St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 30, 1897

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SUNDAY’S POST-DISPATCH St. Louis Post-Dispateh.= WITH THE SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH — VOI. 48, NO. 825. > 0 WEDNESDAY EVENING-ST. LOUIS-—JUNE 30. 1897. TEN PAGES. PRICE NN BRON canes Fun tn Colors tn the Sunday Post-Dispatch. j ** 4 Cight Fages of HARD KNOCKS Flu GROAKERS @xX-GOV. FRANCIS REPLIES TO CORWIN H. SPENCER’S RE- MARES ABOUT ST. LOUIS. Changes in the Local Grain Trade Have All Been for Its Better - ment, uate BI ot i Bein ee | Coca MARKET WILL GROW GREAT WHILE CHICAGO AND A. NEW YORE DECLINE. Conditions Point to a Lively Fall Busi- ness Revival Based on Re- turn of Confidenca Eix-President Corwin H. Spencer, who was President of the Merchants’ Exchange in 1896, in announcing why he was dissolving the Spencer Grain and Elevator Co. and moving away from St. Louis, gave the fol- lowing as his chief reason for doing so: “IT am much too active a man to remain long out of the harness. I have thought geriously of going into the grain business in New York. Trade conditions there are better than here. Chicago’s recent change of grain grades will injure the trade here and in the Northwest to the benefit of the New York market.“ Ex-Gov. David R. Francis, who was Sec- retary of the Interior during the last eight months of President Cleveland’s adminis- tration, takes quite a different view of the situation. | To a reporter for the Post-Dispatch who called at hig home on Maryland avenue Wednesday Gov. Francis discussed with his usual freedom not only the future of St. Louis as a grain market, but the gen- ral business outlook. “T dissent absolutely from the view of my friend, Mr. C. H. Spencer,“ said Gov. Fran- cis. “A revision has been going on for a yoar or two in the methods of the grain business in St. Louis. The reforms sought to be brought about have all been for the betterment of that trade. This, I take it, no one cognizant with the eituation will gainsay. “St. Louls is as good a location as any in the country, either on the seaboard or in the interior, for dealers in all kinds of grain. I do not mean it is going to be a point of accumulation for the storage of grain 80 much as that it {Is a good vantage ground from which to feel the pulse of the con- suming world and keep in touch with the producers at the same time. Our geograph- ical position justifies this assertion. The grain business is going to be done by the cheapest and most direct lines of trans- portation from the wheat and corn fields to the consuming markets of Europe. In other words the grain business does not mean to the extent as formerly that there shall be a large accumulation at any one point, but that the grain shall be cheaply stored ut or near the fields of production, until the demand for it abroad moves it directly out of the country. “I very much fear that the increased rail facilities to New Orleans, Newport News and Galveston will continue to draw the great bulk of grain from the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys to those ports. If go, there is nothing discouraging for the gen- eral welfare and progress of St. Louls. There is not the least reason for despond- ency on that score. “Grain merchants who have headquarters can move the surplus grain to better ad- vantage than if they were located at New York, Baltimore or Boston, for the simple reason, as above stated, they are nearer to the base of supplies. “Therefore I insist that take either view of the matter, there is no warrant for the assertion that St. Louls as a grain center is on the wane. “More than this,” continued the Govern- er, with emphatic voice, “the return of Good times, of which 1 think we have every . indication, will likely restore to St. Louis dis her prestige as an advantageous oint for the accumulation of grain. . “The falling off m speculation, which has mh 80 marked in the past fe one of the main causes 5 1 of grain in fevive, aa it undoubtedly will with turn of business confidence, be occasien and justification for carrying stocks of grain here. The sult will be a spirited revival a highly _ ~~ heretofore contributed largely to the wealth 5 end commerce of the city, but which re- Gently has been languishing in th * * n the elevator “Bo you think that St. Louis grein and bange wot & fair deal tn rates from the “I would prefer not to discuss chat phase of the qUestion, for the reason that the in- equalities on that score are in process of being remedied, and I think will be. Of course We are entitled to a fair deal in and will not idiy submit to discrimina- n Hur interests.“ your view aa to th outlook for business?’ oo “The situation is promising. Business re- in should not enjoy better times this coming important interest, which has season. ul be good im all lines this fall. People n generally 1 * — 4. „ 1 — 2 * C g ; 2 . :

