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creased until it now has in its equipment thirty-one first class copper wires and twenty operators, with branches at the Stock-yards, Kingan's and West End, Board of Trade, Bates House, Fruit District, Indiana Trust Company, Indianapolis Hominy Mills, Parry Manufacturing Company, Nordyke & Marmon Company, Moore Packing Company, Atlas Engine Works and Indiana Bicycle Company. Their plant in this city is first class, their cur-
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rent being produced by dynomotors which are far in advance of the gravity battery. The postal Telegraph Cable Company also inaugurated copying telegrams direct from the wire on typewriters. Competition in the telegraph service, in some form or other, has existed ever since this most important artery of commerce was developed, and will probably continue to exist so long as the telegraph remains a private enterprise. Such keen rivalry for public favor as now exists is productive of many benefits to the public, inas- much as it results in the best possible service at the least possible cost. It is the only telegraph company in America operating its own cable system. It owns three duplex cables which gives it the capacity of six cables of the other systems, by means of which a message can be sent and received over the same cable at the same instant.
The Central Union Telephone Company-The present telephone system is the outgrowth of the consolidation of the Bell and Edison Telephone The Exchange service has grown until at present there are more than 2,000 in the city, and connections through the United States over the lines owned by the Central Union Telephone Company, Long Distance Telephone and other allied systems. The Long Distance System was brought into Indian- apolis in 1893. The telephone company has spent great sums of money in housing their wires in cables, preparatory to the inauguration of the under- ground system.
The Indianapolis District Telegraph Company was incorporated Novem- ber 4. 1SS5, by E. G. Ohmer, John A. Holman, Thomas Taggart, John T. Brush and Charles Farnum. The present executive officer of the company is C. C. Hatfield, who became president of the company March, ISS7. The general electrical construction and supply department of this company en- joys a large business locally and throughout the state. The officers of this department, as well as those of the messenger service department, which is under the management of Mr. J. E. Bombarger, are located at 15 South Me- ridian street. The messenger service, under the charge of Mr. Bombarger, has arrived at a state of great efficiency, and the night-watch system inaugu- rated by this company has become of invaluable service to business men and manufacturers generally. This company has a complete system of call-boxes for fire and police service distributed throughout the city. By a unique sys- tem in connection with the use of the company's call-boxes, its patrons are enabled to call the police or fire department, call a phsician or summons a carriage, by simply turning the indicator to a given number on the call-box. From twenty-five to forty-five messengers are employed, night and day, in the service of the company.
The Commercial Club was organized in January, 1890, by twenty-seven business and professional men of Indianapolis, the membership of which in- creased within a month to nearly a thousand. Its name does not fully indi- cate the Club's purpose, which is not commercial in a sense of devotion to trade interests, but is broadly stated to make the Indiana capital a better place to live in. Among the work to which the Club has given its attention
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are the securing of a new city charter, the inauguration of a system of street improvements and of sewerage, the securing for Indianapolis of the twenty- seventh National Encampment of the G. A. R., and the promotion of a park system and of the University of Indianapolis. In a word, the Club's ac- complishment is that no one's thought for the betterment of the community has had to be unrealized for lack of co-operation. With a view to perma- nence in this effort of public spirit, an eight-story stone-front building has been erected by the Club at the southwest corner of Meridian and Pearl streets as its home. During the first five years of the Club's history, its presi- dent and secretary were respectively Colonel Eli Lilly and William Fortune. The present officers are: William Fortune, president; D. M. Parry, first vice- president; A. C. Ayres, second vice-president; Evans Woollen, secretary; A. B. Gates, treasurer. The board of directors consists of A. C. Avres, W. D. Bynum. J. P. Dunn, D. P. Erwin, J. A. Finch, William Fortune, C. C. Foster, J. H. Holliday, J. S. Lazarus, J. L. Keach, A. B. Gates, Albert Lieber, Eli Lilly. Albert E. Metzger. Nathan Morris, D. M. Parry and John M. Spann.
