Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1939 — Page 15

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the whole Navajo race only three men have risen to

~ We haven't scalped anybody, haven't been scalped, .

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939

+ RED LAKE, Ariz, Aug. 10.—The night before we left Albuquerque on this long trip into the Navajo (country, a newspaper friend brought us what pur[ported to be a news story hot off the teletype machines. It told how a party of 13 tourists had been set upon by the Indians, six of them being killed, and the other seven escaping minus their scalps. It wasn’t, of course, a news story at all. Our friend had written it out himself, and we all had a big laugh over it. So we went to the other extreme, scoffed at Indian savag"ery, and dubbed ourselves “The Navajo Extinction Expedition of 1939.” Said we “If there's any scalping, we’ll do-it.” “Yeah,” said our Hie : friend. You'll get up there in the wilds and those Navajos will sell you a lot of third-rate rugs at double tourist prices.” : Of course, none of these things has come to pass.

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and haven't even bought any rugs. We've seen hundreds of Indians, and you consider it the climax of

"a perfect day if you can even get one to speak to you.

that I ever will.

I don’t know anything about Indians, and doubt a i Some white people down here go sort of Indian-daffy. They make a fad of the Indians; consider them utterly superior to’ the white man. Qthers dislike” the Indians thoroughly. The

_ more understanding whites respect them for their | qualities of simple goodness. - - .-As for myself I have tried, and tried hard, to get

interested in Indians. It is no go, I am not what you would call anti-Indian.” I'm merely non-Indian. I can't help it. .

A Pastoral People

The Navajos are the biggest tribe of Indians in America. They number now around 50,000, and are increasing all the time. They are a pastoral people, constantly moving with their sheep, cattle and horses. - They do little farming; few of them are “citified”; I am told that only 5 per cent speak English; out of

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Our Town

- Things everybody around here ought to know: ° The first mustache that appears of record in Indi-

‘anapolis was the one worn by Nathaniel West (circa +1845). . . . The first, however, to make society accept the mustache was Charles W. Cady, a prominent in-

the imp

surance man around here in 1880. ... Mr. Cady wore a “buffalo horn,” the precursor of what *is now. known as a “handle bar.” James Blake, it turns out; brought the first oysters to Indianapolis. . . . He did. business with Philadelphia at the time. ... The oysters were the “pickled” kind and didn’t find much favor at first, but they hl went over big during the celebration of Polk’s victory as 11th President which happened to be in the month with an “r” in it... . By the time the first railroad reached Indianapolis in 1847, two, oyster bars were doing business around here. ae Ib was Mr. Blake, too, who was the first to urge rtance of an insane hospital in Indianapolis.

The Pirst Houses

The first log cabin on the old city plat was built by Isaac Wilson in the spring of 1820 on the northwest corner of what was afterward the State House Square. . . .. The first frame house was built by James Blake on the lot east of where the Peoples Outfitting Co. now does business. . . . James Linton built the first two-story frame house in the spring of 1822 on Washington St. between Meridian and Illinois Sts. . . . That same year John Johnson tackled the first

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brick house on Pennsylvania St. opposite the site of the - present American National Bank. . . . The first three-

story brick house was erected by William Sanders on the north side of Washington St. a little west of Meridian, in the summer of 1831. A German by the name of Protzmann organized the first (1839) brass band around here... . As a sideline, he manufactured soap on a Canal lot near Mc-

Carty St., , . Sure, the Canal ran to McCarty St., and

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Before next year’s Presidential campaign gets much closer, some very definite and earnest efforts to woo the support of the Negro voter will get under way. Some of the preliminary steps already are being taken, and more will follow. In the last two [Presidential ~ elections. Roosevelt got the bulk of the Northern Negro vote. He was the first Democratic candidate ever to do this, and it was no small factor in his victory. Any Dzmocrat who proposes to succezd him has got to figure some way of repeating that performance; any Republican aspirant must figure some way of restoring the Northern Negro to his normal Republicanism. Best judgment among Negro 2 leaders here is that, in most parts of the North and the Middle West, the Negro vote was¥not taken away from the Republicans - for keeps—that ‘Roosevelt vot it as an individual and not as a Democrat, and that if he doesn’t run again it will ‘probably go Republican next year unless the

