The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-06-03
STILL FIGHTING SMOKE.
1t. Louis Getting Rid of an old-rims
Nuisanco-so!lditvo of w..t.rp R,nk.

1t. Louis Gettins Rid of an OId-Tfms
Nnisanco-soiidity of Western Banks.
81. LOUIS, May 20.-The agitation
against smoke has proved great sue.
cess in st. Louis and it is no evil
GENT that consuming devices will bo
IN use generally within few months.
Nearly two thousand citizens have
joined the local Smoke Abatement AS
ISOLATION and some of the worst Of
tenders are included IN these. The
Willingness expressed on all hands to
put IN smoke-consuminR devices is so
great and SO many are going to do
the work this summer, that by the
time the fall festivity season opens
there will be comparatively little
smoke in the business section of tho
city and one very unsatisfactory
feature of most advertising cities will
disappear entirely.
The action of the St. Louis banks in
contributing some So, coo, OOO In gold to
assist in restoring the traditional
hundred millions, and the ease with
which ten times the amount could
have been contributed had it bee
needed, has calico attention to tho
very conservative manner in which tho
banks OF st. Louis are run. While
the bank clearings have been doub-
ling themselves the number of banks
has increased but slightly. Hence
nearly all the financial institutions
are old established and the business
they are transacting is OF most
profitable character. Most OF them
have been through no less than three
periods of discouraging, financial de-
preston and have weathered the
storms without an effort. 1t is many
years since there was a run on bank
in st. Louis and such an event is
really wei nigh impossible.
The Travellers Protective Associa-
ton, whose national president re-
sides in st. Louis, is arranging for
remarkable celebration in Chicago on
June 10, after the holding of tho
Peoria convention. For all practical
purposes June 10 will be T. P. A. day
at the World 8 Fair, and several thou
sand angels of commerce will be on
hand ON that occasion. Mr.. Geo. $.
McGrew, who has been national presi-
cent FOR several successive years, has
definitely declined to serve again ow-
ing to the pressure of business engage
mcnts, and one of the important events
at the convention will be the selection
OF his successor.
Last year there was lad working
in Il florists shop here who thought he
was rot getting on fast enough. 1t
occurred TO him that many people OF
small means would be willing to pay
a trine 10 nave small bouquets de
livered to them every day for their
dinner table, lie spoke to his EN-
ployer about it, and was sneefed at.
Me got friend to lend him enough
money TO send out several thousand
circulars, choosing his names judi
ciously, and cnclos ed postal cards in
each circular for an answer. He got
so many encouraging responses that
he felt justified in plunging into bust
ness for himself. and left his employer.
Now, n little over twelve months
since he sent ont his first circulars, he
is letting the contracts for store and
hot house which will cost him several
thousand dollars. His idea was
good one, and he says that he sends
out several hundred bouquets day,
charging from twenty-five cents to ten
dollars apiece for them.
The plans for the free lighthouses
which are to be built this spring in
time to be used this summer have been
completed by the architects of the
Board of Public Improvements. There
viii be three. one in South St Louis,
one in the center of the city, and the
other in North 81. Louis. The cost of
the three is to be sl35. 900. They will
not be put on the river, but will be
away / ON t some distance, and the
water will com, f;om the city water
works.