The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-12


cagoan said to me in Washington: CITY not
long before the national committeeman:
Many Of our people are saying st Eauis
would be good place for the convention
And there are wise men who expected
that state OF feeling to develop only with
the coming of the millennium
The truth is. ST LOUIS white fnaintaip.ne.
her business conservatism and consequently
her commercial prosperity: has brancned
out IN unexpected directbons under the
the leadership OF some of her.youngtr bus,-
ness men. Starting someaifteen Years aro
with the idea that their city Was.:not wen
enough known, these men have ADVERTISED
systematically, much astheX would have
advertised their own business:
How II. Louis Has Hustled
Instead OF a handsomely decorated shop
window they have offered n free exhibitia9
each fall Ike that of the MardFCsfas org m
izations or New Orleans This attraction
has developed from a single. night parade
into two pafadeS-one given. a might aud
one In the daytime: "a brilliant illumination
or the city's streets every ofhcr II cht Tor
several weeks and fine exposition run
ming Tor forty days and nlGhtsin the fan Of
each year This work has Bten.dons IN re-
cent years under the generalsupervisi OF
tho Autumnat Festivities Associations The
attractions have BEEN sady6rtised lsherallv.
ana they have given ST. Fouls a reputation
all over the United Statcs5 *-+-.:
This disposition 80 BE- h0spli45ilc has at
tracted the notice of the inene Who ARE M
the head OF national institutions which hold
delegate conventions. ASA result the
Grand Army OF the Renutlier and The
knights Templars have Rethere. two ia
tonal conventions have been held IN tho
city, and cattle conventions populiet con
ventions. silver convenE6nss sfSslqsirpi
river Improvement conventions and a great
many other gatherings h.fTe.eiNcn ST 4 1uis
wide reputation as n convention C,ty No
one who has attended these5c0nNeution or
any OF Thorn has hal serious cause 10 com
plain OF lack # entertainments
There have mem other complaints how
ever-Complalnts whlsh We're wclligronnded
and am glad tn say the canses 81 these
complaints have been removed 1.-THE ran
who We're NJ the Democrats conV6ntion 0f
lSN. with the exception 81 the.neWSpaper
correspondents, VIII not he herc&.n.>Iase
next but II they were they woul5l md 81
Louis much improved %*
The facilities for getting .nt6.the city
have beer improved greatly Fl tGc-lasteclrht
years. Just prior 10 1874 people Coming 10 81
Louis frrfn che East left' the trains az East
So Louis and took a frrry hoRt 10 tr1Ss a.,
river. They landed half \ r6ils fr6n, any
street car line, ana = a.cafr.si9e were Ia Tx
ing they had is cliuh over. tfesreurh sob
hlest0nes of che lcvce and along SOME 81 tho
diuEiest ana MOST unn'e4Fant:1f. fhf..s rs. =
streets 20 reach q street mt. Tfe-e were
no cable or electric cars 81 .tfa4 f,ia. s-,5
transit was slow. Tr f.f+ibesersat Eatz
bridge. one Of the e6Eis e0e5notr.aE
tr'umphs, was ded'eatrt1 AEer that am
trains from the east croSs.I the river a,.l
pan through a znohy ll.sfieftug tirfel rs
= ramshackle rai'roal st5ti0a az Tv sth
street--a station ~ p .W0Ui.t hi5 s. s 81.
rraccd "a city SO IS 40 .0h4bljants
The growth e. the city:se10.tarra ! trtf1l
bevoud thc CaracsFN ~ IRIS ~ fre Njs-f