' Democratic candidate offers an exceptionally con-

vincing argument to the contrary. ® =x = Garner Sold as ‘Liberal’

All of which means that the scramble will be on very shortly. As a matter of fact, the merits of Vice President John N. Garner are already being presented to the Negro. This came to the capital's attention when the Washington Afro-American, Negro newspaper, published an article captioned “Cactus Jack Is Liberal in Views.” : The article was written by a reporter for the

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always greatly enjoyed his trees and the acquisition

of land up here. Now the bug for rearranging Houses has bitten him. Every time he sees an old shack or

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. an old barn, he begins to wonder what could be done

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with it to make it habitable. Of course, it is perfectly fascinating to do over buildings into living quarters and then to sée what people will do with the shell you have provided when they move in. I find that the original work never ends and that you have to keep on indefinitely to maintain any house in working order.

I begin to think that we should always rent with the . understanding that our tenants will do all toe improving, other- . wise, since“we are really interested in keeping upiour property, every penny of rent seems to go into the upkeep. This is perfectly all right so long as we don’t have to count on any of that cash to live on ourselves, bus most people have to get some small cash return out of their investments besides the amount they put back into the business, whether it is an industry or a real estate proposition. The President spent yesterday afternoon as usual,

going around the place. Mr. Sidney H

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prominence.

’ The Navajos still stick close to. the beliefs and :

customs of old. They do not have towns, nor permanent homes. They move several times a year, herding their flocks here and there. They build a new

house, or “hogan,” wherever théy go. The “hogan” is|.

a round, one-roomed hut, made of logs and brush and chinked with mud. : When a Navajo dies in his house, it is never used again. The family smashes in the back of the house, and there it stands till it falls down, It is sacred and taboo. 2) ‘Sometimes white men will come out and tear down the ruins, and use the logs for firewood. The Indians don’t object. But they wouldn't go into a house heated by that wood. ? 2 2 ».

Take Pride in Their Horses

from a deserted hogan, and build yourself a campfire and boil some coffee., The Indians would sit at a distance and watch you, and there would be no hard feelings over your tearing down the spirit-ridden hogan. : But they would not think of getting close enough to absorb any of the heat from that fire, and they would not drink a cup of coffee boiled over'it, even if they were starving. / . Indians have lots of horses. . People tell me a Navajo measures his wealth by the number of horses he ‘has. Yet the Indian doesn’t have any use for more than a couple of horses. - ~The Government has recently started a horsereduction program, to free the sparse ranges for the Navajos’ sheep. : But the Indians don't like it. The newspapers are carrying pieces about how wonderfully the Indians are co-operating. Range riders and traders tell me that is not the truth. ; Just before the program started, a horse buyer came through a certain section. He was offering $10 and $12 a head for horses. He didn't get many. The Indians wouldn't sell. But in a few weeks they'll have to sell those same horses for $2 a head, to be made into fertilizer and dog food. That's your Indian co-operation—and foresight.

By Anton Scherrer

don’t let anybody talk you out of it. . . . The winter of 1838-39 saw the first attempt at a regular theatrical exhibition with orchestra, scenery and all the fixin’s of the stage. .., The manager was a Mr. Lindsay. . . . His theater was the wagon shop of Mr. Ollman on Washington St., opposite the Court House, . . . A few years later, another company gave concerts and plays in the upper room of Gaston’s carriage factory on the site of the present Claypool Hotel. 2

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The Law Comes to Town

It wasn’t until 1851, however, that Indianapolis got its first taste of highbrow music when Madame Anna Bishop sang something taken from Donizetti's “Lucrezia Borgia. . . . The press notices weren't anything to brag about. . . . The first performance of professional fiddling came with Ole Bull's concert in Masonic Hall in 1853. . . . The first full operatic performance was that of “The Bohemian Girl” by the Cooper English Opera Troupe in the season of 1858-59 at Valentin Butsch’s theater at the corner of Washington St. and Capitol Ave. . . . And you won't believe it, but Adelina Patti appeared in Indianapolis when she was a little girl not more than 12 years old. . . . She was in a concert (1855) with her sister, Madame Strakosch, and sang “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye.” The first (1822) jail, made of hewed logs and costing $312 to build, was near the corner of Market and Delaware Sts. on the Court House Square. . . . Jeremiah Johnsén was the first jailer”. . . He was a pretty prominent citizen because of his participation in the first wedding held in Indianapolis. . . . He was the groom. ; The first lawyer around here was Fabius Finch. . . . The first prosecutor, Calvin Fletcher. . . . The first (1822) court session with Judge Wick presiding lasted three days. . .. First to show up was Richard Good, an Irishman, who wanted to be naturalized. . . . First to be punished was John Wyant for operating without a liquor license. . . . And believe it or not, it wasn’t until the following year, 1823, that the first divorce case turned up. ... That of Elias Stallcup vs. Ruth Stallcup. :

