San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-07-01
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
The Furniture Workers Convention to
Ee Held in the Mound City in 's3--
The New Electric Road Between st.


The Furniture Workers Convention to
Be Held in the Mound City in 'sS--
The New Electric Road Between st.
Louis and 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 y. 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 bust
ness men Of the country. St Louis
was chosen over all the other large
cities which were in nomiuation be-
cause of its central position, audit &c
feasibility both by railways and water.
Numbers of men ana wagons were on
the site of the new Union depot this
week. The company which had the
wreclIing 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 we're sold for a song, to be
carted off to woOdyards and contract
ors' warehouses. The railways want
to have the new depot finished before
the world fair travel begins, and 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. 1t sounds in
credible, when Prof. Francis Z. Nipher
says that the cars are going TO run at
the rate of a hundred miles an hour
from one town to the other, but Prof
Nipher does not make reckless asSer-
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 little misuuderstand-
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 it u
success. Wellington Adams is the as
sociate of Prof Nipher in this road
building.
Frank James, the brother Of the IA
nous Missouri outlaw, was out at the
race-track 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
III al. Il a1T-
little mining camp. There was a
CLEAN of satisfaction in the eyes Of the
old bandit as he heard the story of the
tragedy from man who had just read
it IN a paper Eut he talked very
calmly about it. lie said Bob Ford
was a 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 jesse he
was asked.
Il think OF doing a good many thing;
that common sense tells me | oughtn'
to do, like any other man. replied
he, with a touch of resentment in his
tone, rs if he thought the question re
flectcd on his courage or manliness.
But when ] gave myself mp to the
law it was the intention of abiding by
the raw, whatever came, and I 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 got $500 as the
price of the nfe of Jesse J,Enes, and
squandered every cent of it on card;
and liquor.
The clubs in St Louis have come e
be a world of their own. The growth
Of clubs in city always means an in
crease in the number of the leisur,
class. There may be clubs devoted L
the interests of business, and business
men may belong to the clubs which ar,
Cor a social purpose, but your real clul
man must have money and time Il
spend 1t euioyably. 1t is quite fair e
measure the wealth and prosperity o
a city by the number Of its clubs anC
the size of their membership lists. st
Louis has now about twenty clubs
with a membership Of nearly fv,
thousand, and two more are being or
gnnizcd by members Of The other club
who want to strike out in new direc
tions. 1t is an old saying among club
men that one can not find the clul
that suits him till he tries half a dozen
The men who form the new club
almost invariably keep their names OF
the books Of the old ONES, and 50 thr
number is constantly increased, whit
the parent ones retain their strength