Show 5 1 c. c 5 jh i OUR ST. ST LOUIS LETTER LETER of the X tle City CUT A C Campaign Against Small Dairies Dairies- A ilon Dollar Dolar Lawsuit ST ST. Louis Mo July 11 The H.-The The approach ap approach ap- ap of ot a n. city campaign has hn brought about a n. lively dis discussion of the tho tle finan financial nan nan- cial condition condon of bt it t Louis Money ia is wanted for or new publio buildings build buildIngs ings that aro arc contemplated contemplated The be city ity cannot run mu rn into debt and cannot increase its is taxation without with wih- wih out a a vote vot of the people and everybody everybody every every- ever ever- everI I body understands that a proposition to todo todo todo do either of these things would bo be beaten at nt tho the polls by tho the tax So a movement Is ou foot now to in increase in I. I crease the city limits and aud take talco in about tw twenty enty square miles of rich and populous lous Ions suburban settlements to the tho West West It is claimed that the taxes from this soul soul-co would give tile the tle city all aU the revenue rove reve nue it i needs to carry ear out its it plan of public improvement The rise question queston will willbo wi bo be agitated vigorously horn now till Ul the election anti and it may be an issue inthe in Ia inthe the spring campaign campain for the tho election electon of ofa a n. Mayor Time The big and little dairies of the city are arc fighting over a a new mi mIlk law tho time most thorough ev ever proposed in this city iy which h is now pending in the Assembly The rho system of inspection which the I bill bl contemplates is t so o rigid that it it will wi drive out of business the tte many little dirty dairies in iu the city that make mako money roney by selling impure milk mik and they are arc moving heaven and earth to moving kilt kill Ii tho the bill bi If I the time bill i passes it will wi put into operation a n. complete system of food inspection that will trill wi in include e every ery article attile artcle of food l med ed ou on the table Milk Mie Inspector James E. E Sullivan Sulvan m malice kes a. a a telling argument for the bill bi by drawing from the records of infant mortality in m the tIme health bealh office Children Chil Chi Chi- dren fed on Impure milk mik die of mar mar- mar mar- asmus most often ofen r Sullivan shows that since milk inspection was begun here flee five years ago the deaths from have decreased eased to 0 o per percent percent cent lie le argues of course coure that tIme the better the inspection time the life of more child children ten will wi be saved ri The great dairies of the city whoso whose reputation depends on the quality of their milk mik are doing all 11 they can ena to pass the bill bi and rid themselves of the comparatively irresponsible com competition pc Ulon of the smaller dairymen S We Wo me are going to hate hare a n. very interesting interesting inter inter- esting eating million milon dollar suit snit here When Thomas Smith sold Washington Park t to tho the city years ago for 8 lIe he stipulated that it was va to bo be ufe used forever forever for for- ever over for the purposes of a public square The city is now building n it city hall ball bal on tile the site of the tho park having having- cut ctt down the tho trees and nd has already spent about a quarter of a million on 01 the structure Now ow the heirs of Mr Smith most of whom live lve in 10 Texas and Kentucky come to the tIme United States court claiming claim claim- caim- caim ing lag not only large laigo damages because the city has 1 diverted the park from the use to which it i agreed to put it but but also the park itself The Tho park is now nosy worth a 0 million dollars hood Good lawyers say sav the heirs have an excellent case but the tho city's la lawyers layer yer of course make mako light of it i. i While the suit coca croes oes on the tho building of tho time hall ball hal will wi proceed too and by the time a decision is obtained obtained ob ob- ob- ob tamed th the edifice w will be finished Then if i the heirs win the tle suit sui time the city will vi simply hand thorn thom over the money moncy tho the park parI is worth Experiments in a new kind ot 01 weather signalling are re to be he tried soon Boon Boonin in time the agricultural country which wIdel depends depends depends de de- de- de on St St. St Louis for its forecasts Chief Signal Officer Mark W. W Honington larington Honing Honing- laring- laring ton is all al satisfied with wih the tIle results re re- re- re suits obtained from the system of f distributing dis dis- signals by means menus of manufactory tory and factory whistles It seems that that they aro are confounded with wih the whistles used for other purposes and often ofen pass pas unnoticed by the tile people for o whose benefit they are set out ont Time The weather officers hero here havo have been informed Harrington intends to introduce sliver silver siver whistles for transmitting trans trans- tb the signals signals IIo lo thinks they give out a a purer rounder tone just as 8 loud as the the other whistles whis whis- ties tes and easily distinguished from them The first experiments in this thi part of the country with wih time the silver n er whistle will wi bo be made in the large fann farm fanning I ing wE towns of Missouri and Illinois I |