Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 January 1889 — Page 1

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ol. 19.—No. 31.

THEJVIAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

I NOTICE. -The publication of The Mail wtinued without interruption, ness department under the Edwin P. Westfall, the local charge of Douglass H. Smith. that the pleasant relations that have isted for so many years between tyail and its patrons may be eont and every effort will be made to the generous support accorded it.

will be the bus-

direction of features in It is hoped eX-

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Notes and Comment.

The burning lake story from Decker •/denied. Ctould it not be (jailed a dou-.»le-decker lie? _____

Will Mr. Blaine be in the Cabinet? Ask it of the wild waves sighing so sadly on the sea shore.

It was said the Indianapolis "bobtail" street trars had to go, but the council decided to continue the "dangerous and .unsightly" cars.

The gusher at Shelbvvllle has been named very inappropriately the Harrison gas well. The president-elect has never been known to gush.

Franco has the reputation of being a very gay conntry. Yet nearly 8,000 peo»le

committed

suicide in France last

year. That is a grim record for a lively nation. _______ The "Hen of Ice" should bo the most popular play on the road just at present. By the middle of summer everyone will wish they had "seen ice," when the bills are presented. _____

It is announced that Rose Elizabeth Cleveland Is writing another novel. Let's see, didn't Rose write a novel some while ago, and will s°'»f

name of it, please.

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New Albany wants the legislature to give mayors the power to veto, in order to check municipal extravagance. The most efl'ective veto is the ballot. Democouncil of this oily* bs^are.,

(live Indiana a chance to call for her own Cabinet drink and she will shout lustily for "Porter,"says tho Indianapolisllorald. Very well,if it is to be any Indiunian, then all "alo" to Porter.

The philologists aro casting about for some high-llown name to attach to each section of Dakota territory. Why would it not be woll to cease wrangling and permit tho infant to name itself?

And now a United States man of war has been sent to Darien to protect American interests on the Isthmus. Is Mr. Bayard to have a war as the legacy for tho incoming Republican administration. _____

Not a single marriage license was issued in Orange county during the year 1888, This is remarkable since it would seoni that if orange blossoms should grow in any county in the state, that one is Orange. _____

The authorities at Vincennes are throwing rocks at each other. The rock pile superintendent, the boss of the streets and the

mayor

are at loggerheads,

and while the dead lock continues the prisoners are faring well.

The open winter has resulted in one good turn. The excessive mud on the roads has called public attention to the necessity for gravel roads. Nearly every county is agitating their construction and if efforts are not relaxed many miles of improved highway will be built.

By the emphatic vote of 23 to 1 the Ixmisville, Ky., school board has decided that German shall not be taught in the public schools of that city. The name decision was reached in St. Louis after a hard contest some time ago. This being America the sentiment prevails that the American language should be the only one taught in the public schools.

The steamship agents do not like the Ford bill for restricting immigration. They say it will do no good, but will detract from the wealth of the country and keep out the

better

class of foreigners.

No apprehension need be felt about the better class of foreigners. They will get here, all who want to come. The trouble with the steamship companies is that they fear their own profits will be cut down by the shutting out of thousands of cheap steerage passengers.

We have not been In the habit of regarding chickens as foes to human kind. As a rule they get out of the way with a volley of terrified csckUng when one of human species *urprises them, kear South Bend, Ind., recently, however, a little child was attacked by a big Plymonth Rock rooster and was in danger of losing its eyee if not Us life when a passing driver fortunately discovered its situation and drove the brutal fowl away. It la perhaps the lint caw of tine kind on record.

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Terre Haute has had an unenviable reputation lor the number of divorce cases. The most noteworthy case this week is a "Marker," in which the husband asks for separation from his wilj.

A writer in an exchange discusses at considerable length the subject of "how to take care of the skin in winter." The dissertation seems quite malapropos when this spring weather is taken into consideration.

The dividends paid in Boston on January 1st would have averaged $30 each for every man, woman and child in the city. But some got a good deal more than that and a great many very much less. These dividends are not divided up as evenly as they might be.

The announcement that an ice trust is forming makes the blood rnn cold. A freeze will surely take place for Boreas in his providence, will not permit broiling humanity to be at the mercy of the ice kings next summer. In this instance silence would have been colden.

Nearly every city with or without claims for distinction captured Tascott. This species of advertising has had its day and it has become quite fashionable for cities of any pretention to announce that Jack the Ripper

Perhaps if the young ladies would follow the example of a Sugar Ridge township, Sullivan county, belle there would be a discontinuance of one of the worst customs among the young men. Her suitor called upon her one evening recently. The young lady discovered a revolver In his pocket, appeared before the grand jury and caused an indictment to bo returned. The gay young suitor will answer in court the charge of carrying concealed weapons.

