Show m vII v- v II t 5 S o S f I- I T oOn sT OR-sT ST ST. UIs Gossip About Secretary Th Th Autumnal P Planned for for for- Summer bumm r Etc Stephen B. B Elkins tho the Secretary of War Var is ia a n. and hats has many manyI j i I warm personal friends in St. St Louis i For this reason ody believes he is ia in earnest arnest when he says that before I he goes oes out of the cabinet he lie will get pet enough money appropriated to make mahe I Jefferson barracks one OIle of ot the largest and antI handsomest military posts postA in the j I United States More ilore than a quarter of ofa j a a. million dollars dollus will be bo spent on tho the post if the plans fr- fr the improvement I j are arc carried out and nd considerably over overa a million dollars will be added to the tho volume of business S in the city Heal neal I estate men nien too say that the new now post will make properly values rapidly Increase In in- crease in the southern part of town which lies adjacent to the reser reser- Very few tew people even artists know that when Rob Robert Robrt rt the i sculptor modeled that statue of Grant Granton j on twelfth J street Sh lio had posing for him Paul Cornoy r the young American Ameri Amen cnn can painter who liis recently achieved I distinction iu in ParK Larit The booted legs i I of len Jen Grout Grant ul t legs and aud j the field glass in the LAc lu hero's heros ros ro's Land band wasS was wad S J modeled from flom th the glass taken from front fromI lieu Gen John S. S duke duke when a II I prisoner by Councilman Nelson Kelson C Cole lle of this city These little things were brought rought out the ot other oilier el night by a n. con con- vet between JAVO wo gentlemen who were having a taste of the glories of the thc fall fail entertainment nt to be set before us by the committees committee in charge elms of the festivities ies It was wasat at a private exhibition exhibition exhibition tion of ot oia a miniature St St. Louis lighted as it will be bo in Ibo tte fall Chairman John Jolin C. C Wilkinson OIl whose committee manages s the illumination will make malce the Grant statue statue of Li Liberty Lib Lib- O erty which face on Twelfth I strict tret the central figures of a II splendid Columbian tableau A third statue will be put up L between t e n Li Liberty erty and the tho Union depot and Bud the three will wIn be bc linked together and flanked by many many- colored electrical d dp devices vices The Tise v hole six blocks s between Jho the Lit ait site of tho new City hall and avenue a will willbe willbe willbe be a a. brilliant prom promenade nacle overhung by pictures in iu light b half ll historical and nut partly allegorical The suggestion of olum Columbus ut and his his' time titus will be preserved pre pt-c. served too in on the tIte downtown down t 7 The rise w warm weather is leading lending to the annual revival of ft a t very popular city custom Only St. St Louis people know knots boa hov to sit gracefully on their front j steps summer afternoons afternoons' The girls bring out ut cm cushions ds as as soon as supper b while His itis y yet t 1 light and pose on tIme the steps ks in their ll bands The men follow the der with cigars and aud the younger with banjo or 01 mandolin man mandolin dolin and unless a valk to an an opera garden or a n. fountain where there if if- ice cream soda interferes there they sit all the evening N gb bora come over overto overto overto to see each other plans for picnics picniC's and tind excursions are arc laid IMd Take Talce a n just now along lne Washington Locust any Locust any of lined with homes out in the w western tern part of the thed d city Yf and you you will see see the Ule groups and bear the tinkle of the chatten chatter chatter chat chat- ter ten and laughter nelv v and then rising above aboTe it Many a St 1 Louis family lured away ay from home borne by the summer resort fashion men and wom women n stilled stifled in Sn small hotel botel rooms look bade back with longing to the cool evenings on their front steps and hasten en their return Boston ton is the only other thier city f country where this thit olta tS of ot making U the e front but r nt tt sr Steps s room on summer evenings es In New NewYork cw Y York orIc it is held to bo ho bad form With their front steps and an occasional occasional occa oem day on the he river or at one of the neighboring resorts St. St t. t Louis toIle folk who do not want ant to enrich seaside or mountain hotel men men will get Ret along very well this summer hero Thero are are twelve summering places within two hours hours' ride of the rail and boat hoat All of these places J make 1 ke four months in the year Then there are the tue innumerable n spots which are high Ligh i gh and coo cool all nIl pf lf them reached leached by fast last street car lines In consequence consequence consequence conse conse- quence of If these the city looses but a a- small par part of its population durin during this summer and even in the dog-days dog there is no ei exodus dus of the business business busi bud ness men men such as one ces in the lar large c eastern cities eltes j 1 |