The Lamar register., 1892-10-22
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
A Convention OF skilled Dstsctives-A
Cosmopolitan City--sInxlnE 1t the
Worlds Fair.


Cosmopolitan cty--sInxlnE At the
Worlds Fair.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 13.-Thefe was n pe-
culiar gathering at the Office of the
Chief of Police this week. Seventeen
detectives, representing every one Of
the large cities in the United States,
sat there, and talked from notebooks
to each other. They were exchanging
descriptions of criminals whom they
wanted for various offenses. They
have been in St Louis watching the
crowds who came to enjoy the carfii-
val. All large cities exchange detect
ives this way in times of great conven-
tions OF people. This year the detectives
from abroad have found none of their
men. Chief Desmond, of the Detective
Bureau, says that it is because the
rogues are giving st. Louis wide
berth during the Fall Festivities, dis
covering how well the town is policed.
The proof of this is the very few az
rests that we have mad to make of
thieves who had robbed strangers"
says the Chief. "There have been no
robberies on the streets, and but Il
small number of pocket picking cases.
And when you consider the very large
number of people there have been in
the city, and how many of them were
out late at night, in the rough parts of
town, sightseeing, the showing is
something remarka ble.'
This is a most cosmopolitan city.
When it was announced, a few weeks
ago, that there would be meeting of
Swedes, Danes and Norwegians to ar
range for celebration on the evening
of Oct 81, of the discovery of America,
it was expected that hundred men,
perhaps, would respond. To the sur
prise of everyone, the hall selected for
the meeting was unable to hold the
crowd that came. There were several
thousand of them. Their celebration
will be mainly speech-malSing in the
three languages. Nearly all of them
are in good circumstances. They arc
mostly mechanics, but there are many
clerks among them, and few laborers.
Most of the multitude who were in
the city last week and this went to the
parks and feasted their eyes on the
acres of green sward in them. The
park commissioner is now planning to
make these broad expanses bloom with
welcome to the visitors who come to
see the greatest festival season of all
next year. Every level place in the
parks will be planted with shrubbery
and flowers in the form of Columbian
notices and Inscriptions of welcome,
which will appear next spring and all
through the summer and fall in letters
, of various colors- In addition to the
inscription, in places where the space
will permit it there will blossom de-
signs illustrating the great discovery.
From the score of strong singing So
| cieties of this city, the Choral Sym
| phony association each year picks
| about five hundred of the best voices,
and drills them for series of half n
| dozen concerts, which take place in
| the fall. The fame of the city as n
training school for good voices is SO
| widespread that the director of the
society, Mr.. Joseph Often, has been
| asked by the worlds fair managers to
send them n complete chorus for the
opening exercises in June The So
ciety has decided to put 200 voices in
| training Mt once. They will make a
| thunderous chorus of themselves.