San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-06-17
OUR ST. LOUIS LITTER.
SossiP About Secretary E1kins-j
Autumnal Festivities Pla,ned 70
Beautiful Results PromI.ea-s,,,

SossiP About Secretary IlkiDS--,I
AutumnaI Festivities PlA,ned 70
Beautiful Results PromIsed-srm,,
Evening Pleasures, Etc.
Stephen b. Elkins, the Secretary
War, Is 4 MissOurian and has ma
warm personal friends in St Lon
For this reason everybody believes
Is IN earnest when he says that befo
he goes out of the cabinet he will o
enough money appropriated TO ma
Jefferson barracks one of the large
and handsomest military posts in M
United States. More than 4 Quarter,
million dollars will be spent on m
post if the plans for the improvement
are carried out, and considerably owe
million dollars will be added To IN
volume Of business in the city. Rea
estate men, too, say that the new pos
will make property values rapidly II
crease IN the southern part of town
which lies adjacent to the reser
vation.
Very few people, even artists, know
that when Robert Bringhurst, the
sculptor, modelled that statue of Gram
on Twelfth street he had posing for.
him Paul Cornoyer, the young Ameri-'
can painter who has recently achieved
distinction in Paris The booted legsI
OF Gen. Grant are Cornoryer's legs, andl
the field glass in the hero's hand was
modelled from the glass taken from
Gen John 5. Marmaduke when al
prisoner By Councilman Nelson Cole Of
this city. These little things were
brought out the other night by con-
versation between two gentlemen whol
were having taste of the glories of
the fall entertainment TO be set before
us by the committees in charge of theI
festivities. II was at private exhibit
ton of miniature St. Louis, lighted
as it will be in the fall. Chairman
John c. Wilkinson, whose committee
manages the illumination, will make
the Grant statue and the statue of Lib
erty, which face each other on Twelfth
street, the central figures OF a splendid
Columbian tableau. A third statue
will be put up between Liberty and
the Union depot, and the three will be-
linked together and hanked by many
colored electrical devices. The whole
six blocks between the site of the new
City hall and Washington avenue will
be brilliant promenade overhung by
pictures in light. half historical and
partly allegorcal. The suggestion Of
Columbus and his time will be pre-
served, too, in the Examinations on the
downtown streets.
The warm weather is leading to the
annual revival Of a very popular city
custom Only st. Louis people know
no" to sit gracefully on their 'front.'
steps summer afternoons. The girls
bring ont cushions, as soon as supper
is done, while it is vet light, and pose
on the steps. with books in their hands
The men follow, the older with CIGARS
and the younger with banjo or mani
dolin, and unless a walk to an opera,
garden or a fountain where there is
ice cream soda interferes, there they
sit all the evening. Neighbors come over
TO see each other, and plans for picnics
and excursions are laid Take a walk
Just now along Pine, Washington
Locust-auy of the streets lined with
homes, out in the western part of the
city, and you will see the groups and.
hear the tinkle of the music, the chat
ter and laughter now and then rising
above it. Many 4 st. Louis family
fured away from home by the summer
resort fashion, men and women stihed
in small hotel rooms, look back with
longing to the cool evenings on their
front steps, and hasten their return
Boston is the only other city in the
country where this fashion obtains of
making the front steps the reception
room on summer evenings. In New
York it is held to be bad form.
With their front steps, and an occa7
sional day on the river or at one of the
neighboring resorts, st. Louis folk
who do not want to enrich seaside or
mountain hotel men viii get along
very well this summer. There are
twelve sunmering places within two
hours ride of the city, ty rail and boat
All Of these places make money four
months in the year. Then there are
the innumerable suburban spots which
are high and cool, all Of them reached
by fast street car lines. In conse-
quence of these surroundings, the city
looses but a small part OF its population
auring the summer, and even in the
dog days there is no exodus of the bust
ness men such as one sees in the large
Eastern cities.