Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1899 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1899.

Dressmaki

For the accommodation of those who continue to demand the services of our dressmakers it has been decided to keep Mrs. Phelps's dressmaking rooms open until tUc first of August Mrs. Wright's rooms close for the season to-day. Mr. McFarland's tailoring department will accept no more work and will suspend for the summer next Wednesday. L S. AYRES & CO. Sole Agent for Standard Tatterns. Manufacturer of Grilles sad Fret Work. Monday's Bargain Sale Sweeps the Platter! REMNANTS VIn Drapery Mf'rs samples Land Cuttings from ( Upholstery our work rooms. ' Goods. Suitable for covers of all kinds for chairs, cushions, etc232 of them at 23 cts. 321 q them at 47 cts. A11 to go Monday. Albert Gall Carpets, Draperies, Wall Paper, 17 and 10 Went Washington Street. Hardwood Floor laid, finished and reflnlshed. Two Hundred of Hitz'sQuaker Bread Coupons Will secure you choice of one of 15 handsome pictures Each worth 2 and all beautifully framed and ornamental to any parlor , , RURAL FREE DELIVERY HEAD QUA IITE It S FOU "WESTERN DIVISION TO BE IX THIS CITY. Chanced from St. Lou In Special Affents to Meet Here To-Day. This cjty has been designated as the headQuarters of the Western rural free delivery and the offlce trill be In charge of F. M. Dice, of Crawfordavilie. Mr. Dice Is special agent in charge of all the territory west of Buffalo and the headquarters havo been at St. Louis. The work of rural free delivery is thus far largely experimental. A room will bo set aside in the government building, but for the present the office force will consist of ilr. Dice and his stenographer only. To-day the special apen of the Western territory will meet In this city and the work will be mapped out. It Is expected that eight or ten of the special agents will be here. NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH. One to He Ilnllt nt North Indianapolis Other Cnthollo Affairs. Rev. Stephen J. Donohue, assistant priest at St. John's Church, is engaged In raising a fund to build a new Catholic church at North Indianapolis. He will be in charge of building the church. Bishop Joseph II. Itichter, of Grand Rapids, dedicated a church at Louisville, Ky.. yesterday. He stopped in tMs city on Ms way south and was the guest of Rev. Francis II. Gavisk. Rev. Francis Ryves. recently ordained at Mount St. Mary'd Seminary. Cincinnati, is now an assistant priest at St. John's Church. He was born at New Albany and la twenty-six years old. CITY NEWS NOTES. Paul Bonner, a saloonkeeper at 02 South West street, was arrested yesterday and charged with telling or giving away liquor cn Sunday. ' William Page, colored, the waiter at Haynes's restaurant who assaulted Alfred Duvall. was arrested yesterday by IatroImen Lawler and Uarmfuhrer. Earl Steth. a twelve-year-old colored lad, whom It is claimed stole ii.ZO from the Summerville laundry yesterday, was arreated by letectives Wilson and Splan. The lad claims he got but Ji. "SSSSSaBSSSSBSSSSSlSBMBMBBSBSBaiSlMBBSSSBBiiSSBSBBBSMB Studying Interlocking Switches. C. T. McCloud. one of the oldest engineers cn the Chicago & Great "Western Railroad, U at the Occidental Hotel. Twenty years ago ho was a station asent and telegrapher on what is now the Chicago division of the Hig Four road. His headquarters are now at St. Paul. Minn. His ml.eIon to this part of tl country is to secure all the knowledge possible concerning the methods cf operating trains by block signals in this State. His road contemplates equipping its Chicago and S:. Paul divisions witn a complete system of block signals and interlocking switches, and his instructions are to visit all the principal tower and interlocking plants operated by the different railroads in this vicinity and make himself perfectly f:imiiUr with their workings. The ofiicers of th Great Western think that by following this method, instead of consulting with the heads of the signal departments of the different read, a better understanding of the practical working of the system can be ained. mmmm Solid, Safe investment. Six per cent, net guaranteed preferred stock. Talbott Place Company. For further information call on W. 11 Stevenson, lis Last Market itreeu

