Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1921 — Page 3

Thousands of ‘Nellies' Vi ho Sink to Vagrants Become Burden to City

By LAfBEI C. THAYER, City Court Probation Officer. My Journal for Tuesday, May 21, 1918 says: “Nellie S 's ease continued indefinitely on condition that she leaves the city immediately for her father’s farm.” I chartered a police auto from the captain on duty, and we started for the Uniqn Station, the two policemen in the front seatJand Nellie and I in the back. We had half an hour s n which to go after her clothing and rileet the trainNellie ciir. -ted the way to the frame rooming house on East Ohio street where she spent the few hours when s'.e was not on the street or at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Stale air from a half-dozen sleeping rooms poured mto the front hall, carpetless and dusty. Two women's faces peered through half opened doors wondering what all the noise was about. OFFICER FINDS BARREN HOME. Nellie's room on the seconff floor was less dusty than the hall, but looked empty and barren in spite of its four pieces of furniture of the cheapest, ancient wooden variety—a bed, small dresser, old-fashioned washstand and straightbacked chair. Two windows, with their shabby, dark green shades, and torn, half curtains, looked out upon a small backyard ornamented solely by a pile of weather-beat-en dry goods boxes. The four walls of the room were absolntel bare. Not even a photograph relieved their wide expanse. This, then, was Nellie's “home.” Every girl has her household god®. You remember it was the photo of Lord Kitchener on the dresser of the east end London working glri, in one of O'Henry's stories, that looked its disapproval when she was about to go to supper with a yonng “rounder.” And she did not go. Nellie's household gods were two enframed group pictures of her soldier friends at the fort. They were on her dresser near the broken black comb and the brush with all the enamel rubbed off. A frightened rlanee st the policemen and probation officer, who stood by while she packed, reassured her that the precious pictures would not be moisted. TENDER!. TGUARDS TWO PICTURES. “I can take these home any way,” she remarked as the pictures were tenderly laid on top of her clothing in a very cheap, aged snlt case. As the girl stepped on the train at the ur.ton station, she took my hand and •aid with a smile. “I'm much obliged to you. Good-by. Be good.” The peculiar admonition has had special force. It is not of Nellie that I am thinking today. She has sunk Into the limbo of the unknown that engulfs most of the young girls that are officially placed on trains for their homes. It Is of her rooming house “homo." I am wondering how much It had to do with her arrest and appearance In police conrt. The bouquet of violets on the stenographer's desk In that cramped, sordid office may explain why she Is not In Nellie's place. There was no hint of violets in Nellie s room: no vase: no picture, no hook, not the slightest trinket; not the least touch of art. Tan yon Imagine a woman vountartlv spending her leisure hours in such a prison ? Prison indeed would It be to a young girl. Need we be surprised at the terrible reaction ? There was in Nellie's heart the youth's love of excitement and the "desire to Jump out of the hum-drum experience of life.” VAGRANT CHARGE MEANS ANYTHING. . It Is strange, then, that she found the Army activities at the fort, with all its military glamor ,its young life, atracttive. Nellie was slated In police court for “vagrancy." which in police parlance, covers a multitude of sins. No attempt is-qjade to excuse Nellie In quoting the folliNving from Jane Addams: we are only trying to explain her. After citing the 15.000 youths who were tried in Chicago for offenses. Miss Addams remarks: “Possibly these 15.000 youths were brought to grief because the adult populataton assumed that the young would be able to grasp only that which Is presented in the form of sensation: as If they believed that youth could thus early become absorbed In a hand-to-mouth ex litence. and so entangle in materialism that there would be no reaction against It. It is as though we were deaf to the appeal of these young creatures, claiming their share of the Joy of life, flinging ont into the dingy city their desires and aspirations after unknown realties, their unutterable longings for companionship and pleasure. Their very demand for excitement Is a protest against the dullness of life, to which we ourselves Instinctively respond." Nellie In her lonely room! Could we fathom her thoughts as she lay wide awake, staring at the bleak, barren, unresponsive walls with their dingy, streaked wall paper during her brief visits to her “apartment,” we might SIOO FINES ON ‘TIGER’ CHARGE Proprietor of Dry Beer Saloon and Companion Had Home Brew in Woods. Sam Koby, proprietor of a dry beer saloon at 427 West Washington street, and Fred Orme, Federal Officers R. 11. Abel, Thomas and Bundy 'on charges of operating a blind tiger, were flned SIOO and costs each by Judge Walter Pritchard In city court yesterday afternoon. Bling tiger charges against Anna Roach, IS2 Bright street, and Ruth Marsh, 211 Douglas street, arrested with Koby and Orme, were dismissed. The quartette was arrested Thursday afternoon In Carters Woods, at West Tenth street and Big F.agle Creek. The officers say they found a sixteen-gallon keg full of home-made beer, fifty-six bottles of beer In a tub on Ice and several empty bottles near the bank of the creek. Koby was bound over to the grand Jury several weeks ago on a charge of receiving stolen goods and his case Is still pending. Orme was hound over to the grand jury on a grand larceny charge along with Willie Carey, notorious police character; Mary Carey, wife of Willie Cary and Joe Ford, another police character a short time ago and their cases are pending also. Deland Gentry, 218 Addison street, arrested soon after the arrest of Orme. Koby, the Marsh and Roach women. In the same woods on a similar charge, was flned S3O and costs. A blind tiger charge against Ray Ostlng. 125 Koehne street, who was with Gentry, was dismissed. The officers said Gentry was driving an automobile In the woods when thev saw some Ilqnor In the car. R. H. Abel. Federal officer, jumped out of the police machine. Jumped onto the running board of Gentry's car and grabbed a quart fruit Jar which contained liquor Abel said Gentry had poured part of the liquor out on the ground when he reached the machine, but was able to save about a fourth of a pint to use as evidence.

