Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-09
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OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
Gossip About tccrrtary Elkins---Ths
Antumnai Festivities Planned for
beautiful Results Promised--Sunmer
Evening Pleasures, Etc.

Autumnai Festivities Planned for
beautiful Results Promiscd--summcr
Evening Pleasures, Etc.
Stephen Is. Ellsins the Secretary Of
War, is Missourian aud has many
warm personal friends In ST. Louis,
For this reason everybody believes he
is in earnest when lac says that before
he goes out of the cabinet he will get
enough money appropriated TO make
jefferson barracks one OF the largest
and handsomcst military posts In the
United States More than n quarter OF
million dollars will hc spent on the
post II the plans for the Improvement
are carried out, and considerably over
n million dollars will be added to the
volume Of business in the city, Real
estate men, too, say that the new post
will make property values rapidly in
crease In the southern part of town,
which lies adjacent 10 the reser-
walton.
Very few people, even artists, know
thai when Robert Brnghurst, the
sculptor, modelled that statue OF Grant
ON Twelfth street he had posing for
him Paul Cornoyer, the young Ameri-
can painter who has recently achieved
distinction in Paris. The booted legs
of Gen. Grant are Cornoryers legs, and
the field glass in the hero's hand was
modelled from tho glass taken from
Gen John 5. Mnrmaduke when n
prisoner by Councilman Nelson Cole OF
this city. These little things were
brought out the other night by con-
versation between two gentlemen who
were having II taste OF the giories OF
the fall entertainment to be set before
MS by the committees in charge of the
festivities. IL was Mt u private eNhibi-
ton OF miniature St. Louis, lighted
as 1t will be in the fall. Chairman
John G, Wilkinson, whose committee
manages the illumination, will make
the Grant statue and the statue of Lib
erty, which face each other on Twelfth
street, the central figures OF u splendid
Columbian tablcau, A third statue
will be put up between Liberty and
the Union depot, and the three will be
linked together and ilanked by many
colored electrical devices, The whole
six blocks between the site Of tho new
City hall and Washington avenue will
be u brilliant promenade ovcrhung by
pictures in light, half historical and
partly allegorlcal. The suggestion Of
Columbus and his time will be pre-
served. too, In the Examinations on the
down. town streets.
The warm weather is leading TO the
annual revival of very popular city
custom. Only st, Louis people know
how to sit gracefully on their front
steps summer afternoons. The girls
bring out cushions, as soon ms supper
is done, while IL il yet light, and pose
on the steps, with books in their hands.
The men follow, the older with cigars,
and the younger with banjo or man
dolin, and unless n walk to IN opcla
garden or n fountain where there ~
ice cream soda interferos, there they
sit all the evening. Neighbors come over
to see each other, and plans for picnics
and excursions are laid. Take II walk
just now along Pine, Washington,
Locust--any OF the streets lined with
homes, out in the western part OF the
city, and you will SEQ the groups and
hear the tinklc of the music, the chat.
ter and laughter now and then rising
above IL. Many St. Louis family,
lured away from home by the summer
resort fashion, men and women stiiied
in small hotel rooms, look back with
longing to the cool evenings on their
front steps, and hasten their return.
Boston is the only other city In the
country where this fashion obtains Of
making the front steps the reception
room on summer evenings. In New
York IL is held TO be bad form.
With their front steps, and an occn-
sional day on the river or Mt one Of the
neighboring resorts, st. Louis folk
who do not want to enrich seaside or
mountain hotel men will get along
very well this summer. There are
twelve summering places within two
hours ride Of the city,ty rail and boat.
All of these places make money four
months in the year. Then there arc
the innumerable suburban spots which
are high and cool, all OF them reached
by fast street car lines In conse-
quence Of these surroundings, the city
looses but a small part Of its population
during the summer, and even in the
dog days there is no exodus Of the bust
ness men such as one sees in the large
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