San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-01-27
Our ST. LOUIS LErrnn
a Singular Rose Famine-BarylnS tbs
Nires-A Boom In AlumInum,


Nires-A Doom In AlumInum,
ST LOUIS, Jan. l3.-''Do you mean 10
say that there is rose famine in St.
Louise asked young man at foa.
lists this week.
Exactly" was the reply. "our
flower growers neglected their roses
this year, thinking the people would
want fewer of them, and we have not
begun to supply the demand that came
on us with the holidays"
Flower growing is an extremely
profitable business in this city. and
there is large amount of capital in
vested in it. One florist not long ago
bought tract OF fifty acres for his hot
houses But there was a rage for
observation-disclosures this year, and the
florists somehow got the idea that the
demand for roses would fall off. The
consequence was that New York had
TO be called on to help them supply the
demand, and when the New York
florists ran out of roses, other eastern
cities were pressed into service.
The web of wires hanging over the
streets of st. Louis will disappear very
soon. Three OF the largest of the COM
panies that string wires announce that
they intend to lay conduits and give
up the poles as soon as they can make
the necessary arrangements with the
Board Of Public Improvements BY
doing this they will escape the force
of Senator stones bill, pending in the
Legislature The Bell Telephone Com
pany, which owns four-ffths of the
wires. intends to lay a conduit that
will cost over half million dollars.
st. Lo1is is about TO become the cen
ter of one of the most important manu-
featuring industries in the country.
This is tbs manufacture of aluminium
from the crude llaolin ore which will
be shipped here from the mines. The
syndicate hat is to build the works
here intends to concentrate the alumni
mum trade If the United States in this
city, and announces that the output of
the factory from the first will be
twenty time as great as the entire
present prod 1ction in this country.
That would Ge an amount larger than
the output of the word at present.
but the enorm Gus capital Behind the
new company leaves no room for doubt
that it inten Is to make its promise
good. st. LOuis has been chosen as
the location for the plant because of
its geographical position. which viii
greatly facilitate the distribution of
the manufacf ured aluminium.
The public library of this city sue
cessfully accomplished gigantic
undertaking this week. The library
has been in its rooms on Chestnut
street for years, and its new building
on Locust street, nearly quarter Of
mile from is old location, was com
pleted about the first of the year. Sat
urday and Sunday books were de-
livered from the old rooms. but large
force Of Librarians and packers were
making things ready for the moving.
Monday morning, the first of the three
hundred thousand books and valuable
documents in the library was carried
over to the new rooms, and since that
time the work has proceeded day and
night Wednesday the new rooms
were opened and patrons OF the library
were served there. the book deliveries
at the old rooms having continued up
to the hour when the formal change
was made 10 the new quarters The
new library is the most successful free
library in the West, and its building is
not equallecl in modern appointments,
by any in the East, except the Drexel
institute in Philadelphia.