The Lamar register., 1893-02-18
a clrY.s coon FoRruNe.
St Louis About to Receive y million
Dollars from ususuat Sources


4 DOLLARS from unusual sources
Educational advance.
| ST. LOUIS, Feb. lo.-Before the end
of the year ST. Louis will have q
million dollars which it will not know
how to spend. The sale Of the
old city hall, and its site.
which will be abandoned by all the
city offices this summer for the grea,
building in Washington Park, has
been decided on, and the Union Mar
lset, ugly but valuable, will follow.
The two are worth together consider.
ably over million dollars, but part
of the money obtained by their sale
will have to be spent in buying an
other market place for the huckstcrx
City officials generally believe that
this money should be spent in lump,
but there have been dozen ways pro-
posed of spending it The city ma,
build conduit system; it may run
another great sewer along the bed OF
the River des Percs, or it may es,ab-
lish free baths. The money will hs
enough for one Of these objects tas
not all
st. Louis was the first city in the
United States that took from Germany
the plan of teaching children in kim
iergartens and from here the idea
spread all over the country. This
whole week has been devoted by the
teachers of the city 10 the celebration
Of the twentieth anniversary of thu
opening of the kindergarten here. f.
hibitions of kindergarten work wers
given in some of the schools each day,
aud there were several lectures and
essays on the system among them
one by Prot. William T. 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 well 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,uanual
training schools are doing. Ed.scators
generally so well understand the
superiority of the $. Louis schools of
this kind ihat one-ifth of the entire
space reserved at the Worlds Eair for
this sort os exhibits has been given TO
our manzal training men. and they
will make much more complete show
OF the woels at tho local Exposition
Tho manual traini.g classes here are
attended by the sous of the very
wealthiess parents. and many u roung
heir to = fortune, toming out 81 the
Uliverssts with his. degree. is - well
able to build his own house as his
father i to pay for IL
Signnl officer Hanmon is n man of
very original ideas, and all whilh he
has pat alto operation in the weather
office Aerc have proved 10 ne OF
great advantage TO the people living
in the country. il Is the fzs<mcrs
whom the Observer wants to benefit
He was the first t. send out through
the country the weather signa@S by
" histles of the mills in the csun;ry
that warned the farmer of appronehiug
changes lie has iast began to.eolleci
weekly reports 2rom all the great
wheat-growing sections of the West.
showing how the weather IS azecting
the wheat in those parts Thzse re-
ports he sends out free to the small
country towns and the farzoers are
thus kept advised Of the crop pros
poets quickly aud satisfactorily. II
snow is hurting the wheat in the
Northwest, and is coming this way.
The farmer learns OF it tive or three
/ days before IL gets - his fields