The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-11-11
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.

Curiosities Of the Campaign-Pre-
parat!ons to Commence at Once
for the Carnival Of l Se3.
ST. LOUIS, November The campaign i:
St. Louis has doomed the lumber business,
perhaps, more than 1t has the sale of badges
and torches. In the las: Presidential cleo
ton, the meetings of the clubs and other
party organizations were held in halls or
heaters, The increase in the registration
his fall has been enormous and the politi-
cisns at the outset of the campaign found
that they would have to abandon the whole
plan. Accordingly, one club built great
wiSwan of wood, which would accommodate
The 5000 voters IN its ward, covering vacant
lot nearly block IN extent with the structure.
It was found that it WIS cheaper TO do this
than to hire halls, and the idea took. nc
turesuue wooden shantleS. ornanented with
campaign devices and the pictures of cand-
dates sprang up all over the city, and now
dot every vacant lot IN the wards. As a
moyorality campaign will follow this one
tho wiCwarns will stay till summer, at least,
before they are torn down and sold again.
One of the branches of the wholesale bush
ness of 1t. Louis that IS peculiar to TINS city
is occupying the attention of the big mer-
chants Just now. Inc houses mere QUIZ
hundreds of stores IN the small towns along
the rivers of Alabama. Mississippi Arkansas,
Louisiana and Florida. these Southern
merchants come to the city during the tune
of the Fall Festivities, and leave the orders
for years supplies betore they 20 away.
About the beginning OF November tae WHO'S,
salers here send out fleet OF boats loaded
to the guards with goods for these So2thern
customers. Many OF the houses own their
steamers. and send OUT two or three OF tnetn
some charter the boats and send only one.
This commercial hotllla stearns along leisure
L ~ sIa hnr
leaving the little landings here ana there
hidden under boxes and ba.eS OF merchan-
dice and gets back 10 st. Louis about the
beginning Of Sprln.. IN tune tor ths ooat'
TO enter the regular summer riyer trade
great saving in freight rates Is efected IN
this way by the St. Louis merchants. and 1t
is TO be presumed the customers ser the pene-
fit of the economy.
Scores of men have been busy this wee
strippinc the exposition building OF lts ex-
hibits, ard taking down the coiored lamps
and fixed electric pieces that delIShted the
ewes of a MILL n people last month. In
few days there Will little remain IN sign. OF
the festivities splenuor except the liluminat-
ed signs and mosto5s OF the uerchauts,
which they will keep blazing at light as an
attraction to the paSserby. The festivities
committees are already a WORK on incl.
plans Tor next years celebration. ana VIII
shortly put designers TO making the sketches
for the many brilliant stretN pictures II Is IN
tended to have. The spectacle ID TO be sc
much more elaborate ana costly in 1.93 than
il was this fall that the work must be Legun
much ear Ter.
About twenty years ago Washington UNI
yersity was located on Washington avenue
over a mile from the Merchant : Exchange
and six separate buildings were erected To-
the several branches OF the school. busi
ness then had not got within half a mile
the site, and there were only a few oWeins
in the neichborhood. Now. electric cars rui
by the lecture rooms. and the roar OF a dos
en- factories disturos the students. The CIT!
has grown miles past the university. and ha
made the value of its property ten time
what it was when its doors were ocst opened
So, the university VIII move, and IL VIII a
most be able TO pay for its land and 1t
new buildings by the sale OF lis presen
property for manufacturing purposes.