Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1933 — Page 14

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NAZI BOMBINGS I BRING MARTIAL LAW IN AUSTRIA Diplomatic Clash Looms as Government Acts to Crush Insurgents. By ROBERT H. BEST I'rited Prrs Staff Corrmpondent VIENNA, June 20.—The government enforced martial law in parts j of Austria today as it moved energetically to eradicate the Austrian Nazi party. The Nazis were ordered dissolved after a series of bombings and terroristic outrages. The cabinet was convinced the Nazis sought to overthrow the government. Police, i augmented by the military, began 1 an immediate round-up of their j leaders. Foreign observers feared the dissolution order would lead to a com- j plete break in German-Austrian rc- j lations, strained since the cabinet I began suppressive action against the Austrian Nazi ten days ago. At Krems, detachments of police j and soldiers sought terroristic bombers, believed to be Nazis. The bombers threw three hand grenades into a marching detachment of the Heimwehr, Monday, wounding thirty. Krems and the neighboring towns of stein and Mautern are under martial law, public assembly was forbidden and citizens were required | to be off streets at 8 p. m. The government, however, made a faint effort to avoid an out and out break with Nazi Germany. Kurt Schuschnlgg, minister of justice, announced that the order was not anti-German, because German Nazis only recently said they would make no affiliations with Nazi organizations abroad that were not made up of German citizens. REDUCE LIVING COSTS FOR PURDUE STUDENTS Residents of Memorial Hall to Pay Less for Room, Board. By Times Special LAFAYETTE, June 20.—A substantial reduction in the cost of board and room for Purdue university students who will reside in Franklin Levering Cary Memorial hall, residence dormitory for men, already has been determined, it was announced today by L. M. Vallely, hall manager. The fee for board and room for the school year, which amounts to slightly over nine and one-half months, will be reduced to $355 next year, if paid in advance at the time of registration. If the fee is paid in ten monthly payments, it will amount to $375. Due to the reduction in the cost of foods during the last season, students who lived in the hall were given rebates totaling S3O.

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In the second of a series of stories on famous Indianapolis streets. The Times presents the word panorama of Meridian street. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer SWANKY Meridian! Arbitrarily named, always the center of religious as well as society fervor, it is the street of the city that never has grown old or shabby. Other streets may wear motheaten clothing and gray at the temples, but Meridian, as it stretches to the north and south, always seems to find enough henna in the box to dodge the years. Henry Ward Beecher, one of the first of the firebrand ministers, launched his tirades against highland flings and polkas, cards and dice along its breadth. Lawrence Barrett played “Hamlet” in its gaslight era. And in the 80 s, 90 s, and up to 1910 or thereabouts, the “somebodys” of the town either lived on it or proudly said, “Just a block off Meridian.” Business has moved the svelte residences northward. Insurance companies, heating firms, undertakers, took over the old marble mantels and high-ceilinged windows. It is a street to conjure with maids and housemen, private tutors, carriages and limousines. ana BACK in the 1820’s tne street gave promise when it was made the dividing line lor east and west numbers and was surveyed to include the “Governor’s Square”—now Monument place, or the circle. The circle was designed to serve as the residence for Indiana’s Governors. A residence was built there from money obtained through the sale of town lots. No Governor lived in it. The mansion fell in disuse. Aged members of society of those days tell tales of playing battledore and shuttlecock on its lawn. And then there were times when police received calls that ladies of the evening inhabited it and they called out the vounteer fire department. In those early days the town’s residents were organized into volunteer companies that vied in prowess at fires. They were nicknamed the “Wooden Shoes.” “Swallow Tails” and “Shanghais.’' tt tt tt THE first company occupied a one-story structure on the north side of the Circle. So when police were unable to curb the half-world denizens, they called on the departments to clean them out with hose and water. On one occasion the ladies objected to being washed out with their bureau drawers and they made a stand in an East Washington street residence with a shotgun. The fire company’s hose was peppered until the deluge stopped. But reinforcements and ) new hose won the day for the fire laddies. Pastor Beecher, who came to the city in the fall of 1839, neyer was credited with being the moving spirit behind these reform floods, except in his pulpit spoutings. But he did like fire-fighting in a temporal way and often was with the bucket brigades and hose carts at blazes. His first church, of the Presbyterian faith, was in University square, but later sermons were given in a building on the northwest corner of Market street and the Circle where a candy shop and restaurant are now. tt n tt DESPITE his oratorical flames Beecher was the town’s first minister who enjoyed his calling and let others know it. He could paint a house as well as the men he hired and, on a day of exuberance, might be seen “skinning the cat” on a joist, according to Dunn’s history of Indianapolis. Christ Episcopal church, northeast corner of the Circle and Meridian street, is the city’s oldest parish house. Built in 1860, it stands on the same site, of the edifice that preceded it and was built by the Episcopalians in 1838. Throughout the years, its chimes have tolled sunrise services at Easter-tide and been bells of mourning for famed dead. In the early life of Meridian street, the sector south of Washington, near the Union depot, was the home of many of the town’s pioneers .and elite. J. H. Vajen, who held the distinction—if it might be called that —of having the town's fi<st bathtub in his home, lived near Georgia and Meridian streets. On the northeast corner of the intersection was the home of John Fishbaek, while nearby were the residences of John D. De Frees and Jacob Cox, artist. tt tt tt IF modes of teaching were violent in those days, and the rod and the child were in no danger of being spoiled, they at least had their whimsical moments. One teacher warned a youth against swearing, with the threat,”

