The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-09-23
our ST. LOUIS LErrEn.
No Alarm Felt as Regards the ChoIers
"A Useful Official in Large
Office Buildings

ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. TO- of all the
large cities in the county, IT. 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
concern himself at all about the re-
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 q 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 fur
niture van could be drawn 10y 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 feet confident that
with the advantage they have in this
respect they could protect the city even
if the cholera approached rs 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 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
postotlicc is to be csta hlished at 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 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 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 at
the foot of the elevator shaft, wearing
a cap marked, Guide" He 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
an accurate memory, of course, or he
would be useless. He can tell you if
the person you come to see is in his
office or not; when he went out, and
when he got back. If messages are
left with him by men passing out he
will deliver them to callers. In many
cases, he makes an office boy entirely
unnecessary.