The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-07-22
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
The County Police Question - Great
Buildings for Special PrOfessiOnS---
New Street Transportation Facilities.

Buildings for Special ProEsssIons--
New street Transportation Facilities.
july 10, 1892.
The county Of st. Louis is rich and
productive, but it hasn't the police pro-
lection tho farmers want The police
system of the city is very efficient
one and, knowing that, the people Of
the county are moving to have their
villages guarded by detachment of
the force here. The State law estab.
lishiLging the metropolitan police
force in st. Louis provides for the dis
tribution Of patrolmen in the county,
and it will not be long before they get
the twenty coppers they have asked
for out there.
Some odd and original ideas have
been carried into effect in putting up
new buildings in St. Louis lately.
There is no other city in the country
probably, that has large building de-
voted entirely to the use OF physicians
and in no way connected with medi-
cal college. There is one of that kind
here, on the corner of jefferson avenue
and Locust street. 1t was erected for
the sole purpose OF giving the doctors
the kind OF offices they need and there
is nobody else in it except the janitor.
There is another building here which
is given up to the studies of artists. 1t
is on the corner of Beaumont street
and Locust. Both buildings were put
up by men who were doubtful, at first,
of the success of their projects, but
each has proved the owner man of
foresight by becoming a profitable in
vestment from the first
Fred NJ. Crunden, the manager Of
the Public Library, showed himself
man of advanced ideas when, in ar
ranging the plans OF the new building
on Locust street. he provided for a
large room to be used exclusively by
women studying or reading. In
Europe that Is done, but there is no
library on this side of the water where
it is considered necessary to pay this
attention TO the woman students All
women who have to 20 much to librar-
les say that they cannot work at ease
while they are stared at by the men
who come in, and many OF them COM
plain that they are often annoyed by
people who walk up behind them and
look over their shoulder.
There are two big cnmp-meetings that
every year attract large numbers of
people from st. Louis. One is the camp
meeting at Piasa Bluffs and the other
is Camp Marvin. The bluffs are a
score of miles away, and are reached
by boats. Hundreds of men from here
take their families up there, and leave
them in the cottages while the camp
meeting lasts, running up from the
CITY every day or so to see them. Tho
Marvin camp-ground is only short
distance away from the city, and -
reached by vehicles. There are no
houses on the grounds, md those VINO
90 out there i've in tents till the meet
fnr Is over. The grounds, with their
lines Of tents, and their religious SER
vices under pine-topped sheds are
rninue sight, and the road between
Lors and the busy city Is covered every
Jov With buggies and carriages full OF
,asorIe Going out TO look on. Camp Mar:
vim is to be opened about the iaa. "a
this month, and the meeting al flasA
Bluffs will begin as soon as the MARVIN
meeting ends. 40 v;da
| IN a street-cSr oeloro INC ScNPSI
/ takes in $50, OOv, perhaps more, Tor some
Of the people ride on passes, and some
Of them are children and pay only ha1
fare. Yet, some Of the lines here have
not only received that much money IN
tha mast wear, but have increased their
receipts 6v that much, since they gave
mn their horse power and adopted cleo
tFicity TO propel the cars 1t is no
wonder that when the reports OF tne
Citv register show such results from
the change to electricity that all Tue
lines are grasping at the trolley; sc
many have given mp the cable and TN
horses that the electrical magazines
saw s.. Louis is ahead Of every city II
the United States on its fast transl
mileage. Only four Of the twenty Nv.
lines in the city are now using horses
Q Two of these have already bought thei
: material for putting up the overheG,
wires. and by the time the crowd
= begin TO pour into the city to see u
Gsi1 festivities only two slow lines WI
: he left. These are short, and the VII
q Itors will be more Interested IN thei
. AZ a curiosity thar Inconvenience