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Pinnick, wagon maker; G. O. Ballinger Co., everything in print- ing and engraving line; Harry Ireton, galvanized iron and copper cornices, furnaces; Henley Roller Skate & Machine Co., roller skates; H. H. Meerhoff, plumber, gas and steam fitter; H. H. Wagner Co., brick mantels and cement works; Ice Delivery Co .: Independent Icc & Fuel Co., ice and fuel dealers; Indianapolis Glove Co .; Jacob Kern, boiler repairing, flue welding, sheet iron work; J. M. Hutton & Co., undertakers' supplies; John C. Bayer Baking Co., bakery and restaurant; John Zwissler Baking Co., bakery and restaurant; Landis & Braden, wagons; L. C. King, printer ; Lott & Kinley, rebuilding and refinishing furniture ; Louck & Hill Co., church furniture, bank, store and office fix- tures, lumber and planing mill department; Miller Harness Co., harness, and dealers in fine vehicles; Milton Atkinson Co., wagons ; Minck Brewing Co .. brewers of fine beers; Municipal Electric Lighting & Power Plant, electricity; Myers & Parke, light mail and delivery wagons: National Automatic Tool Co., automatic tools; Nicholson Printing & Mfg. Co., catalogue printers and binders, blank books, paper boxes, general line commercial print- ing; Omar H. Wilson Co., cement blocks, veranda columns, bal- ustrades, sills, etc .; Philip Birck, harness and collars; Philip Schneider & Son, carriage builders; Pilot Motor Car Co., automo- biles ; Quaker City Baking Powder Co., baking powder, extracts, self-rising pancake and buckwheat flour, Dr. Hiatt's Germicide; Quaker City Candy Co., candy and confections ; Quaker City Print- ing & Publishing Co., publishers "Morning News" and job printers ; Reddish Knitting Co., hosiery; Rettig & Johnson, ice; Richmond Brick Co., brick; Richmond Candy Co., candy and confections; Richmond Casket Co., undertakers' supplies; Richmond Chair Co., chairs; Richmond Elastic Roof & Bridge Paint Co .; Richmond Electrotype & Engraving Co .: Richmond Furniture Mfg. Co., cup- boards, wardrobes, combination cupboards and cabinets; Rich- mond Handle Co., shovel handles; Richmond Light, Heat & Power Co., gas and electricity; Richmond Mfg. Co., vehicle lamps; Richmond Overall & Shirt Co .; Richmond Roller Mills, high grade flour; Richmond Underwear Co., knit underwear ; Richmond Safety Gate Co .. freight elevators, safety gates, fire doors, fire shutters and hardware specialties; Riverside Brass & Machine Works: Robinson & Co., traction engines, threshers. baling presses; Seidel Buggy Co., buggies, carriages; Standard Pattern & Mfg. Co., gasoline engines, air compressors, brass cast- ings and patterns: Starr Piano Co., grand, upright, and player
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pianos ; S. W. Hayes Track Appliance Co .. railroad supplies ; the Advance Co., machine shop ; the Elliott & Reid Co., woven wire fencing; the J. M. Coe Printing Co., book and job printers; the Nixon Bag & Paper Co., paper; the Peter Johnson Co., galvan- ized iron cornices; Union Ice Co., ice; Watt & Keelor, caskets : Wayne Works, automobiles, etc .; Westcott Motor Car Co., auto- mobiles; W. H. Dennis, newspapers and printed matter; W. H. Duning, locksmith ; W. H. Johnson Co., automatic oilers and auto- bodies; W. O. White, saddler ; William Waking Co., bicycles, wa- ter closets and bath tubs.
