The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-01


pie them to see q fair representation
Oh the residence portion of the city as we'll
10 View its leading industries. 1t was at
nrst proposed to arrange the drive so that
lt should take in President Harrison's first
home in this city, near the corner of North
and Alabama, but the limited time allowed
prevented any extension of the route.
1he visitors are expected to arrive at the
Union Station at 70'clock this morning,
when they will take breakfast on their
train. At o o'clock the reception commit
tees. representing the Board of Trade,
Common Council and Board of Aldermen.
VIII take charge of the visitors and escort
Soa9vss sns9 on specaI aIR. train to rba1s tas
an hour will be spent in viewing the
largest tfiouring-mill-works in the world.
returning by train to the station, carriages
VIII be waiting to convey them to the
welcomed by Governor Hovey and the
State officers. Thence the drive will be to
the United States encaustic tile and the
Atlas engine-works, and thence to the New
Denison by the route above mentioned.
The city itinerary. as now arranged. be-
ginning with the start from the Union Sta
tion about 0 A. NJ, is Nordyke g. Marmon's,
1856 4. NJ; Union Station, 1925 A. NJ; State
house. 1887 A. NJ. tile-works, 1880 A. NJ;
Atlas engine-works, 1880 P; NJ; New Deni;
place the guests viii bereceived by a com
mittee representing prominent industries
of the city. and made up of Col. Eli Lilly,
John j.; Cooper, j. NJ. Shaw, r. L. Whitti-
luncheon. will be served to the guests,
to WHICH. in addition to the commit
tees, the following gentlemen have
been invited: State offcers-Gov. A. +.
Hoyey: Lieut:.Gov /. j: Chase. Secretary
G. f. Griffin. Treasurer j. A. Lemcke. Aud
itor, Bruce Carr. Attorney general l.. 7.
stte Clerk pof Supreme Court M " l.
Noble, Reporter of Supreme Court
! l. STitsi MfsSs s. SuErems Eoss Court odsSs Sosy
j. G. Berkshire, Walter Olds. Sen
ator ID. w. Voorhees,, Congressman w. ID.
Bynum. Hon. Thomas II. Nelson. Terre
Haute. late minister to Chilli and Mexico;
late minister TO. Argentine Republic. An
informal reception. lasting from 4 to BIO
p. NJ. will be held in the hotel parl0rs. fol-
lowing the luncheon, at which citizens gem
orally will have opportunity to meet the
visitors, who Will leave for Louisville at 6
William w. Lord, jr., who travels in ad-
vance of the special train bearing the dele
gates, arrived here yesterday. He has
acted as avant-courenr for the excursion
ever since it started, generally keeping one
day in advance, and occasionally dropping
back as occasion offers. Your people" he
said to Journal reporter yesterday,
have made such thorough preparations to
nothing left for me to do. My business
generally is to confer with the local com
mittees and help to arrange things, for the
excursion is, to all intents and purposes, a
personally-conducted one, and the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, of which l
am one of the travelling agents. is response
bic for the comfort of the party in its
care. The company began this plan OF
excursions about two years ago. and
carries it out now with about as much de-
foI
any of the best-known excursion managers.
When it was proposed to show the delegates
the principal points of this country we
made contract with the State Department
whenever needed, subject to the approval
of w. +. Curtis, the agent of the depart
ment, and the excursion has been run very
satisfactorily under that arrangement. The
hOspitalitles extended by the various cities
and towns visited has added very much to
the pleasure of the journey. and it has been
keeIhy enjoyed by those who have taken
part in it. There was, as you probably re-
M s.n-aer, some talk a short time since
to che effect e,.a that I the ,uoh delegates
tainment and sightseeing. and Secretary
Blame telegraphed that if such were the
case the excursionistS could change the
programme and return to Washington any
that they had been misrepresented, and
that their enjoyment of the trip had in
creased daily, as they witnessed fresh evil
dences of Western enterprise. and expert
enced new testimonials of Western hospi-
tality.
''Not more than three or four of the dele
gates have dropped out since the excursion
started, and these were elderly men, to
whom the round of excitement and nearly
continuous travel proved too fatiguing.
before its travels. as a body, are concluded:
There are but one or two of
the delegates from abroad who do not
speak English. and they are so surrounded
by their countrymen, who speak our Ian
guage as well as their own, that none ex-
trip Is likely to prove source of profit to
all the countries whose representatives are
with rs. for they have improved the many
opportunities afforded them to gain. IN
tries. and will carry home the means of en-
tightening their people further concerning
our products and the means We have of
supplying foreign consumers. One thing
has struck Inc forcibly in what little
delegates. and that is the much fuller
and more accurate information they
have of our country than We have of theirs
l attribute this to the fact that it has
grown to be common thing of late years
for many families belonging to other
nations on this continent to send their
children to the United States to be edu-
Gated. This is especially true of Spanish
American families, and if You will examine
the catalogues of prominent institutions of
learning in this country you will be sur
prised at the number of students enrolled
from South and Central American states."s
What the Visitors VIII See.
While the brief time allowed for the e:
hibition of the city's industries will pr
vent the Spanish Americans from seeing
anything more than few of the prominent
manufactures, those that will be shown
them are fairly representative of the thrift
and enterprise which, combined with nat
ural advantages, have made Indianapolis
one of the most prosperous cities in the
Union. The Nordyke a. Marmon manufac-
tory is the largest enterprise in the coun-
try engaged i'll making four-mill ma
chinery. The company owns plant that
occupies an area of eleven acres, with rail-
road tracks and other shipping facilities on
its grounds. The improvements include
foundries. machine-shops. woodworking
shops, finishing and test-rooms, ware
houses and offices. and its products are in
use not only throughout the United States.
but in tho Canadian Dominion
aud Europe, Russia, Australia. New
Zealand and the wheat-producing coun-
tries of South America. 1t employs
q force of $50 experienced operators, and its