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Show St. Louis Will Soon Be All Dolled Up i municipal auditorium seating 20,000 persons and costing Jo.000,0(H), a new Civil courthouse to cost ?4,000,000, a new city morgue, and a municipal power pow-er house costing $1,000,000. It will create in front of Union station sta-tion another plaza of two city blocks, now occupied by unsightly business buildings. It will replace the gas street light system with a modern, city-wide city-wide electric system to cost SS.000,000. It will expend $14,450,000 to create a city-wide major street plan by the widening of its chief trallic arteries, the central feature being a street 100 feet wide, extending from the north residence extremity through the business busi-ness section to the south residence extremity. It will expend $3,800,000 to acquire new parks and to expand the already extensive facilities of existent parks to give recreational advantages to a greater proportion of its population: $10,000,000 to extend Its sewer system to all districts and reconstruct worn-out worn-out portions; $112,000,000 for an additional addi-tional filtration plant; $4,500,000 for the expansion of its public hospital facilities, fa-cilities, and $1,250,000 to reconstruct four public market buildings. OT. LOUIS, MO. This city soon will enter upon an era of physical transformation trans-formation ami lieautilication as a re-I re-I suit of approval at the polls of twenty bond proposals calling for the ex-! ex-! ponditure of $87,372,500. The city will spend $10,000,000 in expanding ex-panding Its civic center, now consisting consist-ing of a Municipal courts building and city hall, occupying four blocks on the fringe of 'ts business district, by tearing tear-ing down tlie business buildings upon nine other blocks and transforming the area into a memorial plaza for its sons who fell In the World war. It will erect in this plaza a memorial j building costing $1.01)0.000 and on the borders of tlie plaza will construct a |