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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-24
OLD FIDDLERS' CONTEST.
Modern woodmen Will Give One the
Night of Sent. 30.

Under direction of the Indianapolis
camps, Modern Woodmen of America, an
"Old Fiddlers' Contest will be given at
Tomlinson Hall Wednesday evening, Sept.
80, for the benefit of the local membership
of Woodcraft
The entertainment promises to be one of
musical interest and merit for the partic-
ipants-whose ages will range from eighty
six years to eleven and who are coming
from Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Indiana-will render programme
made up of such Anticipated selections as
Arkansas Traveller" 1.-THE Retreat from
Moscow" virginia Reel etc.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the old
and young fiddlers and in addition to this
feature a first-class vaudeville show will
be presented in which such well known
artists as Harry Porter, VIII GAIA and Bert
Caraco will appear.
Many valuable prizes contributed by In
dianapolis merchants will be placed on ex-
hibition in Washington street windows
within the next few days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-24
SUMMER RESORTS.
THE CARLSBAD OF AMERICA

The new West Daden springs Hotel. at West
Baden. Ind. the MOnon X. x The most
unique hotel In the world. Open throuK hout the
year. Cost, with furnishings, 81. 900. Araeri-
with private baths and all modern convenience
Absolutely nreproof.
BADEN FRENCH LICK VALLEY.
Physielans prescribe West Baden waters a.
the best curative agents known for al AILMENTS
OF the stomach, liver and kidneys. fncludinx
rheumatism and catarrhal troubles Tor pars
West Baden Ind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-24
BOARD OF WORKS ROUTINE.
FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL APPROVE

FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL APPROVED.
Cement walks next to property line in
Woodlawn avenue, from Shelby street to
Virginia avenue NJ E. Loughlin. con-
tractor.
PRIMARY ASSESSMENT ROLL
APPROVED.
Asphalt roadway and curb in Thirteenth
street. from Cornell avenue to Roosevelt
avenue.
PETITIONS FILED AND REFERRED TO
THE ENGINEER.
For permission to lay, under private con-
tract, cement walk In front of Ill and lib
North New Jersey street.
For permission To lay, under private con-
tract, a cement walk in front of 237 and 239
West Morris street.
PAPERS ORDERED.
For brick roadway in the alley between
Senate avenue and Capitol avenue from
Eleventh street TO Twelfth street
For cement walk the south side of
Tenth street. from the Big -Four Railroad
TO Arsenal avenue.
COMPLETED IMPROVEMENTS.
Cement walks and curb in Twenty-seventh
street, from Meridian street to Illinois street.
Cement walks and sod in College avenue
west side, from Massachusetts avenue to
first alley south OF Eleventh street.
Brick roadway In the first alley west OF
Senate avenue, from Georgia street TO
Chesapeake street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-24

BY MAY MANTON.

Long coats made in the severe tailor style
are among the features of the season and
are greatly worn both as separate wraps
and for the entire suit This very excellent
one is adapted to both uses and to all the
seasons fabrics, but is shown in light
weight melton in military blue stitched
with corticeli silk, and makes part of the
costume.
The coat is made with fronts, back, side
backs and double under-arm cores which
allow of a perfect and graceful fit. The
seams at front and back extend to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-24

