The Globe-republican., 1892-11-25
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
The Daughters Of Confederacy Ball
Offices In the New City Hall to


Offices in the New City Hall to
be Opened.
Sv. LOUIS, November 21.-The show.win-
dows of Broadway and the other great busi-
ness streets of the city make one forget the
election, and indeed the newspapers are be-
ginning to give up to the merchants an
nouncements of Christmas goods the space
lately devoted 10 columns and columns OF
election matters. The attractive exhibits In
the shops and the clear, sunny, crisp weather
have been filling the streets every day with
crowds of bargain seekers. The merchants
ON Washington avenue and the other whole
sale streets are equally busy; with Their Gus
TONERS from abroad. To add to the hustle
in the city, two large bodies of men have
been in session all the week. The general as
semply of the Knights of Labor has been
here with several hundred delegates, and the
veterans of the Army Of the Tennessee have
been having their annual reunion. Inc
Usual attending throng of interested FRIENDS
and newspaper men have been watching both
of the conventions. There nave been ban
quets and parades all the week, and the the
aters and hotels have had as much as they
could do to entertain the strangers. Society
is busy too. The ball of the Daughters OF
the Confederacy, which il, next to the bal!
of the Yelled Prophet, the social event OF
the year, takes place on the first of next
month, and the preparations for it on a
more elaborate scale than ever. 1t will be
held in the great hall of the Merchants ex-
change, where Tilden was nominated In
1876. Its most unique feature will be
minuet of the old fashioned kind, which will
be danced by fifty couples who are being
drilled for it now.
The architects of the new city hall all
nounce tina. with the beginning of the com
ing year several of the offices in the building
will be ready for occupancy. Two stories OF
tho six are now completed, and the cost so
far has been nearly half a million dollars.
The city officers who will move hfst VIII De
the register. recorder of voters and recorder
of deeds. The documents these officers have
in their old Offices, exposed to the fire, are
absolutely invaluable. This 10 especially 90
with the recorder of deeds. The books
showing the titles to city property are all
kept in his vaults. There is but one man IN
the city who has copy of these books. and
not long ago trust company offered hum
million dollars in good hard cash for his set
of abstracts. When the records Of Chicago
were burnt in the great fire. it cost the city
five million dollars to buy the only copy OF
the deed books there was. With this exam
pie before their eyes, it Is natural that the
city officers of st. Louis should be wiling TO
allow the two recorders and the register to
get into the new ire-proof edlfice with their
indispensable books.
St. Louis has sent to the Postoffice depart
ment since the adoption of MI. Wanamaker's
plan over five thousand orders for House
letter boxes. by whose means the postman
collects and delivers his mail without having
to stop at the front door. ring the bell and
chat with the servant girl for pleasant MIN
ute. This Is more than any other city IN the
country has ordered. The great demand for
the convenience here is caused by the busi-
ness men who live in the populous suburbs.
Their houses are IN town. but they are from
six to fifteen miles from the postofice often,
aud the contrast between the mail facilities
at their homes and the Offices down town is
intolerable.