Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.

The County Police Question - Great
Buildings for Special Professions
New Street transportation Facilities.
July 1e, 1892.
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 very efficient
one and, knowing that, the people of
the county are moving to have their
villages guarded BY 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 county,
and it will not be long before they get
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.
proba bly,, that has 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 profitable in
vestment from the first.
Fred NJ. Crunden, the manager of
the Public Library, showed himself
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
it is considered necessary to pay this
attention to the woman students. All
women who have to go much to ibrar-
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 of
people from st. Louis. One is the camp
meeting at Piasa Bluffs, and the other
is Camp Marvin. The bluffs are a
score of miles away, and are reached
by boats. Hundreds of men from here
take their families up there, and leave
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 short
distance away from the city, and is
reached by vehicles There are no
houses on the grounds, and those who
go out there live in tents till the meet
ing is over. The grounds, with their
lines of tents, and their religious SER
vices under pine-topped sheds are
unique sight, and the road between
here and the busy city is covered every
day with buggies and carriages full of
people going out to look on. Camp Mar
vim is to be opened about the last of
this month, and the meeting at PISA
Bluffs will begin as soon as the Marvin
meeting ends.
One million passengers have to ride
on q street-car before the company
takes in $50, 00U, perhaps more, for some
OF the people ride on passes, and some
of them are children and pay only half
fare. Yet, some of the lines here have
not only received that much money in
the past year, but have increased their
receipts by that much. since they gave
mp their horse power and adopted cleo.
tricity to propel the cars. It is no
wonder that when the reports of the
City register show such results from
the change to electricity that all the
lines are grasping at the trolley. So
many have given up the cable and the
horses that the electrical magazines
say St Louis il ahead of every city in
the United States on its fast transit
mileage. Only four of the twenty-five
lines in the city are now using horses.
Two Of these have already bought their
material for putting mp the overhead
wires. and by the time the crowds
begin to pour into the city to see the
tall festivities only two slow lines will
be left These are short, and the Wis
itors will be more interested in them
rs curiosity than inconvenienced.
The Presidents Idaho Proclama9ion.
By the President of the United States.-A Proc
lamstio0-To Whom 1t Nay Coneern: