The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.

0ossip About Secretary Elkins-Ths
Autumnai Festivities Planned for
Beautiful Results Promised-summev
Evening Pleasures, Etc.
Stephen Ii. Ellxins, the Secretary OF
War. Is q Missourian and has many
YARN personal friends In st. Louis.
Sor this reason everybody believes he
Y In earnest when he says that before
ne goes out of the cabinet he will get
enough money appropriated to make
Jefferson barracks one of the largest
and handsomest military posts In the
United States More than a quarter of
million dollars will be spent on the
post II the plans for the Improvement
are carried out, and considerably over
o million dollars will be added to the
volume OF business in the city. Real
estate men, too, say that the new post
Will make property values rapidly in
crease in the southern part of town,
which lies adjacent to the reser-
walton.
Very few people, even artists, know
that when Robert Bringhurst, the
sculptor, modelled that statue Of Grant
ON Twelfth street he had posing for
him Paul Cornoyer, the young Ameri-
can painter who has recently achieved
distinction in Paris. The booted legs
OF Gen. Grant are Cornoryer's legs, and
the field glass in the hero's hand was
modelled from the glass taken from
Gen John ). Marmaduke when
prisoner by Councilman Nelson Cole of
this city. These little things were
brought out the other night by con-
versation between two gentlemen who
were having taste of the glories of
the fall entertainment to be set before
us by the committees in charge of the
festivities IL was at q private exhibit
ton OF miniature st. Louis, lighted
as 1t will be in the fall Chairman
John C. Wilkinson, whose committee
manages the illumination, will make
the Grant statue and the statue of Lib
erty, which face each other on Twelfth
street, the central figures OF splendid
Columbian tableau. A third statue
will be put up between Liberty and
the Union depot, and the three will be
linked together and fianbcd by many
colored electrical devices The whole
six blocks between the site of the new
City hall and Washington avenue will
be brilliant promenade overhung by
pictures in light, half historical and
partly allegorcal. The suggestion Of
Columbus and his time will be pre-
served, too, in the Examinations on the
downtown streets.
The warm weather is leading to the
annual revival of very popular city
custom. Only st, Louis people know
how to sit gracefully on their front
steps summer afternoons. The girls
bring out cushions, as soon rs supper
is done, while 1t is yet light, and pose
on the steps. with books in their hands.
The men follow, the older with cigars,
and the younger with banjo or man.
dolin, and unless a walk to an opera
garden or fountain where there is
ice cream soda interferes, there they
sit all the evening. Ncighbors come over
to see each other, and plans for picnics
and excursions are laid. Take walk
just now along Pine, Washington,
of the streets lined with
homes, out in the western part of the
city, and you will see the groups and
hear the tinkle of the music. the chat
ter and laughter now and then rising |
above it. Many st. Louis family, |
lured away from home by the summer
resort fashion, men and women stified |
IN small hotel rooms, look back with
longing to the cool evenings on their |
front steps, and hasten their return. |
Boston is the only other city in the
where this fashion obtains OF |
making the front steps the reception
room on summer evenings In New
York it is held to be bad form.
With their front steps, and an occa-
sional day on the river or at one of the |
neighboring resorts, st. Louis folk |
who do not want to enrich seaside or !
hotel men will get along /
,ery we'll this summer. There are |
.welve summering places within two
lours' ride of the city,by rail and boat
All of these places make money four
months in the year. Then there are
he innumerable suburban spots which
ire high and cool, all of them reached
,y fast street car lines. In conse-
luence of these surroundings, the city |
doses but a small part of its population
Turing the summer, and even in the
log-days there is no exodus of the bust
less men such as one sees in the large
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