Show l j ze zeS ze'S f N r I t. t r i r r S 'S c WINTER IN ST. ST LOUIS lo I. sad anti Co Coat Coal l Betti Cheap A Cheap A luriee Good Fortune ST. ST Louis Mo Jan JaDe 20 ln In In two ol of the grea great parks of oi the tho city Lafayette park and Forest park skaters by i thousands have enjoyed themselves since New Years Year's a Day The skating in each of the parks parIes is ia equally good but there is a 0 social socia distinction between be be- I tween iween those who skate in Lafayette I and those who go out to the tho park parle In I I Forest park it was a n. goo good humored scramble all the tho time timo to keep out of the theay I I way ay of somebody while in Lafayette most ost of the tho skaters know each cach other and ad the skating goes on with much more ioro formality Some of the fashionable fashion fashion- able ble gave ave skating parties in lafayette park during the tho week In In- iti ions lettered inside the picture of f a skate would be bo sent out and two prizes would be given ono one for the best skater kater and the other for the tho skater who ho got the most falls alIs It is seldom that hat the tho cold weather ever over lasts this long ong in St. St Louis and the iC ice concerns are re malting making the tho best of it Some of the companies are arc cutting fifteen and nd tons a n. day This sounds eDGr inous but in fact it is c. c the report l if tf f only one of the seven ice-harvesting ice of the city All of these these say ay that the that the price of ice ico this summer vill be one fourth less than it was last ast season Speaking of ice coal is naturally sug suggested ested and it is is- is worth while to toay say ay that in every city of the tho size of St. St Louis just now nov the tho price of this fuel fuels is s at least third one-third higher than titan it is U here One can buy t coal hero here at 11 cents a n. bushel and anthracite at a ton from any coal dealer Compare Corn Com pare pars those prices with those that prevail pre pre- vail ail in New York Chicago Boston and Cincinnati even oven and see seo what an advantage ad vantage St. St Louis has These prices are to the retail trade the tho wholesale consumers of course pay much less The reason for the low pr prices ces is one oue that assures the tho St St. Louis man that his cheap coal can never Dever be madeI made I higher by a combine a The coal capital here has nas tried to control the market and failed for natural causes Within thirty m miles les of the city in this State and Illinois there are inexhaustible beds of coal so near the surf surface cc that it takes but little money to mine it Farmers frequently strike shike beds of coal while plowing sink shafts with their hired men and then sell out to a n company of miners miners New mines arc are opened every year by now new men men and the supply is kept hept up tip to the demand sc that there is never any violent fluctuation tion in the tho price In many cities th tb coal bill of the man of small mean meant worries him more than thau his rent Ir St 81 Louis his coal costs him hini more than his street car fare The true tales of money money made in k rea rca es estate ato in St St. Louis just just now have hav i z pleasant sound to the ear like store one hears of fortunes got in mining There are so many electric rail being built in in and around the city tha thaS S the tho man who bought a n lot last yea for a n homestead finds very likely thi year that it is too valuable for him ti hold for that purpose and he sells i and buys another still further in thiS tin thi s 1 nc tr U ib L. L S I t to a hospital nurse ISh S. v iu au I a lot on time Dough I payments ts for a th tb dollars paying 10 sio a month Her iler in come was thirty and she lived than o on les less twenty Before the Assembly she had paid road the right gave a s suburban burban where her to run by the blo block k lot was vas A speculator bought her will make lot for cash ii H He money noney of has got course but she abe a sum of est eat will provide money whose interest inter inter- for her lives Hundreds as long as she sho of similar might be told of anecdotes bought people who have havo suburban I j property in three years yeara the last j j |