Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1902 — Page 7

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( HAPTER XIII. EARLY RISING AND RAVENS. In ten days after th baptising the central committee met at the county seat in a lawyer's offlce. and Shacklett was flMff with some of the other candidates on his ticket. The reports made by each committeeman were very satisfactory from a partisan standpoint until Blue Ridge township was reached. The committeeman from there was a shrewd farmer with touches of gray In his bushy beard and a strong face with soft eyes that sparkled occasionally to Indicate the reserve hrewdnes hid behind the rough exterior and soft voice. His tones were more forceful than usual as he began to speak, and his face was jrrave but determined. He rose from his seat, while the others had talked informally from their chairs, and every eye was fixed Uion him in expectancy as he began by saying: "I'm sorry that all the candida'ea ain't here, for I d like to talk before all of 'em. If we're goln' to redeem this county an hold on to It we've got to all pull together, win t ae ther, or die together. Up in my township things is mixed in a way I don't like, an I'll give you the siteration first an' won't dntw no conclusions. All's fine enough on the surface, but there's not enough talk about Shacklett for clerk and entirely too much about Thompson for judge. It's awf unquiet, and that's eggsactly what I didn't like, so I went to work at lt. I tell you, my township's goln' heavy for Thompson for Judge and agin our friend Shacklett for clerk, and by about the same number o' votes. I'm sure' Thompson 11 git enough to let him win out in the county easy.' and we're sure to elect him from what the rest o' you say about your own townships; but Shacklett's beat as sure as God made little apples, and It's goin to be done right in my township, an' I can't help it. It don't look right for me, but I'm tellln you right now, an' if you kin find anybody that kin stop the thing I'll only be too glad to step aside an' let him take my place," Gentlemen, I'm worried about this thing on my own account an for the sake ' the party. Tradln off candidates to win out yourself on the part o' anybody on the ticket'U break up the party mighty soon. 1 don't make no charges, but ye see the siteration. an' it looks like tradin' to me. It's entirely among the church up there, too. That's why I can t do nuthin', fer I don't worship there, ye know. The word seems to 'a been passed 'round fer 'em all to vote for their own members, and that's Thompson an' Scott. I hoped Thompson ud be here, so's I could ask 'im jest how much he had to do with it." The members of the committee did not look at Shacklett. but each inspected the floor, the table, or the wall, and when the committeeman from Blue Ridge flnaiiy sat down there was a pause for half a minute, which Shacklett broke, but he was interrupted after the first few words by the chairman, who broke out vehemently: "I look at it this way: If Thompson Is trading oft Shacklett the party is disrupted lor the next ten years. If the whole ticket is beat we are in good shape still for the next time. I'd rather have the whole ticket beat than to have one candidate traded off and the rest all elected. If we pull Thompson off the ticket now it 11 beat the whole Jot, and even that's the best for the party. But there's the others on the ticket, and It don't look Seat right to punish them for the sins of Thompson, either. We want to decide right here what to dot and then do it good and hard." Shacklett now arose in his place In a way that gave him the floor without further Interruption. He began in a tone of unconcern, which stopped any Idea of talk from any one else, and all eyes went to him as he said: "Since I"m the most interested In this thing let me say a word. I think I can throw considerable light on the subject and make it easier for you to decide what to do. In the first place I want to say that Thompson ain't trying to be elected judge by trading me off. He's going to get the church vote up In Blue Ridge, and, for that matter, here In Jackson, and I'm glad of it. I ain't going to get it anywhere, and Scott is, and I'm sorry for that. I can't help it, and Thompson can't help it if he wanted to, which he shouldn't. I had the first chance to get it and declined. Scott took it. I can get It away from him yet; but, gentlemen, I may be an idiot, but I ain't a hypocrite. Jim Stevenson told me how I could get the vote that Scott and Thompson's going to get, and I won't do it. You can put some one else on In my place that'll beat Scott at his own game if you want to, but 1 ain't going to swim into the clerk's offlce through muddy water. I'll take my medicine and keep my manhood and go to the devil, I suppose." All chorused a "No" to his orrer or pulling off the ticket, but from that minute all idea of electing the clerk was given up, and within a week it was told over the county that Shacklett was defeated already and Scott would be elected aa sure as election day should come. When the meeting adjourned Shacklett walked out with the committeeman from Perry township, which was on the other side of the county from Blue Ridge, where Shacklett had been led to the political stake and the virtue of Scott had been properly rewarded in accordance with one reading of the epistle of St. John. They talked for a few minutes at the door of the livery stable, and then each went home thinking. On the road Shacklett met the Methodist minister, who preached on a circuit comprising four charges, the two extreme ones being fifteen mil. - .mart; both men stopped in accordance with the fine courtesy of the country, a remnant of the Southern characteristics of southern Illinois which remains to th?s day. Their talk drifted from crops to signs and omens, from that to fatalism, and finally, direct.