The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-08-05
ouR 81. LOUIS LETTER.
More Postal ExperImontS-A MunIOIpaI
AIenagerie-A Double Water
Works System.

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ST. LOUIS, Aug 1.--Postmaster Har-
iows'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
engagements cannot be made with the
roads which would have to carry the
mail The rheumatic 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 remarka-
bic postal convenience between the
central and southern part OF the city
in full swing. ,Rhe 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 a few
years ego by the gift of a few buffalo
TO the city, has been added to SO con-
SANITY, from year to year, that, it is
now considered by collectors to be
worth. nearly fifty thousand dollars.
The city legislators have just dis
covered that there are q lot OF animals
worth looking after out there, and
have appropriated a large sum OF
money to build comfortable quarters
for then, and to buy Others. The
Park commissioners, as they succeeded
one another, have carried out general
plan OF buying only tame animals, and
there is not one ferocious Zone 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 ono
and two million dollars, most cities are
glad to have one system in good condi-
ton. By a popularity of this city's
laws, the revenue from the sale of The
water can be used only for the extern
sion of the water works, and consc-
uently there is always plenty OF money
10 carry out the plans OF the engineers.
The Water commissioner is now maxi
ing arrangements to build one water
works station to supply the suburbs
exclusively, and he will have it finished
short time after the new city water
works are completed. The minor sta
tion will pump water to places Within
six miles of the city. Some OF these
suburban towns are so high that they
,an't be reached by the ordinary city
pressure, and without the proposed
system they would huve TO build works
of their own or depend On cisterns ant
wells.
This summer in St Louis is going to
show many fewer sunstroiIes than there
were last summer. Sunstrokes are
things that can't be helped in u large
city, where people will work hard dur
ing the hot m 1nths and eat and drink
clrelessly. As matter of course, there
are more sunstrolIes In tenement
houses, where people are hudded to-
gether, than there are where there is
moro room. Since last year the tene-
ment house district of the city has lost
fully one-third of Its population, partly
because of the railroads entering tho
town, which tore down numbers OF the
ric6etv dwellings, ana partly because
great efforts have been made by real
estate men to fill up the suburbs
through the sale of houses and lots on
cheap plans The fast roads, which
were extended into every part OF the
town, made it possible for tho me-
chnnics and even the industrious la
borers to live on the edge of the city,
in pure air and near the parks, and at
the same time to get to their work in
season. Lust year many people died
in their beds at home, overheated.
This year there has not been one case
Of the kind reported, and the sun
stroke physicians have had little to do.
Designs for the statue of Gen. Sher-
man, which is to be put in front of the
city hail at St. Louis are being mado
not only by the artists here but by
several sculptors in Paris, who want to
get a foothold in America. AS soon as
the hall is ready for the statue u prize
is to be offered for the best design,
the only condition being that the figure
must be equestrian. 1t is believed by
the artists that there will be at least
ten designs in the competition,