Show L OUR 87 ST LOUIS LETTER Tha Th e New Union Depot Depot- Depot Clos Clos- 1 lag fog Up of tho the Town Down root Pool Koom looma ST. ST Lows Louis LOUS Oct 27 Tho Tho birth of a 0 suspicion in the tho minds of tho the Board Boad of 01 Public Improvements Improvement that tha the terminal terminal nal nal roads which are building tho the new Union depot Intended to gobble up a apar apart apart part par of a s street tree t has led to a a very ver full ful explanation of the plans of the com corn pany It I was known kown that the tho building building build build- buld- buld ing was to occupy the time greater part of ofa a block and that it was to tobe tobe tobe be the he largest larget affair of the sort in the tho but the tho full ful scope of the plans was wn not understood understood It I develops now the structure being half finished hal that its is cost will b be close CloS to t a u million dollars With ith ornamentation as ns elaborate ate as An n art mus museum ur Four Fout Of or r five fire hundred trains a d day dab wl will p pass s 1 in and tind i out of 01 the depot when it is is i finished finished- The Tho first cars car carit will it discharge their passengers pas as- as in it before the lights blaze Inthe in inthe the streets street of 01 the city next fall l. l There is a far greater demand in St. St Louis for expert export electricians than can be bo filled and good men of th this sort are almost naming their own salaries Gas for lighting steam for engines and horses and ca cables ble for street cars are being being be be- ing abandoned g generally and electric plants are being put in a everywhere There are two interesting signs of this this situation One is the establishment of ofa I a 9 night school for mechanical engineers engineers engineers engi engi- where they are Ire taught taught to apply their knowledge to electric machinery and tho the other is the organization ion of an electrical society composed of electrical elec elec- triciti Inventors Inventor's and scientists This Thi opet opened d its first st meeting meeting the other night with ith a banquet at which there were ero loa plates The passage of the law by the tho 5 Missouri Mis Mis- 5 5 s- s sour Legislature forbidding betting in the State on races in other States has had a curious result resul here hero St. St StLouis Louis has always had one first class class racetrack racetrack race race- track the one at the fair grounds gounds which is under the control of the tile Jockey club Under the old conditions conditions condi condi- tons too there was one other out in Forest Park where amateur trials of speed were had The new law has brought into existence three three more tracks one in itt the soli southern them part of the city where the tho racing by electric light was done at night last summer another another an an- other othe in East St. St Louis Loui just across the river and the thc third across the river to too near Madison adison The company at atthe tho the back of this last enterprise have built buit a pas passenger nger depot at the foot of Olive Olve street and run trains over the river every afternoon while the racing is going on at intervals of half an hal an The great races of the city out ont at f he the fair grounds ground's track take pl place ce in the spring and fall fal and as a soon as they stop these other tracks begin their winter racing On the two tracks across the river of course the Missouri law doesn't apply and the makers book swarm there to get bets betson on the Eastern races races The tracks are patronized d principally by the St. St St Louis pc people and so the law a accomplishes nothing but the breaking up of the rooms pool in the business alleys aleys down town tow This by the way was the primary primar object of the legislators to vho vho had it pas passed d. d A.- A. |