Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 May 1896 — Page 2
BAB'S LETTER.
I Published, 18SKS, by the Bok Syndicate Press, !.» New York.] i. NEW YORK, May2t, 1896.
Everybody and everything is an abomination of desolation. One would become a murderer with very slight provocation. One feels as if one could kill that baby next door for screaming. Nothing seems good in the eating line but ices, and cool drinks. Nothing seems good in the dressing line but that which is known as a skirt and shirt waist. And if ever there was an untidy looking thing in all the world, it is the shirt waist. Women drift to the shirt waist habit as they do to drink, or gambling, or slang, or bicycles, or any other vice. The shirt waist originally started as a shirt, pure and simple. It was worn by the tailor-made girl with a well cut skirt and a jaunty jacket. Then somebody, who knew its comfort and thought nothing of its effect, put in full sleeves, made it a little closer fitting, and wore it with a skirt and without a coat, and the consequence is that some of the slinkiest looking skirts that were ever created, or ever insulted a good dressmaker by their appearance, attached themselves unto shirt waists, aud each wearer of the combination counts herself dressed.
The impression when one looks at aNew York street on which women most do congregate is a lot of boys who haven't pulled their shirts down well, who are wearing not trousers nor knee breeches, but some fool sort of an arrangement that is not well shaped. That is the skirt. The shirt wearer never studies her mirror below the belt, and as long as the stiff satin bow at her neck looks well, and her belt is taut, she gives no thought to "the old skirt," as she calls It. Miscut skirts, misfit skirts, half-worn skirts, badly hung skirts, and all sorts and conditions of skirtsare counted proper as long as the shirt waist is above them. Just between you and me, I some time wonder when I look at a woman in a shirt waist that there doesn't come over her a sensation of nudeness, for that is the kind of feeling that would attack a man if he took off his coat and waistcoat and pranced around during the day iti his shirt sleeves, after the parlance of masculinity. Then, too, the shirt waist is a fraud. All the people who sell them, or make them, or wear them, dilate on their coolness. This coolness might be a truth if it were not for the fact that the shirt waist is surmounted by a collar, in stiffness like unto the starchiest of the starchy, and finished at the wrists by cuffs that are not only stiff but require cuff buttons. There is no joy in life when a woman has to put a pair of cuff buttons in a pair of cuffs. The chances are ten to one that the link goes through the first button-hole with ease, but through the second it will not go. It slips, it slides, and it cuts your finger. Then all that you can do, if you •wish to unite that cuff and that link is to sink your dignity, and with an air of subjection lick the back of that buttonhole until it bends to your will.
AS FOR HUTTONINO THE COLLAR In front, lovely woman has shown how extensive her knowledge is by conquering that. She does not break her finger nails over a collar button, not she. She cooly takes a small glove buttoner, and, quicker than a magician can say "Hey! Presto!" the union is achieved. The shirt waist is demoralizing. With it, the average woman wears a made tie, which shows that she has no appreciation of what is really good form, from the standpoint of the haberdasher. Then, nine times out of ten, the girl who wears her shirt waist carries her gloves. I don't know why, but I do know that this lack of trimness is due to the influence of the peculiar article of wearing apparel that covers her above the belt. And, gracious, goodness! look at the belt. It may be narrow, or it may be wide it may have a plated buckle, that came from a cheap-John shop, or a good one that •came from Tiffany's but there is a certain type of girl, wearing a shirt waist, who is going to make that belt cover 10 inches, and 19 inches only, or die in the attempt. She doesn't die, but she gets an awfully red face: and as for her temper, well—her temper is usually 120, Fahrenheit. The other type of girl wearing belts and shirt waists don't care whether the belt goes over a margin of forty inches, or whether it encloses forty-two inches waist band. These are the people who are looking for comfort. Usually their skirts sag, and droop from tinder the loose belt, so that the world at large knows whether the shirt, is gathered on to a band, plaited on to it, or, a man explained it, "arranged in those funny rolls like sausages," and by this, he meant godets.
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but- they don't wear shirt waists. Some rioes are too mean, even for men. The shirt waist girl is never satisfied. She is accumulative. When she has three shirt waists, she wants six, and when she gets six, she yearns for twelve. A fabric represents nothing to her except its possibilities In the shirt waist line, and in a shop she stands staring at a bit of cotton trying to see it made up, and deciding whether its collar ought to be white or of the same material. She is reckless in buying belts and ties. But she will wear one skirt all summer. It may fray around the bottom, it may be undesirable in every way, but if it is mentioned at all, it gives her a chance to dilate on her economy in wearing out her old skirt, making it useful by the intervention of the shirt waist.
