The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-17
MIR. Nevins to Take the Place of Rep
resentative Foss Mt the CoIum-
bia Club Banquet.
MORE RURAL DELIVERY ROUTES
POSTMASTER sEFRIT WANTS ELEV-
EN TO RADIATE FROM HIS TOWN.
Where the Grant Memorial VIII BE
Erected at the Capital-PrOtests
Aginst Philippine Tariff Act.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April 16.-The omnibus
building bill. which p obably will be agreed
on by the House committee public build
ings and grounds al it's meeting tomorrow,
will authorize appropriations for new fed
eral buildings for six Indiana cities as
follows: Hammond, Elkhart, Muncie, Vim
cennes, Logansport and Richmond AL
though the bill has not yet been completed
and agreed on, it is understood 1t will au-
thorize an approval of s15.O0O,Co0 or slS,
COO COO. Chairman Mercer. of the commit
tee. is confident the bill will pass the House
without any objection, but it will undoubt-
edly be amended in the Senate. which will
place the bill at the mercy of conference
! committee. Inasmuch the Senate has
already passed bills appropriating 100000
for Hammond and $15OOOO each for Muncie
! and Anderson ii seems quite likely that at
least two of these cities will continue in
the bill after the conferees have arrived
at an agreement. 1t is hardly probable.
however that buildings will be provided
for the six cities.
The action of the House this afternoon on
the Cuban reciprocity bill will make it possi-
desire to attend the state convention to
leave here on Saturday evening. The In
dianians were very much worried as it
would have been impossible for them TO at
tend the convention had the debate on the
| Cuban bill been continued into the middle
of next week A majority of the delegation
are interested in the omnibus building bill.
but they have been promised that after it
! is reported no action will be taken in the
/ House until the latter part of next week.
which will give them ample time to go to
| Indianapolis and return before 1t is
| taken up.
Representative r. C. Nevins, of Dayton,
has promised to take the place of Repre-
sentative Foss, who has found it impossible
! to accept the invitation to attend the Grant
memorial banquet at the Columbia Club.
Representatives Sherman, of New York,
Cousins, of Iowa, and Blackburn, of North
| Carolina. are the other members who will
be present.
| Postmaster Sefrit. of Washington, Ind,
has asked the Postoffice Department to
have established eleven more rural free
delivery routes in Daviess county. Senator
| Fairbanks has asked that the request OF
|
asked that South Washington be made
rural free delivery station.
The commission 10 select design for
| a Grant memorial leaves open the ques-
| ton of a site mentioning in the report three
| or four desirable ones. AS a matter of
| fact the site was selected before the de-
sign was fixed upon. 1t is rather curious
| that those submitting the models did not
! anticipate the site IT is plain to even
/ tvro in memorial and decorative art that
the view must have everything TO do with
! the character of the work. What is suita-
| BILE for the corner of a park is not suitable
| TO crown a bare hill, and what is desirable
| for a wooded place is not the design Tor
the axis of a number of broad avenues.
! The heroic representation of Grant and
| the monumental accessories are to stand
| in front Of the Capitol on the site of the
| present botanical gardens. 1t has long been
| a criticism that the ugly greenhouses and
! cast-iron ornaments of the botanical garden
did not afford a proper approach Tor the
/ finest building in America. II was some
| thing like nearing a marble palace through
| a vegetable garden. In planning Tor a per
I manent order of Improvement of the city
| il has been the Idea OF the artists, the
| architects, the gardeners and engineers
that a splendid memorial work should grace
the front of the Capitol, presenting view
| in keeping with the dignity OF the great
dome and building beyond.
| Inasmuch as it seems fitting that the
| Lincoln memorial should be near the ap-
| proach of the bridge crossing 10 the
! soldiers graves on Arlington it seemed his
| torically and artistically consistent that the
! monument of the Nations greatest military
/ defender should guard the approach of the
/ Capitol of the Republic. There 1t will stand,
/ although the announcement OF the site may
! be postponed for some time. The design
was chosen with the site in view. it being
! esteemed that the work of Mr.. Shrady is
most suitable for this honorable position.
xr>
r. J. wynne the new first assistant post
| master general was formery a telegraph
/ operator. He came 10 Washington from
/ Philadelphia and began sending long spe-
cial reports out of the offices OF the news
! paper correspondents. He is an authority
on tariff subjects and treasury matters
/ He has a business head for his own affairs
/ as well as for the affairs of others. the re-
suit being that ne owns more houses than
he can count offhand
Xxx
William f. Curtis. another interesting
parsonage among Washington newspaper
workers has informed his friends that he
will return TO the United States within a
few weeks. He left Washington about a
| year ago to journey with his wife, son and
/ daughter and write newspaper letters from
various places. He has been in Europe and
] Asia most OF this time. and IL was the in
| tention Of his publisher that he continue
/ his journey around the world. Mr.. Curtis
! became homesick. however, and with
we're case OF nostalgia he did not care 10
face the burning heat of the far East In
summer time.
The amount Of work performed by this
newspaper writer is nothing short of amaz-
/ ing There has scarcely been "A day In the
last seven or eight years. and even more.
| when he has not produced his daily letter
In this time he has made trips. two or
| three to South America. 10 Europe. several
| 20 central America, 10 China, to India. 10
| Russia and 10 all the States of the United
4 States. "A