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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24

Cause of "Patch work. Improvement
-CapitoI-Avenue Pavement.


The Board of Works has decided to make
another stagger at improving Capitol ave-
nue.. Those on the inside say that it's fiasco
on this subject was largely due to its
patch work. process of making improve
ments. The board started out some months
ago to improve the avenue from Twenty
first to Thirty-fourth street. Instead of
adopting papers for the entire improvement
in one section, it was divided into two, the
first extending from Twentyfirst street to
Fall creek and the other from Fall creek to
Thirty-fourth street. Two sets of papers
were adopted on each, one for pine block
and the other for macadam. If one set of
papers had been adopted for the entire dis
tance the question would have been much
more easily disposed of, and one kind of
Improvement would have been given to the
entire thofOughfare AS it was, there We're
enough remonStrances against block on the
south section to secure macadam and on the
north against macadam to secure block.
First one objection and then another was
raised against the boards action, and the
entire work was abadoned on both sections.
Yesterday a new set OF papers were adopted
covering the entire distance from Twenty
first street to Fail creek, providing for
both macadam and block. The board has
set Sept as the day for hearing remon-
strances from the property owners. 1t IS
said that both sides will be given fair treat
ment, and that when the board decides on
either block or macadam, the majority
shall dictate, there shall be no charges of
unfairness.
The patch work. process of making i'm
proVements that has been adopted by this
board is causing q good deal of unpleasant
comment. People do not understand why it
is that when an entire street is to be i'm
proved it is not done under one set of
papers. When the work is divided up into
several sections the result is that people
living on one end of a street pay different
price for the same kind of an Improvement
from those living on the other end. case
in point the Meridian street cement
walks. There were five different sets of
papers providing for sidewalks of different
widths extending from Vermont to Twen-
ty-first street. No one section of property
owners paid the same price as another. II
part of the work We're to be done this year
and another part next, it is said that there
might be some reason for different papers
on different sections. but the five contracts
were awarded in one day and the work is
all to be done this year There is no uni
formty, either in the width of the walks.
or the price paid for the material used.
There are claims that the work is divided
up into small sections for the benefit of
contractors. The more numerous the con-
tracts are the more chance each contrac-
tor has for getting q chance on part of the
public work, at least Some property own
ers believe that if contract were let for
an entire street it would have tendency
to reduce prices, as contractors could at
ford to bid lower on mile or two OF walks
than on q few blocks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
WHY SO HIGH ESTIMATE?
MIR. robson QUESTIONS ONE OF
SCHOOL BOARD PROPOSITIONS.
Cannot See Where $4,000 Is to BE
Expended Carrying Out COmpul-
sorry Education Law.

Edward J. Robson, member OF the
School Board, was at Superintendent Geet-
ing's office yesterday afternoon endeavor-
ing to try to find out what was the necessi-
ty for the tremendous estimate Of S115 600
submitted by the finance committee to be
appropriated for carrying out the provi-
sions of the compulsory education law. The
state officials could not imagine It was
figured that the salaries of two truant Of
fcers could not possibly amount to over
$1,000 a year, and unless the board builds
parental home" such as the new law
authorizes, it is difficult to see how it can
possibly use any considerable amount of
money in carrying out the provisions of the
law 1t is possible that $1,000 could be used
in providing books and clothing for indi-
gent children, but it is thought nv those
engaged in the free kindergarten work
that This sum is a high estimate. If the
board builds parental home ii is not like
ly to cost more than $4,000 all told, ground
and building Thus there would be in the
neighborhood of $95, 900 collected in taxes to
lie idle in the bank where the treasurer of
the board Keeps the funds and gets no in
terest upon them The law authorizes
special levy of 10 cents to carry out its
provisions, and such a levy would produce
just about $4,000. which is the estimate
by the finance committee Of the amount
needed.
Mr.. Robson was of the opinion that If
the surplus of this levy could be used to
lift some of the temporary loans the board
is carrying for its building fund, on the
ground that the new law made more room
necessary, it would be a good thing, but
it would take a very strained construction
of the law, and one that the courts would
rot be likely to uphold. to do this Chair
man Baker, of the finance committee is
out of the city, and no explanation of the
estimate could be procured from him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
COMMISSIONERS SALE.

