Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 128, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1899 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1899.

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A MAY SALE OF Muslin Underwear CHEAT ItEnVCTlO ix THE TRICES OF Lace Curtains YOU CAXT AFFOnD TO STAY AWAY FROM , L. S. Ayres & Co. tUsufictnrere of Grilles od Fret Work. o BODY RUSSELS IQELOVV C A R PETS ATMonday's Bargain Sale 1 lot 15 to oo yards in each pattern, 62 cents a yard. 1 lot' 20 to 60 yards in each pattern, 75 cents a yard. These are all th bet make E:ieto-r and Others and the price ihovi a heavy Ihm, but they are odl lenjtn long and thort nI want tbem mored. Will you move item Monday? Albert Gall Czrvzts, Draperies, Wall Paper, 17 and 10 West Washington Street. Hardwood Floor laid, finished and refalahed. Save Coupons When You Buy. Hitz'sL Quaker Bread 200 coupons Birrs yon choice of anyone of IS bandsomely-f rame-d braotlfal pictures, worth 92.OO each. Quaker Light Rolls. Yum, Yum, Yum. BEECHER IN THIS CITY 803X12 REMINISCENCES OF HIS LIFE s IN IXDIAXAPOLIS. Jm F. Late Comments on- Thoae lie centlr rnbllahed la the Wlnonlan Henry Ward Beecher's reminiscences of his life la this city were recently printed In the Wfconlan and an uMltional chapter .was contributed to the last number by J. P. Iuse, formerly a well-known newspaper man in this city. Mr. Luse corrects the statement la the first paper to the effect that Mr. 13eecher came here in 1S49 and says it was In 1SCD. lie continues: 'The writer was there at the time, a student ut the old academy where he preached, as he sayn, for a few months after his arrival, and before the erection of the first church of which he speaks so fondly and pathetically, lie says of his first visit to Indianapolis after years In Brooklyn: 'As I looked long and yearningly upon that homely building the old time came back again. That homely building has now given way to the splendid English Hotel, and it is remitted to baser uses in the rear. It should be preserved for It waa the scene of tho grander outbreak of eloquence ever heard by men from a herald of the cross. "No one need be told that Henry "Ward Ueccher waa probably the moat gifted orator the country ha ever known. Ills congregation was often weeping and laughing alternately, with no thought of Irreverence. I heard his 'Lectures to Young men when first delivered. There was great anxiety to hear his lecture on 'Strange Women. The ability, the force and the delicacy with, which ha handled it were amatlng. Young "men who never attended church before became regular listeners to JJeeeher. Many who never became members of any church never missed his sermons and lectures. He soon becarm the Intellectual magnet ,of the entire State, for members of th Legislature and lawyers attending the State and Federal Courts made It a point to hear him as often as possible. As is often the case tif great ability drew to the Indianapolis -pu.pits able men. Ill-hop Slmpaon often preached there, as old Ames and others equally as eminent. The early settlers of Indianapolis were generally scholarly men. He mentions Morris. Merrill, Coburn. Fletcher arxl othrs. cultured gentlemen of marked ability. To their Influence Indianapolis owes its hiKh character to-day. He refers to Hugh O'Neal, that brilliant and eccentric lawyer, who will long be remembered In Indiana. Mr. Beecher's love for Indianapolis arose from the remarkable array of scholarly, educated and good men he found there cn his arrival. They fraternized immediately. "In his letter of rem!nlcences Mr. Heecher says: 'Here we builded a house and painted It with our own hand. The writer hereof sold him the oil wherewith to mix his paint to p-lnt the 'ten-foot cottage, csrure and little. which he searched fnr in after yers and got lost in the effort. Think of lieecher. the marvelous word painter, painting with paint and oil he mixed himself his little ten-foot houe. Yet there is an Interest tn these little detail all feel and acknowledge. This was the man who. In the awful days when clouds as black as right gathered over our country and &tin'A aseneU- the world over seemed gleefully to gather to set our ruin, watt selected by Uneoln to, go to Indon to breast British hate, arrogance and Ignorance at Kxeter Hall. Irbably he was the only mnn In all the land who could do it. What a howling mob of Kngllsh ruffians he met. But In three long hours he charmed them Into Mlence, Into courtesy. Into reason. How IncoIn enjoyed that. Yft this was the ame painter who painted the obscure Utile ten-foot cottage which was his firn house In IndianapolU. He painted and painted on and was one of the old masters when be was a boy."

