The Wichita Daily Eagle

CARRIE HELD GLASS
But She Did Not Taste or Smell Contents

SHE SLUMMED ST. LOUIS
Looking At Pictures in the Slot Machine.

St. Louis, July 28.-Mrs. Carrie Nation went "slumming" last night in St. Louis. When she had finished her trip through the red light district she declared that if she were in authority in this city conditions would be radically changed. She said she would not have believed such a state of things existed if she had not seen and heard for herself.

Accompanied by an escort of reporters and two friends, she left the Lindell hotel at 9:30 o'clock, intending to pass the two hours before the train's departure in visiting places at random along the route to the Union station. She refused to eat dinner in the hotel, because some guests drank beer at the table, and was advised to go to Nagles' restaurant on Seventh street. She didn't stay very long.
Crossing the street she went into the mutoscope parlor in the Columbia Theatre foyer. Dropping a penny in the slot, she watched the antics of a dancing girl. The changing expressions of her face were a study as she observed the pictures.
Turning about she addressed the crowd on the evils of these exhibitions.
Then she went to the hotel and prepared for the slumming' trip. As she passed Hotel Barnum a lad shouted "Good morning, Carrie," and she smiled good naturedly and waved to him.
In a saloon on the northwest corner of Sixth and Pine streets she shook hands with the bartender and urged him to reform. She crossed to the saloon on the southeast corner and went into the back room, where a crowd was looking at stereopticon pictures.
Here she delivered an earnest speech against intemperance and pictures on the wall which attracted her attention. Some one in the room made a rush toward her to put her out, but was restrained by members of her escort.
In the saloon run by Edward Koehlin of the House of Delegates, she recited a temperance rhyme and expressed her opinion about legislators being in the liquor business. By this time the crowd following her had increased to about 400 persons. It blocked the street car track on Sixth and Market streets. Men and women asked for her autograph, and with a lead pencil she scrawled her name on slips of paper.
She was recognized everywhere. Now and then she stopped to admonish some one to stop smoking cigarettes, or dashed into a saloon and railed against intemperance. Delegate Cronin was not in his saloon when she arrived there, and she hastened away, bent on inspecting the red-light district.
At Nineteenth street the party got off the car and proceeded up Chestnut street, as far as Jefferson avenue She stopped in several houses on the way and the women received her cordially, listening to her pleadings with attention. Her most energetic speech was made in the Morgan Club.
In the garden people were seated at the tables. She hurried ahead of her escort and began a fiery speech on the persons who were drinking. One woman angered her with retorts and she lingered longer than in other places and spoke more vehemently.
Over Jefferson avenue and east on Market street to Union station a crowd of several hundred people hurried after her, shouting her name and clamoring for a speech. The crowd went along through the Terminal saloon, where she addressed the bartenders and patrons, and followed her through the Midway in Union Station.
In the station were thousands of excursionists. But she made her way through the crowd without difficulty and obliged the agent to sell her tickets at once. She boarded her train at 11 o'clock After getting inside the gates she said a few parting words to the crowd on the outside of the railing.
Mrs. Nation went to Aurora, Ill. via Joliet. Her manager, James E. Furlong, will meet her at Rockford, Ill.