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Mil. ESSMAXVS MAMTACTIRIXG EXPEIIIE.XCE AT WORKHOUSE. "Winter Indcrtrenr Stock Completed by Prisoners Wants to Slake Shoes. Superintendent William Essmann of the county workhouse Is preparing to ask the County Commissioners to take steps to make the institution self-sustaining. It will involve the purchase of machinery for the manufacture cf shoes and clothing for the inmates of all the county Institutions. When ha entered on his duties last January he says he found that one of the largest items of expense was for shoes and clothing for Inmates. At that time he suggested to the commissioners the manufacture of these articles at the institution, but his request was not acted on as the commissioners felt that as most of tho prisoners were confined for such short terms they could not be profitably employed at any work requiring skill. Since that time Mr. Essmann has introduced his plan in the institution without tho co-operation of the commissioners, to tho extent of putting the women at work making underwear and shirts for the inmates. With hardly any expense he has supplied all their wants and has laid In a full supply of winter underwear, as the result of his first effort. So far as shoes are concerned, he has been unable to do anything without machines. He says the claim of the commissioners that the terms of the prisoners are too short to admit of anything but common labor is not a good one, for many of his charges are in for upwards of two years and It is his experience, moreover, that the general run of shortterm prisoners are almost constantly in the workhouse serving sentences. He has not estimated the cost of putting In the machinery, but thinks that when he reports to the commissioners the progress he has made without any help and outlines what he can reasonably hope to do with a little help, there will be little doubt about getting the money required to put the plan into operation. His plan contemplates the manufacture of all the clothing used by the inmates of not only the workhouse, but also the poorfarra and all other county institutions. EXPERIENCES WITH PRISONERS. Mr. Essraan has some peculiar experiences with prisoners, according to his story. Some of them come in, do as they are told and go out without causing trouble. These prisoners aro regarded kindly, and as much as is consistent with good discipline is done to make their confinement less Irksome. Occasionally, and even more frequently than otherwise, prisoners rebel against restraining authority, and the handling of these inmates requires much tact. Some of the rebellious ones are oldtimers, who ought to know better, inasmuch as they always bring upon themselves the same course of punishment, which, however, has apparently little effect except to temporarily subdue them. The most troublesome people for the average superintendent are those who, when free, live well and indulge themselves to the limit of their pocketbooks. The strict discipline, the coarse clothes and plain fare vex such prisoners. Three such prisoners came to grief a few days ago. They were part of a gang of swindlers which, some time ago, rented. an office in the Stevenson building, from which they sent written orders to wholesale grocers for caddies of tobacco and other goods, using tne names or prominent firms of this city. The goods, when secured, were soid at a reduced price. Three of the gang were given workhouse sentences and all three were disciplined about two weeks ago because they could not bring themselves to accept their condition without resistance. They were put to work in the stoneyard and did well for a few days. Recently one of them was caught talking to other prisoners, and for punishment was compelled to go without his dinner. He went to his cell, along with his friends. All agreed that they would not go to work in the afternoon unless the superintendent gave the man his dinner. When it came time for work the guards were un.ible to get the men out of their cells and reported the facts to Superintendent E?smann, who called the men before him. "We have made up our minds not to work until 1 get my dinner," said the agrieved one. "Now, boys," said the superintendent, "I am going to give you a chance to go back to work without trouble, but let me tell you if I make up my mind that you are going to work you can bet you will work." "Well. responded the spokesman, "I never found a man who could make me do anything I didn't want to do up to this time." "In that case," replied the superintend ent, "this is the time you will find some thing different than usual. Now, I am going to tell you hat you will have to do. Guard," turning to one of the guards in the room, "take these men and put them in the dungeon. Keep them there for a full week. For the first two days give them two meals a day, for the next two days give them one meal a day and for the rest of the time give them nothing, not even water. At exactly this time a week hence bring them to me and I will look into their case further." All of them went out doggedly. For the first two days little was said to indicate that the men had been conquered by this confinement in the dark room, without beds or pillows to sleep on. During the fourth day they gave In and asked to be released, but the guards paid no attention to them. At the end of the week the three men were led out. They were taken before the superintendent, blinking their eyes in the sunlight they had not seen for a week. "Well, boys, are you ready to go back to work." asked the superintendent. "Oh, yes. sir." replied the spokesman who had been so impudent a week before. "We were ready to go to work before we had been in there a day." Since then the men have given the officers no trouble. N OT THE SAME PRUITT, A Deserted Wife's Inquiry of the Chicago Coroner. The wife and the father of William F. Fruitt, who disappeared eleven weeks ago, deserting his wife and his five-year-old son, have made inquiry of the coroner of Cook county, Illinois, at Chicago, as to whether a man named Prultt who killed himself at the Palmer House not long ago was the Indianapolis Prultt. The coroner has replied that the man who committed suicide was William Q. Prultt, an inventor, forty years old and a native of Kentucky. This information has satisfied William F. Pruitt's family that he is not the man who killed himself, because he Is but twenty-nine years old, is a plasterer by trade and was born in this city. Mrs. Prultt lives with her brother, Charles Russell, of ll35 Alvord street. Six years ago she was married to William F. Prultt, the son of John lruitt, who lives at Yandes and Nineteenth streets. Prultt worked at hU trade for a time, but for the mo5t part he made his living as a shoe cleric There was a difference Letween him and his wife and he suddenly left the city. His wife has not heard from him. She is not on good terms with her husband's father, and she is of nplnion that he knowa where her husband is. Last night he denied that he knew where his son was located or had heard from him since he left home. William Q. lrultt wounded a woman named Annie Foster, who had been supposed to be his wife, and then killed himself. The Pruitts here heard of the Chicago suicide and decided to make an investigation. The Hallway Condnctors IMcnlc. The Indianapolis members of the Order of Railway Conductors are preparing an elaborate programme for their outing at the state fair grounds July 13. In addition to races of all kinds there will be dancing to music by the Indianapolis Military Band and speeches by Governor Mount, Mayor Taggart, J. B. Cockrum and E. E. Clark, grand chief of the Order of Railway Conductors. The bicycle races will be held in the morning. For each cf the five events there will be three prizes. The first will be a race for conductors, the next for girls under eighteen, the third for boys under fifteen, the fourth for any one who never won a prize, while the fifth will be a free-for-all. In the afternoon there will be five harness races, under the auspices of the Buine.s Men Driving Club. Entries will be for the 3:0), 2:40. 2:L, 2:20 and free-for-all classes. Three runulng races will be on the programme for one-half and five-eighths mile

in heats, and a one-mile dash open to all. Entries close at noon. July 12. Already there are about a dozen well-known horses entered in the running races, and It is expected that fully twenty-five will start.1 The band concert and speaking will be held at night, by which time it Is expected the delegations will be present from all of the nineteen lodges in the State. A CAST OF HIS FEATURES.