Senator Byrd of Clay and Owen conntics has introduced two bills for the piotection and relief of the miners of the State. One provides for a fairer method of weighing. The coal must be weighed in tho car in which the employe places it and before it is screened. The second bill attempts to prohibit the operation of what are known as "pluck me" stores. It has long been a favorite method of mine and mill owners to get back a large part of tho wages paid by compelling their employes to purchase supplies at stores owned by the companies. This evil, which is a great one, the bill endeavors to remedy by fixing severe penalties. ______

The appointment of 28 doorkeepers, janitors, etc., to attend to the wants of the legislators of this State, is an outrageous feeding at the public crib. A majorlature which demands such an army should be nywie to get off the earth. It will cost the state over *16,000 to pay these men who ails mostly ward politicians, henchmen of some alleged statesman, or some hanger on for political offices only. Their appointment is a cheap way of paying personal political debts. They hafce been workers at the polls and their ambition was to loll about the legislative halls in idleness, drawing a salary of $5 per day. The present legislature will make one record, if

that of lavish expenditure.

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written a letter

of warning. Even Indianapolis has received such a lettoi\^

An exchange says: "The Peru Postmaster is holding a letter properly stamped, addressed to 'Our Dear Lord, in Heaven,' and while he knows it must go over a 'star' route, still he does not know liow to dispose of it." If it ever reaches the milky "way" it will be held for additional postage.

The council of Yincennes, led by the mayor, remained up one night playing detective on the police force. Even in sleepy old Yincennes not a copper was found indulging in a snooze. Two were not on their beats but gave satisfactory explanation of their absence. All accounts fail to state who watched the city officials in their meanderings about the city.

Lafayette is crying for the metropolitan police system. The legislature is urged to pass a bill extending the law to all cities having a population of 15,000 or over. Lafayette may have a State metropolitan law if she desires, but fn this" city thero would be objection from both parties. The police system has occasioned much wrangling but it is doubtful if regulation by the State would bring any benefits.

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When it comes lo enterprise the Hoosier newspaper correspondent is not to be equalled and certainly not surpassed. Two beautiful fairy tales were foisted on an unsuspecting public one day this week. A lake near Decker took fire and burned with an aurora borealis glare and the brimstone smell of the everlasting bonfire. Fish came to the surface, nicely Jbrolled and ready for the table. A resident of Winona, on the same day, set fire to a substance he found floating on the water of a fish pond. Upon the application of the match hisj boat was enveloped in flames. He succeeded in reaching the shore with only the IOM of his whiskers and hair. There can no longer be any doubt that Indiana is a great state.

News and Interviews.

In regard to the opening of Ohio street there is still very much discussion. Many are heartily in favor of the open

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who are most directly concerned are op posed to the scheme. The opening of the street would give another avenue to the Sixth ward. As it now stands Main and Poplar are the only thoroughfares. Both are used very much by the railroad and in consequence they are among the most dangerous in the city. A remonstrance has been circulated and a long list of signatures has been secured. But the most objectionable feature of the proposed opening was the amount of damages assessed to the 13. & T. H. railroad property. The council committee placed it at $100,000, when the company only pays taxes on $40,000 worth of property. The city commissioners will report the assessment of damages to the railroad property at $10,000, yet at this figure it will not be satisfactory to property owners who will have to pay heavily for the opening if it is to take place. They claim the benefits to their property will be much less than the assessment made by the council committee.

To pave or not to pave, that is the question. Main street should be provided with a sewer and then paved but the advisability of such an undertaking at this time is the rub. It is proposed to build a sewer from Water street to

the wail that will go up from the property owners. Nearly every one is weary of seeing the railroad grade down Main street, with the center of the street above the sidewalks. "It ought to be done," "It will be metropolitan," "The city needs it," etc., are heard everywhere, but in the next breath are coupled oftentimes many objections. The sewer alone will cost |20,000, if indeed it can be built for that amount. There is now $10,000 in the sewer fund,six years having been required to accumulate that amount. Some councilmen hope the fund will increase to the required amount by the time it is needed, but this is an illusion. The length of the pavement is 4,(550. It has been figured that the city will be required to pave 833 feet, leaving 3,705 for the property owners to pave. The cost per lineal foot will be $12.35, making the total expense $45,762 to the property owners. The street car company will be put to an expense of $25 063, making the total cost of paving the street $83,931. Added to this the estimated cost of the sewer the entire cost of the improvements will be $103,931. The city is now $146,500 beyond the limit of its legal indebtedness. With the finances in such condition the construction of the sewer and the paving is an elephantine task which the council has on iUt hands. The cold figures confronting the council should bring about a realization of the gravity of such an undertaking. If the gravity or sucn an unaenaaing. toe

scheme is carried oat, the city will be

plunged deeper into debt.

adds anew feature to the question.