Notice Is hereby given that by virtue OF an
order of the Superior Court OF Marion county in
the State of Indiana the undersigned commits
sioner. duly appointed by said court in cause No
aS493 on the docket of said court, wherein Aman-
da +. Former ct al are plaintiffs and James L.
Floyd ct al. are defendants TO sell the following
described real estate in the county of Marion and
State Of Indiana 10 wit: Lots number fourteen
(l4) and fifteen 90, in the Citizens National
Bank y subdivision of the west half of blocks
Numbered thirteen QS) ana fourteen Q4 in the
Johnson heirs addition to the city of lndianap-
oils Will sell the same, subject to the taxes of
1897 at public auction or the premises, at the
northwest corner OF new Twentieth and Ruckle
streets Of the same is not sold sooner at private
saie) Thursday, Sept. 8, 1897. at o'clock D.
IN. of said day, on the following terms, to wit:
One-third OF the purchase money to be paid cash
in hand, one-t third before months and
one-third on or before twelve months, the de
1erred payments to be evidenced by the prOmis-
scry notes OF the purchaser, bearing interest at
the rate of per cent per anunm, payable in
bank, with attorneys fees waving valuation
and appraisement laws, with sufficient security.
Tie purchaser TO have the option TO pay all cash.
Offers 10 purchase said real at private sale
will be received on the premises at any time
prior to the date above mentioned.
SANFORD FORTNER, Commissioner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
New Suits.

Coe College vs.. James G. Barcus ct al. /;
suit on notes. Superior Court, Room 1.
ct al. suit on note. Superior Court Room l..
Otto A. Kraus VS.. City of indianapolis
suit to recover money. Superior Court,
Room 2.
H. Scherer & Co. VS.. Lena Behr ct al
suit on note. Superior Court, Room 2.
George q. Tucker VS. William Ii. Gresh
suit on note. Superior Court, Room l.
John II. CranOr VS.. Apollos 3. Cronkhite;
suit on note. Superior Court, Room 3.
Mary S. Drummer VS.. the Empire Life In
surance Company; suit for receiver. Su-
perior Court. Room 2.
German-American Building Association
VS. Henrietta Milender ct al; suit to fore
close mortgage. Superior Court Room 3.
Burton Field VS.. Citizens Street-railroad
Company; damages. Superior Court,
Room /.
Minnie Schulmire VS.. Louis N. Schumire;
suit for divorce. Superior Court, Room 3.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
A SHADE OF COLOR WAR
MRS. WADE, THE AGGRESsOR, AGED
~, HAS TwENTY-ONE CHILDREN.
She Resented Reference to Her Light
Skin - Insurance Company Re-
ownership Asked.

A row which began on Sumner street sew
eral months ago and eliminated yesterday
in the Criminal Court started over a ques-
ton Of color Mrs. Kate Wade. a very
light mulatto, was put on trial for pro-
family. Mrs. Wade was alleged to have
used some very strong language on an &C.
cason when a number of colored women
were gathered at a house on Sumner street.
They got to talking about color and one of
the women remarked that yellow niggers
had no nation" and that they had yellow
fever" Mrs. Wade appears to have felt
personally affronted, and after some
more Strong talk" fight came on.
A number of cases against the belliger-
ents were tried in the justice courts and
were appealed to the Criminal Court. The
charge against Mrs. Wade was profanity,
which she denied. The woman told the
court she was forty-three years of age and
was the mother of twenty-one children.
The case was taken under adViSement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
UNREASONABLE DEMAND
G. A. II. PEOPLE WANT TOO MANY
PASSES, SAY RAILWAY OFFICIALS.
Growth of tho Sunday Excursion Bus
iness-The south Leading the North
in Railway Construction.

