Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 135, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1928 — Page 51

OCT. 26, 192&

REAL PROGRESS BROUGHT ABOUT -BY ASSOCIATION Merchants in Forefront of Every Move to Better Their Section. Probably no other sectional civic organization in the state has worked so hard to improve conditions in its own district as has the East Washington Street Merchants’ Association, whose harvest festival begins Saturday. Its history is entwined with that of the progress and improvement of East Washington street. The organization sprang into existence in answer to a popular need and since then has led in civic enterprise. In 1903, while the rest of the main fiction of the city was being illuminated with boulevard lights and elaboiate candelabra, East Washington street was illuminated by old fixtures and gas lights. Repeated attempts to have the city” improve the lighting were of no avail. Start Campaign for Lights Animated by the spirit that'the lighting must be improved, Andrew Steffen, cigar manufacturer, and Charles Rosenberg and Morris Shalansky, merchants of that section, visited all merchants in the area and prevailed upon them to aid in paying for the lighting fixtures. The city was willing to permit the merchants to pay for new candelabra, and for years the East Washington street dealers were the real owners of the lighting fixtures. Out of this movement came the Merchants’ Association. Among the original members were •Sol S. Kiser, banker; Franklin Vonnegut of the Vonnegut Hardware Company; Charles L. Hartman, furniture merchant; Harry Krause, Albert S. Goldstein, and a score of others. The organization flourished until 1910, when the need for such a body was not imperative, and it became defunct. Movement Is Revived In 1917 conditions about the .courthouse became bad. Sanitation in the market was poor, the courthouse was becoming an eyesore; street hawkers held forth about the courthouse, the streets were full of obstructions, and the lighting was again poor. A meeting of the merchants was called in the Hartman furniture store and Samuel Mueller of the Great Western Furniture Company, was elected president. The association, then of twentyfive merchants, dedicated itself anew to purge the district of the mounting evils. Organized pressure was brought xa' bear upon the city and street was smoothed, new lighting equipment was installed, the market was rendered sanitary, the interior of the courthouse was cleaned, tracks were elevated, and the general condition was toned up. Determined to Continue It was then determined that to continue such excellent conditions that association should be perpetuated. The association began and today maintains a policy of truth in advertising and high business standards, and has embarked upon a period of constructive activity. Not only does it to all it can to aid the East Washington street section, but as an integral part of the city of Indianapolis the association participates in all worth-while civic enterprises. Presidents of the association have been Andrew Steffen, Albert S. Goldstein, Samuel Mueller, Elmer Steffen, Frank Krause, Clarence I. Baker, Harry O. Linstead and today E. M. Ragland. President officers* are Ragland, president; Ralph C. Vonnegut, first vice-president; Charles M. Mode, second vice-president; Raymond Kiser, secretary, and A. O. Linstead, treasurer. Directors, besides the officers, are Harry W. Krause, Julius Goldsmith, Irvin Vonnegut, Frank Carlin, Samuel Mueller, Julian Schaub, and Harry Lindstaedt. Asks Plumage Bar LONDON, Oct. 26.—The Duchess of Portland has written to 300 friends, all prominent in society, protesting against their weearing of forbidden feathers, taken from certain birds during the mating season. The banned plumage includes feathers of the egret, grebe, marabou, bird of paradise, argus, pheasant and Kingfisher.

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PRINCE LIKES AMERICA, BUT NOT PULLMANS Outstanding Trait of U. S. Is Optimism, in View of Royal Swede. Du Timet Special NEW YORK. Oct. 26.—Here, at last, is the truth about America and Americans as a foreign prince sees It when he talks intimately to the folks back home. Prince William, Sweden’s globetrotting royal scion, on his recent return to Stockholm from his American tour dashed off his traveler’s impressions of the United States for a Sdewish magazine under the title “America From a Pullman Car.” The translated article Just has been published here in the last issue of The Living Age. The outstanding American characteristic, thinks the prince, is optimism. "The American has an unquenchable good humor in the morning which finds expression in a genial talkativeness and a desire to know everything between heaven and earth,” he says. And again: “Good humor is unfailing with Americans, who take all situations jestingly and try to turn everything to the best. Pace Never Too Fast This is his outwtrd impression of American men in a crowd: “Cigars gleam in clean-cut faces, whose peaceful and determined expression never changes, no matter how fast the pace.” And here Is what he sees of American women in a railroad station: "Light feet trip in salmoncolored stockings, light plays on Canadian and Alaska furs, the bellshaped hat is drawn down close over the eyes so that you see only the nose tip and a pair of trrifying goggles. Or else it is some young lady of athletic type, with skirt ending above the knees, pullovers, and a vivid cap on shingled hair.” As for Pullman cars, he isn’t so enthusiastic. “The principle itself, with eighteen to twenty people packed in the same room, can it be right?” he asks. "After one has breathed the air in such a night asylum, the answer is an unhesitating, ‘No’. Disapproves of Pullmans “You lie along the steel side of the car which gives off a moist chill, while the part of the berth on the aisle becomes hot from the heater below. Then you must decide whether you prefer to chill your stomach or get lumbago. It’s a wonder that the public, in other respects so spoiled in all that concerns health, does not protest against such conditions. “And the first time I attempted to undress in a Pullman berth I actually needed a quarter hour for solving the problem. The best way is to lie flat on one’s back and make a series of worm-like movements.” American food wins his approval. “Though lacking in spices, it is wellprepared, and the service is irreproachable,” he says in The Living Age article.

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POVERTY HITS EN6LISH ‘PUB’; HABITS CHANGE Stronghold of Stout Losing Ground to Theaters and Automobiles. LONDON, Oct. 26.—Britain, home of the "pub,” stronghold of bitter and stout and “whisky and splash,”

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is showing an amazing decline in the consumption of beer and spirits. That the decline is continuing is proved by the latest figures on clearances for bonded spirits, namely, a decrease of 8 per cent for the first half of the present year, compared with the corresponding period of 1927. The drop Is attributed to a change of habits rather than to any campaign or moral revival. The country has drifted away from the public houses without actually realizing it. Cinemas, theaters, radio, automobiles, the complete change that has come over the average man’s existence since 1900 has diverted thou-

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