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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-31

Twenty-Three Transfers. with a Total Con-
sideration of $50, 1875.
Instruments filed for record Ia the recorders
office of Marion county,. Indiana. for the twen-
ty-four hours ending at 5 =. NJ. Dec. 80. 1892,
as furnished by Elliott & Butler. abstracters
Of titles. Hartford Block. No. 81 East Market
street:
MiIlie Rector and husband to Oliver
X. Bradford and wife lot 220, in
McCarty's seventh West-side addi-
William ii. Bristow and wife to lila
M. Norris, lot 52l, in McCarty's
eleventh West-side addition.---- -. 100000
Theodore NJ. Carriger and wife to
John Carriger and wife, part of lot
B. in the Miami Powder Conpany's
addition to West Indianapolis 100000
James L. Mccormack and wife TO
John Carriger and wife, part or lot
A, in the Miami Powder Company's
addition to West Indianapolls.--:- l,OO0.oo
John w. Williams and wife TO John
Carriger and wife. lot SO. in Ogle's
East Park addition. 1,oOO.OO
Sarah A. Dynes and husband to John
Carriger, part of lot 50, in Julian,
johnson, Kawles e. Goods subdlvis-
ion and addition TO Irvingt0n..--- $4,000
Merrick l.. VintOn and wife TO Richard
c. May, lot 2, in Reagan Park add
Carey Z. Cowgirl ct al. to Herman H.
Bruce Place addition 100000
Henry II. Beville and wife to Charles
Lichtenberg; lot 6s. in James john 90
George ". Stout and wife to Fred
erick Broker. lot $50, in Stout's
1ndiana-avenue addition.--------- Z5O.OO
Patrick j. Mullaney ct al. to Victor
M. Backus. lots 5, "a, 80, so and 81,
North indisnapoIis.s..~.--~.. 10000
Elizabeth G. Sharpe and husband TO
8 and 8. in square 77..--~~~. 100000
Patrick j. Mullaney TO John w.
Wrinck, lot 112. in Davis's Sugar
Grove addition ---...-----.--- 10000
John w. Snowden and wife to John
r HuaaQv lof 2T2 IN MQCQrfvsa
ninth Wess'side addition--~~ 1,s5o.oo
Isaac n. Locke and wife to John NJ.
addition 10000
The indianapolis Brewing Company
to Martin b. Logan. part of lots 40.
and so, in McKernan d. PieIce's sub
division of outlot 12s.--------- 10000
Walton L. Dynes to Matte Bryan. lot
iop's addition 10000
| william T.. Stevenson and wife to
Samuel E.. Hamlin, lot 1872, In Mill
game Brook Park addition..--..... 100000
| Samuel L. Hamlin to stephen 4. Win
Brook Park addition. 10000
| James II. Swan and wife to Frank b.
Bremmerman. part OF lots 3S and
| 80, in block 5. IN North Indianap-
$4,000
first Woodiawn addition.--...-. 2.35o.oo
| Charles A. Wilson and wife to j. War
rem sawyer. lots . and q, in Wrights
North-side addition. ......-.... $500
Myrtle VI. Wheeler to John Roberts.
| part OF the northwest quarter of the
southeast quarter OF sections 3, town.
| ship IL, range 1000
Transfers. %; oonsideration
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-31

Bar Silver-At New York, S25sc per ounce;
ct London, 3S SIZED.
The following table,. compiled by Brad
streets, gives the clearinghouse returnsfor
the week ending Dec. %, 1892, and the per-
centsge of increase or decrease. as COM
pared with the corresponding week last
year In the leading cities:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-31

The total clearings In the United States
amounted to 81. 066. $40. 1876. with an increase
York. was s464. $40. SIS, with an increase of
1872 per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-31

Cattle In Light Supply and Strong-Hogs
Steady-Sheep Unchanged.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 30.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts. GOO; shipments, 900. The supply
wasda very light one for Friday. and the
market was strong on the better grades
but dull and slow of sale on common.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-31
Dry Goods.

NEW YORK. Dec. 30.-Business In dry goods
was almost entirely restricted to the completion
of former sales and. deliveries. Between
agents and clothiers there was q relative active
business in new goods.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-31
PENSIONS FOR VETERANS.
Residents of Indiana and Illinois Whose
Claims Have Been Allowed.
Pensions have been granted the follow
pu-uamed Tudianrans.

