The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-04-29
AN ELECTRIC rRlcvcr,
The storise battery Problem Rohn..
Half Its Dimcuities--st. Loo,,


Happenings.
ST. Louis. Mo-, March 3l.-A tr.
went spinning over the bouleynrdsycs|
fine afternoon this week, and NV.
body who saw it turned to look ~
curiously. 1t had no pedals, and -.
riders feet were at rest, having po,s
ing to do with its propulsion, but wS
that exception it was like all tricvc,aa
The young man riding it was n
chanlc employed in large bicycls %
Establishment, and the storage BAIT.
by which it was propelled he bad
vented himself, improving on one ~.
has been abandoned. He saws tb,,s
has not got his invention to the NOV.
where he can trust 1t to carry hIN
through rough usage. and is carefnI. !
keep his tricycle. on the very smooth.'.
streets, but. he is confident that he INV
have within year battery that vim
stand any kind OF work. If he succeea.
his fortune is made, for every street rail
wa in the country is looking for ths,
very thing.
The question of annexing the srA
urbs of st. Louis to the city proper vii,
be before the people as soon rs M.
campaign is over. There is n stroa.
party in favor of it already, and as M.
plan cannot be consummated MI
course, till majority of the citizens :,
both the town and the suburbs a.
agreed that it is a good one, a cam
paign Of education will be begun ana
carried on till the Legislature mees
again. The city has now over half,
million people, and the suburbsi IL is in
tended to annex have about hundrad
thousand more. Besides the popuI,
lation. the city would gain enormou.
ly in taxable property, and about A..
square miles of territory, while th
jewellers of the suburbs would get N.
publioimprovement especially wat,
supply, and the police protection The,
want.
Architect George r. Mann, who han
in charge the building of the new Oh,
Hall, announces that the roof is on
and several offices will be ready for q,
cupancy by the fall. The Mayor WIN
is to be elected next week will be In
augurated in the present building but
he will move into the new one befor
he has served year of his term. From
an architectural standpoint, this build
ing will be without superior in thu
country. it has been erected by plan
which the city got througha monry
competition among architects at hon.
and abroad. paying several Thousand
dollars for them. and while there has
been no jobbing in the building Their
has also been no false economy. Whes
completed the hall will have cost Ii.
city nearly two million dollars.
There will be several new str, ct rail- Z
way lines built in the city this sum
mer. All of them will be electre
lines, of course. That goes withoa
saying in st. Louis nowadays. One q
the most important of all these willk
the railway betting Forest Park. Tn \
franchise is to be sold at auction b. K
the city, the plan having been pro
posed by municipal engineers. and \
will bring it is expected, fully half
million dollars. Thousands of peopk
go out to the park every day, winter \
and summer. 1t is one of the cityi u
sights. None of them would fsilb
ride around the beautiful forest aitr
the proposed line is built, and railw
men say that the company which ri z
the franchise will easily make es
cent on the half-million investmsl
This will be the first experiment ih
city has made in selling franchises
auction.