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The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30
A GOOD SHOWING FOR INDIANAPOLIS,


The Nav issue of the American Land and
Title Register, a journal devoted to real es-
tate and municipal affairs, publishes a
table showing the total amount OF real
estate transfers in number of cities Tor
the month of April, 1897 and the increase
as compared with the same month III 1885.
The table contains thirty-one cities, OF
which only nine show real estate transfers
in April exceeding 81, 900, ,O0O viz: New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia, st. Louis, Pittsburg,
Washington Detroit, Denver and Los An
geles OF the other cities, San FRANCISCO
comes nearest the million mark, with
transfers amounting to $919,575, and Indian
apolis with $916SOO. In other words this
city stands eleventh in the list of thirty
one. BY comparison of transfers in April
1897. with April 1896, Indianapolis shows
better than the average. Fifteen of thirty
one cities, including New York, Philadel-
phia, Chicago San Francisco, Pittsburg
Milwaukee, Omaha, st. Paul. Kansas City
Portland Ore, Nashville. Duluth, Seattle
Dallas and Tacoma, show a decrease of
from to 70 per cent, while Indianapolis
shows an increase of 2S per cent. Only one
other city shows as large percentage OF
increase as this in the transfers of April
1897. over April, 1896, and that is Atlanta
1t will surprise most persons to learn that
the April transfers in Kansas City were
only $52S, 700; in Milwaukee, 1921, ,30l; in ST.
Paul, $342 621; in Minneapolis, $5l9915, and in
Louisville, $59S, 900, against $4,000 in this
city. Another table shows the total esti-
mated cost of buildings for which permits
were issued in seventeen cites during April,
1897 In this list also Indianapolis makes
an excellent showing. The April build
ing permits issued in this city amounted
to $225, ,790, against $219OS0 in Cincinnati,
$685. in Minneapolis, $139,6SO in st,
Paul and $204 $40 in Kansas City. Nearly
every city in this list fell off in its building
permits from April 1896, to April, 1897,
while this city made a large increase.
The figures in both tables show that Indi-
annapolis is one of the most prosperous and
growing cities in the country.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30
THE BERTILLoN SYSTEM.

In deciding to adopt the Bertillon sys-
tenn of identifying criminals this city
places itself in line with all the large cities
of the United States and of Europe on this
subject. The Bertillon system is one of the
most interesting discoveries of recent
years in the evidence it affords of the in
finite variety and mathematical accuracy
of natural laws in the structure and growth
of the human body. 1t shows that among
the hundreds of millions of grown men who
inhabit the earth no two have exactly the
same bodily measurements and proportions,
and that in every case these bear a strict
relation to each other. AS the rule is of
universal application it would probably be
safe to say that of the thousands of millions
of men who have lived and died since the
creation of the world each one was
differentiated from every other one in the
structure proportions and arrangement of
his body and its different parts to such an
extent that series of careful measure
ments would enable him to be singled out
and identified from among the entire hu-
man race. This is curious thing in itself,
and it furnishes the best means of Identify
ing criminals yet devised The Bertillon
system consists of a series of measure
ments Of the different parts of mans
body, including, say, his height the pro-
portions of his head vertically and trans
versely, the distance between the eyes, the
length of the bridge of the nose, the size
and shape OF the ears, the length of each
finger and it's joints, the length of arms
and legs, with their separate joints, ETC.
1t is found that this record made by nature
is more reliable than any other means of
identification and cannot be obliterated or
changed. There are cases on record where
criminals have removed warts, moles and
other distinguishing marks and have sue
ceeded in erasng tattooed figures on their
bodies, but when brought to the test of
their record under the Bertillon system
their identification was complete. A crlml-
nal can obliterate accidental or artificial
marks can shave his beard and change his
appearance in many respects, but he can
not get away from the record with which
nature has ticketed him as against every
other individual that ever lived. Under the
system as it has been adopted in this coun-
try there is an organization of the various
cities each one contributing small amount
annually for the maintenance of a central
office where the records of all criminals VIII
he accessible to the authorities of each city
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. F. Marion Crawford's new novel, "a
Rose of Yesterday" is soon to be brought
out in book form.
John Ruskin spends his time in planting
bulbs and pulling them up the next day to
see if they are growing.
Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book" has
been translated into German by an En-
glishman who teaches in the school where
Mr.. Kiplng was brought up.
Mr. Bellamy's new novel, Equality" is
awaited with quite as much interest in
England as in this country The first
American edition. published by ID. Appleton
e, Co. will be so large that its issue will
probably be delayed until July.
The copyright of John Halifax will ex-
pire next year, and the book is still val
liable property in spite of the quarter of
million copies that nave been sold. only
a short time ago a six-penny edition in pa
Der covers was issued in England, and l00,-
600 copies were printed.
paper on the moral rights of the
author. as distinguished from his strictly
pecuniary rights. was read at the last con-
gress of the International Literary and
Artistic Association. One of these moral
rights was specified as protection from
publication in a form not contemplated and
disapproved by the author.
The English Bookman has had another
symposium. this time in order to ascertain
the views of publishers as to the best sea-
son for the publication of a book. The reply
of the Macmilans is brief but conclusive
and we wonder it did not occur TO the edi-
tor himself, says the New York Times. In
our opinion, observes the writer of the
note. lit makes no difference. II book
be q good one, whether il is published in
the spring or autumn.
Some one writing in England has named
with authority the women whose writings
have been most preferred by the Queen 1t
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30
Wall street in Romance.

