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Show ""-isi! In the little communities of soy-is soy-is oMO ' era hundred peoplo everybody ntotBflf knoivs everybody. The strangest and '3 I thing to the city dweller upon, go-pay go-pay 1 I Ins to tho country or small town is 'be'M I tiat eVerJkody speaks to everybody '; li and knows those he docs no.t speak 9' to by their first .names. Tho farm-rcrjBB farm-rcrjBB er can go to the highest hilltop on 3SS '9 1 domain and point out farm's farm-'s house after farmhouse and tell who f ' lives there and all about their. fami--fr-J ? lies. afrrM f The biggest surprise to the man r. V- who has always lived In the coun- 9 L try Is that tho city man does not njM b even know his next-door neighbor. 1 In the country men get together I j at literary events In the town hall I or at the Fourth of July picnic. I They meet each other at tho vll- I i lage church or at the cross-roads' I store, and everybody goes to the last I i day of school entertainment. I . In the. city,, men -know thelrbusl .- I ; ncss associates but not well. When I Smith's wife sues him Cor divorce I i his friends at tho club are surprised I to learn through the papers he has ' I a wife. In the country everybody I ' would know Smith's wife was going IE to sue three years before it hap- l pened, and If the paper printed any I such scandal it would be old to I I overybody before the editor found I , it out. I At Falrvleww Kan., for instance. I I everybody knows that Falrvlcw Is I tho best town on earth nnd will fight to the finish anybody that says it Isn't. Everybody Is certain that I within a radius of six miles of Falr- II view is the garden spot of the earth. I "We raise more corn around Falr- I j vlow than In any other place three I times tho size." the farmers will tell ' f you. I ' The FalrvJew baseball team can I i outplay any baseball team -even If ! they don't win all the games. If jyou don't believe It just get off the ' ' train at Falrvlcw and ask. ' Every- ' body goes to tho baseball games. I And rooters say! go to Falrvlcw If r V you want to see men get really, truly enthusiastic about the American game. ' j Tn New York or London men are j so busy thinking about themselves they haven't time to think about S their crops or tho baseball teams, jj Every now and then a man would ! move to a big town from some Ut- i1 ' tic town like FalrvJew and die of j f Lonesomeness on account of tho S lack of civic pride and spirit. The I' survivors of this lonesome feol- (ing and the sons of these survivors are the ones In the forefront to bring about rivic pride In the cities. I They know how, fine it Is to have enthusiasm arid pride In their homo town. They get.'up Fourth of July ccle-' I! bratlons. ' carnlv'als and municipal j concerts and Christmas trees, and of late years they have resorted to historical pageants to awaken civic pride. Somo of these historical paceants require many hundreds Uf and oven thousands of actor". Groat sums of money are spent- In putting ' them on. but the promoters find just compensation In the results accom- pllshed. civic prtte rtFCEivi.s roost. j Milwaukee ha trld the piscnm and finds It has done wonders in i awakeninc chic pride. Chicago has followed her example with surreys. , Only a few months acn Philadelphia i held a gisantlc pnceanl. and the res idents of the Quaker Cl'v nr more truly alive than ever' they wen; bo-fore. bo-fore. Next snrln? St. T,onl5 Is to stacc a pageant. It I to ho the greatest of them all. There will he more than 7,000 player?, nnd soailnc capacity ca-pacity on the natural '-unnMtonior In Forest Par' In front of the stno will he provided for G2.000 spectators. specta-tors. The celebration will mark the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary anniver-sary of the founding of the city. The entire hlslorv of the oliv will he deploteo at the foot of Ari Mill nn the old World' Fair Grounds. From the' loot of Art Hill lagoons ' , f ) ,h ' stretch away giving amplo opportunity oppor-tunity to depict water scenes as well as land scenes. The history of St. Louis gives opportunity op-portunity for picturesque display. Starting with the Mound Builders it has gone through the periods of possession by the Red Men, Spaniards, Span-iards, French, English