NEW COVENANT CHAPEL

A CllinCII OUT OX EAST MARKET STREET DEDICATED. Revivalist Holds Service at Friends Church Rev. Mr. Haines's Sermon, After a year of struggling for existence the Covenant Congregational Church Is at last on a sure foundation and has a chapel. The chapel is located at Market street and Highland avenue. It was dedicated yesterday. The church owns the whole corner, and Intends to erect a church building In the near future. Then the chapel will become the Sunday school room. The chapel is a neat little frame building, facing on Market street. Until the church building is erected tho services will be held In the chapel. It Is furnished with chairs and has a platform for the choir and preacher at one end of the main room. There is a piano to accompany the choir. Rev. John R. Mason is the pastor of the church and Henry D. Newton is the director of the choir. The trustee of the church are W. K. Summers, Dr. W. U. Martin, W. H. Tartlow, Almon I. Bowman and Gust Rosberg. The congregation is composed of the "Separatists' from the East Washington-street Presbyterian Church and other persons who have Joined the "Separatists." The church was organized April 27, of last year, and was Incorporated Oct. 17. It met in a storeroom at Cruse and Washington streets. The new church took In the former pastor of the East Washington-street Presbyterian Church. The "Separatists" had defended the pastor when he was Involved in tho trouble In the parent East Washingtonstreet church. But the new church and Its adopted pastor did not work together smoothly and when his contract expired Rev. John. R. Mason became the leader of the new flock, and it was determined to erect a church building. The lot at Market street and Highland avenue was bought for $2,000, and the chapel cost about the same amount. The task of raising money to pay off the debt was the next step. Mrs. Frederick Knefler is one of the members of the church, and she alone is said to have raised $1,600 by soliciting subscriptions f rom prominent people. She Is superintendent of the Sunday school. The first meeting was held in the chapel on Easter day. In dedicating the chapel yesterday services were held In the morning. . the afternoon and at nlgnt. The morning programme was opened by a piano number by Miss Llllle- Ball. Rev. Mason offered prayer. Rev. N. A. Hyde read the lesson for the day, and Rev. John. M. Sutherland, of Terre Haute, preached the sermon. His subject was "The Comfort of God." The choir sang several anthems and Miss Ella McGrew sang a soprano solo. During the service $143.80 was raised. The services of the day were in charge of Rev. E. D. Curtis, State superintendent of Congregational Home Missions. Rev. Harry B. Long and Rev. Devi White spoke at the afternoon service, and Rev. Sutherland preached a sermon at night. More money was raised at the afternoon and night services, and the members of the church were delighted. The plans for the church building have been drawn, but whether it will be of frame or brick is not yet decided. It will cost $3,000. REVIVALIST JOSEril SMITH. An All-Day Service Yesterday at the Friends Church. An all-day Pentecostal revival, consisting of morning, afternoon and evening services, was held yesterday at the Friends' Church by Joseph Smith, formerly of Philadelphia and now of California. The revival was undenominational and wa3 largely attended. Mr. Smith Is a traveling evangelist who is at present making a trip across the continent, giving revivals in most of the larger cities between San Francisco and New York. Although not so sensational in his utterances as his contemporary, Sam Jones, he possesses a voice of equal Dower and the same ability to play upon the emotions of his hearers. He does not preach, but talks to his congregation in a familiar way, often Interrupting his own discourse with an easy flve-mlnute chat with somebody in the congregation in regard to epme reUgious question. In the course of the services yesterday afternoon ho invited everybody' who felt so disposed to ask him questions about things in the Bible that they did not understand. Several people took advantage of this opportunity to have different problem explained to them, Among the questioner was a woman who Inquired how It was possible to "be angry and sin not." "There Is such a thing as holy wrath," answ tx d Mr. Smith, "when it has its source in the love of God and the championing of Ills cause. Now there isn't a doubt In my mind that God himself gets mad once in a while. And when He does His anger Js right to the point. Nobody noticed any particular tarrying along the way of that cyclone that struck Missouri a few days ago. Most people think that when they become angry their wrath is always a holy indignation. That's a mistake no anger can be holy unless It Is Inspired, not by the thought of self, but by the thought of God. Why, I once had a man come to me with a story about his being overcome with religious indignation. 'What was the matter?' I asked. 'A man called me a liar, he said. 'What did you do to him?" I asked. 'I kicked him down a couple of flights of stairs,' he said. And then he wanted to know what he had better do about the matter. I told him that he'd better go and apologize to the man for every step he had been obliged to take on that trip down the stairs1 and then go home and get his wife to pray for him." Mr. Smith took for the subject of. his afternoon's discourse the ability of every man to cleanse himself of sin If he once set his mind upon purifying himself. "I have Just come from California," ho said, "where the fruit growers are now hard at work cutting away the offensive branches of their trees those branches where the scale has got in its deadly work. The fruit men discard the branches in order to bring forth more good fruit. It Is the same way with man. If we keep up an endless fight against the scale of sin that creeps into our lives we are sure to make our lives bear good fruit. The trouble with most men is that they become discouraged in the fight against the scale especially young men. I was rather a careless. thoujrhtleio youth myself until -1 was converted. After that revival where first I determined to fight against the scale of sin I chanced to overhear a conversation while on the way to my home. A crowd of young men, friends of mine, were walking in front of me and were talking over my case. One of them said: 'I tell you what, fellows I give Smithy Just three months.' lie meant that within a quarter of a year I would be a blackshder. The words routed something within me and 1 said to myself: 'I'll give Smithy the rest of his natural life.' That was twenty-five years ago, and I've been hard at work fighting that scale and helping others to fight it ever since." The evening service was under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor and there was a very large congregation present. A number of conversions were made during the day. , LIGHT AT EVE.MXG TIME. Rev. G, A. Caratenaen'a Vesper Service at St. Tanl. . At St. Paul's Episcopal Church yesterday afternoon Rev. G. A. Carstensen spoke on the text. "At evening time it shall be light." Mr. Carstensen said that the text referred to the day of the Lord. The question Is, what does the prophet mean? It Is often said that the revelations of Christianity are not clear and do not reveal. Many people question why there Is not more deflnlteness and certainty abcut the revelations. There are many things that every person wants to know about. Among thef-e things each one wants to know about God, about the immortality of tho soul. These questions are raised by good and intelligent people who want to know for some certainty about the future and to remove the element of doubt that exists In their minds. They do not want to question things that may be true, but things that are questioned, because -they are indefinite and uncertain.