A gentleman who is interested in the bringing of the large piano manufactory to this city, informed me that the proprietor will arrive here in several weeks and will again look over the prospects. At that time there will be a decision and

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TERRE HAUTE, END., SATURDAY EVENING,- JANUARY-.36,1889.

The old court house at the northeast with the advantages of the city, and the corner of Third and Ohio streets is only close situation to timber used in the partially occupied. A gentleman made construction is another consideration of a suggestion to the writer which would great consequence. In the event the fac provide a way for its occupancy. When tory is removed it will be the most im the new court house was opened it was portant event in manufacturing circles desired to move the city offices to the that has transpired since the removal of top floors. The commissioners refused the tool works to this city. Fully 250 to set apart offices for the cltv. The city men will be employed and wages will offices are now located in cramped quar- range from $2.50 to $5 per day. Many of ters and inasmuch as the city is in debt the men will be brought here for skilled so heavily with no prospect of being labor such as is required cannot be proable to better the condition of the build- cured in this city. Another benefit will ing, the offices might be removed to the be to the north side. A location has been old court house. Even this would re- selected and its superiority acknowquiramuch fixing up and from all pres- ledged* It will build up that part of the ent indications the city offices will re- city and will give it quite a boom. If main in their present location at Fourth the factory can be procured, it should be and Walnut streets.

raany are iiemmj »u ing vet the property owners and those asts here can extend their hand to those

Ninth and pave the same space. I have it from one high in authority that the improvements will be made aotwith- i!brttrf«^^endeitthfl races 5ri asking, standing the protests of the press and the usual question'

him $600 or more. He is of the opinion hydrants with water. Another tank that his property would be vastly bene- ooUid be constructed and the pressure fitted and he is anxious to pave, the Boon-

er the better. tor. All the machinery required would A hint was dropped to the writer by a

member of the street car company that The commissioners have estimated the in the event the improvements are un- cost of the electric light plant and the dertaken the company will not be plant for supplying water at $1,500. It is called on to pave a distance of two feet asserted that the gas and water bills on either side of the tracks. Beyond would be reduced over one half. There this gentle hint nothing more was said, is strong probability that some action It has been the general impression that will be taken looking towards the 1mthe company wonld be required to pave provements spoken of. The board visland that the cost would be about $25,000. ted the Terre Haute house one day this All calculations made by the council and week and inspected the electric light others considered this estimate. The or- plant. Architect Hannaford desired the dinance recently passed provides that old board to order the building wired, the company shall pave two feet on both Tt woold have cost about $800, including sides of its tracks in accordance with the combination gas and electric light instructions from the council. If the chandeliers.

from present indications it seems that the establishment will be removed. The manufacturer is very much impressed

and no efforts should be spared in that direction.

Base ball seems to have gone glimmering in this city. The base ball enthusi-

.f .. Of TnrliftnannHa Th« clnh in that

at Indianapolis The club in that city, the capital of the great State of Indiana, sank a large amount of money for the directors and the franchise has been returned. The meeting called for last Sunday at the National house was attended by only three persons. All efforts to rescusitate enthusiasm have failed. Business men gave the solicitors little encouragement. One of the provisions of the constitution of the park association is that no base ball club shall be maintained. The park association refuses to have anything to do with a team and it has been found impossible to organize a ball association. It is not probable that another effort will be made to put a club in the field. Base ball is probably dead for years to come unless some steps are taken to keep interest alive, ^e have a park but no club. '.S

A rather good story is told on one of the young attorneys at the bar. An appeal case was taken to Circuit court. The defendant was a negro. The attorney for the plaintiff was particularly anxious to secure a jury which might be favorable to his side of the case. In examining every juror in the box, he inquried •'Are you in any way related to the defendant?" The twelve jurors were white and after the trial was entered upon it dawned upm hiin that he had rather un

There were quite a large number of cases of mumps in the city. Many of tile cases are among children. No serious cases have been reported. Whooping cough is quite prevalent in some of the school districts, but not sufficiently so to interfere with the attendance. With these exceptions there is very little contagion in the city. The epidemic of measles which visited the city last year so completely ran its course throughout the city that hereafter, physicians say, attacks will be rather rare. On the whole, the general health of the city is reported good, considering the' open winter, accompanied by much disagreeable weather.