and Americans. Amer-icans. Linked with the history of-St. of-St. Louis are such names as Pontlac, DeSoto. LnSalle, Marquette, U. S. Grant. Lafayette. Napoleon, Gen. W. T. Shcrmnn, Eugene Field. Daniel Dan-iel Boone, Jennie Llnd and hundreds of others. The city was started as a fur trading trad-ing post by Pierre Laclede and Au-gusto Au-gusto Chouteau. It later becamo the greatest lumber market of the country. Many Indeed are the romantic rom-antic , stories of that early period when the forests of the north were hewn " and . the logs floated to tho future city to be cut Into lumber. The steamboat dnys have been the subject of many dramas. As a border bor-der town between the North and the South the Civil War period gives another chance for I rllllant effect. To write the pageant. Thomas Wood Steyens. director of the Carnegie Car-negie Institute, school of drama, has been secured. Fie wrote and staged the pageant of the Old North--west at Milwaukee in 1310: the pageant of the Rcnnalsanco In Chicago Chi-cago in 1009, and Is the author of several plays produced by the stage guild of Chicago. PAG KANT TO END WITH SUNSET. The pageant will begin at 5 p. m. every afternoon for five days and will last until sundown. Following the pageant will he a masque by. nrtlflclnl light of nllegorlcal scones written by Percy MacKaye of Cornish. Cor-nish. N. H. Ho la a poet nnd dramatist. dram-atist. Flo is the -author of the Joan of Arc pageant given In tho Harvard Har-vard stadium In 1900 1 lY which Maude Adams took tho title role. He also Is author of the Bird Masque given last year nt Merlden, N.- H.. In which Miss Eleanor W-f-on took a leading role. His latest lat-est success la "A Thousand Years Ago." now at Booth Theater, N. Y. Tho masque will be staged by Joseph Linden of Boston. He is ai .'-.' - artist and stage director. Ho staged tho Masque at tho Bluo Garden in Newport last summer and also tho Bird Masquu. The music for tho masquo is being written by Frederick Fred-erick S. Converse of Boston. It will be given by a band of 100 pieces and a great chorus.. William W. La Beau me. stago manager of the big event. Is working work-ing with a committee from everv class of society from every part of the city. Already the actors are practicing. Already they are making mak-ing costumes. Already they aro posing In the guise of Daniel Boone, and Luw.ls and Clarke. With' grtiat numbers of turner and singing societies so-cieties to call on ho has no end of volunteers. The pageant begins In that dim period before histories were printed print-ed in books, when the Mound Builders Build-ers occupied SL- Louis and built those famous mounds which have given tho city Its rich name, "Tho Mound City." Without a break on tho stage, the Indians win como. Then Do Soto will, set up his cross. Coronado will explore tho land. Marquette and Jollet and La Salic win appear In , tho exploration period. pe-riod. . The final scene in the , exploration ex-ploration period will bb the mutiny ' m-rj' w ; V .2 :MC and killing of La Salle. Swiftly will follow the days of Laclede and Chouteau, and tho transfer of the territory from ono nation to another. First, there will be ono striking picture and then another, an-other, ever changing, but always plcturesquo. Daniel Boone and Lewis and Clarke will lead tho groat procession proces-sion of American frontiersmen. Then will bo tho first steamboat, Lafayette's La-fayette's visit to St. Louis, the Mexican Mex-ican War, tho first railroad and the Civil War. As the sun sets tho soldiers sol-diers will divide and tho bluo and gray will inarch away in tho gath- '.v.-' - . - ' ' . : . ;.:v.5 ; y V ' i ' , J' " .;. i:, ering twilight the bluo toward the North and the gray toward tho South. PAGEANT COMMITTEE REPRESENTS EVERYONE. . The Pageant Committee is tho most representative organization ever brought together in tho city. Instead of being fostered by some particular organization, all members mem-bers of all organizations are uniting unit-ing to make the event the greatest ever given. The Recreation Commission Com-mission was enthusiastic . for the event, because of the element of play, teaohers trooped to its support sup-port because of the great historical value: business men liked it because it will advertise tho city, and all