A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . Farm Loan bank. Of course, none ofthese could have made a great city had it not been for theremarkable geographical location of St. Louis, its nearnessto raw materials, its wonderfully rich trade territory extend-ing in all directions, and its enterprising citizens. St. Louis has lived up to its position and opportunityas a great city. Its schools, churches, streets, parks, mod-ern conveniences, homes, business houses, museums, botani-cal gardens, theatres, hotel
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . Farm Loan bank. Of course, none ofthese could have made a great city had it not been for theremarkable geographical location of St. Louis, its nearnessto raw materials, its wonderfully rich trade territory extend-ing in all directions, and its enterprising citizens. St. Louis has lived up to its position and opportunityas a great city. Its schools, churches, streets, parks, mod-ern conveniences, homes, business houses, museums, botani-cal gardens, theatres, hotels, and public buildings are equalto those of other modern progressive cities. St. Louisis known over the United States for being a city ofhomes, for having one of the largest union railroad stations. 3o6 History of Missouri and Missourians for having one of the finest botanical gardens in the world,for having large and beautiful parks, and for having suc-cessfully given the largest and best Worlds Fair, the Louisi-ana Purchase Exposition of 1904, ever held. It is alsoknown for the his?h standard and excellence of its THE GREAT FIRE, ST. LOUIS, MAY 17, 1849(Courtesy Mo. Hist. Society^ St. Louis is a music center. But among those thingswhich have cast great credit on this city has been the com-parative absence of the sordid slums usually found in largecities. St. Louis is known not as a city of slums but as zcity of homes, churches, and schools. Since 1870 Kansas City has been the second largest cityin Missouri and to-day ranks 19th in the United States. Itentered the small city class in 1860 with a population of4,418. In 1920 it had grown to 324,410. These sixty yearsof great growth are very similar to the sixty years of growthof St. Louis from 1820 to 18S0. In 1820 St. Louis enteredthe small city class with a population of 4,598 and in 1880it had 350,519. Another similarity between St. Louis andKansas City lies in both getting their start as trading centers. A C
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