Vigo county has a big half mil^on dollar court house with a $125,000 dome which can be seen for miles and miles away. The court house is a pride to the county, a monument to its resources and prosperity, but the expense of keeping it up is surprisingly large. Recently the commissioners have been devoting considerable attention to this feature of publio expense. The water bill is enormous, likewise the gas bill. It costs too much to operate the elevator. Attempts were made to figure the exact expense but it could only be appioximated. Water for the various hydrauts throughout the building adds to the expense. Gas is used throughout, and the commissioners plan to reduce both

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item8 Qf expense.

Because some of the property owners apparatus in order and attend to the on Main street oppose paving it is not to boiler house. The cost of operating an be concluded that all of them are against electric light plant would not be increasmaking the improvements. One busi-

An engineer and as­

sistant are employed to keep the heating

a well could

ness man whose place has considerable ^le supply of water. There is already frontage says that the paving will cost

one

be dug to an

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inexhausti-

tank in the garret supplying the

WOuld

be sufficient to operate the eleva-

be a small engine,

a dynamo and a pump,

If

company cannot be compelled to pave it in it will require the running of wires which will be somewhat unsightfy suspended from the ceiling. -T,

incandescent light is put

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William Bandy and Alma Akin*. Abe Brewer and Minnie Abbott Abraham Kewll and Nina Raney. Wm. C. Beach and Adella Kankin. jowpb K. Yoaai ami Ida E. Woodsmall. James Lyons and Mattle Stark*.

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Mrs. Gladstone on Women.

WHAT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY THEIR HIGHER EDUCATION.

A correspondent of an American syndicate recently visited Mrs. Gladstone, at Hawarden, to obtain her views upon the woman question. We quote the substance of the interview. Mrs. Gladstone, though not at all in sympathy with the radical wing of the "woman's movement," or the suffragists, has always been an earnest advocate of the higher education of woman, and a warm helper in all charitable and philanthropic work for her sex. The correspondent began by asking her "what she thought of the outlook, educationally and politically, for women in England:" "The outlook has one great drawback," she answered, "that is the fallacious popular idea regarding the movement. To remove that we have to educate the majority up to the platform of the minority. Easy to speak, but laborious to do. "The woman movement is the humanitarian movement, and what women are trying to do is to help adjust the social relationships which civilization is constantly changing. See the great difference between the occupation of men and women of a hundred years ago and today. There is scarcely a comparison possible, and women being the silent class, so far as the making of the laws are concerned, she is the chief sufferer by modern civilization, which so far is a very imperfect affair after all. "In the days of Fielding and Smollett, and other less known novelists," she continued, "the position of woman was very far from what it is now, and in a great many ways it was far better than it is to-day— industrially it was certainly so. The very presence of hospitals, orphan asyluin^, homes for the destitute and charitable institutions of all kinds proves that the population is so great and tho pressure ofr competition so severe that all cannot live as easily as the generations before us did. True, we have machinery and the benefits of all the new inventions that are common to our day, but the working classes do not rejoice in them as do those who can enjoy their .benefits.'.'/

In answer to a question she said: "Women are trying to remedy the evils which lie in our present social system, and are seeking to reform it so that they may have work and wages and a larger choice of occupations under the new readjustment of industries. The women of Russia have some advantages over the women of England in the industries they carry on in their own homes, and have revenues from them. The middle and the better classes in Russia, among women, find a market for their spinning and weaving, and farm products and hereditary vocations are carried on there without opposition. The country has work for its male population outsicle of these industries and employments, and women still enjoy a monopoly of work, which in this country has passed out of the hands of our sex, and is done in factories now and by men mainly.

