New-York tribune., 1902-02-21
THE PASSING THRONG.

The growth Of ST. Louis. where the exposition to
celebrate the Louisiana Purchase is to be held.
commented upon yesterday
SAYS ST. LOUIS by Theodore staley. a prominent
NEEDS a NEW real estate operator of the city.
CHARTER Mr. Staley. who Is at the Hotel
Netherland. said: THE growth
OF St Louis has been marvellous. Why, do you
know We need a ne'y city charter now? The pres
ent charter was adopted in about 1915. 1t was
framed by able men, and embodied the best thought
Of that date No better tribute the far reaching
industrial changes and revolution in business and
great strides in business affairs be cited than
this need for charter. St. Louis has out
grown the limitations set by the old charter. The
pressing demands made for improvements, owing
to the citys rapid growth, are much greater than
charter should be revised to admit of the expendi-
also be amendeS 10 DO Vs& ei With fhe e spoiI S
TEN In the city departments and install civil ser
John ". Fancher. OF Chicago, who is identified
with the manufacture OF iron and steel. at the
Hotel Cambridge yesterday com
INTERESTED mented upon the recent trip
IN abroad of Charles NJ. Schwab.
sCHWAB. president of the United States
Steel Corporation. saying: Mr..
Schwab's visit, venture to say, caused as much
interest in Germany among the financial men OF
the nation as that OF any visitor TO that country
in years. have just returned from Germany, and
while there found the people intensely interested
in the iron and steel trade. The trouble with Ger
Germany started out to develop too fast. Things
were overcapitalized and inflated. Then troublous
two. I believe that the bottom has been reached
however, and the country is on the UP grade L
stocks in the iron and steel companies These
stocks once doomed to abnormal prices, have. like
the swing of the pendulum gone too far the other
way, and the people are buying them up as good
enormous earnings of the United States Steel Cor
P6rSt0n s and the great possibilities Of the iron and
and they therefore much interested in that
many was so anxious to know all about Mr
SchWa6. may say that in Austria and France
John Schroers. president of the Board OF Educa-
ton of st. Louis and chairman OF the educational
committee of the Louisiana Pur-
THINKS chase Exposition Company. who
NETWORK is now in New-York said yes
INDISPEN- terday that he hoped New-York
SABLE would make a good exhibit at
the St Louis fair. He added IF
we ask New-York to invest all the money IT
put into making the worlds fair OF 1903 the great
est possible success, IT is because that sort of
success will be the success of New-York
City and State than OF ST. Louis or any State of
the thirteen already created be created
out OF the original Louisiana Purchase. I never
look out of a window in travelling through
New-YOrk State without seeing a smokestack the
train Is passing getting myself In readiness for
the one 1t will pass next They begin to thicken
the western boundary of the State has
been passed. and they continue to thicken until
New-YOrk City is reached. And every of them
means that we cannot get along without New-York
In trying to run a worlds fair that will stand for
the community of New-York interests with
own In the trade OF the world Our interests have
become completely identified with the repre-
sentative interests OF New-York in the eyes of the
outside world that whatever action New-York
takes will have most far reaching moral infiu-
ence. We have looked to New-York TO represent
US in our dealings with the outside world during
the whole of the century this worlds fair COM
memOrates. 1t is notoriously true only that
this has been DONE but that a result of it the
outside world accepts New-Yo ork repre-
sentative so completely that it often forgets TO
think Of at all The action of New-YOrk City
and State is almost be accepted abroad
as the prima facie evidence of the action of all
t"p United States. So Eat Is that tendency, even
among the best informed people of Europe. that II
..4-l., pulz.e some or them ind Missouri
Illinois Kansas Iowa the map. This is
q result or century old habit of looking TO New
York for representation. 1t comes because we
have fully recognized the community of New-York
interests with own