They want to know the condition? of this light. They want to know if there Is actually such a place as heaven or If it is merely a state. They want to know if we will recognize and know others there, and if others will recognize and know us. Many come to the conclusion that it is better to run the race of life a it is. The question then arises, what makes character? The general answer is knowledge. This Is not correct, according to the view of Mr. Carstensen. It is the patient and careful search after knowledge, the effort made to find knowledge that makes character. Knowledge is not ready made, but every man must work it out for himself. For instance, if a man starts from a long distance, as across the seas or to go from New York to San Francisco, and the Journeys were not easy In the early days, to make his mark in life, he might not have gone could he have foreseen the hardships and the difficulties that he would have encountered. The man who has made his success in life under such circumstances would have hesitated to start out could he have known what he would have met with. It is much better not to know all that Is coming. Every man must work out his own success for himself. It depends on him and the manner in which he meets what comes before him. in the same way It is probable that the awakening, as to divine matters, will come gradually and according to divine light. The Bible says to "forgive your enemies" and to "love those who perfevute you." This is hard to do and in the difficulty of obeying the commands la the darkness. Every one should take the light best fitted to make a better man or woman and follow that llRht. Many have dark shadows, sometimes and perhaps at the present time, but whenever that dark shadow is over the path the sun shines behind the cloud and therein is the twilight. IsfiU everyone have faith, let him have knowledge and courage and then the light will shine at evening time. IIAYDVS ORATORIOS.

Rev. Dr. Halnen Drawn n Lesson from The Creation. Rev. Dr. M. L. Haines? last evening delivered a sermon to a large congregation at the First Presbyterian Church on the religious significance of Hydn's oratorios. He said that the oratorio, "The Creation," might well he taken as a service in song on the text, "O Lord, how manifold are Thy works. In widom hast Thou made them all." Haydn took the words for the libretto for "The Creation" from the description by John Milton in "Paradise Lost." This shows the successive stages of creation, culminating in man and woman, it Is Just one hundred years ago this spring that the oratorio, "The Creation," was first performed. It wai first produced in the city of Vienna, From that time it has continued to be a delight to admirers of music wherever produced. While many have expressed the most unbounded admiration for it, yet "The Creation" was written when Haydn was in old age, and when his body was enfeebled. He heard Handel's "Messiah" rendered in Westminster Abbey by over a thousand voices, and "The Creation" was the re&ult. He was over sixty-six years of age when he commenced on it, and it was two or three years before he completed the work. He said he spent much time over it because he intended that it should last. But the religious tone of the composition was the one thing to be discussed. In subject and in author it was deeply religious. Ha.-dn's life was an exceptionally religious one,- but he says he was never so pious as when engaged In the composition of "The Creation." He says: "I fell on my knees daily and prayed to God that He would grant me the strength to carry out the work to praise Him worthily." Haydn carried a profound and happy sense of the goodness of God, and this was the fundamental trait of all his music. He was hlled with a steadfast and stolid Joy from the belief and consciousness that God was with him in his work. Haydn wrote according to the way he felt, He said himself: "When I tbink upon God my heart is so full of Joy that the notes dance and leap, as it were, from my pen, and since God has given me a cheerful heart it will be pardoned me if I praise Him in a cheerl d spirit." It would be better if all could look on the works of God in a cheerful spirit and praise them ur." "We should go gorth It this spring season," said the minister, "and discern more in the beauties of the season than the mere passing hints and suggestions, and should ee the beauties of divine life. God loves beauty, and as we see the resurrection of lif, everywhere about us we should lift our thoughts to Him. How do we look on the earth? Do we see the manifold goodness1 of God? Do we see the wisdom of the infinite? The millions of forms and the prandeur of the earth were in the mind of the Holy Father, and they did not come by chance. They did not come by themselves, but they came by His thought and creative plan. 'O Lord, how manifold are Thy works. In wisdom hast Thou made them. All earth Is full of Thy riches.' " THIRD CHRISTIAN PASTOR. Rev. Mr. Roloson, of Iowa, Will Probably Be Called. An unexpected delay has taken place In the selection of a pastor for the Third Christian Church. Both bodies of the church have agreed upon the pastor who will succeed Dr. Jenkins, but a slight question has arisen as to the rights and duties of the two bodies representing the congregation in the selection of a new pastor. Jtev. Mr. Roloson will probably be selected as the pas-tor for the congregation and the formal call will likely be extended to him the last of this week. Mr. Roloson comes from Iowa and the selection seems to meet the approval of all the members of the church. The call will probably be extended from both the deacons and elders Jointly. Mr. Phllputt'a