Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-07-28
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
The County Police Ouestlon-Great
Buildings for Special Professions

Inc county Police OO0SIiOn- GE0dI
Buildings for Special Professions
New Street Transportation Facil-
tiles.
The county of st. Louis is rich and
productive, but it hasn't the police pro
lection the farmers want. The police
system of the city is a very efficient
one and, knowing that, the people of
the county are moving to have their
villages guarded by a detachment of
the force here. The State law estab-
lishinging the metropolitan police
force in St. Louis provides for the dis
| tribution of patrolmen in the coun
and it will not be long before they G Z
the twenty coppers they have asked
for out there.
Some odd and original ideas have
been carried into effect in putting up
new buildings in st. Louis lately.
There is no other city in the country
proba bly,, that has a large building de-
voted entirely to the use of physicians
and in no way connected with medi-
cal college. There is one of that kind
here, on the corner OF jefferson avenue
and Locust street. 1t was erected for
the sole purpose of giving the doctors
the kind of Offices they need and there
is nobody else in it except the janitor.
/ There is another building here which
is given up to the studies of artists. 1t
is on the corner of Beaumont street
and Locust. Both buildings were put
up by men who were doubtful. at first,
of the success of their projects, but
each has proved the owner a man OF
foresight by becoming a profitable in
vestment from the first.
Fred M. Crunden, the manager Of
the Public Library, showed himself a
man of advanced ideas when. in ar
ranging the plans of the new building
on Locust street, he provided for a
large room to be used exclusively by
| women studying or reading. In
Europe that IS done, but there is no
library on this side of the water where
1T is considered necessary to pay this
attention to the woman students. AL
| women who have to go much to Hbrar-
les say that they cannot work at ease
while they are stared at by the men
who come in, and many of them com
plain that they are often annoyed by
people who walk up behind them and
look over their shoulder
There are two big camp-meetings that
every year attract large numbers Oh
people from st. Louis. One is the camp
meeting at Piasa Bluffs, and the other
is Camp Marvin. The bluffs are q
score of miles away, and are reached
by boats. Hundreds of men from here
|
them in the cottages while the camp
meeting lasts, running up from the
city every day or so to see them. The
Marvin camp-grOund is only a shor-
distance away from the city, and il
reached by vehicles. There are nc
houses on the grounds, and those who
go out there live in tents till the meet
ing is over. The grounds, with thei
lines of tents, and their religious ser
| IL
unique sight, and the road between
here and the busy city is covered ever,
day with buggies and carriages full o
people going out to look on. Camp Mar
vim is to be opened about the last o
this month, and the meeting at Piass
Bluffs will begin as soon as the Marvin
meeting ends
One million passengers have to ride
, on a street-car before the company
takes in $50, OOU, perhaps more, for som'
of the people ride on passes, and SOM
, of them are children and pay only hal
fare. Yet, some of the lines here hav
, not only received that much money il
the past year, but have increased thei
receipts by that much, since they CAV
up their horse power and adopted cleo
tricity to propel the cars. It is n
wonder that when the reports of tn
, City register show such results fro1
: the change 70 electricity that all tn
: lines are grasping at the trolley.
, many have given up the cable and tn
horses that the electrical magazine
say ST Louis is ahead Of every city i
the United States on its fast trans
mileage. Only four Of the twenty-fiv
lines in the city are now using horses
Two of these have already bought the
material for putting up She overhea
wires and By the time the crowC
| begin n TloT1r. int affu - -
, fall festivities only two slow lines wi
, be left. These are short, and the vi
itOrs will be more Interested in the
as a curiosity than iuconvenienced-
Men in the Mills.