-.! now by the minister, to special providence. "Do you believe a man that resists temptation and does right always comes out right on that proposition?'' asked Shacklett. "For Instance, if I need a thousand dollars to pay off the mortgage on my farm and 1 return to the owner of them a roll of bills I find In the road, will my mortgage be paid off some way, or will the Lord let it be foreclosed?'' "Well, m say this without fear of contradiction.-' smiled the minister, "that if a man has force of character enough to hunt up the owner of those bills under such circumstances he's apt to have force of character enough to save his farm by his own exertions. God generally works through character, and I don't see that it's any less In accord with the Bible for him to make a man get up carl and work late than it was for him to send bread by ravens." As soon as he got hom- Shacklett told his mother that the committee was unanimous that he would be defeated by Scott because the Campbellites in Blue Ridge township were aii otng for Scott and Ti reJtfjejs of the two pan She did not gjurthrj than opening her mouth la reJ y bixore something in his eye ana- iuaefand go Into the kitchen without saym-s IrWord. To do her justice

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BT Walter Barr she was wofully disappointed, for It must be remembered that the success or failure of a man sometimes means more to his mother, or his wife, than'to himself. When election day came Shacklett went over Into one of the distant townships, and from there directly to the county seat, where he arrived about midnight. It was nearly 2 o'clock in the morning when the returns began to come in, the central committeeman generally bringing in the unofficial figures himself. Before 3 o'clock all were In but two, and since these were not the largest townships their delay indicated mufh scratching ther . making It a longer task to count the ballots. Blue Ridge was the first of the two to arrive, and showed that 8cott and Thompson had each run ahead of their respective tickets 130 votes, giving Thompson a majority over his opponent of nearly two hundred In the county and putting Scott to the good by forty less. Perry was normally on their side, and could in the nature of things only increase Thompson's lead, while It would not in the course of human events give enough of a majority for Shacklett to overcome the heavy vote with which Scott had come down to its boundary line. Shacklett was quietly standing over by the bookcase In the law office in which the party leaders were gathered. Thompson was back in the shadow, from which It was Impossible to lure him, and by this time a dozen people had saluted him as Judge Thompson. To the first of these he had shaken his head, and to the latter ones he said: "Don't get too fast. I'm not elected yet. and I ain't sure I will be. If I get in it'll be by a scratch." At this the emmitteman from Blue Ridge beckoned tne chairman of the county central committee out into the hall, and said: "That settles it in my mind about Thompson. He's lettin' on as though he ain't confident, jest to run a bluff agin his tradin' Shacklett off In my township. If he had a clear conscience he'd be smilin' an' sendin' out fer the seegars on the quiet by this time. Shacklett ain't sayin' enough to make any prospect of peace fer ten years. His friends'll knife Thompson's friends an' our township till the cows come home, an what'll you say agin it? You want to look out for these quiet people that have the right to be mad." A quick step came up the stairs, and both men entered the room with the committeeman from Perry township. Nobody could epeak, but the looks of inquiry bored into the brain of the last committeeman to report. He looked queerly at the rest as he said clearly: "About ninety for the ticket, Shacklett a hundred and seventy-three, and" in a lower tone "Thompson snowed under by two hundred and twelve." Everybody was paralysed except the men most concerned Shacklett and Thompson. Shacklett quickly walked over in front of Thompson, and said earnestly: ' That looks bad for me. Thompson, but I give you my word of honor I never traded you off for a single vote in the county, and I don't care how the figures in Perry look: I swear I worked as hard for you there as I did for myself." And he searched Thompson's face for a sign that he was believ. i Thompson threw away a cigar stub, and, taking