The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-22
THE DEPAUw FAMILY.
Their Business Interests and Their POlitics--
The Senior De Pauw as Worker

Correspondence of the Indianapo is Journal
NEW ALBANY, Aug 2L-Twenty years alb
sence from growing village like New Albany
give occasion for unfeigned surprise at the nn-
merous developments Of wealth and prosperity
everywhere exhibited during a period of we'll
managed public affairs. Those who are on the
spot hardly appreciate these gradual yet certain
changes as one. does who goes and returns after
the lapse of years. Since my last visit to this
beautiful suburb of Louisville, glass works and
various factories that were not there are, now
fixed institutions, and beautiful residences and
large stores, and shops, and banks have kept
pace with those industrial enterprises, while the
homes Of the artisans and mechanics are models
of neatness and comfort rarely seen.
TO me the most attractive place of special in
spection was the DePauw glass-works- The bot
tle-blowing and window-glass departments are
takinga vacation" now, as professional men
call their suspensions of labor but the plate-glass
making was in full blast, as If for my special ed
ificatfon As no pen description could give any
idea of the process of making glass an inch thick
shall not attempt it. Go and see Frank
will show you through, from the molten metal
to the shipping groom, and by the time you get
through you won't care a copper for an the
stone-throwing IN creation if your glass house is
built ofsuch. plate glass as the DePauws make
the like Of it is not to be found elsewhere in
America
( By the way, this man DePauw is a rare man.
he owns these works alone, and then he has
large interests in the nail mills and the cotton,
mills, and other Industries, as we'll as in the
banks and in large quantities of
real estate, mostly productive, and
he. gives personal supervision to- it. all;
and yet deyotes about six hours day to cor
tail of DePauw University, from the printing Of
the catalogue and the salaries of faculty to the
course of study and the quality of the stone brick
and mortar that are going into the dormitores
Then he manages to study the Snnday-sclioel
lesson, and has missed but one Sunday in the last
one hundred weeks from his mission Sunday
school in the Opera-house, often numbering
one tho usand, and which, as hotas was last Sun
day, numbered nearly six hundred
DePauw, the senior, is Democrat, strange
as it may seem. 1t happened thus His, early
training was defective. He came to manhood.
IN Washington county, Indiana where Democ-,
racy islindigenous to the soil, and while. yet a
minor, his force of character made him leader,
and when barely of age he wasput into the best
Office in the county and kept there ten. or twelve
years. All such has wonderful effect on
mans notions in after life, and Mr. DePauw is
not forgetful of those substantial faxors, hence
there elings to him the peculiar what do-yeu-
call-it of his early life and he remains true to
the traditions of old Washington. county Demnc-
racy. But Mr.. DePauw won't vote for Cleve-
land! like all business men who have interests
to be affected by the result. he is afraid of the
reform which, as Mr.. Hendricks proposes, is the
immediate, change of fifty thousand. governments
employees, and then the change of another fifty
thousand as rapidly as their cases can be reached
under existing contracts. He does. not indorse
all the distinctive degmas of tho Republican
party, but he has business sense enough to. see
that such a revolution as is proposed by the
party as now run in the interest of
Cleveland, Hendricks and the other 100,
600 offiee-Seekers. would endangef, if it
did not destroy the industries of
the country, which confessedly are in very
prosperous condition as compared with anything
ever known under old Democratic rule. He will
not vote for Cleveland nor yet for Blaine He
is just now in that peculiar frame-of mind that
the awakened sinner experiences when he sees
the errors of his past life and resolves to cease
to do evil, but is hardly far enough along to re-.
solve to do well. He NAV come to that, however.
At present he has but one polite and that is
prohibition. He will vote the Prohibition State
ticket anyhow and if thareis an. electoral ticket
he and another man in. New Albany will vote
unanimously for st. John.
The junior DePauws, theaactive managers Of
most of the general business of the father, are
outspoken Republicans and though not noisy,
about it, they declare their faith ON all proper
occasions Their early political training was
better than could be found forty years ago old.
Washington county. No mingling in good society
in after life can ever cure one of the mistakes
of childhood. Jesse D. Bright continued to say,
them fellers7 and to use such monstrous
barbarisms till his DEATH though more than,
twenty years in Congress. They stick just as
senior DePauws Democracy sticks, even though.
he has been out of the Washington county woods
a. quarter of century or more. A fearful lesson
to parents to see that their children get good
START For as the poet saith just as the tWigis-
bent, the trees Inclined But to get back to
New Albany: The worst institution in or about
the city is the Ohio river. It sometimes gets on
the rampage and does more harm than good.
Then it goes SO near dry that it is of on account,
and that is about it's present condition Inshort,
the Frenchman who called it la belle riviere. was
adolf Itfurnishes waterfor the city water
works and sand for the glass-works and that is
about all it is fit for now. o. L. SEE.