One Taken of Mr. Julian by Sculptor Mahoney. The funeral of the late George W. Julian will be held at 2:30 this afternoon from his late home, in Inington, Rev. Frederic E. Dewhurst, of Plymouth Church, officiating. The burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Sculptor Mahoney made a plaster cast of Mr. Julian's face yesterday. MANY PEOPLE EMPLOYED THE HALF YEAR ENDING Jt.C 30 HAS BEEN A PROSPEROUS PERIOD. Indianapolis Manufacturers and 31 erchunts Highly PleasedRush of Business Everywhere. Careful Inquiry among the manufacturers, merchants and business men generally gives evidence that, taken as a whole, the half year ending June 30 was the most prosperous enjoyed in the history of Indianapolis. The Atlas engine and boiler works has been employing 700 men and is so pressed with orders that no promises are given to complete new work until the fall months. At the Malleable Iron works there are employed between 700 and 800 men and the concern Is so crowded with orders that it will not let a man off for a day unless It Is a real necessity. The Standard Wheel works employs 230 men and they are considerably behind in their orders and are working over time. E. C. Atkins & Co., in the forty-five years the establishment has been in operation have never known a year in which their business wa3 as large. In several departments they are working over time. The Parry Manufacturing Company has over 1,400 men on its pay rolls and will not shut down for the usual vacation this season, being so crowded with orders. The several flouring mills are now and for a month past have been running nearer to their full complement of men and are running full time. The various railroad shops have for several months past been employing more men and running more hours than at any time in the last ten years. The furniture manufacturers are enjoying a boom they have not experienced for several years. The Dean Brothers report their business unprecedentediy large and are employing more men than at any time in their history. Manufacturers of other articles on large and small scales tell the same story of prosperity. South Meridian-street merchants are unanimous in their statement that the first six months of 1&S their business reached its largest volume. A member of one of the dry goods firms says their sales are 30 per cent, in excess of those of the corresponding period ot 1898. A representative of one of the leading millinery firms said on Saturday that their business has been 50 per cent, ahead of any former year and would have been even better if they could have obtained all the goods they needed, manufacturers being so crowded with orders that they could not supply the demands. TWe wholesale grocers, 'says one of their number, never have done such a business as between Jan. 1 and July L the Indianapolis grocers having entered Into new fields. Leather dealers report their sales unusually large. There has been a great demand for belting so many factories starting up. Dealers in iron and steel products have enjoyed the most prosperous year in their history. The wholesale confectioners report their trade as having been highly satisfactory. On commission row fully one-third more business was done in the first half of the year 1899 than was in the corresponding Keriod for 1893, and the produce men have ad an unusually busy year. The packing houses have given employment tft more man and full time than at any time in years, killing from 3,0n0 to 9,000 hogs a day, and about one-third more cattie . have been slaughtered than in any like period, not only for this market but to be shipped as dressed meats in refrigerator cars to Eastern markets. , The several cereaiine mills have been quite busy but could have done more. Love Brothers have got the improvements for their mill completed for the time being and are giving employment to about S(0 people. The harness manufacturers are having a fine trade, the two establishments giving employment to three hundred or more people. One of the noticeable features is that the smaller manufacturing interests that employ from twenty-five to fifty or perhaps seventy-five men are equally prosperous with the more pretentious establishments. Demand for Machinery. The Nordyke & Marmon Company Is having an unprecedented demand for its machinery, the capacity of Its immense establishment being taxed to the utmost. Some departments have been operated over time, and a largely increased force la employed in all departments. The large new two-story brick millwright shop Is nearly completed, and work has been begun on a new brick building of large dimensions, which will be used for lumber storage and dry kiln. The company recently received an order from the Washburn-Crosby Company, of Minneapolis, for forty lux36-inch double roller mills, which will be used in a new mill of 2,000 barrels daily capacity being built by that company. An order was received last week from Messrs. Heredia & Otero, of Bogota, Colombia, South America, for a complete roller flour-mill equipment of fifty barrels daily capacity. Mr. Otero's son, Daniel Otero, who i3 taking a course in mechanical engineering at Purdue University, is spending his vacation in Indianapolis. He has taken a position In the machine shop of the Nordyke & Marmon Company to further his studies and to gain a knowledge of flourmilling machinery. He has been in this country one year and will remain about three years longer. Another order was closed last week by Nordyke & Marmon for a large rice-milling plant, which will be erected near Crowley, La., by the People's Independent Rice Milling Company. Besides this orders have been received for four other large rice-mill equipments to be shipped to Louisiana. Shipments for Jane. The following statement, as gathered by the secretary of the Board of Trade, shows that the shipments for June over the several roads out of Indianapolis were: Flour, 37.K0 brls; wheat, 9,000 bu; corn, 3,500 bu; oats, 9.CO0 bu; barley, TOO bu; bran, 230 bu; hay 7 cars; cement, 5.300 brls; coal, CO cars; coke, Ci cars; cooperage, 74 cars; corn meal and heminy, C.7S2.370 lbs: cotton, 33 bales; cattle. 1.127 head; hogs, 31,Oi3 head; horses, 1,503 head; mules, 4 head; sheep. 1,3?2 head; eggs, 14.000 cases; fruit, 1.441.300 lbs; hair and bristles, 244.0,0 lbs; hides, 564,200 lbs; ice, 49 cars; Iron 2SC cars; lard, 6.064 trcs: lime, 10 cars; lumber, 1S cars; machinery, 2C8 cars; meats, bulk. 10.597.723 lbs; oil. 4,219 brls; pork, 793 brls: potatoes. 2.543 bu; poultry, 292.000 lbs; provisions. 5,li2,275 lbs; salt, 7.000 brls; spirits and liquors, 15,913 brls; starch, 1.294,200 lbs; stone. 36 cars; tallow,' 315,700 lbs; tobacco, 8.S15 lbs; miscellaneous, 4S.607.SO8 lbs; merchandise, 199,093,455 lbs. THE COURT RECORD. Superior Court. Room 2 Martin M. Hugg, Special Judge. Benjamin F. CHne vs. Clara L. Martin. Motion to strike out Lispenden's record; argument heard; taken under advisement. . Nevr Suits Filed. Ida M. Moore vs. Wesley S. Moore; suit for divorce. Superior Court, Room 1. Annie M. Vance vs. Christopher C. Vance; suit for divorce. Superior Court, Room 2. Frank B. Stewart vs. Clara L. Martin"; complaint fcr specific performance. Superior Court, Room 3. Coming? of ForepauKh.Sells Shows. The opening performance of the combined Forepaugh-Eells shows, In Madison-square Garden, New York, was most highly spoken of by the New York rapers. The most novel and startling exhibition was that by Woodward's trained seals. These extraordinary animals play band Instruments, fire pistols and give an exhibtlon of Jugglery which a man would find difficult to do. The show will be here soon. Illness of Senator Early. State Senator Jacob D. Early, of Terre Haute, 13 at the Deaconess Hospital, In this city, seriously, but not alarmingly, ill. Mr. Early, who has been suffering from recurrent severe bilious attacks for some

