Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-15
TRAVELLERS GREAT DAY.
The r. p. A. Preparing for Worlds
Fair Event of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The r. p. A. Preparing for a Worlds
Fair Event of Magnitude-Buildln
Association Activity.
ST.. LOUIS. Mo-, April 1o-There is
great activity at the headquarters of
the Travellers Protective Association,
as result of the setting aside of June
10 as T. p. A. day at the Worlds Fair.
Mr.. George S. M'Grew, one of the best
known ex-traveling men of st. Louis,
has been President for nearly four
years, but owing to pressure of bust
ness engagements, has announced his
intention to decline denomination this
year, even If the election be made
unanimous as on previous occasions
The National Board are cooperating
with him to make the concluding event
of his administration one of the grand
est in the history of the association.
The annual convention will meet at
Peoria, ILL.,, June 8, z, and s, and the
5000 travelling men will proceed by
special train on the eth to Chicago. On
the 10th they will parade to Jackson
Park In twenty State divisions, each
headed by q hrst-class band. In the
grounds there will be speeches by the
Governors of ten States and a program
OF unique proportions.
The school revenues of st, Louis
have just been increased by 500, 600 a
year through a merchants tax bill
signed by the Governor. The money
into effect plan that will place the
schools of the city far in advance of
those of the other large cities in the
matter of practical education for
youths fitting themselves for their life
work. There is already a famous
manual training school here, but it is
not free, and it has been long desired
by the friends of the public school to
carry out the idea of manual training
in them far enough to give any boy
who wants it a practical knowledge of
the mechanical trades. With this
money that can be done. A system of
free manual training, with special
buildings, will be established early in
the next session of the schools.
The street parades in st. Louis, dur
ing the fall festivities, and in Chicago
at the opening of the Worlds Fair will
be made much more attractive by the
presence of body of cavalry which the
Italians Of this city have organized.
The troop is composed of about 1000 of
the wealthiest young men among the
Italian citizens of st. Louis, and they
are uniformed more pi ;turesquelv than
a hussar, every bit of their equipment
being warlike, however. They carry
light weapons of several kinds. The
trappings of their horses are splendid
and costly, some of the richer riders
having them made of solid silver. All
the men are fine looking fellows, con-
siderably above the middle-height, and
they make striking spectacle on pa
rade. It is the only body of this sort
in this country and they are worth see
ing.
More than three thousand families
in st. Louis are now having homes
built for them by the building associa-
tions, of which there are four hundred
in the city. Their secretaries report
that they have on hand applications
for that many houses of an average
value of 81, 500 apiece. The building
season has just opened here, with the
first clear and sunny days of spring
and the associations are all letting
their contracts. The total value of
these homes will be over four million
dollars, and if they are finished by the
end of the year, as the will probably
be. the whole amount of money spent
in building in the city will nearly
double the figures of last year, which
were about three millions.