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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-21

Special to the indianapolis Journal
COLUMBUS, Ind, Oct. 20.-The an
nCuncement is made of the approaching
wedding of Mr.. John c. Scott to Miss Hazel
Ktrke Reeves. which will be solemnized
Oct. 2S at the home of Mrs. Jennie Reeves,
mother OF the bride-elect in this city.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BELLEFONTAINE. o.. Oct. aO-Mr and
Mrs. 8. b. Hunsaker. of GAINESVILLE. cele-
brated their golden wedding anniversary.
and around the festal board seated with
them were five old friends. as follows: Mrs
Susan Horn. seyenty-six. Mrs. Rebecca
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BANKERS AT FRISCO.
Annual Convention tn Begin To-Day
Trust Section Meets.

Trust Section Meets.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20-Rapidly the
hotels are filling up with delegates to the
convention OF the American Bankers Assoc
citation. Fully 800 persons came in on a
special train sent across the continent by
the leading railroads. In addition to these
there were other thousands who have
reached California over the regular routes
of travel on regular trains Several smaller
conventions were in progress during the
day. The trust company section of the
American Bankers Association at the Cali
fornia Theater in the morning and the saw
ings bank sections in the afternoon at the
lecture room of the Academy of Science
building held sessions, but the bulk of the
delegates are interested mainly in the gen
eral convention, which assemblies at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning in the Cali
fornia Theater. and they seemed to pay lit
tie attention to the meetings of the various
sections.
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pecial to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. Oct 20.-Fred
Behme. under indictment for participation
in the assault on the county Jail here in
July last which led up to the rioting and
the killing of ten people by the militia, will
be tried In Gibson county. His case was
called to-day and on a plea that fair treat
ment could not be had i'm Vanderburg
county the case was venued. OF all the
rioters thus far tried not one has escaped
conviction
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Muncie Will Give Festival.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Oct. 20.-The Muncie Mu-
steal Festival Association has decided to
give a second festival next May. The one
last May was very successful, and attract
ed many musicians of note all over the
country. The first chorus work was done
tonight. Regular rehearsals will be held
weekly after Oct. y. Efforts are now being
made to fill the programme for next
springs meeting. The association is trying
to secure the services of DR.. Carl b. Duff,
and Oliver w. Pierce. pianist of Indianap-
oils
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Postoffsce Wrecked.

LIGONIER, Ind, Oct @.The postofiice
at Cromwell, a small town four miles
south of here, was wrecked by dynamite
early this morning. The safe was badly
broken and the entire front of the building
was blown out
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0 the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FRANKLIN, Ind. Oct. 20.-Troops L and
and NJ. en- route from West Point, KY. to
Fort Sheridan camped here last night.
Captain Coghlin and the other officers were
given a banquet by the local military OFF,
GERS. Maj. Tarlton. Captain Middleton.
Lieutenants Johnson and Burton and
Adjutant Unversaw.
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Philadelphia Record.

The young man I'm New Jersey who be-
came a director at twenty-four years OF
age in the Shipbuilding Trust and voted
away millions OF the money OF other peo-
the trust has n grea: future before him.
IL he keep on he gives promise OF becoming
I'm a short time one Of the greatest leaders
of high finance. The only obstacle TO his
success II In the possible premature Close
OF the game before his genius can have full
opportunity of asserting itself.
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THOMAS NELSON'S FUNERAL.
Services at "windingvale Farm"
Near BIOOmingdale.

Near BIOOmingdale.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
BLOOMINGDALE, Ind, Oct. 20-This
afternoon the funeral of Thomas Nelson
took place from the family residence,
''windingvale Farm the Rev. William
Smith. of the NJ. Z. Church, having charge
of the services. Henry c. Nelson. from
near Lafayette, Ind: William III. Nelson, OF
Arkansas; James B. Nelson and Thomas
III. Nelson, of Indianapolis, and Charles
Nelson and Horace +. Nelson. of this place,
are here attending their f9ther's funeral.
Besides the members of Mr.. Nelson's imme-
date family, there is a very large circle of
relatives, many OF them elder people "A
Alice A. Newlin. are both over seventy
years of age. Thomas Nelson's stepmoth-
er's ninetieth birthday was recently cele-
brated.
Interment was in the family lot i'm the
cemetery at this place.
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SALEM PASTOR MISSING.
His Disappearance Reported to De-
trOit Police.