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any outdoor game. Advertised bargain sales of shirt waists woulddraw the wearer of them to the warmest place imaginable, and the shirt waist fiends will stand ten deep and lose all decency of manner and speech in their determination to be in at the finish and possess one of the shirt waists so lavishly described in printers ink. It is true that they are too often misfits, and it is also true that their material will fade under an intense smile, but still when they come from a bargain counter, they have virtues only appreciated by their buyers.
OOIXO TO SPEND THE SUMMER.
One of the chief charms of going away for the summer is the packing of trunks. My advice to every sensible woman is this: "If you have attached to your menu any thing that is masculine, hand over your keys to him and let this back-breaking, thought-consuming business be conducted by him." Man in the abstract is worthless as far as women's clothes are concerned, but man, the individual, can go over your belongings, pick out just what you want, and pack your trunk so that it will lock. That is a great victory, never saw a trunk packed by a woman that would lock at the first call. Sometimes it does, after the boys have jumped on it, and the strap has been drawn, but usually a woman has to tip an expressman to do the locking. He first ties a rope around the trunk, then slams it on the floor, and then turns the key with scorn, and without trouble. A woman nearly always knows what she wants to take to the country with her, but she doesn't place her proprieties well. She knows she can't buy the baby's tinned food up country, and so she wraps up innumerable cans of it and lays them between Marian's organdy frocks, because they do not make a heavy trunk. Of course the tins leak, and Marian, who is 18, and expecting to look like a flower in these organdy frocks, doesn't quite wish the baby hadn't been born, but does wish that—well, anyhow she wishes the cans hadn't leaked. She called them some kind of cans, but I have forgotten what.
One of the boys invariably reminds you that, once you are in the country, you have to drive four miles to buy ink, and that when you buy it it isabominally pale. So, being a woman, you-joy in harmony, and in the trunk with the books and your husband's half-finished novel, goes theink. Every man who lifts that trunkful of books swears until he is the color of a lobster and every man who swears at that trunk throws it down hoping to smash it. But no man succeeds. However, one of these gentlemen manages to break the ink bottle, and-the novel reeks with dark deeds and black fluid. And everybody is sorry.
OX NATURE'S MEADOWS.
Still, everybody is in the country, and no matter what one's woes are, they lessen somehow when one looks at the beautiful trees, realizes that the grass extends further than the plot in the backyard, and drinks in the air, so full of good tastes. City air reminds me of that perfume called opopanax, the combination of which is only known to the chemists, and the result of which is only pleasing to a rather depraved taste. It was once whispered that opopanax was made of the tails of little pigs boiled down, but I don't believe anything so crude could result in anything so complex. When the wind blows over the city, one eagerly swallows a mouthful of air, and gets microbes, dirt, various unpleasant things in the way of vegetables, flowers and people who are more or less decadents, while in with the other things comes that strong odor that always permeates the air when many people breathe into it. In the country the air tastes differently. It always reminds me of a cow's breath that smells of clover, suggests new milk and is altogether dainty. No afterdinner cnc%u was ever made that could give such a perfume as this.
It never makes much difference when you have a big, comfortable room to sleep in, and fields and groves to move around in, what you get to eat in the country. But if you are civilized, you don't want to stay there after the summer days. Civilization is a mistake. It causes you to long when the warm days have gone by for the good things of the flesh, and the country does not set them forth. The idea of serving in the country is primeval (the typewriter spelt that prime evil, and I was going to let it go at first, but I thought perhaps somebody would think I did not know the meaning of the word. Yanitas!)
COUNTRY COFFEE AS A DRINK.
Anything that a woman wears which gives her a semi-loose appearance, always makes her a little easier in language. It would be impossible for a girl in a summer silk. made after the fashion of one worn by Marie Vntoinette, and having a large hat, snake skin, but that tool of a country boy
!*av a little worn beginning with a ami couldn't be made into a belt. Now, if that emiinK with an N. but her sister in a shirt! had -n a city boy he would have cared waistTa sailor bat, MI easy fltMw? belt, lan for tl.ai skin, he would have stretched it, shoes, and no glo«m finds it bling out watched it to see that it didn't crinkle, and of her lips simply because the cable car the result would have been this I should loe*n%t stop when she signals It. have had a belt made of snake skin, and I
In the country, coffee is countedfbest at its weakest, and there is a fancy for drinking it over a couriotisly-shaped stone wall, which the country people call a cup. But when one can breathe good air what difference does it make about the coffee? Whether it is, after the German fashion, black as night, sweet as love and strong as the devil, or whether it is from Sevres or the other thing? You don't care much about your coffee or your tea either in the country. You can set in the shade and get great draughts of sweetness, the result of the fanner cutting down something, we ignorant city people don't know what, but we do know that it is health-giving.