p. m.
Observation-Disclosures and d. m
when Johnny Comes Marching Home"
closed its successful engagement at Eng
lish's with last nights performance The
next attraction at English's will be Paul
Kester's dramatization Of Charles Majors
chiYalric novel, when Knighthood Was in
Flower" with Roselie Knott in the leading
role OF Mary Tudor. There will be two
presentations of the play here-Saturday
afternoon and evening In it's book form
Mr.. Majors story outsold all other books
OF the day. and IL has been great success
In It's stage version. as all local theater-
goers, who witnessed Julia Marlowes pro-
duction. will remember. Miss Knott is said
TO give an artistic portrayal OF the char
acter which Miss Marlowe formerly played,
and Manager Perley seems TO have sur
rounded his new star with a good support
ing company. Frank Sylvester, we'll
known actor. Is appearing In the principal
male character of Charles Brandon, and
other prominent players in the organiza-
ton are Maude Claire Shaw, Clare Everett,
Ogden Stevens. Herbert Forrest. Richard
Sherman, Frederick Van Rensselaer,, l..
Stoddard Taylor and Edward Dillon.
Ida Hamilton, a player who is winning
favor In the popular-price theaters. heads
the company that produces Her First
False Step at the Park this afternoon
and tonight She takes the character of
a New Hampshire girl who marries against
the wishes OF her father and before the
play ends, she Is beset with many mis-
fortunes, because OF the elopement From
the quiet life OF rural New Hampshire. in
which there Is an abundance OF comedy
she becomes toiler in the tenement dis
trict- The action OF the play leads TO
sensational climax, when the heroine's
daughter Is thr> N into a cage OF lions and
the mother goes 10 the rescue. During
the progress OF the production a number
OF specia tiles are given. including songs by
a rural quartet and the Maud Muller sex
tef. and country dance. The play will
continue at the Park until the close Of
the week.
George NJ Conan. the vaudeville CO.
medfan. Is branching out as a writer Of
musical comedy since his success with
Running for Once" His new three-act
musical piece, Little Johnny Jones'" has
been finished and Ia now In rehearsal II
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-24

Brooklyn Eagle.
A young woman who carries her car fare
in one OF those gun metal coin holders sus-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-24

Buckles for the back of the belt grow
more elaborate and one of the newest
shows a wide spreading design set with
large coralS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03

1t is long call from the Presidents re-
ception on New Years day in Washington
to that of Uncle Jimmy Martin in Nor
gan county on his ninety-second birthday.
To see the President amid the splendors
of the White House come ambassadors and
ministers. brilliant with decorations. high
officials and army officers in uniform and
thousands of citizens prompted as much by
curiosity as anything else. To see Uncle
Jimmy go farmers and their wives from
all the countryside, neighbors and friends,
to exchange congratulations and participate
in the hospitality of a well-laden table in
a Hoosier log cabin. Outside of the White
House the President is as democratic as the
next man, but the plain people like Uncle
Jimmy" and his neighbors are the ones
that make Presidents. Happily for the
country, 1t has many citizens fit to be
President and many more who are content
to assist in making them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Indiana teachers showed the ad-
vantages of being trained to think when
they voted down the resolution for another
normal school.-Terre Haute Express.
We don't want war over the miserable
Venezuelan mess and we don't want any
trifling with our rights or with our policy,
either. Germany has fooled England into
making spectacle of herself, but she will
not be able to hold the English as against
us.-New Albany Public Press.
There is the best of feeling among all
those who were recent candidates for
speaker. There will be no occasion for the
coming session to be characterized by the
bitter personal strife that marred the work
of the preceding session, and better results
may be more reasonably expected.-Lafay-
cite Courier.
plant The city can do it's own pleasure
in furnishing light, yet the public com
plains of inadequate lighting. The expert
ence is that of most municipalities. The
burden of cost falling upon the city, the
requirements are seldom fully met.-Elk-
hart Review.
Sheriff Dudley-excuse us, ex-Sherin
Dudley-of Sullivan county. manifests a
panied surprise at the action of Governor
Durbin in refusing his plea for reinstate-
ment. He has the unique distinction of be-
ing the only one to whom the decision
came in an unlooked-for shape.-Terre
Haute Tribune.
Ex-President Cleveland has, in au-
thorized interview, declared himself on the
Monroe doctrine. He says it guards Ameri-
can soil only, and that ii is absurd to use
it as a shield for debtor nation. In
this the ex-President is exactly right. Ma
tons, like individuals, must pay their
debts.-South Bend Times.
If the Legislature will not NEEDLE with
the law which removes from office the
sheriff who permits a lynching and will
| add a paragraph making the county liable
| to the relatives of the lynched person in
| the sum of $4,000, 1.-The best citizens" in
| the southern part of this State will soon
| learn to let the law take its own course
| Charlottesville Journal.
| We hear great deal to-day about the
| concentration of power and wealth and
| other things in the hands of the few, but
then that sort of cry came into the world
| with Adam, and it has been here ever
| since. Notwithstanding the numerous com
| plants Of this sort, there never was q
! time when there was so much vox sc
| much populi in the vox populi of the coun-
| try as there is to-day.-Marion Chronicle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03

