Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-29
THE ST. LOUIS CARNIVAL.
Arrangements Completed for the Fall
Season of This Year-The Beer


Season of This Year-The Beer
War Ended.
ST. LOUIS, April A-The carnival season
for 1893 has been practically inaugurated by
a series of meetings.of the Autumnal Festiv-
tiles association to complete plans and de-
eide as to the sums to be set aside for illumi-
nations 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 magnificent electrical
display and there will be a number of Col
umbian set pieces most magnificent and
costly in character. All the principal streets
will also be illuminated by means of cleo
tricity and also gas, and it is also contem-
plated to have series of moving electrical
effects, taking advantage of the trolley wires
of the countless electric railroads in the city.
The illumlnations will be the most costly
yet attempted, 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 pa
rade and ball on the second of October, dur
ing which week the Agricultural fair will be
held. It is expected that thousands of vlsl-
tors to the worlds fair will come on to st.
Louis every day during the summer and fall.
The beer war is over. The attempt to
create a diversion of trade by cutting 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
breweries in the South End did not meet
the cut and claimed that the falling off in
business so far as they we're concerned was
entirely nominal. However this may be,
the relations between the owners of the varl-
GUS 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 pres
sure being common.
Most of the candidates who were pledged
to help the wheelmen to improve the streets
of the city and in other ways assist bicycling
were elected. The wheelmen's movement
was a novel one IL politics. but it carried
about 5000 votes with 1t, 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
whom they have helped to elect will be a
race track in Forest Park. There is now a
speeding track there for trottinR and pacing
horses, but it is controlled by an association
whose officers do not sympathlze with the
and do not allow them to use it.
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that they get one of the fastest tracks IN the
built in the park for the exclusive
use of bicycles or the horsemen will be Or
dered to share the present track With them.
The assem- blymen of the city have decided
not to appropriate the $4,000 that was
wanted to make statue of General sher-
man for the main entrance of the new city
hall. This was disappointment to the
friends of the movement, but it will not re-
suit in the plans being abandoned. The |
Grand Army men have taken up the matter |
and the statue will now be paid for by prl- |
vate subscription. There is not a single |
equestrian statue among the many that deco |
rate the parks and public places of the city, |
and there are several good sculptors here |
who want to try their hands at one. The |
city was asked to appropriate much smaller |
sum than statues of this kind cost usually. |
If the statue is erected through subsc1p- |
ton it will be a much finer one and will cost |
probably $50 900.