Anniversary. In his sermon yesterday morning Rev. Allan B. Phllputt, rastor of the Central Christian Church, made reference to the fact that he had Just completed ore year of service as pastor of the congregation. There have been 1M additions to the church during the year and all departments of the work are harmonious and progressive. During this time also the church has raised over $13,000. half of which was used in decreasing the debt, which is almost wiped out. The congregation now taxes the capacity of the house. a greenville; o., mystery.' Dr. Xewlon Hemphill, Who Married Here, Found Dead. Dr. Newton Hemphill wa9 found dead Saturday evening at the home of his parents, at Greenville, O. The authorities found Indications that he had been poisoned. A year ago ha was married to Miss Irene Wilson, of this city, dispatches from Greenville say, and the wife foaa been living in this city since February, when the two separated. Hemphill's body was found on a couch In a back room and the indications were that it had been dead since Thursday. The police at Greenville are of the opinion that Hemphill was killed by poison sent through the malls, for no traces of the mixing of a drug could be found in the house, lie had received several packages by mail. Letters and postal cards were found in the pockets of the clothing, dated at Hamilton. O., and signed "G. W. P." They referred mysteriously to Hemphill going to Hamilton prepared to do "certain work" and "landing a party." Hemphill's parents aro evangelists and they were away from home last week. The Hemphllls living In this city say they do not know of the family at Greenville. Efforts to find Mrs. Irene Hemphill, or Irene Wilson, were unavailing yesterday. SHOCKING DEPRAVITY. Little Girls and n Man In Custody of the Police. John Butrum, nineteen, living at 610 East Washington street, Stella Hayton, twelve, living at 200$ Columbia avenue, and Gertie Knotts, thirteen, living at W0 West Merrill street were arrested yesterday by Bicycle Policemen Schroeder and Hauser and charged with loitering. The police were Informed that the girls were not conducting themselves properly, having been, it is claimed, in the company of Butrum and other young men for several days. If the stories? told the officers are true, several shocking cases of depravity have been found among girls of a like age. The Hayton girl was found at Butrum's home. He recently tame from Iuisville. where, it is said, he had been lately released from the penitentiary. He told Ms aunt that the girl was also from Louisville and had lost her oldest sister here. Vorles's Business College Band gave us seme delightful music yesterday afternoon. They came out on the monument steps to have their pictures taken in their new uniforms. We do not blsme them for wishing to look at themselves, for their uniforms are the finest we have seen in many a day. There were twenty of them.

MAKING OF FINE TILES

I.YDIAXArOLIS WAS A PIONEER IX ESTABLISHING THIS INDUSTRY. Process of Obtaining the Reantlfnl Color How the Clay la Raked. But few people are aware that the first encaustic tile plant in the United States was built at Indianapolis and with home capital. The late Alfred Harrison was one of the principal promoters and procured all the skilled labor from abroad, which at the time caused considerable friction among home labor, but it was soon demonstrated that there were not men competent to fill such positions In this country, there being scientific principles involved in the manufacture of tile that to make it a success required men who were familiar with the various processes. The colors now used for architectural decoration are the same, with the exception of buff and brown, as those employed by the ancient Egyptians, namely, red, yellow, blue, sometimes green and white and black. Originally the clay used in this country for the finer grade of tile was imported, but of laic years it has been discovered that the clay found In the Southern States, is just as good, if not bettef, than the Imported, commonly called bail and kaolin, or china clay. It is estimated that the Indianapolis firm uses from 300 to 000 carloads of clay annually in the manufacture of tile. The clay for the common tile comes from Indiana. The clay Is always carefully inspected before it is used, and one of the principal features is that of mixing the clays if two or more kinds are to be used. The ingredients aro first weighed and measured and then put in vats or plungers and washed thoroughly, after which the mass is stirred by steam power, then run through a "lawn" to get all the dirt out. after which it is put in hydraulic presses, out of which it comes in cakes of solid cla3'. These cake are then put In steam heated dryrooms. after which the clay is ground to a powder by a spider, or mill similar to a flour mill. Tho powdered earth Is then ready to be made Into tile by pressing it under Iron dies and a screw press. The old way was to press by hand out of plastic clay. After the tile comes from the press the edges are made smooth and the tiles are then packed in saggers ready for the first burning. An operator of a screw press can turn out over 5,000 tile a day. The kilns used for burning are conical in shape and heated by natural gas. This is the only industry in Indianapolis which owns its own gas wells. There are two methods of getting color in tile work, namely, to get it in the clay itself or upon its surface. The color upon the clay, whether In the form of a mere surface tint. or of a painted pattern, may consist of either clay itself or of enamel. The pieco of baked clay, which goes by the name of tile, may be a smooth piece, of terra cotta or it may be incised or inlaid