The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-15
ROBERT KELLY
. WINS REALTOR
ESSAY CONTEST
Nine Home Sites Awarded
for Articles on City's
Population.

Robert Kelly, 1872 N. Summit ST.,
was awarded first prize in the In
dianapolis Real Estate Boards es-
say contest, on why Indianapolis
Has Constantly Grown in Popula-
tion.s
Other winners are: Second, Arthur
Harder, 1877 Kenyon ST.; third, Mrs.
Garland Ely, 1909 e. Tenth ST.;
fourth, Mrs. James H. Rogers, 1882
Park Ave-; fifth, Mrs. Elizabeth
Bless, 313 N. Pine ST.; sixth, Joseph
w. Helms, 421 E. Twenty-Second
St.; seventh, Vernon G. Fairburn,
1406 w. Thirty-Second ST.; eighth,
AL B. Hall, 1856 w. Pratt ST., and
ninth, Marjorie H. Walls, 354O Bal
sam Ave.
Each Gets Home Site
Each winner will receive home
site donated by an Indianapolis
real estate dealer. The winning
essays were selected from 129
entries. Judges were E. F. Emmel,
Of The Star; Ray Everson, of The
News. and Robert G.. Batman, of
The Times.
Kelly is a retired boilermaker
and mechanical engineer. He for
merly was sales manager and works
manager of the National Boiler and
Sheet Metal Works of the National
i Dry Kiln Company.
d How He Did It
His essay:
'The city of indianapolis has con-
stantly grown in population because
1t has many and varied attractions,
making 1t a desirable place in which
to live and work out ones destiny.
The first impetus of growth since
its settlement in 1916 came when
/. 1t was named Indiana's capital,
June 7. 1920, becoming actual capt.
tai Jan. l, 1925.
: Being the economic as we'll as
theoretical center of the State, sur
rounded by rich agricultural ter
ritory with adjacent fuel and power
4 resources, it attracted a constantly
: increasing number of prospective
! citizens. Enterprising and progress
sive men and women built and are
: still building many mills and facto-
:. ries
I. Indianapolis is TOO feet above sea
level, lies on rolling plain, with
no natural barriers, thus permitting
growth in all directions. The city
: was wisely planned. with wide
streets and radial avenues, assuring
quick and easy passage for traffic
Of all kinds.
Indianapolis has grown in ship
ping facilities from its first railroad
/. In 1847 until now it has thirteen
interurban lines and sixteen rail-
roads, making connections for all
parts of the State and Nation.
"A belt railroad around the city
connects with each entering line,
6thus facilitating the handling of
freight and preventing any conges-
ton.
THE vehicle roads are comfort
able for driving, being wide, smooth
ana naru.
:. "As Indianapolis is situated so
near the center of population, both
Of the United States and of North
America, and having such ideal traf-
enc conditions, it has been called the
Cross Roads of the Nation
The constant increase in popula-
!; ton has been accompanied by cor
responding enlargement of all other
facilities tending to make a pros
porous city, until Indianapolis now
has upward of 1900 manufacturing
companies, making a greatly di-
versified product, nearly five thou
sands retail stores, more than three
hundred wholesalers and distribu-
tors, forty-three banks and trust
(. companies, f1fty-four building and
loan associations, 257 churches,