The Globe-republican., 1893-03-03
A WAR AGAINST SMOKE.

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st. Louis Grappllne With the Snak.
| Nuisance-A New Bridge Across
| the Mississippi.
| ST. Louis, Feb. 24.-In a group Of
business men smoking cigars after din
ner at the Mercantile club the other
afternoon, the statement was made by
manufacturer that the city would
spend fully quarter Of a million dol
lars in testing smoke-preventing de-
vices this year. He meant. of course,
| the manufacturers Of the city who have
| Joined the club which intends to clear
! the air of the smoke. This club got I'm
the bills organizing the city crusade
against the smoke nuisance, which the
Mayor has just signed. The laws es
tablish bureau with inspectors, whose
duty it is to prosecute those who WIN
not use smoke preventing devices On
their furnaces. A popularity of the
, law that distinguishes it from those
proposed in other cities is that any in
ventor can have his device tested and
its merit decided upon by a board al
experts paid by the city. The club
hopes to rid the city of half of it, smoke
cloud by the beginning Of summer.
Ever since the Merchants briS1Re
was completed it has been seen that
st. Louis would have to have another
one to cross the Mississippi for the
special use of foot passengers and
vehicles. The Eads bridge built mp
East st. Louis, and the Merchants-
bridge made Madison and Venice grow
into fiourishing lows. The people Of
these two towns cannot get to s.,
Louis on foot or by vehicles. They
must use the regular trains Of the Mer>
chants Terminal Company, or wait for,
slow ferry-boats. They want a bridga
over which electric cars can run, and
people can walk. The bill now before
Congress provides for this kind Of q.
bridge, which is to be built by St,
Louis men at a cost of about sos, O004
Mayor Noonan has just signed bill
that will give st. Louis another elec-
trio street railway before the crowds
begin to fill the city for the
Fall Festivities. The road win
run along Grand Avenue, one
of the widest and most important resi-
dence throughfares of the city. 1t will
enable one to ride from the cemeteries,
to the Grand Avenue viaduct, and
across that to Tower Grove Park. The
road will cost half million dollars.
and will be built entirely by St. Louis
capital.
The st. Louis Turner societies are
noted all over the United States for Their
gymnasts. There are six turn halls in
the city, and the membership of the
societies is over 10000. About five
are being drilled for exhibitions at the
Worlds Fair. The corps will include
all the young athletes who participate
in the events on the Turner nights at
the st. Louis exposition. and there will
be besides, a specially drilled body OF
q hundred men or so who are known
among the Turner's everywhere
as prize-winners in the NATIONAL
competitions. The corps will go to the
Worlds Fair prepared to issue and re-
ceive challenges for all sorts of feats of
strength and skill. and they hope to
engage in competition with Turner'S
from Germany.
Representatives of many of the big
city dailies of the east we're in Topeka
during the scrap. Some remain and all
are still represented.
"The good order that wa kept in the
city last week was something remark
able" said Charles Spencer, late mem-
Der of the board of police commission
ers. "All during the week a large pro-
portion of the citizens, and many Of
them undesirable citizens, have been
armed, and yet nobody was hurt. This
could not have been done had there
been a saloon in the town. A drunken
man with a gun is always dangerous,
and some Of the deputy sheriffs or else
a member Of the militia would have
been certain to get drunk and make a
row, and a riot only needed such a
start"
Rev. John d. Knox has deposited
with the State Historical society a book
containing financial accounts of the
Kansas Freedman's Relief association,
1S79-1SS1. This is large account
book containing si1tv-five pages, show
ing brief entries of receipts and dis
bursements. Mr.. Knox says there were
other books and many papers connected
with the transactions of that relief
association which were in the hands of
other persons and which should be
brought into the collections of the his
torical society, as containing full his
tory Of the manner in which the people
of Kansas took care of the colored e1-
odus people who came in during that
period.