The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-20

to the places, and so long as it is so, it is use
less to cling to a lost cause.
Cincinnati is indiscreet as well as "slOw."
Having full half century's start of Indian
apolis, she should be so far beyond rivalry,
that even our gigantic strides could not ruff
fle the complacent serenity of assured posi-
lion. But the drippings from the press indi-
cate that envy and dread are eating the vi
tails of the unfortunate and decading city.
Cincinnati isn't given much to bible reading
or it would have remembered that standing
lesson to envy and malice in all times
"would that mine enemy would write a
book" Indianapolis enemy has done the
next thing to tin fact, is perpetually pa
rading its heart on its sleeve for davis to
peck at. A few months ago some
enterprising manufacturers came from
that envious town on the Ohio
and impressed with the wonderful advan-
tages of this city, cast about for chance to
squeeze into the thriving den of accumu.at-
ing industry. A place was of course found.
They knew that where there we're so many
people there must presently, in the fullness
of time, be a procession to the tomb, and
they set to work to provide caskets for the
pilgrim hosts bound over the river. Having
set their house in order, and finding the city
greater even than had been said or sung,
they straightway set about enlishtening the
people broadcast. They devised a
work of illustrative art, setting
off this city's most conspicuous
advantages, and these have been sent to the
cities of the land, the editors therein, and
whose, perchance, desires to bask in the
promise of the great inland city of the future.
Cincinnati editor having received this
stunning presentation Of the modest merits
of this town is moved to say half in malice
half in admitIance:
indianapolis is great focus. 1t is the center
of modern civilization. We learn this fact from
a circular map before us. which resembles rail-
road map of the world, indianapolis being the
Rome to which all roads lead. This picture of
indianapolis and its suburbs, which was evil
IDENTIFY made by an astronomer, is curiosity
No man can have an adequate idea OF the inn
portance of Indianapolis who has not
examined this map. 1t is kind Of
astronomical and geographical representa-
ticn of Indianapolis "as a shipping
point" OF course no picture could fifty repre-
sent indianapolis in this aspect that did not
give a birds eye view of its suburbs. SO we
have clustered within the concentric circles of
which the capital of Indiana is the center the
various suburban villages that draw their sus-
ienance and Importance from Indianapolis
The shades of the map, together with the con-
centric circles aforesaid, denote with charming
perspicuity the extent to which the cities of the
Hmm n Cd nv fha r,ffo 1
Among the more favored suburban cities of In
dianapois we notice in the first concentric circle
Clncinnstis Lexington, Louisville, Columbus,
MaysvilIe, Frankfort, Toledo, Kalamazoo, and
even Chicago. Among the less favored suburban
cities tributary to indianapolis, as we learn
from this eccentric and concentrlc map, we
notice Detroit, st. Louis, Memphis, Nashville
Pittsburg and Cleveland. There are cities of the
third class, according to the Indianapolis geo.
grapher, all tributary to indianapolis. In this
unhappy grade we find st. Paul, Buffalo and
Rochester, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing
ton, Richmond, Atlanta, Vicksburg, Little
Rock and the included villages. The suburbs OF
this famous city, according 10 the Hoosler geo.
grapner, only extend go miles into the wilder
ness, and the suburban grades are 200, 400 and
GOO miles respectively. Just little outside of
the charmed circle number three we notice, TO
be sure, New York, and Charleston, and New
Orleans, and Mobile, but those villages are not
OF much account, being remote from Indianap-
oils. We suggest to the real estate owners
and dealers of Cincinnati that this indianapolis
maker ~ maps should be hired to construct a
concentnc map of Cincinnati. Real property
hereabouts would rise straightway.
This extorted eulogy is from the En-
quirer.
Farther down the river, the decorous and
sedate Journal of Evansville, is moved TO
remark that:
"An Indianapolis map maker has been doing
q good work for the metropolis of Marion. The
city, with its suburbs, as far as we are able to
determine from his work, covers an area OF
something like three hundred miles square, and
contains a population of about two millions
Chicago, st. Louis and Cincinnati are the most