time, came over to attend the meeting of the State Bar Association on Thursday. Thursday night he suffered another of the bilious attacks, which left him in an exhausted condition, and by Friday produced temporary impairment of motion on the left side of his body. Dr. F. W. Hays, who is attending him, believes that Senator Early will recover the use of his limbs In a short time, but has advised against any attempt to remove him to his home for the present. IRON MOLDERS' UNION.

Its National Convention to Breln This SIornlnR-. The Iron Holders Union of North America will open what is nominally Its biennial convention at the Masonic Hall this morning, by which time it Is expected that 350 delegates will be in attendance. It was expected that most of them would have been in the city last night, but, owing to two railroad wrecks, one near Baltimore, Md., and the Mher west of Omaha, the trains carrying the delegates from the East ard the West were delayed several hours. President Martin Fox, with Vice Presidents Joseph F. Valentine, M. J. Kehoe and J. E. Roach, arrived from Cincinnati last night, and went to the Grand Hotel along with about fifty delegates from the middle West. Although the constitution of the union provides for the holding of biennial conventions, it has been five years since the last one was held, at Chicago. There Has been nothing before the union to make the holding of a convention necessary up to this time and according to President Fox there would not be at this time were it not that the good of the organization demands that a better understanding be had of the ftnances and the general condition of the union than can be obtained by the publication of reports in the official journal. Thero are. so far as is known, no matters of public importance to come before the convention and it i3 not expected that the sessions will continue long after the routine business shall have been disposed or. So far as is known there are no candidates to oppose the re-election of the present officers. The membership of the organization is given as 34.3S9.. OBJECTS TO STEPCHILDREN. Dora Marsh Tried Suicide Because They Visited Her. Dora Marsh, aged thirty-four, living In the rear of 1319 Lee street, West Indianapolis, made an unsuccessful attempt yesterday afternoon to end her life because she objected to her husband's children by a former wife frequenting her home. She had said that if the youngsters were again brought to the house she would kill herself, and yesterday when one of th' m did appear, she immediately tried to make good her promise, but the efforts of Dr. Griffith, of tho City Dispensary, were bo effective that she failed. She. drank an ounce of chloroform and was eo determined to die that the doctor was obliged to use force In administering restoratives. Evn Pnlne's Attempt. The Dispensary ambulance last night brought in Eva Talne, who about 9 o'clock was found on the back stairs of the house at 1122 West Washington street suffering from morphine taken with suicidal intent. She was revived. Despondency is said to have been the cause of her attempt at self destruction. VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENTS. Those for the Thirty-First Regiment Will Bcffln To-Day. The volunteer recruiting for Indiana for the Thirty-first United States Volunteer Infantry will commence at Indianapolis this morning. Men enlisted will be at once forwarded to Fort Thomas, Ky., where the regiment will assemble for a short course of training before being forwarded to Manila. All enlistments will be as privates, the regimental and company noncommissioned officers to be selected by Colonel Pettlt, commanding, after their arrival at the rendezvous. Lieutenant Rowell, recruiting officer here, will vtelt towns in Indiana where a number of men desire to enlist, and recruiting sergeants will be sent in advance to give information as to the requirements, which are the same as for the regular array, except citizenship and education is not required. The term of service is until June SO. 190L PERSONAL. AND SOCIETY. Mrs. Frank M. Milllkan has gone to Mount Clemens, Mich., for the summer. Mrs. S. A. Morgan and son Harry, of River avenue, are visiting relatives at Elizabethtown, Ind. Mrs. Dora Pierson Longsdorf, df Boston, Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Schmidt, in Morton Place. Mr. L. N. Watts and Miss Watts have gone to Chicago to visit Mr. and Mra George C. Watts. Mr. and Mr9. Henry Brandon are out of town for a short Journey, and on their return will visit Dr. and Mrs. I. H. Jameson. Mra Mary Snowden. of Alexandria, Ind., will come Wednesday to visit her daughters, Mrs. S. A. Morgan and Mrs. Nettle Sater, on River avenue. Mr. George C. Pearson, accompanied by his two sons, John and Albert, and Charles Scott, left this morning for a tour among the Georgian bay islands. They will spend a week at Kagawong lake, famous for bass fishing. Mr. and Mrs. James I. Diasette and family will go to Charlevoix, Mich., about the lbth inst., to remain until Oct. 1. Mrs. Diskette's sister, Mrs. Ida W. Peters, of Minneapolis, who has been visiting them here, will accompany them. Upon their return they will occupy their new home, No. 1210 Park avenue. The Commerclnl Traveler and Trusty. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: There has been carved in marble the fabled story of a strong man wound about by a mighty serpent; he Is struggling with all his might to free himself from the folds of the snake that 1& slowly" crushing the life out of him. The American people are waking up to the fact that there 13 being wound about them the powerful forces of capital that will sooner or later crush out competition. Trusts are not the offspring of any political party; they are the children of greed. Great fortunes have been made and men are going crazy all over the country to centralize capital and make greater fortunes. If trusts are lawful and legitimate, and no legislation can hold them in check, the day is not distant when they will establish depots of their own from which they will distribute goods to the consumer and dispense with all Jobbers and commercial men. It is said by all political parties that there does not seem to be any remedy for these evils; certainly there can be none as long as corporations are able to employ the best legal talent In the country to frame laws that will be so ' leaky" as to allow trusts to be formed. Is it not a truth that legislation is more favorable to corporations than it is to the masses? Why cannot laws be framed that look to the interest of the public good instead of the private corporation? People say you cannot reach this thing by la.v, &a you at once deprive men of their private righta 'All laws are made to deprive someone of what they think are their private rights, but which, in fact, are great wrongs to the general public. If, then, corporations are formed for cutting off competition in business, are they rot doing a great wrong to those who desire to comptte in trade and to the consumer who wants an open market to buy in? I do not know a thing about political economy, but I know men have certain inalienable rights, and that just laws can be made to protect them in their rights. The commercial traveler knows the ground he is standing on is slippery, and that he, too, like all the other small fry, must get out of the way to feed the hungry maw of this monster that wants all the pie and is not human enough to give some of it to its fellow-man. But the commercial traveler has got his "weather eye" out; he is looking hard into the future, and he is sharpening his sword for the fight. He has an army of friends. Every hotel, every liveryman, most of the merchants themselves, the railroads and that Innumerable host of . acquaintances that he knows up and down the length of the land will be "drummed" as they never were "drummed" In all their lives before if the traveling man has to walk the plank. The traveling man is not solng" to quietly be sucked into tho maw of the octopus. He is somewhat of an octopus himself, and he will make things mighty lively next campaign. He is a believer In the brotherhood of man and that a fair division of honest business is due to him that can, by small capital and honest Industry, get a place In this world. The 3W.0O traveling men in this country will be a mighty force in coming campaigns, and the party that reckons without them will get a black eye. REX. Indianapolis. July &

