Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-09-30
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
No Alarm Felt rs Regards the Cholera
A Useful Official In Large
Oflce buildings.


ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Sept. 19.-Of all the
large cities in the country, st. Louis
seems to be the least affected by the
talk about cholera. Numerous sanitary
officers have been appointed who are
looking after the cleanliness of the
city, but the ordinary citizen does not
ports coming from the East. If you
ask 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
and to the Mill Creek valley. The
small sewers run directly into the
river and through the valley is laid one
enormous sewer through which n fur
hiture 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
disease coming from other points. The
sanitary officers feel confident that
with the advantage they have in this
respect they could protect the city even
If the cholera approached us near as
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 working order. Arrange
ments have just been made there to lay
, the conduts through which the tubes
will be run. Here, we already have
the conduit, which is to be 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
! postoflice is to be csta blishcd ut the
end of the tunnel, where the mails
, from the tube will be received. The
s., tube and this office will save the worl,
of 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 eleva-
tor service which is to be recommended
to other big cities There is nothing
SO annoying to man in hurry as to
go into n building where he knows
someone whom he wishes to see has ar
office, and have to depend on one o.
the several elevator boys for informa
ton about the location of the Office ant
the present whereabouts of the one
sought. Generally the boy know!
the number of the office. Some
times he doesn't. He seldom
knows whether or not the MAJ
is in his office, and the hurried visitor
has to go up himself and see about it
In this building there stands man a
the foot of the elevator shaft, wearing
n cap marked, Guide lie has moth
ing to do but watch the movements o
the men who have offices in the build
ing and tell people who come to SCI
them where they are. This man ha
an accurate memory, of course, or h
would be useless lie can tell you i
the person you come to see is in hi
Office or not; when he went out, an,
when he got back. If messages ar
left with him by men passing out h
will deliver them to callers In man,
cases, he makes an Office boy entirel
unnecessary.