DR.. Lyman Abbott. in his address before
the Irvington Athenaeum, on "Our Modern
Industrial Problem" seems to have made
distinction between Industrial organiza-
ton and concentration and those trusts
which are designed to be monopolies. 1t is
a distinction which many people fail to
make or to understand, yet he gave two
illustrations which show the difference very
clearly. The United States Steel Corpora
ton. with capital of billion dollars, was
presented as an example of a corporation
having the most extensive concentration of
capital and source of production for the
creation and distribution of wealth with no
design to create a monopoly. The illustra-
ton of the trust which Is managed as a
monopoly was found in the concentration Of
capital and later in the anthracite coal
fields which monopolizes the production Of
that important article. The managers of
the coal producing railroads have been
striving for years to drive out the indie
pendent mine owners and operators. and
have succeeded to an extent that they can
limit the supply and make the price That
is concentration of capital to create a
monopoly.
While the anthracite coal monopoly is
now attracting more attention that any
other because millions of people are paying
enormous prices for small quantities, and
others are suffering because 1t cannot be
purchased at any price. it is not so COM
plete monopoly as the Standard Oil Com
pany. The few men in that corpora ion
amounted to a monopoly in transportation.
Having obtained that. they said to all re-
fners. "sell your property at our price OF
be ruined" Most sold, and the rest were
ruined That was twenty-five years ago
Since that time the constant purpose of the
managers of the Standard has been to
crush out all competition. They have Sc.
cured large part of theNoil fields and have
manipulated the market. If an independ.
emit company undertook TO sell its product
| in any town the Standard cut the price sc
| that the competitor was forced TO abandon
the field. To-day the Standard practically
monopoizes the refined oil trade in the
| United States. Not content with a moderate
profit, the magnates have within few
months advanced the price of oil NOR
than 50 per cent, whereby they have added
many millions of dollars TO the grea
wealth of a few men. making them tn,
| richest men In the country. These million:
are taken chiefly from the poor or peopl.
| OF moderate means.
The United States Steel Corporation wal
not organized for the purpose OF monopo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03
ESSENCE OF REFORM
In Federal Determination to Keep
Naval Sailors from the Dives.

Naval Sailors from the Dives.
Minneapolis Times.
The United States navy by declaring to
Puget sound communities that vessels will
not be sent to Bremerton navy yard until
the moral conditions near the docks and
quarters for sailors and officers Shall be
improved. has taken a long step in the di-
rection of moral betterment. If the army
would follow this by reducing the garrison
at the Preside in San Francisco, another
distinct advantage will have been gained.
1t is pointed out that at Bremerton the
conditions are so frightful that Jack ashore
has no possible chance for innocent recre-
alton or even for a moderate spree-and
that Jack ashore will have some kind of a
spree is a fact recognized by every one but
radical Prohibitionists, male and female.
He is drugged. robbed debauched, and that
within a few hundred yards of the gate of
The removal of ships from Bremerton will
be the removal of decided source of in
come to decent or aliegedly decent, mer-
chants, and 1t is always within the power
of local government to blot out or ex-
istence the dives, brothels and sinks of
iniquity complained of by the naval au-
thorities.
1t will be charged that the navy, or the
army. in any steps of this kind are seeking
to win public opinion to a demand for the
restoration of the canteen. If the charge
is true, neither navy nor army need fear 1T.
They believe the canteen to be right. and
so does very large proportion of the people
who pay for the support of the two arms
of the service. We are inclined to think,
however, that in the case of Bremerton
and one or two others similar thereto, in
which action is predicted, the intent is to
destroy, If possible, a very crying evil as
early as may be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03