By Bruce Catton

American Negro Press, a news organization serving Negro newspapers. The reporter talked with Mr. Garner in his office some weeks ago. In his article, the A.N.P. reporter remarks that Garner knows Negro folk intimately and “has a lot of ideas about their progress and citizenship surprisingly broad.” The article goes on to say that Garner “has definitely expressed himself as opposed to the Texas ‘white primary’ ” but adds that the Vice President feels nothing can be done about it until the Supreme Court changes the opinion which it handed down the last time an attack on that law came before it.

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Handbill Campaign

One Negro publicist who has paid high tribute to Garner is Dr. Kelly Miller, retired Howard University educator, who wrote an eloquent tribute to Garner as a high-minded statesman and a true friend of the Negro race. : This article was printed in the “Letters to the Editor” column of Springfield (Mass.) Republican last April, and some reprints of it were in evidence when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored. People held its annual conference in Richmond, Va., a little more than a month ago. At this conference, a troop of Boy Scouts was delegated to serve as guides, pages, and so on. At the final session of the conference these lads were found passing out handbills containing reprints of the Miller article. : : Since the association makes a point of maintaining a nonpartisan attitude ip regard to political candidacies, convention leaders stopped the distribution and asked the boys where they got the handbills. The boys could explain only that “a man” had given them out, paying each boy a quarter for distributing them.

(Raymond Clapper is on vacation.)

By Eleanor Roosevelt

was with him; at least saw a good deal of the countryside. Whether he had an opportunity to talk about the things he wanted to is another question. We were alone in the evening except for our sister-in-law and our daughter-in-law, Betsy. I was firmly told by the President that he could make no appointments on this visit, but when I left the house this morning after my ride to come over to the cottage,

- there were three gentlemen waiting for him, and they

all’ looked as though they were on business bent." . A few people are coming to lunch, among them Mr. and Mrs. Charles Taussig. Mr. Taussig is chairman of the National Advisory Committee of the National Youth Administration and is planning for a meeting

“of that committee here in early September, when the

President is back from his cruise. I have just received a most interesting notice from

the World's Fair Housing Bureau, Inc. They tell me

that they have listed more than 100,000 rooms for World’s Fair visitors, ranging in price from 50 cents, $1, $1.50 and up. I hear so many complaints about the cost of coming to New York City that I thought I should pass on this bit of information to my readers. They can write ahead to the World's Fair Housing Bureau, which is the Mayor's official committee in the Chanin Building, 142 E. 42d St. ; "I find there is so much in the Fair that can be seen free, that one can probably obtain more entertainment for less money than in the usual places that are be; te We ;

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‘Steamboat H umor’—

Ladies Can't Resist

‘Come to Me Water’

With ears and eyes attuned to the ways of the people he knows best, Ben Lucien Burman continues his steamboat tour of the Mississippi—and

tells, today, new and wonderfully

funny stories of the river. This is the

last of a series of articles prepared exclusively for NEA Service and The Indianapolis Times by the celebrated novelist whom critics hail as “the new

Mark Twain,”

By Ben Lucien Burman (Written for NEA Service)

HE packetboat Tennessee Belle, operating from New Orleans to Greenville, Miss., isn’t carrying passengers at the moment because she’s too busy with freight, but she is likely to begin again at any time. - = The Belle, on which I have served as cub pilot, is the queen of the lower river. “Her gay master, Capt. Dick Dicharry, is a figure out of a Dumas novel, and her scholarly, dryly humorous pilot, Capt. Charley Barker,

is a page from Mark Twain.

= Even|the roustabouts, Baby Face, Sixty One, Goldbottom, ‘Piece of Man, have caught the gay, carefree

spirit of their masters.

. And, of course, there’s my rouster friend, Old Uncle

Jesse, always with some idea, new and startling.

