The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-11-25
ouR s1. LOUIS LErrER.

ces In the New City Hall to Be Opened
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1.-THE show-win.
dows of Broadway and the other great
business streets of the city make one
forget the election, and indeed the
newspapers are beginning to give up
to the merchants announcements OF
Christmas goods the space lately de-
voted to columns and columns of cleo
ton matters. The attractive exhibits
in the shops and the clear, sunny, crisp
weather have been filing the streets
every day with crowds of bargain
seekers The merchants on Washing
ton avenue and the other Wholesale
streets are equally busy, with their Gus
toners from abroad. To add to the
hustle in the city, two large bodies OF
men have been in session all the week.
The general assembly of the Knights
of Labor has been here with several
hundred delegates, and the veterans
of the Army Of the Tennessee have been
having their annual reunion. The usual
attending throng of interested friends
and newspaper men have been watch"
ing both of the conventions. There
have been banquets and parades all
the week, and the theaters and hotels
have had as much as they could do to
entertain the strangers. Society is
busy too. The ball of the Daughters
of the Confederacy, which is, next to
the ball Of the Yelled Prophet, the
social event of the year, takes place on
the first of next month. and the prep.
arations for it on more elaborate
scale than ever. 1t will be held in the
great hall of the Merchants exchange,
where Ti1den was nominated in 1876
Its most unique feature will be a min
net of the old-fashioned kind, which
will be danced by fifty couples who
are being drilled forit now.
The architects of the new city hall
announce that with the beginning of
the coming year several of the Offices
in the building will be ready for oc-
cupancy. Two stories OF the SIX are
now completed, and the cost so far has
been nearly half million dollars. The
city officers who will move first will be
the register recorder of voters and re-
corder of deeds. The documents these
officers have in their old offices, eX-
posed to fire, are absolutely invalu-
able. This is especially so with the
recorder of deeds. The books showing
the titles to city property are all kept
in his vaults. There is but one man
IN the city who has a copy Of these
books, and not long ago trust CON-
pany offered him million dollars in
good hard cash for his set of abstracts.
When the records of Chicago were
burnt in the great fire, it cost the city
five million dollars to buy the only
copy of the deed-boolSs there was.
With this example before their eyes. it
is natural that the city officers of St,
Louis should be willing to allow the
two recorders and the register to get
into the new frc-proof edifice with
their indispensable books.
st. Louis has sent to the Postoffice
department since the adoption of Mr..
Wannamaller's plan over five thousand
orders for the House letter boxes, by
whose means the postman collects and
delivers his mail without having to
stop at the front door, ring the bell
and chat with the servant girl for a
pleasant minutS. This is more than
any other city in the country has Or
dered. The great demand for the con-
venience here is caused by the business
men who live in tho populous suburbs.
Their houses are in town, but they are
from six to fifteen miles from the post
Office often, and the contrast between
the mail facilities at their homes and
in the offices down town is intolerable-