Country people, who don't appreciate their blessings, wonder at us because we loaf on the grass, take an apple off the tree and eat it with joy, go out hunting for all sorts of queer things that don't trouble them, and even breathe with delight. Last year I wanted a snake akin. 1 told a country boy of this desire of my heart, and I also told him that, to get just what I wanted I was willing to lay down certain cold pieces of silver that seemed to him of value, but to me only of worth because of what they would bring: Well, I got my
roses and much tulle, to hadn't been careful, and it was torn and
The shirt waist girt i# supposed to be wouM have told everybody that it waa a take advantage of these luxurious steamer* ttiven nwr to athletic games. She Is fond piece of the real original serpent, that I bad between Michigan and Ohio. If you are 5 carrying the necessary utensil*, but I inherttsd from my great-grandmother! contemplating a summer outing write A. think «he would rather sit down and talk Rve. Country boys don't appreciate their A. Schauta, G. P. A., Detroit, Mich., for about how and where to buy a shirt wi.I
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J: Long Shot#.
The longest distance that a snot has been fired is a few yards over 15 miles, which was the range of Krupp's weil known "monster" 130 ton steel gun, firing a shot weighing 2,600 pounds. The 111 ton Armstrong gun has an extreme rango of 14 miles, firing a shot weighing 1,800 pounds and requiring 960 pounds of powder. These guns, however, proved too expensive, being unable to stand firing. 100 times, and their manuiacture has practically been abandoned. The 22 ton Armstrong gun hurls a solid shot for a distance of 12 miles, and
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Plantation Table Cover.
The latest novelty for afternoon teai cloths is to have them bordered by handsome hems of soft pink, sky blue or lemon linen. These make a harmonious: finish to the tone of the drawing room. For a small table a rather neat arrangement is made from a gaudy yellow bandanna handkerchief. It is embroidered at intervals with scraps of floss and tinsel, haphazard, such as the wftim and energy of the owner prompts. From the border hangs a fringe of doily ribbons in dull crimson and yellow, studded at equal distance with big Japanese glass beads which are threaded through, the "ribbon.—New York World.
•/-, Bertha G. Lunma.
One of the delegates to the convention of the National Electric Light association at the Grand Central palace, NewYork city, is Miss Bertha G- Laxmne, the only woman electrical engineer in the conn try, so far as known. Miss Lamme attracted a good deal of Attention, because her fame had preceded her. She is a graduate of the Ohio university of Columbus and is connected with the engineering department of the Westinghouse works in Pittsburg. In the last few years she has invented several electrical devices.
The Biggest Fool at Larg«
Is the individual who persistently neglets his health, and the means of preserving and restoring it. Many persons who are not constitutional idiots do this. They are genuine objects of compassion as well as censure. A failure of appetite, loss of sleep and flesh. Impaired digestion, an uncertain state of the bowel's and symptoms of bllllousnesa are so many warnings of the approach of disease. To disregard them is abject folly, which offended nature in dne time punishes severely* !f not fatally. That genial and thoroughly reliable preventive of bodily mischief in the shape of chronic disease, Hostetter's
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TEKBE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, MAY 23, 1896.
a girl in a shirt waist. I will get acquainted better with him this summer, and I will let you know about it. The shirt waist is the expressed depravity in clothes for women. And yet, and yet—I see before me a woman in a silk skirt, pink shirt waist, but thank goodness, not a sailor hat, »nd lo! behold! for truth is mighty, and must prevail—it is BAB.
Muie. Melba'i Wip. ••••.'•
"I wish you would tell me by what mysterious processes you succeed in finding stach appropriate and becoming wigs. Everybody speaks of them and declares that (here is no one on the stage tod:.y who manages to look so entirely natural with artificial heads of hair. How do you contrive it?" "Ah," replied Mme. Melba, "don't fancy for a moment that those wigs are haphazard affairs! They are like all the rest of my artistic equipment, the result of much thought, accompanied by a conscientious ambition to do thoroughly everything I attempt Almost every one of those wigs is an exact copy of some head of hair that I have seen and admired and had reproduced from the original. That is why they look so natural. Take this Juliette, for instance, which I myself think is particularly pretty. I got that from the famous Worth's little daughter. I saw the child one day while I was calling about some gowns and was at once impressed with the beauty of her hair. 'Juliette,'' said I to myself, and forthwith borrowed the ohild and bore her off to my coiffeur. 'There,' said I to him, 'I want you to copy that head exactly, hair for hair.' He did so, and that is the secret of my Juliette wig."—Exchange.
