Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-15
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.

A Funny Mistake-An Express Of
flee Taken for a Waiting Room
A Bicycle Craze-TheaterS Open
ing.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, September Aft you
want romance and funny incident, don't go
to books for it, but walk around the streets
of st. Louis some of these nights while the
crowd is surging through them, and watch
the people. On the first night of the ilummi-
nation the streets were so jammed that the
cars couldn't move, and at points where the
crowd was thickes1 many tried in every way
to find relief from the crush IN the houses
near which they were. A Chicago merchant
was down on Broadway with his wife, and
pressed and jostled by the throng she felt
that she was going to faint They were in
! front of building with great glass front,
and he saw the Waterman inside By signs
he asked the man 10 open the door and let
them in. The watchman shook his head.
He became vehement IN his gestures, and at
last held up a five dollar bill. Still the
Waterman refused The angry merchant
got his wife to their hotel, and came back
the next morning early to complain to the
stalked into the office, and stated his case to
the first man he saw IN authority.
I'VE are sorry" said the gentleman, but
the watchm an did his duty. We had money
in here that night to send out the next day,
and that man had Instructions to keep the
doors locked. Besides, too. he is under a
bond or SlO.OOO to obey ORDERS.
The merchant looked around, and discov-
cred that he was in an express office. He
will look at the Nominations the next time
from window.
The city authorities have for the first time
volunteered to add little to the fall attrac-
tions. Coming into st. Louis from the west,
every train passes under seven big iron
bridges across the Mill Greek Valley. Here
after all these bridges will be illuminated
with colored lights at night, and visitors will
thus receive brilliant welcome before they
get OF the cars Then, from the depot all
the waV up to their hotels, they will pass be-
tween the lines of the street lluminations,
which flash out before the first evening train
gets to the city.
The bicycle dealers of the city say that
over five thousand people here ride wheels.
Two thousand of these are active wheelmen,
that is, they ride every day, and are con-
stantly doing something to increase the
number of cyclists. They are arranging
now for a street parade during Septen Der.
The wheels will be hung with lanterns and
many of them will carry floats with various
devices. There has been only one other
illuminated street parade of wheelmen in
the country. That was here, several years
ago, and it excited tho widest interest be
cause of it's novelty and picturesqueness.
The route of the parade is to be over tho
smooth streets in the residence part of the
city, and the wheelmen will all dismouni
opposite the exposition building.
The theatrical season in the city opened
last week, and each of the seven houses, tC
say nothing of the dime museums, is draw
ing we'll. The new German theater has be-
gun its first season. This theater was com
u plsted during the summer, and Is opposite
the exposition building. IL is endowed by
the wealthy German residents of the city
and has a stock company playing. During
the season, the best German actors, as they
finish their engagements in New York, will
be brought here TO PLAY. Except New York,
there ls no such provision for the encourage
ment of the German drama elsewhere IN the
United States.