The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-06-03
STILL FIGHTING SMOKE.
st. Louis Getting Rid of an Oid-T!me
MISUNDERSTANDING OF western hanks.


misunderstanding of Western Banks.
ST.. LOUIS, May 2o.--The agitation
against smoke has proved n great sue
cess in st. Louis and 1t is now evil
dent that consuming devices will be
IN use generally within few months.
Nearly two thousand citizens have
joined the local Smoke Abatement AS
ISOLATION and some of the worst Of
tenders are included in these. The
Willingness expressed on all hands to"
put in understanding devices Is so
great, and SO many are going TO do
the work this summer, that by the,
time the fall festivity season opens;
there will be comparatively little
smoke in the business section of the
city and one very unsatisfactory
feature of most advertising cities will
disappear entirely.
The action OF the ST. Louis banks in
contributing some -, COO, 600 in gold TO
assist in restoring the traditional
hundred millions, and the ease with
which ten times the amount could
have been contributed had il been
needed, has calico attention to the
very conservative manner in which the
| banks of st. Louis are run. While
| the bank clcaripgs have been doub
| ling themselves the number of banks
| has increased but slightly. Hence
nearly all the financial institutions
are old established and the business
| they are transacting is of most
profitable character Most of them
have been through no less than three
periods of discouraging, financial de-
! preston and have wcathercd the
storms without an effort. 1t is many
| years since there was run on bank
in st. Louis and such an event is
really wei nigh impossible.
The Travellers Protective Associa-
ton, whose national president re.
sides in St Louis, is arranging for a
remarkable celebration in Chicago on
June TO- after the holding of the
| Peoria convention. For all practical
purposes June 10 will be Il. l.. A. day
at the Worlds Fair, and several thou
| sand angels of commerce Will be on
| hand on that occasion. Mr.. Geo. >,
Mctirew. who has been national presi'
dent for several successive wears, has
definitely declined To serve again ow,
ing to the pressure of business engage
ments, and one of the important events
at the convention WIZ be the selection
of his successor.
Last year there was a lad working
in a florists shop here who thought he
was not getting on fast enough II
occurred to him that many people o.
small means would he willing to pay
trihe to have small bouquets de.
livered to them every day for theil
dinner table. He spoke to his EN-.
ployer about it, and was Sneefed at.
Me got friend to lend him enough
money to send out several thousand
circulars, choosing his names judi
ciously, and enclosed postal cards in
each circular for an answer. lie got
so many encouraging respo uses that
he felt justified in plunging into bust
ness for himself, and left hisemployer
Now, little over twelve months
since he sent out his first circulars, he
, is letting the contracts for store ant
hot house which will cost him severa
thousand dollars. His idea was &
good one, and he SAYS that he send!
ont several hundred bouquets day
charging from twenty-five cents to tel
= dollars apiece for them,
The plans for the free bath-houSc
: which are to he built this spring il
time to be used this summer have beer
completed by the architects of th'
. Eoard Of Public improvements Their,
viii be three. one in South 81. Louis
one in the center of the city and th'
other in North IT. Louis. The cost .
| the three is to be Sl35. 900. They vii
not be put on the river, but will bC
away ON il some distance, and the
water will come from the city water
works.