a pace toward the middle of the room which brought him out Into the circle of the lamplight for the first time, held out his hand to Shacklett and replied: "I knew all about it list week. You couldn't help it. It's them damned Methodists down in Perry that done it." Nobody smiled. It was with unusual dig nity and heartiness that all the men in the room congratulated Shacklett. They had the feeling that comes over college students when a substitute on the 'varsity eleven makes a long end run, executes a new trip on the man that gets in his way, and spurts to a touchdown that wins the game, and does it after the timekeepers have called "two minutes to play." There was not the exuberance of students, because every one of the old county politicians there felt that Noel Shacklett was in the senior class, and they but sophomores In the college of practical politics. Noel hurried home to tell his mother. The next day he wrote to Mary Stoddard a humorous account of his campaign, and of how badly frightened he was by a trick of the opposition, which she would hardly understand, but which failed by pure good luck. CHAPTER XIV. PRACTICE AND PROGRESS. After the feeling of something accomplished, which added warmth to his soul, Shacklett found most happiness in the clerk's office from being able to move his mother to town. He traded the farm for a house and lot near the courthouse, and his mother felt that her life was going out Joyfully and In comfort, with her son a county officer and her cares ended. She spoke of his re-election once, and he made an evasie answer. His own plan was to save enough money from his salary to enable him to get a start somewhere else Just where or how he could not exactly make out. but by this time he had the self-confidence that fed on success and mad? most of his later successes. He found chances to add to his salary, and usually found them where nobody else thought of looking. The countv seat had grown steadily, and by this time its schools had become more of a recognized part of the town pride. There were enough pupils to employ several teachers and to give the principal the title of professor, and incidentally enough to mak.' the sale of school books an Item worth the attention of the ever-active publishers. The books were the same ones that Shacklett had marked up in the country schoolhouse when he was sitting in a front seat with his legs dangling toward the floor. Progress had come to the county seat, however, and propres.- manilni, among other things, the installation of a new set of text-books into the schools. Progress In this case had as an agent a nnv principal fresh from normal school, and progress was practical enough to pay her agent well for work done, the checks to be signed by a New York firm of publishers none of whose books were In use. Conservatism, opposing progress, at once sent to the county scat an agent whose salary conservatism paid In checks signed by the Cincinnati Arm of publishers whose books were already in the schools, and were to be kept there by hook or crook and the way was generally more or less crooked. The agent of the Cincinnati firm was resting in Shacklett's offlce after a long and arduous interview with two members of the board ot school directors. Shacklett was thinking of the much larger salary the school book publishers' agent was drawing each month, and had a hazy idea, gradually coming Into form, of looking into that business for himself. He was drawing the agent out on the subject of his work, and the agent was talking' forcibly and freely of its difficulties. He had one of the three directors, but the enemy had the other two and the majority, so that it seemed Im

possible to save the day and the Cincinnati books, he said. "Why don t you concentrate on one of the others?" Shacklett asked. "Can't touch either of them; both are im

movable; can't persuade them that my books are the best with that principal on the other side, and you know I'd run the risk of being shot if I hinted at buying them." "Why don't you buy somebody who can influence them?'' persisted Shacklett. "Can't find a soul who can Influence them except a preacher, who might work one of them." the agent replied quizzically. "Might buy the preacher, eh?" he laughed. "That's it: exclaimed Shacklett. "As safe as robbing that safe when everybody knows there's nothing In it. I could blowthat safe open some night, and if you swore you saw me do it nobody'd believe you." The agent looked up with an expression that said the subject was too serious for joking, and Shacklett kept on very quietly: "Now, how much is there in it for another director for your side, collect on delivery In current funds and no checks?" The agent took his leg off the side arm of the chair and turned straight to face Shacklett. After a glance he replied: "I'm the second man sent here; I'm a forlorn hope, you see. I don't know but the house'll kick, but it's worth something to me to beat the other fellow, especially when the house pays iL I'd give a hundred for another director." "I'll get you one for seven hundred, payable after the vote, and you to let me alone," Shacklett almost