Tfem t© «** [mmbgakhts I'll G lixVl P u>£Vcm) GDiitLQjigTriß^miKKETrGaß:° °° <> J%> EtzaaKf Srrssas yf 17EAUQJEES ®l7 STJo LLCDQJOO ® Y 112 (BEl^llTllNlgSil^D.o ' ■ ' '-• ' "•• '' ik ' .' ? i..- j&m •• . 1 -{ lj& '';? WM&S ■ °"i+ ' V 'fcv ' ''" k i*' WRIGHT AEROPLANE CARRY!NG_ORV/U- £ WRIGHT, r HE MIOHTY activities and marvelous progress the world has seen in the past 100 years are strikingly illustrated in the centennial celebration of the incor poration of St. Louis. Picturesque pageants with everything in the way of the spectacular which is niott likely to stir the imagination of the spectator into appreciating the work of the past through con trasts with the present feature the week's program. The greater part of the history of early St. Louis is really more fit for the unwritten American epic poem than it is for mere prose. Its work as a frontier town in the first half of the nineteenth century made it the mid-continental city Of the United States in the j Lb ■econd halt'. Its pioneer trade routes are now the great routes of steam transportation between the Rio Grande and the Canadian border rind be tween the Mississippi and the Pacific. It established the first water routes from the headwaters of the Ohio to the mouth of the Missouri and of the Illinois, opening the first water connection for steam transportation between the Ohio and the upper Mississippi and Missouri, developing the Ohio river States on both sides of that stream. Every state now on the map west of the Mississippi was penetrated by its business pioneers, establishing the first centers of trade. The whole west is interested with St. Louis in celebrating this great event, because in founding the first great city of the trans-Mississippi .west the pioneers made the western beginnings now explained in ecores of other western cities and in actual thou sands of other incorporated towns, which, if they are not already great, are not unduly modest in their expectations of becoming so. The invi tation to a thousand mayors of American cities to participate in the festivities shows that St. Louis fully appreciates its position as the pioneer city of the great west. As there were less than 200 houses, including outhouses and barns, in the St. Louis which incor porated in 1809, it could not have had mucli over 900 people. The town was already the chief seat of the western fur trade, with its trading stations pushed to the headwaters of the Arkansas and far towards the sources of the Missouri and the Yel lowstone. Doing business wholly by barter, with almost no money in hand, in sight or in circula tion, with resources represented almost wholly by the spirit of its 900 people; with the ax and rifle and blacksmith's sledge 3b its implements, with the one-horse cart, the keelboat and canoe as its transportation facilities, the little town, when it incorporated, already looked on its work as that of opening up the United States of the future to the Kooky mountains and beyond them to the Pa cific In ISO 9 it had lost Meriweather Lewis, but 30LIV£ STREFT, ST.LOWS 100 "YEARS MO T "TrV "T" OLIVE STREET TODAY <—- It still had his companion explorer, William Clark, to stand for the spirit of the American and French "makers of destiny" who thought little more of starting a thousand miles into the un known west from St. Louis than the average St. Louisan now thinks of starting for the Pacific coast in a sleeping car. From a village of 900 inhabitants to the fourth city in the United States, with a population of three-quarters of a million, is a wonderful achievement, but. it sinks into insignificance when compared with the giant strides of the past cen tury in the world of science, commerce, the arts and every field of endeavor which makes for a higher and better civilization. It is a severe strain on the imagination to at tempt to bridge over the gap between the mean ing of an airship crossing the Mississippi river at St. Louis this year and what the ancient keel boats of 1809 meant, as they landed at the foot of Walnut street, where the town was founded in 1704 >;y me pioneers who had paddled and cor delled their bateaux painfully up the river from New Orleans under Laclede as he advanced in the bold attempt to control the fur trade of half a continent with his handful of men. The keelboat tlioji was no more out of date than the airship is now. It was the best modern boat in 1809 which could be equipped by the capi tal of St. Louis, of New Orleans or of Philadel phia. Because of it Philadelphia and St. Louis commanded the east and west movement of busi ness as that north and soutii was commanded by New Orleans and St. Louis, as soon as their first fleets of keelboats were regularly organized. It helped to make great history, even if it did have to be pulled up stream by a rope dragged by men oa the bank. This distance in point oi change in the way things are done is almost impassable for the CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1909. THE roustD/NC or ST LOWS BY LACLEOC. BY 3PMCIAL PtAttl&i/OH fßOft THE PA!tIT!KG BY PL STODDARD year. It is something to remember now as part of the record to which belongs the his tory of the first loco motive crossing the Mississippi at St. Louis in 1852 to complete the work of the St. Louis argonauts of 1849, crossing to the Pacific in their "prai rie schooners." If we suppose aero planes and airships circling in the air above the St. Louis keelboat landing" of a hundred years ago we may imagine, if we can, how they appear to the men whose grandfathers not only navigated the river in keelboats, but lay flat behind the goods the boats were loaded with while they were being shot at by Indians along the banks. It is almost if not quite as hard now to imag ine what the world meant before the age of steam as it is to think out what will be its mean