jack Dempsey, a man having the appearance of a tramp, was found last night at the corner of Merrill street and Senate avenue suffering from a wound in the head. He was taken to the City Hospital, where lie said he had been assaulted and robbed. He said he took a roll containing $55 from his pocket to pay for his supper in a restaurant, and was followed by two men who struck him with a bottle and robbed him. His story is not believed. He was dressed In ragged apparel and was dirty. He had several papers of pins and five spools of thread in his pockets and a ticket of admission to the Friendly Inn. His wound is not serious. Hillside-Avenue Church Meetings. The protracted meetings at the Hillsideavenue Christian Church are proving very successful. The revival services are b-dng conducted by Rev. Walter S. Smith, of Rush county. Sunday night four were baptized. Last night there tvere three confession of faith and one accession to the church by letter. To-morrow night a number of candidates will receive the bantisimal rite. The meetings will continue all week. Officers of the church say that those desiring to reach the church should take the Brightwood cars. Dr. Thenphilnn I’nrvin’s Funeral. The funeral of Dr. Theophilus Parvin will be held at the residence of James P. Baker, a son-in-law’, at 1209 Central avenue, tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock. The body will reach here to-day noon. Rev. J. Cummins Smith will conduct the funeral services. The burial will be at Crown Hill. The remains will arrive to-day at noon. The evidence in the ease proves Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures rheumatism, dyspepsia, catarrh, that tired feeling, scrofula, salt rheum, boils, humors and all blood diseases. Hoods Pills are prompt, efficient, always reliable, easy to take, easy to operate, 25c.

ROADWAY OF THE CANAL COUNCILMAN MADDEN'S SC HEME FOR IMPROVIS’D THINGS. A Boulevard Might Be Constructed to Ilroa<l Ripple—Turn Che Canal Into Fall Creek. Councilman Robert M. Madden has advanced a scheme for a boulevard and accompanying bicycle paths that would do away with the canal, which now separates the western part of the city from the main portion. His plan is to utilize the center of he canal for a public drain, laying a sewer of equal dimensions to the White river interceptor in the center of the canul, if necessary, and then filling the canal with earth and converting it Into a driveway. The sewer would be utilized for draining large sections of the city that now are undrained above Fall creek. Such a plan, he thinks, would greatly appreciate the value of property in the west portion of the city and do away with an unsightly and unsanitary feature of the city. It is believed by those who agree with Mr. Madden as to the practicability and advisability of such a scheme, that it would cost the city but little. To fill up the canal and convert it into a useful and desirable driveway would double, in many cases treble, the value of abutting property. The assessments for benefits against the benefited property owners w'ould, it is said, more than meet the assessment of damages to the Indianapolis Water Company, which claims to own the fee simple to the canal, and which has always resented any interference and control over the water course from the city. Until late years the water Company depended largely on the water in the canal for a supply in cases of emergency, like a big fire. Since the company's new pumping station was built north* of the city, however, it is claimed that the necessity for this supply of water has been done away with and that the company couid as well draw on Fall creek for an emergency supply. Mr. Madden’s scheme would be to make the canal a boulevard clear out to Broad litpple, using the present side roadways for bicycle paths. This he argues could be made the basis for a good park system, as the canal passes through many beautiful tracts of land that could be bought by the city for comparatively small amounts. It is asserted that the right of the Indianapolis Water Company to the canal is at least questionable and that the company might have trouble in establishing it if it were ever questioned. If only that section of the canal south of Fall creek were made into a roadway the canal could empty into Fall creek, and add a waterfall to the picturesqueness of the scenery out that way. The lower section of the ca'nal is now used princpally as a repository for old tin cans, and in the summer time is said to be unsanitary. CITY'S UNDERGROUND WIRES. Contract Let for Their Placing; at The Board of Public Safety and the Board of Public Works, with Mayor Taggart, have finally decided the controversy over the matter of placing the police and fire alarm telegraph wires in the underground conduits. Yesterday the Western Electric Company, of Chicago, bid $5,750 for doing the entire work. The bid was accepted. By the terms of the agreement that has been reached the Central Union Telephone Company will be released from its agreement to place the fire alarm wires in the conduit free of charge, and in consideration of the release will pay SI,OOO of the expense. The Gamewell Company, in consideration of not having to place the police alarm W'ires in the conduit, will pay $3,500. The city will pay the difference to the Western Electric Company. It is said that under the agreement with the telephone company the city jcould only require the wires now in use to be placed in the conduit. There are sixteen of them. The contract made yesterday requires the placing of fifty wires, which is said to be enough to meet all requirements of the city for years to come. The contract is said to also Call for additional police alarm wires than the Gamewell Company would have had to place. The city officials regard the arrangement as satisfactory, if it does cost the city $1,250.