drawled in hh desire to seem only slightly interested in the puny efforts of an unskilled hand at a fine art, and to have the agent appreciate that this was what he thought him. "I'll do it," casually replied the agent, "and I'm perfectly willing for you K practice on the director, for the goose is cooked brown already, and you can't make it worse." Shacklett went out that evening to find the preacher at the postoffice. It was the Methodist preacher, he knew, who could persuade one of the directors if anfybody could. Having caught the minister, it would be easy to catch the director. Shacklett knew the minister well. It was the same one who had talked to him about feeding the starving by ravens and by getting them up early In the morning to lift mortgages, that day la the road during the campaign. This minister was one preacher in the county seat that Shacklett knew to be sincerely and devotedly a follower in his actions and thought of his religion and his creed. He lacked worldly wisdom because he was so thoroughly and completely pious himself that he had no conception of many sins that bother other people. He had never thought concretely of bribery because that to him was like some of the crimes mentioned in the Bible and the revised statutes, but practically never practiced. Shacklett walked home with him. carrying a bundle under his arm. "I've got something here I'm taking home," he said, "and I'll go In and show It to you. Here on the porch will do. It's a complete set of books you and I used to handle at school; I suppose you studied them. I got a chtnee to pick them up from a friend for nothing, and they're to me like a drink from the old schoolhouse well. And I tell you these new-fangled books aren't in it with them yet. Now, look here at this old question: 'When I first met Mr. A I was one-third as old as he, and twelve years after I was one-half as old as he; how old was I when I first met Mr. A?' These new books are easy compared with arithmetic like that. And here's Pinero's old grammar, with its " It was half an hour later that Shacklett was saying: "I'm glad you think about it as I do; I think we ought to do something to keep these books in the school. Those New York fellows are trying to put theirs in, of course, and the directors want to do what's right, but they're not posted, of course. If you're real sure that you think as I do, that these books ought to be let alone in the school where they are, I believe we can accomplish it. I didn't want to mention anything about that, of course, for I've a deep feeling on it. and thought maybe Im prejudiced; but I was thinking to-day that I wished you could conscientiously accept an offer that was made to me. I declined it because I knew I couldn't do any good. "It's this way. The publishers of these books want to hire some subagent here to keep them in. They offered me $3 a day and expenses for one. Now, if you're sure you think the old books are really the best I can get them to make you an agent something like being agent for the Central Christian Advocate, you know at 33 a day and expenses. They'll want you to talk to one of the directors a little every day about these books, and try to get him to favor keeping them In the school. They won't take chances, and want each agent to work until the very night of the meeting, and that's about ten days off. Now, why can't you take the agency and do what you can for our old Ray's Intellectual and Pinneo and the rest of them, and make what they're willing to pay all their agents?" Fifteen minutes later Shacklett was still doing most of the talking, and was saying to the minister: "I'll tell him. then, you'll do It. and congratulate him on getting you. If he's offering or paying any more salary by that time I'll get It for you. I don't think he will.

AS HUE HAD KKA1. "i'awn'l I have a lock of your dear uuouru hair to wear above my fettftlC "No; it might gtv you heartburn."

though, for $3 a day is pretty steep, even for Cincinnati people, and then the expenses count up. You see, they allow a dollar a day for hotel bill and $2 a day for livery hire, because most of the work Is In the country. The house won't bother their bookkeepers, they say. by leaving that off whenever the work is In town, and so they allow It and let a man eat at his own home hotel and hire his own horse and buggy. But I'll attend to all that for you. You turn in your time to me, and I'll collect the wages for you." The day after the old books were retained in the schools the Cincinnati agent had not finished telling Shacklett his opinion of the work the latter had done, and his curiosity as to how Shacklett had accomplished bagging the preacher, when the minister's little son brought Shacklett a note. It contained a bill for services reading: "Alvis, Thompson & Co. to J. S. Notwood. Dr., "To nine days, at $6 per day $54.00 "Was sick one day and did not get out." Shacklett picked up a pen and a block of letter-heads, and wrote: "Mr. Not wood: "This bill is not correct. The house is very particular. Make it out according to agreement, at $3 per day for yourself, $1 per dav for hotel, and $2 per day for livery.

