The Meeker herald., 1893-01-21
QUE ST. LOUIS LITTER
A Singular Rose F.mins-nuryis Ing tn,
Nhes-A Room In Aluminium.

A Singular Rose F.mins-nuryInR tbs
Wires-A Room In AIumInum.
ST LOUIS, Jan. ls.-"Do you mean to
say that there is rose famine in St.
louisP' asised q young man at flor
lists this week.
"kxactiy," was the reply. "Our
flower growers neglected their roses
this year, thinking the people would
want fewer of them, and we have not
begun to supply the demand that came
on us with the holidays"
Flower growing is an extremely
profitable business in this city. and
there is large amount of capital in
vested in it. One florist not long ngo
bought tract OF fifty acres for his hot
houses. But there was rage for
chrysthanthemums this year, and the
florists somehow got the idea that the
demand for roses would fall off. The
consequence was that New York had
TO be called on to help them supply the
demand, and when the New York
florists ran out of roses, other eastern
cities were pressed into service.
The web of wires hanging over the
soon. Three of the largest of the COM
ranics that string wires announce that
they intend to lay conduits and give
up the poles as soon as they can make
the necessary arrangements with the
Board OF Public improvements. BY
doing this they will escape the force
of Senator stones bill, pending in the
Legislature The Bell Telephoue Com
pany, which owns four-fifths OF the
wires, intends to lay a conduit that
will cost over half million dollars.
St. Louis is about % become the CEN
ter of one of the most important manu-
featuring industries in the country.
This is the manufacture of aluminium
from the crude kaolin ore which will
be shipped here from the mines. The
syndicate that is to build the works
here intends to concentrate the alumni
mum trade of the United states in this
city, and announces that the output of
the factory from the first will be
twenty times rs great as the entire
resent production in this country.
That would be an amount larger than
the output of the world, at present
but the enormous capital behind the
new company leaves no room for doubt
that it intends to make its promise
good. ST. Louis has been chosen as
the location for the plant because OF
its geographical position. which will
greatly facilitate the distribution OF
the manufactured aluminium.
The public library of this city sue
cessfuny accomplished II gigantic
undertaking this week The library
has been in its rooms on Chestnut
street for years, and its new building
on Locust street, nearly a quarter OF a
mile from it's old location, was com
pleted about the first OF the year. Sat
urday and Sunday books were de-
livered from the old rooms. but a large
force of librarians and packers were
making things ready for the moving.
Monday morning, the first OF the three
hundred thousand books and valua BILE
documents in the library was carried
over to the new rooms, and since that
time the work has proceeded day and
night Wednesday the new rooms
were opened and patrons Of the library
were served there, the book deliveries
at the old rooms having continued up
10 the hour when the formal change
new library is the most successful tree
library in the West, and its building is
not egualled in modern appointments,
by any in the East, except the Drexel
institute in Philadelehin.