Residents OF Indiana and Illinois Whose
Claims Have Been Allowed.
Pensions have been granted the follow
ing-Damed Indianlans:
Original-William Conyers. William s. Peck,
s %,li George Aisi sMsns. Wifi William Saii e. C sGsssn s aep%R,
II. Carey, Joseph Jonatt MISUNDERSTANDING
Bray. James Clark, Joseph Malott. Charles Rod
w. Hayes, VIM. J. Hilton. Henderson Gibson.
Increase-David A. Miller, Joshua NJ. Gritty,
Milton Reid. Nathan Frazier. Robert Alcorn,
walker. Lafayette Miller. Increase-Phiie
mon Behee. R-eissue-Zebedee Craig. Levi
Ii. Miles, Joseph Dory. William Boone. Joseph
son, Smith w. Davis, George Tyrrell. Harvey
Clanson. Susannah Ritter, Alkaline Allen, minors
OF James NJ. Rowe. Julia &. Davis. Charlotte
Norton, Josephine Noble, Eliza W. Davis, Joanna
s Lance tmotherl. Minerva Barlow. Mary J.
Wright. minors of Michael Murphy. Jane II.
gin, Mary Yarnall, Hannah Sweet (mother.)
Mexican widows-Ann Berry, Frances Mush-
rush, Eliza NJ. Kelly.
TO RESIDENT OIL ILLINOIS.
Original-John r. kidmore John w. Creek,
Patrick O'Connell, Ethan Bnsart. Henry Rich
man, Christian Schulz. Andrew Young. Thomas
Wheeler, Joshua B. White, Eben q. Wiley. Jesse
8. Bean. Additional-George schmitz. Patrick
Murphy, Alex. Lemon, John A. Coughing, Will
lam Richardson. Michael Bub. Christopher
Schmidt. In~crcase-Andrew Wilson, Wyatt Q.
Terrell, George w. Higgins, John Myers, Lyean-
der Meeker, Martin CRANKY, william Crook,
John sherman. Peter stahl Reissue-Jesse c.
Young, William w. Baleh, Charles II. Neel. Or
iginal widows. etc. Martha Tate, Ellen M. Up
dixie, Esther c. shipton. Martha sibert, Mary
Ellis, Margaret G. Wickersham, Rebecca j. HUFF
stutler, Catharine c. Dunn, Ellen Henzies, Nancy
A. Mourning, Medora {. Palmer, Christina >.
Barfield, Leah c.. Meredith, Emile Lindenbery,
Eliza Simms, Margaretha Schumacher, Mary a.
Moliler, Temperance Fordyce. Eliza A. Jacobs,
minorsof Joseph YeIDy, Nancy p. Page (mother),
R0berf O. IOuQh ffaflprl. minors of John Pafrip-
minors OF William Lawyer. Mexican widow
Nancy A. Sw0tford.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-31
Wool.
LIVE STOCK.

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Wool firm; domestic
fleece, 25032c; pulled. 2OO32c; Texas, 15021c.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-31

NEW YORK, Dec. 3O.-Pigiron steady;
American, $~l2750l5.5O. Copper dull and
steady; lake, 12.20c. Lead quiet; domestic,
3seJcs Tin firmer; Straits. 10. soc
eT. LOUIS. Dec. O.-Lead quiet at 3.67l2c;
spelter quiet at 4.05c.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-31
Cotton.

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 3O.-Cotton firm; mid
ding. 91c; low middline. 9lec; good ordinary.
s5sc; net receipts. S.744 bales; gross receipts.
9,275 bales; exports to the continent. S,492
bales; exports coastwise. 1870 bales: sales. 1880
bales: stock, 351.750 bales. Weekly-Ner re-
ceipts. TOTO bales; gross receipts. 81 1887 bales;
exports to Great Britain. 1885 bales; exports
to the continent, 21, 1871 bales; exports coastwise,
y, 1913 bales; sales, 27,700 bales.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-31

Twenty-Three Transfers. with a Total Con-
sideration of $50, 1885.
Instruments filed for record Ia the recorders
office of Marion county. Indiana. for tho swen-
ty-four hours ending at 5 p. NJ. Dec. 80. 1892,
as furnished by Elliott & Butler. abstracters
Of titles. Hartford Block. No. 81 East Market
afraaf.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-19
A GLANCE HISTORICAL,