lizing the supply and controlling the mar
ket 1t is doubtless the inspiration of Mr..
Carnegie, who says that the eleventh COM
mandment should be. "You must not take
your neighbours job This corporation has
secured vast facilities for the production of
steel, but it left outside of the combination
industries producing nearly half Of the
product of the United States. The steel
trust has not attempted to drive out COM
petition. 1t has 5000 shareholders. which
is said to be four times as many as held in
terest in the original works. Moreover, the
stock Is on the market so that any man
who wishes to invest 800 to $4,000 in the
stock can do so and receive the same divi-
dends that the larger shareholders are paid.
Now this great corporation has proposed to
share a part of the profits with the 10000
men employed in its works. So 1t comes
about, under the policy of this great corpo-
ration, that hundreds of small investors and
where they could not under the separate
management of the corporations which
have been merged in the trust.
Combinations managed on the broad and
liberal principle which the steel trust has
adopted can be encouraged. while the COM
bination designed to create monopoly
like the anthracite coal combination, the
American Sugar Refining Company and the
Standard Oil Company are those which
should be curbed by effective legislation
when ii can be devised.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03
THE PEOPLE AND CONGRESS.


New York Commercial.
Gould public ownership be worse than
this?" asks the New York American.
quoting some passages from the report OF
the Interstate commerce Commission
These quotations were merely iterations or
certain well-known facts and of the COM
missions stereotyped plea TO be given more
power. And they lead the American to de-
clare that systematic law-breaking by the
railroads and systematic lawbreaking by
their favored patrons-"a criminal con-
spiracy to prevent competition. create mo-
nopoly and pillage the public"-are one of
the results of private ownership of the pub
lie highways. And it concludes that per
sistence in the policy of noninterference
with the mismanagement Of the railroads
cannot but popularize the demand for gov
ernmsnt ownership
Let us forgive the cannot but" and then
point to our contemporary that if this law
has been on the statute books for sixteen
years and hasn't been materially amended
for thirteen yearS-which are the facts
this is pretty good evidence that the people
don't want to amend it, that they are FAIR
ly well satisfied to let this commission ron
along for another decade or so, MAYBE
without clothing it with any more power
Since 1887 six new congresses have been
chosen by the people and have gone to
Washington and done business; they went
fresh from the people,, knowing the pop
ular will and prepared to execute 1t. But
they have let this interstate-commerce law
severely alone. Meantime there is not bit
of evidence of any growth in popular SEN
timent for the government ownership or
railroads. Nor will there be If this Con-
gress or the next or the sixtieth persists
in such ''noninterference."
Whenever the people of the United States
really want anything done by Congress,
and want 1t bad" and want it done quick,
Congress always responds speedily. 1t
knows the signs well. They don't show
through resolutions and petitions and pull
pit and press clamor-but through quieter
channels. Look back to the spring OF 1898,
when the United States went to war for
Cuba. That was clearly in response to
popular sentiment.
Congress, as the late Tom Reed once re-
marked, may have ceased TO be delibera-
tive body'-but it is still a representative
body. 1t comes pretty close to always do
ing Wharf.-The people who created 1t want 1t
| to do.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03
THE OLDEST RAILROAD.
1t IL a Little One, Is In England. and
Was Incorporated In 1919.

was incorporated In 1919.
Railroad Gazette
The traveller who leaves Plymouth for
London by the Great Western Railway will
notice, when he has proceeded two and
three-quarter miles and is passing the two
hundred and forty-fourth mile post from
Paddington, that the train crosses single
line of railroad almost at a right angle on
the level. To 1t Immediately succeeds an
over-bridge. and then. on the left hand.
or off, side, may be seen the single line
in question. laid upon rough stone blocks,
but presenting decidedly out-of-date ap-
pearance Perhaps a train of four or
five little trucks loaded with square Jumps
of china clay and drawn by couple of
horses may be seen, but in half mile
the old line trends away northward and is
lost sight Of. 1t belongs to the oldest rail-
road company in the world.
The Plymouth & Dartmouth Railway was
Incorporated on July 2. 1919, for "mak-
ing and maintaining tramroad or iron
railway for the passage of wagons and
the Prisons of War on Dartmoor. These
prisons had been erected about ten years
before, on the loneliest and widest tract
of land that could be found, to accommo-
date the French prisoners of war who
inconveniently crowded Plymouth sound in
hulks. The protector of the line. however,
Sir thomas IyrWhtt, mao great loea that
Dartmoor was capable of cultivation.
The Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway Com
pany was dissolved, and reincorporated,
by an act of 1865. for the purpose of
bringing it under the provisions of modern
acts as to using steam power, etc. The
old rates were revised and power taken
to carry passengers. 1t then owed a75. 600
to the mortgages, Messrs Johnson, who
released it on being paid in shares The
company has since constructed some local
lines near Plymouth, which are worked by
the Great Western and the London &
Southwestern; in fact, ii is virtually Joint
line now. Still, though 1T owns no rolling
stock, it has nominally an independent ex-
istence. receives its rents, maintains a
London office, and may undoubtedly be
considered the oldest railway company in
the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03

