The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-03
New Administration of that Town
Keeps Pledge by Closing All
the Saloons.
FAIRvIEW ALSO DELUGEI
sTREET-RAILwAY COMPANY OVER
TAXED IN HANDLING CROWDS.
A City Fire Engine Taken to Broad
Ripple to Fill the Tank Used
by Diving Horses.

There were more deserted homes in In
dianapolis yesterday than has been OBJ
served since the coming of the summer
months. and a favorable comparison might
be made with the most advantageous days
for outing in any former season. Not only
figuratively but literally speaking nobody
was at home. All had gone out TO enjoy
the beautiful day, and were either driving,
walking or had taken the street cars Tor
the parks
The principal event yesterday was the
opening OF Broad Ripple Park. The Broad
Ripple cars began to be crowded early In
the day, and late in the afternoon the out
going crowd seemed not TO diminish, while
few came back Just how many people
were congregated at Broad Ripple Park
was not reckoned on or even suspected until
II began TO grow late, and the majority,
as ii by unanimous consent, started home
at about the same time. This immense
rush put others in the notion of coming
home, who. perhaps. would have stayed
later, had it not appeared TO them that the
crowd large that it would be long
after dark before they reached the cars.
The crush at the street-car station was
almost beyond precedent, and white-faced
women, elbowed until their feet no longer
touched the platform, were carried hither
and thither, backward and forward, by the
swaying throng.
CROWDED THE CARS.
The street-car company had on extra cars
running on a rapid schedule, but they
seemed slow and few to the impatient
thousands who pressed about the station.
Car after car pulled up, scarcely stopped
and then started on, loaded with humanity,
without making any perceptible change in
the size OF the crowd. So eager were some
to board the cars that no effort was made
to get inside, and they clambered over it.
filled the space on the roof, hung on TO
the end and perched on the fender in
front and chung to whatever was sufficient
for foot or hand hold. The cars inside
were crowded until the conductors forgot
they ever knew the cry, Plenty OF room
up in front" and considered themselves
lucky TO make their way from one end to
the other and collect the fares Such was
the exhibition that came from the north
long before dark, and il was late at night
when could be caught at Broad Rip
pie Park with ease and without being
crowded.
The day at the park was spent in vari-
Gus forms of amusement, but the majority
simply went for the outing. Boating was
also feature of the days pleasure every
boat available having been rented. and the
air along the river was filled with the
noise of splashing oars, shouts of laughter
and music. One of the attractions was the
Queen that will be the drawing card at
the park this week. The horses dive from
a platform forty feet high into a tank of
water. The first exhibition was TO have
been given yesterday afternoon but the
pump used to fill the tank broke when it
was started. An attempt was made TO re-
pair it I'm time 10 give the show TO the big
crowd on schedule time but it was finally
given up and fire engine from No. o,
on Fifteenth street was loaded on to fiat
car with the consent of the fire department
and sent to the park to do the work. The
tank was not filled in time for the after
noon performance, however, but il was
last night. The loading of the fire engine
caused no little excitement in the vicinity
OF Illinois street and the McLean-place
stables. and all along the line TO the park.
Many supposed there was big fire raging
somewhere, and numerous inquiries were
made concerning the engines destination.
BIGGEST CROWD EVER AT PARK.
1t is said by those conversant with the
facts that the crowd at Broad Ripple Park
was the largest that was ever seen at the
park. The grounds were a veritable ''sea of
humanity" and those who had an oppor-
tunity to put out into the river in boats
were glad to get away. There were people
here and there. people everywhere; people
by the pair: and others in the air.
yesterday. The new administration car
ried out its platform TO the letter and the
Ice cream, soda and lemonade men longed
to convert the river into a seething
fountain or a reservoir dotted with islands
of floating lemons. The camor that was
made tor something TO drink almost drove
and apprehension lest they should run out
of stock. Such rigid enforcement of the
law was never before experienced in Broad
Ripple and its vicinity.
crowd az E'air
much smaller than that at Broad Ripple.
All day long the cars to and from the park
were crowded far beyond their capacity.
The tendency of large per cent. of the in
habitants of indianapolis 10 go 10 the north
parks yesterday caused many, who wished
10 spend the day in more quiet places, to
go to Riverside and Garfield Parks and
other resorts not so apt to be temporarily
overpopulated. The downtown city parks
also had their share OF pleasure seekers and
from early IN the day till late at night all
the benches in University. Military and St.
Clair Parks were occupied. The preference
for the smaller parks was principally shown
by those having families, who did not wish
to encounter the crush due to an ovcrtaXed
street-railway service
EFFORT TO SEEK COMFORT
Perhaps no such effort TO catch cars was
ever noticeable in indianapolis. The extra
cars taken to handle the multitude at
Broad Ripple and Fairview reduced the
service on the other lines, and these cars
also were crowded beyond their capacity
People were seen standing en- out of the
way corners in the city. in an effort TO
avoid the rush and outwit the less thought
full, who took chances on getting aboard at
the usual places
There a crowd all along South Meri-
dian street. and the intersecting lines on
Maryland and Georgia streets, over which
nearly all OF the cars travel in turning TO
make their regular routes. Persons who
had seen cars pass these out or the way
corners and had possibly built up hopes on
the thought OF how easy IL would be 10 get
ahead OF the crowd by seeking such points
of vantage. invariably found that hundreds
of others had also been coddling the same
scheme and were there before them.
The turnout was purely of indianapolis
people. there being but one excursion to
augment the crowd 1t came over the G..
II. & ID. from Cincinnati. and brought
about 600 people. This was more than Off
set. however, by four outgoing excursions
that carried several hundred away. There
were excursions over the Big Four TO Terre
Haute and Cincinnati. over the Lake Erie
a Western TO Michigan City, and over the
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