Catholic Total Abstinence Union Convention in Muncie, Indiana

IT RAINED RIGHT DOWN

BUT THE C. T. A. U. PEOPLE GREATLY

ENJOYED THEMSELVES

After the Close of the Convention — A

Street Car Ride, Visit to Factories,

A Gasser Turned Lose and

Other Notes.

After the close of the Twentieth Annual Convention of the Catholic Total Abstaince Union meeting yesterday afternoon at 3:20, the delegate visitors and members to the number of 165 boarded a train on the street railway for a whirl around Magic Muncie. The committee on arrangements consisting of Wm. Getta, Frank C. McGrath, John Unison, Dennis Earley, William Hays, and Rev. Father Wm. Schmidt had made all preparations for a splendid trip. Through Supt. Brownell a chartered train of three cars had been secured and the ever accommodating superintendent had prepared the best cars in the shop. The motor "Yankee" pulled two of the new closed cars with a summer car in the rear. The superintendent was also on the cars seeing that things went all right. The train went south on Walnut street to a point opposite the Midland Steel Works where the party alighted and saw the growing plant which will soon be the greatest steel works in the West. A little distance from this plant the visitors had pointed out to them the immense Pulp Mill, the Architectural Iron Works, and at the east the massive buildings for the Indiana Iron Company and the site of the Nut and Bolt Works, also the Common Sense Engine Works. Farther east the big factories in industry could be seen, all showing the growth and business enterprise of Muncie. One of the delegates while being shown the manufacturing concerns remarked: "Well this is truly wonderful and your city is well named 'Magic' and shows all she claims."

The party then took the cars and went east on Ohmer avenue to Industry, where Ball's fruit jar works were visited with much interest, as was the Hemingray and Over glass works. Some few went to the nail works but at this point the usual drenching rain came up and the party repaired to the cars. It was decided to turn on the gas in the big well at the nail works and permit the visitors to see a gas well in all its fury. While the rain was coming down in torrents the street cars were stopped opposite the well and Mr. Bowen of the nail works with much kindness bravely came out in the torrents of rain and made a beautiful display of the natural fuel. The old well, which was supplying the entire mill, seemed to know that Tom Lavelle of Anderson was in the sight-seeing party and she heaved and reared in a truly frightful manner. After the party were all aboard the train then made a trip down Main street to the west end, thence east on 17th street to Walnut street and to the National hotel where the party left the cars much pleased with their trip and what they had seen. Last night another gas well exhibition was made at the monster Marsh gas well northwest of the city. The visitors were conveyed to the well in hacks and the sight witnessed was a rare and beautiful one.

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