Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-08-06
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.

More Postal Experiments-AM unic-
ipal Menagerie-A Double Water
Works System.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1.-Postmaster Harlow's
scheme for railway postal service in the city.
by means of the street car lines, has been
abandoned for the present, because satisfac-
tory financial arrangements cannot be made
with the roads which would have to carry the
mail Tho pneumatic tube postal service
will be put into operation in the fall, and it
is likely that visitors to the city will then be
able to see q remarkable 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 ordered ten new sub
stations to be established in the outlying dis
tricts.
The Geological garden in Forest park,
which was established a few years ago by
the gift of few buffalo to the city, has been
that it is now considered by the collectors to
be worth nearly fifty thousand dollars. the
city legislators have just discovered that
there are lot of animals worth looking after
out there, and have appropriated large
sum of money to build comfortable quarters
for them, and to buy others. The Park COM
missioners, as they succeeded one another,
have carried on a general plan of buying on
ly tame animals, and there is not one Zero
cious one 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 most ordinary water works plant
costs between one and two million dollars,
most cities are glad to have one system in
good condition. By q peculiarly of this
city's laws, the revenue from the sale of the
water can be used only for the extension of
the water works and consequently there il
always plenty Of money to carry out the
plans OF the engineers. The water commits
sioner il now making arrangements to build
one waterworks station to supply the suburbs
exclusively, and be will have it finished q short
time after the new city water works are COM
pleted. The minor station will pump water
to places within six miles of the city. Some
of these suburban towns are 20 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
CT depend on cisterns and wells.
This summer in st. Louis is going to show
many fewer sunstrokes than there were last
summer. Sunstrokes are things that can't
work hard during the hot months and eat and
drink carelessly. AS a matter of course,
there are more sunstrokes in tenement
houses, where people are huddled together,
than there are where there is more room.
Since last year the tenement house district of
the city has lost fully one-third of its popu-
lation, partly because of the railroads enter
ing the town, which tore down Numbers of
the rickety dwellings, and 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 1t possible for the mechan-
les, and even the Industrious laborers 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. Last year, many peo-
pie died in their beds at home, overheated. |
This year there has not been one case of the !,
kind reported, and the sunstroke physicians |
have had little to do.
Designs for the statue of Gen. Sherman,
which il to be put In front of the city ball at |
St Louis are being made, not only by the |
artists here, but by several sculp. ors In Paris,
who want TO get foothOld in America. As |
soon a. the hall is ready for the statue |
prize is to be offered for the best design, the |
only condition being that the figure must be
equestrian. 1t is believed by ire artists that |
there will be at least ten designs in the COM
petition.