The Bessemer indicator., 1893-01-14
OUR sr. LOUIS Lsrrr,
wor.. fear-rhs New w.t.,
WORKS Conduit compl.,.d-.
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, o"'h OF Year-rh.
Conduit compl.,.d-.
} s- "usicai Success.
OF. LOUIS, No. Jan. ,oo.
tween years of census-taL;.t tosd.-Be
ponuIo .oarate t;aa information about h. th.
bette .ton tuons OF city can get it muns ,ns
taY a.,i rom the reports of the nn. uca
list. ''i5ectors ps than from the ro,;s ma;er-
m.nt teopie cannot dodge III. bo..ns .n
t.yas W u water tax as thew cav p1y
~ ss ~ On real and personal nrnaa a .he
10 sh. e water tax is not paid The y..
in aa on promptly. Water is nass
oa.y very house, and the rece;n. asea
u.e"se r. IN u steady ratio the
poppia =. tion. The water colL><tions of
oe. Louis went over thoso,f the year
preceding in 1899 by >More than
i"arter OF milliopSdollars, and this
ls interpreted by the statisticians to
last ah Iai aliat the Pity has gained in the
-''' ye't aoooi=.- hundred thousand
people, who live IN dwei,,p...na s,nu
their taxes These figures, too. ars
borne out by the reports for last wear
from other departments whose work
increases with the population. The
building of new houses last year put
twenty-three million dollars in the
pockets of mechanics, and demanded
the lighting of many more miles of
streets by electricity. On the last day
OF the year the city paid bills for the
lighting of 44s miles of streets and
alleys.
Water Commissioner Holman made
the city New Years gift by complet-
ing the million dollar conduit which
is to conduct the water from the river
to tho pumping engines of the new
water-works. This conduit was the
most difficult and important part of
the whole system. 1t was begun two
years ago, and work on it has been
going on, night and day, ever since. 1t
will easily carry the one hundred and
fifty million gallons of water day
which the new engines are to pump
The building of the conduit was the
engineering feat of the work, and its
completion relieves the Commissioner
of all anxiety. by next fall, when the
sight-saers begin to arrive for the fes-
tivities here, Il drive over the Broad
way Boul evard to the Chain of Rocks,
where the new works are, will be n
part of every tourists plan.
Nobody can tell whether or not the
stories are true about the attempt of
an eastern syndicate to buy all the
street railways in ST. Louis, but the
dealers in the bonds of the roads, who
know their financial condition, say
that the company that gets the lines
will have to pay at least fifty million
dollars to acquire the control The
four systems of street railways in this
city cover 600 miles of streets, and
most of the lines are run by electricity:
moreover, everyone OF them is paying
good dividends. The rapidity and
cheapncss of the service is not coualled
by the roads of any city in the coun-
try, and the people feel no grievance
that might interest them in clamoring
for change. So, the consolidating
movement is looked on generally with
indifference. So far as anyone can see
now, the patrons of the roads would
be largely tho gamers by the change,
as there would be established, almost
necessarily, thorough system OF
transfer tickets all over the city, by
which passenger might ride twenty
or thirty miles r.. a nickel.