Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-06-30
OUR 81. LOUIS LETTER

The Furniture Workers Convention to
he Held In the Mound City In '93--
The New Electric Road between Sts
Louis and Chicago.
Not only did the Convention of Fun nj
ture workers, in session in Cincinnati,
decide to hold the next convention in
St Louis, but two of the officers were
given to that city. The president Is
Horatio n. Davis of St Louis. and the
secretary and treasurer, James A.
Reardon of St Louis. The convention
was a national one, and was composed
of some of the most substantial ousl-
ness men of the country. st. Louis
was chosen over all the other large
cities which were in nomination be-
cause Of its central position, and its ae-
feasibility both by railways and WAter.
Number of men and wagons were on
the site of the new Union depot TINS
week. The company which had the
wrecking contract announced by an
advertisement that all the rest OF the
buildings now standing on the site
were to be torn down rapidly and must
be got out of the way at once. The
people rushed there to buy cheap wood
and building material, and whole
houses were sold for song, to be
carted of to woodyards and contract
ors' warehouses. The railways want
to have the new depot finished before
the wo. DIS fair travel begins, and there
is every reason to believe now that this
will be done. The building is most
conveniently located. Street car lines
will run in every direction on three
sides of it.
This suggests the electric road be-
tween here and Chicago, upon which
work has just begun. 1t sounds in
credible, when Prof. Francis e. Nipher
says that the cars are going TO run at
the rate of a hundred miles an hour
| from one town to the other, but Prof.
| Nipher does not make reckless asser-
tions He was till few months ago
| the chief electrician of Washington
university. and would have been put IN
| charge of the United States weather
bureau but for little misunderstood
ing between himself and the admins
tration. He surrendered his chair in
the university to take charge of the
building of this electric road, and Is
working day and night to make 1t a
success. Wellington Adams is the as
sociate of Prof. Nipher in this road
building.
/ Frank James, the brother of the IA
nous Missouri outlaw, was out at the
race-track here, making books on the
horses, when the news came that the
| cowardly slayer of his brother, Bob
Ford, had been himself shot down in
| cold blood in Creole, Colorado, lively
little mining camp. There was
| CLEAN of satisfaction in the eyes OF the
old bandit as he heard the story of the
tragedy from q man who lad just read
1t IN paper. But he talked very
| calmly about it. He said Bob Ford
was a coward, and he had always ex-
pected to see him killed in some dis
honorable manner.
Ibid you ever think yourself OF
avengipg the murder of lesser" he
was asked.
- think of doing a good many things
that common sense tells me oughtn'
to do, like any other man." replied
he, with touch of resentment in his
tone, as if he thought the question re
Elected on his courage or manliness
''But when gave myself up to the
law it was the intention of abiding by
the law, Whatever came, and 1 have
done it,
Frank James is now accommodating
little property. He bets seldom
himself, and when he does, risks only
little money.
The Ford boys got $500 as tn,
price of the life of Jesse James, and
squandered every cent of it on card
and liquor.
The clubs in st. Louis have come t,
be a world of their own. The growth
of clubs In city always means an in
crease in the number of the leisur,
class. There may be clubs devoted t,
the interests of business, and bushes
men may belong to the clubs which ar
for social purpose, but your real clul
man must have money and time L
spend 1t enjoyably. 1t is quite fair T.
measure the wealth and prosperity o
a city by the number of it's clubs an
the size of their membership lists. st
Louis has now about twenty clubs
with a membership of nearly fiV
thousand. and two more are being OF
ganized by members of the other club
who want to strike out in new direC
tons. 1t is an old saying among clut
I men that one can not find the clu
that suits him till he tries half dozer
The men who form the new club
almost invariably keep their names o
the books of the old ones, and so tn
number is constantly increased, Will
the parent ones retain their strength