The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-16

deliberately decorated waSoS.- On the
will Electrocute Us" Following close upon
the repair wagon were young men IN the
employ of the company carrying arches
of incandescent lights connected through
the reDai wagon with the trolley wire:
There were twenty OF these arches and
hey illuminated the street brightly.
Transparencies carried by members of the
Citizens Street-railroad Employees sound
labor Is the only commodity we nave for
sale or to offer in exchange for the best
money" Good old common horse sense
sound money"
Probably there were never so many en-
ployes of the street-rallroad company TO-
in the parade last night. Behind two
mounted road officers there were by actual
count 152 conductors and motormen In iuI
uniform, the buttons and badges denotlnS
upon which end of the car they belonged.
Each man carried a small American flag.
works and a band preceded the first section
of the Indianapolis Union Railway en-
ployes. The Indianapolis Union Railway
Sound-money Mems Club came tlrst with
200 men in line. Banners carried by TINS
club had the following to say: DO we lock
like we were coerced?' Are we coerced?
Nitr' A club of colored employees of the
Union Railway Company came next. and
then another division of the sound.money
division and they were the most enthus-
iastic Mckinley and sound-money men or
the lot. keeping UP a constant hurrahlng
for their faVorite candidate.
THE OLDEST RAILROADER.
Closing up the rear of the Union Railway
Company's employees clubs came a car
riage occupied by two venerable railroad
men, William Jackson, secretary of the
Union Railway Company, and r. j. Elvln,
the man who laid the first crosstie on the
first railroad ever built in Indiana. Mr..
Jackson has been long in the service. He
is Familiarity known to all the railroad
boys and thousands of others as Uncle
Billy Mr.. Elvin is a veteran in politics
as well as in railroad affairs. To a Jour-
nal reporter he said last night, just prev
iSus 10 stepping INTO the carriage to enter
the parade: "IhiS Is the Seventeenth pres
idential campaign | have passed through.
1 lost my vote III 1882 and 1886 on account
of residence, but L heard William henry
Harrison deliver a speech from the balcony
of the ST. Ciair Hotel, at PiJtsburg, in the
spring of 1886. In May, 1888, | came to IN
olana and entered the service OF the Mad
ison, Indianapolis q Lafayette railroad. In
lS40 ! voted for William Henry Harrison
and my vote next month will be the hf-
teenth / have cast in Indiana for q Wing
or Republican President. think am the
west of the Allegheny mountains. 1t is
now nearly hfty-eight and d half years
since l began service with the Madison
railroad, now the Louisville division of the
p, c., c. & st. L. railway. L am nearly
eighty-six. years old, but hope to vote for
William Mckinley next month" Mr.. Jack
son and Mr.. Elvin were known to thou
sands of people along the line of march
dilu were every where gwen LII ONdIlOD.
The College-avenue kazoo Band was the
next in the procession. 1t was an aggrega-
ton with imitation horns made of tin of
American make. kazoos We're fitted in the
mouth pieces and beWhiskered men and
boys played some patriotic air as they
passed. t
The great feature of the Citizens Street
railroad employees endeavor to make the
demonstration a success came IN the
before and after taking exhibition, show
ing what the street railway service had
of 49, and what it is now, or after the
crime First came an old-fashioned bob
tailed street car. 1t was Drawn by mules,
but both the mules and the car were bet
ter than the outfits which were pulled
through the streets res / Of ~ndianap2i before
We're small AFFAIRS with a capacity for seat
ing about ten people. All this old stock of
cars have long since been given away TO
children for piayhouses and a more modern
mule car was the worst example that the
company could rig, up. Car No. 70, which
ran on the I1linois-street line before the
era of electricity. was the horrible exam
pie. The mules, too, were much sleeker and
better looking than the rabbits which
were formerly seen drawing cars through
the streets. They were taken from one of
the company's wagons. The old-faShioned
car was in charge of George Washington
the company. He is now a motorman and
is one of the company's most faithful men.
that it was suggestive of old times, when
he earned a scanty subsistence driving the
~0lInlnutlNe mules sixteen hours a DAY.
There were two or three passengers in this
car, about as many as one of the old
fashioned cars could hope to induce to ride
on a single trip. A streamer on the side
of the car contained the words: Before
the crime of 49,"
AFTER THE CRIME OF '73.
After the Crime of '73' were the words
on the streamer which decorated the next
car. This was motor car No. 512. which
has but recently come from the shop, after
d thorough overhauling. 1t pulled two
handsome trailers. The motor car was in
charge of Jim Elliot, foreman of the
College-avenue barn, and was operated by
motorman Park Alderman. The motor
and the two trai.ers were deliberately dec
GRATED with the national colors and stream
ers. On the front end and in the rear
were beautiful electrical designs of mean
liantly lighted, an incandescent light hang
ing from each of the straps upon which
passengers are supposed to hang when
there is such a crowd that the large seal
ing capacity is overtaxed. The motor and
traiiers were filled with passengers. most
of them being good-looking young ladies.
Many were the upon the novel
ex ldlodIs1 Of the eity's profess s
ployes' clubs followed the street-railway
men. There was first, however, a novel
sight. Seventeen hand ears, manned each
the street-car track. They We're from sew
CTal railroads ana carried members or
sound-money clubs who are employed in
section gangs. There was also a line
mans tricycle.. Several men on horseback
and a band led the Big Four employees.
First came three or four hundred conduc-
tors and brakemen, all carrying lanterns
and distinguished by the manner of car
rying them and by the color of the light.
There We're also a large number of clerks
ban Division of the Big Four. several
hundred strong. A transparency carried
by them contained the words: w think
that Tillman and all his kind ought to
be sat upon" The Urbana division carried
q portrait of Cleveland. and, following it
closely, came the employees Of the Peoria
division with a Mckinley portrait. There
were over two hundred men from this di-
vision
The second division of the parade closed
with a thousand or more railroad working
men in line who are not allied with any
organization, but who felt in1pe.led to turn
out on such an suspicious occasion.
ENDED WITH THE CABOOSE.