Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-05-03
FOR LOCATING THE NEW MILL.
TARY ACADEMY ON THE
ABBAY TRACT.
WAS TEE MOST AVAILABLE SITE.
A Broad Street viii Be Opened to be
Known as Grand Avenue = The
View From the City and Rail-
roads Very httractive-Mr.
YanCey Praises Papers.
70 the Editor Of the Ledger

10 the Editor Of the Ledger.
MEXICO, Mo-, April SO.-The Acad-
envy will be located on the Abbay
site. The following are some of the
reasons why this was chosen from
many sites presenting superior adj
vantages:
IL will be located on the summit OF q
hill, high and slightly, sloping In every
direction; the drainage is perfect.
For more than q mile it lie in full view
Of two great trunk lines OF railway,
passing across the continent. The
elegant buildings will challenge the
attention Of more than s dozen train
loads of passengers, daily, moving
from ocean to ocean. In answer 70
the inquiry sWhat buildings are
these?" hundreds Of memorandum
books will write down, "Missouri Mil
itary Academy" and parents will tell
their children of the enterprise of the
City Of Mexico and the public spirit OF
her people. Home-seekers will stop
to investigate q town possessing such
an enterprise and will conclude that
IL is a good place to i've In.
The site is accessible. Two streets
running from the public square, east
ward, are macadsmized to within a
few blocks of the Academy. Water
mains are completed to about the
same distance. The connection with
the Academy can, therefore, be made
at small cost to the city. Diligent in
quiry Of physicians whose practice
for many years has made them famil-
lar with sanitary conditions assures
me that no locality In the city or
county Is more healthfnl than this
one, and that certain infectious d.
seases that have appeared elsewhere
have been entirely unknown to this
community. Such is the testimony
Of the entire community and of ply
sicians practicing in their families.
The view from the city Is attractive.
Standing at the junction of Jefferson
and Jackson streets you are in full
view of the entire campus with its
handsome environments. Citizens
propose to raise $500 toward opening
and paving a broad street to be called
"Grand Avenue" Immediately in
front Of the Academy campus. This
street they propose to improve with
granitoid walks, with parks and curb
ing and ornamental trees. Fortunate,
indeed, will be the man who can buy
a lot on Grand Avenue or on connect
ing streets. Here will be 6 charming
driveway: Jefferson street along
Promenade to Grand Avenue; Prom
enade along Grand to Monroe; thence
along Monroe TO the Public Square;
while the direct approach to the
Academy will be along Jackson street
This street the property owners hope
soon to improve and ornament the
same as Grand Avenue, and, ultimate
ly, this entire district will be orna.
mented with parks and drives, and
Will become a charming dwelling
place that will blossom rs the rose
and the stranger passing by will be
constrained to say:
Sand, oh, II there be an Elyseum or
earth 1t Is this, 1t is this" Permit Q
word, Mr.. Editor, touching the ad-
mirable spirit Of our citizens In THU
work. At q time of great business de-
preston 1t was hardly to be expected
that the required sum could be raised
without great and protracted effort
One month was thought e reasonable
time, but the committee would try Il
raise the amount in twenty days. Bat
In less than ten working days the en-
tire amount was placed in the handi
of the chairman of the business com
mittee. During this time not g word
was heard about the site. When ths
money was all raised the writer re-
quested q conference with partieI
having suitable sites to offer. Then
Mr.. Editor, II you had placed your cal
close to the ground, you might have
heard s.The sound OF . going in thu
tops of the mulberry trees"
Friends Of the several sites gathereS
In force and presented their claim
with commendable zeal. They tool
much pains to give all desired informa
ton, and, while saying and doing al
that was fair and honorable in favo
! Of their own sites, they were free Il
admit that "there are Others" eacl
speech ending as follows: 81 am 70
1.-THE school wherever located"
One citizen, representing numerou
2 friends Of the old site, with g counte
nance radiant with bright intelligence
and q heavenly smile encirciing hi
noble frontispiece, like > halo o
celestial glory, arose and said: "Mr
Chairman, I reckon my place lie lei
: out, but I am going to stand by tn
school" Instantly the house ram
: out with loud and prolonged applause
as II the entire city, with one voics
-. re-echoed the sentiment, "We'n stan
by the SCHOOL," and, Mr.. Editor,
want to add right here, as long as tn
principals live, with ell the strengt
they can bring to bear upon 1t, th
school viii stand by Mexico.
Now, Mr.. Editor, without dii
q paraging the work Of any of tn
jealous advocates of this cause I ma
say that I reserve for the last th
most potent factors that crowned wit
glad success the efforts to rebuild th
Missouri Military Academy. In th
very beginning the newspapers OF th
L city showed their faith by their work
Each paper made 9 contribution !
g proportion to its means, not excelle
BY that Of any citizen or corporatio
In the community. In every issu
their columns we're filled with er
couragIng words, and, daily, the pee
Is pie of Mexico were delighted to res
8. In the evening papers the progreI
:, and success Of the work. The new
papers placed their shoulders und'