The Forrest City times., 1892-05-20
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER

A Landmark Being Removed-N...,
 The Furniture Board of Traa.
 Meeting of the Jockey Ciub--Bas. n
 as Reorganized.
 ST. LOUIS, May 16.-An historical l,,a mark of the city is being removed wrecking company having commens.s this week tearing down the old pl.n,. House, one of the oldest hotels in ,s' west, and house in which many men !, note have stopped while in St. Iou,. The work of demolition is going on ,,. idly and there are crowds of relic hunts,. anxious to carry away some fragment, 2, the house which has been immortal,,.. by Charles Dickens and other writer, !, International fame. The wrecking com. pany has been able to sell large ouau,i,, of marble slabs and tiling, much of wh,ch is in perfect condition. The hot., is being torn down to make room for larger and more modern building, which is to be erected at cost including dsc. orations and furnishings, upwards of tvo million dollars. The new hotel will h. absolutely fire proof, and one of the fn., in the United States. Its name has m, yet been definitely decided upon. th. New Planters" being suggested by som. while others favor the name "Columh;. Hotel" on the ground that it is being erected partially to accommodate the ten, of thousands of visitors to the World'sPsir who will spend at least a few days in St Louis during the year 1893.
 The St. Louis Furniture Board of fr.d. at large and enthusiastic meeting in. structed its delegates to the National Convention, which meets at Cincinnati in June this year, to secure the National Furniture Convention for St. Louis in 1893. It was proposed that every mem. Der of the Exchange attend the Cincir. nati Convention, and that the delegation work for St. Louis as the convention meeting place in 1893. A committee wu appointed to prepare a circular setting forth the merits of St. Louis in an attrsc. tive manner which is to be placed in the hands of every delegate and alternate to the convention. New York, Boston, Gin. cinnati, Grand Rapids, Chicago, all prin. cipal furniture points, have had the con. vention, and St. Louis now proposes, with it's excellent organization, to bring it to the City of Conventions. H. N. Davis, who has made speciality of freight mat ters, submitted a report showing the ex- cellent work that had been accomplished in connection with the Traffic Commis. sion. Then on motion of Mir. J. A. Rear. dor, the following was adopted: Resolved, That the St. Louis Furniture Board of Trade heartily indorse the good work ac- com mplished by the St. Louis Traffic Con- mission, during the first year oi iu existence toward gaining for St. Louis many advantages in rates and classinsa- tions, and recommend those of our mem. bers who are not members to make application thereto, and enjoy the bens. fits they largely disseminate.
 The forty eight days race meeting of the St. Louis Jockey Club is now at its full height and is proving the most suc. cessiul race meeting ever held in St. Louis All difficulty as to the paucity of entries Is at an end, and SO numerous have the 
 been compelled to charge an entrance iss l for all starters in order to reduce the nun. Der going to the post. Prior to thn change in the rules, thirty or forty horses were frequently started in one race and although the St. Louis track is one of the ] largest and best in the country 1t wns found dangerous as well as unsatisfactory 1 to have 1t so overcrowded. There a's 1 over a thousand valuable horses in tho 1 stables at the Fair Grounds and the sue [ cess of the meeting seems to improve q time proceeds.
 Base ball as reorganized is proyingver! popular here this year, and St. Louis % far holds the record of 1892 for the larges' attendance at any game, the record hay ing been made at Sunday game between ! St. Louis and Cincinnati, the latter teau
 explained by Charles Comiskey, unds
 whose management the "St. Loui
 Browns' won the championship fou
 years in succession. It is singula
 feature in connection with local oai
 pla ying this year that the St. Louis clul
 is made up of strangers in the city, onl!
 one member of the team having playe'
 here last year, while all the old local h
 vorites play in New York, Cincinnati, O
 Boston uniforms. This is a reversal Q
 the old order of things, but judging iron
 the enthusiasm evinced the general shak
 ing up of the teams was good move
 far as the finances of the base ball mag
 nates are concerned.