It
Novelists are SO constantly at a disad-
vantage with respect to places and things
that they cannot grasp Wall street, Ior
example has never yet been really done
in fiction and you begin to wonder II 1t
ever will be while it's activities remain vital
as now. Some day it may be 'hlstorlcally
treated with about as much Verisimllttude
as at present is shown in descriptions or
Roman chariot races or Olympian wrestling
matches TO portray anything yn so mt lntricatse as
and complicated as the daily deeds and
misdeeds of Wall street, one must gather
his materials not from books, not from per-
sonal information (Wh1ch is merely announcer
mode of "cramming'D, but from a certain
amount of life lived, enjoyed, suffered,
among all kinds Of financial affairs. Book
men the men who have actually expert
enced Wall street little more than If 1t
were the moon, are therefore helpless.
They may describe fairly well, but they
cannot dramatize. If the imagination of the
best of them could be welded to such
wealth OF information and familiarity as
that let us say of Mr.. Russell Sage or
Mr. Pierrepont Morgan, the union might
make a thrilling result. How lola sue
ceeded in his Il Argent" with the Partisan
was flung at him, / believe, by the spec
ulating adopts. The bourse, however IS
probably a much easier development TO
comprehend and reproduce. II II mad not
been Zola would have recognized insuper-
able difficulties. OF all men he knows now
to escape the charge of supertieiality-hoW
to Sc faire Valoir in every page that leaves
his pen. His novels are usually achieved
in one year, and six months of that year
he spends in collecting documents. But L
think that even such a muscular and IN
trepid genius as his would have perceived
that Wall street has a true inwardness
defiant of the most painstaking reportorial
hardihood. A great Wall street novel may
some day be compassed, but its author VIII
doubtless have spent half lifetime under
the shadow of Trinity Church steeple De-
fore the idea of attempting any such story
at all flashes across his brain. And then the
story so to speak, will write itself. ana
its hit will be instantaneous. and give birtn
TO many limitations as those or ROBIN
son CruSOe."
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