A DECREASE IN TONNAGE

FREIGHT TRAFFIC WITH LOCAL LINES FELL OFF LAST WEEK. The Xevr Automatic Couplers Arc Causlnar Trouble, and It Is Possible They 3Iay Be Abandoned. The train rcords show that In the week ending July S there were received and forwarded at Indianapolis 28,620 cars, 21,163 being loaded, 932 fewer than were handled at this point in the preceding week. The empty car movement was large beyond precedent, the roads preparing to move the new wheat. Going back to former years the exhibit of last week is a very favoroble one, there being 4.373 more loaded cars handled at Indianapolis than in the corresponding week of 1S3S, 7,050 more than in 1S97, 7.23G more than in 1S06, 4,294 more than In 1S95 and 11,841 more than in 1894. These comparisons show that the Indianapolis lines have no room for complaint of the volume of business now being moved. The falling off last week was chiefly with north and soath lines, the eastbound tonnage of grain having Increased, and in all other classes of eastbound freights there was no marked decrease In tonnage. Westbound business continues very satisfactory for midsummer. The new wheat crop has not yet begun to move in sufficient quantities to have a marked effect on traffic, but the numerous calls for cars on Friday and Saturday makes it apparent that the business of the coming week will be heavier. Until last year the handling at Indianapolis of 20,000 loaded cars was characterized as phenomenal, yet last week 21,163 loaded cars were received and forwarded, and It should be borne In mind that cars are carrying at least 25 per cent, more freight per car than two or three years agj. Another thing which cut down business last week was the Fourth of July; on that day no local freights were run by either of the lines. The same remark still applies regarding the character of business now moving; there has in no former year been such a variety. In the course of a week nearly every article In the classification list is billed, either from here or through here to some point, which IS evidence that all lines of business are prosperous. Below is given the car movement for the week ending July 8, and for the corresponding weeks of 1S97 and 1S&S: Name of road. 1S99. 1898. 1S97. Monon 459 3C9 336 I., D. & W 528 47 3PS C, H. & D. Ind'pls div. 701 677 KV3 L. 12. & W. 457 443 379 Perm. I. & V. 1.042 72(5 444 Perm. J., M. & 1 1.044 85 662 Penn. Chicago dlv 843 755 517 Penn. Columbus dlv. .. 2,181 1,704 1,503 Vandalla 1,963 1,928 1.684 P. & E.-East dlv 812 531 532 P. & E. Wes?t dlv. S50 573 . 646 Big Four Chicago div.. 2,285 1,776 1.404 Big Four Cin. div 2,644 2,165 Big Four-St. Louis dlv 2.022 1,853 1,325 Big Four Cleve. dlv.... 2,330 1.941 1.547 Totals 21,163 16,791 14.106 Empty cars 7.457 6,536 4,047 Total car movement.. 28.620 23.327 13,153 Automatic Coupler May Be Abandoned The new automatic coupler Is proving a source of great trouble and difficulty to operating officials of American railways. The Master Car Builders standard automatic coupler is now in use on more than a million freight cars In this country, and after the end of the year will be the only coupler used on cars running in general freight-car Interchange. Some $13,000,000 has been invested in this coupler, and It is now seriously urged by many officials that the whole Master Car Builders type should be abandoned and the rallrways adopt an automatic coupler of some other type. The Engineering News points out that the troubles resulting from the use of the present coupler are chiefly caused by the great variety of types in service and defective design and use of Inferior material in the manufacture. When the Master Car Builders' Awoclation adopted the present Master Car Builders type of coupler in 1SS7 as the standard of the association it defined the form of the engaging hooks, but left manufacturers to vary the other parts of the coupler as much as they chose. To this action many of the present troubles are largely due. Nearly a hundred different forms of Master Car Builders' couplers are on tho market to-day, and with this increase in design competition has become very keen, and In many cases quality has been sacrificed to price. The difficulties arising out of the multiplicity of designs has been seen In the specific case of knuckle breakage. At present knuckles break more frequently than any other part of the coupler. The craze for variations has been carried so far that out of more than 100 knuckles In use only two or three will Interchange with each other from drawbar to drawbar. This means that every railway must carry in stock knuckles to fit every coupler which Is likely to come on its lines in interchange traffic or else have a car delayed on its track until the knuckle can be procured from the maker or the entire coupler can be removed and a new one put In place. What is true of knuckles Is also true of other coupler parts. Belt Road Traffic. In the week ending July 8 there were transfered over the Belt road 18.4S9 cars; Eelt road engines handled at the stockyards 1.357 carloads of live stock, the receipts being the largest of any week since last November, and Belt road engines handled for private Industries on its line 921 loaded cars. Personal, Local and General Motes). " In the month of June the Vandalla handled at Indianapolis 12,268 cars, 9,208 being loaded. S. H. Church, assistant secretary of the Pennsylvania lines west, is spending a few days in New York. Employes of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago will hold a picnic at Rock Point, on Saturday. The Monon lines earned in June $321,116, against $276,715 in June, 1S9S, and against $264,055 In June, 1S&7. The Baltimore & Ohio has adopted the tonnage system of rating locomotives Instead of the unit system. Patrons of the Big Four on Its Springfield and Sandusky division are calling for better passenger train service. The Pennsylvania has Instructed conductors to allow stop-over privileges at Cresson on all first-class tourist tickets. The Baltimore & Ohio has under consideration the use of electricity on a majority of its branch and suburban lines. The gross earnings of the Denver & Rio Grande for the year ending June 30 were $136,200 over those of the preceding year. The directors of the Big Four have declared a quarterly dividend of 14 per cent, on its preferred stock, payable July 20. The line of the Illinois Central from Chicago to Omaha will be but nine miles longer than that of the Chicago & Northwestern. The four Pennsylvania lines handled at Indianapolis last week 5.112 loaded car. 1.072 more than In the corresponding week of IMS. In the month of June there were handled at the city freight depots of the Pennsylvania lines 37.263.407 pounds of freight, representing 3.S35 cars. The Vandalla last week handled at Indianapolis 1.963 loaded cars, bringing In 1,054 and forwarding tJ9. Of the Inbound business 140 cars carried live stock. The' Big Four proper handled at Indianapolis last week 9,2sl loaded cars, against 7,710 In the corresponding week of 1S08, an Increase this year of 1,541 loaded cars. Steven A. Gardner, general superintendent of the marine district of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, died at Stamford, Conn., yesterday of apoplexy. It is thought that as a result of the conference of officials of the Chicago & Alton with the engineers the grievances the latter complained of will be satisfactorily adJusted. For some years the average operating expenses of the Santa Fe have been 70 per cent, of the gross earnings. President Ripley this year proposes to operate the road on 0) per cent. William F. Howell, who has resigned as general passenger agent of the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western, had been with that road thirty years. His resignation does not take effect until Sept. 1. It is stated that there never was before so great a demand for the best class of master mechanics and superintendents of motive power. At the present time four of the largest railway systems are looking for euo.erintenden.t3 of motive power. The sreat

