Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-23
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
Tho Furniture Workers Convention to
lie Held In the Mound city In '93--
Tho New Electric Road Between st.
Louis aud Chicago,


Louis aud Chicago.
Not only did the Convention of Fmni-
ture workers, in session in Cincinnati,
decide to hold the next convention in
ST. Louis, but two of the officers were
given to that city, The president is
Horatio n. Davis of ST. Louis, and the
secretary and treasurer, James A.
Rcardon of st, Louis. The convention
was national one, and was composed
of some of the most substantial BUSH
ness men of the country. st, Louis
was chosen over all the other large
cities which We're in nomination be-
cause of its central position, and its ne
feasibility both by railways and water.
Numbers of men and wagons were ON
the site of the new Union depot this
week. The company which had the
wreclSing contract announced by an
advertisement that all the rest OF the
buildings now standing on the site
were to be torn down rapidly and must
be got out of the way at once. The
people rushed there To buy cheap wood
and building material, and whole
houses were sold for n song, to be
carted of TO woodyards and contract
ors' warehouses The railways want
to have the new depot finished before
the worlds fair travel begins, aud there
is every reason to believe now that this
will be done. The building Is most
conveniently located, Street car lines
will run in every direction on three
sides of it.
This suggests the electric road be-
tween here and Chicago, upon which
work has just begun. IL sounds in
credible, when Prof Francis Il, Nipher
says that the cars are going TO run at
the rate of hundred miles an hour
from one town to the other, but Prof.
| Nipher does not make reckless nsser-
tons. lie was till few months ago
the chief electrician of Washington
university, and would have been put in
| charge of the United States weather
bureau but for u little misunderstand-
ing between himself and the admins
tration. lie surrendered his chair in
the university To take charge OF the
building Of this electric road, and Is
working day and night to make 1t u
success. Wellington Adams Is the as
sociate of Prof. Nipher in this road
building.
frank James, the brother of the fn-
nous Missouri outlaw, waB out ut the
race-traclS here, making books on the
| horses, when the news came that the
cowardly slayer of his brother, Bob
| Ford had been himself shot down in
cold blood in Creede, Colorado, n lively
] little mining camp. There was u
| CLEAN of satisfaction in the eyes of the
old bandit us he heard the story of the
tragedy from man who had just read
it IN paper But he talked very
calmly about il. lie said Bob Ford
was coward, and he had always ex-
pected to see him killed in some dis
honorable manner.
"Did you ever think yourself of
avenging the murder of JesseP he
was asked.
II think of doing good many things
that common sense tells me | oughtnt
to do, like any other man." replied
he, with touch of resentment In his
tone, Ms II he thought the question re-
Elected on his courage or manliness.
"But when gave myself up to tho
law IL was the intention Of abiding by
the law, whatever came, and ] have
done It,"
Frank james Is now accommodating
n little property. He bets seldom,
| himself, and when he does, risks only
|
little money.
The Ford boys sgot $4,000 as the
| price of the life of Jesse James, and
squandered every cent of 1t on cards
and liquor.
The clubs In st. Louis have come to
! be n world OF their own. The growth
! Of clubs in city always means an in
crease in the number OF the leisure
class. There may be clubs devoted 10
the interests of business, and business
men may belong to the clubs which are
for a social purpose, but your real club
man must have money and time to
spend IT enjoyably, II is quite fair ia
measure the wealth and prosperity OF
city by the number of its clubs and
the size of their membership lists ST.
Louis has now about twenty clubs,
with membership OF nearly five
thousand, and two more are being or
ganized by members Of the other clubs
who want to strike out in new dircc
tions. IL is an old saying among club
men that one can not find the clut
that suits him till he tries half dozen
The men who form the new club
almost invariably keep their names on
the books of the old ones, and so The
number is constantly increased, while
the parent ones retain their strength
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