Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — How We Have Changed. [ARTICLE]

How We Have Changed.

Some recent speed tests have been made between Indianapolis and Terre Haute, and the stretch of 72 miles that separates these “hustling burgs” has been annihilated in an hour. There are several different ways by which a hurried denizen of either place can liie to the other very quickly and at any time during the day or night. When J. If. Beste, an English traveler and man of letters, wanted tc go from Indianapolis to Terre Haute in 1851, he had to buy a team and wagon and it took him several days to make the trip. When he left Terre Haute he went by canal and sold his team and wagon to a man who wantea to go across the prairie to the town of Chicago. Mr. Beste tells us all about this in a very interesting way in his book, “The Wabash,” which was published in London in 1855. He also tells about the election he witnessed in Terre Haute on August 4, 1851 —the identical election in which our present constitution was voted upon and adopted. This election was so pure and peaceful that the Englishman used it as a model in exhorting his fellow countrymen to civic pprity. Such was Terre Haute and such was Indiana 65 years ago. Yes, times have changed.—lndiana Citizen.