The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-28

as deep here as it was a few years ago and the
other is an economic reason. Instead of paying
for leather in a bootleg people prefer to have
that outlay in better leather and workman.
ship IN SHOE"
''There are number of old Aboltionists about
here" said gentlemen to the reporter, ''who
ought not to be forgotten for the good deeds done
by them when their sort of philanthropy was
not In fashion. I remember Mrs Jane Graydon,
now venerable in years, in 1S46-7-S, used to go
to the old negro Methodist Church on the north
west corner Of Georgia and Mississippi streets
to teach the young negroes there. She made her
self very much disliked among the best people
of the town, for the best people of that day
hardly considered it right to be even civil to ne
gro, and the stigma of 'Abolitionist' or niger
lover was the most approbrious that could be APP
piled to any one. Horse-stealing was the essence
OF respectability, compared with the work in
which Mrs Graydon engaged. have seen her
hooted at by the younger element on her way to
this church, and older persons hardly thought it
worth while to reprove the younger ones who
were engaged in so laudable an expression of dis
appreciation"
Washington street business man: IF the proper
effort were made / should think some, or all, of
the railroads entering here might be induced to
give very low rates of freight during their dull
season to certain classes of material that cannot
afford the usual rate and which, if we could get
it here at nominal price, would greatly benefit
our city. There is large amount of waste stuff
in towns within fifty miles of here Take for
instance saw-dust from country saw-mlls. At a
low freight rate four or five times the amount
now brought here could be proftably used.
Bowlders, for street making and street repair,
may be mentioned. Boys, in railroad towns
fhr0uph which cruO Vunrl6 ho OIa 5 nfp
opportunity to make little money
picking up powders. Then there's
broken stone for street repairs and street cross
ings The freight on the stone costs three
times as much as the stone itself. If it could
be brought here at low rate of freight the
work house authorities would have great GUAM
titles Of it broken, and it could be furnished to
the city at low price. There are other things
that might be mentioned, but these are enough
to show what mean. think If the railroad
people were approached in the right way some
thing might be done. 1t would be good thing
to try the Big Four first and see how cheaply in
the dull season they will haul Flatrock stone"
sour buEiness men work too hard" was re-
marked to the reporter the other day. :'They
never let up. Now, there's Mr.. T. NJ. Bassett, of
the New York store, an establishment that for
thirty years has been as good as mint for
making money. The building that store occupies
is on one of the most valuable locations in this
city, but the building itself is oldfashioned and
behind the enterprise of the people who are in
it. / asked him why they didn't put up new
building, say six or seven stories high like one
of the big Chicago blocks, and then sell every
thing, from shoe-strlng to steam engine be-
sides having restaurant and everything else,
all under one roof I've thought of it, said Mr..
Bassett, thought of it time and again, but bless
you, we have so much business we can't stop
"Now, that's the way here. Nobody wants to
stop. Even in New York and Chicago they do
occasionally take breathing spell. They at
least take time to build when new buildings are
needed"
'"Three or four Sundays ago." said staid,
rniddle-aged citizen, living in the northeastern
part of the city, II was walking along Fort
Wayne avenue during the hours of the morning
service of the churches and saw seven carriages
standing along one square At first l thought
there must be funeral in the neghborhood.
always had an eye for horsefesh, and, as got
nearer, saw the horses and vehicles belonged
to well-known church going citizens. aad found
that while the owners and their families were at