The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
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OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
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| ST LOUIS, Jan. 1a-"Do you mean to
say that there is rose famine in St.
! LOUISE" asked a young man at flor.
lists this week.
Exactly" 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 q large amount of capital in.
vested in it One florist not long acs
bought tract of fifty acres for his hot
houses But there was q ra9e for
observation-disclosures this year. and tho
florists somehow got the idea that the
demand for roses would fall off. Tho
consequence was that New York had
to be called on to help them supply the
demand, and when the New York
cities were pressed into service.
The web of wires hanging over the
streets OF St Louis will disappear very
soon. Three of the largest of the COM
panies 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 Telephone Com
pany, which owns four-fifths of the
wires. intends to lay a ccndait that
will cost over half a million dollars.
St Louis is about to 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 kaotin 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 as great as the entire
present 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
accomplished gigantic
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 q
mile from its old location, was COM
pleted about the first of the year. Sat-
urday and Sunday books were de-
livered from the old rooms. but q large
force of Librarians and packers were
making things ready for the moving.
morning, the first Of the three
hundred thousand books and valuable
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
to the hour when the formal change
was made 10 the new quarters. The
new library is the most successful free
library in the West, and its building is
not equalled in modern appointments.
by any in the East. except the Drexel
institute in Philadelphia
The exhenses Of the supreme court
Ire about $50, 900 year.
State Bank Commissioner Charles F.
Johnson issued a call for statement OF
he condition of the banks Of Kansas at
he close Of business January 3, 1893
In Shawnee county bonds there are
S277,968 OF the permanent
'chool fund, 500 of the Normal school |
und, $4,000 of the state university
und, and 81 900 Of the Stormont library
und.
Auditor Hovey issued warrants to the |
reasurers of number of counties for |
he maintenance Of destitute insane
Turing the last quarter of 1892.
.eavenworth county was paid g.
$3.50.
The presidential electors of Kansas
net at the Office Of the attorney general
o select delegate to the electoral col
ege. Walter N. Allen was elected
hartman and Noah Allen secretary.