Indianapolis Water Company .- January 1, 1870, there was granted to the Water-Works Company of Indianapolis, a franchise to erect and maintain water-works in this city, there having been a law enacted by the legislature authorizing cities to grant such privileges to corporations organized for the purpose of supplying a city and citizens with water. That company built a substantial pumping station on White river below Washington street, and was to take water from wells along the river. The machinery consisted of pumps driven by water-power and steam, with a capacity of 6,500,000 gallons. The pumps were of the rotary character. The company laid one 24-inch supply main in Washington street and one 20-inch main in Pearl street, with branches IS and 20 inches. This company continued in existence until 'St. During that period it laid 52 miles of mains and added to its machinery one quadruplex engine of 7,500,000 gallons capacity. The present company has added pumps of 10,000,000 capacity to this station. To provide money to make the system and maintain it, that company issued a large amount of bonds and incurred a large floating indebtedness aggregating nearly $1,350,- 000. The high rate of interest, with its small patronage, was too much for the company to carry, and in 'S1 the first mortgage bondholders brought suit to foreclose their mortgage, which resulted in the organization of the present company, called the Indianapolis Water Company. This company provided the means and began a reconstruction of the system, and erected a new sta- tion a mile and one-quarter north of the first station, and there constructed a filter gallery and laid a line from the first station, 30 inches in size, to the gallery and new station, which are located at the intersection of Fall creek and White river, and placed in the new building one Gaskill compound en- gine of 15,000,000 gallons capacity, and has added to the system more than 100 miles of mains. So there are now about 155 miles of mains in the sys- tem. It also supplies the towns of Haughville and West Indianapolis under contract with those towns. The company has erected another new building,
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which is said to be the handsomest station in the United States, and there is being erected in the station a 20,000,000 triple expansion engine with all the latest improvements by the Snow Steam Pump Works. The company is also putting in a large boiler plant of 1,300 horse-power. This is in addition to the present boiler plant. The water supplied is taken from a gallery of an average width of nearly 40 feet, and nearly 2,000 feet long. In addition to this supply, it has 6 artesian wells drilled 450 feet deep. These wells flow into the gallery. It also has a filtering bed under the river. So far this supply has proven to be a good quality and of sufficient quantity. The company has under consideration the erection of a filtering plant, as soon as experiments made by one or two other cities are determined by experience to be the best form of filtration. In all of its constructive work and plants the company has aimed to provide everything of ample capacity and of the best quality. In fact, the company does not consider anything too good for its purpose, as evidenced by the very handsome structure, which has heretofore been men- tioned. This building is 77 feet by 45 feet interior. The foundations consist first of 3 feet of concrete laid under the entire building. On this are con- structed the foundation walls which are 6 feet at the base, tapering wedge- shaped to 4 feet at the top. The building proper has a steel frame, and the walls are about IS inches in thickness and 52 feet above the foundations. The outside and inside finish are white brick with bold terra cotta trimmings of the most beautiful designs. The walls of the inside are finished the same as the walls on the outside. The windows are 24 feet high and are plate glass. The gutters are copper and the roof cypress finish covered with Spanish tiles. On the outside of the walls is fine ashlar work of oolitic stone for 5 feet to the water table, which is also of stone. The inside wainscoting is white enamel brick. The foundations for the engine consist of brick piers 44 feet long, 21 feet high, 12 feet at the base and 7 feet on top. These, like the foundation walls, are laid with Portland cement. Surrounding these 2 stations, the company has about 150 acres of land which it intends to convert into a park. With the completion of this station, the company will have 3 pumping stations with a total capacity of 57,000,000 gallons in 24 hours. The building has been erected from plans furnished by consulting engineer L. K. Davis, of New York, who has supervised the erection of the building as well as the machinery.
The company furnishes water for the city for fire protection, and receives $50 a plug, which sum covers water for flushing sewers, park fountains and other uses, and lays pipe under the direction of the Board of Public Works. The domestic pressure is 65 pounds and fire pressure 125 pounds. It has 1,205 public fire hydrants in service. The rate to supply the consumers is comparatively low, being for a house of seven rooms, including water for bath, closet and laundry, and water in as many rooms as desired and sprink- ling for 30-foot lot, including lawn, garden and street, $18 a year. The com- pany has 7,000 attachments in service. The Water Company owns the In- diana Central canal, from which it supplies water to several manufacturing
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establishments, and makes use of 475 II. P. for its water power Gasgill pumps. The capital stock of the company is $500,000; the bonded indebtedness is $1,000,000, which, in all probability, will be increased in the near future, as the company will expend this year about $300,000 upon its plant.