I be able to retrace the rugged road from j lonely farm to prison cell; we might learn why some girls prefer to go the “easiest way" rkther than to toil honestly; we might learn whether It was Nellie, or her parents, or society, of which we form a part, that was “delinquent.” PASSES OFT OF CITY LIFE. We do not know what happened after Nellie took the car for home. We do know that she is the type, and the conditions of her life are the kind that make charity societies and reformatory institutions necessary. Somebody neglected Nellie. Had she remained In the city, she would have become a dependent, or at least, a member of that ever-increasing class which is a constant menace and burden to taxpayers. Without money and without friends, and with no overmastering desire to work, Nellie's type is a liability to any community. Given a chance, she might become a good Investment. But who is going to give her another chance? Perhaps the author of that wlde.ivknown book, “Poverty," had similar rases aud conditions In mind when he wrote: “Among the many Inexplicable things In life there is probably nothing m >re out of reason than our disregard for preventive measures and our apparent willingness to provide almshouses, prisons, asylums, hospitals, homes, etc., for the victims of our neglect. Poverty Is a culture-bed for criminals, paupers, vagrants. and for such diseases as inebriety, Insanity and imbecility; and yet we endlessly go on in our unconcern, or in our blindness, heedless of its sources, believing all the time that we are merciful In administering to its unfortunate results.” Os one thing we are certain. These “unfortunate results” are by no means limited in their tragic consequences to the class we call pauper, dependent or degenerate. Society is an organism. Therefore its members are inter related and inter dependent. If there is tuberculosis In the home of your colored washwoman your child may be stricken: a 1 strike In the Colorado mines effects the cost of your next ton of coal; labor conditions in Cuba may limit your sugar supply: oppressive conditions in Europe may bring the embittered immigrant to your door. The problem which Nellie presents Is not so very far removed from the welfare of your own daughter.

Children Prepare for Their Annual Pageant Nature Provides Stage for Daily Rehearsals of Actors.

