Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-04-27
THE ST. LOUIS CARNIVAL.
Arrangements Completed For the Fall
Season Of This Year-Tho Beer


ST. LOUIS, April 24.-The carnival
season for 1898 has been practically
inaugurated by a series of meetings OF
the Autumnal Festivities Association
TO complete plans and decide as TO tie
sums to be set aside for Examinations
and other attractions out of the million
dollar fund subscribed by citizens and
local corporations. Arrangements
have been made with the electric light
companies to furnish power for mag.
nifcent electrical display and there
will be number of Colum.
bian set pieces most magnifi-
cent and costly in. charac-
ter. All the principal streets will also
be illuminated by means of electricity
and also gas, and it is also contem-
plated to have series of moving cleo
trical effects, taking advantage of the
trolley wires of the countless electric
railroads in the city. The illumina-
tons will be the most costly yet at
tempted, and will be held during the
months of September and October.
The Exposition will open for its tenth
season early in September and continue
for forty days. The Yelled Prophet
will hold his parade and ball on the
second of October, during which week
the Agricultural Fair will be held 1t
is expected that thousands of visitors
to the Worlds Fair will come on to
st. Louis every day during the sum-
mer and fall.
The beer war is over. The attempt
to create diversion of trade by cut
ting the price in half has not proved a
success, and no one regrets greatly the
return to what are regarded as living
rates. The enormous bre weries in the
South End did not meet the cut and
claimed that the falling off in business
SO far as they were concerned was en-
tircly nominal. However this may be,
the relations between the owners of
the various breweries seem to be very
friendly and an immense volume Of
business is being transacted. The
same is true generally of almost all
manufacturers in the city, long hours
and continual working at hard pressure
being common.
Most of the candidates who were
pledged to help the wheelmen to i'm
prove the streets of the city and in
other ways assist bicycling were
elected. The wheelmen's movement
was a novel one in politics, but it car
ried about three thousand votes with
it, and was altogether so successful
that the political organization Will be
kept up. Among the first things that
the wheelmen will ask from the friends
be race track in Forest Park. There
is now speeding track there for trot-
ting and pacing horses, but it is con-
LII l. 4
GERS do not sympathize with the wheel
men, and do not allow them to use it.
The result of their application will be
either that they get one of the fastest
tracks in the country built in the PARK
for the exclusive use of bicycles or the
horsemen will be ordered to share the
present track with them.
The Assemblymen of the city have
decided not to appropriate the S25, 900
that was wanted to make statue of
Gen. Sherman for the main entrance
Of the new City Hall. This was dis
to the friends of the
but it will not result in the
plans being abandoned. The Grand
Army men have taken up the matter
and the statue will now be paid for by
private subscription. There is not
single equestrian statue among the
many that decorate the parks and pub
lie places of the city, and there are
several good sculptors here who want
10 try their hands at one. The city
was asked to appropriate n much
smaller sum than statues of this kind
cost usually. If the statue is erected
through a subscription it will be a
much finer one and will cost probably
$50. 600.