The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-07-28
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Fast Mail-Pneumatic-Meno and
Health-Ice-The Tiltons Politics.
New YORK, July 25th, 1876.
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THE FAST NAIL. To-.
The discontinuance of the fast mail
which some papers are making so much
fuss about, excites no feeling here. 1t
was humbug and blunder from the
first and never was of use to any class
but the morning papers Of New York.
Business closes here at P. NJ, and all
The mail for the dayis put into the Of
flee at that hour. 1t leaves by the regu-
lar express at $50, arriving at Cleveland
the next night at z, at Toledo at 11:35,
and at Chicago the next morning at s.
Now the fast mail leaves New York at
in the morning, and gets into Toledo,
Cleveland and Chicago, at practically the
same hour as the regular train. There
was in it no earthly use to the business
men either of the east or west, and the
expense Of the extra train was an entire
ly useless expenditure. New York sends
out each week over 10000 sacks of mail
matter that originates in the city, be-
sides the vast amount of matter that
comes here for distribution. But the
Government ought not to pay for special
tralnsJus 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 well if it is dead.
THE pSEIrN.rrc rrrpp
An experiment is being tried in this
city, or rather has been tried, that will
work revolution in the transmission of
mail matter. Hollow tubes have been
laid from the main Office of the Western
Union Telegraph Company to its branch
es 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 cheapiy
as ten words, Suppose the inventive
genius of the age should apply this to
passenger travel! How would il seem
to be boxed up, put in tube, and sent
from Chicasoto New York in an hour?
1t may come to that.
EMIGRANTs PROM NEW SOURCE.
We have emigrants from all the coun-
tries of the world except 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 hither 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 thousands
of stone-cutters were 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
THE HEAT AN d HEALTH.
Never in the history of the city has
there been so long term of heat. For
almost month the thermometer has
been kept up in the nineties, and for
many days together going above hun
dred; right along through the night as
well as day. The mortality among chill
dren has been frightful In the lower
part of the city where they are huddled
together in badly ventilated dens, where
a hundred exist in room insufficient for
a single family. the poor innocents have
died BY the thousand.
THE ICE QUESTION. ll.-
And while the heat Is so intense, and,
consequently, the uses for ice multiply
ing, the ice companies, in the most heart
less manner, have doubled the price No
one out of New York can appreciate how
Oppressive such a raise is. The water