BY VOI.NEY B. FOWLER. Pictures on the playgrounds: They are preparing for thi annual plryground pageant to be given at Brookslde Park on or about the evening of Aug. 19, and ever since the frolic lots were opened the directors and dancing Instructors have been training the tots who will perform. For two years the pageant has been one of the finest things in municipal life. Every summer it Is about the biggest thing in the lives of the kiddles who take part because they are k-pt practicing afternoon after afternoon for two and a half months before the big night. Five big trees, planted so their trunks form a semi-circle of columns and their foliage a roof through which ttie brightest sun can not pierce, mark the stage where the little girls of Spades Park are being trained for the pageant by Miss Ethel Hughes. A group of small boys, more or less scornful of such graceful movements as the little girls are executing sit under one of the trees as a sort of guard of honor for the portable talking machine which is grinding out dance music. Miss Hughes starts the music, the little girls poise themselves, the right moment comes and they are off, skipping over the velvety grass In stockinged feet, going through the movements of what, when it Is perfectly learned, will represent the “golden age” in the evolution of the dance. The pageant is to be called “The Evolution of the Dance.” AUDIENCES GATHER FOR REHEARSALS. The sun beats down on all ths world around the stage, but the little sprites trip through their wait* as cool as the proverbial cucumber. Many of their mothers have gathered npon front porchon along the terrace overlooking the park to watch There Is an audience almost every afternoon. The music stops and so does the dance. While the dancers drop upon the grass to rest Miss Hughes steps off stage to talk with Miss Alice Mcscall, assistant director of recreation, who has been watching. Miss Hughes (joints out a fair-haired little Miss languidly draped on a park bench. "This is our little solo dancer and we're having a time keeping her from going to sleep this afternoon. She says she has a headache and wants to sleep,” explained Miss Hughes. Temperament at the sge of four. The kittonball diamond used to be located where the graceful little figures now flit. There is a row of new houses Just behind the spot and the recrention department hsd ail kinds of rows because the boys were forever knocking fouls to the danger and sometimes demollshment of the nice new windows. The diamond was moved across the boulevard where there are no houses ■ 1( j the boys now can knock the a mile without damage. Such are the thousand and one problems the city hires a recreation director to solve. KEEN RIVALRY BETWEEN PLAYGROUNDS. Brookslde and Spades parks are cloe together. The children who go to each ar<’ old rivals in everything in which there is a chance for competition. Brookslde has the annual pageant within her borders. Spades likes to go up there on pageant night with her little girls so perfectly trained they carry off flrst prize. That is what Miss Hughes and her youthful students want to do this year. Brookslde says it has something to say about that. There was no practice at Brookslde this Jay. however. No dancing lesson, that is. The boys were playing ball and the girls were thtnk'ng about more strenuous exercise than preparing for the pageant. Some of them were trying to gee how high they could swing. Another group was practicing the Maypole vault, one of the events In the girls' track meet which always Is held at the end of the playground season. The Maypole vault consists of banging on the end of a Maypole rope, taking a big run and leap over a cord held out from the pole. Some little girls have cleared the cord at a height of five or six feet. ft's great sport. Father would break his neck at it. It was 97 In the shade while the Irrepressible youngsters streaked over that cord on the Brookslde Maypole. They don't swing on the pole

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. July lfl—Crowning the hill in the center of the city’s daily life, a great aesthetic center will rise in stately magnitude—Kansas City’s “Liberty Memorial” In tribute to those who served in tlie Worlu War. It will be dominated by a lofty central tower, rising 280 feet from the ground at Its base, symbolic of the “Flame of Inspiration” atop of which from an altar erected high in the skies will rise a pillar of cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night. Harold Van Btiren Magonigle of New York, who conceived the Robert Fulton memorial gate for the North River in' New York and who designed the McKinley memorial in Cincinnati, was the architect whose design submitted in competition with many other prominent architects, has just been selected by the memorial committee. Ills conception of It fitting memorial was chosen as roost expressive in art of the desire of a courageous people to show appreciation for a great service and to emblazon in sky relief a great ideal. The “Liberty Memorial” of Kanins City will cost $2.1)00,000 and will stand as one of America's most magnificent ‘ributes In this most truly American t.f cities, located in the very heart of America, “Get It Done" is the slogan, and with true American “push" it is done. And with the “Liberty Memorial” It was the same way. An Ideal site on a rise of ground facing

