The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-07
ST. LOUIS.
An Interesting Chicago View Of the
Missouri City.
Chicago Times-Heraid

Chicago Times-Hsraid
The most prominent characteristic Of
ST. Louis is the domestfcity of its people
Everybody goes home as soon as dark be-
gins TO fall At O'Clock in the evening its
principal thoroughfares are practically
deserted. II is bad theater town. Man
ayers OF troupes dread it. The st. Louisan
will pay to see something that pleases
him. but he Is hard to please Moreover.
he has the ST. Louis dread of leaving a
warm fireside and comfortable slippers
for tight shoes and the windy streets in
order TO hear some fellow who thinks he
is an actor murder English Any one VINO
makes St Louis his city of residence viii
become imnre ynated In a little while with
the home-owning fever. In Chicago only
the rich build houses. The poor man SON
sihly concludes that IL is cheaper TO pay
rent than interest to a building and loan
association, taxes. insurance repairs ana
all the thousand things that are constant
~ eating into the pocket of the house,
holder. The poor man In ST, Louis thinks
the proprietorship of some sort OF house
is necessary TO his patent OF respectable
fly. So he builds. This has resulted IN
the outskirts Of the town becoming one
vast maze OF cheap frame cottages paint
ed green. They burn well.
The society OF St. Louis-with the pos
sible exception of that which dwells In the
elder portion OF New Orleans--is the best
70 be found In America BY best I mean
that II is a society wherein a man is tudg-
ell for his birth and breeding disposition.
intellect AMI accomplishments His money
cuts no figure. This Is because the oldest
families OF 81. Louis are very. very old
They have been there since a little while
after the discovery of the Mississippi and
Will he there I suppose when Gabriel ex-
ecutes his cornet fantasia. The newly
rich millionatres OF the large cities cam
not enter the exclusive section Of ST
Louis society. More than one has tried n
In order 10 get in ,nRn must have had
not only one grandfather. but many Of
them. The male members Of this society
are mossbacks. They are the moSsiest
rnnsShacks IN the world. But they ara
supremacy well satisfied with themselves
and consequently are happy Their houses
are not modern. Their service is mt
modern They do not live and think in
tina modern fashisr.. They are thorough
~ bred. however. and delightful folks 10
meet.
The business ~ So. Louis ts reynarkshIa
for Sos lack OF sn;ernrise II is solid J,his
will De told YOU with an accer, ~ nrisa
twenty times a day. II IS solid hni !, a.
sse~py. It is content 10 grow SLOWLY. The
result ~ this IS thar in many directions IL
has not grown at all II has retroyra1as
Towns Ike Chicago ard Kansas CIV ,bat
1--we Ivy hustle have taken much ~ Us ter
ritory. -. Louis however rn.andars
along Indifferent. II has plenty Of terri
tory left. IL tells Itself. II Is content In
~. Louis moro merchants own the houses
In which they trade than IN any city 81
this continent. Their credit Is hasad on
real estate. and their real estate IS based
on red clay. 81. Louis commercial rar.er
is ~ sllch solidtty that - has come 20 Ia
clasSed by Itself -. Louis paper In 81,
Louis Is pretty much The same thing as
cash, anf In many places outside az ST
IoufS. II has money and land t@hfra ~
81. louis, sauat;cd Ike = 6urk ~, ,ha
hanks 81 the Father Of Waters, baking
through the long summer and shivsrlry
through tha long winter IL az once tha
hottest and the ccldss, large town in
America It's climatic range II terrific IL
goes from ies IN the shade 10 l. below re-