Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . ad the westside. I cannot remember how thev managed,except in each room was a big bedstead and atrundle one that wheeled out at night and underin the daytime. A door opened into apartment from our room, and fromhers out on to a rough porch or covered spacethat led to a large log kitchen. I suppose tjothcooked by the same large fireplace and prob-ably ate on this porch, and I remember thewind taking our dining-table over clear to thefence—a half square. Even these restrictedqua
Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . ad the westside. I cannot remember how thev managed,except in each room was a big bedstead and atrundle one that wheeled out at night and underin the daytime. A door opened into apartment from our room, and fromhers out on to a rough porch or covered spacethat led to a large log kitchen. I suppose tjothcooked by the same large fireplace and prob-ably ate on this porch, and I remember thewind taking our dining-table over clear to thefence—a half square. Even these restrictedquarters were diminished later, for the log kitch-en burned down during the joint people in those days had not acquired thedelusion that thev needed residences so largethat all their time and strength would be ex-pended in caring for them—a condition towhich, in our higher civilization, the flat-dwell-ers are rapidly returning. Bad roads were not a matter of concern toSamuel IMerrill alone. They weighed on every-body. The necessity of roads to the capital mSTORV OF GREATER (M. ;/. «.!»» rholi Compan:/.) 8 iiis|-()i;v OK (;i;i:.vii;i; had boeii ivalizid Irimi tlif lir>t and tht- legis-lature of 1821 hail ordcTtd t^tate road^ to lii-iliaiuipolis, and made appropriations for follows: From the Hi-h Bank- of White RivLT . $7, From the Horse Shoe Bend, via Pa- oli, Palestine and Bloomington. S,4?().00From Mauks Ferrv, via Salem and Brownstown . . 8() From Bethlehem, Clark County, via Xew Washington and Lexington Madison, via Vernon and Co-lumbus (i.:{.-):.(H) From liawrenceburgh (i,:!:>;).00 From Ohio line, via Brookville. . 4,:i() From Ohio line, via Connersville. 4,!).Oi) From Ohio line, via Sali^l) ^.00 From Ohio line, via ?.,(l Total $.5r),(;-M.!14 It also ordered a state road from Indian-apolis to Terre Haute, hut made no api>ro)iria-tion for it. The ro
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