The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-25
4 DAY TO BE REMEMBERED
The Fair Weather Yesterday Was Taken
Advantage of by Great Crowds.
Street-Car Traffic Was Unusually Heavy
Bands Of N usic and Spring Castumes-An
Opening Day for tie People.

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vests and spring opening suits. Ladies
with seasonable outfits filled the electric
cars and let their streamers ont on the Fair
view Park line in a truly breezy tanner.
Street-car conductors worked like ants all
day long, and rang bigger numbers on their
downs" and ups" than have ~gladdened
the eyes of the Citizens Street-railway
Company for many a month. Drug stores
stood with their doors semi tropIcally ajar
and permitted the "siz.z" of the soda f0unt-
ain to spend its seductiveness on their
patrons. Bands played. and middle-aged
people with red stripes down their legs and
purple feathers on their heads marched.
marched away.
The City League teams. together with
the sunshine. drew crowds of people to the
different baseball parks about the city.
and the old yells of two summer ago
thawed ont of their throats to the rhythm
of base hits and "t~hree-baggers."
About 5 o'clock last evening a little child
not much over four years old climbed ND
over the wicker side of an electric car that
was driving madly city ward. between Ninth
and Tenth, on Illinois street. and fell to
the ground. The wheels of the car missed
the little girl about three inches. No
sooner did the little ones sister. who
was about ten years OF age. see her
go over. than she jumped out of the car
on the other side and rolled quite q long
distance in the dust. Neither was hurt
seriously. but both were badly bruised. and
their clothes torn and s0iled. How they
both came out of it alive is q mystery.
The removal OF Lindsey Husband from
the streets to the p0Or-farm robs a Sunday
in Indianapolis OF half of it's original gal
lantry.
Judge Buskirk walked out yesterday
in q new suit of clothes, at an angle of
about 45O TO the rear. 1t is at such sights
are scared into activity. "a as a cOnse-
Quence some voice says:
The horse-fy and the plumber
Are whetting up their tools;
The plumber's for the water pipe,
The horse-fiy's for the mules.
The leaves of the maple groves along
North Meridian street, with wonderful ret
lcence and due caution, put out only q few
leaves yesterday as "feelers." but when the
atmosphere began growing cold. and to-
ness, their sap went down like that of the
Cleveland faction in the State convention
last Thursday. Several young couples who
had begun their summer try stings in the
Blind Asylum Park. were forced to their
barracks.
There is probably no sign of the times
that points with more urerrlng precision to
the future prosperity of this city than the
number OF baby carriages seen In the
parks and on the streets yesterday. Be-
tween such a sight and the promise de-
duced there certainly exists q geometrical
propinquity that is worth it's weight in
speculation. n should receive the atten-
tion of the Mayor.
The subject of dress is q delicate matter
to speak about outside of q monthly pc
riodical with pastel fashion PLACES. The
men of Indianapolis are not so fond of
dress as they are of politics. Inssmuoh as
their tastes are divided between the two.
errors In either are perhaps more pardon
able. A glance at the corner of Illinois and
Washington streets on q sunny Sunday
like yesterday shows that 10 school of
wearing apparel is preferred or shackles
the tastes OF those people who pretend to
wear fashionable clothes. There seems to
be an ~individualism in matters Of dress as
v~ariegated In color and style as that
which lends it's prismatic spien-
dOrs to a oirous-olown aggregation.
ak or seven blocks are often found fran
tically ~disputing. as Edmund Russell would
say. with q coat and vest striped with all
the aggressiveness of q barber-pole. The
around the hotels yesterday were. most of
them. q trite contemplative, but cOnserv-
alive wlthal. The great question concern
ing gentlemen's furnishings that Is at pres
ent claiming the attention of the clubs, Is
whether or not thirty-slx different kinds Of
perfumery are sufficient for q man to use
before going to see q game of base bal.
Fair weather is never more cordially well
coined in this city than ON Sunday. In
dianapolis Is a city of brOtherhoOds and
working people who have but one day In
the week on which to enjoy themselves and
rest from their labor. There Is many q
man who Is grateful to-day for the sun
shine of yesterday. that acted like a tonic
on his spirits. and. doubtless. lifted him
into a better relationship with himself and
the world in general.