The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-11
Scheme of Certain Northwestern Con.
gressmen Not Approved by POST
master General Payne.
CHANCE FOR ARCHITECTS
THERE MAY BE COMPETITION in
PLANS FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Nomination of David A. Lambert to
Be Postmaster at Muncie Con.
frmed by the Senate.
special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. March 10-The efforts
made by certain Northwestern members to
have the States of Wisconsin and Michigan
detached from the Indianapolis rural free
delivery division will not be successful
postmaster General Payne has decided that
the new division created by the postoffice
appropriation bill shall be made up of New
England States. A move was started more
than year ago to create new division in
the Northwest, and it involved detaching
from the Indianapolis division the States of
Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois. The SEN
ators and members who were behind this
project were instrumental in having a new
division authorized by the recent Congress,
but wnen they came to present the matter
to the postmaster general they found he
had already promised Senator Lodge, of
Massachusetts, that the new division would
be made UP of the New England States,
with headquarters at Boston. The postal
officials say new division will be created
in the Northwest next year, but it will not
result in diminution of the Importance of
the division having headquarters at Indian
apolis.
ury Department, is considering sugges-
ton Of the supervising architect that some
of the public buildings of the smaller class
be constructed under the provisions OF the
Tarsney act, which permits the department
to have plans designed by private archi-
tects. Heretofore the department has oper-
ated under the Tarsney act only in the case
OF large buildings. such that being con-
structed In Indianapolis. The supervising
ekaA Il
should be made with buildings of the small
class, and 1T is probable the idea will be
adopted. II it is some of the Indiana build
probably those proposed for Richmond and
Logansp0rt, where the government has al
ready secured titles.
David A. Lambert was to-day confirmed
by the Senate postmaster at Muncie
Representative Cromer said to-day that
MAJ. John +. Wildman would be appointed
assistant postmaster at Muncie.
Patents were issued to-day to the follow
ing Indiana inventors: John c. Boyer, In
dianapolis. extension boring bit: Wilson T.
Brunt, Hammond, check and waste cock:
A. Deming and j. T. Tulley, Terre Haute,
automatic cutoff for cisterns; John A. Fehl-
man, Crownpoint, screw propeller; Jason
H. Greenstreet, Indianapolis, box or pack
age and material therefor; Barclay A.
N Leonard, Indianapolis, pneumatic
stacker: Warren B. Martindale. Rochester.
corn shredder and husking machine; Jacob
A: Moser, Berne, means for operating the
adjustable hooks of pneumatic straw
stackers; James and ID. w. O'Haver, Rock
vile, subway construction; John Schies
Anderson, glass blowing machine: Gottlieb
Schneider, Bluffton, metal post; D. A.
Schutt, Peru lamp socket (reissue); Charles
A. Trip, Indianapolis. level Indicator for
liquids; Henry NJ. Williams. Fort Wayne,
mirror drop curtain.
The funeral of Gen. James Winning Nc
MILAN, who died here yesterday. will be
held tomorrow. The deceased commanded
the Twenty-first Indiana Artillery during
the war of the rebellion.
Lieut.. Parker Hit, of Indianapolis, whose
health has been impaired by long service in
the Philippines, has been ordered to Hot
Springs, Ark where he will report at the
Army and Navy Hospital for treatment.
Mr.. Hit, whose regiment is the Twenty
second Infantry, was recently promoted
from a second to first lieutenancy.
xxx
DIR. John T. Dickes has been appointed a
member of the pension board Of examin-
ing surgeons for Jay county, on the recon-
mendation of Representative Cromer. DR..
Dickes is a Democrat. The present policy
of the administration requires that pension
boards shall be composed of two Repub-
licaps and one Democrat. Until the resig-
nation of DIR. c. w. Mackey, whom DR..
Dickes succeeds, the Jay county board was
composed of three Republicans.
XXX
Miss Mary A. Howard, of Evansville has
been appointed seamstress in the Winnie
bago (Neb.) Indian School,
]. B. Hilligoss has been appointed rural
carrier on rural route No. 49, at Anderson
Representative Brick has returned, after
a brief absence from the city.
George A. Thayer was to-day appointed
postmaster at Pittsburg, Carroll county.
vice John o. Lane, resigned
Representative Cromer will leave for
home on Thursday. He is attending to nu-
merous requests of constituents which re-