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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24
For second-clas. Cars.

William Gates. the veteran ticket agent,
is of the opinion that America could profit
by adopting at least one feature of the
European railway service. II believe that
we would secure a large amount of travel
that we do not now secure by adopting the
second-class feature" said he. ..The lux
urious manner in which our sleepers and
chair cars are constructed involves an enor-
nous expense. The fellows who do NOT use
these cars are obliged 10 pay for the lux
uries enjoyed by weather. travellers.
THE companies are obliged TO charge a
uniformly high rate OF mileage in order
TO furnish swell service. 4 advocate having
q strictly second-class train between here
and New York Put the price at $40. 1 am
positive that Il would greatly increase tray
el. Put IL on a slow schedule The people
who would patronize II would not expect
.nyer' service. and a. long asIt carried
fed TIE train would ~ well patronixed
from thIs et21ion. xhs1 ne .drst-slsss
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24

last year. There has not been such a great
increase in the retail trade, but the many
inquiries at the stores show that as soon
as the weather has fairly settled the de-
mand will be large, and the retailers are
taking advantage of the certainty of inn
mediate shipment early in the season to
stock up. The demand for ladies' wheels
has increased to a greater extent than for
mems. The factories in this city are run
ming to their full capacity, and some of
them are working day and night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24
The same Fool. There as Here,

Leipsic Letter in Boston Manuscript.
Paderewski gave a concert here last week
before a large audience. He played almost
continuously from 7:30 until after 10. and
was called back four times. in spite OF his
evident fatigue. by the musical hogs. who
are just as bad here as in America / have
always felt ashamed of our people for be-
ing so selfish, and Iswas rather glad to see
that our country is not the only one where
such lack of consideration for a mans
nerves exists. After the concert a supper
was given in Paderewski's honor at one Of
the hotels, in the course of VIII CHI one OF
the morbid women who make themselves
more ridiculous over such men than men
do over actresses and singers, sent down
from her room a note to P~aderewski, beg
cling for a lock of his hair. / suspect that
If he complies with all the requests for his
hair he wouldn't be SO frizzly as he Is. At
any rate. he banged his fist down on the
table and declared most emphatically that
he drew the line at giving away his hair.
and then a bright woman near him re-
marked that her hair was just the same
as his in color. and cut on q lock OF II and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24
A Well-Pnved City.
Washington Post.

There isn't a city in Europe, nor. indeed.
in the whole world that has as fine streets
as Melbourne" said Signor HI. Baptista, of
Australia. They are broader, better paved
and kept cleaner than in any other capital
on earth, and are the admiration of every
traveller. The paving material is New Zeal
and wood, which is very durable, and
when the blocks are worn much on one
side they are turned over and the result
is as good as a brand new pavement. Own
ers of horses are particularly proud Of our
wooden streets. which save the feet of their
animals from so much injury Another thing
that Melbourne ~rejoices in is its unrivaled
system of cable cars. There are eighteen
Zines. and they are operated in the most
satisfactory amer. Thirty-seven years
ago there wasn't a single house where Mel
bourne now stands. To-day it is a city Of
40. COO people. inhabited by a thrifty, pros
porous and progressive people"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24
Sporting Notes.

The Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders
Association offers kentucky's Futurity, $751;
GEO, for foals of 1895, colts, FLIES and geld
ings, the produce of mares nominated
March Is, 1895. or their substitutes, as pro-
vided for hereafter, 5000 to go to the two
year-oIds that trot, $1,000 to go to the two
year-olds that pace at fall meeting, 1897,
and $40, 600 to so to the three-year-olds that
trot at the fall meeting. 1898. In the two
year-old trot the winner Will receive 5000,
the second $1,000, the third $500, the fourth
500, and $500 win go to the nominator of
winners dam. In the three-year-old trot
the winner will get $1,000, the second $1,000,
the third $500, the fourth $500. and $500 will
In the pacing race $500 will go to the win
nef. $3.50 to second, $3.50 to third and 500 TO
fourth. The two-year-old races will be mile
heats, two in three, but the three-year-olds
will trot mile heats. three in five.
Since the college presidents all over the
country have placed their seal Of disap-
prevail on football, other college athletics
have taken quite a boom. In places where
water courses are convenient the varsity
crew is training with renewed activity.
Baseball is receiving more attention, and
golf is, in some places, coming in to occupy
The recent efght-round contest between
O'Donnell and Kiirain has renewed the talk
of a possible match between Corbett and
O'Donnell. A year ago Corbett declined to
consider O'Donnell at all, and said he would
have to whip Fitzsimmons to get classed
with the champion. Now Mr.. Corbett will
probably admit that he does not entirely
outclass ODonnell.
Many of the leading turfmen are express
ing themselves in favor of abolishing all
pool selling on race tracks. Recently Joe
Curry. driver of the famous Joe Patchen,
said: II wish that all betting and gam
bling on race tracks could be abolished. |
think if it is kept up horse racing will be
demoralized. If it is abolished we will more
than make up for the loss of revenue by
the interest that a better class of people
will take in racing.
Herb Hale won a victory in Middletown,
o.. last week, defeating John Simcoe, of
Cincinnati. The first bout, catch-as-catch-
can, was won by Hale in seventeen min
utes. The second bout, Graeco-Ronlan, was
won by Simcoe in twenty-five minutes. The
third bout. catch-as-catch-can, was won IN
seven minutes by Hale
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24

women here IN regArd TO dlScaruIng tHe sKITI
for the more convenient costume. at least
none that has reached the ears of the public
or become gossip in general bicycle circles,
although such an agreement has been
limited at on several occasions, and 1t would
hardly be a surprise to see a dozen or more
women appear on the streets the first day
after the weather man gives his promise
that good weather has come to stay, at
tired of boomers. One dealer in bicycle
suits reports that he has already booked
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
ENGLAND AND BIMETALISN.

Those who believed the success of the
Conservatives in England would be fol-
lowed by more favorable DISPOSE
tiont on the part of the gov
eminent toward silver have been
able to discover very little so far to con-
firm their opinion. Balfour is an avowed
bimetalist, and the Marquis of Salisbury
has decided leaning that way, yet the
question does not appear to have figured
in the campaign at all, and Balfour's re-
ply to a recent interrogatory on the sub
ject in the House of Commons shows that
he has no intention of pressing the matter
even to the extent Of joining in call for
an international conference. Speaker
Crisp, himself silver man, was able to
find no interest in the subject in England,
and was clearly of the opinion that none
existed sufficient to move the government
even to consider the subject. Such dis
cussion as there has been has been ap-
parently of the academic order purely,
and has excited no great popular interest
or attention. England's financial policy
is controlled chiefly by the investing
classes, and they almost to a man are
gold monometalists. Balfour, strong
bimetalist though he be personally, evil
IDENTIFY has no disposition to attempt to
impose his views upon the government,
probably because his doing SO would dis
rupt the conservative party. Undoubtedly
among the manufacturing classes there
is considerable bimetalic sentiment, but
the chief meriu of b1metalism in their eyes
is that it will afford them an indirect
method of cutting down the wages of
unavailable because OF the great strength
of the labor unions. OF course this Is
anything but recommendation in the
opinion of the laboring classes, SO it hap
pens that the great mass of the people
are more likely to side with the investors
and money lenders on this subject than
with the manufacturers. 1t is vain to
argue to the operatives in manufacturing
establishments that England's markets
are gradually being restricted by the in
ability of her manufacturers to compete
with manufacturers who are doing
business on silver basis and who conse-
quentIy get their labor at about half the
price English manufacturers have to pay,
and that eventually great many mon
must be thrown out of employment. The
average laboring man concerns himself
much more about the present than the
future, and is more ready to take the
risk of having no work at all in the
future than to accept cut down in the
present to avert it. 1t is sufficient to
prejudice him against bimetalism to show
him that one of it's effects will be to cut
down his wages. He has been in
structed on this point, and SO it happens
that he is at one on this subject, not with
the manufacturers, but with the in
vestors and money lenders.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
SIR CHARLES WlLsoNs's VIEWS.
Hopes for the Grand Trunk-English ana
American Methods Compared.

Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, President OF
the Grand Trunk Railway has arrived
in Montreal. Being asked what ne
thought of that part of the line which he
had already inspected he said:
81 came out without any preconcelved
ideas, and am bound to say that what l
have seen of the line from Portland to
Quebec and from there to Montreal IS
satisfactory 1t appears to be IN gooo
order, and there are very efficient stan
officials, all trying to do their duty. l
had heard good accounts of the line and
therefore was not surprised. hope we Will
be able to do something, if our competi-
tors show US such fair play as to enable
us to run the road efficiently and leave
margin of profit.
whats your impression of American
railway systems?"
"Well, have travelled over the greater
part of the United States on many roads
and have watched them with the utmost
care. They are worked under different
conditions to those in England because
of the greater distances, but mus say
they are worked on almost absolutely per-
feet lines. They are we'll conducted and
everything goes smoothly, both in the
collection of tickets and the checking of
baggage The system is simply wonder
full. The handling of the lines. in every
particular seems to me to be admirable.
"What are your views on the question
of rates, which is just now agitating
the presidents of all roads?"
II attended an interesting convention
while in New York, but of course am not
at liberty to say what took place. When
the presidents meet again, 1 hope that
something definite can be adopted. The
competition has been cruel. Ii something
could be done to prevent the issue of more
than a certain amount of debentures in
proportion to the capital, we might all be
working on an equal basis and competi-
ton would not be so keen. If rates were
better than they are, property would
come back to the railroads. -
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
FINANCIAL.

VVANTED-Activ energetic canvassers who
w are able to invest some money or who
can sell stock III yaluble Gold Mining Compa-
ny about TO be formed. An exceptional oppor-
tunity is offered to those who DE- sire to invest
California.
The property is developed. showing high
grade quartz Money required to erect Mining
stamp mill. Property can earn $50, 900 month
ly net For full particulars, address; BERNARD
LANDE, Sc Pine street, New York City.
24dlt
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24

The Kentucky Republicans say that if
they carry the State and choose major
ity of the legislature they will elect JUS
tice Harlan to the Senate to succeed
Blackburn and then press him as can
didate for the Presidency. There are
several large sized ifs in the programme
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24

seems to us modest request 1t is said
that the cost will not be over six hundred
dollars if the widen ing is made now.
In few years it is probable that this de-
slrabe improvement cannot be made for as
many thousand dollars. Indeed there is
now prospect that very soon the lands
along the avenue will be laid off into
house lots and sold. Had Forest Avenue
been dealt with in season the saving to
the county would have been great. 1t is
true economy to anticipate in the matter
of improvements SO evidently proper
and necessary.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
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AND


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months $3.50 a quarter; SO cents month
The DAILY is delivered every morning by
carrier anywhere within the city limits and at
WoodfordS without extra charge
DAILY Not i'll advance, invariably at III
rate of 81 year.
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every Thursday, 81 per year; 81 for six months;
so cents quarter; % cents for trial subscrip
ton OF six weeks.
Persons wishing to leave town for a long or
short periods may have the address of their
paper changed as often os desired
Advertising Rates.
IN DAILY PRESS $3.50 per square. first
week, rs cents per week after Three inser-
tions or less, $l.Oo per square. Every other
dav advertisements, one third less than these
ates.
Half square advertisements $1.0o per week
first week; half price each succeeding week.
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umn and one inch long.
Special Notices, on first page, one-thlrd ad-
dtional
Afsusemel1ts and Auction Sales. $500 per
square each week. Three insetions or less,
$3.50 per square.
Reading Notices in nonparlel type and
classed with other paid notices, 10 cents per
inc each insertion.
Pure Reading Notices in reading matter type,
% cents per line each insertion.
Wants, TO Let, For Sale and similar adver-
tisements 25 cents per week in advance. for
40 words or less, no display Displayed adyer-
tisements under these headlines, and all adver-
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In MAINE STATE PREss-$1.oO per square
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each subsequent insertion.
Address all communications relating to sub
scription and advertisements to PORTLAND
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The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24

