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ISTOBICAL IE1 W5WM& • Tie State Historical Society of Missouri COLUMBIA, MISSOURI SUMMER 1968 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI The State Historical Society of Missouri, heretofore organized under the laws of this State, shall be the trustee of this State—Laws of Missouri, 1899, R.S. of Mo., 1959, Chapter 183. OFFICERS 1965-68 LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville, President L. E. MEADOR, Springfield, First Vice President LEWIS E. ATHERTON, Columbia, Second Vice President RUSSELL V. DYE, Liberty, Third Vice President JACK STAPLETON, SR., Stanberry, Fourth Vice President JOHN A. WINKLER, Hannibal, Fifth Vice President REV. JOHN F. BANNON, S.J., St. Louis, Sixth Vice President R. B. PRICE, Columbia, Treasurer FLOYD C. SHOEMAKER, Columbia, Secretary Emeritus and Consultant RICHARD S. BROWNLEE, Columbia, Director, Secretary, and Librarian TRUSTEES Permanent Trustees, Former Presidents of the Society E. L. DALE, Carthage E. E. SWAIN, Kirksville RUSH H. LIMBAUGH, Cape Girardeau ROY D. WILLIAMS, Boonville GEORGE A. ROZIER, Jefferson City Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1968 LEWIS E. ATHERTON, Columbia R. I. COLBORN, Paris ROBERT A. BOWLING, Montgomery City RICHARD B. FOWLER, Kansas City FRANK P. BRIGGS, Macon VICTOR A. GIERKE, Louisiana HENRY A. BUNDSCHU, Independence ROBERT NAGEL JONES, St. Louis Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1969 ROY COY, St. Joseph W. WALLACE SMITH, Independence GEORGE MCCUE, St. Louis JACK STAPLETON, SR., Stanberry L. E. MEADOR, Springfield HENRY C THOMPSON, Bonne Terre JOSEPH H. MOORE, Charleston ROBERT M. WHITE, Mexico Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1970 WILLIAM AULL, III, Lexington GEORGE FULLER GREEN, Kansas City WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton GEORGE H. SCRUTON, Sedalia ELMER ELLIS, Columbia JAMES TODD, Moberly ALFRED O. FUERBRINGER, St. Louis T. BALLARD WAITERS, Marshfield EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The twenty-nine Trustees, the President and the Secretary of the Society, the Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, and President of the Univer sity of Missouri constitute the Executive Committee. FINANCE COMMITTEE Four members of the Executive Committee appointed by the President, who by virtue of his office constitutes the fifth member, compose the Finance Committee. T. BALLARD WAITERS, Marshfield, Chairman WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton GEORGE A. ROZIER, Jefferson City ELMER ELLIS, Columbia LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW Published Quarterly by THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, MISSOURI RICHARD S. BROWNLEE EDITOR DOROTHY CALDWELL ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAMES W. GOODRICH ASSOCIATE EDITOR The MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW is owned by the State Historical Society of Missouri and is published quarterly at 201 South Eighth Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Send communi cations, business and editorial correspondence and change of address to The State Historical Society of Missouri, corner Hitt and Lowry Streets, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Second class postage is paid at Columbia, Missouri. The REVIEW is sent free to all members of The State Historical VOLUME LXII Society of Missouri. Membership dues in the Society are $2.00 a year or $25 for an individual life membership. The Society assumes NUMBER 4 no responsibility for statements made by contributors to the magazine. JULY 1968 CONTENTS ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS iv PROHIBITION COMES TO MISSOURI, 1910-1919. By G. K. Renner 363 TWAIN'S LAST MONTHS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. By /. Stanley Mattson 398 THE BARTH FAMILY: A CASE STUDY OF PIONEER IMMIGRANT MERCHANTS. By Harvey A. Kantor 410 THE MISSOURI PAW PAW MILITIA 1863-1864. By Howard V. Canan 431 JOSEPH LABARGE STEAMBOAT CAPTAIN. By T. S. Bowdern, S.J 449 HISTORICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS Professor Frederick B. Shane Gives Painting to the Society 471 Views from the Past: Ladies' Fashions of the Gay '90s 472 News in Brief 474 Local Historical Societies 476 Honors and Tributes 491 Gifts 494 Missouri History in Newspapers 500 Missouri History in Magazines 504 In Memoriam 507 BOOK NOTES 509 EDITORIAL POLICY 534 HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS 535 ROSE O'NEILL Verso Back Cover THE COVER: This view of St. Louis in the mid-1800s was one of the excellent scenes of the Mississippi Valley produced by the American artist Henry Lewis in the 1850s. Enough interest in his work Das Illustrirte Mississippithal, which in cluded this lithograph of St. Louis, occasioned a second printing in 1923 by H. Schmidt and C. Gunther at Leipzig and Otto Lange at Florence. This publication was the third in their series Reprints of Rare Americana. It is from a copy of the 1923 edition that the cover illustration has been reproduced. [SSSSSKSSSSffifflSStMffiSfflllK ® m Society Announces m m m ® Annual Awards Leo J. Rozier, president