Arbuckles and other independent refiners
of cane sugar has broken the monopoly
of the sugar trust temporarily. 1t Is hoped
that the immense profits which the pro-
ducers of beet sugar claim to have made in
Michigan and elsewhere will stimulate the
industry so that in a few years the home
industry can put 10000 tons upon the mar
ket, when 1T will be able to curb any at
tempted monopoly unless the old sugar
trust should get control of the beet-sugar
industry of which there is great danger.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03
Corbin and the Lieutenant..

washington Letter.
There is stir among the younger officers
of the army over a fight that is being made
to correct the War Departments method
of grading first and second lieutenants.>
The department decided that the new Of
ficers should be ranked according to the
date of acceptance of commissions. and has
gone ahead on this basis. This has brought
tremendous howl from many officers.
sters who were not even in the Spanish
war. These kickers want the gradings TO
be made on the basis of prior service
A prominent United States senator, who
is noted for his propensity to grab every
thing in the way of patronage in sight.
called on General Corbin yesterday to pro-
test against the place assigned to one or
his favorites In the list of second lieuten-
ants. General Corbin was firm. and said
ment but to stick to its policy Of rating
the men according to the date OF accept
ance of commissions. This may seem to
work injustice to some" said General Cor
bin, 'but whatever was done was GER
tain to bring out kicks. For my part, /
believe that the best thing to do is 10 fol-
low the plan adopted in 1866, when the army
was reorganized. after the civil war. IL
man protested against his ranking In the
reorganized army he was informed that IL
ne didn't like 1t he could get out. My own
treatment is a case In point In the vol
unteer army was a colonel. and was tre-
veted brigadier general. Under the reor-
ganization. / was given a commission as
n second lieutenant and was placed No.
q on the list The adjutant OF my regi-
ment, who was only drst lieutenant OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03

There appears to be an unusual desire
Legislature to make increased appropria-
tions for existing institutions and for new
projects on the ground that the State is
in a condition to be more liberal, or in
condition to do something more for this.
that and the other project. This assertion
is made upon the assumption that the State
debt is so nearly paid that the money
which was devoted to the reduction of the
debt, and much more, can now be diverted
to other purposes, keeping up the volume
debt Is not yet paid, and the levy for the
sinking fund with which the debt has been
partly extinguished remains. and should re-
main. until the debt shall be extinguished.
1t is probable that the legislative commit
tee that has been visiting the States in
stitutions will report that larger amount
Is necessary to enable these institutions to
perform their work than has been appro-
priated for the past few years. All this
can be done, and the change made in the
Prison, which all who are familiar with the
conditions seem to believe should be made
at once, without increasing the levy. If
many of the other suggestions for increas-
ing the demands upon the treasury because
of the reduction of the State debt should
be listened to, it would be almost a misfor-
tune that the State debt has been re-
duced
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-03

One ground of opposition to the Cuban
reciprocity treaty has been that German
sugar might find entrance to the United
States through Cuba at a reduced duty.
This objection is removed by the discovery
that the treaty expressly stipulates that the
reduction of the Dingley rates shall apply
only to goods being the product of the soil
or the industry of Cuba" German sugar,
being beet product, is easily distinguish
able from the cane product of Cuba and
would not be admissible at the reduced rate