The officers are T. A. Morris, president; F. A. W. Davis, vice-president and treasurer; M. A. Morris, secretary. The directors are T. A. Morris, E. P. Kimball, V. T. Malott, C. Heckman. C. II. Payson, Edgar R. Payson. J. L. Ketcham, John K. Bates, Albert Baker, Edward Daniels. O. S. Andrews, John H. Langdon, F. A. W. Davis.
The Consumers' Gas Trust Company was organized November 5, 1SS,. and has demonstrated how a great enterprise may be conducted for the pub- lic good without the stimulus of private gain. Following the discovery of
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natural gas in this vicinity, it was apparent to every one that it would be of immense value to this city if natural gas could be piped into the city and used for manufacturing and domestic purposes. The Standard Oil Company. local corporations and speculators immediately attempted to secure control of this valuable resource, but it remained to A. A. Mckain, a well-known citizen of our city, to put into motion the forces that resulted in the organi- zation of the Consumers' Gas Trust Company. To him more than to all others must the credit be given that Indianapolis now has natural gas at a price less than one-third the cost of hard fuel. Over $1,000,000 annually are saved to the patrons of this company as compared with what they would have to pay for other fuel. About 15,000 homes are served by this company in the city and suburbs. The officers of the company are: Robert N. Lamb, presi- dent; Henry Coburn, vice-president; Bement Lyman, secretary and gen- eral manager: Julius F. Pratt, treasurer; Wm. H. Shackelton, superintendent.
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University of Indianapolis .- Realizing the desirability of a union of the divers educational institutions of the city, conferences with that end in view were begun during the month of February, 1896. Representatives from But- ler College, the Medical College of Indiana, the Indiana Law School, and the Indiana Dental College, together with others prominent in mercantile, educational and professional circles, constituted themselves an advisory com- mittee for the furtherance of the project. Public sentiment was never more unanimous regarding a public work. Pulpit and press joined in commenda- tion ; men of all creeds and nationalities assisted in the organization, and in six weeks from the date of the first meeting held the University of Indianapo- lis was an accomplished fact. It is expected in the near future to purchase grounds for a centralization of buildings. Until this is done, the four exist- ing departments will continue to occupy their present quarters. The uni- versity will open the session of IS96-97 with about 1,000 students. The mu- tual aid and support that each department will give the others can not fail to be a source of benefit to all. And the existing departments are but a nucleus. Departments of music, art, pharmacy, technology, engineering, pedagogy, etc., will follow as a natural sequence of what has gone before. The Uni- versity of Indianapolis will eventually become one of the great centers of learning in the central states. The board of trustees are : Allen M. Fletcher, president ; Addison C. Harris, vice-president ; George E. Hunt, secretary ; IIerman Lieber, treasurer ; Benjamin Harrison, Sterling R. Holt, Eli Lilly, W. P. Fishback, J. W. Marsee, Scot Butler, Thomas Taggart, Hilton U. Brown, M. J. Osgood, P. 11. Jameson, E. II. Dean.