| one at a time. Ten or twelve of them ! start and hop over the cord at the rate [ of about one a second, going round and round, up and down, at this rapid speed until someone misses a step or throws a shoe and gets out of breath. Then they nil stop and laugh happily while they rest for all of a second or two. A moment or two ia enough. They have tons of energy to burn. That must be where radium gets Its pep, from the kiddles of America. You have to hunt for the little fairies who put beautiful motion Into the picture at Ellenberger park. The pagennt dancers rehearse on another stage of natural beauty. The trees, and shrubbery screen the spot from Pleasant Run boulevard and the rest of the park. You come upon It suddenly when you step thr. ugh the bushes. It is like walking out of every-day-land Into fairyland. You are surprised when the wood nymphs eye you pleasantly Instead of running away. DANCERS PROVIDE SOMTS REAL STEPS, TOO. The talking machine Is started. Three little tots float forward, do some difficult steps and retire to one side of the scene while the older girls go through the rest of the picture. This Is the mot* difficult of the pageant numbers. Mine Theo. Hewes, who li directing dancing on the playground this* season, Is much Interested In the outcome. So is Edith, the smallest of the girls in the number. Edith is about big enough to tuck under your arm and cart off to the Ice cream cone stand. Thnt s what you feel like doing for her after she entertains you. Dancing isn't the chief part of Edith's mode of entertaining. The dance probably has not been devised which would give Edith full opportunity to express her emotions, unless it he a dance of the eyes. Edtlh almost has olive skin. She must be out of doors a lot. Her snapping eyes are raven black. But Edit*’s not a vamp. Her proud daddy probably calls her a little dickens. At one point In the dance the girls slowly swoon to the ground and lie prone with their faces buried in their arms. That’s the way all of them did except Edith. There was too ranch to be seen. Edith slyly tilted her head and peeped out to see If Miss Sickles, tlic Instructor, and Miss Mescill were looking. Watch for Edith in the pageant. Snpervnsed playground activities arc not all dancing. May pole vaulting and kitten-ball. The enrnest men and women whom the taxpayers pay to help the chil dren have a good time, and at the same time have a part In their development ns useful citizens, spend many hours thinking up special stunts. VARIOUS AMUSEMENTS PLANNED FOR CHILDREN. One of the new ideas being worked out Is the “special day.” Once a week t Is planned to have some event of extraordinary Interest on each playground. Most often it is an old-fashioned picnic. Now and then a director shows a flash of genius and concocts a scheme such as planned at school No. 3)1. A tea party for the little girls. The young ladles are to dress up In "long clothes,” and come over to the playground prepared to spend an afternoon ns dignified as that which many of their mothers enjoy. There will be a sewing bee. some will bring their knitting and of course there will lie tea and wafers. Everything will be very, very proper. There was a “wild west” party for the boys on one playground a few weeks ago. The boys dug up or manufactured chaps, got hold of sombreros of varying degrees of correctness and created a neighborhood-wide shortage of bandana handkerchiefs. The entertainment consisted of “Middle West” versions of “wild west” sports in which ropes nnd imaginary bronchos had Important parts. For girls who wish to learn how to do practical things there are the Industrial classes In which sewing, knitting weaving aud such arts are taught. Onseveral grounds the girls are making and dressing clothes pin dolls. The girls can dance, knit,, sew nnd have tea parties but for the boys nothing ever has been found which can take place of klttenball, the playground edition of the great American pastime. The kittenball league is in full operation and so far as the boys are concerned the outcome in world series this fall will be nothing as compared with winning the cups offered for the leaders in the three divisions of their own league.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY\6, 1921.

Missouri's Liberty Memorial

Ihe great sit.(XH).noo Union Station in the heart of the city was selected. A plot of thirty-two acres of land was secured by condemnation proceedings on which the memorial and other buildings from time to time, will be built. The people were asked to contribute to the memorial fund, and the sum necessary to “get it done,” and get it done right, was subscribed. Today the design for the memorial has been selected nnd the work of translating the final conception into working drawings and specifications is beginning. The great central tower will be flanked by two buildings, one a small museum for records aud memorabilia and the other for the use of "those wlto came back,” a kind of fraternity chapter house for reunions and rededication to the service of mankind. The base of the central tower will be eighty feet high and chiseled j„ Jt-s great front panel will be tlic Inscription: “To forever perpetuate the courage, loyalty and sacrifice of the patriots who offered and who gave their services, their lives and their all In defense of liborty and the Nation's honor during the world Four figures—the spirits of Courage.

Do You Know Indianapolis?

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This picture was takeu In your home city. Are you familiar enough with It to locate the scene? Yesterday's picture was of the "Little Depot” In Massachusetts avenue—viewed from the elevated tracks.

Mabel Wishes Tea Served Between Tennis Matches Dainty Sport , These Contests , and Society Flocks to Woodstock.