DETROIT. Oct. a0.-The Rev. w. T..
Allen. of Salem, Ind, who is in the city
attending the conference of the Christian
Church, reported to the police department
to-day the mysterious disappearance of the
Rev. Mr.. Dickey, who is also from Salem.
Mr.. Dickey left Salem early in September
on his vacation and came to Detroit from
Mackinac, where he had been a fishing
trip. He arrived here about Sept. 49, in
tending to remain for the church confer
ence, and went to the Oriental Hotel. On
oct. he left the hotel and has not been
seen since.
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renewal OF licenses. ~. Z. Lautzenheiser.
one of the saloonists arrested, was for
years marshal of the town and made an ef-
ficient officer. He quit official position only
a short time ago 10 go into the saloon busi-
hess.
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WASHINGTON. Oct. 20-John Philip
eousa. the bandmaster. was thrown from
his horse while riding I'm the city to-day.
He fell on his hip and while unconscious
for few minutes. was not hurt seriously.
HIS physician expects him 10 be out again
IN q week
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CARNIvALS A DETRIMENT.

Mayor of Lawrenceburg Has Refused
Street Show Privileges.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind, Oct 20.--Mayor
Charles Lang and City Attorney Warren
Hauck have refused street carnival priv
ieges to the Sunny South Novelty Com
pany. whose petition was referred to them
by the City Council, on the ground that
the carnival would be detrimental to the
city morally, financially and otherwise. The
decision was approved by public.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Oct 20.-Ray w. Bar
rett, formerly professor of Latin at Earl
ham College, and now student at the law
department of Pennsylvania University,
has accepted the principalship of the Brown
College Preparatory School, Philadelphia.
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Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All
druggists refund the money IL II fails TO cure.
4. ". Groves signature is on each box &c
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Detroit Tribune.
Now there will be more JOY i'm Canada
over one captured fishing tug than over tho
ninety and nine that can outspeed the
Perl
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Local observations ON Tuesday.

