St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 19, 1909

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(No. 22 in the Post-Dispatch Limelight Series.) LICK! Giddap! All aboard forthe picnic grounds, music pavilion, Triple A. bird cage, bear pit, avi- ation field and Art Museum! If we don’t hear this cry in Forest Park next summer, it will be because the Comptroller has uttered. one of ‘those low, forbidding watchdog- _ f-the-treasury growls, or because the Mayor _ and the Council aren't speaking, or because some ~ Wward-committeeman’s advice has gone “unheeded ' -in’the appointment of a monkey chaperon. Such Py. things have ere now kept St. Louis’ toiling uphill _ ‘when it should have been making the ascent by - pubber-tired barouche. Philip C. Scanlan nopes none of these thifgs: will happen to his new plan for municipally owned ig “conveyances in Forest Park. Ever since the club- A ‘women ‘stormed Att Hill, with plans for a park. tole: litte folded | ‘in’ their, shopping bags, the Park oner | has been hearing from that YD rt of ithe population of St. Louis which a par- im ap ope has neglected to supply with Most of the things heard have been (ding Challenges All § to Try to Climb the Hill. i | HE man who put the Art Museum on a bill. in the first place is chiefly to Diame. If _ the building had been set in a hollgw, the me could have ignored it. But standing where ' , it is a challenge to the man below, and BOO! ae later, usually on a bright afternoon 1a - atmosphere mellows distances and makes pale and a half look like half a mile, the man r tries It. something to put on his blistered feet, ‘e gen- on buys also a sheet of paper, an envelope ue la ere The next morning the Park Com- i or, or ‘he man who opens the mail i “Editor” in some newspaper office, gets en ‘i by the man ‘With the diistered feet. The iter never fails to introduce comparisons with elties; ‘and ‘does not hesitate to say that . mver, ‘Omaha, Bucyrus, O.,,or Punxsutawney, a. f could: give this city priceless’ pointers on oway, to run parks.. If the writer was honk- onked out of the ‘hillside road by an automobile. no Bate nes ty owe sabes and its ways 7 To | » letters ana eas the grumblings of. ny “who do hot tako the trouble to write ira; Ing frequent editorial paragraphs and it: hanqoet speeches, askipg in various jestion, “Are the parks for. Athe people, R t SCANLAN knows the an- ut looking on the assessor's # belong to the people. He -in Forest Park there has ne “about the second part of the ne has complained that. Mr. ~’. € his tamtly are not welcome in Hyde }, B ‘Park and Carr Pars, cs long as the of mt tend last season's fishing carnival) ir | was as an affair as

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eo 98 %ee @e¢@ Ww} DARE BR B16 YOUR S STRE TCARS INTO OUR PARK with: his tracks. He said that, instead; he would sit up nights to keep the Captajn and his tracks from getting in. In fact, he intimated, such entry ‘would only be made over his comatose, if not dead, body ws But after a. Civic League baseuet audience, the other day, had cheered a Forest-Park-for-the-peo- ple speech by Fred W. Léhmarn, who was inspired by an editorial suggestion in the Post-Dispatch, Commissioner Scanlan. decided that something would have to be done to make the man on the gravel path a little less envious of the man in . the touring car. \ Bus Line Considered Only Solution of the Problem. E WAS not long in deciding between mov- able sidewalks, which are likely to get clogged up with patent. rights and snow, and a bus line. But while he was geiting a bus’ line, he decided, he muct have busses enough, and ICOMMISSIONER - Is‘;Commissioner Scanlan’s Plan if Somebody Doesn’t Stop Him "FOUNDRY

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, DONT You { Off the Grass” signs. The small parks were the) purchase cf a bond issue, and Fairground, tne'| old St. Louis Fair Grounds, was bought by spe-| cial appropriation. ‘ With 200 men, most of thein day laborers, on; his payroll, Scanlan has fared less roughly with! the politicians.than some of his ¢riends in the;| Country Club polo set predicted at the time of! his appointment. The ward statesmen and Scan-| With all our heart, right from the start And we will win. Blow your way, Start it humming, keep it coming Every day When there’s work before us We must. all agree: iivery member nrust ennoeiberla “It is up to me.’ . . » HAT do you think of that? VW It was written by The Poet of. the. Rock of Gloom. Never heard of him? Well, he’s right eliere in’ . Louis, and when he isn’t busy writing songs he is hammering tacks. In ‘both c&pacities he has all récords clinched and he bids fair to wrest )the laurels of William Flewellyn Saundérs, sweet’ DD” mind whether wind and weather 4 warbler of the Business Men’s League, and George /W. Simmons, the Alfred Austin of the Waterways. : } He wrote this “pull together” song all by him-' self, and he can write another, just as good, on 20' minutes’ notice. . , He is the only poet ‘of the Rock - of “Gloom : )who ever set one of his lyrics to the tune of the

