Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-23
For the Herald and Tribune.
GLIMPSEs OF INDIANA.
A Flying Trip by Herald and Tribune
Correspondent What He Saw.

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Correspondent--wha He Saw.
left Eaton, Ohio, at 7 P. NJ. for the
Hoosier State, via the Pan Handle
route and was in Richmond, Indiana,
in less than thirty minutrs. This is
one of the Pennsylvania Company's
fast flyers and makes but few stops be.
tween Cincinnati and Chicago.
A brief outline of the Quaker Citys
industries may not be out OF place. 1t
is nice little clean city of $4,000 in
habitants and is extensively engaged
i'll manufacturing. The Gaar & Scott
threshing machines, engines, etc., the
Hoosier Drill Company and Railroad
shops alone furnishing employment to
many hundreds OF hands.
Here is located the Earlham College,
one Of the largest and best conducted
Quaker institutions in the country. 1t
has at present 144 students. We we're
shown through the buildings year
ago and spent considerable time in the
college museum, which has one of the
rarest collections of curios we have
yet seen. 1t is worth a trip alone to
see the Egyptian mummies Near by
the college is the large church in
which the yearly meetings are held.
The eastern branch Of the Insane Asy.
lum is located near this city.
Leaving Richmond we next slow up
at New Castle, a natural gas town Of
some note and bids fair to grow broader
and longer. The gas jets and fam
beaus in town and country along the
line give 1t picturesque appearance.
Aside from the Pickering and leaking
it beats anything. Anderson is the next
stop and pretty place it is. 1t is
city OF phenomenal growth, as are
most Of the gas towns in this belt.
There are number of public parks
and suburban villas connected by elec.
trio rails and wires. The greatest at
traction here is the tin plate works.
Elwood comes next, and is an eye
opener. Few cities in the west have
been 80 substantially built up In the
past few years. The country around
is just as nice as the town and the peo.
pie nicer than either. The natural gas
belt of Indiana has given rise to several
bright manufacturing cities prominent
among which is Elwood and Kokomo,
twenty two miles further northwest.
These are right in the heart of the gas
belt. These cities possess the largest
plate glass works in America, the
Diamond Plate Glass Company. The
two plants form the greatest single
industry in the State and have arisen |
with wonderful rapidity and reached
immediate success; probably owing to
fact that the natural advantages have
been acquired by group of business
men OF national eminence in the manu-.
featuring world, who have gone into
these enterprises with abundant evil
dence OF faith. The two plants cost |
@,5O0,OOO and the buildings cover % |
acres of ground, and give employment
to 1000 skilled operatives. The goods
are equal to the best French plate
glass for mirrors, and have gone into
all the markets Of the world. "All
aboard" is called and we are soon
speeding onward across the finest
prairie country OF the west for Logans-
port. We are now in the Wabash
country, SO noted in years past for
ague and fever, but for the last twenty
years as healthy as any country in the
world. When the train stops must
get off and break for the Vandalia line
while she pulls on for Chicago. This
is a beautiful little city OF 10000 in
habitants and fully up to date every
way. The incest thing see is the
monument. 1t is built of
Oolitic limestone, and contains 98 per
cent. of pure carbonate Of lime. 1t is
said to neither crack, crumble nor rust
In this latitude. Much of it is shipped
abroad from this section. It is high
in the air and cost money. The west.
ern branch Of the Insane Asylum is
located at Long Cliff, near the city,
and has 800 inmates. Well this is
enough for the waste basket, SO I'll get
my ticket. A. G. CRosswHITE.
Logansport, Ind, Dec, /, 1896.