Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-08-12
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
Moro Postal Experiments-A Municipal
Monagerie-A Double Water
Works system.

ST. Louis, Aug 1. -Austmaster Har'
lows's scheme for railway postal service
in the city, by means of the street car
lines, has been abandoned for the pres
ent, because satisfactory financial ar
rangements cannot be made with the
roads which would have to carry the
mail. The pneumatic tube postal SER
vice will be put into operation in the
fall, and it is likely that visitors to the
city will then be able to see remarks
bic postal convenience between the
central and southern part of the city
in full swing. The postal demands OF
st. Louis are not content with this,
however, and the department has or
dered ten new sub. stations to be estab-
lished in the outlying districts,
The Geological garden in Forest
park, which was established q few
years ago by the gift of few buffalo
TO the city, has been added to so con-
stantly, from year to year, that, 1t is
now considered by collectors to be
worth nearly fifty thousand dollars.
Tho city legislators have just dis
covered that there are lot OF animals
worth looking after out there, and
have appropriated large sum oil
money to build comfortable quarters
for them, and to buy others. The
Park commissioners, as they succeeded
one another, have carried out IL general
plan of buying only tame animals, and
there is not one ferocious lone in the
whole enclosure now devoted to them.
st. Louis will soon be the only city
in the United STATES with two systems
Of water works in constant operation.
In these days, when the mos. ordinary
water works plant costs between one
and two million dollars, most cities are
glad to have one system in good condi
ton. by n popularity of this city's
laws, the revenue from the sale of the
water can be used only for the exten-
sion of the water works, and conse-
quently there is always plenty of money
to carry out the plans of the engineers
The Water com missioner is now max
ing arrangements to build one waite,
works station to supply the suburbs
exclusively, and he will have it finished
a short time after the new city water
works are completed. The minor sta
ton will pump water to places within
six miles of the city. Some of these
suburban towns are so high that they
can't be reached by the ordinary city
pressure, and without the proposed
system they would have to build works
Of their own or depend on cisterns nnt
wells.
This summer in st. Louis is going Il
show many fewer sunstroSes than ther,
were last summer. Sunstrokes are
things that can't be helped in large
city, where people will work hard dur
ing the hot months and eat and drinl
carelessly. As a matter of course, there
are more sunstrokes in tenement
houses, where people are huddled to
gether, than there are where there |:
more room. Since last year the tene
ment house district of the city has los'
fully one-third of Its population, partly
because of the railroads entering the
town, which tore down numbers of tn,
rickety dwellings, ana partly because
great efforts have been made by rea
estate men to fill up the suburbs
through the sale Of houses and lots OF
cheap plans The fast roads, whicl
were extended into every part of thu
town, made it possible for the me
chanics and even the industrious la
borers 10 live on the edge of the city
in pure air and near the parks, and a
| the same time to get to their work il
season. Lust year many people die'
| in their beds at home. overheated
This year there has not been one cas-
OF the kind reported, and the sun
stroke physicians have had little to dc
Designs for the statue Of Gen. Sher
man. which is to be put in front OF TIN
city hall at st. Louis are being mad
not only by the artists here. but b.
several sculptors in Paris, who want I
get foothold in America. As soon a
the hall is ready for the statue priz
| is to be offered for the best design
the only condition being that the figur
must BE- equestrian. 1t Is believed b
the artists that there will be at lcas
ten designs in the competition.