The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-04-08
AN ELECTRIC TRICYCLE..
The Storage Battery Problem Robbed of
Half Its DlHiculties-St. Louis
happenings.

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ST LOUIS. Mo, March 3l.-A tricycle.
went spinning over the bnulevards one
fine afternoon this we, k. and every
body who saw it turned TO ok at it
curiously. 1t had no pedals, and the
riders feet were ut rest. having Moth
ing to do with its propulsion, but with
that exception 1t was like nll tricyclea-
The young man riding it was me
chanic employed in a large bicycle es-
Establishment, and the storage battery
by which it was propelled he had in
vented himself, improving on one that
has been abandoned. He says that he
has not got his invention to the point
where he can trust IT TO carry him
through rough usage. and is careful to
keep his tricycle. on the very smoothcst
streets, but he is confident that he will
have within II year Il battery that Will
stand any kind .rde acknowledgements
wa in the country is looking for that
very thing.
The question of annexing the sub
urbs of St. Louis to the city proper viii
be before the people as soon as this
campaign is over. There is n strong
party in favor of it alrea iy. and rs the
plan cannot be cDnsunlnated. OF
course. till ma jority of the citizens OF
both the town and the suburbs are
agreed that it is Il good one, cam.
paign of education will be begun and
carried On till the Legislature meets
again. The city has now over halfa
million people, and the suburbsit is in
tended TO annex have about n hundred
thousand more. BESIDES the popuia-
lntton, the city would gain enormous
~ in taxable property, and about five
square miles OF territory, while the
jewellers of the suburbs would get the
pub ic'improvemei especially wat,r
supply, and the ponce protection they
want
Ar, Infect George Il. Mann, who has
in charge the building of the new City
Hall, announces that the roof is on,
and scver.l offices will he ready for oc-
cupanpy hy the fall. III Mayor who
is To be ele ted next week will be in
augu -atcd in .hc present building but
he will move into the new une before
he has served II year of his term. From
an architectural standpoint. this builI-
in will BE- without Il superior in the
c,ultry. 1t has been erected by plans
whi, h the city got through money
competition among archite Is at home
and abroad. paying seve al thousand
dollars for them. and while the. has
been no iobbing in the building there
has also been no false economy. When
completed the h al will have cost the
c., ne..., 80 Ini:'ion d., II IRIS.
There will be several new slractrail-
way lines built in the city this sun
m AL of them will be elect / ::
Ines, of course. That goes without
saving in st. Louis nowadays. One Of
tie most import mt of all these will be
the railway be ting Forest Park. The
franchise Is to be sold at auction by
the city, the plan having been pro-
posel by municipal engineers and
will bring, it is expect ID. fully half
mil ion dollars. Thousands of people
go out to the park every day, winter
and summer. 1t is one of the city's
sights. None of them would fail to
ride around the beautiful forest after
the proposed line is built, and railway
men say that the company which g IS
the franchise will easily make IS per
cent on the half-million Investment.
This will lie the first experiment the
city has made in selling franchises by