Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-02-23
A oITY,s oooD FORTUNE.
IT. Louis About to Receive Million
Dollars from Unusual Rourcoa-

Educational Advance.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 10.-Before the end
OF the year st, Louis will have n
million dollars which it will not know
how to spend, The sale OF the
old city hall, and It's site,
which will be abandoned by all the
city offices this summer for the great
building in Washington Park, has
been decided on, and the Union Mar
ket, ugly but valuable, will follow
The two are worth together consider
Gbly over a million dollars, but part
of the money obtained by their sale
will have to be spent in buying an
other market place for the hucksters.
City officials generally believe that
This money should be spent in a lump,
but there have been dozen ways pro-
posed Of spending it The city may
build u conduit system; it may run
another great sewer along the bed of
the River DIES Peres, or it may estab-
lish free baths, The money will be
enough for one of these objects but
not all
ST. Louis was the first city in the
United States that took from Germany
the plan Of teaching children in kim
dergartens and from here the idea
spread all over the country. This
whole week has been devoted by the
teachers of the city to the celebration
of the twentieth anniversary of the
opening of the kindergarten here. Ex-
hibitions of kindergarten work were
given in some of the schools each day,
and there were several lectures and
essays on the system, among them
one by Prof. William 7. Harris, the
first superintendent of public schools
here, and after that one of the teachers
in the famous Concord School of Phil
osophy.
Visitors to the St. Louis Exposition
this year, as we'll as the tourists at the
Worlds Fair, will be surprised by the
exhibit this city will make at both
places of the excellent work its manual
training schools are doing. Educators
generally 80 we'll understand the
superiority of the St Louis schools of
this kind that one-fifth of the entire
space reserved at the Worlds Fair for
this sort of exhibits has been given to
our manual training men, and they
will make q much more complete show
of the work at the local Exposition.
The manual training classes here are
attended by the sons of the very
wealthiest parents, and many a young
heir to q fortune, coming out of the
University with his degree, is as well
able to build his own house as his
father is to pay for it.
Signal Officer Harmon is man of
very original ideas, and all which he
has put into operation in the weather
Office here have proved to be of
great advantage toOthe people living
in the country. 1t is the farmers
whom the Observer wants to benefit
He was the first to send out through
the country the weather signals by
whistles of the mills in the country
that warned the farmer of approaching
changes. He has just begun to collect
weekly reports from all the great
wheat-growing sections of the West,
showing how the weather is affecting
the wheat in those parts. These re-
ports he sends out free to the small
country towns and the farmers are
thus kept advised of Sthe crop pros
poets quickly and satisfactorily. If
snow is hurting the wheat Gin the
Northwest, and is coming this way,
the farmer learns ,of it two Or three
days before it gets to his fields.