Passenger officials, after making a rate
of cent per mile to the Grand Army Of
the Republic, says one of their number,
have been surprised at the exorbitant de-
mands made by some Of the official STATS
for passes. Said one of the passenger OF
fcials: THE posts of Indiana have been
more reasonable in their demands than
those of some of the adjoining States our
lines strike" A Buffalo paper says: "Of
all the exorbitant demands made upon the
railroads from the different States that or
Iowa is said to be far in the lead. Seventy
free tickets was the least the Iowa men
asked for, in addition to other concessions.
The demands proved too steep for most
of the roads, 1t is said, and it is claimed
by railroad men that the road which carried
the Iowa contingent would do so for about
one-fourth of the proper rates. The Balu-
more q Ohio does not run into Buffalo, ana
Its passengers will either travel from Cleve-
land to Buffalo by water or else by rail to
Fostoria, and thence over the Nickel-plate
to Buffalo.
illinois Grand Army men are said to
have been well to the front in getting every
thing possible out of the railways. Their
demands were 50 excessive that at least
two passenger agents refused to talk with
the representatives. We never attempted
to do business with the home crowd at all,
said one agent, since we knew very well
that it meant at least 100 free tickets at the
first crack Illinois and Nebraska are said
to have Leen about on par in their at
tempts to 'sandbag' the companies Com
mander Clarkson's men are charged with
wanting everything in sight. 1t was under
stood that the Grand Trunk might have
had the Nebraska business, provided
would give the whole crowd free transDor-
tation between Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
There are rumors mat some of the chier
officials in the army were not satisfied with
demanding free tickets TO Buffalo, but
wanted passes to New York, Bar Harbor
and the White mountains. one railroad
man produced a statement of figures Show
ing that the demands for free tickets from
state commanders and departments in seven
States amounted to 254. The number in
each State ranged from seventy-tour down
to twenty three"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
BUFFALO BILLS NEW scheme.
Turning an Arid valley I'm Wyoming
into Farm Lands.

Buffalo Bits Wild West show will be
here Friday, and that well-known harbinger
of good show times, Major Burke. "Ari-
IONA Jack" dropped into the city yester-
day. The Wild West this season is greater
than it was last year. with new features,
although it would seem hard TO find Them
considering the excellence Of the entertain
ment when il was last seen in this city.
Mr. Cody is particularly proud this year
of his cavalry troop from Fort Meyer.
These soldiers. all of whom are on fur
Tough, do wonders that are never seen in
a circus ring. Their riding is said to be
marvellous. They ride standing UP on their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
GRAND COUNCIL, Y. M. |.
Its Second Annual Session VIII Com
vene To-Day.

The second Grand Council of the " NJ I.
will open this morning at 9 o'clock in Y.
NJ l. formerly ST. Joseph's) Hail. The
council viii be composed of thirty dele
gates and win probably remain in session
three days. The last session of the Grand
Council was held at the same place in May
OF last year and consisted Of eighteen dele
gates At that time seven new Grand
Council jurisdictions were formed out of
the then existing two jurisdictions Since
that time the order has had very sub
stantial growth in this jurisdiction. Harry
IL. Royse grand secretary of the Indiana
Jurisdiction. says the net Increase I'm mem
bership has been about one-third.
The official call issued by Grand Presi-
dent J. Lilly Clark. is as follows:
Delegates TO the second Grand Council
Of the Indiana jurisdiction of the Young
Mems Institute will assemble at 3 O'Clock
a. m. Tuesday. Aug. a. 1897. at Y. NJ L.
formerly st. Joscphs) Han. on East North
street, near Noble. Delegates will imme-
diately present their credentials to the
grand secretary and after roll call VIII at
iand holy mass In body.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
GAS COMPANY'S BOND
Filed Yesterday, the Day the New Or
dinance Was to BE Effective.

BY the terms Of the ordinance reducing
the price of gas the reduction was to have
gone into effect yesterday, but in the after
noon the temporary Injunction ordered by
Judge Baker in his decree last week was
issued from the Federal Court upon the
filing of a bond by the Indianapolis Gas
Company. This bond, upon which the
American Bond and Surety Company. of
Baltimore, is surety, does not specify any
amount. but is undertaking by which
the company ageees that, in case It fails
upon the final hearing OF the case to obtain
perpetual injunction. il VIII refund rwo-
ffths of all the amounts collected from Gus
tnmArs from aud after yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
Favorite hvmns of the dead musici
Ministers and Marriage.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
l have just read your editorial in yester~
days Journal on "A Very Grave Offense, ."
and wish to thank you for that article 1t
is right Many ministers are doing a great
wrong in marrying every couple that comes
along with a license. The clerks of our
courts are not as careful as they should be
in granting licenses. and it is possible that
our laws might be improved. If our leading
newspapers would take up the question as
you have a reform would surely result
am a Presbyterian minister visiting in this
State and / am glad for once / have seen
a great daily paper speak out on this sub
ject. W. J. JOHNSON.
Edinburg, Ind, Aug. %.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES.

