The Bessemer indicator., 1893-02-18
A cIrY's coon FORTUNE.
~ Louis About to Receive . Million
Dollars from Unusual Sources-
Educational Advance,

ST. LOUIS, Feb. l0.-Beforc the end
of the year st. Louis will have Il
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 great
building in Washington Park, has
been decided on, and the Union Mar
lket, ugly but valuable, will follow.
The two are worth together consider.
ably over a million dollars, but part
of the money obtained by their sale
will have to be spent in buying AN
other market place for the huclIsters.
City officials generally believe that
this money should be spent in lump
but there have been Il dozen ways pro-
posed of spending it Tho city may
build n conduit system; it may run
another great sewer along the bed Of
the River des Pcrcs, or it may estub'
lish free baths. The money will be
enough for one of these objects bnt
not all.
st. Louis was the first city in the
United States that took from Germany
the plan OF teaching children in kin
dergartens and from here the idea
spread all over the country. This
whole wccl, has bcch devoted by the
teachers of the city to the celebration
of the twentieth anniversary OF the
opening of the kindergarten here. Ex
hibitions of kindergarten WORK were
given in some of the schools each day,
and there were several lectures and
ESSAYS on III, system, among them
one by Prof. William 4. 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 we'll as the tourists Mt the
Worlds Fair, will be surprised by the
exhibit this city will make at both
places of the excellent work its manual
training schools are doing. Educators
generally SO well understand the
superiority of the st. Louis schools of
this kind that one-iifth of the entire
space reserved at the Worlds Fair for
this sort of exhibits has been given 10
our manual training men, and they
will make much more complete show
of the work at the local Exposition.
The manual training clusses here arc
attended by the sons Of the very
wcalthicst parents, and many young
heir to fortune, coming out OF the
University with his degree, is as well
able to bnild his own house as his
father is to pay for it.
Signal Officer IIammon is 4 man of
very original ideas, and all which he
has put into operation in the weather
office here have proved to be of
| great advantage to the people living
in the country. 1t is the farmers
whom the Observer wants to benefit
lie was the first to send out through
the country the weather signals by
histlcs of the mills in the country
that warned the farmer OF approaching
changes. He has just begun TO collect
wcc,;ly reports from all the great
wheat-erowing sections of the West,
showing how the weather is affecting
the wheat in those parts. These re-
ports he sends out free to the small
country towns and the farmers arc
thus kept advised Of the crop pros
poets quickly and satisfactorily. II
snow is hurting the wheat In the
Northwest, and is coming this way,
the farmer learns of it two or three
days before it gets to his fields