An instance occurred some weeks ag1'
where the four children Of a former schooi a
matesof Mrs. Rockefeller were sent TO 0 oho
OF the best boarding schools IN Ol 1 r.
Many struggling churches, and not all u ~,
them Baptlsts either, have been not Gilly
standing by Rockefeller's money. -,
Mr. Rockefeller's family is very muslcli,
and there is "a home quartette, consisting
of father, mother and daughters, and 1our
stringed Instruments, and the WORKS
of Brahms, Chopin and Saint-Saens are
interpreted by them in a manner that
would be ereditable to many symphony
clubs
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24

The French government appears at last
to have made up it's mind to comply with
the request of our government for a copy
of the proceedings Of the court that con-
victed Waller. 1t has also given permits
sion to our ambassador to visit Waller in
prison. After our government receives
a copy of the court record it will be able
to determine its course. If Waller had
a fair trial and the evidence to the minds
of the State Department indicates that
he was guilty, of course our government
can do nothing further for him except to
intercede for a modification of his SEN
tence If American citizens transgress
the laws of the place in which they are
domiciled they must pay the penalty.
The only thing that our government can
do for them as matter of right is to see
that they have fair trial.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
sIao,ooo,ooO.
j. ID. RockefeIler's Enormous Personal
Fortune.

Years ago, says the New York World,
when the oil excitement was the talk OF
the country, fortunes were made and lost
The days of Coal Oil Johnny may never
return again, but IN all the history of the
world there never was an instance when
paupers became millionaires so rapidly as
then.
J. d. Rockefeller made his vast fortune,
which is estimated at over $3.50. 000 600,
out of oil as easily as the farmers wife
gets pin Hmoney from her chickens. His
golden eggs were laid by the obliging re-
finers, who had to do as he said or go to
smash. Originally four brothers came
from Germany in the middle of the last
century and settled in New Jersey. they
formed quite a settlement in Pla1ntleld,
but towards the close of the last century
they began to separate. One branch went
to New England, another came to this
State, while third went to Pennsylva-
mia. j. D. Rockefeller and his brother
came from the New England branch.
1.-THE New York Rockefellers are poor.
There are lots of Rockkeellers in New Jer-
sey, but they have not yet acquired
wealth. One great grandson of one of the
four brothers is still living in Plainfeld.
He is almost hundred years old. God
fried Rockefeller, who travelled by wagon
with his family to Shamokin, Pa, died
in 1918 in ignorance of the black oil treas
ure under his farm
After knocking about, J. D. Rockefeller,
whose father was a physician, started
commission business He was then %
years old. Oil was the principal article
in which he dealt. He started refinery
in Cleveland, O., and organized a company
which is now the Standard Oil GO. From
this beginning he has achieved immense
power and wealth.
He is a strict Baptist, and has given
50, 000 600 to the Chicago University.
With his family he lives quietly IN this
city, most unassuming man.
In spite of Rockefeller's enormous
wealth. his charities are very large, and
his wife and two charming daughters as
well give away many thousands each year
to persons who they think deserving Of
more than aims.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY, AUGUST "a.
STATE OF MAINE.
Proclamation by the Governor

BY appropriate legislation, the first
MONDAY in September of each year has
been specially set apart as
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24

A petition now before the county COM
missioners asking for the widening of
Deering avenue, is a matter of more i'm
portance than at first appears. This ave-
nue. is now the principal thoroughfare
between Deering and Portland for light
driving. AS time goes on it will increase
in Importance. AT present, from Brighton
street to Woodfords this street is only
three rods, or 1917 feet wide. When it is
remembered that country roads are laid
out four rods wide, it will be seen that
this is far too narrow for an avenue that
is one day destined to be thickly settled.
AT present only farm land lies on the
northwesterly side Of this avenue from
Brighton street to Prospect street. The
city of Deering has petitioned that this
portion be widened to four rods. This
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
CURRENT COMMENT.
A VOICE FROM THE GREEN NOUN
TAIN STATE,


