I j J. J OUR ST. ST LOUIS LOUIS LETTER A Convention of ff r Skilled d Detectives A A Cosmopolitan City CIt Singing City Singing at the Worlds World's Fair ST. ST Louis pet Oci 13 There Thero There was a peculiar peculiar pecullar pe pe- pe- pe culiar cullar gathering at the office of the Chief of Police this week Seventeen detectives representing representing- every one of the tho large cities Jin in the United States sat there and talked from note-books note to each other rhey hey were exchanging descriptions of criminals whom they wanted for various offenses They have re been in s St. St Louis watching the crowds who camo came to enjoy the tho carni carni- val All large cities exchange detectives detectives detect detect- ives this way in times of great conventions conventions conven conven- of people This his year the detectives from abroad have found none none- of their men Chief Desmond of the tho Detective Bureau says that it is because the tho rogues are giving St St. Louis a wide berth during th the Fall Festivities discovering discovering discovering dis dis- covering how well the tho town is policed The proof of this is the very few arrests arrests arrests ar ar- ar- ar rests that we have havo had to make of thieves who wh had robbed strangers says the Chief There have been no robberies robberies' on the streets and but a small number of pocket-picking pocket cases And when you consider the tho very large number of people there thero have been in inthe inthe inthe the city and how many of them were out ut 10 late to at night in the rough parts of town sight-seeing sight the showing is isS S something rem remarkable ka ble This is a most cosmopolitan city When it was announced a few weeks ago that there would b lie a. a ke ting of Swedes Danes and N Norwegians rW to arrange arrange arrange ar ar- ar- ar range for a 9 the evening of Oct 2 21 of the disc fe of America it was expected that tha men perhaps would respond To rd r the surprise surprise sur sur- S prise of everyone the tho hall hail selected elected for forthe forthe forthe the meeting was unable to hold tho the crowd that came There were werd several thousand of them Their celebration will vill be mainly spee speech making making h-making in the three languages Nearly all aU of them are in good circumstances They arc are m mostly mechanics but there are many clerks among them and few laborers Most of the tho multitude who were in inthe inthe the tho city l last week last week and this went to the parks an and aDd d feasted their eyes on the acres of green ward sward in in- them The Time park commissioner is now planning to tomake tomake make male these broad expanses welcome to the visitors who come to see the greatest festival season of all next y year r. r Every level place in the parks will be planted with shrubbery and flowers in the form of Columbian mottoes and inscriptions of welcome which w will ll appear next spring and all through the summer and fall in letters of various colors In addition to the inscription in places where the space will p permit it there will blossom designs designs de tie- signs illustrating the great discovery From the the- ro of strong singing societies societies societies so so- of this city the Choral Symphony Sym phony association each year picks about five hundred of the best voices and drills them for a series of half a dozen concerts which take place in inthe the tho fall The fame famo of the city as a training school for good gool voices is so wide the director direct r of I the society Mr Joseph Otten has ha been asked by the wor worlds world's ds d's fair managers to send them a complete chorus for the opening exercises in June The society society society so so- has decided to p put t voices in training at on once They will thunderous chort of themselves