The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-06-21

Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and all
the various ports on the Mississippi, Mis-
souri,, and Ohio. While Missouri grows
large crop of tobacco which finds an outlet
at st. Louis, Southern tobacco and cotton
arrive there in large quantities for disiri-
button and market. The st. Louis brand
of -four IL highly esteemed throughout the
United States, aud some Missouri wines
made from the native grape are second to
none ia the country, the manufacture OF
wine being an important industry ut ~.
Louis. Like Chicago, ~. Louis has created
great facilities for the accommodation of
the cattle trade. The cattle yards at East
st. Louis are connected by branch rails
with all the lines which converge at that
spot. They cost over s1,200000, aud csn
accommodate at one time 1900 sheep,
10000 cattle, 1900 hogs, and several
hundred horses. They are provided
with hotel, telegraph and Cattle
Exchange. Water flows abundantly In
every direction, aud the whole estab-
lishment Is lit with gas. There are vast
receptacles in which corn and hay are
kept for feeding the animals. During the
season, cattle are constantly arriving from
from the most remote corners of Arkansas
and Texas. st. Louis is the resting place
when not the ultimate destination of these
travelling droves. Here they are cared
for and reshipped further east, or con-
Quoted to the slaughteriDg establishments,
butchered, sailed down. and prepared for
the trade. One noticeable feature in last
years cattle trade Is the large increase in
receipts from Colorado and Montana.
The people of st. Louis are justly proud
OF their great two-story bridge across the
Mississippi. The upper part is for car
riages and foot passengers, while the lower
portion accommodates railway travel The
trains enter the city by an open tunnel
leading TO central depot. A military
band often plays in the evening from
pavilion established on the upper portion
of the bridge, midway between the two
river banks. The principal business streets
are lined with magnificent stores which
would grace any city in the world, while
the stylish quarters contain numerous fine
residences. One pleasant feature which
cannot fail TO attract the attention of
the stranger Is the shady little parks or
squares with their comfortable seats, flow
ers, aud patches of grass. 1t reminds one
of the loungers in the Tuileries, the Lux
embourg, and the Champs Elysees, Paris.
when in spring and summer, he sees little
children with their nurses, ladies sewing,
aud old gentlemen reading. their papers
under the shady trees of the st. Louis
parks. A great feature is the annual agri-
cultural fair in September, when 100000
congregate together on the fair grounds
which contain a tlne English park along
side of which is an immense circular am
phtheatre capable of seating 4. 900 people,
while $1,000 more can circulate aud find
standing room in the large, wide spaces
which divide the rows OF seats.
st. Louis compares itself TO Babylon, MIN
even, Thebes, and Memphis of old, to Lon
don, Pekin, and Paris OF day. because IL is
n great city ona greatriver. To this Chicago
answers by tracing line from Yokohama
and Shanghai to New York via San Fran
cisco, and pointing out that she is the COM
mercial centre on that great commercial
artery of the globe. The Chicago man will
tell you of the manifest destiny OF that
city as the distributing centre for Chinese
and japanese teas. He will tell you that
the usual time between Yokohama and
Chicago is thirty days, though the trip has
been made in twenty-ssven days. This is a
vast Improvement over the four and Ave
months voyage around the Cape, not only
in the saving of time, but the saving Of
flavor.
To all this st. Louis finds ready answers,
and continual discussion between these
two rivals for western commercial suprem-
acy as regards their respective advan-
tages, is carried on by the press of both
cities without taking sides with either, it
requires no prophet to foresee that both
Chicago and st. Louis will continue to
grow rapidly in wealth, population and
importance; that they will become the
great manufacturing and comm ercial cen
tres, and the great cattle and grain depots
Of the West; the great distributors of the
agricultural products Of the Western
| States throughout the markets of the
| world. These United States do much to-
ward feeding and clothing Europe. We
feed II with wheat, corn, beef, and sailed
provisions. We clothe IL with cotton. We
furnish it with one-half Of the tobacco 1t
consumes and If gas was not in use, We
could light the whole European Continent
with petroleum. The West produces q
large share OF these exports st. Louis and
| Chicago handle them.