The state herald., 1892-12-09
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
Travelling Men Organizing n Mammoth
Ciub-furlty of Mississippi Water
Ch~np Turkey,

Travelling Men Organizing n Mammoth
Ciub-rurity of Mississippi Water
Cheap Turkey.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. There is not
anywhere in the United States club
house owned entirely by commercial
travellers and devoted to their uses, but
there will be one as soon MS the hand
some building now being planned by
architects, for the Travellers Protec-
| tive association, is erected in st. Louis.
| 1t will cost half n million dollars, and
will be the SWEETEST place of the sort
outside OF London, both rs to its ex-
terror appearance and its appoint
ments inside. One novelty in the ar
rangements of the club which has
been proposed is TO be cab service,
The club is To own its cabs, and they
are not only To be at trains for use of
members, but they are also to be ut
the beck and call OF any of them who
may want to drive about the city.
The rapidly flowing water Of the
Mississippi river has swept away the
theorists who began when the cholera
scare ran over the county this year to
cxhort the people to drink only water
that had been boiled. At that time,
| Of course, St Louis took all sorts of
sanitary precautions, which, by the
way, are still in effective operation,
and among them warned those who
lived in the tenement districts not to
use well water. Everybody then re-
sorted 10 hydrnnts About this time
arose the cry Of the medical men who
insisted that all running water must
be boiled II the drinkcr would prevent
the coming Of cholera, typhoid fever
and other disagrecable visitors of that
kind. Everyone knows how difficult
it is in "a household TO boil all the
water that is used by n family, and
careful folks sighed us they went
about the new duty thus laid on them.
Fortunately, about this time, party
Of micro,copisis from the Smith
sonian institute visited St Louis
They were examining the water supply
Of all the large cities. They found
that the river water used In ST Louis
was not only pure but wholesome, and
/ tHts h'o
ing that II was better than that OF any
other large city where they had been.
The ST. Louis Medical society wanted
TO be sure that the Eastern scientists
were right, and appointed II commit.
lee OF miscToseopists from its own
members to examine tho water. Tho
examination WAS made this week, and
the conclusion reached was the same
as that announced by the Smithsonian
institute men. The housckeepcrs are
overjoycd, aud the troublesome water
boiling in the kitchens nil day long
has ceased.
Here I. bit OF information for the
housc-kecpcrs that viii make them all
want To live In st. Louis. Turkey gu
Thanksgiving Day sold in the markets
here for 10 cents pound, and fresh
vcnison for 20 cents; aud there was
much more of both 'sinds Of the meat
than could be sold. Judging from the
appearance OF the stands late that
night Not only ON Thanksgiving Day,
but all the year round, se-kc.pers
In other parts ~ the country have good
reasons TO envy their sisters here. St
Louis IL In the center Of enormous nat.
ural game and fish preserves. The
hunting and fishing clubs Of the city
are numbered by hundreds During
the cigh, months Of the year. fish is
abundant on the market stalls
at insignificant prices, and for
the other four months, railic Is