The Bessemer indicator., 1893-01-21
OUR sr. LOUIS Lsrrsa.
a Singular Rose v.-'.s-nuryi.s sAs
Wirss-A Boom In Aiunlpum.

A Singular Rose Eaniae-Buryisg sAs
Wirss-A Boem In Aiuninum.
ST LOUIS, Jan. 1s.-"Do you mean to
say that there is rose famine In 81.
Louis?" asked young man at flor
lists this week.
Exactly" was the reply. "our
flower growers neglected their roses
this ycar. thinking the people would
want fewer Of them, md we have not
begun to supply the demand that came
on us with the holidays"
Flower growing is nm extremely
profitable business In this city, and
there is a 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 Il rage Tor
observation-disclosures this year, and the
florists somehow got the idea that the
demand for roses would fall off. The
consequence wns that New York had
TO be called on to help them supply the
demand, and when the New York
| florists ran ont 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:
rGnies that string wires announce that
they intend to lay conduits and give
up the poles as soon us 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
| iuuy. which owns four-fifths of tit.
wires, intends to lay conduit that
will cost over half million dollars.
St Louis is about 10 become the CEN
ter of one Of the most important manu-
| featuring industries in the country.
This is the manufacture of aluminium
from the crude kaolin ore which will
be shipped here from the mines The
syndicate that is to build the works
here intends to concentrate the alumni
mum trade OF tho United States in this
city, and announces that the output of
the factory from the first will be
twenty times as great as the entire
resent production in this country
That would be an amount larger tha n
the output OF the world, at present,
but the enormous capital behind the
new company leaves no room for doubt
that it intends to make its promise
good. st. Louis has been chosen ms
the location for the plant because of
its geographical position, which will
greatly facilitate the distribution of
The manufactured aluminium.
The public library of this city suc-
ressfuily 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 u
mile from its old location, was COM
pleted about the first of the year Sat
urday and Sunday books were de-
livercd from tho old rooms. but largo
force OF Librarians and packers were
making things ready for the moving
Monday morning, the first of the three
hundred thousand boolss 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 70 the new quarters The
new library is the most successful free
library in the West, and ia building is
not cqualled in modern appointments,
by any In the East, except the Drexcl
institute In Ehiindslphiu