By MAREL WHEELER. One, to be really In running with the rest of the local social world, must go out to the tennis matches at the Woodstock Club this week. Everybody's out there, some to watch tha players, some to chat with their friends and while away tho hot hours. Groups of school girls, chaperoned by their fond futhers, are watching the playing with keen eyes and Intelligence while their older sisters. In smart sport costumes, sit nonchalantly in the front boxes entertaining sleek haired youths garbed In fetching summer suits >. r perchance cream colored trousers an 1 lashing looking brown outing coalu The tennis match figured but little In their conversation, although now and '.hen the players draw their attention. A veritable Adonis Is the big Californian, Hurd, who defeated 7. A ler of Chicago yesterday. Feminine <, e followed him admiringly as he played gracefully around the court. Tennis clothes certainly were, made for ihe Westerner. FLAPPERS’ HEARTS PALPITATE. Many a flapper's heart palpitated though as the slender Yale captain, Williams, and the young local favorite, Johnny Hennessey, stepped out. They were a well-matched pair, not only In tennis maneuvering hut in appearance. Hennessey's Inevitable grin probably outdistanced William's genial smile, but they made an ! effective picture against the background of bleachers, motor cars and tennis netting. Lucian had an original little way of his own of stealthily creeping up on his opponent’s drive nnd was a peach of a slider when it came to skidding for a backhand smasher, but he was not so agile on the backward twirl. Johnny has a characteristic manner of throwing back his head when he fails on a shot and lifts his feet lightly. He shlramys but little in the game and seems to be on a lively fox trot most of the time Quite a number of bobbed haired girls slrolled In for tho matches; one petite debutante in a fascinatingly clever Canton crepe outfit with a rakish little white tain pulled over her short fluff of hair, had a delightfully boyish air among her marcelled sisters. A number of cool summery costume* were noticeable in the boxes. One slim maiden wore a dull rose rough crepe overblouse with an oyster white shantung skirt and a brimmed hat of the same material. A lavender onepiece linen frock with airy looking white organdie collar and cuffs, and white silk sport hat. with a touch of lavender, were worn by a vivacious dark eyed girl. ENGLISH ATMOSPHERE SURROUNDS MATCHES. Flocks of people are viewing the games, some sifting under the glare of the hot sun on the bleachers at the ends of the court. Many sit in the shade of 'he canvas canopies and here and there a group are shaded by picturesque lawn umbrellas. Some way there is an English atmosphere about, jerhaps it is because tennis Is such a quiet sport, per-* haps because the lookers-on are less demonstrative than the crowds that fill Washington park for the football and baseball combats. One really would not be surprised at seeing tea served between matches. In fact, it would be

> Honor, Patriotism and Sacrifice— will guard the “Flame of Inspiration.” burning forever upon the altar high in the skies, "n pillar of cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night.” Back of the memorial a great axial mall will extend, n third of a- mile long flanked by trees, and on either side of this mall additional buildings will be erected from time to time and effectively united in a general composition without disturbing the sweep of lines leading to the memorial. Mr. Magonigle, in his capacity of architect, will serve as adviser in the letting of the contracts and will supervise and inspect the work of contractors ns the erection proceeds. "He will put four or five years of his life into the project," one of ihe members of the memorial association stated. But when the great work Is completed a magnificent tribute to the heroes- of Ihe gr.-:it world struggle will stand forth in heroic size. It will be visible from nearly every point in ihe city and for niil-s around, silettly Imparting its messat of inspiration to the thousands who toil .n this thriving city of the Midwestern Empire.

quite the thing methtnks to fill in the long pauses between acts. But there Is one thing about It, It Is a dainty sort of sport, it is clean nnd well bred, and absolutely harmless, it would seem. There Is no startling thrill, no wildly daring or sensational-features, really tie Ideal kind of sport to watch in sizzling weather from the spectators' point of view. The spectator has time for retrospection during the plays and perhaps bo ..ondera now and then between skilled strokes whether the players are devoting their lives to perfecting their tennis form and If not what Is their side Issue? Japan to Protect Ships During Strike TOKIO, July It”.-—A detachment of police has been rushed to Kobe to protect partially constructed battleships from the shipyard strikers. The strikers are operating tbe Kawasaki dock yards at Kobe.

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Photo by Melzer. Gipsy Gulch, in Turkey Run State Park, is one of the many spots in this popular reservation that is visited by tourists and picnickers. The photo shows the peculiar formation of the rocks and shows the fallen ledges which have lain In this position for perhaps hundreds of years.

