Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-06-01
STILL FIGHTING SMOKE.
st. Louis Getting Rid of nm old-Tims
Solidity of Western Banks.

OF. LOUIS, May 29.-Ihe ng1t1tlOn
against smoke has proved great sue
cess in st. Louis and it Is now evil
dent that consuming devices will be
In use generally within a 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 INCORPORATING 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 the
city and one very unsatisfactory
feature OF most advertising cities will
disappear entirely.
The action OF the st. Louis banks in
contributing some 81, co l,09O 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 be n
needed, has calico attention to the
very conservative manner in which the
banks of st. Louis a:e run. While
the bank clea,ings have been doub-
ling themselves the number of banks
nearly all the financial institutions
arc 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 discUuraging, financial de-
preston and have weathered the
storms without an effort. 1t is many
years since there was run on bank
IN, n 4. 1, .s,
really well nigh impossible.
The Travellers Protective Associa-
ton, whose national president re-
sides in st. Louis, is arranging for a
remarkable celebration in Chicago on
June 10, after the holding of the
Peoria convention. For all practical
purposes June 10 will be H. p. A. day
at the Worlds Fair, and several thou
sand angels of commerce will be ,on
hand on that occasion. Mr.. Geo. 5.
McGrew, who has been national presi-
dent for several successive years, has
definitely declined to serve again ow-
ing to the pressure of business engage
ments, and one of the important events
at the convention will be the selection
of his successor.
Last year there was lad working
in florists shop here who thought he
was not getting on fast enough. 1t
occurred to him that many people of
small means would be willing to pay
a tritie to have small bouquets de-
liverGd to them every DAY Tor their
dinner table. He 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 enclosed 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, ana left his employer.
Now, a little over twelve months
since he sent out his first circulars, he
is letting the contracts for store and
hot house which will cost him several
thousand dollars. His idea was a
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
Board of Public improvements There
one in the center of the city, and the
other in North ST. Louis. The cost Of
the three is to be Sl35, 900. They will
not be put on the river, but will be
away from it some distance, ard the
water will come from the city water
works.
The Latest Achievement in RaiIroadIng.
This Columbian year, with it's many
evidences of the wonderful progress
of the country, has not produced a
more striking illustration than that
shown by the transportation lines; the
latest and most remarkable achieve
ment of all being the placing in serv-
ice of train between Chicago and
New York making the trip in twenty
hours, including stops. Modern sci
ence and skill has produced engines
capable of running q hundred miles or
more an hour; il therefore only re-
NAMED necessary to find a perfectly
level roadway free from sharp curves
to make the running of really fast
trains not only possible, but perfectly
practicable and with the same regu-
larity and freedom from accident
that characterizes the handling
of slower trains by frst-class lines.
An engineers ideal roadbed would be
absolutely level and straight-the line
of the Lake Shore and New York Gem
trial is the nearest realization of these
conditions to be urd in this country,
as is evidenced by the recent bicycle
relay races from New y DIRK and Ros-
ton TO Chicago, they having followed
the line of these roads the entire dis
lance This route was, therefore, the
natural selection as the one over which
the Exposition flyers should run. The
schedule of these trains has been ar
ranged particularly to accommodate
the large number of business men
who have interests both in New York
and Chicago, and by taking advantage
of this train can leave New York after
the close of business and be in Chicago
the next morning ia time for full
days business there. Leave Chicago,
eastbound, $50 p. m; reach New York
next day at li:00 n. III. Leave New
York at 800 p. m; arrive in Chicago.
1000 q. m. next day.
A Silver Quarter