Uncle Jesse was a little worried - because I did not seem to be paying much attention to the ladies, and one afternoon he turned to me gravely. “Captain, why don’t you git yourself some of this come here to me water?” he asked. “It’s wonderful, this come here to me water. When I gits ready to go uptown in New Orleans I puts a drop of it in my coat lapel, and when I walks on Canal St. ain't

a colored girl passes she don't °

turn her head. “And the white people uses it a plenty, too. Every Friday night, if you pass by them big New Orleans department stores you can see ’em taking big buckets of this come here to me water and sprinkling it over fhe doorsteps. And Saturday morning there's such crowds in them stores you couldn’t git a rooster inside. “It’s sure wonderful this come here to me water,” 2 uw = IKE the Golden Eagle and the Gordon Greene, the Tennessee Belle is a limitless mine of story and legend, fact and fancy. You can learn from Capt. Dick or his fellows about the habits of the wily raccoon, who when he fancies some honey, studies the direction in which two bees are flying, and locates the hive by. watching where the lines of their flight cross. This scouting work completed, the ’coon rolls himself in a mud bank until he is completely encased in a clay armor, then goes out to make the raid on the treasure trove. , Or you can learn how the panther, off in the cypress swamps beyond the levee, is one of the world’s best ventriloquists, and by putting his paw in front of his mouth . just before issuing his blood-curdling cry, is so able to throw his voice that the deer or

. down this way a while ago,” Capt. « Dick will tell you as you sit with “ him over a ‘cup of riverman’s New Orleans coffee, so.

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When a distinguished committee gave Ben: Lucien Burman’s most recent novel, “Blow for a Landing,” the Southern Authors’ Award for the best book of 1938, it was recognition of the authenticity of his writing. For Mr. Burman—pictured above at the helm of the river steamer Gordon C. Greene—actually has served as a cub pilot on the

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picking out the good people from the bad: ’ : . You can learn about the famous goats of the Anchor Line, those white immaculate wanderers who were the sacred Indian bulls of the river. The goats would patronizingly stay aboard a boat of the line as long as they were treated in the fashion befitting their stately persons; when they felt themselves slighted or when wanderlust overcame them, they would quickly go ashore and wait at the wharf for another Anchor vessel, and when it arrived walked solemnly up the gangplank. Never did they make a mistake and set a white hoof aboard a vessel of a competitor. ” ” os OU can learn a lot about shantymen on the Belle. Capt. Dick, like the masters of many of the boats on the lower river, is on

. good terms with the shantymen,

for they can bring the boat catfish and game to brighten a steamboat table. : “There was a pretty lively time

the lower

black and violent it is reputed .to have the property . of * dissolving

~ an iron bar.

Even the roustabout . . . has caught the carefree spirit of his masters.

human he is pursuing is baffled to find from ich direction the danger is approaching; while the victim's confused mind is still searching for a road to escape, he is felled by a spring of the great monster behind. You can learn about the first electric lighted boat that came down the river with the first searchlight blazing at her prow,

causing the Negroes and the poor

whites on the bank to flee in terror, for they thought it was the day of judgment with the Lord

Largest Crowd Ever— ~~ That’s State Fair Goal

With 200,000 gate admission tickets already sold, State Fair officials

today predicted the largest attendance in the 87-year history of the event. |’

Last year’s total attendance, a record up to that time, was 385,620, and already more than half of that number of tickets have been sold,

officials pointed out. ; Tickets sold in advance of the opening are 25 cents and entitle the holder to admission either during the day or at night. Daytime admission while the Fair is in progress will be 50 cents, Harry G. Templeton, Fair manager, said, while night admission will be 25 cents. Fair officials yesterday outlined plans for the show before a group of 250 Indianapolis businessmen at a joint luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce and Kiwanis Club at the Columbia Club. | Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker addressed the two civic groups. Both stressed the value of the State Fair in training and encouraging farm boys and girls to carry on agricultural occupations. ° Harry Caldwell, president of the Indiana Board of Agriculture, introduced members of the Board, and James T. Hamill, president of the Kiwanis Club, made a brief address. Moving pictures of scenes and buildings at the State Fair were shown. : : "The luncheon was held for the purpose of interesting businessmen in the Fair, which opens Sept. 1 and ‘closes Sept. 8. or BA

