The Lamar register., 1892-06-25
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.

lie Held In the Mound City In 'os--
The New kiectric Road Betwssn St,
Louis and Chicago.
Not only did the Convention of Fun nj
ture workers, in session in Cincinnati.
decide to hold the next convention in
81. Louis, but two of the officers were
gwen TO that city. Ihe president il
horatio N Davis of St LOUIS. and the
secretary and treasurer, james A.
Re&rdon of st. Louis. The convention
was "a national one, and was composed
OF some of the most substantial busi-
ness men of the country. St Louis
was chosen over all the other large
cities which We're in nomination be-
cause OF its central position, and its ac-
cessibility both by railways and water.
Numbers of men and wagons were on
the site of the new Union depot this
week. The company which had the
'Vrecking contract announced by an
advertisement that all the rest OF the
buildings now standing on the site
were TO be torn down rapidly and must
be got out of the way at once. The
people rushed there to buy cheap wood
ana building material, and whole
houses were sold for a song, to be
carted of to woodyards and contract
ors' warehouses The railways want
to have the new depot finished before
the world fair travel begins, and there
Is every reason to believe now that this
will he done. The building is most
conveniently located. Street car lines
will run in every direction on three
sides of it.
This suggests the electric road be-
tween here and Chicago, upon which
work has just begun. 1t sounds in
credible, when Prof. Francis E. Nipher
says that the cars are going to run at
the rate of hundred miles an hour
from one town to the other, but Prof.
Nipher does not make reckless asser-
tions lie was till few months ago
the chief electrician of Washington
university, and would have been put in
charge of the United States weather
bureau but for a little misunderstand-
ing between himself and the admins
tration. He surrendered his chair in
the university to take charge of the
building of this electric road, and Is
working day and night to make it
success. Wellington Adams is the as
soeinte of Prof Nipher in this road
building.
frank James, the brother of the IA
nous Missouri outlaw, waH out at the
race-tracls here, making books on the
horses. when the news came that the
cowardly slayer of his brother, Bob
Ford, had been himself shot down in
cold blood in Creede, Colorado, lively
little mining camp. There was a
gleam of satisfaction in the eyes of the
old bandit as he heard the story of the
tragedy from man who had Just read
II IN paper. But he talked very
calmly about it lie said Bob Ford
was q coward, and he had always ex-
pected to see him killed in some dis
honorable manner.
-
ayenging the murder of Jesse?" he
WIS asked.
Il think of doing good many things
that common sense tells me l oughtn't
10 do, like any other man." replied
he, with touch of resentment in his
tone, as II he thought the question re-
tected on his courage or manliness-
But when gave myself up to the
law it was the intention of abiding by
the law, whatever came, and l have
done it,"
Frank James is now accommodating
little property. He bets seldom,
himself, and when he does, risks only
little money.
The Ford boys got $50. 600 as the
| price of the life of Jesse James, and
squaudered every cent OF it on cards
and liquor.
The clubs in st. Louis have come to
be a world of their own. The growth
| of clubs in a city always means an in
crease in the number OF the leisure
class. There mag be clubs devoted to
the interests of business, and business
men may belong to the clubs which are
FOR social purpose, but your real club
man must have money and time to
spend 1t enjoyably. 1t is quite fair to
measure the wealth and prosperity of
city by the number of it's clubs and
the size of their mem bership lists. St
Louis has now about twenty clubs,
with membership of nearly FIVE
thousand, and two more are being or
gnnized by members of the other clubs
who want to strike out in new direc-
tions 1t is an old saying among club
men that one can not find the club
that suits him till he tries half dozen.
The men who form the new clubs
almost invariably keep their names on
the books of the old ones, and SO the
number is constantly increased, while
the parent ones retain their strength.