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not be heard at the place where the ball strikes. From 12 to 13' miles i» the computed rangp of the most powerful guns now made, and to obtain that range nn elevation of nearly 46 degrees- is found to be neoessary. Quick firing guns are more depended upon at the present day than extreme length of range, and in this respeot what is considered the must wonderful of gons, perhaps, is one of thMaxims, wnich can fire as many as 600 shots a minute and yet is so light that a soldier can carry it strapped to hip back. Financially regarded, the immense sum of $195,000 was expended in constructing the monster Krupp gun, and each projectile cost $4,750. -"*,
Possibilities of Women.
Miss Lula M. Lloyd of the Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, chose as the subject of her graduating essay, "The Possibilities of Woman." It was a thoughtful and logical paper, showing that woman's capabilities are positive proof of her possibilities and duties. The voice of thet is the voice of her Creator." In literature, in the higher education, in science and in reform women have settled the question by their successful achievements. Having done so much, what may not women accomplish? Miss Lloyd remarked in closing that the Emerson college is a living example of the possibilities of women. *,
Club Dinners In Gotham.
When the clubs of New York wer6 fewer and their houses were smaller than they are now, the restaurants had a monopoly of all the big dinners of a semipublic character. Every one of. the dozen or more large clubs in New York now has a kitchen where a dinner can be prepared for several hundred people with as much attention as the largest restaurants could give to it. Many large dinners have been given at the new Metropolitan club. During the winter the Lotos gives half a dozen dinners in its clubhouse, each one of which is attended by 200 or more people, and as many as 275 persons have been dined there. The University and the Manhattan clubs give large dinners from time to time. Of course such a dinner necessitates the services of extra waiters, but it does not strain the kitchen service.— New York Letter.
A Caution to Lady Cyclists. •"*_
A London exchange says: 'The latest form of confidence trick—when, oh, when is the confidence trick going to become extinct?—is for a faultlessly dressed young man to proffer assistance to lady cyclists to remedy some fancied defect in their machines. The "repairs" accomplished, the scamp modestly offers to try the machine, 'just to see if it's all right now." He does try it, or has done so in at least three cases recently, and it is found "all right" to such good purpose that machine and young man vanish from the lady's ken forever more.
To Drive Away Moths.
Moths form one of the veritable plagues of the housewife. A simple remedy and preventive is given in the shape of whole cloves, which are to be plentifully placed wherever the insects abound. Oil of cloves dropped on lint or wool has a like effect
Where Valor Sleeps!
Many people visited the battlefields- in and about Chattanooga, Chickamauga, and: Lookout Mountain last year to see the dedication of the Great National Park and for 1896 the opportunity will be given to spend Decoration Day on the old fields and to visit the National Cemetery with its fourtean thousand soldier's graves on Decoration Day. $5.00 is all the round trip will cost via the Queen & Crescent Route.
The journey occupies about ten hours, through the most beautiful mountain scenery in the South passing near Perryville, Richmond, Ky., Mill Springs, and other battlefields, crossing the Cumberland River at Point Burnside, where Gen'l Burnside had his base of supplies, and crossing (further south) under Walden's Ridge, over Chickamauga Creek across the Battlefield of Missionary Ridge and in plain view of Orchard Knob and the National Military Cemetery into Chattanooga.
Tickets via the Queen & Crescent Route at 15.00 round trip from Cincinnati will be on salle for trains of May 29th, good until May 31st to return. A limited number of PtiHBoans will becarried on night train.
Send us your name at once for printed matter and fuller information. QUeen & Crescent trains leave Grand Csntral Depot, Cincinnati, at 8.80 a. m. and 8.00 p.. m. Close connection is made with all lines into Cincinnati. CHAS.. W. ZEIJ,, Div. Passenger Agent, 4th & Race Sts. W. C. HXSEAKSON, Gen'l Passenger Agt,
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To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiess & Herman, 27 north Fourth street, where yon will always find an abundance of the choicest meats of all kinds. They have also on hand sausages of all kinds of their own make. Telephone 252.
