The state herald., 1893-02-24
BUILDERS in CONVENTION.

BUILDERS IN CONVENTION.
Important National Gathering In S.
Louis-Piaus for the Fall
Exposition.
ST. LOUIS, Feb 1.-THE convention
OF builders, which has been in session
here this week, has been closely
watched by architects oil over the
country. Tho convention brought
something like q thousand people to
the city who were interested In archi-
lecture and building All OF the dele
gates spent an afternoon going through
the big business buildings Of st. Louis,
and examining from carriages, as they
rode along tho boulevards. the hand
soonest private residences Of the city.
The convention took very strong
ground against the National policy OF
trusting important public work in the
hands Of political architects" us
Charles Dudley Warner calls them in
his article on the Worlds Fair build
ings in Harper's, protesting that it en-
couraged extravaganza, and gave the
country ugly and unworthy govern
ment buildings.
For some time work has been stopped
on the comprehensive system Of boule-
wards planned for the city last year,
and 1t has required legisl alton
IN additional taxation Of
tbo SSaperty that would DO benefited
70 aet The %Qney to carry out tho
plans, Tho prossrsy owners affected
were willing cuoughsso pay the small
extra cost the boulevard butldiags
would have imposed on them, but the
law would not allow the tax to be coll
lectcd, and 30 in this legislature the
unique spectacle was presented OF the
owners of land begging for the
imposition Of greater tax on their
ground In order that its value might
be increased. Now, the money being
secured, work on the new hobleyards
will be pushed vigorously rs soon us
spring fairly opens, and by the end OF
summer it will be possible for n man to
drive over smooth asphalt and tclford
paving for twenty miles whtheut get.
ting out OF the city,
The managers OF the st. LOUIS Expo.
sitien have just made an arrangement
with the Worlds Fair directors by
which the art gallery of the grcut ex.
hibition hero will get the benefit VI
the finest of the pictures seht To the
Fair by painters In this country and
ctEers. Paintings will be exchanged
between st. Louis and the gallery o.
the Worlds Fair. The arrangement is
a very costly one TO the exposition, bu,
it promises much better results than
the old way OF borrowing few pict.
urcs here and there from private gal,
lerics In different cities, aud then
filling up the rest OF the space with
paintings that were for sale by the
artists. by the new plan visitors 10
the Exposition here Will be able to sec
the very best works Of art from the
galleries Of NIL the great cities OF the
United States rs well as Europe.
From this time till the end OF the
year, the Health Department Of the
city aud the Citizens Sanitary Com.
mi,tcc will spend over half million
dollars in carrying out the sanitary
plans that were made last year. 1t Is
intended to make the streets, alley,
and vacant lots Of the city so clean
that not only will 1t be impossible for
any epidemic disease to break out herr
during the summer and fall but more
than that the Intelligence Of the
wholesome condition of the city, going
abroad, will rcassure timid people who
have not yet recovered from the
cholera scare Of last season in New
York, and will convince them that in
St Louis they will DO protected agains,
any sort Of danger TO their health. The
widest publicity Is to DO given to thi.
sanitary campaign, md 1t will be sure
to leave St Louis the best guarded cits
in the country in tho event that any
plague from foreign shores comes this
way