and say after each of the last two that you furnished yoursell. Yours truly, "N. C. Shacklett." Shacklett gave his answer to the boy and turned to the agent. "There's not quite so honest a man in the county to-day as that preacher. It seems to me that you fellows get crude in your work." To be Continued. "MUTINY" IN THE FLEET REAR ADMIRAL HIGGIXSON ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEK SNIBBED. Captains Declined to Attend the Reception in Honor of the Duchess of Marlborough. CHICAGO. Sept. 1. The Record-Herald's correspondent, on a dispatch boat off Nemesba Bight, wired Sunday night as follows: "There is war in the fleet of HiggtnBon war more real than the makebelieve one which is to betide the hitherto united services at midnight to-day. And woman, lovely woman, harmless woman, is the cause of it all. To begin at the beginning, Captain French E. Chadwick, president of the naval war college, was a visitor to the flagship Kearsarge Saturday afternoon. Shortly after his apearance on board a general signal was made by the flagship "commanding officers report on board flagship." There was an immediate calling away of steam cutters, and one after another of the captains courageous of this fleet of war ships went trooping up the gangway of the flagship and into the cabin ot the admiral. All were In full uniform and with swords clanking at their heels, and all were wondering what new and important plan of strategy the admiral had in mind that made a personal council necessary. "When all the captains had reported and were assembled in the flag officer's quarters of the Kearsarge the admiral arose and announced that the fleet would remain inactive, arrangements having been made to receive the Duchess of Marlborough. To this reception the admiral added, all of the commanding officers of the fleet were cordially invited. There was a moment of embarrassing silence, aud then one captain, who has a reputation for straightforward speech, made vehement and open protest. There was, he explained, no objection to a reception to the duchessthere could be none but the time, he urged, was inopportune. Here was the fleet, he impetuously pointed out. ready to move at an instant's notice. It had been kept in constant, wearing readiness tor this very time, and just at the very moment when it should strike, everything must give way to a social function, which could take place at another time. "All of the other captains took the same view all believed and all said that this was no time for social matters, that if the navy was going to play at war, let it play at it seriously and have no nonsense about it. Their view was that the maneuvers, regarded by them as of incalculable value when earnestly worked out by both sides, would be of no consequence whatever if played out as a summer diversion for society folk-that it would make a farce of the whole proceeding and benefit neither service. The admiral abruptly announced his intention to adhere to this plan of entertainment and the council was soon dissolved, the captains returning to their ships and giving orders looking to the relief of the strain on the engineer forces, which had been keeping the vessels under fires so heavily banked that it was equivalent to actual steamtns under service conditions. "Sunday came and with it the duchess and her party, these arriving by the Astor yacht, the Nourmthal, and that In turn escorted by the torpedo boat Morris. It was shortly after the noon hour when the Nourmahal came to anchor near the flagship, and the first lieutenant went in a steam cutter to bear greetings of welcome. Luneheon was served on board the Nourmahal, and about 2 o'clock the Marlborough party boarded the waiting launches and set out for the flagship. The party included the duchess. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Yanderbilt. Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Miss Alise Blight. Assistant Secretary of War Sanger and Harry Lehr. The yacht flew the flag of the assistant secretary, a pennant which is so rarely seen afloat that there was much wonderment among the navy officers as to what it was. Nor was it known what the banner with the strange device signified until one of the curious wearers of navy

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blue made private wig wag Inquiry from a former Annapolis classmate, whom he had recognized on board the Nourmahal. "The visiting cortege drew alongside the battleship. The band had been assembled on the quarter deck and struck up a tune as the party came on board, the admiral and his stsff receiving the visitors at the gangway. A few minutes later the band started a two-step and the big superposed turrets began to waits, revolving first to one side, then to the other, all for the edification of the guesds. "Meanwhile quartermasters of the flagship were on eager lookout for other visitors the commanding officers who had been invited. But not one of these appeared. After a two hours' stay on board the party came trooping down the gangway again, and as the boats shoved off there rang out on the Sunday air a salute of fifteen guns for a departing assistant secretary of war an explosive farewell which for upward of a quarter of a century has been discountenanced on Sundays by navy regulations." First Visit Since Her Marriage. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, whose entertainment by Rear Admiral Higginson on board his flagShip Sunday rose to the dignity of an Internat onal event, is now on her first visit to this country since her marriage seven years ago. Since leaving the land of her birth she has acquitted herself with high credit as the wearer of a coronet and one of the proudest titles in England, and so has returned to America with a prestige enhanced by her social triumphs abroad. Being a member of the Vanderbilt family, she may be said to exemplify fully the Idea of an Anglo-American alliance. The duchess landed in New York Aug. 19 from the liner Kronprinz Wilhelm, after her coming had been heralded for weeks by the British and American press, and since that time she has been the guest of honor at numberless splendid functions here and at Newport. She came accompanied by her mother, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, and Mr. and Mrs. William K. Van derbilt, Jr.. and her visit was given an international tinge at the outset, two special