Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-21
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
The City Crowded-Buiiding Associa-
tiOn COngress-AnOther Heavy
Subscription Fund.


reached the climax of their interest this
week. Fifty thousand strangers
crowded the streets, and tried the
temper of policemen and car conduct
ors. The exposition was at its most
attractive point; the turnstilcs out at
the fair ground clicked necessarily;
the gorgeous parade of the Yelled
Prophet and the Examinations pro
vided the most brilliant night specta
cles, and all the theaters had strong
bills The hotels, big and little, were
all full, and the signs FURNISHED
Rooms" had been taken from the
boarding houses within three miles of
the exposition building. Hot as the
campaign is here, with the State head
quarters of the three parties in the
city, the political excitement was not
felt this week in the press of the
throng that cared only for pleasure,
and but for the newspapers those out
side of political circles could not have
told that fiercely contested local and
National election is approaching.
st. Louis owes the rapid settling up
of its suburbs to the scores of building
associations, which keep the mechan-
les at work all the year round, putting
up homes for people of small means.
New associations are constantly being
organized, and the most solid ones
think that the time has now come to
have this system of investment pro-
tected by the State like the banks.
! Accordingly, a convention of the State
league of building associations, repre-
senting 400 of these organizations, has
been in session here most of this week,
preparing n memorial to the next Leg
islature, which will ask for the estab-
lishment of bureau of inspection, and
the exemption of association shares
from taxation. If these laws are Sc
cured, Missouri next year will forge
ahead of all the other States in the
Union on the score of the number and
wealth of its building associations.
For the second time within five
years, the citizens of st. Louis have
put their hands into their pockets and
paid for the organization of a special
sanitary corps, to re-enforce the city
authorities in that most important
work in all great cities, keeping the
streets clean. The city has grown sc
rapidly since the time of that first citi
zens' committee, that this one will
have 10 spend much more money to ac
complish the same object, and, as it is
intended to keep the special corps a
work all through next year, till the
winter. the cost will hardly be less thar
500, 900. But the work will make st
Louis a cleaner city than Washington
even, and to achieve this result is wei
worth the money that will be spent.
The streets were made impassa bl,
by the sight-sccrs Tuesday night wheI
the prophet and his retinue parade,
, with II score of tableaus on floats, il
Illustrating the history of the Louisiana
from which territory Missouri sprung
/, originally. The twenty second float
, the last in the line, was received
everywhere with shouts of applause
1t represented a native Missourian tax
taking the oath of Office as presiden
of the United States in 1912. Afte
the parade the prophet and his suite
who had been the figures in the tai
!, leans, went to the Merchants EX
, change Hall, where they, still in thei
, quaint costumes, attended the bal
, which is the social event of the ycal
good illustration of the rapi
change now taking place in suburba
property, is given by the history of
piece of land eight miles away froI
the city limits. There are eighty acre
o in it. Ten years ago. it was such
productive farm in which to raise SUI
I plies for the city, that the owner +,
). fused $50, 900 for it. Its value as farm
t ing land decreased fast, till fe'
y months ago it was sold for 500 Il
= acre. The spectators who bought
I sold it to syndicate of city men &c
@ $40, 600. They cut if up into buildin
o lots. sold them at auction, and clearc
. $50, 900 The electric cars, runnin
. long distances west, have made possib
n such transformations.