The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
HIDING IN wooDsHEDs.
Way Members of the Pogue's Run
Gang Escape Work.

Gang Escape Work.
The Journal had that Pogue's run write
up this morning about correct" said a car
penter who lives near Michigan street yes
terday. The rear end Of his lot overlooks
the run. Last week" said he, 'T noticed
an old man go into my woodshed one day.
He laid his shovel down by the door. He
was there quite long while, fully an hour.
l saw him as he was leaving and asked
what he was doing there. He said he was
sick. The next day he came back again
After he had been in the shed over a half
hour. / walked down to see what he was
doing. found him seated on an old soap
box putting away at his pipe. Muttering an
excuse about being too tired to work in the
hot sun, he went back to join the gang.
There has been one continuous lot of loafing
on that job"
The carpenter told a story illustrating
how easy it is to make jobs when the street
commissioner is so disposed. Before the
gang began on the upper section of the
run, an opening was made in what is known
as the Pogue's run interceptor to carry
away the water. The sewer crosses under
the run north of the Arsenal somewhere
1t is fourteen feet below the bed of Pogue's
run. Further up the run there are a num-
Der of springs that never dry up. In order
to divert the spring water from the channel
so that the gang would have dry soil to
work on an opening was made down to the
lnIerceptor. Ii was walled up to keep the
earth from falling into the opening, and
large slab of stone placed over the well. A
mouth was left to receive the spring water
from Pogue's run. Then an old man with
pipe was placed there to watch the water
run down in the sewer. The carpenter said
1t was reported that he was relieved at
night by another old man with a pipe and
lantern, who was kept there to watch the
water trucking down into the sewer in the
darkness Wages were paid both men by
the city.
Around the City Hall yesterday after
noon IL was said that the boo gang" was
looking for the reporter that wrote the ac-
count of the gangs loating on Pogues run
ana tnat II ne ever appeared in that neigh.
borhood what he'd get would be a plenty"
Clerks in the City Hall took exceptions
TO the statement made by the old man who
was keeping tab on the teamsters Tuesday
afternoon. Quoting him, the Journal said
AN old man sat on a wagon keeping tab
on the number of loads of earth that was
hauled. He talked freely not knowing he
was talking 10 a reporter.
. They have hauled nearly a thousand
loads to-day. he said. This is because The
haul is SO short. You can see that half of
the wagons have to wait said he, pointing
across the bank, where several drivers were
The clerks in Herpicks Office say that il
would have been impossible for that much
work to have been DONE They figure that
no one wagon could have hauled more than
that there were thirty-seven teamsters. AT
twenty loads each that would have been a
total of 740 loads. Perhaps that is what the
old man meant when he said that they
hauled nearly" a thousand loads. There
was no intention of accusing the gang OF
doing more than ii really did