The Lamar register., 1892-12-10
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
travelling Men Organizing . Mammoth
ciab-faritv OF Missi-sIppi Water
Cheap Turkey.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. I.-There is not
anywhere in the United States n club
house owned entirely by commercial
travellers and devoted to their uses, but
there will De oae as soon as the hand
some building now being planned by
architects, for the Travellers Protec-
tive association, is erected in St. Louis.
1t will cost half million dollars, and
will be the SWEETEST place of the sort
outside of London, both us to its ex-
terror appearance and its appoint
ments inside One novelty in the mr.
rangements of the club which has
been proposed is to be cab service.
The club Is To own its cabs, and they
are not only to be at trains for use of
members, but they are also to be at
the beck and call of any of them who
may want to drive about the city.
The rapidly flowing water of the
Mississippi river has swept away the
theorists who began when the cholera
scare ran over the county this year TO
exhort the people to drink only water
that had been boiled At that time.
of course, ST Louis took all sorts of
sanitary precautions, which, by the
way, are still tn effective operation,
and among them warned those who
lived in the tenement districts not TO
use well water Everybody thea re-
Sorted to hydrantS About this time
arose the cry Of the medical men who
insisted tha, all running water must
be boiled II the drinker would preven,
the coming Of cholera, typhoid fever
and other disagrecable visitors of that
kind. Everyone knows how difficult
Il Is in a household TO boil all the
water that is used by family, and
careful folks sighed as they went
about the new duty thus laid on them.
] Fortunately. about this time, party
Of microscopists from the Smith
souian institute visited St Louis
They were exhming the water supply
Of all the large cities. They found
that the river water used in - Louis
was no; only pure bat wholesome, and
they promptly announced that, add
/ ing that II was better than that OF any
other large city where they had been.
| The ST. Louis Medical society wanted
I 10 be sure that the Eastern scientists
were right, aud appointed commit
I tee OF miscruscopists from its own
uicnhers to examine the water. The
Z examination was made this week and
tho conclusion reached was the saine
as that announced by the Smithsonian
| institute men. The housckeeperS are
gve-joyed, and the Troublesome water
boliiug in the kitchens al day long
has ceased.
l Here Is bit Of information for the
/ house-kccpcrs that will make them all
want 10 live IN 81. Louis Turkey on
Thanksgiving Day sold In the markets
here for IS cents n pound, and fresh
veuison for % cents, and there was
taueh more oi both 'inas OF the meat
than could De sold judging from the
appearance OF the stands late that
aighs Not only ON Thanksgiving Day,
| bat all the year round. honsc-kecpers
IN other parts Of the country have good
( reasons TO envy their sisters here. St
| Louis Is in the center OF enormous nat
oral game and fish preserves, The
hunting aud fishing clubs OF the city
/ Arc numbered by hundreds During
the eight months OF the year, fish is
L abundant on the market stalls
a, insignificant prices. and for
/ the other four months, game is
really cheaper than good beef The
mechanic here lives as well as the pro-
I iessional mAa Of moderate eireum-
stances in New York. Boston or Chi
! sayo a comparison Of housekeepers
I figures would show that the cost of
living + IS per cent cheaper here than
/ in either Of those cities