Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-28

foot passengers. It is very large,
fine bridge built entirely of iron, except
the stone pillars on which it rests and
the floor. All trains that leave st.
Louis going south or west. from the
Union Depot pass under it.
From here on to the Union Depot,
one can not see much else but cars
standing on side tracks. and the switch
engines moving here and there, putting
cars on one track and taking out others
from some other track-all is hustle
and hustle, and it requires sober, cool
heads to avoid serious accidents.
Passing up 18th street from Union
Depot we see the Four Courts building,
in which is the city Jail, police head
quarters where all criminals of the
city are tried. and the morgue whore
all bodies of drowned people, suicides
and those found dead anywhere are
kept for Identification, or until some
friend or relative claims the body.
Many horrible sights are to be seen
there.
A little farther on is the new city
hall, which has been in the course of
erection for about two years and it will
be another year before it is finished.
1t will have cost about one and half
million dollars, and will be the largest
city hall, with the exception of one, in
the world. The material used in its
construction is granite, brick and iron.
The granite comes from Iron county,
which is well represented here in her
products and people.
| On the southeast corner of 18th and
Olive street stands a large eight story
building, which was built this summer,
and is occupied by the Missouri Glass
Company, and in the show windows is
a magnificent display of all kinds of
glass, china, crockery and earthen-
| ware, in every conceivable design and
color-every thing that is useful and
ornamental. The entire floor is filed
with tables loaded with samples of
their wares, and in the rear of the room
are great piles of them beautifully ar
ranged. Here again is a reminder of
Iron county, as the base and corner
stones, and the double arch over the
corner entrance, are of granite.
In going down Olive street, we pass
mammoth furniture stores with beau
tiful displays OF all kinds of furniture
and house furnishing goods, which will
make you wish you had a little cottage
some where, furnished with some of
those beautiful things, if you haven't
already one. We pass music, flower
and candy stores also.
At Ninth street is the Custom House,
or Government building. IN which is
the post.-otfice and other government
Offices. The building occupies an en-
tire block, and has entrances on each
side. but the main entrance is on Olive
street. /. 1t is four stories high, sur
mounted by a square dome with round
cd shoulders, and is built of grey
granite. In the dome are offices fitted |
up with instruments for forecasting |
the weather, and taking the velocity of
the wind, etc. Underneath the build
ing there is basement three stories
deep.
Directly across the street is the Odd
Fellows building, beautifully finished
with polished granite. The first floor
is occupied by a bank, and the entrance
to the upper stories is through an arch
at the northeast corner into large
vestibule, which is lined on top and
sides with mottled grey marble highly
polished. Beside it is another large
building with a queer looking front,
which is of granite also-some polished,
some dressed and some rough.
A great many old buildings have
been torn down and have been replaced
with fine large ones, many of which
are ten and eleven stories high. One
On the northwest corner of Seventh and
Olive is sixteen stories high-the tall
EST in the city. 1t is to be used as an
)fice building, and has not stick of !
imber in it. All the wood there will I
,e in it when complete will be the cas- {
ngs, doors and Office fixtures. There !
s to be flower garden on top of this !
tructure, but for what purpose can't S
ell. One thing sure, the boys, dogs {
md other s.varmints' won't be able to Y
'et in their work of destruction on it b
cry much. #
On the northwest corner of Sixth
md Olive is Barr's dry goods store, '
7hich is one of the largest retail v
ouses in America, if not in the world.
On the southeast corner is Jaccard's T
swelry store. another immense retail p
ouse. Broadway or Fifth street has v
be finest retail stores of any street in k
he city. b
Going northswe pass Oakes' candy Ist
alace, Aloes. where all kinds of eye Il
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