The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-17
THE TOWN WILL RAISE $4,000
A COMMITTEE is APPOINTED TO Sc
CURE PLEDGES OF MONEY.
PubIic-spirited Citizens Urge the Ne
cessity of Favorable ActiOn-Rich
Men to Be Visited.

institute of technology. At a meeting OF
the Woodruff Club last night half the vot-
ing population of the little town, men who
are prominent in business and political cir
Giles, enthusiastically Endorsed the technical
school project and gave assurance that
they would not be behindhand when it
came to collecting subscriptions to buy the
grounds of the United States government.
Out of the meeting a definite plan of ac-
ton was evolved II was considered best
that no subscriptions be taken last night,
the idea being that the movement would
not suffer If the residents of the suburb be
given a few days more to turn the plan
over in their minds. Subscription blanks
will be printed at once, however. and as
soon as they are out every lot owner and
resident in the town will receive a visit
from a canvasser acting with special
committee appointed last night and will be
given an opportunity to contribute in pro-
portion to his means. 1t is expected that
Woodruff Place will furnish at least 800, 900
of the fund of s15O,OOO believed to be neces-
sary TO buy the arsenal grounds from the
government. There are $50 lots in the town
and the canvassing committee figures
roughly that an assessment of 800 a lot
Woodruff Place should raise $4,000. but it is
believed that a number of the more well-to-
do citizens of the suburb will feel like Civ
ing more. and $4,000 is stated to be a fair
estimate of the sum that may be expected.
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE.
The committee that will have charge of
the work of raising funds is composed of
Gen. James r. Carnahan, chairman; A. c.
Ayres and Fred X. Shepard. With this
committee Capt. Charles w. Brouse, of
Irvington. will act in the capacity of solicit
ing agent. 1t will be his business to see
personally the residents of Woodruff Place
and to obtain from them their pledges of
money. The committee will go to work at
once The movement will be pushed with
all dispatch and Captain Brouse expects to
get to work in two three days.
The town meeting, out of which the plan
of action was evolved, was called to order
by Fred K. Shepard. and General Carnahan
was chosen as chairman. G. w. Brown,
who is chairman of the general canvassing
committee, to which is delegated the task
of securing all the money necessary to buy
the grounds addressed the citizens, outlin-
ing the scope OF the institute scheme. He
told of the successive steps that have been
taken: of the action of the directors of the
corporation of a company the object OF
which is to endow the proposed institute;
of the energetic work of Sol c. Dickey in
bringing the matter TO the attention OF
Indianapolis men; of the work that has
already been accomplished by the general
canvassing committee, and concluded with
an appeal to Woodruff Place people TO take
the initiative in a movement that is sure
10 benefit them materially as well as in
other ways.
Albert Sahrn who has been assisting Mr.
BROWN hand. followed
a talk on the benefits that may be expected
TO accrue 10 Woodruff Place from the es-
adjustment of the school and also from the
institution of an army post that is almost
certain to be put here If the institute plan
goes through. After saying that the school
would be thing of pride to the entire COM
munity, and especially to Woodruff Place,
since il would be adjoining the suburb, Mr..
Sahm said:
Speaking purely from a selfish and ma
terial point of view the purchase of the
arsenal site for the proposed institute will
be certain to appreciate the value of Wood
ruff Place property. AS it is lots here are
not valued as high as they would be If
there were not great piece of ground adj
joining, the disposition of which has been
uncertain. With that ground devoted to
the use OF one big educational institution,
and the danger of its being cut up into
building lots removed. the value of lots
here will be sure to go up. and there is not
a property owner in this town that will not
receive some benefit from it,
General Carnahan followed Mr.. Sahm,
and was enthusiastic in his appeal to his
fellow townsmen TO give their help to the
movement. He paid a tribute to the abil-
ity and energy of Sol c. Dickey, saying
that Mr. Dickey had taken hold of Winona
when it had proved a financial failure and
had built it up until it is a more valuable
property, so far as annual returns go, than
the New York Chautauqua.
"Dickey is an Indianian," he said. "He
believes in Indiana. All his thoughts are
conferred on Indiana. He has made study
/ of its people and he knows their needs bet.
ter than most of US. Mr.. Dickey is con
WINGED that the technical institute will
meet long-felt want in this State and
| take to the plan partly because Mr.. Dickey
/ is so wrapped up in its success. He is in
| il head and shoulders, and one of the best
| signs of its ultimate success is his de-
/ Iermined labors for it,
In expressing his own beliefs that a
| technical school is needed that will give the
| sons of poor men chance TO learn a use
/ full trade. General Carnahan said: ''It has
/ now come to such pass in the colleges OF
cur country that the son of mechanic OF
| labOring man has no chance in them
| When l graduated, forty years ago, there
were In my college boys who worked their
way through school by manual labor by
/ acting walters, by saving wood and do
/ ing all sorts of odd jobs. Nowadays a bog
/ of thing and he loses cast with his school
/ mates. 1t has got so now that a boy needs
/ from $1,000 TO 5000 a year to go through
/ college on. An institute of the kind W.
/ are interested in will attract. maybe, 200
/ young men from all parts of the country
most of them in all probability from In
/ diana, who need chance 10 get on and
/ make something of themselves. l think
i IL is the thing that is needed"
Admiral Brown said that he was heartily
in favor of the project and would give il
/ all the assistance in his power A G
Ayres declared himself in favor OF the plar
/ and said that the institute would be ar
/ ornament TO the State. Others who spoke
/ in favor of the movement and who adVo-
/ Gated immediate action on the part OF
| Woodruff Place citizens were Fred X
Shepard, Captain Charles +. Brouse, the
/ Rev Mr.. Hood and Thomas Trusler. The
/ latter was OF the opinion that IL might not
/ be wise 10 disseminate the idea that Wood.
/ ruff Place was running the movement fol
| the reason that other parts of the city
might lose interest in the whole affair
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
! A. c. Ayres presented the following reso-
luton which was adopted unanimously:
Resolved. That IL is the sense of this
| tor the purpose OF donating IL toward the
| securing OF the technical institute. and
/ that committee be appointed 10 consider
/ the manner in which residents and prop
erty owners shall contribute toward the
/ fund which is TO be raised for the purpose
Subscriptions TO be conditioned upon the
/ raising OF the full amount OO0 -