The Lamar register., 1893-01-21
QUE sT. LOUIE LETTER.
Singular Rose ramsae-ssary'ng me
Mires-A loom In AiuminuD.


Mires-A loom In Aiuninu~.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 13.-"Do you mean to
say that there is rose famine In 81
Louis?" asked young man at nor
lists this week.
"Exzctly,'' was the reply. "our
flower growers neglected their roses
this year. thinking the people would
, want fewer of them. and we have not
begun to supply the demand thateame
on us with the holidays"
Flower growing is an 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 mis- hot
houses But there was rage for
observation-disclosures this year, and the
florists somehow got the idea that inc
demand for roses would fall on Inc
consequence was that New York had
to be called on to help then supply Inv
demand, and when the New York
florists ran ont Of roses, other eastern
cities were pressed intp 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 thai
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 Telcphone Com
nAny. which owns four-hf;hs OF the
wires intends to lay conduit that
win 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 coantry.
This is the manufacture OF aluminium
from the crude kaolin orc which Wi.
be shipped here from the mines The
syndicate that is TO build the WORKS
here intends 10 concentrate the alumi-
mum trade Of the United States in this
city, and announces that the output Of
the factory from the first will -
twenty times as great as the entire
present production in this country
That would be an amount larger than
the output OF the uor d. at present
but the enormous capital behind the
new company leaves no room for doub;
that il intends to make Its promise
good. ST Louis has beea ehuscn as
the location for the plant because o.
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 Hbrary
has been in its rooms on Chestnut
street for years. and its new buudius
on Locust street, nearly a quarter ot a
mile from Its old location, was COM
plcted 3 bon, tEr first % the year sat
urday and Sunday books ~err de
livered from the old rooms, bat a large
forcc Of librarians and packers were
making things ready for the moving
Monday morning. the arsi OF the three
hundred thousand books aud 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 Uf the library
were served there. the book deliveries
at the old rooms having continued M
20 the hour when the formal change
was made 70 the new quarters Th-
new library Is the most successful frcc
library in the West, and is building Is
not equalled in modern appointments,
by any in the East except the Drezel
institute in Philadelphia