Show o j n. n v. v Y fit J y TJ T- T A i I l OUR ST ST. T. T LOUIS LETTER A. A Summer Samm r Garden oard In k th the Air Pro AIr Pro Proposed f C posed pond Extension of to the CUT City Limits Limits- TI The Chinese end and nd th Camera S-r. S Louis LOtTIS June 2 25 The The highest Bummer garden gulden in the world will be ready for the people by the beginning of next fleEt summer on tho the top of a a. bUsinesS bUsinesS' business busi bUsi- ness nesS' buildings now going up on OU Olive street The building will be e fifteen to Stories ies high and the garden will be on top of that At present it is intended that the garden arden shall be simply for people to Sl sit in and look out over the city but it is quite possible that the idea will be e elaborated and a theatre constructed on the lofty platform The Tile building of St. St Louis have hav increased so rapi rapidly ly that it has been almost impossible to keep count of them in the last year Well informed informed in formed people put the number of them now in the city at three hundred or more Their officers held a meeting the other night acting as a State as- as and decided to ask asIc the legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture to create the office of St State te examiner ex ex- of building The Tho petition will doubtless be granted Au officer of this sort would protect associations associations associations from slander and the stockholders lold- lold ers from fra fraud ud s S The Chinese of St. St Louis arc are just beginning be ginning to understand that they must m all be photographed b by the collector of I. I internal revenue bc before ort May S 1 of next year and they are arc much disturbed ed about it This is in accordance with the excl exclusion sion act act passed by y Congress last year That provides for the tIle j photographing photo photo- photographing io- io graphing of every avery Chinaman in the tho cO country within a year from the passage of the act tiet May 5 1893 1892 The Chinese abominate photography as they do newspapers and they vill will make every effort to evade the laws There Thero are only Chinese in St. St Louis LouL according according accord accord- ing leg to the census but more than half of these are never seen on tho the streets The proposition made by Street Commissioner Com Corn missioner Murphy of St. St Louis to increase increase in in- crease the city s by y extending Its lines so as to take iu a great part of St. St Louis LouLs county vill will of course COUlse meet with much opposition but ut it is generally generally gener gener- generally ally regarded ns as a lo one nevertheless The commissioners commissioner's plan will Im double the area of oJ- oJ St St. Louis and add acid half a million dollars dolla s to its revenue reve nue but ut the opponents of the scheme say BaY that the county demand more than half hall a million dollars' dollars worth of improvements as Roto as brought into the city Yet cr c everybody body ody concedes that something must be done to provide provide pro pro- vide ride for the legitimate extension of the city as it grows the provisions provisions provisions provis provis- ions of the charter made fourteen years ago and the thc commissioners commissioner's plan is the first attempt that has yet been made by anybody to grapple g with the tho question If Major Murphys Murphy's annexation annexation annex annex- boom succeeds th the city will have about people ll by th the next census cen sus as the the- new territory is thickly populated I |