The city of Richmond has fifty-seven miles of improved streets, forty-one miles of cement sidewalks, forty-one miles of sewer, twenty-four miles of brick sidewalks, and twenty-nine miles of gravel sidewalks. The Glen Miller City Park contains 162 23-100 acres, and the city is protected by 318 water plugs for fire protection and 319 street lamps. The Richmond City Water Works has forty miles of water-main and can supply 8,000,000 gallons of water daily. The postal system of the city consists of seventeen city routes and eight rural routes. The following general statistics of Richmond are of historic value: Population (1900), 18,226; population (1910), 22,324; per cent. of increase, 22.5 ; families, 5,250; total valuation, $14.500,000.00; factories, 125; men employed, 5.500: national banks, 3; trust companies, I ; building and loan companies, 3; annual pay roll of city, $6.300,- 000; railroads, 8; passenger trains daily, 62; freight trains daily, IIO; interurban lines, 2; interurban cars daily. 75; schools, 14; school children, 10,000; churches, 34; volumes in public library, 40,000 ; fire companies, 5; suburbs, 6; commercial and civic organ- izations, 5; daily newspapers, 3; men in police department, 20; dry goods stores, 12; groceries, 88; meat markets, 28; drug stores, 16; notion stores, 5; shoe stores, 9; furniture stores, 10; book stores, 3; cigar stores, 19; confectioneries, 12; clothing stores, 10; merchant tailors, II; hardware stores, 7: stove stores, 6; barber shops, 37; music stores, 7; photographers, 9; glassware and queensware stores, 6; piano stores, 4; gents' furnishing stores, 9; hat stores, 9; hotels, 9; implement stores, 4; restaurants, 18; bakeries, 9; bicycle stores, 6; carpet stores, 6; coal yards, 13; fruit stores, 6; florists, 9; feed stores, 8; gun and ammunition stores, 6; hair goods stores, 7; harness stores, 4; jewelry stores, II; laun- dries, 6; livery stables, 14; lumber yards. 5; granite and marble stores, 3 ; paint stores, 7; saloons, 51 ; general second-hand stores, 4; theaters, 6.
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CHURCHES.
Richmond is a city of churches, having thirty-four church or- ganizations, with a total membership of 15,000 and a total Sunday school attendance of about 7.500. The total valuation of church property is about $1,250,000. The city also has one of the finest Young Men's Christian Association buildings in the State, erected at a cost of $100,000, modern in every way, containing reception rooms, gymnasium, swimming pool, dining room, class rooms and dormitory rooms. The following list gives the names, pastors, and location of the churches :
African Methodist Episcopal (colored), corner South B and Sixth, Rev. George C. Sampson, pastor ; Apostolic Holiness Mis- sion, northeast corner H and North Eleventh; Christian Science, Masonic Temple, two readers; City Mission, 334 Main; East Main Street Friends' Church (orthodox), corner Fifteenth and Main, Rev. T. C. Kenworthy, pastor; First Baptist, North Eleventh, be- tween Main and North A, Rev. H. Robert Smith, pastor; First Christian, corner Tenth and South A, Rev. Samuel W. Traum, pastor; First English Evangelical Lutheran, corner Eleventh and South A, Rev. E. G. Howard, pastor; First Presbyterian, north- west corner North Tenth and A, Rev. Thomas J. Graham, pastor ; First Methodist Episcopal, corner East Main and South Four- teenth, Rev. J. F. Radcliffe, pastor; Fifth Street Methodist Epis- copal, corner Fifth and North A, Rev. Maurice G. Hardingham, pastor ; Grace Methodist Episcopal, corner Tenth and North A, Rev. Arthur Cates, pastor ; Holiness Church, Sheridan street; Mis- sionary Baptist (colored), corner Ninth and South B, Rev. Charles G. Goines, pastor ; North End Mission (colored), Thirteenth and North G; North Fourteenth Street Mission (colored), Fourteenth and North F; Protestant Episcopal, corner North A and Eighth, Rev. John S. Lightbourn, pastor; Salvation Army, North A, be- tween Fifth and Sixth, Capt. Herman Deuter ; South Eighth Street Friends' Church (orthodox), South Eighth, between A and B; Second English Evangelical Lutheran, corner Pearl and Third Rev. E. Minter, pastor ; St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran, 337 South Seventh, Rev. Conrad Huber, pastor ; St. John's Evangelical Luth- eran, corner Seventh and South E. Rev. Albert J. Feeger, pastor ; St. Andrew's Roman Catholic, corner Fifth and South C, Rev. Frank A. Roell, pastor ; St. Mary's Roman Catholic, North A, be- tween Seventh and Eighth. Rev. J. F. Mattingly, pastor; Second Presbyterian, North C and Nineteenth, Rev. Thomas C. McNary,
