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has broad streets, paved with asphalt, good wide sidewalks, 

 a line trolley street-car system, sewerage, water, electric 

 lights, natural gas for heating and lighting, and a popula- 

 tion of 105,436 in 1890, which in 1896 is claimed to be 

 125,000. 



Its public buildings are a fine State house, recently built 

 at a cost of $2,000,000 ; a court house, city hall, a banking 

 building modelled after the Bank of England, and others, and 

 a monument to the heroes of the revolution, w^ar of 1812, 

 Mexican war and war of the rebellion. This monument is 

 268 feet in height, and from it may be had an extensive view 

 of a level plain, without hill or elevation in any direction to 

 intercept the boundary of the distant horizon. It reminds 

 one of the outlook from the mast head of a ship at sea, with 

 this dift'erence : there one beholds a world of waters with 

 the ship below him ; here a vast prairie resembling the open 

 sea in extent, with the city spread out from the base of 

 the monument, its streets and buildings plainly marked. 

 Washington Street, its chief avenue and thoroughfare, one 

 hundred and twenty feet in width, upon which are located 

 many of the prominent retail stores, shops and business 

 places, is seen extending the length of the city. 



Indianapolis is a place of great activities, prosperous and 

 progressive, its people are intelligent, frank, open-heaited 

 and hospitable to a marked degree. 



R. G. F. CANDAGE, 



For the Delegates. 



