The Lamar register., 1893-02-25
BUILDERS in coNvEnrion.
Important Nationai Gathering In 81
Louia--Pians for the Fall
r~rr.ltIon

Expedition
ST. LOUIS, Feb 1.-THE convention
of builders, which has been in session
here this week. has been closely
watched by architects all over the
country. The conventica brought
something like thousand people tc
the city who were interested in arehi-
lecture and building All of the dele
gates spent an afternoon going through
the big business buildings of St LOUIS
and examining from carriages, as they
rode along the boulevards. the hand
soonest private residences of the city
The convention took very strong
ground against the National policy OF
trusting important public work IN the
hands of political architects, as
Charles Dudley Warner calls them IN
his article on the Worlds Fair build
ings in Harper's, protesting that Il Gu
couraged extravaganza, and gave the
country ugly and unworthy govern
ment buildings.
For some time work has been stopped
en- the comprehensive system OF eoule-
wards planned for the city last year,
and it has required legislation
authorizing an additional taxation OF
the property that would be benefited
to get the money to carry out the
plans The property owners affected
were willing enough to pay the small
extra cost the boulevard building
would have imposed on them. but the
law would not allow the tax 10 be col
lectcd, and SO in this legislature the
unique spectacle was presented OF the
ha
imposition of greater tax on their
ground in order that its value might
be increased. Now. the money being
secured. work on the new boulevards
will be pushed vigorously as soon As
spring fairly opens, and By the end OF
summer it will be possible for a man 10
drive over smooth asphalt and tcifora
paving for twenty miles without get
ting out OF the city.
The managers of the St LOUIS Expo
sition have just made m arrangement
with the Worlds Fair directors By
which the art gallery OF tho great eE-
hibition here will get the benefit o;
the finest OF the pictures sent TO the
Fair by painters in this country and
others Paintings will be exchanged
the Worlds Fair. The arrangement i
very costly one TO the exposition, but
it promises much better results than
tho old way of borrowing . few piei-
ures here and there from private gal
leries in different cities, and then
filling up the rest OF the space with
paintings that were for sale By the
artists by the new plan visitors 70
the Exposition here will be able to sec
the very best works Of art frosa the
galleries of ali the great cities Of Tie
United States as well as Europe
From this time till the cad of the
year, the Health Department OF tho
city and the Citizens Sanitary Com
mittee will spend over half million
dollars in carrying ont the sanitary
plans that were made last year. /; Is
intended to make tho streets. alters
and vacant lots of the city 80 clean
that not only will il be Impossible for
any epidemic disease TO break ou; here
during the summer and fall. but more
than that the intelligence of tn.
wholesome condition Of the city, going
abroad, will reASsure ;iusid people who
have not yet recovered from the
sholera scare Of last season in New
York, and will convince them that IN
St Louis they VIII be protected against
any sort OF danger TO their health The
widest publicity is TO be gwen TO this
sanitary campaign. and 1t will be sure
TO leave St Louis the best guarded city
IN the country, in the event that any
plague from foreign shores comes this
way
..DENyER HEST soar.