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pastor ; Third Methodist Episcopal, corner Charles and Hunt, Rev. W. B. Farmer, pastor; Trinity Evangelical Lutheran, south- east corner Seventh and South A, Rev. Joseph Beck, pastor ; Union Mission, east side North Fourteenth and North G; United Breth- ren, corner Eleventh and North B, Rev. H. S. James, pastor : United Presbyterian, North A and Eleventh, Rev. S. R. Lyons, pastor; Universalists, Masonic Temple, Rev. L. P. and Martha Jones, pastors ; West Richmond Friends' Church (orthodox), Earl- ham College, Rev. Elbert Russell, pastor; Wesleyan Methodist (colored), 313 South Tenth, Rev. W. F. Jones, pastor ; Whitewater Friends' Church (orthodox), North Tenth and G; Whitewater Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, North A, be- tween Eleventh and Twelfth; Young Men's Christian Association, corner North A and Eighth, Herbert S. Weed, secretary.
CHARITABLE AND PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS.
St. Stephen's Hospital, on North Eighth street, was replaced, in 1905, by the Reid Memorial Hospital, which was opened to the public July 27. It is located on a tract of fifty acres of land, just north and adjacent to the city, and which cost $26,000. The hos- pital buildings with the improvements have cost about $65,000, and have been furnished in the most modern fashion for hospital pur- poses at a cost of over $10,000, which money was donated by in- dividual citizens, churches and various organizations. The im- provement of the grounds was made by an extra donation of Daniel G. Reid, who gave $5,000 for that purpose. The hospital has an endowment fund of $25.000, raised by popular subscrip- tion, including $10,000 left by Robert Morrisson, of Richmond, and $5,600 left by James M. Starr. The entire cost of the build- ings and grounds, excepting the gift of $10,000 made by William B. Leeds, was donated by Daniel G. Reid as a memorial to his wife and son. The hospital has a capacity of seventy-five beds and all the facilities and equipment of an up-to-date first class hospital, which is maintained from the annual interest upon this endow- ment fund of $25,000, the hospital fees paid by patients who are able to pay, and contributions from the city, individuals and the Ladies' Aid Society. The hospital is purely a benevolent institu- tion, its whole income being used for its own maintenance. Miss Mary B. Sollers is superintendent.
The Margaret Smith Home, located on East Main street, af- fords an excellent home for old women, who may be admitted to
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the home upon the payment of $100, after which the entire expense of the institution is cared for by contributions and donations.
The Home for Friendless Women is located on South Tenth street and affords a home for such women as are without homes, and also serves as a place of detention for women prisoners.
The Wernle Orphans' Home, located just south of Richmond, is controlled by the St. John's Lutheran Church. It furnishes homes for about 100 fatherless children. Here they are educated, clothed, and cared for until they are old enough to go into the world and provide for themselves.
In addition to these institutions, there is a hospital for con- tagious diseases, located west of the city ; and the Associated Char- ities, comprising various church organizations, united under one general management.
Near Richmond is located the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, which has been established at a cost of about $1,000,- 000, and embraces an estate of 323 acres, on which are located thirty large brick buildings, with its own water works system, elec- tric light plant, ice making and refrigerating system. This institu- tion pays out annually about $165,000 for maintenance. There are in the hospital at present about 800 patients and 160 employees. Dr. S. E. Smith is superintendent of this institution.
FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS.
