The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-04
OUR ST. LOUIS Letter.

Tho Furniture Board of Trade--Racs
Meeting OF tho Jockey Club--Bnse Ball
~ Roorganixcd.
ST. LOUIS, May 16.-An historical land
mark OF the city Is being removed, q
wrecking company having commenced
this week tearing down the old Planters
House, one OF the oldest hotels In the
west, aud house in which many men OF
note have stopped while In St. Louis.
The work OF demolition IL going on rap.
idly and there arc crowds OF relic hunters
anxious TO carry away some fragment OF
the house which has been immortalized
by Charles Dickens and other writer's oil
International fame. The wrecking COM
pany has been ablo to sell large quantity
OF marble slabs and thing, much OF which
10 in perfect condition. The hotol
10 being torn down to make room for .
larger and more modern building, which
10 to be erected at a cost including dec
orations and furnishings, upwards OF two
million dollars. The new hotel will DO
absolutely fire proof, and one OF tho finest
In the United States. Its name has nos
yet been definitely decided upon, tho
New Planters" being suggested by somo
while others favor the name COLUMBIA
Hotel" on the ground that it Is being
erected partially to accommodate tho tens
ofthoussnds OF visitors to tho World'sF Fair
who will spend at least a few days in st.
Louis during the year 1898.
The st. Louis Furniture Board OF Trado
at q large and enthusiastic meeting In
structed its delegates to tho National
Convention, which meets at Cincinnati in
June this year, to secure the Nationsi
Furniture Convention for st. Louis In
1893. 1t was proposed that every mem
Der of the Exchange attend tho Cincin-
natl Convention, and that tho delegation
work for St. Louis as tho convention
meeting place in 1903. A committee was
appointed to prepare circular setting
forth the merits OF st. Louis in an attrac-
two manner which 10 to be placed In tho
hands OF every delegate and alternate to
the convention. New York, Boston, Gin
cinnati, Grand Rapids, Chicago, all prin-
cipalfurnituro points, have had tho con.
vention, and st. Louis now proposes, with
its excellent organization, to bring IL TO
the City OF Conventions. III. N. Davis,
who has made speciality OF freight mat
tiers, submitted report showing the ex-
cellent work that had been accomplished
in connection with tho Traffic Commits
sion. Then on motion Of Mr.. j. A. Rear
don, tho following wau adopted: Resolved,
That the st. Louis Furniture Board o.
Trade heartily indorse the good work ac-
complished by the st. Louis Traffic Com
mission, during the first year OF Ito
existence toward gaining for 81. Louis
many advantages in rates and classifi:a-
tions, and recommend those OF our mem
bers who arc not members to make
application thereto, and enjoy the beno.
Ats they largely disseminate.
The forty-eight days race meeting o!
tho st. Louis Jockey Club is now at itl
full height and Is proving the most sue
cessiul race meeting ever held In st. Louis.
All difficulty as to the paucity OF entries
is at an end, and so numerous have tho
entries become that the Jockey Club has
been compelled to charge an entrance fec
for all starters in order to reduce the num-
Der going to the post. Prior to this
change in the rules, thirty or forty horse
were frequently started in one race and
although the st. Louis track is one OF tho
largest and best in the country 1t wa
found dangerous as well as unsatisfactory
to have II so overcrowded. There ari
over a thousand valuable horses In thu
stables at the Fair Grounds and the sue
cess OF the meeting seems to improve al
time proceeds.
Base ball as reorganized Is proving very
popular here this year, and st. Louis SC
far holds the record OF 1892 for the largest
attendance at any game, the record hav-
ing been made at Sunday game between
st. Louis and Cincinnati, the latter team
captained by Charles Comiskey, under
whose management the est. Louis
Browns" won the championship four
years in succession. 1t is . singular
feature in connection with local ball
playing this year that the st. Louis club
Is made up OF strangers in the city, only
one member Of the team having played
here last year, while all the old local IA
vorites play in New York, Cincinnati, OF
Boston uniforms. This is a reversal Of
tho old order OF things, but judging from
the enthusiasm evinced the general shak'
ing up OF the teams was a good move sc
far as the finances of the base ball mag
mates are concerned.