The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-08-11

| over 1O, 00O sacks of mail matter that
originates in the city, besides the vast
amount of matter that comes here for dis
tribution. But the government ought not
to pay for special trains just to give the
New York papers an advantage over other
cities, and that was all the good effected
by the fast mail train. 1t is we'll if it is
dead.
THE PNEUMATIC TUBE.
An experiment is being tried in this
city, or rather has been tried, that will
work a revolution in the transmission of
mail matter. Hollow tubes have been laid
from the main Office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company to its branches. In
these hollow tubes are placed leather boxes,
containing messages-the air is exhausted,
and in a second the dispatch is at the other
end of. the route. The Pneumatic Tube is
cheaper than telegraphing for messages of
any length, and as the experiment has
proved to be entirely successful, tubes are
to be laid to Philadelphia and Washington
very soon. The rate will be something
more than postage, of course, but it will be
nothing as compared to telegraphing, as
four-page letter can be sent as cheaply as
ten words. Suppose the inventive genius
of the age should apply this idea to passen-
ger travel How would it seem to be
boxed up, put in tube, and sent from
Chicago to New York in an hour? 1t
may come to that.
EMIGRANTs FROM NEW SOURCE.
We have emigrants from all the countries
of the world but Arabia, and now that
country has contributed its quota. Nine
Arab stone-cutters having heard fabulous
accounts of the wages that were being paid
in this country, made their way hlther,
and landed in New York last week. The
poor fellows could not speak word of
English or any other language that could
be understood by any one here, and only
by signs did they make their wants known.
They were disappointed to find that thou
sands of stone-cutters we're out of work,
and as they had no means, of course they
found themselves in Bellevue Hospital,
living at the expense of the city. They
are tall, intelligent, fine-looking men, and
having been given tools, showed wonderful
proficiency in their art. What is to be-
come of them heaven only knows. There
isn't work for one-half the mechanics here,
and newcomers fare badly. We could
spare Arabia enough stone-cutters to build
over its entire territory.
THE HEAT AND HEALTH.
Never in the history of the city has there
been SO long term of heat. For almost
month the thermometer has kept up into
the nineties, and for many days together
going above hundred; right along through
the night as well as day. The mortality
among children has been frightful. In the
lower part of the city where they are
huddled together in badly ventilated dens,
where hundred exist in room insufficient
for single family, the poor innocents
have died by the thousand. The physi-
clans and charities have done all that was
possible, but to little purpose. The chill
dren could not live in an atmosphere heated
like furnace, in which air could not come;
enable them to withstand the debilitating |
effects of the heat, and so, despite Of doc
tor and nurse, the little ones went by the |
In one of those human hives in |
the lower part Of the city, one hundred
and fifty children died during the month.
THE ICE QUESTION.
And while the heat is so intense, and,
the uses for ice multiplying,
the ice companies, in the most heartless |
Manner have doubled the price. No one |
out of New York can appreciate how OPP |
pressiye such raise is. The water runs |
on an average fifty miles in pipes, and be-
fore it reaches the consumer is as warm as
dish-water. In fact it is entirely unfit for
use. The ice business is in the hands of /
two companies, and, being thus placed, it
is huge monopoly. To erect ice-houses
on the Hudson, to build depots in the city,
to buy thousands of horses, and to fit up
of wagons to deliver the ice,
requires SO much capital that competition
is impossible, and the whole city is left at
the mercy of the two great corporations
that are in the business. They fix their
own prices and terms, and the people are
to submit. Consequently the
thousands of people who were using only |
half what they should before the raise,
will be compelled to do without it alto
gether, and fearful increase of mortality
may be looked for. But the managers of
the ice companies will not only have ice
enough for their champagne, but they will
have more champagne for their ice. It is
4 horribly selfish world.
THE TILToNs.
The Tiltons are still in trouble. Theo-
dore has taken the boy Ralph to his fathers
house in New Jersey, leaving Mrs. T. only
one of the children, at which the lady
demurs, and will take legal steps to get |
possessi IN. Mrs. Tilton is in close straits
to live. She has kept boarders. but failing |
In that, has been reduced to tho necessity |
of sewing by the day. Mr.. Tiltoa has sent |
her money time and again. but she has
refused to acce..t assistance I
from him in any form. Tilton has tried to |
get money to her by roundabout ways, SO
that she should not know that 1T came
from him, but In every instance she has |