| Show AN ELECTRIC TRICYCLE Tb m. Te Storage Battery Dater Robbed Bobbed of ot Half It Its Il Difficulties St. St St St. Louts Loul Lil Happenings S ST. ST Louis LOUS Mo March 31 A A tricycle went spinning over the boulevards one fine afternoon this week and everybody everybody every every- ever body who saw it turned to t look at it curiously It had ha no pedals and the te riders rider's feet were at rest having nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing to t do with its propulsion but with that exception it was like Uke all al tricycles The young man riding it was a a meS mechanic me me- S chaunc employed in a large bicycle ear esI establishment es ea- es- es r I and and the storage battery I by which it was propelled he had inI invented in in- I vented himself himsel improving on one that has been abandoned He Be says that he has not got his invention to the point where he can an trust it to carry carr him through rough usage and is careful to keep leep his le on the very ver smoothest smooth t streets but he is confident that he will wIl have within a year yeal a battery battry that will wi st stand nd any kind f. f work ok I If he e succeeds succeeds' e ls' ls his hi's fortune any is made for every ever street rail rail- wa wain in the country is looking for that tat very thing The qu question stion of annexing the suburbs sub sub- of bt St tt Louis to the city proper wi will willI l lI I I be before the people as a soon son as this I campaign is over There Thele is i a strong i i party in favor of it already and as a the plan cannot be consummated of course till ti a majority of the citizens of ot both the town an and the suburbs suburb ar are agreed that it is a good god oue one a cam campaign campaign cm- cm of education will wi be b begun and carried on till ti the Legislature meets meet again The he city has bas now over half hal a million people e and the suburbs it is ia intended intended intended in in- tended to annex have about a hundred d thousand more Besides Beside the lation the city would gain gala enormously enormously enormous enormous- j ly in taxable property and about five square miles mies of territory while the dwellers of the suburbs would get th thI the I especially awater a water awater and d the pouce pi protection they want I Architect George R. R Mann who hasIn has hasIn hasin S in charge the building of the new City laI Hall announces that the roof is i on and several offices will wi be ready for oc occupancy occupancy 00 oc- oc by the tho fall fal The Mayor who is Ia to t be elected next week eek will wi be b inaugurated inaugurated in in- in the he present building blithe but blit buthe he will wi move into the new on one ons before he has served sered a year of his term ter From Froman an architectural standpoint this build build- in will wi be without a superior in the country It I has been erected by plans I II which the city got through a money competition among architects at home bore and abro abroad d paying several thousand dollars for them an and while there has been no jobbing jobbing- in ia the tIne building there has also been no false economy When completed the hall hail hal will wi have cost th thC the c c. c Dt nearly t io tt million dollars I j There will wil be b several new rai- rai 1 lines built in the this thi way buit city sum sum- sm mer All AU of ot them will wi be lines lne of course cue That goes without saying in St. St St Louis nowadays One of the most important of all al these will wi be bej beI bethe j the railway belting bling Forest Park Park The I I franchise is to t be b sold wId at auction by the tho city the plan having been proposed proposed pro pro- pro posed by municipal engineers and will wi bring brig it is i expected fully half haIr half's a million dollars Thousands of people go out to the park every day winter ever I and summer It I Is ia one of the city's I sights sIght None of them would fail fai to t ride around the beautiful forest after the proposed line lne is built buit u and railway Ite I I men say that the company which gets i the franchise will wi easily make 25 get per perI cent o on the te million half hal milon Investment I I This will wi be the tha first frt experiment investment the city caty baa haa 1 made in selling franchises by bv I auction ancton seg |