with a pattern, as In the case of encaustic tiles; it may be roughened and enriched with modeling and it may be overlaid with opaquo enamel, of a color not natural to burnt clay; it can be patterned with color and the pattern may be painted upon the clay or upon the enamel or upon the glaze, and it may be printed In one color or in many and stamped In high or low relief. Printed tile are usually covered with white glaze and again it is customary for glazed tile to have the pattern painted over the glaze. Mottled tile are usually coated with colored glaze, or they can be painted in colors and then glazed or they can be painted in glazes of various colors. The tile Is baked three or four times, first to harden, before painting upon it, then to harden the painting-, then to fuse the glaze and again to fix the painting with which it has been touched up. In the manufacture of encaustic tile the powdered earth is put upon stenciled copper, plates under the screw press and corms out with the pattern stamped upon it. The ceramic color produced requires very great heat. Modelsrare made of plaster parls or clay and the plate is then made from the model. In the mantel tile It is first made In one large piece and then cut Into tile. The vitreous body tile is only burned once and has a special kiln, and it is said to be more durable than any other. In the onyx or marbleized tile, the color is put on with a wet sponge, while in the other colored tile the color is sifted on. The small round tile used for floors, and one of the newest things, is first pasted on paper. When used the paper is turned upside down in cement and the paper then wet and taken off. One of these floors has recently been laid in the Grand Hotel lobby and the management say it is one of the prettiest in the country. This is an entirely new departure for the Indianapolis firm and the tiles are made in various designs. The floor designs are usually got up by special artists in water color. For interior decoration the tile is always adapted to the various styles of architecture, whether it be Moorish, Grecian, Rococo, colonial, etc. Up to the present time there has-been very little American tile shipped outside of the United States, but a new field is opening in Mexico and in Cuba, where tile would impart coolness in the tropical climate of these countries. A curious piece of tile was received last week by airs. Martindale from her son Lyge, taken from the oldest fortification in Havana, where Lieutenant Martindale is stationed with the Second Unltel States Artillery. The tile Is about ten Inches square and of Florentine or Spanish style. Tiles were used in ancient times for many purposes, one of which was the employment for which we use paper, and is spoken of In the Bible. They were also used for roofing and for embellishing the Interior of temples, palaces and the Roman natatoriums were also richly decorated In tile. It is not improbable that when the tiles were used for roofing purposes they were also richly colored and ornamented. It Is said that the glazing in fixed colors came partially from the Arabians in Spain, who derived It from India and primarily from China, Glazed decorative tiles were much used in mediaeval times for paving sacred edifices, and there are specimens of great age In northern France. Stone supplied all the wants of the Normans up to the twelfth century, when new ideas appeared and tiles of red earth of various forms were substituted for stone. Their surfaces were covered with a thin layer of white clay, in which were rich patterns of a darker earth, or vice versa. The tiles were arranged In patterns of graceful chequer work; borders of trefoils, rosettes and scrolls of notched leaves and sections of divided circles were ornamented with stars of heraldic suns; armed warriors mounted upon richly adorned horses and heads, busts, lions, eagles and manj' other designs common at the times, animated the pavements. Most of the ornamental combinations resembled designs we are accustomed to see in the woven fabrics of the East. It 13 thought the greater part of the knowledge of the employment and manufacture of glazed tiles was imparted to England by the Normans. However, the Normans cannot claim the credit of having originated glazed tiles, as this, like many other decorative arts, was taken from the East. Most of the early Norman glazed tile correspond with features of the Byzantine architecture. It has been said that the art of painting in enameled colors, which afterward became glazed or fixed to a clay body, originated about the ninth century, with the Arabians In Spain, but it has been disproved by the glazed bricks of Babylon, the enameled tile from the ruined city of the desert and the colored glazed coffins of the Assyrians. These glazed or "enameled coffins were used throughout Chaldea, and It Is said they were models of great beauty. The coffin resembled a slipper, and the bodies were placed in the coffin through an opening near the head, which was afterward sealed and cemented down. The glazed tiles for decorative purposes are usually of four classes, namely, art tile, enameled tiles, embossed majolica tiles and encaustic tiles. The first-named are usually hand-painted, and employed largely for decorating grate cheeks, pilasters and cabinet work; the enamel tiles are also employed for the above purpose as well as for wall linings, string courses and other purposes of architectural decoration, and embossed majolica tiles are also employed for the same purposes. Encaustic, plain and mosaic tiles. are used for pavements. Encaustic glazed tiles of extra thickness are used for hearths and self-colored glazed tiles of white, celadon, turquoise, olive and buff color In . squares of geometrical lorm are employed for wall lining. Encaustic tiles of the middle ages were produced by a method wholly distinct from that now employed. In the process adopted and employed In northern Europe, the thin squares of clay, having been molded and allowed to dry gradually until the requisite firmness, a design In relief was Impressed on them, leaving the ornamental pattern in eavetto; into the hollows thus left upon the the face of the tile, clay of another color

