Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-04
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
More Postal Exporiments--A Municiua
Menagerie-A Double Hatar
Works Systom.

Sr. LOUIS, Aug 1. --i'ostmaster H..
lows's scheme for railway postal service
in the city, by means of the street cal
lines, has been abandoned FOR the pres
ent, because satisfactory financial ar
engagements cannot be made with tn,
roads which would have to carry TIN
mail. The pneumatic tube postal Ser
vice will be put into operation In tho
fall, and it is likely that visitors TO tn,
city will then be able to see II remarlSa'
BILE postal convenience between tho
central and southern part of the city
in full swing. The postal demands o.
st. Louis are not content with this
however, and the department has or
dered ten new sub stations 10 be cstab
lished in the outlying districts,
The Geological garden in Forest
park, which was established few
years ago by the gift of u few buffalo
TO the city, has been added TO SO con,
SANITY, from year to year, that it j.
worth nearly fifty thousand dollars.
The city legislators have just dis.
covered that there are lot of animals
worth looking after ont there, and
have appropriated large sum o.
money 10 Dullu
for them, and to bny Others. The
Park commissioners, as they succeeded
one another, have carried out II general
plan of buying only tame animals, and
there is not one ferocious Gone in the
whole enclosure now devoted to them.
st. Louis will soon be the only city
in the United STAGES 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 condl
zion. BY u popularity of this city S
laws, the revenue from the sale of the
water can be used only for the eXtcn-
sion of the water works, and consc-
quently there is always plenty Of money
to carry ont the plans Of the engineers,
The Water missioner is now max
ing arrangements TO build one water
works station to supply the suburbs
exclusively, and he will have il finished
4 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 thesr
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 cistcrns and
wells.
This summer in st. Louis is going 10
show many fewer sunstrokes than there
were last summer Sunstrolies are
things that can't be helped in large
city, where people will work hard dur
ing the hot months and eat and drink
carelcssly. AS n matter OF course, there
arc more sunstrolSes in tenement
houses, where people are huddlcd to-
geJher, than there are where there is
more room. Since last year the tcnc.
ment house district of the city has lost
fully one-third OF ITS population, partly
because of the railroads entering the
town, which tore down numbers of .hc
riclxety 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 on
cheap plans. The fast roads, which
were extended into every part of the
town, made it possible for the me
chanics and even the industrious In
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, overhcatcd
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 he put in front OF the
city hail at St. Louis are being made
not only by the artists here, but by
several sculptors in Paris, who want 10
get foothold i'm America. As soon rs
the hall is ready for the statue prize
is TO be offered for the best design,
tho only condition being that the figure
must BE- equestrian It Is believed by
the artists that there will be at least
ten dc signs in the competition.