Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-02-16
A cITY's oooo FORTUNE.
ST. LonIs About to Receive u Million
Dollars from Unusual SourccS--
EanaufInnnI AIxuna.


Educational Advance.
ST LOUIS, Feb. io,--Bcfore the end
of the year st. Louis will have n
million dollars which IL will not know
how to spend. The sale of the
old city hall, and its Site,
which will be abandoned by all the
city offices this summer for the great
building in Washington Park, has
been decided on, and the Union Mar,
ket, ugly but valuable, will follow
The two are worth together consider,
ably over n million dollars, but part
of the money obtained by their sale
will have TO be spent in buying an
other market place for the hucksters.
City officials generally believe that
this money should be spent in lump.
but there have been dozen ways pro-
posed of spending it. Tho city may
build II conduit system; il may run
another great sewer along the bed OF
the River des Peres, or it may estnb.
lish free baths, The money will be
enough for one OF these objects but
not all.
st. Louis was the first city in the
United States that took from Germany
the plan of teaching children in kim
dergartens and from here tho idea
spread all over the country, This
whole week has been devoted by the
teachers of the city TO the celebration
of the twentieth anniversary OF tho
opening Of the kindergarten here. Ex-
hibitions OF kindergarten work were
given In some of the schools each day,
and there were several lectures and
essays on tbs system, among them
ono by Prof. William Il. Harris the
lirst superintendent of public schools
here, and after that one of the teachers
in the famous Concord School of Phil
osophy.
Visitors to the ST Louis Exposition
this year, rs we'll us the tourists ut the
Worlds Fair, will DO surprised by the
exhibit this city will mako Mt both
places of the excellent work It's manual
training schools arc doing. Educators
generally so well understand the
superiority of the st Louis schools OF
this kind that one fifth OF the entire
space reserved at the Worlds Fair for
this sort of exhibits has been given to
our manual training men, and they
will make much more complete show
of the work at the local Exposition
The manual training classes hero arc
attended by the sons of the very
wcalthiest parents, and many u young
heir TO fortune, coming out of the
n ,,tV To- 1,i To-
nblo TO build his Own house as his
father is to pay for 1t.
Signal Officer Harmon Is II man OF
very original ideas, and all which he
has put into operation in tho weather
Office here have proved to be OF
great advantage to the people living
in the country, 1t is the farmers
whom the Observer wants 10 benefit
He was the first to send out through
the country tho weather signals by
Whistles of the mills in the country
that warned the farmer of approaching
changes. He has just begun to collect
weekly reports from all the great
wheat.growing sections of the West,
showing how the weather il affecting
the wheat in those parts. These re-
ports he scnds out free TO the small
country towns and the farmers nre
thus kept advised OF the crop pros.
poets quiclsly and satisfactorily. II
snow is hurting the wheat in the
Northwest, and is coming this way,
the farmer learns OF it two or three
days before 1t gets to his fields,