Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 328, 3 October 1909 — Page 17

PAGE FIVE ST. LOUIS CELEBRATED ITS INCORPORATION Centennial Observation of the Event Was Ushered In Today In the Great River Town by the Grand Tonal Harmony of Over Four Hundred Church Bells. r

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(Palladium Special) St. Louis. Oct. 2. Swelling their reverberations from a Boftly clanging opening note into a grand tonal harmony, the bella of the 444 churches of St. Louis will usher in at sunrise Sunday a seven days' celebration of th3 one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the city. Fitting indeed it is that the bells of the religious edifices which have bad so important a place in the moulding of the character of the city should announce to the waking people that 100 years have passed since St. Louis, the settlement and trading post, became St. Louis, the city. From the days of the earlier Spanish settlers, who reared a modest Catholic church, and sturdy pioneers who erected the first Baptist church, to the present day when a mammoth cathedral is in the course of construction and the tall spires of religious edifices of many denominations pierce the sky, church Influence ever has been a powerful factor in shaping and properly directing the growth and expansiou of the city. The mellow clanging of the bells also will open a general celebration of the religious development of the city in the century since it was incorporated. The day will be known as Church Day. While commemorative ceremonies will be held in virtually all of the churches of the city, there will be several gatherings of particular importance. These will include a song service in the afternoon at the new coliseum, in which 10,000 Sunday School children, members of loO Protestant churches, including all Protestant denomintions, will participate. The three most important Catholic events of Church Day will be a pontifical high mass at the old cathedral. Third and Walnut streets, a relic of pioneer St. Louis, erected almost a century ago on the site of the former edifice of the Cathedral parts, which, having been organized in 1770, is older than the city. The children of the parochial schools of the city will gather in the afternoon at the Statue of St. Louis, in Forest Park, where there will be songs and an address, concluding with the chanting of the Te Deum. The third notable Catholic function of the day will be a pilgrimage to Cahokia. 111., where tha oldest church of the West is located. The Christian Scientist churches of the city will hold a mass meeting in the afternoon at the Odeon, where a lecture with Centennial features will be delivered. Every Christian Scientist within a radius of 100 miles of St. Louis has been requested to attend. The Jewish churches of the city will begin their centennial celebration on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. Commemorative sermons and addresses will be heard in virtually all of the churches, armories and halls. Religious and historical organizations will invade the downtown districts, where huge skyscrapers have replaced the churches of early days, and tablets marking the sites of famous old structures will be unveiled. Among the sites thus to be marked are: Fort and Tower, near Fdurth and Walnut streets. First Presbyterian Church, Fourth street. First Methodist Church, Fourth street. 'First Unitarian Church, Fourth street. Christ Church, Broadway. Second Presbyterian Church, Broadway. House in which Senator Thomas H. Benton lived. House in which General Grant was married'. " Judge William C. Carr's house. St. Louis University, Ninth street and Washington avenue. Government House where the transfer of sovereignty took place. Main and Walnut streets. The following impressive list of churches shows the religious development of the city in a century: Bantist. 23: Catholic. 7i: Christian. 15; Christian Scientist. 4; Congregational. 2t: English Evangelical Luthernn, 7: German Evangelical, 24; German Evangelical Lutheran, 22; Hebrew, orthodox, 0: Hebrew, reformed. 4; Methodist Episcopal. '.Hi: Methodist Episcopal South. 20: New Jerusalem, H; Presbyterian, 42: Presbyterian. Cumberland. 1: Presbyterian. United. !: Protestant Episcopal. l: Reformed Episcopal, 2; Unitarian .2; Miscellaneous, 110: total, not including the Evangelical Alliance, consisting of clergymen of different denominations, 444. Among the first of the prominent churchmen to endorse the '"Church Pay" project was the Most Reverend John J. Glennon. Roman Catholic Archbishop of St. Louis, who will officiate at the Old Cathedral mass. All of the churches and religious organizations of the city have been invited to take part in the observance of the da and virtually all have accepted. "Church Day" will be preliminary

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to the most general and Impressive celebration ever held In any city in the country. Among the features of the week will be aerial events in which noted aeronauts will sail the sky In balloons, airships and aeroplantes. The tntrants for the aeroplane races include Glenn H. Curtiss, winner of the recent international aeroplane tournament at Reims, France, and hence champion aviator of the world. There will be almost daily pageants on land, and in a magnificent parade on the Mississippi river a torpedo boat fleet of the United States navy will participate with river steamers and water craft of every description. The land pageants will include the time-

