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...burly head of Bernard Francis ("Barney") Dickmann, the enterprising bachelor realtor who is St. Louis' mayor until at least April 6 (municipal election day), last week literally was in a smoky fog, and had been there for many winter weeks. The murk over St. Louis has been so thick that the new Governor of Missouri, Lloyd Crow Stark, an enterprising nurseryman, could not see the city streets when he flew over during an inspection of the Ohio-Mississippi flood. He wished that Mayor Dickmann would sign a pending city ordinance to abate the smoke which makes St. Louis grimier...
Across the Mississippi the Governor of Illinois, Henry Horner, a lawyer, was of a different mind. To Mayor Dickmann he dispatched an urgent telegram: "Before you take final action on the ordinance before you, may I ask you fully consider the unnecessarily drastic effect which its enforcement will have on the coal industry in 15 southern Illinois counties, adjacent to St. Louis, employing 29,000 wage earners, and sending 4,000,000 tons of coal annually to your city, which is the natural market place for these counties...
...Louis, doctors insisted that Mayor Dickmann sign the ordinance in the interest of public health, though it would require practically all users of soft coal in St. Louis to install new kinds of furnaces. Coal dealers would be obliged to "wash" small-sized coal and hand-pick chunks to prevent sulphuric acid and other products of burning sulphur from getting into the atmosphere. Locomotives would be permitted to belch smoke in St. Louis only for six minutes in any hour while getting up steam in a roundhouse, only one minute while on open tracks...
...last week the factional split between Democratic friends & foes of St. Louis' Mayor Bernard F. ("Barney") Dickmann had resulted in nothing more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann faction...
...only Republican elected was Louis Nolte, the candidate for comptroller. There were 14 aldermen elected and they were all Democrats. There were two Democrats elected aldermen last November, giving the Democrats a majority of 16 of the 28 aldermen composing the Board. And I might also state that Mr. Dickmann is going to be the best mayor St. Louis has ever...