Show A WAR SMOKE SMOKE- 5 Et St Lout Louis Grappling With TitU the Smoke Nuisance Nuisance Nuisance-A A New Ne' ew Bridge e Across the Mississippi S ST. ST Louis Lou s Feb Fob 2 In In a group of I business men smoking cigars after r dinner din din- I. I ner nor at the tho Mercantile club the other afternoon tho statement was made by bya a manufacturer that the tho city would spend fully uny a tIo quarter of a million dollars dollars dol dot lars lava in testing smoke preventing deVices de- de Vices rices this year lIe He meant of oi course the manufacturers of tho the city who have havo joined tho the club which intends to clear the tho air nir of the tho smoke This club got up the tho bills organizing the city crusade against the smoke nuisance which the tho Mayor has just signed Tho The laws s cs a n bureau with inspectors whose whoso duty it is to prosecute those who will not use smoke preventing devices on their furnaces A peculiarity of 01 the law that distinguishes it from those proposed in other cities is that any inventor inventor inventor in in- can have his device tested and its merit decided upon by a n board of experts paid by the tho city The club hopes to rid the city of half of its smoke cloud by the beginning of summer Ever since sine the tho Merchants' Merchants bridge was completed it has been seen that St. St Louis would have to h have ve another one ono to cross the Mississippi for the tho special use of foot passengers and vehicles The Eads Ends bridge built up East St. St Louis and the tho Merchants' Merchants bridge made Madison and Venice grow into flourishing tows The people of these two towns cannot get to St. St Louis on foot or by chicles They must use tile the regular trains of the Merchants Merchants' Merchants Merchants' Merchants Merchants' Mer Mer- chants' chants Terminal Company or wait for Lor forslow slow ferry They want They want a n bridge over which electric cars can run and people can walk walle The bill now before belore Congress provides for this kind of 01 a tIo abridge abridge bridge which is to be built by St. St Louis men at a n cost of about Mayor Noonan has just signed a bill that will give St. St Louis another electric electric elec elec- dee dee- trio street railway before the crowds begin to fill 1111 the city for lor t the ic Fall Pall Festivities The road will run along Grand A Avenue venue one ono of the widest idest w and most important residence residence resi resi- dence ares of the city It will enable one ono to ride from the cemeteries to the tho Grand Avenue viaduct and across neross that to Tower Grove Park The road will cost half a tIo million dollars nn anG will be built entirely by St. St Louis capital The St. St Louis Turner societies are noted all over the United States f for or ther thea gymnasts There are six turn halls linUs in inthe inthe inthe the city and the membership of the tho societies is over About five hundred of the best of these gymnasts are being drilled for exhibitions at tho the Worlds World's Fair The corps will include all the young young- athletes who participate in the events on the Turner nights at atthe atthe atthe the St. St Louis exposition and there will willbe willbe willbo be bo besides a specially drilled body hotly of ofa a hundred men or so who are known among the Turners everywhere as winners prize in the national competitions The Tho corps will go to tho Worlds World's Pair Fair prepared to issue and i receive re- re e- e challenges for all sorts of feats of 01 strength and skill and th they y hope to engage in competition with Turners I from Germany |