The Lamar register., 1892-10-15
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
The city Crowdsd-Buiidisg Associa-
tion Congress-Another Heavy
subs~rlrtfon Fund.

Subscription Fund
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5.-The fall festivities
reached the climax of their interest this
week. Fifty thousand strangers
crowded the streets, and tried the
temper of policemen and car conduct
ors The exposition was at its most
attractive point; the turnstiles out at
the fair ground clicked necessarily;
the gorgeous parade of the Yelled
Prophet and the illuminations pro-
vided the most brilliant night specta-
cles, and all the theaters had strong
bills. The hotels, big and little, were
all full, and the signs FURNISHED
Rooms had been taken from the
boarding houses within three miles of
the exposition building. Hot as the
campaign is here, with the State head
quarters of the three parties in the
city, the political excitement was not
felt this week in the press of the
throng that cared only for pleasure,
and but for the newspapers those out
side of political circles could not have
told that n fiercely contested local and
National election is approaching
st. Louis owes the rapid settling up
of its suburbs to the scores of building
ISSOtldllOHS, W iilNii hecp IhS iiCeiihh-
les at work all the year round, putting
up homes for people of small means
New associations are constantly being
| organized, and the most solid ones
think that the time has now come to
have this system of investment pro-
| tected by the State like the banks.
Accordingly, conve on of the State
league of building associations, r,pre-
senting 400 of these organizations, has
been in session here most of this week,
preparing memorial to the next Leg
islature, which will ask for the estab-
| lishment of bureau of inspection, and
the exemption of association shares
from taxation. If these laws are Sc
cured, Missouri next year will forge
| ahead of all the other States in the
Union on the score of the number and
wealth of it's building associations.
For the second time within five
years, the citizens of st. Louis have
put their hands into their pockets and
paid for the organization of special
| sanitary corps, to re-enforce the city
authorities in that most important
work in all great cities, keeping the
streets clean. The city has grown so
rapidly since the time of that first citi-
| zens committee, that this one will
have to spend much more money to ac-
cornplish the same object, and, as it is
intended to keep the special corps at
| work all through next year, till the
| winter, the cost will hardly be less than
| 500, 900. But the work will make st.
| Louis cleaner city than Washington,
| even and to achieve this result is well
worth the money that will be spent
The streets were made impossible
| by the sight-seers Tuesday night, when
| the prophet and his retinue paraded
| with a score of tableaus on floats, il
| Illustrating the history of the Louisiana,
| from W hich territory Missouri sprung
originally. The twenty-second float,
| the last in the line, was received
| everywhere with shouts of applause.
| 1t represented native Missourian TAX
| taking the oath of office as president
of the United States in 1912. After
| the parade the prophet and his suite,
| who had been the figures in the tab
| leans, went to the Merchants Ez-
change Hall, where they, still in their
| quaint costumes, attended the ball,
| which is the social event of the year.
| A good illustration of the rapid
change now taking place in suburban
property, is given by the history of a
piece of land eight miles away from
the city limits. There are eighty acres
in it. Ten years ago, it was such
| productive farm in which to raise sup
plies for the city, that the owner re-
| fused 500, 900 for it. Its value as farm
ing land decreased fast, till few
months ago it was sold for sioo an
acre. The spectators who bought 1t
sold it to syndicate of city men for
$40, 600. They cut if up into building
lots, sold them at auction, and cleared
SEQ, 600. The electric cars, running
long distances west, have made possible
such transformations