Orchardists All Interested Over Recent Research Work

Spokane, Wash., Oct. 2. Orchardists all over the continent will be interested in the research work just completed by Ren H. Rice, secretarymanager of the National Apple Show, Inc., showing that the so-called "wild apple" or "wild crab," from which many of the present standard commercial varieties have sprung, were wayward descendants of trees originally imported from England and other foreign countries in the 18th century. Mr. Rice has compiled data, tracing the seeds from their habitat in foreign soils to these shores, also the wandering of the trees from the path of civilization, reverting to savagery and then brought to the present day perfection, as to color, size and flavor, after years of toil and study. Of the contributary factor:? he says that the process of cultivation was not of sufficiently long duration nor was it complete, and, as a consequence, after a few years neglect, it was natural for the fruit to return to its normal state. The appended excerpts are from Mr. Rice's manuscript, to be presented to Professor H. E. Van Deman of Washington, D. C, who will head the board of judges at the second national apple show in Spokane, November 15 to 20. During revolutionary times and the days of the Indian wars, when thousands of men were called to bear arms, many farms were permitted to run to waste and weeds. In numerous Instances the isolated homesteads and even settlements were attacked and destroyed, the occupants slain, the buildings sacked and burned and the stock scattered when not stolen. Thus, a few years completed the transition from pioneer husbandry to utter ruin and chaos. Frequently these settlements were the outposts of civilization, situated as they were on the very edge of the wilderness and, in the course of a few years, rank weeds pushed their heads through the rotted boards and logs, pine, hemlock and maple growths sprung up in the clearings and wild things scampered unmolested over the ruins, which were rapidly accumulating moss and lichens. In a word, the wilderness had stretched forth its hands and claimed its own. The young orchards, which, with the poplars and other trees, served as wind-brakes, were quickly surrounded and outstripped in growth by the native woods, the tangled underbrush choked the tender trees and the fruit reverted to the wiid and free manner of the pigeon-berry and beechnut.

honored and ever-Impressive march through the streets of the Veiled Prophet, followed, as usual, by his ball, the chief social event, locally, of the year. More than l.OOO mayors of cities have been invited to attend the celebration and the week will be notable tor family reunions and ciyie gatherings. Mayor Frederick H. Kreismann who will welcome the visiting mayors, is president of the St. Louis Centennial Association. The association has obtained reduced railroad rates for Centennial week from virtually all parts of the United States, including the Pacific coast, and also all of Mexico and the greater part of Canada.

"Wild apples," so called, had a peculiar charm of their own, largely because of their spicy flavor. Though barred from the tables of gentle folk and the marts of trade, they were sought by fully as Interesting if less exacting consumers. The blanketed reds used them as staples of diet and the pioneers of the backwoods and the frontiersmen often stepped off the trails to obtain a store. The settlers of more peaceful days found them a pleasant surprise in a zone not prolific of fruits, and bear, raccoon and porcipine also knew them as an excellent preparation for thu long sleep of winter. When the yoemen returned from the wars to resume the cultivation of the soil, many farmers set themselves to redomesticatin,; the apple and in this entered the process of selection and rejection as practiced by the foremost pomologists and botanists of the (resent day. Trees were cleared of the underbrush and pruned, and scions were developed and pruned 1n turn, until after much patient toil, as long in duration as the period of retrogression had been, the wild fruit once again became the apple of civilization and with this came its development as a commercial product, which is destin ed so far as the northwestern states and provinces are concerned, to rank ! with the wheat industry in a very few j years. Mr. Rice shows in his compilation of data, bearing on the growing of commercial apples, that the industry has not kept pace with the increase in population in the United States and Canada, from the fact that the entire crop this year, estimated at 28,000,000 barrels, is many barrels less than the production in 1890, when growers in the United States harvested 67,070,000. Twenty-seven million barrels of apples were harvested in the United States last year. The explanation of this condition lies scattered over the broad acres jin the New England, eastern and middlewestern states, where apple orchards, never regarded as serious features of the farms, have fallen easy prey to neglect, ar.d resultant nests. ia many instances ,ne irees nave oeen felled to supply manufacturers with materials, while in other localities entire orchards have been chopped out to afford room for more profitable crops. As there is no substitute for the apple this would mean nothing less than a. famine were it not for the orchards in the west, where an immense territory has been dedicated to fruit production, and with, the millions of

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