Identifier: historicalintere00head (find matches)
Title: Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Head, Idress. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Louis?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e currentpossibly the distance just gained. The freight ratein the keel-boat era, from New Orleans to SaintLouis, was fifty cents a pound, or $i.,ooo a ton,without regard to the article carried. The first regularlv organized bank in SaintLouis, the Bank of Missouri, received its charteiin 1816. Auguste Chouteau being the first presi-dent. Prior to this in 1807 Colonel Chouteau hadconducted a banking and brokerage house, the firstin the city. The first paving with stone on edge was done 10 SAINT LOUIS by William Deckers in 1818, on Market, betweenMain and the levee. The first brick paving was onSecond Street in 1821. The first directory in the city was published in1821, by John A. Paxton, containing the names ofseven hundred and forty-nine citizens and generalinformation of the schools, churches, businesshouses, manufactures and the professions. Copiesof this dii^ctory are on file at the Missouri Histori-cal Societv and The Mercantile Library. It isquite small, very much like a primer.
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Omnibus Line. The first system of transportation in SaintLouis was the omnibus line. This was started in1843 l^y Captain Calvin Case and I\Ir. ErastusWells, then a young man, the line being calledCase and Wells. The route lay from the cornerof Washington Avenue and Third Street, north onThird to Bacherlors Grove, near what is nowPalm Street. The running ^ear of this omnibus SAINT LOUIS 11 was made for the United States Government, fortransportation across the plains, and the body by awagon maker on N. Second Street. Subsequentlymore busses were added, and the southern termi-nus of the line was at the National Hotel, at Thirdand Market Streets. Later Case and Wells sold toRobert Alac OBlennis. Several lines were estab-lished with about ninety omnibusses and four hun-dred and fifty horses. After the bus hue was nolonger adequate, the horse car was used.

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