The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-06-27
OUR 81. LOUIS LETTER


The Furniture Worksrs' Csnvsntion -
Re Held In the Mound City h 'sS--
The New Electric Road Between sc,
Louis and Chicago.
Not only did the Convention of Fulni-
ture workers, in session in Cincinnati,
decide to hold the next convention in
St Louis, but two Of the officers were
given to that cit-. The president Is
Horatio n. Davis of St Louis. and the
secretary and treasurer, James A.
Reardon 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 were in nomination be-
cause Of it, central position, and its &C.
feasibility both by railways and water.
Numbers of men and wagons were on
the site of the new Union depot this
week. The company which bad the
wrecking contract anflounced By an
advert,sem, Mt thai 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
and building material, and whole
houses were sold for q song, to be
carted off to woodyards and contract
ors' warehouses The railways want
to have the new depot finished before
the wo. DIS fair travel begins, and there
Is every reason to believe now that this
will be 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-
tons He 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 little misunderstood
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 a
success. Wellington Adams is the as
sociate of Prof. Nipher in this road
building.
Frank James, the brother Of the ia
nous Missouri outlaw, was out at the
race-track 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 Creole, Colorado, lively
little mining camp. There was
CLEAN of satisfaction in the eyes Of the
old bandit as he heard the story of the
tragedy from a man who had just read
it IN q paper But he talked very
calmly about it. He said Bob Ford
was coward, and he had always ex-
pected to see him killed in some dis
honorable manner.
did you ever think yourself Of
avenging the murder of Jesse?" he
was asked.
II think of doing good many things
that common sense tells me oughtn't
to do, like any other man." replied
he, with touch Of resentment in his
tone, as if he thought the question re-
fected on his courage or manliness.
''But when l 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
a little property. He bets seldom,
himself, and when he does, risks only
a little money.
The Ford boys got $500 as the
price of the life of Jesse James, and
squandered every cent of it on cards
and liquor.
The clubs in st. Louis have come to
be world of their own. The growth
of clubs in city always means an in
crease in the number of the leisure
class. There may be clubs devoted to
the interests of business, and business
men may belong to the clubs which are
Cor a 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
a city by the number of it's clubs and
the size of their membership lists. St.
Louis has now about twenty clubs,
with membership of nearly five
thousand, and two more are being or
ganized 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.
Trade Mark Case Decided.