of the State Historical So ciety of Missouri, has announced that for the first time in its seventy-year history, the Society will confer two m awards at the Annual Meeting in September. A printed | citation and a medallion will be awarded to a member § who has given distinguished service to the Society and ® — p} to the State of Missouri in the promotion and dissemi- j| § nation of knowledge concerning the history of our region. J§ ® A second printed citation and a one-hundred-dollar cash m m ® H award will be given for the REVIEW article during the || J| calendar year which has contributed most in depth in [§ ffl a scholarly and popular sense to the history of our State. pi m ® ® ® 1 The Distinguished Member will be selected an- |j §j nually by a three-member committee appointed by the i H Society president. One member of the selection com- ® ® H mittee will serve for two years and two members for ® ® H one year. No active officers or trustees of the Society, ® jl with the exception of past presidents, may be nomi- | nated for the Distinguished Member Award. Nomina- m tions should be made in writing to Richard S. Brownlee, ® ® director of the Society, any time during the calendar ® ® | year. The prize-winning article will be selected by IE three historians appointed by the editor of the REVIEW. The selection committee will be changed each year with the exception of one member who will be replaced after two years. iv St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 30, 1919 Prohibition Comes to Missouri, 1910-1919 BY G. K. RENNER* Prohibition was legalized in the United States on July 1, 1919. The Eighteenth Amendment became part of the Constitution on January 16, 1919, and under its provisions was slated to become effective January 16, 1920, but due to those machinations which seemed ever to characterize the movement, actual prohibition came through the enforcement of a war-time emergency act more than seven months after the war ended.1 Most of Missouri accepted its inception quietly, but in St. Louis there was considerable chagrin—and with understandable reason. St. Louis, as one of the nation's leading beer-producing cities, stood to lose far more financially than the rest of the state. As the * A previous contributor to the REVIEW, G. K. Renner, a native of South west Missouri, is a member of the faculty at Missouri Southern College, Joplin. He received the M.A. in Education from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and the M.A. in History from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is presently a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in History at the University of Missouri. i James H. Timberlake, Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900- 1920 (Cambridge, Mass., 1963) , 178-180. 363 364 Missouri Historical Review hour of enforcement neared, numerous farewell parties were held in St. Louis and elsewhere. But these were celebrations by the losers. The real winners, the Anti-Saloon League and other organ ized groups in this strange business, had celebrated their hour of triumph in January when the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified. Now they stood quietly by in nervous anticipation. Some of the celebrations were drunken "last flings," others were more in the nature of memorial toasts to a gracious manner of life that was passing, but one of the most prestigious affairs was at the Riverside Club in St. Louis. To add a note of solemn symbolism to the merriment, club members interred an effigy in a real coffin and in a genuine grave as midnight neared. The effigy consisted of a demijohn, a red wig and a suit of clothes. The coffin had footrails to sustain the imbib ing mourners. There were wreaths of flowers as well as a wreath of pretzels and a pair of skates on the coffin. A eulogy was pro nounced over the casket and as it was lowered into the ground, a quartet sang, "How Dry I Am," and "Pickle My Bones in Alcohol." Several city officials were said to have been among the 300 or more who reviewed the ceremony.2 On the last two days, saloons were crowded, but the main rush was in package liquors. Wholesalers and semi-wholesalers reported the heaviest business they had ever known. Where a week before most sales had been by the bottle, as prohibition neared, buyers were purchasing by the case and even by the barrel. Whiskey be came the big seller. The largest individual sale reported was $3,700. Hotels were filled even though there were no big conven tions in town, and porters reported that they were carrying empty suitcases to the hotel rooms.3 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch which, along with most of the business community of St. Louis had fought prohibition bitterly, made this gloomy prediction: Intolerance always has been insatiable and to imagine the dry zealots will prove a shining exception to the rule is to cherish an illusion. It requires no prophet to foresee the coming of an inquisition which shall trample over thres holds once held impassable and sleuth and snoop into sanctuaries which law, custom and decency had declared 2 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 29, 1919.