— ee 14 inne I : ’ — DAY'S POST-DISPATCH 12 m. — „„ „ „„ „6% p. „„. bs * MS, MAFEIT SEAIUSLY IL —fK—2»2:, —— —— BUT HOPE ENTERTAINED FOR THE VENERABLE LADY BY HER FAMILY,: Arrangements Being Made for Her Re- moval to the Springs of len Virginie id SUFFERING FROM RECURRENT ATTACES OF WEAENESS NOT NECESSARILY FATAL. Dear to St. Louisans as One of the Last Links in the Early History of the City. Mrs. Julie Maffitt, the richest woman in St. Louis, is seriously III. Her immediate relatives, brother, sons and daughters, were at the family heme, 1727 Locust street, Wednesday, hoping’ each hour would show some improvement in the venerable lady’s condition. It was feared her advanced cge and the extreme heat would prevent the longed-for change, But during the morning she wa? pronounced better. COMIC SUPPLEMENT, Eight Pages of Fun and Colored Pic- tures in Next Sunday’s Post-Dispatch, An eight-page colored comic supplement will be one of the new features of the Sun- day Post-Dispatch. — will make its first appearance next un- ay. It will be larger and funnier and better in every respect than any colored supplement lasued by any Sunday newspaper west of New York. It will contain more wit and humor, cartoons ahd comic illustrations than any of the comic papers and is alone worth more than the price of the entire paper. Next Sunday’s issue will be apropos of the day—the glorious Fourth. Fireworks, can- nons and explosions will be greatly in evi- dence along the lines of the comic and grotesque. The first page will contain some highly original ideas of novel fireworks, adapted to the needs of various kinds of people, with a center-plece showing how Mr. Nolseater sought quiet far out on the water, where the bomb does not shatter the nerves, and the terrible small boy is not. All in bright colors, ' Another page will show us the firecracker and rocket in darkest Africa, with the pain- ful surprise of the hungry and roaring lion, aa gets a hot meal—more hot than palata- le. Little Willie’s joke, showing how he palmed off a skyrocket for a candle on his grandpa, will be another seasonable bit of humorous illustration, Then there are the Hogan's Alley Kids. Everybody has made their acquaintance, and they will be weekly visitors hereafter. Next Sunday they will be depicted in full and unqualified enjoyment of a fishing expe- dition in all the unrestrained hilarity pecu- liar to the young denizens of the alley—to say nothing of the extraordinary catches Mrs. Bates, one of her gers, en- pressed the hope that her mother might be so improved within tho wur three or | four days as to admit her’ removal White Sulphur Spring Va. for which journey arrangements r bens made. | Mrs. Maffitt is one of the las, links n- Ing the present to the Sarly ont of Ft. Louls. When a child father’s home was the center of all the social. festiv'iies and the municipal aud political movements that started St. Tous On Mey progress to greatness. * 2 f She distinetiy tie. Nisit ot Lafay- | ette to this city i in “He yas tie guest of Maj. Pierre „tesa, her father, in the fine old mansion he oocupiet. oh Main street, between what are sow Vino street and Washington avenue. She vee only nine years old then, bui “irs. Matt could de- scribe the Freche costume and re- count much Of hig cOnveraation. The ball given in Lafayette’s mer was the social sensatidn of that period, and Maj. Chou- teau presiie’ at the tegtivities. She was a young Worham when the founda- tion of the old Cetholfé Cathedral was laid, and her memory of/ those early days re- mains with her Uke sleems of sunshine from another world. Charles P. Choutes is her only Hving brotben Her sister and two brothers are deed. In early life’ she was married to Wm. C. Mati, who died many years ago. Her children, thee rons and two daughters, are: Pierre Chofsteau Maffitt, Charles C. Maf- fit. Wund ©. Maffitt; Mrs. Julle Walsh, wife of aso Walsh; Mrs. Nancy Bates, wife of Charlies F. Bates, and Miss Emily Matütt, Mor,three-quarters of a century she has exemiplified in her home life the hospitality, tpe/ Kimndliness and generosity which came hne by Inheritance. Her sons and daugh- es manifest sincere devotion to her, and are grief-stricken over the probability at ne is nearing the close of a long, happy and eventful career of domesticity. It would be exceedingly difficult to estl- mate the extent of Mrs. Moffitt’s wealth. Tt has been so unostentatiously held, so widely distributed and enjoyed, that no man bow can speak of its value. That it runs into the millions is known. More than that Would be the merest conjecture, : Mrs. Maffit belongs to the oldest family in St. Louis. She was born February 28, 1816, and 18 consequently 81 years and four months old. Her grandfather, Piere Chouteau, Sr., was the pioneer who, with his brother, August Chouteau, established the American Fur Company. Her father, Piere Chouteau, Jr., died in 1865, at the age of 77 years. Her mother died in 1863, aged 70 years. Mrs. Maffit had one sister, Emilie, born in 1814, who married John F. Sanford. She had three brothers—Piere Charles, born 1817, and died an infant; Charles P., born 1819, and yet an active, hearty old gentleman; and Benjamin W., born 1822, and died an infant. Her grandfather, Pierre Chouteau, 8r., was the man who went personally, on be- half of the American Fur Co., into the wilds of the West to trade with the Indians for furs. During the fifteen years of that peril- ous work, ending in 1804, he brought Into St. Louls furs, skins and hidés amounting in value to $250,000—a princely sum for those days. In 1904 he retired and became, under appointment of Mr. Jefferson, agent for all the Indians west of the Mississippi. In 18) he was chosen Mayor of the town and unani- mously re-elected in 1821. Despite his many ordeals he lived to ripe old age of s years. RESISTED OFFICERS. Desperado Slain After Wounding Two Men in a Quarrel. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo., June U Wm. McAlvey is dead, H. 8. McFadden dangerously wounded and Wm. Pauley bad- ly injured as the result of a drunken quarts at Carbondale. After shooting McFadden and beating Pauley. McAlvey defied arrest. Citizens SF HA, V4 1 * U ; . & ** „W. „ „ „ „% „„ „ p. | rer tt eee N 141ũð „K. . . „e . peccascene 3 2 nn George Patterson shot and killed the desperadg, — > * they make. This will be the pictorial fish story of the season. Some of the results of the annexation of Hawaii, something.of the watermelon, some- thing about boxing and the wheel, and the latest scientific discoveries, all treated from the humorous and grotesque point of view, will be features of the comic colored sup- plement, besides a score of other subjects too numerous to mention in detall. The brightest and freshest reading matter: by the most famous American humorists best artists, and the comic colored ment with next Sunday's Post-Dispatch will generally add to the hilarity of nations. CHICAGO STROKES. Heat—Others Saved by Wind From This Direction. CHICAGO, June %.—The excessive heat yesterday caused six deaths in this city, while a number of people were prostrated. The strong wind tempered the sun's rays to a great extent, and many who felt the effects of high temperature sought shaded spots and were resuscitated by the cool breezes that blew steadily from the South- west. Five persons seeking relief from the heat went swimming and excessive temperature of their bedies induced cramps, and all were drowned. The dead: Clarence Cummin Fifth avenue, 19 years old, emplo ed by J. Boo - bour, news agent, dro in the Calumet River at One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, while swimming alone, street, liam Kamekake, 162 High drowned while swimming with companions in the lake at the foot of Windsor avenue, sank in sight of friends. : 223 Edward Walnu pool at the foot of swimming with com at w reach him William Tumbach, colored, 20 years o 2128 Clark street, drowned while —— in the lake at the foot of Twentieth street. George Shire, 198 Ferdinand street, died from an apopletic Stroke, induced by the heat. Of the prostrated, Freq W. Birt ie in a critical condition. WILD BILL’S CRIME. Kentucky’s Young Desperado Stabs Another Boy at Arlington. Special to the Post-Dispatch. ARLINGTON, Ky., June 30.—A reform school is needed at Arlington. Clarence Gardner, a boy, 12 years old, better known as Wild Bill,” stabbed Ed Grissom, a boy about the same age, here to-day. Grissom was put aboard a train soon afterward in querge of friends and taken to his home at well. It is thought by some that he will not recover. FOOT HILLS ABLAZE. Town Threatened—Railroad Train Stopped to Fight the Flames. LODI, Cal., June A destructive field fire is raging in the hills around Burson, east of here. Back firing has been induilgrd tn — oy the y bal of Burson from de- struction. Severa reported have been burned in the ap %: A raliroad train ayes figh : which attacked — 22 dasz — at nig damage will doubtiess be done. CASHIER'S SUICIDE. He Owed a Bank $4,000, It Fafled and He Disappeared. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., June .—City Marshal Williams has received from Evanston, Wyo., a telegram stating that count of the first having been Many Deaths Caused by Excessive / -nin 4 THREE abs WABASH TRAIN STRIKES A TRIG OF UNKNOWN MEN NEAR ,@ attempt at a triple suicide was made near Wellsville, Mo., at midnight Tuesday. Three men, lying sige by side, with their hope for the recovery of the two men were not killed outright. The case is one of the most mysterious will be interspersed with pictures by the] ground beneath the wheels. supple- | f was lying several feet away. The next man was out of position forced him, and hie skull was horribly f : The third man was lying beside the He did not have a wound on his body, 77 ceived internal injuries, and not recover consclousness. The position in which rite “out” at the point, and elevated slightly above their beads, 4 tion which would 6 N man who was seeking comfort. iia 1 | : plot, which would have be joy by a “hobo” seeking a and it was thought that the drunk to find it. A close examination of the bodies made, and it revealed the startling the men must have deen perfectly when they took their places beside There was no odor of the breath of the two 11 f liquor, living 2 : : 1111 ele i : if : laborers, and a kit of which was found beside the track is posed to have been the property aroused by the train crew, but all of them town. surrovnding the case, it is supposed that the came despondent at repeated failures to 8 cure work, and resolved to die together. well as a certain one, and they places side by side as soon a6 light of the approaching train could be seen, i Hi ] them. Numerous citizens of We . said that the men were not residents of the 7 On account of the pecullar circumstances | men, who had doubtless been comrades, e- a” 1 — 3 A . 8 r : 1 4 z > : [+ 1 oe - — 1 8 5 3 — 95 . 724 EB