The idleness of women is enforced, and yet the popular idea is that the sex is weak and helpless. For a long time the duties of home life occupied them, but now there are so many more women than men that we are forced to recognize their painful condition. You know, of course, the grand work done by many noble women in finding work and homes for single women in Canada, the States, and in Australia, but the evil is toogreat to be overcome with emigration. "We are trying in our country and you in yours to educate women to be specialists, so that they can get a foothold in the trades and professions mon opolized by men. Necessity compels thousands to work who have nothing to do, and their urgent efforts to get standing room in the industrial and professional world makes the outcry which we hear against 'woman's rights.' In the rural districts, where women have much of the work of the farm to do, their condition is greatly superior to that of women in the manufacturing regions and in the cities." "Do you think tfie better education of women will enable them to have all the advantages the leaders of the woman movement demand for them "The better education of men and women will accomplish it, and as soon as women are educated to the point where they will know the history of their sex from the beginning they will be able to correct popular fallacies on the subject. If an intelligent workingman once realized that women suffered through the lack of employment for mind and hands, and that they are anxious and unhappy in the contemplation of their helplessness, he is concerned to know what can be done about the matter. The trouble is that the ignorant workingraan is in the majority, and his home life is unsatisfactory because it is full of children be cannot properly provide for, and some of whom he knows will not take care care of themselves until they are of a marriageable age. But it is much easier to talk to you aboutex-

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is ting conditions than it is to tell you how they are to be remedied. You Americans have not yet come to the place where the question of the support of the poor is so important as with us. The taxpayers of England contribute an immense sum of money for the support of institutions that should not exist to the extent they do, and would not if our social system could be readjusted on the basis of woman's needs. Much that England does to-day for her poor encourages not only poverty but vice." "Do you think that giving the same legal rights to women will put them on their feet in the industrial world?" I inquired. "Let us say that it will put men on their feet, because it will be a relief to have fewer people to support. We are not living under the simple agricultural mode of life that makes your country an Arcadia to the poor of Europe, but in a state of things which compels whole generations of men to exist and die in the dirt and vice of cities without ever breathing the pure air of the country. "Whatever is bad for women is injurious for men, because their interests are identical, and when their opportunities for usefullness in the world are increased women will make life happier for men. The reason why the women of the poorer classes are treated as they are by their men is because they are less useful than they should be or wrould like to be. I really think that our present civilization is peculiarly hard on women and children, and it will be the effort of the educated classes to ameliorate the condition of women by humane measures until the world advances sufficiently to put them in possession of the liberty that each human being must have to be happy and useful in this life." "Do you think, Mrs. Gladstone, that the ballot will be given to women in your day?" "It is theirs now to some extent, and there will be no retrograde steps taken, but I cannot foretell when or how the advance step will be taken. Meantime the duty I find nearest at hand to do is to help those who cannot help themselves—children first, and then the sick and the destitute, and the best service is rendered through organizations. Therefore 1 worK in them. In London the poor are always with us, and their condition is so miserable that they need all thai is don« for therm."i "What do you think could be dope for the outcast women of Kast London, for instance, by the charitable?" I asked. "We reach them through the hospitals and convalescent homes, and whenever we can get them to leave London we do it. Individual cases are saved in that way, but the rank and file must die as they are living, I fear. The awful burden of Ignorance and vice in London is borne by the hard-working, law-abiding people, and the tax-payers cannot do more than maintain order and compel the observance of such sanitary rules as will prevent epidemics. The reformatory work must be done by women, and the real need of the hour calls for recruits from the fashionable and idle classes. More teachers and leaders to cope with the mighty work of rescuing the lower grades of society are wanted, and these are to come after awhile, when other higher classes among women are educated to a right knowledge of their duty to themselves and the race."

A Chicago paper says: "Gen. Harrison has been visiting a stock farm near Terre Haute. There he associated with Uncle Dick Thompson, a $25,000 trotter, and other thoroughbreds. It is also reported that during this visit he selected the official milch cow of the next administration, and bade a tearful farewell to the pawpaw-embowered and historic banks of the majestic Wabash." This city enjoys the reputation of producing thoroughbreds. Besides this when it comes to entertaining dignitaries of state she can do it also. President Harrison's grandfather commanded the old fort here which bore his name. Coming down to more recent events, President Cleveland was royally entertained in October 1887. The president-elect could not afford to go to Washington without treading again on the classio ground of the Wabash. If the city's reputation continues to expand no future president will be expected to take his seat without having made a pilgrimage to the "State of Vigo."

The Bankers' Monthly estimates that it costs the country four hundred millions of dollars to elect a president. That is too much to pay every four years. We might stand it once in six years but a hundred millions a year is downright political extravagance. The President's munificent salary is as one dollar to $2,000 compared with this enormous outlay. A longer term is absolutely necessary.

The Ohio legislature has made war on the telephone by passing a law fixing the maximum rental of a single instrument at $3 per month. The bill is similar to that passed in this state and the same cry has gone up from the company of abandoning the State. The threat probably amounts to as little as it did in this State.

Judge McNutt's novel, Broken Lives, is on sale ai Post Office I/»bby.

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