REAL ESTATE GOSSIP By REALTOR. “Bill” Keough.

From all the speaking heard at the convention, every realtor feels now that, “If It is on earth, he can sell it.” (Joke "No. 1.) Will we forget Terrace Gardens? Well I should say not. The “Frolic of the Vanities” on the Ice was so spectacular that John It. Welch nnd (“Now-Boys”) Essex almost fell off their chairs from excitement. The air cooled them off in the latter part of the evening. We all want to express ottr hearty congratulations to Lawrence Welch for winning the handsome watch for faithful service. Seeing Harry Mott attending the meetings, reminds one of his school days. He pranced back and forth constantly with his literature stacked under his arm. McGregor and Grlnslade claimed the punch was the best they had ever drank. That seems strange. We were glad to have the presence of three past presidents. ,T. Erwin Morris. William E. Bash, and Thomas F. Carson. Chester Henry and Forest Knight sure make a lot of smoke when they hit a bigtown. Sleeping in a secondary matter with them. Probably Howard C. Venn will know what It costs to live In Chicago after this. (Sh! strictly confidential.) Bridge Over River Is Being Repaired With the idea of keeping an Immense concrete bridge across White River at Martinsville in sustained use in order that traffic on one of the main State roads will not be subjected to long detour. the State highway department is engaged in strengthening one of the piers. Lawrence Lyons, director, said today. Proposals for the repair of this structure will be received sometime in August, and In the meantime engineers of the department are seeing to its safety. Last spring this bridge showed evidence of deterioration and one of the spans settled. Temporary repairs were made. In the meantime the structure has again settled Under specifications for its repair the bridge will be Jacked up and put hack to its proper elevation and weakened piers replaced. This bridge is oti one of the main highway arteries of the State road system and Is on Road No. 22, between Indianapolis, Martinsville, French Lick aud Evansville. The road is the chief trade route into Martinsville and from this fact every effort is being made to keep continuous traffic passing over the structure.

Wish to Brush Up on Monument Information?

Read What Colonel Perry Says of Institution —Then Visit ft.

BY MABEL WHEELER. Do you who pass daily by the Soldiers and Sailors' Monument know that the water that dashes over Cascades comes from a well over 4(K) feet deep? That it is 99 per cent pure and that it runs all night for the benefit of tha public. Most of us do not know that it Is soft water, either, even though we taka a drink now nnd then in passing, but it resembles rain water in quality although clear and crystalline in appearance. Possibly some one of the lses thoughfu! also fancied, if he fancied at all. that the water over the cascades ran on out througa a drain into the sewer but It doesn't; It is used over and over. The water that you see pouring out sparkling and foaming is. the same water that you saw last week and that you'll see tomorrow. TOURISTS KNOW MOST ABOUT MONUMENT. No doubt every one familiar with the exterior of the Soldiers nnd Sailors' monument but probably more tourists than home folks know that In the basement of the monument is a “picture library” of the wars. And another thing a lot of persons do not know Is that the basement isn't a basement really; It's floor level Is even with the street, nothing underground about it except ones mental picture. But whatever It may be called it I* a cool pleasant place to visit these hot days, ami it would be a Jolly plice for the school boy or girl lo study h'story. Colonel Oran Perry, superintendent, conceived the idea of making the basement. a part of the monument tour, ’it is brightly lighted nnd the pictures are arranged In a systematic manner around tha walls. A complete pictured version of the late war from the days when the United States contemplated entering the war, until the signing of the armistice, is among tho pictures and copies of famous war pictures together with photographs of battlefields and great men of the war periods compose the remainder of t'ue exhibit. There are also flags and bunting draped in the corridors and a great gilded eagle occupies a • prominent place In the patriotic atmosphere. And in keeping with the spirit of the monument is Colonel Perry himself, who