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Upper left—Just gawking up at the Circle tower building on the Circle in 1933. Upper right—The church of Henry Ward Beecher, intersection of Market and the Circle, that later became the city hall, high school, and art school. The structure was razed in 1897. A candy shop and restaurant and the English hotel occupy the site now. Lower left—The Franklin building, predecessor of the Circle tower, in the 'Bo’s and ’9o's. The statue of Benjamin Franklin now adorns the lawn of the International 'Typographical Union, 2820 North Meridian street. Center, right—Autos in 1908 were not bothered with the one-way traffic of today on the Circle. They could operate in both directions as long as they didn’t crash. Lower right—Rose Melville, at the wheel of her antiquated PopeHartford, while on one of her many farewell tours to Indianapolis in the role of “Sis Hopkins.”'' The runabout shown in the photo was one of the sportiest of 1906.

If you do it again, I’ll slit your tongue.” The youth swore. He was brought before the school and forced to kneel down with his tongue out while the psdagog whetted a knife on his boot with this sing-song: "I'm sorry to have to do this. Whet! whet! You know what I told you. Whet! whet! Put out vour tongue. Whet! whet Itr won’t do to let you grow up this wav. Whet! whet! It would be a disgrace to let you grow up this way. Whet! whet! Do you think if I let you off this time you’d ever swear again! Whet whet! •‘No, 111 be damned if I would,” retorted the culprit. otttt CHILDREN of those days recall that during the Civil war they chased “bounty jumpers” on South Meridian, watched shell-games, and saw parades of southern prisoners, guarded by federals, on their way to Camp Morton prison on North Alabama and New Jersey streets.

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Noon-time was always dinner time then and the day’s meal of meals. Daughty halls, with only the sitting rooms heated, sent residents to the warmth of monkey-stoves and later baseburners. On wintry days men wore shawls going to and from work. One of the memorable sights of the winter of 1861 was the burning of the First Baptist church, Maryland and Meridian streets, during a snowstorm. Flames and ice combated the firemen and evened up for the hbuse-cleaning escapades of the volunteer departments in spare time. One of the first schools of consequence was erected on what now is University square. In the 90s, Beecher’s church, Market and the Circle, became an academy and art school.

DANCING tried hard to lift itself from the baleful eye of the town’s ministers and Beecherer’s tirades under the guidance of Professor Follansbee and his dance school. Follansbee was a good fiddler and was nicknamed “Do-se-do” and one of the first of the many “Do-se-dos” that came after him. The first town ball was held Feb. 22, 1838, on the Circle in the Governor’s mansion house. Since those days the Circle, especially on Halloween, often has been the pavement promenade for the foxtrots and one-steps of a modern generation. Whether the playing of “muggins” and “old maid” became tiresome during 1887 never will be known, but the year brought forth the organization of the Promotion of Peace in the Home society by Mrs. Fred Baggs and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. They wished to have private dancing lessons for their daughters. tt tt u “T DON'T know what to do, for A Ben never would allow an ungodly fiddle in my house,” ■'’Mrs. Harrison said. So it was agreed that the Methodist and Presbyterian churches would be defied

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in the home of Mrs. Baggs, delegate from the Methodist.church. Among the members were Hautie Tarkington, now Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson, Mamie Harrison (Mrs. Robert McKee), John Kitchen, Russell Harrison, Walter Bradshaw, George Newcomer, and Mamie Baggs (Mrs. Joseph W. Beck-. Early in the town’s life, University square served as, grounds for balloon ascensions. When admission was charged, the audience remained outside tjie fenced grounds to see the ascent. Erection of English’s opera house in 1880 by William H. English gave impetus to the formation of dramatic societies. The Dramatic Club was organized among a group of young ladies. Gentlemen were barred. But a mustache that dropped into a tea-cup when one of the leads was attempting a masculine role let down the bars to male actors and, in 1890, the club was re-organized to include men. a tt tt IN one of the club’s first plays, “Engage,” the cast included Carrie Malott, Belle Baldwin, Will J. Brown, Claire Shover, Horace

Hood, Laz Noble. Margaret Baldwin and Booth Tarkington. Autos supplanted carriages on Meridian's tree-lined avenue. The rumble-buggies became as familiar as Rose Melville's farewell tours in “Sis Hopkins.” Wholesale houses took over the residences on South Meridian with new structures. The postoffice on the Merchants bank building site became the present structure. New churches replaced old ones. The Indiana School for the Blind, one of the latest of the old landmarks, was moved north. Rich homes became furnished rooms and offices. And with apartment house hotels, newer residences and mansions, swanky Meridian dipped again into the henna box as it moved north of Fall Creek boulevard. Next—Capitol avenue. GUARD STATE PROPERTY Georgia Governor Uses Militia in Highway Board Fight. By United Press ATLANTA, June 20.—National guard officers were instructed today by Governor Eugene Talmadge to take over and patrol all property and equipment of the state highway department. The action climaxed a dispute in which the highway board defied the Governor’s orders to discharge five engineers. The chief executive retaliated by withholding all highway funds.

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