was Impressed: the clay usually used In the last operation being white or pipe clay. The tiles were thoroughly dried and then partly burned, after which they were finished by covering with a thin surface of mt la I lie glaze of a slightly yellow color, and in the process of fixing this glaze in the furnace the white clay beneath the glaze was tinged and the red clay received a more full and rich tone of color. The size of these tiles varied from about four inches square to six inches square and tfr the thickness of one inch. In the manufacture of inlaid as well as plain tiles; the dried slip Instead of soft tempered clay Is used. A brass or copper plate, about one-eighth of an inch thick, is used to produce the pattern, a separate one being used for each color, thus If it consists of an ornament In red. white on a blue background, one plate Is perforated so as to enable the red portion of the clay powder to be filled In. Another Is cut in the white portion and a third for the blue ground. When all are filled the tile is subjected to an enormous pressure in a screw press, the glazing sometimes being done in the first firing ana sometimes in a separate operation. Encaustic tiles of one color are also made of dried slip. These tiles are made by subjecting the powdered and colored clay to a great pressure In steel-lined molds, having a raising-plate bottom and an accurately fitting plunger. In this way one and onefourth inches of fine loose rlay is compressed into a little more than one-half solid tile. The art tiles manufactured In this country are utilized for stone decoration, etc.. while others can be arranged In panels, friezes or mantel facings. The success of the American industry. In art tiles has been steady and rapid at the same time, and in less than a year and a half from Its commencement It competed with productions of the most famous potteries in the world. STATE BANKS' PEPORT

COMPILATION OF STATEMENTS OX THE APRIL 15 CALL. Healthy Increase in Business, Showing the Money Is Getting Into Circulation. The reports of the state banks made In response to the call issued April 15 last have been tabulated In the auditor of state's office and show a healthy Increase In business. The call preceding was issued Jan. 12. To the January call ninety-live banks reported, and eince that time one of them has become a national bank, so that but ninety-four banks responded to the last call. Notwithstanding this fact there is an increase in the loans and discounts of $1S5,218.93, showing that the money is getting Into circulation. The amount due from banks and bankers shows an increase and the cash on hand has decreased, indicative of the same thing. Discount, demand and time deposits have increased and there is a marked Increase in the amount of certified checks. The statement shows a healthy increase in business throughout the State so far as the state banks show It. In the following tables the figures for the January call are for ninety-five banks and for April for ninety-four banks: Resources. Jan. 12, April 15. 1899 1SS9. Lns and discounts..$10,K5.14O.87 $11,011,357.80 Overdrafts 15O,O50l77 1W,ou9.86 U. S. bonds 370,3?8.56 S09.U3.05 Other stocks, bonds and mortgages .... 1,012,669.90 1,215,233.58 Due from banks and bankers 3.444.4SS.48 2.606,150.64 Banking house 290.9S5.4S 23. 724.00 Other real estate.... 183.OS3.98 160.960.54 Furniture and fixtmes 174,715.60 171.810.44 Current expenses .... 63.078.91 $1.)9.70 Taxes paid 15,569.85 7,996.47 Premiums and interest .17.333.70 16.867.61 Cash on hand 1.863.6S7.2S L516.05L83 Miscellaneous assets 32,119.32 31,203.87 Totals 518.4S4.2S9.68 $18,550,417.39 Liabilities. Jan. 12, April 15, 1S99. 1899. Capital stock paid In $4,501,500.00 $4,416,500.00 Surplus fund UJ7.1S6.0.- 639.0T.2.9S Undivided profits.... 163,635.71 135,824.24 Discount. exchange and interest 1S7.293.21 230.592. 18 Profit and loss 13.205.82 16.053.02 Dividends unpaid ... 7,424.6$ 6,554.17 Individual d'p'fits on demand 1U31.590.22 11.543.032.63 Individual d'p'sit& on time 1.304.794.64 l,336,la5.49 Certified checks 3.720.50 34.40L25 Cashier's checks outstanding 24,978.23 18.854.42 Due to banks and . . bankers 162,823.10 166,401.66 Notes and bills rediscounted ............. 2,500.00 Bills payable 8.000.00 Miscellaneous llablllties 4.333.52 2.434.73 Totals $1S,454.2S9.6S $18,550,4179 GODFREY BAND CONCERTS. One ThU Afternoon and One To-Xisht, Doth Popular. Lieut. Dan Godfrey's famous English Band will give two concerts at Tomlinson Hall to-day, one this afternoon and one this evening. Both programmes will be popular ones. A number of the members of this band have been with their leader manyyears and several have won medals for distinguished services on the field of battle, E. H. Manners, one of the players, has been with Godfrey twenty-seven years. Godfrey brought a band to this country in 1872 to play at the Boston peace Jubilee. His present tour has been to large audiences. Blachford Kavanagh to De Heard. Blachford Kavanagh, whose 6weet boyish voice was heard here some years ago, will ting again In concert at Plymouth Church to-morrow night with tho "Roney's Boys" Concert Company. Time has brought Kavanagh a baritone