Bar. Tern. r. III. Wind. Weather. Pre-.
z a m. SO 20 % South. Clear. O00
z p. m. .3006 u So INVEST. Clear. 900
Maximum temperature. 30; minimum tenn
perature. 60
Comparative statement of mean tempera-
ture and total precipitation on Oct. 20:
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the hostess. cutting out for herself then
and there one duty of the coming week.
"And you, Mrs. e." addressing the sour
looking old lady"
Had my jelly to make" she answered
promptly, as though 1t was an oral prob
lem of two and two. She glanced down
with open contempt on the book in her
lap. 81 always did say duty before pleas
ure,' and when my duty's jelly, with the
apples laying round on the ground, / amt
the kind that has any time for sitting round
reading
The hostess saw that she was expected
to feel rebuffed and she did, to an extent
that ought to satisfy even the sour-looking
old lady. But glancing at the girl in the
pink silk waist she took heart. There are
missions and there are missions. Certainly
this one began to look as though there
might be something wrong at the founda-
ton. It's progenitress felt her heart sinking
with the inadequacy of her resources. Per-
haps 1t would have been wiser IL she had
perfected herself in a good cooking course,
or mastered, at least In theory, the intri-
cacies of domestic science Undisputed in
terest would have been gained, and so far
as she could see, no question Of mental ad-
vancement would have been so bold as to
thrust forward it's head.
The glance at the young girl was stimu-
lating, for her hands were clasped as
though she loved them. about three worn
little volumes.
"Ah. Violet" she said gayly. Here we
have a student in earnest. Three? Let me
see what they are" She reached forward.
hOO m ha
little. cheaply bound volume of Emerson.
Opening it she paused in establishment
her eye slipped through the pages Bracket
after bracket in pencil, and pausing to read
here and there her establishment increased.
She looked from the page To the pretty
vapid face of the girl in the pink silk waist
The girl answered the look of inquiry.
"Oh papa marked those" she said. PA
dotes on reading. He has his pockets full
all the time down at the shop. This here
ones his too" and she handed up a little
volume bound in the binding one finds on
the seventeen-cent counter at the book
stores.
The little book opened itself automatically.
The place proved to be 'Abt Vogler.' The
minister's daughter skipped down the pages
from bracket to bracket. At the last she
paused, tnen Sne CiOSeu the DOCK hastily
1T Is sort Of silly, isn't it?' commented
the girl in the pink waist understandingly.
But that's just the way with pa. He has
the most curious taste. And you wouldn't
think it. would you? carpenter. But that
seems to be his way"
She added the silver bracelet on her
arm Now. 1 don't think Brownings a bit
like Kiplng. do you? Kiplings all fire and
go. / like Kipling, and 1 think Fieldss
poems are real sweet. too. read them real
often to my little brother. I think Harold's
going TO have pas taste for reading. 1t
runs in the family. Harold likes Kipling
now, and he's only seven. Don't that lest
We forget keep running through your head
when you stop to think of 1t? Why I was
going up TO the store the other day for
some things for ma" she went on. Some
eggs and some samples and some embroid-
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At a Woman's EuChre
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scratched Che figures into the glazed score
cards, others held the cards close up to
their eyes and whispered busily to them
selves, while quite a number of them
counted VIGOROUSLY on their fingers.
"Oh. gracious mel" sighed one short
sighted little woman, who had become
wrought up to a high pitch Of nervousness.
i've counted up three times. The first time
found tile result to be ninety-three. the
second 204, and now it's 157 Which do you
suppose is ;right?-or are they all wrong?'
LET me, help you, dear said a friend.
very seriously. I'm good at counting"
And taking the card she scrutinized ii critic
ally as shA thumped out her mental arith-
metic on the top of the table with the back
of her hard. IT'S seventy-two. DEAR" she
finally announced, quite positively.
The owner of the card was plainly dis
trustful. Such a small score seventy
two? Impossible. She regained possession
of the card and went off at once to another
part of tha room to obtain assistance from
another friend. This second mathematician
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cry floss, and don't you know I clear for
got those eggs till 1 was at the gate, and
that refrain began running through my
head and-eggs popped right into my head"
The face of the minister's daughter had
forgotten its pleasant smile. She was look
ing at the girl in the pink silk waist in a
daze. But that young person went on, as
light of heart apparently as song sparrow
swinging on wild rose bush upon spring
morning.
PA thinks Browning's just fine. You don't
suspicion what a curious man pa is just to
look at him. Every time he goes up to the
city he comes home with lot of old books,
and most likely's forgotten everything ma
and 1 sent him for, and we feel thankful if
our money don't come home, too, in books.
ma has just up and told pa once that
she couldn't have the house cluttered up
with them shabby old things. If they was
just nice and new now, and ornamental she
wouldn't much mind. But ma she don't go
much on books The cookbook. guess, is
about all she takes much interest in, and
she just made him box them up in the tool
ROOM
The girl f1uffed the chiffon bow at the
back of her neck and smiled up brightly as
she turned the back of the remaining book
upwards. This ones mine, though" she
said, "Cordeliai"
The woman with mission looked, not at
the book, but at the girl in the pink silk
waist. She was too dazed to trust herself
on a polite platitude. She signaled the
other product of her alma mater across the
room with mentally uplifted hands, then
turned and left the room.
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had forgotten all about the play, cared even
less to have her unintentionai mistake dis
cussed at length.
"You see," the sharp-feateured little wom-
an insisted, had you but played your
bower at first, my dear, would have put
on my seven and saved my left bower. She"
indicating the lady on her right-'would
have played her ace. naturally enough. and
the lady on my left would have played her
king. Now, in the next hand, you, having
the lead, could have played some small
trump that would have allowed my left
bower to take the trick. and the lady on
my right, being out of trumps, would have
played a card of some other suit, and the
left lady would have played her queen, and
then /, having the lead, would have"
But as the opposing two were busiy con-
versing together about the white wool dress
Of a young woman near by and the unfor-
tunate partner was gazing stupidity into
space, the scientific fault-finder broke off
abruptly, doubtless telling herself that her
fellow-human beings were very tiresome
creatures. But a few minutes later, at an
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adjoining table, her voice again rose above
the general chatter as she reviewed in loud
tones, that became more and more resentful,
