Show i S1 r OUR OUn ST STLOUIS LOUIS LOUIS' LETTER The Color Line Lin at t the Iso Training School A. School A New Ne Departure lu in Building I Lucky Inventors Inventor I The while white students of ot the Manual Training School of Washington University University Uni Uni- have bave persistently objected to the presence of the handful ot colored boys who were at the institution and towards tho the close of the last session cession thero there w were ere vere so 60 many disagreeable ex- ex pi of this feeling that the tho faculty thought it best to lo refuse the color colored d youths permission to enter next year It seemed however on 00 many accounts such a good thing for forthe forthe the tile colored bOys boya to be bo taught to become become be- be come como mechanics if they wanted to that the Public School Board has taken up th the matter and the end of ot the dl discussion s di-s- will Le be that one of ot the public schools for colored people the Tons Tous- saint School wilLbe equipped with the proper propel apparatus and will train the tho boys Joys in skilled manual work The Tho teach teachers rs at at the University Training School say that the colored boys make malto very good mechanics when they oace make up their thell minds to learn This move of ot time the school board Is an excellent excel lent one oue and the example ought to be Le followed V follo d in other large cities where they have bave no manual training school for lor the colored boys boyl Three large Jarge office buildings now going going go go- ing lag up down town downtown town are being ton eon on ou a a. novel norel plait plan Generally tim Iho walls wails of brick briele or stone are re built up from the tho ground one after another The walls of ot these buildings are erected all aU at once That is several floors are put one on another and supported b by steel pillars before belore a brick is laid late After the pillars arc are in pla place e the time brick or stone stono is built m su between them Tho Thu idea is new and anti the architects regard it as a sensible departure from front old lines The buildings thus Ihus put up are both lighter and cheaper than the ones made in the stylo style of ot our forefathers one story after alter another They can be erected elected much snuck more more quickly too loo This city seems teems to encourage the tho development development de do- of ot Hie Ue inventive instinct A friend of John W. W Noble Isone is isone isone one of ot the tho successful Inventors who lives here lIe He has out several contrivances which are aro a a. boon to the deaf little arrangements which nurse the tue sound waves and are applied to the ear by means of walking sticks fans and invisible tubes placed inside Another Another An Another other young man who v was ls a clerk cleric inthe inthe in iu the custom house hO on a small salary has bas ju just t invented a faucet t by which st champagne can be emptied into bottles bottIes like liko beer instead of popping on out 1 with witha a report startling to nervous and often a great waste of ot wine vinc This young man found a n. friend nd in IT U. S. S Marshal Marshal Mar Mar- John W. W Emerl Emerson oa who backed him with money and three months after he be started to make malec his little faucets fau fan lie found lound ho be had a fortune in his g grE sp ap t I St. St Louis Is now v the only town In the country th thi tIt t has enough people interested inter inter- ested in racing horse to I maintain a track hack where the tho events are aie run Tun ot off at night The managers of the track Inthe in inthe the southern part pait of ot the city began racing by electric light last Monday night and promise to lo keep Leep it up through the summer All those interested inter hiter ested in horses as well vell as the time bookmakers bookmakers bookmakers book book- makers will vill do their best to make the experiment a a. success and if it is a winter track will be established hed heie hei like the tIle one at Guttenburg The Missouri Mis soon law now permits no selling pool on any races outside the State and atod the effort of the horsemen will be to keep racing going in the State Stale all the year round |