Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-03-03
BUILDERS IN CONVENTION.
Important National Gathering In 81
Louis-Pians for the Fall
Exnosftiou.

important National Gathering IN ."
Louis-Pians for the Fail
Expedition.
ST. Louis, Feb 1.-THE convention
OF builders, which has been in session
here this week, has been closely
watched by architects all over the
country. The convention brought
something like a thousand people to
the city who were interested in archi-
lecture and building All of the dele
gates spent an afternoon going through
the big business buildings of St. Louis,
and examining from carriages, as they
rode along the boulevards. the hand
soonest private residences of the city.
The convention took very strong
ground against the National policy OF
trusting important public work in the
hands of political architects" as
Charles Dudley Warner calls them in
his article on the Worlds Fair build
ings in Harper's, protesting that it en-
couraged extravaganza, and gave the
country ugly and unworthy govern
ment buildings.
For some time work has been stopped
on the comprehensive system of boule-
wards planned for the city last year,
and it has required legislation
authorizing an additional taxation OF
the property that would be benefited
to get the money to carry out the
plans. The property owners affected
were willing enough to pay the small
extra cost the boulevard building
would have imposed on them, but the
law would not allow the tax to be col
lected, and so in this legislature the
unique spectacle was presented of the
owners of land begging for the
imposition of Il greater tax on their
ground in order that its value might
be increased. Now, the money being
secured, work on the new boulevards
will be pushed vigorously as soon MS
spring fairly opens, and by the end Of
summer it will be possible for man to
drive over smooth asphalt and telford
paving for twenty miles without get
ting out of the city.
The managers of the St Louis Expo
sition have just made an arrangement
with the Worlds Fair directors by
which the art gallery of the great ex-
hibition here will get the benefit OF
the finest of the pictures sent to the
Fair by painters in this country and
others. Paintings will be exchanged
between ST. Louis and the gallery 0!
the World Fair. The arrangement is
a very costly one to the exposition. but
it promises much better results thar
the old way of borrowing a few pict
ures here and there from private gal
leries in different cities, and ther
filling up the rest of the space will
paintings that were for sale by tn,
artists. BY the new plan visitors t,
the Exposition here will be able to Sc,
the very best works of art from tn,
galleries of all the great cities Of thu
United States as well as Europe.
From this time till the end of tn,
year. the Health Department of tn
city and the Citizens Sanitary Com
mittee will spend over half million
dollars in carrying out the sanitar,
plans that were made last year. 1t i
intended to make the streets, alley
and vacant lots of the city so cleai
that not only will it be impossible TO
any epidemic disease to break out her
during the summer and fall, but NOR
than that, the intelligence of tn
wholesome condition of the city, goin
abroad, will reassure timid people VIII
have not yet recovered from tn
cholera scare of last season in Ne,
York, and will convince them that i
st. Louis they will be protected agains
any sort of danger to their health. TIL
widest publicity is to be given to thi
sanitary campaign, and it will be sur
to leave St Louis the best guarded cit
in the country, in the event that an
plague from foreign shores comes tn
way.