Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29
BUILDERS IN CONVENTION,
Important National dasA.rlnx :.
Louis-PianG for the FAil

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Exposition.
ST LouIs, Feb 1.-THE eonyent,ou
OF builders, which has been In sessio.
here this week, has been closs,-
watched by architects all over ~.
country. Tie convention bror.hs
something like n thousand peonle \.
the city who were interested In arebi,
lecture and building All OF the az.
gates spent an afternoon going through
the big business buildings of 81. Loni,
and examining from carriages, as thsy
rode along the boulevards, the mana.
soonest private residences Of the eitv
The convention took very stror-
ground against tho National policy ~
trusting important public work n ~.
hands OF political architects" ~
Charles Dudley Warner calls them \.
his article on tho Worlds Fair buIld.
ings in HarpePs, protesting that il en-.
eouraged extravaganza. and gave IN.
country ugly and unworthy govern.
ment buildings.
For some time work has been stoppsd
on the comprehensive system Of boals.
wards planned for the city last year
and IL has required legisiasloa
authorizing an additional taxation Of
the property that would 30 benefited
to get the money to carry out the
plans The property owners affected
were willing enough 70 pay the small
extra coat the boulevard building
would have imposed on them, but The
law would not allow the tax 10 be co.,
leeted, and 80 in this legislature The
unique spectacle was presented OF the
owners Of land begging for the
impoaitlon OF a greater tax on their
ground Ia order that its value might
be increased. Now. the money being
secured. work ON the new bouleyards
viii DO pushed vigorously "a soon "a
spring fairly opens aud BY the end OF
summer IL will be possible for .aan 10
drive over smooth asphalt aad telford
paving for twenty miles without get.
ting out Of the city.
The managers Of the 81 Louis Expo.
sltion have just made an arrangement
with the Worlds Fair directors By
which the art gallery o. the great sr-
hibition here will get the benef. o.
the finest Of The pictures sent 70 no
Fair by painters in this country and
others Paintings will 30 exchanged
between ST. Louis and the gallery %
tho Worlds Fair. The arrangement Is
very eoatly one 20 the eN position bns
Il promises much better results than
the old way 81 borrowing few pet-
urea here and there from private gal
leriea in diifsrent citics. AMI thea
filing up the rcst Of the space with
paintings that were for aaio By tho
artists BY the new plan visitors 70
the Exposition here will be abba 70 sec
the very best works Of art from tho
galleries Of all the great cities OF tho
United States ~ vol az Europe.
From this time til the eud % The
year, the Health Department % tho
city and tho Citizens Sanitary Com.
mittos will spend over half a million
dollars In carrying out tho sanitary
plans that were made last year. iils
intended TO make the streets. alleys
and vacant lots OF the city 40 clean
that not only viii Il be impossible Tor
any epidemic disease % break out here
during tho summer and fall, but more
than that the Intelligence Of the
wholesome condition Of the eity,EoiHg
abroad. will rcassure timid people who
have not yot recovered from the
cholera scare Of last season in New
York, and will convince them that In
st. Louis they will be protected against
any sort % danger 70 their health. Tho
widest publicity il 10 be given 20 this
sanitary campaign, and u will be sure
to leave 81 Louis the best guarded city
in the country, in the event that any
plague from foreign shores comes this
way.