HOARD OF WORKS ROt TINE. Corn ell-A venue Sewer. The board adopted a resolution for a local sower in Cornell avenue, from Eleventh to Nineteenth street, with branches. A Petition for Macadam. A petition for macadamizing Southeastern avenue, from Washington street to Rural street or the city limits, was presented yesterday. Anbury-Street Opening'. L. Habich and J. and L. Kennedy and William Mannion remonstrated against benefits assessed against them on account of the oj>ening of Asbury street, from Cottage to the ill'st alley south. The reremonstrances w'ere overruled. Tlie Independent Turners* Monk. Those who have a fancy for Madl Gras carnivals and the like should have attended the annual ‘‘masken ball in der Turn Halle” last night, when the members of tho Independent Turverein decked themselves in costumes and made a merry night of it. About 350 tickets had been sold and the old hall was crowded with a picturesque throng of revelers. There were ebony pickaninnies and old Reubens from the back townships, Black Princes and queens of fairy lands, w’itches, fortune tellers and sirens of all kinds, and also there was a Dutch band. The Dutch band was an energetic sort of an institution consisting of twelve bazoo performers and when it took up a collection there was no resistance possible. A company of eight witches, who were adorned with snakes and other uncanny ori iments, divided honors with the band. A few typical policemen, the übiquitous Yellow Kid and some old soldiers with wooden legs, who claimed to be from Gettysburg, were also objects of profound consideration. The grotesque dancers kept their masks on until near midnight, after which an elaborate supper was served on the lower floor The rpembers of the committee on arrangements were Joseph H. Schaub. Harold Schmidt. William Off. E. Guy Robbins, Charles Field and Adolph Mols ajnd the fine success of the ball was largely due to their efforts. The floor committee consisted of E. Guy Robbins, Charles Fields, Frederick W. Jungclaus and Frederick W. Koekert. Taiinage Lecture Postponed. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage will not lecture at English's Opera House Thursday night, as has been advertised. He was to till an engagement on that night in the regular Y. M. C. A, lecture course, but writes that illness will prevent his coming. He agrees to deliver the lecture some time in March and another date will be announced. Another lecture or entertainment will be provided by the Y. M. C. A. to till in the series, but it will not be given until next week, the date of which will be announced soon. An X-Ray Surgical Case. W. E. Kurtz, of this city, took his eight-een-year-old nephew to Anderson yesterday and had an X-ray picture taken of his right ankle. The boy has been lame for some time and doctors who were attending him found difficulty In ascertaining exactly what was the matter. The rayographs were perfect and show* that some of the bones have had an abnormal growth. The pictures were brought here and surgeons will work according to them. The Fire Record. At 2:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon the house at 815 East Georgia street, occupied by James Shea and owned by Robert Dangsdale, was damaged to the extent of S3O by fire starting in a defective flue. At 4 o'clock there was a loss of SSOO from a fire of unknown origin at the residence of Miss Maler. 1315 North Senate avenue. The house is owned by Henry Frank. N'evr Reform School Building. T. J. Charlton, superintendent of the Plainfield Reform School for Boys, and G. A. Shldeler, of Marion, one of the members of the board of that institution, were in the city yesterday. A board meeting w'as held, at which the date for the dedication of the new school building at the reformatory was set for Feb. 28, when Governor Mount will deliver the leading address. This new building is Just nearing completion ami will seat six hundred. The boys of the institution did nearly all the work upon it.

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