Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-02-09
THE CONVENTION CITY
a Great Year for COnvsntions--Th Ger
man Population Preparing for =
Grand HVenE


Grand Event
ST. LOUIS, No. Jan. 2e-There arc more
conventions held in st. Louis in a year
than there are held in any other city in
the country, This is the result of the
central position of the city; its excel
lent railway facilities, and tho reputa-
ton 1t has made at times of national
political conventions, Knights Temp
lars conclaves and Grand Army en-
campments for comfortably taking
care Of big crowds, The hotel men do
not raise their rates here, nor make
three sleep in bed when the town
finds 1t has to provide for hundred
thousand people. The national con-
vontion OF tho Knights of Labor
was the largest gathering of the
kind that has been held here
this year. Several moro are coming.
The builders are making arrangements
to entertain their National convention,
which meets here next month and will
bring about Ave thousand men to the
city who are interested financially in
the trades concerned with building;
the National Association of Electri-
clans will be here after that, drawn
here by the city leading position with
respect to electrical interests; and still
later, the National Association of Ger
man Veterans will hold their reunion
here. All of these associations will be
accommodated by the hotels now open,
Three great hotels are being built, but
none of them will be finished till the
fall.
The German citizens of St. Louis
are going to make this an exceptional
year in the way of celebrations. There
are two score singing societies here,
and nearly thirty of them will 60 to
the National Saengerfest at Cleveland,
taking over five thousand members
with them. These Saengerfests de-
pend largely on the st. Louis contin-
gent for their success, as the choruses
from here are all we'll drilled and am
bilious. At the beginning of fall,
just before the festivities Of the city
commence, German Day will be cele-
brated by great national show of
professions and music. This patriotic
celebration is generally one of the
most attractive sights Of the year in
st. Louis. 1t is carried out without
regard to expense, and the street
pageant is spectacle excelled only by
that of the Yelled Prophet
There is railway switchmsn here
who i've years ago was at work in the
yards of the Missouri Pacific, making
a bare living. The great Southwestern
strike came, and he struck with the
rest of the men. While the strike
lasted he spent most of his time in his
room, inventing device to close the
frog of switch so that men could not
catch their feet in it. When the strike
was over he went around trying to
sell his invention to railways, but
none of them would try it. He was
discouraged, when two years ago the
Missouri Legislature passed law
compelling all railways to protect the
lives Of their employees by guarding
the frogs in some way. A market for
the switchman's invention was opened
at once. He is now living in n house
that could be sold for $20,o any day,
and last Sunday he was driving in the
parks, with the rest of the gay crowd,
behind two horses that went by every
body else on the boulevard with ease.
JEANNE EUaEN1E MoREAU, the
child wonder Of Paris, whose phe-
nomenal memory has made her a
highlY.educated person at the age Of
5 years, Is q granddaughter Of the
Philippe Moreau who led the assault
on the Bastile in 1889, and who was
decorated therefor by Lafayette.
MRS HARRIET PREsCoTT SPoFFoRD,
who stands easily in the front rank
of American authors, IS a slender,
graceful woman with q manner of ex-
ceeding charm. Mrs Spofford is very
fond Of the womanly employment Of
knitting, and her results in this d.
rection are as artistic as her fiction.
COUNTESS BRAzzA DI SAvoRaNAN,
the sister of the celebrated African
traveller, possesses a castle at Braz-
zasco, in the Province Of Udine, where
she has founded three schools for
teaching lace.making to little girls
out Of their school and working hours.
The girls are paid for the lace they
produce every month, and get prize
in money besides for good conduct.
COUNTESS FEDORA GLE1CHEN, who
has succeeded to the studio in St.
James Palace Of her father, Prince
Victor Of Hohenlohe, whose talents
as a sculptor she inherited, is now en-
gagged on life-sized statue of the
Queen, which is to be placed in the
Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Montreal
and for which Her Majesty has given
several sittings. This statue is being
executed for Lord Mount Stephen and