inspectors being sent down the bay to examine her luggage and that of her party, In order that they might not be delayed after landing. After spending a day at the Waldorf-Astoria she and her mother went to Newport, where the duchess was the central figure at Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish's colonial ball on Aug. 22, where all the members of the diplomatic corps at that fashionable watering place took part in a special minuet. Clawed as one of the greatest beauties of the 400 before her marriage, Consuelo has improved with age and is now more beautiful than ever. She is still slender and charms those with whom she comes in contact by her pimple and unaffected manners. In spite of her association with royalty abroad she seems to have remained unspoiled and to be genuinely American at heart. Her visit Is said to have been Inspired in part by a desire to show her loyalty to her native country. At Newport the Duchess of Marlborough is the guest of her mother at her magnificent summer home. Belcourt. Her presence at Newport recalls the magnificent series of entertainments given in h95 In honor of the duke and his bride-elect at the Marble House and elsewhere. On account of social engagements the duchess will return to England In the latter part of September. After spending two weeks more at Newport she will go to Hampstead. Tariff and the Consumer. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: If there is any one thing that tariff reformers know to an absolute certainty (in their minds), it is that the consumer always pays the duty. They shout in perfect unison, "The tariff is a tax, and the consumer pays It." President Cleveland, when he had only taken one or two short lessons from John G. Carlisle In the mysteries of "tariff reform," was ready to declare. In the most positive terms, that "the precise amount of the duty is always added to the price of the article and the consumer pays it." These tariff reformers also assert, with equal assurance, that the wage-workers In this country derive no benefit whatever from a protective tariff. But this Is only an assertion. Suppose the tariff should, for example, be taken off tin plate. One of two things would necessarily happeneither the wages of the men who make It would be reduced, or the factories would he closed. Then why do these free traders say that the tariff does not benefit the wage-worker? They are always professing great sympathy for the poor laboring man. and at the sim time advocate a pulley that would lower his wages, or put him out of work entirely. 1 have often thought that some genius might, in course of time, invent a perpetual motion. ;r possibly be able to lift himself by his boot-straps, but I have never been able to figure out how a tariff reformer could greatly reduce the price of an article and at the sam- li.-ne increase the wages of the man who made it. But that Is the easiest kind of a proposition for a freetrader! I do not care to discuss the question as to how the duty is paid or who pays it. Let us admit for I moment (which admission is not true that the consumer always pays it. The point I wish to make plain is this: If it be true that the consumer always pays the duty he must have paid It before any trust in this country was formed. If the precise amount of the duty had already been added to the price of the article, and the consumer was paying it, how in the name of reason can a tin-plate trust, or anybody else use the tariff as a lever to hoist the pric of tin plate, or of any other product? And now the free-tr.K1-: Is righ' up against this proposition either he "fibbed' about the consumer always paying Um duty, before the trust was formed, or clre he prevaricates about the trust putting up prices afterward. For. be it" remembered, that the power of the tariff to raise prices uf it ever had any) had already been exhausted. The long end of the lever h i i already t v.ched the ground! The tariff fulcrum must be built higher, or prices must remain suspended wh re they are You cannot shoot the same powder twice, or "eat your cake and have it." Let someone who is skilled in tariff reforming explain which horn of this dilemma he will take. I respectfully suggest that he can t have both horns at on - JOHN B. GLOVER. 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Index. An exteuui ve detailed list of picture and a complete index to names, subjects, etc., is at the close of the volume. Historical. Indianapolis of the past, from the earliest times to the present, Indianapolis at Present. A comprehensive outline description of the whole city area, population, wealth, statistics, etc. Transportation and Transit. Railroads, steam, electric and in-tc-rurb in, express and trausfer companies, etc Thoroughfares and Adornments. Streets, svenues, parks, squires, drives monuments, statues, fountains, etc Overhead and Underfoot. Bridges, tunnels, sewers, water, squeducts, lighting by a,)d electricity, telegraph snd telephones. Life in the lloosier Capital.-Hotels, inns, cafes, restaurants, apartment hou-es. flats homes, clubs, places of amusement lhe Rule of the City. The city, county, fctate and national governments. fficer- and Buildings, courts, etc General Culture. Educational institutions, art museums, scientific, literary, musical and kindred institutions, libraries, etc. Churches and Charity. Cathedrals, churches, synagogues and other places ot religious worship and work, institutions and associations for the poor aud untortanate; home and asylums and temporary relief. The Sanitary Organizations. Board of Health and health statistic, hovpi'.nls. dispensaries; morgue?, curative institutions, insane and ottsef asylfjssj Protection and Correction. Police and fire departments, military ami mi. nil, sa.vigc corps, detectives, prisons and houses of correction. Journal f-xn and Publishing. Newspapers and periodicals, books, n.u'uc and other publishing. Finnncsal, Insurance and Commercial Institutions. Banks, brokers. Clearing House, trust and security companies, safe deposit, insurance companies. Notable Retail Establishments. Interesting and prominent retail concern. Notable Wholesale Establishments Concerns whose transaction involve millions of dollars. Notable Manufacturers. An outline history of some prominent indutries carried on or represented in Ind'anapolis.

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