San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-09-09
QUE ST. LOUIS LETTER.
The Crowded Period Commencing
Progress on the New Union Depot
The Foundation of the City.


ST LOUIS, Aug. 29.-The festivities
we're inauguarated the 25th by the
lighting up of the electric and other
! set pieces on the streets and by the IL
! Elimination of over six miles OF
thoroughfares. The great State Dem
| ocratic rally also took place that day
and the town was full of politicians
| from all sections, the result being very
crowded streets and a general appear
Ence Of hustle and activity. The illum-
i1atiOns have proved q great success
the huge representation of the globe
/ on broadway being especially grand
The continents and islands are DIS
tDguished from the ocean by mass
pi incandcscent lights and the effect IS
very remarkable. especially from DIS
lance. The panorama illustrating the
discovery OF America is also
source Of much favorable comment,
and the arches and nedallious are
all success TIE street cars
have been crowded every evening, and
At is generally adnt5ted that the car
n.val of 1899 has been inaugurated
very successfully.
When that witty Frenchman, Max
O'Reil, next comes to st. Louis he VIII
not be able to repeat his joke about
St Louis reprcseD ting her worst SIDE
first and compelling visitors to see the
morgue and the jail before they can
get 10 the city. Since he made this
joke at the expense of the city, large
gangs of men have been at work clear
ing away the old buildings on the
new Union depot SITE, which has now
been excavated and actual work com-
nenced on the foundation of the
depot, which is to cost 81, 600, 900, and
have forty-two sets of tracks leading
into it This depot will be one of the
most expensive in iFflc world, and it
will have one special feature which
viii recommend it to travellers. 1t
viii be terminal or pocket depot, and
all trains will be Backed into it, so
that 70 smoke will get into the sheds.
Another great change will be the NOV
ing of the depot from the least desir-
able part of the city to 4 much more
pleasant and better built locality.
Five years ago it was considered
aristocratic for st. Loais man to live
in the suburbs, because the street cars
ran such short distance out that he
had TO keep a carriage to drive down
town. Now, however, the situation
has been exactly reversed The cleo
trio roads run eight, ten and even
twenty miles into the country, and it
is cheaper to raise a family in the sub
urbs than in the city. As a result
wage and salary Gamers are beginning
to move out very freely, and the
Weather class are beginnsng TO secure
residences nearer the business section
of the city. Two electric lines are now
icing constructed into tue chief sec
tions OF St Louis county, and the in
evita bic annexation of that county by
the city has been expedited very MOTTO
ably.
The preparations for the November
election now being made in the Office
of the Recorder of voters shows that
there will be about 10, 900 more voters in
the city now than there were when the
census of 1890 was taken. On the basis
of one voter to ever five inhabitants,
this will give an increase in population
OF about so, 600 during the two years.
The records Of the Builders Exchange
seem to show that this is about the
correct increase, and If this can he
maintained until the next census, the
in 1900 VIII be shown to
exceed three quarters of a million.