voice of wide range and it is said to possess much of the sweetnett and pathos that made his childish voice so attractive, Mrs. Harriet Dement Packard is the dramatic soprano of the organization. SMfl LLP0X AT CHARLEST0WN Mayor Aaka the Aid of State Doard of Health. The State Board of Health was notified 3esterday of an epidemic of smallpox at Charlestown, Clark3 county, and the mayor wrote asking for the aid of the board in suppressing the disease. Secretary Hurty will go there to-day to look over the situation. The state board feels pleased at the prompt manner in which Dr. Morris, the new health officer at Liberty, has gone about his task of ridding the town of smallpox. Secretary Hurty load a telephone message from him last night stating that the four cases had been quarantined, in addition to a number of people who had been exposed to the disease. The people of the town are falling over one another to be vaccinated and the physicians are being kept busy looking after bared arms. The Federal Building Report. Mr. Taylor, the government supervising architect who looked over the various postoffice sites urged in this city, will leave Chicago for Washington to-day. He will file his report with Secretary of the Treasury Gage. Mr. Gage has gone to Hot Springs. Va., for a rest of two weeks or more. After he returns to Washington advertisements will be made for bids for the site for the new Indianapolis postofflce. When the bids are received Mr. Gage will consider them in conjunction with Mr. Taylor's report. If he sees fit he may appoint a commission to recommend a site, lie Is not bound to accept property at the prices offered by the owners: he may condemn it and have It appraised. Heavy Downpour of Rain. A heavy rain fell on an unsuspecting peoplo last night about the time the churches closed and there were crowds on the streets. Wild dashes for doorways and open stairways were made and the streets were in a few minutes clear except for a few boid wayfarers hustling for home. When the "slack" came there was an outpouring of people from hidden places, all hailing street cars. It was one of the old-time spring rains whose coming has such an important pjace in rail-fence discussions In the coun-

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A COMPARATIVE FALLING OFF AT ALL POINTS REPORTING. The Miscellaneous Shipments for April Work on New ColdStorage Plant. Since the summer packing season set in, March 1, Indianapolis packing houses have killed 14300 hogs, against 15a,000 In the corresponding two months of 1SSS. At the twenty-four points which do summer killing there have been killed 3.3SO.000 hogs against 3,493,000 for the corresponding period last year, as follows: March 1 to May 3 1W. 1ST?. Chicago 1,020.000 1.1!A Kansas City 4.f0 513,f"0 Omaha 342.000 2-2. St. Louis 270.i) I4V"0 Indianapolis 145,0 l.Vi.0 Milwaukee, Wis 62.000 9.',0 Cudahy. Wis. 6.V) XXOtnl Cincinnati I04.OM ll.oX) St. Joseph, Mo 220. C00 $5. wo Ottumwa. Iowa 104.U) Cedar Rapids Iowa 3S.700 72,7ft) Sioux City, Iowa 70,0 56.000 t. Paul. Minn 57,0) ft.oOO Louisville, Ky MM 78.0) Cleveland, Ohio 59.00) 73.000 Wichita. Kan 19.0f0 33.C00 Marshalltown. Iowa 15,T) 24.2 Nebraska City. Neb 3S.0O0 W.0i Bloomlngton. Ill 12,r00 20,Tm) Lincoln. Neb 5.5V) I4.o0 Above and all other 3.3S),000 3,495,000 ST. CLAIR FLATS PLANS. Bldn Relnsr Taken for Contraction of New Apartment House. The new St. Clair apartment house plans are now finished and bids for its construction are being taken. The structure is to occupy a lot 130 by 130 feet square and is eight stories and a basement In height. The cost of the building will approximate $225,000. There are 115 apartments. All are provided with bathrooms end many are provided with kitchens and ranges. There is a large tingle dining room in the basement. Adjoining it there is an amusement or assembly room. On the roof what is to be known as roof garden has been arranged for. For the purpose of detei mining definitely tho character of demand for this kind of property those interested have been taking options on space during the past few weeks. Most of the space has already been sold and the demand has been largely for the smaller apartments, though many of the larger ones have been taken. The apartments range tn size from two to ten rooms. Louis H. Gibson and John G. Thurtle are associated as architects in this enterprise. Shipment for April. April shipments over fifteen Indianapolis railways were reported by the secretary of the Board of Trade as follows: Flour, 2f,625 brls; coin, 700 bu; oats, 11000 bu; barley, 70f bu; bran, CS tons; cement. 4.200 brls; coal, 61 cars; coke. 103 cars; cooperage, 58 cars; corn meal and hominy, 6,762,460 lbs: cotton, 28 bales; cattle 1,006 head; hogs. 22,461 head; horses, 2.042 head: mules, 25 head; sheep, 110 head; eggs, 12.073 cases; fruit. 4l.015 lbs; hair and bristles, 80.000 lbs; hides, 69.300 lbs; ice, 15 cars; iron 330 cars; lard. 5,596 trcs; lime. 9 cars; logs. 2 cars: lumber. Ill cars; machinery. 185 cars; meats, bulk, 7,76$.99o lbs; oil, 6,1?3 brls; pork, 1.416 bris; potatoes, 6.723 bu: poultry, 224,0(0 lbs; provisions, 5,665. 653 lbs; salt. 7,000 brls: shingles. 200 cars, spirits and liquors. 8.648 brls; starch. 4,398.070 lbs; stone. 40 cars; tallow. 