Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-11-24
IOWA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER "a
OUR 81. LOUIS LETTER.
fhe Daughters OF Confederacy Iiail--om
ses In the New city Hail TO Be Opened

ses In the New city Hall TO Be Opened
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1.-THE show.win.
dows of broadway aud the other great
business streets of the city make one
forge the election, and indeed tho
newspapers are beginning to give up
to the merchants announcements of
Christmas goods the space lately tic.
Soted to columns and columns of elcc
lion matters. The attractive exhibits
m the shops and the clear, sunny, crisp
weather have been filling the streets
every day with crowds of bargains
seekers The merchants ON Washing
ton avenue and the other wholesale
streets are equally busy, with their GUS
toners from abroad, To add 10 tho
hustle in the city. two largo bodies OF
men have been in session all the week,
The general assembly of the knights
If Labor has been here with several
hundred delegates, and the veterans
Of the Army of the Tennessee have been
having their annual reunion, The usual
attending throng of interested friends
and newspaper men have been watch
ing both of the conventions. There
have been banquets and parades all
the week, and the theaters aud hotels
have had as much as they could do 10
entertain the strangers Society is
busy too The ball Of the Daughters
Of the Confederacy, which is, next To
the ball of the Yelled Prophet, tho
social event of the year, takes place ON
the first OF next month and the prep.
arations for IL on more elaborate
scale than ever. IL will be held in the
great hall OF the Merchants exchange,
where Tildcn was nominated in 1876.
Its most unique feature will he min.
net 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
announce that with the beginning OF
the coming year several Of the offices
in the building win be ready for oc.
cupancy. Two stories Of the SIX are
now completed, and the cost So far has
been nearly half II million dollars Tho
city officers who Will move first will DO
the register, recorder of voters and re-
corder of deeds. The documents these
officers have in their old offices, eX-
posed to fire, arc absolutely invalu-
able. This is especially so with tho
'ecorder of deeds. The books showing
the titles to city property are all kept
in his vaults. There is but one man
m the city who has copy of these
books, and not long ago trust com.
pany offered him 10 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 decd books there was.
With this example before their eyes. 1t
is natural that the city officers of st,
Louis should be willing To allow tho
two recorders and the register to get
into the now fre-proof edifice with
their Indispensable books.
st. Louis has sent to the Postoiiice
department since'the adoption of Mr..
Wannamaker's plan over five thousand
orders for the 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 tho servant girl for y
pleasant minute This is more than
any other city in the country has or
dered. The great demand for tie con-
vcnience here is caused by the business
men who live in thu populous suburbs.
Their houses are in town, but they are
from six TO fifteen miles from the post.
office often, and the contrast between
the mail facilities vt their homes and
In the offices down town is intolerable