BEN-HURS TO PARADE

Twenty-eight members of the Arrius Drill. Team of the Ben Hur Life Association of Indianapolis: will leave Sunday to drill and parade before the International Fraternal

Congress in Detroit, Mich. Arnold

O. Wills is captain of the team. Members of the Indiana Fraternal Congress will seek to have the next meeting of the International Fra-

ternal Congress held in Indianap-

CITY PLANS SEWERS IN HOME DISTRICTS

: Construction of several new sewers in residential sections is included in the City’s plan to reno-

system, City Engineer M. G. Johnson said today. : Plans for the renovation, to cost between $150,000 and $200,000, were announced by the Works Board yesterday. Board members said the work will be financed by the City and WPA. A formal request for WPA funds will be made shortly. they said. fe The City will pay its share of the program out of $15,000 left over from the recently completed College Ave. sewer program which included the

largement of the College Ave. sewer. The a formal resolution on the program next week, after which results of a survey on the sewers will be completed. ; fd

TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR ‘MAIL ARRIVES HERE

Two letters: carried on the first British trans-Atlantic air mail flight between Southampton and New York were received here this week by Frank S. Ross, Gladstone Ave. oe The letters, sent. by Mr. Ross’ sister, Miss Nellie Ross of Aberdeen, Scotland, left Southampton at noon last Saturday and reached New

vate and clean the local drainage|

38th St. storm drain and the .en-|. Board is expected to adopt|

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“Some gunmen from - Chicago came down in a shantyboat to hide from the law for a while until things cooled off up that way, and they got into am argument with some of our shantyboaters. . ; “The Chicago boys were used to

- running things, and took out, their

pistols and began a little shooting. But it-was a bad mistake. A lot of the shantyboaters around here are Kentucky mountaineers, or Louisiana trappers born with one finger a little crooked for holding a trigger, and po shantyboat ever got out of here as fast as that one. The last I heard of them was from a pilot on one of the ocean ships who said he saw them heading out to the Gulf of Mexico.” s ” o HERE'S an old shantyman on the Belle’s route. who has a little fish dock where he sells his catch to the people of the nearby

INDIANA BICYCLISTS PEDALLING RIGHT ON

CONNERSVILLE, Ind, Aug. 10 (U, P).—Four Connersville bicycle

mark today, still shooting for the national record of 365 hours. Although still short of the pace set by the Greenwood quintet and Shelbyville riders, they pushed hard.

cer also considered themselves very much in the race.

TEST YOUR - KNOWLEDGE

1—Which river has the largest _ volume of flow in the world?

the American Red Cross Society formed in 1381? 3—Was James Madison the third, fourth or fifth President ‘of the U. 8.? 4—What is an assay office? 5—Name the largest known species of snakes. © 6—Between which two points did the French flying boat “Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris” recently cross the Atlantic in a non-stop flight? » ” “

Answers

1—The Amazon, 2—Clara Barton. 3—Fourth. : 4—A Government office, where gold and silver bullion is purchased, assayed and refined. 5—Reticulated pythons, found in the Philippine Islands.’ 6—New York to Biscarosse France. s = =» ASK THE TIMES Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any "question of fact or information ‘to The Indianapolis m 1013 13th St, N. W., Washington, D. C. ‘Legal and medical °

olis, Mrs. Elizabeth Himes, scribe,

York at midnight Sunday. They reached I is at noon Mon

advice cannot be given nor can

marathoners passed the 275-hour

Contenders at Rushville and Spen- |

towns. No matter how often he changes his location, and no matter how diffictli the maneuvering in g swift current, he always anchors the boat so that its door is facing upstream. - :

. “Do itsso shell catch good

“luck,” he informs you. “You can

catch good luck with an open door just the same as fish in a net. And the way to catch it is facing up stream, ‘cause the good luck comes down the river, she never goes up. If you put the door facing any other ways, you might as well get yourself laid in your cof-

The. whistle on the Tennessee Belle is one of the most beautiful on the river, rich and deep like a bass singer at the opera. Steamboat whistles are the diamonds, the platinum of the river. Many a whistle has been: handed on from old boat to new boat like a treasured family heirloom, and lives have been risked many times to rescue a whistle lost on some unlucky vessel foundered in a treacherous eddy. te +» Particularly valued have ‘been the whistles of many tones, with pipes like those of an organ, and special whistles like that of the old: Natchez, which was named for the Natchez Indians, and carried