The issue which the conviction of Booth
Tucker the Englishman who commands the
American section of the Salvation Army, is
likely 10 raise is one which should be con-
sidered without passion. The Salvation
Army has done and is doing good work
in some large cities but that fact does not
warrant it's leaders in any city in making
their meetings a nuisance to those who live
in the vicinity. The complaint was that
the meetings were disorderly; that the
shouting and singing of several hundred
people in the hall of the army until a late
hour in the night had caused the boarders
in several houses in the vicinity to leave
to the great damage of those who had
rented the buildings for that purpose, and
this fact was established by competent
testimony. Mr. Booth-Tucker cannot see
that this is any offense whatever or that
any noise which interferes with the rights
of individuals is a violation of law If it is
a religious noise. The court and jury have
decided that any disturbance which in
terferes with the rights of others is disor-
derly and should be stopped. Booth-Tucker
however, declares that the verdict is a per-
version of justice and jeopardizes the re-
Iigious liberties of tens of thousands. Mr.
Booth is like some other Well-meaning peo-
pie who cannot see that there are any
other liberties and rights than those per-
tanning to themselves.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

John ]. ingalls, has written a letter to the
Atchison Globe in which he declares that
under no circumstances would he accept
nomination for Congress.
A woman having passed an examination
in veterinary surgery in England, the
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons re-
fuses to grant her a certificate until the
courts have decided that it is legal for wom-
en- to be horse doctors. She is a Scotch
woman and a graduate of Scotch college
B. P. Hutchinson, known as "Old Hutch, :"
is living at the home of his son-n-law Z.
A. Lancaster, in Chicago. He does not go
out a great deal, and when he does venture
on a walk he is attended by some one His
friends say he seems quite contented, but
they do not consider that his mental facul-
ties are by any means as keen as they for
meriy were.
The Queen has decided that in June every
member of her household who has be-
longed to it for fifty years shall receive
gold medal. Those who have served for
twenty-five years are to have a silver
medal. Those who have served less than
twenty-five years, but more than ten years,
will receive bar or ba0ge, and the jubilee
medal which was given to members Of the
household in 1887.
Brahms held the English in some dis
dain He refused a degree from an English
university, curtly declined to write a work
for an English musical festival. and when
it was proposed that he have his music
Dublished in England simultaneously with
its appearance in Berlin. he refused, on the
ground that he would then have to write
two letters instead of one whenever ne
composed a new work.
The Due d'Aumale. who died recently,
appears in one of Detaille's military pie
lures. which now hangs at Chantilly, con-
Quoting charge. with five or six soldiers
preceding him on horseback. and the rest
of the troops following in the rear of him.
"A fine picture" exclaimed one of party
OF visitor TO whom the duke pointed out
the canvas on an occasion when he was
acting as host at Chantilly "Ay," replied
the duke. "DetailleS drawing is fine.
don't wish" he added, Ito appear a hrag-
CART but as a matter of biography / may
say this. that 1t has been my fortune to
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

lead charge and that more than once. but
there never was any one before me-
"Once upon a time" says the Boston
Herald. Senator Cameron called upon
President Lincoln at the White House in
behalf of an applicant for a consulate who
was particularly pestiferous person TO
him. Where do you want TO have him
S6nt?" asked the President. There was a
large globe in the room. The Pennsylvania
senator put one arm around 1t as far as he
could reach and said i do not know what
my finger is on, but send him there. And
he was sent.
The Boston Transcript refers to the re-
cent indications that Cape Cod is gradually
sinking or wearing away. A few days ago
worlmen at the Provincetown pumping
station found seventeen feet below the
level of the surface of the ground and six
feet below the sea level, a four-inch
stratum of mold composed of decayed
leaves, fibrous matter and fragments OF
tree trunks and branches. This would seem
TO indicate that the land has sunk, for
fresh water is found on the cape at level
about equal TO the sea level st mean tide.
A London paper tells an amusing story
of the Queens childhood, when as Princess
Victoria she was one day reading Roman
history with the Duchess of Northumber-
land. 1t happened to be a passage where
a Roman lady, having visited Cornelia.
the mother of the Gracchi," displayed her
casket of precious stones and called upon
the Roman matron to produce her jewels
in return. when Cornela brought forward
her children; exclaiming, These are my
jewels. The little princess, looking up
into the face of the duchess, said: Jewels!
1 think they must have been Comedians.
These methods perverse fate so oft will dis
That It's useless to doubt or to scoff;
It's the girl with the new suit of bicycle
Who at the first mud hole, falls off.
Washington STAR
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

