Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-26
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
A Singular Rose Famlno--BuryinE tho
WirSs-A Boom in Aluminium,

Wiros-A Boom In Aluminium,
ST LOUIS, Jan. 13.-"Do you mean to
say that there is rose famine in st.
LOUISE" asked young man at for.
lists this week.
"Exactly," was the reply. sour
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 rage for
chrysthanthemums 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 tho
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 fourffths of the
wires, intends to lay conduit that
will cost over half million dollars.
st. Louis is about TO 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 the 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
present production in this country.
That would be an amount larger than
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 as
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 sue
cessfully accomplished gigantic
undertaking this week. The library
has been in it's rooms on Chestnut
street for years. and its new building
on Locust street, nearly a quarter of q
mile from its 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 librar
were served there, the book deliveriel
at the old rooms having continued u
to the hour when the formal chang
was made 70 the new quarters. The
new library is the most successful free
library in the West, and its building is
not equalled in modern appointments,
by any in the East, except the Drexel
institute in Philadelphia.