The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-11

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ThRiFr3 WESTERN cTTY-NEETING oP THE
AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION,
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KANSAS CRY, No., August ~. 1881.
Editors Dispatch: The American Pbar.
maceutical Association has lust held its
twenty-ninth annual meeting in this youth.
ful but rapidly.growiug city. The meeting
was largely attended, and crowded the
seven or eight hotels here to their utmost
capacity. The meeting was a very success
tui one frem , scientific standpoint, and but
Tor the melting temperature and clouds OF
dast they have bad no rain since july lst)
would have been very enjoyable.
Tbe hotels, and indeed almost everything
here, are quite up 10 the eastern standard,
leaving out entirely the social characters.
tics CT the population. in which respect
they are as yet somewhat in a crude state /;
but in a material point Of view they are In
some things ahead OF us.
TIE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR,
and a continual and untiring effort TO OBJ
tain II, develops an amount OF energy and
public spirit which throws Richmond In
the shade. The city is very beautifully
situated on the very border OF Kansas,
where The Kansas river empties into the
Missouri river, on high bluffs, which the
march OF improvement Is rapidly grading,
and the rapidity with which whole blocks
OF fOur.story brick houses, built in the
latest architectural style, with iron fronts
and stone trimmings, are being erected is
perfectly amsSiDg.
When We arrived at the Union depot,
where fifteen railroads come In, and trains
are constantly arriving aud departing, with
each eight or nine long passenger coaches
filed with people, We found five or six
large four-horse omnibuses ready to carry
us TO the hotels. A line OF street-cars also
runs down near the deTot.
The census OF 1870 gave Kansas City
80, 900 and that Of 1880 $4,000, and un.
dOubtedly the next census will give it over
100000. One sees very few children here
and quite a number OF Cinnamon; but
everybody is busy. There are some very
HANDSOME RETAIL STORES,
especially the dru0stOres, with their beat
tiful tiled floors, plaie-glass windows,
elaborate stOre-fxtures, and showcases
filed with the finest and most costly Eng
lish, French, German, and American per-
fumery, soaps, and fancy articles appropri-
ate to the trade; also, the latest style OF
costly soda-water fountains and nearly all
the fashionable mineral waters.
l noticed a retail dry.goods store in
fOur-story building which is on a much
larger scale than Leyy's in Richmond, and
at night il was all Illuminated with the
electric light. In front OF the store, about
twenty-five feet shove the pavement, was
suspended an electric light, which flooded
the whole Of that square with a light SO
brilliant that the gas-lights looked red, and
were really rendered ineffective.
The trade dnimuS here Is
IS BOLD AND ENTERPRIsIYG;
indeed, speculation is rife. / was told OF
o young nan who came here from the east
some months ago, and who had some money
invested in a town lot. In thirty days he
sold it for double the money. He then In
vested in two more lots, and in less than
ninety days he again doubled his money.
have been shown vacant lots up on the
bluff, far away from the business portion oil
the CITY, with ponds Of wster in them,
which are held at 5000 per front foot. A
large four-stOry business house on Main
street, which embraced two large retail
stores, was held at $3.50, 900, which amount
had been refused.
An immense wholesale business Is carried
on here with the States west OF this place
Nevada, Colorado, Dakota, Nebraska, Kan
sas, &c.-and the large wholesale houses
In st. Louis have had TO establish branch
houses here TO keep their trade.
Professor MarkOe, OF the Boston College
Of Pharmacy, told me to-day that he had
INST met one Of bis former students, who Is
nrscticing medicine here, who told him he
had been here about two years, and had
made SIO,O 900. He added that as soon as be
made $50, 800 he would return TO Boston
and live like q gentleman.
Mr.. George II. Peske and a numbe OF
other Richmond men are here, but nave
had no opportunity 10 call upon Them But
| will not forget to mention the grand eX-
hibition OF drugs, medicines, surgical IN
struments, and druggists articles generally,
held under the auspices Of the American
Pharmaceutical Association.
THE EXHIBITION
was very large and attractive. II was held
in The spacious hall OF the Board OF Trade,
which is much larger than any ball we have
in Richmond at present.
To give some idea OF the extent OF the
exhibition | will mention that one urn
Powers Il Weightman, OF PnlladeIphlS,
had on exhibition $4,000 worth OF ebeml-
Gals, arranged in the most beautiful and at
tractive manner. NJ,
mond, had a very large ana 0eautiiul eXnl-
hilton of druggists and other boxes in
great variety, which attracted universal adj
mi, alton. | observed lhst Mr. n. V. Ram
! dolph, who was in charge Of the exhibits,
was busy taking orders for goods, and when
annroaebed him he said he had just taken
| one order for one hundred and seventy.hye
gross OF boxes, and had ~telegraphed 1t 10
| Richmond to be filed. But must bring
| This letter to a close, for | am afraid II IS al
LIE an imnosition uDon your valuable