The Mortified (Vt.) News, reprints the
recent editorial Of the Boston Globe urg-
ing both Republicans and Democrats of
New England, to stand solid for Presi-
Dental Candidates from their own section
and then says
Mr.. Reed is recognized throughout, the
country as leading Republican and no
one who has carefully watched that gen
tleman's political career can doubt the
fact that he has the qualities to fill with
credit the highest place in the gift of
Americans If there is any reason in adj
vancing the claim Of locality New Eng
land certainly has strong and clear case
why the next president should come from
this section whichever party may win in
the great national contest next year.
We would respectfully urge upon the
voters of both parties in Vermont the
careful consideration of the patriotic and
sensible suggestion of the Boston Globe.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24

Campbell is undoubtedly the strongest
candidate it was possible for the Ohio
Democrats to select. He is popular and
able But no Democrat has the slightest
chance of carrying Ohio this year. The
only question about the result is the size
Of the Republican majority. Gov. McKin-
leyzthinks it will be as large as the one
he received, but this is not probable The
Democrats have recovered somewhat from
their low condition of two years ago.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24

Brice has blossomed out as great adj
mirer of President Cleveland. A year
ago he was singing different tune. But
1t makes wonderful difference in ones
feelings toward the administration
whether its power is exercised in
favor or against him. A year
ago all the Ohio federal office holders
were working to down Brice this year
they labored to hold him up. And doubt
less they received their orders from
Cleveland both times.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
AUCTION SALE!
GOING out or BUSINESS.

shalise without of $4,000 worth of
Also Fixtures consisting Ton
Mirrors
fixtures. AT Auction
Monday, Aug Congress Oak, D. m
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
WESTBROOK - SEMINARY.
Sixty-second Year Begins Sept. 5, '95.
CLASSICAL SEMINARY or HIGH GRADE

which exacts high grade work Special ad-
vanrages Tor HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
who "lsn 10 continue their studies in Latin,
Greek, french, German, English, History,
Mathematics or Science. -Four New England
colleges represented on the Board of teachers
Modern methods. Expenses moderate Loca-
ton unsurpassed for convenience and health
funeSS.
New catalogue with full information now
ready
Address the President,
REV. II. S. WHITMAN,
jly27dlm Deering. Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24

Prof. Ryder, the alleged Andover
hereto, has been tried by the board of
visitors of the seminary, and fully &C
quilted The charge against the Professor
was that he had taught that the per-
sonality of Christ was human personal
ity only, but after full inquiry the
visitors say that Prof. Ryder satisfied
them that he stood clearly within the
limits of the subscription to the creed
The Portland daily press., 1895-08-24
LABoR's LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

It is a deserving recognition of the
great cause of labor, and merits general
observance throughout the state.
Given at the Council Chamber, at
Augusta, this twenty second day OF
August, in the year of our Lord one
Thousand eight hundred and ninety
five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the one
hundredth and twentieth.
Henry B. CLEAVES.
By the Governor.
NICHOLAS FESSEN DEN,
Secretary of State.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-07-03

The expression Of sentiments adopted
by the Republican League at Cleveland,
Ohio, week ago is decidedly pointed
and at the same time strikingly true. 1t
is in part as follows: ~.
The record of the Republican party has
been record of honor and its history
one of glory. -s- ..,-
1t made labor free, and protected it in
all its rights. y
1t restored national unity and glorifed
the flag of our nation. + - n.
1t hono~ed the heroes who saved this
country, and holds them in perpetual re.
membrance.
1t established and maintained public
confidence and industrial prosperity sc
long as it remained in power.
It honored the Government at home
and commanded respect for it abroad.
1t has advocated the construction 8,
the Nicaraguan Canal and the control o.