The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04
Rev. DIR. Ford Protests.

! To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
| ! am at present a citizen of New Albany.
! l do not know who wrote that pessimistic
SANDER on this city that appeared in Fri
| days Journal. / am a member of what is
known as the committee of fifteen an adj
| visory committee of citizens and business
| men whose business it is to look after the
commercial and manufacturing interests of
| the city. 1t is true that New Albany suf-
fered from the great financial depression
and from the closing of the glass works.
and that she is recovering more slowly than
we could wish. But she is recovering, and
| the recovery is healthful and permanent
resent the assertion that her business houses
| are second-rate affairs. We defy any city
| of twenty thousand inhabitants to make
| finer showing than Hedden's, the White
House or any dozen of our mercantile estab-
| lishments. 1t is true that real estate has de-
| preciated, not in value but from the crazy
| prices at which it was once held. II is now
at fairly healthy price, little below nor
nal, perhaps, but with rising tempera-
! ture. Some of our people do trade In LOUIS
| vile. but it is not true that Louisville IS
! draining New Albany. Amy one VINO Will
stand near the Monon station of an evening
! will see extra coaches and extra trains on
| the Panhandle and Daisy lines crowded with
| bookkeepers, Stenographers, statesmen ana
| laborerS returning to their homes IN New
Albany and bringing in every week thou-
| sands of dollars of Louisville money. No
| ost.y Coz, boaet ~ finer larger nor more
Il
| fiOurishing manufactures than can this city.
/ also resent the imputaJlon that our Coun-
+. Gil is composed of ringsters and raScais.
! They are not angels, but men, and as men
! they will compare favorably with any city
| Council in this State or any other state
Among them are physicians of nigh stand
| ing, manufacturers and merchants--ln snort,
| a Council Of representative men. We nave
| business facilities that are unexcelled any
| where. Our opportunities for healthy man
ufactories are unsurpassed and unsurpaSs-
able. The Taxpayer who tried to strike
| dagger to our commercial heart wrote his
Whirling lathes, kissing foundr1es. lurtd FUR
races. the clang of the boiler makers and
| the happy voices of a thriving people. our
| Comnittee invite manufacturers to come and
see us. Our Commercial Club is a live one.
Our city is prosperous, healthful, beautiful
and home-like one. No finer nor healthier
city for residences is on the map OF India Indiana.
New Albany, Ind, Feb 3.
To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
The letter concerning New Albany, pub
lished i'm the Journal of Friday is one Of
that class of half truths that is more diff
cult to answer than is straight lie. In the
first place every citizen of New Albany
with even a grain of intelligence knows that
the city is prospecting. trade rapidly increas-
ing and that the general indications of
great boom are in evidence everywhere.
That taxes both city and county. are too
high and that the administration Of public
saying. but New Albany is no worse than
most other Indiana cities in these respects.
indeed, is really better off than many. The
population of the city is easily more than
20O00. Vacant dwelling houses are very
scarce Very large investments are being
made by outside capitalists In business