The City Directory.
Ebei & Co.'s twelfth issue of the Terre Haute eity directory will contain all the old features that were good and new ones will he added. No place of business will be complete without a copy. A city map,, withi ward boundaries and voting precincts,. will also be added.
Inflammatory Rheumatism Cured In 3 Days. Morton L. Hill, of Lebanon, Ind.,saysK "My wife had Inflammatory Rheumatism in. every muscle and joint, her suffering waa terrible and her body and face were swollen beyond recognition had been In bed for s£x weeks and bad eight physicians but received nobenefit until she tried the MYSTIC CUBE FOR RHEUMATISM. It gave Immediate relief and sbe was able to walk about in thme days. I am sure it saved her life." Sold by Jacob Baur, Cook, Bell & Black, and alldroggtsts, Terre Haute.
Save Your Life
By using "New GREAT SOUTH AMJIBSCAK KJDNEY CUB*." This new remedy is a great surprise on account of Its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the Kidneys. Bladder and Back in male or female. It relieves
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Tours are not more enjoyable than the every day service of the V.-P., Vandal iaPennsylvania, the short line from Terre Haute to the east.
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To Various Polats la the South. Note below rates to some of the most principal points. Birmingham. Ala.. $8.40: Callahan. la.,$11.60 Charleston, S. C.. $14.25 Chattanooga. Tenn., $7.65 Gainsville, Fla.. $16.70 Jacksonville, Fla- $14.90 Knoxville. Tenn.. $8.80 Montgomery. Ala.. $0.90 Nashville. Tenn..$5.30 New Orleans. La., $13.35 Palatka. Fla.. $15.75.
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All callslwlll receive the most careful attention. Open day and night.
DR. R. W. VAN VALZAH,
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Office, No. 5 South Fifth Street.
Jus. P. Stunkard, Plaintiff's aAttorney. HERIFfS SALE.
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By virtue of an order of salo issued from the Vigo Superior court to me directed and delivered, in favor of Leopold Goodman and Simon Hlrsohler and against Joseph McChesney, I am ordered to sell the following described real estate, situated in Vigo county, Indiana, to-wit:
In-lot number ninety-five (95) of Cottage Place, in section twenty-six (28), In township tweiVe (12)'north, range nine (9) west, in Vigo county, Indiana, and on SATURDAY, THE 13TII DAY OF
.JUNE, 1800,
between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m.. and 4 o'clock p. m* of said day. at the north door of the court house, in Terre Haute, I will offer the rents and profits of the above described real estate, together with all privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, for a term not exceeding seven years, to the highest bidder for cash, and upon failure to realize a sum sufficient to satisfy said judgment and costs, I will then and there offer the feesimple in and to said real estate to the highest. bidder for cash to satisfy the same.
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JOHN BUTLER.
Pf. $7.10 Sheriff.
Samuel Farrand has taken up an estray mule at his residence about a mlfe northwest from Hutton postofflco in Prairie Creek township. described as follows:
A black "Horse-Mule" heavy set with a shade of brown on the nose, a small white spot on left side of neck, about 13!4 hands high and supposed to bo about ton years old.
Satd mule was found in the enclosure of "taker up" April 30th. 1896. May 22h(£ I8W. M. M. LIGHTNER. J. P.
The abore described estray mule was appraised at $15,00 by Gilford Wilson and Allen •—w M. M. LIGHTNER. J. P..
Attest:
HUGH P. ROQUET. Clerk.
PROCRASTINATION ia the thief of time, they say Remember danger always lurks ia delay Opportunities embrace, donrt let them pass by, Chances like sunbeams quickly fly Remember on to-morrow you n'er can rely. A word to the wise, sufficient is, it's true. So just a word of advice I give to you: To Hickey, the Grocer, for the best you had better go, In all lines he can please you I know. Not to-morrow but to day on him call A dime or a dollar he will save to all. -Take time by the forelock, do not delay In Terre Haute
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OTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice Is hereby given that ot» the 21st. day of April. 1896, the common c-otnicil of the city of Terre Haute adopted a resolution declaring an existing necessity for the Improvement of Putnam avenue from east building line of Sixth street to west building line of Seventh street, by grading and paving tho same the full width thereof, the sidewalks to be twelve feet, wide and paved with cement concrete next to property line the width of four feet, and curbed with hard limestone the roadway to be thirty-six feet wide and paved with broken stone and broken stone screenings: the said improvement to be made in all respects lu accordance with the general plan of improvement of said city and according to the plans and specispcciflchtioiis on file in the office of tho city engineer, the cost of the said improvement to be assessed to the abutting property owners and become due and collectible immediately on approval of the final estimate, unless the property owner shall have previously agreed in writing, to he filed with said plans, to waive all irregularity and illegality of the proceedings and pay his assessments when due.
