San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-08-12

sL1re Postal Erpsriments-Ai NunIcipaf
Mensgsrie-A Double Water
Works system.

Sr. LOUIS, Aug L-Pos;master Har-
loves scheme f0r railway postal service
in the city, by means Of the street car
lines. has been baudOued for the pres
cnt, because sa .lsfac.ory financial ar
engagements cannot be made with the
roads which wOIid have to carry the
mail The pneumatic tube postal SER
vice will be put into operation In the
fall, aud it is likely that vtsl tors TO the
city will then be able 10 see a remarka-
BILE postal convenience between the
central and southern part of the city
in full swing. The postal demands Of
St. Louis arc not content with this,
however, aud the department has or I
dered ten new sub stations to BE- estab-
lishcd in the outlying districts, Z
Inc Geological garden in Forest
park, which was established few
years ago by the gift OF a few buffalo
To the city, has been added to 50 con-
stantly, from year to year, that It is
now considered 10y collectors to be
worth nearly ifty Thousand dollars.
The city legislators have Just dis
covered that there are lot of animals
worth looking after out there, and
have appropriated a large sum Of
money to build comfortable quarters
for them, 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
To- in
In these days, when the most ordinary
water worits plant costs between ons
and two million dollars most cities are
glad to hace 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-
duentlv there is always plenty of money
to carry ont the plans Of the engineers-
The Water com missioner is now max
ing arrangements to build one water
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 viii 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 and
wells.
This summer in St Louis is going to
show many fever sunstroiles than there
were last summer SunstrOkes are
things that can't be helped in large
citv, where people will work hard dur
ing the hot months and cat and drink
carelesslv As matter of course, there
are more suustrokes in tenement
houses, where people are huddled to-
gether than there are where there is
more room. Since last year the teue-
ment house district Of the city has lost
fully oue-third Of Its population partly
because of the railroads entering the
town. which tore down numbers Of the
riclletv 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 the me-
chanics aud even the Industrious la
borers to live on the edge OF the city,
IN pure arr ana near TIC Pdtha' Hut az
the same time to get to their work in
season. Last year many people died
in their beds ut home, overheated-
This year there has not been one case
OF the kind reported, and the sun
stroke physicians have had little 10 do.
Designs for the statue OF Gen. Sher-
man. which Is to be put in front Of the
city hall at St Louis are being made
not only BY the artists hero. but by
several sculptors in Paris, who want 70.
ret q foothold in America. As soon as
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 Il Is believed by
the artists that there will be at least
ten designs in the competition.