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ST LOUIS JETTER Tb County relic Police U Question Jestion Great Crest t for or Special New hew Street ll JuLY 10 16 lS 1833 3 The county of Si St Ix roU Iuis ws 8 Is rich and productive but it police protection pro pro- protection the farmers want ibe police system of the city is a a very a-very very efficient one and that the tIle people of the county are arc moving to have their villages guarded by a detachment oi of the force forca here bere The he State SUto law etab the metropolitan police force In bt st- stLouis t. t Louis provides for the tho distribution dis dIs- of patrolmen in the tho county and it will no not noi be long before they g C get t the twenty coppers they have e asked for out there Some odd and original ideas ideM have been carried into effect in putting up new buildings in St St. Louis lately There is no Iso other city I la iA the th country probably that has a large building devoted de de- voted Toted entirely to the use UBe of physicians and in no way vay connected witha a medical medical medi medi- cal college college- There is one oue of that kind here on the tho corner of on avenue and Locust street It was wa-s erected for lor forthe forthe the sole purpose of giving the doctors t I the ho kind of pf offices they tiley need and thera there is nobody else elso in it cx except pt the janitor There is another here which is given gien up to the studies of or artists Itis It Itis is on on the corner of l street and Locust Both oth buildings were put up by men who were doubtful at first of the success of their projects but each has proved the owner a man of foresight by becoming a profitable Investment investment in tn- vestment from the tho first Fred red M M. Crunden the thio manager of the tIle Public Library showed himself a aman aman aman man of advanced ideas when in arranging arranging ar ar- ranging the plans of the new building on street he provided for a n. largo hargo room to be used exclusively by by- women studying or reading In Europe that is ss done but there is is no library on this side of the water where it is considered necessary to pay this attention to the tho woman students All women who ha have e to go KO much to libraries libraries ies les say any that they cannot work Vork at ease case while they are stared at by the men who come corao in and many of ot them complain com corn plain that they are often annoyed by people leople who Vuo walk up behind them and look oyer their shoulder There are two big meetings camp-meetings that every year attract large largo numbers of people from St St. Louis One is tho the camp camp- meeting at Piasa Bluffs muffs and the other is Camp Marvin The iho he bluffs are a score of or miles away and iud are reached by bv boats boatie Hundreds of men from here hero t take faire ke their families up there and leave them thorn in the tho cottages while the tho camp- camp meeting lasts last running up from the tho city every day or so 60 to see them thesa Tho The Marvin ground camp-ground is ii only a short distance away away from the city and is r reached by vehicles There hele are- are areno no houses on the grounds and those who go out oat there them live in tents till the meeting meet meet- meeting ing is over The grounds with their their- lines of tents and their religions is services services ser ser- vices under topped pine-topped f sheds are arc a a. unique sight bight and the road between I here and the tho busy city is covered every ery day with buggies and carriages full of I I people going out outto to look on Camp Marvin Maryin Mar Mar- yin vin is to be opened about the last Mt of this month and amI the meeting at Piasa Pins muffs Bluffs will begin as soon as the Marvin meeting ends One Orie million passengers have to ride on a a. street-car street before the company takes in perhaps more mOle for sonic some of the people ride on passes and some of them are arc children and pay only half fare lare Yet some of 01 the lines here have not only received that much money inthe inthe in inthe the past year but h increased have v their I re receipts by that nce they rave ave up their horse power and adopted electricity dee elec to propel the cars It is no wonder thab the reports of the City registe-r registe show V such lIuch results from the change electricity that all aU the lines are arc grasping at the trolley So many have given ip up the tIle cable and the horses that the magazines say St. St Louis is ahead of every city inthe inthe in the tho United States od oil its fast last transit mileage Only four of ol the twenty five lines in th the ity c-ity arc are now using horses Two of these have nh already ady bought t their material for up the overhead wires and b by the time the crowds begin to pour into tb the city to see sec tho the fall festivities only two slow blow lines willbe will willbe be he left These are short ansi 1111 the visItors visitors vis vis- will be more interested in them themas as a than inconvenienced |