Sealed proposals will be received for the construction of said improvements, at. tho office of the citv clerk, on the 16th day of June. 1896. until five (5) o'clock, and not thereafter. Each proposal must be accompanied by a bond with good freehold securities or equivalent security in the sum of two hundred dollars, liquidated damages, conditioned that the bidder shall duly enter Into contract and give bond within five days after the acceptance of his bid for the performance of the work. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
Any property owner objecting to the necessity of such Improvement may file such objections in writing, at the office of the city clerk on the 13th day of June, 189*), and be heard with reference thereto at the next regular meeting of the common council thereafter.
ANUSE
CHARLES H. GOODWIN. City Clerk.
ORDINANCE REGULATING THE OF BICYCLES AND OTHER VEHICLES REGULATING SPEED. USE OF BELLS, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY. Be it ordained by the common council of the city of Tern* Haute. Indiana:
Sect ion I. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons using and riding any bicycle tricycle or velocipede, or other similar wheel for propulsion, to ride or ptopel tho same at re greater rate of speed than six (6) miles per hour, over and upon Wabash avenue. Ohio street and Cherry street, and all Intersecting streets from First- street to Twenty-first street. Inclusive, between tho south fine of Ohio street and the north line of Cherry street of said city of Terre Haute, Hid., and on all other streets of said city of Terre Haute at a greater rate of speed uian eight. (8) miles per hour.
Sec. 2. That all persons riding and using any bicycle, tricycle or velocipede, shall, upon all occasions, keep to the right, hand side of the- street., and all persons, whether riding a bicycle, tricycle, velocipede or other vehicle, in passing around any other similar vehicle, traveling-in the same direction, shall at all times pass- around tho same upon the., left hand side of said person or persons so passed.
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any child or children under twelve (12) years of age. to ride any bfcycle. tricycle or velocipede upon or along Wabash avenue in tho city of Torre Haute. Ind.. at any time, and it shall he unlawful for the parents or guardian of any such child or children as aforesaid to suffer or permit clilld or children to ride any bicycle, trlcycle-orvolocipode upon or along Wabash avenue Ih the city of Terre Haute at any ime.
Sec. 4. That It sltoll bo unlawful for more than two persons to ride abreast on any bicycles. tricycles or velocipedes ujxm and along ,i streets of the city of Terre Haute, rjr time of the day or night.
any of the streets of the city Ind., at an
Sec. 5. That It shallhe unlawful for any
person or persons to ride any bicycle, tricycle or velocipede upon and along any of tho streets of the city of Terre Haute. Ind., without carrying an alarm bell. And a signalshall be given, by ringing said bell at least twenty (a0) feet before reaching any street crossing or intersection of any street or avenue or in turning any street corner.
Said bell shall be what Is known as a bicycle bell, and shall not tx* greater than throo (8) Inches in diameter, nor less than ono and one-half (1V4) Inches in diameter.
Sec. 6. That any person violating provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than one dollar ($1) and not more than five dollars ($5) for each offense.
Sec. 7. That an emergency exists for tho Immediate passage of this ordinance, therefore tho samoshaU bcln force and effort from and after Its passage and publication.
Adopted by the common council of the city of Terre Haute, at a regular meeting thereof held Tuesday evening. May 19th. 1896.
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On corner Twelfth and Main, bear in mind, New goods at L. Hickey's you will find.
LOOK'HERE!
If you ars going to build, what ia the tiae of going to see three or four different kinds of contractors? Why not go and see
A.FROMMB,
General Contractor
416 WILLOW STREET,
As he employs the best of mechanics in Brick Work, Plastering, Carpentering, Painting, etc., and will fnrnish you plans and specifications wanted.
OHAS.ll.-GOODWIN. City Clerk.
We want a few men to sell a CHOICBLlNKof" Nursery stock.
We cannot make-yon rich In a month but can give you Steady Employment and will pay you for it. Our prices correspond with the times. Write for terms and territory.
THE HAWKS NURSERY CO., Milwaukee, Wit.
C. I. FLEMING, M. D. C.
VETERINARIAN.
Special-attention given todiseasesof horses, cattle and dogs. Office 811 Main street.
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