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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-25
1T WANTS MORE TRACK ROOM
Big Four Railway Company Applies to
the City Authorities for Franchises.
Where Water Mains Are to Be PlAced-Asphslt
on Illinois ard Washington Streets
and Massachusetts, Avenue.

Judge Elliott appeared before the Board
of Pubic Works yesterday in the behalf of
the Big Four Railroad Company. presenting
q petition in which she company asks the
right to lay and maintain the following adj
ditIonal tracks in the city: Aswitch Begin
ming at East street and running parallel
with the property of the company; one ad-
ditionsl switch across Pine street. two
tracks across Leota street. and one switch
at that point to the machine shops: one
track across State street and English av-
enue and one track across Auburn street.
The foregoing is to provide for q new
double track system from East street TO
the city limits. Judge Elliott requested
the board to inspect the ground personally.
and then to appoint a time when he might
talk the matter over with It The board
acceded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-25
On this point Mr.. Harrison said:

[Crles OF "N9, no!"1 My countryfnen, 5000 GOO
mas never passed. and never will pass, from the
treasury Of Indiapa that will give a better re-
turn than the expenditure for the erection OF this
monument.
Referring 60 the purpose of the monu-
ment. General Harrison said:
No American citizen need avoid it or pass il
by with unsympathetic eyes, for, my country
men. IL does not commemorate a war OF sub
1~ugation. There IS not I'm the United States to-
day a man who, IL he realizes wnat has occurred
since the war and has opened his soul 10 the
sight of that which Is to come. who will
not feel that it Is good for all
our people that victory crowned the
cause which this monument commentaries. L
do seriously believe that IL we can measure among
the States the benefits resulting from the pres
e~rvation OF the Union. the rebelllous States have
the larger share,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-25
Maryi.nd-street Sewer.

The following sewer resolutions were
finally adopted yesterday and bids will be
asked for: For the construction OF a main
sewer from the corner of Pearl and East
streets to the main sewer In Kentucky
avenue at Georgia street. by the way of
Pearl, Maryland and Georgia streets.
Length, 4.7S4 feet. sizes. three feet six
inches by i've feet three inches TO two feet
four inches by three feet six inches. For
the construction Of q local sewer In Georgia
street from Pennsylvania TO Delaware
street. Length 40 feet, size, fifteen By
eighteen inches.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-25

The contract for grading and gravelina
Dickson street. from Ohio 20 Market street.
has been completed. and the assessment
will be as follows: Nine hundred and
fiftv-nine feet frontage. at u cents. max
ing the total cost S73S.43.
The contract for grading and GraveliDg
the first alley east of Jefferson street. from
Washington street. to Ohio street. has
been completed. and the assessment lie as
follows: Two thousand three hundred and
eIghty-six feet frontage. at n cents. max
Ing8 total cost OF e50l .06. TO which Is added
a wooden culycrt at a.. so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-25

SAD, indeed. is the fate of q people who
have a confirmed pessimist at the head of
the weather bureau.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-25

A petition asking for the construction Of
. local sewer In Clifford avenue. from
Massachusetts, avenue to Tecumseh street.
was presented, and the engineer was in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-25

The Board of Public Works. after several
days of consultation, have decided TO order
the following water mains laid the coming
season:
In Lord street. from Benton street to Pine
street. locating one plug.
In English avenue, from Dillon street TO Lin
den street, locating two pings.
In High street, from McCarty street &C Coburn
street, locating two plugs.
In Missouri street. from Kentucky avenue TO
McCarty street, locating three plugs.
In Washington street. from canal west TO De-
catur street. locating nine plugs.
In Decatur street, from Washington street 70
Springfield street, locating one ping.
In Bellefontaine street, from Massachusetts,
avenue to Christian avenue. locating one plug
In New Jersey street. from Morrison street TO
Home avenue, locating one plug.
In Home avenue, from Ash street to Peru
street, locating one plug at Bellefontafne street
In Ninth street, from BellefOntaine street 10
Hillside avenue, locating six plugs
In Davidson street, from Ohio street to Yer.
mont street, locating one plug at New York
street.
In. Michigan street, from Dormau street to
Archer street, in Archer street north TO Michigan
street, locating one plug at Michigan and Archer
In CLIFFORD avenue. from Tecumsen street TO
Eureka avenue. locating four plugs.
In East Michigan street. from the east drive
of Woodruff place TO Eureka avenue. locating
In East Washington street, from the east line
OF the State grounds TO Temple avenue. locating
In Liberty street, from Massachusetts avenue
to New York street, locating one plug az Michi-
gan street.
In Hall place, from Seventh street to Ninth
street, locating two plugs.
In Camp street. from st. Clair to First street.
locating two plugs.
In Illinois street, from Fifteenth street 70 Sew
cnteenth street, locating two plugs.
In Twelfth street, from Shepard avenue "a
Michigan road, locating two plugs.
In Tennessee street, from Merrill street Il
Morris street. locating plugs at Norwood, Mo
Cauley and wilkins streets
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-25
Paving Specifications Adopted.

