Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-24
ST. LOUIS.
A Raisy Day and Day at the Pair
The Business and Printing
Palac Of the Crest
City Of the West.

From Our Own Correspondent.
4 ST LOUIS, October 13.-Of all horri'
: things in the world, a rainy day Is th'
bOrridest 1t has been pouring sine
= noon to-day and have been trying t
e Keep up my spirits by singing
4" The day is cold and dark and dreaTy,
> It rains, and the wind is never weary" etc
= An enlivening train for q gloomy day
But there ia one little comfort about the
! rain here; it tdOesn't come in one steady
, slow, down-pour, but in angry gusts
and dashes-like some people, one min.
ute in a fit Of clustering, windy pas.
sion, and the next, sobbing in repent
ant tears for the sbort-lived temper
But, anyhow, it's horrid, and I'm
not fit for anything, unless Il
is to dream and write. There's
another good thing about this rain, Il
will bring cold weather, and with that
comes health and pence to your desolatt
city. Even now, as i look out, the
rain is cessiBg, and q wind from the
north is blowing the clo9ds away.
4 After tears come smiles.
The sweet blue sky viii soon shine through
! When the omtnoUs clouds are rifted."
Our fair ia over, and a grand success il
was. really don't see how 1t could have
been otherwise, for never did see peo-
pie 20 very enthusiastic about anything.
One would have thought, to listen 10
st. LOuisans for q month beforehand
that there never had been a fair before;
they talk fair, think fair, eat, sleep and
drink fair, and then every one goes,
as a matter Of course, not one day,
but every day for a week. The town
as crowded. Pike county was well
represented. Walking down Fifth
street one day, l stopped to look at some
old books and eDgravings in shop
window. Pike came along under con-
vOy Of another Pike, who had been to
town before. City man said: "DO you
see then. b0oks2 Well, they were the
two first books printed in The world
don't you see the date, 1922" Pike
stood speechless. City man again: 'tDO
you see th-t picture Of that old fellow
in a pe ticost and smoking eap2 That's
the boss Of all the priests. They
call him the ROyal-Arch Pope.
L saw him in st. Louis two
years ago. Hes a bully boy, he is.
/ 1 guess be must be some kin to
these fellows they cali ROyal-Arch Ma
sODs'. I looked over at Pixies wonder
/ stricken cOuntenanee and left, smiling
sudlb.y.
/ Every imaginable conveyance was
I rigged up for the wonderful fair, all the
/ old wagons In town had chairs on them,
and big letters on them, ITO the fair,
/ twenty-five cents" I always heard
there was room for one more in a street.
[ car or omnibus and I shall, hereafter
believe it People stuck ali over the
cars, like flies, coming and going from
] II = m min gf frh rnff ha
gin TO 20 into 4 description. The re-
/ pOrters Of the st. Louis papers do that
! to perfection; you can read them. 1
am not reporter. Wish I
was, though, it must be such
fun to be allowed TO 90 everywhere, and
have people make way for you aud an
sTer all the questions you chose to ask.
/ was dragged around in the dust and
crowd out there, seeing everything, or
1 expected 10 see, jostled and stepped on,
/ till when l at last got a seat in the am
| phitheater, l WAS in such state of
confusion that l really did not know
I nor care whether school kept or not; all
l could see was a sea of faces, hats, bon
Z nets and ribbons, blondes and brunettes,
and all l could hear was a confused
murmUr Of voices. The fact was, felt
/ as if | had been in q crowd, and wasn't
well out of it. 1 didn't quite
recover my senses till l saw
he flowers, the scent of the
tuhe-roses carried Inc far away from the
hustle, Guss and turmoil around me TO
little spot in Elmwood, where the beauti-
ful waXen flowers are blooming over a
dear little grave. Flowers of my love,
their faint, sweet perfume brings before
me the memory Of happy days in my
own sunny hOme-days Of the past that
can never return.
The tender grace Of a day that is dead,
Can never come back TO me-"
Well, everything ends, and so did the
fair, leaving me in a state of stagnatiOn.
You know l have been to the top Of
some rather high hills out in Calif0rnis,
aud felt as if must 90 up somewhere,
and the St. Louis mutual insurance
building was the most convenient
place / could think Of The
building is elegant and massive, built of
kind Of reddish granite, five stories
high, and surmouDted with an Observa-
tory. The halls and Offices superbly
painted in frescOe, and Ornamented with
walnut and oak. The first flight OF
stairs (yOu only walk up one flight are
so very easy, it IS like gong up ssight-
ly inclined plane. We were soon seat
ed il the elevator and prepared to be
immured in darkness for q few minutes
till We reached the top. The view is
very good, and il was treat TO see the
trees over the river, after looking 81
bricks and stone for months.
The Singer sewing-mschi build
ing, almost finished, will be an
ornament 10 the city. It is
built Of a hand ONE light-brown stone,
with pillars aud pilssters of Tennessee
marble, and panels of the same inserted
in the walls, make a beautiful as well as
unique appearance. The Repu6LicGR
building was the handsOmest l saw. Ii
i five stories high with q Msnsard roof,
and overtops everything in IFS neighbOr-
hood. But TcUeRO7lS q nos DlOlEtO9s, the
insurance building. We were much
amused at the statues on the cornice;
they are very large. 1 don't know what
they are made of, but they are not ez-
actly white, and look as If their clothes
what few they have on were sOiled.
Que bsrd-looking oldfellow holding some
fat. square pieces of rock, we concluded,
was Moses and the tablets Of stone;
the woman next him leveEy fellow has
a feminine close by) bad what We
thought wss a quadrant, or she might
have been street-musician trying 70
play on a triaBgle-aDybOW she was
ugly, and had enGeavOred TO follow the
fashion, being dressed principally in a
short-sleeved redingote. | thought st
last they might be the twelve apostle
and their wives, though who were the
dear little cherubs st the corners is be-
yond nay ken. Davis's wholesale dry
goods house also attracted me; SO many
and large are the windows that it is al
most a crystal-palace. Ipsid visit the
other day to the Repu6ticdn Office, but
as the presses were not ia operation, I !
viii wait till have been again, and then
tell you about it. / am quite proud Of
my title Of your own correspondent, an
wrote my name in the visitors-book al
the Insurance building as: Stella, 1
Memphis APPEAL" l close my letter |
with q prayer for the renewed health |
and happiness Of my dear old home, be-
lieving that
-' Though the storm may blow through the |
niRnt-time.
Daylight Will dawn al last"
The fire Chiefs' ConveHtiOz.
BALruioRs October 22.-The national |
convention Of chief engineers Of the fire (
sllar.a rr Of FTs.rfan