lan soon came to an understanding. This was, in! substance, that they looked just as queer to him as he did to them, and that if they would try not to mind his aristocratic antecedents he would make no protest about an occasional ‘‘dis’’ or “‘dat”’ in their discussion of the quc!ifications of team- sters and second-class gardeners. Present Commissioner Still. Has Much Work Awaiting Him. CANLAN does not expect to leave St. Louis parks in the fincl stage of perfection, but he hopes to leave them better than he | excreta tence found them. Just now a plan for-widening Lin-| dell boulevard driveway west of Union avenue, from 30 to 50 feet, and for taking the Market line! tracks out of Forest Park and putting them onX Oakland avenue, are keeping his desk coyered with blueprints. ) “Don’t ask me too’ much about the details,” he| savs, when talking of ‘his park projects. “The more details, the more objections, and I’m trying, to get things done, not to find reasons: why they! can’t be done.” “ Which, from a City Hall official, is refreshing. 4

must run them to other places than the Art. Museum. The child who wants to go to the bil ‘dh fage, he reasoned, needs transit as much as does the spinster who toils up Art Hill to view Prax iteles in plaster. : y So, he determined, there should,be bucktitbrdls or wagonettes, or rubberneck wagons,-or vehicles of whatever style might later recommend itself, not only up Art Hill, but up thé other slopes and around the roadways The .announcement of his plan placed Mr. Scanlan for a second time in the limelight, and _ him. a proper subject for sketch number 2 in the Post-Dispatch limelight series. - His first appearance in the calcium’s glow was when Ae insisted that the “Free to All” sentence carved over the Art Museum portal would have to snean what it said, and the city would not go into any left-handed partnership when it came to running the museum. If Washington University deemed ot.erwise, he would gladly permit vans to enter the park in-sufficient number to haul ats art treasures away. Some horror was expressed that the Park Com- missioner, himself a man of artistic tastes, shoule thus endanger the esthetic advantages of the pub- lic. But when the controversy was over, the paintings and statues were still in place, and the only thing that was missing was the toll-taker at the door. <A city board has since controlled the: Museum. 3 \ Seven New Parks Are Made by Scanlan Administration, Ff THE parks had cornerstones, Scanlan's name would be well distributed about the city a hundred years . ence. For the making of: peven new sarks, regen Fairground caer BASHFUL ST. LOUISANS (Being No. 2 ina Series of Photographs of Citizens Who Try Very, VERY hard to Keep Out of the Limelight, but Just Can’t.) | ) fe aa . Oak “ghey ae arse Bo Ruta : gee SS rome ws ‘of ie Sas Mall ae appears prehiedersae he figu sie fe bapiany. he aor weary of seal Say ame

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Merry Widow. waltz. Try this. “‘pull towethee”s thing. on your safety razor ane see if it isn’t the real goods. / “If you don’t like it there are others in stock and for a very small.stipend you can get in on ‘a circulating library of similar ditties from the Same source. It’s a mean trick to oe the, thing away. Bert Ball is the Poet.of the Rock of Gloom. } fedogsus he isn’t sitting on the rock he isn’t so very gloomy. When occasion demands it he can jump with great ability from the heights of Mount X bureau of the Merchants’ Exchange. he sees nothing incongruous in his double role of ag and publicity promoter.

| | Kernels of Golden Grain in Initial Appearance ee. IDN’T Virgil, Ovid, Horace and What’s- His-Name make Rome : Wasn't poetry responsible for the Ro- }

) ! 66 man punch and vice yersa?” he says. Why shouldn't Triptolemus, Audibus Maximus, be just as active today as he was in bygone ages when Bizziskus, Keeper of the Snakes, was one Ceres? Put a tack in that! | The sample quoted at the beginning of this ithe evening of Dec. 28. | On that occasion the Kernels of the Golden Grain, Temple of Ceres, Crib of St. Louis, will pare their first appecrance in public. Ball thinks ‘in the future up-to-the-minute boosters of 8t. ‘Louis will wear Grecian draperies.

‘men in St. Louls will stand. forth clad in ae. Plato kirtle, the Demosthenes toga and the ‘tes raglan, It will be an inspiring moment ‘they all lift up their voices and sing Bert masterpiece, “The Merchants’ Exchange,” | has been artfully set to the tune Oaken Bucket.” Since that dear old t

famous?. like ru yOlymipus to his job as manager of the public.ty and plunging into the And he can week’s sdlary in qne ha a jump back again, too, with equal facility. In fact, pans Ballade in the of And here’s one ¢ } of the chief functionaries in’ the Temple of of the Golden Grain and wil be cad fn costumes. . “Tt fe one of my plans for : article is only one of the congs which Bert Ball Ball. “Grain men ‘has written to be warbled at ‘the ‘banquet of the % ‘St. Louis Grain Club at-the Mercantile-Club on be 8 soid-plated — sae corn: -it oon fa the Kovacs ani

‘they will make an instantaneous hit and belietes o6 it more than likely (whatever that means) that - ! The Veiled Prophet would better look to his will | jaurels, At this banquet where Bert Ball’s songs which < }will be sung some of the most dignified business gether.” Set TE IR ae Yee pra ty atid WMatiay TNR ot. ellen MR an i a5 5