Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-12-16
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.


ST LorIs, Mo-. Dec. There is not
anywhere in the United States club
house owned entirely by commercial
travellers and devoted to their uses, but
there will be one as soon AS the hand
some building now being pla nned by
| architects, for the Travellers Protcc-
tive association, is erected in st. Louis.
1t will cost half IA million dollars, and
will be the SWEETEST place of the sort
outside of London, both as to its en-
terror appearance and its appoint
ments inside. One novelty in the ar
engagements of the club which has
been proposed is to be d cab service.
The club is to own its cabs and they
are not only to be at trains for use of
members, but they are also to be at
the beck and call of any of them who
may want to drive about the city
The rapidly flowing water of the
Mississippi river has swept away the
theorists who began when the cholera
scare ran over the country this year TO
eXhort the people to drink only water
that had been boiled. AT that time,
of course, st. Louis took all sorts of
sanitary precautions, which, by the
way, are still in effective operation,
and among them warned those who
lived in the tenement districts not to
use well water. Everybody thea re-
| sorted TO hydrants. About this time
| arose the cry of the medical men who
insisted that all running water must
be boiled IL the drinkcr would prevent
the coming of cholera, typhoid fever
and other disagreeable visitors of that
kind. Everyone knows how difficult
| it is in household to boil all the
water that is used by II family, and
| carefu folks sighed as they went
about the new duty thus laid on them.
Fortunately, about this time, party
of microscopists from the Smith
| sonian institute visited st. Louis.
| They were examining the water supply
| of all the large cities. They found
that the river water used in st. Louis
was not only pure but wholesome, and
they promptly announced that, add
ing that it was better than that of any
other large city where they had been.
The ST. Louis Medical society wanted
|
were right, and appointed n commit
tee of miscroscopists from its own
members to examine the water. The
examination was made this week, and
the conclusion reached was the same
as that announced by the Smithsonian
institute men. Tho housekeepers are
overjoyed, and the troublesome water
boiling in the kitchens all day long
has ceased
Here is bit of information for the
house-keepers that will make them all
want to live in St. Louis. Turkey on
Thanksgiving Day sold in the markets
here for Is cents pound, and fresh
venison for 20 cents; and there was
| much more of both kinds of the meat
than could be sold, Judging from the
appearance of the stands late that
night. Not only on Thanksgiving Day,
but all the year round, house keepers
in other parts of the country have good
reasons to envy their sisters here. st.
Louis is in the center of enormous nat
ural game and fish preserves. The
hunting and fishing clubs of the city
| are numbered by hundreds. During
the eight months of the year, fish is
| abundant on the market stalls
at insignificant prices, and for
the other four months, game is
really cheaper than good beef Thc
mechanic here lives as we'll as the pro
fessional man of moderate eircum-
stances in New York, Boston or Chi
cago A comparison OF housekeepers
figures would show that the cost oil
living is a5 per cent cheaper here than
| in either of those cities.