Showing what the personal Equa-
tIOn" Means Ina the Conduct OF the
Estey Business.
About 1850, as already stated, when ia
cob Estey first acquired an interest in the
organ business, portion of the old shop
down by the brook furnished room enough
for its needs; the product was about 70 in
struments a year, and Mr.. Estey sold
most of them himself on business trips tax
en- for this purpose. Today the business
occupies the whole of the extensive plant
shown in our central engraving, 800 men
are employed, and the cOmpany's goods are
sold and the Estey name is familiar the
civilized world over. What has caused
this remarkable growth and development
of business in country town in Yer
mont?
First in answer to this question there
comes the personal equation, and first in
this was Jacob Estey, the founder of the
concem-the man of large brain, of far
seeing business judgment, courageous,
tireless, working on long lines, and leaving
at his death in 1890 this great business so
strongly and securely established that 9TH
ers could take it from. his hands without
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-19
A GLANCE REMINISCENT.

In the year 1916 what we now know as
busy, thickly peopled and prosperous Brat
tleboro was country village of the dis
tinctvely rural, and even pastoral, type.
Its population, the village, we mean, num-
bered less than 2000 souls. What is now
Main street, with its solid buildings of
brick and stone, consisted mostly of rows
of wooden buildings used in part as pri-
vate dwellings. Walnut street and the
Terrace were good farming land owned by
Spencer and Kingsley, and afterward by
Edward Kirkland. So also was the tract
beyond, covering the present North and
Tyler streets, owned then by n. b. Willis
ton. Oak street was part of Wells Good
hue's farm. The land on either side of
Western avenue, from the top of the hill,
including Forest square, was yielding to
its owners good returns of corn, oats, po-
tatOes and pasturage. Careful mothers
thought it not safe for their children to
stray too far away in that direction in
search of bueberries. Elliot street and
Canal street were country roads running
out through country spaces. On Prospect
hill the old part of the cemetery occupied
the brow of the hill on one side of the
road to Guiford. On the other side stood
just two houses-the Thomas house, re-
Gently built over into two-story dwelling,
and the one next beyond. All the rest of
the broad plateau, now one of the most
attractive of our residence districts, was
covered with gray and white oak, chest
nut, and few pines and naples. Partridge
shooting was good up there in its season.
If you had said "Esteyville" then-but
you wouldn't have said Esteyville, for it
wasn't so much as thought of, and there
was nothing to make it out of for more
than twenty years afterward. With the
exception of two or three houses at this
end of what is now Birge street, from the
edge of the bank or terrace, where the Es-
tey factories now stand in an imposing
row, away back toward Thayers, and the
Clark farm and Aliens, there was farming
land, pasturage and woodland. II you had
wandered over that way and said to one of
the sons of toll who was planting corn,
making hay digging potatoes, or cutting
firewood there, that in the year of grace
1892 Several years earlier, in point of fact,
every rod of that tract would be cut up
into streets, and the streets lined with at,
tractive, well-built houses, door-yards and
gardens-real homes of the peope-he
would have stared at you till he recovered
his BREATH and then would have bluntly
told you that you were in the wrong part
of the town and had better go over across
to the asylum and get DIR. Rockwell to take
care of you. But all this and great deal
more has happened, and let us see what
has been the main factor in bringing it
about.
One day in June of that same wear.
1876, two young men by the name of Jones
came driving over to Brattleboro from
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-19

by the Vermont Republican state conven-
tion the sixth of September will wit
ness his election to that office, and in
October he will be duly installed the exec
utve head of the state.
One of the most important fields in
which Col. Fuller has interested himself,
outside his own business, has been that of
education, and his most notable work in
this direction has been at Vermont Acade-
my at SaXtons River, to which he has Civ
en- largely, both of time and money. I'm
der his management as president of the
board of trustees this school has taken
high rank with institutions of its kind in
New England. Always interested in
farming and the development of Vermont's
agricultural resources, he has given this
interest practical expression by the pur-
chase and GIFT to the Academy of a farm
where the best modern methods in agricult
ure are exemplifed.
Here we have the personal e1uation''
in the Estey business, but something more
about this will develop little farther on.
The Volume OF Business.
When the business was removed in 1870
to its present site on Birge street only the
shops now numbered 3, 1, 3 and 6. were
built, and it was then supposed that the
large amount of room thus afforded would
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-19

