The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1892-09-23
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
No Alarm Felt rs Regards the Cholsra
"A Useful Oftoiai In Large
Office DullLlnrs.

Sr. LOUIS. Mo-, Sept lo.-Of all tho
large cities in the country, st. Louis
seems to be the least affected by tho
talk about cholera. Numerous sanitary
officers have been appointed who are
looking after the cleanliness of the
city, but the ordinary citizen does not
concern himself Mt all about the re.
ports coming from the East. II you
aslt one of them why he is not alarmed,
his reply will likely be-
"Why, there could be no epidemic
| disease here, with such system OF
sewerage as we have"
And he would be right. From all
| sides st. Louis slopes down to the river
ynd to the Mill Creek valley. The
small sewers run directly into the
river and through the valley is laid one
enormous sewer through which fur
niture van could be drawn by two
horses abreast There has never been
anything like an epidemic in the city
since these sewers were built, even
when IT was most endangered by
iiseasc coming from other points. The
sanitary officers feel confident that
with the advantage they have in this
| respect they could protect the city even
| II the cholera approached us near us
Chicago,
The pneumatic tube will be used in
st. Louis for the transmission of mails
through the city some time before
| philadelphia, the only other town
which has adopted the plan, gets its
| apparatus in wording order. Arrange
mcnts have just been made there To lay
the conduits through which the tubes
will be run. Here, we already have
the conduit, which is to he the rail-
= way tunnel running under the city
| from the bridge to the Union depot.
The plans for the pneumatic machin-
cry are now nearly completed, and the
mails will be distributed by this means
about the first of the year. A new
| postotfice Is to be established ut the
end of the tunnel, where the mails
from the tube will be received. The
tube and this Office will save the work
| of n dozen letter carriers, and will
handle about onc-sixth of the entire
mail of the city.
One of the large buildings which
have lately gone up down town has
| just made an improvement in its elcva-
tor service which Is to he recommended
| to other big cities. There Is nothing
SO annoying to a man in a hurry as To
60 into building where he knows
someone whom he wishes to see has an
Office, and have to depend on one OF
the several elevator boys for informa-
ton about the location of the office aud
the present whereabouts OF the one
sought Generally the boy knows
the number of the office. Some
times he doesn't. He seldom
knows whether or not the man
is in his office, and the hurried visitor
has TO go up himself and see about it.
In this building there stands man ut
the foot of the elevator shaft, wearing
n cap marked, Guide" lie has moth.
ing to do but watch the movements of
the men who have offices in the build.
ing and tell people who come to see
them where they are. This man has
mn accurate memory, of course. or he
would be useless. He can tell You il
the person you come to see is in his
Office or not; when he went out, and
when he got back. II messages are
left with him by men passing out he
win deliver them to callers. In many
cases, he makes an Office boy entirely
| unnecessary.