Show dj d j 4 1 OUR UR ST. ST LOUIS L Finishing Touches ToucIe to 10 the tue Carnival A A Scheme of Street I Thieves A Novel Noyel Col Cot petition i ST ST. Louis Louts Aug 22 The Tb The streets of the city present a remarkable appearance appear ance mice this week every main thoroughfare thorough fare being adorned with set pieces and other to toa toa a 0 grand carnival The great feature of the entire display Is a grand celebration tion tiou of the four hundredth anniversary of the tho voyage of ColumbuS When tho tIme plans pians were made it was believed the tho worlds world's fair lair would be ba held in 1892 1802 and when tho the great event was wasi i I postponed the money for tor the lion tion on the banks of the Mississippi Mi had been subscribed So it was d decided de do- to go on ou with the tho program as ns originally outlined and thus it comes comes' j i I about that the first great Columbian Colombian 1 celebration will be held in St. St Louis The display with its 75 lights will cost St St. Louis over o but tho the money jam tho the bank for the purpose e. e and there will bo ho left fully four the amount for lor next years year's display rho The detectives of the city or at least those of them who have e direct charge chargo of the tIme thefts theft that occur here have havo been put putto to their trumps for a 30 week I past to stop a kind of stealing that ia Is unique Thousands of tIme the colored globes for lor the lights along the streets next month have been put up for u a week or more the tho Illuminating committee com coin desiring to get a satisfactory test of the tho lamps before tho the first of September CIte Tho globes represent represent sent about fifty thousand dollars Since Sinco the men employed by bythe the committee began to put the lami a aon aon on the arches a n band of thieves have I been following the workmen around I carrying off the globes by night and selling them Time The globes are used in iu almost every building where pretty lighting is wanted and the tho thieves found no difficulty in disposing of them at a good price After a n good deal of patient work the detectives last week discovered the house wh vh ro re the thieves hid tho the lamps and anti by y setting a watch arrested the principal ones Hundreds of the globes were lost but lut they have hac been l 4 and hit and tr the special duty duly of the pc police lice to Keep an nn eye on them till till the illumination illum ilium- matson ij is over rae lne other otner day daylo a newspaper ne of St. St Louis issued a map of the city is islo isa a genuine curiosity It was 35 in an advertising advertising adver nd scheme and no doubt paid the tho paper well but many a a. man cut out the map and p put lt it in his his- pocket for use some evening when he be should find time hanging heavily on his bis hands The map showed all the tha places of summer summer summet sum sum- mer met amusement in the city as well vell as ashow ashow ashow how to reach them by the str street et cars Fifteen gardens anti and theaters are located located lo 10 lo- lo all nil within a ride of half an nn hour from the center of the town and most of them only fifteen n minutes distant from the tho principal hotels These gardens are arc a feature of tho the summer and fall amusement of St. St Louis They open generally about tEh first pf of May and are well patronized till the cold weather sets in in about tho the last of Octo Octo- ber Most of them aro iwo conducted with the tho strictest propriety and all aU have lave large halls attached to them where their guests are sire taken care of if it rains The visitor to St. St Louis this fall fail with the exposition to entertain him during the day clay and early evening and places of amusement in such numbers numbers num num- bers waiting for him if he lle wants to prowl around by himself anti and see ace the tho late side of the town h hits a 30 good before him J 1 |