Right Here in Indiana

Indiana Yearly Meeting Pageant at Richmond to Cover Span of 100 Years

x By RALPH WINSLOW. Special to The Times. RICHMOND, Ind., July 10.—The 100 years which stretch between the birth of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends and its present commanding position in the denomination as the largest body of Quakers in the world will be celebrated here Aug. 8. The days of the old-time Quaker are gone, but the opposition of those famous souls to slavery, their belief in woman suffrage, their fight against the liquor traffic, their advocacy of the penal reform and betterment of correctional institutions, and their leadership In the formation of the public school system are impressive contributions to history Timothy Nicholson, 92. internationally known for his work in bshalf of prison reform, long Identified with tbe National Conference of Social Work, founder of the Indiana Prison for Women and Girls, and president of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League since Us organization, will be the cetral figure In the coming celebration, which is to be commemorated by pageant and by speakers. Mr. Mcholson will preside at all the sessions. PRESIDED OVER YEARLY MEETING. He was presiding deck of the yearly meeting for over thirty years. He was born Nov. 2, 1828, of old Quaker stock, in Perquimans County, North Carolina. He spent his boyhood days on a farm, later attending Friends schools and academies, finally acting as instructor. He came to Richmond In IS6I and engaged in managing a book store and In the printing business. When the State board of charities as established in ISB7. the Governor :p----pointed him a member, a post which he held until 1908. Mr. Nicholson served as trustee of Earl- . bam College for forty-nine years and during his terms tbe institution developed from a small school into one of the foremost in the Middle West. He has lived to see practically all of- tha measures that he has championed enacted into laws. PAGEANT OUTLINED. The outline of the pageant that will mark ihe progress of the yearly meeting was made public today. The persons who will take part have been working for over a year on the scenes that will be depicted. Th spectacle will begin at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, Aug. 15. It will begin with historical numbers and will follow the progress of the yearly meeting up to the present. It will be named “A Pagennt of Service.” After the foreword, It will open with a scene of

sprved for the full period of the Civil War and whose love of the war memorial for the soldiers and sailors amounts almost to a passion. "There are thousands of visitors, he I states, "that, after leaving the city, re- ! member but one thing about it, the monu- , ment. Local persons wonder why we do j not allbw people to sit on the rail, or j the lawn. It has even been suggested ! that the cascades be used for public bath- | ing pools. They seem to forget that this | is not a playground, a city toy, Instead l of a wonderful memorial, a tomb, in fact, sacred to the memories of all the men I who have died fighting for our country. ; It isn't that they mean to be lrreverant 1 but they Just forget, they are so famaliar with it that they lose sight altogether of the reason for its being. “Why. in recent years during a certain national convention, when there was a lot of gaiety and hilarity going on, when he had bands playing around the monu- ! ment day and night and we all enjoyed it, too, and bad a good time, a group i of the merrymakers originated a humorous 'stunt,' but as a finale they asked me if they might all plunge Into the cascades. I reminded them what the shaft stood for and asked them if they i would be likely to play leapfrog over the graves of their ancestors or jazz In the mausoleum sacred to their dead. And then they remembered and apologized for the suggestion. They didn't mean to i be irreverent, you see, just thoughtless." SKYSCRAPERS KINDLE ANGER. Colonel Perry Is indignant over the desire of some Individuals to erect multistoried buildings on the circle. ‘ “Why the beauty of the shaft would be completely lost,” he stated Indignantly, “if It was hemmed in by a circle of lofty structures. Miss Indiana at present stands far above all the buildings around her. for the building law on the Circle permits no structures over eightysix feet high, but there is talk now of putting up a fifteen-story building, and a petition to raise the maximum height to 150 feet, which would mean the ruination of the artistic and impressive I effect of the shaft. If skyscrapers should be built around the Circle, the monument | would be sunk in the egnter of It, com-

