The Globe-republican., 1892-12-02
OUR ST, LOUIS LETTER.

u Mammoth Street Railway Propo.
sition-Activity In the Local Apple
and Pecan Trades.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, November 2S.-If q bill
now pending before the municipal assembly
Is passed st. Louis must have the cheapest
system Of railroad fares in the country. The
bill is pushed by the projectors Of a new
road which is intended to connect all tho
other lines in the city, giving the passengers
transfer tickets from the one to the other.
If the franchise Is obtained the road will
be built in time to carry the people who
flock into the city for the fall festivities next
year. A passenger then who starts from
Carondelet, the extreme southern end OF the
city, will be able to ride to Baden, the north
ern boundary, and there transfer to other
lines that will take him to the western lin
its, getting q trip of over twenty-five miles
for 5 cents. The scheme is simple enough,
but if it is carried out it Hill provide the
city with gigantic plan of passenger trans
portation, that is unapproached IN any other
of our large cities.
It has been found by several years expert
ence that the attempt to educate the Chinese
here through instruction in Sunday schools
il unsatisfactory. Neither tho churches nor
the pupils are content with the results. An.
other plan for the benefit of the Chinese is
Olent people of means who take an interest
IN making good citizens of this class of i'm
migrants. Several night schools ere to be
established, at least three. in the part of the
city in which most of them live, somewhere
in the down town blocks of Market and
Walnut streets. The instruction VIII not 6e
entirely free: it has been decided that 1t Will
Be wiser to make the Chinese student under
stand that he must pay for his books. any
way. Tho salaries of the teachers. all of
whom are to be men and women and who
have formerly taught the Chinese in Sunday
schools, will pe paid from fund to which a
number of missionary societies will con-
tribute.
Money is more plentiful, and commands
lower rates of interest IN St. Louis and Phil
adelphia than in any other cities OF the
United States. Much OF the idle capital here
has been put into trust companies lately.
but from the organization OF two rather
original enterprises the other day it seems
that there are enough moneyed men to make
experiments with their capital it there ap-
pears to be q legitimate prospect OF fair
profit in the schemes proposed One OF
these new companies has bought an island
in tho Mississippi river, about forty miles
from St Louis and has planted it with $40
pecan trees. The men at the head of the
company are confident that they will make
q lot of money As soon as the trees begin to
bear. They claim that they have on their
island about the same climate that there Is
in those parts of Texas where the best pecan
nut sgrow.
The other company was organized to buy
apple orchards IN Illinois and Missouri, and
plant more trees than their present owners
are able to manage. The owners of the Or
chards have in most cases gone into the
companies, and when they were unwilling
to do this the companies have bought their
farms outright. This scheme was suggested
to the st. Louis investors by the condition
of the apple crop of the United States for
for the past three years, during which time
the east has had to look to Illinois and Mis-
ssuri for the bulk of its apples. The oper-
ations of the company will make St Louis
the largest apple market in the country in a
few years. 1t is very near that now, New
York being the only city which handles
more of the fruit