The following street improvement speci.
fications were adopted by the Board of
Public Works yesterday: For paving
Washington street. from Missouri street to
the Wbite-river bridge, with asphalt;
length, airs feet; width, so feet. For paw
ing Illinois street, from sc. Clair to Seventh
street. with asphalt; length, 3.749 feet;
width, 45 feet. For pavIDg Illinois street.
from Seventh street to Twelfth street. with
asphalt; len 9Th, 1915 feet; width. a feet.
For paving Illinois street, from New York
to St. Clair street. with asphalt: length,
2,36S feet; width. so feet. For paving Mas
sachusetts avenue. from College avenue 10
BellefontaIne street. with asphalt; length.
1,046 feet; width. so feet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-25
Liberty street,s PIea for water.

Liberty StreeFs Plea Tor WATER.
Councilman Casper appeared before the
Board of Public Works yesterday to press
his petition for laying water mains in
Libe-'v street. from Massachusetts avenue
ton 'ork street. The board 10 &C present
COL ng the question, and told Mr.. Gas
pei IL would do what it could for hin.
blu % doubtful If the main would be
Practicable. The board. however. addressed
q communicable TO the water company,
saying that IL could doubtless get enough
private consumers 20 pay for the proposed
~tensl A communication from the
water ompany signifies hat 10 will lay
water mans in Walnut street. between
Meridian and Tennessee. where the pro-
posed asphalt improvement is going In,
providing it can get Q few private con-
aumers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04
TURF TOPICS.

The Austrian Jockey club decided to
spend $125, 900 purchasing English thor
oughbreds
Every trainer should have an extra
pair of shoes ready when his horses go
into races, so that if one is thrown and
lost it can quickly be replaced.
Lyman Bullard, well known to the
turf as a bookmaker and promoter of
sporting enterprises, has retired with q
fortune to farm on the eastern shore
of Maryland.
Ha'penny, who was generally supposed
to have been killed in the collision with
Warpath and John Cavanagh at the
Gravesend track last September, is alive
and doing we'll.
The vast interest in trotters and PAGERS
may be judged from the fact that over
1900 tracks hold certificates of member
ship in the National and American Trot-
ting associations.
The conditions governing the purses
of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse
Breeders association make it cost an
owner more to declare horse ont than
it does to start him.
In General Dumas ''Horses of the Sa-
hara" he insists that the Arabs not mere
ly prefer mares, but maintain that they
are longer lived. 1.-THE horse is fit for
work 25 years, the mare 25 to 80 years."
A Kentucky farmer claims to have
made valuable discovery in the treat
ment of brood mares in preventing the
slipping of foals. Instead of the well
tried preventive of hemp seed he has sub
green coffee.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04
Trouble With n Sword.

A Lewiston young man who was in
Portland Saturday night found some
antique Turkish swords in a window
on Congress street, and having love
for art bought one for ornamental
purposes and asked that the clerk do it
up i'll paper. Before he had gone half a
block the paper came off. The young
man was waiting for the Boston boat to
start. He carried the sword about the
streets till people began to comment
upon it. Then he hid it under his ulster
and was standing ON the corner talking
when it slipped down, striking ON his toe
with the sharp point. He picked it up
again and hid it under his coat.
When he got into the theater, he was
about to be seated when he thought of
the sword under his coat. He could not
sit down until that sword came out, SO
unbuttoning the coat he held the sword
in his lap all the evening. At midnight
when he went on board the boat one of
the officers saw the sword and said, "You
may leave your valuables with the purs-
er."-Bangor Commercial.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04
The Baffied Pcssimfst.