11be founding of the yearly meeting In 1821, I Other scenes are as follows: “As the Years Passed By,” showing the progress of the organization; “Indian Concern” and "People of Color,” dealing with tha work of the Friends among the Indians ! and negroes of this continent; "Foreign I Missions” and “The Richmond General ! Conference,” (out of which the Five Years Meeting of Friends sprang) ; “First DaySchool," depicting the school years ago and at present: “Earlham College,"“New Opportunities for Service,” “A Service of Love In Wartime,” and “Continuing the Service." RICHMOND HOME OF ANNUAL CONFERENCES. With one exception Indiana Yearly Meeting has conducted all its annual conferences in Richmond. The central offices of the Friends are located here, with which the majority of Yearly Meetings are affiliated. The national executive boards have their headquarters in their own buildings here. Besides maintaining ten colleges Friends carry on extensive missionary work in Mexico, Central America, Cuma, Jamaica, Syria, Africa. India, China and Japan. , Hundreds of Quakeis in this section of Indiana belonged to the ‘Underground I Railway” system and sons and grand- [ sons of the conductors and operators will attend the centennial celebration bere In August. The three branches of the system met In the home of Levi Coffin of Fountain City, six miles north of here. Coffin was a prominent member of the Yearly Meeting and his home is still standing. It is estimated that as president of the system Coffin assisted mora than 3,000 slaves in his house at Fountain City nnd about 7.000 when lie was manager of a wholesale house In Cincinnati. Hiram Mendenhall, a Quaker of Randolph Coun;y, presented a petition of the Indiana Anti-Slavery Society to Henry Clay while he was in Richmond on-a campaign trip in 1842. Clay’s answer to the presentation in which he said that the Quaker had insulted him. aroused anti-slavery sympathizers throughout the East and resulted in Clay's defeat for the presidency. Thus, throughout the history of the Society of Friends, is a recital of service .o Nation and to God. Unswerving In their ideals and their devotion, they have been fearless in their performance of what they saw as their duty. From the time when the Yearly Meeting was organized in 1821 in a log church here until today, when Friends' Ideals and Friends’ aims penetrate to every corner of the earth, their sterling qualities of character have left an indelible Imprint on the State and on this generation.

pletely lost In fact, encircles by a ring of towering structures." 100,000 VISIT MONUMENT IN SEASON. More than one hundred thousand persons visited the monument last season, according to the statement of William Hagergorst, cashier, who has been collecting fares from monument tourists for fourteen years. He Is also a Civil tYar veteran. So lest yon forget that there 1# ■ sight-seeing* attraction ca’led the Soldiers’ and Sailors' Monument In Indianapolis worthy the attention of thousands of tourists, stop some sizzling aft--ernoon as you pass round tbe Circle and look it over, take a long look at the wonderful view from the top of the shaft, where you can see the city In panorama, l rowse around in the picture gallery and brush up a lot of war Incidents that you have forgotten, and chat with the colonel so that you can tell your friends how much water runs over the cascades a minuth. how many steps there are leading to the top and satisfy your own curiosiety as to why the steps are so white of late?

Pitchfork Wound Calls for Operation Special to The Times. COLUMBUS, Ind.. July 18.—Chester Legan, living near Clifford, is suffering from a dangerous wourd received from a pitchfork in the hands of a comrade while working In a field. A prong of the fork penetrated Legan's leg to a depth of five inches nnd ihe wound became Infected. He underwent an operation here yesterday. Legan was loading wheat to be hauled to a thrashing machine at the time he received the wound. A fellow worker was attempting to keep him from getting on a wagon and accidentally stabbed him with the fork. Struck in Head; Dies Special to The Times. CLINTON. Ind., July 18—Ernest Beshaw, 19, of Fontanet, was killed Friday in a mine near here, when he was struck on the head by a bucket of cement which fell fifty feet to the bottom of the shaft. MEN FIND WORK CUTTING WEEDS Street Commissioner’s Suggestion Puts Several in Way of Livelihood. A dozen men who were out of work have found a way of making a good living by cutting weeds foi; citizens who do not desire to pay the high rate the city charges for such service. Street Commissioner A. O. Mcloy stated today, Mr. Meloy announced through the Dally Times a week ago that there was an opportunity for unemployed men to go Into the weed cutting business for themselves. He offered to give the names and addresses of owners of lots upon which weeds would either have to be mowed by the owners or by the city. Tho city’s force, ho said, was not large enough to cover nil the territory so he had no objections to unemployed men soliciting the property owners for the Jobs. The city charges $3 per lot when it carries out the law compelling the municipality to cut weeds'when the property owners fail to do the work. The private weed mowers cut at the rate of $2 and $2.50 per lot. Citizens who wish tho private mowers lo do their work for them will be put in touch with the unemployed men through the street commissioner’s office, Mr. Meloy said. To reach the office telephone Main 0341 and ask for the street lommlssioner. AGAIN, THAT V. 8. THIRST. LONDON, July 16.—England has had rery little rain and a great deal of heat of late. Weather conditions may have nothing to do with it, but it Is announced that another hoi r of drinking will be added to that day. The less rain, the more beer, say some. But other attribute a notable Increase in alcoholic consumption to the presence of a large number of Americans In London.

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