St. Loulsans liked it because, it Is t,o bo a big demonstration tracing tho growth of the village to the rank of a clt'. It will create town pride. It will remind the citizens that .Eugene Field was born In. their city. It will remind them that General Gen-eral Grant was married within its limits. It will remind them that Pontlac is burled under tho old Southern Hotel. It will trace the growth of the metropolis of the Mississippi Mis-sissippi Valley. ' When tho peoplo know the history of their city they will become enthusiastic because they will ,learn what to become enthusiastic en-thusiastic about. Tho masque will doplct ,KIng Louis, the Crusader. It will depict other scones of the past, and then will sweep forward into the futuro and tho coming city . with Its waterfront water-front parks, its cross-town plazas, its civic center, its municipal thea-, tor. Its mighty industries, its happy people all will bo forecast by tho hand of Mackaye, , St. Louis began as a mark on a tree. Auguste Chouteau wrote In his journal an account of tho trco episode. epi-sode. Chouteau accompanied Laclede La-clede when ho first ascended tho hill where tho Courthouse now stands, and chose that site as tho future home for himself and the companions who had como with him from Now Orleans to establish estab-lish a post near tho mouth of tho Missouri. Says Chouteau in his journal: V ' - : i - '' i ITPPER left, Lafayette and I his wife, whose visit to H America and St. Louis was a memorable event. Up- H per right, Daniel Boone and H his dog;. Center, Laclede, H the founder of the city. Lower left, De Soto, discov- H erer of Mississippi, Lower H right, La Salle, who claimed H the Middle West for France. H Upper left drawing, La Salle H claiming the Middle. West H for King Louis. Upper H right drawing, selling Louis- H iana to America. Left cen- ' H ter, De Soto discovering the H Mississippi. Right center, I opening the fur trading post. I Lower left drawing, the H cowboys. Lower right, hunt- H in- buffalo. H "After having examined all thor-oughly, thor-oughly, Laclede fixed upon the place where he wished to form his settlement, marked with his own hand a tree, and said, 'you will come here as soon as navigation opens and will cause this place to be cleared in order to form our settlement after the plan I shall give you.' " With tho arrival of Laclede's party in February of the following year, the square which is now occu- .H pied by the Courthouse became tho civic, business and residence cen- IH ter, and remained so until compar- ativcly. recent years. IJ The Duke of Saxe-Welmar, who ' visited St. Louis In. 1S25.- In his "Travels In North America." gives an Interesting description of tho appearance of the clt' as he saw It at that time. '"St. Louis lies upon a rather high, rocky foundation on the right bank . of tiie Mississippi, and stretches itself out nearly p, mile in length in the direction of the river. , The most of the houses have a garden towards tho water, tho earth is' supported by walls, so that the gardens form so many terraces. The city contains about 4,000 In-habitants. In-habitants. It consists of one long. main street, running parallel with tho river, from which several sldo streets run to tho hejghts beyond the "Here single houses point out tho space where another street par-allcl par-allcl with the main street can ono day bo built. Incidentally, in his "Travels" the Duke gives an interesting account of his meeting hore with August Chouteau. "Mr. Chouteau was a venerable man of eighty years, a native of New Orleans. Ho told us that at tho fl founding of SL Lpuls ho lelled tho first tree. His house, resembling ' In architecture the Old Government House in New Orleans, was tho first substantial building erected hero. Tho conversation with this aged man, who received us like a patrl-arch, patrl-arch, surrounded by his descend-ants, descend-ants, was very interesting. Ho was of tho opinion that the peoplo from whom the Indian antiquities havo come down to us, either by pcstllen-tlal pcstllen-tlal disease or an all-dcstroylug war, must have been blotted irom tho earth. Ho believed that Beh ring's jH Straits were moro practicable for-morly for-morly than at present at least, they must have been Asiatic hordes that camo to America." 1 |