sat Inc down to write rhyme of gloom.
All was in tune for it, my temples throbbed;
In semidarkness was my cherries room,
And through the trees the sad breeze soughed
and sobbed;
My heart was burning with fancied woe;
Digestion waited not on appetite;
My spirits came in dull and sluggish flow;
Naught was there in the world that pleased
my sight.
My pen itself would not put down the thought
The pessimistic thought-that held my mind
Try as l would the fancy few uncaught,
Uncatchable as any truant wind
Yet wrote on, and when the rhyme complete
Stared boldly at me from the saffron page
l found myself victim to defeat
I'd written this q. truly happy age.
I'd said that in this life were more of good
Than wicked things; despite the heavy mist
OF present trial, those who understood
Life as 1t really is could not resist
The true conclusion, tried and guaranteed,
That we have many blessings; and no grief,
However much because of it the heart NAV
bleed,
Has ever been without some sweet relief.
Alas! that l, disciple true of gloom,
Philosopher of woe, should e'er confess
That JOY upon this earth hath any room,
That mortals find here aught of happinessl
And yet, though seem faithless to my creed
In writing then that optimistic song,
am not so. 1t proves its TRUTH indeed
When even /, its follower, go wrong
John Kendrick Bangs
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04

There seems to be no end to the dis.
coveries that await us concerning bac-
terra, and the relations of those micro
scopic organisms to the well being of
man. Who would ever have thought
that the peculiar favors which charac-
terize different kinds or brands of tobac-
co are due to the presence of bacteria?
Yet that is the conclusion to which in
vestigations by Ge man botanist lead.
In curing tobacco, or preparing the
raw, green leaf for use, Preventative
process called sweating is gone through
with.
1t has been supposed that the chemical
changes induced by this process were the
source of the peculiar qualities possessed
by the cured tobacco. But, according to
Suchsland's experiments, it appears that
heterogeneous may be the real cause
of the changes.
He has examined tobacco from all
parts of the world which had been cured
and has found in it an abundance of mi
cro-organisms, and upon cultivating the
bacteria from particular kind of tobac-
co and then inoculating another kind
with this culture he has produced in it
the taste and aroma of the original.
This discovery has led to the sugges-
ton that the quality of tobacco grown
in any country may be improved by SIM
ply inoculating it with bacteria from
some finer favored leaf growing else
where. Wines have already been i'm
proved by similar process.-Youth's
Companion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04
Rules For Judging Rubber.

An investigation has been conducted
by Lieutenant l.. Vladimiroff at the ST.
Petersburg Technical institute with a
view to establishing rules or tests where
by the quality of vulcanized india rub
Der may be efficiently judged. 1t is a
notorious fact that no method of chem
lcal analysis gives q reliable result for
this substance. Hence the tests applied
were chiefly of physical nature. From
lengthy series of experiments the fol-
lowing conclusions were deduced:
India rubber should not give the least
sign of superficial cracking when bent
to an angle of 1S0 degrees after five
hours of exposure in closed air bath to
a temperature of 1876 degrees centigrade.
The test pieces should be six centimeters
thick.
Rubber that does not contain more
than half its weight of metallic oxides
should stretch to five times its height
without breaking
Caoutchouc, free from all foreign mat
ter except the sulphur used in vulcaniz-
ing it, should stretch at least seven times
its length before rupture.
The extension measured Immediately
after rupture has taken place should
not exceed 12 per cent of the original
length of the test piece of rubber. The
test piece should be from to 10 milli-
meters long, 3 centimeters wide and not
more than @ millimeters thick.
Softness may be determined by measur-
ing the percentage Of ash formed on in
cineration. 1t may form the basis for
deciding between different grades of rub
ber for certain purposes
The vulcanized rubber should not hard
en- under the influence of cold tempera-
ture.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04
CHATS ABOUT MEN.