shock or jar, and carry it forward to still
greater success.
In 1860 Mr.. Estey associated with him
self in the organ business his son. Julius
j. Estey, and his son-in-law, Levi X.
Fuller. Here came in the rest of the
personal equation, and from this the pros
perity of the business as we know it today
takes its date. Col. Julius j. Estey, the
treasurer of the company, has devoted
himself to the care of its finances and
in addition to this he has had the general
charge of the stores and agencies for the
sale of its goods, scattered throughout
this country and abroad. a man of
strong and well-trained ability, possess
ing the subtle element of personal mag
netism in an unusual degree, and the hap
by faculty of carrying heavy load of
business responsibility without fretting or
chatting under it, he takes strong person.
al hold on everybody with whom he is
brought in contact, and has largely given to
the concern that quality of personal popu-
larity and GOODWILL which is an essential fac.
tor in business success. Besides numerous
minor activities in town and state he is the
president of the Peoples National bank,
treasurer of the Moody schools at North
field and of Vermont Academy, and
trustee of the Vermont Soldiers Home at
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-19

away. The agents may smile, hut that was
the spirit of Yankee thrift, enterprise, and
self-reliance which put the organ business
on its feet in its early beginnings and
made it ready to grow up to what they see
it and are reaping their profit from today.
In 1857 the shop by the brook was
burned and a new and larger one was built
where the Brattleboro House now stands
This in its turn was burned in 1864, and
the factory, which is the present hotel
building, was erected on its site. BY this
time the business had begun to grow in
earnest. Yankee thrift enterprise and
self-relance were beginning to tell and
the demand was constantly for more ROOM
In 1866 the large factory on Frost street.
now occupied by S. A. Smith d Co., was
built and occupied. The great freshet of
1869, so disastrous to property throughout
the Connecticut valley, not only swept
away large quantity of valuable lumber
belonging to the Estey concern. but threat
ened the safety of the factory itself, and
preferring not to add to his investment
there Mr.. Estey at once bought the large
tract of farming and pasture land west of
the village, which has now grown to be
Esteyville, and began the erection of the
present factories, the most extensive of
their kind in the world
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-19

There was celebrated in Bratteboro on
Wednesday an event which stands by itself
in the history of the musical and indus
trial world. In its inception, and in what it
marked in the progress of great concern,
it was unique, having no parallel, as we
believe, in this country or abroad. On
that day, in the presence of the Governor
of the state and his staff, and of other
distinguished Vermont citizens, of the
cOmpany's five hundred workmen and their
families, of its agents in many places, of
members of other leading concerns in the
music trade, of large representation of
the press, and-best of all-of great as
semblage of the company's fellow towns
folk, the Estey Organ company held eXer-
cises fittingly commemorating the produc-
tion of the 250,000th organ at its works in
this place. What this achievement means
in mathematics, from an industrial stand
point, or as a milestone marking the prog
ress of one of the great concerns of this
country, there is no need to pause here to
say. The figures suggest their own story.
Nature was in happy mood. Sun and
skies were propitious. Brattleboro was
at its best in its charming summer attire.
Business and private buildings were gayly
decked, and on every hand there was a
spirit of overhowing goodwill toward the
concern that has done so much to make
Brattlcboro what it is today.
We tell herewith, in such generous detail
as space permits, the story of the day, and of
the significance, past and present, of this
red-letter event in Bratteboro's history.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-19