American Order of Owls, Nest No. 87; Ancient Order of United Workmen, Richmond Lodge, No. 31 ; Ancient Order of Hi- bernians, Division No. 1, Ladies' Auxiliary Division, No. 1 ; Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks, Richmond. Ind., Lodge No. 649; Daughters of Revolution, Eden Rebekah Lodge, No. 30, Her- menia Rebekah Lodge, No. 25; D. of P., Maumee Council, No. 4, Degree of Pocahontas; Fraternal Order of Eagles, Wayne Aerie, No. 666; Grand Army of the Republic, Sol Meredith Post, No. 55, Woman's Relief Corps, Sol Meredith Corps. No. 45, Ladies of G. A. R., Garfield Circle ; G. U. O. O. F. (colored), Wayne Lodge, No. 2791 ; Haymakers, Hokendauqua, No. 1961/2; Improved Order of Red Men, Osceola Tribe, No. 15, Hokendauqua Tribe, No. 196; Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Whitewater Lodge, No. 41, Hermann Lodge, No. 199, Woodward Lodge, No. 212, Richmond Lodge, No. 254, Oriental Encampment, No. 28, I. O. O. F. Relief Committee, Odd Fellows Hall Building Association; Knights of Pythias, Coeur de Lion Lodge, No. 8, Iola Lodge, No. 53, Triumph
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Lodge, No. 115, Richmond Company, No. 14, Insurance Dept. Sec. No. 158, Knights of Pythias Association, Calanthe Temple, No. 9, K. of P. Sisters, Insurance Dept. Sec. No. 5682, Eureka Lodge, No. 3 (colored) ; Knights of Columbus, Richmond Council, No. 580; Knights and Ladies of Honor, Linden Lodge, No. 14449; Loyal Order of Moose, Wayne Lodge, No. 167; Modern Woodmen of America, Richmond Camp, No. 3815; Maccabees, Ladies of the Maccabees of the World; Masonic, Webb Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M., Richmond Lodge, No. 196, F. & A. M., King Solomon Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M., Wayne Council, No. 10, Royal and Select Masters, Richmond Commandery, No. 8, K. T., Loyal Chapter, No. 40, O. E. S., Masonic Building Co., Quinn Lodge, No. 28 (colored) ; Royal Neighbors of America, Local Lodge, No. 2594 (Maple Leaf Camp), Protected Home Circle, No. 356.
AMUSEMENTS.
Richmond is especially noted for its clean and moral amuse- ments. It has a large Coliseum, capable of seating 2,500 people ; the Gennett Theatre, with seating capacity of 1,100; and the New Murray Theatre, with seating capacity of 700. There are several baseball parks and a large athletic field at Earlham College, also one just east of the city. All kinds of park amusements at Glen Miller Park, including boat riding. Several theatoriums and halls for concerts, lectures, etc., are distributed about the city. Only re- cently a tract of 120 acres of land, located just northeast of the city, along the Whitewater river, was purchased by some of the public- spirited citizens of the city and plans are being developed to build a dam which will form a lake of almost fifty acres, affording boat- ing, fishing, bathing, and camping privileges.
RAILROADS.
Two great competing railroad systems radiate lines in eight directions from the city, and two interurban railways operate seventy-five cars in and out of Richmond each day. The Chesa- peake & Ohio system, which connects Chicago and Cincinnati, is being double tracked and forms a through line from Chicago to the Virginia seaboard. This line operates about twenty freight trains, consisting of 350 to 400 cars, through the local yards; with six daily passenger trains so scheduled as to allow easy access to Richmond's large retail establishments. The Pennsylvania system
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has lines extending in six different directions, connecting the min- ing districts of Pennsylvania and the agricultural lands of the West with Richmond. This system is double tracking its cast and west lines and operates fifty-eight passenger trains daily, with an average of six cars to the train. Over this system ninety freight trains pass daily, averaging twenty cars each : thus I.Soo freight cars are handled through Richmond daily on this system alone, affording excellent shipping facilities in every direction to all the great markets.
CHAPTER XXIX.
RICHMOND CLUBS.
NATURE AND ORIGIN OF CLUBS-GROWTH IN THE UNITED STATES-CLUBS OF RICHMOND.