Senator Allen of Nebraska used to
manage baseball club.
The late M. Remains name is to be
| given to street in Paris.
The Rev. Mr.. Read of Hackensack, N.
j., has located heaven ON the star AL
| cyone.
Ashiel G. Beckwith, the new Demo-
cratic senator from Wyoming, is Meth
odist deacon.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Quick, of Apple
ton City, Mo-, it is said, have been mar
ried n years.
A county in Wisconsin has been
named Villas, after the senior senator
from that state.
Lord Winchelsea is about to found
weekly paper in England which is to be
the organ of the emovement for a union
of all classes Of agriculturists.
General George W. Jones of Florida.
James w. Bradbury of Maine and ex-
Governor Felch of Michigan are the
only living ex-members of the United
States senate of 1949.
General Schkopp, of the German army,
says, "If his majesty draws his sword. it
will never return to its scabbard until
his last enemy is crushed, or he, with his
people, is overthrown."
General Dabney H. Maury, one of
Beauregard's schoolmates and fellow
soldier in the Mexican war, lives in
Houston. He is one of the few Confed-
70. 1c Of rl,,,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04
WHISPERS ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. Blaine will spend the summer in
Europe, and will be accompanied by her
youngest daughter, Hattie.
Miss Lucy Cabaniss is a caterer and
florist at jackson, Miss, and serves as a
woman's exchange to Mississippi house
keepers.
Miss Mary Conant, living near Roch-
ester, has managed her father farm ever
since his death, some four years ago, and
made it pay we'll
Miss Julia Bryant, the daughter of
William Cullen Bryant, the poet, has
given 1000 volumes from her fathers
library to the trusteeso of the Tilden trust
in New York city.
The Lobster Woman" is the latest
Paris woHder. Nine. Virginie Brisson
is the wonsan's name, and for hands and
feet she has exact counterparts Of the
claws of a lobster.
Mrs. Robert Dunlap, who shines in
Gotham's society, is prepared for a sum-
mer in the hottest climate. She has more
than / 900 fans, among the number some
fine old Egyptian and Assyrian speci-
mems.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04
FADS OF FASHION,.

Marquise, rust color, burnt bread and
pale auburn are favorite tints in brown.
In reds are five popular shades-fam-
ingo, cerise, oriental, lobelia and Span
ish.
The empire poke bonnets appear by
units only and are fast retiring from the
contest for popularity.
Spolito is the name of one of the new
est tints in green; fougere, fern green;
centaur is the term for serpent green;
artichaut is delicate leaf tint Rovigo
is new beautiful gobelin blue.
The long popular, wear defying French
mohairs are this season exhibited in all
the fashionable colors, light and dark,
shot, striped and flowered. These are very
generally supplemented with plain goods
to match.
The very small models in spring bon
nets betolen coming invasion of lux
uriant tresses far exceeding the amount
so long considered sufficient. Quite a
mass of hair will be necessary in order
to wear properly many of the new capotes
and tiny princess bonnets.
Very pretty dresses of plain French
camels hair or wool sacking, in pale leaf
green, tan color and otherpopular shades,
have round waists of shepherds check
in mauve and green, pink ard green, red
and cream, brown and chamois color,
gray and green, violet and doe color and
like effective mixtures.-New York
Evening Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04
2l|EgEz49z,EHeNs ~,
.-Esassy@S
CARTER HARRlsoN's FAD FRENCH.
He Wanted Mushrooms, but the Waiter
Brought Him an Umbrella.

He Wanted Mushrooms, but the Waiter
Brought Him an Umbrella.
Some other Americans and myself had
been in the habit of dropping into the
Cafe Francais after leaving the Grand
Opera House.
None Of our party spoke French, and
the head waiter was the only one in TIE
cafe who spoke English. He had long,
flowing red mutton chop whiskers. As
soon as we would take our seats we
would be approached by waiter, where
upon we would begin pulling our own
phantom mutton chops to make him
understand that we wanted the head
waiter.
"Oui, oui," he would say, and in few
moments our bewhiskered friend, Of
whom Major Handy is a prototype,
would be bowling and smiling and work
ing graciously fora tip.
We met Carter Harrison. He went to
the theater with our party, and after
ward we took him to the Cafe Francais.
Carter Harrison was then, and may be
now, very fond of mushrooms. Before
going into the restaurant he inquired the
French name fer them. He was told
that they were called "champignons."
We soon We're seated at our usual ta-
BILE and one of the walters came to us.
We worked ourimaginary mutton chops,
but were given to understand that the
head waiter was absent. Harrison tried
to pronounce ''champignon, but could
not. He thought he had it perfectly, but
his pronunciation was no more like the
French of it than my English is like the
Hindostanee. He couldn't make the
waiter understand, until an inspiration
came to him. He seized his pencil and
drew the picture of mushroom.
Carter pronounced the word again and
pointed at the picture. There it was,
plain as day to us who knew what he
wanted-the stem and canopylike top of
the vegetable. The waiter gazed at it in
profound study for moment, then the
light of comprehension spread over his
features.
''Oui, oui," he said, and trotted off.
In a few moments he returned, and
bowling politely to Mr.. Harrison, handed
him an umbrella. We looked at the pic
ture of the mushroom, the waiter looked
at it, and then Carter, umbrella in hand,
looked at it. Then he rose and said some
thing that every American could under
stand, but which, luckily for him, the
waiter did not. Carter ate no mush-
rooms that night.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04

