Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-17
IRONTON, MO-. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER H. 1892

sfOpiCdl IFu1tS Will ten Genus GIlttR L
could of our own homegrown apples.
Yes, sir; the crop of vegetables did not
look very tempting; taking the whole
country through there is the poorest
crop of all kinds of vegetables that has
been produced for many years. So all
of the government and state reports
say, and you ask. ..Where do all of
these things come from?' If you will
just take notice as you pass along, you
| will see things that grow at your own
door and things that grow in the South
and in the far North and things that
grow in the West India Isles, in South
America, in all parts of Europe, in all
parts of Asia and Africa. Oh, it is
| wonderful to see things from. all parts
of the habitated world brought tOgeth-
er for the use of man, and it is a good
| stop to look at all these things how our
| thoughts go out to the Creator, the
giver of all these comforts and bless
ings. Things to suit the taste of each
one of us. Things to crafty our diff
ferent appetites; and do we always feel
| thankful as We should for all of these
comforts and blessings? / am afraid
not. But rather feel as though we had
right to them; and yet what right
have we to them? Then let us be
thankful for all these gifts.
After we had gone all through the
different markets. we took a stroll
about the city. As we passed the new
union depot, we stopped quite awhile to
look at the new structure. l found
they have different way of putting up
these great buildings from what they
had in earlier days.
| When / first went to St. Louis, they
put up the walls of brick, and as they
reached each story of the house, they
put in the timbers. Now I see they
put a skeleton of steel: all of the posts,
crossbars, braces aud girders. The
whole structure was made just like the
skeleton of an animal or a man, before
the flesh or covering was put on. After
all of the steel work was done, then all
of the walls of this great structure were
filed with brick, and the roof covered
with corrugated iron. l saw a great
many buildings that were not finished,
| where the workmen were putting in the
brick and stone work. 1 saw that
most all of those ola buildings that, in
early times, we thought were large
buildings, were being pulled down, ev-
en- to the lowest foundation, and the
walls all made much thicker and strong
er to hold up such mass of material.
As stood and looked at those men
way up On the union depot at work,
not bit of scaffolding, or plank or a
stick of wood to stand on; just those |
thin strips of steel; it looked just like
a great spider web, and men like spid-
ers and flies creeping about. Oh, it
did make my feet creep. as l thought |
suppose they should make mi sstep, or |
anything should happen. 1t fairly |
made my flesh crawl.
As we walked or rode all over the
city, could not recognize more than a
few places. The old court house SEEM
ed to have dwindled away. When it |
was first built, we thought it a very fine
large building: it overtopped all of the
other buildings. AS you stood on top
you could see all over the city, and
there was large square surrounding
the court house. Now, that square is
all built up with immense buildings,
that shut the court house all in. / saw
so many great fine buildings. felt as
though / was in some fairy land.
AS we passed the Custom House, it
brought to mind some of the days of the
sixties, when things were done different
from the present time. l rememberin
'62 or '63, / got a furlough of fifteen days
and pass to go to St. Louis, and over
into Illinois. When we arrived at St.
Louis, saw all of the main roads that
entered the city, were defended by
great earth works, and great guns as
large as good saw log, all across the
the streets, with just way to pass be-
tween them. As I wanted to buy some
go DDS to bring home for the different
members of our family, had to walk
up to the Custom House and show my
pass and make out manifest, or, in ,
other words, bill of the things / want
ed to purchase.
After it had been inspected by the COM .
manding officer, if nothing was found
/ was permitted to buy
those goods, II
remember was walking the streets
one day, and met lot of Iowa sold :
iers that knew. They invited me to |
90 out to the barracks, just outside of '
.he city: now it is in the heart of the