The Sultan called a halt at the suggestion
of Russia despite the fact that he wished
to occupy the capital of Greece, but his
army yet remains on Grecian soil, and
there he proposes that it shall stay until
the indemnity is paid, even if he does not
hold permanent possession of Thessaly.
Again, the Turk finds safety if not success,
in the discord of the powers. Great Britain
will withdraw from the concert of the
powers if the occupation of Thessaly is
prolonged, while the war party in Con-
stantinople holds that not an inch of that
territory must be yielded. Against the wish
of Europe outside of those who hold Turk
ish bonds, Turkey has strengthened itself
in Europe. And now that the time for set
tlement has come the Sultan will take up
his old tactics of playing one power against
another in the hope that now, as in the
past, they will leave him free to do as he
DlpaSeS
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

square root. 1 remember that we used
to set row of figures down and put dots
over them. and-I don't seem to remember
much else
Well, at any rate, the process isn't i'm
portant. You could work the problem out
in moment if you had an arithmetic
handy. The principles the thing Those
youngsters tackled by the Amherst profess
sor had their arithmetics with them; they
ought to have ciphered out the answer in
stantly, every girl and boy of them. The
lack of thought and thoroughness in chill
dren betrayed by this simple test is really
painful. No wonder educators are discour-
aged. Something ought to be done about it,
or what will be the mental condition of
those boys and girls when they grow up?
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

The Office of solicitor of the State De-
partment. to which Judge Penfield, of Au-
burn, Ind, has been appointed, is really
attached to the attorney generals Office.
Under the organization of the Department
of Justice there are six assistant attorneys
general who are assigned to duty in six
different departments, and a solicitor of the
State Department, of the Treasury Depart
ment and of Internal Revenue. The assist
ant attorneys general eacn receive $500 a
year. the solicitors of the treasury and OF
internal revenue receive 81, 500, and the So
licitor OF tie State Department $500. His
duties are to Investigate questions of mu-
niclpal and international law referred to
him by the secretary of state.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

While much that is written by Washing
ton correspondents regarding the. Presi-
dents policy toward Cuba is conjecture, the
statement of Mr.. Curtis, of the Chicago
Record, to the effect that he is trying to
bring about peace between the Cuban lead
ers and the Spanish government on the basis
of local lf-government for the island, is
supported by the probabilities and the
course of events. The President is not in
favor of the annexation of Cuba, and it is
asserted by those who claim to know that
he does not believe that an independent
government can be successfully maintained
by the members of the Cuban Junta. 1t is
said that he believes that the best policy
for Cuba is to secure from Spain home rule
like that which the dependencies of Great
Britain enjoy. To bring this about the
President proposes to send man of large
experience to Spain and to use his influence
with the Cuban leaders. Some of them he
has already seen, and it is reported that
Gomez is on his way to visit President Nc
Knley, and that conference with the
revolutionary leaders of Cuba has been
called at Philadelphia this week. All these
statements, however, are supplemented by
the declara ton that the President will do
nothing positive until his special agent,
Mr. Calhoun shall return, which will prob
ably be within ten days. The radical cham
pions of Cuban independence, like Senator's
Morgan and Chandler, are notIikely to fall
in with such a plan. They are for Cuban
independence, and Mr. Morgan has avowed
that he expects war to be the result of his
resolution Recognizing the belligerency of
Cuba. While there are many people who
favor Cuban independence there are few
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

roller, spreading wagon and road grading
machine and two skilled operators. and the
city furnishing the material, carts and la
borers. The foundation of the road will be
of the most approved pattern and the sur
face will be macadamized. 1t is expected
the government aid will reduce the normal
cost of the road about one-third. 1t might
be worth while for our park commissioners
to ascertain if the government will assist
in building the contemplated driveway in
the new park that is TO be.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30
Garments for Churchgoers.