Bennington. In 1892 he was a member of
the state senate. Born with decided
leaning toward military life, an office
in which he probably feels more per-
sonal pride than any other is that of
colonel commanding the First Regiment,
National Guard of Vermont, a position in
which he enjoys the cordial esteem of both
officers and men. Next week will see him
on the ''tented field at Montpelier in COM
mand of the regiment at the annual mus
ter.
Col. Levi X. Fuller brought to the con-
Germ an active brain, an inventive genius,
and large administrative ability, which
have steadily been felt, and more and more
each added year, as a motive power and
working force. From the first it was evil
dent that his mental makeup and equip
ment were such as to make him see quick
ly the capabilities of the business, and then
to devise means for their full development.
In this respect he has shaped the destiny
OF the Estey Organ company as few men
could have done. The important inven-
tions which have given the Estey instru-
ments their acknowledged prominence are
the product of his ingenuity. His stand
ing in the music trade is as well estab-
lished in Europe as in this country, and
within the last year he has been given an
unusual promiHence, and has come to be
felt as very important personal factor in
the musical world, by his achievement in
securing the adoption of uniform or inter-
national pitch for musical instruments by
all the leading makers, as well as by the
leading musical organizations, throughout
the country. Col. Fuller also has military
tastes, having organized the Fuller Light
Battery in 1874, and remaining its com
mander continuously since that time. He
was member of the state senate in 1880,
and in 1886 was elected lieutenant govern
or of Vermont, filling the Office with credit
to himself and honor to the state. In
June last he was nominated for governor
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-19
CITIZENS EXPRESSION.

At a meeting of the citizens of Brattle-
boro held at the lower town hall. Monday
evening, for the purpose of making an eX-
preston of their feelings toward the Estey
Organ company, and its great advantage to
the town both in regard to its growth and
its present prosperity, and also wishing to
make this expression in connection with
the celebration of the event of the compile
tion by the Estey Organ company of its
25O,OOOth organ, it was resolved that a
committee of ten be appointed by the chair
to draft suitable resolutions expressing the
sentiment of the citizens of Bratteboro.
The chairman appointed as that committee
q. A. Marshall, n. |. Hawley, b. d. Har-
ris, Judge Geo. Shea, f. w. Childs, Judge
ii. II. Wheeler, Geo. S. Dowley. E. c.
Crosby, DR.. 5. f. Lawton and W. c. Car
penter. g. W. Hooker was chosen chair
man of the meeting and C.. F. Thompson
secretary.
The resolutions as formulated by the
committee were the following:
Resolved, That we, the inhabitants of Brattle-
boro, by an act proceeding from ourselves. desire
to recognize the remarkable occasion in which is
TO be celebrated the completion of muSic-OrganS
to the number of 10000. by the Estey Organ COM
pany, That while we rejoice in an achievement
which has brought renown once more to the excel
ling quality OF American productveness by the
genius of an American, we f, el that we are i'm
gratitude 'ound to especially acknowledge and
we do cheerully acknowledge. the benefits con-
terfed upon our town by an enterprise which has
greatly contributed TO our material prosperity,
and increased our population by additions eXcep-
ionaly good in domestic industrial and social
relations; who are not distinct in our midst but
have merged themselves with our inhabitants and
are townfolk as ourselves
heSOtred, That the acutenesS and industry of
Jacob Estey have immensely facilitated the mis-
sions OF muSic-culture carrying its faculties into
more than quarter of "A million of halls and
homes, making his name a household word.
ReSolrcd. That we, the inhabitants of Bratte-
boro, therefore are conscious that we may rejoice
IN the reputation of a marvellous enterprise which
has carried the name of Estey Throughout his ma
tive country into kindred lands unto foreign climes
where the English tongue is unknown. But the
Ian uage of music is strange to ear: it is uni
versal.
Hon. B. d. Harris was selected by the
committee to present these resolutions at
the suitable time on Wednesday evening.
In performing this Office Mr.. Harris said:
"Mr Chairman: | am hOnOred by the cit
izens of Brattleboro with the commission,
at this time and in this distinguished pres
ence, to communicate to the Estey Organ
company, and the individual members of
it, the formal expression of cordial appre-
citation by their fellow townsmen, with
congratulations on their eminently success
full achievements in the past and present,
and hearty good wishes for the future
"At public meeting of the inhabitants
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-19

So the organ business began in Brattle-
boro. So it grew, and so Brattleboro has
grown with it. Put this and that together
and you will see what we had in mind
when we started to write. 1t has been
good thing for Brattleboro to have had 25O,-
900 organs made here.
"There are more men in the Estey works
today that don't know than there were in
the whole village of Brattleboro 40 years
ago" said the veteran J. L. Jones in an
hours reminiscent talk the other night-he
who, in June, 1916, was young man of 2l
bringing his own and his brothers worldly
goods over from Winchester in two-horse
load, to build melodeons in Brattleboro.