The state herald., 1893-02-17
A cIrY,s coon FORTUNE.
~ Louis About to Receive = Million
Dollars from UnusuAl sourccs-

S~ouss noous - AecoiFc hAuho'
Dollars from Uuusuai sources-
Educational Advance.
ST. Lofts, Feb. 10.-Before the, end
OF tho year St. Louis will have q
million dollars WHICH II viii 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 a million dollars, but part
of the money obtained by their sale
will have to be spent in buying an
other market place for the huclkstcrs.
City officials generally believe that
this money should BIO spent in lump,
but there have been dozen ways pro-
posed Of spending it The city may
build n conduit system; it may run
another great sewer along the bed OF
the River des Peres, or 1t may estab.
lish free baths. The money will be
enough for one OF these objects but
not I'LL.
st. Louis was the first city in the
United States that took from Germany
the plan OF teaching children In kin.
dergaft6ns and from here the idea
spread all over tho country. This
whole week has been devoted by the
teachers Of the city to tho celebration
of the twentieth anniversary OF the
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 the system, among them
one by Prof. William T. Harris, the
first 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, us well as the tourists Mt the
Worlds Fair, will be surprised BY the
exhibit this city will make ut both
places of tho excellent work it's manual
training schools IRE doing. Educators
generally SO well understand the
superiority OF the st. Louis schools OF
this kind that one fifth of the entire
space reserved Mt the Worlds Fair for
this sort Of exhibits has been given &c
our manual training men, and they
will make much more complete show
of the work at the local Exposition.
The manual training Glasses here nrc
attended by the sons of the very
wealthiest parents, and many young
heir to fortune, coming out Of the
University with his degree, Is as well
able to build his own house us hi.
father is to pay for it.
Signal Officer Harmon is man OF
very original ideas, and all which he
has put into operation in the weather
office here have proved TO be oil
great advantage to the people living
In the country. 1t is the fHrmers
whom the Observer wants to benefit
lie 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. lie has just begun to collcc,
weekly reports from all the grea,
""Sas s'oN'hs beStious VI tnc west
showing how the weather Is affecting
the wheat in those parts. These re
ports he sends out free to the small
country towns and the farmers arc
Illus kept advised of the crop pros
poets quickly and satisfactorily. II
NOW is hurting the wheat in tho
Northwest, and is coming this way
the farTsr learns OF IL two or thre,
days before II gets to his fields