ing in the age of the perfected airship and aero plane. Every contrast possible in the St. Louis centennial week of pageants is a challenge to look backward and forward in the attempt to find out what a hundred years already mean, as the first success in the attempt to find what it is to mean shortly, for this generation and for the grandchildren of this generation in 2009. The makers of the centennial week program were keenly alive to the opportunities for spec tacular effect suggested by the most striking events of the world's progress. The aeronautic events such as balloon races, aeroplane and diri gible balloon contests, suggest the future possi bilities of transportation in contrast with those of 1809. For comparison with automobiles and aeroplanes the bateau of Laclede's day, with its stumpy mast, its cordelle and its sweeps, is an educational feature of the water pageant, which includes crafts of all the kinds which now ply the waters of the Mississippi. The Veiled Prophet's pageant, unique and picturesque, ia another fea ture which is full of romantic interest. The edu cational parade, the parade representing 3,000 of St. Louis' industries, the procession of a thou sand mayors and the other events which find a place on the program all suggest that as a great week for St. Louis its centennial week is still greater, as it belongs to a hundred years of his tory-making for the continental United States. The city of St. Louis was founded by Pierre Leclede Liguest in 1704. The territory west of the Mississippi river was then in possession of fl/SSISVPP} RIVER X££L3OAT J/Y J609 mind. In point of fact in St. Louis it is only a matter of the third generation between keelboat and aeroplane. In 1907 the first air ship on record as crossing the Missis sippi river crossed it at St. LOUIB dur ing the internation al contests of that France. Laclede landed at the foot of what Is now Market street, organized the village and resided there for 14 years. He named the new site St. Louis in honor of Louis XV., the reigning sovereign of France. The territory was trans ferred by France to Spain by secret treaty in 1762, but it was not announced in the new village until October, 1764. In 1803 Spain retroceded the sovereignty to Franco and on April 30, 1803, France sold all the territory west of the Missis sippi river, known as the Louisiana purchase, to the United States for $15,000,000, Napoleon re marking: "This accession of territory strengthens forever the power of the United States." With less than a thousand inhabitants when the whole country had not quite seven and a quarter million in 1809, St. Louis emerged from the era of the keelboatand pirogue to pioneer the steamboat on western rivers. Loading its first steamboat in 1817, it had more than doubled its population of 1810 in 1820. From 4,000 in 1820, two decades of steamboating gave it 16,469 in 1840. About that time it began its great transcontinental work with the "prairie schooner," reinforcing the steamboat in overland transit. With tho trans continental overland movement, to Oregon as well as California, growing, in 1850 it Sad 77,860 people and was beginning its work as the first pioneer of railroads to the Pacific. After bringing the first locomotive west of the Mississippi in 1852, it more than doubled its population in that decade, reach ing 185,587 in 1860. With the foundations of the states now west of the river, already laid along its first trade routes in 1860, it advanced in the next two decades to 350,552 people. Chicago was pass ing it in population then, without being able to take from it its historical place as Ihe "first great city of the west," the pioneer and founder of the west of the present. Since 1880 it has doubled its population once more, advancing from 350,000 to over 700,000. At its present rate of increase, re sponsive to that of the Mississippi valley, St. Louis is doubling business in a little ovefr 10 years. Its bank clearings increased from $292,000,000 in 1869 to $3,074,000,000 in 1908. Its tonnage of merchan dise received and forwarded was 20,162,000 tons for the first* six months of this year. Its bank resources reported June 23, 1909, at $385,881,000, more than double the total of the tenth year back. Such figures illustrate much more than local progress. They are mid-continental before they become local, in the sense that the people of the whole area between the Allegheny and Rocky mountains are now exerting new energies and util izing new forces of growth, unforeseen even as late as 10 years ago. As the percentages of this growth are of course greatest west of the Missis sippi river, St. Louis has almost "made itself over" in 15 years in growing up to the new growth of the country. Since it began work for the world's fair, celebrating the Louisiana purchase, it has learned to look back on itself in the last decade of the nineteenth century as "old St. Louis." In looking back to the older St. Louis of 1809, it can boast that as a frontier outpost it led the progress of the continental United States. In looking for ward, in its centennial year, can see that the greatest results of the history it has made are only the beginnings of greater results, which belong to the immediate future of the continental United States, whose progress makes the frontier town of ISO 9 the midcontinental city of 1909. » GRAFT FOWL BONE ON JAW. An unusiial surgical operation was performed at St. Joseph's hospital, in Omaha, recently. A por tion of the jawbone of Lucretia Norris was re moved and a piece of chicken bone inserted in the place of a diseased section. The girl is six years old, and was born with a malformed jaw. It was to remedy this that a bone from a freshly killed chicken was inserted. S Tfe# Flaei U Bnjf Chetp ) J J. F. 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