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P^-^AINT LOUIS, Mo., the largest city in 

 the vast territory included in the Louisiana 

 Purchase (which see), and the fourth city in 

 the United States in population and in manu- 

 .ring. In 1910 it had a population of 687,- 

 029; according to a Federal estimate this had 

 increased to 757,309 in 1916. Germans are most 

 numerous in the foreign element. 



General Description. Saint Louis is situated 

 on the west bank of the Mississippi River, 

 about twenty miles below the point where it 

 receives the waters of the Missouri. Chicago 

 is about 280 miles northeast, and Kansas City 

 bout the same distance northwest. New 

 Orleans is 709 miles south, and Saint Paul is 

 599 miles north. Originally the city was built 

 on the high slope rising from the river, but this 

 congested section is now almost wholly com- 

 mercial, being occupied by wholesale, jobbing 

 and manufacturing houses; the dwellings still 

 remaining have been converted into tenements. 

 An old brick house in this locality of narrow 

 ts and time-worn buildings bears a bronze 

 taMet. which tells the passer-by that Eugene 

 Field, the children's poet, was born there in 

 1850, and near by is the house in which Ulysses 

 S. Grant, eighteenth President of the United 

 States, was married to Julia Dent in 1848. 



On Walnut Street, near the river, stands the 

 oldest church in the city, familiarly called the 

 Old Cathedral; it is the most notable relic of 

 the French period of the history of Saint Louis. 

 On the crest of this slope stands one of the 

 city's most interesting landmarks, the old court- 

 house, built in 1839, which was a slave market 



before the War of Secession. It is built in t In- 

 form of a Greek cross and contains four large 

 paintings by Wimar and figures representing 

 Law, Commerce, Justice and Liberty. 



The newer and greater business district ad- 

 joins this old one on the west, and farther on 

 lie fine residential districts, which extend into 

 suburbs of rare beauty. The tendency of the 

 city is to grow westward, and the greater num- 

 ber of the fine residential sections are on the 

 farther West Side; there are, however, some 

 magnificent homes on the North and South 

 sides. More than sixty-one square miles are 

 included in the city's area. 



Parks, Homes and Boulevards. Forest Park, 

 the largest of the city's recreation grounds, i> 

 an immense tract (1,400 acres) of great natural 

 beauty on which about $3,000,000 has been ex- 

 pended in drives, lakes and landscape garden- 

 ing. Here in 1904 the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 

 position was held. The park contains the An 

 Museum, the Jefferson Memorial Building, and 

 a "zoo;" its golf links are second to none in 

 the United States. Tower Grove Park, on the 

 South Side, has beautiful drives, and statues of 

 Columbus, Humboldt and Shakespeare. Near 

 the statue of Shakespeare are two trees which 

 were planted by the English actresses, Adelaide 

 Neilson and Olga Nethersole, as tributes to 

 their illustrious countryman. O'Fallon Park, 

 on the North Side, has one of the largest arti- 

 ficial swimming pools in the United States. 

 These three parks, with Carondelet Park, on 

 the extreme South Side, are on a chain of fine 

 boulevards. 



