WORK PROGRESSING.On Ne|w Hotel and Hall.If the planof the promoters of the enterpritfe ar£ successfully carried out, St. Louis is toon to have a hotel and entertainment hall that every Negro in the city will te proud of.|A large forte of workmen are rush-* iing the reconstruction of the building,%at the northeast corner of Btaumont and Lawton avenues, formerly occupied by Barnes’ medical college, which will be known in future as Douglass hotel and hall. j : .:The new hall is to be completed and ready for occupancy on Monday, February 8, and will be opened by Miss Hallie Q. Brown, the world-famed elocutionist, in one of her most brilliant programmes of dramatic recitals, under