r The movement recently started by a num-
Der of ladies of this city in behalf of greater
simplicity in dress for churchgoers is a re-
form of a praiseworthy sort. One feature
of the proposition is that no hats or bon
nets shall be worn in the house of worship
but this is a comparatively unmportant
matter. Women who walk to church or go
in street cars, as the majority do, will con-
slider it necessary to wear head coverings
and may find it inconvenient to remove
them. The thing to be desired is that such
headwear as we'll as all other apparel shall
be plain and unobtrusive. AS it is now a
congregation gathered for religious worship
presents as brilliant an appearance as a
theater audience, and the elaborate costum-
ing often involves greater extravaganza
Women wear their richest gowns and most
Haunting hats to church a matter of
course, and the outpouring congregations
on Sunday form dress parade most at
tractive to the eye, to be sure but hardly
edifying to those observers who reflect that
these elegantly arrayed ladies have been
gathered together for the worship of One
who was meek and lowly AS a mere mat
ter of good taste simplicity of dress should
be the rule for church goers. AS a matter
of influence and example the simplicity
should not be that of costlness but of in
eXpensiveness. Most women, however
pressed by poverty, possess garments that
though shabby have sufficient respectable
ity to attract no attention as they go about
the streets on their ordinary errands. 1t
is useless to argue that such women should
wear these same garments to church with
out thought of their neighbors 1t is not
in human nature; they will not do it while
the contrast with their neighbors is so
wide. The church should be place in
which the question of dress should not en-
ter more than it does into the market
house; it should be a place where people of
wealth and those in rags can. meet on .
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

For the benefit of those who are indig-
nant that Mr.. Havemeyer escaped, while
MIR. Chapman is in jail in Washington an
exchange explains. that the offenses were
not the same. Mr.. Chapman, a broker,
was asked the names of the senators for
whom he had bought and sold stock of the
Sugar Trust while the German tariff was
pending in the Senate. and he declined to
tell. He could have told and refused. The
question put by the Senate committee to
Mr.. Havemeyer was: What money, If
any. was paid out by the Sugar Trust Com
pany for political campaign purposes, state
and local. in 1882 and 1892" He declined
TO answer, stating that if any money had
been so paid out it would be entered upon
the books of the company. Judge Bradley
held that Mr. Havemeyer was not bound to
answer because the books of the company
were the best evidence.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

The Chinese Equal Rights League of
America has issued a circular declaring the
purpose of the organization to be the OBJ
tanning of naturalization and citizenship for
the Americanized Chinese in this country.
1t sets forth that there are 10000 American
born Chinese in this country and $4,000 more
who have resided here from ten to forty
years and that they desire citizenship be-
cause they have foresworn the customs of
China and have adopted those of the United
States
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

The appearance of Pope Leo XIII as a
poet is not more surprising than the sub
jecC of the poem he is said to have writ
ten. The Pope is eighty-seven years old
and has never been suspected of being a
student of dietetics or cookery, yet at that
advanced age he is said to have completed
a poem of eighty stanzas on the delights
of good housekeeping and cooking. A brief
outline of the poem suggests that the Pope
may have obtained his inspiration from
some good American cook book
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30
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The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

Although the delegates to the interna-
tional postal congress will be in this city
only about three hours, an effort should be
made to make their visit pleasant The
best way to do this, weather conditions
favoring, will be by a drive through the
residence portion of the city, giving the
foreigners a glimpse of beautiful Ameri-
can homes and drive through some of
the prettiest streets to be found anywhere.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

1t seems that the representative Baptist
assembly in Pittsburg last week practical
ly admitted that so long as a man is at
tentive to his personal religious duties it is
of no consequence what he does as a
member of a large corporation. 1t will be
next in order to amend the Decalogue by
striking out the paragraph beginning,
s"Thou shalt not steal y
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30

The relative enormity of the crimes is in
dicated in Minnesota community when
man who had married three women about
the same time was released from jail where
he was held for these offenses, to be taken
to another county to be arraigned for horse
stealing