“a whistle that blew an Indian

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“JHE roustabout judges the pilot not by his ‘skill in steering the boat. through the shoals and eddies of the river, but by the length of time he blows the whistle. t Sw “It’s thisaway about them pilots,” Uncle Jesse will tell you. “If a pilot blows the whistle so long it gits the boat to shaking and knocks down the saucers on the shelves in the cookhouse, that there's a mighty fine pilot. That there’s a man ‘ll never git you into no kind of trouble. : “But. if he’s one of them: pilots

blows her quick, so she jest gives

a squeak like a cat when you step on her, git off that boat as quick as you can. ‘Cause that’s a mean man, a smart aleck .man.. The Lord don’t like that kind of pilot, and he’s going to sink that boat sure.” :

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How You Been?

INCENNES, ‘Ind., Aug. 10 (U. " V. P.) —Five brothers who had not been together at one, time for £8 years were united gt the home of Michael and Nick Staley today. They were George Staley of Hebron, O.; .David. Staley. . of Andover, O.; Stephen Staley

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ON CITY'S NEW

Works Beard Indicates It ‘Will: 0. K. Contract . ~~ Next Week.

Contract specifications’ for a new

{10-year street lighting contract will

be approved next week by the Works Board, members indicated today.

slightly from those under which the City has purchased its light since

11925, were submitted to the Board {and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan

yesterday by M. G. Johnson, City Engineer. - The Board will go through the

‘| formality of receiving bids on speci- | fications as required by law. Bidder

will be the Indianapolis Power &

| Light Co. which now supplies the {City’s lighting needs. Council must {then approve the contract and bids,

_ Sullivan Stands Pat

Mayor Sullivan reiterated his hope of getting a new low rate. The present rate was cut 15 per cent in 1932 below the rate negotiated in

1925. “We still think we can do better,” he said. The Works Board took the specifications under advisement follow= ing a meeting with Mayor Sullivan, City Controller James E. Deery and Councilmen Joseph J. Wood, presie dent, and F. B. Ransom yesterday. The specifications were negotiated more than four months with Light Co. officials. Because the Light Co, - is the only agency able to meet the City’s requirements, it was exe plained, each detail of the specifi cations was checked by Company and City engineers: who worked closely on the draft.

Operates Under Renewal

‘The new agreement would replace a ‘former 10-year contract executed between the City and the Company in 1925. Expiring in 1935, the agreement ‘has been renewed at sixe month intervals since. The last renewal, made April 15, 1939, expires Oct. 15. Principal change in the new cone tract specifications is a provision

and the Company may be arbitrated by a Board. The Board would consist of one member named by the City, one named by the Company and a third member named by the first two. The Board's decision would be final: ' The 1925 agreement provided that the Public Service Commission name arbitors. Drafting of specifications was aided by Judson Dickerman, Federal Trade Commission utilities engineer, after he completed his sur= vey of the Indianapolis Water Co. assets for the City, Mayor Sullivan said. Minor Changes Made

Mr. Johnson said that numerous minor changes in the new contract specifications had been made from the 1925 agreement, chiefly in legal terminology. Types of lamps and standards and provision for company maintenance of all equipment are ‘about the same. Meanwhlie, the City has tentatively decided to. sell its ornamental street lights on S. East St., West St, and 16th St. to the Company, Mr, Johnson said. The lights and standards were acquired during the construction of these streets and could be maintained more economically by me Company than by the City, he said.

e Covers Many Types

The Light Company's bid will cover about 15 different types of lights. A flat price per annum will be bid on each type. Annual charges levied by the Company on 12 major: types in 1925, subsequently reduced by 15 per cent, are as follows: (unit of light type price per It, measurement) 0 (double light) $105 gaunls en) {single light) heaper sing. single)

10, on: si on Jen 80 on: $ 47 lt)on 42 35 $ 29 ovrhd pend sd150 2500 via pend 3050 The City’s street lighting system contains 8613 single and double lights of both standard and pendant types. = Approximately 4200 of

these: are pendant, hanging from

utility. . wires . or telephone poles.

There are several miscellaneous types of lights acquired from the

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LIGHTING PACT

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