Butler College (Department of Liberal Arts, University of Indianapolis). In January. 1850, an institution under the name of the Northwestern Chris- tian University began a corporate existence in the city of Indianapolis. Its charter was catholic and broad and had been obtained under the aus- pices of the Christian churches of the state. Its history has been in many respects a repetition of that of many predecessors in the educational field. Growth has been slow and disappointments have been not a few. At the same time it has been blessed with more than ordinary fortune and has had its friends loyal and generous. It was started in corporate capacity as a stock company with seventy-five thousand dollars as subscribed stock. During the nearly half century of its existence this has increased to two hundred and fifty thousand. Its work and its success have been more than commensurate with the support accorded it in benefactions. More than three hundred and fifty students have graduated from its halls. Probably six thousand others have pursued partial courses of study with its faculty. The financial resources of the institution, through fortuitous circumstances and the prudence of the management, have increased to nearly double the stock subscribed. In 1877, on account of the peculiar beneficence of Ovid Butler, the original title was changed and the corporate name since then has been "Butler University," until the recent organization of the University of Indianapolis, when it adopted the new title. The change of title does not betoken any change of
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policy, rather does it emphasize the spirit which in all the past has dominated its work. The salient features of its educational policy may be summed up thus: It has stood from its inception for the broadest culture to all who have desired it. There has been no discrimination against any on account of sex or color. It has believed. it still believes. that the atmosphere in which the broadest culture is to be realized is one which is distinctly Christian. It was the first institution in the world of collegiate grade which opened its doors to women on exactly equal terms with those offered to men. It is bound by its charter "to teach and inculcate the Christian faith and Chris-
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tian morality as taught in the sacred Scriptures." Lastly, in an age which has seen many institutions swept away by a desire for notoriety. which has seen schools, meagerly equipped, advertising their ability to de- velop specialists, it has not failed to realize the truth that 'specialization' in any true sense of the term must rest upon a substantial and broadly-laid basis of knowledge. It has never claimed ability to take students fresh from the graded schools or from the secondary schools and make specialists of them in a few brief years. It has discountenanced the idea that crude youth is best fitted for the battle of life by a sky-rocket course of specialized' study,
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self-selected and aimlessly pursued. Rather has it stood for that thorough laying of the basis of all culture which in all times has been the real founda- tion of true specialization and of genuine success. In point of equipment it is without a superior in the state, and with few rivals in the west. The build- ings, five in all, situated on a beautiful campus of 25 acres, have been erected since 1874. The main college building (135 x 75 ft. and three stories high) itself furnishes extensive accommodations for college work. For some years it stood alone upon the campus. It contains sixteen large class rooms be- sides a chapel seating 500, and the offices, parlors and private studies of the
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professors. At various times there have been added Library Hall, the Col- lege Residence for Women, the Gymnasium and Power Plant, and the As- tronomical Observatory. Of these, the largest is Library Hall (100 x 55 ft.), three stories high, of brick and stone, which contains at present the library and reading room, the laboratories, the college museum and the recitation rooms of the Preparatory School. The Residence is a three-story brick structure of thirty rooms fully fitted, as is all the rest of the plant, with steam heat and electric light. The Gymnasium and Power Plant is a building of pleasing architectural design which offers the fullest facilities for its intended
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purposes. The battery of boilers with the accessories of deep well pumps and dynamo and engine leave nothing to be desired as to physical equip- ment in the great essentials of heat, light and water. The Gymnasium proper is a room 50 x 30 ft. and 20 ft. to the roof, thoroughly equipped with the essential apparatus for general gymnastics and with the bathing access- ories demanded by hygienic law. The Astronomical Observatory, while not an imposing structure, is thoroughly built, and equipped with an instrument
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by the finest makers in the world. The telescope is of six inch aperture and eight feet focal distance, equatorially mounted and fitted with clockwork for rotation. The mechanism is the work of Fauth & Co., of Washington, D. C., and the lenses are the work of Alvin Clark & Sons, of Boston, Mass., who have made all the finest lenses in the world. With this equipment Butler College may feel that she is making no pretension in her claims for a place in the college world. She offers to the student facilities of high grade in an atmosphere of culture conducive to their best use. The president of the college is Scot Butler.
