The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-03-04
a WINTER JAUNT.
His Better Half in the Mis-
souri MI etropolis.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb. 20. 1905.

ID is better Hair In tine Mis-
souri, nj etropolis.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb 20. 1905.
DEAR CHIEF:
The mercury in st. Louis thermom-
eters indicated a temperature of only
about six degrees above zero when we
reached that city the morning Of the
18th instant, as detailed in the first
chapter of this .Tale of a Winter
Jannt," printed in your last week S
issue, and the crisp air nipped at our
ears and noses so that it was comfort
able to get indoors every little while
and warm up; yet I speak by the card
and in all candor when | assure you
that we suffered more discomfort from
heat than cold during our visit to the
Missouri metropolis. The steam-heated
hotels, theatres, stores, restaurants
and Office buildings are usually kept
ia such state of torridity in COMPARE
son with the outdoor mperatures that
it is an absolute relief to escape from
the abnormal artificial atmosphere into
natures more frigid but purer s'mass
Of aeriform fluid surrounding the
earth''-Which is dictionary for the
stuff we breathe. The weather was
steadily moderating after one of the
severest and most prolonged cold
spells St. Louis had known for num-
Der Of years, and the mercury climbed
as high as the Is mark during the
course OF the day, dropping again at
night. but not quite SO low as it had
been The preceding nights. Friday and
Saturday witnessed continuance Of
the upward tendency of the tempera-
ture, and Sunday morning, when we
took our departure from the big city,
the atmosphere seemed no colder than
that in which we basked last Wednes-
day morning as we left New Orleans.
The first visitor we were privileged
to welcome at the Southern Hotel was
our good friend and estimable fellow
townsman, s. Goette, who is spending
his honeymoon in St. Louis and
maybe it wasn't good to meet hint We
spent many of the leisure moments
with Mr.. Goette and his charming
bride, who was Miss Josephine Sobral,
of ST. ames, and none who know them
will need afidavits or documentary
proof in support of the verbal state
ment that we had just the incest kind
Of time in such company. Our joint
entertainment program included dinner
at Tony Faust's Thursday evening, q
theatre party Friday night to see W.
FL. Crane in Cuisines is Business, !"
an inspection of the great Anheuser-
Busch brewery properties, dinner at q
French restaurant, q visit to the
Worlds Fair grounds and Tower
Grove Park, and a parting luncheon
in the famous Budweiser Rathskeller
on Saturday. Mr.. Goette looked the
picture Of health, and smiled amusedly
when I told him of the report circu-
lated in Donaldsonville that he was
alarmingly sick with pneumonia or
some kindred concomitant OF the pre-
vailing grippe. A slight cold and
fever, that furnished him with d CON
venient excuse for keeping indoors for
few days while the recent blizzard
was at its height, afforded the only
found alton for the sens ational rumor
OF his precarious illness. Mrs. Goette' s
appearance also bespoke condition
of mental and physical beatitude that
rendered almost superHuous her re-
guest that should tell her people tn at
she was veil and happy.
The great beer-making plant of the
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association
IS one of the most conspicuous and at
tractlve OF st. Louis's "show places, -
and it would require more columns
than you can conveniently spare or |
find time to fill for anything like an
adequate description of this immense
concern, even supposing that you and
! were willing to give away several
thousand dollars worth of valuable
advertising space in this way. Suf-
fee it TO say that there is no similar
enterprise in the United States-nor
in the world. for all / know to the
contrary-that equals the Anheuser-
Busch In the size and value of it's
property interests or the extent of its
manufacturing and shipping facilities.
The multifarious buildings cover an
area of ground-space about as large
as that occupied by Donaldsonville,
and the inhabitants of this busy
settlement form separate and dis
tinctive community in many respects.
having their own bank, postoffice.
telegraph Office, ETC., and transacting
q volume OF business and doing an
OF work that would put many
stable town to the blush. From 5000
70 5000 people are said to have visited
he Anheuser- Busch plant daily DUR
ing the period Of the fair last wear.
and it required quite large force of |
guides to conduct this army of sight |
seers through the main buildings and
explain to them the functions and
operations of the various machines.
;ontrivances and processes employed
q the extensive industry that has
given St. Louis the familiar sobriquet
If "Anheuser-B uschville. - Visitors