the hopelessly poor plays made by her new
partner. If she had been a man at a stag
party what a beautiful bout would have
taken place!
At another table, after a game had been
played and the two winners had taken their
triumphant departure for the next higher
table in the long row, the two losers, who
had been left behind, instantly leaned across
the board, their eyes wide open with sig
nificant intelligence.
did you notice it?" asked one, breath
lessly.
Ibid II" gasped the other. ST never saw
anything so cool in my life. She saw that
she couldn't win that hand after she had
ordered it up and so she resorted to the old
ruse of playing fast and flinging down the
last two cards together and gathering in all
the cards as if they rightfully belonged to
her. OF course, didn't say anything, but
"She was euchred as plain as day."
chimed in the first speaker. 'She's the
trickiest card player / ever saw I'm sure
now that she cheated about the score. I'm
going to watch her closely and
But at this point they were interrupted by
the two new arrivals at their table and soon
another intense game was being fought out
bravely and uncompromsingly.
All of the women appeared to be very
superstitious. In keeping score with the
counters not one of the players would
place the card of higher value on top of
the one of lesser value, as "the big
would weigh the little one down and pre-
vent a good score" Many of the ladies of
the tournament wore certain little pins in
thier bodices, bracelets their wrists,
rings on their fingers and who knows but
what they wore bells on their tees, like the
old woman of Banbury Cross? All of these
trinkets contributed to the good luck of
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round them with no difficu2y. and thus the
problem is solved for all Scars under the
maximum measurement. The engineers
must also make their pl,as so that the
lines will be exactly in tho same distances
from the center of the STREETS. Many other
minor details control the obstruction Of the
plans.
STRAIN ON THE TRACKS.
When the plan of the STITCHES is COM
pleted, IL is sent to the Off gals OF the COM
pany, who accept it or maze such changes
they think are necessaryS When accepted.
attention is turned to the sails 10 be used
in the curves and switches The main
point taken into consideration here is the
amount of strain that VIII fall upon the
tracks at the intersections If IL is at a
crossing where most OF thetcars diverge the
strain will be great. and unusual precau-
ton is taken TO provide adequate rails and
plates. The greatest strata on a car track
is at the curves, and whek they are trav-
ersed thousand times or .nIore every day
the wear and tear begins q tell unless the
best material is used.
The ordinary rail used Is "a nine-inch ran.
In the straight tracks weighs ninety
pounds to the yard. In she curves the
weight is III pounds to tie yard. At the
intersection hard steel oates are used.
These points receive the brsnt of the strain.
and the plates are SO insertd that they can
be removed and replaced Zen they begin to
wear away. Every piece 81 track used Is
made at the factory ACCORDING TO the plans
originally drawn by the selgineers
After the different piecest OF the switches
and curves are made at Sue factory they
set up there. as they 1lre finally to be
placed when embedded Ing the street. In
this way every detail OF tie whole system
is made perfect before IL letves the foundry,
and is ready to be put into he street. How
ever. when IL arrives at it, destination IL Is
an enigmatic mass of iron nd steel, weigh
ing many tons and entailisg no little work
in the removal to its bed. !
WORK DONE Quickly.
The time which IL takes Ho put I'm ore OF
these intricate systems offswitches is sin
gulariy short. Morning xawns. and the
citizen. coming down TO sis business, be-
holds the street crossings that the night
before had been as smoothsas his own front
walk a skeleton OF rusty rsils and a cheer
less and aggravating pile Il dirt. bricks and
pieces OF old rails. The ykork once begun.
IL is carried through with no Interruption
by two forces OF men. one esorlxine BY night
and the other by day. he heavy pieces
of steel are lad with the utmost care fol-
lowing minuteIy the original plan OF the
system. Should one curvt be less than a
foot out of line the whole tvork might have
70 be torn up again. at cost Of several
thousands OF dollars TO tls company Ev-
cry detail, no matter how Email. Is observed
with the utmost caution fThe night force
works by electric light1 let fan from
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TITS A pretty piece of work" The
speaker was standing at a win
dow in the office of the Indian
INNiGNI apolis Terminal and Traction
- Company, on the fifth floor OF
the Claypool building, gazing down below
on the life of the city, converging and d.
verging with miniature effect, at the inter-
section of Washington and Illinois streets.
Of sudden the procession of slow-moving
cars stopped; vehicles of sundry aspect
drew aside; a detachment of fire engines
pounded past down South Illinois street;
the black streams of people, as if the flood
gates of life were opened, were swept
toward the scene of the fire. For several
minutes the crossing of the streets was
cleared. and the puzzle of triangles of car
tracks that map the open space Of the
streets shene forth boldly and prettily to
the observer a hundred feet above. The
sleek, worn rails, in solid parallel curves
and straight lines. crossing and branching
in the four directions of the compass, and
the perfect symmetry Of the figure held his
eyes from the passing excitement and drew
forth the above remark. more to himself
than anybody else.
AS the discoverer emerging forth at the
the green valley before him, a chain of
lakes and involuntary rivers. involuntarily
exclaims so one of mathematical turn of
mind unconsciously starts with admiration
when he beholds from a position that sets
forth the beauty of its perfection an engi-
neering achievement such as the system of
switches and curves at the intersection OF
several car lines.
AN INTRICATE PROBLEM.
On examination the work involved in the
making and construction Of such system
of switches is an ardous and intricate prob
lem. The rapidity with which the work
was done at Pennsylvania and Washington
streets q week or two ago is surprising
when 1t is taken into consideration what
minuteness must be given to the laying Of
every foot of rail. When the tracks are
double the problem is still more intricate.
for then four rails must be parallel TO the
inch. But the mere manual labor of put
ting in the SYSTEM of intersecting switches
is not one-half the task.
When the company decides to put in it's
switches 1t first determines upon the direc-
ton in which the cars are to be run, after
which an expert engineer is called in to
work In conjunction with the company's
engineer. These two make a survey OF the
intersection OF the streets and then draw
up a plan paper. paying specific atten-
tion TO the arcs OF all the curves, so that
all points will come together properly and
make a perfect whole. In drawing these
plans many things are taken into consider
alton. among them the length OF the cars
the angles of the streets and the ultimate
direction: of the lines The curves are made
so that the largest cars on the line can