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Indiana Dental College ( Department of Dental Surgery of the University of Indianapolis). The Indiana Dental College was organized in IS78 by the members of the Indiana State Dental Associ- ation. The college occu- pied rooms in AAAAAAAA the Thorpe Block, on East Market street, until ISS1. From ISSI to 1894 it was lo- cated in the Etna Block, on N. Penn- sylvania street. During the summer of '94, - the present building of the college was erected on the corner of Ohio INDIANA DENTAL COLLEGE. and Delaware streets. The
growth of the college has been steady and constant. During the session of IS95-1896 there were 157 students enrolled. These came principally from the central, western and southern states. The increase in facilities for teaching has kept pace with this growth. The building at present occupied by the college was built for dental educational purposes. The arrangement of the floor space is designed to attain the very best results. Each department is amply large to accommodate a school of 200 students. The laboratories, lecture rooms and infirmary are completely equipped and appointed. Im- provements in equipment and facilities for teaching are constantly being made. The faculty of the college is composed of fourteen members. The course is strictly a graded one; no two classes receive the same lectures. The prac- tical work is required and a high standard is insisted upon. Careful atten- tion to details in every department has placed the college on its present high plane. Its uniform increase in popularity and strength attests its value as an educational institution. The college course extends over six months, from the first week in October to the first week in April. At the session of IS95- 96 there were 157 students in attendance. The officers are John N. Hurty, M. D., Ph. D., president; George E. Hunt, M. D., D. D. S., secretary; Harry S. Hicks. D. D. S., treasurer.
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The Indiana Law School (Department of Law of the University of Indi- anapolis). The Indiana Law School. now entering upon its third year, has already taken high rank among the professional schools of the country. The results thus far have justified the opinion of the founders of the school that Indianapolis possesses exceptional advantages for such an institution. Being the capital city of the state. where the Supreme and INDIANA LAW SCHOOL Appellate State Courts, the Federal Courts, and the local, civil and TER criminal courts are in session throughout the year, the students have unusual opportunity for wit- nessing court procedure in all of its various forms, and the sessions of the legislature, which are held in the State House, quite near the school building, enable them to see how the business of law-making is transacted. For the young men who expect to practice law in Indi- ana this school is especially fitted. INDIANA LAW SCHOOL. With the rapid growth of the state in wealth and population, the law of Indiana, while in its general and elementary features it is like that of the other states of the union, has developed a jurisprudence of its own. In its one hundred and sixty volumes of reports and its numerous statutes there is a body of law peculiar to Indiana, a knowledge of which is essential to the Indiana lawyer. This knowledge can not be acquired at law schools located in other states. While not neglecting the general principles of the law, which are alike in all states, the faculty and instructors of the Indiana Law School give especial attention to our state jurisprudence. William P. Fishback is dean, and among the instructors and lecturers are IIon. Byron K. Elliott, HIon. William A. Woods. IIon. Addison C. Harris, Hon. John R. Wilson, William F. Elliott, Charles W. Smith, llon. George L. Reinhard, William E. Kappes. Evans Woollen, Thaddeus S. Rollins, HIon. John A. Finch and llon. John L. Griffiths.
The Medical College of Indiana (Department of Medicine of the Univer- sity of Indianapolis). This institution was organized in 1869 by a committee appointed by the Indianapolis Academy of Medicine, under the name of the Indiana Medical College. In 187S it was consolidated with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the name changed to its present form. As a result of this union this college adopted the alumni of both the parent institu-
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tions. These alumni now number about twelve hundred. The college has been twice burned out while in session, in ISSo and 1894. No time was lost
in either case, the lect- ures being immediately resumed in temporary quarters. As a result of the last fire, the fac- ulty has erected a com- modius and admirably arranged building on the corner of Market street and Senate ave- nue North, especially adapted to the con- stantly growing needs of advanced medical education. Without go- ing into particulars, it is believed that the col- MEDICAL COLLEGE OF INDIANA. lege equipment need not fear comparison with that of any competing institution. The faculty numbers twenty with sixteen assistants. Hospital facilities are excellent, and will be much im- proved by the erection, in time for its next session, of a thoroughly modern and comfortable clinic hall, at each hospital. Women are admitted on the same terms as men, and special efforts made to render their attendance pleas- ant and profitable. Although the fact of thirty-six years of prosperous and successful existence is a sufficient guarantee of the institution's permanence, yet its lately acquired relationship as a department of the University of In- dianapolis is a still further proof of stability. A dispensary giving very fine opportunities for clinical instruction is located in the college building. Stu- dents remaining in the city during the summer are cordially welcomed. This college is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and conforms strictly to the schedule of minimum requirements adopted by this association. The officers of the college are Joseph W. Marsee, M. D., dean; Alembert W. Brayton, M. S., vice-dean; John II. Oliver, M. D., treasurer, and Franklin W. Hays, M. D., secretary.
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