AS matter of fact Frenchmen are
about the least democratic people in the
world in their social longings and ideals,
France is politically republic, but So
cially it keeps up most Of the character
istics of an aristocracy. The difference
between her and America in this respeo t
is prodigious. In the United States it is
impossible to find man with deco "a
ton; in France it is difficult to find any
body without one. In spite of the revo-
luton titles are still maintained, and the
highest ambition Of every bourgeois
would be satisfied if he could marry his
daughter to a nobleman. The Unsuitable
thirst to put on uniform of some kind,
no matter what, has often been used as
a reproach against our Gallo friends
London Telegraph
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04

Mr.. Courtland, Selling his w1fe's arms,
forced her down before him.
Give it up" he spoke thickly.
Richard, l swear do not understand
you"
Give it up" he reiterated.
"Heaven help mel He will kill me-
for her husband suddenly made men,
acing movement, as though to seize her
throat.
'Stop' And with excitement the man
burst out from behind the portieres.
The three attitudinized in amazed ST.
lence.
"Who are your" asked Mr.. Courtland.
The man hesitated, then answered sim
ply, Jonas Crane"
"Oh!' cried Mrs. Courtland, stake care.
He may be armed"
The young man smiles. 81 should
think, ma'am," he said quietly, you'll
be more afraid of him than me. If
hadn't "a thought he'd hurt you, I'd never
given myself away"
Mrs. Courtland looked bewildered. In
her surprise she had forgotten her hus-
bands anger.
"What are you doing here" she asked.
"Well," he replied respectfully, "rd
as lief not say"
Eyes, but you must say. You are not
a thiee?"
Nom"
"Well, then, what?" asked Mr.. Court
land.
"Well, sir" said the youth cheerfully,
81 work for Boyton"- swell
tailor-"and before he sent your suit
home he wore it courtin his lady friend
and left letter in it. 1t was not the
kind of letter" looking down modestly,
"for Others to see, and 1 undertook to
get it without lettin you know he'd wore
your clothes, but got ratified when you
seemed SO mad. The letter wasn't any
use to you, was it,"
''Yes, Richard, what made you so
angry?"
Gertrude" answered her husband.
II expected to find no letter. 1 was Civ
ing a lesson in realism. 1t was a pre-
tense--a little bit of acting to cure my
wife's ennui."
'Then you was actin, sir" said Jonas
doubtfully. "Pm thinkin it'll be for our
mutual advantage to say nothin of all
this. Good evening, ma'am," and with
a polite little bow Jonas Crane walked
down stairs, and they heard him shut
the front door softly behind him.
"Well, Gertrude" said Mr.. Courtland
hopefully, ''was the end of your evening
successful? If it pleases you, tomorrow
I'll try something in the comic line-do
a little dance, daily with the scenic or
dip into melodrama."
His wife, rousing herself, gave re-
gretful sigh.
ut was very interesting, Richard,
very, but"-loolSing up to him with
shadow in the lovely eyes-'I wish had
read that letter. Anne Nettleton in
New Orleans sTimes-Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-05-04
Deeds of a Divining Rod.

j. M. Grier, farmer living near
Mount Vernon, has divining rod which
he says will locate gold and silver. 1t
consists of two strands of copper wire
twisted together to make rod, which is
bent, forming an angle, with ring at
the apex, where the wire is wrapped
with cloth, with loadstone inside. Mr..
etr1er says that this diyining rod will in
dlcate the location of money, gold or sill
yer, buried in the ground. He has bur-
led gold and silver and allowed w. H.
Norman and w. G. Perkins, both farm
ers near him, to search for it. Both men
were successful.-Carthage (Mo) Press,