What to see in America . t night. The next morning they demanded itssurrender coupled by a threat that if it had to be taken bystorm the officers would be treated as murderers. Aftersome parleying the fort capitulated. The fact that Indianapolis is almost in the exact geo-graphical center of the state makes its being the capitaland largest city seem very fitting. It has many importantindustries, and is noteworthy for the number of electricrailways that radiate from it. When first surveyed in 1821,after it had been settled two years, it was a wildernessvillage of eight hundred people. One squar
What to see in America . t night. The next morning they demanded itssurrender coupled by a threat that if it had to be taken bystorm the officers would be treated as murderers. Aftersome parleying the fort capitulated. The fact that Indianapolis is almost in the exact geo-graphical center of the state makes its being the capitaland largest city seem very fitting. It has many importantindustries, and is noteworthy for the number of electricrailways that radiate from it. When first surveyed in 1821,after it had been settled two years, it was a wildernessvillage of eight hundred people. One square mile wasplotted for the future city. Now the inhabitants numberover a quarter of a million, and the city area has increasedto twenty-seven square miles. It became the capital in1824. Even then thebanks of the WhiteRiver on which it issituated were dottedwith Indian villages,and the red menwere a constantsource of apprehen-sion. For more thana dozen years after-ward the publicsquares were feeding- Luwi:K Iall:. Catakact. 232 What to See in America
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