381,180 lbs; mis cellaneous, 31.390,924 lbs; merchandise, 196,058,238 lbs. More Room Needed. Knight & Jillson have enlarged considerably their yards, on South Pennsylvania street, by leasing additional ground from the Union Railway Company adjoining their yards on the west, and the railway com. pany has extended the switch to meet the requirements. Knight & Jillson have recently received over sixty carloads of new pipe for gas and water mains. Their sales of pipe last week were the largest in any week in the history of the concern, the advance from week to week in prices of pipe causing a big demand. I The New Cold-Storage Plant. Work on the new Indianapolis cold-storage plant, which is the largest, with one exception, in this country, is progressing rapidly. The building is completed, the several hollers are Ire position and the machinery is fast being placed in position. When complete, it will be in every respect the model coldstorage house of this country, says the superintendent of the work. MnJ. A. L. Varney'i Departure. Major A. L. Varney, who has been commandant of the United States arsenal in this city seven years, will leave for his new post, at San Antonio, Tex., this week. At noon Saturday the Commercial Club gave a luncheon at which sixty-five men bade farewell to the majcr. Senator Fairbanks voiced the farewell of the city. He spoke highly of the officer and said he stood high In the estimation of the authorities at Washington. He was' gratified to say that Major Varney had told him that vhen he retired from the army he intended to return to Indianapolis and spond the remainder of his life here. Major Varney thanked the club In a reply of a very few words. Ladles Dnnlup Sailors. The rough and smooth styles at "Seaton's Hat Store." f 1 CINCINNATI AND RKTIR-$1. Sunday, May- 14. Via C, II. 4b D. Ry. Special fast train, stopping only at Rushvllle, Connersvllle and Hamilton, leaves Union Station 7:15 a. m. Leaves Cincinnati, returning, 6:23 p. m. Insure with German Fire Insurance of Indiana. General offices. 29 South Delaware street. Fire, tornado and explosion. Insure with Indiana Insurance Co.. 143 E. Market street. Fire, Tornado and Explosion. Fire Escapes. Ellis & Helfenberger, 365 South Senate avenue. The New Century" Caligrrnph. The highest point In typewriter quality and equipment." Soft, earj touch; rapid. tronjr and durable. UNITED TYPEWRITER AND SUPPLIES COMPANY. Indianapolis, Ind. Feed your horse JANES'S Dustless Oats. Peaee Piano. Cariln & Lennox. E..Mrket st. Gas engines. Parkhurst Broa. & Co.. 220 Ky. ava. SILVERWARE It Bespeaks the Foundation Of a new home, and carries with it the prophecy of the heirloom. Wc are prepared to show you silverware manufactured by the leadingsilversmiths of the country. JuIiusC.WaU(8gon. Indiana's Leading Jewelers Established IS56. Yo CIGARS o lOo Sold by all Dealers. Ask for It. PATTON BROS., 14 East Washington SL MESSENGER'S 110 East Washington St

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A Local Stock For Sale The Nw Telephone Company, havlrj completed Its magnificent plant and being sbout to begin operation?, offers for sale to its patrons and residents of Indlanapoll only $150,000 of Its Stock The capital stock Is STv.. of which fZftMW.f) is placed with the Union TruM Company under an agreement that it shall net be sold for five years, thus preventing its transfer to any rival or hostile interest. The remaining $i;.0,flno.ft will be old Jn lots of from cne to ten .harcs to subscribers and residents. In order to interest as many of the people as possible and make this a distinctively home enterprise. No more than ten shares milt :be sold to any one person, and none out of the city. Stores Are $100 Each Terms $30 cash for each share subscribed, the balance In seven monthly payments, of $10 each. No Interest required on deferred raymivts. Stock begins bearing dividends from July 1. Six per cent, dividends, paj-able semi-annually in January and July, are guaranteed for five years, the period of the trust agreement, by the Union Trust Company of Indianapolis. Stock is free from taxation, making A Net Six Per Cent. Investment The rate of dividends is not limited to per cent., and may be increased If earning warrant, but ure guaranteed in that amount for five years. For prospectus and subscriptions. address The UnionTrust Company 118 and 122 II. Market St., City. With Dresden Derorntlons. Sugars and Creams. J At cent a pair. Cups and Saucers a a a a a a a a At 25 rents. Pin Trays V At 25 cents. Bon-Bon Boxes UUll UUU IJUAV-O In card shapen Tlnhs, Ilia & monds Spades and Hearts, at 10 cents. Z if American Cut Glass Tumblers a At $ 2.50 per dotes. tf ' I Charles Mayer & Co. 29 & 31 Vest Washington St i Lump and Crushed FOR SALE BY The Indianapolis Gas Co; For tickets call at office Ho. 49 South Pennsylvania St FOR THE DEST Beers, Wines, Champagnes, WHISKIES, GINS and BRANDIES SEND Tt JACMBTZGER& CO. Also, all kinds of MINERAL WATERS. Tl 40T. Columbia Bicycles G-O and Q30 LILLY STALNAKER, 114-116 Eist Wtihlojloo Street DR. SEUlAffS PRIVATE SANITARIUM For the Special Treatment of Epilepsy. Operated successfully for oer six yesrs. riyl clans having cases requiring special care are Invited to con-expend. hpectal department fc-r the treatment of Cancers, Tumor and Chronic LTlcert and all ktndi -f Fkln Dlfeafen. bpcial attention riven to Ulcerated Sore Legs. All communication roxnptl; answered. rre. rv. g. E:r,vxxiv. IXDIAXAPOLtS I.D. No. 1210 Kist Washington Street. -asi a Faft Twin-fccrew vervlce. BoMon to Queen, town and Ivenool. U. S. Mail Steamer keel-, molern. Hailing from FVehburr R. It. dock-. Ikton. as follows: New Entfand. April 5. May 3. 31, Jul 5: Canada. Airll 19, May K. June 14. July 12; Derbyshire. Juna 21. July 19. Auff. K. Reduced rate. Saloon pa-Mge, $ and upwards; econd cabin. U'.iO: third clt. fcS.W. For j-uajre. rlan ani Information. pp!y to tha company's ofllte, JC3 t?tat treet. Dot too. Ma a. JOURNAL Tliey buy it to see what is coin? on in the world, and what is going: on in your store. It will pay you to tell thcra about it. .

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