The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-02
Packages Forwarded Eight Miles in Two
Seconds.
IN. Y. Mercury.

[N. Y. Mercury
| On Sunday, February Is, the pneumatic
mail system was opened for public use IN the
CITY of Vienna, and for the few days OF its
working, it appears to have been emlnently
satisfactory By this method, letters and
packages, not exceeding two ounces IN
weight, can be sent from one end OF the city
to another distance Of about eight miles
| in something less than two seconds. SO that,
| adding to this the time necessary for making
up packages, asserting them and delivering
them, the whole is just about one hour. But
this only covers extreme distances, and the
managers Of this system in Vienna say that
in short tine the time between the receipt
and delivery vii! be greatly reduced In fact,
between stations only two or three miles dis
tant from each other such packages are even
now delivered within twenty minutes after
being deposited.
Any postm ,ster in this city, or postmaster
general, who would inaugurate such q reform
in the local mail arrangements of the metrop-
oils might achieve immortal fame. AS the
general post-otfiee in Vienna is also in the
building Of the general telegraph Office, pow
erful steam engines are constantly at work
COMPRISING atmospheric air III mammoth
reservoir, from which the double system OF
cast-iron pipes, laid three feet under the sur
face Of the streets, are fed: One system
of pipes serves for carrying packages,
and the other for pushing them ahead in the
other direction. At the seven principal sta
tons, in various parts Of the city, similar en-
gines are kept at work day and night drawing
the air from the pipes and creating vacuum
in front of the packages, which are thus more
rapidly pressed forward by the expansive
force Of the compressed air behind them.
The sixty sub-stations are connected not
only with the two central Offices, but also
with each other by this double system OF
pipes. The dispatch Of each package is an
nounced by telegraph to The Office to which
it is sent, and to all intervening Offices to adj
wise the latter not to stop it on its way. The
fectly smooth polished inner surface, and the
packages are made up in India rubber cyiin-
ders Of various lengths. The postage on
mail matter must be prepaid at the rate OF
two kreutzers zone cent? for each half ounce
or fraction, which is evidently much cheaper
than the two cent postage for city letters in
this country. This is the first instance Of q
large city-Vienna has about 900. 900 inhabi |
thanksgiving its people such facilities OF cor
at moderate cost.
'John Brown" called the janitor, and John
Brown came out with measured tread, willie |
one of the boys hummed
'John Browns body
Is strapped upon his back
"John Brown, do You think it is the correct |
hing for man to 60 whooping up aud down
he street, kicking at the doors. calling to
pedestrians and declaring that he can lick
my four men in Detroit"
''Not hardly" admitted Brown.
"No. sir, it isn't. In the first place You
couldn't lick one side of one full grown man,
md in the next place you've no business get
ing drunk and bowling around. What would
his country have been to-day, John Brown.
f such men as Washington. Morse and Full
ON had jamboreed around?'
~ won't do it again"
81 know you won't-not for thirty days.
You'll go to bed at candle-light. there, rise
With the lark, and the nearest thing you'll get
o whisky will be beef soup and haric var
aish. Detroit free Press.