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ST LOUIS LETTER LETER I A National Convention Hall lal Improving tho tue lur 1 Women As Al Sr ST Louis LOUS June 30 T The e Missouri State Democratic convention con cou Tenton which will wl me meet med t in bt St tt Louis Lou early next month to t nominate three thre judges of the tho supreme me court will vi hold holdis its is sessions in the building where hero er Owyer Cleveland wits was ls nominated four four years year ago ago This Tbs is i the Exposition building on Olive Olvo street street la Iu 1894 1895 it w will wi ill be offered to t both the Democrats Democrats and the Republicans for their conventions conven conven- n. n lions tons and a D strong effort efort will wi be made to have one or both of the Presidential evidential Pi nominations tome come from froni it it- it The delegates dele gates who sweltered B und and got wet in I the Chicago wigwam have havo not DOt stopped complaining yet and time the tle city will wil enter the tho con contest st heavily handicapped when it again applies apples for one of the national conventions There was no ilo complaint whatever of the bt St St Louis accommodations accommodations ac ac- ac- ac four years es ago aCo The Exposition building is a permanent structure made of brick brck stone stone and andiron iron llon in the center of the thc city and it can cnn teat scat people with with ease WI When n the Democratic convention was held here only third one-third of time tho the hall hal space in the building was used and yet yet more than t enty twenty live ve thousand spectators saw a athe the proceedings The city ci y will vl begin its is canvass early cally in 06 96 and judging bv v state men ts made recently by the leaders of both both partes parties it i will wi be successful beyond the tise anticipations anticipations antici antici- patons of those who ho do not understand how hOv necessary to satisfactory convention convention conven conven- tion ton work a a g good od hail ball lul I is a. a General Sherman Buerman did a good thing for St. St Louis before lie ho gave up Ins his house bouse here hero and went to Kew ew York to t live lve Those who used t know him lim here delight to this day in telling how he be once turned the hose on a water rates cole collector tor who presented a till bill to him while he was sprinkling his lis Is front lawn in the tho cool col of the afternoon The fhe incident made madea a good deal of fun at the time and it called attention to t the prices that that house owners had to pay for the right to to keep their grass graS green greeuin in hot bot weather The he high rates the th city charged cd had prevailed then for a number of years year and nobody had ever thought of objecting Since the tho tie emphatic emphatic emphatic em em- protest of General tho the rates have been lowered a little each year This year the theater water ater rates collector collector col cal lector announces another reduction and house owners who sprinkle their lawns will wi have bave to pay hereafter only about about half hal as mu much h as M they were doing doing when the irascible old general aimed the Dozzi of the Lose hose at the dun It I cost the St St. Louis Merchants Merchant Exchange Exchange Exchange Ex Ex- Ex- Ex change a a good round sum Bum to get one wor word into int the platform of the National Democratic convention the other day The word ord was continuous It described des- des the tile kind klud of appropriations that should be made for the tho Mississippi river The money was spent in paying the expenses of an energetic committee of men who knew all al a about out the river and its needs They were in Chicago a a week week and won von their victory by never letting the influential men of the platform platform plat plat- plat form committee get out of their sight sight Congress lias has always done for the the river exactly what the platform aed asked it i to todo todo t do and not a thing more mOle Hitherto the platforms have suggested appropriations for the river in a sort of f way vay way and Congress has appropriated in the same manner manner The rise money was given Civen in scraps and the river was benefited very little The demand for the tho continuous appropriation appropriation praton this time will vi result in putting into int the the next river and andl l ill AL ae item that will wi cause millions milons to be bo spent in deepening the te channel A great gleat school question queston controversy is raging here Should married marred women not dependent on their own exertions for support be bo allowed to teach in the public schools Some of the school directors believe beleve they should DOt not be and a n number of resignations have haTe been demanded from t teachers A At t the same time several school principals prin pt-in- to whom thieve is objection on various scores are being there is a probability that by the time the big ig stone office oce building on Locust street is finished many more more of the teachers who are now watching its erection erection tion ton interestedly interestedly will wi no longer feel any concern concer in the pay rolls pay to b bo be made out there All AU Al of the these e teachers teacher have of course many friends and the directors who vho are are trying to reform the pedagogic corps are having an unpleasant ant time Col L. 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A Grant the tIm Assistant Secretary Sec Sec- of war has just left the city after a thorough examination of Jefferson Jefferson Jeffer Jeffer- son barracks He Ie says that for the army almy St. St St Louis is one of most import import important ant nt strategic i points in the the West and he returns to Washington intending to have the work pushed on the improvement improvement improvement improve improve- ment of the post post The appropriation now being eing spent spent at the barracks is i only Col Grant states that this will wi be supplemented at once by bya a further further some of which will wi go in putting putting up buildings that that are needed at once to house the additional troops troop that are to be sent here Senator Senator Cockrell is preparing a n bill bi appropriating ap ap half hal a million dollars dolar more and Col Grant says this will vill wi be passed pae without objection as all aU al the te War department department department de de- de- de of officials ial are now operating co-operating in advancing the post to a leading position among the forts fort of tho the country countr S |