The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-07-20
Breaking Grounds for the
Iron Crossings
SPEECH OF COUNCILMAN cuRME.
Great Excitement and Enthusiasm

On Tuesday morning, July 20, at pre-
cisely $50, party of stalwart work
men assembled at the Citizen $ Bank
Corner, and, after pause OF few mo-
ments in order to receive few neccs
sary directions as to how they should
proceed to break ground. the sharp end
of pick was driven with powerful
force between the small boulders that
help from the guttering-the handle of
the aforesaid pick was then pulled up
ward, and the aforesaid boulders rolled
from their embodiment, and then Coun-
Gilman CURME made the following elo,
quent and impressive speech, for the
outlines Of which we are indebted to q
friend, not being able to arrive on the
ground ourself in time to hear it,
which we very much egret--fearing
that our friend has not made as full
report as should have been done: 1
'FELLow-CITIzENs In this age of
progress--when the Court House, the
Jail, and the other county buildings are
enthusiastically talked Of being moved
to our rapidly growing city-when the
project of building Sewer on Main
Street is hinted at--when the placing of
town clocks on all our churches is spo
ken of as part of the imperative du-
ties Of our City Council--it affords me
unspeakable qualification and delight 10
proclaim to the people of Richmond,
that the great work of laying down IRON
and STONE CROSSINGS has commenced
ground has just been broken, and soon
they will pass over the flowing cutters
when it rains) like the children Of Is
rael did over the Red Sea--dry shod
Applause. For the suggestion of this
Improvement, the thanks Of our people
are due to our energetic Mayor, T. W.
Bennett, cheers for Bennett who, I
regret to see by the last Radical, is
dubbed as His Lordship,' by a verdant
correspondent of that paper, about sew
enty four times
.'Fellow citizens, we commence this
work here in the old part Of the town in
order that, as we approach the new, we
may, by experience, do better job, if
possible; besides we thus avoid undue
excitement. Had we broken ground IN
/ the neW part first, intense feeling BE
tween the two extremes might have
/ been excited, that would have riva!e}
/ the important question o. moving the
/ + o. 10 " hangdoodle Hall or the H an
Corner! [Cries of right AMI Immense
applause.
';Feliow citizens, this IS an age Of pro
gress, as 1 said in the outset of nv
speech--a naovsng epoch in the history
of our city--the post office has been
moved to the Ham Corner-T pointing
to it--cheers the Telegram and
the Palladium will soon move from their
present quarters, wheat is moving into
our city by the hundreds of bushels, at
81 PER bushel-[applauseI-e is
growing rapidly, moving pward--glo-
rious crops Of fax, oats, potatoes, ap
Piles, peaches, and every thing else, n
GLIDING children--[applause]--and now
Cunning to the brigade who were arm
ed with picks aad shovels. move on witA
tAis sork. thank you, fellow citizens,
for your attention"
Here Messrs. Howard, Butler, Peter.
son, Roberts and others congratulated
| Councilman CURME on his eloquent eff.
| fort, and we left to write out the speech
from the imperfect notes furnished US.