Improvement made in the last few years In the build cf engines requires skilled men to keep-them up to the high standard. The latest In railway equipment Is an aluminium hand car. so light that two men can readily lift it from the rails, and so durable that It will do the work of the ordinary hand car weighing twenty times as much. I The Pennsylvania Company has many thousand tons of coal stored at division points on the Panhandle and the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, which was purchased last spring in anticipation of a strike of miners. It is stated that the Wheeling & Lake Erie, which secured control recently of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railway, will cut down the grades, eliminate many of the curves and lay a heavy rail In place of the" present light one. The Canadian Pacific has completed at Its shops the first of a number of passenger engines It will build. The engines are fifteen feet, high, have seven-foot driving wheels and the locomotive weighs eighty tons. It is expected to haul six cars at a speed of eighty-five miles an hour. Receiver Felton, of the Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking, has Issued over one million dollars of receiver's certificates to improve the property, and the bondholders, who are displeased over the matter, say the road will not sell for enough to satisfy tho holders of the certificates. For the year ending June 30 the Illinois Central earnings above fixed charges were $4,438,655, or 8.45 per cent. The company paid but 5 per cent, dividend for 189$ and the officials of the road say the results of the operations of the road for the year Just closed will be as favorable as for the previous year. R. D. Fowler, superintendent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, main line division, will, on next Saturday it is stated, take the superintendency of the St. Louis & St. Elmo division of the company and also Jhe new line which the road Is building between Marlon and Thebes. J. C. Mulr. chief train dispatcher for the company, will succeed Mr. Fowler. The reorganized Baltimore & Ohio will have enough money to put the West Virginia & Pittsburg In first-class shape, and a through service between Cleveland and the South, via Pittsburg, will be established soon. After the missing link has been supElled, Cleveland and. Pittsburg passengers ound for Richmond, Raleigh, Atlanta and Jacksonville will not have to travel 3J0 miles west and 350 east before they start southward. On the eastern division of the Wabash lines a new wage scale has been adopted, the advance coming voluntarily and covering their lines In Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Under the new schedule passenger conductors whose runs are from 3,000 to 4,000 miles a month will receive $90 per month, 4,000 to 5,000 miles $100 per month, 5.000 to 6.0U0 $105 per month. 6,000 to 6.500 $110 per month, over 6.5O0 $115 per month. Baggagemen will receive 55 per cer&. and brakeraen 50 per cent, of the conductors pay. Passenger engineers are given $3.33 per hundred miles run, with additional recompense for over time. Firemen on passenger trains are given $1.90 per hundred miles run. , About a year and a half ago the Lake Shore required Its engineers and firemen to don a uniform, and it was said at that time that another order for the freight conductors and brakemen to uniform would soon be issued. The second order never came, and on Saturday came an order canceling the first, so the englnemen will hereafter be at liberty to wear what they please while on duty. It is said the management canceled the order voluntarily, without action on the part of the englnemen, because experience taught that the regulation was a useless one, the uniforms soon becoming no more sightly than ordinary garb. The englnemen are much pleased over the abolition of the order. There was much surprise that there was no representative of the Pennsylvania lines in attendance at the eleventh annual convention of the Association of American Car Accountants, held in Montreal last week. The matter is explained by a letter to the secretary of the organization. The letter stated that the Pennsylvania does not feel Justified