Office. Aug. y, 1897.
Sealed proposals will be received at this Office
until noon Sept. 9, 1897, for furnishing and de-
livery OF supplies at Marion Branch, National
Home j.. Y. S.. quantities to be increased 10
contract.
Standards can be examined and printed in
structions and specifications and blank proposals
will be supplied upon application to this office.
Samples presented by bidders will not be CON
sidered unless same are called for in specitica-
tions. The right is reserved to reject any or all
Envelopes containing proposals should be in
dorsed: Proposals for supplies, N. II. ID. V. S,
and addressed the Undersigned
Bids aggregating over $500 must be accompanied
by certified check payable 10 the Undersigned
treasurer. for at least per cent. OF the amount
thereof which check will be forfeited to the
National Home for ID. V. $. in the success
ful bidder refuses or fails to into contract
required otherwise, 10 be returned to the bid
der. II. 0. HE[CHERT, Treasurer.
Approved: JUSTIN FL. CHAPMAN, Governor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Thirty-nine cars are required to carry the
Buffalo Bill aggregation.
The Panhandle is handling in its yard at
Dennison fully ten thousand cars week.
The Missouri Pacific ran a train of live
stock on Friday last from Pueblo TO Allen,
507 miles, in eighteen hours and thirty min
utes.
The general managers of the indianapolis
lines will not hold their regular monthly
meeting to-day, SO many officials being alb
sent on vacations.
The Southwestern Traffic Association will
organize a Weighing and inspection bureau
at St Louis similar TO that of the lines
east out of St. Louis.
To-day and tomorrow the Erie Railway
will have, from all divisions of its system
fifty-eght special trains into Buffalo on
account Of the @. a. r. Encampment.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy is ar
ranging n new and faster schedule from
Chicago to Denver TO handle its Utah
traffic. which has recently largely in
creased.
on the middle division of the Pennsyl-
vana the freight traffic is reported to be
unpreccdentedly heavy. amounting To sew
euty more freight trains daily than in Au-
gust 1896.
William Bells. general manager OF the
Railway officials and Employees Insurance
Association. has returned from three
weeks stay az pleasure resorts in northern
Michigan.
Within the last six weeks thirty new
large locomotives have been delivered to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
Criminal Court.

john T. MCCTdy, Judge.
State of Indiana VS.. Stewart Beevis; tres
pass. Appeal from justice court. Evil
dence heard and argument had.
State of Indiana VS.. Kate Wade; pro-
family. Appeal from justice court. Evil
dence heard and taken under advisement
State of Indiana VS.. Lolo Margason; in
corrigible. Affidavit filed.
State of Indiana VS.. Marcus Woolf:
selling liquor on Sunday. Appeal. Trial by
court Evidence partly heard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
A CoIege sues James Q. Barcus.

Suit was brought in the Superior Court
yesterday by Coe College, an Iowa institu-
ton, against James @. and Sarah w. Bar
Gus to collect a promissory note executed
by the defendants in November, 1896, to j.
Howard Nichols. The note, it is alleged
was afterward indorSed to the plaintiff
Judgment is asked for $500.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
NOTICE OF SALE OF MONROE COUN-
TY TURNPIKE BONDS.

Notice is hereby given that the treasurer of
Monroe county. Indiana win receive bids on and
after this date and until IL o'clock on Tues
day, Aug. 81, 1897, for the bonds of said county
be issued for the construction of six free turn
pike roads in said county in pursuance of the
as amended by acts q. Legislature, Of 1895. Said
herds will aggregate S4S 167 and Will bear interest
at rate OF per cent. per annum. The bidder re-
ceiVing the bonds will be required to furnish
blank bonds. Right to reject all bids reserved
JOSEPH $. WOODWARD
Treasurer Monroe County
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24

The county grand jury went into session
yesterday and will continue until the July
and August business has been disposed of.
The jury did not meet in July. The Jail is
full OF prisoners waiting investigation and
it is understood the bribery charges made
by w. c. MacCurdy, which involve the pur-
chase of the police telegraph system, will
1Nai inv loaf d
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
ResoIutsons Adonted.

