The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-30
our ST. LOUIS. LETTER.
Proposed Extension OF the City Limits
A Campaign Against Small Dairies--
A Million Dollar Lawsuit.


A Campaign Against Small Dairies--
A Million Dollar Lawsuit.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, July 1.-The APP
proach of city campaign has brought
about lively discussion of the finan-
cial condition of st. Louis. Money
is wanted for new public build
ings that are contemplated. The
city cannot run into debt and
cannot increase its taxation with
out vote Of the people, and every
body understands that proposition 10
do either of these things would be
beaten at the polls by the Taxpayers.
So movement is on foot now to in
crease the city limits, and take in about
twenty square miles of rich and popu-
lous suburban settlements to the West.
1t is claimed that the taxes from this
source would give the city all the reve-
nue. 1t needs to carry out its plan OF
public improvement. The question will
be agitated vigorously from now till
the election, and 1t may be an issue in
the spring campaign for the election OF
q Mayor.
The big and little dairies of the city
are fighting over new milk law, the
most thorough ever proposed in this city,
The system of inspection which the
bill contemplates is so rigid that it will
drive out of business the many little
dirty dairies in the city, that make
money by selling impure milk, and
they are moving heaven and earth to
kill the bill. II the bill passes it will
put into operation a complete system
of food inspection that will include
every article of food nsed on the table
Milk Inspector James 4. Sullivan
makes telling argument for the bill
by drawing from the records of infant
mortality in the health office. Chill
dren fed on impure milk die Of mar
asmus most often. Inspector Sullivan
shows that since milk inspection was
begun here, five years ago, the deaths
from marasmus have decreased so per
cent. He argues, of course, that the
better the inspection the life of more
children will be saved. The great
diaries of the city, whose reputation
depends on the quality of their milk,
are doing all they can to pass the bill,
and rid themselves of the comparatively
irresponsible competition of the smaller
dairymen.
We are going to have very inter-
esting million dollar suit here. When
Thomas Smith sold Washington Park
to the city years ago for $4,000, he
stipulated that it was to be used for
ever for the purposes of a public square.
The city is now building city hall on
the site of the park, having cut down
the trees, and has already spent about
quarter of a million. on the structure.
Now the heirs of Mr.. Smith, most of
whom live in Texas and Kentucky,
come to the United States court claim
ing not only large damages because the
city has diverted the park from the
use to which 1t agreed to put it, but
also the park itself. The park is now
worth million dollars. Good lawyers
but the city's lawyers of course make
light of it While the suit goes on,
the building OF the hall will proceed,
too, and by the time decision is OBJ
tanned the edifice will be finished.
Then, II the heirs win the suit, the
city will simply hand them over the
money the park is worth.
Experiments in new kind OF
weather signalling are to be tried soon
in the agricultural country which de-
ponds on St Louis for its forecasts.
Chief Signal Officer, Mark W. Harring-
ton, is not at all satisfied with the re-
suits obtained from the system of dis
tributing signals by means Of manufac-
tory and factory whistles. 1t seems
that they are COMPOUNDED with the
whistles used for other purposes, and
often pass unnoticed by the people
for whose benefit they are set out.
The weather officers here have been
informed that Chief Harrington intends
to introduce silver whistles for trans
hitting the signals. He thinks they
give out purer, rounder tone, just as
loud as the sound from the other whis-
ties, and easily distinguished from
them. The first experiments in this
part of the country with the silver
whistle will be made in the large farm
ing towns of Missouri and Illinois.