Excerpt from Police Guide and Directory of St. Louis: A Pocket Directory to All Places of Public Resorts and Street Railroad Guide to All Points of Interest As a member of the Metropolitan Police Force of St. Louis for the past nine years, I have been favored with the best possible opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the city, and to locate such places as are usually sought for by strangers, whether here on business or for pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.