Clubs are societies of persons united for social, scientific, artis- tic, literary, or political ends, or for the purposes of recreation. The etymology of the word "club" in this sense is obscure. It may be derived from the Saxon cleofian, to cleave. in allusion to the divi- sion of the reckoning of the guests of an ale-house; but in its pres- ent signification, it is perhaps closely allied to cleave, to adhere. It is also said to be derived from the Swedish klubb, as meaning a clump, or tightly packed body of men. Carlyle, in his "History of Frederick the Great," assumes that the vow of the chivalric orders (Gelubde) in vogue 1190 A. D., passes to us in the singularly dwindled condition of the modern word "club." The Friday Street Club, or, more correctly, Bread Street Club. in London, was long regarded as the first in England; but in the reign of Henry IV there was a club called "La Court de bone Compagnie," of which the poet Occleve and probably Chaucer were members. About the beginning of the Seventeenth century the famous club at the Mermaid Tavern, in Bread Street, was established. It had Shakes- peare. Beaumont, Fletcher, Raleigh, Donne, Selden, et al., as mem- bers. About the same time Ben Jonson founded a club which met at the Devil Tavern, between Temple Bar and Middle Temple Gate. In 1659, the first political club, the Rota, was established, meeting at the Turk's Head in New Palace Yard. In 1669, three years after the great fire, the Civil Club, which exists to this day, was established in the city, all the members of which were citi- zens. Some of these early political clubs played important parts in the history of the times. Such was the October Club, of which Swift was a leading spirit. Another unique club, the Kit-Kat, famous in literature, dates from the year 1700. Its curious name is said to be derived from a noted mutton-pie man, Christopher
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Katt, whose christian name was shortened to Kit. Among the members were the Dukes of Marlborough and Devonshire, Lord Halifax, Sir Robert Walpole, Congreve, Cranville, and Addison. Contemporaneous in origin with the Kit-Kat were the Tattlers' Club in Shire Lane and the famous Beefsteak Society. Readers of Boswell are familiar with the Ivy Lane Club, established by Doctor Johnson at the King's Head, and the Literary Club, found- ed by Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1764, which had among its members Boswell, Goldsmith, Burke, and others famous in literature. The purely social club of the present day owes its origin to the famous coffee-houses of the eighteenth century, where congenial spirits used to meet for social intercourse and comradeship. The period from 1815 to 1855 saw the establish- ment of the palatial modern clubs lining Pall Mall and Piccadilly, which form so important a part of English social life. Of the purely social clubs of Richmond little mention shall be made.
The growth in the United States of clubs for women is one of the marvels of a century prolific in new movements. In March, 1868, the first club, Sorosis, exclusively for women, was founded in an experimental way, in New York City, "for the pro- motion of agreeable and useful relations among women of literary, artistic, and scientific tastes, and for the discussion and dissemi- nation of principles and facts which promise to exert a salutary influence on women and on society." Its formation was due to the refusal of the committee on the Dickens dinner, from the Press Club, to allow women to participate equally with men on that occasion. Twelve ladies, including Mrs. Jane Cunningham Croly, popularly known as "Jennie June," organized Sorosis, whose name is a botanical term, derived from a Greek word sig- nifying a heap or collection. The interest in such associations has grown until it is estimated that there are in the United States 500 clubs, with an aggregate membership of not less than 50,000. Mrs. Croly has said: "One of the strongest fears expressed in regard to women's clubs in the beginning was the fear that they would tend still more to the separation of sexes. This result has not followed. On the contrary, club life is bringing men and women together, and the latest outcome of the woman's club is the mixed club of men and women, with higher standards than men's clubs have before known. But this would not have been possible had not women gained knowledge and experience in clubs of their own."