in sending delegates to the meetings until a number of constitutional changes have been made by the association. One thing suggested was that auditors were hardly In a position to deal with many of the matters that come before the association and that precautionary measures to safeguard the interests of the big systems were necessary. The letter also suggested that voting should be on the basis of one vote for each one thousand miles of railway. The convention appointed a committee to confer with the Pennsylvania people regarding these matters and it is likely that the suggestions offered by the men of the big corporation will be incorporated in &n altered constitution. He Had. Chicago Tribune. "Anyhow, I've done one thing you never did. I've fired on a switch engine." "So have 1 one I went to school to for six years in Missouri when I was a boy. Pinked him, too." A Hope. Detroit Tribune. We trust, that the Sampson-Schley controversy Is not to be added to the permanent horrors of our Fourth of July celebrations.

BIG FOUR ROUTE. The Official Route to the International Convention, B. Y. P. At Richmond, Va., July 13 to 10. f 17.30-For the Round Trip f 17.30 From Indianapolis, and corresponding rates from all points in Indiana. Tickets will be sold llth, 12th and 13th. good to return till July 31, with privilege of extension till Aug. 15 by payment of 50 cents and deposit with Joint agent. The official train, in charge of L. A. Clark, superintendent of transportation, will leave Indianapolis at 6:20 p. m., Tuesday. July 11, stopping at White Sulphur Springs for breakfast, dinner en route, and reaching Richmond at 3:30 the next afternoon. Sleeping car rate $4 per double berth from Indianapolis, $3 from Cincinnati. For tickets and full information call on any Big Four agent or address L A. Clark, railway secretary, Crwvfordsvllle, or H. M. Bronson, A. O. P. A., No. 1 East Washington street, Indianapolis. BIG FOUR ROUTE. fl.OO Cincinnati and Return 1.00. Sunday, July lO 'H Special train leaves Indianapolis 7:30 a. m., making no stops In either direction, and, returning, leaves Cincinnati 7 p. m.. H. M. BRONSON. A. G. P. A. Lake Maiinksckee, 91.00 Round Trip fl.OO. Sunday, July 1G. Special Train Via Pennsylvania lines leaves Indianapolis 7:30 a. m. Returning will leave Lake Maxinkuckee 6:30 p. m. INDIANAPOLIS TRANSFER COMPANY.

(Trunks, 23c.) Telephone 440, New and Old Company! We call for your baggage promptly day or night, and don't keep you waiting. Two men on all wagons, at no additional cost, to carry your trunks up and downstairs. This protects your carpets, walls, hardwood floors, etc. Our carriage service is the finest and you get them when you call. Hot Enough for Yout "Michigan, the cool and breezy, but a single night away,- . Take the 7:10 through sleeper by the Pennsylvania.' . . , A r Low-rate tourist tickets on Bale to Mackinac. Petoskey, Bay View and all lake resorts. Through sleepers to Mackinac and Detroit leave Indianapolis daily at 7:10 p. m? W. W. RICHARDSON. D. P. ABIG FOUR ROUTE. f 1.50 Louisville and Return 81. CO. Sunday, July 10. Special train leaves Indianapolis 7 a. m., returning, leaves Louisville 7 p. m. re fc H. M. BRONSON, A. O. P. A. Increaslnir Its Capital. The Vernon Insurance and Trust Company offers another $100,000 of their capital tork at par. Address M. V. McGilliard. Fcretary, 147 East Market street, or M. B. Wilson, treasurer, at Capital National Bank. Regular semi-annual dividends are paid by this established company. The Frank Bird Transfer Company. Carriages, broughams, cabs and victorias. Finest equipment, best service in the city. Baggage railroad check from residence to destination. Stables. 319-321 East New York street. Telephone, old or New Company, 531. Knox Ladles Sailors, Cnt Prices. Chance of a lifetime. Dalton Hat Co., Bates House. Insure with Getman Fire Insurant of Indiana. General offices. 29 South Delaware street. Fire, tornado and explosion. Tnsuro with Indiana Insurance Co.. 143 E. Market street. Fire, Tornado and Explosion. Auction Sale of Jewelry, Watches. Clockt, Jewelry a4 Cut GUss. Alo fixtures n4 tsff. Auction. 2:30 sni 7:10 until all old. Sests for ladles. F. C M1IDH4RLS, 111 N. reanarivania street.

