Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25
St. LOuIs Graphically Described.


st. Louis Graphically Described.
In Cincinnati and St. Louis it's the
o. and NJ. Road. People here haven't
time to call over such a string of vowels
as Ohio and Mississippi" Life here
is too short to make a speech when one |
wishes to signify mere name. So, on
the stations the paint go. and M. " in |
big letters, and language is abbreviated
and mems hearts are rejeiced. The O. |
and M. runs free parlor cars TO Louis |
vile and st. Louis, and Captain Pea
body, Superintendent of the Road, is a
sample Cincinnatian who can make |
things lively socially, while keeping
things correct financially.
In st. Louis you commence feeling
the real Great West. You are on the
buffalo and " Iniun ~ side of the Missis-
sippi Freight cars for San Francisco
are plentiful and people commence
talking "bits instead of dimes. There
is room here to spread, and they do
spread. Grass plats reserved for the
children to play on in the public squares,
and at eve the offspring of the CLOVER
middle class" may by the hundred be
seen rolling, tumbling and imbibing
through the naked little pores of their
naked and dusty little black and white
feet the fresh earth magnetism of the
green. St. Louis has honored herself
in this respect above some other Ameri-
can cities and deserves to be called up
higher. The mule in St. Louis throws
out something more than mere skir-
mish line, and one great sale-stable
fto,, o,,,tI ~. ~, Eiftl, Gtreat 10 f,Irni hp1
for his accommodation.
Fine Custom-house, permanently un-
| finished, q la Hartford, Cincinnati, Pitts
burg and many other cities. Frame
houses outside the levee near the out
skirts semi-amphibious, being built on
platforms against high river, the lower
portion used for stable or stOrehouse.
Dust on many streets averages two
inches in thickness, and the same
in mud when the water cart
goes over it. Dust white, very
fine. Soft coal smoke also makes
its mark within and without the house,
and an old St. Louis carpet walked over
few times in pair of white stockings
will leave the bottoms simply black. AS
to color, the standard of cleanliness in
the heart of St. Louis can not be that OF
New England city, for no amount OF
sweeping or scrubbing can overcome the
tint distributed everywhere in the air
White petticoats and stockings in St
Louis streets keep fresh about one hour
Still, they are extensively worn, and
wash bills, like the Prophets gourd
swell largely in a single night. Children
average weil-shaped, robust limbs.
, Gents clothing, judging from prices
in shop windows, as cheap as in New
York. The Chinese wash-man, Englisl
, sparrow, SO and 5-cent store, 81 nicke
watch and Newport tie," ladies shot
boom here also. Chart business direc
I tories of single streets are in vogue
+, Saloons, barber shops and furnishing
stores open and active on Sunday. Th
!. natives as thus far encountered seem h
speak German and English with equa
huency. To know but one of these Ian
a guages in St. Louis is to be linguall
u iop-sided. Drinking water not crystal
!, line, and somewhat cathartic in quality
VI Pavements largely brick, with occasion
al loosened disordered spaces suitable i
. the dark for sprained ankles and suit
8 against the city for damages. Street
promptly named on the corner lam
;; shades; houses carefully numbered lO
u to the square and no more, a Ia Phili
l. delphia. Very convenient for the stral
,, ger, and st. Louis in this respect sets a
u example for Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Ba
4 timore and New York. Strawberrit
Is three quarts for quarter and gas $2.t
. per 600 cubic feet. The gas meter
as bad repute here as elsewhere. III
u 1O-cent Oriental parasol everywhere.
ot The st. Louisian advertises by Il
;, square yard in his favorite paper. III
10 farther West the bigger the advertis
ment. The " boundless prairie +" caus
III a like desire for room in every thin
The St. Louis saloon-keeper can dra
., as much froth in the 5-cent glass
~ beer as he of the New York excursiC
~ boat. Good butter seems universe
III ~ Bread ditto. More mud on the stree
~ than in Paris-much more. Slate roo
y, common. The 5-eent piece alwa
III known as a " Nickel" Best cuts
beef a shilling a pound at retail.
1g Street cars without bells, car hors
n, in better condition than, ours, car co
cn ductOrs in gray uniform, very civil, al
ed will leave their car to deposit intaT
ds safely on the curbstone. Street wat
rd carts a tank on wheels, and tn
d. sprinkle a deluge from New Yo
ey point of view. Gentlemen here prom
to In giving up car seats to ladies, and
Or dies as in other places, somewhat rem
IN in acknowledging the courtesy.
should be remembered that a maj
Ter legs, after an all days labor, may
EN- even weaker than woman's attel
cir three hours shopping excursion, a
ad that the common articles of politen'
ad is as binding on one sex as the 9TH
lid Hotel porticos one, two and three storit
Awnings of wood very lofty; perha
ICE the loftiest in the world. Numero
err horse and mule sale stables, plentiful
10 bestrewn with sawdust and filled wi
nd horse and mule buyers and sellers
me Mllford, IN N. Y. Graphic.
IN, UNDERTAKERs are to hold ST
nd convention at Utica, N. Y, chiefly