For cement walks next to the curb line
on New Jersey street from Thirteenth to
Sixteenth street.
For macadamizing the roadway of Capt.
tol avenue from Twenty-first street to a
point 633.4 feet north of Thirty-third street
For paving with pine block the roadway
OF Capitol avenue from Twenty-hrst street
to point 1884 feet north of Thirty-third
street.
Contracts Let.
The contract for bricking the roadway of
the first alley north of St. Clair street from
Fort Wayne avenue to New Jersey street
was let TO George w. McCray & Co. at
$.14 a lineal foot each side.
The contract for bricking the roadway
OF Court street from East to Liberty street
was awarded to Joseph X. Cooper at $209
lineal foot each side.
4 Petition for Cement.
A petition for cement walks next the curb
line on Eleventh street. from Capitol ave-
nue. to Senate avenue, was sent to the city
engineer for investigation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
Mrs. Fields Unusual Complaint.

Mrs. Burton Field began an action yes
terday against the Citizets Street-railroad
Company to recover $1,000 damages. The
plaintiff alleges she was put off car July
10 last at Senate avenue and Nineteenth
street She says she boarded the car with
her infant child in her arms and rendered
the conductor a 81 bill. The road official,
she AYERS, scanned the bill closely and
handed it back TO her with the remark that
it was a counterfeit" Mrs. Field AYERS
that this was all the money she had with
her, and declares that she did not know
that it was a counterfeit bill. The conduc-
tor, she says, demanded that she either
pay her fare or get off the She was
unable to pay the fare and begged to be al
lowed to ride explaining that she would
have to carry her child considerable dis
lance if she left the car at that point. She
charges that, despite her protests, she was
compelled to alignt at Senate avenue and
Nineteenth street. The plaintiff AYERS this
very humiliating, and besides she suf-
fered physically on account of having to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
Sues L. A. Kinaey & Co. ON Note.

James Boyce has sued L. A. Kinsey &
Co. on a note executed May 10, 1895, for
s., 400. SO. The plaintiff alleges that in July
of the same year the sum of $1,000 was paid
on the note, but the balance remains un-
paid. The demand is for 81, 500.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24

Adolph Scherrer. architect of the new
Central Police Station, has recommended
that the bid of the Champion Iron Com
pany. of Canton, O.. be accepted for fur
nishing the prison work at the station. The
bid is s. 3S4. This does not include a pris-
on for male prisoners on the third floor,
as was originally contaminated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24

Suit was brought yesterday against the
city of Indianapolis to recover a sum of
money alleged to have been paid out for a
special license in 1891, during the administra-
ton of w. w. Woollen as city controller.
The plaintiff is Otto A. raus, who says he
was doing business under the name of a.
j. May, assignee" The plaintiff brought
All outfit of merchandise from Logansport,
which was advertised as bankrupt stock. :"
He says the police came to him with the
warning that unless he procured a special
license to sell his goods he was liable to
arrest. Under protest he did procure IL
cense of Controller Woollen, for which he
paid $780, He now asserts that the money
was not legally collected and asks that it
be returned. The suit is based. on the alle-
cation that the City Council had no au-
thority to enact such a law, and that the
enactment was against certain sections of
the Constitution of Indiana and of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
Bought "Chicago Bowls" on Sunday.

Marcus Woolf, a barrel-house keeper on
East Washington street. was charged in
the Criminal Court yesterday with selling
LIQUOR on Sunday. The intoxicants are al
legged to have been sold July % last Tay
lor Glessner testified that on that day he
went into Woolfs with James Jacobs, when
the latter purchased two Chicago bowls.
The witness sure it was Sunday be-
cause he attended u meeting of the Murphy
Temperance League that afternoon. The
evidence was only partially heard.