FIFTY MILLION COFFEE T)RlKEItS IX AMERICA.

'Why the Famous Firm of Arhuckle Bros. Control the Bulk of the Coffee Trade. It Is estimated that thr are fifty million eoffi drtnkr In America. W have Inns ine ja!.t the mark of belns the larjnt coffee ronumers in the world. n-thlrd cf the entire con grown belnr ued In America. Thin jirciortlon has been teadlly jrrotvir.r tince when the total amount of eoffe imrorted was only 7.0V ton. From Prazil, Peru. Java and Sumatra, rejrlon, India. Africa, th l'hllirplnei and the Inland of the tropical eaa bas. lalea and barrela poor Into New York city every year by the hundreds cf thousand?. From New York they are Jitr'.buted to all part of the country. Dut the greater portion of th coffee Imported is retained In New York by the famou Arm cf Arbuckle 13ro. the largest coffee dealers In ths world. They buy nore than all other dealer combined, and the name Arbuckle haa becom synonymous for Immense dealings In the favorite breakfast bevrrage. This ha tiven them preat prestige among coffee, growers In every part cf the world; and as larje buy tne slway make for jrood buying, it 1 not BurprUlns that Arbuckles has become famous a the standard of coffee value, a standard no other house has been able to reach. Millions of homes In every eeetlon cf the country to-day us-e nothing but Arbuckles' core. Ths test of experience has taught the careful housewire that her faith not only means money saved, but that she Is supplying, the best coffe that money can procure for the coffee drinkers ot her household. One Immense advantage . poessed by Arbuckle Bros, is that cf being able to deliver th coffee berry to the consumer with all Its delightful "aroma and flavor Intact. Thia they do by a process, the patents of which they exclusively hold, covering the many little pcrea of the berry, thereby holding In Its goodness. The Ingredient; used In th process are entirely wholesome and nothing deleterious is used to mar th delicacy of flavor or taste. Part of th success cf Arbuckles coffee) has been due to the generous and unique system used to popularize It. In each package of th coffee there Is a li?t of article. With each package in which the list Is found th purchaser buys a definite part of some article to be selected by him or her from th list, subject only to the condition that the signature on ths package is to b cut out and returned to Arbuckl Bros. Everybody should see this list. "Xevr Century" Callsrraph I even stronger than previous model of ths Callgraph. Incomparable light touch. Nols reduced to minimum. United Typewriter and Sup1I s Company, Indianapolis. Ind. Anctton Sale of Jewelry I am selling my entire etock out. Am goinj Into another business and will sell everything. Seats fcr ladles. No. 116 N. Pcnasjlv&nla. F. C. JJEDEARIS. Marcy'a place to buy watches, jewelry, diamonds and silverware. Lowest prices. Feed your hors JANES 8 Dustltss Oats. July Jewels The glowing ruby shall adorn. Those who in July are born; Then they'll be exempt and fre From love's doubts anxiety. SO, if you would have the course of true love run smooth, secure a ruby for a mascot; or, rather, secure it for your "best girl," and let her keep it as a mascot. Rubies and mascots at. . . JuIiasCWallCSSoa Indiana's Leading Jewelers. CRACKERS! On July 4 the firecracker fizz-2-2-2, bang, boom ! Thank heaven ! only one day for the firecracker every day for the Taggart Butter Cracker Every good housekeeper prefers it to all other crackers. Every good grocer acknowledges the every-day honesty and service of this crisp, light and delightful cracker. Ask for the Taggart Butter insist on having it. The ParrottTaggart Bakery We are selling lots of it, because we guarantee it. If it is not GOOD, we make it GOOD. Lawn Sprinklers and Fittings Hose Menders. LILLY Sb STALNAKER, 114 and HO 11. Wanhlnfrtoa St. FOR TUB BISCT Beers, Wines, Champagnes, WHISKIES, GINS and BRANDIES. SEND TO JAC. MBTZGER 3 CO. Also, all kinds of MINERAL. WATERS. Tel 407. MESSENGER'S 110 East Washington St, Yo CIGARS o lOo Sold by all Dealers. Ask for It. PATTON BEOS., II East Washington St. EDUCATIONAL. Girl's Classical School Eighteenth Year. Opens Sept 26, IS 99. pr prs for ALL. COLLEGES aflmlttlcj woman. EIGHTEEN lrstructors. iclal courses. Music Art. 1'hTslcal Laboratory. GYMNASIUM. KINDERGARTEN. DEPARTMENT Cf HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE to cin in &ptemtr. liaoi some accommodations for boarding pupils. THEODORE L. BE WALL Founder. Bend for Catalcgu. C33 North Pennsylvania sL Indians: Is. Ind. MAY WRIGHT EE WALL PrlnrlpaL WesternMilitary Academy UPPER ALTON ILL To those-t nff a safe, select and thororsrh school fur bojrs tUs Itistitntioo, will be clad in prevent th adranUft whica It Las acquire! dux lag a twe&ty fear' socceeful experience. A. M. JACKtOX, A. M. ftt. DOMINION LINK. Fast Twin-screw service. Lost on to Queenstown and Liverpool. V. 8. Mall F tea triers Bilge keels, modern. Paillnj from Fltchburf R. R. docks, Dofcton. as fellows: New England. July 5, Aug. i. Aug. 50, Htfi. ??; Canada. July 12. Aug. 5. tfept. 6, Oct. II: Derbyshire. July II, Aug. It. it. 13. Reduced rates. Balown pa, sage, JC0 and upwards; second ratio, 137.10; third class, tll.10. Fcr passage pla&s and Information, aiply to the company's eCice. 133 "tste sTreet. Horten, MM.

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