San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-06-03
QUA ST. LOUIS LETTER.

rhe Floods-The Concord Is Coming
Social Topios-yisitinG City Onielals
from Boston to Denver-ChoraI Sym
PhOny Society, Etc.
We have had here this week two
topics of general interest to talk
about one the freaks Of the river, and
the other the Concord There was a
new side to each Of these matters every
day, so there has been no danger of
their becoming wearisome. Business
men talked especially of the river;
society of the warship and the gallant
officers whose com ng would be sure 10
bring about a round of gayety such as
the city has not seen since the social
languor following Lent Everybody
understood, of course, that the man-Of-
war could venture on the visit only il
the water remained high, and it was
Just as well known that the rising
river meant loss of money to many.
The antagoniStic connection between
the two things was pretty well illus
strated by a conversation at an after
noon tea in the fashionable West EnG.
The hostess was g young matron at
whose receptions enc is always sure to
find the most distinguished social lions,
whether sprung from the soil o. visit
ing the city from The East. She had
her most intimate friend to help her
carry everything off well. Both ladies
are the wives of wealthy men who have
interests which are suffering through
the turbulence of the river. When the
talk and tea-drinl1ing was at its height,
the entertainer missed her ally. After
a while she found her. sitting by her
self in little recess, and slipping her
tea thoughtfully.
MY dear, demonstrated the anxious
hostess, Don't you think you are Just
a little selfish; when there are so many
people who want 70 hear you talk,
too?''
81 know" replied the other. "but I
ran away inst a minute to plan our
campaign if the Concord comes"
"O.' exclaimed the hostess, sympa-
thetic at once, won't it be delight
ful?"
"Well, I don't know" doubtfuuy,
said the one in the corner Il was Just
wondering. Mr.. Blank told me this
morning, as he read the paper at the
breakfast table, that every inch the
Mississippi rises costs him a thousand
dollars, and l don't know whether
ought 20 hope most for the river 10 20
down or the Concord to come up"
1t has got to be the correct thing for
the aldermen of other big cities in tha
country TO come here for lessons in
various matters appcrtaining to good
municipal government Last year Bos-
ton, Chicago. Denver and New Orleans
sent their officials to St Louis to look
at its streets, its parks, its water
works and its other features which
place it at the head of western cities,
and this year Detroit has followed tho
example. Its aldermen have Just gone
home, afterseveral days of sightseeing
that taught them something.
The Boston aldermen were struck |
with the wide and beautifully paved |
streets of St Louis. The New Orleans
and Mayor Shakespeare
were impressed with the excellent
sewerage and spent an afternoon driv-
ing about the streets and inspecting
the sprinkling service. Tie Denver
visitors were especially interested in
the long lines of electric cars, and the
Detroit men came to look at the st.
Louis plan OF caring for the garbage,
to initiate it
Joseph Often, the director of the
society, is in fair
way to secure an endowment for per-
manent orchestra here. If he succeeds,
the city need not depend on Nil1isch,
in Boston, or Thomas, in Chicago, for
its good music hereafter. st. Louis is
doing more to encourage good music
every year. 1t IS now in the regular
musical circuit and every MANAGER of
company or virtuose will bring his at
traction here hereafter. The use of the
Exposition building for these concerts
makes it possible for them to make
money with very small admission fee. !