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Let us look for a little while at the clubs of Richmond: The Taconite Society (pronounced by the members "Talk and Eat") was founded by Dr. Verling Kersey. His purpose was to bring together at stated periods, fortnightly, men from various callings and diverse views for their mutual pleasure and profit. It was without a constitution or by-laws or rules of any kind and with- out officers and assessments. Its meetings were held at the resi- dences of the respective members, beginning with Doctor Kersey and in alphabetical order thereafter. At each meeting a dinner was served, after which the host proposed a subject for discus- sion. Each member was given an opportunity to express his views. When all had spoken, the host summed it all up and the talk was closed. The subjects discussed were political, historical, and social, and the greatest latitude was allowed in the expres- sion of individual opinion. The host alone knew the subject to be submitted, and the members were therefore relieved of the trouble of preparing anything before-hand. The meetings were limited to the winter months and were attended only by mem- bers. They were continued for years and until the membership was greatly reduced by death, ill health of some and change of residence of others, when, without any formal act of dissolution, the meetings were discontinued. The membership was selected upon organization by Doctor Kersey and four were taken each from the medical and legal professions, four from the ministry, and four from among those engaged in other business than the pro- fessions. The charter members were as follows: Verling Ker- sey, James F. Hibberd, Jacob Weist, and Dougan Clark from the medical profession; Jesse P. Siddall, John F. Kibbey, Charles H. Burchenal, and Daniel W. Comstock from the legal profes- sion ; Isaac M. Hughes, Ferdinand Hunt, John B. Wakefield, and Charles F. Coffin from the ministry, and John W. Grubbs, James F. Reeves, John Nicholson and William F. Spencer as the busi- ness men. Vacancies were filled by the selection of Dr. Charles A. Kersey, Dr. Iutzi and Dr. Ballinger, who later moved to Chi- cago, and by William Dudley Foulke, in the legal profession. In the ministry, vacancies were filled by Dr. Young of the Evangel- ical Lutheran, Reverend Gilchrist of the United Presbyterian, and Rev. Theodore Hallam of St. Paul's Church; and in the business class by Daniel Surface, Edwin C. Martin, J. Frank Reeves and John F. Miller.
The Tuesday Club was one of the best ever formed in Rich- mond. It was organized in 1880 and was a mixed club. It met
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on Tuesday evening and was composed principally of professional men and their wives. Mr. Foulke was always president. It lasted about twenty years. The Club elected by ballot five officers at its first meeting-a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary and a treasurer-who performed the usual duties of these offices, and six additional persons, who, with said officers, constituted the Executive Committee. They adopted by-laws and transacted all the business of the club, but they had a provision that at the request of three members of the committee any matter of busi- ness might be referred to the club. Five members constituted a quorum. New members were admitted to the club only on the written invitation of the Executive Committee and after the Con- stitution had been signed and the year's dues had been paid. All nominations for membership were left open for one week. The program for each evening consisted of one paper and an oral discussion, to be led by two members appointed by the commit- tee. No persons, except those who came provided with a mem- ber's ticket, and non-resident guests having a written invitation from a member, could be admitted, except to the one or two open meetings during the season. The annual dues were $2. Occasionally noted people were asked to address the club, as Felix Adler (a Jew), Senator Beveridge. John L. Griffiths, of Indianapo- lis, Julia Ward Howe, and Richard Dana, of Boston (a Norwe- gian). The papers by the members were very well prepared and the ability to debate was soon well developed.
The Cycle was organized in 1885. with fifteen members. It was a literary club. Two years were spent on the literature of each country. It was a very active organization until 1900, and also very popular. The fifteen members, in 1899-1900, were: Mary Baer, Ada Stubbs Bernhardt. Mary Day Burchenal, Fran- cenia Dale, Mary Reeves Foulke, Elizabeth Laws Hibberd, Mar- tha Evans Martin, Cora Van Aerman Peters, Caroline Middle- ton Reeves, Isabella Reeves, Mary Longstreth Starr, Mary Thomp- son Starr, Emily Mendenhall Stubbs. Lydia Starr Tabor, and Jennie McCarthy Yaryan. The hostess was the presiding officer. The Club was called "Cycle" because they had no one meeting place, but met alphabetically at the homes of the members. Mrs. Lydia Starr was the first secretary and treasurer; later, Mrs. Benjamin Starr had the honor. Mrs. Foulke, Mrs. Horace Starr, and Mrs. Yaryan were on the program committee, and history and literature were studied principally.
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