The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-16

boundary; fourth. q continuation or part
of the third lire, commencing at Virginia
avenue and running east on washington
street to the corporation limits. The motive
power was Of the variety that makes itseii
heard in braying.
A fact which has doubtless passed out OF
many peoples memories is that the state
of Indiana once maintained a sinking iuhu
with a regular corps of officers located In
indianapolis. The headquarters of the fund
was at the corner of Pennsylvania street
and Virginia avenue. It's president was
w. II. Talbot; clerk, John s. Harrington;
assistant clerk. N. Hayden, and receiver
l.. G.. Hay.
The local insurance companies OF tnat
ancient time were the Sinnissippi. Indiana
Fire, Home Mutual. Indianapolis Insurance
Company, Equitable Fire, Union Insurance
Company of Indianapolis, and
Mechanics, German Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company and the American Horse In
surance Company.
INCORPORATED COMPANIES.
The only Incorporated companies whose
names are contained in the 1866 directory,
besides the street-railroad company. were
the Indianapolis Gas Light and Coke Com
pany. the Indianapolis Rolling Mill Com
Pohyt Az II I A0N1 o@N
Oil Mining Company and the indianapolis
and Louisville Petroleum Mining Company.
The book contains the names of only
twenty-six halls and public buildings,
which would pale into utter insignifcance
IL placed alongside the ~pretentious COM
pendum of such ediices in the latest city
directory.
The present Commercial Club had not
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was the fourishing Indianapolis Chamber
of m the officers of which Were:
President. 7. B. Elliott; vice presidents, S.
V. b. Noel. Thomas Kingan. Aquilla Jones;
secretary. j. Barnard; board of directors.
John Carlisle, L. w. Hasselman, Joseph d.
Pattison. Lucien Hills, David Gibson,
Charles w. Smith, r. p. Rush. John w.
Murphy, J. B. Macarthur and James c.
Ferguson; committee of arbitration, James
Skillen, A. E. vinton, B. Coffin, Charles
Glazier and George G. Holman.
A RAILROAD CENTER.
Indianapolis has grown to be a great rail-
road center in the past thirty-four years.
The city was pretty important from a
railroad point of view, even in 1866. but
there were only eight roads running into
the old station, which. at that time, stood
on the ground now occupied by the tracks
and trainshed of the splendid depot built in
the year of General Harrison's first nomi-
nation to the presidency. AT present fifteen
railroads run trains into and out of the
big Union Station in this city. A list of the
roads coming into Indianapolis in 1866 will
be of interest and is as follows: The Terre
Haute Railroad, Indianapolis & Cincinnati
Railroad, Indiana Central Railway, Indian
apolis, Peru & Chicago Railway, Jefferson
Vile Railroad. Bellefontaine Railroad,
Madison Railroad and the Lafayette Rail-
road. The foregoing are all the roads given
in the railroad directory. which is a part
of the appendix of the city director of 1866,
And so the interested investigator might
go on recounting fascinating reminiscences
evoked by this wonderful old book until a
volume had been written, without exhaust
ing its treasures. The residents of that time
who are living to-day doubtless could spend
hours in telling stories of the Indianapolis
OF thirty-four years ago which would en-
chain the attention. All there was to tell
about the city then was embraced within
the limits of a book containing less than
4O pages. The Indianapolis directory Of
1900 contained PCS pages.