. The Street railway journal . dying the im-mense variety to be found in the Shawgardens. Only the parent building ofWashington Lhiiversity is shown in theillirstration, the allied schools being foundin separate, and in many cases architecturally beautifulbuildings. There are many denominational and sectarian collegesand universities in the city in addition to Uni-versity, the most noted. It is said that few residents ofSt. Louis think it necessarj^ to send their children away tocomplete their education, while large numbers come to thecity for this purpose from ^•arious parts of t
. The Street railway journal . dying the im-mense variety to be found in the Shawgardens. Only the parent building ofWashington Lhiiversity is shown in theillirstration, the allied schools being foundin separate, and in many cases architecturally beautifulbuildings. There are many denominational and sectarian collegesand universities in the city in addition to Uni-versity, the most noted. It is said that few residents ofSt. Louis think it necessarj^ to send their children away tocomplete their education, while large numbers come to thecity for this purpose from ^•arious parts of the West andparticularh from Mexico, which annualh^ sends not a fewstudents to St. Louis. Among other educational influences found in the cityare innumerable private schools and night schools; sev-eral courses of lectures conducted by Washington Univer-sity by some of the leading lecturers of the country; thework of the Ethical Culture Society which has establishedin various parts of the city \\ age earners self-culture clubs. TWO ST. LOUIS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. Municipal wgoverna\ent ^ AND SOME J AdministrativeFeatures Prior to 1876 the city ofSt. Louis was embraced in the= ^-^T.^.».mi-i,. county of St. Louis. Both the Ir^ AND SOME municipal and county admin- istrations were highly extrava-gant and taxes in the citycame to be very Louis City determined toobtain if possible a separatecharter, and the work of preparing the scheme of sepa-ration was entrusted to a board of thirteen freehold-ers elected by the people. The scheme and charterwere adopted at a special election in 1876 and the citythen became wholly independent of county control—a free city not unlike some of the great free cities ofthe old world. It levies and collects its own revenue and A OcTOKKR, 1896.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 565 the state revenue within its limits and conducts its own The Mayor appoints with the consent of the Conncil all affairs, except for the supreme power of the Legisl
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