The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-27
WINTER IN ST. LOUIS.

Cheap-A Nurse's Good Fortun>
ST. LOUIS. Mo, Jan. 2O.-In two of
the great parks of the city. Lafayette
park and Forest park, skaters, by
thousands, have enjoyed themselves
since New Years Day. The skating
IN each of the parks is equally good,
but there is a social distinction be.
tween those who skate IN LAFAYETTE.
and those who go out to the park, In
Forest park. it was a good-humored
scramble all the time to keep out of the
way of somebody. while in LAFAYETTE.
most OF the skaters know each other.
and the skating goes ON with much
more formality. Some of the fashion
able people gave skating parties in
Lafayette park during the week. In
vitations, lettered inside the picture
OF skate, would be sent out, and two
prizes would be given, one for the best
skater. and the other for the skater
who got the most falls 1t is seldom
that the cold weather ever lasts thi.
long in st. Louis, and the ice concerns
are making the best of it Some of the
companies are cutting fifteen thous-
and tons day. This sounds enor.
nous. but in fact, it is cthe report Ct
only one of the seven ice-harvestin9
svndicates of the city. All of these
say that the price Of ice this summer
will be one-fourth less than it WAS
last season.
Speaking of ice, coal is naturally
suggested. and it is worth while to
say that in every city of the size of st.
Louis. just now. the price of this fuel
is at least one-third higher than it Is
here. One can buy soft coal here at
II cents bushel and anthracite At
S7.25 ton from any coal dealer Com
pare those prices with those that pre-
vail in New York. Chicago, Boston and
Cincinnati, even, and see what an ad.
vantage St Louis has These prices
are to the retail trade; tho wholesale
consumers. Of course. pay much less.
The reason for the low prices is one
that assures the St Louis man thst
his cheap coal can never b made
higher by q combine. The coal capital
hero has tried to control the market.
and failed for natural causes. Within
thirty miles of the city. in this State
and Illinois, there are inexhaustible
beds of csal, SO near the surface that
it takes but little money to mine It.
Farmers frequently strike beds Of coal,
while blowing, sink shafts with
their hired men, and then sell out to q
of miners. New mines are
opened every year by new men, and
the supply is kept up to the demand, so
that there is never any violent Auctua-
ton in the price. In many cities, the
coal bill of tie man of small means
worries him more than ais rent In
St Louis, his coal costs him hardly
more than his street car fare.
The true tales of money made in real
estate in St Louis just now, have
pleasant sound to the ear, like stories
one hears Of fortunes got in mining.
There arc 80 many electric railways
being built in and around tho city that
the man who bought lot last year
Tor homestead finds very likely this
Iear that it Is tso valuable for him to
hold for that purpose, and he sells Il
Ind buys another still further in the
which he will probably find
selling next year for tho sahs
'eason. One instance Of this occurred
% hospital nurse. She had bought
! lot ON time payments for Thousand
lollars. paying $40 month. Her in
ome was thirty and she lived ON less
han twenty. Before she bad paid
300, the Assembly gave a suburban
DAD the right to run by the block
where her lot was. A Spectator
fought her lot for $1,000 cash. He
vii! make money, of course, but she
las got sum of money whose inter-
st will provide for her as long as she
ives Hundreds of similar anecdotes
night be told of people who have
ought suburban property in the Last
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